Volume 104, Issue 57
Stories from the April 21, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
We’ve got a secret surprise hiding under our covers this year. The Hatchet will bring you an anonymous columnist, Delilah, to report on sex at GW. Editor’s note: Names have been changed to protect the naughty. There’s nothing greater than hearing those three perfect words from the perfect guy. There’s also nothing worse than hearing […]
Last Thursday I visited the new Nationals Park for the first time. The $8 tickets my friends and I purchased put us in the nosebleed section and I could barely see the players. Exactly one week later, I visited the stadium for the second time. Only this time I was closer to the field, close […]
The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences will release a recommendation on the school’s general curriculum requirements next fall that could call for fewer introductory course requirements, CCAS administrators said. A committee composed of students, faculty and parents is reviewing CCAS’s current GCR requirements. If any changes are made, the number of GCRs will decrease […]
Monday Stephen Hawking Discussion Hawking will discuss “why we should go into space” as part of NASA’s 50th anniversary lecture series. 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jack Morton Auditorium Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs’ Space Policy Institute and the Lockheed Martin Corporation Learn How to Please Your Partner Students and professional experts […]
Baseball The baseball team dropped all three of its games against Dayton this weekend, falling to 6-9 in Atlantic 10 play. The Colonials were outscored 14-4 in the two games they played on Saturday, and GW fell behind quickly in both defeats. A pair of homeruns by outfielder Charlie Kruer was one of the bright […]
Viktors Dindzans/Hatchet staff photographer (Left to right) Ross Roberts, Carlos Paz Jr., Val Garagiola, Paul Marmaro, Rob Miller, Jill Handley Henk and Ben Redmond relax in their makeshift pool Friday afternoon outside Kogan Plaza on H Street. Temperatures in Foggy Bottom rose to about 85 degrees Friday.
Security guards who patrol GW-owned buildings are now earning several dollars more per hour after four security guard contractors and a union negotiated a pay increase this month. Representatives of the local Service Employees International Union announced last week they signed four-year contracts with D.C. security guard contractors Securitas, Admiral Security, AlliedBarton and Guardsmark. The […]
Chris Gearhart is an undergraduate student at GW pursuing a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He attends class, does his homework, studies for tests and tries his best to get good grades. But Gearhart, a full-time University Police Department officer, is not your typical undergrad. “I decided that going to school and being an officer would […]
There’s nothing like seeing your name in The Hatchet. Nothing. It’s one of the best student papers in the country, it’s read by all of your peers and it’s often sprawled across elevator floors on Sunday mornings by those drunk kids that just can’t keep their hands off of it. The first time I really […]
During the month of April, there’s only one place that a girl can be seen without her makeup. Ladies can get primped and powdered at the Knight Spa, hosted on Thursday and Friday nights at the Erwin Gomez Salon & Spa in Georgetown on Wisconsin Avenue. At the social pre-game party, Gomez’s salon provides their […]