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COMMENTARY Undocumented immigrants continue to face hardship in modern American life.

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Former Sen. Chuck Hagel fended off criticism from both sides of the political aisle in the first of several days of his confirmation hearing Thursday.

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the opening statements from committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).

In sharp contrast to the speedy and While Levin noted Hagel’s service near-unanimous Jan. 29 confirmation in the Vietnam War, he also criticized of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) for secre- the former senator’s willingness to tary of state, Georgetown professor engage in talks with Iran as well his and former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) stance on U.S. relations with Israel. faced a contentious first day of quesInhofe expressed dissent towards tioning Thursday the nomination, at his hearing for saying that he secretary of de- “Sen. Hagel’s record is and Hagel are “too fense. philosophically deeply troubling and out Hagel testified opposed.” before the Sen- of the mainstream.”

“Sen. Hagel’s ate Armed Serrecord is deeply vices Committee, troubling and JIM INHOFE which consists of out of the mainRanking Member, Senate Armed Services Committeee 14 Democrats and stream,” Inhofe 12 Republicans. said.

Although Hagel is Hagel had supa Republican, some of his most vocal port, however, from former Chairmen critics since Obama nominated him of the Armed Services Committee Sam Jan. 7 have been fellow party mem- Nunn (D-Ga.) and John Warner (R-Va.), bers. Some Democrats on the commit- who introduced him prior to his own tee also voiced concern with Hagel’s remarks. nomination at the hearing.

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Despite a recent string of burglaries that hit multiple dormitories, a faculty office and the Alumni Square Residence Hall Office, total crime dropped significantly last month compared to January 2012.

The six burglaries in 2013 represented a 45 percent decrease from the same period last year. There were 14 thefts last month, a 36 percent drop from last January.

The most recent high-profile burglary occurred when a­n unknown suspect stole three packages from the Alumni Square RHO on Saturday night. Since there was no evidence of forced entry, investigators believe an unlocked door allowed the burglary.

While thefts in dormitories are relatively common, RHOs have seldom, if ever, suffered burglaries.

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Although several high-profile burglaries captured headlines to begin 2013, crime dropped across the board compared to last January. about an RHO being burglarized in the six months since I’ve been here,” Department of Public Safety Chief of Police Jay Gruber said.

Despite the stolen packages, the housing office said it has no plans

ing food service and quality, the GUSA senate passed an amendment Jan. 20 to establish the Subcommittee on Food Service.

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The new GUSA Subcommittee on Food Service will bring together representatives of Aramark and the student body to improve Leo’s.

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Makarand Paranjape, right, was one of several inventors to receive a U.S. Patent Award at a ceremony at Georgetown on Wednesday.

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to heighten its security measures.

“We have reviewed our security protocols and determined they are appropriate considering the See CRIME, A5

affects the students’ daily lives at Georgetown,” said Nolan DiConti (COL ’15), a GUSA senator and subcommittee co-chair. “We just want to know and let our constituents know that we’re here to help and here to voice students’ ideas and concerns.”

Although GUSA already operates an Executive Committee on Food Service, Subcommittee CoChair Sam Greco (SFS ’15) said that the new joint committee has been formed because the older executive committee has stalled.

“That committee doesn’t have the structure it needs and hasn’t been particularly effective in getting anything done,” Greco said.

DiConti agreed.

“It’s not that the executive branch isn’t doing anything,” he said. “It’s just that they maybe aren’t living up to their fullest potential.”

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Amid grumbles that Georgetown has been slow to utilize 21st-century technology, the university has ramped up efforts to maximize use of social media in the past year.

In March 2012, the Office of Communications created a cross-campus, collaborative Social Media Working Group to develop a unified institutional identity to grow and organize Georgetown’s online presence. The working group has about 40 members and meets once a month to discuss social media strategies.

“There really is no precedent for developing a strategy around social media at a university like Georgetown,” communications officer Rob Mathis said. “We’ve really found that Georgetown is a leader in this area.”

Mathis stressed the importance of engaging audiences, which include students, faculty, alumni and the community-at-large.

“In order to be authentic, content needs to be developed with your target audience, not just for them,” Mathis said.

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With interview season for prestigious consulting firms in full swing and application deadlines drawing near, many Georgetown juniors are entrenched in the competitive scramble for summer employment.

“The entire process can be overwhelming and confusing at times.

It was a whole new world for me,” Peter Prindiville (SFS ’14) said.

After weeks of meticulous preparation, Prindiville landed an interview with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company last week. He said careful preparation is key in any field, but especially when it comes to consulting, an industry whose interviews are notoriously thorough.

These interviews generally revolve around a “case,” or hypothetical situation through which the candidate must work.

“My friends, who were going through it too, were very supportive even though we were sometimes

applying to the same job,” Prindiville said. “We would proofread each other’s cover letters and practice interviews.”

One of those friends was Ethan Chess (COL ’14), who had a secondround interview with an investment bank in Chicago on Monday following an initial phone interview that took place over the December break. Chess, who applied to 15 internships in total, seven of which were at investment banks, had two additional interviews on Tuesday.

“It can be a bit much, but it’s nice that this happens at the beginning of the semester, so that it’s manageable with the lighter workload,” Chess said.

Chess stressed the importance of the Cawley Career Center’s help and wealth of information regarding common firms and companies.

Chess, who has been preparing for months, is representative of a large part of the junior class.

“Juniors take advantage of career center services including career counseling, employment advising, mock interview preparation, workshops, networking events, pre-law advising and employer presentations,” Michael Schaub, Cawley Career Center executive director, said.

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EDITORIALS

The Key to Preventing Crime Lock your doors.

This is a well-known instruction, and one that students — most of the time — appear to follow. But in the wake of another rash of burglaries in residence halls across campus, we must realize that “most of the time” doesn’t cut it. If students can’t be counted on to heed that warning, it’s time for the university to do it for them.

To prevent further burglaries, the university should make all the doors in oncampus residences and faculty offices automatically lock when closed.

Although Georgetown’s crime record compares favorably to other urban colleges, the Hilltop is consistently victim to preventable burglaries, thefts and unlawful entries — preventable because most of these on-campus crimes do not involve forced entries but are merely results of a door being left unlocked.

When students live together in dormitories, it becomes an easy habit to leave doors unlocked or simply to assume one’s roommate is still somewhere in the residence. Automatically locking doors would provide an easy solution to the risks presented by communal living.

Some residence halls, including Alumni Square and New South Hall, are already equipped with automatic locks on their doors. The Department of Public Service, in its annual crime report and monthly crime logs, reported that a total of 40 burglaries and unlawful entries occurred in on-campus residences and faculty offices last year. Only one occurred in New South Hall, and none were reported in Alumni Square.

A review of the 2012 crime archives also shows that faculty offices had 18 burglar-

ies — more than any other building. The auto-lock policy should be extended to protect professors’ offices and labs as well as student residences.

Such a policy would require an adjustment period. Students would be responsible for having their key at all times, lest they be locked out. For students in freshman or other traditional dorms, this means bringing your key every time you leave your room — whether it’s to go to the common room, your next-door neighbors’ room or the shower. While it may be odd at first, students in New South and Alumni Square have demonstrated that such a protocol is possible.

As students adapt to this change, the Resident Hall Offices would be forced to accommodate a higher number of lockout requests, but the current student fee for getting locked out is already a sufficient motivation to avoid abusing the RHO service.

This lock change could be accompanied with an initial grace period on lockout request fees. Even without a grace period, the frustration of adjusting and the burden of lockout fees should be weighed against the interest of preventing further burglaries: A $5 or $10 lockout fee pales in comparison to the cost of replacing a stolen laptop or phone.

In an ideal world, there would be no burglaries or forced entries, and Georgetown students would always remember to lock their doors when necessary. The recent crime record, however, demonstrates the need for a more dramatic solution. Automatically locking doors provides a value of protection that far outweighs the cost of inconvenience.

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Bigger and Better — A $100 million expansion to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will include a floating outdoor stage and an outdoor video wall.

Groundhog Day — Potomac Phil will once again appear to predict the coming of spring at the District’s Groundhog Day celebration, at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow in Dupont Circle.

Early Closing — Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall’s upper level will close early at 1 p.m. today.

Welcome Additions — Provost Robert Groves announced that he plans to create three new positions, vice provost faculty, vice provost education and vice provost research, to help spur student and faculty research.

Georgetown Giving — An anonymous donor has pledged to give $10,000 to the New South Student Center if over 50 percent of the freshman class donates $1 to the “One for Georgetown” campaign.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Arturo Altamirano

A Black Spot on Blue & Gray If you happened to have walked past Red Square on Tuesday morning, you would have noticed the line of students stretching from White-Gravenor patio to the amphitheater attached to the Intercultural Center. This group of students, stretched out 200 feet in the frigid cold, was waiting in hopes of being hired by Georgetown Blue & Gray Tour Guide Society.

Blue & Gray tour guides show prospective students the ins and outs of Georgetown’s campus, but the organization itself has room to learn how to more fairly structure an application process.

The current system requires applications to be submitted in person early in the morning on a weekday. The first 100 applicants are automatically given interviews. Because of the high interest and limited selection, students often line up as early as an hour and a half before the deadline. Blue & Gray promises to read every application, but only a select few are granted an interview in addition to the first 100. However, there is a peculiar catch: Applicants waiting in line are permitted to hand in up to three applications in addition to their own.

The tour group justifies this policy by pointing to early morning classes or jobs that prevent some students from delivering their applications personally. And while it

is considerate of Blue & Gray to take such conflicts into account, the application process then becomes dependent on an honor system. For every applicant with an 8 a.m. class, there could be someone who just decided to sleep in and have a friend turn in his application, and the student waiting in line for 45 minutes loses out on his interview spot. If the point of the first-come, first-served system is to reward applicants for being committed enough to wake up early and wait in line, then allowing applicants to turn in up to three other applications negates this goal. The selection system may as well be random.

An effective solution would be to put the deadline at a time when students are less likely to have obligations, like a weekend morning, and limit the number of additional applications that can be turned in to one. By this measure, only the truly committed who can muster the motivation to get up early on a weekend morning will be rewarded.

Blue & Gray is a popular employer, and it is understandable that the group must strategize to accommodate its large quantity of applicants. But with this high interest comes a high standard for fairness.

When too many of the motivated lose out to the manipulative, the process cries out for reconsideration.

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he issues that have defined American politics in recent years are driven, in part, by an amorphous group of activists called the Tea Party. Oddly enough, in 1775, your average Joe America — or Joe “British North America” — would have said the same thing.

Even though the Tea Party’s support has waned in the past 12 months, its proscribed diet of tax cuts and significantly reduced spending will dominate conversation in Washington during upcoming budget battles in the wake of President Obama’s insistence late last year on higher taxes. The party’s argument originates from an original reading of the American independence movement as a predominantly anti-tax expression of collective will. The Tea Party thinks it has been empowered to recapture some core value of the “American way” — small government. It seems to feel that invoking Sam Adams’ memory gives it the right to protest any and all taxes.

Let’s take a look at the actual history: The French and Indian War, the portion of the Seven Years’ War fought in North America, was incredibly costly for the English crown. Similar to the Iraq and Afghan Wars, the government, lured by the goal of victory on foreign soil, reversed a period of incredible prosperity fairly quickly. The result, in further parallel to today, was a partial victory won at a high cost to the country’s recently stabilized balance sheet.

Herein lies the critical difference: The problem that Sam Adams and his band of firebrands faced when they boarded the merchant ship was that a government that gave its colonies no say in whether to go to war — nor a single vote in parliament — was now taxing those very colonies for its own military adventurism, not that the taxes themselves even existed. Ironically, in today’s politics, we curiously find a Republican party that voted for the modern-day equivalent of the king’s 18th century mili-

The founding fathers were fighting for the right to tax, not the abolition of taxes. tary adventures — the Iraq War — opposing the taxes needed to pay for it. In the 1770s, the king instructed British officials to start collecting taxes that were already on the books but had been ignored in a policy called “salutary neglect.” Sound familiar?

It’s the Bush tax cut expiration all over again.

The Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War period have been almost entirely misinterpreted by the contemporary Tea Party. The founding fathers were really fighting for the right to tax themselves, not the abolition of taxes altogether. The conversations that 18th century figures like Sam Adams had were over the equitability of those taxes, not their existence. If revenue was to be raised, where was it going, and would it be worth the expenses incurred by those paying? Taxes themselves were hardly on the table as a point of protest.

Today’s anti-tax crusaders have incorrectly read the message of these times and used it to promote a far more radicalized agenda that even Sam Adams himself would have eschewed. The notion that early American governments were paragons of non-invasive agrarian republicanism is entirely false. The Revolutionary War cost the colonies a tidy sum of $75 million and took 30 years of responsible economic policy and the embrace of debt as a political reality to pay it off. One of the major breakthroughs of the Constitutional Convention was that the federal government would honor all debts created by the states during the war. Assuming debt burdens is, in fact, a core function of Washington and one of the reasons a vast and varied republic of 50 unique states has ticked along with less regime volatility than any other since the early 20th century.

When the American government racks up debts from major spending projects, it needs to get paid at some point through increased revenue. It’s a problem as old as the country itself. The anti-tax crusaders who have taken to channelling the revolution as their rallying cry might do well to remember the words of Alexander Hamilton in the following months: “The United States debt, foreign and domestic, was the price of liberty. The faith of America has been repeatedly pledged for it.”

Ethan Chess is a junior in the College.

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mid hopeful conversa- are living proof of overpopuLast year, I saw my sister tion about humane im- lation, the main cause for un- again for the first time in over migration reform, I felt employment and the source of 14 years. I also flew in an airthe urge to share my story public overspending. plane and drove a car and travand the plight of my parents, “Retreat to the back,” we elled west for the first time. All friends and community — all commonly hear. There is no these experiences — as unexof whom share my experience system in place that allows us ceptional as they seem — are as an undocumented immi- to “wait in line.” Some of us some that most immigrants grant. were in line and were tossed will never have. Some comI like to think that my story out. Others have been waiting munities cannot even gather is no different from anyone for years. We are then expected water for their homes without else’s. I grew fear of deup watchportation. ing “Will & Our stories Grace” and are warped lip-synced by the meto ’N Sync dia, which and Britney focuses only Spears.

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What is even sillier is the the constant reminder that we Our stories are real when we thought of not providing imsimply do not exist, that our acknowledge that our relatives migrants with a reasonable taxpaying dollars are not suffi- fear travelling because of possi- path to citizenship. The reality cient and that the service that ble road checkpoints. Our sto- is that we are just as entitled as we provide is not enough. That ries are real when we witness anyone else to this land. Let us our labor is taken advantage that our friends cannot con- not forget that the memorable of, then forgotten, and that our tinue their higher education words engraved at our Lady children are only a burden to because they have no means to Liberty’s feet, “Give me your society. We are humiliated for finance it. Our stories are real tired, your poor, your huddled our broken English, accused when we see families across masses yearning to breathe of abstaining from American the country torn apart by out- free” — explain why we, too, culture and seen as parasites dated enforcement policies. deserve a fair and equal chance that benefit at the expense of Our stories are vivid images at citizenship. others. Most Americans cannot of the struggles that blacks, relate or sympathize. They cre- women, gays, children and FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ is a seate roadblocks between them- other vulnerable groups faced nior in the McDonough School selves and us and pretend we and continue to endure. of Business.

veryone knows Georgetown provides one of the best opportunities for education in the country.

What many people do not know is that we also provide an opportunity for theft when we leave our doors unlocked. Thieves target areas of opportunity where doors are known to be left unlocked with valuables available for them to steal. It is just that simple. This applies to students living on campus, students living off campus and to faculty and staff in their offices and labs.

We all like to imagine our institution of higher learning as being a place free from crime and the influences of a major metropolitan region. We would all enjoy living and learning in this type of environment. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Georgetown embraces a campus that is open and free from impediments that would keep out the general public. One of the most effective ways to balance the open nature of the campus and private spaces such as residence hall rooms, townhouses and offices is to lock our doors. This simple step will displace crime from our campus. Close to 95 percent of all theft on campus occurs when a door is left unlocked.

The Department of Public Safety investigates all of these crimes and, in some cases, has developed suspects, obtained warrants and made arrests.

The reality is that this type of crime is often difficult to detect and challenging to investigate. We need your help to prevent theft from rooms on campus. Although it may seem inconvenient to lock your door when you are in your room, when you leave to go to the bathroom or when you visit friends down the hall, it is the only proven way to prevent and deter theft.

Taking a stake in our own safety and security also involves not allowing people to enter a residence hall or residence hall elevator without knowing if they belong in the building.

Reporting the presence of persons who do not belong in a residence hall or office to DPS is very important. You might feel as though you do not want to get someone into trouble, or you may think that the person’s presence is not that big of a deal, but you would be wrong. We count on you to be our eyes and ears, we count on you to trust your instincts and we count on you to make the call.

We all need to work together to prevent crime — especially theft — on our campus. When the university community and DPS work together, we can make a difference. Please do your part in preventing theft and lock your door.

JAY GRUBER is the chief of police and director of public safety for the Department of Public Safety.

ENGAGING BIOETHICS

Confronting Conscientious Objection W hat is the role of conscience in medicine? Following the public debate last year over mandating insurance providers to cover contraception, some have argued that it is time to expunge the category of conscientious objection from medicine altogether. After all, it is said, medicine is not just any business. It is a licensed monopoly, and with such licensure comes greater responsibility. Patients in rural areas or in emergency situations often lack the ability to choose who should care for them. And those who do have options often have to find — or suddenly shift to — providers who can meet what the profession itself regards as a legitimate need. Given these issues, patients need to be protected from the harms that refusal can engender by making provision of all basic, core services a condition of professional licensure.

I certainly agree with the importance of preserving patient access to basic medical services. More than that, I am among those who believe that contraception and legal abortion should be understood as belonging to that core. Having the option to control whether to give birth is of central importance to women in maintaining bodily integrity and authorship over their lives. Data shows that access to medically controlling reproduction can have profound effects on women’s health, outpacing the importance of even such basics as anti-hypertension medication. The fact that contraception and abortion

are not approved of or sought by every terventions may deeply value being woman does not deny their impor- cared for by a like-minded practitiotance to those women who do. ner. We risk alienating not just proYet I do not agree with those who viders, but patients themselves, with would eliminate protection for con- policies mandating that medicine be scientious refusal. Provision of a need practiced only by those who share a under one guise particular perspecis commitment tive. of a profound How, then, do moral wrong unwe adjudicate der another. By the conflict? For its very nature, one thing, we medicine intershould insist on sects with some of high standards of the deepest issues conscientious obin life and some jection. Properly disagreement is understood, genuinevitable. Mediine conscientious cine itself would objection reflects Maggie Little be impoverished a deeply considif dissenting pracered position, not Having the option to titioners were not a mere aversion, allowed into the that provision of control whether to give guild. the service would For one, it be a grave wrong birth is central to a would radically deep threat woman’s bodily integrity. or reduce the numto integrity. It is ber willing to go premised on a sciinto specialties that already face criti- entifically accurate view of the facts, cal shortages. Areas such as obstetrics not unproven assumptions. And it is and gynecology can ill afford to lose based on a position that we can uncompassionate, talented and skilled derstand as deserving our respect. providers — some of whom have pro- This last is a substantive matter: arbifound moral misgivings about servic- trating its contours is as difficult as it es the profession as a whole endorses. is inescapable in a pluralist society.

Including those views is important to Conscientious objection, then, is sustaining the field of medicine as a not something lightly invoked. Its ledynamic one, with open dialogue by gitimate exercise brings with it strong its practicing members about morally obligations. Objecting providers must complex issues. Finally, patients who disclose their limitations early and share moral objections to certain in- often to minimize patient burdens.

And they must convey those restrictions with compassion and respect.

Communication of conscientious objection is, first and foremost, a message about the provider, not the patient and her circumstances — and for good reason. The very premise of protecting conscientious refusal, after all, is that deeply good and reasonable people disagree on the issue.

Finally, there are limits to the right of conscientious objection. To give just one example, specialists who care for high-risk pregnancies — so-called maternal-fetal specialists — will predictably encounter women for whom continued pregnancy is as likely to lead to maternal death as it is not. If someone cannot, in good conscience, personally perform an abortion in such a circumstance, then one needs to partner with willing providers identified ahead of time — or choose a different specialty.

The requirements for and limitations to conscientious objection are surely complex. But medicine does best when it confronts them, because needs in medicine intersect with conflicts over values not just incidentally or occasionally, but deeply and persistently. Those conflicts — as vexing as they are — need to be faced with care and mutual respect.

Maggie Little, Ph.D., is director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an associate professor in the philosophy department.

ENGAGING BIOETHICS appears every other Friday.

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WMATA Considers Metro Expansion to Georgetown KATHERINE SEEVERS Special to The Hoya

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is examining proposals to construct two new tunnels for subway trains — one under the Potomac River connecting Rosslyn and Georgetown and one under 10th Street to Thomas Circle — to relieve commuter traffic.

WMATA officials brought the idea for expansion to their board of directors Jan. 24 but say that the plan is only in the preliminary stages.

“Last week’s plan was a draft, and these are basically ideas we’re trying to get input from the public, from our board on those priorities and ultimately if we know where we’re heading in terms of a longer-term outlook,” Director of Long-Range Planning Tom Harrington said.

The addition is part of Metro’s Regional Transit System Plan, a 30-year projection for area transportation, and Momentum, a 10-year expansion plan.

“It’s really again to help us figure out those shorter-term priorities for the next 10 years,” Harrington said.

“If we know we’re going to be looking at Metrorail expansion in the long term, what are the projects we could do to get us set up to get there?”

Georgetown students’ main complaint with Metro is often its inaccessibility, especially on weekends,

when Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle buses run less frequently.

“I think it’s too many stops and it doesn’t end up in Georgetown, so I usually just take a taxi,” Benito Skinner (COL ’16) said. “If the Metro was close to Georgetown, I would definitely use it.”

Tunnels under the Potomac and 10th Street would split the blue and orange lines, which intersect from Rosslyn to Stadium-Armory, and the green and yellow lines, which currently meet at the L’Enfant through Greenbelt stops, respectively, Harrington said.

The tunnel under the Potomac will also defuse congestion from the silver line, which will provide Metro service to Dulles Airport and Tysons Corner. The first phase of the silver is due to be completed in late 2013 while a start date for the second phase has not yet been set but is estimated to be completed by 2018.

According to Harrington, Momentum projections also seek to up the Metrorail fleet in addition to expanding train lines, because it is expected that Metro ridership will reach one million people a day by 2040.

“If we don’t expand our fleet beyond what we have today … we’re going to expect some serious crowding issues by 2020,” he said. “The first thing we should do is maximize the capacities we have today by running

longer trains and adding station capacity. Even if you do all that, by the time you get out to 2040, you’re still showing … lines above capacity.”

Harrington said that the main issue inhibiting the expansion is cost.

Metro’s budget is composed of two parts: the day-to-day operating budget, funded by fares, and the Capital Improvement Program, which is funded by federal, state and local dollars. While the annual budget under CIP is about $900 million a year, revamping Metro’s system will require $26 billion over the next three decades, according to The Washington Post.

WMATA officials are still discussing how to attain the necessary funding.

“It’s the starting-point of a discussion about options that are out there in terms of funding and where it could come from,” Harrington said.

“But, clearly, we’re exploring new sources of funding to look ahead to a bigger expansion of the system.”

Students say they have noticed overcrowding problems while riding Metrorail, particularly when travelling to Verizon Center for basketball games.

“We went to a game and the train at Metro Center that we wanted to take to Gallery Place didn’t come,” Rui Hao Puah (SFS ’16) said. “There were too many people.”

Ron Lewis, chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, said

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WMATA is looking at new ways to curtail the effects of projected increases in Metro traffic, including a possible tunnel from Rosslyn to Georgetown. he would strongly support Metro service to Georgetown, though he thinks the expansion is unlikely in coming years.

“I think it will be a very long time

coming, because I don’t think they have the money to do it in any near term,” Lewis said. “I would like it just as soon as possible. … It would be good for everyone.”

Mobile App to Offer SafeRides, GUTS Tracking LACEY HENRY

Special to The Hoya

A smartphone application that will allow users to track SafeRides and GUTS buses will be launched this semester after more than a year of research and planning by GUSA Senate and DoubleMap, a GPS service provider.

The student association team, comprised of former president and vice president Mike Meaney (SFS ’12) and Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) and Secretary of Information Technology Michael Crouch (MSB ’13), opted to partner with DoubleMap after extensive research into competing vendors. This process, along with uncer-

tainty about the scope of project, led to a slower progression than initially anticipated.

“Obviously I was hoping that it would have been sooner than this.

However, we understood that it had to go through a typical university protocol looking at multiple vendors, etc.,” Laverriere said.

Discussions about implementing a tracking device program began about a year and a half ago in response to student complaints about inefficient transportation. After Meaney, Laverriere and Crouch publicized interest in pursuing the project, DoubleMap approached Crouch about installing their service for free at Georgetown.

“We thought it would be a great

idea, in a day and age where everyone is on their smartphone, to allow students to see where the buses are in real time,” Laverriere said.

Moving forward, GUSA members attended meetings with members of University Information Services, the Office of Transportation Management, Department of Public Safety, Facilities Repair and Maintenance and representatives from the office of Chris Augostini, senior vice president and chief operating officer.

In November 2012, GUSA began to test the GPS software on Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle vehicless.

Crouch is looking forward to releasing the app to students.

“I think that students are often hesitant to go out into D.C. because they aren’t familiar with transportation methods and don’t know how GUTS works or feel that they don’t follow regular schedules. The DoubleMap application will enable students to manage their schedules more effectively,” Crouch said. “But over and above that, I think the greatest benefit will be with SafeRides vans. It will not only keep noise off the street but enable people to leverage the program more easily.”

Once launched, the tracking device will be available through the transit link on the Georgetown University Mobile App. The software resembles a classic map interface but

also has color-coded routes and dots that follow the vehicles in real time.

“Now [students] have the ability to see where the vans or GUTS buses are, adding and improving efficiency across the board,” Laverriere said. “If you look on your phone and see it’s a block away, it reduces street noise, increases safety [and] accounts for traffic. Things like that really help make student lives simpler.”

Students, too, are excited about DoubleMap. “I’ll definitely be more willing to use Georgetown transportation now.

Especially on the weekend, it will be really helpful to know when to leave or whether I should take a taxi,” Katie Kissinger (COL ’15) said.

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Crime Dips in January CRIME, from A1 hundreds of thousands of packages we distribute each year and the very few reported missing packages,” Robin Morey, vice president for planning and facilities management, wrote in an email. “We are reinforcing our security procedures with our staff to avoid another security breach.”

The RHO has already informed the students whose

packages were taken about the incident and plans to reimburse them.

Gruber believes that the RHO theft is unrelated to the recent rash of burglaries that hit Harbin, Copley and McCarthy Halls Jan. 28 and 29. Based on security footage, DPS believes that the same individual was responsible for all of those burglaries, but the department wants to investigate the matter further before publicly releas-

ing images of the suspect.

After theft and burglary, drug violations were the next most commonly reported type of crime. The four incidents reported this year represent a 43 percent drop from last January.

This month, no alcohol violations were reported, down from six in January 2012.

Hoya Staff Writer Ted Murphy contributed reporting.

GUSA Sets Sights on Leo’s FOOD, from A1 “It was necessary to take the matters into our own hands,” Greco added. “We couldn’t wait for somebody else to take action.”

The subcommittee will consider student criticism of Leo’s and investigate possible solutions to these problems.

The subcommittee currently consists of DiConti and Greco, along with GUSA Senator and Co-Chair Abby Cooner (SFS ’16), among other GUSA members.

The group will soon accept applications from students outside of GUSA. Because many freshmen campaigned for the GUSA senate on the platform of improving food services, Cooner anticipates great interest in the group from students.

“It will be good to try to not just draw out of the GUSA community but also the student body as a whole,” Cooner said.

“That way, other people can get involved and get their voices heard and help bring about change.”

Although the subcommittee has not yet taken any official action, Greco has already met with Operations Director for Dining Services Rob Tobin and Food and Beverage Director Ted Lipansky concerning the subcommittee’s plans.

He has also begun working

with Marketing Manager Kendra Boyer on “Table Touches,” a program in which Boyer and a member of the subcommittee will approach students at Leo’s to garner feedback.

“We hope to be more effective by having both a student and administrator present,” Greco said.

According to Greco, the sub-

“The amount of feedback [Leo’s] might be receiving might be swept under the rug.”

NOLAN DICONTI (COL ‘15), GUSA Senator

committee plans to focus on increasing the number of options available at Leo’s, alleviating lines during periods of high traffic and conducting student surveys.

Although Leo’s does conduct its own student surveys, these results are not disclosed to GUSA. “The amount of feedback that they might be hearing might be swept under the rug,” DiConti said.

Not all students, however, believe that the survey will help initiate progress.

“I don’t think students will be

motivated enough to participate in the survey,” said Esther Sohn (SFS ’16), a member of GUSA’s Freshmen Executive Outreach Committee.

Members of the subcommittee will bring survey results both to representatives of Aramark, the company that operates Leo’s, and Georgetown administrators.

“It’s my hope that we as a committee can bring concrete comments to Leo’s and from there hammer things out, not just come in with nothing,” Greco said.

Some progress, including improvements to the upstairs stir-fry and salad-bar stations, has been made since the GUSA senate passed a resolution to improve the quality of Georgetown’s food service Nov. 27.

Greco and DiConti hope that this subcommittee will expand upon that progress.

For Cooner, the biggest challenge facing the subcommittee will be collaboration with Aramark. But the subcommittee plans to investigate ways to incentivize upperclassmen to purchase meal plans in the hopes of developing a positive relationship with the food service provider.

“Aramark really does care and wants to produce an excellent product, and if we work with them, I have high hopes that we’ll make progress,” Greco said.

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Internship Hunt Puts Pressure on Juniors INTERNS, from A1 “The process of applying for internships can take a lot of time and energy.”

This comes as no surprise, as internships are increasingly considered a valuable experience.

“Employers now expect seniors to have some work experience under their belts by the time they graduate from college,” Schaub wrote in an email. “Results from the Class of 2011 Senior Survey show that 86 percent of seniors had at least one internship experience before graduation.”

As a result, juniors, worried that this summer may be their last chance, are attending various information sessions, on-campus recruiting boutiques and networking opportunities offered by the career center.

This week alone, there were 13 events scheduled, with topics ranging from careers in academia to investment banking to international internships.

In addition to hosting the Hoya Career Connection system, the Career Center also participates in the iNet Internship Network, an internship-posting site built by a consortium of leading universities that share internship opportunities. The network includes Duke University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Georgetown.

“The network is intended to supplement the HCC and provide students with greater industry and geographical options in the internship search,” Schaub wrote.

The career center has historically seen a large amount of traffic at this time of year, when students attempt to use all available resources to improve their chances and to hone their interview skills.

In contrast to the current craze, some students have had their summer internships planned out for over a year. Several juniors have return offers from previous internships, affording them a degree of stability and background knowledge for the coming summer summer.

Amy Yang (MSB ’14) will intern for accounting firm KPMG in New York City this summer.

“I secured the internship last summer, which means that I don’t have to go through the interview process again this semester,” Yang said. “Seeing my friends who are interviewing now, I definitely feel a lot

of empathy for them.”

While internships in the financial sector generally require the most notoriously in-depth interviews, students interested in other career paths are also participating in similar employment searches.

Shayna Benjamin (NHS ’14) recently found out that she would be working in a Georgetown University Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Nursing students planning on entering the clinical field after graduation seek summer “externships,” specialized positions in hospitals that provide practical training in a specific unit, such as oncology or intensive care.

“Most hospitals will only hire new graduate nurses if they’ve had some type of prior experience,” Benjamin said. “I’m hoping to improve my nursing skills … and affirm the type of nurse I always thought I would be — try to find my niche.”

Staying in Georgetown, Benjamin has the added benefit of familiarity with her surroundings and with many of her coworkers. She will sublet a house in Burleith with friends from Georgetown.

Don Jayamaha (COL ’14) is also staying on campus and hoping to work as a research assistant for at least part of the summer.

“The professors I’ve met with have been extremely supportive in pointing me toward possible projects and organizations,” Jayamaha said. “If you look hard enough and talk to enough people, there are opportunities available.”

Jayamaha is also considering other possibilities for this summer beyond research.

“I hope to spend the first part of my summer working on a research project … then I’m hoping to go back to Sri Lanka and do more hands-on work [in economic policy],” Jayamaha said. “But I haven’t got my summer completely planned out yet.”

With his uncertainty, Jayamaha is not alone among the junior class. For many, there remain questions of offers and opportunities. Prindiville, for example, also has interests in law and government, but he said that he tries not to get overwhelmed.

“People sometimes get caught up in it,” Prindiville said. “They might apply to [an internship] just because their friends mention it regardless of their qualifications. It can be a little awkward later if one of us does better [than the other], but I try to find a balance.”

For him, there are more important things.

“In the end, I just want to have a good summer,” Prindiville said.

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Hagel Grilled Before Armed Services Committee HAGEL, from A1 “War for Chuck Hagel is not an abstraction,” Nunn said. “I’m confident that if he is confirmed, he will ask the tough questions.”

If confirmed, Hagel would be the first enlisted person and first Vietnam War veteran to be secretary of defense.

In his opening statement, Hagel said that as secretary of defense he would focus on counterterrorism and training Afghan forces in addition to enforcing his policy of prevention — as opposed to containment — of Iranian nuclear capability.

He also stressed his commitment to the men and women in the armed forces.

“Their safety success and welfare will always be at the forefront of the decisions I make,” he said.

Once the committee began its questioning, the hearing atmosphere became more heated.

Several senators grilled Hagel on Israel, but he emphasized that his record

shows a clear support of the country and said that he had never voted against Israel in his 12 years in the Senate.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) countered Hagel’s statements by bringing up a letter that expressed support for Israel.

“The lack of signature [on that letter] by you sends chills up my spine,” Graham said.

Another recurring theme was Iran.

Hagel came under fire following his nomination for his beliefs that the United States should engage with Iran, which has been called a state sponsor of terrorism.

“Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender,” Hagel said at his hearing. .Nuclear disarmament, particularly Hagel’s involvement with Global Zero — an organization pushing for the elimination of nuclear weapons — and a report co-authored by him in 2012 was called into question by several senators.

“I’m uneasy about that vision expressed in your committee report,” Sen.

Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said.

However, Hagel’s most difficult moment may have been Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) questioning regarding the military surge in Iraq, which sent over 20,000 troops abroad in 2007.

“I’m not going to give you a yes or no answer,” Hagel said on whether the surge was correct or incorrect. “I’ll defer that judgment to history.”

“I think history has already made a judgment on the surge and I think you’re on the wrong side of it,” McCain said.

Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was one of the few senators today who openly expressed support for Hagel and said that he would vote for the nominee.

If Hagel’s confirmation is approved by the committee, it will be brought to a full vote in the Senate, where politicians from both parties have pledged support.

The Wall Street Journal predicts that Hagel’s confirmation may take several weeks. Proceedings will continue next Thursday.

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Hagel, center, looks on as former Sens. Sam Nunn, right, and John Warner, left, testify at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday on the Hill.

Georgetown Expands Social Media Presence ONLINE, from A1 As such, each networking platform has a designated purpose and audience. While the university’s Facebook page, which recently surpassed 50,000 likes, delivers news from the university, the Georgetown Twitter feed, with more than 16,000 current followers, shares general updates and encourages more audience interaction.

In addition to these efforts, several university offices and departments operate separate accounts on a variety of platforms. A landscape analysis conducted six months ago revealed 400 accounts with a combined reach of 1.6 million people.

“Because there are so many audiences, I don’t think one account on its own could do justice,” Mathis said.

“I’m more interested in making sure we [have] great approaches.” Anupam Chakravarty (SFS ’10), senior manager of interactive communications at the Office of Advancement, echoed the importance of this approach, citing the Office of Advancement’s Tumblr page.

“Tumblr is a platform that we’ve increasingly used [for] temporary moments in the Georgetown experience that we really want to highlight,” Chakravarty said.

Posts on the Tumblr account have included birthday wishes addressed to the university, a yearbook-like tribute to the 2012 Commencement ceremonies and images for use as Facebook cover photos.

The Office of Advancement was also responsible for the “Hoya Holidays” card and the Dec. 19 “Georgetown Moments” YouTube video, which has nearly 16,000 views on YouTube.

The Office of Advancement found its social media efforts integral to its work with alumni outreach and the Campaign for Georgetown.

“People are able to share in the Georgetown story, especially alumni, who like seeing pictures of things like [Regents Hall], which wasn’t there when they were here,” Chakravarty said.

Chakravarty added that alumni are often curious about student life because of their own memories of Georgetown. The Georgetown Alumni

Twitter feed was created one year ago and had 2,384 followers at press time.

“It’s important to let social media be authentic, unpredictable, in the moment,” Chakravarty added.

The university has used Pinterest and Foursquare and partnered with video-streaming platform UStream to produce live webcasts integrated with Facebook and Twitter. Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s Jan. 11 speech in Gaston Hall was the first webcast, drawing 170,000 viewers.

Georgetown’s Center for Social Impact Communication, founded in 2008, also shows the university’s commitment to social media and its impact on social issues.

“Our mission is very much tied into the university’s about making a positive difference in the world,” CSIC Deputy Director Julie Dixon wrote in an email. “We work with a lot of smaller nonprofit organizations in the D.C. area, for whom figuring out how to best use social media can be a real challenge, usually because they don’t have the staff, time or resources to devote to sustaining that engagement.”

This drive to provoke thought and increase engagement can also be seen in other initiatives, such as University Provost Robert Groves’ blog. Groves’ blog posts are sent out to students in university-wide emails and published on the Office of the Provost’s website.

Groves has also attempted to take advantage of Twitter, using his personal account to promote his blog posts and occasionally interact with followers. He has 543 followers, compared to Georgetown University’s 16,392.

Student organizations, like Students of Georgetown, Inc., have used similar platforms to reach out to the student body.

However, Corp Director of Marketing Keaton Bedell (COL ’13) said that younger people are less likely to comment than older users like those targeted by the Georgetown Alumni Association — a challenge for an organization largely focused on engaging the current student body.

Social media is especially useful to exceptionally large student or-

ganizations, like the International Relations Club, that have trouble reaching all their members. IRC is planning to revamp its communications in an effort to improve contact between high-level members and its 400 due-paying members, according to IRC Marketing Director Connie Yang (SFS ’15).

This problem represents one that the university experiences on a larger scale. The Alumni Association currently has approximately 160,000 members around the world, while the university has more than 6,300 undergraduates.

Mathis hopes to see Georgetown extend its social media reach to connect with these student groups and wider audiences in the next few years.

“The voice of an institution doesn’t just belong to the institution itself. It belongs to all of the people that make it up,” Mathis said. “Anything we can do to empower that and give the people the tools and resources they need to be an advocate of Georgetown … that’s where I’d like to see the university go.”

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Student Group Combats Bullying Worldwide KYLIE MOHR

Special to The Hoya

During her middle and high school years, it was not uncommon for Fabianna Pergolizzi (COL ’13) to arrive at school to find her locker filled with McDonald’s hamburgers or discover nails in her car tires.

“I went to my school dean 100 times and nothing was done,” she said.

After these experiences with relentless bullying in her adolescence, Pergolizzi was inspired to establish Project Anti-Bully, a student-run nonprofit that seeks to raise awareness of bullying in schools through communitybased research, in 2006. “[If you can] take the fear away from the bully … if you intimidate them by

doing positive things and being strong, they can’t touch you,” Pergolizzi said.

Inspired by a study of bullying in middle schools by Child Abuse Prevention Services, Pergolizzi conducted a survey in her hometown of Naples, Fla., about bullying. Working with a statistician, Pergolizzi found that 86 percent of students surveyed reported suffering from some form of bullying daily. Pergolizzi and her team submitted a synopsis of their research to the American Psychiatric Association in 2006 and later presented their findings to the APA. Project Anti-Bully, which has 150 members in 13 countries, now has its research published in the Journal of Medicine, the Journal of School Violence and International Journal of

Adolescence Medical Health.

Pergolizzi receives letters from students around the world about their

“If you intimidate [the bully] by doing positive things and being strong, they can’t touch you.”

FABIANNA PERGOLIZZI (COL ’13) Project Anti-Bully founder

bullying experiences. Though Pergolizzi and her team make it clear that they are students, not lawyers or counselors, they try to give bullied students

an outlet to speak openly.

Children who have been bullied and are interested in joining the nonprofit are offered spots on the organization’s team.

Some students join the group to express solidarity with friends and family who have been bullied. Matt Denicola (COL ’13), the project’s graphic designer, joined after his younger sister was bullied while he was away at Georgetown.

“Just because I couldn’t be there for my sister, I want to try to be there for someone else,” he said. “I wanted to give back in any way that I could [and] try to make a difference in someone’s life.”

Project Anti-Bully has been active on Georgetown’s campus, organizing

a Sandy Hook candle vigil after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. “[I am] … trying to really embrace kids and get them to notice the whole project and what we do,” Denicola, who is one of 15 students currently involved at Georgetown, said.

Pergolizzi said that the university’s Jesuit community supports the Project Anti-Bully’s work on campus, and the group aims to reach out to the broader campus community.

In addition to operating an ant-bully hotline, the project visits schools to educate children about different kinds of bullying, with a focus on cyberbullying. The organization is also working on a documentary titled “Kids Are Mean” and beginning two campaigns to increase bullying awareness.

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Georgetown Bench Emptied in Blowout PIRATES, from A10 composure and put up 42 points after the break, its largest total in any half since Dec. 15 against Western Carolina.

Junior forward Nate Lubick had another excellent all-around performance, with eight points, five assists and four rebounds. He also took a timely charge that added to Seton Hall junior center Eugene Teague’s foul trouble.

“Nate’s a junior and understands what we need to do,” Thompson III said. “He understands where he should be and where other guys on the floor should be, and he understands what we need to accomplish. That’s a responsibility he has.”

Both Lubick and Porter Jr. were essential to the motion of the offense, which improved considerably since a 53-point showing against then-No. 5 Louisville, even though the Pirates mixed up their defensive looks considerably throughout the game.

“Seton Hall went back and forth between their match-up [zone] and their straight man, but I thought for the most part offensively our guys did a good job of just moving,” Thompson III said. “We weren’t stagnant like we were the other day against Louisville.

There was more motion.”

Porter Jr. contributed to the offensive outburst, leading all players with 20 points in just 23 minutes of playing time. Freshman guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, while appearing to be comfortable in the offense, struggled with his shot today, finishing just 3-of-9 from the field; his improved defense, however, led to three steals, and he matched Caprio’s rebounding performance with six boards of his own.

Despite increased success offensively, Thompson III still was not satisfied with his team’s output: His opening statement was simply, “Absolutely, we need to work on our free throws. We may even do that tonight.”

To be sure, 56 percent from the charity stripe is a sign of wasted points, but the Hoyas did a good job of just getting to the line against Seton Hall — something the team has struggled with in recent games.

Still, the most noteworthy trend of late is Thompson III’s implementation of unusual lineups to provide depth to a team that desperately lacked it early in the season.

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Junior forward Aaron Bowen grabbed six boards in a scoreless outing Wednesday. crucial minutes in the last few contests.

Even freshman guard David Allen got in on the fun Wednesday, contributing four points in just over one minute of action.

His three-pointer with 25 seconds left to play brought Verizon Center to its feet and prompted a compliment from Willard.

“I was actually impressed with number 12 [Allen],” he said. “He has a nice stroke.”

But the standout of the game was Caprio, whose contributions — particularly his solid work on the glass — earned high praise from his coach.

“I probably should have been playing [Caprio] more. Just in terms of understanding how to play basketball, [Caprio is] one of our better guys,” Thompson III said. “And as you saw tonight, you can see he’s one of our better rebounders.”

When asked if Caprio’s performance will translate to more minutes in the future, Thompson III simply replied, “We’ll see.”

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Injuries Set Stage for End T his past week, NFL safety Bernard Pollard, President Barack Obama and actress (and Jay Cutler fiance) Kristin Cavallari all voiced concerns about football’s future. With the differences in their professions and concerns, this trio’s comments perfectly summed up the impending hardships that America’s true national pastime faces.

While Bernard Pollard’s worries that “30 years from now, I don’t think [the NFL] will be in existence” are plausible, genuine and insightful, they may also be hypocritical. In the Ravens’ last playoff game, Pollard launched himself headfirst into the opposing wide receiver, earning a $15,250 fine in the process. Having earned a reputation for injuring opposing players, Pollard’s hits and simultaneous concerns about hitting perfectly portray the NFL’s struggles with head injuries.

And yet, like Pollard says, coaches want players to be “stronger and faster year in and year out,” a formula that he fears will only equal more concussions, while subsequent rule changes will make the game almost unwatchable. But it was Pollard’s gravest concern that really caught people’s attention: “The only thing I’m waiting for ... and, Lord, I hope it doesn’t happen ... is a guy dying on the field.

We’ve had everything else happen there except for a death.”

Powerful as that statement may be, perhaps the question isn’t really about the NFL, because, as Pollard said, the players know the risks that they’re taking. Maybe the question is about the NFL’s feeder system, college football, and how it’ll be affected. It’s almost like I need another famous person to comment about it…

Enter President Obama. In an interview with The New Republic, the President voiced his concerns for all football players but specifically collegiate ones.

“You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to

fall back on,” Obama said. “That’s something that I’d like to see the NCAA think about.”

The NCAA, of course, isn’t exactly known for giving its studentathletes many rights — so few, in fact, that the former president of the NCAA wrote a book called “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes” when he realized how feudalistic the association he helped found had become. As Obama said, student-athletes don’t have a union. Maybe if the president gets out in front of the issue and voices concern about the safety of college football

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Football will soon become a sport for only the most daring. players, the NCAA will proactively institute more player safety rules.

If professional football will be a less-desirable sport to watch, and therefore a less-desirable profession in which to make a living, then college football will no doubt take a hit. The reason for that lies at the root of the problem, which Cavallari voiced perfectly.

Cavallari gave birth to Cutler’s son five months ago and, this past Sunday, revealed her wishes to keep baby Cam out of football.

Obama also disclosed that, if he had a son, he might steer him to another sport. Coming from a woman who only met her fiance because he plays football, however, Cavallari’s comments came as much more of a surprise.

And this is where all the past weekend’s concerns about foot-

ball come full circle. The NFL needs its feeder system of college players, and the NCAA needs a continuing stock of athletes.

Much of the reason that some parents — especially from rough areas — push their kids into sports is because athletics might be the best way to get them to college tuition-free. What happens if that parental push is replaced by parental fear?

Even if most parents are letting their sons play football so that they can have fun with other kids, learn teamwork and stay in shape, it’s important to remember that the only thing in life as certain as death and taxes is parents’ worrying about their kids.

While this logic is easy to see, there are a number of specific effects that appear sure to follow. For one, within the next five or seven years, all contact to the head in the NFL — even accidental — will likely be met with a heavy fine and/or suspension.

Also, Georgetown made a very shrewd move for the future by leaving the newly football-centric Big East, as basketball is set to become the biggest collegiate sport once football takes a hit. Finally, Pop Warner leagues across the country will have fewer and fewer participants, crippling football at all levels.

Maybe, then, football will become like boxing in society, a sport in which only the most daring of parents allow their kids to compete. Maybe neighborhoods in the north will be polar opposites of those in the South, where football is near impossible to remove from the culture — try imagining taking football away from the Texas town in “Friday Night Lights.”

Forget Chip Kelly and his newage offensive schemes: It’s head injuries that will be the driving force behind football’s next revolution.

Tom Hoff is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. DOWN TO THE WIRE appears every Friday.

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Weekend Represents Proving Ground for GU that the matches will be competitive.

TIM ELDRIDGE “The only [match] where I know how Special to the Hoya they play is the Pitt match with the girls,” Both the Georgetown men’s and wom- Ernst said. “We haven’t played Duquesne. en’s tennis teams are gearing up for two I don’t know Toledo. All I know is they’re Midwest matches this weekend, with the going to be good matches.”

Duquesne’s men’s team is 2-1 on the women facing Duquesne today and Pittsburgh on Saturday. The men will likewise season, while the women’s squad lost its match up against Duquesne today before only match 7-0 to Bowling Green. The Pittstravelling to Ohio tomorrow to take on burgh women’s team is 1-1 on the season, and the Toledo men’s team is 5-4. All four Toledo.

The spring season is just kicking off for matches should be strong tests for a largely both Georgetown squads, each of which unproven Georgetown side.

“This is what we’re talking about in had its first set of matches against VCU and Campbell on Jan. 18. The women’s terms of getting that respect and beating those teams that are team had a mixed result, similar to our team,” beating Campbell 3-2 be- “Otherwise, if you Ernst said. “You can’t get fore getting crushed by respect until you beat VCU 4-0. The men, mean- knock off [a better] these teams. Otherwise, while, fell to both squads, if you knock off [a betlosing a tight match to team, they call you a ter] team, they call you a Campbell 3-2 before go- one-hit wonder.” one-hit wonder like the ing down to VCU 4-0.

GORDIE ERNST ‘Pina Colada’ guy — it’s a Nevertheless, men’s Tennis head coach great song, but the guy and women’s Head Coach Gordie Ernst felt optimistic ahead of never did anything else.”

Ernst wants both his programs to build this weekend’s action.

“We were one point away from winning up a national name and reputation, and he on the guys’ side,” Ernst said. “We should hopes this weekend will provide a strong jumping-off point for the rest of the season. be 1-1 on both teams.”

“I think that VCU match was a good Ernst took some other positives from the VCU match, noting the Rams’ historically start, but these matches are the first real dominant program and Georgetown’s im- dual matches,” Ernst said. “I’m looking pressive showing against a clearly superior forward to seeing [freshman] Taylor [Perz] on the girls’ side and [sophomore] Danny squad.

“It’s just another level. But [senior Char- [Khanin] on the guys’ side compete. That’s lie Caris] almost beat their No. 1 guy,” Ernst why we do this: to get them in the fire and said. “That just shows you where Charlie is, really see what they can do.”

Beyond this weekend, however, the how he has developed.”

The Blue and Gray are hoping that Ca- coaching staff was still hesitant to name ris and the rest of their senior leadership expectations. Their biggest goal is to have will help them respond with a strong per- success in the Big East tournament.

“You get all these expectations, and formance this weekend. Ernst noted that he places special emphasis on the seniors’ you always get disappointed. It’s like marroles on the team, believing that the Hoyas riage,” Ernst said. “The goal we set is to have the leadership abilities to be success- go to the Big East tournament and win a round, which [the men] haven’t done here ful on both the men’s and women’s sides.

That said, Ernst admitted that the teams in years. The girls have done okay in the Big Georgetown will face this weekend are rel- East tournament the last few years, but the ative unknowns to the coaching staff. But guys are still looking for their first win.”

The road to achieving those goals contindespite not knowing exactly what they are up against, Ernst at the very least knows ues this weekend at Duquesne and Toledo.

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Four Hoyas Reach Double Figures in Cincy Slugfest CINCINNATI, from A10 pressing.’ Any time you see her take a jump shot and it goes across the basket, she’s pressing,” Brown said. “But defensively we are always going to stay in games. If we don’t let it get out of hand, we knew we had the capability of coming back and getting into the game.”

Two ensuing Hoya baskets cut the Bearcats’ lead to one point, but Cincy heard the footsteps and thrived under the pressure, seemingly unable to miss from beyond the arc. Still, thanks to a strong team effort from double-digit scorers Rodgers, senior center Sydney Wilson, junior forward Andrea White and sophomore forward Brittney Horne, the Blue and Gray managed to hold on and hang around.

Horne especially stepped up to the challenge, draining back-to-back treys to put her team up by two with just under 10 minutes remaining in the game.

Brown was pleased with his team’s production on offense, but he noted that the defense could have been stronger.

“Brittney has definitely stepped up on

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the offensive end, especially when she has 15 points,” Brown said. “But I have a philosophy that if we have four kids with double figures, we should be winning by 20.”

Both teams played aggressive, physical basketball down the stretch, but the Hoyas shored up their defense in the final minutes to claim the victory. Senior forward Vanessa Moore grabbed a critical rebound in the waning seconds to seal the victory for the Blue and Gray.

“All those kids had double figures, but [Moore] was my MVP because our philosophy is defend, rebound and share the ball.

She went and got that rebound, and she was smart enough to call the [timeout] so we could keep the ball.” Brown said.

The victory was a confidence boost for the Hoyas as they prepare for their next game on Saturday against the No. 12 Louisville Cardinals.

“This shows that we are getting better at closing games,” Brown said. “Earlier this season we may have lost this game. We’re going to need a lot of confidence going into Louisville. This game shows that if we stick together, we have a chance to win.”

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No. 12 UL Awaits on Road CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

The key to being successful in the grind of the Big East is simply to survive, and to survive teams have to win games at home and steal a few on the road. The Georgetown women’s basketball team will look to do the latter Saturday as it heads south to take on No. 12 Louisville (18-4, 6-2 Big East).

Georgetown (13-8, 4-4 Big East) is coming off of a strong week, first defeating Pittsburgh in commanding fashion last Saturday and then fending off Cincinnati 54-52 Tuesday to get themselves back on track.

But winning in Louisville will certainly not be an easy task: The Cardinals boast an impressive 10-1 home record so far on the season, their sole loss coming against No. 8 Kentucky. And although Louisville does not dominate one certain area of the game, it is an incredibly well-rounded team.

Even so, Georgetown Head Coach Keith Brown was not intimidated.

“I think we match up well with [Louisville]. We played close games with them last year,” Brown said. “It has been going back and forth the last couple years. Hopefully this is a trend that continues, and we can go out on the road and steal one. “ The Cardinals are currently riding a four-game winning streak, most recently holding off South Florida 78-75

Wednesday. Junior guard Shoni Schimmel — a constant threat from deep — lit up the Bulls in that contest for 38 points and an 8-for-14 mark from behind the arc. The Hoyas will therefore primarily look to stop Schimmel, who ranks in the top five in the Big East in treys made.

“We just have to get in [Schimmel’s] face,” Brown said. “We are going to pressure her like we normally pressure everyone, so hopefully we can

“Defending Louisville is going to be our biggest problem.”

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turn her over, but she is an outstanding player. She is a McDonald’s All-American. She can flat-out shoot the basketball. We just have to rattle her a little bit.”

Schimmel isn’t the only player to watch on offense, though, as two more Cardinals average double-digit point totals. As a team, Louisville averages 73.6 points a game and is third in the Big East in scoring margin, topping opponents by an average of 20.8 points per game.

“I think their two guards average 38 points [combined], so what we have to do is cut those points down there,” Brown said, referring to Schimmel and junior Antonita Slaughter. “If we can do that, I think

we will have the opportunity to be in the game.”

On top of that challenge, though, the Blue and Gray will also have to control their turnovers. Averaging 20.2 a game, Georgetown will have to make every possession count against an elite team like Louisville.

“When you want to push the ball as much as we do, and you want to be a transitional team, you are going to have turnovers. I am able to live with that part,” Brown said. “How we cancel those out is we turn the other team over 23 times.

But we are going to turn the ball over because I want them to be in transition — I want them to take the chance to get layups.”

On the offensive side, the Hoyas once again will turn to senior shooting guard Sugar Rodgers to lead the way. Rodgers can certainly take over games, but she won’t be able to do it all on her own against the Cards, as contributions on both ends will also be needed from junior forward Andrea White, senior center Sydney Wilson and sophomore forward Brittany Horne.

“They are going to load up on Sugar, but if Brittany, Sydney and Andrea can step up and we can get four kids in double figures, scoring won’t be our biggest problem,” Brown said. “Defending Louisville is going to be our biggest problem.”

The Hoyas will take on the Cardinals Saturday at the KFC Yum! Center. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m.

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Harrison SJU’s Biggest Threat JOHNNIES, from A10 visitors’ throats early to avoid any chance of an upset.

Sophomore guard D’Angelo Harrison has hit nine threes in the Red Storm’s last three games — all relatively close wins — and will likely be the focal point of Georgetown’s defensive scheme. The Hoyas are usually quite effective at defending the three-point shot, but the absence of sophomore wing Greg Whittington (academic ineligibility) has left holes in John Thompson III’s perimeter defense.

The Johnnies, meanwhile, will be zeroed in on sopho-

more forward Otto Porter Jr. and junior guard Markel Starks, both of whom have been lighting it up over the past three games. Porter Jr. has been consistently excellent throughout conference play, averaging better than 19 points and nine rebounds per game. Starks, who struggled with consistency earlier in the season, has found his stroke and perfected a deadly stepback jumper that kept the Hoyas alive in their upset of Louisville.

Georgetown is notorious for playing down to inferior competition — especially after big victories — but showed no

inclination of that Wednesday night. The Hoyas forced Seton Hall into 25 turnovers in a dominant wire-to-wire victory.

If Georgetown can hold Harrison and freshman forward Jakarr Sampson in check while maintaining the high-octane offense it displayed in the teams’ last meeting, Saturday should be another cakewalk for the Hoyas. But St. John’s has seen Georgetown once before and has proven its worth against teams as talented as Notre Dame and Cincinnati, so a Blue and Gray win is no guarantee.

Saturday’s tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

RAISING THE BAR

Super Bowl a Clash of Styles FOOTBALL, from A10 that saw him set the NFL record for rushing yards in a single game for a quarterback, as well as the 49ers record for single game postseason rushing for any player, regardless of position.

The electric Kaepernick is surrounded on offense by similarly dynamic weapons in Vernon Davis, Frank Gore and Michael Crabtree. On the other side of the ball, the young linebacker corps of Aldon Smith (19.5 sacks in 2012), Patrick Willis (120 tackles) and NaVorro Bowman (144 tackles) has laid waste to opposing offenses. San Francisco finds itself one win away from the Lombardi Trophy on the back of the extraordinary running and throwing duality of Kaepernick and their young studs on defense.

Baltimore, meanwhile, has made its mark these playoffs through much more traditional means: with a balanced attack on offense and no-nonsense play on defense.

Its success in that system has been thanks in large part to the wily veterans that have been mainstays in the Baltimore lineup for, in some cases, more than a decade. On the offensive side of the ball, quarterback Joe Flacco is having perhaps his finest season yet, adding onto a stellar regular season with eight postseason touchdowns. Alwaysdependable running back

Ray Rice is putting the final touches on another workhorse campaign, and receivers Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith have come up big time and time again this postseason, combining for five touchdowns. Defensively, the usual suspects are still there for Baltimore, with Terrell Suggs chipping in two sacks this postseason and Ed Reed and Haloti Ngata anchoring the secondary and defensive line, respectively.

But for all those differences, all those discrepancies in recipes for success, both Harbaughs bring their teams to the Super Bowl with the same thing on their mind: redemption.

For San Francisco, it’s a chance to erase the agonizing memories of fumbling away the chance to reach the Super Bowl last year against the eventual champion New York Giants. For the Ravens, it’s the chance to forget the excruciating missed field goal that would have sent last year’s AFC conference championship game to overtime.

No one has redemption on their mind more than Ray Lewis, though; having already announced his plans to retire after the season, this is Lewis’ swan song. His on-field play has been sparkling throughout his 17-year NFL career — all of which he’s spent with the Ravens — including a Super Bowl victory and thirteen Pro Bowl selections. His off-field

legacy, though, is far murkier, tarnished by his murder trial in 2000. Although he was never convicted on the murder charges, Lewis’ most vocal critics have not ceased to allege his involvement in the case. It’s safe to say, then, that Lewis would like nothing more than to go out with another Super Bowl triumph, confetti falling around him as he hoists the Lombardi Trophy towards the heavens and silences the critics — something far easier said than done for the most intimidating player of his generation.

The Harbaugh Bowl promises not to disappoint. It’s new school against old school. It’s Lewis’ final game, it’s Kaepernick’s breakout moment and, of course, it’s the ultimate settling of scores between brothers. In the end, though, I say it will be a kicker who decides the contest. A gutsy, grind-itout game will culminate with a spectacular Kaepernick scramble on the final drive to set up David Akers, the ageless San Francisco kicker.

Calmly nailing a game-winning field goal in the closing ticks of the game, Akers will finally capture that elusive Super Bowl ring, denying the embattled Lewis a storybook ending of his own.

My pick: 17-14, Niners.

Peter Barston is a freshman in the McDonough School of Business. RAISING THE BAR appears every Friday.

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TALKING POINTS

Obama isn’t the only one who has said he wouldn’t want his son playing football.

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You get all these expectations, and you always get disappointed.

It’s like marriage.

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Unsung GU Squeezes by UC Lubick at In See-Saw Affair The Center G LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

eorgetown’s bizarre but convincing win over Seton Hall Wednesday night provided scores of ready-made storylines for the Phonebooth press corps.

There’s John Caprio’s inexplicable jump from human victory cigar to effective backup wing. D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera’s offensive slump. The team’s mental block at the free throw line. Markel Starks’ ridiculously hot hand.

But given that Seton Hall played worse than any team Georgetown has seen this season, I don’t want to spend too much time analyzing Wednesday night’s blowout. The Pirates committed 25 turnovers and 29 fouls while shooting under 33 percent from the field. You don’t win games that way. End of story.

So let’s take this opportunity to talk about why the Blue and Gray have looked so good lately.

The easy answers are the emergence of a reliable bench and the scoring prowess of Starks and Otto Porter Jr. But as well as the two stars have been shooting, there’s only one guy who has played a near-perfect game every time out in the recent streak. And that guy is Nate Lubick.

Lubick is the quiet, efficient engine at the center of the Hoyas’ offensive and defensive strategies, the Leo McGarry to Porter Jr.’s Jed Bartlet. What he lacks in flash and scoring ability he makes up for in pinpoint passing, perfect defensive positioning and a nose for tough rebounds.

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (13-8, 4-4 Big East) traded leads eight times with the Cincinnati Bearcats (8-12, 0-7 Big East)

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Sophomore forward Brittany Horne put up 15 points in Tuesday’s win.

The number of GU substitutes used in Wednesday’s 74-52 rout of Seton Hall at Verizon.

before pulling off a thrilling twopoint win on Tuesday night.

The Blue and Gray jumped to an early lead in the first half by shutting out the Bearcats for the opening five minutes of the game before the visitors hit their stride from three-point range and began to close the gap. The Hoyas’ defense struggled from that point on to neutralize the Cincy threat from beyond the arc in the first half, although Head Coach Keith Brown was pleased with the way his squad adjusted in that regard in the second half.

“With us, it’s just about getting to the shooters,” Brown said. “We can’t be lazy on defense, and I tell them that all the time. We just had some missed assignments in the first half.”

Thanks to a couple of free throws by senior guard Sugar Rodgers, the Blue and Gray entered halftime with a 29-24 lead, but the Bearcats quickly erased that advantage after the break, firing on all cylinders en route to a 10-0 run.

Brown knew that Rodgers needed to slow down and make better shot selections if the Hoyas were going to regain their composure.

“I sat down and said, ‘Sugar, you’re

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Seldom-used junior guard John Caprio chipped in four points and two assists in addition to his team-leading six rebounds vs. SHU.

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Pat Curran As Lubick goes, so goes the team.

Of course, it hasn’t always been that way. For the better part of his three years on the Hilltop, Lubick’s been valued for his prolific rebounding and — cliche alert — scrappiness. But on the offensive end, the workmanlike forward was such a liability that he was often benched early in games last season in favor of thenfreshman Porter Jr. That’s not the case anymore. This year, Lubick has taken on a crucial role in the Hoyas’ offense, one that isn’t always clear from a glance at the stat sheet but that becomes apparent when studying the tape.

Lubick doesn’t take bad shots. He tips contested rebounds out to teammates.

His passing acumen makes the Princeton offense run. His jump hook has become a viable weapon in the low post when Porter Jr. and Starks can’t get open.

On defense, his positioning against the pick-and-roll is flawless, and he successfully draws charges where frontcourt mate Mikael Hopkins would foul.

These recent developments have combined with his well-established scrappiness to make Lubick the Hoyas’ second-most important player on most possessions. For example, in one firsthalf sequence during Wednesday night’s game, Lubick threaded a pass to a cutting Porter Jr. for an open layup and then flew out to block a three-point attempt by Seton Hall’s Brandon Mobley on the ensuing Pirate possession.

At only 6-foot-8 with average speed, Lubick will never be a star in the traditional mold of the Georgetown big man. A good game from him can’t carry a team to victory, especially if Porter Jr. and Starks aren’t shooting well. But the Hoyas can’t win if Lubick isn’t doing his job effectively — that is, making the passes only he can make and hustling on the defensive end.

Luckily for them, that almost never happens.

PAT CURRAN is a junior in the College and former sports editor of The Hoya.

Georgetown’s 74-52 thrashing of Seton Hall Wednesday night gave fans what they often clamor for — an extended look at junior guard John Caprio, who checked into the game with over four minutes to play.

Four minutes to play in the first half, that is.

Caprio, whose solid play early in the game elicited chants of his name from the student section, led the Hoyas with six rebounds and chipped in four points and two assists.

“Coach always tells me to be ready to contribute, so that’s what I tried to do today,” Caprio said. “I hope I was pretty good.”

He was certainly good enough to earn 12 minutes of playing time, almost matching his season’s minute total in just one game.

Georgetown got off to a fast start Wednesday, posting 20 points in the first eight min-

Two brothers, separated in age redemption.

The Super Bowl XLVII matchup by a mere 15 months, have dominated the headlines leading up to is a showcase in the contrasting this Sunday’s Super Bowl, where styles of play that yield success the Jim Harbaugh-led San Francis- in today’s NFL. San Francisco is co 49ers are set to face off against headlined by the flashy, multiJohn Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ra- faceted quarterback play of Colin Kaepernick. The former vens. Much has been University of Nevada made of this “Harbaugh star is now at the foreBowl,” and it’s easy to front of the barrage of see why — that the first quarterbacks challengbrothers to ever coach ing the NFL convention in the NFL are meeting that a so-called “college in the premier Amerioffense,” one of dualcan sporting event is threat quarterback play of course something of Peter Barston and spread offense, can’t note. This brother-versucceed in the NFL. In sus-brother storyline is no doubt intriguing, but the big- his first career playoff game eargest storylines for this year’s big lier this postseason, Kaepernick game are about much more than a racked up four total touchdowns little sibling rivalry: The 49ers and to go with more than 400 yards of Ravens squaring off is about young offense, a sensational performance guns and old veterans, comings See FOOTBALL, A9 and goings and, most importantly,

utes, but a characteristic scoring drought led to just three Hoya points in the following eight.

With sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. on the bench due to foul trouble, Seton Hall seized their opportunity to narrow the gap, going on a 12-3 run to pull within seven.

But the Pirates would get no closer. In typical fashion, Georgetown’s defense was absolutely suffocating, holding Seton Hall to 22 points in the first half — including just four points in the first eight minutes — and forcing 25 turnovers in the game.

Seton Hall Head Coach Kevin Willard certainly noticed.

“They’re probably as good of a defensive team as there is in the country,” Willard said of the Blue and Gray. “They’re physical, they’re solid [and] there are no gimmicks to them.”

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St. John’s Weekend Rematch Not to be Overlooked PAT CURRAN

Hoya Staff Writer

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Sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. had a game-high 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the floor against the Pirates on Tuesday.

No matter what happens in tomorrow’s Georgetown-St. John’s game, a winning streak will end.

The Red Storm (14-7, 6-3 Big East) visit Verizon Center tomorrow afternoon on a five-game win streak looking to down the hosting Hoyas (15-4, 5-3 Big East), who have won three in a row themselves.

After a mediocre performance in the nonconference schedule and a rocky start to Big East play — including a 67-51 blowout at Georgetown’s hands at Madison Square Garden — the Johnnies have rebounded in a big way. They beat then-No. 20

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Notre Dame at home and swept the Big East cellar in the next four games, with wins over Rutgers, Seton Hall and DePaul twice.

The Hoyas, meanwhile, are still riding high after back-to-back upsets of then-No. 24 and then-No. 5 Louisville last week. The Blue and Gray were firing on all cylinders once again Wednesday night against Seton Hall, when they coasted to a 7452 win.

The Johnnies flopped miserably in the teams’ last matchup and will likely have made adjustments to avoid another disappointment, so the Hoyas will look to step on their See JOHNNIES, A9