Volume 106, Issue 8
Stories from the September 10, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
If you have $5: Save your money and head out to the Adams Morgan Day Festival on Sept. 13. Highlights include live music, food, and a dance plaza. FREE If you have $10: Dance the night away on Sept. 12 at the Black Cat. The club is hosting its classic Mousetrap event, and they’ll play […]
A former Chinese ambassador to the United Nations hopes for a world where the U.S. and China can be allies, the diplomat said at an Elliott School event Tuesday afternoon. Wu Jianmin spoke about the future of China’s international relations as a part of GW’s Sigur Center’s lecture series on Asian identity and power. China, […]
Elizabeth Bennet could do better Reading the new sex column titled “Good Girl, Bad Girl: Hoping for a Balance,” (Sept. 8, p. 7) I’m not sure what offends me more. As a senior at GW, I have spent plenty of time reading the sex column and laughing along with everyone else. However, this time it […]
A GW student was arrested last week after University Police Department officers responded to reports of a group of males smoking marijuana in Kogan Plaza. UPD officers discovered a “pungent odor in the vicinity” of three male students on Thursday at 2:27 a.m., UPD Chief Dolores Stafford said in an e-mail. The officers were responding […]
The first Tuesday meeting of the Student Association Senate kicked off with confirmation votes to fill several senate vacancies, the rejection of one bill, and passage of another. The failed bill, sponsored by Committee Chairs Jamie Baker (CPS-G) and Erik Ashida (CCAS-U), would have added three positions to the SA Executive Branch. It also would […]
After a win and a loss in his team’s first two games of the season last week, GW men’s soccer head coach George Lidster said the Colonials needed to take advantage of more of their scoring chances. Tuesday at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, GW did just that. The Colonials rolled over an outmatched University […]
We’re putting the spotlight on Forbidden Planet Productions, the student theatre group gearing up for next month’s Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directors Samantha Dercher and Nicole Sweeney, along with choreographer Kate Meroski, took time off from this week’s auditions to speak with Hatchet Arts. What you are directing: Samantha: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which […]
Pair of freshmen honored Two GW freshman goalkeepers won honors this week for their outstanding performances as first-year players. Cameron Illes of the men’s water polo team was named the CWPA Southern Division Rookie of the Week, while men’s soccer’s Brendan Lafferty earned the Atlantic 10’s Co-Rookie of the Week, with both awards being announced […]
Combining all that this University and Washington D.C. have to offer, GW is home to a unique Greek-letter community. Members spent thousands of hours – a combined total of more than 25,000, in fact – volunteering in the community last year and currently hold a number of important jobs and internships all around the city. […]