By DEIRDRE BANNON James Laufenburg, acting director of the Knollwood military retirement home in Chevy Chase, and Betty Kadick, a Knollwood resident since 1990, cut a ceremonial cake with a calvary saber during a party last week celebrating the Oregon Avenue facility’s 50th anniversary. See Crime/Page 24 By ELIZABETH WIENER By BRADY HOLT The project at Roosevelt is now scheduled to start in 2013. See Initiative/Page 18 University plans include moving the law school to Tenley Circle.
T HE N ORTHWEST C URRENT Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Serving Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, Shepherd Park, Brightwood, Crestwood, Petworth & 16th Street Heights Vol. XLV, No. 4 ■ Gonzaga topples archrival DeMatha in hoops. Page 11. ■ Burke girls, boys top Field on the hardwood. Page 11. ■ Adams Morgan ANC considers whether to add new parking limits. Page 3. ■ Panel approves Deal addition. Page 2. NEWS SPORTS ■ Retired detective turns new page with writing career. Page 13. ■ D.C. authors: a look at new books by locals. Page 13. PASSAGES INDEX Business/7 Calendar/20 Classifieds/29 District Digest/4 Exhibits/34 In Your Neighborhood/20 Opinion/8 Passages/13 Police Report/6 Real Estate/15 School Dispatches/19 Service Directory/25 Sports/11 Theater/23 By DEIRDRE BANNON Current Staff Writer A school modernization meeting last week drew ire from Ward 4 resi- dents when Deputy Mayor for Education De’Shawn Wright announced that plans to modernize Coolidge and Roosevelt high schools would be delayed by one year under the city’s new proposed capital budget. The standing-room-only audi- ence at Coolidge High School had expected modernization plans at Roosevelt to begin this summer, with Coolidge to follow in 2013. But when school improvement team meetings — which the city typically initiates in the months before mod- ernization projects begin — weren’t scheduled for Roosevelt, community members wanted answers. The room erupted Wednesday when the deputy mayor outlined the new proposed timeline. Wright, along with D.C. Public Schools chief operating officer Anthony DeGuzman and Department of General Services director Brian Hanlon, said current budgets for school modernizations citywide are inadequate for the proj- ects’ estimated costs. They now pro- pose that the city hold off on all modernization plans that haven’t yet started until full funding for individ- ual projects is secured in the next budget cycle, at which time planning meetings can resume. For Roosevelt High School, Wright now says it will take $127 million to modernize the school built in the 1930s, rather than the $66 mil- lion currently allocated in the capital Delayed school modernizations rile Ward 4 Bill Petros/Current File Photo The project at Roosevelt is now scheduled to start in 2013. By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer Although they have yet to final- ize their ruling, D.C. zoning com- missioners appear supportive of American University’s extensive and highly controversial plans for large-scale development over the next decade. The Zoning Commission was scheduled to vote Monday on the school’s campus plan, which out- lines its development in the coming decade and asks permission to begin construction immediately on several projects. Among other proposals, the school hopes to construct two high- rise dormitories on its main campus and to redevelop its Nebraska Avenue parking lot and Tenley Campus. But commissioners postponed the vote, saying they couldn’t dis- cuss some key aspects of the plan until the university is able to better nail down its timeline for bringing more undergraduates into on-cam- pus housing. In discussing the vari- ous proposals Monday, however, commissioners said most of the development seems reasonable and that some of the feared impacts can be addressed at future zoning reviews. Universities require a zoning exemption to operate in residential areas, and they must demonstrate that their required 10-year campus plans would not create adverse impacts on their neighbors. In craft- ing a zoning order, the commission is judging whether each university proposal would either generate no adverse impact, cause an adverse impact that can be mitigated in a particular way, or be irreconcilably objectionable. Commission likely to OK American U. campus plan Bill Petros/The Current James Laufenburg, acting director of the Knollwood military retirement home in Chevy Chase, and Betty Kadick, a Knollwood resident since 1990, cut a ceremonial cake with a calvary saber during a party last week celebrating the Oregon Avenue facility’s 50th anniversary. GOLDEN KNOLLWOOD ■ Zoning: Deliberations will continue at Feb. 16 meeting By ELIZABETH WIENER Current Staff Writer Supporters of an initiative to ban corporate campaign contributions in the District plan to make their first big push to gather signatures at pre- cincts around the city during the April 3 primary. They’re predicting success, but they don’t expect much help from the D.C. Council. It was, in fact, the council’s inac- tion on the issue, as it passed an omnibus ethics reform package in December, that spurred the new pro- posal. The effort’s supporters want to let city voters decide if corpora- tions should be able to continue funding campaign war chests, transi- tion and inaugural committees, and council members’ constituent ser- vice and legal defense funds. The measure, delivered to the Board of Elections and Ethics Jan. 17, would also effectively ban bun- dled contributions from limited lia- bility corporations controlled by the same owner. Such bundling — which allows company owners to exceed the current $2,000 limit on individual contributions — pushes Activists push ballot measure on campaigns By DEIRDRE BANNON Current Staff Writer Responding to a recent spate of violent robberies in Shepherd Park, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier met with residents and community lead- ers Monday night at the neighbor- hood’s elementary school. In a packed gymnasium, where attendees overflowed into adjoining hallways, residents listened as Lanier described four armed robberies that occurred this month in which vic- tims’ vehicles were stolen at gun- point. Other crimes that have taken place in the neighborhood in recent weeks include armed robberies of pedestrian victims, home burglaries and destruction of property. Police believe the cases are relat- ed because in each instance the vic- tims, who were all robbed in the same area, were approached between 7 and 10 p.m. by two to three young black males who showed a silver gun. In two of the four incidents, the stolen cars were dumped in the same location along Martin Luther King Boulevard in Southeast. “Criminals don’t go into a neigh- Violent robberies hit Shepherd Park streets ■ Crime: Police Chief Lanier responds to resident concerns Bill Petros/The Current University plans include moving the law school to Tenley Circle. See Crime/Page 24 See Campus/Page 24 See Schools/Page 16 See Initiative/Page 18
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The NorThwesT CurreNTWednesday, January 25, 2012 Serving Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, Shepherd Park, Brightwood, Crestwood, Petworth & 16th Street Heights Vol. XLV, No. 4
■ Gonzaga topples archrival DeMatha in hoops. Page 11.■ Burke girls, boys top Field on the hardwood. Page 11.
■ Adams Morgan ANC considers whether to add new parking limits. Page 3. ■ Panel approves Deal addition. Page 2.
NEWS SPORTS■ Retired detective turns new page with writing career. Page 13.■ D.C. authors: a look at new books by locals. Page 13.
PASSAGES INDEXBusiness/7Calendar/20Classifieds/29 District Digest/4Exhibits/34In Your Neighborhood/20Opinion/8
A school modernization meeting last week drew ire from Ward 4 resi-dents when Deputy Mayor for Education De’Shawn Wright announced that plans to modernize Coolidge and Roosevelt high schools would be delayed by one year under the city’s new proposed capital budget. The standing-room-only audi-ence at Coolidge High School had expected modernization plans at Roosevelt to begin this summer, with Coolidge to follow in 2013. But when school improvement team meetings — which the city typically initiates in the months before mod-
ernization projects begin — weren’t scheduled for Roosevelt, community members wanted answers. The room erupted Wednesday when the deputy mayor outlined the new proposed timeline.
Wright, along with D.C. Public Schools chief operating officer Anthony DeGuzman and Department of General Services director Brian Hanlon, said current budgets for school modernizations citywide are inadequate for the proj-ects’ estimated costs. They now pro-pose that the city hold off on all modernization plans that haven’t yet started until full funding for individ-ual projects is secured in the next budget cycle, at which time planning meetings can resume. For Roosevelt High School, Wright now says it will take $127 million to modernize the school built in the 1930s, rather than the $66 mil-lion currently allocated in the capital
Delayed school modernizations rile Ward 4
Bill Petros/Current File PhotoThe project at Roosevelt is now scheduled to start in 2013.
By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer
Although they have yet to final-ize their ruling, D.C. zoning com-missioners appear supportive of American University’s extensive and highly controversial plans for large-scale development over the next decade. The Zoning Commission was scheduled to vote Monday on the school’s campus plan, which out-lines its development in the coming decade and asks permission to begin construction immediately on several projects. Among other proposals, the school hopes to construct two high-rise dormitories on its main campus and to redevelop its Nebraska Avenue parking lot and Tenley Campus. But commissioners postponed the vote, saying they couldn’t dis-cuss some key aspects of the plan until the university is able to better nail down its timeline for bringing more undergraduates into on-cam-pus housing. In discussing the vari-
ous proposals Monday, however, commissioners said most of the development seems reasonable and that some of the feared impacts can be addressed at future zoning reviews. Universities require a zoning exemption to operate in residential areas, and they must demonstrate that their required 10-year campus plans would not create adverse impacts on their neighbors. In craft-ing a zoning order, the commission is judging whether each university proposal would either generate no adverse impact, cause an adverse impact that can be mitigated in a particular way, or be irreconcilably objectionable.
Commission likely to OK American U. campus plan
Bill Petros/The CurrentJames Laufenburg, acting director of the Knollwood military retirement home in Chevy Chase, and Betty Kadick, a Knollwood resident since 1990, cut a ceremonial cake with a calvary saber during a party last week celebrating the Oregon Avenue facility’s 50th anniversary.
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■ Zoning: Deliberations will continue at Feb. 16 meeting
By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer
Supporters of an initiative to ban corporate campaign contributions in the District plan to make their first big push to gather signatures at pre-cincts around the city during the April 3 primary. They’re predicting success, but they don’t expect much help from the D.C. Council. It was, in fact, the council’s inac-tion on the issue, as it passed an omnibus ethics reform package in December, that spurred the new pro-posal. The effort’s supporters want to let city voters decide if corpora-tions should be able to continue funding campaign war chests, transi-tion and inaugural committees, and council members’ constituent ser-vice and legal defense funds. The measure, delivered to the Board of Elections and Ethics Jan. 17, would also effectively ban bun-dled contributions from limited lia-bility corporations controlled by the same owner. Such bundling — which allows company owners to exceed the current $2,000 limit on individual contributions — pushes
Activists push ballot measure on campaigns
By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Staff Writer
Responding to a recent spate of violent robberies in Shepherd Park, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier met with residents and community lead-ers Monday night at the neighbor-hood’s elementary school. In a packed gymnasium, where attendees overflowed into adjoining hallways, residents listened as Lanier described four armed robberies that occurred this month in which vic-
tims’ vehicles were stolen at gun-point. Other crimes that have taken place in the neighborhood in recent weeks include armed robberies of pedestrian victims, home burglaries and destruction of property. Police believe the cases are relat-ed because in each instance the vic-tims, who were all robbed in the same area, were approached between 7 and 10 p.m. by two to three young black males who showed a silver gun. In two of the four incidents, the stolen cars were dumped in the same location along Martin Luther King Boulevard in Southeast. “Criminals don’t go into a neigh-
Violent robberies hit Shepherd Park streets■ Crime: Police Chief Lanier responds to resident concerns
Bill Petros/The CurrentUniversity plans include moving the law school to Tenley Circle.
See Crime/Page 24
See Campus/Page 24See Schools/Page 16
See Initiative/Page 18
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By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer
Officials at Alice Deal Middle School have learned that if you build it, they will come. The recent renovation of the campus is attracting so many new students that a plan to restore the historic Reno School on the same property has been expanded to include yet another major addition. Architect Ronnie McGhee won warm support for the latest, slightly revised, scheme from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts last week. Recent changes focus on the 25,500-square-foot addition that will connect Deal’s new gym to the landmarked Jesse Reno School. The construction and restoration proj-ect, expected to be completed in 2013, will accom-modate 300 new students, up from Deal’s current
capacity — already exceeded — of about 900. The project, as a whole, “symbolically and physi-cally integrates” the long-vacant Reno school, which was built for black children in 1903, and Deal, a school constructed for white students after the sur-rounding community, known as Reno City, was sys-tematically demolished in the 1930s and 1940s, McGhee said. Originally, the city was hoping simply to restore the dilapidated Reno school, perhaps as a community center or theater. It was designated a historic land-mark in 2009, the same year that the $72.6 million modernization of Deal was completed — and the rapid influx of new students made clear the pressing need for more academic space. McGhee’s first design scheme would have
Current Staff Report A late-February final approval is expected for plans to clear buried World War I-era poisonous waste from 4825 Glenbrook Road. The recommended plan, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released in December, calls for tear-ing down the Spring Valley home and digging up to 12 feet beneath it to remove any buried munitions and chemicals. The work, which is expected to cost about $12.5 million, will ultimately restore the site to residential standards, according to the Army Corps. The Restoration Advisory Board, a group of residents and experts consulting on the Army Corps’s Spring Valley cleanup, anticipates hearing details of the Glenbrook Road plan in March, co-chair Dan Noble said at the board’s Jan. 10 monthly meeting. Noble said the plan still requires the approval of two Army officials. The Army Corps has spent more than $200 million on munitions cleanup in the Spring Valley neigh-borhood since 2003. During World War I, the Army used American University as a testing site, firing weapons into then-undeveloped woods around the campus. In 1918, 4825 Glenbrook Road was a dumpsite for chemical and
explosive munitions and related debris; officials believe a pit was disturbed there when a home was built in 1992. American University, which owns the property, will be reim-bursed for the value of the home if it’s torn down. Kent Slowinski, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in the area and former member of the Restoration Advisory Board, has said the current plan doesn’t account for possible poisonous residue left beneath the adjacent property, 4835 Glenbrook Road. According to Slowinski, bulldoz-ers ran over bottles of a blistering agent at the border of the properties when the two houses were first con-structed. In addition, he said, con-tractors planting a tree at 4835 Glenbrook in 1996 suffered from chemical burns when they sliced through a bucket of chemical-filled bottles. Others involved in the cleanup have challenged some of Slowinski’s claims. This month, the neighbor-hood commission voted to reject his call for further investigation. Munitions investigations are ongoing in the broader area, and Noble reported that the latest planned removal of arsenic-affected
Army Corps prepares to start cleanup of Glenbrook parcel
Design commission backs Reno School plans
See Reno/Page 5
See Munitions/Page 18
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Wednesday, Jan. 25 The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a public meeting to review high school graduation requirements for social studies. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers at One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.■ Advisory neighborhood commissions 4C and 4D will hold a community meeting on pedestrian safety issues at Sherman Circle and along New Hampshire Avenue between Webster and Farragut streets. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, 4501 Kansas Ave. NW.■ The Walter Reed Army Medical Center Local Redevelopment Authority Committee will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 1327 Van Buren St. NW.■ The Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District Citizens Advisory Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. The agenda will include reports from Cmdr. Michael Reese and Assistant U.S. Attorney Trena Carrington on recent crimes and prosecutions.
Thursday, Jan. 26 The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will hold its monthly meeting at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. Agenda items will include design guidelines for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, concept review of a new five-story apartment building at 2225 California St. NW, a revised rear addition at 1845 Kalorama Road NW, and door widening and security screens at Engine Co. 29 at 4811 MacArthur Blvd. NW. ■ The D.C. Council Committee on Finance and Revenue will hold a public hearing on iGaming and the Lottery Amendment Repeal Act of 2011. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 412, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The U.S. General Services Administration will hold a public forum on the federal gov-ernment’s planned auction of the West Heating Plant in Georgetown. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW.■ The Kalorama Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature presentations on the history of Adams Morgan. Mary Belcher and Howard University professor Mark Mack will discuss “Pierce Park Archaeology,” EHT Traceries’ Laura Trieschmann will discuss “Adams Morgan’s Historic Districts and Landmarks,” and National Zoo officials will discuss the future of the historic Holt House. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Good Will Baptist Church, 1862 Kalorama Road NW.
Saturday, Jan. 28 The Cleveland Park Energy Co-op and Weatherize DC will hold an energy-efficiency workshop and house tour. The event will begin at 2 p.m. at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. Admission is free, but reservations are requested; contact [email protected].
Monday, Jan. 30 The D.C. Council Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation will hold a public hearing on the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission Service Improvement Amendment Act of 2011 and the Wheelchair Accessible Taxicabs Parity Amendment Act of 2011. The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in Room 412, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Tuesday, Jan. 31 The D.C. Council Committee of the Whole will hold a public hearing on the District of Columbia Community Schools Incentive Amendment Act of 2011. The hearing will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 500, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Wednesday, Feb. 1 The D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary will hold an over-sight hearing on implementation and effects of recent revisions to the disorderly con-duct law. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 412, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ Three D.C. Council committees will hold a public oversight roundtable on the Streetcar Land Use Study. The hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Room 500, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature a can-didates forum for the Ward 4 D.C. Council race. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Emery Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW. The group will hold an endorsement vote in conjunction with the forum; Ward 4 residents registered to vote in D.C. as of Jan. 27 are eligible to participate. Voting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m.
The week ahead
By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer
A parking program that’s been tested in various parts of the city could be headed next to the streets of Adams Morgan and other areas of Ward 1. Next month, the Adams Morgan advisory neighborhood commission will vote on wheth-er to participate in a “enhanced residential parking program,” which would reserve one
side of residential streets exclusively for cars with Zone 1 parking permits. The program would also mail annual visitor parking passes to households with parking permits, allowing regular guests unlimited parking in residen-tially zoned spots. At a community meeting last week to dis-cuss the potential changes, Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham said the city’s seen a “terrific response” to previous versions of the program, with residents reporting that
“for the first time in years, they were able to find a parking space on their block.” The resident-only program started as a pilot in 2008 to preserve parking around Nationals Park in Ward 6, and Graham later tested it out in the area around the DC USA shopping mall in Columbia Heights. Meanwhile, versions of the visitor parking pass program have operated in Mount Pleasant and various parts of wards 3, 4 and 5, sometimes in conjunction with resident-only parking programs.
In Ward 1, the new resident-only program would affect blocks where residential permit parking restrictions are already in place, and it would adopt existing time restrictions. For example, if a block currently allows permit-only parking until 6:30 p.m., the new program would designate one side of that block exclu-sively for permit-holders until 6:30 p.m. Now that Graham’s legislation authorizing the program has gone through the D.C.
Adams Morgan considers resident-only parking program, visitor passes
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Board weighs moving two polling places Two Northwest polling places may be relocated beginning with the April 3 primary election: Precinct 11 in Ward 3, and Precinct 63 in Ward 4. This month, the Board of Elections and Ethics gave prelimi-nary approval to moving Precinct 11 from the International Union of Operating Engineers building at 2461 Wisconsin Ave. to Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St.; and moving Precinct 63 from the
Takoma Community Center at 300 Van Buren St. to Takoma Education Campus, 7010 Piney Branch Road. The board will vote on finalizing the moves at its Feb. 1 meeting.
Gray joins mayors in gay-marriage effort More than 75 mayors from across the country, including Vincent Gray, gathered in D.C. Friday to promote the “Freedom to Marry” campaign supporting gay marriage, according to a news release from Gray’s office.
“These loving and committed couples have been prevented from sharing in the critical safety net of protections associated with mar-riage for far too long,” Gray states in the release.
D.C. beats states for LEED building density The District has more buildings certified as environmentally friendly under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, per capita, than any state, the U.S. Green Building Council announced
last week. According to a news release from Mayor Vincent Gray’s office, the District has 31.5 square feet of LEED-certified space per resident. With 223 certified buildings, D.C. is also the nation’s No. 3 city in this measure, behind New York and Chicago, the release states.
Miller assumes post as ABC Board chair Ruthanne Miller has officially taken over as chair of the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Mayor Vincent Gray nominated Miller, the former chair of the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment, for a seat on the alcohol board in July. Miller, who is also an attorney and former member of the Cleveland Park advisory neighbor-hood commission, replaces acting chair Nick Alberti, who remains on
the board. Alberti, a Ward 6 resi-dent, held the chairmanship on an interim basis after former chair Charles Brodsky resigned in May. The council voted in December to approve Miller’s nomination to the board. It also confirmed appoin-tee L. Jeanette Mobley, a Brookland resident, as a board member.
Columnist honored by Washingtonian Tom Sherwood, a columnist for The Current who also reports on local issues for NBC4 television and on WAMU’s “Kojo Nnamdi Show,” was Washingtonian maga-zine’s 2011 person of the year for “covering home.” Sherwood accepted his award at a ceremony Thursday, along with seven winners from other catego-ries, according to the NBC4 web-site. The honorees appear in the magazine’s January 2012 issue.
GWU library to host new Churchill center George Washington University has received an $8 million pledge to establish the National Churchill Library and Center at its Foggy Bottom campus, the school announced last week. The money comes from the Chicago-based Churchill Centre, a group dedicated to preserving the legacy of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accord-ing to a university news release. Th funds will go toward renova-tions of the university’s Gelman Library to create the new Churchill center on the ground floor. The money will also pay for rare books and research materials, as well as academic positions to study Churchill and British history.
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restored the 12,900-square-foot Reno building to accommodate four classrooms and exhibit space explaining the school’s history, while adding a two-story glassy addition set basically parallel to the historic school. It was widely applauded at several design reviews last fall. But after consultation with preservation and school officials, he made subtle changes. The major programmatic change will sacrifice a proposed day-care
center for children of Deal’s teachers in favor of a public meeting room or lecture hall at the north end of the addition. It will have its own entrance, making it accessible to community groups. Designwise, a subtle shift in the footprint of the addition angles the end — the two-story public meeting room/lecture hall — out to the west, providing better access to, and better views of, the playing fields and the two older school buildings. The facade of the addition has also been refined, adding a brick base that ties it into the design of the Reno school. Altogether, the project will add
12 classrooms, an elevator, rest-rooms, a green roof and several “social learning spaces.” Each clus-ter of four classrooms, part of the “team” approach used at Deal, will have an enlarged science classroom, McGhee said. Officials say the latest revisions are not expected to impact cost esti-mates or the timetable for construc-tion, still expected to begin next October. The Fine Arts Commission, which approves the design of gov-ernment buildings in D.C., applaud-ed the changes. Together, “these are vast improvements to the design,” said member Edwin Schlossberg.
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Council, and regulations have been finalized, individual advisory neigh-borhood commissions in Ward 1 are deciding whether to “opt in.” The Shaw/U Street commission needs to formalize a previous vote in favor of participating, the Mount Pleasant commission voted to opt out, and votes are pending for the Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan commissions. In Adams Morgan, the program would temporarily exempt areas affected by the ongoing streetscape construction on 18th Street, a project expected to conclude this May. The program would apply only to areas already designated for resi-dential parking. Some meeting attendees pointed out that in Adams Morgan, certain apartment dwellers wouldn’t receive visitor parking passes. Because some apartment build-ings on busy commercial corridors, like 18th Street and Columbia Road, aren’t part of the existing residential parking program, they would also be exempt from the new program. The intended benefit of the visitor passes — to allow residents to host regular guests like nannies, family members or contract workers without parking hassles — would therefore remain inaccessible to these residents. Damon Harvey of the D.C. Department of Transportation explained that these residents could always just use the old method of procuring a visitor pass — picking one up from the police station every
two weeks. Harvey also said there’s been instances where such residents have sought special permission to partici-pate in the residential parking pro-gram. “We have a multitude of tools in our system,” he said. “We can right-size solutions for blocks.” Neighborhood commissioner Steve Lanning said his constituents probably need a more concrete solu-tion than that. “Is there anything more you can give me … than ‘we’ll handle this on a case-by-case basis’?” he asked. “I think we can work something out,” Harvey responded. Residents at the meeting also raised concerns, as they have in other neighborhoods, about potential abuse of the visitor parking passes. Harvey said the Transportation Department has developed relation-ships with sites like eBay and Craigslist to watch out for fraud, and that residents also seem to do a good job of looking out for transgressions. And though one resident said the visitor pass was “hugely scary for the impact of the number of cars it could add” to the neighborhood, Harvey argued that it’s unlikely households would “use the pass at the same time in the same way.” Transportation officials said the agency is working on a new system for the future, when the program may be unrolled citywide. Online registration for passes, as well as possible fees, are among the options under review. The Adams Morgan advisory neighborhood commission plans to vote Feb. 1 on whether to participate in the enhanced parking program.
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Jaime Andrews says most cli-ents at her new Logan Circle fitness studio have similar
needs: They’re weak in the lower back and hunched in the shoulders. Where they differ, she said, is “mentality toward fitness.” “You have to gauge what people need” in terms of a trainer, said Andrews. “Some people really need to be yelled at. Some people really don’t; they’ll burst into tears.” To address the varying personal-ity types, she has to toggle between “the Jillian and the Bob,” as she put it, referring to the distinctly differ-ent trainers from the TV show “The Biggest Loser.” The split-personality require-ment is especially salient at Jamie Andrews Fitness (jafitnesstraining.com), where Andrews is the only trainer on staff. She opened the studio in October at 1440 N St. NW after working for five years at local gym chain Vida fitness. As a trainer who
had grown into a management posi-tion, she had experienced both the pros and cons of gym workouts. “In a gym, if you’re a personal trainer, you’re training eight to 10 people a day. It is way too much,” she said. “You walk out the door, and they’re on to the next person.” She said it’s not the fault of the trainer or the gym; it’s just “how the industry’s built.” At her own studio, Andrews is aiming to train no more than five people per day. She also offers boot camp classes 11 times per week: 6 a.m., 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, and 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday. Participants sign up for two to three times a week, and Saturday classes also welcome drop-ins. Boot camp classes — which simulate military-style workouts, offering varied exercise options,
usually out-doors — are actually a big part of what spurred Andrews to open her own space. She started teaching such a camp this summer at Vida, and “I ended up get-
ting like 20 people in August,” she said. Andrews had always dreamed of opening her own fitness studio, but she assumed the move would have
Vida veteran opens personal fitness studioON THE STREETbeth cope
courtesy of Jaime AndrewsAndrews opened her own studio after five years at Vida.
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Time for action There’s a grass-roots initiative afoot that likely has D.C. politicos worried — and with good reason. Activists fed up with the role of big money in local politics want to let District voters decide whether to allow corporations to continue contributing to campaigns and other political war chests. Initiative supporters have a big job ahead of them, including pass-ing the elections board’s muster and collecting 23,000 signatures. But the D.C. Council shouldn’t underestimate organizers, among them Bryan Weaver, who ran an energetic and popular campaign for the council’s open at-large seat last year. Mr. Weaver said he was “devastated” by the council’s failure to address the city’s most glaring campaign finance loopholes when it passed its ethics bill recently. Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser, who chairs the committee that oversees election rules, says that hearings “sometime this year” could address campaign finance reform. Unless the council moves quickly, however, city politicians might well end up losing the ability to receive corporate contributions at all. Allowing those donations may in fact be the best course; to ban them outright may trigger legal challenges of the sort that led via Supreme Court decision to the “super PACs” now dominating the national campaigns. But there are a host of options the council has to achieve what should be the paramount goal: transparency. “Bundling,” or the grouping of donations from the same person under different corporate guises, should be ended — or, at the very least, have its shroud of secrecy removed. Any donor with contracts signed with the city or pending before the council should have to disclose those ties. And reporting rules should be tightened to demand weekly disclosure of contributors during the month before an election. Other funds’ donors should be disclosed in a timely manner — far more quickly, in other words, than the one year it took Mayor Vincent Gray to tell the public about the details of his nearly million-dollar transition fund. If council members want to assuage some of the public anger against them and — perhaps — avoid having their corporate dollars yanked, they’ll heed the initiative’s organizers. “If you want to stop a citizen revolt, they should enact this before we get it on the ballot,” Mr. Weaver advised. “It would be wonderful if this thing gets them off their collective duff.”
A generous gift Journalist W.M. Kiplinger came to art collecting casually. After buying a dozen or so antique prints, “I heard that I was a col-lector,” he said in a 1964 Washington Post interview. “It pleased me so much that I got to be one.” It should please Washingtonians, too: That anecdote is delivered in a news release about the Kiplinger family’s recent donation of more than 4,000 D.C.-focused prints, paintings and photographs to the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Thanks to the family’s years of collecting — which continued in the hands of W.M. Kiplinger’s son Austin and grandson Knight — the city’s historic resources are now 4,000 items stronger. If a picture is worth a thousand words, that’s 4 million more things to say about local history. The donation is also a boon to the historical society, which has struggled financially in recent years and recently partnered with Events DC for help in maintaining its Carnegie Library building, which the two entities will share. The Kiplinger Washington Collection will be stored at the Mount Vernon Square facility, where the items will be available for display in the building’s exhibits. The collection is the largest of its sort ever assembled privately, and we’re thrilled it will be accessible to the public. Included in its pages are items rare, important and even mundane. The Kiplinger family deserves much praise for the generous gift.
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We covered the March for Life again this week for NBC4. It was the 39th annual demonstration against the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that declared most abortions legal. It was cold and rainy this year. Some years the weather is better. But the message of the march is the same: End abortion. We wrote about the march last year, about the passionate people who persevere, and how it seems that this large march — tens of thousands attend — gets less media attention than some others. The abortion issue, barring a dramatic turn, may be an intractable battle for generations. (We wrote that last year, too.) The marchers come from nearly every state in the union. Each person also is petitioning his or her representative or senator to do more to end abortion. Some congressional members speak at the march rally. But again, as we wrote last year, the citizens of Washington have no voice in the national decisions on abortion one way or another. We have no vote in Congress, neither on the House floor — where this subject is most often raised and where our “delegate” can’t vote — nor in the Senate, where we have no representation at all. Whatever the social issue before Congress, we the people of the District have no say. It especially matters right now because Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., has said he wants to add more restrictions on abortions in the District. His bill would prohibit the abortion of fetuses after 20 weeks. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she’ll try to fight this latest intrusion into city affairs. But Franks chairs the Judiciary Committee, where the measure will be heard, so it stands a good chance of passing, at least in the House.■ Bring your camera. Norton has had better success with another Capitol Hill matter. The U.S. Capitol Police are now in charge of Union Square, the plot of land and reflecting pond between 1st and 3rd streets in front of the Capitol on the west side. Until recently, that end of the National Mall was handled by the U.S. Park Police. Now, Norton has gotten something of a promise from Capitol Hill that the Union Square area will not be turned into the city’s latest “security” fortress. At least for now, visiting tourists and demonstrators will still be allowed into the area to petition their govern-ment or simply take pretty pictures. We still worry that “security theater” advocates will take over and another piece of the nation’s capi-
tal will be lost behind new bollards and barriers.■ A big meet-up. Mayor Vincent Gray is taking a page from former Mayor Tony Williams. On Feb. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., about a thousand people are expected to attend his citywide “One City Summit” to discuss a broad range of issues and ideas in the city. The mayor promises to use some of those high-tech gadgets where everyone gets to vote.
Here’s one vote: Don’t do it.The mayor is opening himself up to more criti-
cism that his administration is not active enough (a criticism he rejects).
Mayor Gray is the polar opposite of former Mayor Adrian Fenty. We don’t believe Mayor Gray can ever get enough of meetings and
cabinet sessions and discussions, large and small. Several city leaders have said they worry that at some point the meetings themselves become the goal, rather than a step toward the goal. It’s the same with some of the mayor’s appoin-tees, one official told us. Some feel that being appointed to a job is the same thing as doing the job. But just holding the job doesn’t make you important; it’s doing something with it that does. You have to register to attend the event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The sign-up number is 202-709-5132. We called that number on Monday night. We were asked to leave a message, with the promise that someone would “return your call shortly.” If you go to the summit, let us know what you think of it.■ Food fight. The battle between the increasingly popular food trucks and established “brick and mor-tar” restaurants is entering a new phase. The Gray administration has just published pro-posed rules that would bring some order to where trucks can park and how long they can stay. The mayor’s office says “street vending, food trucks and farmers’ markets are important compo-nents” of the city’s street life. But the mayor says he’s seeking a “careful balance” on how food trucks will operate. The proposed rules are open for public comment, and the final versions must also pass muster with the D.C. Council. You can put the food truck battle in the same cate-gory as the tensions between cars and bicycles. We’ll probably have Middle East peace before either of those two urban battles is settled. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
Marching, meeting and eating …
TOM SHERWOOD’S notebook
letter was wrong on anc commissioner Last week, The Current pub-lished a letter to the editor from me about the deficiencies of democracy in the District of Columbia, and specifically in my area of Washington Heights. In that letter, I referred to advi-sory neighborhood commission-ers in my area either having had or having links with the alcohol beverage industry, including my current representative. That latter person has responded to me, say-ing “Since I’m not a lobbyist nor am I employed by ‘a firm that represents part of the alcohol bev-erage industry,’ I’m not entirely sure who or what you are refer-
ring to.” I had obtained my information from public websites, which I assumed to be accurate. However, in at least one case, I misread the information — the firm that this person works for does not repre-sent the alcohol beverage indus-try. I apologize for the misstate-ment and withdraw the comment.
Vic MillerWashington Heights
ward 4 dems voting caters to incumbent The Ward 4 Democrats’ forum for Democratic candidates for the Ward 4 D.C. Council seat in the April 3 primary will be held Feb. 1. The forum, scheduled from 7:30 to 9 p.m., will feature candi-date presentations followed by a question-and-answer period.
Surprisingly, the Ward 4 Democrats announced the hold-ing of an endorsement vote for Ward 4 council starting at 7 p.m., before the forum even begins. Voting to endorse before debate diminishes the forum’s purpose. The Ward 4 Democrats, whose officers are stacked with support-ers of the incumbent council member, are giving a clear signal of their awareness of the council member’s vulnerability. This faux forum denies Ward 4 voters access to full, open, robust politi-cal dialogue before the endorse-ment takes place. I call for postponement of the endorsement vote until March, and urge the current council member and all other candidates to support postponement.
Renee BowserCandidate,
Ward 4 D.C. Council seat
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Writer’s criticism not well-founded I’m a little concerned about Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board member Alma Gates. In her Jan. 18 critique of adviso-ry neighborhood commissioner Kent Slowinski’s Jan. 11 Viewpoint, Gates piously slams Slowinski on four separate occa-sions for not naming his sources at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the D.C. Department of the Environment and American University. Needless to say, in the penulti-mate paragraph of his Viewpoint, Slowinski did in fact name those very officials: Public health consul-tant Dr. Paul Chrostowski is identi-fied as the American University official; the Environmental Protection Agency/Department of the Environment photogrammetry expert is Terry Slonecker; and the advisory board’s own technical consultant, Dr. Peter deFurr, is named as “the source” who com-piled a comprehensive list of chem-ical contaminants at 4825 Glenbrook Road. Moreover, despite Gates’ repeat-ed charge that Slowinski used “out-of-context hearsay” and “quotes out of context,” his Viewpoint was entirely free of such rhetorical devices. Instead of pontificating to others about “the high road,” Gates
should find a way out of her own cul-de-sac.
Allen HengstWashington, D.C.
Bill takes flawed approach to snow I am writing in response to The Current’s Jan. 11 article “Council votes to fine shoveling scofflaws.” The word “scofflaw” implies bla-tant disregard on the part of District residents, as if character were the sole determinant for sidewalks shoveled or not. “Scofflaw” could more aptly describe the current council of fraudsters, scavenging for revenue while ignoring their wrongdoings and other pressing matters. As a senior and a resident of Washington for nearly 50 years, I take issue with this approach. In December 2009’s 2-foot snow, I shoveled the approximately 200 feet of public sidewalk around my corner lot in addition to my entrances. At 80 years old, I needed a total replacement of my left knee (in which I had no previous pain or injury) after one year of painful, unsuccessful injections. The knee is still problematic today. In early 2011, weeks after knee surgery, I testified before the coun-cil about the fact that my knee replacement was directly related to the threat of impending shoveling enforcement during the blizzard. This legislation does not take into account the volume of snow, its impact on various populations
or the reasons some people can’t shovel sidewalks or afford to hire someone. Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh has touted/dragged out this legislation for two-plus years now as if Snowmageddon were a pressing matter for her and the council to resolve! It is not. Would the nearly 30 percent unemployed in Ward 8, the majori-ty of seniors in Ward 4 or the recent robbery victims in Ward 3 agree? Such deeply flawed priori-ties are another example of how out of touch the D.C. Council is with the general public. Council member Cheh claims the sidewalks need clearing for seniors and children. Well, I am a senior, and I don’t see many older folks out walking in the snow. They are afraid of falls and frac-tures. Children are often out play-ing in the snow when school is out. Experts say we can expect more severe weather patterns in the future, with both heat and cold. If 1- to 2-foot snows are in our future, how are we going to open up roads and, in the case of prolonged power outages, get our citizens to appro-priate shelters? Sidewalks will be the least of our worries. As a registered nurse, I can tell you there will be far more injuries with people out of condition, for whatever reason, trying to lift over-ly heavy shovels to avoid fines. A smart council would have all these ducks in order. Snowstorms or snow jobs? You decide.
Maureen Gehrig CookChevy Chase
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You may have heard some debate through vari-ous media in the past week about the Wildlife Protection Act, a law that I wrote in 2010 and
that the D.C. Council enacted in 2011. This legislation seems perfectly comprehensible to the District’s pest control companies, which the law affects most directly and which supported the bill during its development. As a result, you can imagine my surprise when a state attorney general and a national commentator seeming-ly did not understand it. Or, if they did, then they’re all the worse for misstating its reach to score cheap politi-cal points. The primary purpose of the law is to require that wildlife that finds its way into our yards or homes — not rats or mice, but wildlife — be treated as humanely as the circumstances allow. Maiming, crushing or caus-ing needless suffering of captured animals is barbaric, irrespective of the jurisdiction. And so the Wildlife Protection Act requires that, when circumstances per-mit, animal-control professionals use nonlethal, humane methods of capture, and that if animals must be killed, that they be killed humanely. The law also requires that companies tell homeowners how the ani-mals may have entered and what they can do to pre-vent the situation in the future. To be clear: The District exterminates rats and
rodents. We do not protect them and do not transport them. Views to the contrary are in the imagination of the national pest industry and the Virginia attorney general. Our Department of the Environment head has confirmed this, and enforcement of the law has and will proceed on that basis. I always aim to make laws plain and accessible to the people they affect. At seven pages, the Wildlife Protection Act is a short bill in which the very first page expressly exempts mice and rats found in the District. I would have hoped that people would have been inclined to read the bill before raging against it. Over the past few days, the bill has been the subject of some national comment, and as a result, my inbox has been filled with emails disparaging me for “requiring rats to be exported rather than killed” (again, flatly not true). Firing off uninformed missives and calling me “babe” must have been easier than actually reading the legislation. “Babe” was, however, not the only four-letter word I was called in the emails. It is rather unfortunate that misinformation and anger can get the best of people. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, and I certainly am not offended or surprised when people give voice to that disagreement — public debate is good. What I do expect is for citizens to remain civil as they engage in the civic process and to attempt to understand legis-lation for themselves, rather than relying on third-party sources for answers. Mary Cheh represents Ward 3 on the D.C. Council.
Critics of wildlife bill failed to read carefullyViEWPOiNTmArY cheh
ANC 3ETenleytownAmerican University Park
At the commission’s Jan. 12 meeting:■ commissioners voted 3-0, with Tom Quinn and Sam Serebin absent, to approve a contract for a new com-mission assistant.■ commissioners voted 4-0, with Sam Serebin absent, to approve a $5,000 grant to Northwest Neighbors Village.■ commissioners voted 4-0 to request that the D.C. Department of Transportation experiment with operating the intersection of 46th and Yuma streets as a four-way stop. As proposed, the agency would set the traffic signal to four-way flashing red, and would either reset the signal to a conventional cycle or remove it in favor of stop signs based on the results of the pilot. Neighbors at the meeting agreed that speeding is a problem in the area, but were divided on the appro-priate solution.■ Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier and other police officials dis-cussed recent robberies in the area.■ representatives of Safeway and Clark Realty Capital discussed their plan to reconstruct the supermarket at 42nd and Davenport streets as part of a mixed-use apartment building.■ commissioners voted 3-1, with Beverly Sklover opposed, to support a requested curb cut for a new home at 3825 Harrison St. Commissioners were hesitant to support it until they learned that off-street parking is legally required for a new home. Without the curb cut, the property owner would need a Board of Zoning Adjustment exemption. Sklover opposed the measure because it did not require the prop-erty owner to get support from near-by residents.■ representatives of Douglas Development discussed their planned retail and apartment build-ing on the former site of Babe’s Billiards on Wisconsin Avenue.■ commissioners voted 4-0 to delay the election of 2012 officers to the body’s February meeting because it was after midnight.■ commissioners voted 3-0, with Beverly Sklover absent, to send a letter to the D.C. auditor asking that the District not withhold $10,000 from the commission’s allotments to compensate for checks the auditor said were improperly issued. Although the commission had approved the expenditures, $10,000 worth of checks in recent years didn’t have the required signatures of two commissioners, according to commissioner Matt Frumin. As planned, the District will withhold $1,000 out of the commission’s next 10 quarterly allotments, Frumin said; the commission normally gets roughly $14,000 per year. The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church, 42nd and Fessenden streets NW.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
ANC 3FForest Hills
The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the Capital Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3150 Chesapeake St. NW. For details, call 202-362-6120 or visit anc3f.us.
ANC 3/4GChevy Chase
The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. For details, call 202-363-5803 or
The commission will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 13th and Van Buren streets NW. For details, call 202-450-6225.
ANC 4CPetworth/16th Street HeightsCrestwood
The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. For details, call 202-723-6670.
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In Your Neighborhood
Chevy Chase Citizens Association More than 40 people attended our monthly meeting last week. Our featured speaker, Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser, pro-vided a legislative update and responded to community concerns. In particular, Bowser discussed the ethics reform recently passed by the council, which is awaiting the mayor’s signature. Bowser said the measure seeks to create a “culture of accountability,” by, among other things, instituting a three-member ethics board that will be responsible for ethics enforcement, investigation and training. In addition, Bowser responded to community concerns about main-tenance understaffing at the Chevy Chase Community Center. She explained that the new Department of General Services is now respon-sible for maintenance at recreation centers. She promised to look into whether a facility the size of our local center should have more than the one maintenance staffer assigned. Bowser also addressed a broad array of other issues, including Internet gambling, metered parking, recent robberies, mosquito control and Oregon Avenue reconstruction. At the meeting, association president Jonathan Lawlor briefly dis-cussed our 2011 highlights, including sponsoring Chevy Chase DC Day and hosting Mayor Vincent Gray. Lawlor also previewed our upcoming monthly meetings. On Feb. 21, we will host a celebration of local artists and hear from Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh. On March 20, we will co-sponsor with Northwest Neighbors Village a seminar about facilitating intergenera-tional conversations between adult children and their parents about issues relating to aging (e.g., finances, housing and health). On April 17, we will have our annual Green Meeting. On May 15, we will have our annual election of officers and our annual Public Safety Meeting. The meetings will be held at the Chevy Chase Community Center at 7:30 pm. All are welcome to attend. Finally, Lawlor noted that we will be organizing Chevy Chase DC Day again in 2012. Last year’s community celebration was a success, with several hundred residents enjoying the festivities. This year’s event is planned for Saturday, Sept. 15.
— Jonathan Lawlor
Shepherd Park Citizens Association Get ready to attend the Shepherd Park Potluck on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Washington Ethical Society, 7750 16th St. NW. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with new and established members of our wonderful neighborhood. Families in the Shepherd Park, Colonial Village and North Portal Estates neighborhoods are all invit-ed. Activities are planned for children of all ages. We will have a spe-cial table for those who keep kosher, and we try to be inclusive of all the members of our great community. At the potluck, we will honor neighbor June Confer, who has retired after more than 30 years of service at Shepherd Elementary School. Confer has kept our neighborhood connected to Shepherd Elementary, and this is a great opportunity for us to say thank you. In addition, neighbors can sign up for Neighborhood Watch and other activities to help us look out for one another. What to bring to the potluck other than your family? Each family is asked to bring a dish to share according to the first letter of their last name: Last names beginning with A-I, please bring a main dish; last names beginning with J-R, please bring a side dish; and last names beginning with S-Z, please bring a dessert. The Shepherd Park Citizens Association will provide beer, wine and nonalcoholic drinks.
— Cheryl Teare
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By BRIAN KAPURCurrent Staff Writer
St. John’s battled Good Counsel down to the wire at Gallagher Gymnasium Friday in a contest for first place in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference. The Cadets made critical mistakes down the stretch, which cost them the game, 81-77, and their position atop the conference. “I’m really proud of our effort, and we always stress that wins and losses come in the details,” said Cadets head coach Jonathan Scribner. “There were probably about three or four plays late [that decided it]. We had a couple of unfortunate turnovers, and we didn’t make a couple of shots that would normally go.” Senior guard Mooriah Rowser led the way for the Cadets, scoring a team-high 20 points. Junior guards Lindsay Allen and Tori Oliver each added 17. It was a nip-and-tuck game from the onset,
and neither team led by more than six points in the first half. That trend continued into the final minutes. With less than three minutes to play, Rowser hit a fast-break layup to put the Cadets up 72-69. But two untimely traveling violations helped the Falcons go on a 9-1 run to take a 78-73 lead with a minute to go. Students in the Cadets’ section responded to the deficit by Tebowing: dropping to one knee and bowing their heads in the pose made famous by Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. St. John’s had one last gasp when Allen was awarded three free throws with 20 sec-onds remaining. The junior hit two of the freebies to cut the Falcons’ lead to 78-75. But the Cadets couldn’t come any closer. “We weren’t strong enough, and we had too many turnovers,” said Allen. St. John’s will look to bounce back when they travel to play the WCAC’s last-place Bishop O’Connell Knights Friday at 7 p.m.
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By BRIAN KAPURCurrent Staff Writer
When Gonzaga and DeMatha met at American University last February for the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference cham-pionship, Gonzaga’s then-sopho-more forward Kris Jenkins was side-lined with a badly sprained ankle. The DeMatha Stags went on to win the championship, leaving Jenkins and the Eagles stewing over the loss. “It always sits in the back of my mind,” said Jenkins. “I’m never going to forget it. I’ll probably remember it when I get old and have kids myself. It’s something that’s always going to stick with me.” Last Saturday, the WCAC cham-pionship wasn’t on the line, but early momentum in the postseason race was at stake. Jenkins made up for lost time as he led the Eagles past the Stags 76-74 in front of more than 3,000 fans at Bender Arena. The Eagles’ wins over DeMatha Saturday and Bishop Ireton yester-day have Gonzaga sitting atop the WCAC with a perfect 18-0. On Saturday, with junior point guard Nate Britt sidelined with a calf injury for a third straight game, Jenkins shouldered the scoring load and dropped 27 points on DeMatha. Several of the Eagles’ role play-ers stepped up in big spots for Gonzaga, including junior guard
Charles Glover, who finished with 16 points; sophomore forward Jordan Abdur-Ra’oof, who added 14 points; and senior center Will Rassman, who chipped in 13. “Charles was back in the starting lineup for us,” Gonzaga head coach Steve Turner said of Glover, who missed time earlier this season with an injury. “I thought tonight he was on his game and looked like the Charles we had all summer long.” The Eagles jumped on the Stags early and built a 17-6 lead midway through the first quarter. “We just wanted to come out and play as hard as we could and just get a win,” said Jenkins. The only negative for the Eagles in the early going was that Jenkins picked up two fouls in the first quar-ter and was forced to sit out the entire second quarter. Despite play-ing without their leader, the Eagles maintained their lead and continued to frustrate the nationally ranked Stags. “The rule is always two fouls, you come sit on the bench,” Turner said. “We knew we would need him in the second half.” Turner added that others stepped up to fill the hole: “Jordan came up big off the bench, [and Charles] came up big as a starter tonight in Nate’s position.” Even with Jenkins on the bench, the Eagles took a 37-29 lead into the
locker room at halftime. After the break, Jenkins took over the game. The junior showed his versatility by shredding the Stags’ defense with 3-point buckets, jumpers and attacking the rim to give the Eagles a 53-44 edge going into the final quarter. “He’s been our leader,” said Turner. “In the third quarter when he has his opportunity to take over, he did. … He’s taking up some extra void without having Nate out there, and we are proud of the job he’s doing.” In the fourth quarter, Jenkins continued to sizzle. He hit a pair of treys as Gonzaga took a command-ing 62-46 lead early in the final period. “I just wanted to be aggressive after sitting out the whole second quarter,” he said. “I just wanted to give us the best possible chance to win.” DeMatha tried to run a full-court press to force turnovers and get back into the game. But Gonzaga had the tactic well-scouted, and Abdur-Ra’oof scored three easy cherry-picking dunks as the Eagles stretched the lead to 68-51. “We made plays when we need-ed to — getting out of the press and finding Jordan a few times for dunks,” said Turner. DeMatha was able to hit a couple
Gonzaga edges DeMatha in thrilling WCAC showdown at Bender Arena
Brian Kapur/The CurrentGonzaga forward Kris Jenkins, who scored a game-high 27 points, celebrates the narrow win with his schoolmates. The Eagles are now in first place in the WCAC with a perfect 18-0 record.
St. John’s falls to Good Counsel in close game for first place in WCAC
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Matt Petros/The CurrentJunior Lindsay Allen and St. John’s hung tough with Good Counsel Friday, but mistakes cost the Cadets the game.
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Northwest Sports
Bengal boys nip Falcons The Burke Dome, which had been a raucous scene throughout the game, fell silent. The physical and close boys basketball match between Edmund Burke and Field had come down to the final shot. With the Bengals clinging to a two-point lead, the Falcons brought the ball up the court with 11 seconds remaining. The capacity crowd rose to its feet as a Field player squared up for a potentially game-winning shot in the right corner of the court. But the shot was off the mark, giving the Bengals the win and sending the ecstatic Burke student section onto the court to celebrate the 47-45 victory Friday. “We came out with good intensity, and that’s what made the difference,” said junior guard Josh Seligman. “We made some big shots down the stretch.” Seligman, who scored a game-high 18 points, sparked the Bengals’ attack. Meanwhile, Zach Klaiman led Field with 13 points despite missing some game time after being elbowed in the back of the head. Field took advantage of Burke’s small basketball court by packing its defense in a zone to stop dribble penetration and force the Falcons into jumpers. Seligman and the Bengals obliged as they connected on long jumpers to build a 36-30 lead midway through the third quarter. But Field refused to let the Bengals pull away and made it a tough game until the final seconds. After a flurry of exchanged baskets, Klaiman hit a layup to cut the Bengals’ lead to 47-45, but Field wouldn’t come any closer. Burke will host Grace Brethren-Clinton Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Field will try to bounce back when the team travels to St. Anselm’s at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
Burke girls sweep Field Burke’s girls team had one thing on its mind going into its annual “blackout night” Friday: revenge. At last year’s blackout — when students pack the gym wearing black attire for the Field game — Field beat Burke and swept the season series. But the Burke Bengals found redemption this year in front of a capacity crowd at the Burke Dome, winning the game 37-26. “We lost to Field twice last year,” said senior forward Savannah Windham. “We wanted it so bad — trying to make any shot from any angle.” The win gives Burke a season sweep of the Falcons, thanks also to a Jan. 6 win on the Falcons’ court. On Friday, the Bengals fed off a great home atmo-sphere to jump out to a 13-4 lead by the end of the first quarter and never looked back. Burke seniors Dana Brozost-Kelleher and Windham scored 13 points apiece to lead the way for the Bengals. On defense, Burke’s game plan was to limit Field’s leading scorer, senior guard Sidney Hyde. Guards Nora Howard and Molly McCabe worked hard to pressure Hyde into giving up the ball or taking difficult shots. She still came away with 12 points, but it wasn’t enough to steal the win from Burke. “We did a real nice job of stopping [Hyde’s] dribble penetration and made her pass the ball,” said Bengals head coach Mike McQuaid. Late in the game a technical foul gave Field a chance to pull close, and Falcons senior guard Sonya Boltansky hit the accompanying free throws. But Brozost-Kelleher answered with a fade-away jumper to effectively seal the game. “It’s one of my favorite moves,” she said. “It felt really good senior year to have this win and be playing this well,” she said.
— Brian Kapur
Burke’s boys and girls black out Field Falcons
of 3-pointers and force some turn-overs, and the Stags trimmed the Eagles’ 17-point lead down to 73-70 with 1:30 to play. Then, DeMatha forced the Eagles into a turnover and made it a one-point game with 27 seconds to go. Next, they inten-tionally fouled Glover to preserve time and force him to the free-throw line. The junior hit one of the two
freebies to give the Eagles a 74-72 edge with 18 seconds to play. On the Stags’ ensuing posses-sion, they tied the game at 74 with nine seconds to play. With the game on the line, the Eagles went to Abdur-Ra’oof in the paint. The sophomore was fouled with a second to play, earning two free throws. He calmly hit both to provide the final margin for the Eagles, and the Gonzaga students rushed the court to celebrate the win.
“That’s just the passion of our school,” said Jenkins. “I believe that we have the best student body ever.” The win gives the Eagles a boost when they travel to DeMatha on Feb. 10 for a nationally televised game. “It’s just having confidence and believing that we could win. For us to come out and get a win was big for us,” said Jenkins. The Eagles will look to remain undefeated when they travel to McNamara on Friday.
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David Swinson took a roundabout path to becom-ing an author, writing his
first novel as a retiree after experi-ences in Hollywood and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. But “I always knew I wanted to write,” he said, and the impetus for his crime novel, “A Detailed Man,” came when he was still working as a detective. “This book has been in my head for a long time,” he said. “A Detailed Man,” published this winter, follows veteran D.C. detective Ezra Simeon as he takes on a high-profile case involving the murder of a young escort. The investigation brings Simeon in contact with a lonely professor at the University of the District of Columbia and a posh, confident software developer who lives in Dupont Circle. Pursuing his instincts in spite of practical reasons not to, the detective digs into the connection between the two men and the murder. Swinson envisions “A Detailed Man” as the first in a series of crime novels featuring reappearing characters, and taking place on the same streets where he once lived and worked. Swinson joined the D.C. police academy in 1994 and started out as a uniformed officer in the Adams Morgan area of the 3rd District. He later advanced to become a detective, specializing in burglaries (which he describes as “the gateway to every crime imag-inable”) and particularly “narco-fencing” — investigating locations known to traffic in both stolen property and narcotics. He ended up in the Special Investigations Bureau and the now-defunct Career Criminal Unit,
debriefing criminals and taking on cases that could last several years or even go international. In 2003, he won the honor of “Detective of the Year.” Police work in D.C. was a sec-ond phase of adulthood for Swinson, who also spent more than a decade in a vastly different environment in California. “I fell into the punk rock scene,” Swinson said of his post-college years. Almost accidentally, he landed in the job of concert promoter for two venues in Long Beach, booking acts like Devo, Social Distortion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “I had some won-derful times with all of those bands,” he said. He also pursued his interest in filmmaking, producing the cult classic “Roadside Prophets.” The surreal road movie — penned by “Sid and Nancy” screenwriter Abbe Wool, and starring Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys — came out in 1992. But Swinson’s experience with the film soured him on Hollywood. “I started seeing the
script get lost in translation,” he said, and he grew to despise “the politics of filmmaking.” At the age of 33, he did an about-face. “I made a decision to become a cop in D.C.,” he said. “It was where I wanted to be.” The location choice wasn’t ran-dom: Swinson moved into the Dupont Circle condo where he’d spent a large part of his childhood. Growing up, his family had trav-eled the world with his father’s Foreign Service career, but D.C. was always home base. To transition from punk rock and Hollywood into the “paramili-tary” atmosphere of the D.C. police academy was “scary at first,” Swinson said. He quit ciga-rettes and put himself on a strict regimen of push-ups, sit-ups and running. “The structure did won-ders for me.” And though police work involved some inevitable disap-pointments — “you realize that although you’re doing some good stuff, you’re not changing much,”
Swinson said — he never experi-enced the same disillusionment that he did in Hollywood. “It got in my blood,” he said of his career as a detective. These days, Swinson lives with his wife and young daughter in Fairfax Station, Va., and has devoted himself to writing after retiring from the police department in 2009.™ Though his personal experienc-es certainly informed the details and setting of “A Detailed Man,” and Swinson prides himself on a “realistic, not Hollywood-style” portrayal of the city of D.C., he said the story isn’t based on any of his real-life cases. In fact, he began writing with a character in mind, rather than a plot or ending. “I liked the idea of a character who was really flawed,” Swinson said of Det. Simeon, a divorced man who lives alone, carries on a long-distance but platonic relation-ship with a female friend, and, at the outset of the novel, is healing from a case of Bell’s palsy that
leaves half his face immobilized. “A Detailed Man” starts with Simeon working in quiet isolation on the cold-case unit. But the sud-den death of a colleague — a friend from his academy days — jolts the detective into a more demanding reality. Taking over a homicide case his friend had investigated, Simeon challenges himself and some of his authori-ties in pursuing some initially improbable leads. Swinson said this character might not feature as prominently in his next novel. “I’ll probably get more into my love/passion for burglary,” he said, hinting that Det. Simeon may be partnered with a “more innocent-looking detective … someone like a younger version of myself.” Swinson will appear at One More Page Books in Arlington to celebrate the book launch for “A Detailed Man” on Saturday, Feb. 11. The event will take place from 3 to 4 p.m. at the store, at 2200 North Westmoreland St., #101.
The People and Places of Northwest Washington January 25, 2012 ■ Page 13
Former MPD detective delves into a new chapter
Photos by Mark ReganDavid Swinson retired in 2009 from the Metropolitan Police Department, where he started as an officer with the 3rd District and worked his way up to detective. He recently published his first novel, “A Detailed Man,” which is set in areas of the city where Swinson worked.
Washingtonians write lots of books. Here are some we’ve heard about
lately:
■ Massachusetts Avenue Heights resident Joan Aghevli has co-authored “The Poet’s Daughter: Malek o’Shoara Bahar and the Immortal Song of Freedom,” a translation of Parvaneh Bahar’s memoir of her life in Iran. Parvaneh Bahar, who used to work at
the International Monetary Fund with Aghevli, is the daughter of a well-regarded poet and freedom fighter.
■ Longtime D.C. resident Stephen Hansen has written a book about his neighborhood. “Kalorama Triangle: The History of a Capital Neighborhood” describes how the community over the years drew wealthy colonists, Civil War barracks and hospitals, Gilded Age excess-es and the ill-fated Knickerbocker Theater. Hansen is principal of D.C. Historic
Designs LLC, a preservation and architec-tural design company.
■ Former Georgetown University neurolo-gy professor Mark Ozer recently authored another in a series of local history books. “Northwest Washington, D.C.: Tales From West of the Park” charts the evolution of the quadrant’s storied neighborhoods. Ozer lives in Cleveland Park.
■ North Cleveland Park freelancer Beth Kanter has published “Food Lovers’
Guide to Washington, D.C.,” a handbook for those dedicated to finding the best mar-kets, brunches, festivals, food trucks, fine dining and everything in between.
■ Native Washingtonian Ron Wheeler, a member of the Department of Exercise Science faculty at George Washington University, has published “The Power of Shaolin Kung Fu,” about the world’s first martial arts techniques. This is a first book for Wheeler, an accomplished martial artist himself.
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property from Van Hazen Street. In the rear, a concrete driveway leads to an alley. The home’s location is also a plus, thanks to nearby Beach Drive, Military Road and Nebraska Avenue. This three-bedroom, two-bath home at 3275 Van Hazen St. is offered for $759,000. For more information, contact Katrina Schymik of McEnearney Associates at 202-441-3982 or [email protected].
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Recent renovation leaves midcentury home in fine form
Carol Buckley/The CurrentThis three-bedroom, two-bath Barnaby Woods home is priced at $759,000.
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budget. Instead of beginning con-struction this year, the project would be pushed back to 2013, with a completion date expected in 2016. Coolidge High School’s pro-posed modernization budget is $96 million, up from the $86 million now allocated. Instead of beginning this fall, the planning process would be moved to fall 2013, with con-struction to start in 2014 and com-plete in 2017. Community members at the meeting weren’t convinced of the merits of the new plan. “We waited patiently for our turn,” said Terry Goings, parent coordinator for Coolidge High School, who noted that Ward 4 fam-ilies watched neighboring schools get overhauls but agreed to abide by the original modernization schedule. “I trusted in the system that the money would be there for us … and now they tell me it will be pushed
back even further? I think that’s a slap in the face.” A study by 21st Century School Fund, a local nonprofit that looks at school planning and capital budget issues, shows that in a ward-by-ward comparison, there is inequity among school investments. Ward 4 schools have received the least amount of recent funding for modernization. Between 2000 and 2010, Ward 4 schools were allocated just over $72 million for renovations. In compari-son, Ward 3 schools received almost $317 million; Ward 5 was allocated nearly $226 million; and Ward 7 received almost $194 million. Meanwhile, advocates for Roosevelt and Coolidge say the two buildings remain in disrepair. At the meeting, community members expressed frustration that for more than a decade, students at Roosevelt have had to enter their school through the back door because the front doors won’t open. Windows are broken and won’t close, they say, bathrooms are miss-ing stall doors and sinks, and leaking
pipes protrude from moldy walls. One Roosevelt student said he was confused about why a meeting like this was happening after mem-bers of the school community had campaigned for a year to get their front door fixed. “It’s undignified to have to enter in the back door every day,” he said. “Why are we here to once again to ask you to fix the bathrooms and get rid of the rats in the ceiling? Why are we repeating this process? If there is money there now, why can’t we start now rather than wait until we have double in the bank that might not ever be there?” Hanlon responded by saying he would look into the door and win-dow issues, but noted that since the building is historic, it could take about a year to fix those features. Because construction is expected to begin next year, Hanlon argued that it makes more sense to conduct those repairs “concurrently” with the entire building’s modernization. While school community mem-bers lined up to testify to the urgent need for modernization at both schools, students in a photography group at Roosevelt handed out post-cards with images documenting the building’s disrepair.
Teachers at the meeting also voiced serious concerns that the working conditions in both schools constitute health hazards. Lauren McKenzie, who teaches social studies at Coolidge, said paint chips from her classroom’s ceiling and walls fall onto her desk and into her keyboard, and she believes the paint is now “in her system.” “We made a choice to be here; we want to teach your kids,” she said. “But we can’t teach if we’re not healthy enough to be here. We want decent working conditions.” Another teacher said ceilings in the locker rooms leak when it rains. In response to the laundry list of complaints about the two schools, Wright, who doesn’t have children, said he wouldn’t send his godsons to either high school due to the poor building conditions. Kamili Anderson, the Ward 4 representative on the D.C. State Board of Education, said Wright’s reaction doesn’t help the students who attend those schools now. “It’s [Wright’s] responsibility, as it is everyone’s responsibility, to look at the conditions in these schools now and do something about it,” Anderson said in an interview. She argued that a phased devel-
opment plan could be the solution. “It seems reasonable to start the construction now with the funding that is already allocated, and trust that if we have a responsible govern-ment, they will fulfill their promises and finish this project,” Anderson said. Though many at the meeting argued for similar plans, Hanlon called the idea of a phased develop-ment “unpopular,” saying the city prefers to modernize with a project’s guaranteed full budget. Anderson said she is concerned that delaying modernization is really a smokescreen for a city plan to close one of the two schools. When asked about that issue at the meeting, Wright could not guarantee that both schools would remain open, but said there is no active plan to close either. Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser, who co-moderated the meeting with Anderson, made it clear that changes to the capital bud-get require council approval. “The next budget meeting should be full of Roosevelt and Coolidge stakeholders,” said Bowser. “You need to make your voices heard with the city council so that these schools are modernized as quickly as possi-ble.”
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soil was scheduled for the week of Jan. 10 for a home on the 3900 block of 52nd Street. The site, which an earlier cleanup had missed, had arse-nic at levels well above U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency standards. Three pieces of World War I munitions were removed ear-lier from a residential property on the same block. Noble also reported that an inves-tigation of the Dalecarlia Woods area has been completed, and a full report will be made at the board’s February
meeting. Among the items the inves-tigation uncovered, he said, were fragments of a Civil War-era cannon ball, and World War I munitions containing a perchlorate compound. The last scheduled investigation of “anomalies” is under way in the 2.5 acres around American University’s Kreeger Hall.
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up donations for candidates, without requiring disclosure of the true source of the funds. The elections board will hold a public hearing on the measure Feb. 13 to see if it is a proper subject for ballot initiative, and to approve lan-guage for a title, summary and legis-lative text. If it’s approved, support-ers would have 180 days to collect about 23,000 signatures — 5 percent of registered voters citywide, includ-ing at least 5 percent of the voters in five of the city’s eight wards — to get the measure on the Nov. 6 gen-eral election ballot. Sponsors say they’re not daunted by the cumbersome process. Bryan Weaver, an Adams Morgan activist and one of the orga-nizers of the self-titled D.C. Committee to Restore Public Trust, said support is pouring in. “We’ve been inundated” since the initiative was filed, Weaver said, with several hundred volunteers signed up already — enough, he said, to put signature gatherers at every precinct April 3. Sylvia Brown, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 7, is also helping direct the effort. Weaver said the decision to go for a ballot initiative came after the council passed its major ethics bill in December, yet shelved amendments to deal with the most pressing cam-paign finance problems. Ward 6 member Tommy Wells won no sup-port, for example, when he proposed prohibiting campaign contributions from companies that hold city con-tracts — a milder measure than the outright ban on corporate contribu-tions that’s already in place in fed-eral campaigns and in 23 states. “We were devastated by what we saw in the ethics debate,” said Weaver, noting that the council still has the power to ban corporate con-tributions. “There’s a crisis of shak-
en confidence in the city. … If you want to stop a citizen revolt, they should enact this before we get it on the ballot. It would be wonderful if this thing gets them off their collec-tive duff.” But, Weaver noted, “it may be easier to get 23,000 Washingtonians than 12 council members.” Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser, who chairs the committee that oversees election rules, said she wants to take a more comprehensive look at campaign finance issues “sometime this year.” But in various interviews, Bowser has made clear she doesn’t favor an outright ban on corporate contributions. On WAMU’s Politics Hour last Friday, for example, Bowser said the council “made an affirmative decision that campaign finance warrants a comprehensive look.” But a ban on corporate contri-butions could just shift the funds elsewhere, she said, such as to the “Super PACs” now dominating fed-eral campaigns with their unlimited funds. Instead, Bowser said, improved disclosure might be in order. “I will not refuse corporate donations. I’m very proud in my ward to raise funds from companies and individ-uals,” she said. “But all our laws should make clear who’s giving.” Wells of Ward 6 is backing the citizens’ initiative, and predicts it’s likely to pass. He said the average citizen would be offended at the common practice of corporate lob-byists, some of whom previously served in city government, wander-ing the halls of the Wilson Building pushing legislation for their clients, and also holding fundraisers for can-didates and contributing to their campaigns. Wells suggested that his col-leagues are reluctant to ban the practice because “five or six mem-bers are up for re-election, all receiv-ing funds from corporations. They didn’t want it to be an issue this year.”
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Aidan Montessori School On Jan. 13, the upper elementary class went to the Pentagon. We got a tour of the many floors and talked to a historian and a Marine. Fourth-grader Sebastian Lenart said, “It was great because I met high-ranked people.” “It was incredible,” said fifth-grader Elliot Sealls. “There were so many facts.” “It was awesome because we met a two-star general,” said sixth-grader Lucia Braddock. After the tour, Josie Schiffer’s father took us to his office for a pizza party. Sixth-grader Nina Gumbs said, “I had a veggie pizza, and it was delicious.” Fifth-grader Isabel Boul said, “It was OK. It was really cool being in an office at the Pentagon.” Fourth-grader Sylvia Altman said, “I loved it. I’m glad I tried my first grape soda there.” Sixth-grader Amira Clark said, “I liked that it had a small mall for personal use, and I liked the memo-rial for Sept. 11.” Fifth-grader Eva Gondelman said, “I thought it was really cool because it had a Dunkin’ Donuts, and I liked that they had a memorial for the people who died on 9/11.” “I liked the multiple exhibits and all the facts about the people who worked there,” said fourth-grader Edvin Leijon.
— Josie Schiffer, fourth-grader, and Lukas Leijon, fifth-grader
Beauvoir School Here are some books I recom-mend: 1. “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne: This is a very creative and inspiring story. It starts out as a mystery, and then it turns into an adventure, so if you like mystery or adventure, then you will love this book! It is appro-priate for students in second grade and up. 2. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis: This book is very creative. If you like magic, this is just the right book for you! It is appropriate for students in second grade and up. 3. “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick: This book is very adventurous. It is about a small boy called Hugo Cabret who is trying to fix a robot. If he gets it working again it will write a letter. Hugo is so tempted to know what it would write that it becomes the center of his life. This
book is appropriate for everyone!— Alex Stettinius, third-grader
Blessed Sacrament School The gym went quiet with antici-pation as another geography bee contestant was eliminated from the competition. It was down to two. On Jan. 12, Blessed Sacrament students gathered to compete for a spot in the District geography bee. Grades five through eight each had three students competing. Matt Wilson, the reigning champion for two years in a row, has gone to the national finals, where he placed 13th! Nora Rhodes was going for her first win. It was a close competition. The questions became harder and hard-er. But it wasn’t until the champion-ship round that things really started heating up. The audience members were on the edge of their seats, some wringing their hands. Two championship questions passed, finally coming to the final question: “Timbuktu, a center of caravan trade for almost 1,000 years, is located on the Niger River in which landlocked country?” Everything went quiet. Without hesitation, Matt Wilson wrote something on his board, but the other contestant was stuck. She held up a question mark. Matt had done it! His answer, Mali, was correct, and he claimed his third consecu-tive geography bee. Everyone stood up and clapped for the winner and for all the participants.
— Emily Orem, fifth-grader
British School of Washington The Eco Committee started big this year and has already completed the “Biggest Loser” competi-tion. Our next big event is prepara-tion for Green Week. Every year, our school dedicates one week to being a bit greener. It includes a fair, a power-down day, and some activities throughout nor-mal lessons. Each year, we have a theme. This year’s theme is water and especially rivers. We will be trying to teach students about the impor-tance of water — how it helps us, and how much we value clean and healthy water. The Eco Committee also has plans to earn our first “Eco Flag.” An Eco Flag is an award for the school for doing green things, such
as turning off unnecessary lights, picking up litter and recycling. One of our main goals is to make the school a more eco-friend-ly place throughout the whole year, and not just for competitions or spe-cial weeks. Hopefully, the committee’s work will pay off and help make the school a little greener and, in time, help make the world a little greener as well.
— Emma Venables, Year 7 San Francisco (sixth-grader)
Deal Middle School How can we make a difference in our larger community? This is the question that the eighth-grade Spanish Humanities III class at Deal is trying to answer. In response
to the documentary “The Devil’s Miner,” about child mining in Bolivia, we have spent the past few months on “Pasamos la Voz,” spreading the word about the com-plex issue of child labor. To educate and inform our larger community, our class split up into three groups. The first made a web-site about our project. The second made a newsletter, El Tabloide, full of research about child labor in Bolivia and elsewhere, and what people can to do stop it. The third made a documentary about the his-tory of child labor. A fourth orga-nized a book drive at Deal, where students bring in new or used books in exchange for raffle tickets. These books will be sold for a dollar apiece at an upcoming book fair,
and the proceeds will be donated. We realized that child labor is a more complex issue than we had first thought. Having to work at an early age deprives children of their education and can put them in potentially dangerous situations. However, in some cases, it is the only way a child can support his or her family. There is no obvious solution. By educating others, we are strengthening support for child laborers nationwide.
— Rachel Page, eighth-grader
Edmund Burke School We had an informative and inspiring assembly in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Reggie, our director of equity and
Discussions and lectures ■RobertO.BlakeJr.,U.S.assistantsec-retaryofstateforSouthandCentralAsianAffairs,willdiscuss“U.S.InterestsinCentralAsiaandItsStrategyforAdvancingThem.”5:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.KenneyAuditorium,NitzeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1740MassachusettsAve.NW.caciforum.eventbrite.com. ■J.MorganGroveoftheU.S.ForestServicewilldiscuss“TheGreatestMulti-TaskerEver:UrbanTrees.”6:30p.m.Free.Room208,White-GravenorHall,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■PanelistswilldiscusstheprocessofreinventingTysonsCornerasawalkable,sus-tainableurbancenter.6:30to8p.m.$20;$12forstudents.Reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■RobinSawyer,anexpertinhumansex-ualityandadolescenthealth,willdiscuss“TeensandSexuality.”7p.m.$5.BlackBoxTheater,TregaronCampus,WashingtonInternationalSchool,3100MacombSt.NW.202-243-1800. ■MelissaJacobs,editorofthewebsitethefootballgirl.com,willdiscusswhatitmeanstobeafemaleNFLfan.7p.m.$10.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.
Films ■The“Film|Neu”serieswillfeaturetheEastCoastpremiereofMichaelSteiner’s2010film“Sennentuntschi:CurseoftheAlps.”6:30and9:15p.m.$11;$9forseniorsandstudents.Landmark’sEStreetCinema,55511thSt.NW.filmneu.org. ■TheReelIsraelDCserieswillfeature
Children’s program ■Aparkrangerwillleadages3andolderonawinterscavengerhunt.4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.
Class ■TheSriChinmoyCentreofWashington,DC,willpresentafour-partclassonbasicmeditationtechniques.7:30to8:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-452-5954.
■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandclarinetistJörgWidmannwillperformworksbyMozart,WidmannandSchubert.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The perfor-mance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ■MusicianPaoloPandolfowillperformbaroquemusiconthevioladagamba.7:30p.m.$25.LaMaisonFrançaise,4101ReservoirRoadNW.instantseats.com. ■StudentsoftheEuropeanAcademyofMusicandArtwillperformworksbyBellini,MozartandVerdi.7:30p.m.$50.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.thingstododc.com. ■VocalArtsDCwillpresentsopranoLydiaTeuscherandpianistGrahamJohnson.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.
Discussions and lectures ■TheOsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkon“ScienceforanActivePlanet”byDavidApplegate,associatedirectorfornaturalhaz-ardsattheU.S.GeologicalSurvey.10to11:50a.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-895-4860. ■GeorgeDaltonTolbertIVwilldiscuss“AllAccess—TheLifeofaU.S.SenatePhotographer.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■MarkSteinwilldiscusshisbook“HowtheStatesGotTheirShapesToo:ThePeopleBehindtheBorderlines.”Noon.Free.MumfordRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5221. ■GingerCucolowilldiscussherbook“DogTags:TheHistory,PersonalStories,CulturalImpactandFutureofMilitaryIdentification.”Noon.Free.MaryPickfordTheater,MadisonBuilding,Libraryof
Films ■ThePhillipsCollectionwillpresentMegumiSasaki’s2008film“HerbandDorothy.”6p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■The“Film|Neu”serieswillclosewiththeinternationalpremiereofSimonVerhoeven’s2011romanticcomedy“MenintheCityII.”7and9:30p.m.$11;$9forseniorsandstudents.Landmark’sEStreetCinema,55511thSt.NW.filmneu.org.
GondaTheatre,DavisPerformingArtsCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. ■TheMarkMorrisDanceGroupwillper-form“L’Allegro,ilPenserosoedilModerato”tomusicbyHandel,accompaniedbytheKennedyCenterOperaHouseOrchestra,theWashingtonBachConsortandfourvocalists.7:30p.m.$19to$69.OperaHouse,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The perfor-mance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Discussions and lectures ■ArthurMitchell,seniorcounseloratWhite&CaseLLP,willdiscuss“RecoveryinTohoku:IsItLikelytoHappen?”Noon.Free;reservationsrequired.Room500,Bernstein-OffitBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,[email protected]. ■PoetsPedroSerranoandReiBerroawilldiscussGreeksurrealistpoetOdysseasElytisandhissignificanceinHispaniclitera-tureofthelate1930sandthe1940s.6:30p.m.Free.WestDiningRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5221. ■AuthorDeborahScrogginswilldiscussherbook“WantedWomen:Faith,Lies&theWaronTerror:TheLivesofAyaanHirsiAli&AafiaSiddiqui.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.
Film ■TheJapanInformationandCultureCenterwillpresentKatsuhiroOtomo’s2004sci-fiepic“Steamboy.”6:30p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.JapanInformationandCultureCenter,[email protected].
Sporting event ■Thisyear’sMonsterJamshowwillcele-bratethe30thanniversaryofDennisAnderson’smonstertruckGraveDigger.7:30p.m.$23to$63;$11forages2through12.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.The show will repeat Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Saturday,Jan.28
Children’s programs ■The“SaturdayMorningattheNational”serieswillfeaturestorytellerChrisDavistell-ingtimelesstalesofancientGreecewithkidscastasfearsomemonstersandfairmaidens.9:30and11a.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. ■Childrenages5andolderwilllistentoastoryaboutchef,authorandrestaurantownerAliceWatersandcreateaspecialpieceofart.1to4p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.
Films ■WestEndCinemawillpresentBobHercules’film“Joffrey:MavericksofAmericanDance.”Aquestion-and-answersessionwithpastandpresentmembersoftheJoffreyBalletwillfollow.1:30p.m.$15.WestEndCinema,23rdStreetbetweenMandNstreetsNW.202-419-3456.The film will be shown again Sunday at 11 a.m. ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillpresentEliaKazan’s1953film“ManonaTightrope”andhis1960film“WildRiver.”2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.
Special event ■TheNationalLeagueofAmericanPenWomen,DistrictofColumbiaBranch,willpresent“AbrahamLincoln’sLifeinMusic:APerformanceProgram”bypianistandauthorElizabethSmithBrownstein.1p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequired.PenArtsBuilding,[email protected].
Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonavigorouswinterhikeinRockCreekPark.Noon.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillpointoutthe“extras”builtintotheOldStoneHousethatprovidedsomeupper-middle-classcomfortsinanoth-erwisecommonColonialhome.2p.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851.
Film ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillpresentJeanRenoir’s1954film“FrenchCanCan,”abouttheoriginsoftheMoulinRougescreens.5p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.
Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonavigorouswinterhikeinRockCreekPark.10a.m.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.
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Saturday, january 28■Concert: TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresentjazzpianistBradMehldau.8p.m.$30.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000.
Films ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentAlfredHitchcock’s1954film“RearWindow,”star-ringJamesStewartandGraceKelly.6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■“BestinInput:TelevisionOutoftheBox”willfeatureunusualprogrammingfromGermanyandSwitzerland.6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.169. ■“TheGoatRodeoSessionsLive”willfeaturecellistYo-YoMa,bluegrassfiddlerStuartDuncan,bassistEdgarMeyer,mando-linplayerChrisThileandvocalistAoifeO’DonovaninalivebroadcastfromtheHouseofBluesBoston.7:30p.m.$15.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com.
Wednesday,Feb.1
Class ■HousingCounselingServices,alocalnonprofit,willpresentaforeclosure-preven-tionclinictohelphomeownersindangeroflosingtheirhomes.Noon.Free.Suite100,241017thSt.NW.202-667-7712.TheclasswillrepeatFeb.8,15and22andnoonandFeb.29at6p.m.
Discussions and lectures ■TurkishAmbassadorNamikTanwillspeak.Noon.Free;reservationsrequired.CopleyHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-0292. ■KarenG.MillsoftheU.S.SmallBusinessAdministrationwilldiscuss“ThePathtoEntrepreneurialSuccess.”5to6p.m.Free;registrationrequired.JackMortonAuditorium,MediaandPublicAffairsBuilding,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,80521stSt.
Film ■TheReelAbilitiesDisabilitiesFilmFestivalwillopenwithascreeningof“WarriorChampions,”aboutfourIraqWarveteranswhoreturnhomewithlife-chang-inginjuriesthattheystrivetoturnintoOlympicdreams.Theeventwillincludehorsd’oeuvresandatalkbyRichardBernstein,ablindlawyerandmarathoner.6:30p.m.$25.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.greaterdc.reelabilities.org.The festival will continue through Feb. 9 with screenings at various venues.
Special event ■TheLeadershipConferenceEducationFundandSplitThisRockwillhost“VoicesOutLoud,”acelebrationofthecentenaryofcivilrightsactivistBayardRustin.TheeventwillincludespokenwordperformancesbypoetsChrisAugust,RegieCabicoandTwainDooley;videoclips;andremarksbyWalterNaegleandWadeHenderson.6to8p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.NationalMuseumforWomenintheArts,1250NewYorkAve.NW.brownpapertickets.com/event/215760.
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Monday, january 30■Concert:Brazilian-Armenianguitar-istJoãoKouyoumdjianwillperformaspartoftheMovimentoViolão.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.
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(Yale Univ., $29.95)One of the issues raised by the fall of Communist governments concerns the clash between individual rights and the objectives of the state. In his third book on Russia and the Soviet Union, Satter, former Moscow correspondent for The Financial Times and special correspondent on Soviet affairs for the Wall Street Journal, examines the end of the USSR from a humanist perspective.
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(Palgrave Macmillan, $28)The first White House memoir was written by Paul Jennings, who was part of the Madisons’ household staff. Jennings was a slave—freed only much later by Senator Daniel Webster—and was sold by Dolley Madison after her husband’s death. Taylor, former director of education at James Madison’s Montpelier, chronicles Jennings’s long life (he lived to see his sons fight in the Union army) and the racial attitudes he encountered.
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(Basic Books, $26) In his latest book, the former National Security Advisor looks back to the optimism following the fall of the Communist bloc and outlines a strategy by which the United States can reassert that position of strength. His analysis focuses on the changing distribution of global power and America’s place in that new arrangement, especially in relation to China. This event will take place at Sixth & I Synagogue and is ticketed. Two tickets come free with each purchase of the book ($26) or tickets can be purchased separately for $10 each in advance of the event ($12 on the day of ).
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“Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition,” tracing the development of Pablo Picasso’s
drawing technique with some 60 works from the artist’s early years, will open Sunday at the National Gallery of Art and continue through May 6. Concurrently, the gallery will also mount
“The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione,” showcasing works on paper by the Italian baroque master and by his contem-poraries and followers. The gallery will also reopen its 19th-cen-tury French impressionist and post-impres-sionist galleries Saturday, following a two-year renovation. Located at 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the National Gallery of Art is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-737-4215.■ The Old Print Gallery will open its Winter
Contemporary Show on Friday with a recep-tion from 5 to 8 p.m. Located at 1220 31st St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-965-1818.■ “Tidewater: The Chesapeake Bay in Photographs,” featuring images from Burleith photographer Stephen Brown’s book of the same name, will open Friday with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Annapolis Maritime Museum and continue through the end of March. Brown will deliver an illustrated talk on his work tomorrow from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with an admission cost of $15. Located at 723 2nd St., Annapolis, Md., the museum is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 410-295-0104.■ The American University Museum will open five exhibits Saturday with an artists’ reception from 6 to 9 p.m. “Anil Revri: Faith and Liberation Through Abstraction,” featuring Revri’s meditative paintings, will remain on view through April 15. “Gabarrón’s Roots,” highlighting colorful
sculptures by Cristóbal Gabarrón that evoke archaeological and zoological mysteries, will continue through April 15. “Raoul Middleman: City Limits,” present-ing paintings by Baltimore artist Middleman, will continue through March 18. “Regaining Our Faculties: Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn, and Luis Manuel Cravo Silva,” spotlighting work by American University faculty members, will continue through March 18. “Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life,” presenting photos by Kids@Katzen partici-pants, will remain on view through Feb. 28. Located in the Katzen Arts Center at 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-885-1300.■ “Where the Seafloor Melts: Ocean Mud, Ceramic Change & the Connected Mind,” presenting works by ceramic artist Joan Lederman, will open today at Georgetown University’s Spagnuolo Gallery and continue through April 1. There will be a panel discussion with the artist and guests Tuesday at 4 p.m., followed
by a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Located in the lobby of the Walsh Building at 1221 36th St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Theater J will present “Electile Dysfunction: The Kinsey Sicks for President”
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Center. The “dragapella” beauty-shop quartet continues to spread musical anarchy with this world premiere — a Theater J commission. Join the Kinseys at the official launch of their groundbreaking campaign to win the Republican nomination for president. Performance times are generally at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $70. The center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-7497; theaterj.org.■ Constellation Theatre Company will present Federico Garciá Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” Feb. 2 through March 4 at Source. Lovers are torn apart as two families in rural Spain are intricately bound in an unbreakable cycle of murder and revenge in this story by one of Spain’s most celebrated play-wrights. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $40. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741; constellationtheatre.org.■ Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater will return to the Kennedy Center for its annual engagement with new works and a compilation of classics Feb. 7 through 12. Works will include Ailey’s
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“Minus 16” and Ulysses Dove’s “Urban Folk Dance.” Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $99. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ GALA Hispanic Theatre will present Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Ana en el trópico (Anna in the Tropics)” Feb. 9 through March 4. Dormant passions are revived
with the arrival of a lector at a 1920s factory in Ybor City, Fla., where cigars are rolled by hand. As the lector reads “Anna Karenina” to the workers, a slow and profound transformation occurs in their lives. The play will be performed in Spanish with English surtitles. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $38. The theater is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202-234-7174; galatheatre.org.■ Washington Savoyards will cel-ebrate its 40th season with “Washington Savoyards All Stars” Feb. 10 through 12 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Performances will feature the company’s artists and music. The Saturday evening show will include a birthday party. Event times are 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $15 to $40 for shows; $125 for the birthday party. The Atlas is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; savoyards.org.
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Neighbors and community orga-nizations testified at a series of hear-ings last year, with most critics stat-ing that the planned growth would concentrate large buildings near sin-gle-family homes and add to traffic congestion in the area, among other issues. But zoning commissioners said the university has taken appro-priate steps to mitigate such burdens.
Speaking about the plans for 590 beds of student housing and two academic/administrative buildings planned for the Nebraska Avenue parking lot, adjacent to the Westover Place community, commissioner Peter May said the school’s rede-signs have resolved many of his concerns. “It may not be the most brilliant piece of campus planning, but I think it’s been sensitive to the context and the real potential for objectionable impacts from immedi-ate neighbors,” he said.
The university originally pro-posed 1,000 beds on this site, dubbed “East Campus,” but reduced its pro-posal during the zoning process. Commissioners remained skeptical, though, of the amount of retail pro-posed for the site: 9,000 square feet, barely half the original proposal but still three times the amount the D.C. Office of Planning recommends. Plans to relocate the university’s Washington College of Law to the Tenley Campus, another much-criti-cized redevelopment, also won gen-eral support from commissioners. “It’s the right location for that school,” said Konrad Schlater. Key aspects of the campus plan that remain in flux are how many students American University will be able to enroll and how many of them it will need to house on its campus. Commissioners were sup-portive of the proposed cap of 13,600 — an increase of 1,000 students at the main campus over 10 years com-pared to the current cap — but weren’t comfortable with allowing undergraduate enrollment to increase until planned new dorms are ready. Commissioners discussed ways to hold the university to its word that its plans won’t harm the neighbor-hood. Under the campus plan pro-
cess, the Zoning Commission first approves rough outlines for planned development and a school must return later for “further processing” approval for each individual project it seeks to begin constructing. At Monday’s meeting, commis-sioners said that in the future, they would consider denying those fur-ther processing applications if the university hasn’t successfully man-aged the impact of other aspects of its plan, such as problems resulting from the development it hopes to build sooner. American University has already applied for further pro-cessing of the East Campus, the North Hall dorm on Massachusetts Avenue and the Tenley Campus, among other projects. But from what has been present-ed thus far, commissioners said, many of neighbors’ feared impacts seem unlikely to be major problems. The university already has strong procedures in place to deal with dis-ruptive off-campus students and with university-related vehicles that park on neighborhood streets, they said. Commissioners also said that objections to many future develop-ments, such as the South Hall dorm near Rockwood Parkway, could be addressed in further processing deliberations, which include another public hearing process. In an email, the university’s David Taylor wrote that the school appreciates the Zoning Commission’s
“acknowledgement of AU’s efforts to minimize impacts and the changes we have made,” and said the com-mission and the university have a shared interest in getting dorms built quickly. He added that the school “will work with the Zoning Commission’s suggestions” for less retail on the East Campus. At Monday’s meeting, the Zoning Commission did request additional information from the university about community accusations that the school’s traffic study didn’t accu-rately address the impact of pro-posed development. Tom Smith, the former chair of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights advisory neighborhood commission, who presented the body’s testimony on the campus plan, blasted the Zoning Commission in an email to The Current yesterday. In discount-ing neighbors’ concerns, he wrote, the commissioners “failed even to show the most basic command of the details of the proposed plan.” “Although nothing has been finalized yet, the Zoning Commission showed a breathtaking indifference at last night’s hearing to the concerns outlined by the community, includ-ing ANC 3D,” Smith wrote yester-day. “Residents would be justified in thinking that their local government has abandoned them and the com-munity.” The Zoning Commission is now scheduled to take its final action on the campus plan Feb. 16.
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borhood they don’t know,” said Lanier. “They always hit the same places for car theft, and often it’s the same with house burglaries. … If a particular group gets $600 in cash, or steals a Mercedes, they will want to come back to that area to look for other valuable property and try it again.” One of the victims said she parked outside her home one evening and decided to sit in her car as she listened to the end of a song. When she reached to open her car door, a man approached, pointed a gun in her face and told her to give him her keys and her purse. She did so willingly and wasn’t injured. Because of communication between police districts, officers were able to find that resi-dent’s car the same night it was stolen near the location where other stolen cars from the neighborhood had been found. The resident expressed appreciation for the quick and thorough response by law enforce-ment. “The police went above and beyond,” she said. “They even brought me work papers from inside my car that I needed that night,” before taking the car to the city’s crime lab for testing.
Other armed robberies that occurred this month in the neighborhood have targeted people walking home to Shepherd Park from the Takoma Metro station at the end of their workday. One victim walking on Dahlia Street saw a young man kneeling down on the side-walk, appearing to tie his shoe, police said. As she passed by, the man stood up, put a gun in her face and announced the robbery. She gave him her belongings and was not injured. According to Chief Lanier, Shepherd Park has also seen an increase in armed home bur-glaries and in property stolen from unlocked vehicles in recent months. In addition to wal-lets and purses, Lanier said perpetrators are looking to steal small mobile devices, primar-ily smartphones, because they can be quickly sold on the black market. Fourth District Cmdr. Kimberly Chisley-Missouri said at Monday’s meeting that she has deployed a number of additional uni-formed and plainclothes officers to combat the spike in crimes in the neighborhood. Police presence has also increased because of the additional 26 officers assigned to the 4th District after its boundaries were recently expanded. Chisley-Missouri pledged that even after the crimes are solved, the higher level of police presence in the neighborhood will be maintained.
Residents took the opportunity to express concerns about 911, including a problem in which calls from cellphones go to the dispatch centers for bordering Maryland counties. Jennifer Greene, director of the D.C. Office of Unified Communications, also answered ques-tions about how 911 calls are delegated. She explained that incoming calls are first fielded by a civilian call taker, who, based on estab-lished protocols, will either send a call to someone who will take a phone report, or will contact a police dispatcher who will send police units to the scene.
Some present at the meeting questioned whether call takers are following District pro-tocols. Greene said she would review those concerns with employees. Law enforcement officials from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties who represent neighborhoods near the D.C. border also attended the meeting to describe how they work with District police to respond to crimes that span multiple jurisdictions. Lanier and her colleagues said that they are in near-daily contact by phone and that they have open communication lines when urgent needs arise, which has proved to be an asset when multiple jurisdictions need to respond to a single incident. Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser, who helped organize and facilitate the meet-ing, emphasized the need for residents to maintain this level of concern and to make sure all residents are informed. She encouraged residents to join the Neighborhood Watch and take on block captain positions. “It breaks my heart that people don’t feel safe in the neighborhoods they’ve lived in for 20 years or more,” Bowser said. She urged residents to voice their support for increased police funding to the council as it considers the new budget in the next few months.
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— Clifford Samuels, 11th-grader
Hyde-Addison Elementary The Hyde basketball team has about 13 players this year. We have fourth- and fifth-grade boys and girls on the team. Our coaches are Mr. Grigg and Mr. Faden. The team is working hard on getting strong rebounds and passing the ball. We are also working on setting screens. A screen is a way to stop a defender who is defending someone with the ball. We’ve played five games, win-ning one by three points and losing one by just two points. We lost the other games. One of our biggest challenges is that we don’t have a gym so it’s hard to practice. Even though we’ve lost more
games than we’ve won, we’ve been having a lot of fun and getting bet-ter with each game.
— Brian O’Neill, fourth-grader
Janney Elementary After two years, basketball has returned to Janney. The boys team has played many exciting games, picking up two wins and three loss-es in the first part of the season. On Jan. 14, the Janney Jaguars faced off against Lafayette. Students and teachers joined in the gym to cheer on the Jaguars. Blue and white pompoms were passed out to fans and there was much cheering going on. Students would shout things such as “Janney Jaguars!” and “Let’s go, Jaguars!” The Jaguars definitely had the home court advantage. Janney got the tipoff but sadly fell behind in the first half. “Our coach told us that we were making good shots but they were not going in the basket,” said Asa Espinosa, a fourth-grader on the boys team. Janney lost 28-19. Despite the loss, the boys continue to develop and always make the Janney com-munity proud.
— Meg Buzbee, fifth-grader
Key Elementary Key School basketball started up this season, and we are poised for a great year! We have a girls team and a boys team, both from fourth and fifth grades. The girls team usually plays on Wednesday. The boys usually play on Thursday at 4 or 4:30 p.m. The boys team’s record is 2-2; the girls’ record is 1-3. “We’re playing against a lot of aggressive teams — a lot!” said Jasmine Reid, who plays on the girls team.
Both teams have “Coach Arthur” as their head coach. Arthur Jackson is also a fourth-grade parent and runs One on One Basketball, which he co-founded. He led Key School to victory last year in the Jelleff Cup. He is a very organized coach, and he knows his basketball.
— Idris Hasan-Granier and Mica Gelb, fifth-graders
Maret School Third-graders are working to get ready for Biographical Character Day. We started by choosing five people we wanted to study. Then, as homework, we picked three people with our parents. We brought our homework in to our homeroom teachers and they chose the final person from our lists. We have done research on our characters using iPads, computers and books. Some of the famous people we studied included jazz great John Coltrane and first lady Michelle Obama. We have written speeches about our characters and are memorizing them now. We are also creating collages in art class. When we are finished giv-ing our speeches, we will show our pictures to the audience. We will present to the whole lower school and our families on Feb. 10.
— Helen Khuri and Winston Wardlaw, third-graders
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— Allie Witt, sixth-grader
St. Albans School Lower school students have returned to their everyday lives after a pleasant four-day weekend mark-ing the end of the first semester. Seventh- and eighth-graders are looking forward to new challenges after working hard to prepare for last week’s mid-year exams. Only seventh- and eighth-graders had to take exams, but fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders still had challenges to face while finishing up the longest quarter of the year. The second quarter is always difficult academi-cally because of its length. Report cards will be mailed out next week. The beginning of the second semester is always a stressful one, with new schedules for the seventh- and eighth-graders and a very short third quarter, which does not pro-vide a large margin for academic mistakes. Even though at first the second semester seems a very diffi-cult one, it is also very fun with spring sports, the science fair and the art show in the future. In addi-tion, students now participate in clubs, which they selected a few weeks ago. The clubs encompass a variety of sports and interests, including dodgeball, handball, cooking and chess. Hopefully, this year’s spring will see calmer weath-er than last year, though students do hope for at least one snow day.
— Keith Simms, Form II (eighth-grader)
School Without Walls This week saw finals in all half-year classes as well as midterms in a handful of others. For many students, this meant about one exam a day, but a lucky few got to sit through back-to-back exams on Wednesday, each lasting two hours, with no break in-between. The hearts of all Walls students were with those brave, intrepid adventurers. Sadly, this incredible journey of exams and rearranged schedules ended with the half-day on Friday, the last day any makeup work could be submitted as well as the day (for teachers) that grades were due. Monday is the start of a new advi-sory. Some will have new classes and teachers.
One event shattered the other-wise serene calm of exam week. Though most students did not real-ize it until after they went home, Walls witnessed a schoolwide lock-down on Wednesday after an armed robbery on George Washington University’s campus. In order to maintain calm, only faculty were notified of the lockdown. While it was an effective way to prevent panic spreading to the stu-dent body, and the security measure lasted well under an hour, the ques-tion remains, would students have been notified had it been a more serious problem? Surely, they have some right to know.
— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader
Stoddert Elementary I’m Robert Mailley, and I have always loved looking at maps and highways. Once my dad told me about going to Oshkosh. I’d never heard of Oshkosh before and I never thought that I’d get a question on that city at Stoddert’s geography bee last Thursday. The question was: Oshkosh is located in what northern state? My correct answer was Wisconsin! I’m Casey Bressler (second place). I got interested in geography in third grade. I like bees and com-petitions because you have a chance at winning and you get tested on what you know. The question in the bee that I thought was the hardest was: Okefenokee Swamp is in Florida and what other state? The correct answer is Georgia. I’m George Turmail (third place), and geography is really my thing. I got a kid’s atlas in first grade from my grandparents. I thought the regions of the world were really interesting. For this bee, my mom got me geography study books. Physical and cultural geogra-phy is hard. The hardest question for me was: Which state capital city is on the Puget Sound? The answer is Olympia.
— Robert Mailley, fourth-grader; Casey Bressler, fifth-grader; and
George Turmail, fourth-grader
Washington Latin Public Charter School In eighth-grade music, we are in the midst of a project on composers. After we research their life stories, we write a presentation, make a poster or create a video. Some stu-dents are producing a project on Johann Sebastian Bach, and select-ing excerpts of his music to be played in class. Others have chosen to Ludwig van Beethoven and Giuseppe Verdi. Some students are using posters to include details about each com-poser’s life, like where he or she was raised, when he or she was introduced to music, and what some of his or her most famous songs are. Others are making a presentation using notecards. These presenta-tions show us that composers aren’t just a collection of songs; they are real people who had interesting and surprising biographies.
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