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WATERGATE RESIDENT DIES PAGE A3 OK Go TO HEADLINE FALL FEST PAGE B1 ALWAYS ONLINE: Elderly man has heart attack while driving Band is famous for treadmill music video [email protected] PYLE PRODUCES THURSDAY The GW PAGE 7 September 6, 2007 Penalty kick Vol. 104 • Iss. 5 conversion gives Hatchet Colonials 1-0 win AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER - SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904 Soft ware company sues University facebook funds for the fi nal services, claiming the Schario said of Richmar CEO Richard Gor- was not satisfi ed with the DCMS and GW withholds software did not operate properly, the don. “He would like his fi nal payment.” would not pay the fi nal fees of more than lawsuit states. The code – called the Document and $200,000, according to both parties in Mourning Richmar is suing the school on fi ve Case Management System – was developed court documents. payment for code counts, including copyright infringement at a discounted rate because it was a brand- “GW is an 8,000-pound gorilla compared and breach of contract, according to the new technology in higher education, ac- to Richmar,” said Geoffrey Gitner, Rich- development plaintiff’s com- cording to both mar’s attorney. “It apparently thinks it can from a plaint. Federal parties in the thumb its nose at vendors. Unfortunately, by Eric Roper National, a cor- “GW apparently thinks it can thumb lawsuit. Rich- this is the way they like to do business.” Metro News Editor poration that its nose at vendors. Unfortunately this mar developed Richmar developed a system that loaned Richmar similar code for bridges two pieces of software, allow- distance A software development company money, is also is the way they like to do business.” the Federal Avi- ing users within GW’s network to access is suing the University because the school suing the school ation Adminis- documents based on their position at the by Niketa Kumar failed to pay more than $200,000 for an for breach of tration and oth- University, the initial contract states. Hatchet Staff Writer extensive, year-long project to digitize contract. GEOFFREY GITNER er government A program called Documentum al- school records. Tracy Schario, PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY agencies, ac- lows documents to be scanned and Peers and family members The University contracted Richmar a University cording to court stored as well as edited by certain us- gravitated to a familiar site to and Associates, a D.C.-based company, spokesperson, documents. ers within the University. The Rich- grieve the deaths of two GW stu- in early 2006 to create a code that would said the judge requested the two sides Though it is now being used in many mar code seamlessly links the Banner dents this summer. Used as a way facilitate the virtual storage and retrieval settle the issue out of court. If they are departments within the University, it was system – a database of all members of to spread the news, and then to of important, often confi dential docu- unable to, the case will return before the initially intended for use in GW’s human the GW community – to Documentum, share memories of the deceased. ments, according to a lawsuit fi led in judge. Schario declined comments on spe- resources department, which keeps a large allowing staff access to certain records Facebook became a way to memo- federal court. After paying Richmar more cifi cs of the case. number of personnel records. across the University. rialize Phill Grosser, 22, and Anna than $1.5 million for the code and docu- “As I understand it, we have withheld fi - In March 2007, Ron Bonig, GW’s chief See LAWSUIT, p. A5 Orthwein, 19. ment scanning, the University withheld nal payment, and that’s part of his lawsuit,” information offi cer, said the University Grosser was killed in a motor- cycle accident in May, when he was in Colorado training to work with Engineering Ministries Interna- tional. Orthwein died in June of a ruptured brain aneurysm. She was living at home in Maryland at the time. This summer, Facebook re- On the paper trail placed the traditional role of phone calls and mailed or e-mailed notes. Rather than opting for more con- ventional methods of communica- The NSA has exposed illegal wiretapping, corrupt CIA oper- tion, friends spread the news of the students’ deaths through what they ations, Watergate secrets and questionable deemed the simplest method. “People don’t call everyone any- presidential objectives – all more, but now they fi nd out (news) faster than they did before,” said GW in Gelman Library. alumnus Gordon Daniels, a friend of Grosser. “This is defi nitely a new me- dium. We didn’t have this a couple years ago, and since (Grossser’s death) happened during the summer when by Elise Kigner people are scattered everywhere, this Campus News Editor was a way to be together.” The open Facebook group, “In Why do governments keep re- Memory of Phill Grosser,” became an cords of their illegal actions? Why ever-changing memorial for the well- do people write down what they known student. As of Tuesday, 465 us- know to be wrong? The National ers had joined the group. Security Archive is out to fi nd out. Over the summer, people posted “Humans have to have some more than 100 photographs of Grosser sort of rationalization, justifi ca- on the page. Several poems, including tion, especially if it amounts to one written by Grosser’s father, were murder,” said Thomas Blanton, also posted as messages. Some students director of the National Security wrote comments addressed directly to Archive, a research institute and Grosser, and others posted memories library located on the seventh or prayers. fl oor of Gelman Library. “Writ- The Facebook group announced ing it down is the only way the date of the memorial service and they can keep doing it … writ- that donations should be made in hon- ing it down allows them to or of Grosser’s death. make peace with evil. Friends said the distance that the Since its inception in 1985, Internet creates allowed mourners to the archive has acquired and more freely communicate how they published hundreds of pa- felt. per documenting corrup- “Since it’s on the Internet, people tion and villainy, both in who might be less comfortable being the U.S., and abroad. In themselves directly in front of other people are probably able to express See NSA, p. A6 themselves through (Facebook),” See FACEBOOK, p. A5 used with permission NSA Student services Knapp to locals: I am listening center opens Local residents meet University president for the fi rst time by Robert Lee Hatchet Staff Writer Speaking to an audience still wary of GW from a previous administration, Uni- versity President Steven Knapp told local residents – in his first speech to the Foggy Bottom community and its FRIENDS or- ganization – that he would be more re- sponsive to their concerns. The event was one of many stops made by Knapp on his campus-wide “lis- tening tour.” About 90 community mem- bers, students, staff and faculty attended Tim Gowa/Hatchet photographer the speech and question and answer ses- A student and her mother solicit services from Colonial Central sion, which was held on the top floor of staff member Ariz Matute (center), a 2007 graduate. the Elliott School of International Affairs Tuesday night. Tim Gowa/Hatchet photographer by Nathan Grossman tape in Foggy Bottom – has helped Knapp assured those in attendance University President Steven Knapp (left) and director of Foggy Bottom/West End Re- Assistant News Editor more than 3,000 people in the past that he held the relationship between the lations Michael Akin (right) address the Foggy Bottom community Tuesday night. month but is not completely fi n- University and its neighbors in very high A multi-departmental service ished, with at least one department regard and referenced his past as a way to said. the new University president to former Uni- center located in the space once still moving in. look to the future here at GW. Knapp said Many who attended the meeting said versity president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, occupied by the District Market is The space – which houses when he was provost at Johns Hopkins Knapp seemed to be moving the Univer- but that Knapp had a very positive outlook now open for business, but is not Student Financial Assistance, Stu- University, he spent time looking into the sity in the right direction in terms of ad- for the future of GW and its community. fully functional. dent Accounts and the Cashier’s health of residents in East Baltimore. dressing community concerns. “Under Trachtenberg’s administration Colonial Central – a much-pub- “The community has been a very im- P.A. Morton, a member of FRIENDS, licized effort to cut away at the red See CONNECTION, p. B6 portant part of my interest here,” Knapp said she felt some were unfairly comparing See KNAPP, p. A3 0SEFS POMJOF PS CZ QIPOF t 8FBDDFQU(8PSMEBOENBKPSDSFEJUDBSET oooN@E>FJ[ge #VSHFST t 8JOHT t )PUEPHT t .JMLTIBLFT The GW Hatchet | Thursday, September 6, 2007, page A2 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY FOUR DAY FORECAST cAndrew Ramamponas – Campus News Editor ([email protected]) HIGH 90 | LOW 68 HIGH 89 | LOW 66 HIGH 85 | LOW 71 HIGH 81 | LOW 70 Elise Kigner – Campus News Editor ([email protected]) Nathan Grossman – Assistant News Editor ([email protected]) tion date is not definite. ment to service, living the rit- SANOTE Before the election can take ual and excellence in recruit- CAMPUS place, the Senate Rules Com- ment on behalf of the chapter.

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