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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

HAUNTING HISTORY?

With Halloween just around the corner, The Guide peers into Georgetown’s frightful past.

TOURNAMENT TIME

The Hoyas go head-to-head with the Orange at home in a Big East quarterfinal showdown.

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Alumni Return To Roots

For some grads, giving back to Georgetown isn’t just about the money.

BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

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

While soon-to-be Georgetown graduates are looking to secure their futures in the workforce this autumn, a select number will end up carving out their niche right here on campus.

MAKING THEIR WAY BACK While some recent graduates step right off of the graduation stage and into university offices, others have taken alternate routes back to their alma mater.

Michael Wang (MSB ’07), found jobs at Lehman Brothers and then Barclays immediately after graduation, taking the finance route typical of many recent alumni.

But within two years, he found himself back on the Hilltop as the special assistant to Chris Augostini.

At the time, Augostini was serving as the university’s chief financial officer and now its chief operating officer.

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The front lawns bustled with activity Thursday as workers set up dramatic lighting in front of Healy for the toast that will mark the campaign’s start.

$1.5 Billion Capital Campaign Kicks Off CARLY GRAF

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As celebratory blue spotlights eye Healy Hall and alumni A-listers flock to campus, the university’s $1.5 billion capital campaign launches its public phase today.

Projected to last 10 years, the fundraising initiative, titled “For Gen-

erations to Come: The Campaign for Georgetown,” began its quiet stage on July 1, 2006. Through the end of last fiscal year, the Office of Advancement had brought in $737 million in commitments, just short of 50 percent of its final goal.

The campaign relies on three primary sources of donations — alumni, friends and family of those who

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attended Georgetown, and nonprofit charitable foundations with some stake in the university’s mission and goals.

PLAYING TO THE HILLTOP’S STRENGTHS With the campaign’s kickoff comes a renewed focus on engagement with the student body.

“We do not want what we do in

advancement to be invisible,” Vice President for Advancement R. Bartley Moore (SFS ’87) said.

Men’s basketball Head Coach John Thompson III, Mortara distinguished professor of diplomacy and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, as well as business mogul See CAMPAIGN, A6

Chaplains Connect With Students MATTHEW STRAUSS Hoya Staff Writer

It is midnight on the third floor of Darnall, and a small group of freshmen are chatting as they watch TV and plug away at their homework. As a Catholic priest strolls in with a plate of freshly baked treats, a student yells down the hall, “Fr. McManus has cookies!” and more residents quickly spill into the common room.

At work is campus ministry’s residential ministry, directed by Michelle Siemietkowski (COL ’92). The program boasts 26 chaplains-in-residence and Jesuits-in-residence who live among students in university-owned housing.

The purpose of the program stems from the university’s commitment to providing

chaplaincy service for students 24 hours a day, Siemietkowski said. But the program is much more than attractive language for an admissions brochure.

“CIRs and JIRs also reach out to students who may have particular needs or particular considerations, which is a really special service that we provide,” Siemietkowski said.

“A chaplain can show up on a student’s floor with cookies and ask ‘Hey, how are midterms going?’ and really connect with students. They do a lot of outreach.”

For husband and wife chaplain team Zeyneb and Salih Sayilgan, who reside on the second floor of New South, the opportunity for outreach inspired them to serve as on-campus See CHAPLAINS, A6

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Michelle Siemietkowski (COL ’92) directs the chaplains-in-residence program for campus housing.

GU Nabs Record 22 Fulbrights UPASANA KAKU Hoya Staff Writer

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On the N Street side of Nevils Hall, the summer renovation construction work continues.

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A record high of 22 graduates received the prestigious Fulbright award for the 2011-2012 year, the Office of Fellowships announced this week.

The competitive scholarships provide recipients the chance to teach and conduct research abroad. Since they are awarded by individual countries, the last students to receive their awards were not notified until summer. Established in 1946 via legislation introduced by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards about 1,100 grants each year.

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Georgetown’s strong performance places it among the top recipients of the award nationwide.

“It’s a harvest that’s paying

“It is a record, but it is also really important that it is part of a rising trend.”

JOHN GLAVIN Director of the Office of Fellowships

off,” said John Glavin, director of the Office of Fellowships and a professor of English In 2010, Georgetown students were awarded 16 Fulbrights,

and 14 the year before that.

“It is a record, but it is also really important that it is part of a rising trend,” Glavin said.

The scholars will study and teach in 18 different countries on every continent besides Antarctica.

Of the 22 recipients, 16 are students who completed their undergraduate or graduate programs last year, while the rest are recent graduates.

He added that the international orientation of the university makes Georgetown a natural fit for the Fulbright program. In recent years, the office has stepped up efforts to raise See FULBRIGHTS, A6

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EDITORIAL

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Create Change for the 99% By this point, the fat cats of Wall Street have become familiar with the masses of Occupiers settled at the foot of their office buildings. Starting today, however, Georgetown will get a taste of the demonstrations, as students begin marching from the front gates of campus to join protesters at McPherson Square.

As media attention dies down, the Occupy protests are reaching a crossroads. The demonstrations went global largely because the movement’s ideals resonate with a wide range of people. They also have brought attention to the astounding social and economic inequality within our borders.

With the greatest income disparities since the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, many voters are feeling disenfranchised and weak. And all of these frustrations are magnified by the dip in the economy and a stagnating unemployment rate.

Yet many politicians and media personalities have criticized the demonstrations for their lack of focus and cohesion. The protests have become an outlet for Americans’ disillusionment with the status quo, but they must be synthesized into a single, digestible platform; as the students coming face to face with the Occupiers today, we should be the ones to do just that, by interpreting and addressing these nation-

wide concerns.

By virtue of our attending a prestigious university in the United States, we theoretically rank in the top 1 percent of the population in terms of education and opportunity.

A Georgetown education will enable many students to enter the top tier of their career, whether it is business, government, education, medicine or academia. Often, alumni blaze a trail toward the top percent, in terms of political influence, academic contributions or even posttax income.

Indeed, we are the 1 percent that is able to make something actionable of this nebulous movement. Over the course of our academic careers, we are exposed to the Jesuit values of service, community and justice. It is these values that lead many students to volunteer in the District and eventually guide our work in the careers we choose. What’s more, our coursework allows this knack for social justice to converge with a nuanced understanding of the economic and political forces driving the world.

As Georgetown students, our challenge is twofold: to make sense of the world while making it better. As a nascent and tenuous Occupy movement begs definition, we have an opportunity to tackle both. Let’s start the conversation.

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through concerts.

As with all student groups here, the biggest limiting factor for a vibrant music culture is space. While Gaston Hall, McNeir Auditorium and Davis Performing Arts center are adequate venues for formal performances, informal showcases of talent are impossible with the current setup.

The university has the opportunity to cultivate a larger musical culture by allocating room in the New South Student Center. The outlined large multipurpose room and proposed pub have the potential to attract a large number of students for a potential rise in live musical performances in a central student space.

Concurrently, improvements can be made to many of the informal practice spaces already in existence, particularly the ones in New South. GUSA must consider using some of the SAFE Reform funds to renovate music practice rooms currently within New South, as the current proposal does not call for a reworking of this area in the meantime.

The limited room for casual practice and performance has allowed artists to disappear from the radar of campus life. Before the music scene fades entirely, administrators need to recognize that having some more room to work with will help Georgetown’s undercover superstars shine.

THE VERDICT by The Editorial Board They’re on a Boat — St. Mary’s College in Maryland is housing students on a cruise ship while on-campus dorms are being treated for mold.

Presidential Homecoming — President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) returns to his alma mater today to speak about “Clintonomics,” making him the second Clinton to speak in Gaston Hall this month.

A Housing Hand — The university has announced it will begin publishing a list of recommended area landlords on its housing website, as well as a list of those to avoid.

The Cold Shoulder — While the odds of seeing a blizzard this Saturday are slim, there’s a 70 percent chance of sporadic snow flurries.

Gutsy Move — A GUTS bus suffered from faulty brakes and crashed into a stone barrier outside the Jesuit Residence on Tuesday, narrowly missing several pedestrians.

Off the Web “Valuing Healthy Discourse” Article posted Oct. 18, 2011 Comment posted Oct. 18, 2011 Max Sarinsky: I’m in full agreement with this editorial’s commitment to free speech, and if there are groups on campus who value Ann Coulter’s opinions enough to invite her to campus, then they should by all means be free to do so. Where I disagree is with the editorial’s suggestion that students can “learn” from Ms. Coulter if only they “sit back” and “listen intently.” Learning is not just a passive process, but also an active one. When speakers come to campus — especially non-academic pundits like Ms. Coulter with an extensive record of published and spoken comments — students should be encouraged to actively prepare for the speaker and respectfully challenge her on issues on which they disagree. I agree fully with the previous commenter that the best way for the campus community to learn through Ms. Coulter’s appearance is to research her long history of incendiary rhetoric, form strong arguments in opposition to it (which could, by the way, reflect many of the university’s liberal values that this editorial esteems) and direct these arguments to Ms. Coulter.

Comment posted Oct. 18, 2011 Anonymous: @Max — There is a difference between free speech and sponsored speech.

No one is debating Ann Coulter’s RIGHT to speech; they are debating whether or not Georgetown should sponsor her to speak on campus. You think that the legitimacy of her visit lies in the fact there is simply a constituency at Georgetown that wants to hear her speak. But what if there was a Satanist theologian who certain students wanted to speak at Georgetown? Would our Catholic school condone that in the name of free speech and intellectual discourse? I doubt that. So why is it any different for a self-professed bigot? The university espouses beliefs of peace and equality yet sponsors someone who ridicules both those virtues and supports antithesis beliefs.

I think the bigger clash here is between people at Georgetown who no longer think explicit race-based politics is a legitimate topic of intellectual discussion and those who do.

I think this may be representative of a larger-scale division between the right and the left.

Fine-Tuning Spaces For Music Stars to Flourish It’s time for our campus to face the music — and that means providing students with the room to hear it.

While a host of undergraduate music groups like to jam out — including a small army of a cappella groups and a range of formal choral and instrumental groups — the university has not been a top backer of the various independent student bands and artists on campus. Now, however, it has an opportunity to step up and showcase this talent by allocating the proper space in the New South Student Center, which is currently in its planning phase.

While Georgetown isn’t particularly known for its music culture, it secretly boasts a crop of talented students. Over the last year, Tate Tucker, the campus’s own rap sensation, has gained wide recognition and Internet hype, releasing his first album this past April, “Blue Dreams” and performing at oncampus events like last Friday’s Mr. Georgetown Pageant. The recently created Georgetown University Hip-Hop Association brings together hip-hop aficionados to write, record and share their music. Likewise, The Guild of Bands, a consortium of student bands within the Department of Performing Arts, puts on events like the Fall Band Blast and entertains the crowds on Georgetown Day. In the past, WGTB Georgetown Radio has also been known to promote student musicians

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“Coulter’s Words Defy Georgetown Values” Article posted Oct. 18, 2011 Comment posted Oct. 21, 2011 Free Speech: I would argue against your premise: It is decidedly NOT an ideal of the university to protect the listener from speech some people might consider offensive or intolerant. The university should not be in the business of infantilizing young adults more than it already is. If the ideas espoused by Ms. Coulter during her upcoming speech are inconsistent with community values, all the more reason for her to speak. The best way to promote dialogue/consensus/whatever is not to silence uncomfortable opinions, but to allow them to be aired, considered and exposed of their falsehood. I would hate for the university to have such a low threshold of what type of speech constitutes a “danger” that it would be willing to prevent a widely popular speaker who is a prominent voice in our national political conversation (for better or for worse) from coming. Ms. Brogger can spare us her self-righteousness and realize everybody’s religion or political view is from time to time mocked and criticized. If she cannot handle it, she shouldn’t go to Ms. Coulter’s speech.

“Honoring Don Casper” Article posted Oct. 21, 2011 Comment posted Oct. 21, 2011 Quin Hillyer: This is an incredibly eloquent and moving tribute to one of the greatest-ever sons of Georgetown. Any student who loves any college should be able to read this and appreciate the sensibilities Don Casper so thoroughly exhibited. Many thanks to the authors of this great column!

“No DPS Report of Robbery” Article posted Oct. 25, 2011 Comment posted Oct. 26, 2011 Anonymous: I think it matters where the crime occurred and when the university knew about it. This story says it was five blocks from campus on N Street. That could mean Wisconsin Avenue or just east of Wisconsin Avenue. At what point is a crime in D.C. not a threat to the campus community? Is it Wisconsin Avenue? Maybe it’s 32nd Street? 31st Street? Rock Creek Park? Dupont Circle? There’s got to be a dividing line somewhere, however arbitrary. The university has an obligation to report crime that presents an ongoing threat, but the university can’t report every crime that could be a threat. A GU student could get mugged in Rosslyn getting off the GUTS bus, but no one thinks GU should be sending out crime reports for Arlington. Also, the university doesn’t necessarily know a crime has occurred until MPD posts it. Perhaps MPD didn’t post anything about this particular crime for a couple of days, at which point it seems nonsensical to report an ongoing threat for something that happened three days ago.

CORRECTION The article “Alterman Talks Comedic Path” (The Hoya, A9, Oct. 25) omitted that the Lecture Fund sponsored the event.

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COMMENTARY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

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Ricky Garza

Not the Left Wing’s Tea Party Occupiers on Target I f the Occupy Wall Street movement had a theme song, it would undoubtedly have to borrow from the classic tune sung by the Scarecrow in 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz”: “If I Only Had a Brain.”

Occupy Wall Street, the proletariat revolution that has been sweeping across the nation — the revolution that Van Jones, President Barak Obama’s former green jobs czar, has identified as a part of the larger Arab Spring — represents the disorder inherent in modern progressivism, with parochial interests amalgamating into a tent city of anarchists, Marxists, nihilists and hobos.

The incoherence of the movement is quite remarkable. The protesters rebel against Wall Street, yet they overwhelmingly support the re-election of President Obama, who has received more campaign donations from Wall Street than any other president. Why aren’t these people occupying the White House?

It is also important to avoid comparing the Tea Party and the Occupy movement. Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are two completely different movements.

Firstly, the American Nazi Party and the Communist Party USA have come together to endorse the Occupy movement. Nothing brings Nazis and Communists together like a good dose of class warfare.

Additionally, a survey of Occupy Wall Street protesters done by the liberal New York Magazine, shows that more than one third — 34 percent — are convinced the United States government is no better than al-Qaida.

There is much less civility seen through Occupy Wall Street. A woman was raped in one of the Occupy Wall Street tent cities in Cleveland.

Tea Partyers have thus far maintained acceptable behavior, whereas some Occupiers have screamed profanities at police and defecated on cars. To boot, hundreds of Occupy protesters were arrested just at one event. Tea Partyers actually go home after their protests.

As far as I’m aware, Tea Partyers don’t desecrate public memorials, as the Occupiers did to Seward Johnson’s sculpture “Double Check,” which has sat in Liberty Park near ground zero since 1982. The statue is of a businessman double-checking to see if he has everything in his suitcase. But it is more than just a random piece of art in the minds of millions of Americans.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, “Double Check” survived the chaos. It was photographed that day, covered in ashes, reminiscent of the thousands that had fled for their lives and commemorating those who had lost theirs. Johnson has called his sculpture an iconic “stand-in” for those who didn’t make it. However, to members of Occupy Wall Street, it is merely a piece of capitalist propaganda that must be attacked. Thus, the statue that commemorates an iconic day in the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans had garbage dumped all over it. On the “businessman’s” head was attached a bandana and a mask.

Furthermore, the Tea Party has saved the Republican Party from the big spending policies of former President George W. Bush and gained influence through the other means that the Founders intended: Through lobbying and the election of like-minded representatives who hope to engage in delib-

erative consent.

Finally, while Tea Partyers protest to redress their grievances against an increasingly domineering federal government, Occupy Wall Street is rebelling against society at large. While the Tea Party fundamentally bases itself in the principles of the American Revolution, the Occupy movement seems to adhere to the principles of the French Revolution. Their resentments showcase a mindset that views America as a fundamentally flawed nation. Occupy Wall Street wants to reorient the country away from life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a land of entitlement and guaranteed happiness.

To them, I say, sorry, folks, we are not France. We are not a Europeanstyle social democracy. America is made great by the freedom of our people, not by the dependency on our government. I am a Republican not because I’m wealthy, but because I don’t want to sit around all my life waiting for the government to lift me up.

Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when asked about Occupy Wall Street, has said, “God bless them.” I do not know about that, but I do say let it thrive and prosper. If Occupy Wall Street represents the intellectual capacity and activist core of the left in this country, then I want the American people to see it firsthand every day in the news. As Ann Coulter so eloquently put it, they should return to their prior occupation: Occupy Mom’s Basement.

JOSEPH KNOWLES is a senior in the College and president of the Georgetown University College Republicans.

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Occupy Wall Street is a populist movement like the Tea Party, but this one is focused on the right problem: economic inequality.

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ivisive, messy and disorganized, the protesters currently occupying Zuccotti Park in Manhattan have been derided for everything from their hairstyles to their skewed demographics, which lean toward the young and idealistic. Although they may not have a 20-Point Plan poised for its introduction to the Senate, I’m willing to state that this, in fact, is what democracy looks like.

Beginning with a spontaneous call inspired by the relatively obscure Canadian magazine Adbusters in early September, what is now known as Occupy Wall Street has drawn tens of thousands of protesters across the United States and the world, topping out at over 900 participatory cities during a coordinated day of protest on Oct. 15.

While their concerns are numerous and amorphous, all have rallied around the notion that the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of the few has led to far greater problems for the many, leading supporters to proclaim that “we are the 99 percent.”

Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, the average income for the “1 percenters” earning well over $1 million has actually increased, while the rest of us saw a decline in shares of the country’s wealth over the same period. As of today, the richest 10 percent control two-thirds of all Americans’ net worth.

These grievances are very real and legitimate; they reflect an outpouring of energy and activism toward something that should be recognized for what it truly is — an economic injustice and moral wrong. It is the reason why we cannot call a premature end to the current economic crisis when unemployment still stands at 9 percent, benefits are being cut daily through austerity measures both at home and abroad and Wall Street corruption has yet to be reformed.

While perhaps sitting in a park for weeks on end is not the most conducive way to enact policy change, it is not the role of the protestors to create such changes. True representative democracy has two parts: While one part happens on Capitol Hill with suits, Blackberries and briefcases, the other happens on the streets.

Before any readers cry “mob,” “groupthink” or “America is a republic, not a democracy,” let’s remember that this very right to protest

peaceably en masse and petition the federal government is specifically protected in our very own Constitution. The First Amendment explicitly states that “the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” shall not be abridged. This aspect of our government is the often forgotten second arm of how democracy in this country is supposed to work.

The role of the protesters is to effectively articulate the general sentiment of the population, no matter how emotional or unprofessional it may be. Ideally, politicians in Congress would take note of the feeling of outrage expressed at our quickly growing Gini index and change policy and law accordingly. While this is unlikely to occur given today’s polarized climate, it’s worth noting that a solid majority supports the core Occupy ideas of too much money in politics and an oversized gap between the rich and poor.

What is occurring in Zuccotti Park in New York and cities nationwide is not illegal (save for some misfiling of permits), and it represents one of the key principles this nation was founded on in the first place.

Many comparisons — rejected by both parties — have been made between the Occupy movements of today and the now receding Tea Party of post-2008 fame. The Tea Party is as legitimate as Occupy Wall Street is — both are partly ideological, semi-spontaneous social movements that sprang from a genuine dissatisfaction toward the direction the country and world were headed. While the Tea Party concerned itself with the perceived overreach of government and burden of taxes on ordinary Americans, Occupy seems to finally be getting angry with the right people.

While the protests themselves will surely not force large-scale policy changes to solve income inequality and end chronic unemployment, they are a welcome addition to a political landscape currently characterized by a lack of genuine popular participation.

With a majority of Americans feeling isolated by both major political parties, it’s encouraging to see a rare moment of convergence on the issue of income inequality and excessive money in politics.

While the protesters may not be the slickest operation to hit politics since the invention of the Super PAC, their issues are real and deserve our attention. Let’s give Occupy Wall Street a chance.

RICKY GARZA is a junior in the School of Foreign Service and the co-editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Progressive, the online publication of the GU College Democrats.

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As This Jesuit Sees It ...

Simple Technology, Big Impact A Sarah Stodder An International Development

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stroke of genius doesn’t have to cost millions.

Often with just a bit of creativity and basic sensitivity to the needs of large swaths of the world’s population, inventions arise that save as many lives as dollars. Sometimes the resources exist in one country, while the market exists in another. Sometimes an idea is born out of dire need in one country and is applicable to other countries’ situations as well. All that inventors have to do is connect the international dots.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Georgetown a few weeks ago to open the U.S.-India Higher Education Summit, she highlighted a group of U.S. and Indian graduate students who did just that.

As an example of a success story in U.S.- India higher education cooperation, Clinton praised the efforts of students at Stanford University who, several years ago created the Embrace Infant Warmer, a low-cost alternative to the typical, expensive infant incubator we normally see in the U.S. The warmer costs around $100, as compared to $20,000 for the traditional incubator, and is much smaller and easier to transport. It envelopes the newborn like a cocoon and does not require electricity, which many of the communities in need of it lack. After developing the Embrace Infant Warmer, the students, both Indian and American, moved to Bangalore and successfully launched the product in India. They say they hope to use their new incubator to help curtail preventable infant deaths in

the developing world, which today amount to roughly 450 babies every hour.

Embrace Infant Warmer is an incredible example of how students from different countries can use the resources of one to address the immediate health care needs of the other. The case of Embrace, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. Developing nations have made great progress in the field of global health, precisely because they are driven to solve complicated problems with minimal resources. Quite a few countries that are considered part of the developing world are already beginning to assert themselves on the world stage in the field of global health, and the

Developing nations have made great progress in the field of global health. developed world is starting to listen.

Continuing with India’s healthcare creativity, Clinton could have mentioned Jaipur Foot, an organization in India that fits amputees with inexpensive yet durable and waterproof prosthetic limbs. Designed by an Indian physician in the late 1960s, they cost only $30-45, as opposed to the many thousands of dollars needed to produce a typical prosthetic limb in the U.S. For low-income amputees who simply need to be able to get around, Jaipur Foot’s economical and widely trusted innovations now improve the lives of 65,000 patients per year.

One of the heads of the organization, Devendra Raj Mehta, received his education at MIT and has now brought his education back to his home country. This would certainly

support Clinton’s point about the necessity for cooperation between American and Indian higher education institutions. In addition, however, the experience of Mehta and Jaipur Foot takes us even one step further. By virtue of their position as developing nations, countries like India must combine creativity and thriftiness to deal with problems of health care, and the U.S. and other developed countries could certainly benefit from incorporating such an attitude into their own societies.

Developing countries certainly face staggering challenges in the arena of health. They confront issues of child malnutrition, infant mortality and the spread of infectious diseases on a scale that dwarfs anything in the developed world. But countries such as India, South Africa, Brazil and China are emerging as leaders in developing less expensive yet effective global health solutions and as examples for the rest of the developing world.

The role of the U.S.–India Higher Education Summit in all of this is twofold. First, it must encourage students from other countries, like the Indian graduate students at Stanford, to study at U.S. institutions where a wealth of resources will be available to them. Second, it must facilitate the exchange of U.S. students to the developing world to study innovations such as Jaipur Foot, so that these students absorb some of the creative thriftiness of these countries where resources may not be as plentiful but where global health solutions can still be conceived.

Sarah Stodder is a senior in the College. AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT appears every other Friday.

round this time every year, seniors drop by my office with the same anxious expression and the same pointed question: “What am I going to do next year?”

They’ve just taken the LSAT or GRE, interview season is in high gear and grad school or Teach for America applications are due soon. They knock because many have heard me talk about my own life story in class, in Dahlgren Chapel or other places on campus: How I went to law school after graduating from Georgetown, how I practiced as a corporate litigator and how I ultimately joined the Jesuits. (Some students come to me thinking I’m Fr. Collins or Fr. Steck, which I take as high praise!)

The Jesuit tradition of discernment offers some helpful advice when making important decisions. The first suggestion is to reframe the question. Instead of simply asking, “What do I want to do?” invite God into the conversation by asking: “What does God want me to do?”

If you have an image of God as remote, disinterested, mercurial or vengeful, then it’s a scary question. If, however, you have a different image of God, the question becomes much more inviting. For Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, God is like a teacher schooling a pupil, working with us faithfully, patiently and gently. For Ignatius, God is intensely interested in each of us, desiring a relationship. In the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius counsels that we speak to God as one would speak to a friend.

The simple truth is this: What God wants for us is what we want most deeply. Our deepest desires are not opposed to God’s will, but rather reflections of it, because God is the one who plants those deep, holy desires within us. So we do well to dig deep.

The problem is that we make that digging so difficult because we put so much clutter in the way. We have to sort through this clutter to reach those desires that set the heart on fire.

What is the clutter? We each need to do our own digging, but I can generalize based on these annual conversations and my own life. First, while soliciting counsel from parents, mentors and friends is helpful, we can become excessively concerned about what other people think or what other people are doing. Second, we can become exces-

sively concerned with wealth, titles, perks and privilege. When these become fixations, our priorities get skewed. Third, we indulge our fears. Now, it’s justified and acceptable to be afraid when a bear is chasing you, but usually fear is a distraction. We are afraid of the future, afraid something won’t work out, afraid we won’t be happy, afraid we will be alone. We need to let go of such fears. Fourth, we lack creativity, neglecting to imagine a life different than what we or others have planned for us.

Finally, we resist choosing. I’m one of those people who has a hard time choosing food off a menu. I want to have it all, and I fear missing out on a delicious thing. I cannot accept the loss of the excluded option. I lose sight of the present and the real when I escape into the realm of “what if.” What if I had chosen something different?

We are human beings with limited time, energy and talent. That means we have to choose. Seduced by the lie that we can have or do it all, we run ourselves to the ground, or we live very superficial lives, flitting from one thing or person to another, never really committing to anyone or anything.

A fully human, joy-filled life is one where we make commitments. If we never really choose anything or anyone, then we become nothing.

Often, these annual conversations are really about summoning the courage and confidence to deal with the baggage we haul around, confronting our fears and our limits and recognizing unrealized potential. Such attention to our interior life frees us to choose from the deepest place of who we are, the place where God’s desires for us meet our own. From this place of commitment, we become what — or who — we choose.

The pressure is off. As we make decisions and take some necessary risks, we do not have to be afraid that God will leave us, even if we take a wrong turn. God is faithful and generous, offering us many paths to happiness and holiness — if we dare to accept the invitation.

Meister Eckhart wrote, “The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.” Sometimes the answer to what we should do is really about asking the question of who we are. That’s a very Jesuit question, and that’s why my door is open this time of year.

Fr. O’Brien is the vice president of mission and ministry. Fr. O’Brien, Fr. Maher and Fr. Schall alternate as the writers of AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ... , which appears every other Friday.

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Finalized IDEV FROM THE WEB GALLERY Changes Released ANDY MILLER

Special to The Hoya

The Dean’s Office of the School of Foreign Service announced significant changes to the Certificate in International Development Program Thursday that will affect current freshmen and sophomores.

The changes in the program’s structure will reduce the number of electives needed while requiring students to take one of several approved quantitative courses, as well as an intermediate level course in international development.

SFS Deans Mitch Kaneda and Kendra Billingslea, who will oversee the program’s administration, announced the quantitative shift.

“We’ve tried to give a little bit of form and substance to the certificate, and part of that involves a little more emphasis on analytical tools and methodologies,” Raj Desai, director of the IDEV program, said. “The field is changing to the point that if you don’t graduate with those skills, you will be at a disadvantage.”

Visiting assistant professor Shareen Joshi, who teaches the gateway course for the IDEV certificate, said that students who do not develop these kinds of analytical skills during their training are being done a great disservice.

“I think regardless of whether you work for a small [nongovernmental organization] or a big international organization, or go to graduate school, that skill set is required, not optional, anymore,” Joshi said.

Desai and Joshi added that their experience working with former Georgetown graduates who lack these skills indicated the need for a change in the program.

“It’s very difficult. They don’t have a lot of options when it comes to job placement if they cannot read a regression table or if they don’t know what a poverty table is,” Desai said.

Another change in the program is the elimination of elective course subfields. Desai hopes that this change will allow more flexibility in terms of students’ interests by allowing them to take all three electives in the same area of study.

Many students are excited about the prospect of more flexibility within the program.

“If it means that students have more say in their education ... I am all for it,” Sonia Kikeri (SFS ’13) said.

The new program will be the first certificate administered through the dean’s office, rather than through another academic department within the university. Kaneda hopes that this change will provide the necessary support for launching the new program.

In addition to explaining the certificate’s changes, Desai swiftly dispelled last semester’s rumors that the certificate was being disbanded.

“You have two deans, an administrator and core faculty who are now involved,” he said.

“It is not going anywhere. I wouldn’t have taken the directorship had it been the case that it was being eliminated.”

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Love is what moves you. That is what those countries need. ... It’s not all about economics.

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— Martah Sofia (COL ’14), on Fr. Aldo Trento’s speech on Parguayan development, sponsored by the Latin American Students’ Association.

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Obama Lays Out New Student Loan Plan MARISSA BROGGER Special to The Hoya

President Barack Obama’s announcement of significant changes to student loan repayment plans Wednesday garnered approval from university officials lobbying for student loan reform.

“In a global economy, putting a college education within reach for every American has never been more important, but it’s also never been more expensive,” Obama said in a press release.

This latest move to consolidate student loans and reduce interest rates is part of his administration’s efforts to increase college affordability.

In 2014 the government will implement a “Pay as You Earn” program, limiting monthly loan payments for student borrowers to 10 percent of their discre-

tionary income. The program will also forgive all loans after 20 years, instead of the current practice of 25 years. According to the press release, 1.6 million borrowers will be able to start consolidating their loans in January of 2012.

Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said the university supports student loan reform as a part of its lobbying activities on Capitol Hill.

In a press release, the university said that it sees the “Pay as You Earn” program as a way to help students pursue greater opportunities in the future. “[This program] may prove especially helpful to graduating students who pursue service programs such as Teach For America, the Peace Corps and Jesuit Refugee Services,” the university’s official comment said.

But Fleming said that few Georgetown students will need loan restructuring. Be-

cause of the university’s commitment to providing need-based aid and graduates’ ability to find higher paying jobs, many borrowers pay off their loans promptly.

Georgetown students’ default rate is 0.8 percent, compared to the national private college rate of 4.6 percent.

Ryan Zimmerman (COL ’12), who receives financial aid from Georgetown, said that government assistance would help lessen the pressure of paying back loans.

“With student loans that will need to be paid sooner rather than later, consolidating my debt at a lower interest rate in a pay-as-you-go program is obviously something that will lessen my financial strain,” he said. “It’s stressful enough to try to find a job when there are no jobs to be had, but to be in any amount of debt while being unemployed is a restrictive burden on anyone entering the real world.”

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Students Stick With Netflix Through Pricing Overhaul

JONATHAN GILLIS Hoya Staff Writer

Despite their dropping stock prices, customer dissatisfaction and projected losses, Netflix — the video rental and streaming website popular among college students — is exactly where it wants to be, according to company executives.

“Our long-term streaming opportunity is as compelling as ever, and we are moving forward as quickly as we can to repair our reputation and return to growth,” Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings wrote in a letter to investors. “We continue to be well positioned to succeed in the large global market for streaming video.”

But according to reports released earlier this week, Netflix lost 800,000 customers between July and October after the company divorced its online

streaming and DVD-delivery plans and attempted to divide into two separate companies to manage the different aspects of its business.

Students may not be pleased with the changes, but many are sticking with Netflix anyway.

Take Cheney Williams (COL ’12), for example. Williams dropped her DVD subscription after the division and price hikes, but she kept her online streaming option so that she could keep up with the television shows she enjoys watching through Netflix.

“They have some really great TV shows on there, and they have a deal with Starz that lets you watch all of their shows, too,” she said.

For college students, many of whom do not have cable television, the ability to stream movies and television shows can be a draw. For Anwesha Banerjee

(COL ’13) that option alone is enough.

“It’s great to be able to have all the movies online for instant streaming, especially to six different devices per family,” she wrote in an email. “We

“I use Netflix. ...

I probably use it too much. I wouldn’t drop it.”

RYAN O’DONNEL (MSB ’13) Netflix user

have each of our laptops, our large TV in the living room and our desktop all hooked up to it.”

With Netflix promising to digitize more and more movies in the future, Banerjee also agrees that the streaming service is likely the future of the

company.

“Mainly, I got rid of the DVD part because I’m assuming they’re digitizing DVDs and there will be more and more options available online,” she added.

Like most of her peers, Banerjee does not understand Netflix’s price increases, and she believes that they will have to decrease their prices in order to compete with other rental services like Redbox.

Netflix, however, seems to have the market cornered on instant viewing, a fact that means that they do not have to compete with Redbox as much as it might seem. With a sizable online library, Netflix allows viewers to stay at home and watch movies whenever they want, while Redbox requires viewers to choose from a smaller selection after leaving the house.

“I just can’t be bothered to go get a movie from Redbox,” Ryan O’Donnell

(MSB ’13) said. “I just open my computer and watch.”

As for the price increase, O’Donnell looks at it as a kind of necessary evil.

“The price increase was not ideal, obviously, but I think the streaming is pretty solid,” he said.

In his discussion with investors earlier this week, Hastings defended the company’s pricing by touting its content.

“We think that $7.99 per month for streaming is such a great price that we should focus on upping the content,” he said. “We think the future is brightest when focusing on streaming.”

For now, it seems that college students are in agreement, keeping their online streaming accounts despite the price hikes.

“I use Netflix,” O’Donnell said. “I probably use it too much. I wouldn’t drop it.”

Dining Hall Vies Panel Reflects on US-Vatican Relations For PETA Award ADRIANNA SMITH Special to The Hoya

O’Donovan Hall is in the running to be ranked the most vegan-friendly dining hall in the country in a competition sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The “Veganize Your Cafeteria” competition run by peta2, the youth division of PETA, recognizes schools that offer a variety of quality vegan food and actively promote such options.

After the contest ends Nov. 21, the winner will be determined by student feedback in a bracket-style competition.

At the end of each round, PETA will tally the number of students who have voted for each school on Facebook to determine who will face off in the next match-up.

At press time, Georgetown has advanced to the third round of the current competition. Although the university has participated in the competition since 2008, it has yet to take home the No. 1 spot.

Ryan Huling, manager of college campaigns and outreach for PETA, wrote in an email that a study conducted

by Bon Appetit magazine found that the number of college students who identify themselves as vegetarians has increased by 50 percent since 2005. The number of vegan students has also doubled over the same time period.

“Students are becoming increasingly aware of the cruelty inherent in raising and killing animals for food, so it’s understandable that they’re seeking healthier, more humane alternatives in droves,” Huling wrote.

University Dining Services said they strive to provide an array of healthy options for vegetarian and vegan students.

“The majority of Leo’s vegetable dishes are prepared steamed, blanched, roasted or seasoned with olive oil, making them a vegan-friendly op-

tion,” Kendra Boyer, the marketing director for ARAMARK Higher Education, wrote in an email.

“There is at least one vegan or vegetarian soup offered every day, [and] over half the options available within Grab ’n‘ Go are vegan or vegetarian,” she wrote.

According to Boyer, the vegan and vegetarian station always offers two entrees, two sides and a dessert. Students can also find other meatless options in the stirfry, pasta and diner areas.

Leo’s places vegan and vegetarian logos on food indicators throughout the dining hall, A registered dietitian is also available to answer student questions and help direct students to more veganfriendly choices.

Boyer added that the dining hall recently added vegan cream cheese and milk as well as vegan cheese at the make-your-own-pizza station in response to student requests. “[Leo’s] continues to incorporate new products and ideas when possible,” she wrote.

Zoe Coyle (SFS ’15), who said she became a vegetarian for environmental reasons, described mixed feelings toward her dining options.

“Generally, being a vegetarian on campus is pretty easy.

There are always a lot of options at Leo’s, and there is never a line for the vegetarian section, so I don’t have to wait,” she said. “I suppose the hardest thing is finding meals that have a lot of flavor.

Most of the time my meal is often a bit bland.”

Elyssa Skeirik (SFS ’15), also a vegetarian, said that she liked the variety at Leo’s but added that there were still improvements to be made.

“Sometimes I worry that there’s a lot of processed food, like tofu or soy protein, instead of more natural proteins,” she added. “The salad bar is usually pretty good but I definitely wish we had … a greater variety of fruit.”

play second fiddle to religion, which is traditionally seen as a soft power.

“The Holy See plays a great role in promoting justice and human rights,” she said.

Echoing the thoughts of his colleagues, Joseph K. Grieboski, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy, added that human rights activists benefit tremendously from the discourse between the Vatican and the United States.

“This is an overlooked and underappreciated relationship,” he said.

As former ambassadors to the Vatican, both Francis Rooney and R. James Nicholson discussed the connection between the Church’s message and the priority of U.S. foreign policy to universally enhance human dignity.

“The Holy See has a very honest agenda united by faith and purpose,” Rooney said.

Grieboski offered concluding thoughts about the importance of the Pope’s role as a moral voice to the United States.

“Georgetown is the best place for this discussion and for the conversation to continue because of the nexus of the Catholic university to its location in the nation’s capital,” he said.

Campus Crime on the Rise, Theft Decreases KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer

Though the number of crimes committed on campus rose in October, theft remained the most frequently reported violation.

There were a total of 45 reported crimes in October, a slight increase from the 42 incidents that occurred in September.

Although theft remained the most commonly occurring crime, the number of incidents has decreased. In October, 14 thefts occurred, compared to the 20 that occurred in September.

For crimes of theft, the Department of

Public Safety distinguishes between theft in the first degree and theft in the second degree.

According to Associate Director of Public Safety Joseph Smith, theft in the first degree occurs when someone takes or uses the property of someone else that is equivalent to $1,000 or greater. In the second degree, the property simply must be of some value.

This more minor violation is the most commonly reported incident on campus.

Though there were three first-degree thefts in the month of September, none were reported in October.

The university also saw a decrease in the

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To celebrate the establishment of official diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation sponsored an academic conference Tuesday in Gaston Hall.

Georgetown is one of six universities across the nation holding events to celebrate the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration, a year-long tribute marking the 100th anniversary of Reagan’s birth. The president’s appointment of an ambassador to the Holy See in 1984 is now recognized as one of Reagan’s major achievements.

Reagan hoped that such a relationship with the Holy See would serve as a way to cultivate a bulwark against the influence of communism in Europe and around the world. Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Board of Trustees, emphasized Reagan’s belief that the war against communism was a moral struggle. Pope John Paul II harbored these same worries in the 1980s, a commonality that helped the two form a lasting relationship, according to Ryan.

John O’Sullivan, author of “The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister,” delivered the keynote address, which focused on the ethics underlying the foreign policy of the United States and the Vatican.

“Moral rather than military motives [were] what defined Reagan’s policy against the Soviets,” he said.

Touching upon the theme of the event, “The History and Future of Vatican Diplomacy,” O’Sullivan paid homage to the Holy See’s long and international political influence while also looking to the issues that governments and the Catholic Church confront today, such as human trafficking.

Dean of the School of Foreign Service Carol Lancaster moderated the panel discussion, which included several high-profile figures such as Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Washington. McCarrick applauded the lasting and influential foreign diplomacy of the Holy See. Lancaster alluded to the soft power of the Vatican, which panelists agreed plays a significant role in international affairs. She noted that in the modern world, military and economic power, while important, can

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number of on-campus burglaries with the number of reported incidents dropping from 10 to one.

DPS also categorizes these incidents in two ways.

Burglary 1 is defined as a crime that occurs in the sleeping area of a residence when the suspect has the intention to take something while someone is present at the residence.

DPS differentiates Burglary 2 as an incident when any room, building or vessel is entered with the intention of taking something with or without someone present.

There were no second-degree burglaries during October.

Of the total 45 reported crimes, 14 are still pending. A total of nine of the cases have been closed, three of which included Metropolitan Police Department arrests. Two of the arrests involved non-Georgetown affiliates, one for driving while intoxicated and the other for assault of a Georgetown student, while the third was arrested after being apprehended with a stolen bike.

Five of the cases closed because there were no leads, and in one instance the complainants did not wish to pursue the matter further.

The remaining incident was closed because the case was determined to be unfounded. What was originally thought to be a break-in was actually the result of damage to the building. No items were found missing, and the case was dropped.

A total of 19 cases were forwarded to student conduct.

EU Ambassador Talks Monetary Crisis MARIAH BYRNE

Special to The Hoya

European Union Ambassador to the United States Joao Vale de Almeida addressed the future of Europe and its currency as well as Poland’s future role in the European Union in an event Tuesday at the Mortara Center.

In his speech, held by Klub Polski, Vale de Almeida emphasized how Poland, whose president is the current chair of the Council of the E.U., exemplifies European integration and democracy in light of the region’s complicated past as a dictatorship.

“If there is one reason that justifies everything that we have been doing in Europe in the last 50 to 60 years, it is modern day Poland,” he said.

Vale de Almeida went on to discuss the euro crisis and its implications for the European continent. He expressed belief that both the E.U. and the monetary system will recover from their current state of crisis. The euro is both a political and an economic project, he said, while he blamed the global financial crisis in 2008 for the current European monetary instability.

“We are now suffering from what I would call the aftershocks of [the] crisis,”

he said in an interview with THE HOYA. “The international context, instead of helping us solve the problem, aggravates the problem.”

Vale de Almeida noted the interconnected nature of world economies’ effect on the currency, adding that the E.U. is faring better than the United States in the magnitude of its budget deficit and public debt on average.

“We cannot throw the first stone, because we are all vulnerable,” he said in response to U.S. worries about the European economy.

Vale de Almeida further stated that economies around the world ultimately share the same problems.

“It’s very difficult in today’s globalized world to make a distinction … where my problems start and where other people’s problems start,” he said to THE HOYA. Vale de Almeida hoped that the European Union and the United States would be able to repair Europe’s monetary system by working through the International Monetary Fund and through negotiations with the G-20 Financial Ministers and Central Bank Governors.

“We either swim together or we go down together. There is no real alternative to this,” he said to THE HOYA.

Vale de Almeida noted that the E.U. has already given unprecedented levels of aid to failing economies, like Greece and Portugal.

“We went to the limits of what the treaties, that is our constitution, allows us to do,” he said. “But it is clear today that we have to do more.”

Vale de Almeida also argued that the E.U. needs a comprehensive plan to address the mechanisms used to handle economic crises. This week marks a series of talks among the financial ministers in Brussels about how to recapitalize European banks and efficiently respond to issues.

For students in attendance, Vale De Almeida’s speech allowed for an enhanced understanding of the debt crises.

“The man was representing not just one, but 27 nations in the E.U. It was cool to see, in his words, ‘the direct product of the Lisbon treaty’ speak and hear him energetically defend the euro,” Elaine Colligan (SFS ’15) said.

For the ambassador, a unified currency is the best way to utilize the integrated free markets and unified economic policies in Europe.

“I have no doubt that the euro will survive,” Vale de Almeida said. “Europe will come out of this crisis fitter and stronger.”

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Fundraising Aims to Better Student Life Alums Find Work CAMPAIGN, from A1 Ted Leonsis (CAS ’77) are just a few of the big names set to speak at today’s “Think About It: An Afternoon of Ideas” series.

The event will be followed by a reception for faculty, staff, students and alumni, followed by a twilight toast and light show on Healy Lawn.

On Saturday, hard-hat tours of the New Science Center will take place, and University President John J. DeGioia will hold a brunch on Sunday.

Every event this weekend has spots reserved for what planners call its ultimate focus: students. Gearing up for the launch, the university sought to boost student awareness of the campaign’s impact on their experience; leaders of the initiative hope that the intermingling of donors and undergraduates will only improve this understanding.

“It’s exciting to see the campus community coming together for the improvement of future university endeavors,” Dereck Hough (COL ’13) said.

GROUNDED IN FOUR PILLARS The Office of Advancement, coupled with administration and faculty, helped determine how the money raised will be spent. Ultimately, the group decided on a four-pillar approach to the money’s allocation.

The first pillar, student access and excellence, will receive $500 million, with $400 million allocated to undergraduate programming and the remainder apportioned to graduate programming. The top priority of this allotment is financial aid, including both individual and aggre-

gate needs, according to Moore.

“I think it’s critical that the top priority is for financial aid so that Georgetown can continue to attract and retain the brightest young leaders regardless of where they come from,” said Mike Meaney, president of the Georgetown University Student Association.

The second pillar, faculty access and excellence, also will be granted $500 million. Half of the funds will be allocated for existing faculty positions, creating new positions and securing salary and research funding for faculty members. The remaining $250 million will go to faculty work, research and programs.

Moore emphasized that by allowing faculty to pursue their research goals and facilitating their firsthand experiences with the material, students will benefit from improvements in the university’s academic rigor.

“An incredibly talented faculty plus incredibly talented students results in great work,” Moore said. “There is not a tradeoff between excellence in research and excellence in teaching.”

The third pillar consists of $200 million for student life and capital expansion. The Intercollegiate Athletic Center and the New South Student Center will receive a portion of the funds. The larger focus for the sum is funding extracurricular activities for students, including mission and ministry, according to Moore.

The fourth pillar, transformative opportunities, will be allocated $300 million. Created to develop long-term plans that could change the institutional trajectory of the university, the category

could include increased exposure of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a heightened focus on formalized global health expertise.

OVERCOMING A HISTORICAL GAP While every university depends on philanthropy, Georgetown historically has not had the same philanthropic reach as some of its peers. It ranks 22nd in U.S. News and World Report’s list of college rankings, but clocks in as 61st in endowments. The Office of Advancement sees the capital campaign as an opportunity to chart a new course in the university’s fundraising history.

With this attitude and expectation driving the campaign, the endowment remains one of the prime targets. The administration attributes the size of its endowment — just over $1 billion — to the youth of the advancement program.

“Georgetown is relatively new to the fundraising game,” Moore said. “This campaign is an inflection point. It is the moment where our fundraising capacity meets the rest of our incredible capacities in other areas.”

Within the Office of Advancement, there is a sense of confidence that this campaign will mark a significant upswing in Georgetown’s sustained fundraising capacity. The bicentennial campaign in 1989 and the 2003 billion-dollar capital campaign were very successful, both meeting their monetary goals.

“Almost no other institution has seen as strong a pattern of sustained philanthropic growth and consistent fundraising success as Georgetown has over the past 20 years,” Moore said.

Fulbright Scholarships Hit New High FULBRIGHTS, from A1 awareness of the program and also provide counseling to all applicants.

“The office has made a full-court press,” Glavin said.

Bridget O’Loughlin (SFS 11), an English Teaching Assistantship Fulbright fellow in Venezuela, said the support she received from the Office of Fellowships and the Dean’s Office in the School of Foreign Service was invaluable.

“I learned about the scholarship from a university email, had numerous mem-

bers of the university community read my application and write recommendations, and was supported throughout the waiting process,” she wrote in an email.

O’Loughlin added that although students are selected based on projects that they propose, the program is about more than simply research and teaching.

“My taking questions from Venezuelan teenagers for an hour … may not seem like it’s contributing to anything, but it gives both groups the chance to

connect in a way they wouldn’t be able to otherwise,” she wrote.

O’Loughlin’s freshman year roommate, Sarah Tucker (SFS ’11), is also a Fulbright recipient conducting education research in Cameroon.

Despite the record, Glavin said he still thinks not enough students are aware of the opportunity.

“Our applicant pool is much smaller than our talent pool,” he said.

He said he hopes to continue the push to encourage more students to apply in the future.

FDA to Fund Drug Research Center at GU CAROLYN CLENDENIN Special to The Hoya

The Food and Drug Administration awarded a $1 million grant to fund the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

“CERSI is vitally important because sound regulation requires the highest levels of science and evidence,” said Lawrence Gostin, co-principal investigator for the project. “It will affect Georgetown by making our research highly relevant in the country and the world.

CERSI fits perfectly within University

President John J. DeGioia’s universitywide initiative on reflective engagement.”

The center will provide students the opportunity to work in an intensive research environment, run by FDA scientists, that is applicable to their academic interests. According to Gostin, working with the FDA on real-world issues will offer students a more well-rounded educational experience. “[They will have the] opportunity to work on major policy issues in food, drugs, medical devices and tobacco,” Gostin said. “It also allows FDA staff to learn and teach at the university.”

Georgetown is the second university

to receive a grant for this research. The University of Maryland has already developed its own program in conjunction with the FDA, compiling a team of experts to develop new drugs and perform laboratory examinations to evaluate the safety and efficacy of various technologies.

Georgetown’s CERSI is expected to open within the coming months and plans to work collaboratively with its Maryland counterpart.

“We each have our own strengths, and we are also very close colleagues. I really welcome our partners from Maryland [and hope they will] be working with us well into the future,” Gostin said.

Chaplains: Confidants-in-Residence CHAPLAINS, from A1 mentors.

“I think the chaplaincy program is creating a sense of community in this diverse university. It gives us a chance to engage with students, learn from them and serve them,” Salih Sayilgan said.

“We believe that loving God means to serve his creatures, and this is one way to do that,” Zeyneb added. “This is one way for us to serve students, to be a resource. We are students ourselves, so we can relate to them and their concerns.”

With a New South apartment overlooking the Potomac, the two balance their roles as chaplains with their pursuit of doctoral degrees. Zeyneb, originally from Germany, is studying theology at Georgetown, while Salih, originally from Turkey, commutes to the Catholic University of America. The Muslim couple, who met at a religious conference, foster their own religion and relationship through their work as chaplains.

“We don’t like scholars who get caught up in the ivory tower and don’t share their knowledge with people. We want to live within the community, see what the problems are, and share our knowledge,” Zeyneb said. “For us, the academic life and our occupation as chaplains create a great balance.”

Reverend Elaine Hall, a Protestant Methodist chaplain living on New South’s first floor, sees her ministry of guidance and baked goods not only as a way to satisfy a hunger for the physical and spiritual, but also as a way of connecting with residents.

She recalled a situation where a student who initially made contact during an open house eventually opened up to her about a serious, personal situation.

“I realized this job was the perfect place for me in this moment. A student who re-

ally needed to talk to someone chose me to connect with, because of something I had done,” Hall said. “All of those cookies meant more than just all those calories.”

For Siemietkowski, this dedication to religion and willingness to serve others makes the chaplains a strong resource on campus.

“I look for significant pastoral education, training and experience. I look for commitment to one’s faith tradition and an openness to all faith traditions. The chaplains need good skills with undergraduate students and the ability to remain calm in times of crisis.”

Siemietkowski also focuses on fostering diversity among her chaplaincy staff.

“Our CIRs and JIRs not only represent a variety of faith traditions but also represent a variety of professions,” she said. “Some are professors here at Georgetown. Some are fulltime high school teachers. Some are finishing their doctoral programs while teaching at the graduate level. Some are pastors in churches, and some are chaplains in hospitals.”

For Siemietkowski, these connections reinforce Georgetown’s focus on interreligious understanding. She emphasized that CIRs and JIRs are chaplains to all of the students, no matter their faith tradition — even if they have no faith tradition at all.

This range of diverse backgrounds and faiths serves to break down barriers between students and their chaplains. Siemietkowski credits the casual and relaxed atmosphere that the chaplains and Jesuits provide with students’ increasing acceptance of the Hilltop as a new home.

“What makes me really happy is when students knock on our door in a very desperate way, often when they can’t talk to anyone else, and we welcome them and we talk to them and when they leave with a smile on their face, that is a great pleasure to us,” Salih

said.

Hall echoed this same sentiment.

“I think having folks on campus who are intentionally trying to facilitate these connections is really important,” she said.

Hall’s New South abode is also home to her husband and 3-year-old son Martin, who has lived on campus since birth. The students on the floor appreciate having a young family as their neighbor, she said — and for Martin, the feeling is mutual.

“Martin loves being around students, which has been a great deal for us,” she said.

As the program continues to grow, Siemietkowski hopes for continued collaboration among faith traditions, while ensuring a commitment to greater Jesuit ideals. She hopes to continue programs such as this year’s “Relationship Series,” held by the Office of Campus Ministry and featuring the input of several chaplains, in order to cultivate these ideas.

Siemietkowski added that the chaplainin-residence on-call system helps maintain sufficient spiritual support for students; chaplains and Jesuits-in-residence are available at a specific phone number throughout the day for emergency guidance.

“Committed to the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, Georgetown is very proud to say chaplains are available for students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” she said.

According to Zeyneb Sayilgan, the program is an integral part of Georgetown’s identity.

“I love the concept of chaplains in residence. I wish every university would have them, because if you really want to have good students, the education must be more than the intellectual,” she said. “You need to address the human being on so many various levels. I think the [chaplain-in-residence] program is trying to really do that, to address the whole entity of what it means to be an individual.”

Inside the Gates ALUMNI, from A1 For Wang, whose job has taken him from China, where he accompanied the men’s basketball team in August, to Silicon Valley, where he worked with technology firms on behalf of Georgetown, returning “home” was a way of keeping himself challenged and stimulated. “[Wall Street] was an amazing two-year experience, but I left wanting to create a more tangible impact. I wanted to test a change, and this has been really exciting,” Wang said.

Like Wang, Alisa Belanger (COL ’01) never thought she would become a Georgetown employee after graduation. But she returned to the university last fall as a faculty member in the French department after earning her Master’s and Ph.D. in Francophone studies. She now co-teaches a course with Alissa Webel, her very first French professor at Georgetown.

“It’s hard to imagine what it would be like anywhere else,” Belanger said.”I knew many of the professors in the department when I came back, so it felt like a joyful homecoming.”

Making Georgetown a job opportunity is a longstanding tradition; former students can be found in a range of offices and positions. Top administrators with Georgetown diplomas include Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien (COL ’88) and University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79) himself.

For some returning Hoyas, this tradition can be a plus when applying to jobs on campus. “[My Georgetown degree] was definitely something they looked favorably upon,” said Colleen Miltenberg, (COL ’04), who now works at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

But Wang disagreed.

“I don’t think my being a Georgetown alumnus played a part. The benefits of my experience have been noticeable while I’ve been working here, but in the end, the position called for someone to come in and be willing to do the work, and that would have applied to an alum or non-alum,” he said.

THAT EXTRA SOMETHING For Miltenberg and Lauren Geoghegan (COL ’10), their experiences as undergrads lend legitimacy to their work in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

“Being a Georgetown alum was very beneficial, especially starting off,” Geoghegan, an information officer in the admissions office, said. “I had my own experience and the experiences of so many friends and acquaintances that I could draw on. I had a lot of background knowledge that I could share that I didn’t have to learn from others.”

Miltenberg, an admissions officer who spends much of the year holding information sessions to prospective students in New Jersey, agreed that having firsthand experience at Georgetown improves the quality of her work.

“Whenever I mention that [I’m a Georgetown grad], I see a difference in people’s faces. It’s like they’re thinking, ‘She really

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gets it, she knows what she’s talking about.’ It’s just a little bit different. It’s intangible,” she said, adding that Georgetown alumni comprise about half of the undergraduate admissions staff.

Wang, whose job is heavily focused on improving the student experience at Georgetown, said that his experiences during his undergraduate years help contextualize the work he does now.

“Knowing what was amazing at the university, what students struggled with and the things that could be improved helps to provide a great context for what I’m helping to build for the future,” he said.

CONTINUING THE TRADITION Though the school may have changed outwardly during the years since their graduation, returning alumni affirm that the university’s core identity remains the same.

“There’s an ambience on campus, a certain respectfulness of others that you find on a daily basis here … that has remained absolutely the same. There really is something about Georgetown that is passed on as institutional memory,” Belanger said. “I’ve learned that ‘Georgetown Forever’ isn’t just a slogan.”

Wang often returns to familiar haunts from his undergraduate days, recognizing much of himself in the current student body.

“I still do work in Lau, and [the] conversations that go on show that the university is about connection, and special things, like study abroad experiences and their impacts on students. Hearing that interaction reminds me of what I experienced,” Wang said. “Those are the things that will never change.”

For Geoghegan, the Jesuit emphasis on service has added perspective her work, just as it did during her time as a student.

“The ‘men and women for others’ mentality is very applicable to the work I’m doing now,” Geoghegan said. “I find myself wanting to be that resource for all of those prospective students and applicants and families, and I’m able to do that in a very positive way.”

Alums value the chance to work at the place where they learned so much as students.

“I came into my own at Georgetown — I redefined myself, who I was. I now have a level of confidence that I feel like I gained from being a student here, surrounded by people who are such high-achieving individuals with lofty goals,” Miltenberg said. “Being around people with such an incredible mindset makes you realize that you can do this too.”

Wang said that, for now at least, he appreciates the opportunity to continue learning as a Georgetown employee.

“I hope to stay as long as I continue to learn. I am lucky to get to work with an array of inspiring people at Georgetown — students, faculty and staff alike — on a variety of really exciting projects,” he said. “That’s the benefit I think of working at a university in that there are so many resources and projects available to help you to continue to develop.”

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Paraguayan Mission Work Inspires Priest AU Boosts Marketing RITA PEARSON

Special to The Hoya

Although Fr. Aldo Trento arrived in Paraguay in 1989 with only a backpack, he was weighed down by the burden of heartbreak and depression. Now, over two decades later, Trento runs a hospice, orphanage, school and homeless shelter, and is internationally recognized for his work with the most marginalized portions of Paraguayan society.

“I spent my first 10 years there without sleep, screaming and crying,” said Trento, whose lecture Wednesday in the Philodemic Room was sponsored by the Latin American Student Association. “I only found mud around me and mud inside of me.”

Trento, who grew up and attended seminary in Italy, fell in love with a local woman. When he told a fellow priest, his friend did not rebuke him but instead reassigned him to Paraguay.

Trento, who came to D.C. to speak at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank about his development projects, told his audience that when he speaks about his work, he is often asked about his level of education, or if he is a doctor or an architect.

“What they don’t understand is that what changed life was my great love for that woman, who is more mine today, even though I don’t have her,” Trento said.

Trento’s depression ended when he realized that his love for that woman was what fueled his passion for service.

Trento explained that development of a country is linked to the growth of the individual, not necessarily to economic policies. He built the hospice, he said, so that people in the street who were terminally ill could feel the same love that the priest who had sent him to Paraguay had shown him.

“I kneel before a sick person every morning, as the priest did to me, and I kiss these people even if they are rotting and dying, because I am kissing Christ,” Trento said.

The LASA Community Service Chair Maria Teresa Chamorro

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Fr. Aldo Trento, who has raised money for developmental work in Paraguay, spoke in the Philodemic Room Wednesday about his life experiences and work serving the poor.

(COL’12) said that the World Bank could not understand how Trento managed to raise the massive amount of funding necessary for his multitude of projects.

“They put so much time into simply finding funding for their projects,” Chamorro said. “Father Trento just acts.”

Trento said that 75 percent of

UIS to Revamp Computer Labs SAM RODMAN

Special to The Hoya

Computer labs in LXR and Harbin Hall will undergo renovations to increase study space as part of a larger initiative which included conversion of labs in Village C West and New South this past summer.

While the locations will retain printing stations and one or two computers, University Information Services will remove the remaining units.

“It’s giving the labs back to housing and the residence halls to use them how [residents] want to use them,” Beth Ann Bergsmark, director of UIS, said.

Bergsmark said the initiative was prompted by student requests for increased study space in conjunction with a significant increase in the number of students with personal computers since the labs were opened in the 1990s.

According to Bergsmark, UIS also plans to add more printing stations in academic buildings based on student feedback. Stations will be added to the computer terminals on the first and second floor of the Intercultural Center.

UIS may also add a printing station to Walsh but has not yet identified an area in the building that would be accessible without impeding foot traffic.

Next month, UIS will contact students in order to de-

While American University is pumping up its marketing campaign for the current admissions season, university officials maintain that they will continue to practice traditional forms of advertising.

American recently released a commercial that will be aired nationally during “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” The commercial and ads in print newspapers and on social media websites are all part of AU’s plan to attract prospective students interested in government and modern politics.

Though American has focused on appealing to a broad audience, Georgetown primarily recruits specific high school students through a program called Exploring College Options.

The organization, which also services Stanford University, Duke University, Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania, allows the university’s admissions team to hold large recruitment events in all 50 states.

“We target invitations to high achieving students who are on any of our five schools mailing lists. This is our way to cast a wide net, but a targeted one, to students that would be competitive at institutions like Georgetown,” Senior Associate Director of Admissions Bruce Chamberlin said.

Chamberlin added that Georgetown’s recruitment strategy reflects the type of applicants the school hopes to attract. “[With] Georgetown’s demographic, the reach of our students is different.

What AU does wouldn’t be necessarily important for Georgetown,” he said.

“Georgetown has some positive name recognition qualities that are on the marketplace already. … Georgetown probably doesn’t have the same needs that AU has.”

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh said that the administration attempts to emphasize the unique merits of the university in its advertising efforts.

“Georgetown communicates core values in a variety of ways to its various audiences. These include being a global university, our academic excellence, Catholic and Jesuit identity, location in Washington, D.C., and dynamic community spirit,” she said.

Representatives of American University could not be reached for comment.

termine whether residents of LXR and Harbin would prefer the conversion to occur during the current semester or over winter break.

UIS also consulted its student advisory board, which is comprised of Georgetown University Student Association and Interhall members, as well as appointees from other student organizations, about the matter.

Michael Crouch (MSB ’13), secretary of information and technology for the Georgetown University Student Association, said that the board came to the consensus that the residence hall computer labs were not being used as frequently as when they were first installed and students were using the labs largely to study or print documents.

Luke Marrinan (COL ’15), a Harbin resident, said he thought the switch was a good idea. “It’s a much more efficient use of the space,” he said. “I don’t think the computer lab is used by a large percentage of the dorm.”

Josh Sattel (COL ’15), another Harbin resident, agreed.

“It could serve as a good substitute for the library,” he said “It’s closer, and away from the distractions of my room.”

Academic software that was installed on residence hall computers will still be available on computers in the ICC, St. Mary’s and Lauinger Library.

the money for his projects came from the Paraguayan people, not from Europe or the United States.

“What I will tell the World Bank tomorrow is [that] the problem of development coincides with the development of the person. When you forget the person, then development becomes de-

struction,” Trento said.

Martah Sofia (COL’14), said that the way Trento linked development of the person to development of a country made sense to her.

“Love is what moves you — that is what those countries need,” she said. “It’s not all about economics.”

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DPS BLOTTER THURSDAY, OCT. 20, 2011 Theft, O’Donovan Hall, 8:15 p.m.

A student reported that he accidently left his backpack, which included notebooks, folders and a laptop, at the listed location. When he returned to his dorm, he realized that he left his property behind. He returned to the dining hall to retrieve his property and found that his backpack was missing. There are no suspects or witnesses.

FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 2011 Simple Assault, 37th and N Streets, 12:05 a.m.

A student sustained a laceration to his forearm after a verbal altercation turned physical. Racial slurs were reported to be uttered by the assailant during the assault. The students were identified. The case has been forwarded to student conduct.

SATURDAY, OCT. 22, 2011 Drug Violation, Village A, 1:57 a.m.

DPS officers made contact with occupants in an apartment after investigating a call for service. Drugs and drug paraphernalia were found inside the residence. The items were confiscated and submitted into evidence. The case has been forwarded to student conduct.

Failure to Comply, McDonough Arena, 2:02 p.m.

A DPS officer made contact with a student who was being disorderly at a university sponsored event. The student was identified, and the case has been forwarded to student conduct.

Theft, Red Square, 8:10 p.m.

A subject was arrested by DPS officers while the suspect was in possession of a stolen bike. The same individual was observed tampering with bicycles at the listed location just prior to his apprehension. MPD transported the suspected to the second district for booking and processing.

SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2011 Public Urination, Village A, 12:45 a.m.

A DPS officer made contact with a student who was observed urinating in public in a stairwell. The case has been referred to student conduct.

Alcohol Violation, Harbin Hall, 2:14 p.m.

A DPS officer made contact with a student who was observed with a bottle of alcohol attempting to enter the listed location. The student, who was underage, was identified and the alcohol was confiscated. The case has been referred to student conduct.

Public Urination, 3200 Block of Prospect

Street, 2:59 a.m.

An MPD reimbursable officer observed an individual urinating in public outside. The individual was identified as a student. The case has been referred to student conduct.

MONDAY, OCT. 24, 2011 Theft, Alumni Square, 2:15 p.m.

A student reported that she had two bicycles stolen from the bike rack. The bikes were reportedly secured together with a cable lock. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, White-Gravenor Hall, 7:45 p.m.

A student reported that his secured bicycle was stolen from the bike rack. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Darnall Hall, 8:00 p.m.

A student reported that her secured bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack. There are no suspects or witnesses.

TUESDAY, OCT. 25, 2011 Drug Violation, Harbin Hall, 11:30 p.m.

DPS officers responded to a call for a suspected drug violation. On the scene were drugs and drug paraphernalia.

The items were confiscated and submitted into evidence. The case has been referred to student conduct.

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GU Seeks Strong Finish KEITH LEVINSKY Hoya Staff Writer

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Sophomore midfielder Alexa St. Martin scored the last goal of the game in Georgetown’s 6-0 win over Villanova last Friday. The 85th-minute strike was St. Martin’s second goal of the year.

’Cuse Awaits in Quarterfinals WOMEN’S SOCCER, from A10 teammates, leading by the example she sets when she takes the pitch.

“When you see how hard she’s willing to work on the field, when you see the physical sacrifices she’s willing to make on the field, players can’t help but be impressed,” Nolan said. “To put one word on it would be bravery: She’s so brave. Players see that and they think, ‘I need to be able to do that too.’”

Trujillo’s record-breaking career on the Hilltop has not been without its rough patches, however. An ACL injury sustained just prior to arriving on the Hilltop for her freshman year meant that her first season was played, by her standards, rather gingerly.

After being among the team leaders with seven goals in her sophomore year, Trujillo etched her name in the Georgetown record books during a scintillating 13goal junior year.

Through the ups and downs, Trujillo has maintained a positive, unassuming attitude. Her on-the-field prowess and low-key off-the-field demeanor have given her an enviable reputation: Teammates love her, but opposing defenders hate to see her lining up at the center circle.

“I’ve gained a lot of confidence since freshman year … I kept giving all that I had and was able to perform,” Trujillo said. “It’s exciting and I just hope to continue doing well.”

Alongside the likes of team

points leader and redshirt senior midfielder Ingrid Wells, defender Gabby Miller, midfielder Kelly D’Ambrisi, goalie Liz Hannah and forward Sam Baker, Trujillo feels that this year’s set of graduates has also grown stronger as a unit heading into the Big East tournament.

“I think that we work very well together. We’ve been together for four years now and we understand each others’ abilities and talents.” Trujillo said.

“We have leadership at every position … so we definitely have a stronger connection that has developed throughout the four years.”

Despite its magical NCAA tournament run to the Elite Eight in 2010, Georgetown has fallen heartbreakingly short in its past two Big East quarterfinals. After falling 1-0 to St. John’s in the final seconds of double overtime in 2009, last year’s heavily-favored Hoyas were upset 1-0 at home by South Florida, again in double overtime. With archrival Syracuse visiting North Kehoe after Trujillo notched two goals and an assist against it in a comfortable 3-1 road win in September, the hosts will be intent on avoiding a similar slip-up.

“We’re definitely motivated because we set a goal at the beginning that we want to get to the [semifinals] of the Big East tournament, and we’ve never been there, at least my class hasn’t,” Trujillo said. “It’s definitely important: We want to show the

conference that we’re a high caliber team.”

“This group is determined to get to the final four of the Big East, probably even more so than the NCAAs,” Nolan added.

“I think this group is focused on that, I haven’t heard anyone talk about the NCAAs: I’ve heard them all talk about the Big East. … Right now we’re three wins away from a Big East ring.”

To reach their goal, however, the Hoyas will need to get past a tough, physical Orange squad that will doubtless benefit from the two teams’ September clash.

As a result, the hosts expect a pressing, aggressive approach from their New York rivals, who will attempt to close down space and keep themselves from being exposed by runs through the back line.

“We’ll catch them with a little bit different mentality playerwise; they’ll be more up for this game,” Nolan said. “They know their best chance is stop us doing what we do, and that involves them doing a lot of physical work.”

“It’s definitely harder to beat a team twice in one season so they’re definitely going to come out for us,” Trujillo said. “We just have to play our game, come out strong and show them that we’re not going to let them win on our home field.”

The Blue and Gray’s quest for the Big East tournament title begins on Sunday. Kickoff against Syracuse is set for 1 p.m on North Kehoe Field.

The No. 19 Georgetown men’s soccer team (10-3-4, 5-2-1 Big East) will wrap up its 2011 regular season with a home game on Saturday against the Providence Friars (9-6-1, 4-3-1 Big East).

The Blue and Gray are fresh off a 6-2 thumping of Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Georgetown responded to Pittsburgh’s game-tying goal in the second half with a 4-0 burst that sealed the victory.

“When they equalized with 20 minutes to go, that was really a telling moment for the team,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “How we responded to that was a real testament to the maturity of this team.”

The only team that has been able to keep Georgetown from scoring recently is the nation’s leader in shutouts, No. 5 Connecticut. Even then, however, the Hoyas managed a tie against the Huskies. Georgetown has tallied nine goals over the past three games, four of which have come from sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann.

Neumann leads the Hoyas with 29 points with 11 goals and seven assists, and ranks second in the Big East in both categories. Neumann has scored the game-winner in both of the Hoyas’ past two wins. Junior midfielder Ian Christianson and junior forward Andy Riemer have each recorded 11 points and freshman midfielder Tom Skelly has tallied 10 points.

“When you get the likes of Neumann, Riemer and Christianson in there you feel like you are good for a goal at any moment,” Wiese said.

“And they can score it at important times.”

Georgetown’s defense appeared to get back on track in the shutout against Connecticut, but the Hoyas conceded two goals to Pittsburgh in sloppy and rainy conditions. Earlier in the week, freshman goalkeeper Tomas Gomez was named Big East goalkeeper of the week, and CollegeSoccer360.com named junior defender Tommy Muller a “Primetime Performer” for their performances against Connecticut.

“It is the give and take of the season and the opportunities your opponent will give you,” Wiese said.

Unlike last fall, Georgetown will be unable to secure the Big East regular season championship on its own on Saturday. The Blue and Gray currently sit in third place in the Big East Blue

Division. The Hoyas trail Marquette by two points and Connecticut by one point. Only five points separate the sixth-placed team, Providence, and current league leader Marquette.

“We can finish anywhere from first to sixth right now,” Wiese said. “It can swing and it all comes down to this last game.”

Georgetown can clinch the championship with a win, and a tie or loss from both Marquette and Connecticut.

On Saturday, however, Marquette and Connecticut play Pittsburgh (4-12-1, 2-6-0 Big East) and Seton Hall (4-10-2, 0-7-0 Big East), two teams at the bottom of the Big East.

“Those are unlikely scenarios, but possible for sure. It is still 100 percent up in the air,” Wiese said. “If we win we can finish better than fourth. All we can do is win the game on Saturday and then sit back and let the chips fall where they may and go from there.”

Regardless, Providence will not be an easy win by any stretch. Even though the Friars are sixth in the eight-team Blue Division, they have been playing well lately. Before losing to No. 14 Notre Dame 2-1 on Wednesday, Providence capped off three straight wins with a 2-1 victory over West Virginia in Morgantown, a seemingly impossible task. Earlier in the season, West Virginia defeated thenNo. 1 Connecticut and Georgetown at home.

The Friars rank 24th in the RPI rankings, and were only eight votes away from entering into the NSCAA top 25 on Wednesday. Last year, the Friars reached the Big East finals after defeating three opponents including Georgetown.

“This is the same team that went on an unbelievable run at the end of last year,” Wiese said. “They have hit stride again this year. We are going to have to be very good to win the game.”

Providence freshman midfielder Marcos Ugarte leads the Friars in scoring with 13 points, but recently junior midfielder Marc Cintron has carried the Friars. Cintron has netted three goals over the past two games and has 10 points on the season.

Saturday will be Georgetown’s Senior Day. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at North Kehoe Field.

“It is a big game for a lot of reasons.

It is Senior Day as well so we will look to recognize Uche Onyeador, and our fifth-year Ibu Otegbeye,” Wiese said.

“Hopefully it is a special day at the end of it.”

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Bengals Win in Palmer Trade Corey Blaine The Bleacher Seats

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hen the Oakland Raiders traded away their future in the form of two first-round draft picks for Carson Palmer last week, the ghost of Al Davis surely smiled. Davis was famous during his days for his “just win, baby” mentality, and his son demonstrated clearly that the Raiders will be run with the same mentality for the foreseeable future.

The Palmer trade revealed the different trajectories of the teams involved in more ways than one could possibly imagine. On the surface, the two teams were equal heading into negotiations. Both were 4-2 on the season, had had very minimal success in the past few years and were burdened with anxious fan bases desperate for the taste of the postseason.

However, with this trade came a clear winner and obvious intentions for the future. The Bengals, resigned to life without their franchise quarterback (let it be known that, as a quarterback with a surgically-repaired knee and a terrible throwing elbow, Palmer was essentially a corpse capable of operating an offense), were gearing themselves towards a future with talented rookies Andy Dalton and A.J. Green. The Raiders also have a young core, but are setting themselves up for a potential playoff run in a week division and are willing to give up some long-term success for the sake of replacing their injured starting quarterback.

This isn’t to say that a team can’t experience success by bringing in a new quarterback mid-season — just look at

the 2001 Patriots with Tom Brady.

However, everything about this trade is different from the Patriots’ situation. For starters, Tom Brady turned out to be one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. Few experts would say that the current Carson Palmer, a shadow of his former self, has the potential to elevate the former Heisman winner to all-time great status. Further, the Patriots didn’t have to sacrifice their following two drafts for a fill-in starter, something the Raiders gladly forked over for the sake of living up to the “just win, baby” mentality. Bill Belichick of all people knows better than to sacrifice a draft for the sake of holding onto the present.

Even the price the Raiders paid doesn’t make any sense. When Carson Palmer demanded a trade out of Cincinnati, owner/president Mike Brown told his star player that he’d retire a Bengal before he would be traded. The standoff began with much tension, but the Bengals owner proved his point. It would take a considerable trade package for the team to let any one player force a trade over the desires of the organization, but that’s exactly what Oakland offered.

After years of cellar-dwelling, Mike Brown used this situation as an opportunity to change the organization’s culture, rather than continue to harbor convicts and malcontents.

This is the same team that left its cocaine-addicted running back, Stanley Wilson, alone on the eve of the Super Bowl. Unsurprisingly, he was found in a bathroom high that night. Realizing that players like Palmer, Chad Ochocinco (the last name says it all), and Terrell Owens were members of the old guard that needed to move on is arguably the smartest thing that Mike Brown has done.

Brown even proved that he finally appreciates the opportunities to be found in the NFL draft, only 12 years after passing up on a megadeal that would’ve given the team nine draft picks (the deal was centered around the Saints getting Ricky Williams) so that they could draft the immortal Akili Smith with the third overall pick. It may be too early to say, but the Bengals, unlike the Raiders, have realized the time is now to cut ties with the past and look to the future.

So where do these two organizations stand? Cincinnati fans finally have a reason to be optimistic as both Dalton and Green have been impressive this year. With two more first-round picks in hand courtesy of the Raiders, there’s no reason to think this team couldn’t add a few more offensive lineman and contend in the treacherous AFC North.

However, Oakland fans have to be left scratching their heads.

After drafting noted tattoo enthusiast Terrelle Pryor, losing star cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and trading away two first round picks for an old and injured quarterback, this team will be struggling to “just win, baby” for years to come.

Sometimes, it pays to be willing to cut ties to right a sinking ship, as the Raiders’ inability to let go of their flawed mentality shows. Who knows, maybe in a few years we’ll look back on this trade as the day the Bengals started their march to the Vince Lombardi trophy due to their ability to shed the past for a brighter future.

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Freshman middle blocker Dani White (9), shown against Connecticut, leads Georgetown with 79 blocks this season. She has also added 181 kills.

Hoyas Need Weekend Win VOLLEYBALL, from A10 Last year’s second team All-Big East senior outside hitter Meghan Matusiak leads the way in kills for the Pirates with 282. Senior middle blocker Krissy Wrobel has also been solid, leading the team with a .289 hitting percentage. “[Seton Hall] does a great job blocking and has a scrappy defense behind the block, and balls that we’ve seen gone down in a whole lot of matches won’t go down,” Williams said. “You’re talking about a team that has firepower at every position.”

Rutgers, on the other hand, would appear to pose less of a threat to the Hoyas, as they are second-to-last place in the league standings and rank near the bottom of most statistical categories. However, they beat Seton Hall in straight sets two weeks ago, and Williams has yet to earn a win at Rutgers in her five seasons as head coach.

Senior middle blocker Hannah Cur-

tis is the on-court leader for the Scarlet Knights, leading the team with 222 kills and 69 blocks. However, Rutgers also has two talented young outside hitters in redshirt freshman Sofi Cocuz and redshirt junior Alex Jones, who have tallied 191 and 161 kills, respectively.

“Rutgers does some really good things and plays really well at their gym, so we’re going to have to go up there and really take care of our stuff,” Williams said. “Curtis is effective for them and can terminate balls.”

Williams is fully aware of the importance of the two matches in Georgetown’s Big East Tournament hopes.

“In order to control our fate right now, we need to go out and play lowerror volleyball and control our style of play,” she said.

The match against Seton Hall is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday in East Orange, and the Sunday match against Rutgers will begin at 2 p.m. in Piscataway.

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Georgetown Opens Big East Slate MICHAEL LIU

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The Georgetown swimming and diving team opens conference play today against Connecticut, Rutgers and Villanova in its first Big East quad meet of the season.

Head Coach Jamie Holder returns for his second season for the Hoyas, now having brought his first recruiting class to the Hilltop.

The men’s team is led by junior Paul Quincy, who excels in both long and middle-distance races.

Thus far Quincy has enjoyed a hot start to his junior year, having earned consecutive first-place finishes in both the 1000-yard and the 500-yard freestyles.

Quincy’s mental approach to swimming is perhaps the reason why he ranks as one of the best distance swimmers to ever compete for the Blue and Gray.

“The motivation for my 500 last weekend, which was absolutely my best swim of the season so far, was simply to make my opponents look bad,” Quincy said.

“We were losing the meet, and they weren’t being fun about it.

They were rubbing it on our faces.

So a teammate made me promise to gun it with everything I had. I had to be a good teammate, so I did.”

Quincy swam the 500 freestyle in 4:39.81, finishing a good 10 seconds in front of the secondplace finisher and shaving almost three seconds off his time of 4:42.63 in the Hoyas’ dualmeet opener versus Delaware in the process.

For the women’s team, sophomore Lauren Opatrny hopes to continue her strong performance in the individual medley and backstroke. Opatrny is coming off a trio of victories, as she won top honors in 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley in last Saturday’s meet against Towson.

The divers, including junior Brian McCallister, sophomore Shannon Donohue and freshman Lauren Kahan, look to contribute points for the Blue and Gray as well as qualify for the Big East diving championship in February.

Connecticut has also kicked off its season in a successful fashion.

The men’s team has three double winners, and the women’s team was boosted by a three-win performance by senior Caitlin Gallagher. The Hoyas will have to keep an eye on freshmen Sawyer Franz, Lachezar Shumkov and Keith Piper. Franz could be Quincy’s main competition in the 500 freestyle, as the freshman posted a time of 4:42.1 in the Husky Invitational.

This weekend will mark Rutgers’ first competitive action of the year, but the third team, Villanova, has already served notice to the rest of the Big East that it will not be taken lightly this year. The women’s team is coming off an impressive 183-116 win over La Salle, highlighted by eight individual winners and first-place finishes in 12 out of 16 events. Junior Laura McGlaughlin is coming off three first-place performances and will pose a challenge for Georgetown in the breaststroke and individual medley events.

The meet will take place today and tomorrow on Connecticut’s campus in Storrs, Conn.

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“They’re competitive within the Big East. They’re similar to a Villanova or a Rutgers,” Marsh said.

“They’re definitely beatable, but they play a Big East style of hockey — they’re good — but I think we have chance against them.”

The biggest focus for Georgetown will be on finally winning a conference match, something that would be a welcome consolation prize in a season filled with disappointment.

“I think it would be huge. It would be great for our two seniors,” Marsh said. “They’ve put in so much time and effort to our program and to win on the road, it would be great for us.”

Marsh is particularly emotional about seeing Nishino and Krumpos leave, because they were a part of her first recruiting class and have been key communicators between the coach and her players for the past four years.

“They have elevated the work rate effort across the board. They lead by example constantly in their actions in practice, they’re both really good people and they’re great friends to their teammates,” Marsh said. “They’re very passionate about our program because they have put so much time into taking it somewhere.”

Still, Marsh refuses to sugarcoat anything. This season hasn’t gone as planned.

“It didn’t reach our expectations. We were hoping it to be a little better than it was,” Marsh said. “But we do have a really good group of girls here.”

Recruiting has also given Marsh confidence that for Georgetown field hockey, the best is yet to come.

“We have a group of seven freshman coming in, all very talented, combined with the experience of our nine [rising seniors],” Marsh said. ”That’s going to make for some exciting stuff next year.”

As for Saturday, Marsh knows emotions will be running high, and she hopes that it will provide the team with a spark.

“We have to leave everything out there,” Marsh said. “[And] not have any regrets.”

Marsh hopes that a spark will be enough to end the season well, giving her team an unconventional storybook ending but one it would certainly cherish.

The Hoyas and Friars are set to face off Saturday at 1 p.m. in Providence, R.I.

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Senior defensive end Andrew Schaetke (98) had six tackles, including one sack, in Georgetown’s 40-17 Homecoming win over Colgate.

GU Faces Pivotal Clash FOOTBALL, from A10 Kelly said. “Hopefully this will propel us to taking another step forward with this program.”

Unlike in previous years, Kelly has the team positioned to actually take that next step. With two wins and one loss in the Patriot League, The Blue and Gray control their own destiny. A conference championship is firmly within the realm of possibility. “[The players] understand. This is why you play the game, for championships.

And that is our next goal,” Kelly said. “We want to win the Patriot League. We have a tough opponent in Holy Cross, and the guys are very focused in on it.”

A 2-1 conference record gives Georgetown an opportunity to focus solely on its own games without scoreboardwatching and worrying how rivals’ performances will affect its standing in the conference.

“You take one [game] at a time,” Kelly said. “All we have to worry about is Holy Cross. We don’t have to worry about anybody else.”

And while Georgetown’s task may be less daunting because of its success earlier in the season, beating Holy Cross will be a tough task. The Crusaders’ offense is the second-best in the Patriot League at moving the ball, and the defense is even better, yielding a league-low 322.7 yards per game.

Holy Cross is led by one of the best players in the Patriot League, senior quarterback Ryan Taggart. His 341.3 total yards per game average beats out the entire

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Sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann, shown against Notre Dame, and freshman midfielder Tom Skelly scored two goals apiece in Georgetown’s 6-2 win over Pittsburgh Wednesday.

Hoyas Dominate Panthers in Rout good,” Wiese said. “When they scored their second goal, we had stopped generating chances. We could almost see it coming. But I thought the key for this game was how we responded to being tied in a game where you could have put it to bed 30 minutes into the first half.”

Sure enough, the Hoyas responded in the 70th minute as Skelly found Neumann for a third time in front of the net. Neumann fired it into the lower right corner for his sixth game-winner of the season.

“I think that really settled it and that’s what killed it for Pitt,” Wiese said. “That was kind of the nail in the coffin for them. We generated enough chances today to get it done, and I was happy to see that.”

Less than two minutes later Neumann connected with Skelly on a corner kick to give the Hoyas a 4-2 lead.

Junior midfielder Ian Christianson capitalized on his own chance in the 77th minute, turning at the top of the box before firing it through the defense and past Pitt goalie Lee Johnston. The goal was his fifth so far this season.

With just three minutes left, senior forward Uche Onyeador tallied his first goal of the season. The score came from 12 yards out on a pass from junior midfielder Mark Luxama.

The Hoyas’ fourth unanswered goal in 21 minutes sealed the 6-2 victory.

Skelly finished the game with six points on two goals and two assists, while Neumann tallied two goals and one assist. Neumann leads the team this season with 11 goals and seven assists.

“Suddenly we were tied at 2-2, and the guy who pulls us right out again is Steve Neumann. He’s got that knack for scoring big goals,” Wiese said. “He’s certainly got the

Georgetown offense by nearly 7 yards per game.

“They throw the ball extremely well;.

[Taggart] is excellent. They have a great scheme,” Kelly said. “I know [Holy Cross Head Coach Tom] Gilmore well. We were colleagues at Dartmouth. They are excellent on both sides of the football.”

On the other side of the ball, senior cornerback Chandler Fenner and junior safety Tom Mannix will lead a unit looking to stop the Blue and Gray offense.

During last season’s meeting between the two teams, the Hoyas defeated the Crusaders for the first time since 1999.

Georgetown effectively shut down Holy Cross’ ground game en route to a 17-7 Homecoming win. It’s likely that a similar strategy will be employed Saturday.

“They pass the football well, but always, if you can stop the run, that helps you with the other phase as well,” Kelly said. “That never changes, week in and week out.”

Georgetown will have to battle with more than just a tough Holy Cross team. The National Weather Service is predicting morning frost followed by a chilly, wet afternoon with a high of 45 degrees.

“The team that’s going to be the mentally toughest on Saturday is going to win. The weather is not supposed to be very good. Two evenly matched football teams. Turnovers are going to be a big issue,” Kelly said. “Who can handle the weather and who can’t, that’s what it’s going to come down to.”

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday in Worcester, Mass.

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confidence in himself to always get it done. He scores goals that matter, and today he scored two of them.”

Georgetown held the advantage in shots, 27-8. The Hoyas took nine corners to the Panthers’ two. Parsa finished the game with four saves, earning his first win of the season.

“Keon came out and took a lot of balls in traffic really well and made a couple of great saves early,” Wiese said. “I can’t fault him for the goals coming through. It was one of those things where there was nothing you could do about either of those goals.”

On Saturday, Georgetown will take on Providence in its final match of the regular season. The Hoyas are currently third in the Big East Blue Division, while the Friars dropped to fifth after a loss against Notre Dame Wednesday.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. on North Kehoe Field.

f everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas, then why is there only one male Division I soccer program in the entire state? The answer to this question is quite simple, but also controversial.

When Title IX of the Education Amendments was enacted in 1972, it intended to bring an end to the exclusion of women in federally funded programs. One of the first entities to draw the ire of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a nowdefunct office that oversaw the implementation of Title IX, was the NCAA. In 1975, universities were given three years to comply with the regulations, no small task for large universities with multimillion dollar athletic budgets. As hard as the NCAA fought against Title IX, it was implemented with harsh penalties. No schools or programs were exempt from this law.

Finally, women could participate in college athletics in equal numbers as men. Sounds great, right? Not so fast, my friend.

While Title IX’s goals are admirable, it has not worked out in practice as it was meant to. Its implementation dictated that colleges had to balance the numbers of female and male athletes to mirror the student population at their institutions. In theory, it was as simple as creating more female sports teams to even out the number of scholarship athletes between the two genders. But in practice, many males suffered as a result of this legislation.

Male athletes from all over the country were told that their sports would be cut and they would have to provide an education for themselves. Young men who had dreamt of playing a sport in college, many of whom could not pay for an education if it weren’t for their full-ride scholarships, were left out to dry.

That isn’t equality, but a ludicrous attempt to justify more discrimination. Not one critic of Title IX will argue that creating more athletic opportunities for women is a bad thing. But discriminating against males to fill a quota for athletic departments is just as wrong as exclusion.

Fast-forward almost 40 years from its creation, and the argument rages on. George Will, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,

sums up the debate succinctly: “Colleges have killed more than 400 athletic teams in order to produce precise proportionality between men’s and women’s enrollments and men’s and women’s rates of participation in athletics. If participation in sports must mirror the sexual composition of the student body, why not participation in the engineering department?”

Besides some nice alliteration, Will hits at the nerve of the argument. He is essentially saying that it is impossible to create demand where it simply doesn’t exist. An example of this is the use of “roster management.” It is not uncommon for a coach of a male sports team to be asked by an administrator to cut some players from his team. On the other hand, coaches of female teams are often asked to inflate their roster so that the university is within the bounds of Title IX. Neither men nor women win in this situation. Men’s teams lose because they have to cut valuable members from their roster.

Women’s teams do not benefit either by artificially adding to their rosters. Either way, the synthetic boost of women in college athletics is wrong, and both sides feel the negative effects of it.

The Title IX legislation was necessary, of course, when blatant sexism existed in college athletics. I am not trying to say that it should be repealed — equality needs to exist, especially when amateur athletes are involved. However, major changes need to be made.

Instead of essentially handing schools a quota of how many men and women it can have on scholarship in any given year, equality can be achieved on a sport-by-sport basis.

The argument that a men’s team should be cut because it is denying a woman the same opportunity is a non sequitur. The argument loses even more credibility when many athletic departments could fund a full slate of both men’s and women’s sports, but are forced to make cuts due to Title IX. Currently, the NCAA sponsors about 1,000 more teams for women than they do for men. That wasn’t Title IX’s goal. As a result, both male and female athletes are suffering. A fairer Title IX needs to be equal to both genders. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two wrongs certainly led to the creation of Title IX and its subsequent establishment of even more discrimination.

Matt Emch is a sophomore in the College.

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Trujillo Leads Hoyas by Example Second-Half Run Lifts GU Over Pitt BENO PICCIANO Hoya Staff Writer

As Head Coach Dave Nolan sat alongside the field at the Texas Shootout youth soccer showcase in Houston, he was surprised to find that a crafty midfielder by the name of Camille Trujillo was not attracting more attention. As Nolan took greater and greater notice of the New Mexico native’s potential, he began to wonder.

“There was just something about her. … You could tell she had what I call soccer instincts,” Nolan said.

“I was watching with three or four coaches, and nobody else picked up on it, so I started to think: Am I seeing something that everybody else is missing, or am I seeing something that just isn’t there?”

Confident in his own judgment, Nolan pursued the recruit, and Trujillo has more than rewarded her coach’s faith. Now a senior forward for the Hoyas, Trujillo holds both the singleseason and career goal-scoring records for Georgetown, has started every game for the Blue and Gray since her freshman year and has helped lead the squad to a program-best 14 wins in this year’s regular season.

As Georgetown (14-5, 8-3 Big East) heads into Sunday’s Big East quarterfinal date with Syracuse (7-7-3, 6-5 Big East), Trujillo and five other seniors start their final postseason campaign as Hoyas. The player Nolan called the Blue and Gray’s “out-and-out goalscorer” tops the team score-sheets

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Senior forward Camille Trujillo’s 34 career goals are the most in program history.

She also holds the single-season record after scoring 13 times last season.

once again with 11 goals, 10 of which have come in the past 11 games.

“She’s got some great attributes.

First and foremost is her pace. Second is her work rate. There are fast players that are lazy, [but] Camille works every bit as hard when we don’t have

the ball as when we have it,” Nolan said. “Ultimately, it’s now her time.”

Despite having a quieter demeanor than many of her senior counterparts, Trujillo has a marked impact on her

With the help of two crucial goals from sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann, the Georgetown men’s soccer team downed Pittsburgh, 6-2, on Wednesday. An explosive second half brought four unanswered goals from the No. 19 Hoyas, who improved to 9-3-4 on the season. The Hoyas are now 4-21 in the Big East with one game remaining in league play.

“It was a funny game,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “We made it a little more exciting than we really should have. But I think we generated a lot of good chances, which at the end of the day is really what it is all about.”

The Hoyas came out strong against Pitt (4-11-2, 2-5 Big East), scoring their first goal 13 minutes into the game. Freshman midfielder Tom Skelly slid a quick pass to junior defender Jimmy Nealis, who crossed the ball from the left side. His pass connected with Neumann, who one-touched

it in to give Georgetown a 1-0 lead.

Six minutes later Skelly and Neumann worked together again to give the Blue and Gray another goal. Neumann sent a cross from the right side over to Skelly, who found the back of the net for his first goal of the game.

Georgetown held onto the lead until the 31st minute, when Pitt sophoPITTSBURGH 2 m o r e for ward GEORGETOWN 6 N i c o Wrobel collected a loose ball in front of the net and slid it to junior midfielder Andy Clifford for the Panthers’ first goal. The Hoyas entered the break ahead, 2-1.

A sluggish start to the second half opened the field for the Panthers to even the score in the 65th minute. Pitt freshman midfielder Manny Morgado connected on a header to knock the ball past sophomore keeper Keon Parsa.

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GU Still Searching for Big East Win ARIK PARNASS

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Everybody loves winning championships, but sometimes storybook endings don’t need to involve hardware. For senior defender Ai Nishino and senior midfielder Kalli Krumpos, a win in their final Big East game would be a victory in its own right, a fitting sendoff for two four-year players and teammates.

On Saturday, the Georgetown field hockey team (2-15, 0-5 Big East) will not be playing for a championship.

They will be playing for pride when they travel to the home of conference rival Providence (4-13, 1-4 Big East).

Neither the Hoyas nor the Friars have had the kind of success they hoped for this season. The Hoyas, who currently sit last in the Big East, have lost 12 straight games and have scored only three goals in their last six contests.

“We’re just trying to get more scoring opportunities [and] trying to earn more corners,” Marsh said. “That’s been our main focus for the last two weeks.”

Even with the string of losses, strong defensive performances against talented and experienced programs give the Blue and Gray hope going into the final contest.

“With the way that we’ve been playing against Villanova and [American], I think we’ve stepped up a little bit.

We’ve played a little bit more of a sophisticated style instead of just runand-gun,” Marsh said. “So if we can just keep doing that, we’ll be okay.”

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The Georgetown volleyball team (12-10, 4-5 Big East) will travel north to take on Seton Hall (13-10, 4-4 Big East) in East Orange, N.J., Friday, then head

down the Jersey Turnpike to Piscataway to take on Rutgers (8-17, 1-7 Big East) Sunday.

The Hoyas enter the road trip with a good deal of momentum, as they achieved their first back-to-back home wins of the season last weekend by

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The Hoyas will need a strong weekend from senior Tory Rezin, shown against UConn.

beating St. John’s in four sets and knocking off Connecticut in a five-set thriller.

“Overall I think we played well and did what we needed when we needed [it],” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

“We outhit and out-dug St. John’s and played low-error volleyball against UConn and just kept throwing things at them,” she added.

The Blue and Gray currently sit in 10th place in the Big East, and two wins this weekend would not only bolster their chances of making the Big East tournament but would also improve their league record to over .500.

The Pirates, who currently sit in the coveted eighth spot in the league standings, are the first roadblock for the Hoyas. They have dropped their last three matches, but despite these recent struggles boast a very strong defense that ranks fourth in the league in opponents’ hitting percentage at .166.

Seton Hall is led by a pair of freshman left-handed twin sisters in setter Shelbey Manthorpe and outside hitter Stacey Manthorpe. Shelbey is a multidimensional player who has posted 691 assists on the year, while Stacey has tallied 206 kills.

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Redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jamal Davis is second on the Hoyas in both receptions and yards, with 26 catches for 318 yards.

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After clinching its first winning season in 12 years, the Georgetown football team (6-2, 2-1 Patriot League) isn’t resting on its laurels.

Instead, the team is headed into the final three games of the season focused on winning the Patriot League. That effort begins this Saturday with a matchup against league leader Holy Cross (4-3, 2-0 Patriot League).

The Hoyas achieved their goal of a winning season last Saturday, when they secured their sixth win by thrashing Colgate, 40-17, before a large Homecoming crowd. For Head Coach Kevin Kelly, who has led the Blue and Gray since 2006, getting back on the winning side

of the ledger means a lot.

“It’s huge. We haven’t had [a winning season] here since 1999,” Kelly said. “There are a lot of guys who were here two years ago when it was at its lowest point, and they stuck through it. I’m proud of those guys. They are the character guys.”

But the surprising success isn’t just meaningful for the players who were with the Hoyas during their winless 2009 campaign. The entire squad can celebrate securing its first preseason goal with three games left in the season.

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