Volume 105, Issue 38
Stories from the February 5, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Thursday Flamenco Dance on Stage…Starring You! Learn to Flamenco dance while enjoying wine and cheese at the ninth annual Flamenco Festival. Tickets are $20 7 p.m. Lisner Auditorium Friday South African Project Benefit Performance Youth performers from the Bokamoso Youth Center of Winterveldt, South Africa, will showcase traditional African song and dance. 7:30 p.m. Betts […]
Even if you can’t make it to Dublin on March 17, there are plenty of ways to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day in the District. The Nation’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday, March 15 12 to 3 p.m. Constitution Avenue between 7th and 17th streets N.W. www.saintpatricksdayparade.com St. Patrick’s Day 8K An 8K road race that […]
This year, it is imperative that this University step up to the plate and add “gender identity and expression” to our nondiscrimination policy. Students have been waging this battle for years, but the administration continues to ignore the issue and insists on placing students’ needs on the backburner. The University has a legal and ethical […]
PHILADELPHIA-Wednesday night at Saint Joseph’s, the GW men’s basketball team went about proving once again that they can play with any of their Atlantic 10 opponents. It’s the nagging matter of beating them that’s the problem. GW matched its third-place hosts over the opening 20 minutes, entering halftime trailing by only four, a surmountable lead […]
Are you aching for a break from snow and school, but haven’t had time to plan anything past your next all-nighter? Don’t fret, there’s still time to plan an awesome spring break. And, conveniently for GW, a branch of STA Travel – the largest student travel agency in the world – is located right in […]
Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream (COLUMBIA) The brilliance of Springsteen has always rested on the unabashed force with which he uplifts humanness, containing it to the populist model of a now-dead era in American rock, with its uncomplicated chord progressions and accessible metaphors. And though “Working on a Dream” keeps to common-man metaphor, it […]
Opinion among top University officials is “mixed” on whether to provide the University Police Department officers with guns, said Robert Chernak, senior vice president of Student and Academic Support Services. Chernak said UPD Chief Dolores Stafford was someone on “one side of the spectrum.” Last spring, Stafford co-authored a report for the International Association of […]
Greensburg, Kan. Students will work to help repair the town, which was devastated by a tornado in 2007. The group will collaborate with the Greensburg GreenTown Project to rebuild in an environmentally sustainable fashion. Camp Hope, New Orleans, La. Students will continue the New Orleans rebuilding process in the 9th Ward and St. Bernard’s Parish. […]
Prescription drug abuse is a growing issue across the board. When you want to get high, the question no longer seems to be “Got any pot?” but rather, “Have you had your wisdom teeth taken out recently?” I do not want to moralize about why we should not abuse prescription drugs or lecture on the […]
Everyone from young GW alumni to President Barack Obama represents the success of blacks in America, renowned author and professor Michael Eric Dyson said Tuesday night at an event in the Marvin Center. Dyson drew a packed audience to Betts Theater Tuesday night as the keynote speaker for GW’s annual Black Heritage Celebration. In his […]