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EXIT INTERVIEW

Hollis Thompson reflects on his college career as he heads to the NBA draft.

COMMENTARY Georgetown’s emphasis on service is what makes it a truly great university.

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EVALUATIONS GU is working to make course evaluation results more readily available.

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Sarah Patrick Hoya Staff Writer

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Georgetown’s mascot-in-training officially became a Hoya at a welcome ceremony in front of Healy Hall Friday.

SAFE plans require review by university and neighborhood boards Sam Rodman Hoya Staff Writer

Though one of the Student Activities Fee Endowment proposals is behind schedule, organizers of all three initiatives still hope to meet key deadlines as the end of the semester approaches.

Georgetown Energy’s plan to install solar panels on university townhouses and create a fund for sustainability projects, the Student Innovation and Public Service Fund and the New South Student Center renovation were passed by student referendum in late January.

Georgetown Energy, which was allocated $250,000 to install solar panels on university townhouses, expected to choose a solar panel vendor by mid to late February, but has not yet done so.

According to project leader Patricia Cipollitti (SFS ’15), the team has evaluated candidates on cost and installation methods and has narrowed its list to two companies.

Members of Georgetown Energy and the university also signed an agreement that required the group to decide on a start date for the project and the number of townhouses that would receive solar panels by April 3. Both of these choices, however, rely on the selection of a vendor and thus have not been made.

Cipollitti expects to select a firm and gain university approval by the end of the semester, and she anticipates that nine or 10 houses will receive solar panels this summer as part of the project’s first round of installations.

Before construction can begin, the plan must be approved by the university administration, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E and the Old Georgetown Board.

If the project remains on schedule, the two neighborhood boards will review the proposal over the summer.

GUSA Director of SAFE Reform Implementation Colton Malkerson (COL ’13) See SAFE, A6

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GU Pushes Innovation To Update Technology

Small Dog, Big Celebration: Jack Jr. Arrives to Fanfare

Proposals Await Approval

RENTING A tenants advocate explains the perils facing student renters.

With a mobile phone application set to go live Thursday and the university’s inaugural Innovation Summit planned for this week, Georgetown is attempting to speed up its slow crawl into the 21st century.

The mobile app will allow the university community to access the Georgetown directory, campus map, events calendar, GUTS bus schedules and news via smartphones.

The university partnered with Modo Labs, which also works with Harvard University, Villanova University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on their mobile apps, to create the Georgetown platform.

According to Lisa Davis, who became the university’s chief information officer in February, the development of a mobile app marks a big step for the university.

“Student focus groups and surveys have identified mobile as the number one priority for students,” Davis wrote in an email.

Davis and UIS also hope to address student concerns by expanding wireless

Internet coverage across campus. Much of campus did not have Wi-Fi until last spring. Within the past week, University Information Services added Wi-Fi coverage to all of Copley and Healy Lawns, according to Davis.

UIS is also in the process of determining the cost of entirely replacing the HOYAS network, which is still the only Wi-Fi available in several buildings including the Leavey Center, the Southwest Quad, Reiss Science Building and New South Hall.

The inaugural Innovation Summit, to be this Thursday and Friday, intends to encourage students and faculty to utilize new educational technologies.

Chief Innovation Officer Michael Wang hopes the event can be replicated every semester.

“The idea just came because there’s an obvious place for technology, and it goes beyond just widgets and gadgets,” he said. “It’s about finding things that are useful and that are relevant to our constituents at the university.”

The summit’s first day, titled the “Day of Ideas,” includes several 15-minute See INNOVATION, A6

Sandra Fluke Brings Debate Back to GU Matthew Strauss Hoya Staff Writer

After being thrust into the media spotlight in the national debate on contraception coverage in healthcare, Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12) shared her story Monday in Gaston Hall.

Fluke testified Feb. 23 on contraceptive access for students of religious universities before the U.S. House of Representative’s Democratic Steering and Policy Committee after being invited by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (DCalif.). Her testimony was met with harsh criticism from conservative political pundits, particularly by radio host Rush Limbaugh, who called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Fluke’s lecture was sponsored by the Lecture Fund and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and moderated by professor Judith Feder.

The conversation began with a description of Georgetown’s contraception coverage. Both undergraduate and graduate students can enroll in an insurance plan underwritten by the university or purchase private insurance.

Georgetown’s plan does not cover contraceptives for pregnancy prevention needs but does cover birth control pills used for hormone control or other medicinal purposes.

According to Fluke, this approach causes problems for many women at Georgetown.

“Those problems ranged from having a doctor question extensively what your symptoms are … and not believing you … because they suspect that you may be trying to get contraception to prevent pregnancy,” she said. “Women have gone through very difficult conversations and many still don’t get See FLUKE, A5

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Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12) spoke with professor Judy Feder Monday.

Valerie Earle: A Professor and Pioneer Adrianna Smith Hoya Staff Writer

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Professor Valerie Earle was the first president of the faculty senate and an advocate for women during a period of change at Georgetown.

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Government professor Valerie Earle, one of the first female professors to teach in Georgetown College, led a career of firsts on the Hilltop.

Earle, who died in 2004, was the first female chair of a university department, the first president of the Georgetown University Faculty Senate and, in 1974, became the first woman to receive the Patrick Healy Award for distinguished teaching, scholarly achievement and service to Georgetown.

Earle, who had earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in government, economics, public administration and law from the University of Texas, was appointed associate professor of government in 1955 in the business division of the School of Foreign Service.

Prior to coming to Georgetown, she taught at the University of Texas, San Francisco State University and the University of Alabama.

She also served as a research associate for the subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Banking and Currency Committee.

When she arrived at Georgetown,

Earle was the first female professor in her division. The following year she moved to the College’s government department, where she remained for 30 years teaching courses focused on constitutional law. Among her students was thenfreshman and now University President John J. DeGioia (COL ’79).

Government professor George Carey, who has taught at Georgetown since 1961 and whose office was next door to Earle’s for almost eight years, recalled the respect and admiration that she commanded.

“She was a lady in every respect,” he said. “Valerie was very much admired by the students who took her [class] … and she was a marvelous colleague and very loyal to Georgetown.”

Earle was a proponent of women’s rights at a time when there were very few women at Georgetown; female students were not even admitted to the College until 1969. Within a few years of her arrival at Georgetown, Earle and her close friend and colleague, mathematics professor Anne Schreer, started organizing luncheons for graduating female seniors, because See EARLE, A5

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OPINION

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THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

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Wired for the Weather — Healy and Copley Lawns now feature SaxaNet so students can study outside. See our coverage on A1.

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane — Today, the retired Space Shuttle Discovery will be flown over D.C. on its way to the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

EDITORIALS

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Faulty ’n’ Frustrating

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The Value of a Teacher — A survey by the American Association of University Professors revealed that the overall average salary of college professors declined by 1 percent last year.

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War on Potholes — D.C.’s annual “Potholepalooza,” a month-long campaign that has filled about 19,000 potholes in the past three years, starts again today.

It’s not just the Hoya wraps at Grab ’n’ Go that are leaving students with a bad taste in their mouths.

Georgetown University Dining Services has proudly advertised improvements to O’Donovan Hall over the past semester through its “We Hear You” campaign, but it remains remarkably deaf toward student complaints regarding the unreasonable and inconvenient policies of Grab ’n’ Go. Grab ’n’ Go was developed to accommodate students’ busy schedules, but the rigidity of its rules fails to serve students’ needs.

If Grab ’n’ Go truly served its intended purpose, a student would be allowed to get multiple meals at once in anticipation of a busy schedule, but currently only one meal is accessible during desginated meal times.

Grab ’n’ Go closes at 8 p.m. on weekdays, making it unavailable to those students looking for sustenance after normal dining hours. Like Late Night at Leo’s, Grab ’n’ Go should be open until at least 11 p.m. on weekdays.

Then comes the issue of the weekend.

The policy that prevents students from using their remaining meals on a Friday afternoon at Grab ’n’ Go to stock up for the weekend is counterproductive to the ideal function of a to-go dining service.

The university has made it a point to avoid wasting the food it serves at Leo’s and Grab ’n’ Go, which is supposedly the logic behind limiting students to one to-go meal per time slot. Allowing students to purchase at their own pace would not force Grab ’n’ Go to overstock. It would be hard to imagine a student taking a week’s worth of meals at once.

Georgetown students run on tight schedules, and sometimes this means forgoing a trip to Leo’s. Students who pay the hefty meal plan price should have better access to a meal on the go during a week of busy classes. Rather than helping students stay nourished, Grab ’n’ Go policies appear to be aimed at limiting how much we get for our money.

Uncommon Approach As prospective students swarm to campus for accepted student weekends, it’s worth considering the process that selected them.

With the university reporting record-low acceptance rates, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions should not feel pressure to play the numbers game to increase its selectivity. We commend the university for resisting the temptation to superficially increase the number of applicants by continuing to use its own application rather than the Common Application.

In an interview with The Hoya (“Acceptance Rate Hits Record Low,” A7, April 13, 2012), Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon argued that we could easily drive admissions rates even lower to increase our U.S. News and World Report ranking, but such a change would be detrimental to the university’s holistic application review process. According to Deacon, increasing the number of applications the university receives would mean less attention paid to each.

College rankings can play a large role in

a student’s decision to apply to and attend a particular university, but Georgetown remains a rare school that, according to Deacon, doesn’t increase applicant numbers to appear more selective and boost its ranking.

The university’s decision to remain off the Common Application deters those applicants who half-heartedly apply to many elite institutions from doing the same with Georgetown. It’s true that the school-specific application may discourage some bright students who are pressed for time around application season from completing the application, but the university’s increasing selectivity in spite of this — and an increasing yield rate — suggests that the number of students who are genuinely interested in Georgetown is growing anyway.

For many students, Georgetown serves as more than just an academic environment: It’s a community. Though the university could lower its already shrinking acceptance rate even further, higher third-party rankings don’t merit a switch to using the Common Application.

No Luck With the Irish — Men’s lacrosse stumbled against Notre Dame Sunday, hurting the team’s chances of playing in the NCAA tournament. See our coverage on A12.

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The point is well taken, but at the same time, I’m not sure requiring the professors to tailor the requirements to specific things is necessary, especially given the broad scope of topics covered in PoG and such. The SFS pro-seminars generally operate in the same way, with different requirements. Better to develop a system of course evaluations or a Google Doc or something (GUSA could do it) that includes these details as people pick classes, even as freshman.

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Anonymous on “Continuity Across Course Sections” Posted April 16, 2012

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Puppy Love Jack Jr. is much more than a mascot-intraining.

The dog in whose pawsteps he will someday follow, the current Jack the Bulldog, is a vital part of university culture. JJ’s arrival this past Friday was a time for us to come together and remind ourselves why we love this campus. It was also a perfect chance for students and families visiting as part of the Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program’s open house weekend to see why we love the Hilltop so much.

Accordingly, JJ’s Healy Circle introduction was preceded by an extensive university marketing campaign. From the creation of the @GeorgetownJack Twitter account

and the videos posted on the university’s Facebook page to fliers across campus, JJ’s welcome ceremony generated a lot of excitement. The university used the event to its full potential to showcase the Georgetown spirit to prospective Hoyas, current students and alumni.

After all the buildup, the puppy’s showcase didn’t disappoint. It was fully stocked with free cotton candy, popcorn and T-shirts for students as they enjoyed the celebration.

While we are all excited to welcome JJ to the Hilltop and provide him a home for the rest of his canine life, his arrival served as more than just a reason to enjoy a pleasant day on the lawn.

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OPINION

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THE STATE OF NATURE

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CARDAMON, SPICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Achieving Greatness Fashion Industry Complicit In Luxurious Style of Dictators Through Service W F

e boldly titled our column imminent amputation of her right this past year “The State leg. Sona helped O’Brien every day of Nature.” However, per- in identifying which women in the haps we would have been better off clinic needed fresh bandages. She calling it “The State of Georgetown.” would indicate to him which womWe’ve covered topics ranging from an was next and always placed oththe Facebook habits of Georgetown ers before herself.

O’Brien went on to explain how he students to our dating culture, plus many issues in between. Today, we learned from those he served while hope to analyze one last provocative in India. Real service did not mean question: Is Georgetown a great uni- just helping others who were vulnerable. Real service meant allowing the versity?

There are a number of ways to vulnerable and their experiences to approach the answer. We have a dis- shape your mind and heart so that tinguished curriculum and a distin- they can continue to grow through guished faculty. We have a history of service. He learned to let go of his producing world leaders. We have a self-preoccupation and to embrace number of renowned programs that love and service in an entirely new are unique and respected. But are we way.

One day, Sona touched O’Brien’s a great university? hand when he enThere are a numtered the room. ber of reasons to anWhen he placed swer this question his hand on her with an emphatic own, she began to negative. We are cry. O’Brien had underfunded and touched a person overextended. Many deemed untouchfaculty members able by society. He are more concerned said that he learned with tenure than they are with stu- Mike Meaney & Matthew Hoyt from Sona the value of human dignity. dent learning. StuThis was a lesson dent life is stymied taught to him not by an aggressive Georgetown forms in English or Hindi, bureaucracy that functions better as leaders with heart and but rather through a single touch. a hurdle than as a conscience.

It was a lesson conduit. We as stutaught to him dents are frequently selfabsorbed and too dense to reflect through service.

Georgetown is a great university on what is important.

But as a community, we rise above because it is a place whose identity these shortcomings because of one is defined by service. This is manisimple ideal that defines Georgetown fested in Georgetown’s classrooms, its student organizations, its faculty as a great university: service.

At the Lana Landegger Commu- and staff, its students and its misnity Service Awards banquet this past sion.

Georgetown is in the business of Saturday, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., vice president for mission and ministry, forming leaders with heart and contold a remarkable story. He described science. There is a great deal of work his time in northeast India, where that goes in to this process: We fohe was placed at a leprosy clinic as cus on our studies. We pour endless a young Jesuit. Each day, he wheeled amounts of time and energy into our sick people back and forth to the doc- extracurricular activities. We navigate the complex social world of Georgetor to receive new bandages.

Initially, he hated it. The work was town, an extraordinarily sophisticated monotonous, and the environment in endeavor that prepares us well for the which he found himself was trying. The worlds of business and politics. We do preferred language was Hindi, and the all this within the context of Georgepreferred religion was Hinduism. As an town’s unique identity — a house of English-speaking Catholic, he struggled reason and faith — that trains our for obvious reasons. But his greatest minds to integrate the concerns of our struggle came from more esoteric sourc- hearts. es. How did a leprosy clinic in India fit into his work serving the world for God’s Mike Meaney is a senior in the School of Foreign Service and Matthew Hoyt is a greater glory?

An old Jesuit gave him simple advice: senior in the College. They are the former president and former director of commu“Let them teach you.”

O’Brien then told a story of a nications of the Georgetown University young girl named Sona. Sona was Student Association, respectively. This abandoned by her family because is the last appearance of THE STATE OF of her disease and was facing an NATURE.

asion commentator Simon Doonan remarked earlier this year, “The only stylish politicians are dictators.”

The eerie pervasion of Doonan’s words is apparent in the fashion world’s acceptance of Earth’s greatest human rights violators because of their ability to pair an ostentatious pair of Prada sunglasses with a power suit better than Vogue’s Anna Dello Russo.

Famed authoritarian sartorialists range from cape-loving Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to the wives of Middle Eastern dictators, including Queen Rania of Jordan and Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser alMissned of Qatar. The close-knit relationship between the global fashion industry and the world’s dictators has become a problem that must be addressed.

In some cases, such as Queen Rania and Sheikha Mozah, humanitarian efforts are apparent. The former is known for working to increase access to health care for the people of Jordan and the latter for her aid efforts to Somalia during the famine last summer. Others, like first lady Asma al-Assad of Syria, however, have been celebrated by the fashion industry despite obvious human rights transgressions.

Only a year ago, American Vogue published an unpalatably positive profile on Asma al-Assad, wife of dictator Bashar Al-Assad, titled “A Rose in the Desert.” The article harps on the first lady’s Western upbringing and education and depicts her as a woman fully engrossed in strengthening Syrian democracy. She grew up in London, worked as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan in Europe and the United States and now runs her household democratically, according to the article, which Vogue recently removed from its website.

Last week, The Guardian published a series of private emails between Bashar al-Assad, his fashion-savvy wife Asma, other family members and close friends. The emails shed light on the inner workings of Syria’s first family. In one email, Asma jokingly refers to her-

self as “the real dictator” in the family.

The cavalier messages are troubling especially as the family has come under international scrutiny since March 2011, when the Arab Spring ignited anti-government protests in the country. The Assad regime, disguised as a democratically elected government, has harshly cracked down on political dissidence and made efforts to quell the movement from making real progress in Syria.

The United Nations reports that more than 9,000 have been killed in

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We must judge leaders based on their actions, not their haute couture. the unrest in Syria and thousands more displaced. This past February, the UN officially condemned the Assad regime and called for peace. Last week the UN finally brokered a cease-fire between the regime and the dissidents, but Assad’s willingness to shed more civilian blood to cling to his power has cast shadows amongst the pockets of hope in Syria and throughout the international community.

Although the first sons get to vote whether they have salmon or macaroni and cheese for dinner, the Syrian people are denied the right to choose their leader. The Vogue piece reported that Bashar al-Assad won the presidency with a “startling 97 percent of the vote,” perhaps with inexcusable ignorance or

cynical ingenuity.

Vogue also likened Asma al-Assad’s style to the understated elegance of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy among others, explaining that “[she] dresses with a cunning understatement.” “Understatement” is a slight stretch for a woman whose known uniform includes the cherry-red soles of sky-high Louboutin heels coupled with a Birkin bag and its five-figure price tag.

The Syrian government and the fashion industry have presented the first lady as a woman of the people.

Many say she wears jeans and walks the streets of Damascus like a seasoned local. Some compare her style to the chic affordability Kate Middleton offers in the United Kingdom or the maternal sophistication embodied by Michelle Obama when she pairs high fashion with a J. Crew cardigan.

Yet Asma al-Assad’s style is out of touch with the people. While Kate Middleton and Michelle Obama consciously wear British and American brands, respectively, to help industries at home, al-Assad’s clothing is exclusively from the biggest names in European fashion.

The crudeness embodied by her bright red soles are another reminder that Syria’s first lady is nothing like her counterparts in France, England and the United States.

Perhaps relative to the excesses of the Middle East, Asma al-Assad is the queen of minimalism. But that doesn’t excuse the fashion world for its acceptance of one of the world’s greatest villains and his family. We must always judge leaders based on their actions, not their beautiful faces and haute couture.

The best-dressed politicians may be dictators, but true elegance is found only in the leaders that embody beauty, style and integrity.

Sophia Berhie is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. CARDAMOM, SPICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS appears every other Tuesday. This is the final appearance of her column for the year.

THE DISCONCERTED DEMAGOGUE by Daniel Yang

VIEWPOINT • Eric Wind and Kate Bermingham

Keep Our Tradition Of Discussion Alive I t was with deep sadness that we alumni of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy learned earlier this semester of professor Patrick Deneen’s imminent departure for the University of Notre Dame.

All who truly know Deneen can attest to his integrity of character and generosity of spirit. All who have studied with him can tell of the masterful lucidity of his lectures and the patient wisdom of his instruction. He is a true intellectual, alive with his academic interests and dedicated to serving his students as individuals. Georgetown is indeed losing a great scholar, a great leader and a great man.

For many students involved with the Tocqueville Forum, Deneen was the charismatic gateway to a vibrant and rich experience at Georgetown. The forum was to us the best of what university life promises: honest, respectful and deep conversations about eternal questions, large and small, cutting across all academic fields and ideological divides. Though we have left the halls of Georgetown, the lessons we learned through the Tocqueville Forum still resonate, its friendships still comfort and its ideals still guide and inspire.

As proud alumni invested in the future of Georgetown, we profess a fervent and deep desire to see the Tocqueville Forum continue to grow and offer future generations of Georgetown students the opportunities, experiences and community we had.

In addition to enriching the intellectual lives of its fellows, the forum has achieved national and international prominence for its thought-provoking and high-caliber programming. The Tocqueville Forum is now, a primary reason

why many students come to study at Georgetown and continue to give their support after they graduate.

The forum served as a place for engagement between undergraduate and graduate students, a rare experience at Georgetown outside of teaching assistantstudent interactions. It has brought a wide range of people to speak on campus.

The Tocqueville Forum also produces a scholarly undergraduate journal and newsletter, offering students a platform to take on complex and interdisciplinary ideas. Through its numerous programs like the annual retreat and student conference, as well as lectures and reading groups, the forum brings students together to learn and grow for the sake of knowledge, for the betterment of ourselves and for the betterment of the world.

We wish our beloved teacher and mentor success and peace at Notre Dame. He is irreplaceable and unforgettable. We encourage the Georgetown community to continue its support of the Tocqueville Forum even after he leaves. We offer our support to our alma mater to help ensure that the Tocqueville Forum will continue its vital mission for years to come, because it is a hub of intellectual life for Georgetown University and encapsulates the very best of what Fr. John Carroll, S.J., hoped to achieve in establishing our alma mater.

This has been submitted on behalf of 25 concurring alumni of the Toqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy.

ERIC WIND graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 2009 and KATE BERMINGHAM graduated from the College in 2011.

VIEWPOINT • Andy Lewandowski

A Generation Without a Cause

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n an era when simply clicking the “Like” button constitutes joining a cause, it’s no wonder young people are left feeling empty at the end of the day. The Occupy Wall Street movement and its many incarnations around the world may be the latest evidence for a profound realization: Generation Y is desperate to be part of a movement — any one it can find.

We’re the generation that got a trophy even when we finished in last place. We’re the generation full of bright and special kids who can shine at anything they choose. Little did anyone know, though, that if everyone is bright, we’re all just dull.

Our parents built up our confidence so much during our childhood that now, as young adults, there is really nowhere it can go but down. This has been evidenced by the growing disaffection and victimization seen in Generation Y today.

America wasn’t always this way.

The Greatest Generation together demonstrated American might, suffered through the Depression and staved off evil during World War II. Martin Luther King Jr. was the symbol of the civil rights era, uniting blacks and other minorities across the na-

tion in the fight for equality. Later, during the ’70s, the hippies challenged U.S. social norms and values with regards to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in an attempt to liberate younger generations. During the Vietnam War, college campuses became the headquarters for young people’s participation in anti-war protests.

Then came Madonna, cell phones, latchkey kids, the Disney-fication of our cities and the expectation of instant gratification. The point is this: Generation Y is not defined by a movement, nor is there a need for one.

To be sure, members of Generation Y have every right to be angry. According to a Pew Research Center report published in February, which included data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the share of young adults aged 18 to 24 currently employed — just 54 percent — is at its lowest since the government began collecting data in 1948. Moreover, there is a 15 percent difference in the employment gap between young and working-age adults, which the Pew Center called the widest in recorded history. And young people are making less money compared to any other age group over

the past five years — 6 percent less. It’s no wonder young people jumped at opportunities to join the Occupy movement. If we don’t Occupy, then how will we change our world?

But the contest between young and old, rich and poor, employed and unemployed has been fleeting at best, as demonstrated by the meek whimpers of the young participants of the Occupy movement. For many young people, identifying with or participating in the movement may have simply been a cathartic exercise, which is understandable given the current state of affairs. But for so many more, it was a letdown of generational proportions.

Occupy may have been nothing more than a confrontation of the expectations for our lives we built during our childhood, now nothing more than a fantasy. What’s certain is that Generation Y will have to one day come to terms with this ballooning truth — whether in the form of an organic movement of its own or by riding on the coattails of populist anger.

ANDY LEWANDOWSKI is a student and staff member at the Graduate School of Continuing Studies.

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GU Right to Life planted 3,321 flags on Copley Lawn Monday to symbolize the number of abortions that occur in the United States every day. The display was part of their advocacy efforts for Life Week, which will run until Saturday.

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NSO Plans on Track as Advocate Explains Lease Logistics Director Search Continues SARAH KAPLAN Hoya Staff Writer

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Although the planning for the 2012 New Student Orientation is well underway in its selection of coordinators, captains and advisers, the Center for Student Programs has not yet filled the position of assistant director of student programs and director of NSO. The spot opened after Kathryn Kay left Georgetown to become director of orientation and leadership at the University of Utah in January.

According to Director of the Center for Student Programs Erika Cohen-Derr, the search for a replacement has attracted a large applicant pool. CSP is focusing on finding a candidate who can engage and collaborate well with the student body.

“A successful candidate for this job will demonstrate an understanding of the priorities and complexities of

directing a New Student Orientation program …” Cohen Derr wrote in an email.

The position’s responsibilities include communicating with new students and their families, working with the five NSO student coordinators to recruit and train orientation staff and coordinating all beginning of the year activities. It also includes advising CSP student organizations, particularly the Lecture Fund.

According to Cohen-Derr, preparation for NSO 2012 has remained on schedule despite the vacancy.

This year’s team of NSO coordinators is comprised of five undergraduates and has already chosen this year’s captains and advisers.

“We have chosen our entire staff, and we are so excited to meet all of them in person on April 28 at full staff training,” student coordinator Matt Chung (COL ’14) wrote in an email.

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Timothy Barbari, director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service, will leave Georgetown at the end of the semester to become associate provost for graduate affairs at Boston University.

Barbari, formerly dean of Georgetown’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be replaced by Timothy Beach, the Cinco Hermanos chair in environment and international affairs, on July 1. Beach previously served as director of the STIA program from 2009 to 2010 and also served as director for Georgetown’s Center for the Environment from 1999 to 2007.

Beach joined the STIA program when he arrived at Georgetown in 1993. He is currently the only tenured member of the STIA faculty.

Beach plans to expand the number of faculty in the program to improve its student-faculty ratio.

“We hope to add more people in the future because we have a large program with a small number of faculty members,” he said.

Beach hopes that this will, in turn, help the program expand.

“We would like to be able to grow,” he said. “We think that the topics that we deal with are completely germane to the SFS and the university at this time.”

Beach’s appointment was announced in an email sent by SFS Dean Carol Lancaster to all SFS students Monday afternoon.

“He has provided superb leadership for both programs in the past and I am sure will do so again in the future,” Lancaster wrote. “I join my colleagues in expressing our gratitude and best wishes to both Tims in their new ventures.”

Representatives from the Office of the Tenant Advocate and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs came to campus Friday to talk with students about the logistics of renting and subletting. THE HOYA sat down with Delores Anderson, a program support specialist who helps tenants resolve problems with landlords. Anderson spoke about the perils facing students who are signing — or ending — their first lease.

THE HOYA: What does an ideal process for a student renting an apartment for the first time look like?

Delores Anderson: The first [step] is identifying the apartment and … the area of concern here is that students not become victims of all the scams out there. ... The second thing is making sure that the housing provider is in compliance. … The next thing is the application process [which is] required by most housing providers. … Once you pass that … you have to look at whether or not they are going to provide you with a lease, which is what guides the relationship between the landlord and the tenant. … And then what we encourage students to do is when [you] move in you want to do a walkthrough to establish the condition of the place when you move in so when you move out … there will not be this great fight over the return of the security deposit.

THE HOYA: What should students be looking out for during the walkthrough?

Anderson: They should be looking to see what the conditions of the walls are. Are there any cracks? Are there any holes?....

If there are a lot of housing problems, then a red flag should go up. … If there’s roach infestation and there’s ... major leaks, that’s expensive to deal with and it may mean that the problems have been there for a long time. … Basically, you want to look and see, what’s going on here? … That will tell you whether or not this is a place that you want to rent.

THE HOYA: What are some of the major concerns that students have come to you about?

Anderson: One of the biggest concerns is the return of their security deposits. …

What we do is walk them through the steps they need to take to make sure that if that the landlord does keep all or part of their security deposit they can mount a successful challenge. …

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Delores Anderson, a program support specialist for the Office of the Tenant Advocate, discussed the ins and outs of renting for the first time.

The next big issue, of course, involves housing code problems. Bedbugs, infestations, leaks, no heat during the winter months, no air conditioning during the summer months, things like that.

For students [these issues] come up a lot.

Each time I’ve done a clinic I’ve had students who were experiencing housing code problems. It’s a big deal because students are transient — they’re not going to be here forever. So landlords … think, “Let’s just collect the money. [The students] are not going to complain, they’re going to be gone at the end of the year, [and] we don’t have to fix anything.”

THE HOYA: Is there anything students can do to be better or more informed tenants?

Anderson: Yes. They have to realize that they’re living in a community. They have to take care of the property. … But even more important is reporting any problems as soon as they occur. ... From my experience dealing with students,

a lot of time they’re hesitant [to lodge a complaint], because they think the landlord is going to retaliate against them. Other times it’s a time issue, because they are going to vacate the premises at the end of the academic year.

THE HOYA: What steps can students take to resolve issues with their landlords?

Anderson: They have a choice. If they [have] housing code problems they can contact the DCRA and request an inspection. An inspector will come out and look at the premises and if there are violations the inspector can cite the landlord and give him or her a certain amount of time to make the repairs. …

The other option is to file a complaint with the housing conditions calendar, … [which] basically is just a docket within superior court. And it’s not a hard process … you fill out the complaint … and then you have a hearing before the judge.

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The University Office of the Registrar will revamp the format of course and professor evaluation results to make data more accessible to students.

In collaboration with the Georgetown University Student Association and the Inter-school Academic Council, the administration is preparing to transition the way feedback is made available to an electronic format by fall 2012.

“The results are used for very important things — for promotion, tenure and merit increase, and used by the faculty to improve their courses based on the feedbacks,” University Registrar John Pierce said. “Now we hope it can

be used by some students during their course-selection process.”

The Office of the Registrar and the IAC hope to make the evaluations accessible to students directly through MyAccess during registration.

“It would be ideal to have professor evaluation results in MyAccess next to courses, so that when you select a course, there would be ‘view course description,’ ‘view textbook’ and also ‘view professor evaluation,’” IAC CoChair Jed Feiman (COL ’12) said.

Course evaluation results, arranged by course number in a single document, have been posted on the registrar’s website in PDF format since fall 2004.

“When we used to publish a little

booklet for class schedules, GUSA published a paper document of faculty evaluation results at the same time for preregistration for students to look at,” Pierce said.

When the Office of the Registar started to publish the class schedules online, GUSA requested that it do the same for faculty evaluations.

“Basically the format that it’s published in is the format that was created at the time when the results were published on paper. I just took the spread sheet format that [GUSA] had and put that up on the website,” Pierce said.

According to Feiman, few students are aware that evaluation results are available online, and the current format discourages students from using them.

“It is simply not practical to have to go on a different website, find the PDFs and sort through an Excel sheet with just numbers that no one really understands the meanings of,” Feiman said.

Feiman believes improving the availability of the faculty evaluations will give students a more accurate understanding of the courses and professors than that reviews available through sites like ratemyprofessors. com.

According to GUSA Secretary of Academic Affairs Jonathan Askonas (SFS ’13), a change to a more modern system will not be difficult. “Fundamentally, it revolves around the switch of a database to one that can be advertised to students as resource,”

Faculty Evaluations Coordinator Joseph Davies anticipates that making the evaluation results more accessible to students will encourage more undergraduates to complete course evaluations.

IAC Co-Chair Lucas Stratmann (SFS ’12) agreed that it is important for students to complete course evaluations to make the results posted on MyAccess more useful.

“The more students participate, the more accurate the idea you get from the faculty evaluations,” he said.

“There should be more awareness and utilization of the evaluations, so that students will know how taking five minutes to complete the evaluations will be beneficial to everyone.”

In Faculty Senate, Earle Talk Draws Mixed Response Paved Way for Women FLUKE, from A1

EARLE, from A1 all the end-of-year events were for men only.

Earle also believed that faculty should take a larger role in the university if Georgetown was to become a global research institution.

She helped to establish and write the bylaws of the faculty senate, the purpose of which was to give faculty members a voice in advising the university. “[The faculty] do not want merely to make recommendations, produce reports and write papers without consequence. We must become a contributing party to decisions,” Earle said in the October 1967 issue of the Georgetown Record.

Earle was elected the faculty senate’s first president in 1967 and remained involved for many years, all the while advocating for the recruitment and hiring of more female professors.

Professor of Government Emeritus Karl Cerny, who worked closely with Earle on the faculty senate, said that Earle’s involvement in the senate and engagement with the Georgetown community helped to strengthen the university’s reputation.

“When I first came here and when she first came here, Georgetown was in many ways a provincial place,” he said. “[Earle] played an invaluable role in establishing [Georgetown] as a major university.”

Former colleague and professor emeritus of

history Dorothy Brown, who arrived at Georgetown in 1966, said that the senate and other faculty organizations enhanced the role of female professors.

“Women had a lot of opportunities, because committees needed women in order to give a new voice. We got to be known very quickly around campus and found almost universal acceptance.”

In the July 1975 issue of the alumni magazine, “Georgetown Today,” Earle said that she did not consider herself a radical feminist but still believed that women should work hard to make their voices heard.

“Being too quiet won’t get you any place,” she wrote.

In 1989, Peter G. Kelly (COL ’59), one of Valerie’s former students, established a John Carroll Scholarship in honor of her work and legacy.

This need-based scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen admitted as political science majors.

Although Earle retired in 1986, she still was an important force on campus and continued to teach part-time through the School of Continuing Studies and the Association of Main Campus Retired Faculty from 2001 until her death. She maintained her independence despite being confined to a wheelchair and taught until the last few months of her life.

Cerny was at her side when she died on Aug. 20, 2004.

“She was a tower of strength, and a very dear friend,” he said.

reimbursement for the contraception that they need.”

In February, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Affordable Care Act would require religiously-affiliated universities to provide complete contraception coverage in the health insurance they offer. Backlash from the U.S. Conference of Bishops and other religious organizations prompted President Obama to instead require insurance companies, not religiously-affiliated organizations themselves, to pay for birth control.

However, opponents of the regulations argue that by forcing private insurance companies to cover contraceptives, the federal government is still placing the burden on religious institutions that pay or contribute to their employees’ private insurance plans.

In response to this criticism, Fluke noted that the university does not contribute to student insurance plans.

“I do want to point out that here at Georgetown, student insurance was never subsidized. It’s always been entirely paid for by students,” she said. “Our own premiums pay for our own insurance, and there’s

no institutional money involved.”

Fluke stressed that she does not feel that women should have to sacrifice their education in order to have access to affordable contraception.

“It seems wrong to ask female students to choose between their healthcare and the quality of their education,” she said. “If Georgetown is the best school you got into or offers you the best career opportunities, why should you as a female student have to not attend Georgetown and have to find somewhere else because of your healthcare needs?”

Though she has been divisive on the national stage, the audience in Gaston Hall was composed largely of students in support of Fluke and her role in advocating greater contraception coverage.

But her speaking appearance was not without controversy.

An open letter to University President John J. DeGioia prompted

by Fluke’s role in the debate was signed by 103 current and former students and alumni, calling on the university to clarify its position on the healthcare mandates.

According to Knights of Columbus member and letter signatory Kevin Sullivan (SFS ’14), Georgetown can comply with the regulations by fall 2012, file for a one-year

religious exemption or follow several other Catholic universities in suing the federal government over the perceived deprivation of religious liberty.

The letter is slated to be sent today to university administrators including DeGioia, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olsen and Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. Sullivan also reiterated DeGioia’s calls for thoughtful discussion of the issue.

“We also need informed civil discourse,” he said. “When there is uninformed civil discourse, we can’t get anywhere. We want the university to clarify its reaction to where it stands on the Health and Human Services mandate, because we believe it should be an informed discussion.”

After the event, Kieran Raval (COL ’13) criticized the Lecture Fund for the format of the event.

“There was very little dialogue today. ... It was Sandra speaking about her position and her activities, and obviously the moderator is very sympathetic,” he said.

Raval, who is Grand Knight of GU’s Knights of Columbus and also signed the open letter, suggested that a dialogue or panel format could have remedied the situation.

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Innovation to Be Focus of Summit INNOVATION, from A1 presentations and conversations.

Approximately 18 companies, including Dell, Grockit, HelloWallet and LivingSocial, will present during the event.

“The companies and presenters will hopefully expose participants to a wealth of new products and ideas,” planning committee member Hilary Cohen (COL ’14) wrote in an email. “However, there’s also a hope that they will help us collaborate and innovate to find solutions to real problems on campus.”

The “Day of Action,” the second day of the summit, will focus on discussing how to realistically implement the ideas proposed during the summit’s first day.

“I think [we invited outside companies] because we’ve heard a lot of feedback from students, staff and faculty that they’re interested in the ideas from these companies, and if it’s something that the community finds valuable, it hopefully is something that we can explore,” Wang said.

Co-Chair for Strategy and Events R. Scott Munro (COL ’12), former chief financial officer of Students of Georgetown, Inc., believes the summit is a signal of a new focus on technology at Georgetown.

“I think this summit represents a larger shift at Georgetown around really making our campus cutting edge, innovative and an ideal learning environment for us Hoyas,” he wrote in an email.

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Colleges Weigh Common Assessments Zosia Dunn

Special to The Hoya

Amid a growing movement for colleges to undergo national standardized assessments, Georgetown officials have said such efforts are misleading and narrow in scope.

In the past five years, a number of measures designed to gauge the quality of a college education through standardized test scores and other indicators have been developed. The largest of these, the Voluntary System of Accountability, is a project of 321 public four-year universities that compiles basic information about the participating schools into an online database called the “College Portrait.”

According to David Paris, the executive director of the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability, an organization that encourages higher education institutions to gather and publicize evidence of student learning, much of the enthusiasm for a standardized assessment of colleges stems from concerns about rising tuition costs amid a weak economy.

“People are worried about the value of a degree, especially given the increasing cost,” he said. “The pressure, such as it is, has been coming from state governments, rather than students or the federal government.”

But administrators at Georgetown, including Associate Provost Randy Bass, say that standardized assessments are often too general and fail to take into consideration goals of a particular course or department.

“There is a great danger unless the assessments are done in a collaborative and organic manner,” Bass wrote in an email. “The danger is when a common assessment or standardized test is applied and isn’t carefully aligned with [a] program’s goals. Then you end up judging faculty on an assessment that is unrelated to the goals of the course.”

In 2008, Georgetown joined 92 other schools in signing a statement issued by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education that argued against relying on simple, quantitative measures of program effectiveness.

Paris acknowledged this perspective.

“The concerns are that it will lead to comparisons of institutions that are not fair, that reflect the incoming skills of students rather than their growth, and that such an assessment does not help a school improve,” he explained.

However, Paris stressed that standardized assessments, if analyzed in context, can help paint a full picture of the value of an institution’s education, especially to prospective students.

“A standardized test is one indicator

of whether students have reached a certain level in skill or knowledge,” he said. “Such tests should be used in combination with other measures, especially those that look at actual student work. … Transparency is important, especially for current and prospective students.”

Georgetown has considered, and ultimately rejected, using a standardized tool called the Collegiate Learning Assessment. The CLA was the basis for a book, “Academically Adrift,” which asserted that college students learn nothing in their first two years of college.

According to Bass, other institutions that had used the test did not find it to be helpful.

“Using tests like the CLA is certainly one instrument and strategy,” he wrote.

“But an institution that is among their certified leaders would certainly have to have many assessment measures in place and they need not all be certified.”

Bass added that while the university has avoided using standardized tests, he would support the increased use of assessments which measure the comparative value of courses within one institution.

“We could do a better job of knowing these things. It would serve a lot of our objectives,” Bass wrote.

Key Steps Remain for SAFE Plans SAFE, from A1

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Invisible Children co-founder Bobby Bailey spoke about the response to the Kony 2012 video in ICC Monday. See article at thehoya.com.

was initially worried that working with the university would slow implementation efforts.

“I was concerned that the university would be slow and drag its feet in this whole process and that the timeline would get away from us and that we wouldn’t be able to install the solar panels by the summer,” Malkerson said. “But thus far they have worked as efficiently as the process allows.”

The SIPS Fund’s 12-member steering committee is also waiting for university approval before it can take its next steps.

According to steering committee chair Paige Lovejoy (COL ’12), the group, which was allocated $1.25 million, is working to have its bylaws approved by the administration.

The steering committee reviewed applications for SIPS’ seven-student executive committee this week and is currently selecting a board of directors which will consist of three undergraduate students and six members who are

either faculty or alumni.

The steering committee anticipates that SIPS will launch in the fall in accordance with the group’s original timeline.

Like Georgetown Energy, the team working on the New South Student Center has yet to select a firm with which to partner in construction efforts.

Malkerson, former GUSA President Mike Meaney (SFS ’12), former Vice President Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) and Senator Zach Singer (SFS ’15) are spearheading the implementation of plans for the New South Student Center renovation, which received $2.04 million to expand planned student space in the lower levels of the building.

The SAFE reform funding intends to add a new terrace along with increased study and lounge space to existing plans for renovations to the second story of New South Hall. The majority of the renovations are being financed by the university, and construction is slated to end in summer 2014.

According to Laverriere, the group

is selecting an architecture firm from among five candidates. Once the firm is chosen, the NSSC team will start a conversation about the student center’s design and function. The student committee plans to select a partner by the end of the semester.

“New South is something they’ve been trying to build for over a decade now,” Laverriere said. “SIPS is something that will make Georgetown unique in its service to D.C., and with Georgetown Energy, [the university has] been trying to do sustainable things for a long time.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson emphasized the importance of quickly implementing all of the projects funded by SAFE reform.

“The entire SAFE reform process and the implementation represent very thoughtful student initiative and commitment to strengthening Georgetown,” he wrote in an email. “All the projects funded … are excellent ways to serve student needs and interests, and we support each of them.”

PUZZLES BRAIN TEASERS The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents but were not brothers. How can this be possible?

Which two countries are the biggest oil importers to the United States?

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Unscramble each of the words; use the shaded letters to unscramble the final clue at the end.

MACEO _ _ _ _ _

PIMOU _ _ _ _ _

TOMUH _ _ _ _ _

EAYRDR _ _ _ _ _ _

Types of jokes often heard on an oil platform: “_ _ _ _ _” _ _ _ _ _

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS DECODAQUOTE:

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

-Bill Cosby

SUDOKU:

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-Winston Churchill

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GU Keeps Rolling Past Villanova Relay Teams Shine at Colonial Relays in Va. Kyle Franco Hoya Staff Writer

After securing two wins at Villanova this weekend, the Georgetown baseball team has already equaled last season’s conference win total and inched back up to .500.

Strong outings from senior Will Harris and sophomore Jack Vander Linden and a balanced attack at the plate have allowed the Hoyas (18-18, 5-7) to win four of their last five games and two of the last three against the Wildcats (19-18, 4-8).

Harris’ stifling six-inning performance – seven hits allowed and one unearned run – kicked off the weekend series Friday afternoon.

The Georgetown lineup supported their senior hurler well, scoring six runs over the first six innings.

Highlights during that stretch included a two-hit, two-RBI performance from junior Trevor Matern and a three-for-three day for junior Paul Bello. Bello’s fellow outfield-

ers junior Justin Leeson and senior Rand Ravnaas each added an RBI. Although Georgetown had the lead for most of the game, Villanova clawed back in the seventh and eighth innings to bring the score to 6-5. But the Wildcats couldn’t finish their comeback, and junior Charles Steinman tossed a perfect ninth to earn his third save of the year.

Steinman couldn’t replicate that performance Saturday, however, when he was called to close out a back-and-forth game that saw a total of 19 runs scored. The Hoyas tagged the Villanova bullpen for four runs in the eighth to take an 8-7 lead but had a horrendous tally of five errors in the bottom of the inning, coughing up three runs.

Led again by Matern, who had two RBIs, Georgetown added another run in the top of the ninth to bring the score to 10-9, but still fell short. Overall, eight Hoyas had at least one hit and an RBI. But the Blue and Gray bounced

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back well Sunday on the right arm of sophomore pitcher Jack Vander Linden. He threw seven strong innings and allowed only two runs on six hits. The righty also had four strikeouts.

Vander Linden also benefited from support on offense, which scored eight runs on 12 hits. Leading the charge were senior catcher Kevin Johnson and junior infielder Danny Poplawski, each of whom had two RBIs. Leeson, Matern, senior infielder Andy Lentz and sophomore outfielder Christian Venditti each chipped in an RBI. With a big lead, redshirt senior Pablo Vinent came on in the eighth in relief of Vander Linden and tossed two scoreless innings, sealing the 8-2 victory.

The Hoyas hope to stick to their winning ways when they meet Coppin State Wednesday in Baltimore.

The last time these two teams met, Georgetown won a 17-11 offensive shootout. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m.

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From an early age, athletes hear coaches preach that their players should only focus on the next game. Looking too far ahead is dangerous. But in track, only one contest matters: the national championships.

“The thing with outdoor track is that the biggest priority is to get people qualified for the NCAA first round,” Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said. “That’s the focus.”

And Henner has to be pleased that the Georgetown track and field team took another shot at qualifying runners for the June national championships this past weekend at the Mason Spring Invitational, hosted by George Mason.

On the surface, both the men’s and women’s 4x400 meter relay teams seemed to fare well, winning their respective events. The men’s squad of sophomore Hansel Akers, graduate students Toby Ulm and Kevin Wilson and senior Austin Perron finished with a time of 3:13.34. The women, whose team consisted of senior London Finley, sophomore Chelsea Cox and juniors Amanda Kimbers and Tenille Stoudenmire, clocked in at a time of 3:40.34.

But first place in April does not matter much when the goal is qualifying in June, and Henner was not fully satisfied with the teams’ performances. Only the 24 best relay times from the East Regional make it to nationals, and the Hoyas need to find more to make that cut.

“The men’s 4x4 [team] needs to get down to 3:08 to get in, and the women need to get down to 3:37 or so to make sure they’re in” Henner said.

As it stands, both relay teams are several seconds away from their goals and Henner think that their qualification is still in doubt.

“We’ve just got to pull it all together,” he said. “Amanda ran an incredible split, but Tenille ran almost three seconds slower than her best indoor time. And on the men’s side, either Hansel or Austin has to do a better job leading off.”

In the individual events, the women

showed that they have one of the nation’s best groups of runners. Kimbers finished second in the 100m dash with a time of 11.66 seconds, shaving over 0.3s from her performance at the Sun Angel Classic last weekend.

In the women’s 400m dash, Finley placed third, Stoudenmire finished in seventh and Green came in 10th with times of 55.11s, 56.00s and 57.2s respectively. Even though he was happy with the overall results, Henner again thought that their times could come down even more.

The women also took three of the top 10 spots in the 1500m run, as sophomore Madeline Chambers and freshmen Hannah Neczypor and Annamarie Maag took second, fifth, and seventh place, respectively. All three times should be good enough to qualify for the first round of the national championships, although that isn’t certain until the outdoor season has been completed.

On the men’s side, junior Bobby Peavey finished 34th out of 61 runners in the men’s 800m run, just one of five pedestrian finishes in the event for Georgetown. Peavey, who had a spectacular indoor season, has had a difficult time regaining his winter form.

“He was running great through the Big East indoor [championships], and then he faced some adversity,” Henner said. “He’s in really good shape, but you can’t let a few bumps knock you off the road like that.”

Meanwhile, classmate Andrew Springer is continuing his success from the indoor season, as he placed third in the men’s 1500m run with a time of 3:43.04. The Hoyas’ assistant coach, Michael Banks, won the event, clocking a time of 3:42.37, just ahead of Springer.

Georgetown’s track team will divide — and try to conquer — next weekend, heading to both coasts in pursuit of the lower times Henner wants. One group will travel to California to compete in the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and another will make the trip north to Princeton, N.J., for the Larry Ellis Invitational, taking place all day Friday and Saturday.

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New TV Deals to Bring Hoyas Fall Flat at Syracuse More Lucrative Contracts ORANGE, from A12

On Saturday, a federal bankruptcy $225 million deal.

Votto is only the fourth player in hiscourt approved owner Frank McCourt’s sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to a tory to sign a contract worth over $200 group led by NBA Hall of Famer Magic million, joining Alex Rodriguez (who has Johnson and former Washington Na- received two deals of that caliber), Albert tionals President Stan Kasten for a hefty Pujols and Prince Fielder. The deal has sent shockwaves through the league. It’s $2.15 billion.

After contentious divorce proceed- hard to find anyone who believes that ings with his estranged wife, McCourt Votto is worth almost as much as Rodrideclared bankruptcy in 2011 after he guez, Pujols and Fielder are, especially failed to meet baseball’s June 30 payroll given the fact that Votto had yet to hit the open market. requirements.

But judging the deal now is unsound.

But despite that failure, McCourt will make more than $100 million from the Votto’s contract figures are being comsale, due to the Dodgers’ surprisingly ex- pared to deals made in a different economic climate. As teams have orbitant price tag. The deeper pockets, contracts franchise had been apin the coming weeks, praised at $1.4 billion months and years will — high already — but likely be larger as a whole. the Dodgers were conJust like similar longsidered to be an even term commitments, stronger investment. though, it seems unlikeBut why? ly that a declining Votto In the wake of the at the end of his consale, the Dodgers expect tract will still be worth to sign a new television Preston Barclay $20 million a year, redeal approaching $4 gardless of baseball’s billion with Fox, Time overall financial condiWarner and others Sports — especially tion. Still, mid-market competing for exclusive baseball — are increas- teams often need blockbroadcast rights. While deals to hold onto this may on the surface ingly lucrative targets for buster their stars — just look at appear to be an extraorthe Cardinals and Brewdinarily high price, advertisers. ers’ losses of Pujols and sports — especially baseFielder, respectively. ball — are increasingly With more money for owners and lucrative targets for advertisers. Online television and recording has reduced players, though, should fans expect much of the live viewing market, so anything different? Not likely. Given sports is one of the last places advertis- the exclusivity of the product, it’s hard ers can capture the attention of viewers. to imagine that teams will cut ticket While the NFL has recently inked the or concession prices. Unfortunately for most valuable television deals, it is still those who fill the stands, the status quo limited by its 16-game schedule. Base- will likely remain.

Still, an influx of money is good news ball, on the other hand, offers a 162game season that spans a six-month for baseball. The expansion of playoffs period in a multitude of markets — in- has allowed more teams to remain in cluding a variety of age, gender and the hunt later in the year, and relatively ethnic demographics — and advertisers small-market clubs, like the Rays, are fielding competitive teams, so baseball have started to take notice.

As a result, more TV money is flow- is in a solid position and should have a ing into Major League Baseball, already bright future. yielding noticeable effects on the game.

As a result, the Cincinnati Reds, in an- Preston Barclay is a sophomore in the ticipation of a new rights deal, signed McDonough School of Business. TURNING franchise player Joey Votto to a 10-year, TWO IN 202 appears every Tuesday.

chance on offense to build some momentum, [whereas] I thought they did a better job of that across the board,” Fried said.

The Orange jumped out to an early 5-1 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game, forcing the Hoyas to play catch-up for the rest of the game.

“I think when you’re playing catch-up, you start to do some things that you normally wouldn’t do, and you press a little bit,” Fried said. “And instead of staying relaxed and focusing on just chipping away, we got a little bit tentative and did some things that were uncharacteristic.”

The Blue and Gray, who appeared relaxed and confident in practices leading up to the Syracuse game, seemed fully capable of taking out the No. 2 team in the coun-

try for the second time this season.

They had already beaten then-No. 2 North Carolina in mid-March.

Unfortunately for Fried’s squad, the confidence going into the match failed to translate into sufficient execution on the field.

“It’s a wake-up call, obviously.

There are things we need to focus on and work on, and unfortunately sometimes you need a loss to refocus yourselves. So we’re going to look at it that way: an opportunity to refocus on some certain things,” Fried said.

All is far from lost for the Hoyas, though, who have the opportunity to control their destiny with two conference games still remaining in Big East play. The Big East championship is still very much within reach.

Georgetown has this week off, which means the team will have plenty of time to recover and move on from the tough loss.

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Junior midfielder Kelsi Bozel scored twice Saturday.

Next up for the Hoyas is Notre Dame at home this Saturday, with the opening draw scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

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Collapse Extends Losing Streak IRISH, from A12 may have been, a win was not meant to be for the Hoyas.

After almost six scoreless minutes to start the third quarter, the Irish scored their second goal of the game to cut the deficit to 5-2, which marked the beginning of the end for the Hoyas. Another Notre Dame goal less than two minutes later left Georgetown clinging to a precarious twogoal advantage, and a defensive breakdown by the Hoyas led to a buzzer-beater that put the visitors down by only one heading into the final quarter.

Gone was the Georgetown team that had dominated long spells of possession in the first half thanks to its hustle, faceoff

wins and forced turnovers. The team looked lost and seemingly in disbelief at its sharp turn of fortune.

“I think our offense did a great job in the first half [of] possessing the ball. You see what happens when we possess the ball: We went up 5-1 and were getting the stops we needed,” senior goalkeeper Matt Winter said. “[But] Notre Dame possessed the ball in the second half, slowly chipped away and took the lead.”

The Blue and Gray woke up a bit in the fourth with a pair of goals, but they still could not manage to keep up with the Irish, who tallied 5 in the final frame.

This second straight emotional loss, following an overtime heartbreaker against St.

John’s, will be sure to sting. But with No. 14 Syracuse up next at the Carrier Dome, the team cannot afford to dwell on this loss for long.

Urick admitted that his upperclassmen were frustrated with the team’s effort and called on his seniors to step up as the season moves into the final two games. But for now, the Hoyas are focused on recovering and focusing on the impending match with their archrivals.

“We’ll have to take [Monday] off — I think that’s probably a given — and go back to work for obviously another good team next week,” Urick said.

The game against Syracuse is scheduled for Saturday at 3 p.m., with television coverage on ESPNU.

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The Olympic Conundrum Thompson Leaves Mixed Legacy I Wade’s words came off badly largely have always had a lot of respect for Dwyane Wade. The Heat shooting because struggling amateur athletes guard flew under the radar for years everywhere keep their mouth shut, deafter being selected behind the likes of spite financial difficulties, because they LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and know what really matters is competing Chris Bosh in the star-studded 2003 NBA for their country. But that doesn’t make draft. He won a championship with the his argument invalid. The Olympics team that drafted him. His loyalty is were originally intended as a contest of something that must be admired and to amateur athletes. There was no LeBron this day I still feel the Miami Heat are James, no Sidney Crosby and no Lionel Wade’s team — no matter how many Messi. Competitors didn’t have to worry about tiring themselves out, because first-quarter shots LeBron makes.

But sometimes athletes make bad de- they didn’t have to return to a profescisions; after all, $107.5 million can buy sional organization and play meaningyou cars and houses, but it can’t buy ful games for eight months out of the year. But times have you common sense. Last changed. If the Olymweek, when asked about pics, especially when it the upcoming summer comes to team sports, Olympics in London, are going to include the Wade made the controbest athletes in the world versial statement that — which, honestly, is Olympic athletes should what we all want — then be compensated for their maybe those competitors service to their country. should be compensated.

The argument is not a Dwyane Wade may not new one. After all, swimArik Parnass need the money, but othmers, rowers, gymnasts ers surely do. As Wade and other non-profesOrganizers are noted, there is a simisional athletes train for problem in college years with limited fundstriving for the best lar sports. With valuable ing to do their country scholarships, TV conproud. They are not comof both worlds. tracts and shoe deals at pensated, and it isn’t unstake, college sports have common to hear stories become more a business of Olympians sleeping on uncles’ couches while away from home than a manifestation of school pride to train with the rest of their team. The and a test of college supremacy.

The problem with both the Olympics problem, however, is that Wade will never be one of these people. Because and college sports is that organizers are he earns millions of dollars each year to striving for the best of both worlds. They play basketball, Wade’s comments came want to maintain the purity of the origioff as spoiled, selfish and ignorant, and nal games while still making as large a despite later damage control, his repu- profit as possible. I can’t say there’s an tation took a serious hit. His argument easy solution. If there were, even the that many Team USA Wade jerseys are controversial NCAA and International sold as a result of his participation is a Olympic Committee would have found valid one. But the first rule of being a it long ago. The only thing I can suggest multimillionaire goes something like is that both organizations must make this: Never complain about not having a choice. Either recognize their specenough money. It was the right message, tacles for what they are — industries — and compensate their athletes, or strip but it came from the wrong messenger.

To be fair, though, at least Wade plays away all of the advertising and memorafor his country. Steve Nash has been bilia and revert back to the days when somewhat of pariah in Canada since the only reward was pride. Then maybe 2007, when he decided to stop playing Wade and others can sit in their manfor the national team. Canada’s basket- sions without complaint. ball team has struggled in the last few years and hasn’t qualified for the Olym- Arik Parnass is a freshman in the College.

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“Just found that out from you,” he said, smiling.

FINDING HIS PLACE Georgetown fans have carried on a love-hate relationship with Thompson over the last two years. The L.A. native — known as “Hollywood” to Hoyas faithful — always knew how to put on a show. His on-court heroics were paired with an infectious sense of humor that occasionally manifested itself in interviews — most notably when he once paused, headshot style, before answering a question.

During his sophomore year, Georgetown, then undefeated and ranked No. 9 in the country, was in the midst of a back-andforth battle with Temple. With his team down by one with five seconds left, Thompson took — and missed — a difficult, contested layup instead of passing the ball to leading scorer Austin Freeman or wide-open forward Julian Vaughn. As a result, the Hoyas dropped in the national polls and missed their shot at going undefeated in the nation’s toughest non-conference slate. A month later, Thompson found himself giving up his starting spot to then-freshman Nate Lubick.

But just when his season could have gone south, things changed for Thompson. He was superb off the bench, leading the team with a 52 percent mark from the field and ranking second with 4.4 rebounds per game. Thompson ended the year second in the Big East in three-point shooting, and scored a career-high 26 points in Georgetown’s NCAA tournament loss to VCU. Following that loss, the draft drama began. Thompson’s two classmates on the team — Vee Sanford and Jerrelle Benimon — announced their decision to transfer, and Thompson declared for the NBA draft, but didn’t hire an agent.

Thompson went through workouts with NBA teams, reportedly impressing several scouts. But just hours before the deadline to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility, Head Coach John Thompson III announced Hollywood would return to the Hilltop.

“They told me they wanted to see me get stronger, take more of a leadership role on the team, to become more of a threat offensively and become a lockdown defender,” Thompson said of the advice he received from NBA scouts.

THE LAST SEASON The lanky forward added a little more weight and upped his rebounding average to 5.5 boards per game in the 2011-12 campaign, third-best on the team.

He was the Hoyas’ best outside shooter and finished second on the team in scoring while playing more than 1,000 minutes in the season. Only Clark, the team captain, played more minutes.

Thompson’s NBA stock was at an all-time high during the winter, when Thompson burned Top-25 teams Alabama and Marquette with last-second threes, helping the surprising Hoyas to a national ranking of their own. He disappeared from the headlines as the season wore on, though, as Sims emerged as the centerpiece of the Georgetown offense. Still, he elected to declare for the draft.

Thompson’s departure leaves next year’s team with no seniors.

Thompson III loses his top three scorers in Clark, Thompson and Sims, who accounted for more than 43 percent of the team’s points, rebounds, assists and steals.

Of course, last year’s lastminute decision by Thompson to withdraw his name from the draft just a few hours before the deadline prompted most fans to believe the junior wouldn’t be long for the Hilltop.

“I talked to him about the de-

cision, and he gave me his blessing,” Thompson said of Thompson III. “When the time came, I decided to go.”

Thompson is a great shooter in his own right, but his skills are particularly impressive given his 6-foot-8 frame which would allow him play shooting guard or small forward in the NBA, should he make a roster.

On that subject, Thompson says he is not looking at where he is projected to be drafted. Several mock drafts have him going in the second round, along with Sims. It’s slightly better than last year, when Thompson was projected to go undrafted.

MOVING ON Despite his personal improvement and promising draft outlook, Thompson wasn’t completely happy with his final collegiate campaign.

“Yes and no,” he said when asked about whether he was content about 2011-2012. “Progress is always good, but as far as where we left off and where I wanted us to leave off — I had big expectations for us, and we didn’t quite get it.”

Thompson said he had not watched any more basketball since the loss, and didn’t particularly care about N.C. State’s near-defeat of Kansas and status as a projected top-10 team in 2012-2013.

“There’s no comfort in losing,” he said.

The player who inspired admiration and frustration — sometimes in equal parts — in the Hoya faithful will depart to Las Vegas later to begin workouts in preparation for the draft and won’t return to the Hilltop. Thompson, unsurprisingly, didn’t and doesn’t let the criticism affect him and seems ready for the next phase of his life.

“I really want to thank everybody with me at Georgetown,” he said. “[It was a] great three and half, basically four years.”

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We just didn’t close the deal.

We had opportunities. ... [but we] didn’t get it done.

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Goals the Syracuse women’s lacrosse team scored Saturday against Georgetown.

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Hollywood Nights

The enigmatic but talented forward reflects on his days on the Hilltop Michael Palmer Hoya Staff Writer

In March 2012, junior forward Hollis Thompson declared for the NBA draft, ending his career as a Hoya. Because this was his second draft declaration, Thompson has forfeited his remained year of college eligibility. Before leaving the Hilltop to train for impending draft workouts, Thompson sat down with The Hoya for an exclusive interview.

HIGH EXPECTATIONS “Georgetown, they take everything seriously. The Georgetown team — a lot of the guys were similar to me, focusing on school and basketball,” he said.

“When I came to Georgetown, it [had] the Ivy League feel, so outside of basketball, I could still work hard and focus in the classroom.”

Ultimately, Georgetown’s “Ivy League feel” combined with the basketball program’s dominance — the Hoyas had just made a run to the Final Four that spring — was what led Thompson to the Hilltop. Then a four-star prospect and the No. 63 recruit in the 2009 class, Thompson chose the Hoyas over UCLA, Duke and USC. Thompson arrived at Georgetown for the spring semester in 2009, having graduated from Loyola High

School in December so that he could start taking classes and begin practicing with the team. Thompson is just two classes away from completing his degree, a B.A. in Economics, and plans on eventually completing his studies on the Hilltop.

Thompson followed on the heels of a promising 2008 recruiting class that featured future teammates Greg Monroe, Henry Sims and Jason Clark. ThenHoyas Roy Hibbert, Jonathan Wallace and DaJaun Summers were leading a charge toward another Big East title, and the Blue and Gray faithful were riding high.

The team wound up underachieving down the stretch that year, setting an unfortunate precedent for the next three years. Although Georgetown never missed the NCAA tournament during Thompson’s time on the Hilltop, they won just one game and were upset by double-digit seeds each time. Following the most recent tournament loss — a game Thompson single-handedly kept the Hoyas in by scoring 23 points — he could not hide the mixture of anger and despair on his face in the press conference afterward.

The 6-foot-8 junior leaves as the most efficient threepoint shooter in program history, although Thompson claimed ignorance when asked about that feat.

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Hoyas Fall Apart in Second Half Syracuse Blowout Ends Four-Game Win Streak Ryan Bacic

Hoya Staff Writer

Having just fallen out of the rankings and coming off two straight conference losses, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team found itself with a chance to turn things around on Saturday afternoon in its match against current

Big East leader Notre Dame (9-1, 4-0 Big East). For one half, at least, the Hoyas didn’t back down from the challenge.

Then the second half started.

Holding a big lead at the break, the Blue and Gray (5-6, 1-3 Big East) came completely undone in the second half, allowing six unanswered goals from the Fighting Irish and

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Junior midfielder Jason McFadden tallied one goal, one assist and one ground ball in the Hoyas’ 9-7 loss to Notre Dame Sunday.

letting a four-goal advantage dissolve into a two-goal deficit. Georgetown eventually dropped its third straight game, 9-7.

“I think you’ve got to give Notre Dame credit. They never lost their poise, [and] they showed why they’re one of the better teams in the country. They did what they needed to do,” said Georgetown Head Coach Dave Urick. “We notre dame 9 just didn’t close the Georgetown 7 deal. We had opportunities, [but we] didn’t get it done.”

Urick could not have asked for a better start to the game for his squad, which showed great energy in the early going and scrapped its way to a 2-1 lead at the end of the first quarter. Three straight Georgetown goals in the second quarter gave the Hoyas a surprising 5-1 lead halfway through.

“I think that it’s indicative of what they’re capable of,” Urick said of the team’s play in the first half, which was arguably the best 30 minutes of the season for the Blue and Gray.

Urick speculated that the impressive effort may have continued if not for the intense heat coupled with a fairly shallow midfield rotation. Whatever the case See IRISH, A10

Ryan Bacic

Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 14 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team knew exactly what to expect Saturday from second-ranked Syracuse, (10-2, 4-0 Big East) but never managed to figure out how to stop them. The Hoyas fell to the Orange, 22-11, in what was an uneven affair right from the get-go.

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Senior midfielder Erin Lovett scored three goals against Syracuse.

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The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Georgetown (8-5, 4-2 Big East), which had been riding an emotional high and playing some of its best lacrosse of the season entering Saturday’s contest.

No team had syracuse 22 a p p r o a c h e d Georgetown by Georgetown 11 any closer than six goals during the Blue and Gray’s fourgame winning streak, and the Hoyas had demolished Cincinnati by 18 just over a week ago.

But this time around, it was the Blue and Gray who found themselves on the wrong side of a lopsided final, entering unfamiliar territory for the first time in several weeks.

“It doesn’t feel great, obviously, especially after watching the film and realizing that we played with them and [that] it came down to two stats: our shooting percentage and their shooting percentage,” Georgetown Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

The statistic that Fried referenced was glaring in the game’s final box score.

Syracuse converted its shots at nearly a 69 percent rate, while the Hoyas went a much more pedestrian 35.5 percent.

“We just never really gave ourselves a See ORANGE, A10