Volume 106, Issue 54
Stories from the April 8, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Three win weekly awards A trio of GW athletes earned weekly awards from the Atlantic 10 this week, with women’s tennis player Mimi Hamling being named the conference’s Co-Player and Co-Rookie of the Week and women’s water polo’s Allison Peotter and Charlotte Schou being named Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the week, […]
Thursday The Business Response to Climate Change Listen to panelists speak about green visions for their companies. Jack Morton Auditorium | 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday Habitat for Humanity Club Night Drink, dance and raise money for Habitat for Humanity. Eye Bar | 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive Make […]
On Sunday, May 16, the GW class of 2010 will become the third graduating class at GW to hear a first lady speak at Commencement – but they will be the first graduates to have worked specifically for that honor. Perhaps the biggest story of this academic year has been Michelle Obama’s service challenge to […]
As Matt Ingoglia freely admits in his March 29 column, he did not attend our celebration of traditional marriage in Kogan Plaza last week, nor did he attend the protest of our event held by members of a so-called student group, “Students for Marriage Equality.” Perhaps this is why Ingoglia makes many untrue assumptions concerning […]
Correction appended A newly formed partnership with the Pulitzer Center will offer one student in the School of Media and Public Affairs “the chance of a lifetime,” the school’s director announced last week. SMPA Director Frank Sesno said the partnership will offer a selected SMPA student $10,000 to allow him or her the opportunity to […]
Growing up in the woods of New Hampshire, the thought never crossed my adolescent mind that fasting, constructing advent wreathes from moss and pine trees in my backyard, spending hours in Church, and various other Catholic customs (with a hearty dose of Polish folk customs) were not normal. That didn’t mean I didn’t dread sitting […]
A water leak caused by a hole in a heating, ventilating and air conditioning supply line caused rooms on the seventh and sixth floors of Mitchell Hall to fill with water Monday morning, a University official said. University spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard said the flood was stabilized within 30 minutes of students reporting the problem. “Students […]
Web Exclusive The first attorney to sue a foreign government for acts of terrorism spoke about international litigation in a post 9/11 world Wednesday evening in Lerner Hall. Dr. Allan Gerson, who won a $2.7 billion civil suit against Libya on behalf of the families of victims who were killed on the 1988 Pam Am […]
Correction appended Good Stuff Eatery – a restaurant known for its handmade burgers, fries and milkshakes – will soon open a new restaurant. The owners also plan to expand within the next year to different parts of the District that may include Foggy Bottom. The new venture, called We the Pizza, will be located next […]