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Monday, November 5, 2018 I Vol. 115 Iss. 14 AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER • SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904 WWW.GWHATCHET.COM The GW 2018-19 basketball Hatchet season preview pages 3-7 The next generation: Women look to maintain dominance, men begin journey to rebuild BARBARA ALBERTS SPORTS EDITOR oth of GW’s basketball mings contributing double-digit scor- territory. teams feature young ros- ing and minutes in each game of their While both teams share a similar ters led by third-year head final seasons at GW. makeup in roster and leadership, the coaches, but the men’s and Women’s basketball head coach two programs have near-opposite ex- women’s programs are on Jennifer Rizzotti said she won’t com- pectations, which have fueled different B two different trajectories. promise her high standards for the attitudes. The men’s team enters the 2018-19 young team as they enter a program Under Joseph, the Colonials are season coming off its worst record in that is no stranger to defying expecta- slotted to finish 13th in the conference five seasons and is trying to develop tions. The team pocketed its seventh this season – marking a nine-year low. new personnel to rebuild the team. On Atlantic 10 Championship last season Joseph said the second-to-last pick was the other hand, the women’s squad despite entering the tournament as a “fair assessment” given the play- will utilize new faces to patch holes in the No. 5 seed. Ahead of this season, ers lost in the offseason, but the men their championship-or-bust program. they’ve turned their focus to finding have an opportunity to spend the year The young rosters are a new look roles for new players and defining building a foundation for future suc- for GW programs – which have relied how their offense will operate in the cess. on the contributions of veteran return- absence of last season’s leading scor- “We’ll have five seniors next year ers for years. ers. and four talented juniors and guys The men have boasted leaders on On the other side, in his third year who have been four-year starters, the court like the senior trio of Patri- as one of the youngest Division I head three-year starters,” Joseph said. “Our cio Garino, Joe McDonald and Kevin coaches in the country, Maurice Joseph program is in a really good space right Larsen in 2016, forward Tyler Cavana- leads a men’s team without a clear now for the future.” ugh in 2017 and guard Yuta Watanabe person to turn to when the team needs On the women’s side, the Colonials in 2018. In the last three seasons, the quick points. In addition to the offen- are expected to finish third, which Riz- women’s program has had a lineage of sive hole, the team carries three fresh- zotti said was a “compliment” that top players like forward Jonquel Jones men and two transfers that they will in 2016, followed by forward Caira be forced to rely on up and down the Washington and guard Brianna Cum- court who have yet to be tested in A-10 See WOMEN Page 7 Honors program director to step down after nine years in position ALEC RICH, search for an associate pro- outside the classroom have ILENA PENG & vost for special programs included hikes to Harpers LAUREN PELLER and the Mount Vernon Ferry and social outings to REPORTERS academic experience, who, the Shakespeare Theatre once hired, will oversee the with students. The head of the Univer- search for a new honors pro- “It’s getting to know stu- sity Honors Program will gram director. The search dents outside of the class- step down at the end of the will be internal, she said. room that has been the high- semester after almost a de- “We hope the future light of my time working as cade in the role. director of the honors pro- the director of the honors Maria Frawley an- gram will bring the same program, and it’s the part nounced last week that level of commitment and of the job that I’m extremely she will leave her position enthusiasm that Dr. Frawley sad about letting go of,” she as executive director of the brings to the role,” Murphy said. program and return to the said. But Frawley’s tenure English department next Frawley said her expe- was not without challenges. fall after she takes a one-se- rience as director has been She oversaw the program’s mester sabbatical. Officials “extremely rewarding,” and move to the Mount Vernon DONNA ARMSTRONG | CONTRIBUTING PHOTO EDITOR and faculty said Frawley she was able to both work Campus in 2011, which stu- Saru Duckworth, the president of The Store, Student Association President Ashley Le, Izzy has improved the stature on the administrative side dents said fostered a discon- Moody, the SA’s vice president for sustainability, and Sage Wylie, a Food Institute fellow, all serve of the program during her of the program and also nect between the program’s on the task force. tenure, increasing student interact academically with students and other fresh- retention rates, boosting re- faculty and students. men. search efforts and support- “When you’re at the “I have maintained our ing students and faculty head of the program like commitment to all of our Students, officials work together in after two student deaths in this, you have obligations to students to continue to of- 2014. be overseeing the academic fer classes at Foggy Bottom new group to tackle food insecurity Frawley said her de- side of things but also very and to maintain a pres- cision to step down was invested in student affairs ence in our townhouse, KELLY HOOPER after realizing that several their GWorld daily for items “difficult,” but she wants and student life, so, for me, which has been so vital to STAFF WRITER food-based organizations, like laundry, food and print- the program to see a leader that has been ideal,” she our sense of community,” like the GW Food Policy ing, she said. who can bring a new per- said. she said. “I’ve just tried to Students launched a task Institute, which conducts Combating food insecu- spective to the program. She said that when she role model a spirit of do- force last week to gauge the research on food and sus- rity was listed as one of Le’s “A new person, fresh to first stepped into her posi- ing our best to make things prevalence of food insecurity tainability, and The Store, priorities for the year. the program, is going to be tion in 2009, the retention work, even when we face on campus. GW’s food pantry, often do She added that the group able to see things anew that rate for the program stood hurdles.” The task force, comprised not convene to discuss food will compile a report of rec- I, because I am so immersed at roughly 40 percent. But After two honors stu- of students, faculty, staff and insecurity. ommendations by early next in the program, can no lon- over her tenure, Frawley dents committed suicide in administrators, convened for “The conversation about semester that will “propose ger see,” she said. “I don’t has dropped the GPA re- West Hall in 2014, Frawley the first time Wednesday to food insecurity began way tangible actions” to combat have a wishlist of things quirement from 3.4 to 3.0 said she hired more staff in discuss how to tackle food too long ago without getting food insecurity. She said that I didn’t accomplish, and made the curriculum the program’s Mount Ver- insecurity on campus and a lot of attention from the ad- the task force will give the but I do think that new en- less “restrictive” – changes non Campus office to foster laid plans for research into ministration, and I think that recommendations to ad- ergy and new perspectives she said have helped boost a sense of community. students’ spending habits the lack of focus did not help ministrators and develop a can galvanize people to roll the retention rate to about “I learned a lot about cri- and partnerships with din- students,” Le said. “I hope plan for student leaders to up their sleeves and tackle 90 percent. sis management, and I had ing vendors. Students said the food insecurity task force advocate for low-cost meal problems.” Frawley said she has a lot of conversations with the group will issue a survey will just place a bigger focus options. Ingrid Creppell, an as- bolstered the program’s students and with parents, by the end of the semester on this issue at GW, how At the group’s first meet- sociate professor of political visibility on campus and and I think the simple fact of asking students how often prevalent it is.” ing Wednesday, about 12 science and international improved the diversity of being available to talk and they load extra money onto She said student leaders students, faculty and offi- affairs and the deputy di- course offerings. She said be open to conversations on their GWorld or run out of in the task force will work cials – like Bridgette Behling, rector of the honors pro- that as director, she has a myriad of concerns that money, which will help them with the Office of Institu- the director of community gram, will serve as the in- worked to infuse more re- people raised was most es- produce a set of recommen- tional Research to send out support and leadership, and terim director, according search into the department sential,” she said.

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