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A COUNTRY IN PHOTOS

EDITORIAL Facebook’s Georgetown Confessions has devolved into a forum of hate.

CORP GETS CLASSY The Corp has launched a new preregistration service to complement MyAccess.

GUIDE, G6

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A4

Guadalupe Fernandez’s cross-country trek won her this year’s Photo Essay.

FORGET THE OFFENSE JT III’s failure to adjust to teams’ pace is what’s doing in GU in March.

SPORTS, A10

Professors Caught Amid Admit Rate Hovers at 16% admission of Town-Gown Tension Record racial minorities, first Kylie Mohr

Special to The Hoya

Georgetown professors who live near campus in West Georgetown and Burleith seem to be caught between two opposing worlds.

What Mayor Vincent Gray at an Oct. 3, 2011, Advisory Neighborhood Com-

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Faculty members residing in the areas surrounding the neighborhood must balance delicate town-gown relations.

mission 2E public meeting dubbed Georgetown’s “creeping presence” into the surrounding area has drawn scores of complaints from aggrieved neighbors.

According to Anna von der Goltz, a history professor who lives in university-owned housing close to campus, faculty members who have feet in both the school and the surrounding community can feel conflicted.

“They do see themselves as caught in the middle,” von der Goltz said.

“I talk with and hear from my neighbors very frequently, and their observations on this subject are the same as mine,” ANC 2E Chair Ron Lewis wrote in a Nov. 8, 2011, supplemental report to the D.C. Zoning Commission. “The loud and disruptive late-night student behavior has continued this fall at the same objectionable levels as in the past.”

The university’s compromise agreement with neighborhood groups on its 2010 Campus Plan last summer, including the landmark formation of the Georgetown Community Partnership, has ushered in a new phase of cooperation and detente. But tensions nonetheless remain, as confirmed by the university’s March announcement that it would redouble its efforts to enforce off-campus noise policies while launching a new shuttle service to Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan on weekend evenings.

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generation students Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

There was fortunately no April Fools’ prank awaiting 2,413 students who received regular decision letters of acceptance to the Georgetown Class of 2017, a record portion of whom identify as racial minorities.

Of the 19,879 students that ap-

plied, 16.6 percent were admitted in the combined early and regular decision cycles, a slight bump from last year’s record low of 16.5 percent.

The McDonough School of Business, with an acceptance rate of 15.7 percent, was the most selective school for the first time ever, a distinction traditionally reserved for Georgetown College. The acceptance rate for the College, at 16.3 percent, was the only one to increase from last year across the four schools. Admission to the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, both at 17.7 percent, also grew more competitive this year.

Acceptance Rates 2017

2016

COL

16.3%

15.8%

+0.5%

SFS

17.7%

17.8%

-0.1%

MSB

15.7%

16.8%

-1.1%

NHS

17.7%

17.9%

-0.2%

Total

16.6%

16.5%

+0.1%

% change

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon (CAS ’64, GRD ’69) attributed the distribution to the current state of the economy and increasing pressure for students to choose “practical” majors.

“Students seem very concerned with secure career choices, which is why we’re seeing this increase in MSB [and] NHS majors,” Deacon said.

There was a three-point bump from last year in the number of accepted students who identify as Hispanic, now at 11 percent. Thirteen percent of admitted students identified as Asian and eight percent as black, both down two percent from last year’s accepted class. Seven percent of accepted students identified with multiple races. These combined figures have resulted in Georgetown’s most diverse admitted class ever, with 39 percent coming from minority backgrounds.

In addition, a record number of first-generation college students — 12 percent — were admitted, which Deacon attributed to the Georgetown Scholarship Program.

“We continue to ask ourselves, ‘How can we go about doing a better job reaching out, levelling the playing field and attracting students from all backgrounds?’” Deacon said. “Raising money [for financial aid] is a critical question for the changing character of Georgetown.”

The accepted class is 55 percent female, slightly lower than the national trend of about 58 percent female, according to The New York Times.

In First Spring Agenda, NSO to Include Assault Education GUSA Plans 40 Days

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Annie Chen

“We picked the things we can do this semester and also things that we could start this semester and achieve fully later As students eye the finish line of the in the year,” Tisa said. academic year and count the days unTisa emphasized that the agenda was til summer vacation, not intended as a GUSA President Nate checklist but rather Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice “We’re putting this as a means to actively President Adam Raengage with the stumadan (SFS ’14) are out to hold us dent body. taking an unprece- accountable and keep “We’re putting this dented step to encourout to hold us acage no such slacking us transparent.” countable and keep among their staff. us transparent,” Tisa nate tisa (sfs ’14) GUSA President The Georgetown said. “The executive University Student Asalways does a lot of sociation leaders released a spring agen- work, but there may be some students da Thursday, which outlined priorities out there working on the same thing or for each member of their executive cabi- [who] have ideas to do things in a better net for the remainder of the academic year.

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Hoya Staff Writer

Coordinators stop short of adding a mandatory workshop Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

After months of advocating for comprehensive, mandatory sexual assault education during New Student Orientation, the GUSA Sexual Assault Working Group has reached a temporary compromise to introduce voluntary discussions during Welcome Week.

While former Georgetown University Student Association Deputy Chief of Staff Lisa Frank (COL

Egypt Summer Program Called Off

’13) had hoped to insert a mandatory hour-long group workshop on sexual assault, NSO coordinators said they saw too many conflicts with NSO’s tight schedule already determined.

Instead, the less formal, voluntary ice cream social during Welcome Week will provide a forum for discussion for those interested in the topic. Additionally, an extension to the script of a play during NSO with mandatory attendance will address sexual assault on campus. AlcoholEdu will also be updated to address the issue of sexual assault more thoroughly in both the questionnaire and media portions of the online training program, which is mandatory for freshmen.

Despite the failure to incorporate a dedicated workshop into NSO, Frank said that the NSO Show’s update is an improvement.

“Sexual assault will still be a more prevalent part of NSO than it has in the past,” Frank said.

“The NSO Show introduces a lot of important issues in it, and this year they are looking to do a lot more student interaction. … It’s getting moved to the first day of NSO, and then there will be a discussion with your main groups right after that … so that’s a really great development.”

Nora West (SFS ’15), secretary of student health and safety and See NSO, A5

BANKING ON PROGRESS

Mallika Sen

Special to The Hoya

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Though the Alexandria summer program was cancelled due to ongoing unrest in Egypt, the fall program in Egypt is still normally scheduled.

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The Office of International Programs announced Wednesday that it has cancelled the Georgetown 2013 Summer Program in Alexandria, Egypt, citing safety risks.

“While security concerns have generally been limited to a few locations in Egypt and foreigners have not been targeted, the unrest is expected to escalate in the near future due to fuel and food shortages,” Associate Director of Overseas Studies Lisa Gordinier wrote in an email to students enrolled in the program.

In January 2011, Georgetown students studying abroad at the American University in Cairo were evacuated following protests against then-president Hosni Mubarak. The program resumed that summer, but Derrik Sweeney (COL ’13), who was studying abroad at AUC, was arrested later that year in November for allegedly taking part in violent See EGYPT, A5 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

Faceless Contempt There is a difference between confession and cowardice.

At times, anonymity promotes honesty and openness. But in the case of the Facebook page Georgetown Confessions and similar forums at other colleges, it has allowed for a shameful abuse of anonymous speech, producing hate and vitriol.

Since last fall’s debut of Georgetown Compliments, a Facebook account that posts anonymous praise of students submitted by other users, at least six more spinoffs have cropped up: Georgetown Insults, Georgetown Love Declarations, Georgetown Confessions, Georgetown Crushes, Georgetown Remorses and Hoya Hook Ups. In its four months of existence, Compliments has remained an innocuous addition to campus culture. The same, however, cannot be said for Georgetown Confessions. Unlike its benign counterparts, Confessions is a quintessential example of the danger of anonymous forums.

There are cases in which the anonymity has merit, especially when it creates a safe space for discussion of sensitive issues. But a page like Confessions achieves the opposite by removing students’ accountability for their statements, rendering the discussion potentially offensive and counterproductive.

Issues that students may feel tense discussing openly, such as affirmative action, have been brought up on Confessions. One post called affirmative action an “abomination.” Another asserts that there should be a “White People Alliance at

Georgetown.” Issues of race and pluralism certainly merit discussion — indeed, on-campus groups like Georgetown Leaders for Unity and Equity and events like A Different Dialogue are designed to promote these conversations and demonstrate differing opinions. However, these groups and events operate under the guideline that students be thoughtful and respectful. An online platform where users can hide behind their computer screens removes this sense of accountability.

Besides revealing a lack of desire for genuine dialogue among students, a page like Georgetown Confessions can encourage a hateful and negative campus atmosphere, leading to unanticipated consequences. Negative posting online can not only offend the individuals it targets but also undermine the mutual trust on which the entire Georgetown community — and college culture in general — is founded. If students fear that their beliefs, activities or even identities will be criticized anonymously in front of the entire student body online, that may lead to resentment.

There is certainly something to be said for the value of freedom of speech. But when we only utilize free speech to perpetuate our own prejudices or attack members of our community without any accountability, we tarnish the value of that freedom. Social networks like Facebook assure that unproductive, anonymous venting will always be available, but we cannot forget that using platforms like Confessions to vilify our peers escalates online banter to offensive conduct.

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Helpful Hoya — Former Men’s basketball Head Coach John Thompson Jr. donated $42,500 last week to the Georgetown Boys and Girls Club to save it from closing.

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Unreal Realty — A study done by ZipRealty, Inc. ranked D.C. as the least affordable housing market in America.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Arturo Altamirano

Rural Students Out of Reach Most Georgetown students hail from a handful of regions: northern New Jersey, central California, southern Maryland — the list goes on. Yet although students are drawn from all over the country, rural communities are routinely neglected.

As a recent op-ed in The New York Times noted, students from rural areas face a lack of resources and finances that impede their path to prestigious universities. However, the primary reason rural students don’t end up at colleges like Georgetown has nothing to do with qualifications — these students suffer most from a lack of exposure. Universities such as Georgetown rarely recruit students in rural areas; some of these students may not have even heard of the Hilltop.

As “men and women for others” committed to expanding diversity and pluralism on campus, it is our duty to reach out to rural students and make their path to Georgetown more inviting.

One way this could be accomplished is to have student ambassadors, perhaps in the form of a student club with a few administrators or faculty members, create ties with high schools in rural areas. Students could travel to these areas — perhaps over breaks — to discuss the many merits of a Georgetown education, the strength of our financial aid program and any other information that often isn’t heard in remote regions. If physical visits are too burdensome, advisers could organize phone sessions to reach out to students.

This current negligence in recruitment is on the university’s shoulders, and if students do contribute to correcting that problem, the university must offer support.

A talented student from Philadelphia, Arkansas, should be just as informed about the opportunities for a Georgetown education as an equally talented student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Digital Decisions As Georgetown continues its push to become more tech savvy, the university should consider developing an online application to match.

Although Georgetown abstains from the Common Application in order to encourage only truly interested students to apply, its own online application — reminiscent of early 1990s HTML — is dismally rudimentary and far from user friendly.

Further, the university does not provide admission decisions online and only notifies students through the mail, forcing students who are traveling or are simply away from their mailing addresses to experience unnecessary stress before receiving their decisions.

Regular decision letters are typically sent during many high schools’ spring breaks — a time students often use to attend accepted students weekends at schools from which they have already heard back, or to go on vacation.

Mailing letters is a tradition the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has preserved in an effort to make the process more personal, and there is something gratifying and elegant about receiving a physical letter signifying acceptance to a prestigious university.

But sometimes snail mail pushes an already tantalizing process over the top, and Georgetown can make an effort to curtail the anticipation for some hyper-stressed high schoolers.

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Correction The article “Adjuncts to Vote on Union” (A1, March 26, 2013) incorrectly stated that 50 percent of eligible voters had to vote in favor of unionization for SEIU Local 500 to represent the adjunct faculty at Georgetown. Adjuncts will be unionized if the majority of those who submit ballots approve the measure.

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OPINION

FRIDAY, April 5, 2013

FROM THE OUTSIDE

Marriage Equality Is Imperative

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ith the publicity surrounding the Supreme Court’s impending decision, it seems that I can say for certain that a significant portion of the American people have finally been able to recognize that unjust laws, such as the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, affect not only the gay community but also American society as a whole.

My best friend in the entire world — who has known me since I was born, has helped to feed and take care of me, has seen me grow as a young man and has himself grown as a man in coming out as a gay American — will be speaking at his college graduation in a month, will be my best man at my wedding and will be the uncle to my children. This best friend is my brother, Jeff, and he deserves the ability to marry whomever he loves.

Jeff’s fundamental right to marry whomever he wants should not be prevented or questioned but instead recognized as such by the government.

Over Easter break, I looked through some old family photos. I saw Jeff and myself as kids. I did not see Jeff as a baby who would grow up to be gay, no more than I saw myself as a baby who would grow up to be straight. I saw the

A Need for Drug DATA

f there were a plane crash every day for the next year in the United States, would you be concerned?

Would you demand that the government take action?

In 2012, nearly 100,000 Americans died from antibiotic-resistant infections. That’s more than 250 deaths — the equivalent of a fatal commercial plane crash — every single day.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Institute of Medicine and World Health Organization have all acknowledged that the growing number of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans is linked to the use of antibiotics in healthy livestock. However, the FDA does not collect or release enough information about antibiotic use in animals, which means that the public cannot monitor this growing problem.

That is why Congress must pass the Delivering Antimicrobial Transparency Act of 2013. This act, known at the DATA Act, will enhance reporting requirements for antibiotic use in food-producing animals and will make more details available to the public.

The FDA estimates that 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used to treat animals.

Livestock producers use low doses of antibiotics in animal feed to make livestock grow more quickly and to keep them healthy in otherwise unsanitary conditions. Although these antibiotics kill most of the bacteria in the animals, some bacteria may be resistant to the strains. With long-term antibiotic use, these more resistant organisms will increase in proportion.

This means that the next time the antibiotic is needed, it may not be as effective in treating what was once an easily treatable infection. While antibiotic-resistant infections in animals are worrisome enough, there is significant evidence that these infections can spread to humans through direct contact with animals, consumption

Antibiotic-resistant infections in humans are linked to the use of antibiotics in healthy livestock. of meat and cross-contamination of other food products.

Current law requires pharmaceutical companies to report sales information about antibiotics that are intended for use in animals. The FDA collects information on the amount of each antibiotic sold, as well as a list of animals that receive drugs and the approved ways each antibiotic can be used. But the FDA only releases a fraction of this information — in the form of gross annual sales data for each class of antibiotics.

Furthermore, a September 2011 study by the Government Accountability Office found that the data collected by the FDA did not contain enough details for scientists to analyze trends in antibiotic resistance.

For example, the current reporting requirements do not require pharma-

ceutical companies to disclose which drugs are used in which animals — a crucial detail needed to trace resistant inkfections.

The DATA Act would bridge these gaps by requiring large farms to report the type and amount of antibiotics given to each food-producing animal every month. In addition, the farms would have to specify why each animal is given each drug and for how long. The DATA Act would also provide the public with better information about the use of antibiotics in livestock. In its public reports, the FDA would have to specify the percentage of antibiotics that are used in healthy livestock to boost production — versus the amount used to treat sick animals. Together, these details would allow public health officials to interpret trends in antibiotic resis-

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ...

I feel that Jeff’s ability to choose whom he marries does not infringe upon my own right to marry. pure joy in my mom’s face as she held her two baby sons, as she played with us at the beach, as she dressed us up for Halloween. My mother had always said that her dream growing up was to be a mother, and the passion, patience and love she has put into our upbringing demonstrates this.

Jeff should be able to experience this very same love and joy in raising children of his own with the spouse of his choosing. He should be able to get married and experience the same type of sheer joy and awe inherent in raising children, of seeing them grow up and, one day, walking them down the aisle.

It is interesting to compare this struggle for marriage equality to other civil rights issues in our past. Not too long ago, segregation was legal; not too long ago, women were blocked from the voting booth; not too long ago, interracial couples were forbidden. And the same arguments made against those rights are being made today.

I believe that the opponents to samesex marriage will find themselves relegated to the same place in history as those who lined up on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest desegregation and interracial marriage.

As a heterosexual male, I feel that Jeff’s ability to choose whom he marries does not — in any way — infringe upon my own right to marry and have children of my own, should I be blessed with the opportunity to do so one day.

When same-sex marriage is recognized, the country will not descend into a lustful, sex-crazed homosexual hotbed.

It will not become a modern-day Gomorrah nor will it be home to public displays of hedonism in attempts to turn straight people gay. When samesex marriage is recognized, gay individuals will be able to get married. That’s it. They will raise children of their own, marry in their own ceremonies and reap the same state benefits that heterosexual couples do.

Should I be blessed with the gift of children one day, I do not wish to raise them in a society that is intolerant of differences. I do not want them to grow up in a country where people are denied the fundamental human right of being able to marry whomever they love. I do not want them to grow up in a country where their uncle Jeff is unable to marry whomever he wants.

Denying Jeff and any other homosexual person the right to marry does not feel legally questionable. It feels fundamentally wrong.

David Weis is a junior in the College.

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tance and to identify interventions to prevent and control the spread of these infections.

There are some concerns about the DATA Act. It may increase administrative costs for certain livestock producers, but because many of these farms already report similar information for fruits and vegetables, the increase would not be significant.

Opponents of the legislation also argue that antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat can be killed by safe cooking practices and therefore do not pose a threat to humans. But there are other ways that bacteria can spread from animals to humans, including direct contact and cross-contamination.

Finally, while the threat of antibioticresistant infections may be mitigated by the development of new antibiotics, the rate of new drug development has slowed considerably over the last few decades. Since 1962, only two new classes of antibiotics have been developed successfully.

Without the information provided by the DATA Act, scientists and policymakers cannot assess the risk posed by antibiotic use in healthy livestock.

But the bill is likely to die in the House Energy and Commerce Committee unless members know that the public cares about this issue. The health threat posed by drug-resistant infections is too great to be kicked down the road. On Monday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 9, we will be holding a phone bank on the fourth floor of Regents Hall to provide students, faculty and staff the opportunity to call their representative in Congress and ask them to support the DATA Act. We hope you will join us.

By calling your representative next week, you can be a part of saving countless American lives.

Kavya Devarakonda is a senior in the College. She is a former copy chief of The Hoya. Scott Fligor is a junior in the College.

He is the captain of GERMS.

VIEWPOINT • Dulik

As Semester Closes, Same-Sex Couples, Minds Should Open Same Family Values

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martya Sen, an Indian phi- architecture that connects a partial losopher and economist, calls life to a full life. We have a chance, in it the “capability to lead the these last few weeks of the semester, kind of lives we have reason to value.” to engage some of these points in ourAmerican philosopher Martha Nuss- selves. We can move into the breach baum says it entails a diverse set of of self-doubts, subjects or courses that capabilities, including bodily health seem to elude us and that we’ve started and integrity, imagination, emotion, to write off as losses, and of relationpractical reason and a connectedness ships that have some unfinished busito other species and the environment. ness — and we can help nudge them St. Irenaeus, in the second century, toward being more fully like what we simply called it “the human person aspire them to be. In fact, there’s time fully alive,” and he equated it with the for more than a nudge. Do you remem“glory of God.” ber how you marvelled at how much The “it” here is human develop- happened and how much you changed ment — an integral flourishing of and grew in the first month of the new each individual and the local and year? We still have more than a month world community. We at Georgetown ahead of us, with so much more that have made this very Jesuit task that can develop in us and between us. embraces the whole person and the But we cannot narrow our view to whole of humanity just the end of the seour business since the mester. We can — and university’s founding. must — look ahead to where and how Inque hominum sawe will engage our lute reads the phrase summer, or what we in Gaston Hall. Recentwill do in our first ly, we have launched jobs after graduation. programs in human What gaps in our development in both world call out to us? the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. Where do political, economic and social Georgetown Public barriers choke off the Policy Institute, joinIn the time that we upward momentum ing our long tradition of others? We face with the newest and have together, these questions most best ideas from the engage the uneasy. profoundly when realm of policymakwe vote with our ing and international aid. Here on the Hilltop, we realize feet, choosing to stand with students that this is an effort that draws us in struggling in under-resourced schools, two directions: outward, to be people immigrants facing the challenge of who foment and encourage such unfamiliar languages and legal hurflourishing in our world community, dles, businesses grappling with social and inward, to be people whose souls responsibility and governments and agencies confronting political and fisand intellects are truly alive.

It seems to me that the development cal limitations in their service of citiquestion becomes most interesting — zens. We find out who we are precisely and makes the greatest demands of by the gaps we are willing to move into.

These final few weeks are precious. us — whenever this flourishing is stymied or slowed. Sadly, many people As Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., would rewould prefer to avoid these challeng- mind us, quoting Mark Twain, “Don’t ing places, these rough patches of let school get in the way of your educaunhealth, injustice or constrained tion.” Don’t let the rush to the end of imagination. But it is through engag- the year or the safety of habit and rouing them that real change and devel- tine blind you to the most interesting, opment occurs, and this is as true in- yet unfilled spaces. In the time that side us as it is outside us. It is a project we have together, engage the uneasy. that begins “at home,” in us, and in Go out into the gaps and borderlands our classes and in our friendships, but both in yourself and in the world. It’s eventually leads us out of ourselves as there that the real task of integral dewell. We are called into those easily velopment lies open — and where lives avoided places, those less attractive of value and God’s glory are found. or less celebrated places, those places that may not show immediate success Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an or that we may not fully understand. assistant professor in the governNow is a particularly important ment department. AS THIS JESUIT point to think about these chokepoints SEES IT … appears every other Friand chasms, these interstices in the day.

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ruthfully, I happen to think that George W. Bush was an underrated president. I still believe Mitt Romney would have made a superb leader. I am a Republican who feels that, at its best, my party is a vessel for the aspirations of all Americans, and a manifestation of loving commitment to the principles that anchor our nation.

The debate over marriage equality has reached a fever pitch in past weeks. Now, as the Supreme Court considers the subject, and bipartisan leaders like Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) announce their support for marriage rights for all committed couples, I find that the question of gay marriage is one germane to the identity of the GOP. I believe that marriage is a right to be enjoyed by couples regardless of their sexual orientations. In my view, Republicans should be less squeamish with the notion than many are currently. Already, our generation finds itself overwhelmingly supportive of marriage equality. Within my party, a libertarian dogma has taken hold, convincing many that marriage equality should be upheld because governments should have no role in administering marriages.

I agree with their conclusion but strongly disagree with their thought process. I am a “family values” conservative who supports marriage equality because of, and not in spite of, those values. My libertarian friends err when they say that government should be a minimalist, dispassionate entity; history demonstrates that American government is at its finest when it is animated by a righteous moral compass. Government should be a custodian of virtue in a republic and should exercise the instruments of power so as to foster the flourishing of the values its citizens’ prize.

The concept of “family values” has been perverted in our modern political discourse; proponents manipulate the term to mean a divisive cudgel to prosecute a culture war, while opponents sneeringly dismiss it as Norman Rockwell fluff. To me, advocacy of family values is recognition of the unique power of the family unit at its best: a showcase of unconditional love, devoted commitment and mutual support that yield a whole vastly greater than the sum of its parts.

I am blessed to have been raised in such a family and want to see an America where every child can enjoy a similar upbringing.

Ultimately, government should be in the business of incentivizing two-parent households, where children can grow up with the attention and affection not only given to them by their parents but also shown to them as an example in the way their parents treat one another. That type of wholesome upbringing gives inexpressible support to a growing child and should be the gold standard of American culture to which we aspire.

Therefore, from my “family values” perspective, I am left with no choice but to conclude that gay marriage is more than a right. It is an obligation. True conservatives should demand gay marriage as a testament to the loving commitment that should define all families. Some argue that marriage equality will degrade the institution of marriage for heterosexual couples. The opposite is true. Making marriage into an instrument of exclusion — rather than an instrument of love — is what erodes the integrity of the institution for gay and straight couples alike. As a guy who is prone to falling in love with a girl approximately every six seconds, I dream of being married and raising kids someday. For me, it just won’t feel right until my gay friends can harbor those same dreams for themselves.

Now is a time for choosing.

Politicians and courts are poised to make consequential decisions on the future of marriage in this country. We should insist unwaveringly on marriage equality. The Supreme Court meets under the words “Equal Justice Under Law.” I pray that the justices are inspired by that tenet. I believe there is a silent mass of citizens, especially Republicans, who support marriage equality. Now is the time to stand up and speak out. Ultimately, this debate occupies a dizzying amount of our policymaking bandwidth, which otherwise should be devoted to questions of fiscal and foreign policies. Let’s settle it once and for all: Let our government state in no uncertain terms that love and commitment are good and inviolable for every single American citizen.

Sam Dulik is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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GU, Georgetown BID Aim to Bring Streetcar to Area GUTHRIE ANGELES Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University and the Georgetown Business Improvement District are looking to have the citywide D.C. Streetcar project expanded deeper into the Georgetown area.

“Both the university and the BID are interested in how to get the streetcar to serve the university population since it is such an employment concentration and generally a concentration of people that are heavy transit users,” said Jonathon Kass, transportation director of the Georgetown BID. Lauralyn Lee, Georgetown’s associate vice president for community engagement and strategic initiatives, said that because the university is one of the largest employers in D.C., with nearly 9,000 employees and thousands of students, an additional transportation method would benefit the university community.

“We just think that it would be unfortunate if you do a study that brings people into Georgetown that can’t get them up to the campus,” Lee said. “That would minimize the opportunity that’s created by this additional public transportation option.”

Kass agreed, saying that both Georgetown and BID are interested in making the university a focal point for the expansion of the One

City Line, which is currently planned to extend from the Georgetown waterfront to Benning Road.

“The combination of a serious concentration of employment and the student population that often uses transit outside of the peak times is more than the average population,” Kass said, noting that streetcar systems in Tucson, Ariz., Atlanta, Portland, Ore., and Providence, R.I., have all made an effort to integrate local universities into their networks. “Extending to the university can be a real opportunity to fill what are otherwise empty seats.”

According to Lee, a streetcar connection to Georgetown would align well with its long-term plan to create more sustainable commuting and transport options.

“In the long term, we’re looking at anything and everything that’s creative that might offer solutions, and the streetcar, because it was kind of part of the city’s strategy for how to handle public transportation opportunities for its residents, really struck us a great opportunity to do that,” Lee said.

Kass added that there have not yet been any discussions about the path that an extended streetcar line to the university would take, but that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation has not eliminated the possibility of expanding the system, which is expected to include

37 miles of track by the time of its completion in 30 years.

“From DDOT, we have heard a willingness to talk about how to get to the university,” Kass said. “They’ve been clear that the boundaries of the current study don’t allow any ... assessment of alternatives, but they have suggested that they will take an initial look, so they seem very willing to work with us.”

However, Lee said that streetcar plans that have already been approved would include stops near Georgetown’s other campuses, including its new School of Continuing Studies campus near Mount Vernon Square, slated to open in late 2013, and the Law Center. As such, it would make sense for the line to extend to the university’s main campus. She noted that the university wants the line to reach as close to main campus as possible, at the very least closer than the Circulator stop located at O Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

The D.C. Streetcar project will complement the current Metro and Circulator systems and establish the first streetcar system in the District since the previous one was dismantled in 1962. The complete system is expected to connect the Georgetown waterfront area to downtown D.C. via K Street.

“There’s still a lot of planning that has to get done in order for those [tracks] to be built,” said Dara Ward,

a spokesperson for the D.C. Streetcar project. She added that DDOT must consider a myriad of factors including streetcars’ impact on pedestrians and other traffic and streetcar stop locations prior to construction.

The first of these streetcar lines is to run from Union Station to Oklahoma Avenue via H Street NE and Benning Road and is expected to open

by October 2013. Approximately 80 percent of track construction was completed in prior years during the H Street NE Great Streets Initiative to revitalize the area.

The remaining 20 percent of construction includes the installation of a stop and turnaround at the Hopscotch Bridge, a turnaround at the eastern end of the bridge and a connection to the streetcar yard and soon-to-be-built car barn training center.

Once this line has been tested, certified and opened for passenger service, DDOT will move forward with planning and construction for additional tracks.

Twenty-two miles of the proposed system have been prioritized to be built first. The prioritized lines include those from the waterfront to Union Station, Takoma to Buzzard Point and Buzzard Point to Anacostia.

Within the next two weeks, DDOT will release its findings from a feasibility study conducted last fall and eventually perform an environmen-

tal assessment. An additional study concerning transportation from Union Station to the Georgetown waterfront must still be completed before DDOT can extend the project into downtown D.C. and Georgetown.

Ward said that there is still no estimate of when the line would reach the Georgetown area.

But the project could be fasttracked with Mayor Vincent Gray’s newest budget proposal, which allocates millions of dollars toward the transportation system.

“Everyone would like to move as quickly as possible,” Kass said. “The mayor’s budget proposal released last week with $400 million extended over the next six years to the streetcar network is a real sign of the desire to move fast.”

While there is support for the expansion of D.C. Streetcar into Georgetown — including from Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels, who said that streetcars would have a positive impact on the area — the project will not be without neighborhood concerns.

“Naturally, there are people who would rather not lose parking lanes.

There are people that would rather not lose traffic lanes and there are people that would rather have wider sidewalks,” Kass said. “When it comes to sharing the right of way, there are always a lot of interests and understandable desires.”

Corp Launches Improved Preregistration Website CHRISTOPHER ZAWORA Hoya Staff Writer

In an attempt to ease the semi-annual preregistration hassle, Students of Georgetown Inc. launched a beta version of Classy on Tuesday.

Classy is a three-step tool that aims to make the MyAccess system more student-friendly. The class list is easier to read, with course descriptions popping up on the page rather than opening a new page as on MyAccess. Classy creates mock schedules, as many students currently do on computer calendars, based on students’ chosen courses and consolidates courses by class reference number in order to facilitate comparing class times. In addition, class descriptions list faculty evaluation results and

contain direct links to MyAccess, course evaluations and Rate My Professor.

“There was a need for a more efficient way to preregister,” Corp Marketing Director Emily Coch (COL ’15) said.

Classy, which was written entirely

by The Corp’s Information Technology department, was finalized the week before preregistration began.

According to Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis, the idea for Classy began in November during the University Information Services-hosted Hackathon.

“The Corp’s IT and marketing team has taken the initiative and owned the continued development of the Classy app since the Hackathon,” Davis wrote in an email.

Corp IT General Manager Jonah Joselow (COL ’15) said he hoped that Classy

would allow students to focus on the important parts of preregistration.

“It’s quicker,” Joselow said. “The major problem we wanted to solve is that, normally, kids have multiple tabs or windows open and are drawing on paper and a lot of that is removed from what we put together.”

Coch agreed and hoped that the new program would allow students to focus more on the content than scheduling of prospective classes.

According to Davis, The Corp was in constant communication with Provost Robert Groves and University Registrar John Pierce through the developmental process.

“UIS worked with them to help bring together the appropriate stakeholders from across the university to expedite

this initial beta launch during the spring preregistration period,” Davis wrote. “I see our role in Classy’s development as an example of UIS’ role to facilitate innovation on Georgetown’s campus.”

So far, Classy has received more than 3,000 unique page views.

“Based on the feedback from social media people seem to be really excited about it,” Joselow said.

Despite this tentative early success, however, Joselow said that the university wanted Classy to be used in conjunction with MyAccess, MyDegree and academic advisers.

“This is uncharted territory for the university,” Joselow said. “They are still formulating how they want this to go.”

Joselow said this first preregistration

season would test the beta program’s usefulness and effectiveness, and The Corp would continue working on the design over the next months.

“We are looking forward to working with the university and UIS in specific about future plans,” Joselow said.

Christian Chung (SFS ’15) said that Classy helped him preregister faster because it combined information from various websites.

“Quite frankly I think it is something that the school should have attempted to develop a long time ago. I’m surprised that it took The Corp to really spearhead this effort, but regardless, I thought that it was really user-friendly [and] accessible,” Chung said. “The ability to really just centralize that all into one website was really helpful.”

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you’re away from the traditional environment and safety nets … a sexual assault peer educator, is so people have a hard time idenstill pushing to add a mandatory tifying what sexual assault may sexual assault workshop to NSO be,” Jha said. “You’re really an in the future, while GUSA Presi- adult now, and you need to deal dent Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) has made with these issues and if you don’t sexual assault education a prior- have or know that you have the ity in his spring agenda for the resources to deal with these probrest of this year. lems then that’s an issue.”

“We are still planning for Frank said the discussions NSO in the future because our would centralize around the eduWelcome Week program is self- cation and perception of sexual selecting … and we don’t want it assault, rather than prevention. to be a discussion between people “I think the message that who are used to discussing these Georgetown students hear loud issues,” West said. and clear is that if you are a womFrank agreed, emphasizing how an, you’re at risk. If you drink, participation must be compulsory you’re at risk. If you walk alone, in order to be successful. you’re at risk. And we’re sorry, “One of the other advantages is but we can’t do anything about that [NSO] is mandatory, and we that, but tell you about it,” Frank think that said. “That’s Georgetown “We don’t want it to be not what does need we should to move to- a discussion between be hearing wards having here.” a mandatory people who are used to W e s t sexual as- discussing these issues.” stressed the sault workimportance shop discusNORA WEST (SFS ’15) of giving GUSA Secretary of Student Health and Safety sion,” Frank students the said. “We will tools to use still be in conversations with ad- the right language in discussions ministrators over the summer to about sexual assault. say what worked well from the ses“It’s a discussion, not a trainsions [during Welcome Week] and ing,” West said of the initiative. what didn’t and go from there.”

“Sexual Assault Peer Education Frank stressed the importance discusses consent, resources on of introducing the sexual assault campus, the creation of environdiscussion early in students’ col- ment against sexual assault … lege careers. how we can use proper language “If you want to change the cul- in the discussion. … It’s a place for ture [at Georgetown], the way to students to figure out what condo it is with that incoming class sent means to them.” because then, in four years, everyJha said the question of conone has had training and every- sent is a prominent issue among one is in a much better place to incoming students. talk about these issues and help “The most heartbreaking thing their friends out,” Frank said. is when [friends] say they don’t GUSA Sexual Assault Work- know if they’ve been sexually asing Group member Chandini saulted, you feel almost as if you Jha (COL ’16) agreed, referencing have your control taken away the “red zone” — the six-week pe- from you,” Jha said. “We don’t riod at the start of the school year want freshmen to be scared to when freshmen are at the high- talk about sexual assault … but est risk of sexual assault. the confusion about sexual as“The fact is that when you sault and consent is something come to the college campus, that we really need to address.”

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After a first-place finish in 2012, Andrew Arsht (COL ’14) and Andrew Markoff (SFS ’14) of Georgetown’s debate team finished third in the National Debate Tournament last weekend.

Seventy-eight duos from colleges across the country, including three from Georgetown, competed in the tournament at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, from March 28 to April 1. A pair from Emporia State University won after beating Northwestern University, which had defeated Georgetown in the semifinal round of the tournament.

“It was disappointing because we always look to win,” Markoff said. “Our research didn’t quite get us where we wanted to be.”

In addition to winning the tournament in 2012, Arsht was named best speaker at last year’s conference.

“Their loss to Northwestern was pretty surprising and kind of disappointing,” Holden Choi (SFS ’16), a member of the Georgetown debate team, said. “The rest of us had kind of taken for granted how

good the Andrews were.”

Fellow debate team member Andy McCoy (SFS ’16) agreed and praised the Northwestern team.

“They just got us,” McCoy said.

“They’re excellent, and they have a really good coaching staff.”

The other two Georgetown teams, the first composed of Tyler Engler (SFS ’15) and McCoy and the second Choi and Peter Vale (COL ’14), lost in the preliminary rounds, both to pairs from Harvard.

Choi said that the tournament could be extremely stressful for participants, even those who have been attending competitions for their entire high school and college careers.

“It’s not surprising to see people break down,” Choi said. “It’s a lot to handle.”

Engler agreed, citing his own high school debate career.

“I did debate for four years in high school,” Engler said. “[In college,] it’s more intense, more time intensive, but it’s essentially the same animal.”

This year’s debate topic focused on whether the federal government should increase domestic energy production.

In the preliminary rounds, debaters

must negate and affirm the resolution a total of four times, while in elimination rounds, the position of each team is decided by coin flip. Each round lasts 90 minutes, with individual speeches taking six to nine minutes.

The team competes once or twice a month at universities across the country beginning in January, with all competitions focused on a single topic. To prepare, team members spend 20 to 40 hours a week researching a topic and practicing their arguments.

“There’s a constant arms race to find the best arguments,” Markoff said.

Debaters stayed on campus during spring break to prepare for the tournaments with those who did not compete helping the teams conduct research, including at last weekend’s tournament.

“It was awe-inspiring to see everyone working as one collective unit,” McCoy said.

Markoff agreed and said team members were very close.

“We’ve all become really good friends, really good collaborators and teammates,” Markoff added.

Safety Fears Force Program Cancellation EGYPT, from A1 protests.

“We were told there was a possibility of cancellation, but I was also told that the trip usually went on no matter what and they even went the summer after the Arab Spring,” said Ross Wasserman (COL ’16), who was set to study in Alexandria this summer.

Fellow enrollee Haley Lepp (COL ’15) said that OIP claimed the cancellation was largely attributable to an increase in violence against women and in areas that had not previously seen severe unrest.

According to OIP Executive Director Katherine Bellows, the office surveys the security climates in every country where it operates.

“The criteria used in making a decision are multifaceted and include the gathering and assessment of information from many different sources including Georgetown’s own regional faculty experts,” Bellows wrote in a statement.

The program would have taken place at Alexandria University from June 5 to Aug. 15 and incorporated cultural activities,

including a trip to Cairo, with intensive Arabic studies at all levels. Participants — 23 Georgetown and two non-Georgetown students — were to receive 12 credits for their studies.

Some students who had enrolled in the program say that the cancellation will throw their academic plans off course.

“This program was integral to my academic plan, as I am going abroad next year to London and will not be taking intensive Arabic classes there,” Elizabeth Cheung (SFS ’15) said. “Alexandria would have increased my chances of passing the proficiency test post-London.”

Lepp, who is considering transferring to the Walsh School of Foreign Service, said that she might have to stay in the College because her chances of achieving the SFSmandated language proficiency will be inhibited by the cancellation.

Others expressed similar concerns about their academic futures.

“I applied because I wanted to complete Georgetown’s third level of Arabic before studying abroad at the School of Oriental and African Studies next year so that once in London, I could take fourth level Arabic

classes that Georgetown does not really offer,” Simone Gannage (SFS ’15) said.

OIP has provided those enrolled in the program with information about alternatives, such as the Georgetown School of Continuing Studies’ Arabic and Persian Language Institute, which would award six credits for its intensive option.

“Had I been told two weeks ago that they were looking into cancelling the program, I would have applied for internships, other summer Arabic programs and anything else I could think of, just in case they did,” Gannage said. “Now, a lot of the deadlines have passed, leaving me with not that many options.”

Student deposits will be refunded upon request or credited for future use from their accounts.

According to Bellows, there have been no status changes as of now with any other summer or fall programs, including the fall study abroad program at the American University in Cairo.

“We will monitor the events in Egypt over the next couple of months before making a decision on that program,” Bellows wrote.

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Bob Herbert

Former New York Times Columnist “We don’t even hear much about it. The media can tell us all about Kim Kardashian and who wore what to the Oscars but poverty? Not so much.”

“While the suffering has been widespread, the worst of the pain has been endured by black Americans. And that situation is getting worse, it’s not getting better.”

“These are neighborhoods where all hope seems to have been lost, where the children themselves seem never to have learned how to dream.”

“Forget about a recession — there’s a full-blown depression in black America.”

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Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert called for increased attention to poverty facing black Americans Thursday evening.

Herbert’s lecture, co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Library Associates and the Ellen Catherine Gstalder (COL ’98) Memorial Lecture fund, fo-

cused on the post-recession crises that African Americans face.

Herbert argued that though the recession impacted the entire country, African Americans were impacted the worst. Nevertheless, media attention has usually focused on more glamorous topics, he said.

Herbert spoke about the high African American unemployment rate and the hope-

“I had father figures galore in my life.

Compare that life to the lives of so many children, and not just black children, growing up today without fathers in their lives.”

lessness of many black neighborhoods.

Herbert also noted the social impact of the recession within black communities. He explained that the decrease in the amount of father figures is having a detrimental effect on the development of young black males.

Herbert concluded optimistically by citing African Americans’ history of perseverance.

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GUSA Announces Spring Exec Agenda GUSA, from A1 way but don’t know what’s going on with GUSA.” The first item listed on the agenda was to combat sexual assault, which mandates increased sexual assault awareness programming during New Student Orientation, advocacy for clear disciplinary amnesty policies for victims of assault and sexual assault training for student leaders. These efforts would build on recent agreements to address sexual assault during the NSO show and as part of AlcoholEdu and address recent failures to incorporate a mandatory hour-long sexual assault discussion into NSO. “Reporting of sexual assault is extremely low at Georgetown, as it is elsewhere. Part of that is due to taboos and negative culture,” Tisa said. “We want to facilitate an environment that is comfortable for survivors to report cases. If you report a sexual assault, you should not be charged with drinking, drug use or any other circumstance that may have been happening at the time but is totally irrelevant to the fact that someone chose to become a perpetrator.”

Since taking office, Tisa has repeatedly cited the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, which mandates that the university house 90 percent of undergraduates on campus by fall 2025, as the largest challenge facing his administration.

As a result, the agenda also includes easing restrictions on on-campus socializing, which would involve extending party hours, relaxing limits on kegs and re-evaluating apartment safety capacity levels.

“Especially with Georgetown Day coming up, Georgetown students study hard and work hard, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to party hard,” Tisa said. “There is a lot that students, administrators and the neighborhood can agree upon. While maintaining safety standards, students should be able to socialize without the fear of punishment.”

For athletics, GUSA plans to actively solicit student feedback on the construction of the new Intercollegiate Athletic Center. Tisa also aims to continue advocating for the creation of a clubs sports trainers program, an initiative that former GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) introduced with limited results during their term.

Student Advocacy Office Co-Directors Ben Manzione (SFS ’15) and Michelle Mohr

(COL ’15) said that priority would also be given to the tentative fall 2013 launch of a mobile app containing the Code of Student Conduct.

“We recognize that there is a need to better communicate the code to the students,” Mohr said. “Multiple different sources have come up with the idea that technology would be the best way. The [Disciplinary Review Committee] proposed the idea, Clara and Vail talked about it and individual students have also been discussing about it.”

According to Mohr, the mobile app would detail various scenario cases, better informing students about their judicial process rights.

Manzione added that SAO is also planning to create an online form on the GUSA website and through the mobile app, allowing students to submit questions about their cases or the Code of Student Conduct.

“We’re trying to make it easier for students to navigate the conduct and know their rights,” Manione said.

Secretary of Academic Affairs Guy Mentel (COL ’14) prioritized mandating Blackboard Gradebook usage — an initiative the GUSA senate recently launched. Specifically, Mentel said he would work closely with the GUSA senate Intellectual Life Committee to discuss the idea with the academic councils of each school.

“After we’ve spoken to academic councils of each school and garnered their support, then we’re going to take it to the administration and say, ‘We have the GUSA executive, GUSA senate and the academic representative of each school behind this,’” Mentel said.

Secretary of Sustainability Gabe Pincus (SFS ’14) narrowed his focus to purchasing recycling bins for on-campus apartments and townhouses and creating recycling signs throughout campus in residence halls and academic buildings.

In addition, Pincus said he would continue working with the university administration to establish an Office of Sustainability, an unfinished initiative from Gustafson’s administration. However, little progress has been made since the initiative stalled last year.

“We’re continuing to work with facilities to come up with some viable office at the moment,” Pincus said. “Hopefully, there will be something soon.”

Other initiatives on the agenda include arts advertising to the neighborhood community, practice spaces for performing arts groups in light of Healey Family Student Center construction, recruitment for an LGBTQ mentoring program and certification of double the number of current student Safe Rides drivers.

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International students made up 11 percent of admitted students, up from last year’s eight percent. The largest groups of foreign students were accepted from China, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Georgetown admitted students from all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and 69 other countries, although the applicant pool indicated interest from students in 119 countries, according to Margaret Lysy, associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

The two most represented states in the admitted class were California and New York, with 396 and 392 students, respectively. New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia saw 280, 180 and 159 students accepted, respectively.

Deacon emphasized that a major component of achieving a more diverse Georgetown will be a healthy endowment that allows the university to offer more generous financial aid packages to those who are accepted.

The Georgetown admissions process continues to distinguish itself from other universities with its mandatory interview and refusal to use the

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Common Application.

This decision results in fewer applicants and higher acceptance rates compared to peer institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, which had their lowest admissions rates on record with 5.79 and 12.1 percent, respectively, according to The New York Times. Yet Deacon believes the process allows Georgetown to take a more holistic approach to admissions, which includes mailing applicants their decisions rather than posting them online.

“We’ve held on to this way of doing it that we find to be a more appropriate way to end what has been a very lengthy and very important process in your life,” Deacon said.

Students on the waitlist must hold out until after May 1, when deposits are due, to find out whether they will join next year’s freshman class.

According to Deacon, the university has placed 2,000 students on the waitlist, from which it has traditionally taken around 50 to 100 people to reach its target number of 1,580 students — a number that has remained consistent for several years due to restrictions in the campus plan.

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As residents themselves, some professors characterized the disturbances from student parties as less severe and less widespread than neighbors typically make them out to be.

“There have been problems with student noise, but it’s not constant throughout Burleith,” said Eric Langenbacher, a professor in the government department who has been a member of the Burleith Citizens Association for nearly 15 years. “I live near 35th and T, and we haven’t had problems with student noise — party noise — for years.”

Matthew Kroenig, a professor in the government department who lives a few blocks from campus in West Georgetown, agreed with Langenbacher.

“The students don’t bother me at all,” Kroenig said. “I know some neighbors complain about noise.

I think if you’re outside Rhino late at night on a weekend, then it can be a problem. But if you go a couple blocks up the hill, it’s an incredibly tranquil neighborhood.”

Even when neighbors do find a party to complain about, Langenbacher said that they should not automatically blame Georgetown students.

“If I can think back to some of the more problematic houses over the years, they aren’t usually students,” Langenbacher said. “They’re usually young professionals and whatnot.”

In addition, Kroenig pointed out that noise from parties is to be expected for those who live near college campuses.

“The university has been there since 1789, so I’m pretty sure it was here before any of the residents bought their houses,” Kroenig said.

“They kind of knew what they were getting themselves into … buying a place a block from the university. If you live a few blocks from a college campus, there are going to be college students.”

Von der Goltz added that new measures such as shuttle services will have minimal impact on reducing noise.

“I think students will also have house parties if they live in the neighborhood,” she said. “It’s not going to solve the whole problem.”

Although the university seeks to move more of the student population back on campus, Langenbacher believes that living off-campus is a valuable component of student life.

“I think that it is important for young people to learn how to live in various kinds of neighborhood,” he said. “There is a lot of value added from living off-campus.”

But sometimes creating reasonable policy to accommodate both student needs and neighbor desires is complicated by the residents themselves.

“There has been a group of neighbors that is quite angry,” Langenbacher said. “They’ve been angry for a long time. If you talk to them or get into it with them, the anger shows. The anger is not just directed at students or representatives of the university but sometimes toward neighbors who don’t entirely endorse their views.”

Within the BCA, Langenbacher said that members who are vocal may appear to represent the organization even if not everyone in association shares the same complaints about students.

“I do know for a fact because of conversations I’ve had — email exchanges on the Burleith Listserv and stuff like that — that not everybody was in agreement with the vocal stance that the Burleith Citizens Association took in regards to the campus plan,” Langenbacher said. “There are issues with student noise and whatnot that are legitimate issues and they have to be dealt with … but the BCA has to understand that there are people with feet in both worlds. I myself would have liked to see a more balanced stance on the part of the

BCA, but that’s not always how it works out.”

Von der Goltz agreed, saying that some neighbors seemed to oppose “anyone who is not seen as conforming to a particular standard.”

“In general, I think Georgetown homeowners are somewhat peculiar and pedantic,” von der Goltz said. “Longtime residents are quite keen to keep things ordinary and tidy.”

But she also said that she understands both student and neighbor perspectives.

“You can kind of see how tensions would erupt,” von der Goltz said. “In some ways, it can be avoided, and I’m sympathetic to both sides.”

In a demonstration of the ambiguity that characterizes his unique position, however, Langenbacher stressed that the university had to regain the trust of the neighborhood.

“A lot of people in the community perceive that the university made rhetorical efforts in the past, and there was no follow-through,” Langenbacher said. “They didn’t put their money where their mouth was.”

Langenbacher added that the BCA was “cautiously optimistic” about town-gown relations in part because of leadership changes within the BCA and the university and initiatives like the Georgetown Community Partnership.

As for specific solutions, Langenbacher believes that signs across the neighborhood reminding people to limit noise, a Listserv for students who live off campus to allow the dispersal of notices reiterating rules and norms and more meetings between students and neighbors would help.

Kroenig had an idea that’s probably not going to gain traction with either side.

“I think the students should just invite their neighbors to the parties. I think they’re just envious that they’re missing out on the fun.”

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’Nova Wins Build Confidence Younger Hoyas Handed Keys for Colonial Relays Jonah Cashdan Hoya Staff Writer

On Wednesday, the Georgetown men and women’s tennis teams traveled to Villanova, Pa., to take on the Wildcats in what proved to be decisive road wins in Big East play. Fighting winterlike conditions that Head Coach Gordie Ernst described as “one of the toughest days I’ve seen in years,” both the men’s and women’s teams were able to continue their winning streaks and improve their in-conference records.

The men’s 4-3 win over Villanova is the sixth straight for Georgetown (8-8, 2-0), and the triumph over a main Big East rival makes Wednesday’s momentum-building victory the team’s most important one to date.

“It does a lot for us. We know for sure we’re not going to be the 8th or the 9th seed, which is important, and we’re shooting for an even higher seed than 7th this year,” Ernst said when asked about the implications of the win.

Senior Charlie Caris and graduate student Reese Milner anchored the Hoyas, taking No. 2 in doubles and No. 2 and No. 3 singles, respectively. Junior Casey Distaso also played a major role for the men, winning both No. 1 doubles and No. 5 singles.

The 6-1 win for the Blue and Gray women (12-4, 3-2) marked their fifth straight.

Senior Victoria Sekely and junior Madeline Jaeger set the tone for the victory, with Sekely winning No. 1 singles and doubles and Jaeger prevailing in No. 3 singles and

Patrick Musgrave Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior Madeline Jaeger won both of her matches against Villanova Wedmesday to help propel Georgetown to a 6-1 win.

No. 2 doubles.

“It’s just another win to continue our great progress, and we now have a solid winning record in the conference,” Ernst said.

But, Ernst continued, the cold-weather wins meant more than just better seeding in the Big East tournament.

“Heavy winds and cold weather usually favors the winter team,” he said, noting that the conditions could easily have been a major obstacle to the Hoyas on the day. “Our girls and guys fought through and got the win.”

The men’s and women’s teams cannot afford to dwell on their wins with the Big East tournament fast approaching, though. Rutgers next Saturday will present another good test for the women ahead of the conference tourney, with midweek dates with out-of-conference

opponents sprinkled in ahead of that final Big East match. And Ernst believes that his team is ready for the challenge.

“We have match experience, we have fitness — it’s just about implementing them,” he said.

The women’s team will host California (Penn.) Friday before taking on East Carolina on Saturday. The men, on the other hand, will play St. John’s Friday in another Big East matchup and follow that up with matches against Fairfield and cross town opponent George Washington the next day.

If those contests go well, the Hoyas could find themselves in much better position than the program is accustomed to heading into next week’s Big East tournament.

“This is sort of history in the making,” Ernst said.

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Reaction to Ware All Wrong

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t was a weekend of March Madness heroics.

Trey Burke turned in a crunch-time performance for the ages, carrying his No. 4 seed Michigan Wolverines to an unthinkable comeback win over top-seeded Kansas.

LaQuinton Ross nailed a deep three to push Ohio State past an upstart Arizona team and into the Elite Eight. And as tough as it is to swallow, the Syracuse Orange did their best Georgetown Hoyas impression in the Verizon Center, suffocating higher-seeded Marquette and Indiana to a total of 89 points over two games.

But the most meaningful contribution this weekend came from a guy who was just making a harmless closeout.

Hustling to contest a threepointer in a close contest, Kevin Ware was making the selfless play. He would go on to make a greater one when his landing went terribly awry.

Let’s be frank: Ware’s broken leg in Louisville’s blowout victory over Duke was probably the most gruesome injury ever suffered in a college basketball game. For a large portion of viewers, too young to remember the nearidentical catastrophic injury suffered by Joe Theismann almost 30 years ago, this was the most horrific incident they had ever witnessed live.

I could barely stomach the replay of the fall halfway across the country, separated by the barrier of a television broadcast. I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like for Ware. But he displayed a lot of strength in those moments.

The sophomore guard remained relatively composed considering what had transpired in front of him, and he seemed to welcome the concerns of all those around him.

Most tellingly, his sole focus remained on the task placed in front of him from the start — not his injury but his team and its game, with a Final Four berth on the line. Ware repeatedly told his teammates to “win the game”; his determination to push aside his personal downfall and use his own suffering as motivation for his team was about

as praiseworthy as it gets.

The general reaction to Ware’s injury, though, was anything but admirable. And this is the game we play in today’s hyper-connected society.

In the immediate aftermath of the injury, I opened up Twitter as an interested sports fan. A moment like the one I had just witnessed of course had me both intrigued and worried, eager to just learn more about the situation. Like so many others, I wanted to see what I could glean from the instant news machine. What I found was troubling, a scary referendum on the technological

Peter Barston

Twitter was rife with missteps and misinformation. power of the people today.

Kevin Ware’s injury blew up on Twitter in all the wrong ways. In the age of instant access, social media was bound to explode with commentary on such a traumatic occurrence. But what is the protocol for a freak injury like this? What is the etiquette when everyone from the veteran sideline reporter to the couch potato has a platform?

Whatever the right steps to take may have been, the populace heeded no reminder of them during the injury. Twitter was rife with missteps and misinformation.

There were flashing images and replays of the grisly injury, posted for all to watch or stumble upon later. There were jokes being made at Ware’s expense, too, like the ones comparing him to the recurring SpongeBob character who always finds his lower extremities hurt after another one of SpongeBob’s colossal screw ups — as if

Ware was just some sort of cartoon and not the very real backup point guard who was coming off a very real breakout performance against Oregon two days prior.

There were “doctors” being cited and retweeted all over, the prognoses ranging from a three-month setback to one that would certainly shelf Ware for a calendar year, if not more. In extreme cases, the injury was proclaimed to be a death knell for Ware’s time as a basketball player, a fluke end to a burgeoning guard’s career. In fact, it was none of the above. None of these newfound medical experts or social media mavens had the correct info or made the right move. But they had a platform and an opinion, and so they were suddenly authorities on the matter of Kevin Ware, their “scoop” spreading like wildfire.

As an emotional Rick Pitino explained postgame, Ware’s injury was indeed troubling — very similar to the one former Louisville running back Michael Bush suffered back in 2006 — but one that was not the end of the story. The broken leg would carry a single-year timetable for recovery. Kevin Ware would be back stronger than ever, Pitino assured us.

In this day and age, we are so eager to digest the news that we sometimes start to write it ourselves. It certainly happened with Ware’s injury.

We proclaimed his career dead, a chance to make a joke, a body of work defined by a fluke accident that was seen more as an opportunity to flex our social media muscle than to step back and reflect on the terrible misfortune we had just seen play out in front of us.

So let’s step back and ignore the outside noise. Let’s let Kevin Ware define just how bad this injury will be.

Let’s learn our lesson. Kevin’s story, the one of the selfless guard making it back after devastation, should speak for itself.

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

After travelling to northern California last weekend for a meet at Stanford, Georgetown track and field will be a bit closer to home this weekend, competing at the 48th Annual Colonial Relays, hosted by William & Mary.

The Colonial Relays are a weekend-long earlyseason meet where teams traditionally gauge their progress from the indoor to the outdoor season. Among the 40-team University Division will be several of Georgetown’s Big East rivals, notably Villanova and its talented corps of middle-distance runners on both the men’s and women’s sides. Strong nonconference competitors include the Sooners of Oklahoma, who are ranked No. 15 in the nation for men and No. 23 for women.

“This is still really early in the season for us, and so the meet this weekend should really sharpen us up to compete in the weeks ahead,” Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said.

Georgetown’s game plan for this meet, Henner explained, is geared toward giving younger athletes a shot in individual events and having veterans run relay legs or non-specialty events.

On the men’s side, senior All-American Andrew Springer will run a relay leg, after coming off a standout 13:46 5000-meter performance at the Stanford Invitational. The goal is to keep Springer sharp for the weeks ahead but not overtax him early, as the season stretches for another two months.

Freshman sprinters headline the group of younger runners who will be getting the nod this weekend, with standout rookies Mike Andre and Devante Washington leading the way.

“Our freshman class is one of the best in the

country, and they have a lot of potential. You’ve got guys like Andre and Washington on the short end, and then Ahmed Bile in the longer sprints or middle distance events — all of whom I’m pretty excited about,” Henner said.

The women’s side is following more or less the same strategy as the men’s, with Henner looking to give his top older athletes a slight rest going into the next few weeks of competition.

Junior Jenna Davidner is slated to lead the charge for the Hoyas in the long-distance events.

Alongside freshman Sarah Cotton, Davidner will be running the 5000m, which currently has a projected field of 75 competitors spread into two sections.

That massive number could lead to an exciting race that is won tactically, Henner said, with competitors trying to draft for long stretches in order to put themselves in contention for the last 400m.

One exception to the aforementioned general meet strategy for the Blue and Gray is senior AllAmerican Tenille Stoudenmire, who will be racing in the 200m dash. Stoudenmire, a former Big East champion in the 1600m relay and the distance medley relay, is one of the most experienced athletes in the 200m field at the Colonial Relays. As a result, Henner and Co. will be looking for her to post some quick times, and a medal spot is well within the realm of possibility.

With two major meets at George Mason and Princeton on the horizon, the Colonial Relays will represent a large contrast: While Georgetown’s lesser-known talent may take center stage this weekend, some of the bigger names will be out to take their places in the weeks to come.

“Hopefully, we can get a few Big East qualifying times out of this meet and our athletes can get exposed to some good competition,” Henner said. “It is still pretty early in the season.”

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GU Offense Disappears In 8-6 Loss to Villanova VILLANOVA, from A10 weeks,” Warne said of Kluh. “We wanted to put a short-stick on him, and I’m not sure we slid well. He had a couple looks from 10 yards out, and he’s going to bury those. We were a little slow to go there, and we’ll have to re-evaluate why.”

Georgetown had plenty of opportunities to even the scoring but was plagued by inopportune turnovers and less-than-lethal shooting down the stretch. O’Connor nearly

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Senior attack Travis Comeau had two goals in Georgetown’s loss to Villanova, tying him for tops on the team in an 8-6 loss.

caught Villanova out in a breakaway transition following a turnover, but his shot from the left of the goal found the stick of sophomore goalkeeper Reed Carlson at the 4:32 mark.

“Our lack of depth hurts a little bit — I think we got a little tired, and our possessions were a lot quicker than theirs,” Warne said. “They might have played offense for a minute and a half, but our possessions were about 30 seconds. There’s no shot clock right away, so that kind of hurt us in the end.”

It was an uncharacteristic off-night for faceoff specialist junior defender Tyler Knarr, who had been dominant in recent games for the Blue and Gray. This time it was Villanova’s Thomas Croonquist who won the overall faceoff advantage, helping the Wildcats emerge with possession on 10-of-17 attempts.

Despite the Hoyas’ offensive futility down the stretch, Warne was pleased with his team’s effort, particularly that of redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Jake Haley, who finished with 13 saves. Georgetown will next travel to the Empire State for a weekend matchup with No. 14 St. John’s.

“I thought the guys played hard overall, Jake played great and I thought our defense really came together,” Warne said. “We did some of the right things, so I was happy to see them getting better, but again we’ve got to get ready for three days from now.”

The opening faceoff in the matchup with the Red Storm is set for 2 p.m. Saturday in Bethpage, N.Y.

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Hoyas to Renew Rivalry Issue Lies in Failure to Adjust With No. 15 Greyhounds ADAPTING, from A10

LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

On Saturday, the No. 9 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (7-2, 2-0 Big East) will face No. 15 Loyola (5-5, 2-0 Big East) — the defending Big East champions — in what promises to be a very intense and evenly contested matchup.

Both Georgetown and Loyola have defeated Louisville and Cincinnati in the past two weeks. Georgetown downed Cincy 21-3 on March 22, and two days later, Loyola beat them 19-0; the Greyhounds then beat the Cardinals 11-6, while the Hoyas topped them 14-11.

Look at those very similar scorelines, and one thing becomes clear: Saturday’s game is likely to be as tight as they come.

Such was the case last year; the teams were on par with each other, as evidenced by a15-14 Loyola victory in overtime last March. Even though past results are often faulty prognostications of future outcomes, Head Coach Ricky Fried foresees a close game.

“Each team is different from year to year. [Loyola] lost a lot of defenders but [has] a lot of attackers back,” Fried said. “I think we’re pretty evenly matched teams.

I think that they have an edge probably in some spots and we have en edge in some spots. It’s going to be a matter of who plays their game.”

Playing the defending Big East champs could be daunting for poorly disciplined teams, but the Hoyas know that they cannot play their opponent’s game if they want to win. It is this focus on making sure the team plays to its potential that has helped the Blue and Gray have such a successful season thus far.

With only two losses on the season, Georgetown has every reason to feel optimistic going into Saturday’s game.

“We should have plenty of confidence right now, being 7-2 and having some of the wins that we’ve had against ranked opponents and quality teams,” Fried said.

Sophomore attack Caroline Tarzian also likes the Hoyas’ chances because of the areas on which the team has been focusing during practice.

“We have been working on shooting a ton this year, and our shooting percentage has been higher in these games.

We’ve been working on faceoffs, too. Kelyn [Freedman] and Kelsey [Perselay] have been doing an awesome job with it,” Tarzian said. “Those are two main factors

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Sophomore attack Caroline Tarzian leads GU in scoring by a wide margin. that have been the cause of our success this season.”

In Tarzian’s case especially, it is obvious that all of the shooting practice has been paying off. Tarzian ranks fourth in the Big East in goals per game with 2.67 and notched her third five-goal game of the season against Louisville. Last week, she was also named to the Big East weekly honor roll for the third time this season, an accolade she appreciates but never expects.

“It’s really exciting,” Tarzian said. “Honestly, every single time it is a surprise because there’s a ton of really good players in our conference, so it’s a really great honor.”

Another big performance from Tarzian could help the Hoyas notch their third Big East win this Saturday, but Fried insists that his team is staying grounded.

“Right now, we’re playing really well as a team. If we continue to do that and focus on paying attention to the details, then we are going to end up where we need to end up,” Fried said. “We’ve had a little bit of a break and so we should go in fresh and excited and hungry, and if we do that, I think it will bode very well for us.”

The Blue and Gray hope that means they will end up as the Big East tournament champs, earning them a berth to the NCAA tournament. For now however, they are focusing on one game at a time.

Opening faceoff against Loyola will be in Baltimore at noon on Saturday.

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Porter Jr. Staying Busy During Awards Season EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

As Georgetown fans anxiously await his decision on the NBA draft, sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. keeps acquiring hardware.

The latest accolade came Tuesday, when the sophomore forward was one of 10 players named to the John Wooden Award All-America team. The last Hoya selected by the voting members of the basketball media was Allen Iverson in 1996.

Porter joins Michigan sophomore guard Trey Burke, Creighton junior forward Doug McDermott, Gonzaga junior forward Kelly Olynyk and Indiana junior guard Victor Oladipo as finalists for the Wooden Award, which will be awarded this morning.

That same group of five was also selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches to round out its first team of all-americans.

Although Porter was named to the Associated Press All-America first team on Monday, joining the same foursome of Wooden Award finalists, he was edged by Burke for the AP’s player of the year award when it was an-

nounced Thursday.

End of season awards are often determined by strong play in the tournament, and Burke, by carrying his team to the Final Four, made a compelling case even stronger given Georgetown’s early defeat to Florida Gulf Coast.

However, Porter was named national player of the year by Basketball Times and will learn if he received the Naismith Trophy, for which he is a finalist, in a ceremony held in Atlanta on Sunday.

It remains unclear if Porter will leave for the NBA this season, although a decision must be made by the NCAA deadline on April 16. While mock drafts rank the sophomore as a top pick, Porter has maintained ambiguity about the decision on social media.

Even if Porter decides to depart, one of his teammates may be taking his place as a proven award winner. Freshman guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera was honored Wednesday, alongside 20 other rookies, with a spot on the Kyle Macy Freshman All-America Team. The Indianapolis native also earned a spot on the all-Big East rookie team, something Porter was denied his freshman year.

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West Virginia Departure Causes Scheduling Quirk GAELS, from A10 three excellent starters, the Gaels have relatively weak pitching and have accrued a measly staff ERA of 4.76 this season.

Georgetown will also have to focus on its defensive execution this weekend due to a St. Mary’s style that’s seldom seen in the Big East, where offensive play tends to be more direct.

“They play a little bit more hit-and-run and small-ball, which will be good to see

if we can defend against that,” Wilk said.

“Their record’s not great, but they’re still a West Coast team, and we’re playing on the road, so we’re not just going to be able to get off the plane and win.”

As for the difficulties that come with cross-country travel and time zone shifts?

“It’s not like they’re 35-year-old men,” Wilk said. “They’ll get through it.”

The Hoyas and Gaels will square off in Moraga, Cal., at noon EDT today and 10 a.m. EDT on both Saturday and Sunday.

The idea that a talented, disciplined team would simply forget how to play defense every March is preposterous. Is Georgetown simply falling victim to impossibly poor odds, running each year into the Showtime Lakers reincarnate as a mid-major in the opening weekend?

Not quite.

While at least VCU and FGCU were underrated by the tournament committee in 2011 and 2013, respectively, you don’t lose to double-digit seeds five times in six years simply because of bad luck. Even the unexpectedly excellent underdogs eventually fell to teams considered no better than Georgetown during the regular season.

The answer to this conundrum lies in the pace of play. The Hoyas and many of their brethren in the old Big East were notorious for turning each game into a sloweddown, physical battle. These months spent in the trenches are usually viewed as a positive come tourney time, but it may in fact be a handicap — especially when combined with a rigid offensive system like Georgetown’s.

The knock-down, drag-out strategy worked fine in the Big East, where all parties had accepted the rules of engagement and referees turned a blind eye to light fouls — usually meaning “fouls that don’t draw blood.”

That’s not the case everywhere, and the national tournament is not played by Big East rules. This makes the tournament more watchable for most of the American public, but it also means that Georgetown can’t just slug out a series of 55-45 wins.

So when a team has a willingness — or, in FGCU’s case, an all-consuming need — to throw alley-oop passes and jack threepointers five seconds into the shot clock, it throws traditional Big East teams for a loop. Their tournament lives depend on how well they adjust to this dramatic change in style of play.

And so far, the Hoyas haven’t adjusted well.

This is the facet of Georgetown’s perennial disappointment that can be pinned on Thompson. The Hoyas impose their deliberate style on nearly everyone they play, forcing most teams to rely on discipline on offense and patience on defense to win games. That works great against Louisville or Syracuse. But when an underdog catches fire and

breaks open a double-digit lead, what does Thompson do?

Until now, the answer has been to stay the course. But Dubya’s old refrain won’t satisfy the legions of angry fans and — more importantly — doesn’t fix the problem.

Thompson needs to adapt his approach based on the opponent’s personnel and the events of the game. This means keeping Markel Starks in the game with two fouls when he’s the only one

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The Hoyas’ average seed in the tourney since 2008.

The average seed that has knocked them out over the same span.

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who can throw it in the ocean.

This means running pick-androlls with Starks and Otto Porter Jr. when the offense is stagnating. This means reaching further into the bench to assemble a fastbreak-friendly lineup and keep the big guns fresh.

This does not mean scrapping the offense.

Georgetown’s problem isn’t the quick passes, off-ball screens and constant motion that comprise Thompson’s altered Princeton attack. The Hoyas rank among the top teams in the country in assists and field goal percentage every year. You don’t do that — and win 25 games a year — without an effective system, no matter how talented your roster is.

The problem is Thompson’s

lack of adaptability. When the offense works, it’s among the most difficult to defend in the world.

But when the situation calls for it — when a fearless, hot-shooting mid-major has the Hoyas on their heels and the offense isn’t providing quick enough scoring to make up the deficit — Thompson can’t be afraid to make adjustments.

To his credit, Thompson has adjusted his system each offseason, to the point that it barely resembles the textbook “Princeton offense” that Pete Carril’s teams employed. Still, there is no onesize-fits-all offense in basketball.

And while the “read and react” philosophy embedded in Georgetown’s system is designed to naturally adapt to any opposing defense, that hasn’t been enough.

The off-season and between-game changes will likely remain irrelevant as long as the Hoyas fail to make in-game adjustments.

What does the future look like?

Georgetown would undoubtedly struggle — at least initially — if Thompson scraps the offense, as his recruiting has centered around this system for years. If he doesn’t change anything, he risks continued postseason woes and more outrage from the fanbase.

But if Thompson keeps the halfcourt set intact but improves his team’s adaptability — by adding a few quick-hitting plays and emergency lineups, or by hiring a skilled in-game assistant — Georgetown could preserve its tried-and-true regular-season system and avoid another early Big Dance disappointment.

In this area, at least, the breakup of the Big East may prove to be a blessing in disguise. The new conference will develop its own culture and overall style of play, hopefully one more conducive to freewheeling offenses than the old Big East was. With a more flexible system and experience playing against high-octane attacks, the Hoyas of the future would be much better equipped to deal with the hot-shooting mid-majors that have been their kryptonite for the past six years.

We don’t know what adjustments Thompson will make this offseason, but one thing’s for certain: Once again, he’ll have at least a week longer than most expected to make them. That alone suggests that when the head coach returns to McDonough in the fall, he’ll have clear changes in mind.

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

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Prevailing Culture Shifts Perception STEROIDS, from A10 casually discuss possibly using steroids with teammates, only to learn that the teammate had delivered a package of steroids to his locker. Former Red Sox second baseman Lou Merloni even revealed that a team doctor showed players how to properly use steroids in 2002. Furthermore, many Dominican players have stated that baseball scouts have “hinted” that — in addition to falsifying their names and ages — using steroids could be a good way to make the big leagues.

In short, no part of baseball’s organization structure was impervious to the phenomenon.

Beyond steroids, many other MLB cheaters have been recognized for their “greatness.” Tom Yawkey, a former Red Sox owner, was not only incredibly racist but was racist to the point that it hurt his team massively — he sometimes wouldn’t sign a black player no matter how much the team needed him.

Yawkey is in the Hall of Fame.

So are Gaylord Perry and Don Sutton, for that matter. Perry commonly used Vaseline to affect the movement of the ball; Sutton was outed for having sandpaper in his glove to scuff the ball.

In 1951, Bobby Thomson hit the home run later deemed the “Shot heard ’round the world” to send the New York Giants to the World Series. It was later reported that the Giants positioned a coach in center field with a telescope in order to steal the signs from the opposing catcher.

Numerous artifacts celebrating the home run reside in Cooperstown today.

Mike Schmidt, the Philadel-

phia Phillies Hall of Fame third baseman from the ’70s and ’80s, admitted that amphetamines were so blatantly kept in clubhouses that they were even in candy dishes in plain view of reporters who simply didn’t care.

Amphetamines, which increase focus and attentive abilities, were illegal in baseball, but there was a code that no one would be ratted out because they were seen as such a part of the game. Based on Schmidt’s and others’ admissions — such as those of all-time greats Willie Mays and Hank Aaron — it’s clear that the number of amphetamines users to reach the Hall was quite high.

Oh, and there were no rules against steroids prior to 2003 in MLB. The way that reporters view amphetamine users in the Hall of Fame is how we should likewise view steroid users getting into the Hall. The players didn’t feel that they were breaking the rules at the level that writers and owners — in an effort to cover up the fact that they were willing third parties to steroid use — are retroactively claiming that they were.

MLB used the home run explosion in the late ’90s to re-popularize the game after the players’ strike cancelled the 1994 World Series. That is why when some argue that steroid users were stealing money from the owners and the game in general, they’re forgetting that players were not the only ones responsible for the steroid explosion.

The second counterargument is one that I actually understand completely. Many will argue something along the lines of: “I’m not saying that taking steroids makes someone a terrible person, but if

you cheated the game of baseball, you shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame. And that includes guys like Perry, Sutton, and Yawkey.”

I do admire the consistency of this viewpoint, but I feel that it’s a little too simpleminded. The contention states that we shouldn’t look at cheating in severity or in degrees but rather as a yes/no question: Did someone break the rules or not? However, cutting out everyone who has ever cheated once isn’t realistic — the number of players who have cheated in a minor way is huge, so there’s no clear way to draw the line.

When someone is recognized for his greatness on a field, we don’t nitpick to find any little thing that might diminish his legacy as a whole. Instead, we only debate whether or not a person’s transgressions were so egregious they somehow outweigh his outstanding achievement.

Clearly, that’s always going to be a judgment call, which is why we have to measure something like this in a matter of degrees.

And my judgment is that given the culture of steroids in the game, the assumption by many players that they weren’t grossly breaking the rules and the history of baseball awarding those who cheated in other ways, steroids users should be allowed into the Hall of Fame.

With one caveat, that is: There should be a special note under their plaques demonstrating their steroid use. They might have ended up in Cooperstown, but no sin goes unpunished.

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

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WOMEN’S TENNIS Georgetown (12-4) vs. California (Pa.) (9-8) Today, 2 p.m.

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Social media’s response to Kevin Ware’s injury was strangely devoid of sympathy.

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Southpaws Loom In CA Showdown WILL EDMAN

The Blue and Gray took two of three — including a 1-0 pitchers’ duel Hoya Staff Writer that lasted 13 innings — from the Due to a unique twist in its sched- Bulls to reach .500 in the Big East. ule, the Georgetown baseball team “We played damn well last week(17-9, 3-3 Big East) will find itself in end. I was happy with how we California this weekend. However, played,” Wilk said. “Over 27 innings the Blue and Gray will hardly be en- plus five extra innings, you’re going joying the sun in Hollywood or La- to find things you need to improve guna Beach like some of the school’s on, but if you look at the overall picspring breakers, instead facing St. ture, I was pleased with the overall Mary’s (9-20, 2-4 West Coast Confer- effort.” ence) in a three-game series in the According to Wilk, one area on Bay Area. which Georgetown has worked Such strange scheduling — insert- extensively during a full week of ing a series between teams thou- practice has been hitting against sands of miles left-handed pitchapart in the heart “It’s not like they’re ers. Success with of conference seathat aspect of the son — occurred, 35-year-old men. game is likely to Head Coach Pete prove essential Wilk said, due to They’ll get through it.” this weekend, West Virginia’s deas the Gaels are PETE WILK fection from the slated to throw Baseball Head Coach Big East to the Big out their three12 prior to the season. headed monster of left-handed start“Originally, we were scheduled to ing pitchers: juniors Ben Griset (1.76 play West Virginia … and after they ERA), Ryan Brockett (3.27) and Jorleft, we struggled to find a new team dan Mills (3.49). to play. We didn’t have a choice be“We’re going to face three leftcause it happened too late in the pro- handed pitchers in California, and I cess,” Wilk said. “We tried to get [St. wasn’t pleased with the way we dealt Mary’s] to come out here, but they with South Florida’s left-hander, couldn’t. It was either [travelling to so that has been part of the focus,” California] or we were just playing Wilk said. “The approach against intra-squad, and that would have ru- lefties is different.” ined us.”

If Georgetown can somehow manWhile the situation is far from age to get St. Mary’s starting pitchers ideal, Georgetown will surely like its out of the game early, it could find chances against St. Mary’s (9-20, 2-4 much greater success against its opWest Coast Conference), especially ponents’ bullpen. Apart from their after the Hoyas’ series win against See GAELS, A9 South Florida last weekend.

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This is sort of history in the making.

Tennis Head Coach Gordie Ernst, on the teams’ successes this season

The men’s lacrosse team’s shooting percentage in its Wednesday loss to Villanova. Its season average is 30.6.

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Hat Trick Does in Georgetown BENO PICCIANO Hoya Staff Writer

Chasing consecutive victories for only the second time this season, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (46, 1-1 Big East) was outshined by Villanova (3-6, 2-0 Big East) Wednesday night 8-6 under the bright lights of MultiSport Facility.

The Hoyas defended resolutely throughout the contest and built a three-goal lead in the third quarter, but the Wildcats closed the game on a 6-1 scoring run to escape with the victory. A poor shot differential and the inability to sustain lengthy possessions cost the Blue and Gray, who ultimately failed to capitalize on opportunities in the ever-crucial final quarter.

“I think you saw Villanova’s athleticism take over,” Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne said afterward. “They got the ball on the ground, and we kind of fell into their hands. We did have a couple of open looks, but I don’t know if we shot the ball with authority or as hard as I would like us to.”

Georgetown got off to a strong start, as three different Hoyas found the back of the net in the first quarter to build an early 3-1 advantage.

Despite a 21-13 deficit in shots and a 1-8 record on faceoffs, the Blue and Gray held a 4-2 lead at the break after senior attack Travis Comeau’s second goal of the game with 2:26 remaining in the half.

Sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor, fresh off his second mention of the season in the Big East’s weekly honor roll, stretched the host’s lead to 5-2 at the 10:16 mark of the third quarter, but Georgetown’s fortunes soon faded. Villanova re-

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Wednesday’s game against the Wildcats was hardly an offensive showcase, but sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor did his part. sponded with a quick strike just 36 seconds later, cutting the deficit to 5-4 less than a minute thereafter on an effort by standout freshman midfielder John Kluh.

The visitors leveled the score before O’Connor gave the Hoyas their last lead at 6-5 with 2:10 remaining in the quarter. Kluh — who recorded a hat trick and added an assist on

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the night — took over from there, and the Georgetown offense sputtered down the stretch as Villanova took the lead for good with just under nine minutes remaining.

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Users Still Belong In Hall

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teroid users in baseball should be allowed in the Hall of Fame.

There, I said it: A group of players who cheated at their profession should be allowed into that profession’s Hall of Fame.

Let me explain. I fully object to any use of performance-enhancing drugs, and I want mandatory blood testing for steroids and HGH. Also, I won’t argue that steroid users should be allowed into the Hall simply because everyone else was juicing, because FILE PHOTO: CHRIS BIEN/THE HOYA

Head Coach John Thompson III and players Nate Lubick, Markel Starks and Otto Porter Jr. address the media after Georgetown’s loss to FGCU.

Backdoor Cuts and Bitter Endings

Why the much-maligned offense isn’t behind the Hoyas’ choking problem

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onfession: I don’t hate the Georgetown offense.

I know, it’s crazy. After watching a team full of no-names run the Hoyas out of the gym in March for the fifth time in six years, even the biggest John Thompson III apologists were filled with doubts about his modified Princeton system. So how could I — a basketball fanatic and longtime advocate of the 1-4 high — not join the masses in demanding a change?

The short answer is that the X’s and O’s aren’t the problem. Now for the long answer.

It’s easy to see why people blame Thompson for the early exits. He’s

seen players come and go in his ure on the Hilltop, both because eight-year tenure at the helm, his father is practically deified but the March results remain the and because he’s guided the team same: A four-point loss to Davidson to the national top-10 rankings in each of the last seven in the 2 vs. 10 game. years. Serious calls 15 points to Ohio in for his firing have the 3-14. 18 to VCU in been few and far bethe 6-11. Three to NC tween.

State in the 3-11. 10 to The logical concluFlorida Gulf Coast, a sion for most fans, school that began Dithen, is to attack the vision I play last year, offense. It provides a in the 2-15 game. At Pat Curran systemic solution to many schools, that the problem withsort of resume will earn you a one-way ticket to the un- out fully condemning one of the Hilltop’s most beloved figures. It employment line.

But Thompson is a beloved fig- sounds smart without being too

controversial, the perfect solution to toss out at cocktail — OK, who are we kidding here? Keg — parties.

The only problem is, it doesn’t hold up to even a cursory examination.

Look at the final scores of some of Georgetown’s most famous March “chokes.” FGCU dropped 78 on the Hoyas. VCU 74. Ohio (gulp) 97. The common theme isn’t the Hoyas’ inability to score; it’s their inability to stop the other team — a strange pattern, considering that Thompson’s boys rank among the nation’s best defenders year in and year out.

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Tom Hoff that’s like arguing your innocence with a cop by saying that everyone else on the road was speeding, too.

Here’s what I will argue: Taking steroids, especially more than 10 years ago, wasn’t that “bad.” It really wasn’t. How many people took steroids doesn’t matter, but the cultural attitude about steroids at the time does.

In the mid-1990s, steroids were rampant in Major League Baseball.

In his autobiography, “Juiced,” Jose Canseco asserted that 80 percent of players were using steroids. Journalists have reported that players would See STEROIDS, A9