Volume 103, Issue 57
Stories from the April 23, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Diego Arias had already taken out his change, keys and cell phone when he reached the bodyguards outside Fur nightclub for a routine pat-down one weekend night. As he was checked from the neck down, Arias felt the bodyguard grab his back pockets in search of anything dangerous. Instead, the bodyguard found the one thing […]
It’s 9:00 o’clock on a Tuesday night as the regular crowd of hipsters, stoners, and musically exploratory individuals shuffle out of the early show at the 9:30 Club. There is a buzz about this crowd- they haven’t been sardine-packed with thousands of sweating and swaying teeny-boppers that habitually plague one of D.C.’s most frequented concert […]
Cite reaction, not tragedy I was completely appalled when I read University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s quote in the article discussing his stepping down from keynote speaker today (“SJT steps down as keynote,” Apr. 19, p. 1). It is ridiculous and offensive to use the tragedy at Virginia Tech as an excuse for his removal […]
Get a job like this one, and hang on to it as long as you can. I worked as both the arts and special projects editor, for the same meager pay that the rest of the Hatchet staff received, but with one major perk – swag. Most of my weekends out have been subsidized by […]
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into […]
Posted Tuesday, April 24, 11:25 a.m. The vice president returned to the GW Medical Center early Tuesday morning for a check-up of a blood clot in his lower left leg. Dick Cheney went to his physicians at the Medical Faculty Associates for an ultrasound of the clot which he has had since early March. The […]
ASHBURN, Va. – TWA Flight 800 burst into flames, broke into pieces and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean near Long Island, N.Y., in July 1996. All 230 passengers and crewmembers lost their lives. More than 10 years later, a large section of the fuselage has been reconstructed in a Loudoun County hangar at the National […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the D.C. Voting Rights Bill 241 to 177 Thursday, the first time in three decades that the House agreed to a voting representative for Washington. Both chambers of Congress passed a D.C. Voting Rights amendment in 1978, but it was not ratified by enough states. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty […]
Updated Wednesday, April 25, 9:22 p.m. Posted Wednesday, April 25, 5:02 p.m. The University is in the planning stages of hosting an on-campus forum in early June for Democratic presidential candidates, administrators said Wednesday afternoon. U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York, John Edwards of North Carolina and Barack Obama of Illinois are on the […]
Xavier Alexander, a 6-foot-7 recruit from Oklahoma City is not tempering expectations for his arrival in Foggy Bottom by calling himself “a sure winner” who will do “whatever it takes to get the job done” for GW’s men’s basketball team. The 6A Conference Player of the Year in Oklahoma is part of a new class […]