Volume 106, Issue 34
Stories from the January 19, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
The scene in the halls of Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School was one of organized chaos Monday, as more than 500 GW students, faculty and staff picked up paintbrushes to help refurbish the run-down school in the Petworth neighborhood of Northwest D.C. Monday’s event was the biggest Martin Luther King Day of Service in GW […]
The GW women’s basketball team hosted the defending Atlantic 10 champions at the Smith Center Saturday, and though the Colonials never led and walked away with their fourth straight loss and 12th in 13 games, head coach Mike Bozeman did not seem overly disappointed with his team’s play. “I thought it was a hard-fought game […]
GW received a record-breaking 20,475 undergraduate applications this year, representing an increase of 3 percent from last year and making admission to the University this year more competitive than ever, University administrators said this week. Executive Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Kathryn Napper said Monday that applications following the Jan. 10 deadline reached 20,475, an increase […]
The GW gymnastics team opened its season at home Sunday, finishing third place in the six-team Lindsey Ferris/GW Invitational at the Smith Center. The meet featured five other teams, including event-winner North Carolina as well as Temple, Cornell, William & Mary and the University of Pennsylvania. The invitational honored program alumna Lindsey Ferris, who died […]
Professors may have to stop blaming Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for their students’ unfinished papers and poor grades, according to a study from the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics. Contrary to popular myth, there is no correlation between student grades and heavy usage of online social media, the study found. […]
In the wake of natural disaster, the GW community has always been willing to respond. Whether opening classes to students displaced by a hurricane or holding a benefit concert for victims of a tsunami on the other side of the world, GW isn’t a university that stands idly by. Now that the world has turned […]
The GW Writing Center will move to a new home in Gelman Library with the hopes that more students will use the service, a University administrator said last week. The center – which gives students free help and advice on papers written for class – was originally located in Rome Hall, but will now be […]
The GW College Democrats put a lot of effort into electing President Barack Obama, and our work has paid off. We believed in Barack Obama because we thought he’d be able to enact change on a variety of issues that affect our lives – from health care to the environment, as well as issues that […]
President Obama’s campaign was a symphony of feel-good rhetoric and images that appealed to our most basic human nature. It showed us the man who would be our president, a gifted speaker and a master of the trends; it also revealed an American people vulnerable to their passions and easily swept up in frenzy. A […]