March 26, 2009

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Commencement ceremony on the National Mall, University officials confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Widely regarded as one of the most powerful players in the Obama administration, Emanuel is a veteran of the Clinton White House and a former Illinois congressman. As chairman […]

Hatchet reporters Ani Mamourian and Alex Carusillo asked musicians (…and a bouncer) at Austin’s South By Southwest to share their tips for success. Here’s what they offered: Bill Gray of The Mae Shi:“Don’t fuck over the people you love … that’s my only moral. And I still break it. I guess it’s inevitable … all […]

Indie rock band Spoon will headline Program Board’s first-ever Fountain Fling concert event on the Mount Vernon Campus late next month. The Mount Vernon Programming Council announced Wednesday that the band, characterized by its upbeat and slightly electronic sound, will play a full set at the April 25 festival – a combination of the annual […]

Sex, love and money are the focus of shows performed by Generic Theater Company and the 14th Grade Players this weekend. While Generic will focus on the annals of the real estate business with “Glengarry Glen Ross,” 14th Grade Players will present a period comedy, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman.” “Glengarry Glen […]

For those of you still paying attention, we are hopefully nearing the end of our marathon Student Association election season. In light of former SA presidential candidate Kyle Boyer’s removal from the ballot, The Hatchet’s Editorial Board re-examined the qualifications of the two candidates still eligible for the office, sophomores Nick Polk and Julie Bindelglass. […]

The trial of a former GW counselor facing drug and gun charges this week was peppered with colorful testimony, much of which detailed an extensive history of drug abuse and allegations that he dealt drugs from his apartment adjacent to campus. Lawrence Cannaday, 52, worked as a counselor in the Multicultural Student Services Center from […]

The Student Court ruled on Tuesday to uphold the Joint Election Committee’s decision to disqualify presidential candidate Kyle Boyer from the Student Association runoff election. As a result, the presidential runoff is held Wednesday and Thursday of this week between sophomores Julie Bindelglass and Nick Polk. In a 2-1 decision, the court found that the […]

Men’s soccer The men’s soccer team announced four incoming recruits for next year’s team, including Youth All-American Brendan Lafferty, a native of North Babylon, N.Y. GW will return 24 players and nine starters from last season’s 8-6-3 team. Women’s rowing The women’s rowing team finished second of three teams Sunday on the Occoquan Reservoir, finishing […]

Web Extra We’re all populists now? Well, certainly no one at GW is. The word populism has been floated around in recent weeks to describe the seething public anger towards “mega-bonuses” paid to “greedy” AIG executives, the growing hostility to banks and the public outcry that the word “bailout” is rapidly becoming a loaded word […]

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will speak Friday in Lisner Auditorium at Holder’s Installation Ceremony, representatives from the University and Department of Justice said Wednesday afternoon. The event is a ceremonial swearing-in for all attorneys general and will include remarks by both officials, said Hannah August, a spokeswoman for the Department of […]