Volume 106, Issue 50
Stories from the March 25, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
More than 700 students have been waitlisted for 2010-2011 University housing, a University official said Tuesday, with 150 rising sophomores who are guaranteed housing by D.C. law left unsure where they will live next year. Seth Weinshel, director of GW Housing Programs, said the number of students on the wait list for campus housing is […]
Baseball beaten by Mason Despite turning 10 hits and six walks into nine runs, the GW baseballteam lost 10-9 at George Mason in extra innings Wednesday for its second consecutive one-run loss. The Colonials (9-8) and the Patriots exchanged early scoring bursts, with Mason’s 6-3 lead through three innings being erased by a trio of […]
Witnesses of a robbery at Tonic Restaurant earlier this month told city police they recognized the alleged thief as a worker for a local food delivery service, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. The suspect, described in the report as a 6-foot tall black male between 30 and 40 years old and wearing a […]
Correction appended Tuition rates for graduate programs on the Foggy Bottom campus are slated to increase 5 percent for the 2011 fiscal year, a University official said this week, but GW’s graduate programs will still be some of the least expensive in the District. Graduate-level tuition will increase to $1,175 per credit hour for the […]
State Radio, an alternative rock band from Massachusetts, will headline the 2010 Fountain Fling, Program Board Executive Vice Chair Wesley Callahan said late Wednesday night. The band, led by Chad Stokes Urmston – a former member of the band Dispatch – will perform April 24 on the Mount Vernon Quad. The event is scheduled to […]
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has chosen a $150 million proposal to renovate the West End fire station and library located just off campus, echoing recommendations from two neighborhood groups. EastBanc Inc. will redevelop the library at 24th and L streets and the fire station at 23rd and M streets, and construction on the two buildings […]
Student Association President-elect Jason Lifton declared improving Gelman Library his first priority and pledged to work with students, the Washington Research Library Consortium and University administrators to improve the aging and often overcrowded building. Lifton said he plans to work with Ryan Last, founder of the Facebook fan page “Get Gelman Going,” which has gathered […]
This spring break the GW Model United Nations delegation made their third-annual voyage to the World Model UN Conference, traveling the furthest the group has ever been for the event, to Taipei, Taiwan. A team of six GW students made its way to the Asian country for the 2010 World Model UN Conference – a […]
Dana Perino, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, discussed tricks of her trade Monday night at the Jack Morton auditorium. Perino, who was the second female and first Republican woman to be the White House press secretary, stressed the importance of being informed about the news at all times, and advised the […]
The National Cherry Blossom Festival officially starts this Saturday, with an opening ceremony slated at the National Building Museum that will feature the Ambassador of Japan and Miss D.C. among other performers. The festival is scheduled to last through April 11. An annual two-week event, the festival celebrates the blooming of the cherry trees surrounding […]