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The GW Hatchet News August 30, 2010 W Page 3 SA Has $1 Million to Allocate to Student Organizations This Year An independent student newspaper • Serving the GW community since 1904 MONDAY The GW August 30, 2010 ALWAYS ONLINE: WWW.GWHATCHET.COM Vol. 107 • Iss. 5 Hatchet Tea party rally crowds campus SJS seeks to reform Rallies led by Glenn Beck and the Rev. Al Sharpton draw thousands disciplinary process by Amy D'onofrIo daunting. Metro News Editor Pereira stressed that procedures for serious offenses – like sexual as- After years of complaints over sault – will not change. Rather, the procedure and transparency, the head focus for the changes is on lower and of Student Judicial Services plans to mid-level offenses like alcohol and reform the board that doles out pun- drug violations, and keeping students ishments to students who have violat- who accept responsibility for their ac- ed GW’s Student Code of Conduct. tions from having to endure a full SJS Tara Pereira, the assistant dean hearing. of students and head of SJS, said she In her 10 years at GW – eight will be holding town hall meetings years as head of discipline – Pereira throughout the year to seek input said some students want everything from students on how they want the in SJS to be handled on a case-by-case disciplinary process to improve. basis, and others want to know exact- “SJS has an image problem. I rec- ly what is going to happen to them in ognize that,” Pereira said in an inter- any SJS situation. view with The Hatchet. “I also know “Maintaining the integrity of the that we have a hard job. We need to system while gathering student, fac- find a balance between correcting, or ulty and staff feedback to address the addressing, the image problem, with image issue, that’s our daunting task, maintaining the integrity of the sys- and we’re working on that,” she said. tem.” Pereira said she doesn’t have The reformation process will like- a timeline for when meetings will ly take a year to flesh out, and the ul- start, but said this interview with The timate decision on how to change SJS Hatchet is a large part of getting the procedure will likely be implemented ball rolling on the process, adding that in the fall of 2011. she has already purchased Hatchet Pereira said she has already be- ads to address myths about SJS and gun to seek input, meeting with her CADE – Center for Alcohol and other staff, administrators from across the Drug Education – policies. University, as well as Student Asso- “We’re trying to figure out the by Jeff RichArDs and ciation President Jason Lifton and Ex- best way to solicit feedback,” Pereira AnDreA VIttorIo ecutive Vice President Rob Maxim to said. Hatchet Staff Writers come up with ways to improve SJS’s During this year of review, stu- procedures. dents going through SJS will still see A steady stream of red, white From the meetings she has had some changes, Pereira said. and blue-clad tea party members over the summer, Pereira said she has She said a common recipe of an flowed through the Foggy Bottom made three goals for the year: Make SJS case – making up about 50 percent Campus Saturday – the first official the judicial process less formidable for of SJS hearing boards last year – is one day of move-in – for the much-antic- students, create new learning points where a student with no judicial his- ipated “Restoring Honor" rally, caus- she wants students to take away from tory is caught with a small amount ing only minor delays for students SJS and attempt to create SJS resolu- of marijuana, a piece or two of drug moving into residence halls across tions that focus on education rather paraphernalia or a small amount of campus. than on creating judicial records for alcohol, usually shared among room- Students moving into their resi- students. mates. dence halls said the rally crowded “Not everyone who goes through She said almost every student in sidewalks as they moved their be- this system or who makes a bad de- those cases admits to possession and longings into their rooms, but many cision needs a judicial sanction to accepts responsibility. said they weren’t too affected by the learn,” Pereira said. “Not everyone For those cases, Pereira said, day's events. needs a punishment. Most people, in students who would have pleaded Freshman Tamia Burkett de- fact, need a conversation.” guilty at an SJS hearing will have the scribed her move into Madison Hall frAncIs rIVerA AnD chrIs gregory | hAtchet stAff photogrAphers Overall, Pereira said students opportunity to accept an agreement Saturday afternoon as “pretty fast,” Top: A rally attendee at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial. can be fearful of the SJS process, so saying she thought she avoided the Bottom: The Rev. Al Sharpton led a rally along the route of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s the goal is to make the process less See SJS: Page 8 rush. historic march. The University sent Infomails to students warning of potential chal- freshman Andre Garcia-Lutri said it ees got into a heated argument with lenges due to the rally, including was “confusing trying to move into an employee at the GW Deli over Amid global recession, traffic issues and non-GW affiliated Somers when all of the rally attend- the D.C. bag tax, which ultimately rally attendees attempting to enter ees were blocking up the streets.” resulted in the tea party member residence halls to use restrooms. While Dean of Students Peter throwing a sandwich in the deli em- Freshman Vickie Walsh moved Konwerski said campus was busier ployee’s face. The GW Deli declined Univ. endowment grows into Potomac Hall before Saturday, for move-in than in years past, he to comment on the issue. but said her roommate had a hard said the rallies on the Mall didn’t im- The rally – which was hosted Endowment Growth Since 2006 time finding parking on campus to pact safety and security on campus. by Fox News host Glenn Beck and move in that day. “We did not experience prob- featured other prominent speakers 1.4 “It was so crowded, just packed,” lems,” he said. including former Alaskan Governor she said. Though the rally was a mostly On the Mount Vernon Campus, peaceful gathering, two rally attend- See RALLY: Page 3 1.2 1.0 0.8 Knapp lends a helping hand on Move-In Day .06 by JustIn Kits .04 Hatchet Staff Writer billions of dollars Among a sea of yellow-shirted .02 move-in volunteers, you’d think the University president would 0 stand out. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 But on Saturday, President Ste- grAphIc By rAchel lee ven Knapp was just one of more than 1,000 volunteers that were by mADeleIne morgenstern university endowments in 2008 stationed to help lift the heavy Campus News Editor was 23 percent, according to a re- luggage of freshmen moving onto port released by the National As- campus for the first time. The University’s endowment sociation of College and University Students on both the Foggy Bot- rose 13 percent over the last fiscal Business Officers. tom and Mount Vernon campuses year to stand at $1.14 billion as of Lindsey said the most difficult received help from Knapp, who June 30, Executive Vice President quarter of the 2010 fiscal year was spent three hours assisting with and Treasurer Lou Katz said. the fourth quarter, which ran from move-in at five residence halls. The endowment gained $135 the beginning of April through the Many of the students who received million during fiscal year 2010, end of June, a time period which Knapp’s move-in help said they which began July 1, 2009 and end- coincided with the economic crisis were impressed that the Universi- ed June 30, 2010, an improvement Becky crowDer | hAtchet photogrApher plaguing Greece and other Euro- ty’s highest-ranking official would University President Steven Knapp greets a student in front of Thurston Hall as he after its 18 percent drop last fiscal pean countries. help lug boxes and belongings into helped with move-in Saturday afternoon. year. “The market was down 12 per- their new homes for the year. Don Lindsey, the University’s cent, [but] we held up very well,” The gray-haired administrator – chief financial officer, called the Lindsey said. “We were only down clad in a baseball cap and a yellow brim with the belongings that will Tessler said the key debacle 2010 fiscal year a “mirror image” about 1 percent for the quarter.” move-in shirt with “GW President” fill her room this year. ended up being “kind of comical.” of the 2009 fiscal year for GW, in Lindsey said the University is emblazoned on the back – carried Having the president carrying “It really kind of broke the ice the sense that all assets were up in- positioned conservatively, given one of freshman Jill Tessler's large her belongings, however, did not for moving in,” Tessler said. “It was stead of down. the volatility of the markets, which green duffel bags on his shoulder ensure smooth sailing for Tessler. really nice to meet him, and it was a “Everything had double digit he called the “biggest risk” to the and hauled another under his arm When they reached her door, the really personal connection the first returns,” Lindsey said. endowment fund. “[The market] into the F Street building. key wouldn’t work. After a couple second I got here.” Last fiscal year, GW’s endow- could be up several percent one “I really felt bad he was carry- of seconds, Tessler allowed Knapp Jeff Smith, whose daughter ment lost nearly $250 million, but month and down several percent ing all my stuff,” Tessler said, her to try to open the door.
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