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Georgetown University’s Weekly Newsmagazine Since 1969  August 30, 2012  Volume 47, Issue 3  georgetownvoice.com

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Voice Crossword “Class Descriptions” by Tyler Pierce 27. Paul McCartney’s title 30. Ripken’s team 33. Rabbit fur 34. Location for the classes mentioned in 19 and 50 Across 38. Similar (to) 39. Lose your acne 40. More, in Madrid 41. Annoy 43. Cooking meas.

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Volume 47.3 August 30, 2012 Editor-in-Chief: Leigh Finnegan Managing Editor: Keaton Hoffman Blog Editor: Vanya Mehta News Editor: Gavin Bade Sports Editor: Kevin Joseph Feature Editor: Connor Jones Cover Editor: Neha Ghanshamdas Leisure Editor: Mary Borowiec Voices Editor: Claire McDaniel Photo Editor: Lucia He Design Editors: Amanda Dominguez, Madhuri Vairapandi Projects Editors: Christie Geaney, Cannon Warren Puzzles Editor: Tyler Pierce Assistant Blog Editors: Morgan Manger, Jamie Niu Assistant News Editors: Julia Jester, Matt Weinmann Assistant Sports Editor: Steven Criss Assistant Leisure Editors: Will Collins, Julia Lloyd-George, Kirill Makarenko Assistant Photo Editors: Julian de la Paz, Matt Thees Assistant Design Editors: Lauren Ashley Panawa

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PARTICULATE MATTERS

Court opinion disregards Clean Air precedent On Aug. 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out one of the Obama administration’s landmark environmental regulations. In a 2-1 opinion, the court struck down the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule on the grounds that the Environmental Protection Agency had overstepped its authority in curbing emissions too sharply.

Besides resting on questionable legal ground, the decision will have a catastrophic effect on the health and wellbeing of millions of Americans, opening the door for willful polluters to harm public health.

The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule established uniform anti-pollution penalties at the federal level, in an attempt to make up for discrepancies in state-by-state regulation. The rule would have imposed harsher penalties on industries whose pollution travels across state lines—forming smog and acid rain in states that do not have any authority over the offending industry. It also would have established a limited cap-and-trade system to

allow utilities companies to buy and sell pollution credits.

The EPA estimates curbing pollutants like nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide, and particulate matter under the rule would have saved between 13,000 and 34,000 lives, prevented around 420,000 respiratory problems and, in all, yield health benefits for 240 million people each year. The agency reports that within two years, this and other regulations would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 73 percent and nitrogen oxide levels by 54 percent, as compared to 2005 levels. These benefits clearly outweigh the perceived cost of the regulations, which would be levied upon dirty industries which our nation should phase out anyway.

Perhaps as troubling as the health impacts are the shoddy legal argument upon which this ruling hinges. The Clean Air Act clearly gives the EPA authority to determine appropriate levels of air pollution and regulate accordingly. That is exactly what the agency did here. However, the court ruled that this

latest regulation overstepped the bounds of the Clean Air Act. Obviously, the two George W. Bush appointees who overturned the rule put their personal political views ahead of jurisprudence.

Their legal opinion reads more like an amicus brief for the coal industry than a court document, and it reeks of unsubstantiated, pro-state’s rights sentiment. Judge Judith Roberts, who penned the dissent, wrote that the opinion will result in “a redesign of Congress’s vision of cooperative federalism between the States and the federal government in implementing the [Clean Air Act] based on the court’s own notions of absurdity and logic that are unsupported by a factual record.”

Even with this defeat, Lisa Jackson’s EPA has been perhaps the most effective and progressive agency in the Obama administration.

It must maintain its pro-public attitude as it fights through the appeals process and designs new rules to protect both citizens and the environment.

BAG LADIES

Bag tax study ignores environmental benefits Americans for Tax Reform recently commissioned a study on the now-two-year-old D.C. bag tax. The verdict: an utter failure with extensive economic consequences.

These conclusions ignore the intent of the bag tax, which is to encourage environmentally conscientious behavior while raising money to mitigate pollution in the Anacostia River.

In a National Review editorial, ATR’s Patrick Gleason caterwauled about the purported shortcomings of the bag tax. Instead, he ignores the environmental implications of the policy and attributes the tax to “another veiled cash grab by the notoriously corrupt and economically inept D.C. City Council.”

The bag tax has come up short of revenue projections, raising $1.5 million as opposed to the anticipated $3.6 million in the first year. Why the shortfall? As Gleason explained, it “reflects the fact that shoppers altered their behavior to avoid the tax at an even greater rate than District officials expected.” Customers are toting their gro-

ceries in reusable bags, which some would say is the point of the tax in the first place.

Although there is no reliable data for bag usage in the District, the Beacon Hill Institute, a fiscally conservative think tank that administered the study, found a 67 percent decline in bag usage—short of the 80 percent official projection.

Neither of these figures suggests that the tax has failed. Rather, the District implemented a relatively untested, smart program aimed at decreasing landfill waste and raising money to clean up the horribly polluted Anacostia River. Any reduction of plastic waste—especially a 67 percent decrease, as calculated by a conservative think tank—is a boon to the environment. The 4 cents per bag that goes to Anacostia preservation is an added perk.

Gleason is also anxious about the adverse economic impact of a so-called “rebound effect,” where plastic bag consumption rises again once the tax’s novelty wears off. They project that a 57 percent increase in plastic bag usage from 2011 levels will

cause the city to raise the tax rate, leading to diminished disposable income and the loss of 136 District jobs. First, this rebound will come to a net 10 percent decrease, six years after the tax was passed. Second, the BHI assumes that customers will divest from D.C., fleeing the five-cent tax by going to Virginia and Maryland for their groceries and bodega sandwiches. Most D.C. residents are unlikely to go to such lengths to avoid the tax, considering the cost and inconvenience associated with traveling such distances.

These economic concerns do not acknowledge the environmentalism motivating this tax. Four of the five cents collected from each bag is designated for Anacostia clean-up projects and educational programs. These programs provide the intangible benefit of combatting the trend of environmentally unsustainable practices— not just coercing positive behavior in the short term, but raising awareness about the broader goals of environmentalism. Local environmental benefits elude the BHI’s short-sighted study.

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Capitol Hemp raid indicates drug policy flaws

On Oct. 26, 2011, Capitol Hemp, one of D.C.’s best-known vendors of industrial hemp products, buckled in its legal battle with the District, leading to its closure effective Sep. 7 of this year. Metropolitan Police Department’s pursuit of head shops is indicative of the War on Drugs mentality that prioritizes petty drug use over more egregious violent crimes. Instead, the city should focus on implementing its nascent medical marijuana program and reorient local drug conviction procedures to be more conscientious of addiction.

The police raid of Capitol Hemp last October resulted in the arrest of seven employees and confiscation of $300,000 in store merchandise, including “glass artisan pipes,” one of the store’s signature products.

The raid was carried out under the premise that Capitol Hemp engaged in the promotion and sale of “drug paraphernalia.”

According to Metropolitan Police Department affidavit explaining the reasons for the raid, “while hemp is legal, the hemp clothing, accessories, food, books, and promotions within ‘Capitol Hemp’ only direct one to see that the focus of the store is its promotion of marijuana, its illegal use, and the sales of devices to smoke marijuana.”

Capitol Hemp was engaged in legal activity—selling hemp-based products like yarn and soap, along with accessories that could be used for illegal activity, but are not themselves illegal. To shut down a head shop that has not been proven to sell marijuana merely forwards the witch hunt that exemplifies the War on Drugs.

“The story of Capitol Hemp’s demise is the story of the War on Drugs being enforced by D.C. government as a war on free speech,” wrote Capitol Hemp coowner Adam Eidinger.

The crackdown on marijuana has become a hallmark of the Obama administration’s ramped-up war on drugs. As reported in the Huffington Post, among other outlets, the Obama administration’s ramped up attacks on marijuana far exceeds anything witnessed during the Bush years. Eric Holder has said that this administration will continue to prosecute distributors even in states where the sale of medical marijuana is legalized—and continue to prosecute marijuana users. These priorities will only exacerbate the injustices in our criminal justice system, diverting resources from more worthwhile endeavors. In D.C., black citizens are eight times as likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than white citizens.

The Capitol Hemp raid was a high-profile crackdown on a lone head shop, but it is indicative of the single-mindedness with which a racist drug war is carried out.

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Smile! You’re on the neighbors’ security cameras

by Matthew Weinmann In response to recent serious crimes and general safety concerns, the Citizens Association of Georgetown has begun to install its own security cameras in the Georgetown area.

CAG has had discussions about the installation since July 2011. In CAG’s Newsletter for Dec. 2011, the plan to install cameras was publicly announced.

Currently, three CAG cameras are installed.

The first two cameras were donated by Bill Dean, a Georgetown resident and CEO of M.C. Dean, the security technology company responsible for installing the cameras. All additional cameras will be paid for by CAG using donations and membership dues.

“One is already up and operational. The other one is half way up, and the third one we are working on,” said CAG President Jennifer Altemus in a phone interview.

“We have a probable location and we are working on getting it installed there.” Currently one camera is on the West side of Georgetown and another on the East, with the third most likely going on the West side. “It will go over towards

Key Bridge, because that is a major in-and-out.” Altemus said.

Altemus refused to reveal the specific locations where the cameras would go. “We figure it sort of defeats the purpose of the cameras if the criminals know exactly where they are located,” she wrote in an email. Even so, Diane Colasanto, a member of the association’s public safety committee, wrote in an email to the CAG forum that “blocks subject to camera surveillance will contain signage notifying the public of that fact.”

The placement of the cameras, according to Altemus, is meant to “target the gateways in and out of Georgetown right now.” If police are looking for a car or a license plate or a certain physical description, CAG believes these areas would be the most helpful.

The cameras passively record with information stored “on the cloud”, which can be accessed in the CAG office, according to Altemus. “We keep it for a finite period” she said, and “only the police or people who file police reports can look at the information.”

Because CAG is a private organization posting its cameras on private property with the owners’ consent, the camera installation is legal. “The

fourth amendment doesn’t apply to that activity as it applies to the activity of the government,” explained Arthur B. Spitzer, the legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital.

“I don’t want to give the impression, though, that we think this is a great idea.” Spitzer said. “We bemoan the fact that America is turning into a surveillance society.”

Spitzer also challenged the effectiveness of cameras in deterring crime, pointing out how many videos there are of people robbing convenience stores. “So, it’s not real clear to us how much real benefit there will be, and it gives people a false sense of security and a real loss in privacy.”

Some members of the Georgetown community are concerned about a lack of transparency in the decision-making process. Some residents, like Jennifer Fiore, who has lived in Georgetown for 11 years and is not a member of CAG, do not object to the cameras themselves, but rather to the installation process, which she says has not been transparent.

“Quite clearly CAG is making these decisions” said Fiore, and she pointed out that membership in CAG is not a requirement to live in Georgetown, and that the leaders of

was director of the U.S. Census Bureau overseeing the 2010 census.

Dr. Mitchell said that his census experience was one of the qualities that made Dr. Groves such a strong candidate. “Anyone who has any understanding of the bureaucracy that governmental agencies have… would be completely impressed with Dr. Groves, because he was able to very effectively do the last census in 2010 and came in under budget”.

Many skills came along with managing the Bureau. With over 600,000 employees, Dr. Groves had to learn how to organize and manage a large group of people.

“Big organizations are changing because of the availability of digital information,” said Dr. Groves, “[I learned] how big organizations including universities can become informed about their progress by looking at these data.”

Dr. Groves outlined three qualities that inspired him to come to Georgetown. One was that he missed spending time with students as census director, and hopes to regain that contact while at Georgetown. He also is excited to be back in

a university environment, because of the many changes that U.S. universities will be experiencing in the next few years.

“There are all sorts of external influences, like online learning and tuition pressures along with the desire to make the sciences more vibrant, which make universities a great place to be for the next few years,” Dr. Groves said.

The special values system that Georgetown possesses as a result of its Catholic and Jesuit identities was the final reason why Dr. Groves decided to accept the position of provost.

“If you look at all the problems facing the world, and ask what are the ingredients of their solutions, you can’t get very far without placing on those solutions some guidance from value systems and belief systems,” he said.

At this point, Dr. Groves is looking forward to listening to and begining discussions with the different academic departments and programs at Georgetown.

While he has yet to set specific goals for his time on the Hilltop, the new provost hopes to help the

CAG are not publicly elected. And yet, “I feel affected by their decisions nonetheless” Fiore said. In an email to the CAG forum, Fiore laid out her objections to the camera installation and lack of a discussion.

Colasanto posted a response.

“CAG did try to make the community aware of our plans well in advance of installing the first CAG camera,” she wrote, adding that the decision was featured in the December newsletter, that CAG conducted a mailing campaign, and that several news outlets covered the decision.

Even so, Fiore was not satisfied with the level of disclosure. “My concern is that an active minority of Georgetown residents is acting on behalf of all residents without a thorough process for all of us to understand why, understand how, and agree to it in a community way,” she said in an interview.

Residents are not the only ones excluded from the conversation. In an email, University spokeswoman Stacy Kerr wrote that she was unaware of CAG’s efforts. “That’s not a proposal we’ve heard about and we are in very regular communication with neighborhood leaders,” she wrote.

Still, Altemus thinks the University may become involved. “We

have broached cameras with them before, but they were not interested.” Altemus said. “But I know there are a lot of new people involved now. So I would imagine it would come up soon, especially with the Georgetown Community Partnership.” Department of Public Safety Chief Jay Gruber did not respond to requests for comment.

The Metropolitan Police Department attests that it was only briefly involved in the installation effort.

“MPD’s only involvement was that CAG contacted the Second District and inquired about the legality of putting their own cameras on private property,” Gwendoly Crump, Director of MPD’s Office of Communications, wrote in an email. But even without being an active participant, Crump said that the department endorses the measure.

Although portrayed as a deterrent to crime and a resource for MPD in solving cases, there is concern the cameras will be used to pursue instances of public intoxication and other similar offenses in the vein of Stephen R. Brown’s blog DrunkenGeorgetownStudents.com. Asked if the cameras would be used to prosecute drunk and loud students, Altemus would only say “only if a crime has been committed.”

New Provost arrives on campus, starts counting students

by Morgan Manger On Apr. 10, Georgetown announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Groves to succeed Dr. James J. O’Donnell as provost. With the beginning of the new academic year, Dr. Groves has taken over the post, greeting new students at Convocation and settling into his new digs on the Hilltop.

The provost is the chief academic officer of the University, responsible for coordinating the academics of each school, arranging all convocations and commencements, and supervising the admission and scholarship processes, among other duties.

Due to the heft of the position, finding an appropriate replacement for O’Donnell meant an extensive, nationwide search.

“We vetted hundreds of applications for this position, and Dr. Groves was a very strong candidate,” said Dr. Angelynn Mitchell of the African American studies program, a member of the search committee for the new provost. “We were all delighted that he wanted to join us.”

Dr. Groves taught at the University of Michigan, and most recently

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Dr. Robert Groves promoted statistical sampling while at the Census Bureau. university give students the tools to become lifelong learners.

“If you want to learn something now, you type in a few words into a search engine and you’re presented with basically all of human knowledge about those words,” Groves said. “[We have] to give students organic research and scholarship skills through all their courses to effectively live and continue to learn in this world where data will be the cheapest commodity.”

Many professors are looking forward to beginning work with the new provost. Dr. Oded Meyer, a professor of statistics in the mathematics department, is excited to have a fel-

low statistician in the position.

“I want to convey enthusiasm for statistics to my students,” Dr. Meyer said. “Having the provost involved in the discipline will help with this.”

For his part, Dr. Groves is excited to begin his stint as a Hoya, and is already “having a blast” after spending time at Convocation and watching students move in this past weekend.

“I’m looking forward to going to sporting events and watching plays,” he said. “I’m anxious to meet folks. I’d be happy to be stopped walking on campus just to meet people.”

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Neuroscience attracts attention, but not from Hoyas

by Julia Jester The Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) is one of the success stories of Georgetown’s increased focus on the natural sciences. An obscurity only a few years ago, the Ph.D. program has vaulted itself into the number 14 slot in the National Academy of Sciences’ rankings of neuroscience programs in the U.S. But, even with the presence of a undergraduate neurobiology major at the university, only a precious few Hoyas apply to further their education in the IPN. “For whatever reason, we have almost no Georgetown undergraduates who apply for our program,” said Bill Rebeck, director of the IPN. This might seem strange, considering the unique advantages that Georgetown undergraduate students in the sciences have. Most notable of these is the presence of Georgetown’s medical center. Not only do Georgetown undergrads have easy access to the medical center building, they also are able to interact with medical and graduate programs in ways that students at other universities cannot.

According to Rebeck, undergraduate students who have an interest in neurobiology can “take the

courses that the school offers, but then they run out. And so some of them come over to the medical center to take courses with our graduate students.” In addition to coursework, undergraduate students are given the opportunity to work in labs with faculty members. “My lab right now has six undergraduate students, who end up working in our lab for a number of years.”

That access to research experience is invaluable. Undergrads can leverage that environment to jump into projects usually not available to students their age. “The best experiences are the ones that lead to a publication,” said Rebeck, “and so if you have labs that are publishing papers and an undergraduate can contribute in such a way that they become the middle author on a paper in a journal, that makes a real impression on graduate programs that are looking at that application.”

Recent neurobiology graduate Colin Soper (COL ’12) is continuing to work at the lab where he researched as an undergraduate, getting experience he hopes will help his graduate applications.

“I’m going to start looking at grad schools after a couple years of working and try to get a Ph. D in neuroscience,” Soper said. He claims

The new license to spill

In the wake of the unanimous approval of the 2010 Campus Plan by the D.C. Zoning Commission this July, students had remarkably little to celebrate. Still, the University’s apparent caving in to the demands of the Advisory Neighborhood Committee did produce a gem of a regulation—students living in University-owned apartments and townhouses are no longer required to register parties prior to their raucous merrymaking.

Based on the most recent statistics, North Korea is now the only remaining location where Party Registration is required.

Townhouse and apartment residents received the joyful tidings in an email from their hall directors and the Office of Residence Life, which explained a burdensome caveat to the policy changes: students who want to get down must still attend an “I Know How to Party” training session. If the name choice is not punishment enough, the email presented the vague threat that failure to attend a session before hosting “may

result in greater sanctions in the event a violation occurs.”

Despite having been conceived in a bureaucratically sealed container, the policy shift promises to marginally advance student rights in the one field that seems to matter to students: alcohol consumption.

Communication has never been a strength of Georgetown’s administrators, and thus the announcement should raise some suspicions. No standards have been set forth that would facilitate the conversion to the new regulations. Even more worrying is Village A Hall Director Michael Ritterbeck’s statement in response to questioning about the changes in procedure: “I’m not sure what I’m allowed to quote on the record.”

Comments like this seem to indicate the administration is unprepared to deal with the new regulations. Even the Department of Public Safety, which previously used party registration data in operations, has little idea of how to proceed. “We don’t know anything

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Regents Hall will expand research opportunities for neuroscience students neurobiology grads are continuing to work in the field, even if they don’t apply to the IPN right away. “I know at least one other person in my year is also working in a lab, one is in grad school at Columbia, everyone is still pursuing neuroscience in an academic setting,” he said.

Soper and Rebeck hope the new Regents Hall will expand the neurobiology undergrad program, which graduated seven students last year.

“I think [the new science center] will attract better undergraduates,” Rebeck said. “Some of them will end up in our labs, some of them might decide to apply for programs here, some of our graduate students go to labs over there.” In his eyes, the upgrade was long overdue. “Reiss is like a high school science lab,” Rebeck said. “It’s really shocking.”

Soper echoed the IPN director, saying Regents Hall would add to Georgetown’s already impressive science infrastructure, which includes a hospital, two research buildings, and one of the premiere cancer research facilities in the nation.

“We have a lot of good science going on at Georgetown, it’s just tucked away behind Kehoe, and most people don’t realize it” Soper said. “I think with [Regents] people are going to start to realize more how much we have to offer, and I think once more people hear about the neuroscience program and get into the neuroscience program, they’re going to realize how awesome it is.”

But as awesome as Georgetown’s neuroscience programs may be, they remain miniscule compared

about that,” Police Lieutenant Glenette Hilton said, but she indicated that DPS would “abide by any new regulations.”

“Our operations will not be affected,” she said.

Altering the party landscape while simultaneously claiming operations will stick to the status quo is, of course, a contradictory idea that further emphasizes the confusion flowing through the University. Jay Gruber, recently-hired Chief of Police, responded similarly.

Without a concrete notion of procedures, DPS officers will wander along their designated patrol routes scouring the night air for any rogue vibrations. As a result, they will likely end up busting gatherings too small to be considered parties by the University’s own policy, breaking with the intention to provide students with additional freedom and keep them on campus.

Alberto Lorenzo, East Campus Hall Director, attempted to justify the new policy at an “I Know How to Party” session yesterday evening. “Statistics show that accidents decreased,” he said of the Code of Conduct rules remaining in place, but “no one liked the party registration.” Contrary to the dialogue surrounding the campus plan, Lorenzo also said the new regulations were not necessarily intended to restrict students to campus.

What’s more, after hinting at the formation of a committee to investigate the impact of removal of registration procedures, Lorenzo said that evaluations did not show the policy change to be effective in keeping students on campus, as intended by the ANC.

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A bi-weekly column about campus politics “I have only been on board for a month now, so I have a lot of catching up to do on parties, party registration, and other issues,” he said.

Director of Student Affairs Stephanie Lynch declined to comment on how parties will be regulated under the new rules.

Instead, she endorsed the clearly inadequate email announcement from ResLife as the supreme source of information on party policies.

to other majors and graduate departments. Rebeck says some of this is built into the discipline.

“It’s not like there are that many kids who want to go to graduate school in neuroscience, and we usually only accept 8 or 10 kids a year,” he said. “It’s not like the medical school where they have a class of nearly 200. A lot of them can come from Georgetown and you can still have a very diverse population. It’s not like that in graduate school—you only accept small numbers.”

And although he would welcome more applications from Georgetown, the IPN head said he wouldn’t necessarily suggest Hoyas list his program as their top choice.

“One of the things that you’ll discover as you go through these moments in your life is that you only have so many of them,” Rebeck said. “You go to college somewhere, maybe you work for a few years after college somewhere, and maybe you go to graduate school somewhere, and then you get that first job somewhere and after a while you run out of changes. You might get 4 or 5 places in your life where you really feel connected to a place … I like to encourage kids to go someplace new.”

“I don’t feel like just because you can party now, everyone will do it,” Lorenzo said, but he refused to comment further.

One has no choice but to admire the University’s chutzpah in removing party registration —especially if administrators know the policy may not curtail students flocking to Burleith in droves, and DPS has no semblance of a plan to deal with the new social conditions. In pacifying the neighbors without the addition of any enforceable regulations, Georgetown has won a minor victory for the students in the conclusion of the Campus Plan—even if they don’t know it.

The administration’s task now must be to improve communication among departments to ensure that students do not become the victims of the as-of-now poorly handled initiative. But even if DPS oversteps its boundaries, students at least have one less piece of paperwork to file before reaching for the red solo cup.

Get krunk with Kirill at kmakarenko@georgetownvoice.com

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Sullivan a vocal force on formidable offensive line

by Kevin Joseph Typically, an offensive lineman doesn’t hold the most glamorous position on the attacking side of the ball. He doesn’t do the scoring—but he just happens to be the most crucial element in allowing those opportunities to manifest.

Number 60, though, was the rare exception to that rule last September.

During the Hoyas’ home opener, a 40-16 blowout over Davidson, the offense fumbled in the end zone, only to have

number 60 emerge victorious with the football moments later.

Touchdown, Kevin Sullivan.

Since then, a few major factors have changed for the Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.) product.

For one, he transitioned to center over the offseason after starting all eleven games at right tackle in the Hoyas’ renaissance 8-3 season. It’s a move that he, Head Coach Kevin Kelly, and senior quarterback Isaiah Kempf say was seamless.

“It’s been great,” Sullivan said of the switch. “I got a lot of reps during spring ball and

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Kevin Sullivan celebrates the first touchdown of his college career.

training camp, so now I feel really comfortable going into the season.”

The other change is more aesthetic than anything else, as Sullivan was awarded the Joe Eacobacci No. 35 Memorial Jersey. The honor has gone to the Hoyas’ hardest worker and a leader in the locker room, both roles the senior has embraced this offseason. As an offensive lineman, Sullivan has to wear 35 as a patch on his jersey as opposed to simply changing his number.

“Sully is a vocal guy and as a center, he calls out all the fronts,” Kempf said. “That’s been a big help for me, just kind of seeing blitzes and seeing things like that. He’s kind of played everywhere on the offensive line and just kind of knows what to do.”

The award is named in honor of Joe Eacobacci, a former Hoya who passed away on Sept. 11. Since that time, some of the greatest Hoyas to come through the program—Alex Buzbee and Nick Parrish among them—have won the award.

Buzbee was the first Hoya in over 50 years to make an active NFL roster, while Parrish left Georgetown as the program’s

all-time leading tackler. But Kelly believes Sullivan’s mentality made him the ideal choice for such a prestigious honor.

“Kevin is just like Joe Eacobacci was, he’s a team player, he works extremely hard, and is just a great person,” Kelly beamed.

“He’s really the leader of that [offensive line] group this year.”

This class of seniors, in particular, has faced a great deal of adversity over their years at Georgetown. Their freshman season marked the lowest of lows, of course, with an excruciating 0-11 record. Since that time, Kelly’s program has transformed to a Patriot League contender that believes it can win every game on the schedule. According to the squad, it’s a reflection of a change in their mindset—not to settle and to “finish the job.” Sullivan, as a vocal leader, has been at the forefront of that movement.

Still, Sullivan is just one cog in one of the most stable offensive lines in the Patriot League, one that led a potent Hoya offense that averaged 27 points per game last season. They reload this season with Sullivan, fellow senior Don Rhodes, and sophomore Patriot League AllLeague selection Mike Roland.

“We’re a really close-knit group and we have a ton of experience back this year,” Sullivan noted. “Everyone can settle into his role this year, and it’s helped us prepare for the season easier.”

As it was, the Hoyas were returning the vast majority of their offense—from Kempf down to redshirt senior Chance Logan, the traditional “skill” players just needed an offensive line to make holes and give Kempf time in the pocket. Kelly certainly thinks they’re capable of performing that task, taking it a step farther with his assessment of the line.

“Since I’ve been here, this is by far our best offensive line,” he declared. “Experience, talent, size, the whole thing—I’m really anxious to see how they do on Saturday to be quite honest with you.”

The Hoyas will find out just how much that continuity matters this weekend when they open the season at Davidson.

For number 60—and now number 35—it can’t get much better individually than a touchdown.

But with a Patriot League title on the line, all of those individual accomplishments just don’t seem to matter all that much.

Secondary shines behind All-American Jeremy Moore

by Steven Criss With classes beginning for all Hoya students, training camp is winding up for the Georgetown football team, which is preparing for its weekend opener against Davidson.

Last season ended in disappointment, when the Hoyas lost their last game to Lehigh and failed in their ultimate goal of winning the Patriot league. A major key in getting to the top of the standings this year is going to be their defensive play, in which senior cornerback and kick returner Jeremy Moore plays an invaluable role.

Moore is a defensive back who won the starting job at cornerback as a sophomore. Before arriving at Georgetown, though, he was a letter winner in both basketball and football, and his three years of varsity basketball culminated with a McDonald’s All-American nomination in his senior year. He experimented with track during his senior year as well, competing as a jumper on the James Hillhouse High School squad.

When it came time to decide which sport to pursue in college, though, Moore committed

to Georgetown as a top football recruit. He had been named to the First Team All Area, All Conference, and All State lists in Connecticut after recording phenomenal senior season numbers. That isn’t to say that his days as a track athlete and basketball player are completely behind him; many of the aspects of his other two sports have carried over into the way he plays football.

“Even to this day, some of the drills I did back when I was jumping, high jumping and long jumping, I still do them now,” Moore said. “With basketball, the instincts, the knowhow, the technique involved in basketball, that’s aided me... thus far.”

Returning for the current season, Moore has some impressive numbers to live up to. He was named to the First Team All Patriot League last season as both a cornerback and return specialist. His four interceptions with a total of 178 return yards matched the second highest in the Georgetown football program’s history. In the final game last year, he had four kick-off returns for a total of 153 yards, one of which was a 70-yard return.

To keep up his peak fitness over the summer, Moore set up a workout schedule of his own, which included self-imposed two-a-days during a grueling summer in Washington D.C. Working with strength and conditioning coach Carl Johnson also allowed him to return to the Hilltop ready to exceed his past numbers.

“I really do keep it to the basics with the weight training, as far as getting weight jacket in and touching backboard and speed work,” he said. “I make sure my fundamentals are always on point, and you know later towards the season I might start doing more intricate things.”

Head Coach Kevin Kelly believes that Moore stands out among Georgetown’s finest defensive backs. His work in the past three years has put him in a position to be regarded as the greatest Hoya cornerback in the program’s history. He makes up part of what Kelly thinks could be the best secondary in the Patriot League, and is expected to make a significant impact in keeping competitors at bay.

It took a bit of time for the New Haven native to find his

niche in the secondary but he established himself as a force in the return game early on in his collegiate career. His presence on the field is crucial because of that versatility.

“He was a preseason All American. He’s probably the best [cornerback] we’ve had,” Kelly said. “He’s an excellent player; he’s extremely aggressive; he breaks on the ball extremely well; and obviously an excellent kick returner. He’s exactly what you look for in a corner.”

Moore’s expectations for this season are very high, despite lacking some of the experience that other teams may have. He is eager to do what he can to make his team better, while also striving to be put on the watch list for the best defensive player in the nation and earn a spot as a First Team All American.

“I definitely believe we are one of the top defensive teams in the Patriot League,” he said.

“If not, you know, the nation.”

Jeremy Moore is crucial on special teams and defense for the Hoyas.

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Kempf and McCabe lead pursuit of Patriot League title

by Keith Levinsky The term “Redeem Team” has been thrown around lately referring to the U.S. men’s basketball team and its gold-medal run in the 2012 London Olympics. And this season, Georgetown football’s seniors will attempt to create their own version of a “Redeem Team.”

Linebacker Rob McCabe and quarterback Isaiah Kempf, the senior co-captains, understand the pain of defeat. The Hoyas went

0-11, losing every game, during their freshman season. Last year ended with a tough 34-12 loss to Lehigh in the Patriot League Championship, finishing 8-3 on the year.

“You can’t do it over one season,” Kempf said. “It’s taken three for us.”

This year, three years since the win-less season, the Hoyas will start the year as contenders for the Patriot League title.

“There is just a mindset among the seniors,” Kempf said. “As we are coming back, everyone is ex-

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cited to be back here. My freshman year was a bit different.”

Kempf and McCabe are partially responsible for this mindset.

Both were unanimous selections as team captains this year.

“The players pick the captain by voting. I don’t,” said Head Coach Kevin Kelly. “It was a landslide.”

They have provided leadership for a Georgetown squad that lost some key senior leaders at the end of last year, like defense lineman Andrew Schaetzke. Kempf and McCabe both lead by example, and are effective in their own manners.

“We are pretty good together,” McCabe said of himself and Kempf.

“We complement each other.”

While neither one is a “rahrah” leader and both are somewhat reserved, Kempf is a more vocal leader since he is behind center.

“Especially during practice, two-a-days, and the grind, I really helped and was vocal and talked to the guys and got them motivated,” Kempf said.

McCabe, however, focuses more on showing his teammates how to conduct themselves. Having been named Patriot League Pre-Season Defensive Player of the Year, the linebacker broke the

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Isaiah Kempf has seen time behind center in all four of his collegiate seasons.

Georgetown single-season tackle record last year and led the Patriot League in tackles per game.

For him, work ethic is the key to his and the team’s success.

“If I am not working hard in the weight room or the field or the film room, I don’t think I’m doing my job,” McCabe said.

Kempf has noticed the effect that McCabe’s example has had on other players.

“I think players have really responded to Rob and the attitude he has,” he said.

Coach Kelly also recognizes the importance of leading by example,

and commended both his co-captains on doing so. ”It’s every day setting the example and working hard,” Kelly said. “That’s what the players see. That’s what makes the team better.”

With their leadership, Kempf and McCabe have the potential to erase the painful memories of last year and their freshman year with a Patriot League Championship.

“I’m very pleased with what both those guys have done as far as the leadership aspect is concerned,” Kelly said. “They are excellent leaders.”

Football preview continues on page 13 Embracing Argentine soccer Before I left for my semester studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was well aware that soccer is the biggest sport here. To be honest, I was unsure how I felt about that—as much as I love watching the FIFA World and European Cups, I knew I would miss the fast-paced sports I’ve always watched and grew up with.

However, what I perceived fútbol lacked in thrill was compensated by its complete cohabitation with Argentine culture, whether it be within my own house or the arts, and its crazed fans.

Within the city of Buenos Aires lie six major soccer teams in the Primera División (All Boys, Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo, and Vélez Sársfield), and within this division there are major rivalries. The first night I met my host family, they expressed that they were fans of Boca Juniors.

My five-year-old host brother showed me his card collection of last-season’s team players.

He made sure to point out his favorite, and immediately after,

my host mother said that she is unsure what she feels most passionate about: her love for Boca or her hatred towards River Plate. The amount of loyalty everyone has to his or her respective team is indescribable but can outdone only by the country’s undying devotion to FC Barcelona striker and Argentinenative Lionel Messi.

When walking around the city, you are bound to run into some form of memorabilia of a club team, the national team, or the sport in general. The parks are abundant with soccer matches—although significantly smaller than an actual field, the parks generally have 6-8 turf playing grounds with different games going on from early in the day until midnight.

Soccer is very much a part of the Argentine arts scene, as well.

For the past two weeks, various tango and ballet companies have come into Buenos Aires for the Tango – Festival y Mundial de Baile. This past Sunday, a company performed a piece called

“El Tango y el Fútbol,” managing to tie together two of Argentina’s most well known attractions.

While I’m still trying to figure out how they managed to connect the two into a 90-minute routine, it is just another case demonstrating how soccer is inescapable in this South American nation state.

Sometimes, though, that passion gets out of control. While I’ve been abroad, the National Football League recently expanded its 2008 Fan Code of Conduct to include a four-hour online course an ejected fan

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by Melissa Sullivan a rotating column on sports must complete in order for them to re-enter the stadium’s stands.

Darren Rovell, author of the online ESPN article NFL gets serious about fan conduct, explains further “the course, designed by psychotherapist Dr. Ari Novick, in tandem with the MetLife Stadium security director Daniel DeLorenzi, focuses on alcohol abuse, anger management, and crude behavior.”

This struck me as an unusual way of dealing with belligerent fans at games, and it will be interesting to see how it will succeed back in the States. Then I considered how the new rule would fare in soccer-crazed Argentina.

Here, violence is almost a guarantee at a soccer match due to the presence of the organized fan groups, or “barras bravas,” that correspond with each club team.

While the first barras bravas—which literally means “hooligans”—were organized starting in the 1950s, violence relating to soccer in Argentina dates back to 1924 when a murder was committed after Argentina fell to Uruguay during the final match of the South American Championship. Most recently during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, members of the Boca Juniors and Independiente barras bravas got into a fight the day before the quarterfinal match between Argentina and Germany.

A member of the Boca Juniors barra brava was fatally injured during this fight, passing away the next day in the hospital.

While such acts of violence in sport may seem horrific, aggres-

sive sports-induced outbursts don’t always occur outside our borders. A 2011 NFL football preseason game between Bay-area rival San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders tallied a total of four attacks: two men were beaten unconscious, one was shot four times, and another was killed in a parking lot outside of Candlestick Park. Violence struck again this past month after a RaidersCardinals preseason game where a Raiders fan was shot in the face by a Cardinals fan.

What I’ve learned is that no culture is superior. Whether it’s football or fútbol, sport is sport.

Though I take no comfort in violence, it was really eye-opening to see that a love for sports teams is something that occurs across cultures. Fandom is universal.

While I have yet to attend a soccer match in my six weeks here in Argentina, I’m looking forward in immersing myself in the culture in a country as passionate about their teams as we are. That, and I’m excited to yell “GOAL!” at the top of my lungs.

Share your pasión with Melissa at msullivan@georgetownvoice.com

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Repairing, the irreparable John Wojnowski s 14-year protest against abuse

By Connor Jones He stands at the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and 34th St. NW, his seven-foot banner reading “NO SHAME OR SENSE: PEDOPHILIA.” The reverse reads “CATHOLICS: COWARDS.” The man stoops slightly while he paces. He periodically flips his sign as cars rush by.

John Wojnowski has maintained a one-man protest outside of the Vatican Apostolic Nunciature to the United States for the last 14 years. He clocks at least two hours at the corner each day—5 to 7 p.m., during weekday rush hour traffic—and spends at least two more hours in transit.

Wojnowski alleges he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at the age of 15, inspiring his prolonged protest. When he started protesting in April 1998, child sexual abuse by priests was a marginal issue. Four years later, Catholic child molestation cases became a national news story when the Boston Globe reported on cases pending against five priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Further investigation by academic, news, and governmental organizations revealed a wider problem in the Catholic Church—pedophilic

priests were shifted from parish to parish, usually without addressing the underlying problem.

Wojnowski appears small in front of the ornate building, which houses the Holy See’s mission to the United States.

He speaks slowly, hesitating and stuttering after every few words in a thick Polish accent. When he started protesting, Wojnowski was 55 years old. He is now 69, and the time he spent outdoors shows: His fair complexion is stained red, his formerly light blond hair now thoroughly white. All he carries is a faded red sack where he stores his sign and a reusable Walmart bag which holds water and a few personal items.

I identify myself as a reporter; he smiles, shakes my hand, and suggests we move into the shade.

He carefully removes his hat and sunglasses and begins to tell me his story.

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In the early 90s, allegations of sexual abuse against Dallas priest Rudolph Kos began to surface. By 1998, a Texas court had awarded 11 victims of sexual assault $119.6 million in reparations—a record verdict for a sexual abuse case at the time.

The Dallas diocese was held liable and Fr. Kos was sentenced to life in prison.

Although the amount of money was eventually reduced, the Kos case became a model for victims of molestation at the hands of priests. The Catholic sex abuse scandal gradually morphed from several isolated incidents to a systemic criminal phenomenon, as more victims began to come forLUCIA HE ward and seek John Wojnowski has been protesting for 14 years. reparations.

The scandal was snowballing.

A 2004 report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice estimated that four percent of Catholic priests in the ministry had charges of molestation leveled against them. Dioceses began

men and women. Then he lunged, shoving his tongue in my mouth while running his hands over my breasts and up and down my torso.”

Yoffe made the case for why men and women who experience

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Officials at the Vatican Nunciature refuse to meet Wojnowski’s demands. to buckle under legal pressure, with dioceses in Milwaukee, San Diego, and Spokane, Wash., filing for bankruptcy. The Associated Press estimates that the Catholic Church in the United States paid at least $2 billion in total to victims of sexual abuse from 1950 to 2007.

Although the child sexual abuse scandal stoked public anger, Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate published a report in April of 2006 suggesting that behavior among parishioners has largely remained unaffected by the scandal. “The CARA polls provide little evidence that Catholics have exited the Church in significant numbers as a result of the sexual abuse scandal. The proportion of the U.S. population identifying as Catholic has remained constant. Additionally, the CARA polls show little change in Mass attendance” the report reads.

The problem reached priests of nearly all affiliations. This past summer, Slate columnist Emily Yoffe went public with allegations of sexual harassment against Fr. Robert Drinan, a Georgetown law professor. She claims that while he was a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, Drinan cornered Yoffe in a car: “We got to where he was letting me off, he turned off the engine, and he began jabbering incoherently about

sexual assault at the hands of the church do not report their crimes right away, lending legitimacy to detractors who claim the whole ordeal was fabricated. Abigail Marsh, an assistant professor of Psychology at Georgetown, explained what victims of child sexual abuse generally experience.

“It’s variable,” she said. “But it’s very common for people to have, even decades later, an increased risk of all [psychological problems]: depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, ADHD, PTSD, and also physical problems that could be related to those symptoms.”

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John Wojnowski was born in April 1943 in Warsaw, Poland at the height of Nazi occupation.

His mother and father raised him and his two brothers in a devoutly Roman Catholic household.

While Wojnowski was still very young, his family moved to Italy, where Wojnowski first enrolled in Catholic schools.

Though Wojnowski now identifies as an agnostic, he remembers his “naïve” years as a Roman Catholic. “I was in the seventh grade, in this Catholic boarding school. I was walking in the mess hall … I heard Pope Pious XII over the speaker giving the benediction. I was so religious I dropped on my knees and crossed myself.”

His religious upbringing continued into early adulthood. Wojnowski attended a Catholic high school in Milan. In the summer of 1958, a friend invited him and his brother to stay at a family home in Cuzzago, Italy. While away, a priest noticed Wojnowski’s arrival in the village. “The priest saw me, and he knew that in high school we had Latin. He said, ‘Come, I tutor you in Latin.’ I went.” Only John was invited. In that era, near-absolute trust was afforded to priests.

“Going to the building of the priest, I remember, all the kids laughing. They must have known what was going to happen. I remember kids laughing—that’s all I remember, kids laughing,” Wojnowski said.

It was then that John Wojnowski was molested.

Wojnowski’s brother came with him, but he was given a book and instructed to stay in the other room. “My brother was behind the dark door. [The priest] told me to sit at his desk. I sat.

They tell you that priests give you alcohol, show you pornographic pictures…all kinds of introduction, but he was absolutely direct.”

“He tells me, ‘sit.’ I sat. He never opened a book. The very first thing he did, he put his hand on my knee,” Wojnowski says, and then pauses momentarily.

“My case may be unique, molestation-wise. Some people are molested repeatedly for many years. Mine was one occasion.

It was so traumatizing…immediately I put it out. For 39 years, my personality changed, my appearance changed…I wasted my life avoiding people. Now, all my life, I was insecure, sad, withdrawn… I thought my case was unique.” At that point, child sexual abuse was widespread, but as Wojnowski did for 39 years, many victims kept their abuse a secret.

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At this point, Wojnowski was interrupted by a priest, walking toward us from the embassy. The bald, heavy-set man pulled out a camera and started taking pictures of us. He did not say anything.

Wojnowski and I were standing about three feet into the grass surrounding the embassy, so

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From where we were standing, another priest was barely discernible waiting at the doorway to the embassy. The onlooker fits the description of Carlo Maria Viganò, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. (effectively the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S.). The nunciature did not respond to the Voice’s requests for comment.

After the man stopped taking photos of us and I had retreated back into the sidewalk, a nearby police officer caught the priest’s eye. Wojnowski had lowered his sign to the ground. Almost running, the priest attempted to step over Wojnowski’s sign to the right to get to the police officer. In the process, he stepped on the banner, breaking it.

The priest spoke a few words to the police officer. The police officer shook his head and the priest walked back into the nunciature.

Wojnowski was visibly pleased at what happened. “I’m grateful for this, I’m really grateful. You should be grateful for everything, right?” Wojnowski said. “It’s not upsetting. I like what happened here. It’s good that this happened.

It made my day.”

ual abuse had on him, he reached into his bag for two pictures. The first, taken in grade school, shows a smiling youngster. “I was a happy kid,” he said.

But he was a different person after the abuse. “Something popped in my chest—this thump in my chest—when I was inside the room. Next thing, I was out of the building … and can you imagine the terrible feeling, so dark… I said, ‘I ruined my life forever.’ It’s all gone. For what? For nothing… the caution … Can you imagine?

Being 14? I blocked it out.”

“My personality changed.

My appearance changed. In high school, I remember, some kid asked, who I guess knew me from before. He asked me, ‘Why are you so sad?’ I remember—I knew I was lying. I would say, ‘My best friend died.’ I knew I was lying, but that’s what I would tell them to explain why.”

John Wojnowski has never held a job that requires a college education. He frequently refers to his eighth grade education and never claims to be any sort of high-minded activist. He prefers to frame himself as a fighter up against the juggernaut that is the Catholic Church. He blames his lack of intellectual or professional achievement on his experience of abuse. “My father had PhDs, and I was a dishwasher, a laborer, all my life. I guess I had some potential, but it’s all gone,” he said.

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Word of the Kos judgment reached Wojnowski.

“I was thinking—I was financially insecure all my life. And there was mention of millions of dollars in reparations,” he said.

He is embarrassed to admit that the promise of a payout was his original motivation. “I said, ‘Lucky me. I was molested by a Catholic priest.”

The next week, he said, he hopped in his car and drove to a distant courtesy John wojnowski church where he Wojnowksi family portrait hides deep scars. wouldn’t be recHe said that no one in the nunognized. He walked in, found ciature, in all his 14 years, had ever the priest, but couldn’t bring taken pictures of him like that. himself to sit down. Eventually, he told of his molestation.

The priest gave him a teleWojnowski returned to his stophone number to call to receive ry. To explain the effect the sexhelp, which he called on a pay-

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Wojnowski holds this controversial sign to catch the eyes of passing drivers and the attention of the Vatican. phone to preserve anonymity.

He scheduled a few appointments, but more profoundly, it was then that Wojnowski made the connection: this singular experience had destroyed his confidence and altered his life forever.

Because of this, Wojnowski still believes that he deserves monetary reparations. After exchanging a few letters with thenArchbishop of Washington James Hickey inquiring about the priest and the possibility of monetary compensation, the archdiocese stopped responding to his letters.

Months went by. Growing exasperated, Wojnowski took to the streets for the first time.

He bought the supplies for a basic sign, only a few feet tall, which read “Bishop Lori, do you recognize this question mark?”

Bishop William Lori, to whom Wojnowski previously sent his letters, responded, saying, in Wojnowski’s words, “’Unfortunately, the priest who allegedly molested you died 10 years ago, so you have no case. But I will pray for you, and the Church will pay for your therapy’—not enough for a wasted life, right?”

Lori has publicly stated that he immediately investigated Wojnowski’s claim and acted in his power to redress any grievances.

Within the next few days, Wojnowski began showing up to his now-regular street corner with a sign reading, “MY LIFE WAS RUINED BY A CATHOLIC PEDOPHILE PRIEST.”

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In his first year, Wojnowski maintained his anonymity, but with a picket as provocative as his, he was bound to receive some pushback and attention.

But despite his attempts at anonymity, the man protesting every day outside the Nunciature was revealed as John Wojnowski when Washington City Paper published a piece about him in their Oct. 30, 1998 issue. Wojnowski insists that he did not give the reporter his name and specifically asked her not to print it, for fear that his mother, a devout Catholic, would read it.

The article, entitled “Holy War” and written by Elizabeth Murdock, was published, and Wojnowski’s name appeared in the headline. “The article had to look like a piece of journalism, right? She was allegedly supporting me!” Wojnowski exclaimed.

He alleges that the nunciature gave the reporter his name.

The Voice was not able to contact Murdock for comment.

It’s cases like these which convince Wojnowski that the Church is out to get him. “The Church is a business. It’s a fraud, actually. They tried to shame me, they tried to ridicule me, they tried to expose me … and the ignorance.”

When he began demonstrating, the response from passersby was mixed, and he claims he got death threats or warnings that he might be the victim of a drive-by shooting. While many honks drew his attention to thumbs-up, many more commuters only showed him the finger.

Now, Wojnowski mostly receives smiles and waves of encouragement. Some commuters shout, “Hey John!” on their daily route from work.

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The last statement the nunciature issued directly relating to Wojnowski was obtained by City Paper in 1998: “The Apos-

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tolic Nunciature respects Mr. Wojnowski and surely has for him sincere sentiments of Christian charity.”

These sincere sentiments, however, have never convinced Wojnowski. “I don’t expect nothing. I’m trying to get reparations.

They are afraid to talk. I’m ready to talk, but they’re absolutely cowards.”

After asking when he’ll stop coming to Massachusetts Ave. every day, Wojnowski responds, “When I get reparation!”

“I have no option,” he said.

“They expect me to give up or to die, but they started the war!”

His overall opinion of the Catholic Church is even less forgiving.

“They are parasites. They are enemies of humanity. It has a history of aggressive ignorance. Copernicus, Galileo comes to mind, then Darwin.” Wojnowski harbors no hope for the Church in the future, unless it begins by offering up reparations to all victims of sexual abuse—even when the statute of limitations has expired.

Last year, Wojnowski appeared unannounced at a meeting of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Once he was recognized, the attendees gave him a standing ovation.

When Wojnowski is offered probono legal counsel, he refuses, because he cannot bring himself to trust strangers.

Wojnowski has reached a peculiar level of fame, at least in local circles. He could undoubtedly use his story to raise money for victims funds or himself, but he chooses not to. “There are organizations that do this. I am not an intellectual. If I knew what to do I would do it … This is all I can do. It may not be the best, but it is the only way I know how to do.”

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Al-Ani brings the desert to life at the Sackler Gallery

by Leigh Finnegan At Georgetown, you can’t walk through Red Square without meeting someone who’s lived in the Middle East. But beyond foreign-service-oriented institutions, there is a popular conception that the Middle East is an uninhabitable wasteland, immortalized by Gulf War news photography and Lawrence of Arabia. Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani aims to change that.

In her latest exhibit, Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani, on display now through Feb. 10 at the Smithsonian’s labyrinthine, underground Sackler Gallery, the artist showcases two video works that focus on the duality of Middle Eastern landscapes, as both deserts and havens for life. But upon entering the gallery, the viewer is not greeted with videos. Instead, the slate-gray, shadowy space contains six wideangle, composite photographs of barren and other-worldly Iraqi deserts taken by archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld. These photos, sources of Al-Ani’s inspiration, offer a nice primer for the content viewers are about to witness.

Al-Ani’s two works come to life in the subsequent rooms. The first, the religiously-twinged “The Guide and the Flock,” has an unusual composition, with a small screen sitting inside of a large one.

Each shows an image filmed from a single, motionless camera: in the larger, the camera stands in the middle of a desert road, sand on each side seeming to stretch on endlessly, as a man walks silently down it, his back to the camera, shrinking away before fading into thin air. Simultaneously, the small screen takes a different perspective, with a road running horizontally across the field of view, a flock of sheep standing on the opposite side. Periodically, cars and trucks whiz by, the loud din of traffic and horns disproportionately conquering the viewer’s experience.

The two viewpoints and jarring interruption of the roaring engines effectively juxtapose the barren, Biblical wasteland of the photographs with the populated world that the Middle East is today.

The second video, “Shadow Sites II,” screens in the next room, and upon entering the viewer is immediately transfixed. Consisting of

still image, emerging detail transforming it from a military-esque image (Al-Ani’s inspiration stems from Gulf War-era news reports) to an inhabitable, earthly locale. All the while, the hum of an airplane

Although Al-Ani’s videos are thought-provoking, well executed, and intensely creative, the layout of the space detracts from their appeal: being greeted with the work of another person is confusing, and

the video rooms are so close to one another that the sound from the second intrudes on the first, lessening the intended impact of the bustling traffic on the man’s tranquil walk. Furthermore, the most interesting part of “Shadow Sites II,” and of the entire exhibit, goes almost unnoticed: on a small screen, facing upward on a black platform inside the room, is a close-up of an anthill from which ants busily move in and out. The juxtaposition of this to the larger screen is obvious: immobile camera on moving organisms versus moving camera on still images, detailed shot of organisms versus panoramic view of Earth, life versus desert. This small screen drives Al-Ani’s point home most powerfully, reminding the viewer that these vast, seemingly untouched landscapes support bustling, vibrant life, even at a level that we barely see from our own vantage point.

If the Smithsonian had only provided a better vantage point for the audience, Al-Ani’s message would have been received as clearly as a burst of traffic on an otherwise placid street.

mented by a toasted, buttery bun.

Yes, all the hype is well deserved; Luke’s lobster roll is delicious.

“It’s all very traditional to Maine,” Holden said of the restaurant’s recipes. “We really want to let the fresh seafood be the star of the show.”

While the options may seem slight, what Luke’s lacks in menu selection it makes up for in quality. After growing up in a fishing family in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with experience in all aspects of the lobster industry—from working in his dad’s processing plants to starting his own business catching lobster—Luke founded his restaurant with an emphasis on “creating the highest quality, most affordable product out there by cutting out the middle man…getting our product from sea to restaurant as quick as possible.” To that end, “that traceability, and socially conscious” foundation of his business has made sustainability another driving principle at Luke’s.

Though Holden has transformed the lobster market to ensure that the quarter-pound of lobster meat in each sandwich is both fresh and sustainably fished,

the notion of affordable lobster may seem a little oxymoronic to college students unwilling to indulge in a $15 roll—$17 with chips and a drink. Nevertheless, Holden sees the Georgetown demographic as his ideal clientele.

“People in Georgetown are welleducated consumers, and they want to know they are eating a

fresh, high quality product.” he said. “That’s really the linchpin of out business.”

So while Georgetown students might not all trade up Wisey’s for Luke’s just yet, Holden has cornered the market with his “passion for all things Maine,” and the resulting taste of the coast is well worth the splurge.

full-screen aerial images of brown and gray desertscapes, many with beautiful, geometric composition hearkening alien crop circles which melt seamlessly into one another, the video is made hypnotizing by the slow spiraling of the camera into the

engine and buzz of a walkie-talkie fill the viewer’s ears. The result is unsettling, with the moving camera ominously mimicking a slow fall to Earth, and the military sounds and images creating a sense of danger and impending doom.

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“Private eyes are watching you. They see your every move.”

Luke’s Lobster claws its way to the top of Potomac St.

by Mary Borowiec In just three years, Luke Holden (MSB ’07) has shaken up the seafood scene in New York and Washington, D.C., bringing a bit of fresh and affordable Maine down the coast with the widely acclaimed Luke’s Lobster.

Opening nine restaurant locations in three years, Luke’s has become an up-and-coming enterprise—an admirable feat for a 27-year-old restaurateur. But, after pursuing a location in Georgetown for nearly two years, there’s nothing quite like coming home.

“It’s really exciting, probably the most exciting opening we’ve had,” Holden said of the new Georgetown locale. “Particularly just because how much Georgetown means to me and being able to give back to the community and the University.”

Luke’s Potomac location holds a special significance for the Georgetown grad as the restaurant takes the place of the since closed Georgetown institution, the Philadelphia Pizza Company. Explaining the location’s significance in an interview with the Washington Post,

Holden recalled, “To say it was the spot I used to eat at most often is an understatement.”

Since buying the property, Luke has utterly transformed the previously dilapidated building. With its whitewashed walls, hand-painted signs, and nautical décor styled with reclaimed products from Maine’s fisheries and harbors, Luke’s captures a laidback, beach town vibe that offers a welcome contrast to the mayhem of M St. In this way, Luke’s thrives on simplicity and the niche market it has carved out of gourmet lobster rolls.

This simplicity is best echoed in Luke’s menu, which boasts only four offerings alongside Maine-brewed colas and desserts: the famed lobster roll, crab and shrimp rolls, and clam chowder, which is provided by a small family business in Maine. Though the crab and shrimp are savory and tasty, there is a reason why lobster is its signature draw. In a sandwich typically overwhelmed with mayo to preserve a less than fresh product, Luke’s lobster roll tastefully combines a fresh, flavorful crustacean in a light lemon butter sauce that is perfectly comple-

“May the force of the lobster cracker be with you, Luke.”

Lucia he

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“i see no point in living if i can’t be beautiful. ” — howl’s moving castle

LaBeouf’s lez’hur ledger Lawless fails to ‘shine

by Julia Lloyd-George Any film starring Shia LaBeouf sporting a questionable southern accent is already at a disadvantage, and it’s a handicap that the well-meaning Lawless fails to compensate for in the ways that matter most. Vacillating somewhere between a classic western and a Tarantino-esque bloodbath, Lawless suffers an identity crisis that leaves it in the proverbial dust, and its central narrative in as many scattered pieces as the body parts of its less fortunate characters.

Set in prohibition-era Virginia, Lawless tells the tale of the apparently legendary Bondurant brothers and their less-than-cordial brushes with some very shoddy representatives of the law. A joint project of filmmaking duo John Hillcoat and Nick Cave, the film is adapted from a historical fiction novel about “the wettest county in the world” and the bootlegging crew that dominated it.

Comfortably operating a moonshine business in full daylight, the family has no problems with the local authorities until a cartoonishly unctuous “special agent” named Charley Rakes (Guy Pearce) arrives from Chicago to wreak havoc. A full-fledged war ensues, pitting the

brothers against Rakes and his cronies in bloody shoot-outs and other, more devious encounters.

In the midst of this unfolding conflict, the brothers develop their local business into a lucrative endeavor by opting to sell their goods with an Al Capone-like mob boss (Gary Oldman). Helmed by the previously scatterbrained Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf), this maneuver comes in the wake of a near-lethal injury to the family patriarch, Forrest (Tom Hardy). While his bootlegging ventures bring Jack and his brothers wealth, Jack falters by letting the shiny cars go to his head and thus making some careless missteps that make him vulnerable to special agent Rakes’s merciless schemes.

Though this plot turn instills an inevitable thirst for revenge in former lightweight Jack, LaBeouf’s character is hardly the tough and multilayered protagonist that a film of this western genre demands.

Failing in the development of the principal players, the little charisma that Lawless provides is found in its other characters. Tom Hardy hits the mark as the gruff and taciturn Forrest, hiding his London accent in a dramatic transformation almost as impressive as that of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Unfortunately, he is consigned to spending

At least you’re not in Darnall

Dear Emlyn, I’m a totally awesome freshman, and was expecting that I would be invited to all sorts of raging parties, right? Here’s the thing though– I don’t really know many people, and have yet to be invited to anything besides an ice cream social or two.

It sucks. Am I doomed to wandering around Village A in a pack with 30 of my fellow freshmen?

-Friendless Frosh

Dear Frosh, NO. No no no no no. Please, no. Avoid the freshman roam if at all possible, because it will make people hate you and it also will make you hate yourself. No offense. But there is hope. Go to SAC fair and sign up for a few things, but be judicious; I signed up for way too many things, including the step team—sort of jokingly, sort of not. Either way, it was a bad idea. Anyway, pick two or three activities that you can see yourself being a part of and commit to them.

That will form your social scene. Clubs are great because you’ll meet people who share your interests. Otherwise, the beginning of your first year can turn into hanging out with people who you don’t have much in common with besides the “awkward freshman” label. Also, don’t freak out about not throwing down every night or not having new best friends after a week (or even after the first semester). These things take time, and you’ll be fine.

Dear Emlyn, So my high school boyfriend and I decided to try the whole long distance thing as I start my career at Georgetown and he’s at Kenyon.

Any tips on how to handle a longdistance romance while I’m trying to get involved in Georgetown’s social scene and meet new people?

-Sleepless in New South Dear Sleepless, I’m sure you know that lots of people are dead-set against

most of his stage time sitting on a porch and looking world-weary.

The ever-radiant Jessica Chastain stars as his love interest with a shady past, providing a welcome hiatus from the violence in snatched scenes of subdued romance. Meanwhile, Jack does his own fair share of “courtin’” by pursuing a pious preacher’s daughter (Mia Wasikowska) in a flirtation that reeks of eye-roll-inducing clichés.

It is the sheer number of these clichés that makes Lawless so difficult to like, despite its seemingly entertaining ilk of good old-fashioned action and its generally star-studded cast. Filled with cardboard cutouts that act as characters, including a one-dimensional villain with a laughable amount of depth, the film struggles to hold the audience’s attention, as it frequently whirls off on tangents and fails to deliver much more complexity to its storyline than the Bondurants’ clear objective to defeat the evil Rakes. It is this blatant lack of gray areas that makes Lawless seem like more of a bizarre parable than a story grounded in historical truth. Messily concocted in the bathtubs of filmmakers who struggled to adapt an attractive tale, it’s not quite the vintage of masterful storytelling a paying customer would hope for. long distance relationships, especially right as you’re starting college. It’s definitely hard, but if it’s worth it then that’s that. And who are any of us to say that it’s not worth it? Maybe he looks like Adam Brody and is an heir to the Godiva Chocolatier Company.

I’d suggest comparing schedules and finding a few times a week that you can Skype each other (actually, I prefer Google+ hangouts for all of my video

You’ve got issues

by Emlyn Crenshaw a bi-weekly advice column chatting needs. It’s much better, even though “Skype” is the common verb nowadays). Sing him Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” during said Skype dates.

Plan some visits, too, but give it a month or so in order for you to both get settled. If this relationship stops you from going out and having fun, then that’s your warning sign. Who says you can’t meet tons of new people

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CONCERT CALENDAR Friday 8/31 Saul Williams PRESENTS Chorus: A Spoken Word Tour Howard Theatre, 6 p.m., $30 sunday 9/2 2 Chainz with Cap 1 9:30 Club, 7 p.m., $31 Wednesday 9/5 Deerhoof with Dope Body, America Hearts Black Cat, 9 p.m., $25

Sunday 9/23 & Monday 9/24 Madonna Verizon Center, 8 p.m., $48+ Sunday 9/23 Stars with Diamond Rings, California Wives 9:30 Club, 7 p.m., $24 Monday 9/24 Twin Shadow with Niki and the Dove Black Cat, 8 p.m., $20

thursday 9/6 & Friday 9/7 Boyz II Men Howard Theatre, 6 p.m., $59.50

tuesday 9/25 Minus The Bear with Caspian, Cursive Fillmore, 8 p.m., $30.50

sunday 9/9 The Jesus and Mary Chain with Psychic Paramount 9:30 Club, 7 p.m., $35

wednesday 9/26 A$AP Rocky + A$AP MOB with Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown Fillmore, 8 p.m., $27.50

friday 9/14 Kendrick Lamar Howard Theatre, 8 p.m., $45.85

Sunday 9/30 Crystal Castles 9:30 Club, 7 p.m., $35

Wednesday 9/19 TYGA with Special Guest Howard Theatre, 8 p.m., $30

wednesday 10/3 The Soft Pack with Heavy Hawaii Black Cat, 8 p.m., $15

and party a bit even if you’re taken? Don’t do anything stupid, and don’t keep it a secret that you have a boyfriend. Just don’t be sketchy, capiche?

Dear Emlyn, At the beginning of every semester, I end up dropping a horrible amount of money on books, food, dorm supplies, and the like.

I try to be careful with money, but there’s just so many things I need to stock up on while classes start. After move-in last year, my credit card was declined when I tried to buy an $11 Megabus ticket. How sad is that? Help me save some money as this school year gears up.

-Cash Flow Woes Dear Cash Flow, Right? The start of each semester is really exciting, but also terrible because the “new beginnings” vibe floating around campus can really tempt you into buying stupid things like a $40 shower rack or a pencil sharpener that looks like a high-heeled shoe. I saw both of these items

at Target yesterday – stay away from them. You know what else I saw? A two-pack of Brita filters is more than $30. So so dumb. I say who cares. Tap water is fine, and chances are that someone else in your building/apartment has a Brita in your common fridge that you can use. Nobody needs to know—that’s my motto. Steal lots of food from Leos, eat Hot Pockets as meals, et cetera. Nobody needs to know.

As far as books go, see if you can borrow or share some.

If you’re planning on buying them, take the time to research if there’s anywhere online where you can get the books for cheaper than they are at the bookstore. In fact, stay away from the bookstore in general… you can easily buy school supplies elsewhere, because do you really want to pay $20 extra to have all of your notebooks emblazoned with the Georgetown seal? No thank you.

Tell your life story to Emlyn at ecrenshaw@georgetownvoice.com

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C r i t i c a l V o i ces

Poor Moon, Poor Moon, Sub Pop Records With the success of 2011’s Helplessness Blues, any Fleet Foxes side project could easily have resulted in a successful mimicry of the original band. Members Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott, however, refused to succumb to this temptation while writing as Poor Moon. With the spin-off group’s debut self-titled album, Wargo, Wescott, and brothers Ian and Peter Murray have created a remarkable, self-standing LP. Album opener “Clouds Below” creates a serene pastoral scene complete with a cricket and songbirdlike whistling duet that leads into a jaybird song. Continuous picked guitar chords and Wargo’s highpitched melodic voice induce a soporific effect that provides a transition to “Phantom Light.” The thematically darker second track increases the tempo of Poor Moon with a bouncing

harpsichord solo and a steady drum beat that kick off the light jangle of the remainder of the album.

To summon this lighter instrumental tone, Poor Moon draws inspiration from the 1960s and the British Invasion. “Holiday,” for instance, is a perfectly formulated, bright, California beach tune reminiscent of the Beach Boys, while “Waiting For” brings back memories of the Beatles and the Theremin-infused psychedelic pop era.

In spite of the quirky instrumentation, Poor Moon’s happy veneer does not mask the occasional onset of darkness pouring through the vocal harmonies. “Heaven’s Door” is an electric guitar-heavy rhythmic track that has Wargo singing, “Nowhere to run / I had to pay for the sins that I loved too much.” Similarly, “Pulling Me Down,” with its wealth of minor chords and pounding drums, deals with the traumatic conclusion of a relationship. Fortunately, the general playfulness of the album does not allow the melancholy themes to overwhelm the listener.

Of course, Wargo’s vocals subject Poor Moon to unavoidable comparisons with the work of Fleet Foxes. “Same Way” opens with Fleet Foxes’s style before launching into Vampire Weekend-esque xylophone scales and up-tempo Afroindie drum rhythms, only to have the Fleet Foxes-style influences re-

Never eating meat, like, ever

I used to get excluded from carnivorous cuisines at home— taco nights aren’t quite the fiesta when you don’t eat ground beef.

But here at Georgetown, Leo’s desperately tries to win my affection. The cafeteria takes pride in its top spot on PETA’s list of vegetarian-friendly colleges, inviting even the strictest vegans to celebrate “Chicken” Finger Thursdays.

Fake meat is undeniably strange, but what’s more bizarre is the sheer number of meateaters who voluntarily go for the vegan nuggets. While a heavy dousing in honey mustard and ranch make Leo’s “chicken” nuggets edible, I cannot comprehend why any of my meat-eating friends often choose them over the real thing. Sure, Soviet-style lines for the chicken fingers are a deterrent, but have you tried chicken? While I no longer eat

meat, I would be lying if I told you it wasn’t delicious.

Sitting next to my copy of Fast Food Nation is Susan Bourette’s Meat: A Love Story, which loudly proclaims “Meat is the new black!”

When my high school foray into vegetarianism became more than a passing fad, I decided to do my research. I read all the conscious eater classics: after Fast Food Nation came The Omnivore’s Dilemma, then In Defense of Food, and finally Eating Animals.

It’s harder to find titles lauding the virtues of veal. Surprisingly, Bourette’s meat-eating manifesto was born out of an undercover reporting job at a slaughterhouse.

Disgusted by what she saw, the author went vegetarian for just over a month before caving at the smell of bacon, and her guilt-ridden conscience drove her to search for an ethical way to eat meat.

surface towards the track’s conclusion. Final tracks “Come Home” and “Birds” maintain this same mélange of approaches, weakening the album’s conclusion.

Still, a wide instrumental palette allows nearly every track to become its own world that resonates with new listeners and loyal fans of Fleet Foxes alike. The spinoff group’s LP will hit the shelves with only one real weakness: barely tipping the scale at 30 minutes, Poor Moon ends all too soon.

Voice’s Choices: “Holiday,” “Pulling me down” —Kirill Makarenko

Wild Nothing, Nocturne, Captured Tracks The multitude of bands emerging in the dream pop genre mirrors an unfortunate truth about dreams: some are memorable, and Bourette’s stint as a vegetarian makes her argument compelling—unlike meat-eaters who turn blind eyes to factory farming, she describes the industrial agriculture system in all its horror. By acknowledging meat’s dark side, she creates a space to talk about the

Plate of the union

by Heather Regen a bi-weekly column about food delicate art of butchering and the culture of hunting.

I became a vegetarian in reaction to food politics, not in reaction to the idea of eating meat itself, so I understood Bourette’s logic. But when I did occasionally sneak a bite of chicken or a sliver of beef, ethical syllogism was irrelevant. The real culprit behind my occasional falls off the veggie wagon came in PETA-approved packaging; noth-

some are not. Fortunately for Virginia Tech graduate Jack Tatum, his project, Wild Nothing, achieves the former on its second full-length release, Nocturne.

Nocturne, like the classical compositions of the same name, turns to Earth’s only celestial satellite for inspiration. For the release of the first single, “Paradise,” on Aug. 7, Wild Nothing created a website featuring a working lunar calendar to hype its release. Tatum explained the significance of the lunar calendar, which also graces the album cover.

“There was a great deal of restlessness that went into the creation of this album,” reads a press release about the album. “The moon cycle has come to represent this for me; a slowly changing symbol of where these songs feel at home, a sleepless state of mind.” While the album isn’t quite as grandiose as Chopin, Tatum achieves a certain level of mastery and beauty in his sophomore work.

Typical of the genre, Nocturne is a sonic symphony waxing and waning in and out of sensory overload and subdued minimalism with vocals that provide lo-fi instrumentation as often as synths and strings.

But Tatum applies his lyrical sensibilities to dream pop’s cyclical meandering in a way that elevates Nocturne above its peers.

Tatum’s ethereal vocals on “Shadow” and “Nocturne” are both ing makes me want to eat real meat more than the taste of fake meat.

Inexplicably, some people enjoy the taste of veggie “chicken.”

Perhaps I need more time to forget what meat tastes like. Perhaps I already have forgotten, and I’m romanticizing the memory of a good, but not entirely breathtaking, taste.

Whatever the case, I know that vegan nuggets and their brethren are not, and never will be meat.

This attitude used to make me sulk at the idea of replacement meats, especially veggie burgers.

As Homer Simpson said to Lisa at a barbecue, “You don’t win friends with salad.” Defrosting protein pellets look dejected when sitting next to plump patties on the grill.

The trick to replacing meat is not to replace it at all. Black bean veggie burgers with lentils and chili spice fill a hamburger well. The chewy, stringy texture of some fake patties, on the other hand, leaves me won-

soothing and pensive. On the title track, Tatum sulks “You want to know me / Well, what’s to know?”

The story may be playing out in his mind, but the instrumentation and words give a level of concreteness to the feelings involved. What makes Nocturne great is the way that sound and meaning work together in perfect harmony to evoke a unified message that runs through the album: yearning.

Like a dream, Nocturne transports one effortlessly through time and space, from late ‘80s new wave synth pop on “Paradise” to the hipster indie pop echoes of 2012 on “Rheya.” Nocturne reflects on where Tatum wishes to be, paying little attention to practicality or traditional sensibility. It makes sense in the dream, as the wistful nostalgia of “Counting Days” and the hopeless romanticism of “Only Heather” grasp at ideas floating in the space of Tatum’s inner desires.

Like waking up from a dream, the end of the album offers little conclusion or definitive message--you don’t really know where you’ve been, but you know you liked it.

Voice’s Choices: “Only Heather,” “Paradise” —Keaton Hoffman dering what chemist developed edible adhesive.

Back home in Los Angeles, I have no problem finding vegetarian alternatives. D.C. proves more of a challenge, but restaurants are starting to cater to their meat-eschewing customers. The best veggie burger in D.C. doesn’t come from some hippie granola restaurant in Dupont, but from Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill.

In between two egg bread buns, a Portobello mushroom patty waits to gush melted cheese. Good Stuff slices the mushroom open, stuffs it with cheddar, and deep-fries it. The restaurant understands that not all vegetarians want to order salad; we love an all-American burger too.

For any veggie that’s been offered celery sticks or fake “chicken,” the burger’s name sends a message: “Vegetarians Are People Too.” Send photos of your meat to Heather at hregen@georgetownvoice.com

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ing their season and sending the Mountain Hawks to the playoffs. But because of that game, Georgetown’s squad comes back this season more motivated than ever.

“We’re hungrier,” Kelly said. “The motto after that game was, ‘finish the job.’

We were a game away and we want the whole thing; we want to win the Patriot League and go to the playoffs.”

“After that game, everyone I talked to just said ‘remember how you feel walking off that field’,” senior linebacker and captain Rob McCabe added.

“We were definitely disappointed, and it just motivated us to work harder.”

This season marks a familiar beginning, as the Hoyas open in North Carolina against Davidson before returning home to face Wagner. The team beat both squads handily last season.

After that, they face a gauntlet of games against Ivy League opponents before opening Patriot League play, a slate that includes Princeton on national television and Brown on Homecoming weekend.

As for the team’s Patriot League aspirations—the road once again goes through Lehigh, a popular pick to repeat as champions this season. The Hoyas were picked fourth,

perhaps a slight considering their second-place finish last season.

But this year’s team isn’t focused on outside attention.

The players know, based on

last season, that will come with success. For now, their only concern is Kelly’s mantra—finish the job.

OffeNSE

Statistically speaking, Georgetown football had one of the best offenses in the Patriot League last season, and will look to have similar success on that side of the ball this year. The Blue and Gray finished second in the Patriot League last year in points per game and return 10 starters on offense this year. With that number of returning power players, leading the Patriot League is a priority and a real possibility.

Georgetown’s field general will be second-year starting senior quarterback Isaiah Kempf. Kempf passed for 140.9 yards per game last year, good for third among returning

Patriot League quarterbacks.

Kempf can also be dangerous on the ground, running for 30 yards per game last fall. “[Kempf] has played football here on and off for four years, and that’s invaluable,” said Head Coach Kevin Kelly.

“He knows exactly what’s going on both with our offense and with what our defense is doing.”

Junior running back Nick Campanella will return as Georgetown’s top rusher. He ran for 424 yards and eight touchdowns in 2011, tying for second in the Patriot League.

Redshirt senior running back Wilburn Logan will also be an asset in Georgetown’s offense.

He recorded 295 rushing yards and a touchdown last year.

As with last year, the Hoyas will once again have a potent receiving core. Kempf completed passes to 17 different receivers last year, and this year should be no different.

“I think the chemistry is good,” Kempf said. “Pretty much all the receivers we have coming back are dynamic guys.”

Kempf’s favorite target, though, is senior wide receiver Max Waizenegger, who led the Hoyas with 35 receptions, 424 receiving yards, and six touchdowns in 2011.

“We have a great connection,” Kempf said. “Even at

practice, when plays break down he gets open for me.”

Among others, junior wide receiver Jamal Davis (386 receiving yards, two touchdowns), junior wide receiver Zack Wilke (205 receiving yards, one touchdown) and sophomore wide receiver Kevin Macari (181 receiving yards, three touchdowns) will be potent options this season.

This year, under new offensive coordinator Vinny Marino, Georgetown will be using a different tactic, the spread offense. Marino served as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Columbia for six seasons.

“[Coach Marino] has been putting wrinkles in there we hadn’t had before, especially in the run game,” Kelly said. “I think we will be more explosive than we were last year.”

The Georgetown defense has been cited among the best in the FCS after last year’s second place Patriot League finish. Defensive coordinator Rob Sgarlata and the Hoya secondary have been working through the summer to prove those rumors correct. To earn the top spot in the Patriot League, this year’s defensive half will have to outdo their efforts from the previous season.

Senior captain Rob McCabe leads the defense this year from the linebacker position, and is joined in the middle position by fellow senior Jeremy Grasso.

The two have been starting

together for three years and have grown to understand how each other play. By feeding off each other’s energy and complementing their different strengths, the Georgetown linebacking core has seen improvement.

“There’s just a comfort level there. We know what each other is thinking and we know where each other is going to be on the field,” McCabe said of Grasso.

“Having him on the field definitely makes me more confident.”

Despite the loss of defensive end Andrew Schaetzke, Head Coach

Kevin Kelly still thinks this year’s iteration can compete successfully against the league’s biggest challenges.

“I think our quartet of linebackers there is the best in the league. The unsung hero there is Sean Campbell.”

The inexperienced defensive line could be seen as a problem for the Hoyas this year, but Kelly assures that their defense will match up against their contenders. With some underrated players looking to make their mark in the upcoming season opener, the game against Davidson on Saturday will be a testament to

how prepared the Georgegame out of reach from their optown players really are. ponents.

Meanwhile, McCabe’s and Grasso’s experience is expected —Steven Criss to make up for any lacking among the rest of the defense.

Both seniors are satisfied, especially with how the secondary has come along since last year, and are confident that they will give the offense a chance HEAD COACH HEADKELLY COACH KELLY to take each

OUTLOOK

The Hoyas entered the past couple of seasons as a “team on the rise.” In 2012, that moniker still applies – but “contender” is a better term, especially for Head Coach Kevin Kelly.

“Our expectation is to win every game on our schedule,” Kelly said. “We have the ability to do that.”

That newfound swagger is not baseless. Last season, the Hoyas had their best season since joining the Patriot League, finishing 8-3. The end of their season marked a showdown with Lehigh, essentially for the conference title. The Hoyas lost that game, end-

DEFENSE

2012 HOYA FOOTBALL PROSPECTUS HOYAS CELEBRATE AFTER A TOUCHDOWN

—Kevin Joseph

—Keith Levinsky

WIDE RECEIVER ZACK WILKE

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Poverty is everywhere, except on the campaign trail

by Gavin Bade American elections suffer from a number of sad realities, but few are as disheartening as the absence of poverty from the mainstream political discourse. For how little the two main candidates talk about the poor, you’d think poverty rates were historically low, rather than at the highest level since 1965. Perhaps more dismaying, for me, is that the two times I’ve seen poverty in the headlines since we all began thinking about the election, Mitt Romney has been the one talking about it. Most recently, he and Paul Ryan lamented that one in six Americans is now in poverty, and blamed the president’s economic policies for the increase.

Now, let’s not get carried away. The GOP hopefuls may have mentioned the poor more than President Obama, but it doesn’t mean they’re saying anything constructive. After all, the other time Romney touched on it was to say “I’m not concerned about the very poor.

We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”

That’s almost comical, as his fellow Republicans in the House seem intent on disman-

tling those social programs, refusing to pass the Farm Bill unless it defunds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. But as irrational as conservatives in this country are about poverty, they have a point about Obama.

Our supposedly progressive president has given far too little attention in both his rhetoric and his policies to address the systemic problem of American poverty.

There was a time when this wasn’t the case. Back before he took office, Obama fashioned himself as a candidate who would finally fight for the downtrodden. In July 2007, he spoke movingly to an audience in Anacostia about the injustice of the American system—even recalling Bobby Kennedy’s famous anti-poverty tour of the Deep South during the 1968 presidential campaign. “How can a country like this allow it?” he said, quoting Kennedy’s teary-eyed remark to reporters after speaking to malnourished children in Mississippi.

“The most American answer I can think of to that question is two words: ‘We can’t.’ We can’t allow this type of suffering,” Obama answered.

Sadly, allowing it is exactly what the President has done.

The man who said the best education he ever had came as a community organizer in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods has given exactly zero speeches about poverty since he assumed office. Candidate Obama promised billions of dollars for inner city development programs, but has only doled out $40 million to date.

Another $60 million is scheduled for community grants, but this represents a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of programs cut by state and local governments since the recession began.

Candidate Obama said in his Anacostia speech that he wanted to create jobs and “make sure those jobs keep folks out of poverty,” but that is becoming impossible in today’s low-wage economy. Before the recession began, 70 percent of households with food-insecure children had at least one parent employed full-time, according to the census bureau. Even so, the President won’t support common sense policies to make sure work can pay the bills. He won’t even get behind Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10,

despite that his proposal would make it the same in real terms as it was in 1968.

On some level, I understand the President’s apprehension for talking about the poor. As the first black head of state, he doesn’t want to be labeled as the welfare candidate. But Newt Gingrich has already tried to paint him as the “food stamp president,” and Mitt Romney accuses him of fostering a “culture of dependency” with social programs. His political avoidance strategy isn’t working at all; it actually costs him a chance to point out Republican’s irrational policies towards the poor.

For instance, the GOP’s attempt to defund SNAP could be a huge selling point for Obama.

Over 45 million people—half of them children—now rely on the program to help put food on the table. Healthcare studies have shown the assistance program prevents hospitalizations, promotes child development, and improves school performance.

Even so, this program would fall under the axe if Republicans had their way. Paul Ryan is on record saying the costs are “unsustainable,” even though at its peak in 2011 SNAP cost a whopping 0.52 percent

at how to explain spending more than my monthly book allowance.

I suppose that this needs a bit of an explanation. I love reading. I’ve spent more money than I care to think about on books, to the point that my parents restricted me to buying only two books a month. That was when I was eight, and I’ve been in a drawn-out struggle with them since then. Being a reader is an expensive habit and, unfortunately for my par-

ents’ wallets, it’s more addictive than caffeine.

Voracious is probably the best word to describe my reading habit. Tearing through the library, I’d read just about anything that I could get my hands on. I learned most of what I know about history sitting in the stacks of the public library, nose deep in a purely fictitious account of the Crusades or ancient Rome. I figured out what romance was sometime around making my way through some trashy fantasy novels (Deryni, anyone?), and found out that you can laugh at books with something witty Terry Pratchett wrote. There’s still a waitlist at Lau for The Sorcerer’s Stone, so I know I’m not alone in my love of Harry Potter.

Reading let me indulge my imagination and escape the confines of Indianapolis into fantastical worlds. When I was younger, I kicked ass at the Triwizard Tournament as the long lost sister Harriet Potter and sailed the seas alongside Long John Silver in search of treasure. I certainly didn’t grow out of my overactive imagination as the years passed. I still think that I could have saved

Ned Stark’s life if given the chance, or at the very least punched Joffrey in the face, and I just finished Game of Thrones last year.

Don’t get me wrong, reading wasn’t my only possible pastime. It’s not like I was deprived of television as a child; I distinctly remember that I found time to squeeze in an episode of Wild Thornberrys. I just preferred to read. There’s something about reading that is so comforting to me. Whether curled up in bed, in front of a roaring fire, or outside under a warm summer sun, turning the page of a book was my way of relaxing. These days, though, it’s a little different.

It isn’t always evident, but it’s fairly tiring being a student these days. It’s not just sitting in class, but running from building to building, active in every club under the sun, prepping for that interview, aiming high for that internship, and calling home to complain about all of it. Occasionally, you even do some schoolwork. Getting home at the end of the day, I usually range from sleepy to bonewearyingly tired. I just don’t have the energy to devote to

of GDP, and that price is projected to decrease by half as the economy improves. The cuts to the program in his budget would, according to the Center for American Progress, “force America’s poorest families to forgo as many as 8.2 billion meals a year,” and would cost over 182,000 jobs through the loss of grocery sales. Obama has failed to take a bite out of this juicy political opportunity, and now Republicans, of all people, control the dialogue about poverty.

But as tantalizing as the politics are, they don’t illustrate the biggest reason why Obama should stand up for the poor.

For that, veteran PBS host Bill Moyers had a suggestion for the President: “You once told the big bankers on Wall Street that you were the only thing that stood between them and the pitchforks of an angry public. How about telling the poor that you will make sure our government stands between them and the cliff?”

Gavin Bade is a junior in the SFS. He’s just bitter that Obama didn’t respond to his question on the President’s Reddit AMA.

Confessions of a library junkie: I just can’t get enough

by Claire McDaniel On a whim this summer, I bought the newest Game of Thrones book. 35 dollars later, I was sitting in my apartment staring at the cover and debating how to justify to my parents spending that much money on a book. For most people, the argument would have centered on how that money could have gone to necessities such as groceries, textbooks, or beer.

I, however, was at an impasse

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doing any reading that isn’t assigned, but there are inevitably still hours to kill before I need to go to bed. Instead of curling up with a book, I watch hours of TV shows online to pass the time. I’m not engaged in what I watch, and sometimes I get the feeling that one more episode of Masterchef is absolutely going to kill brain cells and quite frankly, I miss reading.

The blame for my lapsed reading habit lies in part with indulging my lazy side far too much, but I think student life bares some of the blame. To get that internship, job, or place in graduate school, we have to go all in all the time, or at least we think we do. This year, though, I’ve decided to put my foot down. I think that we need to choose the attitude we have with this drive for success, and take a quick breather every now and then. I’m over this inanity.

It’s time to go read.

Claire McDaniel is a junior in the College. The only thing she truly enjoys watching on the television is Reading Rainbow.

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by Sydney Browning During recent years, I’ve been called many things. I’ve been called a boy, a dirty hippie, a hairy mountain woman, a bearded lady, and, most affectionately by my parents, a woolly mammoth. I’ve been compared to hobbits and dwarves, which I believe is also a comment on my height. All of these comments revolve around one of my most noticeable features: my hair. For the past several years, I’ve stopped shaving my legs, and

this past summer I decided to stop shaving my armpits as well. I have effectively become one of Georgetown’s hairiest female students.

I first stopped shaving a few years ago, when my older sister did. I’ve come across people who tease me or ask questions. My freshman roommate threatened to wax my legs while I was sleeping. During my most recent trip home, my father said that I was “going to need the hedge clippers for those legs.” And even though my sister also doesn’t shave, I get

We have reason to believe that this is a legitimate hairy situation

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It’s strange coming back to a place I’ve called “home” for the past two years, only to feel like a freshman all over again. I don’t know or recognize anyone on campus. That might be a mild exaggeration, but returning to Georgetown to find it devoid of almost the entire Class of 2014 was quite the shock. It appears that I’m officially a proud member of the select few at Georgetown who aren’t going abroad during their college career.

I didn’t notice how dominant the study-abroad culture was here until the end of last year, when I realized that I wouldn’t be seeing most of my friends for the next eight months. A lot of students go abroad in the fall so as not to miss some of the more important events that occur in

the latter half of the school year—basketball season, Georgetown Day, etc. Looking at friends’ pictures on Facebook of their travels in far-off places, which cover almost every continent, has caused some pangs of jealousy. Still, I can’t say I regret choosing to stay on the Hilltop—after all, as an international student, my four years at Georgetown basically are my study abroad experience.

When my friends were applying for and discussing study abroad options, my roommate and I decided that we would have our own domestic semester and fully experience the city while everyone was away. I’ve lived in D.C. for two years, and am embarrassed to say that I have yet to venture outside

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most of the grief from the parents.

As opposed to her red and blonde locks that manage to vanish, my leg hair is likened to a bear’s.

When I saw all of my Georgetown friends after the summer of not shaving my armpits, they all emitted a universal sound of disgust at the sight of the severalmonth-old growth sticking out from between my arm and torso.

But mostly, people just ask me why. Several times, I’ve gone to parties and had people say, “I don’t mean to offend you, but why don’t you shave?” And then the truly irksome question: “What are you trying to say by not shaving?”

So why don’t I shave? Lots of women say that the reason they do not shave is because it’s not natural. Shaving is just a product of an oppressive social construct. It’s playing into the unrealistic body images that dominate popular culture. And so the idea of women not shaving has been pigeonholed into the formulaic image of a feminist. Many make the argument that removing your body hair is supporting anti-feminist gender roles.

But that’s not why I abstain from shearing off my wool--and at this point, I’m convinced I could make at least a nice scarf out of the combined leg and armpit hair.

So it all boils down to how we want to be seen. After all, that’s why we buy the clothes we do and cut our hair into identical, “professional”-looking haircuts.

For the same reason that one person thinks he or she looks attractive with short hair or long hair or with a beard versus a clean-shaven face, I think I’m more myself with the added layer of hair. I want people to see me, and that includes looking at hairy legs. And so that’s why I do not shave. It’s not because I think shaving goes against my feminist values. It’s not a quest for androgyny. And I definitely do not want to be cast as a male hobbit in Peter Jackson’s next film. Instead, I feel this is more akin to who I am than all of the sheared and trimmed girls filing by as I swipe them into Yates.

And so when people ask me what my statement is by not shaving, I am usually more offended by the assumption that I actually have a statement. I always have a strong desire to reply back, “What’s your statement by wearing that shirt?” or “What are you trying to say by wearing your hair that way?” I think that the point of feminism is that women can choose to shave or not shave and have it not be a statement. It’s not a reflection of their commitment

my comfort zones of Georgetown and the area around the National Mall. This semester, I have vowed to take advantage of all the city has to offer and get out of the Georgetown bubble at least once every week.

It seems that every time I talk to a real person (read: adult), I am told to savor these years of youth in college, when we have few responsibilities, because the real world

exploring my surroundings.

This fall, instead of sending straight to trash those weekly emails I subscribed to from various cultural organizations in D.C. before I moved here, I’m going to start actually reading them and going to the events advertised.

Instead of walking down to Chipotle when I’m craving Mexican food, I’m going to head to Columbia Heights for some tacos from a real taqueria. Or I could even try one of the many cuisines offered in D.C. restaurants, like Ethiopian or Lebanese. Instead of going shopping for the hundredth time on M Street, I’ll take the bus to Dupont to browse the bookstores and art galleries there, and maybe have coffee at a place that isn’t Starbucks or Saxby’s. Maybe I’ll actually start going to all the outdoor movies, jazz concerts, and rooftop pool parties I keep reading about and retrospectively wish I had checked out.

And this “domestic semester” is not limited only to the District -- for excursions fairly close to home, there are beaches near to us, while the summer weather still holds

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sucks. This summer, I took this advice quite literally, and refused to do any sort of activity that could be constituted as ‘real’ work—although I did get my driver’s license and read Anna Karenina. I realized that the freedom I have now will be coming to an end all too soon, never to be regained.

I have already wasted too many hours of my life these past two years watching TV on my laptop in my dorm room instead of going outside and

to transcending the oppressive gender norms that our society has created. It’s simply a personal choice. And it’s offensive when someone typecasts as either a feminist or anti-feminist based solely on something as insignificant as leg and armpit hair. So I’m making my own declaration of rights of hairy women (or men, we won’t be exclusive here). I believe that it’s a right of all people to choose to shave or not to, and not have their actions questioned.

In returning to Georgetown, walking through the crowds of freshmen at NSO and seeing old friends, I’m still struck by the feeling that I’m a fish out of water. Or, in this case, I’m a woolly mammoth that survived the Ice Age. Eventually, the comments and stares will subside, and everyone will get used to the extinct mammal walking around campus and going to classes. In the meantime, I’m going to see if I can braid my leg hair, and hope that people won’t assume that each braid stands for some aspect of feminist agenda.

Sydney Browning is a sophomore in the College. She should be happy she isn’t a mammoth. Manicures for tusks are just so expensive. out. Rumor has it, Old Town Alexandria is supposed to have some beautiful architecture. Having recently finished watching all five seasons of The Wire, maybe I’ll go up to Baltimore and tour the city. Or maybe we’ll make the trek to colonial Williamsburg for an entertaining history lesson. If I don’t do it now, when else in my life am I going to have the energy and time to dedicate to exploring an area as wide as the DMV? I’ve had plans since the summer before freshman year to become, or be able to act like, a local Washingtonian by the time I graduate, but school and other things, like plain old laziness, have gotten in the way. With only two more years left in Washington, I think it’s about time to get off campus.

And hopefully, by the time everyone is reunited on campus for senior year, I’ll be able to navigate the city like a native of the District of Columbia.

Kim Tay is a junior in the College. The secret reason she didn’t go abroad is because it is just so hard to find tacos in Moscow.

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