November 12, 2009

Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus largely ignored the health care debate brewing in the Senate and launched into a discussion about trade, labor and climate change Tuesday in a discussion at the Elliott School of International Affairs. Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, dug into the specifics Tuesday morning at a breakfast hosted by the […]

Thumbs Up: Basketball season starting — Not everybody is hopeful about this basketball season, largely due to the inexperience of a good part of both the men’s and women’s rosters this year. But even with younger teams, we are excited about the start of the season. Win or lose, we encourage everybody to get out […]

Neither the School of Public Health and Health Services nor the Graduate School of Education and Human Development are currently in compliance with University policies regarding the number of full-time faculty in each school, but both are making strides to correct the problem, officials said this week. The faculty code requires that at least 50 […]

The one thing holding D.C. back from having Congressional representation seems to be a debate on gun rights. The D.C. Voting Rights Act, which would give our city an official representative in the House, has stalled for the past nine months. In February, it passed in the Senate – but only after being stamped with […]

Coming to GW for “the city” is almost a cliché. The University’s application even directs prospective freshmen to not just write about the school’s “city experience” when asking “Why GW?” But like all great clichés, “I came to GW for D.C.” often has truth to it. According to a recent report in The Wall Street […]

Like many of you, I wasn’t altogether surprised when I flipped to Monday’s Hatchet opinions section and found my friend Andrew Clark penning his latest obituary of the Democratic Party. Though I usually enjoy his writing and often find his points at least defensible, I found his analysis of last week’s elections breathtakingly misleading. Lets […]

Correction appended By joining forces with student groups across campus, the GW Hillel student leadership raised more than $7,500 for breast cancer research last month, the organization’s president said this week. Marc Friend, president of Jewish Student Association, said his group partnered with fraternities and sororities on campus to give manicures, sell Challah bread and […]

“Rebuild” can be a loaded term in sports vernacular, a non-starter for the promise of the present, a built-in excuse for futility. Yet there it is, bold and white and capitalized on the first page of the official GW pamphlet shilling the men’s basketball program to prospective ticket holders, wordplay on a team and home […]

For senior administrators Robert Chernak and Donald Lehman, the Yellow Ribbon Program is a chance to make a difference in the lives of fellow veterans. And they would know a little something about that – both officials are veterans who went to school on benefits from the original GI Bill. Lehman, executive vice president for […]

Latecomers, dozers and loud-whispers have always plagued college classrooms. But the ability to access Facebook, e-mail, games, and the Internet on a BlackBerry, laptop, or iPhone is a new frontier of distraction – and some professors are trying to do something about it. Several professors agree more students are using laptops in class and more […]