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DREAM FULFILLED

Former Georgetown lacrosse player Reilly O’Connor was selected seventh in the NLL Draft.

EDITORIAL With their remaining time, Luther and Rohan must strike a balance.

TAKING RISKS This year’s TEDx conference seeks to augment its interactive offerings.

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Midway, GUSA Executive Reorients Toby Hung

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When Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) launched their campaign in February, they only had two serious points — regarding sexual assault and mental health — on their otherwise satirical platform.

the student engagement that helped them win the election in February.

Master Planning Luther and Rohan estimate that they have spent half of their time in office on the issue of master planning. With deliberations concerning the

2018 Campus Plan under way, the duo meets frequently with administrators to discuss student concerns about housing policies and construction on campus.

“We’re continuing conversations about what’s a senior living in Georgetown look like, in terms of students maintaining the abili-

ty to live off campus,” Luther said.

In March, fresh off their campaign’s victory, Luther and Rohan and the GUSA Campus Plan Subcommittee launched “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again,” an online petition calling for the greater representation of See MIDTERM, A6

“GUSA is intrinsically an advocacy body, and in order to get anything done, the university has all the resources. It’s on us to constantly be working with the university.”

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The Duke Ellington School for the Arts will receive $9.8 million to complete renovations.

$47M Funds Citywide Projects

JOE LUTHER (COL ’16) President, Georgetown University Student Association

Luther and Rohan, who gave themselves a B-plus for their term, have negotiated with the administration on a range of issues, prioritizing sexual assault policy reform, disability access reform, master planning and mental health reform in their first seven months in office. In the future, the pair said they hope to delve deeper into these issues while reinvigorating

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GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16), left, and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) are poised to reposition themselves toward student engagment, delegating policy initiatives.

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MADNESS DESCENDS

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a $47 million funding plan to aid city education, infrastructure, small businesses and parks across all eight wards of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 9.

The funding comes from the $25 million that the District gained in accepting a corporate sponsorship from the Potomac Electric Power Company for the development of the D.C. United Soccer Stadium, with the remainder sourced from city-wide underspending in the 2015 fiscal year.

The announcement on the mayor’s website highlighted the plan’s aim to enhance the city’s infrastructure, facilities and economy.

“Mayor Muriel Bowser is committed to investing in the priorities that are important to District residents,” the website reads. “These community improvements will boost the local economy and create pathways to the middle class.”

The Duke Ellington School of the Arts at 35th and R Street will receive a $9.8 million share of the funding to complete its $115 million renovation of its Georgetown campus. According to a Department of General Services report on the project, this renovation will

Minimum Wage Proposal Stalls Ian Scoville

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Rapper 2 Chainz performed at Hoya Hoops Madness in McDonough Arena on Friday to mark the start of basketball season.

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Lombardi Receives NIH Grant Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health awarded The Lombardi Comprehensive

Cancer Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences $4.5 million to study environmental factors leading to breast cancer Oct. 8.

USU associate professor Celia By-

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The Lombardi Center is the co-recipient on a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study breast cancer factors.

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rne and Lombardi professor Marybeth Martin will lead the study, a continuation of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ 2003 Breast Cancer and Environment Research Program that seeks to identify both the causes and potential cures of the disease.

Byrne explained that research into environmental factors affecting breast cancer could prove crucial to prevention efforts. In a press release, she noted that the issue is prevalent in Washington, D.C., as it has a high occurrence of breast cancer compared to the nation.

“Our study will work to address the reasons why Washington, D.C. has one of the highest rates of breast cancer incidence in the country,” Byrne said. “This type of research is important.”

According to a 2015 American Cancer Society study examining new breast cancer cases from 2007 to 2011, D.C. had a rate of 143 per 100,000 women, compared to the national average of 123 per 100,000 women.

The five-year study will focus on the effects of the hormone estradiol, which plays a crucial role in the development of breast cancer.

Beset by ongoing legal challenges from the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, grassroots efforts to increase Washington, D.C.’s minimum wage to $15 by 2020 have stalled for the foreseeable future.

Launched by a coalition of both local and national labor and social justice oriented advocacy groups this past April, including Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Working Families Organization, the campaign seeks to eliminate the current submini-

mum wage paid to tipped employees by establishing a ballot measure for the 2016 election. The measure aims to create a $15-per-hour wage floor by 2020 and ensure tipped restaurant workers the same $15 wage floor by 2025.

At present, the minimum hourly wage in the District, currently set at $10.50, will reach $11.50 by July 2016, per the Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2013 that raised the rate from $8.25 per hour in annual increments.

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NEWS 5K Against Homelessness 219 The Georgetown Ministry Center and CSJ’s charity event drew 300 participants.

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NEWS St. Teresa Turns 500

An all-day conference commemorated the quintcentenary of the saint.

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Sports Comeback Falls Short

13 unanswered points in the fourth quarter were not enough, falling to Colgate.

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OPINION Feel the Bern

Bernie Sanders proved, once again, his appeal to Georgetown students.

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NEWS Air and Space

The Smithsonian museum expands educational offerings with a $5M GE partnership.

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OPINION Undeclared, Unpeturbed The freedom of indecision allows the exploration of many diverse interests.

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Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan (COL ’16) are unconventional leaders. By running a campaign satirizing the whole process, they won the backing of students tired of a staid Georgetown University Student Association with the promise that the body could be something different. Thus, they assumed the roles of GUSA president and vice president with little policy direction.

Midway through their term, Luther and Rohan now find themselves at an evident crossroads, having thus far carried the traditional mantle of the GUSA executive as the primary student advocates — at the expense of the energy that roused the student body in February.

In an interview with this editorial board, Luther and Rohan stated a desire to rededicate themselves to galvanizing student engagement, handing off policy initiatives to their large, well-equipped staff and cabinet.

For an administration that derived its legitimacy from the rare ability to make students care, it is important that they salvage student interest. Yet, despite their unconventional background, Luther and Rohan must strike a balance and still pay heed to the demands inherent to their positions.

The Good, The Bad Luther and Rohan’s crowning achievement thus far is their preparation for the 2018 Campus Plan negotiations. Fuelled by an energetic “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again” campaign in April, they have negotiated increased representation on the Georgetown Community Partnership’s Steering Committee, adding two student representatives, as well as paving the road for collaborative relations with off-campus neighbors. While the long-term nature of campus plan negotiations limits the tangibility of their actions, they have set up a framework that future executives can use to achieve student goals in this issue area.

Perhaps the most visible gains Luther and Rohan have accomplished thus far have been in the areas of sexual assault and mental health policy reform — the two issues the ticket refused to satirize during their campaign, instead presenting a thoughtful, nuanced platform.

The fruit of tremendous effort and arguably their most significant achievement yet, the six-point memorandum of understanding with university administrators on sexual assault nonetheless remains a framework for reform that requires a commitment to implementation and further expansion.

Luther and Rohan have likewise taken meaningful steps in mental health policy reform; this semester has seen the first-of-its kind mental health forum on campus, featuring accessible university administrators, and the creation of the GUSA Mental Health Committee, contributing to an increase in necessary dialogue at Georgetown. Luther and Rohan should continue to cultivate a sense of communal responsibility on the Hilltop, considering advocating for increased funding for counselling services as well as the possibility of a peer support program.

Even after acknowledging the steep learning curve this administration faced, Luther and Rohan’s record on other significant issues has vast room for improvement. Sustainability, disability access and diversity remain pressing concerns on campus. Luther and Rohan’s goals on these fronts have been consistently less specific, leading to very little change thus far. By their own admission, they would do well to delegate tasks to those within GUSA who have the expertise to take lead on these issues in a decisive manner.

Engagement The most memorable part of the YouTopia campaign was that it was funny. Luther and Rohan made us laugh and made us listen. To Luther and Rohan, student engagement as an ideal was far more important than any policy proposal, and they promised to dedicate the same creativity to transforming student government into a relevant institution.

Their student government has certainly

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been relevant, as their policy achievements evince. Yet save for the occasional droll remark in weekly emails, GUSA, to the average student, remains the same dull and arcane organization as six months ago.

Such irony, thankfully, has not been lost on Luther and Rohan. How they plan to address their failure, however, may be cause for concern. In the coming months, the two hope to step back from a hectic meeting schedule and devote more time to engaging students with their administration’s central concerns.

In their interview, the pair never made the exact nature of this reorientation clear. Both executives failed to propose specific and measurable steps for reinvigorating a politically apathetic student body. Although editorial policy recommendations like more Youtube videos may serve to revive student engagement, the responsibility of coming up with these policies lies with Luther and Rohan, as this is their area of expertise.

The Luther-Rohan administration’s return to their comedy roots is commendable and sure to enthuse students. But Luther and Rohan must ensure that this attempt to reinvigorate student engagement does not stall policy progress. Delegating tasks to knowledgeable staff and cabinet members is important but does not wholly suffice; the reality is that a GUSA executive’s presence carries significant weight in routine meetings as well as administrative negotiations.

An engagement effort that requires Luther and Rohan to sit out of a portion of these functions must therefore demonstrate that their absence from the meeting room will be offset by their work outside of it.

Helping the Homeless — D.C. sanitation worker Arnold Harvey has given numerous tents to homeless people around the city. This is a new initiative of his charity, God’s Connection Transition.

Done Biden His Time — Joe Biden is rumored to finally announce imminently whether or not he will make a presidential run in 2016.

Con-grad-ulations! — The graduation rate in Washington, D.C. public high schools increased by more than 6 percent between the 2013-2014 and the 2014-2015 school years.

GilMORE Girls — Netflix has responded to the appeals of countless Americans and Hoyas by announcing it will bring back a revival season of the nation’s greatest television show, “Gilmore Girls.”

Boycotts in a Galaxy Far, Far Away — The hashtag #boycottstarwarsvii became popular on Twitter as certain users tweeted disgust with Star Wars’ diverse casting choices.

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Full Steam Ahead In assessing Luther and Rohan’s performance thus far, some difficulty lies in the lack of precedent for a satire-turned-real GUSA administration. Their predecessors have been judged on detailed campaign platforms; their metric was comparative performance. In some ways, Luther and Rohan’s limited slate of campaign promises is refreshing — though they spent a longer time playing catch-up and learning how GUSA works early in their tenure, they have taken up new and recurrent campus issues in stride. Thus, Luther and Rohan’s evaluation must call back on what they promised: change — and in that regard, they have left much to be desired.

Both have undoubtedly brought a unique passion and energy to student government.

Despite success in the areas of sexual assault policy, mental health and the campus plan, however, they have so far failed to change the system in significant fashion. Feeling the pressure to fit the mold of student body president and vice president, sitting in on meeting after meeting with the administration and doing their best to weigh in on every issue, Luther and Rohan have fit the bill almost too well.

Their decision to back away and energize GUSA should not come at the expense of substance, and the president and vice president must play a concrete role — one that they have thus far played well — that cannot be understated. Student activism can only go so far without institutional support, and it is the role of GUSA, as the channel between the student body and the administration, to not only reach out to and galvanize students, but also to support them throughout their entire fight.

Luther and Rohan have demonstrated a sincere commitment to the student body and, personally, have handled their unanticipated leadership roles with the trademark tongue-in-cheek humor that has yet to characterize their administration.

They graded their progress with a B-plus, noting significant change is needed, but their achievements thus far should not be undersold.

Their administration will run out of steam if they fail to engage the student body, but to fully devote themselves to that effort would mean neglecting the other demands of the executive position; to adhere to their ideals and students’ needs, Luther and Rohan must find a balance.

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Reno Varghese (SFS ’16) and James Gadea (SFS ’16) analyze the different arguments for and against the elimination of the tobacco industry:

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Ten times the total number of Americans who lost their lives in the history of all the country’s wars, have died early from smoking related illnesses. Smoking kills. And when corporate interests can convince a country that it makes sense to allow an industry to exist that feeds off of hooking disadvantaged, poor, laborers to a drug that kills them slowly, you know there’s a problem.

The massive loss of life cannot be justified. Tobacco abuses the body, however, it continues to be used. No, this is not like Prohibition. Alcohol can be abused. But it can also be consumed in moderation without negative health effects. Tobacco cannot be used in moderation, without negative health effects.”

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OPINION

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

I The Limits Of Science (And Life) F

or a society terrified of death, we should be proud of ourselves: In comparison to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who were lucky to live past the age of 25, Americans currently hold an average life expectancy of 80 years. Through a combination of pharmaceutical innovation, biotechnological revolution and nutritional awareness, we have managed to delay death.

Scientific breakthroughs have helped add decades to people’s lives so that, unlike our prehistoric counterparts, we do not immediately succumb to the common cold or pneumonia. Science has also equipped us with the tools to fight debilitating illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and cardiac failure.

If we develop osteoporosis, we are not necessarily doomed, thanks to calcium deposit stimulating injections.

Science has given us the privilege of living longer. However, it has not completely succeeded in improving our quality of life so that we can truly experience the world while alive.

Our prehistoric relatives may have led shorter lives than we do, but they were healthy while alive. Today we live longer lives than our ancestors did, but we spend our final years sickly and incapacitated.

As a result, although the age of expiry has been extended, the resulting human cost has increased exponentially. Take the United States military for example; during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers have faced gruesome trauma involving gunshot wounds, improvised explosive device (IED) injuries, grenade injuries and anti-tank mine injuries, among others. Some have required extensive limb amputations and tissue reconstructions. Yet only ten percent of American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan died. This statistic is absolutely remarkable, and disconcerting.

The fact that 90 percent of soldiers injured by shrapnel, bombs, IEDs and grenades are still alive today is a testament to the phenomenal efficiency of our military medical teams. However, this leaves us with an enormous population of disabled individuals.

Though science has allowed us to save and fix soldiers who lost one leg above the knee, both arms below the elbow, part of the face, or even both hands, what kind of existence can they expect to have afterward?

The brutal injuries that so many of these soldiers incur have severely decreased their independence and drastically shattered their quality of life. Many of these injured soldiers will be dependent on others, reduced to a wheelchair and unable to perform a range of functions they were once able to without a second thought. Is this reduced quality of life worth being alive?

To answer this question, we must consider what makes life worth living. I am grateful for God’s graceful presence in my life, my family, my independence and my abilities to travel to different countries, fall asleep with a fully bell each night and study the subject I adore at such an amazing, yet expensive, university. To me, these attributes add value to my life. However, for others who have been injured and cannot live independently or savor life the way they used to, is simply being alive enough?

Science has devised immediate solutions to keep hearts pumping and blood flowing, but it has not done a satisfactory job of restoring an injured and sick individual’s quality of life. Is it truly better to be immobilized in a bed under the care of a nurse until death, robbed of life’s joys than to die? These injured soldiers are certainly alive thanks to revolutionary scientific breakthroughs, but some of them have been so horribly injured that they will remain dependent on a caregiver until death. In these extreme cases, the value of being alive is questionable. Unable to lead an independent, purposeful life and perform basic cognitive functions, the vegetative status does not lead to a meaningful life — and this is where science has failed.

Yes, science can make red blood cells continue to deliver oxygen to and take carbon dioxide away from body tissues and force bodies to produce ATP, which is energy for life. However, science has taken a very insular approach to saving lives; it has shown a lack of equal consideration for the quality of life of its patients. I believe we were, certainly not in all, but in some ways, better off a couple centuries back, when people could actually live healthy lives and completely enjoy what life had to offer while alive, though they might have lived shorter lives. Science is fueling our beating hearts so we can live until 80, but many of the terminally ill, fatally wounded and elderly are spending their final years on a hospital bed, some unable to process their surroundings, care for themselves, recognize their families or walk on their own. It is our job to recognize this limitation of science, and redirect the field to focus on reinstating quality of life before lengthening lifespans.

Nikita Deshpande is a sophomore in the College. Navigating Health care appears every other Monday on thehoya.com.

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Suffering From ‘Undeclared-ness’

have a severe case of “undeclared-ness.”

When I decided to come to college in the nation’s capital, I thought I would be able to figure out what I wanted to do for the next four years of my life — that is, what I wanted to study and who I would vote for in the upcoming presidential election. Yet, I have realized that I am just about the most “undeclared” that anyone can get: studying in Georgetown’s liberal arts college with an undecided major.

If you asked me to, I could recite all 50 states in alphabetical order, recall the “Our Father” in Irish Gaelic and run seven miles. But I cannot for the life of me tell you what I want to do with my life.

I cringed during Georgetown’s information sessions when I heard students ask about the “ease” of double majoring among the McDonough School of Business and the College.

I still get nervous upon hearing my friends discuss the requirements that they have already fulfilled for their biology major. I freak out when people discuss the overseas program in global finance they are applying to next year.

Does anyone else feel the way I do — confused about just plain life in general? I’m still trying to navigate this new college life. How can I think about the future when I have to remind myself where Walsh 497 is every day?

I am amazed by those who have already figured it out. Cheers to those who came to Georgetown with a stepby-step plan. But I also applaud those like myself, who arrived with an abundance of unanswered questions.

According to an article from The Mentor at Pennsylvania State University, “First-year students are still attempting to understand their own identity and, having lived a majority of their lives under someone else’s guidance, they may not

I can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order, recall the “Our Father” in Irish Gaelic and run seven miles.

But I cannot tell you what I want to do with my life. yet be able to come to legitimate conclusions about themselves.”

This idea of “identity” becomes a topic hotly debated both externally and internally among freshmen at Georgetown. Who are you? What are you going to become?

Last week, I had my first Four-Year Plan meeting with my dean. I walked in feeling immediately overwhelmed.

I feared the worst, and wondered if I would have to make a major decision about the rest of my life in the next 15 minutes. Luckily for me, my dean could not have been nicer. Sure, my Four-Year Plan spreadsheet contains a few holes, but it’s meant to. For the first time in my academic career, I have allowed ample breathing room.

In high school, I was used to the rigidity of structure and requirements. I have always loved and done well at adhering to guidelines, following rules and keeping a plan. This is the first time that I — as well as many of my peers — am

choosing my own academic trajectory. How do I know what to do?

Georgetown caters to the confusion of the first year class. Our school’s policy allows for us to try a lot, fail a lot and succeed. According to a New York Times article by Cecilia Capuzzi Simon titled “Major Decisions,” “‘Exploratory’ is the new undeclared. Colleges have moved away from the negative-sounding ‘undecided’ label to encourage students to experiment with unfamiliar disciplines and, perhaps, discover a passion and career path.”

Being “exploratory” shows the beauty of the learning process: try a lot and fail a lot. I know I sound like a broken record or a prophetic grandmother by saying this, but I am sure it’s the truth.

Step one — choosing what to study — is difficult enough. Step two is applying this to the real world.

According to Business Insider, a venture capitalist once said that certain

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majors were “soft[er]” than others, and therefore less useful and valued in society. The article then criticizes the naivete of this comment, explaining that some of the most successful entrepreneurs who graduated with such “soft” majors, such as English, history or philosophy, have taken charge of multibillion-dollar corporations and have landed high profile positions. For example, Mitt Romney was an English major at Brigham Young University, and later became a frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election. Carly Fiorina received a degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University, and was not only the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, but is also a presidential candidate.

If it’s not about the title of your major, but the application of your major, why not take your time deciding a major? Don’t worry about taking economics or computer science because it will get you a job.

Take medieval literature. Take the “Harry Potter” elective. Do what you love and the rest will fall into place.

Risks and confusion make a better person. Georgetown students are among the most experienced in the world. And why? Because they try everything. It doesn’t matter if they tried, failed and then re-evaluated. Experiences come from the process, not the end result. Do what you want to do, not what you have to or should do.

So, if you have got it figured out, congratulations! But if not, my advice to you is: Take a breath and take it slow. Don’t worry about the name of your major. Try everything out. With more risk-taking comes greater life experience. I know that I can learn more from knowing less.

sarah jackmauh is a freshman in the College.

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he first Democratic debate hosted by CNN on Oct. 13 drew an average of 15.3 million viewers, making it the highest-watched Democratic debate in history. From Anderson Cooper’s first question, it was evident that the debate would demonstrate a marked difference in tone and substance from the first two Republican debates.

Viewers immediately saw that candidates would have to answer difficult, pointed questions onstage.

While the debate focused on the issues and might not have produced fireworks, it was a welcome departure from the personality-centric clown shows from the GOP — those were more reminiscent of reality television than a presidential debate.

None of the democratic candidates discussed, for example, plans to round up millions of “illegal” immigrants for deportation, the defunding of Planned Parenthood or the potential to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage.

Instead, progressive and thoughtful discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement and climate change brought huge applause from the Georgetown crowd at the viewing party in the Healey Family Student Center (with the exception of Jim Webb, whose answers drew loud boos from the crowd and relegated him, along with the shockingly bad Lincoln Chafee, to punchline status).

In the Student Center, the level of energy and excitement was palpable.

Hoyas for Hillary took up the front rows and handed out stickers, while Georgetown for Bernie supporters handed out hundreds of flyers, posted Bernie 2016 signs and tabled at the event. The Bernie flyers explained the current controversy over the Democratic National Committee’s decision to allow only six democratic primary debates (in contrast to the 26 that took place in 2008 and the 9 Republican debates still scheduled through 2016) and to bar the candidates from participating in other debates through an exclusivity clause.

This decision has been heavily criticized, as the debate cycle in 2008 allowed an unknown Barack Obama to introduce his charisma and leadership to the country and to shake up the primary race. Both Sanders and Martin O’Malley have called for more debates, pointing out that they are one of the few democratic platforms where candidates can introduce themselves and their stances to the public. Students were encouraged to tweet “#allowdebate” and tweet at @gtownforbernie to engage in the larger social media conversation. Throughout the night, Sanders showed why he is overwhelmingly popular among Georgetown students.

Onstage, for two and a half hours, Sanders pushed for progressive issues and consistently set the agenda.

Sanders has centered his campaign around economic inequality in the United States today, a message that draws record numbers of supporters

to his events. As a result, a significant amount of debate time was devoted to economic issues, with Sanders taking the lead. Throughout the debate, Sanders highlighted the gross inequalities between the one percent and the rest of the country, criticized the overt influence of money and Wall Street in politics and argued for breaking up big banks, reinstating Glass-Steagall, overturning Citizens United, providing universal health care and paid family leave and making college affordable.

Sanders also discussed his longtime support of civil rights and LGBTQ justice and his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline and the TransPacific Partnership. His well-known and popular stances have forced the other four candidates to move to the left in order to remain viable, even when they must change their stances to do so. As a result, while other candidates spent the debate fending off charges of flip-flopping, justifying changes in position and defending poor decisions in hindsight, Sanders was able to use the debate to showcase his consistency and commitment to progress.

In a move that Sanders himself acknowledged as less than politically expedient, Sanders refused to take advantage of the opportunity to criticize Clinton for her email scandal, telling Clinton that “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.” Again in sharp contrast to typical political strategies, Sanders emphasized that he refuses to run a negative campaign and will focus only on actual issues affecting the country. To many, Sanders’ voting record speaks for itself; regardless of whether people agreed with his positions or not, it was undeniable that his message was sincere.

It is of no surprise that his campaign has also galvanized energy nationwide. Bernie Sanders was mentioned 407,000 times online on Tuesday night, with 69 percent of his mentions ranking as positive (compared to Hillary Clinton’s 56 percent). He raised an unbelievable $3.2 million dollars within three days following the debate, all from small and individual donors. Sanders saw the greatest increase in his number of Twitter followers and had the highest number of Google searches. He further won by a landslide in all online polls and focus groups. Though political pundits and mainstream media outlets declared Clinton the winner of the debate, the people’s choice is clear.

Sanders did an incredible job presenting himself as the only truly progressive and electable candidate who is committed to putting democracy and the people first. Students like me look forward to the next five debates.

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his is a provocation, pro-voca- dergraduate led me toward this kind of profession. Is this what tion.

Until recently, there was we had or have in mind?

Back to the Bulletin: Last fall, as I a rule buried deep within the College section of the Undergraduate was searching for an answer to a stuBulletin, a rule obscure enough dent’s question, that language sudthat you would have been unlikely denly struck me as strange, unhelpto encounter it until you violated it: ful and even hypocritical. Isn’t it “No more than four pre-profession- contradictory to imply that the bulk al courses may be counted towards of the courses taken toward our the degree, unless required within degree (should) have no direct cona declared major or minor.” nection to one’s professional goals, A bit of archival research in John given that we are now in the habit, Q. Pierce’s library confirms that this as evidenced by several of the pieces particular regulation had been on in this series, of making the case for the books since 1976, the only sub- a liberal arts education as perfectly stantial change having come quite good preparation for professional recently, when the final clause was success, with future earnings as added to acknowledge that students (only) one marker of that success? pursuing the new College minor in Now, but also always: the Bulletin business administration would be has always made clear (in 1976 as in not only permit2014) that the College ted but required is committed to the to take five or assumption of responsix McDonough sibility and action — School of Business which is another way courses.

Otherof defining the (pre-) wise, this limit “professional.” So I on the amount bugged my colleagues of space given and we ultimately over to the strictly agreed to new BulleJoe Napolitano pre-professional tin language, fresh for within the liberal 2015: “No more than arts curriculum of the College had six courses from the McDonough remained largely unchanged.

School of Business may be counted I want to say, first and foremost, toward the degree.” This is in some that I believe deeply in this rule, or ways an easy way out, with busiat least in the reasoning behind it. ness courses serving as a convenient My own undergraduate education other for our liberal arts curriculum. was so rich and rewarding, so trou- And, of course, the ban is likely to bling and transformational, that I produce even more desire for the would not have been willing to give banned object. up a single one of those courses in More important, editing out exchange for anything more … mer- the “pre-professional” lets us off cenary. I use the word “mercenary” the hook, allowing us to avoid rather than “practical” in order to hard questions about the relationbe provocative, sure, but especially ship between school and work, because the latter does not fit. Much the university and the world outof what I learned in undergraduate side. And this at a time when the classrooms changed not just the acceleration of transformations way I think about the world but the in the global economy — the caway I (try to) live my life. But even if sualization of so many forms of I know that I believe in it, I am not labor — ought to obligate those of sure that I know what it means and I us with the privilege of thinking wonder if we have ever known what in “professional” terms to think we mean(t) by “pre-professional.” even more seriously about the There is a certain irony here, be- nature of work, the right to work, cause the fact that you are reading the relationship between work this is one indication that my own and dignity. undergraduate education was, in This is also a plea: for space — a sense, pre-professional: On a ba- and not only metaphorical — for sic level, I make my living (strange the humanities in a redesigned phrase!) working at a university; on university, perhaps in the form another level, the etymology of the of an interdisciplinary Humaniword “professional” links it histori- ties Center. A university that excally to religious senses of “profes- periments with new work/learn sion” (of faith) and here I am, declar- models without creating spaces ing publicly that what I believe in, for thinking about the meanabove almost all else, is the transfor- ings attached to, inter alia, the mative power of a liberal arts edu- concept of work (alternatively, cation and its ability to change the travail and transcendence) ways in which we both think about would devalue (y)our degree and act in the world. It is “as if pro- and impoverish (y)our educafession, linked more to the liberal tion, rendering it worthless. and nonmercenary arts, implied a pledge of responsibility freely de- Joe Napolitano is an assistant clared, very nearly under oath — in dean at Georgetown College. a word, professed,” writes the late He is one of the alternating Jacques Derrida in an essay on “the writers for The Dean’s Desk, university without condition.” which appears every other Every class that I took as an un- Tuesday.

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engaging and interacting with students.

Puno also cited this year’s marTEDx Georgetown will return in keting campaign, which was creits fifth iteration Saturday with 12 ated by Director of Social Media speeches centered on the theme of Marketing David Kang (MSB ’18), “Risk Takers,” featuring more interas a new innovative way to engage active programming, a larger board the entire student body prior to the and a new marketing campaign. event.

The speaker lineup includes stuThe team placed stickers in the dents, alumni, faculty and public shape of an “X” across campus. Stufigures, including professional poker dents who post a photo of a sticker player Annie Duke and journalist and on social media will receive VIP Georgetown University Law Center tickets and free TEDx apparel. adjunct professor Colman McCarthy.

“It’s going to give people a This year’s speeches will discuss chance to interact with the theme the role of risk-taking in the speakand become a part of the process,” ers’ experiences of achievement, Puno said. “It’s more than just a failure or inspiration. The event is diday conference with speakers, it’s vided into three separate subthemes: more of a way for people to engage “Inspiring the Uninspired,” “Fail Forthemselves.” ward” and “High-Risk, High-Reward.”

This year, the TEDx team also Caroline James (COL ’16), one of coordinated meetings between the student speakers, will share a stostudent speakers to go over their ry of her experiences of participating talks prior to the event. Speakers in civil disobedience, including her also met with assigned faculty to receive guidance.

“One of the most fun things has been that the different speakers are working on our speeches together, which I didn’t expect,” James said. “We’ve also been working with professors and the department of art and art history to work on presentation as well as the content of our speech.”

James praised the team’s help in providing training for speakers.

“In terms of the process from the speaker side, it’s been super well run. When I applied, I wasn’t thinking about the process, I was thinking about the speech. But the process has been just as fun,” James said.

Hussein said that the speeches will provide attendees with new perspectives on its speakers, particularly those from the Georgetown community.

“It’s a way for you to learn something new about your faculty or even outside speakers or even the speakers around you who you wouldn’t otherwise hear, whether in a classroom or something else,” Hussein said.

Puno also agreed that TEDx is a worthwhile experience for students, as it is representative of Georgetown’s academic spirit and Jesuit values.

“It’s such a uniquely Georgetown experience to be able to sit down and put all this cura personalis contemplation in action,” Puno said. “To be there for one day and absorb all these different stories and think about what they mean and then be inspired to do VALERIA BALZA/THE HOYA something about them, I think it This year’s TEDx Georgetown board, which consists of 16 members, has met frequently throughout the fall semester to plan the annual speaking speaks a lot to what we value as a event, which returns to campus Saturday for the fifth time with interactive breakout sessions, following a renewed marketing campaign. school.”

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arrest at a protest. On campus, James serves as the Georgetown University Student Association secretary of sustainability and is a member of GU Fossil Free.

“If I can take the risk to get arrested, anyone can take the risk,” James said. “A lot of [my speech] is about the way that civil disobedience and aspects of this risk-taking are ways to participate in the democratic process. I want people to come away with the sense of what their various passions mean to them and really just how movements work.”

Darius Baxter (COL ’15), an alumnus speaker, will integrate his personal narrative into his talk.

“I plan to inspire the crowd by sharing little bits of my life story and weaving those stories together in order to hopefully bring people a little bit of happiness,” Anderson said.

Other speakers include McDonough School of Business Senior Associate Dean Norean Sharpe,

graduate student Isvari Mohan (LAW ’17) and undergraduate student Scott Dennis (COL ’17).

This year’s event will also see increased dialogue between attendees and speakers with breakout sessions, replacing the question-andanswer format used in previous years.

According to TEDx Georgetown Co-Chair Mona Hussein (COL ’16), students will be able to reflect on the speeches more directly with the speakers during the breakout sessions.

“It was really a way for us to include people’s stories in a different kind of way and mend them into a story that people can take back home with them and think, ‘This is something that I will probably think about in the next few months’ or ‘This could be me,’” Hussein said.

The TEDx Georgetown board tripled in size to 18 members from six last year. According to Hussein,

she and Co-Chair Kevin Carter (SFS ’16) wanted to consider a wider diversity of experiences by creating a larger board, which organizes all aspects of the event from logistics to selecting speakers.

“We not only focused on having a list of student speakers and outside speakers, but we also focused on the whole TEDx experience for the Georgetown community, for students, for faculty,” Hussein said.

Although the group began brainstorming for the event in April with the selection of the theme and board members, Carter said that the bulk of the preparation occurred at the beginning of the academic year.

“When everyone came back the first week of school, we really hit the ground running. We saw a lot of enthusiasm,” Carter said.

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More than 300 members of the Georgetown community participated in the second annual 5K Race Against Homelessness, a charity event hosted by the Georgetown Ministry Center and the Center for Social Justice, on Saturday.

Proceeds from the race go toward the GMC’s street outreach programs to combat chronic homelessness in Washington, D.C. According to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, there were 12,000 homeless individuals in the District in 2014.

GMC could not provide the amount of donations raised at this year’s event. Last year’s race raised $12,000 for the GMC. The race took place on the third annual Georgetown Community Day, a daylong celebration of the Georgetown neighborhood with live music, food and free giveaways organized by the university.

Multiple student groups and business were involved in sponsoring the event, including Students of Georgetown, Inc., Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa Kappa Gamma, the Georgetown Business Improvement District and Bank of Georgetown.

The event began with the 5-kilometer run and a 2-kilometer walk, followed by a post-race tailgate with food and music.

Pre-registered runners and walkers received free merchandise to commemorate the race.

Participants had the option of racing solo or creating a team of runners, walkers or a combination of the two.

5K Race Against Homelessness Marketing Director Nicole Du (COL ’16) said she was impressed with the day’s programming. Du publicized the event by creating a page on Facebook, encouraging students and members of the Georgetown community to register online in advance for a $5 reduction in price. Advanced registration cost $10 for participants under 22 and $20 for those over.

“The day was great,” Du said.

“The weather was perfect, and afterwards there was a celebration with the whole Georgetown neighborhood.”

GMC Director of Leadership, Fundraising and Street Outreach Gunther Stern said that the event is still raising its profile at the university and is focused on increas-

versity Orchestra Music Director Angel Gil-Ordóñez said the pieces chosen for the performance were influenced by Georgetown celebrated the quincen- the time period of St. Teresa.

“We found music that was inspired by tenary of St. Teresa of Avila, a prominent historic figure in the Catholic the poetry and the popular songs of the Church, with an all-day series of panel time. These songs were sung there at discussions and performances explor- the time,” Gil-Ordóñez said. “We found ing the modern implications of her leg- two Spanish composers of the 20th century, and it makes total sense because acy in Lohrfink Auditorium on Friday.

The free anniversary celebration, the sounds and the Renaissance flavor which took place the day after the make a beautiful combination.”

Gil-Ordóñez said it is valuable to saint’s feast day, included a symposium of renowned Teresian scholars, a Span- combine art with academia.

“Music plays an extraordinary role ish music performance by the Georgetown University Orchestra and scenes in the contextualization of any other from a play, “God’s Gypsy,” based on the intellectual activity,” Gil-Ordóñez said. life of Mother Teresa by students in the “There is no better place than within the university to explore these fascidepartment of performing arts.

St. Teresa, who was born in 1515 in nating interactions between history, Gotarrendura, Spain, is renowned for culture and the rest of the arts.”

Georgetown University Orchestra perco-founding the Discalced Carmelites, a mendicant order in the Catholic cussionist Kyle Rinaudo (SFS ’18), who Church, with St. John of the Cross. She is performed at the concert, said that this also noted for her work as a theologian, performance was different from anything the orchestra has done in the past. author and reformer of the church.

“Usually our performances are big clasThe commemoration was organized by faculty in the department of Spanish sical works. We do a lot of these big, grand pieces,” Rinaudo said. and Portuguese and “This concert is a lot the department of “St. Teresa showed us of smaller pieces, less performing arts. The well known and a lot Embassy of Spain, the ... that with God, we smaller orchestration.”

Casey-McIlvane MeIn addition to the morial Lecture Fund become part of the programming, the and the Carmelitana work of revealing the Booth Family CenCollection also sponter for Special Colsored the event. world.” lections displayed On Thursday, Span69 documents and GILLIAN AHLGREN ish professor Barbara Xavier University Theology Professor objects related to St. Mujica, who is a TereTeresa in an exhibisian scholar, hosted a lecture to address the topic of whether tion running from Aug. 31 to Dec. 18.

The collection includes early Discalced or not St. Teresa was a feminist.

The symposium featured five scholars Carmelite documents, such as a first from around the United States, including edition of Teresa’s works.

Director of the Booth Family Center adjunct Georgetown professor Fr. Brian O. McDermott, S.J., Carmelite nun Con- for Special Collections John Buchtel, who stance FitzGerald, theology professor at oversees the library’s archives and collecXavier University Gillian Ahlgren, Span- tions, said that the collection consists of ish professor at the University of Virginia both old and new items on display.

“Some of the works on display are drawn Alison P. Weber and history teacher at Holton Arms School Christopher Wilson. from collections that have been here for Each scholar spoke about different more than 100 years,” Buchtel said. “We aspects of St. Teresa’s spirituality, rang- have been adding to the collection recenting from the influence and support ly using our acquisition funds to find rare, she received from Jesuits to her writ- relevant materials about St. Teresa.”

Georgetown owns one of St. Teresa’s ings on love and friendship.

Ahlgren said that Teresa sought to rarest publications, “Los libros de la explain the relationship between God madre Teresa de Iesus,” published in 1588. It is unclear as to when the publiand man.

“St. Teresa showed us … that with God, cation first arrived at Georgetown.

Buchtel said that the collection conwe become part of the work of revealing the world,” Ahlgren said. “Working for dignity, tains many other works that have been renouncing and denouncing sin and injus- influenced by St. Teresa.

“One of the things the exhibition shows tice, growing in truth and love and drawing others into this life-giving creative activity.” is just how significant an impact St. Teresa The day’s festivities ended with ar- has had on the history of spirituality and tistic performances. Georgetown Uni- on women’s history,” Buchtel said.

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The second annual 5K Race Against Homelessness, which took place Saturday, returned with more than 300 participants this year. ing participation every year.

“This is a build year,” Stern said. “We’re hoping as the construction is done at Georgetown and we’re getting a little bit more experience, the course will be better and there will be a lot more people attracted to the race.”

While the mission of the event was to raise funds for the GMC to increase their community outreach, Stern said that it also sought to raise awareness of homelessness in the D.C. community.

According to Stern, the continuation of this event in its second year was largely dependent on funding from its sponsors. In addition to the student groups and Georgetown businesses, restaurants such as The Hamilton, Old Ebbitt Grill and Clyde’s of Georgetown contributed to the event.

Chris Regan (COL ’17), who served as Sigma Phi Epsilon’s liaison to the CSJ for the event, said that the race plays an important role in highlighting the

issue of homelessness.

“I was amazed at the support [the event] earned from both the runners and the volunteers,” Regan said. “The issue of homelessness in Georgetown is usually overlooked because it’s such an affluent area, so I think the race’s greatest success is in its ability to bring attention to the problem and get the community thinking about it as a more prominent issue.”

Regan said he enjoyed his time at the race and hopes to have the opportunity to contribute to the event in the coming years.

“I was very happy to be involved in the race this year,” Regan said. “It is something that I certainly hope to continue being a part of it in the future.”

Stern said that although this is only the second year that the race has been held, he has high hopes for future iterations of the event.

“We’re hoping this is something that we’ll continue to do for a while,” Stern said.

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Luther, Rohan Reflect on Goals Bowser Announces MIDTERM, from A1 student priorities in the master planning process.

The petition, which received 2,620 student signatures in two weeks, called on the university to not require more students to live on campus, prioritize the renovation of existing buildings over new construction projects and give students more representation in the negotiation process.

In July, Luther and Rohan achieved the third objective when the university appointed two more students — Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners Kendyl Clausen (SFS ’16) and Reed Howard (SFS ’17) — as representatives on the Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee. As GUSA president, Luther also holds a representative position on the committee.

Luther said he would like the university to prioritize students’ needs in drafting the campus plan.

“We don’t mind when the university is building new things, but it should be in response to real student demand,” Luther said.

According to Rohan, GUSA has also pressed the Planning and Facilities Management Department to address deferred maintenance issues. In late September, GUSA hosted a consortium with the university in which administrators and GUSA representatives responded to students’ concerns on construction.

Rohan said that these discussions with the administration have been constructive.

“I’m really encouraged with how the master planning conversations are going, because they’re frequent and they’re diverse,” Rohan said. “We’re finally coming to the point where the students and the administration agree on certain points.”

While the master planning process will continue into the next academic year, Rohan said that he is proud of the progress they have made thus far.

“We can’t build the campus plan in a year. We can’t build it in our term, but we can certainly lay the foundation and we’ve done a fantastic job of doing so,” Rohan said.

Sexual Assault Policy Reform The pair has also made progress in negotiating sexual assault policy reform with the university.

In mid-September, GUSA reached a six-point memorandum of understanding with the administration on sexual assault policy reform, which Luther and Rohan called their proudest accomplishment.

Both GUSA and the university agreed to create a more survivorcentric campus by increasing bystander education programs, expanding marketing campaigns for survivor resources, collecting information about the university climate on sexual assault and expediting the hiring of a full-time Title IX coordinator.

In collaboration with student advocates, Luther and Rohan led negotiations with university administrators throughout the summer, when dialogue on sexual assault at Georgetown reignited after two survivors wrote op-eds detailing their experiences which were pub-

lished on thehoya.com.

Luther said that GUSA and student advocates need to work closely with the university in order to affect real change.

“GUSA is intrinsically an advocacy body, and in order to get anything done, the university has all the resources,” Luther said. “It’s on us to constantly be working with the university.”

Rohan said that they will continue to hold the university accountable to the agreements on the MOU. “From now, we have to work with administrators and make it actually happen,” Rohan said.

Former GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said that the MOU was one of his successor’s most significant accomplishments.

“I think Joe and Connor have been doing a great job,” Tezel wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It’s been exciting to see them build off of the past work around sexual assault advocacy with the MOU with the university administration.”

Increasing Mental Health DIALOGUE Luther and Rohan also identified improving mental health resources on campus as one of their core goals. The duo said they will spend the rest of their term conducting a comprehensive review of services provided by Counseling and Psychiatric Services and the state of mental health at Georgetown.

Earlier this month, GUSA hosted a panel discussion with students and administrators to address current policies and suggestions for reform.

According to Rohan, GUSA is also working on establishing a studentled counseling group independent from CAPS. The group will be based off of the student-run Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service group at Cornell University.

“If CAPS isn’t available or if CAPS is underwhelming, we want to provide that resource for students on campus,” Rohan said. “Hopefully within the next few months, we’ll have some very promising updates.”

Improving Disability Access At the beginning of this academic year, GUSA worked together with the Office of Campus Activity Facilities and the Division of Student Affairs to hire Anisha Thadani as the university’s first access coordinator and events manager.

Luther said that the creation of the position marks an important step in improving campus accessibility to students with disabilities.

“Now [that] we have the position established, I think we have a good future in terms of events being accessible to all,” Luther said. “We’re on a … hill and we’re always under construction, so this is totally needed.”

Last year, Tezel and Jikaria worked with disability rights activist Lydia Brown (COL ’15) to advocate for the creation of a Disability Cultural Center. However, Rohan said that while he sees merit in establishing the center, he does not think it will be feasible in the near future.

“The space and the finance are the two biggest issues,” Rohan said. “I would love to see it happen.

Whether I think it’s realistic, I don’t think it is right now. But I don’t think it is an impossibility for the future.”

Sustainability GUSA organized a student-led visioning session in September to solicit the community’s input on university-wide sustainability goals.

Luther and Rohan have also met with administrators to develop a proposal on sustainability. Rohan said that the negotiations are still ongoing.

“I think it’s a good start, but I do think it’s not concrete enough,” Rohan said. “A lot of what we’re doing now is working with that office to get concrete language, loftier goals, with the future of technology and the future of sustainability in mind.”

A Diverse GUSA, Campus In addition to being the first successful satirical campaign in the history of GUSA, Luther and Rohan established the largest cabinet in history with 67 students.

Luther said that they consolidated student leaders from a diverse range of communities in order to create a more diverse GUSA. “One of the first things Connor and I did after the election, for weeks, was we reached out to as many groups as we could, and a lot of those groups happened to be cultural groups,” Luther said. “In creating cabinet positions, we work to create positions that were focused on these issues.”

To promote diversity in the wider community, Luther and Rohan have also continued to support the GUSA Multicultural Council, which was established last year.

Engaging and Energizing With seven months of experience under their belts, Luther and Rohan gave themselves an overall grade of B-plus, citing that they have yet to fulfill their original goal of energizing students about GUSA and important issues on campus.

“A lot of students don’t know what’s going on, and they think it’s outside of them,” Rohan said.

“Sometimes it is, but if we were really men and women for others, we should think about these issues.”

Rohan said that they recently underwent a mid-term identity crisis, in which they realized that they had been following the footsteps of traditional GUSA executives.

“Because we were presented with all this information and we had to understand all of it, what eventually happened was that we fell into the trap of using that as the proper way to proceed,” Rohan said. “What it’s done is that it’s made us GUSA president and vice president.”

Luther attributed their inability to spark student interest to their own preoccupation with multiple projects.

“We need to delegate better. When something came up, Connor and I would just jump right into it,” Luther said. “Based on what we’re trying to do, which is energize GUSA, that can’t be the way to do this.”

Luther said that in the remaining months of their term, he and Rohan will make it their top priority to engage and energize students.

“Why we were elected was solely based on the fact that we were trying to transform GUSA and the image it communicates,” Luther said. “In terms of the next five, six months, we’re going to try and become more of our campaign selves, more back to our fun roots.”

Labor Groups Launch Campaign WAGE, from A1 a $15 wage floor, more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25, are not without precedent.

Several West Coast cities, led by Seattle and San Francisco, have pledged to transition to $15 minimums by 2020, the latter of whom included a clause in its proposal to raise the minimum wage of tipped restaurant workers as well. However, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Harry Wingo filed a civil suit against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics in August citing language within the measure that may imply, incorrectly, that the increase would apply to nonservice workers. In addition to the measure’s wording, Wingo takes issue with possible job losses as a result of the raised wage, particularly for government workers and contractors who would not benefit from the raise, suggesting that the ballot measure may violate D.C.’s longstanding Home Rule Act, which carries provisions for District spending on services. The Board of Elections and Ethics approved the measure’s language in July, but Wingo’s lawsuit aims to stop it from making its way to the November 2016 ballot.

Wingo said private-sector job growth could be impaired as a result of raised wages.

“Increasing the cost of doing business in the District is the biggest threat to local companies,” Wingo said in a statement on the Chamber of Commerce’s website. “It’s important to future job growth and our

economic vitality not to adversely impact these establishments.”

A 2015 survey of District employers published by the Chamber of Commerce indicated that a majority of local business owners would not hire more employees should the minimum wage rise to $15, a potential detriment to local business.

Nevertheless, Director of Restaurant Opportunities Center D.C. Gaby Madriz explained that the group hopes to move forward with the November 2016 ballot measure as soon as the suit’s conclusion will allow.

“Right now we’re in a period [where] we’ve filed our initial motion and we basically just have to go back and forth,” Madriz said. “We’re hoping to have a final hearing in mid-November.”

Madriz said that despite the difficult legal battle, she believes the payoffs of an increased minimum wage will be worth it for many lowincome workers and businesses.

“I think [a minimum wage increase] would really help go a long way for folks not to have to be constantly struggling with the rising prices in D.C.,” Madriz said. “In the long run we do believe that the trend that we’ve seen in other places of the local economy growing [would continue].”

Should Wingo lose the lawsuit, the coalition will begin a new campaign in January to obtain 24,000 signatures of D.C.-registered voters to place the measure on the ballot.

Seventy percent of registered voters said they supported the measure, according to The Washington Post.

An increase in the minimum

wage would also raise prices for products sold by companies and groups on campus. In the past, Students of Georgetown, Inc. typically increases its prices by 5 cents following increases in the minimum wage, according to Corp CEO Marnie Wallach (NHS ’16).

“Over the last two years, and continuing as the minimum wage continues to increase, we’ve had to work to adjust prices,” Wallach said. “[This is] in order to account for the increase in wage expenses.”

However, Wallach said that she would expect a greater price increase if the minimum wage were to rise to $15 per hour.

She added that price increases are driven not only by salary increases for Corp employees, but also by vendors’ increasing costs. As vendors pay workers more, costs increase to maintain profit levels, which trickles down to Corp prices.

“A D.C.-wide increase [on] wages not only affects our company, but also most of our vendors,” Wallach said. “As they raise prices to account for their own increased wages, we’ve had to monitor that and do the same.”

Following previous wage hikes in the District, including, most recently, a July 2014 graduated wage hike from $8.25 to $9.50, University departments had incorporated the anticipated hike and its effects on student employees into departmental budgets, with some departments raising the idea of increasing the number of student employees hired on federal work-study, to account for the change.

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Anacostia, Marshall Heights and Kennedy Street areas. Another low the school to accept an in- $500,000 will fund business increase of students amounting to centives in the Dupont Circle, 10 percent of the current student 14th Street, H Street and Shaw population of 541. The remodeled areas, such as the use of ecologiversion of the school is set to be cally friendly trash compactors.

Czin said requests made by Disapproximately 258,072 square feet, almost 100,000 square feet trict residents catalyzed this decilarger than current facilities sion.

“That will help out the Busiwhen it is completed in Fall 2016.

Until that time, displaced stu- ness Improvement Districts in dents will continue to be housed those neighborhoods,” Czin said. at the former Meyer Elementary “These are places where we heard and Garnett-Patterson Middle that there is a need for increased School in the U St/Columbia support for small business and advocating for them out of those Heights neighborhood.

The largest allotment in the communities.”

The Office of Risk Management mayor’s plan, approximately $27 will also receive million, will go a $3 million altoward improving lotment from city infrastructhe new funding ture. plan, which will Among variallow for the purous other largechase of new techscale projects, nology. The aim this funding will is to increase the allow for the creoffice’s efficiency ation of two new for employees and bridges — the Kefor those who file nilworth Parkside claims through Pedestrian Bridge the office, which and the H Street MICHAEL CZIN currently has no Bridge.

Communications Director advanced system The Kenilworth Bridge is a part of a larger plan for claim management.

The office’s Risk Identification, to connect Kenilworth with the greater D.C. area. Currently, Ke- Analysis and Control Division nilworth lacks the proper infra- Manager Kim Nimmo spoke optistructure for pedestrians to safely mistically about this new technolenter and exit the area, leaving it ogy.

“It helps us to run more effiisolated from the rest of the city.

Bowser’s Director of Commu- ciently because you are able to nications Michael Czin said this see all of the data in one place,” bridge will address those con- Nimmo said. “If you’re a District cerns and make the area more ac- worker, you want things to be recessible. solved quickly. Having a system in “The Kenilworth Pedestrian place gets that done much more Bridge is really about helping effectively.” strengthen the community,” Another component of the Czin said. “It’s a challenge the funding plan is the nearly $9 milway things are set up to get from lion that will go toward renovatDeanwood to the closer Metro, so ing city parks, including the park this will help make the neighbor- at Garrison Elementary School, hood a little bit safer for pedestri- the Lafayette Recreation Center ans.” and Ludlow Taylor Elementary The H Street Bridge will cross playground.

First and Second Streets in NorthAdditionally, around $2 mileast Washington in an attempt lion is designated to the instalto offer more transportation op- lation of a new media center in tions to and from Union Station. Benjamin Banneker High School The mayor’s plan cites this as a and the improvement of pre-kinstep in transforming Union Sta- dergarten classrooms at Maury tion into a greater transportation Elementary School. hub.

The remaining funds will go to Beyond infrastructural proj- the District’s Department of Oak ects, the funding will aid commu- Hill Youth Rehabilitation Services nity development, with $4.5 mil- and the acquisition of blighted lion going to support for small properties by the city for redevelbusinesses in the Cleveland Park, opment.

“[Requests] will help out the Business Improvement Districts in those neighborhoods.”

Lombardi Awarded $4.5M for Research sample.”

Martin stressed that this study Martin said that the study is critical in preventing the will attempt to determine what, spread and occurrence of breast if any, environmental contami- cancer. She said that if the study nants mimic estradiol’s effects on is able to fulfill its goal in deterthe body and how that is possible. mining whether or not metals “Our laboratory showed that have an effect on the occurrence some metals mimic the effects of breast cancer, the rate of the of estradiol,” Martin wrote in condition in Washington, D.C., an email to The Hoya. “[That] could eventually decrease. suggest[s] that environmental “Breast cancer is an epidemic exposure to these metals may yet the underlying causes of the increase the risk of developing disease are largely unknown,” breast cancer.”

Martin wrote. “If we find that With that in mind, the study environmental exposure to the will involve members of the local metals is associated with mamcommunity who have been ex- mographic breast density, a risk posed to these metals, as well as factor for the disease, minimizthose who are currently receiving ing exposure to these metals preventative could have a treatment at significant efthe Lombardi fect on the inciCenter. Martin dence of breast explained that cancer.” the study will Martin’s is be conducted the latest of with these loseveral NIH cal women in grants that remind. searchers with “ Wo m e n Lombardi’s who come to Breast Cancer … Georgetown Program have Lombardi’s received reComprehensive cently, includCancer Center’s ing Hassad Capital Breast Bassem’s grant Care Center to demystify for screening medical data mammography and Suzanne MARYBETH MARTIN will be invited O’Neill’s to anProfessor, Lombardi Center to volunteer,” alyze the role Martin wrote. “[We want commu- of breast density in risk counselnity members] to participate in ing, respectively. the study.”

In a proclamation released Martin explained that the $4.5 Sept. 30 in advance of October’s million will be divided between Breast Cancer Awareness Month, two separate experiments, each President Barack Obama reafhelping to determine the general firmed his administration’s comresults of the study. mitment to researching the dis“One project is a basic science ease. project that will determine the “My Administration is commitmechanism by which the met- ted to advancing research to betals mimic hormones,” Martin ter prevent, diagnose and treat wrote. “The second project will cancer in all its forms,” Obama ask whether breast density is as- wrote. “Together, we must ensure sociated with the amount of met- all people can enjoy the extraorals in the body as determined by dinary gift that is a long, happy, measuring metals in a toenail and healthy life.”

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Panel Targets Gender,

Climate Connection Taylor Harding Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security hosted a panel discussion on the lack of female involvement in climate change mitigation and the effect climate change has on women in the Intercultural Center Auditorium on Friday.

The event, titled “Women and Climate Change: Impact and Agency in Human Rights, Security and Economic Development,” featured speakers including former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, former President of Finland Tarja Halonen, GIWPS Director Melanne Verveer, Care USA Vice President Radha Muthiah, and Vice President of the World Bank and Special Envoy for Climate Change Rachel Kyte.

GIWPS hosted the event to mark the release of its new report, which highlights the disproportionate vulnerability of women to impacts of climate change compared to men, as well as the benefits of involving women in climate change negotiations.

After a brief introduction by School of Foreign Service Dean Joel Hellman, Robinson provided a brief history of women’s involvement in climate change mitigation policy, recalling the role of women in recent climate change victories such as the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar.

Muthiah emphasized how women in poverty see the worst impacts of climate change in their daily lives. According to Muthiah, women in poverty must walk long distances for cooking fuel because of deforestation. Additionally, once they obtain the cooking fuel, toxic fumes slowly degrade their health and overall well-being.

“Four million deaths per year … can be attributed to the inefficient cook stoves and fuel, where women are really at the forefront of both the design, manufacture, distribution and creation of awareness among other women about these alternative and better ways of cooking,” Muthiah said.

However, Muthiah said that women have been active in sustainability initiatives in their communities.

“What we’re seeing as a result of this is that women have more time,

they come up with … environmentally sustainable practices, and they are taking more leadership roles within their communities,” Muthiah said.

The panelists also discussed the U.N.’s recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. Goals 5 and 13b specifically recognize the role of women in climate change action. All the speakers agreed that policy negotiators must do more to ensure that women stay involved in the planning and management of climate change mitigation.

Halonen spoke on the Sustainable Development Goals and the lessons that the U.N. learned from the Millennium Development Goals, which addressed extreme poverty and environmental sustainability.

“You have to make them more transparent– the whole system.

That’s why it’s very important that we have good indicators. We also have to be flexible to see whether or not we have found the correct index system so we can adjust and correct it,” Halonen said. “International financial institutions, like the World Bank or the [International Monetary Fund], are also people we have to work with to establish good climate and business budgets.”

In his concluding remarks, Kyte emphasized the need for future climate change policies to focus on resilience, especially in anticipation of climate change disasters, and to be representative of both men and women. In addition, she stressed the need to put a price on carbon.

“These decisions won’t get made unless [women] are in the room,” Kyte said. “The price of action is so much higher than the price of inaction. However difficult it is to pass legislation, it is nowhere near as difficult as having to completely rebuild.”

Jessica Hickle (SFS ’18) attended the event in part due to her interest in women’s issues, and also to expand her knowledge on the issue of climate change.

“I wanted to be able to hear from experts about it. I thought it was really eye-opening,” Hickle said. “Every time I’ve heard about climate change, it’s never been in the context that it was today, with the importance of women in the issue. I am so shocked that more people don’t talk about this side of it.”

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The “Explainers,” the National Air and Space Museum’s cohort of student volunteers, will soon be supplemented with electronic programming following a recent grant awarded by General Electric Aviation.

GE Partnership Spurs Love of Space Tara Subramaniam Special to The Hoya

When young children visit the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and have questions — whether it’s about a planet, an exhibition, or a spaceship — they can ask the “Explainers,” groups of hired high school and college students trained in all things space.

Gilda Gallardo (COL ’17) who works at the National Air and Space Museum as an “Explainer,” and said she enjoys boiling down complicated topics like orbits and gravity with visual presentations.

“Something like pocket science, for example, like I’ll have a game with cards where you order the celestial bodies based on distance from the sun,” Gallardo said.

“Then there’s the 30-minute interactions when I’m on a stage and I have a microphone and speak to various people who are coming and going about anything from the physics of flight [to] leading a paper airplane contest.”

In an effort to expand the National Air and Space Museum’s education curriculum and “Explainer” program, General Electric Aviation announced a $5 million sponsorship with the museum last month.

“I know what it meant for me, as a young student, to visit the National Air and Space Museum,” GE Aviation President and CEO David Joyce said at a press event in late

September. “It opened my mind to opportunities that I hadn’t imagined before, and taught me that every day people can make incredible contributions. That inspired me for a long time.”

The partnership will allow the museum to hire more “Explainers” and to develop an electronic version of the program for students who cannot physically visit the museum. The initiative, “Electronic Outreach Explainers,” will use online video conferencing to connect 5th and 6th grade students in Cincinnati Public Schools with “Explainers,” who will teach them lessons about space and allow them to ask questions.

Gallardo said the idea is to take the content provided by the museum and use it to supplement the work being done in the classroom.

They will work with Cincinnati students as GE Aviation is based in the city. In addition to the $5 million given to the museum, GE will sponsor Cincinnati Public Schools with $1 million over the next year to help them develop content and cover the cost of the technology students need to participate in the program.

“We model our lessons after the standards in the state, and we try to make it as interactive as we can even though we’re not there in person,” Gallardo said. “We’re also able to cut the show and have an expert talk to us or relate what they’re doing to the concepts we’re explaining.”

Maureen Kerr, chair of the muse-

um’s Education Division, said that if the program works, she hopes to expand the videoconferencing program to other schools and cities.

Kerr said the “Explainers” work especially well with younger visitors including elementary and middle school tour groups.

“The goal there is to get the kids excited about [science, technology, engineering, and math education], give them role models of kids [the “Explainers”] who are excited and very knowledgeable about the STEM subject and sharing the resources of the Smithsonian,” Kerr said. “We’re trying to make a close connection between what the students are studying in the classroom and what work the scientists and experts do at the Smithsonian.”

GE Aviation Education Programs Manager Amy Englert said she hopes the program will not only provide real world experience within various scientific fields, but also entice more students to study and pursue careers in science.

“The idea is to bring curriculum-aligned science content to students who aren’t maybe able to travel to the museum in person,” Englert wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It exposes them to a: realworld connections to what they’re learning in the classroom, and b: career opportunities within STEM fields. Ideally we want to see this grow to be a pilot of a national model.”

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Graves-Brown Sparks Green Leads GU at Pre-Nationals Offense With 3 Goals daniel baldwin Special to The Hoya

Claire schansinger Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown field hockey team (8-7, 1-2 Big East) had a successful weekend with two victories, bringing its total to eight wins on the season and surpassing the number of wins it had all of last season.

Georgetown defeated Big East rival Villanova (4-10, 1-2 Big East) 2-1 in overtime Friday at Cooper Field, then travelled to New York and beat Colgate (0-13, 0-4 Patriot League) 3-2.

Head Coach Shannon Soares stressed the importance of the Villanova win to her players, as well as to the field hockey program as a whole.

“Friday was a big matchup for us against a conference rival and a team Georgetown hasn’t been victorious over in the last 18 years. We were excited to be able to host them at home for the first time in 11 years as opposed to their neutral site. We faced a lot of adversity in that game, and our whole staff was really proud of our team’s resilience, and we played the whole 70 minutes of that game,” Soares said.

Against Villanova both teams were kept scoreless in the first half until junior forward Aliyah Graves-Brown scored with 33 seconds remaining to put Georgetown on the scoreboard.

Graves-Brown drove into the circle with only one defender and shot right past the goalie.

Georgetown was able to preserve its one-goal lead for much of the second half. However, Villanova senior forward Heather Smillie managed to break through the Hoyas’ defense to score her sixth goal of the season to tie the game.

The teams then played a 15-minute overtime period. After two shots went wide for Villanova, GravesBrown scored the game-winning goal with four minutes left.

The overtime goal was GravesBrown’s fourth of the season. Sophomore forward Megan Parsons, junior midfielder Maria McDonald and freshman midfielder Sam Hickey all had shots on goal for the Hoyas. Junior

goalie Rachel Skonecki had 11 saves.

Sunday, Georgetown travelled to upstate New York to play Colgate, where weather conditions were not ideal and snow caused a 40-minute delay.

Despite freezing conditions, Graves-Brown managed to score at the 17-minute mark. The Hoyas maintained that lead heading into the second half until junior forward Emily Brash scored for Colgate on a long range shot to tie the game.

Less than a minute later, Georgetown freshman forward Helena Masiello picked up a turnover and quickly shot and scored to give the Hoyas back their lead. Parsons scored another goal for Georgetown off of an assist from Graves-Brown, increasing the team’s lead to 3-1.

Freshman forward Caroline Schaefer scored off a penalty corner for the Raiders at the 51-minute mark, and although they put pressure on the Hoyas with three penalty corners and two shots, they were unable to sneak past Skonecki and the rest of the defense.

The Hoyas had 17 total shots on goal, including four from senior forward Sarah Butterfield and four from senior midfielder Emily Weinberg.

Georgetown’s total of eight wins in the season is one more than it had last year and six more than the year before. Soares is proud of the immense progress her team has made.

“We’re in year two of this new culture and vision, and hopefully a new tradition for Georgetown field hockey. It’s also important to remember that this is a process and you can’t just flip a switch and just become a winning program. I give a lot of credit to our athletes who are diving into this mission and process and making the changes that we want to see,” Soares said.

The Hoyas will travel to play Temple (3-12, 0-2 Big East) this Friday in Philadelphia. If Georgetown defeats its conference opponent, it will have earned two wins against Big East teams, enough to qualify for the Big East tournament.

Georgetown’s No. 10 men’s and No. 7 women’s cross-country teams each competed at the Pre-National Meet this past weekend in Louisville, Ky. The men finished in fifth place overall recording 214 points in the 8000-meter race, while the women placed seventh with a total of 381 points competing in the 6000-meter race.

The men’s team was led by junior Jonathan Green, who placed sixth overall with a time of 23:28.7. Green has consistently performed at a high level all season long, and his coach has taken notice.

“I was definitely most impressed with Jon Green. There were a bunch of really good runners up front, and Jon ran right with them,” Men’s Assistant Coach Brandon Bonsey said.

“He even fell at the 6000-meter mark, got stepped on and had a pretty nasty spike scar, so for him to run right at the front of that race was extremely impressive.”

Bonsey further elaborated on Green’s success and team leadership by highlighting his mental approach to each race and practice.

“He’s mentally just really, really tough,” Bonsey said. “Jon always gives great effort in practice and in meets every single time and once that becomes the norm then the pressure of that stuff doesn’t seem to get to you as much. I think he’s at a very consistent approach whether we are running a low-key meet or a big meet. This consistent mental approach has allowed him to perform really well.”

Green was followed by senior Darren Fahy, who ran a time of 23:37.9 to finish 19th overall in the race. Junior Scott Carpenter finished the course in 23:55.0 and senior Ahmed Bile ran a time of 24:08.2, placing them in 48th and 70th, respectively.

Green is focused on learning from the meet as a team.

“We knew from the Paul Short race two weekends ago that we are fit. Coming into Pre-Nationals, the goal was definitely just to learn about the course in a race setting,” Green said. “I was most pleased that we ac-

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Graduate student Andrea Keklak led Georgetown’s women’s crosscountry team with a time of 20:35.2 at the Pre-National Meet. complished that goal. We are learning from our mistakes from this past weekend so that we do not repeat them again at the NCAA championships.”

Graduate student Andrea Keklak led the women with a time of 20:35.2, finishing 33rd overall. This was Keklak’s second race back from an injury, which had sidelined her for both indoor and outdoor track seasons last year. Keklak was followed by freshman Audrey Belf who crossed the finish line at 20:46.3. That time placed her at 51st in the meet. Keklak was satisfied with her own performance and lauded Belf’s poise and grit.

“One of the things that helped me the most at Pre-Nationals was being able to run side-by-side with my teammates,” Keklak said. “It’s motivating and comforting at the same time to run in a race next to someone who you practice with every single day.”

About halfway through the race, Keklak says that she and Belf found one another and were able to move past several other competitors by running as a unit.

“Audrey really had an incredible day — it was only her second collegiate race ever, and she beat some of the best girls in the country. I think our team’s success is due to the younger

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members of the team, like Audrey, stepping up and having the confidence to run at the front of big races.”

Sophomore Piper Donaghu continued to build on her impressive start to the 2015 cross country season by recording a time of 21:05.5. This placed her at 93rd overall. Senior Haley Pierce and sophomore Autumn Eastman completed the race in 21:11.9 and 21:12.8, 104th and 111th, respectively.

As the Big East championships are just around the corner, Keklak is excited about the emotional and physical state of the team.

“Every week, we’ve been gaining fitness, but more importantly, we’ve been getting closer emotionally as a team. I think Saturday was a huge step forward in terms of that emotional piece — running for each other, and going through the pain for something bigger than yourself.”

“There’s something coach Mike always says, which is so true about crosscountry; he says, ‘At the end of the day, there are no individual names in the results, there’s only ‘Georgetown’ with a score written next to it.’ And that’s exactly how cross country is,” Keklak added.

Both the men and women will prepare for the Big East championships in Mason, Ohio, on Oct. 31.

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Nick Barton

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Sophomore Marco Lam fell to Virginia’s Harrison Richmond in the second round of the Atlantic Division of the Regional Championships. Lam took Richmond, the No. 1 seed, to a third-set tiebreaker before losing.

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The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams took to the courts this weekend in the Atlantic Division of the Regional Championships.

The completion of the tournament marked the end of the fall season.

On the men’s side, sophomore Marco Lam matched up with Virginia’s Harrison Richmond in the second round of the main singles draw. Richmond, Head Coach Gordie Ernst noted, was the top recruit in the country three years ago and won the Junior Orange Bowl. Lam took Richmond, the No. 1 seed, all the way to a match point in the second set. Lam eventually conceded the match 6-3, 5-7, 6-7.

“It was a heartbreaker, that would have been one of the great wins for our guys since I’ve been here in 10 years. I mean if you beat a UVA guy, especially a guy who at one time was the No. 1 recruit in the country, that would have been a hell of a win, and he was so close,” Ernst said.

Similar to Lam’s battle with Richmond, many of the other men’s matches were hard fought. Sophomore Peter Beatty was pitted against Old Dominion’s No. 2 seed Michael Weindl in the second round of the draw. His match was a back-andforth three-setter that showed wild momentum swings, with Weindl

eventually edging out Beatty 0-6, 6-0, 7-5. Freshman Will Sharton was also bested in a close match against St. Joseph’s No. 1 seed Renier Moolman that featured two tiebreakers with a final score of 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.

Ernst emphasized the positive effect the weekend had on raising the confidence of the team, despite the tough losses.

“They know we can play with everyone, and they know how close we are, so I’m happy. The kids are hungry, and they know it. They want Big East titles badly. It’s going to be a fun spring, and we’re really looking forward to it,” Ernst said.

On the women’s side of the bracket, junior captain Victoire Saperstein and freshman Risa Nakagawa were the stars of the weekend for Georgetown. Saperstein overcame Leeza Nemchinov, William and Mary’s No. 1 seed and the fifth overall seed in the tournament, 6-4, 6-2. Nakagawa had her share of success in singles as well, taking down Michigan State’s Danielle Thompson 7-6, 6-2.

“I think doubles is where we shined. My partner Risa is a freshman and she just did incredible here coming out so strong. She did great in singles as well and she’s so impressive.

Her performance as a freshman was really gratifying,” Saperstein said.

When the women paired up for doubles, they rolled over three rounds of competition, reaching

the semifinals of the draw. There they met Virginia’s Julia Elbaba and Skylar Morton. The pair bested the Georgetown team 7-6, 6-2, but the defeat did not put a damper on Saperstein and Nakagawa’s run to the semifinals.

“This weekend was the highlight, I mean for Marco to get that match point and for Victoire and Risa to do that well, that was the highlight. But then again last week the girls beat Penn 4-3 and the guys beat Yale three weeks ago, so we’ve really had a great fall,” Ernst said.

Both teams must transfer the energy and momentum built from fall successes into the winter season that begins in January. Saperstein is confident in the team’s awareness of the task ahead and their ability to conquer it.

“We’re used to coming out, finally finding our momentum and then instead of putting it into matches really focusing on practice,” Saperstein said. “In the next two months, we’re really going to work on our fitness, and I know that over break each girl is very committed, and we all go home and train on breaks and we’re all very aware of what’s ahead of us.”

Both teams will look to carry their momentum as they turn the corner and enter a hiatus from match play. The winter season starts Jan. 16 for the men and Jan. 23 for the women.

ith only a few seconds remaining in the game, fifthyear senior Michigan punter Blake O’Neill stood on a football field in Ann Arbor, Mich., surrounded by thousands of people donning the maize and blue. When O’Neill jogged on to the field, Michigan appeared to have already won the game.

New Head Coach Jim Harbaugh endured a great deal of criticism following Michigan’s loss in the season opener to Utah, but a resilient defense helped lead the Wolverines to five straight wins and a ranking as the 12th best team in the nation according to the Associated Press poll. For Harbaugh, a win over undefeated Michigan State would have validated his abilities to make the Michigan program relevant again. Then, O’Neill dropped the ball.

Michigan State scooped the ball and returned it to the end zone while stunned Michigan fans stood still.

O’Neill attempted to punt the ball even after he failed to catch the original snap, but the Spartans special teams unit swarmed him too quickly. Just like Mark Dantonio’s Michigan State team, Michigan fans and sports critics pounced on the opportunity to mock and insult the college senior, rebuking the 22-year-old Australian for his mistake. Some compared the punter to inanimate objects. Others suggested that he should commit suicide, but most people who spewed that vitriol wisely deleted it later. Whether they did or not, people read those thoughts. Others resorted to technology to make a young college student the butt of their jokes or to harshly berate him.

The amount of anger and dismay fans expressed toward O’Neill in the hours following the game led Michigan’s Athletic Director Jim Hackett to tell fans to stop blaming O’Neill for the loss. O’Neill had to deal with the disappointment of letting his teammates down at a crucial juncture of the game. Now, he must cope unfairly with all the disparaging comments that people direct toward him from behind their keyboards.

It is easy to let ourselves wonder why people say such mean things about a young man whose name they did not even know 72 hours ago. Unfortunately, the answer surrounds us. It does not take long to scroll down a Facebook

feed or Twitter page to see some video or comments that disparage another person. Late-night television hosts use this type of humor nightly to mock celebrities or politicians just for a laugh.

The separation that exists between athletes and the average fan makes people on the Internet feel comfortable taking shots at the athletes. No one who tweeted at O’Neill would expect him to tweet back at them.

What makes this even sadder is that O’Neill is a college student. Every weekday morning he wakes up, goes to class, practices football and studies. He possesses both a bachelor’s degree from RMIT University of Melbourne and a master’s from Weber State. While O’Neill is one of the best punters in the nation, his decision to attend Michigan seems to be based on academics. One day in the near future, Blake O’Neill will be a graduate of the University of Michigan, leaving his playing days behind him.

O’Neill is just like many of us. He is a student trying to earn his degree. He has family and friends. One day he is unknown to most Michigan fans; the next, his Twitter mentions explode because of angry fans. Many college students make mistakes, and O’Neill also did. Unfortunately, it has happened on a much bigger stage, too.

Finding a scapegoat has become ingrained in American sports culture.

A few hundred miles south of Ann Arbor, the Chicago Cubs are playing in the National League Championship Series for the first time since their fans blamed Steve Bartman for the team’s 2003 NCLS meltdown. The poor man had to go into hiding after accidentally hitting a fly ball away from Cubs outfielder Moises Alou.

For whatever reason, fans need someone to ridicule, with no regard to the emotions of that person. In a few weeks, some other athlete will do something to cost his or her team a game and the Twitter trolls will reappear. But I hope they think about how people would react if their mistakes were televised for public consumption. Maybe they would change their tune then.

Nick Barton is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

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Prostitution Incident Shows Larger Problem MCLAUGHLIN, from A10

Which is why Coach Rick Pitino’s recent disclaimer seems difficult to believe.

In the midst of yet another sex scandal — this time not his own, but rather one involving his own players — the head coach of the Louisville Cardinals basketball team has pleaded complete ignorance to allegations that Louisville staff members have shelled out money for the services of female escorts to entertain recruits and parents during official recruiting visits for years.

When asked about his job status following a confession from an escort who had reportedly slept with dozens of Louisville recruits, Pitino calmly stated on a local radio show, “The only comment I’ve made is I know nothing about any of this, so I don’t know what resigning would accomplish. I think that’s the cowardly way out.”

For a coach to say he was unaware of his assistants’ or players’ activities on any given weekend would be one cause for concern, but these are official recruitment visits we’re talking about.

Coaches at top-tier programs like Louisville meticulously plan recruitment visits months in advance, anxiously awaiting the chance to show a crop of 5-star recruits what their schools have to offer. It is on these select weekends — the most important out-of-season dates of the year — that Pitino wants us to believe he suddenly had no idea what his team was up to.

Make no mistake, the Cardinals’ coach is hardly the only one responding to the media with an “I didn’t know” plea.

In the last year, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball coach Roy Williams claimed ignorance regarding his players’ involvement in “paper classes” that drew NCAA investigations during the winter. More recently, Southern Methodist University basketball coach Larry Brown claimed he had no idea that a graduate assistant on his staff was actually taking online classes on behalf of one of the star players. Both coaches’ statements demonstrated that these men were utterly flabbergasted by the NCAA accusations and subsequent sanctions.

It is not my job as a columnist to indict men of national prowess such as Pitino, Brown or Williams in these instances. What I can say is that one of two realities is true. One is that these coaches, who have a reputation for having complete control over their programs, know exactly what is going on in their programs and are attempting to mislead the public by pleading their ignorance. The other is that they are being truthful in saying they had no idea what was going on in their program — which is arguably an even greater issue.

Regardless of which reality it is, the end result is the same. An NCAA finding that comes down on a coach for “lack of institutional control” means — one way or another — the coach has failed at an essential function of his job. So when the eventual press conference comes on during SportsCenter and a calm coach with a rehearsed statement disclaims knowledge of a situation, take care to remind yourself that a coach’s deniability often translates into a loss in credibility.

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The first, and perhaps the most significant, was a complete change in coaching staff. Former head coach Dave Urick — a Georgetown coaching legend who posted winning records in all 23 of his seasons on the Hilltop — retired after O’Connor’s freshman season in 2012.

Warne stepped up to the helm of the program in 2013, and the team faced significant challenges during his first two seasons. After two years of posting sub-.500 records, the team managed to turn things around in 2015, posting a winning record, climbing into the national polls and making an appearance in the Big East tournament championship game.

Warne says O’Connor’s commitment to the team’s new philosophy and goals, as well as his positive attitude both on and off the field, were major factors in the team’s climb back to success during his senior season.

“He was the guy that really set the tone every day,” Warne said.

“Georgetown lacrosse meant a lot to him. [He] decided after his junior year to say, ‘I want to make sure I leave a great legacy during

my senior year.’ He did all the right things, he worked hard and he was really encouraging to the guys, whether it was in practice or on game day. … I think he always understood the ‘why,’ and I think he was great in helping our offense. …

He brought a great respect to us and to our team.”

O’Connor attributes a lot of his success to the coaching staff at Georgetown, including Warne, Matt Rewkoski and Justin Ward, and their guidance through adversity and success alike.

“I think I improved a lot [at Georgetown],” O’Connor said. “Not so much just on the field, with things like my strength and my speed and my overall game, but also off the field. Being a two-time captain and learning from Coach Urick my first year and Coach Warne, Coach Rewkowski and Coach Ward really taught me a lot about how to handle myself and how to prepare properly and just the little things that you don’t really think matter a lot but make the biggest difference.”

Though his post-graduate professional career marks a fresh start for O’Connor, it is also a homecoming of sorts. O’Connor currently coaches full-time at his former high school, The Hill Academy, in addi-

tion to preparing for the Roughnecks’ upcoming season.

“I’m coaching two different teams here, which is great — it allows me to be involved in the game I love and it also gives me the flexibility to stay in shape and continue to pursue my dream of playing professional lacrosse,” O’Connor said.

In addition, O’Connor will reunite with his former teammate from Team Canada under-19: Wesley Berg, who was selected fourth overall in the NLL Draft by the Roughnecks. In recent years, however, Berg was a rival; he was the leading attack for the University of Denver, which joined the Big East in 2014 and has remained undefeated against conference rivals ever since.

Denver toppled Georgetown in the 2015 Big East championship game in a 16-8 decision and eventually went on to win the NCAA National Championship. Berg was named the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and the Big East Offensive Player of the Year after the 2015 season.

For O’Connor, the past is in the past — he’s looking forward to the chance to wear the same jersey as Berg again.

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“That was on the defensive line. I think they just really toughened up as the game went on and that’s all we needed,” Loughrey said in regard to the adjustments made against the run.

Melville also threw for 190 yards on 11-of-23 passing, with sophomore wide receiver Alex Greenawalt hauling in three passes for 88 yards.

For Georgetown, senior quarterback Kyle Nolan was 21-of-38 for 194 yards with one rushing touchdown along with two lost fumbles.

Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela rushed for 104 yards on 22 carries, and junior wide receiver Justin Hill caught eight balls for 98 yards. On defense, freshman defensive tackle Brennen Sawicki had an oustanding game, notching 12 tackles, including a tackle for a loss and a forced fumble.

Colgate scored first in the first quarter with an 8-yard touchdown run by Holland. The Hoyas then failed to score points off a Holland fumble in the second quarter and a Melville fumble on their next possession. Holland would go on to atone for his mistake by scoring another touchdown in the second quarter, and the Raiders tacked on a 39-yard field goal as time expired to make it

17-0 at halftime.

The Georgetown offense finally woke up in the fourth quarter.

“Just getting everybody to calm down, just take it easy, one play at a time,” Kimpela said. “That’s what we talked about at halftime and that’s what we did. We just got to execute better in the first half.”

The Hoyas got on the board early in the quarter thanks to a Henry Darmstadter 37-yard field goal. On the ensuing kickoff, Sgarlata called for a surprise onside kickoff that was executed perfectly by junior kicker Ben Priddy and recovered by freshman wide receiver Brandon Williams. Georgetown took over at the Raiders’ 49-yard line and quickly scored in a minute and 32 seconds, with Nolan rushing it in from 10 yards out to make it 17-10.

“In a game like that that’s tight, you need a momentum-changer and you need to get it from somewhere.

Defensively, we did a great job taking the ball away in the first half, and we needed to capitalize on that. In that moment I thought that was the way to spark us and get us going,” Sgarlata said.

After forcing a quick Colgate threeand-out, Georgetown got the ball at its own 23 and drove all the way down the field to the Colgate 11-yard line, threatening to tie the game at

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Senior quarterback Kyle Nolan scored a 10-yard rushing touchdown to cut Colgate’s lead to 17-10. The Hoyas fell by a score of 17-13.

17. Facing a 2nd and 9, Georgetown attempted a reverse end-around play, but Colgate anticipated the play and brought down senior wide receiver Jake DeCicco in the backfield for a loss of nine yards. The Hoyas had to settle for a field goal to make it 17-13 and would not score again, as Colgate got the ball back and ran out the clock.

“It was a tough loss. We just have

to find a way to bounce back.” Kimpela said.

“It’s a shame that we didn’t play all four quarters but there’s no negatives coming out of the game,” Sgarlata said. “We’ll learn from what we did and get ready to go out and play a good Bucknell team.”

Georgetown travels to play at Bucknell this coming Saturday with kickoff set for 1 p.m.

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score. Georgetown earned three corner kicks in the first half, including one in the 44th minute. The first half appeared to be headed for a scoreless tie when sophomore defender Taylor Pak sent a ball rolling into the net off a Corboz corner kick to give Georgetown the lead heading into halftime.

Entering the second half, the Hoyas grabbed ahold of the game,

implementing their style of play.

They continued to exploit the wings and Damaska made effective runs that resulted in many quality scoring opportunities, including one that led to a crucial red card.

Marquette’s junior defender Cali Pyzdrowski dragged down Damaska on a breakaway in the 57th minute, causing her to be ejected from the match and giving Georgetown a man advantage.

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touch ever since,” O’Connor said.

“Obviously the past couple years he’s been on the opposing sideline — he’s been on Denver while I’ve been at Georgetown — and we usually came down on the short end of the stick. So to be on a team with him, a good friend and also an amazing player, is something I’m really looking forward to.”

The Calgary Roughnecks are one of nine teams in the NLL and begins league competition Jan. 2. In the meantime, O’Connor is looking forward to becoming a true part of the Calgary organization. “[They] do things the right way, starting with their ownership and general manager and their coaching staff, who have proven their success and are bringing back a lot of key players, mostly their whole team, and I’m just looking forward to joining that and helping them even more,” O’Connor said.

With the solid foundation of his Georgetown legacy, a current fulltime job with his former high school team and the clean slate the upcoming 2016 season offers, O’Connor is looking forward to his future.

“Lacrosse is kind of the biggest thing in my life,” O’Connor said.

“It’s my passion and what I love to do, so I’ve got a great set-up here.”

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their lead to two thanks to a goal from Corboz in the 66th minute, the red card appeared to help Marquette more than it did Georgetown. Following the red card, the Golden Eagles disrupted the Hoyas with physical play, which may have ultimately helped them tie the game.

“When you start to play with 10, you work twice as hard if you’re the team with 10,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “I think we started thinking that’s it, the game was won, and we allowed them to get some momentum.”

After Marquette tied the game, play became frantic, and Georgetown had trouble mustering up effective chances because of Marquette’s physicality. Three yellow cards were given in the final 10 minutes of the game.

With the score still tied at the end of regulation, the match headed into a golden goal overtime period.

Chances to score abounded during the extra time. In the first half of the overtime period, Damaska and Thomas had a perfect opportunity to score on a long pass, but they collided with each other, both looking to corral the ball.

The most controversial play of the game came in the second portion of the overtime period, when Thomas maneuvered into the box, demonstrating her prolific dribbling skills.

As she moved toward the goal, she was taken down, but no penalty was given.

“We probably could’ve had a penalty kick at the end of the game there. The referee didn’t call it,” Nolan said.

The overtime period ended without a goal, and the game ended in Georgetown’s first tie this season, with a final score of 2-2.

Georgetown’s women’s soccer team will look to rebound Thursday when it takes on conference rival Seton Hall (2-11-2, 1-5-0 Big East) at Shaw Field at 3 p.m.

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Women’s Soccer Georgetown (9-5-1, 3-1-1) vs. Seton Hall (2-11-2, 1-5-0) Thursday, 3 p.m.

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On a chilly October day in front of a sold-out crowd at Cooper Field, the Georgetown football team (3-4, 1-1 Patriot League) could not muster a fourth-quarter comeback, falling to the Colgate Raiders (3-4, 2-0 Patriot League) by a final score of 17-13. The Hoyas scored 13 unanswered points in the fourth quarter but could not ultimately cap off what would have been an impressive comeback effort.

“I think what you saw in the second half from our entire ball club was, it’s a pretty resilient group,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “In years past here, that game at a 17-point deficit would turn into 24 in the third quarter, and then we’re chasing it the entire game. ... I thought defensively we came out and played well in the third and I thought offensively we finally did start to relax and play our game.”

Out of their seven possessions in the first half, the Hoyas had four threeand-outs and one turnover on downs, even though Colgate gave Georgetown chances to get into the game by fumbling four times and losing three of those fumbles. The Georgetown defense, led by junior linebacker Leo Loughrey — who racked up a careerhigh 14 total tackles — did its best to limit Colgate’s read option and keep the game competitive.

Colgate rushed 42 times for 184 yards, in large part thanks to junior quarterback Jake Melville, who had 14 carries for 80 yards, and sophomore running back James Holland, who had 14 carries for 75 yards and two touchdowns. The Raiders gashed the Hoyas’ defense with the read-option play for most of the game until the final quarter when Georgetown put the clamps on the running game.

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Former Georgetown attack Reilly O’Connor was selected with the seventh overall pick of the National Lacrosse League Draft on Sept. 28. O’Connor scored 66 goals for Georgetown from 2012-15.

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Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela had 22 carries for 104 yards in his team’s 1713 loss to Colgate. Kimpela added three receptions for 23 yards in the game.

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On a day when Big East leader DePaul (11-2-3, 5-0-1 Big East) was unable to capture a victory for the first time this season, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (9-5-1, 4-1-1 Big East)

appeared poised to inch closer to the top spot in the Big East.

The Hoyas were leading the Marquette Golden Eagles (6-6-4, 3-2-1 Big East) 2-0 late in the second half with a man advantage, ready for their victory.

That all changed in the 72nd minute when Marquette scored

on an empty net, following some miscommunication between graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins and senior defender Neela Mohan on a high ball that was chipped over the top. However, that was only the beginning of the damage. Just under two minutes later in the

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It’s the one thing that coaches at top collegiate programs demand. For an NCAAmandated 20 hours a week, they control their players from practice to the weight room, film room and beyond. During this allotted time, collegiate coaches dictate their players’ every movement.

It’s once they leave the field or court, however, that head coaches become particularly hypervigilant about every last detail of their players’ lives. From the classes they take to the meals they eat to the way they spend their nights off, head coaches at top programs make every effort to stay informed about all aspects of their players’ personal lives. They don’t have a choice. In today’s “what have you done for me lately” attitude toward college coaches, the stakes are too high for coaches not to be obsessive perfectionists when it comes to their players. So an army of academic advisors, nutritionists, mentors, tutors and assistants help monitor every last move a Division I athlete makes.

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O’Connor’s capacity to lead and adapt will be a tremendous advantage for the Roughnecks.

“I’m really happy for him,” Warne said. “This is something that he’s always looked forward to. … Calgary is getting a winner, Calgary is getting a guy that’s worked extremely hard and he’ll be a tremendous asset to their organization.”

O’Connor and the rest of his class saw many changes during their four years at Georgetown.

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At the beginning of his first season on the Hilltop, former Georgetown men’s lacrosse attack Reilly O’Connor (COL ’15) filled in some general information on a first-year student-athlete questionnaire. His hometown: Brooklin, Ontario. His high school: The Hill Academy.

His career goal: to play professional lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League.

After four years as a significant contributor on the men’s lacrosse team, three years un-

der new Head Coach Kevin Warne, two years as captain and one particularly prolific senior season, O’Connor finally made his goal a reality when he was picked seventh overall in the first round of the 2015 NLL Draft by the Calgary Roughnecks on Sept. 28.

To his former teammates and coaches, O’Connor’s legacy is defined by his leadership — not only in his more traditional role of team captain, but also as a role model and vocal supporter during the ups and downs of each season.

Warne said he believes that

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Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week after scoring three goals in two games against Xavier and Marquette. Corboz has eight goals in 2015.

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73rd minute, the Golden Eagles scored on a rebound, following a dangerous ball played into the center of the box. Suddenly, the game was tied and the momentum had completely shifted.

“There was a little bit of an error between me and Neela communicating on a ball that played over the top that led to the first goal. I think we just got a little deflated and didn’t really know how to recover from that, and they were able to capitalize and get a second goal,” Newins said.

Up to that point, the Hoyas had controlled the majority of the game. There was plenty of offensive play from both teams, but Georgetown found itself with the better chances. The forwards exploited Marquette’s three-man backline by playing balls up the wings to junior forward Grace Damaska and senior forward Crystal Thomas, who both created many dangerous opportunities for Georgetown to score from the sides of the field.

“I think with their formation, they play with three in the back, that leaves space out wide, so it’s important to exploit that. I definitely think we were able to exploit that,” Thomas said.

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