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The GW
Vol. 90, No. 14
Serving The George Washington University Community Since 1904
Monday, September 27, 1993
Services benefit disabled students District identify
University strives
to accommodate
growing numbers
by Ann Saccomano
Hatchet Staff Writer
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Dean’s List in his
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f he decided a few
*- 'people should
know about it. He sent a copy of the
notification letter to officials at
another university who originally
rejected his application.
The rejection, he had been told,
was because the administrators did
not want to be blamed for his loss of
self-esteem when he failed. Benison,
a 1993 GW graduate, is legally blind.
As a student, Benison was able to
complete his coursework with the
help of work study students who read
his textbooks aloud and audio-
equipped computers supplied by the
computer center. GW provided these
and other services to Benison at no
charge.
Benison’s success demonstrates
what Mike Freedman, University
Relations director of public affairs,
says is the University’s ongoing
commitment to meeting or exceed-
ing the needs of disabled people
under the Americans with Disabili-
ties Act (ADA).
photo by Ashraf Fahim
SENIOR SHARON AVRUNIN FEELS that, despite a recent complaint
filed by another disabled person, GW is accessible to the disabled public.
Meeting more needs
GW served 290 students with
disabilities last year, according to
Christy Willis, director of Disabled
Student Services. This represents
less than 2 percent of the total student
population. The number of disabled
students has increased steadily in the
last three years at an average rate of
19 percent a year, she says.
The ADA defines a disabled
person as “one who has a physical or
mental impairment that substantially
limits a major life activity, a person
who has a past record of such an
impairment, or a person who is
(See DISABLED, p. 12)
Students unsure of health care
Student Health Service seeks to clarify policy coverage options
by Donna Brutkoski
Hatchet Reporter
With changes in national health care on the way, the GW
Student Health Service is concerned that students don’t have
*11 the facts about insurance and payment for health care,
I Barbara Hamer, executive coordinator of Student Health,
said.
„ There is a lot of confusion on this issue,” Hamer said,
and we want to be sure that students have the right
tnformation.”
| Hamer said Student Health does not submit bills directly to
a student’s insurance company. If they did, she said, more
P er *>nne! would need to be hired.
With more salaries and therefore less money for Student
sa°d h’ '^ e °1 care would be compromised, Hamer
, When a student is billed, he or she pays Student Health
immediately and then can submit the receipt to an insurance
Co,n Pany, Hamer said. But Hamer warned that every
ntpany’s policy is different.
iomc companies will reimburse patients for minor tests.
such as throat cultures, and also for immunizations while
others require the patient to pay in those cases, she said.
Hamer also said the GW University Health Plan is avail-
able specifically to students who are not covered by another
insurance plan through their family or employer.
One advantage of the GW plan is that it covers most minor
tests and other care, Hamer said. Since the plan is ran through
the University, administration is also easier, she added.
Student Health is an attractive option to some students
because it is so inexpensive. Freshman Katie Harper said she
paid only $12 for an office visit and a prescription.
In President Clinton’s speech to Congress Wednesday
outlining his health care reforms, he said young people will
have to shoulder an increasing share of health care costs.
However, they will reap benefits in a few years if the cost of
health care is kept in check, he added.
Every registered student at GW can be cared for by Student
Health. Student Health acts as the primary care giver, but
refers students to specialists if necessary, Hamer said Ec
University does not require students to have a health insur-
ance policy, but it does strongly recommend it, she added.
traffic trouble spots
by Douglas Parker
Hatchet Reporter
Student Association officers and a GW administrator took District officials on a
problem-shooting tour of campus Tuesday in response to a rash of accidents
involving students on campus.
Student Association Executive Vice President Paul Hamilton, SA Vice Presi-
dent for Undergraduate Policy Terrell Ringer and Rodney Johnson, director of
parent services, discussed dangerous intersections and streets on campus with A.
Rashid Sleemi and Himmat Chadda, administrators from the D.G. Department of
Public Works.
The SA received reports of 16 pedestrian accidents in the past year, four within
the last month, Hamilton said. UPD Captain Anthony RoccoGrande said 1 2 traffic
accidents occurred on campus between July 1 9 and Aug. 1 4 but was unsure of the
number involving pedestrians.
In addition, a report from the Department of Public Works showed that all seven
accidents involving pedestrians on campus last year occurred at intersections.
Johnson said drivers often do not know they are on a college campus when they
come through GW. People would drive slower if signs made it clear this was a
college campus, he said.
Hamilton said H Street is a major area of concern because of the high volume of
traffic. Hamilton said he would like to see the District install rumble strips, which
is ridged pavement used to caution drivers and slow down traffic. Sleemi said
rumble strips were a possibility, but they have not been used in Washington before.
Of the intersections cited as trouble spots by Hamilton, most had only two or
three stop signs, instead of a four-way stop sign.
Sleemi said the Department of Public Works would send video and audio tapes
to GW to help educate new students, many of whom arc in a large city for the first
time.
Sleemi said stop signs could be added, but it would probably take six months to
get approval by the D.C. Council. Hamilton said it can take two years to get a
signal at an intersection but “that’s the bureaucracy of the system.”
In addition, Hamilton noted a low number of speed and caution signs on campus
and food vendors that often block building entrances.
Sleemi said the traffic violations were “purely an enforcement problem.” He
suggested calling Metropolitan Police with problems and said with increased
enforcement, drivers would follow the traffic regulations.
Hamilton, Johnson and Ringer identified the following areas of concern:
• 22nd and I streets. Pedestrian traffic between the Foggy Bottom Metro
station, GW Hospital and Marvin and Academic centers makes this a busy
intersection, Ringer said. Johnson and Hamilton both said they saw accidents here.
• 21st and I streets. Johnson said this is an intersection with a two-way slop
(See TRAFFIC, p. 11)
Anti-Semitic graffiti
painted on campus
by Elissa Leibowitz
Managing Editor
University workers removed more
than 35 swastikas and anti-Semitic graf-
fiti from walls and trash cans on campus
Friday after they were spray painted
throughout the District early Friday
morning.
Administrators said although they
think GW students were not involved in
the incident, the attack was clearly done
to coincide with the start of Yom
Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays,
which began at sunset Friday.
“It’s probably related to the fact that
the holidays are upon us,” GW President
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said Friday.
He compared this incident to “the Ku
Klux Klan (who) might be tempted to
hold a march on Martin Luther King
Jr.’s birthday.”
Administrators discovered the graf-
fiti early Friday morning along F, G and
H streets and along 22nd and 23rd
streets. Metropolitan Police and the
National Anti-Defamation League also
reported swastikas on K Street and near
the Mall, but none were reported on
other area college campuses, police
said.
Trachtenberg said this is the first time
(See GRAFFITI, p. 13)
Impressions p. 8-9
The Program can’t provide missing
college football excitement to GW
students.
Sports p. 15
Volleyball team stmggles through an
emotional, tragic weekend tournament
in Florida.
Editorials p. 4-5
Is The GW Hatchet losing its edge?
2-The GW Hatchet- Monday September 27, 1993
Ramble On
Fans determine whether minor sports become roadkill
Sophomore Marc Lancaster was once forced to
sleep in his car on a cold autumn night in West
Virginia after driving hours to see a ball game.
A volleyball game.
Forget about that incredibly annoying guy on
the ads for the “NFL on CBS.” Marc and his
colleagues are the ones who can rightfully say,
“I’m a real fan.”
They’re part of one of the smallest but more
dedicated campus organizations: a group with the
inspiring name, “The GW Roadkills.” Its stated
mission: “To generate support for GW’s non-
revenue sports.”
Marc, the group’s president, says it got its name
since the members travel all over the East mainly
to watch volleyball games. (Get it? They go on the
“Road” to watch “Kills.”) The group also
supports soccer and women’s basketball, among
other sports. Sunday, they were at Rutgers to
watch the first ever Atlantic 10 Conference
women s soccer game.
Marc is right when he says that men’s basket-
ball gets the lion’s share of attention on campus.
But that’s understandable. Even when the team
wasn’t all that good, it was still far more exciting
than most other sports. You could always count
on a Dirkk Surles’ dunk even if Temple was beat-
ing our brains in.
Women’s basketball is sort of like watching a
game in slow motion (Marc calls it an acquired
taste.) I always associate volleyball with a
carefree weekend afternoon at the beach. And
soccer? Any game where you can’t use your
hands . . .
This University isn’t alone in harboring these
kinds of attitudes. At probably 90 percent of
schools around the country, football or men’s
basketball is THE sport on campus.
Support doesn’t have much to do with a team’s
wins or losses. After all, the women’s basketball
team was one of the best squads in the country
before the men were “jumping to the big time.”
Why is it this way? Both students and the
University have heaped an inordinate amount of
attention on men’ s basketball over the past several
years. But is the University lacking in its support
for other sports because students don’t care? Or
do students give other sports lackluster support
because the University doesn’t publicize the
teams enough?
The University does what it can, even occa-
sionally chartering buses for the more important
volleyball games. They can’t be expected to do
more if students don’t care.
To those who know me, these words may sound
beyond hypocritical. I’m a perfect example of
those students of which Marc says, “If they don’t
have a reason to go, they don’t go.”
I attended a few gymnastic meets my sopho-
more year because one of the athletes was a neigh-
bor of mine. Besides that, men’s basketball is the
only GW sporting event I attend regularly, even
though I enjoy watching soccer, baseball, etc.
Is this attitude typical? You bet. Is it likely to
change? Probably not. Does that make it right?
Ask those athletes who toil in front of empty seats
at tne Smith Center or Francis Field game after
game.
But maybe what these teams need aren’t huge
crowds. Perhaps it would be enough to have more
fans as gung-ho as the “Roadkills.”
Few people will ever be so dedicated about
anything to devote their time, money and effort to
it — especially if it is a lost cause with little
chance of turning the situation around. Most of us
go through school with little interest in contribut-
ing to the success of our fellow students.
Attendance at these non-revenue sports will
probably never increase significantly. And I
imagine the cross-country team doesn’t expect
hordes of fans to show up to watch them run
through fields. But a few more students like Marc
and his buddies would go a long way on the road
to making GW a better place.
Monday, Sept. 27
Politics of Health Care Reform with Gloria Borger
Strong Hall Piano Lounge
7:00 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 28
Roundtable Discussion on Lack of Integration at GW
Marvin Center 429
7:00 pm
Thursday, Sept. 30
Cafe Gelman - Coffee House and Literary Event
Gelman 24-hour Study Lounge
6:30-8:30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Gelman Library
Thursday, Sept. 30
Woody Allen Film Night- Annie Hall and Shadows and Fog
Funger Hall 103
8:00pm and 10:00pm
Thursday, Sept. 30
Women in Power — Dr. Dorothy Canter
Strong Hall Piano Lounge
7:30 pm
Sunday, Oct. 3
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False alarms cease at Thurston
UPD credits cameras for deterring fire alarms in freshman hall
by Souheila Al-Jadda wa ke lip at 5:30 a.m. for practice. He loathed the sound of fire
Hatchet Reporter alarm bells ringing at 3 a.m., he said.
. Because of the lack of security, someone lit a fire under a
New security cameras recently installed in Thurston Hall sprinkler and flooded my room and ruined my computer ”
are being credited with preventing students from pulling false Geyer said.
fire alarms during the first month of classes. Students, UPD and the local fire department were all
University Police Captain Anthony RoccoGrande said he inconvenienced by the alarms. UPD also dealt with costlv
is pleased with the change from past years of perpetual false expenses, RoccoGrande said. “It costs money for both the
aiarms pulled in Thurston. police department and the fire department. It also runs the
The system can monitor all nine floors. It assures the risk of someone getting injured trying to help people ”
safety and well-being of our students so that no one is RoccoGrande said. ’
committing unlawful acts,” he said, noting that “overall RoccoGrande said he felt that it is “grossly irresponsible”
security has been working well. ” to pull alarms if there is no fire. “It is wrong to do that to other
Before the camera system was installed on all nine floors people. It shows the person has no respect for the rights of
this summer, Thurston Hall was notorious for its false fire others,” he said.
alarms. Sophomore Adam Goldberg said he remembers Firefighter Frank Johnson of the D.C. Fire Department
about 25 alarms last year. Today, Goldberg says he enjoyed who responded to most of the fire alarms at Thurston quicklv
the incessant alarms. learned the routine of these fire alarms
“I thought fire alarms were fun because it was like a “Every alarm brought in two fire trucks without hose lines
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Another sophomore complained that sometimes the might be and then reset the alarm system,” Johnson said
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was on the crew team his freshman year and was required to them,” he said. J F h
SEA hopes to make GW ( green
The Environmental Task Force Santillan said changes the University The task force, which is a formal
created by Students for Environmental could introduce range from changing dialogue among members of the
Action hopes to change the school’s fluorescent lighting fixtures to incan- University community, serves to
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members say is not environmentally P amt from the walls, which reduce heat- sity’s green policy can be discussed,”
friendly, task force member Cara in S. efficiency from residence hall task force member Erica Salmon said.
Gerard said. radiators. The group met one of its primary
After completing the suggested SEA is now compiling figures for the goals in the past year when the Univer-
changes, the University will be one step administration which will display the sity increased the number of recycling
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a “green university,” SEA member Ada m Schoenberg said. SEA’s lobbying, she said.
Dianna Santillan said. While initial investments will need to SEA is now circulating petitions to
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When it comes to the U.S. presence in Somalia, “why” is the only
question we can ask. As opposed to when U.S. troops first landed in
Mogadishu, no clear objective now exists for the military. Are we there
to build a nation? Are we there to feed people? Are we there to capture
Mohamed Farah Aideed and impose order? Any of these questions may
be right for the United States and the United Nations, but they must find
the purpose of the mission now.
Clearly, the Somali people do not want us there. They cheered the
downing of an American helicopter. We now consider them the enemy
since the U.S. military classifies Somali citizens as combatants in its
casualty statistics. We are fighting the very people we have come to
save. What are we doing and why?
Vietnam taught our government that it needs to keep clear and
constant foreign policy objectives when committing troops to a conflict.
A shift in administrations does result in a change in operating philoso-
phies. In the case of Somalia, the start of the Clinton administration
began a reexamination of the goals in Somalia. It has never completed
its study, giving no mandate in the interim. Something must happen now,
whether it is giving a commitment to capturing Aideed or deciding to
leave tomorrow. The existence of a clearly defined goal will prevent the
situation from becoming a quagmire.
President Clinton is in the midst of several projects, including a formal
presentation of his foreign policy. In this critical time when the United
States is considering getting involved in Bosnia, wrapping up loose ends
will make new projects and philosophies possible.
The end of the Cold War has brought up questions for the role of the
United States in the world. Everyone must recognize the precedent the
Somali mission sets. The experience and reaction to the measures of
today will dictate the policies of tomorrow. Establishing a clear goal for
Somalia will directly influence other missions. For everyone’s sake, now
is the time to answer the question of why we are there.
Letters to the editor
D.C.or bust
Washington Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly has proposed legalizing casino
gambling as the way to end the city’s financial woes. In her eyes, the
District can hit the jackpot by finding a rapid and sustained revenue
source that can replace the money it loses from citizens and businesses
leaving town. In the long run though, adding gambling to Washington
will prove to be a big bust.
You only have to point to the East Coast’s current gambling mecca,
Atlantic City, for proof. The gambling trade has not revitalized the area.
Rather, any profits get reinvested in the casinos and not in the infrastruc-
ture or in city services. While Washington casinos will never match the
glitz of its New Jersey brethren, the problem still remains. The city
needs the money it earns to continue making profits.
In addition, the crime issue looms over any plan. For both small- and
big-time operators, the casino area and its clients will prove to be perfect
targets. The neighborhood surrounding the Washington Convention
Center — Kelly’s choice area for the first casino — has crime problems
now. The city will have to exert massive resources to assure gamblers’
safety at the expense of neighborhoods, just like the city does now with
Georgetown during the weekends. Washington cannot afford a change like
that.
Many point to the pain-free experience of Indian reservation or river-
boat casinos as the basis for any plan in Washington. There, the main
attraction is gambling. Not so here. The historical and patriotic legacy of
Washington, D.C., is the complete antithesis of casino gambling. Not
only may it turn off families 'and school groups from visiting the
nation’s capital, it cheapens the noble purpose of this town and looks
just downright tacky.
Indeed, Washington faces a desperate financial situation. Something
must be done to end the dwindling of vital city resources — in its treas-
ury, in its citizens and in its economy. The city has other choices it can
make. True, they are harder and less attractive, but finding a way to
implement them is a true sign of leadership in the present and in the
future.
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The way it is
I am responding to two articles in The
GW Hatchet about GW’s solar car, one
written by Zachary S. Nienus (“GW
drops solar car funding,” Sept. 16, p. 1)
and the other an opinion column by
Adrian Bolinger (“Extend fairness in
funding to whole University,” Sept. 20,
p. 5). I want to clarify for the record how
the funding for the solar car worked.
The solar car team was comprised of
members from several schools on
campus, including the School of Engi-
neering and Applied Science, the
School of Business and Public Manage-
ment, and the Columbian College and
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
From the outset, the understanding was
that the bulk of the funds for the car
would be raised by the students, in parti-
cular by the students from SBPM. That
was their function as members of the
solar car team. It was never intended to
be a project the University would fully
fund.
As the SEAS students designed and
put together SunForce 1, the technical
aspects of the project went forward. The
fund-raising effort was not so smooth; it
was difficult to raise the amount of
money required. In the end, the students
were able to drum up some cash dona-
tions, along with donations of large
quantities of in-kind materials and, of
course, the labor and design time
donated by the students themselves and
by their academic and industrial advis-
ers. While the total value of all those
donations is very large, actual cash
expenditures were still required.
As one of the biggest supporters of
the solar car, I arranged to pay for the
solar car’s outstanding expenses from
the SEAS budget on behalf of the
University. The University paid in full
for the entire 36-member team to go to
the race in the Midwest. At that point,
the projected actual expenditures for the
two and a half years of the project had
gone above and beyond the estimates
we had given GW for its cost.
Throughout the project, the Univer-
sity kept a worried eye over the expendi-
tures and was anxious about the lack of
external cash support. Only apprecia-
tion of the educational value of the
project and its enormous benefit to the
students prompted us to carry on with
our financial support.
The University spent a lot of money
for the solar car, money that we had
expected would be raised from other
sources. Thus, it is not fair to say that the
University did not fund the car. We
funded it through the completion of
Sunrayce ’93, the original activity
planned. At this writing, the fund raising
still continues — can anybody help?
We put our money where our mouth is.
Did you?
-Gideon Frieder
SEAS dean
With honor
As an undergraduate at Haverford
College, I took self-scheduled, unproc-
tored exams because I was trusted not to
cheat. I lived in a dorm with no resident
assistants or other supervision, because
I was trusted to live responsibly and take
care of myself.
If I said I had missed a test because I
had been sick, my word was taken with-
out question, and I was allowed to make
it up without providing any sort of medi-
cal documentation. If I handed in a
paper, it was automatically assumed that
it was my own work and not plagiarized.
How did this happen? Two words:
honor code. Did it work? One word:
Yes.
Now that this subject is once again
being considered by the GW admi-
nistration and student leadership
(“Honor code splits students and
faculty,” The GW Hatchet, Sept. 23, p.
1 3), I’d like to offer a few comments and
suggestions.
When I received my acceptance letter
from Haverford, I also received a copy
of the honor code and a statement to sign
and return to indicate that I agreed t
abide by it. Going to Haverford mean!
abiding by the honor code; not agreeing:
to abide by the honor code meant noil
going to Haverford. We had to renew;
this agreement every year as a condition!
of continuing to attend school.
Everyone in the college community
understood that, and everyone complied
with it. That’s the only way it works. Ah
honor code can only succeed if abso<
lutely everyone agrees to be bound by it
At a school with an honor code, if yoi
can’t accept it as a condition of admit
sion, you don’t go there in the firstplace
If you can’t live up to it, you leave.
Period.
Harsh? Not when the reward is being!
able to schedule your own exams, 1(1
take them without supervision, and t(
decide, for example, that you don’t wan:
to take your freshman calculus final foi
another week and a half because you’re
not ready for it, and you need more time
to study. In my case, it didn’t help,
Does this mean that if we get every
one in the University to sign a piece o
paper agreeing not to cheat, we car
institute an honor code and forget abou
proctorcd exams, supervisory personnel
in the dorms and doctor’s letters? 0
course not. The piece of paper and tta
statement printed on it are just symbol:
of an ingredient that is even more criti
cal to the success of an honor code thai
universal acceptance: trust, of eacl
other and of ourselves.
When you’re told from the minuti
you come through the door on your firs
day of college that the people aroum
you assume you’re going to behave a:
an adult, as an honest person and tha
you ’re expected to regard them the sam
way, are you going to try to live up I
their expectations? Or are you going I
use that as an excuse to rip off lb
system for whatever you can g el
because you know no one’s lookir.
over your shoulder waiting to calc
you?
(See HONOR, p. 5)
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This letter is in response to Don Tobey ’s letter (“Credit crunch,” Sept. 23, p. 4).
Tobey writes “shame on American Express and shame on The GW Hatchet for
carrying their deceptive advertising to lure students into their easy credit trap.”
The last time I checked, The Hatchet did not have the kind of resources to turn
away a financial powerhouse such as American Express for advertising in their
paper. That s reality . Someone has to pay the bills now that The Hatchet is an inde-
pendent organization.
Plus, it is always nice to have a corporation like American Express pay some of
the bill. That’s not shameful, that’s intelligent business planning. In addition,
American Express isn’t deceptive in their advertising, but I’ll get to that in a
second.
Tobey goes on to berate Amex for charging a $55 annual fee for their card, while
others only charge from $10 to $20 annually. He also mentions accurately that
Amex charges no interest fee while others do. Some of these cards have rates up as
high as 19.8 percent annually. As well, those cards also allow you to charge
anywhere from $300, to $1,000 and up to $5,000.
At 19.8 percent, if you max out your $300 limit, you still pay $59.40 in annual
interest charges. Show me anyone who has a credit card and only charges $300 a
year on it. People charge a lot more than that, and they pay it, too, with interest
charges. That’s how the banks make money on lending you credit. I would say that
the $55 Amex charges you is a blessing, but Don Tobey wouldn’t. Amex appa-
rently took his card away long before he could find out.
He also said “With American Express, it’s pay up or get the late charge, $20 of
late charge.” Most cards have late charges as well. The moral of this story is pay
your bills on time. If you are responsible enough not to charge what you cannot
The GW Hatchet, in its editorial “Use
the pen” (Sept. 16, p. 4), encouraged
working with a paper’s editors. I agree
with this noble sentiment and would like
to take the opportunity to assert that in
the same text. The Hatchet proved that it
has lost its edge. It refuses to challenge
the University of Pennsylvania for look-
ing the other way as thought police /
students destroy an entire issue of the
school newspaper.
The Hatchet attempts to justify this
cowardice by proposing that the H-
bombing of all traces of the free press, of
a forum for the exchange of ideas, is a
valid form of freedom of expression just
as distributing the paper is. That is
ludicrous. What if, for example, I chose
to organize the destruction of every
Hatchet every day of the year?
Freedom should be expanded and
nurtured, not permitted to be used to
destroy itself. Allowing students the
freedom to destroy every copy of a
newspaper and justifying inaction by
saying students should learn to work it
out themselves, as Perm said, is slightly
akin to allowing students the freedom to
yell epithets in each other’s faces and
then telling them to work it out. The
main difference is that while racial slurs
are a backward and small-time stupid-
tty, widespread censorship is a big-time
fascist tactic.
The Hatchet has gone limp in the face
°f politically correct fascist pressure.
The paper does acknowledge that the
theft “infringed on the newspaper’s
equal rights under the First Amend-
ment.” Does not such a violation merit
at the very least a stem, official
reprimand?
The only answer The Hatchet has is
not only the wrong one but intellectually
void. The best they can do is to say
“conflict works against the ideas of
education.” Conflict is central to educa-
tion, to the exchange of ideas. It is
censorship and thought control which
are inherently at odds with education
and that is why PCers and other fascists
worship censorship like a god.
Don’t you get it? Thought police,
who by the way are predominantly
white, financially secure and trendy
liberals, know that the pen is mightier
Nick J. Wilder
than the sword. It is precisely because
the pen is mightier than the sword that
they resort to gross censorship tactics.
They fear ideas. PC censors want to
bum and stomp on the pen and paper
because it goes beyond opposing, but
proposes. Without the pen and the lively
freedom of ideas it represents the dark,
fascist nature — the essence of the PC
movement — is empowered to keep
destroying.
I happen to love Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. I have a poster of him on my
wall and look into his eyes for wisdom
and inspiration every day. Since early
childhood, some of my most intellectu-
ally gifted, honest and admirable friends
have been black. No matter what any
white supremacist or PC fascist says or
does, I will never deny any of it.
Nor, though, will I deny my belief
that affirmative action undermines the
effort toward harmony and equality.
Nor will I deny that Jesse Jackson,
solely because of his anti-Semitic
“Hymietown” remark, is bigoted
garbage.
Nor will I deny the horrendously anti-
Semitic views of individuals such as
Louis Farrakhan, whose organization
chums out hundreds of papers of litera-
ture making Jews scapegoats for all the
ills of the world, or New York Univer-
sity professor Leonard Jefferies, who
preaches that Judaism is a gutter
religion.
What bothers me more than the book-
burning tactics employed by a handful
of incensed radicals is the cool accep-
tance of them by university administra-
tors, journalists, businessmen and
students all across America. Here lies
the danger. When distraught radicals try
to censor, bum and destroy, that should
be an alarm for looking into the
problem.
When the mainstream slides into
numb acceptance and timid approval,
and encouragement of these methods as
valid, that mainstream becomes a horror
spreading across this country in the
form of a PC fascist flash flood, one
which is building momentum every day.
Oh, wouldn’t George Orwell roll over in
his grave.
Nick J. Wilder is a junior majoring in
history.
Ramez Louis
Zahralddin
afford to pay off, then you won’t have to suffer late fees. I believe that late charges
were created as a deterrent to people paying late.
“Then there’s Amex’s extras,” he wrote. Most cards offer incentives. Your
argument is accurate here, but you don’t show how other cards are better than
Amex. You even mention your University of Michigan Visa. I’m very happy that
you got a good deal on your U of M Visa, but I don’t think the students on a whole
at GW care for it too much. Old basketball scars heal slowly.
I like his next paragraph. I don’t see anything convenient about paying 12
percent of interest, especially since starting student cards start at 19.8 percent.
Don’t buy what you (and your mom / dad) can’t afford. The Amex card is not a
revolving credit card. It’s more of a debit card, which is what I think Tobey forgot
to read when that contract came with his card. The fine print states, “Full balance
due at the end of each month.”
That isn’t a crutch, that’s a way for you to establish good credit for yourself in
the future. As a matter of fact, other cards such as Visa or Mastercard check your
standing with American Express if you have a card. If your credit with Amex is
good, then it is a stronger reference in your favor when you arc applying for larger
things later such as car and home loans or loan consolidation.
I am sure that American Express would answer your challenge with something
like we only gave black marks, cancellations and the like to those individuals in
violation with the credit contract that they signed with us. I am not an employee of
American Express, but I was in the same position as Tobey was, which is why I can
relate. He is just plain wrong.
Oh, but the closing is the best paragraph of all. “(The Amex card) already has
brought grief to too many mothers and fathers, left marks on credit histories and
forced some students to drop out.” That’s hysterical. Tobey makes it seem as if the
card grew arms and legs, walked down to Pentagon City mall and bought out
everything in all the stores. The card then went home to maim and slaughter all
those poor weeping parents’ children. The students it didn’t get, it forced to drop
out of school at gunpoint. What a powerful card!
Those of you with an American Express card, heed some good advice. One, pay
your card off in full at the end of each month. Two, don’t charge up more than you
can afford to pay at the end of the month. Owning any card is more than a careless
toy that you use to pay off $120 bar tabs. It’s responsibility, a responsibility that
catches up to you in the long ran, whether you meant to charge what you charged or
not It will either help you get bigger and better things, or it will make it so you
, More letters to the editor |(
Ramez Louis Zahralddin will be a first-year graduate student in health services
management policy.
(HONOR, cont. from p. 4)
w'i!? 6 answer that each of us comes up
1 n to that question — an answer that
o ac of us has to live with in his or her
i conscience — is a pretty good
■cator of whether or not an honor
code would work at GW. Having lived trust ourselves. If we can’t do that, then
with one for four years, I can tell you the honor code is just another piece of
that it’s a significant personal responsi- junk mail for the recycling bin.
bility with even more significant
rewards. If GW is going to have a mean-
ingful and successful honor code, we
have to be able to trust each other and ~ Jotm bolder
BE HEARD!
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6-The GW Hatchet-Monday September 27, 1993
the Citibank Classic Visa card, and the
emotional security of the Photocard. The Citibank Classic Visa
instills in students feelings of safety, security and general wellness not unlike those experienced
in the womb. Therefore, it is the mother of all credit cards. 1 Some experts attribute these feelings
to the Citibank Photocard, the only credit card with your photo on it. A voice inside says, “This
is me, really me.” (As opposed to, “Who the heck is that?”— a common response to the photo
on one’s driver's license.) It’s an immediate form of
ID, a boost to your self-image. ( )[ Of course if your card is
ever lost or stolen and a stranger is prevented from using it.
you’ll feel exceptionally good (showing no signs of Credit
Card Theft Nervosa). 1 Other experts point to specific
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Credit Card Theft Nervosa.
services, such as The Lost Wallet " Service that can replace
your card usually within 24 hours. Or the 24-Hour Cus
tomer Service line, your hotline, if you will, for any card
The Monarch* Notes Version:
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students peace of mind, protection
against Freud— or rather fraud— a
low rate and no fee. Apply today.
Call 1-800-CITIBANK, ext. 19
related anxiety whatsoever, 'll Further analysis reveals three
Subject after receiving Citibank
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damage, fire or theft, for 90 days from the date of purchase 1 (preventing, of course. Insecurity).
2. Citibank Lifetime Warranty allows one to extend the warranty for the expected service
life of eligible products up to 12 years.-’ 3. And Citibank Price Protection assures you of the best
price. You need only see the same item advertised in print for less, within 60 days, and Citibank
will refund the difference up to $150' (hence no Post Purchase Depression). ( |i Special student
savings are particularly therapeutic. There’s the free Citibank Calling Service from MCI to save
up to 26% on long distance calls versus AT&T.' (You're encouraged to call Mom and Dad regu
larly preventing Parenta Non-Supportus.) And a $20 Airfare Discount 4 on any domestic flight.
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Career Week events
geared to job seekers
Don't get stuck at the end of the line!
Look for a job in The GW Hatchet Classifieds,
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What George Washington Reads.
by Justin Bergman wind down with the fair in the Marvin
Hatchet Reporter Center’s third-floor ballroom. Under-
The Career Campaign and Career graduate and graduate students and
Fair, the largest event of the year spon- alumni are encouraged to bring their
sored by the Career Center, will offer resumes to submit to representatives of
daily activities from Tuesday through more than 40 corporations and govem-
! Thursday this week. ment organizations, Kirson said.
Information booths will be set up in The CIA, Peace Corps, AT&T,
most of the major buildings around Bloomingdale’s, Lady Footlocker,
campus to kick off the Career Campaign IBM, U.S. Navy Recruiting, Macy’s
Tuesday, Jill Kirson, Career Center and the U.S. Department of Energy are
public relations coordinator, said. just a few of the participants, she noted.
Students may pick up flyers and These recruiters will not only accept
pamphlets detailing the activities resumes at the fair, but they will also
1 included in the campaign and announc- search for full- and part-time employees
ing upcoming workshops and programs and for people interested in internships,
offered by the Career Center, Kirson work-study and co-op positions, Kirson
i said. said.
“Resumania,” an on-the-spot critique Kirson said students should take
of resumes by employers, will highlight advantage of the fair in order to make
Wednesday, Kirson said. Employers contacts, obtain professional advice on
i from a variety of fields will be available job hunting and discover the variety of
i to answer questions and advise students services the Career Center offers.
and alumni about creating resumes, This fair may be the first time new
i Kirson said. students are introduced to the Career
Kirson said Resumania will be a Center. One student said the Career
i perfect opportunity for future job seek- Center does not publicize its services
symposium .
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for sex.”
‘Did you come here to watch sex or
sex?” I asked.
8-The GW Hatchet-Monday September 27, 1993
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It was 10 p.m. on Wednesday, and the
back bar at the 9:30 Club was almost
empty. Hundreds of people from all
walks of life gathered near the stage to
be labeled as one. They were all
voyeurs, and the Genitorturers were
delivering.
Few people had a good view, and
those who did were urinated on — or so
I overheard one deviant say. The lack of
clarity made imaginations run wild. I
know a wood and chain contraption was
restraining a scantily clad slave, but I
don’t know exactly what the masked
masters were doing.
I know a daring member of the audi-
ence leaped on the stage and knelt at
singer / dominatrix Gen’s feet, but I
don’t know what body part was pierced.
But Gen did say something about plea-
sure and pain before sending him over
the top of the crowd.
According to interviews with Gen,
this is not a show but a way of life. The
tender way she sang to the tortured girl
before she was carried away almost
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Gen — transplant coordinator
made me believe it. And the ease with
which she and her company of lacerated
leather fiends put holes through their
body says something about the practice
they’ve had.
Yet their show comes across as a
show. The club ran an ad screaming the
extremities of the show and warning no
one under 1 8 would be allowed in. So of
course everyone over 18 with a streak of
adventure appeared, including the
mother of a recent GW graduate. She
and her well-dressed companion came
after reading a write-up, arrived for the
by day, dominatrix by night
last three minutes of the show then
lurked at the back bar like any seasoned
night prowler.
My companion asked if I saw
anything sinister in their presence. Bui
weren’t we there? And didn’t we both
see several people we knew?
Gen appeared at the bar and was|
smaller than we expected. Her feature
were delicate and the leather police ha
on her head gave a stunning contrast.
She scanned the bar and offered a know
ing smile to no one in particular. 1
laughed because yeah, I know too.
Nature of art pales to art of nature,
by Huma Abedin
A s you walk down 7th Street on the metropolitan
sidewalks of Washington, D.C., you can see the blue
neon lights of Zenith Gallery inviting you into the
world of “Creating Paradise — Art in Nature / Nature in
Art.”
The building has two entrances, two separate faces. On the
right is a cream, pillared facade with an elegant glass door.
On the left, a modem black and white framework surround-
ing a glass window — your window into two very different
types of art.
The first example would be Ellen Sinel’s oil painting
“Footbridge Over Green Meadows.” The painting captures
nature in its brightest form with deep greens and defined
lines, almost like a storybook drawing.
Under the rows of tulip-filled paintings are art pieces that
take nature and turn it into furniture. A wooden structure like
“Genesis I” by Margery Goldberg, who is also the owner and
director of the gallery, attracts a lot of attention. You can
spend an hour trying to figure out exactly what it is, but it
wouldn’t be the most attractive piece of furniture around an
average American home.
Goldberg is presenting the “concept of an outside setting
inside” where there is the use of art in landscaping and the use
of landscaping in art. Thus a lot of the furniture, though inter-
esting, is not necessarily functional as it is a works of art made
solely for admiration.
The wall to the right of the entrance has Renaissance paint-
ings displayed continually by a whirring projector. They are
the works of famous artists who tried to capture the beauty in
nature and apply it to their canvasses. Thus we are introduced
to Spring Gardens Inc., a landscaping company that uses tne
ideas in paintings of gardens to create “gardens in the flesh.’
Their brochure purports a belief that “beautifully designed,
expertly planted and professionally managed landscaping
raises the spirit and enhances the quality of life.”
In the brochure for the gallery, Hestor Nelson’s ceramic
work was impressive, yet her exhibits were the most disap-
pointing. Her mosaic tables looked like broken pieces of
colored tiles glued together.
Two paintings that seemed out of place because they had
nothing to do with nature were “Pizzeria” and “Manscape” by
a young Brazilian artist, Michella Manssuino. The gray city
of Sao Paulo inspired her somewhat loud paintings. One
portrayed a city street with cracked sidewalks and grung)'
alleyways next to a pizzeria. A rather dull atmosphere, but th®
colors she used were almost blinding.
Perhaps the most personal and endearing portrait was by
Ron Schwerin called “Accus and Orion” in which a molhfl
clothed in a scarlett gown is seated and holding her infant
The expression of both are so natural and lifelike. The eyes
look anxious, almost as if they are anticipating some gr cal
disaster. The work could very appropriately be titled “Moth® 1
Nature.”
As you leave the world of colors and carved pillars t®
return to the world of grey sidewalks and stoplights, there ar
two questions you ask yourself. If wc are true lovers 0
nature, can we compare its actual breathing beauty to whaj
we see reconstructed in still pictures and sculptures? And 1
nature is the perfect work of art, can we take its raw matcti®
and mold it into something man made and still call it natu f ®
art? Before visiting to the gallery it was possible to imag' 111
we could. 1 know now' that wc cannot.
I t wasn’t as loud a concert as often comes through the Bayou, but it was still
hot and close and crowded - — the way Marc Cohn likes it.
“I prefer concerts where everyone is close and standing up,” Cohn said.
“It’s hard when the crowd is sitting down. They don’t get as involved.”
Audience participation was not a problem Wednesday night. But instead of
the crashing, clapping start that kicks off many concerts, Cohn’s first two
numbers were met with a kind of reverent hush as he opened with a surprisingly
mellow version of “Silver Thunderbird.”
Hits from Cohn’s self-titled debut and selections from his new release. The
Rainy Season made up the show. “Walk Through The World” opens The Rainy
Season and is the first radio release off the album. It demonstrates Cohn’s
attempt to write and perform music meant for a full band, instead of building in
instrumental lines around a primary keyboard or guitar track.
“Walk Through the World” is upbeat, loud and danceable, but still retains the
trademark of Cohn’s great lyrics. The horns on the album arc a great addition,
and the concert band — consisting of right-hand man John Levanthal on
guitar, dmmmer Jim Keltner and bassist James Hutchinson — gave “Walk”
new energy.
As the show progressed through songs like “Saving the Best for Last,” “The
Rainy Season” and “Paper Walls,” Cohn’s performance took on more concert-
like qualities.
The second-largest reaction of the night came from the riveting love song,
“True Companion.” Cohn prefaced the song by explaining that he had written
the lyrics in a cab in New York city and apologized for being so unromantic. It
made no matter to his listeners. One woman cried and the woman behind me
murmured, “What a song to fall in love to.”
Cohn seemed surprised when I described that reaction to him after the show.
“Any time you feel that you’re affecting somebody, particularly in that way,
it’s a real compliment,” he said. “I just take it that they’re responding to some-
thing deeper than the basic I love you-type pop song.”
“True Companion” pleased the couples in the crowd, but the most powerful
reaction was reserved for “Walking in Memphis,” Cohn’s first radio release. As
he entered the second verse, Cohn paused and asked, “Okay, who’s going to
lead?” then called out “Sing it, Washington,” clearly handing the reigns over to
his enthusiastic crowd.
Cohn and his band attempted to end the concert at that fever pitch, but the
crowd brought him back persistently chanting the refrain, “walking in
Memphis.” Two encores were necccssary to wind the show down, ending on
the sweet, but slightly melancholy, “The Things We Handed Down,” which
also closes out the second album.
Cohn has gained a devoted following since the release of his first album and
receipt of the Best New Artist title at the Grammy Awards in 1992. Although
he’s made an attempt to diversify in The Rainy Season , he still retains a lot of
the keyboard dominated, slow ballad sound from his first album. People will
have to decide for themselves whether that is a good thing or not, but no doubt
as long as Cohn continues to produce sweet sounding, almosl-jazz tunes with
heartfelt lyrics, he will have an audience more than willing to listen.
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to Dial-A-Song callers
by Heather O’Connor
T hey Might Be Giants, the alter-
native vaudeville gods, are now
on tour throughout the United
States promoting Why Does The Sun
Shine ? their new CD5. (A CD5 is like a
four song ep, only small and silver.)
John Flansburg and John Linnell
bring their new and improved backup
band to Washington, D.C., Tuesday
night. I spoke with Linnell (the cute one
without the glasses) recently to discuss
the tour and the band’s forthcoming
album.
Me: My first question is about your
new recordings. What can you tell me
about it?
Linnell: It’s a bunch of covers, which
is unusual for us. It’s also the first thing
we’ve put out that uses all of the They
Might Be Giants band.
Me: That’s the whole group you’re
touring with (Brian Doherty on drums
and glockenspiel; Tony Maimone on
bass; Kurt Hoffman on saxophone and
keyboards; and Steven Bernstein on
trumpet), right?
Linnell: Yeah. We started playing
with the band about a year ago. For
about nine years before that, John and I
were a duo. When we made records in
the studio it was just the two of us over-
dubbing and stuff. We’re about to make
an album with the band so we’ve actu-
ally experimented on this record. On
Why Does The Sun Shine? we had the
whole band live in the studio. On our
original song “Spy” we also recorded all
the instruments together. We actually
had to do it that way because there is a
kind of freeform at the end where we all
had to play together.
Me: What about the songs
themselves?
Linnell: Well, the first song (“Why
Does the Sun Shine?”) is a cover of a
song from a 1959 science record used to
explain science to kids. We also have a
Meat Puppets cover, “Whirlpool,” that
is mostly me and Kurt Hoffman, the
other sax player, playing the instru-
ments. Another one is sort of a two-step
version of the Allman Brother’s classic
rock instrumental called “Jessica.” And
then there’s “Spy,” which is the original
song . . . sort of a spy song.
Me: What about your new album?
It’s supposed to be out in ’94?
Linnell: That’s right. We’ll actually
probably not start recording it until
January, so it can be out at the earliest in
the spring. I think we’ll probably end up
trying a bunch of different combos.
We’ve got a lot of the material together
already and we’re playing six songs at
the shows.
Me: What can we expect to hear at the
9:30 Club show?
Linnell: It’s going to be very hot.
We’ve got all this new material that we
can do. We also do this thing called
Freedom Jam which is kind of a
controlled, free improvisation. And the
band is louder than it used to be. I’ve
been wearing earplugs, which I’ve
never done before. I think for some
people it might actually improve their
enjoyment. People my age might enjoy
the show more if they wear earplugs. I
think you can hear the words better.
Me: This year is the 10th anniversary
of your Dial-a-Song line. How exactly
did that whole thing come about?
Linnell: It was Flansburg’s idea. He
was talking about this thing for a while
Eastern State U. needs
to get with Program
by Jeremy Strauser
W hile we may have basketball
games galore, GW students
will never make the Saturday
morning pilgrimage to the stadium to
witness the pageantry of a GW college
football game. If you’re looking to the
new film The Program to fill that void in
your life, I have two words of advice for
you: stay home. While there are some
saving graces in The Program, this film
is far from a classic or a must see.
James Caan plays aging coach Sam
Winters at the fabricated Eastern State
University. Winters’ program has been
on a down swing, and the University
with its alumni boosters expect nothing
less than a bowl bid.
Their hopes all ride on the arm of their
Heisman candidate Joe Kane (Craig
Sheffer), an alcoholic quarterback with
a ^ eat h wish. Combined with star fresh-
man tailback Darnell Jefferson (Omar
Epps) and a veteran defense, ESU foot-
ball looks like a sure thing. However,
the sure thing can’t exist in a sports
m°vie, so meet the biggest character of
the
movie — adversity.
Between steroid abuse, barroom
brawls, alumni booster violations, exam
cheating and a broken leg that looks
worse than Joe Theismann’s career-
ending injury, it’s a wonder that ESU
"J? f just forfeit the season.
This adversity is presented seriously,
ut in the end, the problems are glazed
over and bypassed for the big win. In
fact, the game-saving tackle in the
film’s final game can only be made by
the steroid-abusing lineman.
The Program has enough good foot-
ball action and locker room talk to keep
the average armchair quarterback inter-
ested.
Sports fans will appreciate cameos by
Chris Berman (of ESPN), Lynn Swann
and Bo Schembechler. The use of real
schools as opponents, like Georgia Tech
and the universities of Iowa and Michi-
gan, also adds to the realism.
The stadium scenes are some of the
best. They were filmed on location at the
University of South Carolina during
half time of a game. However, the point
of The Program isn’t this glory of
college football, it’s the mental and
physical abuse of the athletes who are
subject to the rigors of the program. The
film points out a lot of what’s wrong
with college football, including ster-
oids, cheating and the exploitation of the
athletes for a winning team, and for this
The Program should be applauded.
The problem is there isn’t much else
to applaud. The acting is poor. James
Caan doesn’t even seem interested.
Characters are never developed and
events go unexplained. The script is a
saving grace because the on-field trash-
talking is classic. Otherwise, the movie
stumbles through an hour and a half to
the big game and a conclusion that’s no
surprise.
John Flansburg (left) and John Linnell might be giants, but they sure are cute.
and we had the opportunity to start Now it’s a voice mail system attached to porary culture. I think it is true for many
doing it when we had a couple of acci- a Macintosh computer. people who do any kind of creative work
dents where we couldn’t perform any Me: How about musical inspirations? that you’re trying to impress your
more. We had some equipment stolen, Linnell: Well, it’s a new challenge friends. You’re trying to come up with
and I fell off my bicycle and broke my every time we try and write a song, something you think the people you care
wrist. In November of ’83 we just That’s what makes it so difficult. We about will like.
started playing songs on John’s own don’t have one particular source to get
answering machine. I tried to talk him ideas. I think the thing is just to try to be
out of doing it for the simple reason that active in the world, to have an exchange They Might Be Giants will perform
it would be impossible to call John and of ideas between people. two shows at the 9:30 Club (930 F St.,
talk to him. You’d have to listen to Dial- Part of what has historically inspired N.W.) Tuesday night with Pere Ubu.
a-Song and then start yelling into the John and me is that we’ve had a circle of Why Does the Sun Shine? is now avail-
machine to try and get his attention, friends that are all interested in contem- able at record stores everywhere
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Friday, October 1
Program Board presents: Politics of Health Care Reform:
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"In Good Company" Season Opener. Marvin Center
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Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance Business Meeting: Help
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"In Good Company" Season Opener. Marvin Center
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Program Board presents: Discussion on the Lack of
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Info: 994-7313.
Sunday, October 3
Activities to promote American-Japanese Cross-
Cultural Understanding. Counseling Center, 1 -2:30pm.
Info: 994-6550.
GW Freestyle Fashion & Design Club Meeting. Marvin
Center 407, 7:30pm. Info: 676-2323.
"In Good Company" Season Opener. Marvin Center
Betts Theatre, 2pm, Tickets: S8 & $5 Info: 994-6178.
University Honor's Program presents: University Sym-
posium: Bill Strauss, Speech on "The Thirteenth Gen-
eration". University Visitor's Center, 8pm. Info: 994-6816.
Program Board presents: Cypress Hill Concert. Smith
Center. 8pm. Info: 994-7313.
In Search of the Unique and Obscure: General Meeting.
Marvin Center 414, 9pm. Info: 676-3087.
Announcements
Wednesday, September 29
International Students Society Coffee Hour. Free Drink
and Snacks. 21 29 G St., NW, Building D 1 01 . Every Thu
4-7pm. Info: 994-6864.
Career Campaign Information Tables: Marvin Center,
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Stress Management Drop-In Clinic. University Counseling
Center, Every Thu 5-6pm. Info: 994-6550.
Career Campaign: Resumania! Marvin Center 410,
3-6pm. Info: 994-6495.
Career Center Information Session: Presidential
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busiest areas on campus.
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intersection. Cars often make
illegal left turns.
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pedestrian traffic from
Thurston and Mitchell Halls.
These areas were identified by Paul
Hamilton and Terrell Ringer of the
Student Association and Rodney
Johnson, director of parent services.
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where “you have to walk across to get
people to stop.”
• 21st Street between Marvin
Center and Tower Records. “Students
aren’t going to go to the comer to cross
because this is like part of campus ”
Johnson said.
• H Street. The Gelman Yard, class-
room buildings and Gelman Library on
one side and the Marvin and Academic
centers on the other make this one of the
busiest areas on campus, Hamilton said.
• 20th and G streets. Cars often
make illegal left turns at this busy
intersection at the southeast comer of
the University Yard, Hamilton and
Sleemi said.
• 20th and F streets. More than
1,000 Thurston and 300 Mitchell resi-
dents have to cross this intersection to
go to class.
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month after using points on their meal
cards to pay their bills, Friday’s mana-
gers said.
Tony Grillo, general manager at
Friday’s, said nobody is sure why the
machines had problems accepting the
students’ cards, but he attributed the
problem to computer glitches involved
in setting up the meal card program.
Steve Dorfman, manager at Friday’s,
said he thinks the problem occurred
bec'^e the machine through which
meal cards are run was not fully plugged
in. The server, therefore, didn’t get a
printout and ran the card through the
machine again, double-billing the
account, Dorfman said.
ServiceMaster, the University’s food
service, went through all student
accounts and credited the accounts of
ihose who were double-charged, Grillo
said.
Grillo said he isn’t sure how many
hmes the problem occurred, but he
Knows that “six or seven students” were
affected, and all the incidents occurred
“ring the first two days students could
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12-The GW Hatchet- Monday September 27, 1993
Lance of disabled students and to GW’s
T'V • _ _ 1 I „ 1 reoutation for meeting these students’
UlSHbiGd particular needs
Willis notes that a disability can refer
„„„ , • > r _ , to a range of limitations. About half of
continued from p. 1 gw’s disabled students have mobility
problems while the rest have learning
regarded by other people as having such disabilities such as dyslexia or Attention
an impairment.” Under the terms of the Deficit Disorder, or other physical prob-
\DA, GW is required to make reason- lems such as vision or hearing impair-
able accommodations for those people ments, she says.
who need them.
Willis attributes the trend to a nation-
wide movement toward wider accep-
Planning for the students’ needs
requires flexibility, Willis says.
“There’s no way to predict how many
students will walk in the door” who will
need services, Willis says.
Sharon Avrunin, a senior who uses a
wheelchair, says, “For the most part,
GW is fairly accessible.” She did have a
problem with curbs that were too high,
but the University has since fixed them.
A larger inconvenience are residence
halls and professors’ offices located in
old rowhouses that were not designed
for wheelchair access, Avrunin says.
She often has to meet friends and profes-
sors outside those buildings.
“It’s a matter of always planning
ahead,” she says. She says, for example,
that she cannot just drop by her friends’
rooms for a spontaneous visit.
GW has been cooperative in its
support for disabled students, Willis
says. She has not had to fight for more
money for improvements, unlike other
area schools, she says.
Walter Borlz, vice president for
administrative and information
services, responded to the ADA by
forming a task force last year to survey
the campus and map out strategies for
personnel, services and facilities.
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The results are such changes as
electric doors, improved restroom
access and laboratory renovations.
Other changes, such as the consistent
placement of signs in Braille, arc
planned.
When a blind student participated in a
program in Madison Hall this summer, '
the University installed Braille signs j
and a mechanism that beeps at every j
floor on the elevator, Madison graduate I
assistant Tracy Hushin says. Admini- '
strators also removed a wheelchair ramp
that spanned steps in the hall’s lobby j
because it blocked a railing, something ’
the ADA forbids when making build-
ings accessible for the blind, Hushin I
explains.
Is it enough?
But some students say GW’s facili-
ties are not completely adequate despite
these renovations. Margaret Ardussi, a |
52-year-old woman who has multiple!
sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, filed a 1
complaint about the Marvin Center’s!
restrooms June 18 with the Department!
of Justice’s Public Access Section. 1
Ardussi attended a conference in thej
building and had trouble accessing the
restrooms.
Monica Wagner of Terris, Pravlich
and Wagner, who filed the complaint,
said it is still outstanding. “The Univer
sity has indicated a willingness to sit
down and talk about it,” Wagner says.
No meeting date has been set.
Freedman says the restroom cited in
the complaint had been slated for reno-
vation to conform to ADA requirements j
before the complaint was made. The,
University has plans to renovate the
Marvin Center completely.
The Advisory Neighborhood}
Commission, however, refused to pass
GW’s renovation plans at a meeting this !
month. Commissioners would rather see
the University build more residence!
halls than renovate a building, says >
commissioner Maria Tyler.
GW does not plan to honor the ANC’s '
demand, says Scott Cole, associate vice
president for business. He regards the
ANC’s demand as a “blip on thej
screen,” and one that will not affect |
plans to add 49,000 gross square feet to I
the Marvin Center. This additional I
space will be tailored to accommodate
disabled people, he said.
In addition, the Disability Rights,
Council of Greater Washington was?
conducting its own investigation toj
“provide solid evidence of other viola - 1
tions of the ADA on campus,” after j
Ardussi filed her complaint, council r
officials wrote. Gelman Library was one I
of those sites, their letter said, but Freed- ‘
man says the library was renovated this 1
summer to comply with the ADA. 1
The right attitude
Access to facilities and student I
services is not the only necessary ingre-
dient to integrating disabled students |
successfully into the GW community. ,
Another factor is attitude.
Avrunin, a member of the University |
Band, says she has been able to travel
with the group because her fellow band <
members make sure she is able to join 1
them.
It all comes down to those people who |
want you to be with them and are willing I
to make accommodations, and those j
who don’t, Avrunin says.
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an incident like this has occurred during
his tenure, and said, “It’s hard to believe
that it was done by anyone in the
University community.”
GW Hillel Jewish Student Center
Rabbi Gerald Serotta said in his 12 years
at GW, he has only seen a swastika in a
men’s restroom and a defaced Hillel
poster.
It is “more than a coincidence” that
this occurred on the eve of Y om Kippur,
Serotta said. He called the attack “very
hateful, very disturbing to . . . everyone
in the city of Washington.”
University Police wants to make sure
the graffiti is all accounted for and
removed, UPD Director Dolores Staf-
ford said Friday. A UPD research team
will continue to investigate this week,
she said.
Stafford said later that she is not sure
if anyone will be caught. “I’m not sure
with this kind of vandalism that MPD
will ever know who did it unless some-
one comes forward with information,”
she said.
The graffiti was cleaned up before
many students, such as junior Joe
Regan, saw it. “I haven’t really noticed
them,” Regan said Friday morning. “It’s
a pretty touchy subject. To some it’s
really important.”
Senior Ron Laflamme said the inci-
dent may have to do with the recent
progress for peace in the Middle East. “I
think it has to do with the signing of the
treaty at the White House,” Laflamme
said. He said he has seen “a lot of anti-
treaty feelings” in his classes and called
this attack “a display of ignorance.”
Others, though, say such actions are a
First Amendment right. “It is freedom of
expression, and I think they should be
allowed to do it. It is probably people
just looking for attention,” law student
Jon Kopin said.
Staff writers Oscar Avila, Paul
Connolly, Erin McLaughlin, Andrew
Tamoff and Tracy Sisser contributed to
this report.
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The GW Hatchet-Monday September 27, 1993-15
by Ben Osborne
Hatchet Sports Reporter
The women’s soccer team won their
inaugural game in the Atlantic 10
conference at Rutgers Sunday, 1-0.
The entire game was dominated by
the Colonial Women, who outshot the
Scarlet Knights 18-8. Jenny Vogel
provided six of these shots.
Women’s Soccer
The game’s lone goal was scored by
Maggie Miller, who converted a comer
kick from Kristin Davidson at 40:06.
For comer kicks we have a set pattern,
and I’m always at the far post. Before
the kick 1 told Kristin to just launch the
kick really high and right at me. Then
she made the most perfect pass and I was
able to head it in,” Miller said.
Two GW athletes were recognized for their superior performance by the
Atlantic 10 last week. In women’s soccer, sophomore forward Kristin David-
son was named player of the week. Eric Woronick also received outstanding
honors for the second week in men’s cross country.
Davidson scored three goals last week and leads the team in scoring and in
shots on goal for the season.
Woronick won his second race of the season last Saturday in Richmond, Va.
He tied the course record and led his team to a second place finish.
The Rugby Club won its match against John’s Hopkins University Saturday
ln a Final score of 22-0. They have improved their season record to 3-0.
The club next competes Saturday against Frostburg Stale University at
bravely Point Field.
The GW water polo team went one for three this weekend in the Villanova
ildcat Invitational. The Colonials were defeated by the host team, Villanova
mversity, with a score of 20-16. GW’s forfeit against Iona College accounted
w the second loss. The Colonials also fell to Queens College by a score of
-Christy Andrychowski and Deanna Reiter
Strikers downed in home opener
photo by AshrarFahim
Stefan Triandafilou (#6) charges the ball ahead of his opponents.
GW slays Knights
1-0 in competition
by Christy Andrychowski
Hatchet Sports Reporter
The men’s soccer team suffered its first home loss against
St. Joseph’s University, 2-1 before the many fans in atten-
dance at Francis Field Saturday despite bad weather.
The Colonials exerted constant pressure on their oppo-
nents from the beginning of regulation play, but St. Joseph’s
still managed to score the first goal. Don Diambra, with the
help of teammate John McIntyre, shot one past goalkeeper
Robert Christian at 26:10 of the first period.
Men’s S occer
St. Joseph’s scored again, less than three minutes later. The
Hawks’ Diambra passed through a maze to Michael Feite.
Feite shot a bullet past Christian, increasing their lead to 2-0
over GW.
Outstanding defense by Colonials’ Van Martin saved what
could have been the Hawks’ third goal. Christian stopped the
initial shot, but St. Joseph’s was able to regain control. With
Christian out of the net, Martin stopped the Hawks’ attempt.
GW jumped back into the game at 34:5 1 in the first period.
Marcelo Valencia sent a pass to Stephen Masten, who was
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able to get one in the net, making it a 2-1 game.
The second half resembled a rugby match as rain and wind
swept the field. “The weather did not affect our play,” senior
co-captain Derk Droze said. “We are used to playing in diffe-
rent environments.”
The second half also brought a much more physical show.
Hawks forward Joseph Stock was issued a red card for
unnecessary roughness.
“This loss was a big disappointment. When you play as
well as we did, you expect to come up with a win,” Christian
said.
The Colonials entered the game with a 1-5-1 record, 0-0-1
in A-10 Conference play. Droze said the Colonials did well as
a team, even though it was a loss in the books. “We outplayed
the Hawks for 85 of the total 90 minutes of the game,” Droze
said. “We have a great team, with lots of talent. It’s frustrat-
ing to lose.”
GW pounded Hawks defense and goalkeeper Sean Vliet
with a total of 22 shots. “The guys created a lot of chances,
but we were unable to capitalize on them,” Christian said. St!
Joseph’s managed a total of eight shots on goal.
The Colonials will play their second home game of the
season against Howard University Sept. 29 at 3 p.m.
Rutgers had a pre-season national
ranking of 20, and entered the game
ranked ninth in the region. “This was a
topnotch team we defeated today, and I
think the win will surprise some
people,” assistant coach Carla DeSantis
said. “In the past, we always played
Rutgers close, only to lose in the end, so
this should be quite a boost for our
confidence.”
“I think this win should set the tone
for our A-10 season, and hopefully for
our future in the conference in coming
years,” Davidson said.
The Colonial Women’s record now
stands at 4-4, with all four losses coming
at the hands of nationally prominent
teams.
The team’s next match comes on
Wednesday when they travel to George
Mason University.
photo by Ashrar Fahim
Marcelo Valencia (#10) backs up teammate Stephen Masten (#13) who just gained control.
Florida tourney takes toll on team
Tragedy touches players after teammate's parents die in train wreck
by Jared Sher
Hatchet Sports Reporter
The Colonial Women played their
most competitive volleyball of the
season at the Florida Invitational Tour-
nament, but struggled through an
emotionally charged weekend to lose
two of three matches.
Volleyba ll
The death of freshman Heather
McNab’s parents, who were two of 47
fatalities in an Amtrak train accident
early Wednesday, impacted the team.
The McNabs were en route from Cali-
fornia to watch their daughter play in
Orlando when the bridge their train was
on collapsed into a bayou outside of
Mobile, Ala. Officials are calling it the
worst train accident in Amtrak history.
The effect on the team was devastat-
ing, head coach Susie Homan said.
“When something like this happens, it
really puts things in perspective,”
Homan added. The tragedy brought the
team closer together and will make them
stronger over the course of the season,
she said.
GW vs. University of Florida
In the final set of the tournament, the
15th nationally ranked Florida Gators
hosted GW in a competitive match that
the Colonial Women eventually lost
(15-8, 15-11, 15-10) Saturday night.
The contest was close, although the
Colonial Women were plagued by 25
errors and poor hitting. Svetlana
Vtyurina hit only .085, just better than
the team’s mark of .073, but was still
named to the all-tournament team for
her overall efforts.
GW vs. University of South Florida
Early Saturday, GW played the
University of South Florida in a four set
match that started well, but ended with
another loss (12-15, 15-3, 15-11,
15-13). The Colonial Women could
only manage to hit .219 throughout the
match, but had a well-balanced attack,
with three players notching double digit
figures in kills.
Vtyurina led the team with 25 kills,
hitting .383, while Francis chipped in 15
kills and Jen Smuck 12. In addition.
Kate Haubenreich had a career high 54
assists for GW.
GW vs. Memphis State
In the tournament opener, the Colo-
nial Women scraped out a much needed
win against Memphis State (15-9,
16-14, 15-11) Friday evening to snap a
four match losing streak. The straight
set victory saw a tremendous team effort
as GW hit a spectacular .313 as a unit
and won for the first time in two weeks.
In a reprieve from their recent play,
the Colonial Women had only 13 errors
and received contributions from a well-
rounded core of players. Francis had 10
more kills and 1 1 digs and team captain
Liz Martin hit .353 with eight kills and
10 digs. Jill Lammert also hit .333,
while Vtyurina (18 kills, .378) and
Haubenreich (39 assists) were also
solid.
Following the tournament, GW mani-
pulated its record to 6-7 on the season,
falling below .500 for the first time. The
Colonial Women, who have lost six of
their last seven, host George Mason
University Wednesday.
16-The GW Hatchet-Monday September 27, 1993
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