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A NEW LOOK FOR LAU?

Plans for a possible renovation would expand the library by 155,500 square feet.

SECOND-SEMESTER SLUGFEST The Hoyas kicked off the spring semester with a 5250 win over Rutgers in which 43 fouls were called.

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Deneen to Leave GU at Semester’s End Vittles Director of Tocqueville Robbed of Forum will take up position at Notre Dame Cigarettes MARIAH BYRNE Hoya Staff Writer

Professor Patrick Deneen, the director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, will resign from Georgetown at the end of the semester after seven years at the university.

Deneen will leave his post as the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies in the government department for a similar position in the University of Notre Dame’s department of political science, leaving the future of the Tocqueville Forum uncertain.

While Deneen said that he has greatly enjoyed teaching at Georgetown, he hopes to play a more integral role at Notre Dame.

“I go from [a university] where I find myself often at the periphery … to one [at] which I have been recruited explicitly as [a professor] who can be a

significant contributor to the life and mission of the institution,” he said.

Deneen, the founding director of the Tocqueville Forum, which intends to preserve America’s roots in Western philosophical tradition, cited poor reception of the center by the faculty and administration as one of his reasons for leaving. “[Over] the years, it has been increasingly evident to me that I have exceedingly few allies and friends elsewhere on the faculty to join me in this work and dim prospects that the trajectory of faculty hiring will change,” he wrote in an email to select students Sunday night. “I have felt isolated from the heart of the institution where I have devoted so many of my hours and my passion.”

He added that he will have the chance to further the Catholic identity of Notre Dame, an opportunity that he believes was not available to him at Georgetown.

“I have decided that I would like to be welcomed as a contributor to the widely-embraced institutional mission of the university where I intend always to devote so much of my time, See DENEEN, A5

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Professor Patrick Deneen hopes to become involved in the development of the Catholic identity at the University of Notre Dame.

Meth Found in LXR SARAH KAPLAN Hoya Staff Writer

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Students celebrated the university’s 223rd birthday Monday with notes and cake provided by the 1634 Society in Sellinger Lounge.

The Department of Public Safety uncovered a substance containing methamphetamine in an LXR dorm room early Thursday morning.

According to a report in the DPS crime blotter, officers noticed a smell similar to that of marijuana while speaking with two students on the rooftop of LXR Hall. One of the students told DPS that he had smoked marijuana earlier while off campus and consented to allow DPS to search his room.

While the officers were searching the room, the student opened a drawer and gave them a plastic bag containing an unknown substance. DPS also discovered drug paraphernalia and a milky white substance.

The Metropolitan Police Department was called to the scene to field test the substance and concluded that it contained methamphetamine.

It is unclear whether the substance was being used as an ingredient in the production of drugs. The case was turned over to the Office of Student

Conduct and MPD is handling the ongoing investigation.

It is not clear whether any arrests were made following the incident Thursday morning.

“Since issues of individual student behavior are handled confidentially we cannot provide any more information at this time,” DPS Associate Director Joseph Smith wrote in an email.

“The use and distribution of illegal drugs are issues we take very seriously and are violations of the Student Code of Conduct.”

Possession of counterfeit or controlled substances, including marijuana and methamphetamine, is considered a Category B violation in the university’s Code of Student Conduct and is punishable with a variety of sanctions, ranging from housing relocation to disciplinary probation or suspension.

If the investigation concludes that the substance was being used to manufacture drugs, the violation would be considered a Category C and could result in suspension or dismissal from the university.

Fifty cartons of cigarettes were stolen from Vital Vittles at 3:37 p.m. Monday, according to the Department of Public Safety.

The incident was the fourth in a string of robberies at the on-campus convenience store this school year and the third involving cigarettes.

In a public safety alert emailed to the campus community Monday evening, DPS reported that a suspect forced his way into Vital Vittles’storage locker and stole the cigarettes.

Alexander Pon (COL ’12), the president and CEO of Students of Georgetown, Inc., was unsure of the value of the stolen goods.

The suspect is described in the PSA as a 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8 Hispanic male with short black hair and a goatee. He was wearing a red shirt, black jacket, black jeans and black shoes.

Pon said that footage from Vital Vittles’ security cameras has been submitted to the Metropolitan Police Department for further review.

“From the security footage, it doesn’t appear to be a Georgetown student,” Pon said.

The first of the three burglaries was reported Sept. 4 and involved the theft of 90 cartons of cigarettes. Two other robberies occurred at the store in December; more than $200 in cash was stolen from an office Dec. 1, and over $1,500 in cigarettes was stolen Dec. 6.

No suspects have been arrested in connection with any of the thefts.

Pon theorized that the small size and relatively high value of cigarettes could have made them a target for robbers.

Prior to the December thefts, The Corp had taken new security measures at Vital Vittles, including the installation of security cameras. “[Despite the robberies,] I am confident that employees are safe,” Pon said.

He added that additional security measures would be taken following this latest incident, although he declined to disclose specifics of these measures.

Applicants More Diverse, Dispersed in Record-Setting Year

CHARLES DEACON Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

growing Southern and Western regions of the country.

Florida, California and Georgia saw the biggest jumps, with the states seeing an increase of 82, 73 and 69 applications, respectively, from last year. California remained the largest source of applications among the 50 states, as it has been

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“This is a more dramaticlooking [shift] than we thought. … We’re pleased to see that kind of change.”

for about five years.

While Deacon lauded the increased diversity of applications as beneficial to Georgetown, he added that the increased ethnic and geographical diversity of applications will create more strain on Georgetown’s commitment to provide financial aid to students in need.

According to Deacon, this shift represents a tilt toward a less wealthy demographic.

“The looming issue behind all of these numbers is the impact on financial aid. We have a more diverse and larger population that puts even more pressure on raising money for scholarships,” he said.

“We would love to be able to see the tilt continue, but we need to be able to afford it.”

Deacon attributed this growth of interest in states farther from the Eastern seaboard to the university’s countrywide recruitment efforts and the continued appeal of studying in the District of Columbia.

“We think we get that [increase] because we do joint recruiting with elite universities all over the country … so we hit all 50 states. We get a

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This year’s prospective freshman class set a record with 20,050 applications to the university’s class of 2016.

But they also set a record in diversity, as the numbers of AfricanAmerican, Asian-American, Hispanic and international students applying to the university continued to rise, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon.

From last year, applications from African-Americans and Asian-Americans each jumped 1.05 percent from 1,773 to 1,858 and from 2,786 to 2,934, respectively. Meanwhile, the number of applications from Hispanic students increased 1.1 percent from 2,067 to 2,266 and the number of international applications rose 1.05 percent from 2,255 to 2,344.

According to Deacon, the trends in the number of undergraduate applications to Georgetown this year closely reflect an increase in ethnic diversity in the United States.

Deacon also pointed to a shift in the regions from which students

applied.

The decline in the number of applications from states like New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which have traditionally sent high numbers of students to Georgetown, matched the decline in these states’ applicant populations.

According to Deacon, the growth of the overall applicant pool can be attributed to increased interest from prospective students in the

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Though traditional sources of applicants like New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts saw a decline, application rates in the South and West rose this year.

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The Risk of Jumping on The Online Bandwagon

Viral internet trends are not always a bad thing, but they are when they galvanize a largely uninformed opposition to weighty legislation.

On Jan. 18, Wikipedia blocked all its content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives. Supporters of the law point to its ability to protect citizens from counterfeit drugs, piracy and espionage, but it could effectively destroy free sources of information like Wikipedia.

Last week, millions of Americans protested SOPA, and many students used Facebook and Twitter to spread the word. Wikipedia reports that 8 million U.S. users looked up their representatives through the blackout page. Two days after the online protest, Congress decided to postpone further discussion of the act.

But almost overnight, the public sentiment that had spearheaded the shutdown of SOPA disappeared, and — except for a few victory tweets — not a word more was said about it. This brings up the question: Did social media really help us engage in valuable discourse about SOPA? Most of us consider intellectual property an issue worth addressing, but why are so few of us still engaging in discus-

sion about SOPA just a week after we so intensely voiced our opposition to it?

The speed with which the issue disappeared from the national consciousness raises questions about what motivated the protests, as well as the doubts about whether the public understood the fine print of the bill it was protesting. Ironically, SOPA’s Wikipedia page — which might otherwise have acted as a mass educational tool Jan. 18 — wasn’t available during the blackout.

The Internet puts all kinds of information at our fingertips. It is so easy to tweet, post a video to YouTube or edit a Wikipedia page that sometimes we forget the value of thought. We, as students in the 21st century, have been given a remarkable tool kit for spreading information. But we must also recognize that misinformation can spread rapidly in our worldwide game of telephone.

Social media allows us to post our views, passions and concerns with the click of a button, and we’re fortunate to be able to stay connected online while exercising our free speech. In addition to taking advantage of the web for all its perks, we have a responsibility to make sure we use it to inform our own positions, not just post about them.

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Ratatouille — Maryland State Delegate Pat McDonough plans to issue a bill preventing the District of Columbia from moving their rats across the border.

The 11th Hour — The Georgetown-Rutgers men’s basketball game turned into a real nail-biter as the two teams were tied with 1:10 left, before Otto Porter hit the winning free throws.

Winter on the Hilltop — Friday night’s spontaneous flurries not only led to no major accidents but left a picturesque blanket of snow across campus.

Tech Theft — The Department of Public Safety reported Saturday morning that an unknown suspect forced entry into the New Research Building and stole a computer monitor.

A Soulful Spirit — Etta James, the powerful voice behind the rhythm and blues song, “At Last,” passed away Friday at the age of 73.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ...

The GWU Biostatistics Center, almost all are receiving a vast majority of their funds from the government.

Since 2004, research universities haven’t been able to afford to hire as many post-doctorates for research and have cut down on the number of professors they employ as a whole. Across the country, science professors who used to devote their time outside the classroom to research are increasingly being forced to take part in the bureaucratic, day-to-day affairs ordinarily handled by administrative employees in order to merit additional pay from the university to fund outside work.

The passage of this particular legislation will not, hopefully, hinder our campus’s development in the sciences. The doors to Regents Hall haven’t opened, but we hope that when they do, the building will be the birthplace of breakthrough research that will follow in the footsteps of the Georgetown University Medical Center’s past triumphs.

While studying at a historically liberal arts-focused university like Georgetown, it can be easy to forget the importance of scientific research. But the work done in the university’s labs attracts the best minds of their respective fields and produces important results.

Though we have likely dodged this bullet, other research universities expect to be hit hard by it. Today’s shortchanging of scientific institutions does not bode well for future funding.

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THE VERDICT

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Putting Research on the Back Bunsen Burner

While Georgetown may be able to overcome cuts to federal grant money for the National Institute of Health (See story on A5), other universities — including our neighbors at The George Washington University — may not be so lucky.

A bill signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 23, 2011 lowered the NIH’s salary cap for outside researchers by $20,000. Research universities, including our own, rely on such grants for professors to perform outside scientific inquiry; of the over $150 million of sponsored research funding Georgetown receives, 80 percent is from the federal government. These recent federal budget constraints put an unfair burden on academic institutions to pick up the slack and push them to assign administrative duties to research professors, wasting their time and talent.

Georgetown officials appear optimistic that the university will not be severely affected by the cuts. Though the NIH has yet to send out official directions to universities about the new cap, our graduate program expects a small number of its researchers to be affected. The biggest question for Georgetown and other institutions awaiting the news is whether or not the cap will apply to past NIH grants or only those awarded this year.

But our neighbors at GWU will take a sizeable hit regardless of that clarification. Of the 110 scientists who work at

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The article “Alums Offer Palatable Prices” (The Hoya, A6, Jan. 20, 2012) stated that Dan Leahy and Ben McKean worked for technology companies, that Corrie McWilliams was in the College and that VillageVines was started in 2009. Leahy and McKean worked for finance companies, McWilliams graduated from the McDonough School of Business and VillageVines was started in 2010. The article has been updated online to reflect these changes.

In a caption for a photo (The Hoya, A4, Jan. 20, 2012) Nate Tisa was identified as a sophomore in the College.

He is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

Last week’s letter to the editor, “Missing the Point of the Game”, (The Hoya, A2, Jan. 20, 2012) incorrectly identified a participant in a shooting contest at the Jan. 15 St. John’s versus Georgetown men’s basketball game at Madison Square Garden as a member of the Army. While the contest was sponsored by the Army, the contestant was not in any way affiliated with the armed forces.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012

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VIEWPOINT • Masha Goncharova

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Making Light of Stereotypes In Qatar, Anti-US Is Not Anti-American T T

he “S*** ____ Say” (from here on out, “stuff”) videos currently circulating the Internet have been wonderfully entertaining. Despite how funny they can be, the videos bring to mind the more serious issue of stereotypes.

The videos adopt a social group’s lexicon, exaggerating the stereotypes in a way that is often very funny. But most of us can’t help watching and realizing that we can identify, at least a little bit.

I could very well see the next wave of “Stuff ____ Say” videos turning into college stereotypes: “Stuff MIT Students Say,” “Stuff BYU Students Say” or “Stuff UC Santa Barbara Students Say.” And we’ve got to admit — a “Stuff Georgetown Students Say” video would be hilarious.

Why? Because Georgetown is very easily stereotyped.

This is partly because our student body can be profiled as a collection of senator’s sons and ambassador’s daughters. Are polo shirts everywhere? Yes. Are

girls a blend of Topanga from “Boy Meets World,” Regina from “Mean Girls” and Disney’s Minnie Mouse? Yes. Are we the one percent? Maybe that’s going too far.

Usually the “Stuff ____ Say” videos find the most success among members of the stereotype they target — girls relate to and understand the ones about girls, Asians can’t get enough of the Asian dad video and yoga fanatics just adore the Lululemon’s Yogis clip.

But our video would probably have the most success beyond the front gates, except perhaps for Harvard’s or Yale’s. Partly, this is because people equate Georgetown with privilege, and the fact that students get equal treatment and still work for their grades is eclipsed by this stereotype.

When an overarching idea penetrates people’s perceptions, it causes them to disregard reality. The experience of trudging through Red Square to class or being yelled at by Lauinger Library security guards for bringing a King’s Chai into the third floor

reading room are phenomena even a senator’s son experiences here.

A “Stuff Georgetown Students Say” video would become so popular and hilarious because it wouldn’t necessarily be true.

Rather, it would display stereotypes that largely prove to be untrue.

Yes, many scoff at the wealthy kid who complains or brags about being at a top-tier university. But behind the image resides an engaged college student.

Despite the number of diverse alums whose lives prove this conclusion, I think the stereotype will remain.

Most of the videos do capture moments of truth and manage to have some good fun while doing it. The best of the videos capture both truth and stereotypes. However, many other videos advance stereotypes that have little basis in reality. We shouldn’t accept those stereotypes at face value.

MASHA GONCHAROVA is sophomore in the College.

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THE DISCONCERTED DEMAGOGUE by Daniel Yang

CURA HOYANALIS

The Big Issues at Our Doorstep

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eorgetown students are some of the most wellinformed 20-somethingyear-olds out there. We have a profound understanding of the world’s problems and are extremely motivated to solve them, especially our own pet projects: those national and international issues for which we have strong affinities.

I know students who are qualified experts on Sudan, Palestine and sustainable energy in the developing world. I know some who have already devoted much of their lives to poverty alleviation in Latin America, education reform in inner-city schools and affordable healthcare for all. And I know countless more who are avidly preparing for the opportunity to immerse themselves in these and countless other issues. Certainly, our love of international giving is quite admirable.

But there is a problem with how much we focus on the world.

We must not forget local issues and problems, especially those related closely to Georgetown.

Students need to become more locally involved.

Some might dismiss this critique right away, claiming adamantly and honestly that the troubles of our community pale in comparison to starvation in Africa or global warming. It’s hard to argue with that claim.

But it is also important to remember that there will be a time when each of us will have the opportunity to leave the larger world a better place and have much more professional influence, experience and reach. Right now, our local community needs each of us.

The difference we can make here on campus is tremendous.

Here, at this school, every student has real power, a real say and real influence over decisions

being made and projects being completed.

We’re all students. And though each of us has come here hoping to learn and to experience so that we might do great things later in life, our responsibility to our current home cannot be dismissed: Even if we look to the future, we must live in the present.

Georgetown has its fair share of concerns: town-gown relations, sustainable community development, student-administration interactions, campus quality of life, student space, crime, violence and discrimination to

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Imagine if each student focused their energy here, on these 104 acres. name a few. What’s more, unlike most national and international troubles, Georgetown’s issues can be solved quite readily and can be significantly influenced by passionate and focused student groups.

The way we thrive here must be fought for by every generation in order to help preserve it for the next. Though each student only spends four years here on the Hilltop, the legacy of that short time can be felt for generations to come, just like our capital campaign advertises.

Obviously, I do not think we should turn away our attention

from the world. And I would be the last to suggest setting aside or squashing passions and affinities for larger issues. Instead, I pose a simple suggestion: Imagine if each student gave a sliver of the energy they have for the greater world and instead focused it here, on these 104 acres. Imagine all that we could accomplish.

How? I leave that up to each individual student, with his or her unique talents and passions.

Some will get involved with local politics. Others might fight for student rights. Everyone can do something small to make a big difference.

We can all take the time to vote on Georgetown University Student Association elections and referendums, including the Student Activities Fee Endowment allocation bill now up for a vote, recognizing the consequences these ballots might have for future students. We can all consider registering to vote in D.C. because local elections have a major impact on the future of our university. We can all attend events, like last semester’s campus plan hearings, where student participation could have had a tremendous effect. And, most simply, we can all stay informed by following local media, by talking with friends and by engaging with the university and local representatives.

The bigger issues will always be with us, and we have our entire lives to transform the world. Our opportunity to improve Georgetown lasts a mere four years.

Let’s make those years matter, as our predecessors have done since 1789. Let’s use our short time here to enhance Georgetown for generations to come.

Michael Fischer is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. CURA HOYANALIS appears every other Tuesday.

he casual rant against America is a perspective that has intrigued me for always followed by a quick justifica- months. After finals, a few of us SFS-Q stution: “It’s not like I’m anti-Ameri- dents watched the newest “Mission Imposcan. I like you! I’m just anti-America, you sible” movie. Afterward, we ate at McDonknow?” ald’s before going to a Starbucks. The next A few days, ago my teaching assistant time an Arab friend gave the “Who does opened our philosophy recitation session America think it is?” tirade, I defended our by asking each student, “What is your country by citing that evening. A major name, and what is the most pressing issue component of the global lifestyle rests on today?” what America has given the world.

It was an interesting way of opening the The friend was adamant. “That wasn’t class, but one that revealed the nature of America, that was just business.” There life in this country and region. Three Syr- is widespread anger as to why we went ians, one Singaporean, one Pakistani, one into Iraq, followed by angst as to why the Bosnian, one Sudanese, six Qataris, two Americans have abandoned the mess. I Egyptians, one British, one Algerian, four have come to the simple conclusion that Palestinians and throw in a Canadian, and no matter what America does, the world there you have it — life at the Georgetown will see it as wrong, especially here in the University School of Foreign Service in Qa- Islamic world. That leads to the question tar. that has been pondered by scholars for There was one more student. Me, the centuries: “Why do they hate us?”

Hindu Indian-American from the Bible Well, they don’t. After living here among Belt of the Southern United States study- the youth from an array of different couning at a Jesuit unitries, I’ve discovered versity in an Islamic that the wrong quescountry. tion is being asked. I “It’s the hypocritical am not disliked (or, Americans wanting to at least, I like to think police the rest of the not); McDonald’s isn’t world!” the half-Paldisliked either. Tom estinian announced.

Cruise may be cheesy “The problem is ocin “Ghost Protocol,” cupation,” said a girl but most of the Arabs from the West Bank. in the theater loved it “Leadership is diwhen he was paradNikhil Lakhanpal luted; leaders can’t ing around Dubai’s see past personal amBurj Al-Khalifa. They bition,” said an Egypdon’t hate our people, I see contradictions in tian. “It’s resistance to and they definitely change,” commented Qatari government, culture don’t hate our fast a Syrian. food chains. and life, but I see Then there was The question to ask a Qatari: “Nobody is, “Why do they anblaring contradictions in tagonize knows the best kind of America?” state since democracy the United States as well. America, often, is conhas failed.” ceived as the followThe problems they ing: a paradoxical formentioned are all real, but they lie within eign policymaker; an anti-Arab, pro-Israel the realm of ignorance and denial. entity; an ineffective, inconvenient global There are plenty of contradictions in police force; an occupier; a non-democracy this part of the world. I see religious Mus- and most importantly, the birthplace of lims who pray five times a day, but there arrogant loudmouths like yours truly. are also those who seem to be Muslims of If one defines America as such, then the convenience who go out to the bars the answer speaks for itself. I wish I could disweek after Ramadan. I see meritocracy agree with the definition. The longer I’m when the hardest-working students rank here, however, the more I understand this highly in class, but I also see nepotism perspective. I see the paradoxes in Qatari when companies refuse to hire them in or- government, culture and life, but I see der to fill the “Qatari quota,” where native blaring contradictions in my own counQataris are given preferential treatment in try as well. Experts like Bernard Lewis and employment.

Fouad Ajami allege that everything boils I see equality for some, but stratification down to religion, that an ideological batfor the migrant workers who have built this tle between Islam and the West continues, country. I see generosity when I am pro- but I disagree. It’s simply the angle with vided with excellent accommodations and which the rest of the world looks at us. a scholarship — but I also see oppression It isn’t anti-American; just anti-America. when the lowest social classes are swept off to housing in an “Industrial Area.”

Nikhil Lakhanpal is a freshman at the School of The most important contradiction, how- Foreign Service-Qatar campus. CUTTER, KUHever, is the “anti-America” sentiment. It is TAWR, QATAR appears every other Tuesday.

VIEWPOINT • Rachel Park

Not Your Typical Floor

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hen I arrived at Georgetown, I began a new chapter in my life.

I was excited to be transferring out of the community college where I began my higher education because my Korean high school credits were not accepted, ready to study what I wanted and give it my all. Georgetown was going to be the “real deal,” so to speak.

The bubble burst when I realized that not everyone shared the same vision of what college, and especially dorm life, should be. I contacted the housing director, who then introduced me to Living and Learning Communities.

LLCs are community dorms where students gather with a particular theme or common belief. Students who live on these floors are often perceived by regular dorm residents as being insular and somehow outside normal college life.

The Living Well community, in particular, is characterized as boring. The “noalcohol, no-smoking” policy leads many students to label the community as “no fun.”

I, a non-smoker and non-drinker, was simply happy to have secured a spot in Living Well, located on the eighth floor of Kennedy Hall. At the time, however, I did not know I would be living on that floor voluntarily for the remainder of my Georgetown years. After living in the Living Well community for a year, I could not find any other place on campus that matched what I found there.

We are truly a community. Living Well residents are not only respectful hall mates, but they have also become my good — if not my best — friends. I’m not sure how this bond was created so fast, but whether there was a formal event or not, we would naturally begin to gather in our common room in the evenings, play some music, sing along and talk about politics or our lives. As a community, were always there for each other, to entertain, encourage and endorse.

Another benefit of our community is that LLC communities receive more

funds than regular dorms. Our floor is provided with funds large enough to organize various beneficial programs and events, including free chair massages during finals, free yoga sessions, healthy food cooking demonstrations by Leo’s staff and — thanks to our extremely involved members — visits by faculty members, Jesuits and even foreign service officers.

Whoever said that no drinking and no smoking equals no fun should spend some time with our community. I have indeed “lived well” on my Living Well floor, enjoying each and every moment, probably more so than if I had stayed on a regular floor. I hear many students don’t know who lives down the hall, or even next door. One may argue that floor acquaintances aren’t necessary and that friends can exist anywhere else — and I agree. Yet I was blessed with this special gift when I arrived at Georgetown — a great place to live with a group of friends who were always there for me.

In the future, when I look back on my days at Georgetown, even with all the academic and daily stress, I will recall only those moments filled with warmth. At the end of last semester, the common room was all of a sudden filled with Christmas decorations. There was a Christmas tree, rows of Christmas dolls sitting by the windows and Christmas lights, each brought by different residents even though no one had asked them to decorate the place. The Living Well floor for me has always been like this unexpected Christmas present.

Whenever I return to school, whether it’s from a long break, a weekend-long conference or an evening class, there’s always a group of friends waiting for me. If Georgetown has become my second home, the Living Well community has become my family, and will be for as long as I’m there.

RACHEL PARK is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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SAFE PROPOSALS 101 Voting opened yesterday on the referendum for the three proposals on how to spend the $3.4 million generated from the Student Activities Fee Endowment reform. In December 2010, the student body voted to gradually change the fee from $100 to $150 in the 2012-2013 academic year. The money raised from the increase was available for proposals drafted by students and then determined by the Georgetown University Student Association. The projects were selected by a student commission from a wide range of plans last spring and finalized in the fall by GUSA’s Finance and Appropriations Committee.

The university administration signed an agreement letter with GUSA Monday that ensures that the plans will instituted in the appropriate manner. Read on for details of each of the proposals up for a vote.

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“Full Court Press” Ups Its Political Game MARGARET VIATOR Hoya Staff Writer

Now in its second semester, Georgetown University Television political talk show “Full Court Press” returns to the air with an aim to provide a distinct political voice for the university community.

Coerte Voorhees (COL ’12), the mind behind the idea for “Full

Court Press,” identified himself as the show’s liberal force, while cohost James Pickens (COL ’12) tends to favor a more conservative view.

Together, they hope that this semester they will be able to recapture the original spirit of the show as well as forge a new path for its future.

Voorhees was inspired to create the program while working at

GUTV his junior year.

“I asked myself, ‘At a school like Georgetown, in one of the most politically-charged cities in the world, why on earth did we not have our own political talk show?’”

Relying upon his background in film production and his long-time interest in politics, Voorhees decided to create a show that explored American political life through

SOCIAL INNOVATION AND PUBLIC SERVICE FUND: $1.25 million has been allocated to SIPS, a proposal that would provide financial support to students and alumni interested in pursuing innovative service projects or nonprofits.

The fund would begin by allocating a total of $100,000 a year to be invested in grants, sponsorships and organization partnerships, while fundraising to increase its independent endowment.

NEW SOUTH STUDENT CENTER: The project allocates $2.04 million to expand a new student space already slated to be built in the lower levels of New South Hall by August 2014. The university’s plans include a pub, living room and open study space. The additional SAFE money would be used to construct an outdoor terrace on the south side of the building and improve the renovation’s first level. Together, these funds will increase the original floor plans by 21 percent.

GEORGETOWN ENERGY: $250,000 has been allocated to the student organization, which plans to install solar panels on the roofs of about 43 university townhouses.

This measure could save the university almost $400,000 in energy costs over the next 20 years.

The savings would be placed in a Green Revolving Loan Fund that will fund sustainable energy projects around campus. Ideas include solar-thermal water heating and using more efficient showerheads and light bulbs.

Each proposal must be passed by a majority vote. At least 2,000 students must cast their ballot in the election for it to be considered valid.

Money from any referendum that is not passed will not be redistributed to another plan; instead, new initiatives will be submitted for consideration for the remaining funds.

Check the email from GUSA that links to the online ballot, or stop by the new polling stations in O’Donovan Hall to cast your vote by Jan. 26.

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Full Court Press hosts James Pickens (COL ’12), right, and Coerte Voorhees (COL ’12), center, sit down with Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who appeared in one of the students’ online videos last semester.

interviews with politicians and debates between Georgetown students.

“It really is a Georgetown show. It showcases the incredible opportunity we have by living here — to have a discourse,” he said.

The program has played host to personalities such as Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.). Future episodes will feature former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who is currently running for the U.S. Senate.

“I just walked up to Gov. Kaine on the street and asked him if he would want to be on our show, and he was very interested,” Voorhees said.

However, Voorhees and Pickens insist that the undergraduates are the stars of the program. They are looking to bring that student spirit back this semester.

“Some of the students who come on the show are smarter and sharper than a lot of the people I see on MSNBC and CNN. It says a lot about our student body as a whole,” Voorhees said.

Pickens reinforced the importance of students sharing their opinions on public matters.

“No matter what your political stripes are, these issues are so important to our future. We all should get involved. If we have learned anything from the Internet revolution ,it’s that everyone has the opportunity to voice their opinions,” he said.

“We really have a tradition of dialogue here at Georgetown, and one of our main goals with the show is to showcase that Georgetown identity.”

New GUASFCU CEO to Start March 1 EMMA HINCHLIFFE Hoya Staff Writer

Nikhil Lakhanpal (MSB ’13) was chosen as the next CEO of the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union on Jan. 15.

Lakhanpal has been a GUASFCU intern since the fall of 2009, when he was selected as a member of the term’s teller class. He later joined the member service and information technology

departments, and he currently serves as vice president of information technology. He will effectively become CEO March 1.

“I’m excited to work with the six other board members, who are not only some of the smartest and coolest people I’ve ever met, but share a passion to make the credit union a better place,” he said. “They all understand that being on the board is not just about this upcoming year but about building on 29

years of hard work and dedication.”

Lakhanpal hopes to improve customer service by implementing a remote technology deposit system and smart phone application.

He is also determined to improve the intern experience.

“GUASFCU wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of its interns,” he said. “It’s our job as the Board of Directors to make sure we’re recruiting the

best people on campus and to make sure that for the people we recruit, the credit union experience is worth remembering.”

Outgoing CEO Katie Cohen (COL ’12) believes that Lakhanpal will be a great asset to GUASFCU in the future.

“The nominating committee is very proud of the incoming Board of Directors and confident that the credit union is poised for continued success,” she wrote in an email.

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ADMISSIONS, from A1 general audience rather than very targeted audiences,” Deacon said. “And the farther away you are [from your target audience], the more you depend on your name, which suggests that Georgetown has greater name recognition across the country.”

Deacon said that the spike in interest from states outside the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the country will help insulate Georgetown from declining application rates in those areas.

“If we hadn’t seen growth outside the Northeast, we would be seeing declining applications,” he said. “Georgetown has a national appeal, fortunately. If we were primarily Northeastern, which a lot of colleges are, we would be facing some worrying times.”

Deacon said that only 31 percent of the applicant pool was from the Mid-Atlantic region this year, adding that it is very unusual for universities to derive such a small proportion of their applicants from their immediate region.

“That’s good news for us in that less than a third of our own pool comes from where there’s decline,” he said.

Deacon added that while it is too early to tell whether the demographic breakdown of applicants will ultimately be reflected in the distribution of the Class of 2016, he said it was likely.

“There are no preordained quotas and we’ll have to see how it shakes out, but I would guess that more will be accepted from [faraway] states than in past years,” Deacon said.

Deacon characterized this year’s trends as a surprisingly dramatic reflection of demographic trends sweeping the country. He said that the stagnation in the number of white applicants and the sizable growth in minority applicants, as well as the decrease in Northeastern applicants and growth in Western and Southern applicants are in line with real population changes in the United States.

“This is a more dramatic-looking [shift] than we thought it would be. We could predict the drops and rises, but these are actually really visible. … When you think about the pool rising significantly in Alabama … we would not necessarily have predicted that level of a rise,” he said. “We’re pleased to see that kind of change.”

The 1634 Society, a fledgling organization focused on bolstering undergraduate-alumni relations, has proved itself as an important resource to the university in its few months of existence.

The organization, which became an independent entity from the Senior Class Fund in summer 2011, attempts to function as a liaison for students with the Office of Advancement and encourages donations from alumni and current students after they graduate.

“I’m confident in saying, in the next three to four years, 1634 will be a [The] Corp or Credit Union on Georgetown’s campus. That is our goal and I am extremely confident that we can achieve that,” board member Bryan Satterly (SFS ’13) said.

The group now has 40 members, or trustees, and five board members. The organization is inspired by the vision of Jesuit priests Andrew White and John Gravenor, who arrived in Maryland in 1634 intending to build a university, and who were an integral influence on Georgetown’s founder, John Carroll. According to Satterly, the 1634 Society’s mission is to help foster a culture of philanthropy among undergraduate students that will con-

tinue after they leave Georgetown.

“We truly believe that Georgetown is and should be recognized as one of the top-tier institutions for learning, now and for generations to come, and I think that part of what’s holding us back is lack of tradition and lack of philanthropy,” he said.

Georgetown did not begin to seriously focus on developing its endowment until Leo O’Donovan served as university president in the 1990s.

While the 1634 Society began in 2010 as a part of the Senior Class Fund, a group dedicated to educating students about philanthropy, it became a separate entity last year.

Satterly and board member John Kenchelian (COL ’12) were members of the Senior Class Fund when the 1634 Society became an independent organization.

“The Senior Class Fund has their eye on current results, while we have our eye on current results and future results,” Kenchelian said. “We want students to not only think about improving Georgetown as undergraduates, but [also] as alumni.”

The 1634 Society spent its first semester as an autonomous organization focused on leading the undergraduate component of the Campaign for Georgetown, which hopes to raise $1.5 billion dollars by 2016.

This spring, they plan to bring an alumnus to speak to students on

campus each month. They will also launch a multimedia campaign to raise awareness about their organization and are currently accepting student trustee applications.

“We want to choose people to add to our group who want to emulate what Georgetown is about — the Jesuit values and [being] men and women for others. [We want] future leaders — people who really embody those values and will carry them throughout their lives and make sure that those values are there for others,” Ron Boehmer (COL ’12) said.

As a group devoted to alumni relations, the 1634 Society works closely with the Office of Advancement and Alumni Career Services to plan and execute student-alumni networking events. One of the organization’s primary responsibilities is the leadership of the student aspect of the ongoing Campaign for Georgetown. The organization also partnered with The Corp Service and Outreach Committee and the Office of Advancement to sponsor the inaugural Homecoming Humanitarian Award last semester.

Emily White, the assistant director of Alumni Career Services, stressed the importance of undergraduate-alumni relations and the role of the 1634 Society in their promotion.

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The 1634 Society celebrated the birthday of the university in Sellinger Lounge Monday. nect with students is extremely strong. The Georgetown network literally spans the globe with alumni who are ready, willing and able to share their expertise and experiences,” she wrote in an email. “Our hope is that every student is able to take advantage of this strong network and have a meaningful connection with an alumnus during their time on the Hilltop.”

GU Spared as NIH Cuts Threaten Research Hiromi Oka

Hoya Staff Writer

A reduced salary cap for university researchers who receive National Institute of Health grants is expected to dramatically affect research programs at universities nationwide, though it will likely have little impact on the Georgetown University Medical Center’s budget.

The salary cap was reduced by $20,000 as part of the new federal budget for fiscal year 2012. As a result of the legislation, universities nationwide must bear the burden of maintaining salaries.

Few scientists at Georgetown

will be affected, according to GUMC’s Dean for Research and Interim Director of Biomedical Graduate Research Robert Clarke.

“The overall impact of the NIH salary cap reduction will be modest since we have a relatively small proportion of researchers who have salaries at or above the cap,” he wrote in an email.

But the funding cuts could have far more negative consequences for Georgetown’s neighbors. According to a Jan. 17 article in The GW Hatchet, The George Washington University will likely lose thousands of dollars for researcher salaries.

“I realized it would have an im-

pact the moment I heard about it,” Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, the director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, told The Hatchet.

At Georgetown, about 80 percent of the $153.7 million in research grants that the university receives comes from the federal government.

Clarke noted that of the Medical Center’s typical yearly budget, 56 percent comes from the NIH while the remaining 44 percent is from other government agencies, foundations and businesses.

Although the federal budget was signed on Dec. 23, Clarke said that it would not be possible to

gauge the precise economic consequences of the cap until the NIH issues further details on the policy.

Depending on the NIH’s rules for the cap’s implementation, both new and old research grants could be affected.

Executive Vice President and Dean of the Medical Center Howard Federoff agreed that the ramifications of the cap would not have too severe an effect on research at Georgetown.

“We will manage the additional burden and do not believe it will impact investigators such that they would depart GU,” he wrote in an email.

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Blueprints Provide Hint at Lauinger’s Future While the university works to complete Regents Hall and finalizes plans for the Intercollegiate Athletic Center and the New South Student Center, these projects are only a few parts of a long-term master plan.

These blueprints are for a possible renovation of Lauinger Library, and were modeled by Bowie Gridley Architects in association with Kallman, McKinnell & Wood Architects of Boston.

The plans envisioned by Bowie Gridley would expand the library by 155,500 square feet and utilize natural daylight to brighten the interior. The designs also include spaces for group study, a cafe, a computer center and special exhibits.

No changes to the library should be expected in the next 10 years, according to university librarian Artemis Kirk.

“There’s no action taken on that master plan from a moving-forward point of view simply because we know it would be incredibly expensive and that’s only the original rendering of the building that could be,” she said. “It’s the design that could be.”

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Weekend Unifies Pro-Life Groups Hiromi Oka

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Pro-life activists from across the country gathered on campus this weekend for the the 13th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, the largest student-run conference of its kind.

Kevin Sullivan (SFS ’14) and Katie Schmitz (COL ’13) co-directed the event, which attracted about 650 attendants this year.

The conference, sponsored

by Georgetown University Right to Life, Catholic Daughters of America, the Knights of Columbus and University Faculty for Life, is held the weekend before the national March for Life, which marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Although the conference’s aim is to promote pro-life advocacy, Sullivan emphasized the educational component of the weekend’s events.

“The goal of the conference, in the message of Cardinal O’Connor, is discussion,” he said. “Our conference, while we do attract a lot of activists, is more about educating and discussion.”

The conference featured a Mass for Life Saturday afternoon by Bishop William Lori in Dahlgren Chapel and a Fiesta for Life to benefit the Northwest Pregnancy Center in D.C. later that day.

Schmitz stressed that this year’s conference was intended

to expand the traditional view of pro-life efforts.

“While the unborn is a very central idea to the pro-life movement, it is not the only aspect of the movement,” she said. “We value life from conception until natural death; that includes genocide and human trafficking and respecting and defending the lives of people who are subject to those sort of things.”

During Sunday’s keynote address, students from Fordham University to the University of Notre Dame Australia helped fill Gaston Hall.

Keynote speaker Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia highlighted the necessity of tolerance toward people with disabilities and the importance of valuing all life.

“The real choice in accepting or rejecting a child with special needs is never between some imaginary perfection or imperfection,” he said. “The real choice is between love and unlove, between courage and cowardice, between trust and fear.”

Chaput also called on Catholics to take political action and vote pro-choice politicians out of office.

“Catholic citizens who take God seriously cannot claim to love their church and then ignore her council on vital public issues that shape our nation’s life,” he said.

Chris Cannataro (MSB ’15), who attended the conference, praised the archbishop’s

adherence to Catholic beliefs.

“Archbishop Chaput gave a phenomenal speech,” he said.

“He talked about the intrinsic value of life and embodied the values of St. Ignatius of Loyola of setting the world on fire.”

This year’s conference differed from years past in its focus on the political aspect of the abortion debate. For the first time, directors were able to coordinate a congressional panel, featuring Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.). “[What we’re doing this year is] trying to gear [the conference] more towards Georgetown students who are political creatures,” Sullivan said.

The congressional panelists talked about their own commitment to pro-life legislation and the strides made toward advancing their ideals.

At the conclusion of Sunday’s events, the Students for Life at the University of Michigan were presented with the Fr. Thomas King, S.J., Award, which included a $1,000 prize. The award, which recognizes pro-life strides made by undergraduate student groups, is named after the former Georgetown professor who co-founded University Faculty for Life in 1989.

GU Right to Life president Joseph Cardone (COL ‘14) estimated that 30 Georgetown students attended the March for

Deneen to Leave for Notre Dame DENEEN, from A1 energy and passion, rather than someone who is largely regarded as an outlier,” he wrote in the email.

Kieran Raval (COL ’13), a student fellow in the Toqueville Forum, said Deneen was approachable to students and brought the study of America’s Western heritage alive.

“He’s a great teacher, and I’ve never actually had him in class,” he said. “I think he’s a great … beacon of the liberal arts tradition at Georgetown and … of clas-

sical learning.”

In his email, Deneen wrote that he is concerned that it will be difficult to find a replacement to serve as director of the Tocqueville Forum.

Helen Decelles-Zwerneman (COL ’14), another student fellow in the forum and one of Deneen’s previous students, said she too is worried about the program without his leadership. The forum was one of the primary reasons DecellesZwerneman decided to attend Georgetown.

“As the director of the Toc-

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queville Forum, I’m not sure he’s really replaceable,” she said.

“I hope that the forum can continue without him, but I can’t see how it [will continue] to be as great as a group and … resource.”

There is not a position similar to that which he had in the Tocqueville Forum waiting for Deneen at Notre Dame, but he has not excluded the possibility that he will assume such a role there some day.

“It’s explicitly because of the kinds of courses I teach and the focus of my writing that I was recruited,” he said.

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Club Eases Transitions for International MSB Students Matthew Strauss Hoya Staff Writer

A new organization created by a group of upperclassmen in the McDonough School of Business is aiming to pave the way for a growing international student presence in the MSB. The McDonough Global Student Association, headed by President Alicia Parodi (MSB ’12) and Vice President Quintin Eusebio (MSB ’13), was founded in October 2011 and currently boasts more than 60 active members. The group held its first event in November, when

more than 90 students gathered to receive advice from international banking recruiters and MSB deans.

“I think Georgetown is one of the most international universities in the world and we didn’t have an organization that was for international, undergraduate MSB students,” Parodi said. “Our mission is to provide a platform for development, especially in professional and academic aspects, for international students in the MSB.” The MGSA intends to aid international students in navigating the difficult bureaucratic processes

that can hinder their attempts to secure student visas, on-campus jobs and summer internships. Members are in the process of composing a set of manuals and handbooks that explain these issues.

Another adjustment challenge specific to international students is the dramatic change in teaching styles between their home countries and the United States.

According to Parodi, American universities emphasize participation in classroom discussions while international teaching norms tend to focus on direct lectures from teachers who might be offended by a stu-

dent challenging them.

Parodi, a native of Peru, felt challenged by this new educational style during her first year in college.

“I was terrified when I found out that 20 percent of my grade was based on participation, when back in my country you do not discuss or debate in class.”

To combat this, the MGSA will try to communicate the differences between these educational experiences to incoming freshmen.

“We aim to help them with that learning curve, to make their experience more fulfilling,” Eusebio

said.

As the young organization continues to build, the executive leadership seeks to grow in many directions.

“I think one of our biggest challenges is to keep up our momentum. At Georgetown, it’s so easy to get lost in the swarm of events held every week,” Eusebio said.

“We want to build up our base and make our organization something that people can integrate with their lives. We realize that each and every one of our members has a story to tell and comes from a unique background.”

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Senior forward Tia Magee scored 11 points in the second half against Louisville.

Poor Shooting Dooms GU beno picciano Hoya Staff Writer

No. 20 Georgetown experienced its third setback in four Big East contests at McDonough Arena with a 64-61 loss to No. 16 Louisville Sunday night, but the Hoyas can’t say that they didn’t have their shots.

Despite attempting 30 more field goals than the visitors thanks to 25 forced turnovers and an 18-4 advantage on the offensive boards, the Blue and Gray failed to convert chances into points and allowed the Cardinals to fly off with a crucial conference victory. The result pushes Louisville into a tie for fourth place in the Big East and drops Georgetown to seventh.

“I’ve been doing this for 16 years, and I’ve never seen a team get outshot [by] 30 field goal attempts and still win,” Louisville Head Coach Jeff Walz said.

The Hoyas finished with a 32.9 percent field-goal percentage on 23-of-70 shooting, while the Cardinals recorded a 47.5 field-goal percentage and hit 11 of 25 attempted three-pointers.

Junior guard Sugar Rodgers and senior forward Tia Magee, Georgetown’s top two scorers with 20.0 and 11.1 points per game, respectively, accounted for 35 points but attempted 42 field goals — more than the entire Louisville team. Rodgers, the Big East’s leading scorer, led the Hoyas with 24 points but was 3-of-13 from behind the arc.

Shooting woes are all too familiar for the Blue and Gray, whose team field-goal percentage is a miserable 15th in the conference despite boasting the league’s fourth-best field-goal percentage defense.

“Our defense is good enough to keep us in the game, but we’re not making the shots to win the game,” Georgetown Head Coach Terri WilliamsFlournoy said. “You’re just not going to win a basketball game missing that many shots, especially against very good teams. … At some point, you’ve just got to shoot with confidence, and you’ve got to make a basket.”

Georgetown was faced with a box-and-one defense aimed at shutting down Rodgers. Senior

point guard Rubylee Wright was a scoring threat in the first half and forced the Cardinals to abandon the strategy in favor of a triangle-and-two approach, but the visitors returned to their original approach after the break.

Magee’s 11 second-half points attracted individual attention later in the period, but Georgetown’s problem remained clear: The Hoyas need to establish a wider variety of real scoring threats in order to allow its stars quality looks at the basket.

“Lately, it’s been a little tougher when they’ve been box-and-one on Sugar because they don’t think the rest of us can score,” Magee said.

“I think every team in the conference will do that.

They figure that if they can stop Sugar and not turn the ball over, they have chances to win the game,” Williams-Flournoy added. “I think that some other kids have got to step up and shoot the basketball. If you’re not being guarded, you better make shots.”

If establishing a scoring threats at all positions and creating turnovers are the two primary keys to success for the Hoyas this season, they are at least halfway there. The Blue and Gray’s trademark fullcourt press provided much-needed momentum and frustrated the Cardinals at multiple junctures of the game.

Georgetown forced four turnovers during a 9-0 run, which gave them an early lead, and created three more during a 14-3 run in the opening five minutes of the second half to pull ahead by two.

The visitors were pressured into four more turnovers in the final 2:11 as the Blue and Gray frantically tried to fight back from a 60-50 deficit, but an 11-4 run to close game was not enough to complete the comeback.

“We had a lot of momentum, but we’re human, and we get tired,” Magee said. “It was us being very, very aggressive, and then it kind of died down as we get tired, which is one thing we really have to work on.”

Georgetown now faces a tough road test with a visit to West Virginia (14-5, 4-2 Big East) on Tuesday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. in Morgantown.

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“Which team is which?”

This is a familiar question to any sports fan with a significant other who claims to follow sports but has never watched a game of hockey. Unlike in basketball or baseball, hockey games feature the home team in darker jerseys — football can’t seem to decide which side to choose — which is lucky, because the “sea of white” gets old when it’s featured in every single arena.

“Did I miss a fight?”

There is nothing that irks a hockey fan as much as the notion of fighting as the only exciting aspect of the game. It is true that players are allowed to fight in hockey — each player receives a five-minute penalty as a result — but it is seen as a tool used to swing momentum in a game, much like a big hit in football or a stolen base in baseball. Asking why players aren’t fighting with three minutes left in a tied hockey game is like asking why there are no alleyoop attempts in the final minutes of an NBA contest: The game is about winning, not about satisfying a caveman-like urge for violence.

“Where did all the players go?”

Here’s one you don’t often hear in football, unless it’s in reference to the Patriots’ defense.

Hockey is a sport of constant maximum effort; there is no huddle or two-minute warning, no jogging up the court following a basket and no … who are we kidding? Baseball players stand in one place the whole game. In hockey, a sport

played with three forwards, two defensemen and one goalie on the ice at a time, players change — often in the middle of a play — every 30-40 seconds, on average. As a result, teams will often dump the puck (that cylindrical rubber thing that you can barely see on TV) deep into the other team’s defensive zone to switch players “on the fly.”

“What’s happening?”

This particular question can be applied to any situation, but considering that it’s often asked when nothing particularly special is happening, it makes me wonder how anybody can be so confused when hockey has so many similarities to other sports. For example, like in most sports, the object of hockey is to score goals, Boston is far too good, Donald Fehr is attempting to destroy the league and teams from Minnesota and Carolina are involved only to give the big market teams surefire wins. Hockey is, however, unique in many other respects. In the NHL, rampant steroid use has yet to be uncovered, and the highlights don’t involve the interchangeable SportsCenter commentators’ choosing eight random jumpers and a dunk or two from a game before telling us who won. I’m sure Colts fans would be consoled to know that hockey also happens to be missing one of its biggest stars, although nobody is speculating that Sidney Crosby might end up with the Winnipeg Jets. Finally, hockey is historically a very physical sport, and even skilled players have a hard time succeeding without a certain amount of toughness. Players ride the bench for shying away from contact, and flinching like Mark Sanchez would be grounds for the waiver wire.

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goals on 29 percent shooting from the field — including a 3-of-14 mark from long range — and turned the ball over 14 times. The Hoyas fared uncharacteristically well at the charity stripe, however, shooting 25-of-36 in the 52-50 win. The Scarlet Knights attempted just seven free throws the entire game.

“Our defense won the game for us, allowed us to withstand a day where we were not good offensively,” Head Coach John Thompson III said. “Sometimes you’re having a bad offensive day because the other team is disrupting you, but today is the second time I’ve felt like there was a lid on the basket.”

In a back-and-forth affair, both teams missed opportunities to run away with the game, but Rutgers seemed on the brink of winning with less than three minutes remaining. After Georgetown turned the ball over, freshman guard Eli Carter drained a threepointer to give the Scarlet Knights a five-point lead. After a foul, senior center Henry Sims made just one of two free throws, and Rutgers had the ball back with a four-point lead and less than two minutes on the clock.

Then sophomore forward Nate Lubick turned the game around. Lubick stole the ball from Rutgers junior guard Dane Miller and threw a long pass to freshman forward Otto Porter, who was hovering down the court. Porter scored off the turnover, and suddenly the Hoyas were down only two.

After Carter was called for a charge against senior guard Jason Clark, the Blue and Gray had a chance to tie the game.

Porter hit a jump shot at the one-minute mark, and Rutgers freshman guard Myles Mack missed a long three-pointer contests by senior guard Jason Clark and freshman forward Greg Whittington.

“The coaches said just sag off, so when [Mack] rises up, I’ll have the ability to [rise] up and contest his shot,” Whittington said.

Following a timeout by the Hoyas, Porter was fouled by sophomore guard Mike Poole with just eight seconds left.

Georgetown fans were left to hold their breath, as the Hoyas were only 9-of-16 from the free throw line at that point in the second half. The Missouri native calmly sunk both shots, and Rutgers had one last chance to tie or win the game.

“It relieved a lot of pressure,” Porter said of his two free throws.

Carter drove the ball down the court and found room in the middle of the lane, but his shot bounced off the backboard. Finally, the crowd was able to exhale.

“We know we’re going to have days like that, but we’re a very good defensive team,” Clark said. “We can get stops, get stops in transition and knock down our free throws.”

In the first half, the Scarlet Knights shot 41 percent to the Hoyas’ 13 percent, and sank 4-of-8 three-pointers — including two fortunate bank shots that extinguished any momentum Georgetown could muster. The Hoyas were held to just 20 points, 14 of which came at the foul line. Overall, Rutgers’ aggressive style of play cost them, but the final two fouls against Carter and Poole had Head Coach Mike Rice scratching his head.

“I’d like to look on replay to see if they were the correct

foul, because again, we do foul, we did play a lot without purpose,” Rice said. “But it was an interesting last two minutes that were decided by a couple of whistles by a certain individual referee who decided to take it upon himself to decide the game.”

Junior forward Hollis Thompson was ineffective for the Hoyas, shooting 1-of-5 for just four points one rebound.

However, Thompson III said after the game that his secondleading scorer had a pulled muscle, and was not 100 percent for the game.

Both Thompson and sophomore starting point guard Markel Starks played limited minutes, as Starks got into foul trouble midway through the second half. As a result, there was more pressure on Porter and Whittington to contribute — and contribute they did.

The freshman duo combined for 16 points and nine rebounds, including six offensive boards. Whittington scored all seven of his points in a two-minute span to tie the game after the Blue and Gray found themselves in a 38-31 hole in the second half.

Carter led all scorers with 14 points, and Sims led Georgetown with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Clark added 11 points, including an 8-of-10 performance from the charity stripe.

The Hoyas now have a week off to prepare for Pittsburgh, the only Big East team without a win in conference play. The Panthers, ranked in the top 10 to start the season, gladly welcome back redshirt junior starting point guard Travon Woodall, who has been out for the last month with an injury.

Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh.

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Junior guard Sugar Rodgers led the way for the Hoyas with 24 points, while senior point guard Rubylee Wright and senior forward Tia Magee posted 11 points each.

However, Georgetown had difficulty finding sustained production outside of Rodgers. This problem was highlighted when Louisville was able to neutralize the guard with the box-andone, a defensive scheme in which four defenders play zone while one shadows the offense’s best scorer.

“More of us need to get to the gym, me especially, and shoot more so that teams know they can’t just box-andone Sugar and beat us,” Magee said.

“I think some other kids have to step

up and shoot the basketball,” WilliamsFlournoy said.

The teams exchanged leads throughout the first five minutes of the contest, although the Cardinals went on a run and jumped out to an 18-11 lead with 10 minutes left in the half. Louisville picked apart the usually stingy Georgetown defense to the tune of 50 percent shooting in the first frame.

The Blue and Gray were able to pull within four at halftime thanks to a pair of threes from Wright and Rodgers, but Louisville still went into the locker room with a 29-25 advantage.

Louisville increased that lead to 3425 early in the second half, but the Hoyas immediately fought back to take a two-point lead just five minutes into the half. The run was sparked by Georgetown’s trademark full-court press, as the Hoyas forced 25 Cardinal turnovers.

But Louisville battled through the

press and make Georgetown pay for gambling on defense, thanks to some exceptional three-point shooting from the guards. The Cardinals took a 10-point lead with three minutes left in the game and managed to survive a late surge from the Hoyas to secure the victory.

“I don’t think [the loss had] anything to do with the press. We turned them over 25 times,” Williams-Flournoy said.

“Our defense is good enough to keep us in the game, but we’re not making the shots to win the game.”

Sophomore point guard Shoni Schimmel lead the Cardinals with 19 points, while senior guard Becky Burke and sophomore guard Antonita Slaughter put up 13 and 11, respectively. Most importantly, 11 of the trio’s 13 baskets came from behind the arc.

The Hoyas will hit the road for their next contest, as they take on West Virginia at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Sophomore Max Darrah (4) and junior Ben Furcht (3) compete at Friday’s meet.

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ast week, Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish agreed to a six-year deal with the Texas Rangers worth approximately $60 million. The kicker? The Rangers actually spent over $111 million to sign Darvish, bidding a cool $51,703,411 for negotiating rights through the Japanese posting system in accordance with Darvish’s contractual obligations to his current club in Japan.

Darvish, 25, has dominated for most of his seven years in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, leading the league in WHIP the last five years. He posted an otherworldly 2011 campaign that featured an 18-6 record and 276 strikeouts in 232 innings, along with a 1.44 earned run average and 0.83 WHIP. We need to take these numbers with a grain of salt given the level of competition in the NPB, but most experts claim the talent in the league exceeds AAA Minor League baseball in the United States. Given his success, it is reasonable to expect Darvish to excel in the MLB as soon as the 2012 season despite failures of similarly hyped Japanese pitchers such as Daisuke Matsuzaka. Whether or not committing roughly $18.5 million per year proves to be a sound investment for Texas remains to be seen, but Darvish’s value should still exceed the $10 million or so a year he will receive.

So while the posting system works, is it fair for all parties involved? Japanese ball clubs certainly favor it, as it forces MLB clubs to potentially bid exorbitant figures to ensure they have the opportunity to sign the player and deny other clubs any chance of landing him. Likewise, MLB teams can certainly opt out of the process if they refuse to pay such a sum for un-

proven talents in the United States.

If they do not sign the player within 30 days, they do not have to pay the posting fee.

After bidding excessive amounts, though, teams are also less likely to be willing to dish out a market-value contract for the player. In traditional negotiations as free agents, players have the leverage of other teams’ pursuits to push the value of the of-

Preston Barclay

The posting system restricts the freedom of Japanese players. fer higher, but with only one sole suitor (and the alternative of returning to Japan), the player is not likely to receive an ideal offer.

Although Japanese players who go through the posting system are not free agents, as they are still under contract with their Japanese clubs, changes must be made to the system for the betterment of the players.

One way to increase player compensation and reduce extreme posting figures would be to alter the system from a blind bidding approach, like a silent auction, to an open bid-

ding process, similar to a traditional auction. Teams will be able to monitor the competition and determine whether or not they wish to continue bidding, which in theory should reduce the high bids. Could teams react to other teams’ bids and bid higher than they normally would? It could happen, but it is hard to imagine teams would risk paying even higher prices, and lower winning bid totals could likewise increase the compensation for players.

Another — and potentially better — alternative would be to eliminate the posting system entirely and allow the players to enter the United States market as free agents. Such a change would undoubtedly favor players the most, as they would be able to freely choose their price and destination.

MLB franchises would probably favor such a change, as more teams would have a chance to land the player at a cheaper total price.

Japanese clubs would obviously oppose such a change, but if a standardized payment system was built into the system to compensate the teams with the players under contract, many clubs may be on board.

Ultimately, the posting system restricts the freedom of Japanese players wishing to play in the MLB. Although American amateurs are forced into the draft, other international players are granted free agency status. And for individuals likely leaving their homeland and entering a new culture, the ability to choose their new home at a better price is only fair.

Preston Barclay is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business.

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Following a nail-biting three-point loss to Louisville in which the Hoyas struggled to find the net, the women’s basketball team will travel to play West Virginia Tuesday night.

The No. 20 Hoyas (15-5, 4-3 Big East), were neck-and-neck with Louisville all afternoon this past Sunday, but a dismal shooting performance negated the Hoyas’ outstanding play in most other aspects of the game.

“This was one of those games that we’ll go back and look at and [then] kick ourselves,” Head Coach Terri WilliamsFlournoy said. “We turned them over 25 times and had 18 offensive rebounds, but we can’t shoot 33 percent and expect to win.”

Indeed, the Blue and Gray will need to perform much better on offense to defeat West Virginia (14-5, 4-2 Big East).

The Mountaineers held Pittsburgh to 43 points on 27 percent shooting this past Saturday.

Junior guard Sugar Rodgers, Georgetown’s leading scorer at 20 points per game, boasted 24 points against Louisville. The Hoyas can rely on the alwayssolid Rodgers, but must look to find ways to get more players involved on the offensive end.

Senior forward Tia Magee and senior guard Rubylee Wright each added 11 points in the loss, but will need to become more consistent offensive threats to take the pressure off Rodgers. If the team can raise its shooting percentage with better shot selection, this production will climb.

The Mountaineers are led by the

three-pronged scoring attack of sophomore guard Taylor Palmer, junior center Asya Bussie and redshirt sophomore guard Christal Caldwell. All three average over 10 points per game, and Caldwell is playing well lately, coming off her first career double-double against Pitt.

The key to slowing down West Virginia’s scoring attack will be to limit second chances. Georgetown can build on a solid performance against Louisville, when they only allowed four offensive rebounds. The Blue and Gray must continue to box out and prevent the Mountaineers from converting missed shots into second opportunities. It won’t be an easy task, however, as West Virginia

has outrebounded all but three of its opponents this season.

Georgetown currently sits seventh in the Big East, one spot behind West Virginia. A win would establish the Hoyas as only the sixth team to reach five Big East wins this year. Notre Dame and Connecticut sit atop the conference at 7-0 and 6-1, respectively.

If the Blue and Gray are to keep alive their hope of earning a bye in the Big East tournament, a win against West Virginia is crucial. The Hoyas have all the tools to be an elite team; it is merely a matter of uniting them all in one cohesive performance.

Tipoff is at 7 p.m. in Morgantown, W. Va.

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Senior guard Rubylee Wright pushes the ball in the Hoyas’ loss to Louisville.

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The Georgetown track and field team traveled to nearby Bethesda, Md. this past Friday, in what felt like a home meet for a squad that lacks a complete on-campus facility. The Hoyas competed against one school, La Salle, in the Hoya Spiked Shoe Invitational, recording a slew of Big East qualifying times.

The meet gave the Blue and Gray good racing experience in the young season, although La Salle isn’t the same caliber of the team’s late-season opponents.

“Overall, I was very pleased with the competitive effort,” Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said. “We still need to get a lot better, and we still have some people who need to get healthy.”

Several Georgetown sprinters, including juniors Amanda Kimbers and Justin Crawford, missed action this weekend in an attempt to nurse minor injuries. Both are expected to race this coming weekend.

For the women, senior London Finley took the 300-meter dash with a time of 39.55 seconds, over three seconds ahead of her nearest competitor, freshman teammate Natalie Englese.

After missing all of last year with an injury, sophomore Deseree King won the 500m dash in 1:13.68 ahead of three teammates.

“I was very happy with Deseree’s performance,” Henner said. “If she does that a couple more times … she’ll come out with a great [season].”

In one of the first races of her indoor season, junior Emily Infeld — who led the Hoyas to their first ever cross country national championship earlier this year — nearly broke the school record for the 1000m run with a time of 2:43.90. Infeld has exhausted her eligibility for cross country but remains a junior for both indoor and outdoor track.

But just as impressive as Infeld’s performance was that of her teammates in the same event. Junior Rachel Schneider finished in second, freshman Hannah Neczypor in third and senior Lauren Borduin in fourth.

All four Hoyas finished within seven seconds of each other, while the top La Salle runner came in a full 18 seconds behind Borduin.

The men’s performance matched the women’s, dominating the sprinting events and clocking solid times in the distance events. In the 60m hurdles, seniors Kamryn Austin and Biyerem Okengwu notched times of 8.23 and 8.25s, respectively. In the 300m dash, senior Austin Perron and sophomore Hansel Akers took the top two spots, while juniors Kadeem Hunter and Christian Tobias, who were both coming off injuries, came in first and second, respectively, in the 60m dash.

“I was very happy with the hurdlers, and Hansel and Austin both recorded [personal records],” Henner said. “Christian and Kadeem still have to get a lot faster, but it was their first race back from a couple of hamstring injuries.”

Among the distance runners, sophomore Max Darrah and junior Ben Furcht took the top two spots and recorded personal records. But perhaps the highlight of the distance squad was freshman Derek Armstrong, who will redshirt this season. Armstrong won the 3000m run with a time of 8:17.02, barely edging out La Salle junior Nick Crits.

Over 20 athletes qualified for the Big East Championships, including five each from the men’s 1000m run, the women’s mile and the men’s mile.

Henner wants his squad to peak in February for the Big East Indoor Championship without burning out for the outdoor season, when the athletes start fresh.

“That’s where training comes into play,” Henner said. “We have to do longer strength workouts, and the races themselves serve as the speed workouts. … If you’re in great shape and you maintain that, you can do it. If you back off workouts too soon, that’s where you lose it.”

This weekend, Georgetown travels to State College, Pa., to compete in the Penn State National Invitational, where the competition figures to be much tougher than what the team has faced so far this season.

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Late Foul Sinks Rutgers MEN’S BASKETBALL, from A10 it was Porter’s turn to be the hero again, albeit in slightly anticlimactic circumstances. With 8.5 seconds left and the Hoyas passing around the perimeter, sophomore guard Mike Pool was whistled for an off-ball foul on Porter with Georgetown already in the double bonus.

“There were some bizarre whistles,” a clearly irritated Rice said. “It was interesting [in] the last two minutes that it was decided by a whistle by a certain individual referee who decided to take it upon himself to decide the game. ...

I don’t know where you come up with that [foul].”

On the other side, Porter seemed surprised by the call as well.

“I’m not sure what happened,” he said in response to a question about the play. “I just know that the referee called a foul.”

The game wasn’t over yet, though, as Porter still had to make his free throws. The team as a whole struggled from the line in the second half, going 9-of-16 before Porter was fouled.

A middling shooter from the charity

stripe at 66 percent, Porter is nevertheless no stranger to taking and making clutch free throws, most notably in the Hoyas’ win over then-No. 4 Louisville. In the friendlier confines of Verizon Center, Porter had to contend with a lot less noise, as the crowd waited nervously and expectantly for him to take his shots. He calmly drilled both, and the crowd exploded.

“Otto doesn’t get rattled,” Thompson III said. “He just plays the game.”

The Hoyas still had to get a stop, though, and they did. Carter’s layup bounced off the rim as time expired and the Georgetown bench streamed onto the court, surrounding Porter as the team celebrated his game-winning free throws.

The problems that have plagued this team certainly aren’t all solved.

The Hoyas turned the ball over 14 times thanks to an alarming propensity for lazy passes and were mediocre from the stripe in the second half.

But largely thanks to Porter’s efforts, they’ll be celebrating an ugly win tonight rather than going over how they could have avoided becoming Rutgers’ third top-10 victim of the year.

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or a continent that claims to have four major sports, it is blatantly obvious that the average American knows and cares significantly less about hockey than the other three. Tiger Woods epitomized this ambivalence in 2008 when he was asked who he thought would win the Stanley Cup that year between the Penguins and Red Wings. Tiger replied in an arrogant tone, “I don’t really care. … I don’t think anyone really

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watches hockey anymore.” Tiger’s comment, of course, was factually incorrect, as hockey’s popularity in the United States has been on the rise for the past decade. But there are still too many people who don’t know the first thing about the sport. The following is a guide for those who may be more familiar with “popular” sports like golf. Hopefully Tiger learns a thing or two.

“How many quarters are there?”

It’s amazing how one can put a simple concept like fractions in a sports context and suddenly make it seem like multivariable calculus. Hockey ­— or “ice hockey” for all you roller skaters out there — is comprised of three 20-minute periods, separated by 17-minute intermissions.

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Freshman forward Otto Porter (22) scored with 1:34 to play to cut the Rutgers lead to two in Saturday’s win. The Scarlet Knights would not score again.

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GU Edges Rutgers Star Freshman Seals In Defensive Battle Win for Georgetown Michael Palmer Hoya Staff Writer

In Georgetown’s worst offensive performance of the year, it was, ironically, free-throw shooting that saved the Hoyas from a second-straight home loss.

No. 10 Georgetown (16-3, 6-2 Big East) scored nearly half its points at the line to escape an aggressive

Rutgers team (11-9, 3-4) that was seeking its third victory against a national RUTGERS 50 t o p - 1 0 team this Georgetown 52 season after flooring Florida and UConn earlier in the year.

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Junior guard Sugar Rodgers (14) rips the ball from a Louisville ballhandler in Saturday’s home loss.

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Sharpshooters Lift Cards Over Hoyas Leonard Olsen Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 20 Georgetown women’s basketball team (15-5, 4-3 Big East) suffered another home loss to a ranked opponent, falling to No. 16 Louisville (16-4, 5-2 Big East) Saturday night, 6461. Though the game was tight until

the end, poor shooting from both the field and the LOUISVILLE 64 f r e e - t h r ow line eventuGeorgetown 61 ally proved to be Georgetown’s downfall.

“Well I’m not going to say that it completely shuts down the rest of the season,” Head Coach Terri Williams-

Flournoy said. “We still have a lot of games left to play, but unfortunately these are the games that we’ll go back and look at and kick ourselves a few times for not winning.”

The Blue and Gray shot a poor 32.9 percent from the field but were See WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, A9

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and players alike due to its timing.

After struggling to score for much of the game — the Blue and Gray With about five minutes left in shot just 13 percent from the field every game, the press is informed in the first half — it was hard to see which players will be available in how the Hoyas were going to overthe postgame press conference. come even a relatively small fiveAgainst Rutgers, seniors Jason Clark point deficit after Rutgers freshman and Henry Sims and freshman Greg guard Eli Carter drilled a three with Whittington were scheduled to join 2:33 left.

Head Coach John Thompson III in Enter Porter. talking to reporters. But just a few After a Sims foul shot cut the minutes later, another freshman lead to four, an impressive steal and forced his way into the room by vir- outlet pass by sophomore forward tue of his play.

Nate Lubick found Porter streakFreshman forward Otto Porter, ing down the court. The freshman coming off a 15-rebound perfor- battled through contact to hit a mance against DePaul, was sensa- tough layup with no call, a rare intional down the stretch on Satur- stance of the referees showing reday. The Missouri native scored the straint on a night in which Rutgers last six points of the game, turning was whistled for an astounding 29 a four-point deficit into a two-point fouls, leading to 36 Georgetown free win for the Blue and Gray in an ugly throws and 25 points. game that saw After Carter only two Hoyas — committed an Porter and Whit- “It was decided by a offensive foul on tington — connect Rutgers’ next poson more than whistle by a certain session, Porter two shots from individual referee stepped up again. the field. Neither Thompson III refreshman was who decided to take inserted junior particularly ef- it upon himself to forward Hollis ficient, as Porter Thompson — who went 3-of-7 from decide the game” played a largely the field for nine ineffectual 21 Mike RICE points and Whitminutes thanks Rutgers Head Coach tington 3-of-9 for to the tough Scarseven points, but let Knight defense each contributed at key points in and a reported pulled muscle — the game. Whittington showed with the intention of opening up impressive mental toughness, re- space in the middle of the Rutgers bounding from early struggles to zone. It was the freshman, however, score all of his points in a 1:41 sec- who took advantage. Porter received ond-half explosion. the ball on the foul line, rose up “Whittington had a good stretch and knocked down the game-tying when he had [seven] points that we jumper with 1:05 to play. needed,” Thompson III said. “[He] re“When [Porter] got the ball in the ally got us going.” middle of the zone, he stood there “I just played defense and it gave to be guarded for three seconds, me the confidence to make shots,” and none of our guards dug down Whittington said. “Everyone misses on the ball,” Rutgers Head Coach shots. I wasn’t expecting myself to Mike Rice said after the game.

After Rutgers’ Mack Miles setmiss a layup, but I just kept my comtled for a long, contested three on posure and confidence.”

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