December 6, 2007

This page started out the semester commending the Student Association for its early productivity in securing various popular initiatives, from the GW Reads program to Colonial Invasion to Safeway’s acceptance of GWorld. It is therefore disappointing that this year’s governing body has gone from promising to petty. The most recent SA meeting Tuesday actually settled […]

Iowa Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer was elected to the presidency of the worldwide Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church last month. He said he thinks his selection might not have been possible without GW. Palmer, a religion major at GW, said his time at the University was a significant influence on his career […]

When I got home for Thanksgiving break a few weeks ago it was Tuesday night, and there was already one station playing Christmas music around the clock. It certainly seems like every year Christmas season comes earlier and earlier. This year another season is coming earlier – election season. Most people have already noticed this, […]

After dropping three straight games away from Smith Center, Wednesday night’s 78-39 victory over the University of Maryland Eastern Shore provided the GW men’s basketball team (3-3) with a welcome homecoming and a return to .500. The game was the squad’s first on campus since their victory over Boston University Nov. 14. “We just needed […]

GW’s Documentary Center received a $400,000 grant from the State Department that will allow 10 emerging international filmmakers to participate in a six-week fellowship. The program is being offered to artists in Uzbekistan and the Gaza Strip, among other “priority” areas of the world as defined by the State Department. “These filmmakers will come from […]

Several members of the Alpha Pi Epsilon fraternity feared for their safety during pledging and secretly reported severe hazing violations to the University, a high-level official with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Hatchet. Five or six members of APES called anonymous tip lines and also told University officials in person they were concerned […]

Attempted Burglary 11/30/07 – Old Main – 1 p.m. – case closed University Police Department officers responded to a complaint by a staff member who said that it looked like someone had tried to enter her office suite. Officers talked to all the staff in the area who said nothing seemed to be missing. They […]

The most popular player on GW’s men’s basketball team has scored a total of 10 points in his collegiate career. He has played more than seven minutes in a game only three times. He had one-third of his 15 career assists against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Wednesday night. Yet every time the 5-foot-8 […]

Media Credit: Joshua Wolf/Hatchet photographer Attorney General Michael Mukasey (center) lights the National Hanukkah Menorah on the Ellipse Tuesday night. The lighting coincided with the first night of the eight-day Jewish holiday.

Four Student Association senators walked out of Tuesday night’s meeting within minutes of each other, saying the body’s leader was ignoring them. Sen. Eugene Beckley (CCAS-U) accused Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger of not calling on the legislators during the debate on electoral reforms. Beckley, a sophomore, did not overtly call Kroeger a racist, but […]