More than a dozen white tents welcomed readers to the National Mall this weekend for the 11th annual National Book Festival.

The event, sponsored by the Library of Congress, was a two-day affair for the first time in its history, hosting 112 authors, po-ets and illustrators Saturday and Sunday.

Louis Bayard, a part-time professor of creative writing at GW, attracted a large crowd to the fiction and mystery tent while presenting his newest novel, "The School of Night." The book twists historical mys-tery with elements of romance.

“My favorite part is watching the people walking around, it gives you the feeling that books will survive,” Bayard said. “It’s kind of like Woodstock without the drugs. Everyone is in a good mood.”

Festival attendees also re-ceived bright-blue giveaway bags with posters and pam-phlets. Pavilions split authors by genres, including fiction and mystery, history and biography, contemporary life, poetry and prose, children's literature, teen literary works and family story-telling.

Signe Carry, from College

Park, Md., volunteered at the festival for a second year.

"I work at the Library of Congress and I love the festival," Carry said. “It’s very important to the community. It promotes literacy, the authors are enlight-ening, it brings people together who love to read.”

Kate Choi, a Maryland resi-dent who works as an au pair, said she attended the festival in search of children's books.

Four-time Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore discussed her new chil-

dren's book "Freckleface Straw-berry: Best Friends Forever" at the Mall Saturday morning. The third installment in her "Freckle-face Strawberry" series, launched in 2007, revolves around two characters, Freckleface Straw-berry and Windy Pants Patrick, who are best friends despite their differences.

Graduate student Rachel Simpson, who said she just moved to the District, spent Saturday lis-tening to book presentations.

“I think it's great to see the turnout of all the families in D.C.

My mom is a teacher and I think it’s a good cause.”

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who spoke at Lisner Auditorium Sept. 21 during an event com-memorating the venue's 1947 integration efforts, attended the book festival for the first time in her writing career. The Toni Mor-rison Society sponsored the ded-ication of a bench outside Lisner that day as well, marking the site's value in African American history as one of the first District venues to integrate. u

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When first-year nursing stu-dent Amy Zhang turns on her shower, the water flows out yel-low.

“I put in a request for FIXit a month ago and there’s nothing,” the Hall on Virginia Avenue resi-dent said.

A group of residents are sign-ing a petition to improve what they call "poor living conditions" at the 46-year-old graduate resi-dence hall across from the Wa-tergate complex. Problems in-clude rodent infestations and hole-filled walls, Zhang said.

University spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard said FIXit employees have been working overtime across all residence halls after receiving the typical influx of requests for attention after move in.

“All tickets are responded to

as promptly as possible with the goal of alleviating the problem and those issues that are catego-

rized with 'emergency status' re-ceive attention within 24 hours,” Sherrard said.

First-year graduate student D'Juan Thomas said his room is facing an escalating mouse prob-lem. FIXit came two days after he put in a request, he said, add-ing that he spoke with previous HOVA residents who said pests were a recurring problem in the building.

"If I'm paying $5,365 a semes-ter for housing, I would at least like to live in peace," he said.

FIXit saw an increase in the number of rodent and pest is-sues reported for HOVA this year compared to the same time frame last year, Sherrard said, at-tributing the uptick to "building work being done in the dump-ster area," increased rainfall and temperatures cooling earlier than usual this semester.

“These have been responded to with an aggressive treatment,” she said. “We are aware that

Administrators are pushing stu-dent groups to partner up on more events this year, cutting down on the number of smaller, more exclusive events in favor of larger, University-wide functions.

Dean of Students Peter Konwerski said “collaborative programming” is especially important this year as there is a growing number of student organizations that continue to fight for a stable pot of funds. For the first time in four years, the Student Asso-ciation budget will not increase next year, because all students now pay the increased SA fee.

“Nobody’s budget is growing,” Konwerski said. “Things are costing more.”

The Student Association has a record-breaking $950,000 to doll out this year.

Associate Dean of Students Tim Miller said sharing financial respon-sibility for an event will reduce the burden for individual organiza-tions, enabling groups to hold bigger events, even with a tight budget.

“The reality is you have to get more done with less funds,” Miller said.

Miller, who holds bi-monthly meetings with student group advi-sors, said this year, advisors are dis-cussing their groups’ plans with each other to identify opportunities for collaboration.

Defraying costs is not his only aim. Miller also hopes inter-organizational

The University employed 488 full-time female faculty members last year, slightly less than the national average, data from the National Center for Education Statis-tics shows.

Among all public and private two- and four-year Title IV degree-granting institu-tions, 42.9 percent of full-time faculty are women, Michael Solomon, the manager of editorial promotion at The Chronicle of Higher Education, said.

GW does beat out its market basket schools for the number of female faculty employed, with females representing 39.2-percent of full-time faculty employed by GW last year, a slight bump from the 38.5 percent in 2009.

The most recent national data shows institutions comparable to GW employ 38.5 percent full-time female faculty.

Female faculty hiring has in-creased since the early 1990s, but still isn't proportionate to the student body, Assistant Vice President for

Left: Jordan emont | assIstant Photo edItor, rIght: deLaney WaLsh | hatchet PhotograPherRight: Actress Julianne Moore discusses her new children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever' with patrons in the children's tent at the National Book Festival on Saturday morning. The book, inspired by her childhood nickname, is the third in the 'Freckleface Strawberry' series.

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Students urged to ditch small events

Jordan emont | assIstant Photo edItorD.C. resident Eleanor Lewis, 40, reads 'Llama Llama Home With Mama' by Anna Dewdney to her 2-year-old daughter, Gabrielle Lewis, at the National Book Festival.

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A cup of coffee from GDub Java now provides more than just a caffeine rush.

One cup of Coffee for Water’s Hai-tian coffee also provides 25 liters of clean water to a child in Haiti as part of the Coffee for Water program GW joined this fall.

“The idea is to expand and build a sustainable partnership with the Uni-versity and students around water and around development,” CEO of Coffee for Water Jahan Tavangar said.

Tavangar, a GW parent with a Ph.D in water resources engineering, developed the idea for the organization while on a relief trip to Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake.

He said he realized clean water was a critical need for those in Haiti, and in-stalled a water purification system at the school where he was staying.

“I made a commitment to providing clean water particularly for children, and have been back four times since my first trip,” he said.

An entrepreneur, Tavangar decided to sell Haitian coffee and invest the prof-its in water purification systems.

“It’s leveraging what they have for what they need; using coffee to provide water,” he said.

Coffee for Water has generated more than 33 million liters of clean water at five active projects in Haiti so far.

GW earned the equivalent of 6,250 li-ters of clean water in the last two weeks through coffee sales at GDub Java. The bookstore will also begin selling Coffee for Water’s ground coffee soon.

The mission incorporates philan-thropy to the University’s GWater Plan, sustainability project facilitator Sophie Waskow said.

“Here in D.C., we have access to clean drinking water straight from our tap; in many parts of the world, individuals do not have this basic right,” she said. “GW is com-mitted to creating systems that are healthy and thriving for all, and helping to raise awareness about global water issues.”

Director of Campus Support Services Nancy Haaga echoed Waskow’s enthusi-asm for the partnership with Coffee for Water.

“We thought it would be a great op-portunity for students to use their buy-ing power when purchasing coffee to be able to support the amazing work that Coffee for Water is doing to provide safe, clean drinking water for people in Hai-ti,” Haaga said.

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there was an air-condition-ing problem in the build-ing in early September – it was reported by residents, and the issue was resolved promptly upon being re-ported.”

Sherrard said the total

number of FIXit requests for HOVA is on par for the building in previous years, and are expected from a structure as old as HOVA but said she was unable to provide the number of FIXit requests received for HOVA.

She added that the University was not aware HOVA residents are circu-lating a petition. u

partnerships will “stop stu-dent organizations from do-ing the same project.” For example, Miller said if two groups want to go to a Na-tionals game, they can pur-chase cheaper tickets if more are purchased together.

Konwerski hopes stron-ger partnerships will lead to stronger programming – with fewer events. “Right now, there’s almost too much to choose from,” Kon-werski said.

Miguel Alvarez, presi-dent of the Organization for Latino American Students, said collaborative program-ming helps student groups with similar missions attain their goals.

OLAS hosted award-winning actor Tony Plana Sept. 19 as part of Latino Heritage month. Sponsors

for the event included the Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity and the Multicul-tural Student Services Cen-ter.

Alvarez said there are many groups for Latino stu-dents, and hosting events seems like the logical thing to do, especially for smaller, newer organizations.

“Collaborating on cam-pus events is a good oppor-tunity for student organiza-tions to find their central point,” he said. u

Faculty Recruitment and Per-sonnel Relations Annie Wool-dridge said.

"The current ratio, 39 per-cent women and 61 percent men, highlights our progress in this area. Nonetheless, these achievements have not matched our intentions," Wooldridge said. "As a result, we are redoubling our efforts through a number of activi-ties to increase the presence of women faculty and faculty of color."

Departments and faculty search committees through-out the University are encour-aged to "engage in active and targeted outreach to women and people of color," Wool-dridge added.

Schools must have long-term initiatives to make per-manent changes in female hir-ing, John Curtis, a director of research and public policy at the American Association of University Professors, said.

“There certainly has been a lot of activity in that area. I think what we’re finding now is that it’s not enough to make a one-time commitment to improve the hiring practices. It has to be an ongoing ef-fort,” Curtis said.

Female professors offer several long-term benefits to students, professor of English Caroline Smith said.

“I think it’s important to have women represented in university and college class-rooms because you want stu-dents – particularly female students – to realize that those kinds of careers are options for them,” Smith said. “You want

more equal representation so that the next generation of men and women can see what options are available.”

When part-time faculty are included, 42 percent of the University’s professors were women in 2009, accord-ing to the most recent data compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The University had a slight edge on its market bas-ket schools, as Boston Uni-versity employed 39 percent women and New York Uni-versity employed 41 percent, according to the Chronicle report. Meanwhile, GW runs in the middle of the pack for District institutions: Ameri-can University employs 46 percent women and George-town University employs 40 percent women, the Chronicle data showed.

Just 10 of the 80 full-

time faculty in the School of Science and Engineering are women, the widest dis-crepancy between men and women in any school. The Elliott School of International Affairs employs less than a quarter women.

The Graduate School of Education and Human De-velopment and the School of Public Health and Health Services boast more than half female full-time faculty. One-hundred percent of the School of Nursing’s 14 full-time pro-fessors are women.

“I think that women pro-fessors have a very tough time integrating in some ar-eas like engineering, scientific subjects, but I see the struggle. There’s inequality in those areas, more so than in the humanities, which is in my domain,” professor of Italian Kristin Cassola said. u

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A student leader is push-ing back against the Univer-sity’s decision to cut its free newspaper service, arguing that the program is important for students.

Rohan Batra, the vice presi-dent of academic affairs for the Student Association, is lobby-ing University administrators to reinstate the program in main campus areas like the Marvin Center and Ivory Tower

"It doesn’t make sense for us not to have this program,” he said. “We can’t expect a hundred people to fight for one copy in Gelman."

The University paid $52,000 for the newspapers, at 43 cents a copy, last year. Batra pointed out that the bundled price saves students more than a dollar per copy.

Batra said he hopes the University will resume the pro-gram at $25,000 – or 58,000 cop-ies – a year, which would meet the student demand of 700 cop-ies per day. Batra calculated the figure using pick-up rates pro-vided by USA Today.

Vice Provost and Senior Vice President for Student and Academic Services Robert Chernak said the University has no plans to reverse its decision, as there is little opposition to the program cut.

“There really has been very little pressure from students or parents to reinstate the reader-ship program,” Chernak said.

He said the newspaper funding will be directed to cov-er a budget shortfall within the University Counseling Center,

which expanded its counseling program Sept. 6.

“We are sometimes forced to make hard decisions on the expense side – often times be-tween deciding between right and right. Unfortunately, in the short term, the additional free counseling sessions were a more heavily weighted ‘right’ than the readership program,” Chernak said.

In the 2010-2011 academic year, 75 percent of the 140,000 newspapers delivered to GW were picked up, Batra said, cit-ing a report from GW. In high traffic areas like Thurston Hall, 98.2 percent of The New York Times issues delivered were picked up, Batra said.

USA Today Director of Communications Heidi Zim-merman said the University is not charged for any unused pa-pers the company collects daily.

“Administrators need to realize that, for every paper that was not being picked up, we weren’t being charged. It’s a fact that not a lot of people know,” Batra said.

An online opposition group by the name of Students for the Return of the Collegiate Read-ership Program to GW has gar-nered about a dozen members.

The Student Association sought to extend digital sub-scriptions to The New York Times by this fall, but SA Presi-dent John Richardson said the deal fell through the day before the readership program was cut, citing the end of the paper's reduced-cost college subscrip-tion.

"I'm committed to making this online resource available to students." u

The School of Engineer-ing and Applied Science hired 32 faculty members in the last four semesters, part of a long-term plan by the school’s dean to make the school more com-petitive across the research-heavy field.

The school continues to hire the highest proportion of new faculty compared to any other school within the University as opportunities to develop research become more pronounced across the institution.

With 10 full-time faculty hired this fall and six new hires in the pipeline for next year, the school has added more new faculty to compen-sate for higher-than-usual re-tirement rates in recent years. Last year, new hires repre-sented 9 percent of the full-time faculty base.

David Dolling, the school's dean, said he hopes to create 25 to 30 slots for new hires over the next five years, which would be advanced by a combination of resigna-tions, retirements and entirely new faculty positions.

Dolling said the school’s reputation has drawn in re-

cruits from the top engineering schools in the country.

“It’s well known in the out-side community that GW has a buzz about it,” he said.

Provost Steven Lerman, who attributes the trend to shifting age demographics across the University, sees the hiring window as a chance to “shape the next generation of hires,” especially with the planned construction of the Science and Engineering Hall as recruitment bait.

“They quite clearly know about the building and are excited about coming to GW in no small measure because of the commitment to that building,” he said. “It’s partly just the symbolism of having made that commitment that engineering and science is here to stay.”

Several of the new hires have strong backgrounds at research-intensive institutions, Lerman said, and would be ex-pected to be research-intensive

faculty at GW as well.“With that said, we still

look at three things: teaching ability, research and their pro-pensity to serve,” he added.

In recent years, climbing retirement rates across the University have been concen-trated in SEAS, where the av-erage age of a faculty member this year is 53.2 years.

The University offered a buyout package to 39 full-time professors in the school of engineering – half of their full-time faculty – in January 2010. Six professors accepted the buyout.

The new hires will be sup-ported by a financial commit-ment from the provost’s office and the Office of the Vice Presi-dent for Research.

“In research intensive areas such as engineering and science, new faculty re-quire startup funds to buy equipment and get their research programs started,” Lerman said. “The amounts involved can be substantial, particularly in laboratory research-based fields.”

Lerman declined to pro-vide at the time exact figures for the startup funds, but said that the added push will be expended over sev-eral years. u

The University spent $15.1 million on travel ex-penses in fiscal year 2009, financial disclosure docu-ments show, significantly less than peer instutions.

University Treasurer Lou Katz was unable to provide specific information about the exact number of trips, the most frequent destinations or most common travelers, due to the way records are kept, as much of the data is not computerized.

The University’s market basket schools significantly outspent GW on travel ex-penses. Boston University spent $19.9 million on travel in the 2009 fiscal year, while New York University spent $62.9 million.

Syracuse and Northwest-ern universities also sur-passed GW's spending, dis-closing $28.8 million and $45

million respectively for trav-el expenses during that year. The University spent slightly more than Tulane University, which disclosed $13.8 million in travel expenses.

Representatives from Bos-ton, New York and Tulane uni-versities didn’t return requests for comment, and a spokesper-son from Northwestern Uni-versity declined to comment on the institution’s financial disclosure form.

Travel expenses include transportation and accommo-dations for students, staff or faculty traveling on University business. This metric includes athletics, seminars, conferenc-es, international partnerships and research travel, Katz said.

“As the institution con-tinues to grow...you’re going to see travel expenses grow,” Katz said.

The expense also includes the cost of bringing academic guests to GW.

“A sample of some of the

trips shows that we also bring in researchers to the University to conduct work,” Katz added.

The University’s travel ex-penses lag behind other similar schools because of its urban lo-cation – a perk that cuts down on the need to travel to confer-ences in the District, Katz said.

“Needless to say, I don’t travel to Washington any-more,” Katz laughed.

The University spent $16.1 million on travel in fiscal year 2008, financial documents from that year show. Fiscal years run from July 1 to June 30.

“Depending upon the type of research funding the univer-sity receives in any given year, travel may be more or less than a previous year,” Smith said of the variation. “GW serves as a coordination site for many con-ferences and events that require us to host forums in a variety of venues, thus the variation in travel expenses.”

The expenses included three reimbursements for a

spouse to travel, although Katz noted the vast majority of cases do not include expenses for couples to travel together.

University spokeswoman Candace Smith could not provide specific informa-tion about those occasions on which University administra-tors were reimbursed to travel with their spouses. u

In almost seven months, Dean of Students Peter Kon-werski has tweeted 3,937 times. For the last week, he averaged 34 tweets a day.

The 42 year old has tweet-ed about everything from City Hall’s unkempt pool and bro-ken elevators in South Hall, to University President Ste-ven Knapp playing the bongo drums at Alumni Weekend and what movie Konwerski and his wife were watching on a Saturday night.

Konwerski said, until ear-lier this year, he had been afraid of Twitter and its “random sym-bols,” – the hashtags and men-tions that he now uses daily.

“GWPeterK” started tweeting April 1 - 30 days after creating his account - after at-tending a lecture on the power of microblogging at a higher education conference. Within a week, Konwerski said he re-alized the new connections he was making with students.

“I thought to myself, this is an amazing tool,” he said.

Twitter has become the so-cial media outlet of choice for associate dean of students, Tim Miller, as well.

Like Konwerski, Miller fre-quently refers students to FIXit and encourages students to come in and meet face-to-face about an issue.

Miller said, while it is still

more common for him to re-ceive an e-mail than a Tweet to schedule meetings, Twitter

is a key new way to identify student issues.

“It’s where students

are,” Miller said. “Students don’t express their concerns over e-mail.”

In early spring, Miller said he had 20 followers on Twitter. Now he has more than 400.

“It’s a dramatic shift from last year,” Miller said. Miller, who has sent more than 400 tweets since classes began, credits Konwerski for leading GW’s Twitter movement.

Miller said reaching out on social media appeals to students who wouldn’t oth-erwise be in regular contact with administrators.

“There is less pressure when students don’t feel that they are talking to you directly,” Miller said. “I am able to become aware of stu-dents' complaints through what they tweet."

Josh Fischman, a technol-ogy reporter for The Chroni-cle of Higher Education, said social media usage is growing in prominence among top-level college administrators across the country.

He pointed to The Chron-icle's August survey's find-ing that 18 percent of college presidents used Twitter at least occasionally.

Fischman said the rise of social media use among top college leaders is not surpris-ing as "they are in the business of communicating."

Twitter in particular al-lows students to get in touch with their administrators and get to know them on a more personal level.

"Ten years ago, we would just have afternoon coffee; social media is a shortcut to that," he said. u

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@GWPeterK takes student engagement online

michelle rattiNger | seNior photo editorDean of Students and constant-tweeter Peter Konwerski stays in touch with students through technology. Since creating a Twitter account nearly seven months ago, Konwerski has dominated students' virtual timelines with updates on topics ranging from housing to his personal life.

Student leads fight to restore papersby iaN redmaNHatchet Reporter

Univ. travel costs below peersby chelsea radlerCampus News Editor

SEAS hiring boom focuses on research profileby aNdrea vittorioCampus News Editor

jordaN emoNt | assistaNt photo editorDean David Dolling, flanked by drawings of the Science and Engineering Hall, is outhiring the other schools within the University, in an effort to boost the School of Engineering and Applied Science's reputation.

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Freshman Day of ServiceAs the Student Coordinator of this year’s

Freshman Day of Service, I would like to re-spond to the column, “A day of service to GW’s image” (Sept. 18, Page 4).

Contrary to Ali Rosenthal’s opinion, lead-ers were given extensive training, which in-cluded specific site and project information. All freshmen were e-mailed multiple times, and the Interfaith Challenge piece of the day was highlighted, and was also mentioned on every Freshman Day of Service poster on campus. Furthermore, students completed an average of three hours of service on Sept. 11. This, however, is not the point.

The point is that community service is volunteerism, and volunteerism is a choice. The freshmen and upperclassmen lead-ers who served on Sept. 11 chose to do so. The students, who returned covered in dirt and paint, with huge smiles and endless stories, are the ones who made Freshman Day of Service the success that it was. These students gave back to the community, and they did so with enthusiasm. There are 13 schools in Washington, D.C. that now have colorful, inviting and inspirational displays for young students. Veterans in two service facilities enjoyed conversing and chatting with young college students. Due to clean-up projects, the D.C. environment is much cleaner than it was on Sept. 10. These are the stories that matter.

Most of us came to GW to experience the real world, and having the opportunity to serve alongside cabinet secretaries in im-

poverished schools is a unique benefit of be-ing in a city. Yet the large majority of 12-hour work days spent planning Freshman Day of Service were spent ensuring that freshmen, leaders and faculty had all the necessary in-formation and were inspired to go serve on Sunday. The appearance of a few notable in-dividuals did not detract from this emphasis or hard work.

Those of us who worked tirelessly to make Freshman Day of Service a possibility and who served around Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11 have made a huge impact on the community. In turn, the community has undoubtedly impacted everyone who vol-unteered. Freshman Day of Service inspired hundreds of freshmen to get involved, help others and continue the spirit of service that GW is so proud of.

Rachel Krausman–The writer, a junior majoring in

international affairs, was the Student Coordinator for

Freshman Day of Service.

Complaining about constructionWe would like to respond to the news

article, "Demolition Irks Residents" (Sept. 1, Page 8).

It’s 8 a.m. on a Monday, and a sophomore at GW, awoken by the sputters of a jackham-mer, claims her world is unfair.

On a daily basis, student complaints remind us that campus construction is an-noying, loud and unsightly. But what often goes unmentioned is that it is also progress.

Progress, as an old concrete parking garage transforms into a state-of-the-art academic space. Progress, as a facility that will re-search how to make vehicles more efficient replaces a building that housed CO2-emit-ting vehicles. Progress, as GW establishes excellence in science and continues to climb university rankings.

Ultimately, complaints about construction are just a symptom of a larger problem. We call the Vern an “isolated prison” rather than a “peaceful retreat from the bustling city." We bemoan J Street food as “inedible,” ignoring the fact that at most colleges, similar dining halls are a student’s only option. We dwell on the fact that our sophomore year rooms are “too small,” failing to appreciate the unique luxury of having private bathrooms and kitchens. One would think that we, as stu-dents, could appreciate what we have and look past minor issues, but we can’t.

Yes, GW has its flaws. And yes, criticism, in moderation, has its benefits. When unbri-dled though, it not only loses its weight with administrators, it's just tawdry. We can do better. We should take pride in the school that we chose to attend. Take a breath, and admire the progress unfolding in front of us.

It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday. The sound of progress rumbles outside your window. You think to yourself what a hardship it is to be a student. Stop. Realize it’s not just time to wake up, it’s time to grow up.

Cory Trio and Brady Baldwin–The writers are sophomores, majoring in

political science and economics, respectively.

I’m not generally a jealous person. But as an English major, I’ve gotten used to feel-ing left out when it comes to the way the

University allocates its priorities.It’s no secret that GW emphasizes its pro-

grams in international affairs and political sci-ence. Consider for a moment the list of hall-mark speakers brought to campus in the past few years. The names include: President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, How-ard Dean, Newt Gingrich, Michael Bloomberg and, this past week, former White House Press Secre-tary Robert Gibbs.

While it is true that the University brings non-political figures to campus, they are certainly not touted nearly as much as the speakers the political science department, the School of Media of Public Affairs or the Elliott School of International Affairs bring in.

The University must promote and empha-size the wide range of humanities programs that this institution has to offer. The backbone and foundation of every university is the lib-eral arts education it provides its students.

So while I watched the parking garage at 22 and H streets being torn down this week, making room for the new Science and Engi-neering Complex, I couldn’t help but ask, “We haven’t forgotten about the humanities, right?”

But the school took a step in the right di-rection Wednesday with the installation of Toni Morrison’s bench by the road in front of Lisner Auditorium.

After the ceremony, Morrison had dinner with students (including yours truly) from

the English and Africana Studies departments as well as the Women’s Leadership Program. The conversation over dinner gave students a chance to interact with a Nobel laureate in an intimate setting. In particular, Morrison talk-ed in detail about the writing process – both her obstacles and successes – and gave advice

and encouragement to the stream of budding poets and fiction writ-ers that surrounded her.

For a school that sometimes feels like it doesn't look twice at liberal arts, it was reassuring to see the community celebrating

something else for a change: one of America’s most important living authors.

See, a university is an amalgam of inter-ests and passions, where thoughts are shared, exchanged and debated among many distinct disciplines and people. It makes no sense to only emphasize a few departments, because in the end, that allows a handful of disciplines to flourish while the rest are left to flounder.

But perhaps the most encouraging aspect of Morrison’s visit was the overwhelming turn-out of students, faculty and members of the greater Washington area who displayed a profound interest and admiration for both lit-erature and art.

“People should read anything and every-thing,” Morrison said Wednesday night to a packed Lisner Auditorium. This University should be no different.

So while I’m still waiting for GW to build a castle in the sky dedicated to the humanities, for the time being, I can settle for a bench by the road. Beggars can’t be choosers, after all.

–The writer is a junior majoring in English.

There’s nothing like moving into a new housing assignment in the fall semes-ter. You wonder how you'll set up your

room, where to put your favorite lamp and, why is there is a hole in the wall?

With the new policy that housing pro-grams implemented, students will come to be even more fearful of the phrase “you break it, you buy it.”

The policy requires stu-dents living in residence hall rooms with more than one bed-room to be as-signed to a spe-cific bedroom, which they will keep throughout the year. Should students wish to switch bed-rooms within a housing assignment, they need to notify the University.

GW students can be slobs. You see that when you find beer cans in an eleva-tor on Sunday morning, or when you step over a pizza box that someone left out in the hallway. Sure, someone will clean it up, but why make them do it when you can do it yourself?

I urge the University to go one step fur-ther. If a student is a repeat offender of the “broom policy,” or has been forced to pay a separate fee for damages before, then that student should face the threat of losing cam-pus housing. A fine may not always suffice in some cases, and the money that it takes to clean up after this resident is well spent somewhere else.

The University has reserved the right to charge students for failure to comply with GW’s “broom clean” policy, which man-dates that if students leave the room messy after moving out, they can get slapped with a $250 fine.

With the new policy in place, at the end of the year, housing and facilities officials will have help in finding out which of the four roommates failed to remove a year's worth of trash from the bedroom. That stu-dent – and hopefully that student alone – will then face the consequences.

Anything that promotes student ac-countability is a welcome policy, and being able to narrow down who lived in which bedroom will prevent the en-tire room from getting punished. This is especially important for students living with random roommates.

Last spring, GW charged 487 students in 229 rooms around campus with a fee for failing to clean up after themselves.

So don’t think that you can get away with leaving your collection of beer bottles in your kitchen cabinet. Heed the warn-ing, and get rid of them. It isn’t that dif-ficult to clean a room before moving out. Even if May 1, 2012 is the first time you take a sponge to your bathroom sink in a year – ew – perhaps this policy will at least make students do so at all.

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

Students can save some moneyby Brian Tratner

The key to keeping

rooms clean

GW must promote the humanities

Lyndsey Wajert

Senior Columnist

Patrick Rochelle

Writer

Letters to the editor

J StreetStudents used to buy a war-

time stock of overpriced soda and chips at J Street to get rid

of their dining dollars. But now, J Street has been transformed into a desir-able place for students to dine and gather. The

staircase has been moved, allow-ing more space for food options. Brand new venues with rotating food choices have been added, and healthy eating options, which were previously scarce, have been greatly expanded. Most of the venues now have late night hours and are open on weekends. Who ever would have thought upperclassmen would be bemoaning the fact that they didn’t have any dining dollars left?

Toni MorrisonCampus was abuzz with excite-

ment over author Toni Mor-rison’s appearance at Lisner

Auditorium last week. It was refreshing to see a school that often focuses

on high-profile political speakers provide the com-

munity an opportunity to interact with a unique figure. It is important that the University ensures that the events on campus appeal to a wide range of students, and not just a concentrated subset of the community. The University should look to promote more events that allow students to hear from important figures who haven’t only worked on Capitol Hill.

Freshman Day of ServiceIt was encouraging to see a record

2,300 freshmen volunteering at this year's Freshman Day of Service. Stu-dents were sent all over

the city to paint murals at schools and clean parks,

and were even afforded the unique opportunity to hear and work alongside important political figures such as Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Yet the day was still plagued by complaints of poor worksite plan-ning and lack of coordination amongst some of the leaders. The student vol-unteer experience must continue to be enhanced to make this important day as meaningful as possible.

Free condomsEarlier this week, the Student As-

sociation passed non-binding legislation to install free con-

dom dispensers in every residence hall. Often times, students feel uncomfort-

able buying condoms at lo-cal stores, asking their house

proctor or going to Student Health Services. Allowing for the place-ment of condom dispensers in discrete places like bathrooms or laundry rooms would provide all students appropriate access to them. The University must do all it can to promote safe sex.

Collegiate Readership Program

We still want our newspapers. With the elimination of

the Collegiate Reader-ship Program, students have been deprived of one of the most impor-tant ways to access the

news. While students still have a variety of ways to

view content online, sub-scribing to the Collegiate Readership program was extremely symbolic for GW. It represented a student body that is engaged and knowledgeable with the surrounding world, and an administration that fully supported students’ pursuit of knowledge.

Metro escalatorsIt is a question that everyone asks

all the time: Why can’t the Metro get their act to-gether and fix their esca-lators? As if the morning commute weren't bad enough, we now have to

shuffle through a crowded mess of people at the top of

the Foggy Bottom station. The esca-lators are often fixed for a few brief, glorious moments, but then they in-evitably stop while full of riders. One can only assume that the reason they haven’t been fixed is that mechanics are busy working on every other esca-lator in the system.

Thumbs up/Thumbs Down

The Hatchet’s wrap up of GW’s ups and downs.

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Josh PerlmanContributing Editorjperlman@gwhatchet.com HCultureSeptember 26, 2011 w Page 5 Get off your

BOTTOMEvents off the Foggy Bottom campus

EnriquE iglEsiasPatriot Center7 p.m. Tuesday$69.50 to $89.50

CafE Con lEChEMitchell Hall Theatre7 p.m. ThursdayFree

A Parisian tradition came to D.C. for a night, flooding the Dis-trict with eight hours of music, visual and interactive art, poetry and a fashion show.

The Art All Night: Nuit Blanche festival is a contemporary art showcase organized by volun-teers who aimed to bring a unique collaboration of art from different medias to neighborhood venues. Nuit Blanche was D.C.’s first-ever overnight arts festival.

With over 20 gallery locations across the city, spreading from Chinatown to Shaw, and a shuttle to transport visitors, the free fes-tival brought a heavy dose of cul-ture before the clock struck 3 a.m.

Attracting a diverse crowd, from teenagers to older couples,

the festival had art enthusiasts roaming the streets in search of modern and unusual art at Dis-trict warehouses and galleries.

Ariana Austin, the founder and creative director of Art All Night DC, taught English as a lan-guage assistant while living in the suburbs of Paris. Her artistic and cultural experiences in Paris in-spired her to bring the concept of an all-night art festival back home to D.C.

Blaze One, a local graffiti artist, painted a live tag for the crowd.

“You got to do something nice. Doesn’t matter where it is...if the image is right, if the colors are right, if the whole composition is visibly pleasing, you can’t deny its beauty,” Blaze One said.

Not far from the graffiti exhi-bition, an interactive light instal-lation created by Brian Davis, a

professorial lecturer in new me-dia, called “Networks” seemed to perplex nearby guests.

The sculpture is meant to re-flect the networks of interpersonal connections and relationships, Da-vid said. The artwork consists of a circle of chairs with lights hanging over each seat. A convoluted struc-ture of boards connects the chairs and lights together.

Davis filmed the initial reactions people had upon seeing his installa-tion, allowing for interactive partici-pation from his audience.

“When one person sits down [on a chair], their individual spot-light turns off, but when a group of people all sit down together, all the lights come on together. It has to be a group effort,” Davis said.

Timothy Johnson, a local art-ist whose work is displayed at the artist-owned Touchstone Gallery,

described Art All Night as a new and enjoyable experience.

“It’s a lot of fun. We’ve had a great response. People who haven’t seen our gallery before are here,” Johnson said.

The nonprofit organization Shaw Main Streets presented the event and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded a Festivals DC grant to help spon-

sor the citywide event. Peggy Montgomery, a volunteer,

hopes art festivals like these will continue to grow in size and num-ber.

“I think it’s going to get better and bigger,” Montgomery said. “We need this...festivals are all over Eu-rope, but we don’t have them much [in the U.S.], so I think it’d be great it if really gets going.”u

BEn harPErThe 9:30 ClubOct. 4 and 5

Ben Harper has made a name for himself through his eclectic blend of blues, folk, pop, rock, soul and even some reg-gae. His latest album, “Give Till It’s Gone,” released last May, features collaborations with Ringo Starr and Jackson Browne with British Invasion, Califor-nia glam tones and heavy gui-tar riffs. “Give Till It’s Gone” is written for a great live experi-ence, and you can count on the two-time Grammy-win-ner to deliver. Check out his cover of The Beatles' “Strawberry Fields” from the “I Am Sam” soundtrack, and my personal favorite, “Faithfully Remain,” from Harper’s last album, “White Lies for Dark Times.”

Score: Harper’s albums are written for a venue like 9:30. Ex-pect raging guitar but also some spiritual “Kumbaya” moments.Bore: With a deep catalogue of tunes like Harper’s, anyone but true diehards may get a little lost.

DawEsThe Black CatOct. 24

Dawes is a band that has been around for only two years, but it has still man-aged to capture the authentic feel of Laurel Canyon in the 1970s. After forming out of the wreckage of post-punk band Simon Dawes, Dawes released its major label debut, “North Hills,” one of the best written albums of 2009. Taylor Gold-smith, the band’s main song-writer, has the ability to bare all his scars and bruises, but he does so over shimmering gui-tar lines that make his cathar-tic music fun to listen to. The obvious classic is “When My Time Comes,” but for a newer hit, check out “Time Spent in Los Angeles,” a touching song about what gets lost in the city. I would also recommend “Moon in the Water,” a slower acoustic piece.

Score: Analogue rock with serious lyrics that is seriously good. Look for shimmering har-monies and great keyboards.Bore: No need for them to co-headline. It’s time to move to a major venue and make it happen!

ThE waTCh ThE ThronE Tour - KanyE wEsT anD Jay-Z The Verizon CenterNov. 3

When two of the biggest acts of the decade announced they would be collaborating on an entire album, the hip-hop world went nuts. Following amaz-ing releases from both Kanye and Jay-Z – see “My Beauti-ful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and “The Blueprint III,” respectively – everyone knew this was go-

ing to be huge. Over beautiful samples and hooks, “Watch the Throne” is one of the biggest albums of the year. The tour, which the artists will head-

line together under the moni-ker “The Thrones,” will feature new songs from the album, plus collaborations on some old hits like “Swagger Like Us” and “Diamonds from Sierra Leone.” One bonus with these two is that their tours always include un-announced special guests. Last time I saw Kanye, both Lupe Fiasco and Common showed up to guest spot. Look for major acts in each city to be featured – hopefully Beyonce will make some cameos, as well as some of Kanye’s MBDTF crew.

Score: Two of the biggest stars in the world on the same stage, and they always bring friends.Bore: Lots of ego in this room, so expect the show to be over-the-top and super pricey.

Andy Warhol created icons out of the mundane: a bottle of coke, a soup can and even a banana.

His inspiration also stemmed from another commonplace item, tabloid news – a routine, often unnoticed fix-ture in everyday life. This inspiration soon became an obsession and, now, an exhibition.

“Warhol: Headlines” opened at The National Gallery of Art on Sept. 25, presenting a comprehensive collection which demonstrates Warhol’s unique technique of stitching images together.

"In 'Warhol: Headlines,' we experi-ence Warhol’s works that shine a spot-light on the insatiable appetite for the sensational side of news,” Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art, said.

The collection, which includes about 80 works, from paintings to sculptures to video clips, comprises the first ex-hibit with a theme based solely around the motif of news headlines in Warhol’s work. Warhol created time capsules with a personal storage space of headlines and articles that served as inspiration for the exhibit.

“Warhol: Headlines” is part of the larger Warhol on the Mall program along with “Andy Warhol: Shadows,” which is on display at the Hirshhorn Museum until Jan. 15.

One piece is comprised of six iden-tical photographs sewn together with a thread of Daily News vending machines that feature a front-page headline enti-tled “Zaccaro Indicted.” Zaccaro, a real-estate developer, created headlines after being indicted in 1981 on felony charges in the alleged bribery of Donald Manes, president of the borough Queens, who ultimately committed suicide.

Besides duplication, Warhol used a variety of techniques to give power to his work. One piece, “Fate Presto” – translating to “hurry up” in Italian – urges people to quickly respond to the destruction caused by a massive earth-quake on November 26, 1980.

The front page of the Naples Daily was multiplied into three towering 9-by-6.5 foot panels, intentionally reflecting the scale of the event. Warhol lightened the tone of one and darkened the other, de-intensifying their contrast.

“ 'Fate Presto' signals a call to action to address the human tragedy of the earthquake,” Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, said.

Out of all the pieces, Donovan views one as most important: “ 'A Boy for Meg,' Warhol’s first headline canvas, inspired the entire exhibition. [‘A Boy for Meg’] taught us that some-thing as mundane as the daily news-paper can be grand,” said Donovan.

This painting, which includes both the original penciled version as

well as a revised hand-painted one, is the first work seen when entering the exhibit. This comprehensive look at the piece shows the evolution of his style and techniques.

The exhibit includes works in ball-point, graphite, pencil, crayon, acrylic and silkscreen on a vast array of surface materials, from canvases to linens.

Donovan said the exhibit also dis-plays three silent four-minute screen tests and has seven locations to see film, video, television and audio.

With projections on the wall, the Na-tional Gallery of Art also made artwork out of Warhol’s television shows: “Andy Warhol’s T.V.,” which featured artists and celebrities from the film, art, music and fashion industries.

His last television project, “Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes,” was broad-cast on MTV during the 1980s and fea-tured a variety of celebrities and figures of popular culture. With striking black glasses and unkempt near-white hair, Warhol finally created his most success-ful icon: himself.

“Warhol’s life and his art ran so closely together that, eventually, they collapsed into one narrative,” said Donovan.

On June 3, 1968, Warhol made head-lines himself when radical feminist writ-er Valerie Jean Solanas shot him three times. At the hospital, Warhol was clini-cally pronounced dead, only to later be revived by doctors.

The exhibit has also given life to Warhol’s never-before-seen work, put-ting his images on display for the first time.

“Forty percent of the works in the show have never been on public view,” Donovan said. “After researching this audio work for four years, I have come to realize that we’re just beginning to un-derstand this prolific artist's work.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public until Jan. 2 in the East Building of the gallery. u

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Less than six minutes into the Co-lonials (2-3-2) match against Jackson-ville on Friday, GW found itself in a hole that would only grow as the first half played out.

The Dolphins headed a ball into the back of the net, taking an early 2-0 lead. By the 20th minute, the Colonials found themselves down 3-0.

“It was our worst start of the sea-son by far," head coach George Lidster said. “They came at us right out of the gate. They caught us asleep.”

At halftime, Lidster attempted to answer his team’s offensive woes, making the switch to a 4-3-3 forma-tion. The Colonials tallied their loan goal of the day on a converted pen-alty kick from senior Yoni Berhanu in the 62nd minute. Despite the ramped up offensive effort in the second half, GW couldn't overcome Jacksonville, falling 3-1.

“We built too big of a hole in the first half,” Lidster said. “We got one goal, but it wasn’t enough.”

Heading into their second match of the weekend against Stetson, Lidster made several changes to his starting lineup, notably at goal with junior Bren-dan Lafferty, who had been sidelined by injury over the past four games.

With the addition of fresh legs in the lineup, the Colonials battled through a back-and-forth first half. Stetson was able to break the stalemate in the 38th minute, but junior Seth Rudolph equalized soon after, sending GW into the half deadlocked at one.

The Colonials came out of the half strong. A foul set up a penalty kick for GW in the 73rd minute, and Berhanu was once again successful on his at-tempt, pushing GW to a 2-1 lead with 27 minutes to play.

With three minutes to play, the Co-lonials gave up a free kick, as Stetson was able to convert the long attempt into a game-tying goal, knotting the score at 2-2. Regulation play ended with the score tied and the teams played 20 minutes of extra time, but neither team was able to score. The match ended in a 2-2 draw, but overall, Lidster was pleased with his team’s performance.

“Apart from the goal in the last four minutes, I was very pleased with the fight,” Lidster said. “We passed the ball very well and kept posses-sion very well. We played a lot better than Friday.”

The Colonials next face Wofford in Spartanburg, S.C. Oct. 1.

–Daniel Wright

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When the Colonials walked away from the field with a 2-1 loss at the hands of Liberty Friday, they also walked away from a trend that has followed them throughout their last few matches – a struggle to put the ball in the net.

GW (3-6) outshot its oppo-nent, but was unable to capital-ize on those chances, falling in a one-goal decision. Head coach Tanya Vogel was frank when talk-ing about her team’s performance, directly addressing the need for greater accuracy in the box.

“When we take 19 shots like we did today and take eight cor-ner kicks and they take none, we have to get some in the back of the net,” Vogel said.

After allowing an early goal in the fifth minute, the Colonials controlled the tempo of play for the rest of the first half. Junior Samie Cloutier and sophomore Melanie Keer kept the Liberty offense away from the goal, al-lowing junior Adriana Moya and senior Sierra Smidinger the op-

portunity to put pressure on the Flames' goalkeeper.

Smidinger netted an equal-izing goal in the 15th minute, capitalizing on a corner kick from junior Molly Bruh. The goal was Smidinger’s fourth of the season,

and her second of the season that was off of Bruh's corner kick. But despite Smidinger’s success in finding the back of the net, the Colonials were unable to capital-ize on their other scoring oppor-tunities in the first half.

“We had moments, but we weren’t consistent,” Smidinger said. “We just need to focus on stay-ing consistent and play our game.”

GW again struggled to find the back of the net after halftime. Liberty drilled in a goal from the wing in the 54th minute, putting itself up 2-1. The Colonials battled back, but were unable to answer the Flames' go-ahead goal.

The Colonials outshot Liberty 11 to four in the second, but strug-gled with accuracy, landing only five shots on goal. Unable to score, GW fell in a one-goal decision.

The Colonials have just one more game before Atlantic 10 play begins, set to travel to American Monday to take on the District-rival Eagles. Vogel views the upcoming game as more than just another out-of-conference match.

“We are going to approach Monday’s game against American as if it is an actual A-10 game,” Vogel said. “There will be a very hungry GW team playing Ameri-can on Monday. It is our last dress rehearsal before A-10 play and we want to come out strong.” u

With 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter against Bucknell, and the Co-lonials down two, sophomore Paul Deasey rocketed down the pool in hopes of scoring a last minute goal.

Junior goalkeeper Cameron Illes threw the ball to Deasey in hopes of scoring during the transi-tion to the opposite end of the pool. But as Deasey reached Bucknell’s end, he plunged under the water, in what appeared to be a foul by the Bison defender.

GW’s bench erupted, yelling angrily at the play. But as they pro-tested, Deasey was whistled for a foul of his own, transferring posses-sion to Bucknell. Head coach Scott Reid passionately arguing with the referee about the controversial call, and was handed a red card, ejected from the game. After the match was over, and the Colonials (6-8) fell 10-8 to the Bison, Reid shied away from any talk of his ejection.

“The officials did their job,” he said.

Reid wasn’t the only Colonial to be ejected from Sunday’s match. Sophomore Daniel Tyner, who led the Colonials with a career-high nine goals in GW’s 14-13 victory over Johns Hopkins Saturday, was ejected with 20 seconds left in the first quar-ter. It left GW without its two leading scorers, with sophomore Nate Little sidelined for the weekend due to a concussion – though he’s scheduled to return for GW’s next match.

The Colonials won just one of the their three matches against CWPA rivals this weekend, fall-ing 15-8 to Princeton Saturday, next defeating John Hopkins and then losing the tightly-contested match against Bucknell. The team was dis-tracted, Reid said, by the blow dealt to it with Tyner’s removal.

“The guys got frustrated early on in the game,” Reid said. “When one of your top players is removed, it gets hard.”

At the opening match against Princeton, Illes started the game with high intensity, posting two ear-ly back-to-back saves.

The Colonials defense struggled

after halftime, allowing Princeton six goals in six minutes, a scoring run that they used to pull away from a 5-5 tie. Deasey and freshman Ridvan Pehlivan each netted hat tricks, but their offensive front wasn’t enough to propel GW to victory, falling 14-8.

“We didn’t start off doing the game plan we talked about on Fri-day,” Reid said. “We had broken de-fense and Princeton took advantage of it during the second half.”

GW returned from the tough loss later that night to beat Johns Hopkins by a single point in a close match. Tyner led the way with a ca-reer high in goals, including three during the 6-1 Colonials run that closed the first half.

Tyner again added three goals in the opening two minutes and six sec-onds of the fourth quarter to put the Colonials at a 13-10 advantage. The Blue Jays pulled within one, with just 63 seconds left to play, but their last-minute shot aimed just wide of

the net, and the Colonials hung on to win their first match against their league rival since 2004, a match that Reid said his team “played pretty much perfectly.”

“I was feeling good that game,” Tyner said. “Every game I have the same mentality. I want to win.”

The Colonials entered their last game of the weekend against Buck-nell Sunday. The Bisons' use of the shot clock, patience with passing and successful transitions down the pool helped them create many suc-cessful shot opportunities.

GW had yet to take a lead with 20 seconds left in the first quarter, and the tight, highly contested play raised the pressure and emo-tion in the pool. It spilled over with Tyner’s ejection after he was whis-tled for three fouls.

“Everyone got too frustrated,” Tyner said. “It was a learning experi-ence for me.”

The Bison had a 6-4 lead at half-

time, and the third quarter started off with the GW defense losing its rhythm, allowing a 4-2 scoring run that gave Bucknell a four-point lead.

A minute was left in the fourth quarter when the intensity in the room was at its highest point of the entire weekend, setting the scene for Deasey’s foul that led to Reid’s ejection. GW was unable to close the two-goal gap, and Bucknell with-stood the Colonials' rally to pull out a 10-8 victory.

Despite only posting one win over three matches, Reid was heart-ened by his team’s play. The fight they showed over their two narrow losses was telling, he said, and spoke to the heart of his players.

“Overall, they showed a lot of guts this weekend,” Reid said. “They never gave up.”

GW next travels to the Cla-remont Convergence, opening play against California Baptist Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. u

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