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JT3 NOTCHES NO. 200

COMMENTARY The film “Zero Dark Thirty” misrepresents the role of torture in bin Laden’s death.

JUSTICE JOURNALISM Two students have launched an online magazine on social justice.

PROVOST’S OFFICE Robert Groves discusses the reasoning behind the reorganization of his office.

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OPINION, A3

NEWS, A5

NEWS, A7

Head Coach John Thompson III had his 200th Georgetown victory Saturday.

GUSA Hopefuls Revealed

GU Applicants 13,000

Class of 2016 Total: 20,050

12,000

Class of 2017 Total: 20,025

11,000 4,000

Percentage Change: 2.5% COL:

3,000 2,000 1,000 0

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1.0%

MSB:

8.0%

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4.2%

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Regular Decision Applications Plateau Michael Donnay Special to The Hoya

Georgetown’s regular decision undergraduate applicant pool for the Class of 2017 was almost identical to that of the previous year, which bucks a trend of application growth in previous years. A total of 20,025 students applied in the early and regular decision cycles, down just 0.1 percent from last year’s 20,050. Of those, 13,289 were regular decision applications, down slightly from last year’s 13,351. The Class of 2016 continued a trend of year-to-year application increases, with a jump from the previous year’s 19,228 applications. Although the College received the largest number of applications out of the university’s four schools with 11,714, this figure marked a 2.5 percent decrease from last year. The School of Foreign Service had the second largest pool with 3,690 applicants, marking an increase of 1 percent. A record number of students ap-

plied to the McDonough School of Business and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, with the MSB experiencing an 8 percent increase, with 3,370 students applying, and the NHS receiving 1,251 applicants, a 4.2 percent increase. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said these figures, which reflect national trends, have stemmed from ongoing concerns about the economy. “Students are more concerned with job security,” he said. “They are gravitating to science and pre-med tracks.” While the total number of applicants remained consistent with last year when a little over 20,100 people applied, this year, the diversity of the student body continues to expand, Deacon said. African Americans made up 7.6 percent of the applicants, Asian Americans 15 percent and Hispanic Americans 11.8 percent. International students also made up 12.8 percent of this year’s applicant pool. Between 2,200 and 2,400 See ADMISSIONS, A6

Info session attendance indicates five tickets for upcoming GUSA race Danny Funt

Hoya Staff Writer

Although students running for Georgetown University Student Association president and vice president cannot formally begin their campaigns until Thursday, attendance at mandatory information sessions Jan. 31 and Feb. 4 offered an unofficial confirmation of the five tickets entering the 2013 race. The GUSA election committee required students to attend one of the two sessions in order to appear on the Feb. 21 ballot. There were a total of 10 students in attendance, and multiple sources confirm that the presidential and vice presidential pairings include: Spencer Walsh (MSB ’14) and Robert Silverstein (SFS ’14); Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) and Maggie Cleary (COL ’14);

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From left: Shavonnia Corbin-Johnson, Maggie Cleary, Adam Ramadan, Andrew Logerfo and Cannon Warren are among the 10 contenders vying for executive GUSA positions in the Feb. 21 election. Shavonnia Corbin-Johnson (SFS ’14) and Joe Vandegriff (COL ’14); Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14); and Cannon Warren (COL ’14) and Andrew Logerfo (COL ’14).

The group features no underclassmen, no members of the GUSA executive and no varsity See CANDIDATES, A6

Alum Joins Race for NYC Mayor Meghan Patzer Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY JOE LHOTA

Joe Lhota (MSB ’76) is leading early Republican polls for the New York City mayoral election.

Georgetown students eager to make a splash in politics have no shortage of role models in Hilltop alumni. But it is rarer for alumni to throw their hats in the ring for the mayor’s office of the largest city in the country. Joseph Lhota (MSB ’76) has entered the New York City mayoral race, whose November winner will replace current mayor Michael Bloomberg when he steps down at the end of the year. Lhota, whose daughter Kathryn is a senior in the College, filed the necessary documents to register as a Republican candidate for the position Jan. 17 and has since revved up his upcoming campaign for the city’s top office, which will be decided on Nov. 5, 2013. A longtime New York resident, Lhota was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island. He then

came to Washington, D.C., to study at Georgetown in 1972. Although he earned his degree in business administration, he says his time spent on the Hilltop helped guide him toward politics. “As a Georgetown student in the ’70s, all of us were particularly interested in politics as an effective route for change at that time,” he said. According to Lhota, 58, his experience in student government was an early indicator of his lifelong dedication to public service. “I was part of the [Georgetown University Student Association] in the early stages of its creation,” he said. “I was the campaign manager for someone who was running for president of the student body, and I held the same position for another candidate the year before that. I think all of that certainly played a role in my doing some work on See MAYOR, A6

Soapy Joe’s Mistakenly Overcharged Students

SUPERFOOD, SUPER SINGING

Kylie Mohr

“I said, ‘This is ridiculous — there is no way,’” Barry recalled. Students who use Soapy Joe’s regisSoapy Joe’s, a Washington, D.C.- ter for either a semester or year-long based dry cleaning and laundry service, plan of 15, 20 or 25 pounds of launovercharged 35 Georgetown students dry per week. Bags are weighed and scanned each time they go into the throughout the fall 2012 semester. According to Matt Sternberg, presi- facility. Students are billed $1.50 for dent and co-owner of Soapy Joe’s, a every additional pound over the limit specified in the technical error purchased plan. was to blame “They never give Thus, Barry was for the incorrect overcharged $120 charges and the you any notification. during the one company is workweek he cited. ing to refund cus- They just charge you According to tomers. straight to your Sternberg, stuMany students dents are notified were alerted to credit card.” of overages halfpotential billing Daniel Sandoval (SFS ’16) way through and errors through a Soapy Joe’s customer at the end of the Facebook post on semester. Jan. 15 by Alex OrSome students who were overndahl (COL ’16). “I noticed at the end of the semes- charged, however, received no such ter that they were definitely over- notification. “They never give you any notificacharging,” Orndahl said. “Seventy-five pounds over [the weekly limit] was a tion. They just charge you straight to your credit card,” Daniel Sandoval (SFS little bit impossible.” After seeing the post, user PJ Barry ’16) said. When PJ Barry called Soapy Joe’s to (MSB ’16) was prompted to look at his bill and saw that he had been charged inquire about the overage charges, twice for some weeks. One week, his he was told the scanner must have statement stated that he had 100 been broken. pounds of laundry — 80 pounds over See LAUNDRY, A6 his limit.

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Joan Abbot (SFS ’16), pictured center, led Superfood in two solos during the group’s Friday night performace at the Georgetown Chimes’ Cherry Tree Massacre in Gaston Hall. Also performing Friday were the Phantoms, Gracenotes, Chamber Singers, Saxatones and Chimes. The Chimes will invite other a capella groups from both Georgetown and neighboring universities to perform at events during the next two weekends. Newsroom: (202) 687-3415 Business: (202) 687-3947

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White House on the Hilltop – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will speak tomorrow in Gaston Hall at 9:30 a.m.

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Movin’ on Up – The men’s basketball team secured a spot in the Associated Press’s weekly rankings, coming in at No. 20 after going three weeks unranked.

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It’s commendable that GUSA wants to make food services better, but the senate’s newest creation of the Subcommittee on Food Service may prove hard to swallow. Last year’s Georgetown University Student Association elections saw multiple candidates campaign on improving food services, highlighting the genuine need on campus for a concerted effort to improve on-campus dining. In the past several years — and especially this past semester — Aramark, Georgetown’s food service provider, has come under fire for everything from unfair compensation of workers to numerous health-code violations. In November, the GUSA senate moved in the right direction with a food service quality bill, which led to improvement of the stir fry and salad bar stations. The new Subcommittee on Food Services represents a continuation of that effort and demonstrates reassuring commitment to this cause. But GUSA already has a committee to deal with food services. The Executive External Committee for Food Service was designed to tackle these issues and even includes overlapping members from the new senate subcommittee. GUSA senators involved with the creation of the subcommittee say that while the

existing committee has been successful, it hasn’t done enough for food services, adding that the senate wants to take the matter into its own hands. But if GUSA hopes to be a true force for change on campus, it must remember that cooperation between the senate and the executive sends a stronger message to administrators and the student body than creating separate committees that, by all indications, are redundant. The subcommittee’s ideas are good ones. By pursuing non-GUSA student input and creating surveys that would provide information to groups other than Aramark, the new committee could foster accountability and insert a stronger student voice into food-services decisions. But to earn the respect and support of administrators, Aramark and students alike, the subcommittee must prove that it is more than bureaucratic overlap. This will entail working hand in hand with the executive committee, perhaps providing the catalyst it needs to move the stalled planning forward. As GUSA campaign season approaches, candidates can increase their credibility and move platforms forward by remembering that responsibility and initiative should not be shifted back and forth between GUSA’s branches, but fostered collaboratively.

A Global Hilltop Beginning in fall 2013, Georgetown will offer coursework through EdX, a massive open online course platform launched in May by Harvard and MIT. These courses are not limited for enrollment to those currently on the Hilltop but rather are available for free to anyone with Internet access. EdX aims to promote learning and provide education for a global audience — for students of all ages, backgrounds and economic means. The platform will allow students around the globe to reap the benefits of Georgetown’s and other prestigious universities’ word-class faculties and programs. EdX currently features courses from only a handful of schools, making Georgetown’s decision to engage in the initiative all the more significant, embodying the university’s objective of extending its values and opportunities beyond the front gates.

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All Hail Queen Bey – Beyoncé announced an international world tour, including a performance at the Verizon Center on July 29. Dine on a Dime – D.C.’s Restaurant Week will take place through Feb. 10, offering renowned dining for a fraction of the usual cost. Jewelry Heist – Shattering a display case with hammers, four thieves stole $127,000 worth of jewelry from Zales Jewelers in Pentagon City Mall yesterday morning.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @rmathis

Feb. 1

The good news for GU’s social media continues! @thehoya writes a nice feature, “GU Ups Online Presence”

@bobbie_32 Feb. 3

“@thehoyasports: JTIII: Had no idea that tonight was his 200th win. “Hope to get 201st in the next game.”” Congrats Coach!!

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1 more out of the hat for @mj_meaney n Greg! “@thehoya: A new mobile app will offer SafeRides and GUTS GPS tracking.

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Please!! that would rock RT @thehoya WMATA is looking into constructing a Metro tunnel between Georgetown and Rosslyn.

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#petpeeve RT @thehoya EDITORIAL: When professors go over allotted class time, students pay the price.

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The program also allows participating universities to study how diverse groups of students learn. The pedagogical research garnered from this kind of program will be invaluable in discovering how people learn and how we can begin to bridge the educational gaps in the global community. It also presents an opportunity for current Georgetown students interested in partaking in such research. EdX is an example of how technology can better the global community. Now that Georgetown has entered the fold, hopefully more institutions will follow suit. It is through education that individuals can change the world, and it is inspiring to see Georgetown offering an opportunity for education to those who are not able to tread cautiously around the Georgetown seal themselves.

Putting the ‘GO’ in GOCard A weary freshman finally musters up the motivation to do laundry, packs up all of his clothes into his hamper and rides the elevator all the way down to the basement of Harbin Hall. He loads all of his clothes into the washer and walks over to the GOCard swipe machine — only to see the words “insufficient funds” register on the screen. To replenish his debit dollars, he will have to go back to his dorm room and log onto the Georgetown One Card website on his computer. While this is certainly a trivial inconvenience, it is matched by an easy solution. The university should add a feature on the Georgetown Mobile App that would allow students to

deposit funds into their debit dollars account while on the go. Whether it is to do laundry, access printing services in Lauinger or Blommer Science Library or pay for lab equipment to use in a science course, GOCard debit dollars are an indispensable resource at Georgetown, and facilitating the way in which one adds funds to the card is in everyone’s interest. The Georgetown App recently launched a new feature called DoubleMap that allows students to track GUTS buses and SafeRides. Having a feature that allows students to easily deposit funds would be a worthwhile extension of the Georgetown App and would allow GOCards to be truly as mobile as they aspire to be.

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‘Zero’ Dark on Details T

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n Nov. 6, Puerto Ricans at home went to the polls to vote in the general election as well as a local plebiscite regarding their territorial status. The outcome, albeit fuzzy, was the first time Puerto Ricans seemed to show support for entering the union as the 51st state. Although no political change will likely arise from this result, these reactions highlighted America’s past and the way we treat Latinos here and abroad. Negative stereotypes of Latinos and Latinas in the media have always been present. After the results of the plebiscite, politicians and the media wondered about the possibility of a state that looked differently from the rest. Questions about the language, poverty and crime on the island dominated the discourse, and one media outlet even compared the sexuality of Puerto Rican women to normal — meaning white — women. Some commentators regarded this as a ploy by President Obama to get more Latino voters to increase the democratic majority. These types of responses only add to the level of mistrust currently facing Latinos in the United States. Commentators have tried to dismiss the possibility of Puerto Rican statehood by criticizing the island’s exotic culture, completely ignoring the fact that there are now more people of Puerto Rican descent in the United States than on the island itself. But the main issue implicit in this debate is, of course, immigration. A poll released by the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Latino Decisions four

Our efforts now must focus on calling out this negative discourse that leads to laws that try to exclude racial minorities. months ago revealed that 30 percent of Americans believe that all Latinos in the United States are undocumented. And questions about immigration almost always collapse to invalid concerns about the level of poverty, amount of welfare and number of children immigrants have. These same questions are now being raised about Puerto Rico. These concerns reveal, of course, the true fear: a takeover. Over the past couple of years, anti-immigrant groups have pushed for racist laws all over the country to preserve a social order where Latinos will remain a minority. Arizona’s SB 1070, English-only laws and efforts to eliminate “anchor babies” now preoccupy the minds of many of our legislators that use immigration and Puerto Rico as an excuse to fulfill their own racial biases and hatred. Politicians and the media have always used “takeover” language when discussing people of color in the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act passed in response to fears of a “yellow takeover.” But today, the fear of a takeover by Latinos guided most of our discourse — except the way we talk about our fear of takeovers has shifted. Outright racist violence and exclusion has gone out of style, so people have gotten more creative. Just ask Arizona’s Maricopa County, where Spanishspeaking voters received incorrect information about their polling dates multiple times, or even the voter ID Laws that disproportionately affect Latino voters. We can expect more of these laws as people encounter more signals of a plural racial society in the United States. The Puerto Rican plebiscite, immigration and outright demographic changes will continue to reveal the racial biases and stereotypes that our political and media leaders have. These types of political changes reveal that fears of takeovers are still very much present in the American psyche. Our efforts now must focus on calling out this negative discourse that leads to laws that try to exclude racial minorities from engaging in civic life.

Zenen Jaimes Pérez is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. IDENTITY POLITICS appears every other Tuesday.

o say “Zero Dark Thirty” is controversial is an understatement. Debate has raged since before the movie was released. The film — directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jessica Chastain — tells the story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden through the eyes of Chastain’s CIA analyst. The controversy centers on its depiction of torture and what it implies about whether this method is effective in fighting terrorism. The debate also touches on the broader topic of the responsibility of art to its subject — especially when that subject is an ongoing conflict. The film’s critics take issue with how it presents torture, which the film seems to indicate was instrumental in locating bin Laden’s hideout. The first portion of the movie shows CIA officers torturing an al-Qaeda detainee. The detainee provides the name of bin Laden’s courier, a tip that eventually leads the CIA to bin Laden himself. And later in the film, some characters suggest that President Obama’s termination of the use of torture complicated the search. As numerous commentators have pointed out, this is inaccurate. It’s not clear that torture yielded any such pieces of information, and the film seems to have generated numerous false details about the real-world events. More disturbingly, it may also lead to the justification of torture as a crucial tool in counterterrorism. The movie’s supporters, in turn, do not defend its depiction of torture as accurate. Instead, they point out that the movie is, after all, just a movie. The film, they say, was faithful in its depiction of much of the analytical work lead-

To what extent are filmmakers responsible for accurately representing the real-life events they turn into a movie? ing to the discovery of bin Laden’s hideout, as well as the Navy SEALs’ raid that brought him down. If it isn’t completely accurate in everything it shows, that’s because films don’t need to be completely accurate; they’re works of art, not news reports. But it’s not just a movie, is it? It purports to realistically depict the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Re-

viewers of the film have praised it for its documentary nature. And some have even called Bigelow the “poet laureate of the war on terror.” Although I personally think the breathless praise for “Zero Dark Thirty” is a bit overblown, the film does have some artistic value. We can see the obsessive, draining nature of the war on ter-

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ror — both for those fighting it and American society as a whole — in Chastain’s performance. The “what now” ending is powerful without resorting to triumphalism or bathos. And even the film’s unflinching use of torture is effective, forcing audiences to confront tactics that were implicitly sanctioned by much of society for nearly a decade. The question, then, is not whether it’s a good film — it is. The question is this: To what extent are filmmakers responsible for accurately representing the real-life ongoing subject matter they turn into a movie? When you open a movie with a scene claiming it is based on true events and then cut to actual phone calls from the events on Sept. 11, you can’t get away with claiming it’s just a movie. At that point, the film must either accurately portray what happens or is shamelessly drawing on our stillraw grief from that day. Given that the very next scene is an extended depiction of the torture of a terrorist detainee that misrepresents the role torture played in finding bin Laden, the film fails at this. This is the tension in the defense of “Zero Dark Thirty.” It is either an accurate retelling or a work of art — it can’t be both. Granted, this is present in other films: Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” does fudge a few of the details. But when it comes to influencing public opinion on whether the use of torture is justified in defending the United States from terrorism, the stakes are too high to let this slide.

Peter S. Henne is a doctoral candidate in the government department at Georgetown.

SPOCK MEETS BARACK

Pro-Choice Broader Casting Call: The Than Abortion Issue Perfect President

ast Tuesday marked the are too black and white, this is 40th anniversary of Roe v. simply not the case. In reality, Wade, the landmark Su- pro-choice is the term that enpreme Court case that legalized compasses this, because it allows abortion nationwide. Even be- individuals to practice their own fore Roe, the terms “pro-choice” beliefs without imposing those beand “pro-life” were used to politi- liefs on others. Pro-choice means cally frame points of view regard- regardless of personal values — ing abortion rights. In the past 40 moral or otherwise — we trust in years, however, those who believe the right of men and women to that abortion is a purely moral make decisions for themselves issue have distorted these labels. and for their bodies without outFor many of us who support a side imposition or restriction. Prowoman’s right to make decisions choice means we respect the situabout her body, this distortion ations and circumstances of other is troubling. Where once pro-life individuals. Pro-choice means we meant the opposition to legal- not only recognize a woman’s ized abortion, it now seems to right to a safe and legal abortion encompass anyone who, for per- but also her right to make that desonal reasons, disagrees with the cision independently or with the concept of abortion. help of those she trusts. That a majority of young AmerIn addition, it is very important icans label to recognize — themselves as especially here pro-life while at Georgetown There is a stigma two-thirds of — that, while the same group attached to pro-choice and p r o - c h o i c e agrees with the includes the many other women’s decision of Roe issue of aborv. Wade dem- issues across this campus. tion, it encomonstrates this passes many transformation more decisions in meaning. Though these statis- that both men and women make tics appear contradictory, they ac- throughout their lives. These intually reveal that, somewhere in clude, but are certainly not limthe past 40 years, the pro-choice ited to, the decision to have sex, movement got lost. Rather than the decision to use contraception being associated with individual and the decision to be tested for freedom and trust in the deci- sexually transmitted diseases. sions of our fellow Americans, However, reclaiming prothe pro-choice movement has choice here at Georgetown is no come to be viewed as radical and easy task. There is a stigma atmarginalized. I refuse to accept tached to pro-choice and many this misguided transformation other women’s issues across this of what it means to be pro-choice. campus. This stigma silences As a result of the aforemen- students and fails to promote tioned statistics and the in- the “serious and sustained discreasingly warped meaning of course among people of different pro-choice, many organizations faiths, cultures and beliefs” that and individuals have decided to Georgetown’s mission statement abandon the label and move to- urges. To reclaim pro-choice at wards a nameless gray area. This Georgetown, we must reclaim shift represents a seeming lack of this university as a space where conviction that this movement — diversity of opinion is valued, given the countless attacks it has where students, faculty and staff undergone in the last few years — are encouraged to speak up withsimply cannot tolerate. Not only out fear of censorship, where we does renouncing the pro-choice engage cura personalis by havlabel appear to be a concession ing “distinct respect for [one’s] on the issue, but it also gives the unique circumstances and conimpression that those who are cerns,” and where the pro-choice anti-choice — those who oppose label is something to be proud of, legal abortion — have succeeded not something to shy away from in seizing the movement and re- out of confusion or fear. defining it on their own terms. Instead of deserting pro-choice Haylie Jacobson is a sophomore we must reclaim it. While there in the School of Foreign Service. are those who argue that the la- She is vice president of H*yas bels “pro-life” and “pro-choice” for Choice.

recently saw a trailer for a new nacity of the American people. That is film called “Olympus Has Fallen.” easy to do when facing an alien invaIt’s basically “Die Hard,” but in the sion, with Will Smith as a secret weapWhite House and with Aaron Eckhart on. Even without the Fresh Prince at as the president. It looks pretty bad. I their back, many real presidents have mean, what would Aaron Eckhart be displayed that same never-say-die attilike as president? For the answer, see tude. Lyndon Johnson vowed to finish “The Dark Knight.” I wouldn’t trust JFK’s work and pass a civil rights act, Two-Face with the nuclear controls. regardless of the political cost. Both But it did get me thinking of who Roosevelts fought to reduce economic would be the best fictional president. inequality, from the Square Deal to the I believe it would be Morgan Freeman New Deal, in the face of great opposias President Tom Beck in the 1998 tion. George W. Bush definitely proves disaster film “Deep Impact.” As the that you don’t have to be a great oranation’s first black president, Beck led tor to rally the American public, as he us through the grim asteroid apoca- did after Sept. 11. Fictional presidents lypse. Sure, he declared martial law like Whitmore combine grace with and suspended the grit, something Constitution, but Americans look desperate times call for in picking their for desperate meareal leaders. sures. However, there is Don’t worry, one fictional presifolks, I kid. I know dent that stands Morgan Freeman above all others. was not the first He is greater even black president, than Tom Beck, and an asteroid did which is no mean not fall to Earth, feat. President JoEvan Monod despite that Mayan siah Bartlet, of the prophecy. But in all television show seriousness, fiction- In the face of tough times, “The West Wing,” is al presidents are our ideal president. Americans want their often an idealized Bartlet combines version of what we president to communicate. the compassion of want our leaders to Carter with the grit be. They can be ideally good or ideally of Nixon. He has Reagan’s communibad — it depends on the story. Yet the cation skills with Roosevelt’s charm. traits we most want in our real presi- Above all, Bartlet fights for the people, dents often find their way into the not the powerful. He moves the public political fiction we create. in the aftermath of a terrorist attack Tom Beck is a great example of the with the most inspirational rhetoric: president as an orator. In the face of “The streets of heaven are too crowded tough times, Americans want their with angels tonight. This is a time for president to communicate. The most American heroes, and we reach for lauded presidents — from Lincoln to the stars.” While he is certainly a libFDR to Kennedy to Reagan — all had eral, conservatives can admire Bartlet this gift. It is not simply the gift of writ- as well. He is a family man, a staunch ing a beautiful speech. Jefferson was Catholic and unafraid to hunt terrorthe greatest presidential writer but a ists who threaten our freedom. Overterrible speaker. The ability to express all, Josiah Bartlet is the best president oneself in words that any American America never had. can understand is an integral part of Tom Beck, Thomas Whitmore being a legendary presidential orator. and Josiah Bartlet represent differMuch like FDR’s address after Pearl ent facets of the ideal American Harbor, Tom Beck’s address at the end presidency. They have much to of “Deep Impact” is as simple as it is in- teach us about what we want in spiring. He lays out the challenges we our presidents. In an era where face and offers hope for the future. No politicians so often disappoint us, real president may sound like Morgan we can perhaps find solace in their Freeman, but he can follow his rhe- fictional examples. As for Aaron torical example. Eckhart, he may not be our best ficIn most cases, however, the fictional president, but he does tell us tional president cannot just be a great one thing: We want our presidents speaker. He or she has to be passion- to have fantastic hair. ate and willing to fight for a cause. Like Bill Pullman’s President Thomas Evan Monod is a junior in the Whitmore in “Independence Day,” College. SPOCK MEETS BARACK the president must embody the te- appears every other Tuesday.

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level,’” Mattille said. “If we start doing that kind of hair-splitting, it would be giving a lot of power to an organizaPoor attendance at a Student Activi- tion that probably shouldn’t have that ties Commission working group was much of a say over what should haprepresentative of broader challenges pen in student life.” in engagement and communication Chiang argued that many groups do that the group faces, according to SAC not understand the SAC funding sysChair Jennifer Chiang (SFS ’15). tem and feel discouraged by the budOnly SAC commissioners and two get cuts — frustration she suggested student group leaders attended the factored into the limited turnout for session, which was intended to be the Saturday’s event. first in a series of three events. “If we could get more people and “The frustrations we see here are more ideas, it would be better for the the same frustrations student groups general goal,” she said. “They think feel,” Chiang said of the sparsely at- we’re just randomly cutting at certain tended SAC event. percentages, which is not true. We reAfter an overhaul of its funding pro- ally want input.” cess in the past year — switching from SAC fulfilled just over 75 percent of funding individual events to allotting groups’ funding requests in spring lump-sum budgets 2012, about 80 perto student groups “The frustrations cent in fall 2012 and each semester — 69 percent in spring SAC has reduced we see here are the 2013. the red-tape process “The requests we for budget requests, same frustrations were getting were but many groups re- student groups feel.” bigger than previmained unsatisfied. ous semesters,” December cuts to Mattille said. “Are SAC budgets now afgroups overreachJENNIFER CHIANG (SFS ’15) SAC Chair fect student groups ing? Are they overby equal percentages stating the numacross the board, reducing all budget bers they need? Or are they actually requests by an equal percentage re- having growth?” gardless of club size or event scale. College Democrats Vice President Though SAC allocated a record Elyssa Skeirik (SFS ’15) agreed that amount of money for both fall 2012 student groups have an incentive to inand spring 2013 semesters, student flate budgets to obtain more funding. groups received less than usual due to “There is a big incentive to ask for an increased volume of requests. more money than you need and to “Student leaders have told me that put in events you don’t need,” Skeirik the current system is against larger said. events because everything gets cut by Chiang said she has observed a the same percentage,” commissioner trend of inflating budget requests but Edouard Mattille (SFS ’14) said. “If said it is difficult to micromanage that’s a $100 loss, it can be made up club events. easily, but if it’s a $10,000 event, then “We can get a sense of groups are that’s a lot harder to make up. They asking more money by holding more would say SAC should do a better job events and just reallocating money, at favoring larger events over smaller but we really want to and we do trust things.” our groups,” Chiang said. Mattille, however, said that, in an Despite increased budget requests alternative system, SAC would have and new student groups, SAC’s budto exert judgment over which events get is not likely to expand. merit more funding, which extends “We only have a finite number of beyond the body’s purview. resources,” Chiang said. “We want to “The big issue is that will you be hear feedback from student groups to willing to give SAC the authority to improve our funding system.” start saying that ‘This is a larger event, The next working group sessions so it should be funded at a different will be held Feb. 9 and Feb. 23. Hoya Staff Writer

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will add three connected pavillions, one of which will ﬂoat on the Potomac River, to accomodate growing art and management programs.

Kennedy Center to Expand KATHERINE SEEVERS Special to The Hoya

A five-year, $100 million expansion plan for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was announced to remedy space constraints as the cultural center expands its art education and management programs Jan. 29. The current plan includes three connected pavilions to accommodate classrooms, rehearsal space, lecture rooms, multipurpose rooms and office space. One of the pavilions will float on the Potomac River and have an outdoor stage. The expansion will also include public gardens, restaurants and a video wall to project indoor Kennedy Center performances and other events. “The Kennedy Center has the largest arts education program in the country without having any dedicated facilities to serve these growing programs,” Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser said in a press release. “I’m so pleased the Kennedy Center will have spaces specifically designed for these functions to help fulfill our mission of bringing arts education to students across Washington and

to millions of people across the country.” The project will be financed entirely by private funds, including a $50 million donation by David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group. “I am pleased to pledge these funds as the lead gift to the Kennedy Center expansion project and encourage others to donate to this project,” Rubenstein said in a press release. The center has launched a fundraising campaign to raise an additional $75 million, according to Kennedy Center Press Director John Dow. Of these $75 million, one-third will go toward future programming activities and are not needed for the expansion project. “To put things in perspective, the Kennedy Center raises about $80 million a year in fundraising,” Dow said. “We are very confident that we will be able to raise the $50 million for this project over the next five years.” Congress — which regulates federal funds used for the center’s maintenance and operation — unanimously approved a bill to approve the expansion project in June. The renovation will only expand onto land already

owned by the center. It will take three years for Steven Holl Architects to finalize the design and for zoning and planning boards approve it and an additional two years for construction. One main goal of the expansion, which will be designed by architects Steven Holl and Chris McVoy, is to add much-needed space for Kennedy Center programs. “The vision for the project is to expand the Kennedy Center … in a way that embodies and extends the Kennedy Center as a living memorial … to JFK and as a national cultural center,” McVoy said. The other purpose of the expansion is to create an aesthetically pleasing outdoor destination, which Dow hopes will make the Kennedy Center a daytime and nighttime attraction. “The performances that up to this point have been contained within the existing building will now extend outside through the screening terrace, through the active, dynamic presence of the pavilions and through the gardens,” McVoy said. “We’re taking that grain of energy that’s been in the existing monumental building and … projecting it into the city.”

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groups and academic departments as well as between stuHoya Staff Writer dents and faculty. JUST seeks When Neesha Tambe (COL input from all individuals and ’13) and Jocelyn Fong (SFS ’14) groups. Contributions thus far have began discussing social justice issues on and off campus, focused on education, highthey saw something lacking in lighting students’ experiences Georgetown’s social justice re- with D.C. Reads and the D.C. Schools Project, social-justice sources. Tambe thought George- work in schools around the town’s social-justice oppor- world, Georgetown’s approach tunities and groups were too to teaching social justice in the disparate and needed a source classroom and the use of art of unity, while Fong wanted to in education. A wide variety of create a forum for individuals campus groups, including the to discuss matters of social jus- Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, the tice. As a solution to both prob- CSJ and GUSA, have contributed to the lems, Tammagazine. be and Fong “It’s the l a u n c h e d “We feel as though we’ve connection JUST, the only scratched the surface of articles university’s all together first social- of the many pockets of that reprejustice pubsocial justice on campus.” sents JUST’s lication, in Jocelyn fong (SFS ’14) goal: to cononline forJUST Executive Editor nect social mat in Dejustice on cember. “Though motivated for dif- campus and spark discussion ferent reasons, we both came in our community,” Fong said. JUST staffer Sarah Mock (SFS to the conclusion that a socialjustice publication on campus ’15) said that the publication could be a space to thoughtful- is important because it highly discuss social justice, one of lights social-justice efforts that the cornerstone values of Jesuit may otherwise go unnoticed. She argued that the publicaideals,” Fong said. Tambe, who is the George- tion has the potential to shape town University Student Associ- people’s understanding of ation secretary of social justice, such issues. “[It is] a way to show the and Fong, who is executive editor of the new publication, re- larger Georgetown community ceived $250 from GUSA to make that the idea of social justice is a fluid complex that is molded these two visions a reality. The creation of JUST marks to our interests … and to reach the culmination of a long se- out to students that are intimiries of efforts by students in- dated or feel like they don’t fit volved in the Center for Social quite right into more traditionJustice and other related cam- al service options,” Mock said. With this initial success, the pus groups to spark a university-wide discussion about social- JUST staff recognizes the publication can and should grow justice issues. “We challenge our readers moving forward. “We feel as though we’ve and writers to think critically and constructively about social only scratched the surface of inequality in our communi- the many pockets of social justice on campus, so we’re reties,” Fong said. The publication aims to ally excited to tap into more of build bridges between student them,” Fong said.

With their first year behind them, the Student Group Union is looking ahead to new forms of collaboration between student groups after electing 11 new representatives last Sunday. While much of the group’s work last year focused on increasing campus presence, this semester, SGU plans to adopt a more action-oriented agenda. “We’re obviously going to be still looking to student groups to get that feedback [from groups], but a lot more of our energy is going to be focused on actually making things happen and crafting solutions this semester,” Performing Arts Representative and Chair Aman Shahi (COL ’13) said. At the SGU Summit in December, the group discussed and developed a plan to improve the availability and ease of access to student space on campus. SGU representatives plan to bring this issue and their plan to create a programming incident report form before the administration in March or April. SGU elected representatives for advocacy, club sports, common interests, cultural groups, non-advisory board groups, religious groups, performing arts, political groups, student govern-

ment and volunteer groups this week. The media representative position remains vacant after a candidate who was running unopposed dropped out of the race at the last minute. Approximately half of the elected representatives are returning committee members from last year, lending continuity to the group’s efforts. SGU has supported collaboration between its 80 members, who all represent various campus organizations. This semester, projects include moving organization finances online, improving the Mission and Ministry Report and consolidating forms in the Center for Student Programs. Representative for religious groups Chris Cannataro (MSB ’15), who also serves as deputy grand knight of the Georgetown University Knights of Columbus, said the discussion was relevant to religious organizations despite their differences from other campus bodies. “Religious groups — although they have different structures — all have similar stories, in a way, to other student groups,” Cannataro said. “Our summit last semester allowed student leaders the opportunity to discuss issues involving reserving space on campus, and this opportunity for discourse is good and benefits all groups.”

With these benefits in mind, Cannataro said that he will seek to continue discussion about religious organization projects, and he will highlight funding issues going forward. “My primary goal is give religious groups a voice … and then what stems from that is looking at the [Mission and Ministry] Report and then looking at the whole organization funding issue,” Cannataro said. Representative for non-advisory board groups Charlotte Cherry (SFS ’16) said that SGU has helped Georgetown Energy complete projects like the addition of solar panels to university townhouses. “To be successful, Georgetown Energy work relies heavily on integration and coordination between many groups, especially between the students and university leadership,” Cherry wrote in an email. Additionally, Cherry expressed excitement about speaking on behalf of student leaders and organizations. “My real motivation is to be an approachable member of SGU and be open to new opinions,” Cherry said. “I want to listen to the perspectives of my fellow students and make sure that those voices are heard between student groups and with administration.”

Club Embraces Service on Campus Christopher Zawora Special to The Hoya

In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, initiatives promoting kindness and service have earned a prominent position nationwide. And with Georgetown Individuals Vocal and Energetic for Service establishing its presence on campus, Georgetown is no exception. The club was founded by Phil Dearing (COL ’15) and Brigit Goebelbecker (SFS ’15), who both hope to create a kinder, happier attitude on campus. “Our mission is to … involve students in creating an environment of gratitude, happiness and service,” Dearing said. “You have the energy and the ability — you want to harness and do something good with it.” According to Dearing, GIVES encourages students to collectively plan acts of kindness that will make others smile. But rather than focusing on the

D.C. community like most Georgetown service clubs, GIVES aims to first serve the Georgetown community. “[Georgetown] is a Jesuit university, and everyone wants to do service.” Goebelbecker said. “We want to up the atmosphere of Georgetown as a whole.” At its first meeting Saturday, the club planned to participate in Free Hug Day, draw cheerful chalk artwork in Red Square, leave encouraging notes in Lauinger Library, give out candy next Halloween as “reverse trick-or-treating” and celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4. “It’s just doing a little bit and having a lot of fun,” Dearing said. “Everyone … is caught up with their studies, caught up with trying to get a job. So many things distract you. It is really easy to let being appreciative and giving back fall by the wayside.” GIVES is also encouraging its members to participate in 26 Acts, a nation-

wide movement inspired by the Newtown shootings. The movement urges participants to perform 26 acts of kindness between Feb. 4 and Feb. 17 in remembrance of the Newtown victims. Dearing stressed that GIVES, which meets weekly, is not a large time commitment and will not turn away any interested students. “We just want to make it super easy for people to get involved,” Dearing said. GIVES member Aisha Babalakin (SFS ’15) agreed. “I think it’s really important [that] it’s not so much of a time commitment,” Babalakin said. Currently, the club is focusing on small acts on campus, though Dearing expressed interest in expanding and working in the D.C. community. “Long range, it’s possible we’ll be doing big days of service more out in the community,” Dearing said.

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Author of “The Marcel Network”

“I want to take you back to the France of 1942. Most Frenchmen are cooperating with the Germans, indifferent to the mass deportation of Jews to concentration camps, but the rest of the story is just the opposite.”

“The threat of the gas chambers hung over their heads.”

“It is, in a word, heroic.” “At the risk of their lives, they dedicated themselves to saving Jewish children.”

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Author Fred Coleman spoke about “The Marcel Network,” his book documenting the successful protection of 527 Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of France on Monday evening, Moussa Abadi and Odette Rosenstock, Abadi’s future wife, with the help of Catholic boarding schools and Protestant families, formed a clandestine network hiding Jewish children

and providing them with food, clothing and false documents. Though the Abadis never wrote about their network, Coleman discovered information about the story through oral tapes the couple recorded before their death. Coleman concluded his talk by reading from Abadi’s 1995 speech to the French senate calling on the world to remember the “hidden children” and to protect children in danger. Julien Engel, a Marcel Network child, followed Cole-

“The Abadi story is an uplifting tale of sacrifice, generosity and survival.”

man’s speech with his own story. When Engel was 10 years old, he was sent to a detention camp, where he and his 5-yearold brother were released as his parents were taken to Auschwitz and killed. Engel and his brother then lived in a Marcel Network home in Cannes for three years. Fifty years later, Engel reached out to the Abadis in Paris and was instrumental in persuading them to record their stories and in helping Coleman write his book.

Record Interest for MSB, NHS ADMISSIONS, from A1 applicants applied from China and India. “We are not doing anything new to attract students from those areas,” Deacon said. “There is just a sort of natural momentum.” As has been the trend in the past few years, the most applicants have come from California, with 2,500 applicants, and New York, which had 1,800 students apply. Although the early acceptance rate for the Class of 2017 was a record low at 13 percent, Deacon said he expects the overall acceptance rate to remain consistent at about 16 percent. Citing a report by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, which indicates that the

number of high school graduates peaked in 2010 and will decline until 2020, Deacon said he was pleased with Georgetown’s continued success in attracting students to the university. “Since the total pool of possible applicants is declining, Georgetown has had to, in effect, increase its market share just to stay even,” he said. Maintaining the same levels of applicants has proved to be a challenge for some schools this year. Boston College’s decision to add a 400-word essay to its Common Application supplement this year caused the number of applications to drop from 35,000 in 2012 to 25,000 this year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Other peer institutions that use

Common App had mixed results. According to a report in The New York Times, Dartmouth College had 23,052 applicants in 2012 but 22,400 in 2013. At Vanderbilt University, 30,870 students applied this year, which marked an 8.9 percent increase over last year when 28,348 submitted applications. Georgetown is among a small group of universities, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that do not use the Common App. That Georgetown maintains such a high number of applicants without using the application system is a point of pride for Deacon. “If 10,000 students didn’t apply because of one essay, how good can your numbers be?” Deacon said. “Georgetown’s are real.”

Lhota Says Persona Suits NYC MAYOR, from A1 Capitol Hill after graduation.” “It’s great to see that GUSA has such a storied history of producing people so highly influential in the political sphere, particularly in areas with such massive constituencies such as New York,” said Zachary Singer (SFS ’15), vice speaker of GUSA. A few years after graduating from Georgetown, Lhota enrolled in Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA in 1980, and followed that with 15 years on Wall Street. Lhota noted that his principal motivation for running for New York’s mayoralty is his love for the city. “My candidacy is a result of both my belief that I think that I offer more than the other candidates to best lead New York and my appreciation for the culture and community that make up this great city,” he said. A current resident of Brooklyn Heights, Lhota holds strong family ties to the city. His father was a police lieutenant and his grandfather was a firefighter and taxi driver. But Lhota himself is no stranger to serving the city. He worked as budget director in the administration of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and later as Giuliani’s deputy mayor in 1998. “My experience working with Mayor Guiliani is only one factor in

what better prepares me for this position in office,” Lhota said. “While not overwhelming, the position gave me an understanding of mayoral responsibilities and management that serves as a huge distinction from the other candidates.” After a short hiatus from public service managing The Madison Square Garden Company, Lhota became the chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 2011. Due to his success in preparing the city for Hurricane Sandy, Lhota and his campaign are reaping the benefits of his leadership during the crisis. “It is no doubt how the MTA has performed and how quickly it has been able to return after the hurricane has been a major victory for the city,” he said. “It must be said that it was the workers who were greatly responsible for that success, but all summer long, the management team and I had been preparing for a situation like that, which led to our efficiency when the time came.” Beyond the storm, Lhota said that he has emphasized a more user-friendly MTA, with improved facilities and more transparency for commuters. However, he was at the helm of the MTA, when the decision was made to increase subway and bus fares by a quarter — a move that could potentially hurt him with some voters.

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But Lhota still has an almost heroic reputation over a decade after he raced towards Lower Manhattan to direct traffic after the Twin Towers were hit on Sept. 11. While Lhota admitted that he has a big personality — he once gave the middle finger to a journalist, according to The New York Times — he says that he fits in among a long tradition of gregarious mayors. “I think that great, outgoing mayors like Mayor Koch and Mayor Guiliani represent the city’s personality — loud, vibrant and going all the time,” he said. Lhota may be challenged as a Republican candidate by a constituency widely made up of Democrats, but he said that he believes he can represent New York. “I’m definitely a fiscal conservative, but when you look at my stance on social issues, they’re really quite progressive,” Lhota said. “We’ve had a Republican mayor for about twenty years now, and registration among city voters has not changed all that much. In my opinion, New Yorkers are very independent and they vote for the candidate, not the party line, and focus on campaigns based on the issues.” The last Georgetown graduate to hold the top job in New York City government was Georgetown Law graduate John O’Brien, who served as its 98th mayor from 1933 to 1934.

CANDIDATES, from A1 athlete candidate, which ends a two-year trend of members of the men’s basketball team running for executive office. Walsh was a former member of the men’s varsity swimming team. Tisa and Cleary both ran for the GUSA executive in 2012. Tisa, who ran on an allsophomore ticket, finished in sixth place out of seven candidates with 322 first-place votes. Cleary, who will again run for vice president, placed fourth with 415 first-place votes. Two tickets feature candidates with no experience holding a position in GUSA. Walsh serves as president of Club Cycling, and Silverstein is a member of the Philodemic Society and a former member of the College Democrats executive board. Appelbaum

is a former Student Activities Commission chair, while his running mate, Cleary, is a former president of the College Republicans and a member of the Philodemic Society. Corbin-Johnson has been a member of the GUSA senate since her freshman year and is director of the Gospel Choir, a board member of the Latin American Student Association and a member of the Black Student Association. Vandegriff is a former president of the College Democrats and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Warren is a two-year GUSA senator, and his running mate, Logerfo, is accounting controller of Students of Georgetown, Inc. Tisa is speaker of the GUSA senate as well as a former board member of GU Pride. His running mate, Ramadan, is a manager at Hoya Snaxa and a board member of Hoya Blue.

Soapy Joe’s Says Tech Glitch Caused Error LAUNDRY, from A1 Sternberg now acknowledges that the problem was not caused by employee error. “It was 100 percent a programming error on the inside,” he said. According to Sternberg, many of the overcharges were due to mistakenly designating some students as going over their pound limit. In addition, some students who gave Soapy Joe’s laundry did not appear to be signed up for a plan and were therefore charged $1.35 per pound for all of their laundry in addition to overcharges. While just over 10 percent of Soapy Joe’s 275 Georgetown clients were affected, students at The George Washington University were also overcharged due to the software malfunction. Sternberg said he was unsure of the exact number of GW students who overpaid. The three other college campuses where the laundry service is offered — Villanova University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania — were not impacted. “This is the first time we’ve had a serious logistical problem with our service and with Georgetown,” Sternberg said.

He added that although he does not know how much his company overcharged customers, Soapy Joe’s is currently making changes to its computer program to correct the billing mistakes. “[Soapy Joe’s is] working [quickly] and furiously to try to get people refunds,” he said. “I take full responsibility.” In addition, Sternberg said the Soapy Joe’s will not charge extra for exceeding the pound limit this semester. “We want to keep the trust of our Georgetown customers,” Sternberg said. Orndahl does not plan on using Soapy Joe’s in the future and said that students who do continue with the service should be cautious. “As long as you are careful and check your overage history, it should be fine,” he said. Barry said that he is still waiting on a full refund. He and Sandoval, who are both locked into a year-long plan, say they will be doing most of their laundry themselves to avoid overage charges. “If you have zero clue what you’re doing with laundry, then use [Soapy Joe’s]. But be careful,” Barry said.

Latin American Leaders Attend MSB Program Colette Gilner Special to The Hoya

Young professionals from Latin America arrived on the Hilltop last week for Georgetown’s Global Competitiveness Leadership Program. The program, which was launched in 2007 by the university’s Latin American Board, aims to teach students how to tackle the longstanding economic challenges their countries face. According to Paul Almeida, McDonough School of Business senior associate dean of executive education, the program is unique because of the participants’ passion for social entrepreneurship. “Most of [the GCL participants] specialize in social entrepreneurship. For me, that’s a huge thing,” Almeida said. “They have this common passion for making a difference. It’s incredibly inspiring.” This year’s 38 participants are between 24 and 34 years old and were chosen in a competitive application process for their demonstrated leadership abilities. The program, which lasts 12 weeks, covers the students’ tuition, room, board and travel while in Washington, D.C. While at Georgetown, the students will take a variety of courses offered by faculty in the MSB, the School of Foreign Service and the College. The classes aim to give participants a deeper understanding of Latin America and arm them with practical skills in business and management so they can make an impact when they return to their home countries. Upon their return, the students will launch their own action-learning projects — social initiatives that they will plan while at Georgetown. “Most of them may not have had the business training to make these very worthy projects a reality, and that’s what coming here gives them,” Almeida said. “It gives them exposure; it gives them insight. It’s how to make a real difference on the ground.” In one week-long course, students will represent different Latin American companies and participate in activities that will give them experience in working environments that place a premium on competitiveness and alliances.

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There are 38 participants from Latin America in this year’s Global Competitiveness Leadership Program. “It’s very live learning; it’s not just sitting in class,” Almeida said. One week into the program, Marco Pires, a journalist from Brazil, has already found the program engaging. “The program has been great so far,” Pires said. “The staff is really helpful and the classes are top-notch. We always have high-level discussions during sessions.” In particular, Pires appreciates how the program fosters a sense of community among the diverse student body, which includes people of different backgrounds from across Latin America. “When you put in the same space a bunch of self-motivated people with a lot of ideas, you realize we all face the same problems,” Pires said. “That means we have a very powerful opportunity to help each other with our skills and networking to solve real world problems that we all share. … To me, this is very special.”

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ANC Debates Public Space Use Research Program

Engages Students

Tia Baheri

Hoya Staff Writer

Debate about local space permits for events dominated discussion at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E’s February meeting Monday, which was held in Georgetown’s McShain Lounge instead of the usual meeting room at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. Commissioners first heard proposals for public space permits for events such as the Rose Park egg hunt on March 23rd, Bike D.C. and Sprint For the Cure 5k. While most proposals were passed with little or no discussion, one in particular gave the commissioners pause. The Nike Woman’s Half Marathon is an annual event in San Francisco and a partnership between Nike and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This year the marathon’s inaugural event will be in Washington, and the organizers hope to hold a recreational exposition for the participants on the Georgetown dock. The tent set-up and high volume of visitors would require the organizers to close Thomas Jefferson Street for the duration of the event in order to allow pedestrians to go back and forth between the Nike Store and the tent set-up. A few of the commissioners said that they would be hesitant to closeoff a public street in order to accommodate a private event. “I need to be able to know what your community would get out of it,” Commissioner Tom Birch said. “I’m not prepared at this meeting to say that we’re willing to close off an entire street in exchange for [increased business],” Chair Ron Lewis said. A decisions on a permit for the race, which is to be held in April, have been postponed until the next ANC meeting March 4. Commissioners also decided to postpone any actions on resolving complaints about the reconfiguration of traffic lanes on Wisconsin Avenue. “The reported impacts of the reconfiguration have been an increase in traffic, especially at peak hours,” Lewis said. “Let’s take another month and receive more comments.”

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in January 2012 and hopes to see increased participation from both undergraduates and the outside community at this semester’s session Feb. 19. “Over the past few years, we’ve focused a lot on undergraduate research, and we really want to make sure that we can keep that growing, and now we want to turn our attention toward community involvement,” Barr said. Residents of the Washington, D.C. area can sign up through the GRVP database to be contacted if they qualify for specific studies. The psychology subject pool database SONA, however, specifically allows Georgetown undergraduates to independently select studies they qualify for and would like to participate in. “Participation from [those outside Georgetown] is not as strong as participation from those that are in [Georgetown] courses, but it’s something that we’re trying to build up right now,” GRVP Participant Coordinator Conor Piercey (NHS ’15) said. “It’s not that we really have had difficulty doing it, it’s that our focus has been on campus, and right now we’re trying to branch out a bit more.” Barr added that increased participation would improve the studies’ results and validity. “We have a whole lot of questions that we’re interested in about how people are functioning, so we want as many people to answer those questions — as many people to be involved — as possible,” Barr said. Students interested in psychology and other disciplines enjoy participating in studies. “[GRVP] opened my eyes to all the research that’s going on,” Piercey said. “I thought it would be a good way personally to get involved in some research and to help everyone else as well.”

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Area residents gathered in McShain Lounge on Monday night to discuss concerns including permits for an upcoming half marathon. Commissioners Peter Prindville (SFS ’14) and Craig Cassey (COL ’15) both said that while the change in location was due to a scheduling conflict at Visitation, it also represents Georgetown’s increasing engagement with the community. Prindiville expressed hope that student presence at ANC meetings could lead to a renewed relationship between the student community and permanent Georgetown residents. “I think that if students should be involved with civic affairs in the neighborhood. If students are engaged we will see a better reception. It is very easy to write-off the student perspective if they don’t come to meetings. A lot of people said that about the voting too,” Prindville said. “The November elections disproved that. Students do care.” Cassey said that the change in location presented an opportunity to connect with the surrounding neighborhood. “It was a matter of convenience, but it also recognizes our university and

that it is a part of our community. Holding the meeting here offers the best chance for Georgetown constituents to come to the meeting,” Cassey said. “We recognize the student body as residents of the community.” Both Cassey and Prindville pointed towards the community planning boards for the New South Student Center as future projects. “We hit the ground running. At our January meeting, we considered the New South Student Center plans. Recently the university submitted plans to redesign Dahlgren Quad. That’s in my [district]. We’re considering a lot of things,” Prindville said. “I’m happy with the work we have done so far.” Cassey also spoke about presenting Georgetown’s 26 Acts of Kindness plan to the wider Georgetown community at the ANC meeting. “We have kicked off the 26 Acts of Kindness project to honor the victims of the Newtown shooting. It is a national movement that we want Georgetown to be a part of,” Cassey said.

Catherine Merwin (NHS ’15) spent an hour last semester identifying emotions in photographs and measuring how quickly she could press various buttons. She was one of 115 students to participate in GRVP Live!, a roundrobin of research in psychology, linguistics and neuroscience held by the Georgetown Research Volunteer Program. GRVP is a research collaboration between students and professors that aims to increase student involvement and individual learning in psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. “It’s a place to bring together the principle investigators who are running the studies and are looking to connect with students and the broader community,” GRVP principal investigator and founder Rachel Barr said. Professors and students research everything from language and memory in children to changes in learning, memory and performance with aging, though study participants are unaware of what is being tested while they are participating in the experiments. “[The experiments] were interesting, and it made me wonder what they were testing,” Merwin said. Many students who participate in GRVP and GRVP Live! are encouraged to do so by their professors, with extra credit as a common incentive. Students are paid for participation in some studies that do not offer course credit. The program offers an intensive way to complete multiple studies in a short amount of time. GRVP started the event, which is held once a semester,

Groves Explains Restructure Emma Hinchliffe Hoya Staff Writer

According to Provost Robert Groves, the forthcoming shift in his office’s organization, which will create four new administrative positions, represents an alignment with the policies of several other universities across the country. The reorganization, which was announced in an email to Georgetown students Wednesday afternoon, will create four new positions: vice provost for faculty, vice provost for education, vice provost for research and vice president for finance and program analytics. In tandem with these changes to his own office, Groves has also chosen current Vice President and Chief Finance Officer Darryl Christmon as chief operating officer for the main campus, a newly created role Christmon will begin this July, joining university-wide COO Chris Augostini. “This is our way of becoming a better university through more vibrant research, more relevant educational programs and the best faculty we can recruit,” Groves said. “I believed that if we had provostlevel attention to these things, we could make [them] better.” According to Groves, vice provost positions are common among universities, and Georgetown is relatively unusual in its lack of such a structure. Vice provosts will be current faculty members who will devote 75 percent of their time to their new positions while continuing to research and teach. “I want to make sure the provost’s office makes decisions that are integrated with the perspective of faculty and that, over time, we have more faculty who understand administrative issues at the university,” Groves said. Groves said that the vice provost positions’ three-year term limit was motivated by his desire to maintain communication with both students and faculty. “I want a variety of faculty members in the positions over time and I want to maintain our devotion to teaching,” Groves said. The vice provost for research

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The provost sat down with The Hoya to clarify the effects of the reorganization of his office on the university and faculty. position will focus on enhancing research opportunities and resources for all members of the university community. “We want to increase the volume of research for graduates, undergraduates and faculty,” Groves said. “That, in my opinion, requires more of an emphasis on constructing an environment where that can happen.” The vice provost for education, meanwhile, will improve communication between departments, schools and campuses, emphasizing integration of undergraduate and graduate programs and expanded interdisciplinary programs. This same cooperative attitude will be applied to the vice provost for faculty position, which is intended to create an environment and hiring system in which faculty can easily work across schools to stimulate interdisciplinary research. “We want to continue to have a world-class faculty; we believe that one way to do that is to create an environment where joint appointments of faculty across different units are supported,” Groves said. An advisory committee including students and faculty members will develop a list of

candidates for these three vice provost positions and suggest professors for the positions as soon as they identify qualified candidates. Groves said he expects the three positions to be filled by summer or early fall. The vice president for finance and program analytics will be responsible for database management and improving efficiency. Potential projects include collecting data about students, departments and programs to analyze efficiency based on revenue and the costs of specific programs. Groves said that he would consider hiring the financial and analytical expert from outside the university and would be employing an outside firm to identify suitable candidates. Georgetown has used executive search firm Witt/Kieffer in past searches, but Groves did not specify which firm would be employed for this search. Groves emphasized the long-term effects of these institutional changes. “Many of the changes that we want to make will take years before their value will be known. These are big things we are doing, but I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t believe that this was the direction we should move.”

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Women Earn Road Sweep Tim Eldridge Special to the Hoya

Heading into this weekend’s slate of matches, Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis Head Coach Gordie Ernst emphasized gaining respect: Playing two teams of relatively equal repute on both the men’s and women’s side, the Hoyas had a chance to make a statement. The two teams came home with mixed results. The women were victorious in both matches, defeating Duquesne 7-0 and Pittsburgh 5-2 during their two-day stay in Pittsburgh, moving to 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the Big East. The men, however, were defeated twice, falling 5-2 to Duquesne and 4-3 to Toledo. The women kicked off the weekend in a dominating performance against the Dukes. Senior captain Vicky Sekely and junior Kelly Cornolli started things off right, winning the decisive eightgame pro-set to earn the opening doubles point. From there it was a breeze for the Hoyas, who didn’t drop a single match as two freshmen, Liz Hamlin and Taylor Perz, earned their first singles victories. “These freshmen go out there, and all of a sudden they’re in heated battles, playing for their team,” Ernst said of the rookie duo. The Pittsburgh match didn’t start out quite as smoothly, as the Panthers quickly picked up the doubles point before Georgetown had a chance to pick one up in singles. After Georgetown then won the first two singles matches, Perz came up big for the second day in a row. The

Pennsylvania native came back from a 5-0 deficit in the second set to poise the team for a win, as Jaeger proceeded to close out the contest in the next match. Ernst was effusive in his praise of Perz’s resilient effort following the victory. “She just fought and fought and ended up winning the match,” Ernst said. “It was very impressive and showed some serious toughness from a freshman.” The Pitt matchup was especially significant, he explained, because it was the first Big East match for

“They have something called pride now where they aren’t going to let these other teams get the best of us.” gordie ernst Men’s and women’s tennis head

Georgetown and presented a tough road challenge. “They really thought they could show us who they are,” Ernst said, attributing his team’s slow start to the fact that the Hoyas were playing for a second straight day and didn’t get a proper warm up. “We adjusted and said, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ and pulled out the win.’” After earning two big victories on the weekend, Ernst believes the women’s team hasn’t yet peaked but is showing sure signs of improvement. “I think we can play better, but we showed some serious, serious fight. We got into some tough matches, and we

have a lot of experience now,” he said. “Even though it’s early in the season and we aren’t totally there yet, they have something called pride now where they aren’t going to let these other teams get the best of us.” Opening the Big East schedule with a win gives the Hoyas momentum going forward, which could bode well in their home match against George Washington this weekend. The men’s team, meanwhile, had a far tougher weekend than its counterpart. Against Duquesne, senior captain Charlie Caris picked up a point in the No. 1 singles spot, but the Blue and Gray only managed one more win, despite playing several close contests. Still, things were looking up on Saturday, as Georgetown started off strong against Toledo by picking up the doubles point. The Rockets prevailed in singles play, however, and squeaked out a 4-3 victory. After two tough losses, Ernst stressed that they needed a greater sense of determination to start pulling out such close contests. “It’s a matter of being a little more intense and playing with more urgency. These guys are playing hard, but they aren’t playing like they need [every single] point,” Ernst said. “We have some guys who right now are playing more like it’s a best-offive match instead of a bestof-three match. They aren’t treating every point like it’s gold, and that’s what you need to do when it’s a two- or three-set match.” The men’s team will take a short break from competition before facing Pennsylvania a week from Wednesday.

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Three Teams to Watch in ’13 E

very year, in virtually every sport, all it takes is a chance at the postseason to come away with a title. While college basketball’s March Madness remains the most salient example — with the likes of VCU and Butler advancing to the season’s final weekend in recent years — the trend also exists in professional sports, with the Baltimore Ravens, the AFC’s fourth-best team, winning the Vince Lombardi Trophy Sunday night. Likewise, in MLB, each of the individual leagues’ thirdbest teams, the San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers, ultimately reached the Fall Classic. While it has become easier to rationally predict the course of a 162-game season with the continued development of advanced sabermetrics, baseball’s playoffs continue to prove that all it takes is a ticket for anything to happen. Last year, the Nationals and Orioles both had the opportunity, but look for the playoff landscape to change in 2013. Here are three teams I expect to supplant three of last season’s playoff teams in the Promised Land this year.

Toronto Blue Jays replacing the Baltimore Orioles Sorry, DMV baseball fans. The 2012 Orioles were one of the luckiest teams in recent memory, compiling a miraculous 29-9 record in one-run games (including a 16-2 record in extra innings). With Baltimore ultimately advancing to the postseason by just three games over the Tampa Bay Rays, the Orioles were fortunate to reach the playoffs. Furthermore, when examining teams based on runs scored and allowed over the course of the season, the Orioles were ultimately projected to amass an 82-80 record. With their only significant change the promotion of top shortstop/third base prospect Manny Machado, expect an underwhelming 2013 for Baltimore. Although the AL East appears to once again be a bloodbath, one team has grabbed all the headlines with massive

changes this winter. The Blue Jays swung two aggressive trades, first landing hitters Jose Reyes, Emilio Bonifacio and John Buck as well as pitchers Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle from the Marlins and later acquiring reigning NL Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey from the Mets. With their other pieces — most notably hitters Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie — the Blue Jays are my pick in the AL East in 2013.

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Look for the playoff landscape to change in 2013. Los Angeles Angels replacing the Oakland Athletics Like the Orioles, the Athletics certainly surprised in 2012, ultimately edging out the heavily favored Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels in the AL West. While I like Oakland’s collection of young talent, a starting infield of Chris Carter, Scott Sizemore, Hiroyuki Nakajima and Josh Donaldson will not get a team to October, even with a collection of young arms as impressive as theirs. True, the Rangers were dealt a serious blow this winter in losing star Josh Hamilton and catcher Mike Napoli to free agency, but the arrival of top prospect Jurickson Profar will at least partially limit the damage, along with the arrivals of A.J. Pierzynski and designated hitter Lance Berkman. I still expect them to at least hold onto one of the two wild card positions. In 2013, however, the division will be the Angels’ for the taking. Los Angeles stole Josh Hamilton from Texas to form the league’s most lethal

batting core alongside Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Mark Trumbo. Likewise, the Angels mitigated the loss of ace Zack Greinke by adding Tommy Hanson, Joe Blanton and Jason Vargas this winter to still maintain one of the league’s best rotations.

Los Angeles Dodgers replacing the St. Louis Cardinals I was tempted to claim that the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants would not have the opportunity to do the same in 2013, but the revamped Dodgers appear poised to replace the Cardinals in the postseason come October. The National League is set to be top heavy, with six quality clubs — the Nationals, Braves, Reds, Giants, Dodgers and Cardinals — that could all conceivably win the World Series, but one of them will not have the opportunity to compete in the postseason. The Dodgers stole headlines as early as August by swinging a move with the Red Sox for first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, pitcher Josh Beckett and outfielder Carl Crawford — only to add an even bigger piece this offseason with the aforementioned Greinke from the Angels. Likewise, the Braves, Reds and Nationals all made important acquisitions, landing outfielders Justin Upton, Shin Soo Choo and Denard Span, respectively, while the Giants retained their core that brought them the world title in 2012. The Cardinals, on the other hand, are set to lose starting pitcher Kyle Lohse, and they’ll likely fail to land an appropriate replacement. With surprises aplenty in 2012, it remains a possibility that more will come this year. But — at least for now — the Blue Jays, Angels and Dodgers are, on paper, the most likely candidates to supplant their conference rivals in the playoffs in 2013. Preston Barclay is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. TURNING TWO IN THE 202 appears very Tuesday.

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Senior guard Sugar Rodgers turned in a poor shooting performance against Louisville Saturday, scoring just six points and going 2-of-17 from the floor in the 74-60 loss.

Louisville Cruises Past GU, Struggling Rodgers LOUISVILLE, from A10 pull away from us a little bit,” Brown said. Louisville continued to control the second half — and despite a late surge by the visitors to end the game — cruised to the 74-60 victory. The disparity out of the locker rooms can largely be chalked up to a complete reversal of the interior stats in which the Blue and Gray excelled in the first half: The Cardinals won the rebounding battle 26-17 while also outscoring the Hoyas 16-10 in the paint en route to the 41-31 second-half scoreline. The Hoyas’ inability to cause turnovers also played a role, as they were only able to force 16 on the night — far below their season average. “We had some injuries, and when you

have that many injuries, we couldn’t press as much as we wanted to and that’s basically it,” Brown said. “We had to come back and play a little bit more zone. “ McCormick led the Hoyas with a careerhigh 21-point performance on 7-of-13 shooting, while senior center Sydney Wilson posted a double-double, with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Louisville held the Big East’s leading scorer, Georgetown senior guard Sugar Rodgers, to just six points on 2-of-17 shooting. Even so, Brown was pleased with what McCormick showed on the day. “Katie [McCormick] has been waiting all year,” Brown said. “Everyone has been encouraging Katie because she is in the gym day and night. We knew it was coming.” The Hoyas will next be in action on Saturday at St. John’s. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

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Five Thoughts From a Wild Super Bowl to Remember Pat Curran

Hoya Staff Writer

“THAT WAS [expletive] AWESOME!” – Joe “Elite” Flacco Seriously, wow. Like many of my fellow football fans, I felt pretty ambivalent about the Super Bowl. On the American civic duty fun spectrum, it felt closer to “jury duty” than “Fourth of July barbeque.” (Yes, I tweeted that joke earlier. Sue me.) It’s not that it lacked for storylines. There’s the Harbaugh brothers facing off on the game’s biggest stage. Ray Lewis’ last game. Kaepernick vs. Smith. It’s just that I didn’t particularly care about any of these storylines. I have no unconditional love nor

unrelenting hatred for either team, and the personalities involved weren’t interesting enough to draw me in on either side. Then the game started. The 34-31 Ravens victory was unbelievably entertaining even when it was a blowout (read: the first half), and it only got better with time. Let’s recap the best parts of the insanity that was Super Bowl XLVII. 1. The Blackout Has anything like this ever happened in a Super Bowl? From the hilarious awkwardness of the CBS TV crew to the hundreds of snark angles Twitter took to the situation (Bane, alcohol consumption, FEMA), the Great Blackout of 2013 was an

all-around win for everyone except the Baltimore Ravens and the Superdome facilities staff. 2. Beyonce I’m going to split from the general narrative right now and say that Queen B didn’t put on the best halftime show of all time. She didn’t actually “sing” enough for my taste, and I still find “Single Ladies” quite annoying. That said, tonight’s performance cements Beyonce’s status as the greatest entertainer and most beautiful woman on the planet. 3. Joe Flacco I’ve been a Flacco hater for as long as he’s had the Ravens’ top job. Nothing personal, I just didn’t think he’s

anything near an “elite” quarterback. I’m still not ready for a verdict, but his antics tonight definitely made the game a hell of a lot more interesting. At least twice, Flacco pulled off long-shot completions on ridiculous scrambles that would put Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning to shame. As a Cowboys fan, I generally enjoy when that happens.

5. The Comeback I’d probably feel differently about this if I had watched with 49ers fans, but San Francisco’s furious comeback was great TV, even if it was ultimately futile. Kaepernick is a joy to watch when he’s on, and Frank Gore is as shifty a runner as you’re going to find in the league. It made the game that much more memorable.

4. Stunt Plays Everyone loves unconventional play calling — I loved the Saints’ hijinks in 2010 — and the Harbaughs didn’t disappoint. The Ravens’ fake field goal attempt, while ultimately unsuccessful, was awesomely ballsy, and a team starting Colin Kaepernick is going to run at least a few fun reverses.

Honorable mentions: The mini-fight, Joe Theismann’s Twitter typo, Deion “Leon Sandcastle” Sanders, baby animals, Jim Harbaugh tantrums, Ray Lewis not stabbing anyone during the blackout.

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This piece originally appeared Feb. 4 on paranoia.thehoya.com.

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Ravens’ Win a Fitting End To Season-Long Journey RAVENS, from A10

ture. The pocket protection and timing of playcalling improved, and quarterback Joe that night, nor will it forget the months of Flacco was able to move the drives along struggle and turmoil that preceded the vic- more quickly. The first of those three changes tory. From personal tragedies to injuries to was catalyzed by Caldwell’s moving right coaching changes, Poe himself couldn’t have tackle Kelechi Osemele to left guard, shifting written a more compelling narrative for the left tackle Michael Oher to the right side and team’s season and improbable Super Bowl tri- putting the untested Bryant McKinnie in at left tackle. Shifting all these players around umph. Just four days after the death of former before the playoffs was a gamble. It paid off. “Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitatowner Art Modell, the Ravens played their first regular season game against the Cincin- ing then no longer …” Renewed in spirit by Lewis’ return and nati Bengals on Sept. 10. The players took to the field with heavy hearts and small black reinvigorated offensively by Caldwell, the patches stitched to their jerseys bearing the Ravens rolled past the Colts in the wild-card round, 24-9. The next week represented a word “Art.” They routed the Bengals 44-13. Two short weeks later, the team was con- more daunting task: beating the heavily fafronted again with an unimaginable tragedy vored Denver Broncos on the road in the AFC when wide receiver Torrey Smith’s younger semifinals. Flacco proved his mettle in that brother was killed in a motorcycle accident game, though, throwing for 331 yards and just hours before the Ravens were to face off three touchdowns in the upset. Then, in the against their AFC rival New England Patriots. AFC Championship, the Ravens were able to Smith had six receptions for 127 yards and avenge last year’s heartbreaking loss to the Patriots. And this time, the game wasn’t detwo touchdowns in a 31-30 win. The next hurdle for Baltimore came in the cided by a field goal — Baltimore handily dispatched Bill Belichick and Co. form of a 31-29 pyrrhic vic28-13. tory over the Dallas Cowboys The Ravens were The lead-up to the ensuing on Oct. 14, as the Ravens manSuper Bowl was so perfect it aged to scrape out a win at the undervalued and seemed to have been scripted high price of losing four key by the NFL gods. It was about defensive players to injuries. overlooked. And old veterans versus young Cornerback Lardarius Webb guns, brother versus brother, suffered a season-ending they embraced it. legendary defense versus ACL tear, cornerback Jimmy Smith left the game with a lower leg injury, high-powered offense. It was about redempdefensive tackle Haloti Ngata sprained his tion, comebacks and defying expectations. MCL and future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray The Ravens had proved they deserved their spot, but once again sportscasters and anaLewis exited the game with a torn triceps. “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the lysts alike repeatedly underestimated them. Just like my home city of Baltimore, the Rableak December …” A bleak December it was indeed, with the vens were undervalued and overlooked. And they embraced it. Ravens losing four out of five games in that The Ravens raced out to a 21-6 lead by halfmonth to stumble into the playoffs looking nothing like the strong and inspired team time, and though the Niners rallied after the they were in the early weeks of the season. power outage, their surge was too little, too The non-believers wrote off Lewis’ career and late. And the win couldn’t have come in more any chance of the team having postseason fitting fashion. “It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t perfect,” Head success. And then Ray Lewis held a press conference. Coach John Harbaugh said. “But it was us.” Soon enough, everyone will be talking His Jan. 2 retirement announcement breathed new life into the Ravens, and they about Flacco’s looming contract, safety Ed played, somewhat paradoxically, as if they Reed’s possible move to the Patriots and the had nothing to lose. The image of Lewis com- future of breakout rookie running back Bering out of the tunnel, dancing his trademark nard Pierce. But, for now at least, let’s enjoy this modance and soaking up the fans’ love before his final home game is one that no Baltimore ment, watch (and rewatch) the highlights and remember the season when the Ravens fan could ever forget. Lewis undoubtedly was a source of inspira- fulfilled their destiny. tion, but the firing of offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and subsequent promotion of Laura Wagner is a sophomore in the College. Jim Caldwell gave the offense a better struc- GAME OF CHANGE appears every Tuesday.

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Sophomore Otto Porter scored 11 points and added seven rebounds to help Georgetown to a fourth consecutive Big East win. Porter leads the Hoyas with 14.8 points per game.

GU Tops St. John’s Again JOHNNIES, from A10 boards, 20-6 in the paint and 11-point lead,” he said. Perhaps the most remarkable statistic wasn’t obvious in the postgame box score: In a physical February Big East matchup, Georgetown nearly made it through the game without attempting a single free throw. St. John’s committed a few sloppy fouls late,

though, giving the Hoyas a 5-of-7 mark at game’s end. “We were going inside, and you can’t shoot foul shots if the ref doesn’t call fouls.” Thompson III said. Several players were involved in a brief altercation in the postgame handshake line. It’s unclear how the spat started, but both Georgetown forward Aaron Bowen and St. John’s forward Amir Garrett had to

be restrained by teammates. No punches were thrown, and both coaches dismissed the altercation as a byproduct of an intense game and declined to comment before watching film. Georgetown takes its fourgame win streak to New Jersey to face Rutgers on Saturday. St. John’s, meanwhile, will look to rebound from the loss in a Wednesday home game against Connecticut.

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Freshmen Shine at Armory Patrick Musgrave Hoya Staff Writer

Times kept dropping and records kept falling in the latest weekend of Georgetown track and field’s spring season, with a number of athletes from the men’s and women’s squads competing at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City. The Hoya women ran particularly well, as the distance medley relay squad moved up to second position in the Big East performance list with an 11:05 on Friday night, marking an eight-second improvement from the previous weekend’s Penn State Invitational. Sophomore Andrea Keklak led off the relay with a 3:23 1200m effort, putting the team in good position going into junior Deseree King’s 400m leg. Taking the baton next for the Blue and Gray was junior Chelsea Cox, who gutted out a 2:08 to set senior Rachel Schneider up for her mile leg. Schneider then ran a 4:37 mile, the third-fastest mile split in Georgetown history. The Hoyas took third overall in the DMR, one second behind Arkansas and nine seconds back from perennial Big East standout Villanova. Six of the top seven DMR times in the country were set at the Armory, as Georgetown came in fourth on the national performance list in a competitive field. “I think we can go a lot faster than that,” Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said. “I think that all four legs there

can individually run faster if they need to, but I was really pleased and I thought all of them did a nice job.” The DMR women were back in action again on Saturday morning, with Cox competing in the 800m and Schneider competing in the mile. The former improved on her time from the night before, running 2:06 and taking first in the championship division after controlling the race from the get-go. Cox was passed briefly on the backstretch but soon after regained the lead and put her competition away for the win. “I was really pleased with [Cox],” Henner said. “She did a solid job on the DMR Friday night, and then she came back and ran with a lot of passion and toughness on Saturday … so I think of all the races this weekend, men and women, I was the most pleased with [Cox’s] 800.” Schneider, meanwhile, continued her streak of solid races in the mile, likewise taking first place in the championship division, with a time of 4:39. “I think the biggest thing is not her time, as she can run faster than that, but I think it was her first time anchoring our relay, so she was a bit tired on Saturday. She came back and competed, though, beating some good people and getting the win, so I was pleased with that,” Henner said. Additionally, freshman Rachel Paul ran 4:41 in the mile, which puts her close to one of the top 10 spots in the Big East. The men’s squad also competed well in several events,

hitting some Big East standards and continuing to improve. Junior Hansel Akers ran well in the 500m, taking second in his heat and ninth overall in the championship division with a time of 1:04.14. Akers started off his race relatively conservatively and closed very well towards the end, picking off several competitors down the stretch. “I thought Hansel did compete really well, [but] he does have a lot more in him. I think he needs to get out of his comfort zone and start going out a little harder,” Henner said. “Once he does that, I think he can make a big step forward. He just has to put himself out there more, and I think he can run 1:02-low.” Over in the 1000m, freshman standout Ahmed Bile took sixth overall with a time of 2:26.48. That time puts him seventh on the Big East performance list, just ahead of senior All-American teammate Andrew Springer. “Ahmed was really solid — he’s starting to train well now. I think he’s the kind of athlete that, with two more weeks of training, can be one of the best athletes at the Big East meet,” Henner said. The men’s squad did not run very many upperclassmen in this meet, instead focusing on running younger athletes in relay positions. Since there is another meet next weekend, the majority of the core men’s team rested this weekend in order to be ready for next weekend’s mee, and then the Big East indoor championships in two weeks.

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BASKETBALL Hoyas (16-4) over St. John’s (14-8) 68 - 56 Feb. 2, Verizon Center

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Underclassmen showed what they could do at the Armory Invitational this weekend. See A9

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St. John’s Head Coach Steve Lavin on junior forward Nate Lubick

The number of points scored by freshman guard Katie McCormick Saturday against Louisville, a career high.

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Foul Deficit JT III Earns 200th Win in SJU Triumph A Point of Emphasis PAT CURRAN

Hoya Staff Writer

fter hitting a nadir with a 7345 loss to Pittsburgh on Jan. 8, Georgetown has turned itself around in spectacular fashion and returned to the rankings Monday on the back of a four-game winning streak. But someone who wants to hunt for clouds on the horizon doesn’t have to look far. The Hoyas’ poor percentage from the free throw line, abysmal penchant for fouling and seeming inability to draw fouls in recent days all spell trouble for the team. Sure, the days are long gone when nailing free throws at a Steve Alford-like clip was a point of pride. But Georgetown’s predicament goes beyond a poor percentage at the charity stripe. The Hoyas shoot .661 from the line on the season, while their opponents have averaged .673. And the former figure is liable to worsen, considering that junior forwards Aaron Bowen and Moses Ayegba, both woeful from the line, have replaced the already poorly performing Greg Whittington in the lineup. Meanwhile, sophomore center Mikael Hopkins has the dubious distinctions of being the team’s worst free throw shooter and has been assessed the most fouls, 62, on the Blue and Gray this season. Hopkins has played sparingly in re-

The sweep is complete. New No. 20 Georgetown (16-4, 6-3 Big East) used a 12-0 run in the first half to secure an easy 68-56 win over visiting St. John’s (14-8, 6-4 Big East) Saturday afternoon, Head Coach John Thompson III’s 200th victory on the Georgetown sideline and the Hoyas’ second win over the Red Storm in a month. Junior forward Nate Lubick led four starters in double figures with a career-high 16 points on 8-of-10 shooting. He also grabbed 10 rebounds, handed out four assists and blocked two shots in the victory, which marked his first double-double since arriving on the Hilltop. “Nate gave us quality stats, not quantity stats,” Thompson III said. “When we need something done, he gets a rebound, makes an assist, gets a basket. He’s been doing that consistently, and tonight was no exception.” The visiting Red Storm hung around with the Hoyas early on and took a three-point lead at the 13-minute mark on sophomore guard Phil Greene IV’s long-range jumper. But Georgetown star Otto Porter Jr. answered with a trey of his own, sparking the Hoyas to 12 unanswered points. The hosts would not trail again. St. John’s Head Coach Steve Lavin made some second-half adjustments — most notably a tough matchup zone defense and the insertion of sharpshooting guard Marco Bourgault — that brought his team within striking distance

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Forward Aaron Bowen put an exclamation point on Saturday’s win over St. John’s at Verizon with this tipdunk late in the game. The junior had four points and three rebounds overall in the Gray-Out victory. in the second half. Timely baskets from Lubick and sophomore guard Jabril Trawick, however, stopped each of the visitors’ runs before things got out of hand. “There’s timeliness to the ways he adds value,” Lavin said of Lubick.

“It seems like at the critical stretch of the game he’ll have a hand in helping Georgetown move forward when they most need it.” The Hoyas scored 32 points in the paint and won the battle of the boards, 41-34. Lavin pointed to the

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cent games because of his foul trouble, but given the sophomore’s badly negative assist-to-turnover ratio and low shooting percentage from the floor, this may have helped the Hoyas. Georgetown has committed just one fewer foul than its opponents in Big East play. Given the fact that John Thompson III’s offense frequently brings the ball inside, that figure is certainly disappointing, something the coach noted after the Blue and Gray were held off the line for the first 38 minutes and 37 seconds of Saturday’s win over St. John’s. “It’s not like we were just passing around the perimeter. We were going inside, and you can’t shoot foul shots if the ref doesn’t call fouls,” Thompson III said. With the exception of Georgetown’s win over a weak Seton Hall squad that fouled repeatedly late, the Hoyas have drawn seven fewer fouls than their opponents during the four-game winning streak. Because three of those games were at home, where it is slightly more likely that the referees will call fouls on the visitors, that disparity might increase when the Blue and Gray take the show on the road. Of course, problems around stripe seem minimal during a winning streak and are admittedly somewhat marginal compared to concerns over offense and defense. But Big East road games are won on the margins, and Georgetown cannot afford to give up easy points. What, then, can Thompson III and his team do to strengthen their hand? Junior forward Nate Lubick, who has played very well of late, should work to avoid cheap fouls like two of the four fouls he picked up against St. John’s. Moreover, at risk of stating the obvious, Hopkins would benefit from a more controlled style of play. To boost the pure percentage, however, there is little Georgetown can do but practice. And then practice some more.

EVAN HOLLANDER is a junior in the School of Foreign Service and former sports editor of The Hoya.

latter statistic as a major reason his team fell behind by so much. “I thought Georgetown really imposed their will on us in the first half — hence, the minus-11 on the See JOHNNIES, A9

GAME OF CHANGE

McCormick Goes on Tear in Loss Baltimore CAROLYN MAGUIRE

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tremely hard in that game.” Both teams got off to a quick start, with the two sides exchanging multiple baskets after the opening tip. Neither was able to gain any momentum, though, until the Blue and Gray went on an 8-2 run five minutes in to gain a 16-10 advantage. But Louisville soon responded with an 11-2 stretch of its own, and the bleeding stopped only when Georgetown freshman shooting guard Katie McCormick sunk a trey with just over six minutes remaining in the first half. Efficient shooting from the Cardinals extended their lead going into halftime, but another threepointer from sophomore forward Brittany Horne brought the Hoyas within four at the whistle, 33-29. Though trailing at the break, Georgetown held the slight 14-12 advantage in points in the paint, as well as a 26-22 rebounding edge. “In the first half, I think we controlled [Louisville junior guard] Shoni Schemmel. I thought [junior guard Antonita] Slaughter played extremely well for them. She hit some shots,” Brown said. “But all in all, I think we kept everyone in a box and played everyone well.” Unfortunately for the Hoyas, the second half was a much different story. Louisville quickly opened the game up with a 16-5 run to assume a 49-34 lead, an advantage they would temporarily extend thanks to their shooting both at the line and behind the arc. “[When Lousiville] got a little lead, I think that the momentum really got on their side, the crowd got into it and they were able to pull away

Senior center Sydney Wilson provided the interior muscle to complement frosh Katie McCormick’s outside game, posting 11 points and 11 boards.

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Hoya Staff Writer

Not all losses indicate poor play: As was the case on Saturday, when the Georgetown women’s basketball team took on No. 12 Louisville, there is such a thing as a good loss. On a day when the Hoyas (13-9, 4-5 Big East) limited turnovers as well as the deficit in the first half

on the road, the Blue and Gray were ultimately unable to keep pace with the No. 12 Louisville Cardinals (19-4, 7-2 Big East) in a 74-60 defeat. “I think [the] one thing I told my staff is you can’t go in and yell at them when you are being a realistic person,” Head Coach Keith Brown said. “I try to be as realistic as possible. Our girls played ex-

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nce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary …” Though Super Bowl XLVII finished close to midnight due to a 30-minute power outage in the Superdome, these famous words from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” (after which the Baltimore Ravens were named) did not at all reflect the champions’

Laura Wagner attitude at game’s end. After the Ravens sealed their victory over the San Francisco 49ers with a goal-line defensive stop and intentional safety, they did not hesitate to bask in the glory of the moment. Many players hugged and cried, some thanked their adoring fans and others celebrated with confetti angels on the 30-yard line. And while the team celebrated its unlikely journey to the top that culminated Sunday night in the Big Easy, thousands of screaming fans back in Baltimore massed in Canton Square for an impromptu postgame celebration. Charm City will not soon forget See RAVENS, A9