Volume 105, Issue 25
Stories from the November 10, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
One of the nation’s largest student press organizations presented The Hatchet with two of its most prominent awards last week, the first time the paper has been recognized for both its print and online editions in the same year. The Associated Collegiate Press presented the paper with the Online Pacemaker and Print Pacemaker awards. The […]
Monday Career Advice & a Slice Listen as a variety of employers discuss how to make the most of your internship or part-time job. Business casual attire required. 5:30 p.m. Career Center, Room 208 Tuesday Panel Discussion about Female Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector Come hear tips from several female CEOs about how to lead […]
With fall classes less than a month from being over, everyone is already busy signing up for next semester’s courses. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had known what you were getting into for this semester in that one class you hate? Or if you could see what you’re signing up for this spring? Each […]
Tyler Somes/Hatchet photographer Demonstrators painted tents with peaceful images on the National Mall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur.
In case you missed it, The Hatchet reported a couple weeks ago that GW is no longer the most expensive school in the nation. According to the consulting firm Cambridge Associates, we are actually third on the list, which factors in tuition plus all other required costs for a new student at each school. As […]
The evening of Nov. 4, 2008, was exhilarating. I stood with thousands of people in San Francisco celebrating the election of this country’s first African-American president. The emotion I felt overwhelmed me with a sense of justice, pride and redemption. The next morning I felt devastated because I woke up to the news that 52 […]
On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama achieved the impossible – he united GW. Okay, so the 20 percent of campus who opposed him or didn’t care probably felt left out, but by our standards of unity, it was quite the accomplishment. After Obama was announced as the victor, scores of GW students poured into the […]
The University Police Department will soon deploy a mobile command unit vehicle to help them more effectively respond to incidents on campus, the department chief said last week. Mobile command units, which are van-sized and tall enough to stand inside, are used by many campus police departments to house various tools and resources in order […]
Support for nonvoting argument Kudos to Bill Flanigen for his interesting and provocative piece on nonvoting (“I didn’t vote. Leave me alone.” Nov. 6, p. 4). Seeking to dispel the widely held notion that voting is an obligatory civic duty, he makes a cogent case in favor of those who believe that not voting is […]
GW students, faculty and staff performed more than 52,000 hours of community service in the District last year, and University officials are brainstorming ideas for a database that maps such volunteerism in the area. Administrators plan to create a comprehensive program that will combine data to produce a map showing where GW has engaged in […]