Volume 105, Issue 44
Stories from the February 26, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Thursday Student Association Elections Vote online for your favorite candidates. Polls close at 9 p.m. www.gwelection.com Voices of the Saffron Revolution Burmese monks speak of their efforts to end the military regime in Burma in pursuit of a democratic society. 12 p.m. Lindner Family Commons, 1957 E St. Friday Advising President Obama’s Transition Team Faculty […]
Alarm clocks may become a thing of the past if GW’s Residence Hall Association permanently introduces Snoozester, a free service that sends wake-up calls to students’ cell phones. RHA is currently receiving the service as a free trial. Once the free trial period ends, RHA will decide whether or not to continue the program, said […]
A memorial mass for local friends and family to honor the life of alumnus Brian Adkins – a Foreign Service officer whose death last month in Ethiopia is being investigated as a homicide – was held on Saturday at St. Stephen Martyr Church on Pennsylvania Avenue. Adkins was found dead in his home in Addis […]
I knew the actual reason she was calling well before dawn more than a month ago. I just let it go to voicemail. No mother wakes her college-aged son before the newspaper is delivered for anything other than bad news. I waited to call her back, giving myself those last six fictitious hours with my […]
Graham Wright plays keyboard in Tokyo Police Club, a Canadian rock outfit known for their sense of structural brevity. That is, their first EP, “A Lesson in Crime,” includes eight songs and runs at 16 minutes. For this quality, and an oft-cited similarity to early work by The Strokes, Wright and his bandmates have garnered […]
New legislation is paving the way for gun retailers to open up throughout the city after the District’s gun ban was overturned last summer. Temporary laws allowing handguns sales in each of the District’s four quadrants are close to being made permanent, after the D.C. Zoning Commission reapproved them Thursday night. The laws allow gun […]
Is our generation of smart, young, ambitious students really going to settle with what the Obama administration is doing to the economy? Within five short years, we are going to be the ones entering the workplace, earning salaries, seeking careers, taking loans, paying taxes and finding jobs. It’s no secret that our economy is in […]
How does one go about directing a play with no constructed characters or set? For junior Vanessa FitzGerald, meeting this challenge meant the opportunity to present “4.48 Psychosis” to the University theater community. “I had never thought about directing before, but this play was something that just hit my heart so much I had too,” […]