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ThursdayFebruary 17, 2011

Vol. 107 • Iss. 43

OPINIONS A country mired in regulationColumnist Andrew Clark argues that Obama's industry regulations are harmful to students. • Page 4

Finding characters for anonymous jurorsThe Generic Theatre Company presents "Twelve Angry Men" this weekend. • Page 7

Study links cannabis to psychosisMarijuana usage can hasten onset of mental illness by 2.7 years. • Page 6

Woman arrested in Ivory TowerSubject was previously barred from campus. • Page 6

CULTURE

Virginia Tech survivor recounts shooting for filmThe documentary was shown in Jack Morton Auditorium Tuesday.• Page 5

Colonials suffer worst loss in program historyThe women's basketball team fell 89-36 Wednesday. • Page 10

SPORTS NEWS

Nestled below an imposing billboard for Stella Artois on 20th and I streets, Tony’s Place rests after 32 years in business. The product of hard work, hope and the worn hands of a Greek fam-

ily, it seems fitting that the journey of this shop should end on Valen-tine’s Day.

Tony Boudouvas, 76, began trading on the corner before the physical shop existed. Having been drafted into the Greek army reserve at age 20, Boudouvas ar-rived in America in 1956 from Greece and spent the next 13 years bringing his six brothers and sis-ters to join him — doing “anything I could do to bring them over.” He lived with his wife Anastasia in New York City selling flowers and working in small shops before

moving to the District in 1969 for better schools.

“Everything must go!” and “Final sale!” signs held promi-nent positions in the windows of Tony’s Place Monday. Similar to the past three decades, the fi-

nal day was a family affair with Boudouvas’ daughters Rebecca and Constantina, son Panos and grandson Anthony all handling the inevitable Valentine’s Day

This year’s first Student Association outsider announced a bid for the presidency Wednesday night, joining what is so far a small pool of con-tenders for the SA’s two top spots.

John Richardson, a sophomore, said Wednesday he is seek-ing the SA presidency, adding that his lack of SA experience should not be a concern for voters.

“It’s not a lack of experience, it’s a new perspective with fresh ideas,” Richardson said. “It does not mat-ter that I haven’t been on the SA, what mat-ters is having a good working relationship with the administra-tion and student or-ganizations, rather than legislative experi-ence.”

Richardson joins current SA Sen. Jason Kaplan, CCAS-U, as one of the only two candidates who have so far declared their inten-tions to run for the SA’s highest po-sition. Candidate registration began Monday.

If elected, Richardson said he would focus on reforming on-campus recruiting at the Career Center and

ensuring a continuation of commu-nity service. He said he wants to cre-ate an office of student outreach that is more accessible to students than the SA currently is.

“The No. 1 job of the president is to be chief lobbyist for the student

The member of the GW commu-nity suspected of contracting tuber-culosis is no longer on campus and is being treated for the infectious dis-ease.

University officials notified the GW community Tuesday that an in-dividual at the University was sus-pected of contracting pulmonary tu-berculosis, a contagious disease that affects the lungs.

As of Wednesday night, there were no other individuals suspected of contracting the disease, said Dr. Isabel Goldenberg, medical director of the Student Health Service.

“We are assessing the situation, and as of today, we have no knowl-edge of additional cases,” Golden-berg said. “The TB testing will help us determine this.”

Members of the GW community who were suspected of coming in contact with the infected individual were notified that they were required to undergo testing for the disease, which is being provided free of charge by the D.C. Department of Health. Testing for those notified took place Wednesday, and results of the tests will be available Friday. Another test-ing day will take place Feb. 22, and results for that test will be available Feb. 24.

The University declined to say how many GW community members required testing due to the incident, saying they want to protect the pri-vacy and confidentiality of those who were notified.

“The entire GW community was informed of this situation, but only a very small percentage of individuals

Suspected TB case no longer on campusby emIly cahnSenior News Editor

chrIs gregory | senIor staff photographerTony's Place, a local flower shop owned by Tony Boudouvas, closed on Valentine's Day after 32 years of being in business. The shop was located at 20th and I streets.

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by lucy wescottHatchet Reporter

In the wake of historic pro-tests in Egypt spurred by the use of social media, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out in strong support of Internet free-dom at a speech in the Jack Mor-ton Auditorium Tuesday.

Clinton commended Egyp-tians and journalists who took to Facebook and Twitter to or-ganize protests and share stories from Cairo before the govern-ment shut down Internet access.

Clinton said the protests in Egypt – which ended last week with former President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation – paral-leled those in Iran almost 2 years ago, when Iranians flooded the streets and posted on Twitter in opposition to President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad’s re-elec-tion.

“What happened in Egypt and what happened in Iran, which this week is once again using violence against protest-ers seeking basic freedoms, was about a great deal more than the Internet,” Clinton said. “In each case people protested because of deep frustrations with the po-litical and economic division of their lives.”

Clinton said the authorities blocked and arrested protest-

ers, who marched and chanted through the streets.

“The Internet did not do any of those things,” Clinton said.

“People did.”Urging countries, including

China, Cuba and Iran, to lessen Internet restrictions for their citi-zens, Clinton acknowledged the challenges that can arise between achieving both online liberty and security in the modern era.

Watch Tony and his family say goodbye to Tony's Place

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Clinton backs Internet freedomby madeleIne morgensternCampus News Editor

mIchelle rattInger | photo edItorSecretary of State Hillary Clinton advocated for Internet freedom Tuesday at the Jack Morton Auditorium, calling the Web a tool for open dialogue.

Three more declare for SA

Jason KaplanPresident

John RichardsonPresident

Ted CostiganExecutive Vice President

Amanda GalonekExecutive Vice President

by jamIe blynnHatchet Staff Writer

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Candidate registration ends Monday

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News SnapShot

February 17, 2011

Metro mulls late-night hour cut to save funds

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AUdIO SLIdeShOwBen’s Chili Bowl archives

Archives from the famed U Street restaurant are now housed in Gelman.

vIdeOTony’s flower shop closes

Tony owned the flower shop at the corner of 20th and I streets for 32 years.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about Internet freedom Tuesday.

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eLISe ApeLIAN | hATcheT phOTOGrApherProtesters with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters protest on 17th and H streets Monday, claiming illegal immigrants drive wages lower. The group often protests across the city, and is often seen with a large inflatable rat. They have protested at GW over Smith Center renovations.

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Metro is considering scaling back on late-night weekend hours to save funds and improve maintenance, the Washing-ton Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said last week.

Metro is considering shutting down service at 12 p.m. instead of 3 a.m. Fri-day and Saturday nights, which would save the agency an additional $5 million in funding per year. The idea was pro-posed at a board of directors meeting on the 2012 fiscal year budget last Thurs-day.

Metro stations currently open at 5 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, and at 7 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Sta-tions close at midnight Sundays through Thursdays, and at 3 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Metro officials suggested reducing hours of operation in lieu of fare hikes, WMATA spokesman Steven Taubenkibel said. Metro is facing a $72 million short-fall for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July.

Closing earlier would also make it easier to complete repairs and perform track work, because there would be more time to do work without trains operat-ing, Taubenkibel said.

An average of 13,400 passengers use the Metro between midnight and 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights, according to a Metro budget report.

Taubenkibel said it’s premature to speculate if the new weekend hours would be approved.

“There are no plans to change the hours of operation now,” Taubenkibel said. “The next step is up to the board of directors.”

The next board meeting will take place Feb. 24.

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A man was arrested at Jack Mor-ton Auditorium after he stood up and blocked part of the audience's view dur-ing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom Tuesday.

The male – wearing a shirt that read “Veterans for Peace” – stood up at the start of Clinton’s speech and blocked the view of media and guests behind him for about 5 minutes. He was sitting near the back of the auditorium.

University Police officers arrested him for disorderly conduct after he re-fused their request to leave, according to a University statement.

UPD escorted the subject out of the building and the Metropolitan Police Department took custody of the pro-tester, identified as R. McGovern in an MPD community report.

MPD also arrested McGovern on a disorderly conduct charge.

-Priya Anand

Protester arrested during Clinton speech

GAbriel muller | multimediA editorUPD arrested a man for disorderly conduct dur-ing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech.

GW selects provost for diversity, declines to release nameThe University has se-

lected its first vice provost for diversity and inclusion, but is sitting on the adminis-trator’s name for two weeks, saying it is not ready to an-nounce the selection yet.

The position was cre-ated last year to spearhead the University’s attempt to attract students and employ-ees from more diverse back-grounds.

“The person we’re ex-pecting [to appoint] is ex-tremely qualified and a very prestigious person to bring

into GW,” Board of Trustees vice chair Nelson Carbonell said last week. Carbonell did not share why GW was wait-ing to announce the hopeful appointee.

The University first an-nounced the position's cre-ation last year in the midst of a major push for more diversity on campus, includ-ing the formation of a special Council on Diversity and In-clusion.

A study released last semester showed that GW is less diverse than its mar-ket basket schools. Fifty-six percent of the student body is white, compared with 43

and 45 percent white student bodies at New York Univer-sity and Boston University, respectively.

The Council on Diver-sity and Inclusion held two forums in January to solicit suggestions and will present its final proposals to Knapp in May.

“The council will use the remainder of the semester to prepare a written report, which will include recom-mendations on the four ar-eas of exploration,” council co-chair and Dean of Fresh-men Helen Cannaday Saulny said, referring to increasing diversity in students, faculty,

staff and the broader D.C. community. “From there, the council, along with other senior administrators, will evaluate next steps.”

Cannaday Saulny de-clined to comment on spe-cific ideas the council is con-sidering.

Knapp said the goal of the CDI was to focus on the diversity of the student body, faculty and curriculum to identify valuable resources and people on campus, at the time of its inception a year ago.

At the first forum, sug-gestions made to the council included increasing access

for disabled students on campus, bringing in gradu-ate and non-traditional stu-dents – like parents or veter-ans – into the fold of campus life, and including Foggy Bottom’s African-American history and culture in cam-pus walking tours.

Professor Gregory Squires, the council’s other co-chair, said the council is continuing to plan more fo-rums even as it continues to sort through and organize data from previous discus-sions.

The group is looking to hold three public forums to address issues faced by fe-

male faculty members, fac-ulty of all races and issues for faculty in the medical school. u

by GAbrielle mArushSenior Staff Writer

An auditorium in the Science and Engineering Complex will be named af-ter a former top University administrator, after a mem-ber of the Board of Trustees made a million-dollar dona-tion in his honor.

The auditorium will of-ficially be known as the “Dr. Donald R. Lehman Audito-rium, Given by Mark and Su-san Hughes,” after Hughes and his wife donated more than a million dollars to the SEC, a $275 million project the Board approved in Octo-ber.

The gift is to honor Leh-man, who served as executive vice president for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2010, and who has been a member of the GW faculty since 1972. He also chaired the GW De-partment of Physics.

The naming was an-nounced and approved at the Board meeting Friday, but it was kept from Lehman as a surprise until Monday, when Hughes broke the news to him over lunch.

“My very first thoughts were that I hadn’t really done anything to earn such recog-nition,” Lehman said. “So it was really quite a surprise and something very, very special.”

Hughes said they chose

to honor Lehman for his commitment to GW that has “[made] the University what it is today and to position GW for true greatness.”

“In particular, he worked for many years to bring this

facility to campus. In many ways, he is the ‘father’ of the Science and Engineering Complex,” Hughes said. “It is appropriate that the place where future faculty, stu-dents and visiting scholars will meet to exchange their ideas will be the Don Leh-man Auditorium.”

The Board also approved the naming of several spaces in the newly renovated Smith Center for several large do-nors, including for trustee Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees and an alumnus who donated $100,000 to the project.

The associate athletic di-rector’s office will be named the “Associate Athletic Direc-tor’s Office Given by Randy L. Levine (B.A. ’71).” u

"The person we're expecting [to appoint] is extremely qualified and a very prestigious person to bring to GW."

NelsoN carboNellVice Chair

Board of Trustees

Ben's chili Bowl archives donated to Gelman Lib.

Historic papers, pho-tos and documents from the District’s iconic eatery Ben’s Chili Bowl are now on display at the Univer-sity’s Gelman Library.

Virginia Ali, co-found-er of the restaurant and wife of the late Ben Ali, and her children joined historians, professors and a surprise celebrity guest at a ceremony honoring the establishment Wednes-day.

In a symposium fo-cusing on the D.C. renais-sance, participants high-lighted the importance of Ben’s Chili Bowl in the movement that opened doors for African-Ameri-cans in D.C.

“[Ben’s Chili Bowl] is one place that African-Americans can go for peace,” Maurice Jackson, a professor of history and African-American studies

at Georgetown University, said.

Blair Ruble, author of “Washington’s U Street: A Biography,” said Ben’s Chili Bowl deserves to be celebrated for being a place where everyone felt comfortable and at home.

Ruble added that many icons in the African-American community got their start in D.C. and later contributed to the Harlem renaissance.

As the Ali children stepped up to say a few words, the audience re-ceived an unexpected phone call from comedian and actor Bill Cosby, a reg-ular diner at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

Cosby expressed his devotion to the family and the establishment, add-ing that he was happy the documents were going to be displayed.

After the symposium, Virginia and the rest of the Ali family presented University President Ste-ven Knapp with a gift – an original recipe book from the restaurant.

Nizam Ali, son of Ben and Virginia, said it was humbling to know his family’s history has been

going places and is known to many people.

“We love to share and there is no way to really do that, [so this] makes us feel

really great,” Ali said.The collection will be

housed in the University Library's Africana Re-search Center. u

jordAN emoNt | CoNtributiNG Photo editorDocuments, photos and historic papers from D.C. eatery Ben's Chili Bowl were gifted to the University Library's Africana Research Center.

Documents chronicle eatery's iconic historyby sAmANthA stoNeHatchet Staff Writer

hAtChet file PhotoAn auditorium in the Science and Engineering Complex will be named after former administrator Donald R. Lehman.

Sec auditorium named for LehmanTrustee donates a million to honor former EVPby GAbrielle mArushHatchet Staff Writer

"My very first thoughts were that I hadn't really done

anything to earn such recognition."

DoNalD lehmaNFormer Executive Vice President

Academic Affairs

President Barack Obama’s proposed FY 2012 budget propos-es more funding for college Pell Grants, but changes to the way the program doles out aid could mean individual college students will see less money.

Obama’s proposed budget lays out $36.1 billion in Pell Grant funding for about 9.6 million stu-dents during the 2012-2013 award year, but the budget request in-cludes a provision that would prevent students from receiving more than one Pell award per year.

The Pell Grant Protection Act would stop some students from re-ceiving two Pell Grants in a single award year and would eliminate in-school interest subsidies on loans of graduate and professional students, which the government now pays on certain student loans borrowers have while enrolled in college.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said his department is fac-ing a $20 billion shortfall for Pell

Grants – federal awards offered to the neediest undergraduate stu-dents – and the limit on awards and cut to interest subsidies for graduates could help stabilize the program.

Duncan also said the coun-try has seen a historic increase in demand for financial aid, and his department has to become more efficient in its use of funds.

“These are absolutely painful cuts, but they are the type of re-sponsible decisions that are neces-sary so that students can pay for college,” Duncan said.

He said the Pell Grant pro-gram was originally estimated to cost a couple hundred million dol-lars each year, but by allowing stu-dents to obtain two grants a year, the program became financially unsustainable.

“For us, in tough budget times, it’s a much bigger prior-ity to maintain students getting the maximum Pell Grants, $5,500, and to do that for everybody rath-er than having a smaller number of students get $11,000 per year,” Duncan said.

About 11 to 12 percent of GW undergraduates receive Pell awards as part of their financial aid packages. Students are award-ed Pell Grants based on the cost of attending their school, financial need and status as a full or part-time student.

Associate Vice President for

Financial Assistance Dan Small said GW will monitor the govern-ment’s proposal and determine its effects on the student population.

“It is too early in the process to comment on GW's course of action if the in-school subsidy for gradu-ate students and/or reduction in Pell Grant funding would result in increasing our aid allocation,” Small said in an e-mail.

He said there are more than 1,390 students who received Pell Grants at GW this year, but since the ability of students to have two Pell awards in a year just started, less than five students have taken advantage of it.

Small said he did not know how many students will attempt to use Pell awards for this year’s summer term.

“Besides the president’s pro-posal, the House [of Represen-tatives] has come forward with

their proposal to reduce federal aid expenditures. We are review-ing each proposal knowing that it will more than likely change many times over the next several weeks/months,” Small said in an e-mail.

A combination of new pro-grams and other cuts were also proposed in the budget that may affect college students.

The budget supports expand-ing the Federal Perkins Loan Pro-gram to provide $8.5 billion in new loan volume each year, esti-mated to reach about three million students.

Another $175 million in com-petitive grants was proposed to boost college completion.

The budget will now undergo scrutiny in Congress, where Re-publicans are expected to chal-lenge Obama’s proposals.

“We want to continue to work with everybody, including House Republicans, on ways to cut spending and cut the deficit,” Duncan said.

Duncan said to “win the fu-ture” – a rallying cry in Obama’s State of the Union Address – the U.S. has to continue to out-educate and out-innovate competitors in other countries.

“We have to make sure we’re putting our children and our coun-try in a place to be more successful in the future, and cuts that take us in the wrong direction don’t help us get there,” Duncan said. u

Pell Grants safe from 2012 budget cutsProposed FY 2012 budget ups funds to aid programby Amy d'oNofrioMetro News Editor

"For us, in tough budget times, it's a much bigger

priority to maintain students getting the

maximum Pell Grants."

arNe DuNcaNSecretary of Education

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Every Monday, after working for half the day, I grab lunch and then

catch the Vern Ex-press just in time to make it to my weekly 2 p.m. mas-sage – in class. Not too shabby, right?

Massage is just one of the 90 classes offered each semes-ter in the Exercise and Sports Activi-ties department.

Some other options include Japanese swords-manship, weight training and hiking. These one to two-credit classes are a great way to fill extra spaces in your schedule, learn useful skills and get some exercise.

Unluckily for me, I nev-er took any exercise science classes until this semester, the spring of my third year at GW. Being two credit hours under the 17-credit semester limit, I decided to do something dif-ferent and took massage and weight training. Now I make it to the gym at least twice a week to lift weights, and once a week to practice giving and getting a Swedish massage.

For those concerned about not getting to the gym often enough, EXSA classes make

exercise manda-tory. No longer can you make up ex-cuses about being too busy to work out, and laziness will not let you push a planned gym trip back to tomorrow. The fact that you’re getting graded means that you have to go.

We’ve all heard of endorphins – the hormones that

are released during exercise. Taking exercise classes kills two birds with one stone, by helping students maintain a healthy lifestyle while simul-taneously improving their GPAs.

EXSA classes exist in order to give students positive ex-periences with exercise. In an interview with Alex Dickman, director of the exercise sci-ence program, Dickman wrote about the philosophy behind EXSA classes. She said they are meant to help students better function in society; develop motor skills and be-

come physically active; tailor to students’ individual needs and preferences; and promote positive and healthy values.

To allow greater oppor-tunities for participation, the

department is also expanding the scope of these classes.

There’s nothing too objec-tionable about getting a mas-sage every week, or about playing racquetball or pump-ing iron. So why not get a grade for it? Next time you see an open credit or two in your schedule that you’d like to fill, look into taking an ex-ercise class. It may make your life as a GW student just a bit more manageable.

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

Hatchet columnist.

President Barack Obama has pro-jected the image that he is a prag-matist dedicated to dissolving

burdensome and unnecessary regula-tions. But the evidence says otherwise – and students like us will bear the bur-den of these costly policy changes.

Just take a look at his presidential track record.

In the first two years of his admin-istration, the executive branch devel-oped 43 new “economically s igni f icant” rules – politi-cal speak for a price tag that exceeds $100 million – add-ing a net bur-den of $26.5 billion on the economy.

The health care reform bill is responsible for five of these weighty regulations. Under the new law, we are allowed to remain on our parents’ plan until we are 26 years old. However, as soon as the clock strikes midnight on our 26th birthdays, we will be required by law to purchase insurance. And the requirement to sign up for a health care plan isn’t enough. The government has now mandated which costly services private insurance must cover, and more mandates are on the way.

Financial overhaul legislation creat-ed another 15 expensive regulations. In fact, this sweeping legislation perhaps impacts us students most directly. Part of that law resulted in the formation of the Consumer Protection Bureau, a fed-eral agency that has been given broad, vague powers to write and enforce new rules on anything it sees fit – everything from student loans to mortgages and debit cards. As we begin applying for loans on big investments like cars or apartments, and smaller ones like a new credit card, the government will have its messy hands involved from start to finish. This will make some financial services difficult, if not impossible, for us to access.

These regulations have been sold to us as a necessary medicine after the de-regulation of the George W. Bush years. But the numbers don’t add up for that myth to hold true. Obama’s predecessor actually increased the number of federal regulations by 21 percent, to 78,090, and increased total spending on regulatory enforcement by 61 percent, making the Bush administration the most friendly to regulation since Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. The recent Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released a report on what caused the financial crisis. It ac-tually blamed a portion of it on regula-tors, who already had all the tools they needed to stop the coming disaster, but simply ignored the signs. Clearly, a lack of regulation has not been the problem.

Yet Obama’s answer to our nation’s problems has been just that, promoting further regulation – and not just in the financial or insurance industries. The Federal Communications Commission unilaterally launched net-neutrality rules on the Internet, an issue that our generation clearly has a stake in. The Department of Energy set new effi-ciency standards for pool and water heaters. The Food and Drug Admin-istration set 150-pages' worth of new regulations and rules. More regulations are expected to pour out of Washington as government agencies fully realize their new regulatory powers under the Obama legislation.

Some regulation is, of course, nec-essary and useful. The spurt of basic environmental regulations in the 1970s drastically improved our air and water quality, and food regulations in the last century have made Americans healthi-er and safer.

Yet the current fever pitch of regu-lation – nearly 150,000 pages of regula-tory code – has far surpassed the goal of advancing society, instead strangling both economic growth and individual liberty.

Obama is stuck in a mindset that regulation is a panacea for our ills. But our experience with government clearly suggests that some regulations can sim-ply cause more problems. Higher debit card fees, more expensive insurance, government control of the Internet? As students, these changes will impact us consistently and harshly, and it is up to us to let our leaders know: More regula-tion is not always the answer.

–The writer, a senior majoring in political communication, is a Hatchet

columnist.

The time that brings both nervous anticipation and excitement is soon to be

upon us: filing for next semes-ter’s housing.

For those who do not re-quest to live with a specific person, the University de-termines roommate selection based on a short living-preferences survey that students fill out upon filing for hous-ing.

The survey that GW Housing Pro-grams currently uses to pair up roommates contains flaws that have, in many ways, rendered it ineffective. Students are asked about their basic liv-ing habits, such as whether they are a morning or a night per-son.

Yet it does not ask for specif-ics that are crucial in determin-ing roommate compatibility, such as the specific times that students go to bed and wake up in the morning. It also does not allow students to elaborate on their answers, such as say-ing that bedtimes differ on a daily basis. Similarly, what one person considers a “clean” style of living might be seen as un-acceptably filthy to his or her roommate. This survey’s vague-ness makes it difficult for GW Housing Programs to know if

it is correctly pairing up room-mates.

The survey lacks some cru-cial questions that can greatly influence roommate compat-ibility, specifically questions

pertaining to drug use. Of course, it is understandable why GW has chosen to omit these ques-tions. These types of behaviors are not tolerated in GW resi-dence halls.

However, it is unwise to ignore the fact that many college students do choose to partake in these activities. By

omitting these questions, hous-ing runs the risk of pairing up roommates who have serious differences in their tolerance for these types of behaviors, thus increasing the potential for seri-ous conflicts.

The most effective way to solve this roommate selection dilemma would be to use a roommate-matching website. Websites such as RoomSurf, which is more or less eHarmo-ny for roommates, are relatively popular among GW students.

On these websites, students fill out a survey that is similar to, but more detailed than, GW’s survey. The website then deter-mines your compatibility with other students based on those answers. Students can even also

fill out an “About Me” section to describe any hobbies or other useful pieces of information. Students can then view all of their potential matches, view their profiles and even compare how compatible they are based on the website's percentage rankings.

If GW Housing Programs used this as the way for stu-dents to navigate the housing process, students would be able to see their potential roommates and have a say in their selection. Many colleges already use these websites as a way to determine roommates. GW, too, could greatly benefit from the person-alization and student involve-ment in the selection process that these websites provide.

By making an effort to fix the manner in which roommates are randomly selected, GW can make the lives of its students and its housing staff easier.

–The writer, a freshman majoring in journalism, is a

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Exercising for a gradeWhy every student should consider taking an EXSA class

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Dining has been a problem on cam-pus for years – this is not a new con-cept. Students have consistently voiced complaints about the dining option, so it is promising that administrators and Student Association leaders are looking to improve J Street. But these problems have marred our University for too long. During this review, University administrators need to consider all of the problems facing students and take the appropriate action to finally fix din-ing.

The largest flaw facing our dining system is mandatory spending. Forcing freshmen to spend $700 per semester and sophomores to spend $250 per se-mester at Sodexo-run dining facilities takes away a student's choices, and allows Sodexo to provide high-priced food. The Foggy Bottom dining estab-lishments where we spend our non-mandatory GWorld dollars are forced to vie for our patronage, which causes them to keep quality high and prices competitive. J Street and the other es-tablishments that take dining dollars are not subject to that same competi-tion. Dining officials need to renego-tiate the aspect of the agreement that guarantees Sodexo a sum from every student, regardless of whether the stu-dent actually uses those dollars or not. If it is guaranteed a profit, what is the incentive to change for the customers?

Students will still spend money at J Street even if they are not required to. It is located in the middle of campus and sits on the first floor of a building that houses the GW Bookstore and student meeting rooms. Students will inevita-bly spend money there.

But even more students will spend money there if the dining changes in-clude adding additional operating hours. This requires that the University negotiates with the union for J Street workers, but adding weekend and late-

night hours will give students even more of an incentive to eat there. Col-lege students stay up late, study late and eat late. The central dining option on campus needs to cater to this life-style – otherwise, students are forced to go off campus, and spend their money elsewhere. This is a vital source of in-come that GW has not tapped, and it should by extending hours.

If GW does not guarantee Sodexo a profit and does a better job of provid-ing for Colonials, the quality of food will improve. Sodexo will need to work for its customers in a way that ensures the company is providing high-quality food at prices students can afford. As of now, the quality of certain vendors is subpar, and yet the University allows those vendors to stay in J Street.

Similarly, these vendors don’t have the kitchens necessary to provide high-er quality food. With the addition of the mock Washington Monument in the center of the dining hub – look for it, it is surrounded by televisions– the available space for kitchens has signifi-cantly decreased. In revamping J Street, administrators would be remiss if they did not consider the option of increas-ing kitchen space. After all, our school's “dining hall” resembles a mall food court, and that can definitely change.

Whether the answer is simply rene-gotiating the contract with Sodexo, or dissolving the contract altogether, it is time the University not only reviews the issue of dining, but quickly takes the next step that will benefit students. Students and administrators know that dining at GW needs to change. And if these problems seem old, it is because they are. But instead of being redun-dant, the constant presence of com-plaints about this issue is an incentive to finally do something about it. This has been an issue for far too long, and it is promising that the University and the Student Association leaders are stepping back to re-examine the prob-lem. Hopefully, this will no longer be an issue for Colonials, and they can go to J Street with the intent of having a good meal with friends because they want to eat in their campus dining hall, not because they need to spend their re-maining $100 there.

A necessary review of Sodexo

If GW does not guarantee Sodexo a profit and does a better job of providing for Colonials, the quality will

improve.

Saige Saunig

Columnist

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DisorDerly CoNDuCt2/10/11 – 8:30 a.m. Location: Marvin Center Case closedThe University Police Department responded to a report of a student who became verbally abusive after being denied assistance when she showed up late for an appointment. She ripped posters off a bulletin board while leaving. She was gone before officers arrived.

–Referred to Student Judicial Services

2/13/11 – 1:56 a.m. Location: Thurston Hall Case closedUPD responded to a report of a student who became belligerent when he and an unknown female were stopped for intoxication. The female subject fled the area prior to officers’ arrival and the male student was assessed and transported to GW Hospital.

–Referred to SJS

uNlawful eNtry2/10/11 – 10:27 a.m. Location: Stockton Hall Case closedOfficers responded to a report of a subject unaffiliated with GW sleeping on a couch. The subject was identified as an individual who was previously barred from campus.

–Closed by arrest

2/12/11 – 6:15 a.m. Location: Ivory Tower Case ClosedUPD observed an individual unaffiliated with GW who was previously told to vacate the building. Officers approached the subject, and the subject charged at the officers. Officers then pepper sprayed and arrested the individual. He was transported to GW Hospital.

–Closed by arrest

liquor law ViolatioN2/11/11 – 11:48 p.m. Location: South Hall Case closedUPD responded to a report of an intoxicated subject who was later identified as an alumnus. Officers

assessed and released the subject. –Referred to SJS

assault2/12/11 – 12:01 a.m. Location: Marvin Center Case closedUPD officers stopped a subject from entering the building, but the subject continued to try to enter. When officers attempted to escort the subject out, he fled the area, striking an officer with his elbow. Officers who were in the process of evacuating the building later encountered the subject. The subject was escorted out and barred from campus.

–Subject barred from campus

Drug law ViolatioN2/13/11 – 7:45 p.m. Location: Thurston Hall Case closedUPD responded to assist GW Housing Programs staff with an administrative search that yielded 3.9 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and alcohol.

–Referred to SJS

–Compiled by Sydney Green

Teach for America applications from across the country hit a record high this year, with the number of GW applicants holding steady.

The TFA program saw a spike in applications for the past 3 years, reaching a record 48,000 applicants this year. This year, 169 GW seniors, or about 7 percent of the graduating class, applied. About 170 students from the Class of 2010 applied as well.

Teach for America is a 2-year program that trains and sends grad-uates to urban and rural schools across the country to work with students at struggling schools. Once accepted, participants go through a 5-week training period before they begin teaching.

“We’re really excited to see an increasingly large number of folks interested in applying,” Kaitlin Gas-trock, a regional communications director for TFA, said. She added that students see TFA as a vehicle to directly impact and narrow an achievement gap among younger students.

Senior Andre Smith said he will teach special education in New York. He worked for TFA last summer.

Smith said he wants to teach students the lesson that “no matter what you look like, where you come from, who told you ‘no,’ you can make it.”

Senior Josh Bailey will join the TFA corps in Baltimore, and said he attributes his interest in education to the GW Office of Community Ser-vice.

“I think I was extremely naïve when I was in high school in think-ing that everyone, if they wanted to, could go to college,” Bailey said. “After coming to GW, and living in a city that’s extremely different from where I grew up, I realized that that’s not true and that’s not right.”

TFA funding has not yet been factored into the White House’s 2012 budget blueprint, but Repub-licans in the House of Representa-tives have included an $18 million TFA earmark slash in their budget cuts.

Gastrock said federal fund-ing reductions would slow TFA’s growth and the program would lose over 400 teachers.

“With increased federal funding through 2016, we would be able to place more than 17,000 corps mem-bers each year who would annually reach more than one million children living in poverty,” Gastrock said. u

CRIME LOG

beCky CrowDer | hatChet PhotograPherColin Goddard, a survivor of the shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007, is traveling around the country to promote a documentary advocating stricter gun laws. Paul Helmke, right, is the president of the Brady Campaign.

Colin Goddard felt a call to action as he watched an-other school shooting unfold on his television screen.

A survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 that left 32 students and faculty mem-bers dead, Goddard now works as a legislative direc-tor for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and is traveling across the country to promote a recent documen-tary advocating sensible gun laws.

Goddard and Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke were joined by GW students and faculty – as well as a number of Virginia Tech alumni – Tuesday night for a screening of the documentary and a discussion on gun laws and practices in the United States.

“Living for 32,” which opened 3 weeks ago at the

Sundance Film Festival and is one of eight documenta-ries that's been shortlisted for an Oscar, tells the story of April 16, 2007 – the day of the shooting – and Goddard’s journey from recovery to gun shows to Capitol Hill.

“It started as a 5-minute PSA in support of the Brady Campaign,” Goddard said.

The crew eventually ex-panded the interview into a 40-minute documentary.

“It grew naturally,” he said.

Goddard said speaking in front of students and commu-nities has proven to be “part of [his] healing process.” Out of the 17 students in his French classroom at the time of the shooting, Goddard was one of only seven who sur-vived.

Though Goddard and Helmke focused primarily on gun laws and a campaign to keep guns off college cam-puses, Goddard said mental

health is also an important as-pect of why shootings occur.

“Any instance where there’s a school shooting, there’s always someone who knows. Happy, stable people don’t do this,” Goddard said.

Goddard and the Brady Campaign are working to gather support for a bill that would close the gun-show loophole by making back-ground checks a requirement for all gun purchases, as well as another bill that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. Goddard hopes to bring the bill before the House of Representatives.

“I don’t like the idea of combating violence with vio-lence,” Helmke said in regards to students carrying weapons to class on the off-chance that a university would be faced with a shooter. “In 2011 we should have better ways to deal with that than just, ‘I’ll shoot them before he shoots me,’ ” he said. u

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Four college health cen-ters in the District have lost free sexually transmitted disease testing, due to a shifting of resources by the D.C. Department of Health.

Student health service centers at American Uni-versity, Howard Univer-sity, Trinity College and the University of the District of Columbia will no longer re-ceive free testing kits.

DOH spokeswoman Dena Iverson said the test-ing budget wasn’t cut, but testing resources were moved around following an evaluation of where STD cases are identified in the District.

“The testing resources were shifted to the locations where the need for addition-

al testing was greatest, due to high rates of STDs, including high schools,” Iverson said .

Iverson said GW is not affected by the budget shift.

Dan Bruey, director of American University’s Stu-dent Health Center, said free STD testing for all STDs including gonorrhea, chla-mydia and HIV stopped at the end of last semester.

Tests had been offered to students free of charge for several years, Bruey said, but any remaining tests were picked up by DOH in December.

Other testing sites not affiliated with universities were also affected by the rearrangement of resources, Iverson said.

GW’s Student Health Service still receives some assistance from the DOH

when testing for HIV. Susan Haney, associate

director of SHS, said GW has no reason to think there will be a change in services.

“The D.C. Department of Health gives free rapid HIV testing kits to [SHS]," Haney said. “The program has been in place for about 4 years and all clinicians are trained to do the testing.”

SHS offers free HIV screenings every semester and urges students to get tested, Haney said.

“We average doing about 500 HIV tests each year,” Haney said. “Addi-tionally, about another 1,000 STD tests are done through the lab annually.”

Students are charged for an office visit while under-going a test at SHS if they are not covered under GW’s Aetna Student Health Insur-ance, but aren’t charged for the test itself, Haney said.

If a GW student needs a test for chlamydia or gonor-rhea, the tests will cost $60.

Tests for other STDs such as syphilis and her-pes are outsourced at a lab and cost at least $20, Haney said.

“Students are advised as to which test they should have and when it should be done during a visit with the clinician,” Haney said. u

The University Police Department arrested a homeless woman at the Ivory Tower food court Friday night, after she returned to campus after being barred from GW property in 2009.

UPD officers arrested the woman at 11 p.m., UPD Chief Kevin Hay said. Hay said she was originally barred from campus in 2009 for un-lawfully entering campus buildings.

The woman was also arrested Oct. 28, 2010, after she punched a GW staff member who con-fronted her about bathing in a restroom, Hay said. The woman – identified

as C. Edwards in a Metro-politan Police Department report – was arrested by UPD for simple assault.

Hay said Edwards was due in court Friday morn-ing on the assault charges but failed to appear, and that a bench warrant – authorizing officials to arrest an individual and bring him or her to court – was issued.

Hay said UPD officer Benjamin Volpe recog-nized Edwards in Ivory Tower Friday night and arrested her for unlawful entry. MPD responded to the scene and transported her to the police station for a misdemeanor.

–Caitlyn Harkin

Marijuana use can ac-celerate the development of psychotic illnesses and leave life-long damage, a study conducted by the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences found.

Researchers discovered that marijuana use can hasten the onset of schizo-phrenia and other psychotic disorders by up to 2.7 years, a fact researchers discov-ered while determining the extent of the link between marijuana usage and psy-chosis.

Patient data from 83 previous studies was re-ex-amined to find the link, Dr. Matthew Large, one of the researchers, said.

He also said individu-als in mental health facili-ties and schizophrenics are more frequent substance-users.

"Results of this study

are conclusive and clarify previously conflicting evi-dence of a relationship be-tween cannabis use and the earlier onset of a psychotic illness, with evidence sup-porting the theory that can-nabis use plays a causal role in the development of psy-

chosis in some patients,” Large said.

Large said the study of-fers “strong evidence” that some psychosis cases would be delayed or prevented en-tirely if cannabis use was reduced or eliminated.

Genetics and environ-

mental disorders could also be a factor in the connection, or disrupted brain develop-ment, according to the study.

The study was conduct-ed jointly by the SMHS and the University of New South Wales, and tested more than 20,000 patients. u

elise apeliaN | HatCHet pHotograpHerGW's Student Health Service will still offer free HIV screenings to students and will not lose D.C. Department of Health resources.

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Study links cannabis to psychosis

HatCHet file pHotoA study jointly conducted by the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the University of New South Wales found that marijuana usage can speed up the development of illnesses like schizophrenia.

Marijuana usage can hasten onset of mental illnessesby jared stokesHatchet Reporter

woman arrested in ivory tower

"The testing resources were shifted to the locations

where the need for additional testing was greatest..."

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bustle by answering phones, wrap-ping and cutting flowers and loading bouquets. The holiday has always been the shop's busiest and most successful day, with the romanti-cally minded GW students and local residents paying “all the bills for the year.”

In more recent years, Tony’s Place has primarily been a flower shop, but in its 32-year existence it has sold a vast array of objects and necessities.

“We sold magazines in order to survive and got money from sell-ing key duplicates,” Boudouvas said, noting the need to stay afloat amongst local competition.

His son Panos – who has been involved with the shop since child-hood – helped to construct its very frame as a 10-year-old and said na-

sal spray, ChapStick, aspirin, tobacco and passport photos were also part of the shop’s history.

“He still works 6 days a week,” Panos said of his father, who arrived at the shop at 4:30 a.m. on its last day.

Inside are large wicker shelves with objects as diverse as a china car-dinal, glass grapes and framed pho-tographs of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and former President John F. Kennedy. The variety of knickknacks were just as much a part of the shop as flowers — making Tony’s Place a one-of-a-kind store reflecting a col-lection of historical moments and memories of an American family.

In 2001, the Boudouvas family was invited by former President Bill Clinton to visit the White House as part of a presentation of families of the United States. Framed photo-

graphs of that day adorn the back wall in celebration of life in America and as a reminder that the shop is a staple of Washington, D.C.

Over the years, GW students have become part of Tony’s Place’s extended family due to the shop’s close proximity to campus.

“I would say to the students if you’re ever in trouble just to come to me,” Boudouvas said.

The vibrant clouds of yellow, pink and red roses stood tall and ready to be given away amongst a throng of customers, most of them regulars expressing their surprise and sadness at the closing. Students were also there to witness the shop’s final day.

“I’ve only been here a couple of times to get flowers, but it’s sad that such a historical place is closing its doors,” junior Andrew Sweeney

said. Boudouvas and his family cre-

ated the neighborhood staple with hard work and dedication.

“Every day, to get wherever you want to go, be honest, work hard and, most importantly, have a dream,” Boudouvas advises. u

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Generic Theatre Company’s pro-duction of Reginald Rose’s “Twelve Angry Men” can be characterized by one of the play’s own lines — “Thoughts may be colored by the personalities that have them.”

“Twelve Angry Men” features an ensemble cast of 12 jurors that must determine the fate of a 16-year-old boy who has been charged with the murder of his abusive father. Ini-tially, the verdict seems clear — two witnesses and a switchblade verify the boy’s presence at the scene of the crime, and the majority of the jurors vote “guilty.” However, one strong-willed juror refuses to declare the boy guilty.

Director Kareem Shaban, a ju-nior, believes the cast’s primary strength is the members' ability to form a sense of brotherhood that is necessary for the success of an en-semble play. The progression of the story relies on the conflict and ten-sion between the jury members.

“The play is about the notion of justice and safeguards in society that we put in place,” Shaban said.

The play takes place exclusively within the jury room, which works well with West Hall’s new black box theater. The space creates an intimate setting that makes the au-dience members feel a part of the production, or like the “13th juror,” according to freshman David Nei-man, who plays Juror No. 12.

Throughout the play, each juror begins to question his or her stance on the case through the reasonable doubts of Juror No. 8, as if each in-dividual juror were on trial to test his or her own personal prejudices and values. The play’s climax lies within the emotional and some-times violent struggle between the stronger and weaker personalities in the courtroom. It is this struggle that eventually characterizes name-less jurors into distinct people.

Arturo Lichauco, who plays the play’s protagonist, said the jurors

created their personalities by creat-ing an actual first and last name for the nameless characters known only to themselves and Shaban.

“We must create what is not shown,” Lichauco said.

Neiman agreed the cast was

given a lot of creative freedom to ex-pand on its characters.

The decision to perform “Twelve Angry Men” comes from Generic’s effort to choose scripts that make the audience members question both themselves and what they just saw.

While certain characters stick out as antagonists to Juror No. 8’s “not guilty” stance, it is the char-acters' true personalities that are extremely captivating. “Twelve An-gry Men” will appeal to the theater connoisseur, but will be especially

thought-provoking to lovers of poli-tics and ethics.

“Twelve Angry Men” opens Thursday and runs through Sat-urday. Admission is $5 at the West Hall Theater. GWorld will be ac-cepted. u

The Like“Release Me”(Downtown)

The Like, a ‘60s style power-pop all-girl quartet from Los An-geles has come a long way from its first album, with two new members, a completely new sound and a new album, “Re-lease Me,” released in Septem-ber 2010. The band's newfound ’60s influence is clear in all songs, especially the cheeky “He’s Not a Boy” and the soft, upbeat final track, “Why When Love is Gone.” These girls have got an edge indicative of their L.A. roots – you wouldn’t hear the Shangri-Las singing a song called “Walk of Shame." The organ, played by Annie Monroe, and super sweet yet slightly raspy vocals from lead singer Z-Berg give this album a sound com-pletely unique from anything produced today.

–Hayley Burgess

Cut Copy"Zonoscope" (Modular Recordings)

Cut Copy does the '80s bet-ter than the '80s did, and this album is no different. The band convincingly reinvents the past and gives it a futuristic edge; the ironic duality is not lost on the group, as the sixth track is entitled, “Strange Nostalgia for the Future.” The Aussies’ third release is more accessible and more cohesive than their previous albums, but with cleaner pop singles. The album’s biggest fault is that its carefree sound begs to be enjoyed while in the sun. Taste the album now, but savor it during warmer months.

–Madeline Twomey

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Finding characters for anonymous jurors

This recipe is based on a dish that I cook at Kinkead's. The cod is seared and topped with a rich crab imperial made of crabmeat, béchamel, mayonnaise and sher-ry. For my recipe, the cod sits on a bed of red quinoa, marinated in citrus, agave and soy sauce. The quinoa is sweet, vibrant and, with the inclusion of toasted sun-flower seeds, makes a great bite with the velvety crab imperial. The only thing that could elevate the combi-nation of a refreshing quinoa and a luxurious cod is a glass of Riesling.

Red quinoa 8 oz. box of quinoa1 ¼ cups of water3-4 cloves of garlic, minced1 orange1 lime2 teaspoons of soy sauce1 teaspoon of grated gingerA drizzle of agave nectarSalt, pepper and chopped cilantro leavesSunflower seeds Follow the directions on the box to cook the quinoa. In a bowl, whisk together the garlic, orange juice, orange zest to taste, lime juice, soy sauce, grated ginger, agave nectar, salt, pepper and cilantro. Toast sunflower seeds until fragrant and incorporate them. Allow the flavors to marry in the refrigerator for a few hours – it only im-proves with time.

Cod 2 cod filets1 container of crab meatMayonnaise (béchamel optional)Sherry (optional)WorcestershireHot saucePaprika In a hot pan, sear the cod in olive oil with salt and pep-

per until browned on both sides. I topped mine with a mixture of crab, béchamel, mayo, sherry, Worcester-shire and hot sauce. Dust with paprika and bake in the oven.

Béchamel2 tablespoons butter2 tablespoons flour1 ¼ cups scalding milkSaltFreshly ground pepper

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Gradually add the flour and stir constantly for about 2 minutes, until the paste bubbles a bit — don’t let it brown. Add scalding milk, stirring as it thickens. Bring it to a boil and add salt and pepper to taste. Bring to low heat and cook for 2 more minutes. For later use, cover it with wax paper or pour a layer of milk over it to prevent a skin from forming. Try adding cheese and mixing with pasta or whole grain mustard as a sauce for meats.

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CHris grEgory | sEnior sTaFF PHoTograPHErTony Boudouvas has owned Tony's Place on 20th and I streets for the past 32 years and sold everything from ChapStick to flowers.

MariE MCgrory | HaTCHET sTaFF PHoTograPHErGeneric Theatre Company presents "Twelve Angry Men" this weekend in West Hall Theater. The actors created names for their characters to enhance their roles.

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Terrorists and extremist groups use the Internet to recruit, child pornographers use it to exploit children and hackers use it to target finan-cial institutions, she said.

“We need successful strategies for combating these threats without con-stricting the openness that’s the Internet’s greatest attri-bute,” Clinton said.

Saying that much of the value of the Internet comes from its role in the market-place of ideas, Clinton said the Internet should be used as a discussion tool to com-bat intolerance, rather than to censor ideas completely.

“The better answer to offensive speech is more speech,” Clinton said. “De-leting writing, blocking content — these actions sup-press words but do not touch the underlying ideas.”

Speaking on transpar-ency, Clinton addressed WikiLeaks, the website that has released thousands of classified diplomatic cables. She disputed the notion that the government has a re-sponsibility to conduct all of its work in full view of its citizens.

“The United States could neither provide for citizen security nor promote the cause of democracy around the world if we had to make public every step of our ef-

forts,” Clinton said.Clinton’s speech was

punctuated once at the be-ginning when an unidenti-fied elderly man wearing a “Veterans for Peace” T-shirt stood up in the middle of the crowd to turn his back on her, standing silently and staring at the back of the auditorium for several min-utes. After not responding when a security officer asked him to sit down, two officers dragged him shouting out of the auditorium. u

body,” Richardson said, adding that having a work-ing relationship with stu-dents is key.

Richardson is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, the same fraternity as cur-rent SA President Jason Lif-ton.

Kaplan, who announced his candidacy last month, said he wants to reform Stu-dent Judicial Services and make student counseling at the University Counseling Center free.

“Students don’t die from bad food at J Street, students die because they cannot afford counseling or they are too afraid to seek

help,” Kaplan said. “It's time for the SA to give more back to the students.”

Earlier this week, SA Sens. Amanda Galonek, CCAS-U, and Ted Costigan, CCAS-U, each declared their candidacies for execu-tive vice president.

Galonek, chair of the SA Rules Committee, said she is running her campaign on her “approachable” nature, and said she will be the candidate who will make the SA more approachable for the average student. Galonek also served on the SA last year as one of three non-voting freshman sena-tors.

If elected, Galonek said she would focus on improv-ing Gelman Library and improving GWireless con-nections. Gelman has been

a hot-button issue in the SA for the last 2 years.

Costigan – a first-year senator – is labeling himself a “fighter,” and said he will advocate more for students and not take “no” for an answer. He plans to focus on making FixIt — the Uni-versity’s facilities services — more expedient, Gelman and reforming on-campus dining – perennial stables on candidates' platforms.

All four candidates agreed the SA has been plagued by internal reform changes this year, each not-ing that if elected he or she will reform this pattern and bring the SA’s focus back to advocating for students.

Registration ends Mon-day, Feb. 21. Elections are scheduled for Mar. 9 and 10. u

were given specific notifica-tion that they may have been in contact with a person sus-pected of having TB,” Gold-enberg said.

Citing privacy concerns, the University declined to provide a timeline of the individual’s contraction of the disease, or say whether

the infected individual was a student or University em-ployee, or if he or she lives on campus.

Dena Iverson, a spokes-woman for the D.C. DOH, said about 50 cases of tuber-culosis are identified in the District every year.

“The Department of Health is working closely with the University to iden-tify and contact all close contacts of the suspected case so that they can be

screened for TB,” Iverson said. “A treatable and cur-able disease, the department will ensure that in the event a contact requires treatment for TB, they will receive the appropriate care.”

This is not the first time the University has had a case of TB on campus.

Goldenberg said the University saw a case of the disease “several years ago.”

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Michelle RattiNgeR | Photo editoRSecretary of State Hillary Clinton compared the use of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Egypt and Iran during the countries' respective political upheavals.

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"We need successful strategies for combating these threats without constricting

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Wednesday night in the Smith Center, the crowd didn’t have to watch the court to understand what was happening. All it had to do was look at women’s basketball head coach Mike Bozeman.

Throughout the game, Boze-man’s reactions on the sidelines became less and less emphatic, un-til the coach finally took his seat in seemingly silent resignation. With 5 minutes left, Bozeman passed his hands over his eyes, folded them behind his head, and bowed over in his chair. It was a fitting expres-sion for a 53-point defeat, the worst in the history of GW women's bas-ketball.

“It’s the worst, the worst I’ve ever gotten beat,” Bozeman said. “I mean, what do you say about that. We got taken out to the backyard and they got a piece of wood, and just gave us a shellacking.”

The Colonials were outplayed in every aspect of Wednesday’s 89-

36 loss to undefeated-in-confernce Temple. The Owls' 89 points were the most an opponent has scored against GW (8-17, 3-8 Atlantic 10) this season. Temple also had the highest number of field goals con-verted against GW all season, and the highest number of assists. The Owls shot 48.4 percent for the night, the third best an opponent has shot against GW, and had the lowest number of turnovers of any rival the Colonials have faced this season.

“It was just one of those nights where we just couldn’t get any-thing right,” Bozeman said. “From the jump ball, we went up 2-0, and it seemed like that was just good enough for us. Nothing I’m proud of, but I also felt helpless, like there was nothing I could do.”

Temple’s dominant effort was met with subpar play from the Co-lonials. GW’s 36 points was the sec-ond-worst offensive performance the team has put on the board this season. The team also had its sec-ond-worst performances of the sea-son in field goals made, attempted

field goals, and three-point field goals.

“They did a great job of crowd-ing us, not allowing us to get the ball where we want to initiate our offenses. They prevented us from getting a rhythm offensively and they were very aggressive in their offensive, in their attack,” Bozeman said.

The Owls forced GW into a sea-son-high 26 turnovers, converting these blunders into 43 points. Soph-omore guard Danni Jackson was the only Colonial to score in double fig-ures with 10 points and two assists throughout the night. Six Owls put up double figures in the Temple vic-tory, another example of the team's dominance Wednesday night.

Coming off such a demoralizing defeat, Bozeman said his main focus is helping his team shake off the loss and regain its confidence. Prior to Wednesday night, the Colonials had won three of their last four games, a trend Bozeman said he hopes they can regain heading into Saturday’s 2 p.m. game at Richmond.

“One of the models we have is that the most important play is the next play. The most important game for us is the next game,” Bozeman said. “I cannot dwell on this. I prob-ably said four words in the locker room after the game. You can’t harp on this.”u

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Lasan Kromah didn’t feel it when he injured his foot back in mid-November.

He was on the court with his teammates that day, playing in a closed-door scrimmage against N.C. State when the ball swung his way. He caught it, took a jab step and heard a pop. He didn’t feel a thing, and he didn’t really need to. He could hear that something was wrong.

“The ball swung around and I jab-stepped, and as soon as I jab-stepped, I heard my foot pop,” Kro-mah said. “At first I didn’t feel it, but just the sound of hearing it pop, I was like, ‘It’s gotta be something.’ So when I came to the sideline my foot started swelling a little bit... I thought it was just a regular sprain, a real bad sprain, but later on I found out it was something else.”

What that pop turned out to be was a torn lisfranc ligament in his left foot, an injury that required sur-gery to repair. Kromah, a Preseason All-Atlantic 10 third team selection this year, had pins placed in his foot to help the ligament heal and used crutches to get around until early January. Until recently, the sopho-more’s foot had been protected by a walking boot, but as he's healed, Kromah has been able to shed that as well.

It’s the first time in his life that Kromah has had to be away from basketball for such an extended pe-riod of time, and it’s been a transi-tional period for the Colonials guard. He still attends every practice, even the ones at 6:30 in the morning, and he’s on the bench cheering for his teammates at every game, both home and away. Even with so much practice, sitting on the sideline isn’t something Kromah said he’s been able to get comfortable with.

“It still is tough. I was think-ing, as the year went on, it would be like, ‘All right, I could deal with it,’ but when it comes down to close games, and just the whole energy... If you’re a basketball player, you al-ways want to be out there no matter what,” Kromah said. “If you’re sit-ting down watching the game, you always want to be out there. It’s just like every game, I’m always think-ing, ‘Oh, I wish I was playing, I wish I was playing,’ not like, ‘Aw, I don’t

want to play.’ ”Even with the boot and crutches

gone, the list of things Kromah can do is short. He’s not allowed to run or jump on his foot, essentially limit-ing him to shooting free throws and dribbling until he begins his rehab process. He said he’ll likely take a medical redshirt at the end of the season so he won’t lose a year of NCAA eligibility, but even as he sits out Kromah said he’s grown as a basketball player and learned from the time he’s been forced to spend watching the game in street clothes from the end of the bench.

“Sitting back watching, you see things you wouldn’t see when you’re playing the game. Certain moves and certain plays and you get to see really, your teammates' tendencies and what they can do best and things like that. So me sit-ting on the sideline watching all that, I’m putting all that in the back of my head,” Kromah said. “Sitting on the side, it’s like I’m out physi-cally, but mentally I’m growing as a basketball player.”

Kromah has found ways to

make himself useful for his team-mates, too. The team’s returning top-scorer from last season still sits in on film sessions with his team-mates, offering up his own advice and analysis of GW’s opponents.

His contributions haven’t just been in terms of Xs and Os, either. He’s still a fixture in the Smith Cen-ter and around campus with his teammates, and he even went so far as to bring them doughnuts af-ter a game earlier this season. All of it, he said, is part of making sure he continues to support his team, even from the bench.

“The only difference is I’m not practicing with them. I’m on the sidelines watching them practice, giving them advice. I’m at the games cheering them on. I’m in the locker room. I’m still there, just the only thing missing is playing basketball,” Kromah said.

In addition to his duties as a teammate, Kromah will begin a re-hab regimen once he gets the pins removed from his foot in 2 to 3 weeks, that he said will include pool walks and resistance training. The

goal, he said, is to begin basketball activities again in late April or May, but the ultimate decision as to when he can get back on the court lies with him.

“If I’m playing and I’m worry-ing about my foot, then I wouldn’t be ready, so if I’m doing rehab and strengthening it, I’m gonna keep do-ing that until I can trust my foot 100 percent without second guessing it and whatnot,” Kromah said.

The light at the end of the tunnel, he said, will be getting to put his jer-sey back on and take the floor with his teammates. It won’t happen for months, but it’s a moment that Kro-mah said he’s already focused on.

“It’ll be a real, real good feeling. I’ll be in here sometimes, shooting free throws, just thinking in the fu-ture like, ‘Oh man, I can’t wait to get a jersey on.’ When I definitely put it on, when I finally put it on, it’s gon-na be like a big relief, like it’s finally here, I went through rehab, stuff like that. It’s gonna be one of the most appreciated times that I have play-ing basketball... It’s gonna be a real good moment.” u

Kromah adjusting to life on the sidelineby LouIs NeLsoNSports Editor

VIktors dINdzaNs | seNIor photo edItor Sophomore guard Lasan Kromah looks on as his teammates huddle up before their Jan. 18 victory on the road at Oregon State. Kromah injured his foot in a preseason closed-door scrimmage against N.C. State and had surgery to repair it in late November.

Midway through the first half of the women’s lacrosse team’s season-opening game Wednesday afternoon against Howard, the offi-cials stopped a pair of players for a stick check, a precaution against la-crosse sticks with pouches that are too deep.

The referees quickly cleared both players and the Howard bench erupted with half-sarcastic cheers of, “Way to be legal.” It wound up being the only real opportunity to cheer for the Bison bench in a 21-3 drubbing handed to them by the Colonials.

“We just wanted to, offensively, work on moving the ball, pushing the pace on attack, pushing the pace on the transition offense and then being extremely aggressive both on our defensive end and our transition defense,” GW head coach Tara Hannaford said. “We wanted to be fast, fast all over the field.”

The Colonials weren’t just faster than the Bison, they were dominant in nearly every statistical category. GW outshot Howard 41-4 and won 10 more faceoffs than the Bison. Nine Colonials scored Wednesday afternoon compared to just one who scored all three of Howard’s goals.

GW was led by junior Megan Seidman whose six goals were just one short of the program record for goals in a single game. Junior Sarah Phillips had three goals and four as-sists giving her seven points for the afternoon.

“I felt good. I wish I would have finished with a higher shooting per-centage than I did,” Seidman said. “I missed a couple and that’s what I’m working on, finishing everything I take.”

The victory provided an early boost of confidence to a Colonials team that Hannaford said had high expectations for this season.

“Today is a great day for them. They got to see a lot of positive and can carry that forward to bring that momentum to Saturday,” Hannaford said. “Right now, it’s really taking it day to day. We have Drexel on Satur-day. I don’t know that the program’s ever beaten Drexel, so that’s our next goal, to try to get a win against a team that we haven’t beaten.” u

colonials trample Bison in season opener at home

"We got taken out to the backyard and they got a piece of wood and just gave us a schellacking."

–Mike Bozeman, women's basketball head coach, on the lopsided defeat that Temple handed his team Wednesday night at the Smith Center.

21The number of goals scored by the women's lacrosse team in its season-opening victory over Howard Wednesday.

Owls hand GW program-worst lossby eLIzaBeth trayNorContributing Editor

mIcheLLe rattINger | photo edItorJunior Tiana Myers and the women's basketball team suffered their worst defeat of the season Wednesday night.

womeN's BasketBaLL temPle 89, GW 36