The Georgetown Voice 3 April 2019 (50th Anniversary Edition)

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April 3, 2019

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STAFF editor-in-chief Margaret Gach Managing editor Sienna Brancato news

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executive editor Santul Nerkar Leisure editor Dajour Evans assistant leisure editors Emily Jaster, Nicole Lai, Ryan Mazalatis Sports editor Aaron Wolf Assistant sports editor Tristan Lee, Will Shanahan

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Page 3 While doing some website-digging, we discovered an old poll we conducted asking an essential question that has plagued many an underclassman in their time at Georgetown.

Originally a staple of Page 13, we have adapted the tradition of highlighting eclectic animal doodles on our revamped Page 3.

A COMPILATION OF ICONIC MIDNIGHT SONGS: YOU MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE

BY HALL AND OATES AFRICA

BY TOTO DANCING IN THE DARK

BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN UNWRITTEN

BY NATASHA BEDINGFIELD PRACTICE YOUR COPY EDITING, GEORGETON VOICERS!

The opinions expressed in The Georgetown Voice do not necessarily represent the views of the administration, faculty, or students of Georgetown University, unless specifically stated. Columns, advertisements, cartoons, and opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board or the General Board of The Georgetown Voice.

The university subscribes to the principle of responsible freedom of expression of its student editors. All materials copyright The Georgeton Voice, unless otherwise indicated.

HEADLINES WE DECIDED AGAINST (AND MEMORIALIZED ON OUR OFFICE WALL) 1. ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: GET IT UP FOR GUSA 2. THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOYA SPIRIT 3. THESE HOES AIN’T LOYOLA 4. COMING OUT OF MY GAGE

You heard it here first, folks. Our editorial board mistakenly urged voters to cast their ballots for Clinton on Nov. 9, 2016, the day after the election.

We’ve given many thanks in this issue, so it’s only fair to thank the other newspaper the same way we did 30 years ago. Some things never change.

“The Georgetown Voice would like to thank The Hoya , which has provided a yard stick against which we have been able to measure ourselves for 20 years and has almost never failed to make us look better than we are.”

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EDITORIALS

Support Student Journalists and a Strong Free Press LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By my calculations, since the Voice was founded 50 years ago, it has seen 12 (and a half ) completely new staffs labor over its pages. I joined one of those teams after my first student activities fair when someone shoved into my hands a thin, glossy magazine with three ostriches on the back cover insisting, “Hey, you. Join the Voice.” I took the birds’ advice and sat in a corner of Leavey 424 for an information session, having no idea why there was a broken mannequin in a green blazer lurking in the back of what I assumed to be a professional newsroom. Somehow, here I am four years later.

Our short time in college means you only have a finite period to build momentum toward change for one or two groups you’ve fallen into. But four years later, you’ll have to trust that the new students into whose hands you are shoving thin, glossy magazines will carry on what you’ve worked for during many late nights in a cramped office.

Looking back through old issues of the Voice while preparing for this anniversary issue, I realized that over five decades we have cyclically covered the same topics— tuition, construction, GUSA elections—complained about the same things—shut-down parties and opaque university administrators—and even made similar typos (I won’t go into those). At first, it disheartened me: How could we ever expect to grow if we couldn’t remember what we’d done just five years ago?

But after speaking with Voice alumni over the past few months, I realize that we’ve all had the same goal that led to that repeating coverage: Keep the university accountable and help the campus community use these short years on campus the best we can. The passion for that goal is what has kept the Voice going, with all of its quirks and irreverence and mistakes and improvements that each unique set of staffers have built on throughout the decades.

So when I leave campus in a month, I have to believe that I have left it with a stronger community and a better newsmagazine than when I got here simply because that is what previous Voicers trusted me to do.

Before that, please indulge us in this special, 50th anniversary edition. To those who come after us, all we ask is that you enjoy your time on the Voice, the late nights, the long meetings. We ask that you do what we have done, but bigger and better, having a grand old time until at least 2069.

Margaret Gach Editor-in-Chief

We live in a time when the media is constantly under attack, whether by right-wing politicians, internet trolls, or the public as a whole when misinformation makes its way into the mainstream.

Meanwhile, mass layoffs at newspapers have put journalists in a constant state of uncertainty.

The press is not the enemy of the people, despite what the current president thinks. But these attacks on the media are not new. The Voice was founded in 1969 to cover the Vietnam War while President Richard Nixon, whose hostilities toward the media have been well-noted in history, was in office. Nixon’s constant attacks on the “liberal media” were an effort to deflect and cloud the criticisms cast on him, a precursor to the aspersions cast toward the media today.

While anti-media sentiment has traditionally critiqued the press as biased, slanted, or sensationalist, the current attacks from the highest offices are much more vicious. The president has labeled journalists “the enemy of the people” and “very dangerous and sick.” These attacks have not been limited to national outlets.

On college campuses, including ours, students have responded with an increased passion for journalism at all levels.

Student media organizations play an important role in holding institutions accountable for their actions and keeping students informed of events that affect them on- and off-campus. In the face of threats to our ability to do this, it’s more essential than ever that we have the support of our campus communities.

Many school newspapers have faced censorship from their own administrations. In response to a story about a teacher fired for inappropriate conduct, a Nevada high school student paper was shut down by the school’s administration.

These types of problems exist at the level of higher education as well, where students are supposed to freely explore and challenge their worlds. Recently, the Baylor University administration asked its tour guides to get rid of copies of the campus newspaper that featured a story about sexual assault in an attempt to protect the university’s image. Stories that call out the administration or expose scandals may reflect badly on a university, but students still have a right to be informed of the issues that affect them. Universities must not deny students this right by censoring stories they don’t want made public.

We are lucky to attend a school that supports its campus media, at least to a certain extent. Georgetown currently has a robust campus media presence, and students have access to a variety of journalistic opportunities in the D.C. area, especially internships.

But there has always been tension between the reporting done by student journalists and the administrations that house and fund them. Because Georgetown is a private institution, the Voice and The Hoya and other news outlets have few avenues to obtain information about the university outside of what its spokespeople decide to share. This tension shows no signs of abating, but we are calling for the university to share, rather than hide the information we seek, to encourage a more transparent and collaborative relationship between Georgetown and its news publications, and thus its students.

Furthermore, Georgetown needs to commit to fully funding and supporting its journalism program. The minor should not be limited to only 20 students seven years after its founding, but instead it must be given the resources to support all who demonstrate interest and passion. As students, we attend this university to pursue our diverse interests, and by limiting our available pathways, Georgetown inherently limits its students’ opportunities.

Furthermore, journalism isn’t limited to hard news but includes opinions, cultural commentary, and multimedia work, and the university’s journalism program must reflect that reality by providing learning opportunities for all facets of media, especially as the profession rapidly changes in the coming years.

Media Board, the committee that represents student media organizations to GUSA and the administration, should receive full funding on a consistent basis so that we can effectively plan for our future. At the risk of limiting the capacity to which we can keep the campus informed, we can’t just continue to cut print costs without the funding for computers, for design software, for multimedia journalism, for event coverage, and for both printing fees and website platform subscriptions.

The press at all levels needs support more than ever. Those on the side of right-wing extremism, often vocal supporters of the president, have surpassed simple criticism of coverage and actually called for violence against journalists. This can hardly be considered lightly after five newspaper staffers were murdered in Maryland last July by a man angered by their coverage of him.

Write letters to the editor, buy subscriptions to newspapers, pick up an issue of a campus magazine. On our part, we promise to give a voice to the readers who are actively listening and hoping to change people’s minds by publishing your opinions and listening to your criticism so we can improve. For the past 50 years, the Voice has tried with journalists across the world every day to make the world a fairer place by sharing the stories that matter most.

Now, more than ever, all we ask is that you read and listen.

An Excerpt from the Voice’s Inaugural Editorial Our editorial policy will view and analyze issues in a liberal light. We shall not limit our editorial content to campus topics. There are more important matters to be discussed than parietals and the fate of the 1789, and there are journalistic gaps to be filled at Georgetown.

We promise to present and analyze national and local issues of concern to the student, whose concern should spread beyond the campus. We promise not to neglect the student— the student, that is, who is not the committee member, the

class representative, or the sports hero, although those persons certainly merit attention.

We shall attempt with all our energy to inform the community, to make the community conscious of controversial subjects by an open presentation and discussion of the relevant issues, to communicate a culture, and to entertain our readers.

With the first issue of The Georgetown Voice, we present a new style of journalism to the university.

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Student Groups Navigate Shifting Media Landscape

BY SIENNA BRANCATO, SKYLER COFFEY, AND MARGARET GACH

This issue focuses on the Voice’s 50-year history, but we are part of a larger network of student groups dedicated to journalism on campus. While we’re often in friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) competition with each other, the sense of community among us has kept student media on the Hilltop alive in the face of rapid changes in the way our society consumes and reacts to information.

Fourteen student media organizations are members of Media Board, the committee of campus media leaders responsible for advocating on behalf of and allocating funds to groups that produce journalistic, academic, and creative content. Encompassing everything from the Voice—a newsmagazine—to The Anthem—a literary magazine—to WGTB—the university radio station— Media Board estimates that its organizations have a total of 695 members, distribute 142,150 print issues per year, and generate 1.6 million website views annually.

Sagar Anne (MSB ’19), the chair of Media Board, believes these numbers demonstrate the value student publications have to offer the Georgetown community. “One of the main highlights of the journalistic institutions is that they provide a glimpse into the university for alumni, current students, and prospective students into so many aspects that they’re not part of,” he said.

Media across the world has grappled with how to engage readers who are scrolling through social media feeds rather than taking the time to read a newspaper cover to cover. Established Media Board groups and newer organizations alike are looking for ways to bring their content to life on the web to engage audiences—and cut costs.

Publications need “new digital ways to tell stories,” said Maya Gandhi (SFS ’20), editor-in-chief of The Hoya. Gandhi cited the inclusion of interactive graphics in their coverage of abusive priests at Georgetown this March as an example of how The Hoya is exploring audio and multimedia while sticking to its print roots.

“Because we’ve traditionally been a print outlet for so long, we’re looking more into ways of telling written stories in interesting ways,” she said. The Hoya will not abandon its print run anytime soon; Gandhi believes keeping print production gives student journalists a chance to develop important skills like designing spreads and working under a deadline.

Louisa Christen (SFS ’19), publisher and president of the Caravel, an international affairs newspaper founded five years ago, noted there are hidden costs of transitioning from print to

online. The Caravel has tried to engage readers with tools like short-form email newsletters that compile their coverage, but Christen said print issues on stands are still the most effective way of advertising the group. “It’s still really hard to detach ourselves from print editions because that’s the way we get our name out,” Christen said.

One of the most powerful—and least expensive—tools on the internet is social media. Media Board organizations have amassed almost 13,000 likes on Facebook and 21,000 followers on Twitter. Connor Rush (MSB ’21), the managing editor of The Georgetown Independent, is proud of the robust social media presence the Indy has developed during his time at Georgetown.

He said he is often pleasantly surprised to find that his friends read and comment on Indy articles. “I know one of my friends that I had no idea that he was reading [my articles], and all of a sudden he told me like, ‘Oh no, whenever you post something on Facebook, every day I check it out.’”

He and his staff are hoping to produce more online content but lack the budget for a more professional website. “With our current website, where it’s more just like a blog, until there’s a way to kind of replicate that design online, there won’t be a pure digitalization of it,” he said.

Balancing the costs of this shift to online with its rapid expansion, Media Board’s demands for funds have understandably risen while its organizations have cut costs. The decline in revenue from print advertising that has harmed the media industry at large has hit campus publications especially hard, Anne said, because advertisers do not take student media as seriously as more established outlets. In 2015, the Voice went from publishing once a week to every other week to focus more attention on our online presence. In 2017, The Hoya began printing once a week, rather than twice a week and started publishing articles online every day.

Half of campus media organizations across the country have had to reduce their print content in recent years, according to the College Media Association’s 2018 Benchmarking survey. A third of the survey’s 181 respondents said that their revenue had declined in the past year, causing the need to cut down on expenses, such as printing.

To prompt campus media groups to further reduce printing costs and move online, Fin/App, GUSA’s finance arm, has progressively cut Media Board’s budget. In 2017, GUSA cut Media Board’s requested budget by 40 percent, which forced media or-

ganizations to operate at their bare minimums. For the Voice, that meant a 75 percent decrease in print distribution and dropping a full issue. To make up for the missing magazine, we decided to run our first entirely digital edition, incorporating multimedia elements like videos and podcasts focused on campus arts.

Anne said that Media Board has created a better foundation for the future of student media by having more regular meetings and concrete agendas to foster unity among the groups, which has encouraged the GUSA finance committee to fund the committee more fully over the past two years. Michael Trimarchi— affectionately known as Mickey T— is a professional journalist who has advised the Media Board groups over the past decade, and he is optimistic about the future of journalism on campus and as a whole.

“There is a future for journalism out there,” he said. “It’s starting to get a little clearer, but it’s still forming. We could be getting into the third golden age of journalism.”

Georgetown finally took an important step toward bringing journalism into the classroom in 2012 when Barbara Feinman Todd, author and professor emerita, founded the journalism minor under the English Department. The program is small, only accepting 20 students each year, but is growing to give Georgetown students a chance to learn from professional journalists and explore the rapidly changing field.

Christen feels being a part of a campus media group provides a creative outlet outside the classroom. “We spend so much time writing essays and reflections and whatever, but there’s still nothing like learning how to tell a story and to report and write about something that you care about,” she said.

Media Board contains some of the oldest organizations on campus, such as The Hoya, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2020, and some of the newest: Bossier, a magazine devoted to promoting discourse about women’s issues, and The Georgetown Review, which analyzes political and international affairs in a conservative light, both joined in 2017. This year, Media Board also added Georgetown University Collective of Creative Individuals (GUCCI) and Prospect Records, each focused on music and the arts, to its list of organizations.

Whether young or old, online or in print, opinion or news, student media is ready to take on the challenges of a new era. The future for campus media lies with the students at Georgetown now and those yet to come, working late nights to bring their content to life.

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These snippets are taken from the front page of the first issue of the Voice published on March 4, 1969.

VOICE FOUNDING

Volume 1 Issue 1: The First Years of The Georgetown Voice

BY CAROLINE HAMILTON AND ROMAN PEREGRINO When Steve Pisinski (COL ’71) arrived back on campus after the summer of 1968, the country and Georgetown seemed to be at a crossroads. Anti-war protests were engulfing college campuses across America while race riots tore cities apart. Many of Georgetown’s established institutions seemed content to ignore the action, Pisinski thought. From his Ryan Hall dorm room, Pisinski assembled a group that shared his frustration with the university’s apparent apathy to the demands of a changing nation.

They searched for a way to reach out to like-minded students and remind the campus that there was a world beyond the front gates.

That ambitious endeavor eventually took the name of The Georgetown Voice.

Rev. Raymond Schroth, S.J., a new Jesuit, had just been assigned to Ryan Hall. He and Pisinski became fast friends, and their conversations grew to include more politically engaged but ideologically diverse students.

“It was a small group dissatisfied with the campus paper,” Schroth said of Pisinski and his friends. Pisinski was a staff writer for the campus newspaper, The Hoya, and he was becoming increasingly frustrated by the newspaper’s refusal to cover the country at large. So he and Schroth secured funding from the

director of student activities and set out to start their own publication.

Pisinski recruited Martin Yant (SFS ’71) to join the the breakaway paper. It was not a hard sell—Yant fundamentally disagreed with the role that Don Casper (COL ’70), The Hoya’s editor-in-chief at the time, thought campus journalism should play.

“He had no use for the anti-war movement,” Yant said. “It was everywhere, and he just wanted to ignore it.”

Yant believed that the anti-war movement and the other issues of the day demanded all students’ attention, especially as movements crept closer to the Hilltop. In the protests following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Yant remembers “standing up on Loyola Hall, on the roof, watching the city burn.”

But while the country was quite literally in flames, the politically charged atmosphere seemed to stop at the front gates. The College only began admitting women in 1969, and the university, approaching its bicentennial, had never had a lay president.

It was not only the administration that was behind the times. Younger students criticized the Yard, the student government, as archaic and ineffective. The freshman class of 1972 refused to elect representatives to the Yard and instead broke

away to form their own governing body. Their secession put the university’s historically powerful institutions on notice, especially The Hoya.

“In those days, The Hoya was the preppy paper,” said John Baldoni (COL ’74), an early staff writer and photographer. It promised coverage of on-campus news, but some progressive groups felt they were not given the coverage more established institutions received. The class of 1972, frustrated with its reporting, burned copies of The Hoya in protest.

To the Voice’s founders, it was clear that campus journalism needed a change. Schroth credits Pisinski for turning that desire for change into a reality. “I think it was the charisma of Steve,” he said. “The others wanted to be with him—wanted to be on his paper.”

Many writers from the first days of the Voice agreed that the publication would not have succeeded without Pisinski, who passed away in 2002. Alan Di Sciullo (COL ’72, L ’77), a founding member, recalled that Pisinski had the perfect temperament to be the editor of a publication. “Steve was a straight arrow,” Di Sciullo said. “He was down to earth, not flamboyant. He ran a tight ship.”

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Pisinski was strong-willed yet did not take everything seriously, two traits Schroth vividly recalled. “He was very independent minded,” Schroth said. “He even grew a mustache for a while, which is unusual for a freshman. I told him I didn’t like it. He said, ‘I didn’t grow it for you, and I’m not going to not grow it for you.’”

Pisinski’s uncompromising attitude extended to his views on journalism. To him, Casper and The Hoya had failed in their responsibility to promote discussion and bring important issues to the campus’s attention.

In a column for the Voice’s 20th anniversary, Pisinski maintained that the early rivalry between the Voice and The Hoya challenged each publication to improve. “The Voice was organized not as an attempt to replace The Hoya but as an alternative journalism outlet,” he wrote.

The Hoya was trapping the student body in a bubble around Georgetown, Schroth said. “The Hoya never wrote about the outside world, the Vietnam War, the protests. It was like Georgetown was in a different world.”

So, the Voice set out to be something new. “We wanted to start something more dynamic,” Di Sciullo said.

The Hoya’s first mention of the Voice was in its Feb. 13, 1969, issue, which announced the “new campus monthly organized by students.” The article listed the leaders, including Pisinski and Schroth, and laid out the direction the new paper promised to take. “It is a safe assumption that the Voice will attempt to take the underground route, staking out a more radical position than The Hoya,” the article read.

The hard work of Pisinski, Schroth, and many writers culminated on March 4, 1969, when the Voice published its inaugural issue. In their debut editorial, the editors declared their intentions.

“We promise to present and analyze national and local issues of

concern to the student, whose concern should spread beyond campus,” the editorial read. “With the first issue of The Georgetown Voice, we present a new style of journalism to the University.”

From its inception, the Voice aimed to hold institutions accountable. In the second editorial of the inaugural issue, they demanded that the administration improve its responses to the changing needs of the students. “The university can continue to exist only if honest criticism is followed by change.”

The other articles in the first issue were equally ambitious.

Regarding on campus news, they covered the “ineffective student government” and the increased inclusion of women at Georgetown. Beyond the front gates, Voice reporters asked congressmen about student activism and gave Led Zeppelin’s first album a lukewarm review.

This opening edition was well received on campus. Letters to the editor published in the second issue offered glowing reviews, congratulations, and good luck for the future. Rick Newcombe (COL ’72) remembers that the Voice’s debut set campus abuzz. “It was pretty electric,” he said. “Everybody wanted to read it.”

That momentum, however, was hard to sustain. Maintaining a publication was difficult work, and finding enough material to fill the pages threatened to be a problem. In their fourth issue, the Voice did not receive a single opinion submission. “A newspaper has no way of knowing if it is meeting its obligations to the community if the community refuses to comment on the paper’s performance,” the editorial board wrote. “Damn us or praise us.

But write us!”

Funding also became an issue. No one knows for sure why Robert Dixon, the director of student activities, was initially willing to fund a second student newspaper. Regardless, he was indicted for embezzling from the university soon after, endangering

the money he had allotted for the foundling Voice. “The Voice was almost dead in the late spring of 1970,” Yant said. However, its leaders managed to hold on to their funding as they tried to establish the Voice as more than a flash in the pan.

Pisinski, Di Sciullo, and the other writers set out to cover stories that other publications had decided were beyond their scope.

“The Voice obviously has contributed a forum for airing issues, an outlet for student opinion, and a point of view that, if not always controversial, invited thinking and discussion,” Pisinski wrote in his 20th anniversary column. “As soon as the Voice, or any journal for that matter, ceases to make such contributions, it should cease publication.”

In the months after its first editions, the Voice tried to expand the scope of its coverage. During Yant’s tenure as managing editor, this meant covering a range of perspectives as well as issues. He recruited Newcombe, a conservative writer he respected, to write a column. Though, as the first editorial declared, the Voice was founded to “analyze issues in a liberal light,” Newcombe’s recruitment demonstrated a commitment to well-rounded coverage.

Their reporting ranged from conflict in the Middle East to anti-war protests to the real possibility that the School of Foreign Service would shutter its doors. In their third editorial, the editors acknowledged the widespread demands for change and reaffirmed their commitment to cover as much of campus and the world as they could.

“Student activism and concern have never risen to such a level at Georgetown as they have during this past year,” the editors declared at the end of the spring 1970 semester. “The Georgetown Voice was born amidst the new activism. As a new publication, we had to face many problems; and we made mistakes. We have not been satisfied with our performance, and we never will be.”

The Voice strove to improve its coverage over the next few years.

It stayed committed to reporting on issues at a university, national, and international level. “We were dealing with the world, not just campus,” Schroth said.

The ripple effects of the up-and-coming publication were felt in The Hoya’s office. The other newspaper began to expand the scope of its coverage but soon faced a shortage of news writers. In 1970, this shortage, along with a smaller budget for media groups, led The Hoya to propose a merger with the Voice.

The front page of The Hoya’s Nov. 12, 1970, issue called for the merger, referencing funding as its primary motivation. “In our judgement, the University will not be financially able to maintain two undergraduate newspapers in the coming years,” the piece read.

The Hoya’s editor-in-chief also added that the “ideological differences that lead to the founding of the Voice no longer exist.” According to Di Sciullo, Pisinski, Newcombe and the other staffers discussed the offer but ultimately felt that they could not compromise on their vision. “They were the status quo,” Di Sciullo said.

“We had momentum on our side.”

In an editorial published on Nov. 17, 1970, the Voice’s editorial board rejected the proposal.

“Times arise, however, when two viewpoints on an issue will want expression, when editorial stances will have to differ to insure full, adequate articulation of differing opinions within the university community,” the editorial read. “Two newspapers serve this function.”

Fifty years later, there is still room for two news outlets on campus. When the Voice reached out to Schroth, now 86, for this issue, he was pleased to hear that the Voice has endured. “I had hoped it would last this long,” Schroth said. “I knew there was a risk.”

As the Voice’s first moderator, Schroth watched the founders work hard to push the envelope, to keep publishing fresh and engaging stories that would make readers come back for more.

“Sometimes when something is popular it’s because it’s new,” Schroth said. “Well, if you are new every week, you can hold onto them.”

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C A R R Y I N G O N : F O R M E R V O I C E S TA F F E R S S P E A K

What Does the Voice Mean to You? COMPILED BY JULIA PINNEY

The Voices section reached out to Voice alumni from throughout our 50 years and asked them the question, “What does the Voice mean to you?”

Rick Newcombe (COL ’73) Editor-in-Chief, Spring 1971– Spring 1972 The Georgetown Voice helped prepare me for a career in media, and my experiences at the paper taught me great lessons in teamwork, friendship, humility, and gratitude. But more importantly, the paper helped me find my voice and learn how to help others find theirs. These are lessons that have lasted a lifetime.

We looked for stories that would generate controversy and conversations all over campus. We ran fantastic photographs, thanks primarily to John Baldoni, and we would print between 16 and 20 pages every week. In hindsight, going from bi-weekly to weekly was a herculean task.

The big news at the time was the Vietnam War, which nearly everyone on campus opposed, and we ran dozens of articles about the protests that came regularly to the nation’s capital.

We ran stories about health care, abortion, heroin, methadone, crime on campus, Scientology, prison reform, D.C.’s “gay subculture,” health and fitness, women’s rights, and economic privilege—the latter addressed in a Voice magazine supplement with the headline, “The Affluent Student.” In other words, the hot topics then remain timely today.

A group of us would drive to Silver Spring late at night every week to watch the press run and make sure the printing was clean and clear. Then we’d stop for a late dinner or early breakfast—I can’t remember which. By five in the morning, the newsstands on campus would have anywhere from 4,000 (our early circulation) to 10,000 copies of the Voice.

Joel Wolfe (SFS ’82) Managing Editor, Spring–Fall 1981 Writers, cartoonists, and the ad folks never turned in anything early. That is one of my enduring memories of my time as the managing editor of the Voice.

Serving as the managing editor wasn’t an awful job, but it had its headaches. One night, with a majority of staffers out with some illness, I left the offices late and feeling sick myself. I left with promises that the cartoon for the next day’s paper was “on the way.” I awoke to a paper without a cartoon. The space was filled with a doctored picture of Reagan and Bush that made an idiotic political point.

For my sin of leaving early and not knowing what would fill the cartoon’s place, I had to answer the angry letters that poured in over the next month or so.

But most of my memories from the Voice are of working with terrific people who put in long hours for the paper and took enormous pride in what we produced each week.

I’m now officially old enough to have foggy memories of my undergraduate days, but I do know that being a part of the Voice was one of the best things I did at Georgetown. I drove a GUTS bus to help pay my way, but I worked on the Voice because I loved it.

I now read carefully and with pride the online version of the Voice. It has been and will continue to be such an important part of Georgetown for me and countless others. I couldn’t be prouder to have been part of it.

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Michael Winship (COL ’73) Features Editor, Spring 1971– Spring 1972 The Voice introduced me to a gang of witty, smart, articulate reprobates and rebels who had done something unheard of—swimming against the tide of the university establishment and creating an infant publication out of nothing but talent, a commitment to truth, and a heartfelt embrace of good times.

We wrote, edited, and photographed for the Voice against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the student protests against it, all while the danger of a military draft whispered at our necks. It was a time not long after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and rioters had burned vast parts of Washington. And years before Watergate, we had already suffered the indignities of Nixon, Agnew, and their various corrupt pals.

I remember one morning during the violent May Day anti-war demonstrations of 1970, when several of us were at the Key Bridge covering the protests and went hurdling back toward campus when the police attacked. We dashed to 36th Street and ran smack into a massive wall of tear gas. But I also remember covering the grand opening of the Kennedy Center and being sloppily kissed by Leonard Bernstein at the after-party. And I especially remember the evenings of camaraderie spent in the Voice offices, at the compositors in the Car Barn, at the printer in Silver Spring where we put the paper to bed and that allnight coffee shop to which we retired, hungry, worn out, and slaphappy.

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Leigh Finnegan (COL ’13) Editor-in-Chief, Fall 2012 Signing up for the Voice freshman year was among the best decisions I made in college. I joined the leisure section, which was great because it allowed me to use something I really enjoyed—writing—as a means of following my one true passion: watching television. Later on I edited the leisure section, then edited Vox Populi (which is now defunct, but I swear, at the time it was a pretty big deal), then became managing editor, editor-in-chief, and finally, second-semester senior who had no official job but came in on Wednesday nights anyway, probably out of Stockholm Syndrome.

On the Voice, I honed my writing skills, gained leadership experience, learned what an em-dash was, and, most importantly, met some of my best friends—and my fiancé, another onetime leisure editor (our kids will be insufferable). Career-wise, I wound up going to medical school, and I even credit the Voice with that: Not only did it give me a lot to talk about in interviews, but production nights taught me that staying awake for upwards of 24 hours isn’t as bad as it sounds, provided you have the right people and the right music—namely, Hall and Oates at midnight and Trey Songz at 3 a.m. I continue to write, and my dream is to incorporate that into my medical career, a la Atul Gawande.

So happy 50th birthday, the Voice! You look great for your age and are still as spry and witty as ever. Have yourself a glass of champagne (the cheap stuff) and celebrate a little—you’ll be needed by future generations of Georgetown students who are too cool for The Hoya.

Kate Washington (COL ’94) Managing Editor - Production, Fall 1993 As a 17-year-old from a just-okay public high school in rural California, in fall 1990 I found Georgetown deeply intimidating. I felt like an impostor among polished classmates from prep schools and missed the hometown I’d eagerly fled. Thank god I found the Voice.

There were all the cynical, liberal, sarcastic fellow students I had longed to meet: my people. At the Voice, everyone viewed the reigning university establishment with a jaundiced eye.

To get in, two things mattered: First, you had to be willing to postpone all your schoolwork until R.E.M.’s “I Am Superman” played in triumph and the pages were headed to the printer. Second, and more importantly, the writing you pinned up on the office bulletin board had to be decent. If it was bad, the brutal collective editing process would quickly set you straight; if it was good, you could still expect skepticism.

I was an English and history double major, but I learned more about writing at the Voice than anywhere else, in school or my subsequent career as a writer. I still keep in mind a Voice colleague’s dictum about feature writing—“quotes are like treats for the reader!”—and I got the best training possible in writing quickly, cleanly, and to word count, plus a side course in journalistic ethics, some rules which we learned by breaking.

Alex Boyd (COL ’18) Editor-in-Chief, Spring 2018 One of these other Carrying On’s will say that this magazine is a family. This statement is wonderful and true, but the Voice could also be cliquish, and sometimes I felt like I didn’t completely belong. A lot of that is on me because I was surrounded by very special people.

Several of these reflections may explain how going through hell makes you stronger. That the late nights are worth it, and that they prove your potential. But my time on the magazine made me more acutely aware of just how little I know and of how much progress I still have to make towards becoming a better worker and person.

But maybe that’s the magical thing about the Voice: It didn’t require blind faith. It didn’t demand my ritual humiliation or ask me to beg for the approval of someone 14 months older than myself. It didn’t boast to be the greatest thing in my life. I was encouraged to be critical, to admit the club’s imperfections, and people cared to listen. The Voice was aware of its faults and driven to fix them. That’s why I’d do it again. That’s why you tolerate the bullshit. Because at the Voice, I was able to think freely. I was able to lower my shield just a little. I didn’t have to pretend to be the big strong man I’m not, nor hide that I get a little lost and a little sad sometimes. I didn’t have to lie that the Voice was perfect. It’s not and never will be. But I knew the Voice would always question itself as much as anybody else.

Jason Kelly (COL ’96 ) Editor-in-Chief, Spring 1995 My memories of the Voice are too numerous to capture in a couple hundred words, unless I default to a Larry King-like, ellipses-riddled regurgitation.

Driving all night to Storrs, Connecticut, to cover a basketball game … the terror and thrill of pinning a cover story on the board for editing … debating editorials on the Leavey bridge as the sun rose … helping plan the 25th anniversary of the paper by cold-calling alumni at newsrooms around the country.

During that last exercise, I realized there were people who’d sat in the same seats—probably literally (the furniture in 413 Leavey was not new)—who were actually making a living and an impact: folks like Brian Kelly (COL ’76) and Margaret Sullivan (COL ’79).

While I’m proud of Georgetown in general, I confess to a much deeper pride when I see Voice alum producing kickass journalism.

Heather Vogell (COL ’96) helped uncover a massive cheating scandal at Atlanta’s public schools. Andrew Rice (COL ’97) has written some of the most incisive stories about New York real estate, including the money around a certain developer-turned-president.

Last year, I came back to D.C. for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and walked out of my company’s reception to find fellow Voice alums Michelle Jaconi (SFS ’96, GRD ’97) and Anthony Zurcher (SFS ’94). We hugged and chatted and took a moment to appreciate that it all started for us in that dingy corner office. There we were, two decades later, real live journalists, applying what we’d learned just a few miles away.

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Students strike, boycott classes

Capping off a nearly decade-long battle between administrators and Georgetown’s student radio station, University President Rev. Tim Healy, S.J., sold all of the equipment required to operate WGTB and its signal to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) for $1. The battle began when the university ordered WGTB to cease transmission in 1971 because the station’s new, more powerful transmitter was interfering with scientific research on campus. Over the next several years, WGTB butted heads with the administration over student broadcasters’ far-left wing stances on the Vietnam War and other social issues. They also ran into trouble with the Federal Communications Commission for playing music with explicit content. UDC acquired the station the next year and sold the signal in 1997 to C-SPAN for $25 million.

The Georgetown Student Senate called for a twoday boycott of classes to protest for a number of on-campus reforms, including the U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia. One day earlier, Ohio national guardsmen killed four unarmed students at Kent State University. The Voice editorial board lauded the Senate for its actions, encouraging the entire student body to participate. Because of the disruption, main campus faculty voted 156 to 13 to suspend classes for an additional week. The strikers called for the administration to reform the faculty tenure process, perform a study of the work conditions faced by non-academic staff, fight air pollution around Georgetown Hospital, and stop giving students academic credit for participating in ROTC, but their true legacy was kicking off a decade of student activism.

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Students protest tuition increases … with lemons

Students piled 6,000 lemons in front of the Office of the University President, then occupied by Rev. Robert Henle, S.J., to voice their opposition to their education “going sour.” The Lemon Day protest was in response to simultaneous $100 increases in the cost of tuition and on-campus housing. The rate raise brought tuition to $2,500, a four percent increase (the same increase seen from 2018 to 2019). Student Body President John Kennedy (COL ’73) wrote in a letter to the University Board of Directors that “while you could dismiss ‘Lemon Day’ as a funny student stunt, I think I speak for the student body when I say that the connotation ... that our education is going sour is a real feeling on the part of every student.” The Board voted to approve the increases regardless.

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Georgetown wins first (and only) men’s basketball championship

In Coach John Thompson Jr.’s twelfth season, the Hoyas finished their 1983-84 season with a 34-3 record, a Big East regular season and tournament championship, and a national championship. The Hoyas defeated Houston University 84-75 in Seattle’s Kingdome to win the title game. Freshman Reggie Williams led Georgetown with 19 points in a contest that featured two of the best centers to ever play the game: Houston’s Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing (COL ’85), who was named the tournament’s MVP. The victory over the famed “Phi Slama Jama” Houston team was nestled between the heartbreaks of losing the championship game to the Michael Jordan-led University of North Carolina in 1982 and Villanova in 1985.

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Supreme Court rules for Gay People of Georgetown University

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Georgetown had to provide LGBTQ students equal access to university funding and facilities. The Student Senate had initially approved funding for Gay People of Georgetown University (GPGU) in 1979, but it was revoked, leading to the lawsuit. The university requested that the Supreme Court delay an order from the D.C. Court of Appeals requiring Georgetown to recognize GPGU under the District Human Rights Act. Georgetown alumnus Antonin Scalia (COL ’57) abstained from the vote, and the Court decided that the university did not have to endorse gay student groups but must provide them with the same access to funding and university space as other student organizations. This remained the extent of the university’s support until they hired a parttime LGBTQ services coordinator in 2002.

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GU Choice receives club recognition

GU Choice, the original name of H*yas for Choice, was granted university recognition by then-Dean of Student Affairs John DeGioia on the condition that the group only promote discussion and not advocate for reproductive rights. The decision upset many members of the Georgetown community. One group, the Georgetown Ignatian Society, brought a canon lawsuit to then-Archbishop of Washington Cardinal James Hickey to have the university stripped of its Catholic status, a power only the Vatican has. Amidst this opposition and accusations the group had advocated for pro-choice activities, DeGioia revoked the club’s funding in April 1992. University President Rev. Leo O’Donovan, S.J., allowed the group to operate on campus but without university funding.

1989 Georgetown alumnus Bill Clinton 1992 elected president NOV. 3

Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) defeated George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot with 370 electoral votes and 43 percent of the popular vote.

The Voice’s Election Day coverage spanned from informally polling (read: accosting) voters outside the Carlos Rosario Adult Education Center to pestering student political leaders at the election watch parties on campus. College Republicans President Jay Murphy (MSB ’94) told the Voice that his club was taking the results in stride. “It’s not life and death stuff,” he said. “If you’re not having fun, then it’s not worth doing.” Clinton served two terms as president, marked by both success and scandal. Since leaving office, he has visited and spoken at Georgetown numerous times and is one of the university’s most renowned alumni.

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Stewards exposed

The Society of Stewards of Georgetown College, a secret, all-male fraternal order, was publicly disclosed when Rev. Joseph Durkin, S.J., the group’s moderator, wrote a letter to The Hoya denouncing the group’s exclusion of women and minorities. “I stand before you all today and say that I am vehemently against the Stewards,” said Rosie Hidalgo (COL ’88), a student speaking against the society at a public forum held after Durkin’s letter. “It’s like a cancer. Unless we stop it now, it will penetrate deeper and deeper into every organization on campus.” A number of prominent students, from the editor-in-chief of The Hoya to GUSA senators, were outed as members. Within the week, a spokesperson for the group announced that it would be dissolved, but the society was restarted a few years later.

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John DeGioia becomes first lay president of Georgetown University

John DeGioia (COL ’79) was inaugurated as Georgetown’s 48th president, succeeding O’Donovan and becoming the first layperson to run any of the country’s Jesuit colleges and universities. Having earned his bachelor’s and Ph.D. from the university, DeGioia also served as senior vice president and dean of student affairs. His inauguration sparked discussions on the tension between Georgetown’s identity as an academic institution and its position as the oldest Catholic university in the country. DeGioia said he has tried to balance the conflict between those identities throughout his tenure. Still in the position, he is the longest-serving president in the school’s history.

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LGBTQ Resource Center opens

Throughout 2007, students advocating for LGBTQ interests launched a series of campaigns in response to hate crimes on campus. They participated in town halls with university President John DeGioia to fight for more support on campus.

Because of the work and dedication of many student activists who collaborated with the university, the LGBTQ Resource Center opened its doors and has since adopted a significant role in university life, representing LGBTQ interests, offering support systems for students, and hosting guest lectures. Since its founding, the Resource Center has also received support from Georgetown Campus Ministry in its mission.

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BIG G EST STO RIES OF E AC H DECADE

Having a Grand Old Time News on the Hilltop from 1969 to 2009

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New Paper, New Office, Same Old Voice

BY EMMA FRANCOIS AND SANTUL NERKAR Voice website headers from 1998 to 2015.

Within 16 pages, the Oct. 22, 2009, issue of the Voice housed the feature, “A History of One-night Stands: Comedy at Georgetown,” the news clip, “Shot Fired in McDonough Bathroom,” and the Voices piece, “Tour de Georgetown: Cyclist Pops the G’town Bubble.”

“The Voice definitely produces a lot of professional writers and journalists, and I think that’s because of the attitude we take towards our work,” Leigh Finnegan (COL ’13), editor-in-chief in fall 2012, wrote in an email to the Voice. “But we also once put out an entire issue about sharks because it was April Fool’s Day. That kind of thing.”

Since its inception in 1969, The Georgetown Voice has maintained a few key characteristics regarding its journalistic focus and culture. Our editorial section has always worked from an explicitly liberal perspective, we cover both Georgetown and D.C. topics with an eye toward national movements, and we’re still the most laid-back (and best) publication on campus.

Notwithstanding the observed continuities of the Voice, the paper has also undergone some major changes over the years, particularly in the last ten. Whether it’s the shift from weekly to bi-weekly production or the adoption of glossy paper in lieu of a pulpy exterior, our structure and culture have been fundamentally altered.

How have we operated in the Age of Information? Here are a few things we’ve noticed about the Voice over the last decade.

Bi-Weekly, Better-Looking If you pick up a copy of the Voice today, the first thing you’ll notice is a chic exterior with a colorful, distinctive pattern on the front. At the beginning of the decade, our paper featured eye-catching cover stories, centered around the most important news of the week. But now, our covers are filled with distinctive, artistic graphic designs. The shift to glossy paper in 2015 was accompanied by a movement to bi-weekly, rather than weekly, print production, due to pressures from GUSA to reduce printing costs and move online.

The alteration was more than just a logistical decision; it reflected a change in our publication’s focus. The significance of the remodeling is not lost on former staffers and editors, who said the change was a watershed moment in the history of the newsmagazine.

“It shifted what we were focusing on in print to less news and event coverage and a little more broader, bigger stories and things that could hold two weeks and stand up over a longer period of time,” said Liz Teitz (COL ’16), former news editor.

Alex Boyd (COL ’18), editor-in-chief in spring 2018, noticed a significant shift in the quality of reporting as a result of the structural change. Before, Boyd said, the harried process of producing weekly issues had hurt the quality of the Voice.

“I think our professionalism suffered because of that, too, because it was absolutely quantity over quality,” he said.

The weekly grind of production took a toll on the organization, said Chris Almeida (COL ’16), the editor-in-chief in fall

2015. Long Wednesday production nights left staffers and editors too exhausted to do their best work.

“That’s tough, when you’re taking a lot of people writing for the first time and the entire issue hinges on this one cover story,” Almeida said. “You have to turn it around in a week, and doing that is really difficult. It’s just not healthy, not going to help you do your best stuff.”

The shift to a bi-weekly format and glossy paper shaped the Voice’s print content for the second half of the decade. But just as important—though several years earlier—was the Voice’s exploration of new and creative ways to use the internet.

Multimedia & Online Presence The Voice has grown to use the internet as a companion to our print issues, a transition mirrored in the national media landscape. Even in 2010, the magazine was almost entirely in print, not relying on other forms of media to meaningful degree. But today, the Voice publishes the majority of its content, particularly breaking news, features 12 regularly scheduled podcasts, and engages its audience with Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

The changes at the Voice are a microcosm of the nationwide shift in how Americans consume media. According to a Pew Research Poll from 2016, just 20 percent of American adults “often get news from print sources,” compared to 38 percent who get news from online sources and 57 percent from television.

This change in Americans’ consumption patterns isn’t a death sentence for journalism as we know it, but a challenge for us to innovate new ways to draw in readers. The internet allows for a flexibility not available to Voice staffers earlier in the decade. One moment, we might be recording a Stripped podcast about the role of fashion in Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality. The next, the conversation might shift to a contentious debate over our reactions to new movie trailers on the Halftime leisure blog.

“I think the way online works now makes sense, and I’m glad we made that switch,” Almeida said. “It was really, really overdue.”

Michael Trimarchi, the adviser to campus media groups over the decade, said the Voice has been particularly effective at taking advantage of online resources.

“Faced with the budget cuts of a few years ago and the loss of two issues a month, putting most of the breaking content online and using the newsmagazine as a place to put in feature stories, I think, shows in a good way how to use the internet,” Trimarchi said.

Change in Tone, So Long, Vox It was as if millions of Voicers had cried out in snark and suddenly were silenced.

The decision to disband Vox Populi, the Voice’s daily blog on culture, sports, politics, and everything in between from 2006 to 2015, was timely and perhaps sorely needed. However, the

blog’s wacky, acerbic, yet also journalistic style still speaks to our publication’s ethos. Finnegan recounted one memorable story exemplifying the idiosyncrasies of Vox that buttressed the Voice’s mainstream print content: the bust of a drug lab in the freshman dorm Harbin Hall. “[Vox] was where we broke news, and it was really widely read and commented on in Georgetown and beyond,” Finnegan wrote. “[Vox] got so many comments that they had to disable them.”

Part of Vox’s appeal was its breadth of coverage. A typical day on the blog addressed issues ranging from North Korean defectors speaking at an on-campus panel to the appearance of a Georgetown alumna on Shark Tank to promote the Boobypack: “the only fanny pack for your rack.” Like a box of chocolates left out in the Darnall common area, you never knew what you were going to get with Vox. “We tried to maintain that combination of serious journalism, general pop culture snobbery, and irreverence that I think was pretty characteristic at the time,” Finnegan wrote.

However, despite Vox’s popularity and status as an icon of the Voice, its editors were able to spend less time maintaining its quality in the mid-2010s, and the blog suffered. The Voice made the decision to end Vox’s reign in 2015.

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“Having a snarky, clever blog was good, but if you can’t keep up the resources to keep it up, you have to get rid of it,” Almeida said.

In its place, Halftime, established in 2014, now conveys the same irreverent, yet urgent, tone that the Voice carried for years with Vox. Though the format of Halftime differs from that of Vox—it has more long-form, opinion pieces than Vox’s Gawker-y style offered—it still serves as the Voice’s most creative outlet and often a “gateway drug” into the publication.

There are no guidelines for Halftime, just one rule: Halftime is Halftime, baby.

most attractive person in the room upon one’s first mosey to “the green chair”).

Institutional memory plays a role in maintaining—and understanding the evolution of—the paper’s culture. Voice staffers who joined the publication in 2015 heard about the often antagonistic relationships between different sections. Staffers who joined in 2018, however, are surprised by this mild turf warfare.

Naturally, cultures go through cycles. And for an organization whose institutional memory is so short, culture can change rapidly. Despite the ebbs and flows of the last decade, the spirit of the Voice has remained the same. Teitz partly attributes this to the laid-back, cross-sectional culture: In other words, you get to “choose your own adventure.”

“We really tried not to take ourselves too seriously—trying to come up with alliterative or punny headlines, that kind of thing,” Finnegan said. “But we were always really proud of the journalism we put out.”

“We take what we do seriously, but not ourselves too seriously,” Almeida said.

“The Party After the Funeral” “Late-night police pursuit costs Georgetown magazine its newsroom” read the headline of the Student Press Law Center’s article on the escapade that started the Voice’s turbulent love affair with Leavey 424. The Washington Post and The Hoya also covered the spectacle (the latter with a healthy dose of schadenfreude).

The well-documented details are as follows: As Hurricane Irene hit D.C. in late August 2011, three Voicers attempted to evade campus police who told them to exit Leavey in case loose shingles fell due to the weather. After locking themselves in the old office, Leavey 413, the students pursued their escape plan. They crawled above the ceiling tiles, likely markered with names of editors-in-chief past, and shimmied above multiple neighboring offices.

Their plan, as it turned out, was far from flawless. And it was costly, earning the three former Voicers criminal charges, over $1,000 in damages to ceiling tiles across several offices, and an involuntary move to the smaller office down the hall for the rest of the Voice staff.

“It was a huge blow to all of us,” Finnegan wrote. “Most practically speaking, that [old] office was barely big enough for all of the people and computers we had. The new one was so much smaller that when we first saw it we didn’t know how we were going to be able to put out a paper.”

The old office also had a separate room for the editor-in-chief and managing editor. With the shift, all editorial meetings had to be held at the central table, losing any sense of privacy. More importantly, Leavey 424 did not feel like a home.

“The new one was so small and bare and sad,” Finnegan wrote. “It felt like losing such a big part of our organization.”

While the Voice has come to love its new digs, the immediate response from the paper was disbelief and indignation. Gavin Bade, editor-in-chief in fall 2013, christened the new office by writing “this office sucks” on a ceiling tile, next to his name.

“The old office also had so much institutional history,” Finnegan wrote. “There were dozens of past covers hung up on the walls, and other decorations and pieces of memorabilia that had accumulated over the years.”

The Voice was given two weeks to evacuate the old office.

“I remember our last production night in the old office, when we took down the decorations and threw out most of them,” Finnegan wrote. “It had a very ‘party after a funeral’ kind of vibe.”

Punishing the entire paper for the actions of a few drew protests from the staff, past and present. A protest letter to the administration garnered 57 signatures from alumni. The Hoya called for a reconsideration of the punishment. Even with this outpour of support and appeals to Media Board over the semesters to follow, the university did not reverse its sanction, and the Voice remains in the snug office outside the Leavey elevators.

“I think we did a great job at making the new office our own and adapting to our new space,” Finnegan wrote. “It slowly started to accumulate decorations and feel more like home.”

Despite the nostalgic and comical way it’s repeated to newer staffers as time passes, the anecdote is a crucial reminder of the paper’s relationship with the university. At the time, some Voicers wondered if the forced move was a reaction to the Voice’s criticisms and investigations of the administration.

Digging Up the Voice As current staffers pored over past print issues while preparing for this 50th issue, there were many exclamations of “Oh! We used to have a column on drinking!” and amused disbelief at ads such as the 2009 one for Vox Populi that read, “Snarky, Sexy, Scoops. Want more?”

To the dismay of some staffers, gone are the haiku reviews, the crossword puzzles (and the envied position of “Crossword Editor”). Gone, too, are the horoscopes and the film quotes on the leisure page headers. The masthead no longer has a fax machine number on it, the role of a literary editor, or the logo of a former sponsor, the Center for American Progress.

Other fun tidbits we found included every installment of the collaborative romance mystery series, “50 Shades of Blue and Gray.”

Gone, too, is the cartoon section known as “Page 13.” Some of the drawings have retained their humor through the years.

Some are shockingly misogynistic, including biting headlines and captions. Comparing these cartoons to what we would publish today made the change in Voice culture—and culture at large— tangible for currents staffers looking through the archives.

In 2015, the Voice published an offensive cartoon that depicted two white, male GUSA candidates ‘beating a dead horse’ that represented one black and one female GUSA candidate.

The response to the cartoon was swift. Amid public outcry and widespread condemnation, including a protest in Red Square, the school called a campus community meeting on diversity, and the Voice halted Page 13.

••• Two students, one in 2018 and the other in the early 2000s, both sign the ceiling, albeit in different offices.

“And if that’s the reason we were punished, then fine—biting the hand that feeds isn’t the wisest thing to do,” Finnegan wrote, “but it’s the right thing journalistically.”

Institutional Memory Because most staffers are involved with the Voice for a maximum of eight semesters, the paper has a short institutional memory. This fosters a culture of Voice lore passed down from older members to younger through the years. For example, seniors remember stories of the 2015 “takeover” as told in whispers in the corners of the office or in shouts over a beer. Another great Voice tale is the infamous police chase that led to our office switch. Younger staffers rely on the older generation to fill them in and shed light on Voice traditions (like choosing the

Physically, the Voice feels different today. It is smooth, and its colors pop out from newsstands. The paper is glossy enough to catch the light (at least the light that finds its way in from the office’s singular window). The newsroom still has its energetic, ragtag feel, and old cartoons, issues, Twitter battles with The Hoya, and artwork dot the walls, remaining resilient, despite the biannual sprinkling of champagne.

Now, the office houses podcast equipment and runs on an intense Google calendar to coordinate meeting times. Pithy headers aside, the editorial section still opens the newsmagazine with a strongly liberal stance that harkens back to its founding in 1969. And there is an undeniable sense of pride in being a member of the Voice, whether you dabble in leisure or attend every meeting from business to news.

“The Voice was the first place that I had the chance to try out writing and reporting and where I realized this is what I want to do,” Teitz said. “This is it.”

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Acting Out: Students Bring Change to the Hilltop

BY JAKE MAHER, JACK TOWNSEND, AND KATHERINE RANDOLPH Georgetown’s front gates sit roughly four miles from the United States Capitol. Perhaps it is this proximity to policymakers, or the university’s Jesuit identity, that has always made Georgetown a haven for student activists. For our 50th anniversary, the Voice is looking back at some students’ more recent attempts to bring change to campus.

Student activism at Georgetown runs the gamut of political views. It is liberal and conservative, well-organized and loosely arranged. Activists confront the university on campus concerns—issues like workers’ rights and sustainability—and those that reach a national level—like reproductive rights and immigration.

And while activism at Georgetown takes multiple forms, it retains a common goal: making change, whether of the university, the nation, or the world.

••• As unauthorized immigration to the United States has become a hot-button national issue, both university students and administrators have made their voices heard.

In 2016, UndocuHoyas, a group supporting undocumented Georgetown students, demanded that the university rescind its invitation to former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to speak at the School of Foreign Service’s commencement. The group argued that Johnson, as the leader of the government department responsible for deporting undocumented immigrants, represented policies and efforts to separate students’ families.

While the university ultimately did not rescind Johnson’s invitation, UndocuHoyas’ opposition fueled an ongoing conversation about undocumented students on the Hilltop.

Arisaid Gonzalez (COL ’21), the current president of Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, said that her group teaches students about issues that affect immigrants.

“Georgetown does a very good job of helping us out,” she said. “We have a director of undocumented [student] services. They provide need-blind financial aid. Anything with money and legal help, they have it.” However, she said the university was “a little bit faulty” in supporting undocumented students’ families. Though Georgetown protects undocumented students from deportation, the safety net does not apply to their loved ones away from the Hilltop.

Much of Gonzalez’s activism is university-centric, but she has taken advantage of Georgetown’s position in D.C.

as well. Gonzalez participated in a sit-in in the office of Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) in 2017 and attended this year’s State of the Union address.

Scott Fleming, who served as Georgetown’s associate vice president for federal relations from 2001 to 2018, helped Georgetown activists collect and deliver 3,000 postcards for members of Congress signed by students in support of undocumented Hoyas.

“That was, to me, the biggest thing we did,” Fleming said.

••• Conservative activism on campus often looks different from other activism, said Amelia Irvine (COL ’19), former president of both Georgetown Right to Life and pro-Catholic social values group Love Saxa. Instead of sitins and protests in Red Square, Irvine talked about “flag day,” an annual event run by Right to Life in which students plant small flags on Copley lawn to memorialize the average number of abortions performed in the U.S. every day.

“The best thing that I can do is represent my views in an articulate and clear way and to act with kindness in what I do,” Irvine said. And she does not always aim to persuade people.

“Success is not necessarily changing minds, but it is starting the conversation and planting the seeds in other people so they at least understand how the other side sees things.” The university is generally supportive, at least of her work with Right to Life, according to Irvine.

But Love Saxa is another matter. The group, which promotes Catholic teaching on marriage and relationships, came under scrutiny from students in the fall

of 2017 for rejecting the legitimacy of gay marriage.

Two students asked the Student Activities Commission (SAC) to defund Love Saxa, which they said violated Georgetown’s policies against student groups that “foster hatred or intolerance” based on several characteristics, including sexual preference. In the following SAC hearings, Irvine and other members of Love Saxa fought to retain university funding, gaining national attention in the process.

SAC decided in favor of Love Saxa, so along with Right to Life, the group still occupies a small but enduring spot in conservative campus activism.

••• Like Gonzalez and Irvine, Celia Buckman (SFS ’21) advocates on campus for a national issue. In Buckman’s case, it’s even global. As president of GU Fossil Free (GUFF), Buckman and her group work toward getting Georgetown to sell off its investments in companies associated with fossil fuels from its endowment.

When GUFF started in 2012, the group held sit-ins and rushed the stage at a Gaston Hall event with a banner advertising the cause.

“As you can imagine, the administration didn’t really like that,” Buckman said. “But I think that it was the only method to reach them.”

Since then, the university has become more receptive to GUFF’s requests, Buckman said. Georgetown’s board of directors formed the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility (CISR) in 2017 to respond to requests like GUFF’s to divest from fossil fuels.

GUFF submitted a sweeping proposal calling on the university to completely divest from fossil fuels in 2014, but the university chose only to divest from thermal coal, an especially harmful kind of fossil fuel. The group submitted an updated proposal in January 2019, renewing its call for complete divestment.

Now that they have built stronger relationships with administrators, Buckman said, GUFF has more traction.

“That’s really a culmination of so many years of working with them to have a working relationship of any kind,” she said.

Unlike many activist groups, however, GUFF is not designed to be a permanent campus fixture. Buckman said that the group has an endgame.

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“GUFF is a campaign. We want to work ourselves out of a job,” she said.

••• While organizations like GUFF and Love Saxa are relatively new presences on campus, other activist groups have a more established history. H*yas for Choice (HFC), an unrecognized student group, has advocated for reproductive justice and abortion access since 1991. The group now distributes contraceptives and lobbies university officials to supply birth control on campus.

HFC president Angela Maske (NHS ’19) said the group’s style of activism has changed over the past decade. For example, HFC has moved away from the term “pro-choice” in favor of “reproductive justice.” To Maske, this means focusing less specifically on abortion and more generally on reproductive health.

“We really believe in a version of reproductive justice which means being able to decide if, when, and how you get pregnant; being able to have a healthy pregnancy and access to things like prenatal care; and being able to raise your children in a safe and healthy environment,” Maske said.

Earlier in the decade, however, HFC was known primarily for provocative direct action. In 2010, they partnered with United Feminists for the “Plan A: Hoyas for Reproductive Justice” campaign. They advocated for contraceptives on campus, rape kits at the Georgetown Medstar Hospital, and sex education for students. Some even chained themselves to the John Carroll statue, demanding to meet with university officials about reproductive health issues. Their protest was effective to a point. Although Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson agreed to meet with the students that evening, many of their demands were never met.

In September 2018, HFC began offering the emergency contraceptive Plan B to students on campus, funded by outside donations. In addition to tabling in Red Square and the Leavey Center and offering free condoms to students on campus, HFC has moved toward pushing for more accessible STI screenings and opposing on-campus pro-life events.

This includes protesting the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, which Georgetown hosts in Gaston Hall. This year, Maske said that HFC flyered in university buildings in addition to protesting, a decision she credits to the group’s move from pure activism to organizing.

“Organizing is far more than a one-and-done event,” Maske said. “Those pieces do play a part in organizing, but I think organizing is a lot more strategic, and it also involves building relationships with others in order to learn from their experiences and help them find a place in the movement.”

••• Ayo Aruleba (COL ’17) remembers the protests, which he organized, that prompted the university to confront its legacy of owning and selling slaves. “It almost felt like a responsibility to do something about what was going on.”

The story of the 272 enslaved people sold by the university in 1838 to keep the university solvent, now known as the GU272, received national attention in 2015 as ar-

chivists began identifying descendants of the slaves, many of whom live in the small town of Maringouin, Louisiana.

In September 2015, university President John DeGioia convened the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to consider ways to address Georgetown’s past participation in slavery.

The working group’s progress coincided with student protests at Yale University and the University of Missouri in late 2015 against institutional racism. Aruleba and several other students organized a rally to stand in solidarity with students at those colleges but realized that they needed to make a direct change at Georgetown as well.

“It was something me and my friends were reading on social media, were reading in the news, because our friends and family at different institutions and at Georgetown were facing these kinds of things, so it was very personal,” Aruleba said.

They decided to organize a sit-in outside DeGioia’s office to demand that the university change the titles of Mulledy and McSherry Halls, buildings named after Jesuits who oversaw the sale of the GU272. On Nov. 13, 2015, around 35 students sat outside DeGioia’s office from 9 a.m. until midnight.

“Black individuals have historically been an integral part of the foundation and advancement of Georgetown’s academic Institution with little to no recognition,” the group wrote in a statement. “We are imploring that the University recognize and acknowledge the role that Black people have had and continue to have on this campus.”

The day after the sit-in, DeGioia announced that the buildings would be temporarily renamed Freedom and Remembrance Halls.

Student activists started conversations that replied to some questions about Georgetown’s responsibilities to descendants but left others unanswered. Georgetown decided to permanently rename the buildings after Isaac Hawkins, the first person listed on the bill of sale, and Anne Marie Becraft, the founder of one of the first schools for black girls in Georgetown. It also offered legacy admissions status to descendants. But the Isaac Hawkins Legacy Group, an association of Hawkins’ direct descendants, has been unsuccessfully calling for financial compensation for their ancestor’s work since early 2018.

In February 2019, GUSA approved an April referendum to vote on adding a $27.20 reconciliation fund to students’ semesterly activities fee to benefit descendants.

••• The students sitting outside DeGioia’s office in 2015 would not be the last. Activists have used a variety of tools

“We’re all trying to get something done.”

to push for improvements in the working conditions of several communities at Georgetown over the last decade, including sit-ins, labor organizing and protests.

On Dec. 8, 2016, the Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) made headlines with a 35-hour sit-in outside DeGioia’s office protesting working conditions in Nike’s Vietnam factories, where some Georgetown licensed apparel is made. Seventeen activists demanded that the university push for the Workers Rights Consortium, a third-party labor rights watchdog, to access the factory, and to end its licensing agreement if Nike would not agree. Georgetown allowed its contract with Nike to expire on Dec. 31, 2016, and reached a licensing agreement with Nike in September 2017 that allowed WRC access.

“We are optimistic that this will provide momentum for students across the country to continue to pressure their own institutions and take this victory nationwide,” GSC wrote in a statement after the sit-in.

GSC also helped dining employees connect with the union Unite Here! in 2011 and 2012 to negotiate a contract with Aramark, Georgetown’s food services company.

After a campaign of over a year, the union reached an employment agreement with Aramark that guaranteed year-round health insurance and a 40-hour work week.

The decade has also seen Georgetown join the growing ranks of universities with graduate student worker unions after the National Labor Review Board ruled in 2016 that graduate students at both private and public universities had the right to unionize.

At Georgetown, the push for unionization began with an increase in the required hours worked for doctoral students without a proportionate increase in pay. The Doctoral Students Coalition was formed to address the change, and from that group came the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE).

“I’ve come to believe a union for graduate workers is a necessity,” wrote Hailey Huget, one of the founding members of GAGE, in an op-ed for the Voice in 2017. “If graduate workers want a living wage, improvements to our abysmal healthcare and childcare benefits, guaranteed summer funding, better working conditions, and many other needs met, unionizing is the only way forward.”

GAGE’s journey toward organizing culminated in an election on Nov. 8, 2018, with a decisive margin voting in favor. The group is now affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and represents all graduate student employees at Georgetown.

••• Activism is a constant presence on Georgetown’s campus, but it can hold a different meaning for each student. “It’s hard to categorize student activists as a segment of Georgetown because we’re all trying to get something done, ” Buckman said.

The last 10 years have seen turbulent changes in American society, and these two pages cannot begin to holistically encompass the recent work of Georgetown students to bring about those cultural shifts. Insofar as college campuses can be spaces for political exchange, student activists at Georgetown have driven changes at a local level that they wish to see in the world. In our archives, online and in print, students’ ideas and passion for change abound. We expect to see even more in the next decade.

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SPORTS IN THE LAST DECADE

Sustained Success for Hoyas on the Field and on the Court Men’s Soccer

Women’s Soccer

BY JORGE DENEVE

BY TYLER PEARRE The Georgetown men’s soccer team has recently enjoyed the most successful ten-year run in its history. The Hoyas staked their claim as one of the nation’s elite programs in 2012 when they were the Big East Blue Division Champions and Big East Tournament runners-up. Georgetown would post a final record of 19-4-3, finishing the season as runners-up in the NCAA Tournament. That trip to the title game catalyzed a run of several dominant seasons.

Despite making the NCAA Tournament in each of the next two seasons, the Hoyas were unable to lift the Big East Tournament trophy. That changed in 2015 when the team embarked on a record-shattering campaign. The Hoyas won all nine of their Big East regular season games before securing their first-ever Big East Tournament championship, defeating Creighton in double overtime at Shaw Field. In addition to capturing the elusive Big East crown, the 2015 squad also played 18 consecutive games without defeat, including 14 consecutive wins and a six-game run without conceding a goal—both program bests.

Following the season, six players joined the Major League Soccer (MLS) ranks. Brandon Allen (COL ’15), the program’s all-time leading goalscorer, signed a homegrown contract with the New York Red Bulls, as did Alex Muyl, who scored the winning goal in the Big East Championship game. All four starting defenders found new homes in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft, highlighting the quality of Georgetown’s program.

Following a down 2016 season in which the team won just six of its 17 games, the Blue & Gray returned to form in 2017.

Anchored by goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski, who won the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup as a member of the United States national team, the Hoyas secured a 14-4-2 record and a second Big East Tournament championship. Though a devastating own goal against Southern Methodist sunk the Hoyas in the second round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament, they responded by winning their third Big East Tournament in four years during the 2018 season. Again, the NCAA Tournament posed problems, as the Hoyas were upset at home by Michigan State in the Sweet 16. Still, three players who earned 2018 United States Soccer Coaches All-East Region honors will return to the squad in 2019 as the Hoyas look to continue their good form.

Though the athletic brand of Georgetown University has been primarily tied to the men’s basketball team, the past decade has highlighted the excellence of many of the other squads on the Hilltop. The following article chronicles six of the school’s most prominent programs since 2009.

Track & Field

BY WILL SHANAHAN The last decade has been a largely successful one for the track and field program, as the men’s indoor and outdoor teams have won 21 and 27 individual Big East titles, respectively. The women’s team has been similarly strong, with indoor taking 24 titles and outdoor capturing 23, while also earning the only team Big East championship of the decade with an indoor trophy in 2012. The men’s team has broken 14 school records in this period, while the women’s team has smashed 30.

An integral part of that 2012 team was Emily Infeld (MSB ’12), who secured Georgetown’s only individual national championship of the last ten years when she took the 3,000-meter gold at the 2012 Indoor National Championships. Infeld is also one of two former Hoyas to have represented the United States in the Olympics in the past decade, along with hurdler-turned-bobsledder Chris Kinney (COL ’11). The Hoyas’ other national championship came in 2016, when the women’s indoor distance medley team, made up of Andrea Keklak (COL ’15), Heather Martin (NHS ’16), Emma Keenan (COL ’17), and Katrina Coogan (NHS ’16), finished first.

The strides the program has taken under the watchful eye of director Julie Culley, now in her third season at the helm, have been impressive. The men’s indoor team came up just short of a Big East team crown while posting its best NCAA finish of the period in 2017, tying for 16th. Following the season, the track and cross country teams combined to rank No. 6 in the final USTFCCCA Men’s Program of the Year Standings. The women’s team also posted its finest national showing of the decade under Culley, placing ninth in the NCAA Championships in 2016. Culley has overseen the development of 44 All-Americans during her tenure.

In 2018-19, the indoor campaign finished well with graduate student Joe White (COL ’18) placing sixth nationally in the 800-meter run, while the men’s distance medley team of junior Jack Salisbury, sophomore Lawrence Leake, sophomore Ruach Padhal, and senior Nick Wareham placed third. The outdoor teams will look to build on that momentum, as the season has just begun.

The Hoyas boasted a U-20 World Cup gold medalist in midfielder Ingrid Wells (COL ’11) at the turn of the decade, although they only made the NCAA Tournament once before 2009. Wells won Big East Rookie of the Year in 2007 and became the first Hoya, male or female, to tally 100 points in their collegiate career. In 2010, Wells led the team alongside Head Coach Dave Nolan to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. Although Georgetown missed the tournament in 2011, Wells’ final season on the Hilltop, the team has made it back every year since. In 2012, midfielder Daphne Corboz (COL ’15) set the single-season goal scoring record en route to a Hermann Trophy semifinalist nomination. In 2013, defender Emily Menges also earned a semifinalist selection, and Corboz was again nominated as a semifinalist in 2014. In 2016, goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman (MSB ’19) transferred in from UCLA, and she would finish her three years at Georgetown with a record 47 shutouts (and the top three single-season shutout marks). With midfielder Rachel Corboz (COL ’18), Daphne’s sister, starring in Georgetown’s attack, the 2016 squad amassed a then-record 20 wins, won the Hoyas’ first Big East Tournament title, and earned a trip to the College Cup, where their season ended in the national semifinals against USC. In 2017, the team won its first ever outright Big East regular season title and repeated as tournament champions but did not make it as far into the postseason as the previous year. Georgetown once again rewrote the record books in 2018, with forward Caitlin Farrell equalling the single-season goals record while the team one-upped the 2016 squad with 21 wins. The Hoyas were inches away from going undefeated in the conference and completed a Big East Tournament three-peat to earn the program’s first ever NCAA 1-seed and a second trip to the College Cup in three years. Despite a heartbreaking finish in the semifinals against UNC, Schechtman was a Hermann Trophy semifinalist, while Farrell was the first finalist in program history, joining men’s soccer’s Brandon Allen as the only Hoyas to receive the accolade. Nolan and his staff earned the Coaching Staff of the Year award for the second time in three seasons. With a strong squad returning for 2019, the Hoyas look for more silverware to cement their status among women’s soccer’s elite.

Football

BY CHRISTINA SMITH

Women’s Basketball

BY AARON WOLF

In the past decade, Georgetown football has grown under the leadership of Kevin Kelly (2009-2013) and Rob Sgarlata (2014-present). While the Hoyas have suffered nine losing seasons within that decade, they have also demonstrated growth and improvement on both sides of the ball. In nine of the past 10 seasons, the defense kept opponent scoring in the low to mid 20s. After a drop to 9.6 points per game during the 2009 season, the team doubled its scoring in the 2010 season. The offense has maintained a steady average of around 20 points per game since.

Kelly even led the team to a winning season in 2011, when the Hoyas ended with a record of 8-3 and a 4-2 record within the Patriot League, good enough to tie for second with Holy Cross.

During Kelly’s term as head coach, Sgarlata served as defensive coordinator. When Kelly resigned in 2014, Sgarlata transitioned into his new role as head coach. During his first two seasons in the position, the team finished in the middle of the Patriot League. The team struggled during the 2016 and 2017 seasons, falling to the lower ranks of the conference, but Georgetown finished 2018 in respectable fashion, tying with Holy Cross for second in the conference with a 5-6 record. Much of their current success can be attributed to the team’s defense, which ranked first in the conference for 2018 in sacks and interceptions. Through smart recruitment and a continued focus on maintaining positive morale, the team can use the 2018 season as a strong platform as they look forward to 2019.

Over Terry Williams-Flournoy’s first five years as head coach of Georgetown’s women’s basketball squad, the Hoyas were mired in mediocrity, finishing with just two winning records and one postseason appearance between 2005 and 2009.

That changed dramatically with guard Sugar Rodgers’ (COL ’13) arrival in 2009. As a freshman, Rodgers powered Georgetown to the NCAA Tournament, with a record of 26-7, and into the national rankings for the first time in 15 years. Rodgers achieved Big East First Team honors in each of her four seasons and ultimately finished as Georgetown’s all-time leader in scoring (men or women), steals, and 3-pointers when she was drafted to the WNBA. Before Rodgers’ final season, Williams-Flournoy accepted a head coaching position at Auburn and former assistant Keith Brown took the helm. The Hoyas struggled with the coaching change, and despite Rodgers’ scoring average of 22.9 points, they finished with a record of 15-16. Just before the 201314 campaign, Brown resigned following accusations of verbal abuse toward his players. Jim Lewis took over as interim head coach, and the Hoyas labored through an 11-21 season. For the 2014-15 campaign, the administration hired another former assistant in Natasha Adair. Her first season finished with just four wins, but Dorothy Adomako (COL ’19) was a bright spot, and she was named Big East Freshman of the Year in 2015. The next season, Dionna White joined the program and made an immediate impact as a unanimous Big East All-Freshman selection, while the Hoyas finished with a winning record and postseason appearance for the first time since the Williams-Flournoy era. In 2017, the Hoyas made a repeat appearance in the WNIT but were disappointed with a first-round loss to Fordham.

To make matters worse, Adair departed for a head coaching role at Delaware, and Adomako was forced to miss her entire senior season with an injury. New Head Coach James Howard avoided disaster in his first season at the helm, finishing with a 16-16 record and WNIT appearance in 2018. White was named to her first All-Big East First Team, and then-senior forward Cynthia Petke came on strong in her final year in the Hilltop, averaging a double-double. In Howard’s second year, the Hoyas improved, finishing with a regular season record of 19-15. They were knocked out of the Big East Tournament by a nationally ranked Marquette squad, but reached the Elite Eight of the WNIT for the first time since 2009. In the opening round, White passed 2,000 career points, just the second Hoya to reach the mark after Rodgers.

Next season, Howard will have to manage the departures of White, Adomako, and graduate student guard Mikayla Venson. It will be up to young players like freshman guard Nikola Kovacikova to maintain the Hoyas’ winning culture going forward.

Men’s Basketball

BY NATHAN CHEN

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A decade ago, the Hoyas, led by sophomore center Greg Monroe and junior guard Austin Freeman (COL ’11), bounced back from a difficult 2008-09 and secured a 3-seed in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Despite being upset by 14-seed Ohio, Georgetown remained nationally relevant for the next three years, and the addition of forward Otto Porter Jr. propelled the Hoyas to especially strong showings in 2012 and 2013. Unfortunately, Georgetown couldn’t capitalize in the tournament, losing to 11-seed North Carolina State in 2012 and dropping a heartbreaker to 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast in 2013. After losing Porter and small forward Hollis Thompson, the Hoyas entered a period of decline, making only one tournament appearance over the next four years. 2015-16 and 2016-17 were particularly nightmarish seasons, as the Hoyas finished with losing records, and head coach John Thompson III was fired.

Georgetown turned to Patrick Ewing (COL ’85) to restore the program’s glory. Ewing, who guided the Hoyas to their only NCAA title in 1984 as a student-athlete, promised to bring a faster style of play more suited to the NBA, a welcome departure from the methodical Princeton offense that Thompson employed. After a difficult first season at the helm, Ewing’s second season yielded much more promise. In the 2018-19 season, Georgetown amassed a 19-14 record, adapting to Ewing’s preferred style of play and scoring signature victories over No. 17 Villanova and No. 16 Marquette. The team boasted three selections to the Big East All-Freshman Team: guards Mac McClung and James Akinjo, and forward Josh LeBlanc. For the first time since 1988, three freshmen teammates were named to the Big East All-Freshman Team. Under senior center Jessie Govan’s leadership, the Hoyas secured a postseason appearance for the first time in four years, making the NIT. The future is bright for the Hoyas, especially with McClung, Akinjo, and LeBlanc leading the way.

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2012 APR. 14

2009

President Obama gives speech in Gaston Hall in front of covered IHS symbol

When President Barack Obama gave an economic policy speech in Gaston Hall, the gold IHS, symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ, was notably covered by a black-painted piece of plywood. The monogrammed symbol is normally visible above the Georgetown University emblem. The associate university vice president of communications said the White House asked for a simple background of flags and drapes, consistent with other policy speeches, and the university felt it was most respectful to cover the symbols so they were not seen out of context. Georgetown faced backlash from students and the Cardinal Newman Society for their choice to cover Jesus’ name, contending Georgetown was abandoning its Catholic and Jesuit identity.

2009

Sandra Fluke denied opportunity to testify to Congress in support of insurance coverage of contraceptives by religious institutions

Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12) became the target of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh after she testified in support of the Obama administration mandate that all insurance providers must cover contraceptives, including religiously affiliated organizations. On his radio show, Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” and said he would buy “all the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as possible.” Fluke, previous president of the law school’s Students for Reproductive Justice group, was originally going to testify in front of the full House Oversight committee, but committee chair Darrell Issa (R-Ca.) refused Fluke’s testimony, arguing the Democrats had not submitted her name in time. Fluke later testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, but the Republican-controlled House did not allow her testimony to be televised.

2011

2013 FEB. 19

Georgetown releases final defense of 2010 Campus Plan

Two years after Georgetown released its long-term goals for the campus in the 2010 Campus Plan, it presented its final defense of the initiative which included expanding Lauinger Library, creating a student center in New South, and increasing enrollment. Debates and negotiations over the previous few years strained relationships between Georgetown and the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, the Burleith Citizens Association, and the Citizens Association of Georgetown over the plan. Georgetown’s neighbors were especially concerned with the proposed enrollment of 3,400 additional graduate students, a 29 percent increase. They argued the increase would force undergraduate students to move further into the surrounding neighborhoods, exacerbating existing tensions between the residents and students. The neighbors’ complaints stemmed from continual issues of trash accumulation on neighborhood streets, noise from off-campus parties, and general disorderly conduct. Georgetown’s later implementation of a three-year housing requirement in 2014 was a direct result of neighbors’ concerns. The agreement did not last its 10-year lifespan and was replaced in 2017 by a new 20-year campus plan.

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2012

Photo by Maggie Freleng Photography Creative Commons 2.0 Generic License

2013

Anonymous tipster outs GUSA presidential candidate as a Steward

GUSA presidential candidate Jack Applebaum (COL ’14) was outed as a member of the Second Society of Stewards, a secret fraternal order on Georgetown’s campus, by an anonymous online blogger calling themselves ‘Steward Throat.’ Steward Throat had obtained screenshots of messages in which members discussed their involvement with the group. The news broke just days before the GUSA election, causing an uproar across campus. Applebaum lost the election. Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14), a vice presidential candidate on a different ticket, was also revealed to be a member of a different secret society, unaffiliated with the Stewards, but the revelations harkened back to when the Stewards were first exposed in 1988 and brought the society into students’ conversations once again.

BI G GEST STO RIES OF T H E L AST DECADE

Neighbors, Nike, and Other News

Voice Coverage from 2009 to 2019

BY NOAH TELERSKI AND JULIA PINNEY

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2013

Office of Sustainability established

Existing student enthusiasm for sustainability initiatives propelled the creation of the Office of Sustainability in 2013. In the months preceding its founding, students authored a report titled “Visions for Sustainable Georgetown,” which included recommendations of immediate and long-term goals for creating a more eco-friendly campus. The formation of the new office, headed by Audrey Stewart, bolstered the university’s commitment to implementing environmentally sustainable practices across its campus and the city as part of D.C.’s College and University Sustainability Pledge. DeGioia, along with eight other D.C. university presidents, signed the pledge in February 2012.

However, the university is now facing opposition in 2019 against one of its largest sustainability projects: a solar panel installation that would require the clear cutting of 200 acres of forest to build.

2016

Sit-in ends with agreement from administration to ask for third party access in Nike contract

A 35-hour sit-in staged by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee in the office of DeGioia ended when administrators agreed to ask Nike to allow third-party monitoring groups to access their factories when renewing their licensing contract. Of the 17 students who occupied the office on that Thursday morning to protest the working conditions in Nike factories that made Georgetown apparel, only seven remained the next evening. These students stayed despite being threatened with sanctions from the Office of Student Conduct. Eight participating students were sanctioned for staying the night despite being told to vacate the office. The university let its contract with Nike lapse, but signed a new one on September 30, 2017, once the company agreed to give access to the watchdog organization.

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2016

DeGioia announces preferred admissions for descendants of 272

In front of a full Gaston Hall, university President John DeGioia offered a formal apology and pledged preferred admissions status for descendants of the 272 enslaved people sold by Georgetown in 1838 to keep the university solvent. With a number of descendants in attendance, DeGioia presented the recommendations of the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation alongside Rev. David Collins, S.J., the chair of the working group. Some of the other recommendations included rededicating two buildings named for past Jesuits involved in the sale, establishing an institute to study slavery, and erecting a living memorial on campus. DeGioia told the Voice, “We can’t be in denial about an important, painful, tragic portion of our history.”

Students will vote on a resolution to raise funds for the descendents through an increased student activities fee in April 2019.

JULY 1

2017

Graduate students vote in favor of unionization

Eighty-four percent of graduate students working as teaching and research assistants voted in favor of unionizing and being represented by the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE) in negotiations. The election was held under an agreement reached between GAGE and the university on April 2, 2018. Both parties agreed to hold the election outside of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), meaning that even if the NLRB were to reverse its current ruling that graduate employees at private universities can unionize, Georgetown would still recognize the union. GAGE, who will be represented by the American Federation of Teachers, will begin collective bargaining over hours, stipends, and benefits this spring.

2017 FEB. 19

2019

Georgetown revokes honorary degree from Theodore McCarrick

A working group of Georgetown’s Board of Directors decided to revoke the honorary degree the university had awarded to Theodore McCarrick in 2004. The decision came three days after the Vatican defrocked McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, due to credible allegations of sexual abuse, marking both the first time a former cardinal was laicized due to sexual abuse and the first time that Georgetown revoked an honorary degree. Student activists had been calling for the revocation since McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals in July 2018. Though they had also called for the university to revoke the degree given to Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who was accused of covering up abuse while he was the Archbishop of Pittsburgh, the university did not rescind his degree.

2019 MAR. 12

2019

Former Georgetown tennis coach, parents, implicated in admissions scandal

Former men’s and women’s tennis coach Gordon Ernst was one of 50 people indicted in the nationwide college admissions scandal. Ernst plead not guilty to charges that he accepted over $2.7 million in bribes to designate unqualified applicants as Georgetown tennis recruits to smooth their way into the university. Following an internal investigation into his recruiting practices, Ernst resigned from Georgetown in June 2018, two months before taking a job at the University of Rhode Island. The parents of four Georgetown students who were accepted to the university, three of whom matriculated, were also charged. Coaches at UCLA, Stanford, Wake Forest, and USC were also implicated alongside a number of other parents, including celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, in the scandal that grabbed the nation’s attention and re-opened conversations about the role of wealth in elite university admissions.

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POLITICS OF THE LAST DECADE

Students Search for Common Ground Amidst Rising Partisanship

BY MARGARET GACH AND SIENNA BRANCATO Georgetown students on campus in 2009 were living in the heart of political upheaval. Barack Obama, the first black president, brought Democrats back to the White House for the first time since a Hoya sat in the Oval Office.

Now, at the end of the decade, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is occupied by Republican former real estate magnate and reality TV star Donald Trump, and students on campus have met rising partisan tensions in the country with calls for unity—or at least civility—across political fault lines.

The flocks of students in suits heading to their unpaid internships on the Capitol Hill GUTS bus each morning are one of the most visible examples that a large segment of the campus is interested in politics. It is a Georgetown tradition to run down to the White House after presidential elections are called every four years, while politicians like Paul Ryan and Hillary Clinton are almost daily sights on campus. Student political groups invite speakers, host phone banks, and travel to the Hill to lobby for the national issues that most closely affect young college students, among them college affordability, gun control, and reproductive rights.

In recent years, Georgetown students have joined some of the largest protests in history, like the first Women’s March, which brought 500,000 protesters to the city for various women’s rights issues the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the March for Life, an annual protest against abortion.

The small campus is a microcosm of controversy for larger, national debates: When one student group advocates for a particular issue, another will appear almost instantaneously to combat them. Within one month in 2018, the university president’s office received two opposing letters on arming GUPD, a mirror of the growing debate over gun control policies in Congress.

The passion of political groups on campus has given Varsha Menon (SFS ’21), the treasurer of the College Democrats (GUCD), an outlet to fight for her political ideals in a way that was not available in her Texas hometown.

“When I came to Georgetown, one thing I knew is that I wanted to work for Democratic causes and do a lot of activism behind that,” Menon said. “I never got to really do that when I was in high school, and I felt really powerless when the 2016 election happened.”

At the same time, a common interest in politics has helped students learn about ideas from across the aisle, said Dolan Nunamaker (COL ’22), chair of campus relations for College Re-

publicans (GUCR). “I had some hesitations about coming to an East Coast, kind of elite school, especially with being from mid-Missouri,” Nunamaker said. “But for the most part, the vast majority of people that I meet with are interested in hearing about a different perspective.”

Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94), the founding executive director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics), said that Americans have created echo chambers through their social media and news feeds, adding to the polarization of the nation.

“We are completely, through a series of conscious and subconscious choices, isolating ourselves from different perspectives,” Elleithee said. “And when we isolate ourselves from other perspectives, we tend to demonize other perspectives. We’re starting to hate each other as people a lot more.”

College campuses are part of the trend: A 2016 survey by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute found college campuses have become more partisan—and more liberal—over the last decade.

But Elleithee said the “Democrat” versus “Republican” tension that defined his experience as a student at Georgetown in the 1990s has shifted to an “outsider” versus “insider” conflict that has brought a recent resurgence of populist politics. Early in the decade, this new politics advanced nationally through movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street but struggled to grow on campus.

In 2010, the Voice reported that conservative groups on campus had not adopted the “populist energy, tone, and activist tendencies of the Tea Party,” a socially and fiscally conservative movement within the Republican Party. And when progressive backlash against economic inequality and politicians’ lax response to the financial crisis led to the populist Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, Georgetown students’ reactions were split. Some traveled to New York to join the protests or—closer to campus—Occupy D.C.’s encampment in McPherson Square.

Despite the efforts of GU Occupy, the movement’s biggest presence in many students’ lives stopped at referring to a day in the library as “Occupying Lau.” GU Occupy joined protests on Copley Lawn when former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) came to campus in 2012. Some students argued that Gingrich, who was running for president at the time, should be given a platform, while others protested his invitation from the Georgetown Lecture Fund, a non-partisan student group that brings various speakers to campus.

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“There is nothing civil about Newt’s inflammatory anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-welfare, and anti-equality rhetoric,” protestor Beth Goldberg (SFS ’12) said at the time.

Since then, debate over whether colleges can restrict speakers whose views are seen as offensive or harmful has come to the forefront of conservative-liberal tension, each side contending what “free speech” actually entails. On March 21, 2019, Trump—surrounded by conservative student activists—signed an executive order requiring universities to protect free speech on campus or risk losing federal funding.

At Georgetown, both sides of the political spectrum have claimed that their free speech has been limited. When the Lecture Fund invited then-president of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards to campus in 2016, the backlash from Catholic students and alumni spurred university administration to provide spaces for protesters and pro-life panels during her appearance.

Despite the controversy, university President John DeGioia defended his decision to allow Richards’ visit: More free speech is always better, he told the Voice in 2017.

Despite increasing political polarization around the country, Lauren Dailey (COL ’20), vice president of the four-year-old Georgetown Bipartisanship Coalition, credited recent GUCR and GUCD leadership with working to find common ground.

This cooperation includes roundtables on issues like the opioid crisis and environmental policy as well as joint presidential debate watch parties.

“People are willing to talk now,” she said. “Yes, they have their opinions but I think they recognize that it’s important to share them in a way, with the other side, rather than just staying cooped up within their own groups.”

Elleithee, who has worked as a strategist for high-profile Democratic campaigns, helped found GU Politics in 2015 to encourage students to become engaged in public service. Since then, GU Politics has worked with campus groups to bring politicians, journalists, and advocates to Georgetown to discuss current political issues with students.

It does not mean students are less resolute about their own positions if they are willing to open a dialogue with the “opposing” side, said Elleithee. But he hopes the skills and resources they learn at Georgetown help them work toward political solutions to improve the country as a whole, regardless of their party. The day after the 2016 election, he said a group of Democratic students came into the GU Politics office asking him to bring in Trump supporters so they could better understand their perspectives.

“To me,” Elleithee said, “that really embodied what this program is about and what this campus is about: the ability to listen and learn as a way to become better advocates for whatever your advocacy, whatever your worldview may be.”

ALLY Smith

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THE GEORGETOWN VOICE 50th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

C U LT U R A L M O M E N T S O F T H E L A S T D E C A D E

A Leisurely Stroll Down Memory Lane COMPILED BY JULIANA VACCARO DE SOUZA

WE’VE SELECTED A SERIES OF QUOTES FROM OUR LEISURE SECTION IN THE LAST DECADE, SOME SHOWING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CERTAIN CULTURAL MOMENTS, OTHERS DISPLAYING THE MORE QUESTIONABLE SNIPPETS OF THE 2010S’ ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

Movies

THE FILM INDUSTRY WAS PRAISED AND CRITICIZED FOR THE STORIES IT DECIDED TO ELEVATE AND THE PEOPLE IT HONORED THROUGHOUT THE DECADE.

“This year’s onstage, on-air acceptance speeches combated racism, sexism, LGBTQ discrimination, immigration, and even ableism. What made this year’s statements starkly different from the Oscars’ most famous (or infamous) political moments, however, was their pertinence and the solidarity behind them.” —Julia Jester (COL ’15) on the 87th Academy Awards in 2015

“The science fiction genre has proven more than capable of making prescient predictions about the future, and it is time for the Academy to recognize that. Giving the Best Picture award to Arrival would be a step for the Academy, but a leap for Hollywood in the right direction.” —Graham Piro (COL ’18) on the 89th Academy Awards in 2017

“Its celebration of black and African culture and its story of colonization and the African diaspora are incredibly timely and important.

But, it is also long overdue, and many hope it will set a precedent for films like this to be commonplace, and not a rarity.” —Dajour Evans (COL ’20) on Black Panther (2018), the first superhero film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE INTERNET AS A WHOLE BROUGHT CELEBRITIES CLOSER TO FANS THAN EVER, WHILE LONGTIME SUPERSTARS SOUGHT TO REBRAND THEMSELVES. “Glover sets himself apart with an honesty and commitment that is not often seen in rap. The myth that his television fame has given him an unfair edge can quickly be dispelled after listening to the powerful Camp. It’s an album fraught with emotion, meaning, and Glover’s specialty, comedy.” —Matt Pacana (NHS ’12) on Childish Gambino’s Camp (2011)

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“While not completely convincing, Taylor Swift’s cautious evolution is certainly a step in the right direction and, at the very least, provides her with more options for complaining about her seemingly endless boyfriends and breakups.” —Kirill Makarenko (MSB ’14) on Taylor Swift’s Red (2012)

“Intensely personal, Lemonade provides a more detailed picture of Knowles than she has ever revealed to the public … It was always evident that she had the singing and performance ability to be a megastar, but Lemonade resonates more easily because it feels honest.”

—Danielle Hewitt (COL ’18) on Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016)

“Why do we need to have multi-hour broadcasts in which the majority of the jokes and bits are so bad they’re cringe-worthy? The answer is we don’t.” —Claire Goldberg (COL ’19) on the 2018-19 Award season

Music “DAMN., Kendrick Lamar’s latest project, continues his trend of creating exceptional, politically charged rap that forges a distinct sound. While DAMN. is difficult to characterize stylistically, it is a clear departure from his musically dense, and at times chaotic, 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly.” —Gustav Honl-Stuenkel (COL ’20) on Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. (2017)

NEW ART GALLERIES AND RENOVATED THEATERS HELPED STUDENT THEATER, DANCE, AND ARTS GROUPS GROW, BUT THEY ARE STILL SEEKING GREATER INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT TO BRING STUDENT WORK TO THE GEORGETOWN COMMUNITY.

“Right now, art isn’t central to people’s vision of what Georgetown is because it was never a part of the mission or the identity of the university … But that’s beginning to change.”

—Al Acres, professor of art history, on finding a space for Georgetown’s communities of creative students in 2018

“With regards to Georgetown’s overarching student culture, GU ArtsWeek represents the broader message of unity amid all that divides us. Art itself transcends over the political climate and conflict over budget constraints to instead emphasize strength in unity.” —Emily Jaster (COL ’20) on GU ArtsWeek in 2017

“Etched with humor and covered with yellow masks, the faces of Mr. Burns remind us that we have to leave reality and enter the unimaginable to open ourselves up to a myriad of possibilities. It is this magical, cosmic element of imagination that helps us evaluate our perception and reach a higher understanding of the world and ourselves.” —Suna Cha (COL ’21) on the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society and Nomadic Theatre collaboration in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play in 2018

“In the 40 years since its founding, BTE has struggled with low participation and difficulty engaging the larger campus, but its goal remains the same: to create art about people of color.” —Katherine Randolph (COL ’21) on Black Theater Ensemble’s 40th anniversary in 2019

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