Volume 104, Issue 27
Stories from the November 19, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Members of GW’s unrecognized Alpha Pi Epsilon (APES) fraternity not only participated in the annual Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon last Saturday but also raised the second-highest amount of money at the entire event. This fraternity, and other unrecognized chapters at GW, gets their fair share of negative attention on campus but such positive […]
Maybe University President Steven Knapp’s inauguration Friday really was nothing new. Maybe he said the same things every new university president says across the country; maybe he said the same things President Emeritus Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said 19 years ago. Maybe the speeches and the slogan were nothing more than rhetoric, tools for the offices […]
Web Update Wednesday, Nov. 27, 12:18 a.m. HARRISONBURG, Va., Nov. 27 — The James Madison University Convocation Center does not take kindly to visitors. The No. 16/15 GW (AP, ESPN/USA Today) women’s basketball team discovered the buiding’s lack of hospitality Tuesday evening as the Dukes extended their Divison I-best home winning streak to 29 games […]
The week of activities celebrating new University President Steven Knapp culminated in the pomp and circumstance of his official inauguration as the 16th president on Friday morning. About 2,500 people were in the audience at Smith Center for the ceremony, but only about 100 of those were GW students. Out of the undergraduate population, that […]
Research quality already here I have had a career spanning 25 years at GW without feeling compelled to write a letter to The Hatchet. However, the recent article “Magazine gives research a poor rank” (Nov. 15, p. 1) about the University’s research position seemed to me to miss the mark. First, it comes after an […]
Diggs to have wrist X-rayed Junior forward Robert Diggs told The Hatchet he will have X-rays taken on his swollen wrist Monday. Diggs, the team’s primary offensive threat in the post, has been playing despite suffering the injury early in the season. The injury flared up after the team’s Nov. 14 win over BU, Diggs […]
For most students meal times are social and relaxing – a break from a stressful day of classes. But for students with food allergies meal times are anything but enjoyable. Some GW students who suffer from food allergies have found themselves in a bind this semester because a significant amount of money from GWorld cards […]
GW’s women’s basketball team knew a win over Rutgers University Sunday wouldn’t come easy. What the Colonials probably didn’t know was just how easy No. 6/7 (AP, ESPN/USA Today) Rutgers’s victory would come. Rutgers built an early lead over No. 14/12 (AP, ESPN/USA Today) GW and never looked back, dismantling the Colonials 67-42. GW coach […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary Every time I have visitors in town, a trip to one of Budapest’s many thermal baths is high on the list of things to do. Budapest has more than 100 thermal springs, which have been used for therapeutic purposes by both locals and visitors for more than 2,000 years. Not until the Turkish […]
A week of special events culminating in University President Steven Knapp’s inauguration did not draw large amounts of student participation, but other universities found ways to engage the student body in their event. Indiana University held inauguration celebrations for Michael A. McRobbie, its new president, in mid-October in conjunction with the first annual Celebrate IU […]