Volume 105, Issue 27
Stories from the November 17, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Kenneth P. Moritsugu, former acting surgeon general of the United States, credited the GW Department of Preventive Medicine and the diverse D.C. community for his rise to the top public health job in America at a talk on campus Thursday. Moritsugu spoke to GW students at the Alumni House as part of the “How do […]
Living in a dangerous area was just part of the job for graduate student Larissa Hotra and alumna Krystal Sirman during their time working for Survivor Corps this past summer. The two were recognized at an event Friday night at the Cranford House near Embassy Row that celebrated the international service of the 2008 Advocacy […]
For the GW volleyball team, this season has been all about the Atlantic 10 Championships. Shrugging off tough losses and hard-fought wins, head coach Jojit Coronel was optimistic that each experience would help the Colonials (18-10, 9-4 A-10) prepare for the A-10s. Judging from this weekend’s results, Coronel’s optimism was grounded in reality. After a […]
The Continental Ballroom was transformed Friday night into a dimly lit club where about 50 students dressed in red, white and blue attire for Presidential Swagger, an event sponsored the Black Student Union. The ballroom was topped with decorations that included a large sign, which spelled out “OBAMA” in red, white and blue ribbon. Although […]
Monday, November 17 “Team effort” is an easy term to throw around. More than three players scored in double digits? Team effort. Bench players logging more minutes? Team effort. No clear player of the game? Must have been a team effort. But what do you call it when every healthy player logs considerable minutes? When […]
More than 70 percent of the 24,500 eligible undergraduate and graduate students have switched to the Google-hosted GWMail since the new e-mail system launched this August. For students who have yet to activate a GWMail account, there’s still time, but not much, said Ronald Bonig, vice president and chief information officer. After March 1, 2009, […]
As the inauguration of Barack Obama rolls closer, three former White House cabinet secretaries said at a forum Thursday in the Jack Morton Auditorium that compiling a group of people that get along with each other and can work successfully together is the most important task for the president-elect. The panel discussion, which was moderated […]
Beginning this month, the District will mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with a yearlong schedule of remembrance titled “Living the Legacy: Lincoln in Washington D.C.” To honor the 16th president of the United States, who was born Feb. 12, 1809, a trove of historic Lincoln artifacts and personal presidential treasures are being […]
Banners that read “STR8 Against H8” and “Out of the Closets, Into the Streets” stood out in a sea of rainbow-colored clothing as students and alumni joined thousands of other gay rights protesters on the National Mall Saturday. Less than two weeks after California voters passed Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage in the […]
If you didn’t know beforehand, you probably wouldn’t have pegged Tiana Myers as a freshman. The first-year guard sat attentively behind the microphone at the post-game press conference Saturday, poised and polished, as she discussed the GW women’s basketball team’s 75-56 season-opening victory over UMBC that afternoon. There was no uncertainty or hesitation in her […]