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The GW Hatchet An independent student newspaper • Serving the GW community since 1904 • Always online at GWHATCHET.COM The GW MONDAY • April 5, 2010 Volume 106 • Issue 53 HATCHET PillowPandemonium Acceptance rate hits historic low by MATT RIST Senior Staff Writer QUICKTAKES The University’s acceptance rate has hit an all-time low, an of- 31.5 ficial said Wednesday, dropping 5 Percent of applicants accepted to percent over the last year. the class of 2014 Executive Dean for Undergrad- uate Admissions Kathryn Napper said GW accepted a record-low 5 31.5 percent of applicants this year, Percent decrease in acceptance down from 36.5 percent in 2009. rate from one year prior Napper added that the acceptance rate has hovered between 36 per- cent and 37 percent over the past 21,135 five years, making this year's drop Number of applications received the largest in recent history. for the class of 2014 Napper said the University re- ceived 21,135 applications for the class of 2014, which is a 6 percent commitment to financial aid, will increase from last year. Of the ap- bring in an academically strong plications received, 6,655 students and dynamically motivated class,” were accepted, Napper said, mark- Napper said in a news release. ing a decrease of 550 students from “This year’s applicants stood out one year prior. for their academic excellence and “We anticipate meeting the personal interests and their remark- FRANCIS RIVERA | HATCHET PHOTOGRAPHER budgeted target for the freshman able dedication to service.” Hundreds of people gathered on the lawn of the Washington Monument Saturday afternoon for a massive pillow fight. class of 2,350 which is predicated Napper said all schools and Down pillows were banned due to the mess they make, according to Capitol Improv, the organizers of the event. on a yield rate of 35.3 percent and, combined with the University’s See ADMISSIONS: Page 8 Task force Univ. unveils new GWorld GW reaches Obama service challenge goal finds $2.8 cards as part of fall revamp The GW community completed the 100,000 community service hours needed by LAUREN FRENCH estimate for the cost of the to- to secure first lady Michelle Obama as Assistant News Editor tal project, which will include GW’s Commencement speaker, the Uni- million in new software, servers, cards, versity confirmed Sunday night. GW quietly revealed a and more than 500 card read- University President Steven Knapp new design for GWorld cards ers, but he said he expects the will make the formal announcement late last month, selecting fewer project to remain within its Monday at 1:15 p.m. in Kogan Plaza, Uni- savings than 150 students, faculty and $1.5 million budget. versity spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard staff to receive the cards as Some students were ran- said late Sunday night. The announce- by SAIRA THADANI part of the revamped system domly selected during the past ment will be followed by a celebration Hatchet Staff Writer planned for next fall. two weeks to receive the new until 3 p.m. GWorld 2.0 cards will cards. Faculty and staff, in- Knapp announced back in September The University’s Innovation Task eventually kick off a replace- cluding the GWorld office, me- that Obama would speak at Commence- Force has generated and saved $2.8 ment of the antiquated servers dia relations and other staffers ment on May 16 if the GW community million – roughly 5 percent of the task currently running the GWorld were also selected, Schonfeld could log 100,000 hours of community force’s five-year goal – since its incep- program, but for now, the said, and the University ex- service by May 1. The University com- tion in November, a University official new cards will use the same pects to begin issuing the cards munity reached this goal with a little less said Friday. software, said Ed Schonfeld, on a wider scale at the end of than a month to spare. The $2.8 million came from energy senior associate vice president April, allowing students until The University will continue to tally savings, moving the forensic science for administration. The Uni- October to make the switch. Be- the amount of community service hours program to the Mount Vernon Cam- versity has considered Metro fore the current cards become logged by the University, and an official pus, and moving the doctorate of psy- compatibility and touch tech- GW MEDIA RELATIONS inactive, notices will be posted tally will be announced at Obama’s Com- chology program to Foggy Bottom, nology for the fall release, but in residence halls, as well as on mencement speech on the National Mall, task force chair and Associate Vice Schonfeld said GW is still fi- staff – and an expiration date. Facebook and Twitter, to warn according to the University’s announce- President for Academic Operations nalizing what features the new Unlike the current horizon- students when buildings will ment. Jeff Lenn said. The task force is part of cards will have. tal, orange GWorld cards, the switch to the tap system. Obama is the third first lady of the a plan launched by University Presi- The redesign features a GWorld 2.0 cards are vertical Alumni will be encouraged U.S. to speak at a GW Commencement dent Steven Knapp to identify oppor- larger photo, a hologram, a and feature a GW flag, holo- to change their cards, but will ceremony, according to the news re- tunities to fundraise and spend more new randomly generated card gram crest and buff and blue have to do so while in D.C., as lease. efficiently over the next five years, number, a user classification tones. –Emily Cahn with the eventual goal of injecting $60 – alumni, student, faculty, or Schonfeld did not have an See GWORLD: Page 5 million per year into academics. The task force has already spent some of the saved expenses. Execu- tive Vice President of Academic Af- fairs Donald Lehman announced in Club teams unite in fight for more funding, space March that $500,000 would be used to add nine professional advisors to the Columbian College of Arts and Sci- Hoping to gain more support from GW, 12 teams form Club Sports Council ences. Lenn said the task force’s two by KARA DUNFORD working committees have submitted Hatchet Staff Writer their recommendations to the steering Leaders of club sports teams See TASK FORCE: Page 8 have formed a council to lobby the University for additional funding and practice space. The Club Sports Council, Dean of founded by senior Katie Easter, who also serves as the president of the club field hockey team, said the 32 club sports teams experience students common frustrations from dealing with multiple campus offices, such as the Student Association and the Office of Campus Recreation, will retire when trying to secure funding or book practice and game facilities. by EMILY CAHN “To my knowledge, there Campus News Editor has never been collaboration on the scale of what the Club Sports After 31 years at GW, Dean of Council will be. The more I talk Students Linda Donnels announced with members of other club sports, last week that she will retire at the the more I am surprised that an end of the academic year. organization like this has not sur- Donnels, who began working at faced before. Many clubs have GW in 1979, oversees major depart- more commonalities than differ- ments ranging from Student Judicial ences,” Easter said in an e-mail. Services to GW Housing Programs. The first meeting of the council She has her hands in a variety of as- was held March 28, with 12 teams pects of student life; Donnels sat on represented. Easter said she is the task force on swine flu and led confident that as the organization ASHLEY-LYNN GOLDSTEIN | HATCHET PHOTOGRAPHER the review on Laura Treanor’s death becomes more established, more Jennifer Perry, left, Katie Easter and Liz Neely, banded together with other club athletes to form the Club Sports Council that will in 2009. Over her career, she has teams will want to join. lobby the University for more space and funding for their teams. helped oversee crisis situations at Jennifer Perry, president of the GW, including helping students dis- women’s club soccer team, said one er siblings of varsity teams. I think their opponents. For their recent “Apart from [that donation], placed by Hurricane Katrina acquire of the biggest issues for her team is they figure that just because we trip to the 2010 American College it has been like trying to squeeze housing in 2005. In 2004, she also the lack of attention garnered from are club sport teams, we will take Cricket Championship in Florida, water from a stone. The whole fi- authored a report about the Univer- the University. Compared to their whatever we can get, but this is far the team received just 16 percent nancial system is a complete mess sity’s response to a slew of student opponents, Perry said the support from the truth,” Perry said in an of the funding they requested, de- and that is one of our main targets deaths on campus. her team receives is very poor. e-mail. spite a donation to buy equipment in working within this council. It Donnels is one of 13 high-level “In my opinion, the Univer- GW Cricket President Hugo from Senior Vice President for Stu- is constantly a case of diving into administrators to leave or announce sity does not see us as athletes, but Scheckter said that his team does dent and Academic Support Ser- rather the underachieving young- not receive funding comparable to vices Robert Chernak's budget.
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