Volume 103, Issue 56
Stories from the April 19, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Maureece Rice has never liked interviews. Until this year, he tried to duck media conferences after basketball games with teammate Carl Elliott, scurrying up the stairs to the exit at Smith Center. It was a maturity thing, he said while looking down at his cell phone Tuesday afternoon in the 22nd Street arena. Interview requests […]
Certainly to the delight of many angry students, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is no longer the keynote speaker at Commencement. As he steps down from the graduation spotlight, however, no one individual will step up to replace him. The decision to relegate Trachtenberg to his normal function at Commencement – the charge to the […]
There is an old adage that soccer is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen. GW’s gang of gentlemen, the Colonials rugby team, is in the midst of its best season in more than a decade. A large part of the team’s success can be attributed to […]
If you have $5 Get one more and go to Sixth and I Historic Synagogue at 600 I St., N.W. tonight at 7 p.m. to see Franklin Foer interview Thomas Friedman. Friedman is a New York Times columnist and author, and Foer is the editor of The New Republic and the author of How Soccer […]
Softball The Colonials dropped two games to Maryland Wednesday afternoon at Robert E. Taylor Stadium in College Park, Md. GW lost the first game 8-1 and lost in the second 8-0, which was shortened to five innings. Junior Caroline Howe drove in the only run for the Colonials (18-18), which had five hits between the […]
In Chinese astrology, those born in the Year of the Dog possess certain traits often affiliated with man’s best friend: loyal, dependable and well meaning, to name a few. Such is Peggy (Molly Shannon), an unassuming secretary approaching early middle age and the main character of “Year of the Dog,” written and directed by Mike […]
Some students said they feel unsafe because of the effects of a renovation project of GW’s largest freshman residence hall. The sidewalk along 19th Street between E and F streets has been closed for months and has forced pedestrians to either walk on the road of a busy one-way street or cross the street to […]
I am really looking forward to that happy time when I get to start dealing with embassies, consulates and the federal government to get my student visa to study abroad. Obscure regulations, paperwork and countless phone calls to confusing departments? Don’t worry, I’m a pro now, and at least the embassies aren’t charging me more […]
Build it and they will come. Hollywood built it and the A-listers are a-comin’. What has been built, you ask? A nation-wide obsession with horror, violence and having one’s pants scared off. Films like “The Ring” and “Saw” were some of the first horror flicks to re-whet the nation’s appetite for blood-curdling cinematic terror. Despite […]
A confused, hurt and self-destructive teddy bear is how Carter Webb (Adam Brody) sums up his life for his mentally unstable grandmother in the film “In The Land Of Women.” The story surrounds the emigration of a hack movie writer back to his family’s roots in Michigan to escape from the pain he feels after […]