Volume 103, Issue 44
Stories from the February 26, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Disabilities Support Services hosted an event last week that explored the academic study of disabilities. The event, titled Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, focused on areas of study that involve disability studies including English, history or women’s studies. “This was a bridge-building event,” said Robert McRuer, English associate professor, who added that two […]
While many students might aspire to work with the President of the United States someday, a GW professor has already had that distinction – four times. Stephen Hess, a distinguished research professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, has served on two White House staffs under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and […]
While many have been quick to make parallels between the Iraq War and the brutal conflicts of 1960s Vietnam, a professor is saying that he thinks the comparisons are false and uninformed. Professor Shawn McHale of the Elliott School of International Affairs delivered a lecture Thursday regarding his personal research about the history of guerrilla […]
It took a shot to the face from a sniper riffle and two tours of duty in Iraq for former GW student Todd Bowers’s opinion of the war to change. But now Bowers is wary of a proposed troop increase to the war-torn country. “I was fully supportive of it at first,” he said. “It […]
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 27, 12:45 a.m. For about six hours Monday night, residents of the Aston and other buildings between N and L streets and 21st and 24th streets were in the dark. Pepco, D.C.’s electricity provider, regained power at about 11:15 p.m. after electricity went out at about 5:30 p.m. Pepco Spokesperson Camille Smith […]
The Student Association run-off election is reflective of two opposing trends. One candidate, ostensibly, slid in as the top vote-getter by sharing a mobilization campaign with a slew of senatorial candidates working together on a slate. The other was the only candidate to successfully mobilize graduate school voters, outpacing her opponents in paper ballots – […]
Monday Blood Drive Help out and save a life 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sponsored by the American Red Cross Colonials Donors Screening of “Left Behind: The story of the New Orleans public school system” The documentary chronicles the corruption, controversy and failures of the New Orleans city schools with a […]
Images from the years of President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s presidency are on display at the Luther W. Brady Gallery. The exhibit in the Media and Public Affairs building, is showcasing the physical changes to happen across campus over the past 19 years. On display include architectural plans, drawings, photographs and original artworks. During Trachtenberg’s term, […]
In the article “Students find their roots in February” (Feb. 22, 2007, p. 1) Kevin Powell was erroneously paraphrased as saying that 65 percent of black women are HIV positive. Powell said that 65 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases are black women. In the article “Fewer students run in elections” (Feb. 22, 2007, p. […]
DALLAS – Living a few blocks from the White House, students at GW are used to President Bush’s policy decisions making some noise in their neighborhood. But Dallas – Bush’s old backyard – is typically a less-hostile environment. So, there was little surprise in December when Southern Methodist University learned that it was the finalist […]