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Members of the Student Asso-ciation are lobbying the city for a dis-count to recently-hiked Metro prices.

The District raised base rush hour fares from $1.35 to $1.65, and the cost to travel to distant stations in Mary-land and Virginia also increased. The SA has been working on a plan since September to get students reduced fares, said SA president Nicole Capp.

Capp, a junior, said the SA has collaborated on the issue with other universities in the District, including Georgetown, Howard, Catholic, and American. They are trying to con-vince the D.C. City Council to adopt a student fare plan.

The SA proposed ideas to the city council last semester, and a letter of

support signed by D.C. university presidents will be given to the city council this month, Capp said.

“Feedback was positive and I am hopeful for potential movement on researching the prospects of our proposal by D.C. city offi cials in the coming semester,” Capp wrote in an e-mail.

Steven Taubenkibel, public affairs specialist for the Washington Metro-politan Transit Authority, said he is not currently aware of any plan to of-fer college students discounts on the Metro.

Before any reduced fare plan is enacted, WMATA offi cials would have to review the plan and then send it to the board of directors to be voted upon, Taubenkibel said.

by Natalie KatesHatchet Reporter

LONDON — University President Steven Knapp met GW students for high tea in England last week, but his sec-ond trip overseas as GW’s lead-er was more than just scones and Earl Grey.

Knapp met parents, alumni, donors and institutional part-ners in London and Paris dur-ing his weeklong trip abroad. The trip was part of a continued effort to increase alumni dona-tions and the sense of a global alumni community after visiting

Seoul, Beijing and Hong Kong at the end of last semester.

“(Potential donors) want to see the president himself before they make a signifi cant gift,” Knapp said in an interview at the London School of Econom-ics.

Knapp said GW already has a strong global, grassroots alumni network, but that he is working on “institutionalizing the relationship with alumni.” He started this process by hir-ing Venilde Jeronimo as the fi rst ever executive director of

by Eric RoperMetro News Editor

Tonic restaurant began serving alcohol Thursday, after winning a yearlong battle for their liquor li-cense.

The Alcoholic Beverage Con-trol Board, which oversees liquor licenses in the District, approved the restaurant’s license at their fi rst meeting of 2008. The license was is-sued last Thursday morning, and

the restaurant was serving alcohol within hours.

Tonic, owned by two GW grad-uates, opened in Foggy Bottom last fall as a full-service restaurant on the corner of 21st and G streets. Restaurant staff had said they were waiting for a liquor license to com-plete their menu.

Most of the alcohol offered will consist of beer and wine. Hard li-quor is only being offered on week-end mornings, per an agreement

the University. On Saturday night, the restaurant had 10 beers on tap with plans to add an additional two.

Jeremy Pollok, co-owner of Tonic, said they eagerly anticipated the approval of the license. “We’re excited to become a full service res-taurant. It was almost like opening a restaurant with both hands tied behind my back,” he said.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

Tony Taylor can score. He says he does not like to, but he has done it this season in many different ways. Three-

pointers, daunting slashes to the bas-ket and even, with his coach grimacing, one-handed dunks. Although he brands himself a pass-fi rst guard, Taylor has av-eraged 30 points a game at Archbishop Stepinac High School because, frankly, he has to.

Taylor, the Crusaders’ 5-foot-11-su-perstar, could use the two-minute breaks Coach Tim Philip gives the team for rest and replenishment after grueling wind sprints. Instead, he grabs a ball and jogs to an open basket to shoot free throws.

He certainly has the right to be a little less humble. Many believe Taylor to be the only person to ever lead the county in total points and total assists at the end of the season. This year he is on track to do

it again, even though teams completely alter their defense to try to stop him. But just as his father taught him, this game is all about hard work.

Tony Taylor is known by most as a gym rat. He spends countless hours work-ing on his game in his Catholic school in the New York City suburbs. Whenever he is working, his coach said, he is doing something productive. When he is out of the gym, he is one of the varsity team’s three honor roll students.

Tony Taylor probably could have waited a little longer to commit to a col-lege to play basketball. Every week, he said, he was getting a new offer. St. John’s,

Seton Hall and Auburn universities all gave him consideration. Coaches came to his gym, where graduates’ college jerseys line the walls, and asked “where are you going, what are you thinking.” But when GW’s head men’s basketball coach Karl Hobbs saw him during an open gym here, he told him he wanted the Mount Vernon, N.Y., native in Foggy Bottom.

The next time Hobbs came to White Plains, he went to seal the deal on what he characterized as a “diamond in the rough.” For two hours, he sat down with Taylor, his father and Philip and explained his program. Like a salesman, Hobbs told him if he worked hard, he could make

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The Georgetown student newspaper is battling against its administration to become inde-pendent, and recent university actions are setting the stage for a trademark dispute over the pa-per’s name.

The Hoya, Georgetown’s larg-est student newspaper, is funded and sponsored by the university. For many years, leaders of the paper have tried to re-form the publication as an independent business. This fall, the university applied to trademark The Hoya’s masthead, which would effective-ly prevent the paper from parting

using the “Hoya” name. The trademark application

follows a recent push by The Hoya toward fi nancial and edito-rial independence. Alex Schank, chair of The Hoya’s board of di-rectors, said the board is strug-gling to defend the paper.

“We know the university has fi led a trademark applica-tion with the U.S. Patent Offi ce,” Schank said. “We know there is a mechanism in place to fi le an op-position. And we are currently considering all of our options.”

The staff’s insistence on keep-ing the “Hoya” name has ended past campaigns for independence

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Members of the Georgetown student newspaper The Hoya (left to right): sophomore Michele Hong, junior John Swan and senior Alex Schank.

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Knapp promotes Univ. overseas

Th e Hoya fi ghts for independence

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See HOYA, p. 9

by Eric RoperMetro News Editor

The city approved a liquor license for WOW Café and Wing-ery last Wednesday, and admin-istrators and restaurant staff said they will be offering alcohol in about three weeks.

Located on the fi fth fl oor of Marvin Center, WOW specializes in chicken wings and grilled food. The restaurant opened in January

2007 with the intention of serving beer and wine, and applied for a liquor license last summer.

“In three to four weeks we’re going to start to get beers coming in,” said Jose Liriano, a WOW manager. He added the eatery plans to have draft beers as well as bottles.

Liriano said they may use bracelets to monitor who is older than 21, as well as placing a limit on how many beers can be or-

dered at a time.The University applied for

the license and is now working with Sodexho and WOW staff to coordinate the logistics of serving alcohol in the space. The applica-tion amended the current Univer-sity license to sell alcohol at Mar-vin Center.

Tracy Schario, a University spokesperson, said many of the

WOW Wingery to off er alcohol in several weeks


Student Association leaders are lobbying the District to offer students a discounted metro fare.

See TONIC, p. 10

Tonic bar opens for business with 10 beers on tap

Tony Taylor, GW's fi rst committed men's basketball recruit for the 2008-2009 season, led his county last year in total points scored and assists. Many say he has an extraordinary drive for his team to succeed.

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Sophomore Alyssa Steinmetz and members of the GW dance team, the First ladies, perform a hip-hop routine after the women's basketball game at the Smith Center Sunday night. Theteam will compete in the 2008 National College Dance Team Championships.

With the presidential primaryseason in full swing and ElectionDay growing closer, GW extendedits partnership with BattlegroundPoll, a bi-partisan national opinionand voter intention poll, through2009.

GW’s collaborators on the pollare Lake Research Partners, a Demo-cratic polling firm, and the TarranceGroup, a Republican polling firm.The University’s relationship withthe Battleground Poll began in 2004.

“It is a partnership that hasworked exceedingly well over thepast three years,” said Tracy Schario,a University spokesperson.

“GW is known as being the bestuniversity for the study of policyand politics and the poll reinforcesthat,” she said.

Christopher Arterton, deanof the Graduate School of PoliticalManagement, manages GW’s effortson the poll.

Arterton said Tarrance Grouptakes the administrative lead in thepoll, coming up with the questionsthat are then reviewed by Artertonand Lake Research Partners. TheTarrance group hires an outsidegroup to administer the poll and theresults are then analyzed by all three

involved parties.“Lending the GW name to

the Battleground Poll gives it some weight,” Arterton said. He also said he believes that GW’s partnership with the poll brings substantial at-tention to the University, pointing to Quinnipiac University which gained attention through its polling institute.

The Tarrance Group, whose cli-ents include Rudy Giuliani, analyzes the Republican data while Lake Re-search Partners, who worked with Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), analyze the Democratic data. Arterton provides his own analysis of the data for both parties.

“I am able … to give an inter-pretation that is presumably more objective or at least from an academ-ic standpoint,” Arterton said.

The Battleground Poll has been operating since 1991, 13 years before GW signed on. As part of the part-nership, Gelman Library holds the archives of all the previous polls.

“It has been inordinately ac-curate,” Arterton said of the Battle-ground Poll, which touts itself on its Web site as having predicted the results of the 1992 presidential elec-tion more precisely than any similar effort.

He added, “I think (the GW-Bat-tleground Poll) is one of several data points that will be looked at by politi-cal players (in the 2008 election).”

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The Luther W. Brady Art Gallerywill soon receive a gift of about 150original Andy Warhol photographs toadd to its collection.

The gift comes from the AndyWarhol Foundation for the VisualArts as part of the foundation’s 20thanniversary celebration. The worksthat will be given to GW, which in-clude about 150 original prints, arepart of a gift of 28,543 original Warholphotographs, worth more than $28

million dollars that is being dividedamong various college and universityart galleries.

The Warhol photographs arescheduled to arrive at the end of themonth, gallery employees said.

“It was an honor to be chosenby the foundation because they onlypicked 183 colleges and universitiesnationwide,” said Lenore Miller, chief curator at the Luther W. Brady Gal-lery, located in the School of Mediaand Public Affairs building.

Miller hopes Warhol Foundationphotographs, in addition to the re-cently established Francine Zorn Tra-chtenberg Photography Fund, aims tohelp bring more exhibits of photogra-

phy to GW and Foggy Bottom com-munity.

“I haven’t been to the gallery yet,but I probably will now. I'm sure a lotof students will go now. Everyoneknows Andy Warhol,” said MelanieBlair, a junior majoring in art history.

Warhol was a central figure inthe American pop art movement. Heachieved fame as a painter, photogra-pher, avant-garde filmmaker, authorand a public figure from the 1960s to1980s. His dying wish was to leave hislegacy for the advancement of the vi-sual arts. In accordance with Warhol'swishes, the Andy Warhol Foundationestablished itself in 1987, the year of his death.

The Brady gallery has a vision of planning an exhibit for the new Warhol photographs, Miller said. The gallery’s efforts are focused on pre-paring for an exhibit of Charles De-muthe, set to open on Jan. 16 and run until March 14.

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by Jennifer EastonSenior Staff Writer

GW sophomore Tobin VanOstern came to the rescue of anIowa voter who was snowed in 15minutes before its state caucus.

Van Ostern, who receivedthe man’s call while manning thephones with the Barack Obamapresidential campaign in Iowa,found a driver to swing by andpick the voter up.

“That’s how intense wewere,” Van Ostern said. “Wewanted to get every last personwe could.”

This attitude by Obama sup-porters contributed to the Demo-cratic presidential candidate’svictory in the Iowa caucus.

Van Ostern is the deputy di-rector of the national movementStudents For Barack Obama,which started as a Facebook group and has since become arecognized wing of the Obamacampaign. GW was one of 20founding chapters, but now theorganization has more than 700chapters nationwide.

Though he is a full-fledgedObama supporter now, it wasonly last summer that Van Osternwas an undecided Democrat.

“I ended up reading Ba-rack’s book and watched someof his speeches, and he reallyspoke to me,” Van Ostern said.“I personally felt like there wasa lot about him that I really likedand respected. That’s way back when, before anyone thought hehad a shot at all, so I was reallyinspired and wanted to do what-ever I could so that he could runfor the (Democratic) nominationand win.”

GW’s chapter of of the groupis working toward this goal forObama, and Van Ostern saidthey are doing so under the guid-ance of dedicated student lead-ers. Van Ostern is much moreinvolved with the national orga-nization than GW’s chapter, butsaid the GW group campaignedheavily prior to the January cau-cuses, calling voters in Iowa andNew Hampshire and canvassingin South Carolina on a trip to the

state. Meanwhile, Van Ostern was

in Iowa for the three weeks lead-ing up to the Jan. 3 caucus.

“While I like being able to work and manage things na-tionally, it’s very gratifying to be there (in Iowa), even just to call someone up knowing that person is actually going to go out and vote,” Van Ostern said. “It’s extremely rewarding, even though hours are crazy and work is hard.”

Menial campaign work, which includes going door-to-door and calling voters, has its rewarding moments, Van Ostern said. In collecting donations, he encountered a cash-strapped single mother that donated to Obama’s campaign.

“She said she’d taken it out of her child’s college fund,” Van Ostern said. “She said that she thought thebest thing shecould do for herchild’s futurewas to makesure that Barack won. That wasremarkable. Itblew me away.But that’s whatpeople see inBarack. It in-spires you towork harder.”

GW soph-omore KariPrimiano, whovolunteered forObama’s campaign in her home state of New Hampshire before the primary, said she similarly understands what it means to sacrifice in the name of a presi-dential candidate. Primiano willingly surrendered her home as a headquarters for Obama campaign volunteers and advis-ers.

“There were at least 20 peo-ple in and out of our house every day,” Primiano said. “My mom is one of the biggest, most active volunteers (for Barack Obama that) I know, so she handled it very well. She made dinner every night for people, so it was a lot of work, but she loved it.”

Though Primiano has been a long-time supporter of Obama, it was the activism of her mother that inspired her to get involved with the campaign.

“As I saw her becoming more and more active in the campaign,

it kind of inspired me to becomemore active in the campaign aswell,” Primiano said. “Plus, alot of things were based out of our house, so I basically told mymom I’d help out when I camehome.”

Like Van Ostern, she saidcampaign work can be tiring, butin the end it is rewarding, even inthe case of the New Hampshirepresidential primary where U.S.Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) wasvictorious.

“Phone calling and canvass-ing is a pain in the butt to do,”Primiano said. “Nobody likes do-ing it. You get really rude peoplewho just hang up the phone ortell you off, but in the end it’sactually very rewarding becauseyou get to talk one-on-one withthese voters. It was just really, re-ally good to see the support that(Obama) had.”

Junior AnthonyReyes also volun-teered in New Hamp-shire for Obama’scampaign. A NewYork City native,Reyes took the bus toNew Hampshire andspent a week recruit-ing voters prior tothe primary.

“The best partwas meeting all thevoters, talking about(Obama), sharing mypersonal views andseeing the commonpurpose we all have

and the common concerns thateveryone has,” Reyes said. “I’ma kid from N.Y.C. and I’ve foundthings in common with an olderperson who’s retired in NewHampshire. We have the sameconcerns about our country.”

Upon returning to New York,Reyes did not skip a beat with hisvolunteer work – he signed up tohelp with voter registration.

For students such as Reyes,Primiano and Van Ostern, sup-porting Obama’s campaign forthe presidency is all about theirfaith in his principles.

“I’m not looking for a specificposition that I can put on my ré-sumé,” Reyes said. “A lot of peo-ple in this country are volunteer-ing for this campaign because it’snot a regular political campaign.It’s a movement ... it’s really justpure, genuine concern for thecommunity.”

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by Amanda DickHatchet Staff Writer

The part-time faculty union finalized a contract with GW this month that will raise professor salaries and increase job security for part-time professors.

But professors said the union members are not finished negotiat-ing, and they will continue to push the University to provide addition-al benefits for adjuncts.

“It’s like we got the Constitu-tion, but we still need the Bill of Rights,” said Jim Levy, a music professor who served on the nego-tiating team.

He added, “Just like the United States, we needed to get a docu-ment on the table that everyone could agree on to get the thing started. In two and a half years we can build on this with a second contract.”

The contract, which is a result

of more than a year of negotiations, will increase the amount professors are paid per course by as much as 50 percent. The contract also places “significant restrictions on denying reappointment” and establishes an evaluation process for part-time professors.

Administrators said it is im-portant to negotiate with adjunct professors because they make up such a large percentage of the GW faculty.

“Part-time faculty teach 55 percent of sections offered at GW. The things we have agreed to do are very important in keeping GW competitive in attracting part time faculty,” said Donald Lehman, ex-ecutive vice president for academic affairs.

Many professors said they appreciate the benefits they will get with the new agreement, but they also said they believe there is still more that needs to be ac-complished, especially in terms of health care benefits.

“There are of course several areas where we fell short of our initial goals,” said Kathy Larsen, a part-time University Writing pro-fessor who served on the bargain-ing committee. “Health care is still

an issue for the majority of profes-sors paid by the course at GW, butwe have established a mechanismfor continued dialogue about sev-eral of these issues.”

To address further concerns of the part-time faculty, GW will es-tablish a joint committee to work on increasing the availability of office space and other benefits aswell as form a health care commit-tee by March, said Tracy Schario, aUniversity spokesperson.

Professors praised the contract for its formal nature that for thefirst time sets in stone the rightsand responsibilities of part-timeprofessors.

“Now we are able to say thatwe have a contract which spellsout, in black and white, manyaspects of our work that werepreviously only understood tobe the case due to departmental'traditions' or made through in-formal oral agreements betweenpart time teachers and their de-partment chairs,” said Jill Rob-bins, an education professorwho served on the bargainingcommittee.

She added, “Now these agree-ments have the force of law behindthem.”

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It defi nitely humanized him."““– Junior George Blair after he met University President

Steven Knapp at the London School of Economics.

It was as if two of my favorite televi-sion shows – “E.R.” and “The West Wing”– merged together and became reality lastweek. A candidate for president of theUnited States had been pronounced dead,and then miracu-lously was brought back to life nearly an instant later.

Did the New York junior senator ’s cam-paign dramatically change in the course of a few hours? No. The people of New Hampshire voted. It is that simple.

That’s what pri-mary elections used to be about – people voting for the best candidate or the one most likely to beat the opposing party’snominee. Today, the primary season hasbecome a circus, with much of the blame onthe mass media and the culture of punditrythat is ubiquitous on television, online andin print. The supplanting of straightforwardreporting by prediction-driven commentaryhas damaged the institution of voting.

Hillary Clinton’s victory in the GraniteState in wake of the media discounting herwin is emblematic of serious flaws in thesystem. One such problem is journalists’and pundits’ affinity for prognosticatingelection results. A domino effect can ensuewhereby undecided voters would be moreinclined to get on board with the presumed(or assumed) winner.

The top editors at The Politico, bothcareer political journalists, candidly dis-cussed how the national media has beenbotching its role of covering the presidentialcampaigns. “New Hampshire was jarringbecause it offered in highly concentratedform all the dysfunctions and maladies thathave periodically afflicted political journal-

ism for years.”Appropriately self-deprecating, editors

John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei explained:“Our own publication, Politico, did itspart in promoting several of these flimsystory lines. We used predictive languagein stories. We amplified certain trends andmuffled the caveat, which perhaps shouldbe printed with every story, like a surgeongeneral’s warning: ‘We don’t know whatwill happen until voters vote.’”

That’s the whole point to a free elec-tion, after all. Under the old paradigm,the people would vote, and then the newsmedia would report on the results. Today,this model has been inverted, and the bulk of the coverage has been the lead-up to theelections, replete with so-called political“analysis.” Everyone on television thesedays is an analyst or spe-cial contributor, but whatare they really contribut-ing? Usually, it is not afact-driven evaluation, butrather opinion, speculationand partisan rhetoric lack-ing in substance.

Much of the prediction-driven coverage relies onobsessing over the latestpoll. As the expressiongoes, the only poll thatmatters is the one on Election Day. Butprofessional public opinion surveys can bequite accurate and useful. Reporters andtelevision producers should be wary to relyon them too much for their coverage, andbe especially careful about putting them incontext.

Polls are a snapshot of the general moodof a very closed time period, with a knownmargin of statistical error as well as varioustypes of incalculable errors. They are clearlynot the end-all, be-all of forecasting electionresults – as New Hampshire demonstrated.

The morning of that state’s primary, afront-page analysis story by The Washington

Post asserted, “Obama has opened up a clear lead, and a second victory over Clinton would leave the New York senator ’s candi-dacy gasping for breath.” National political writer Dan Balz called her campaign “dis-combobulated” and implied that its strat-egy was out of touch with reality because a recent poll put Barack Obama ahead by 10 percentage points.

The Post’s media critic, Howard Kurtz, catalogued many other examples of report-ers jumping the gun on declaring Clinton’s campaign dead. He also said John McCain’s win in the Granite State disproved the assumptions about his viability. “And who, exactly, had been burying, writing off and otherwise performing last rites on the Arizona senator? It was, of course, America’s journalists.”

The political report-ers do have a predilec-tion for covering the horserace aspects of a campaign – who’s up, who’s down, who’s going to pull ahead. But the burden of responsibil-ity shouldn’t be entirely on their shoulders; the pundits on television and the campaign offi-cials the journalists talk

to are guilty as well. Everyone is interested in knowing the results ahead of time, and rightfully so, given how long the campaign season has lasted thus far.

There is a place for commentary and analysis during this process, but in mod-eration. The sheer volume of conjecture before and after each state’s primary con-test has chipped away at the foundation of the elections. Journalists and the political operatives that they bring to the American people must show greater restraint in their penchant for prognostication.

–The writer, a master’s candidate in politi-cal management, is The Hatchet’s senior editor.

Give the punditing a rest during primary seasonPredicting the unpredictable

Nudity not the only thing about “Hair”The article about nudity in “Hair”

(Dec. 10, p. 1) was propaganda. The writers clearly cared much more about shock appeal and controversy than real news. Anyone who saw the show understood there was meaning behind the nudity (which was very brief and dimly lit) and did not walk away from it with the pornographic view that the newspaper portrayed. It was extremely poor journalism and it put an unfortunate blemish on an otherwise successful and powerful play.

Colby Katz-LapidesJunior

Age doesn’t invalidate opinionSo for two straight issues I have listened

to people whine about the journalist, who is an opinion writer, who wrote a column about grad school (Dec. 3, p. 4). Guess what? Just because he is a freshman doesn’t mean his opinion on the choice to attend grad school is any less poignant. I have been out of school for four and a half years now and I think that undergrad juniors don't know what they are talking about, so for you to judge this kid on writing a piece on something he has yet to experience is very hypocritical.

Just because you are two years closer

than him to making that decision does not make your opinion more valid than his. Theoretically, by your logic, I should trump the undergrads who say that grad school is necessary because I have more “real world” work/professional experience.

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His job is to write about things he has an opinion on and the paper ’s job is to print it. If you think his opinion is invalid solely because he is a freshman, then I say call me when you graduate; maybe then you will have enough time in the real world to tell me what’s right.

Richard GendreauAlumnus

letters to the editor

editorial

Town Hall must facestudent life concerns

GW students will have the opportunity Tuesdayevening to ask questions of the University’s top offi-cials at a town hall meeting in the School of Media of Public Affairs building. While such forums occurredlast semester with representatives of the administra-tion and dealt with handling the numerous contro-versies that plagued campus, this week’s meetingwill hopefully provide a chance to tackle ongoingstudent concerns.

As the new semester begins, students must em-brace this opportunity to shape the goals and ques-tion the path of the University. While many hopedsuch a conversation with new University PresidentSteven Knapp would happen earlier in his term, stu-dents should take advantage of the opportunity now.The effectiveness of such a project, bringing togetherstudents and top administrators, is correlated to theinvolvement and feedback of students.

Board of Trustees Chairman W. Russell Ramsey,Board of Trustees Vice Chairman Nelson A. CarbonellJr. and Student Association President Nicole Cappwill join Knapp in hosting the event, providing theappropriate resources to address a wide range of stu-dent concerns. This page, looking not only at issuesof the last semester but also trends of the past years,believes the following issues warrant significant dis-cussion between students and administrators.

Dining frustrations have continued to increase,especially following the implementation of the J Streetmandatory spending requirement for freshmen andsophomores. Over the past years, high turnovers andgeneral student dissatisfaction have plagued both theUniversity and its food service partners. It is time tofoster cooperation to make a working solution, espe-cially utilizing the SA as a mediator between studentsand administrators. The SA has already made cleartheir commitment to improving dining and has asolid track record of accomplishing their stated goalsbut this speech is futile without change.

Student services and the jumble of red-tape war-rant an evaluation from the University. Two centralissues exemplify such frustration: study abroad andthe advising system. With GW’s expanding pres-ence across the globe in study abroad programs, itis necessary that our own study abroad office is upto par. According to the office’s Web site, there areonly two advisers who handle an increasing numberof students going abroad. Additionally, endeavorssuch as Colonial Central bring valuable financial re-sources together in one location, yet fail to addresseveryday student needs. A fair share of students donot utilize such services on a daily basis, leading back to the question of student spaces on campus beingmanaged effectively. The first part of tackling thisproblem is for students to redirect their complaints tothe parties represented at the forum.

Academic advising is both a central studentand academic service that must be strengthened andstreamlined for today’s students and the next genera-tion of Colonials. Advising for cornerstone programsof the University that attract countless students, suchas political science, must be functional and well-informed. Reforming the current advising situationwill strengthen not only an individual students’ ex-perience but also help in decreasing the bureaucracyand miscommunication for which GW is notorious.

This sampling of issues provides a foundationthat should continue to grow between further com-munication between students and administrators.This conversation represents the opportunity forpositive, visible changes to the central elements thatwill become the face of GW’s future.

Standing in solidarity withThe Hoya

Georgetown’s student newspaper of record, TheHoya, has battled to attain editorial and financial in-dependence from its university, with a recent pushin the last two years. The school has dashed the bud-ding journalists’ plans, most recently with a trade-mark claim that would prevent the paper from usingits name if it were to break free from the shackles of the administration.

An advisory board of university officials andstudents controls the budget of The Hoya, whichin recent years has produced surpluses upwards of $100,000. Administrators are quick to redistribute theprofits to other student media organizations, but arenot keen on letting Hoya editors freely spend theirown money. The relationship between the newspaperstaff and the administration has been tenuous at best,and entirely combative at worst. Such a situationbenefits neither the students attempting to learn thenews business at a school without a journalism majoror the Georgetown community at large.

Hampering the freedom of the student pressdoes a serious disservice to any university. Regardedas the “fourth estate” of government in the profes-sional world, newspapers fill a niche in society bykeeping the branches of government in check. Sucha watchdog role is necessary at institutions of highereducation, which have issues of crime, corruptionand finances to report on. This role is all the more es-sential at conservative-run schools, such as George-town, where the administration is more tight-lippedabout how it operates.

This page stands in solidarity with its fellowpractitioners of collegiate journalism in the nation’scapital. Our neighboring school should let its tal-ented and capable students report and opine on thenews how they see fit, and allow them to govern theirown finances. Georgetown administrators shouldstop stalling The Hoya’s pursuit of independencewith trademark claims and the micromanaging of thenewspaper’s affairs.

I found it slightly ironic (forgive my Alanis Morisette-esque misuse of the word) that Britney Spears had yet another breakdown the very same night of the Iowa caucuses. You see, Britney has become, unfortunately for our reputation, a sym-bol of our generation. Grouped together with the characters and media carica-tures of various Lindsay Lohans and Michael Vicks, we have been labeled a lost generation.

We’re wanderers, we are 20-somethings with no purpose, with a desire to explore, and too often end up at a destina-tion of sex, drugs and violence. Unfortunately for the prog-nosticating baby boomers and American elders of our time, though, that is not our final des-tination. In fact, we know we have goals and duties to each other; we are anything but the generation of misdirected souls.

We are not the youth of the 1960s and 1970s, celebrating our involvement in a drug culture. So much as that culture exists, we shy away from any stated involvement in it – we do not post photos on Facebook for fear our future employer may see. We are not the children of the 1980s, as we do not feel the need to move into adulthood too early, and we are not the grunge rock-ers of the 1990s explicitly trying to rebel against anything that no one can really define.

We are just too busy for all of that. Because of our volun-teering gigs, our internships

and our extracur-ricular activities we’ve reached a point where, and most professors can tell, we don’t do our readings, we research our papers the night they are

due and we singlehandedly pay the salaries of half of the world’s Starbucks employees. Yet, some-what paradoxically, ours is the generation of nothingness – or so we’ve been defined.

This generation tackles a lot of issues and sees itself as the means to bigger, and hopefully better, ends. Our candy-striping hours, though, aren’t simply a product of a greater calling. We know we are being watched by overzealous parents, admissions committees and potential human resource personnel. While there are numerous problems with the world as it stands today, we do not necessarily push ourselves against the current establish-ment by refusing to participate in the process in protest.

Instead, we grow up by working with non-governmental organizations and going on expe-ditions abroad to teach English. The obscene number of AIDS victims in sub-Saharan Africa and ongoing genocide in Darfur are not problems that are going away soon. Oddly, our genera-tion is investing our time trying

to address these problems now,while we’re young, and have notfully embraced establishmentcynicism, but while we groomourselves to join that establish-ment. After all, having to makemoney, support a family andvoting conservatively doesn’tstart until after 30.

We have the insight or if you prefer, naïveté, of a 22-year-old, but no desire to use old tools and actions to break down the system we live in. We refuse to try to break it down like youth before us, with a desire to fight against it with might and sheer force. We acciden-tally gave ourselves an extra ten years to work against this establishment, not by throwing stones at it and waiting for it to fall, but by placing our ownbricks in and around the walls.

A few weeks ago, the numberof people younger than 30 par-ticipating in the Iowa caucusesincreased by more than threefoldfrom the caucuses in 2004. InNew Hampshire, five days later,the youth again turned up inrecord-breaking numbers.

For years, political punditshave denied – more vehementlythan Roger Clemens denies thefindings of the Mitchell Report –

that the youth vote will matter,that we will even show up. Wehave started to prove themwrong, though, and my expec-tation is that this trend willcontinue. It is not just the factthat candidates are contactingus every other day, it’s thatwe’ve found our own way

to “rebel.” We aredefining ourselvesnot with excessivedrug use, not withPearl Jam, tattoosand piercing, butwith what we werealready given – avote and a voice.

Hats off to allof the 'get out thevote' campaignsby both the candi-dates themselvesand other organi-zations. But,mostof all, hats off tothe real izationby my peers inIowa and NewHampshire that

we have a way to try to fixthe mess of a world that wesee. We know we are going tohave deal with global warm-ing, with Iraqi refugees, withoverpriced life-saving drugsnot getting shipped overseas.We also know that BritneySpears is on TV, but we are notsettling.

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

Hatchet columnist.

Finding our voice through the voteReclaiming the ballot for change

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We are defin-ing ourselves not with exces-sive drug use, not with Pearl Jam, tattoos and piercing but with what we were already given – a vote and a voice.

The primary season has become a circus, with much of the blame on the mass media and the culture of punditry.


UMBC hires GW research leader Living in Bhutto's wake

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by Danielle MeisterHatchet Staff Writer

GW’s chief research offi cer Elliot Hir-shman will leave his position in July to be-come provost and senior vice president foracademic affairs at the University of Mary-

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tion.“The provost’s position at UMBC repre-

sents an exciting opportunity to contributeto the teaching, research and service mis-sions of a growing campus known for its in-novative programs,” Hirshman said.

Greenword and Associates, a national

search fi rm that was contracted by the 20-member provost search team at UMBC,nominated Hirshman for the provost posi-tion. The search team was composed of un-dergraduate students, graduate students,faculty and staff.

“My colleagues and I are delighted towelcome Dr. Hirshman to the UMBC com-munity,” said UMBC President FreemanHrabowski in a press release. “We are allvery impressed by his reputation as a fi nescholar, teacher and leader in both publicand private universities. He is an impor-tant addition to the university and to Mary-land.”

As GW’s fi rst chief research offi cer,Hirshman has worked with more than 90specialized research centers, institutes andevery school within the University. He hassponsored research expenditures of $143million per year, according to a press re-lease.

Hirshman said University President Ste-ven Knapp will likely be fi lling his position inthe near future because one of his chief goalsis enhancing research at the University.

“I anticipate that he will move quickly to recruit senior leadership to support and strengthen research at GW,” Hirshman said.

Also a psychology professor, Hirsh-man’s research focuses on the psychologi-

cal and biological bases of memory and cognition, as well as the relationships be-tween individual bio-logical variables and cognitive processes.

“Understanding these modular infl u-ences may ultimately lead to the develop-ment of drugs and other procedures that enhance cognitive

performance,” he said.Before coming to GW in 2002, Hirshman

chaired the department of psychology at the University of Colorado at Denver. He began his career at the University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill.

Elliot Hirshman leaves post as GW's chief re-search offi cer

GW F.E.E.D. to become student org

by Emily CahnHatchet Reporter

GW F.E.E.D., an initiative started in the fall dedicated to feeding D.C.’s homeless, is be-coming an offi cial student orga-nization this semester.

Despite the fi nancial hard-ships that plagued this initiative when it began in September, Student Association Sen. O.G. Oyiborhoro (CCAS-U) said he felt the initiative was successful enough to turn into a student organization.

The holiday canned food drive GW F.E.E.D. organized last semester collected more than 1,500 pounds of food for the homeless, Oyiborhoro said. He said he wants to continue to collect food for the homeless again in January by working to-gether with Starbucks.

“GW F.E.E.D. is for a bunch of students interested in com-munity service,” Oyiborhoro said.

Not only is GW F.E.E.D. go-ing to continue its efforts to feed the D.C. homeless community, but it will also include “Stop the Hate ‘08,” Oyiborhoro’s campaign to try to unify the student body and prevent acts or instances of racism on cam-pus. Oyiborhoro said that a Stop the Hate black and white poster campaign would be released at

the beginning of the spring se-mester.

“It will tell a story about uni-ty on campus and that is what I am trying to promote,” he said.

Additionally, Oyiborhoro said he is trying to get legisla-tion passed in the SA senate that would make GW F.E.E.D. the offi cial philanthropy initiative of the student life committee,

which Oyiborhoro also leads.“It is important for the

student life committee to be charged with heading an impor-tant philanthropy initiative at the beginning of the academic year,” Oyiborhoro wrote in the resolution. “This initiative gives senators as well as fellow Colo-nials the opportunity to indulge in community service.”

An offi cial philanthropy ini-tiative has never been created within an SA committee, said Sen. Katie Santo (CCAS-G), vice chair of the student life com-mittee. She said making GW F.E.E.D. the offi cial philanthro-py initiative of the committee is not only unfair to the members of the committee, but would also require more than a resolu-tion to make it possible.

“This process would require not a senate resolution but an amendment to the by-laws,” Santo said. “By requiring that all future student life committee members focus on a certain ini-tiative, regardless of whether or not they support it, is not only unfair to those members, but also fails to take into account the larger student body electing these representatives.”

The resolution will come before the SA senate at its next

by Matt LurrieHatchet Reporter

For many Americans, the as-sassination of Benazir Bhutto onlyhighlighted the instability of an-other country in the Middle East.But for GW’s Pakistani students,the situation hit much closer tohome.

Bhutto, the prominent oppo-sition leader and two-time primeminister of Pakistan, died duringa political rally on Dec. 27, ignitingriots in the country and sparkinginternational criticism of the gov-ernment's subsequent investiga-tion.

Behram Riar, who returned tohis home in Islamabad, Pakistan,for winter break, said “there is stillan aura of unrest and tension inthe air.”

“There is no predicting whatwill happen next,” Riar said. “Theassassination of Benazir Bhuttosymbolized the death of democ-racy in Pakistan ... We lost a greatdemocratic leader who fought forwhat she believed in until her lastdays.”

For Riar, the future of Pakistanis still in the air. Riar said he lookedto Bhutto and her Pakistani Peo-ple’s Party to help bring Pakistanout of the chaos. Now he is nowunsure is the PPP can regroup.

“Whether (the PPP) can bebrought back by her son or hus-band, only time will tell,” he said.“These have been very dark andtrying days for my country and Ipray to God Pakistan will have abrighter future.”

Sophomore Ahmed Muham-mad spent vacation in Sindh, aprovince of Karachi, and said vio-lence was rampant in his area.

“People were not safe on the

streets,” he said. “All gas sta-tions and grocery stores remainedclosed, and some people had no-where to buy food.”

Muhammad said he becamestranded at a friend’s house be-cause “it was not safe to be out… Everyone was just unleashingtheir anger and frustration on thecity.”

Sophomore Sassi Riar, presi-dent of the Pakistan Student Asso-ciation at GW, expressed his sad-ness for the spirit of the Pakistanipeople following Bhutto’s assas-sination.

“People have become pessi-mistic … especially the youth of Pakistan,” he said.

Pakistani students said thereis dissatisfaction with the currentpolitical structure of Pakistan, es-pecially the rule of President Per-vez Musharraf.

“Many Pakistanis do not likehow he has aligned himself withthe United States,” said senior Re-han Hussain, “as they think he istheir puppet and that he is puttingthe Pakistani people second.”

Though many have suggestedthat the Pakistani government’sclaims that extremist groups wereresponsible for the assassinationare contrived, not all studentswere quick to pass judgment.

“I wouldn’t blame (PakistaniPresident Pervez) Musharraf without any concrete proof,” saidEman Abbas, a junior.

Karl F. Inderfurth, an inter-national affairs professor and for-mer assistant secretary of state forSouth Asia, pointed to the post-poned Feb. 18 elections as hopefor progress in Pakistan.

Inderfurth said, “It can only behoped that the elections … will bea major step forward.”

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Students participate in a GW F.E.E.D. fundraiser Oct. 9. Thegroup is now an offi cially recognized student organization.

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The recent rate increase willnot have a major affect on GWstudents because they rarely trav-el during rush hours, said KyleBoyer, assistant vice president of community affairs for the SA.

“It is widely understood thatcollege students utilize transitsystems in off-peak hours,” saidBoyer, who is spearheading the

college discount project for theSA.

He added that college stu-dents contribute a great deal tooff-peak Metro traffi c, somethingthe city has said it would like toincrease.

Boyer said, “We believe thatD.C. region college students helpthat cause, and will do so in evengreater numbers should they begiven a discount.”

The Metro increase is expectedto raise $109 million which will go toward fi lling budget defi cit.

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ifLifeLeah Carliner – Life Editor ([email protected])Hilary Walke - Contributing EditorLaura Trainor - Contributing Editor

The National Football Leaguehas its fi rst Pro Bowl game.

January 14, 1951

The free user-generat-ed encyclopedia, Wiki-pedia, goes online.

January 15, 2001

The U.N. Security Coun-cil holds its fi rst session.

January 17, 1946THIS WEEK

IN HISTORY

A week to treasure

The secret behind the snow day

Scavenger hunt leads students to

glitzy week in

by Corey JacobsonHatchet Reporter

Freshman Kristen Van Nest was on a deadline for her research paper and she needed help. Trekking to Gelman Library to wait for an available librarian was too time-consuming, and she did not have AOL Instant Messenger to take advantage of the library’s Ask a Librarian service. So she did what any responsible student would do – she logged on to her Facebook account.

Librarians joined Facebook, a Web site originally created for college social networking, with the purpose of giving students an alternative way of seeking assis-tance. More than 20 GW librarians now have Facebook accounts.

One of those librarians is Tina Plottel, Van Nest’s University Writing 20 class librarian. Within an hour, Van Nest had a response from Plottel with all the informa-tion she needed without ever leav-ing her room.

“It was more convenient for me,” Van Nest said. “I definitely check Facebook more often than I do my e-mail.”

Signs reading, “your librarian is your friend” line the walls of Gelman Library, and an online sur-vey – posted on Gelman’s Web site – is being conducted to determine what role Facebook can play for students using library resources.

Last year, Plottel and fellow librarian Caroline Crouse noticed that despite assigning the UW-20 classes a personal librarian, stu-dents failed to maintain that con-nection after the course ended.

“There’s this amazing access for the students while they’re in UW-20, but afterwards it disap-pears,” Plottel said.

Plottel and Crouse said they believed they could make the library more accessible by tailor-ing to different technology such as AIM and now Facebook.

“We started it as a place for us to share information or have discussions,” Plottel said about the Web site. “But we’ve spent so much time working on our own pages. We’re still trying to improve it.”

Students with Facebook can search for a librarian and send them a message or a friend request and

Gelman librarians seek student friends by posting their Facebook profi les on fl iers in Gelman.

by Hilary WalkeContributing Editor

Seeing snow on the ground may be a good reason to stay in bed – but it also may not be reason enough to close the University. In fact, it takes more than the good graces of Mother Nature to close a day of school at GW – it takes approval from several University officials, including the executive vice president and treasurer.

“What we try to do is assess the situation about our cam-puses and the ability of people to get to and from our cam-puses,” said Lou Katz, the executive vice president. “It also depends on whether students are here or not.”

In general, snow days depend on means of transportation, Katz said. In other words, whether or not the school can rely on the teachers to get to class on time, if at all.

“If students are here, we typically do not allow the teach-ers to leave,” Katz said. “The institution is open and we expect our employees to get to campus.”

With about 40,000 faculty, staff, students and visitors on GW’s campus each day and only 3,000 parking spaces, most people use the Metro or buses, Katz said. Thus, if public transportation is running, so are the professors to teach their classes.

Katz said the staff does their best in preparing the campus for a snowstorm so the University can always be open.

To help make sound decisions, Katz and Donald Lehman, the executive vice president for academic affairs, has a policy that dictates closings. The policy gives a detailed explanation of snow day procedures and official steps taken after the deci-sion is made to shut down the University due to inclement weather.

First, the University telephone operators are notified that the campus will be closed. Next, an alert will appear on the campus advisories, in order to publicize the information.

When push comes to shove, the University remains open as much as possible, Katz said. Only unusually severe weath-er conditions will give the University a reason to shut down.

Lehman, Katz and University President Steven Knapp make the final decision as to whether classes will be canceled, delayed or if the University will be shut down.

“We look at the location of classes too,” Katz said. “Sometimes everything may be going perfectly here on Foggy Bottom, but we may cancel things at our Virginia locations, depending on the road conditions.”

Katz said every year there are a few times in which classes on certain campuses are canceled because of inclem-ent weather, although the University as a whole has not been shut down more than five times in his 17 years at GW.

We've got a secret surprise hiding under our covers this year.The Hatchet will bring you an anonymous columnist, Delilah, toreport on sex at GW.

Editor’s note: Names have been changed to protect the naughty.

One of my favorite things about going home for Christmasis getting to catch up with my Aunt “Gems”. Aunt Gemsalways likes to exchange stories about work, school, the latestSylvia Brown book and, of course, men.

As we sat on bar stools in my uncle’s kitchen and guzzleddown some more champagne and ate artichoke dip, we got onto the topic of what dating was like when my Aunt Gems wasa 20-something during the late 1950s, early 1960s.

As Aunt Gems describes it, “a girl never asked a guy outon a date unless it was the Sadie Hawkins dance, and the boy

always did the calling, and if he wanted to go steady with you he would give you his class ring or his letterman jacket. And a boy always made the first move.”

Listening to Aunt Gems recall her dating scene, I was relieved to be a 20-something in 2008 rather than 1958 – oth-erwise I would probably be sitting at home waiting for some handsome man to call – not writing a column about sex.

Times have certainly changed since Aunt Gems last wore a boy’s letterman jacket. Even when I was in high school, I did all the asking, whether it was to a homecoming dance, a movie or to a game of “feel me up” in my parent’s basement. For as long as I have had raging hormones, I have pursued men with the same fervor I put towards my academics, an internship or a really cute handbag.

My inclination to take the lead came out one Saturday night at GW when I laid my eyes on a tall blond frat boy who had his eyes decidedly fixed on a baseball game. As I came over and sat down next to him I casually introduced myself. Luckily for me he was not too attached to the TV screen to give me a second look. After a bit of chatting and a few drinks later, he asked me to look him up on Facebook.

A week or two passed and I finally asked Frat Boy to meet up with me. After a few cordial late night visits I was hoping for a hook up. One night he came over – our cover activity was mixed drinks with a side of “Borat” – but once my roommates settled into bed, he began to kiss me as we sat there on the couch with the TV still blaring in the background.

Just when it started to get hotter, I decided to do what I do best and take the lead. I began by whispering in his ear to follow me into my room and then pinned him against the wall and told him all the naughty things I was going to do to him.

A few moments after I had begun to give him some pleasure,Frat Boy suddenly insisted that he had to leave. Not makinganything of it, I kissed him goodbye and patted myself on theback for getting Frat Boy all hot and bothered.

Five days later I had heard nothing from Frat Boy, whichleft me feeling confused. I decided I needed to confront FratBoy myself with an instant message.

“Hey, Frat Boy, it's Delilah. So I noticed you haven’treturned my calls and texts, and it’s okay if you’re not inter-ested, but I think I deserve an explanation for why you havebeen avoiding me.”

Moments later Frat Boy responded, “Ugh, sorry about that,Delilah, it’s just that the last time we hung out, I felt like youwere tying to physically harm me or beat me up.”

I was confused, yet at the same time amused. Did FratBoy really think I was trying to beat him up? The last time Ichecked undoing a guy's belt buckle and telling him that hewas “gonna get it” was by no means grounds for accusing meof abuse!

After a few laughs and a bit of shock, I realized that FratBoy's accusations were not so much about assault as aboutintimidation.

When women take the lead or step out of traditional roles,men seem to shake in their boots (Hillary Clinton ring a bell?).Now that boys do not have to make the first move, I cannothelp but thinking that men find themselves a little frightenedby vibrators, Brazilian waxes and women who take the leadin the bedroom.

Aunt Gems' days of dating are long gone and Frat Boy’sunease is no reason for me to back down. Any man that thinksI am too ambitious is no man for me.

NAVIGATING GW’S SEX SCENE

"Forcefullyfeminine"

Under the covers

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by Marisa KabasHatchet Staff Writer

When three upperclassmen entered The World’sBiggest Treasure Hunt at the last minute, they cer-tainly did not expect to win.

The three students – seniors Nichole Carroll,Jess Sherwood and junior Courtney Barth – camein second place in the D.C. leg of the competition, which was sponsored by Disney to promote their new movie, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” After spending the afternoon following clues and running around the District, the teammates won a free week in New York that included tickets to the “National Treasure” premiere and a spot against other finalists in a New York City treasure hunt.

Carroll, Sherwood and Barth work at the House of the Temple, headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry – the final destination of the hunt, which took place on Dec. 4.

“Not enough people signed up to par-ticipate,” Carroll said. “My boss called me and said, ‘Get in a cab and get over to the Library of Congress!’”

Dressed in full work attire – including heels – the three dashed to sign up for the hunt. Not only were they signed up with only three team members instead of the recom-mend four, Carroll had just recently broken her leg.

“Everyone (else) was in running shoes,” Carroll said of the competition.

The hunt was fashioned after the premise of the movie, in which Nicolas Cage plays a character that uses historical artifacts to debunk a bogus story about his family.

Teams were running all over the city from Ford's Theatre to the Old Post Office, to the National Theatre, to Union Station, and even to places such as Kinko’s and Borders.

“We must have run 15 miles that day,” Barth said.

Despite all of the setbacks, the GW team came in secondplace in the D.C. competition. “We were the youngest peopleand the only girls,” Barth said.

Barth and her teammates went on to face the five otherregional winning teams in a New York treasure hunt on Dec. 14,

and pulled in Cheyenne Moore as their fourthteammate.

“They put us up for a week (in NewYork),” Barth said. “We stayed at the RoyaltonHotel in Midtown. It was so nice.”

The girls were also invited to the NewYork premiere of “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” which is the sequel to the 2004 movie“National Treasure.”

“The premiere was really cool,” Carrollsaid. “We got to see Nicolas Cage, Jon Voightand Helen Mirren.” She described Cage asbeing “really nice.”

The team also rubbed elbows with AbigailBreslin, best known as the young girl in “LittleMiss Sunshine” and stood in the presence of

hockey’s coveted Stanley Cup in Bryant Park.Although the team came in last place during the New York

treasure hunt, Barth still described the experience as, “amaz-ing.”

She said, “I don’t think I’ll ever have an experience like thatagain. It was really rare.”

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Senior Nichole Carroll, junior Courtney Barth, and seniors Jess Sherwood andCheyenne Moore pose with actor Nicolas Cage at the New York premiere ofNational Treasure: Book of Secrets.

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Students walk through University Yard on a snowy day last year.

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again. It was really rare.”

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Meenoch: My ideal first date would be going to a good con-cert, listening to good music and having fun.Ben: My ideal first date would be nothing too fancy – probably just dinner and a movie.

What do you look for in a person?Meenoch: I’m looking for a nice guy with a great sense of humor and really good taste in music.Ben: I don’t really care about spe-

cific details like height. I’m just looking for a nice looking girl – that sounds really superficial, I’m sorry. I’m looking for a girl who’s funny, easygoing and not too into the party scene.

What are your own interests?Meenoch: I like shopping, lis-tening to music and dancing. Ben: I’m interested in music; I play guitar. I’m also interested in politics.

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Before leaving campus for winter break, two GW sophomores met up atBangkok Joe’s in Georgetown for some neighborly introductions. Over Thaifood and bubble tea, Ben Hirschman and Meenoch Kim tried to find more

in common than just their residential hall.

I’d never been on a blind datebefore. I thought the date wentpretty well. We kind of alreadyknew each other because we actu-ally live right across the hall fromeach other. The dinner was good.She was really nice and fun to talk to. We talked mostly about life atGW.

We had dinner at Bangkok Joe’s. I had panang, which wasreally good. Then we went to Snapand got bubble tea, which waskind of fun – I’d never tried it

before. Then we just went home. Itwas a little awkward at the begin-ning, but after that there wasn’treally any awkwardness.

Considering the circumstancesof already kind of knowing her,I’d give the date a B+ or an A-. Ithought she was very nice andeasy to talk to, but it was kind of hard to connect. We didn’t reallyhave that much in common, so Idon’t necessarily see this goinganywhere romantically, but shewas very friendly.

Ben

I’d never been on a blinddate before, but my firstimpression of Ben was that heseemed like a nice guy. It turnsout he lives across the hallfrom me, so I got to know myneighbor.

Dinner was at Bangkok Joe's. It was fun. I had padThai. When I first met him it

was awkward, but it got better. We talked about random stuff.

I’d give the date a B+ or A-. We were able to carry a conversation, I had a good time talking to him and he seemed like a cool guy to hang out with. I probably wouldn’t go on another date with him.

Meenoch

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expect as timely a responseas they could on an e-mailcorrespondence, accordingto librarians who check theiraccounts regularly and stu-dents who have used theservice.

Freshman Joe Sangiorgio wrote in an e-mail that hav-ing Gelman on Facebook is“a lifesaver.” Sangiorgio,who worked in his countylibrary for four years whilein high school, said that itsimplifies the library’s com-

prehensive and often confus-ing online databases. Manyof the librarians have evenadded an Aladin Catalogsearch application to theirprofiles, which allows stu-dents to browse online arti-cles from the comforts of Facebook.

Last spring, after Plottelreminded her UW-20 classthat she was available onFacebook, only one studentrequested her friendship.Now, Plottel has 13 studentFacebook friends and antici-pates more. Other librarianshave been hesitant to com-municate with students onthe social networking site.

“My level of involvement with students on Facebook is minimal,” Bianca De Mattia, a GW librarian said.

De Mattia, who is also a recent GW graduate, uses two e-mail and two AIM accounts – one for work and one personal use – but hav-ing two Facebook accounts is not as easy.

“When I was a senior, some of my friends had a professor that friended them (on Facebook) and they were like, ‘that’s so weird’,” De Mattia said. “I still kind of associate Facebook with fun things rather than school activities.”

FACEBOOKfrom p. 7

by Prerna RaoHatchet Staff Writer

The D.C. sculpture of a man struggling to escape from the earth will finally break free from its home of 28 years.

The sculpture, entitled, “The Awakening,” will be moved from Hains Point near the National Mall to a location in Maryland near the Potomac River this March, said Amy Blank, the associate curator of The Sculpture Foundation, which owns “The Awakening,” by artist J. Seward Johnson Jr.

Some have interpreted the piece as an expression of anger with the pollution of the earth, or a benevolent figure rising to spread his joy. Blank said that Johnson wanted the piece to be ambiguous.

“He wants to encourage everyone who sees it to come up with their own interpre-tation for what it means; why this giant is there, why he is coming out of the earth, and what his message might be,” Blank said.

The statue cannot remain in its present location because Congress has reserved the site for a future presidential monument, Blank said.

The National Harbor, its future home, is a 300-acre business and recreational develop-

ment project on the Potomac River in PrinceGeorge’s County, Md.

Rocell Viniard, the director of marketingfor National Harbor, said that the sculpturewill serve as a symbolic piece of art at theNational Harbor.

“Because it’s called ‘The Awakening,’ weview the National Harbor as the awakeningof the Potomac River,” Viniard said of the17-foot sculpture.

The National Harbor is being developedby the Peterson Companies and shouldbe ready for the giant in March. MiltonV. Peterson, founder and chairman, wasinspired by the sculpture and purchased itfor $740,000, according to report in The NewYork Times article last.

“The river has so far been considered adivider of D.C., Maryland and Virginia andMr. Peterson's goal is to enliven the river, andget rid of the border between the three andunite the area,” Viniard said.

“The Awakening,” was installed in1980 as one of 500 other pieces in a city-wide art exhibition. In 1986 Congresspassed a law stating that only commemo-rative public art could remain perma-nently on National Park Service land inWashington.

Awakening to a new location

Historic D.C. sculpturemoves to Maryland

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"The Awakening," sold for $740,000, will move to the National Harbor in Maryland this March.

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– the last in 2006. University off-fi cials said they have no problem with an independent newspaper, just under another name. – the last in 2006.

“We have worked thought-fully with students leaders of The Hoya over the past couple of years on these issues,” said Todd Olson, vice president of student affairs at Georgetown. “We are support-ive of our students launching an independent newspaper, but the university will retain the name The Hoya.”

Hoya staff members said they have struggled editorially under the university’s control, and that it puts the paper in a diffi cult posi-tion.

“The biggest reason we want to go independent is journalistic principle,” Schank said. “The fact we’re owned by the institution on which we’re reporting is a confl ict of interest for a news source.”

Another need for indepen-dence, Schank said, is the univer-sity’s use of its profi ts – sometimes more than $100,000 – to fund other student media organizations. Though some of the money ac-cumulates from year to year, it is minimal and diffi cult for the paper to access through the school.

“Certainly having the profi ts – the hard-earned profi ts that our business offi ce works tirelessly to bring in – taken from us and given to our competition is ludicrous, quite frankly,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense from The Hoya’s point of view.”

Erica Co-hen-Derr, direc-tor of student programs and a non-voting member of the university’s me-dia board, which allocates money to campus publications, said the system is meant to help offset the fi nancial risks of student groups.

“The rationale is that all stu-dent organizations assume cer-tain risks and that these advisory boards help offset some of the risks of student organizations,” Cohen-Derr said. “A campus newspaper exists not just to make a profi t and sustain its own business; it exists to provide a service to the univer-sity.”

Several years ago the media board aided The Hoya when the paper had a shortage of funds, Cohen-Derr said.

“When that happened, had they been an independent organi-zation they might not have been able to cover their costs, so they

were running a really big defi cit, and at that point the media board covered their defi cit,” she said.

Staying profi table can be hard for a small business, and is a big reason why most college newspa-pers should not go independent, said Mike Hiestand, legal con-sultant to the Student Press Law Center.

“The problem with going in-dependent is that it’s honestly not feasible for probably most student media out there,” he said. “It real-ly does mean being independent, and getting that advertising base and all that sort of thing. It works great for some schools in some situations … but for other schools it’s just not an option.”

Hiestand added that if a uni-versity does not respect student press and the publication can han-dle the fi nancial independence, going independent is feasible.

“(Georgetown and The Hoya) don’t have such a great relation-ship and I think that it is kind of a bad marriage there,” he said. “And they are simply trying to put themselves in a position where they don’t have to deal with some of the baggage that seems to (come) with being so closely tied to Georgetown.”

Schank said that The Hoya would have to take out loans to go independent, but he does not an-ticipate any future fi nancial prob-lems.

Former University President Stephen Trachtenberg, who helped The Hatchet gain its independence

in 1993, said an independent student press is benefi cial to the university it reports on.

“By incor-porating inde-pendently, the student news-paper gets freedom and responsibility. ... They take the credit and as-sume the blame that comes with their work,” he

said. “This is good for the students and the university, which no lon-ger has to explain the newspaper to readers any more than it does the commercial, professional me-dia.”

Having an independent stu-dent newspaper is especially im-portant since Georgetown has no formal journalism program or ma-jor, Swan said. He added that The Hoya is also not currently allowed to print ads from condom manu-facturers or pro-choice lobbying groups.

For now, The Hoya has yet to formally protest the univer-sity’s trademark of the name. Staff members said they are consulting with legal experts to analyze how to retain ownership.


HOYAfrom p. 1

“Certainly having the

profi ts ... taken from us

and given to our compe-

tition is ludicrous, quite

frankly.”

ALEX SCHANKCHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HOYA

international development for GW.

Knapp said he was aware that institutionalizing the pro-cess requires funding, which is why his trip included many meetings with past as well as prospective donors.

Leaving GW on Jan. 3, Knapp traveled fi rst to Paris where he met with leaders from Sciences Po, one of the leading French institutions for social science, which has an educational relationship with GW.

“(The objective) is the strengthening and deepening of the connection with insti-tutions where GW students study,” Knapp said.

He added that it is impor-tant for a university president to meet face-to-face with the leaders of partnering institu-tions in order for the two insti-tutions to understand the part-

ner’s goals and resources. GW and Imperial College London are collaborating on medical research for poverty induced diseases, such as Hookworm disease, which Knapp said many other medical institu-tions neglect.

By meeting with GW’s ed-ucational partners, Knapp also said he has access to fi rst hand knowledge of GW students’ experiences abroad.

“It is important to get it in real time – fi rst hand and not just as it is reported to me,” he said.

Knapp’s other goals in-clude increasing the percentage of alumni who donate to the University from 11 to 20 per-cent and creating a computer system that could track alumni as they move and travel.

GW students abroad in England who attended the high tea at Charing Cross Ho-tel said they enjoyed meeting with Knapp, Jeronimo, Dean of the Elliott School of Interna-tional Affairs Michael Brown, and Laurel Price Jones, the vice president for advancement.

“It was just wonderful tomeet them in such an informalenvironment,” said KaterynaKharovska, a junior studyingabroad at the London Schoolof Economics.

Junior George Blair, who isalso studying abroad at LSE,said the gathering allowedhim to see a different side of Knapp.

“It defi nitely humanizedhim,” Blair said.

While in Paris, Knapp alsoheld a reception for GW alum-ni in France. The reception,which he said included morerecent graduates than antici-pated, was one of Knapp’s fa-vorite parts of the trip.

“The way people cametogether at that event – theywere so enthusiastic aboutdeveloping a stronger alumninetwork in Paris,” he said.

Knapp is currently plan-ning a trip to visit U.S. citieswith large concentrations of alumni this spring. On the trip,Knapp said he plans to contin-ue developing an internationalalumni community, but “a littlebit closer to home.”

Natalie Kates/Hatchet photographer

University President Steven Knapp met with students like junior Kateryna Kharovska for tea in England last week. Knapp met parents, alumni, donors and institutional partners in London and Paris during his week-long trip abroad.

KNAPPfrom p. 1

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They will have a daily “Happy Hour” from 5 to 7 p.m., consisting of half-price draft beers, $5 wine and 50-cent Buf-falo wings.

People underage will be permitted in the restaurant at all times, but will not be able to sit at the bar. Security guards working on the weekends will mark people’s hands at certain hours.

Pollok said patrons older than 21 can expect to get carded more than once.

A large group of students, alumni and local residents fi lled the bar on Saturday night to watch the New England Pa-triots play the Jacksonville Jag-uars on three fl at-screen televi-sions.

“I think GW needs a sig-nature bar, and this is it,” said Chris Sleet, an alumnus sitting at the bar with other GW grad-uates. “They haven’t had one in 20 years or more.”

After the game, largegroups of friends sat aroundtables drinking, and many of the staff who had fi nished theirshifts drank at the bar.

“This potentially might bethe coolest bar in the area, so weare out to support it all we can,”

said Yuri Van Mierlo, a gradu-ate of American, drinking withseveral of his friends. “I likethe location, the atmospherehere is perfect. It deserves morepeople, and I will continue tosupport it.”

The restaurant will be open until 1 a.m. Sunday to Thursday, and 2 a.m. Friday to Saturday. They will not serve pitchers of beer or have drink specials past 7 p.m., in accordance with the ABC order.

The ABC denied Tonic’s fi rst application for a license in the fall of 2006 due to a District law preventing retailers from serving alcohol in a residential neighborhood unless there is already another establishment with the same license. Last summer, the D.C. City Coun-cil amended the law, allowing Tonic to apply.

The University and several community groups criticized the second application, but the sole offi cial protestor was Mi-chael Kimmel – a lawyer repre-senting several dozen residents of the Letterman House and The Statesman. Kimmel unsuc-cessfully tried to lessen Tonic’s hours of operation. He said at a hearing in December that residents were concerned about loud activity in the area that might result from Tonic having a liquor license.

TONICfrom p. 1

specific details about future opera-tions are still being negotiated. They hope to attract more people to the area by serving alcohol.

“We hope students will better uti-lize that space, and I think (the liquor license) is a huge benefit,” she said.

Customers at the restaurant stand in line to order and waiters deliver food to the tables. University offi-cials have said in the past that WOW would become full service after re-ceiving a license, but Liriano said he has no immediate plans to change the system.

Student Association President Ni-cole Capp said she hopes the liquor license will bring more traffic to the Hippodrome, which also has a bowl-ing alley and pool tables.

“I don’t know what the initial vision for the Hippodrome was, but I’m sure it had something to do with community building and bringing students together to watch a football game,”Capp said. “And if you’re 21 or over you might want to have a beer while you’re watching the game.”

WINGERYfrom p. 1


Bartender Anthony Rivera, 27, pours from one of the 10 tapsat Tonic, which acquired its liquor license on Thursday.

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the Atlantic 10’s rookie of the year. Hobbs said if he had a burning desire to graduate, play on thenext level and be a better person, GW was theright place for Tony Taylor.

Taylor called Hobbs only hours later andwhile the seventh-year coach was on his wayback down to D.C., he had just nabbed his fi rstrecruit for the 2008-2009 season. A recruit whohas an insatiable thirst for winning and whose biggest weakness is his drive to win. Hobbswon over one of the best players in WestchesterCounty history.

With Taylor, Hobbs seems to have struck gold on many levels. GW got an 18-year-oldwho scored 54 points against Briarcliff ManorHigh School in a county-wide tournament a fewweeks ago and was livid because his team lost.

He also got a player that represents the startof a renewed effort in the GW men’s basketballprogram. Hobbs said with this class, he wants toreturn to fi nding the “diamonds in the rough,”as Mike Hall and Pops Mensah-Bonsu werewhen they arrived in Foggy Bottom. He is alsomaking a concerted effort to take a harder look at players’ behavior off the court.

“We’re trying to do a better job at evaluat-ing kids before we sign them,” Hobbs said. “Thecharacter things become so important."

• • •

Two nights after his team throttled Cardi-nal Spellman High School by 21 points, Coach Tim Philip started practice with a plea: if you areopen, shoot the damn basketball.

“Other people have to score, it’s not rock-et science,” Philip said, as Taylor contorted hisbody in stretches about fi ve feet away. “At theend of the day, Tony scored 21 points and wewon by 30. Now what does that tell you?”

It tells anyone who knows Taylor that hewas, for once, probably satisfi ed. Spellman, ahigh school located minutes from Yankee Sta-dium in the Bronx, played a box-and-one de-fense, which is designed to neutralize a team’sbest player. One, and sometimes two, playerswere assigned to trail Taylor as he tried to score.While two men shadowed the pesky guard, oneof his teammates was always left un-guarded.

“He tells guys, ‘shoot the ball! You’re open,’”Philip said. “We spend more time looking to gethim the ball when there are all of his teammatesopen. He’s that good.”

Taylor is not bothered. He fi nds ways topass, sometimes slinging a ball to the least ex-pected player.

“Everybody sees me as a target,” Taylorsaid. “They all want to go after me. They wantto know why I’m moving this way, or going thatway. They grab my shirt.”

Taylor has an innate understanding of thegame that basketball insiders logically call “bas-ketball IQ.” He fi nds open spots on the fl oor,shakes trailing defenders loose and sees oppor-tunities to create points.

This was never more evident than duringa Jan. 9 game against Blessed Sacrament HighSchool in Taylor’s home gym. In game time situ-ations, the most spectacular thing about Taylor

is how unspectacular he attempts to be. In thefi rst four minutes of the game, he had eight of histeam’s 10 points on a few three-pointers, a layupand some foul shots. He missed a dunk on a fastbreak, which led to Blessed Sacrament scoring.He looked at the ground and shook his head. Hedished it off often, letting a freshman center ma-neuver in the paint for some impressive layups.Without any fl ash, he had 28 points 12 assists andeight rebounds as his team won 86-67.

In this game, he did not fi nd the bench un-til late in the game. But sometimes, his drive tocome out on top is to his detriment. He will dowhat he has to do to win – sometimes with often-unrealistic expectations.

“If he takes 15 foul shots, he wants to make15,” Philip said. “If he takes 20 shots from thefl oor, he’ll want to make 20. I have to tell himafter games, no one is perfect. Michael Jordanshot 45 percent from the fi eld. He only made 18of 40.”

Philip, who said he admires Hobbs’ coach-ing, said a guard like Taylor makes everyone bet-

ter. Early on in his high school career, Taylor’s learning curve was nearly fl at. He played on the varsity team as a sophomore and made an imme-diate impact. His character, Philip said, helped right the chemistry of a program long mired in mediocrity. In Taylor’s junior year, he and Mel-quan Bolding, a University of Louisville recruit currently in prep school, helped break fi ve con-secutive seasons of 7-17 records.

“The minute he moved up (to varsity) he never came out of a game,” Philip said. “Unless he needed a breather, which doesn’t happen. Or he was in foul trouble, which he doesn’t get in.”

• • •

Through a sports fan’s osmosis, Taylor has followed GW over the past few years. He re-members the 27-1 season and seeing the dunks on ESPN. The name Pops Mensah-Bonsu rings a bell and Hobbs' success at the University of Con-necticut is impressive.

“They have made like three (NCAA) Tour-

naments, and I know about Hobbs at U-Conn.,”he recalled, wiping sweat from his face after afi nal set of sprints.

He also knows the Colonials are strugglingthis season. With redshirt sophomore Travis Kingbenched with a leg injury, the backcourt relies ona walk-on to aid senior Maureece Rice.

“I mean, it’s kind of disappointing, but Iknow that I’m going to be a factor next year,”Taylor said.

It is a bold prediction from a high schoolsenior who has been to Foggy Bottom once, butone Hobbs will not refute. During GW’s summersession, Taylor will work on his biggest weak-ness: his physique. While he is fast, quick andagile, Taylor is not strong.

But that weakness seems to be an after-thought to Hobbs.

“That is his only weakness to me,” Hobbssaid. “He can shoot the lights out. He’s quick,he’s fast. But the thing we love about him is thatit goes back to the character. What we like abouthim is that drive to win.”


RECRUITfrom p. 1

During downtime in practice at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, N.Y., Tony Taylor shoots free throws. His drive for perfection leads his coach to tell him that "...no one is perfect. Michael Jordan shot 45 percent from the fi eld."

by Alex ByersContributing Editor

The last time the GW wom-en’s basketball team invitedESPN to Smith Center to televise

a marquee match-up, the gamedid not turn out the way the Co-lonials had hoped, and they fellby 25 points to Rutgers Univer-sity. The game Sunday againstXavier was a different story.

No. 17 GW slid past the Mus-keteers 56-46 for their eighthstraight victory in what might beits last true test before the post-season. Sunday’s game was partof the NCAA’s attendance bol-stering promotion, called “Pack the House,” and 3,689 fans were

on hand to see the Colonialsknock off one of their toughestconference rivals.

“(It was a) hard-foughtgame,” GW coach Joe McKeownsaid. “Typical GW-Xavier game.They’ve been great match-upssince (Xavier came) into theleague. Today was really no dif-ferent.”

Junior Jessica Adair had 15points to lead the Colonials (13-3,

SPORTSJoanna Shapes – Sports Editor ([email protected])Alex Byers – Contributing Sports Editor ([email protected])

20 NUMBER CRUNCH–Points the Saint Louis men's basketball team

scored against GW Jan. 10. It was the fewest

points ever scored by a Division I basketball team

since the inception of the shot clock in 1985.

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Colonials top Xavier in A-10 opener

Ben Solomon/senior photo editor

Senior Whitney Allen stretches past Xavier sophomore Amber Harris (11) and another Musketeer.After the game McKeown said he thought Allen was one of his team's most consistent players.


Junior Jessica Adair (above left) had 15 points while senior Kim Beck (above right) had 12 points in the Colonials' 56-46 victory. Adair has scored in double digits in the past four games.

Aft er early struggles, Colonials seem ready for A-10

GW extends streak to eight

by Joanna ShapesSports Editor

Entering its Atlantic 10 seasonopener against Xavier, the No. 17 GWwomen’s basketball team knew the

ESPN2 cameras would give the team itsfinal chance before the A-10 tournamentto show the country who they have be-come over the last month.

After three disappointing lossesin November, a 25-point trouncing athome against then-No. 6/7 (AP, ESPN/USA Today) Rutgers University, atJames Madison by the same margin andagainst the University of Nevada, LasVegas, it was important for GW to provethat those losses were an early strayingfrom the path that was supposed to leadthem deep into March.

A 56-46 win over the Musketeers

Sunday evening capped off a complete turnaround that leaves the Colonials (13-3, 1-0 A-10) closer to where they thought they would be now – among the top teams in women’s college bas-ketball.

The Xavier victory featured most of what has allowed GW to bounce back after the shaky start: strong defense coupled with widespread scoring. Ju-nior Jessica Adair had 15 points, her fourth straight game in double digits, and senior Kim Beck has put up simi-lar statistics. Senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence, while scoring only nine against the

Musketeers, may be what sparked thetransformation.

Lawrence had a career-high 29points in a 66-65 overtime win againstthen-No. 12/11 Texas A&M, includinga three-pointer that tied the game withfour seconds remaining in regulation.Lawrence also had 18 points in a 68-66win at then-No. 18 Auburn. Coach JoeMcKeown said that those two games,along with the Xavier victory, haveshown how far his team has come sincethe Rutgers debacle.

“(I thought the) Texas A&M (game)kind of rectified the problems we had

been having,” he said. “I thought thatgame gave us a huge lift. Tonight wasmore of a carry-over, after going downto Auburn and winning there.”

The A-10, as a whole, is weakerthan the Colonials’ out-of-conferenceschedule, so the team may not have asmuch difficulty winning. While Templealways presents a tough match-up forGW, the Owls are having a down year,with a 7-10 record. Dayton could be theteam that gives the Colonials the big-gest challenge. The Flyers are 15-2 and

See XAVIER, p. 14

Wins over TexasA&M, Auburn get squad back on track

Adair leads squad with 15points

See COLONIALS, p. 14

Junior Rob Diggs had 20 points and 16 rebounds and the

Colonials put together a late-game run that cut the lead to

fi ve with a little more than fi ve minutes remaining but the

Bearcats pulled away in the fi nal minutes for their second win

of the season.

Longwood UniversityW, 63-54

After falling into a 13-point defi cit early in the game, the Colonials

came together for their fi rst victory in more than two weeks. Se-

nior Maureece Rice was suspended for breaking an unspecifi ed

rule and rumors circulated that Rice was leaving his squad. No

one affi liated with the program would comment on his situation.

Diggs had 18 points and junior Wynton Witherspoon added

15 points but the Colonials could not stop their opponents’

shooting attack. The Crimson Tide made 11 three-pointers

and shot 47.9 percent for the game.

at University of AlabamaL, 57-93

Saint LouisW, 49-20

The Billikens’ 20 points set a new Division I record for fewest

points scored in a game since the inception of the shot clock

in 1985. Sophomore Damian Hollis had 13 points and 10

rebounds in the Colonials’ Atlantic 10 opener.

Men's Winter Break RoundupThe men’s squad (4-6) continued a trend it established early in the season: undefeated at home, winless on the road.

–compiled by Joanna Shapes

Loyola Marymount UniversityW, 85-56

Junior Jessica Adair had 23 points, but the biggest story of the game was

the return of junior Antelia Parrish, who had not played since spraining her

ankle Nov. 23.

No. 12/11 TexasA&M University

W, 66-65 (OT)

Senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence had a career-high 29 points, including a three-

pointer that tied the game with 4.3 seconds remaining in regulation. Senior

Kim Beck also broke the 22-year-old program record for assists, recording

six in the game and 585 total.

Pepperdine UniversityW, 82-68

Adair was again the game’s high scorer, registering 25 points while Law-

rence had 14 points in an easy win.

at No. 18 Auburn UniversityW, 68-66

On the road for the fi rst time in almost a month, the Colonials came out

with force and led until midway through the second half. Junior Lisa Steele

swished a three-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining to lift GW.

Brown UniversityW, 98-22

The Colonials defeated the Bears by the largest margin of victory in program

history in GW’s fi nal out-of-conference game. Senior Whitney Allen had 16

points while Parrish went 5-for-5 from behind the arc for 15 points.

Women's Winter Break RoundupThe Colonials (12-3) dropped out of the AP rankings in early December after losing to then-No. 6/7 Rutgers, James Madison University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in less than two weeks. They have sinceworked their way back into the poll, currently ranked No. 17 in both the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls.


Junior Rob Diggs is blocked by Alabama's Se-nario Hillman during GW's 93-57 loss Dec. 28.


Senior Maureece Rice goes after a Saint Louis shooter while senior Dominic Green watches.


Senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence had 18 points against Texas A&M on Dec. 20.

at Binghamton UniversityL, 59-71

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have not lost since Nov. 10. Beck said her team does not overlook any opponent and that they will bring the same intensity to every game.

That intensity was clear against Xavier, as early in the contest se-nior Whitney Allen chased after a ball that was headed out of bounds and used both hands to toss the ball backwards onto the court before falling into a media table. Likewise, Adair went sailing into her coaches while going after a loose ball.

McKeown said he is glad that Beck understands the importance to taking every game seriously but that he is worried that some of her teammates may not.

If GW does come out to each game with the same intensity as against Texas A&M, Auburn and Xavier, the end result could be an undefeated conference slate, similar to the 2007 season, and a team that is a far cry from the one that was present in November.

1-0 Atlantic 10) offensively, and se-nior Kim Beck added 12 points on four three-pointers.

Adair’s 15 points came despite Xavier’s Ta’Shia Phillips, the 6-foot-6 center that guarded GW’s leading scorer for the majority of the game. Adair shot 4-for-10 from the fl oor, but also capitalized from the charity stripe, hitting seven of eight free throws.

“She’s a big body and she was very physical,” Adair said of Phil-lips. “I wasn’t worried about it. I’m a big body too and very physical, so

it was a great match-up and I did my job.”

GW hit the fl oor running against Xavier, leading by as many as 15 points in the game’s fi rst half, but the Musketeers responded in the second half and cut the lead to six with twelve minutes remaining.

The Colonials responded sharp-ly. Junior Jazmine Adair stuffed a shot from the heart of the Xavier squad, Amber Harris, and moved the ball down the court to Beck, who hit a three-pointer from the baseline and sparked a 15-2 Colonials run that put the game in GW’s hands for good.

“I thought we kept our poise in the second half when they made a run,” McKeown said. “When you’ve

got Kim Beck on the fl oor running the show, you feel confi dent that we’re going to handle the runs that Xavier made on us.”

McKeown recognized that his team still has some things to work on, pointing to the seven-plus points more per game that GW is allowing compared to last year.

“I’m not happy at all where we are (compared to) last year,” McKe-own said. “I thought we were a great team last year. That team took pride in every possession defensively. This team, right now, we’re still fi nding ourselves.”

GW next takes the fl oor Wednes-day at 7 p.m. at Rhode Island. The Rams dropped their fi rst conference game to Massachusetts, 91-53.

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