The Hoya: Nov. 15, 2011

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GRAY STRESSES CREATIVITY D.C.’s mayor promoted entrepreneurship in the District in Lohrfink Auditorium Monday evening.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY Like the women last week, the men’s soccer team was left out of the NCAA tournament.

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THIS IS GEORGETOWN: HOYAS DESTROY SPARTANS IN SECOND GAME OF SEASON

Campus Plan to Face Final Review BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

Major players in the debate surrounding Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan are gearing up to make final arguments before the D.C. Zoning Commission at its fifth and final hearing on the plan Thursday night.

The plan, which outlines the university’s goals for expansion over the next 10 years, has been the focal point of Georgetown’s relationship with its neighbors since it was filed last December.

After the District Department of Transportation gives its testimony at this week’s hearing, the commission will take several months to make its final ruling.

Georgetown University Student Association Vice President Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) said the organization aims to send a contingent of 40 students to the hearing to back the plan.

“Students are excited to go down there and show D.C. officials and neighbors that we’re standing with the university and we don’t

appreciate not being treated like full citizens of D.C.,” he said.

The students’ testimony will supplement an online petition emailed to students, faculty, staff and alumni by University President John J. DeGioia Nov. 3, urging them to sign their names in support of the university.

The petition outlines the positive impact that the school has on the District, citing students’ volunteer efforts in the community and the university’s ment of more than 3,200 D.C. residents.

According to university spokesperson Stacy Kerr, about 4,100 people have signed the online petition so far. More than 3,000 signatures were received within the first 24 hours of its distribution.

“We’re very pleased by the overwhelming response we’ve received in such a short time,” she said.

Kerr added that the university also distributed a pamphlet See HEARING, A5

RIG Funds Granted KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer

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Redshirt freshman guard Aaron Bowen threw down an emphatic dunk in Georgetown’s 86-54 blowout of UNC-Greensboro Monday night. The Hoyas moved to 2-0 after also defeating Savannah State, 83-54, on Saturday.

ReImagine Georgetown awarded grants to three proposals Monday. The annual competition funds projects aiming to improve the undergraduate experience.

Melissa Riggio (COL ’14) and Antony Lopez (COL ’14) were given $1,000 to implement “Illuminate Lauinger.” Both students work in the Gelardin New Media Center and intend to use their grant to purchase art-friendly technology for the library.

The pair also proposed hanging student artwork in Lauinger Library’s hallways and study spaces to improve the building’s atmosphere.

“The second half of our agenda was to bring more artistic flavor to [Lauinger] to make it more enjoyable to work in,” Riggio said.

Sam Schneider (COL ’13), a member of The Hoya’s Board of Directors, and Emily Oehlsen (SFS ’13) won a $7,000 grant for “The Georgetown Conversation,” an online forum that will allow members of the community to post video lectures on various topics of expertise or interest. Already under development, the forum is designed to increase intellectual exchange and foster discussion among faculty, students and staff.

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Workers Advocate Dies GU Absent From Occupy DC UPASANA KAKU Hoya Staff Writer

LaMarr Billups, assistant vice president for business planning policy, died in his Falls Church, Va., home Friday after a brief illness. He was 59 years old.

Billups, who joined the university in 2007, also served as chairman of the Licensing Oversight Committee, the Advisory Committee on Business Practices and the committee responsible for planning

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LaMarr Billups, who worked to promote fair labor standards, died Friday.

the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration.

John Kline, a professor in the School of Foreign Service and a member of the Licensing Oversight Committee, said that Billups’ loss was a blow to the university.

“He was so dedicated to the work, particularly to students and to workers,” he said.

Before coming to Georgetown, Billups served as an aide to Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and senior special assistant to the chancellor at the University of WisconsinMadison, where he began his efforts to promote fair labor standards in the production of university apparel.

During his time at Georgetown, Billups led a review of the implementation of the Just Employment Policy and consulted for Alta Gracia, a clothing line that promotes living wages for its employees in the Dominican Republic. Among college campuses, Georgetown was one of the top-10 purchasers of Alta Gracia products in the United States this year.

Kline said that although Billups’ work often involved contentious issues, the late administrator was open to all viewpoints.

“He brought a good consensual type of leadership to the issues. He had a quiet type of leadership.”

Kline added that because few students worked with Billups, they may not realize the impact that his work had on the university.

“Students that didn’t have the opportunity to get to know him really missed

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SARAH KAPLAN Hoya Staff Writer

While students across the country set up Occupy camps on their campuses, D.C.’s wing of the anti-establishment protest movement has garnered little support from Georgetown students.

The cluster of tents in McPherson Square, about 2.5 miles from the front gates, sees about 200 regular protesters per day. Few if any of these dissenters are students from Georgetown.

A group of at least 30 students organized by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee attended a rally on the National Mall Oct. 15. But enthusiasm for the protests has waned since then, according to Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), who attended the Oct. 15 gathering.

Kohnert-Yount started a group called Georgetown Occupy about a week after the rally. The group meets weekly but has struggled to maintain consistent support, she said.

“I think there is a certain reputation about Georgetown where students are actively involved in the political institution but are not as eager to get involved in grassroots campaigns like this,” she said.

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Protesters have camped out at McPherson Square since early October.

But for some students, it is the nature of the movement, and not of Georgetown students, which explains the lack of interest.

“Their anger is misdirected, and I think, frankly, that it’s no longer a protest movement … It’s just vagrancy,” Tim Carey (COL ’12) said. “I’m not sure how you could be a Georgetown student and live there.”

Charles Berahas (COL ‘11), who is involved with the Occupy movement, said he feels the lack of student representation can be attributed to the kind of students who attend the university.

“As much as Georgetown likes to deny this, Georgetown students are mostly white, rich, American kids,” he wrote in an See OCCUPY, A7

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EDITORIAL

THE HOYA

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011

TO OUR READERS

Refusing to Rest on Our Laurels

After almost a year of debate, the 2010 Campus Plan battle will come to a close in the final Zoning Commission hearing Thursday.

On Nov. 3, University President John J. DeGioia sent a plea to students, asking them to sign a petition showing their support for the Campus Plan. His email marked the first time the university had asked for formal backing from campus residents, faculty, staff and alums. But the university must do more to assemble support from students and local businesses if it hopes to see the plan through to completion.

University administrators have been more than accommodating of neighborhood concerns throughout this long saga, scrapping plans for a dorm on the block that houses 1789 Restaurant and The Tombs, agreeing to an enrollment cap and considering a transformation of the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center into on-campus housing for students. Neighbors, on the other hand, have been consistently unreasonable and have filed even more complaints ahead of Thursday’s meeting.

While the university has admirably tried to appease various neighborhood groups up to this point, what it has failed to do — and something its opposition has done well — is recruit sufficient support from its allies. At previous Zoning Commission meetings, vitriolic neighbors have been present in spades, but only a

handful of students have come to speak on behalf of the Campus Plan. If the Zoning Commission hears only the opinions of vocal neighbors, the university cannot expect a favorable decision.

Students have every reason to respond to a heightened push for support from the university. After all, we would suffer most if we are no longer able to live off campus. The restriction of Georgetown University Transportation System buses would be a huge inconvenience to us — and all other Georgetown personnel.

While DeGioia’s petition request was a positive step toward centralizing student support, administrators should not hesitate to ask for more.

In addition to calling for an increased student presence at Thursday’s hearing, the university should look outside its gates and ask local business owners to display their support for the Campus Plan.

They, too, have a vested interest in the discussion, because students — particularly those living off campus — provide a steady stream of revenue for businesses on M Street, Wisconsin Avenue and beyond.

Rather than facing the Zoning Commission alone again Thursday, university officials should call on students and local business owners to help make the plan a reality. Contrary to popular perception, the university does have allies in the 2010 Campus Plan process. It just needs to rally them.

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All Hands on Deck

It is with great excitement that The Hoya’s new staff and I present to you this first print issue of our term.

As always, our main goal is to serve you and to do so to the fullest. Under the leadership of my predecessor, Eamon O’Connor (COL ’12), this newspaper made tremendous strides over the past year toward furthering that mission. We continued to engage the community, established an improved online presence and expanded and refined our print coverage.

But my message today is

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Meditation House recently began a composting program in its backyard.

About 25 houses contribute their compostable waste and food scraps to the compost pile, which will eventually be transported to the Georgetown Garden on Kehoe Field.

To ensure that all Magis Row houses create such benefits and are inhabited by only the most interested students, the university should implement an earlier deadline. With such a deadline in place, students would not be able to throw their hat into the ring with a halfhearted community service proposal in a last-ditch attempt to land a university townhouse.

The application date change should be the first step in the Office of Residence Life’s efforts to revamp the Magis Row program. Residence Life should also encourage houses to work in earnest to improve town-gown relations. Community service is integral to both neighborhood and individual development, but a successful initiative must back up a solid plan with strong execution.

Magis Row holds incredible potential to improve town-gown relations, personal student growth and D.C. as a whole. But currently, students have little incentive to use the townhouse program as more than a lastchance gateway to prime real estate.

It’s time Georgetown students — and the surrounding area — get more out of Magis.

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sense of responsibility and accountability both inside and outside of our offices, and we will persist in our efforts to connect with the community.

By building upon the benchmarks we have already met, we hope to serve you better than we ever have. As we progress, we welcome your thoughts and encourage you to let us know how we’re doing.

My door is always open.

THE VERDICT by The Editorial Board Lehigh Letdown — The football team lost to Lehigh, 34-12, on Saturday.

For more details, see our coverage on A10.

Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell — WGTB Radio and GPB are co-sponsoring Das Racist’s performance in Bulldog Alley Nov. 19. Tickets are $3 with GOCard and are sold in Red Square and on Lau 2.

A National Rescue — Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued Saturday after being kidnapped in Valencia, Venezuela.

Happy Travels — Megabus now runs through Union Station, providing students low-cost transportation just in time for Thanksgiving.

Muddy Waters — The Georgetown region of the Potomac River was rated the most polluted section by Potomac Conservancy.

“Hit the Road, Jack: Don’t Come Back to Ward 2” Article posted Nov. 7, 2011 Comment posted Nov. 13, 2011 Proud Alum: A great editorial from students who are using the forums available to them to voice their opinions.

To all the neighbors who have come to attack these students: Good relations should never be the responsibility of one side. Georgetown students have been given a bad reputation by a minority of loud, disrespectful students. It would surprise you to know that other student neighbors are just as frustrated with them as you are.

The Hoya editorial board has every right to publish this article, and I’m sure they would welcome respectful dialogue about the issue. However, those who have attacked the students’ intellect, intentions and journalistic integrity are far more immature than they are accusing the students of being.

Well done, ed board.

“UCF, PSU Scandals Shake Faith in Sports” Article published Nov. 10, 2011 Comment posted Nov. 10, 2011 Anonymous: You’re wrong about UCF. First, the Jordan brothers had nothing to do with the NCAA violations. Out of all of the 11 players named in the investigation, only one ever played with UCF ( AJ Rompza ). No money was ever given to any recruits. Tribble offered a job to a player that never came and he awarded state tuition to an out-of-state student. Tribble was rightfully fired.

You also forgot to mention that UCF’s penalties from the first event were self-imposed. UCF notified the NCAA! But hey, Miami, Cam Newtown, etc. You’re right, UCF is the absolute worst!

Where is the sarcasm font?

Comment posted Nov. 11, 2011 Adam Tango: How pathetic. To even compare UCF to Penn State is embarrasing. A cheap shot, and for what? Give me — and people with morals — a break.

Comment posted Nov. 11, 2011 Common Sense: The UCF ‘scandal’ isnt anywhere close to the biggest non-PSU scandal this year much less since SMU. Miami, OSU, UNC were all miles away from the minor stuff UCF was involved, with considering the kids UCF was recruiting illegally didnt even go to their school.

“24 Emergency Call Boxes Broken” Article posted Nov. 7, 2011 Comment posted Nov. 8, 2011 Factchecker: They’re there in case someone needs to use them. That’s like saying we should get rid of fire hydrants because we’ve never had to use them.

And they do work (most of them at least), so they’re not a liability. 164 of 188 work, and the other 24 are being fixed. In fact, if we got rid of them, the university could be opening itself up to a negligence suit when someone gets attacked and there’s no callbox for them to use.

CORRECTION The article “Board of Governors Taps Into Alumni Base” (The Hoya, A1, Nov. 11, 2011) incorrectly stated that all 13 student governors are appointed by the Georgetown University Student Association. Four of the governors are appointed by GUSA, but the other nine are graduate students appointed by the Graduate Student Organization.

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Giving More to Magis Row When the housing lottery fails them, some rising juniors and seniors turn their attention to Magis Row. Though its goals are laudable, Magis Row’s late application deadline leads many students without any real zeal for its values to use Living Learning Communities as a backup housing plan. Starting next year, an early application deadline should be instituted in order to ensure that only the students most dedicated to Magis Row’s mission apply.

The group of 16 townhouses, located mostly on 36th Street, is one of many Living Learning Communities to which students can apply as upperclassmen. Applicants must propose a theme by which they and up to seven suitemates will improve the Georgetown community during the upcoming year. Recent themes have ranged from the Catholic Social Justice Community and Green House to the more unusual peace.love.frisbee.

According to the Office of Residence Life, which oversees the program, the main goals of Magis Row are ensuring the personal growth of its residents and achieving a concrete impact on the community through service. Residents are required to outline a scheme of daily activities and special events throughout the academic year to enhance the experience of students and neighbors alike.

Granted, Magis Row has had a positive effect on Georgetown and the District at large. For example, the

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COMMENTARY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Jack Carlson

A Misguided Visual Identity Georgetown’s decision to consolidate apparel companies has downgraded the quality of its clothes.

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recently received a picture message from a fellow alumnus who was back on campus last weekend. The picture showed a shirt for sale in the Leavey Center bookstore.

At first it might seem like just another overpriced Georgetown Tshirt, but a second look reveals something far more appalling.

For the image on the shirt, between the words “Georgetown University,” is a shield — a quasicoat of arms. An open book with “1789” on it appears on the shield between a crown, a chevron and some stars. It looks vaguely like the Oxford University coat of arms, which also features an open book and crowns. Unfortunately, however, this corporate-looking fictive emblem, probably sketched up in less than five minutes by someone in a cubicle, has nothing to do with Georgetown’s real coat of arms — and indeed little to do with heraldry, the rules and traditions which govern how a coat of arms appear.

Surely the official university store should know about the university’s historical and real insignia and traditions. But, alas, this is not the first time the Georgetown University bookstore has made such egregious errors. In 2009, I had to alert the shop that they were selling Cutter & Buck mock turtlenecks that read “Hoyas Est. 1785.”

These unfortunate occurrences

in the university bookstore reveal two trends. The first is that Georgetown is increasingly out-of-touch and confused about its own visual identity and, more generally, its history and tradition. The second is that as the university tightens its grasp on control of universityrelated products through licensing restrictions, the traditional, attractive, meaningful and high quality is replaced by the corporate, hollow and cheap.

The university has a demonstrable need for a bold, simple visual emblem that is both adaptable to a range of contexts and capable of being displayed in full color. This need is made obvious by the increasingly ubiquitous use of a photograph of a stained-glass window as a quasi-official logo in a variety of contexts where a color emblem is required; the unintelligibly of the black-and-white seal in small or electronic usages; the ongoing use of a phased-out, circular version of the university seal and the employment of athletic logos in non-athletic contexts.

To meet this need, I propose the revival of the university’s official — yet largely forgotten — coat of arms: a beautifully designed, bold and recognizable, highly adaptable, full-color emblem found in various parts of Georgetown’s architecture and in hundreds of documents in the university archives. This would help address the problem brought to the forefront by the use of a fake seal on official T-shirts.

The second issue this pernicious T-shirt raises — that of the negative consequences of the university’s tight control over univer-

sity products — can be easily seen simply by walking into the Leavey Center bookstore. Not so long ago before the turn of the century, the Georgetown University Shop on 36th Street flourished, counting the Kennedys among their regular clientele. They stocked high-quality Georgetown ties, buttons, jackets and other clothing items alongside their suits and shirts.

But those days are gone, and with the rise of the Collegiate Licensing Company and other corporate machinations to leach profits from the popularity of intercollegiate athletics, the university keeps a tight rein on Georgetown products wherever they are sold.

But the result is that the products are bad.

Because the university itself has total control over both the visual emblems it employs and also the branded products it sells, it is ultimately up to the administration to decide whether it wants to invest in its visual identity or continue to employ a hodgepodge of quasi-official insignia. They must decide whether the bookstore engages with the university’s most basic history and tradition or continues to pass off cheap, fakelooking T-shirts on visitors and students.

One can only hope that the administration gives the university its due and creates a visual identity and licensed products worthy of Georgetown.

JACK CARLSON graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 2009 and was captain of the varsity heavyweight crew team.

THE DISCONCERTED DEMAGOGUE by Daniel Yang

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A Less-Social Network Michael Meaney and Matthew Hoyt The State of Nature

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acebook, the website we all so carefully groom, is now an inescapable part of our lives. The way we engage with our online selves and online friends speaks volumes about the cultural norms of our generation.

Our addiction to online social life has affected elements of our lives — particularly sexuality, relationships and personal understanding — in remarkably robust and unpredictable ways.

To be frank, the social networking website allows us to creep. Interested in a particular someone? Well, jump on Facebook, check his or her relationship status. Then, by going through pictures and wall postings, discern the level of difficulty of getting a date.

Maybe add him or her as a friend, too — but only if you’ve actually interacted with that person, because everyone knows how unsettling the random Facebook friend request is.

Furthermore, Facebook allows us to advertise risky behavior with or without living up to it. Through commentary about parties, allusions to excessive drinking and overall rule breaking, we can show others that we approach the limits without ever having to actually cross them.

This is not altogether bad. Approaching the virtual line of frownedupon behavior is better than crossing the actual line.

But, it is important to consider what drives our need to seek and assess others on Facebook, because it tells us so much about ourselves. How we interact through Facebook, it seems, allows us to both objectify others and be objectified ourselves without ever having to deal with the unpleasant consequences that come along with such thinking in real life.

Yet, even if Facebook helps us reduce others and ourselves to the abstract, its online transgressions always connect back to actual desires and fantasies.

What we subconsciously reveal online usually coincides with what we’d like to do in reality. In this way, Facebook is merely a device that allows us to act out our private inclinations.

Of course, Facebook also allows old friends to stay in touch and serves as a medium through which people can exchange experiences and ideas. But the less obvious effects that Facebook has on our lives may be the biggest impact of all.

Ross Douthat outlines Facebook’s sociological and psychological effect, in a column in The New York Times entitled “Online Looking Glass.” In it, he describes how Facebook — and the Internet in general — highlight how obsessed we are with ourselves. The single greatest vice perpetuated by the Internet, Douthat writes, “isn’t lust or smut or infidelity, though online life encourages all three. It’s a desperate, adolescent narcissism.”

The “desperate, adolescent narcissism” that Douthat describes doesn’t only help perpetuate the hook-up culture in college, it leads to the erosion of personal interactions. How we act online denigrates how we act in real life.

The implications of this erosion are everywhere. From our generation’s lack of appreciation for eloquence and nuance to the hardening of the already balkanized social spheres that make up Georgetown and our larger society, Facebook is making people less able to synthesize and integrate real-life experiences and information. Why bother when a much more distilled and digestible version comes in easily accessible online packages?

Online social media all represents a new paradigm for social interaction, and we are guilty of perpetuating it.

We exchange our privacy to indulge our personalities. We contribute thousands of bits of information about ourselves so that other people can watch, analyze and judge us. Facebook is an addictive drug with invisible side effects that are shaping our world in a profound way.

Send us a friend request if you want to talk about it some more.

Michael Meaney is a senior in the School of Foreign Service and Matthew Hoyt is a senior in the College.

They are the president and director of communications of the Georgetown University Student Association, respectively. THE STATE OF NATURE appears every other Tuesday.

Emily Manbeck

Mind Your Manners

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Remembering the Blue and Gray Sydney Schauer It’s Tradition

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ahlgren Quadrangle is my favorite place on campus for many reasons: the breathtaking space designed to look like a European monastery, the beautiful chapel completed in 1892, the bubbling fountain that gives us a favorite student tradition. But, the spot is my favorite place on tours for a different reason — its incredible history.

The quad is one of the oldest parts of campus, and for this reason we tour guides choose it as the perfect spot to stop for a few minutes and talk about the history of Georgetown and the part our university played in the history of our nation.

Last week was no different. I paused there, finished up my joke about the long waitlist for those who want Dahlgren Chapel as the background for their upcoming nuptials, considering the commonly cited statistic that around 60 percent of Georgetown students marry other Georgetown students, and asked the group one of my favorite questions: “Does anyone know what our colors are, and why they were adopted?”

A man in the back wearing an alumni baseball cap raised his

hand. I gave him the go ahead, and he informed the group that Georgetown proudly flew the colors of blue and gray, and that those colors were adopted by the crew team in the late 1800s. Wait. What?

I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell a guest, especially an alumnus, that he is wrong? The expression on my face apparently gave me away. The man looked at me and asked, “Did I make a mistake?”

I laughed a little and said, “No sir, I just have never heard that before.”

I‘ve always thought that the Jesuits decided to adopt the colors blue and gray at the end of the Civil War as a symbolic reunion of the North and the South. Confused, I decided to leave out my reminder that many of the Jesuits and students of the time were Southern sympathizers, and moved on to talking about Old North’s time as a Civil War hospital and added that the top step to one of its entrances is a spot from which 13 presidents have spoken.

Continuing the tour that day, I got a few questions about Georgetown during the Civil War and informed my group that Lincoln addressed Union troops here and that our attendance dropped to an alltime low of 17 as most of our young men left to fight in the devastating War Between the States. But as we moved on, the colors issue was dropped, and I was left to ponder. I always leave the end of tours open

for questions, but this time, I had one myself.

I stopped Mr. Baseball Cap and asked him if he wouldn’t mind telling me more about what he knew regarding Georgetown’s colors. He had rowed for Georgetown and graduated in the class of 1976; he was happy to share what he knew.

It turns out I was correct in saying that the colors were adopted after the Civil War as a symbol of our reunited nation, but that wasn’t the whole story. He told me that it was the Georgetown College Boat Club, the original crew team, that had selected the colors.

He reminded me that distinct colors are important when watching crew, since fans stand on the shore.

Harvard had its crimson and University of Pennsylvania had its red and blue, but in 1876 Georgetown didn’t have a set of official colors.

So, a student committee declared blue and gray as appropriate colors for the boat club and, additionally, expressive of the unity between North and South. And the rest is history.

So the next time you wear your dear old blue and gray, remember that you’re participating in a tradition of unity, history and a championship crew team.

Sydney Schauer is a junior in the College. She is a board member and the tour coordinator of Blue and Gray. IT’S TRADITION appears every other Tuesday.

ave manners gone by the wayside or have they just taken on a new form?

Social issues and events today are dramatically different from those of previous generations. Today, Facebook and texting are more popular tools for keeping in touch, as opposed to formal conversation at gatherings and parties. We prefer conversations on Facebook or cell phones rather than face-to-face ones, or at least, we have more of them. Typing has largely replaced handwriting while symbols, abbreviated forms of language and expressions are substitutes for written words and phrases. Our generation’s dependency on cyberspace for communication and information has had a significant impact on our personal etiquette and manners.

For years, many people have relied upon and continue to reference the advice presented in Emily Post’s and Letitia Baldridge’s books on proper manners and etiquette. These women were experts in the field of the correct decorum in social and official situations. They taught their readers how to properly write handwritten thank-you notes, send invitations, respond to invitations, introduce people to one another, set a table, assign seats to guests at a table, etc. Their guidelines have been handed down from one generation to the next and represent the standard for what is truly proper and more personal to many people today.

In today’s age of fully packed family schedules and electronic communication, many families and individuals have abandoned the Post and Baldridge recommendations, adopting a different type of etiquette protocol. Though we know that it is appropriate to practice good manners, we may not have the time to handwrite a thank-you note or send an invitation via “snail mail” (the name came from somewhere, after all). They, instead, may opt to email or text a thank-you acknowledgment or invite friends over with an Evite, Facebook event or group email. Although a less personal approach, it is still an acknowledgment and form of communication.

Some may argue that today’s technological progress in the communication and media worlds have also

contributed to bad manners and impersonal standards. They argue that texting or talking on cell phones with friends or business associates in all kinds of different venues — be it at an office, movie, church, classroom, restaurant or check out line — is inconsiderate of the other people around them. Personal conversations should be had in the privacy of one’s own environment.

As a result, many institutions have implemented policies to forbid cell phone usage in their establishments.

Regardless of the intention behind these precautions, it’s pretty hard to stamp out the technology bug that’s bitten us: No matter how clever the “silence your cell phone” ads are in movie theatres, there will always be at least one member of the audience who absolutely has to be texting a friend.

Society’s fixation on electronics has grown beyond inconsideration and is now dangerous. Many users of handheld gaming, computing or texting devices have become so preoccupied with the information on their screen that they do not realize what is going on in the world around them.

Many states and the District of Columbia have instituted laws banning the use of certain handheld devices because of the danger they pose to drivers on the road. Sometimes, our constant contact is more than just a social nuisance — it’s a dangerous distraction.

Etiquette can’t really die, but it’s certainly changed shape over the years. The Post and Baldridge suggestions are less relevant in the digital age. We try to be conscientious of how we treat our peers, but when we’re in constant contact — whether it is via cell phone or social network — the line between personal and interpersonal norms becomes fuzzy.

What we might say over the internet from afar may creep into a face-toface interaction, and it’s not always a good thing. The old handbooks may be out of date, but we still can’t forget to think about our manners as we block walking paths while texting.

Etiquette can’t really die, but it’s ... changed shape over the years.

EMILY MANBECK is a freshman in the College and an assistant editor of the opinion section.

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GUSA Lists Rights FROM THE WEB

SAM RODMAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association released a proposal for revisions to the Student Code of Conduct as well as a Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities Monday.

According to GUSA members, the most notable proposed change is to the burden of proof requirement in code violations.

The revision would change the language of the determination of guilt from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing” evidence in cases not involving sexual assault as part of an effort to protect students from being penalized in cases based on minimal evidence.

The Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities drafted by GUSA details student rights, including the freedoms of expression and association and the freedom from discrimination. It gives students the right to deny unreasonable search and seizure by a university official but is not specific about what merits an unreasonable search.

The bill also states that students have the right to be notified of charges against them within at least 10 days of the incident and of sanction decisions within 48 hours of a disciplinary hearing.

According to GUSA members, the bill is also intended to give students a clear sense of their duties as members of the Georgetown community. The document lists responsibilities such as presenting identification to university officials, maintaining positive neighborhood relations and reducing risk-taking behavior.

GUSA Vice President Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) and Chief of Staff Mike Barclay (COL ’12) presented the bill to the GUSA Senate Sunday.

Senators raised concerns about how students will be pro-

tected from violations of the bill of rights. According to Barclay, GUSA is still discussing an enforcement mechanism to prevent such violations.

The Student Code of Conduct Reform Committee, which is comprised of seven members of GUSA’s executive branch, will hold its first meeting with the Disciplinary Review Committee to discuss the proposed changes Tuesday.

Barclay and James Pickens (COL ‘12), co-director of the Student Advocacy Office, will introduce the amendments.

Before any proposed changes can be implemented into the Code of Conduct, they must be approved by the committee, a group that consists of two GUSA cabinet members, the director of student conduct, the associate vice president for student affairs, two faculty members and two appointed students.

The bill of rights must also be approved by the disciplinary committee to become university policy.

Laverriere foresees more changes being made to the bill of rights and the Code of Conduct before they are finalized.

“I think it’s really early on, and I don’t necessarily think the bill of rights we put out will be the final document,” he said. “What we put out today is the beginning of the discussion. It’s by no means the end.”

GUSA is considering a number of methods to gather student input on the bill of rights, including holding town hall meetings and a campus-wide referendum.

“This is something that will affect each individual student on Georgetown’s campus,” Barclay said.

“I think if the bill of rights, or a form of it, were to be adopted I think it would fundamentally alter the way the code was interpreted and acted upon,” Laverriere said.

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Enrique Peña Nieto, former governor of the state of Mexico, speaking on Mexico’s need for sustained economic development Monday night.

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French Studies Cluster Approved EMMA HINCHLIFFE Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown’s foodies will no longer have to head off campus to get their culinary fix.

The university plans to address students’ gastronomic interests through an initiative for a food studies cluster passed Friday to be implemented next semester.

The grouping, which is being spearheaded by associate professor of French and Francophone studies Sylvie Durmelat, will include courses from the French, biology, chemistry, history and anthropology deparments in the College, as well as the science, technology and international affairs major in the School of Foreign Service. Professors who add the food studies tag to their course on the MyAccess registration system will be responsible for ensuring that a portion of the course is devoted to the topic.

“It’s a way to make classes more visible to students and help them navigate the course

catalog,” said Durmelat, whose class “Food and the French Empire” will be included in the cluster. “It’s also a way for faculty to meet colleagues with similar interests and participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue.”

The food studies cluster is the second to be implemented by the registrar, after the race and ethnic studies cluster. Many students view the development of these groupings as a means of finding courses in areas about which they are passionate without having to rifle through all of the class listings.

“Clusters allow students to obtain a unique perspective on numerous subject areas they are interested in without being confined to ... classes that they may not appreciate,” Adrian Mansylla (MSB ’13) said.

The first curriculum cluster, race and ethnic studies, was implemented this semester due to concerns about diversity education on campus among faculty members.

“The administration isn’t taking the

lead,” University Registrar and Assistant Provost John Pierce said. “This is an opportunity for creativity coming out of individual faculty members. It’s more flexible and fluid.”

The race and ethnic studies cluster offerings next semester include several classes from the history department, but many are cross-listed with the American studies or women’s and gender studies programs.

According to Pierce, introducing a cluster instead of a new minor or major has its own benefits. When an undergraduate college introduces a new minor, it must provide the necessary courses every semester, as opposed to a cluster, whose course offerings are variable depending on the semester.

Environmental studies and ethics have been informally proposed as two additional academic clusters. The development of further groupings depends on student interest.

“Clusters make experimentation more possible,” Pierce said. “That’s the beauty of it.”

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Campus Plan Stakeholders Reassert Their Positions HEARING, from A1 to households in the 20007 zip code Monday, outlining its commitment to quality of life in the community.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Chairman Ron Lewis declined to comment on neighbors’ plans for Thursday, adding that he will reserve all comments for the hearing.

The websites of both the Citizens Association of Georgetown and the Burleith Citizens Association prominently display information about the next hearing and how to give testimony against the Campus Plan.

In an ANC report released last week, neighbors expressed lingering concerns about the university’s impact on the community.

“The overwhelming objectionable impact … is that it would keep in place a very large number of off-campus transient student group houses and all the problems they bring,” the report reads.

Authors of the report also wrote that Georgetown’s off-campus disciplinary policies are more lax than on-campus policies, contributing to noise and student trash in the neighborhood.

“On the subject of university codes of conduct and disciplinary practices, we the community and the Zoning Commission are essentially stuck with what GU offers us,” they wrote.

Neighbors first began formally expressing their opposition on Jan. 20, when the ANC held a public meeting regarding the plan. “[Students] cannot follow basic rules of living,” ANC Commissioner Tom Birch said at the hearing.

Since the plan was submitted it has been modified several times in response to neighborhood concerns.

Major changes include the addition of 250 on-campus beds, a freeze on undergraduate enrollment and a modified transportation plan that would run Georgetown University Transportation Shuttles past Harbin Hall instead of installing a loop road behind Yates Field House and McDonough Arena.

The enrollment freeze and the 250 additional on-campus beds were added to the plan at the end of March, as the university prepared for the first Zoning Commission hearing April 14.

“The goal [of the plan] is to reaffirm Georgetown’s commitment to

partnership,” DeGioia said in his testimony at that hearing. “[The] Campus Plan is a modest and responsible plan for the university’s future with substantial commitments that respond to community and city concerns.”

The issues first brought up at the ANC meeting have continued to monopolize debate at more recent hearings.

“As long as the number of students being housed on campus is less than 100 percent, it frees far too many undergraduates to live off campus in the surrounding community,” Lewis said at the commission’s third hearing May 19. “The zoning rules provide the tools to repair this situation, and the time to do this is now.”

Though the commission had planned to make its decision after the May 19 hearing, it was forced to schedule two additional hearings to accommodate the large number of students and neighbors who wanted to give testimony and to allow DDOT extra time to review the transportation components of the plan.

This semester, Georgetown has rolled out several policies aimed at improving neighbors’ opinions of

the plan.

The measures include a universityfunded neighborhood trashcollection program, the implementation of the M Street shuttle on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and the installation of additional Metropolitan Police Department officers around campus.

Opponents of the plan remain skeptical about the initiatives.

“The university is obviously doing what it is doing now with an eye on its proposed 10-year campus plan. It is implementing a few measures that do not work … and also strongly initiating PR efforts,” ANC Commissioner Jeffrey Jones wrote in last week’s report. “In an area with a high concentration of both live-in and transient students, late-night student activities and alcohol-fueled student behavior, the university’s ‘see-nothing-hear-nothing-deny-everything’ posture is increasingly unhelpful and objectionable.”

According to Kerr, the measures are not temporary posturing and reflect a long-term commitment to quality of life in and around Georgetown.

“Thursday is the next step in this process, and we’ve certainly been

preparing for Thursday’s hearing, but we’re also … planning to continue the dialogue with our neighbors and continue our work on the quality of life initiatives that we feel are making a real difference in the neighborhood,” she said.

The majority of Thursday’s hearing — the last before the Zoning Comission begins deliberations — will be dedicated to discussion of DDOT’s analysis of the plan.

DDOT released a report Nov. 8 declaring that it has no objections to the university’s most recent transportation impact study, which proposed that GUTS buses exclusively use the Canal Road entrance in order to avoid disturbing the surrounding community.

Laverriere was hopeful that the hearing would go well for the university and stressed the importance of students’ support for the plan.

“While [students] may not always agree with everything that the university has done and the initiatives they have put into place, these are drops in the bucket compared to what will happen to this university if we can’t get the Campus Plan approved,” he said.

Turkey Tradition Lives On Premed Courses to Adjust MARIAH BYRNE Hoya Staff Writer

Employees of O’Donovan Dining Hall will continue to receive turkeys for Thanksgiving from Aramark this year after being previously informed that the university tradition would end.

Workers have been receiving the holiday gift for over 40 years, according to an employee who has worked at Georgetown since 1971.

Aramark, which manages the university’s dining facilities, has provided the turkeys since it began its partnership with the university in 2007 and will continue to do so this year, said Andrew Lindquist, executive director of campus dining services.

Several employees, all

of whom asked to remain anonymous, said that they were aware of the original decision that they would not receive turkeys this year, but many said that they did not know why the change was implemented.

“They say it’s budget,” one employee said. “Everyone’s tightening up this year.”

Other workers said they thought the cut was a reprimand for their recent decision to unionize. The union, which was certified in late March, is still in contract negotiations with Aramark.

One employee, who is also a member of the union, noted that the relations between Aramark management and employees has been difficult and inefficient. She said she believed these problems explained why Aramark would consid-

er cutting the annual gift.

The same worker said that flyers announcing that the tradition would continue were placed Monday afternoon in the areas of the dining hall’s lower level that are restricted to employees.

Tucker Cholvin (SFS ’15) learned of the initial decision to cut the traditional gift when talking to a dining hall employee.

“Basically, the university is trying to belittle them,” he said. “It’s as if because they’ve unionized they are not worth as much.”

Many employees were not pleased at the possibility of not receiving the annual gift but did not express strong opinions about the matter.

“Turkey won’t make or break me,” one said. “I can go out and buy a turkey.”

The Hoya Elects Spring Staff ESTEBAN GARCIA Special to The Hoya

The Hoya elected its spring 2012 editorial staff Saturday.

Connor Gregoire (COL ’13), former managing editor, was elected editor-inchief. His term will last one year, ending in November 2012.

“I’m honored to be taking the helm,” Gregoire said. “I

have complete confidence in this new staff of editors and firmly believe that The Hoya’s best is yet to come.”

Jonathan Rabar (MSB ’13), former director of sales for the publishing division, was elected general manager Sunday.

“I’m looking forward to working with everybody in The Hoya because I love what I do,” Rabar said, adding that he plans to further

develop The Hoya’s publishing division. “We’re looking to have a big recruitment push in order to continue our status as one of the largest businesses and organizations on campus,” he said.

Upasana Kaku (SFS ’13), former deputy campus news editor, was elected executive editor, and Suzanne Fonzi (COL ’13), former copy chief, was elected managing editor.

In Wake of MCAT Changes

ANNE SKOMBA Hoya Staff Writer

Academic advisors and students anticipate minor adjustments in the premedical program in response to changes to the Medical College Admissions Test, which will take effect in 2015.

The exam, which is a major part of the admissions process for medical schools, will be two hours longer and test a broader range of material after the revisions are implemented.

Assistant Dean and Director of Pre-Health Programs Ed Meyertholen said that because the specific MCAT changes were only recently announced, it is hard to predict their effects on the roughly 100 students who enter Georgetown’s pre-medical program every year.

“I think the test is really designed to find out exactly what the students learned during their time as undergraduates,” Meyertholen said. “How [the changes] are going to affect how we recommend, I don’t really know yet.”

The Association of American Medical Colleges, which administers the MCAT, concluded its initial deliberations early this month and recently released a preliminary guide to expected changes, listing three major modifications.

Two new sections, “Psychological, Social and Biological Foundations of Behavior” and “Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills,” will be added to the exam. These will supplement the biological and physical science portions of the test, which the AAMC is updating to reflect medical knowledge and technique.

The additional content will extend the length of the exam from four and a quarter to six and a quarter hours, excluding arrival and break time.

According to the committee that drew up the new test, these changes will ensure that students remain up-to-date on innovations in the field.

“The recommended changes preserve what works about the current MCAT exam, eliminate what isn’t working and enrich the exam by giving attention to the concepts tomorrow’s doctors will need,” the group wrote in the preview.

Armon Ayandeh (COL ’12), former president and current Senior Advisory Board member of the Pre-Medical Society, predicted that the changes will reduce academic flexibility for students in the pre-med track.

“The Georgetown advisors are now going to need to emphasize the need for students to also take sociology and psychology courses to be prepared for the new section of the MCAT,” he wrote in an email. “I think that students will likely worry about these upcoming changes, as they put more stress on students by requiring additional course work and reducing the opportunity for students to take interesting electives.”

Meyertholen said that the MCAT modifications will spur minor changes in the program’s course requirements.

“Its going to require a little bit more [psychology] or [sociology],” he said of students’ course selections. “They’re just going to look a little bit more in those areas than they had before.”

Though Ayandeh agreed that updating the test is necessary, he also expressed concern about the extension of the test’s completion time.

“I think that [an almost] seven-hour test is simply too long, as it is already difficult enough to maintain a high level of concentration and critical thinking for [the current length of the exam],” he wrote.

But Meyertholen expressed confidence in Georgetown students’ abilities to adapt to the new MCAT. “[The change] really doesn’t matter,” he said. “Pre-med [students] seem to be the type to do whatever is necessary to succeed.”

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Three Proposals Nab RIG Award RIG, from A1 Christina Crisostomo (SFS ’13) received a $2,000 award for her proposed series of online, student-led workshops.

“Through these workshops, students can learn from each other in a fun, pressure-free environment, try new things and meet new people,” Crisostomo said. “I really think the goals of my venture align with the goals of the grant. We’re starting an initiative driven by students, for students and simply trying to make Georgetown an even better place to go to school.”

Every year, grants ranging from $500 to $10,000 are awarded to students, faculty or staff who submit proposals to improve the Georgetown experience for undergraduates.

The grant is sponsored by The Hoya, The Corp and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union.

This year’s selection committee, which received over 20 applications, consisted of six representatives — two each from The Hoya, The Corp and GUAFSCU. “We reviewed a lot of really excellent proposals, but the proposals that were ultimately chosen had really unique

visions,” said Jack Glascott (COL ’12), GUASFCU’s chief human resources officer and a member of the selection committee.

According to William Cousino (COL ’12), chair of The Corp’s service and outreach committee, the selection process focused on ingenuity, feasibility and the ability to provide the greatest impact on the student population.

“I think what I like most about ReImagine Georgetown is the forum that is created by the partnership between the credit union, The Corp and The Hoya to encourage students to churn out ideas that improve student life,” he said.

DC Mayor Talks Entrepreneurship MARGARET VIATOR Hoya Staff Writer

D.C Mayor Vincent Gray spoke about the importance of fostering entrepreneurship in the District at the kickoff of the annual Global Entrepreneurship Week Monday evening.

“The ultimate goal is for Georgetown to be known for its entrepreneurial culture, to be a place that encourages entrepreneurship, where students and faculty come together to solve problems,” Jeff Reid, the

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Gray called for increased innovation in the District Monday night.

moderator of the panel, said in his opening statement. Reid is also director of entrepreneurship and real estate finance initiatives for the McDonough School of Business.

Gordon Brown, former British prime minister, and Carl Schramm, president and chief executive officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, launched the Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2008. It is now an annual event that focuses on promoting the future of innovation in America and involves more than 10 million people from over 120 countries around the world.

This year marks the third time Georgetown has held the event.

The kickoff began with a discussion featuring three entrepreneurs.

The session was preceeded by a welcome by MSB Dean David Thomas and followed by Gray’s address and closing remarks from Schramm.

Gray, a native Washingtonian, focused on the future of technological entrepreneurship within the District.

Gray’s administration, which has now been in office for 10 months, has said that fostering business growth is at the top of its to-do list.

“We like to think that we have sent the message that Washington, D.C. is one of the best places to start a business,” Gray said.

He highlighted specific areas of the city that are thriving economically.

“One only needs to go to Dupont Circle, Columbia Heights or

H Street,” he said. “Forty years ago, everyone had given up on H Street, the neighborhood I actually grew up in. Now, if you go there, you will see a thriving area of the city that was recently voted the number one main street in America.”

For Gray, the event represented the greater business efforts of the city.

“To be here, as part of an effort like this, is reinforcing where we hope to go as a city. The District of Columbia is officially open for business,” he said.

Gray also pointed to an educated workforce as indicative of the District’s economic success.

“Seventy-one percent of the people who live in D.C. have some form of college education. I don’t think there is any other city in the nation that can boast those kinds of numbers,” he said.

Georgetown students in attendance were encouraged by a variety of the speakers to take innovative risks.

“As Georgetown students, who are constantly thinking of new ideas, it was great hearing the mayor reassure us that in fact we are creating jobs and we are moving forward,” Pierre Lapeyre (MSB ’15) said.

Multiple speakers emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship as a remedy for to the stagnant economy.

“I truly believe that entrepreneurship must be a part of the solution set that moves us out of the current economic situation we are in.”

Thomas said.

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Berahas added that he thinks the university itself prevents students from becoming involved. “[The] frameworks through which most political, governmental and economics classes are taught … [produce] alumni who end up representing the very system that the occupy protesters are protesting about,” he said. “The minimal participation of Georgetown students is completely understandable as far as I’m concerned.”

Ben Johnson, a freshman at American University who attended an Occupy D.C. protest Saturday, agreed with Berahas.

“I think Georgetown University lives in its own world,” he said.

“Georgetown as a community doesn’t really want to have anything to do with this movement, because Georgetown as a community benefits from the current system.”

Supporters of the Occupy movement have been setting up camp on the campuses of many of Georgetown’s peer institutions.

In Cambridge, Mass., a group of Harvard students have erected about 20 tents in Harvard Yard. An occupy protest has also emerged at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where about 70 people “occupied” a vacant car dealership, according to The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper.

On the west coast at the University of California-Berkeley, 31 of about 1,000 “Occupy Cal” protesters were arrested last Wednesday after a violent confrontation with campus police. Despite the raid, students have continued to protest in front of the campus’s main entrance.

Kohnert-Yount hoped that the student activism on these campuses might spread to Georgetown.

“We’re not Berkeley, obviously … [but] this is a good opportunity for students to get off the Hilltop and down to the grassroots level,” she said.

Hoya Staff Writers Beth Garbitelli and Matthew Strauss contributed to this report.

Billups Mexican Presidential Candidate Calls for Reforms Mourned RITA PEARSON Hoya Staff Writer

BILLUPS, from A1 something,” he said.

University President John J. DeGioia wrote in a statement to The Hoya that he was saddened by Billups’ death.

“Since joining our community in 2007, LaMarr made an immediate and significant contribution to Georgetown,” he wrote.

According to DeGioia, Billups brought a sensitivity to social justice issues to the university.

“His dedication to service, to fair and equitable practices and to improving the lives of others set an example for all of us,” he wrote.

Billups is survived by his wife, Sheryl, and daughter Rachel Montgomery. A memorial service in his honor will be held at the university in the coming days; the date is yet to be determined.

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Enrique Peña Nieto, the former governor of the state of Mexico, stressed the importance of achieving sustained economic growth while speaking about his vision for Mexico’s future to a standing-roomonly crowd in Riggs Library Monday.

“If we really want to pay attention to security, education and health, we need to grow first,” said Peña Nieto, a likely contender for the Mexican presidency in 2012. “We have not been growing in the last 10 years. Millions of Mexicans have fallen into poverty.”

Peña Nieto, who is a member of the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, proposed a variety of economic reforms to improve the competitiveness of Mexico’s economy. According to Peña Nieto, such measures are critical to instituting better social service programs and reducing poverty.

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“In order to get goods and services at a better quality and at a lower cost, we need to promote competition,” he said.

Peña Nieto’s proposed reforms include better financial regulation of commercial banks, universal social security and tax reforms to increase state revenues. He also advocated reforming Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company Petróleos Mexicanos.

Peña Nieto was introduced by Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), (SFS ’78), who endorsed the former governor as the best candidate to expand U.S.-Mexico trade.

“The Rio Grande does not divide us. It unites us, as two countries,” he said. “Every day, $1 billion worth of goods are traded between the [United States] and Mexico.”

Peña Nieto affirmed Cuellar’s sentiment.

“Productive integration … like what is happening in other parts of the world with economic blocs,

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fraud and voter suppression during its uncontested rule from 1929 to 1982.

“I can’t imagine Mexico going back to old times,” Peña Nieto said.

“We are part of the changes going on in the whole world. What we see in the world is democracy development. The PRI wants to compete, win elections and govern within democracy.” While many students were impressed by Peña Nieto’s proposed policies, Colombian student Sabrina Nicholls (GRD ’12) thought that Peña Nieto’s economic reforms and increased security emphasis would not be enough to ensure economic growth in Mexico.

“If you don’t focus on women’s development, you won’t achieve sustainable economic development,” Nicholls said. “I don’t think he was prepared for my question about decreasing violence against women and increasing women’s participation. Women’s issues are low on the political agenda.”

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is needed for a more expansive integration of the North American area.”

Peña Nieto closed his speech by arguing that the PRI is the sole party capable of successfully introducing economic reforms.

“Only the PRI has what’s needed to give the reforms that Mexico needs,” he said. “I do not find, on the left or the right, conditions to give impulse to the structural reforms we need in Mexico.”

The speech, which was sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the International Relations Club, MEChA de Georgetown the Latin American Students Association and the Office of Federal Relations, was followed by a Q-and-A session, during which both students and the presidential hopeful switched between speaking in English and Spanish.

Many students questioned Peña Nieto about the history of the PRI, which critics charge with electoral

Hoya Staff Writer

Campus politicos are putting allegiances aside to make resident voices through student voter registration drives this semester.

In the recent past, the Georgetown University College Democrats have been the only major sponsors of voter drives on campus.

“Every year around October, we go to every freshman dorm and knock on every single door to ask them if they’d like to register to vote,” Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), president of the College Democrats, said.

This year’s College Democrat voter registration drive was unique, however, in that it was co-sponsored by the College Republicans and D.C. Students Speak.

Joseph Knowles (COL ’12), chairman of the College Republicans, said he was not sure why his political group has not held voter signups in previous years.

“This year I proposed to the College Democrats and pushed for a co-sponsored voter drive. I think the two groups cooperating will provide more credibil-

ity to the non-partisan quality of the event,” Knowles said.

Joe Vandergriff (COL ’14), membership director of the College Democrats, stressed that the campus’ political groups share a common goal of making young votes count despite their competing political ideologies.

“We have the same objectives. We want to make our voices to be heard,” Vandergriff said. “The demographic of our age is not represented enough.”

According to Kohnert-Yount, the joint drive registered about 100 students, an amount in line with past drives.

For College Democrats Darnall Hall Dorm Captain Nora West (SFS ’15), the long-term mission of the drive was worth her volunteer hours.

“The whole goal of the drive is to get more people to vote, regardless of who they are voting for,” she said. “Civic involvement begins with voting, so registering even one voter is worth our time.”

The Georgetown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also held a voter registration drive last Friday.

“In the past, the voter drives weren’t as successful as we hoped [they] could be. However, this year, the goal of our po-

litical action committee is clear. We aim to register more people who are underrepresented on-campus and off-campus to vote,” said Rashawn Davis (COL ’14), chair of the Georgetown NAACP PAC. According to Davis, however, the chapter’s hopes for the drive did not come to fruition.

“We aimed to register at least 50 people but only ended up with around 15 people,” he said. “A lot of students said they were uncomfortable with registering, while some felt that their votes wouldn’t make a difference.”

The NAACP will hold another push for registration at the D.C. high school fair at Eastern Senior High School this Saturday. It aims to register the parents of D.C. high school students.

“Eastern High school is in a neighborhood where 20 to 30 percent of the people, many of them African-Americans, aren’t registered for voting,” Davis said.

“With that many people present at the occasion, we can really make an impact there.”

Davis said the chapter plans to hold an additional voter registration drive before Christmas and more in the spring semester in preparation for the District’s April elections.

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on the third play of the game and gave the offense good field position at the Lehigh 40-yard line.

The offense then drove the ball 34 yards with a big gain coming on a short pass from junior quarterback Isaiah Kempf to sophomore running back Nick Campanella for a gain of 29 yards.

The drive stalled at the Lehigh 6-yard line, however, and the usually reliable senior kicker Brett Weiss missed a 23yard field goal attempt, slowing the momentum the Blue and Gray had coming out of the locker room.

On the very next drive, the Mountain Hawks marched 80 yards down the field in 11 plays to record the game’s first score, a 6-yard touchdown run by senior wide receiver Matt Fitz. Lehigh senior quarterback Chris Lum completed seven passes for 70 yards and targeted the middle of the field throughout the entire contest.

“That’s our coverage — [the middle of the field] is a soft spot, we just have to manage that,” Kelly said. “But later we tightened up our coverage a little bit and they weren’t able to complete passes over the middle as much.”

After trading punts for the rest of the opening frame, the two sides combined for scores on the next four drives. The Hoyas converted two field goals while the Mountain Hawks opened the second quarter with a field goal of their own as well as a touchdown on their next drive, pushing the score to 17–6 in favor of the Hawks.

Lehigh tacked on another field goal before halftime to lengthen their lead to 14 points at the break, a daunting obstacle for the Hoyas to overcome on the road.

But the Blue and Gray would not go down easily, coming out of halftime with the same fire present at kickoff.

After a 31-yard return by Moore on the opening kickoff of the half, Georgetown’s balanced attack allowed the of-

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Junior quarterback Isaiah Kempf threw for a touchdown Saturday. fense to move quickly down the field.

The drive culminated in a 6-yard touchdown pass from Kempf, which was tipped by senior tight end Tucker Stafford into the hands of junior wide receiver Max Waizenegger.

But the Hoyas were again unable to sustain their momentum. Later that quarter, Lehigh intercepted a pass from Kempf, returned it for a touchdown and stomped on Georgetown’s fading hopes for a conference title.

The Mountain Hawks finished off their scoring burst when Lum scrambled for a short touchdown run at the end of the third quarter. Lum finished the day with 32 completions for 393 yards, while the Lehigh ground attack gained 124 yards.

“They are very good on offense,” said junior linebacker Robert McCabe, who contributed 14 tackles. “When they got in the red zone we knew we just had to knuckle up and keep them from the end zone. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do that enough today.”

The Hoyas gained only 48 yards on

the ground and 151 through the air.

On defense, senior defensive end Andrew Schaetzke once again led the way for the Hoyas in his final game, racking up two sacks to place him second on Georgetown’s all-time list and third in Patriot League history.

And although a great season has come to an end, the team’s success — and the senior leaders who helped make it happen — will not fade from the football program’s memory.

“No one will ever forget this football team,” Kelly said. “[The seniors] might not realize it today, but someday they will understand it — we have to celebrate this season. This is a special group.”

Schaetzke expressed similar emotions.

“Every one of those guys put their heart and soul into every play, so we just have to look back and celebrate a great season,” Schaetzke said.

The Hoyas completed the season with a record of 8–3, finishing second in the Patriot League — the highest they have ever placed in the standings.

year — comfortable early on, assertive in the middle and aggressive at the end.

“Peavey had a great race,” Banks said. “He went from 41st by the 5k [mark] to 23rd in the last half of the race, which is exactly what we want to do. Sit back, stay relaxed and use great finishing speed at the end to come home strong.”

But Banks isn’t satisfied quite yet. According to him, the team can get much better.

“The guys ran really well, [but] I think we can get a lot better over the next 10 days going into nationals,” Banks said. “We’re not yet firing on all cylinders.”

On the women’s side, Infeld led the way for the Hoyas, finishing second overall to Villanova’s Sheila Reid. Following Infeld were junior Emily Jones, graduate student Claire Richardson, freshman Katrina Coogan and junior Kirsten Kasper. All of the women finished in the top 20 overall.

“It was a huge step forward,” Assistant Coach Chris Miltenberg said. “Richardson ran well, [and] Jones and the freshmen made a huge jump. I knew we were going to get better.”

The Hoyas’ performance this past weekend may serve as good training for nationals, as the MidAtlantic region is by far the nation’s toughest.

“We have the best region in the country,” Miltenberg said. “When you’re running against that level of competition in the regionals, we’ll be okay in the nationals.

And that’s the beauty of running in the best region in the country

— you don’t have to change your approach for the NCAAs.” But Miltenberg, like Banks, is already looking forward to next week, when the women look to compete in the NCAA tournament.

“You almost have to look at the regional meet as the last hard practice. You have to take [the time from] regionals to nationals as a time to recover,” Miltenberg said.

The women will also stick to what has been working. Their strategy all year has been for the Blue and Gray to peak when it counts: next week.

“I think you can do some good training this week. I think we’ll make another jump,” Miltenberg said. “We’re still making progress every week, unlike some other teams, who are just holding on [to where they are].”

The women will rely on their lower runners — by far largest advantage over other squads — to have relatively big races and earn points at nationals.

“Our biggest strength is our depth — we are so much better at four and five than anybody out there,” Miltenberg said. “And the bigger the meet, the more depth helps. The difference between our fifth [runner] versus Villanova’s fifth is 30 seconds, and that’s only ten spots in regionals. But in nationals, that difference could be 100 people.”

Georgetown’s cross country teams will have exactly one week to get ready for the biggest event of the year, when the Blue and Gray will travel to Terre Haute, Ind., to compete in the NCAA tournament.

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Free Agency Forecast

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Preston Barclay

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e’re two weeks into baseball’s offseason, and although only a handful of players have shifted squads — most notably, former Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon to the Phillies — the majority of baseball’s most coveted free agents remained unsigned.

Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Jose Reyes are all potential franchise players in the primes of their careers and are on almost every team’s radar.

Where they and the other top free agents will end up is a mystery, but here’s a preview of what I expect will happen this winter in baseball.

Albert Pujols — Old Team: Cardinals; Prediction: Cardinals The newly named and relocated Miami Marlins have been hot after Pujols and other top free agents as they expect to increase payroll and improve their overall product for 2012. Other potential suitors include the Cubs, but Pujols is to the Cardinals what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees. Expect a deal for eight or nine years eclipsing $200 million.

Prince Fielder — Old Team: Brewers; Prediction: Blue Jays Fielder has said himself that he doubts he will return to Milwaukee for economic reasons, believing the Brewers won’t be able to offer him a salary comparable to what he can receive on the open market. And although Fielder seems like a fit for divisional rival Chicago, new Cubs President Theo Epstein likely won’t pursue a huge contract, especially for a player many see as a future designated hitter.

The Blue Jays, however, not only are a good fit but are an intriguing possible contender in the near future, thanks to moves by General Manager Alex Anthopolous.

Jose Reyes — Old Team: Mets; Prediction: Brewers With Fielder leaving the fold and a gaping hole at shortstop, the Brewers will likely splurge and try to sign Reyes. Reyes offers star power at a premium position, but injury concerns will lower his asking price to fewer years and dollars than Fielder’s. Other possibilities include the Nationals, Mets, Giants and Tigers.

C.J. Wilson — Old Team: Rangers; Prediction: Angels It seems likely that the Rangers won’t be willing to pony up the dough it would take to re-sign the best starting pitcher on the free agent market, especially with his post-season struggles and a surplus of quality pitchers on the roster. After watching their for-

mer catcher Mike Napoli succeed with their divisional rival, the Angels seem motivated to raid Texas’s roster and return to the top of the AL West. The Nationals are another strong possibility; they will likely look to add a dynamic lefty to pair with Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann at the top of Washington’s rotation, and they appear just a piece or two away from being a realistic playoff contender.

Ryan Madson — Old Team: Phillies; Prediction: Red Sox With Papelbon out of the picture, the Red Sox have no choice but to go after the market’s second-best closer.

Other potential options for Boston include Heath Bell and Francisco Rodriguez, with the Blue Jays, Rangers and others in the market for top relievers.

David Ortiz — Old Team: Red Sox; Prediction: Red Sox If the Blue Jays fail to land Fielder, they could target “Big Papi” to provide pop from the designated hitter spot at a relatively cheap cost. But despite his comments regarding recent events with the Red Sox organization, it’s hard to see Ortiz in a uniform other than Boston’s. I expect new Sox General Manager Ben Cherington to reward Ortiz with a two-year deal worth $1215 million a year.

Carlos Beltran — Old Team: Giants; Prediction: Giants If the Giants fail to land a significant bat like Reyes, they have to retain Beltran. Other options include Grady Sizemore, Michael Cuddyer and Josh Willingham with other potential suitors for Beltran including the Phillies and Red Sox. Yoennis Cespedes — Old Team: N/A; Prediction: Marlins The wild card of this year’s free agent class, 26-year-old Cuban sensation centerfielder Yoennis Cespedes is a potential five-tool player entering the prime of his career. Because of his lack of experience in the United States, he will only command a $30 million commitment. Although relatively cheap compared to the rest of the market’s free agents, that would be a substantial investment in a player who has never even played Minor League ball before.

The Marlins are an almost perfect fit with a need in center field, an increase in payroll and Miami’s sizable Cuban population to offer Cespedes the perfect transition to the United States.

With so many quality free agents on this year’s market, the balance of power could significantly shift in the next few months. Expect a lot of change and an exciting winter in the “Hot Stove League.”

Preston Barclay is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business.

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LAWSON FERGUSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s basketball team (1-0) opened its 20112012 season in style, as senior center Henry Sims had a career day in an 83-54 rout of Savannah State.

While playing only 24 minutes, the Hoyas’ big man poured in a careerhigh 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting while tying for the team lead with five assists.

Although the Blue and Gray ended up winning by nearly 30 points, the result wasn’t certain until a six-minute, 20-2 run in the second half blew the game SAVANNAH ST. 54 open. The GEORGETOWN 83 Tigers, bolstered by junior guard Deric Rudolph’s three-pointer as time expired in the first half, came out sizzling to start the second period. Five quick points — including another Rudolph trey — cut Georgetown’s lead to three just 20 seconds into the half.

“It was an awful start to the second half,” Head Coach John Thompson III said. “We came out and gave up a wide-open shot and came down [on offense] and had a turnover. ... [We] took a quick timeout and had a little conversation.

The conversation had nothing to do with X’s and O’s.”

That “little conversation” focused on the intensity, or lack thereof, that the Hoyas were displaying on defense, and Thompson III appeared to get his point across.

The Blue and Gray elevated their effort level on both ends of the court, stifling the Savannah State offense and scoring efficiently when they had the ball.

The increased defensive intensity clearly bothered the Tigers’ shooters, who missed their last seven attempts from beyond the arc after hitting six of their first 11.

Georgetown also won the secondhalf forced turnover battle, 9-6, thanks in large part to a full-court press that wreaked havoc with the Tigers’ offense even when it didn’t result in a steal or misplaced pass.

The Hoyas’ size also caused the Tigers serious problems, especially after long-range jumpers stopped falling for the visitors. The Blue and Gray ended the game with 10 blocks with Sims and freshman Otto Porter leading the way with three apiece. Porter, who missed just one shot in his nine-point debut, also excelled on the glass, snagging a game-high eight rebounds in 25 minutes. Classmate and fellow forward Greg Whittington pulled down only one rebound

in his 17 minutes on the court but led the Hoyas with eight points in the first half on 3-of-3 shooting.

“Otto and Greg were very good today,” Thompson III said. “They both ended up with a full stat line.”

Porter, Whittington and Sims weren’t the only members of the frontcourt to impress. Sophomore forward Nate Lubick scored eight points, grabbed seven rebounds and doled out five assists, including a particularly spectacular behind-the-back pass to junior forward Hollis Thompson during the second half.

Freshman forward Mikael Hopkins and freshman guard Jabril Trawick also saw meaningful minutes for Thompson III, making an impression with their hustle and athleticism.

“They played very, very well,” Thompson III said of the freshmen.

“They all can defend, they all can make shots. They give you different things — it’s not about just putting the ball in the basket.”

There’s no question, though, that Sims was the star of the show. Savannah State Head Coach Horace Broadnax, a member of the Hoyas’ 1984 national championship team, admitted that his team hadn’t planned for stopping Sims on the offensive end of the court, and the senior made the Tigers pay.

He easily eclipsed his previous career high of 12 points — done twice, once against Loyola last year and once against American in his sophomore year — and, more importantly, did the dirty work down low and on the boards that allowed him to elevate his and his teammates’ play to the next level.

“Henry just needs to make hustle plays. The effort he gave today going after rebounds and a couple blocked shots [was good],” Thompson III said. “Henry doesn’t need to think about scoring, he just needs to let his effort [take over and] the scoring will come. I thought his effort was very good today.”

When Sims subbed out for the final time with 4:11 left, the crowd stood and applauded his effort. When asked about the ovation — the first of its kind that Sims can remember — the senior smiled and would only say that “it felt good.”

If Sims can replicate his performance today in other games, he can be sure that there will be many more ovations coming his way in the future.

ADRIAN BAUTISTA FOR THE HOYA

A version of this article appeared on The Hoya’s website on Nov. 12.

Senior center Henry Sims scored a career-high 19 points Saturday.

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St. John’s enters the NCAA tournament as the ninth seed after earning a bye to the second round. Six other teams from the Big East conference clinched tournament berths this year, including Connecticut, University of South Florida, Louisville, Providence, Rutgers and West Virginia.

Despite their lack of an at-large bid this year, the Hoyas finished the season with several individuals recognized by the Big East conference. Sophomore forward Steve Neumann earned a spot on the All-Big East first team after leading Hoyas in points for the second consecutive season, recording 11 goals and seven assists.

Junior midfielder Ian Christianson also earned a spot on the AllBig East second team while classmate and defender Jimmy Nealis earned All-Big East third team honors. Freshman goalkeeper

Tomas Gomez was named to the Big East All-Rookie team after his impressive first year in net.

The decision marks the end of a successful season — one that included a ten-game unbeaten streak, seven shutouts and notable victories over teams like Marquette, who went on to capture the Blue Division regular season championship this year.

The Hoyas will graduate three seniors this year — defender Ben Slingerland, midfielder Ibu Otegbeye and forward Uche Onyeador. While the loss of the seniors is significant for the team, Georgetown will return with a strong squad eager to avenge this season’s disappointment.

“This is the kind of group that will use the fact that we didn’t get selected, even though we had the quality to get picked, as motivation moving forward,” Wiese said.

“It’s a very resilient group. I have expectations and hopes of the best season since I’ve been at Georgetown coming up next year.”

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The Hoyas forced 22 turnovers, including 14 in the first half, and limited the Spartans to just 29.6 percent shooting. UNC-Greensboro did not help its cause, committing 12 first-half fouls while only scoring 16 points. Clark himself outscored the entire Spartan team in the first half. In total, the visitors committed 23 fouls and made just 16 field goals.

“They were really getting all over the place,” UNC-Greensboro Head Coach Mike Dement said of the Georgetown. They really get after the ball when you catch it. ... They are intimidating.”

“I thought in terms of not letting them get into a rhythm, [we were] effective, even at times when we didn’t get a turnover,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said.

Sophomore point guard Markel Starks played just six minutes in the first half due to foul

trouble, but scored 11 points in the second half, when Thompson III gave Starks and the freshmen plenty of playing time. Senior center Henry Sims led the team in rebounding with seven boards, and freshmen forwards Mikael Hopkins and Greg Whittington tied for second with six rebounds apiece.

In total, the Hoyas’ freshman class played more than half the game. Whittington, forward Otto Porter and guard Jabril Trawick played at least 22 minutes each, more than any of Georgetown’s starting five.

“We’re going to have a lot of different combinations — we’re not going to have a set core. … A lot of that is because of our versatility across the board,” Thompson III said. “We have to get precise, regardless of who is in the game.”

The Hoyas will participate next week in the Maui Invitational, widely considered the toughest non-conference tournament in college basketball. They open against Kansas on Monday, with tipoff scheduled for 11:50 p.m.

PAT CURRAN

Hoya Staff Writer

Some teams have no trouble compensating when their leading scorers have a rough day. The No. 14 Georgetown women’s basketball team learned the hard way this weekend that it is not one of those teams.

The Hoyas (1-1) visibly struggled in a 56-45 home victory over Longwood Friday night before getting blown out Sunday at No. 10 Maryland (2-0), 72-53.

Junior guard Sugar Rodgers, Georgetown’s leading scorer for the past two years, scored a combined 17 points on 3-of-22 shooting in the two games.

Fans attending the Blue and Gray’s home opener against Longwood saw a much closer game than would have been expected: The home team was ranked 10th in the country and faced a squad from a small independent school coming off of a dismal 7-23 season.

Georgetown led for most of the contest but consistently blew easy scoring opportunities, allowing the overmatched Lancers to stay within striking distance until the last few minutes. The Hoyas, however, attributed their struggles to early-season rust.

“Do you want to come out absolutely perfect your first game? Sure, you do.

But I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen,” Head Coach Terri WilliamsFlournoy said. “You can call it rust, first-game jitters. It’s a W.” Longwood senior guard Mina Jovanovic’s stellar defense of Rodgers kept the underdog competitive until late in the game. Jovanovic’s length kept Rodgers to a dismal 2-of-10 shooting in her 2011-12 debut, clearly disrupting the flow of the Hoyas’ offense.

Georgetown shot 31.7 percent from the field, including an ugly 9-of-33 second half.

“She was the main person we needed to slow down,” Longwood Head Coach Bill Reinson said of Rodgers. “We had to stay home on her, we didn’t leave her. She got open a little bit late, when we got tired. But for the most part, Mina especially did a very good job on her.”

With a strong opposing defense and the effects of a long layoff derailing the offensive attack, the Blue and Gray turned to their bread and butter: defensive pressure. The Hoyas forced the visitors to commit 23 turnovers on the night, many of which led to fast break layups or forced the Lancers to commit fouls.

While the half-court game floundered, senior guard Alexa Roche kept the offense afloat early by scoring all 10 of her points in the first half.

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Freshman guard Taylor Brown impressed in her debut Friday night, scoring four points and dishing out two assists in the Hoyas’ win over Longwood. of its deep bench, as all 15 players saw court time, 12 of whom (including all three freshmen) chipped in with at least two points.

The players knew that Friday’s mediocre effort would not be sufficient to beat then-No.11 Maryland on its home court, but they fully anticipated a turnaround against the Hoyas’ marquee early-season matchup.

“It’s just rust,” Roche said of the Longwood game. “We’ll be fine on Sunday [against Maryland].”

But unfortunately for the Hoyas, that rust was more difficult to shake off than they thought.

The Terrapins jumped on their visitors early, forcing turnovers and missed shots to take a 12-4 advantage only four minutes into the game.

While Georgetown narrowed the gap to as little as one point late in the half, Maryland’s stingy defense held strong and the Blue and Gray ultimately came out on the losing side of a 72-53 blowout.

Rodgers was once again held in check, and the impact on the Hoyas’ offense was obvious. The star guard went 1-of-12 from the field, including 0-of-4 from beyond the arc, en route to a four-point performance. Senior for-

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ward Tia Magee and senior guard Rubylee Wright did their best to compensate for Rodgers’ bad day — scoring 17 and 13 points, respectively — but their efforts were not enough.

“We press well and Maryland handled that. Sugar won’t have these types of nights,” Williams-Flournoy said in a press release. “A lot of what happened tonight typically won’t and we need to focus on getting better at what we do.”

On the offensive side, the Terps dominated the Hoyas around the basket.

Sophomore forward Alyssa Thomas and junior forward Tianna Hawkins combined for a stunning 36 points and 29 rebounds, and the hosts scored 32 points in the paint to Georgetown’s 20.

“We dealt with some things that are our Achilles heel and have been in past seasons,” Williams-Flournoy said.

“We don’t rebound well, we’re small — these are things we have to deal with, but we can focus on what we do well.”

The Hoyas will have to focus on improving quickly, as a road matchup with No. 20 LSU looms this Wednesday. While defense has always been Georgetown’s strength, Rodgers and the rest of the offense will have to step up if the Hoyas are to add a top-25 win to their resume.

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Nick Fedyk

Hoya Staff Writer

They fought and battled, but the Georgetown volleyball team’s (14-13, 6-8 Big East) season came to an unfortunate end at home this past weekend at the hands of Cincinnati (22-8, 12-2 Big East) and Louisville (21-7, 13-1 Big East). The Hoyas fell to the Bearcats on Friday, 25-17, 25-17, 25-22, before losing to the Cardinals by a score of 25-19, 2514, 25-23.

The two losses knocked the Hoyas down from seventh to 10th place in the league standings, meaning Georgetown will not travel to Milwaukee next week for the Big East tournament.

Louisville and Cincinnati, who finished as the first and second teams in the Big East, respectively, proved to be tough matchups for the Blue and Gray. Head Coach Arlisa Williams and her team will enter the offseason on a low note, having lost their last three games after a promising four-game win streak in October.

The losses also mark the end of outstanding careers for two leaders in senior captain and libero Tory Rezin and senior setter Ashley Malone. Both have been significant contributors since their freshman years and have started since their sophomore seasons.

Rezin, the team’s captain over the past two seasons, finishes her career as Georgetown’s all-time digs leader with 1,614, while Malone holds the all-time second place spot in assists for the Hoyas with 3,499.

The Blue and Gray put up a fight in each game, but the team was eventually overpowered and fell in straight sets to both teams. On Friday afternoon against Cincinnati, the Hoyas came out strong and stayed with the Bearcats for much of the first set, at one point only trailing 17-16. But Cincinnati recovered and went on to win eight of the next nine points to take the set.

The Bearcats jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the second set and never looked back despite the Hoyas’ record-

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Senior setter Ashley Malone (3) is one of two Hoyas honored in Georgetown’s Senior Day celebrations Sunday afternoon. ing their best hitting percentage of the three sets. The final set was a battle throughout, with Georgetown needing just four points to close out the set; unfortunately for the Blue and Gray, the Bearcats took five of the next six points, the set and the match.

The Bearcats outdug and outblocked the Hoyas in the contest, but the biggest difference was in hitting percentage. Cincinnati posted a .344 percentage on the match while the Hoyas recorded a mediocre .186.

Rezin led the team with 10 digs while Malone had a strong day with 28 assists, eight digs and six kills.

Freshman outside hitter Alex Johnson led the team with 10 kills.

Sunday afternoon was Senior Day for the Hoyas, which called for prematch celebrations — including framed jerseys and flowers — for Malone and Rezin. Unfortunately, the

celebratory mood did not last as the Blue and Gray dropped another tough match to the Louisville Cardinals.

The Hoyas rallied from an early deficit to tie the score at 10 in the first set, but it was all Louisville from then on. The second set featured even more dominance from the Cardinals, as the visitors held Georgetown to a negative hitting percentage.

Georgetown came out energized after intermission and dominated early in the third set, but ultimately fell prey to a Louisville comeback. The difference again came in hitting percentage, as Louisville hit .275 compared to Georgetown’s .170.

Still, Malone and Rezin were both able to turn in one last solid performance, as Malone had 24 assists to go along with four kills and a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage and Rezin added nine digs.

uring the men’s basketball team’s exciting 83-54 romp over Savannah State, I wonder how many Hoyas realized there was another game going on, one more important and conclusive than anything happening at Verizon Center on Saturday afternoon. Our football team was battling Lehigh in the final game of the regular season, with both the Patriot League title and an FCS playoff berth on the line.

Many people were probably aware of it.

The question is: Did they care?

Although we ended up losing the game 34-12, it was a step in the right direction. In fact, the last two years have been two steps in the right direction. In a school that loves to ridicule the woes of its football team, the recent success of our program is a sign that things are finally starting to turn around. When passing MultiSport Facility, Blue and Gray tour guides can no longer make a joke about the ineptitude of Georgetown football.

Last year, we started the season 3-1 and then embarrassingly lost six of our last seven games. A 4-7 record is nothing to be excited about. But our positive start was a glimmer of hope, especially because we had fewer than four wins in the previous three seasons combined. It seemed like the coaching changes made in 2010, including the hiring of new Offensive Coordinator Dave Patenaude, had the desired effect.

After all, you can’t go from 0-11 to 11-0 in a single year; real change takes time.

This year’s 8-3 record and second-place finish is a far cry from 2009’s winless campaign. We beat quality opponents and our offense looked explosive at times. Rebuilding a miserable program starts with winning, which paves the way to better recruiting classes and builds momentum for the following seasons.

Winning is also supposed to get the attention of the student body. But has it?

Do people care more about Hoya football after an 8-3 season? Did attendance rise on

Saturdays at MultiSport Facility?

Probably not. Since August, the talk of the town has focused on our basketball team and its new freshman class. Even when the football team started winning, students were more concerned with the news of Big East realignment. More people might have shown up to the games, but by how much can the home crowd swell when the home bleachers only hold 2,000 fans? And can most people even name a single starter on the football squad?

This doesn’t mean that we don’t love our team. I’m certainly happy that the guys who worked hard and practiced since the summer have finally found some success on the field. They have represented Georgetown well, and I appreciate that.

But that doesn’t mean that I — or many of my fellow Hoyas, for that matter — care too much about their record at the end of the year. I am happy for them, but their success doesn’t really make me any more excited at the end of the day. I guess I’m sort of indifferent to it all. If they went 2-8, I would probably feel the same as I do now.

Why? Here’s the plain truth: Georgetown is and always will be a basketball school. It doesn’t matter whether we have any star players, what our record is, how we’re performing or who we’re playing.

The spirit of Georgetown is deeply ingrained in our basketball team. It’s evident in our reverence for JTIII, our memories of great alums, our love for Jack and our journeys to the Verizon Center through feet of snow. There’s a reason why “attending a basketball game” is always on top of the todo list in the New Student Guide.

No matter how the other sports teams perform, they will always be overshadowed by the celebrity status of Hoya basketball. So while we give credit to Georgetown football for a terrific season, our attention span is short when it comes to the gridiron. The sound of the buzzer, the swish of nylon and all the grandeur that comes with tradition already has us under a spell.

Nick Fedyk is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. DOUBLE NICKTWIST appears every Tuesday.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Hoyas (1-1) vs. Houston (1-1) Saturday, 1 p.m.

McDonough Arena

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011

RECENT SCORES: BIG EAST MEN’S BASKETBALL

WHAT’S INSIDE Pat Curran recaps the women’s basketball team’s games against Longwood and at Maryland.

Rider Pittsburgh

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Alabama St. Cincinnati

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Lamar Louisville

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UPCOMING GAMES: BIG EAST MEN’S BASKETBALL Kent State at West Virginia Today, 10 a.m.

Rutgers at Miami (FL) Tonight, 7 p.m.

La Salle at Villanova Tonight, 7 p.m.

“I have expectations and hopes of the best season since I’ve been at Georgetown coming up next year.”

Men’s soccer Head Coach Brian Wiese

MEN’S SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

GU Dominates NCAA Regionals ASHWIN WADEKAR Hoya Staff Writer

Led by graduate student Alex Lundy and All-American senior Emily Infeld, the Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams both earned automatic berths to the NCAA championship with stellar performances at regional championships over the weekend.

The men took first place outright for the seventh time in eight years while the women shared the victory with Villanova. The seson’s goal for

both the men and women has been to peak at the right time, and the Hoyas are now seeing their work pay off.

“I wouldn’t say we expected [the victory], but I knew if we were the ones hunting everybody down over the last 3 kilometers then we would have a really good result,” Assistant Coach Mike Banks said.

Lundy finished third overall and first for Georgetown in the 10,000 meter contest at Princess Anne, Md. Following Lundy was a trio of Hoyas, including senior Mark Dennin, junior Andrew Springer and graduate

student T.C. Lumbar, who finished sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively. Junior Bobby Peavey recorded a 23rd place finish to round out Georgetown’s top five runners.

“The guys executed the race plan extremely well,” Banks said. “Alex Lundy did an incredible job moving all the way up to third, battling for second place up the stretch.”

But it was Peavey who was most crucial to the victory, using the strategy that Georgetown has implemented all See CROSS COUNTRY, A8

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The men’s soccer team was left out of the NCAA tournament field on Monday after spending much of the year in the top 25.

Georgetown Left Out Of Tourney Field MAGGIE LAW

Hoya Staff Writer

On Monday afternoon, the Georgetown men’s soccer team (10-5-4, 5-3-1 Big East) experienced yet another heartbreak when they missed out on a bid to enter the NCAA tournament this year.

The squad gathered hopefully to hear the selection committee’s picks, but the announcement brought the Hoyas’ successful season to an abrupt end.

“We’re obviously disappointed. … But by Sunday it was pretty clear that it went from our chances being pretty good to pretty poor because of the number of conference upsets over the weekend,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

“There are just a lot of things beyond our control that take over how these tournaments go and how your opponents do as the season goes on,” Wiese continued. “And all that factored into the funny [Rating Percentage Index] number. And the selection committee uses that number heavily — too heavily, in

my opinion.”

The exclusion from this year’s tournament was not too big of a surprise, even though the team was ranked in the top 20 for almost the entire season. Wiese speculated last week that the Hoyas’ lack of RPI wins and notable victories over highly-ranked opponents would keep the team out of the tournament.

“I think we had a good sense going in that we weren’t going to be picked,” Wiese said. “We would have been very surprised, happily so, just because of how the process works.”

Last year, the Hoyas earned their first tournament berth since 1997, largely because they were the Blue Division regular season champions and had earned a bye to the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.

This year, Georgetown entered the Big East tournament as the sixth seed and fell to thirdseeded St. John’s. The Red Storm went on to capture the Big East Championship with a 1-0 victory See MEN’S SOCCER, A9 MEAGAN KELLY/THE HOYA

LIGHTING UP LONGWOOD

Junior forward Hollis Thompson (1) scored 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting against UNC-Greensboro Monday night.

Thompson, Hoyas Crush Spartans MICHAEL PALMER Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s basketball team looked great in its preparation for a matchup with No. 12 Kansas at the Maui Invitational next week, defeating UNC-Greensboro Monday night at Verizon Center, 86-45.

Junior forward Hollis Thompson and senior guard Jason Clark led the

Hoyas with 19 and 17 points, respectively, in a rout backed up by an excellent defense that allowed just 16 firsthalf points.

Georgetown led by 46 at one point late in the second half, as the crowd chanted for UNCG 45 the lead to stretch to 50.

GEORGETOWN 86 Thompson shot 7-of-10 from the field, including

an impressive 5-of-6 from beyond the arc. Clark shot an ugly 1-of-7 from three, but made up for it with some nifty moves inside. Clark and Thompson combined to score 30 of Georgetown’s first 35 points.

“I think a lot of it was just good ball movement, like Coach was saying. I ended up with the ball, being wide See MEN’S BASKETBALL, A9

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Lehigh Tops GU for League Title ANDREW LOGERFO Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior guard Alexa Roche scored all 10 of her points in the first half of the Hoyas’ 56-45 win over Longwood, her first career start. See story on A9.

The Georgetown football squad was looking to capture the program’s firstever Patriot League championship on Saturday when it faced off against defending champion No. 6 Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa. In the program’s biggest contest since rejoining the Football Championship Subdivision in 2001, Georgetown hoped to complete a remarkable turnaround and earn a spot in the FCS playoffs for the first time in a decade. Unfortunately for

the Blue and Gray, Lehigh’s offense proved too much to handle and the Mountain Hawks cruised to a 34-12 victory.

After a decisive and emotional Senior Day victory last weekend against the Fordham Rams, the positive energy surLEHIGH 34 rounding the Hoyas was GEORGETOWN 12 evident all over the Hilltop. Students rallied behind the team in anticipation of this week’s matchup versus the Mountain Hawks, as large groups of Georgetown

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supporters filled Lehigh’s Goodman Stadium. “[That] was the most [fans] I ever remember coming to a road game,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said.

The support seemed to help the team in the opening minutes. After winning the opening toss and deferring possession to the second half, the Hoyas’ defense, the calling card of the team all season long, came out swarming. Junior defensive back Jeremy Moore forced and recovered a fumble See FOOTBALL, A8