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“Snake spotted in Hariri vindicates every MSB/Slytherin joke ever made” “Georgetown’s only competitive ANC race loses a candidate” “In private meeting, students and administrators discuss Campus Plan, off-campus party registration” “Georgetown recieves $87 million for medical center” “Bias related incidents in Darnall and New South residence halls” “Protesters interrupt Uribe lecture in ICC auditorium” “Tea Party takes down another alumnus in primary”

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16. Monetary unit of Oman 17. Very skilled person 18. Of little width 19. Lacking light 22. Word before button or dance 23. Em, to Dorothy 24. Greek goddess of strife 25. Crowd 28. Curve 29. Coniferous evergreen forest 30. Admiration 31. Wreath of flowers 32. Salt Lake state 33. South Beach, for example 34. Duck down 36. Red Sea port 37. Old Rolling Stones record label 39. Ballet step 40. Change 41. A little hungry 45. Evils 46. Air (prefix) 47. Words on a card 48. 24 hours 49. Rebuff 50. Evergreen tree DOWN 1. Convert into leather 2. Frozen water 3. And so on

4. Belle and Sebastian’s “The Stars of ___ and Field” 5. Steak order 6. Climbing vine 7. ___, myself and I 8. Milk girl 9. Ricelike grains of pasta 10. Chew on 13. British nobleman 15. Diplomacy 16. Light wood 18. Sound of a horse 19. False god 20. Decoy 21. In the style of a very distant past 22. Wild rose 24. Consumed 26. Was indebted to 27. Second letter of the Greek alphabet 29. English royal house

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On this week’s cover ... Sexual assault at Georgetown Cover Graphic: Holly Ormseth

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AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

GU must improve sexual assault education At Georgetown, we often hear a deeply troubling statistic, that one in four to one in five women on this campus will be the victim of sexual assault before they graduate from Georgetown. Although many high-profile cases involve strangers, the vast majority of sexual assaults and rapes are perpetrated by acquaintances or friends. Given the prevalence of this horrible crime, it is essential that Georgetown improve its efforts to educate students about sexual assault.

Georgetown is progressive in the range of resources it offers to victims. But even though its post-incident support system is commendable, the University needs to take steps to prevent sexual assault and broaden the campus conversation about this kind of crime. Georgetown administrators rarely have anything to say about how to stop sexual assault outside of telling students to lock their doors and walk in groups. That is unacceptable.

Administrators can start by sponsoring and promoting the work of student groups that are already talking about this issue in an enlightened way, like Take Back the Night and GU Men Creating Change. They should also broaden their conversation about sexual assault so that it is not limited to high-profile incidents of stranger assaults, a violating but relatively rare form of sexual assault.

Because many students see rape and sexual assault as primarily a crime that involves strangers, the real issue that Georgetown needs to target is a misunderstanding about what these crimes usually are and how often they involve acquaintances and friends. Georgetown should educate students on what sexual assault really looks like so that if a woman claims that she has been raped by someone she knows, perhaps even a friend, her story will not be met with skepticism and victim-blaming.

Student groups are already working to make this issue part of the campus conversation. GU Men Creating Change has been working to try and make sexual assault and rape education a mandatory part of the Georgetown experience. So far, though, administrators have been unwilling to elevate sexual assault education to the same plane as issues like plagiarism and living in residential neighborhoods— issues which Georgetown does have mandatory education programs. Other schools, like Washington University in St. Louis have taken the lead by implementing mandatory sexual assault education, and Georgetown is quickly falling behind by not addressing the issue.

Sexual assault is an extremely serious issue that has repercussions that can last a lifetime. Instead of simply responding to the aftermath of these horrible crimes, the university should make sexual assault education and prevention a priority.

DON’T GET A BAD REP

ANC candidate needs to get off the fence

Single Member District 3 of the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which includes Copley and Harbin Halls, as well as dozens of student townhouses, also hosts the strongest opposition to Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan. The winner of the November ’s ANC election will be an important voice in ongoing debates over the plan as the community pushes the University for more concessions.

Unfortunately, the only candidate on the ballot to replace incumbent Bill Skelsey is Jeffrey Jones, who explicitly avoided voicing his position on the campus plan. When asked about his stance by the Voice, Jones said, “I don’t want to say anything that could inflame either side at this point.” Jones’s vague position on the plan—the central issue for many of his potential constituents— is unacceptable. Before he is elected,

Jones must be more open to discussing the plan with both the residents and the students that he is running to represent.

But student residents of Single Member District 3 must pressure him to have these discussions. The approximately 700 students who live in the district, 600 of whom live in on-campus residence halls, are a sizable minority of the district’s population of roughly 2,000 residents, and should use their power to encourage their ANC representatives to substantively address the campus plan.

These students can advocate for our interests and positively affect town-gown relations during this election, but only if they make the effort to participate.

When two Georgetown students were elected to the ANC in 1996, not only were student concerns adequately represented at the commission for the first time, the students’ dedication to

the ANC opened up a productive and positive dialogue between the community and the University. Since then, student involvement has dwindled. Ever since the 2000 Census, when Georgetown was gerrymandered in a way that effectively limited the number of student representatives on the ANC to one, the level of representation that students enjoy relies more than anything on their effort and involvement.

This year has been a particularly difficult one for the relationship between the neighborhood and the University community, marked by angry lawn signs and exaggerated rhetoric.

Were students to engage the community through the ANC as we have in the past, perhaps the neighbors would realize that Georgetown students do care about the long-term issues facing our community.

PAPER CUTS!

Free newspapers apparently too expensive Print journalism just lost another audience: Georgetown students. As the Hoya reported last week, students will no longer be receiving free copies of three national newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today due to lack of funding. The second demise of the College Readership program in two years should have both faculty and administration concerned about the deterioration of Georgetown’s intellectual environment.

Without access to free newspapers, Georgetown students, faculty, and staff lose a valuable tool to stay connected to local and national news and opinion.

Administrators and the Georgetown University Student Association alike

have failed to find a steady source of revenue to replace the disparate funding sources that have supported the program in previous years.

This should not be the end of free newspapers on campus. When it restarts the program, Georgetown should place papers in better places—in residence halls and in Lauinger Library, instead of outside classroom buildings—which could boost already strong readership rates. When weekend GUTS bus routes were in danger of disappearing last spring, greater cooperation between campus groups and administrators ensured that this essential student service continued to receive funding. This should be the model for newspapers.

More than their peers at other universities, Georgetown students are deeply interested in political, economic, and social issues. This increased level of curiosity creates a challenging academic community where meaningful conversations and learning happen not only in classrooms, but also in hallways, residence halls, and campus coffee shops. These enthusiastic, scholarly conversations are only possible as long as students are informed about the world around them.

It may take a fundraising event or some searching on GUSA’s part for a steady donor, but GUSA and Georgetown should make it a priority to provide newspapers as soon as next semester.

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GU, students discuss changes to off-campus life

by Holly Tao The University is crafting new off-campus housing regulations, a process which has close ties to the negotiation of the 2010 Campus Plan. The discussion is still in its early stages, but student leaders at Georgetown have recently attended two meetings with Georgetown administrators to discuss changes to off-campus housing regulations.

The first meeting, in August, was attended by seven students, Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson, and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Jeanne Lord.

Administrators and students spoke about issues such as congestion, trash, and noise that shape student-neighbor relations, according to Ana Alicia Siqueiros (COL ’11), who attended the meeting. Students also raised the issue of neighbors calling 911 for noise

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The 2010 Campus Plan may alter current off-campus housing regulations.

violations, and brainstormed solutions to encourage neighbors to call the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program, a service run by the University, instead. Students also talked about positive relationships they had developed with neighbors in the past by introducing themselves to neighbors at the beginning of the year.

The second meeting, a luncheon with several more student attendees, took place in early September after classes started. It was remarkably more structured than the rather open-ended first meeting, according to Siqueiros.

Olson and Lord headed this meeting as well.

In the second meeting, the group discussed off-campus party registration, which elicited concern from several students at the meeting. The students were concerned about this possibility and expressed the need for the administration to approach the Campus Plan in a way that did not attack the student body, but rather made students feel that

the University is working on their behalf.

Fitz Lufkin (COL’11), who also had attended the first meeting in August, expressed concern that neighbors seemed to be unwilling to compromise on many issues, pointing out that many still call 911 instead of SNAP to report disruptive parties.

“To its credit, the University had done a very good job of trying to convince the neighbors to [use SNAP] ... they even had SNAP running through the summer,” Lufkin said. “I can imagine the University would be frustrated that it’s trying to do everything it can to find something that will work for students and neighbors, and then to see some people say, ‘Well forget that, I’m just going to call 911.’”

Lufkin, however, said he came out of the meeting feeling more refreshed than frustrated.

“It was one of those meetings where you went in and felt good when you came out. They actually want our opinion, and

they’re asking for our advice,” he said.

Jennifer Altemus (COL ’88), the president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, also talked about improving town-gown relations too, in an email sent out to the CAG listserv last week.

“If you live near an off-campus student residence, I encourage you to introduce yourself and get to know the students,” Altemus wrote. “Some of the problems we have experienced in the past could possibly be avoided if there are neighborly relationships established early.”

However, the email did go on to recommend those living in West Georgetown call 911 for noise violations.

Georgetown’s Director of Media Relations Andy Pino said in an email that there are no definitive plans for specific policy changes or a set time frame for instating the new regulations, adding that administrators are currently in conversation with students about a range of possibilities.

On the record with ex-Colombian President Álvaro Uribe On Tuesday morning, Álvaro Uribe, former President of Colombia and Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership at the School of Foreign Service, sat down with the Voice for his first interview since leaving the presidency in August.

The interview, conducted by Cole Stangler, can be found in its entirety at www.georgetownvoice.com.

First off, what made you choose Georgetown? Why are you at the School of Foreign Service at this point in your career?

I received a kind invitation directly from President DeGioia who I met in the past. I have the highest opinion about him.

Second, Georgetown is an excellent university. Third, I have had the opportunity to meet throughout my career many people who graduated from the University. During my two terms as president, many people with whom I had the opportunity to interact and work have graduated from Georgetown. Fourth, there are many Colombian students here in the University. And fifth, I came to this University as a presidential candidate and as president-elect for debates and profound discussions. I recall that my Vice Minister of Justice Miguel Ceballos used to work here with Arturo Valenzuela, running the Colombia Program.

Therefore, there have been many

reasons for me to accept this very important invitation.

What classes are you teaching this semester?

So far, I have been invited to different classes in the fields of comparative political systems and economics. I have shared with the students my views on matters such as political and economic risks in Latin American, government systems in the region and trade trends in the Americas. For the next semester I’m preparing classes that can cover specific items, such as politics, economics, governance, international relations, and leadership.

Have you been surprised so far about your reception at the University? Did you expect this kind of controversy?

I was surprised by the weakness of the protests. On the contrary I am motivated and impressed by the great number of students that have approached me to express their support. I have confronted numerous protests against my policies during my career, but over the years I have seen a decline in their number due to my consistent devotion to work with absolute transparency and my open commitment for constructive and respectful debate. Therefore, [it] didn’t surprise [me]. What has surprised me was the kind reception by the vast majority of the students.

Agencia EFE reported that during the first lecture, you asked your students not to disclose parts of the class in a “pact of honor.”

What was the idea behind that?

There was no “pact of honor.” I am accustomed to saying in private what should be said in public.

Therefore I want to take advantage of this question to deliver this message to the students—in accordance with my own experience, it is very important to say in private only what you are able to say in public.

This has been a rule [throughout] my political career.

Some of the more serious allegations during your eight-year term in office are the so-called “false positives” that occurred as part of the armed forces conflict with FARC guerillas. According to a January 2009 Human Rights Watch report, “army members apparently take civilians from their homes or workplaces, kill them, and then dress them up to claim they were combatants killed in action.” Did this practice of “false positives” ever occur under your watch as President and how do you respond to those who hold you directly responsible for the practice?

We cannot speak about a conflict or civil war in Colombia. In the past we spoke about civil wars or conflicts in Latin America when we saw insurgent movements fighting dictatorships or autocratic

regimes. In Colombia, we have had narco-terrorist groups trying to destroy our democracy. Therefore, this is a huge difference. Colombia is an open, pluralistic democracy with all freedoms. Nothing justifies these kinds of criminal activities against a true democratic system.

There have been cases of false positives—mainly because of the penetration of narcotrafficking in some sectors of our institutions.

Those practices were fought with determination by my administration, which corrected the vast majority of these cases.

But there have been also false accusations. You find many individuals against me or my administration, and the excuse they have to strike my achievements, is not by opposing my policy, [but rather] by accusing me of human rights violations. They hide behind the curtain of human rights because they do not feel capable of fighting my policy with the sincerity of their beliefs. They need to cloud their beliefs behind human rights.

In the case of false positives, my administration made strong decisions. We fired many, many high-ranking officials. There are more than 153 members of the armed forces who are in jail because of judiciary investigations. I can give you a list of all the decisions made by my administration or my country to advance in human rights.

In the case where the armed

forces kill in combat a member of the terrorist groups, this body cannot be touched or examined by any member of the armed forces. They have to wait until a member of the Justice Administration undertakes the forensic examination. And the Justice Administration is totally independent from the armed forces and from the executive branch.

Every battalion in Colombia today has at least one high-ranking official specialized in human rights.

Colombia is the country with [the] most training hours and teachers of human rights within the armed forces. We have also put forward many initiatives to strengthen and support the military and ordinary justice. Therefore, I am here and can go to any part of the world because my policies are totally defensible.

Colombia is not a paradise, but Colombia is doing better. Colombia has made a significant improvement.

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Anti-semitic graffiti suspect identified SFS pioneer passes away

by John Flanagan The Department of Public Safety has identified a student allegedly responsible for at least one of the bias-related incidents that occurred over the weekend, the Office of Communications reported this afternoon.

Four students in two dorm rooms were the victims of biasrelated incidents in New South Hall on Sept. 6 and 11. The perpetrators drew swastikas and wrote “Hitler” on the victims’ dry-erase boards. A similar incident occurred in Darnall Hall last weekend, according to the Department of Public Safety.

DPS told members of the Jewish Students Association that a number of the residents on whose doors the offensive graffiti was found were not Jewish, according to Eric Hoerger (SFS ‘12), vice president of social affairs for JSA. Jesse Mirotznik (SFS ‘12), copresident of JSA, said that the group does not believe that the incidents represent a serious threat to the Jewish community.

“While it is undeniably difficult to pre-empt such bizarre and hurtful incidents, we do believe the University and its administration take such issues very serious-

ly, and are proactively trying to prevent similar bias-related incidents into the future,” Mirotznik wrote in an email.

DPS had been collaborating with the Metropolitan Police Department, according to a joint email from Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson, University Safety Vice President Rocco DelMonaco, and Kevin O’Brien, S.J., executive director of Campus Ministry.

Representatives from Residence Life, DPS, and each of the University’s chaplaincies con-

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New South Hall was shaken by anti-Semitic drawings on two floors.

Georgetown’s dementia Flipping through old Voice archives was enough to give me déjà vu.

“SAC continues freeze of GUSA funds,” March 4, 1999.

“Gay activists press demands,” Feb. 13, 1973. “Residents say GU must justify higher enrollment,” Nov. 11, 1999.

Reading through archives, it is increasingly apparent that we’ve been fighting the same battles for decades. Georgetown University Student Association versus Student Activities Commission. Students versus neighbors. Activists versus the administration. University Information Services versus technology.

That’s because institutional memory eludes us. Social studies teachers love that old adage about what we’re doomed to do if we don’t learn our history. But at Georgetown, students can make major progress on an issue only to have the same battles start over from the beginning five years later.

vened a town hall-style meeting at Village C Alumni Lounge on Tuesday night to address community concerns.

“This is very much the kind of behavior that is a threat to the values that we hold as a community,” Olson said. “We find it very troubling.”

Olson added that DPS, resident advisors, and University chaplains had followed up with the victims of each incident.

“Incidents such as these that affect one community touch all communities,” O’Brien said.

Matt Stoller (COL ’08) is the definition of institutional memory.

Now a third year Harvard Law student, Stoller spent his free time last year advising then GUSA senators on club funding reform and schooling Vox Populi commenters on Georgetown history.

In Nov. 2008, he read about a feisty young GUSA senator named Nick Troiano who staged a sit-in at a SAC constitution meeting. He reached out to Troiano and shared his memories about the club funding reform process. With his help, GUSA was able to complete club funding reform efforts he and other senators had started years ago.

But Stoller also became a valuable resource on other issues. Since students are only here for four years, the students who could hold administrators to their promises often graduate before their work is accomplished. Stoller filled senators in on past negotiations, and his

memories helped keep administrators honest.

“The administration will just say, ‘Oh we’ll fix that, we’ll look into that,’ and then once these people graduate, it’s nothing,” Stoller said.

For example, Stoller’s GUSA Senate started the weekend Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle service, with the understanding that GUSA would fund a pilot program and

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afterwards, the University would fund it. But money for the program ran out this spring and the blame fell on GUSA. Students who don’t know Georgetown history are harsher judges in other situations as well.

Those who claim they agree with the many campus protesters’ viewpoints frequently disparage their tactics, from the protesters of former Colombian President Al-

by Emma Forster On Sept. 5, R. Smith Simpson, who helped found Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, died near his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 103.

Simpson was a career Foreign Service officer. After receiving his law degree from Cornell University in 1931, he served as a labor policy advisor for the National Recovery Administration.

He spent 23 years in the U.S. Foreign Service and later helped select future diplomatic officers, which showed him that many candidates’ knowledge of international geography, culture, and sociology was deficient.

This troubled him. In a 1962 Foreign Service Journal article entitled, “Are We Getting Our Share of the Best?” Simpson wrote that “an educational system that turns out graduates lacking the simplest … knowledge about their country is not an adequate educational system.” In 1978, along with his friend Peter F. Krogh who had recently become the Dean of the School of Foreign Service, Simpson established the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

“Smith was a real pioneer in the field of teaching diplo-

varo Uribe’s arrival to the School of Foreign Service to last year’s Plan A campaign. But a look at Georgetown’s history reveals that protests have been one of the most effective avenues to real policy changes.

They were essential to the creation of the LGBTQ Center.

This year could be a formative one for Georgetown student life.

Administrators’ attempts to appease neighbors through increased party patrols, off-campus residence advisors, and potential off-campus party registration could set a new status quo for off-campus student life. The class of 2015 could have no memory of how things used to be and would be at a negotiating disadvantage.

GUSA plans to revisit the issue of the $1.8 million of Student Activity Fee money currently invested in the endowment. The Finance and Appropriations Committee will need to reassert its claim over the Student Activity Fee, relying on the institutional memory of credibility it has built over the past couple years.

Should students again begin to see GUSA as a useless institution, it will

macy and he was a pioneer in establishing the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy—we worked hand in hand on that,” Krogh, now a dean emeritus at the School of Foreign Service, said. “Simpson thought there was a big gap there that needed to be filled.”

Simpson was also instrumental in creating the SFS curriculum that Georgetown still uses today. In particular, Simpson created Map of the Modern World, a required course for all SFS students in which students learn the locations of contemporary states and their major geographical features.

Krogh said he remembers Simpson most for his enduring passion for diplomacy and for education.

“You know, usually when people get older they tend to get a little less passionate about things,” Krogh said. “But not Smith. He was highly charged on this his whole life.”

Smith is survived by his daughters Margaret and Zelia, three granddaughters, and five great-grandchildren. His wife, Henriette Lanniée, died in 2007.

—Additional reporting by Matt Chung

lose its opportunity to have a more profound effect on campus life.

Not all alumni can be as involved as Stoller. Fortunately, we now have more tools to preserve a record of what happens. Between Vox Populi blog tags and GUSA’s box.net site, which archives old bills, we have memories at our fingertips—at least dating back to the time Georgetown discovered the Internet.

But archived newspaper articles and former club leaders have always been available to club leaders. More students should work to build up institutional memory while they are still involved with campus life. Student leaders, as they work on important issues now, should also consider how to best communicate their successes and failures to future classes. After all, even after they’ve moved on to more important things, the next generation will likely need to continue their work.

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MMA fights for support after fighting each other

by Tim Shine After years of being decried as a sideshow at best and an inhumane blood sport at worst, mixed martial arts have seemingly reached the mainstream, garnering national media coverage with the commercial success of Ultimate Fighting Championship. But at Georgetown, the sport remains underground, where a small cadre of competitive mixed martial artists thrives without any kind of sanction by the University.

There likely have always been amateur wrestlers and fighters like Christopher Mika (COL ’12) among the thousands of students on the Hilltop, but their organized training and competition began only recently. As a freshman in the fall of 2008, Mika started what is now called Hoya MMA after a chance encounter in Yates.

“We all wear similar fight shorts and I’d wear them to the gym,” Mika said. “So I showed up at Yates with my shorts on and I saw Payton [Kilcarr, another Hoya MMA competitor] … and I was like, ‘Hey, do you do mixed martial arts?’”

Kilcarr (COL ’11) did, and he knew a few more people who practiced the sport as well. Adding a few more fighters they met at the gym, Hoya MMA soon had seven members who would spar and grapple on spare mats in Yates. Their sessions would not last long, however, before the gym’s staff kicked them out, probably because they feared the liability issues that might accompany essentially unsupervised combat.

“They threw [the mats] out one day, because they were tired of us coming in there,” Jan Gaetjens (COL ’12) said.

Gaetjens and Mika serve as the de facto captains of Hoya MMA. They manage the Facebook page for the group and spearheaded an effort to obtain Student Activities Committee funding last fall. The fighters had hoped to take their organization to the next level, perhaps getting some money for an instructor or equipment, or at least getting a sanctioned training space. But their request was ultimately denied by SAC, which cited a lack of available space.

They were frustrated, but the members of Hoya MMA were not deterred. They continued to train and fight on their own, with plenty of success.

“We don’t have money to go hire a coach and teach us,” Mika said. “We have a total of about 8 to 10 very, very experienced guys. We have black belts in Japanese jiu jitsu, in kung fu, in taekwondo. We bring all those skill sets together and teach each other.”

The fighters show off their combined body of knowledge at events around the area, ranging from North American Grappling Association-sanctioned submission grappling tournaments to amateur UFC-style cage fights.

Competing against fighters from local gyms as well as area colleges, the men of Hoya MMA more than hold their own. Three of them placed at the most recent D.C. NAGA tournament, including Kilcarr, who took home silver in the featherweight division.

“Even though we don’t necessarily have school backing yet, we bring that Georgetown pride.

We’re sort of representing it as a team,” Gaetjens said. “It’s great to go out there and have that level of competition, where everyone is cheering you on.”

Now the experienced fighters are looking to share the thrill

The first rule of Hoya MMA: Dont talk about Hoya MMA.

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of mixed martial arts. Hoya MMA didn’t let SAC’s rejection keep them from bringing their own table to this month’s SAC Fair. The group drew in dozens of curious recruits, no doubt attracted by the demonstrations Mika and Gaetjens performed on Copley Lawn.

“We were amazed at how many people signed up, and we were especially amazed at how many people came to the first practice,” Mika said. “About 50 totally new people. Some people with just as much experience as some of our best competitors, and most people with absolutely none at all.”

That puts Mika and his fellow fighters in a new position, instructing untrained students instead of sharing techniques

with peers. It is not a completely foreign situation for some of the veterans, however, many of whom have experience working with the instructors back at their home gyms.

Still, just as the question of liability kept them out of Yates, the members of Hoya MMA must be concerned with the potential for injuries and other physical problems. Mika downplayed the issue, citing the fact that in their years of training together, none of the fighters had suffered an injury.

The newcomers aren’t too concerned either.

“These guys are great,” Blair Vorsatz (COL ’14), one of the new recruits, said. “They spend a lot of time with us going over stuff even though they

have to train. It’s a wonderful environment.”

All the fresh faces joining Hoya MMA have renewed the founders’ interest in bringing their organization out from the underground. Discouraged by SAC’s decision last fall, they had essentially accepted that Hoya MMA would have to fend for itself. But with so much new interest in mixed martial arts, they will wage another fight for SAC funding this semester.

“With all this support from new people coming and joining, it’s really resuscitated our desire and drive to make this an official and long-lasting institution at Georgetown,” Mika said.

The funding board will learn that it’s not so easy to get a mixed martial artist to submit.

the Sports Sermon “Do we understand what I want to see tomorrow? Let’s go eat a goddamn snack.”

— New York Jets coach Rex Ryan in the age of the DVR and the BlackBerry, which have acclimated us to instant gratification.

Then there’s the lack of bigtime personalities. The NBA has Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Durant, just to name a few.

Plenty of basketball fans hate Kobe and Lebron, but people still love to watch them play, even if it’s only to root against them. In baseball, the only two players bringing global exposure to the sport are Derek Jeter and Alex

So how can baseball buck this recent slide and increase the As the weather cools down popularity of the game? and baseball season approaches There is no way to increase October, a number of playoff races the number of home runs players are heating up. The Yankees and hit, and it was efforts to do so that Rays, the two best teams in the tainted the integrity of the game league, are battling for the AL East for the last 15 years. There is no crown while the Padres, Giants surefire way to invent large perand Rockies are separated by only sonalities for players, either. You 2.5 games in the NL West as of just can’t produce a Ron Artest.

Wednesday night. Unfortunately, The best and easiest way to all the excitement on the field this increase popularity is to shorten season hasn’t translated into good game time. Many die-hards and attendance figures. purists will comPete Rose Central America’s naplain that you can’t tional pastime has rush the game. But Da bettin’ line seen the number of why not? Games Dookies Margin Hoyas fans attending games 50 years ago were (underdogs) (duh!) slip—through Aug. (favorites) two hours long, and 31, MLB attendance those weren’t any Moss The Island less pure. Batters was down 0.9 perRevis cent from 2009— should be forced to Kolb Bad Newz Vick while only three stay in the batter’s Bush Where’s Kim? box for the entire Heisman teams in the American League saw increases. After Rodriguez. Many baseball play- at-bat so they can’t step out after a decrease of over six percent in ers are famous in their own coun- every pitch to adjust their bat2009, this trend should be worri- tries but not elsewhere. Ironically, ting gloves eight times and fix some to league officials. baseball also loses fans because their jock strap. By saving just The length of games, the lack its athletes are generally well- 10 seconds every pitch, games of superstars, and the small num- behaved and stay out of trouble. could become 25 minutes shortber of home runs have all made it Casual fans are drawn to dramat- er. With a 162 games in a season, harder to capture the interest of ic off-field stories about athletes. it becomes a little more managethe casual fan, the demographic The lasting effect of the ste- able to follow a team and go to that the teams’ profits depend on. roids era and the lack of power- more games.

Die-hards will always go to games ful home run hitters is hurting It is important that MLB’s and will always watch them on baseball, too. It is no coincidence commissioner Bud Selig atTV because they love baseball. that one of the most popular tack this problem now before But the casual fan is there for en- seasons in baseball history was it gets out of hand. With the tertainment.

1998, the same year Mark Mc- NBA, NFL, and even the NHL It is hard to be entertained Gwire and Sammy Sosa chased starting to cater to the new, when the average time of a base- Roger Maris’s single-season 21st-century fan, Major League ball game is 2 hours and 52 min- home run record. America has a Baseball must make sure it utes as it was in 2009—especially love affair with the long ball. doesn’t get left behind.

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Hoyas come back, win again Soccer falls in the desert

by Daniel Kellner They say lightning never strikes twice. But this was not the case for the Georgetown football team, which rode the momentum from their season-opening win over Davidson to oust Lafayette College 28-24 on Saturday night, earning their first victory against the Patriot League powerhouse in seven years.

The win was also Georgetown’s (2-0, 1-0 Patriot League) first victory in conference play since 2007.

A tremendous second-half effort from the Hoyas’ defensive unit contributed to the win, with the defense keeping the Leopards scoreless and forcing four turnovers after halftime.

Junior defensive end Andrew Schaetzke led the charge with two sacks, four tackles for a loss, and a forced fumble, earning him the title of Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week and The Sports Network/Fathead.com Division I

FCS National Defensive Player of the Week honors.

“It’s a great honor, but the team played really well. … That’s even more of an honor,” Schaetzke said.

“That’s just an award. The win is more crucial to us right now.”

Senior linebacker co-captain Nick Parrish added eight tackles to become the Hoyas’ career leader in that category with 270.5.

“I think all individual accolades we receive this year, they play second fiddle to team goal, which is winning the league,” Parrish said. “It feels great. I’m glad I did it early in the season so I can get it out of my mind and just focus on the team’s goals.”

Head coach Kevin Kelly praised Nick Parrish, calling him a Ray Lewis-type for the Hoyas Despite the strong second-half performance, the Hoyas seemed to be in trouble early on, with Lafayette taking a quick 7-0 lead after Georgetown’s first possession resulted in a fumble on their own 14 yard line. More crucial errors from special teams and poor tackling on

What’s that? The Hoyas’ 2-0 start has the team looking up.

More hard knocks I’m a Jets fan and I know that the Jets embarrassed themselves royally this week.

If there was ever a time head coach Rex Ryan needed to say something loud, it’s right now.

I’m not referring to quarterback Mark Sanchez’s paltry 74 passing yards. I’m not referring to the team’s 125 penalty yards. I’m not referring to tight end Dustin Keller ’s incredibly idiotic move to forget to run past the first down marker on fourth-and-10 to end the game.

I am referring to the Jets’ treatment of TV Azteca reporter Ines Sainz.

The Jets are under fire from women’s rights groups across the nation because of how they treated Sainz when she visited the Jets practice facility and

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interviewed Sanchez in the locker room. Jets coaches were reportedly throwing footballs in Sainz’s direction during drills so players could get a closer look at her. When Sainz was interviewing Sanchez in the locker room, the Jets players alledgedly catcalled and whistled at her.

Sainz did nothing to provoke these actions. She was dressed professionally and acting in a professional capacity.

And so what if she fills out a collared shirt and a pair of jeans? At that moment, when she was reporting from the New York Jets locker room, the team shouldn’t have called attention to her looks. They should have treated her like a professional.

Now, the Jets did apologize for the issue and are holding an awareness session with the team

defense had Lafayette leading 2414 going into the half.

“We didn’t play Hoya defense,” Parrish said. “We gave them some pretty easy scores, so we just tightened up in the second half, played our game and as you saw when we do were pretty dangerous.”

After halftime, the Hoyas came out of the locker room as if they were shot out of a cannon.

Junior quarterback Scott Darby found Max Waizenegger for a 51yard touchdown on the third play from scrimmage. On Lafayette’s next possession, Junior Wayne Heimuli’s interception in the end zone set up an 80-yard touchdown drive.

Darby, who finished with 172 passing yards, two touchdowns, and no turnovers, was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, but he praised the defense for the turnaround.

“It’s great when we come out and score the first drive and get the ball right back,” Darby said.

“It’s easy to stay in rhythm when you’re always on the field, so it’s a credit to them.”

The Hoyas face a difficult test this weekend as they travel to Connecticut to play Yale. Nevertheless, the coaching staff and players remain confident as they plan for their Ivy League opponent.

“We’ve got new schemes in offense and defense so we should see an improvement from week two to week three,” Kelly said.

Regardless of what happens this coming weekend, the Hoyas will proudly sit atop the conference standings for the first time since winning their opener in 2005.

That’s a step in the right direction.

to prevent it from happening again. Still, sexual harassment has been a problem for much too long in professional sports.

The most famous incident came when multiple New England Patriots players harassed Lisa Olson during the 1990 season, which led to the Patriots organization and the players involved in the harassment getting fined.

Backdoor Cuts

By Tom Bosco a rotating column on sports Before the NFL even reacted, people actually spoke up in defense of the Jets, saying that Sainz should have expected to be treated the way she was because she was in a “TEAM LOCKERROOM,” as Arizona Cardinals defensive

by Adam Rosenfeld After an opening weekend that sent the Georgetown men’s soccer team into the national rankings, they felt like they could beat an opponent anywhere.

Unfortunately, when the Hoyas left the friendly confines of North Kehoe Field last weekend for New Mexico’s TLC Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Lobo Invitational they left their winning streak behind.

The Hoyas opened the tournament on Friday night against the hometown New Mexico Lobos in front of an estimated 4,000 fans.

“It was a lot of fun,” head coach Brian Wiese said. “They had drums going and drunk students behind the goal. … It was lively out there.”

As the game started, the Hoyas appeared to be the first to crack the score sheet when the New Mexico goalkeeper let a shot from senior midfielder Seth C’deBaca loose and was deposited into the back of the net by Georgetown. But the linesman signaled an offside, disallowing the goal. Video replay later showed the goal should have counted, making for an inauspicious start to the weekend. The Lobos scored later in the half and had the lead heading into the break.

The halftime break didn’t slow the Lobos down. Things got even worse for the Hoyas as New Mexico made the score 3-0 on a Hail Mary shot from just past the midline.

end Darnell Dockett eloquently explained on Twitter.

Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis took it one step further, D.C. Sports reported.

“And I mean, you put a woman and you give her a choice of 53 athletes, somebody got to be appealing to her,” Portis said on the Mike Wise Show, on Tuesday Sept.

14. “You know, somebody got to spark her interest, or she’s gonna want somebody. I don’t know what kind of woman won’t, if you get to go and look at 53 men’s packages.” Portis obviously has apologized for his comment. But his words reveal the “men only” mindset that often dominates professional sports.

The reality of the situation is simple: the wide world of sports is not a men’s club, and

The Hoyas showed their frustration and amassed a small fortune of cards, and C’deBaca was eventually shown the door with a red card.

Their resilience was not totally lost. Senior Alex Verdi netted a goal in the 73rd minute, but the Hoyas never fully recovered, and the game ended in a 3-1 victory for UNM. “I think we played really well,” Wiese said. “The difference was that their shots went in and ours didn’t. It was just one of those games.”

But unfortunately, the Hoyas faced a tough University of Denver squad after that and lost again.

Just as before, Georgetown jumped out with a strong early chance, which they successfully capitalized on this time. Sophomore midfielder Ian Christianson was fouled in the box and deposited the ensuing penalty shot, putting the Hoyas up in the 16th minute.

But the Hoyas couldn’t sustain the pressure and Denver bounced back from the early lapse with two goals within two minutes to take the lead going into the half. The Pioneers added one more strike in the second half, for a 3-1 win.

The Hoyas look to get back on the winning track this weekend against a pair of Ivy League opponents, Princeton and UPenn.

They face the Tigers at Princeton on Friday night and then return to the Hilltop on Sunday afternoon to play the Quakers on North Kehoe at 1 p.m.

it hasn’t been for a while. It has been, is now, and will be a public event.

The Jets, whether they like it or not (or deserve it or not, but that’s another story), are public figures. They had their own television program on HBO. No team has had as much offseason press—good or bad—as they have.

With that publicity comes an enormous amount of responsibility. The Jets have the responsibility to be professionals, and to treat other professionals as such.

Ines Sainz was not a beautiful woman when she entered the Jets practice facility. She was a reporter. She was a professional. She deserved to be treated as one.

Join Tom and Sexy Rexy in reprimanding the Jets at tbosco@ georgetownvoice.com

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SURVIVING: THE REALITY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

By Molly Redden JACKSON PERRY

In the week before her spring semester finals in 2009, Helen*, a senior, got a call from her exboyfriend asking if he could come down for a visit that weekend. He was a Georgetown alum who made frequent visits to D.C. to see friends who were still living in the area, so it wasn’t unusual for him to call her or make the long drive into the District. Helen said she would be happy to meet up with him, and she began to look forward to their visit.

That weekend, the two went to The Tombs. They ordered a round of drinks and caught up with one another. They ordered a second round. And except for a few, fleeting recollections of negotiating Georgetown’s cobblestone sidewalks and fumbling to unlock the door to her house, that is where Helen’s memory of that night ends.

The next morning, she woke up naked from the waist down next to her ex-boyfriend, who was in his boxers. From the waist up, she was still dressed exactly as she had been the night before.

Her ex-boyfriend—her friend— had raped her.

“What happened last night?” she asked him. “Why am I half naked?”

“Well,” he said, “when we got

back from Tombs last night, you really wanted to have sex. And so we had sex. And it was great.”

She was silent. She couldn’t remember otherwise, and she didn’t know what to say. She took a shower, and when he cheerily invited her to lunch, she went with him.

It wasn’t until she called a friend from high school, who told her that what happened to her was rape, that she was able to bring herself to use that word.

Helen belongs to a group of women that you have probably heard about before—she’s “one in four.” The phrase refers to the approximate number of Georgetown women who are sexually assaulted before they graduate—in most cases, at the hands of someone they know, often in a setting where they feel safe. That number, which is based on statistics from the University departments that work with victims and from anonymous surveys, is on par with statistics at colleges and universities nationwide. But without having heard a story like Helen’s, the number can be hard to fathom. It can even be hard to believe. Few people realize that sexual assault is commonplace at Georgetown until they find out that they know a woman who was

assaulted or raped by an acquaintance, a mutual friend, or someone whom she once trusted. Or, as in my case, until they become a victim themselves.

Less than a year ago, another Georgetown student, a friend I had known since my freshman year, sexually assaulted me. We took a trip to another city, and after a night of bar hopping we shared a futon in the living room of his friend’s college dormitory, where he tried to hook up with me.

I didn’t want to, and he didn’t care. Soon, I was hitting him in the chest and telling him to stop touching me. When he did, I stayed awake as long as I could until I was certain that he was sleeping. Sometime later, I woke up because he had his hand in my underwear. I rolled onto my stomach and began to cry and plead with him to stop.

He asked me what was wrong. I begged him to go to sleep and he did. The next morning, when we went to get sandwiches, he laughed as he told me that he had blacked out before we got to the second bar.

It took me a while to accept that I had become a “one in four.”

When I did, I could barely believe that this was how it had happened.

My sexual assault did not look

Be well: Jen Schweer, Georgetown’s Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator, helps counsel victims after sexual assault.

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anything like I expected a sexual assault would. Until the moment I realized my friend was not going to stop kissing or touching me, there had been no signs that I needed to worry about my safety in his presence. So this summer, I interviewed former Georgetown students who had experienced rape and sexual assault for two reasons: I wanted to speak to women who could shed light on what “one in four” really looks like at Georgetown. And I wanted to see if their stories were anything like mine.

Like Helen, I felt soon after I was assaulted that something very wrong had happened to me, but I couldn’t articulate my feelings right away. Only when I told a mutual friend what had happened could I admit, days afterward and with her help, that our friend had sexually assaulted me. It would still take me months to accept how much this had affected me and begin to deal with it. In the meantime, I was miserable. I saw my attacker several times a week when I was with our other mutual friends.

Sometimes, an unfortunate seating arrangement would force me to sit right beside him on our friend’s couch. I began to cry spontaneously in secret. But worst of all, because I was terrified of the consequences of revealing my assault to our other mutual friends, I felt utterly alone.

In the spring of this year, six months after I was assaulted, I admitted to myself that I needed to deal with it. I called Georgetown’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services and made an appointment to see a counselor.

Georgetown offers better services for victims of sexual assault than almost any other school of its size. The University employs a trauma specialist at CAPS who is better equipped than most college counselors to help assault victims. The Department of Public Safety staffs a Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Response Team with officers who have additional training in responding to reports of sexual assault. Jen

Schweer, the Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator, does everything from counseling victims to helping them sort through their options, like taking time off from school or reporting the assault to DPS. Schweer has a paid, full-time position, which is very rare among mid-sized schools like Georgetown.

If everyone cared: Jared Watkins (COL ‘11) co-founded GU Men Creating Change.

couldn’t focus in class or on homework. She decided to take a leave of absence.

Amanda came back to campus for a hearing before the Judicial Hearing Board two months after she had reported her assault to DPS. It was nothing like she had expected. To her, the Board’s three student members and two faculty members—the

"Few people realize that sexual assault is commonplace at Georgetown until they find out that they know a woman who was assaulted or raped by an acquaintance, a mutual friend, or someone whom she once trusted. Or, as in my case, until they become a victim themselves."

Victim resources, though, can only help those who proactively seek them out. For crimes like sexual assault and rape, Schweer said, many victims do not seek counseling or pursue legal options. Helen never saw a Georgetown counselor before she graduated, and neither of us reported our sexual assaults to authorities—predictable choices, since nationwide as well as at Georgetown, sexual assault is one of the most under-reported crimes.

In 2009 and so far in 2010, DPS’s public crime logs record only four sexual assaults for each year.

In 2006, Amanda*, a sophomore, was one of five students who did report her sexual assault to DPS. Her roommate was out of town when her attacker, a male student she had known her freshman year, knocked on her door to wake her up at 4 a.m. She rejected his advances and he attacked her. As he tried to rape her, she struggled and repeatedly yelled “no.” Finally, she yelled, “You really need to leave now!” He hadn’t raped her, but there had been moments when she thought he was about to.

Amanda reported his crime to DPS within seven hours. But over the next few weeks, as she frequently saw her assailant in their shared dorm building, she

same people who hear cases of academic dishonesty at Georgetown— seemed unprepared to discuss her case. Among other questions that she found insensitive, members asked her why she didn’t leave her room when he attacked her.

“Why didn’t I just leave? It was four in the morning. We were in my room. He was on top of me.

We were in a corner,” Amanda

said. “I understand they need to be relatively neutral, and anyone can make an accusation, but there is a more respectful way to handle this. ... I felt attacked.”

In the end, the Board placed her assailant on probation and ordered him to write her a letter of apology. Feeling the University had betrayed her, she doubted that she would even return to Georgetown. While she was on leave, her parents learned that because her attacker had violated his probation, Georgetown would not reenroll him the following semester, but the school would not say whether this meant that he could never come back to Georgetown.

Ultimately, Amanda did decide to return to campus. But for several semesters after she returned, one of her parents called the school at the beginning of each semester to make sure that her attacker had not been allowed back on campus.

Amanda is not the first former student to criticize how the Judicial Hearing Board handles cases of sexual assault. When she adjudicated her case before the Board as a freshman, Kate Dieringer (NHS ‘05), who was drugged and raped by a friend’s New Student Orientation adviser just two weeks

into her freshman year of college, faced questions like “Why were you with him?” and “Why did you know him?” In the Sept. 16, 2004 issue of the Voice, Dieringer said, “I’m always thinking about which was worse, being raped or the adjudication process.”

Judy Johnson, the director of the Office of Student Conduct, explained that because the Board presumes that the respondent is innocent, and the burden of proof is on the complainant in any kind of case the Board hears, the complainant and respondent do not start off on equal footing. The Board cannot ask leading questions, either, which can force them to ask seemingly insensitive questions like the ones Amanda faced.

“I’ve never had anyone come back and say the Board was not respectful,” Johnson said.

“They may say that … the hearing was difficult, but not that they were unnecessarily intrusive. By [the allegation’s] very nature, the questions that have to be asked are sensitive, they’re awkward, and they’re in the context of someone who already feels violated.”

Meanwhile, Georgetown’s efforts to prevent rape and sexual assault are weak. The University’s messages about sexual assault usually involve telling students that they can protect themselves by locking their doors. Georgetown’s methods of educating students about sexual assault are so poor that last year, the Justice Department denied Georgetown’s application for a sexual assault education grant because Georgetown does not have an education program that reaches all of its students.

DPS and University officials are aware of how pervasive acquaintance rape and assault are at Georgetown, and there are conversations within the administration about how to prevent them. But pushing the Univer-

the georgetown voice 9 sity to broaden its public discussion of acquaintance rape and sexual assault at Georgetown has been difficult. Jared Watkins (COL ‘11), one of the founders of GU Men Creating Change, a campus group which works to prevent violence against women, has been part of a persistent effort to get Georgetown to adapt a mandatory sexual assault education program akin to AlcoholEdu. It would be harder for student attackers to get away with assaulting their peers, Watkins said, if students shared a more accurate idea of what most rapes and sexual assaults really look like. But no one in the administration seems ready to adapt such a program.

“There’s a lot of power politics behind how to make things mandatory,” Watkins said. “Somehow, they can make going to the Off Campus Student Life meeting mandatory, or you can’t register for spring classes.

But we can’t make sexual assault education mandatory?”

Watkins said that he is not naïve enough to think that such a program will exist before he graduates from Georgetown this spring. More likely, he thinks, Georgetown will adapt one further in the future, maybe four or five years down the road.

Brigit McLaughlin (COL ‘10) is a rape survivor—not a victim.

She told me this very clearly when I spoke to her on the phone this past July.

“I feel that I survived it,” she said. “I feel like for that year and a half I was a victim, but now I’m a survivor.”

Three weeks into her freshman year, McLaughlin went to a Village B party with a group of friends.

One of her friends knew an upperclassman who lived there, and after drinking and dancing for a while, McLaughlin went back to one of the apartment residents’

bedrooms to hook up with him.

She told him she was a virgin and did not want to do anything more than make out, which he said he was fine with. At one point he left the room, and she passed out on his bed. She woke up again when he was raping her.

For the next eighteen months, McLaughlin spiraled into a state of self-blame and depression. She became terrified of crowds and, despite her efforts to repress the memory, had flashbacks of that night whenever she saw her attacker, who was now dating a girl in her residence hall. Finally, inspired to process her assault and react to it positively by an ESCAPE leader who‘d had a similar experience, McLaughlin joined Take Back the Night, an awareness-raising group on campus, and spoke to victims at other schools about her experience.

Slowly, she began to heal—a process that did not include confronting her attacker.

“It’s not like he’s going to say, ‘You know, you’re right, I’m sorry for ruining a year and a half of your life and changing who you are forever.’”

In the same vein, Amanda never received the apology letter that her attacker was ordered to write. Helen kept receiving friendly emails from her ex-boyfriend after he raped her. When she confronted him with what he had done and told him not to contact her again, she received a response that said, in effect, that he was sorry she felt that way about what happened but he’d had a great time.

I never confronted the person who sexually assaulted me at all.

We never had a conversation about what he did. He and most of our mutual friends grew apart until I no longer had to see him.

But I don’t share McLaughlin’s enviable confidence that I have survived. * Names have been changed to protect identities.

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Student drumline beats up the beat

by Leigh Finnegan If you were anywhere near New North on Monday night and couldn’t study, converse, or hear yourself think, then you’re already familiar with the Georgetown Drumline. From 8 to 9 p.m., the group’s 15 members banged out eighth-notes and bashed cymbals together at a deafening volume on the outdoor patio across from the Davis Center, much to the dismay of passing students and faculty.

And why was the Georgetown community treated to this impromptu percussion showcase?

Lack of sufficient practice space. “[Since] we’ve never really had a drumline before, nobody’s really familiar with what it takes to start it up ... so they appointed us an area to practice, not realizing that that area would be way too small,” drum captain Michael Carter (COL ’12) said.

As a native of Texas, a state whose obsession with high school football and band is not at all exaggerated in Friday Night Lights, Carter is well-acquainted with what a drumline should be. Carter saw Georgetown’s lack of a drumline as an opportunity, and has been trying to address this deficiency since the beginning of his Georgetown career.

“It was so ingrained in me, it became such a part of me, and I hated letting that go,” Carter said. “[And I was] sure that there were people here just like me.”

After talking to Professor Aaron Broadus, the director of the Pep Band, Carter was able to get the project in motion.

“This is something I’ve wanted to get started for a few years, and [it’s happening] now that we have the personnel and some of the equipment,” Broadus said.

That personnel includes Carter, drum team captains Nate Epstein (COL ’12) and Andrew Carter (COL

’13), and about a dozen other percussionists, some of whom had never picked up a drumstick before tryouts. But under the training of the captains, the group has learned quickly and is ready for its first gig, homecoming. Their performances will soon include football halftime shows and—if all goes well—men’s basketball games.

But before they can start wowing thousands of grey-shirted Hoya fans at the Verizon Center, the program has a few more obstacles to overcome. According to Broadus, drumlines are typically popular at “schools that have major football programs, and schools that have major music programs.” Georgetown notoriously lacks both. Because it’s such unfamiliar territory for the University, the group is also suffering from an insufficient supply of instruments, causing members at Monday’s rehearsal to alternate between playing actual drums and pantomiming on air-drums. But

The Georgetown drumline: Air drum virtuosos since 1789.

Broadus is confident that with the support of both the music department and the athletic department, the organization will receive enough funding for more instruments, new drumsticks, and even some snazzy GU Drumline t-shirts.

With the latter half of his Georgetown career well under-

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way, Carter is looking towards the future for drumline beyond his graduation.

“I’m teaching everything I know to these people,” Carter said.

“So hopefully in my senior year I can finally polish it off a little bit, and then come back as an alum and see it really big and bangin’.”

Movies? Where!? Start shakin’ your bacon

by Chris Heller When you’ve exhausted all your on-campus excuses to avoid the rapidly growing pile of work on your desk, it might be time to escape to the movie theater. That’s right, the actual theater. Sure, the unscrupulous among us may be content to download the latest releases, but that can never truly stack up against the true movie-going experience. It engulfs us in entertainment and rips us away from reality, if only for a few hours.

So, where to go?

For most of us, the answer is obvious: AMC’s K Street theater. It is your prototypical chain movie theater in every way. It’s close to campus, screens popular films, and sells massive tubs of popcorn and sodas. Although K Street isn’t the biggest theater in D.C.—that title goes to AMC’s Uptown, a gorgeous 850-seat movie palace in Cleveland Park—it’ll do in a pinch, if you don’t mind Hollywood schlock.

But for some, the latest blockbuster hit just won’t cut it. Fortunately, these people

have a few good options, too.

E Street Cinema, located at 555 11th Street NW, regularly screens foreign films, documentaries, low-budget indies, and festival darlings.

The nostalgic among us, however, are looking for something else entirely. For us, the AFI Silver Theatre is worth the hike out to Silver Spring. It mainly shows the kind of films you’d find at E Street, but the Silver Theatre also screens classics from decades past. Moviegoers could theoretically see Jaws, The Gold Rush, and The Day The Earth Stood Still in a single day. The trip is long, but the first-rate screening rooms are worth it.

And then there’s the Arlington Cinema ‘n Drafthouse.

It’s the most inconvenient theater in the D.C. area, as it’s near impossible to reach by Metro. But, oh, what a place.

Between dollar movie nights, food delivered to your seat, and the wait staff’s eagerness to refresh drinks, it’s also D.C.’s most eccentric theater.

And at the end of the day, is there anything better than a cheap movie and a beer?

by Brendan Baumgardner Bacon is the great equalizer.

Rich or poor, black or white, super fly or rhythmically inept, everybody can get down on some grease-fried pork. So when a group of local DJs set out to create the most inclusive funk and soul dance party in town, there was only one name that could truly capture its essence—Fatback.

“It was reminiscent to us of family style barbeques,” said Philippe Chetrit, one of Fatback’s DJs. “And I realize that every night Fatback is at a club and is a big crazy dance party, it feels more like a barbeque. Everyone’s family.”

For three years now, Fatback has been one of the hottest dance parties in town. And each time, one of

the party’s seven DJs crafts a unique set of funk, soul, boogaloo, and disco tracks to get people shaking their stuff. And while most tracks are undeniably groovy, Fatback DJs take pride in pushing the envelope and challenging audience’s ideas of what makes good dance music.

“If you play Michael Jackson you know you’re gonna get ‘em,” Chetrit explains. “But if you play a Kenny Pendergast song that’s really slow and sensual, it’s not a guaranteed hit … But if you hit ‘em just right, people will dance like crazy to some Kenny Pendergast. And that’s what’s awesome.”

What else will you see at Fatback? Pirates. And pigs. And sweaty pirates shaking maracas while grinding up on pigs, all thanks to the

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Unfortunately for Mr. Pig, all of these ladies are vegetarians.

bags of costumes that Fatback DJs bring to mix things up. The logic for the costumes is simple—you simply can’t work a too-cool-for-school attitude while wearing a silly hat. It’s a kind of ego-removal device that encourages everybody to cut loose.

These days, Fatback throws down every third Saturday of the month at Liv, the club attached to Bohemian Caverns on 11th and U Streets. But despite the fancy digs and expensive drinks, Fatback still does its best to simulate a party in your friend’s basement. The DJs always set up on the floor with the crowd, creating an intimacy that Chetrit said the crowd responds to positively. Because really, if you can’t rock out with a fuzzy man-pig shaking his squiggly tail in front of a glowing, neon DJ setup, there’s probably nothing that’s going to get you going.

The bottom line is that Fatback is the club night for people fed up with the club scene: It’s the place to get silly and make some friends.

When you come through the door and see a hundred bodies in motion—including some anthropomorphic barnyard animals—you’ll know you’re in for a good time.

Or, as Chetrit puts it, “You walk into Fatback and are like, ‘Wow, these are the people I want to get sweaty with right now.’”

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Crikey! Everyone’s dancing Reviews, Haiku’d

by Sooji Kim Travelling across the harsh continent of Australia can be too much for even the strongest of us. We’re familiar with the wild bands of marauders in the Mad Max series, and witnessed horrific acts of violence in 2005’s The Proposition. But the events that unfold in Rachel Perkins’s newest addition to the Australian road movie cannon, Brand Nue Dae, can only be described in one word: adorable. That’s right, this is one cute Aussie musical.

Set in 1969, the film follows Willie (Rocky McKenzie), a teenage Aborigine, on a musical road trip through West Australia. His journey begins when he runs away from his repressive Catholic boarding school and its paternalistic German priest, Father Benedictus (Geoffrey Rush).

Longing for his crush, Rosie (Jessica Mauboy), he embarks for his hometown of Broome, which lies 1,400 miles across the Australian continent.

Luckily for Willie, he runs into an Aboriginal bum (Ernie Dingo) and a pair of hippies (Missy Higgins and Tom Budge) on the way.

Their eccentric group brightens the journey, adding musical levity to the winding, sometimes hostile trip through the Outback.

At the center of this feel-good movie is a political message. The film’s central song features the line, “There’s nothing I would rather be/Than to be an Aborig-

ine/And watch you take my precious land away,” highlighting the uneasy relationship the indigenous and Caucasian populations of Australia had in the 1960s. Still, in its optimistic way, Bran Nue Dae focuses more on celebrating Aboriginal culture and the unity of the human race than bemoaning the inequality.

Balancing out the political themes, Bran Nue Dae is also a coming-of-age story. Willie begins as a quiet boy: too shy to talk to Rosie, too obedient to question his mother’s desire for him to become a priest, too polite to respond to Father Benedictus’s disparaging comments about the Aborigines.

But after running away and traversing the Australian continent, he finds his voice.

Production-wise, Bran Nue Dae is a great musical, with emphasis on the word “musical.” The music, adapted from the original stage performance in 1990, is by far the best

Devil M. Night Shyamalan: Stuck in his elevator, The fans get the shaft.

The Town Ben Affleck: gangster Has an illicit romance Matt Damon’s jealous.

Easy A Sorry, Emma Stone, You have to fake getting laid.

Oh well... so do I. Howl Spiderman 3 sucked So James Franco tries his hand...

At beat poetry?

Resident Evil: Afterlife Resident Evil.

Just like the goddamn zombies This series won’t die.

The Last Exorcism Listen up, movie: Crucifix masturbation.

You just can’t top that.

Unscrew the lightbulb, pet the doggie... wait, wrong country.

Show me your tats

I cannot understand why anyone would pay money to have someone puncture their skin with tiny needles that stab at the speed of 100 times per second using a machine that sounds like a dental drill and stabs like a sewing machine, and then fill the resulting wounds with ink.

But for some reason, the tattoo industry is doing remarkably well for itself. But before you decide a row of flowers is the most tasteful decoration for your lower back, it’s important to understand how tattoos work as well as the health risks involved.

The difference between the tattoos you got in cereal boxes as a kid and the ones you can get at the parlor on M Street is vast. For temporary tattoos, the statement “beauty is only skin deep” applies pretty well. Temporary tat-

part of the film. The songs are catchy and anthemic, and they’ll have you whistling about an Australian road trip you’ve never taken for days afterward. The Bollywood-style dance numbers are not quite worthy of the music, but their awkwardness adds an endearing quality.

Like many musicals, the movie is a little overdone, but not to a fault. In fact, it’s the film’s quirkiness that makes it work, and Bran Nue Dae wouldn’t be the same without some of its more bizarre scenes. The acting isn’t spectacular either, and the lip-synching doesn’t always, well … synch. But in spite of its shortcomings, the movie’s charm will keep you smiling.

If you like musicals, this is definitely the movie for you. The songs will make you want to dance, and the absurd story line will make you forget that the singing and the lips don’t quite match up. In the end, you’ll come out wishing that you too were an Aborigine.

toos stay on the surface. Moisture transfers pigment to your epidermis, your outermost layer of skin, and lets it sit there. We all naturally shed surface-layer skin cells pretty quickly, and as soon as old ones slough off and new ones appear, stick-on tattoos start to fade.

The ink from real tattoos doesn’t slough off so easily, though, because it’s beneath the surface of your skin, in the dermis, and those cells aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. When the dermis gets injected with ink, the ink treats it as a foreign material. Your immune system realizes the new inhabitant isn’t a cell from your body and tells the dermis to sequester it. That means the ink gets lodged into place permanently and voila! You’ve got body art.

But if you are ready get inked

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and deal with gripes from you mom for the rest of your life, there are some serious health risks to consider. Although tattoos are generally safe, it is still possible to end up with infections, skin reactions, or even a blood-borne disease if you aren’t careful. Your

Rub Some dirt on It

by Sadaf Qureshi

a bi-weekly column about health best bet is to shop around for a reputable, established tattoo parlor that uses sterilized equipment.

Ink can be a big problem for your immune system, too, even if you aren’t allergic to it. Sometimes, when your immune system removes attempts to sequester a foreign substance but isn’t able to get rid of it—and tattoo ink is designed so that it won’t be able

—Leigh Finnegan, Brendan Baumgardner, and Nico Dodd

to—you can develop build-ups of immune cells that result in inflammation and leaves unsightly, pink masses on your skin called granulomas. Your immune system may also go into overdrive and cause an excessive amount of scarring.

If it does that, you’ll develop especially ugly skin lesions called keloids, which can look even worse than the pretentious literary tattoo you got your freshman year.

The biggest risks, though, are diseases like hepatitis B and C. Hepatitis gets into your body through blood and other bodily fluids. You can be exposed through contaminated needles, or contact with contaminated table surfaces and infected tattoo artists on the area you’re getting inked. Keloids and granulomas aren’t any fun, but if they didn’t scare you, hepatitis should. Once hepatitis is in your bloodstream,

it can eventually shut down your liver. Although rare, cases where people contracted hepatitis from tattoos are not unheard of. There is a good reason that the American Association of Blood Banks refuses to take donations from anyone who has a tattoo less than a full year old.

The best thing to do before getting your first tat is research.

It’s up to you to be smart. Make sure that the tattoo parlor you choose sterilizes all of their equipment and always uses fresh needles and ink. A top tier spot may end up costing a little bit more, but even this has its advantages—you can use the extra time you spend saving up money to consider if you really, really need that tribal armband.

Show Sadaf your “secret” tattoo at squreshi@georgetownvoice.com

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september 16, 2010

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

Weezer, Hurley, Epitaph Few bands are more frustrating than Weezer. They produced two of the best records of the last fifteen years, Weezer and the early emo classic Pinkerton, but recent, unfortunate efforts have reduced the band to a parody of itself.

Their last few successful songs have been candy-coated, sugar pop anthems that become favorites at sweet sixteens and lame karaoke bars. But hidden in all the garbage they’ve released, you could always hear a glimmer of their old sound, teasing listeners with the possibility of one more great album. So when Weezer parted ways with their major label, Geffen, to release their eighth album on the indie-punk powerhouse Epitaph, expectations soared. Is Hurley, their newest release, the band’s return to their endearingly-nerdy roots?

No. No it is not.

But it’s a step in the right direction.

Hurley kicks off with, “Memories,” a synth-drenched dance track with enough rock’n’roll edge to sound at home on The Killers’ Hot Fuss. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo brings back some of his quirky lyrical delivery, occasionally breaking into a full-on scream. The track’s hook is repetitive and catchy enough to guarantee some major radio play, even if it does sound like it was written to be an NBA pumpup song.

Beyond “Memories,” two tracks really stand out on the album. The first is “Unspoken,” which features Cuomo moping over a jangling acoustic riff. Lyrically, it’s typical Weezer—meditating on love and tragic loss— but the song earns points for its subtle string section and surprisingly electric finish.

“Running Away” is the other particularly rocking track, cowritten by alt-rocker Ryan Adams. The sound is more raw and emotionally darker, paying homage to what made Pinkerton so great. “Where’s My Sex” is also a great throwback, hearkening the weird, smart-guy lyricism of classic Weezer tracks like “El Scorcho” and “Pink Triangle.”

Although Weezer doesn’t fully embrace their roots on Hur-

Kicking TV up a notch

Blame it on Colonel Sanders.

Blame it on the kiddie play areas at McDonald’s with the multicolored ball pits. Blame it on the good ol’ American attitude that bigger is always better, and so supersize is the only option. Whatever the culprit, the unavoidable fact remains: obesity in the United States is an epidemic. And if you want proof of this beyond ballooning statistics about heart disease and the KFC Double Down, I offer you the ultimate sign of the times: The Food Network.

The Food Network has become successful enough that its stars can get students to line up for hours, as Georgetown saw last week with a guest lecture by Duff Goldman, cake decorator extraordinaire and star of Ace of Cakes. (I guess the promise of cake afterwards didn’t hurt.) But where

did that success come from? Sure, Americans love to eat. But as far as television ratings tell us, they also love violence, drama, and Simon Cowell. And while Ace of Cakes does introduce viewers to the treacherous, suspenseful world of high-end cake deliveries, it’s hardly CSI: Miami. Where’s the mass appeal?

The answer, I believe, is what I like to call the Emeril Effect. On first glance, Emeril Lagasse is anything but a national television star.

He’s not particularly attractive or even physically fit. In fact, the only thing special about him is that he’s a chef. But with The Essence of Emeril and later Emeril Live, he became the Food Network’s first bona fide celebrity chef, complete with excited studio audiences, his own line of cookware, and an endorsement deal with

ley, the record is well-written and has a few good tracks. It’s funny, though, because Weezer clearly knows what its oldest fans want—to accompany the re-release of Pinkerton on Epitaph later this fall, Weezer is also planning a tour on which they will exclusively include tracks from Pinkerton and Weezer. So who knows?

Maybe, for the first time in the decade since their return, Weezer is finally listening Voice’s Choices: “Memories,” “Unspoken,” “Running Away” —Matthew Decker

The Walkmen, Lisbon, Fat Possum Records The Walkmen are proof that past failures do not prohibit future successes. But the thing is, you can never predict whether the band’s next album will be an instant classic or an ignored Crest. The reason for his success can be summed up in one word: “Bam!” Normally, something like adding a dash of cinnamon to sautéed potatoes isn’t exactly riveting, but when a jolly, charismatic chef is pitching the spice at a sizzling pan, yelling “Bam!” amid

Warming Glow

by Leigh Finnegan

a bi-weekly column about television the cheers of an audience, it adds charm and entertainment value.

And that translates to ratings.

Post-Emeril, the successful Food Network stars have all followed suit. As far as “in the kitchen” shows, the most widely-known hosts are those with big enough personalities that the audience won’t feel like they’re watching their mother stir a pot of Prego. Paula Dean’s

flop. After disappointing fans and critics with two lackluster albums, A Hundred Miles Off and Pussy Cats Starring The Walkmen, the band turned around and released 2008’s killer You & Me, which ended up on numerous best-of lists. So how does the band follow that?

With Lisbon, a solid sixth album that shows a consistent and coherent focus and a sparser sound than the band has ever shown before.

The junky, yard sale-quality instruments that the band uses have always been one of the things that has set The Walkmen apart. Even though I heard it live a year ago, the sound of the vintage Gibson that opens “Blue As Your Blood” still stops me in my tracks, unlike, say, an off-the-rack Fender or Yamaha. Listening to Lisbon is like walking through a room of rare antiques—the sound can be appreciated by anyone with a well-trained ear. Lead singer Hamilton Leithuaser’s voice resembles Bob Dylan’s with its drawn out, nasal croakiness.

These two elements work well throughout the album, but are especially potent on this track.

There is a deliberateness that really makes this album, too.

Viola and horn sections are used sparingly to highlight parts of southern-housewife charm and artery-clogging affinity for butter is endearing and addictive. The perpetually peppy Rachael Ray was inescapable for a while, with three Food Network shows, a talk show, a magazine, and her giant, toothy face on every Dunkin Donuts billboard in the country. The network’s blander chefs, by contrast, usually fall out of rotation pretty quickly. Ever heard of Melissa d’Arabian, Texan mom and host of $10 Dinners? Exactly.

Of course, Food Network isn’t entirely about watching people boil water, but the same concept carries over to the rest of its programming. Its competition shows were pioneered by Iron Chef, one of the first programs to actually pit chefs against each other. And all this drama didn’t just go down in a kitchen. Oh no, it went down in Kitchen Stadium, ground made hallowed by the presence of the

the songs. Lisbon is also a succinct 11 tracks, three fewer than You & Me, which makes easy to listen to in one sitting, although it does sacrifice some of the depth that the last album had.

Still, this album’s sound is not too different from You & Me with its twinkling guitar, honest reverb, and a horn section that at times sounds like a drunken mariachi band. Lisbon does not have the kind of lyrical imagery that The Walkmen have shown in the past, and as much as the album’s strength lies in its subtlety, Lisbon’s understated instrumentation leaves some holes. You & Me had an enveloping quality and a bounciness that built anticipation. Lisbon is noticeably slower and quieter, particularly on tracks like “While I Shovel The Snow” and “Stranded.”

This is a very self-assured album, and that’s what sells it in the end. “Lisbon” is one of the best songs the band has ever written, and it’s because of the band’s ability to pick an idea and follow through with it. On Lisbon, The Walkmen have continued to hone their songcrafting ability—let’s just hope their batteries don’t run out.

Voice’s Choices: “Blue As Your Blood,” “Woe Is Me,” “Lisbon,” —Nico Dodd mythic figures of Hiroyuki Sakai, Kenichi, and Morimoto. It was ludicrous. But that’s what gives these shows their appeal: the crazy hosts, the zany characters, and the edge-of-your-seat moment on Food Network Challenge when you don’t know if someone’s going to drop that 50-lb cake he just spent eight hours morphing into the exact likeness of Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. It’s mindless and a little ridiculous, and that’s the golden combination for great TV. But because no rule is without its exceptions, I have to mention the one snag in the cult of successful TV-chefs with magnetic personalities: Giada DeLaurentis. But she wears really, really low-cut shirts. Smoked prosciutto and cleavage: now that’s quality television.

Check out Leigh’s spice rack at lfinnegan@georgetownvoice.com

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SPIRAL

By Joseph Romano

He was a sculptor. His body was found on the shore the next morning.

Overnight, frost crystallized on the ends of his hair, his lips, the inside of his ear, his nostrils, his forefingers, his chipped fibula cracking through wax paper skin. The coroner said that the impact wasn’t enough to kill him outright, but that he had a heart attack during freefall. He had jumped off the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Now they discuss his tools, his methods, his inspiration. He’s avantgarde, a cult figure. Sotheby’s sells his art for millions, when they’d just laugh at him when he would call from his studio saying he just finished a new piece. Collection and consumption. Even his druggy bio is trendy, just like the laceless moccasins of the professionally wealthy twentysomething that outbid everyone at the auction. Isn’t that a bitch.

But now you can afford to go to college.

Do you feel guilty? Don’t, it’s not your fault. All the note said was that he loved you, was sorry he never met you, and for his estate executors to put all the money away in a fund for your education. Aren’t you lucky?

Who was Gerard Ehman really? I know you didn’t know him. But he was your uncle, and he left you this. Take the package because the note said that you were to have this too. The note says everything. But you’ll never really know exactly what he meant, or felt— he was never there.

Take it. I don’t care if you don’t want it. I certainly don’t.

***

I decided to rip off the wrapping of the package the lawyer had given me once I got home after funeral ceremony was over. And that’s what was embossed on the wooden chest— happiness in a box—the “h” perfectly centered, the rest spiraling outwards.

The chest is perfectly rectangular, mathematically, so typical of all my uncle’s work. I had read some obituaries and found out he was obsessed with the proportion of lines. “Never has anyone in the last twenty years employed such precision in the art of sculpture,” the critics say. And the mathematicians back them up too. They say he used the golden mean, the divine proportion: “the most aesthetically pleasing ratio of the long and shorter lines of a rectangle.”

It’s a number that can never be written.

Like pi, infinite decimals—like the new number on my online savings account.

I stared at the top of the chest for a long time before I opened it. Was I answering the question the poem proposed just by lifting its lid?

A draft ruffled the curtains beside my bed.

***

I was a sculptor. I jumped off the Francis Scott Key Bridge. My body was found on the shore the next morning.

Overnight, frost crystallized on all of my extremities. It was really fucking cold by the water, you know. But the first snowflakes of the season were falling, and while lying there, in a mess of drying water, blood and protruding bone, I tasted my last snowflakes.

What a scene that’d be for a selfportrait. It’d be white marble. I’d splurge on myself. The image of the artist lying there in death repose. Failed.

Having met his end below an indifferent bridge that didn’t care it lead to a city of deal-making and throat-cutting—a city home to only to the those who couldn’t afford living elsewhere. And you know what, I don’t care either.

But, you’re probably thinking, well it’s not that odd anymore that a guy who’s fantasizing about depicting his own death in stone, who seems to care about nothing, would leave everything he has to a nephew he’d never even met.

I’ll explain myself because I’m dead, and you should listen. Or not, if you’re one of those people who get alienated by outlandish plot points and traps and devices. Or who don’t believe in ghosts.

Jeanne and I lived in New York City back in the late seventies, in a threeroom apartment on East 20th. It was supposed to be a red brick co-op, but years of rain, snow, neglect and one big fire turned its façade to a bistre color, not unlike vomit. But we were twentysomethings caught up in the glittering city lights of Manhattan. Your next

coffee and cigarette, making the next month’s rent, trying to make it as an artist in the city. That’s all that mattered.

My sister would work nights as a nurse at NYU hospital to help pay for the apartment and to get her degree, while I would work during the day.

She didn’t know exactly how I got my income though. I used to tell her that I had a wealthy patron on the Upper East Side, which was true, but it wasn’t my art that she bought.

We had a strong mutual respect: she would never come into my room, where I worked and slept and hid my stash, and I would never question the jazzmusician boys she’d bring back to hers.

But now I was always paranoid she was snooping around, so now I always took extra precautions, hiding whatever I had in whatever I was working on. She wouldn’t dare snoop around that.

But the cause of all of these theatrics stemmed from that last time she walked me home from the clinic. She cried, and I held her, brushing the hair from her face, until she pushed me away and looked me in the eyes, pupils narrowed and wet with held-back tears. She made me promise I wouldn’t use again. She looked down and placed her hand on her abdomen. Then she grabbed my hand and pressed it over hers and made me swear on my unborn nephew.

Because “I don’t have it in me to take care of the both of you …”

She was six months pregnant then and her hormones must have been acting up. But I knew she was trying to finally have a stable home for once. So I swore on you.

But all promises inevitably end as disappointment.

She was dating this sax player from Manhattan School of Music, and thankfully she really dug him and he dug her, so he moved in with us.

We were all poor, but this guy was a destitute bastard. I remember the day he moved in. He had two cardboard boxes, one with three shirts and a couple of pairs of pants, the other spilling over with sheet music and theory books.

He looked like shit. He wore long hair, shiny with grease, week-old stubble, a flannel shirt, bleach-splotched jeans, and a fraying overcoat. Then he went over to the couch, thudded the boxes down, and slumped his thin body onto the couch. He wasn’t just skinny, it was that emaciated look that you get after weeks spent subsisting on peanut butter and Ritz crackers.

But I’ll never forget that night, in that room, my miniature gulag, a rectangular diorama of my silly nihilism—how I loved it.

I was sitting on the floor, next to my latest piece, a life-sized sculpture of an old man I had shared a cigarette with in the park the month before. Sweating from obsession, I measured the length

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of the bench, making sure that the man’s dangling left leg, which was crossed over his right knee, divided the bench into one longer segment and one shorter segment. Uneven, but calculated. The ratio between the longer segment and the whole bench equal to the ratio between the longer segment and the shorter one. Just like the old masters. Euclid, Phi, golden and divine.

Then Julian came in fiending. But he was too tired and junk-sick to pay attention to his horn case swinging around as he slid it off his shoulder, and knocked my drying bust to the ground, shattering it into pieces of plaster body parts.

Jeanne had heard the crash and waddled in.

She recognized it immediately. You could see her grinding molars moving her cheeks, as she went over and the head of the old man down on the table, or more precisely, what was left of it.

The back was smashed and gaping, as if someone had shoved the barrel of a gun into the statue’s mouth and pulled the trigger. I remember wishing my head were the plaster one. But feeling the worst shiver shook me out my stupid denial. The clammy nervous pulse started from my sweating hands, up through my arms, to the back of my head of flesh, down the back of my neck and spine. I would say I can feel it now, but I can’t feel anymore.

She dug her hand into the back of the old man’s head and pulled it out. She turned to me. She held the off-white bag in front of her face, so that it was all I could look at. There were no tears. Nothing. She wouldn’t even give me that. This was it, I’d never be able to hold her and tell her I’d be better, that we’d be better, that we’d be happy. But she couldn’t give anything to me anymore because all I had done was take.

She waddled as fast as she could across the room, and grabbed Julian by the hand, led him to the door, and pushed him out of the room. Before she stepped across the threshold, she turned and looked at me, “You promised.”

I heard her let out her first sobs as the front door slammed behind her.

Every now and then, after your mother moved out, I’d sit, pick up the phone and press its plastic numbers, 2-0-2. But I could never get past the area code; I never got past what my life in New York had amounted to, what I had done to your mother, the promise that I couldn’t keep. I never said sorry, and never will be able to because I’m not a man—I’m not even a person anymore.

I’m damned to drift through this haunted world of past failure, spiraling out from a haunted nowhere in quarter turns of a factor of phi.

To be contined in next week’s issue...

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september 16, 2010

Affirmative action neglects real disparity: Wealth

by Eric Pilch In the heat of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said something important about the role of affirmative action in college admissions that should give pause to those who favor the status quo.

“I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged,” Obama explained. “I think that we should take into account white kids who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty and shown themselves to have what it takes to succeed.”

While it is not surprising that a candidate who desired to be seen as “post-racial” would say this, elite academia has largely failed to even consider Obama’s suggestion.

Affirmative action in college admissions is a valuable concept, but America has outlived the use of a

race-based system and its universities should develop programs that will aid students who have limited resources and opportunities in a race-blind fashion.

An exhaustive study conducted by Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford examined data from 10 selective colleges over a decade-long period to see how race and inequality affected the admissions process. Their findings show that preference is given to minority groups regardless of socioeconomic status at the expense of lower-income white and Asian applicants.

The authors of this study then constructed a model in which affirmative action for black and Hispanic applicants is eliminated and preference is given to low- and working-class students regardless of race. The results indicate that the percentage of accepted minority applicants from privileged fami-

lies would decrease by 4.4 percent while the acceptance rate would increase by 8.5 percent for lowerclass white or Asian candidates.

These figures are startling in their size and demonstrate that affirmative action policies are often used as a lift for minority students who have enviable resources at their disposal. Furthermore, lower-income white and Asian students are actually placed at a disadvantage compared with their peers from a higher socioeconomic status because universities are inclined to reach for minority enrollment targets. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently wrote that “an upper-middle-class white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted than a lower-class white with similar qualifications.”

These statistics explain a phenomenon that is probably already apparent to Georgetown students and our peers at selective universities: there is a startling lack of socio-

economic diversity at Georgetown and similar schools. Georgetown’s 2007 Intellectual Life Report concluded that socioeconomic diversity actually decreased from 1996 to 2007. Changing the emphasis from race-based affirmative action to an opportunity-based program would go a long way toward alleviating this problem. Georgetown has a reduced ability to provide competitive financial aid packages compared to peer schools, so one can only hope that the high-profile 1789 Scholarship campaign will address this critical failing of the University. A paradigm shift regarding the attitude of admissions counselors and an increased willingness to use resources to attract top applicants from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are needed to improve the current socioeconomic situation here at Georgetown.

Purely class-based affirmative action is a radical proposition and would represent a significant

change from the policy that has existed at selective universities for the past four decades. However, class-based affirmative action captures the American ideal of equality of opportunity—one that is very poorly served by the advancement of racial preference. Instead, we should strive to achieve Thomas Jefferson’s conception of a natural aristocracy, driven by talent and intellect as opposed to physical characteristics. Changing this dynamic in the admissions process would not only assist those who are placed at a disadvantage by the status quo, but also lead to better social and educational experience for Georgetown students.

Eric Pilch is a junior in the College. He believes that diversity depends not only on the color of your skin, but also on the size of your wallet.

A lifelong world traveler unpacks her global identity

by Ishita Kohli “Can you pass the rubber?”

Yes, I am now aware that in the U.S., I should use the word “eraser.” A rubber, I have realized, is a condom. But so goes my cultural adaptation to life in the U.S. I also spell “humour” with a “u,” I can’t pronounce “literally,” and I get annoyed when I can’t use the passive voice. This confusion and grammatical non-conformity stems from a diverse upbringing: I am an Indian who was born and brought up in the Middle East, educated in a British School, and spent the last two years of high school in Singapore.

Because I was only around international students, many of whose upbringings were far more transient than my own, it didn’t hit me that my situation was unusual until I ended up at Georgetown.

About a year ago, I came across a series of articles that perfectly described the lifestyle I had lived for the past 19 years. They called my life that of a “Third Culture Kid.” TCKs are people who have spent most of their lives outside their country of citizenship.

Most of us, these articles said, have three things in common: transience, intelligence, and an uncommitted attitude toward communities. TCKs are supposedly well-travelled, familiar with

many cultures, adaptable, and self-sufficient. However, the constant volatility in environment makes them afraid of commitment and often leaves them feeling like they don’t belong. They are normally highly educated and very familiar with a wide range of issues, but rarely say things that are controversial. They can become well-versed in issues without forming a concrete opinion about them. They are rarely xenophobic and they are usually socially confident. Finally, their exposure to many cultures causes TCKs to form their own value system rather than conforming to the institutionalized morality of any one country or society.

AMBER REN

This girl gets around. Playing cricket in India, skiing in Dubai, surfing in the U.S., and chewing gum in Singapore.

Check, check, and check.

But for the past few years, I have also noticed that people my age who have led a lifestyle similar to mine all go through some sort of conflict when faced with the heavy and deep question of their identity.

Not only have I never struggled with this internal conflict, I have never really questioned my chaotic upbringing. Once I came to Georgetown, after having labored through my five-minute background story, I surprised myself by understanding most pop culture references that my American acquaintances made.

Reading these articles made me question their generalizations about my amorphous status as a TCK. Not because I disagreed with any of the conclusions they made about the personality traits I supposedly demonstrated—I do have those traits—but because I didn’t see what was so unique about being a TCK. My classmates at Georgetown may not have physically seen as much of the world as I had, but most seemed well-educated and well-versed in global issues, especially those in the SFS. Many adolescents do not form opinions quickly and are wary of commitment; they don’t need to travel the world to become that way. Quite a few people who read and learn about different faiths or belief systems adopt some of the teachings into their own values, a characteristic that, again, is not exclusive to TCKs. And, the question of selfidentity is the theme of every John Hughes movie I have ever

seen—it’s already ingrained into the American psyche.

All this research on TCKs begs a question: Why was there a separate term for people with a similar background to mine and why has there been so much research on this topic? The answer lay in the question. There is a universal quest to compartmentalize oneself. Most people, maybe even unknowingly, look for a box they fit into, and when nothing fits, they create a new one. It isn’t that I don’t have a home, it’s that I have the privilege of calling four places in the world home, and I most certainly intend to add more.

But I don’t understand the reason for this new identity crisis. As I walked through the front gates over a year ago, I was a new Hoya, an international student, a South Asian, an SFS-er and a person utterly confused by how these tags were to combine over the next four years. In order to encapsulate all that I am, I feel compelled to find some way to describe myself. Though it may not be a good thing, I cling to the tags, and don’t know what we would do without them. There is something very neat about being able to label oneself: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal; a TCK is just another option.

Ishita Kohli is a sophomore in the SFS. If you ever ask her for a rubber, make sure you specify which type.

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The nation of Puerto Rico, an unrealized dream

by Margo Hufstetler “But you don’t look Puerto Rican...”

I get that a lot. I’m lightskinned and somewhat blonde, have a German last name, and speak English without a heavy Latino accent. But yes, I am Puerto Rican, born and raised.

My grandfather from my father’s side was an American.

And when I say American, I mean actually from the United States—although technically, as a Puerto Rican, I am also a U.S. citizen. He and my Puerto Rican grandmother lived in South Carolina, and every year since I was a toddler, my brother and I would spend the whole summer with them. We would go to every single summer camp imaginable, from sports camps to Bible camps. I made plenty of friends, and honestly, adapted very well, which is why I can truthfully say I have great childhood memories of my summers in the States. But as I grew older, I became less and less interested in spending my summers away from home.

I was able to learn from personal experience at a young age that, culturally, we are very different. Not just in the obvious ways like the languages we speak, but in the small details of

everyday life, like the food we eat, our interests, how we express ourselves, or how we address one another. It’s hard to put these differences into words, but the easiest way I could characterize them would be through my grandparents. My Puerto Rican grandmother was always loving, giving us plenty of hugs and kisses throughout the day, making sure we were enjoying ourselves—in short, taking care of us. My grandfather was less expressive, a very serious man who, while always kind, was a lot more reserved. Although he lived in Puerto Rico for years, he never learned Spanish.

Politics in Puerto Rico revolve around our relationship with the U.S. There are three main ideologies that favor either statehood, remaining a commonwealth, or independence. Both the statehood and commonwealth approaches have always been at the forefront of discussions on Puerto Rico’s future, with independence as a distant third. The status never ceases to be relevant in Puerto Rico, and everyone has an opinion. Especially now, in the midst of the economic recession, which has hit Puerto Rico particularly hard, resolving the status issue seems more important than ever.

Having this background and these experiences, and having

spent so much time in the U.S. as a kid, it may surprise people that I do not favor Puerto Rican statehood, as nearly half of Puerto Ricans do. After all, some ask, as I

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Puerto Ricans wave their red, white, and blue, but whose flag will they choose? am already a U.S. citizen, and had such a strong American influence growing up, why wouldn’t I want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state? But the fact is, although adapted and very well integrated, I do not feel American. I cannot identify with American culture.

Even though I felt completely comfortable spending my summers in the United States, I have always felt different. I felt then, and I feel now, Puerto Rican.

The United States is a country I greatly respect and admire.

The unsexy reality of an ad agency This summer I found myself interning for two months at an advertising agency in my home city of Tampa, Fla. I know what most of my fellow TV buffs out there are already thinking: Mad Men. I must say that, before I started work at the agency, I was curious to see if the fictional world of Don Draper’s 1960s Madison Avenue philandering and passive-aggressive competition had any resemblance to the modern world of marketing. Or would it be just a bunch of regular, sober people who have a knack for knowing what makes people want to buy stuff? I was soon to find out if Don Draper was anything like the real-life whiz kids who turned our wants and desires into profit.

My first post was with the new business department, a group of strategy people and researchers whose job it was to get new accounts for the firm.

Most of my research was concentrated on the travel sector, where the firm was looking to land a cruise line, like Carnival or Norwegian Cruise Lines.

I worked on a presentation—a deck, as it’s called in the advertising world—for prospective clients, filled with examples of the firm’s past work as well as statistics and data from their proprietary marketing models. While I found it interesting, it wasn’t exactly the high-flying juicy stuff (and by this I mean the creative ads, not the sex and boozing that are mainstays at

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I would not be studying here if that were not true. But I have my own culture and I am proud of it, which is why I favor independence for Puerto Rico. Some-

1960s made-for-TV advertising agencies) that Mad Men seems to be all about.

My big chance to get that experience was when I was sent to work in the mysterious creative department, the place where commercials and

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slogans come from. It was an exclusive group, and most closely resembled what I thought an ad agency would be: a group of about 12 people who worked in teams, intensely brainstorming ideas that would make people want to buy anything from the car of tomorrow to paper towels.

On my first day, I sat in on a presentation of ideas for an automotive account. Creatives come in teams of two, an art director and a copywriter, who

thing “in between,” the Commonwealth status we have been in since 1952, doesn’t really seem like a final, decisive solution anymore. While a great number of Puerto Ricans would prefer to maintain the current status quo, or look to expand the powers of the Commonwealth, I believe that, realistically, there is no more room for it to grow.

One of my good friends at Georgetown was one of those who questioned my opinion on what the future of Puerto Rico’s

do pretty much everything together—they share an office, they work together to write copy and campaigns, and they present their ideas to the creative director and eventually, to clients. It’s a special collaborative relationship that most other professions don’t have a place for.

The first team’s pitch was about the company’s newest sedan, and the campaign was based on reliability, the idea that the car won’t let you down. The pitch, something about the car key turning, wasn’t all that great—even I could tell. I braced myself for an awkward rebuke from the creative director, but none came. There didn’t seem to be any Don Draper-type tension present during the meeting.

The other team’s much better presentation didn’t spark any devious, intra-office competition. It was refreshing that even with something as proprietary as an original idea, these creative minds weren’t competing for who came up with the best idea but rather trying

status should be. He simply did not understand why any Puerto Rican would be averse to statehood. Last semester, he went to Puerto Rico with me and other Puerto Rican Georgetown students. By the end of his visit, he said to me, “Now I understand why you want independence.

This is something else, something totally different from the U.S.” I am well aware there are many challenges Puerto Rico must face before independence becomes a plausible option. It is not just a matter of cultural identity, and there are other factors to be considered. But there are challenges to any of the status options. While my belief is not necessarily one that the majority shares, I believe in it fervently. It is not a conclusion I have reached on a whim, but one that was forged throughout my personal experiences, one to which I have given a lot of thought.

One thing is sure, though: no matter what ideology Puerto Ricans may believe in, be it independence, commonwealth, or statehood, we are all proud of where we come from.

Margo Hufstetler is a sophomore in the SFS. She hopes that, like its own Ricky Martin, Puerto Rico will soon be livin’ la vida libre.

to build on whatever idea was best and make it better.

As far as the sex part of Mad Men, I overheard of a few promiscuous interactions between office workers, but no infidelities or hidden pregnancies.

Real life just isn’t as dramatic as the 2D world. And from my intern cubicle, I could detect no alcohol in the office.

Lucky for me, Mad Men did not resemble my advertising experience—otherwise, I’d have spent my summer brewing coffee and fixing drinks for the idea makers. Instead, I was able to write a few ads, even one that—supposedly— made it to a client meeting.

While Mad Men may make for good TV, I’m fairly certain that a marketing stint in 2010 is much better than Madison Avenue circa 1962.

George D’Angelo is a junior in the MSB. Jon Hamm represents George’s ideal man: strong, intelligent, and a total BAMF.

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