In a major victory for the new ownership of FoBoGro, the store’s management team has procured an alcohol license from the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration and won the ongoing dispute with the West End Citizen’s Association over the store’s hours, which will be from 7 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

The decision came last Thursday after months of debate over whether the store’s hours would be detrimental to the neighborhood. Barbara Kahlow, the secretary of the WECA, led the op-

position, arguing over the course of the last semester that elderly people in the neighborhood would be dis-rupted by the late hours and that the store would violate D.C. zoning laws by selling prepared foods. Kahlow did not return requests for comment on the ABRA decision.

“[ABRA] unanimously voted in favor of our proposal,” said Kris Hart, the GW graduate who bought the store last spring. “I think they looked at our case versus Barbara Kahlow’s and WECA and it was pretty clear-cut that the things they were saying – that we would have an adverse impact on real property values, noise, traffic, parking – it’s ludicrous for a community corner store that’s been there for a long time.”

Hart said the process has been a long one. His building permits that will allow him to finish the walls and flooring came through the same day as the ABRA decision, and he now

estimates the business will be up and running by mid-February, nearly six months later than he had originally expected to open. “The zoning issues really pushed back my opening date. But the ABRA thing really cost me a lot of money because of all the legal bills,” Hart said.

While the official opening date has not yet been decided, Hart said construction is nearly finished and kitchen equipment and counters will be delivered and installed by late Janu-ary. Though Hart said he is excited to open the store, he has lost money since he purchased the townhouse.

“I can’t hide from the fact that [the late opening date] has adversely impacted my business – I’ll be open-ing having lost over half of the school year and the revenues that would have been there,” Hart said. “We also had to

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OPINIONS Buyouts needed student inputThe Hatchet's Editorial Board analyzes the buyout packages offered to 39 SEAS professors. • Page 4

Spinning and solvingSophomore Allen Gannett was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune over winter break. • Page 9

NEWS NEWSWeather poses hurdle to break programCold temperatures in Atlanta and New Orleans led students to alter volunteer plans. • Page 10

Expelled student's lawsuit is dismissedFormer student had sued GW for $500,000 and reinstatement after 2008 expulsion. • Page 6

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GW alumnus runs for CongressAdam Kokesh, a 2008 graduate best known at GW for controver-sial posters, is run-ning for Congress. • Page 3

SPORTSWomen's bas-ketball loses to start A-10 play Team falls 59-55 to Dayton in conference opener. • Page 9

The University is offering buy-out packages to 39 full-time profes-sors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science as part of a move to increase the school’s re-search presence, top-level Univer-sity officials said in December.

All full-time faculty on active status were mailed letters on Oct. 22, and professors offered the pack-age – those who joined the SEAS staff before 1994 – have until Jan. 29 to accept the “voluntary separation incentive program,” SEAS Dean David Dolling said in an e-mail.

The 39 faculty members offered the package comprise about half of the 83 full-time faculty in the school, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research’s Web site.

Already SEAS is gearing up to hire new faculty to replace those who may accept the buyout. In an interview in early December, Doll-ing said SEAS would be hiring 14 new “top-tier” professors in the coming year.

According to professors who received the buyout letter, GW’s increasing focus on research was named as a reason for the buyout program.

by Lauren French Assistant News Editor

Univ. offers buyouts to 39 SEAS professors

Basketball falls to Xavier in heartbreakerWith less than eight minutes

left in GW’s men’s basketball game against Xavier Sunday, the teams headed toward their respec-tive benches with the Colonials ahead by 10.

When they re-took the floor, the Musketeers’ Jamal Crawford added a quick layup under the basket to cut GW’s lead to eight. The play seemed relatively in-nocuous at the time, just another basket in a game that had already featured plenty, but it proved to be the start of something more.

Beginning with that score, Xavier went on to dominate the game’s next seven minutes, scor-ing 20 points to GW’s one, and take a firm lead they would con-vert into a 76-69 win over the Co-lonials.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been around a game where the momen-tum swung in the last seven min-utes like it did today at the Smith Center,” Xavier head coach Chris Mack said.

After taking a 60-50 lead on senior Hermann Opoku’s free throws with 8:24 left, GW (11-4, 1-1 Atlantic 10) went more than five minutes before they scored again.

“It seemed like we were on that 60 for a long time, every time I looked up,” head coach Karl Hobbs said.

During the draught that proved to be their downfall, the Colonials missed all seven of their shots from the field and made just one of three free throws.

It wasn’t until the game’s final 40 seconds, when senior Damian Hollis hit a three-pointer, that the Colonials hit another field goal, but at that point the clock was their enemy, and time soon ran out on any GW comeback.

After shooting 59 percent from the field in the first half, the Colonials made only nine of 29 field-goal attempts after halftime. Hobbs said the team’s lack of scor-ing was fatal because a team as tal-ented as the Musketeers, a peren-nial A-10 power, is unlikely to be shut down completely on offense.

“You’re just not gonna stop them five, six times in a row,” he said. “We just needed to score and we just weren’t able to make those baskets.”

One source of scoring that dried up in the second half was the Colonials’ scoring off turn-overs. GW spent much of the first half picking off passes and forcing Xavier to cough up possession, turning 11 such instances into 17 points.

But the Colonials forced just one turnover after halftime, de-priving them of the ability to cre-ate the easy transition baskets that had propelled them to a double-digit lead in the first palace.

“I think when you look at [Xavier’s] level, you look at how talented their players are, you’re

by Dan Greene Sports Editor

MicheLLe rattinGer | assistant Photo eDitorFoBoGro has secured a license to serve alcohol and won a dispute over its operat-ing hours over winter break. The store is expected to open in mid-February.

FoBoGro wins battle over alcohol license, late hoursNew owner estimates store will open by mid-Februaryby GabrieLLe bLuestone Metro News Editor

Political science professor Lee Si-gelman passed away Dec. 21 after a two-year battle with colon cancer. He was 64.

Sigelman is credited by peers with helping to transform the political science department during his time as department chair and after. He was a prolific author with five books and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles to his name, but will be remembered by his family at GW for his sense of humor and devotion to students and junior colleagues, friends said.

Political science department chair Forrest Maltzman added in an e-mail to The Hatchet that the department had “thrived” under Sigelman’s di-rection.

“In addition to publishing a great deal, Lee came to GW with the man-date to build a top-ranked political science department,” Maltzman said. “He succeeded.”

Fellow GW professor John Sides,

who has written a series of posts about Sigelman describing everything from his penchant for oddball articles to his “quasi-grandfather” status, agreed.

“Lee built a de-partment that is an unusual combi-nation of collegiality and intellectual excellence. Some departments have smart people. Some have nice people. We have both,” Sides said in an e-mail.

Sigelman was devoted to the de-partment and remained active in Uni-versity life even as he battled cancer and underwent chemotherapy, Sides said.

“That selflessness sets him apart from many faculty, for whom ad-ministrative appointments and com-mittee work are to be avoided at all costs,” Sides said.

Professor Eric Lawrence also

Radical cleric attended Univ.

The dusty minarets that pierce through the haze in San’a, Yemen are certainly a long cry from the gleam-ing monuments that make up the D.C. skyline. But as it is now widely believed, one former GW student left the District to engage with al-Qaeda in Yemen.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cler-ic with ties to 9/11, the Fort Hood shooting, and the attempted bomb-ing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, attended GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development in 2001 and was the assistant to a Muslim chaplain on campus during his time in D.C.

“Al-Awlaki was a part-time doc-toral of education student and took classes at GW in 2001. Additionally, Mr. al-Awlaki was an assistant to a

Muslim chaplain who was a member of the Interfaith Board of Chaplains during his time at the University. The group dissolved in 2003,” Emily Cain, associate director of media rela-tions for GW, said in an e-mail.

Muslim Student Association President Azra Ali Hyder declined to comment, citing that the MSA is far removed from al-Awlaki and thus “would not be able to provide any insight into the matter.” In 2005, then-president of the GW Islamic Alliance for Justice and MSA board member Amin Al-Sarraf told The Hatchet that al-Awlaki had a very “uninvolved

role.” Born in New Mexico in 1971, al-

Awlaki spent part of his childhood in Yemen before returning to the U.S. to continue his education. During this time, he reportedly gave counsel to the men who flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11. According to the 9/11 Commission, the terrorists onboard Flight 77 “re-spected al-Awlaki as a religious fig-ure and developed a close relation-ship with him.”

Following the attacks, al-Awlaki fled to Yemen. In 2008 he began cor-responding electronically with Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the army psychi-atrist who shot and killed 13 fellow soldiers at a base in Fort Hood, Texas last November.

“[Hasan] asked whether or not killing American soldiers and officers is lawful or not,” al-Awlaki said in a 2009 interview with Al-Jazeera. Al-Awlaki later praised Hasan for the murders and called him a “hero” on his Web site, which has since been deleted. Al-Awlaki told Al-Jazeera that the two met years earlier at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in the

by aLex MarkoFF Hatchet Reporter

Al-Awlaki has ties to 9/11, recent terror attempt

"[The terrorists onboard Flight 77] respected al-Awlaki as a

religious figure and developed a close relationship with him."

9/11 commission

Beloved political science prof. diesby sarah scire Senior News Editor

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Residential Property Management has replaced the old key card system in City Hall with a more advanced system designed to prevent frequent lock outs.

In the past, residents of City Hall were frequently locked out due to the demagnetization of their key card. The demagnetization occurred easily if the card was too close to cell phones or cred-it cards.

The newly installed key card mecha-nism targets the demagnetization is-sue because the new key cards are of far greater quality than the older ones, and “are able to retain the lock code that opens the door,” said Thomas Dwyer, managing director of Residential Prop-erty Management.

“In that way, the new cards are like GWorld cards,” he said. The locks had to be changed as well since “the old locks would not accept the new key cards,” Dwyer said.

Dwyer said the change cost $200 per lock, which equates to roughly $35,000 total for the building’s 176 units.

Junior Joe Goldman, a resident of City Hall, said he had often experienced the drawbacks of the key cards.

“Sometimes at midnight when I’m coming back to my room, the card doesn’t work and I can’t get into my room then,” he said.

A common solution to this problem was to call UPD each time students were locked out due to non-functioning key cards.

Goldman said many students were concerned about getting locked out of the residence during winter when the cold imposes a safety risk to students.

“People stranded outside in the cold until UPD arrives is a great safety issue in the winter,” Goldman said.

Junior Alli Kruk, a City Hall resident, said the old key cards were a hassle since they were easily demagnetized if a stu-dent was not careful, but added she had found a remedy to the issue.

“I made a little pouch using a card holder for my key card and I’ve never had an issue with it getting demagne-tized,” she said.

As City Hall residents move back to the residence, all students have been asked to pick up their new key card from the City Hall lobby from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday or at Phillips Amsterdam Hall if arriving in the late evening.

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January 11, 2010 w Page 3The GW haTcheT News

Robert H. Smith, a Uni-versity trustee emeritus and local entrepreneur, passed away Dec. 29 in Winchester, Va. of a stroke. He was 81.

In February 2008, Smith made the then-single larg-est donation in GW’s his-tory, giving $10 million to renovate the Smith Center, which was named after his father, Charles E. Smith.

“We at The George Wash-ington University mourn the passing of Bob Smith,” said Russell Ramsey, chairman of the Board of Trustees. “Bob helped guide the University to high levels of achieve-ment, continuing a family tradition of leadership and

philanthropy. Our thoughts are with Bob’s family and countless friends. He will be greatly missed.”

In addition to contribu-tions to GW, Smith also do-nated nearly $100 million to his alma mater, the Univer-sity of Maryland, becoming its single largest donor. Oth-er institutions he contribut-ed to include James Madi-

son’s home at Montpelier, Mount Vernon, the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, and Gettysburg National Mili-tary Park.

In 2004, Smith donated $15 million to establish the Robert H. Smith Center of Jefferson Studies in Monti-cello. Va.

“Life is a two-way street,” Smith told a gallery publication in November, according to The Washing-ton Post. “Those of us for-tunate enough to generate more funds than we need have a responsibility to give back. I feel my responsibil-ity is to America.”

University President Steven Knapp praised Smith’s philanthropic per-sonality.

“Bob Smith was a great, indeed a visionary, phi-lanthropist who was a tre-mendous supporter not only of this University and of his alma mater, the Uni-versity of Maryland, but of countless institutions in the

greater Washington area and beyond,” Knapp said in a statement to the GW com-munity. “Just last week he was on our campus to offer his advice on the next phase of renovation of the center named for his father, Trust-ee Charles E. Smith.”

The Smith Hall of Art in GW’s Academic Center was also named after Robert and his wife Clarice, a GW alumna and former member of the GW faculty.

Smith took over the Charles E. Smith Company in 1967. Under Smith, the company became the single largest property owner in the D.C. region, according to The Washington Post.

Through the construc-tion of numerous apartment houses and the Crystal City in Arlington, Smith and his company helped transform the D.C. region. In 1995, Forbes Magazine estimated the Smith family was worth more than $560 million.

In 2001, the Charles E.

Smith Company merged with Vornado, a New York real estate leasing firm.

Knapp said Smith was “a leader in business and in the Jewish community, and he took special care to ensure that the altruistic values he proudly inherited from his father were hand-ed down to his children and grandchildren.”

“He will be sorely missed by us all,” Knapp said.

For a decade, Smith was the president of the Board of Trustees for the National Art Gallery, to which he donated many important pieces. His and his wife’s private collection of Italian bronze Renaissance sculp-tures is world-renowned.

“The person who is afraid to take risks and make mistakes will never achieve everything of which he or she is capable,” Smith said during a commencement ad-dress at Maryland, accord-ing to The Washington Post. “That is because failure is

the marker that tells us when we have reached our limits. One of the five greatest mis-takes you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.”

Smith is survived by his wife, Clarice, two children, Michelle J. Smith of D.C., and David Bruce Smith of Bethesda, Md. He is also survived by a sister, Arlene R. Kogod of D.C., and four grandchildren. u

Trustee and benefactor Robert H. Smith dies at 81

by Reid daveNpoRt Hatchet Reporter

"Bob helped guide the University to high

levels of achievement, continuing a family

tradition of leadership and philanthropy."

Russell RamseyChairman of the Board of

Trustees

A GW graduate and con-troversial anti-war advocate is making a bid for a Congressio-nal seat in New Mexico’s third district.

Adam Kokesh, a 2008 po-litical management graduate, best known at GW for incit-ing a campus-wide contro-versy when he co-authored notorious posters regarding Muslims in 2007, launched his campaign in July.

Kokesh said the post-ers – which were intended to be a satirical protest of the Young Americas Foundation’s Islamo-Fascism week, and depicted Muslims as terror-ists – are representative of his campaign.

“Those posters actually embody the heart of my cam-paign, to not take things for granted and instead to ques-tion everything,” Kokesh said. “The posters were made to re-veal the scare tactics of today’s government and media. We can’t let the government scare us. Terrorists are not going to jump out of our television screens.”

Through his time at GW, Kokesh said he learned to pos-sess the ideals that change and liberty were possible. And, by using the confidence and com-petence that he gained through his time at GW, Kokesh said he feels ready to have a place in government.

He added that being a vet-eran also uniquely qualifies him for the job he seeks.

“As someone who has been through the frustrating veteran system, I know that government officials have al-ways been out of touch with the American public. As a congressman I would be able to bring power to individual communities and not leave everything in the hands of the federal government,” said Kokesh, a member of Iraq Vet-erans Against the War, who is also known for interrupting Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican Na-tional Convention in 2008 with a sign that read “McCain Votes Against Vets; You Can’t Win an Occupation.”

Kokesh said that because he does not have a big war chest to fund his campaign, he is mainly using his campaign Web site as a tool to reach the rural New Mexico public and the constituents he seeks to represent.

“I wasn’t able to hire a hundred people to work on my campaign but through my

Web site I am able to get the message across to millions of people who can help to spread the word,” Kokesh said. “This is a philosophical and political revolution against the divine right of government.”

According to the Federal Election Committee Web site, Kokesh raised $98,504 in indi-vidual donations as of Sept. 30, the last date listed for his cam-

paign filings. He added that in the past,

government officials were able to “cherry pick” voters with their knowledge of history but, with the rise of the Internet, that tactic is obsolete.

He said that YouTube now gives “usually ignorant” American citizens the oppor-tunity to analyze speeches made by politicians, making it possible for citizens to find whether candidates are being truthful or not.

“Having the Internet is like having a truth button,” Kokesh said. “You don’t just have to take people’s word for things, you can look it up and tell them if they are wrong or right.”

Kokesh said that a large part of his campaign is based around his commitment to truth and to expose the “cur-rently harsh reality of the Unit-ed States and do something about it.”

“New Mexico has a re-laxed, down-to-earth atmo-sphere that is hard to find in a place like Washington, D.C.,” said Kokesh, who pledges not to accept the salary of a con-gressman – around $174,000 per year– and instead only ac-cept the national average sal-ary of $50,000. “People don’t move here to have authority. They move here to have indi-vidual liberty and gain Ameri-can grassroots. These are the ideals that I am trying to im-plement in the rest of Ameri-can society.” u

A 1994 GW graduate was laid to rest in his home-town Jan. 9 after being killed last month during a suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Af-ghanistan.

Harold E. Brown, Jr. was one of seven Americans killed by a terrorist attack Dec. 30 in Afghanistan’s Khost Prov-

ince, near Pakistan.Brown, 37, was a native

of Bolton, Mass. and was a resident of Fairfax, Va. at the time of his death.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political sci-ence from GW and is sur-vived by his wife, Janet, who is also a GW graduate. They married in 1994 and have three children.

Brown’s cremated re-mains were buried in Bolton after his funeral service at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Clinton, Mass.

CIA Director Leon E. Pa-netta told employees Dec. 31 that seven CIA officers were killed and six others were

injured in the attack at For-ward Operating Base Chap-man.

According to the Associ-ated Press, the Taliban has taken responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Brown’s mother, Bar-bara Brown, told The Bos-ton Globe last month that her son was working for the State Department at the time of his death and had been sent to Afghanistan in April.

Fred Lash, a spokesman for the State Department, said Dec. 31 that seven peo-ple were killed at the base, and all worked for the CIA.

The CIA had not released the names of those killed in

the attack.Lash said it was possible

that Brown worked for the State Department at some point, but said all those killed were working for the CIA at the time.

Prior to working for the State Department, Brown became an Army Officer and later joined the Army Re-serve.

Along with his degree from GW, Brown earned a Master’s of Business Admin-istration from the University of Phoenix. He also worked for Shareholder.com and for a private defense contrac-tor, according to The Boston Globe. u

The District is seeking federal funds to help offset the costs associated with a storm that dropped nearly a foot and a half of snow on the region last month,

The District Depart-ment of Transportation’s annual budget for snow-storm cleanup is $6.2 mil-lion, spokesman John Lisle said Friday, and the late-December storm cost ap-proximately $4 million.

GW officials have not yet determined a price tag for the storm, which caused the last day of final exams to be canceled and stranded more than 1,000 students on campus due to hundreds of train and flight cancella-tions.

“The record snowfall challenged the University and stretched resources much like it did for the D.C.

and other regional govern-ments, with crews working around the clock to clear the campus of snow,” Ali-cia O’Neil, senior associate vice president for opera-tions, said in an e-mail.

O’Neil said GW was well-prepared for the bliz-zard, with equipment and supplies already on-hand and work schedules made before the snowstorm hit. The snow plan also set snow removal contracts for the Mount Vernon and Vir-ginia Science and Technol-ogy Campuses.

“In terms of costs, we have not yet pulled together a calculation of costs asso-ciated with facilities’ efforts at managing this weather event, however, the vast majority of these costs will be attributable to labor and overtime for the required manpower,” O’Neil said.

O’Neil said the Univer-sity received many favor-able comments from stu-dents and the community about GW’s response to the snowfall.

While students were supposed to move out of residence halls for winter break by noon on Dec. 20,

GW Housing Programs kept residence halls open until the evening of Dec. 21 and any students stranded due to transportation issues could stay longer.

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fen-ty declared a snow emer-gency in the District the evening of Dec. 18, which went into effect Dec. 19 and was lifted Dec. 21.

“It has to be a snow emergency to seek assis-tance,” said Jack Pfeiffer, a spokesman for Fenty’s of-fice.

Pfeiffer confirmed Fri-day that the District is seeking federal assistance for the snowstorm, but had no other information at the time about when aid would be received.

The transportation department and the De-partment of Public Works worked together during the storm as the “District Snow Team” to clear nearly 1,100 miles of roadway, ac-cording to a news release from Fenty’s office. Salt and snow plows were used throughout the weekend as workers took on 12-hour shifts to clear streets.

According to the Feder-

al Emergency Management Agency’s Web site, the last time federal funds were au-thorized for the District be-cause of a snowstorm was in 2003.

The near-record snow-fall that occurred Feb. 16 and 17 of 2003 was reviewed by FEMA, and a month later President George W. Bush ordered the assistance under an emergency decla-ration.

“Under the emergency declaration, FEMA will provide reimbursement for 75 percent of the total eligible costs of equipment, contracts, and personnel overtime related to emer-gency services in dealing with the snow over a 48-hour period,” a March 14, 2003 FEMA news release announcing the assistance stated.

Other emergency pro-tective measures, like salt-ing roads and shelter op-erations, were eligible for reimbursement as well.

That 2003 President’s Day weekend blizzard dropped over 18 inches of snow on the city, the big-gest snowstorm the District had seen since 1996. u

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Bob Smith

alum makes bid for congressby JUlie doUglas Hatchet Reporter

GW graduate killed in afghanistan

by aMy d'oNofRio Assistant News Editor

Taliban claims responsibility for December attack

Smith donated $10 million to renovate Smith Center

"As someone who has been through the

frustrating veteran system, I know that government officials

have always been out of touch with the

American public."adam kokesh

Congressional candidate

D.C. seeks funds for snow cleanupDecember storm cost District $4 millionby aMy d'oNofRio Assistant News Editor

tiM gowa | HatcHet pHotogRapHeRA worker attempts to clear the snow near Strong Hall, Dec, 19. Approximately a foot and a half of snow fell during the storm, cancelling the last day of finals and stranding more than 1,000 students on campus after trains and flights were cancelled.

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is a very welcoming city."

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Howard Marshall, general manager

Usually, when I send in my tuition checks to GW, I try to include a little

humor. On the check’s memo line, I like to leave a little mes-sage – something like “Enjoy my $50,000, now you can buy your-self almost two full lunches at J Street,” or “Here’s a year’s tu-ition, maybe I should’ve bought a Hummer instead?” Other times, when I’m feeling especial-ly guilty about what I’m paying to go to school, I include some data, my own little Josh Akman Snapple fact such as “Please de-posit my tuition check, it is more than three times what a family in Mexico makes in a year,” or “This is not a tuition check, in-stead I’m choosing to pay my voluntary $50 library gift for the next thousand years.”

This tuition check, though, is different – it’s my last. How can I possibly convey such a sig-nificant message to GW in a brief memo line on a check? Maybe I could use some of my patented sarcasm – “Thanks for all the knowledge, criminal justice de-partment, now I’m so far in debt I’m going to have to start selling drugs!” While I’m not exactly sure what to write, I’d probably talk about some of the changes I’ve seen at GW over the past four years. Perhaps, by exam-ining some of the ways life has changed on campus, I can write something on the check’s memo

line that might actually be useful (other than, of course, my witty jokes). If I had some extra room, I’d say:

Greek-letter life is a good

thing. When I joined my frater-nity during my freshman year, I felt like Greek-letter life was the best-kept secret on campus. Four years later, it still feels like the administration hasn’t quite embraced the popularity of the Greek community. Greek-letter life here breaks almost every stereotype – almost all of the fra-ternities and sororities get along, hazing is practically nonexistent and it’s far more inclusive a community compared to simi-lar organizations on most other college campuses. Hopefully, GW can move closer to fully embracing the positive impact fraternities and sororities have on campus.

We should all be embar-rassed by J Street. My freshman year, it was disgusting and over-priced. Now, four years later, it’s disgusting, overpriced, and… required?! GW actually man-dates that freshmen and sopho-mores eat here. That’s one way to fix a fledgling business – make it mandatory.

My first year at GW, I was stunned when I found out about the “voluntary” library gift. For those who haven’t seen it, GW puts a $50 “voluntary” dona-tion in your student bill, and you have to check the box each time to remove it. Now, in my last year here, I’m every bit as incensed. If it was a real “volun-tary” gift, I would be given the option to “volunteer” to give it. Instead, I have to make the ef-fort each time to take it off. It’s comforting to know that GW and scam Web sites use some of the same payment-collection methods.

Freshman year, I thought Thurston was the best. Look-ing back as a senior, I now know how right I was. The people constantly complaining about a lack of community on campus haven’t spent enough time here. I’ve had a great time at GW, but nothing compares to freshman year in Thurston. The more freshmen who get moved to the Vern, the more students miss out on this unbelievable experience.

So, I guess the memo on my final check should read, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” I’m not sure how great that is, but either way, I know I’m definitely sad to be leaving in June.

–The writer, a senior majoring in criminal justice, is a Hatchet

columnist.

The ideal applicant

I shan’t lie; I’ve never been terribly good at keeping any New Year’s resolutions I’ve ever made. I get too bored trying to keep them. Nevertheless, with the coming of the new decade and in the wake of the tumultuous one we just endured, I think it is time I give this resolution thing a good college try. It seems only fitting and natural in the current economic climate that I’ve resolved to in-crease my fiscal responsibility in the coming year – a tall order for a modern-day college student.

Seeing that I am due to hand over a check worth half of the average American household’s yearly income to GW, it seems penny-wise and pound-foolish to all of a sudden be concerned over my paltry personal financ-es while simultaneously dis-persing so much. Besides filling the coffers of the University, I think it’s time I figure out where all my money goes and why I seem to ooze so much of it so quickly with few tangible out-comes. My strategic action plan involves saving receipts and starting to play with some ex-citing new computer software, Quicken, to start tracking my spending. I also plan on forgo-ing getting some American Ex-press rewards points and start making it rain with cash when I make purchases this coming year. Boiled down, I plan to em-ploy some tactics that have been thrown – perhaps throttled – to the wayside. I plan to try my best to continue not to spend more than I have and increase my propensity to save.

Former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin made the first of many epic soils of this past decade with the sale of Time Warner for shares of America

Online. The result formed the epitome of the trundling le-viathans of the dot com boom. Mr. Levin recently accepted re-sponsibility for his failure and warned that he and other CEOs and decision-makers had larger appetites than their stomachs could accommodate. In the past ten years, America has lived beyond its means.

Even the nation’s greatest and most renowned institutions of higher learning are showing the scares of consistently relying on high-yielding endowments and growing and building at the same rate as China. Har-vard no longer doles out warm cookies at staff meetings and no longer serves up hot breakfasts, and Dartmouth is facing a $100 million budget reduction over the next two years. Colleges and universities across the country are in the midst of cutting ser-vices, faculty and construction projects.

This University is lucky that it hasn’t been as hard-hit by the current economic situation as these endowment-dependent schools. Yet it is worrisome that the University hasn’t had to suffer the same thumping that has set other companies, states

and universities straight. After all, how much did we just dole out to former president Tra-chtenberg, how many buildings are still being built, and how

much was spent on the University’s new Web site? GW seems to be barreling forward with all prior plans, on the backs of tuition and debt. It seems rela-

tively unaffected by the current climate and more than happy to accrue more than $1 billion in debt to fund 60 percent of its capital budget. The University should tread lightly. It avoided a volcanic meltdown and should operate wisely, investing in key infrastructure components such as the library or academic pro-grams.

In my endeavors to know where my money goes and, more imperatively, making sure I spend wisely, I issue the challenge to the University to do the same. I have oft made recommendations on more ef-ficient University spending, but I hope that in this decade the University can continue to grow smartly. GW has made monu-mental bounds forward and these bounds should not be cut short by being greedy. Perhaps the University will finally pimp out the library, concern itself with its academic reputation and not inconsequential perks, and continue to build unshat-terable bonds of school pride. That sounds like a pretty good new decade resolution to me.

–The writer, a sophomore major-ing in international affairs, is a

Hatchet columnist.

There are some achievements in life that cannot be attributed to grades. Scoring a game-winning goal, in the grand scheme of things, may go unnoticed. There’s no reward that accompanies earning the smile of a hun-gry child. And yet, it is often these events, and not an academic accolade, that compel us to act and propel us to success.

Yesterday – the deadline for regular deci-sion applications to GW – thousands of hope-ful and qualified high school students closed their eyes, said a silent prayer and submitted their request to join our undergrad-uate popu-lation. As we prepare to welcome the class of 2014, we should remember a few major elements that belong to the student who makes achievement a daily event in his or her life, and also regard the type of scholar who would best utilize his or her GW education.

It’s no surprise that many of the students who attend GW today were enchanted by D.C.’s allure as high schoolers. The District creates a winning combination of history, energy and opportunity. GW recruiters and tour guides seem to buff a few medals on their

coat over and over again: our proximity to the White House, the variety and magnitude of internship programs, our network of alumni who have moved on to political positions – the list goes on. I never fail to be surprised by the way that students at GW use D.C. as their personal playground and workspace. Whether it is by becoming an expert on the cu-linary diversity of the District, spending finals studying at the Library of Congress or starting a D.C.-based nonprofit, GW students do not simply attend school in the District – D.C. is a part of their schooling.

Last year, nearly 20,000 high schoolers sought admission to GW. Only 37 percent were accepted. Sixty-seven percent of the stu-dents who comprise GW’s class of 2013 were in the top 10 percent of their high school grad-uating classes. These competitive statistics in-dicate it is time that our school amend such a minimalist application and move toward one that demonstrates GW’s caliber of education and selectivity.

On the GW undergraduate application, its sole supplemental essay question is quite simple: “What most influenced you to apply to The George Washington University?”

As we seek out students who will im-prove the school and go on to become a pio-neer in whatever field he or she champions, this application seems in want of a decisive component.

When selecting students who show promise, admissions officers should search for applicants who express their intentions to make D.C. an integral part of their educa-tions, as well as how their lives thus far share something with the District. Students, as they expand upon their motivations and recall out-of-school achievements to admissions of-ficers, paint a more vivid picture of not just themselves, but also the rising freshman class as a whole.

By integrating a series of school-specific questions about how prospective students will involve the District’s spectrum of op-portunity, admissions officers can achieve a more comprehensive snapshot of a student’s potential and drive. A space like this would allow applicants another opportunity to share unique achievements and perhaps enlighten the admissions staff to the versatility of a stu-dent who transcends stellar GPAs and high test scores.

I realize that in adding a few more essay questions, we will not achieve all the answers. It may cause more work for the already-swamped admissions officers and may even turn some prospective students away from applying to GW, but as our school continues to move toward success, we must demand a commitment to success from our applicants.

But today, the last applications have trick-led in, and we will soon welcome another class to Foggy Bottom. Admissions officers, I hope, will search for students who will contribute to the school and their future fields with an eye on their personal statements and will soon amend the undergraduate application model that exists today.

This time of realizing who will be joining GW next year is such an exciting one. But that might just be because I can’t wait to no longer be the baby freshman at the bottom of the lad-der.

– The writer, a freshman majoring in journalism, is a Hatchet columnist.

One last memo to GW

Andrew Pazdon

Columnist

GW should be more fiscally responsible

Expand GW's undergraduate application

SeaS and the buyoutThe School of Engineering and

Applied Science has taken on a new direction and as the old adage goes: out with the old and in with the new. For SEAS, research is defi-nitely in.

Last month, the school offered buyout packages to 39 faculty mem-bers. The letters to these professors cited a renewed emphasis on re-search as the motivation for the of-fers. While this move represents a good one by the University, it also raises concerns over student repre-sentation in the process.

We believe that professors should accept this buyout package. GW offers full-time tenured profes-sors a high salary in comparison with other schools, and the pack-ages are generous for professors who may be close to retirement anyway. The school is emphasizing research, and professors who don’t feel that their work is reflective of this direction should accept the of-fer. This isn’t necessarily a develop-ment indicative of bad research or a lackluster performance. Rather, sometimes organizations change di-rection and moving staff in and out quicker helps the transition.

While SEAS has offered these professors the chance to retire early, the school is also hiring 14 new pro-fessors. These new faculty members will be chosen largely based on their research credentials. The danger of hiring these professors is that their extensive background in research will not necessarily translate into

good teaching skills. It’s important to remember that although research is important, professors need to have the training and teaching ex-perience that SEAS students need.

The implementation of this pro-gram also raises some serious ques-tions. The school did not effectively inform students of the buyout pack-ages and now has a responsibility to improve its communication with students. When we talked to stu-dents about the buyout packages, they had not heard from the school about the offers or the new direc-tion that the staff changes would represent. The University needs to make sure that student input is considered, and that students are informed when these kinds of deci-sions are made.

The program that the University has offered is a good step toward changing the direction of SEAS. However, communication with stu-dents on the nature of the offers and their motives was noticeably lacking. Based on our discussions, students seem excited about seeing some new faces in the classroom. It’s important to remember that students are also the highest stake-holders in this process, and their experience is ultimately the most important element of this equation.

Staff EditoriaL

As we seek out students who will improve the school...this

application seems in want of a decisive component.

The school is emphasizing research, and professors who don’t feel that their work is reflective of this direction should accept the offer.

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Annu Subramanian

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Josh Akman

Columnist

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Incidences of theft, fraud, robberies, disorderly conduct, harassment, and de-struction occurred on and around cam-pus over winter break, University Police Chief Dolores Stafford said.

Stafford said several individuals reported bizarre behavior constitut-ing harassment and stalking to UPD, including a Jan. 4 report from several staff members regarding phone calls from a male subject about coursework he had completed at GW. Stafford said the report noted “the subject would then continue to ramble on about other top-ics not related to GWU that he wanted to discuss.”

Also on Jan. 4, a student reported to UPD that she received calls and texts from a male subject not affiliated with

GW, and that the subject came to her place of residence on two occasions when he was not welcome, Stafford said.

Multiple incidences of theft, rob-beries and fraud were also reported to UPD and the Metropolitan Police Department. The most violent was the Dec. 22 arrest of a group of seven boys and girls that allegedly beat and robbed a woman Tuesday morning on Pennsylvania Avenue near 26th Street, MPD Commander Matt Klein said in an e-mail to Second District residents. The group was seen running near Ivory Tower when MPD officers chased and stopped it. Members of the group were all identified as being involved in the robbery.

A subject not affiliated with the University was arrested in the Marvin Center bookstore after staff members ob-served him stealing property on Dec. 28, Stafford said.

Stafford said on Jan. 1, a woman reported a domestic dispute on the cor-ner of 23rd and G streets. The woman reported that the father of her children had been arguing with her and forcibly grabbed her wallet and cell phone and

fled. UPD canvassed the area and called MPD, but the woman “grew tired of waiting,” Stafford said.

Also on Jan. 1, UPD was approached by an unknown individual concerning an intoxicated subject. Stafford said of-ficers observed the subject unconscious, hanging out of a taxicab. The subject was not affiliated with the University and was transported to GW Hospital, Stafford said. u

Thefts, stalking reported over break

by Ariel FeldmAN and gAbrielle bluestoNe Hatchet Reporters

This year, some D.C. resi-dents may resolve to change their shopping and park-ing habits – if not, it will cost them.

A fee on disposable shop-ping bags has been implement-ed, and increases to parking costs around the District will also start in January, according to The Washington Post.

A law signed in July by Mayor Adrian Fenty went into effect Jan. 1, making busi-nesses who sell food or alcohol charge 5 cents to customers for each plastic or paper bag they use.

Consumers who bring their own bags will not have to pay the fee, which sends 4 cents toward the Anacostia River Cleanup and Protection Fund. Retailers get to keep the other cent, or 2 cents if they of-fer a rebate to customers who bring their own bags.

A “Skip the Bag, Save the River” campaign has been used to raise awareness about the fee with the distribution of free, reusable bags at local CVS pharmacy stores. On Friday, Safeway and Giant grocery stores will be giving shoppers reusable bags, WTOP report-ed.

Later this month, parking will no longer be free on Sat-urdays, and drivers who park on city streets during the week will have to feed meters coins until 10:30 p.m.

Also, 14,749 parking spaces across the city are being con-verted to charge $2 per hour.

The Washington Post re-ported that the parking chang-es are expected to bring about $7.6 million in revenue to the District, which is facing a po-tential budget deficit of $104 million next year.

–Amy d'onofrio

Crime on, around campus persists in final weeks of 2009

district begins enforcement of fees on plastic bags, parking

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The University has launched new efforts to pro-mote fundraising devoted to student aid after more stu-dents applied for increased financial assistance last fall than in the entire 2008-2009 academic year.

In a letter to the GW com-munity last month, Univer-sity President Steven Knapp announced the establishment of the Power and Promise Fund. The University hopes the fund, which aims to in-crease the affordability of at-tending GW and reduce the burden of costly loans on GW graduates, will raise $18 mil-lion for student financial as-sistance this year.

“At the core of this mis-sion is our dedication to en-suring that a George Wash-ington education remains accessible to all who are qual-ified,” President Knapp said

in the letter. Only $10 million was

raised in 2008 for financial aid, Knapp said. The total budget for student aid is $133 million.

The fund is part of the five-year plan that Knapp designed to increase GW’s af-fordability last February.

“In 2008, we pledged to quadruple the dollars raised for undergraduate, graduate, and professional student aid. As the latest step in fulfilling that pledge, I am pleased to announce the establishment of the George Washington Power and Promise Fund,” he said in the announcement.

“‘Power’ refers to the power of education, ‘Promise’ to the potential achievement and contribution of the lead-ers we are educating,” Knapp said in an e-mail.

Several GW departments are involved in operating the new fund, including the Of-fice of Student Financial As-

sistance and the Division of Development and Alumni Relations.

“We inform and engage alumni, parents, and friends of GW to encourage their philanthropic support of uni-versity priorities,” Associate Vice President of Develop-ment Communications Pa-tricia Danver said. Donors to GW’s alumni network can allocate their contributions to the Power and Promise Fund.

Approximately two-thirds of students currently attending GW receive some financial aid.

“Student aid is a major priority across the University. The GW Power and Promise Fund is an identity for phil-anthropic support of student aid,” Danver said.

Increased donations to-ward aid will reduce GW’s dependence on tuition to supply financial assistance to students, Knapp said.

“Providing student aid is currently one of the highest costs borne by the university. The more support for student aid we receive from gifts, the less we have to take out of other revenues, including tu-ition. In that sense, increas-ing fund-raising for student aid benefits all students,” he said.

According to the fall 2009 GW Magazine, alumni graduate with approximately $10,000 more in debt than graduates of other private universities. The availability of increased financial assis-tance will lessen students’ dependence on expensive loans.

“In both ways, the help provided by fund-raising for student aid is immediate,” Knapp said.

“We will spend the funds as we are instructed and to meet the donors' request,” Executive Director of Finan-cial Aid Daniel Small said. u

A $500,000 lawsuit filed against the University by a for-mer student, expelled in 2008 for alleged possession of LSD and other drugs, has been dis-missed with prejudice, a final judgment that bars the student from reopening the case.

The lawsuit, filed by former student Maximillian Jack, was dismissed with prejudice on Nov. 19, less than a month be-fore a jury trial was to start. Jack declined to comment on the final outcome, but University spokeswoman Michelle Sher-rard said the decision to end the case was made mutually by both parties.

“The parties have agreed that the case be dismissed, and the case is terminated,” Sher-rard said in an e-mail. Accord-ing to court documents, both parties will pay their own costs and attorney’s fees.

Jack filed suit against the University in March of 2009, more than a year after he was expelled as a freshman for pos-

session of drugs. The expul-sion stemmed from a February 2008 GW Housing Programs search of his Thurston room that turned up LSD, marijuana, cocaine residue and alcohol, according to court documents filed by the University.

According to court docu-ments, Jack accused GW of unjustly expelling him after an “entirely unfair and one-sided” Student Judicial Services pro-ceeding, which found him in violation of the Student Code of Conduct.

Jack sued GW for $500,000 for breach of contract and emotional distress and asked a federal court to force GW to readmit him, according to court documents. Jack’s attorney, Jensen Egerton Barber, told The Hatchet in March that his client also asked for any negative in-formation about his dismissal to be removed from his school transcript.

Barber could not be reached for comment for this story, and it is not clear whether a settlement was reached in conjunction with the dismissal of the case. u

Univ. launches financial aid fund

by Kira BreKKe Hatchet Reporter

by Chelsea radler Hatchet Staff Writer

Expelled student's lawsuit dismissed

Eight months before they will arrive in Foggy Bottom for their first semester, hundreds of the 570 accepted Early Decision I students are seeking out class-mates and dishing about the District on Facebook.

High school senior Chris Welch, from Massachusetts, ad-mits that like most high school students in the U.S., he spends a good deal of time on Facebook. After being accepted to the Uni-versity, he decided to put his time on the popular social net-working Web site to good use.

Welch joined one of numer-ous Facebook groups created by future Colonials looking to meet and get to know their fel-low classmates.

“I mainly joined the group so I could meet some people who I would soon be classmates with. I was also looking to see if there was anyone else that I knew in the group that had got-ten accepted. And since there were 300 people in the group, I decided to become one of them too,” he said.

Hours after checking their admission status online, hun-dreds of the new members of the class of 2014 got a head start on their college careers by using Facebook to search for potential roommates, share their excite-ment over their acceptance and discuss everything from MTV’s show "Real World D.C." to the chances that GW sports teams will be successful in the next four years.

“You are all expected to watch RW D.C. tomorrow. Taking notes is preferable,” a high school senior from Illinois wrote.

“While on the topic of sports, anyone like to play street or roller hockey? I really want to play White House hockey,” a high school senior from Penn-sylvania wrote.

The largest group has more than 345 members, giving stu-dents an extensive network to discuss dorm life, financial aid packages, living in D.C. and Colonial Inauguration – eight months before they will arrive for their first semester. In ad-dition to general class of 2014 groups, students have also created groups for the Elliott School, School of Business and Potomac and Thurston resi-dence halls.

Lally Marino, a high school

senior from Florida, joined the group with the hope of sharing the mixed emotions of excite-ment and nerves that come with a college acceptance letter.

“I went on the Facebook group primarily to meet other people from the class of 2014, because I know those were the only people [who] could truly understand the feeling that came with a GW acceptance,” she said. “I am so excited about be-ing accepted and I want to meet people feeling the same way so we can share our excitement for the fall term, nerves about col-lege, and information about the school and ourselves.”

Junior Ryan Douglass, stu-dent coordinator of Colonial Inauguration Headquarters, said by turning to Facebook, students can help themselves handle the emotion of the col-lege transition process.

“It’s not surprising that students are so enthusiastically using Facebook to connect with future classmates,” Douglass said in an e-mail. “It’s the transi-tion to college that can be both exciting and intimidating and using social networking like Fa-cebook definitely facilitates that transition.”

Matt Epstein, an accepted high school senior from New York, said he is hopeful the con-nections he makes on Facebook now will help him with his plans to get involved at the Uni-versity – and score him some votes in his planned bid for a Student Association seat.

“I hope to lay the ground-work for new friendships from the group,” he said. “I am mak-ing connections with my class-mates which will help me next year as I want to be a freshman senator in the SA.”

For many students, the Fa-cebook groups help pass the time before classes start in Au-gust.

For Florida high school se-nior Cory Weinberg, starting to immediately build connections with other students who share the excitement about GW rather than waiting until CI or the fall was a natural reaction to his ac-ceptance.

“We want to know our course schedule and discover DC now, and it’s tough to wait eight months. This way, we can at least control one social as-pect of college already, and dig through the pack and find po-tential friends or roommates,” he said. u

Class of 2014 connects onlineby Kara duNford Hatchet Staff Writer

LifeMax McGowenContributing Life Editormmcgowen@gwhatchet.com

Hadas GoldLife Editorhgold@gwhatchet.com

This week in Gw hisTory:

11 Years aGo...A GW junior wins a spot on the local ANC by one vote.

43 Years aGo...Student leaders vote to support the abolishment of the football team.

Miranda GreenContributing Life Editormgreen@gwhatchet.com

January 11, 2010 w Page 7

H24 Years aGo...GW negotiates a price for Schenley Hall, valued at $1.9 million.

It’s spring semester, which means a huge wave of students have or are about to set off around the world for exciting semesters abroad. Here at The Hatchet we like to keep in touch with our staff members who go abroad, and throughout the semester, they will be sending up-dates that we will post on our Pass-ports blog online, as well as some pieces in print. Be sure to check the blog regularly for updates!

anne WernikoffYear: JuniorMajor: American studiesDestination: Sao Paulo, BrazilProgram: CIEE Sao Paulo, Liberal Arts

Ever since I can remember, Brazil has been the one place I have wanted to travel to and nev-er could. I cannot wait to immerse myself in a to-tally new culture and lifestyle: samba music, capoeira classes, the beach, the Amazon, and Carnival, of course. To be honest, the idea of going to a completely new place, staying with a family I have never met, going to school in a language I do not know and learn-ing how to navigate a city of 19 mil-lion people is somewhat daunting. In fact, I am a bit terrified. But no matter what, I hope to learn enough Portuguese to be fluent, make last-ing friendships, see the rainforest, and, most important, take some awesome photos!

amy rhodinYear: Junior Major: JournalismMinor: TheaterDestination: Cape Town, South AfricaProgram: The University of Cape Town, Arcadia University

I would not say the travel bug ever bit me; instead, I think I was born with it, since I can-not seem to stay in one place for too long. For an aspiring reporter, this is perfect. As I pack up my life at GW and head to the University of Cape Town, I hope that my semes-ter abroad will be an opportunity to find stories in a country in the midst of a political and cultural transition. I expect to have intense culture shock upon landing – not to mention I’ll be going from winter in New York to summer south of the equator – but I’m excited for this adventure. I have no idea what to expect, but isn’t that what traveling is all about?

erica steinbergYear: JuniorMajor: Commu-nicationDestination: LondonProgram: Uni-versity College London/GW England

I am so excited to be here! Ever since I landed it still seems really surreal. I am really anxious to get to school and get settled. After strolling the streets for a few hours last night, I realize that I basically have a huge light-up sign over my head at all times that says “Amer-ican.” It’s certainly awkward – everyone can tell I am not from around here. My goal for the next few weeks is to try to look like I belong. As I sit in a Prêt à Manger coffee shop right now writing this, I am trying not to speak so as not to reveal my lack of a British ac-cent, and I have tucked my A-to-Z map of London under my coat so no one can see it.

alec NobleYear: SophomoreMajor: Journal-ismDestination: Bar-celona, SpainProgram: IES Barcelona Ad-vanced Spanish Studies

I've been here for two days so far and am loving it. I'm in a homestay with people who only speak Span-ish, which I thought would be very difficult for me, but we haven't had any problems communicating. They are very nice and make me feel like I'm part of the family. I live in an apartment on a quiet, narrow street. From my window I can watch the nightly LED light show called Torre Agbar. Classes start up this week and I'm excited to start to meet more people. All five of my classes are go-ing to be taught entirely in Spanish, so I will definitely have to pay very close attention in all of them. I'm ex-cited to get out in the city a bit more this coming week. There are a ton of sites to see and so many places to travel both in Spain and across Europe. I hope to visit Morocco, France, Sweden, Italy, England, and Portugal. The exchange rate sucks, but cheap food isn't too hard to find. Clothes from American Apparel are more expensive, though. I guess you win some and you lose some.

Jenny avallonYear: Junior Major: Political Commu-nicationDestinations): Hawaii, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, and Brazil. Program: Semester at Sea

Coming from a family of lob-stermen in coastal Massachusetts, I was boating before I could walk. So the lure of spending four months at sea was simply irresistible to a wa-ter child like me. Despite resistance from GW, I was able to ensure that this program satisfied the study abroad office’s requirements. When I embark on the journey, I expect to be truly thrust out of my comfort zone as the lone Colonial aboard with no acquaintances or friends nearby. But then again, that is the point of studying abroad. Hopefully it will also help me to overcome con-centrating on the menial details of life – the exhaustion, the deadlines, broken hearts and bruised egos. Ide-ally, I will explore the world with little to no worries. All I can hope for is a pleasant surprise as I circum-navigate the globe in 109 days.

Hadley MalcolmYear: JuniorMajor: JournalismDestination: Copenha-gen, DenmarkProgram: DIS

I have absolutely no idea what to expect in Copenhagen, which is why I am so excited to spend a se-mester there. The idea of exploring the unexpected is exhilarating and nerve-racking at the same time. I honestly don’t believe that I’m ac-tually going to a different country for the next four months, and don’t think I will until I land in Copenha-gen. Ironically, I’m flying through D.C. en route - my layover is at Dulles. I’ll be staying with a host family in Denmark, and really hope to become a part of their family customs and daily routines. I’m ap-proaching my semester abroad as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open myself to new experiences and friendships and push the boundar-ies of my comfort zone. I can’t wait to explore the city, travel Europe, take journalism classes in a differ-ent country, and, especially, spend a whole semester with the happiest people in the world. u

While most students dur-ing winter break were hanging out at home or vacationing with friends and family, sophomore Allen Gannett was in Los An-geles competing for cash on the popular game show Wheel of Fortune.

“It was exhilarating and kind of out of this world,” Gan-nett said. “Completely different experience from watching it on TV.”

Although Gannett, a political science major, is legally bound not to speak about how much money he won on the show, he was guaranteed a minimum $1,000 in prize money.

On the day of filming, Gan-nett said he had to be at the stu-dio by 7:45 a.m. and was there till 5 p.m. The show films a week’s worth of episodes – six shows – in one day of filming.

“It felt like the entire thing was about five minutes long, even though the show is a 30-minute show, it went by like

that,” Gannett said. “It’s very fast, it’s a lot harder [than playing at home] because adrenaline is running, there’s lots of pressure, it’s actual money.”

Gannett said the other contestants were very nice and enthusiastic, and one of the people he played against is a student at nearby Catholic University.

Last year, Gan-nett sent in applica-tions for five game shows just for fun.

“I was watching TV, watch-ing game shows, watching Wheel of Fortune, and I thought, 'I can do that.' So I went online, filled out some applications and Wheel of Fortune happened to go all the way,” Gannett said.

In May, Gannett spent a day in New York going through three rounds of auditions before receiving a letter notifying him that at some point in the future

he would be a con-testant. To prepare, Gannett said he prac-ticed for a solid week using the Wheel of Fortune computer and iPhone game and watching the show as much as possible.

“I was pretty hardcore about it, it was my winter break project,” Gannett said.

Gannett said he definitely plans to try for another game show, and that it’s a fun and exciting way

to make some money. If possible, Gannett’s dream game show is “Deal or No Deal” because he said it looks easy.

“Everyone should try [a game show] at least once,” Gan-nett said.

Gannett’s show will air Feb. 26 on ABC, and Expanding De-mocracy!, a student organization of which Gannett is the presi-dent, will be holding a viewing party, Gannett said. u

Your room most likely con-sists of the basics provided by the University - a bed, a desk, a dresser, a chair, and maybe a couch and some tables. But what looks like average pieces of fur-niture can actually be turned into your own home gym – the per-fect place to work on that new year’s resolution.

Senior Steve Pazan, an exer-cise science major, has created his own business where the gym and trainer come to you. Pazan comes to students' rooms, whether they are in a GW residence hall or an apartment off campus, and does a full personal training session all in the comforts of home.

“Most people don’t like going to the gym for one reason – em-barrassment,” Pazan says. “The biggest draw of my company is that I come to you. There’s no more excuses.”

Pazan towers over most with his 6-foot-3-inch, 225-pound frame. He has been exercising all his life, since he says he and his family have always dealt with weight issues. Freshman year, Pazan became certified as a pro-fessional trainer and began work-ing at local sports clubs, then at the Lerner Health and Wellness Center. At first, Pazan says it was hard to find clients because most

of the people he was targeting held nine-to-five work sched-ules, while Pazan was hosting a full course load.

After leaving the Lerner Health and Wellness Center, Pa-zan decided to start his own per-sonal training company his junior year, calling it Big Man Certified. Pazan says that despite the tough economy, now is the best time to start a small business.

“Anybody can start up their own business, it’s really easy and it’s really fun,” Pazan says.

Since starting his own com-pany, Pazan says he has trained around 25 students, and usually has around 10 sessions a week. At about $45 a session, Pazan says he is significantly cheaper than personal trainers at local gyms, and significantly cheaper than traveling personal trainers.

So far, most of Pazan’s clients are a result of word of mouth and friends of friends, he says. But Pa-zan hopes to expand his business, including hiring other trainers.

Junior Erik Madison has been working out with Pazan for two years now, and says that Pazan is excellent in working around Madison’s back injury.

“[He is] great at having a read on how your body’s doing, how hard you need to be pushed,” Madison says.

As for working out in his room, Madison says he loves

it because he can joke with his roommates and listen to what-ever music he wants.

“It is definitely more relaxing than the gym,” he says. “[Pazan] is my go-to guy.”

Sophomore Danielle Manus says that her favorite part of training with Pazan is how they utilize the city.

“I love our sessions at the National Mall and in front of the White House. It’s something I look forward to every week,” says Manus, who has been work-ing out with Pazan for a year now.

Besides getting fit and stay-ing healthy, Manus says another plus is that every client gets a Big Man Certified T-shirt.

For Pazan, being a personal trainer is not necessarily his ul-timate career goal, but says that it has been a big help for his fu-ture.

“I see it as being a career cata-lyst. [Being a trainer] has helped me explain exercises a lot better to different types of people,” Pa-zan says. “It also helped me un-derstand the functional mechan-ics behind personal training.”

Ultimately, Pazan hopes to work with helping people in the field of orthotics and prosthetic limbs after receiving his master’s degree in clinical exercise science and cardiac rehabilitation from GW. u

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Last WorD“I guess that's 'no' to church tomor-

row for me and I may be home for

dinner. It's back to the lab.”Women's basketball head coach

Mike Bozeman on working through Sunday's scheduled day off.

Number cruNchThe number of GW men's basket-ball players to have scored 1,000 points in their careers after senior Damian Hollis

reached the milestone in Sunday's loss to Xavier.

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not gonna turn them over all game,” Hobbs said, praising Musketeers point guard Terrell Holloway in particular. “They’ve got some terrific basketball play-ers and you’re just not gonna turn them over.”

Also contributing to the cold stretch was Xavier’s switch to a

zone defense, which Hollis and sophomore Tony Taylor both said made GW uncomfortable on of-fense.

“The zone kind of forced us to slow down a little more,” said Hollis, who scored just six of his game-high 23 points in the sec-ond half. “Once the zone comes around we slow down a little bit. We’re just not as comfortable, which is something we’re work-ing on.”

All of these changes were

tangential, Hobbs said, to the real difference: rebounding. The Colonials won the battle on the boards 14 to nine in the first half, but were outrebounded 30-19 af-ter the break, with Xavier senior Jason Love grabbing 12 second-half boards himself.

The Musketeers grabbed a to-tal of 13 offensive rebounds after halftime, 10 of which continued a possession that ultimately result-ed in points.

“I think it was the offensive

rebounds, clearly,” Hobbs said. “It’s not really that complicated. I thought we defended them very well and it came down to their ability to get offensive rebounds.

“I thought that was the differ-ence,” he continued, seemingly as a means of emphasis. “That’s what the game really came down to.”

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Coming off a conference play-opening win against St. Bonaventure last Wednes-day and a 10-3 performance in nonconfer-ence play, the GW men’s basketball team entered Sunday afternoon’s game looking for a signature win against perennial At-lantic 10 power Xavier, a win that the Co-lonials will still be looking for after their hard-fought 76-69 loss to the Musketeers.

Still, the game, in which GW led by 11 midway through the second half, could be a sign that the Colonials are back on the map in the A-10 and that their gaudy, non-conference record is more than just the result of scheduling. GW’s vast improve-ments from the past two seasons were not lost on Xavier head coach Chris Mack.

“[GW is] a lot better,” Mack said after the game. “I think they play extremely hard, they play a lot of guys so I’m sure they’re all happy guys in the locker room, they know they’re going to get a chance to go out and compete... I think they have a very talented team.”

The loss marked GW’s fifth straight against the Musketeers, who have played in the NCAA Tournament in eight of the past nine seasons and were predicted to come in second in the conference this season in a preseason media poll. The Colonials were predicted to finish 13th for a third straight season in that same poll.

GW head coach Karl Hobbs said after the game that Sunday’s loss was one that his team would learn from.

“I think there were a lot of positives. I think that we had some opportunities,” Hobbs said. “I most certainly think that this is a game we will grow from. It doesn’t make a difference who the opponent is, not that it’s Xavier or anyone else, its really about us learning from each game.”

Ultimately, Hobbs said, the difference in the game came down to Xavier’s experi-ence in close games this season.

“Without question, you can see the dif-ference in the experience, just in terms of the decision making, the fact that there was never a moment where Xavier looked like they were out of the game,” Hobbs said. “I don’t want to take away anything from Xavier, so please don’t misinterpret it. The experience, without question, was a fac-tor.”

Any experience gained from this game will certainly come in handy in a season in which the A-10 appears to be as deep as it has ever been. Two of GW’s next three games will be against teams predicted to finish in the top three of the conference.

With so much conference firepower coming up before the end of January, Hobbs said that his team will work to take away as much as they can from Sunday’s game.

“We’ll look at the tape, we’ll evaluate situations, we’ll evaluate plays that we

could have made, and obviously we’ll talk about some of the things we could have done a little bit better in this game,” Hobbs said. “We just have to keep improving, we just got to keep getting better. It’s going to

take us just learning from this experience, and I think we will. One thing about these guys, and what’s great for me, is that I’m not coaching effort, I’m teaching basketball now, and that’s a great thing.” u

Loss shows improvement, inexperience

VIktors DINDzDaNs | Photo eDItorSenior Damian Hollis battles wth Xavier's Andrew Taylor during GW's 76-69 loss Sunday. Xavier was picked to finish second in the Atlantic 10 in a preseason media poll. GW was predicted to finish 13th.

GW women’s basketball coach Mike Bozeman has a mes-sage written on the board in the locker room: “100 percent GW basketball wins.”

Saturday’s performance against Dayton, he concluded after the game, was “about 85 percent.” That level, he said, gets you a lot of things, like a near tie in rebounding against one of the league’s tallest teams, two play-ers nearly recording double-dou-bles, and a low shooting percent-age from the opposing team.

“But what it doesn’t get you,” Bozeman concluded, “is the more points at the end of the game.”

Apparently not, as the Co-lonials began their Atlantic 10 schedule with a 59-55 loss to Dayton Saturday, GW’s first-ever defeat in 25 meetings with the Flyers.

GW (3-11, 0-1 A-10) took its lone lead after sophomore Tiana Myers converted a layup for the game’s opening basket, after which Dayton put up 10 unan-swered points to seize control of the game.

The Colonials battled back to within five before halftime and at multiple points after, but the Flyers were consistently able to regain any ground they ceded. At one point in the second half, Dayton led by as many as 14.

“It was like every time we made a good play, every time we went on a run, we had these turnovers and that kind of seemed like it brought the pace of the game down,” sophomore Sara Mostafa said. The Colonials turned the ball over 22 times in the game.

With just over five minutes remaining in the game, Dayton opened a nine-point advantage on a layup by Kristin Daugherty on what would prove to be their

final field goal of the game.From that point the Colonials

began a comeback that brought them within four points with more than two minutes remain-ing in the game. GW would fail to capitalize on Dayton’s lack of scoring, however, missing their next three field goal attempts be-fore being forced to start fouling the Flyers in an effort to get the ball back.

Myers, who led GW with 12 points, missed a final three-point attempt from the corner in the game’s waning seconds and Dayton secured the rebound as time expired.

“Towards the end of the game, I think because we’re young, we don’t really know how to handle the situations,” explained Mostafa, who had 11 points and nine rebounds. “We’re gonna get better at that – next game hopefully.”

In a season filled with de-feats and injuries, along with an already inexperienced roster, GW’s narrow defeat of one of the A-10’s top teams could be seen as a sort of moral victory. The Colonials did, after all, limit the Flyers to 13 fewer points than they had been averaging and nearly matched a team featur-ing eight six-footers rebound for rebound.

Yet Bozeman said this is not the time for moral victories, but for working to make sure victo-ries show up in the standings.

“[Sunday]’s supposed to be a day off? No. We have no days off,” Bozeman said. “I guess that’s ‘no’ to church tomorrow for me and I may be home for dinner."

“It’s back to the lab,” he con-tinued. “I’m not gonna stop until we get it right, until we get that other 15 percent.”

GW will travel to Rhode Island Wednesday to continue A-10 play. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. u

by LouIs NeLsoN Contributing Sports Editor

W. basketball falls short against Dayton

VIktors DINDzDaNs | Photo eDItorSophomore Tiana Myers skies for a shot in Saturday's 59-55 loss to Dayton. Myers led GW with 12 points in the game, the Colonials' first in the Atlantic 10 this season.

by DaN GreeNe Sports Editor

hoLLIs scores 1,000 PoINtOn the final shot of his 23-point

performance against Xavier Sun-day, senior men's basketball for-ward Damian Hollis reached a ca-reer milestone, scoring his 1,000th point as a Colonial.

Hollis is the 42nd GW men's basketball player to reach that mark and the first since former teammate Rob Diggs did so last season in his senior year. If Hollis continues to score at his current pace through the rest of the sea-son, he could climb into the top 25 on GW's all-time scoring list.

meN's basketbaLL Games aNNouNceD for 2010-11 In a letter sent to season ticket holders last week, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz announced a number of nonconference games for next season's men's basketball schedule.

GW will play in the NIT Season Tip-Off event beginning Nov. 15-17 in a grouping with Villanova, Bos-ton University and Marist. Conso-lation rounds will be played Nov. 22 and 23 and the tournament semifinals and finals will be played at Madison Square Garden in New York Nov. 24 and 26.

The Colonials will also have rematches with seven opponents from this season, hosting games against UNC-Wilmington, Towson, East Carolina, and Holy Cross. GW will also travel to Oregon State, George Mason and Howard.

Kvancz also indicated that a re-match with Navy in the BB&T Clas-sic was likely.

Dates and times were not yet available for the announced games.

kromah NameD rookIe of the Week for secoND tIme

Freshman men's basketball guard Lasan Kromah was tabbed as the Atlantic 10's top rookie last week, the league announced Sun-day, giving the first-year guard his second such honor this season.

Kromah, who also won the award for the first week of the season, scored a career-high 23 points in last Wednesday's win at St. Bonaventure, the Colonials' only game during the week for which the award was given. Kro-mah made nine of 11 field goal attempts in the game, including five of seven three-point at-tempts, and also grabbed three rebounds.

The Greenbelt, Md. native started the St. Bonaventure game hot, hitting four straight three-pointers to snap out of a four-game funk that saw him hit just four field goals in 25 attempts.

After Sunday's game against Xavier, Kromah is averaging 10.8 points per game, second on the team. He also has a team-best 30 steals and is shooting 40 percent from three-point distance.

Louis NelsonContributing Sports Editorlnelson@gwhatchet.com

The University’s annu-al Alternative Breaks Pro-gram had to contend with new challenges this winter – not because of partici-pants or planners, but due to mother nature.

The program, spon-sored by the Office of Com-munity Service, took stu-dents to Atlanta and New Orleans from Jan. 3 to Jan. 10 to work on reconstruc-tion after natural disasters hit both areas. But unsea-sonably cold temperatures in the southern U.S. this winter – particularly in the Atlanta area – forced participants to alter their plans.

During the week of Jan. 3, the National Weather Service issued hard freeze warnings for much of Geor-gia and the South, with temperatures dipping into the low teens.

Students on the Atlanta trip said that the ground had become so hard due to the freezing weather that it was nearly impossible to perform the task they intended to do: rebuild At-lanta neighborhoods after a severe flood ravaged the area last year.

“It’s not that we haven’t been doing much,” said Javedan Siddiqui, a trip leader for the Atlanta trip. “We’re still doing flood re-lief, it just hasn’t been as reconstruction-focused.”

While some groups were still being sent to work on projects outdoors, others had to yield to the weather, changing plans and participating in indoor service projects.

Students helped rebuild drywall in the basement of the church in which they were staying. The church’s basement had flooded dur-ing the storm and the stu-dents helped with repairs that had been neglected.

The team from GW also worked with the City of Refuge, an aid group in Atlanta, helping out at food drives and collecting items for flood victims who were displaced from their homes.

Participants seemed un-derstanding of the situation and continued to make the most of the trip.

“For the most part they’ve been great and go-ing with the flow,” Siddiqui said.

Siddiqui also said that the changing circumstances had even allowed the trip participants to experience the city of Atlanta in new ways. A few members of the group, while riding in a taxicab, heard first-hand from the driver how quick-ly the flooding devastated the area.

Students in New Or-leans also experienced cold weather, though not to the extent that those on the At-lanta trip did.

“It’s supposed to be 60-something, but it’s more like 40,” said Collin Ste-venson, a Presidential Ad-ministrative Fellow who accompanied the group on the trip. “But it’s not slow-ing us down, you still get the impression that New Orleans is a very welcom-ing city.”

Participants on the New Orleans trip were able to continue to rebuild homes damaged after Hurricane Katrina and even tour the heavily devastated Lower Ninth Ward section of the city, despite the colder-than-usual temperatures.

“We’ve made a couple trips to Walmart to buy some warm gear,” said se-nior Chris Franzetti, a trip leader. “The weather is a little bit colder. We are ex-pecting rain on Thursday, and rain and cold don’t mix well, but as long as we can get to the site, we’ll be working,” he said earlier in the week. u

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The chair of the Din-ing Services Commission stepped down from her po-sition before winter break, leaving the chair vacant at the start of the spring se-mester, Student Association President Julie Bindelglass said Friday.

Sophomore Kim Neu told The Hatchet in Decem-ber of her plans to resign and told Bindelglass before break that she would not continue her responsibili-

ties into the spring. Bind-elglass said Neu gave her a verbal notice, and that Neu’s last day was Dec. 20 – the last day of finals.

Neu credited unex-pected responsibility and stress as reasons for resign-ing from the position. She stepped down with the in-tention of allowing some-one better fit for the job to be in charge of the commis-sion.

During the fall semester, little progress was made on dining - an issue often criti-cized by students – and in a Hatchet news analysis published in November, Neu said she did not fully understand dining issues and thought the job would center on public relations.

“[I] expected more pub-lic relations work,” Neu

said in November. “I did not expect this much re-sponsibility.”

The commission’s mis-sion is to consider the din-ing wants and needs of stu-dents and to work with the administration toward im-provements in dining. The position is usually a year-long commitment.

Bindelglass said she would open an application process for the position on Monday. The application will be open for one to two weeks, depending on the amount of interest from stu-dents. She said Friday that she is happy to speak to anyone who has thoughts or concerns on dining or any student interested in applying. She asked that in-terested students e-mail her to discuss the position. u

The Graduate Record Exam, the entrance test for many graduate schools, will be revamped and lengthened in 2011, the Educational Test-ing Service announced in De-cember.

Calling the changes “the largest revisions” in the his-tory of the GRE, the Educa-tional Testing Service said at the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in December that the changes will “make the GRE more pleasant.”

The objective of the re-vised GRE is to improve the test in hopes that graduate school programs can assess the capabilities of a student more accurately.

The changes are drastic. The types of questions are different, calculators will be permitted, a new scoring scale – from 130 to 170 – will be put into effect, and the test will be lengthened to three and a half hours. The test was previously three hours.

“The smaller range in the scores, [from] 130-170, is designed to better assess dif-ferences between test takers instead of magnifying small differences,” GW’s Associate

Vice President of Graduate Studies and Academic Affairs Dianne Martin said.

The current GRE scoring scale runs from 200 to 800, with 10-point increments that only represent one additional correct answer. The new scor-ing scale will have one-point increments.

The revisions will affect all sections of the test. The verbal reasoning section will no lon-ger contain questions dealing with antonyms and analo-gies, which promote extreme memorization of vocabulary, especially among interna-tional students. These types of questions will be substituted with reading comprehension exercises.

“The biggest difference is that the prompts the stu-dents will receive will be more focused, meaning that our human raters will know un-ambiguously that the answer was written in response to the question, not memorized,” David G. Payne, head of the GRE program for the testing service, told The New York Times.

Martin said the new test would be “a better indication of the actual English compre-hension as well as reading comprehension of the test tak-er [because] memorizing will

not help.” Senior Emily Leik, who re-

cently took the GRE, said that the new changes are being made to “modernize the GRE because it is becoming outdat-ed for many programs.”

Leik said she believes the old version, with its heavy use of multiple choice ques-tions, does not fully calcu-late her ability to work with public policy, her intended specialization in graduate school.

“The ETS is a business,” Leik said. “Their efforts to re-form the GRE to be more rel-evant to graduate programs will lead these programs to place an emphasis on the exam, leading more people to take the exam, and buy-ing ETS studying materials as well.” u

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In a survey conducted in the Spring of 2009 that que-ried more than 4,000 stu-dents, respondents voted Eckles Library, the GWorld program, Colonial Central, Disability Support Services, and the Lerner Health and Wellness Center as the five best University services.

The study, titled the Ser-vice Excellence Survey, also showed that perception of the University’s mail and package services had im-proved, said Cheryl Beil, assistant vice president for academic planning and in-stitutional research.

“About three or four years ago, the GW Mail and Package Service was mak-ing headlines in The Hatch-et for long lines, unhelpful

staff and poor service,” Beil said. “The ratings show that the office has really worked to improve its services.”

Survey results also em-phasized areas that need improvement. Students ranked the variety of food choices at J Street and on the Mount Vernon campus as needing the most im-provement.

The results showed that more than three-quarters of the students surveyed have eaten at J Street in the past year. Of these students, more than half called the variety and quality of the food being served as below their expectations.

About half of the stu-dents who responded to the survey rated the qual-ity of food and variety of food choices at Mount Ver-non as below their expec-tations.

The entire questionnaire had 320 questions, but the actual survey sent to stu-dents was much shorter. Questions about programs and services for specific audiences were sent only

to students they serve. For example, only internation-al students were asked to complete questions about international services, and school-specific advising questions were directed to the appropriate students.

One hundred prizes ranging from gift cards to Starbucks to iPods and free travel were offered as in-centives for completing the survey.

In an attempt to gen-erate ideas for correcting listed problems, students who rated a service as be-low their expectations were asked a follow-up question: “How would you improve this service?”

“This question is criti-cal for providing useful in-formation to departments about students’ concerns and what they are look-ing for in terms of service. All comments were shared with the departments,” Beil said.

Another survey will be conducted this year, and it will focus on services used by faculty and staff. u

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Pulitzer Prize-winning au-thor Edward P. Jones will join the English department faculty next year to teach creative writing, the outgoing department chair an-nounced Tuesday.

Professor Jeffrey Cohen noted on the department’s blog that Jones was the inaugural Wang Visiting Professor of Contemporary Eng-lish Literature last spring, when he taught creative writing and hosted a month-long book club.

"Edward is 100 percent D.C. and I doubt he ever would have relocated," Cohen said. "We at GW had an opportunity in hiring him that no Ivy League institution could match."

About attracting the famed writ-er to GW's faculty, Cohen said, "There wasn't a lot of convincing to be done: I feel like our GW students and fac-ulty did that already, just by being themselves, when he was in resi-dence during the spring semester." – sarah scire

Students rank Univ. services

Pulitzer Prize winner will join english department

There are seven representa-tives, five senators and a U.S. Vir-gin Islands delegate to Congress who can claim GW as their alma mater, but the similarities between the former Colonials end there as the alumni battled last fall over the controversial, but historic health care package.

The bill passed on Dec. 24 in the Senate, and the House passed its version of the bill Nov. 7. The two chambers are currently in talks of reconciling the two bills – a debate that has been charged ever since Democratic leaders asked to do the compromising behind closed doors.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., re-ceived his B.A. from the Colum-bian College of Arts and Sciences in 1977. After 20 years as a business

leader and four years as governor of Virginia, he was elected to the Senate in 2008. Although Warner said on his Web site that the legisla-tion was “far from perfect,” he sup-ported the bill.

“I believe it will start to curb soaring health care costs for con-sumers and businesses, reduce our federal budget deficits over time, and extend the life of the Medicare program,” Warner said after the bill was passed on Dec. 24.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., supported the legis-lation and criticized insurance com-panies that “discriminate” against consumers based on “preexisting conditions or gender.” With a GW law degree, Reid practiced in a private firm for several years and served two terms in the House. He was elected to the Senate in 1986.

“Health Insurance Reform is about people,” said Reid on his Web site on the eve of the Senate’s final vote.

Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, also supported the reform bill. Conrad earned his master’s degree from GW in 1975. Inouye graduated

from the law school with his J.D. in 1952.

Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., did not support the bill. Earning his bachelor’s in 1966, Enzi has held his Senate office since 1997, and said he was concerned with the role of the federal government and the bill’s debated public option.

“Government-run health care is not the solution to the problems facing our nation’s health care sys-tem today,” Enzi said in a state-ment on his Web site. “If America were to have a health care system run by the government, you and your doctor would no longer de-cide what is best for you – a com-mittee in Washington would de-cide what doctors you see, how much the doctors get paid and what prescription drugs would be most effective for you.”

Alumni in the House present a different leaning, with only Del. Donna Christensen, D-V.I., and two of seven representatives support-ing the health care reform bill.

Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., earned his bachelor’s from CCAS in 1981. He supported the bill, which ad-dressed two of his main concerns:

rising health care costs and the “preexisting conditions” restriction that insurance companies often im-pose.

Law school graduate Robert Wexler, D-Fla., was elected in 1997 and resigned Jan. 3 of this year, but supported this bill.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., ex-pressed his concern that the bill will increase expenses and debt.

Rep. Jason Altmire from Penn-sylvania was the only Democratic alumnus to oppose the bill. He graduated from the School of Pub-lic Health and Health Services in 1998 and did not believe the bill could effectively “rein in rising health care costs.”

Altmire says he supports health care reform, and will continue to work on a bill with Senate and House colleagues.

Representatives Sam Johnson, R-Tex., John James Duncan, Jr., R-Tenn., and Eric Cantor, R-Va., also opposed the bill. Johnson received his master’s from the Elliott School, while Duncan received his J.D. from the GW Law School and Cantor re-ceived his B.A. from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. u

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Falls Church. The center could not be reached for comment.

Hasan’s journey also passed briefly through GW. Hasan attended Homeland Security Policy Institute lectures on campus between June 2008 and February 2009. HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo told The Hatchet that Hasan “participated in some of the meetings as an audience member” but that he has “no affiliation [with HSPI], and was not a member of the task force.”

More recently, al-Awlaki has been linked to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet as it flew from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. During an interview with FBI officials, Abdulmutallab said he met with al-Awlaki and other al-Qaida members during a trip to Yemen last year and that al-Awlaki was involved in providing “religious justifica-tion” for the act, the Los Angeles Times re-ported.

According to a Reuters report, a Yemeni official said al-Awlaki may have been killed during an air strike in Yemen in late Decem-ber, but a friend of the cleric, Abu Bakr al-Awlaki, told The Associated Press he was not among those killed. u

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AL-AwLAKIstart paying our monthly fixed costs like labor and rent, plus the legal battle with zoning and ABRA. Right now cash has been only going in one direction, and nothing’s been coming back. But it was a learning lesson and we planned for it, so it won’t have a severe detrimental long-term im-pact.”

The store is still facing potential zoning issues from an appeal filed by Kahlow, but Hart said he can open the store before the hearing in Febru-ary.

The store’s new Web site is up and running, and Hart said he hopes to hire around 35 to 40 student em-ployees. Applications are available through the site, as is a menu - the first indication of the types of pre-pared foods Hart intends to sell. The menu features sandwiches, soups and salads, and offers twists on old favorites, like the peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwich, hot and cold Italian subs and a breakfast menu with cinnamon buns with icing, fresh pastries, fruit and yogurt parfaits, and toaster strudels with icing. u

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FOBOGROwrote a colorful and moving piece in Si-gelman’s memory, remembering an ar-ranged visit for the close-knit department to see Sigelman in his last weeks.

“The next day, John and I shared our common impression of how remarkably similar our conversation had been to a nor-mal lunch conversation,” Lawrence wrote. “The only difference, for me, anyway, was that instead of going into my office to work, I got into my car and cried. Lee will be greatly missed.”

On Monkey Cage, a political science blog that multiple professors like Sides and Sigelman contribute to, other students, colleagues and some family members left their thoughts and condolences.

“He was a wonderful mentor,” read one entry. “And, if he’s out there reading this in the great beyond, I promise I’ll never use the word impact as a verb again!”

Another noted, “The best compliment I can give him, I think, is that one would never have known he was fighting can-cer.”

The department has established a fund to help junior faculty with their research endeavors, The Sigelman Fund for Politi-cal Science, in Sigelman’s name. u

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sIGeLMAN“This program is being

instituted in anticipation of the ongoing academic evolution of The George Washington University as a major research university, in which the faculty will be expected to have signifi-cantly enhanced, externally funded research activity,” Dolling said.

University President Steven Knapp said in an e-mail that he supports the program but does not see a connection between the Science and Engineering Complex – a building ex-pected to house research and academic spaces whose cost may reach and exceed $300 million, according to documents prepared by the Faculty Senate – and this buyout.

“As far as I am aware, this program is independent of the proposed new science and engineering facility, except insofar as improv-ing our academic facilities across the board is part of our general process of con-tinuing to build the univer-sity’s stature,” Knapp said.

Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Don Lehman said the buyout came from recommenda-tions released in 2008 by the Commission on the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“What we’re basically doing is implementing a recommendation that was in that commission’s report,” Lehman said.

In an interview on Fri-day, Lehman said it has not been decided if the Univer-sity will offer buyout pack-ages to other faculty in the sciences, as administrators are waiting to see the re-sponse from this buyout.

While Lehman declined to discuss specifics, he did say that some faculty mem-bers who were hired closer to 1994 have already turned the package down because “it does not make economic sense for them.”

Lehman referred to the SEAS commission report when asked about the pos-sibility for other faculty to receive buyouts, reiterating that the commission – which was staffed by professors and administrators – recom-mended this program.

Improving the Univer-sity’s research status has been one of Knapp’s fo-cuses since he came from Johns Hopkins University – one of the country’s pre-mier research institutions – in 2007. The Innovation Task force was launched in part to provide additional funds to research. Knapp appointed Dr. Leo Chalupa to the newly created posi-tion of vice president for re-search in 2009. The Science and Engineering Complex – a project which was in the works before Knapp’s ten-ure – is expected to improve research, as it will provide a physical space the Univer-sity hopes will be used for top-tier studies.

The University of Flor-ida and Northern Arizona University offered buyout options to members of their faculty this fall but, accord-ing to the newspapers at both universities, the buy-

outs were spurred by bud-get deficits, not administra-tive agendas.

Dr. Murray Loew, a pro-fessor in the department of electrical and computer en-gineering, was offered the buyout but has yet to decide if he will take the package.

Loew – who came to GW in 1978 – said he believes the letter made it clear that GW was looking to make room for professors who focus on research.

“The letter made clear, albeit, in one sentence, in the first or second paragraph that the rationale is ‘in view of the University’s increas-ing emphasis on research,’” Loew said. “The message is pretty clear that people who are not research-active are probably the main people being encouraged [to take the buyout].”

Simon Berkovich, an-other faculty member who was offered the buyout and has been at GW for 30 years, said he feels GW is pres-suring faculty members to leave.

“There will be negative consequences if the buyout is not accepted; the pres-sure is already exercised,” he said.

Dolling and Lehman said there would be no con-sequences for faculty who do not take the package, as it is voluntary.

The amount offered in each package varies by time served at GW. If a faculty member came to the Univer-sity from Aug. 1960 to July 1979, he or she will receive double his or her 2009 base academic-year salary. From Aug. 1979 to July 1986, 1 1/5 the 2009 base academic-year salary; from Aug. 1986 to July 1990, the 2009 base academic-year salary; and from Aug. 1990 to July 1994, half the 2009 base academic-year salary.

The American Associa-tion of University Profes-sors released a report for the 2008-2009 academic year that said GW pays full-time professors an average of $134,700 a year.

If faculty members choose to accept the pro-posed buyout plan, they will be able to keep the re-tirement benefits they have incurred while working at the school, Lehman said.

“The University doesn’t own their retirement ben-efits,” Lehman said. “If faculty members choose to accept the proposed buyout plan, it, of course, has no impact on their accumulat-ed [403(b)] retirement ben-efits gained through their employment at GW.”

At GW, employees con-tribute to their own retire-ment plans, but after they have worked at GW for two years of full-time service, they are eligible to enroll in a base retirement plan where the University con-tributes up to four percent of their base salary to the plan. Additionally, for each percent of salary that em-ployees contribute, GW will contribute an additional amount equal to 1.5 times the employee’s contribu-tion, up to a total University contribution of 10 percent.

Faculty who accept the buyouts will be able to choose when they would leave, with the latest depar-ture being spring 2011. u

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