Volume 106, Issue 17
Stories from the October 12, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
“What 1993 Oscar-winning actor made his debut in ‘A Bronx Tale’?” Christian Jones, a large, happy man with a goatee, bellows over a crowd of trivia participants on the third floor of Tonic Restaurant on a Monday night. What would normally be a deafening roar of 50 people chatting over drinks and food suddenly becomes […]
A male unaffiliated with GW was taken into custody Friday morning after he allegedly tried to touch several females while they slept in their rooms in Thurston Hall. The male entered five different Thurston residence hall rooms between 4:30 and 5 a.m., and attempted to initiate sexual encounters, according to a Metropolitan Police report of […]
Telemarketing. It often carries a bad connotation, bringing up images of call centers in India that try to sell you a timeshare. But at GW, they don’t call them telemarketers. Instead, callers and connectors are the terms of choice. The University’s Colonial Connection call center contacts alumni, parents and friends of the University to update […]
Monday Fall Film Series: ‘The Hangover’ Watch one of this summer’s most popular comedies, ‘The Hangover.’ A GWorld gets you and a friend in. Marvin Center Continental Ballroom | 8 to 10 p.m. ‘Coming Out Week’ features veteran as keynote speaker Lt. Dan Choi, an army combat veteran of the Iraq war, will speak about […]
Juniors Ricky Muñiz and Josh Schutze shared an evening filled with easy conversation at Stars Bistro in Dupont Circle, but held differing views on the restaurant and whether they are friends or something more. Dater Bios Name: Ricky Muñiz Year: Junior Age: 21 Hometown: Bayamón, Puerto Rico Major: International affairs and geography Name: Josh Schutze […]
When Student Association Sen. Schwetha Shekar, a first-year graduate student, heard about classmates who had to stay overnight on the Virginia campus because they’d missed the shuttle back to Foggy Bottom, she decided it was something she could fix in her role as an SA senator. Shekar brought the issue to the SA Student Life […]
This is the first column in a three-part series on GW’s medical amnesty policy. Next week, the author will compare other universities’ policies to those of GW and discuss the possible inclusion of drug use in the policy. The third week the author will lay out the basic criteria for a rewrite of the policy, […]
Policies on sexual conduct don’t violate students’ rights Evan Schwartz’s question, “If a university can enact a policy on sex… where does its power to control its student body… stop?” is more than ridiculous, immature and puerile. GW is a private institution and can enact legislation as it sees fit to best improve the quality […]
Retweet this. GW is one of the most prolific college tweeters on Twitter, according to a study released last week. The University has 17 Twitter accounts and tweets an average of 58 times per day – more than any other university in the country – according to a study by Universitiesandcolleges.org. Twitter – a Web […]