Looking back at the year, some headlines are memorable – but a picture says a thousand words.

As 2018 comes to an end, take a look back at pivotal moments The Hatchet captured:

[gwh_image id=”1075569″ credit=”Sam Hardgrove | Assistant Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]From left: Sen. Ojani Walthrust, ESIA-U, Black Student Union President Freddy Ryle and Malcolm Elashari-Rashed, the polemarch of the Kappa Chi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., embrace during the public comment period at a Student Association meeting about a racist Snapchat post depicting two sorority members in February.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075550″ credit=”Olivia Anderson | Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Natalie Moreno, a freshman at H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program in Arlington, lies in silence in the grass in front of the Capitol Building for about 17 minutes in remembrance of the victims of the Parkland school shooting in February.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075613″ credit=”Madeleine Cook | Senior Staff Photographer” size=”embedded-img”]A member of GW’s Young America’s Foundation inserts crosses into the grass of Kogan Plaza during the group’s annual “Cemetery of the Innocents” protest in March.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075611″ credit=”Sam Frey | Hatchet Photographer” size=”embedded-img”]With about eight minutes left in GW’s final game of the season against Saint Louis in March, senior guard Yuta Watanabe went down with an ankle injury and never returned to the game.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1052546″ credit=”Ethan Stoler | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Ashley Le, the former vice president for public affairs, celebrates with her supporters after winning the Student Association presidency in March.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075541″ credit=”Donna Armstrong | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Sophomore Erica Jung sits among supporters on the fourth floor of the Marvin Center to show their frustration with a canceled Student Association Senate meeting about a pro-Palestinian divestment resolution.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1056269″ credit=”Lillian Bautista | Staff Photographer” size=”embedded-img”]Then-junior Joe Vogel, a former SA senator, told senators that they let Jewish students down after failing to censure Brady Forrest, a candidate for executive vice president accused of anti-Semitism.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1059774″ credit=”Hatchet File Photo” size=”embedded-img”]After the SA Senate approved a pro-Palestinian divestment resolution in April, Eden Vitoff, a former senator and a sponsor of the legislation, cried in celebration.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1059865″ credit=”Graeme Sloan | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]A man hangs off a street sign pole at the Capital Pride Parade in June.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075534″ credit=”Graeme Sloan | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Fans celebrate after watching game five of the Stanley Cup Finals on the jumbotrons outside of Capital One Arena over the summer. The Washington Capitals would go on to win this Stanley Cup.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075581″ credit=”Olivia Anderson | Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Jason Kessler, the organizer of the “Unite the Right 2″ rally, speaks to a small group of supporters and the media at the white nationalist rally in August.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1062289″ credit=”Graeme Sloan | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Shane, a counterprotester and D.C. resident who declined to give his last name, raises his middle finger at “Unite the Right 2″ protesters in August.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075572″ credit=”MARGARET WROBLEWSKI | HATCHET PHOTOGRAPHER” size=”embedded-img”]Freshman Owen Hall stands in the rain after being arrested while protesting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075614″ credit=”Eric Lee | Hatchet Photographer” size=”embedded-img”]Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a protest in front of the Supreme Court before the full Senate vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075524″ credit=”Graeme Sloan | Contributing Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Supporters of Kavanaugh’s nomination rally outside of the Hart Senate Office Building before Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony began. [/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1075560″ credit=”Olivia Anderson | Photo Editor” size=”embedded-img”]Senior defender Alexy Boehm celebrates his first career goal at a game against La Salle in late October.[/gwh_image]

[gwh_image id=”1074275″ credit=”Dean Whitelaw | Hatchet Photographer” size=”embedded-img”]A hearse carrying former President George H. W. Bush travels past the National World War II Memorial in November.[/gwh_image]