Monday, October 26, 2020 I Vol. 117 Iss. 11 INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER • SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904 WWW.GWHATCHET.COM What’s inside Opinions Culture Sports The editorial board Read our tips on how Revisit the 2015 women’s lays out how GW can to enjoy a healthy soccer team’s win streak help students with and responsible in our final installment of COVID-19. Halloween. top GW sports moments. Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 ‘ASTOUNDED AND HORRIFIED’ Documents show Marvin’s leadership tainted by racist, anti-Semitic policies JARROD WARDWELL the page of materials as their ish Telegraphic Agency re- ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR work progresses. She said of- ported as part of a plot to rid ficials decided to release the the school of Jewish students In February 1935, mem- materials after attendees of in 1950 after members voiced bers of the Knights of the Ku a recent town hall meeting support for racial desegrega- Klux Klan issued a letter to asked for more information tion. then-University President to be released about Mar- “The University likes to Cloyd Heck Marvin, thank- vin, and administrators are focus on the good, like in- ing him for refusing admis- accepting feedback on com- creasing the endowments sion to civil rights activist mittees examining the build- and doubling the size of the David Carliner. ing’s namesake on the Office student body and tripling Marvin returned his own of the President’s website. the size of the faculty,” No- letter to the KKK, thank- “This supports transpar- vak said. “That’s what they ing them for their message ency into the committee’s talk about, but that had a and citing the need to free work and does not indicate dark side to it. And that’s the University “from propa- the committee has reached what my research explores.” ganda of all types.” Marvin’s a recommendation about the Novak said controversy brief exchange with the KKK renaming request,” she said surrounding the Marvin is documented through one in an email. Center dates back to 1970, of several historical materi- Administrators estab- when students “seized” the als the Special Committee lished two special commit- University Center for three on the Marvin Center Name tees in July to investigate the days during one of the larg- shared with the GW com- Marvin Center name and the est protests in University his- munity earlier this month as Colonials moniker, weeks tory. officials consider renaming after the Board of Trustees On the same day as the the student hub. approved a framework to Kent State shootings, dur- The documents help illus- consider renaming requests ing which four anti-Vietnam trate the longest-serving GW from GW community mem- LILLIAN BAUTISTA | SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR War student protesters were president’s segregationist bers. Law professor Roger The Marvin Center’s current name has sparked controversy since officials dedicated the building to former University shot and killed by Ohio Na- policies that prevented Black Fairfax chairs the committee, President Cloyd Heck Marvin in 1971. tional Guardsmen, students students from enrolling at which also includes pairs of rushed the building and re- the University until 1954. faculty, staff, students, alum- in 2017 and again in fall 2018, vak, who published a biog- pus. named it the Kent State Me- Special committee members ni and advisers. forming task forces to re- raphy about Marvin during Novak said Marvin morial Center. Demonstra- are reviewing the materials, Fairfax said committee search the history of several his senior year in 2004, re- fired The Hatchet’s editorial tors aimed to condemn the which include Hatchet ar- members have been meet- building names on campus. ceived his own subheading board three times when it shootings, the oppression of ticles, Cherry Tree yearbook ing multiple times per week Most recently, five student of historical materials on the was editorially dependent Black people and adminis- pages and archival docu- to review the materials and organizations launched a committee’s website. No- on the University, viewing trators’ complicity in the war. ments that recount Marvin’s discuss considerations for petition calling for several vak’s research details several the paper as a “communist When administrators life and leadership, from the renaming. on-campus locations to be decades of Marvin’s “con- mouthpiece,” and he forbade dedicated the student center segregation of Lisner Audi- “I want to express my renamed because of their trolling” relationships with student chapters from affili- to Marvin in 1971 through a torium in the mid-1900s to gratitude to the GW commu- namesakes’ ties to racism. faculty and students, citing ating with national groups $1 million grant from Mar- student activism against the nity for continuing to share University President several instances of racism, except for those traditionally vin’s wife, Dorothy Betts, Marvin Center name in the their thoughts about this Thomas LeBlanc is cur- anti-Semitism and censor- with conservative values, students walked out of the early 1970s. process,” he said in an email. rently reviewing requests to ship. like Greek, religious and ceremony with raised fists – University spokesperson Efforts to rename build- rename Fulbright, Madison As Marvin helped the military organizations. one shouting, “It’s the Kent Crystal Nosal said commit- ings like the Marvin Center and Francis Scott Key Halls University generate success One of Novak’s articles State Center, and you know tee members have not yet de- date back to the building’s halls, the Churchill Center in faculty, students and fi- about Marvin’s leadership it!” cided on a recommendation dedication decades ago. and the Monroe School of nances, Novak said he also states the then-president regarding the Marvin Center Members of the Student As- Government. silenced leftist and anti-Uni- threatened to kick GW Hillel name, but they will update sociation revived the charge Alumnus Andrew No- versity sentiment on cam- off campus, which the Jew- See MARVIN Page 4 Officials lay off dozens Student parties off campus have endangered of communications staff local residents, neighbors say amid restructuring JARROD WARDWELL ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR ZACH SCHONFELD keting departments. CONTRIBUTING NEWS EDITOR SimpsonScarborough, Scott Wayne’s wooden a higher education market- fence may divide his yard Officials laid off dozens ing firm, advised officials from the weekly beer pong of communications and to transition the existing matches next door, but he marketing professionals in Division for External Rela- isn’t so sure it can protect recent weeks, according to tions and related units to a him from the spread of CO- internal emails and employ- centralized Office of - Com VID-19. ees familiar with the matter. munications and Marketing Sitting by his backyard Sarah Baldassaro, the in- to “streamline” the unit and water fountain feet away terim vice president for com- reduce staffing “redundan- from his neighbors, Wayne munications and marketing, cies,” according to a draft said he often hears music said officials made “difficult report created in February. blasting and shouting reso- decisions,” including layoffs The firm called GW’s exist- nating from just beyond the alongside plans to central- ing communications and wooden fence, where at least ize the division. Officials marketing structure “dys- five GW seniors have been said they are reorganizing functional, inefficient and living since June. He said administrative units to close suboptimal,” the documents students have congregated GW’s annual revenue short- state. weekly at the residence, and fall amid the pandemic, but “It is problematic that he doesn’t anticipate it end- an outside consulting group there are more communica- ing anytime soon. that officials hired before the tors and marketers outside Wayne is one of six health crisis already recom- versus inside the central Foggy Bottom residents mended the move in Febru- unit,” SimpsonScarborough who said they’ve observed ary, according to documents wrote in the draft report, students regularly throw- FILE PHOTO BY GRACE HROMIN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR obtained by The Hatchet. which was marked confi- ing parties despite the pan- Foggy Bottom residents said they feel angered and worried about off-campus students granting COVID-19 a foot- It remains unclear the dential. “This increases cost demic, prompting a slew of hold in the community by violating mask requirements and holding gatherings. exact number of staff laid off and decreases effectiveness complaints from neighbors. in recent weeks, but officials and integration of the com- Foggy Bottom leaders said knowledge its threat to the Wednesday. students violating social have eliminated dozens of munications and marketing they’ve received between 10 neighborhood. Anthony said officials distancing guidelines near positions starting early this effort overall.” to 20 complaints from com- Officials announced ear- take community complaints campus. She said local resi- fall, according to three em- Download this PDF munity members about so- lier this month that a recent seriously, but she added that dents who’ve alerted her of ployees familiar with the Baldassaro confirmed cial distancing violations in increase in COVID-19 cases the majority of students’ be- social distancing violations changes who spoke under SimpsonScarborough’s as- recent months, while Uni- on campus was linked to a havior off campus has been said they’ve seen parties the condition of anonymity sessment of the division, versity officials said they’ve “trend” of off-campus gath- more compliant than that of and gatherings where stu- for fear of retribution from adding that the firm began sent warning letters to more erings. Delta Tau Delta shut- students at other universi- dents don’t wear masks and the University. Baldassaro its work in fall 2019 and was than 120 students in the tered its off-campus house ties during the pandemic. fail to distance themselves declined to say how many scheduled to present recom- area as neighbors try dodg- last month after several She said officials have re- from one another. employees were laid off as mendations in March as the ing potential spreaders of members tested positive for ceived “few” reports of stu- Streznewski said resi- part of the restructuring. pandemic began to affect the coronavirus. the virus following an off- dents gathering in groups of dents are “very nervous” “We will not discuss GW’s operations. She de- As the parties continue, campus party. more than 10 people, which about the recent rise in individual personnel deci- clined to provide a copy of Wayne – who lives beside “GW has that respon- Mayor Muriel Bowser has COVID-19 cases, as weekly sions further out of respect the report. two residences housing sibility to constantly com- prohibited. parties have distressed a for valued colleagues who “They reviewed the over- students he believes vio- municate this message with “We are pleased to say neighborhood dominated have been affected by this all communications and late COVID-19 regulations the students, and I don’t that GW students seem to be by elderly residents who are process,” she said in an market ing struct ure at GW at – said he’s concerned the know what they’re doing to overwhelmingly complying considered at high risk for email. a very high level and recom- shouting from a yard over do that,” Wayne said. “I’ve with COVID behavioral re- infection. The reductions included mended that the University could potentially spread the got to imagine something’s strictions,” Anthony said “We have a lot of folks in three media relations staff, consider a center-led model, virus. being done, but whatever it in an email. “Compared this neighborhood who are according to their LinkedIn with communications and “COVID spreads very is, it’s not getting through to to many other institutions elderly, and the people who and Twitter profiles. marketing positions Univer- easily when you are speak- these guys.” around the U.S., we have re- are older, as you get older Baldassaro held a town sity-wide reporting central- ing loudly, yelling, holler- Christy Anthony, the ceived few reports of gath- you’re just more likely to hall with employees in the ly,” Baldassaro said. “This ing, and it’s only a wooden director of the Office of erings that are only slightly have comorbidities, and so division on Sept. 23 to dis- recommendation has been fence that separates us from Student Rights and Re- over the gathering restric- we have people who are re- cuss the reductions, accord- adopted, with the objective two yards,” Wayne said. sponsibilities, said officials tion of 10 people.” ally scared,” she said. ing to an email obtained by of promoting an integrated “And we don’t feel that have received 26 off-cam- Anthony said local resi- Streznewski said resi- The Hatchet. marketing and communica- that’s much of a barrier to pus community incident dents can file complaints dents have either filed The next day, officials tions approach and fostering protect against COVID.” reports since the start of about students violating complaints with the Uni- released 39 consolidated job greater collaboration and co- Wayne said he and his August, and “nearly all” social distancing guide- versity or called the police postings for laid-off staff to ordination.” wife have filed at least three students listed in a report lines through the Office of to respond to apparent so- apply for by Sept. 27, two University President complaints with the GW have received a warning. Student Conduct’s website, cial gatherings that violate employees told The Hatchet. Thomas LeBlanc commis- Police Department and the More than 120 off-campus where officials review re- distancing guidelines after Baldassaro told staff that sioned the review last fall, Division for Student Affairs, students or student orga- ports and determine wheth- noise levels get too high. officials were still working according to two employees but officials have either not nizations have received er to charge students with a She said Metropolitan Po- with Human Resources to familiar with the assess- responded or assured them warning letters that remind violation and send them a lice Department officers finalize the layoffs on Oct. ment. Baldassaro declined they’re communicating them of COVID-19 restric- warning. have responded to multiple 7, according to a separate to comment on LeBlanc’s with the students causing tions, and 34 students have Foggy Bottom Asso- incidents of parties, large email sent to employees. involvement in the assess- neighborhood concerns. He received “more elevated” ciation President Marina gatherings and noise com- But before the pandemic, ment. said administrators should conduct outcomes, she said Streznewski said she’s re- plaints, but they’ve avoided an effort was already un- find additional ways to in- at a Foggy Bottom and West ceived complaints from six arresting or fining students. derway to reorganize GW’s fluence students to take the End Advisory Neighbor- or seven neighbors and is communications and mar- See OFFICIALS Page 4 pandemic seriously and ac- hood Commission meeting aware of 15 to 20 cases of See GATHERINGS Page 4 October 26, 2020 • Page 2 NEWS THE GW HATCHET

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JARROD WARDWELL will be granted a housing ing for priority and athletic ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR assignment. Administra- housing and searching tors said students will be for potential Airbnbs in SAMANTHA SERAFIN notified by mid-November Arlington, Virginia, if her STAFF WRITER if their request for housing housing applications are is approved, and officials declined. GW might be online will select the new resi- “I need to be on cam- for the academic year, but dents via lottery if the ap- pus and be with my some students are heading plicant pool exceeds 1,500. friends and actually get to to D.C. for a semblance of Sophomore Brianna know people just because campus as they continue Hawley, a graphic design it’s so hard,” she said. “I remote learning. major living in New Jersey, feel so alone just being at More than 10 students said she plans to apply for home and doing all these said they plan to move to on-campus housing in the classes.” D.C. before the start of the spring in hopes of regain- Chloe Stemler, a sopho- spring semester in hopes of ing access to facilities like more from Arcata, Califor- spending time with their desktops and printers she nia, majoring in political friends and living in the can use for schoolwork in science, said she will live city – some for their first the Corcoran School of the in an apartment in Du- FILE PHOTO BY ERIC LEE Arts and Design. pont Circle next semester GW administers between 300 to 700 PCR COVID-19 tests daily. time during college. Stu- dents said they feel “iso- She said she misses after dealing with inter- lated” studying at home the community Corcoran net shutdowns earlier this during the pandemic, but students had at GW be- year amid nearby wildfires GW screens for COVID-19 more often moving to the District in fore the pandemic when that have spread across the the spring could help them they could collaborate and West Coast. than majority of D.C. peers overcome difficulties with discuss projects in person Stemler said her family keeping in touch with after class. Hawley said had to disconnect her home ZACHARY BLACKBURN are adhering to the highest GW’s one- to two-day turn- friends, focusing and stay- students now have to work Wi-Fi for fire safety precau- REPORTER safety protocols, and we are around time, the website ing motivated. from different time zones tions, but most of her pro- grateful for their dedication states. Sophomore Bethany and spend up to four-and- fessors did not respond to GW tests its on-campus and service to the GW com- Gabrielle Obusek, a Sheehan, a public health a-half hours working on her emails explaining why student population more fre- munity.” spokesperson for Catholic major living in Lowell, projects via Zoom, but she she was unable to submit quently and returns results Georgetown has tested University, said the school Massachusetts, said offi- hopes her move to D.C. class assignments online. more quickly than most oth- almost 34,000 community does not require most on- cials denied her application will help her access the re- She said the University er D.C. universities, a Hatchet members since August, ac- campus community mem- for on-campus housing sources she needs to com- should implement a policy analysis found. cording to its coronavirus bers to be tested on a regu- in the fall. Since moving plete projects. that requires professors The University has con- website. Howard has tested lar basis, and each test costs home, Sheehan said she Students working on to accommodate students ducted about 25,000 tests about 3,000 community about $100. Test results are feels she has lost her “inde- capstone projects may re- struggling with internet since August, according to members between Aug. 17 returned in about 48 hours, pendence” and misses the ceive limited access to the connectivity. the COVID-19 dashboard, and Oct. 9, according to its according to the website. freedom to make her own school’s labs and studios if “For a lot of people that more often than most of COVID-19 tracking website. “The PCR tests being choices, like buying and they are approved for on- are still living at home, D.C.’s six other schools. Uni- Catholic and Trin- utilized by Catholic Univer- preparing her own meals. campus housing. things like that have been versity spokesperson Crystal ity Washington universities sity are generally in the $100 “It would be nice to be Alex Rainey, a fresh- happening, and I feel Nosal said students and em- only test students who are range, plus staffing costs to able to see people instead man from Norfolk, Vir- like professors don’t even ployees have had positive ex- showing symptoms of the administer the testing cen- of being stuck in my house ginia, and a member of care,” Stemler said. periences with GW’s testing virus or students who have ter,” Obusek said. “Symp- all the time,” she said. the women’s rowing team, She said she has been protocols so far, adding that been exposed to COVID-19, tomatic testing is billed back Sheehan, who will re- said she applied for hous- living in an Airbnb with extending testing to include their spokespeople said. The to the student’s insurance, apply for spring on-cam- ing for the fall but declined her freshman year room- off-campus students has University of the District of and surveillance testing costs pus housing, said she plans offers to live on campus to mate in Evanston, Illinois, been a “significant service” Columbia does not offer on- are absorbed by the univer- to search for apartments to save money. She said she’s for the past few months, to the greater Foggy Bottom campus testing, UDC offi- sity.” rent in the D.C. area in case since struggled to cope but she hopes to return to community. cials said. Trinity Washington Uni- officials decline her appli- with poor internet connec- D.C. to feel more “connect- Nosal said most commu- Both GW and Howard versity hosts about 200 stu- cation. She said her friends tion and social separation ed” to the GW community. nity members can get tested process COVID-19 tests in dents on campus, according could motivate each other from her new teammates Stemler said she hopes to within five to eight minutes labs based in each respective to the school’s reopening to remain focused on as- while working from home. get an internship on Capi- and can now get tested at two university and can return plan. Trinity is allowing stu- signments if they all live About half of the wom- tol Hill in the spring and different sites on campus – test results in 24 to 48 hours. dents interested in taking a together in D.C. en’s rowing team is living wants to be in D.C. to have Shenkman Hall and the Mar- Howard was one of 10 HB- test to make an appointment Officials said the 500 in Foggy Bottom this fall “as normal of an internship vin Center. CUs to receive part of a $15 to take nasopharyngeal swab students currently living as the team awaits the start as possible.” “There have been a few million dollar fund from the tests on campus, with offers on campus will continue of its season next semester. “It’s why I chose GW,” instances with bottlenecks Gates Foundation specifical- results in 72 hours. living in their residence Rainey, who hopes she said. “The idea of being due to a large number of off- ly for the purpose of corona- Alex Bako, the director halls next semester, and an to live on campus in the anywhere but there for col- campus students testing and virus testing. of risk management at the additional 1,500 students spring, said she’s apply- lege is just really crappy.” when the flu vaccine clinic Nosal said officials - ex University of the District of first started,” she said in an pect to spend $8.5 million on Columbia, said UDC officials email. “However, the Uni- coronavirus testing and con- have not offered on-campus versity quickly pivoted, and tact tracing. With as many testing this semester but are we now have two separate as 1,500 additional students in the process of developing testing sites to ensure there is expected to live on campus protocols to test some cam- enough space for distancing in the spring, GW will be pus community members. and safety.” testing a significantly larger He said the school received Of the District’s seven number of people if current 15-minute antigen tests from universities, GW, George- protocols remain in place. the Department of Health town and Howard universi- Since mid-August, the and Human Services late last ties all require students who University has reported 64 month. are living on campus to be positive COVID-19 tests as of “Right now we’re putting tested at least once a week, Sunday, according to the CO- some plans together to peri- according to their respective VID-19 testing dashboard. odically test high-risk groups universities’ online testing Tests have been adminis- of students, staff and faculty plans. GW has been admin- tered to on-campus faculty coming on campus,” Bako istering about 300 to 700 tests and staff, as well as to the said. “Those groups will be daily, according to the CO- approximately 500 students student-athletes, essential em- VID-19 tracking dashboard. living on campus. ployees and other people.” “It has been wonderful Georgetown partners Lisa Stark, an AU spokes- that our public health lab, with One Medical, a primary person, declined to comment campus COVID support care network, to perform its on the university’s COVID-19 team and testing site were mandatory weekly testing, testing procedures. able to accommodate this,” according to Georgetown’s A Gallaudet University Nosal said. “With respect website. The school’s test re- spokesperson did not return to the testing site staff, they sults are reported back in five multiple requests for com- KATE CARPENTER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER are truly professional. They to seven days, compared to ment. For many students, poor internet connections and feelings of isolation are pushing them to find housing in D.C.

GW meets Department of Education’s standards for website accessibility MICHELLE VASSILEV She said officials have imple- “Top priority has been for universities like GW that “You meet the WCAG stan- ing buildings physically ac- REPORTER mented third-party technol- given to the websites and sys- have a relatively large num- dards if your website can be cessible should be put into ogy systems, which monitor tems that are most frequently ber of webpages. successfully used by those constructing accessible sites. Three years after a dis- website accessibility, to more used by our community as Kitty Bridges, the associ- with disabilities who may or “We are getting closer, ability discrimination com- efficiently track accessibility well as those that are critical ate vice president of digital may not use assistive tech- but people are still getting plaint was filed against the across the University’s web- to the student experience,” accessibility at New York nologies – keyboard only, used to the idea of building University, officials have met sites. she said. University, said although screen reader software. In accessibility into the digital the Department of Educa- “The Office of Ethics, Nosal declined to say GW has achieved the mea- some cases there may be dif- architecture so that someone tion’s standards for website Compliance and Privacy what feedback officials have sures ED demanded, achiev- ferent ways to meet the suc- who has to use a keyboard accessibility. along with Libraries and heard from students about ing 100 percent accessibility cess criteria.” to navigate a page can go University spokesper- Academic Innovation, Mar- website accessibility. is impossible because uni- Joe Zesski, the assistant through and access every- son Crystal Nosal said GW’s keting and Creative Services, An education depart- versities always have areas of director of the Northeast thing that is readable on the Digital Accessibility Com- Information Technology, ment official confirmed that improvement. Americans with Disabilities page and someone who is mittee was notified in Sep- Disability Support Services GW has met its accessibility “This is an ongoing jour- Act Center at Cornell Univer- not able to hear is able to get tember that the ED’s Office and others have made sig- standards and that the de- ney that is never done,” she sity, said having robust web- the information from a video of Civil Rights has officially nificant progress in ensuring partment determined in Sep- said. “We are all focused on site accessibility standards with captions,” he said. concluded GW’s “monitoring public-facing websites are tember that the monitoring accessibility becoming part is especially helpful for stu- Zesski said using third- period” since the 2017 com- accessible through website period was over. of our daily lives and not an dents during the pandemic, party technologies to moni- plaint. Website accessibil- template modifications,” she The official said the de- add-on at the last minute. as most students are taking tor website accessibility is ity experts said maintaining said in an email. partment launched 600 in- This is all integral to our in- classes virtually. effective for having software digital accessibility is an on- Nosal said officials have vestigations in 2018 through- clusive communities. Build “There are times where tools that run and check web- going process for universities also addressed “academic out the country as part of an right, test, get feedback and there may be difficulties on sites for accessibility features, and is particularly necessary tools,” like websites, vid- initiative to improve digital learn – rinse and repeat.” the website depending on like specific alt tags on im- during the COVID-19 pan- eos and grading platforms accessibility at schools na- Bridges said the Web what browser someone is us- ages. demic as many students take for accessibility, to ensure a tionwide. The official said 550 Content Accessibility Guide- ing or depending on the par- “They are often very use- classes online. positive academic environ- of the investigations, includ- lines, which GW is abiding ticular interface that they are ful and effective because Nosal said officials ment. She said officials have ing GW’s, are now closed. by, require that digital con- using to access the website,” when you have as many implemented last spring a established a feedback sys- Experts in website and tent must be “perceivable, Zesski said. “Having that pages as an institution like web content and accessibil- tem, monitored by the Digi- digital accessibility said us- operable, understandable conversation with people GW has, it is very difficult to ity policy, which affirms the tal Accessibility Committee, ing third-party technologies and robust.” who do submit problems is cover all of those by an indi- University’s commitment that community members like Siteimprove, which GW “WCAG is what we call an important step.” vidual,” he said. “So having to developing websites that can use to share thoughts on employs, to monitor website ‘success’ focused rather than He said the same amount software to run and check all are accessible to everyone. GW’s online accessibility. accessibility is a useful tool being prescriptive,” she said. of effort that’s put into mak- the pages is very helpful.” THE GW HATCHET NEWS October 26, 2020 • Page 3 GW’s COVID-19 testing centers have provided ‘peace of mind’: students LAUREN SFORZA results will take to be pro- tinue this model of bringing STAFF WRITER cessed next semester if more students into the decision- students come on campus. making rooms when they TIFFANY GARCIA Administrators said last consider other aspects of ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR week that 1,500 students, in their responses to the virus addition to those currently and that they will actively GW’s in-house COVID-19 living on campus, will be al- make changes to decisions testing centers have provided lowed back on campus next being made, like they’re do- quick and “reliable” services semester. ing with testing,” Amstutz to students living on and off Drew Amstutz, a junior said. campus, students who have living on campus, said he is Junior Lydia Burnett been tested said. a member of the University’s said she lives off campus, About 500 students who Back to Campus Committee, but her research position in were approved to live on which advises officials on the Science and Engineering campus are required to test their Back to Campus Plan Hall requires she get tested weekly and submit a symp- and COVID-19 testing proto- weekly. tom report to the Colonial cols. He said the committee “There are people who Health Center daily while consists of department heads shop at the grocery stores, off-campus GW community and student leaders who eat at the restaurants, walk members are also allowed communicate daily with stu- and run in the same places the free testing. Ten students dents to gauge which aspects as students, who aren’t asso- who have used the Univer- of campus life should be im- ciated with the University,” sity’s services said the test- proved. Burnett said in an email. “We ing centers have provided He said the committee have a responsibility to them LILLIAN BAUTISTA | SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR them with a “peace of mind” has worked to improve ac- to keep the community as a Students said they appreciated the seamless nature of the University's in-house COVID-19 testing centers to see friends and carry out cessibility to tests. At the whole safe and healthy.” but worried about how the system would handle 1,500 more students next semester. their daily activities without start of the semester, on- Testing expanded in late worrying about spreading campus students needed to September to offer free ser- COVID-19. use a Calendly link to make vice to off-campus students atic patients are tested in the shows around the DMV. She campus and off campus.” “It gives me a huge sense appointments, but he said of- and GW community mem- same room, which meant said she’s been tested twice She said CHC nurses of safety, especially since the ficials transitioned to a CHC bers at the Smith Center, for me personally that I was at the University’s testing who administered the tests cases have been very low, portal following student which was later moved to more likely to be exposed center and felt the staff were walked her through the and GW has been super strict feedback. Shenkman Hall. while getting tested than helpful and accommodating screening process, which about the once-a-week test- He added that students She said officials should anywhere else in my daily during a walk-in appoint- made her feel comfortable. ing,” said sophomore Abigail originally self-administered not test GW community routine,” Burnett said. “In the ment. “It makes us feel better Ingoglia, who is living on their COVID-19 nasal swab members in Shenkman be- Smith Center, at least we had “I’m from the south,” because we at least know that campus. tests, but medical profes- cause people need to enter one-way traffic, but in Shenk- Masalow said. “A lot of my we can say to ourselves, we’ll Ingoglia said GW offers sionals are now administer- and exit the screening area man, you had to go down the friends are at [Florida State get tested anytime we have multiple appointment win- ing the tests themselves to through the same set of stairs and then back up.” University], and they have to go travel for work and stay dows, and the test itself takes improve accuracy. Amstutz stairs. She said a different lo- Sophomore Lily Masa- cases all over the place, which at a hotel room or we’ll get about five minutes to com- said the University’s test- cation could decrease contact low, who is living off cam- is not good. And I think GW tested like once a month or plete, allowing her flexibil- ing program is its “greatest with people who could have pus, said she rides horses has definitely done a good something like that,” Masa- ity in receiving her weekly strength” during the pan- contracted the virus. professionally and has job making testing not only low said. “It’s always know- screening. But she said she is demic. “Symptomatic/exposed stayed overnight in a hotel accessible but at no cost to ing that we can continue to concerned with how long test “I hope that they will con- patients and asymptom- on multiple occasions for both students who are on get those results.” Public health professor authors report on pandemic worker safety LIA DEGROOT to a coronavirus response a coordinated and feder- NEWS EDITOR plan. ally-led approach in order “OSHA’s been in hid- to collect the information A public health pro- ing really, I believe be- needed and to respond fessor authored a report cause OSHA doesn’t have to the incredible needs of last week criticizing the a Senate-confirmed assis- people,” he said. federal government’s re- tant secretary since I left,” Wagner said employ- sponse to the COVID-19 he said. “The secretary of ers have ethical and legal pandemic. labor, Eugene Scalia, has obligations to keep their The report – authored made very clear he is op- workers safe. by David Michaels, a pro- posed to additional regu- “This is where the core fessor of environmental lation.” failure of OSHA resides, is and occupational health The report states that a failure to enforce, which in the Milken Institute employees have the right is their responsibility,” School of Public Health, to a safe work environ- Wagner said. “The em- and Gregory Wagner, an ment under the Occu- ployer’s responsibility to adjunct professor of envi- pational and Workplace exercise reasonable care to ronmental health at Har- Safety Act of 1970, but keep their workers safe.” vard University – argue OSHA has not enforced OSHA’s guidelines FILE PHOTO BY DONNA ARMSTRONG | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the Occupational Safety COVID-19 safety proto- for employers’ corona- Higher education experts said that under virtual learning, cases of cheating tend to rise and outpace and Health Administra- cols, putting employees virus response include cases of plagiarism. tion has failed to enforce who must work in person monitoring and isolating COVID-19 guidelines for at risk for transmission of COVID-19 cases among worker safety. Michaels the virus. workers and providing Business school academic integrity said OSHA has not en- OSHA has conducted personal protective equip- forced its safety guide- the fewest number of ment, but the guidelines lines to protect workers, workplace inspections are recommendations and reports tripled in 2019-20 year which has subsequently during the pandemic since don’t carry the force of law. RACHEL ANNEX Experts in academic in- plagiarism were roughly the increased workers’ risk of the 1970s when the agency Experts in occupa- STAFF WRITER tegrity said students may be same, but after March when contracting the virus. was founded, The Inter- tional safety and health more likely to cheat during we went all online, the cheat- Michaels, who served cept reported last week. said employees have the School of Business aca- the virtual semester, but fac- ing doubled what had been as assistant secretary of la- President Donald Trump right to a safe workplace, demic integrity reports from ulty may have greater aware- plagiarism up to that point, bor for occupational safety has repeatedly proposed and they can best advocate last academic year more than ness of how to report viola- and plagiarism fell remark- and health under former slashing OSHA funding for themselves in groups tripled from the previous tions. ably behind,” Johnson said. President Barack Obama, in his budget proposals, if their employer is not year. Buddy Howell, the chair He said at Marquette, said OSHA’s measures for and nearly half of OSHA’s enforcing COVID-19 mea- Christy Anthony, the di- of the honor council at Vir- more students are encouraged employee safety are meant positions are currently un- sures. rector of the Office of Students ginia Tech University, said to cheat on courses that aren’t to standardize practices staffed, according to The Rosemary Sokas, the Rights and Responsibilities, officials at Virginia Tech have directly related to their major for employers. He said if Intercept’s report. chair of the Department said business school faculty also seen an increase in aca- because they may not feel it all workplaces are expect- Michaels said it’s too of Human Services at reported 40 students for aca- demic integrity violation cas- is relevant to their studies, ed to follow the same set late for the report to affect Georgetown University, demic integrity violations in es since school moved online like students in the College of of COVID-19 standards, the Trump administra- said OSHA could have is- the 2019-20 academic year, in March. He said students Business Administration who then workplaces wouldn’t tion’s response to the pan- sued an emergency tem- compared to the 11 cases in taking classes remotely may have philosophy or history re- be hurt financially by com- demic because the admin- porary standard, as rec- 2018-19 and eight cases in use academic dishonesty to quirements. plying with the rules. istration doesn’t plan to ommended in the report, 2017-18. Academic integrity achieve their goals. “I understand where “If all employers fol- add any more oversight of earlier in the pandemic to experts said the spike could “One of the concerns there they’re coming from because low the OSHA rules, then workplaces, but he hopes prevent workers from con- be tied to increased acces- is obviously that we would for them, their major and their none of them would be the information shared in tracting the virus. She said sibility to cheat and a lack of see cases increase because of goal is to get out and to do disadvantaged by that,” his work could aid state Virginia was the first state motivation once the virtual the ease of the opportunity well in business, and the phi- he said. “But if the require- governments’ responses. to implement a temporary semester got underway. with everything being online, losophy stuff is not necessar- ments are only sugges- The report calls on worker standard on its “During the spring 2020 and so I would suspect that ily why they’re here,” he said. tions, then employers who officials to implement own. virtual learning period, SRR part of the increase, whether Charles Barbee, the direc- care about their workers emergency temporary “If they have access to did observe an increase in it’s just in the business school tor of academic standards will make the investment standards, which would union representation, use reports regarding academic or anywhere,” Howell said. and curriculum planning at in safety, and there will be require employers to cre- it,” she said. “Check with integrity violations,” Anthony He said officials from Arizona State University, said a financial disadvantage ate and enforce a corona- labor organizations and said in an email. “It was not Virginia Tech’s teaching and even before the COVID-19 from people with others virus response plan. worker centers for guid- clear that all of these were tied learning center are educating pandemic a “large percent- who are not making that Wagner, the report’s ance on collective action to the virtual environment faculty through course de- age” of academic integrity investment.” co-author, said if the and workplace rights.” that was implemented.” sign workshops about how to violations were the result of Michaels said he has White House adminis- Pia Markkanen, a pro- Anthony said the increase improve the quality of online challenges or stress due to been tracking OSHA’s tration changes after the fessor of occupational and in cases could be attributed classes in hopes that academic personal issues in a student’s response to the coronavi- election, he hopes OSHA environmental health at to a “variety of factors,” like integrity violations decrease. life. He said the pandemic and rus since January and be- will improve its COVID-19 the University of Mas- the possibility that a cluster He said students who are not the “dramatic” move to online lieves the agency should response. sachusetts Lowell, said of students cheated together. doing well with their online learning have increased stress have implemented an “There’s an opportu- working from home is a She said SRR officials have classes may face a “greater levels for students. emergency temporary nity, potentially, if there’s luxury that many aren’t increased outreach to faculty temptation” to cheat, so in- Barbee said faculty and standard, which would re- a change in administra- able to do, many of whom and students about academic creased engagement and per- administrators should con- quire workplaces to stick tion to begin and sustain are workers or color. integrity given the “increased sonal interaction may prevent tinue to provide “support and interest” in violations this se- this. flexibility” to students expe- mester, which may have led to “I think helping faculty riencing personal challenges an increase in reporting. adapt to that and finding ways during the pandemic but She said officials are also to be creative and use Zoom should also implement a pro- offering “orientation mod- and breakout rooms and that cess to hold students found in ules” and webinars to edu- sort of thing to improve our violation of academic integ- cate faculty about resources online instruction, then the rity policies accountable. regarding academic integrity, result of that will be that stu- Officials at Boston Univer- like various virtual learning dents can thrive in that online sity launched a probe in April guides available on the SRR environment,” he said. to investigate whether stu- website. Mark Johnson, the aca- dents were cheating in classes Anuj Mehrotra, the dean demic integrity director at like chemistry and physics of the business school, said he Marquette University, said using online resources like encourages students to reach school officials saw a rise Chegg, The Boston Globe re- out to their academic advisers in academic integrity viola- ported. and faculty to ensure they are tion cases when they moved “Probably most important working within the Code of online in March. He said he is a dedicated effort to ensure Academic Integrity. suspects students have been that each student knows the “Our goal is always to pro- using FaceTime, Chegg or instructor values their work, mote understanding and edu- other online resources to find cares about their future suc- cate our students to do so and answers to exam questions. cess and attempts to regu- hold them accountable when “Up until March, the pro- larly connect academic integ- KATE CARPENTER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER they don’t,” Mehrotra said in portion of infractions that rity with a future professional The report's authors said the Trump administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration an email. were between cheating and ethic,” Barbee said. should have required workplaces to stick to a coronavirus response plan. THE GW HATCHET NEWS October 26, 2020 • Page 4 Faculty in residence struggle to build community with on-campus students ISHA TRIVEDI ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR program is the embodiment last year. of the University’s commit- “It’s an unusual semes- NURIA DIAZ ment to promoting a sense ter, and everyone is exhibit- REPORTER of community among those ing signs of Zoom fatigue,” students who are on cam- he said. pus and encouraging intel- Youmans said the move Faculty living in resi- lectual curiosity and learn- to virtual learning was a dence halls said the CO- ing beyond the confines of “challenging time of transi- VID-19 pandemic has left the classroom,” Robinette tion,” and he has struggled them trying to find new said in an email. to meet as many students ways to build community He said faculty are typi- as usual during virtual in- with the dozens of students cally only responsible for struction. they oversee. the students living in their “Only one-fourth of the After officials an- residence hall, but their re- building is populated, so a nounced the fall semester sponsibilities changed to lot of times I’m going in and would be held online, fac- meet the needs of a smaller out the building or doing ulty in residence assumed on-campus student popu- laundry, and I don’t really many of the responsibilities lation. About 500 students see any students,” he said. of the resident adviser role, live in District House and “We don’t have the casual tasked with creating new Shenkman and South halls face-to-face encounters that online events to bring the this fall. I used to have as a way to GW community together. “We decided to retain meet students.” They said they have host- the program despite a lim- Youmans said many ed weekly virtual events ited student population on students are unaware of his FILE PHOTO BY ERIC LEE like cooking lessons and campus because pandemic presence as a faculty in resi- Few students have shown up to virtual events held by faculty in residence, a sign of "Zoom fatigue," academic events on the plat- makes the need for com- dence – a student once called professors said. form GW Engage but have munity building even more the GW Police Department found it difficult to engage urgent,” Robinette said. on him thinking there was cafe” for students to prac- an assistant professor of me- this semester because there with students. He said the faculty in an intruder in the building tice their skills in conversa- dia and public affairs, said are fewer students living in Stewart Robinette, the residence have been given when Youmans was getting tion and an academic men- he has been working to pro- the building who she would assistant dean of students, information about the safe- back late at night with his torship workshop about vide students with academic usually run into in the halls. campus living and residen- ty steps being taken for all family. graduate school admissions, events like guest speakers, She said “few” students tial education, said each residence halls and are part “It wasn’t a big deal, but which he said half a dozen book clubs and watch par- have shown up to her events faculty member has been of the “testing cohort” that it just showed how it wasn’t students participated in. ties of political events. this semester, but atten- assigned about 45 students officials created for all on- a smooth transition because “I have a philosophy that “Pre-COVID, I got to dance is similar to that of each and are required to campus students. Robinette of the limitations of how we if we can make a meaning- know students who lived in previous years because stu- check in with students and said the program will con- can hold events,” he said. ful impact to one resident, or 1959 E St.,” he said. “That’s dents usually had intern- provide mentoring on a tinue in the spring. Arturo Sotomayor, a fac- 100 residents, then we have no longer the case. I get to ships or work that conflicted “consistent basis.” William Youmans, a fac- ulty in residence in JBKO made a difference to the GW know students now from all with her events. He said each faculty in ulty in residence in Shenk- Hall and an associate pro- community,” he said. over the University, which I “If one person shows up residence is required to con- man Hall and an associate fessor of international af- Sotomayor said one of think is a very interesting, to a program that I do, that duct “at least one intellec- professor of media and fairs, said no students are the goals of the program very different slice of life at is on how to succeed in a tual engagement program” public affairs, said he has currently living in JBKO, but is to allow students to see GW.” class online for instance, every two weeks, and of- been hosting virtual Middle he has been assigned about the “human dimension” of Pauline Goul, a faculty then I’m happy because that ficials have scheduled the Eastern cooking lessons for 45 students from other faculty members, which he in residence in International was useful for that student, events calendar so there are the students in his hall. He buildings to oversee. said has been difficult this House and an assistant pro- and I made a connection options available for stu- said he has noted a drop in He said he has held vir- year. fessor of French, said she that day with students who dents at least once a week. engagement and attendance tual events this semester, Ethan Porter, a faculty in has not been able to meet was not one of my students “The faculty in residence for his events compared to like a Spanish “language residence at 1959 E St. and the students in her building in my classes,” she said. Officials still completing communications reorganization

From Page 1 role in an interim capacity, reorganization process, said the title reflects the which creates a commu- newly created structure. nications and marketing She added that officials “The recruitment of a team focused on four key paused SimpsonScar- vice president for commu- areas: academic reputa- borough’s efforts in light nications and marketing tion, enrollment, research of the pandemic, but the was intended as a back-fill and alumni engagement recommendations were of the previous vice presi- and philanthropy. considered during the re- dent position, with the ti- “I am looking for- organization. She said the tle changing to reflect the ward to working closely reorganization began “in intended organizational with deans and key lead- earnest” when Lorraine evolution from External ers as we implement this Voles, who served as the Relations to Communica- aligned and holistic ap- vice president of external tions and Marketing,” she proach to communica- relations, resigned at the said. tions and marketing and end of June to restart her Baldassaro added the to serving as a strategic consulting business. Events & Venues division partner as we work to- FILE PHOTO BY WILLIAM STRICKLETT | PHOTOGRAPHER Administrators hired – which laid off dozens of gether to advance the Uni- Pre-law students said they're concerned about the quality of resources administrators are advertising to Heather Swain as the in- staff this summer – now versity’s academic mis- replace Deborah Baker, the pre-law adviser laid off this summer. augural vice president reports to the Division sion,” Baldassaro said. for communications and of Safety and Facilities, LeBlanc had said offi- marketing in August to while the Office of - Gov cials would complete the Students say GW's current pre-law “streamline” and “drive ernment and Community first phase of budget cuts efficiencies” in the divi- Relations is now part of by the end of September. advising services not enough sion, but Swain rescinded the Office of the President The layoffs have also her offer following wide- – both changes based on included dozens of em- ISHA TRIVEDI pre-law students and current have to rely on. spread criticism over her SimpsonScarborough’s ployees in IT offices, the ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR students and alumni of the She said advisers with a role in the Larry Nassar recommendations. Center for Career Services law school, the email states. J.D. may not be as “trained” sexual abuse case. Baldas- She added that officials and facilities and event Despite the resources Mossadegh said the only and “knowledgeable” about saro, who serves in the are still completing the departments. GW continues to offer pre- change to the resources the law school application law students to navigate law available for students is that process as a pre-law adviser. school applications, students officials from the Elliott She said she feels “lost and say the resources are inad- School will also provide pre- nervous” about the applica- equate without an adviser law advising for its own stu- tion process going forward dedicated to assisting them. dents and alumni. without a specific pre-law Marvin prompted 'culture clash' Amid the financial effects “Pre-law students and adviser to rely on. of the COVID-19 pandemic, alumni have responded Sophomore Karina with students, officials Deborah Baker, the senior positively to the comprehen- Ochoa Berkley, a political sci- academic adviser for pre-law sive range of resources that ence and philosophy major From Page 1 vin prompted a “culture faculty members who are students, was let go as part are available to them from who started the petition call- clash” between students “astounded and horri- of a slew of layoffs. Officials the exploration stage to the ing for officials to reinstate and administrators. fied” at Marvin’s honored “In the University’s social have proposed resources – application and acceptance Baker, said she has “yet to be “What I wrote at the legacy, supports renam- progression to being a like advising appointments stage of their law school ad- convinced” that she should time just feels like maybe ing the Marvin Center more open and accessible with a Columbian College missions journey,” she said have confidence in GW’s pre- one of the first pops of and “interrogating” the University, renaming this of Arts and Sciences adviser in an email. law advising resources. smoke, and now we have way in which the Univer- building the Marvin Cen- with a Juris Doctorate and Officials will also allow She said officials seem to the conflagration,” he sity accounts for all mem- ter turned that dial back, application assistance from about 50 pre-law sopho- be willing to compromise said. “And what I mean bers of its community. and I think that renaming GW Writing Center con- mores and juniors to have the quality of their pre-law by that is that now we’re “Naming the student it back to the Kent State sultants who are “familiar” “early access” to Career Con- advising resources to make getting the long overdue center after somebody Student Center would with the law school applica- nect, which will allow the budget cuts, which she finds re-examination of what it who was a segregationist return the dial forward,” tion process – but students students to speak with alum- “concerning” when many means to name that build- and a racist and anti-Se- Novak said. said they are being forced to ni who are working in the students at GW are interest- ing.” mitic I think sends a really Richard Polman, a rely on multiple sources of legal field and can provide ed in going to law school and Faculty Association strong message that the 1974 alumnus and former assistance instead of having career guidance, the email rely on these resources. President Erin Chapman, University is either sup- Hatchet reporter whose a “one-on-one” experience sent to students states. Puja Samant, a sopho- an associate professor of portive of those kinds of article on the 1971 dedica- with Baker. Provost Brian Blake said more majoring in econom- history, said she realized political positions – segre- tion ceremony is included A student launched a pe- in September that his office ics and political science and Marvin’s “totalitarian” gation, racism, anti-Semi- in the committee’s materi- tition, which received more ran a study during the sum- the events director for PLSA, leadership to be “even tism, et cetera – or that it als, said despite students’ than 500 signatures, in Sep- mer to determine the effi- said Baker was an “incred- worse” than she imagined doesn’t care whether it’s activism to name the cen- tember calling for officials to ciency of several academic ible” resource and it is “es- before reading the histori- perceived that way,” she ter after the Kent State reinstate Baker. units at GW, including its sential” for officials to pro- cal materials the commit- said. shootings, the Univer- Gilda Mossadegh, the di- advising structure. He said vide guidance for pre-law tee released. Chapman – Abigail Osborne sity’s dedication to Mar- rector of undergraduate and he made the “hard decision” students, especially because said she, alongside several contributed reporting. pre-professional academic to decrease the ratio of un- GW in particular “attracts so advising, said all the resourc- dergraduate students per many.” es officials sent out resources adviser to 220-to-1, which he “The resources are not re- in an email to pre-law stu- said is still better than the ally an adequate replacement dents earlier this month have national average but “more for an actual individual who Gatherings worry D.C. neighbors previously existed. in line with what we can af- can sit down with students Advisers for the Elliott ford.” and guide them one-on- ing, ‘Come on, put on your without disciplinary ac- From Page 1 School of International Af- Junior Yasmin Maleki, a one,” she said. masks, try to be respon- tion. fairs will provide students religious studies major and Samant said she plans sible,’ et cetera, et cetera.” Christina Farnsworth, and alumni of the school the public relations direc- to take advantage of the re- Streznewski said she Bowser’s mask order a yearslong resident who with a “list of resources and tor for the Pre-Law Students sources that officials have doesn’t think much else states individuals who suffers from metastatic contacts” that will “guide” Association, said she relied developed for students but can be done to encourage fail to abide by social dis- breast cancer, said she’d them through the law school on GW’s pre-law adviser as said students still need a pre- students to follow distanc- tancing guidelines can probably die from CO- application process, accord- a freshman to help decide law adviser who can help ing guidelines, adding be fined up to $1,000, but VID-19 if she’s infected be- ing to the email. GW Law which major to declare as she students “one-on-one” with that most college students MPD spokesperson Alai- fore a vaccine is distribut- officials will also hold live seeks law school after gradu- their unique needs. may feel naturally “bul- na Gertz said officers are ed. She hopes officers start sessions with advice on the ation. She said even though letproof.” trying to avoid fines. She fining students so those application process to sup- Maleki said Baker could there are advisers at GW “There’s not going to said their main priority who are risking the spread port pre-law students, and look at a student’s applica- who have J.D.s, they won’t be fines,” Streznewski in responding to COVID- of COVID-19 behave more officials from GW Law- Stu tion “as a whole,” whereas be as beneficial as Baker be- said. “There’s not going to 19-related complaints is cautiously. dent Enrichment Services the other pre-law resources cause pre-law advising isn’t be arrests or anything like “voluntary compliance,” “I’ve had cancer, and I are working to create a men- available to students involve their “primary” responsibil- that. It’s going to be the po- in which students will am very vulnerable right torship program between multiple people that students ity. lice showing up and say- abide by city guidelines now,” Farnsworth said. October 26, 2020 • Page 5 NEWS THE GW HATCHET CRIME LOG PANHANDLING Mitchell Hall (7-Eleven) 10/17/2020 – 9:20 a.m. Closed Case GW Police Department officers -ob served a male subject panhandling in 7-Eleven. GWPD officers issued him a bar notice and escorted him off GW property. Subject barred. THEFT II/OTHER Kogan Plaza 10/18/2020 – 3:38 a.m. Open Case A female staff member reported a Gel- man Library hours sign stolen from the building. Case open. THEFT II/FROM BUILDING Mitchell Hall (7-Eleven) 10/18/2020 – 11:16 a.m. Open Case GWPD officers responded to a report of theft. Upon arrival, GWPD officers made contact with a female complain- ant who stated that an unknown man PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GRACE HROMIN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR and woman stole a bag of ice and a case A new student organization will showcase student writing on social justice issues around the world on its Linktree. of water. GWPD officers canvassed the area with negative findings. Case open. New student group uses writing to bring HARASSMENT (VERBAL OR awareness to international affairs crises WRITTEN) TIFFANY GARCIA sophomore Hewan Abera, tree bio until their website which she has enjoyed re- Private Property Within Campus ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR the president of GW Ubuntu. is finished at the end of this searching and would not Bounds (600 Block of 23rd Street) Abera said she came up month. have learned as deeply about 10/20/2020 – 5:25 p.m. Students interested in with the idea for the group Abera, who is on a pre- if she didn’t have Ubuntu as Closed Case learning more about inter- in July, as people increased medicine track, said all stu- a space to write on it. GWPD officers responded to a report national issues will be able activism amid the pandemic dents are encouraged to at- She said because the or- of verbal harassment of individuals to research and write their and nationwide protests tend the group’s meetings ganization is new and com- walking by on the street. Upon arrival, own work in GW’s new so- against police brutality. She regardless of their major. She pletely online, the group’s cial justice student writing said she named the group said the group plans to re- main focus will be increas- GWPD officers made contact with a organization. after the Nguni Bantu term lease e-board applications by ing their social media pres- previously barred subject and sent him GW Ubuntu, which reg- Ubuntu, which translates to the end of the month, which ence to attract more mem- away. istered with the Division “humanity toward others,” will include a position for an bers and finish designing No suspects or witnesses. for Student Affairs late last to set the organization’s fo- undergraduate or graduate their website by the end of month, will publish weekly cus on international human student studying law who the month. PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS articles on its Linktree to rights issues. will provide legal expertise She added that students raise awareness about global She said group mem- to students writing about will be allowed to write ei- Public Property On Campus (2100 Block and diversity issues, like the bers will pitch ideas to the foreign law. ther opinion or research of H Street) health effects of gentrifica- executive board at biweekly “In writing about solu- pieces on an international 10/20/2020 – 8:47 p.m. tion on Black Americans. meetings and discuss their tions, we need someone issue, which will provide Closed Case Members said the group research with each other. who’s going to be able to help students with both unbiased GWPD officers received a report from will focus on international Group members will share us understand what the law and argumentative perspec- EMeRG about an intoxicated female problems like refugee crises what they learned with one says already,” she said. tives on human rights con- whom they transported to the Emer- and women’s rights to raise another. Junior Eden Gebremari- cerns. Any student can write gency Room at the GW Hospital. The awareness for the issues She said student writ- am, a staff writer with Ubun- either an opinion or news often overlooked by main- subject remained at the ER. ers will also write about the tu, said the organization pro- article, she said. No further action. stream media among their solutions activists in foreign vides a platform for students “With so many differ- peers. conflicts advocate for, like a to share their research in ent people coming together, “As one human race, it’s law preventing youth mar- a topic they are interested writing on different things, our job and our responsibil- riage in Ethiopia and its in learning more about to we can begin to see the inter- ity to create a platform or to negative health effects. She raise awareness of the issue connectedness and see how be a part of a platform that said students’ articles will among students. She said she you can use writing as a tool –Compiled by Kateryna Stepanenko helps others, that helps the be published on their Ins- is currently writing about to inspire change,” Gebre- ones who are silenced,” said tagram page’s linked Link- the refugee crisis in Africa, mariam said. Medical school officials expect effective COVID-19 vaccine before 2021

LIA DEGROOT the principal investigator keeps in touch with par- Barbara Lee Bass, tion available,” she said. to participate in the trials. NEWS EDITOR for the trials and a profes- ticipants on a weekly basis the dean of the medical “That’s kind of what I’m “There are six vaccines sor of medicine, said the through telehealth visits school, said the medical hearing, not necessarily being tested, two of which Officials from the trials’ volunteers should and electronic diaries. He community is still unsure based on inside knowl- are almost fully complet- School of Medicine and be commended for push- said several of the trial’s when a widespread vac- edge by any means.” ed,” he said. “Two more Health Sciences an- ing the research team’s participants have devel- cine will be available, but Moncef Slaoui, the chief are trying to restart im- nounced they project to work forward despite oped symptoms related they’re hopeful that high- adviser for the U.S. Depart- minently, most likely later have an efficacious CO- national concerns about to COVID-19, but just one risk groups of people, like ment of Health and Hu- this week, next week, and VID-19 vaccine by the end receiving a COVID-19 vac- participant has tested pos- health care workers, will man Services’ COVID-19 there will be two more of the calendar year at a cine once it is available. itive for the virus so far. be able to receive the vac- vaccine development ini- late in December and ear- press conference Wednes- “I have to say that we “After their second dose cine by early 2021. She said tiative Operation Warp ly December.” day. are particularly grateful of vaccine, which is four Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Speed, said he is grateful to Wilma Capriles, a Officials announced for our volunteers given weeks after the first, we are office has started a task the people who have par- housekeeper from D.C. that the University is be- all of the negative press going to be in contact with force, on which an SMHS ticipated in the trial so far. and a participant in the ing assessed to be part that has been floating them monthly through faculty member serves, to “I really warmly thank study, said she wanted to of another COVID-19 around regarding vac- either in-person visits or create a plan for distribut- the volunteers, the two participate in the trial to vaccine trial, run by the cines, and they are really telehealth visits,” Diemert ing a COVID-19 vaccine who are with us today, but help a vaccine be widely Coronavirus Prevention taking a step to volunteer said in an interview. once it becomes available. also the almost 30,000 who available. Network, the segment of and to control whether or Half of the vaccine tri- “I think that most peo- have participated in this “I recommend it to the National Institutes for not there will be a vac- al’s participants are Black ple in this business think particular trial of the Mod- everybody,” she said. “I Health that is running the cine moving forward,” Di- or Latino, surpassing the it’s probably going to be erna vaccine,” he said. think it is safe. I think it’s current trial SMHS is con- emert said. researchers’ goal for diver- some time 2022 before we Slaoui said he encour- good for everybody, espe- ducting. David Diemert, He said the trial team sity. have widespread vaccina- ages community members cially for Latino people.” Black Lives Matter co-creator explains how to affect change VALERIA SOFIA of creating the movement. activism starting when she FERNANDEZ LEON She said she wanted to was 12 years old. REPORTER share how movements hap- “There was something pen to inspire others to really powerful about see- The co-creator of Black make change as well. ing a problem, making a Lives Matter spoke about “We spend every min- plan to change it and actu- how young people can ute of every day chang- ally winning that change, create and participate in ing the rules,” Garza said. and I started to learn what movements for social and “BLM took off in ways I it means to bring people political change at a webi- could never have imag- together in order to accom- nar Tuesday. ined. I wanted to be able plish that,” she said. Alicia Gar- After 20 za focused on “Our task is to build power years in the what it means field, she said to build move- and transform it, and if that is she has rec- ments for the only way that we can en- ognized that power and sure dignity and survival for at the core of how to orga- everyone, it won’t just come what activists nize to affect care about and change, which from taking things apart.” want is dig- she wrote nity and their about in her ALICIA GARZA movement to recent book, CO-CREATOR, BLACK LIVES MATTER survive. “The Purpose “ T h e of Power.” Ra- movement shad Robin- values assure son – the president of Color GRACE HROMIN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR to expose what the offline dignity and survival re- Garza said people should also commit to a movement that has been organized in addition to creating their own. of Change, a progressive world looks like using my gardless of race, gender, nonprofit civil rights advo- own life.” economic status or any and if they move forward that we can ensure dignity “If we got rid of every cacy organization – mod- Garza said people other rule that’s been put with a movement, she said. and survival for everyone, terrible thing in society erated the event, which should also commit to a in place to leave us out and Garza said she invites it won’t just come from tak- right now, what would be was hosted by Politics and movement that has been leave us behind,” she said. young people, as change- ing things apart,” she said. built in its place and how Prose Bookstore. organized in addition to Garza said she wants makers and decision-mak- Garza said people do we get there?” she said. Garza said she became creating their own. She readers of her book to learn ers, to think about the pur- should take care of the “That is what movements an author to share her own said she learned this lesson how to effectively and stra- pose of power to fight for it. flaws in aspects of society are here to accomplish and experiences and perspec- from her mother when she tegically fight for power. “Our task is to build that need to be fixed and be that is the role of a change tives, rather than having was young, which she said Power allows people to power and transform it, part of the change the BLM maker and all of that re- someone else tell her story inspired her to engage in make choices about how and if that is the only way movement calls for. quires power.” WHAT THE UNIVERSITY WON'T TALK ABOUT THIS WEEK How many communications and marketing staff members have been laid off. p. 1

FROM GWHATCHET.COM/OPINIONS “When you cast your vote this November, think about the LGBTQ lives that your vote could Opinions directly and fundamentally impact.” October 26, 2020 • Page 6 — JADEN DIMAURO ON 10/19/20 Classwork should not be a concern for students with COVID-19 STAFF EDITORIAL

‘Damn, I have a paper nearly impossible to de- posure to family members due at midnight’ should vote the requisite time and – especially if they have not be at the top of your energy to classes. Under to provide proof of their mind when your doctor those circumstances, stu- problem to a skeptical fac- calls to tell you that you dents should be able to de- ulty member. have COVID-19. For some vote all of their attention Professors, if provided students at GW, sadly, it is. to recovering or to caring with a basic explanation GW’s current accom- for their loved one – not by students, should allow modations for students di- to worrying about tanking students as much time as rectly affected by the coro- their GPA this semester. is reasonably possible to navirus are inadequate, Unfortunately, the complete an assignment. depending on the whims University’s existing ac- This flexibility should be of individual professors commodations are not either proactive or ret- and a lackluster Pass/No conducive to meeting this roactive – that is, if stu- Pass policy. Students who goal. The options GW has dents are not in a position contract the virus, are provided mainly consist to give their professors a caring for a sick family of time-sensitive half-mea- heads-up until after the member or are mourning a sures like taking a course fact, they should receive loved one should not have as incomplete or marking the same accommodations to negotiate with profes- a course as pass/fail by as those who were able to sors about receiving as- Nov. 6 – well before final give advanced notifica- signment extensions or ex- exams. GW also suggests tion that their academic cusing absences. Yet, many that students consult with life would be disrupted. students have found them- advisers before making a Professors should also be selves having to divide definitive call on either of prohibited from assigning their attention between those matters. A student makeup assignments in recovery and frantically who – through no fault of lieu of in-class attendance making up coursework. their own – needs to take a for students with a posi- Nobody dealing with couple weeks to deal with Cartoon by Hannah Thacker tive result. Administrators COVID-19 should have COVID-19 should not have should produce additional to choose between their to make a series of quick dents directly affected by tenuating circumstances” discretion when it comes guidelines to that effect health and their academic decisions that will jeopar- the virus fully direct their may be allowed to take to extensions, grading and and provide faculty with survival, and it is incum- dize their academic path. attention to recovery or more than one course as taking a class as incom- the resources to adhere to bent upon GW to imple- Making an uninformed care. The pass/fail dead- pass/fail and may have plete. While many faculty them. ment policies that ensure decision to convert a class line could be extended to some deadline-related are happy to defer to stu- We are truly “living that does not happen. to incomplete or to a Pass/ after grades come back, flexibility. But GW’s some- dents who need to focus in unprecedented times.” As a general rule, stu- No Pass basis, without the like last semester, or to what spotty record dealing their attention on COV- That saying is trite but dents are stretched to the ability to weigh the down- before finals, like peers with students’ uncontrol- ID-19, inflexible professors happens to be fully true breaking point right now. sides, may come back to Georgetown, Tufts and lable circumstances does have the latitude to hurt right now. Quarantined, The sadness of losing out bite students in the long New York universities not inspire hope that stu- students under the current hospitalized or bereaved on the college experience run. And someone whose have done. The pandemic dents’ time-sensitive coro- system. Ask any student, students should be able and the stresses of tak- fever and shortness of is both unpredictable and navirus-related problems and they will be able to to focus fully on keeping ing courses in a virtual breath have just been con- worsening, and there is will be dealt with quickly list off professors who are themselves together – not environment at home all firmed to be COVID-19 cer- plenty of time between and effectively. understanding and oth- on getting in their pa- contribute to a universally tainly does not have time the Nov. 6 deadline and On the faculty level, ers who draw a hard line. per before the end of the reduced ability to perform to sit down with an advis- the end of the semester for the University should es- A two-day extension on day. GW has the capac- well academically. But for er to thoughtfully weigh something to go wrong in tablish guidelines for pro- an assignment is not go- ity to make that possible those who actually con- their options. students’ lives in terms of fessors to accommodate ing to be very helpful to for students, and in doing tract COVID-19 or have a There are plenty of ad- COVID-19. To their credit, students affected by the vi- a student dealing with a so, they would alleviate roommate or relative who ditional steps GW could administrators have stated rus. As it stands right now, positive diagnosis who is untold levels of needless gets sick, it can become take that would let stu- that students with “ex- professors have a lot of worried about possible ex- stress.

Election Day should be a national Op-ed: GW needs an Asian American holiday studies program

GW gave us Election 45 percent longer wait 80 percent, significantly The world has changed and Dana Tai Soon Burgess cial context. Day off. Let’s go one step times. We know it is al- higher than America’s 60 since students began advo- are intimately involved in Datta said University further. ready more difficult for percent turnout in 2016. cating for an Asian Ameri- advocating for the creation President Thomas LeBlanc’s About 117 million reg- minority voters to get to Other countries with a rel- can studies minor in spring of an Asian American stud- push to increase funding for istered voters did not vote a booth, and we must do atively high voter turnout 2017. ies program. For years, they STEM and decrease funding in 2016, according to a everything we can to in- that mark their election Since the COVID-19 have been in talks with of- for the humanities hurts all Vice poll conducted after crease access to voting. days as national holidays pandemic, Asian and Asian ficials, and in the spring se- students. the presidential election. That starts with making include South Korea, with American students at GW mester of 2020, they submit- “What people miss when That’s the lowest voter Election Day a national a turnout of 78 percent, have borne witness to grow- ted a proposal for a minor. they purely look at STEM is turnout since 1996. But holiday. and Israel, with a turnout ing anti-Asian xenophobia. Since then, the administra- that it doesn’t exist in a vacu- what’s more concerning In addition to voter of 76 percent. And let’s Across the country, we have tion has requested that they um,” they explained. “It’s af- are the reasons people suppression, the longest not leave out nations like been forced to recognize demonstrate student interest fected by culture and people. provided for not voting. voting lines often form New Zealand, Finland the instability of the Model in and the academic impor- If we don’t take time to un- Some said they disliked in the early morning and and Hungary, where elec- Minority Myth. Politicians tance of the minor by Oct. 26. derstand how people think both candidates, others just after 5 p.m., making it tion day is on Saturday or have used the coronavirus Today – and for the past and evolve and treat each said they felt like their more difficult to vote for Sunday, that boast turn- and deeply embedded anti- three years – student orga- other, then we won’t be able vote did not matter and everyday Americans who out rates of more than 70 Asian sentiment to advance nizations and leaders from to understand STEM.” some said they didn’t have to work. Making percent. anti-immigrant, exclusion- across campus are advocat- While GW positions itself have enough time to get Election Day a national For now, students must ary nationalist, anti-Black ing for access to our own his- as an institution of higher to the polls. holiday would give those do everything they can to and White supremacist rhet- tories, recently converging education that competes who typically work the push for this change in oric. Still, Asian Americans as the Asian Pacific Islander with a multitude of private, Declan Duggan day off and ensure they the United States. Stu- remain stereotyped as apo- Desi American Alliance. elite universities across the have enough time in the dents can write to their litical, quiet and submissive Asian American history is United States, its own peer Writer day to vote. And for those local leaders, launch peti- subjects in the United States. American history and is universities have surpassed who absolutely need to tions or demonstrate sup- world history. The University it in recognizing the impor- work that day, the line port for congresspeople Ariel Santikarma & must support and implement tance of Asian American his- Voting is the corner- might at least be shorter. like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Carolyne Im an Asian American studies tories. New York, Syracuse stone of our democracy – Making Election Day I-Vt., or Virginia Governor Members of the Asian Pacific minor to support the student and Tufts universities and we should never feel like a holiday will not only Ralph Northam, who sup- Islander Desi American population in both personal the University of Southern our vote does not matter make it easier for millions port making Election Day Alliance and intellectual growth. California – all peer insti- or that we don’t have time of Americans to vote, but a federal celebration and In the 2019-2020 aca- tutions – have robust Asian to exercise this basic right. it would mark a celebra- have made it a holiday demic year, Asian American American studies programs. We must celebrate vot- tion of participating in in the commonwealth, students made up about 10 GW is severely lagging in ing and do everything in our democracy. Elections respectively. These politi- Today, Asian American percent of the population, their lack of attention and our power to get as many are on Tuesdays because cians understand that vot- students and faculty at GW the largest racial minority care for ethnic studies and Americans to the polls as in 1845, Congress decid- ing is not a true right so are resisting these stereo- on campus. In the same year, the student population it ser- possible. Now that stu- ed that the Tuesday after long as all people do not types, all while the Univer- Black students made up 10 vices. dents have successfully the first Monday of No- have access to the polls. sity neglects to recognize percent of the student popu- Asian American studies pushed for the University vember would be most Yes, big changes in our histories and cultures. lation, Hispanic students 8.7 is critical for an institution to cancel synchronous convenient for farmers the District always take An Asian American minor percent and Native students that prides itself on prepar- classes on Election Day, around the country. Most a long time. Yes, it can be would help change that, and 0.18 percent. ing well-rounded students we must expand our ef- of us are not farmers in discouraging to have to we must push for it through Given these numbers, it who can understand and forts to advocate for Elec- 2020, but we should all be choose the better of two this petition. makes sense to create a pro- conquer complex challenges tion Day to be a national able to celebrate this ba- evils. Yes, it could be eas- Many Asian American gram that speaks to Asian in global politics, STEM, holiday. sic right as an American ier to just tune everything students at GW come from American perspectives, fac- policy and the private sec- The ability to vote just as people did in 1845. out. But do not become decades of lived experi- ulty say. But that program tor. The question, then, is not is currently a privilege Turning Election Day into apathetic. Push your poli- ences in which our histories has been conspicuously ab- only what we would gain, – those who face the lon- a national holiday would ticians to allow everyone are distorted or untold. We sent despite years of advo- but what we have been miss- gest lines at the polls are instill a sense of pride in to celebrate the right to come to GW, an institution cacy. ing. The absence of an Asian minority and low-income all citizens, knowing they vote and participate in that claims to care about Aaron Datta, a junior American studies program is voters. In recent years, have the ability to cast a our democracy. Do not diversity and intellectual studying economics and a grave failure on the part of thousands of polling ballot regardless of work. underestimate the impact progress, to look for accurate international affairs and a the University and we urge sites have closed across We also know that we, as students, can have and timely knowledge about leader in the Asian Ameri- the administration to under- the South, making lines countries that have on public policy and keep Asian American history, but can Student Association, stand the importance of and even longer at existing marked their election advocating for bigger and we find next to nothing: no said Asian American stud- implement this program for locations. Not to men- days as federal events see bigger policy changes. programs, no centers, no ies – as well as all humanities the sake of all students. tion, Latino voters face 46 higher voting turnouts –Declan Duggan, institutional support – only and social sciences – matter –Ariel Santikarma and percent longer wait times than the United States. a freshman majoring in student-led advocacy and because regardless of one’s Carolyne Im are members of compared to White vot- Puerto Rico’s voter turn- international affairs, is an community. field of study, one must un- the Asian Pacific Islander Desi ers, and Black voters face out has gone as high as opinions writer. Professors Patricia Chu derstand themselves in a so- American Alliance.

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RELEASED “INSTRUMENTALS” AN ALBUM BY ADRIENNE LENKER CultureOctober 26, 2020 • Page 7 THIS WEEK: Safety practices for trick-or-treating during a pandemic CLARA DUHON you choose to trick or treat with a STAFF WRITER friend you haven’t seen in a while, make sure you consistently wear As long as you take the neces- masks, keep six feet apart and avoid sary precautions, you can still par- sharing utensils and candy. ticipate in trick-or-treating during Castel suggested families find the COVID-19 pandemic. “imaginative” ways to distribute There are some common-sense candy, like building a contraption practices, like packing candy in in- coined the candy chute, an at least dividual bags and providing hand six-foot tube that allows you to slide sanitizers to trick-or-treaters, to candy to trick-or-treaters from a minimize contact this Halloween. distance. One father from Cincin- Here are some tips for ensuring you nati has been creating these home- can participate in trick-or-treating made candy chutes using a long while abiding by public health cardboard tube and some festive guidelines. duct tape. Distributing your candy Switching up your location Instead of letting every trick-or- If you want to avoid overcrowd- treater in the neighborhood stick ing the doorway of each house you their hands in a communal bowl of visit, try organizing a small get- candy, prepare some small bags of together outside in a public area to candy for each person to take upon allow for plenty of room for trick-or- visiting your house. You can keep treaters to pick up candy while they all of the bags on a table in front of keep at a distance in an open space. your house and instruct kids asking Michael Martineau, a sopho- for candy to take one bag of goodies. more living in Pennsylvania, said Wearing gloves and a mask and he will celebrate Halloween by using a tong while handing out can- trick-or-treating with his brother at dy are also smart ways to reduce a Miracle League field just north of contact with trick-or-treaters. Con- Allentown, Pennsylvania. He said sider dressing up as a mad scientist trick-or-treaters and their families SARAH ROACH | EDITOR IN CHIEF or a zombie-turned lunch lady so go from booth to booth to receive Try to work your mask and other COVID-19 precautions into your costume this Halloween to stay safe and have fun. your safety wear and utensils dou- candy from local high school sports ble as your costume. teams, and people are adapting to the yearly tradition by signing up said both trick-or-treaters and hosts to eat candy that came from dozens organizing an outdoor, socially-dis- Trick-or-treating for a time slot to avoid overcrowd- should consider having hand sani- of different homes. tanced movie night. Before setting out into the neigh- ing. tizer at the ready throughout the “We have already had to change borhood on Halloween night, as- night. It is also a good idea to pro- Alternative activities the way in which we interact with sess your degree of risk to the virus Hand sanitizing vide trick-or-treaters with hand For those who would prefer to family and friends, how we cel- by skimming through the COVID Hand sanitizer is a must for both sanitizer before allowing them to opt out of the traditional trick-or- ebrated summer holidays and as Risk Levels Dashboard made by the trick-or-treaters and people hand- reach into any sort of candy bowl. treating this Halloween season, we move into the fall and winter Brown University School of Public ing out candy. Although the risk Depending on how trick-or- check out the CDC’s recommenda- months and as the pandemic con- Health. The dashboard tells you the of transmission through touching treaters are receiving their goodies, tions to learn about the risks of dif- tinues, we will have to continue to COVID-19 risk levels in your town. contaminated surfaces is found to Castel, the public health school pro- ferent Halloween activities. Castel be flexible, adjust and think about Amanda Castel, a professor of be lower than directly through re- fessor, said it’s important to clean recommended several alternative alternative and safe ways to cele- epidemiology at the Milken Insti- spiratory droplets, coming into con- your hands as “frequently as pos- celebratory activities, like watching brate while still creating new mem- tute School of Public Health, said if tact with either is still a risk. Castel sible,” especially when you’re about a scary movie with your family or ories,” Castel said.

Spooky season dishes and drinks CLARA DUHON ter they cool, roll them in a STAFF WRITER delicious cinnamon sugar mixture. Whether you’re in D.C. admWhether you’re whip- Halloween cocktails ping up apple pies or savor- ing pumpkin-flavored lattes, Spooky Jello Shots the best way to celebrate the Choose your preferred li- fall is through foods and quor and check out this rec- drinks. ipe for the basics on how to Try out some of these make jello shots. Pick orange autumn-inspired treats, sa- or green jello for a spooky vory dishes, coffee drinks look. You can also add some and Halloween cocktails. candy corn, eyeballs or spi- ders to top the jello shots so Fall sweet treats they scream Halloween. Pumpkin Bread with The Halloween Hypno- Salted Maple Butter tist Nothing screams fall This colorful cocktail more than pumpkin flavors. comes from “The Spruce Try out this delicious pump- Eats” cooking blog. The spe- kin bread with salted maple cial ingredient is a liquor butter recipe from Bon Ap- called Hpnotiq that has a SYDNEY WALSH | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER petit. You can follow along distinct blue color and fruity The 1993 comedy horror “Hocus Pocus” is a must-watch at the end of October. to a YouTube video featur- flavor. The recipe also calls ing one of the Bon Appetit for vodka, lemon juice and chefs as you bake the bread. an optional – but very fun Your movie guide for a Halloween night in The dish is relatively easy to – garnish of a green glow make, you just need to stock stick. NURIA DIAZ Plus Length: 1h 51m up on some staple fall ingre- REPORTER Pumpkin spiced Where to watch: Freeform, Amazon dients, like pumpkin puree, coffee drinks Casper Prime nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon Get in the Halloween mood After his wife’s death, a thera- and cloves. Once you bake Pumpkin Cream Cold this week with all of the spooky pist and his daughter move into a The Blair Witch Project the pumpkin bread, you Brew classics. haunted house where they meet a Three film students go miss- can prepare a maple butter TV channels like Freeform young friendly ghost. ing while investigating the local infused with salt to spread Follow this recipe to have been showing scheduled Rating: PG Blair Witch legend, leaving only over the warm bread. make the pumpkin cream movie line-ups throughout Oc- Length: 1h 50m footage behind. cold brew with just a few tober, so catch up on all the Where to watch: Freeform Rating: R Baked Apple Cider ingredients from home. films while you still can. From Length: 1h 45m Donuts All you need is some cold eery romantic films to child- The Rocky Horror Picture Where to watch: Amazon prime Another classic fall des- brewed coffee, sugar, pump- hood haunts, here’s a rundown Show sert is apple cider donuts. kin spice and puree. The of all the Halloween classics you A recently married couple The Conjuring This version of apple cider recipe recommends frothing should watch. seeks shelter at the bizarre resi- A couple of paranormal inves- donuts from the “Pretty. your cream to have it taste dence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter. tigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Simple. Sweet.” cooking blog most authentically like Star- Halloween classics Rating: R investigate a dark presence in a is relatively easy to make bucks’ infamous drink. Length: 1h 41m family’s farmhouse. and doesn’t require frying Pumpkin Spiced Latte Hocus Pocus Where to watch: Hulu and Amazon Rating: R them or using a donut pan. A centuries old curse is un- Prime Length: 1h 52m The cake donut batter is fla- Check out Starbucks’ leashed after a character named Where to watch: AMC vored with apple cider, nut- in-house recipe to make Max moves into Salem, Massa- Edward Scissorhands meg, cinnamon, cardamom, its coveted pumpkin spice chusetts. An Artificial man who has Family Friendly vanilla extract and butter- latte. You just need a cin- Rating: PG scissors for hands is introduced milk. Instead of heading to namon stick, cloves, nut- Length: 1h 36m to the world by a suburban wom- The Haunted Mansion the deep fryer, the batter is meg, pumpkin puree and Where to watch: Freeform, Disney an. A realtor and his family are poured into a muffin pan whipped cream plus your Plus Rating: PG invited to a mansion, which they and baked in the oven. Af- favorite espresso. Length: 1h 45m try to escape after learning it’s Halloweentown Where to watch: Hulu haunted. Marnie and her siblings dis- Rating: PG cover their grandmother is a Horror Length: 1h 39m witch and follow her to Hallow- Where to watch: Disney Plus eentown, where they must stop Sleepy Hollow evil forces. Detective Ichabod Crane is It’s the Great Pumpkin, Rating: PG tasked with investigating mur- Charlie Brown Length: 1h 24m ders by the legendary headless The Peanut gang celebrates Where to watch: Freeform, Disney horseman in Sleepy Hollow. Halloween. Plus Rating: R Rating: G Length: 1h 50m Length: 25m The Nightmare Before Where to watch: Freeform, Netflix Where to watch: Apple TV, CBS Christmas Jack Skellington, the king of Scream E.T Extraterrestrial Halloweentown, tries to bring After her mother’s death, a A young boy helps a friendly Christmas to Halloweentown. teenager is terrorized by a killer alien return to his home world. Rating: PG who targets their victims via hor- Rating: PG SABRINA GODIN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR Length: 1h 16m ror films. Length: 2h 1m Try your hand at a glow-in-the-dark cocktail from “The Spruce Eats” to give Where to watch: Freeform, Disney Rating: R Where to watch: Syfy Channel your Halloween celebration some extra flair. GAMES OF THE PAST WOMEN’S SOCCER WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Rhode Island at ITA Atlantic Regionals Oct. 27, 2016 | 3 p.m. Oct. 25-29, 2016 | All day The Colonials tied the Rams 0–0 in Women’s tennis closed out fall play with double overtime in their last home only one victory in the tournament. match of the season. NUMBER Among the program’s top-10 all-time scorers, the percentage of men’s SportsOctober 26, 2020 • Page 7 basketball’s total points contributed by members of the 1996 team CRUNCH 37.3 Fall check-in: Baseball and men’s and women’s cross country and track and field stay connected online BELLE LONG said the facility is typically a CONTRIBUTING SPORTS good space for team bonding EDITOR but is not conducive to social distancing. With fall sports delayed until “Togetherness right now the spring semester, The Hatchet is is wearing your mask and checking in with head coaches from staying socially distant and affected programs to gain insight cleaning your hands,” Ritchie on how each team is handling the said. “Because if you’re doing pause on competition. Check back that together, then you’re going each week for new installments. to be together soon enough. Otherwise, if we don’t, we hurt Baseball and men’s and each other.” women’s cross country and For the players who were track and field have spent the unable to return to D.C. this semester looking for silver semester, Ritchie said he and linings in their postponed his coaching staff keep tabs on seasons. their training through frequent Cross country and track and Webex meetings. field head coach Terry Weir Remote players are briefed said coaching during the online on what was covered in semester resembles a typical Ritchie’s practices and work summer for his programs, but on those skills on their own, losing in-person time has been he said. Ritchie added that the “tough.” Baseball head coach team uses various group chats Gregg Ritchie said the “hardest to check in and stay connected part” about the fall season was with each other. not training his full team in “Webex – I’ve already Foggy Bottom. noticed it’s not the best way to Here’s how the two be together,” Ritchie said. “But FILE PHOTO BY OLIVIA ANDERSON programs are practicing and it is a way you can see faces The baseball team’s regular practice facility, the Fassnacht Clubhouse, is off limits this fall to comply with University COVID-19 social staying connected this fall: and smiles and body language distancing measures. and some tone of voice to Baseball understand people’s conditions staff chat about training over while his coaching methods Weir said a group of runners Of its 33-member roster, 20 and where they’re at.” the phone or during virtual and training plans have not from the men’s side took baseball players are back on meetings. Players training off changed much, the lack of in- advantage of the circumstances campus and practicing this fall. Men’s and women’s campus can also compete in person contact has been an and organized a six-week stay Baseball competes in the cross country and track individual competitions, like adjustment. in Colorado. He added that they spring but spends up to 20 hours and field local races, he were able to do some a week – the maximum number Only two players from the said. altitude training of practice hours the NCAA men’s and women’s squads are “ E v e r y “Togetherness right now is wear- while taking classes permits out-of-season teams – practicing on campus this fall, locale is a little ing your mask and staying socially remotely, but the working on hitting, pitching Weir said. different,” Weir most valuable part of said. “Some of distant and cleaning your hands, the trip was the time and fielding. Ritchie said fall He said several other because if you’re doing that to- practices allow his coaching runners are from the D.C. area them have some they spent together. staff to size up the team and but opted to train off campus. races going on, gether, then you’re going to be Weir said virtual identify what it needs to focus Under NCAA rules, athletes can but in the D.C. together soon enough. Otherwise, training is similar on ahead of spring competition. choose whether to participate areas, there’s if we don’t, we hurt each other.” to summer training. Ritchie said the team has in in-person training this not going to He said he talks adopted social distancing semester. be a whole lot with each athlete measures and COVID-19 of competition individually once a The two players who opted GREGG RITCHIE protocol, like sanitizing around here. week, usually over to train on campus this season BASEBALL HEAD COACH equipment, wearing masks are jumpers and sprinters, Weir But some other the phone, and the when players are unable to stay said. He said the duo should areas of the team holds a weekly six feet apart, creating separate be on campus to access the country are check-in over Zoom. off- and on-campus pods and weight room for training, and having them.” “We’ve done taking temperatures regularly. the players who opted out are With 31 student-athletes “I knew my athletes well a really good job staying The team’s Fassnacht distance runners who are less training remotely, Weir said enough that I could read body connected with ourselves Clubhouse, which opened in reliant on GW’s facilities to the fall was “one of the most language and see how they’re with group chats,” Weir said. 2018, has been declared off practice. challenging times” he’s ever doing,” Weir said. “It’s hard for “We’re a tight team. They stay limits this fall, Ritchie said. He Weir said he and his coaching experienced as a coach. He said me missing that connection.” connected together.”

Top GW sports moments: Women’s soccer notches 13-game win streak ROMAN BOBEK that span, GW netted just consecutive extra minutes STAFF WRITER two goals and allowed with George Mason and eight. With a dominant 3–0 Rhode Island Oct. 25 and In lieu of fall sports, victory over Liberty the 29, respectively. we’re dusting off the history next week, the Colonials Against George books and taking a look back simultaneously halted Mason, neither team on 10 of the best GW sports their losing skid and began could score throughout moments, ever. Here’s to the longest consecutive two halves of regulation. hoping some old-fashioned win streak in program Conway anchored the nostalgia can keep us going history. team between the pipes until the restart. GW went on to shut after Horn left the game out its next two opponents with an injury and made No. 10: Women’s in nonconference play five saves in the second soccer snatches before hosting Saint half to carry the squad 13-game winning Joseph’s for its conference into extra minutes. streak, program debut. The Colonials Cowley nearly ended records gained an early lead off the game in the first The 2015 women’s a strike from Cowley and half of overtime, but an soccer program went on a scored another goal in the acrobatic save by redshirt historic 13-game winning final minutes of the game junior goalkeeper Kirsten streak to clinch the to complete the shutout. Glad kept the teams Atlantic 10 regular season In the four-game level. Cowley finally put title for the first time stretch from Sept. 17 the game to bed in the since 1995 and claim their through Oct. 1, GW kept second overtime after 107 first undefeated season in a clean sheet and netted minutes of play. conference play. two or more goals in With a 1–0 win over FILE PHOTO BY JACK BOROWIAK Spurred by then- each contest. Redshirt Saint Louis on their The 2015 women’s soccer team’s historic run came to an end in the quarterfinals of the A-10 tournament after fourth-year head coach sophomore Miranda Horn home turf, the Colonials falling to George Mason. Sarah Barnes, senior served as the squad’s clinched the A-10 regular offense in the first half as season success despite the defender Emily Brown, defender Brooke Stoller primary goalkeeper season crown and the both headed to the locker loss of three graduates Horn and Stoller. and junior forward during the stretch, making top seed heading into the room scoreless. with more than 1,000 Stoller logged the MacKenzie Cowley, the 13 saves. Senior goalkeeper A-10 Tournament. At the GW came out of the minutes played in 2014. most playing time of any Colonials achieved a 15-4 Ellen Conway tacked on 80-minute mark, Cowley second half firing to The defense allowed only player as the leader of the overall record to tie the five more saves to keep netted her 10th goal of outshoot the Patriots 7-2, 15 goals – the fewest in the back line to secure A-10 program-high number opponents scoreless the season to seal the 2015 but Glad made a pair of conference – and posted Defensive Player of the of wins set in 1987. The during the stretch. squad into GW history key saves to keep GW 12 shutouts in total to Year – the first Colonial Colonials held the nation’s The Colonials also and top off the team’s scoreless. The Patriots rewrite the history books. to ever do so. Senior longest active win streak notched a victory in every perfect 10-0 record in the pulled ahead in the 76th Cowley netted 10 midfielder Kristi Abbate and dwarfed the previous single overtime contest for conference. minute off a set piece. goals over the course of and freshman midfielder record of eight consecutive the first time in program The Colonials’ run Despite a few last ditch the season, including six and forward Sofia Pavon wins in 1998. history. Conference play came to an end in the attempts to score, the game-winners to earn tacked onto the team’s After a 2-1 start to the saw four of their five quarterfinals of the Colonials trailed at the A-10 All-Conference First postseason accolades season, the Colonials hit a overtime matches, with A-10 tournament to No. final whistle. Team honors. She was with A-10 All-Conference three-game slide against back-to-back battles 8-seeded George Mason. The Colonials’ joined on the A-10 All- Second Team spots. Pavon Drexel, Georgetown and with St. Bonaventure Similar to their first backline played a large Conference First Team also earned an A-10 All- Delaware. Throughout and La Salle Oct. 4 and matchup, neither team role in their regular by senior midfielder and Rookie Team nod. 8, respectively, and could generate much Men’s basketball head coach lands on 40 under 40 list EMILY MAISE under the age of 40, including son at Siena. He then took over gether its worst record in more his fourth season at the helm of SPORTS EDITOR coaches, sports analysts, agents the Colonials for the 2019-20 than a decade. the Minutemen. Last season, he and broadcasters. season, replacing former head Christian is approaching his led the squad to a 14-17 overall Men’s basketball head coach The honor marks the second coach Maurice Joseph. second season with the team record and an 8-10 conference Jamion Christian made The Ath- time Christian was featured on In his first year, the Coloni- and his ninth year as a Division record, which included a 75-51 letic’s 40 under 40 rising stars in a 40 under 40 list after he made als finished 12-20 overall with I men’s basketball head coach loss to GW. He and Christian men’s basketball list last week. ESPN’s 40 under 40 coaches in a 6-12 Atlantic 10 record, plac- this year. His program returns were the sole A-10 coaches to The Athletic’s list – which men’s basketball list at the con- ing the team 10th overall in the four players that started at least make the list. was compiled by Seth Davis, the clusion of the 2019-20 season. A-10. The squad won two more 18 games last season. Christian and the men’s managing editor of the publica- After taking over the pro- games in conference play and Massachusetts men’s bas- basketball program are back in tion’s college basketball cov- gram at his alma mater Mount one more game during its non- ketball head coach Matt McCall action Wednesday, Nov. 25, at erage – included “influential” St. Mary’s for six seasons, conference block than in 2018- was also featured on The Athlet- Navy for the Veterans Classic. people in college basketball Christian spent the 2018-19 sea- 19, when the team pieced to- ic’s list. McCall is entering into Tipoff is slated for noon.