The Hoya: Oct. 21, 2011

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011

SIGNALING THE WAY

Debuting this weekend at the Davis Center, “Visible Impact” starts a conversation on ability.

WEATHERING THE STORM The men’s soccer team battled high winds and rain to win at Marquette, 3-2.

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Showtime: SeniorsVie for Crown SFS Email Discloses Private Student Data JONATHAN GILLIS Hoya Staff Writer

It’s Tuesday and long after dark, and GUSA President Mike Meaney (SFS ’12) is dancing in the Intercultural Center.

Meaney pulls up the bottom of his mesh shorts, slides to the left and strikes a pose. He is trying to stay in sync with the track, LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” but he looks a little discombobulated. His dance instructor, Groove Theory’s Hannah Conn (COL ’12), nods her approval.

“I think you’re starting to get it,” she says encouragingly.

This isn’t just a casual dance lesson for Meaney; he has a performance in Gaston Hall scheduled for tonight. As Mr. GUSA, Meaney has to be ready to strut his stuff at the Mr. Georgetown Pageant, a Homecoming tradition that lets a handful of senior men duke it out to see who is the most talented, the most accomplished and, of course, the most glamorous.

As The Hoya reported in 2005, the pageant made its debut during Homecoming weekend of that year with 10 contestants, who paraded around in thongs and eveningwear.

The brainchild of the Georgetown Program Board, the event served as a charity fundraiser, with the winner deciding where to donate the proceeds. It was a huge hit — students loved the absurdity of seeing their See PAGEANT, A5

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such as the students’ Social Security numbers, were not disclosed.

“I was pretty upset because I feel like Sensitive personal information of 305 personal data of that nature shouldn’t students, including names and universi- be in a file that could easily be sent ty identification numbers, was acciden- around,” said Emily Bertsche (SFS ’12), tally sent to 26 seniors in the School of whose information was included in the data accidentally released.

Foreign Service Monday.

“I wish I knew more information The SFS dean’s office released the information of the students, who were all about what happened,” said Doug Wolff seniors in the SFS, via an email attach- (SFS ’12), a senior whose GPA was included in the information. ment sent to 26 reThe school sent out cipients. Dean Mitch Kaneda informed the “We ... are taking steps a clarifying response to those requesting students whose infor- to prevent similar more information mation was disclosed by email Tuesday af- incidents from occur- about the error. Lucas Stratmann (SFS ’12), ternoon. According to ring in the future.” chair of the SFS AcaRachel Pugh, director of media relations, CAROL LANCASTER demic Council, said he Dean of the School of Foreign Service hopes that the dean’s those 26 students office will release the who received the data were asked to destroy it. All 26 have con- context of the incident. “[An explanation] should be sent out firmed doing so with the dean’s office to everyone so that there’s no uncertainas of Thursday.

“We take the security of student in- ty [about] what happened,” he said.

Some students, like Bertsche, feared formation very seriously, and we deeply regret this error,” Dean of the SFS Carol that other personal data of hers could Lancaster said. “We are reviewing the be contained in similar documents incident and are taking steps to prevent that could be similarly disclosed. She similar incidents from occurring in the suggested that the SFS outline policies future. This shouldn’t have happened, regarding the control and distribution of such information. and we apologize for it.”

“It sounds like it was just carelessness Personal data, including students’ names, Net IDs and academic informa- ... which could easily happen again. It’s tion, such as GPA and major, were in- hard not to let this affect my perception advertently shared. More sensitive facts, of the dean’s office,” she said.

Hoya Staff Writers

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Nathan Epstein (COL ’12), the Pep Band’s contender in the Mr. Georgetown Pageant, strums at a dress rehearsal for tonight’s lighthearted contest.

University Intervention Interviews Link GU’s Past, Future Keeps Yearbook Afloat PAVAN RAJGOPAL Special to The Hoya

UPASANA KAKU Hoya Staff Writer

Ye Domesday Booke will continue to publish after being dropped by the Media Board as a student organization last month.

The yearbook, which has been printing since 1905, will now be sponsored

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The Center for Student Programs will now manage production of the yearbook.

directly by the Center for Student Programs, according to CSP Director Erika Cohen-Derr.

“I don’t think that the Media Board was comfortable designating and selecting leadership for the yearbook, but they saw there was value in it,” she said.

Due to declining interest and a dwindling staff, the Media Board voted to end the yearbook’s status as an organization under its purview with the intention that CSP would absorb the publication. Days before the decision, the board sent out an email encouraging students to apply to be co-editors of the tome.

Cohen-Derr said that about 10 students expressed interest in working for Ye Domesday Booke, and she plans to hold the first meeting for the organization this month. While organized under the CSP, the yearbook will remain student run. Other student groups, such as the Senior Class Council and General Program Board, are

While thousands of Georgetown hopefuls finalize their applications, over 5,000 members of the Alumni Ambassadors Program are gearing up to interview prospective members of the class of 2016.

“The interview adds another layer to the application and gives us a bit more insight into the applicant,” said Colleen Miltenberg, assistant director of undergraduate admissions and one of the program’s coordinators.

AAP, founded in 1964 with

fewer than 400 interviewers, now includes members from all 50 states, ranging from six in Wyoming to the multitudes in the D.C. area.

Since its inception, the program has grown to become an integral part of Georgetown’s admissions process. In its founding year, AAP’s members interviewed 32 percent of the total applicant pool. But last admissions cycle, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, alumni interviewed more than 90 percent of applicants.

AAP expects to match that number this year.

Robert Adelberg (C ’59), who has

been involved with AAP interviewing since its inception, said that the program’s growth has not diminished its core mission — to bring the best students to the university.

“That was the way we, as alumni, could give back in the finest measure,” he said of the group’s founding. “We were picking the next generation to succeed us at Georgetown.”

Since joining the program, he has interviewed at least four applicants a year. In some seasons, his interviews number in the dozens.

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PROMOTING DREAM ACT, DURBIN RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS

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The Final Exam: Landing A Job After Georgetown CHAD CARSON

Special to The Hoya

This is the second story in a three-part series on alumni journeys beyond the Hilltop.

As this year’s seniors gather references, polish resumes and hit the pavement in search of a career, their predecessors’ stories are a testament to the uphill battle ahead.

A WAITING GAME For Ben Zeidler (COL ’09), nailing down post-graduation plans was no easy task. During his senior year job search, Zeidler sent out nearly 100 applications, received five interviews and

was offered two jobs.

“You can put in all the time in the world in building a solid resume and making yourself marketable, but in this job market, you still have to get lucky,” he said.

Knowing how much was up to chance made the search nerve-wracking for Zeidler, who wasn’t offered employment until about one month before graduation.

“I had the job locked down in April, but for a month there I was very nervous that I wouldn’t find anything. All of my financial friends knew what they were doing long before,” he said. Zeidler now works for Forrester Research, a

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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) spoke about the DREAM Act Tuesday. See story on A9.

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EDITORIAL

THE HOYA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Notes From Leavey Closet Space

Founded January 14, 1920

To the Editor:

ated with Georgetown — like Homecoming Weekend and Georgetown Day — pepper its pages. Sections are dedicated to events specific to the academic year, even though no one really wanted to remember the infamous norovirus outbreak published in the 2009 edition.

Of course, this is a mountain of information and records to publish all together, but yearbook staff can do more to include other members of the campus community. While friendships are based on shared interests rather than on age or year in college, the Ye Domesday Booke only features personal photos of the senior class. The consequences of this are two-fold: Not only are some seniors deterred from paying the price of a book that doesn’t represent their entire demographic of their friendships, but it also alienates the rest of the student population.

But it’s not doomsday for our yearbook. True, Wesleyan and the University of Virginia have discontinued the publication of their yearbooks, but on a whole our peer institutions maintain their tomes of record for students. The yearbook is still a popular piece of work: In 2008, close to 1,000 students bought copies to hold on to their college memories.

By convening the small group of students interested in keeping Ye Domesday Booke alive and providing the financial backing, CSP can ensure that one of the oldest publications on campus maintains its legacy.

Calling All Hoya Fans to Report to Duty The stroke of midnight last Friday didn’t bring its usual fever-pitched excitement to McDonough Arena for the college basketball season’s official kickoff.

On a night when the Hoyas trotted out legends of the past — Greg Monroe, Jeff Green, Roy Hibbert, Patrick Ewing Jr., Reggie Williams, John Duren and Patrick Ewing Sr. — there was not a packed house of fans at Midnight Madness last Friday to greet them, but rather an unimpressive crowd of student supporters that didn’t fill the stands.

The so-called Blue and Gray nation has been sulking over the past few weeks as the Big East drama plays out on the national stage. Once the most powerful conference in the college basketball game, it has lost three big contenders: Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Texas Christian University. Meanwhile, Hoyas are left bemoaning the headache of conference change.

Ultimately, basketball fans make all other Hoya sports teams possible. Were the university to see a significant drop

in revenue as a result of changes to the Big East, the entire Athletic Department would suffer from insufficient funding. Most other athletic programs depend on the revenue from the basketball program. However, membership in a strong conference isn’t the only pillar of power the basketball program needs to remain strong.

Through it all, Hoya followers need to buck up and remain just as proud to wear their Georgetown apparel this basketball season in support of our program. At this year’s Midnight Madness, that patronage was less than stellar; Hoyas need to make their voices loud and clear as they cheer for our teams during the remainder of the season.

School spirit should not be based solely on the result of past seasons. As Georgetown students and Hoya fans, we are supposed to pump our school’s colors through our veins. With the Big East status continuously in flux, Georgetown needs a solid base of undergraduate confidence now more than ever.

sity took away their zero funding to begin with, it has been difficult for them to print physical copies.

Another thing we take offense to: your inferring that we are professional. How dare you!

And a piece of advice: Add a humor section. Give your cartoonists some freedom.

Let your writers write whatever they want. Throw some humor into the columns or in the margins or captions.

Give them some freedom, but keep them in line also.

Lord knows that without our Editor-in-Chief checking in on what we write we’d probably have been hosts to a sit-in in our new office out in the fourth-floor Leavey hallway.

Rob Sapunor (MSB ’12) Voice Page 13

Lend Perspectives to SGU Launch To The Editor:

student groups can better communicate, collaborate and advocate with one another.

Committing to the SGU constitution is not a prerequisite for attending the kickoff event. The summit on Sunday will be a unique opportunity for students to share their ideas and shape the SGU’s agenda. In order for the SGU to be sustainable, it needs to hear the voices of more student groups and younger leaders.

We recognize that Sundays are busy days for Georgetown

This Sunday, students from all different clubs, activities, teams and advisory boards will gather in the early evening in Copley Formal Lounge for the launch of the Student Group Union.

News writer Matthew Strauss alluded to this event in his article, “Student Groups Band Together,” (Oct. 14, A5) in last Friday’s issue of The Hoya. Over the past couple of weeks, a group of undergraduates has worked to develop the SGU, a platform where

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Ye Domesday Booke isn’t going down without a fight, and it’s got the Center for Student Programs in its corner.

After struggling to find staff members up to the challenge of producing Georgetown’s annual yearbook, the publication was dropped by the Media Board two weeks ago. Luckily, CSP intervened: By funding the tome as an administrator group, Ye Domsday Booke will now have the access to benefits necessary to produce a 2011–2012 issue. However, CSP now finds itself in a unique position to not only fund the yearbook, but to revamp it to make it even more inclusive of the campus community.

Across the nation, printed works are an endangered species. The yearbook fell victim to the same declining demand that libraries and news organizations have faced for years.

Electronic sources of information are simply faster, easier and more comprehensive. Social media allows students to stay in touch with classmates and relive old memories for free with just a click. Why then, should students pay more for less?

In years past, Ye Doomsday Booke has been a collection of all the memories Georgetown students and alumni want to hold near and dear to their hearts as time marches on.

Unbeknownst to the majority of the campus community, the yearbook provides a swath of content about all the undergraduate colleges along with info on each varsity sport. Time-held traditions associ-

We were surprised and confused to come along your editorial, “Time to Rekindle Raillery” in Tuesday’s paper.

First of all, we have no clue what “raillery” means, and due to our new closet-of-anoffice space, we don’t have room for a dictionary. Regardless, we support lighting whatever it is on fire.

Next, we understand that there is a shortage of humor on campus and that this has hurt student morale. However, we believe that any hope students have of surviving midterms should be crushed like a Georgetown offensive lineman. There is something special about the collective fear and despair that occurs in the Beacon of Learning every night, and to lighten the mood would probably

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go against the university’s goals.

And yet The Georgetown Voice forces us to put out a page of humor every single week. It’s right there on Page 13, in between pages six and eight. We do this because of our loyal readership, who upon last tally, totaled seven students. Even the ever-watchful Hoya Editorial Board still found a way to ignore us. We haven’t felt this neglected since every member of the female gender failed to answer our calls.

But this raises new questions for us that have created an existential crisis of sorts. If no one reads our section, do we exist? The answer to this question probably explains the overlook.

Your critique of the Heckler’s disappearance is good also. Ever since the univer-

students — especially with Homecoming this weekend — but we hope that if you care about undergraduate student life on the Hilltop, you will be there to participate. Whether you are your club’s treasurer or a student who is not yet affiliated with any group, your perspective on student activities at Georgetown is valuable and worth sharing.

Bridget Power (COL ‘12) GUSA Senator and Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service employee

THE VERDICT by The Editorial Board Error 404 — The School of Foreign Service Dean’s Office apologized Monday for leaking hundreds of students’ personal academic information to 26 SFS seniors via an email attachment.

Home on the Hilltop — Homecoming weekend kicks off today with free food in Red Square, a cappella and dance performances and the chance to win a private box suite at the Hoyas’ opening men’s basketball game.

The Most Interesting Men in the World — Senior studs will strut their stuff tonight at the Mr. Georgetown Pageant in Gaston Hall.

Empire State of Mind — MTV News recently featured Georgetown’s “Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z” course as an example of increased hip-hop culture education.

D.C. Bridges Falling Down — According to federal, state and local agencies, 215 bridges in the Washington area — including the Key Bridge, the Memorial Bridge and the 14th Street Bridge — are structurally deficient.

Off the Web “Volunteering After GU: The Roads Less Traveled” Article posted Oct. 14, 2011 Comment posted Oct. 18, 2011 Anonymous: This is a great article; it shows the many paths that students can take after graduation. However, JVC is not an “emerging” organization. In fact, it is the oldest of its kind having been founded in 1956. Yes, even older than the Peace Corps.

There is a lot of good being done by all of these organizations. Furthermore, the alums of these programs are everywhere. You might just work for one.

CORRECTIONS The photo attached to the article “Italian Ties that Bind,” (The Hoya, A7, Oct. 18, 2011) mistakenly captioned as Italian Ambassador Giulia Terzi di Sant’Agata, was, in fact, a photo of former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.

In the article, “10 Years In: Gauging DeGioia’s Impact” (The Hoya, A1, Oct. 14, 2011), Fr. Dennis McNamara, S.J.’s name was misspelled as McManus.

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COMMENTARY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011

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Manuel Miranda, Jaremey McMullin & Jory Caulkins The Return Home: Fond Memories of Camaraderie Honoring Don Casper Margaret Delaney I KnowThis Much IsTrue

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hristmas come early is here again: homecoming weekend.

My earliest memory of the American phenomenon of homecoming is also my most embarrassing one. In seventh grade I joined the cheerleading squad.

The halftime show of the annual homecoming football game was always our biggest event of the season. I rehearsed dutifully in the weeks leading up to the performance, and much to my relief, I only messed up once during the actual performance.

After the performance (on the 50-yard line, no less), our coach stood in the announcer’s booth and called off each cheerleader’s name. As we heard our names called we were to “spirit” off of the field and run to the end zone — to raucous applause, naturally.

I stood beaming as Mrs. Scala began calling off names, scanning the crowded bleachers whilst trying to appear “cool” and “cheerleader-y.”

I snapped to attention when I heard Claire Dooley’s name called: I had missed my name.

I panicked, hoping that maybe Mrs. Scala had messed up the order and would realize her mistake. But time seemed to speed up and soon she had called the last name. Ashley Vicere turned to me, shrugged unceremoniously and sprinted off the field. I was stuck standing alone on the 50-yard line staring at a crowd of children and parents (most of whom knew my name) whose facial expressions all seemed to read “Why … What is she doing?”

Someone must have caught the attention of Coach Scala, who

hadn’t noticed that I’d never left.

She got back on the loudspeaker, and, stifling laughter, yelled, “And last but not least, Margaret Delaney!” The crowd laughed as I hurried back to my teammates, and as I was running I heard a chorus of “The cheese stands alone!” start up in the stands. I looked up to find that it was my mom who had started the song.

Three years later, I was voted homecoming princess during my junior year of high school (“The cheese stands alone” no more!).

This too was announced at an all-school pep rally in the gym.

We were presented with sashes and snapped a group photo for the yearbook. As I began to walk back to my seat in the bleachers,

Homecoming as it was intended reaches its fullest expression in college.

I tripped and fell: My sash had slipped off unbeknownst to me and gotten tangled around my ankles. The tradition of public humiliation during homecoming events continued.

Despite these missteps, I have always loved celebrating homecoming: the camaraderie, the crisp fall air, the parades … what’s not to love, really? But I think that homecoming as it was intended reaches its fullest expression in college: Alumni flock back to the Hilltop for a weekend of revelry and bonding alongside current students. When I was a freshman at Georgetown I had no idea the extent to which homecoming would be celebrated on campus.

I assumed it would entail the usual football game and tailgate, but that would be about it. But as

time has gone on, I have grown to love the other events campus puts on, whether it be field races on Traditions Day or reunions for veterans of campus organizations. The festivities make this weekend nothing short of a holiday.

But my hands-down favorite event is still the traditional Saturday tailgate. It is, in many ways, my perfect day: It starts with bagels and eggs, segues into hours of dancing and singing along to classics like “Centerfold” and “Jesse’s Girl” with my friends (who knew a generation raised in the ‘90s could hold such a deep affinity for ‘80s cover bands?) and then inevitably ends in naps for everyone. It just doesn’t get better than that, really.

There are other perks as well: As a senior now I know significantly more alumni than I did as an underclassman, and so this in turn has added another reason for me to look forward to this weekend, for it marks the return of old friends and familiar faces.

I love that in many way it always feels as though they’ve never really left, despite how drastically different their post-college lives may be. I know that sooner than I know it I’ll count myself amongst their ranks.

As I think back to my freshman year when I didn’t know many — if any — alums of Georgetown, I still remember that homecoming was the first time that I realized that I was a part of something so much bigger than myself. That I shared in a great, far-reaching tradition with all of these veritable strangers, and to celebrate that with so many people was pretty exhilarating. Because this weekend, we’re all home.

Margaret Delaney is a senior in the College. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE appears every other Friday.

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Don Casper’s untimely death reminds us of the tremendous impact he had both on the Hilltop and across the country years later.

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n San Francisco, Mayor Edwin Lee ordered the city’s flags be flown at half-mast for Don Casper (COL ’70) after he was killed this September in a hit-and-run accident. Not one but two horse-led honor guards of police and firefighters brought Don’s remains to Saints Peter and Paul Church. The church was packed with locals, lawyers, clergy, politicians, civil servants, Knights of Malta and Bohemians. Pallbearers all wore the same Hermes necktie from Don’s closet.

Former Mayor Willie Brown, a Democrat, gave the eulogy for his Republican friend. Georgetown’s Stewards processed behind the casket. This was not the only sign that a Hoya had passed.

At his Vigil the night before, a letter from President John J. DeGioia was displayed. It began: “Don Casper was truly a son of Georgetown.” Alumni spanning four decades delivered remembrances.

Mourners were entertained by the allmale chorus of the Bohemian Club, but it was nine alumni Chimes walking quietly to the side of the casket to sing “Alma Mater” that brought all to tears.

It is impossible to count all of Don Casper’s civic accomplishments. He supported the Boys and Girls Club, his grammar school, his high school, a local priory and so on. Each year, he organized the Columbus Day Parade. He revamped San Francisco’s civil service regulations, and, when a Georgetown friend suggested that he sue the State of California, Casper said “sure.” He won and saved the taxpayers billions.

On this Homecoming, we remember Don Casper at Georgetown, where he remains the most famous editor-in-chief that The Hoya has ever had. Even President DeGioia held Don Casper in high esteem. “Legendary” was how Dr. DeGioia put it.

The late 1960s were epic times. At Georgetown, a young traditionalist from San Francisco enjoyed being burned in effigy for standing his ground as editor to keep The Hoya from surrendering to populist demands, from competing with city newspapers for liberal-slanted news and from reporting on student government intrigues. Casper’s strong stand led to the start of the Georgetown Voice.

Casper also saw the unraveling of our two oldest student traditions. The Sodality, our first student organization, went dormant for lack of devotion to Our Lady.

Casper was its last Prefect. The Yard, our unique student government, gave way to lesser ideas. Casper would eagerly tell the story of how Bill Clinton was kicked out of a Yard meeting by the Yard president

after a bombastic plea for a seat.

As a senior, Casper indirectly caused one of Georgetown’s biggest black eyes.

He had invited then-Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto to speak at Gaston Hall.

Mayor Alioto supported the Vietnam War. Protestors rushed the stage, took the microphone and yelled expletives.

A brawl ensued and the lights went out.

Casper calmly took the mayor through the stage door for cocktails at the Jesuit residence followed by dinner at 1789.

Casper engaged also in unseen service.

Every day he would tend to Georgetown’s former president Fr. Edward Bunn, S.J., through his illness until his death. Don would read to him and absorb all that the great Jesuit would tell him. Casper’s published biography of Fr. Bunn remains one of the finest bits of university literature.

After receiving two degrees, Casper returned to San Francisco and set himself up as an affordable lawyer which explains why, on walks through North Beach, Don would be greeted by restaurateurs with “Consiglieri!”

Eventually, the chubby young man became an avid runner: a sleek, nine-time marathoner. This pastime, and Don’s still young age of 63, made the news of his murder by a hit-and-run coward while on his nightly run, so chilling.

Many Georgetown men and women had shared the hungry experience of waiting for Don to complete his two-hour run, followed inevitably by a jaunty ride through the City by the Bay in a green Jaguar in search of a high-carb meal, Dewar’s and a late night.

Through the years Don Casper remained fascinated by Georgetown. He returned to support Lauinger Library. In 1987, he was one of four plaintiffs who stepped up to sue Georgetown successfully to halt the dismantling of our historically independent alumni association.

Each spring, Don was invited to give a tour of the campus. From the newest building to the Hall of Cardinals, Don knew every detail. Like a Georgetown senior, he walked around as if he owned the place.

Don Casper knew Georgetown so well because he loved her. His courtship began when he angled his neck to see her from the window of an airplane, and when a cab dropped him inside Healy Circle and he saw Healy’s gray made mournful by rain. Don Casper came to love her best in the still sunrises that he would so vividly describe; when he would hear through the window the angels ring from Visitation and he would start to walk home across a misty lawn, solitary but never alone.

MANUEL MIRANDA graduated from the School of Foreign in the class of 1982.

JAREMEY MCMULLIN graduated from the College in the class of 1999. HORACE “JORY” CAULKINS graduated from the College in the class of 2006.

Thomas Mukonde

On the Brink of Success

A Occupiers Spurn Academia Andrew Toporoff Multumque Unum

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hough initially dismissed as merely the work of hippie protestors, the Occupy Together movement has been steadily gaining credibility, particularly in the eyes of the media.

Yet in its current form, the movement stands fundamentally opposed to the values we espouse as students. When we consider ourselves through the lens of these protests, we realize that Georgetown students should not support the Occupy Together movements.

Though the anger of the socalled 99 percent is genuine, Occupy Together has yet to assert clear goals or prescribe meaningful solutions. In an article

by Nick Defiesta of Yale Daily News, one student argues that it is the job of students to create a “cohesive narrative” from the problems Occupy Together recognizes. “If Occupy lacks proposals for real solutions,” the author writes, “our task is to look for them.”

This is the essence of studentship, whether at Yale or otherwise. The article’s recommendation even echoes the words of

Saint Ignatius of Loyola to the Jesuit student: “Go forth and set the world on fire.” Students should learn to not only be problem identifiers, but problem solvers as well.

Indeed, the task of searching for answers defines what it means to be a student. Yet while some of us might share in Occupy’s frustrations, it would be arrogant to think that we could add any value to the organization through proposing remedies. Occupy Together is an uninspired movement lacking vision. The socalled 99 percent of which Occupy Together consists has set clear boundaries outside of which we, students seeking a real “cohesive narrative,” fall.

In essence, we are part of an intellectual one percent. Occupy Together decries the very institutions that students, especially we at Georgetown, intend on seeking in order to implement change. We aspire to sit at the helm of business and politics and to speak up for those who cannot. But this movement fails to see a genuine intellectual one percent beneath more obvious socioeconomic appearances. At the university level, the value of problem-solving is lost beneath a perception of privilege.

In the eyes of Occupy Together, the student of the academic one

percent is among the same entitled one percent. As Defiesta’s piece concludes, this perception affects the relationship between students and the protest. It is only reasonable that the author feels that by virtue of being in the one percent as a Yale University student, problem solving should not only be a goal, but an obligation. However, Occupy has not only failed to find answers, it has jettisoned the value of problem solving altogether. The 99 percent may have intended to emphasize a socioeconomic distinction; through misperception, the 99 percent created an intellectual wall as well.

The college campus has historically been a battleground for the clashes between citizens and government; what’s more, we often hold a romantic view of protesting as a quintessentially collegiate activity. But this time, the identity of the student and the identity of Occupy Together cannot be reconciled. As long as Occupy Together conflates intellectualism and privilege in identifying the one percent, it will remain a stagnant movement devoid of goals, and devoid of students.

Andrew Toporoff is a sophomore in the College. MULTUMQUE UNUM appears every other Friday.

nother dawn has come to a place at the heart of Africa. The sun has risen and still shines brightly; the will of the people has prevailed: On Sept. 20, Zambia, my home country, elected its fifth president, along with a parliament and local representatives. Zambia is a relatively young nation, as Oct. 24 will mark the 47th anniversary of independence. Among African nations, Zambia is thought to be lucky, but its good fortune is sustained entirely by the tenacity of the Zambian people.

When I returned to Zambia this summer, I was struck by the status of both its state and society. Both appeared to be working pretty well, but there were underlying tensions: The state was worn and society was weary.

Zambians have realized that the institutions of state inherited from Britain are formidable when well managed and tweaked to suit their own needs. In contrast to some of our African neighbors, whose independence was rushed, Zambia had a leisurely transition to African majority rule. As early as December 1959, Kenneth Kaunda,─who later became Zambia’s first President and other African leaders were invited to London to discuss a transitional constitution.

While Zambia has made much progress in defining our own nation-state, negative elements of colonial rule still remain. While I was at home, I noticed how state television, which is provided by tax dollars, had become a propaganda channel for the president and his ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy. With several private for-profit television stations opening in urban centers and offering competition, state television used as a government sounding board is increasingly ill received.

There are also a growing number of community radio stations, mostly Catholic, scattered across the country. Other state-run institutions like schools, universities and hospitals, though lacking sufficient funding, are also fairly out of step with the needs of the Zambian people. The men and wom-

en who labor in these institutions and have managed to sustain them are heroic.

By late May, it was time for a change. Copper is Zambia’s major export and largest source of GDP. Although copper prices and exports have soared over the past few years, there hasn’t been a marked improvement in the quality of life for the average Zambian. Furthermore, there is little opportunity to participate in the formal economy outside the mines and government.

The large population of educated but unemployed young people could not see why their country didn’t offer them opportunities to excel. Thus sailed in the charismatic and eccentric Michael Sata, whose party, the Patriotic Front (PF), had promised “lower taxes, more jobs and more money in your pockets.”

Sata captured the presidency after three unsuccessful runs before. It was a terrific feat; the presidency in much of Africa is still the only place where enormous economic clout can be wielded. It is, therefore, a highly sought-after job.

In a chat with Professor Scott Taylor of Georgetown’s African Studies Program, I learned that Zambia’s democracy will only truly succeed and grow if the opposition grows stronger. With few ways of funding themselves, political parties in Zambia have had the tendency to crumble after losing elections and only resurface near election time.

After 20 years in power, will the MMD survive this defeat? Will the economy become dynamic enough to allow access to resources from various sources? And will the ruling powers be able to bend the state toward the dreams and aspirations of the Zambian people? Most importantly, will the Zambian people continue to negotiate their African and Western legacies into a sturdier structure? The answers to these questions, and more, will determine the fate of this beautiful nation.

Zambia’s democracy will only succeed and grow if the opposition grows stronger.

THOMAS MUKONDE is a senior in the College.

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SACIssues Reform FROM THE WEB Plan at Town Hall GALLERY MATTHEW STRAUSS Hoya Staff Writer

The Student Activities Commission unveiled plans for a new funding system to a roundtable of student group leaders Wednesday night in response to student complaints over SAC’s programming-arc funding model.

“I want to stress that we’re presenting a draft — nothing here is set in stone,” SAC Chairman Andy Koenig (COL ’12) said.

“That’s why we’ve asked you to come at this point. This is the first time that this is being presented in one coherent piece.”

The plan calls for student groups to submit a line-item budget for the following semester. Once all the budgets have been collected and the total amount of funding requested is calculated, SAC will determine how much it will be able to fill the funding requests.

“Last semester, we initially funded around 77 percent, but after adjustments and ad hoc additions, ended up funding around 90 percent,” SAC Vicechair Ruiyong Chen (SFS ’13) said.

Much of the night’s discussion revolved around the topic of ad hoc funding for club events not included on the original budget. SAC commissioner Eric Neidle (SFS ’12) stressed that ad hoc funding will be a priority in the revamp, though he warned that funding levels would remain consistent.

“If we didn’t have enough money during the initial budget process and could only fund student groups at 80 percent, we would only fund ad hoc requests at a maximum of 80 percent,” Neidle said.

Former chair of the International Relations Club and founding member of Georgetown’s new Student Group Union Eitan Paul (SFS ’12) has long been critical of SAC’s funding system. Paul said Wednesday that he thought the proposed guidelines represented a drastic improvement.

“I just want to really take our hats off to you guys,” he said. “There are obviously still some issues in this system to be hammered out, but I think this system really addresses and corrects a lot of the issues that I and other people in this room have brought up. So I just really want to thank you guys for your hard work on this new system.”

Additional discussion revolved around SAC funding for travel. Koenig explained that with the new system, SAC has already set aside $31,000 exclusively for travel in the spring of 2012. Use of these travel funds will be allocated on a strictly ad hoc basis with every request requiring an appearance in front of the commission.

Under the proposed model, groups deemed “travel groups,” where travel is an essential part of the group’s mission, will receive partial funding for three trips per semester. Two trips will be funded at 55 percent of cost, with a third funded at 25 percent of cost. Non-travel groups would receive similarly structured funding but at a 10 percent lower rate.

Several issues, including event modifications, appropriateness of requests and transparency, must be hammered out in the coming weeks so the plan can be implemented before next semester.

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We don’t really realize that we are in the U.S. capital. ... It is a high security risk to live here.

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— Tim Devita (COL ’14), on the alleged plot to bomb local restaurant Cafe Milano in an attempt to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States.

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Student Coalition Pushes Sustainability SAM RODMAN

Special to The Hoya

As a recent university composting initiative grows, campus environmental groups are looking ahead to implement more ambitious sustainability initiatives.

The collaborative effort between the Georgetown University Student Association, Eco-Action and Georgetown Energy is looking to begin the process of weatherizing university townhouses. Weatherization upgrades a house’s energy consumption and efficiency by installing insulating materials.

Colin Doyle (COL ’13), a member of Georgetown Energy, and Eco-Action Multimedia and Marketing Chair Madeleine Collins (COL ’13) are working with nonprofit organization Weatherize DC to evaluate their own homes by the end of the spring semester. Once the GUSA sustainability committee and the Magis Row residents raise the necessary funds to assess the houses for a green upgrade, they will

begin work. They also can begin reviewing other townhouses with consenting residents. Doyle plans to enter this phase by next summer.

According to Jessie Robbins (SFS ’12), GUSA’s secretary of sustainability, the effort hit a roadblock when the Old Georgetown Board objected to the replacement of wood window frames with fiberglass, an integral step in the weatherization process. Robbins said she is confident that the Board’s opposition will not be a major obstacle.

“We drive cars and don’t have to have a horse, so obviously we can have 21st century standards on some things,” Robbins said.

The coalition has had its most significant success so far in distributing compost bins to 30 student-owned houses located off-campus as part of an initiative that kicked off earlier this year. Participating residents fill their bins with compostable material and members of the Garden Club transport this material to a collec-

tion area in Doyle’s backyard. From there, it is transported to the Georgetown Community Gardens for composting.

Doyle hopes to expand the composting effort in the coming months to encompass the rest of the student-owned townhouses and to eventually move onto campus with a compost collection area near Kehoe Field.

Robbins said that the level of collaboration among student organizations toward sustainability projects is higher now than she has ever seen it during her time at Georgetown. In order to take advantage of this cohesiveness, she is working to bring together environmentally-minded students to brainstorm ideas for increasing sustainability in a forum set to be held in November.

Robbins hopes the creative input of students will eventually lead to the creation of a more detailed plan to boost environmental initiatives at Georgetown.

“This will be an incredible forum for student input and student ideas,” she said.

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King of the Hill: Seniors Compete in Mr. Georgetown PAGEANT, from A1 classmates try their hand at modeling and performing talents like rhythmic gymnastics, as performed

by Adam Arguelles (SFS ’06).

Since then, the show has continued to be a highlight of Homecoming weekend, especially for seniors.

This year’s pageant has 13 entrants hailing from clubs all across campus, including the South Asian Society, Pep Band and the Georgetown Improv Association. For the last week, they have been practicing the collective dance routine, which opens the show and introduces the audience to the candidates. According to the instructors, it’s a sensual dance, with plenty of gyrating and belt grabbing to go around.

The actual contest itself looks like a combination of “American Idol” and “America’s Next Top Model.” Three judges determine the winner based on four categories: an interview, a formalwear display, a swimwear display and a talent portion. It’s a marathon event, broken up by performances by the Phantoms, Groove Theory and rapper Tate Tucker (COL ’14).

Behind all the dancing and revelry, sophomore Eunice Chin (MSB ’14) has been hard at work to put the show on stage. Chin is the special events chair for the Georgetown Program Board and was tasked last year with planning the 2011 Mr. Georgetown Pageant. Her work began in the summer, when she put together an initial proposal outlining requirements and costs.

With the guidance of her adviser,

Tanesha Stewart, she booked Gaston Hall for the event, scheduled a sound team, ordered sashes and even recruited GUTV to film.

Even though she has been immersed in the logistics, Chin says that she is fairly hands-off when it comes to regulations for the actual participants.

“I want it to be really fun for everyone,” she said. “I told them that they can wear whatever swimsuit they want and to yell out to the crowd if they want to do that, too.”

For the participants, Chin’s lax approach has translated into confusion over what they are actually doing onstage. Sitting around a table in the ICC after a dance rehearsal, the men laugh about how little they can tell me about the pageant.

“They don’t really tell us much, they just keep us in the dark,” Nathan Epstein (COL ’12), Mr. Pep Band, says.

“We actually don’t know the rules,” adds Zeeshan Feerasta (MSB ’12), Mr. South Asian Society.

To the contestants, that’s not a bad thing at all. The fun for them is in the clowning and tomfoolery in front of their peers.

“It’s probably going to be a big crowd of mostly seniors, and just a fun night of seeing a couple of your peers doing some dorky stuff onstage, going out in a suit, going out in a swimsuit, doing some talent,” Chris Butterfield (MSB ’12), Mr. Senior Class Committee, explains.

The group gets along swimmingly, playing off each other and garnering laughs for the entire con-

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Nathan Epstein (COL ’12), Mr. Pep Band, practices the talent portion of the night for the Mr. Georgetown pageant. Epstain is one of 13 seniors competing for the crown in the annual event tonight at 7:30 in Gaston Hall. versation. The only outlier is Jed Feiman (COL ’12), Mr. Improv, who insists that the pageant is about far more than giggles.

“Behind this, we are all competi-

tors here, and we all want it,” Feiman says. For him, he says, it has been a life ambition.

“When I got nominated, I cried. I was so excited. I have always want-

ed to do this,” he says, sending the other contestants into hysterics.

“This is what Georgetown is about, what men and women for others means.”

Cafe Milano Potential Target in Assassination Plot DANNY FUNT

Hoya Staff Writer

The Iranians who allegedly plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States were aware that

their plan to bomb a D.C. restaurant could cause mass casualties.

Their response: “If the hundred go with him, [expletive] ‘em.”

After the foiled plot was announced, rumors spread that the

likely target was high-end restaurant Cafe Milano — located just seven blocks from the front gates on Prospect Street near Wisconsin Avenue.

Two men, one an Iranian-born

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An assasination plot against the Saudi amabassador could have resulted in the bombing of local favorite Cafe Milano.

U.S. citizen and the second reportedly associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were accused of plotting the assassination of Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir (GRD ’84). This summer, the pair approached a man they thought was a Mexican drug cartel associate, but who was, in fact, an undercover U.S. informant. The IranianAmerican was arrested Sept. 29 and plans to plead not guilty to the charges.

At the time of the arrest, the assassins had allegedly finalized their plans to use a C-4 explosive to bomb a restaurant that the ambassador was known to frequent twice a week, according to records taken by the informant. U.S. authorities have also said that the Israeli embassy could have been a secondary target.

An assassin was quoted as saying that collateral damage extending to roughly 150 people in the surrounding area would be “no big deal.”

For some Georgetown students, the likely proximity of the planned attack changes their perspective on safety in D.C. “It’s almost unbelievable,” said Tim Devita (COL ’14). “We don’t really realize that we are in the U.S. capital, and we’re reminded that it

is a high security risk to live here.”

Cafe Milano is well-known as a hotspot for Washington insiders.

Multiple reports have suggested that it was the target, although the restaurant is never explicitly mentioned in legal documents. A manager at Cafe Milano said he did not know if the restaurant was targeted.

“It’s a little scary,” said Krista Engemann (COL ’13) upon hearing the news. She remarked that she felt reminded of what it was like to live in New York City during the 9/11 attacks.

A worker at Tuscany Cafe, a pizzeria on the same block as Cafe Milano, expressed shock upon hearing how close the explosion could have been to his workplace. The employee, who asked not to be identified, said that such news in Washington is more frightening than the persistent threat of danger he once experienced living through a foreign civil war.

John Collins (COL ’14) said he has a different perspective from having grown up in New York City and experiencing terrorist threats.

“You got to live life, right?” Collins said. “I’m pretty confident in our homeland security, and there are plots all the time.”

GUMC Picks One of Its Own for Dean Position HIROMI OKA

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown University Medical Center tapped Jamie Padmore to become the associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and Educational Scholarship Monday.

Padmore, previously a School of Medicine administrator, was also promoted to vice president for academic

affairs with MedStar, the healthcare provider and clinical partner for the Medical Center, as well as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Surgery.

Padmore, who holds a masters of science in health administration, has worked with GUSM’s graduate medical education program for the past 17 years, working nine of those years as assistant vice principal for academic

affairs.

Padmore wrote in an email that her experience at Georgetown has afforded her the opportunities to advance and innovate GUSM’s educational curriculum.

“I’ve had the privilege of working in medical education for the past seventeen years, with world-renowned faculty and leaders in GME. This experience has provided me with opportunities to lead efforts to create innovative pro-

grams in medical education,” she said.

Padmore said that she hopes to update teaching methods to continue to make GUSM a more prominent institution for medical education.

She also aims to establish a new research program called the Office of Educational Scholarship, which would encourage students, residents and faculty to publish their research and increase Georgetown’s level of medical

scholarship.

Padmore said that she looks forward to collaborating with the faculty at both GUSM and MedStar Health in accomplishing these goals.

“I feel very privileged that the university has demonstrated [its] trust in me to lead these important initiatives in medical education, and I am excited to be part of the Hoya family,” she wrote.

Test-Prep Site Pairs Up With GU SARAH PATRICK Special to The Hoya

This weekend, Georgetown will expand its online presence through its year-long pilot partnership with Grockit, an interactive learning start-up.

Founded in 2007 by Farb Nivi, a former National Teacher of the Year for The Princeton Review and Academic Director at Kaplan Test Prep, Grockit employs adaptive learning algorithms, gaming aspects and visual tools to help students prepare for tests like the SAT, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT. The company also identifies students’ academic weaknesses and tracks their progress.

The administration reached out to Grockit after discovering through conversations with students over the summer a campus-wide desire for additional applications and software that directly apply to academic life.

The company will now begin developing supplementary educational tools for students and alumni. The program pilot will be open to all students and alumni interested in experimenting with the platform.

Grockit recently raised an additional $7 million in funding to expand its services, which now include Facebook Study Rooms, audio conferencing, shared whiteboards, chat rooms for peer tutoring and Grockit Answers, a tool that transforms YouTube videos into question and answer sessions.

The initiative has been spearheaded by Randy Bass, assistant provost and director of Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship, Michael Wang, special assistant to the Chief Operating Officer and Victor Reinoso, a senior advisor to university President John J. DeGioia.

Georgetown will launch its partnership with Grockit through its Start-Up

Weekend, held in the McDonough School of Business today through Sunday. The events — open to students, alumni, faculty and D.C. residents — will allow participants to share their thoughts with the Grockit team.

Grockit’s services are based on its research that demonstrates that students benefit from collaborate study. Many students believe that the Grockit platform can supplement their preferred study habits, which often tend to be individualfocused.

“I prefer studying alone because I avoid distraction, and it’s easier because I can just study what I need to study and control how long I work,” Christian Keenum (MSB ’15) said. “I also like to study in groups because I can ask questions. … The chat room function is a crucial advantage, because you can have instant communication, and typing online is less distracting than conversing in person.”

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GU Proposes Pledging TFA Head Calls for School Reform System for Landlords MARIAH BYRNE & ADRIANNA SMITH Hoya Staff Writers

BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

The university will roll out a landlord pledge initiative starting early next week in an effort to protect students who live off campus while improving neighborhood relations.

In exchange for being recognized in an online list of university-approved landlords, those who sign the pledge will commit to maintaining their properties in compliance with D.C. law, licensing their properties with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and addressing issues affecting quality of life in the community.

The program will also allow the university to contact landlords who receive credible student complaints. Landlords who repeatedly fail to address these concerns will be publicly named on the Georgetown website.

University spokeswoman Stacy Kerr said that while the pledge does not represent a new strategy, the initiative is designed to hold landlords more accountable for the states of their properties.

“The goal is to hold landlords accountable,” she said. “We’re recognizing the student side of this and that landlords who are renting to students have to meet certain expectations.”

Kerr added that the pledge initiative is part of a broader effort by the university to address the concerns of students living off campus. She noted that Georgetown has taken steps to strengthen its relationship with the DCRA, the agency that regulates the properties students rent off campus.

“It’s great to see that [the DCRA] is taking this as seriously as we are. They’ve come on campus this fall and held office hours to meet with students with concerns,” she said.

Debbie Meritz Olsen, who owns four properties in Georgetown and Burleith rented by Georgetown students, was enthusiastic about the pledge.

“The pledge sets up a framework demonstrating a commitment by landlords to work in harmony with the local community and to maintain quality

housing for Georgetown students that is also consistent with the residential standards in that local community,” she said.

Olsen said that, though she already adheres to the requirements outlined in the pledge, the framework will hold landlords accountable and allow them to hone their own reputations.

“You always want to maintain good relationships with the students. You want students to be able to seek you out, find you year after year, and [to] be known as a good and responsible landlord,” Olsen said. “The pledge is a terrific way to make clear to students and community that landlords who sign are committed to living up to these standards.”

Advisory Neighborhood Commission District 2E Commissioner Bill Starrels commended the university’s efforts to reinforce landlords’ responsibilities, but stressed that the D.C. government already has measures in place to hold landlords accountable.

“Obviously, reinforcing that landlords have to abide by D.C. [law] is a good thing. But every student that is looking to rent a house off campus should check the DCRA website to make sure that it has a license,” he said Starrels has been a prominent advocate of accountability for Georgetown landlords since a fire at 3318 Prospect St. killed Daniel Rigby (MSB ’05) in 2004.

The Hoya reported on Nov. 5, 2004 that D.C. fire inspectors said that the fire could have been prevented if the house had met certain safety standards.

But William Miller (SFS ’14) questioned whether the pledge would change rogue landlords’ behavior.

“This seems like a largely worthless measure for keeping landlords accountable. Those who sign the pledge are simply pledging to follow laws that are already on the books,” he said. “I guess it’s a start.”

Starrels said that he hopes the pledge will improve the security of students’ living conditions.

“Students have [the same right] as any other tenant of any other landlord to have [landlords] follow the rules,” he said.

Teach For America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp stressed the need to restructure the American public school system to a packed Copley Formal Lounge in an informal discussion Wednesday night.

“There is something daunting about that, but it’s why people who have figured out how to build whole schools that are much more sustainable give me hope,” she said.

The event, organized by the Center for Social Justice, was moderated

by Jane Genster, Senior Counselor to the President and the Interim Executive Director of the CSJ. The TFA founder visited the university in order to support student interest in the program and push for more recruitment from Georgetown.

“I’m interested in hearing where Georgetown grads minds are … to recruit all the more of them,” Kopp said in an interview with The Hoya.

Kopp’s passion for education began in college, when she proposed the idea of Teach For Today in her senior thesis.

“I somehow got into Princeton without realizing the depth of education inequity in this country,” she said.

The educational disparities across the United States became apparent to Kopp as she watched her freshman-year roommate, who attended high school in the Bronx, N.Y., struggle academically after inadequate schooling.

Kopp argued that fixing the American school system is crucial to reducing low urban graduation rates and providing better educational opportunities.

“These kids are showing up at schools that really were not built to meet their needs,” she said. “What you have to do with kids in that context takes super-heroic efforts.”

Kopp suggested a new mission for schools: that all students will be prepared for college. She believes this can be achieved through creating a culture that fosters passion for one’s education and provides

CSP Takes On Yearbook YEARBOOK, from A1 also considered administrative groups under the CSP. According to Cohen-Derr, the switch will not entail any major changes to the organization, but the price of yearbooks will be reduced from $90 to $80 dollars.

“I will convene the students who are interested and help get

them organized,” Cohen-Derr said, adding that she thought that 10 students would be enough to produce the yearbook in its typical format.

But concerns remain about the viability of the publication due to low interest.

“This is not the first year Ye Domesday Booke has lacked student interest, and if it is not a trend that reflects the

overall demise of written publications, then it should be possible to improve recruitment,” transition editor Ciara Foldenauer (SFS ’14) wrote in an email. “From my understanding, the current amount of administrative support is sufficient, but student interest must improve in order to justify the time, money and effort of such a tradition.”

Coulter Speech Amuses, Offends

RITA PEARSON

Special to The Hoya

Students who attended Ann Coulter’s speech Thursday evening in Lohrfink Auditorium came with a range of expectations.

Some, like Dan Galloway (COL ’13) attended the event because they find Coulter entertaining. Sam Greco (SFS ’15), a moderate conservative, came to hear her comments on economic policy. Anwesha Banerjee (COL ’13), who identifies as a Democrat, said she came because of the controversy surrounding Coulter’s reputation as an outspoken commentator.

“There’s been so much talk about the controversial things she says on campus, so I wanted to hear what she was going to say,” Banjeree said.

Regardless of the mixed views of the students in the audience, Coulter kept the entire auditorium laughing. Exchanging sharp criticism of the Obama administration and what she called the “mainstream media” and the “liberal mob” with oneliners, Coulter discussed her political and social views.

“The Democrat solution to problems created by the government is more government.

That’s like trying to sober up by having another drink — except that’s fun,” she said.

While Coulter kept the audience amused — not all of Coulter’s comments were met with unanimous laughter. When Coulter joked that Democrats favor Ronald Reagan because he appears gay, many audience members gasped in shock.

Galloway, who identifies

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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter received mixed reactions to her speech in Lohrfink Auditorium Thursday night.

Elas Roman Catholic and bisexual, called the comment homophobic while addressing Coulter during the Q-and-A session following the speech.

Coulter defiantly denied any accusations of homophobia made by Galloway or other students, who called her out on her comment that traditional marriage between a man and women is best for raising children. In response, Coulter repeatedly asserted that she has gay friends with children.

Coulter also added that she believed the Constitution does not defend against discrimination based on sexual preference.

“Gays are exactly the opposite of blacks in terms of discrimination,” Coulter said. “We want blacks protected but we don’t want them in our neighborhoods, but we want gays in our neighborhoods, but we don’t want them protected.”

Another student who identified himself as an Arab Muslim and a proud American asked Coulter if she considered him a patriot, given his religious beliefs. Coulter answered that she did, but added, “I’m not saying all Arabs are terrorists, but of course you have to keep your eyes open after 9/11,” she said.

After the event concluded, Galloway stated he was not personally insulted by Coulter’s controversial words.

“I knew this is how her speech was going to be,” he said.

Greco, who said that he agreed with her position on economics, left with mixed feelings.

“She’s too extreme,” he said.

“I’m afraid people will view her as the face of my party.”

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Teach For America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp discussed America’s need for public education reform at a CSJ event in Copley Formal Lounge Tuesday night.

extra academic assistance. She also called for the development of more charter schools, which she credited with giving students the tools for future success through their intensive structure.

Kopp focused on the importance of investment in the development of TFA teachers and the recruitment of well-qualified teachers, particularly those who share the ethnic and economic backgrounds of their students.

“When you do share their backgrounds, there is a potential power with that,” she said.

She challenged the perception that TFA volunteers are quick to become discouraged and that few become teachers as their permanent career.

“I actually don’t think it would be accurate to say that our people burn out,” she told The Hoya. “It’s a challenging experience, but it’s a motivating experience.”

Kopp argued that many students who leave the program choose other means to address problems in the educational system.

“There is really something indispensable about teaching in this context to creating change later on,” she said. “What we essentially need in the end is leaders in all of our schools, and in all levels of policy and in all sectors who know what you know after time in these schools.”

Students who attended appreciated the opportunity to better understand the problems in the American education system and pose their personal questions to Kopp.

“What she talked about was applicable for us in what we need to do to make this a better country,” Christine Park (COL ’12) said. “Basically, she laid out what’s wrong and where we come in.”

The members of TFA have a serious impact in their individual schools, but there is more work to be done, according to Kopp.

“The real question at the end of the day is: Are we changing the system?” she said. “It’s definitely too early to claim victory to that. Render no illusion that we can do that alone.”

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Not all students are so fortunate. According to the Career Education Center’s senior survey of the class of 2010, 29.7 percent of seniors had not found a job by graduation.

“Trying to find a job was like adding another class to my schedule,” said Noelle Trogone (COL ’11), who wasn’t offered her current position in the Patient Services Department at New York Downtown Hospital until late June.

Unlike Ziedler, Trogone did not send resumes to dozens of employers. She applied for 15 jobs between fall 2010 and spring 2011, saying that it was much easier to focus on her search during the summer.

But for a small percentage of students, this extra time is not enough. By the time that last year’s survey was completed in November 2010, 8 percent of graduates still identified themselves as “seeking employment.”

The majority of these students were graduates of the College and the School of Foreign Service, who hold unemployment rates of 9 percent and 10 percent, respectively. By comparison, the McDonough School of Business had a lower rate of 7 percent. The School of Nursing and Health studies boasted the lowest unemployment rate of 4 percent.

According to Trogone, this data may be a reflection of the kind of degrees that these schools grant.

“A lot of our degrees from the College are really broad. Perhaps employers like degrees more focused on a career path, like finance or other business school degrees,” she said.

FEELING UNPREPARED Joe Brown (COL ’11), now a social policy analyst for Mathematica Policy Research, also found himself questioning aspects of his Georgetown education in light of the job application process.

Brown’s search lasted nearly three months and involved approximately 400 different applications. He was invited for 15 interviews and four final-round interviews, eventually receiving two offers.

“The job search was tough for a while. I was a little disappointed in myself and kept thinking of the things I should’ve done differently to make myself more marketable,” he said.

The search made Brown question whether Georgetown had prepared him to be a viable candidate in the current job market.

“The market seems to be looking for tangible skills that employers can use to place people into the specific, limited roles that are available,” he said. “Georgetown does a remarkable job training students to critically think, but … a liberal arts background doesn’t necessarily translate into those tangible skills.”

EVALUATING CAREER SERVICES For students like Brown who are struggling to maneuver the complexities of the job market, the Career Education Center is often advertised as a vital resource.

According to the center’s executive director, Mike Schaub, the organization offers students a variety of services, including databases for finding full-time positions and in-

ternships and access to an extensive alumni network.

At the center, students can also participate in mock interviews and listen to presentations from a variety of firms, companies and government agencies that visit campus. In addition, students have the ability to meet with career counselors or access general tips online.

But some students feel that the Career Center didn’t go far enough to reach out to struggling seniors.

“Georgetown didn’t do a fantastic job helping me find a job. The services were definitely there, but I feel like they didn’t reach out to students,” Ziedler said.

For Brown, the center was too focused on providing information about specific kinds of jobs.

“Georgetown was very good about bringing in corporations, but not as good about bringing in a variety of industries that I could pursue,” he said.

The senior survey did not include statistics on how many students landed positions through the career center, a fact that Schaub attributed to the difficulty of defining exactly what role the center plays in helping students find employment.

“The Career Center plays a role in students’ job searches in a variety of ‘direct’ (e.g., job postings, networking events, job fairs, oncampus interviews) and ‘indirect’ (e.g., job search workshops, interview preparation, resume reviews, career counseling) ways,” he wrote in an email.

Though Trogone credited the career center with helping her to obtain several interviews during her search, both of her final offers came without any input from the center.

“The thing that helped me the most in this process was my own personal network. Both job offers I received came from my own personal network,” she said.

But for Andrew Brewster (COL ’11), the career center’s resources proved invaluable in helping him to secure his position at Audax Private Equity, an investment company based in Boston and New York.

“There was a lot that I didn’t take advantage of, but there was a huge push to get kids to come in and after I did come in, the job search process was very quick,” he said.

WHAT’S IN A NAME Despite the ups and downs of the job search, recent graduates say that the Georgetown name did a lot to improve their chances.

“Georgetown has a fantastic relationship with many of the investment banks,” Brewster said, noting the university’s role in helping him land his job.

Trogone agreed, crediting Georgetown’s reputation and extensive alumni network as appealing to employers. “[Potential employers] were impressed by my Georgetown diploma,” she said. “Personal [connections] made a big difference too. For example, one of my interviewers’ sister was a Georgetown grad.”

Brewster offered words of encouragement to current seniors worrying about their life beyond the gates. “[The job search] was a very stressful time, but in the end I landed a great job,” he said.

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BY THE NUMBERS: CRIMES* PER DORM JAN. 1 — OCT. 17, 2011 20 18

*Crimes include theft, burglary and assault

16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Copley Village C Alumni Square New South Harbin McCarthy Henle Nevils Village C East Reynolds LXR Kennedy Darnall Village A

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DATA: DPS; KAVYA DEVARAKONDA/THE HOYA

Reynolds Tops Crime Count KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer

With housing selection for the 2013 school year right around the corner, residence hall safety might be a determining factor on some students’ pros and cons lists when choosing a dorm.

According to the Department of Public Safety’s crime log, Reynolds Hall has the highest crime numbers with a total of 18 reported incidents, including theft, burglary and assault, between Jan. 1 and Oct. 17. This is significantly higher than other residence halls, such as Harbin Hall, the dorm with the second highest crime rate, which had 11 incidents since the beginning of the year.

Village C East, an upperclassmen dorm located behind Dahlgren Quadrangle, posted the lowest amount of crime, with one recorded incident since the

beginning of 2011.

Yongmin Hwang (COL ’12), who lives in Reynolds, said that he thinks his hall’s upperclassmen population and its location in the back of campus contributes to its high crime rate.

“Honestly, I lived in Harbin freshman year, and I thought Harbin was more rowdy. Reynolds is quiet. The social life is less active than in freshman dorms,” he said. According to Hwang, the quieter role of Residence Assistants in upperclassmen dorms may make the buildings easier targets for illegal activity.

Harbin resident Caroline Epstein (SFS ’15) said that she trusts the dorm’s security measures but still tries to take extra precautions against crime.

“I feel pretty safe in Harbin, but I still lock my door,” she said.

“Safety definitely plays a big role in which dorm we choose.”

According to Director of Media Relations Rachel

Pugh, there has been an overall downward trend in crime on and near campus despite the number of residence hall incidents.

“Over the past several years we have worked hard to help make the University a safer place for our campus community,” she wrote in an email.

The university has implemented several safety measures to help address safety concerns, including a Community Action Team that helps students work with the university to address crime problems and a bike patrol program that allows greater coverage of campus and faster response times.

“The safety of our community is a top priority for us and we will continue to remind our students to be vigilant and notify DPS if they notice suspicious activities or individuals in or around our residence halls, apartments or townhouses,” Pugh said.

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MAKING THE CUT According to Miltenberg, the AAP keeps alumni involved with their alma mater while fulfilling the university’s need for admissions interviewers.

“The AAP gives alumni a chance to stay connected to their communities, to local high schools and to us,” she said.

Most alumni who express interest in interviewing are assigned to a local chair. In regions with many more applications than interviewers, the admissions office actively seeks out alumni who can interview.

While Miltenberg said that no official criteria are used for selecting interviewers, undergraduate alumni are preferred over those who earned graduate degrees at Georgetown.

Interviewers are organized into 170 domestic and over 50 international committees. In the United States, committees are organized by geographic location and population. If the university receives many applications from a certain region, the AAP may create several committees in that area. In other locations, such as North Dakota and Wyoming, a single committee may serve the entire state.

Though Miltenberg could not provide the exact number of interviewers in each committee, she said that those in New York and Washington, D.C., are the largest, due to Georgetown’s high concentration of alumni in those regions.

She said the AAP committees in DallasFt. Worth, Texas, Princeton, NJ., South Orange County, Calif. and San Jose, Calif., completed the largest number of interviews last year with over 240 applicants apiece.

Of all the international committees, the groups serving Great Britain and China interviewed the most prospective students

HOYAS THROUGH AND THROUGH AAP members span a broad range of age and experience: Some are well-established members of local communities and hold senior-level jobs in business, law or medicine, while others, like Elizabeth Griffin (COL ’05), are more recent graduates who wish to maintain their ties with the Hilltop.

After moving from Georgetown to Syracuse, N.Y., Griffin signed up for the program online when she heard last year that the committee in her region needed more interviewers.

“It’s definitely a great way to stay connected to your alma matter and talk to young people,” she said.

As a new member, Griffin said that she was required to attend an informal training session, where she was given sample questions to ask and informed of new programs on campus that she could discuss with applicants.

Kyle Pietrantonio (COL ’03) is entering his seventh season as an alumni interviewer in Atlanta. He plans to meet between five and seven applicants during this cycle.

According to Pietrantonio, the OA’s regional liaison for his area, Lia Glavin, visited the Atlanta committee to update them on changes to the admissions process and to review last year’s admissions results.

Pietrantonio said that the university’s support for AAP has grown since he first joined the organization.

“I would say that the level of support and guidance from the admissions office has improved,” he said, adding that the process is faster now that interviewers are authorized to submit reports over the Internet.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERVIEW Kimberly Snow (COL ’77), co-director of the Orlando, Fla. committee, said that members do not use a set script or list of questions when conducting interviews.

“We’re not really given any [detailed] training. They just showed you a couple sample interviews, and that was it,” she said. “You really had to mold your own way of interviewing from there, and some interviewers are better than others.”

Snow, who has been an AAP member for almost 30 years, said that interviewing is not as easy as it might seem.

“It’s particularly difficult here in the South, because not many people get accepted,” she said. “I have interviewers in my committee who have been working for 15 or 20 years and have not had one of their applicants get into Georgetown. It’s very frustrating for them.”

For many alumni, like Shana Bynon (SFS ’93), this frustration is eclipsed by a sense of service and commitment to the university.

“I find it pretty rewarding, doing the interviews,” she said. “I really enjoy being connected to campus through the applicants every year.”

Bynon, who volunteers for the Baltimore committee, said the five to seven interviews that she completes a year allow her to promote the university’s ideals.

“I remember my alumni interview. It was one of the things I really liked about applying to Georgetown,” she said.

After 45 years of interviews, Adelberg said that he still finds the process to be incredibly enriching.

“If you believe in what your school stands for, it’s the finest form of salesmanship for the next generation that comes along,” he said.

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Just a week after Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin (SFS ‘66, LAW ‘69) came to the District for the first time in early September 1962 to study at Georgetown.

This Tuesday, Durbin’s return to campus was greeted with a rally of his own as 60 students gathered on Healy steps in support of the senator and the DREAM Act that he is championing in the Senate.

“I can assure you that as a student I never imagined standing on this stage addressing you all,” Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) said as he opened his talk.

Reflecting on his experiences on the Hilltop at the talk sponsored by Georgetown University College Democrats and co-sponsored by MEChA and the Georgetown University Legislative Association, Durbin described his memories of the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, saying that day made him realize the significance of going to college in the nation’s capital.

“That’s what’s so special about Georgetown, seeing the march of history right in front of your eyes,” he said.

Durbin said that his experiences in college, including internships on the Hill, drove him to become interested in politics.

“It had a profound impact.

I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t go to Georgetown,” he said.

More than 40 years later, Durbin has become one of the most influential members of the senate, serving as majority whip and taking part in this year’s “Gang of Six” debt ceiling talks.

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“It’s special because he’s a double Hoya and a respected member of the Senate leadership,” said Scott Fleming, associate vice president for federal relations.

Durbin is also a leading proponent of the DREAM Act, which seeks to provide conditional permanent residency in the United States for immigrants brought into the country as minors. The senator said that lobbying for the act is the most important thing he has ever done.

“It wouldn’t be unusual, after work, for a student to be standing near my car in the dark, with tears in their eyes, saying, ‘I’m one of those kids, help me,’” he said. “It’s personal to me, and it should be to you.”

Antony Lopez (COL ’14), cochairman of MeChA, said his support of Durbin and the DREAM Act was a no-brainer.

“Some of our members are ‘DREAMers’ themselves,” he said. “People need to stop thinking this is someone else’s problem, we’re losing potential with every student we lose.”

Justin Pinn (COL ’13), Georgetown University Student Association secretary of diversity affairs, said he was inspired by the crowd gathered on Healy steps.

“We have ‘DREAMers’ on our campus, so seeing so many students come together like this is beautiful, regardless of political ideology.

We truly all are Georgetown.”

Before Durbin left, the Georgetown University College Democrats presented him with the gift of a t-shirt with President Bill Clinton emblazoned on the front.

“Ah, Bill, he was two years behind me … and seniors never pay any attention to sophomores,” Durbin said.

“Right? The traditions continue.”

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Several Georgetown dining spots were recently inspected by the District of Columbia’s Health Regulation and Licensing Administration as part of a regular sweep. The administration inspects establishments for factors that could cause foodborne illness or pose public health risks.

None of the establishments were marked for imminent health hazards, the most serious category of violation. Several eateries did have critical violations against them. Critical violations can lead to health risks if left uncorrected and must be corrected at the time of the inspection or within five days of it. Some establishments also received non-critical violations, which can become critical violations if uncorrected.

“All of our services work hard to maintain health code standards,” said Brooke Heinichen (SFS ’12), chief operating officer of The Corp, which had two of its establishments inspected last month. “It’s something we take very seriously.”

University Dining Services, which oversees KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Epicurean, could not be reached for comment.

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DPS BLOTTER THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 2011 Theft, Lauinger Library, 9 p.m.

A student reported that he parked his bicycle on the bike rack. When he returned, he found his bicycle missing. There are no suspects or witnesses.

FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 2011 Vandalism, Lauinger Library, 1:36 p.m.

A staff member reported vandalism and racial slurs in a bathroom stall. There are no suspects or witnesses.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 2011 Public Urination, 3600 Block of O Street, 12:29 a.m.

A DPS officer observed a student urinating in an alley at the listed location. The case has been forwarded to student conduct.

Alcohol Violation, Village A, 12:33 a.m.

DPS officers responded to a call at the listed location. Upon arrival, they observed students in possession of alcoholic beverages.

The case has been referred to student conduct.

Damage to Property, St. Mary’s Place and Prospect Street, 3:03 a.m.

An intoxicated student caused damage to a vehicle as he attempted to get off the roof of the vehicle. The case has been referred to student conduct.

Alcohol Violation, Village C West, 11:28 p.m.

DPS officers responded to a report of an alcohol violation. Upon arrival, officers observed numerous bottles of alcohol in the room.

The students disposed of the alcohol without incident. The case has been referred to student conduct.

SUNDAY, OCT. 16, 2011 Failure to Comply, 35th and Prospect Streets, 1:02 a.m.

A student was written up for failure to comply after a DPS officer reported that he did not comply with orders to exit the residence of a registered party which was found to be in violation. The case has been referred to student conduct.

Defacing Property, LXR Elevator, 2:20 a.m.

A DPS officer reported graffiti on an elevator wall at the listed location. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Copley Hall, 10:59 p.m.

Several students reported that over a period of several weeks, they noticed numerous items missing from their room. The alleged suspect was identified. However, the students declined to pursue the matter further.

The case is closed.

MONDAY, OCT. 17, 2011 Public Urination, Village A, 1:43 a.m.

A student reported that another student was standing in the balcony and urinated on him. Contact was made with the student in the balcony, and he was identified. The case has been forwarded to student conduct.

Identification Card Violation, Lauinger Library, 10:08 a.m.

An individual attempted to enter the library

with a GOCard that didn’t belong to him.

The GOCard was confiscated, and the individual’s information was recorded.

Theft, Lauinger Library, 3:53 p.m.

A student reported that his USB drive was stolen from a table after leaving the item unattended. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, ICC Bike Rack, 8 p.m.

A student reported that he secured his bicycle at the listed location. When he returned, he found his bicycle missing.

There are no suspects or witnesses.

Simple Assault, Georgetown University Hospital, 7 p.m.

A staff member reported that on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, she was assaulted by a GU Hospital employee. The case is under investigation.

TUESDAY, OCT. 18, 2011 Theft, Red Square, 5 p.m.

A student reported that a banner that was hanging at the listed location was missing. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Lauinger Library, 1:30 a.m.

A student reported that he left his laptop inside a restroom. When he returned to retrieve his property, he found his laptop missing. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Reiss Science Building, 9 a.m.

A staff member reported that when he came to work in the morning, he found a camcorder missing from inside the lab.

There are no suspects or witnesses.

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Georgetown Still Looking For Elusive Big East Win

Surging Colgate Will Test Hoyas

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Hoping its ninth meeting with Colgate (4-3, 0-1 Patriot League) will break a winless streak dating back to 2002, the Georgetown football team (5-2, 1-1 Patriot League) prepares to host their Patriot League rival for the homecoming game this Saturday.

Georgetown heads into the game fresh off a win over Howard (3-4, 2-2 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) last weekend to reclaim the Mayor’s Cup. The Blue and Gray allowed only a third-quarter field goal and dominated the Bison at the point of attack. They hope their defense continues to dominate in this season’s biggest contest to date.

The Hoyas are 1-1 in conference and the Raiders are 0-1. However, the Blue and Gray must win the game or risk elimination from contention for the league title — and, consequently, postseason football.

“Any time it’s a league game there is always a lot of pressure.

We obviously want to win the league,” junior quarterback Isaiah Kempf said. “That is still our goal and we can still do that. It will be big game.”

After winning only five games over the past three seasons combined, this year’s team has already matched that number through seven games, and this year’s seniors know that this game will play a significant role in defining their legacy.

As with most Patriot League contests, the team will need to fight hard through all four quarters. To make things even tougher, Colgate is playing good football and is in the midst of a three-game winning streak.

“They are pretty solid up front.

They are just a big team,” Kempf said.

“That is pretty much how Patriot League teams are.”

The matchup that will likely captivate the crowd is the Raiders’ dangerous rushing attack against the Hoyas’ vaunted run defense.

Colgate averages 248 yards per game on the ground, a staggering number by any standard and good enough for seventh in the Football Championship Subdivison. Contributing to this potent attack are senior running back Nate Eachus, junior runningback Zauhn Lewis and sophomore quarterback Gavin McCarney.

Eachus, who was named the Patriot League preseason offensive player of the year and has played in four of the Raiders’ seven games, has gained 628 yards on the ground for an average of 157 yards per game and four touchdowns. Lewis, who has sometimes

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Two Georgetown rivals — Villanova, part of a Big East rivalry born on the basketball court and intensified by the 1985 men’s basketball championship game and American, who vies with Georgetown for supremacy in the District — will be on the card for Georgetown’s field hockey team (2-13, 0-4 Big East) this homecoming weekend.

Though the team’s task this weekend isn’t easy, Head Coach Tiffany Marsh is confident in her squad after a good week of practice.

“With a game on Friday, we have a short week of practice that forces us to really focus on what we need to work on most and what is most important going into the weekend’s games,” Marsh said.

It has been an up-and-down season for the team, but they have tried to maintain a positive attitude for the final three games of the season.

“A lot of our season-long goals revolve around our conference schedule against teams like Rutgers, Villanova and Providence,” Marsh said.

After a tough 3-2 loss to Rutgers at the end of September, the Blue and Gray will be hungrier than ever to pick up their first Big East victory of the season and avenge last season’s 6-0 loss to the Wildcats.

“Villanova is always a really passionate game; we have a lot of girls on the team from the Pennsylvania area,” said Marsh. “We want to do what we can to make our mark in the Big East and honor the careers of our two seniors.”

The two seniors, midfielder Kalli Krumpos and defender Ai Nishino, will be playing their final home game in Georgetown uniforms on Friday.

Despite being an out-of-conference matchup, Sunday’s game with American still holds a lot of importance for the squad.

“We play our home games at AU,” Marsh said. “We will be the away team, but still feel like it is a home game.”

American boasts a talented team, but Georgetown is not intimidated by their strength.

“We have learned to stick together against teams like [No. 8] UConn and [No.2] Syracuse,” Marsh said. “Our players are very passionate about our program and would love to upset a team like American.”

If the Hoyas are victorious this weekend, junior forwards Catherine Shugrue and Annie Wilson will surely have had a lot to do with it. Shugrue leads the team with seven goals and 17 points in 15 games while Wilson has contributed five goals and 10 points in 14 games.

“Catherine has a strong corner hit that she scores a lot of goals on,” Marsh said. “Annie is playing at another level after putting in a lot of work over the summer.”

This weekend’s matches will be the last chance for Georgetown to play at home before they close the season by traveling to Providence on Oct. 29.

Face-off against Villanova is Friday at 3 p.m.; face-off against American is on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games will be played at the William I. Jacobs Recreational Complex at American University.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

ANDREW LOGERFO Hoya Staff Writer

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Sophomore defensive back Malcolm Caldwell-Meeks is shown here making a tackle at home against Davidson.

started in Eauchus’ place and has appeared in all seven games, has 289 yards and 2 touchdowns.

“He is a great running back.

The thing about Eachus is that he always falls forward for an extra three or four yards,” senior defensive end Andrew Schaetzke said.

“We are going to have to hit him in the backfield and hit him headon to make sure he is not getting those extra yards.”

Perhaps the most dangerous runner for Colgate is McCarney, who takes advantage of the unpredictability of his position. The signalcaller has the ability to run or pass on any play and is adept at making something out of nothing. In addition to passing for 1025 yards and seven touchdowns and only three interceptions, the sophomore has run for 553 yards and eight touchdowns. Still, he can be shut down.

“If we all read our keys, physically, we should win this game,” Schaetzke said. “We have prepared well all week and we know what we have to do to win. We just have to come out and execute.”

But as much as Colgate is known for their ground attack, the Georgetown front seven are known for shutting down their opponents’ rushers. The Blue and Gray run defense ranks 10th in the country, al-

lowing their opponents to gain only 90 yards on the ground per game.

The Hoyas’ defense is lead by Schaetzke and junior linebacker Robert McCabe. Schaetzke is near the top of the FCS leaderboard with 13 tackles for a loss and six and a half sacks, while McCabe leads the squad with 79 total tackles.

To come away with a win this weekend, the Blue and Gray must keep the ball out of the hands of the Raiders’ offense, which has the ability to wear down defenses due to their run-focused attack.

Keys to accomplishing this on offense include Kempf, sophomore running backs Nick Campanella, Dalen Claytor and Brandon Durham and receivers sophomore Jamal Davis and junior Max Waizenegger, who has been the Hoyas’ primary big play threat all season.

“We need to sustain drives so our defense can get a rest, because Colgate is a ball-heavy team,” Campanella said. “They want the ball and they hold it for a long time.”

Colgate comes to the District winless on the road this season.

Georgetown has never won a game against them. On Saturday, one of those streaks will have to end.

Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. at Multisport Field.

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Senior midfielder Kelly D’Ambrisi has eight points so far this season.

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“She’s been around the block for us, she’s been very, very solid for us for these last three years. When she got hurt earlier this year it was a big loss for us,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “We had to rush her back quicker than we would’ve wanted. … Since then she’s probably been our best defender. These last three games she’s been exceptional.”

Following her ill-timed injury, the 5-foot-6 senior says she has returned to pitch with a newfound mentality.

“I think the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do was watch during the season when I couldn’t play,” Miller said. “It’s forced me to go into each game knowing that I’m not going to play [halfhearted], and that I’m going to play as hard as I can because I could get hurt in this game … just to play without fear.”

Miller’s approach has made itself more than evident in recent games.

Playing alongside three sophomores, the senior from Wayne, Pa. has stepped into a greater leadership position in her final season and has embraced a more aggressive role to complement the strengths of speedy sophomore Emily Menges, her partner in the center of the defense.

“In years past it’s been my speed that has set me apart, but now Emily’s faster than me so I’ve had to step up in a different area where I’m probably more physical than she is,” Miller said. “We’ve kind of adapted those roles this year …

it’s just learning how to play and adapt to who you’re playing with.”

Villanova enters today’s matchup in need of at least one point, since a loss will end the Wildcats’ season. To combat the anticipated urgent approach from their Big East rivals and keep their hopes for a top seed in the Big East tournament alive, the Hoyas will need to replicate the emotional performances which propelled them to a sweep of last weekend’s midwest road trip.

“Coming off the loss from Louisville, we all knew that this past weekend was so important, and we played like it,” Miller said. “We knew that we had to come out with this certain desire to win, and I think we still have that after beating Notre Dame. … I think we’re still kind of on that high, and we know what we have to do.”

The Blue and Gray will have to tread the fine line between allowing emotion to fuel them and allowing it to get the better of them, especially given the occasion.

Although Georgetown has had plenty of success against the Wildcats over the past three years — winning the teams’ last three meetings by a combined score of 10-1 — Nolan knows that this year’s fixture won’t be easy.

“They’re a well-coached team, a very dangerous team, [and] I’m not expecting it to be easy…Senior day is always one of those days where you never know what you’re going to get,” Nolan said.

“Sometimes you have teams that get so hung up on the emotion of senior day that they’re a little bit distracted. I think our seniors feel that we’ve got so much more soccer to play that I don’t think they’ll allow it to be a distraction.”

Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. this afternoon at North Kehoe Field.

JTIII’s Legacy Hinges on 2011-12 Matt Emch

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ast year when Georgetown was bounced early in the NCAA tournament yet again, I saw a joke by a sportswriter on Twitter.

“Let me rank the John Thompsons:,” it read. “1) John R. Thompson Jr., 2) John R. Thompson Sr., 3) Everyone Else, 4) John R. Thompson III.” Before you even ask, I, of course, retweeted it so all of my 30 followers could chuckle along with me.

Since the new season is slated to tip off in a few weeks, and the pain of losing to Virginia Commonwealth has subsided a little bit, I have decided to reexamine the John Thompson III situation.

When JTIII took the reins of Georgetown basketball in 2004, it seemed predestined to work. His father, the legendary John Thompson Jr., was the coach for the Hoyas’ only national championship in 1984. While this kind of continuity might seem like a good idea on the surface, it is a warning flag when examined deeper.

In many situations, when a child of a successful man ends up taking his old man’s job, allegations of nepotism can ensue. Oftentimes he is given more leeway than an outsider would have because friends of his father — i.e., those in the athletic department — are in control of his contract. When the issue of contract renewal is on the table, it might be difficult for those in power to look at the situation objectively.

It is also interesting to note that while Thompson III inherited a

true winner at Princeton before coming to Georgetown, he did not have sustained success during his tenure there. Bill Carmody, the man that coached Princeton before Thompson III, went an astounding 92-25 (0.787) during his time with the Tigers. Thompson took over that program, which Carmody left in great shape, and had a solid but not spectacular record of 68-42 (0.618) from 2000-2004.

Furthermore, in the two years that Thompson III’s Princeton teams made the NCAA tournament, they were soundly beaten in the first round. Does that seem like a familiar situation?

After Thompson III made the jump to Georgetown, his successor’s teams at Princeton struggled immensely. One metric sports fans love to use when gauging a coach is to look if that coach’s team had sustained success even after he left his former program.

In Thompson III’s situation, that is not the case and it is another peculiar feature of his coaching career.

From 2005-2009, the Tigers produced only one winning season.

This shows that Thompson III won with Carmody’s players, but failed to build a sustainable winning program while at Princeton.

At Georgetown, Thompson III inherited a young but talented team that was recruited entirely

by Craig Esherick. The roster that fell into Thomson III’s lap became the foundation for the 2006-2007 team that would eventually make it to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. Since that Final Four appearance, the Hoyas have won only one postseason game — against mighty UMBC — and have been the “Goliath” to Davidson’s,

Ohio’s and VCU’s “David.” This is the final interesting point of note in his career.

This article is not — I repeat — is not written as a piece that endorses the firing of JTIII; he is a great teacher of the game and an even better man who genuinely loves Georgetown and his players.

On the contrary, I believe that he should be able to finish out his contract, which doesn’t end until 2013. But I am not sold on the fact that he is an elite coach that a school like Georgetown deserves, given our rich basketball history.

My biggest fear is that when the time comes for the athletic department to examine his contract, they give him a free pass because of his father’s influence. While talking to various alumni from Georgetown, I’ve found they also feel that other possibilities should be explored if Thompson III can’t pull it together in the next two years. That pressure needs to be felt by the administration so that they can make the best decision for the school and its basketball future.

Next year in March, after Georgetown has hopefully won a tournament game, maybe JTIII can get the coveted spot of being the third best Thompson by jumping “everyone else.” Of course, I say that tongue-in-cheek, but times are hard up here on the Hilltop. I’m not expecting a miracle of a season, especially with a young team this year. But I do feel that around 20 wins and a trip past the first round of the NCAA tournament is not only reasonable, but necessary for the program’s sake.

Matt Emch is a sophomore in the College. RIDING THE PINE appears every Friday.

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U.S.Team Needs to Show Progress Corey Blaine

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ow much is too much patience for the U.S. men’s national team? Following a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Ecuador, the hope of Jurgen Klinsmann stepping in as the leader and de facto savior of soccer in America seems very bleak. Even calling this bleak is intensely optimistic at such a rocky time.

For starters, Ecuador is currently No. 69 in the world, according to FIFA. We didn’t just lose an international friendly, we lost a friendly to a team that wouldn’t even make the World Cup based on ranking. Actually, Ecuador wouldn’t even make the World Cup if FIFA held two at the same time.

How are fans supposed to pretend that things for American soccer are on the upswing if the team can’t even beat a squad that wouldn’t be invited to sit at the grown-ups’ table for a FIFA family reunion?

I use the word “we” because there was an undeniable shift in the perception of U.S. soccer during the 2010 World Cup. When Landon Donovan scored against Algeria, an entire nation embraced the scrappy, never-saydie national team. That team, with all of its flaws, became our team and accordingly entered a world of spotlight and scrutiny. Seemingly true to form, the instant it became our team, the disappointments began.

When we lost to Ghana, we made excuses about poor officiating and an

unlucky break. We left the 2010 World Cup with the optimism that we were ready to break into the elite ranks on the back of Donovan and company after a stunningly disappointing 2006 disaster. With Bradley’s dismissal and Klinsmann’s hiring, it seemed as if the inevitable was occurring: The U.S. men’s national team had reached the upper echelon.

In hindsight, this moment could be the day the team jumped the shark.

Since taking the helm, Klinsmann has one win to show for his efforts. He preaches a doctrine of patience, that turning the team into world-conquerors will take time. It’s the story Americans love; an underdog team rising through the ranks. But this isn’t the case.

How can this team be on the upswing? Stars Clint Dempsey and Donovan are both nearing the end of their careers, as are several other key components of the team. “Rising” stars, like midfielder Stu Holden, are too often injured to make any significant progress, and the question marks only seem to grow as time passes. This is not to say that the current roster does not include several very talented players, but rather that the team is incomplete.

With only three years until the next World Cup, there are far too many question marks about Klinsmann’s squad. For starters, the defensive group currently wearing the Stars and Stripes is as porous as they come. Since taking the reigns, Klinsmann’s defense has given up a goal in every single game against seemingly overmatched opponents. America’s defense has long been a question

mark, but part of becoming an elite program entails being able to win the 1-0 games — something the U.S. squad appears incapable of.

Thanks to a disappointing second half against Mexico in the Gold Cup, this American team will not have to present a squad to an international audience again until World Cup qualification begins next October.

With the momentum gained during the 2010 World Cup (over 90,000 fans attended the Gold Cup final in Pasadena, Calif. this summer), Klinsmann faces a very tall task.

Unfortunately, granting him the patience he desires will not work for soccer in America. A sport already in danger of losing all relevance until 2014 cannot afford to lose a team Americans have come to embrace.

The truth is that most Americans still care about the national team, something unprecedented in a non-World Cup year, which is why the news of Klinsmann’s hiring excited so many.

The sad state of things is that many of us don’t have room in our lives for more heartbreak caused by sports. As much as we would love to rally behind this team, Klinsmann has to win us over first. Standing in the way of that is an aging lineup, chronic underperformance and many doubts as to his effectiveness as a coach. Unfortunately now isn’t the time for patience, it’s the time for winning, something that Klinsmann must do to continue the growth of American soccer.

Corey Blaine is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. THE BLEACHER SEATS appears every Friday.

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No. 1 Connecticut Looms for Hoyas KEITH LEVINSKY Hoya Staff Writer

Over the past few weeks, Georgetown’s men’s soccer team (9-3-3, 4-2-0 Big East) has played No. 17 Notre Dame, then-No. 23 West Virginia and the team with the best record in the Big East, Marquette. It doesn’t get any easier for the Hoyas this weekend as they travel to Storrs, Conn. to face the No. 1 team in the country, Connecticut (13-1-1, 4-1-1 Big East).

The Blue and Gray are coming off a crucial 3-2 victory over Marquette on Wednesday night. The Hoyas are now tied with West Virginia for third place in the Big East Blue Division, behind Connecticut and Marquette.

“If we get a win, we will be ahead of UConn in points, and we will have the head-to-head advantage over Marquette,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

“This game on Saturday is the one that is going to decide the title at the end of the day.”

The Hoyas won at Marquette on Wednesday on the back of sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann’s two goals.

Neumann evened the score in the 84th

minute and then volleyed home the game-winner in the 88th minute.

The sophomore midfielder has been on fire over the past week and a half, tallying eight points on three goals and two assists. On Monday, he was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. Neumann also ranks second in the Big East in points and is ranked among the top 30 players in the country in points per game.

“He has been playing better and better. He is one of the best goal-scorers in the league,” Wiese said. “He is just becoming a more and more complete player in the attacking half of the field.”

On Saturday, Neumann and the Georgetown offense will face a Connecticut squad that ranks first in the country in shutout percentage and team goals against average. The Huskies reeled off nine straight shutouts in September and early October before falling to West Virginia in Morgantown on Tuesday, 2-0. Unfortunately for the Hoyas, Connecticut has been especially good at home this year.

“UConn is a different team at home.

They are dangerous. They are one of the most athletic teams in the country,” Wi-

ese said. “They have guys who can score goals in all different ways individually.”

Georgetown’s defense also does not seem to be at the same level now as it was earlier this year. Over the past four games — all conference matchups — the Hoyas have surrendered seven goals.

“We take a lot pride in being hard to score on,” Wiese said. “I don’t think we have had a shutout in five games. That in itself isn’t a huge worry. We just have to tighten up a few things.”

Fortunately for the Hoyas, junior defender Jimmy Nealis will return to the lineup on Saturday. Nealis missed the Marquette game because he was assessed a red card against Notre Dame.

“Jimmy was a huge loss in the Marquette game,” Wiese said. “It was a remarkable result. We went in there and won without one of our best players.”

The Hoyas will attempt to limit Connecticut’s scoring chances and leave Storrs with an important Big East win.

“We are not going in there thinking about a tie. We want to get three points.

We want to get a win,” Wiese said. “You need to have a game like that where you do something exceptional, and I think this is it.”

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Senior defensive back Wayne Heimuli has two interceptions and 34 total tackles this season.

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“I think in the beginning of the year we worried too much about our own guys. We played the man rather than the ball. We worked in practice, and we’ve been trying to play the ball more,” senior safety David Quintero said. “In the beginning I think we might have lost focus a little bit, but we’ve picked it up since.”

The coaching staff hasn’t adjusted the lineups too much, but the defensive backs and safeties have been working together to focus on covering the ball.

“We’ve been communicating from day one. We know our assignments, and we’ve just got to stick to it, knowing that you have to play the ball and not the man,” Kaisamba said.

And Georgetown’s rush defense — which is among the best in the Football Championship Subdivision, allowing a mere 91 yards per game on the ground — can only be helped by the improved secondary play.

“These last couple weeks we’ve been able to make plays on balls, it’s helped us out,” Kaisamba said. “It’s helped out our run game, and we’ve been able to shut down some other teams the last couple weeks.”

“Our front seven is really good, that really helps us. It also helps us with pass [defense],” Quintero added.

In a classic strength-againststrength matchup tomorrow, Georgetown’s stingy rush defense will be seeking to contain one of the nation’s best rushing attacks. Colgate’s offense is

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currently seventh in the FCS in rushing, averaging 249 yards per game on the ground. The Raiders’ offense is steady, if not particularly explosive; the rushing corps averages 4 yards a carry.

That means the secondary likely won’t be taking center stage before the homecoming crowd, but their role will still be critical — Colgate quarterback Gavin McCarney likes to stretch the field on the rare occasions when he does drop back to pass.

“We’re excited, even though it’s kind of a boring game for us as corners,” Kaisamba said. “It’s really important we pay attention to our keys because those are the kinds of games where they may only throw the ball eight times, but half of those might be deep balls.”

Indicative of the growth they have shown since the end of August, the secondary unit also knows they have to focus on the ball and be prepared for the big plays that have the potential to change the game.

“They’ll put you to sleep with the run, and next thing you’ll know, they’ll go play-action on the deep balls,” Kaisamba said.

“As long as we play attention to what we’re doing, we’ll be ready for any type of pass or run that comes to us.”

When they line up on Saturday, Georgetown’s secondary will still be one of the team’s most talented units and will look to continue the improvement they’ve shown after their early-season struggles.

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The hosts responded quickly, though, scoring in the 24th and 36th minutes to give them the lead heading into halftime.

“We got our [first] goal on a set piece,” Wiese said. “[But] unfortunately they got two back ... it was just one of those games where everything was lining up to make it difficult.”

Wiese estimates the wind was blowing anywhere from 30-50 miles per hour through the course of the game. Even Wiese’s halftime talk was affected, as a transformer blew and the Hoyas spent the intermission in a locker room that the coach described as “pitch black.”

Despite the trying conditions and bizarre halftime circumstances, the Hoyas were able to level the score in the 80th minute, when sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann scored his eighth goal of the year. Just four minutes later, Neumann added to his team-leading goal tally with his ninth goal, pounding a 30-yard volley past Marquette junior goalkeeper David Check and into the net.

“Out of nothing, Steve Neumann hit maybe the goal of the year to tie it 2-2,” Wiese said. “The momentum shifted and before you know it, within four minutes [Neumann] finds himself on a bouncing ball about 30 yards from goal and he hits another goal of the year candidate. ... [It was] a volley that [went]

up and over the goalie and into the side netting.”

Neumann headlines an offense that lit up the turf with three goals despite the soggy conditions, but it was the defense that impressed most in the victory over the Big East’s top squad. Freshman goalkeeper Tomas Gomez and the Hoyas’ back line gave up two goals on 18 shots despite playing without the services of junior defender Jimmy Nealis, who was suspended for a game after receiving a red card against Notre Dame last weekend.

It was far from a perfect effort, but the defense held their own against a dangerous Golden Eagles squad.

“We went in there and won without one of our best players,” Wiese said. “I would be lying if I said I am happy of how many goals we have been giving up over the past few weeks. We take a lot pride in being hard to score on.”

The narrow victory may have given the Blue and Gray newfound life in their quest to repeat as Big East Blue Division champions. The Hoyas will need to be firing on all cylinders this weekend, however, as they travel to Storrs, Conn. to take on No. 1 Connecticut. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

“It is anybody’s league [now],” Wiese said. “The winner of our game against UConn for all practical purposes will be in the driver’s seat to win the league ... this game on Saturday is the one that is going to decide the title at the end of the day.”

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Junior midfielder Ian Christianson has four goals and one assist this season.

Gray.

The Connecticut outside hitters have carried the team all year, outside hittersled by senior Jordan Kirk and junior Mattison Quayle, who was named Big East player of the week last week, lead the team with 242 and 227 kills, respectively. They also both own impressive hitting percentages. Limiting their effectiveness is the key to a Hoya victory.

“We do have to respect the middles, but our job is going to be to stop their outside hitters,” Williams said. “Quayle and Kirk can both hit the line, which makes them even more dangerous.”

Thus far senior setter Ashley Malone and freshman middle blocker Dani White have been very strong for the Hoyas, as Malone ranks fifth in the league in assists per set with 10.29 and White ranks third in the league in hitting percentage with a .320 average.

Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. Friday against the Red Storm and 2 p.m. Sunday against the Huskies. Both teams will come to the Hilltop ready to play.

“We have a target on our backs. Everyone wants to beat Georgetown, and coaches are telling their teams that we are a team they can beat,” Williams said. “We’re going to really have to take care of business.”

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“It is anybody’s league [now]. The winner of our game against UConn, for all practical purposes, will be in the driver’s seat to win the league.”

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weeks now,” Williams said. “If we can’t pass in system, if we can’t terminate, and if we can’t serve in After spending two consecu- the court, the other things don’t tive weekends on the road, the matter. “ St. John’s comes into the match Georgetown volleyball team (1010, 2-5) comes home this weekend winless in the Big East but their to face St. John’s (9-14, 0-6) on Fri- constantly changing lineup, with day and Connecticut (11-10, 1-5) eighteen different players getting time during the season, makes on Sunday.

The Hoyas fell to Villanova in them a tough team to prepare straight sets last weekend, a loss for. And despite their record, that left Head Coach Arlisa Wil- the Red Storm is ranked seventh (.207) in hitting liams disappointpercentage in ed in her team’s “We have a target the Big East, one performance. spot ahead of the “We just on our back. EveryHoyas. made errors at the wrong time one wants to beat Individually, [against Villa- Georgetown.”

St. John’s is led nova],” Williams said. “I think all ARLISA WILLIAMS by two seniors in Volleyball Head Coach hybrid outsider of us are a little hitter/middle disappointed in our [league] win-loss record. Ev- blocker Darlene Ramdin and outerybody’s been doing some really side hitter Brunna Kronbaeur, good things, we’re just not doing who have 256 and 198 kills, rethem at the same time,” she noted. spectively. “[Kronbaeur] is solid for them in Despite the loss, the Blue and Gray showed some bright spots, passing and terminating, and we including multiple good rallies. need to game plan for her,” WilThey out-dug the Wildcats thanks liams said. “They haven’t won a to a strong effort from senior li- conference game yet, and we can’t bero and captain Tory Rezin, who figure out why. They’re good, and had a match-high 16 digs. Despite we can’t take them lightly.”

The Huskies will come into this advantage, the Hoyas still have plenty of work to do, and McDonough at the bottom of the team will look build on these the league as well, although they strengths to remedy their weak- have a potent offense that ranks nesses this weekend. To that end, third in the league in hitting perpractice this week has focused on centage (.226) and will pose another challenge to the Blue and the Hoyas’ side of the net.

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Sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann had two goals to lead the Hoyas in their hard-fought 3-2 road win at Marquette.

Hoyas Edge Marquette in Storm LAWSON FERGUSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team fought through gusts of wind, driving rain and tough defense Wednesday evening to pull out a gutsy 3-2 road win at Marquette (7-6-2, 5-1 Big East).

“The Marquette game was about as memorable a game as I have ever been

apart of just because of the conditions,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “It was a toss of the coin as to MARQUETTE 2 whether or not we would play GEORGETOWN 3 the game or come back. We made the decision to play.”

Apparently, it was the right decision.

Against the Golden Eagles, the No. 24 Hoyas were looking to recap-

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They are perhaps the football team’s most heralded unit, but in the first weeks of this season, they were one of the most disappointing. Meet Georgetown’s secondary, which includes some of the team’s best players but hasn’t been able to stop opposing offense from putting up big num-

bers through the air.

With the Hoyas returning to MultiSport Facility after five straight Saturdays away from the Hilltop, the team has done what few expected in winning five of its first seven games. But the secondary has failed to live up to the hype.

In the first game against Davidson, a blowout victory for Georgetown, the Wildcats managed to

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Sophomore cornerback Stephen Atwater and the rest of the Hoyas’ secondary had an underwhelming start to the season but have played well of late.

put up 364 passing yards. The Hoyas’ defensive backs benefited from a slower pace against Lafayette the next week, holding the Leopards to a respectable 177 yards through the air. Although the special teams units took the brunt of the blame for the loss at Yale, the pass defense also struggled as the Bulldogs accumulated 280 passing yards.

But after disappointing pass coverage contributed to a 35-18 loss at Bucknell, the secondary has tightened up and has had two stellar performances in the team’s last two games, against Wagner and Howard.

“On defense, pass coverage is part of it. We’re addressing that. … Some of it right now is a confidence thing,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said after his team’s loss to Bucknell. “We’ve moved some people around and taken a good hard look at how we’re playing and how we’re teaching it.”

The changes have worked, and the two road victories over Wagner and Howard seem to have boosted the unit’s confidence.

“We definitely made some progress. At the beginning of the year, we weren’t playing to what we had set for ourselves as expectations,” senior cornerback Jayah Kaisamba said. “The last couple games we’ve really stepped up.

We’re playing smarter football.

We’ve ran our keys and been able to do what our job is.”

The biggest adjustment for the secondary has been focusing more on defending the ball, rather than a specific receiver.

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ture the momentum of their earlyseason 10-game winning streak that had come to an abrupt end as they dropped two of their past three contests. The Blue and Gray got off to a red-hot start in the raw weather, as redshirt senior midfielder Ben Slingerland scored just 6:01 into the game.

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Senior defender Gabby Miller (7) has returned from injury to spark the Hoyas’ back line.

Miller Anchors Defense BENO PICCIANO Hoya Staff Writer

For most teams, senior day marks the end of an era. As the last regular-season home game for a group of veterans, it is a symbolic and often-emotional changing of the guard.

For senior defender Gabby Miller and a star-studded graduating class of six key starters, however, the end is nowhere in sight.

Georgetown (13-5, 7-3 Big East) enters today’s final regular-season matchup against conference foe Villanova (8-8-2, 4-6 Big East) having already clinched a bye into the quarterfinals of the Big East

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tournament. A win this afternoon coupled with a Louisville defeat on Saturday night would give the Hoyas a National Division title.

“It’ll definitely be weird knowing that this is kind of the beginning of the end,” Miller said. “I think that emotion will be carried over there into the post-season, and that will be another factor with us wanting to win, because there are six of us seniors on the field, and we know that this is our last shot.”

Miller — who started every game for the Blue and Gray at either centerback or See WOMEN’S SOCCER, A10