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Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 11:49 a.m.

A brand new year

It’s a brand new year at GW, and with it comes our first issue of the year. Making the first issue at any collegiate newspaper can be a daunting task, but I’m very proud to see how our’s turned out. Here’s a brief rundown of some stories across our pages:

  • Emily Cahn looks at how the University’s endowment has fallen over the last year. Even though the fund is down 18 percent, administrators say that by comparison, GW has fared well in the economic downturn.
  • Amy Rhodin has the interesting story of a GW professor and three of her students who traveled to Africa to teach art to the local community. Matt Rist writes about a similar group that went to India.
  • Our back-to-school section has a rundown of some new fashion trends, places to go on cheap dates, and some advice on how to meet a new mate this fall.

I hope you check out these stories and more on our Web site, but make sure you take a look at the print version of the paper, too. We’ve just completed a great redesign of the print product – one that I think will catch your eye when you see it on newsstands this year.

Like usual, our next issue comes out on Monday. Let us know in the comments or on Twitter what you think we should be covering.

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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:34 p.m.

New features on our blogs

Ever since we relaunched The Hatchet’s blogs in January this year, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to improve them. Early this week, as some of you might have noticed, we made a few changes and added a few features. Our codebase (source code) has been rewritten, which provides better performance and a lot more flexibility. Some of the specific changes are:

  • RSS: We consolidated posts to our blogs into a single RSS feed. We knew how cumbersome multiple RSS feeds were, but our old setup prevents us from combining them easily. And for those of you interested in just news from Newsroom, or sports from Courtside, or any of our other blogs, various separate feeds still exist.
  • Design: Some colors changed, ever so slightly. If you didn’t notice, well, I suppose that’s a good thing — after all of the drastic changes we’ve made to our Web site this year, gradual change can be good (the eBay case study is a personal favorite).
  • Our bloggers: We updated all of our contributors to reflect our new staff, and with that added author pages.
  • On our sidebar: We added a useful search tool, and lists of most the recent posts and comments.
  • The storefront: We also added a splash page, at blogs.gwhatchet.com, which gracefully brings our blogs together.

If you have any comments or suggestions, feedback is always welcome: please let us know what you think by posting them here or sending them to web@gwhatchet.com. And with the summer ahead of us, more new things are in store throughout our Web site, so stay tuned.

If you want to join our staff and have a chance to work on cool projects with high visibility, send me an e-mail.

Andrew Nacin
Web Director, The GW Hatchet

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