Volume 105, Issue 37
Stories from the February 2, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
When senior Brad Birenbaum enrolled at GW to play squash, he entered a program that was in just its third year at the varsity level and had never held a home match. Three years later, the Pennsylvania native is the captain of the nation’s 22nd-ranked team, which beat Drexel and the University of North Carolina […]
After going through a bit of a mid-winter funk, the Colonials were on a roll as they visited La Salle Saturday, having reeled off five straight conference victories. While they were ultimately able to extend that streak to six, doing so did not come easily. GW came away with a 72-70 victory only after surviving […]
If the heartbreaking losses, player departures and ongoing 10-game losing streak are a dark cloud over the current men’s basketball season, then senior Noel Wilmore would have to be a silver lining. In a season filled with disappointments both on and off the court, Wilmore’s emergence as a consistent scoring threat off the bench has […]
The highest member of Student Association President Vishal Aswani’s cabinet, Chief of Staff Greta Twombly, resigned on Friday, asserting that her relationship with Aswani deteriorated to the point where her position became “pointless.” The announcement is the latest example of growing discord within the Student Association executive, and marks the fifth person to resign since […]
A number of crosses used by the conservative Young America’s Foundation during an anti-abortion event last month were defaced in a Marvin Center office, and a member of the College Democrats has taken responsibility. Members of the College Republicans found the crosses on Monday evening scattered around the office they share with the College Democrats. […]
Monday Feminism 2.0 Conference The Graduate School of Political Management hosts a discussion about women in the working world 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater Promises Movie Screening Join the Arab Student Association, the Student Justice for Palestine and the Muslim Student Association in screening a film about the current crisis in […]
A student at Howard, who is suing GW because she said she was given improper care at GW Hospital, is now alleging that the school has failed to produce adequate documentation of its rape response procedure and also altered key rape information on a GW Web site. The senior sued the University and GW Hospital […]
The University has pulled all peanut butter products from campus vending machines, the GW Bookstore and Sodexo venues in response to a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Nancy Haaga, managing director of campus and support services, said the University and Sodexo follow a “zero-tolerance” policy in food recalls. A national recall, which has been traced to a […]
Freshman Stacey Minton caught a mouse in her Madison Hall room last semester. Then she caught another one. And another one. In total, Minton has caught 16 dead mice in her suite-style double on 22nd Street since October. An average of one per week, Minton said she almost lost count of how many rodents had […]