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George Mason University’s Student Newspaper January 23, 2012
Volume 88 Issue 11
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The Construction Pays Off Mason’s Latest Project Now Open for Business With 600 New Beds and Subway Restaurant
Photos by: Jake McLernon
Left: Students move in to the newlyopened Rogers and Whitetop dorms. Whitetop is a suite style dorm while Rogers is apartments. The two buildings opened over break for students from the Commons to move in since the Commons are undergoing renovation. Above: Underneath Rogers, next to Lot H, a Subway restaurant and a convenience store have opened for business. Subway is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekends. The convience store is open from 7 a.m. to midnight weekdays and 10 a.m. to midnight weekends.
Quick Hits Winter Welcome Week Begins Today By: Gregory Connolly Today marks the start of Winter Welcome Week, a celebration that runs through Saturday and includes snow tubing at Liberty Mountain Resort and an ice skating rink that will be set up Friday and Saturday between the Center for the Arts and Mason Hall. Events begin at 10 a.m. Monday and run through Saturday night. All the events are free for George Mason University students except snow tubing, for which students can register at weekends.gmu.edu for $25. The fee includes the ticket, a meal and transportation to the Pennsylvania resort, said Erica Cosentino, assistant director of weekend initiatives for the Office of Student Involvement. Cosentino managed a group of four undergraduates and one graduate student who have been planning the week since November. Now in its second full year, Cosentino said Winter Welcome Week has already been established as one of the signature on-campus events for Weekends at Mason, the group tasked with planning the event from the ground up.
See WELCOME, Page 2 New Member Appointed to BOV By: Justin Lalputan Tony Jimenez, president and CEO of MicroTech, has been appointed to the George Mason University Board of Visitors. Jimenez’s appointment follows the departure of David
Ramadan, who was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. Jimenez serves on the Board of Trustees of the Living Classrooms Foundation, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of young people in impoverished areas. He is also and advisor for the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board on Education. The 16 members of Mason’s Board of Visitors are elected by the governor of Virginia and serve four-year terms. The Board of Visitors deals primary in policy making and also elected Mason’s incoming president, Ángel Cabrera. Lecture to Detail Electronic History Archives By: Justin Lalputan Dan Cohen, director of George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, will discuss the implications of digitizing history and having electroniconly archives on Jan. 30, 2012. This lecture is part of Mason’s Vision Series and will take place in the Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. There is no cost for attendance and no need for a ticket. Cohen will discuss the potential for the loss of important information, as well as the exciting possibilities that digitization of information can provide. Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History and is the co-author of “Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.”
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Management Stuck in the Past Associate Prof Likens Current Management Practices to Those of Industrial Revolution Janelle Germanos Staff Writer Despite the technological and resource expansions of the last century, Mark Addleson, George Mason University associate professor of public policy, says that organizations are still being run as if we are in the Industrial Revolution. “Management evolved in a factory system during the Industrial Revolution,” said Addleson, the author of “Beyond Management.” “The work that we do now has changed in a very fundamental way.” Addleson believes that modern-day management is identical to the way factories were run in the 19th century, but it needs to adapt to the new kind of work that is most prominent. “Most people do not work in factories,” he said. “The work is very different from the kind of work that existed at the time when management evolved.” According to Addleson, the management that evolved in fac-
tories was meant to handle rou- Addleson said. “If you look at pictine, repetitive, solitary labor. tures from 19th century workers, “The practices of management you can see that they never interwere all designed to organize that acted with each other.” According to Addleson, mankind of work,” he said. In addition, Addleson said he agement interferes with groups believes that management prac- and teams that people organize themselves into. tices today are antiquated and “People get “Management evolved taken off projects potentially disin a factory system and switched to ruptive to knowledge another project,” during the Industrial Addleson said. worker effiRevolution. The work ciency. “Groups are usually that we do now has pretty messy. This “We still talk about is because of the changed in a very [current] managetraining and we fundamental way.” ment mindset.” still talk about efficiency,” AdAddleson -Mark Addleson, George stresses that work dleson said. “We are still Mason Associate Professor has evolved into mentioning the of Public Policy knowledge work, which cannot be distinction between managemanaged in the ment and workers.” Because the same manner as 19th century facwork of today is highly social, tory work. “There is a huge gap between management is no longer the most effective way to get work the way work is being organized in terms of management mindset done, he said. “We ask questions and we lis- and what it takes to do good ten to what each other has to say,” knowledge work,” Addleson said.
“This is why management is dead.” Currently, Addleson notes that there is too much control in the decision-making process. “High control and compliance go together, and those are not appropriate for knowledge work,” Addleson said. “Management is a mindset, and as soon as you use it, you put everyone back in this 19th century mindset.” Addleson does not think that management can be easily reformed to be more effective. “Tweaking it is not the issue. There is such a big gap that we need to rebuild things from the ground up,” he said. “This means pushing management aside.” Addleson believes that people can organize themselves and that the workplace needs to recognize this. “Until you can let go of the structures, people are unable to organize themselves,” he said. “A lot of people are self-organizing in one way or another, but the management practices interfere with their ability to do that.”
Underdog Patriots Best Rams Moton Scores 29, Lewis Holds VCU’s Hurt to 17 Points, Five Rebounds John Powell Intercollegiate Athletics Liaison Taleia Moton’s 29 points gave the Mason women’s basketball team the upper hand in their matchup against the favorite VCU Rams. VCU (11-7, 4-3) came to the Patriot Center expecting an easy win against a Mason team (9-9, 3-4) against whom they had historically done well. The Rams’ Courtney Hurt came into the game averaging 23.4 points per game, good for fifth in the nation, and 12.7 rebounds per game, the best rate in the nation. Despite early turnovers, the Patriots’ sharp shooting kept them ahead or close to the Rams for the entire first half. They shot 50 per-
cent from the field, making 15 shots, three from beyond the arc, heading into the locker room with a 35-26 advantage. Most notably, Evelyn Lewis, despite poor numbers on the stat page, did her job well on the blocks. Over the course of the game, she held Hurt to 17 points and five rebounds over the game. With Hurt tied up under the net, toss-ups started going Mason’s way. With the kick-outs, point guard Moton’s hot hands changed the game dynamic. She made a phenomenal 12 of 14 shots and went 5-of-7 from the line. If Moton’s scoring was not enough, fellow top-of-the-key guard Amber Easter scored 20 points and grabbed a team-high nine re-
bounds. Hurt’s scoring limitation was too much for the Rams to overcome. They never recovered from the first-half deficit. Andrea Barbour tried to step up, scoring 15 points, but the shots would not fall. Even in her work, Barbour only went 5-of-13. While the Rams’ shooting rate fell from 44.0 to 42.9 percent, the Patriots kept pressure on. Their 59.3 percent shooting rate in the second half held a double-digit lead that never looked to be in jeopardy. Mason took to their underdog role with a 13-point win, 71-58, and looks to keep it up when they host Towson 7 p.m. Thursday night.