Volume 106, Issue 29
Stories from the November 23, 2009 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Cameron Smither is on a Dean’s Advisory Council and is a member of both the College Democrats and Green GW. He has a work study job with D.C. Reads, gives campus tours for the Office of Admissions and is a member of his residence hall’s Residential Advisory Council. He also just transferred to GW in […]
Three homeless or formerly homeless people told their stories Thursday at a panel co-sponsored by the Office of Community Service and the National Coalition for the Homeless. The event was part of a larger OCS effort to increase awareness during the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. The speakers sought to break stereotypes about the […]
I had an interesting conversation the other day with my best friend from home and my reliable hookup, 007. He called me up to say hi, and to tell me that he was “seeing someone,” meaning, sleeping with someone else. Although 007 will always hold a special place in my heart, my heart didn’t drop […]
The men’s basketball team will face local school George Mason Dec. 2 at the Smith Center for the first time since 1998, and a group of student organizations is teaming up with the Spirit Office to maximize student turnout at the game and increase campus-wide support of GW athletics. Printed next to the bold, colorful […]
The pedestrian passageway that runs under Guthridge Hall will close Nov. 23 and remain out of service until spring 2010, according to an e-mail Thursday from Residential Property Management. The passageway connects F Street to an alleyway adjacent to G Street, and will be closed to build a new green plaza behind Guthridge and alongside […]
At the end of the week, the sounds of saxophones, trombones, basses, drums, and piano fill the halls of the music department. But they are not emanating from a class or a performance rehearsal. Instead, they are coming from jazz jams. Every Friday from noon to 2 p.m. in Phillips B-120, the GW music department […]
GW was already comfortably ahead of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday, the game’s 94-51 lopsided final score starting to take form in the first half, when freshman Bryan Bynes fired a cross-court pass to classmate Lasan Kromah, who lingered in the corner awaiting the ball, ready to shoot. Kromah, for his part, was on […]
Two paramedics receive a dispatch to report to a motorcycle accident. While pushing a cot, with stethoscopes around their necks and walkie-talkies in their hands, they arrive at the scene to discover the motorcyclist lying in the street with an abrasion of the forehead, a deformity of the bicep and blood seeping from the thigh. […]
The author of the controversial amendment to the House of Representatives-approved health care bill is rejecting the findings of a Nov. 16 report authored by five GW professors in the School of Public Health and Health Services. The study found that the Stupak-Pitts amendment – which is designed to restrict how abortions could be offered […]
Huddled under the protective covering of a rainproof tent in Kogan Plaza, GW students escaped the monsoon-like rains last Thursday night to pledge their time and money to budding entrepreneurs in the third world. Those who participated in the event were engaging in one of the latest trends sweeping international development: microfinance. They were attending […]