Volume 106, Issue 38
Stories from the February 1, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
GW’s Office of Sustainability has teamed up with students, administrators and staff to draft the University’s Climate Action Plan and has hired a new staff member to keep the plan on deadline, a University administrator said this week. Meghan Chapple-Brown, director of the Office of Sustainability, said teams of GW students, administrators and staff have […]
Web Exclusive The District Department of Transportation is considering plans to add bike lanes to Eye and L streets, a spokesperson for the agency said last week. The lanes would likely be installed in lieu of adding two-way bike paths on K Street as part of a redevelopment plan for the road, department spokesman John […]
Correction appended The Source, a weekly television show produced by students in the School of Media and Public Affairs, was canceled this spring after the class tasked with creating the show did not meet the minimum number of students needed to produce it. Students enrolled in SMPA 137 – Broadcast News Studio Production – and […]
Current and former University administrators praised President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pledge to tackle college affordability issues, calling Obama a friend to the field of higher education. In his 70-minute speech Wednesday night, Obama called on colleges and universities to reduce their rising costs, introduced the idea of tax credits for families paying […]
Most people have probably given little thought to the role of a university provost. Even Webster’s description of the title affords only six words: “a high-ranking university administrative officer.” This short phrase is egregiously inadequate in describing the true importance of the provost position. As Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman prepares to […]
The Faculty Senate is in talks with the University to reinstate the Benefits Review Committee after a six-year hiatus, a move that is expected to jumpstart conversations about benefits during current troubled economic times, members of the Faculty Senate said this week. The committee would be responsible for reviewing faculty benefits and policies that originate […]
As the new decade has officially begun, and the countless retrospectives commemorating the last one have mercifully finished, please forgive a final brief observation on the decade that was – it was disagreeable. Flying under the radar among the more exciting descriptions and portrayals of our culture is the undisputable fact that we seem to […]
The arrest of an alumnus charged with allegedly attempting to bug the office of a United States senator is garnering national media attention, and the story landed on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times. GW alumnus and former editor in chief of The GW Patriot, Stan Dai, 24, was one of four men […]
Americans have always bristled at the introduction of new taxes. We are taught that the American Revolution started as a result of unfair taxes imposed by our colonial overlords across the Atlantic, and such taxes gave birth to the concept of “Taxation without Representation.” Most of us see that phrase every day – emblazoned on […]
Web Exclusive A recent alumna and her journalist mother have been successfully evacuated from the isolated Peruvian town of Aguas Calientes after landslides and massive flooding stranded them along with 4,000 other tourists. A 2008 GW graduate, Lisa Francavilla, had recently started a 3-month trip in South America with her mother-CBS News journalist Donna Francavilla-when […]