Volume 105, Issue 14
Stories from the October 2, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
So here I am, up at 2 a.m., as usual. Talking to friends on MSN Messenger while halfheartedly watching CNN, as usual. Trying to ignore the fact I have to get up in five hours, as usual. That’s when a friend who is serving in Afghanistan logs online. Ecstatic as I am to talk to […]
Women’s Soccer: Friday, Oct. 3 vs. Massachusetts, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5 vs. Rhode Island, 1 p.m. Volleyball: Friday, Oct. 3 vs. Dayton, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 vs. Xavier, 2 p.m. Men’s Water Polo: Thursday, Oct. 2 at California Baptist, 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 4 at Claremont Convergence Tournament
It’s always inspiring to walk into the gym during the first week of school and see that every piece of equipment is taken by students bent on staying fit and healthy. It’s also incredibly frustrating, since I have to wait those extra five minutes for my favorite elliptical on the third floor. Then September slowly […]
With distractions like personality, appearance and speech style, making objective sense of the 2008 presidential race can be a daunting task. But rather than blame pundits or personal biases, one group is using this problem as a platform to raise vital questions about media and the limitations of its current formatting. Sosolimited is an audiovisual […]
Student theater group the 14th Grade Players will perform a stage play, “Star Wars: In 30 Minutes!” at the Mitchell Hall Theater this Friday and Saturday. The show will be directed by junior Elizabeth Richardson. Playwright Patrick Gorman first developed the concept of a condensed Star Wars-based stage play in the mid-1990s, Richardson said. She […]
If you have $5 Want to laugh? Catch GW improv group receSs, performing at the Betts Theatre Friday, Oct. 3 at midnight. If you have $10 Cough up 12 dollars to rub elbows with GW brethren. Head to the Black Cat this Saturday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. to see Jukebox the Ghost, performing with […]
GW alumni send their love to us in the form of a playlist, with tracks 2 through 6 representing D.C. music. So thoughtful! Thank you, guys. Really, you shouldn’t have. Though Jukebox recently relocated to Philly while they tour, they will be back in the city this weekend. Catch them performing at the Black Cat […]
University officials said this week that the space formerly occupied by DJ’s Fastbreak restaurant will house the Spirit Office and a student lounge, in addition to the EMeRG offices on the top floor. The former Spirit Office in the Marvin Center will become the new resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students. […]
T.I. Paper Trail(GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC) Just like Mom’s cookies, homemade is always better – whether by choice or through court-ordered house arrest. Guns, porn stars, Patron on ice: Paper Trail charts T.I.’s journey back to his roots. -Colleen Beagan These United States Crimes (UNITED INTERESTS) D.C.-based These United States fuse a hybrid of folk and pop […]