The Hoya: October 27, 2015

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015

DEFENSIVE STAND

Georgetown football’s defense excelled in big moments in a road win against Bucknell.

EDITORIAL GUSA’s nascent peer-to-peer support program deserves backing.

LEO ON PLURALISM The former university president discussed Georgetown’s identity.

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Brown House, Burleith & Back Again Campus housing proves less elusive as all 833 Class of 2017 applicants eligible Christian Paz

Special to The Hoya

Georgetown Scholarship Program student Amber Athey (COL ’16) never thought finding a place to live senior year would be so hard. Although the university considers GSP students as low-income, Athey

was placed on a wait list for senior housing and told that her chances of finding an affordable on-campus residence were slim.

“Low-income students are supposed to have on-campus housing guaranteed for four years,” Athey said. “However, I was not given housing eligi-

bility, and when I asked how I could appeal this process, I was told that there was no way and that I was basically stuck offcampus.”

The on-campus housing scarcity for seniors can be traced to the 2010 Campus Plan, which promised to house 90 percent of undergraduate students on

campus by fall 2025. To achieve this goal, the university instituted a three-year housing requirement in 2014, replacing a previous two-year housing requirement and making it harder for fourth-year students to secure one of the university’s See HOUSING, A6

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President DeGioia converses with DCPS Kaya Henderson (SFS ’91) at the summit.

Inaugural SummitDraws 40 Class Years Black Alumni Summit examines Hilltop influence

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The three-year housing requirement pushed members of the Class of 2016 off campus, with 100 denied eligibility. All applicants from the Class of 2017 will receive eligibility and may choose from university townhouses and apartments.

Toby Hung

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The Office of Advancement hosted the inaugural biennial Black Alumni Summit from Friday to Sunday, in which more than 230 alumni gathered for three days of social activities, networking events and panel discussions on Georgetown’s continued influence on their personal and professional lives.

GUMC Parkinson’s Trial Shows Promise Ian Scoville

“You’re going to be more successful when you allow alumni to organize and connect with the university in ways that they want to.”

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The participants included alumni from around 40 graduating classes in a range of different professions, with alumni networking events open to current black students.

The summit was a joint effort between a network of black alumni and the Office of Advancement. The Office of the President, the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and the Georgetown Alumni Association also assisted with

Two Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have discovered a drug that could reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, including cognition and motor function loss.

Georgetown’s Laboratory of Dementia and Parkinsonism Director Charbel Moussa and Movement Disorders Program Director Fernando Pagan led the clinical trial.

Twelve patients with Parkinson’s disease received nilotinib, a drug normally used in the treatment of leukemia.

One initial participant had to drop out for unknown reasons, but all 11 patients who completed the trial saw improvements. After treatment, one wheelchairbound patient could walk on his own and three patients could hold conversations again.

Moussa said the trial has potential to

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Movement Disorders Program Director Fernando Pagan co-led the successful GUMC clinical trial for a drug to reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

SCS Pioneers Facilitation Program Lucy Pash

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tors developed the program because they believe facilitation skills are crucial to success in the workplace.

“There’s been a lot of anticipation around the program,” Wade said. “I think it’s one of those activities in the workplace and in the business world that when people are able to do it well, it can really result in some positive change within an organization.”

Associate Dean of the SCS Edwin Schmierer stressed the importance of facilitation skills and echoed Ringel’s optimistic sentiments about the program.

“As research shows, the best work is accomplished in teams, which means those with facilitation expertise and skills are highly valued.

Moreover, facilitation is now a musthave skill for leaders, consultants and leadership coaches,” Schmierer wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We hope the Certificate in Facilitation program demonstrates how SCS continues to lead in offering experiential, practice-based and relevant leadership programs through the Institute for Transformational

The School of Continuing Studies’ Institute for Transformational Leadership launches a certificate in facilitation next semester.

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Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership at the School of Continuing Studies will debut the certificate in facilitation — a

three-month workshop that teaches the skills needed to oversee workplace meetings — next semester as the first degree in higher education of its kind.

According to Program Coordinator Kathryn Wade, SCS administra-

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NEWS Engelhard Turns 10 219 The mental health advocacy program has supplemented curricula for a decade.

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NEWS Amplify the Metro

WMATA created a website for Metro riders to share their concerns last week.

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Sports Streak Continues

Georgetown men’s soccer recorded a program record sixth straight shutout.

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OPINION Need for Speed

CAPS must provide quicker and more efficient care to students in need of help.

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NEWS Coffee or Wine?

Starbucks applied for liquor licenses in five Northwest D.C. locations this month.

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OPINION Girl Gang

Female a cappella groups deserve equal and fair treatment.

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EDITORIALS

Access Affordability The Georgetown administration has historically demonstrated a strong commitment to creating a diverse student body. But doing so requires supporting low-income students through an extensive need-based scholarship and mentorship program, and recently, as reflected in the university’s drop to 88th from 46th in The New York Times’ ranking of colleges doing most for low-income students, low-income accessibility at Georgetown has faltered. To bridge the economic gap on campus, the university should join a coalition of colleges and universities attempting to make college affordable and accessible and put a greater emphasis on the services and aid offered by the Georgetown Scholarship Program.

The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, composed of 80 highly ranked universities and colleges, aims — through a free online platform including a database, application system and portfolio — to make college affordable and accessible for students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The coalition does so through this platform with tools that streamline the experience of planning and applying to both college and financial aid, making it easier and more transparent for all students. For one, the online virtual locker, a private space where students can organize materials for later use in their applications, allows less privileged students to begin planning early with the help of teachers who offer guidance through editing and feedback. The integrated application process on the platform

also offers transparent information on financial aid and what students can get awarded. By joining the coalition, which is still seeking members, Georgetown would be making its admissions process more attractive to low-income students by lowering the greatest barriers to college: prior planning and lack of fiancial aid transparency.

Aside from joining this coalition, the administration should emphasize the importance and usefulness of the GSP when touring the country.

To make Georgetown competitive in relation to its peer institutions in attracting talented lowincome students, the administration must emphasize the unique role GSP plays in providing guidance to and ensuring the success of students on financial aid. This, coupled with an emphasis on how helpful the Office of Student Financial Services is in finding the best option available to students, would boost the image of Georgetown as an accessible school. Greater funding to GSP through a coordinated drive of alumni donations should also be considered to further reduce the loan component of a student’s financial aid package, making the university more attractive to students who could not afford to attend otherwise.

To fulfill the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ vision and make Georgetown a school for all types of students, the administration must take these steps to make the university accessible to students from diverse backgrounds and ensure their success once accepted.

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TUESDAY, october 27, 2015

THE VERDICT Loud Mouth, Quiet Car — Chris Christie loudly made phone calls on the “quiet” car of a train and had to be removed. Later he publicly apologized to passengers.

Milking It for All It’s Worth — The talented New York chefs David Chang and Christina Tosi opened a new Milk Bar bakery in Washington, D.C. Foodies everywhere rejoiced.

Out of the Doghouse — Bulldog Tavern is to start using Tapingo so students can pick up food on the go.

Found: The ‘Most Interesting’ Man — After a 20-minute competition, John Morgan, an economist, was crowned the most interesting man in Arlington, Va. One crowd member declared, “It’s like you’re a mixture of Fergie and Jesus” after his victory.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Facilitate Education The School of Continuing Studies stands out among peer institutions with its professional program offerings that develop students’ skillsets and foster creative thinking. The new facilitation concentration — aimed at current facilitators, leadership coaches and human resource professionals — provides facilitation training to students through classroom instruction, reading and reflection and furthers this excellence. Undergraduate students, who are extensively involved in many types of leadership positions, would also benefit from training, and the administration should implement a redesigned version of the concentration to undergraduates to impart facilitation skills — like knowing how to engage others to think, act and speak in new, better ways — to students.

For a school that prides itself on open dialogue, student leadership and student-led facilitation, there is significant value in applying a changed version of this course at the undergraduate level.

Students in the course could learn applicable facilitation skills like active listening and encourage thoughtful and deep discussion.

The model offered at the SCS can be altered to suit the needs of undergraduate students, who have tighter schedules and for whom facilitation takes place outside of an office setting. Facilitation is best developed through practice and direct in-

teraction with peers. With this in mind, an undergraduate version of what is offered in the School of Continuing Studies should plan for daylong facilitation training workshops, rather than semesterlong course work.

As it stands, this SCS certificate program will meet for three three-day seminars spread across the spring semester, along with supplemental online coursework throughout the semester. A better format for undergraduates would be instead to learn in daylong condensed workshops that emulate real-life situations in which these skills would be required. This would make the program more effective and accessible to busy students. The administration must keep in mind that the main consumers of its programs are busy students involved in a plentitude of leadership positions, and they would be better served in a more condensed, effective workshop session, instead of a semesterlong time commitment.

Having appropriately changed the SCS facilitation program to fit undergraduate students’ needs, these workshops should be offered to undergraduate students interested in improving their facilitation strategies. As long as the format of the course is changed to reflect a more condensed, practice-based methodology, all students who aspire to a position of leadership would do well to take the course.

This week

Hoyas for Mental Health The proposed anonymous undergraduate peerto-peer support network, in conjunction with Counseling and Psychiatric Services, represents a promising step toward mental health reform that students and administrators should endorse.

As the Georgetown University Student Association Executive Mental Health Committee continues talks with the administrators this week in the hope of launching by the end of spring semester, students and organizations must voice their support for comprehensive reform of the existing mental health infrastructure to ensure that the proposal receives clearance and sufficient funding.

The initiative advances a task-sharing model between students and staff that mitigates two key deficiencies in Georgetown’s mental health services: staff shortage and student perception.

An online chat-based service in which Georgetown students can anonymously discuss matters both academic and personal with a trained peer is needed. Rather than replacing the work of CAPS staff, student volunteers can act as reference points, offering active listening to fellow students and, when necessary, referring them to CAPS and other mental health resources.

Currently, CAPS houses eight full-time staff

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members, equating to a 1:1,035 staff to undergraduate student ratio. As a result, students often wait a week or more to see a CAPS professional. An online peer-to-peer network, by contrast, would connect students to individualized assistance within minutes, simultaneously relieving the increasing workload of CAPS personnel. Although students are not the same as educated professionals, they will be trained to be the step before CAPS. Perhaps more importantly, peer-to-peer discussion would eliminate certain barriers for students who seek mental health assistance through Georgetown’s current system. Namely, students whose schedules do not fit CAPS’ hours, who feel uncomfortable being emotionally candid with an authority figure or who don’t know if CAPS is the best resource for them would benefit from peer-topeer support as a supplementary point of contact.

As campus mental health cases increase in number and severity, administrators must make mental health reform a priority. The proposal by GUSA’s Mental Health Committee provides an opportunity to initiate such reform; still, the full potential of a peer-to-peer network cannot be achieved without demonstrated support by the Georgetown community through rallies and petitions.

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Joseph Murdy (COL ’16) discusses the tendency in baseball, and sports in general, toward radically costlier contracts for players. He then analyzes whether these teams are successful:

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Ever since 2010, contracts, both in value and duration, have risen dramatically. In fact, of the 30 highest contracts, including all other sports, 19 of them were baseball contracts signed after 2010. Of these 19 signings, only one player, Buster Posey, won a World Series for his team, the Giants, in 2014. Yet teams still go out and break the bank on that one player in hopes of winning big in October.”

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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’ve always hated dancing. There is something ironically constricting in that kind of freedom of movement for me, something about the arbitrary motion that does not mesh well with the planned-out, meticulously organized person that I knowingly am. But that was before I learned that what lay between me and authenticity was a conga line.

In elementary school, dance classes were required. Comprising of many tortuous exercises, ranging from ballet to tap dance to jazz, I made it my goal to be as invisible as possible, hiding from the mirror in the dance room and feigning deafness when addressed by the instructor. Class always ended with the dreaded freeze dance, during which we would dance randomly and freely until the music stopped, at which point we would freeze. Anyone left moving was instantly out of the game. I suppose, despite my rigid distaste for it, I was actually quite good at this game because I never moved. I liked the freeze part. The dancing part, not so much. And, as it turned out, that paradigm was reflected in other parts of my life as well.

In elementary school, I began to understand that there was some part of me that was hidden and wanted to come out but felt restrained by my environment. I began to understand that a part of my identity was hiding, never expressing myself, feigning deafness, never hearing the music of life. But at a time when math equations took the form of four times four and science was the fact that the sky was blue, it never really got much further than that. It would be a while before that part of me learned to listen to the music, before I learned to listen to that part of me.

Then came middle school and high school. I suffered through those mandated school dances, hiding in corners with my friends, stuffing ourselves with copious amounts of catered food and hoping our full stomachs would shield us from what lay beyond the buffet stations: the dance floor. By all means, I would have rather gained five pounds than have spent five minutes on that dance floor. But that closer proximity to dance in a social setting occasionally affected me, the melodious tunes faintly being heard and manifesting themselves as infrequent but distinct taps of feet or the casual sway from left to right. Simultaneously, that hidden part of me began to become a better listener, and it began to sway to the music ever so slightly as well.

In middle school and high school, notions of sexuality were finally mentioned, though they were confined to the whispers during lunch period and the occasional side glance of misunderstanding. Nevertheless, these small interactions with sexuality were slowly seeping into our student lives with the uncontrollable urgency of the desire to grow and learn. Sexuality could no longer be told to freeze; its feet were tapping, and finally, I was beginning to listen.

By college, I needed to get out on that dance floor, and yet, at the same time, I never felt so lost for a beat, a tune, a melody — anything to follow. Then came GUPride’s Coming Out Day celebration, a moment in which all that I was afraid of was suddenly confronted with all that I was proud of, and I began to understand that pride and fear were the most powerful forces toward self-discovery.

GUPride, of which I am a proud board member and supporter, has an annual Coming Out Day tradition that includes the placement of an ornately decorated door in the middle of Red Square. The board leads others through the door in a conga line, and, as rainbow leis sashay left and right, pride transforms into joy, guided by a unifying sense of freedom.

I remember the hesitation with which I joined that line, timidly throwing side glances and wondering who was watching me. But then I jumped in, throwing years of hesitation and immobilization to the side with every swing of my hips and kick of my feet, and I loved it. It was the first dance that I have ever loved. Dancing with my fellow board members — dancing with my sexuality — was understanding that my identity had never been truly represented both to myself and to others until those moments of realization. It meant understanding that my comfort lay just outside my comfort zone. In that conga line, in that dance, I found the rhythm that has guided me to authenticity. It’s a rhythm that I’ll never stop dancing to, for my sexuality is, at its core, the dance partner I need to do more than just make it though life.

Grace Smith is a sophomore in the College. If a Tree Falls appears every other Tuesday.

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hen I tell people that I am in an a cappella group at Georgetown, their eyes light up. When I explain that I am a member of the Georgetown GraceNotes, an all-female a cappella group, I always get the same follow-up question: “Why?” My friends in coed groups, however, are never asked this question. Women are constantly asked to justify themselves, to have some underlying explanation as to why they are the way they are. Why should I have to justify my choice to join an all-female group?

Historically, all-female a cappella groups have been critically viewed as catty, glorified sororities filled with drama and obsessed with appearances. In fact, a Washington Post article from 2010 referred to the Georgetown GraceNotes as “a women’s group” that was known for “wearing short skirts that sometimes barely pass the fingertip test.”

In the article, all of the other Georgetown a cappella groups were evaluated on their musical ability, rather than their appearance. The GraceNotes, as the only all-female a cappella group on Georgetown’s campus at the time, were objectified and described in this article in the same sexist way women are often portrayed.

The more technical critique that all-women’s groups lack the additional lower octave of men results in the age-old argument that all-female arrangements are simply boring. However, there is no way to quantify what makes music enjoyable. There is no study in the world that can prove this critique no matter how technical

Female a cappella groups still face discrimination.

The women are scrutinized for being too risque in their performances or too boring in their musical arrangement. it sounds. All-female groups have their own unique sound that is just as interesting as that of coed and all-male groups.

Despite the popularity of the blockbuster hit “Pitch Perfect,” female groups still face discrimi-

nation. Women in these groups are constantly scrutinized for either being too risque in their performances or too boring in their musical arrangement. This systemic sexism is best displayed in the fact that in the past 12

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years, only one all-female group has won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, compared to the five all-male groups that have won.

The Georgetown GraceNotes are not a sorority. We don’t choose our members based on the outfit they are wearing or the way they style their hair. The GraceNotes are a serious musical group that cares just as much about performance as sound.

Alix Welch (COL ’17), a fellow GraceNote, told me, “I love the GraceNotes because there is no better feeling than walking in front of a crowd who is expecting a one-dimensional sound to come from an all-girls group, then prove them to be so seriously wrong. We sing a wide range of genres, from pop songs on the radio and soulful Sam Smith to alternative Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.”

Lizzie Gentry (COL ‘16), another GraceNotes, said, “I love being a part of the GraceNotes most for being able to be surrounded by a group of strong, weird, talented and amazing women. These ladies constantly blow my brains out with their skill and support.”

The Georgetown GraceNotes is a group of dedicated, talented women who have made many of my college experiences meaningful. The Georgetown a cappella community has been supportive of the GraceNotes and has helped the progression of female empowerment at the university.

Tori Forelli is a sophomore in the College. She is a writer for The Fourth Edition.

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n Monday, Sept. 21, my first semester after transferring to Georgetown went from bad to worse. I learned that two students from my old college had died. The news sent me into a downward emotional spiral. I was already having an extremely rough time transitioning to Georgetown, but this event made everything more difficult. When I found out what happened, I didn’t have any peers to go to; I was not comfortable hysterically crying in front of people I had just met. I also did not think talking to the Counseling and Psychiatric Services clinician-on-call would be helpful, as I prefer to see someone face-to-face. So, that night I met with the chaplain-oncall, and she suggested that I go to CAPS to try to sort out all of my feelings.

For those who have never been to CAPS, all students must meet with an intake coordinator, who determines which counsellor best suits a student before he can see a counsellor. I met with an intake coordinator the Wednesday after I found out what happened. He asked me to make an appointment with a counsellor. The soonest appointment available was on Sept. 28, one week after I had heard the news. However, I could not make that appointment because of my practice and class schedules. I managed to fit the next available appointment into my schedule. It was on Oct. 2, 11 days after I had initially met with the intake coordinator.

Waiting for that CAPS appointment was extremely painful. During those 11 days, I watched my emotional state continue to decline. I was incredibly frustrated because I had done the right thing — asking for help — but the help I had asked for was not coming quickly enough. Quite desperate for any kind of support, I turned to Georgetown’s other resources. I tried to reconnect with the chaplain who had seen me originally, but because Pope Francis was in Washington that week, she was not around. My dean wasn’t free until the week after. I did eventually see the chaplain, as well as multiple deans, and they were all very helpful. But there are some things that can only be resolved by working with a trained therapist. I was still waiting to see one.

On the morning of Oct. 2, I was looking forward to the fact that I would finally be able to release some of the negative feelings I had been carrying around for the last week and half. However, the first session with a counsellor is always what CAPS calls an “evaluation,” where you give the counsellor background information so he can better understand your situation. At this meeting, I was unable to work through my issues.

CAPS employees asked me to wait until the following Mon-

day to see my counsellor for the second time. While I was again frustrated that none of my issues had been addressed in my first meeting, I was hopeful that during my second meeting, I would finally be able to rid myself of the negativity I was holding on to. However, that second appointment turned out to be a continuation of my evaluation. After that appointment, I still had unresolved feelings, and my next appointment wasn’t for nine more days. Thankfully, my evaluation was finished, so I knew the next appointment might actually be helpful. But this app06ointment where actual counselling would take place was three weeks after I initially had gone to CAPS. On Oct. 5, I attended the Mental Health Open Forum on campus, where I shared my experience with Phil Meilman, the director of CAPS. I told him that no one should be left without help for that long. I told him that he should not be under the impression that CAPS provides timely care to all students. He apologized and admitted that the system had failed, but said that CAPS is doing the best it can with a lack of funding and staff. I then asked if CAPS prioritizes which students are seen first based on their reasons for needing for counseling.

He said that CAPS would drop anything for someone who is suicidal, and that if I needed help sooner I should have kept calling CAPS. But, when CAPS prioritizes students, they should use a wider range of categories besides “suicidal” and “nonsuicidal.” There is an area between those two extremes, and students dealing with serious but not life-threatening issues should still be seen by counselors in a reasonable amount of time.

Also, CAPS hours of operation do not make any sense for a service geared toward students, which is why it was so hard for me to make appointments. Many students have classes or sports practices between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., which can make it difficult for them to be seen quickly. Additionally, mental health services are needed most during the evening. That is when all of the support from professors and deans disappears and when students have time to reflect.

While CAPS being underfunded and understaffed is an understandable reason for failing to provide optimal care, there are a few things it can improve. If CAPS revamps the way it prioritizes new clients and offers hours later in the evening, it would ensure that other students have a better experience than I did. CAPS needs to be better, because some students cannot afford for it not to be.

Brittany Rios is a sophomore in the College.

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hat is “social impact”? sity with so much human capital Why does Georgetown create pockets of innovation that crowd its campus with a often squander the opportunity to consortium of seemingly undiffer- capitalize on collective strengths? entiated innovation centers?

If these organizations play What’s the difference between distinct roles — thought leaders, the Beeck Center for Social Impact policy makers, community con& Innovation and the Georgetown veners — why do their missions Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI)? Is seem to conflate so many issues? the Beeck Center’s mission to proMost of all, what can we do to fix mote students in their effort to pro- this? How can individual organiduce solution-based social change zations, each with laudable goals, distinguishable from GSEI’s aim truly be more than the sum of their to prepare future leaders to create parts? How can we ensure that both economic and social value? each organization is adding anAren’t “social change” and “social other level of intellectual and social value” clever ways of expressing depth rather than contributing to the same idea? an environment of isolated action?

Who writes these mission state- How can a university change a sysments? Are their heads burrowed tem of independence in which it is in a thesaurus? so entrenched?

Are they more conWe believe there cerned with occuis concrete value in pying a hyperniche the work these orgathan promoting a nizations perform, culture of collaborabut opportunities tion on campus? for students and Why are our most faculty to learn and promising organizagrow are cloaked in tions often shroudall-encompassing Shetty & Trivedi ed in indefinite and buzzwords that lofty rhetoric? often make social We’ll admit — it’s easy for us to impact seem inaccessible and vague. sit on a pedestal and criticize a Ask ten students on campus to deculture of redundancy; how dif- fine social innovation today — you’ll ficult will it be for students and get ten different definitions. administrators to impose changes From the Beeck Center to GSEI, soon territorial organizations with cial service organizations at Georgelittle incentive to stop, think and town represent tremendous achievecollaborate? How do we overcome ment and potential; they bridge gaps the intransigence of our univer- between undergraduate schools that sity’s brightest minds to develop rarely cooperate. Their efforts underan ecosystem of innovation? lie so many of our most treasured JeWhy is it so difficult for the suit traditions. They provide an open layman to draw a link between forum for students, faculty and comthese centers and our Jesuit iden- munities to craft policy solutions tity? Why can’t these organizations that have real impact; in their ideal make their relation to the univer- form, these organizations would sity’s Jesuit ideals more explicit? teach us how to solve collective acWhat kind of framework does the tion problems in a sustainable manSocial Innovation and Public Service ner and make our Jesuit identity that Fund use to determine which of its much more palpable. projects are “socially innovative”?

These centers have already made Why do so few MSB undergraduates, strides: The Beeck Center sends dozperhaps most likely to stray from our ens of students abroad through GU school’s Jesuit roots, engage or even Impact and is a vital advocate for the know about GSEI? Why isn’t their in- White House’s My Brother’s Keeper put more aggressively sought?

Initiative; the MSB’s GSEI “New StrateIs the Institute of Politics and Pub- gies” program deploys MBA students lic Service (IPPS) really a place where and faculty to help nonprofits bolstudents “drive the conversation”? ster their understanding of revenue How do we know that the conversa- growth and management; SIPS has tion isn’t happening over at GSEI? Or granted over $100,000 to students at the StartupHoyas’s Social Innova- starting nonprofits and working on tion Pitch Competition? service projects around the world.

What about the MSB’s new We must, however, expect that Business, Society and Public these organizations can do betPolicy Initiative? The initia- ter for the community and for tive provides an “enhanced themselves. Organizations with platform” to support the con- social missions stand to benefit vergence of global business, the most if they can effectively government and society — that pool together resources, clarify seems to be a competitive ad- their purposes and leverage their vantage, right? Does the inclu- knowledge to heighten both the sivity of the platform take away reach and impact of social innofrom their ability to encourage vation at Georgetown. focused change?

Why do Georgetown organi- Rohan Shetty is a senior in zations work in silos? How can a the McDonough School of school that exerts so much effort Business. Naman Trivedi is a cultivating an atmosphere of col- senior in the School of Foreign laboration be so bad at aligning Service. [and service] appears its resources? How can a univer- every other Tuesday.

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Former University President Leo O’Donovan, S.J. led Georgetown from 1989 to 2001. Throughout his tenure, O’Donovan reflected upon the evolving Catholic identity of the institution, charging a faculty study on the university’s identity. He also established the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and hired the first full-time imam at any American university.

THE HOYA sat down with O’Donovan to discuss Georgetown’s diversity and the importance of pluralism.

This is part two of a three-part interview. Part three will appear in the News section of THE HOYA on Friday.

Since you took over as president in 1989, Georgetown has greatly expanded in its diversity, and its student body and larger community are now compromised of a wide variety of people. As Georgetown

was growing, what were the struggles between maintaining its Catholic tradition but also recognizing the importance of fostering other ideas as an academic institution — even if they conflicted with Catholic teaching?

Well, let me say something first about American culture itself. I think it’s clear that we had been a largely Caucasian, Protestant culture dominated by East Coast institutions, and we are now a much more diverse country with the Protestant churches in a minority, an ascendant Hispanic community, a great variety of Christian communities with evangelicals and more traditional, more fundamentalist churches or communions taking a very significant role.

The place of the Jewish community in American culture has remained, I would say, very steady. The percent of Jews in America is about the same as it was when I went to college and continues to be culturally and politically

very significant, but the numbers I don’t think have changed significantly. There is a significantly greater interest in Islam, but the Muslim population is not very large. The Muslim influence around the world is of course of great significance.

“I think what the university offers in terms of curriculum is significantly stronger and more diverse now. It’s also a matter of social life, activities that people are in.”

FR. LEO O’DONOVAN, S.J. Former University President

I think a college — or a university — with all those various dimensions and forms of community life is immensely valuable, especially for undergraduates whose basic perspectives on life are forming and very often your

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Former University President Fr. Leo O’Donovan, S.J., who served in the position from 1989 to 2001, oversaw numerous changes to Georgetown during his tenure that solidified Georgetown’s values in diversity.

basic friendships. And it’s not simply in classes, although, I think what the university offers in terms of curriculum is significantly stronger and more diverse now. It’s also a matter of social life, activities that people are in.

When we did the centered pluralism study the faculty became convinced that “associational life” on the campus was of immense intellectual importance.

That’s a phrase that’s goes back to Tocqueville when he made his famous visit to America and wrote about democracy here. He noted that Americans seemed to have a special bent and a special aptitude for forming various sorts of associations, which made the body politic work,but were not strictly political, and to me that is still the case.

That’s just a word about the United States. But then there’s the international point of view, and I think it’s always been a great benefit of Georgetown to be international. That was the case from the very start, with significant numbers of students from outside the colonies. At times that internationalism declined, but it is our tradition to be so.

Now the world has become at once more united — globalization is a shorthand for that — and yet the perils inherent in globalization have become more evident — and nowhere more so than in the fact that a globalized economy means a level of power in the economy that single countries can’t easily control, so that the economy becomes the most significant force in shaping the lives of people and very often to the detriment of poor people.

So, as the traditional notion of the nation-state has weakened, the power of international economy has strengthened. That’s something I think our students need to learn and become sensitive to.

A third level or perspective with regard to what has changed is the religious perspective. Until about 20 years ago or so, the secularization thesis was firmly in place. Namely, that as society, politics and economics became more independent of religious authority, religious authority would decline and eventually disappear.

At the same time, the relevance of a transcendent dimension, the place of God in human life, would gradually disappear. Well, that hasn’t proved to be the case, especially in the United States, which remains a very religious country — less so today perhaps, but we remain nevertheless a fundamentally religious county. And we’ve become aware in the last 20 years that religious communities and the faiths that we find in the world shape societies, social decisions and even the economy.

So, the place of Islam, with a billion and a half adherents, commands much more attention today.

You notice I don’t start by speaking of Islamic extremism. I’m talking about our becoming more aware that we have many, many brothers and sisters we have who hold the Islamic faith. They are indeed our brothers and sisters — and I’m very proud of the fact that we have real strength at Georgetown and building strengths in Islamic studies and the Arabic language. That expertise is indispensable for living together.

In the Catholic Church in which I’m very happy to be a priest — a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit — our new pope, Francis, has brought a sense of dialogue to the very center of Catholic living. He starts, in my view, with people’s problems and concerns and needs, not with rules and principles and laws. He knows the formal structures very well. I think he’s well aware of what the rules, what the laws of the church are, but he doesn’t start there.

He starts with the person who presents herself or himself as in need. And in a very special way, I think, in his latest encyclical, “Laudato Si,” he presents for discussion throughout the world the great problem of our environment and, as he puts it, the care for our common home. I think he’s being exact and forthright when he says he would like to enter a dialogue about this.

He never in the letter appeals to his authority as the bishop of Rome except insofar as he does say that what he’s proposing is in continuity with popes since John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI. He intends, in continuity with them, to contribute to the social teachings of the church.

But that’s about as far as he goes to emphasize his authority. The authority of the letter is from what he has to say. I think it’s very persuasive.

In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books — scarcely a Diocese newspaper — there is a brilliant article interpreting the encyclical and in an extremely positive way.

I know there are people who would say there is this wrong with it, or that wrong with it, or I object to this or that. I don’t think Francis will have any problem with that, because he doesn’t propose the letter as the final truth, and he doesn’t propose it as something fully satisfactory — on the contrary. What he is proposing is an issue of urgency for the whole world.

So, here too the principle of dialogue has taken a place in Catholicism, which I think is very promising and much more humane.

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GU Fossil Free published and circulated an open letter written by an anonymous alumnus calling for the university to divest its endowment from the top 200 fossil fuel companies, amassing one signature as of press time.

The group published the letter on its website Oct. 9. It is the first open letter to be published by GUFF since the board of directors voted to end direct investments in coal companies in early June, a decision that GUFF criticized for being insufficient.

The letter reiterated GUFF’s goal for the university to fully divest from the top 200 oil, coal and gas companies based on carbon reserves.

“We, the alumni of Georgetown University, respectfully ask the board of directors to divest the university’s endowment from the top 200 fossil fuel companies based on carbon reserves,” the letter read.

The letter also cited scientific research published on National Geographic and the Environmental Protection Agency website on the effects of fossil fuel burning on the environment.

“These abrupt changes [in average global temperature] have already resulted in more severe and frequent heat waves, storms, droughts, and floods,” the letter read.

The letter concluded by calling the university to implement more sustainable measures in its wider plans, beginning with divestment.

“By divesting, we stand for those who cannot stand for themselves and protect an Earth that is currently being silenced,” the letter read. “For this reason, Georgetown can and must take the lead in moving us away from fossil fuel dependence, and that begins with divesting and helping to shift the dialogue toward true sustainability.”

In April, GUFF released a letter signed by faculty members that supported divestment, and it accrued 113 signatures. The letter, which was drafted by professor Nathan Hensley, was released toward the end of an academic year marked by demonstrations by GUFF and negotiations between the group and the university.

According to GUFF member Annie Wang (COL ’16), the group decided to release the alumni open

Special to The Hoya

The Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority launched Amplify, a website aiming to give riders a greater voice in local public transit, Oct. 15.

Amplify will offer multiple channels through which riders can communicate with both WMATA and other riders, including online polls, surveys and discussion forums. Interested users can create Amplify accounts online. The ultimate goal is to include more customer input in WMATA policy decisions.

WMATA Director of Customer Research Jason Minser emphasized the creation of Amplify as a response to the call for increased communication with riders.

“We’re always looking for new and better ways to engage our customers,” Minser said. “While we certainly do it now through a number of different channels, we didn’t have anything that would sustain interaction so that we were getting a constant stream of input.”

The site currently has a cap of 5,000 riders allowed to sign up for membership.

However, if the initial launch is successful, WMATA will consider opening Amplify to all Metro and bus riders.

According to a Metro press release,

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WMATA’s Amplify website allows riders to communicate their concerns.

WMATA hopes to receive feedback on service changes, marketing materials and overall customer experience. WMATA also plans to release a monthly newsletter for Amplify members to demonstrate how customer comments have affected transit policy decisions.

The call for input from the customer community comes after recent controversy surrounding WMATA’s operation.

Earlier this month, the Washington D.C. Metro was the first subway system to be placed under federal jurisdiction due to a lack of safety regulations. Additionally, dissatisfaction with WMATA inspired the formation of an independent Riders’ Union in September.

Amplify’s first poll respondents conveyed how much they feel WMATA cares about their daily interaction with the bus and rail system. Fifty percent of participants responded “very little” or “not at all” and only 15 percent chose “quite a bit” or “a great deal.”

WMATA Riders’ Union Communications Director Graham Jenkins highlighted Amplify as a possible sign of change in how WMATA handles complaints.

“I would hope that this is a way to channel those suggestions more constructively and turn them into specific policy platforms. The idea that they’re actually accepting criticism is a new thing,” Jenkins said. “This seems to have room for legitimate criticism, so that’s a good sign.”

Lynn Bowersox, WMATA’s assistant general manager of customer service, communications and marketing, assured the organization’s confidence in the site.

“This tool gives customers the convenience of sharing their thoughts and opinions at times and in places that work for them, including on the go,” Bowersox said in a press release announcing Amplify. “We believe that Amplify will become a valuable tool in building the relationship between Metro and our customers.”

Mike Donnay (COL ’16) expressed doubt that the university student community will be able to provide the interest WMATA is seeking.

“As a college student who has very limited time in D.C., I’m not super invested in it getting better,” Donnay said. “There are certainly parts of it that frustrate me, but I don’t imagine that an app or website will suddenly inspire me to engage with the Public Transit Authority in any more meaningful way than I do.”

Suzanne Trivette (COL ’16), who uses the bus system for her job commute to DuPont, however, said she is hopeful that the service will be able to further connect riders with WMATA. “I feel like that could be helpful, in terms of people making suggestions and feeling like the transportation system cares about them,” Trivette said.

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GU Fossil Free, pictured here at a protest Jan. 16, circulated a letter written by an alumnus calling for the university to divest. letter based on the effectiveness of the faculty letter.

“I think [we chose this tactic] because we saw how successful it was with the faculty,” Wang said.

“We thought it would be a good way to rally alumni.”

GUFF member Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said the group wanted the letter to draw broader support for divestment in order to pressure the university.

“If we can get a broad coalition of constituencies to support divestment, we believe that the university will be more likely to follow through with full divestment from oil and gas,” Willard wrote in an email to THE HOYA. According to Wang, the group is circulating the letter to alumni through “mostly email and social media,” with “some word of mouth.”

Willard also said that the group is collaborating with former GUFF members to facilitate the circulation among alumni.

Although GUFF does not have an estimate for the number of signatures that they hope to collect, Wang said the organization is hoping to see the same success that they found with the faculty letter.

“We’re trying to get a hundred, maybe a couple hundred,” Wang said.

Willard also said that the alumni letter would eventually be delivered to the university administration.

Elaine Colligan (SFS ’15) praised the letter for supporting its argument with scientific facts. She has yet to sign the letter.

“I think it lays out the science behind climate change well,” Colligan said.

Colligan also said that she anticipates the letter to gain further traction as it circulates among alumni.

“I expect tons and tons of alumni to put a lot of pressure on Georgetown to divest,” Colligan said.

Aside from the letter, Wang said that one of GUFF’s main goals for the semester is to keep up with the board of directors, in addition to increasing student outreach efforts.

“We’re trying to get more contact with the board of directors,” Wang said. “I think what we want to see is getting a broad community of support.”

Willard also said that GUFF will continue to promote its agenda to the university community this semester.

“GUFF will continue to advocate for full divestment from oil and gas, as well as administrative transparency,” Willard wrote.

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GU Hosts Inaugural Summit Parkinson’s Drug SUMMIT, from A1 planning the event.

Eric Woods (GSB ’91), who served as co-chair of the summit’s planning committee, said the event demonstrated the mutually beneficial nature of the relationship between black alumni and the university.

“I think it serves the administration to understand that this community is engaged, does care and will stand up when asked. I think what it will do is create more symbiosis going forward between [black alumni and the university],” Woods said.

University President John J. DeGioia, who spoke at two keynote addresses Friday and Saturday, also said that the summit was significant in maintaining relations between black alumni and the university.

“I am deeply grateful to our alumni who attended this weekend’s events and all those who helped to spearhead this important and unprecedented effort to celebrate our African American alumni community,” DeGioia wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Several alumni members, including Tammee Thompson (CAS ’91), began discussing the possibility of a reunion for black alumni in 2013.

Thompson approached Chief of Staff to the Office of Advancement Ben Shaw with the idea after she attended the Black Alumni Summit at Stanford University, where she received her masters in business administration.

Shaw said that the Office of Advancement found the summit to be an effective way for the alumni to plan programming according to their own needs.

“You’re going to be more successful when you allow alumni to organize and connect with the university in ways that they want to … as opposed to in the ways that are the most convenient to the university,” Shaw said.

Over the next year and a half, Thompson and Woods, who served as the co-chairs of the summit planning committee, led a group of around 50 alumni who helped with the event’s programming and outreach efforts.

The Office of Advancement also provided assistance in booking locations on campus and connecting the committee with resources. Most of the events took place in the Rafik B. Hariri Building.

The summit kicked off Friday morning with a keynote luncheon

featuring DeGioia and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS ’92), who also serves on the university’s board of directors.

Throughout the three days, panelists discussed a range of career fields including sports and entertainment.

The summit also included a panel discussion with Conan Louis (SLL ’73), who was one of around 30 black students at Georgetown when he initially arrived at the university.

“I think it serves the administration to understand that this community is engaged, does care and will stand up when asked.”

ERIC WOODS (GSB ’91) Co-Chair, Planning Committee

According to Woods, Louis recounted that only eight of the black students eventually graduated, as many felt uncomfortable at the university and dropped out.

Woods said that he found Louis’ experience relevant to the summit’s goal of supporting black students from matriculation through to graduation.

“I think we take for granted that only a short time before us, things were drastically different,” Woods said. “One of the takeaways from the summit is to make sure that we help students matriculate into Georgetown, that we do what we can to help them finish at Georgetown and finish strongly.”

In 2008, Georgetown placed fifth place in Black Enterprise’s ranking of Top 50 Colleges for African Americans. This past application cycle, nine percent of admitted students were black.

CMEA Director Charlene BrownMcKenzie said that she found the discussions at the summit to be profound.

“I attended several panels and I was struck by the depth of conversation and the impressive resume of those assembled,” Brown-McKenzie wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Students also participated in alumni networking events. Shaw

said that the networking events were good opportunities for students to connect with a large number of alumni.

“Students had the opportunity to connect with black alumni from various career fields, ask for advice and just listen to their stories and experiences. I think that connections like that, they are going to persist beyond the summit,” Shaw said.

Oyetola Oyeyemi (SFS ’16), who was one of the three student panelists at the summit, participated in a panel entitled “The Black Experience on the Hilltop.” She was invited to join the panel during the summer by her Georgetown Scholarship Program faculty mentor, who works at the Office of Advancement.

Oyeyemi said that she enjoyed being able to connect with multiple alumni at a networking event following the panel.

“This was very significant for me because I am not the biggest fan of networking events, and I’m usually pretty shy, but the alumni at the networking session made me feel pretty comfortable, which is something I’ve never felt at a networking session at Georgetown before,” Oyeyemi wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Woods, the summit will convene every other year.

Woods said that while the committee has not begun planning for the next summit, he is optimistic that the next summit will grow in size and scope after receiving many positive comments from attendees this year.

“I’m very happy that people who came left in anticipation of seeing each other again and coming back to the school,” Woods said. “Our thought, as a committee and as the co-chair … is that this is something that people want to happen again.”

Shaw said that the Office of Advancement will also consider proposals from other alumni groups to host similar events.

“If another group of alumni came forward with a similar plan and was willing to work with us, we would absolutely be open to that,” Shaw said.

Above all, Shaw said that the summit achieved its purpose of reconnecting alumni with the university community.

“This isn’t just about figuring out ways to raise more money for Georgetown,” Shaw said. “This is about figuring how to get our alumni connected to the student experience and make sure that our students know that our alumni are resources.”

Students Scramble for Housing HOUSING, from A1 limited residences.

Although an additional 385 students began living on campus this fall with the opening of the Former Jesuit Residence and conversion of two floors of the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center into dorms, 100 seniors of the 750 who applied for eligibility were not initially offered on-campus housing by the university, according to Executive Director of Residential Services Patrick Killilee.

Athey was one of those 100 students who did not receive housing. As a result, she said that her financial aid housing stipend does not cover all $1,350 of her monthly rent and utilities expenses or the three months of rent she paid for summer housing. The money she earns from her jobs was factored into her financial aid package, leaving her with little money for personal expenses.

“I don’t go out to eat with my friends,” Athey said. “I hardly ever buy drinks at a bar. To cut utilities payments, I limit my time in the shower, spend most of my time in my room with the lights off and hand wash all of my dishes to avoid running the dishwasher. When I’m shopping at Safeway, I mainly buy store brand and always make sure there is a sale before I purchase something.”

Changes On and Off-Campus Athey’s story may soon become an anomaly with the opening of more on-campus housing such as the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall next year. This year, 82 more seniors applied for on-campus housing for 2016-2017 than did last year, and the housing office approved all 833 applicants, according to Killilee.

Assistant Dean for Residential Living Stephanie Lynch wrote in an email to The Hoya that the changes in university housing policy are meant to make the student body feel more of a sense of community.

“A primary goal of Georgetown’s master planning process is making campus a more residential, student-centered living and learning community,” Lynch wrote.

Students who study abroad, transfer in or take a leave of absence do not have to fulfill the three-year housing requirement.

The Office of Residential Living also worked with the Georgetown University Student Association and the Office of Student Financial Services to provide a four-year guarantee for students who are considered by the university as having high financial need. The exact criteria for this classification are not publicly disclosed. Last year, 150 fourth-year students were granted senior housing for financial reasons, according to Killilee.

The three-year requirement has been met with mixed feelings. Megan Pohl (COL ’17) said that living off campus entails a series of issues she did not consider before the three-year rule’s implementation.

“I like having the convenience of being near campus,” Pohl said.

“Living in D.C., you’re going to pay a hefty price either way you run it and having the convenience through Georgetown of housing, Wi-Fi, everything, are just as important to me. So living off-campus brings a landlord and all of those different steps. I don’t want to have to hassle with it if I don’t have to.”

Patty-Jane Geller (COL ’17) fears that the housing rule will prevent her from being able to find roommates who are willing and able to pay for off-campus living and make her own housing costs more affordable.

“My two best friends and I are trying to find an off-campus house, but we’re worried about finding other people who can live with us,” Geller said. “We could think we could pull in people who are younger than us but we can’t do that now because they have to stay on campus.”

A Changing Marketplace Students aren’t the only ones who have been affected by the new rule. James Mula, a landlord in the Burleith and West Georgetown neighborhoods, has seen the housing market shift dramatically over the last 25 years.

“The biggest change is that [the new policy] has slowed the market down,” Mula said. “Over the last couple years, it was getting crazy.

[Housing] caused a lot of panic among students, which was unnecessary, and I think it allowed some of these guys with pretty terrible houses to grab students who were just in a panic.”

Based on experience in the

neighborhood housing market, Mula said that he believes the drop in off-campus demand gives seniors less competition against other renters and forces unresponsive landlords to compete for the students who are searching for a residence. “[Bad landlords] won’t be able to command those top dollars … just because students would be able to shop around a little more and not be rushed in to take it or leave it,” Mula said.

Steers Center for Global Real Estate Director Matthew Cypher agreed with Mula’s analysis and said that in the long run, the policy will help students.

“Real estate is very simple,” Cypher said. “It’s a relationship between the supply of space and the demand of space. When you had two years’ worth of Georgetown students living off campus, the demand was strong, and potentially exceeded the available supply that was present.”

According to what Cypher’s students have told him, the pressure to find housing off campus is not as prevalent as it has been in past years.

“I think that landlords are being a bit more accommodative to tenants,” Cypher said. “They may be willing to accept a lower rent to ensure they have tenants in the space, whereas before they might have been able to drive a harder bargain.”

However, even though the market may settle in the long run, lowincome students are at a disadvantage in the short term if they are not granted eligibility through the lottery in future years.

“If there are juniors who can afford to live off campus and want to live off campus, that would open up spots for seniors who can’t afford it,” Athey said. “I just don’t think it’s the right solution to force people off campus who want to live on campus.”

Still, Mula and Cypher think the policy will end up gradually helping all parties involved.

“I think in one sense it will help the Georgetown community overall because through attrition, we get rid of some of the bad operators,” Mula said. “It definitely will give students a better chance of procuring housing that’s safe and paying what they’re getting for instead of some hell hole.”

Proves Effective

eration and disease progression without killing the cell.”

While the drug is normally used low the school to accept and inprovide new insight into treating Par- in 800-milligram doses to treat leukinson’s disease. Currently, there kemia, it was given in 150 to 300 is no approved treatment method milligram doses in the clinical trial that can reverse the condition’s for Parkinson’s disease. symptoms.

Moussa explained that the drug “The success of this approach appears to reverse Parkinson’s by will provide a disease-modifying taking advantage of this autophaapproach that no other current gy process. The drug induces the Parkinson’s medication provides,” degradation of brain toxic proteins Moussa wrote in an email to The that are associated with dementia Hoya. “All current therapies are for and Parkinsonism, while increassymptom management and do not ing levels of brain neurotransmitalter or slow down disease progres- ters such as dopamine. Dopamine sion, which is a critical goal.” is known to underlie many brain Pagan agreed and was optimistic functions, including movement about their findings. and mental activity.

“I’ve been treating Parkinson’s The results from the clinical trial patients for over two decades now appeared to follow this observaand I’ve never seen a Parkinson’s tion. drug that improves both motor “The changes in these biomarkand non-motor symptoms at the ers — Tau, p-Tau, α-synuclein and same time the way this drug has, Abeta-40 and 42 — in spinal fluid especially in the advanced patients suggest to us that the drug is workthat we were treating,” Pagan wrote ing by triggering cells to clean out in an email to The the toxic proteins Hoya. “I’m extreme- “The success of in the brain,” ly excited.”

Moussa wrote.

According to this approach will For Alan HoffMoussa, the drug provide a diseaseman, a retired must go through social sciences a series of further modifying approach professor at Geortests before it can gia State Unibe prescribed to that no other versity who was treat Parkinson’s. current medication diagnosed with The drug will go Parkinson’s in through two more provides.”

1997, the effect of trials, which will the drug proved CHARBEL MOUSSA be larger, placebolife-changing.

Director, Laboratory of controlled, doubleHoffman started Dementia and Parkinsonism blind trials, meannoticing improveing neither the patients nor the ments three weeks after beginresearchers will know if a patient ning the clinical trial. is receiving nilotinib or a placebo.

“I didn’t notice it but everybody Once this process is complete, the else did,” Hoffman said. “I found drug can be prescribed for treat- that it covers up my deficienment in the next few years. cies in enunciation and fluency “If funding becomes available of words … and I thought, ‘Well and early data hold out in larger gosh, the only thing that I’m clinical trials, this drug may be doing different is taking those clinically available five years from pills.’” now,” Moussa wrote.

Hoffman continued to improve Moussa originally got the idea to as the trial progressed. In a walkuse nilotinib to treat Parkinson’s ing therapy activity, he was able by looking for drugs that regulate to walk 20 feet twice as fast, going a process called autophagy, or from taking 28 seconds before the the process by which cells destroy trial started, to 14 seconds two themselves. The nilotinib drug nor- months after the trial started. mally uses this process to kill can- The most noticeable impact, howcerous cells from leukemia. ever, was on everyday tasks.

“In neurologic diseases, the cells, “I find I was able to do a lot of called neurons, accumulate toxic things I would not normally atproteins which kills the cell — and tempt, like emptying the dishthat’s not good,” Moussa wrote. washer, doing lawn and yard “We thought if we could turn on work,” Hoffman said. “I found that the autophagy process for a short sometimes I did so much and felt time by giving a lower dose of ni- so healthy, that the next day I’d be lotinib, it would lead to the diges- worn out. I have worked a normal tion of intracellular neurotoxic day instead of just a Parkinson’s proteins and prevent neurodegen- day.”

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SCS Launches First Facilitation Classes show up in that room and actually manage that room,” Ringel said. “I Leadership.” find that there’s not enough peoProgram applicants are required ple who are doing this well, and to have a bachelor’s degree and at people are increasingly resenting least two to four years of experi- the fact that they have to go to so ence leading teams. The applica- many of these experiences, and tion deadline is Dec. 1, and stu- they’re not seeing the return on dents will be notified of admissions investment.” decisions about one month later.

Wade added that Ringel conEach class consists of 18 to 24 stu- sistently emphasizes the need for dents, with meetings on Monday, good facilitators in the workplace.

Tuesday and Wednesday one week “One of the things Rae talks to per month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. me about a lot is when someone The program is great at faconsists of three cilitation, they modules: Being can bring peoa Facilitator, ple together The Art of Facilito decide on a tation: Design collective way and Craft, and forward that’s Capstone: Favery positive cilitating Teams and beneficial and Groups, for an organithat will be zation,” Wade completed over said. a three-month Ringel said period. The Certhe program tificate will inwill help stuclude two stages dents learn — the technical how to deal and the transwith current formational — problems in the RAE RINGEL where particiworkplace, like Director, Certificate in Facilitation Program pants will learn the distraction about both conof technology. crete skills and their presence as “The challenge we face now facilitators. with technology is people spend Students will engage in col- so much time on their devices laborative and interactive work, and social media and on computincluding practice in conducting ers,” Ringel said. “When people their own meetings, in addition put down their devices and come to written assignments outside of together to work, it needs to be the classroom. The program con- awesome.” cludes with individual presentaRingel said she is optimistic tions on facilitation projects. about what participants will reProgram Director Rae Ringel ceive from the program. highlighted the characteristics of “My hope is that people go a good facilitator the program will back to their organizations, their aim to develop in its students. schools, their enterprises, with not “There’s an actual craft to how only a different perspective on how you create and lead experiences to gather people, but also with realof people being together. It’s all ly critical skills and tools to be able the preparation that you do be- to engage people in their work,” fore the experience, to find out Ringel said. “[The program is] givwhat people need and want, and ing people a tool that they can realthen it’s the facilitator — how they ly use in most places in their life.”

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“There’s an actual craft to how you create and lead experiences of people being together.”

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Mental Health Project Starbucks Applies for Liquor Licenses Celebrates 10 Years William Zhu

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Margaret Heftler Hoya Staff Writer

The Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning, a curricular project that integrates reflective dialogue on health and wellness into academic courses, celebrated its 10th anniversary this October.

The project, which is run by the Center for New Designs in Leadership and Scholarship, was created by an initial gift of $250,000 from the Charles Engelhard Foundation. Since the project began in 2005, its professors have implemented it in 328 courses, which have been taken by 9,874 unique students.

The project has also been continually funded by the foundation, receiving a portion of a $3 million grant to the CNDLS in 2010.

The Engelhard Project seeks to foster the values of cura personalis by infusing topics on campus health into course curricula.

Around 20 classes per semester include a component of the project, for which professors receive a stipend to invite guest lecturers and develop wellness-related course content. Professors can apply to CNDLS to implement an Engelhard component each semester.

CNDLS Assistant Director Joselyn Lewis said that while the basic model for implementing Engelhard topics in the classroom has remained consistent over the past 10 years, the acceptance of conversations on health issues in academia has greatly improved.

“The program really has grown and expanded when we started this 10 years ago. … The idea of well-being was thought of as sort of a touchyfeely thing that you didn’t do in relationship to academic content,” Lewis said. “It’s been pretty cool to see, in the last 10 years. ... It’s a much more salient and approachable topic.”

Chief of Staff to the Office of the President Joe Ferrara said the project has been valuable in drawing attention to relevant health issues on campus over the past 10 years.

“The Engelhard Project is an extraordinary effort that has significantly deepened our ability to support and care for the well-being of our students,” Ferrara said.

Classes that participate in the Engelhard project include discussions on topics on wellness in relation to the subject of the course.

Philosophy professor Karen Stohr has used the Engelhard project in two of her courses —”Introduction to Eth-

ics” and “Bioethics” — for the past several years.

In her “Introduction to Ethics” course, the Engelhard component includes a discussion on sexual assault with Jen Schweer, the associate director of sexual assault response and prevention services, and a subsequent, ungraded reflection.

“It’s about building a community in which sexual assault is not tolerated,” Stohr said.

In her “Bioethics” course, Stohr chose a discussion on the use of stimulant medications such as Adderall as a form of cognitive enhancement.

“We discuss the ‘high achiever’ environment at Georgetown and the culture that leads students to resort to such practices just to keep up with their lives,” Stohr said.

Stohr said that the Engelhard topics in her classes provided an opportunity for students and faculty to come together and discuss how complex issues of health and wellness are present in the Georgetown community.

“I believe that the study of ethics should affect the way we live, and so I look for Engelhard topics that bear on the experiences of Georgetown students and ethical problems that they face on a routine basis,” Stohr said. “That means that I aim to integrate the mental health issues into the course material as much as I can.”

Lydia Bubniak (SFS ’18), who is taking a course with an Engelhard component, “Environmental Ethics,” said that while she is aware of her course’s implementation of the project, its goals have yet to be fully realized. In her course, Bubniak said that the Engelhard component entailed a viewing of a TED talk on the topic of happiness.

“I haven’t seen that much application of the Engelhard initiative. None of our classmates are really that sure what it’s about. We just kind of know vaguely it’s about wellness,” Bubniak said.

Above all, Lewis said that the Engelhard project has been and will continue to be an important part in fostering discussions that are relevant to students on an individual level.

“I think what we hope is happening is that students are finding ways to connect all the complex and complicated things that are going on in their lives, outside of their coursework,” Lewis said. “The academic content feels more relevant and tied, and that people’s complexities and struggles are sort of being honored and raised up as something more valuable.”

Starbucks applied for liquor licenses for five of its Northwest Washington, D.C. locations earlier this month as part of the expansion of its “Starbucks Evenings” offerings.

The Wisconsin Ave.nue, Seventh Street and three Connecticut Avenue locations are all included in the application. If approved, these stores would begin to serve wine and craft beer, along with small gourmet dishes, from 2 to 11 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 11 p.m. on weekends.

The Starbucks location in the Leavey Center was not included in the corporation’s application for D.C. liquor licenses.

Starbucks applied for D.C. Alcoholic Beverage licenses from the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. According to a Notice of Public Hearing posted online by the ABRA, Starbucks applied for five Class D alcoholic licenses and has a hearing date set for Dec. 7.

ABRA Public Affairs Specialist Jessie Cornelius explained that a Class D license allows for the sale and consumption of solely wine and beer in an email to The Hoya. She added that the final approval of the license is up to discretion of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Following the 2010 debut of the “Starbucks Evenings” at the Starbucks in Seattle, the corporation plans to introduce the expanded menus at more than 2,000 of its 12,000 stores in the United States, according to USA Today.

As of August, more than 70 stores offered “Starbucks Evenings.”

Starbucks spokesperson Courtney Edelman said Starbucks selected specific locations for alcohol selections based on the preferences of local customers and surrounding neighborhoods.

“Just as each customer is unique, so are our stores and we consider a broad range of products and experiences for each neighborhood,” Edelman wrote in an email to The Hoya.

On its website, the company cited data regarding customer preferences as impetus for the “Starbucks Evenings” locations. According to Starbucks, 70 percent of its customers drink wine, as compared to 30 percent of the general U.S. population.

The “Starbucks Evenings” stores are all corporate locations, meaning they are operated directly by Starbucks.

In general, non-corporate stores of food vendors are referred to as licensed, including Subway, Cosi and the Starbucks location in the Leavey Center. Edelman declined to comment further regarding the potential expansion of “Starbucks Evenings” to

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Five Starbucks locations in D.C. may soon serve wine and beer, pending approval from the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. licensed stores.

Aramark Marketing Manager Adam Solloway said that because the Starbucks at Leavey Center is not a corporate location, it is unlikely that it will sell alcoholic drinks.

Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese, however, said it is possible that the location on campus could offer alcohol, pending approval from Starbucks.

“Starbucks has to approve licensed stores to actually take on and actually adopt that particular program that has the alcohol,” Wiese said.

She added that if “Starbucks Evenings” are expanded to licensed stores, the university would also have to approve the sale of alcohol in the Leavey Center location.

Wiese said the possibility of the university Starbucks location serving alcohol is still a hypothetical.

“There would be other concerns we’d have to take into consideration, like Epicurean has an alcohol liquor license and they serve drinks,” Wiese said. “I don’t know anything about the entire program until we are presented with it from Starbucks.”

The five Northwest D.C. locations and Leavey Center shop all declined to comment.

Tori Goodell (COL ’16) said that the Starbucks brand is not usually synonymous with a bar-like atmosphere.

“I don’t think I would go to Starbucks for a night time venue mostly because I don’t associate a girl’s night out with a coffee shop,” Goodell said.

“But it will be interesting to see if it picks up.”

Emily Jin (COL ’16) agreed and doubted how successful “Starbucks Evenings” would be in D.C. locations.

“I personally go to Starbucks to work, sometimes to catch up with friends. I think if they start serving alcohol, that could create a different culture and ambience, which might cause them to lose some patrons,” she said.

Maxwell Menard (SFS ’16), however, was more optimistic about the possibility of purchasing alcohol at the coffee chain.

“I support Starbucks serving alcohol. A lot of people go to coffee shops to catch up with friends, and during the afternoon I don’t see anything wrong with patrons having a couple of beers instead of a couple of cups of coffee,” Menard said.

Hoya Staff Writers Patricja Okuniewska and Lucy Pash contributed reporting.

SFS Public Service Initiative To Select Inaugural Cohort Taylor Harding Special to The Hoya

The Walsh Scholars Initiative, a program supervised by the School of Foreign Service Academic Council to promote careers in the public sector, received applications for its first class of participants over the past weeks.

Applications for the yearlong program were due yesterday. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Ambassador Barbara Bodine, who directs the WSI, declined to provide the number of applications received.

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors in the SFS were eligible for the program, which will accept five applicants.

Walsh Scholars receive a professional mentor, personalized career guidance and a stipend to pursue an internship in public service for the summer of 2016. Throughout the academic year, participants will attend monthly events, including dinners, workshops and formal networking sessions with professionals, alumni and professors.

In addition to these events, the program also provides workshops on professional skills such as writing, briefing and research.

SFSAC President and WSI Student Director Anna Hernick (SFS ’16) said she was pleased with the applications they have received.

“We’ve been really happy with the caliber and the quantity of applications,” Hernick wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We expected students to be excited about it, but the response from students has really been great, so I think that reinforces the fact that this program is needed.”

Hernick said that the program will help students develop a diverse range of skills to focus on potential career choices.

“We plan on offering a good variety of events in order to build a community, but also to give them practical, tangible skills that they can take with them,” Hernick wrote.

The WSI was established last year by former SFSAC President Megan Murday (SFS ’15) and former SFSAC Senior Class Representative Annie Kennelly (SFS ’15). The program grew out of the academic council’s efforts to balance the disproportionate emphasis placed on private-sector recruiting they have observed in recent years.

According to a report from the Cawley Career Education Center, only 11 percent of SFS graduates in the Class of 2014 found jobs in nonprofit and public service work, while only six percent held positions in government. By contrast, 25 percent of graduates entered into consulting services and 15 percent took jobs in the financial sector.

Kennelly said that her two years on the opportunities committee of the SFSAC, which publicized internships and entry-level jobs to SFS students, opened her eyes to this disparity.

“That experience brought to light how few viable opportunities exist for undergraduates

to pursue a career in government and public service,” Kennelly wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“WSI grew out of that void.”

Murday expressed similar concerns on the general student body’s disinterest in the public sector. “[Kennelly] and I discussed the oftentimes confusing, unpaid and overlooked route to a career in the public sector,” Murday wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Too frequently, our best students gave up on or postponed public-sector jobs in order to pursue a more financially-secure position with well-known firms.”

Murday said that the SFSAC will continue to work with WSI to serve as an important source of planning and feedback.

“As WSI came from the SFSAC, I hope that WSI and the SFSAC will have a long-term, collaborative relationship,” Murday wrote.

Murday and Kennelly met with Bodine last year to launch the program and enlisted help from the SFS Dean’s Office and other faculty members. Bodine had run a similar program called The Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative during her time at Princeton University.

“WSI will be an internship program that creates a nexus of Georgetown’s outstanding faculty, Washington’s vast professional opportunities, and motivated SFS students,” Kennelly wrote. “It will be a community … who will work on creating a pipeline to public service careers that improve the world in meaningful ways.”

Maximilian Fiege (SFS ’18), an applicant to the program, said that he hopes to receive more regular support in finding a publicsector job, especially in light of the extensive recruitment by the private sector on campus.

“You have Deloitte coming every week, you have Goldman Sachs all the time, but there’s no real recruiting channel for the public sector, especially in the realm of foreign affairs,” Fiege said. “With the WSI, you get mentorship opportunities and internship guarantees, and that finally elevates the public sector to the standard of the private sector.”

Vanessa Sorrentino (SFS ’18), another applicant, echoed this sentiment and said that this program upholds the university’s Jesuit values.

“In Georgetown’s emphasis on things like ‘men and women for others,’ we’re instilled with this sense of pride in service,” Sorrentino said. “To apply that to a professional setting is something many of us want to do, [and] the WSI makes this easier.”

Hernick said that she hopes the WSI will allow students to form positive connections with the community around them.

“Students come into Georgetown with the idea that they want to use it as a pathway to public service, but … it’s not always so obvious how to make that happen,” Hernick said.

Hoya Staff Writer Tom Garzillo contributed reporting.

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Hoyas Drop Crucial Big East Matchup sean hoffman Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown field hockey team (8-7, 1-2 Big East) had a successful weekend with two victories, bringing its total to eight wins on the season and surpassing the number of wins it had all last season. Georgetown defeated Big East rival Villanova (4-10, 1-2 Big East) 2-1 in overtime Friday at Cooper Field, then travelled to New York and beat Colgate (0-13, 0-4 Patriot League) 3-2.

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

“Friday was a big matchup for us against a conference rival and a team Georgetown hasn’t been victorious over in the last 18 years.

We were excited to be able to host them at home for the first time in 11 years as opposed to their neutral site. We faced a lot of adversity in that game, and our whole staff was really proud of our team’s resilience, and we played the whole 70 minutes of that game,” Soares said.

Against Villanova, both teams were kept scoreless in the first half until junior forward Aliyah GravesBrown scored with 33 seconds remaining to put Georgetown on the scoreboard. Graves-Brown drove into the circle with only one defender and shot right past the goalie.

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

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

The overtime goal was GravesBrown’s fourth of the season.

Sophomore forward Megan Parsons, junior midfielder Maria McDonald and freshman midfielder Sam Hickey all had shots on goal for the Hoyas. Junior goalie Rachel Skonecki had 11 saves.

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

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

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

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

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

Georgetown’s total of eight wins in the season is one more than it had last year and six more than the year before.

Soares is proud of the immense progress her team has made.

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

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

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Freshman outside hitter Liv King is second among Georgetown players with 224 kills this season, averaging 2.49 kills per set. King has played in all 24 of her team’s matches in the 2015 season, starting 21 of them.

GU Splits Pair of Home Contests Ryan McCoy

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown volleyball team (9-15, 3-8 Big East) split a pair of Big East matches this weekend, falling to St. John’s (15-11, 5-6 Big East) on Friday night before rallying to beat Providence (10-15, 1-10 Big East) on Sunday. The Hoyas are now eighth in the conference as they face two consecutive road trips in the coming weeks.

The weekend began with a tough match against St. John’s. The Red Storm were held to a close first-set win, but a strong run broke open the second set and propelled them to a 3-0 win. Freshman middle blocker Symone Speech led the team with 10 kills on a .562 hitting percentage.

“I think when games like that happen, it’s because everyone’s in their head and kind of freaking out,” Speech said of the loss. “So, when we get in holes like that, I try and go out with lots of energy and get everyone super pumped up. It helps.”

Coach Arlisa Williams emphasized the problems her team had with St. John’s serving, noting the Red Storm’s offensive strategy.

“They were serving aggressively, and we could not get in system. When we’re in system, [freshman setter] Paige [McKnight] can set all three hitters in the front row. We were scrambling all over the place, and that just makes it really tough,” Williams said.

Despite the tough loss, there were positives to take away from the match.

According to Williams, the Hoyas showed remarkable positivity and togetherness in the face of adversity.

“We liken this team and this program to a family. In families, sometimes things go great and it’s really easy to love each other. Sometimes, things don’t go our way, and you still have to love on each other and encourage each other and build each other up. That’s something that we’ve been focused on all year long, and they’re doing it,” Williams said.

That positive spirit carried over to a much more celebratory atmosphere on Sunday. It was Georgetown’s Dig Pink match, devoted to raising breast cancer awareness. Players wore pink shoelaces and accessories, and fans in attendance who wore pink received unique prizes. The Hoyas thrilled the crowd with a dominant performance, beating Providence three sets to one.

Georgetown came out strong in the first set, setting the pace with impressive serving. Freshman outside hitter Liv King had two of her career-high four aces in the first set.

“The biggest thing that serving does is it gets them out of system right away, so then we have a better chance to set up the block, and then we get the point,” King said.

While Providence managed to battle back and take the second set, George-

town came out on fire in the third and never looked back, winning the third and fourth sets by convincing margins.

Speech was once again a standout performer, recording a team-high 14 kills on a .455 hitting percentage and adding 4 1/2 blocks. Williams was effusive with her praise for the freshman.

“Symone has been working really, really hard,” Williams said. “As a middle, she has to be up in the air every single time, whether she gets set or not. A lot of times our hitters were one-on-one, and that’s because of the effort that she’s putting forth in the middle, and without that they end up hitting into a double block. It’s just all-out effort all the time, and we thrive on that.”

Williams also highlighted the contributions of some of the team’s less regular players against both St. John’s and Providence, including freshman middle blocker/right-side hitter Alexandra Rivera, freshman middle blocker Somto Egbuonu and sophomore setter Meghan Richard.

“Our success doesn’t just depend on the six or seven players that are always in the rotation, it depends on the contributions of everyone, and we just saw people step up and do it. That’s huge,” Williams said.

Georgetown will be hoping for more of those performances this weekend, as it travels to face Seton Hall (11-12, 5-6 Big East) on Friday and Villanova (19-5, 9-2 Big East) Saturday.

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Mets Overcome Years of Struggle The team has finally taken the top spot in the city from the Yankees

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s college students, we have been told for years that all the trials and sacrifices made for our studies will pay off. We are told that when we finally get to the top and graduate, it will be well worth it.

Being a Mets fan is a similar story.

For years, while watching the Yankees rule the town and celebrate while we suffer, we have been told that one day, it will be worth the wait. We are told that Queens will one day be the talk of the town, rather than the Boogie Down. As teenagers, we hear stories of the ecstasy of the fall of 1986 from our fathers, but also what could have been. What could have been a dynasty, until Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry caused Queens to lose all hope with their personal problems. We endure the pain of moments such as when Carlos Beltran struck out looking in the ’06 National League Championship, when the Mets lost to the cross-town

rivals in the World Series, or when they choked away a seven-game lead in September to miss the playoffs.

However, now with this Mets team on the verge of possibly winning a World Series after not being expected to even make the playoffs and a young pitching nucleus that could turn into the dynasty that should have started after 1986, our hopes are finally coming to fruition.

Riding a group of talented young pitchers, the Mets have finally returned to the World Series this year.

Moreover, this team is a pure Mets team that represents what Queens is about. Between watching a homegrown player like Dan-

iel Murphy shock the world after years of growth and inconsistency, and our star David Wright being rewarded for his loyalty after he easily could have left, this Mets team feels like our team. Players such as Wilmer Flores, who cried when he thought he had been traded, and the calm and always-poised Jacob deGrom, embody the gritty nature of Queens.

Finally, after years of tribulation, our consistent dedication to the New York Mets is paying off, and we are the kings of New York. Additionally, unlike Yankee fans, we know how fleeting our success can be, so right now we are savoring every second of it. And lastly, although we are happy to be here, we are not satisfied — we are hungry for the crown, and we will remain eternally hopeful and faithful to Queens and our Mets.

Darius Iraj is a freshman in the College.

KC Aims to Complete Rise to Top After years of losing, recent success has changed the Royals’ culture

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nother October, another World Series. After a near three-decade hiatus from the postseason, let alone the Fall Classic, the Kansas City Royals clinched their second consecutive American League pennant last Friday night. As a capacity crowd of nearly 41,000 clad in royal blue erupted in joy after the final out was recorded against the Toronto Blue Jays, I tried to compare and contrast the feelings surrounding these two incredible postseason runs.

As a lifelong resident of Kansas City, I have lived through years of mediocrity and worse from my beloved Royals. Then, after last season’s late push up the standings, it all changed in a hurry. A clutch, young, homegrown team with nothing to lose suddenly looked unbeatable. Led by veteran starting pitcher James Shields, the Royals captured America’s heart with a free-swinging, base-stealing kind of baseball that made every inning an adventure to watch. It was very clear that these kids were having fun and not letting the moment get

the best of them.

Although the season ended in a heartbreaking Game 7 loss to the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, Kansas City fans felt lucky to have experienced a month of postseason euphoria after such a long drought. Hope had been restored.

After falling in Game 7 of last year’s World Series, the Royals have the opportunity to finally claim the elusive championship in 2015.

This year, the feeling is different.

The team has the confidence of experience, and the knowledge that it is more than capable of playing its best when the lights are shining the brightest. From the start of the regular season, it has been the best team in the American League, and it has shown no signs of letting up

despite the grueling length of the baseball schedule.

Led by the stronger top-to-bottom batting order and the best outfield defense in the league, the Royals entered their series with the New York Mets favored to win their first championship since 1985. Last year, when the Royals clinched their World Series berth, Kansas City fans cried tears of joy, and nine months later, the city experienced its largest baby boom since the end of World War II. This year, people still partied in the streets outside Kaufmann Stadium until the early hours of the morning, but the feeling was one of unfinished business.

This year, the Royals are expected to complete their meteoric rise and bring home the Commissioner’s Trophy. Last August, the prospect of the Royals being in a World Series at all, let alone in their second consecutive Fall Classic, would have seemed ludicrous. Now, it seems ludicrous to bet against them.

Sam Abrams is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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few weeks ago, a dozen of my friends and I took the Orange line from Rosslyn to StadiumArmory to watch the Washington Nationals take on the Philadelphia Phillies. It was a perfect evening for a ballgame. The dying orange in the clear sky highlighted the sea of red jerseys and caps that greeted us as we walked through the gates at Nationals Park. The crisp air made the smells of popcorn, beer and crackerjacks overwhelming and wonderful.

As we took our seats in right-center field, only about 100 feet from Bryce Harper himself, it didn’t matter that only a few of us followed MLB. That night, everyone was a fan.

With the Fall Classic about to get underway, I am reminded of this night and many others. As a kid growing up in Montana, I used to lie on my grandma’s living room floor and watch the Seattle Mariners. I still have a foam finger from the first Mariners game I ever attended, and I vividly remember another game at SafeCo Field where I sat next to Shia LaBeouf. Those MLB games are some of my best childhood memories.

My buddies and I used to spend our summer afternoons playing wiffle ball, stuffing our mouths full of Big League Chew and collecting foul balls for a quarter each at high school games. To us, those high school athletes might as well have been Derek Jeter and Roy Halladay. When I was old enough to play at that level myself, I was just as in love with the game then as I had been when I was 12. I loved the competitiveness, the physical challenge and the teamwork required to win. For a long time, baseball was my life.

Nothing gold can stay, though. As they say in “Moneyball,” “at some point we’re all told we can’t play the children’s game anymore.” I don’t get to hear my name announced on the loudspeaker as I jog out to the mound any longer. My purpose in life is no longer centered on tossing a shutout or hitting a home run. But while the focus of my life has evolved, so has my love of the game. If I had

been asked in high school why I loved baseball, I would’ve said because I like to win. I still love to win, but that’s not why I love baseball now.

If I’ve learned one thing from my time at this Jesuit institution, it’s the value of reflection. Right now, we get to enjoy the pinnacle of the game, the World Series. We get to watch the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets put everything they’ve got on the line in search of that elusive title, world champions. As we get ready to enjoy this beautiful game, we should pause to reflect on why it is that we love the game and what it is that we value in it.

I love baseball because it unifies people. I love it because it teaches kids to work hard, to have fun, to play by the rules and to work together as a team. I love the game because it can bring a bunch of college kids together for a near-perfect evening regardless of whether they even like baseball. I love the game because it can bring a town together in a common cause against another town, but the two teams will still shake hands afterward.

I love it because it can bring a city together after a tragedy like the Boston Marathon bombings. I love it because it can bring a country together after a tragedy like 9/11. I love the game because of seventhinning stretches and the respectful silence and doffed caps just before the national anthem is played. I love the game because of people like Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Stan Musial, Yogi Berra and Ken Griffey Jr. I love the game because of its history and tradition.

These things, these people, they inspire and unite us. They cause us to dream big and to follow our passions.

They remind us of both the limits of humans and the great heights that mankind can reach. When people ask me why I love baseball, this is what I tell them. This is the great value of the children’s game.

Hugh Ramlow is a sophomore in the College. The Zone appears every other Tuesday.

SPORTS

TUESDAY, october 27, 2015

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Tension, as Chelsea Feels the Blues CRAIGE, from A10

during the summer, and it appears to have come back to haunt him. The entire team is inconsistent and Mourinho has constantly changed the lineups.

Furthermore, there was a scandal with team doctor Eva Carneiro, when Mourinho reacted angrily to the doctor racing on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard as it briefly left his team with only nine players.

Mourinho stripped Carneiro of her first team duties, and she eventually ended up leaving the club.

The fiery manager, no stranger to controversy, has already been hit with multiple fines and even a one-game ban. Mourinho dropped stras like Eden Hazard and John Terry from his starting lineups, creating rumors of tension between Mourinho and his players.

Injuries have certainly had a large impact on the champions.

The largest blow has been the loss of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who is not expected to return un-

of the match. Allen and junior forward Alex Muyl led the team with six shots each.

“It was off-the-ball kinds of things. I would check in and that would create a lot of space in behind for [Muyl],” Allen said. “Then we kept rotating throughout the game, who was going to go and who was going to stay. That made a lot of gaps in front of them and gaps behind.”

In contrast, none of St. John’s shots were on goal, and freshman goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski did not have to make a single save Saturday evening. The match marked the sixth straight shutout for Georgetown. All six of those matches have come against conference opponents, and Georgetown is the only team in the conference yet to concede a goal in Big East play. The Hoyas’ run without a goal allowed is now at 546 minutes of game action.

The lone goal of the match came in the 59th minute, when Allen scored from the penalty spot. Sophomore midfielder Arun Basuljevic was fouled in the box, setting up the game-winning opportunity. Allen, who has been taking penalty kicks for the team for the past several seasons, stepped up and put the chance away.

“It’s something I have been doing for a couple years now. I’ve done it at [the New York Red Bulls] and I’m doing it here,” Allen said. “Stepping up to the spot, if you have confidence, then there should be no problem. As long as you approach it with confidence, you’ll be fine.”

The win brought with it a number of broken records. Georgetown’s six consecutive shutouts are the most in program history, and Wiese earned his first career away victory at St. John’s. The 11-match run without a loss also ties a program record.

The team will return to Shaw Field on Wednesday to play Seton Hall (0-12-1, 0-6 Big East). The Pirates have yet to win a match this season and are in the midst of an 11-game losing skid. They sit in last place, with little chance of escaping the basement of the conference standings.

Nevertheless, Seton Hall has proved in the past that it can play the role of spoiler.

Last season, it defeated then No. 3 Georgetown 1-0, sending the Hoyas plummeting through the rankings. The loss also hurt Georgetown’s chances of winning a conference title as it finished only three points out of first place. This year, Wiese is ensuring that his players are prepared for every opponent, even one without a win this season.

“You don’t know what to say, because they aren’t bad,” Wiese said. “They have that record, and we are trying to tell the guys to ignore it, to put that record right out the window because they are pretty good. They have some attacking players that are pretty good.”

Respect for the opponent, among other reasons, will likely lead Wiese to start the same lineup against Seton Hall as he has for the last several matches. The same group of 11 players has started every game since late September, and the results have been overwhelmingly positive.

“With our group right now we are in a really good rhythm,” Wiese said. “It’s hard to make a lot of changes as a coach when you are playing well and you are not conceding goals and you are winning games and all that.”

til December at the earliest.

Fortunately, Courtois’ backup Asmir Begovic has proved more than capable of filling the Belgian’s position. Unfortunately for Chelsea, the line of injuries has not stopped there. Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and new signee Pedro have also experienced problems. This has created an inconsistency in Chelsea’s starting lineup, a problem that has only grown as Mourinho’s players continue to frustrate him.

Discontent is also a factor in Chelsea’s lack of form. Hazard continues to be linked to a potential move to Real Madrid and even appeared to confirm this desire when he liked an Instagram post discussing the move.

Captain John Terry is certainly disgruntled, as the defender has played a total of 10 games in competitions both domestic and abroad. Mourinho dropped his captain from the starting lineup after the latter received a red card against West Brom. This is a highly questionable decision be-

cause normally stable defender Branislav Ivanovic has completely lost his form. Chelsea’s defense could highly benefit from the stable presence that Terry offers.

It remains to be seen whether Chelsea can turn things around to at least qualify for the Europa League. As of right now, though, things are very gloomy indeed for the Blues. I must confess that it brings me great joy that even with their own woes, Liverpool is at least still ahead of Chelsea.

Here’s a look at upcoming games for the next few weeks: Chelsea is playing Liverpool on Halloween. While I’m certainly biased toward my team, this game should be quite interesting. It will be manager Jurgen Klopp’s first game against a traditional big club, pitting two unconventional managers against each other.

Furthermore, neither team really has an advantage over the other, as both clubs have been very shaky and in poor form.

While I would like to be optimis-

tic and say Liverpool will thrash Chelsea, this game will probably end in a tie. If so, at least Liverpool will still be higher in the table.

Arsenal plays Tottenham on Nov. 8. Arsenal is currently tied for first place while Tottenham has climbed up the table into sixth place. Both teams are in good form, and the North London Derby is always a good game to watch. Given its historical edge in the competition, I think Arsenal will come out on top.

The second round of the Champions League round robin will take place Nov. 3 and 4. On Tuesday, keep an eye out for Paris St. Germain against Real Madrid, Sevilla against Manchester City and CSKA Moscow against Manchester United. On Wednesday, watch Bayern Munich against Arsenal — Arsenal stunned Bayern the last time — and Chelsea against Dynamo Kyiv.

Vanessa Craige is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

The Beautiful Game appears every other Tuesday.

Football

Barnes Steps Up in League Win BISON, from A10

we really stepped it up as a unit and figured it out. We let some plays slide in the first half but got it together in the second half.”

On offense, to complement Kimpela’s big day, senior quarterback Kyle Nolan was 9-of-17 for 94 yards with one touchdown, while junior quarterback Tim Barnes went 6-for-12 for 62 yards for one touchdown. Barnes led an impressive 14-play, 94-yard scoring drive to put the game out of reach for Bucknell and make the score 17-9. Junior wide receiver Justin Hill had another big day, continuing what has been a very impressive season. He caught seven passes for 114 yards and one touchdown.

“It was just a complete team effort. It’s a big win for Georgetown football,” Kimpela said.

The Bison had a big day on offense, regardless of the scoreboard.

Junior quarterback R.J. Nitti threw 49 times, completing 28 of those passes for 338 yards and rushing for a touchdown. He also rushed eight times for a dismal net of -33 yards.

Junior running back C.J. Williams rushed 26 times for 109 yards while junior wide receiver Will Carter caught 12 passes for 92 yards.

The Hoyas got off to a fast start when freshman defensive back Blaise Brown intercepted Nitti in the red zone and returned the ball 51 yards.

Nolan and the offense converted that

interception into points, with senior kicker Henry Darmstadter making a 23-yard field goal to put Georgetown up 3-0 early in the first quarter.

The Bison responded quickly, going ahead 6-3 thanks to a 1-yard touchdown run by Nitti that put Bucknell up 6-3, as the Bison would go on to miss the extra point.

Right before the first quarter ended, Nolan connected with Hill on a 40-yard touchdown pass to give the Blue and Gray the lead for good.

The two teams would trade possessions for most of the second quarter, with the Bison tacking on another 3 points on a John Burdick 38-yard field goal.

Barnes took over for Nolan just before the fourth quarter and commandeered the Hoya offense on an impressive 94-yard drive to give the team some insurance points, with Kimpela scoring an 11-yard touchdown to put the Hoyas up 17-9 with 12:56 to go in the game.

“We talk to our guys all the time about ‘next man up,’” Sgarlata said of Barnes’ ability to fill in for Nolan. “Kyle got dinged a little bit there, and Tim stepped up, did his job and led us on a 94-yard touchdown drive. We have confidence in every guy on our team.”

The Georgetown defense shut the Bison down the rest of the way. It forced two straight 3-and-outs from Bucknell, and then with Bucknell facing a 4th-and-5 from the Georgetown 12, Nitti was sacked for a 19-

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After the game, the players took note of how meaningful the victory was against Bucknell for Georgetown’s seniors.

“We haven’t gotten a victory over Bucknell, so this one just

feels nice,” Kimpela said.

With just three games left in their season, the Hoyas will travel to Lehigh for a Halloween showdown, looking to get above .500 for the first time this season.

Kickoff is set for 12:30 p.m.

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Senior quarterback Kyle Nolan threw for 94 yards, including a 40yard touchdown to junior wide receiver Justin Hill, in the Hoyas’ win.

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was there with a pair of important saves to maintain the tie. The Blue Demons put the Hoyas under intense pressure, but the defense was able to stave off the attack.

“Emma’s experience being a fifthyear senior in goal has given us a lot of confidence in the back this season,” Corboz said. “We know when we need her she will come up with big-time saves, which she has proven to do numerous times.”

The second overtime period saw Georgetown nearly come away with a thrilling victory. After junior forward

Grace Damaska took a shot in the 105th minute, the Hoyas found themselves with a golden opportunity.

Corboz fired a shot on goal that was saved by DePaul’s senior goalkeeper Alejandria Godinez, but Godinez was unable to secure the ball. Five seconds later, sophomore defender Taylor Pak found herself with the ball at her feet, but Godinez saved the Blue Demons again, leaving the Hoyas disappointed.

That proved to be the decisive moment in overtime, as neither squad found another major opportunity to score.

“The keeper had maybe one of the best saves I’ve seen by a college goal-

keeper in overtime,” Nolan said.

The game ended in a 1-1 tie and Georgetown headed home without the three points they needed to help them secure a bye in the Big East Tournament.

However, the Hoyas can still clinch a bye with a win Friday in their last regular season game against Creighton (10-9, 2-6 Big East). If Georgetown wins, it is guaranteed a top-two spot in the final Big East standings. Georgetown can even win the Big East with a victory against Creighton and a St. John’s (14-2-1, 6-1-1 Big East) loss to Providence (12-6, 5-3 Big East).

The Hoyas will face off against Creighton Friday at Shaw Field at 2:30 p.m.

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Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz scored her team’s only goal in a 1-1 tie against the DePaul Blue Demons.

Corboz leads Georgetown with nine goals and eight assists so far this season for a total of 26 points.

SPORTS

Men’s Soccer Georgetown (10-2-2, 6-0-0) vs. Seton Hall (0-12-1, 0-6-0) Wednesday, 2 p.m.

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LOMBARDI GALA Devon Still and DeMaurice Smith highlighted the Lombardi Gala on Saturday.

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FOOTBALL

Satchell, Francois Lead Strong Defensive Effort AIDAN CURRAN Hoya Staff Writer

On Bucknell’s Homecoming Day, the Georgetown football team (4-4, 2-1 Patriot League) spoiled the day of festivities for the Bison (3-4, 0-2 Patriot League), winning 17-9. Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela rushed for a season-high 142 yards and one touchdown on 18 carries, while freshman defensive back Jethro Francois racked up a Georgetown freshman record 11 solo tackles in his first career start.

“Any time you go on the road and get a win in the Patriot League, it’s big,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “To come in here and get a victory against a well-coached football team is a huge deal for our program.”

Statistically, the Bison had the advantage in many categories. They had more first down conversions, more total yards on offense, more forced turnovers and a significant advantage in time of possession. However, Georgetown’s defense put the clamps on the Bucknell offense when it mattered most, allowing just a touchdown in the first quarter and a 39yard field goal in the second quarter.

Senior defensive captain and linebacker Matt Satchell had ROB SGARLATA a fantastic game, colHead Coach lecting 18 total tackles, including 3 1/2 tackles for a loss and a half a sack.

“Defense was playing great the whole game,” Satchell said. “That second half,

“Any time you go on the road and get a win in the Patriot League, it’s big.”

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Senior forward Brandon Allen scored the only goal of the match in Georgetown’s 1-0 victory over St. John’s. Allen leads the Hoyas with six goals to go along with six assists on the season.

GU Maintains Shutout Streak ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela rushed for a season-high 142 yards and one touchdown on 18 carries in Georgetown’s 17-9 victory over Bucknell.

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The Georgetown women’s soccer team (10-5-2, 5-1-2 Big East) travelled to Chicago for a Sunday afternoon matinee with fellow Big East heavyweight DePaul (11-3-4, 5-1-2 Big East)

on the opposition’s Senior Day. In an important matchup with Big East tournament implications, the Hoyas hoped to capture three points to help them secure a top-two seed in the tournament, which would give them a bye through the first round.

Georgetown’s prospects to gain three points looked very good for the majority of regulation. The Hoyas controlled the pace of the game for the first quarter, finding themselves with decent chances and drawing fouls to control the game.

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s we’ve all seen so far, the 2015 soccer season has been a highly unpredictable one. Who would have thought that after 10 weeks, West Ham would be in third place while Chelsea languishes in 15th place?

Chelsea’s season thus far has been an absolute shock to most. The champions of last year have hardly played like it at all. The defense has been catastrophic, the offense is not scoring enough and the entire team has been plagued with injuries.

Chelsea has already lost more games than it did in the entirety of last season. One could argue that the Blues have been highly unlucky in that many refereeing decisions have gone against them. Things have been so dismal for Chelsea that the team had to put out a statement confirming its faith in under-fire manager Jose Mourinho.

So why is it exactly that Chelsea continues to struggle to get the ball rolling?

A possible answer is Jose Mourinho himself.

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Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “I thought the first half was good, and I thought the second half was really good.”

The Hoyas kept the Red Storm on their back foot for most of the match. Georgetown had 20 shots over the course of the game, six of which were on goal. Meanwhile, St. John’s had only five shots over the course

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For most teams, a shutout victory on the road against a conference opponent would be a game of note. For No. 9 Georgetown (10-2-2, 6-0-0 Big East), however, it was business as usual. The Hoyas earned a 1-0 victory over St. John’s (3-9-3, 1-3-2 Big East) Saturday evening, with senior forward Brandon

Allen scoring the winning goal from the penalty spot.

The 1-0 score line did not reflect Georgetown’s performance in Queens, N.Y. The Hoyas controlled the match from start to finish, with both the offense and defense turning in strong performances.

“There’s not a lot to complain about when you watch the game and you watch the video, just in terms of mentality,”

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Senior forward Crystal Thomas assisted the Hoyas’ only goal in their 1-1 tie against Big East rival DePaul. Thomas has scored five goals and assisted four others this season.

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town took the lead on a goal scored by a familiar duo. Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz delivered her ninth goal of the season from approximately 10 yards out on an assist from senior forward Crystal Thomas, who has consistently been crucial to Georgetown’s attack. The Hoyas recorded four shots in the first half and entered halftime with their 1-0 lead intact.

“Rachel is a very good player.

As the season has gone on, she’s gotten more comfortable. She’s become a bigger and bigger part of what we do,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said.

In the second half, Georgetown’s defense played well, but ultimately fell victim to a wellexecuted set piece in the 80th minute on a foul that Nolan perceived as a “soft call” by the referee.

“The disappointing thing was that they scored off of a set piece, a free kick which I had felt was a soft call on the referee’s part based on how they had called the game to that point,” Nolan said.

Regulation finished in a 1-1 tie, so the teams headed for the golden goal overtime period.

The run of the play in the first overtime belonged to DePaul.

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