Kevin Diaz, Washington bureau correspondent for the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Jake is easily the most aggressive and fast moving college student I've worked with in my nine years here in Washington. Very bright. Very confident. Writes with an air of authority that belies his relative youth.

Jake actually started up the Star Tribune's new Washington Bureau last June after the paper had a short period of inactivity here. I was being hired back from the McClatchy Washington Bureau at the time, and I wasn't able to start at the Strib before Jake arrived. In effect, he went solo for the first week of his summer internship, introducing himself to the members of the Minnesota delegation and getting us plugged in to what they were doing. He was a total pro.

When the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last Aug. 1, I heard about it from Jake. Before I could react, he was already in the office working the phones with the U.S. DOT, NTSB, Federal Highway Admin., members of our congressional delegation, etc. In the days after, he even successfully tracked down an investigative angle on a consulting firm that had tried to get a state contract to inspect the metallurgy in the bridge before it failed.

Howard Marshall, general manager for The GW Hatchet

Jake Sherman has been an excellent leader of this newspaper.  During his tenure, the Hatchet witnessed many noteworthy events, including the inauguration of the first new university president in almost two decades, two racially-motivated hate crimes and an ongoing national presidential campaign.

I think Jake’s personality is best shown, however, when he learned a columnist had plagiarized in the paper. When it was brought to our attention by a reader, Jake, who is best known for his quick decision-making and no-non-sense leadership style, called in the columnist and fired him on the spot. He published a column in the next edition explaining the situation and apologizing to our readers.  Jake also took this opportunity to show compassion: The column containing plagiarism was unsigned. When apologizing for the plagiarism in the paper, Jake decided to use it as a teaching moment and withheld the reporter's name there as well, knowing that the mistake would dog the culprit for the next several years if published online. 

Eric Roper, editor-in-chief for The GW Hatchet

Jake has led The GW Hatchet to new levels of success. For four years, Jake has been involved with the paper, first as sports editor and later as editor-in-chief. He will attend Columbia for a master's in journalism next year and has interned at the Minneapolis Star Tribune's D.C. bureau and at The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y.

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Woodhull House does not look like a typical police station. The G Street headquarters of the University Police Department is surprisingly non-descript.

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In these 17 games, the GW men's basketball team has precipitously fallen from conference champion to last place in its conference. And on Super Bowl Sunday, Temple was nearly the panacea for change that it has been in the past.

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For the second time in three weeks, Foggy Bottom is steeped in racial tension as the symbol of Nazism has appeared on two undergraduates' doors and a fence near the GW Hospital.

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The GW men's basketball team had five players in double figures in Saturday's 86-74 win over La Salle at Tom Gola Arena. They shot 51 percent from the field, out rebounded the Explorers by nine and had two players with double-doubles.