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'Demeaning,' 'Wonderful': Faculty Express Mixed Reactions on Culture Trainings Dining Partnership with D.C.-Based Food A Monday, October 28, 2019 I Vol. 116 Iss. 13 AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER • SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904 WWW.GWHATCHET.COM What’s inside Opinions Culture Sports The editorial board End spooky season Women’s soccer enters weighs in on right with The conference tournament proposals to forgive Hatchet’s Halloween with highest seeding student loan debt guide. since 2015 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Dining partnership with D.C.-based food app offers discounted meals LIA DEGROOT purchase meals from the food ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR trucks Monday will receive a free TwentyTables t-shirt, Students can now use Cohen said in an email to GWorld to purchase meal students Sunday. Sate Indone- tickets that can be used at sian, Peruvian Brothers, Ko- food trucks and restaurants rean Yellow Truck and Tazah around the District. Lebanese will be featured Offi cials partnered with at the Monday kick-off , the the founder of TwentyTables, email states. a company that teams up He said students can en- with D.C.-based food trucks ter an online contest to win and restaurants to donate a “golden ticket,” which pro- meals to charity for each item vides the winner with free purchased through the pro- lunch for a semester. gram. The program will pre- Cohen said giving stu- view Monday, during which dents the option to eat at food four food trucks participat- trucks on campus they previ- ing in TwentyTables will be ously didn’t have access to and stationed in Potomac Park for at establishments throughout lunch and dinner, and will of- the District combats “menu fi cially launch Wednesday, of- fatigue,” which occurs when fi cials said. someone has repeatedly eaten Alex Cohen, the founder at the same establishment that ALEXANDER WELLING | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR and CEO of TwentyTables, lacks variety in food options. Of cials are rolling out several changes to student health care, expanding weekend hours and establishing a clinic on the Mount Vernon Campus. said the company sells meal “A lot of, let’s say food-ori- tickets for $6.60 through the ented companies, they’re tak- app in bundles of fi ve – from ing in large margins for them- Offi cials establish Vern health clinic, expand which customers can buy selves,” he said. “What we do lunch with one ticket and din- is we ask our vendors, instead ner with two tickets at partici- of taking that margin for the weekend urgent care hours pating vendors. Cohen said company, turn it around and he proposed the partnership provide value for the custom- SHANNON MALLARD sity’s operating budget ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR to offi cials about four months ers.” will cover the costs of ago after reading about stu- Naveen Sidhu, the din- expanding health care dents’ concerns about dining ing services manager, said Officials are expand- services. aff ordability. offi cials’ decision to team up ing urgent care services Petty said the space Students have struggled with Cohen was a “no-brain- to later hours on week- in Merriweather Hall with food insecurity since er” because the partnership ends and establishing a was conducive to a new 2016 when J Street, the only will off er students several health care clinic on the health care facility be- dining hall on the Foggy Bot- ethnically diverse food op- Mount Vernon Campus. cause it housed a health tom Campus, closed in 2016. tions. Urgent care hours – care clinic before the A report released last year “D.C. is such an amaz- which previously ran Vern – previously the showed that 40 percent of stu- ing food town with so many from 9 a.m. to noon at private women’s college dents face food insecurity on ethnic pockets of cuisines the Colonial Health Mount Vernon College campus. that for various reasons are Center on Saturdays – – merged with GW in “D.C. is wonderfully a underrepresented on our are now from 11 a.m. to 1997. very diverse and ethnically campus,” Sidhu said. “But ARIELLE BADER | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR 4 p.m. Saturdays at the She said the counsel- diverse, culturally diverse it’s a struggle to go to those CHC and Sundays in ing space on the Vern town, and our network repre- pockets to try to establish Merriweather Hall on was originally situated said. “I’m going to work of counseling to oversee to put safety and care the center’s counseling sents that so we have Korean, relationships with them be- the Vern. Cissy Petty, in a classroom with mis- Indonesian, Ethiopian, Ger- cause they’re not going to get the vice president for matched furniture. The first, and I’m not going and psychological ser- to worry about the rev- vices. She said she is co- man brat, fried chicken,” he the business to make it sus- student affairs and the new center has a wait- said. tainable.” dean of students, said ing area separate from enue.” ordinating the national Petty said she may search with Issacson, Cohen said TwentyTables Robert “Chef Roro” As- the changes came from the counseling office donates one meal to D.C.- mar, the owner of Roro’s Leb- monthslong discussions and health provider of- hold off on hiring a per- Miller – a higher educa- manent CHC head for tion search firm – to fill based charities, like Martha’s anese food truck, said Cohen with officials, who fices to make the space Table and D.C. Area Food asked him to join Twenty- agreed that urgent care more “intentional.” one or two more years to the position. ensure she has enough Issacson, Miller has Bank, for every meal custom- Table’s marketplace in 2017. should be accessible for Petty said she hopes ers purchase at participating “I could tell he was real students on both cam- the piloted changes will time to revamp the cen- previously assisted dean ter into a place students searches for the College restaurants or food trucks. He genuine about what he want- puses. remain in effect indefi- said TwentyTables donated ed to do with his business “My first year, I nitely, even if only a few feel comfortable using. of Professional Studies, She has acted as the cen- the Columbian College more than 10,000 meals to as he was starting it and de- started making a list students utilize week- charities in the District last veloping it, and just looking of all the conversations end urgent care hours ter’s interim director for of Arts and Sciences, the a year. School of Engineering year. for people to join them, and that I’ve had with stu- and health facilities on On the TwentyTables ap- people to help him get there,” dents over the CHC the Vern. She said she The CHC has operat- and Applied Science and ed without a permanent the School of Medicine plication, a map shows the lo- Asmar said. and just in general on will gather feedback cation of food trucks and res- Asmar said he regularly both campuses, and from students via a leader since Glenn Egel- and Health Sciences. man, the center’s former More than 20 stu- taurants that participate in the donated food from his truck the Mount Vernon stu- “student satisfaction as- program. When students pur- to individuals experiencing dents felt very isolated sessment.” associate dean, left in dents alleged in inter- 2017, citing the center’s views that the CHC chase meals through the app, homelessness before he par- in terms of health care,” “What happens they are prompted to enter ei- ticipated in TwentyTables. He Petty said. sometimes is that, if “minimal” efforts to lacks administrative ensure the quality and organization and suf- ther their GWorld credentials said TwentyTables gives him She said she recruit- students don’t use a or credit card information. an opportunity to quantify ed current CHC staff facility often enough, safety of health care ficient numbers of staff available to students as to adequately accom- “By pulling up the app, how much he is giving and members and hired then we say, ‘Well, it’s you’ll be able to see where reach a larger population of two more staffers to inefficient,’ instead of the reason for his depar- modate students’ health ture. care needs. the daily movement of food people in need. offer health care ser- that safety and care are trucks has landed,” Cohen vices over the weekend. more important than Petty said she also plans to hire a director said. Petty said the Univer- the efficiency,” Petty See CLINIC Page 4 The fi rst 100 students who See TRUCKS Page 5 ‘Demeaning,’ ‘wonderful’: Faculty express mixed reactions on culture trainings JARED GANS & portunity to do that.’” this month conducted by the ZACH SCHONFELD The trainings include an ambassador team, said the ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS explanation of the Universi- session “ignored” any spe- ty’s new service framework, cifi c “serious” or “concrete” Faculty have expressed which includes a common issues, like what he considers mixed reactions on culture purpose statement, seven a lack of shared governance training sessions off ered this University-wide values and between administrators and fall to break down GW’s new three ranked-service priori- faculty, and instead discussed service priorities. ties: safety, care and effi cien- the service framework. Administrators at faculty cy. “The training struck me meetings have said the train- Offi cials asked employ- as a solution looking for a ings and the broader culture ees in managerial roles to at- problem, and a very expen- initiative aim to reverse the tend a training in September sive solution,” he said.
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