Volume 105, Issue 4
Stories from the August 28, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
GW students will have a lot of important dates to program into their Blackberrys this year. On Sept. 2, classes begin. Nov. 4 is the presidential election, which for some students is something like Christmas and the Super Bowl rolled into one. On Jan. 20, D.C. will host what is likely to be one of […]
The University officially made the switch from Colonial Mail to Google Mail on Aug. 7, after about a year of negotiations. Students and alumni have since created more than 13,000 GWMail accounts through Google, which include more storage space and features than CMail accounts, University officials said. Unlike CMail, the new GWMail service will not […]
D.C. is one of just six cities with sports teams from all four major professional leagues (five, if you count Major League Soccer). Below is a selection of the different teams and what they offer: Nationals (baseball) Cost: Less than $10 for upper level seats. Location: Nationals Park, Southeast D.C. How to get there: Take […]
I went into Colonial Inauguration 5 with pretty high expectations. Being a part of the last group to go, I had heard great things from my new classmates. Even though the fanfare that goes into Colonial Inauguration can be impressive, the program must strive to be centered on students instead of parents, and on providing […]
The fighting between Russia and Georgia this August took place on the other side of the globe, but its connections to the University include the country’s president and several Georgian emigrants studying in Foggy Bottom. On Aug. 7, Georgia attempted to regain control of South Ossetia, a disputed pro-Russia territory that is along the Georgia’s […]
If you are going to go see the Orioles, you might a well make a day of it. D.C.’s neighbor to the northeast is very accessible by the MARC and Amtrak train lines, which run almost hourly into the city. The MARC costs as little as $7 and Amtrak is about double that price. Baltimore […]
The Board of Trustees budgeted $3 million for initial work on a building for the School of Public Health and Health Services this spring – a move that will finally give a home to the 11-year-old school. The $3 million is expected to fund the planning and preliminary design work for the new building, which […]
The GW bureaucracy views the student body in terms of profit. Luckily for the student body, Student Association President Vishal Aswani can see beyond the numbers. A little more than two months ago, the house I grew up in was destroyed in a fire. My father had lived in the house for almost 60 years, […]
Anne Wernikoff/assistant photo editor Rush-hour commuters struggle to enter the Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro station on Tuesday after only one escalator could be used for passengers entering and leaving the stop. Metro officials said the escalators were supposed to be functioning later that day.
When it came to choosing a college, freshman soccer player Brice Carr had a lot of options. A native of Milwaukee, Carr spent his senior year of high school at the prestigious IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton, Fla., – the same place that produced U.S. soccer stars Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley and Freddy Adu. When […]