Volume 103, Issue 38
Stories from the February 5, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Who cares about green? Regarding the Hatchet’s article “How Green is GW?,” (Feb. 1, p. 1) am I the only one who doesn’t care? I think GWU should concentrate on optimizing academic and residential experiences before worrying about anything that won’t make a difference for its students. -Jason Vines, Fall 2006 graduate Event host misidentified […]
The student loan saga continued Monday when shares of the nation’s largest provider of loans dropped the most in 14 years. According to Bloomberg, SLM Corp’s stock fell 8.8 percent on the New York Stock exchange, “the biggest one-day percentage decline since February 1993.” The drop in SLM, or Sallie Mae, shares occurred in response […]
On a cold Friday night at Firefly restaurant in Dupont, two GW sophomores – Turner Swicegood and Kate Hornyan – met up for a surprisingly not-so-blind date full of lots of food and conversation. Turner: Overall, it was a great date. It was actually funny because we knew each other before the date through GW’s […]
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2:27 a.m. The recent onslaught of below-freezing temperatures dealt a heavy blow to campus water pipes Tuesday afternoon. Flooding in three separate buildings ensued after pipes ruptured in the Marvin Center, the hospital and the Law School, prompting evacuations into weather in the mid-20s. Flooding in the Marvin Center was so […]
Junior Amanda Limmer, a double major in English and journalism, is spending the spring semester studying at Syracuse University’s campus in Florence, Italy. A few times this semester she, along with other students spread out across the globe, will share her experiences and observations abroad as one of The Hatchet’s “GW expats.” I told myself […]
For junior Kim Beck, the GW women’s basketball team’s 72-53 win over Richmond was more than just another victory. It was a 16-point, seven-assist performance that moved Beck to third on the Colonials’ all-time assists list. It was also a statistically important game for junior Sarah-Jo Lawrence, as she registered her first career double-double with […]
GW’s largest college will release a list of five candidates to be the next dean of the school by the end of February, said Leslie Jacobson, the head of the search committee The search committee will conduct interviews for the five candidates between February and March, and then recommend their top three choices, she said. […]
The last time the GW men’s basketball team lost back-to-back games T.J. Thompson was still a guard at GW, Rob Diggs was in high school and GW head coach Karl Hobbs had never coached in an NCAA tournament game. It was Jan. 25, 2005, and the GW men’s basketball team lost to Xavier on a […]
About 80 people, including GW students, attended a panel discussion Thursday in the World Bank InfoShop about the role of the media in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The audience, which consisted of World Bank employees and journalists in addition to the students, came to hear from the editor and three contributors to the book “The […]
The gymnastics team sent three gymnasts to the NCAA Regional Championships last season, but this year, the Colonials are focused on sending a few more gymnasts to the meet. In fact, they are determined to qualify as a team. After placing second out of four squads at the GW/Lindsey Ferris Invitational to open the 2007 […]