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the guide FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015 My metal plates feel like fire/ These are my hands/ When I place my palms together/ and hold them tight/ it looks as if I am praying/ to God/ beseeching for you/ With my pious hands/ I can make your hair silky straight/ The only sound/ Is that singe/ The only smell/ Is that burnt/ No more frizz/ Unless the humidity coughs on you. I will burn your beautiful brown skin/ It will sting for a long time/ I would be sorry that I burned you/ But you use me every day/ To get that hair that you weren't born with. Spring /Once a whisper / Proclaims itself /From whisp upon whorl packed as tight /as sugar cubes./The lunatic left one lick /And she resolved the rigid lines /Dissolved from darker times.

And spring, /Once a whisper /Now a shout /Warms a lazy bayou /With a discarded scarecrow /And unplugged Santa figures /Finally floating away. /Old women sit cross-legged /With straw hanging from their gnarled lips /And self-inflicted scars on their battered hips /Laughing with their entire body /Shooting arrows in the velvet breeze /Love pours into buckets from their hazel eyes /Held by brown-eyed children /Meant to warm the world. from Audio for Spring by Eileen Cahill (COL 18), I want to write you a love poem /But I can t /and I m not sure I know what love is anymore not even sure about like-like either/ b]But going through some stuff the other day/ I found a letter to myself from seven-year-old me/ I gave myself some advice and maybe it can help me out/ Maybe it can tell you what I m trying this in case you forgot stuff from when you were seven, because sometimes it s hard to remember things to say/ Dear me, it s you/ How are you, whatcha doing?/ I am seven, and you are older/ I am writing this in case you forgot the stuff from when you were seven, because sometimes it s hard to remember things/ Never forget what your Oreos can do/They show a girl that she s special/ Because no one gives her Oreos at lunch/ And because everyone loves Oreos/ But be careful, because some people will use you for your Oreos/ Like Jackie yesterday – who got more than half of them yesterday but then said you are just a nerd and she doesn t like you. My metal plates feel like fire/ These are my hands/ When I place my palms together/ and hold them tight/ it looks as if I am praying/ to God/ beseeching for you/ With my pious hands/ I can make your hair silky straight/ The only sound/ Is that singe/ The only smell/ Is that burnt/ No more frizz/ Unless the humidity coughs on you. I will burn your beautiful brown skin/ It will sting for a long time/ I would be sorry that I burned you/ But you use me every day/ To get that hair that you weren't born with. Spring /Once a whisper / Proclaims itself /From whisp upon whorl packed as tight /as sugar cubes./The lunatic left one lick /And she resolved the rigid lines /Dissolved from darker times.

And spring, /Once a whisper /Now a shout /Warms a lazy bayou /With a discarded scarecrow /And unplugged Santa figures /Finally floating away. /Old women sit cross-legged /With straw hanging from their gnarled lips /And self-inflicted on their battered hips /Laughing with their entire body /Shooting arrows in the velvet breeze /Love pours into buckets from their hazel eyes /Held by brown-eyed children /Meant to warm the world.

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The brothers of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity will release their second annual “Nice Guys of AEPi” calendar, chock-full of model esque photos of members dressed up as lumberjacks, posed with puppies and sailing books in late November.

Each calendar, available for pre-order until midnight, Oct. 18, costs $18, and proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society.

The 2016 calendar aims to epitomize the “nice Jewish boy” archetype, according to brother Elliot Frank (SFS ’18).

Although not all the members of AEPi are Jewish, Frank said that all fraternity members strive to embody the same values.

“They tend to be academically driven, kind, respectful, charismatic and of course kind of quirky,” Frank said. “It should be no surprise then that many girls, Jewish and non-Jewish, are told by their parents at a young age to ‘go find yourself a nice Jewish boy.’ …We wanted the calendar to be funny by creating what we joke of to be the epitome of the Georgetown gentleman, while at the same time portray the quirkiness of our inner NJB-ness.”

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The Spoken Word, Alive and Well in DC Poetry , from B1 I want to write you a love poem… / But I can’t / and I’m not sure I know what love is anymore not even sure about like-like either / But going through some stuff the other day / I found a letter to myself from seven-year-old me / I gave myself some advice and maybe it can help me out / Maybe it can tell you what I’m trying this in case you forgot stuff from when you were seven, because sometimes it’s hard to remember things to say / “Dear me, it’s you / How are you, whatcha doing? / I am seven, and you are older / I am writing this in case you forgot the stuff from when you were seven, because sometimes it’s hard to remember things / Never forget what your Oreos can do / They show a girl that she’s special / Because no one gives her Oreos at lunch / And because everyone loves Oreos / But be careful, because some people will use you for your Oreos / Like Jackie yesterday – who got more than half of them yesterday but then said you are just a nerd and she doesn’t like you.

— from “Oreos” by Daniel Ernst (COL ’18) Daniel Ernst (COL ’18) first began writing love letters, many of which went undelivered, to his middle school crushes.

But there is one day in particular — Daniel has the exact date written down in his phone — which really sparked everything for him.

“On the second Tuesday of September 2010, a man and a woman came into my English class at sometime between 10:45 and 11:45 and offered to perform for us,” Ernst said. “They were alumni. … They later started hosting an open mic at a coffee shop downtown. They showcased their art, invited us to come, and I went the next week and just kept going. I’ve been doing it for over five years now.”

Ernst struggled to find his place at Georgetown after leaving his vibrant high school spoken word community.

Then, he discovered Corpus and other campus and D.C. events, and he found a community he did not expect to find.

Spoken Sparks The spoken word community at Georgetown is small, but growing, according to Ernst and Williams. Corpus Collective has around 25 members, and although it is the only club on campus dedicated to spoken word specifically, other campus groups host events and provide opportunities for spoken word performances. Saxa Slam, a free and public spoken word competition inviting student poets to perform two pieces before a panel of judges, is centered around a different theme each year it is held by Georgetown Leaders in Education about Diversity in Bulldog Alley.

Last year’s March event, called “Why We March,” amassed a crowd of more than 200.

At last weekend’s Mr. Georgetown Pageant, winner Walter Kelly (COL ’15) re-

ceived a perfect score in the talent competition for a spoken word performance.

Each month, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice hosts a reading from an acclaimed poet in the Copley Formal Lounge.

Williams said she and Ernst hope to make the spoken word community more visible on campus through Corpus Collective with events such as open mic nights, weekly spoken word workshops and competitions. The group has partnered with Students of Georgetown, Inc. for future open mic nights, usually held in Uncommon Grounds. They also hope to co-sponsor an event with GU Pride and collaborate with Health Education Services on an event focused on sexual assault. The group also competes nationally every year against other college slam teams at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

“We decided we were going to bring Corpus alive and bring it from the shadows in order to have a real, live spoken word community here because that’s something what we feel needs to happen,” Williams said. “People need to share their narrative to add to diversity on campus because a lot of times the spoken world realm is really dominated by people who are systematically oppressed.”

Corpus Collective is now in the process of becoming a fully recognized club.

Ernst said that once it has access to university funding, it hopes to continue to grow by hosting more events and entering more competitions.

“It’s a stage for voices that don’t usually get heard,” Ernst said.

Student spoken word artists also leave campus to perform in the vibrant D.C. poetry community. Ernst, specifically,

has begun to perform at local restaurants and coffee shops. On Jan. 28, he will perform as a spotlighted poet at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, Md., and Feb. 8, he will perform as a featured poet — meaning he will be paid $100 — at the Busboys and Poets in Brookland.

Busboys and Poets, a popular eatery, bookstore and lounge with multiple locations, provides a number of D.C.’s emerging artists and writers their first platforms, and has been frequented, or hosted, by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken and Keri Hilson. The cafe, which hosts the overwhelming majority of poetry readings and performances in the area, has five locations all over D.C., Virginia and Maryland and hosts open mic nights every week. The Busboys on 14th Street hosts open mic nights every Tuesday from 9 to 11 p.m., and the Busboys on 5th and K streets hosts them every Wednesday from 9 to 11 p.m.

Poetics and Academics Although Georgetown professors do not teach a specific class on spoken word or slam poetry, the art form has been integrated into the curriculum by many professors for its historical and artistic significance, including within classes examining contemporary, experimental and African-American poetry as well as poetry-writing classes.

While the oral traditions of various global cultures have been around since the beginning of language itself, our contemporary American conception of spoken word comes from the Harlem Renaissance, which took place from the 1920s through the 1930s. It was an artistic and cultural movement for blacks who sought to defy a society

that demeaned them and to instead produce a new culture — a new identity for blacks to feel proud of. From Langston Hughes’ famous work “A Dream Deferred” (also known as “Harlem”) to James Weldon Johnson’s “Go Down, Death,” these works brought black art to the forefront of literary criticism and culture, and the legacy of this movement is influential even today in our contemporary literature.

“Poetry is attention in the form of language, and according to the mystics, ‘attention is the natural prayer of the human soul.’ Poetry is the oldest of the arts. It is how we know the interior life of humans in the past, and it is how the human future will know us,” poet Carolyn Forché, director of Georgetown’s Lannan Center, said.

The Lannan Center, which is housed in the Office of the President, brings various poets and prose writers to campus throughout the semester for readings and talks, hosts a poetry symposium and offers a seminar class for around 30 students each spring. In class, the Lannan Fellow students discuss contemporary poetry and share their own work, which is occasionally in the form of spoken word.

“Although we do not have formal programs of study in creative writing at Georgetown, the literary arts flourish on our campus,” Forché said. “Not only do we have an impressive roster of faculty poets and writers, but also a number of student groups, including slam and performance artists. Something is going on every week. The audiences are growing and are very enthusiastic. This is an exciting time.”

Lannan Fellow Michael Sobalvarro (COL ’15), a spoken word poet, took the

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Corpus Collective is an up-and-coming campus group devoted to showcasing the works and performances of a number of student spoken word poets to a wider audience.

Lannan Seminar to learn more about the craft. He became interested in spoken word in high school after reading the work of rapper Tupac Shakur. He was so interested in the craft that every one of his personal statements written for college admissions took the form of spoken word poems. During his early days at Georgetown, Sobalvarro and several other students helped found The Corpus Collective in 2011. Sobalvarro, however, took a year and a half off school and did not reconnect with the group after his return.

He does, however, still write spokenword poetry, often using it as a method of expressing his own personal difficulties. In one poem he recalls the experience of going to Nicaragua to visit his father, who at the time was a prominent drug lord in the country.

“I like revisiting those old traumas and presenting them in a way one may have never thought of, almost mystifying it,” Sobalvarro said.

An Emotional Release For Sobalvarro and many other student spoken word poets, the art form is a deeply emotional and transformative endeavor.

“I feel like the most intimate form of contact a human can have is a conversation. A conversation between you and your mother, or you and your friend late at night, or you and your girlfriend,” Sobalvarro said. “That’s all just raw emotion and thought, and that’s really what spoken word is.”

To spoken word poet and Corpus member Eileen Cahill (COL ’18), who first began writing in high school, the form allows her to explore personal struggles.

“I was going through a rough time … dealing with academic stress, pressure to conform to standards of beauty and femininity and dealing with a depressive state,” Cahill said. “I found that the best way to convey my confusion and views on pressure and conforming was through performing my work for my peers.”

“Spring / Once a whisper / Proclaims itself / From whisp upon whorl packed as tight / as sugar cubes. / The lunatic left one lick / And she resolved the rigid lines / Dissolved from darker times.

And spring, / Once a whisper / Now a shout / Warms a lazy bayou / With a discarded scarecrow / And unplugged Santa figures / Finally floating away. / Old women sit cross-legged / With straw hanging from their gnarled lips / And self-inflicted scars on their battered hips / Laughing with their entire body / Shooting arrows in the velvet breeze /Love pours into buckets from their hazel eyes /Held by brown-eyed children /Meant to warm the world.”

— from “Audio for Spring” by Eileen Cahill (COL ’18).

Special to The Hoya Kate Kim contributed reporting.

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The Hilltop Crowns a New Mr. Georgetown Walter Kelly (COL ’16), the second Mr. BSA in four years to be named Mr. Georgetown, discusses his new title alex prior

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Walter Kelly (COL ’16), Mr. Black Student Alliance, won the Mr. Georgetown Pageant on Friday night after three rounds of competition on Gaston Hall’s stage. He competed against 18 other seniors in swimsuit, talent and interview competition rounds.

Kelly received a perfect score after each round — most notably, he did a backflip during the swimsuit competition and performed a spoken word

poem during the talent round.

The Hoya sat down with Kelly to learn about his experience in the pageant, the BSA and his favorite meal from O’Donovan Hall.

What was the highlight of the Mr. Georgetown competition this year?

Were there any lowlights?

The dance was a highlight and a lowlight for me. During rehearsal we never got the dance perfect; it always looked a little sloppy, or I would mess up billions of times … and people kept making mis-

takes and whatnot, but during show time it just all came together. And the energy from the audience was just so live and so warm, and we killed it. Each and every one of us slayed the opening dance and it was the best we’ve ever done it. But I guess it was also a lowlight because I got a little too into it, and my pants ripped. Too much bumping and grinding and my pants just slit at the seam, in the crotch area. ...My mouth dropped as soon as it happened — I heard it, I felt it, but I had to keep going.

It made it onto a lot of snap stories later that night.

Tell us about the organization you represented. What do you like about it?

I was actually a transfer student. I transferred from Catholic University in my sophomore fall, and it was a really rough transfer experience. I got here, I didn’t have a roommate, didn’t have family in the area, didn’t know anyone who went to the school. And I applied for a couple of clubs, and didn’t get into anything and so the transition was kind of hard. But the BSA just welcomed me with open arms, and invited me to their events. They had huge social gatherings and kickbacks, and that’s where I met most of my friends. That became my home away from home when I first got here. I found my place in the BSA. Through that, I met some people that did spoken word, and people found out that I did graphic design so I made their new logo. So I’ve really been able to exercise my talents and abilities through the BSA, but they’ve also created this home for me.

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Walter Kelly (COL ’16), center, representing the Black Student Alliance, won the coveted pageant crown in Gaston Hall last Friday.

If you could say anything to your fellow Mr. Georgetown contestants, what would it be?

I think I would say thank you. Be-

cause they all worked so hard, and made me want to work harder. I feel like I just gained 18 new pals that I never would’ve met outside of this experience. So thank you for the laughs, thank you for the support, because we all just motivated each other. I feel like in real pageants, everyone is like, “I hope they fall, I hope they fall,” but that’s not the case at all for Mr. Georgetown: We all were rooting for one another. So thank you for the kind words, and being there and bringing your all.

Obviously, being crowned Mr. Georgetown was a success for you.

What was a time in your life that wasn’t so successful? Do you have any particularly embarrassing moments to share?

My admissions interview for Georgetown. So my uncle owns his own firm, and he was saying that he’s really impressed by people that know a lot about him and a lot about the firm.

So I got the name of my interviewer, I looked her up on Google and found where she worked, and what she did at Georgetown, and just found out so much information about her. And I was like, “Oh, she’ll love that I know about her and that I did my research for this interview. “So I got there and I started dropping all these names, and spitting out all this information that I gathered about her and her background, and she was so weirded out. She was like, “How do you know all of this?” It was just so awkward. And I was like, “I’m not going to get into this school now, she’s going to put a big fat sign that says, ‘Don’t let this guy in, he’s creepy.’ But luckily I guess she saw something in me. But, yeah, she was just like, ‘Woah. I’m going to watch my back when I’m walking home.’”

What is your favorite on-campus tradition and why?

Right now, it’s not stepping on the seal, because I’m a senior and it’s time to graduate; I just can’t take any chances.

If you won $1 million tomorrow, what would you do with it?

I would definitely save $200,000 so I could pay for my Georgetown debt. And then I would buy my mom a house.

She’s made so many sacrifices for me that I’d love to give back. And then … I would just turn up. Throw the biggest banger in the world. Like forget Project X, like Project Y, Project Z. Who would you say your No. 1 role model is and why?

Donald Glover, Childish Gambino. I think he is one of the most talented individuals on the face of the earth. He sings, he raps, he dances. He has accomplished so much at such a young age, and it just shows me that anything is possible no matter what age you are or where you come from. And I love his artwork.

What’s one weird fact that the Georgetown community doesn’t know about you?

There’s a couple. So, I had a cat with one eye. Her name was Angel.

I also used to be a child model. So I’m in a whole bunch of textbooks, like science textbooks. I don’t know what the names of the textbooks are, or where they are, but I’m in them, somewhere in the world. Right now someone is studying the solar system, and I’m in the textbook.

What is your favorite Leo’s meal?

None of them. No, I actually think that Leo’s is underrated … but I love the French toast sticks. The French toast sticks are bomb.

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Resurrect The Date

The Cereal Dater

Why Mean People Are Terrible

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re you dating anyone?”

Seems like a simple question, right? However, this week, your humble Cereal Dater will shed some light on how complicated such a question can really be, given the lack of integrity I encountered this week.

First, for my loyal readers curious about Apple Jacks the Yates date … there was no second date.

He was older than I expected, I was younger than he expected and we are in different stages in our lives.

I’m having a senior-year existential crisis, while he has his whole life planned out. From the get-go, it seemed like he was on the hunt for the future Mrs. Jacks.

On the other hand, I was a nervous wreck and could not be myself. I talked excessively, but not in my usual charming way.

A.J. is gorgeous, intelligent and sweet. He’s destined for greatness, and he’ll make some lucky woman very happy. I’m not that woman.

For someone used to clicking with most people I meet, I was crushed when we didn’t hit it off. As my sister advised me and as I’ve come to accept, dating serves to find a different kind of clicking. Practice makes perfect, and I think I can act more like myself on the next date.

Moving forward, this week’s subject could either be called Special K, mainly because he is a special kind of jerk (or Trix, because he is full of them).

This week’s dating lesson can be summed up in few words: Mean people suck. It’s not you, it’s him/her. Truth be told, you’re awesome.

We’ll go with S.K. He’s an athlete, an expert at his sport and likely entitled because of it. I briefly met him a few weeks ago at a party where I saw his hands all over one girl then all over another five minutes later, five feet away from the first.

When I saw him during daylight hours, I was mistakenly curious to see if someone like him would be interested in someone like me.

Me: Hi! My name is ____. I met you a few weeks ago at a party.

Are you dating anyone?

S.K.: ... No. Me: Would you want to go on a date with me?

S.K.: ... Yeah, sure.

After several minutes of conversation, S.K.: That was brave!

There was some text exchange to schedule this date but a few days after my last unanswered text, I followed up: Me: Still interested in coffee?

S.K.: Hi this is S.K.’s girlfriend.

Don’t text him again.

When I saw my phone screen light up with that text, my stomach dropped. “Do I text back and explain myself? Did he take his phone back from his girlfriend already?” I thought to myself. Suddenly, there was some girl in the world who hated my guts and I didn’t know who it was. Yet, I discovered from people who know his promiscuity well that he certainly does not have a girlfriend. It was all a ploy to stop leading me on.

I refuse to do nothing when people mistreat me, so obviously I called him out for his cowardice and demanded an apology. It never came. Instead of being a real man and saying where he stood from the start, he wasted my time and made me feel terrible, and then infuriated. Instead of being a real man and apologizing, he described the situation as weird and laughed at me.

This week’s dating lesson can be summed up in few words: Mean people suck. It’s not you, it’s him/ her. You’re awesome. Until next time, friends. Wish me luck or find me at the new cat cafe on Prospect staring into my future.

The Cereal Dater is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

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Nice Guys of AEPi

Fraternity sells calendar for cancer research aepi , from B1 from TV producer Adam Cohen, who started selling similar calendars, originally featuring “nice Jewish boys” dressed up as supermodels and toned firemen in 2010. Although the idea was a joke at first, the brothers decided the calendar could be an effective fundraising tool in adherence to the fraternity’s philanthropic mission.

“Philanthropy is one of the fundamental principles of AEPi,” Benjamin Reiser (COL ’17), the fraternity’s philanthropy chair, said. “We believe it is very important to give back to the community, especially because we are all so lucky to have the opportunity to study at such a fantastic institution such as Georgetown.”

The 2016 calendar’s proceeds will go directly to the American Cancer Society, a nationwide voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer in the more than one million Americans diagnosed with cancer each year. Last year’s calendar proceeds, totaling at around $1,000, were given to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, which facilitates transplants for children and adults suffering from life-threatening illnesses including leukemia, lymphoma, other cancers and genetic diseases. The organization has 242,716 registered donors and has facilitated 2,912 transplants to date in mroe than 44 countries.

“The decision came from general group consensus that cancer research was a venue for our proceeds that means something personally to quite a lot of our brothers,” Reiser said.

Though they are using an unconventional approach to fundraising, the brothers are quite aware that the “Nice Guys of AEPi” calendar is supposed to be funny, even a little ridiculous.

“Campus and charity groups are always trying to raise money, and we just found that [the calendar] was an especially innovative and exciting way to do it,” brother Arbel Efraty (SFS ’18) said.

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AEPi hopes to raise money for cancer awareness, selling each calendar for $18. Pictured, from left: Jake Bercow (MSB ’16), Sam Patterson (SFS ’16), Stephen Laufer (SFS ’16).

Arts Feature

Pop Art in Print at the National Gallery of Art Marina Tian

Special to The Hoya

The National Gallery of Art opened a new exhibit Oct. 4 celebrating the 50th anniversary of Gemini G.E.L. Graphic Editions Limited, a prominent artists’ workshop and publisher of limited edition prints and sculptures. The exhibit, titled “The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.,” is only a small part of the trove of Gemini G.E.L prints the gallery hosts. The National Gallery is also home to the Gemini G.E.L. archive, containing copies of almost every edition ever published by the artists’ workshop.

Gemini G.E.L., founded in 1966 by master printer Kenneth Tyler and businessmen Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein, has a long tradition of collaboration with famous artists.

The facilities are open exclusively to invited artists, with only one artist allowed to work at a time. The few artists granted access to Gemini G.E.L. are given artistic leeway seldom found in other workshops. More than 70 percent of the artists who have ever worked with Gemini G.E.L. have created serial works, which created the basis for the new exhibit.

“The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.” boasts 17 distinct series of different artists, comprising 127 works spanning five decades. These series vary widely thematically, narratively and aesthetically. Hence, the sequence is critical to how each is understood and distinguished.

The order of each piece in a series can be logical, like in Jasper Johns’ 1969 series ”Color Numerals,” in which each print is largely emblazoned with a number from zero to nine, but most of the series in the exhibit have sequences open to interpretation. In this vein, the U-shaped exhibit hall does not have a traditional, exclusive entrance and exit, leaving visitors free to explore alternate interpretations of sequence and narrative.

One opening of the exhibit begins with Richard Serra’s 1999 series “Rounds.” The pieces, each named after a jazz and blues musician, share the common feature of a large black “round” located centrally on the pristine white canvas. The pitch-black appearance calls to mind black holes and, combined with the carefully textured paint, communicates vast depth and weight.

Serra’s series opens into another room featuring the series of three different artists: David Hockney, Ken Price and James Rosenquist.

“The Weather Series,” by Hockney in 1973, is a charming chain of weather phenomena inspired by both French impressionism and Japanese u-kioye woodblock prints. In the center of the room, Price’s 1991-92 “Cups” is one of the few 3-D series in the exhibit. Each of the six cups is geometric, colorful and whimsical varying in embellishment. Rosenquist’s 1981-82 series “The Glass Wishes” occupies the wall facing “The Weather Series.”

Rosenquist, a pioneer of pop art, draws heavily from the vodka ads of the 1980s as well as Samuel Beckett’s screenplay “Krapp’s Last Tape.” His work heavily criticizes the temptation of alcohol and laments the loss of beauty and purity in the violence of drunkenness.

The next room also features multiple artists, with both playful and sexual undertones. Bruce Nauman’s “Fingers and Holes” is a series of sketches of hands in different

poses, making clever use of positive and negative space. “Notes,” a 1968 series by Claes Oldenburg, occupies the adjacent wall, inspired by “scribbles and sketches” he made while at a Gemini workshop. His careful selection resulted in a witty and surreal series that employs wordplay between seemingly unrelated objects and texts.

John Baldessari’s 1994/2012 “A French Horn Player,” “A Square Blue Moon, and Other Subjects,” Robert Rauschenberg’s 1974 “Hoarfrost Editions,” and Michael Heizer’s 1978 “Scrap Metal Drypoints” all follow. Baldessari employs colored disks over appropriated images to create a narrative that somehow seems to defy logic.

In an adjacent space, Ed Ruscha’s 2007 series “Cityscapes” highlights the importance of context and shared reference points in language. The piece is comprised of seemingly arbitrary blank boxes on darker rectangles of ink. Yet, on closer examination, the bottom of each piece has subtly threatening and malicious messages that correspond with the blanks.

The following room features the only three female artists in the exhibit: Julie Mehretu, Susan Rothenberg and Vija Celmins. Mehretu’s 2014 series “Only By Dark” has themes ranging from population and migration statistics to ancestral roots. Rothenberg’s “Puppet” series has a slightly disturbing sequence of disembodied limbs meant to symbolize the lost, “dislocated” pain of Americans since

the tragedy of 9/11. Celmins’ 1984 “Concentric Bearings” features the same few images appropriated from magazine illustrations: a falling star, a corkscrewing airplane and Marcel Duchamp’s famous kinetic sculpture “Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics).”

Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic “Bull Profile” from 1973 and Johns’ previously mentioned series are in the following room. Lichtenstein’s work progressively simplifies and abstracts a Holstein cow, echoing earlier works

by Pablo Picasso. Johns’ painted numbers are a marvelous display of large numerals painted over colored canvas, giving the viewer familiar symbols to reimagine.

After viewing this exquisite exhibit, many visitors will undoubtedly want to learn more.

Luckily, the exhibit has an online feature to enrich visitors’ experiences. With more than 200 pictures from the exhibits, the site is full of bonus features such as extra texts describing the technical aspects of the works and exclusive behind-the-scenes content with the artists themselves.

Ultimately, the vast breadth and depth of the exhibit, spanning various decades and artists, is an excellent showcase of the type of work done at Gemini G.E.L. over the years.

Great for newcomers or the seasoned fan, the exhibit is a fitting celebration of Gemini G.E.L.’s 50th anniversary and bodes well for exciting future exhibits.

“The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.” runs until Feb. 7, 2016.

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“The Serial Impulse at Geimini G.E.L.” is a small selection of prints from artists spanning several decades at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibit will run until Feb. 7, 2016.

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Steve Jobs

 Starring: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen Directed by: Danny Boyle Viviana De Santis Special to The Hoya

Like the shiny white minimalism epitomizing the success of Apple Inc. the film “Steve Jobs” is traversed by highly intense electricity, creating a breathtaking atmosphere. Director Danny Boyle creates a real locomotive of a movie, balancing tense, personal dialogue with a high-energy take on Apple Inc.’s meteoric rise to the top of the tech pyramid. Organized like a threeact play, the film focuses on three cardinal events — the 1984 Apple Macintosh launch, the 1988 Black Cube launch by NeXT and the Apple iMac launch in 1998 — which launch the myth of Steve Jobs, subtly yet obsessively portrayed by Michael Fassbender.

The first act, reminiscent of the futuristic aura of the 1984 Macintosh advertisements, precedes Steve Jobs’ ousting from the company he built. The second act seals the failure of Jobs’ short-lived Black Cube project, after which he returns as Apple’s CEO. Finally comes the launch of the iMac, what one Apple’s founding members Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet) predicts to be the “fastest-selling computer in history.”

The film follows an unusual structure, retracing the minutes before three separate launch events for three products, each revolutionary, albeit in its own way.

The film’s montage of perspectives presents an interesting take on realtime that could not be any more direct thanks to Hoffman’s frequent announcements to the waiting public on exactly how much time remains until each launch. “Steve Jobs” progresses as quickly and chaotically as the events it portrays, taking us along with it.

The film is built on series of successive dialogues, characteristic of writer Aaron Sorkin’s previous works, interrupted by a few sudden changes of framing perspective and some sharp camera angles, such as one that persistently focuses on half of Fassbender’s face.

The director insists on these spectacular jump-cut effects, especially during a heated conversation between Jobs and John Sculley (Jeff Daniels). The camera hops at an increasing speed from a close-up of Jobs’ face to rapid shots of a deserted hallway with packed chairs to the flashback scene of the Apple board meeting that cemented Job’s firing in 1988. The arrangement of such scenes, accompanied by an explosive crescendo of music, effectively conveys the frenzy of the moment. The

interplay between delicately chosen music and time is unique.

The spectator is smoothly introduced to the story and then gradually absorbed by the real-life course of time. It is difficult to follow which cuts are jumps to new scenes and which are simply changes in perspective. Improving film resolution signal the advance of time. Immersed in this amazingly ingenious structure, even the keenest spectator cannot easily realize and accept the end of the production, which is presented totally unexpectedly.

“Steve Jobs” is a sophisticated experiment whose brilliant pattern almost camouflages the intricate dilemmas of its foundation. Indeed, this self-aggrandizing Legendary Pictures’ production gravitates around the study of a complex character.

The main theme of the film is the Apple hero’s difficult relationships with the other six main figures in his professional and personal lives: his work dynamic with Joanna, whose voice alone is able to penetrate the armored plate Jobs wears in his interpersonal interactions; the profound yet antagonistic lifelong collaboration with Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen); the admiration mixed with resentment toward ambitious Sculley; the unilateral rivalry with Apple team member Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg); the visceral, emotional disconnect with his irresponsible girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston); and, most significantly, the fluctuating attitude toward his estranged daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Perla Haney-Jardine).

The focus on Jobs’ life as a neglectful father provides an original, perhaps creatively distorted, picture of the man. At first refusing to acknowledge his child, even creating an algorithm to falsify his paternity, this control maniac falls prey to the binding link that connects him to his daughter Lisa. The complex emotions affecting Jobs in such delicate moments of his life are effectively channeled through Fassbender’s prodigious performance. Beyond physical resemblance, this stellar cast fully delivers the essential elements of today’s perceptions of the individuals in question, especially Michael Fassbender through his blunt expressions and vivid outbursts of emotion.

Certainly, “Steve Jobs” is an artistic creation, but it is nevertheless an intensely emotional spectacle offering colorful insight into the life of one of the leaders of modern technology.

TAYLOR TRIES THINGS

Taylor Tries: Cosplay, ComicCon and Celebrity

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omicCon is better than Disneyland and Christmas morning combined.

It should be marketed as a drug — any form of pure euphoria — as it causes a blissful numbness that lasts the entire weekend, fading into a heavy crash the moment the convention is over. If you look up the definition of happiness, it would be there, lost in a sweaty crowd of nerds at the Javits Center in New York City.

There are an infinite number of reasons why anyone, not just nerds like myself, would be ecstatic there. Panels frequently fly in big-name celebrities, it is arguably the No. 1 people watching destination of all time and, most of all, there is absolutely zero sense of judgment.

Just take a look at the number of hentai booths there. Or the proudly displayed (and proudly bought) dakimakuras – Japanese body pillows, for those unfamiliar with the term. Fans of Taylor all genres from anime to comic books and video games can find fellow enthusiasts and more merchandise than a single set of neurons could possibly fathom. However, the best part is seeing not only the giveaways and the panels of your favorite game or show, but being able to see the characters come to life via cosplay.

For those who don’t know, cosplaying is when someone dresses up as a character, comparable to Halloween, but often with intricate handmade costumes and weapons. People can sometimes spend hundreds of hours on their cosplays, crafting original leatherwork or foam-cut swords with airbrushed details.

It’s exhausting. And yet, it is also insanely rewarding, because for a weekend, even an amateur cosplayer becomes a celebrity.

An amateur cosplayer ike me. I’ll be the first to admit that my crafting skills are extremely subpar and that, originally, the idea of cosplaying was a foreign, and slightly ridiculous, concept to me. Normal people roaming in capes and tights, and grown adults nonetheless, was a little spooky. By the time I learned about rurries, I was more than a little spooked. And yet, somehow, between now and then, I crafted my own costume with the help of a loyal and like-minded friend and became a full-fledged cosplayer.

At the most recent convention, New York Comic Con, one of the largest comic conventions in the world, I went as Raven

from Teen Titans, a longtime personal favorite character of mine. Her costume was a relatively simple blend of clothes purchased from thrift stores, a purple wig, makeup and some slight crafting.

Why cosplay? For starters, it’s fun. For anyone who loves Halloween, it’s another excuse to dress up and pretend to be someone else for a few hours. Sure, there’s no candy involved, but even without it, the same excitement that comes from picking a good design, assembling the costume and having people recognize you is enough of a sweet reward. Suddenly, the moment you leave your normal nerd behind, you literally become the character. The people who loved Raven on screen suddenly love you just as much.

All it takes is a cape and tights and you’re a celebrity.

Fans will stop you wherever you are for a picture. It can be posed, or with them, or a quick selfie, but if people see a good costume, Bond they need good pictures. Passersby will call out quick hellos to you, addressing you solely by the character’s name, and you have to do your best to respond likewise. Others will come up and compliment the details of the costume. People said my Raven wig was “the best they had seen,” which I can take no credit for as I ordered it from a Chinese wholesale company. All of the wigs were nearly the exact shade and cut as mine, but I accepted the compliment nonetheless.

Sometime kids will hide behind their parent’s backs and shyly wave to you. You are surrounded by adoration. It’s pure power.

Cosplaying is something I recommend for anyone. If you have a favorite character, show, movie or any preferred form of entertainment, participating in cosplay is an extremely fulfilling and nonjudgmental experience. People of all types join in, whether young or old, guy or girl, to dress up as anything regardless of normality, experiencing no backlash at all. In fact, the less conventional types are often more popular to take pictures with, as the bearded man in a full Sailor Moon suit can tell you.

So, if you’re ever caught in a debate between whether or not you should cosplay, take it from me: There is nothing to be lost and everything to be gained from saying yes.

Taylor Bond is a sophomore in the College. TAYLOR TRIES THINGS appears every other Friday.

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HOYA HISTORY Arcade vandalized in leavey Friday, Oct. 13, 1989

The Department of Public Safety was forced to close down the Leavey Center Arcade after it found evidence of vandalism and tampering with the arcade machines. The arcade was added after a number of students complained that there were not enough sources of entertainment in the then-new student center. Not only was all the money in the machines stolen, but several photos displaying student life were stolen as well. Although the machines were expected to be repaired by the following week, there was not a clear date on which the arcade would reopen.

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Spanish Tapas Bring a Taste of Tradition Barcelona 14th Street

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1622 14th St. NW | Cuisine: Spanish | $$$$ JANE MIKUS

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For the ambitious and hungry adventurer in D.C., Barcelona Restaurant and Wine Bar on 14th Street offers a bold taste of Spain.

Although it is a chain with locations in Connecticut, Georgia and Massachusetts, this elegant dining establishment feels far from commercialized. The constantly changing menu and daring combinations of tastes make for a night of spontaneity.

Barcelona is most famously known for its tapas — small Spanish dishes designed for sharing. Unfortunately, tapas also lead to a hefty bill. The small plates, priced from $5 to $14, can quickly add up, especially for larger parties. Students looking to find a spot for their next group birthday dinner should search elsewhere. For an upscale meal when the parents are in town or a special datenight, however, this is the perfect venue.

Before entering, restaurant-goers must first pass the outdoor dining area, complete with an inviting stone fireplace and charming table setup. Hearty laughter harmonized with the sound of D.C. nighttime traffic, providing a lively, urban soundtrack. It was immediately evident that this restaurant offers something for all dining parties. There is a quieter section for intimate two-person table settings as well as an open dining area for larger groups.

As we sat down, we were served fresh, doughy bread presented in a modern tin pail, accompanied by olive oil available for purchase online and at the restaurant for $18, an offer difficult to refuse after just one taste. The Spanish menu, although sometimes difficult to decipher, attests to the cul-

tural authenticity of the options. Because the unfamiliar dishes often intimidate diners, servers are well-versed in the ingredients and are eager to offer suggestions.

Three dishes composed our first round of tapas: the Patatas Bravas ($6.50), the Crispy Brussel Sprouts ($7.50) and the Chicken and Jamon Croquettas ($6.50). The potatoes arrived covered in a creamy garlic aioli; the brussel sprouts paired surprisingly well with the pickled red onion garnish. My favorite dish of the round was the croquettas, fried balls of chicken and ham, featuring a cheesy, soft center. The portion, however, provided only four, which was fairly disappointing.

Now only partially satisfied, we reopened the menu for another order. The second round brought the Blistered Shishito Peppers ($6), the Grilled Morcilla Sausage ($7.50) and the Hanger Steak ($11.50). Shishito peppers are a Barcelona classic, cooked with the restaurant’s signature olive oil and fresh sea salt.

Offering a moderate amount of spice without being overwhelming, they are a zesty finger food to pair with a more principal dish of meat or fish. The consistency of the morcilla sausage was surprising — a slightly chewy casing covered a savory interior. The butternut squash puree, however, was a lovely complement on the plate. The hanger steak was exquisitely cooked, lightly coated in a truffle vinaigrette and worth the lofty price.

Inherent to tapas are multiple rounds of orders and a parade of dishes that vary in their preparation times. Thus, this dining style requires that the service be highly personalized and attentive to each party. This, unfortunately, is where Barcelona fell short.

The plates were not distributed by our

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Barcelona, a trendy tapas and wine bar with several locations in D.C., is a bustling but intimate dining experience and a great place for a dinner out with friends. personal waitress, but by kitchen staff who served all of the tables. As a result, food delivery was confusing and hectic. Our first three tapas were mistakenly delivered to a neighboring table once, but twice. On top of this, by the time we received all three dishes in our second round, the peppers were cold.

In response to the staff’s repeated mistakes with our tapas, the manager of the restaurant personally approached our table to apologize and offered us the entire dinner on the house. This generous gesture signaled that the mistake was uncommon, and although precise service would have been preferred, we were impressed by the professional response.

We completed our dinner with a large order of sweet cinnamon churros ($7), matched

with a spicy chocolate sauce. The plate of churros was adorned with scraps of spare Barcelona menus, and, upon inquiring, we were informed that the menu is consistently being adjusted. The tapas, larger entrees and drink options change regularly, ensuring that each meal served at the restaurant is unique.

Tapas dining allows for unusual yet delicious combinations of various Spanish foods.

You invent creative combinations and come to embrace a self-crafted, innovative blend of tastes.

Although the unfamiliar menu may deter the picky eater who desires something simple, daring to try unexpected flavors simply seems a part of the deal, and a key element of the Barcelona experience.

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Restaurant Review

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Curry and pie are on full display at the aptly named Curry & Pie, which opened this month in the space formerly occupied by student favorite Eat & Joy.

Simple Standards at Curry & Pie CURRY & PIE

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shrimp, leek and spinach pasta

www.realsimple.com This simple and easy recipe will have your guests fooled into thinking you spent more time cooking than you did. Fresh vegetables and a rich, creamy sauce are sure to suit even the hardiest appetite.

INGREDIENTS

• ¾ pound short pasta • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter • 2 leeks (white and light green parts only), halved

1204 34th St. NW | Cuisine: Indian | $$$$ Brian Davia

Hoya Staff Writer

Curry & Pie, which replaced late-night student hangout Eat & Joy, presents a modern take on the flavors of Indian cuisine.

The restaurant, which opened this month, primarily serves authentic curries and innovative pizza pies. The eatery’s attempt to master Indian fusion is promising and sure to attract hungry clientele given its location, but it sometimes falls victim to blandness that compromises its spiceheavy foundation.

At first glance, Curry & Pie gives off the impression of a small restaurant focused on quick and easy takeout. However, a set of stairs directly to the right of the cramped first-floor entrance leads into a more refined dining arrangement. A collection of tables covered in white tablecloths and topped with fine silverware fill out the area nicely without creating too cramped of an environment. Even with a somewhat obscure mixture of artwork filling out the walls, the overall setup is one conducive to an enjoyable meal.

Upon settling in at a table, menus and water are quickly provided. The menu is divided into 10 distinct sections. With assistance from my waiter and dining partner, the Chicken Korma curry, Curry Pie pizza and a serving of classic naan bread made their way to the table. This trio gave me the opportunity to sample

dishes across the full spectrum of their offerings.

The first plate I chose to delve into was the Curry Pie pizza (the fact that it was called the Curry Pie at Curry & Pie led me to believe that the dish was a signature). In addition, the menu description claiming it to be “seriously fusion” suggested that it would include a melody of intense flavor. Although the taste was by no means bad, it lacked a certain burst of spice. The idea of a curry sauce topped with cheese and chicken has the potential to carry robust flavors, yet in this case, the taste was much more muted. In the words of a fellow diner, the Curry Pie pizza was “kind of fusion, but surprisingly bland.”

The next dish sampled was the curry. The Chicken Korma, a creamy, nut-based mixture, was served with an accompaniment of white rice. The combination of the two created a pleasing, yet again subtle, flavor profile.

Other diners used words such as “underwhelming” and “indistinguishable” to describe the dish on its own. Even so, it was cooked to an ideal temperature and seemed to be on the brink of a breakthrough to something great. Incorporating the naan bread proved to be the key to unlocking its brilliance. By dipping the bread into the curry, an entirely new dimension of savory flavor emerged. The typical flair that one associates with authentic Indian cuisine finally became

a reality.

When we were finished with the meal, our waiter very politely provided us with boxes for the leftover food alongside the check. This attitude was the norm throughout the meal, as the staff remained attentive to our needs, yet wasn’t overbearing in any way. The check itself came to around $25 for two, an average price for your typical Georgetown meal.

In an area as diverse as D.C., ethnic eateries are truly presented with the opportunity to shine.

From Ethiopian to Latin-American, all types of food can flourish when they achieve high levels of flavor.

The lack of any Indian restaurants within the immediate vicinity of Curry & Pie opens up the potential for success and customer interest. Additionally, the proximity to Georgetown’s campus means that a large percentage of its clientele will presumably be college-aged students, and the restaurant’s takeout option and extended late-night hours on weekends cater to their precise needs. By capturing the appetites of those looking for a quick midnight snack as well as those in search of a nicer, distinct sit-down meal, Curry & Pie has placed itself in an enviable position.

I would certainly recommend giving the eatery a try. Once Curry & Pie is able to elevate its food to a consistent level of flavorful fusion, I expect nothing less than great curry and great pie.

• Kosher salt and black pepper • 1 pound raw, deveined medium shrimp • Grated zest of 1 lemon • ¾ cup heavy cream • 12 cups baby spinach

Cook pasta according to directions on the package. In a large skillet, heat the butter. Add leaks, ½ teaspoon of salt, and ¼ teaspoon of pepper.

Cook until leaks have softened, stirring ocasionally for three to five minutes. Add shrimp and lemon zest. Cook until shrimp is opaque.

Continue to cook for another five minutes. Add the cream and ½ teaspoon of salt to pasta and stir over medium for one to two minutes or until sauce has thickened.

Add shrimp and spinach. Mix to combine.

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www.houseandgarden.co.uk They say the French know wine best. Why not try this fancy little treat?

INGREDIENTS • • • •

Champagne 0.65 ounce of gin 0.35 ounce sugar syrup Lemon twist for garnish In a shaker, combine all ingredients, excluding champagne, and mix well.

Pour into a champagne flute and top with champagne.

Garnish with lemon.

state acrobat pinot gris 2013

www.wine.com This crisp and refreshing treat features flavors of apple, melon and pear. A savory wine like this is perfectly suited for complementing seafood and organic herbs.

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THE HOYA

Friday, october 16, 2015

movie review

life in art

Bridge of Spies

 Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance Directed by: Steven Spielberg Jeff Naft

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Many of Steven Spielberg’s films have dared audiences to dream bigger and demand more from Hollywood studios. Movies like “Jaws,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Jurassic Park” are seen as the quintessential summer blockbusters. However, Spielberg, a special effects pioneer who reshaped the look of the Hollywood blockbuster, has never been confined to making movies about terrified beachgoers or dinosaurs; some of his best films are historical dramas such as “The Color Purple” and “Schindler’s List,” films that won just as many if not more accolades for their unyielding and honest portrayals of sexism, racism and anti-Semitism.

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Tom Hanks plays James Donovan in Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies.”

“Bridge of Spies” is Spielberg’s 27th feature film. It was written by Joel and Ethan Coen, responsible for critically acclaimed films such as “Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men” and “True Grit.” It also marks his fourth film collaboration with Tom Hanks. And it does not disappoint. It is everything a Spielberg film should be, and transcends any generic blockbuster film with its depth and emotion.

Set during the peak of the Cold War, “Bridge of Spies” revolves around James Donovan (Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance lawyer who is recruited by the CIA to negotiate an off-the-record trade between the United States and the Soviet Union, the retrieval of a CIA U-2 pilot shot down by Soviet forces during a stealth mission.

In return for Francis Powers (Austin Stowell), the Soviets want Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a KGB agent who was arrested for espionage in New York City.

Donovan travels to East Berlin to negotiate with Russian officials just months after the Berlin Wall was built.

“Bridge of Spies” exemplifies the stellar writing for which the Coen brothers are known.Not only is the dialogue is sharp and witty, but the Coen brothers are also able to adapt a true story without stuffing it with plot clichés that would turn a remarkable story into predictable pablem.

Spielberg delivers as storyteller despite audiences’ understandably high expectations for any film of his.

Enhancing the Coen brothers’ powerful screenplay is Hanks’ seasoned acting, characterizing James Donovan as an affable, 1950s everyman who is thrusted, along with his family, into the harsh politics of the Cold War. Spielberg and Hanks, both esteemed veterans in their respective fields, come together in a film that is equal parts emotion and suspense. Furthermore, some of the best scenes in “Bridge of Spies” come from Hanks’ chemistry with Rylance. One would not expect Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer, and Abel,

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a Russian spy, to complement one another, but Hanks’ dry delivery is enhanced by Rylance’s deadpan one-liners. These comedic moments alleviate stress for the audience and add a layer of sincerity to Abel, who is somewhat of a pariah in the United States.

The film is not your typical James Bond spy thriller. There are no diabolical antagonists who serve as perfect foils to the idealistic and ethical Donovan.

Instead, Donovan must navigate the intricate geopolitical world of the Cold War that has just taken a sharp turn toward conflict. Donovan finds himself travelling between East and West Berlin with little support from the CIA and no diplomatic power on behalf of the United States.

The audience finds itself uneasy and vulnerable as Donovan walks along the cold streets of East and West Berlin, unsure of his safety or the fate of the captured pilot Powers.

Spielberg chooses to examine the ramifications of the Cold War through the eyes of a family man — how the idea of nuclear war terrifies Donovan’s children and how the fear of the Soviet Union and isolated local communities contributed to a heightened sense of paranoia across the country.

The film is emotive and intense but incredibly entertaining, as all Spielberg films are. “Bridge of Spies,” though a historical drama, masterfully balances the United States’ diplomatic war abroad with its domestic struggle.

“Bridge of Spies” is not just Oscar bait for Spielberg and Hanks. In all likelihood, it will join the pair’s long list of classics.

movie review

Crimson Peak

 Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska Directed by: Guillermo del Toro

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“Crimson Peak” is an odd blend of 19thcentury romance and gothic horror. The film was directed, co-written with Matthew Robbins and produced by Guillermo del Toro, famous for his affinity for bloodshed and talent for imagery and best known for his action thriller “Hellboy” (2004) and his fairy-tale period piece “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006). While “Crimson Peak” provides all the necessary components of a del Toro masterpiece — twisted romance, murder and a haunted location — the film’s brilliant imagery fails to make up for its predictable plot and lacking script.

“Crimson Peak” tells the haunting tale of a young American girl trapped in a British house of horrors. The film opens in 19th-century New York, where the charming British Sir Edward Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), sweeps Edith (Mia Wasikowska), off her feet. After a series of unfortunate events and the brutal murder of her father, Edith marries Sharpe and is shipped off to his estate in northern England.

Edith soon learns the house has a life of its own, as she navigates its dark corridors and secret passageways. However, Edith, seemingly unfettered by the house’s terrors, searches the mansion in hopes of uncovering the true nature of her new husband and his sinister sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain).

Del Toro’s unique use of imagery dis-

tinguishes the film from any basic horror flick. The mansion’s sinking floors and dilapidated walls are decorated with decadent fabrics and oppressive gothic furniture. However, the house does more than provide beautifully terrifying images: The rotting estate serves as a metaphor for the Sharpes’ twisted and decaying family history.

Del Toro’s talent for visuals is equally applied to his striking characters. Lucille’s dark and sensual appearance incites an odd attraction to her wicked character.

Her venomous image serves as a perfect contrast to Edith, whose delicate childlike features and soft blond curls fiercely oppose her twisted surroundings.

Depending on your tolerance for gore, del Toro may be slightly overzealous in his use of blood. The mansion sits atop a hill of red clay, and crimson mud manages to seep into each scene. The result: You’re never really sure whether what you’re seeing is clay or blood.

The film’s imagery is almost powerful enough to distract you from the lacking plot. Aside from one or two minor surprises along the way, the plot is fairly predictable. In this aspect, “Crimson Peak” doesn’t differ much from a run-ofthe-mill scary movie. The dialog is also far from impressive. In addition to being overly simple, certain lines seem laughably out of context. Del Toro consistently abandons the film’s historical limitations to squeeze in cheeky one-liners.

The film’s notable cast works well given

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the plot’s limitations. Wasikowska is perfectly cast as the innocent, though cryptic, Edith. Likewise, Hiddleston does an impressive job of making the audience buy into Sharpe’s semigenuine charm.

However, Chastain steals the show. The actress is almost unrecognizable as Sharpe’s dynamic and perverted sister Lucille.

While “Crimson Peak” teeters between horror film and period-piece romance, it fails to flourish in either genre. Unfortunately, its cast and fantastic visuals do not offset its predictable plot.

However, as Halloween approaches, if you’re looking for a somewhat scary movie with a bit more depth than your typical horror film, “Crimson Peak” should suit you nicely.

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have two older sisters, ages 24 and 21. When we were kids, my parents devoted most of their time, energy and money to making us the world’s next musical prodigies.

My oldest sister had a brief stint with the piano, then with the trumpet and then with the trombone. As the instruments became louder and more elaborate — and my sister got worse — my parents decided that, for the sake of their sanity, my oldest sister should lay down the brass and focus her energy elsewhere. My other sister, however, took to the piano instantly.

She still plays to this day and can charm a crowd of people into thinking they are in Paris in the 1900s. Her success gave my parents more hope, and unfortunately for me, they stuck me at the seat of the piano against my will for another five years. Throughout all of those years, I fought the delicate nature of the piano and begged to play the drums.

Learning from the failed trombone lessons, my parents were not too keen on having our house invaded by such an obtrusive instrument. So I was relegated to “Ode to Joy” for most of my childhood, which ironically felt like it sucked all of the joy out of my life. In all honesty, the only thing I ever wanted to play was “Paperback Writer” by The Beatles, but that was not happening for the foreseeable future.

I couldn’t play an instrument, but that would not stop me from appreciating others who could. For as terrible as I am at creating pleasing sounds, I can, in fact, understand and recognize them.

So, being the sneaky, loud-mouthed 12-yearold that I was, I said, “Forget that!” and traded in the music lessons for an iPod. That iPod caused magical things to happen.

I quickly fell in love with artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bloc Party and OK GO, all bands that, you will notice, emphasize drums over piano.

On April 13, 2012, my 16-year-old self went to her first concert. I definitely couldn’t play an instrument myself, but listening to professionals play them in a live setting gave me a feeling that I hadn’t had in a very long time — inspiration.

It wasn’t until this summer, however, that I acted on these feelings — (specifically those that came about after a wondrous disc jockey set by Jamie XX.) My first semester at Georgetown was spent partially in the art wing of the Walsh Building learning the nuances of graphic design programs. This summer, I put those skills to good use and created a sort of pop-art photo collage diary of my concert-going experiences of the last three years, something I still find myself playing around with on my computer today.

For as terrible as I am at creating pleasing sounds, I can, in fact, understand and recognize them. The thing I can create, however, is far more visual. My project took my understanding of sound and channelled it through my artistic capabilities. The result was a series of acidic, scattered, harmonic images, a crosssection of the complex tunes.

Allow me to explain my long anecdote about childhood musical oppression — music is inextricably connected to physical art. The faulty connection to music that I experienced as a child found reparation through my artistic interpretation of my concert-going experiences. I couldn’t play an instrument, but that would not stop me from appreciating others who could.

Catherine Summa is a sophomore in the College. Life in Art is a rotating column, appearing every other Friday.

ON CAMPUS

tasa night market

midnight madness

superfood parents’ weekend sing

u Street Tour

Looking for an activity that the whole family can enjoy this coming Parents’ Weekend?

Come out and support Superfood, one of Georgetown’s premier a cappella groups, in a concert this Saturday to enjoy some amazing singing, beautiful fall weather, great Hoya spirit and quality family time!

Join Georgetown’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship club in a tour of the iconic U Street.

The area has quite an interesting history — from jazz to riots to desegregation and gentrification, a trek through this historic district will promise an educational yet entertaining evening.

WHERE: White-Gravenor Patio/Copley Lawn When: Saturday, Oct. 16, 5 p.m.

INFO: Facebook Price: $1 per food ticket

WHERE: McDonough Arena When: Sunday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. info: Facebook price: Free with GU Student ID

WHERE: Healy Circle WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m.

INFO: Facebook Price: Free

WHERE: Front Gates WHEN: Friday, Oct. 16, 5 p.m.

INFO: Facebook PRICE: Free

Join the Taiwanese American Student Association in its annual night market with food provided from campus cultural groups such as the Asian American Student Association, the South Asian Society, the Japan Network, Club Filipino, the Vietnamese Student Association and the Chinese Student Association. There will also be performances by the Gracenotes, the Saxatones, Ballet Folklorico and 2pinos.

Celebrate the start of basketball season at the annual Hoya Hoops Midnight Madness.

See performances by a number of campus dance groups, cheerleaders and 2 Chainz.

Also, compete in the dunk contest to vie for a super cool prize. The first 2,000 students to enter will receive free T-shirts. Doors open at 7 p.m.

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THE HOYA

album Review

MUSIC

Live in No Particular Order

New Releases

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  John Miller

Special to The Hoya

Los Angeles-based indie-folk act Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros returned to the shelves this week after a two-year hiatus with the release of “Live in No Particular Order,” a triple LP. This comprehensive live chronicle is the band’s first album following the departure of longtime singer and co-founder Jade Castrinos, and comes on the heels of three highly successful studio efforts.

The words that best describe this revolving group of up to 12 members are organic and authentic. Anchored by charismatic lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Ebert, the group commonly explodes onto live stages around the world with a diverse catalogue sure to satisfy many tastes. Although this album — comprised of 21 songs and recorded over the course of six

years — falls short of recreating the concert experience and sometimes, but not often, stumbles due the loss of previous albums’ studio quality, it nevertheless serves to fully represent the band’s live capabilities and creative potential.

The first track, 2013’s “Better Days,” sets a high-energy tone for the album, replete with a cheering crowd, a guitar arrangement that channels the work of Ben Howard, a Mariachi-influenced bass section and Ebert’s distinct vocals. Characteristic of many other songs on the album, the song conjures the strengths of each band member, highlighting vocal, guitar, horn and percussion sections both individually and collectively.

The second track, “40 Day Dream,” from the band’s 2009 freshman effort, unfortunately seems to have lost much of its studio vitality. Those familiar with the song’s melodic string arrangements and

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The 12-man folk-rock band returns to the center stage with “Live in No Particular Order,” the band’s latest live compilation album.

pounding percussion may almost fail to recognize this old friend.

However, even in its stripped-down state, the multipart vocals, accordion and jingle bells combine to create an engaging and unique track.

It is not until “If I Were Free” that Ebert’s defining affinity for whistling makes an appearance.

In addition, his neo-hippie attitude is epitomized by the lyrics, “If I were free / I would run into battles with flowers and hugs.”

Musically mesmerizing, the song employs a xylophone and numerous plucked instruments largely absent in mainstream American recording.

Perhaps the most memorable moment of the album, “Brothers” features a catchy piano riff and fairy-like chimes, progressing into a full band effort replete with powerful vocals matched by a trumpet.

The verses of the track, comprised of a duet between Ebert and Castrinos, devolve into banter with the audience and the invitation of a lucky fan to join the band onstage. The many sections of this song serve to display the band’s incredible range.

The version of the band’s most well-known track “Home” takes a more free-form approach than its studio predecessor. Starting with African drums, and extending itself by nearly four minutes, the song typifies the communal nature of the group with the invitation of fans to the stage to tell their stories.

For example, one 15-year-old boy proclaims his “music festival virginity,” while one woman tells the story about how she bonded with her best friend over Harry Potter.

Conversely, “This Life” appears at first to be the album’s quiet acoustic moment. However, if “Brothers” was the band’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” then “This Life” is the

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band’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Clocking in at just over seven minutes, the faint acoustic intro transforms into a roaring folk-rock ensemble.

The addition of a guitar line taken from The Beatles’ “Oh! Darling” and a similarly inspired vocal approach breathe life into a song about the lies we tell ourselves.

Starting with a slow whistle reminiscent of a Spaghetti Western theme song, “Truth” appears off Ebert’s eponymous 2011 solo album. Although missing the uptempo chord repetition characteristic of the studio recording, the vocal rhymes reminiscent of Bob Dylan live on in this emotionfilled spoken word rendition. Toward the end, the song deviates into a spacious choir section before heading to its close.

Overall, the album contains numerous catchy lines that will run through your head all day. With a sound quality almost unheard of in live albums, “Live in No Particular Order” faithfully represents the artistic interplay characteristic of the act. A modern take on the folk genre, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros can be described as an amalgam of older acts like The Band and Emmylou Harris, together with familiar modern favorites like Fleet Foxes and Local Natives.

A welcome departure from the perfection and rigidity of most popular recordings, “Live in No Particular Order” is an appeal to both longtime fans of the genre and those who want to hear more of its signature sound.

album Review

LAURA LANNAN Hoya Staff Writer

City and Colour, the stage name of Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, is one of today’s highly underrated alternative bands. His latest album, released Oct. 9, “If I Should Go Before You,” holds true to many of City and Colour’s classic tropes. The album centers on deeply existential lyrics over a melancholic acoustic guitar line, but also conveys a new psychedelic and futuristic sound. The new album focuses more on the alternative rather than folk genre, which separates it from many of the singer’s previous works.

However, this new twist may alienate fans of Green’s signature folk sound.

Green has been releasing albums under “City and Colour” since 2005, when he released his debut album

This upbeat and catchy tune doesn’t seem ready to let go of summer. The song’s addictive chorus is perfect for an outdoor music festival, and the prominent role of the drums makes you subconsciously start tapping your feet. Before you know it, you’ll be singing along.

Ellie Goulding “Something in the Way You Move” 

After the lukewarm reception of her first single, “On My Mind,” Ellie Goulding returns to form with the upbeat, catchy track “Something in The Way You Move.” The lyrically straightforward single calls to mind Goulding’s earlier hits like “Burn” and “Anything Could Happen” for a winning, radio-friendly effect. If Goulding’s upcoming album “Delirum” features more tracks like this, don’t expect her chart domination to let up anytime soon.

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If I Should Go Before You City and Colour

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“Sometimes.” He has released five albums since then, including “Bring Me Your Love,” which sold enough copies on its release day to crash the record’s website. The album includes the popular song “Sleeping Sickness” featuring Gordon Downie, the lead singer of the band The Tragically Hip. The lead track, “Woman,” immediately sets the album apart from City and Colour’s previous work. The listener is led gently into a song contemplating mortality and true love with a synthesized, psychedelic opening that could give Florence and the Machine a run for their money. The song also features a myriad of long, soulful electric guitar riffs that give the song a certain contemplative heaviness that we have come to expect from City and Colour. At a lofty 9 minutes and 16 seconds, the song is the longest on the album by far, and drags

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Dallas Green, known as City and Colour, reaches into elements of synth and alternative folk with his album “If I Should Go Before You.”

the listener into a drawn-out, breathless rendition that highlights Green’s vocal talents while also drawing on the deep sounds of electric synth-pop.

“Northern Blues” steps a bit away from the psychedelic richness of “Woman,” but boasts the same brooding drum line and deep guitar, perfectly transitioning to the rest of the album from Green’s lofty 9-minute opener.

“Mizzy C” gives a subtle nod to Green’s days as a punk singer with a heavy electric guitar undertone, as well as some gnarly solos peaking throughout. The vocals in this piece are significantly more upbeat than the previous songs, which gives the song an intriguing twist away from Green’s classic brooding existentialism.

Halfway through our alternativepsychedelic journey, we get “If I Should Go Before You,” which returns to the contemplative synth-pop of the first track. The song features a lot of Grateful Dead-esque guitar undertones along with Green’s signature angst-filled lyrics that question his own mortality and that of his lover, similar to what we see in some of his past songs, like “Body in a Box.” It isn’t until “Wasted Love” that we part ways from the initial musing tones of the album’s first songs.

The song features an upbeat electric guitar line and bouncy drums along with some cheery lyrics from Green. The song’s tempo is a drastic pick-up from the previous songs, and the song gives off a free-floating and happy feeling that makes you want to dance around the room.

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“Runaway” continues the sudden mood shift from “Wasted Love.” It starts off with a high-spirited electric guitar riff and continues on with a foot-stomping drum beat and slide guitar. The song’s lyrics are an obvious departure for Green — much faster in tempo and favoring the brighter side of his voice over his usual decadent droll.

“Friends” opens with the same slide guitar as “Runaway,” but with a slower drum beat and tempo, making the song slightly more melancholic.

Green’s free-spirited lyrics about “the wild winds” combined with the slide guitar and simple drumbeat give the song a folky feel. The end of the song is drastically different and especially intriguing, featuring a fat electric guitar riff over a rising drum beat and some gospel-like vocals from Green, highlighting the same upbeat euphoria as “Runaway.”

The album’s final song, “Blood,” wraps up Green’s latest work with an unexpected yet truly beautiful and heart-wrenchingly sad piece.

A simple acoustic guitar line dominates the song, accompanied by quiet piano, tambourine and drum lines. Green’s vocals are drawn out, deep and soulful, evoking peaceful, yet powerful emotions like only City and Colour can.

A stark contrast to the songs on Imagine Dragons’ first album “Night Visions,” “I Was Me” is a calm acoustic track that really pulls at the heartstrings. Imagine Dragons fanatics that lived for the bouncy pop-rock songs from “Night Visions” probably won’t be huge fans of this new track, but for the acoustic lovers out there, it’s the perfect crooner song to start off your Sunday morning coffee, or your emotional binge on half a pint of ice cream.

The Game “El Chapo” 

This recently released bonus track for The Game’s upcoming album, “The Documentary 2.5,” features aggressive delivery from The Game and intense production from Skrillex and Bangladesh that demands the song be put on repeat. Listeners will get pumped as The Game raps in English and Spanish, bragging about his drug dealing and comparing himself to drug kingpin El Chapo, all over a hard-hitting, trumpet-filled beat.

AROUND TOWN White House Fall Garden Tours

Book Hill Fall Market

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Light the Night Washington, D.C.

Where: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW When: Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Info: www.whitehouse.gov Price: Free

Where: 1693 Wisconsin Ave. NW When: Saturday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Info: Facebook Price: Free

Where: 1200 Florida Ave. NE When: Friday, Oct. 16, 6 p.m.

Info: artinthealleydc.com Price: Free

Where: Freedom Plaza, 1455 Pennsylvania Ave. NW When: Saturday, Oct. 17, 5 p.m.

Info: lightthenight.org Price: By donation

This coming Parents’ Weekend, take advantage of a unique (and free!) activity that the entire family will love — tours of the White House gardens! Especially for those parents coming from out of town, this quintessential D.C. activity is a must. Tickets are required, and they are first come, first served at the Ellipse Visitor Pavilion starting each day at 9 a.m.

Prepare for fall with the Georgetown Ministry Center and more than 30 local vendors in this fabulous market sale. The event will feature raffles, live music and children’s festivities, as well as pumpkin and apple sales. To capture the moment, you’ll be able to take fun pictures with your friends in the photo booth and then treat yourself to a warm and delicious grilled cheese.

Art in the Alley, one of D.C.’s premier art galleries, is hosting its seventh installment of its local arts festival. Aside from visual and performing arts, there will be music, and most importantly, food. This unique event is perfect for all ages.

Join the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as it walks to raise funds and awareness for patients suffering from cancer. There will be food, entertainment and a lighting of lanterns to commemorate all the lives affected by the disease. Form a team or go alone; any contribution to this wonderful cause will be greatly appreciated.

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Friday, October 16, 2015

Fantasy football corner

Homecoming

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Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela, left, rushed for 84 yards in Georgetown’s 38-7 win over Lafayette on Homecoming Day. Teammate and senior tight end Matthew Buckman caught four passes for 36 yards and two touchdowns in the win.

cross country

Nadel Leads GU to Pre-Nationals Daniel Baldwin Special to The Hoya

Both the Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams will travel to Louisville, Ky., this weekend to compete in the 2015 PreNational Meet. The No. 10 men’s cross country team looks to continue its success after capturing first place — beating out rival No. 12 Villanova — at the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa. Meanwhile, the No. 7 women’s cross country squad, after a week off, will try to build on a solid performance at the Coastto-Coast Beantown Invitational, in which it placed third.

“This is another opportunity similar to Boston, where we are going to face national caliber competition,” Head Coach Michael Smith said. “We want to have a strong showing against those top tier teams in the country.

At the same time, we want to preview the national cross country course which we will race at the end of November.”

Smith will look to senior Samantha Nadel to continue her impressive performance in the Pre-National Meet. At the Coast-to-Coast Beantown Invitational, she ran a time of 17:11.3 on the 5000-meter course and finished eighth overall, leading the way for her teammates. Graduate student Andrea Keklak will attempt to push herself and her teammates in her second meet back from an injury that

sidelined her for indoor and outdoor track last season.

“Since Boston was my first race, the plan was to go out more conservatively. I definitely think I will be running with a group of my teammates in the beginning and we will work our way up,” Keklak said.

Even though the Hoyas placed third out of 24 teams in Boston, they look to improve upon certain tactics during the race.

“We are going to focus on running as a group and running together. I am not exactly sure where that will put us, but at this stage of the season, running together will be our best strategy from a scoring standpoint,” Smith said.

Keklak echoed her coach’s viewpoint by saying that supporting and pushing each other throughout the race is the best recipe for success.

“I think Boston was an interesting meet because even though it’s not a huge meet, there are a lot of competitive teams there and because of this it is hard to find your teammates,” Keklak said. “I think the best thing we can do in the next meet is make a conscientious effort to run together especially in the second half of the race. When you are running with your teammates, it makes it so much easier to keep your momentum going.”

Using a fairly inexperienced squad in the first two meets of the season, the Hoyas’ up-

perclassmen have embraced roles as leaders both on and off the course.

“We graduated a lot of people this year and all of the seniors came to the realization that they were the oldest and they weren’t used to leading,” Keklak said. “But after the first few weeks, people stepped into that role really well. They’ve been vocal and encouraging towards the underclassmen.”

On the men’s cross country team, junior Jonathan Green will try to continue his success after a notable performance at the Paul Short Invitational. Green led the Hoyas on the 8000-meter course with a time of 23:59 and secured third place overall. Senior Darren Fahy finished with a time of 24:04 in the race, placing fifth overall. Senior Mike Lederhouse placed sixth overall with a time of 24:06 and was the third Hoya to cross the finish line.

The men’s team displayed grit and determination as it placed five runners in the top 13 (Green, Fahy, Lederhouse, sophomore Christian Alvarado and junior Connor Sheryak) and placed a total of ten runners in the top 50 in the Paul Short Invitational. The men’s side will look to continue this impressive all-around performance at Pre-Nationals this weekend.

After the Pre-National Meet, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will have the following weekend off to prepare to travel to Mason, Ohio, to compete in the Big East Championships.

here are moments in life that stick with you. For instance, I will always remember where I was when I received a text from my friend that Jamaal Charles — the key cog in my fantasy football roster for the past two years and this year as well — went down with a noncontact injury in a game against the Chicago Bears. I was in a meeting in a peer’s Village A apartment, and upon learning the news, I let out a loud groan and sunk into the cushions of the couch.

I couldn’t pay attention to the rest of the meeting. The noncontact injury turned out to be the worst-case scenario for Charles, the Kansas City Chiefs and Charles’ fantasy football owners as he was diagnosed with a torn ACL in his right knee.

Charles will be out for the remainder of the year.

If you are also a Charles owner, or simply would like to bother his former owner in your league, target Abilene Christian product Charcandrick West (not Knile Davis, the well-known former backup of Charles) on your league’s waiver wire. West received most of the carries after Charles went down on Sunday and Coach Andy Reid has compared him favorably to Charles. While Knile Davis could still get some work, the best bet is that West will lead the Chiefs backfield as they take on the Minnesota Vikings this week.

Whether your squad is suffering from other injuries (Alshon Jeffery, I’m looking at you), underperforming stars (thanks, C.J. Anderson, although if you read my preseason columns, hopefully you didn’t target him in your draft) or is simply riddled with players on bye weeks, the waiver wire can be your best friend. I will highlight some players that are currently owned in less than 25 percent of NFL.com fantasy football leagues that can pay huge dividends in Week 6 and beyond for your roster.

At quarterback, Jacksonville Jaguar Blake Bortles has put up sneaky QB1 numbers through the first five weeks of the regular season. Currently owned in 17.8 percent of leagues, Bortles, while an erratic passer, has benefited from throwing to an emerging receiver corps that includes Allen Robinson, Allen Hurns and now Julius Thomas. Target Bortles if you have been currently using Tyrod Taylor, who will miss Week 6 due to injury, or if you have become disheartened by poor

play from the likes of Peyton Manning. Bortles has a juicy matchup against a vulnerable Texans secondary in Week 6.

At running back, if you miss out on West, one other player to target is Thomas Rawls of the Seattle Seahawks. Owned in 20.1 percent of leagues, Rawls has been Beast Mode Lite in the absence of Marshawn Lynch, rumbling for 169 yards and a touchdown against a solid Cincinnati Bengals defense during Week 5. While Lynch is rumored to return in Week 6, Rawls has entered the hallowed territory of handcuffs worth owning in fantasy. Even if Lynch returns, it is important to note he only averaged 3.4 yards per carry in the three games he played in this year. With Rawls showing his tremendous value in Lynch’s absence, he could be knocking on the door of stealing carries from Lynch and would be a certified RB1 if Lynch re-injures himself.

That level of potential deserves to be on your bench.

Finally, there is a plethora of tempting wide receiver pickups this week.

Rookie Willie Snead, owned in 12.5 percent of leagues, highlights this group after totaling 17 targets, 12 catches and 230 yards over the past two weeks. With the New Orleans Saints offense showing life in Week 5 with a big game from Brandin Cooks, Snead’s strong rapport with Drew Brees should be noted. If he’s out there in your league, pick him up. Atlanta Falcon Leonard Hankerson, who had a down game in Week 5 due to a rib injury but who remains a critical element in Matt Ryan’s offense, is another wide receiver to keep an eye on. In addition, Chicago Bear Marquess Wilson, who holds fantasy appeal as long as Alshon Jeffery remains sidelined, and local Washington Redskins player Jamison Crowder are also potential contributors.

With 15 catches over the past two weeks, Crowder is emerging as a favorite target of quarterback Kirk Cousins and a true WR3 in point-per-reception leagues even when DeSean Jackson and Jordan Reed return from injury.

Until next time, fantasy lovers, play on.

Joe Lanzilla is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

Fantasy Football Corner appears every other Friday.

Men’s Soccer

Hoyas Earn 4th Straight Shutout in Big East Play LAFAYETTE, from B10

co-captain Cole Seiler put the ball back in a dangerous position. That put sophomore midfielder Arun Basuljevic in front of the net with a clear shot on goal, which he easily hit home.

After the opening goal, Marquette came out of its shell, adopting an attacking mindset in an attempt to level the game. For the next 13 minutes, a wide open match saw even chances on both sides.

That spell, however, ended when senior defender and co-captain Josh Turnley picked out a cross from the left side to Allen in the 18-yard box. The forward easily put the chance to the right of the keeper and doubled Georgetown’s lead.

“I thought Josh Turnley maybe had one of his best games in terms of delivery and finding entries. As a fullback, he was very aggressive, which I thought was really important,” Wiese said.

Georgetown began to make substitutions after going up by two goals. Three of the substitutes combined to pull apart the Marquette defense with a series of passes that ended with a goal for senior midfielder Melvin Snoh.

The Hoyas’ back line and midfield pressed high for nearly the entire game, another consequence of Marquette’s defensive approach.

Georgetown frequently had multiple players around the ball as soon as Marquette gained possession.

“You have to quickly realize how the other team is playing, what they are giving you and then play to that. We did that well today when we realized they were sitting in,” junior

defender and co-captain Joshua Yaro said.

The high press and a back line that made few errors resulted in a comfortable shutout for Georgetown. The team has now held opponents scoreless for 366 consecutive minutes, a streak spanning four games. All four of those games were played against conference opponents.

“We’ve finally gotten into a rhythm, and that is to the credit of the whole team. We’ve done really well up top defensively. When you have strikers that are defending, it makes our job a lot easier,” Yaro said.

Wednesday’s victory is the sixth straight for Georgetown, which remained perfect in Big East play. The team remains tied with No. 1 Creighton University (15-0, 4-0 Big East) in the conference table. With conference play in full swing, the Hoyas have their sights set high for the remainder of the schedule.

“We talked about perfection. Can we be perfect through the league? You’re four games in and you haven’t conceded a goal and you are 4-0. We can maybe make a little history with that if they keep showing up and roll up the sleeves and work at it,” Wiese said.

Georgetown will take on DePaul (3-10, 2-2 Big East) in Chicago on Saturday. The Blue Demons have struggled this season, winning just three times and dropping 10 of their first 11 matches. Nevertheless, Wiese and his team will be careful not to take their opponent lightly.

“Tough one at DePaul on the road. That will be a tough ask to do it, just based on their venue, and I think their record is a really deceiving record for how good they are,” Wiese said.

NAAZ MODAN FOR THE HOYA

Sophomore midfielder Arun Basuljevic, above, and senior midfielder Melvin Snoh each scored goals in No. 10 Georgetown’s 3-0 win over Big East rival Marquette on Wednesday.

sports

FRIDAY, october 16, 2015

THE HOYA

volleyball

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saxa synergy

Hoyas Hope to Build on Dramatic 5-Set Win Odom Receives Support

Ryan McCoy

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown volleyball team (812, 2-5 Big East) faces another pair of away matches this weekend, travelling for conference contests against Xavier (9-8, 5-2 Big East) and Butler (5-14, 2-5 Big East). The Hoyas are coming off a 3-2 win over DePaul (12-7, 1-6 Big East) at McDonough Arena last Sunday.

Sunday’s game, the second out of the two Homecoming Weekend games, began with a strong start by the Hoyas, who rushed out to a two-set lead. The Blue Demons battled back, winning the third and fourth sets to set up a decisive fifth. However, Georgetown turned up the intensity and stormed to a 15-10 final-set victory.

“I think that we came out of the gates hard. They played well in the early parts. Then, we kind of lost our stride; DePaul stepped their game up after the intermission. We really had to fight to overcome some things,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “These Hoyas want to win, and they’re going to do everything in their power to do it. They just stepped up to the plate mentally, challenged themselves to persevere, and they did.”

Freshman middle blocker Symone Speech echoed her coach’s sentiments.

“Games like that, when it gets down to the wire, are really all about confidence. In the third and fourth set, we really played like we were scared, like we were just playing not to lose. So, on the bench we had to recollect ourselves and have confidence out there. … It’s hard, but we were able to do it,” Speech said.

Senior outside hitter Lauren Saar, who finished with a double-double of 13 kills and 10 digs, admitted that the team felt a bit of anxiety once the twoset lead disappeared.

“We were all laughing, saying, ‘Why did we do this to ourselves?

We could’ve just done it in three!’

But, either way, the W’s a W so it was fun to come out with the win at home, for sure,” Saar said.

SANTAMARIA, from B10

FILE PHOTO: ERICK CASTRO/THE HOYA

Freshman middle blocker Symone Speech, left, leads Georgetown with 52 total blocks in the 2015 season, and freshman setter Paige McKnight leads the team with 9.68 assists per set in the team’s 20 matches.

After that well-earned victory, the Hoyas now face a road trip with crucial implications.

“The conference is really crazy right now, everyone is kind of beating everyone, so if we win this weekend that’ll put us really high up in the conference,” Saar said. “We might be able to go to the tournament, so we kind of have to win. It’s a lot of pressure, but I’m really excited to play.”

Georgetown first travels to Cincin-

nati, where it will face Xavier in a Friday match at 3 p.m. The Hoyas will have to keep an eye on junior outside hitter Abbey Bessler, who leads the Musketeers by a significant margin with 283 kills on the season.

Asked about strategies for limiting the impact of players like Bessler, Speech gave a wry smile.

“It’s kind of mean, but you pick on people — at the net, you kind of call them out, say what they’re going to do. … Getting in someone’s head

helps a lot,” Speech said.

Immediately following its match against Xavier, Georgetown will travel to Indianapolis, where it will face Butler in a match at 6 p.m. The Bulldogs are led by freshman middle blocker Anna Logan, who has the most kills and digs on the team, with 213 and 187, respectively.

After this weekend’s crucial games, the Hoyas will return to McDonough Arena to begin the second half of their conference schedule.

Sailing

Hughes Continues Winning Ways in College HUGHES, from B10

not long after. Coutts has coached Hughes over a nine-year span and has been through some of Hughes’ toughest regattas, but he considers their introduction to be the most memorable moment he has had as her coach.

“For me, the most memorable is the day I met her; she was only nine at the time and the confidence and enthusiasm she showed that day will always be a lasting memory,” Coutts wrote in an email.

Though Hughes liked sailing when she tried it, she briefly walked away from the sport.

“I actually quit for a year because my dad would always go out on the water, and I’m super stubborn so I was like, ‘No, I’m not sailing anymore,’” Hughes said.

But even then, Hughes’ competitive spirit could not keep her away from sailing for too long.

“Then my brother started doing really well, I was like, ‘Oh, well.’ I’m always competitive with my brother,” Hughes said.

Since her return to the sport, Hughes hasn’t looked back and has continually pursued the best competition she could find. Hughes’ first boat was the Optimist, a singlehanded boat for sailors 15 years

old and younger. With that boat, Hughes brought her to Cyprus for the Internabegan travelling across the globe, begin- tional Sailing Federation Youth Sailing ning with a trip to England when she Championship for the first time in the was 11. Even though her first interna- summer of 2013. Hughes finished in tional competition was a qualifying time fifth place in the competition and would place second one year trial that Hughes said later, but competing in was “probably the low- “I didn’t her first ISAF world chamest for what you could pionship made it Hughes’ qualify,” Hughes said it necessarily know favorite event she has ever sparked a lifelong pascompeted in. sion to pursue sailing. how high my “That was probably the “It really opened dreams would highest-level regatta that my eyes to what sailI’d ever been to and really ing could be and how become, but I experienced and it was international the sport really liked the like what people will tell was, and at such a you, that Youth Worlds is young age, too,” Hughes competitive aspect a miniature Olympics in a said. “I didn’t necessarto it.” way,” Hughes said. “It gave ily know how high my me the feeling like, ‘Wow, I dreams would become, Haddon hughes Freshman Sailor want to pursue this to the but I really liked the highest level.’” competitive aspect to it.”

Ryan Minth, principal at C-vane sailing At 14 years old, Hughes transitioned from the Optimist to the Laser 4.7, part of and Hughes’ Laser Radial sailing coach for a class of boats that would allow Hughes two years, mentioned Hughes’ win at the to continue competing at the highest 2014 Orange Bowl International Youth Relevel of sailing. After racing the Laser 4.7 gatta as one of Hughes’ best performances.

“It was that regatta where I mentioned for a brief time, Hughes moved up to the Laser Radial, an Olympic-class boat that to some of the U.S. sailing leadership that Haddon makes her boat go through the Hughes still races today.

Hughes’ success with the Laser Radial water extremely well and makes great rac-

ing decisions, and those are two incredibly important qualities to have,” Minth said.

Now at Georgetown, Hughes spends most of her practices working on women’s doublehanded sailing, the type of competition that will dominate Georgetown’s spring season. Though Hughes did not begin working on doublehanded sailing until arriving at Georgetown, the process of learning how to work with another sailor and the technicalities of a new boat has been a positive process for the freshman.

“Haddon is clearly good at sailing — really good at sailing — so it hasn’t been a hard transition for her at all,” Callahan said.

At the moment, Hughes has her mind set on the ICSA Women’s Singlehanded Championship, the national competition for collegiate sailors Nov. 8. The closest Georgetown has ever come to winning the event happened last year when then-freshman Lola Bushnell took fifth place in the competition.

With Hughes and Bushnell both bound for the national competition this year, Georgetown will havea huge opportunity to claim a national title in women’s doublehanded sailing. And with Hughes on its side, Georgetown might have its best chance yet.

football

Nolan Leads Offense in Conference Battle COLGATE, from B10

said. “He knew where he wanted to go with the ball, even presnap. There were a lot of things that we saw during the week that he did a great job of executing on the field. He’s one of those kids that can have a performance like that every time he steps on the field. I’ve been say-

ing to anyone willing to listen that he’s a very good player, and when he makes good decisions with the football, we have success.”

Novacki was nearly as dominant on the defensive side of the ball, racking up five tackles, 2.5 of which were for losses and 1.5 of which were sacks.

“It’s great. It’s something that validates

what our program is doing in the Patriot League,” Sgarlata said of Novacki’s honor.

“It’s great to see both kids get honored, and it’s good to get a convincing win in the league.”

The team will have its hands full with Colgate. Although the Raiders currently have a 2-4 overall record, they are undefeated in Patriot League play and are tied

FILE PHOTO: ISABEL BINAMIRA/THE HOYA

Junior defensive lineman Phil Novacki recorded five tackles, including 1.5 sacks, in Georgetown’s 38-7 win over Lafayette. Novacki earned a spot on the list of Patriot League Weekly Honorable Mentions for his performance.

for first in the division. Junior quarterback Jake Melville has thrown for 1190 yards and six touchdowns this season, averaging just under 200 yards per game.

Melville has also rushed for 336 yards and two touchdowns and has thrown only one interception in six games.

“Defensively, the big thing is going to be stopping their quarterback. He’s a great athlete with a pretty good throw.

It all runs through him, so if we can get him off track, I think that will be huge for us,” Novacki said.

Melville has three main targets in the passing game: junior wide receiver John Maddaluna, sophomore wide receiver Alex Greenawalt and senior tight end John Quazza. Each has recorded at least 265 yards receiving this season. On the ground, Melville is only one component of a balanced running game, as junior running back John Wilkins, sophomore running back James Holland and senior running back Demetrius Russell have each rushed for more than 175 yards in 2015.

Despite the challenges the team may face against Colgate, Sgarlata is trying to take things in stride.

“We’re just taking it slowly, practice by practice, game by game, trying to get better at what we’re doing,” Sgarlata said. “Every game is going to be difficult and every opponent is going to play well.

We’re trying to establish our footprint in the conference, and hopefully this is the first step this season, Hopefully the momentum [from the Lafayette game] will carry over into the Colgate game.”

account for just how resilient Odom has been. Sure, he has had his fair share of drug suspensions and abuse problems throughout his career, but what has remained a constant in Lamar Odom’s life has been his resolve.

And as he lays in a hospital bed, fighting for his life, it is hard to remember anything but the good times. But here’s the head fake: as more and more NBA players and friends of Odom release their stories about the former star, it is apparent that he has had almost nothing but good times.

After playing with multiple teams throughout his career, Odom could definitely be expected to have made some enemies, but it seems that no matter where he went, people loved him and grew close to him.

Lamar Odom has received universal support from family members, NBA players and fans as he fights for his life.

Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers spoke to Odom through the media, telling him that the team loved him and was with him. Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat sent his prayers. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, Odom’s teammate for seven seasons and running mate during their back-to-back championships, has not left Odom’s side since he was hospitalized Tuesday.

Say what you will about Odom’s troubled off-court conduct and struggle with drugs. On the court, he has been nothing but a model person and teammate.

During the darkest years of the Lakers, when Kobe Bryant was left to fend for himself before the Pau Gasol trade and the rise of Andrew Bynum, Odom was the only other saving grace to the team. When the team finally turned itself around, Odom took home a Sixth Man of the Year Award and was arguably the second most valuable player on the 2009 and 2010 NBA Championship teams.

A couple years later, during the rise of the Los Angeles Clippers after the Chris Paul trade, Odom was an integral part of the team’s second unit, helping an otherwise young and vibrant roster with his veteran leadership.

Even during his time with the Mavericks, which was notoriously filled with drug suspensions and drama, Odom was nothing but kind and generous to the fans. One fan, a user on the NBA subreddit of Reddit, recounted a story in which he told Odom about his dying dog, only to have Odom ask him about it weeks later when they ran into each other.

Many stories like these have circulated the airwaves since Odom’s hospitalization, along with reports that Odom was attempting a comeback and was supposedly in the best shape of his life. Suffice it to say, despite losing his NBA career and Khloe Kardashian, a woman he has called his soul mate, Odom was still pulling through in every way he could.

Through the deaths of his mother, father, grandmother, son and two best friends, Odom has remained resilient and brave beyond measure.

Although there is little excuse for his misconduct, Odom has remained kind and true to himself. Now it’s time for us, his fans, to be honest with him.

Lamar, while it is far from guaranteed that you will make it, one thing is certain: You are loved. I think I speak for every basketball fan lucky enough to have grown up watching you do things on the court no 6-foot-10 person has ever done.

Thank you for everything.

Paolo Santamaria is a sophomore in the College.

Saxa Synergy appears every Friday.

SPORTS

Football Georgetown (3-3, 1-0) vs. Colgate (2-4, 1-0) Saturday, 1 p.m.

Cooper Field

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015

TALKING POINTS

VOLLEYBALL Georgetown will play two conference road games after a five-set win over DePaul.

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“

NUMBERS GAME

We’ve finally got into a rhythm, and that is to the credit of the whole team.”

JUNIOR DEFENDER JOSHUA YARO

MEN’S SOCCER

SAILING

Second-Half Surge Propels GU to Win ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team (8-2-2, 4-0 Big East) extended its winning streak to six games, and it did so in style. The Hoyas controlled the game from start to finish, scoring three second-half goals en route to a 3-0 win over Marquette (5-5-2, 1-2-1 Big East) at home Wednesday afternoon.

Marquette clearly entered the game expecting to be underdogs.

It spent large stretches of the first half with 11 men behind the ball.

The tactic ceded the ball to Georgetown but sought to prevent any clear chances on goal by simply overloading the defensive third with players.

For the most part, the strategy worked in the first 45 minutes.

The Hoyas outshot the Golden

4

The number of consecutive shutouts that the Georgetown men’s soccer team has recorded.

Eagles 11-2, took five corner kicks and forced the opposing keeper to make five saves before the break.

For all this offensive production, the best chances of the half came from a pair of long-range shots by senior forward Brandon Allen and junior forward Alex Muyl.

“How do you open up a team like that? You’re looking for three things. One is can you take good advantage of the times they actually have [the ball]. … Then it’s good width … or taking advantage of set pieces,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

A set piece was exactly what broke the deadlock. Georgetown earned a corner kick less than a minute into the second half. The initial kick looked like it would pass in front of the goal harmlessly, See MARQUETTE, B8 COURTESY GEORGETOWN ATHLETICS

Freshman Haddon Hughes, left, became the first Georgetown sailor to win the MAISA Women’s Singlehanded Championship. Hughes is pictured with sophomore Lola Bushnell, who finished second at the championship.

Hughes Captures MAISA Title KARA AVANCEÑA Hoya Staff Writer

JENNA CHEN FOR THE HOYA

Senior forward Brandon Allen scored his team-leading fifth goal of the 2015 season in Georgetown’s 3-0 win over conference rival Marquette.

Year in and year out, regatta after regatta, the Georgetown sailing team and its individual members excel in their conference competitions. In the six most significant yearly conference championships, the Hoyas regularly beat out the 53 other teams in the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association, etching Georgetown’s name in coveted trophies — in all but one event, that is.

“Last year, we won five of the six.

Years past, we won five of the six.

We’ve always been winning five out of six. The one we’ve never won is the women’s singlehanded,” Head Coach

Michael Callahan said.

Since the MAISA Women’s Singlehanded Championship was established in 1994, sailors from seven different schools have earned the Faye Bennet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the championship. Not one of those sailors has been a Georgetown student-athlete — until this year.

On a windy weekend in late September, one Hoya blew past her competition in eight races. After sailing off from Benby Beach in Annapolis, Md., she beat her competitors by more than one minute in some races and entered her name into Georgetown history as the university’s firstever winner of the MAISA Singlehanded Championship.

FOOTBALL

Hoyas Aim to Continue Offensive Success

And she did it all before she had been a student at Georgetown for one entire month.

Freshman Haddon Hughes is one of the newest members of the sailing team, but she is quickly making her mark on the program. A world champion before coming to Georgetown, Hughes also competes on the U.S. Sailing Development Team, the pathway for young sailors to join the U.S. Olympic team.

Hughes’ experience with sailing began when she was a 9-year-old in Houston and started sailing with her local yacht club. Hughes met Olympic Sailing Coach Allan Coutts See HUGHES, B9

SAXA SYNERGY

PETER HIGGINS Hoya Staff Writer

A week after its most impressive win of the season, the Georgetown football team (3-3, 1-0 Patriot League) will battle league rival Colgate (2-4, 1-0 Patriot League) at Cooper Field at 1 p.m.

Saturday.

Last Saturday, Georgetown routed the Lafayette Leopards (1-5, 0-2 Patriot League) 38-7. The timing of the overwhelming victory could not have been better, as it occurred on Homecoming Day, much to the home crowd’s delight.

For their efforts in the win, senior quarterback Kyle Nolan earned the distinction of Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and junior defensive lineman Phil Novacki earned a spot on the list of Patriot League Weekly Honorable Mentions.

“We talked all week about having a great week of practice. I think we did that, and that led to success,” Nolan said. “[Senior fullback] Troye [Bullock] broke us down and said it perfectly. He said if we win at practice, we will win at games, and then we will win the league.”

Novacki credited Defensive Coordinator Luke Thompson with preparing the defense to succeed against Lafayette. “Coach Thompson did a really good job of injecting confidence in us. I think the defense as a whole stepped up — we got good pressure from everyone. Defensive backs and linebackers covered well, so that really opened some things up for us to get some pressure on the quarterback,” Novacki said.

Head Coach Rob Sgarlata was also impressed with his team’s efforts.

“Like I’ve said a couple times, this is the closest team I’ve been around in a while. … It was really fun to see them come out in front of a big home crowd and put together a great football game. I’m really happy for the kids — they played extremely well and executed the game plan,” Sgarlata said.

In his Offensive Player of the Week performance, Nolan threw five touchdowns and 311 yards, completing 28 of his 36 pass attempts.

“I thought Kyle was really crisp,” Sgarlata

KARLA LEYJA FOR THE HOYA

On Tuesday afternoon, TMZ broke a story. The former Los Angeles Lakers star was found unconscious and fighting for his life in a Nevada brothel. He reportedly had both cocaine and a version of herbal Viagra in his system. As of Thursday night, Odom is still fighting, and while the odds still look bleak, he may very well pull through, much like he has pulled through throughout his entire life.

Many use the word “tragedy” to describe Odom’s life, but the word fails to explain everything he went through or

See COLGATE, B9

Senior quarterback Kyle Nolan threw for 311 yards and five touchdowns in Georgetown’s 38-7 win over Lafayette. Nolan was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week.

See SANTAMARIA, B9

Paolo Santamaria

Friends, Fans Rally For Odom H

e is more than a two-time NBA champion; he is more than a Sixth Man of the Year winner; he is more than a former Kardashian husband. He is Lamar Odom, and he still is.

Former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom remains hospitalized in Nevada.

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