Volume 107, Issue 13
Stories from the September 27, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
It was a record-breaking year for the National Book Festival. Despite record temperatures – which soared into the high 90s – a record 150,000 people attended the all-day event, which celebrates novelists, authors and literature. More than 80 authors and illustrators were present to speak and sign their books, and President Barack Obama and first […]
Ketan Patel will always remember the shock he felt when a burn victim was turned away from a hospital in India where he volunteered the summer after his freshman year at GW. A propane tank had exploded all over the 23-year-old woman while she was cooking. After talking with her family, Patel realized the incident […]
What it means Vegetarians abstain from eating all types of meat, including fish. Day one of my vegetarian lifestyle sounded like a piece of (carrot) cake – it wasn’t. J Street options The first meal was a challenge for my meat-loving self; as I walked past J Street’s grilled salmon, I felt a pang for […]
The arch-conservative Westboro Baptist Church plans to demonstrate at GW Nov. 11 to protest the “God-hating heathens” it believes college-age students have become. The rally falls on Veterans Day but according to the church’s website, the protest is to “remind this nation that this next generation of young people have been raised for the devil […]
Students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science will have another opportunity to study abroad starting in the spring semester, after GW added Korea University as an overseas partner this fall. A $1 million gift to the University from entrepreneur Simon Lee and his wife Anna Lee will provide interested students with the chance […]
The University removed the Hippo Video DVD rental kiosk from its home in Ivory Tower earlier this month, and a University official said last week there are no plans to replace it. The University’s contract with Hippo Video expired this summer, Nancy Haaga, the managing director of Campus Support Services, said. Adding that because Hippo […]
Men’s water polo beats Bucknell, falls to Princeton at home The men’s water polo team opened its conference play over the weekend, topping Collegiate Water Polo Association rival Bucknell 10-7 Saturday night before falling 13-9 to 17th-ranked Princeton Sunday afternoon. The win Saturday night broke a 14-game CWPA losing streak for the Colonials (5-9, 1-1 […]
This academic year, students transported to GW Hospital for a second alcohol violation will be assessed by University counselors for alcoholism prior to a disciplinary hearing, a policy change intended to decrease the number of students who are temporarily suspended from the University. During the 2009-2010 academic year, 19 students either withdrew from the University […]
The women’s soccer team wrapped up non-conference play Friday with a 1-0 win over Gardner-Webb, the Colonials’ fourth consecutive win and their sixth win in the last seven games. After opening the season with a pair of exhibition-game losses followed by regular season-opening losses to Georgetown and Robert Morris, the Colonials (6-3) have found their […]