Volume 105, Issue 43
Stories from the February 23, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Monday Love Your Body Week: Woman 2 Woman Join a discussion about healthy body image and how to protect yourself on campus. 8 p.m. Ivory Tower Community Room Real Conversations “Out of the Closet: Shedding Light on the GW LGBT Community Participate in a discussion on current issues within GW’s LGBT community as part of […]
Fifty-six students are vying for positions in the Student Association elections, 81 percent more than competed last year. More students were granted the opportunity to pursue SA office this year because of a recent change to the Joint Elections Committee charter eliminating the signature collection requirement once necessary for candidacy. In total, 56 people are […]
President Julie Bindelglass Kyle Boyer George Brunner Justin Hollimon Sammy Lopez Jordan Phillips Nick Polk EVP Arthur Goodland Louis Laverone Jason Lifton U-at-Large Michael Komo Michael Shea William Walsh G-at-Large Justine Adelizzi CCAS-U Erik Ashida Jason Aul Paul Blair Logan Dobson Melissa Gindin Josh Goldstein Christophe Hollocou Daniel Keylin Anthony Marenna Amahd McDonald Abhishek Pansari […]
Much like their party’s representatives on Capitol Hill, partisan political groups on campus are taking on different messages regarding the government’s response to the financial crisis. The College Republicans spent much of Friday voicing their criticism of the recently passed stimulus package outside the Marvin Center. President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus bill […]
University President Steven Knapp kicked off George Washington’s 277th birthday celebration Sunday night with three loud chants of “Whoo-zah! Whoo-zah! Whoo-zah!” The celebration, which was moved inside for a third consecutive year due to weather conditions, featured a pie-eating contest, a live band and a mock bonfire. Wind gusts of 35 miles per hour forced […]
By this point in our educations, most of us have been students for more than a decade. These days, more and more GW graduates are switching roles and finding out exactly what it means to be a teacher. In a recent event in the Marvin Center, Rod Paige, the former U.S. secretary of education, urged […]
Program Board is one of those organizations that drifts on and off of students’ radars. It’s popular when Jason Mraz or PostSecret comes to campus, but when it’s not making headlines, it is largely forgotten. That said, PB has the potential to put on some really great events, and students should take the time to […]
Less plastic, less impact. You have seen them: water bottles that claim to be made of 30 percent less plastic. It’s a red herring. Or wishful thinking. Only about 15 percent of water bottles will be recycled. That means that the water bottle you use today – regardless of how efficiently it was made with […]
Election coverage was wrong I believe that my profile in Thursday’s issue of The Hatchet befooled me as a candidate. My story was made a joke and my issues made narrow, while my understanding of the student’s concerns made inept and glib. When a student cannot trust the press to be fair and objective, then […]