Volume 105, Issue 24
Stories from the November 6, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
On a rainy Election Day on Tuesday, an elderly woman no more than four and a half feet tall named Elena stepped out of a Red Top cab in Rosslyn, Va., and made her way to her polling place at Fire Station 10, just a few blocks from the Metro stop. As she carefully stepped […]
Watching the returns come back in 2004, where did you imagine you would be on election night 2008? Did you picture yourself in Foggy Bottom, gathering in front of the White House, standing among the monuments or being at the Capitol? In the hours spanning Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, it became abundantly clear to […]
The ice age, Noah’s ark and the apocalypse. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin Of Our Teeth,” performed by Forbidden Planet Productions this weekend, visits all three events – in the course of two hours. While she admits the show is confusing, director Katherine Nelson, a junior, said she found the play immediately compelling. “It was different […]
Two years ago, Megan Hogan was in the running to be a collegiate basketball player for Mount Ida College in Massachusetts. That didn’t work out and she no longer plays basketball. But she’s still running. And the GW women’s cross country team is glad she is. In her first semester at GW – and only […]
It’s hard to analyze the meaning of elections until years later, so I can’t come out and say whether this election was a deep “realignment” or just simply a repudiation of the Bush administration – but we can look at raw numbers. Regardless, the Republican Party has a lot of work to do. For starters, […]
Short write-ups from Hatchet staffers and opinions writers about their experiences and thoughts from election night 2008: The Last Speech I did not expect to be moved by John McCain, the old war horse who had never moved my cynic’s soul with his rhetoric. But election night, I was moved, moved by the stoicism of […]
A new beginning for GW Several hours ago, after hearing the results of the 2008 presidential election, several friends and I proceeded to run to the White House, darting past Thurston on the way and picking up tens of accompanying students. We were lucky enough to be a part of the initial group of students […]
VARSITYROUNDUP Volleyball The GW volleyball team defeated Morgan State Tuesday in three sets to move to 14-9 overall. Senior Liz Moult led the Colonials’ offense with 11 kills. GW will play two critical Atlantic 10 games this weekend against Charlotte and Fordham. The Colonials currently sit in first place in the A-10’s East Division. Six […]
Unlawful Entry 10/29/08 – Mitchell Hall 7-Eleven – 2:12 p.m. – case closed An employee of 7-Eleven called the University Police Department about a disorderly male in the store who had harassed patrons and put items in his pockets without paying for them. Officers arrived and realized he had already been barred from campus three […]
Sometime soon, I plan on buying some lottery tickets. I promise to donate all of my winnings after taxes to a few of my pet political causes. I’m doing this because, unlike most of you, I didn’t vote this year. Fortunately, my potential winnings are far more likely to influence the government than all of […]