Volume 103, Issue 58
Stories from the April 26, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
After months of construction and delays, TONIC Restaurant will open the first or second week in May, the restaurant’s co-owner said. The full-service eatery was originally scheduled to open in January but delays in both renovating the restaurant’s location and securing a liquor license pushed opening day back about five months. The restaurant is still […]
The Student Association is taking steps to ensure that students will vote on a fee increase before the final day of undergraduate classes, officials said. If students approve the initiative, the fee students pay to the SA would increase to $30 for undergraduate students and $20 for graduate students per semester. The SA voted to […]
Subscribers to a University text message alert system grew 10 percent last week in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, a University official said. The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management and the University Police Department sent a campus-wide e-mail Tuesday night informing students and faculty to sign up for Alert DC, the […]
Baseball The Colonials dropped a 5-3 decision to the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Tuesday afternoon at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Va. The Hawks scored three runs in the ninth inning to capture the victory. Senior Mickey Shupin went 3-for-4 and scored two runs while classmate Michael Parker had two RBIs. GW (16-24-1) next hosts No. […]
Disorderly Conduct 4/20/07 – 800 Block of 23rd Street – 11:00 a.m. – case closed A GW faculty member reported that he was verbally threatened while he parked and unloaded equipment on 23rd Street. Another individual, unaffiliated with GW, pulled up beside him and ordered him to move the vehicle. The faculty member said he […]
Anytime during the past four years when someone learned that I worked at The GW Hatchet, the following conversation more or less would ensue: “You work at The Hatchet – are you a journalism major?” “No, I am actually majoring in Spanish language and literature.” “Oh, so do you want to go into international affairs […]
The University will need to find housing for more than 60 law students who were planning to live in The Aston residence hall starting this fall. GW Law School and GW Housing Programs advertised the Aston, located on 21st Street and New Hampshire Avenue, as the first University-owned residence exclusively for law students. Administrators said […]
Some of what international affairs professor John Miller knows about human trafficking, he learned from a woman named Katya. Katya, a mother from the Czech Republic, agreed to move to the Netherlands and earn money waiting tables. Once she arrived in Amsterdam, she was taken to a brothel and told that unless she worked there, […]
Except for when we wear our logo-sweatshirts or are walking into or out of 2140 G St., Hatchet employees are basically incognito. No one really knows who we are or why we do what we do. Most students just do the crossword puzzle, anyway, so there is no point in wondering about the inner-workings of […]
Free newspapers in residence halls and a basketball pep event are likely to return next year after the University axed them due to budget cuts in September, a University official said. GW Reads and Colonials Invasion are a “high priority” next year, said Robert Chernak, senior vice president for Student and Academic Support Services. SASS […]