March 31, 2014

Volume 110, Issue 31

Stories from the March 31, 2014 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.

Bryan Doherty: Level the playing field for underpaid adjuncts

Joseph Fruscione, an adjunct professor of writing, has taught at GW for 15 years. But just before the start of every school year, he can never be completely sure that he’ll hired back. “We – like many adjuncts at the University – effectively hit reset at the beginning of each semester or school year,” he […]

Snapshot

Media Credit: Sam Johnson | Hatchet Photographer More than 60 teams camped out in the Smith Center on Friday night to honor cancer survivors and remember those who did not survive their battles. Nearly 850 students took walking or running around the makeshift track, helping to raise $38,770 for cancer research, according to the organization’s […]

Refugee simulation puts participants in the struggle

The Red Cross’s annual Global Refugee Simulation & Conference, a six-hour intense and interactive hike through the woods in Virginia, shows the difficulties refugees face when fleeing their home nation amidst political and military violence. It’s representative of what the United Nation Human Rights Council estimates 42 million refugees – as of 2009 – encounter.