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GWPD to arm top two officers

ERIKA FILTER NEWS EDITOR

GRACE CHINOWSKY SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

The GW Police Department will arm its top two officers, the first officials to receive handguns as part of the department’s new public safety policy.

Officials will arm GWPD Executive Supervisory Officers Chief James Tate and Captain Gabe Mullinax with 9 mm handguns in the “coming weeks,” according to a statement released Monday. The decision is the first stage of GWPD’s five-point implementation plan for the upcoming semester after the Board of Trustees announced in April its divisive plan to arm roughly 20 GWPD supervising officers to better respond to campus emergencies.

Tate and Mullinax will carry firearms “during the busiest part of the week,” according to the statement. If their arming is “successful,” GWPD will arm additional supervising officers as they meet training requirements and as the department continues to incorporate community feedback, the announcement states. The announcement did not specify how the department will measure success in the first phase of their plan.

“It’s critical that we continue our ongoing engagement with our students, faculty, staff and neighbors so that we account for the varying perspectives of our diverse stakeholders moving forward,” Tate said in the release.

The Board approved the policy in response to heightened gun violence in the United States, including shootings on college campuses. Students, faculty and community members protested the decision last spring, saying arming officers could risk police violence against students on campus and disproportionately threaten the safety of students of color.

Officials install two new subsidized contraceptive vending machines

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Solo studiers scorn student center redo

ERIKA FILTER NEWS EDITOR

Returning students peeking into the first floor of the University Student Center last week were greeted with a radically different design. Updated tables and desks, a fresh white paint job and new laminate flooring turned the first floor of the student center from a cozy study spot into a clean, bright space with seating for large groups. Officials removed carpeting and the raised platform in Columbian Square — the seating area in front of Panera — replacing the green and orange tables and couches with larger ones in Buff and Blue hues.

Officials renovated the Panera Bread inside the student center, removing the wall separating the restaurant from the seating area. Officials also added two new University-operated dining vendors — fried chicken shack Absurd Bird and Indian spot Chaat House.

Officials installed two new contraceptive vending machines with reduced product costs last week in a further effort to increase the accessibility and affordability of birth control on campus.

Officials installed one machine in the basement of District House and one machine in West Hall on the Mount Vernon Campus on Wednesday after first installing a machine in the University Student Center in January.

Officials, in collaboration with GW Repro-

Community runs room temp on ‘Revolutionaries’

In the wake of the retirement of GW’s nearly century-old moniker, few community members said they feel revved up to be a GW Revolutionary.

More than two dozen students, alumni and faculty said they weren’t completely satisfied with the Revolutionaries moniker, with more than half a dozen expressing concerns that the new nickname didn’t differentiate itself enough from the divisiveness associated with the Colonials branding. Despite their apprehension, more than a dozen community members said the Revolutionaries represents a step forward from GW’s previous moniker and hope the transition signifies more change to come within the University.

“Revolutionaries weren’t my first choice, but I’m excited to support GW school spirit and foster more community,” Student Association President Arielle Geismar said in a message.

Officials announced in May that Revolutionaries would replace the Colonials moniker after a yearlong selection process that

left community members with four final contenders: Ambassadors, Blue Fog, Sentinels and Revolutionaries. The decision to replace Colonials followed a series of student- and faculty-led referendums and petitions that claimed the former moniker was offensive to people who have been impacted by colonization.

2020 alum Hayley Margolis, a former leader of the Anything But Colonials student coalition that helped lead the push to retire the Colonials nickname, said they hope the Revolutionaries will enhance school spirit and generate unity in Foggy Bottom. Margolis said they think the former moniker was one factor that hamstrung school spirit amongst some community members because of their concern with the connotations behind the name.

Margolis said they believe a Revolutionary is someone who directs “institutional shifts toward progress” and acts as a symbol of hope but that there is more work to be done.

“When I did this activism in college, I knew that a moniker change is only symbolic, and that more work must follow to actually create institutional racial equity,” Margolis said in an email.

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— a student organization that works to educate the student body on reproductive justice — lowered the price of morning-after contraceptive pills in the machines from $30 in January to $15.

Student Association President Arielle Geismar is set to further subsidize the cost of the morning-after pill in the machines by putting $1,000 dollars of her executive budget toward the project, which will further lower the contraceptive’s unit price to $10. While the machines still list the price of the morningafter pill as $15 as of

Sunday, Geismar said officials will implement the new price “imminently” after she fi nalizes logistics Monday.

Maddy Niziolek and Stephanie Spector, the co-presidents of RAGE, said the machines will also stock tampons, condoms and pregnancy tests in addition to a generic morningafter pill.

“We really believe that if there’s going to be a Plan B vending machine, it should be more affordable and accessible,” Niziolek said.

Niziolek and Spector said they began discussions in June about lowering the cost of the morn-

ing-after pill and moving the machine from the student center with Brian Joyce, the assistant dean of student life.

Spector said the vending machine company that worked with students to install a machine in the student center in January had a contract to use a specific brand of the morning-after pill, AfterPill, which required the University to keep the cost at $30 per dose. She said the new machine contractor does not have an agreement with a specific brand of the pill, allowing officials and student leaders to subsidize the price.

“The student center was perfectly adequate before,” said junior Grace Newman. “It seems like a waste of money.”

Newman is one of more than 20 students who said they come to the student center alone or in small groups and find the new, large tables off-putting for study sessions. Some students said they plan to frequent quieter, more private study spaces in the Science and Engineering Hall and Gelman Library, expressing concerns about the potential of noise from new dining vendors and a lack of outlets.

Others said the renovations took away the student center’s character, which previously featured tables with pictures of notable GW moments and a mural highlighting campus activities and traditions.

Evie Owens, a sophomore studying history and data science, said she comes to the student center alone and looks for single-person spots because she feels “awkward” sitting at a larger table where someone is already sitting.

“It looks like a giant warehouse now,” Owens said.

GW alum, Trump ally in custody for efforts to undermine 2020 election results

A GW alum remains behind bars after his arrest in the Georgia election interference case that also saw former President Donald Trump indicted.

Harrison Floyd, a former leader of Black Voices for Trump and one of 19 co-defendants in the case, remains in a Fulton County, Georgia jail after being charged with three counts related to efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election. Floyd, who opened but did not respond to The Hatchet’s request for comment over Instagram, told a judge he could not afford a private attorney and was denied bond.

Floyd faces three charges in the case that captured international headlines earlier this month: racketeering, conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements

and writings, and influencing witnesses. He surrendered to authorities Thursday, hours before Trump arrived in Atlanta for his arrest. Floyd, who hasn’t

specifically commented about his indictment, graduated from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and later from the Graduate School of Political Man-

agement in 2019. Floyd brushed off online criticism earlier this month, tweeting, “Patience is a virtue.”

Harrison told Judge Emily Richardson at his first court appearance that he did not qualify for a public defender and couldn’t afford a private attorney, according to Reuters. Floyd ran for Congress in Georgia’s 7th District in 2020 but dropped out of the race less than a month after his launch in June 2019. The indictment states that Floyd and other defendants in the case allegedly solicited Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County during the 2020 election, to engage in criminal activity by “knowingly and willfully making a false statement and representation concerning events at State Farm Arena in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia.”

Students mourn after Maui wildfires, search for ways to support family, friends

Senior Frank Fasi III was working at a development fi rm in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, at noon on Aug. 8 when he decided to check the news on his phone. He didn’t think much of a story that popped up about a fi re in Maui on

a local news site, assuming it was just another small brushfi re, which have typically occurred about once per year in Hawaiʻi since 2004. It wasn’t until the wildfi res reached national news later that day that Fasi began to panic.

Flames enveloped the island of Maui in early August, leaving Lāhainā — a historic whaling town and the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom in

Maui County — disproportionately impacted.

Officials have contained at least 85 percent of the fi res in different parts of the island as of Sunday, but over the past three weeks, the flames scorched more than 2,000 acres of land and left at least 115 people dead, with hundreds still missing.

The fi res are now the deadliest the country has recorded in the past century, surpassing California’s Camp Fire,

which killed 85 people in 2018. The causes of the fi re are under investigation.

“We all never thought this kind of thing could happen in Hawaiʻi,” Fasi said. “We see it all the time happen in California and we thought in Hawaiʻi it was wet enough, that it rains enough, this couldn’t happen, but we were shocked.”

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Demonstrators embrace on the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, just yards away from where he delivered it in 1963 during the March on Washington. Read more on page 2.

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Harrison Floyd faces charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings, and influencing witnesses.

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Dogs with plainer faces appear more expressive to humans, study finds

MAX JACKSON REPORTER

MICHAEL HARIMAN REPORTER

A recent study by members of the GW Primate Genomics Lab and researchers at canine cognition labs from across the country linked the complexity of dogs’ facial features to the intensity of their facial expressions.

The researchers found that dogs with plainer facial features — monochromatic faces with little pigmentation and simpler features — displayed more expressive facial behavior to humans than dogs with more colorful and complex facial characteristics. Courtney Sexton, the study’s lead author and a researcher in the lab, said she was surprised that canine facial expressivity changes based on facial complexity because all dogs experience the same selection pressures to evolve to communicate with humans.

Findings in primatology inspired the study, Sexton said. The plain-face hypothesis in primatology argues that facial expressions in nonhuman primates with complex faces are more difficult to read, leading highly expressive primates to evolve simpler faces.

Sexton’s study found that the same hypothesis also applies to dogs.

“What was surprising to me was that they did follow the same trends that we have found in primates, in that the dogs with plainer faces, or solid-colored faces, seemed to appear more behaviorally expressive to people,” Sexton said.

Sexton said it was unclear whether genetic factors, like plainer dogs evolving to be more expressive, or faults in human perception, like expressions being easier to see on plain faces, cause dogs with plainer faces to be more expressive. Sexton said humans may pick up on certain expressions in dogs with simpler faces and not dogs with complex faces because the expressions may be easier to see on faces without “visual noise.”

Sexton said she scored more than 100 male and female dogs selected from a wide range of breeds and phenotypes to measure the complexity of their faces. She said the system, which uses results from a binary survey of “yes” or “no” answers to measure colors and facial features, provides an objective measure of each dog’s facial complexity.

“I developed a binary system to account for markings

and colors,” Sexton said. “I was not looking at features like ear shape, or size, or snout length, or size, or even hair length, or many of those other kinds of features that of course, are going to influence how signals are received. We were looking strictly at markings and pigmentation.”

Sexton said she ran an association of this physical score against the dogs’ expressivity, using the Dog Facial Action Coding System, which scores dogs’ facial movements based on the number of muscles they move to produce an objective behavioral sum. The higher the sum, the more muscles moved, which researchers used to signify that a dog had greater objective expressivity.

Sexton said owners of dogs with more complex faces were less likely to accurately notice and understand their dog’s facial expressions.

Sexton said older dogs were also less likely to be expressive, while working dogs or dogs with advanced training were more likely to be expressive. She said older dogs may be less expressive due to physical decline or because older dogs may require less expressiveness to communicate with their long-time owners.

Francys Subiaul, a co-

author and an associate research professor, said the study will help people understand how many aspects of human culture have been passed on to dogs. Subiaul said dogs are seemingly predisposed to understand human gestures, like pointing, more than other animals because they have evolved alongside humans. “So in the realm of communication, dogs are really interesting models of this

Activists, politicians honor 60th anniversary of March on Washington

AYAH MAHANA REPORTER JENNIFER IGBONOBA CONTRIBUTING NEWS EDITOR

“Not A Commemoration, A Continuation,” was the title for Saturday’s celebration honoring the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Thousands of demonstrators convened at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his renowned “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. The event, hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the Kings’ Drum Major Institute, celebrated civil rights achievements, like the movement’s growing inclusivity of the LGBTQ+ community and the election of a Black president and vice president.

The daylong event began with speeches from several high-profile activists and politicians including Sharpton, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Martin Luther King III, King’s eldest son. Speakers said King and other civil rights leaders paved the way for a more equitable society but emphasized that more work needs to be done to address current issues, like the protection of voting rights and affirmative action, to achieve complete justice.

Maya Wiley, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said the fight for civil rights is not over among communities of color. She said children of color must be given mental health resources instead of being criminally punished for minor offenses and called for an increase in school funding.

“We are marching to say we are this country,” Wiley said. “And we will not stop marching until we are all free.”

The speeches were followed by a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the MLK Jr. Memorial near the Tidal Basin, where attendees were greeted by the sound of the Oscar-winning song “Glory” by Common and John Legend playing on speakers and listened to speeches by Sharpton and King’s nephew, Isaac Newton Farris Jr.

Shavon Arline-Bradley, the president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women, said she had “righteous rage” because of the obstacles Black women continue to face in the United States, including being paid less than white men and Supreme Court decisions that continue to “marginalize our people.”

“In one breath, I’m grateful to be on the stage of American dreams, but in 2023, as a

Black woman, I’m looking at an American nightmare right before me,” Arline-Bradley said. “Watching those who intended to desecrate democracy and turning back the hands of time, watching so-called leaders in government hide behind the law to strip away the agency of a people.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said King and “the movement” can be proud of the work done to advance justice for all but that advocates “still yearn to make this union more perfect for everyone,” like the civil rights leaders before them.

“Their march traveled far but that dream has not yet arrived for many,” Wasserman Schultz said. “So we are here today to keep marching on until victory is won.”

K’Shawn McNair, a sophomore majoring in neuroscience and president of the Gamma Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., said he volunteered with the medical and first aid staff at the event because he wanted to support his community in the continuation of the fight for freedom.

“There’s people willing to fight for what they believe in,” McNair said. “And people were ready to go out and speak for hours and hours for a movement.”

unique cultural force that has been acting on us, and similarly acting on them,” Subiaul said.

Experts in canine psychology and animal welfare said plain-faced dogs being more expressive mirrors similar studies for primates, and the study could be the starting point for other research in canine communication.

James Serpell, a professor emeritus of animal welfare at the University of Pennsylva-

nia, said the results seemed to align with the plain face hypothesis in primatology. “You think of something like a basset hound or a bloodhound with these sort of droopy kinds of faces, and we kind of find those faces cute,” Serpell said. “In a sense, we think it’s kind of cute that these dogs are perpetually sad, but it’s not in any way a true reflection of what’s going on inside the dog’s head.”

Locals rally in support of proposed homeless shelter

MAX PORTER CONTRIBUTING NEWS EDITOR

Foggy Bottom and West End community members rallied in support of D.C.’s proposal to convert a former GW residence hall into a homeless shelter at a demonstration Wednesday.

More than 150 people gathered outside The Aston, a former GW residence hall on New Hampshire Avenue, to show their support for the District’s plan to convert it into the first shelter in D.C. for mixed-gendered adult families and medically vulnerable people where residents have their own rooms.

At the demonstration, rally organizer Jesse Rabinowitz announced the District finalized the sale of The Aston, the latest step in an escalating duel between the city and a group of West End community members suing the city over the building’s planned conversion.

“Unlike D.C.’s current shelter system for single adults, noncongregate shelters allow residents the dignity of their own space to rest and work towards housing,” a flyer distributed at the rally stated.

The D.C. Council approved the Department of General Services’ $27.5 million contract to purchase The Aston from GW on July 6 and finalized the sale Wednesday. But on July 18, The West End D.C. Community Association — an unincorporated group of local property owners represented by law firm ArentFox Schiff LLP — sued the District, arguing community members lacked sufficient time to provide feedback on the proposed shelter in an effort to halt The Aston’s purchase.

The Way Home Campaign, a coalition dedicated to solving chronic homelessness in D.C., organized the rally. Rabinowitz, the manager of the coalition, said he organized the rally to showcase the community’s opposition to the nameless lawsuit. He said the turnout shows how supportive community members are of the shelter.

“People are really excited about this and we’re really excited about this moving forward,” Rabinowitz said.

He said people’s resistance to the shelter is rooted in “racism, bigotry and stereotypes” against unhoused people.

“The solution to homelessness is housing and that’s where we need to focus all of our attention and energy,” Rabinowitz said.

Wesley Thomas — a speaker from Miriam’s Kitchen, a local nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness — said he was previously unhoused for 29 years, 18 of which were spent sleeping on

“cardboard, sleeping bags and blankets” in Washington Circle, just blocks away from The Aston. He said he likely would have utilized the shelter if it existed when he was unhoused.

“I most likely would have walked down the street the additional two blocks to avail myself with the services and security that a shelter provides,” Thomas said. “It would have limited my time of living chronically homeless on the streets.”

Thomas said many unhoused people he has spoken with said they would live in the shelter if it’s created. In a letter submitted to the Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission last month, DGS and DHS officials said case managers would work with Aston residents to secure permanent supportive housing vouchers that subsidize rent for an extended period of time.

“Here is a facility … that will provide a safe haven at night but also the opportunity to get their lives in order by providing permanent supportive housing vouchers, mental treatment, stability and a sense of dignity and pride,” Thomas said.

Sarah Mitchell, a junior studying human services and social justice and a speaker at the rally, said the shelter is “much needed” in Foggy Bottom. There are seven year-round, low-barrier shelters in the District where unhoused people can secure beds on a first-come, first-serve basis, with none of the shelters located in Foggy Bottom or West End, according to the Department of Human Services website.

“We have the opportunity to provide support to members of our community,” Mitchell said. “So why should we not take it?”

The District funded more than 2,400 permanent supportive housing vouchers in fiscal year 2022, but 520 people used the vouchers to move into housing as of August 2022, according to DHS.

“The only argument you can come up with is that the creation of the shelter will degrade the neighborhood, whatever that means, or bring noise complaints,” Mitchell said. “I just don’t think that’s good enough.”

Ray Doakes, a student at Howard University who attended the rally, said homelessness is an “archaic” condition that has “no place” in the United States. He said he thinks people attended the rally because they know that they themselves could become unhoused by just losing a paycheck or their job.

“They understand that the issue is not on the individual,” Doakes said. “Usually the issue is on the mechanisms of society that allow it to be.”

The CIA notified University officials that GW was involved in mind control experiments during the 1950s and ’60s as a countermeasure against techniques allegedly used by communists during the Korean War.

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On Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a woman shades herself from the sun with a picture of Martin Luther King Jr., who led the historic protest against social and racial inequality six decades ago.

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GW researchers found owners of dogs with more complex faces were less likely to notice and understand their furry friends’ facial expressions.

Professor receives $1.68 million grant to develop implantable heart device

A professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences received a $1.68 million grant to develop an implantable heart monitor that tracks heart failure, according to a University release earlier this month.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded $2.8 million to GW and Northwestern University researchers to develop a heart monitor that surgeons can implant on the external surface of the heart and use to monitor longterm heart failure as it happens.

Luyao Lu, the principal investigator, said the researchers aim to finish engineering the wireless device and implant it into small animals, like rats, to study heart failure and test the device by the end of the fiveyear grant.

Lu, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, said GW researchers will use their $1.68 million portion of the grant to build the biomedical device using the University’s fabrication facility, which provides microscopy instruments for engineering research and will allow Lu and researchers to add materials to the device. He said the Northwestern researchers, who specialize in animal research, will use their portion of the grant to study the device in small animals

and provide feedback on the device to GW engineers.

“You will see an implant that can be wirelessly operating, chronically operating in the heart with the same animals can still be freely moving, which means you have an implant that will not interfere with normal activities,” Lu said. “It will allow you to do more complicated studies of heart disease mechanisms.”

Lu said researchers will develop the device to monitor and communicate the mechanical properties of the heart like how stiff the tissue is, the metabolism, or the heart’s energy consumption, and the electricity of the heart, or the heartbeat. Implantable monitors currently only record the heart’s electrical signal to detect irregular heartbeats.

He said monitoring multiple of the heart’s properties provides more biomarkers — objective measures that capture what is happening in the heart — and can tell medical professionals how a disease is affecting the whole heart. He said the interplay between biomarkers plays a “key role” in determining heart disease development.

“Having more components means you can study more complex mechanisms of the heart because you can tie in different biomarkers,” Lu said. “You can find connections between those biomarkers because you are monitoring them simul-

taneously. That is a key, important need from the cardiac field.”

Lu said the technology will be “quite broad” and will study heart failure, as opposed to a specific condition, so that medical professionals can apply the device to “a variety” of heart conditions, like arrhythmias and clinical diseases. He said the device will have an impact because heart failure affects millions of people.

“We are using heart failure as a representative example because that’s a very severe, crucial condition that’s influencing the quality of life for many people,” Lu said.

Last month, Lu published a paper about another device he developed alongside Northwestern researchers, which he said was made for short-term heart monitoring. He said the short-term device is made of biodegradable materials, so it can dissolve in the body after treatment, instead of requiring an additional procedure to remove it.

Lu said the short-term device is also optically transparent, meaning that it would not impact future interventions when physicians may examine heart tissue with a microscope or identify potential problems.

“It’s a soft, transparent and fully biodegradable device that allows you to do cardiac monitoring and stimulation in a time period that is related to short-lived cardiac com-

plications,” Lu said. Experts in cardiology said the long-term device could have practical applications to treat patients if the device provides more useful information for patients with heart failure and is less expensive than the currently used implantable cardiac monitor.

Satish Raj, a professor of cardiac sciences at the University of Calgary, said current chronic implantable monitors detect pressures in the pulmonary artery and do not

Hands-on cooking class opens for undergraduates; teaches culinary medicine, recipe creation

mon in the Mediterranean diet like legumes, fish and nuts.

track the heart’s metabolism, as Lu’s new device will. He said the current monitor is expensive, “difficult” and doesn’t provide data about the heart at all times.

He said researchers need to make the heart monitoring devices cheaper, more convenient and able to provide better information in order for it to improve practical use in the field.

“Heart failure is a big public health problem and we need newer and innovative solutions,” Raj said.

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The Culinary Medicine Program launched a handson cooking class for undergraduates at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Seva Teaching Kitchen, educating students on food policy and the Mediterranean diet.

Fundamentals of Culinary Medicine launched last spring as a three-credit class focused on nutrition, food security education and recipe creation. The page states that the class’s curriculum stemmed from the culinary medicine elective and clerkship already offered to GW medical students and uses the major nutritional principles of the Mediterranean diet — healthy fats, grains and vegetables — as a base for creating healthy recipes.

“Food is our universal experience, it's one of the things that binds us all, so being able to do that with a pre-med student, a public health student, and then a political science or French student, all of those folks bring a different view and perspective to food,” said Timothy Harlan, the program’s executive director and an associate professor of medicine.

Harlan said expanding the program to educate undergraduates required the leadership team to adjust the curriculum to cover the basics of food policy, research and cooking. The curriculum traditionally focused on clini-

cal research on specific health topics like hypertension, diabetes and celiac disease because undergraduates generally lack the same depth of background medical literature as medical students.

He said that while roughly 60 percent of undergraduates who took the class last spring were on the pre-med track or in a major related to health sciences, the rest were students from unrelated majors. He said students’ varying levels of knowledge surrounding nutrition and food security policies created an “interdisciplinary” learning environment.

Harlan said the class teaches students about nutrition and urban food security policies through guest presentations and healthy cooking via hands-on lessons at the Seva Teaching Kitchen on 1810 K St. NW — a learning space gifted by Seema Kakar, an associate clinical professor of medicine, and her hus-

band Sonny last fall. He said the class aims to give students a foundational understanding of healthy eating at the undergraduate level that they can implement in their personal lives and help them distinguish between “bad nutrition information” and quality research.

“It's also a class to help students in their future as they go out into the world and become a mom or dad or just try to take care of themselves, how do you differentiate good quality nutrition from pseudoscience,” Harlan said.

Shreya Papneja, a junior studying neuroscience, said she took the class last spring because of her academic interest in nutrition and health disparities and because she wanted to learn how to cook healthy meals. She said the class made her more aware of the components that make a healthy meal by focusing on the value of ingredients com-

“As a college student, I feel sometimes it’s hard for us to make the most healthy decisions when it comes to time, efficiency and tastes as well,” Papneja said.

Papneja said the handson lessons took dishes that college students eat frequently and supplemented ingredients with healthier alternatives accessible at grocery stores.

She said for the final project — which was to choose a dish and alter the recipe to create a healthier version — she chose an Indian dish she ate growing up. She said substituting certain ingredients to make the dish “really healthy” helped her apply what she learned about nutrition to her daily eating habits.

The leadership team developed the class as a result of the success of the pre-existing culinary medicine elective, clerkship and research program offered to medical school students, according to the information page.

Michelle Wang, a secondyear medical student and the president of the Culinary Medicine Interest Group, said the medical school elective goes into greater depth about specific diets, pathology and how to educate patients with diseases that impact their recommended consumption practices.

“Anyone can understand how these disease processes present and what additional things can be done from a dietary standpoint,” Wang said.

Return of academic program brings locals, alumni to GW classrooms after pandemic hiatus

IANNE SALVOSA NEWS EDITOR

Faculty and community members said the return of an old academic program will redefine the idea of a typical GW student.

The Course Audit Program, which allows alumni and senior residents who live near the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses to take courses at the University, returned this fall after officials paused the program for three years during the pandemic. Community members and faculty said the presence of alumni and community members in GW courses will diversify the range of knowledge brought to the classroom and broaden educational opportunities for “lifetime learners.”

“They're not interested in grades and what's on the test,” said Catherine Forster, a professor emerita of biology who taught students in the Course Audit Program prior to its hiatus. “What they're interested in is the subject and learning and understanding.”

Prospective course auditors can attend lectures and laboratories and must be an alum, a Foggy Bottom resident in the 20037 or 20006 zip codes who is at least 60 years old, or a resident in the area surrounding the Mount Vernon campus who is at least 60 years old, according to the course audit website. The course

audit website states that auditors must pay $100 per course, associated fees for labs, music and art courses and obtain a GWorld card that costs $10 for alumni and $15 for community members.

Auditors may register from a selection of more than 300 classes, which span from Evolution of the Human Brain to D.C. in the History of Punk to Nuclear Weapons. In 2010, 216 alumni and community members audited courses at the University.

Forster said prior to the Course Audit Program’s pandemic pause, alumni and community members sat in her historical geology course, including a lawyer who asked what the course content would mean in a law context. She said auditors use the program to “delve” deeper into topics like geology and were not afraid to ask questions during lectures or approach the professor to talk after class, unlike most younger students.

She said young students can benefit from hearing auditors’ “lifetime experiences” during class discussions, which they might not be exposed to otherwise.

“I'm really happy that GW is starting this program up again,” Forster said.

John George — the president of the Foggy Bottom Association, an organization of Foggy Bottom residents that promotes community involvement — said while residents engage with GW through events like spring cleanups and

a holiday party in December, the Course Audit Program will strengthen Foggy Bottom residents’ relationship with the University with additional academic participation opportunities.

“It puts the University in a positive light, where it's benefiting the community and not kind of just being in the community,” George said.

He said he advocated for the return of course auditing during the program’s pandemic pause to Interim University President Mark Wrighton and Director of Community Relations Kevin Days because nearby universities like Georgetown University continued their course audit programs virtually throughout the pandemic. He said he continued to “beat the drum” for restarting the program after the University “gradually” resumed pre-pandemic community benefits like access to the Lerner Health and Wellness Center returned last January.

Last January, officials revived the Friends of GW program, a community benefits program that gives nearby residents access to Gelman and Eckles libraries, the Mount Vernon Express, brunch in the Eatery at Pelham Commons, sporting events at the Smith Center and the Vern and meeting spaces on campus. They declined to comment on when the Course Audit Program might return last January after suspending the program in March 2020.

8/10/2023 - 8:05 p.m.

Closed Case

A female staff member reported a nonGW affiliated male subject struck her University vehicle with a trash can. Case closed

THEFT II/BICYCLES

Public Property on Campus (1900 Block of F Street NW)

8/13/2023 - 8:48 a.m.

Open Case

A male contractor reported their bicycle stolen. Case open.

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HARM

Public Property on Campus (2200 Block of G Street NW)

8/13/2023 - 3:30 p.m.

Open Case

A female student reported an unknown male subject threatened her as he tried to get her attention and phone number. Case open.

SIMPLE ASSAULT

Gelman Library (Starbucks)

8/14/2023 - 7 a.m.

Closed Case

GW Police Department officers responded to a report of a simple assault and made contact with a female manager who said a male subject shoved her.

Subject arrested by Metropolitan Police Department officers.

THEFT II/FROM BUILDING

South Hall

8/14/2023 - Unknown

Open Case

A female student reported a box of personal items stolen from her residence hall room. Case open.

THEFT I/FROM BUILDING

Milken Institute School of Public Health

8/15/2023 - Unknown

Open Case

A facility staff member reported property stolen from their office and an adjacent office. Case open.

THEFT I/OTHER, DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY/VANDALISM

I Street Mall

8/15/2023 - Unknown

Closed Case

A non-GW affiliated complainant reported their scooter stolen. The scooter was later found damaged. Case closed.

THEFT II/FROM MOTOR VEHICLE

Public Property on Campus (2200 Block of Virginia Avenue NW)

8/15/2023 - 4:45 p.m.

Open Case

A contractor reported personal property stolen from their work vehicle. Case open.

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The program’s executive director said the class teaches students about nutrition and urban food security policies through guest presentations and healthy cooking lessons at the Seva Teaching Kitchen.

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Luyao Lu said researchers will develop the device to monitor and communicate the mechanical properties of the heart, like how stiff the tissue is, its metabolism and heartbeat.

GWPD emphasizes trainings, review committee before arming rollout

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The announcement states that armed officers must complete implicit bias training every semester, monthly de-escalation training and virtual reality simulator training, and mental health response training three times per year.

Officers must also complete a firearms certification three times per year, according to the statement. D.C. law requires sworn Metropolitan Police Department officers to complete at least 32 hours of training annually on topics like community policing, implicit bias, de-escalation and mental and behavioral health awareness.

Armed supervisory officers must also complete a “background investigation” and psychological

evaluation before receiving a firearm, according to the statement. The announcement states that armed officers who are newly employed at the University will also undergo a “pre-arming period” to grow familiar with GW’s campus and community before receiving a handgun.

GWPD revised its use of force policy in June to prohibit the use of chokeholds and dictate the “specific circumstances” when officers are authorized to use force, like armed intruders, robberies and assaults. The revised use of force policy states that officers may use deadly force if they reasonably believe it is “immediately necessary” to protect the officer or other people and if all other force options are “exhausted.”

Officials will select a temporary

independent review committee before arming officers, according to the statement. The process of creating a nomination and application process for members of a permanent independent review committee — consisting of students, faculty and staff — is “underway,” the announcement states.

The committee will “review all instances of use of force with a firearm,” according to the statement.

University President Ellen Granberg, who began her term July 1, said safety is the University’s “foremost priority.” She said the University will work to implement feedback the community provided through meetings between student groups and GWPD and through a feedback form which was open through June 23 on GWPD’s website.

A quick rundown Riffat to serve as new vice provost for faculty affairs

What changed on campus over the summer?

Officials renovated at least four buildings on campus over the summer, headlined by new dining vendors in the University Student Center and District House.

University spokesperson

Julia Metjian said Facilities

Planning, Construction and Management workers renovated Dakota and Guthridge halls, District House and the University Student Center but declined to comment if GW made any upgrades to academic buildings. The building updates are part of a sweeping renovation to campus facilities as officials grapple with aging residence halls and renovate the school’s dining areas to align with GW’s new meal plan.

“Renovations and improvements are constantly being planned and executed across all GW campuses,” Metjian said in an email.

Officials replaced windows in Dakota and Guthridge halls and modified rooms in Guthridge Hall. Metjian declined to specify how workers modified rooms. The Student Association and Residence Hall Association published a report in April identifying windows in Dakota and Guthridge halls that were broken, lacked coating and were difficult to open.

Metjian said officials constructed Indian fast casual spot Chaat House and fried

chicken shop Absurd Bird in the student center. Officials also renovated the first floor of the center by tearing out benches and seating areas and replacing them with standing tables and chairs.

Officials also added two screens to the entrance of Duquès Hall, advertising upcoming events, and workers are in the process of installing a larger screen in the lobby of Duquès Hall.

Officials have yet to complete HVAC repairs at the Flagg Building, which began in November. Metjian did not specify whether officials

completed renovations to the Flagg building’s windows and roof.

Metjian said facilities workers constructed a market at former meeting rooms inside District House basement, where students can purchase products using dining dollars. Metjian did not specify when the store would open but said officials will introduce meal swipes as a form of payment at the market once the market is up and running for a “little bit.”

Metjian first shared plans for the store — offering “grab and go” items — after salad

vendor Crisp permanently closed in April. The space where Crisp was is now walled off, and the grocery store is where there used to be meeting rooms. Officials also added a freezer section, deli meats and cheeses, paper products like plates, towels and toiletries to the market in Shenkman Hall.

Metjian said officials have not yet “finalized” the opening date for the relocated and renovated Campus Store at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave., but they said they expect to open the store later this fall.

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Rumana Riffat will serve as the next vice provost for faculty affairs, according to a University release published Wednesday. Riffat, who has served as the associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Engineering and Applied Science since 2020, will assume the position Sept. 1, the release states. A search committee for the next vice provost, including faculty and administrators, and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee named Riffat the replacement of Emily Hammond, who served in the role since July 2022.

“I look forward to working with faculty, students and administrators across the university and exploring new ways in which we can enhance faculty engagement and collaboration,” Riffat said in the release.

Riffat joined the University in 1994, became a full-time professor in 2009 and served as the SEAS associate dean for academic affairs for six years until August 2019, according to the release. She also served as inter-

Climate and Health Institute releases second annual report

The GW Climate and Health Institute released its annual report Aug. 14, highlighting efforts to advance their research, training and action to mitigate the harm climate change can have on human health.

The institute’s second annual report provides an update on the research and policy initiatives from the previous academic year, including the addition of student research fellows, a climate change curriculum and faculty sustainability research. Susan Anenberg, the director of the institute, said in her opening letter that recent U.S. climate policies — like the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency in May to limit the EPA’s

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The vending machines’ placement in the basement of District House, which is open to students 24/7, means contraceptives will now be accessible to students at all times of the day. RAGE leaders had requested officials install the machines in buildings with continuous access, as the student center closed daily from midnight to 7 a.m.

Niziolek and Spector said their organization released a statement calling on the University to provide a more affordable option immediately following the installation of the original machine in January. The group pointed to other schools like Northeastern

ability to regulate water pollution — underscores the importance of continued climate health research.

“This shift in the U.S. climate action landscape underscores the urgent need for policy-relevant and community-oriented research on the intersection between climate change, human health, and equity and justice,” Anenberg said in the report’s opening statement.

The institute hosted Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) to discuss the climate policy he has “spearheaded” in national politics following the Sackett v. EPA decision and the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, the report states.

“Carper’s keynote highlighted the climate action he has spearheaded on the national stage and how these actions influence health.

University, which offers the morning-after pill for $7 in their vending machines.

RAGE launched a petition calling for officials to improve the machines Jan. 24. Niziolek said the petition received signatures from nearly 700 students, as well as 40 student organizations and 20 faculty members.

Niziolek said if former SA President Christian Zidouemba’s administration, which spearheaded the original installation, had consulted student organizations like RAGE before moving forward, subsidized contraceptives and expanded access could have been available from the start. Niziolek said officials told her the SA picked the company that could

He emphasized how pivotal this point in time is in U.S. policy and the need for politicians to unite to pursue ambitious climate action,” the report states.

The institute also “engages” with more than 40 faculty at 10 different schools within GW, helping to engage on a vast array of issues, according to the report.

“Our affiliated faculty have both a breadth and depth of expertise and experience on topics related to climate and health, including air pollution, sustainability, risk assessment and policy, climate litigation, infectious disease, food systems and nutrition, and equity and Environmental Justice, among others,” the report states.

The report highlighted the research of Robert Orttung, a research professor of international

most quickly install a machine in an effort to complete the project “as soon as possible,” instead.

Geismar said she heard about student complaints concerning accessibility and affordability, leading her to meet with RAGE leaders early in her tenure as SA president. Geismar said RAGE asked her to fund one-third of the cost of the morning-after pill, and she agreed to fulfill their entire request by putting $1,000, or onefifteenth, of her executive budget towards the project.

Geismar said her decision to help reduce the cost of the morning-after pill in the machines aligns with her goal of improving reproductive justice at GW.

affairs, who examined sustainability in the Arctic and demonstrated how different definitions of sustainability can result in limited environmental policy. Institute co-director Anjeni Keswani also researched how air pollution, race and socioeconomic status create health care access disparities for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps — a chronic inflammatory sinus disease, the report states.

Researchers, with contributions from GW research fellows, will continue to conduct “community-oriented” and “policyrelevant” research in 11 topics, ranging from infectious disease to climate litigation, according to the report. The institute employed five research fellows since summer 2022, according to the

“This is one of the larger projects, so it’s really important to me,” Geismar said. “I know to fund all that is definitely a considerable amount of money, but, as a young woman, it’s really important that what I’m spending my money on reflects my values and the things that I care about.”

Geismar said the Vern’s vending machine instantly improves access to reproductive care for hundreds of students who will no longer have to travel to Foggy Bottom to use the machines.

“The opportunity to have quick and easy access on Mount Vernon means that students have more ease in health care and have more decision-making power,” Geismar said.

im dean of SEAS from August 2018 to August 2019 and the lead investigator on a SEAS project for developing mechanisms for wastewater denitrification in the Chesapeake Bay area that reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of the process, which received a $250,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2020.

“Dr. Riffat has been a trusted and effective leader in SEAS for many years,” SEAS Dean John Lach said in the release. “She has a keen analytical mind, takes a collaborative approach to problem solving and always prioritizes the success and well-being of our faculty, students and staff.”

As the associate dean for graduate studies, Riffat oversaw admissions and advising for graduate students, according to the release. The release states that during her time as interim dean for SEAS, Riffat helped launch the SEAS Center for Women in Engineering — which works to empower women studying technology — and hired several tenured and tenuretrack faculty.

report.

“Students are involved in interdisciplinary research projects on topics at the nexus of climate change and human health,” the report states.

The report states that the School of Medicine and Health Sciences approved a new longitudinal climate change curriculum. The curriculum incorporates topics of climate change into the medical school and begins in the fall, according to the report.

“The theme integrates climate change and environmental justice throughout all 4 years of medical school coursework in order to educate the next generation of clinicians on the health concerns of a changing climate and teach them how to best care for their future patients,” the report states.

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Geismar to fund contraceptive subsidies with SA executive budget

need it back

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Officials constructed fried chicken shop Absurd Bird as the newest GWorld vendor to join the student center, along with Indian fast casual spot Chaat House.

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The two armed officers will carry 9 mm handguns “during the busiest part of the week,” according to the release.

Community members reflect on ‘Revs’ after rebrand

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Margolis said they are “proud”

“I think they would be an incredibly unique, fierce, humorous and adorable symbol of school spirit,” Margolis said.

2018 alum Jack Winans said he supported changing the name when he was a student at GW. He said that while Revolutionaries does not “overtly” reference colonialism, he is concerned the new moniker may hold similar connotations to that of the Colonials, which students said harkened back to violence of the colonial era.

“Revolutionaries didn’t feel like an entirely huge pivot away from [Colonials] — kind of like a rose by any other name is still a rose,” Winans said.

While the Revolutionaries was not Winans’ first choice for the new moniker, he said he thinks GW equips students with the tools to make change in the world, aligning with the meaning behind Revolutionaries, whose purpose is to stand up against the status quo.

“The positive aspects of revolutionary ways of being or serving a community is a willingness to stand up against things that are well ingrained in society,” Winans said. “In many ways, the education that GW provides and the preparation it provides to be a productive member of society I do think prepares a lot of people

Experts assess US-South Korea alliance after seven decades

Experts in history, political science and international affairs discussed military and economic cooperation between the United States and South Korea, post-Korean War politics and society and ROK President Syngman Rhee’s role in forming the modern South Korean state at Friday’s conference. The event, which was hosted by the GW Institute of Korean Studies and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the US-ROK alliance and the 75th anniversary of South Korea’s establishment.

Alyssa Ayres, the dean of the Elliott School, began the event with congratulatory remarks on the “special relationship” between GW and South Korea. She said GW has one of the largest alumni networks in South Korea among American universities and that Syngman Rhee, the ROK’s first president, earned his bachelor’s degree from GW in 1907.

“Today, we can boast one of the largest networks of alumni in South Korea of any American university, and this accomplished group includes people who have excelled in fields ranging from engineering to diplomacy to K-drama,” Ayers said.

Seth Bailey, director of the Office of Korean and Mongolian Affairs at the Department of State, was the keynote speaker of the event and said current ROK President Yoon Suk Yeol’s recent April state visit was an example of the “enduring legacy of the US-ROK friendship and alliance” that promotes peace and democracy in East Asia.

“As President Biden said when he welcomed President Yoon in April to the White House, the friendship between the United States and South Korea is an unbreakable bond forged in bravery

and the sacrifice of our people, sanctified by the blood of American and Korean troops who fought and defended liberty,” Bailey said.

Bailey said the “institutionalization of relations” between the United States and South Korea through repeated military, economic and diplomatic interactions will strengthen the two countries’ partnership amid fears of growing political polarization and trade competition in both nations. He said South Korean government officials and businesses had “concerns” about the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction acts passed by President Joe Biden's administration, which are aimed at boosting American technological manufacturing.

“We have agreed to engage at the most senior levels to have annual discussions,” Bailey said. “Those annual discussions resulted in a great deal of work because they are meant to drive what the two countries can bilaterally focus on.”

Sung Eun Kim, a postdoctoral fellow at GW, described the role of the Korean Augmentation to the United States Army, a program which incorporated Koreans into the American military during the Korean War. He said KATUSA soldiers suffered a disproportionate amount of casualties compared to American soldiers and laid the foundations for military and diplomatic institutions in postwar Korea by influencing the structure of the South Korean army.

William Stueck, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and a panelist at Friday’s conference, said Rhee’s opposition to the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1949 and determination to reunite the Korean Peninsula made it difficult for the United States to cooperate with the ROK to negotiate an armistice of the Korean War in 1953. He also said Rhee’s autocratic leadership influenced later South Korean presidents through political precedent, resulting in economic stagnation and dictatorial regimes until democratization in the 1990s.

to make those kinds of acts and statements in their lives.”

2020 alum Aahil Shermohammed said the new moniker embodies “a little bit of the student culture,” reflecting the sense of empowerment students feel in pursuing their dreams and being a “revolutionary” in their desired career paths.

“Everyone at GW during their time there had this sense of ‘I can change the world’, which is awesome,” Shermohammed said. “It’s fantastic, and during each student’s time at GW, they have that sense of support from the University.”

Cynthia Deitch, an associate professor emerita of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, said she likes certain aspects of the meaning behind Revolutionaries, like people working to cre -

ate change and not settling for injustice. But she said the term could potentially glorify militarism because of its link to the Continental Army, a brigade of soldiers who fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War.

“To the extent that ‘the Revolutionaries’ comes to connote a group of people who are forward-thinking, working together for social change and not satisfied with the status quo, then I tend to like it,” Deitch said in an email. “However, to the extent it might for some connote the mostly white, male soldiers who were in George Washington’s army and be associated with militarism and war, then I would not be enthusiastic.”

Four student-athletes said they were excited to wear Revo -

lutionaries across their jerseys instead of Colonials but are skeptical of claims that the moniker will raise school spirit. They said they would have preferred something more “fun,” like an animal moniker to lift school spirits and think the moniker in general isn’t directly related to sports teams.

Braeden Arthur, a senior on the men’s rowing team, said he thinks eliminating the Colonials moniker was a “good move” for the University but hoped for an alternative that is more “fun” and lifts school spirit, like Blue Fog.

“There was an opportunity here to improve the student culture by moving to something that was gonna be more fun for the students to rally behind, and they just missed the mark there,” Arthur said.

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Over the past three weeks, the flames in Maui scorched more than 2,000 acres of land and left at least 115 people dead, with hundreds still missing.

‘A deep pain’: Students look to raise funds for Maui wildfire victims

the island’s 150-year-old Banyan tree remained standing. The tree is the largest of its kind in the country at more than 60 feet high, with branches providing shade to almost two-thirds of an acre.

Fasi said the tree’s survival among the flames is a “testament to the strength” of the people of Lāhainā.

extremely upsetting,” Schmidt said.

Fasi said his uncle could hear the “popping and crackling” of the fire, which reached just a block away from his home before turning in a different direction.

“We kind of had hope that they would be okay just because they were far enough from it, but I just felt sorry for all the people who lost their homes that day,” Fasi said.

Up until August 2018 — when a burst of wildfires broke out in Maui and destroyed more than 2,000 acres of land — devastating wildfires in Hawaiʻi were considered uncommon, with experts attributing most to volcanic eruptions. Now, Hawaiian wildfires are becoming more frequent and extreme due to human activity, climate change and unattended dry vegetation that creates a favorable landscape for flames to spread, according to the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Fasi said while Lāhainā burned,

“In Hawaiʻi, the culture lives in the people more so than the buildings,” Fasi said. “And as long as the land itself is there and the people are there, the culture will live on.”

Jennifer Schmidt, a senior and the president of GW’s Hawaiʻi Club, said the student group plans to organize a fundraiser to raise money for fire victims and hopes to collaborate with American University’s Hawaiʻi club and Sen. Mazie Hirono’s (D-HI) office. Schmidt added that GW students can help those impacted by the wildfires through donations, spreading awareness and avoiding tourism in Hawaiʻi.

Schmidt said it was upsetting to see Lāhainā, a town rich in Hawaiian culture as the original capital of Hawai’i, severely harmed by the fires because of the history of cultural repression among indigenous Hawaiians through various imperialist assimilation practices.

“They have been robbed of their culture in the past and to see that this disaster took it almost in another way,

Natalie Turner, a senior and GW Hawaiʻi Club’s chief financial officer, said she was at a friend’s house in East Oahu when she saw reports and pictures of the rampaging fires saturating her Instagram feed. She said she immediately tried contacting her uncles who live in Maui but didn’t find out that her family was located safely upwind from the fires until a few days later because of blocked cell service.

Turner said when locals on the other islands got news of the fires they immediately put their daily lives on pause to focus their efforts on aiding Maui, highlighting the solidarity between islands.

“Having that ancestral connection like Native Hawaiians and Indigenous people in general are very tied to the land even if it’s not specifically where their family is from,” Turner said. “So even then, there’s a deep pain in my chest that I don’t really know how to explain.”

Turner said no one should travel to Lāhainā “for a while” as locals work to rebuild their culture and community and mourn the lives lost during the fires. She added that she has “faith” the islands will come together to support Lāhainā’s rebuild so the families there may return to “some level of normal” living in the future.

The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences increased their research expenditures by 21.5 percent over the past year, according to a University release earlier this month.

CCAS faculty spent a recordhigh $19.7 million grant dollars in 2023, with more than 151 submitted research proposals and 139 faculty members as lead researchers on projects, according to the release. The release states that organizations like the National Science Foundation, a federal organization to support engineering and sciences, gave 13 professors more than $250,000 each in funding.

Two School of Media and Public Affairs researchers received more than $2.9 million in funding.

Rebekah Tromble, the director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and an associate professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs, has received almost $2.7 million from the NSF since 2021 to continue her project on creating

new strategies for journalists facing online harassment. Last year, the Walton Family Foundation granted professor Frank Sesno $250,000 for Planet Forward, a group encouraging student environmental journalism.

Four professors from the department of biological sciences earned more than $3 million from the NSF during the past fiscal year for their projects. The NSF granted Carly Jordan, an associate professor of biology, $1.5 million in January to study the impacts of CourseBased Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) on student success and the growth of a skilled STEM workforce, according to the release.

Gustavo Hormiga, a professor of biology, earned $499,294 from the NSF to continue his work on onychophoran, or velvet worm, evolution and the socioecological impacts of their evolutionary radiation on the Caribbean, according to the release. The NSF gave professors Arnaud Martin, who is researching the functionality and molecular makeup of silk, and

Leon Grayfer, who is researching antifungal defenses of amphibian skin, funding for their projects at $655,390 and $415,550, respectively.

Two physics professors received more than $950,000 in funding earlier this year, according to the release. Sylvain Guiriec, an assistant professor in physics, received $395,061 from NASA to support his work on a soft gamma-ray survey telescope.

The University of Tennessee awarded physics professor Neil Johnson $561,857 in February to research the emergence of cultural authorities across social media platforms, the release states.

neuroscience, NEWS THE GW HATCHET August 28, 2023 • Page 5

AVRIL SILVA REPORTER FILE PHOTO BY DANIELLE TOWERS | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The release states that organizations like the National Science Foundation, a federal organization to support engineering and sciences, gave 13 professors more than $250,000 each in funding.

The Mellon Foundation, the largest funder for the arts and humanities in the nation, gave Maria Frawley, a professor of English, a grant of $487,000 in December 2022 to support her project aimed at disability justice and empowering marginalized communities through stories. Frawley plans to work with public-facing organizations over the next three years to create accurate narratives of the disabled community, the release

$493,938 last year to develop a mechanism to help explain the relationship between two-symptom

GW took action by changing the moniker but is disappointed officials did not settle on Hippos, an unofficial mascot for GW since 1996.

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Perspective: What I learned after swapping Foggy Bottom for a farm

At a school like GW, the grind truly never stops — especially over the summer. At least, that’s what I had convinced myself my freshman year.

Terra Pilch-Bisson Opinions Writer

I spent this past summer on a 16-acre organic farm on the Oregon Coast Range, wrist-deep in the soft dirt picking weeds from a tomato patch. No matter how much I love GW and the fast-paced, work-hard playhard environment of D.C., eventually all I wanted was a change of scenery.

During the spring semester, I worked 25 hours a week at an internship that required full business formal attire on top of taking four classes. After four months of quickchanging in the bathroom of Tompkins Hall like a 19-year-old Hilltern Superman and stuffing True Burger fries in my mouth on the Mount Vernon Express to avoid being late to class because of an hour-long commute, I was ready for a break.

I started counting down the days until mid-May and resenting the idea of spending my summer in D.C. — a plan I’d already set my mind on months before.

When I was rejected from my dream internship, all I felt was relief. That’s when I learned about World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Using WWOOF’s website, a network of organic farm owners register as hosts to offer room and board in exchange for roughly 15-20 hours a week of work, no experience necessary.

Arrangements differ in strenuousness and accommodations, but my friend and I found our home for July in a vintage RV nestled in a picturesque valley between foggy, forested mountains just 30 minutes inland from the beautiful Oregon coast.

And it was because of this arrangement that I made countless invaluable memories, like eating fresh strawberries right off the plant after a dip in the creek, jumping into a swimming hole from a 50-foot bridge, herding cows from pasture to pasture and hiking barefoot in the Cascade Mountains to a chilling 35-degree alpine pool that looked something out of a Disney movie.

Youth is brief and precious, and there are endless opportunities to explore life in interesting ways without interrupting or preventing professional development. The world will never stop needing dedicated professionals, which GW is perfectly capable of cultivating. But we should live happy and full lives where we get to experience the world we want to change — a world that

goes beyond Foggy Bottom and D.C.

Admitting that you’re not sure what you want to do after graduation can feel like a faux pas at a school with a student body as ambitious as GW’s. But leaving the city let me reevaluate what I wanted out of life, not just out of a job, and to think about a less linear career path that might include things like seasonal outdoor work and travel. The summer away gave me space to continue learning and growing into adulthood without feeling stuck in my childhood bedroom or in an office. Coming back to school last week, I felt more able to appreciate the things I missed about D.C.

Summer is the much-needed breath of fresh air in the marathon of pursuing a degree. WWOOFing allowed me to take a moment to calm down, stop, think and love life. Spend your summers in ways that help you learn and grow.

—Terra

Pilch-Bisson, a sophomore majoring in American studies, is an opinions writer.

The best way to address homelessness is not by excommunicating the unhoused but by creating space for them and providing resources for future success — and that’s exactly what repurposing The Aston would do

— RILEY GOODFELLOW on 8/21/2023

Perspective: To experience DC, spend a summer working and living here

During some lunch breaks at my summer internship for a D.C. lobbying firm, I’d sit outside Junction Bistro and Bar in Stanton Park, watch hundreds of passersby and appreciate the opportunity to work right near Capitol Hill.

Mia Adams Columnist

The experience of people-watching at the restaurant was a far cry from my small Massachusetts hometown, where I expected to spend the summer. Living on campus and working in D.C. taught me about the professional world, politics and myself.

I learned more this summer from my internship than some courses I’ve taken. There were trips to the Hill, lobbying meetings with federal agencies and Senate offices and chances to meet with senators

and representatives. My work required me to stay up to date on news and legislative affairs, and it got me out of Foggy Bottom.

Heading to work each day, I became more familiar with Union Station and the Stanton Park area, which I knew little about before. In my free time after work and on weekends, I tried new food from around the city, which led to a love of Persian food. I also attended some Nationals games and took day trips to Maryland and Virginia. From watching the Fourth of July fireworks at the Georgetown Waterfront to golfing alongside the Potomac, my summer in D.C. was unlike any other — especially my typical summers back home.

Unlike my suburban hometown, I had the opportunity to learn about and explore D.C. and beyond on my own. I still enjoy eating at my childhood restaurants, driving down familiar streets and spending time with high school friends at home, but I’ve realized how much independence and maturity I’ve developed living in the city.

During a weekend back home this summer, I missed walking around Georgetown and late-night Crepeaway deliveries. Plus, where else can you meet CNN anchor Dana Bash on your way to CVS or talk with George Santos, a New York Republican in Congress, at the Congressional Baseball Game? (He did not approve of my internship at a Democratic lobbying firm but was friendlier than expected.)

I feel lucky to be at a school and in a city where so many students come to engage in various work opportunities, and both internships and the city itself have so much to offer. Now that classes have started, I’m excited to show my friends who are back in D.C. my favorite new spots around the city. I’m eager to eat lunch in a packed student center, attend rowdy basketball games and even return to some of my favorite study spots on campus.

It takes time to make the city feel like home — it took me two school years and one summer to feel truly happy and comfortable here. I wish I had explored the city earlier in my GW experience, and I’m grateful that I could live here this summer.

During the short time we have here at GW, experience the great food, places, opportunities and people that D.C. has to offer. Though we’re back in class, try and find time to explore the city.

And if you do get a chance to spend a summer here, try it. It may be one of the only times in your life when you can spend a summer in D.C. And who knows what you’ll learn from both working and living in the District — or who you’ll run into.

—Mia Adams, a junior majoring in political science, is a columnist.

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Ethan Benn, a senior from Georgia majoring in journalism and mass communication, is the opinions editor. He runs the editorial board’s weekly meetings, co-writes the staff editorial and focuses on how urban planning and public transportation affect our lives.

Riley Goodfellow, a junior from California majoring in political science and peace studies, is the contributing opinions editor. They are passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion both on campus and in D.C., with a focus on the intersection of LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.

Paige Baratta, a sophomore from Pennsylvania majoring in political science and jour-

nalism, is the editorials assistant. She helps lead the editorial board’s weekly meetings, contributes to the staff editorial and focuses on social justice and local policy in D.C.

Jenna Baer, a senior from Texas majoring in creative writing, is the contributing culture editor. She is passionate about making the University more affordable for all students, with an eye on improving sustainable energy and accessible health care beyond GW.

Anaya Bhatt, a sophomore from California majoring in political communication, is the contributing social media director. She is passionate about creating a more representative democracy.

Ethan Valliath, a junior from New Jersey majoring in international affairs, is the social media director. He focuses on the availability of financial aid and mental health resources

for first-generation, immigrant and lowerincome students.

Zach Blackburn, The Hatchet’s editor in chief, is present for our discussions and edits the staff editorial, but he does not offer his opinion. The editorial board is also independent from the newsroom — like Blackburn, no news writers, reporters or editors contribute to the staff editorial.

We don’t expect you to always agree with us. Should you disagree with us on a particular issue, we encourage you to either write a letter to the editor or an op-ed.

This is your editorial board — we represent The Hatchet, but we’re also an independent voice capable of commenting on and advocating for our community. That’s our mission, and we’re more excited than ever to fulfill it this volume.

Something on your mind? The opinions section is the place for you.

Each week, The Hatchet’s opinions section publishes perspectives and commentary from members of the GW community. As The Hatchet embarks upon its 120th volume, here’s a guide to the section.

Ethan Benn Opinions Editor

How does the opinions section work?

Contributing Opinions Editor Riley Goodfellow and I run the opinions section together. Our work begins when we receive ideas

from our writers and columnists as well as students from outside The Hatchet along with staff, faculty, alumni, University officials and offcampus neighbors. Once we approve a piece for publication, writers work with Goodfellow, myself and Zach Blackburn, The Hatchet’s editor in chief, to hone their article. We also edit each piece for grammar, style and clarity.

What does the opinions section publish?

Opinion pieces should be timely and relevant to GW. We also look at trending regional or national issues, then localize them to the University.

Most opinions pieces fall into one of two categories: columns and perspectives. Columns are hardhitting, data-driven articles that identify problems on campus or in D.C., provide context on what’s happening and propose solutions. Perspectives highlight the experience of an individual writer, true-to-life tales that range from the serious to the humorous.

How is the opinions section separate from The Hatchet’s newsroom?

The opinions section is editorially independent from The Hatchet’s news section and vice versa. The news section covers

what’s happening on and around campus. We opine on it.

What our writers believe and who they are is at the core of what they do. Their expertise and experience make their work better.

I disagree with something you published. What now?

It’s your right to disagree with or dislike the content of an article we’ve published. It also means that we’ve done our job of presenting new, even unpopular perspectives.

How can I get involved in the opinions section?

If you’d like to share your own perspective but aren’t sure about

contributing regularly, consider writing an op-ed or letter to the editor.

The opinions section belongs to you, and we want our writers and coverage to reflect GW as much as possible. If you feel that The Hatchet is missing you, your background or your perspective, reach out to us. And if you’re especially passionate about the issues facing GW and D.C., then consider writing for the opinions section regularly — we’ll be happy to have you.

For more information, email opinions@gwhatchet.com.

—Ethan Benn, a senior majoring in journalism and communication, is the opinions editor.

MAURA KELLY-YUOH | STAFF CARTOONIST

Basketball uses summer to prepare for season, adds transfers

Men’s and women’s basketball look to have different on-court styles this season and to improve their individual shooting productions, not just a new moniker on the jersey.

The men’s team said goodbye to nine players, including three starters, but are welcoming several transfers and freshmen. The women’s team hopes to capitalize on their returning core to win the Atlantic 10.

Men’s Basketball

With nine players graduating or transferring out of the program, men’s basketball returns three scholarship players following a 16-16 season (10-8

A-10): junior forward Keegan

Harvey, sophomore guard Max Edwards and graduate student guard James Bishop.

To keep up with roster turnover, the team continues to rebuild around freshmen and transfer students. Freshman guard Jacoi Hutchinson, GW’s highestranked high school recruit since 2000, leads a group of freshmen recruits that includes guards Christian Jones, Trey Autry and Amir Arrington, and forwards Zamoku Weluche-Ume and Luke Cronin. Graduate student center Babatunde Akingbola

joins the team as a transfer from Auburn, redshirt freshman Darren Buchanan Jr. previously played with Virginia Tech, redshirt freshman Garrett Johnson was previously on the roster at Princeton University, Benny Schröder, ESPN’s top international prospect coming out of high school, transferred from the University of Oklahoma, while graduate student forward Antoine Smith Jr. comes to GW after playing at University of Evansville.

Schröder, originally from Munich, Germany, is listed as both a guard and forward and will have his chance to break out this year following a 2.3 points per game season.

Johnson joined the Revss after attending Princeton, where he redshirted the 202122 season. The following season, he was forced to take the year off to receive treatment for a benign tumor in his left hip.

A Virginia native, Johnson stands at 6’8” and is eager to begin his college career, where he will addneeded height to the roster.

Johnson and the rest of the team, under the guidance of second-year Head Coach Chris Caputo, focused more on individual skill development. This practice strategy, Caputo said, helps to decrease injury risk while allowing the team more time to hone their offensive skill set, the side

that Caputo believes takes longer to improve.

“You’re working on shooting, working on finishing, working on some big picture offensive concepts,” Caputo said.

With eight freshmen on the roster, Caputo acknowledges the team lacks experience compared to last year’s squad, but feels that the team’s versatility and prowess gives them a higher ceiling.

“The program is going to be about serious-minded, hard-working, versatile skill sets,” Caputo said. “Guys who can shoot, guys who can play a number of different positions, guys with an athletic sort of upside.”

Women’s Basketball

The departure of several women’s players, including star graduate student guard Mia Lakstigala has left a hole in the backcourt which the team will fill with several new additions after the team finished 18-13 (9-7 A-10).

The freshmen are forward Jaylin Hartman, the 42nd-ranked prospect in her class per Don Olson Collegiate Basketball Report, forward Sara Lewis, who was listed in the report as the second-ranked small forward prospect in Georgia, guard Monica Marsh and forward Kamari Sims.

Graduate student guard Madison Buford transferred from Hampton University

Women’s soccer looks to grow after strong start to season

Women’s soccer (2-1) are starting off their season on an optimistic note after adding new members to their roster. The Revolutionaries started with a winning record Aug. 17 after defeating Delaware State 7-0 whom they beat last season, before falling to Bucknell University 1-3 Aug. 20. The team went on to overpower UNC Greensboro Sunday 2-1. Head Coach Michelle Demko, who has been with the team for the past six seasons, said building morale among players is a top priority going forward.

“We’re really intentional, specifically in preseason, because we have a lot more time with our players,” Demko said. “So we do a lot of team culture meetings, we have a sports psychologist that we have met with every week, since being together on August 1. So really, it’s just a mindful intention about the type of conversations that we’re entering into.”

The Revs tallied a 7-56 record last season and hope to improve their performance. They welcomed eight freshmen: Rose Vigran, Addi Verdon, Kate McGrath, Alexa Meinen, Abby Caoile, Hope Ku-Dipietro, Charlotte Li, Elizabeth LoForte and graduate student Emma Lillback. According to Demko, the

first two games of the season reaffirmed her trust in her players’ tactics and skills, allowing for opportunity for strategic substitution.

“We have a lot of depth this year. I think this is probably the most depth that we’ve had, since I’ve been here and in six seasons,” Demko said. “So I think the interchangeability we have in players — and not just for making changes — we have more pieces to the puzzle.”

Redshirt freshman midfielder Alana Beasley is playing this year after sustaining a Grade 2 MCL tear prior to entering her freshman year, which sidelined her for what was supposed to be her first season with the Revs.

“Honestly, it’s pretty rewarding because I just waited so long for this opportunity,” Beasley said. “It just validates the fact that I feel like I made the right decision to wait a whole year and then be able to come on and have the impact that I feel like I have had.”

She said her decision to take last season off to heal gave her time to observe teammates’ strategy, which she credits for her current performance. Through watching seasoned midfielders Isabelle Eskay and Sammy Neyman, she said she was able to learn more about the Revs’ playing style. Beasley started all three games this season, and she bagged her first collegiate goal against Bucknell in the third minute of the

and graduate student forward Maren Durant joins from Boston University.

The women spent the summer focusing on player and skill development.

“We really focused on the fundamentals of our footwork, our finishing and our passing and shooting skills,” Head Coach Caroline McCombs said in an email.

Graduate student guard Madison Buford joins the Revolutionaries after four years at Hampton University. She led her team with 38 3-pointers last season and has a .305 career

shooting percentage from deep. McCombs believes that her “versatility” and “toughness” will help at their wing position.

Graduate student forward Maren Durant looks to bring defensive prowess to GW. She was dominant in the paint during her time in Boston, leaving the team owning the highest shooting percentage in school history at a .561 clip. She is also second all-time with 172 blocks and fourth with 832 rebounds, helping to make her the first Terrier women’s basketball player

to earn three conference AllDefensive team honors.

“Maren Durant gives us an inside presence that we haven’t had since I’ve been here along with a lot of veteran experience and leadership,” McCombs said . Durant should complement GW’s frontcourt with graduate student forward Mayowa Taiwo, whose 793 career rebounds are good for ninth in GW program history.

“We want to try to pack out the Smith Center and win a lot of games,” Johnson said.

Women’s rowing hires new coaching staff after championship season

After winning the Atlantic 10 Championship for the first time in 2023, a new team of coaches is taking the reins of women’s rowing.

The Revolutionaries will have a new head coach, two new assistant coaches and a graduate assistant, a new position on the team’s staff.

National Championship Regatta in West Windsor, N.J. His women’s club four boat earned silver at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Massachusetts in 2022.

match. She has played a total of 129 minutes this season with one other shot on goal.

“You get to become a better player from watching other people who maybe do things differently than you do or better than you do,” Beasley said.

Sophomore goalkeeper Grace Crowe returns to the Revs for her second season while earning an 84.2 save percentage thus far this season. Her ability to command the team on the field has once again earned her a spot as the starting goalkeeper. Last season, Crowe finished out the year with 26 saves, a save percentage of 65.

“Especially as a goalkeeper, obviously, I’m probably the one that’s talking the most and directing the flow of play,” Crowe said. “And that it’s really [received] well by each of the players in the field, and they all just want to win and that’s what we’re after this year.”

Crowe, who collected 16 saves over the course of two games thus far this season, said practicing with her team consistently only enhances her team’s immense desire to win.

“We take every game like we’re playing the U.S. National Team, we come to win,” Crowe said.

The Revolutionaries will be back in action as they will welcome Youngstown State to GW’s home turf Aug. 31. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m., and the match will be available to watch on ESPN+.

Head Coach Paul Allbright, a 16-year rowing coach veteran in the District, joins the team after spending five years at Georgetown University — one year as the associate head coach and four as the recruiting coordinator for their women’s team. Allbright served as head rowing coach at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia from 2008 to 2018 and also founded Resilient Rowing Club, a youth rowing club and competitive boathouse, in 2013 in Fairfax. “I think it’s a tremendous [opportunity] in any circumstance to get to come to a place like GW and to get to be a Division 1 head coach,” Allbright said. “There’s less than 100 of those positions that exist in the country.”

Allbright traveled to the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River in White Hill, UK, with the Hoyas this past summer to where the 8+ advanced through the first round of time trials, but later lost during side-by-side racing. In addition, Allbright’s lightweight varsity 8+ boat earned bronze at the IRA

Previous Revs Head Coach Marci Robles left GW in July after a win at the A-10 Championships, according to her LinkedIn. Robles did not immediately return a request for comment regarding her departure.

Allbright said his experience with the Hoyas has allowed him to further his career as a university-level coach.

Despite having a 43-person roster, Allbright said he encourages further participation from interested students to join as walk-on rowers. During GW’s 2023 season, about 10 of the rowers were walk-on athletes.

“We’re already really hustling to get walk-on interest as well,” Allbright said. “That’s a huge part of our sport in general. Even at the Olympic level, for the United States a third, a half, some years, it’s been as much as like 60 percent or 70 percent of the rosters don’t learn rowing until they get to college. So being able to cast a net and continue to build off that tradition of walk-ons in our sport is definitely a big part of what we’re planning to do.”

After joining the team as a head coach in July, Allbright also assisted in the hiring of a fresh coaching staff.

Graduate student Fatima

Mumtaz joined the team as a graduate assistant and director of operations, a position coaches created this year. Mumtaz will assist the team outside of the water through managing team gear, ordering equipment, organizing transportation and more.

Prior to joining the Revs, Mumtaz was a coxswain at at Lehigh University. During her senior year, she led her second varsity 8+ boat to the petite final at Patriot League Championships.

Margaret Dail joins the Revs as a new assistant coach after rowing at the University of Texas, Austin until her graduation in 2019 and serving as an assistant rowing coach at the Austin Rowing Club from 2021 to 2023.

“I’m just really excited to have this opportunity and bring what I’ve learned as a student-athlete and as a coach,” Dail said.

Elena Esteban joins the team after being a coxswain at the University of Central Florida for four years, where she led the team to conference and NCAA Championships in 2018 and 2019. Esteban also spent time coaching at Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Florida.

Despite being a part of a new coaching staff, Esteban said that coaching a team after winning a championship is a rewarding experience for all involved.

“They’re one of the big fish in their pond,” Esteban said.

NUMBER CRUNCH

Women’s soccer is averaging eight saves per game, first in the A-10.

FILE PHOTO BY MAYA NAIR | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior forward Keegan Harvey is one of three scholarship players returning to the men’s basketball team following a 16-16 season.

FILE PHOTO BY MAYA NAIR | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Head Coach Michelle Demko said the first two games of the season reaffirmed her trust in her players’ tactics and skills, allowing for more opportunity for strategic substitution.

FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN BURKE

The new additions to the women’s rowing team will nearly reset their coaching staff after taking home the A-10 Championship last season.

SANDRA KORETZ SPORTS EDITOR

SANDRA KORETZ SPORTS EDITOR

BEN SPITALNY CONTRIBUTING SPORTS EDITOR

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Welcome Back Guide

Decorations to get your Revolutionaries style on

KATRINA HAUSER REPORTER

The revolution is here. Well, at least, the new “Revolutionaries” moniker is here.

To “rev” up your engines for the school year, check out these items — from a bagel slicer to a hippo mug — to embrace the new moniker, deck out your room and revolutionize your style.

Your New Best Friend: A Revolutionary Bobblehead

While the new moniker is inspired by American Revolution General George Washington, there are plenty of other famous revolutionaries to take inspiration from.

The image of Che Guevara, the radical leftist thinker and a leader of the Cuban Revolution, stands as an iconic image for many leftist movements. You’ve almost defi nitely already seen his historic portrait somewhere on campus.

“Let Them Eat Bread” With a Bagel Guillotine

Bagels are a college staple, but it can be difficult to purchase them all from the deli if you’re on a GWorld budget. You can save money by buying bagels at the grocery store or farmers market and preparing them at home.

A bagel guillotine is a device where you can insert your bagel and push down a blade to slice your bagel easily and safely in half, named for the machines used to behead the condemned during the French Revolution. A bagel guillotine is a fun and exciting way to eat your bagels at home and put a swift end to your hunger.

A Rosie the Riveter Poster — You Can Hang It!

The classic image of Rosie the Riveter, featuring a woman flexing her muscles and the phrase “We Can Do It!” was created to symbolize and support the women who took on factory and labor jobs during World War II while men served in the military.

Rosie stands as a reminder of how revolutionary the idea of women joining the workforce once was and serves as an inspiration to many today because feminist history is still ingrained with the movement. Grab Rosie’s image on a T-shirt or rep her red bandana if you want to stand with the movement.

Reject “Revolutionaries,” Embrace the TraditionHippo

If you’re looking to start your own revolution against the new moniker, we won’t tell. The hippo represents many club sports teams and harkens back to Foggy Bottom’s iconic River Horse statue.

Cute hippo merch, like a mug or candy dish, never goes out of style.

Revolutionary Reading List

With each generation

Three new restaurants to try around Foggy Bottom

of freshmen that comes to the District, there are more young people preparing to dive headfirst into the future and make an impact.

Living in a major metropolis means people can easily stumble into a bookstore and find a book to inspire the next phase of their lives. Consider making your back-to-school read Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” a manifesto arguing for sabotage as a beneficial form of climate activism that’s already been turned into a feature film.

A “Hamilton” Poster, Unless You’re a Poser

The revolutionaries GW most directly evokes are George Washington and his comrades from the American Revolution. Many of us have had our understanding of the American Revolution molded by the musical “Hamilton.”

If rapping revolutionaries are more up your alley than the sorrowful ones of “Les Misérables,” a musical about the June Rebellion of 1832 in Paris, now is the best time to embrace your former “Hamilton” phase. Feel free to shamelessly hang up a “Hamilton” poster in your room — college is the time to let your freak flag fly. Don’t throw away your shot.

While the end of summer can leave a sour taste in your mouth, new eateries around Foggy Bottom can be your most appetizing development of the fall. After a year of change in the GW dining scene, new eateries and reopened restaurants are bringing new cuisines and old favorites to campus this fall as students return to campus. From a new spot specializing in a concoction of pot pies, soup dumplings and enchiladas to the bistro behind the University Student Center renovations, here are some new restaurants to check out around campus.

Saya Salteña Brings

Alum Home

Soon to be nestled on a tiny block on Pennsylvania Avenue next to PoppaBox, Saya Salteña is the culmination of GW alum Maria Helana Iturralde’s nearly 20 years in the restaurant business mixed with her Bolivian heritage.

Iturralde said after graduating from GW in 2005, she worked for a catering business before opening her own catering company in 2015, where she started to introduce Bolivian food to her customers. She said just before the pandemic, she began work on refining a recipe for salteñas, a Bolivian dish reminiscent of a cross between pot pies and soup dumplings served in an enchilada shell. She and her husband began selling salteñas prepared this way at the start of the pandemic.

Iturralde said the shop expanded said while the restaurant is not yet on GWorld, they will offer a 10 percent

discount to students.

The restaurant has five varieties of sandwich-sized salteñas ($7 each) — spicy and nonspicy pork and beef, as well as a vegan option — with each salteña coming stuffed full of broth, vegetables and spices from aji amarillo and aji rocoto peppers that grow in the Andes Mountains.

“Because it takes longer to grow, it's sweeter at the beginning, and it's spicy at the end,” she said. The salteñas themselves are as delicious as advertised — they come in toasted, soft shells chock full of broth which spills all over you if you bite into the wrong part of the dish first. The beef salteña has a rich umami flavor, starting out sweet and ending spicy, while the chicken salteña is almost reminiscent of a chicken soup as the subtler flavor of the broth lets the vegetables shine.

Saya Salteña will be located at 1919 Pennsylvania Ave. Ground Floor 07. They have not yet announced an opening date.

The Bussdown Brings Foggy New Flavors

Joining an ever-expanding Western Market lineup, The Bussdown is a pan-African kitchen combining Caribbean and Cajun Creole dishes. The eatery originated

in Oakland, California, where it operated as a delivery-only ghost kitchen after opening in the heart of the pandemic.

The Bussdown is located in Western Market, 2000 Pennsylvania Ave. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

A Favorite:ReturningTeashi Opens in DuPont Circle

With GW’s transition to dining halls, many old favorites have departed — think Chickfil-A and Sol Mexican Grill. But this summer, just a 15-minute stroll from its former home in the Shenkman Hall basement, Chinese restaurant Teashi opened a new location.

Teashi, the name a cross-language portmanteau of the English and Chinese words for tea house, carries over some of its menu from its time in the old Shenkman basement, offering rice bowls ($9.95 to $10.95), noodle bowls ($10.95 to $11.95) and spicy ramen soup ($11.95 to $12.95). Teashi is located at 1234 19th St. NW #100. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sundays.

Fall in love with these autumn album releases

turally reflective voices, proving anyone can be in their “1989” era.

As autumn leaves start to fall, gone are the generation-defining songs of the summer and the world-encompassing summer blockbuster albums.

But that doesn’t mean music is leaving the popular zeitgeist for these next few months, with artists from pop princesses to indie darlings dropping highly anticipated new releases.

“The Land Is Inhospitable and

Are We” — Mitski, Sept. 15

Bridget Smith | Reporter

So

Indie pop artist Mitski is stepping back into the spotlight. Her sixth album “Laurel Hell,” released February 2022, became her first to lead the Top Alternative Albums charts. It pushed the sometimes-elusive artist — known for protecting her personal life and avoiding social media — further into the public eye.

Where Mitski will go next after both achieving and denouncing mainstream success makes this my most anticipated fall release. The first single, “Bug Like An Angel,” has refreshing minimalism and highlights her razorsharp lyricism about regret and loneliness that I’m eager to hear more of on the album.

“Golden Age” — NCT, Aug. 28

Nan Jiang | Reporter For those not inducted into the dizzying world of K-pop, NCT is a great place to start. The boy band, usually split into five subunits, comes back together

every few years for an ensemble album featuring all 20 members. From fiery rapping to heartfelt, soulful ballads, the upcoming “Golden Age” is sure to have something for everyone. And the album’s sole single so far, the title track, showcases that perfectly. The song begins with somber piano music, before bursting into explosive, high-paced hip hop, then transitions into a soft R&B hymn. The group’s versatility and musical diversity make “Golden Age” an album to look out for this fall.

“1989

Version)”(Taylor’s — Taylor

Swift, Oct. 27

Annie O’Brien | Culture Podcast Host Taylor Swift’s Grammy Award-winning album “1989” is finally out of the woods — or at least freed from nefarious music executive Scooter Braun’s clutches. “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” is the fourth installment in Swift’s quest to rerecord her first six albums after Braun obtained the rights to Swift’s masters against her wishes.

Nine years after its original release, “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” enters a still imperfect but more inclusive atmosphere with a lot less square-lens, colorful sunglasses. While her original releases only feature male artists, like Ed Sheeran and Tim McGraw, Swift spotlights other female singers like Phoebe Bridgers and Hayley Williams on her vault songs. If “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” follows Swift’s more inclusive revisions, her fourth re-release will bring the sexy, urban fantasy to a much wider audience using cul-

“GUTS”

— Olivia Rodrigo, Sept. 8

Jack Parr | Reporter Olivia Rodrigo is back for the release of her new album, and she’s ready to rip out our guts. Following the success of her debut album “SOUR,” which broke countless streaming records and earned her three Grammy Awards, Olivia Rodrigo is set to release her sophomore album “GUTS” next month. Rodrigo appears to have overcome the infamous “sophomore slump” many artists face, as the first two singles off of “GUTS,” “vampire” and “bad idea right?” both debuted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. “GUTS” is the album of the fall because Olivia Rodrigo is shaping up to be our next pop princess, and she’s just getting started.

"Don't Be Dumb" — A$AP Rocky, Fall 2023

Zach Blackburn | Editor in Chief

It's the second-most anticipated event for A$AP Rocky this year. After his partner Rihanna gave birth to their second child earlier this month, the rapper is set to release his fourth studio album, "Don't Be Dumb."

A$AP Rocky hasn't yet announced the release date for the album — though it's pected to drop this fall — but he has released clips of singles and features from the album.

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LILY SPEREDELOZZI | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Taylor Swift’s upcoming rerecording of her album "1989" is sure to give listeners a romantic and energetic soundtrack this fall.

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Traditional Bolivian salteñas, a toasted shell filled with rich broth, from emerging Foggy Bottom food vendor Saya Salteñas.

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Welcome Back Guide

New year, new you, new classes

CRISTINA STASSIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

As you settle back into the flow of the academic year, you may be looking for ways to spruce up your life, or at the very least, your course schedule. Maybe you uncovered a new minor, want to dodge an 8 a.m. or you are looking to avoid classes with the five most annoying people in your major. Either way, here are some new classes being offered this fall that could be the perfect addition to your schedule.

PSC 1000: Demagogues and Democrats (Waitlist)

Caleb Schmotter, a fifth-year doctorate student teaching the course, said the class explores a variety of topics like the purpose and responsibility of a state and who belongs within one. The class revolves around a semesterlong simulation broken into two parts: ancient Athens after the Peloponnesian War and India right before gaining independence from Britain. In the simulation, students are assigned a historical figure from the respective time period, including that character’s political and personal goals. The catch? Schmotter said students can choose how to portray the character by either following historical precedent or paving their own path to explore what could have been. He said there are “underdog roles,” like in the

Athens simulation, in which students won’t advocate for democracy or oligarchy but instead want to be a tyrant.

ENGL 3390:

Poetry: Remix, Cover & Sample

(Open)

Chet’la Sebree, an assistant professor of English in the Creative Writing Program, said she came up with this modernized poetry course several years ago while teaching at Bucknell University, and every student, whether or not in the Creative Writing Program, can get something out of it. In this class, students look at how poems can mimic music through listening to and talking through songs.

She said some students may walk away from poetry classes not knowing how they can apply it to their everyday lives, but people like inaugural poet Amanda Gorman have shown poetry can be a crucial component of storytelling.

“People read poems at funerals, people read poems at weddings and so who knows, one day may-

Rooming with randos? Try these bonding activities

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stakes activity for new roommates.

Tonic trivia night

be something that they learned in my class will help them express something to a larger group of people,” Sebree said.

AMST 2490:

Sex, Gender, Citizenship

(Waitlist)

Emily Bock, an assistant professor of American studies, said the class examines how gender, sex and sexuality can complicate citizenship. The course design covers a variety of topics starting with the foundations of sex and gender before moving into ideas on how the scientific construction of sex and gender has influenced the legal system.

Bock said they hope to help answer questions students already have about these topics, but also encourage them to ask questions in relation to their experiences.

“My goals are really to get to know students and to help them navigate what I think are really important and lively and personal and intimate questions about themselves and about the world that we live in,” Bock said.

Advice for getting the most for your meal swipes

Almost a year into the GW dining hall experience, one thing is fair to say: adjusting to the new meal plan is confusing. As the University continues to transition away from a dining dollar-based meal plan and toward one centered around dining halls, it can be a challenge for students to know each and every facet of eating at the refectories.

Jaden DiMauro | Managing Editor College is a time to broaden your horizons, take reasonable risks and try new things.

And the dining hall is a great place to start. GW’s three primary dining halls, plus District House, offer a rotating cast of diverse menu items across a variety of cuisines.

Take your tastebuds across the Atlantic on a trip to Poland with Kielbasa with Peppers and Onion at Shenkman Hall. If you’d rather dip your proverbial toes into the world of vegan food, try Ginger Soy Seitan Pepper Steak at Thurston Hall.

Nick Perkins | Culture

Editor When Thurston’s dining hall opened last fall, one topic popped up in

more of my conversations than any other: Thurston’s soft serve ice cream machine.

At first, all the chatter about the near-constant access to vanilla and chocolate flavored ice cream was something out of a dream. I fantasized about chowing down on some soft serve on a hot (or even a cold) day. But after a couple of weeks,

all. Plus, if you’re lucky, Thurston’s soft serve machine might even be up and running and you’ll be able to get the pleasant surprise of a sprinkletopped treat to end the meal.

Jenna Baer | Contributing Culture

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Think for a moment — aside from their snoring pattern and pajama preferences — what do you really know about the stranger who sleeps in the extra-long bed across from yours? Whether you were randomly assigned a roommate by the University or are rooming with your 13th-closest friend from last year, chances are that after one week of living together you still don’t know much about them. If you’re looking to overcome the hurdles of awkward small talk and long conversation pauses there are plenty of activities guaranteed to bring you and your roomies closer. Back-to-school

movie night

Rather than heading directly to Decades to dance the night away, start your cohabitation with simpler activities that require minimal spending and planning. Whether you’re a hate-watcher or a film buff, sharing your favorite movies as you munch on popcorn and sip Coke through Red Vines is an ideal low-

Comedies are probably going to be your best bet. As newly minted University students, consider doing a double feature of your favored collegiate movies. From “Pitch Perfect” to “22 Jump Street,” there are plenty of comedies that tackle and satirize university life.

Create your own walking tour

If you want to go late-

By now you’ve surely passed this red-bricked Foggy Bottom staple on the way to class and have heard lore of their delectable tater tots. But what you may not know is that this burger joint hosts trivia nights every Monday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. This team-oriented activity will encourage you and your roommates to work together towards a common goal — a $50 gift card to Tonic. But beyond the glory and cash prize, this pastime provides an opportunity to get to know your housemates’ interests through their favored categories.

Cook a meal together

night monumenting with your soon-to-be pals, I can’t stop you. But what does staring at marble statues really reveal to you about another person?

Instead, create your own personalized walking tour so you and the roomies can wear your micro obsessions on your sleeves. For instance, macabre enthusiasts can easily organize a ghostly themed excursion as the District is home to a variety of paranormal activity like the iconic “Exorcist” steps.

Though convenient, the food served in our relatively new dining halls is aggressively mediocre most of the time. Rather than trudging downstairs to construct a bland plate from their offerings, collaborate with your roommates to plan out a meal that satisfies all of your cravings. The majority of students at GW have either a personal or communal kitchen, but you don’t need much equipment to make a feast. It may take some trial and error, but before long you’ll be swapping nostalgic recipes and coordinating weekly meals.

(Pumpkin) spice up your fall fashion

A cinnamon-scented candle glows on your nightstand, its flame dancing as a crisp breeze blows through the open window.

It’s the dream fall day, and you need an outfit to match.

discussions about the ice cream machine took a different turn, as more and more people realized that the appliance was frequently broken, and it was actually quite rare to leave the freshman dorm hall with a cone in hand.

Going into Thurston dining hall expecting a wonderful meal will probably end in disappointment. But instead journeying into the eatery with a realistic set of expectations about the likely perfectly enjoyable but not entirely delectable meal on offer won’t lead to the same sort of let down, giving one a better dining experience over-

As indie rock group Infinity Song sagely sings on their viral track “Hater’s Anthem:” “I love the way it feels to be a hater.” And there are few topics I love to rag on more than GW’s new dining halls. As a painfully slow eater, the set up of all-you-careto-eat dining halls can be stressful and time consuming in an effort to wring out every last bit of a meal swipe.

A quick fix to this conundrum are to-go containers — which Shenkman and Thurston dining halls offer upon request. Even if you don’t see any takeaway containers lying around, you can get one by asking a staff member.

But if you really want to squeeze the dining halls for all they’re worth, it’s time to get serious. Bust out your own tupperware and fill the containers up to your heart's content with waffles, cookies and fresh fruit, oh my!

Fall fashion in 2023 includes earthy tones, preppy staples and nononsense hairstyles — stereotypical, autumnal trends practically torn from the pages of a Ralph Lauren magazine. After summer’s unpredictability and hellish heat, these typical trends are the sort of stability the coming season needs, allowing us to cool off, regroup and nest before the coming winter.

Cherry on Top

While the hot pinks of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” dominated summer 2023, this fall belongs to red, pink’s sexier and more elegant older sister. While darker hues like burgundy have peppered past seasons, this year’s red is lighter and louder, more of a cherry hue.

Trend forecasters on social media predict red will appear prominently in accessories like purses, boots and jackets — so if you bought the “Red (Taylor’s Version)” scarf, you should definitely pull it out of storage.

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Don’t leave the clothes you bought for

your summer internship behind. As the weather gets chillier, you may begin to see workplace staples like blazers, pencil skirts and button-ups, with fresh, untraditional twists. Miu Miu’s Fall/ Winter runway show featured a polka-dotted pencil skirt and visible underwear, while Versace’s models donned cinched-waist blazers.

To repurpose summer internship clothes, try pairing a half-buttoned white blouse with loose jeans for a more casual classroom look.

Mix and Match Earrings

If you are looking to shimmer this upcoming fall, revitalize your current earrings by mixing and matching your sets. Runway analysts deemed asymmetry a major jewelry trend at Fall/Winter 2023 shows.

Designers varied in their approach to mismatched earrings, with Tory Burch pairing a safety pin with blue gems and Gucci opting for various forms of

dripping pearl earrings. When looking at your jewelry box, you can start small by pairing different shapes or stealing a page from the runway and mixing different lengths. Pairing simple, circular gold studs with a glistening cascade of stars will catch everyone’s attention at a party.

The Kim Kardashian Bob

Earlier in August, Kim Kardashian debuted a new haircut in a Skims advertisement: a blunt bob. From the Flappers’ haircut of the 1920s to the 2000s French film “Amélie,” there are few haircuts more chic and recognizable than a bob.

Even though it may not perfectly flatter everyone’s face shape, a big chop embodies a fresh start.

As you start new classes and meet new professors, a big haircut is a physical reminder of new or changing intentions. Align yourself with fashion and historical icons this fall and commit to the bob.

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Sharing a laugh over comedy classics like “Pitch Perfect” is a great first step to break the ice with your roomies.

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Take advantage of the dining hall’s to-go containers or cap o a meal with Thurston’s soft serve machine to get the biggest bang for your dining dollar this semester.

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