The unidentified male paces on a GW Hospital ledge. An hour and a half later, he fell and sustained serious injuries. The man, whose name and condition is not available, was on the ledge for more than four hours. Andrew Nacin/Hatchet photographer

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Update, 4:48 p.m. Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Jimmie Riley said the man partially hit the ground when falling and was breathing when they took him inside the hospital with serious injuries. The man had been hanging off the ledge, and officers set up the mat while trying to negotiate with him.

Emergency personnel stationed on the roof prepare to rappel down to rescue the potential jumper. Andrew Nacin/Hatchet photographer

Riley said the man, a black male whose name is not yet available, checked in yesterday after being injured in a car accident.

Update, 4:08 p.m. The male jumped fell onto an inflatable mat. There is no status on his condition.

End Update.

A man exited a GW Hospital window around noon today and is threatening to jump from a ledge overlooking New Hampshire Avenue.

He is wearing boxer shorts and his arms are bandaged. More than 30 D.C. police and fire department vehicles are on the scene blocking off many of the streets surrounding the hospital. Stay with The Hatchet for more news as it develops.

Hadas Gold contributed to this report.

Dolling, an associate dean at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, will replace SEAS Dean Timothy Tong who is departing GW to become the president of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

“Dr. Dolling was selected after an extensive national search. His expertise in high-level research in aerodynamics, as well as in faculty recruitment and mentoring, will greatly help GW advance its science and engineering programs,” said Donald R. Lehman, executive vice president for academic affairs, in a news release.

Stay with GWHatchet.com this weekend for more details on the new SEAS dean.

M.F. “Midge” Smith will donate $1.6 million to establish the Midge Smith Center for Evaluation Effectiveness within the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy, University officials said Thursday. In addition, the GW Medical Center obtained a $5 million grant to be the national office for the Robert Wood John Foundation’s “Aligning Forces for Quality” initiative, Medical Center officials said Monday.

Smith is the founder of The Evaluators’ Institute, an organization that will now be housed at GW. The Center will partake in both the evaluation of social service programs, as well as research of the evaluation field as a whole, said Kathryn Newcomer, the Center’s co-director,

“The goal of the center is to be the premier unit in the world known for its successes in creating and facilitating use of evaluation knowledge to further effective programs in the public and nonprofit areas,” said Smith in a news release.

Smith will also be named a research professor of public policy and public administration. She was unavailable for comment.

As part of its grant agreement with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the GW Medical School will coordinate the initiative with 14 rural and urban communities nationwide. “Aligning Forces for Quality” is aimed at improving health care in ways that are equitable, patient-centered, and sustainable over time. Bruce Siegel, director of the Center for Health Care Quality within the School of Public Health and Health Services, will be the director of the new program.

“I am deeply honored to help the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in its efforts to improve the quality of health care for all Americans,” Siegel said in a news release. “This initiative will be a catalyst for change in health care. We want to be able to point to the Aligning Forces communities and say that we’ve made a difference in people’s lives.”

Aligning Forces works with care providers by measuring and publicly reporting on data about health care quality. This helps physicians and other providers learn how to improve the care given to their patients and engage them in various aspects of their own health care.

Patrons at Tonic can now enjoy hard liquor. Andrew Nacin/Hatchet photographer

Although Tonic’s liquor license permitted the pub to sell hard liquor, beer and wine, a special arrangement with the University allowed the bar to serve hard liquor only during weekend brunches.

Under the new arrangement, more than a dozen varieties of liquor and 14 mixed drinks including the “Washington Apple” and “Youngy’s Espresso Martini” are available to patrons daily during normal business hours. These unique concoctions range in price from $8.50 to $9.50.

“This makes us a full service restaurant and this what we wanted to do,” said Jeremy Pollok, Tonic co-owner.

However, there are some restrictions that Tonic must still follow under the University agreement. The pub cannot serve shots of hard liquor because they are more likely to lead to alcohol poisoning, Pollok said.

Tonic officials will continue to have regular meetings with the University regarding the impact of a full service restaurant in Foggy Bottom, Pollok said.

“We are mindful we are on a college campus and minding our ‘p’s and q’s’,” he said.

Photo: Andrew Nacin/Hatchet photographer

The Metro system had 854,638 riders, including 25,952 who entered through the Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro Station, said Taryn McNeil, a WMATA public affairs coordinator.

In a news release, the WMATA attributed the surge in riders to a Washington Nationals baseball game, the Women of Faith Conference and a high number of summer tourists. But this summer has already been a record-breaking season for the Metro, with 20 of their top 25 highest weekday ridership days occurring since April—including several days with no major events listed. Commuters and tourists alike seem to be hopping on the Metro to save on rising gas prices.

The previous single-day record took place on June 9, 2004, during former President Ronald Reagan’s State Funeral Service, when 850,636 riders took the Metro. On an average weekday, the Metro and Metrobus combined provide more than 1.2 million trips, according to their Web site.

In loosely related news, two Metro station employees who allegedly ran a prostitution ring out of their Dupont Circle Station were offered anger management, sex addiction and entrepreneurship classes last week in lieu of criminal charges. The charges were pressed when the station’s manager, Sharon Waters, arranged a sexual encounter for an undercover cop—who was posing as a businessman—with Pamela Goins, a Metro custodian. Waters used the Metro’s intercom to page Goins for the arrangement, police said.

Camera crews from the Discovery Channel’s new eco-lifestyle network, Planet Green, filmed on campus Wednesday for an episode of celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s new television series.

Junior Billy Wolfe prepares lunch in front of the camera. Andrew Nacin/Hatchet photographer

The show, Emeril Green, will feature junior Billy Wolfe dealing with severe food allergies while eating and living on campus. Camera crews filmed Wolfe cooking in his kitchen in the Dakota residence hall and studying in Gelman.

Wolfe nabbed a spot on the show after his mother, who stumbled upon an Emeril Green taping near their hometown in Virginia, applied on the channel’s website.

The one requirement was that the applicant be in some way “food challenged” or have a “food oddity,” said Wolfe, who is allergic to wheat, among other things. Wolfe said he was invited to and attended a casting call in April but never expected to hear back. Two weeks ago, however, he received a call from an Emeril Green representative asking when he could begin filming.

Although he admits he’s not on the same level as Lagasse, Wolfe describes himself as something of an amateur chef.

“I’ve been cooking since I was eight,” he said. “I never went to culinary school, but I do good home-cooking.”

Wolfe works in the intensive care unit at GW Hospital and as a pharmacy technician at CVS. He also volunteers at EMeRG, GW’s emergency medical response team.

“I think they liked that I’m really active,” he said of the people that selected him for the show.

Wolfe will also be filmed cooking with Lagasse at a Whole Foods in Fairfax, Va. on Wednesday, July 16.

The 67-year-old has had four heart attacks, two artery-clearing angioplasties and quadruple bypass surgery. He has a defibrillator surgically implanted in his chest to regulate his heartbeat, which was replaced in July 2007.

Cheney last visited GW Hospital in November for an irregular heartbeat, determined to be atrial fibrillation. Doctors delivered an electrical shock to his heart to restore it to a normal rhythm.

The man, who was promptly supplied with a blanket, was disoriented and possibly sleepwalking, UPD Inspector Mark Balazik said.

The Metropolitan Police Department, D.C. Fire Department, and Emergency Medical Service officials arrived on scene, but the man refused medical attention. He identified himself as a guest of the State Plaza Hotel and was not affiliated with the University.

The incident was referred to MPD and no arrest was made.

The Hatchet publishes a weekly crime log on Tuesdays during the academic year. A “Best of the Crime Log” appeared in the CI Guide.

Christine Cruzvergara, director of CI, said Kaine attended several events and was accompanied by a security escort dressed in street clothes.

“The governor wanted to keep a low profile this weekend,” Cruzvergara said. “He wanted to be a regular parent.”

Kaine, a Democrat, was the first statewide elected official outside Illinois to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. He has been mentioned as a possible running mate for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Nat, a graduate of Maggie Walker High School in Richmond, Va., campaigned for Obama, headlining a “Students for Barack Obama” tour with actor Kal Penn.

Nat is the eldest of the three Kaine children. Kaine and his wife Anne Holton also have a daughter, Annella, and a son, Woody.

The chef must have a degree from an accredited culinary program and five years of “appropriate experience,” according to the chef job posting. The position is part-time and does not have a listed salary.

In keeping with Knapp’s push for sustainability at GW, the chef is required to have an “excellent knowledge of current culinary trends with respect to organic, local and sustainable food products.”

The house assistant will be paid between $11.43 and $17.71 per hour. The posting states that they will be expected to clean, cook, greet guests, arrange flowers, act as a sous-chef and take care of the family pets.

Both job postings warn that some “work may be performed in a standing position for long periods of time.”

Knapp and his family are slated to move into their new residence by the end of July.