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MondayOctober 11, 2010

Vol. 107 • Iss. 17

OPINIONS Less aid? Not GW's faultColumnist Gabrielle Friedman tells students to stop complaining to GW about their aid packages. • Page 4

Stepping to an old-fashioned beatGW's ballroom dance team prepares for competition. • Page 7

SA senators seeks to reduce printing costsProposal hopes to lower printing costs to 4 cents per page. • Page 3

Board of Trustees to vote on SECFate of project will be determined at upcoming meeting. • Page 3

ARTS

Fallon excited for Colonials WeekendComedian will focus on pop culture during two performances.• Page 6

Women's soccer wins seventh straight matchGW's 1-0 win against the Spiders continues winning streak. • Page 8

SPORTS NEWS

Seven fraternity leaders are attempt-ing to strip the president of the Interfra-ternity Council President of his title, ac-cusing him of abusing the power of his position and charging him with failing to carry out basic job duties.

In a letter sent Friday to all fraternity presidents and IFC President Bill Hulse, the writers allege Hulse spent nearly $1,000 on an executive board transi-tion dinner for 12 people, without prior authorization from the IFC Presidents’ Council – a division of the IFC that in-cludes every IFC fraternity president and Hulse. When the Student Associa-tion would not reimburse the funds, the letter states that Hulse used IFC mem-bership dues to cover the cost.

The letter also blamed Hulse for the drop in turnout fraternities saw dur-ing this fall’s rush season, and alleged that he showed up at another fraternity member’s private residence to “moni-tor” potential new members who were considering rushing his own fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi.

“[Hulse] overstepped his powers multiple times while simultaneously not fulfilling the basic requirements of his position,” the letter said. “He has at-tempted to turn his position of service to fraternities into an enforcer without a mandate.”

The letter also charges Hulse with not making known to the presidents’ council that Pi Kappa Phi was on proba-tion with the University. Hulse and Pi Kappa Phi President Christopher Rossi counter that claim, saying their chapter is not on probation. Student Activities Center Director Tim Miller did not com-ment on the discrepancy.

In addition, the letter, written by the presidents of Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha, and signed by the presidents of Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau and Theta Delta Chi,also alleges that Hulse did not hold an IFC meeting to discuss rush before the rush period began. The letter also claims Hulse did not give GW Housing Programs information in time for fraternities to “dorm storm” resi-dence halls on the their scheduled days.

Over the past five months, eight separate cases of hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender community in the Dupont Circle neighborhood have been re-ported.

After hearing about the statis-tics, one GW student decided to fight back. Literally.

Junior Matt Wilson decided to use his martial arts and cage-fight-ing skills to launch the group OUT-Watch in August, which teaches a self-defense class outside in Du-pont Circle Sunday afternoons. The group seeks to teach both gay and straight members of the Dupont Circle community to protect them-selves against violent hate crimes.

“Dupont is known for being one of the most diverse areas in D.C., and the fact that people are taking the time to go to a specific area to target a specific group, I just thought that was garbage,” Wilson said. “It just seemed like a good opportunity to get involved in the community and use skills that I had only really

used for a competitive nature for a good thing.”

Along with his friend Erika Knepp, 30, and the activist orga-nization GetEQUAL, Wilson offers 90-minute defense classes, where participants are walked through different attack scenarios and then taught the right defense maneuvers to use for each one.

“The main goal of the program is to instill confidence in people,”

Wilson said. “To be honest, you can learn all of these cool moves but the chances of you actually using these exact moves on the street is very low. But the thing is, when you know what you are doing, you are less likely to freak out and curl in a ball and take a beating.”

Wilson said inspiration for the class came in part from his own

President Barack Obama will hold a “Moving America Forward” town hall meeting in the Marvin Center Grand Ball-room Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Obama will discuss the up-coming midterm elections and take questions from both people at the town hall – which will be broadcasted nationwide – and those watching online.

Tickets for the event were preselected and will not be dis-tributed for the community at large.

Twenty tickets have been given to first-time student vot-ers or faculty members, chosen from the University's Guide to Personal Success program and the political science depart-ment.

Obama's presence on cam-pus will affect students who had reserved rooms in the Mar-vin Center for events, as well as students wishing to go to J Street to eat.

The building will be closed from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. due to Obama's event, and J Street will close at 4:30 p.m.

Additionally, the parking garage below the building will be closed all day.

Groups that previously re-served spaces in the building have been relocated or resched-uled.

Obama was last on campus with his family in November 2009 for a GW basketball game. u

CounteringCapitalism

becky crowder | hatchet photographerProtestors walk from the World Bank to the White House, taking over the right lane of Pennsylvania Avenue in their attempt to take down the International Monetary Fund. The protestors' website say they "demand more future, less IMF and less capitalism." The IMF and World Bank held their annual meetings over the weekend.

Fraternities seek to remove IFC presidentby MadeleIne MorgensternCampus News Editor

The University is reevaluat-ing its rules governing listserv e-mails after an unauthorized e-mail was sent to thousands of students, alerting them to a new University policy requiring students to pay for damages done to the common areas in residence halls.

The e-mail, sent at about 4 p.m. Friday to 7,200 students, was not approved by the proper Uni-versity administrators, and was sent by a mid-level manager in response to the widespread dam-age in Ivory Tower and other resi-dence halls this fall.

A second e-mail sent at about 9 p.m. from Dean of Students Peter

Konwerski and Senior Associate Vice President of Operations Ali-cia O’Neil said the initial e-mail was an error in communication and the University has no plans to charge students for damage done in common areas.

“We will also be reviewing our communication procedures to ensure that messages that do not accurately reflect the University’s intentions are not distributed in this manner,” O’Neil said.

E-mails outlining major policy changes must first go through ei-ther the Office of the President or the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for authorization. The first e-mail never went through that vetting process.

The Residential Community Conduct Guidelines and Admin-istrative Policies says students can be held accountable for paying for destruction done to school proper-ty, but charging students who are

not found guilty for the damage would be a new policy.

The policy would have charged residents for damages to common areas on their respective floors. Damage to all-building areas, like living rooms and elevators, would be split between residents in the entire building. Ivory Tower has seen $3,000 in damages this fall, and residents would pay about $4 per person if charged for the pre-vious damage.

O’Neil said that while the orig-inal correspondence was incorrect, the University was particularly frustrated with destruction hap-pening in on-campus residence halls.

Univ. reevaluates e-mail policies after gaffe

Obama to hold town hall in Marvin Centerby MadeleIne MorgensternCampus News Editor

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Student launches self-defense classes

francIs rIVera | hatchet staff photographerJunior Matt Wilson, middle, launched the group OUTWatch, which seeks to teach people how to defend themselves against hate crimes.

by MIranda greenContributing Life Editor

Classes are a response to hate crimes against the LGBT community

by aMy rhodInCampus News Editor "We will also be

reviewing our communication

procedures."

AliciA o'neilSenior Associate Vice President

of Operations

See E-MAIL: Page 5 See IFC: Page 5

See DEFENSE: Page 5

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News SnapShot

October 11, 2010Emily Cahn | Senior News Editor | ecahn@gwhatchet.comAmy D’Onofrio | Metro News Editor | adonofrio@gwhatchet.comAmy Rhodin | Campus News Editor | arhodin@gwhatchet.com

Madeleine Morgenstern | Campus News Editor | mmorgenstern@gwhatchet.comKara Dunford | Contributing Editor | kdunford@gwhatchet.comPriya Anand | Contributing Editor | panand@gwhatchet.com

The District: A city with brains

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An Evening with Jane GoodallCelebrate the legacy of Jane Goodall at this event, featuring the presentation of the Jane Goodall Global Leadership Awards.Lisner Auditorium • 6:30 p.m.

Colonial IdolOne student will be chosen to sing the National Anthem at Colonials Invasion as part of Spirit Week.West Hall Blackbox Theater • 7 to 9 p.m.

Monday TuesdayUPD Self-Defense ClassLearn basic physical self-defense training at a free class sponsored by the University Police Department.Ivory Tower Common Room• 5 to 8 p.m.

Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear ShadowJoin professor Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy of Quaid-i-Azam University for a look at what nuclear weapons have done for Pakistan and India.Lindner Family Commons • 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday

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AUDIO SlIDEShOwEditor’s photo picks

The Hatchet’s photo editors choose their favorite images from the semester.

vIDEOCampus construction

Students react to the many construction projects across the Foggy Bottom Campus.

vIDEOBallroom club

A group of students compete in ballroom competitions.

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MIChEllE RAttINGER | PhOtO EDItOR

Washington is the city everyone loves to hate, and those who perpetually rag on the District can add another gripe to their list: D.C. residents are probably smarter than you.

About 47 percent of District residents have completed a bachelor’s degree, ac-cording to the U.S. Census Bureau, placing it among other cities at the top of the heap across the country.

“People with an education generally live in urban areas because those are wealthier areas, where people have higher incomes,” said Elaine Howard Ecklund, a sociologist at Rice University and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at the Institute for Urban Research.

The D.C. metropolitan area also has the highest percentage of people with advanced degrees, at 22.6 percent.

“D.C. is seen as a political and cultural center and that could be seen as a reason why people are moving there,” Ecklund said. “D.C. is unique because a huge economic ba-sis is the federal government.”

According to a CNN report, some soci-ologists attribute the high number of degree holders in D.C. to the many government jobs in the city, however, Ecklund said there could be other factors.

“D.C. is also an immigrant city, and new immigrants are highly educated people like doctors and want to live in urban areas,” Eck-lund said.

“American perceptions are that immi-grants are low-education and low-income, but actually a large percentage of immigrants are high-education and high-income people,” she added.

The percent of educated people in the city has increased in recent years. In 2005, bachelor’s degree holders represented 45.9 percent of D.C. residents. People with ad-vanced degrees represented 21.3 percent of the population in 2005.

In contrast, the D.C. region doesn’t top the American Community Survey list of high school graduation rates, though the city ranks fairly high in that area.

According to data released from the Census Bureau last month, 89 percent of D.C. metropolitan area residents have a high school diploma, ranking slightly below Bos-ton, Seattle and Minneapolis, Minn., which tops the list at 92.3 percent.

In terms of data collection and accuracy, “Census data is the gold standard accord-ing to sociologists,” Ecklund said. “It is the best.”

Data for the American Community Sur-vey is gathered from 250,000 households monthly.

–Jeff Richards

Director of Student Activities Center Tim Miller gets dunked at Pi Kappa Phi’s War of the Roses fundraiser. The event raised money for the fraternity’s national philanthropy organization, Push America, which provides resources for the disabled.

See “Sororities compete in War of the Roses for charity” online

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Capitalizing on their ac-cess to key administrators, three Student Association senators are looking to make printing cheaper for stu-dents.

Sen. Charlie Rybak, U-At large, introduced the "GW Gutenberg Plan" – named af-ter Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the first printing press with moveable type – that outlines ways to reduce printing costs at the SA Sen-ate meeting last week.

Rybak said it only costs the school a little more than 3 cents to print, without in-corporating bulk prices into the equation. The University charges students 9 cents per page to print in Gelman.

“They’re profiting off us for printing our homework," Rybak said. "And that’s a problem.”

Rybak said the 9 cent printing price in Gelman Li-brary is "an arbitrary num-ber," bringing up the cost of

printing at other libraries across campus.

“It’s 7 cents in the en-gineering school and in the [Himmelfarb Health Scienc-es] med school library. The fact that those are two differ-ent prices says that it’s an ar-bitrary number right there,” Rybak said. “We need to find out why it was set at 9 cents in the first place and how we can make this system just.”

Rybak’s initiative aims to lower the price of print-ing to 4 cents per page so the University would no longer make a 6 cent profit on every page printed by a student.

“Per page, the 6 cents start to add up. That in it-self is a central issue,” Rybak said.

Rybak is also proposing that GW adds 4 cent print-

ers throughout campus, in-creasing printer access while decreasing the traffic in Gelman.

He wants to install print-ers in Thurston Hall, South Hall, Ivory Tower, Interna-tional House, Duques Hall, Rome Hall and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

“It’s an academic issue and it’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” Rybak said. “If we make this investment now and make this fair, we can do something that will dramati-cally change student’s aca-demic experience and their quality of life here.”

Rybak said Sens. Dylan Pyne, CCAS-U, and Ted Costi-gan, CCAS-U, have agreed to assist him. They plan to meet with administration officials to make their case, rather

than proposing it as a bill to go through the SA.

“One of the reasons I ran for the SA was because I was so mad at all these bills they were passing that don’t do anything,” Rybak said. “Once we stop wasting our time on bills and plan out goals and try to reach them, that’s when we’re actually going to get stuff done and that’s what I’m trying to do here.”

Rybak said he hopes to have the printing issue re-solved by the end of the year.

“With the SA turnover every year, the good work people do gets left in the dust,” Rybak said. “That’s why we’re really striving to complete this by the end of the year.” u

The number of interna-tional students at GW has grown 12 percent over the last five years, a figure Uni-versity administrators attri-bute to GW's growing repu-tation as an international student-friendly university.

In fall 2005, 1,833 inter-national students enrolled at the University, according to University data, gradu-ally increasing to reach an enrollment of 2,298 inter-national students by fall 2009.

Greg Leonard, direc-tor of GW’s International Services Office, said he at-tributes the uptick in num-bers to University President Steven Knapp’s emphasis on having a diverse student body, as well as government efforts to make visa policies “a little more reasonable.”

“There was a time very shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, when it became very diffi-cult to get a visa to come to the U.S.,” Leonard said. “I think that the U.S. govern-ment has made a very con-scious effort to expedite the visa requests of internation-al students who are seeking to come here.”

Out of the 2,298 inter-national students enrolled at GW during the 2009-2010 academic year, 624 were undergraduates, 1,585 were graduate students and the remaining 89 were on leave

and were not taking classes. The top countries of ori-

gin were China, India and the Republic of Korea, with 460, 266 and 256 students coming from each nation respectively.

The rise in the number of international students at GW reflects a nationwide trend of increased foreign student enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities. In 2009, 45 percent of schools reported an increase in international student en-rollment, and 26 percent reported that numbers re-mained stagnant, according to a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Leonard said the rising number of international students enrolled at the University is a positive sign and enhances the classroom experience of every GW student.

“We will always want to have a very diverse pop-ulation of students from different countries here,” Leonard said. “I think it makes our classrooms more diverse. It gives all students at GW an opportunity to learn in more of a multicul-tural, multinational envi-ronment.”

Freshman Gloria Wan, originally from China, said she first came to the U.S. for high school and then chose GW over other colleges for its international affairs pro-gram.

“Even when I looked at other schools, they had internships in D.C.,” Wan said. “So I thought, 'Why don’t I just go to D.C. di-rectly?'”

Virginie Hello, a soph-omore, said she chose to study in the U.S. rather than France because the ed-ucation system offers more flexibility and a balanced lifestyle.

“In France, we have a very rigid education system so when you start some-thing at university you can't change it,” Hello said. “At the American colleges you have a choice. There is a balance between social life and education and in France you don’t have that as much.” u

The University’s highest governing body will decide the fate of the Science and Engi-neering Complex Friday, effec-tively voting on GW’s future as a research University.

The SEC’s planning be-gan in 2006, and the Board of Trustees will vote Friday on whether or not to proceed with the project, which at $275 mil-lion for initial construction and furnishing costs, is the most expensive project in the Uni-versity’s history.

The SEC is expected to im-prove research, as it will pro-vide a physical space the Uni-

versity hopes will be used for top-tier studies.

It is highly expected the board will vote in favor of the project.

Board Chairman Russell Ramsey said the board is pre-pared to make a decision on the project.

“We have received infor-mation throughout the year and we are ready to vote on whether to proceed with the project,” Ramsey said. “I think our board will be more than ready to make this decision after all the information is pre-sented on Friday.”

The presentation before Friday’s vote is expected to include the latest architectural drawings of the facility, a de-scription of how the building will be used, and updated cost estimates. The $275 million es-timate has been disputed by members of the Faculty Senate for being too low an estimate.

The Faculty Senate has voiced hesitation about em-barking on the expensive proj-ect. At the Faculty Senate’s monthly meeting Friday, the body voted to request addi-tional information from the ad-ministration about the SEC but decided not to stall the board’s vote.

While some members of the senate expressed deep-seated concern for the project, professor Joseph Cordes said Friday’s vote effectively gave the board the “go ahead.”

Ramsey said the board views the complex as “key for GW to reach its aspirations to become a premier research in-stitution in the nation’s capi-tal.”

He expects the new facility to encourage more corporate and government partnerships with GW students and faculty.

“It will create a hub for technology exchange and

technology education across the D.C. metro area,” Ramsey said.

Improving the Univer-sity’s research status has been one of University President Steven Knapp’s focuses since he came to GW from Johns Hopkins University – one of the country’s premier research institutions – in 2007. The Innovation Task Force was launched in part to provide additional funds for research. Knapp appointed Dr. Leo Chalupa to the newly created position of vice president for research in 2009.

In addition to the main de-cision at hand, Friday will also be the board’s first meeting to be held at GW’s Virginia Sci-ence and Technology Campus. Ramsey hopes it will give new trustees a firsthand apprecia-tion for GW’s growing research efforts and nursing and medi-cal education in Virginia. u

At the Gelman Library

Actual Cost

Proposal hopes to lower price to 4 cents per pageby jamie blyNNHatchet Staff Writer

Board of Trustees to vote on SecFate of project will be determined at upcoming meetingby Gabrielle marushHatchet Staff Writer

Enrollment sees 12 percent spike over five-year periodby Priya aNaNdContributing News Editor

SA senators seek to lower printing costs Foreign student enrollment rises

"We will always want to have a very diverse population

of students."

GreG leonardDirector of International

Services Office

Printing Cost Per Page

At the Engineering School and Med School Libraries

source: sa seN. charlie rybakGraPhic by allisoN elfriNG

according to Charlie Rybak

Staff Editorial

Less aid? Not GW's fault

lyndsey WajertOpinions Editorlwajert@gwhatchet.com

annu SubramanianContributing Editorasubramanian@gwhatchet.comOpinions

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The costs of lower printing costs

QuotablE "I'll meet up with the hippo before I split." –Jimmy Fallon, on the on-campus sites he hopes to see before leaving Foggy Bottom. Fallon is the headliner for this year's Colonial Weekend.

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HatchetThe GW

the message on the wallby Sara Fischer

Something happens here,

but when?

We’ve all had this conver-sation:

“I go to GW.”“Oh.”During this “oh” moment, our

acquaintance’s face appears confused as he or she tries to ra-tionalize why any-one would pay so much for college.

It is not news to anyone on this campus that GW is an extremely costly university. It has been the school’s reputation for years.

And for those coming to GW, financial aid is clearly a huge factor. But some stu-dents have been up in arms about this year’s financial aid allocations, and have taken to Facebook and other social media to discuss their situations. While I feel for those students who didn’t receive the aid they needed, their anger and disappointment toward the Uni-versity is completely misdirected.

As many of you know, GW is no longer in Forbes’ list of the top 10 most expensive schools in the country, nor is it even the most expensive school in the District. According to Forbes magazine, Georgetown and at least another nine universities have now sur-passed GW in tuition costs. This was not some fluke. The Univer-sity purposefully held tuition in-creases at a mere 3 percent, while other universities on average in-creased their tuition by 4.5 percent.

Some universities, like Clemson University, increase their tuition by a staggering 8 percent. Com-paratively, GW has been great at balancing tuition increases to help

subsidize financial aid with maintaining a reasonable cost for students. Addition-ally, GW has a policy many other universi-ties lack – guaranteed aid. With guaranteed aid at GW, grant money allocated to students will remain the same amount for all four years of attendance. This is

done so that parents and students do not have any surprises when they open their tuition bills.

Many of the grants that GW students receive as part of their financial aid packages are contingent upon federal allocations of money. According to the Office of Student Financial Assistance, if a student opens up his or her bill to find decreases in aid, it is because the federal government has simply allocated less money to these grant programs and not because GW did something wrong. In fact, in these cases, GW’s hands are tied. Whatever grant money the University has allocated to a student is guaranteed for all four years. Therefore, when the federal government decided to allocate less money this year, there was very little GW could do to mend the loss. Instead, the federal government increased

federal loans, such as Perkins and Stafford, to help make up for a lack of grant money.

While the federal government may think increasing the amount a student can take as a loan will help that student pay his or her tuition, in reality, it is just putting that student into more debt. What stu-dents really need is for the federal government to prioritize education in the annual budget and ensure enough money is put into these federal grant programs, so stu-dents won’t have unexpected bills that can force them to withdraw from school. For example, instead of spending federal funds on friv-olous projects like a $762,372 grant to University of North Carolina at Charlotte for the development of computer technology to digitally record performers’ dance moves, this money could have given 16 students a $50,000 federal grant to pay their tuition.

What good is the U.S.'s im-pressive higher education sys-tem if we make it impossible for American students to attend col-lege here? When bright young minds can’t afford college tuition, America ultimately pays the price. I urge students to channel their anger towards their congressional representatives, instead of taking out their frustrations with the Uni-versity. By taking action, hopefully we can see real change that will leave us with more change in our pockets.

–The writer, a sophomore majoring in international affairs, is a Hatchet

columnist.

GW needs a master events calendar

Over the past seven days, GW has played host to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Sec-

retary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Grammy-nominated comedic au-thor David Sedaris, State Depart-ment spokesperson P.J. Crowley, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert and former White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Marlin Fitzwater.

Pretty incredible, isn’t it? These events showcase a diverse array of interests, talents and experts that appeals to every type of student. The problem is that many students do not know when events like these take place.

The most tragic irony of this scenario: Nearly all of these events were open for students to attend.

It is no secret that many of us chose to attend GW because of the unique opportunity to live and study in D.C. Whether our inter-ests lie in politics, business or else-where, the speakers and events that GW hosts offer us the chance to maximize our college experi-ence by hearing from some of the most accomplished people in this country.

To find out more about the way GW currently promotes its event calendars, I went on GW’s website and followed the links under events. These links offer eight different calendars, six un-der the University calendar tab alone. Yet, there was not one cal-endar that featured every event, much less in an easy or acces-sible format. For a University that prides itself on its use of technol-ogy, it seems almost incompre-hensible that major speakers and events of educational value are essentially hidden from students’ view. Though certain events may have their niche audiences, and some may not be designated for students, there is something to be said about the lack of a cohesive University calendar.

While it may seem overly sim-plistic, the solution to this prob-lem is to encourage the Office of University Events to coordinate with GW’s many departments by creating a singular calendar of rel-evant speakers, events and meet-ings that students should know about. This calendar needs to be located online in a prominent loca-tion, a large space on the MyGW page, for example. Moreover, this general calendar of events would be the most effective if it were or-ganized by subject area in order to promote easier access for students. This solution would provide GW with a tool to improve its acces-sibility and communication with students, and would serve to help strengthen the GW community by improving attendance at major University-hosted events.

Though GW seems to have a Facebook or Twitter account for everything, a simple Colonial cal-ender page or Twitter feed would also provide students with addi-tional means of accessing the de-tails of major events.

Many of us sacrificed the foot-ball teams that more traditional universities offer, in order to come to D.C. to have a truly unique col-lege experience. As it stands, GW’s inability to promote incredible events to students prevents us from enjoying our college experience to the fullest. The University is fond of telling us that “something hap-pens here,” but it is high time that it tells us when “something” will be happening.

-The writer, a senior majoring in po-litical science, is a Hatchet columnist.

At first glance, reducing the cost of printing makes a lot of sense – or cents?

Everyone wishes printing was cheaper, everyone hates hav-ing to swipe their money away, and it seems easy to cut this 9 cent fee down.

But really, the idea of cutting just about any fee at this University comes down to just one question: Do we re-ally think that GW isn’t going to get its money?

This Univer-sity is serious about generating revenue. And while we did just fall off the top 10 most expensive universities list, there really isn’t any reason to expect GW will get cheaper.

Why should it, after all? GW provides a large amount of fi-nancial aid and is saddled with more than $1 billion in debt. That means that GW needs revenue, and lots of it.

Sure, 9 cents per page is a bit high. But if we assume that GW is going to get its money one way or the other, what’s the alterna-tive? It could find some other fee to increase, but would that make anyone happier? Of course not.

If somehow the Student As-sociation pressures the Universi-

ty into lowering printing costs, I think the University would prob-ably just take whatever revenue is lost from that cost reduction and put it right back into tuition

increases. This is un-fair on two levels.

First of all, user fees are more fair than a broad-based tuition increase. After all, no one at GW is forced to use the University’s printing services. The only people who pay our print-ing fees are the ones who choose to. Why should the broader,

non-printing population have to provide a subsidy for people who don’t want to own their own printer?

Secondly, GW’s fixed tuition system means that it wouldn’t even be students who would deal with this increased cost. The real victims of a printing price re-duction would be incoming stu-dents, who would have this cost built into their tuition. It’s a nice thought – we could reduce our own printing costs and not even have to pay for it! But is that fair? I think not.

And, for that matter, it’s not like printing at GW is prohibitive-ly expensive to begin with. I have no numbers to back this up, but I’d wager that the average GW

student needs to print maybe 70 pages per semester. But hell, let’s assume that you need 100 pages a semester. The math is easy to do – 100 pages per semester times eight semesters, over a four-year career, times nine cents per page? That’s $72, which is cheaper than just about any printer you can purchase – and we’re not even taking ink into account.

There’s an old saying: If it ain’t broke, someone in the SA Senate is trying to propose a resolution that might fix it. Well, it’s something like that. Printing costs at GW are annoying, yes, but they’re not prohibitive. We all know that GW will end up charg-ing someone for the revenue it loses from a reduced printing fee. The current system might not be desirable, but it works, and it’s better than the alternative.

If you’re serious about reduc-ing the amount that GW charges, the real focus should be on reduc-ing the amount that GW spends. At some point, we should ad-mit that we don’t need another new building. And that we have enough dorms. And that maybe, just maybe, freshman don't actu-ally need beach towels. But as long as GW insists on spending as profusely as it does, the stu-dents are going to pay for it – one way or another.

-The writer, a senior majoring in political science, is a Hatchet

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As midterm season creeps toward its peak, students naturally search for a space away from their residence halls where they can study or write with optimal focus. But at Gelman Library, the cubbies are occupied, outlets are in use and desks are crowded. The library has been this way for a few weeks now, and it will only draw more stu-dents as the semester progresses. Because of this, there is an obvious need for more study spaces during the midterms and finals pe-riod, and right now GW is unable to support that need. Extended hours in student study zones – which are yet to be enacted this se-mester – provide more space for students in the Marvin Center, the Fishbowl, Duques Hall and the Career Center, but these zones provide a temporary solution to a lasting is-sue on campus: Gelman has reached its car-rying capacity.

These study zones are a helpful compan-ion to Gelman during midterms and finals, but they are not an equal alternative. After all, the Marvin Center study space does not have desks, which makes studying there dif-ficult. These zones are not designated quiet areas, which can cause distraction for stu-dents who wish to work in silence. We ask that the school begins to create more usable quiet zones for students looking to study outside their residence halls, and to progres-sively open up more spaces throughout the semester.

The fact that there is a deficit of study spaces does not only become apparent dur-ing exam periods. Students should have a range of study zones from which to choose throughout the semester, especially because midterms begin as early as mid-September and assignments are given out all semester. Students should always be able to expect GW to provide them with an area where they can do their best work. Specific classrooms in individual schools could be made available to students throughout the semester, and during exam periods the study zones will complement those existing study spaces. Ul-timately, GW must look into the creation of more permanently designated study spaces or the student body will be deprived of a fun-damental element of an academic career.

Leaders on campus are held to a high standard by their peers, but with that they reserve the power to carry out major undertakings. In the case of Greek-letter life leaders, the responsi-bility is even greater right now, as the position of director of Greek-letter life remains vacant.

It is this need for reliable leader-ship that makes Interfraternity Council President Bill Hulse’s recent practices so disappointing. Four fraternity lead-ers are accusing Hulse of neglecting his duties and attempting to exact more power than he holds. Along with this alleged disregard for his position’s re-quirements, Hulse is accused of spend-ing nearly $1,000 without authorization for an IFC dinner that served twelve people, and defying IFC code by enter-ing a private home to keep an eye on a potential new pledge.

We are disheartened by Hulse’s dis-honest leadership as IFC president, and urge him to resign immediately.

The IFC requires a president who will provide the Greek-letter life com-munity with transparent and equitable leadership, especially because right now the president currently acts without in-spection from a director. Recent alle-gations have shown that Hulse has in-stead abandoned that obligation. Hulse has expressed regret for his actions and his term as IFC president concludes at the end of the semester, but the Greek-letter life community deserves someone who will oversee it with a fair hand and should not wait for his time in office to come to a close.

During periods of transition, com-munity members look to a strong lead-er for guidance and direction to move forward. Instead, we have seen poor decision-making from Hulse, and this should not be tolerated any longer.

Make more study zones available

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The lack of dorm storming, the presidents said, likely hindered turnout to rush events.

According to the IFC constitution, if an executive board member’s chapter is on probation, a vote of no confidence from six of the 16 serving fraternity presidents is enough to remove the exec-utive board member from of-fice. Otherwise, three-fourths of the presidents’ council may vote to impeach an executive board member for “neglect of duties, poor performance, or misconduct.” The presidents' council will vote on the issue Tuesday.

“As fraternity presidents, we must hold our Interfrater-nity leaders and their deci-sions accountable to ensure that all of the fraternity’s best interests are taken into ac-count,” Phi Kappa Psi Presi-dent Carl Sceusa said in an interview.

Sigma Phi Epsilon Presi-dent Nick Polk said they wrote the letter to let other fraternity presidents judge the IFC’s performance so far this year.

“The IFC is an organiza-tion that is intended to unite the fraternities and serve the fraternities, and when an IFC officer loses sight of this mis-sion, a correction must be made,” Polk said.

The move to remove Hulse from his leadership position is the presidents' council's second attempt to strip power

from Hulse and the IFC. Ear-lier this semester, the IFC lost its privilege to dole out fund-ing to IFC fraternities, which was formerly a major role of the governing body.

Hulse admitted the transi-tion dinner was “the one seri-ous mistake I feel that I have made as IFC President, and wish I had the fortitude at the time to end what had been a long-standing tradition.”

He added that he is work-ing to operate in a more finan-cially responsible manner.

“I sincerely believe I have the support of my presidents’ council. I believe that after some reasonable discussion we will be prepared to move forward as a unified body,” Hulse said.

If Hulse is voted out of of-fice on the probation charge Tuesday, IFC Vice President Travis Neuscheler would im-mediately assume the presi-dency. In the case of an im-peachment hearing, an IFC judicial board would convene and make a recommendation for or against impeachment before the presidents’ council holds a final vote. u

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“Vandalism to University property is a serious and on-going problem that we hope to address with the help of the entire community,” O’Neil said.

University Police Depart-ment Chief Kevin Hay said seven reports have been filed for destruction of property in Ivory Tower since classes began in August, with most destruction cases occurring Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights.

“One can form an opin-ion the damage is linked with the parties that are typical on those nights,” Hay said.

Hay said the University Police Department inter-viewed several witnesses during the past month, but no one perpetrator was identified or charged for the destruction. Hay said be-ing caught would result in a criminal record.

“Those convicted will be subject to potential jail time

and fines. If they are 18 or over, they will have a per-manent arrest record which can be detrimental to future job searches and the ability to obtain security clearances,” Hay said.

Students who received the afternoon e-mail said that while they felt it was unfair to be held responsible for the actions of an unknown per-son, the policy could finally put an end to what has be-come a burden for students dealing with vandalized buildings.

“It sucks for us,” Clark Brown, a junior living in Ivory, said of the policy. “But there is no other way to go about it.”

Sophomore Ivory resi-dent Jessica Antretter said she felt the first e-mail was just a scare tactic to stop vandalism from occurring. Antretter said she would ob-ject if students were actually charged.

“It costs so much to live in Ivory, they shouldn’t charge me,” Antretter said.

–Emily Cirillo contributed to this report.

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experience of being accosted on campus.

“Last winter someone tried to mug me over by City Hall… If I didn’t have the experience I’ve had, I could have gotten hurt, but be-cause I had that confidence instilled in me I was able to fight back,” Wilson said.

Although he started the class with the Dupont hate crimes in mind, both gay and straight students and com-munity members are encour-aged to attend.

“I think it’s important for anyone to defend himself or herself regardless of gender or sexual orientation,” said Michael Komo, president of GW’s LGBT student or-ganization Allied in Pride. “We live in a city and we are a little bit more open than most people. And I think this class will give everyone both

an extra tool to utilize and a sense of safety and security that they might otherwise not have.”

OUTWatch leaders hope to continue the weekly class-es until the beginning of No-vember, when cold weather would inhibit outdoor prac-tices. By that point, Wilson hopes that the group will have a suitable indoor op-tion.

“It really was a thing that I was suddenly inspired to do and I really want to keep it alive as long as possible.” u

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The Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention awarded the GW Cancer Insti-tute a $4.25 million grant last month to help improve the health outcomes and quality of life for cancer survivors.

In partnership with the American Cancer Society, the five-year grant will fi-nance the creation of a Na-tional Cancer Resource Cen-ter, which will offer support to cancer patients and their families.

The grant will allow the two organizationsto improve awareness, support and clini-cal care for cancer survivors.

Mandi Chapman, direc-tor of GWCI's Office of Can-cer Survivorship, said the partnership between an aca-demic medical center and a national nonprofit will help further progress in the field of cancer survivorship.

“The grant will allow us to share our clinical and training expertise to improve long term follow-up care for cancer survivors and health outcomes of cancer survivors on a national scale,” Chap-man said.

GWCI will host the Na-tional Cancer Resource Cen-ter’s annual fellowship pro-gram, through which five fellows each year will receive training in education and sustainability to improve care for cancer survivors in com-munities across the country that are lacking in care.

“This new kind of part-nership at the national level will accelerate our ability to appropriately care for cancer

survivors locally and nation-ally,” Chapman said.

The two organizations will collaborate to develop a strategic plan to improve the surveillance of cancer survi-vor outcomes nationwide.

The institute’s model of patient navigation – a strat-egy that seeks to remove obstacles to health care ac-cessibility, particularly for lower-income patients – will be employed at a national

level, improving the sup-port systems of cancer survi-vors and increasing access to programs and appropriate, timely care.

Dr. Steven Patierno, ex-ecutive director of the GWCI, said the grant builds on the partnerships the institute has already established.

A collaboration with Children’s National Medi-cal Center, the GW Medical Faculty Associates and the GW Center for Integrative Medicine allowed GWCI to launch a citywide clinical program for cancer survi-vors. The partnership with the American Cancer Society will bring these practices to a national level.

“This moves us into the national limelight,” Patierno said. “It takes our navigation and survivorship models of care and disseminates them nationally to help other com-munities care for cancer sur-vivors across the country.” u

Money will help improve resources for cancer survivorsby kara duNford Contributing News Editor

CDC awards GW a $4.25 million grant

"The grant will allow us... to improve

long term follow-up care for cancer

survivors."

mandi chapmanDirector of GWCI's Office of

Cancer Survivorship

"We must hold our Interfraternity leaders

and their decisions accountable."

carl sceusaPresident of Phi Kappa Psi

"I think it's important for anyone to defend

himself or herself, regardless of gender

or sexual orientation."

michael komoPresident of Allied in Pride

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A leading research or-ganization gave the GW Po-litical Science Department doctoral program a top-tier ranking last week, but be-cause of the council’s dated data, the University says the rankings fail to reflect the department’s growth.

Of the 106 political sci-ence departments analyzed, the National Research Council ranked GW’s de-partment as No. 14 and No. 24 on two of the council’s lists.

Kimberly Morgan, di-rector of graduate studies for the Political Science De-partment, said her depart-ment was pleased with the rankings but said they con-tinue to be a flawed mea-sure of the department’s worth.

Members of the aca-demic community have criticized the overall rank-ings for using outdated in-formation and for present-ing findings in a confusing and inarticulate format, ac-cording to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

“There’s no doubt that rankings are always flawed; they capture some salient information but miss other things,” Morgan said. “One criticism is that the data is already old, having been collected in 2005-2006. We feel that our faculty and graduate program has got-ten better in the meantime and that the rankings do not capture this.”

University Provost Ste-ven Lerman said the rank-ings are somewhat unreli-able. Over the past three years, Lerman worked on submitting data to the NRC while serving as dean for graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before coming to GW in July.

“While the data in the

NRC study might be of some value in providing broad guidance on where to ap-ply, anyone using the study should be aware that the data the NRC used is now somewhat out of date,” Ler-man said. “The NRC’s rank-ing methodologies are com-plex and combine numerous factors, many of which may be entirely irrelevant to any single applicant.”

For this set of rankings, the NRC created two sets of rankings to measure the programs: survey-based and regression-based. Ac-cording to the regression-based rankings – where professors were asked to rank different programs in their field – GW placed No. 24 in the nation. According

to the survey-based rank-ings – which asked profes-sors to rank various fac-tors that were important in their program – GW earned a ranking of 14th in the na-tion.

In the ranking released by the NRC 15 years ago, when they only had one set of rankings instead of two, the department was ranked 47th overall in the nation

Despite the rankings' imperfections, Morgan said it is important to note that the Political Science Depart-ment was recognized for being a quality institution for doctoral candidates.

“We are a top 20 pro-gram, and on some mea-sures, such as research pro-ductivity of the faculty, we are in the top 10,” Morgan said. u

Former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said he had two rules during his ten-ure: Cave early and often, and grovel if you have to.

Thursday night Fitzwater and Dana Perino, an adjunct faculty member in the GW Graduate School of Political Management, shared memories from their terms as the face of the White House.

“At all times you need to keep eyes and ears open for what’s going on in the press,” Perino said. “Because as Marlin said, when you go into the Oval Office, right before the press comes in the president always turns to you and says, ‘What’s on their mind?’ And you need to know.”

Fitzwater recounted an incident during George H.W. Bush’s re-election campaign when the media misrepresent-

ed Bush after he marveled at a supermarket barcode scanner. The press spun the story to ap-pear as though it was the first time Bush had seen common grocery store technology.

Once video footage was re-leased, “Two or three [journal-ists], including the Associated Press, said, ‘You’re right, this is not fair, and this is not accurate,’ but it didn’t matter. Once it was

gone, because of the power of television, the idea had spread out,” Fitzwater said.

Perino said press secretar-ies rarely deal with life or death situations, but cited the kidnap-ping of American journalist Daniel Pearl as an exception. Pearl was captured by al-Qae-da and decapitated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

“One of the things that peo-

ple don’t know is that when you saw the video of them slitting his neck and cutting his head off... is the camera didn’t work the first time, so Khalid Sheikh Mohammed made them put the head back on,” Perino said.

Perino also described an event where she accompanied George W. Bush to the Na-tional Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to bestow Pur-ple Hearts on critically injured soldiers and visit their families. One soldier had been comatose for two weeks, and while the military aide read the commis-sion, George W. Bush explained what a Purple Heart was to the soldier's 5-year-old son.

“Just then, and if I hadn’t been there I wouldn’t believe it, the soldier’s eyes opened,” Perino said.

Fitzwater, who never al-lowed cameras in the press briefing room, marveled at the changes to his old position.

“Yesterday [President Obama’s press secretary] Rob-ert Gibbs gave this briefing without cameras and every-body thought it was so unique and so brilliant,” he said. “Wait a minute, I was there 15 years ago!” u

Politics program ranked in top 25

by DaNielle soliNskiHatchet Staff Writer

Comedian Jimmy Fallon’s Colonials Weekend perfor-mance is less than one week away, and while a number of tickets still remain unsold, Fallon said he’s excited for the two performances he has lined up.

Fallon — the "Saturday Night Live" alumnus and host of his own late-night talk show — said this will be the first time he will do two stand-up shows in a row, and said he is excited for the ex-perience.

“This will be big,” Fallon said. “I’ve got to make sure the students have fun as well as the parents so everyone can laugh together.”

The comedian’s show comes on the heels of Jon Stewart’s performance last year, in which tickets sold out in a little over 24 hours. Fallon said his act will differ greatly from Stewart’s.

“Politics is [Stewart’s] specialty, so I’ll leave him to do that because he’s good at it,” Fallon said.

Instead, Fallon said he will focus his come-dic routine on popular culture.

“I’ll do more come-dic impressions and dumb songs, like ‘Balls in Your Mouth,’ correlat-ing to the tar balls in the Gulf Coast,” Fallon said. “That’s about as political as I will get.”

This will be the per-former's first visit to the Foggy Bottom Campus, and while he will only be at GW for the Saturday performances, Fallon said he hopes to see as much of Foggy Bottom as possible throughout the day.

The comedian, who has starred in feature films like “Fever Pitch” and “Taxi Driv-

er,” plans to throw on a baseball cap

as a disguise while checking out the Uni-

versity.

“The campus really in-trigues me,” Fallon said. “I really like the energy of being at a college.”

Upon hearing about the hippo good luck myth on campus, Fallon shared his pre-performance plan.

“I’ll meet up with the hip-po before I split, if it’s good luck,” Fallon said. “I’ll take a picture with it and tweet it out.”

Speaking strongly of the campus scene, Fallon said that students should remember to take pictures of everything that happens throughout four years at college.

“Your major will change, your roommates will change. You could start off in com-puter engineering, and then end up in basket weaving,” said Fallon, who attended the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y. “But the big-gest part is meeting people, because that’s what life is all about.” u

Fallon excited for Colonials WeekendComedian will focus on pop culture during performancesby Matthew kwieciNskiHatchet Reporter

becky crowDer | hatchet photographerFormer White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Marlin Fitzwater discussed their careers as White House spokespeople Thursday night.

Univ.: Rankings fail to reflect program's growth

by bob reeveHatchet Reporter

Fitzwater said he groveled often and caved early to press

Former press secretaries share stories"We feel that our

faculty and graduate program has gotten better... the rankings do not capture this."

Kimberly morganDirector of Graduate Studies

for the Political Science Department

photo coUrtesy of gw MeDia relatioNs

Andrea VittorioLife Editoravittorio@gwhatchet.com

This Week in GW History

43 yeArs Ago...Martin Luther King, Jr., tentatively accepts an invite to speak at GW.

22 yeArs Ago...Muslim students protest against a Turkish ban on headscarves.Life

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104 yeArs Ago...GW begins the tradition of holding fall convocations.

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Sporting T-shirts that say, “We do it quick, quick, slow,” the ball-room dance team walks – or may-be waltzes – to its own beat.

For the past 15 years, the team has trained students in various types of ballroom dances to com-pete at the local and national level.

After being dragged to a prac-tice two years ago, junior Alex Pazuchanics, now the captain of GW’s ballroom team, said he was immediately hooked.

“Once you get knee deep in it, you want to learn everything,” Pazuchanics said.

Three times a week, the team meets in the Lerner Health and Wellness Center to practice the tango, foxtrot, quickstep, salsa, hustle and other dances.

At practices, men and women line up at opposite ends of the room, pair up to practice footwork for a few minutes and then switch partners.

“It’s at first awkward dancing with someone you never met, but you get used to it,” said freshman Liz Hathaway. “You need to be

really close and that comes with time.”

Like many on the team, Hatha-way is what veteran members call a dancing "newbie." Once a week, the team receives lessons from a professional instructor who has been dancing for 20 years.

Ballroom team alumni main-tain an active role by helping teach lessons and cheering on the team at competitions.

Kim Vu and Caitie Craumer, who both graduated from GW in 2009, joined the ballroom dancing team as fresh-men. They learned from alumni, and now they are returning the favor by acting as coaches for the team.

“One of the best ways to learn is to teach,” Craumer said. “I think it benefits both the students and the teacher in any situation. If I can pass on what I know to someone, that’s great.”

In less than two months, new-comers are ready to take part in local collegiate ballroom compe-titions, facing rivals Georgetown and the University of Maryland.

On Oct. 23, the team is hosting

a mock competition on campus as practice for new ballroom team members.

More experienced team mem-bers participate in national com-petitions in cities like New York City, Boston and Philadelphia. This year, the national collegiate competition will be held in Balti-more.

“The competitions are nothing you ever expected,” Pazuchanics

said. “Getting on the competition floor is really incredible the first time. There are a lot of people on the floor and we get to show off our individual skills.”

As a freshman, Hathaway said she appreciates the opportu-nity to meet new people through ballroom.

“I’m glad I joined the team because not only am I learning a new skill, but I’m also meeting people I never would have met,” Hathaway said. u

During my time in Surfers Paradise, Austra-lia, I've been learning to live like the lo-cals. This became increasingly ap-parent during my last beach trip.

Maz, my study abroad host, star-tled me when she first told me about Australian magpies during a picnic at the beach.

She advised me to draw menacing eyes on the back of my helmet and to drill spikes onto it when biking. Why? Only then might I protect my-self from the omnivorous, black-and-white-feath-ered predators that attack pedestrians and bikers during the springtime – unofficially coined “mag-pie season.”

Magpies seek to pro-tect their young by em-ploying self-defense tac-tics. These modern-day pterodactyls fly over pe-destrians and cyclists and dive into their hair, pry-ing it out like a famished woodpecker.

Australians are com-monly attacked during magpie season. Least menacing are close at-tacks, or "swoops," where the aggressor piercingly snaps its beak and pecks at its target’s face, neck, ears or eyes.

On rare occasions, a magpie will challenge a biker to an unwelcome duel. The bird will land on the ground facing a two-wheeler, honorably allot its target several mil-liseconds to reflect on his or her fate before darting at the victim’s head, al-lowing the victim little time to retaliate.

Before coming to the land Down Under, I would not have considered fear-ing a small bird. But I

now realize that a magpie attack would disarm me, make me lose control and

leave me unable to strike back. No amount of protein or iron pumping could train me to con-

front this menace.I have discovered in

Australia that men live not to become completely fearless, but rather, they seek to defy their great-

est fears — which usually land on them when they least expect it. They are unable to wrestle these creatures and organize a fair defense. The thought of an assault constantly lingers in their minds.

They will find ways to cope or overcompen-sate, but will never truly overcome the trepidation that persists deep in their souls. Although magpies weaken the average man, acknowledging this orni-thophobia – fear of birds – is liberating.

So am I still ready to greet Australia with open arms and a sleeve-less shirt? Yes, but I might add a tricked-out helmet to my attire. u

On Saturday mornings, senior Melissa Eddison hops into a bee suit.

As part of an urban bee-keeping initiative she start-ed last summer, Eddison helps maintain four hives of about 100,000 bees on the Mount Vernon Campus. The bees provide homemade honey and help pollinate a newly formed garden on the Vern.

“It was a tangible way to spread education and awareness about eating healthy and sourcing food locally,” said Eddison, who is president of the GW Food Justice Alliance, a student-run organization dedicated to restoring the environ-ment and increasing sus-tainability on campus.

“First came people with gardening experience, and next people who wanted gardening experience,” said Justin Ritchie, a member of the FJA. “On any given day, you can see students water-ing the plants in their spare time.”

Despite being surround-ed by concrete walls, the garden blends into its urban atmosphere.

“It’s not an in-your-face [thing],” said Ellie Smith, communications chair of the GroW Community Garden.

The Foggy Bottom gar-den is home to a variety of fruits and vegetables, in-cluding eggplants, jalapeño peppers, squash, broccoli,

tomatoes, zucchini, arugula and kale. It also contains pawpaw, persimmon and fig trees.

In addition to being eco-friendly, the garden serves the surrounding community through food donations. The FJA donates 80 percent of its harvest to Miriam’s Kitchen, an organization that pro-vides healthy homemade meals to the homeless.

The remaining harvest goes to volunteers who tend the gardens.

By working with the Office of Sustainability on campus, Smith said the FJA hopes to expand “this little visible piece of sustainability” so that students will begin to question where the food they eat comes from.

“There is something pleasurable about food when you know its ori-gin and have been a part of its whole life before it landed on your plate,” Smith said. u

Stepping to an old-fashioned beatby CAtherine MunkittriCkHatchet Reporter

David Besnainou

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Living like the locals: magpie season

MiChelle rAttinger | Photo editorThe team holds mock competitions on campus and sends members to national competitions in cit-ies like New York City, Boston and Philadelphia. This year's national competition is in Baltimore.

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Ballroom team prepares students for upcoming competition

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There is something pleasurable about

food when you know its origin and have been a part of its

whole life before it landed on your plate.

ellie smithCommunications Chair, GroW

Community Garden

MiChelle rAttinger | Photo editorOlivia Kenney, a former Hatchet reporter, dances with her partner. The ballroom dancing team learn the tango, foxtrot, quickstep, salsa, hustle and other dancing steps from a professional instructor and former team members.

Gardening in the cityCultivating sustainability through locally grown food

elizAbeth Cookson | hAtChet PhotogrAPherWith gardens on the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses, students in the GW Food Justice Alliance promote sustainability through locally grown food.

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Volleyball wins pair of five-set matches

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Men's water polo goes 1-3 on West Coast road trip

Last Word"It was strange. Really strange. But, you know, that's what it's like sometimes on the road."

–George Lidster, men's soccer head coach, on the high number of questionable calls that went against his team in its 2-1 loss Saturday night on the road at Richmond.

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NuMBer CruNCh 11 The number of consecutive games in

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Soccer

"Gold Dust" by DJ Fresh

Colonials CornerGet to know

three fall

athletes

Skill you wish you had

TV show you never miss

Favorite part of fall

Seth RudolphSophomore

Soccer

Song you can't get out of your head

"Mine" by Taylor Swift "No Letting Go" by Wayne Wonder

ThanksgivingEverything! But if I had

to pick one thing I'd say the weather.

I love when the leaves change colors.

I would want to be able to draw well.

Be fluent in another language, other than

English of course.I wish I could sing.

"Boardwalk Empire" "Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

"Grey's Anatomy" on Thursdays

After watching her game-win-ning goal sail past Richmond goal-keeper Melissa Pacheco late Satur-day afternoon, sophomore Adriana Moya ran to her teammates, rushing to celebrate GW’s 1-0 win over the Spiders and the overtime goal that had ended the game.

After seven straight wins, it’s a feeling the Colonials and their head coach Tanya Vogel are beginning to get used to.

The goal, which came off an as-sist from freshman Alex Neal in the 96th minute, also kept the Colonials undefeated in the Atlantic 10. The way Moya scored – off an assist and up close to the net – made the goal especially dramatic and nerve-rack-ing for Vogel.

“She scored from like a yard away, so the first thing I did was look at the A.R., the assistant ref, to make sure she wasn’t offsides,” Vogel said of Moya’s goal. “Then, honestly, it was just elation.”

The low score in Saturday af-ternoon’s game was indicative of the strong defensive play from both teams. Richmond’s ability to pres-sure the ball forced the Colonials to respond with pressure of their own. The result was a game with just eight shots on goal, split evenly between the two teams.

“The team did a great job getting numbers behind the ball and main-taining pressure,” Vogel said. “They didn’t allow too many good shots.”

The game was the 11th straight in which GW has held its opponent to one goal or fewer. The Colonials are averaging less than one goal allowed per game this season and are fourth

in the A-10 in that category.GW currently sits in second place

in the conference standings behind Dayton.

Vogel was especially pleased with her team’s depth against the Spiders. The head coach pointed to the play of junior defender Janine Rotsides, who replaced freshman Melanie Keer at halftime and played a key role in keeping Richmond off the board. Playing as a cohesive unit, Vogel said, has been a strength for her team of late.

“Different players are coming in and making impacts. It’s not just about the players on the field, we have players like Janine who con-tinue to come in and play in a criti-cal position and make an impact. She did a fantastic job,” Vogel said.

With a pair of road games against speedy opponents coming up on the schedule, the team’s focus during practice will shift this week. The Colonials will take on both Char-lotte and Saint Louis on the road this weekend. Both squads are known for their overall team speed, something Vogel said her team is preparing for.

“Both opponents coming up play very quickly,” said Vogel. “So we’re going to be working on our fitness. We’re going to have to quickly get numbers behind the ball and in front of it when we lose possession, and that takes fitness.”

What the team isn’t focused on, Vogel said, is its mounting winning streak. The team will look for its eighth straight victory this Friday against the 49ers, but the players aren’t concerned with protecting their streak.

“There’s no [wining-streak] pres-sure,” Vogel said. “Just an intense de-sire to keep winning.” u

Up 1-0 in the 61st minute of his team’s game against Richmond Sat-urday night, GW men’s soccer fresh-man Jeff Eisenbud heard a whistle. Assuming he’d been fouled, he bent over to pick up the ball to set up his free kick.

Instead, it was Eisenbud who had earned the referee’s attention. Having already earned a yellow card earlier in the game for a hand ball, Eisenbud’s attempt to pick up the ball earned him a red card and an ejection from the game. It was a call head coach George Lidster called “absolutely ridiculous.”

“It was heartbreaking really, to be honest with you,” Lidster said. “I don’t usually criticize the refereeing, but Jeff Eisenbud was red carded for two innocuous yellow cards.

"It was strange. Really strange," he added. "But, you know, that’s what it’s like on the road some-times.”

Playing a man down, the Colo-nials were forced to revert into a de-fensive strategy, switching their for-mations to keep eight players back on defense and just two forward to attack the Richmond goal.

For about 20 minutes, the strat-egy worked for GW as it managed to keep the Spiders from netting an equalizer. Things began to come apart for the Colonials in the 84th minute, when Richmond’s Spencer Schiff fired a ball into the upper-right corner of the net from 20 yards out. Fewer than four minutes later, the Spiders’ Rob Scherer scored again for Richmond, giving it the lead and enough offense to topple GW 2-1.

“For the last 25 minutes… may-be the last 30 minutes, whatever, we’re trying to hang on with 10 men and we were doing such a great job and we were fighting valiantly with one man less,” Lidster said. “Very, very disappointing for the players. I felt very sorry for the players be-

cause they deserved to get a win or at least a tie.”

The loss was GW’s sixth in its last seven games and it was the sev-enth time this season that the Colo-nials have been held to one goal or fewer. The team’s lone goal in the game Saturday night came from GW’s leading scorer, sophomore Seth Rudolph, who has five goals on the season. No other GW player has more than two.

Lidster said his team’s scoring struggles so far this season have been largely due to the inability of his scorers to find a groove offen-sively.

“Goal scorers, once they get one or two, they tend to go on a roll. It’s the same in every sport,” he said. “Really, the players have not re-ally managed quite to get into their groove, you know?”

Sophomore goalkeeper Bren-dan Lafferty made his second straight appearance against the Spiders, relieving senior goalie Erik Haug. Lafferty, who also played the second half of his team’s 2-0 win over Rider Oct. 2, is still recovering from a concussion he sustained in the team’s first game of the season. While he was out, the Colonials first turned to junior defender Jake Davis in goal before Haug rejoined the team Sept. 25. As the pair read-justs to being in goal, Lidster said, both players will also be competing for the starting job.

“Erik has done quite well for us. Brendan is getting back to full fitness. I don’t think either of them at the moment are probably fit enough to play a full game,” Lid-ster said. “Right now, I’m giving them a half each and it’s a position to win now. It’s really which keeper is gonna get hot… it’s a good situa-tion to be in.”

The schedule doesn’t get any easier next weekend for the Colo-nials, who will face Atlantic 10 pow-ers Charlotte and Saint Louis next Friday and Monday, respectively.

The challenge now, Lidster said, will be to keep the team focused and mo-tivated.

“It’s going to affect your con-fidence when you lose a game like that, but I think they’re strong enough individually to give it a

good go this weekend,” Lidster said. “It doesn’t concern me. We’ll work with the guys and I think by Friday we’ll be ready to give it a shot.”

Kickoff Friday for the game against the 49ers is set for 3 p.m. u

Women's soccer wins seventh straight

GaBrIeLLa deMCzuk | hatChet PhotoGraPherSophomore Adriana Moya, right, heads a ball earlier this season. Moya scored the game-winning goal for GW Saturday afternoon against Richmond.

Late goals topple Colonials at Richmond

MICheLLe rattINGer | Photo edItorSophomore Seth Rudolph, left, battles a defender earlier this season. Rudolph scored the only goal for GW in the Colonials' 2-1 loss to the Spiders Saturday.

by eLIzaBeth trayNorHatchet Staff Writer

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The volleyball team took its winning ways to the road this weekend, topping Rhode Island Friday night in Kingston, R.I., and beating Fordham Saturday in the Bronx.

Against Rhode Island Friday, the Colonials rebounded after dropping the first set to win 3-2. GW rallied in the decisive fifth set after falling behind 6-4 to win the set 15-11 and clinch the team’s second straight Atlantic 10 victory.

GW was led offensively by sophomore Lauren Whyte, who had 21 kills and 14 digs against Rhode Island. Reigning A-10 De-fensive Player of the Week Katie Zulandt also had a strong perfor-mance, with four blocks and 10 kills in the win.

Saturday against Fordham, GW again won in five sets, three of which required extra points to decide a winner. Whyte, who leads the A-10 in both kills and points, had 20 kills and 21 points, both team highs.

The wins brought the Colo-nials’ record in five-set matches this season to 4-3 and put GW in third place in the A-10 behind No. 10 Dayton and Xavier. GW has been on a roll as of late, win-ning seven of its last nine games dating back to Sept. 18.

The Colonials will be back home later this week, taking on La Salle in the Smith Center this Thursday at 7 p.m.

The men’s water polo team went 1-3 over the weekend in the two-day Claremont Convergence tour-nament in California. GW opened the tournament Friday against California Baptist and struggled to keep pace with the nationally ranked Lancers. The Colonials fell behind 6-1 after the first quarter and were down 14-3 after three quarters before a fourth-quarter scoring outburst from GW that made the final score 16-7.

GW stayed close in its second game Friday, trailing 7-5 at half-time against Division III Chapman. The Panthers ripped off four goals in the third quarter though to pull away from GW and managed to keep the Colonials at bay down the stretch to earn the 12-10 win.

The Colonials opened day two with a win Saturday, topping La Verne 10-9. GW was led by fresh-man Nate Little, who scored five goals in the win, including the game winner with just over a min-ute and a half left.

The team closed out the tour-nament with an 8-3 loss, its third defeat of the weekend, to Division III Redlands. Little was again the offensive force for the Colonials with four goals in the loss. Sopho-more goalkeeper Cameron Illes recorded 13 saves against Red-lands.

The Colonials will be off until Oct. 16, when they'll head to Lewis-burg, Pa., to take on Bucknell.

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