MESSAGE BOARD MANIA PAGE 11 BRINGING MOANING BACK PAGE 6 ALWAYS ONLINE: GWHoops.com is a fan/critic forum JT stars in “Black Snake Moans” [email protected] FLIPPIN’ WIN THURSDAY The GW PAGE 11 March 1, 2007 Gymnastics Vol. 103 • Iss. 45 beats James Madison AN INDEPENDENTHatchet STUDENT NEWSPAPER - SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904 Ridge says U.S. needs more security Carter to speak Upping border on Middle East patrol should be by David Ceasar ers of Carter’s stature come to Senior News Editor GW, especially when brought in by professors. major priority Former U.S. President Jimmy “(We appreciate) the role Carter will speak at Lisner that our faculty play in help- by Emily Sydnor Auditorium next Thursday to ing to recruit top internation- Hatchet Reporter discuss Middle Eastern affairs ally renowned speakers ... We and his controversial book about think we’ll have an interesting Former Department of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. dialogue with President Carter,” Homeland Security Secretary The 39th president will speak Schario said. Tom Ridge said the department from 1 to 2:15 p.m. as part of the Students can pick up free tick- is still working on “getting it third installment of the Middle ets on a first-come, first-served right” to a sold-out crowd in East Policy Forum, a series of basis from the TicketMaster in the the Jack Morton Auditorium lectures put on by the Elliott basement of the Marvin Center Tuesday night. School of International Affairs. starting Thursday. Organizers In a relaxed conversation Ambassador Edward “Skip” said students can only pick up with Media and Public Affairs Gnehm, Kuwait professor of Gulf one ticket per GWorld card. professor Frank Sesno, Ridge and Arabian Peninsula affairs, Carter, who brokered the talked about the Iraq War and organized the forum and chose Camp David peace accords state of homeland security. Ridge Carter to be the third speaker in between Israel and Egypt, sur- served as the first Secretary of the series. prised many in November Homeland Security from 2003 to The former U.S. ambassador with the controversial thesis 2005. The newest Cabinet-level to Kuwait and Jordan was able to “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” position was established after get his fellow Georgian to speak In the New York Times bestseller, the Sept. 11 attacks and the pas- at GW because he went to high the former president argues that sage of the Homeland Security school with several people who Israel’s control over formerly Act of 2002. worked in the Carter administra- Palestinian territories has been “We are not as secure as we Alex Ellis/Hatchet photographer tion. the fundamental roadblock to want to be, need to be, and will Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge speaks to a sold-out crowd in the Jack “I said, ‘Heck, I’m going to peace. be,” he said. Morton Auditorium Tuesday night. Ridge talked about the Iraq War and the state of homeland security. pick up the phone and see if he The Jewish-American com- Ridge was critical of sev- wants to do one of his four or munity and many supporters of eral current policies relating to checkpoints. He also stressed ability of Mexican workers to the lack of a single national sys- five speeches this spring at GW,’” Israel have been angry over the homeland security, particularly the need for increased technol- cross the border” to work, he tem for communication between Gnehm said, “and the answer comparison between Israelis and the decision to build a fence ogy and personnel along the said. emergency response groups. came back ‘yes, indeed.’” the racist South African regime along the U.S.-Mexico border. border. Ridge said one of the biggest With Hurricane Katrina, he said, Media Relations Director that oppressed Africans during He said a fence should act as a We should “legitimize the failings of homeland security is Tracy Schario said the University funnel to push people toward See RIDGE p. 5 as a whole benefits when speak- See CARTER, p. 5 Man arrested for disrupting Ross Hall meeting Soldiers’ families speak out A man was arrested early Tuesday ulty and students,” Dent said. “The afternoon after he allegedly forced police were called and within a partic- himself into a first-floor room in Ross ularly short time, faculty and students Kidnapped Israeli Hall where a meeting of faculty and did leave the room and the individual students was taking place, Metropoli- was arrested by MPD.” troops still tan Police Department and University The building was not evacuated, officials said. but the meeting stopped after the inci- MPD responded to 2300 I St. at dent because members of the meeting remembered about 1 p.m., for someone who was were speaking with University Police “mentally disturbed,” said Officer Department and MPD officials. by Lindsay Corcoran Quintin Peterson of MPD’s Public In- In response to the disturbance and Hatchet Reporter formation Office. breach of security in the building, Pro- “I believe they took that person vost and Vice President of Health Af- Many people may have forgotten to D.C. General Hospital where they fairs John Williams sent an e-mail to about the two Israeli soldiers whose have a mental observation ward so the Medical Center community alert- capture last summer made a month they can be monitored,” Peterson ing them of the situation and changes of headlines and led to the next chap- said. Both MPD and the Medical Cen- to security process in Ross Hall. ter in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ter’s communication office reported Dent said the building will have a But Tuesday night at GW Hillel, that no injuries occurred during the new entry policy that requires people the families of the two kidnapped Alex Ellis/Hatchet photographer incident. to show a photo ID and wait at the soldiers who catapulted Israel and Miki Goldwasser, mother of Ehud Goldwasser, discusses her reaction to “We had an individual who came security desk until their hosts greet Lebanon into a month-long deadly her son’s capture in Israel by Hezbollah in Hillel Tuesday night. to Ross Hall and said he was going them. conflict spoke about their loved ones to go to a room, and provided proper She said the new policies are simi- who, after eight months, have still not alive,” said Omri Avni, the father-in- ment of Lebanese soldiers. photo ID, and he was subsequently lar to those in federal government of- come home. law of Goldwasser. The family members of the miss- admitted to the building,” said Linda fice buildings and will be in place un- At the time of the capture in July, In mid-August, the U.N. Security ing soldiers have been traveling Dent, director of the Medical Center’s til further notice. She said the Medical eight other soldiers were also kid- Council passed a resolution requir- around the world in attempts to gain Communication and Marketing of- Center continually evaluates the ef- napped, all of whom died. But the ing the disarmament of Hezbollah international support for their efforts fice. fectiveness of such policies. families of Ehud Goldwasser and El- – a Lebanese terrorist organization to locate the soldiers and lessen He- “He forced himself into one of the –Brandon Butler, with David Ceasar dad Regev still hold onto hope that accused of the kidnapping. In return, zbollah’s power in the region. Some rooms, disrupted the meeting of fac- contributing. their loved ones are alive. the council asks for Israel’s withdraw- “We hope, we assume they are al from Lebanon and for the deploy- See HILLEL, p. 3 2007 SA RUN-OFF ELECTION After nearly passing on Heritage, family define GW, Abanto eyes SA Brooklyn native Capp by Nathan Grossman step-sister Maggie. by Andrew Ramonas way up from a store clerk to the vice Senior Staff Writer In his spare time, Abanto enjoys Senior Staff Writer president of a New York City insur- doing one activity above all –- relax- ance company, Capp said. Marc Abanto almost didn’t come ing. It’s late on a weeknight and “I have two parents that love to GW. In fact, it wasn’t even on the ju- “Relaxing is one of the greatest the smell of Italian spices and the me and work hard,” she said. “They nior’s list of potential colleges at first. things in life, whether it’s going to a sounds of classical music are filling have instilled good values in me.” “My guidance counselor insisted movie with my friends, or just spend- the hallway outside of sophomore In addition to good values, her that I apply to GW, and he put it back ing time with the people I love,” he Nicole Capp’s Ivory Tower room. parents instilled a love for classical on my list three times,” recalled the said. Capp, who is facing junior Marc music. Connecticut native. “When I finally He hasn’t relaxed very much Abanto in the Student Association “Not many people appreciate visited, I fell in love with the place. I while doing student government. In presidential runoff this week, tries to that I like classical music,” Capp went back home and gave my coun- high school he served as student body make her room like the home where said. “It isn’t easy talking about Puc- selor a hug.” president his senior year. Upon enter- she grew up – 200 miles away from cini or Bach instead of Tupac when Three years later, Abanto, now a ing GW, he instinctively sought out Foggy Bottom in Brooklyn.