November 1, 2007

Student Association President Nicole Capp announced GW’s plans for technological improvements around the Foggy Bottom campus, including more wireless access points and enhanced cell phone service. Capp, a junior, met with Ron Bonig, vice president and CIO of Information Systems and Services, this month to voice students’ frustrations with wireless Internet access and cell phone […]

Web Update Friday, Nov. 2, 9:51 p.m. A student in New Hall reported finding a racial epithet on her door Tuesday. “Niggers” was written at the bottom of a poster advertising for a black engineering group’s event, a University spokesperson said. Michael Tapscott, the director of the Multicultural Student Services Center, said this is an […]

Web Extra Ryan Adams is not an entertainer. He is not a puppet. If you break his concentration as he watches his fingers slide down the neck of his guitar or as he croons his neck back as if singing to some power above, he will pull out a blow horn and ramble about control […]

Related articles: New swastika found in New Hall Racial slur found on New Hall door FBI called in to assist with swastika investigation (Hatchet Web Update, Nov. 2) News Analysis: What is a hate crime? (The Hatchet, Nov. 1) An eighth swastika is found overnight in Mitchell Hall (The Hatchet, Nov. 1) University: Seventh swastika […]

Student Association President Nicole Capp and representatives of Information Systems and Services announced this week that student leaders will have the opportunity to receive an enlarged e-mail quota through the Colonial Mail system. While other plans for technological advancements on campus came from the interaction between these two parties, the question remains: why can’t all […]

GW Hatchet Video: Predicting the Season play_blip_movie_463983(); We took a chance to chat with students, staff members, area businesses and alumni about their predictions for how well the Colonials will do this season. By and large, everyone thinks the team will repeat the successes from recent years. Karl Hobbs told reporters this game wasn’t the […]

Nick Swardson, anyone? OK, maybe you are not familiar with his name, but you have surely seen some of his work. In recent years, the foul-mouthed, pseudo-effeminate, raging alcoholic has jumped onto the scene in a very big way. The young comic, who recently released his debut CD “Party” last Tuesday on Comedy Central records, […]

Controversies reported in the media are analogous to a rash. As much as we know scratching it is only going to make it worse – making it more inflamed and widespread – we can hardly control ourselves. It feels so good, at least at first, to satiate the urge to scratch, but in the end, […]

Web Extra Have you ever broken up with someone, and then been forced to go to some function together and pretend like it is not over? The word “awkward” does not do it justice. It feels like you are just going through the motions. Now, just imagine all of those faked smiles through an entire […]

District officials are investigating an arson that could potentially have destroyed a church near campus Tuesday morning. The basement of the Western Presbyterian Church on 24th and G streets was set ablaze for several minutes at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. The D.C. Arson Task force – which consists of the Fire Department, Metropolitan Police Department, […]