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TUESDAY, april 23, 2013

BACK ON TRACK

Women’s lacrosse won two straight games to follow up an April 14 loss.

COMMENTARY The NRA’s control over the Senate allowed money to block gun reform.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A3

PROFESSIONALISM Despite a national trend, GU professors still see students as professional.

BIBS FOR BOSTON Students sold marathon bibs to raise $2,780 for Boston victims.

NEWS, A4

NEWS, A4

DC Mayor Makes Case For Budget

Relocation For HFSC Stirs Groups Some wary of storage, practice plans for New South construction

Gray joined at Ward 2 event by possible 2014 challenger Jack Evans

Madison Ashley & Caroline Welch

Mallika Sen

Hoya Staff Writers

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With less than six weeks until construction begins on the Healey Family Student Center, student groups currently housed in the New South space received a memorandum from the Center for Student Programs notifying them of space available in other areas on campus to supplement storage and recreational space.

Although the memo provided longterm solutions for storage, it offered only short-term options for practice space for organizations and rehearsal space for performing groups.

The fencing team, club triathlon, dance groups and other organizations that use equipment would be housed in the LXR Multipurpose Room and would follow a schedule similar to that of Riverside Lounge in New South. However, these groups would have to schedule practices in compliance with the dormitory’s nighttime quiet hours.

Mary Lim (SFS ’13), a dancer with Flip Dis Funk Dat, said that LXR would not be an adequate alternative to Riverside See RELOCATION, A6

gram Coordinator for Sustainability Audrey Stewart. Morey said that this structure has provided insufficient resources for these programs.

The creation of the Office of Sustainability was first recommended in March 2012 by the Visions for a Sustainable Georgetown Initiative, a project led by small focus groups of undergraduate students and administrators that brainstormed ways the university could become more sustainable in both the immediate and long-term future.

The study reported that an Office of Sustainability could provide advice on administrative and studentrun sustainability projects, keep the

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray touted Washington’s economic rebound while presenting his budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 to residents of Ward 2 at the Charles Sumner School on Saturday.

According to Gray, the $10.1 billion budget proposal is indicative of the District’s renewed fiscal health because D.C. has accumulated a $1.5 billion surplus after two years of net revenue following three years of decline during the recession. The unemployment rate has also improved, with 30,000 new private sector jobs compensating for a net loss of 1,100 government jobs in the city.

The mayor explained how his proposed budget compares to that in other major cities.

“We are a state, a county, a city and a school district all rolled into one,” Gray said, encouraging residents to vote in today’s budget autonomy resolution that would give the District more control over its tax dollars from the federal government.

Gray was joined at the town hall meeting by Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who said in a February interview with The Hoya that he plans on challenging Gray for the mayor’s office in November 2014.

Neither Gray nor Evans has officially filed paperwork for the next mayoral election and neither discussed the upcoming race at the meeting.

Gray’s budget supports his One City Action Plan, which aims to grow and diversify D.C.’s economy, improving quality of life for D.C. residents.

During the town hall, Evans introduced new budget proposals that would directly benefit Ward 2. For example, Stead Park

by Dupont Circle will be renovated with $1.6 million by fiscal year 2015, and the Georgetown Department of Motor Vehicles in Georgetown Park mall’s reopening, slated for October 2013, will be fully funded at $2.7 million.

In addition, the budget dedicated $400 million to the D.C. Streetcar project, which will have a line from Minnesota Avenue to the Georgetown waterfront. The university and the Georgetown Business Improvement District have both voiced a desire to have the line expanded closer to the university.

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FUTURE RIVALS?

Councilmember Jack Evans explains proposals in the D.C. budget to a Ward 2 audience Saturday.

Evans has said he intends to challenge Mayor Vincent Gray, left, for the mayor’s office in 2014.

New Accreditation Office of Sustainability Standards for MSB To Debut in July Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

After finishing its five-year maintenance report in 2014, the McDonough School of Business will tweak its mission statement and practices to meet new accreditation standards, which emphasize global commerce as a component of business education.

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International, which accredits MSB every five years, implemented the changes April 8 after over two years of research, having last updated its standards in 2012.

“What we’re really asking business schools to do is to expand their mission statements to better differentiate a business school from other schools and focus on their distinctive abilities and programs,” said Robert Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AASCB. The MSB was given the opportunity to either implement the changes immediately or delay them after the five-year report was complete. School adminis-

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trators chose the latter option to ensure continuity in the report and will wait to evaluate any changes to the MSB until after its completion.

“We will begin working with the new standards after the 2014 review process,” MSB Deputy Dean Pietra Rivoli wrote in an email.

The accreditation changes are primarily directed at international business schools and include broadening a school’s mission statement to focus on academic impact, increasing engagement among faculty, students and business professionals and ensuring that intellectual contributions consist of business management theory and teaching.

“In this context of constant change, the new accreditation standards will not only validate quality management education and impactful research, but also help business schools provide the leadership, skills and knowledge necessary to the communities they serve,” AACSB Blue Ribbon Committee on Accreditation Quality Chair Richard Sorensen wrote in a press release April 9.

According to Sorensen, the new guidelines will provide business schools increased flexibility in defining their own mission statements and in meeting the unique needs of their students and faculty.

“The new environment calls for schools to focus on their distinctive mission and value proposition,” Sorensen wrote. “Students, employers and society as a whole expect a great deal from business schools — especially See ACCREDITATION, A7

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Georgetown is set to launch a comprehensive Office of Sustainability on July 1 that will centralize student and administration’s sustainability initiatives, Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey announced at yesterday’s Hoya Roundtable.

“We want to establish sustainability as a way of life here and meet President [John J.] DeGioia’s sustainability commitments to the city,” Morey said at the event. “We want to reduce our carbon footprint by 50 percent by the year 2020.”

All university sustainability initiatives are currently overseen by Pro-

SCS Prepares to Move Downtown Alexandra Douglas Special to The Hoya

The School of Continuing Studies will move to its new location in Chinatown in downtown Washington, D.C., this fall, over a year after signing a 15-year lease in July 2012.

According to Lauralyn Lee, associate vice president of community engagement and strategic initiatives, the move from M Street to a 91,000 square-foot campus at 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW was chosen for convenience, as it has parking close by, is located near the Circulator bus route and is accessible by all Metro lines.

SCS administrators declined to comment on the price of the lease.

The search for a new location began about four years ago due to higher enrollment than expected in its master’s programs, See SCS, A5 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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The new Chinatown campus for the School of Continuing Studies was leased for 15 years last July. Administrators say the move will begin this coming fall.

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OPINION

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

THE VERDICT

C EDITORIALS C A Safe Response toTragedy C Founded January 14, 1920

While the United States has become familiar with terrorist threats, the bombing in Boston introduced a new dynamic to attacks on American soil. With past attacks, symbols of financial and military power were targets, but now with the attacks at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Americans in celebration have fallen in the crosshairs. And after all major disasters, from the attacks on Sept.

11, 2001, to Hurricane Katrina, reform is expected to address areas shown to be in need of improvement.

When Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier was gunned downed by one of the alleged Boston Marathon attackers, terrorism in an urban area spilled over onto a college campus. Georgetown considered the ramifications of the attacks on Boston, and the Department of Public Safety announced that they would be heightening security measures, including having an increased number of police officers on campus and greater coordination with the

Metropolitan Police Department. This somewhat tempered move was an appropriate one.

Heightening campus security even further — by arming DPS officers, for example — would have been inappropriate and would have caused more harm than good. Arming DPS officers would not only involve a drastic structural overhaul, as each officer would have to undergo the appropriate training, but it could also foster a sense of unease among the student body. The sight of a DPS officer with a handgun, whether he or she is breaking up a party or simply patrolling campus, may sooner incite a feeling of concern or panic than security.

Continuously evaluating safety measures is a necessary task to ensure a well-prepared campus. In the wake of tragedies, maintaining a balance between security and liberty becomes even more challenging, and college communities — and the rest of the nation — are best suited with a response that is proactive, not reactive.

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Green Buildings — Regents Hall was awarded a LEED Gold Certificate from the U.S. Green Building Council, joining the Hariri Building, which received LEED Silver status in 2010.

Chasing the Night — GUSA unanimously passed a bill Sunday proposing the extension of weekend Dupont and Rosslyn GUTS bus hours to 1 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Riverside Revamp — The National Park Service has proposed a Georgetown waterfront boathouse that could accommodate several university and high school rowing programs with new buildings on both sides of the Key Bridge.

Sneeze No More — Levels of airborne pollen grains per cubic meter reached a high of almost 3,000 last Thursday, before declining this weekend to less than 300, according to the Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab. Stormy Summer — Georgetown Patch predicts that the MidAtlantic region will see around four major hurricanes this summer, based on a survey of meteorological forecasts.

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State-of-the-Art Teaching While college professors of certain disciplines have inhabited both laboratories and classrooms for ages, there is a common concern that professors’ focus on one of these areas deprives them of time for and attention to the other.

That concern suggests that teaching assistants will deliver lectures while research professors pursue publication in journals and demote undergraduate students to a secondary interest. Though perhaps these worries could in some cases be valid, they overlook the enormous benefits gained from interaction between research and teaching.

Not all professors balance their research priorities equally with their classroom responsibilities, but many bridge this gap by encouraging students to participate in their projects. When a professor engages students in research, it furthers the academic pursuits of both.

Besides serving as a nice resume addition, a research position allows students to gar-

ner in-depth knowledge of a specific subject and develop more personal relationships with Georgetown professors. It also provides useful instruction in the complexities of research protocol and ethics.

The President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar Teachers, which is currently accepting nominations, is an important recognition of the work that Georgetown professors do to integrate teaching and personal scholarship. The administration has done well by allowing students and other community members to nominate professors for this honor. Strengthened by its roots in student input, the award will provide three Georgetown professors with three annual grants of $10,000 each.

The best professors create fluidity between their research and their roles as educators, both in the classroom and through collaboration on research projects. Student input on this award reinforces the value of facilitating these connections.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Megan Schmidt

Class of 2018.5 Most high school seniors take for granted that they will move into their college dorms in August with the rest of their graduating class. Yet at other universities, including Middlebury College, Brandeis University and Northeastern University, a portion of the student body is admitted on the condition that they matriculate at the beginning of spring semester.

This admissions system is undertaken by colleges primarily for financial reasons, as it helps fill dorms emptied by students who transfer or study abroad, balancing and preserving tuition revenue. And while schools like Middlebury take great care to present the option as an opportunity and not a slight, many schools generally utilize second-semester admission as a way to simply increase tuition revenue by admitting a student who has potential but may not be on par with those who receive an offer of direct matriculation. As more universities move to adopt this more economical admissions process, Georgetown should weigh the consid-

erable drawbacks before following suit.

Spring semester students would have less time to adjust to freshman year — a reality the administration would need to account for by implementing appropriate programs, like a separate New Student Orientation for second-semester entrants.

Furthermore, the transition into college, difficult enough already, can be even more problematic when done in the midst of already-acclimated first years. It would breed a division between the semester-old freshmen and new faces on the Hilltop. Instituting second-semester admissions could even run the risk of having a group of students be seen by others as second-tier, especially given Georgetown’s competitive academic atmosphere.

Although second-semester admission could benefit students by giving them academic and extracurricular freedom during the fall for community service, travel or independent study, instituting such a policy at Georgetown would be out of place.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

THE ETHNICITY OF FEMININTY

Racial Bias Impedes Justice I

t has been over a year since the murder of Trayvon Martin, the Floridian teenage boy who was gunned down by George Zimmerman. The case drew national attention, especially in regard to Florida’s stand your ground law, which permits a person to use force for self-defense when there is belief of a threat. According to Zimmerman, Martin looked suspicious and threatening, which justified Zimmerman’s decision to pull the trigger. In Zimmerman’s view, the law permitted Martin’s murder.

People across the country wondered what was suspicious about Martin. Was it the pack of Skittles or Arizona Iced Tea he was carrying? Perhaps it was his hoodie? Or maybe it was what he had in common with the late Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo: the color of his skin.

Disappointingly, in this day and age, discriminatory treatment goes beyond untimely deaths. For every senseless homicide of an innocent boy, there are countless black and Hispanic men stopped and frisked by law enforcement in cities like New York, New Orleans and Baltimore. As noted by Hillary Crosley of The Root in her article “Stop and Frisk Across America,” in New York, about 89 percent of people stopped and frisked are black or Hispanic, while a mere 10 percent are white. This is not to say all of those stopped were criminals, but it does explain why one in three black men go to jail: They have an unfair disadvantage.

Discriminatory laws do not only affect people of a certain color but also those whose cultures, customs

Inequitable practices in American law enforcement senselessly fling stigmas on groups of people. and religions deviate from those of mainstream America. For example, the Patriot Act was implemented in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. While at the time this may have sounded reasonable to a country that was shaken to its core, it unintentionally promoted widespread discrimination against Middle-Eastern people and Muslims.

These statistics demonstrate that race and ethnicity are tied to these disparities. Clearly not all black or Hispanic men are more liable to commit crimes than their white counterparts and not every Muslim is in cahoots with Al Qaeda, but inequitable practices in American law enforcement senselessly fling stigmas on groups of people. These laws perpetuate discrimination across the country.

CNN reporter John King’s misleading news description of a suspect in last week’s Boston bombings as a “dark-skinned male” thwarted progress in finding the suspects and outraged people across the country. In his article in The Root “Describing a Suspect: A Few Tips for Mr. King,” Michael E. Ross condemns King, describing how “in a breathless, misguided attempt to break significant news, one of CNN’s top dogs did nothing more than give the already nervous people of Boston a pretext for considering every dark-skinned male they encountered in the days to come to be a suspect in Monday’s violence.

To go by King’s broad description, the man who won the marathon was a suspect himself.” Though not every described suspect is innocent, we as a nation need a way to weed out the guilty without relying on race or culture.

Khadijah Davis is a sophomore in the School of Nursing & Health Studies. This is the final appearance of THE ETHNICITY OF FEMININITY this semester.

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VIEWPOINT • Reusterholz

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Khadijah Davis

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Returning to Reagan-era Reason

’m a proud registered Republican. I firmly believe that the GOP platform offers the best solution for America’s future and that past Republican policies, namely those of the Reagan administration, demonstrate the strength of conservatism. The Republican Party has achieved incredible things, from freeing African-Americans from slavery and Eastern Europe from communism to advancing unprecedented economic wealth and opportunity.

I feel compelled, however, to assert that without massive change, history may view 2013 as the year the Republican Party doomed itself to extinction.

The recent vote on the ManchinToomey proposal regarding gun control and the upcoming Gang of Eight immigration deal have put the GOP at a crossroads. We can become the party of Rick Santorum, Mark Levin and Steve King who seem to define conservatism as a dogmatic intransience where even the most minor of disagreements turns a conservative into a RINO, or Republican in name only. Alternatively, we can follow the lead of Chris Christie, John McCain and Peter King, who are trying to steer the party back to its Reaganera doctrines, when issues were judged by their merit rather than against a conservative litmus-test or an NRA scorecard. To survive, the GOP cannot view someone who agrees with the party 80 percent of the time as 20 percent its enemy. GOP politicians need to remember that compromise means making deals, not holding the country hostage to get your way.

The party’s longtime white demographic is shrinking. When Ronald Reagan won re-election in 1984 white voters comprised about 90 percent of the electorate. In 2016, the white proportion

GOP politicians need to remember that compromise means making deals, not holding the country hostage. will drop to roughly 70 percent, thereby necessitating Republican outreach to minorities, young voters and women, groups that traditionally vote Democrat. Yet some on the right seem insistent on further alienating these groups, who have been turned off by dismissive rhetoric on important social issues. While lambasting the Gang of Eight immigration deal, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) went so far as to state that demographics weren’t an issue for Republicans when election data shows this to be false. In his 2004 campaign, former President George W. Bush struck an inclusive tone and won 44 percent of the Latino vote as a result. Conversely, Mitt Romney called for “self-deportation” and won only 27 percent. Had he performed as well as Bush with Latino voters, he would have won Ohio,

Florida, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado; he would be our president.

Some might confuse my advocacy as an effort to “moderate” the GOP, or, in effect, create a second liberal party. But unless you consider Ronald Reagan a liberal, this is not the case. Republicans need not moderate their principles but rather understand that most issues fall in a gray area. Republicans are right to stand up for the Second Amendment, but voting for the Manchin-Toomey proposal would not have been an abandonment of conservatism. Since when is it conservative to believe in allowing criminals and maniacs to buy guns? Voting against the bill, which polling showed had the support of 90 percent of the public, wasn’t conservative — it was just stupid.

In fact, six Republicans voted to expand background checks in 1999

but opposed the amendment on Wednesday. This rigid right-wing caricaturizes conservatism.

Already, talk radio is dismissing the Gang of Eight immigration deal as blanket amnesty when in reality it would secure the border and force illegal immigrants to wait more than 10 years before earning citizenship. Ironically, most Republicans demand that these immigrants undergo background checks –– yes, the same checks that are “useless” for gunbuyers –– before they can earn legal status. Deporting someone who has lived here and worked for 25 years is not conservative, yet that’s what the rigid right wants.

The GOP can avoid extinction by returning to its roots. I believe its core principles of economic freedom, personal liberty and a strong America are inherently popular.

We Republicans oppose big government and support personal freedom because we have faith that the American people can run their own lives better than government can. Unfortunately, the newly rigid right that seemingly enjoys alienating people with horrendous votes (Manchin-Toomey), dismissive rhetoric (“self-deportation”) and stupid comments (Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s statement, “Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that’s something God intended to happen”) has hijacked the conservative movement. Their incompetence and lack of intelligence will destroy the Republican Party.

Faced with these crossroads the GOP can further alienate voters and disappear, or it can choose to return to reasonable conservatism and thrive once again.

SCOTT REUSTERHOLZ is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

LETTERS OF THE LAW

VIEWPOINT • Sullivan

Gosnell Brings Focus To Abortion Horrors

NRA Cash Silences Senators on Guns

hy should human life be Live Action, has documented simirespected? As part of Life lar violations at numerous Planned Week, Georgetown Uni- Parenthood facilities. This comes versity Right to Life is holding a se- immediately after a Planned Parries of events attempting to answer enthood representative testifying this question. While the answer in Florida against a born-alive inmight seem simple at first, the na- fants protection act in March was tional dialogue — or noticeable lack unable to state whether or not the thereof — surrounding the trial of ending of a child’s life following a abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell and failed abortion should be considhis “house of horrors” demonstrates ered murder. how most commentators miss the But what if abortion was made enclearest point of all: abortion kills tirely safe, legal and affordable? Gosliving human beings with rights. nell’s “house of horrors” would still As great minds on both sides of be considered horrible, but simply the abortion debate race to publi- as a break from the abortion norm. cize their opinions on the implica- The same abortions, through diftions of this trial, the conversation ferent methods, would still be hapgets bogged down in the muck and pening in every facility — and more mire of politically charged women’s often than ever. This is the moral of rights rhetoric. If we are to escape the story. a vitriolic spiral into meaningWhy is the act of a saline injection, less shouting matches, we need to meant to chemically kill the child in get back to the basics. This is why the womb, different than Gosnell’s Conor Friedermethods, sdorf’s April when most 12 article in of the time This case differs only in that the abortion The Atlantic, “Why Dr. Kerwould be succhildren were mit Gosnell’s cessful and executed outside the womb, a dead fetus Trial Should Be a Frontwould be deinstead of in it.

Page Story,” is livered? If we a must-read. provide a safe In his article, abortion, does Friedersdorf provides an incredibly this change the nature and result extensive account of the Gosnell of the act? In a dramatic fashion, story, giving a detailed and objective Gosnell’s methods revealed to the overview of failure in governmental American public exactly what hapregulation, appalling abuse of fe- pens behind the doors of abortion male patients and, most important- facilities: the killing of children. This ly, sickening executions of infants case differs only in that the children who survived the abortion proce- were summarily executed outside of dure. Throughout Friedersdorf’s ex- the womb in a gruesome fashion, inplanation, he does not once explicit- stead of the less bloody but equally ly state what implications should be fatal practices used to kill children drawn. He does not say that abortion in the womb. should be made illegal, he does not This is the question that we are argue for why abortion needs to be asked to consider when discussing safe and regulated and he does not the issue of human life, especially decry the violation of female repro- during Life Week. Is the abortion of a ductive rights. Instead, the pro-life fetus truly different than the execuconclusion is evident in his objective tion of a man or woman sentenced account itself. to death? Gosnell’s trial should reThis conclusion is represented mind us that simplicity will lead by the charges brought before Gos- us to the answer. It is imperative for nell: seven accounts of first-degree the protection of human rights that murder. These charges do not take we put aside the rhetoric and vitriol into account the likely hundreds of that fogs our vision on this fundaother botched late-term abortions mentally important issue. Through that Gosnell completed by snipping this fog, over 50 million lives in the the spinal cords of live infants — of- United States have already been endten as they cried aloud or squirmed ed in abortion. The several hundred — according to testimonies of his lives ended by Gosnell, both in and medical staff. It is highly possible out of the womb, shed the light that that similarly horrifying methods we need — if we only open our eyes. are practiced in abortion facilities across the country. Anti-abortion KEVIN SULLIVAN is a junior in the activist Lila Rose’s organization, School of Foreign Service.

bout four months ago, Adam tive voters. Then, in 2008, the SuLanza killed 26 people, in- preme Court issued a disastrously cluding 20 children, at Sandy misguided opinion affirming 5-4 Hook Elementary School in New- the right of individual Americans town, Conn. You remember the to own handguns. Yet even in that tragedy — but at the same time, you ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia’s don’t. You remember the facts, the majority opinion explicitly noted picture of the children evacuating that “reasonable restrictions” on the school, where you were when semiautomatic weapons, magazine you heard the news. But you might limits and Americans with a history not remember the sinking feeling in of crime or mental instability were the pit of your stomach as the terror constitutionally valid. settled in, the tremor in your voice Still, the deceptions persist. The as you talked about the massacre, NRA is an incredibly powerful and the fight to hold back tears. That well-funded group; the politicians part you might have forgotten. It’s whose election campaigns it financhuman nature. es can’t risk alienating it. And so, the That’s the part that the National public keeps hearing more about Rifle Association wanted you to for- their supposed Second Amendment get as the Senate debated the recent right to own an AR-15, to buy a gun gun control bill. If after committing a the urgency of that felony or to “stand day had remained your ground” and with America and shoot anyone they with its senators, deem to be dangerthe measure might ous. Our legislators actually have passed. might not personThe amendment ally believe in this was modest; its purinterpretation, but pose was to mandate they do believe in Mark Joseph Stern background checks two things: money for all gun sales. It and votes. For them, We must be brave wouldn’t have done the cost of human enough, but it would about confronting gun lives is trumped by have saved lives. That the cost of a re-elecviolence. was too much for the tion campaign.

NRA, however, which But it’s worth helped to sink the bill last Wednes- taking a moment to consider these day. The pro-gun group claims that human lives. The NRA won’t. Most virtually any form of gun control is politicians won’t. In the end, it falls unconstitutional. It would trample, on us. The gun debate will continue they assert, the Second Amendment to rage on, but the victims of gun to the Constitution. crimes will no longer be heard. Their Let us be clear on one point: The voices were silenced. Now, we must Second Amendment does not guar- speak for them. antee private ownership of guns.

We don’t have much time to It ensures that the army — the spend with each other. It is the “well-regulated militia” — will have legacy of “gun rights” groups that the right “to keep and bear arms.” this already too-brief time has That’s it. It’s not confusing or am- been shortened and shattered for biguous or opaque. Between the so many families. To pretend that amendment’s adoption in 1791 and the Constitution condones their 2008, the Supreme Court did not twisted crusade is an insult to its once seriously question this defini- founders. In the wake of Newtown, tion. This includes conservative jus- of Aurora, of Virginia Tech and of tices, who dismissed any notion to Columbine, we must be brave about the contrary as “fraud.” Neither did confronting gun violence. The Secacademics, legal theorists, legisla- ond Amendment is not a suicide tors or presidents. There was no rea- pact; it serves as no impediment to son to — the amendment’s meaning gun control. The real impediment is is obvious. the cowardice of obstructionist poliOnly after the rise of the private ticians dependent on NRA support. gun industry in the 1970s and That relationship is the true suicide 1980s — and that of its lobbying pact, and it’s killing our country arm, the NRA — did our judges one massacre at a time. begin to question this self-evident idea. Politicians got in on the game, Mark Stern is a senior in the using “the right to bear arms” as a College. This is the final appearwedge issue to win over conserva- ance of LETTERS OF THE LAW.

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GU Student Etiquette Intact Despite National Trend CHRISTOPHER ZAWORA Hoya Staff Writer

Although students sometimes show up to class in sweatpants, Georgetown faculty generally disagreed with the results of a recent survey that characterized college students as unprofessional.

The report, released by the Center for Professional Excellence at York College in January 2013, found that approximately onethird of surveyed professors believed that less than 50 percent of their students had qualities associated with being professional in the workplace.

According to the report, professors defined professionalism as necessitating interpersonal skills, a strong work ethic, focus and dependability. The study also added several indicators for professionalism, including accepting responsibility for actions, being prepared and demonstrating good reading and writing skills. On a scale from one to five, with five meaning that the quality was very prevalent among students, the mean score that professors gave for such indicators was slightly under three.

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Carol Lancaster defined professionalism in a similar manner.

“You need to be good writer — preferably an articulate speaker — you need to be able to make decisions on priorities, [and] you need to communicate your ideas without offending others,” Lancaster said. “I think all of those things … students pick up in the classroom.”

The report stated that professors think that student professionalism has decreased in recent years, noting an increasing sense of entitlement as a major cause.

Some Georgetown faculty members, however, disagreed with the findings.

“I think our students do leave here with the skills to be professional in the workspace, and they acquit themselves pretty well in the workplace,” Georgetown College Dean Chester Gillis said.

Lancaster noted that in her time at Georgetown, students have increasingly been willing to articulate opinions and have improved in writing abilities.

“I don’t see students as being less professional,” Lancaster said.

“I feel they are more prepared than they have ever been. Students often come in here as ado-

lescents and leave here as young men and women.”

Nevertheless, there are areas where faculty said Georgetown students show a lack of professionalism, such as the use of technology in the classroom. The York study cited technological etiquette as especially lacking

“I don’t see students as being less professional.”

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among undergraduates today.

In particular, Gillis lamented students’ tendency to check Facebook during class.

“That’s unacceptable in my view,” Gillis said.

Faculty members also admitted to seeing the sense of entitlement mentioned in the survey present in the Georgetown student body.

“Our culture condones, ‘Everybody gets a trophy.’ … That’s not the way it is in real life,” Gillis said. “Even in a fine institution

like Georgetown, it’s not all teeth of a comb. Everybody is not identical, and they do not perform identically.”

According to Gillis, students’ willingness to return late from spring and Easter breaks reflects this sense of entitlement.

“It’s not alright. It’s not acceptable,” Gillis said. “In the professional world, you won’t do that.”

Psychology professor Steven Sabat attributed this sense of entitlement to the pressure put on students to achieve good grades.

“I think a lot of people here are beyond reason intense about things like grades. Grades are the most important thing, and they have less fun learning because of that,” Sabat said. “It’s almost as if they have gotten into this habit of worrying.”

However, Sabat and other faculty members said that the sense of entitlement is only present in a small portion of the student body.

“I don’t think most people are like, ‘Here I am; give me an A,’” Sabat said.

Patricia Cloonan, chair of the health systems administration department in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, said that the majority of Georgetown students

seem to be grateful to be at the university, adding that Georgetown’s location offers students an introduction to professionalism early on.

“We hear from our students that one of the reasons they came to Georgetown was to be in the nation’s capital with its many possibilities for personal and professional growth,” Cloonan said.

“That motivation makes our students aware of life after Georgetown and really opens the door for faculty mentorship when it comes to professional development.”

Gillis agreed, adding that student involvement in internships encourages professionalism. Cawley Career Center Executive Director Mike Schaub noted that this attitude at school and internships transfers to workplace behavior.

“Employers generally have very positive things to say about students’ level of professionalism and preparedness in the workplace,” Schaub wrote in an email.

“Most of our graduating seniors experienced different work environments through their professional internships, and these work experiences prepare our students well for employment after graduation.”

After Bombings, Students Sell Marathon Bibs for Boston EMILY SUMMIT Hoya Staff Writer

After bombings at the Boston Marathon last Monday turned Patriots’ Day into a tragedy, a group of Georgetown students banded together to raise money for victims and their families.

Bibs for Boston raised $2,780 April 18 by selling 800 paper bibs resembling those worn in marathons and printed with Boston’s 617 area code.

Danny Lohrfink (MSB ’14) and Vince Korth (MSB ’14) came up with the idea while watching the news Monday night.

“I couldn’t stop going back to CNN.com and reading up on stories,” Lohrfink said. “I said, ‘We should do something,’ and I

thought, ‘Well, it’s a marathon: let’s sell bibs.’ As I was talking, Vince was already making the design.”

Korth and Lohrfink reached out to two friends from Boston, Derek Embry (MSB ’15) and Freeman Condon (NHS ’14), to help with the cause. Condon and Embry rallied a dozen students to join them on the project.

For Lohrfink, the motivation for this project hit close to home.

“The reason why I was so interested in the first place was [because] my cousin was a block away at the time, heard it all happen, saw people bloody running towards her,” Lohrfink said. “Because we’re so close, I was moved by it and wanted to do something.”

By using Georgetown printers

and purchasing limited supplies at Kinkos, the group was able to keep costs under $20 and maximize the amount of money that would go directly to the charity.

The group plans to donate all funds through the New England Patriots website to a foundation organized by Patriots owner Robert Kraft. After the bombings, Kraft announced that he would match donations the foundation receives in its first two weeks up to $100,000.

As a result, Bibs for Boston had effectively raised $5,560.

Kyle O’Donnell (COL ’14), a student from Danvers, Mass., bought one of the 800 bibs that the group sold.

“I think that when it comes to a marathon, the bib is the most iconic thing that you can associate with

it. It’s just a sign of support for all runners out there, especially the ones related to this incident, and it’s something you can wear with pride and really show your support,” O’Donnell said.

Within the first 15 minutes of tabling, Bibs for Boston had raised $200. The group sold all of the bibs they had printed and received several extra donations as well.

O’Donnell noted that in addition to financially supporting the bombing’s victims and their families, the fundraising efforts had a therapeutic value for Georgetown students.

“Since I’m far away from home and I wasn’t there to feel the situation, it was nice to see both students from the Boston area and students not from Boston come together in this unfortunate event,” he said.

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After Move, SCS to Offer New Programs, Facilities SCS, from A1 SCS Interim Dean Walter Rankin said. Moving graduate students to a downtown campus is also a component of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement.

“Originally, we thought that our public relations and corporate communications [program] would have maybe 25 to 30 students, and that program has been extremely popular with close to 300 students,” Rankin said. “We really needed to find a new location where we will have classrooms and spaces for students to meet.”

However, SCS Senior Associate Dean Jim Parenti expressed concerns that SCS students could miss out on the traditional Georgetown experience with the new downtown location.

“It’s a shiny new building, and it’s sometimes harder to get a feel for Georgetown, where you already have these fantastic older brick-and-mortar buildings,” Parenti said.

“When you get into the new space, you want to keep the feeling of … what it means to be a Georgetown student.”

The new SCS facilities will include study rooms, a 130-person auditorium, a digital media lab, a library resource center, a bookstore and several lounge and meeting areas. In addition, the campus incorporates features not available on the main campus, including an Apple computer lab and a broadcast studio that will allow faculty to record live videos. All classrooms are also fitted with Echo360 Lecture Capture, which both SCS and the main campus currently use.

Parenti expressed confidence that the new building will carry on the Georgetown tradition.

“I think that this new location is all about new possibilities for our students, state-ofthe-art facilities — really an opportunity to learn and study in a world-class environment in the fastest and most productive area in the city,” Parenti said.

Parenti added that the new location would allow graduate programs to engage more fully with social justice by being in close contact with service organizations in the neighborhood.

SCS Chief of Staff Christina Roberts said that the influx of 1,100 degree and 2,000 non-degree students, 300 faculty and 100 administrators and staff into the neighborhood would change the nature of the area, especially its commerce.

“As far as outreach to the community,

we’ve been fortunate to be welcomed by the Business Improvement District,” Roberts said. “They’ve welcomed Georgetown with open arms, looking for ways to cooperate with the community in terms of meeting space, events and industry connections for our students.”

Rankin noted that the LivingSocial headquarters, the Urban Land Institute, National Public Radio and the Newseum, all located nearby, tie specifically into various programs in the SCS. Lee said that the SCS administration hopes that its new downtown location will mirror the success of the Georgetown University Law Center. Although the law school originally began with one building, it has since developed into a multi-building campus by Capitol Hill.

“It will really benefit the students and also the city as we continue to enhance our footprint there,” Lee said. “We believe the enhanced presence downtown will benefit our students, who will appreciate the accessible urban location and will bring further vibrancy and opportunities for growth to an area of the city that is quickly developing.”

In addition to expanding its downtown presence, SCS will add two master’s programs in urban and regional planning and emergency and disaster management.

According to Rankin, SCS chose these programs because they involve fast-growing, high-profile industries that often require master’s degrees for career advancement.

SCS, which utilizes practice-oriented curriculums for its programs, will continue its commitment to applied education and research opportunities through these two programs. For example, the emergency and disaster management program will partner with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, immersing students in the field before graduation.

Rankin said that students would also benefit from studying abroad at the School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar.

“Both these programs fit terrifically well with the movement of the entire world,” Rankin said. “Since we already have a campus in Qatar, we can look at the potential risks of hosting something like the World Cup, or how to prepare for the tragedy in Boston, how to prepare for multicultural issues and look at how they’re building an entire infrastructure in Qatar.”

Hoya Staff Writer Penny Hung contributed reporting.

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Club Engages GED Candidates Emily Summit Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown students will teach business and entrepreneurial skills to GED diploma candidates in Columbia Heights through Venture Forward, a new club focused on education and mentorship that officially launched this month.

Venture Forward aims to build relationships between Georgetown students and the Latin American Youth Center, a program in Columbia Heights that already works with recent GED diploma recipients not enrolled in college and young adults working toward GED certificates. LAYC students range from 16- to 25-year-olds, and the program also enrolls them in information technology and health care courses.

“I thought the young adults in the community could talk about the issues they had growing up, talk about the things they would have loved to have,” Venture Forward founder Sam Gyory (COL ’15) said.

“Basically, the idea behind it is that they’ve all grown up in Washington, D.C., and they know the social issues in [the area] better than anyone at Georgetown does.”

In the fall semester, Venture For-

ward will focus on education, while the group will implement these lessons in D.C. next spring.

“You get to apply your skills — the skills that you’ve learned in the first part of this course and the skills you’ve learned in school,” Gyory said. “Any type of talents you have, you will learn to apply.”

Though Georgetown students will learn from the education targeted at Columbia Heights-area students, the club primarily aims to empower LAYC students and to stress the importance of college.

“I think even though they’re in this program, it can still kind of become just mindless going to school every day and getting to a point where you’re like, ‘What’s the point of going to this?’” Gyory said. “This is a way to keep inspiring them to be like ‘College is important,’ ... [that] these are the [necessary] skills ... and how college can help with that.”

Club member Brett Treacy (MSB ’15) agreed.

“To me, education isn’t as much about what you learn as what you do with it,” Treacy said.

Gyory hopes that Venture Forward will help students break out of the “Georgetown bubble.”

“Georgetown students could

learn more about the city that they’re in. ... I felt that my freshman year, [I didn’t] know anything about Washington,” Gyory said.

Club member Betsy Alfano (MSB ’15) said that she was excited to work with members of the D.C. community.

“I’m excited to take my classroom skills off campus and meet members of the D.C. community,” Alfano said. “There is an incredible entrepreneurial spirit in Washington, and Venture Forward’s ultimate goal is to grow and cultivate the passions and dreams of others.”

Gyory said he decided to start Venture Forward after leaving campus through the D.C. Schools Project and Grassroot Hoyas.

“What I really like is that it will be fostering a relationship with someone in the community [who] is your own age,” Gyory said. “This is something that the programs here don’t really have — a lot of it is youth and you’re the mentor, but it’s not really a collaborative relationship where you’re equal to the person you’re working with.”

Venture Forward will hold another meeting before the end of the semester to establish plans for the fall.

New Attempt to Expand GUTS Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

The GUSA senate unanimously passed a resolution Sunday night that called for extending the Rosslyn, Wisconsin Avenue and Dupont Circle Metro Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle weekend bus schedules.

The bill is similar to a failed 2011 attempt by the GUSA senate to implement “Night Owl” and “Early Bird” shuttles to Dupont Circle. The bill, though passed unanimously by the senate, was not supported by the administration due to funding constraints.

Sponsored by Georgetown University Student Association senator Mary Beth Brosnihan (SFS ’13), this year’s resolution seeks to expand

service to the three locations on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. with at least one stop every hour.

“If [the university is] not supporting transportation options, then we are not able to enjoy [the rest of D.C.]” Brosnihan said. “Transportation should not be a reason why students are not exploring the community.”

The GUTS bus weekend schedule currently provides a Saturday service to Rosslyn and Dupont Circle Metro, with approximately one stop every hour and a half, ending around 6 p.m. The GUTS bus service does not run at all on Sunday.

In meetings with the Office of Transportation Management, Brosnihan said that funding for the extended bus service has yet to be

determined.

Brosnihan’s original bill only included extensions of the Dupont and Rosslyn shuttles. The senate amended the resolution to call for GUTS bus shuttles to Wisconsin Avenue from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. — a move that Brosnihan called “idealist,” but hoped it would be a jumping-off point for discussions with administration.

“The resolution is intended to start a conversation with administrators,” Senate Speaker George Spyropoulos (COL ’14) said.

GUSA senator Nicolò Donà Dalle Rose (SFS ’15) shared a similarly optimistic view of the resolution.

“This would be a good signal to show that expanded trips to Dupont on Saturday nights is not enough,” Dalle Rose said.

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“It’s a privilege and a duty to bear witness.”

“You mocked this dedication of the old guys who wanted to glorify war.”

“It wasn’t about glorifying war at all.”

“This is the central, unifying observance of Australian tradition.”

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Molly DePippo Hoya Staff Writer

Journalist Geraldine Brooks explained the effect Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Day had on her career as a war correspondent Monday.

Sponsored by the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies and the Embassy of Australia, the lecture, “The Meaning of Home,” was part of

the annual series honoring ANZAC Day, a holiday observed by Australians and New Zealanders to honor their countries’ soldiers who died in war.

Brooks, an Australian native, started out as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. After earning her master’s degree at Columbia University, she later became a war correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Africa, the Middle East and the

Balkans.

Brooks said that national opinion of ANZAC Day has changed since it was largely disregarded by her generation, which had strong anti-war sentiments.

Brooks, whose father fought for Australia in World War II, said her most memorable experience of the holiday was covering the ANZAC Day march for The Sydney Morning Herald.

MCAT May Change Gen Eds Mallika Sen Hoya Staff Writer

To compensate for changes in the Medical College Admission Test, students are pushing for the addition of a social science general education requirement for science majors accompanied by a decrease in general education requirements in other subjects.

In addition to a new critical analysis and reasoning skills section, the MCAT will include a section about psychological, social and biological foundations of behavior, to go into effect in 2015.

The Association of American Medical Colleges, which administers the MCAT, added the section to account for physicians’ need to understand how people think and interact.

Science majors are currently exempt from the social science requirement expected of students in Georgetown College and the School of Nursing & Health Studies. Because pre-med students will now be tested on knowledge gained through introductory sociology and psychology courses, a social science requirement would ensure that students are properly

prepared for the next section.

“It would make sense to have the social science requirement count for science majors, but to reduce the general education requirements in another area to compensate for the MCAT changes,” Riya Modi (COL ’16), a member of the College Academic Council, said. She is drafting a proposal to change the general education requirements for science majors.

However, Edward Meyertholen, assistant dean and director of prehealth programs, pointed out that not all pre-med students major in science. Non-science College majors still must fulfill a social science requirement.

“The vast majority has already taken [psychology]. I don’t think it’ll be affecting … their plans as much,” he said. “At the end, it’s going to be pretty easy for them to get the knowledge that is necessary.”

Meyertholen said that he thought the change was unnecessary, but added that because no one has actually taken the new exam, it remains unclear as to how to meet the needs of students.

Meyertholen stressed the im-

portance of Georgetown’s independent control of curriculum.

“I don’t think medical schools should be dictating to undergraduate schools what the requirements are,” Meyertholen said.

The MCAT changes will begin to affect only those planning on entering medical school in the fall of 2016, or current freshmen.

“As it is now, the MCAT doesn’t include what [it] will when I’m taking [it],” biology major Claire Ruane (COL ’16) said. “It will be beneficial for me to have taken those classes, so I think that makes sense for them to change the requirements … but it will be a big challenge to fit those classes into an already very crowded schedule.”

Human science major Ashwin Karanam (NHS ’13), who applied to medical school, said there was not a lot of space for electives in the science curriculum.

“There’s not a lot flexibility [but] I don’t think it’s necessary to change the requirements for all sciences. The vast majority of science majors are not pre-med,” Karanam said. “I would have taken sociology and psychology instead of classes just for fun.”

Lounge.

“Because LXR is very similar to a living -room situation, it is not very fitting for dance groups. I don’t know how many [groups] are in LXR, but it doesn’t seem very appropriate.” Lim said. “LXR seems suboptimal.”

Performance groups that do not require equipment would be housed in the Center Grill between Makom and Cosi in the Leavey Center. Groups using the storage spaces located in New South would move to new space on the mezzanine level of Regents Hall. As a result of extra funding allocated by the Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee from the student activity fee, the space in Regents would also feature secure storage units.

Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14), GUSA senior counselor and director of student space, praised the storage options offered by the CSP. “I think the new storage space is a huge win for the groups that are being kicked out, but also all the student groups in general,” Appelbaum said. “The storage space is huge, bigger than any other storage space on campus, bigger than the New South space.”

Morgan McDaniel (SFS ’13), chair of the Center for Social Justice Advisory Board for Student Organizations, was glad that her groups’ needs would be met.

“We’re not left out of the plan in that we’re included in the permanent storage solutions, so our groups will be included in that storage facility, which we’re very happy about,” McDaniel said.

The plan also would not provide long-

term solutions for CSJ organizations that use New South as storage and office space.

Instead, these groups would be relocated to Poulton Hall, where the CSJ is based.

“It’s probably not going to be possible to have a permanent office space for CSJ groups throughout the next year, so we’re looking into some options for temporary office space, possibly in the fourth floor of the Leavey Center,” McDaniel said.

Maya Chaudhuri (SFS ’13), a member of the CSJ Advisory Board, expressed frustration at the lack of permanent space available for CSJ groups.

“It’s definitely frustrating not to be allocated space for CSJ groups, but I don’t think this is a problem that rose today with the memo … it’s part of a larger structural problem,” she said. “We think that if student groups that are social justice groups lose this space, no one is going to work towards replacing it. Our worry is that it’s a longterm loss and not just a temporary loss.”

Chaudhuri said this was especially troubling in light of the increased interest in CSJ programming.

“There’s a huge increase in the number of people starting CSJ groups and participating in existing groups, and a big part of the problem is that we have more students interested in social justice than we have space allocated in [Poulton Hall],” Chaudhuri said.

The memo did not provide specific solutions for performing arts groups that use the New South space, and instead directed them to report to the Department of Performing Arts for their new space assignments.

Hoya Staff Writer Natasha Khan contributed reporting.

One Year Later, Office Of Sustainability Proceeds front of strategic planning for the university,” GUSA Secretary of Sustainabiluniversity accountable for its Climate ity Gabe Pincus (SFS ’14) said. “Whereas Action Plan, create a sustainability re- sustainability projects have been impleview board for university operations mented somewhat arbitrarily in the and hold related campus-wide events. past, I expect the Office of SustainabilMorey’s description of the responsi- ity to systematize the planning process bilities of the office largely mirrored so that sustainability pervades, or at the ones outlined in the study. The of- least is considered for, each new projfice would be charged with reducing ect.” the overlapping bureaucratic processes Former GUSA President Clara Gusnow associated with the university’s tafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President Vail sustainability projects.

Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) intended to cre“While … details are ate the office during still being worked out, “The office their term but saw limI would anticipate that ited progress on this one of the roles of the symbolizes goal before transitionoffice will be as a faing leadership to curcilitator, [a] convener Georgetown’s rent GUSA President and a resource to help commitment to Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and integrate sustainabilVice President Adam ity across the whole sustainability.”

Ramadan (SFS ’14). campus to help the “Vail and I took ofuniversity meet our fice with a lot of ambiGabe Pincus (Sfs ’14) sustainability committious goals. We worked GUSA Secretary of Sustainability ments,” Stewart wrote really hard and accomin an email. plished a lot, but the working process The intention is to give students a sig- in the university administration somenificant voice in initiatives undertaken times takes longer than one term of the by the new office, following the prec- student government,” Gustafson said. edent set by the current Sustainability Pincus, a holdover from Gustafson Advisory Committee. This group was and Kohnert-Yount’s term, expressed established in 2007 and is currently optimism about the office’s potential chaired by Morey with representation to make the university a greener camby the Georgetown University Student pus.

Association, student environmental “The office symbolizes Georgetown’s groups and Georgetown faculty. growing commitment to sustainabil“[The Office of Sustainability] will ity on the whole,” he said. “The office provide a consistent means for students will provide the basis for coordination to propose sustainability projects and and expansion and lay the foundation see them through to completion … and for future sustainability initiatives at bring environmental issues to the fore- Georgetown.”

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MAYOR, from A1 In an Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E meeting in October 2011, Gray said he sided with neighbors as opposed to the university in Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan, noting that enrollment caps should remain in order to mitigate neighbor concerns. Evans was also a public opponent of the campus plan and endorsed proposals to move students back on campus.

Furthermore, Gray said that over the next six years, $259 million will be spent on a Ward 2 capital plan, which would include money for infrastructure and public areas such as parks.

Concerning other areas of D.C., Gray expressed optimism that new healthcare training facilities in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center would encourage D.C. residents to fill jobs in the city. Currently, approximately 30 percent of city jobs are held by residents.

In addition, D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi will retire in June with a $417 million budget surplus.

During the town hall, Gandhi added that the city has also undergone significant financial improvements recently, indicated by the 1,200 people moving into the city each month. He contrasted this with the mass exodus from the city during the 1980s and 1990s.

To continue this growth, city officials have also strived to reduce retail leakage. For example, Washington, D.C.’s first Costco opened Nov. 29. Moreover, the projected budget surplus for the coming year is $190 million, which will ensure that no new taxes will be introduced.

Overall, the budget called for a $100 million investment in affordable housing in the District. It also aims to renovate and replace lost federal funds for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Other plans include hospital renovations for increased healthcare access, a new facility for D.C. archives, parks renovations, im-

Colette Gilner Special to The Hoya

The Hoya’s summer and fall 2013 editorial and publishing staff began their terms this Saturday after selections throughout April.

Former Campus News Editor Emma Hinchliffe (COL ’15) was selected to be executive editor.

“I’m thrilled to step into this role and look forward to working with the editorial team next semester,” Hinchliffe said.

Hunter Main (COL ’15), former copy chief, is replacing Victoria Edel (COL ’14) as managing editor.

“I’m excited to work with my good friend Emma,” Main said. “I also hope to continue the tradition set by my predecessor in helping the paper run as smoothly as possible.”

Edel will now be The Hoya’s first online

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray discusses his budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 at a Ward 2 town hall meeting Saturday. provements to public libraries, senior citizen care and a fund to provide grants to nonprofits for community service.

Despite Gray’s optimism regarding the budget, Garrison Elementary School parent Dana Miller, who attended the town hall, expressed disappointment in the city administration’s promises regarding the school system. “[Garrison Elementary] was to be modernized in 2012. Now we’re slated to be modernized in 2014, 2015, not to be completed until 2022,” Miller said. “We’re trying to talk to everyone. It’s a huge step for us to be given a name of someone at a high level who has the potential to make a change.”

In response to that, however, Gray said that projects which have been in limbo for a long time will soon be completed.

As an example, Gray cited the Skyland Town Center project in Southeast D.C., which has been in limbo since 1989.

Dail Doucette, president of the board of Dupont Circle Main Street, an economic progress organization, also came to the meeting with concerns but left with a more positive outlook.

“The rest of the city may be flourishing, but we are not,” Doucette said. “… Nobody noticed. … I wanted to see what the program was, I wanted to hear it explained. … The plan has finite goals that are meetable.”

This meeting marked the fifth in Gray’s ward-by-ward town hall series, attempting to better educate and engage city residents.

“We’re working as hard as we can to be as transparent as we can,” Gray said. “If there’s someone who says ‘I don’t know what’s

managing editor, overseeing the expansion of The Hoya’s digital media presence.

“It’s my job to come up with better and more innovative ways to get the job done online, recognizing that a lot of our readership does come online,” Edel said.

Evan Hollander (SFS ’14) was elected as chair of The Hoya’s Board of Directors for a year-long term.

“I’m excited about the opportunity to help lead The Hoya for the upcoming year,” Hollander said. “Like many in the print media industry, we face both challenges and opportunities. I am particularly excited about helping to build our online presence, improve the experience of our staff and reach out to our alumni.”

Editor-in-Chief Danny Funt (COL ’14) and General Manager Mary Nancy Walter (COL ’14) will stay on for the second semester of their year-long terms through November.

MSB Postpones Changes To Accreditation Standards ACCREDITATION, from A1 when it comes to addressing the most challenging issues of the world.”

Moreover, the AACSB changes are designed to reflect the increasingly global nature of business education, including the proliferation of online business courses.

“There is a growing business case among both students and employers for online learning, experiential learning and for making an impact,” Rivoli wrote. “The new standards take into account the diverse ways in which business schools from cultures around the world achieve their goals.”

The changes will also place increased emphasis on faculty members with real world experiences, as opposed to merely business education.

Marketing professor Marlene Towns said that she believed it was important for business school professors to have experience outside the classroom.

“I definitely feel like having real-world experience adds a certain richness to our classroom discussion,” Towns said. “Georgetown has always had a great balance of both theory and practice — many of my colleagues have worked

in consulting or as entrepreneurs.”

Bharat Kaku, a visiting associate professor in the MSB, agreed but cautioned that experience and research are equally important aspects in a good business professor.

“I guess there are some advantages in that these people could talk about their experiences,” Kaku said. “On the other hand, they might not be as up to date on current research.”

Nevertheless, Rivoli said that she did not see a dramatic difference between the new standards and old ones.

“The new standards provide additional flexibility to address changes that have happened in the field of business education over the last decade,” Rivoli wrote. “They now want to see how business education impacts society and how it can create innovation in business practices.”

Overall, Rivoli stressed the importance of the five-year accreditation cycle.

“Whether using the old or the new standards, we feel that the five-year accreditation maintenance process is valuable to the school,” Rivoli wrote. “It is important to step back and evaluate ourselves — and seek external input — to see if we are meeting and exceeding our teaching and learning goals.”

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Turning Two in the 202

CLUB HOCKEY

Youth Call-Ups a Mixed Bag Senior Ryder the Star

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very season, it seems, a new wave of young talent catches fire in spring training, igniting the use of the everpopular cliche, “hope springs eternal,” as fans dream not only of a successful season but also of the emergence of their team’s next great star.

Last year, the Nationals’ Bryce Harper and the Angels’ Mike Trout took the baseball world by storm with unprecedented rookie seasons. Not only did they each win their leagues’ respective rookie of the year awards, but also Trout was baseball’s true most valuable player, even if Miguel Cabrera may have been the recipient of the official MVP award.

Still, while the Nationals were baseball’s best team during the 2012 regular season, Trout’s Angels failed to advance into October. Despite hitting 30 home runs while snagging 49 stolen bases, Trout’s season could have been even better. Like Washington did with Harper, Los Angeles kept its phenom sheltered in the minor leagues until April 28, when Trout finally replaced veteran Bobby Abreu and ignited a team that had dwelled in the cellar with a 6-14 record. Even though the Angels had baseball’s best record after Trout’s arrival, they finished four games behind Texas and Baltimore for a wildcard berth.

Having Trout start the season with the big club might have pushed the team over the top, but unfortunately for Angels fans, these decisions are not strictly baseball-oriented.

In today’s environment, complex policies in MLB’s collective bargaining agreement between franchises and the players’ association encourage delaying the call-ups of top prospects with financial benefits and savings for teams. By putting off the debuts of guys like Harper and Trout, teams will have an extra season of protection before the players are eligible for free agency, which

occurs after they have completed six years of MLB service.

Halting the arrival of young players also routinely saves teams millions of dollars within that six-year time period as well. After three years, players are eligible for salary arbitration, landing them larger salaries than they earned in their first three seasons.

In 2013, we have already seen many clubs make decisive choices regarding their best prospects.

The Rays, notorious for their financial prudency, have stored away top hitting prospect Wil My-

Preston Barclay

Delaying prospects’ debuts staves off free agency for one more year. ers, whom they received in their blockbuster trade with the Royals over the winter. For a team off to a slow 8-10 start that had scored the eighth-fewest runs in the majors prior to Monday’s game, Myers’ absence is certainly harming Tampa Bay’s MLB product.

There are also three decisions that have gained significant attention due to their contrasting disregard of financial implications. The Red Sox, Twins and Marlins called upon the likes of Jackie Bradley Jr., Aaron Hicks and Jose Fernandez, respectively, for their opening day rosters, allowing the players to reach free agency sooner than the likes of Myers and other prospects set to join their parent clubs later in the season. While the decision to promote Bradley Jr. remains posi-

tive, promoting Hicks and Fernandez were mistakes for their clubs.

Although Bradley struggled in his debut with a .097 average in 12 games (he was sent down to AAA on Friday to make room for the newly activated David Ortiz), he provided a spark in spring training and played his way onto the team. The Red Sox could have retained his services for another year by waiting like the Nationals and Angels did with Harper and Trout in 2012, but — given their significant financial resources — making the best baseball-oriented decision was the right move.

The same can’t be said for the Twins and Marlins.

Like Bradley, Hicks was sensational for the Twins in spring training and the obvious person to fill their void in center field after having been drafted in the first round in 2008. Hicks has struggled, though, with 20 strikeouts and just two hits in 48 at-bats. Likewise, and more importantly, the team lacks the resources of a successful and larger-market club that could more easily retain him in the future.

Potential ace Jose Fernandez, meanwhile, has been impressive for the Marlins but was given an opportunity with the team as a result of desperation in the aftermath of yet another fire sale.

What is dumbfounding is that, as a starting pitcher, Fernandez could have been kept in the minor leagues for the equivalent of only three starts to gain a full year of extra protection. Thus continues a trend with the Marlins of making questionable decisions with curious motives.

Ultimately, teams need to consider their financial situations when making decisions on top prospects. It is a lesson that some teams have yet to learn.

Preston Barclay is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. This is the final appearance of TURNING TWO IN THE 202 this semester.

track and field

PRs Abound in Mt. SAC Relays Patrick Musgrave Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown distance squad took some small steps in the right direction this weekend at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif. It still did not, however, deliver an overly impressive performance.

“It wasn’t spectacular racing, but some of our athletes took a step forward this weekend with some [personal records],” Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said.

“We didn’t run a lot of our top athletes this weekend, as we’ve had a number of big meets in the past weeks and some big ones coming up.” Racing for the men’s distance squad at Mt. SAC was junior Brian King and a sophomore trio of Silas Frantz, John Murray and Collin Leibold.

All of the Hoya athletes ran in the 5000-meter competition, which was split into five sections of about 30 competitors each.

Murray ran in the Open-A division, which was designed to be the third-fastest section behind the Olympic Elite and Invitational Elite divisions. Murray executed the beginning and middle stages of the race well, keeping in contact with the main group of runners. With about 1000 meters to go, however, Murray was unable to make a strong move and ended up fading towards the end. He crossed in 14:15, good enough for 24th place in the section. This time does get Murray into the Big East Championships, and the 5000m is the second event that he is eligible for there, as he hit the 10,000m standard previously.

“I think John just needs to be confident that he can really step it up in the last few laps,” Henner said. “I think he executed well, and it was a good step forward, but he can definitely go for it more in the last few laps. However, he should get in a good few weeks of training and be really ready to go at the Big East meet.”

Another Hoya who crossed the line with a Big East qualifying time was Frantz in 14:26. Frantz competed in section C, taking fifth place and narrowly missing the section win. The pace for

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The Georgetown women’s team enjoyed fewer successes than the men did in California, but senior Kirsten Kasper provided a highlight.

Frantz’s section went out a little slower than in Murray’s section, and so there were about 15 athletes bunched together through most of the race. The ending, therefore, came down to a battle of leg speeds — in which Frantz had good position — but he was unable to close in the last 200m.

“I feel like Silas can close faster, although he did happen to get in a race that was not that fast the whole time, and so I know he can run faster through the whole race,” Henner said.

The other two Hoya men, Leibold and King, had some bad luck this weekend. King fell sick with a suspected stomach virus a few days before the race, and so he struggled in his last mile, coming in at 14:32. Leibold, who was running unattached, was knocked down and then accidentally stepped on in the first lap, crossing in 14:29.

The women’s squad at Mt. SAC, consisting of senior Kirsten Kasper and sophomores Kelsey Smith and Annamarie Maag, also took steps in the right direction.

Kasper ran a Big East-qualifying time of 16:23 in the A divi-

sion, taking ninth place. She ran a well-disciplined race that set her up to finish well in the last few laps. Kasper finished in a pack of runners, just three seconds back from a possible thirdplace finish.

“Kirsten has been working her way back from an injury and has really started to perform well,” Henner said. “She’s been showing great progress, and so I think that by Big East and NCAA regionals, she can be a factor.”

Maag and Smith were also in the A section, and Maag turned in a decent performance that is an improvement over the past few weeks. She took 19th place in the section in 16:37, which indicates that she should be ready to go faster in the next few weeks.

Smith struggled to a 17:42 performance but seemed to be fighting the same stomach virus that plagued King in his race.

“I think that we had some nice forward progress this weekend, but we did have a few people sick and some unfortunate turns of events,” Henner said. “However, we should be ready to go for the Penn Relays next week and then the beginning of the postseason.”

For Upstart Hoyas HOCKEY, from A10 dues and has generous parents and other donors willing to contribute.

That extra money is necessary in part due to the lack of an ice hockey rink on campus.

As a result, the team has practiced and played at a variety of local arenas over the years — most notably the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, which serves as the practice facility for Washington’s National Hockey League franchise.

It might not be the bright lights of the Verizon Center, but they’ll take it.

‘WE WEREN’T WORRIED’

The horn sounded, and the second period was over.

It was February 16th, the second day of the 2013 ACCHL tournament, and the Hoyas — as a result of a bye for finishing first during the regular season — were two-thirds of the way through their opening game of the tournament. They were facing, Virginia, whom they demolished 12-3 in an early-season tilt and, more notably, 11-0 only one week before.

On this day, however, as Ryder and his teammates return to the dressing room, the scoreboard reads 2-2. Seven seconds into the third, a shot from beyond the blue line will bounce off the knob of junior goalie Connor Brogan’s stick and into the net. Somehow, the Hoyas found themselves down 3-2 and on the brink of an unforeseeable upset.

“We knew it was a fluky goal, and Connor is a really good goalie who played awesome for us in the tournament last year,” Ryder said.

“As a goalie, though, when something like that happens you need to be able to just put it behind you immediately,” Brogan added. “Refocusing after a bad goal and not letting them gain any momentum from it is critical.”

That early goal, however, didn’t deter the team from executing on Head Coach Brad Card’s message at intermission.

“We had had the puck pretty much the

whole game and had gotten a ton of shots, so he was just saying to keep doing the same thing and to make sure to backcheck,” Ryder said.

With less than seven minutes left in the final period, the Hoyas tied the game, going on to win in overtime on a lucky goal of their own.

“I don’t think [we were overconfident],” Ryder said. “We outshot them 60 to 20 or something, so we just missed a lot of opportunities to score. But everyone knew … everyone felt that we would pull it out.”

The first job was done, and it was on to the finals.

But as the defending champions — having beaten Maryland in the finals the year before — and the No. 1 seed, the pressure is all on them after an unconvincing semifinal.

For Ryder, that pressure is nothing new. The Cleveland native came to Georgetown already a fairly complete hockey player, having heard great things about its club team. This year, with 33 points in 16 games, he is the unquestioned offensive leader.

But when Ryder first arrived back in the fall of 2008, he didn’t stay long.

“My freshman year, I was only there for the fall. Then I left and played on this [club] team,” he said. “I did that for half a year and the whole next year and then came back in the fall of 2010, and by then, we were a good team.”

Ryder assumed partial captaincy last year and helped his squad to the tournament title, but it was through hard work and leading by example, rather than inspiring speeches, that his impact was felt.

Going up against a gritty N.C. State squad in the finals the next morning, the Hoyas need Ryder to be the player and leader everyone knows he can be.

This is Part I of a two-part series on the Georgetown club hockey program. Part II will debut Friday.

Softball

Series Loss to Providence Evens Big East Record Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team dropped a series to Providence this weekend, losing two of three games, as the Friars used early-inning scoring sprees to propel them to two Big East wins.

The Hoyas (19-28, 8-8 Big East) allowed the Friars (17-24-1, 4-10 Big East) to jump out to an early lead in game one, giving up two runs in the first inning. Georgetown answered back in the third, with junior right fielder Alexandria Anttila hitting a solo home run to left center, to cut the lead to 2-1.

“It’s never easy to be behind, but fortunately, Providence went ahead early and we had plenty of innings left to catch up,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said of the team’s attitude at the time.

Despite Conlan’s optimism, Anttila’s homer was the only run the Blue and Gray would put on the board, and the Friars answered with their own solo shot in the bottom of the third inning. They would later add an insurance run to win the game 4-1.

Sophomore pitcher Lauren O’Leary started for the Hoyas and went the distance, allowing three earned runs on only four hits, but her offense could not back her, offering insufficient run support.

“Providence’s [senior] pitcher Corinne Clauss threw an excellent game. We had good at-bats but unfortunately couldn’t string hits together,” Conlan said.

In game two, it was Georgetown that took the early lead when sophomore left fielder Sophia Gargicevich-Almeida doubled in freshman shortstop Samantha Giovanniello in the first inning, and junior first baseman Madeleine Giaquinto scored on a sacrifice fly from junior center fielder Elyse Graziano in the second for a 2-0 lead.

The Hoyas added to their lead in the fifth in-

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Senior catcher Shikara Lowe had two hits and four runs batted in to power Georgetown to a 7-5 win Saturday over Rutgers.

ning on a three-run blast from senior catcher Shikara Lowe, but the Friars answered with three runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, cutting the Hoyas’ lead to 5-4.

In the top of the sixth, Giovanniello doubled in a run and then scored on a drive from Lowe, who earned her fourth RBI of the game, leading to an eventual 7-5 victory.

“Whenever Providence tried to make a run, we always answered back. We played good defense when they tried to rally and continued to battle the entire game,” Conlan said. “This group doesn’t stop fighting for a victory until the last pitch is thrown.”

Sophomore pitcher Megan Hyson started for the Blue and Gray, earning the win in five innings of work, and O’Leary came on in relief for the final two innings to earn the save.

The win was the Hoyas’ 19th of the season, tying the program record for wins that was set by last year’s team. With seven games still remaining in the regular season, though, that clip will almost surely be broken.

“We are a different team with a different lineup and personnel so it is very difficult to compare [to last year’s]. I think this team is more balanced and well rounded in every aspect of the game,” Conlan said.

In the rubber match on Sunday, Georgetown scored a run in the first, which Providence answered with two runs in the second. In the third inning, Lowe led off with a double and Hyson drove her in, pulling the teams even at two runs apiece.

But in the bottom of the third, Providence exploded for four runs, including three consecutive solo home runs. O’Leary, who had started the game, did not return for the fourth inning.

“We ultimately just gave up too many home runs,” Conlan said. “It is difficult to win games when we can’t keep the ball in the park. Our team doesn’t have a chance to play defense, and the pressure to score is continuously there.”

Georgetown chipped away at the lead in the fifth inning, when junior second baseman Hannah Slovacek drove in Lowe and Lowe hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning for another RBI to bring the Hoyas within two runs.

In the top of the seventh, freshman third baseman Taylor Henry hit a bases loaded single to make it a one-run game, but the next three Georgetown batters were retired on a groundout and two strikeouts to end the rally and end the game, giving the Friars a 6-5 win.

“We never like to lose. If you want to be successful, you have to hate losing more than you love winning. I think our kids feel that way,” Conlan said. “We fought until the last pitch and had the opportunities to win — we just ran out of game. However, I love the way we competed.

To me that is always a victory in my eyes.”

Georgetown next plays Big East rival Louisville this weekend in a three-game series starting with a doubleheader on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. “Our focus continues to be the same. We are not trying to do anything different,” Conlan said. “I love what we are about, and we just need to bring the same energy to the ballpark for every game and we will be in good shape.”

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Hoyas Fend off Struggling GU Salvages One on Road Wildcats in Close Contest WILL EDMAN

Hoya Staff Writer

SWEEP, from A10 in her junior year.

“Meghan’s had a big year for us,” Fried said. “I think her biggest improvement has come on the offensive end with her shooting. She’s done a lot of work and it’s paying dividends.”

After Georgetown’s early offensive onslaught on Friday, Sunday was a much different story. Villanova played with passion for its senior day, but the Blue and Gray struggled to find any sort of offensive rhythm for much of the afternoon.

The Hoyas remained scoreless until senior midfielder Kelsi Bozel finally tallied a goal with 7:16 left in the first half to cut the margin to 2-1. Then, with 19 seconds left in the half, sophomore attack Caroline Tarzian — the only Hoya to score two goals — knotted the game at 2-2.

Georgetown found a little bit of comfort after halftime with two unassisted goals to build a 4-2 advantage, but the Wildcats would not back down. With less than 12 minutes left on the clock, the game was evened up again at 5-5.

Then, with 9:34 left, junior midfielder Kelyn Freedman found Corcoran open for the go-ahead and ultimately, the deciding goal.

“That actually started on the defensive end,” Fried said of the play. “We had a nice turnover, and Kelyn was able to run out to spark transition. Kelyn made a great read and Rosie finished the shot.”

While the score did not change from that point on, there was still some late drama. With just 3:24 left, Villanova earned a prime opportunity with a free position shot; the attempt was on target,

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Senior attack Rosie Corcoran netted the winning goal in a 6-5 victory over Villanova. but junior goalkeeper Barb Black came up with her biggest of three saves on the day to help the Hoyas eventually triumph, 6-5.

With only two more games to play in the regular season, the Blue and Gray are starting to prepare for postseason play.

While Fried knows there are areas his team must improve upon, he likes the direction in which it is headed.

“I feel good where we are,” Fried said.

“I still would like us to be a little more focused mentally. We usually rise to the occasion and I’m confident we will able to do that again this weekend.”

Georgetown will next take on Connecticut on Friday at 4 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

Entering the weekend, the Georgetown baseball team (2215, 5-7) faced a crucial matchup against Seton Hall (21-16, 7-5). Win the series against the Pirates, and the Hoyas could reach .500 in Big East play and solidify their position in the conference’s top eight, increasing their chance of a berth in the year-end Big East tournament. Sweep the three-game series, and they could establish themselves in the Big East’s upper echelon.

All hope of upward mobility was lost by Saturday, however, as Seton Hall eased into victory in the first two games by scores of 9-2 and 11-4. Despite the setbacks, the Blue and Gray displayed their resilience by taking the final game 2-0 on the back of an excellent performance by freshman pitcher Matt Smith to remain in eighth place in the conference.

In Friday’s game, Georgetown manufactured a couple of early runs to take a 2-1 lead when senior second baseman Danny Poplawski scored on a fielder’s choice in the first inning and junior first baseman Steve Anderson drove Poplawski in on a single in the fourth.

Although Poplawski’s pair of runs seemed a good omen and Georgetown redshirt sophomore and top starting pitcher Jack Vander Linden was dealing in the first four innings, Seton Hall quickly turned the tide and took control in the fifth. Vander Linden allowed the first five

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batters to reach base and the Pirates scored four runs in the frame, taking a lead that they would not relinquish.

On Saturday, Seton Hall took the lead early and rolled to an 11-4 victory, leaving Georgetown desperate for a seriesredeeming win on Sunday. The Pirates scored in bursts, with three runs in the second inning and four in the fourth, while senior shortstop Giuseppe Papaccio recorded five RBIs, keying the Pirates to a win. Georgetown senior starting pitcher Thomas Polus struggled on the mound, giving up eight runs — four earned — in just four innings of work.

For a team that had given up an average of 10 runs per game in the first two games of the series, Georgetown’s pitching performance on Sunday was a much needed turnaround.

Smith, making just his fifth start of the season, held the Pirates to six hits in 5 and 1/3 innings. When Smith put runners on second and third in the sixth inning, he was replaced by senior setup man Neal Dennison, who escaped the jam by retiring the next two batters.

Dennison would pitch for two more innings, giving up only two hits, before senior closer Charlie Steinman recorded his eighth save of the season in the ninth.

On the offensive end, the Blue and Gray were galvanized by senior center fielder Justin Leeson, who reached base with no outs to commence both Georgetown scoring efforts and scored both runs. In the first inning, Leeson

reached second when freshman catcher Eric Webber was hit by a pitch, and he scored when junior right fielder Christian Venditti hit a two-out single. In the sixth, Webber moved Leeson to second on a sacrifice bunt, and freshman catcher Nick Collins hit a single up the middle to drive him in.

The two manufactured runs were all the Hoyas needed to salvage the final game of the series, a win that put them two games below .500 in the Big East. Despite losing the weekend series, the Hoyas are still in position to reach the conference tournament, Head Coach Pete Wilk’s stated goal at the start of the season. They are only one game ahead of Notre Dame in the eighth spot, however, and their postseason aspirations will be put to the test in the near future; in their next three conference series, they face Louisville, Pittsburgh and Rutgers — all in the top six of the Big East standings.

Before Georgetown encounters any of these foreboding matchups — including a series against Louisville this weekend — it will take a short respite from conference play to face Coppin State (12-25, 7-11 MEAC) in Baltimore on Wednesday. The Hoyas have had no trouble clipping the Eagles’ wings in recent years, winning 17-11 last year and 19-7 in 2011. If history is any indication, the Coppin State matchup will help recalibrate a Georgetown offense that managed only eight runs over the weekend. First pitch will be at 7 p.m.

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Hoya Turnover Ends Late Rally SYRACUSE, from A10

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The No. 1 doubles team of junior Casey Distaso (left) and senior Charlie Caris (right) could not lead the Hoyas to victory in either of their tournament matches.

Seasons End With Poor Showings at Tournament Tim Eldridge Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown tennis teams travelled to the Big East Tournament this past weekend. Both teams were riding hot streaks heading into the postseason, but neither team was able to translate this momentum into postseason success.

The men’s team (12-11, 3-0 Big East) headed into the postseason ranked fifth in the conference and faced fourth-seeded Marquette in its first match. The match went poorly for the Hoyas, who dropped the doubles point before losing the first three singles points to fall 4-0.

Head Coach Gordie Ernst travelled with the women’s team, so Assistant Coach Matt Brooklyn led the men’s team. Mother Nature was not kind to the Hoyas, and unfavorable weather conditions hindered Georgetown’s preparations.

“The guys were not prepared that well because it took us two days to get into Chicago with the storm that went through,” Brooklyn said. “The preparation wasn’t ideal.”

The men’s team had a second chance for a postseason victory in the consolation round against ninth-seeded St. John’s. The Hoyas may have felt confident heading into the match after defeating the Red Storm 4-3 when they met earlier this year, but this time, an improved St. John’s squad pulled out a 4-1 win to end the season for the Hoyas.

“It was a different match. When we played them here it was outdoors, and we were indoors [last time].” Brooklyn said.

“They were all fired up and ready to play, and they really wanted revenge.”

The women’s team (15-8, 2-3 Big East) headed into the Big East Tournament seeded seventh in the conference. In the first round, the Blue and Gray faced Pittsburgh, a team they had defeated 5-2 earlier this season.

The Hoyas opened up the match strong, winning the doubles point courtesy of wins from the duos of junior Kelly Comolli and junior Madeline Jaeger as well as grad-

uate student Elizabeth Hamlin and senior captain Victoria Sekely. Georgetown collapsed in the singles, however, losing four straight to fall 4-1.

Ernst was surprised that the women’s team failed to step up to the challenge and take the match from the Panthers.

“We played really good doubles. We were so focused, which was right where I wanted the girls to be. So the last thing I really expected was to lose that day,” Ernst said. “I was a little surprised that some of our girls just didn’t bring their best stuff, when they had plenty of experience under their belts from the year. We played tentatively; we played scared at times.”

He also credited Pittsburgh with showing an effort level the Blue and Gray hadn’t faced all season.

“Pitt really regrouped and they fought as hard as any team we’ve played all year.

I didn’t really think they would put together that good of an effort after we beat them up at their place pretty soundly [earlier this year].”

The Hoyas redeemed themselves in the consolation round, defeating 12th-seeded Providence 4-1. Georgetown continued its strong performance in doubles, and freshman Taylor Perz capped off an improved singles performance with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 victory to clinch the win.

The win was not enough to impress Coach Ernst, however, who wasn’t particularly inspired by the victory.

“We should beat Providence,” Ernst said.

Georgetown then faced off against ninth-ranked Cincinnati in its last match of the season. The long weekend caught up with the Blue and Gray, as they were handled with relative ease by the Bearcats and fell 4-0.

Despite ending the season on a sour note, Ernst said he is proud of the season both his teams had, and pointed out all of his teams’ accomplishments in the regular season.

“We just had an amazing season, with everyone getting along so well,” Ernst said.

“I really want to look back on it as that, not the ending in the Big East Tournament.”

Syracuse keeper Dominic Lamolinara.

That tally, coming with 9:46 remaining in the second quarter, would be the last one of the half for either side, as a scoring drought hit the District thereafter amid the afternoon’s low60s temperatures.

But while the Orange were able to figure out their offensive kinks during the intermission, the Hoyas’ futility in the opposing half persisted.

And so, as the game wore on — in a near mirror image of its prior contest in South Bend — Georgetown began to wear down. Syracuse dominated the

third quarter to put themselves ahead 8-6, and a goal to start the fourth quarter made it four unanswered for the visitors.

The Blue and Gray would finally come back to life late with goals from McKinney and sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor, but that botched last possession halted what would have been a miraculous comeback.

The source of such late-game struggles is hardly a mystery to Warne: It is all about depth.

“We are playing not enough guys. I think that’s something that’s hurt us now going into April,” he said. “These games are so intense; it seems like a turnover here, a turnover there will dictate the tempo for the

next five minutes of the game or whatever it’ll be.

“Some of our guys get caught on the wings, play offense, lose a possession on offense, play defense. And I think over a five-, six-minute span, they get tired, and we’ve got to find more people to play.”

As the Big East stands now, Georgetown’s 2-3 mark is good for fifth place in the league, a half-game behind 3-3 St. John’s.

The Hoyas hold a tiebreaker over the Red Storm by virtue of their 14-13 overtime win two weeks ago, but Georgetown’s matchup with Rutgers next Saturday is still a must-win in order to get into the four-team conference tournament that starts May 2.

GAME OF CHANGE

PED Talk Mars Djokovic’s Rise DJOKOVIC, from A10 out the year third in the rankings.

And then something happened: Djokovic began to win.

In what will be remembered as one of the best years in sports for a single athlete, 2011 brought unprecedented, consistent success for Novak Djokovic. The titles that had previously evaded him were suddenly attainable — and he beat both Federer and Nadal to earn them. Djokovic won not only three Grand Slam titles (the Australian Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the U.S. Open) but also set a new record for prize money won in a single ATP season with $12 million. Djokovic finished the season with a 70-6 record and the No. 1 ranking in the world.

He managed to sustain his high level of play in 2012, winning the Australian Open and ATP World Tour Finals while also receiving the honor of ITF World Champion. For Djokovic, this year is going in the same direction as the past two, with another Australian Open victory and the previously mentioned victory over the King of Clay in Monte Carlo.

While there is no denying Djokovic’s talent, skill and dedication, his abrupt jump from permanent runner-up to best in the world raised some eyebrows — as well as the voices of those advocating for stricter performance-enhancing drug testing in tennis.

Djokovic credits his decision

to switch to a gluten-free diet in early 2011 as a key reason for his increased stamina and improved movement. While this could very well have been the extra boost that Djokovic needed to complete his ascension to No. 1, the use of PEDs in cycling, track and field, MLB and the NFL has thrown suspicion on athletes in all sports, and Djokovic is not exempt.

Tennis has a reputation for being as spotless as the Wimbledon whites, but this is largely due only to the fact that the current drug-testing system

The use of PEDs in some sports has cast suspicion on all sports. would catch only the dimmest of cheaters. Most of the IFCadministered drug testing happens during competition, despite the fact that most doping occurs during training. Furthermore, the majority of IFC drug tests are urine tests, which do not catch drugs like EPO that increase the oxygen in an athlete’s blood to improve endurance. In fact, according to the IFC, only 21 out-of-competition blood tests were administered in 2011.

Unlike cycling and baseball fans, tennis fans are not yet cynically disillusioned with the sport. We want to believe that Djokovic’s inspiring triumphs are simply the products of an

adjusted diet; we want to attribute Federer’s smooth stamina solely to his tough conditioning routine; and we want to think Serena Williams’ brawny muscles are a result of only her strength-training workouts.

Unfortunately, due to the incompetence of the IFC, we can no longer maintain our naivete.

The seemingly universal steroid usage in other sports has made us question the accomplishments of tennis players. The connection of tennis stars such as Sara Errani, David Ferrer and Maria Kirilenko to Luis Garcia del Moral (the doctor who was banned for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for helping Lance Armstrong and his team execute their doping strategy) has led us to doubt their honesty. Calls for stricter drug testing by players, including Djokovic, have forced us to think that PED use in tennis is more common than we thought.

The need for more stringent PED testing measures in tennis is real, not only to save the reputations of true champions from suspicion but also to preserve the integrity of the game.

As for Djokovic, it’s clear that he has earned a place in tennis history, but it is a tragedy for the sport that the IFC’s failure to thoroughly test for PEDs has sullied his achievements with doubt.

Laura Wagner is a sophomore in the College. This is the final appearance of GAME OF CHANGE this semester.

SPORTS

TRACK & FIELD PENN RELAYS Thursday and Friday Philadelphia, Pa.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

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TALKING POINTS

Georgetown fell to .500 in Big East play by dropping two of three to Providence.

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Softball Head Coach Pat Conlan comparing this year’s squad to last year’s

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The number of minutes the men’s lacrosse team went without scoring in a 9-8 loss Saturday to No. 3 Syracuse.

GU Bounces Back With Sweep of Rutgers, ’Nova JOSH SIMMONS Hoya Staff Writer

Heading into the weekend, the No. 8 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (11-3, 5-1 Big East) thought its biggest test would be a road matchup on Friday against Rutgers (9-6, 1-5 Big East). After easing past the Scarlet Knights 13-5, however, the Hoyas found themselves surprisingly locked in a battle Sunday with a struggling Villanova squad (5-9, 0-6 Big East) and unable to create separation.

While Sunday’s game proved more difficult than expected, the Blue and Gray eventually found a way to prevail 6-5 against the Wildcats to cap a successful weekend.

Though the Hoyas were certainly not at their sharpest, Head Coach Ricky Fried was pleased with his team’s ability to raise its level of play in crucial situations.

“At the end of the day, we were able to do what we needed to do at the right times,” Fried said. “While we weren’t really thrilled with most of the day, frankly, we did come up big in the key moments.”

Coming off a tough loss to Notre Dame last weekend, there certainly seemed to be no lingering effects for Georgetown on Friday. The Blue and Gray — whose victory was their 14th consecutive over the Scarlet Knights — took full control from the opening draw and never looked back.

The Hoyas opened with eight unanswered goals before eventually entering halftime up 9-1. Junior midfielders Meghan Farrell and Hannah Franklin and senior attack Rosie Corcoran led the barrage with two goals each for Georgetown, and the Hoyas’ defense swarmed the overmatched Scarlet Knights.

Shooting percentage has been a concern for the Blue and Gray all season, so Fried was particularly pleased to see the Hoyas convert their shots early and often against the Scarlet Knights.

“The first half was probably the best 30 minutes we put together as a team,” Fried said. “From the defensive end, playing together as a group, to the offensive end, shooting the ball well, it was a total team effort.”

After intermission, Georgetown relaxed a little, but the damage was already done. After the Hoyas had extended their advantage to 11-1, the Scarlet Knights closed the gap to seven with a 3-0 run, but it was far too little too late.

Farrell notched her third goal of the game to end Rutgers’ momentum, and Georgetown cruised to the win.

For Farrell — a valuable contributor to the team — the hat trick was a testament to the improvements she has made as a scorer

ALEXANDER BROWN/THE HOYA PUNCH-OUT Jeff Wong (MSB ’16) won his fight at 142 lbs. Saturday at Georgetown’s boxing showcase.

Hoyas Take on UK, US After over 65 years, boxing made its return to Yates Field House on Saturday afternoon, as Georgetown club boxing hosted a showcase that featured its 12 members squaring off against fighters from England as well as California, Maryland, New York and North Carolina.

Adan Gonzalez (COL ’15) — the U.S. Intercol-

legiate Boxing Association’s welterweight champion — was one of three Hoyas to win Saturday, defeating a Syracuse fighter to improve his record to 11-0.

“It’s the first year of it, and we’re excited to work with making more events like this in the future,” team member Maryellen Curran (COL ’13) said.

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CLUB HOCKEY

Overlooked Team Seeks Recognition Alongside Success Georgetown club hockey beginning to realize its potential ARIK PARNASS Hoya Staff Writer

Senior forward Chris Newsome is standing just behind the glass, watching Duke pick apart Virginia.

On the ice this morning, there is no sign of the Cavaliers team that had taken Georgetown to overtime in the semifinals the day before.

The Blue Devils — a squad that had mightily struggled to even make it to the semis, let alone to this third-

place game — are systematically undoing their opposition and making the Hoyas look bad in the process.

“Oh shoot,” Newsome, a senior forward, says only half-jokingly to fellow senior forward and captain John Ryder. “Maybe we really aren’t that good.”

Ryder is not the captain of one of Georgetown’s 23 prestigious varsity programs, but he had might as well be. After all, club hockey has become increasingly viable since it first laid its roots on the Hilltop decades ago, and results matter.

A COMPETITIVE PROCESS

The Hoyas play in the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League, a Division II coalition founded in 1995

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that is also composed of Duke, Elon, George Washington, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, and — until this year — Maryland.

At the end of each regular season, all seven clubs play in a seeded tournament in February to determine the ACCHL champion.

Move it forward a month, and the resemblance to the old Big East Tournament in its final years at Madison Square Garden becomes even more apparent. And the players feel it too, “club” label or not.

“Everybody’s going their hardest and wants to win, especially during the tournament,” Ryder said, reflecting on the tournament weeks later.

That wasn’t always the case. For most of its history, the team did not

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cut players; anybody that came with equipment and a willingness to work was welcome.

But as its popularity has grown, club hockey has had to adjust. Now, tryouts are held at the beginning of every school year, and the process can be very competitive.

“We put out a table at the Student Activities Committee Fair, and kids come out and say, ‘I’ve always wanted to try hockey,’” Ryder said. “And we have to tell them, ‘This might not be for you.’ Everybody on the team has played high school hockey.”

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GAME OF CHANGE

’Cuse Comeback Falls Just Short Drug Testing Flaws Cast Doubt on Djokovic RYAN BACIC

Hoya Staff Writer

With just over a minute on the clock, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team had found itself a chance to tie.

Having gone more than a full quarter’s worth of game time against No. 3 Syracuse on Saturday without rattling the cage, it

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Senior attack Travis Comeau scored two goals in Saturday’s loss, his final home game as a Hoya.

was a scenario that few would have thought possible just a few minutes before. But back-to-back goals from senior attack Dan McKinney and sophomore midfielder Charles McCormick had made it a reality, and after another faceoff win from redshirt junior Tyler Knarr, Head Coach Kevin Warne called timeout with the contest at 9-8 Orange.

Warne told his guys in the huddle to “just play” — and play they did.

What they didn’t do was score.

In a bizarre sequence on what would be Georgetown’s final possession, a Syracuse defender broke his stick and ran to the sidelines, but the Hoyas (5-8, 2-3 Big East) couldn’t take advantage of their man-up opportunity, as a McKinney turnover ended the rally one goal too early.

“It is what it is, and it becomes a hectic situation at the end,” Warne said after the loss, his team’s second in a row after dropping a 10-8 decision to No. 4 Notre Dame last week. “You hope a senior would shoot the ball — not sure what Danny’s

thought process was. I think we kind of got a little frazzled there [with the broken stick]. It happens.”

As was the case against another highly ranked opponent last week, No. 4 Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Georgetown got off to a promising start Saturday against Syracuse. The Hoyas would score the first two goals at MultiSport Facility, and a spectacular one-on-one, pointblank save from redshirt sophomore goalie Jake Healey at the end of the first quarter helped his team hang even at 3-3 going into the second.

The Orange would take their first lead of the day just 40 seconds in, but sophomore midfielder Joe Bucci made sure it didn’t last long with his equalizer less than a minute later.

Then, after helping lead the post-turnover jailbreak out of the Georgetown end, junior midfielder Grant Fisher restored the Blue and Gray’s advantage at 5-4 with a nifty bounce shot past See SYRACUSE, A9

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oes anyone remember when close on numerous occasions.

Something changed between then world No. 1 tennis star Novak and now, and whispered questions are Djokovic was third best?

This weekend, Djokovic earned his snaking through the tennis world wonfirst Monte Carlo title, beating eight- dering just how Djokovic managed his time defending champion Rafael Nadal meteoric rise to the top.

Djokovic joined the proin straight sets. For Nadal, fessional ranks in 2003 who is widely considered at age 16, broke into the the best clay-court player world’s top 10 four years ever, the loss was his first defeat at the tournament later and won his first Grand in his last 47 matches there.

Slam at the 2008 Australian For Djokovic, it was just one Open, finishing the year at more step in the process of No. 3. After his first Grand cementing his place as one Slam win, however, Djokovic Laura Wagner of tennis’s all-time greats. was unable to immediately Because of this — and his success. In With Djokovic’s replicate many other — momentous 2009, he did not reach a sinvictories, it is difficult to resemi-final in any of the success came gle member that Djokovic was Grand Slam tournaments not always the dominant the whispers. and again finished the year force he is today. For years, at No. 3 in the world. In he was mired in the shadows of Nadal 2010, it was the same story: Djokovic and fellow phenom Roger Federer. There struggled with his stamina and conwas a time when Djokovic was a talented sistency, failing to notch another yet surly youngster known for breaking Grand Slam title and again closing rackets — not records — and never quite See DJOKOVIC, A9 reaching the glory to which he came so

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