Volume 104, Issue 57
Stories from the April 21, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Last week, the entire GW community discovered the sad truth about our school: It’s getting dumber. Well, maybe. Members of a committee in the Faculty Senate recently released a report entitled “The Decline in Elite Freshmen Admission” which highlights an enrollment decrease for students with strong academic records. Of course, high levels of intelligence do […]
The coordinator of this year’s Student Association general election denounced the governing body for being hypocritical and lacking transparency, in a strongly worded letter to student leaders Thursday. Joint Elections Committee Chair Ben Balter, a junior, said these major problems hindered this year’s election. The letter represented rare public criticism of the SA from a […]
Anne Wernikoff/Hatchet staff photographer Famous Corners performs at the Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority’s Battle of the Bands Thursday night in the Marvin Center’s Continental Ballroom. The event raised money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, when people were asked for the single word that best describes their impression of Islam, far more Americans mention negative words than positive ones (30 percent versus 15 percent); roughly a quarter (23 percent) characterize the religion with neutral words; about a third (32 percent) […]
Two local record stores championed their independent ownership on Saturday as part of a nationwide initiative to celebrate the culture of record stores. Crooked Beat Records in Adams Morgan and CD Warehouse on Georgetown’s M Street were among participants handing out free CDs, posters, stickers and special seven-inch vinyl releases created just for the national […]
It almost sounds like a riddle. What happens to a sailing club with no coach and no tryouts that has never won a regatta when it competes against established teams at College of William and Mary’s trademark event? It wins. And thus, the underdog story of the GW sailing club is born. Entirely student-run, the […]
Regretting a lack of research I would like to thank Josh Akman for encouraging research on campus (April 17, p. 4). I appreciate his insight on the value of education, thinking and the overemphasis on interning. As a senior, I regret spending too much time “copying, stapling and sorting” at my internships rather than taking […]
The Alpha Delta Pi sorority will need to make more room in their trophy case after taking home the majority of awards last week at the fourth annual Greek Excellence Awards ceremony. The Greek Excellence Awards recognize individuals involved in Greek-letter life who have been strong members of their organization, as well as various exceptional […]
When GW professor Steven Livingston visited Iraq two months ago, he became the first American professor to visit the nation under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s American visitor program. In the next several weeks, he plans to return to the war-torn country. Livingston, a professor of media and public affairs and international […]
Have GW’s undergraduate programs reached a glass ceiling of intellectual talent? Or, in the spirit of last Thursday’s Hatchet front page, are we getting dumber? The glaring headline “Intelligent students decrease” greeted the GW community and the throngs of admitted high school seniors and parents here last week for spring visits. These three words likely […]