Volume 105, Issue 36
Stories from the January 29, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Correction appended More than four years after he helped catch one of the most wanted men in the world, Lt. Col. Steve Russell gave a first-hand account of the investigation and ultimate capture of Saddam Hussein at the Marvin Center Tuesday night. Russell was the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 122nd Infantry, a […]
The GW women’s basketball team continued its winning ways Wednesday night against Dayton, beating the Flyers 64-52 and running the Colonials season-high win streak to five games. The Colonials (12-8, 5-1 Atlantic 10) were led by freshman Tara Booker who had five rebounds to go with her team high 15 points. Freshman Tiana Myers and […]
Students have used 12.7 percent less electricity in residence halls since September compared to the same time last year, organizers of a University-wide conservation contest said. Halfway through the University’s “Eco-Challenge,” which runs through April, the University is reporting that residence halls are making significant progress reducing their energy use. “It’s excellent news and especially […]
With its loss to La Salle Wednesday night, GW’s men’s basketball team fell to 0-6 in the Atlantic 10, making them the only one of the conference’s 14 teams not to win a game. The Colonials have lost 10 games in a row overall and sit at the bottom of the standings by itself. Karl […]
“In the 21st century, countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow, and America is already in danger of falling behind.” With that quotation from President Barack Obama, Dr. Watson Scott Swail opened the National Capitol Summit on Education sponsored by GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the Hyatt Regency Hotel […]
A D.C. resident pleaded guilty in a Maryland court this week to the murder of a GW graduate student last spring. Gary T. McKinley, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the April 2008 death of his girlfriend, 24-year-old preschool teacher Sheena Marie Day. Day was a graduate student at GW in spring 2008, and […]
The University recently purchased a $16.6 million office building in Ashburn, Va., that will increase the size of GW’s Virginia campus by about 25 percent. The Virginia campus, which is roughly 25 miles from Foggy Bottom, is currently home to three GW buildings, two of which are used mainly for administrative offices and a third […]
Thursday Edward P. Jones reads ‘The Known World’ Pulitzer Prize-winning author and visiting professor Edward P. Jones will read a passage from his novel about racism, memory and the power of art. 5 p.m. Jack Morton Auditorium Friday Building JJ Open House Check out the first “green” residence hall room on campus in the Revolution […]
Ten straight losses. It’s been a while since that figure could be attached to GW’s men’s basketball team, but so it came to be Wednesday night at La Salle, as the Colonials fell to the Explorers 76-66 to continue their slide. GW once again hung with the eventual victors for the majority of the contest, […]
GW students and Foggy Bottom residents gathered Wednesday evening to commemorate the life of a homeless man found murdered last month on a nearby street corner. Around 30 people met outside of Thurston Hall and marched silently toward Western Presbyterian Church on Virginia Avenue, near where Yoshio Nakada, 61, was discovered brutally murdered on Christmas […]