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Guilty plea in assault

by Katie RooneyMetro Editor

A former GW student plead-ed guilty in D.C. Superior Court last week to assault with a dan-gerous weapon for striking and kicking another student until he was unconscious outside of a lo-cal nightclub in October, court documents show.

Chad Dauman, a former ju-nior who spent one semester at GW as a transfer student from the State University of New York-Albany, entered into a plea agreement at his status hearing last Friday. He pleaded guilty to the felony charge, which carries a maximum of 10 years impris-onment, court documents said.

The plea bargain conditions recommend that he be sentenced to no more than 20 months in prison and provides convicted criminals in the District under 22 years of age the opportunity to clear the conviction off their record after release.

Dauman will be sentenced May 19, said the office of Chan-ning Phillips, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. By signing the plea bargain, Dauman waives his right to a jury trial and the right to appeal his conviction, court documents

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by Katie RooneyMetro Editor

GW filed its newly proposed Campus Plan with the city last week, initiating the approval process for the University’s development frame-work over the next 20 years.

Sherry Rutherford, GW’s chief of staff in the Office of Business and Operations, said last Thursday that the University filed the complete version of the 2006-2025 Campus Plan, which outlines developable spaces on campus and establishes conditions between GW and the community.

The University also filed a sepa-rate application to change campus zoning requirements to increase building height. She said the entire

approval process would take about 12 to 18 months.

The new Plan, which would re-place the current 2000-2009 Plan if approved by the city, identifies 18 sites within campus boundaries GW hopes to redevelop.

In the Plan GW proposes most-ly commercial development along Pennsylvania Avenue and Wash-ington Circle, as well as incorporat-ing ground-floor retail in University facilities redeveloped along I Street. Academic and residential develop-ment is proposed mostly along H and G streets, considered the core of campus, and F Street is left minimal-ly developed because it is considered the periphery of campus.

by Elizabeth KamensHatchet Staff Writer

While GW announced this month its plan to pursue new international investments, Uni-versity officials have not yielded to student requests to renounce any ties they may have with com-panies doing business in Sudan. Genocide in that African coun-try’s Darfur region has killed more than 200,000 people and left another two million displaced.

Last week, Yale University announced its divestment from some oil companies that do busi-ness in Sudan. Yale followed the lead of Stanford University, which earlier this year divested from companies believed to do business in Darfur such as Pet-roChina, ABB Ltd., Sinopec and Tatneft. Divestment tactics have been used by groups in the past to put pressure on the South African

Officials deflect divestment calls

Paul Goodman/Hatchet staff photographerSophomore Regis Koundjia goes up against La Salle’s Steven Smith during GW’s 77-65 win Wednesday night at the Smith Center. Koundjia had a career-high 13 points.

No. 6 GW puts down ExplorersAn inevitability of Wednes-

day night’s game was that one streak was going to end.

The GW men’s basketball team boasted a 14-game win-ning streak while La Salle was on a roll with seven straight wins. The No. 6 Colonials erased a four-point halftime deficit to top the Explorers 77-65. The win gives the Co-lonials (23-1, 13-0 Atlantic 10)

the nation’s longest winning streak and the longest streak in school history.

GW got a career-high 13 points from sophomore Regis Koundjia; and 12 apiece from sophomore Maureece Rice and junior Carl Elliott. The Explor-ers (17-8, 9-5 A-10) got 19 from Darnell Harris and 12 from All-American candidate Ste-ven Smith.

For complete coverage of the team, see p. 13.

n Student will go to jail for no more than 20 months after fight

Sam Sherraden/photo editorMichaela Grillo protects her face from the intense heat at the bonfire commemorating George Washington’s birthday in University Yard Wednesday night. “It’s really hot,” she said, “I’m afraid the flames are going to swing this way and burn my hair off.”

HAPPYBIRTHDAY

Courtesy GWGW’s Campus Plan maps development for 20 years. The plan’s vision for academic redevelopment on G Street would require the purchase of the GW Deli.

See DIVESTMENT, p. 11

See DAUMAN, p. 14

See PLAN, p. 3

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Oscar and Shoshana

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University Service

The $1,000 prize for outstanding university service was established by President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in memory of his parents.

The award is presented annually to a tenured member of the faculty to recognize exceptional service to The George Washington University. Service to be recognized may include active membership in the Faculty Senate; active membership on committees, including standing committees, special ad-hoc committees, or task forces; and other activities that directly involve institutional governance or the conduct of the University’s corporate affairs. In making nominations, please document such service as thoroughly as possible. Include the nominee’s vita only if it reflects such service.

A committee named by the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs will select the recipient. Faculty who make nominations should describe the qualities that make the nominee(s) worthy of the award. Individuals nominated in 2003, 2004, or 2005 will automatically be placed in nomination again this year; updates on the University service contributions of prior nominees from these years are welcome. Nominations may be made by letter to Dr. Donna Scarboro, Assistant Vice President for Special and International Programs, at 714 21st St., NW, by March 10, 2006. The prize will be awarded at the May commencement ceremony.

The finalized Joint Elections Committee, which was confirmed Tuesday night in the Marvin Center, set the date for the Student Association presidential election to be March 29 and 30.

The elections will give students an oppor-tunity to elect a new SA president, a new SA Senate, representatives to the Marvin Center Governing Board and the Program Board leadership.

The SA appointees to the JEC are freshman Alex Stegmaier, sophomore Ryan Sullivan and junior Liz Fox. The SA appointees will join MCGB appointee senior Timothy Ziese and PB appointee senior Katie Santo as mem-bers of the election oversight body.

On Tuesday night, the JEC members internally elected Fox as the chair of the com-mittee.

Also during Tuesday’s SA Senate meet-ing, SA President Audai Shakour announced that SA Sen. Andrew Salzman (GSEHD) will be his nominee for the fifth and final vacancy on the Student Court.

The nomination brought strong dissent among several SA senators who called for a Law School student to fill the vacancy. Salzman’s nomination will be referred to committee and could be voted on as early as next week by the full Senate.

–Andrew Ramonas

The Alpha Delta Pi sorority achieved an

overall grade point average of 3.42 this semes-ter, the highest of all Greek-letter groups on campus, according to the Student Activities Center Web site.

The overall Greek-letter organization GPA for the fall 2005 semester, including sororities and fraternities, was 3.21. The over-all undergraduate GPA was 3.25, according to SAC’s records.

Alpha Delta Pi Public Relations Chair Erin Antonio, a sophomore, said the sorority focuses on academic excellence.

“Alpha Delta Pi attributes the high GPA to their enhanced scholarship program,” Antonio said. “This encourages study hours and provides incentives to sisters to accumu-late high grades and avoid skipping classes.”

–Rony Rothken

Justin Roberts/Hatchet photographerSophomore Robert Ryan Sangster competes in a cherry pie-eating contest during the celebration of George Washington’s birthday in University Yard Wednesday night.

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Two propose new student government

by Brandon ButlerCampus News Editor

Two student leaders are calling for the creation of a new represen-tative body that would replace the Student Association Senate.

Junior Caitlin Bevin Doherty, who was running for SA president, has dropped out of the race and is working with sophomore SA Sen. Elliot Gillerman (ESIA-U) to effect change in the SA.

On Tuesday night, Gillerman told The Hatchet that he has been working with Doherty for the last month to “to permanently, once and for all, create an effective and efficient student government at GW.”

Doherty and Gillerman have a proposed a plan that would create a new body of similar size to the 30-member SA Senate but with different representatives. Doherty said the SA is in “disarray” and no longer serves students. She said she will no longer be pursuing the SA presidency and instead will be advocating for a new form of stu-dent representation.

The duo has begun to contact student organizations to discuss their plan. They said they believe if they can get the majority of stu-dents to sign a petition supporting the plan, the University’s Board of Trustees would hear them out.

Typically, the Board of Trustees does not intervene directly in stu-dent life issues; it also does not al-low most students to attend meet-ings. It is the only body with the

power to revoke the SA’s charter, which gives the Senate the power to allocate funding for student or-ganizations.

SA President Audai Shakour said Doherty and Gillerman are naïve about how to go about mak-ing change in the SA.

“The Board simply recognizes an SA charter and allocates money to the SA from the student fee,” Shakour said. “They could care less what the structure of the gov-ernment is.”

Some SA members have come out against the proposed plan, and University administrators said they would not support or oppose the plan at this point.

The new group would be made up of seats reserved for rep-resentatives from student organi-zations. Large student organiza-tions would have permanent seats in the body and smaller organiza-tions would collaborate with each other to choose joint representa-tives to the body.

The proposed plan would also create a new, independent financial oversight body that would allocate funding to student organizations. The body would be made up of students who apply to sit on it and are appointed by the University.

Gillerman said the plan would have no effect on the SA executive branch or Student Court and said they hope to have the body estab-lished by the end of the semester and fully in place by this fall.

“You can get new people in the SA, but after 30 years of trying and having nothing to show for it, it is clear the problem is the organiza-tion,” Gillerman said. “Instead of new people, create a new organi-zation.”

SA Senate veteran Ben Tra-

verse (CCAS-U), a senior, has been a senator for three years and last year ran for SA president. He said not only is the Doherty-Gillerman plan flawed, it is also unnecessary.

“I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to reform the SA, and we are addressing many of the is-sues Bevin and Elliot have brought up,” Traverse said.

Traverse said the SA has been working for students by creating a graduate student council, an aca-demic advising committee and a constitutional commission.

The Doherty-Gillerman plan to revamp the SA Senate is not a new idea. In 1999 SA President Phil Mei-sner announced he would be creat-ing a new student government un-der a self-written constitution he created after being impeached by the SA Senate.

A more successful attempt to overthrow the SA was accom-plished in 1970, when the Stu-dent Association’s charter was revoked by the Board of Trustees after a student petition and refer-endum to abolish the organiza-tion.

A proposed government that brought together students, fac-ulty and administrators was pro-posed but failed in the mid-1970s. In 1976, with an 85 percent ap-proval vote by the student body, the Board of Trustees created a new SA charter that is the base of the current SA structure.

Tim Miller, director of the Student Activities Center, said he has heard of the idea but is not taking a stance on it. Miller added that the Board of Trustees establishes an SA charter to cre-ate a student government at GW, but does not specify the structure of that government.

“Whatever student group is in place, they should be advocat-ing for students,” Miller said. “If

most students feel that’s not hap-pening then they should consider restructuring.” n

About 60 more rising se-niors utilized their squatter’s rights this year compared to last year, University Campus Housing Director Seth Wein-shel said Tuesday.

Weinshel said 390 current juniors have chosen to remain in their current rooms for their last year at GW instead of re-entering housing selection. Last year, 330 students chose to “squat” in their rooms, as the process is called. Weinshel said that, similar to last year, most students chose to squat in Ivory Tower.

Weinshel said rising seniors who have opted to enter the housing process should not be concerned about the amount of spots that will be filled in their

housing pool prior to selection, which starts Saturday. Since more seniors are squatting, it means fewer will be participat-ing in the selection process, he explained.

Fourth-year students have the option of selecting from Ivory Tower, which has 729 beds; 1959 E Street, which has 195 beds; and all singles on campus with kitchens and pri-vate baths, which are located in The Aston, 1959 E Street, Guth-ridge Hall, International House and Francis Scott Key Hall.

“We don’t yet know how it’s going to affect fourth-years’ selection,” Weinshel said. “It’s one of those things where it es-sentially becomes a wash.” n

– Katie Rooney

CLLC releases squatting numbers

Sam Sherraden/photo editorJunior Caitlin Bevin Doherty and sophomore Elliot Gillerman are calling for the creation of a new representative body that would re-place the Student Association Senate.

n Students optimistic but some say they’ll face challenges

PLANfrom p. 1

Sites included for redevelop-ment over the next 20 years in-clude the Warwick Building off Washington Circle, where GW would like to build a cancer cen-ter; the parking garage at 22nd and I streets, proposed for a sci-ence center; and the area on 22nd Street between H and I streets currently occupied by the Aca-demic Center, where GW wants to utilize space more efficiently to accommodate more academic

needs.Also, GW proposes to par-

tially accommodate housing needs by connecting Crawford Hall, Schenley Hall, The West End and Lafayette Hall by devel-oping the space behind each of those dorms. GW also plans on building up from the third floor terrace in the Marvin Center, Rutherford said.

GW is also considering some sort of academic redevelopment to Tompkins Hall, Rice Hall, Gel-man Library and a strip along G Street, requiring it to purchase GW Deli, Rutherford said.

The University will sepa-

rately file plans later this spring for mixed-use development on Square 54, across from the Fog-gy Bottom Metro, as well as for the proposed residence hall on F Street on the land acquired from a deal between GW and the School Without Walls. Ruther-ford said that since the Campus Plan will take at least a year to be approved, GW decided to file zoning applications for these projects separately.

She said, “we are ready to move forward with Square 54 and the School Without Walls project sooner rather than lat-er.” n

Last week, the University submitted an updated Campus Plan to the city intended to guide its develop-ment until 2025. GW’s proposal for a new Campus Plan recognizes the growing needs of the University while including concessions meant to please community members who traditionally oppose new development. Overall, the plan effectively anticipates future development needs in a viable roadmap for expansion. It utilizes – as the administration has framed it – a “grow up, not out” mentality. Even so, there are some troubling aspects to the plan that could adversely affect the appearance and atmosphere of a future GW. In general, the basic tenets of the Campus Plan aim to create better services, advanced academic facilities and improved residential life. These goals, however, could come at a significant price by making the campus less welcoming to its own population. For instance, the plan calls for the purchase of the GW Deli on G Street and presumably its eventual destruction in favor of a new building. Similarly, one of the campus’ most unique structures, the Academic Center, is slated to see major changes as the plan moves forward. When visitors and potential students come to cam-pus, they walk by and through townhouses, unique architecture and a variety of open – sometimes green – spaces amid the towering sprawl of downtown D.C. that surrounds GW. Often, students who at first aren’t comfortable with the notion of living in downtown D.C. feel comfortable at GW because it is so distinct from its surrounding blocks. As new developments are planned, it is essential that the character of the campus maintain a neighborhood feel. There should be a careful balance between a bur-geoning institution requiring commensurate facilities and the laid-back, welcoming feel of the campus. A stroll along G Street includes townhouses, the GW Deli, DJ’s Fastbreak, open space and unimposing academic buildings. The campus will obviously change sig-nificantly in the 20 years covered by the Campus Plan. That does not mean, however, that future GW students should have to walk to class in the shadows of towering structures. Rather, current students and future alumni, should return to campus and recognize at least some of what they experienced during their years in Foggy Bottom.

After three Hatchet inquiries and pressure from GW Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, University administrators continue to claim that they are unsure as to whether GW holds investments in the Sudan that may indirectly fund genocide in its western region of Darfur. The fact that administrators still claim ignorance about their own investments – regardless of whether the University would actually pursue a policy of divest-ment – seems like nothing more than an attempt to stall having to take a concrete stance on the issue. In December of last year, this page, while not explic-itly supporting divestment, called on campus Darfur activists to work diligently to bring the issue of divest-ment to the attention of the GW administration. They did just that. The administration’s response – as it was to The Hatchet – was extremely ambiguous. It is unclear whether divestment is the best option for GW or for the people of Darfur. Some, including our own President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, note that divestment has little effect other than reducing American influence in foreign countries. Others claim that choking off the Sudanese government from foreign investment will hinder its ability to continue genocidal practices. Whatever the case, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz could end the campus debate by taking a final stance on the issue. Most of his comments seem to allude to the fact that GW would not pursue divestment even if it finds that it is invested in compa-nies operating in the Sudan. If divestment is not even an option, then he should come out and say that, rather than alluding to “complexities” and other ambiguities that only serve to further draw out this process.

While the emergence of Karl Hobbs’ hot hoopsters this season might be changing things, traditionally GW has only really had one activity that brings its diverse student body, faculty and staff together: complaining about GW.

Day in and day out, from behind the doors of its dorm rooms, classrooms and offices, GW and its administrators are, almost as a matter of sport, subject to the protestations, sec-ond-guessing and general ire of their constituents. This, how-

ever, is not to say that The Hatchet editorial page, my past few columns or I myself (as my friends will attest) are innocent of taking pot shots at the University. While I try my best to give GW and its administrators the benefit of the doubt in eyebrow-raising situations, it’s hard not to leap to the canned “I-paid-$40,000-for-this?” rant when some-thing really goes wrong. Nor do I mean to say that the actions of the University and its administrators do not often warrant or sometimes need this biting criticism. Indeed, GW admin-istrators often seem to make simply boneheaded or malevolently ignorant decisions that fail to consider the inter-ests of present and/or future students, faculty and staff – choices that are obvi-ously bad for the University and for which they must be held accountable.

Those important caveats aside, far too many of the complaints – particu-larly those made by students – lobbed at the University and its administrators are insightful but either make unfair gener-alizations about what’s wrong at GW or could be easily corrected by making better use of generally underutilized, available resources. An excellent example of such a com-plaint can be found on the editorial page of last Thursday’s Hatchet, where senior Jaclyn Schiff astutely criticized the miss-ing academic rigor in GW’s classrooms and resulting depressing lack of intel-lectual curiosity among the University’s student body (“The George Washington Hotel,” Feb. 15, p. 4). While acknowl-edging that GW’s “ambitious, motivated and smart” students ultimately make the decision to place employer and intern-ship responsibilities ahead of academ-ics, Ms. Schiff ultimately puts this point aside, pointing to the administration’s implicit support of GW’s overwhelming pre-professional atmosphere and profes-sorial caving-in to student demands for “less work, more As” as the root causes of the University’s underwhelming aca-demic experience. While Ms. Schiff correctly identifies what I also think is a very real problem facing the University and seems to be in tune with the spirit of my underlying point, by inevitably turning her finger toward administrators and professors, she makes the same mistake many of us do when we complain about how the University is bumbling this or mis-handling that: she refrains from directly admonishing students for failing to see the opportunities and resources that

abound at GW. Although GW is no Harvard or Yale, with their seemingly limitless endowments and comparatively small undergraduate student bodies, there are plenty of richly fulfilling academic opportunities at GW available for stu-dents who are willing to spend the time organizing an independent study with a professor, filling out the applications necessary to secure University fellow-ships and grants, or simply doing all the reading for the seminar they’re taking with their other secretly intellectually curious colleagues. Tremendous assets, such as the University’s exceptional Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Resources, await students who are genuine in their desire to use their time at GW for serious scholarship or future academic development; they simply need to make the conscious decision to make those goals a priority. While some matters, such as how Square 54 will be used or how TAs and adjuncts are compensated, will require that students and alumni make demands and hold administrators’ feet to the fire, other problems require that students look into themselves and decide wheth-er they are willing to make the per-sonal changes necessary to ensure GWs continued success. At least in terms of academic quality, the University and its administrators have already provided many of the material resources neces-sary to change the culture. We, as stu-dents, now must decide whether we are willing to answer some of our own complaints.

–The writer, a senior majoring in political science, is a Hatchet columnist.

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Old complaints are no path to academic progress

Of all the stories printed in The Hatchet this year, one continues to stick out in my mind: “Georgetown rejects?”

(Sept. 6, p. 1). Though the article was printed an entire semester ago, I can’t get it out of my head. For those Colonials who don’t remember,

the news article told the treacherous tale of two former members of the GW community who – like two modern-day Benedict Arnolds – betrayed the buff and blue by transferring to Georgetown University. Naturally, this twosome had their rea-sons for this act of treason. One explained that her decision was based “solely on academics” while the other admitted that, “In the back of my mind, I think I always wanted to go to (Georgetown).” Forgive me if I seem crass, but those aren’t very good reasons. Apparently, these students don’t see The George Washington University the same way I do. In my eyes, GW isn’t just any university; it’s an exceptional university. Our school is not only an internationally renowned institution of higher learning, it’s also internationally recognized as the premier academic loca-tion for politically-minded young men and women who aspire to change the world.

Georgetown, on the other hand, is nothing more than an ivory tower sitting idly in a remote corner of this wonderful city. By contrast, our Ivory Tower sits only a short walk away from the White House and the National Mall. When Colonials choose to pursue internship opportunities at places such as the U.S. Congress, they don’t have to take a shut-tle to the nearest Metro stop. We simply walk to the first Metro stop in the District of Columbia, none other than the blue line’s GWU-Foggy Bottom stop. Make no mistake- there is a firm Colonial connec-tion to this powerful town. We are also firmly connected to this country’s past, present and future. Let’s not forget that GW was founded by an act of Congress in 1821. Today, our University hosts an open and vital public dialog on the direction of America. Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, comedian Jon Stewart, presidential can-didate John Kerry, vice presidential can-didate Jack Kemp, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Sen. Ted Kennedy are just few present-day movers and shakers to recently pay a visit to the Colonial community. In addition to facilitating an important conversation on current events, GW alumni and students are shaping America’s future. Our univer-sity is one of the top five contributors of Peace Corps volunteers, and campus lib-erals are looking forward to GW alumnus Mark Warner’s 2008 presidential bid.

So excuse me if I seem a little confused by this pair’s decision to join the Hoyas. I’m sure the two new Hoyas and their peers love to pretend that their school overshadows our incredible institution. But last time I checked, the Colonials dominate Georgetown in the NCAA bas-ketball polls. While we sit high at No. 6 in the nation, the Hoyas sit fatally close to the bottom rung of the top 25. As cute as their false sense of superiority is, some-body has to check ‘em – and check ‘em hard. I can’t think of anyone better suited to slap the Hoyas around the Beltway than our men’s basketball team. That’s why I’m leading a march to the gates of Georgetown to respectfully and peace-fully demand that those cowardly Hoyas come out of hiding to play a game. If you’re as tired of Georgetown’s attitude as I am, you should come too. Show your Colonial pride. Sing the GW Fight Song. Wear your favorite G-Dub shirt. And let’s get a game with those overconfident and overrated Hoyas. We will meet in Kogan Plaza on Saturday at 1 p.m. From there, we will march to Georgetown and demand that they play our sixth-ranked Colonials men’s basketball team next season. Be sure to bring all your friends! This is his-tory in the making. Let’s “Raise high the buff! Raise high the blue!”

–The writer is a junior double majoring in women’s studies and sociology.

Georgetown sucks, let’s prove it

LAMAR A.THORPE

Come clean on Darfur

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At this point, it’s obvious: GW is a very politically-minded school located in the heart of the nation’s capital. And yes, our nationally-decorated student paper pro-

vides more politi-cal insight than the “Washington Journal” to all our junior Carvilles and O’Reillys. But this being said, is it wrong of

me as a student (who is both a political science major and political participant) to say “enough!”? Call me old fashioned, but when I think of a student paper, I’m not look-ing for the latest spin of CNN. Students should be wondering, “Where’s the sex, social observations, D.C. scene and alto-gether humor?” We are taking ourselves much too seriously. It’s great to have articles that are truly newsworthy, but this should not be all our paper is made of. Perhaps our well-skilled writers should look to The Onion, an online humorous news source, for example. The Hatchet’s April Fools edition proves we can think outside the beltway box; where are these ideas year-round? The popularity of programs such as “The Daily Show” more than proves that humor can be not only acceptable, but preferred when facing even serious issues. This paper used to offer its “Chick and Dick” advice column; should we think that GW students are so skilled in their ways that playful tips about the opposite sex aren’t valuable (not that this student is in need ...)? Would a column every week that tells of a previous weekend’s exploits, triumphs and social disasters be too much for our “Crossfire”-loving minds? Forget writing about the national threat level; tell me instead about Fox News’ scare level. If we wanted to hear about what happened over the weekend on the West Bank, we could look to any of the 20 immediate news sources in this city; The Hatchet should be telling me what crazy stuff happened in a college townhouse. I find it hard to believe that a party with

100 people, two kegs and a foam machine didn’t yield even one newsworthy story. Send one of your reporters undercover in the Package Services line with only enough food and water to last 48 hours; do a ride-along into a classroom dis-turbance with LaRouche protesters; find out SJT’s favorite power-hour soundtrack. The possibilities are endless. Perhaps what we need is more par-ticipation from students who normally don’t write for The Hatchet; if so, this paper should embrace the idea. We all know tons of people with good stories and lots of things that can be researched and reported. It would take half of your reporters to figure out some of the crazi-ness my friend experienced with this girl last week, but I’ve gotta believe that it’d be a heck of a column. It couldn’t be too hard to think of articles that your female readers would want. What girl wouldn’t love a Cosmo-style section? Of course, some of your readers will be simply appalled by the idea of a more college-themed approach. Yet, in a society where our most serious political candi-dates make appearances on “The Daily Show” and “SNL,” it’s crazy to be so “adult” all the time. Come on, who would complain about a report on the upcom-ing miniskirt season and its implications for increased male tardiness to classes? And how excited could we be for the approaching Student Association elec-tions if we could get truly entertaining coverage? Certainly it’d be interesting to hear the candidates’ stances on issues such as Facebook relationship status, text-messaging entire conversations and yes, perhaps even platforms on some SA issues too. If the candidates can be engaged in dynamic ways, wouldn’t that be a better method to raise interest from the student body? The Hatchet is an extremely capable college paper. Now let’s take it to the next level by looking at the world with less obvious, but more amusing perspectives. There’s nothing wrong with having a little fun with, well, pretty much everything.

–The writer is a senior majoring in interna-tional affairs and political science.

Spice up The Hatchet

JEFFMNICH

I believe a new presidential electoral system is in order. We need something that rewards candidates who have bold ideas, while draw-ing more voters into the process as well.

Therefore, I recom-mend we emulate the French. Hear me out! The French have an excel-lent method by which to elect their president. It is a two-stage electoral

process. In the first part, candidates from all the country’s parties can run. Candidates who mobilize partisans with daring policy agendas will perform best here. Afterwards, during the second stage runoff, the first- and second-place finishers of the first round compete. Whoever achieves a majority vote wins. This requires the candidates to make themselves as palatable toward the center as possible. Consider the presidential election system we have today: Every state has a number of electors, equal to their amount of representa-tives and senators, who vote for the president of the United States. In most states, every elector goes to the candidate who achieves the most popular votes, regardless of his margin of victory. This means that presidential can-didates have little reason to campaign to the whole country. If partisan or personal loyalty makes victory certain in a state, a candidate can safely ignore it in favor of other states. Conversely, if a candidate will definitely lose in a state, then he won’t waste his time there. Only competitive “battleground states” see much activity. It also means that we have a smaller nation-al voter turnout. If a state will assuredly sup-port one candidate, why bother voting? Also, lack of vigorous campaigning in a state might contribute to voter apathy during an election. With the winner-take-all plurality system, candidates try to attract moderate voters, so to avoid turning people off, they emphasize their personalities more than their policies. This results in bland, visionless candidates who take those traits into the White House. Eliminating the Electoral College and implementing two-round, direct popular vote elections here would deliver many benefits. It would reward courageous candidates with striking ideas in the first stage, but it would

weed out dangerous fanatics in the second stage. It would allow smaller parties to achieve greater prominence than they could achieve in a winner-take-all elector paradigm. It would give candidates reason to campaign to every American. And it would give each voter a larger role in determining the outcome of the election. As a German friend also pointed out to me, “I don’t quite get it that in the U.S., votes for the Greens ... are all lost, even help a candidate from the right to get into office (see 2000) – a second turn of the elections would allow Green supporters to vote for the Democrat.” This is an important point. The major parties would have to give smaller parties reasons to side with them. This would force the Democrats and Republicans to take other parties, such as Greens and Libertarians, seriously. This would make more Americans feel as if they play an important role in the republican process. Many conservatives would object to the national scope of my reform plan. They’d correctly point out it would erode federalism. Because population centers – cities – would yield greater power, our executive branch might also shift to the left. Given the power of the presidency, this might produce a gov-ernment similarly inclined to governments in Europe. That would be an anathema to conservatives. To counteract the leftward effect, thereby placating conservatives, I suggest we repeal the 17th Amendment. Let the state legisla-tures elect senators again. Senators who don’t rely upon the people as an electoral base would be a lot more willing to challenge the president. Not only might the Senate be more conservative than the president, but they’d feel safer defying him since the people who put him in office wouldn’t be the same ones who put them in office. They wouldn’t have to worry as much about the president’s popu-larity. In addition, with the people electing both the House of Representatives and the presi-dent under my plan, we’d need more checks against the tyranny of the majority. Election of federal senators by state legislatures would constitute such a check. Though radical, this overhaul seems nec-essary.

–The writer is a senior majoring in political science.

Cut out Electoral College

JASONVINES

Thursday, February 23, 2006 NEWS6 The GW Hatchet

by Nathan GrossmanHatchet Reporter

A discovery made more than

halfway around the world is creating splashes at GW.

Professor James M. Clark, chair of the Department of Biological Sci-ences, was part of a team that dis-covered a fossil of the earliest-known ancestor of the famed Tyrannosaurus Rex during a dig in the Wucaiwan area of northwest China in 2002. The findings were reported in the journal Nature earlier this month.

The dinosaur, discovered by a lo-cal laborer working for Clark’s team, is estimated to be about 160 million years old, placing it in the late Juras-sic period.

“It’s a good 30 to 40 million years older than any other Tyrannosaur fossil,” said Clark, who has been teaching paleontology at GW since 1995.

The fossil, found in nearly pris-tine condition, is about three meters long – less than a third the size of its better-known descendent. Unlike any other members of the Tyran-

nosaur family, the dinosaur sports a crest of bone on its head that sci-entists think may have been brightly colored. Clark and his team named the dinosaur Guanlong Wuccai, which means “crowned dragon” in Chinese.

Because of the fossil’s primeval nature, Clark hopes that it will pro-vide clues into how the Tyrannosau-rus evolved.

He said, “(The fossil) is very primitive, and it gives us some very subtle clues about Tyrannosaur evo-lution. The thin layer of bone stick-ing out of its head gives us an idea of the ancestral condition of the Tyran-nosaur.”

Matt Carrano, a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian Institution, agreed that Clark’s find is of great importance to the field.

“It tells us that the Tyrannosaur was around a lot longer than previ-ously thought,” he said. “We’re get-ting closer and closer to discovering the original ancestor.”

Clark became involved in the

Prof. helps find fossil

Blair Blackman/Hatchet photographerDepartment of Biological Sciences Chair James Clark helped to discover the earliest-known ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex in 2002.

Admissions figures down

by Lauren Emmett Staff Writer

A slight decrease in the number of

freshman applications for the second year in a row does not have University officials worried.

Although not all of the applications have been processed, Kathryn Nap-per, director of Admissions, expects a 1.5 percent decrease in the number of applications compared to the number her office received a year ago.

She attributed the slight decrease in applications to the tendency of some students to not apply if they

don’t think they’ll gain admission to not apply.

“It’s not that significant enough to worry about,” Napper said. “We are admitting a much stronger class.”

As of Feb. 10, 19,012 prospective students had filed applications to GW. Of those, 1,635 were early decision ap-plicants, a decrease of about 45 early decision applications compared to a year ago. The 2006-07 school year can expect to see about 900 freshmen ad-mitted through early decision, Napper said.

Liquor Law Violation

2/17 – New Hall – 1:10 a.m. – case closedThe University Police Department was notified by a community facili-tator about a male subject passed out in the hallway of the seventh floor of the dormitory. The individual said he had been out with friends celebrating his birthday. He was transported to GW Hospital.

Referred to Student Judicial Services

2/16 – Thurston Hall – 2:45 a.m. – case closedUPD found a male resident on a floor in the dormitory who was not responding to verbal commands. The student said he had been out with friends. D.C. Fire and Emer-gency Services responded to the incident.

Referred to SJSThreats

2/13 – Rice Hall – case closedUPD was notified about written threats sent by an ex-employee who worked in GW’s Office of the President 13 years ago. The threats were directed to an employee who also no longer works for the Univer-sity.

Referred to U.S. Postal Service

Harassment

12/18 – off campus – case closedA male student who lives off cam-pus notified UPD on Feb. 13 about an ongoing case of harassing tele-phone calls he has been receiving in the past few months. He said he was also receiving harassing e-mails and instant messages.

No further action

–compiled by Robert Parker

CRIMELOG

See ADMISSIONS p. 14

See DINOSAUR, p. 14

n GW prof. helps locate Tyrannosaurus Rex ancestor

by Jake DiGregorio Hatchet Reporter

At 8:45 on Monday night, GW’s campus is just as one would expect it to be. But, a mere 15 minutes later, it is deso-late. Why are students board-ing themselves up? It can all be attributed to one show, or rather, one man: Jack Bauer. Since its inception five years ago, Fox’s experimental “real time” show, “24,” has gained both critical acclaim and a tre-mendous following consisting of members from a variety of demographics. The most loyal fans never miss a moment, in an almost religious showing of devotion. Students congregate around their televisions every week like clockwork to watch the nationalistic show in utter silence. Generally mild-man-nered students become formi-dable forces during this single hour, keeping silence by any means necessary in order to not miss a single line. It has become a veritable phenomenon, right here on campus. But why is a show – which has been criticized for glori-fying violence, unjustly profil-ing people of Middle Eastern descent, portraying women (particularly black women) as unstable and being overly con-servative – so popular among a diverse audience, especially at a school such as GW? “It’s like a visual adrena-line rush. It’s predictable in its unpredictability,” freshman Travis Ryan Helwig III said. “You keep coming back because you know that, with two min-utes left, something exciting is going to happen. You think to yourself, ‘Are they going to be able to surprise me more than they did last week?’” He jokingly added, “Every Monday night between nine

and 10, I’m proud to call myself a tempo-rary USA Patriot Act supporter. A vote for George W. Bush is a vote for Jack Bauer.” Much of its popularity among critics and viewers can be attributed to its uniqueness at each stage of development. To begin with, “24” is written in two stages. The fi rst half of the season is written, and is subsequently completed based on audience reaction as the show is airing. Howard Gordon, executive producer of the show, said in a recent news release from Fox, “You know, it used to scare the hell out of us … we don’t know what’s going to happen next episode.” “Literally, the first eight episodes of any specific season have taught us how to do the next eight and then again the next eight,” said Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Bauer, in the release. But it is not just the writing that makes the show unique. “The multiplicity and inten-sity of images presented at any one time are more adventur-ous than run-of-the-mill televi-sion,” said Kirk Larsen, director of GW’s Project G Street stu-dent film experiment. Project G Street members live in a for-mer fraternity house on G Street across from University Police headquarters. There is something more than general production quality that makes “24” one of the nation’s most popular primetime shows: Jack Bauer.

Protagonist Bauer has become a symbol of patriotism and masculinity. In a generation essentially devoid of “tough guys” such as John Wayne and Marlon Brando, the character played by Kiefer Sutherland has fi lled the testosterone void in America’s youth. “I’m attached to the char-acter. I love playing the char-acter and it’s something I care an awful lot about,” Sutherland said.

Bauer has even joined the illustrious ranks of Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris with the cre-ation of a random fact generator about him that can be visited at www.notrly.com/jackbauer.

In fact, the new term, “Bauer-ed,” is being used to describe anything that was beaten or destroyed, in honor of the char-acter who has killed 93 people over four days. It is no real surprise that a campus with such a strong nationalistic and political affin-ity would be attracted to the show. For one hour, one night a week, liberals and conserva-tives can bury their ideologi-cal hatchets and watch as the modern superhero, agent Jack Bauer, defends democracy and keeps the entire world safe at night. n “24” airs on Fox Monday nights at 9 p.m.

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Courtesy FoxJack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland on Fox’s “24,” has become an icon in primetime television.

Courtesy National Gallery of ArtMarcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” is one of the best-known works of dadaist art. Dadaists strove to reform the art world through their ironic sense of humor.

by Maura JudkisArts Editor

Dada is nothing. Quite literally, that is – the name for the art movement of the 1920s is a nonsense word in German that means “nothing at all.” And because of this, many of the visitors to the National Gallery’s exhibit “Dada,” which is the first major exploration of the movement, will think nothing of many of the absurd works, including a store-bought urinal mounted on a wall. The nothingness of this art movement grew out of one great big something: the First World War. Shocked by the violence and trauma of soldiers returning home, a group of artists in six cit-ies organized the Dada movement, which aimed to make a mockery of modernity. The show is organized according to these cities: Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York and Paris. War injuries are one of the most notable themes of the exhibit.

Dadaists were simultaneously fas-cinated and sickened by amputa-tions. So, body parts, or a lack thereof, are a subject of many works. One series of drawings, by Max Ernst, show a veteran horri-fied by his missing limbs, which are growing out of a nearby flow-erpot. Another Dadaist fixation was with machines, a theme they often worked into their war portraits. Otto Dix’s “Kriegskrüpple (Card-Playing War Cripples)” shows three veterans playing cards with the aid of a variety of machinated limbs – like a scarier Captain Hook and Edward Scissorhands com-bined. Many works have a robotic element, such as Sophie Tauber’s whimsical puppets, or Man Ray’s photo that combines a real, live woman with a department store mannequin, covering up one leg to create the illusion of amputation. But the aspect of art that Dadaism may be best known for introducing is readymades. Artist Marcel Duchamp established the

The art of doing nothing

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–FRANCIS PICABIA, 1920

Dada feels like nothingIt is nothing nothing nothingIt is like your hopes: nothingLike your paradise: nothingLike your idols: nothingLike your politicians: nothingLike your heroes: nothingLike your artists: nothingLike your religions: nothing

Ironic art movement revisited at National Gallery

notion that an artist does not need to be the exclusive creator of his work. He used store-bought materials – a shovel, a coat rack, a porcelain urinal – and entered them into art exhibits, to the hor-ror of critics and the delight of

See DADA, p. 10

ALL IN A DAY’S WORKJack Bauer saves the world, one day at a time

Jack Bauer played Russian Rou-lette with a fully-loaded gun and

won.

Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect Four in three moves.

Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.

Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.

If Jack Bauer misspells a word, your dictionary is wrong.

When Jack Bauer does push-ups he doesn’t push himself up; he

pushes the world down.

Finding Nemo would have been vastly more exciting had Jack Bauer been looking for him.

If everyone on “24” followed Jack Bauer’s instructions, it would be

called “12.”

For Show-and-Tell in kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist.

SOURCE: WWW.NOTRLY.COM/JACKBAUER

LITTLE-KNOWN “FACTS” ABOUT JACK BAUER

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Courtesy FoxJosh Dean plays a recent grad moving into his parents’ basement.

by Macy Jenkins Hatchet Staff Writer

Here’s the truth about Fox’s new sitcom “Free Ride”: the commercials for the show are pretty funny, but that’s about it. “Free Ride” follows recent college graduate Nate Stahlings (newcomer Josh Dean) as he makes the transition from University of California-Santa Barbara back to small-town Missouri life when he decides to move back in with his parents. Moments after arriving home, Nate fi nds that his parents are in serious marriage therapy, his room has been turned into a gym and an air mattress on the garage fl oor is his new home. Nate runs into his pretty for-mer high school classmate Amber Danwood (Erin Cahill), now a bank teller, and soon thinks that he’s found “the one.” Much to his dis-

may, when he finally gets up the nerve to ask her out, she replies, “I’m engaged.” Nate’s parents (played by Loretta Fox and Allan Havey) are messed up, sexually frustrated, a little too open and are reminiscent of “Happy Family’s” parental duo John Laroqutte and Christine Baranski, but funnier, more attractive and more believable. Television is a confusing thing – some great shows get cancelled and some shows (such as “The Bachelor,” which is in its eighth season) stay on the air season after season, making viewers ask, “When will it end?” “Free Ride” may be a surprise hit and gain the fans of the fallen “Arrested Development,” but it’s not likely. Can theater actor Josh Dean handle the small screen and imminent small ratings? So far, his acting is okay, but pretty soon Dean will be hosting “Saturday Night Live” and pull that SNL Jason Bateman (“Arrested Development”) line, “I’m from that Fox show …

Pass on this ‘Free Ride’

TVREVIEW

See RIDE, p.10

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This week brought me back to a number of my favorite bars in D.C., but it also took me to Café Saint-Ex, which has offi-cially been placed on my ever growing list of bars I vow to return to before the looming graduation date of May 21. Located a few short blocks from the U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Metro Stop, Café Saint-Ex is a two-story bar, and if you get there early enough, it’s a restaurant too. So when I walked through the beautiful curved entrance of Café Saint-Ex on a blustery Saturday eve-ning, I was surprised that the first thing I saw were people finishing dinner at nice tables on the periphery of the bar. The happy food consumers were surrounded by equally happy beverage consumers. We made the executive decision to check out the downstairs lounge, Gate-54. In our descent to this portion of the bar, the medium rare steaks and organic greens made way to gin and tonics and cold pints of Stella Artois.

As a self-proclaimed sign (ahem) collector, I immediately fell in love with the décor of Gate-54 Lounge. From French street signs to gas station adver-tisements to plaques from cruise ships and commercial airlines, the collection of signs from around the world that hung with precision on the bar’s walls brought a smile to my face. But if street signs aren’t quite your style, maybe the old Fellini movie posters are more up your alley. If your vision is stimulated only by moving pictures, Gate-54 has that too. Old-school VH1 was on and a DJ starts spinning every night of the week at 10 p.m. With a huge variety of DJs coming to spin every week, it’s a good thing the lounge has the best sound system I have expe-rienced in a long time. Since your eyes and ears should be pleased almost instan-taneously, be patient if you have to wait for a drink at the bar or if the older men standing next to you steal the table where you and your posse were hoping to sit. Even though we arrived to Café Saint-Ex before 10 p.m., the bar was already packed with a truly eclectic mix of people

enjoying their Saturday night. If you’re looking to do something different, the second Wednesday of every month at Gate-54 boasts “iPod Jukebox Night” where anyone can be a DJ: all you need is a little cre-ativity, a lot of confidence and a well-organized iPod (or similar MP3 player). Once you do make it to the bar, expect to be carded before placing your order. Rail drinks will set you back $5.50 whereas a bottle of domestic beer will cost you $3.50. My Jack and ginger ale was perfectly mixed, and strong enough that I was willing to order another one before leaving to head down the street to DC9 to catch Exit Clov. For more information about Café Saint-Ex and Gate-54, including information about upcoming DJs and iPod Jukebox nights, check out the Web site at: www.saint-ex.com/home.html.

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Oscar and Shoshana

TRACHTENBERG PRIZE FOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE

The Office of Academic Affairs

invites nominations from faculty for the

Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize

for

University Service

The $1,000 prize for outstanding university service was established by President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in memory of his parents.

The award is presented annually to a tenured member of the faculty to recognize exceptional service to The George Washington University. Service to be recognized may include active membership in the Faculty Senate; active membership on committees, including standing committees, special ad-hoc committees, or task forces; and other activities that directly involve institutional governance or the conduct of the University’s corporate affairs. In making nominations, please document such service as thoroughly as possible. Include the nominee’s vita only if it reflects such service.

A committee named by the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs will select the recipient. Faculty who make nominations should describe the qualities that make the nominee(s) worthy of the award. Individuals nominated in 2003, 2004, or 2005 will automatically be placed in nomination again this year; updates on the University service contributions of prior nominees from these years are welcome. Nominations may be made by letter to Dr. Donna Scarboro, Assistant Vice President for Special and International Programs, at 714 21st St., NW, by March 10, 2006. The prize will be awarded at the May commencement ceremony.

Courtesy FoxBret Harrison gets chewed out by his TV boss, played by Philip Baker Hall, in Fox’s new sitcom “The Loop.”

by Kate Niswander Hatchet Reporter

I’ll admit I’ve been disappointed with Fox’s treatment of its viewers this season, from the abrupt cancellation of the unsolved mystery-drama “Reunion” to the neglect of the brilliant and underappreciated “Arrested Development.” But, as always, spring brings opportunities for a fresh crop of shows that may potentially offer redemption. A few words of advice for those awaiting this coming season: don’t get your hopes up. “The Loop,” Fox’s latest sitcom, about a 23-year-old living and working in Chicago, is supposed to document a young man’s journey into adulthood. College graduate Sam (Bret Harrison, “Grounded For Life”) is the youngest executive at a major airline. His success at the offi ce, however, is hindered by his less-than-rewarding home life, thanks to living with slacker brother Sully

(a one-note Eric Christian Olsen of “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd”), stereotypical blonde and bartending ditz Lizzy (Sarah Mason), and longtime college pal and crush Piper (Amanda Loncar). After the first 15 minutes, it becomes obvious that Sam’s inter-nal battle to either “work hard” or “play hard” is won by the latter: his behavior at the office strays so far from reality that it becomes cringe-worthy. In one particular scene, he attempts to make a business pre-sentation while hung over, shirtless, and tattooed inappropriately with Sharpie markers. Perhaps this is the writers’ attempt to satirize corpo-rate America, but Sam’s behavior comes off as more of an insult, offensive not only to the audience (I barely cracked a smile the whole half hour) but to business execu-tives everywhere. The show also serves as an embarrassment to its veteran actors. Mimi Rogers (“The Door

in the Floor”) plays Sam’s adulter-ous co-worker Meryl, whose lines range from inappropriate to taste-less, while Philip Baker Hall, often seen playing characters of great authority on shows such as “The West Wing” and “The Practice,” is reduced to making unfortunate gay-themed comments as Sam’s boss, Russ. Hoping to eventually act as a lead-in to Fox’s still-successful junior drama “The OC,” “The Loop” can admirably be compared to Fox’s 2005 short-lived comedy “Life On A Stick” (Already forgotten it? So has everyone else). With so much potential to create new, innovative shows, it goes without saying that Fox would benefi t greatly from getting off of the standard sitcom “loop” and taking more risks; maybe such creativity would win the network the respect that it’s lacking. n “The Loop” premieres Wednesday, March 15 at 9:30 p.m. on Fox.

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$10 - Nothing is sacred to student theater group Forbidden Planet Productions – not even the Bible. They will be performing “The Complete Word of God (Abridged),” which parodies the good book. Have a religious experience this weekend with Forbidden Planet at Lisner Downstage Thursday at 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. for $5. GWorld is not accepted.

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irony-seeking Dadaists across the world. Three of Duchamp’s most famous works are exhibited in the show: “Fountain,” the aforementioned urinal, which was turned upside down and signed “R. Mutt” by the artist; “Bicycle Wheel,” a wheel mounted on a kitchen stool; and “L.H.O.O.Q.,” a post card of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” on which Duchamp penciled in a beard and mous-

tache. When pronounced in French, the letters are a pun on the phrase “Elle a chaud au cul,” which loosely translates to “She has hot pants.” This is where the typical chorus of dissent comes in: “I could go to the Home Depot and buy a shovel or a coat rack, too. How come they get to be in a museum for it?” Dadaists would probably concur. Critics called their work “anti-art,” and the artists often agreed. They took plea-sure in blurring the boundary between art and regular society, incorporating newspaper clippings, discarded food wrappers and parts of machinery into

their work. Because of this, the artists did not place as much value on the originality of artwork, which is detri-mental to the show. Many of the works exhibited are the fifth or sixth version of the original piece, especially the more famous works. And “Fountain,” which is undeniably the centerpiece work of the movement, is hung awkwardly: in the middle of a doorway, so high on a wall that many of the smaller-statured in attendance didn’t even notice it. But, hey, maybe Duchamp would have want-ed it that way, for irony’s sake. n Dada will be at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building until May 14.

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yank them off the air midseason, making us watch new showsl ike “The Loop” and “Free Ride.” If you’re looking for something to watch on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. because you just can’t take anymore of that award-winning “Housewives” or that highly-rated “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” then check out “Free Ride,” Sunday nights on Fox. Or, you could get your fi ll by seeing that 60-second teaser for the show fi ve times during the breaks between “American Idol.” n “Free Ride” will have its season premiere on Fox on March 1 at 9:30 p.m.

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government, which practiced seg-regationist Apartheid during the latter half of the 20th century.

Members of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur have been asking the University to act simi-larly to Yale and Stanford, and re-fuse to invest in companies with ties to Sudan.

GW announced earlier this month that due to a 12.2 increase in the size of its endowment this year, more money will be put to-ward investments. But Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz declined to release infor-mation on specific companies in which the University has financial investments. He said instead of looking at individual performanc-es of companies, he looks at overall

strategies. When asked if GW is invest-

ing in companies that do business in Sudan, Katz said, “I can’t say if we are or are not. It is not that simple.”

Katz said it is unlikely GW will take a stance against supporting such companies when it makes its new investments this year.

“There are bad things going on in a lot of places in the world,” Katz added. “We believe in being a responsible corporate citizen, but it is not as simple as saying we will divest.”

GW’s endowment grew last fiscal year by 12.2 percent to a re-cord-high of $823 million. The Uni-versity takes a percentage of the endowment, called the yield, to be used to fund University programs. Last year’s yield was 4.2 percent. The Board of Trustees approved a plan that would allow the Uni-versity to take out 5 percent of the

endowment in the 2007 fiscal year, which starts July 1. Katz said that money will be used for fundrais-ing efforts and new investment strategies.

STAND has advocated for the University to divest in companies with holdings in Sudan since Sep-tember, to no avail. Katz said that if GW agreed to STAND’s request, it would set a precedent and make it hard not to yield to other calls for divestment.

Justin Zorn, policy chair for STAND, said GW should draw the line at Darfur.

“Investing in a genocidal gov-ernment is bad ethics and bad eco-nomics,” said Zorn, a junior.

STAND has taken several ap-proaches to informing University administrators and the student body about the implications of in-vesting in the Sudan. Representa-tives from STAND presented Uni-versity Chief Information Officer

Donald Lindsey with “an exhaus-tive proposal that included how-to instructions for every step of the divestment process,” Zorn said.

Lindsey deferred comment on the issue to Katz. In December, he told The Hatchet that it would be “very difficult for us to develop any type of specific social respon-sibility investment policy.” He said in December that because GW’s investment work is outsourced to private finance companies, he is unsure if GW invests in business-es with ties to Darfur. University President Stephen Joel Trachten-berg told The Hatchet in October

that he is also unsure if GW invests in companies with ties to the re-gion.

Katz said the University will increase the amount of its interna-tional investments and decrease its domestic investments this year. He said there is more to managing investments than just agreeing to avoid putting money into a par-ticular company or country.

“The University does not have exact direct investment goals; you have a strategy of investing,” Katz said. “It’s more complex than just buying a stock.” n

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Maria Tyler, a former Foggy Bottom Advisory Neighborhood commissioner and community activist, died last week of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Tyler – an immigrant born in Kaunas, Lithuania – served on the Foggy Bottom’s ANC, a local group that makes zoning recom-mendations, for 20 years before choosing not to run for re-election in 2004.

“She survived Nazi Germany and Stalin’s reign in Lithuania,” said longtime friend and fellow FBA member Ron Cocome, who added that Tyler was about 78. Cocome said she spoke Lithu-

anian, Russian, German, English and French.

Tyler, a former World Bank employee, is survived by her hus-band, Geoffery Tyler.

Dorothy Miller, a current ANC commissioner who worked with Tyler on the board, said Tyler was instrumental in preserving Foggy Bottom’s historic character.

“Her pride and joy was pro-tecting that precious historic dis-trict,” Miller said.

Tyler’s funeral will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 4001 17th St., N.W. n

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If the mark of a truly great team is its ability to win in the face of injuries, then the GW men’s

basketball team proved how good they are against La Salle Wednesday after senior Pops

Mensah-Bonsu limped off the court late in the first half, not to return.

Ignited by the second-half play of sophomore Regis Koundjia, the Colonials ground out a 77-65 vic-tory at the Smith Center and, in the process, showed the versatility and resilience of a team with the nation’s longest winning streak. They have won 15 straight since losing to N.C. State in Raleigh Dec. 30.

Without Mensah-Bonsu, one of the team’s leaders on and off the court, and with senior Mike Hall having a subpar game offensively, GW head coach Karl Hobbs relied on the team’s bench to step up its play. He was not disappointed.

Down 35-31 at halftime, No. 6 GW outscored the Explorers 46-30 in the second half.

“I think the fact that Pops wasn’t out there was really our ral-lying point because Pops is such a valuable part of our team mentally, physically and emotionally,” junior guard Danilo (J.R.) Pinnock said. Millions of Americans woke up to Pinnock’s face Wednesday morn-ing, as he was pictured on the front cover of USA Today, which did a story about the team in its sports section.

Both Hobbs and Pinnock spoke with Koundjia at halftime about stepping up his play and being more aggressive after a lackluster first half. Koundjia responded with a career-high 13 points in the second half and helped force La Salle (17-8, 9-5 Atlantic 10) to turn the ball over 19 times.

“I played badly in the first half,” Koundjia said. “J.R. came up to me and said, ‘you have to finish the play.’”

Koundjia, a transfer from Louisiana State who became eli-gible for GW (23-1, 13-0 A-10) this semester, is a standout athlete on a team of exceptional athletes. Known for his trademark running style and speed in the open court, he can appear reckless at times. With La Salle limiting GW’s ability to get out in the open court, Koundjia altered his style to become more of a half-court threat.

With freshman defensive spe-cialist Montrell McDonald sus-pended indefinitely, Koundjia will be relied upon to be productive on a more consistent basis.

“I thought he was outstanding tonight; he brought a lot of energy, and (I liked) his anticipation on defense,” Hobbs said. “It was really nice to see him take control of the team in the huddle, and the other players responded to that.“

The type or extent of Mensah-Bonsu’s injury is unknown. He was being evaluated Wednesday night.

Sophomore guard Maureece Rice added 12 points off the bench for GW, which had 33 of its points come from its bench. Junior guard Carl Elliot also scored 12 for the Colonials, who had five players score in double figures.

La Salle took a 35-31 halftime lead by beating GW at its own game. The Explorers outscored GW 15-2

in fastbreak points in the first half and harassed Mensah-Bonsu in the paint. Hall, Williams and Koundjia were held scoreless, with Mensah-Bonsu and Elliot carrying the load offensively. The teams were tied seven times and the lead changed four times; the Explorer’s four-point halftime lead was the largest for either side.

In the second half, GW adjusted its style of play and took advan-tage of the ball-handling and pass-ing skill it had on the court with Mensah-Bonsu out.

Defensively, Hall clamped down on reigning Atlantic 10 player of the week Steven Smith and held him to just four points in the second

half. With Koundjia taking Mensah-Bonsu’s place for much of the half, GW was able to rotate all five play-ers and prevent the Explorers from becoming comfortable in their offensive set.

“The problem with them is that they’re interchangeable, more so defensively than offensively,” Explorers head coach John Giannini said. “It’s very difficult to run on them. They deny, they pressure and they’re great athletically. That’s why you just can’t get open.”

Hobbs said, “What this season is all about is a group of young men coming to a university, coming in one way, having dreams and chas-ing their dreams.” n

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and for GW it was almost the recipe for defeat. La Salle gave the sixth-ranked Colonials a look that they have rarely seen this season: a glance in the mirror.

Despite La Salle owning a 17-6 advantage in fastbreak points, a rarity for GW opponents, head coach Karl Hobbs did not see La Salle playing a similar style to his run-and-gun squad. But if a team wants to beat GW, look no farther than the first half of Wednesday night’s game.

“Their style is entirely differ-ent,” Hobbs said. “I think they’re an opportunistic team; if they had numbers they will fastbreak on you, but that’s not what they

do. We forced them to play faster and they handled it well.”

Although Hobbs did not seem to agree that there were similari-ties in play between his squad and La Salle, he said Saturday’s battle against an eerily similar Fordham squad may shape up to be equally challenging.

La Salle, the Christian school from Philadelphia, could have soiled the GW men’s basketball team’s undefeated conference record and given themselves a longshot at an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament. The Fordham Rams, also a Christian university, have a shot to spoil GW’s storybook season with an uptempo style.

A school oft-plagued with scandal and now blessed with a possible All-American, La Salle had the ingredients but was missing longevity to complete the intricate recipe needed to beat GW. Led by Darnell Harris and top NBA prospect Steven Smith, the Explorers took a few tricks from the Colonials’ reper-

toire to keep it close but were not able to keep GW down.

La Salle Coach John Giannini had all the condiments in order but personnel and experienced trumped method.

“George Washington was tre-mendous offensively in the sec-ond half,” Giannini said after the game. “They made shots, they executed well. Forty-six points in the half is a great job on their part and not a very good job on our part. They did everything.”

The Explorers exploited GW’s somewhat weak perim-eter defense by getting the ball outside to Darnell Thomas, who connected on three-of-seven treys. The Explorers got off 21 from beyond the arc, two above their season average. Fordham’s averages just more than seven threes a game while La Salle averages 6.8.

La Salle was also able to clog the passing lanes by playing a successful zone defense. In GW’s last three games, zone has been the best method of tripping up

the Colonials. “I think their zone was very

effective,” Hobbs said. “I think that’s an effective way to play us.”

Last sea-son against GW, Fordham’s defense stole the ball eight times, forcing 11 turn-overs compared to Wednesday night’s nine. The Colonials will need strong guard play against a Rams team that traps in a similar style to the aggres-sive pressure that La Salle exerted.

Without a presence inside, GW was still able to impose its trademark intense defensive pressure. The Colonials caused 19 turnovers while only giving up the ball

nine times.Unlike the strategy against

La Salle, Hobbs will likely have to try to slow down Fordham’s offense, which plays at a similar speed to GW. The Colonials beat Fordham twice last year, includ-ing in the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

Despite deny-ing similarities between the two teams, Hobbs said that Saturday’s battle in the Bronx will be reminis-cent of the style of Wednesday night’s contest.

Hobbs said Wednesday, “I have a lot of con-cerns ... They are

very, very good at home. I sus-pect it will be a game very simi-lar to this game today.” n

men’sbasketball

Depth trumps La Salle

Jeff Baum/senior staff photographerSenior Omar Williams attempts a shot over La Salle’s Mike St. John Wednesday night. Williams had seven points and seven rebounds in GW’s 77-65 win.

Jeff Baum/senior staff photographerSophomore Maureece Rice puts up a shot over Darnell Harris Wednes-day night. Rice had 12 points and only one turnover in the win.

n Mensah-Bonsu leaves game due to unknown injury

n Colonials may find it tough to deal with their own brand of basketball

“George Washington was tremendous offensively in the second half. They

made shots, they ex-ecuted well ... They

did everything.”

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“Quality – both via SAT and class rank – are consistent with last year,” Napper said. “All in all, we are having a very strong applica-tion year and expect to repeat our success of last year.”

The SAT’s format has changed, so the average combined score of applicants is 1905 on a 2,400-point scale, Napper said. The average ap-plicant is in the top 15 percent of his or her high school class.

For regular decision applicants, the University is sticking to its 37

percent admittance rate, she said.“In terms of housing and class-

room space, it’s related to what the freshman class should be,” she added.

The latest round of applicants has also been more diverse than in the past. Numbers of incoming freshmen who identify themselves as Asian, as well as those who do not report their ethnicity, are slight-ly up, while Caucasian applicants are slightly down.

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Napper said about 75 percent of applications were sent online, and the rest were scanned into comput-ers at the admissions office. n

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said.Dauman got into a fight

with GW senior Akeem Samuels about football outside of The Ex-change, a G Street nightclub near Thurston Hall, in the early hours of Oct. 9, according to a police report. Dauman, then a GW stu-dent, was arrested Oct. 11.

Dauman has been under the supervisory custody of his father since Oct. 19 and is liv-ing in Plainview, N.Y., with an electronically-monitored 8:30 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. He has completed a three-week alcohol and substance abuse program in New York and enrolled in an ad-diction and counseling program in November, court documents said.

Dauman’s lawyer, Thomas A. Key, was out of town this week and could not be reached for comment. According to the plea bargain conditions, Dauman could also be required to com-pensate for uninsured medical expenses incurred by Samuels due to the fight, as well as pay for lost tuition expenses since Sameuls’ injuries caused him to withdraw from his courses at GW last semester.

Samuels was in the Intensive Care Unit of the GW Hospital for nine days and remained in a regular room for about three ad-ditional days after the fight. He has sustained serious injuries to his shoulder, throat, jaw and brain, he said. He said he did not know Dauman before the night of the incident.

Samuels returned to campus this semester and said Wednes-day that he is happy to be back at GW, taking five courses and doing two internships. He said he is recovering well from his injuries but recently had recon-structive surgery on his throat and is undergoing speech thera-py at GW’s Speech and Hearing Center.

“I feel like I’m back to nor-mal,” Samuels said. “I truly en-joy being back. I spent a long time at home.”

Samuels said that he hasn’t been very personally involved in recent developments of the case for his own “well being” but said that he will be meeting with his lawyer Friday to discuss the plea agreement Dauman signed last week.

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Two propose new student government

by Brandon ButlerCampus News Editor

Two student leaders are calling for the creation of a new represen-tative body that would replace the Student Association Senate.

Junior Caitlin Bevin Doherty, who was running for SA president, has dropped out of the race and is working with sophomore SA Sen. Elliot Gillerman (ESIA-U) to effect change in the SA.

On Tuesday night, Gillerman told The Hatchet that he has been working with Doherty for the last month to “to permanently, once and for all, create an effective and efficient student government at GW.”

Doherty and Gillerman have a proposed a plan that would create a new body of similar size to the 30-member SA Senate but with different representatives. Doherty said the SA is in “disarray” and no longer serves students. She said she will no longer be pursuing the SA presidency and instead will be advocating for a new form of stu-dent representation.

The duo has begun to contact student organizations to discuss their plan. They said they believe if they can get the majority of stu-dents to sign a petition supporting the plan, the University’s Board of Trustees would hear them out.

Typically, the Board of Trustees does not intervene directly in stu-dent life issues; it also does not al-low most students to attend meet-ings. It is the only body with the

power to revoke the SA’s charter, which gives the Senate the power to allocate funding for student or-ganizations.

SA President Audai Shakour said Doherty and Gillerman are naïve about how to go about mak-ing change in the SA.

“The Board simply recognizes an SA charter and allocates money to the SA from the student fee,” Shakour said. “They could care less what the structure of the gov-ernment is.”

Some SA members have come out against the proposed plan, and University administrators said they would not support or oppose the plan at this point.

The new group would be made up of seats reserved for rep-resentatives from student organi-zations. Large student organiza-tions would have permanent seats in the body and smaller organiza-tions would collaborate with each other to choose joint representa-tives to the body.

The proposed plan would also create a new, independent financial oversight body that would allocate funding to student organizations. The body would be made up of students who apply to sit on it and are appointed by the University.

Gillerman said the plan would have no effect on the SA executive branch or Student Court and said they hope to have the body estab-lished by the end of the semester and fully in place by this fall.

“You can get new people in the SA, but after 30 years of trying and having nothing to show for it, it is clear the problem is the organiza-tion,” Gillerman said. “Instead of new people, create a new organi-zation.”

SA Senate veteran Ben Tra-

verse (CCAS-U), a senior, has been a senator for three years and last year ran for SA president. He said not only is the Doherty-Gillerman plan flawed, it is also unnecessary.

“I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to reform the SA, and we are addressing many of the is-sues Bevin and Elliot have brought up,” Traverse said.

Traverse said the SA has been working for students by creating a graduate student council, an aca-demic advising committee and a constitutional commission.

The Doherty-Gillerman plan to revamp the SA Senate is not a new idea. In 1999 SA President Phil Mei-sner announced he would be creat-ing a new student government un-der a self-written constitution he created after being impeached by the SA Senate.

A more successful attempt to overthrow the SA was accom-plished in 1970, when the Stu-dent Association’s charter was revoked by the Board of Trustees after a student petition and refer-endum to abolish the organiza-tion.

A proposed government that brought together students, fac-ulty and administrators was pro-posed but failed in the mid-1970s. In 1976, with an 85 percent ap-proval vote by the student body, the Board of Trustees created a new SA charter that is the base of the current SA structure.

Tim Miller, director of the Student Activities Center, said he has heard of the idea but is not taking a stance on it. Miller added that the Board of Trustees establishes an SA charter to cre-ate a student government at GW, but does not specify the structure of that government.

“Whatever student group is in place, they should be advocat-ing for students,” Miller said. “If

most students feel that’s not hap-pening then they should consider restructuring.” n

About 60 more rising se-niors utilized their squatter’s rights this year compared to last year, University Campus Housing Director Seth Wein-shel said Tuesday.

Weinshel said 390 current juniors have chosen to remain in their current rooms for their last year at GW instead of re-entering housing selection. Last year, 330 students chose to “squat” in their rooms, as the process is called. Weinshel said that, similar to last year, most students chose to squat in Ivory Tower.

Weinshel said rising seniors who have opted to enter the housing process should not be concerned about the amount of spots that will be filled in their

housing pool prior to selection, which starts Saturday. Since more seniors are squatting, it means fewer will be participat-ing in the selection process, he explained.

Fourth-year students have the option of selecting from Ivory Tower, which has 729 beds; 1959 E Street, which has 195 beds; and all singles on campus with kitchens and pri-vate baths, which are located in The Aston, 1959 E Street, Guth-ridge Hall, International House and Francis Scott Key Hall.

“We don’t yet know how it’s going to affect fourth-years’ selection,” Weinshel said. “It’s one of those things where it es-sentially becomes a wash.” n

– Katie Rooney

CLLC releases squatting numbers

Sam Sherraden/photo editorJunior Caitlin Bevin Doherty and sophomore Elliot Gillerman are calling for the creation of a new representative body that would re-place the Student Association Senate.

n Students optimistic but some say they’ll face challenges

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Sites included for redevelop-ment over the next 20 years in-clude the Warwick Building off Washington Circle, where GW would like to build a cancer cen-ter; the parking garage at 22nd and I streets, proposed for a sci-ence center; and the area on 22nd Street between H and I streets currently occupied by the Aca-demic Center, where GW wants to utilize space more efficiently to accommodate more academic

needs.Also, GW proposes to par-

tially accommodate housing needs by connecting Crawford Hall, Schenley Hall, The West End and Lafayette Hall by devel-oping the space behind each of those dorms. GW also plans on building up from the third floor terrace in the Marvin Center, Rutherford said.

GW is also considering some sort of academic redevelopment to Tompkins Hall, Rice Hall, Gel-man Library and a strip along G Street, requiring it to purchase GW Deli, Rutherford said.

The University will sepa-

rately file plans later this spring for mixed-use development on Square 54, across from the Fog-gy Bottom Metro, as well as for the proposed residence hall on F Street on the land acquired from a deal between GW and the School Without Walls. Ruther-ford said that since the Campus Plan will take at least a year to be approved, GW decided to file zoning applications for these projects separately.

She said, “we are ready to move forward with Square 54 and the School Without Walls project sooner rather than lat-er.” n

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