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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

JUICE ’EM

The storied rivalry continues Wednesday at the Carrier Dome.

LAKHANPAL A columnist argues that we need a new dialogue on the Middle East.

CURRY Fr. Richard Curry, S.J., is in the ICU due to complications from pneumonia.

GUSA The senate authorized an investigation into GU’s ban on student businesses.

SPORTS, A12

OPINION, A3

NEWS, A4

NEWS, A4

Chaplain Leaves Position

SFS-Q: A Cultural Crossroads GU aims to promote diverse perpectives at Doha campus

New South chaplain implicated in family disturbance

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SARAH KAPLAN

Hoya Staff Writer

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More than 6,000 miles from the District, 30 professors and 203 students are working to bring a slice of Georgetown to Doha, Qatar.

The Qatar campus, a 6-year-old offshoot of the School of Foreign Service, promotes itself as providing the classic Georgetown education to students in the Middle East. SFS-Q students take “Map of the Modern World” and “Problem of God.” They host a Model United Nations conference every year.

But the school also aspires to imbue students with something more abstract. “[We] want to live by the Georgetown values more broadly, from cura personalis to being the best one can for others and to do this in a See QATAR, A6

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GUSA President Mike Meaney (SFS ’12), far left, discussed the recommendations of the report Sunday.

Student Life Report Previewed SAM RODMAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Student Life Report Committee presented recommendations for improving campus engagement at a press conference Sunday.

“Over the last five months we’ve

sought out what we like to think of as the limitless upside of student happiness on campus,” Report Committee Chair Shuo Yan Tan (SFS ’12) said.

According to the report’s Editorin-Chief Matt Hoyt (COL ’12), the Student Life Report investigates

aspects of student organization advisory boards as well as intellectual and student life from a qualitative and quantitative perspective.

The document, which is still in draft form, is slated to be finished See REPORT, A6

For Children-in-Residence, Campus Is a Playground HEATHER FLYNN Hoya Staff Writer

For most children, college is at most a vague, unfamiliar concept. But for the children of the faculty- and chaplains-inresidence at Georgetown, this college campus is a warm home.

About 13 children live in student housing on campus as part of the faculty-inresidence and chaplain-in-residence programs. For them, the university is not an institution of higher learning, but a place where they can explore, play and learn.

COURTESY ANDREW STARON

Henle Village chaplain-in-residence Andrew Staron enjoys an afternoon on campus with his 2-year-old son, A.J.

WORK HARD, PLAY HARD Tad Howard, associate dean of Georgetown College, moved on campus with his wife, Susan, in 2007. Their son, Grady, now

Journalism Minor Now Accepting Applications KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown College’s new minor in journalism, which was approved by the Executive Curriculum Committee in January, is now accepting applications for its first crop of students.

The minor will require six classes, including “Introduction to Journalism,” “Digital News,” “Media Techniques,” a Journalism Capstone and two electives.

Although the minor is hot off the press, classes focusing on journalism have been offered through the English department for years. Barbara Feinman Todd, current director of the university’s journalism program, is leading the new minor.

“I think it’s important because there’s a huge interest in journalism and a desire by the students to have a formal program,” she said.

According to Feinman Todd, the journalism minor is long overdue.

“I wanted this to happen for a long time,” she said. “Georgetown is the perfect place for journalism.”

Chester Gillis, dean of Georgetown College, said the absence of a journalism mi-

nor may have kept students from choosing to attend Georgetown in the past.

“It fits well with what we do,” he said.

“I’ve had students who were accepted at multiple universities … but wanted this piece of the curriculum. And now that we have it, they’ll come.”

The application deadline for the minor is March 15, and acceptance results will be released before preregistration for the fall semester.

Some students interested in the minor were surprised to learn that such a program had not been previously implemented.

“Considering that [Georgetown has] majors like medieval studies, and minors like Russian literature and culture, the idea that Georgetown neglected training in such an essential facet of human culture and society — the art of communication — was mind-blowing,” Lindsey Turner (COL ’14) wrote in an email.

According to Feinman Todd, although the program targets sophomores, some juniors who have taken the requisite courses will also be eligible to apply. She will hold an information session about the new program Feb. 24.

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almost 3, was born at the Georgetown University Hospital and has known no other home than Kennedy Hall. ”I try to get in his imagination, and I think he believes that the whole campus is his yard. So we open up the front door and he’s looking at the football field, and there are people playing sports on his yard,” Howard said.

Students often see Howard and his son frequenting Grady’s favorite places, such as the fishpond next to the White-Gravenor or the fountain in the Dahlgren Quadrangle.

For Maya Roth, the director of theater and performance studies, the greatest benefit of living on campus is the See CHILDREN, A5

Emmanuel Kornyo, former chaplain-in-residence for the third floor of New South Hall, will not return to his position or live on campus after his alleged involvement in an incident of family disturbance Wednesday night.

“These matters are sensitive and appropriate steps are being taken,” Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh wrote in an email.

Kornyo and his wife, Rebecca, had a verbal dispute at around 10:50 p.m. Wednesday. According to a report from the Department of Public Safety, a student called DPS after hearing the couple fighting.

The initial DPS report classified the incident as domestic violence and said that one of the parties was transported to the Georgetown University Hospital for minor injuries.

The Metropolitan Police Department reported, however, that there was no physical evidence of an assault and no charges were pressed against either party.

James Lorello, hall director for New South, sent an email to residents of the third floor Thursday afternoon to inform them that their chaplain would be absent from the floor for the time being.

“The situation has been taken care of and everything is fine,” he wrote. “I apologize that I cannot give more details about this incident, but you can trust that everything has been dealt with.”

Lorello told THE HOYA that the incident Wednesday was not deemed to have endangered or negatively impacted students in any way. In his email to students he urged residents to contact Assistant Director of Residence Life Katie Heather or Laura Kovach, director of the Women’s Center, if they still have concerns.

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OPINION

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Colleague Regrets Loss of Deneen

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To the Editor:

EDITORIALS

The Pursuit of Happiness: Eliminating Bureaucracy student groups have no way of knowing the exact consequences for violations or even what kind of conduct merits punishment. For the university to legitimize its authority to sanction student groups for improper conduct, administrators must more clearly communicate their rules and expectations. The consequences for violating the Honor Code or the Code of Student Conduct, for example, are explicit, and student groups should have a similarly clear understanding of the Student Organization Standards.

It’s hard to believe that such basic practices are not already in place, as their absence adds a significant administrative burden for student group leaders. In addition to their day-to-day duties, these students spend an unnecessary amount of time and energy trying to understand what their groups can and can’t do.

The first Student Life Report, published in 1999, helped elicit the administration’s support for the construction of the New South Student Center. It is our hope that this year’s report garners an equally strong commitment from the university to cutting down on bureaucratic impediments that hamper the effectiveness of student groups.

Open Door Policy Unlocks Minds It’s not really office hours if you have to schedule an appointment.

We recognize that our professors face growing research and administrative demands. Their schedules, like ours, fill up quickly. For those who travel, maintaining regular weekly hours may prove difficult. But holding office hours by appointment only is not a viable substitute to the traditional system.

One of the hallmarks of a liberal arts education is one-on-one interaction between professor and student. When a professor opens his or her door for regular offices hours each week, it facilitates a dialogue outside the classroom and creates an opportunity for students to seek clarification and make an impression on professors who may otherwise not know the names of all students in their large lecture classes.

To students, there is a difference between stopping by to see a professor during office hours and asking for an appointment. When a professor necessitates that students schedule an appointment to discuss coursework, it can cause a student to withhold a question or discussion point that he or she would otherwise bring to a regularly scheduled office hour for fear that it

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Calling All Francophiles – Tonight in McNeir Auditorium, author Michael Parent performs “The French Connection,” a mixture of stories, songs and monologues in French and English.

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A Bicentennial Birthday – Today marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens.

Celebrate the acclaimed British author by attending an exhibit of his works at Lau. Bringing Down the Bulls – The men’s basketball team defeated the South Florida Bulls with a crushing 75-45 win Saturday.

Art Returns to the District – The Washington Post announced the return of the Artomatic, a free art festival featuring regional artists, to D.C. after a three-year hiatus.

Going in Circles – The semi-annual public forum discussing possible improvements to the D.C. Circulator bus system was postponed from today to Feb. 29.

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might not be worth an instructor’s time. Putting the onus on a student to ask for an appointment places an undesirable barrier between that student and his or her professor and discourages the more spontaneous questions and comments for which office hours are designed.

Office hours can also be particularly helpful for struggling students, but those students are less likely to pursue discussions with professors if they must make an appointment first. By holding office hours by appointment, professors risk not only adding to floundering students’ difficulties, but generally dampening their students’ curiosities about broader concepts that may seem trivial but can lead to important, thought-provoking conversations.

The Georgetown Faculty Handbook states that professors need to maintain regular office hours to advise and counsel students. When unusual circumstances arise, appointments may suffice, but these separate schedules should be applied only in a worst-case scenario. The idea of an open door is a lot more welcoming than one you have to it force open.

Connor Gregoire, Editor-in-Chief

John C. Hirsh Professor of English

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An unfinished version of the 2012 Student Life Report released to the press Sunday analyzes the effectiveness of the university’s funding boards and the state of campus organizations, focusing on the levels of bureaucracy facing student groups. Among other things, the report, composed by the Student Life Report Committee, recommends that student groups be given more autonomy.

The administration should seriously consider adopting the report’s recommendations, especially those geared toward improving the student space reservation system, the review process for student group finances and student groups’ understanding of the Student Organization Standards.

The report calls for simple changes to streamline the bureaucracy student groups face, including the consolidation of the reservation system for student meeting space into one office and a single online portal. It also recommends that group officers have access to their own financial records.

The committee’s most striking recommendation, however, pertains to club sanctions. At present, the sanctions for separate categories of Student Organization Standards violations are not coded. In other words,

Although it is not at all uncommon for professors to leave one university for another, the circumstances of professor Patrick Deneen’s decision to leave Georgetown for Notre Dame, together with the attention The Hoya has paid to the event, invite further comment. Professor Deneen’s interest both in undergraduate education and in undergraduates is well known to many here, including those, like me, who hardly know him. It is an interest conditioned, to be sure, by his personal commitment to a forum that is thought by some to be quite traditional in its orientation, and that perception, right or wrong, may have had its effect.

But whatever the circumstances, it is always a pity when someone as invested in students as professor Deneen decides to move on, and it is certainly reasonable to ask if there is a pattern into which his resignation, with its concern for undergraduate education, fits. Certainly there is some prima face evidence that there may be: Undergraduate members have largely been excluded from university committees except those that effect them directly, and professors have effectively been debarred from certain university offices concerned with undergraduate education — like the Office of International Programs — where formerly they would advise and consent. The Center for Social Justice languishes without a permanent director. It is evident that we no longer flourish in certain national academic competitions. Even the previous unequal balance between teaching and

scholarship in matters of hiring, retention and promotion has now been unmistakably reformulated, and in some departments administrative initiatives have dramatically, reduced the amount of teaching expected of certain professors. An enlarged faculty has not led to greater interaction with students, though it has increased academic publication, which seems to have been the desired result. When faculty members retire, increasingly they do so with hardly a nod — which sadly is what many now desire. A recent editorial in this newspaper even asks if the presence of a Department of Public Safety officer causes undergraduate students instinctively to “straighten up and try to walk by without being noticed?” Honestly!

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? First of all, “with all faults,” as book dealers say, the undergraduate program still retains certain of the strengths trumpeted in our catalogues, though these seem to me less valued now than they once were. It is to be hoped, but not expected, that a genuine interest in the undergraduate program may in the future inform administrative appointments, however exalted, and that from that inquiry change may come — but change is certainly needed. Finally, it is to be hoped, not expected, that the loss of professor Deneen, which has occasioned these reflections, may possibly encourage his department to seek, in his replacement, one with some at least of his evident pedagogical interests.

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CORRECTION

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OPINION

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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VIEWPOINT • Aamir Hussain

CUTTER, KUH-TAWR, QATAR

A Discontinued Dialogue Reaching Out With a Rival

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f the population of the Arab world his inauguration.

Even though the president has other were offered ballots for the 2012 U.S. presidential election, I’m pretty sure priorities, he never capitalized on any of his promises to the Arab and Islamic they would choose not to vote.

In such a situation, the losers would be world in his first term. Before his Cairo speech, Obama was said to be outlining the Arab nations themselves.

The problem with U.S. policy in regards an extensive and detailed plan that would to Middle Eastern affairs is its stagnancy. revolutionize policy in the Middle East. AfIt hasn’t changed, it isn’t changing and it ter the speech, politicians from the region, won’t change for a while. In recent elec- including both Palestinian and Israeli toral history, only one man seemed to pro- leaders, had extraordinarily optimistic revide a flicker of hope for progress: Barack actions. Many called it a new beginning for America’s relations with the Arab world.

Obama.

Nothing really changed, though, even This posed another problem, however: Not long after his inauguration, the Unit- in the months following his speech. Relaed States and the rest of the world, includ- tions improved, but only briefly. The maining Arab nations like Qatar, chose to focus tenance of a positive relationship with the on the “man” who is Barack Obama, not Arab world became a governmental priorthe president. The man was going to de- ity. Despite relatively postive governmental interactions, friction liver on vast promises, still existed between emancipate the world Americans and Arfrom worry and mayabs. It was because be even go so far as to they didn’t like the reach out and write U.S. government, and my philosophy paper. when analyzing the Okay, maybe not that situation from their far, but people had perspective, it would high hopes for what seem rightfully so. he could accomplish.

Election 2012 is Now, however, the Nikhil Lakhanpal coming up, and as view is different. We an American voting see him as the presiin his first election, dent who talked the talk but didn’t walk It’s a shame that no matter I will be extremely to cast my the walk. Some might which candidate comes excited ballot. Issues will be make the argument out on top, stagnancy is debated, the political that President Obama will be aflame has done his best to going to keep Middle East brush and we’ll try to give boost the economy, change, hope and attempt healthcare repolicy from changing. promise another go. form and unite politiIt’s just a shame that cal parties.

Unfortunately, trying doesn’t mean no matter which candidate comes out on much, especially in the Arab world. Results top, stagnancy is still going to keep Middle are what matter. The man is still solid, but East policy from changing.

Now, the Arab Spring is in full swing. the president is a disappointment. Here, Arab citizens expected the same change This is the time for sweeping transformathat Americans anticipated. And it has not tions to occur in the region. So why can’t it happen in ours? Maybe in Obama’s been delivered to either of us.

I understand the Arab frustration. In second term, he’ll decide that he wants 2009, Obama was in Cairo when he said to do what he promised for our Arab the following: “The situation for the Pales- friends. Maybe Romney or Gingrich will tinian people is intolerable. America will realize that we need to establish better not turn our backs on the legitimate Pales- relations with the peoples of the Middle tinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity East.

Optimism in the region, however, is low. and a state of their own.”

I asked an Arab friend what Obama’s Obama said he would oppose the expansion of Israeli settlements at the beginning greatest achievement has been so far. of his presidency, but the United States He paused and sighed, “At least he isn’t voted against a United Nations Security George W. Bush.”

Council resolution in February 2011 that would have condemned any such Israeli Nikhil Lakhanpal is a freshman at the action. The transformation from inspir- School of Foreign Service-Qatar caming man to disappointing president took pus. CUTTER, KUH-TAWR, QATAR appears place over the two-year period following every other Tuesday.

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omorrow, Georgetown students will once again be unified in their passion to “juice ’Cuse.” But Georgetown and Syracuse are not just rivals on the court: Both are candidates for White House recognition for exemplary interfaith service campaigns as part of President Obama’s Interfaith Campus and Community Service Challenge.

Despite the historic rivalry, this year’s game is an opportunity for an unprecedented partnership between Georgetown and Syracuse. Throughout this week, interreligious student organizations at both colleges are holding a canned food drive through partnerships with athletic teams and other campus groups. The food drive will culminate at the GeorgetownSyracuse game tomorrow. All donations by Syracuse will be sent to the Food Bank of Central New York, and all Georgetown donations will be sent to Capital Area Food Bank.

The goal of the partnership is to increase awareness and mobilize support for the fight against hunger by harnessing each university’s enthusiasm for both basketball and community service.

The idea started almost two years ago. In 2010, the Interfaith Youth Core launched the Better Together campaign, which seeks to mobilize college students to pursue social justice on a wide range of

issues through interfaith dialogue and community service. Both Georgetown and Syracuse chose to run Better Together campaigns throughout 2011 in response to the nationwide White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.

Georgetown’s Better Together interfaith campaign involves Campus Ministry, The Corp, D.C. Reads, D.C. Schools Project and many other organizations (religious or not) that are committed to social justice. As a Jesuit institution, our school is among the best-suited for an inter-religious campaign. President Obama’s challenge is a unique opportunity for us as students to strengthen partnerships among seemingly disparate campus groups and to show our commitment to community service to the nation.

Last December, a student from Syracuse’s interfaith organization contacted me to outline the amazing potential to help our local communities if we cooperated with each other. In January, Georgetown and Syracuse students, faculty and staff decided to become partners due to the similar focus of their service campaigns. Georgetown addresses poverty and education in D.C. while Syracuse focuses on hunger in upstate New York.

By integrating their passions for social justice into the much-antici-

pated basketball game tomorrow, members of both universities want to show the nation that they are, truly, better together. Georgetown and Syracuse, while starkly different universities in many other respects, are united by their commitment to interfaith dialogue and community service. By taking the first step, Syracuse has demonstrated that they are willing to put rivalries aside and join forces in a fight that truly matters: the fight against hunger and poverty.

Obviously, we need to cheer for the Hoyas on the court, but we can also demonstrate our commitment to excellence by donating a few cans for a good cause. As Georgetown students, we have the responsibility to stay true to our Jesuit ideals of men and women for others and inter-religious understanding.

Basketball and religion are two very divisive issues, but this year, we can change that narrative and integrate both of them into an exemplary and unprecedented intercollegiate partnership by simply donating canned foods. Syracuse has already begun the process, and as Georgetown students, how can we do any less?

AAMIR HUSSAIN is a sophomore in the College. He is the president of Georgetown’s Student Interfaith Council.

SCRIBBLES OF A MADMAN by Ben Mazzara

VIEWPOINT • Brian Shaud

A Growing Wealth Gap R Progress Comes With a Price A CURA HOYANALIS

ising income inequality threatens to destroy the promise of America — that each citizen has a chance at material and personal success, independent of the condition of his or her birth.

Upward social mobility and equality of opportunity are nothing short of America’s civic religion, but these tenants are in danger of becoming little more than vestiges of the nation’s storied past.

We should be concerned about rising levels of income inequality because of the corresponding decrease in social mobility. While the potential demise of the American dream may not concern the wealthiest among us, increasing income inequality causes other social ills that impact both the rich and the poor. According to the Congressional Budget Office, average members of the top one percent of wage earners saw their incomes increase from $337,000 a year in 1979 to $1.2 million in 2006. During that same time, average members of the middle 60 percent of wage earners saw their incomes increase by less than 50 percent. The richest one percent of Americans saw their incomes grow approximately seven times more quickly than did members of the middle and working classes.

The bottom line is, it now takes more for Americans to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and improve their economic standings.

In January, a widely circulated article in The New York Times (“Harder for Americans to Rise from Lower Rungs,” Jan. 4, 2012) pointed to at least five recent studies that suggest decreasing levels of social mobility in the United States. One study found that 42 percent of Americans born into the lowest quintile of income earners stay there as adults. Even British wage-earners, in a notoriously stratified society, fared better, with 30 percent of those born into the bottom quintile remaining that poor throughout their lives.

In discussions about the impact of income inequality, the promise of equal opportunity is the most frequent retort from those who dismiss equality concerns as the fanciful concoction of liberals and leftists. The evidence, compiled by sources varying from the Pew Charitable Trusts to the Brookings Institute to a group of Swedish economists, points to the contrary: The United States is not the socially mobile country that most believe it to be.

The sad fact is that if you are born poor in America, you are over five times more likely to live and die in the lowest 20 percent of income earners than you are to enter the

top 20 percent.

Income inequality is not just a concern for underprivileged Americans, however. In their book “The Spirit Level,” sociologist Richard Wilkinson and public health expert Kate Pickett examine the relationship between income inequality and a variety of social ills.

Comparing wealthy capitalist states, they find a strong correlation between mental health problems and unequal societies in wealthy capitalist countries.

The United States, for example, is the 39th most unequal country according to the CIA-recognized Gini-Index and has an extremely high incidence of mental health cases. For instance, in 2010, one in five adults was diagnosed with depression.

That’s 20 percent.

Likewise, violence, incarceration, drug use, childhood obesity and low math and literacy scores are much more common in nations with high levels of income inequality.

Vastly unequal societies experience higher incidences of social ills because many of these problems are caused by low levels of social trust. Wilkinson and Pickett show how social trust deteriorates across the income spectrum as national inequality rises. The United States must be particularly alarmed.

Wilkinson and Pickett conclude that “more equal societies almost always do better.” As an article from The Economist writes, this “is a sweeping claim, yet the evidence, … painstakingly marshaled, is hard to dispute” (“Social Inequality: Always With Us?” Feb. 26, 2009).

Mitt Romney, now the leading GOP candidate, happens to be in the top .006 percent of income earners. He recently remarked that discussions of income inequality should only occur in “quiet rooms.”

I could not disagree more strongly. Rising income inequality over the last three decades has led to decreasing levels of social mobility and social trust, harming the United States. The time for a serious public discussion about income inequality is now.

Americans learn from a young age that this nation is great because individuals have the chance to excel, independent of the circumstances of their births. Today, we must ensure that the American dream endures for the next generation by reversing the trend of growing income inequality.

BRIAN SHAUD is a senior in the College and a former member of The Hoya’s editorial board.

s they pass the statue of John Carroll, tour guides are advised to suggest to prospective students that our Jesuit founder would be proud of where we are today. As our annual celebration of Jesuit Heritage Week came to a close Sunday, I found myself deeply reflecting upon the question: What would past Jesuits think of Georgetown today?

Certainly, Georgetown’s Jesuit forebears would marvel at its impressive growth. They would commend the university for breaking down barriers of race, creed and sex to cultivate and educate students who were once marginalized. They would be proud that students here commit themselves to engaging the greater community, especially those in most need.

Yet my reflections also lead me to worry that these men to whom we owe so much would also deliver a scathing critique of Georgetown today and perhaps say that we’ve entirely missed the point of this university.

In recent years, Georgetown has cultivated its identity through an approach I call “distilled Jesuitism,” the abridged works of Jesuit thought and values for the masses. Even when we seek to broaden our understanding and appreciation of our Jesuit inheritance through events like Jesuit Heritage Week, we still speak in catchy buzzwords: “social justice,” “contemplation in action” and “God in all things.”

Reliance on these phrases generates misconceptions that Georgetown is a pseudo-Jesuit, but not Catholic, institution.

It is impossible to be Jesuit without being Catholic. Georgetown does not offer a Jesuit education, but instead a Catholic education preserved by Jesuit sweat.

A Catholic education does not require a Catholic faith, but it does nevertheless require observance

of Catholic principles and values.

Jesuits founded Georgetown in order to educate under these convictions and beliefs. But the Latin root of the verb “to educate” means “to lead out.” Its derivatives in Italian, Spanish and French all mean “to civilize.”

Outsiders may say this sounds elitist. Yet from the start, a Jesuit education targeted the gifted and the graced, because St. Ignatius knew that their souls were at great risk: They had the poten-

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Let us listen to our Jesuit ancestors and embrace their challenges. tial to do the utmost good or the worst evil.

Georgetown was not founded primarily to train students to run governments, teach students to make money or provide students with the resources to cure diseases, though all these might be valuable consequences.

In 1989, Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J., reminded students that at Georgetown, “we have never bowed to either of two heresies: that the bachelor’s degree is for making a living rather than for life itself or that one can debase the arts and sciences to make them ‘value-free.’”

Yes, the university should want to open up minds, break down

prejudices and fill the vaults of knowledge. Yet at a Catholic school, under Jesuit guidance, education is primarily meant to build conviction, enshrine virtues and make truths known.

The chief mission of Georgetown is not to send forth smart, skilled or even world-changing graduates but instead gentlemen and gentlewomen, individuals of substance, character and virtue.

The Jesuits came to Georgetown as a measure of faith, a planting of hope and a labor of love. Only these things could generate such a passion that could make our first student, William Gaston, could write to his mother in 1791 that a professor “has made my heart almost burst with crying.”

In the end, Georgetown will pass, as all things do. Our endowment, our new buildings, our volumes of research and our tombs of accomplishments will all one day be forgotten. Fr. John Conway, S.J., said it best when he noted that “crumbling ruin and broken arch and tottering tower and roofless walls, heavy with weeds and neglected ivy, may be all that will remain of Georgetown’s material greatness. But even then, in those far distant ages, the truths and the principles taught in Georgetown today are the only ones that will lead that newer civilization to better things, for they are eternal.”

During Jesuit Heritage Week we thank past and present Jesuits for all they have done for our alma mater. Let us then listen to the words of our Georgetown Jesuit ancestors and embrace their critiques and challenges. Only then shall we live more fully for the greater glory of God. Michael Fischer is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. CURA HOYANALIS appears every other Tuesday.

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Fr. Richard Curry, S.J., a professor in the Catholic studies department, was hospitalized Monday due to complications from pneumonia.

He is in the intensive care unit at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Northwest D.C., according to Fr. Eugene Nolan, S.J., an administrator in the Jesuit community.

“His family and members of his Jesuit community are keeping watch and request no visitors until further notice,” Nolan wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Curry joined the Society of Jesus in 1962 and was ordained as a priest in 2009.

He began teaching at Georgetown in the spring of 2010.

Curry has had a profound effect on several of his students, according to Christina Costa (COL ’13), who has taken two classes with him.

“Since I’ve met him, I’ve told all my friends and fam-

ily that he’s changed my life,” she said. “I saw him as a professor but [also as] a great friend.”

This semester, Curry is teaching two classes, “Theater as Prayer” and “Theater and the Catholic Imagination.”

He is also the founder and director of the Academy for Veterans at Georgetown, which works in collaboration with the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped and Atlas Medical Research to aid veterans in returning to civilian life. Curry is a published cookbook author and founded a bakery staffed by handicapped and returning veterans. He is also the director and founder of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped in New York City.

Costa said she was unaware that Curry was ill until he was hospitalized.

“He’s a really strong person,” Costa said. “Everyone’s hoping he’s going to get through this. … He’s a really important person to have around.”

The Department of Public Safety is investigating a string of five thefts and burglaries of items totaling nearly $1,500 from buildings at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

The incidents occurred over a two-day period starting Jan. 26. DPS Associate Director Joseph Smith declined to comment on whether the incidents are connected but confirmed that an investigation is ongoing.

The first two incidents took place at the New Research Building on Jan. 26.

Video footage from a surveillance camera showed a man stealing a computer, a computer monitor and a scanner from an open loading dock at 2:25 p.m. The suspect then loaded the equipment into a white, four-door Toyota Corolla that was parked outside the dock. The total value of the stolen equipment was estimated at $300 but could be as much as $900, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.

The report describes the suspect as a 35- to 40-year-old black male, about 5-foot-10 and weighing 200 pounds. He was dressed in a black jacket and a blue hat with gray pants and a gray shirt.

A little more than two hours later, a suspect of the same description and an accomplice, who was not described in the MPD report, took two freezers from the same loading dock and loaded them into a white Dodge pickup truck.

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A series of burglaries and thefts resulting in the loss of nearly $1,500 in goods and cash was reported at the Medical-Dental Building and two other Medical Center facilities.

Three more offices were burglarized the following day.

At 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 27, an unknown suspect broke into an office on the fourth floor of the Medical-Dental Building and stole a $700 safe. The professor who reported the burglary is licensed to possess controlled substances, including cocaine and morphine, for research purposes. He reported to MPD that the safe was usually used to store those drugs, though it was empty at the time of the burglary.

Another office on the fourth floor of Building D was broken into around the same time. Though nothing was reported stolen, a desk drawer was broken when the burglar forced it open.

Fifty minutes after the first two burglaries, $235 was stolen from a safe in an office on the second floor of the same building.

No description is available for the suspects involved in any of the Jan. 27 incidents.

GUSA to Investigate University Ban on Student Business ANNIE CHEN

Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate voted unanimously Sunday to authorize the Student Life Committee to investigate the university’s ban on the operation of student businesses on campus.

University policies regarding concessions and student businesses currently state that students living in university housing may not engage in private business or commercial activities in their residence. The ban prohibits students from using a room address, telephone line or Internet connection to conduct any type of business activity.

The Buyback Brothers, a group of

four students who tried to operate a book buyback program in Red Square during final exams last spring, first raised the issue with Vice Speaker Nate Tisa (SFS ’14).

The Buyback Brothers said they were forced off campus by Department of Public Safety officers after a university administrator reported them. Since then, the group has used a licensed vendor truck outside the front gates to conduct its business.

“The students appreciated our service. Some professors even sell back books to us, too,” Jordan Green (COL ’12), one of the company’s founders, said.

Green added that previously, residence assistants and hall directors didn’t have problems with the com-

pany operating out of dorm rooms.

“It seems like the university policy is targeted against the students,” Sam Kane (SFS ’14), a member of the Buyback Brothers, said. “We wouldn’t have any business if the bookstore wasn’t ripping people off.”

Senate Speaker Adam Talbot (COL’ 12) argued that the university policy is unequally applied across student businesses.

H2Bro Delivery, a student-run business that delivers snacks and drinks to dorms, was used as an example of a student business that should not be allowed by the university policy but has not been sanctioned by the administration.

“The Buyback Brothers was competing with the bookstore. If you

look at a lot of student-run businesses, in some sense, they are completely non-cannibalistic with other auxiliary business, and they operate just fine,” Talbot said.

Tisa also suggested that the ban is largely enforced against businesses that compete with auxiliary services.

“There are student businesses that operate despite this ban, but not because they have special permission,” he said. “It’s interesting that the only student businesses on the university’s radar are those that cut into the margins of the auxiliary services, like the eFollett bookstore. There’s definitely an element of monopoly involved.”

According to the Buyback Brothers, no concrete explanations of the inconsistent enforcement of the policy

have been given, despite multiple attempts to contact the administration.

Director of Student Programs Erika Cohen-Derr said that she was not familiar with the bill or the student concerns on the matter.

The bill calls upon the university administration to establish a framework for the student business to register and operate legally on campus.

“We would like to see a more moderate approach, whereby students have some kind of process for getting their ideas approved,” Green said. “Ultimately, we are looking for a more comprehensive set of policies that serve to protect all students while at the same time aim to encourage innovative ideas that add value to our campus.”

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proximity between her workplace and her home. She and her husband, Bill, raise their son, Yul, in LXR Hall. While Roth is at work, Yul spends his days at the nearby Hoya Kids Learning Center, a daycare and preschool facility for children of Georgetown students, faculty and staff.

“It’s just great to walk to work and take Yul to school and pick him up and have that kind of integrated path,” Roth said. “One of the things I love and I think my students love is that my worlds overlap a bit.”

KEEPING THE PEACE While university neighbors may complain about rowdy undergraduates, and students may gripe about a lack of social space, parents on campus have few complaints.

While university dorms are not necessarily as spacious as private residences, Howard and his family have been very happy living in Kennedy Hall.

“We’re not exactly near a Babies-R-Us, but then that could be true if we lived in a neighborhood as well,” he said.

Andy Staron, chaplain-in-residence in Henle Village and a professor in the theology department, said he and his wife, Andrea, don’t usually find the noisy campus setting to be a challenge, even when putting their 2-year-old A.J. and 6-month-old Lucia to bed at an early hour.

“Students are pretty considerate when they’re sober,” Staron said. “No one wants to be the jerk who woke up the baby.”

Staron and Roth noted the lack of a typical neighborhood environment and readily available playmates as potential downsides to raising their children on campus.

“The one thing we’re lacking here is a neighborhood, you know, with kids down the street,” Staron said. “But especially over the last couple years, there has been an increase in kids [on campus], so now there are a good number of kids and it’s a lot of fun.”

BLOSSOMING RELATIONSHIPS Howard estimates that there is an event for all of the children

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Yul Roth attends preschool at the Hoya Kids Learning Center, while his mother Maya works in the Davis Performing Arts Center as the director of theater and performance studies. They live nearby in LXR Hall. living on campus about once per semester that allows them to get together and interact with other families.

In October, chaplains-in-residence in Kennedy Hall organized a Halloween party in the Kennedy multi-purpose room, and about a dozen children attended in full costume.

Howard said Georgetown offers a unique sense of community for his family and credits Grady’s social nature to the many opportunities he has to interact with students and faculty on a daily basis.

He added that the ready supply of babysitters is convenient.

“Our friends who don’t live on campus are insanely jealous of

that. And it’s wonderful, because it’s not just that they’re easy to find, but that we know who we’re getting and that [Grady will] be loved. We don’t have to worry.

That is such a blessing,” Howard said.

For many parents, the importance of interactions between their children and the students they work with has been surprising.

“I didn’t anticipate how important Yul was going to be in my life as a faculty-in-residence,” Roth said. “There are certainly students whom I know he has navigated my relationship with.

They might not seek me out if it weren’t for him, but he facilitates interaction.”

Ciara Foldenauer (COL ’14), a

resident of Henle Village, enjoys seeing A.J. playing on his scooter and having the opportunity to interact with the Staron family.

“I think it really gives a lot to the college experience, and I think it’s one of the best aspects of residence life,” she said. “You know, when you’re on a college campus you don’t get to see many old people or children or families, so it’s really nice to have a family living close by.”

For Staron, having children on campus adds to the overall sense of community at Georgetown.

“I had an old buddy who said college campuses could stand to have more dogs and babies,” Staron said. “It humanizes the place a little bit.”

While segments of D.C.’s new streetcar system are expected to become operational by 2013, it is unlikely that routes will ever be expanded to Georgetown.

According to John Lisle, a spokesman for the District Department of Transportation, the ongoing project to restore 150-yearold streetcar tracks on O and P Streets in Georgetown will serve purely historic purposes.

“The tracks we have on O and P Streets can’t be used again. … They’re really there because of their historical value,” he said. “I’d be very surprised if we tried to run a streetcar down O or P Streets like we did before.”

The new tracks being installed in other parts of the city are part of a scheme to build up to eight streetcar lines with 37 miles of track. Proposed segments include a route along the H Street-Benning Road corridor in Northeast, a K Street transitway and a corridor between Adams Morgan and Congress Heights.

All of the projects currently underway use new track because it is more cost effective than rehabilitating tracks left over from D.C.’s old streetcar system, which ceased operations in 1952.

Though Georgetown will not benefit from the project, DDOT hopes that the streetcars will provide other neighborhoods without Metro stations improved access to the rest of the city.

“We want to provide more transit options for people to better connect neighborhoods, connect people to their jobs and fill in the gaps in the metro system,” Lisle said.

The H Street-Benning Road corridor, which is due to be operational by summer 2013, will be the first of the new routes, although Lisle cautioned that several steps still remain in the project.

“A lot is still happening to get that lined up,” he said.

Lisle added that streetcars are a useful alternative because they are less disruptive to install than underground rail networks but more permanent than buses. “[Streetcars] have been shown to have more economic development impact than buses because they’re more permanent,” he said.

Lisle expressed enthusiasm about the return of streetcars to the District.

“We wish the [old] service had never stopped,” he said.

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SLR Focuses on Club Funding SFS Aims to Instill GU

Values at Qatar Campus

REPORT, from A1 and released within the next two weeks. It is the first comprehensive report about student life completed since 1999.

According to Georgetown University Student Association Vice President Greg Laverriere (COL ’12), the report is intended to help provide a better framework for how student money is allocated. It offers suggestions for improving five student advisory boards, including the Student Activities Commission, the Center for Social Justice, the Advisory Board for Club Sports, the Media Board, the Performing Arts Advisory Council and the Georgetown Program Board, as well as various recommendations for institutional and intellectual improvement.

Many of these recommendations call for expansion of student space, improved transparency among the funding boards and better centralization of information.

The report also includes more specific recommendations, such as combining What’s After Dark and GPB into one group and moving the Lecture Fund under the purview of GPB. The committee also analyzed data from questionnaires including the Senior Survey, Enrolled Student Survey and Civic Engagement Survey. Based on this analysis, the committee suggested that there is a positive relationship between engagement in Georgetown-related activities and student satisfaction. The called for an investigation into students who do little to engage in activities on campus through surveys, focus groups or other initiatives.

The 1999 Student Life Report, which primarily addressed student space, funding and bureaucracy, has been used as the outlining document for initiatives to address relevant issues on campus for over 10 years. Implementations of the plan’s recommendations include an online system

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GUSA Vice President Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) and Student Life Report Commitee 2012 Vice Chair Ronak Parikh (MSB ’12) helped draft the recommendations.

for student groups to request classroom space, the provision of free movie screenings by the Georgetown Program Board and the creation of the Advisory Board for Club Sports.

The suggestion of a new student space to expand upon that offered in the Leavey Center, an integral part of the report, had not been addressed until the decision was made to renovate the New South Student Center, a plan that was drafted last semester.

Hoyt said he was surprised to discover that members of the Advisory Board for Club Sports felt that their needs and interests were often overlooked in favor of Georgetown’s intramural sports.

“People very involved [in club sports] felt alienated and were a distant second in priorities in the eyes of the university and [Yates Field House],” he said.

The committee has recommended expanding club sport teams’ access to student space and hiring a full-time staff member to support club sports.

To research the issues tackled in the report, GUSA members and volunteers traveled to college campuses, including Stanford, American and William and Mary Universities to study those institutions and their framework for campus life.

The Student Life Report Committee listed William and Mary’s A Cappella Council and Stanford undergraduates’ complete control over their student activities funds as noteworthy aspects of other colleges.

Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice stood out when compared to similar organizations at other universities. “[CSJ is] way ahead of the field and will only get better,” Tan said.

The committee is currently seeking feedback on the report from various campus organizations before the final document is publicly released.

GUSA hopes to meet with University President John J. DeGioia in the coming weeks discuss the report.

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way that demonstrates Georgetown is for those of all faiths and none,” SFS-Q Dean Gerd Nonneman wrote in an email. “SFSQ in this sense is an extension … of SFS and of the wider Georgetown community.”

In order to achieve this, professors and administrators must tread a fine line between emphasizing Georgetown’s ideals and preaching Western morals.

“It is not the university’s job to ‘promote’ democratic values in a political sense, or indeed to promote any particular political system,” Nonneman wrote. “Our aim is to produce graduates who think for themselves, not ones that should have a particular view of international politics.”

Lately, the spotlight at SFS-Q has been on the Arab Spring protests that erupted across the region last year.

Wadah Al Shugaa (GRD ’13), a Yemeniborn student who studied abroad in Qatar last calendar year, said that dialogue on campus started to change in the wake of the protests.

“Most events on campus addressed the … Arab Spring. Georgetown brought in regional experts to speak about the changing political situation and the role of social media,” Al Shugaa said. “I tried to take a lot of classes Qataris take so I could hear their thoughts.”

According to Nonneman, the diversity of the campus — SFS-Q’s roughly 200 students represent 53 nationalities — helps to further this goal of provoking intellectual debate. Only one-third of the students are natives of Qatar, while the rest are U.S. expats and foreign students.

“There is a more diverse student body here, with vociferous expression of ideas from a wide range of national backgrounds, often questioning what in the West might be [generally accepted] wisdom, and thus very much enriching the debate,” Nonneman wrote.

Al Shugaa agreed.

“They bring speakers to the Qatar campus who challenge students to think in the hopes of making students aware of multiple perspectives,” he said. “There is no particular emphasis on Western or democratic values. It’s much more nuanced than that.”

Instead, the school promotes an appre-

ciation for social justice.

“There is a tangible effort to sensitize the student population at SFS-Q toward issues of equity and rights in Qatari society,” said Samuel Biesiada (MSB ’12), who studied abroad at the campus last semester.

For Samantha Smith, a student from the Naval Academy who attended SFS-Q last spring, the opportunity to interact with Qatari students was the defining aspect of her experience abroad.

“SFS-Q was an opportunity that I’ll probably never have again and one that I’ll always treasure. I learned so much just from talking and listening to people.

We talked about politics, religion, military issues, family life,” she wrote in an email.

The Qatar campus also hosts a volunteer program that connects students with the burgeoning migrant community. According to Al Shugaa, the volunteers teach the migrants English and how to use the Internet.

Many of the poorest migrants, who come mainly from India, Nepal and Pakistan, are unskilled workers. As Qatar prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022, it has faced increasing criticism for its treatment of migrant laborers in the construction sector.

“The Georgetown administration has been highly supportive of students interested in addressing labor migration issues,” Al Shugaa said. “Both professors and students are involved in leading workshops that teach computer skills.”

According to Biesiada, the research on these issues conducted by SFS-Q students plays a role in local politics. “[The research is] looked at by policy makers, who can implement policy changes rather easily, as they don’t have to worry about re-election,” he added, referencing Qatar’s hereditary monarchy.

For Al Shugaa, the political and cultural differences he was exposed to in Qatar have allowed him to view the culture and politics of the United States in a different light.

“As an Arab, I personally think that the SFS-Q offers other Arabs the opportunity to … understand America in a balanced perspective, which ties back to the Jesuit ideal of offering a curriculum that addresses the whole perspective,” he said.

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Groove Theory performed Friday at the SWAG kick-off, which featured several student groups’ talents.

SWAG Series Hits Campus Margaret Viator Hoya Staff Writer

Student Workshops at Georgetown, recipient of a 2011 ReImagine Georgetown grant, launched its programming Friday in an event celebrating its mission — free workshops offered for students by students.

The team plans to hold about 10 student-led workshops, with themes ranging from ping pong to sushi making, during their inaugural semester.

Founder Christina Crisostomo (SFS ’13) said she had long been playing with the idea of creating a student education series.

“I’ve always been interested in [do it yourself] stuff. I became fixated on this idea that people with similar interests could meet up and try something completely different and new,” she said.

According to Crisostomo, the purpose of SWAG is to introduce students to their own cre-

ative energies and teach new skills while requiring a minimal commitment.

“It truly enriches the cultural life here at Georgetown,” Ambika Kumar (MSB ’14), who works on the technology team for SWAG, said.

In addition to receiving funding from the ReImagine Georgetown grant — a combined effort of Students of Georgetown, Inc., the Georgetown Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union and The Hoya — Crisostomo’s idea was supported by Compass Incubators, a student-led entrepreneurship group.

After Crisostomo presented her idea to the group, Compass supplied her with a team of nine undergraduates who have helped implement the proposal.

“We all tag-team it. Although we have set titles, everyone really helps out everyone else,” Merjan Bubernack (MSB ’15), who works on marketing for SWAG, said.

SWAG’s kickoff fest in Alum-

ni Lounge focused on adding students to SWAG’s listserv while highlighting different cultural and club opportunities available at Georgetown.

While the idea has gotten off the ground, members say they still have a lot to do to ensure that the organization becomes cemented in campus life, such as the development of a new website and programming.

“We are really looking into making sure the idea for the club is sustainable, with an eye toward the future,” Sean Foley (MSB ’15), a SWAG development manager, said.

Crisostomo said she is confident that the group’s workshops will be successful.

“I was a part of Flip Dis Funk Dat my freshman year, and we would have these days of workshops where everyone kind of let their guard down. It was really silly and really fun. I always remembered that experience, and I know this is something that can really happen,” Crisostomo said.

The Bachelors of Foreign Service Review Committee will issue recommendations on a possible new science requirement for the School of Foreign Service based on results of a recent survey.

The survey, which was completed last semester, covered aspects of the BSFS program ranging from the core curriculum to the lack of student space.

Almost one-third of SFS undergraduates, about 453 students, responded to the survey.

When asked if a new science requirement would improve the core curriculum, 33.1 percent said yes, while 51.6 percent said no.

“International affairs contain a lot of scientific dimensions,” Azi Hussain (SFS ’15), a representative on the SFS Academic Council, said. “Many people don’t realize that, which is why there is some hostility towards such a requirement.”

According to Council President Lucas Stratmann (SFS ’12), the committee is still working through the logistics of implementing such a requirement.

“One of the most obvious problems is the implication of further burdening students with a curriculum that already has heavy requirements,” Stratmann said.

The Review Committee is exploring various ways to incorporate the proposed science requirement in the curriculum.

“We’re thinking about making it a course like “Map of the Modern World,” a one-credit course [in which] you will learn about aspects of science that are relevant to international affairs,” Hussein said.

Another option includes clearing room for the additional requirement by counting the freshman pro-seminar as one of the two required humanities and writing courses

and eliminating one of the three history requirements.

According to Stratmann, the divide in student opinion reflects two opposing views on the proposed science requirement. The first is that science is only relevant to students majoring in Science, Technology and International Affairs, and the second is that only a basic understanding of socially relevant science, such as nuclear weapons and climate change, is applicable to all majors.

“Students are opposed to hard sciences such as biology, physics or chemistry,” Stratmann said. “If we have a clearer idea of what [the requirement] would be like, I think there will be a shift in opinions.”

In the fall, Chair of Faculty for the SFS David Edelstein proposed different models for pilot classes. One option proposes an introductory science course that would consist of lectures on broad concepts about science experimentation, measurement and the scientific method. The lectures would be supplemented with small discussion sessions that connect science with global issues.

Another proposal would utilize faculty who are teaching existing science courses for non-majors in the College and professors interested in science’s relationship with international affairs.

Once the committee finalizes data analysis and recommendations, the Academic Council will release results of the survey and hold town halls to communicate their ideas with the student body. “[The science requirement conversation] came up during my freshmen year … but it sort of quieted down in my sophomore and junior year,” Stratmann said. “It’s been on and off, but I think the survey will provide a more concrete idea and clearer direction for what we can work on.”

Students Push Unique Brand of Libertarianism Sarah Patrick Hoya Staff Writer

Although they are late in joining the ranks of student campaign groups, Georgetown’s chapter of Youth for Ron Paul is looking to recruit students and spread the word about Paul’s libertarian ideology on campus.

According to Christian Rice (COL ’14), who founded the chapter in December, the group hopes both to promote Paul’s campaign and to educate students.

“We aren’t really planning to change the vote in D.C.,” Rice said. “It’s about educating people about libertarianism and the federal system as it was set up, instead of how it is now.”

Chris Mlynarski (COL ’12) said that he identified with Paul’s stance that individual behaviors should not be monitored by the government.

“He’s the only candidate who believes the government shouldn’t be a moral arbitrator,” he said.

Rice is not worried about the size of the group, which currently boasts about 20 members.

“Even if we had just 20 members, I’d be fine. We can still do a lot,” he said.

Rice believes that Georgetown’s demographics contribute to the lack of support for Paul’s candidacy for the Republican nomination.

“He generally does better among younger folks, but especially poorer people, so the wealthier kids who are more likely to attend

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Georgetown would be more likely to support a different candidate who caters to their political views better,” he said.

According to Mlynarski, although Paul appeals to undergraduates because of his fiscally conservative but socially liberal beliefs, Georgetown students are unlikely to support his radical policies.

“There’s not really a revolutionary mindset, because a lot of people at Georgetown are going to be going into [the industries targeted by Occupy Wall Street],” Mlynarski said. “We don’t want a revolution because we want these industries to stay intact, since we are going to be the beneficiaries.”

Derrik Sweeney (COL ’13), who joined the group after being approached by Rice, hopes to find more students on campus who adhere to Paul’s idea of individual liberty.

“People don’t understand the unintended consequences of government intervention,” Sweeney said. “I think people have a lot of great aims and objectives, but when government policies try to redirect flow of capital in the market, they tend not to achieve their aims and hurt everybody.”

Youth for Ron Paul has tabled in Red Square twice and plans to continue to promote their message around campus with flyers and T-shirts. Rice is also collecting signatures on a petition to bring Paul to campus as a speaker.

“The best part is just knowing that there’s a chance of making a difference, even if there are just two or three people that come over to our side and see things our way,” he said.

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Sophomore guard Sugar Rodgers, shown against Rutgers, leads the Big East in scoring at 19.8 points per game and was named to the Big East honor roll Monday.

GU Focused on Seton Hall As No. 3 Connecticut Looms BENO PICCIANO Hoya Staff Writer

There should be few suprises in store for viewers of the upcoming Big East women’s basketball matchup between red-hot No. 14 Georgetown (18-5, 7-3 Big East) and struggling Seton Hall (7-17, 0-10 Big East) Wednesday night at McDonough Arena.

The Blue and Gray have been a mainstay in the nation’s top 20 all season and have surged into a tie for third place in their conference, thanks to a three-game winning streak which included a lopsided upset of No. 11 Rutgers and two road victories. The Pirates, conversely, have lost 12 straight contests and have dropped all 10 Big East appearances this season.

With six games remaining in the final month of regular-season play, the Blue and Gray can ill afford to slip up and lose ground in the closely contested fight for a top-four finish in the league standings.

That’s why Georgetown Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy is committed to keeping her team occupied with preparations for Seton Hall, despite a looming date with No. 3 Connecticut this weekend.

“Right now, we’re just trying to focus on taking one game at a time. When you begin to look ahead at who has to play who, all of it doesn’t matter if we don’t take care of our own business,” Williams-Flournoy said. “Right now we focus on Seton Hall. … It’s a home game and we haven’t played well at home outside of Rutgers so that’s something that we can really focus on right now.”

The Hoyas have fallen short in three conference home games already, albeit to strong rivals — No. 2 Notre Dame and perennial threats Louisville and DePaul. The Pirates, however, should pose less of a threat.

While Georgetown has struggled mightily on the offensive end this season, sport-

ing the league’s second-worst field goal percentage, Seton Hall’s scoring offense is dead last in the Big East. In their last appearance, the Pirates scored an abysmal 25 points in a home loss to St. John’s.

The Hoyas make up for their shooting struggles with stifling defensive pressure, the league’s fourth-ranked scoring defense and second-best turnover margin. The visitors enter Wednesday’s matchup with the 14th-best scoring defense and the second-toworst point differential in the Big East.

Still, as the season winds down, the end to a campaign can bring with it emotions, energy and motivation for teams throughout the standings.

“We can’t really look at Seton Hall records, and we can’t look at some of their games,” Williams-Flournoy said. “We have to understand that at this point in the season, every team is hungry, every team is fighting to get every win that they can get … and we still have a lot to improve on.”

The Hoyas will be led by junior guard Sugar Rodgers, the Big East’s leading scorer with 19.8 points per game. Senior forward Tia Magee has also been crucial to the Blue and Gray’s success of late, with 18, 21 and 17 points in her last three appearances.

“I think it’s a great time in the season for Tia to start coming along,” WilliamsFournoy said. “I’m very happy that she has found the knack to score, but for Tia it’s not just scoring. She’s always been a very good defender, she’s rebounding and now she’s adding scoring to her repertoire. It’s perfect timing right now.”

The Pirates will be led by senior guard Jasmine Crew, whose 18-point-per-game average is third in the Big East. Junior guard Brittney Morris adds 11.7 points per game, but the two standouts have receieved little scoring support from their teammates.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday at McDonough Arena.

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MLB Playoffs Lack Urgency S uper Bowl weekend is hailed as a national holiday in the United States.

Even for those fans whose favorite team is left out of the granddaddy of sporting events, people across America and the entire world watch in awe while the NFL’s two finalists battle it out for the Vince Lombardi trophy.

But in baseball, the postseason — and more importantly, the World Series — has lost its allure to the casual fan. Fans do not put the rest of their lives on hold to catch it, and in fact, many tend to not watch the games once their teams are eliminated.

Although baseball cannot change itself to allow for one “all or nothing” contest for the championship, it can still alter its postseason schedule and structure to boost interest not only for fans of the game, but also for those who would watch for the sheer cultural significance of the event. In the past, there was a mystique surrounding the World Series that has been lost in recent years, and baseball needs to recapture its prominence in the sporting world.

In the new collective bargaining agreement, MLB has agreed to add an additional playoff team to each of the two leagues. While the specific plan has yet to be established, it is likely that the two wild card teams in each league would play in a one-game playoff to determine who advances to play in what are currently the American League and National League divisional series — essentially the league’s quarterfinals.

Many teams, players and fans will likely balk at the idea of a single-elimination game to determine the fate of two worthy teams. But from a marketing standpoint, a one-game playoff would be a surefire way to generate significant interest.

Similarly, if single playoff games were extended throughout the entire postseason, baseball’s playoffs would be compared to the chaotic yet undoubtedly popular NFL postseason as well as college basketball’s March Madness. Unfortunately, do-or-die playoff rounds wouldn’t be a fair way to determine a winner after a 162-game regular season.

The Super Bowl, unlike the World Series, can succeed with individual playoff games due to

Preston Barclay

In baseball, the postseason has lost its allure to the casual fan. the nature of the sport. Not only is it impossible for the athletes to play such a physical game multiple times per week, but also each game of the 17-week regular season is treated with significance, unlike the long and methodic MLB season.

The NFL maximum of four playoff games is 25 percent of the length of the regular season, while MLB’s 19-game maximum is a much smaller percentage (11.7) of the 162-game schedule.

Still, the MLB playoffs are long and drawn out, and a change must be made.

The current format makes sense competitively to determine

a winner. Just like other sports, teams can win a championship by “getting hot” at the right time.

At the same time, however, baseball’s greatest flaw is its extension of the postseason for more than a whole month when it could be completed in a much shorter time.

Perhaps the real reason behind baseball’s loss of fan interest is its inconsistency between the regular season and postseason in regards to the regularity of games played. From April to September, teams play virtually every day with several days off worked in throughout each month. In the postseason, however, teams play every other day at most.

If baseball is to regain interest, it should stick to its regular season pace. MLB doesn’t do the naturally slow-paced sport any favors by extending the postseason into late October and early November.

Even though the MLB cannot turn the World Series into a single-day extravaganza like the Super Bowl, it can turn each round into a week-long event, with only one or two days off in each round instead of three or four. Fans and especially players are used to six games per week, and the MLB loses fans each time it extends the playoffs. Baseball should feed off the energy of one game to the next day instead of forcing fans to wait.

MLB may think it helps itself by remaining in the spotlight for a longer period of time. But in reality, it ruins what can be an exalted World Series by disrupting and extending its season. Although counterintuitive, ending the season earlier is the best way to push baseball back into the forefront of sports fans’ minds.

Preston Barclay is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. TURNING TWO IN THE 202 appears every Tuesday.

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GU Holds Off Late Rally Georgetown Crushes USF CINCINNATI, from A12 defensive games at this point in the season, so that’s something that we have to continue to improve upon,” Williams-Flournoy said. “I thought Cincinnati played extremely hard, but we were able to come out in the second half and step up our defensive pressure.”

After a sluggish start for Georgetown, the score stood knotted at 9-9 five minutes into the game. However, the Blue and Gray went on a 17-2 run in the next eight minutes to take a 26-11 lead.

Freshman guard Taylor Brown made two consecutive threes during the run en route to a 10-point night.

Brown was just one part of Georgetown’s strong shooting night, as the team shot over 50 percent from threepoint range.

“I thought Taylor came in and played extremely well,” Williams-Flournoy said. “We usually don’t do as well when we shoot so many threes, but it worked for us.”

The Hoyas never lost the lead after their first-half run,

but the Bearcats managed to claw their way back into the game. Some timely shooting from senior guard Bjonee Reaves cut the Georgetown lead to four going into halftime.

However, Georgetown came out of the gate strong in the second half, building their lead back up to nine with 10 minutes remaining in the half. Much of their secondhalf scoring came from senior forward Tia Magee, who seems to be making a trend out of strong performances after intermission.

Magee finished the night with 18 points, five rebounds and four steals but accomplished an even bigger feat by scoring her 1,000th career point as a Hoya.

“It snuck up on me, but it’s really exciting,” Magee said.

“I’ve always considered myself a defensive player, so for a defensive player to hit 1,000 points is a big deal.”

The scoring mark demonstrates not only her value to the program but also her elevated play down the home stretch of this season.

“I’m very proud of [Tia]. It’s

something that she’s worked extremely hard for, and what better time for her to get it than right now,” WilliamsFlournoy said.

The Bearcats cut the Georgetown lead down to 60-54 with just under a minute to play, but the Hoyas squashed any hope of a comeback with some clutch freethrow shooting.

Junior guard Sugar Rodgers led the way for the Hoyas with 19 points, and senior point guard Rubylee Wright added 10. Both players were a force on the boards as well, with each posting seven rebounds on the afternoon.

And while Williams-Flournoy may have been disappointed with the defense as a whole, the Hoyas’ signature press disrupted yet another opponent by forcing 24 turnovers.

“That is what we do. The program motto is to press, play defense and force turnovers,” Williams-Flournoy said.

The Blue and Gray will return to action this Wednesday when they take on Seton Hall (7-17, 0-10 Big East) at McDonough Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

Lawson Ferguson Hoya Staff Writer

Two years ago, a 14-7 South Florida team came to Verizon Center and overcame a nine-point halftime deficit in a win over a Georgetown team that had just thrashed No. 8 Duke and would go on to rout No. 2 Villanova three days later.

When South Florida freshman guard Anthony Collins hit a layup as time expired in the first half of Saturday’s contest to cut the No. 14 Hoyas’ lead to eight, it looked like history might repeat itself.

The Blue and Gray opened the second half on a 6-0 run, however, quickly putting to rest any talk of an upset as they cruised to a 75-45 win over the Bulls in the last game before Wednesday’s primetime clash with archrival No. 2 Syracuse.

“We were down by [more than] eight a couple years ago and found a way to pull it off,” South Florida Head Coach Stan Heath said. “Today just wasn’t our day.”

Though the Hoyas’ 75-point effort was their best since an 83-75 win over DePaul on Jan. 17.

The story of the game was the hosts’ defense. Two years ago, the Bulls scored 46 points in the second half alone, but this time the Georgetown defense stood firm. The visitors endured a nearly 11-minute scoreless streak in which they went 0-of-6 from the field and committed a staggering 10 turnovers. The impressive defensive effort helped the Hoyas overcome some offensive struggles of their own, as they shot a mediocre 35 percent

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Sims Leads Hoyas in Rout USF, from A12 15-point first-half effort, but was unable to catch the suddenly red-hot Hoyas.

“All of the sudden the avalanche opened up, especially with some of that back-door scoring and the three-point shooting, which is what you have to take away from Georgetown,” Heath said.

Second-half highlights included a slick no-look pass from freshman guard Jabril Trawick to sophomore forward Nate Lubick for a thunderous dunk — though Lubick was immediately whistled for a technical foul for hanging on the rim — and a stunning alley-oop from sophomore guard John Caprio to redshirt freshman

forward Aaron Bowen.

Freshman forward Otto Porter scored 12 points, senior guard Jason Clark netted 11 and Trawick and sophomore guard Markel Starks chipped in 10 apiece to round out the Hoyas’ scoring. Senior forward Augustus Gilchrist was the only Bull to reach double figures, scoring 15 of his squad’s 45 points.

“They have a lot of different weapons,” Heath said. “Sometimes you just key in on Clark and [junior forward Hollis] Thompson, and those other guys can hurt you as well — Sims and some of those guys off the bench, like Porter.”

The win was the second straight for the Blue and Gray, who have now won five

of six since dropping back-toback games to West Virginia and Cincinnati in early January. With the exception of last weekend’s loss to Pitt, the Hoyas have held opponents to an average of 52.6 points per game in that span.

“From day one, we’ve stressed that if we defend and rebound, everything else will be OK,” Thompson III said.

Thompson’s emphasis on defense and rebounding has clearly worked. But if the Hoyas continue their offensive effort from Saturday’s second half, No. 2 Syracuse will have its hands full this Wednesday.

Tipoff against the Orange is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.

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hen it comes to major events like the with the New York Giants prior to this season, Super Bowl, there are always compel- overcoming the diagnosis he had been given and conquering his life-changing cancer. He ling storylines.

I remember one of the first articles I ever started two games for the Giants this season, wrote. It was in the midst of Super Bowl XLIV. and captured the attention of the football Three weeks earlier, earthquakes had ravaged world with the following tweet days before Suthe country of Haiti. Native Haitians Pierre per Bowl XLVI: “2 yrs ago I was told I’d never walk again, Garcon, Pierre Thomas and Jonathan Vilma used the spectacle to spread awareness about Just WALKED off plane to #Indy to play in #Suthe tragedy. The image of Garcon holding up perBowl #TakeThatCancer” Despite not suiting up for a Haitian flag following the Super Bowl, Herzlich the Colts’ win in the AFC has become an inspiration Championship game is to cancer patients across one of the most iconic the country. He has gained from that season. a massive Twitter following, This year the only flags and, before leaving for Indiaheld up were those of the napolis, even called a young two teams involved. This woman in Georgia to offer Super Bowl was not one some kind words prior to her of mourning; it was one Arik Parnass undergoing a surgery of her of celebration. For the Giown. ants, that celebration cenSometimes, it takes an tered on a man who was Sometimes, it takes an event unrelated to sports to not even on the field for the 21-17 victory. event unrelated to sports inspire teams or individuals to greatness. Playing for Mark Herzlich was a to inspire teams or a teammate, especially one standout linebacker at who has overcome as much Boston College a few years individuals to greatness. as Herzlich, can spark a team ago when he began wakto do incredible things. Stoing up in the night in serious pain. Assuming the discomfort was a lin- ries like this exhibit the influence that profesgering effect of rough play during the season, sional athletes can have on others in similar the Pennsylvania native didn’t give it a second positions, and Herzlich’s story in particular thought. When Herzlich’s leg began to swell proves the importance of never giving up. up, however, doctors discovered that a tumor When asked about overcoming the odds given had completely engulfed his left leg, and he to him by specialists in the industry, Herzlich went from a football player to a cancer patient. responded, “I know my doctors know canGiven only a 60-70 percent chance of survival cer, but they didn’t know me. … Realistically — presuming the cancer hadn’t spread — Her- it shouldn’t be possible, but somehow, some zlich was fearful not only for his football ca- way, it is possible.” Herzlich may have been on reer but also for his life. He was told he would the sidelines for Super Bowl XLVI, but his imnever walk again, let alone step onto a football pact was felt.

Hopefully, more cancer patients will have field. The day he was diagnosed, though, Herzlich told his father, “Dad, I’m going to make the courage to chase their dreams despite their illness. If so, Herzlich will have done it, and I’m going to play football again.”

Herzlich never gave up, and was back on the more good from the sidelines than he ever field for his final season at Boston College less could have done on the field. than a year later. The former 2008 ACC DefenArik Parnass is a freshman in the College. sive Player of the Year got another chance.

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Freshman guard Jabril Trawick scored 10 points off the bench in the Hoyas’ victory.

from the floor in the opening period.

That number sparkled in comparison to South Florida’s 26-percent mark, though, and the Bulls’ 15-point first half had them on pace for a seasonlow in points. Both offenses were hindered by foul trouble for their point guards in the first 20 minutes, as Georgetown sophomore Markel Starks and Collins — who averages five assists per game — both committed two early fouls.

“We lost our point guard with a couple [early] fouls and ... we played a strange lineup,” Heath said. “We didn’t have the decision-making and ballhandling that we wanted.”

Despite their defensive success, the Blue and Gray were only up eight at halftime after enduring a barren offensive stretch of their own, going without a field goal for 9:20 of the first half. The Hoyas, though, were careful not to let their lack of offensive success get to their heads.

“We were getting stops and we knew that the shots would start going in,” Head Coach John Thompson III said. “If we defend and rebound, everything else will be OK.” “We all felt that we weren’t scoring the ball, [but] we weren’t frustrated at all because we were playing good defense,” senior guard Jason Clark said. “We knew our shots were going to fall.”

And fall they did, as Georgetown shot a scintillating 65 percent from the field in the second half en route to 52 points. The Hoyas’ defense did let up at all, allowing the Bulls to shoot a more respectable 36 percent from the floor, but that appeared to be at least partially a function of the game turning into a laugher midway through the half.

“I don’t think we had better energy in the second half — the ball just started to go in,” Thompson III said. “As with life, as with basketball, you make a couple [shots], it gets a lot easier to make [more].”

The Blue and Gray were led by senior center Henry Sims, who had an impressive 13-point, nine-rebound, five-assist performance. Starks bounced back from a trying first half to score 10 points and later reflected on Georgetown’s balanced attack that saw five players score in double digits — Sims, Starks, Clark (11), freshman forward Otto Porter (12) and freshman guard Jabril Trawick (10).

“As long as guys are taking good shots and knocking them down, [scoring] is going to be spread like that,” he said. “Guys fell into a rhythm and shots were going in.”

South Florida will attempt to get back on track against a resurgent Pittsburgh team on Wednesday, but there is no doubt that Georgetown will be facing a much tougher test in upstate New York this Saturday. The Hoyas won by eight in the Carrier Dome last year, and can only hope that Stan Heath was correct in his postgame assessment of the Blue and Gray. “[The Hoyas] were more talented last year,” Heath said. “But they’re a better team [now].”

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Future of Storied Rivalry in Question as GU Takes On ’Cuse SYRACUSE, from A12 for this game,” senior guard and captain Jason Clark said. “It’s going to be a tough game. The biggest thing is to stay composed, especially because the crowd is going to be loud.”

No. 12 Georgetown, meanwhile, has vastly exceeded preseason expectations and finds itself third in the Big East with an 8-3 conference record and 18-4 overall mark.

“I mean I can’t sit here and tell you it’s not an ultimate rivalry game, because everyone knows it is,” junior forward Hollis Thompson said. “This is Syracuse; we have to bring our A game.”

A win over Syracuse would be Georgetown’s nation-leading fifth against a top-25 team and would draw the Blue and Gray within one game of the Orange in the Big East title race. A victory would be Thompson III’s second consecutive win at the Carrier Dome after he earned his first career win at Syracuse last year.

“That was big for us. That was the first time I’ve ever won in that building, first time [Thompson III] has won in that building,” Clark said. “But every single time I go up there, it’s always fun to play. The crowd gets into it, it’s always fun when you’ve got 30,000 people yelling at you, yelling all types of stuff at you.”

Syracuse’s depth has been its calling card this season, as the Orange has 10 players averaging more than 12 minutes per game. Only one, senior forward Kris Joseph, plays more than 30 mpg.

Joseph, a D.C. native who was recruited by Thompson III coming out of high school, is the team’s leading scorer at 13.7 points per game and also averages 4.9 rebounds per contest. Syracuse’s other senior, guard Scoop Jardine, leads the team in assists with 4.8 per game and averages 8.5 points on 50.3 percent shooting.

“We tell [our players] we’re going to face probably the best team in the country right now,” Thompson III said. “[Syracuse] is multilayered in terms of their depth at every position.”

The stifling defense that has been the foundation for Syracuse Head Coach Jim Boheim’s squads throughout the years hasn’t been lacking this year either.

“I think a lot of people look at the Syracuse zone and say, ‘two-three zone,’” Thompson III said. “Great. But what Boheim does, because that’s all he plays, he sees how you’re going to attack it; he tweaks and adjusts it. So within the

game, there is a cat and mouse game of ‘what are they taking away, and what are they giving us.’”

That famous zone defense is what drives the Orange, simultaneously forcing turnovers and preventing opponents from getting open shots.

Syracuse forces 16 turnovers per game while committing just 10, and has held Big East squads to 39 percent shooting through 11 games.

“They’re a great transition team, so that zone helps them get out to fast breaks and score in bunches very fast,” freshman guard Jabril Trawick said. “We’re focusing on unforced turnovers, because once we turn the ball over they turn it into baskets.”

“They rake. They slap. They make sure they go after the ball,” senior center Henry Sims said. “[We] just [have to] be tough — honestly, you prepare for that the whole season,” On the flip side, Syracuse is not a strong threepoint shooting team, hitting at a poor 30 percent clip in Big East play. The Hoyas will likely attempt to force the Orange into long bombs, especially Joseph, who is 9-of-40 from long range in his last 11 games.

Sophomore center Fab Melo is perhaps the Orange’s most important player. The 7-foot center averages 5.8 boards per game and is a formidable defensive presence. Jardine is the veteran playmaker for his team, and he will look to hit Melo — who is 33-of-50 from the field in eight Big East games — early and often. Syracuse’s lone loss came when Melo was serving a three-game suspension due to academic violations. “[Melo is] a good player, definitely on the defensive end, but my job is just to attack, make him work on defense and on offense,” Sims said.

The team is well aware that upsetting the Orange will be no easy task, but neither Thompson III nor his players seemed particularly intimidated. Clark mentioned Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium as perhaps the craziest arena he’s played in, and Thompson III joked that the Bayi Rockets had already given his younger players a taste of a hostile environment in Beijing.

It was the veteran Clark who had the final word on Monday, expressing confidence that the young Blue and Gray squad won’t be rattled by the opponent or the atmosphere at the Carrier Dome.

“I think our team is similar,” he said. “We’ll be able to guard anybody.”

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. in Syracuse, N.Y. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.

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Sprinters Compete in Final Tuneup Before Big East ASHWIN WADEKAR Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown track and field team built on its momentum from a strong performance at the Penn State Nationals when it travelled to the Armory in New York City last weekend for the New Balance Invitational. A slew of sprinters earned more qualifying times at their last meet before the looming Big East championship in two weeks.

The Hoyas continued to benefit from impressive results from their women’s team. Juniors Amanda Kimbers and Tenille Stoudenmire dropped their times in the 200-meter dash to 24.25 seconds and 24.36s, respectively. Stoudenmire also anchored the women’s 4x400m relay team that won the event with a time of 3:42.80.

“Both Kimbers and [Stoudenmire] are ready to run really well at the Big East [championship],” Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said.

Meanwhile, sophomore Deseree King recorded her personal record in the 400m with a time of 56.55s, and senior London Finley, in her first open 400m run of the year, ran her best time ever at 55.11s.

The men’s team, while still solid, has some work to do before the Big East championship. Sophomore Hansel Akers and senior Austin Perron were looking to run on the low side of 49s but ended up with times of 49.27s and 49.41, respectively.

Still, Henner is optimistic about the pair going forward.

“Hansel is in great shape,” Henner said.

“I think he got a little bit tired and didn’t recover. He’s got to be more aggressive. At the break, he’s letting guys get in front of him, and it’s very difficult to get back in front of them again. In two weeks, he’ll be ready to go.”

Perron’s case is slightly different, as he’s recovering from some minor injuries earlier this year.

“Austin came back and did a great job in the 4x4 later [in the meet],” Henner said.

“I’m very pleased with him coming off of his injury.”

The men’s hurdlers, meanwhile, have the unfortunate luck of competing in one of the toughest hurdling conferences in the country. Big East hurdlers have steadily improved over the past few years and currently include one of the best in the country in graduate student Jarret Eaton of Syracuse.

Georgetown’s hurdlers were also somewhat disappointing. The Hoyas were aiming to finish in eight seconds flat, but

junior Justin Crawford, senior Biyerem Okengwu and senior Kamryn Austin managed times of 8.15s, 8.24s and 8.18s, respectively.

“Their times are coming down a little bit,” Henner said. “Justin is a lot better than [his performance] … Biyerem ran a great race, but hit hurdles four and five. I think in the next two weeks we can move forward and get to 8s flat.”

Georgetown has been making progress heading toward the Big East championship, but in order to be competitive in two weeks, they must improve at a quicker pace.

“On the women’s side, we can be really competitive, and we have a great shot at [winning]. On the men’s side, we’ve got our work cut out for us, and we’re going to need some great individual races to be [competitive].”

Unfortunately for the Hoyas, freshman Tyler Smith, whom Henner thought could put up some points in the Big East championship, will not compete in the meet. However, he will likely be back in action for the outdoor track season. Graduate student Toby Ulm, who has been battling injury all year, will be available to run — but likely not at full strength.

“I’m feeling really good about where the women are,” Henner said. “On the men’s side, we’re not really where I’d like to be. But we’re just going to have to step up to get anything done.”

Even though the sprinters have finished competing before the Big East championship, the rest of the team looks to complete their final preparations on opposite coasts this weekend. The distance runners will fly to Seattle to compete in the Washington Husky Classic, while the middledistance runners travel to Boston for the BU Valentine Invitational.

Graduate students TC Lumbar and Alex Lundy will join juniors Andrew Springer and Emily Jones at the Husky Classic for what is shaping up to be a very competitive distance event.

“It’s got a big track and fast fields, so hopefully they’ll get in a good competitive situation and get some fast times in,” Henner said. “They’re all ready to run really well.”

The entries for the meet in Boston have not yet been finalized, but Henner is excited about the opportunity at the BU event, as Georgetown looks forward to a strong showing from its 800m and mile runners.

“I think it should be a good race,” Henner said. “We’re ready to knock off some big times.”

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“I can’t sit here and tell you it’s not an ultimate rivalry game, because everyone knows it is.

Junior forward Hollis Thompson This is Syracuse.”

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Georgetown, Syracuse Set to Clash at Carrier Dome MICHAEL PALMER Hoya Staff Writer

Rivalry games are what make teams great. Every college hoops team has one opponent that makes students’ blood boil and message boards flood with venom. Even in the Big East, a storied conference littered with fierce rivalries, GeorgetownSyracuse is at another level. This is

a mutual animosity that goes back decades between universities that sit more than 350 miles apart.

It has been a year since the two teams faced off, a year that has altered the future of the rivalry. In the fall of 2011, Syracuse announced that it planned to leave the Big East — the conference it founded with Georgetown and five other schools in 1979 — and move to the Atlantic Coast

Conference for the 2014 season.

“Obviously there aren’t too many games that are as spirited as the Georgetown-Syracuse games have been through the years,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said.

With the conference shift looming, it is unclear exactly how many more games Georgetown and Syracuse will have as conference archri-

vals. It seems certain, though, that tomorrow’s contest at the Carrier Dome will be one of the last times the two schools will play while in the midst of a Big East title race.

“We know they’re a good team, they have good scorers, they have bigtime players and we know it’s going to be a dog fight,” freshman forward Greg Whittington said on Monday at McDonough Arena. “Should be a

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A low-scoring snoozer between the Big East’s top-ranked defensive teams Saturday morning suddenly became an entertaining track meet after the halftime

break, as No. 14 Georgetown (18-4, 8-3 Big East) overcame early offensive struggles to cruise to a 75-45 victory over South Florida (13-10, 6-4 Big East). Senior center Henry Sims scored 13 points to lead five Hoyas in double figures, and also grabbed nine rebounds and

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Senior center Henry Sims, left, led the Hoyas in scoring (13), rebounds (9) and assists (5), and tied for the lead in blocks (1).

dished out five assists in the win.

Both teams appeared to take a while to get the sleep out of their eyes for the 11 a.m. tipoff, combining for 16 turnovers and 38 points in the first half. Georgetown entered the locker room with an eight-point lead, despite shooting only 34.8 percent from the field.

“It wasn’t [disconcerting] because we felt we were getting stops and we knew that the shots would start going in,” Head Coach John Thompson III said. “Inasmuch as they are a very good defensive team, I don’t think we weren’t getting good looks. ... We were not concerned with offensive rhythm.”

The Bulls, meanwhile, made even the Hoyas’ mediocre first-half shooting display look good. USF appeared lost on offense, reeling off a series of awful passes, sloppy displays of ballhandlng and badly missed three-pointers that could easily fill up the “Not Top 10” list on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”

“It’s been our recipe for lack of success,” USF Head Coach Stan Heath said of his team’s turnover woes. “We did the same thing against Marquette — we had 22 in that game. When we’ve had losses, that’s typically the magic number that sticks out.”

The second half was a completely different game. The Blue and Gray extended their lead by uncharacteristically pushing the ball and shooting a blistering 65.2 percent from the field. USF cleaned up its game as well, doubling its See USF, A10

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run-and-gun game.”

Syracuse boasts one of its best teams in recent memory. The Orange are 23-1, including a 10-1 mark in conference play, good enough for first place in the Big East and the No. 2 spot in the national rankings.

“This is your rivalry game, so you’re always a little more amped up

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Senior forward Tia Magee, shown against Rutgers, scored her 1,000th career point in the second half of the Hoyas’ game at Cincinnati. Magee scored 18 points in the win.

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The No. 14 Georgetown women’s basketball team (18-5, 7-3 Big East) took its show on the road this weekend, besting Cincinnati (11-12, 2-8 Big East), 65-54, Saturday afternoon. The Hoyas were bolstered by several scoring runs and

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held off a late Bearcat comeback attempt to secure the victory.

Georgetown Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy was not pleased with the team’s first-half defensive effort but was nonetheless satisfied with the win.

“You do not want to be having bad See CINCINNATI, A10