April 27, 2009

By the second day of Colonial Inauguration I was pretty sure I had made a mistake. I felt miserable, out of place and ended up staying with my mom in her hotel room instead of Thurston. I hadn’t met anyone I wanted to be roommates with and was pretty sure I wasn’t ever going to […]

Web Extra Outfits made out of cards, trash bag dresses galore, and loads of GW TRAiLS members stylishly draped in the best of their supply closet dotted the Vern last Friday. This isn’t the typical GW student attire, but for students trying to raise money for community development in Africa it was the norm. The […]

For Cameron Tepfer and Scott Underwood, founders of a college-oriented dining blog, food is more than just an experience – it’s a story all its own. With an appetite for savory meals, the two GW students walk into a restaurant to capture the experience by taking note of its sights, sounds and, most importantly, its […]

A beloved professor and former chair of the physics department, Dr. Cornelius Bennhold, passed away Wednesday evening after a 17-year-long battle with lung cancer. He was 48. Bennhold taught at GW for more than 17 years and was revered by many of his students and colleagues, who said his love for learning and teaching was […]

Anyone who has spent a significant amount time in Foggy Bottom is likely aware of GW’s lack of school spirit. But why do some schools have an unwavering sense of pride while others simply do not? To find an answer, The Hatchet visited four other D.C.-area colleges to determine what exactly fuels school spirit. AMERICAN […]

Cheryl Stimpson carefully pulls a mechanical razor toward her, shaving off a bit of brain tissue. Next door, Muhammad Spocter places a glass slide under a microscope and observes purple dots suspended in white mass on his computer screen. This is GW’s Mind-Brain Institute, whose charter was approved only a few weeks ago. It is […]

Under clear skies and 85-degree weather, hundreds of students flocked to the Mount Vernon Campus for Program Board’s first-ever Fountain Fling this weekend with headlining band Spoon. Program Board and the Mount Vernon Programming Council combined efforts for the event, which combined PB’s Spring Fling and MVPC’s Fountain Day. Senior Liz Kramer, co-chair for PB’s […]

Web Extra Armed with pompoms and ready to root for the team, cheerleaders are famous for their perky personas and ability to enhance school spirit. But what happens when the cheerleaders are left with little spirit to perk up? This is often the case at GW, where school-run events at the Marvin Center go largely […]

Losing his bid for the Student Association presidency taught Kyle Boyer at least one thing: He was good at bringing people together. Boyer said he plans to capitalize on this talent by launching the Colonial Impact Group, a student organization that will organize students to build a more spirited and unified campus. “There is and […]

When University President Steven Knapp’s tenure at GW began in August 2007, one of his goals was to remain closely connected to the student perspective. That’s where Kelly Leon comes in. A graduate student in the organizational management program with a degree in English from GW, Leon was awarded a Presidential Administrative Fellowship last spring. […]