Brian R. Smith '02, an IRC member, said he first met Meinert, then a GWU student, at a model U.N. conference at Yale.
"At George Washington," Smith said, "he was known as a really great model U.N. person."
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When Meinert appeared at Harvard in September, he and Smith resumed their friendship.
"Ed was a good guy," Smith said.
Inevitably, the two friends' conversation broached the subject of Meinert's status as a student.
"I asked him what his concentration was," Smith recalled. "He said he was doing government and computer science.... At first, I was like, 'Wow, Harvard is letting you do this?'"
"Never did it occur to me that he was lying," Smith said.
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