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A CAMPUS DIVIDED

The Civil War threatened the school and turned classmates into combatants.

COMMENTARY The Hoya’s outgoing editor-in-chief reflects after a year at the helm.

GUIDE, G8

UNRANKED GW was dropped from US News & World Report’s Best College ranking.

BASKETBALL Senior Sugar Rodgers set Georgetown’s all-time scoring record Wednesday.

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SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A3

Early Applications Hit Record High MSB and NHS saw largest spikes in early action numbers Michael Donnay Special to The Hoya

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The Beautify Georgetown Project, which restored the shields in Copley Formal Lounge (left), and the GU Farmers Market (right) are among the eight successful ReImagine Georgetown programs.

RIG Re-Examines Impact Eitan Sayag

Hoya Staff Writer

Of the 13 initiatives that have won ReImagine Georgetown grants in the last five years, eight are still thriving. But funding for some inactive projects have been cut for the first time, and organizers are searching for ways to enhance the program’s impact.

RIG, an annual contest that awards grants to student-run initiatives, traces its origins to 2007,

when the university approached Students of Georgetown, Inc., the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union and The Hoya to start a program that would fund undergraduate student life improvements. The credit union and The Corp grant approximately $10,000 each year to fund RIG winners’ proposals, while The Hoya provides marketing and advertising.

“RIG is, for us, a way to pool our resources and get behind projects

that are bigger — bigger financially, bigger in scope and — we hope — bigger in impact,” said Ryan Muldoon (COL ’13), chair of The Corp Philanthropy Committee and a RIG board member.

The Georgetown University Farmer’s Market, Illuminate Lauinger, Breaking the Bubble and Student Workshops at Georgetown were all established with the help of RIG grants and remain

After delaying its early action deadline by a week in the midst of Hurricane Sandy, Georgetown saw a record number of early applications this admissions cycle, with 37 more applicants than last year.

This year, 6,736 students applied for early action admission to the class of 2017, marking a slight increase over the 6,699 applicants who applied last year.

Most notably, the School of Nursing and Health Studies saw a 20 percent jump in applications.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon cautioned that those numbers are not final.

“These numbers will change based

on some who are allowed to apply late from Sandy-affected areas,” he said.

Consistent with a trend seen in past years, the largest number of early action applications was for the College, which received a total of 3,855 applicants. The Walsh School of Foreign Service and McDonough School of Business received 1,337 and 1,196 applicants, respectively. The smallest number of students applied to the School of Nursing and Health, which received 527 applications.

Despite the overall increase, applications to the College were down 5 percent this year, while applications to the SFS remained about the same. The MSB, however, saw an increase in early applicants, with 12 percent more students applying early.

According to Dean Deacon, these increases are consistent with national trends toward preprofessional programs.

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HONORING SERVICE

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Grads, Faculty Flock to Fulbright Matt Walters

Special to The Hoya

Georgetown stood among the top producers of Fulbright scholars for the 2012-2013 academic year, with 14 students, faculty and staff receiving the prestigious award, according to a ranking released by The Chronicle of Higher Education Oct. 28.

Of the 61 Georgetown students who applied for Fulbright grants last year, 23 percent were accepted. This rate ranks Georgetown the 18th-highest producer of Fulbright scholars, tied with Ameri-

can University and Duke University.

With 40 students receiving awards, The University of Michigan topped this year’s list, followed by Harvard University, Brown University and the University of Chicago, which sent 31, 29 and 24 students, respectively.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers merit-based grants for graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to travel abroad and study. The grants also provide opportunities to conduct research or become an English teaching as-

RANGILA TO COLOR GASTON THIS WEEKEND

sistant for one year. The Fulbright program offers approximately 1,500 full or partial grants to Americans each year.

The number of Georgetown students that received fellowships peaked during the 2007-2008 school year, with 21 students who received grants. This was a sharp increase from prior years. In 2006, 2005 and 2004, nine, three and seven students were selected, respectively.

From eight years ago, the number of Georgetown students to See FULBRIGHT, A6

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Dancers in this year’s Rangila dance showcase practiced Thursday night. Performances will be held Friday and Saturday night.

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Members of the Hoya Battalion, Georgetown’s chapter of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, lowered the flag at a Veterans Day ceremony Thursday evening.

Business School Jumps in MBA Ranking Penny Hung

The McDonough School of Business moved up three spots to 30th place on the 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek list of best full-time masters of business administration programs.

The biennial rankings, released Nov. 15, were based on a weighted total of the individual rankings of student surveys, employer surveys and intellectual capital measure, according to the Businessweek website. The MSB program received individual rankings in those categories of 27th, 35th and 38th, respectively.

In addition, the school received an A, the highest possible ranking, in five criteria: career services, teaching quality, critical thinking, leadership skills and classmate caliber.

According to Businessweek, the ranking is an indication of how well the MSB serves students and corporate recruiters.

“We are very excited about this,” MSB Senior Associate Dean Elaine Romanelli said. “To be in the top 30, even at 30, means that for the next two years, we will be in the conversation. We’ve seen

that after Businessweek ranks schools, it always talks about the top 30, so the difference between 30 and 31 is huge.”

This ranking is an improvement over recent years, when the MSB fell below the top 30 cutoff for the 2008 and 2010 Businessweek lists, leading to a “not ranked” designation. The school had also been listed as “not ranked” from 1988, when the ranking began, to 1998.

“To be in the top 30 ... means that for the next two years, we will be in the conversation.”

ELAINE ROMANELLI, MSB senior associate dean

This the fifth time the MSB has made it into the coveted top 30 category. The school placed 26th in 2000, 30th in 2002, 25th in 2004 and 22nd in 2006.

According to Businessweek, the 2012 student rankings were based on a compilation of surveys taken in 2008, 2010 and 2012. The publication employed this method in an attempt to ensure

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that short-term issues, such as the construction of new facilities or unpopular deans, would not skew the overall results.

The employer survey ranking represented the quality of graduates and companies’ past experiences with them.

Romanelli said that she was encouraged by the new ranking’s implications.

“The publicity from this means that we will be able to attract more prospective students of even better quality,” she said. “We’ve got top notch people running career services, we just hired a new associate dean of admissions and we have terrific people running the program office. We also introduced a new curriculum this year, and that is going incredibly well.”

According to the MSB website, the revamped MBA curriculum, which was launched this fall, features more integrative teaching, greater rigor, an emphasis on quantitative and analytical skills and a global perspective.

Romanelli added that the MSB administration is looking to further improve its ranking.

“We’re looking at [this ranking] as the platform for a big jump in two years, so we’re working on all fronts,” she said.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

FRIDAY, November 16, 2012

THE VERDICT

C C When Colleges Play Parent Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

Independence is a critical aspect of college education, and universities should be cautioned against stunting that development by playing the role of parents. A frequent if unintended consequence for students resisting this type of paternalism, however, is that they can find themselves defending the right to activities that may be ill advised.

An example of this dilemma is the issue of smoking on college campuses, which has recently made local headlines. Both The George Washington University and American University plan to become smoke free by next fall, as do the University of Maryland campuses. About 600 colleges across the country have similar policies already in place.

The reasoning behind this decision is understandable. Students risk developing addictions — if they haven’t already — and secondhand smoke can be a health risk to passersby, not to mention something many find unpleasant and unattractive.

Despite these concerns, on-campus smoking doesn’t meet the criteria that would

warrant a ban. Georgetown should not follow the lead of neighbor universities by overreaching on its authority to control student behavior.

D.C. law prohibits smoking within 25 feet of building doors, windows and air vents.

Although that rule is seldom, if ever, enforced on Georgetown’s campus, it’s a sufficient standard for protecting non-smokers from secondhand smoke, and more severe restrictions would be an illegitimate regulation of student behavior. Students are free, although not advised, to gorge themselves on chicken fingers in Leo’s, binge drink at The Tombs and go days without sleep during final exams. When a student’s unhealthy conduct doesn’t put others in danger, it is not the university’s place to intervene.

Universities should work within their core purpose of education to inform students about the dangers of unhealthy habits like cigarette smoking. What they can’t be allowed to do, however, is attempt to act like parents and manage students’ life choices, however poor they may be.

Brown’s Disorderly Conduct The Georgetown Community Partnership signifies — supposedly — a renewed respect for town-gown relations. While the university has bent over backwards to show its commitment to this summer’s campus plan agreement, an antagonistic website like Burleith resident Stephen Brown’s DrunkenGeorgetownStudents.com does not share that spirit and should be reprimanded by neighborhood leaders.

It would be an understatement to say that the university has been considerate of neighbors’ concerns and complaints.

With its concessions in campus plan negotiations and the maintenance of strict standards for off-campus student conduct, the university has demonstrated that appeasing neighbors in West Georgetown and Burleith is among its top priorities.

The neighborhood should , in turn, be ex-

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South Asian, Center Stage — The South Asian Society will be holding its annual Rangila dance event tonight and tomorrow night in Gaston Hall.

Falling Out of Rank — US News & World Report announced it will not be considering The George Washington University in its annual college rankings next year. GW, which was ranked No. 51 in 2012, was cut from this year’s rankings after admitted to inflating admissions data.

Skating on Thick Ice — The Washington Harbour will be opening the newly constructed ice skating rink on the Georgetown Waterfront tomorrow.

Construction Progress — Stained glass windows have been installed in Dalghren Chapel, and other renovations are underway.

So Far, So Good — The men’s basketball team won its first two home games against Duquesne and Liberty.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @Brendan62 Nov. 15 Thanks to @GUPepBand and @thehoyasports for the play by play! @DiegoASoto Nov. 14 Hey, @thehoyaguide I’m a gov major, philo minors graduating this spring, what classes/professors are a MUST before leaving Georgetown? @samungar Nov. 15 @thehoyasports Better joke: “So this is how Liberty dies… with thunderous applause.”

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pected not to instigate tension that would strain that cooperation.

A resident of the local community has every right to report noise or disorderly conduct to the police. But regardless of legality, a website that posts videos of someone snooping on students and filming their addresses and private recreation is inappropriate. The site, maintained by a disgruntled Burleith resident, not only invades students’ privacy but perpetuates the long history of hostility between students and neighbors.

The Burleith Citizens Association and other neighborhood bodies need to discourage activities that specifically target Georgetown undergraduates. The university’s policies have gone beyond the demands of the law to ensure that neighbors feel respected, and the neighbors ought to reciprocate that commitment to civility.

Average Cum Laude While grades should not overshadow the more meaningful goals of higher education, few would question their significance as a reflection of student effort and achievement. Grades are like currency, and grade inflation cheapens the accomplishment associated with an impressive GPA. This GPA problem is effectively illustrated in the awarding of Latin honors at graduation. Over 50 percent of graduates from Georgetown College received some form of Latin honors, meaning that the school’s median GPA was above 3.5. In the School of Foreign Service, 62 percent of seniors graduated with honors, while around 40 percent of students in the McDonough School of Business and 60 percent of the School of Nursing and Health Studies in the Class of 2012 qualified for at least a cum laude designation.

Few would expect the accomplishment of Latin honors to be something achieved by over half of a class. While we certainly

wish the best for all Georgetown students, there’s something to be said for distinguishing high achievers from the rest of the pack. The “give everyone a trophy” approach is effective for youth soccer, not honors at graduation.

Rather than a revamping of the grading system, this problem calls for a new approach to Latin honors. In short, it may be advisable to raise cutoffs for the three designations of achievement, lifting standards to align with trends in grading policies. Honors are a reflection of individual accomplishment more so than relation to other students’ work, but if they’re distributed too liberally, that recognition carries less weight.

It is in everyone’s interest to protect the integrity of academic achievement at Georgetown. Many students strive to be among the best, but that pursuit is only valuable if we are able to identify who the best really are.

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CORRECTIONS The article “Former Member of the Jesuit Volunteers Corps Shares Stories” (Online, Nov. 13, 2012) incorrectly stated that Colleen Kerisk worked with an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic. The student was documented.

The article “Site Fosters Global Learning” (A5, Nov. 13, 2012) incorrectly stated that Cynthia P. Schneider was a professor in the government department. She is a professor in the School of Foreign Service.

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OPINION

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THE HOYA

TO OUR FRESHMAN SELVES

EDITOR’S NOTE • Gregoire

Valuing the Present, Minding the Future W

here to next?

It’s a question that never goes away. It’s the question I’m asking myself as a senior, the question I’ve asked myself on each rung of The Hoya’s organizational ladder and the question I was asking myself four years ago.

I’m grateful that the answer four years ago was Georgetown. I mean that genuinely, not as a convenient transition into unoriginal musings, although those might show up in the next few hundred words anyway. The last three-plus years, much of which I’ve spent embedded in this newspaper, have been the most transformative, most challenging and most rewarding of my life. I just think it’s a shame that it took me all that time to recognize how great they’ve been.

So many of us fall into the trap: We get caught with our heads down and our feet trying to keep pace with our schoolwork, our social lives and our near-full-time extracurricular commitments, and we rarely, if ever, get off the treadmill to look around. When we’re always asking ourselves, “Where to next?” we can lose sight of the here and now, and I think that’s an unfortunate way for our college careers — and our lives — to play out.

But as I argue that we should strive as individuals to suppress that question, I also maintain that The Hoya must fight to never lose sight of it.

At this college newspaper, we have the here and now down pat. While we have a long way to go before we count ourselves among the elite of our kind and even further before we satisfy our mission to serve this community as best we possibly can, we’re generally good at what we do.

But notice the areas in which we come up short. Those are no trivial faults.

I’ve watched our staff grow in number and competency over my time here, our online presence rise from the ashes and our level of community engagement increase steadily, but we’re not there yet.

Where exactly is “there”? It’s a point in the future where we’ve bridged the gap — where The Hoya is one of the best college newspapers in the country and can look

its community in the eye and say, “We’re doing all that can be done.”

Maybe that’s too grandiose a vision, and maybe these are just words on newsprint. After all, these goals are too ambitious to be completed in one student’s four years, and the constant turnover of our staff makes the transmission of institutional knowledge and progress a perennial challenge. The roadblocks don’t end there: Georgetown lacks a journalism major, our staffers must balance their time here with the other demands of student life and, certainly not least among them, achieving independence from the university appears unlikely in the current economic climate.

But The Hoya should task itself with realizing this vision nonetheless. Future leadership should struggle to overcome these barriers while making the incremental advancements that define individual tenures, and if the vision is kept alive long enough, that kind of change is possible.

With as much experience as I have at The Hoya comes an understanding that this kind of piece tempts cliche. That said, I return to the idea that I am thankful to be here at Georgetown. I’ve made the late-night walk home from The Hoya’s Leavey Center office hundreds of times, but there’s been something different about them during the past few weeks.

It’s for the first time on these most recent walks that I’ve found myself picking my head up to admire the beauty of this place that I hope will always remind me of so many fond memories. In a way, not appreciating that walk until now seems like the perfect way for it to end — years of missing the bigger picture finally giving way to an insight.

To current and future staffers of The Hoya, I urge you to start cherishing the here and now earlier than I did. But don’t let the newspaper forget about where it’s going next.

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Lifelong Friendship Awaits W

hen you leave Georgetown, a lot of what you experience here won’t leave with you. It’s just a simple fact. In a few short months, we won’t be able to pop into The Tombs whenever we want to grab a beer, and we won’t be able to run the Exorcist Stairs during our daily (OK, weekly) workouts. These things will be the same when you come back — while The Tombs menu may evolve, your relationship with it and other stationary things at Georgetown will not.

So what will you be able to take when you leave our little bubble in the corner of the District? It’s the relationships and the memories that you cultivate over your four years that will follow you for the rest of your life, and that’s a good thing, for they are the best parts of college.

It all starts slowly. Maybe you trip on the stairs at Leo’s during your first week and laugh about it with the people who you dragged to lunch. You walk around in a herd those first few months, praying no one notices that you all are freshmen. Or maybe you’re cracking jokes with a new friend on the way to that 8 a.m. class as you both wonder why you’re up at such an ungodly hour. You jump up and down with your freshman floor during the first basketball game of the season. You find yourself posting ridiculous memes or fascinating articles from The Atlantic on people’s Facebook walls. You and a group venture out to Dupont Circle for the first time. Before you know it, you’ve found the best friends you never knew were out there.

These people will see you at your best and at your worst.

They’re around to congratulate you when you land that first job,

and they’re surprising you with a Pygmalion from Midnight MUG when you’re on your second consecutive all-nighter. They plan an epic party for your 21st birthday and then carry you home from the bars not long after. And by the end of your first year, you will have formed one of these priceless relationships we’re talking about, which help you move on from those that inevitably fall apart.

But the best thing about your friends here at Georgetown is that these are the people who will tell it like it is. “Don’t wear that, dude.

Lauren Weber & John Morris

The relationships that you cultivate here will follow you for the rest of your life.

Are you trying to not talk to girls tonight?” These friends pick you up off the floor when you’re moping, give you that kick in the pants when you need it and remind you of why you’re here in the first place: not to be challenged by the finer intricacies of political relations in the Middle East but to think critically about where your life is headed and how you’re going to get there.

For the two of us, this all started Aug. 23, 2009, when we both showed up for a preorientation

program without knowing a single person there. We sat next to each other during the first icebreaker on Copley Lawn, and throughout the next three and a half years, we’ve remained close friends — despite never living in the same building, only taking one class together and never participating in the same extracurricular activity (until John gave in and decided to write for The Hoya.

Obviously, Lauren wins that one).

In the end, it doesn’t matter if you live on the same floor or see each other frequently — friends who challenge you to be better, do more and reach further will stay with you throughout your time here. But more importantly, they’ll be with you for the many years that follow. When you walk out the front gates on graduation day, you’re not doing it alone.

In the end, it’s these friendships that you make and hold onto here that matter, so develop them.

Cherish them. And most of all, hold onto them, because as you get older, they will come to define your Georgetown experience as the best four years of your life.

Thanks to all the people who have made our Georgetown experience priceless. We couldn’t have made it through the highs and the lows, the road trips and the campaigns, the relationships and the heartbreaks without you. And sorry in advance: You’ll be stuck with us for awhile.

Lauren Weber is a senior in the College. She is chair of the Board of Directors for The Hoya. John Morris is a senior in the College.

He is chair of the Board of Directors for Students of Georgetown, Inc. This is the final appearance of TO OUR FRESHMAN SELVES this semester.

SCRIBBLES OF A MADMAN by Ben Mazzara

Connor Gregoire is a senior in the College and the 138th editor-in-chief of The Hoya. His term ends Saturday.

THE ETHNICITY OF FEMININITY

Social Progress Stalled Despite Electoral Gains D

isapproval of where the country was fired from her job for perpetuating is headed, though only held by violently and vehemently racist ideology a minority, is overwhelming and via Facebook, to which she responded, “I devastatingly un-American. It’s shocking don’t understand what I did wrong.” that residents of every state have filed In a piece for The Globe and Mail, Imani petitions for secession from the Union — Perry says, “I am no longer shocked when and even more worrying that petitions there are reports of Barack Obama dumfrom seven states have amassed more mies with nooses about their necks, hangthan 25,000 signatures, enough to elicit ing in public effigy. Such old-fashioned a response from the White House. racist fodder is cliche in the United States.

Much has changed between last month Our past is always present.” and last Tuesday. With the re-election of What is most alarming is that much of President Obama, electoral victories for the negativity about these changes stems record numbers of women and openly from a generation that is said to be the gay candidates and the passage of mar- most free-thinking and tolerant: ours. In riage equality laws in multiple states, what direction is this country headed if the country is certainly moving toward the movers and shakers, young adults, greater open mindedness. But to suggest are contributing to the fact that race still that this past week has matters in a bad way? been a happy ending How can we move forfor the social problems ward with so many of that surround this our own thinking backcountry is — at best — ward? delusional.

It is getting to the In the essay “The point where we have House that Race Built,” to apply the same atToni Morrison writes, tention to extinguish“I have never lived, ing hatred as many did nor has any of us, in during the Civil Rights a world in which race Movement — perhaps Khadijah Davis did not matter.” One more because it is so could say the same is concealed or fabricated true of gender, class, be non existent. SysA black president does to sexuality; anything tems put in place to prethat can categorize not mean all of Dr. King’s vent this behavior and someone as an “other” provide some form of dreams have come true. equality risk repeal due will also always matter, despite the legislato false belief in a posttive progress that is being made on these racial society. We simply are not there yet. designations.

What’s more, the institution of hatred, The fact that women compose 20 per- which has existed for hundreds of years, cent of the Senate and 18 percent of the is not going to vanish in four more.

House of Representatives does not mean It would be wonderful if race had a that the average woman will experience more positive influence. Simply citing equality in the workplace or society in uncommon examples of racial tolerance general. Likewise, we cannot simply see does not negate the fact that struggles the election of openly gay politicians like are still rather intense. Not understandSenator-elect Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) ing why racism, sexism or homophobia in a couple of states as indicative of the is wrong does not either. We try to speak end to hatred or bias. It would also be concepts such as “post-race” into exisinvalid to suggest that the election of a tence, but the actions of many show we black president means all of Dr. Martin have much left to do in these arenas. We Luther King Jr.’s dreams have come true. must go beyond the excuses that lead Commentary from political sociolo- “once upon a time” to have us feeling as if gists and journalists indicates that bigot- things have gotten better. Only then can ry, racism, homophobia and sexism are we come to a closer legislative consensus still at large. There has been a disturbing of our happily ever after. competition on Twitter to see who was more racist this past week, with Missis- Khadijah Davis is a sophomore in the sippi, Alabama and Georgia reigning School of Nursing and Health Studies. supreme supremacists, according to Cre- She is secretary of Georgetown Univerative Loafing Atlanta. sity Women of Color. This is the final apIn the liberal state of California, a pearance of THE ETHNICITY OF FEMININITY 22-year-old woman named Denise Helms this semester.

VIEWPOINT • Ippel

Massacre Felt 23 Years Later

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n a bright Saturday morning, I sat in the Rose Garden above Centro Monseñor Romero at the Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. I looked at the roses, imagining what took place that dreadful morning of Nov. 16, 1989 in the upper part of the Jesuit residence at UCA and dreaming about what these roses signify in the lives of Salvadorans, in humanity and in my own life.

Sitting in silence, I cried as the images flipped through my head of the murdered bodies of six Jesuit priests — Ignacio Ellacuría, Amando López, Ignacio MartínBaró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Joaquín López y López — and their housekeeper, Elba Ramos, and her daughter, Celina. Dragged out of their room in their undergarments and pajamas and ordered to lie down on the lawn with their faces in the ground, five of the Jesuits were killed with multiple bullets, destroying their bodies.

López y López was then killed in his room; and Elba and Celina Ramos were shot multiple times.

A United Nations Truth Commission concluded after the war that the Salvadoran government was behind the planning and execution of these murders. Having been in a civil war for nearly a decade, the military needed to find a way to halt the opposition force, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Assumed to be “intellectuals” supporting the FMLN, the Jesuits were obvious problems as far as the military was concerned. The

order to carry out the assassination was given by Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides, commander of the special military zone near UCA. The Truth Commission also uncovered that 19 of the 26 soldiers involved in the UCA massacre were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Ga. I, along with thousands of others, will gather this weekend at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice here in Washington, D.C. We will commemorate these Jesuit martyrs and their companions who understood that love of the poor was to guide all their actions in fighting for justice. These martyrs were killed because they told the government that its treatment of the poor was unjust, that the violence used to silence those who spoke out was inhumane and that privilege and that power cannot be used to squash the vulnerable or marginalized. This weekend, we gather to celebrate their lives and recognize that we, too, are called to give ourselves for others, as Ignatius of Loyola taught. We are to give and not count the cost, fight and not heed the wounds, toil and not seek reward. We do all that we do for the greater glory of God and for all of humanity.

We are inherently connected to the Jesuits’ work at UCA and, ultimately, their martyrdom. Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., president of UCA, believed that the core of his university is the convergence of reason and faith, which allows us to see the reality of the world around us, especially the suffer-

ing of the poor. We, as a university engaging that same tension, are called to use our privilege and position to help those on the margins. Banners proclaiming this “Spirit of Georgetown” fill our campus. We are called to live these values.

As I concluded my meditation in the garden, I reflected on the significance of the deaths of the Jesuits and their companions.

Roses were planted at the place where they died as a sign of hope and a challenge to future generations. We are called on to provide hope for the world, to fight for justice in the promotion of faith and to love in a limitless way those close to us and those we will never know. Eight people who answered this call were killed because of it. Their example should be an inspiration to us as we strive to imitate their generosity of spirit and self.

The challenge is in front of us.

We must allow the sometimes uncomfortable reality of the world into our lives. We need to know it and to respond to it. The role of the university is to prepare us and to inspire us to undertake our human mission. By engaging the tension between faith and reason, we, as students, can begin to see the world as it is. By acting in pursuit of justice, we can begin to make the world as it should be, bonded by a solidarity of love and a generosity of spirit.

MATTHEW IPPEL is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. He is coordinator of Georgetown’s delegation to the 2012 Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice.

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Nearly 27 years after graduating from Georgetown, Representativeelect Filemon Vela (COL ’85) will return to Washington this January to represent Texas’ newly created 34th Congressional District.

Vela (D-Texas) is one of 14 Georgetown alumni to be elected to the House in the Nov. 6 election — nine are returning incumbents, while Vela and four others are new to Congress.

Vela has spent the two decades since his graduation as an attorney. He has represented many individuals in civil cases against large corporations, including Robert Trevino v. Walmart, in which Hispanic farm workers brought suit against Walmart after they were banned from a Mississippi store because other Hispanics had previously stolen from it.

“As a litigator, each case is a new story and also allows you to connect to your individual client. And many times, my clients are people who have suffered devastating injury,” he said. “Each experience has been a building block.”

For Vela, getting to Washington was not easy. He faced seven other candidates in the primary election, where he received 40 percent of the vote. In Texas, Democratic candidates need a majority of the vote to receive the nomination, so a run-off primary was held in July. Vela defeated his challenger in the run-off and then in the general election, winning his district with 62 percent of the vote. Now, after a year on the campaign trail, Vela is ready to take office.

“The prospect of serving in Congress is very engaging. I take it very seriously. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I am hoping it’s going to be a lot of fun, too,” he said.

While Vela has never previously held political office, public service is a tradition in his family. His father, Filemon Vela Sr., was a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of Texas. Vela’s mother, Blanca Vela, was the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, the city where Vela grew up.

Reflecting on the lessons he learned at Georgetown, Vela said that the late professor of government Walter Giles (SFS ’43, GRD ’45),

who was assigned as Vela’s faculty mentor, was a significant influence.

“He taught me a lot about how government works. He trained those of us who wanted to go into the field of law very well,” he said.

Outside of class, Vela and Giles bonded over basketball games, where Giles often took his mentees.

“It was an exciting time to be here,” Vela said, referring to the Hoyas’ victory in the 1984 NCAA tournament.

Vela has also remained close with his former housemates and said they were among the first to call and congratulate him on Election Night.

“I learned the lasting value of friendship with the friends that I made here,” Vela said.

When Vela officially begins to serve on Capitol Hill this January, he is confident that can work across the partisan aisle. Although Vela ran for office as a Democrat, his wife Rose, who serves as a judge on Texas’ 13th Court of Appeals, is a Republican.

“We’ve told people during the last nine months [that] if I can live and be married with one for 22 years, I can work with them in Washington,” he said. “I don’t view party labels as restricting me from developing friendships and engaging in dialogue.”

According to Vela, bipartisan cooperation is necessary if Congress is to address the nation’s looming fiscal cliff. ”The one thing everybody can agree on is that if Congress doesn’t begin to work together to fix the consequences of the fiscal cliff, we may be set right back into recession,” he said. “The inability of Congress to work together in the past, ironically, has put us in a situation where we have no choice but to work together to avoid a recessionary crisis.”

In addition to working to solve the nation’s fiscal woes, Vela plans to advocate for issues that are of direct concern to his constituents back home — namely immigration reform and border security.

Vela’s congressional district stretches along Texas’ Gulf Coast and runs from Corpus Christi to Brownsville, which is located just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. According to Vela, Mexican drug cartels have a significant presence across the border and the area is prone to conflict. He hopes

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Filemon Vela (COL ’85) was elected to represent Texas’ 34th Congressional District Nov. 6. to establish border security that protects the people of Brownsville from the violence while maintaining a strong relationship with Mexico.

“It’s important to address immigration and border security, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Mexico is one of our largest trading partners, and, in the long run, improving the economy of both of our countries helps [them] become economically viable,” Vela said.

Vela also hopes to address the issue of immigration during his term.

“We need to take the president’s directive in the DREAM Act and turn it into law and come up with some sort of comprehensive immigration reform,” he said. “I would hope that most Texas Republicans would agree that we need … turn it into law and come up with some sort of comprehensive immigration reform to the likes of what ... former President Bush set forth when he was president.”

This is the first of a three-part feature series on Georgetown alumni newly elected to Congress. The next installment will be published Friday, Nov. 30.

Planning is underway for the 11th annual Let Freedom Ring Initiative, which will be held this January.

Based on the ideals championed in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which challenged southern clergymen who had asked him to stop advocating for civil rights and desegregation, the initiative will relate King’s activism to social justice at Georgetown.

“The theme for Georgetown is the notion of using social justice and other forms of action to give voice to many silent forms of injustice in our lives,” said Michael Smith, co-chair of the initiative and director of affirmative action programs at the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action.

The event will honor D.C. activist Mary Brown — who works to provide opportunities for local black youth — with the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award, which was named for the former Georgetown men’s head basketball coach and honors people who fight for social justice.

Past recipients include basketball player Dikembe Mutombo (CAS ’91), speechwriter Clarence Jones and Children’s Defense Fund activist Marian Wright Edelman.

University President John J. DeGioia founded the Let Freedom Ring Initiative in 2003.

“DeGioia wanted members of the university community to celebrate the life and legacy of MLK in a more significant way than we had done in the past — engaging our neighbors in D.C. and our campus community in reflecting on his work and the ongoing work he inspired,” Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh said. “We’ve honored a range of international and national leaders in the past 10 years with the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award.”

The initiative’s planning process began Nov. 8 with a committee

meeting held in the Philodemic Room in Healy Hall. About 25 faculty, staff and students attended the meeting, the first of five spanning from now until January.

The committee is responsible for planning the celebration’s various events, which include a day of community service, a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an academic event, a spiritual service, a student, faculty and staff reflection event and a final performance event.

Meeting attendees formed subcommittees to focus on each of these events.

The committee also talked about organizing a spoken word flash mob in Red Square to promote the event and to raise awareness about its “Letter from Birmingham Jail” theme.

“A lot of the stuff we plan will be based on the letter and what Dr. King wrote,” Hyun-Kyoo Jo (SFS ’13), a student who attended the meeting, said. “So, in Red Square, we were thinking about having people read off different parts of the letter out loud. It’s a way to get attention and to publicize both King’s writings and the events.”

The committee also finalized details for vocalist and songwriter Smokey Robinson, who will perform at the Kennedy Center. Past performers have included Aretha Franklin and Brian McKnight.

Britt Daniels (COL ’16), another student who attended the meeting, expressed surprise and disappointment at the low turnout at the meeting last week.

“Considering that the email about the committee meeting was a school-wide email, I was surprised that only around 25 people showed up,” Daniels said.

But Smith said that attendance of 20 to 40 people is typical for planning committee meetings. In addition, turnout for the planning committee meetings is not an indication of interest in the events. According to Smith, the Kennedy Center performance is always filled to capacity, and on-campus events average between 75 and 200 people.

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D.C. Reads and D.C. Schools sponsored Education Week, an advocacy event that aimed to inform the Georgetown community about the inequalities in District’s public school system, this week.

Elisa Manrique (COL ’14), the chair of the Education Week Committee, led a team of 10 student coordinators from the two tutoring programs to organize the week’s activities. The team began planning the event in early October.

“This is our third year putting on Education Week,” Manrique said. “Although our events … coincide with National Education Week, which is federally funded and more policy based, our goal is to spread awareness about the problems that we confront as individuals who work in the field.”

The theme for this year’s event was “Still Separate, Still Unequal.”

“We tried very hard this year to create an overarching theme for the week,” Manrique said. “We want to present the campus with a cohesive, constructive argument about the fact that racial inequality is still very much engrained in the public school system. … It’s something that has been partially but not yet fully addressed.”

The first event consisted of a panel and discussion on the education of immigrants Monday night. Guest speakers included Georgetown anthropology professor Elzbieta Gozdziak, D.C. Public Schools English as a Second Language specialist Rosanna DeMammos and American Institutes of Research analyst Diane August.

Manavi Bhagwat (SFS ’16), a tutor for the D.C. Schools middle school program, said the event helped her better understand her role in helping students.

“I found Dr. Gozdziak’s section particularly interesting because it highlighted the importance of strong and supportive families in aiding immigrant integration into the American school system and culture,” Bhagwat said. “It showed me that there is an upper limit to everything tutors and the schools can do unless someone

This weekend, students, alumni, faculty and staff will participate in Georgetown’s first Hackathon, an idea development and implementation session.

“Hacking is about identifying [a] problem, breaking [the] problem down to its most essential core and figuring out the solution to it,” event coorganizer Keaton Bedell (COL ’13) said.

Registration for the event closed Nov. 7 and is open to 130 people who will be divided into 20 teams. Each team will design an app, service or product that focuses on transforming one of five aspects of community life: living, learning, working, playing or serving.

According to Bedell, the event will allow student ideas to be put into action.

“There’s already a culture at Georgetown of wanting to solve problems and take action,” he said. “The Hackathon will provide an opportunity to really incubate that forward at an accelerated rate because sometimes students feel frustrated with the speed of things that happen at the university.”

According to Program Manager for New Media and Special Projects Michael Wang (MSB ’07), the Hackathon is an expansion of the Innovation Summit that took place last April.

“The Georgetown Innovation Summit was about an exchange of ideas and inspiration,” he said. “This Georgetown Hackathon is about turning those ideas into action.”

Wang was inspired to organize the event after attending a “Reinvent Business” Hackathon in San Francisco, Calif., in June. That event was sponsored by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values in Decision-Making, a council that monitors and addresses global challenges.

“It was inspiring to see what groups of engaged teams — made up of designers, programmers, storytellers, business folks and academics — were able to come up with ideas and

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Panelists at the event, “Teaching Anti-Racism in Classrooms,” discussed race and diversity in Lohrfink Auditorium Thursday. first tackles familial problems.”

The “Let Your Voice Be Heard: Poetry Slam” drew a large audience to Bulldog Alley Tuesday night and featured six student poets from the on-campus spoken word community, Corpus, and two professionals from a local group, Graffiti D.C. The poets spoke about personal challenges within the educational system.

“This was one of the most diverse poetry events I’ve ever attended,” said Dale Batoon (NHS ’13), a student performer who spoke about the identity crisis he faced growing up as a Filipino immigrant attending public schools in the Bronx. “I thought it was an amazing event. There was such a supportive atmosphere created by everyone here.”

“Before this, we had never done anything like a poetry slam,” Cat Skolnicki (COL ’13), student planner of the poetry slam, said. “We thought the poetry slam fit in well because it’s important for people to be able to express experiences and attitudes toward these issues in a space that is more creative. The less formal setting brings a human element to the discussion of issues that can be quite controversial at times.”

Students debated the merits of charter schools in a forum moder-

ated by government professor Douglas Reed Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Thursday events included a film screening of the movie “Precious Knowledge” and a panel on race and diversity in D.C. schools.

The week will culminate with a presentation by this year’s keynote speaker, Carol Rasco, president and chief executive officer of nonprofit childrne’s literacy organization Reading is Fundamental Friday afternoon.

“Rasco is considered the mother of [the America Reads Challenge], the national organization under which D.C. Reads exists,” Manrique said. “We’re so excited to have arranged for her to come.”

The week will also conclude with three panels as well as another speech by Kid Power D.C. Executive Director and founder Max Skolnik Friday.

The two organizations are planning to collaborate again with an action week in the spring.

“This year, we refocused Education Week with the goal of informing the student body about what we do, why it’s important and the challenges we still face,” she said. “This spring, with people fully informed about the issues, that’s when we can really get down to work.”

prototypes. If anything, the ideas were even stronger due to the interdisciplinary skill sets of each team,” Wang said. “That was our ‘aha’ moment. … This is a concept that could work at Georgetown.”

University Information Service Communications Manager Una Hildebrandt agreed with Wang and stressed the importance of widespread student involvement in this weekend’s event.

“The Hackathon will align with the goal of reflecting the diversity of the university community,” Hildebrandt said. “So it’s not just computer science students gathering together.

It’s larger and broader.”

External mentors from institutions that include Teach for America, software company Palantir Technologies, innovation and design firm IDEO and online travel planning site Travelzoo will hold workshops to discuss specific skills and development.

“We hope that teams will sharpen their products and ideas by constantly getting input and feedback directly from the people who would implement these products,” Wang said.

The top four teams will win cash prizes totaling $2,000 and a chance to sit down with university administrators and companies for an idea implementation session. Three of the winners will be chosen by a committee comprising Provost Robert Groves, Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis, Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini, Senior Adviser to the President Victor Reinoso, Program Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Emily Dalton Smith, Georgetown global marketing professor Rohit Bhargava and Chief Executive Officer of Irving Information Group Larry Irving after the event Sunday. The final winner will be picked by the Georgetown community through the IdeaScale website.

“I think it’s a great avenue for the community to say, ‘I see a problem I have a way to help solve this. Or I see something I think can be better, and I’m part of the solution.’ It’s a great mentality to promote,” Hildebrandt said.

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receive Fulbright grants has doubled.

According to Lauren Tuckley, the university’s associate director and Fulbright Program adviser in the Office of Fellowships, Awards and Research, Georgetown takes a special interest in coaching Fulbright applicants to success. Her office holds several information sessions and meets with each applicant one on one to improve his chances of being selected.

Tuckley said that this unique approach serves as both a strength and a limitation for Georgetown applicants.

“Our fellowship office is quite small compared to our peer institutions,” she said. “While we would like to grow our Fulbright numbers and continually look to improve the processes for doing so, [the] fact remains that we have only one full-time administrative fellowship advisor. As the number of Georgetown-University-endorsed Fulbright applicants continues to grow — as does interest in other fellowships we advise on — we hope that our resources can meet the burgeoning demand.”

Hanna Caldwell (SFS ’11) is one of three Georgetown alumni currently completing a Fulbright program.

She says her experiences serving

as a teaching assistant in an English program and coordinating a health and wellness program at a refugee camp north of Amman, Jordan, have given her an unmatched opportunity to improve her Arabic.

“I love being able to just soak up the language, whether in a taxi, a cafe or wandering the streets.

I take colloquial Arabic classes and have a private tutor for modern standard Arabic, but I learn the most outside of my formal language education here,” Caldwell wrote in an email. “The opportunity for language practice alone makes the experience of living abroad worth being so far from home.”

Caldwell added that the program has allowed her to remain intellectually stimulated in a similar way to what she experienced at Georgetown.

“I think after college, when real life begins, we lose a lot of that intellectual stimulation that we probably took for granted as undergrads, and I feel like I’m getting to continue a lot of the conversations I had in college about politics and culture in the Middle East,” she said.

In addition to furthering Georgetown graduates’ learning, Fulbright programs provide a way for Georgetown’s staff to develop

professionally. Sandra Layton, associate director of international student and scholar services at the Office of International Programs, spent two weeks in Korea this summer after receiving the U.S. Korea International Education Administrator Award in June.

For Layton, the fortnight spent visiting U.S. universities, a middle school and the Korean Women’s Development Institute gave her a better understanding of Korean culture and society that has helped her in her job back in the District.

“I work with scholars coming to Georgetown to conduct research and teach, many of them from Korea,” she said. “[The program] gave me a greater understanding of Korean people, which has really helped me in my job.”

Fulbright scholars stressed that their time spent abroad has provided a welcome push beyond their comfort zones.

“Living abroad and feeling like a bit of an outsider gets me out of my comfort zone, sometimes to the point of being incredibly frustrated, but more often, it makes my days really satisfying,” Caldwell said.

Hoya Staff Writer Abbey McNaughton contributed to this report.

Dining Services to Donate Food Carly Cianci

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Georgetown University Dining Services held a canned food drive in O’Donovan Hall this week in honor of Thanksgiving.

Donations will be given to Bread for the City, a nonprofit organization that provides food, clothing and other social services to impoverished people in Washington, D.C. Students, the Georgetown Dining team and other members of the campus community were encouraged to donate nonperishable goods by placing them on a table that was set up in the lobby of Leo’s during the week of Nov. 12.

“We chose Bread for the City for this food drive due to their commitment [to] providing healthy food to vulnerable residents of the D.C. area, and [we] are interested in learning about other area organizations to partner with in the future,” Dining Services Market Manager Kendra Boyer wrote in an email.

However, Bread for the City usually requests monetary donations to purchase turkeys instead of non-perishable goods at this time of year.

“We encourage people to run fundraising drives instead so we can purchase turkeys, which … we need most this time of year,” Development Associate of Com-

munications for Bread for the City Jessica Nazar said. “We will accept food donations, but the reason we encourage people to fundraise is because we promote healthy eating, and a lot of times, people donate unhealthy non-perishable goods for us to use.”

To alleviate this problem, Dining Services is only requesting healthy foods — low-sodium, lowsugar and whole-wheat products.

Boyer said that the goal is to collect several boxes of food by Nov. 18.

“We are anticipating the drive to be [a] success with student involvement and hope that it will become an annual drive,” she wrote.

Senate Considers Election Reform Sarah Patrick Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate began discussions about altering the electoral system for senate elections at its weekly meeting Sunday evening.

Currently, senators are elected via an instant runoff system through which voters rank candidates by preference and the candidate with the fewest votes at the end of each round is eliminated.

“We just wanted to see if instant runoff voting is still the best way to do it,” Vice Speaker of the GUSA Senate Zachary Singer (SFS ’15) said.

Singer proposed the reform because the amount of people who ran for senate positions this fall made the election process time consuming and complicated for the two chairs of the GUSA Election Commission, Ethan Chess (COL ’14) and Pavan Rajgopal (SFS ’15), who were responsible for calculating votes and determining district winners in the election.

“Right now, it is two people running through an enormous amount

of data,” Singer said.

Senator-at-large and chairman of the Intellectual Life Committee George Spyropoulos Dorian (COL ’14) agreed.

“The elections were the most competitive so far … and it’s OK to assume that it will be more competitive in the future,” he said. “It took longer and was more tedious. Candidates didn’t know until the morning of the first session of the senate.”

However, Chess said that the work load is not his primary concern.

“The real issue is for voters,” he said. “The election commission can pull an all-nighter, but the real issue is for the voters, and when they’re voting, what ... the easiest thing [is] for them to express their rights and to vote for best candidate — the candidate that they want.”

He added that the increased volume of candidates was a result of the Senate Redistricting Bill last November, which resulted in more equally represented districts. According to Chess, before the bill was passed, student living off-campus were less represented than students on campus.

“We decided that the best way to do

it was to have senators from multiple dorms be combined so … votes would count almost equally,” he said.

“The result of that was big districts with people who really want to run,” Singer said. “It works great for the executive elections, and it works great for smaller districts, but it may have gotten a little too bloated with the amount of people.”

An election reform commission, which will include seven students — Chess, Rajgopal, three GUSA senators, Singer and one appointed member of the executive — will meet for the first time Sunday to begin gathering research about different election processes to craft a bill, according to Dorian.

Singer said he aims to have research completed by Dec. 7 so the senate can debate and vote on the bill before winter break.

“We want to make sure that how we elect our senators is not only the most efficient process but also produces a result that everyone can be happy with because the last thing we want to do is skew results because of a complicated system,” he said.

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The George Washington University has been removed from the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges list after the school reported to inflating admissions data for over a decade.

The university, originally No. 51 on the list, admitted to having misreported admissions data by overestimating the number of accepted students in the top 10 percent of their class. Although the number for the fall 2011 incoming class was reported at 78 percent, it was actually 58 percent.

According to an interview in George Washington Today, the online news outlet of the university’s Division of External Relations, with Senior Vice Provost Forrest Maltzman, the error was arrived at partly through estimation.

“Because approximately two-thirds of high schools no longer report class rank, our admissions office estimated the class rank for those students who they assumed were at the top of their class,” he said.

The estimation was based on grade point averages and standardized test scores for those students and resulted in the 20 percent discrepancy.

The U.S. News ranking includes high school class standing in its

Panelists Discuss Disability Culture Tia Baheri

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Student autism activist Lydia Brown (COL ’15) organized a panel that addressed disability culture in the classrooms and mainstream society in Intercultural Center Wednesday.

The panel, titled “Disability and Inclusion in the Humanities,” included Elizabeth J. Grace, an assistant professor in Diversity in Learning and Teaching at National Louis University, Director of Ableism Awareness and Community Outreach for the Disability Rights Coalition at American University Ki’tay Davidson, Disability Center planning committee member Renleigh Martin Spencer (COL ’15) and Kassiane A. Sibley, associate editor of “The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism.”

Brown said that her personal experiences motivated her to create the event and encourage more discussion on enabling those who are disabled.

“I wanted to talk about how we can move away from just providing the bare minimum assistance required by law and really create a culture of inclusion for disabled people,” she said.

The panelists discussed the culture of ableism — prejudice against people with disabilities — at academic institutions and ways that schools ignore the needs of people who identify as disabled.

“When you are diagnosed, you are not a person who has agency,” Grace said. “Suddenly, you are a person who has behaviors and not a person who has agency.”

Sibley described her own experiences as an autistic student.

“I have to explain to my professors every day that my … condition is the human condition. I am a person too,” Sibley said.

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A delegation of 21 Georgetown students will attend the 16th annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, joining representatives from Jesuit high schools, universities, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and the Ignatian community in Crystal City, Va., this weekend.

The first teach-in was held in 1996 after the 1989 murders of six Jesuits in El Salvador because of their advocating for human rights issues.

Since the first Ignatian Family Teach-In, the event has sought to address a diverse array of world issues that relate to the Catholic faith.

“It’s a call to action … to implement [Catholic values] at our schools,” said Jordan Denari (SFS ’13), a student who has attended the teach-ins since she was in high school.

Denari will be giving a presenta-

tion about Catholic-Muslim relations at this weekend’s event.

“It will be about the way in which we, as Catholics, are called to have discourse with the Muslim faith,” she said. “It ties into the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, which was really the first time that relations with Islam were discussed.”

Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) will also give a presentation on the Jesuit Just Employment Project, an initiative spearheaded by the Kalmanovitz Institute for Labor and the Working Poor that aims to enact policies that secure Jesuit standards of treatment — protecting workers’ rights and ensuring fair pay — for university employees.

Kohnert-Yount, who was not raised Catholic, will be attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for the first time this year.

“If you had asked me my freshman year if I would be speaking at the Ignatian Family Teach-In, let’s just say I would’ve been very sur-

prised,” she said.

But Kohnert-Yount said her talk, which will use the example of the successful campaign to unionize O’Donovan Hall workers last spring, epitomizes Jesuit ideals.

“It really aligns with Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and speaks to a lot of the values that our university, as well as other universities, holds dear,” she said.

Students who attended the event in the past said the teach-in made an impact on their lives.

“I had an amazing experience my freshman year in meeting so many different people,” Marya Pulaski (COL ’13) said. “It helped shape the rest of my years at Georgetown.”

Denari shared a similar sentiment.

“It’s great being able to spend time with those who are passionate about the same things,” she said. “Seeing their enthusiasm makes me want to recommit myself to social justice issues.”

The panelists said that academic institutions are often reluctant to embrace disability awareness.

“We had a large number of [disabled students] at our schools, and they were asked to prove that they needed whatever it was that they needed,” Grace said of disabled students at National Louis University.

Davidson added that society must do more to embrace difference.

“A medical understanding of disability is not enough,” Davidson said.

“It’s not enough to say, ‘What services do you need?’ We need to bring it into the cultural realm.”

Spencer added that she thinks the inclusion of disability studies in academia will promote disability culture in larger society.

“Any sort of identity studies should come first,” Spencer said. “We need to understand oppression. That is why disability studies [are] very important.”

The panelists also explained that well-intentioned allies and institutions make mistakes that contribute to the culture of exclusion.

“All of these microaggressions happen in places that are very progressive and claim to be very open to disability rights and are very considerate of other identities,” Sibley said.

“Sometimes, we don’t want the type of help that you are trying to give.”

Davidson said that self-advocacy, student support and increased understanding can pave the way for a culture of inclusion.

“Self-advocacy is important, when it does not turn into victim blaming,” Davidson said. “Let’s say, for example, that I have a label like ‘Autistic.’ The way that I would explain autism is [very] different [from] how others would explain it, so we need to stop making it medical, so that it isn’t if you have met one autistic person, you have met all autistic people.”

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methodology for creating the list of best colleges, with the amount of students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class accounting for 6 percent of the overall ranking.

The 20 percentage point difference in the report would have forced GWU out of its spot at No. 51, and according to a Nov. 15 article in The GW Hatchet, the school would have only dropped a few spots in the U.S. News ranking once the discrepancy was corrected.

Instead, U.S. News has opted to remove the school from the list altogether. GWU is now included on the “unranked” list.

The school will remain unranked until the next publication of the Best Colleges list.

In a Wednesday statement, University President Steven Knapp said he was taken aback by the school’s removal from the list.

“We were surprised by the decision of U.S. News to remove George Washington’s numerical ranking rather than to correct it in light of our disclosure,” he said in the release. “As I have said, we regret the error and have put safeguards in place to prevent such errors from occurring in the future.”

Georgetown is No. 21 in U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of national universities.

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Dean Attributes Rise in Applications to Outreach ADMISSIONS, from A1 “This continues a trend over the last several years of students’ increasingly applying to programs where they feel there is more job security,” he said.

According to Deacon, while the distribution of applicants across schools continues to shift, the quality of applicants remains steady.

This year’s pool of applicants had average SAT and ACT scores that were almost unchanged from last year.

The geographic distribution of applications also remained consistent. The largest number of applicants this cycle was from California, with 664 applicants. New York had the second-highest number of applicants with 617, and New Jersey contributed the third-most with 598 applications.

The 518 international early applicants this cycle represent a 12 percent jump over last year’s. According to Deacon, this increase is probably the result of the larger number of students from Asia applying to schools in the United States rather than any active re-

cruiting efforts on the part of the university.

“The international numbers just keep rising due, probably, to the momentum of students, particularly from Asia, applying to U.S. colleges. We do visit abroad throughout the world but

“This continues a trend ... of students’ increasingly applying to programs where they feel there is more job security.”

CHARLES DEACON, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

did nothing differently this year,” he said.

Dean Deacon anticipated admitting approximately 1,050 applicants under the early action program this year, resulting in an admission rate of around 15 percent, consistent with the class of 2016’s rate of just over 15 percent.

Georgetown’s early ac-

ceptance rate is lower in comparison to those of several peer institutions. At Harvard University 17.9 percent of early applicants were admitted last year, according to the Harvard Gazette. the University of Chicago’s acceptance rate last year was 17.6 percent, and Yale’s was 15.7 percent, according to The New York Times’ Choice Blog.

This rate places Georgetown as one of the most selective universities in the nation, and Deacon feels that this will continue to hold true in the future.

According to Deacon, the university’s efforts to improve accessibility for minority students is causing application rates to rise.

The number of African-African and Hispanic-American applicants increased by 12 and 7 percent respectively over last year.

“We continue to target low-income, first-generation students who are underrepresented at all elite colleges, and that I’m sure has helped increase the number of African-American and especially Hispanic-American students,” Deacon said.

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This year’s early action applicant pool saw a surge in interest in the MSB and NHS as well as a spike in the number of Hispanic-American, African-American and international applicants.

RIG Board Members Aim to Alter Application Timeline RIG, from A1 active on campus. RIG grant recipients whose projects are unsuccessful, however, risk having their funding cut — an option the RIG board exercised for the first time this year, according to GUASFCU and RIG treasurer Justin Kwan (MSB ’13).

The five accounts that RIG closed this semester — the Beautify Georgetown Project, Student Working Groups, Sustainable Garden Initiative, Saxa Service Feast and Georgetown Alternative Music Series — had been inactive for more than a year and were led by students who have since graduated without handing over access to RIG funds to their successors.

“I think that, as a whole, ReImagine Georgetown hasn’t really reached its full potential,” Kwan said. “In the past five years, we’ve given out roughly $50,000 in funding, and you have great byproducts such as the Farmers’ Market and SWAG, [but] if you take a step back and look at what $50,000 means … a lot more can be done.”

Kwan said that RIG could be improved by changing the application and ensuring that there is more communication between the organization and grant winners, such as implementing a more consistent check-in process.

Still, several of RIG’s success stories have left a noticeable mark on stu-

dent life.

Jack Carlson (SFS ’09) and Eric Wind (SFS ’09) received the first-ever RIG grant, which totaled $2,000, in 2007 to start the Beautify Georgetown Project, which restored works of art and architectural details in buildings around campus.

“We used the fact that we got the grant as a mandate to go speak to administrators,” Wind said. “I don’t think we would have been able to be as successful in terms of getting the administrators to pay … if we didn’t have the ReImagine Georgetown grant.”

One of the major initiatives Wind and Carlson took on was restoring the display of shields in Copley Formal Lounge, which had been falling apart. Wind estimated that the project would have cost $20,000, but the duo found an artisan who donated his time to recast the shields, reducing the cost to $2,500.

Because the group needed university approval to fix the shields, Wind and Carlson were in contact with the administration and O’Donnell eventually offered to pay.

“I think our grant was extremely successful, and the things we did should last at least a century, so we believe that future generations of Georgetown students will benefit from our work,” Wind said.

The Beautify Georgetown project only used $600 of its RIG funds in

projects in Sellinger Lounge, the admissions office and other locations but did not pass on access to the funds to anyone after Wind and Carlson graduated.

The account became inactive, and RIG is now taking money from the Beautify Georgetown Project and the other inactive initiatives to fund other grants.

The Farmer’s Market, founded in Spring 2011 on a RIG grant awarded to Bre Donald (NHS ’12) and Melissa Gadsden (NHS ’12), has been a popular mainstay of Copley Lawn all semester thanks to Executive Market Director Lexi Cotcamp (MSB ’15), who took over when Donald and Gadsden graduated.

“I think the Farmer’s Market is one of the most unique things I’ve ever encountered,” Cotcamp said. “I think it really reimagines Georgetown in the chance that it gives students to really come together once every week for the simple purpose of really good, really local, awesome food.”

Melissa Riggio (COL ’14), an employee at Lauinger Library, received $1,000 from RIG last November for Illuminate Lauinger, a project that aims to revamp the interior design of the oft-criticized library. Last month, Illuminate Lauinger put up four art pieces near the writing center on the second floor of the building.

“The goal of Illuminate Lauinger was to bring more art to Lauinger and

make it a place that students don’t hate going to,” Riggio said. “There’s a general joke that people don’t like Lau or despise Lau. As someone that spends a good part of the week there, I wanted to make it a place that people wouldn’t mind going to or would like going to just because of the atmosphere change.”

Student Workshops at Georgetown received $2,000 last November to provide opportunities for students and clubs to organize education workshops on topics of their choice. Past workshops have included henna, sushi making, dance and knitting.

SWAG sponsored 10 events last semester — nearly one each week — but aims to cut back on that total this year in an effort to enhance the quality and size of each workshop, according to SWAG founder Christina Cristomo (SFS ’13).

“For the students who lead the workshops, it’s a good way for them to share what they’re passionate about with the Georgetown community as well as have some experience teaching a class, which is something I think a lot of students are interested in doing but didn’t necessarily have the platform to do prior to SWAG’s existence,” Cristomo said. “For people who attend the workshops, the obvious benefit is that … it’s just a cool way to learn something new in a low-pressure environment.”

Cristomo added that SWAG aims to

connect people at Georgetown who might not otherwise cross paths.

“Our greater goal is to make these connections across the community, so to have clubs that usually only have programming for people on their listserv to be able to tap into people that are interested in learning and interested in trying new things,” she said.

According to Cristomo, RIG funding was vital to her initiative.

“I think it’s one of the most accessible means of funding for ideas on campus,” she said. “It’s really fast.

That’s what you need. It is literally one of the best ways to fund your idea.”

The RIG board is considering alterations to the program to improve the success rates of future grant recipients. One of the proposed changes involves making RIG friendlier to first-year students, who usually aren’t well established on campus by the fall application deadline to propose a winning project.

“We are going to be re-looking at the timing of the initiative,” Muldoon said.

“For the last several years, it’s been a fall program. And one of the questions we have raised for discussion is … [whether] this program might be better put in the spring, when incoming freshmen and transfer students have had a chance to really establish themselves and make some of those connections that are crucial to success.”

DPS BLOTTER Wednesday, Nov. 7 Unlawful Entry, Village A, 5:07 p.m.

A suspect who had been previously barred from campus was observed on campus at the listed location.

Credit Card Fraud, Leavey Center, 2:49 p.m.

A Georgetown University Bookstore employee reported credit card fraud from the listed location. The case is being handled by the Metropolitan Police Department.

scene and made contact with the person in question. The male had no affiliation with the university and was barred from campus.

Saturday, Nov. 10 Theft, Lauinger Library, 3:56 p.m.

A laptop that was left unattended in a common area was stolen. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Sunday, Nov. 11

Theft, ICC, 10:30 p.m.

An unknown suspect removed cash from a book bag that was left outside of a classroom. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Theft, Nevils, 8:42 p.m.

An unknown suspect stole a laundry basket containing several pairs of jeans and shirts. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Thursday, Nov. 8

Monday, Nov. 12

Theft, Leavey Center, 2:17 p.m.

A student reported the theft of his unattended bag containing his laptop from the listed location.

Theft, ICC, 8:44 a.m.

An unknown suspect entered an office and stole a computer. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Theft, ICC, 2:15 p.m.

An unknown suspect stole a bag that was left unattended. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Theft, Leavey Center, 11:19 a.m.

A student reported the theft of her unattended backpack from the listed location.

Theft, Basic Science, 2:35 p.m.

An employee reported the theft of a computer monitor. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Friday, Nov. 9 Theft, Hariri Building, 11:30 a.m.

A student reported the theft of her laptop and charger. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Unlawful Entry, Regents Hall, 2:37 p.m.

The Department of Public Safety responded to the listed location in reference to a report of a suspicious person in the area. DPS arrived on the

Theft, Leavey Center, 11:40 a.m.

An iPhone that was left unattended was stolen.

No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Tuesday, Nov. 13 Theft, Regents Hall, 12 p.m.

A laptop that was left unattended was stolen. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

Theft, ICC, 3:08 p.m.

A backpack that contained a laptop was left unattended and stolen. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

The blotter is compiled weekly by the Department of Public Safety.

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football

GU Finale Marks End of Era Inexperienced Hoyas Josh Simmons Hoya Staff Writer

Heading into this season, Georgetown’s football team (5-5, 2-2 Patriot League) had aspirations of winning the conference after a runner-up finish last year. After a myriad of injuries and a miserable four-game losing streak, the Hoyas have readjusted their goals.

In the season’s final game Saturday against Holy Cross (1-9, 1-4 Patriot League), the Blue and Gray has a chance to achieve its new objective of finishing above .500 both overall and in the Patriot League.

Since senior quarterback Isaiah Kempf went down with a concussion in the opening game, Georgetown has featured a revolving door of quarterbacks; junior Aaron Aiken, sophomore Stephen Skon and freshman Kyle Nolan have all seen time at the position and have all dealt with their own health issues this season.

Which of the three will start Saturday is still unknown, according to Head Coach Kevin Kelly.

“It’s a game-time decision,” Kelly said. “We’ve worked all three of the guys, and we will see on Saturday morning.”

The game will be bittersweet for the Hoyas, as it marks the end of an era for the 13 seniors who will be playing for the final time in a Blue and Gray uniform.

All of the seniors have seen many highs and lows in their four years on the field, including a winless freshman campaign and a shot at the conference title last season. Collectively, they helped

engineer a massive turnaround for the Georgetown football program, something that Kelly knows will not be easy to maintain.

“The seniors have learned how to handle adversity,” Kelly said.

“They’re really the true foundation and have gotten us over the hump here at Georgetown.”

Two seniors stand out in terms of on-field contributions over the last four years: linebacker Robert McCabe and cornerback Jeremy Moore.

McCabe, the Georgetown captain, has set and reset various records while emerging as one of the nation’s premier defensive players.

The nation’s leading tackler, he has already shattered his single-season school tackling record and wants to leave the Hilltop with a reputation as a humble leader.

“I come out every day and try to work my hardest and be the best player I can be,” McCabe said. “I hope the legacy I leave here is that I’m a hard worker and I’d do anything for my teammates.”

Moore, on the other hand, has garnered a status as the squad’s biggest playmaker. The Connecticut native is tied for third in the country with five interceptions and is the Blue and Gray’s all-time leader in interception return yardage.

“It’s definitely been a journey,” Moore said. “Hopefully, my senior class has made its mark in showing the young kids how to do things.

You remember every game after a while, but it’s going to be sad to see it go.”

The seniors still have one game left, though, and would like noth-

ing more than to go out with a win.

To do so, they must first overcome the sneakily dangerous Crusaders.

On paper, Holy Cross appears to be overmatched, but the Crusaders have been playing their best football as of late. While they have struggled to pick up victories, the team has lost its last three games by only six combined points, including a onepoint loss to No. 12 Lehigh.

Kelly watched those games and knows Georgetown must be cautious against Holy Cross.

“Holy Cross has had some bad luck at the end of football games.

That’s what’s scary,” Kelly said.

“Hopefully, the law of average is not in their favor this Saturday.”

To come away with a win — regardless of who’s behind center — the Hoyas must be able to find success with their ground game.

The Blue and Gray has relied on its rushing attack and strong defense throughout the season, and Saturday should be no different.

Last week, sophomore running back Nick Campanella and junior running back Brandon Durham both went down with apparent foot injuries, putting additional pressure on freshman running back Jo’el Kimpela to carry the load for Georgetown’s rushing attack.

“We’ve got to be able to run the football,” Kelly said. “If we can’t run the football, it could be a long day.

On defense, we’ve just got to keep doing what we’ve done the past couple of weeks.”

Saturday promises to be an emotional day for all the players and families involved. Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

swimming

Hoyas Prepared for Bucknell Tim Eldridge

Special to the Hoya

The Georgetown swimming and diving team will gain valuable experience preparing for the end-of-season Big East championship when it competes in the similarly formatted Bucknell Invitational this weekend.

Head Coach James Holder stressed the importance of the meet, believing that the Hoyas are poised for some of their strongest swims to date.

“This is our biggest focus meet for the first semester, so we definitely want to try to focus on the details and how we want to swim at Big East at the end of the year,” Holder said.

But the competition will

be tough. Besides Bucknell, Georgetown will face a strong Yale squad, Colgate, Delaware, Fordham, LaSalle and Binghamton.

“Big East is a trials-final meet just like this is, so it’s going to be a good experience for our kids to get up at 7 [a.m.] and then have to swim again at night,” Holder said.

Georgetown has already faced Delaware in a dual meet earlier this year, where it fell 209-88 on the men’s side and 223-77 on the women’s.

Yale and Bucknell will be the stiffest competition this weekend, but Holder is more focused on Georgetown’s times than he is with the competition.

“I think we are going to have

our best performances so far on this year at this meet,” Holder said. “I’m really not concerned with where we place in this meet — I’m more focused on swimming fast and the places will take care of themselves.”

When asked about expectations for particular swimmers, Holder demurred.

“I’d hate to single out one individual event. I think we’re going to have an overall good team performance,” Holder said.

Part of the reason for that is the Hoyas’ steady improvement over the course of the year.

“We’ve been improving as a team all along this year,” Holder said, “I think we’re going to continue to get better. We want to be at our best at the Big East.”

men’s soccer

Charlotte a Difficult Matchup CHARLOTTE, from A8 outcome was decided. Still, Wiese made clear that they were well aware of what the 49ers would be capable of.

“It would be a team that’d be arguably the hardest matchup for any of the seeded teams to deal with,” Wiese said, “but that’s also the nature of the second round of the tournament.

There are no easy teams.”

A large part of what will make Charlotte a tough contest this weekend is its experience during the 2011 tourney. Eight of the squad’s 27 players are freshmen who weren’t around for that, though, and youth becomes a running theme when one takes into account the fact that the roster boasts only five seniors.

One of those veterans, though, is forward Jennings Rex, who scored in each of the first two rounds last year and finished the conference season seventh in the A10 in goals.

Sophomore forward Giuseppe Gentile, meanwhile, certainly plays enough like an upperclassman to compensate, ranking ninth in the Atlantic 10 in points, 10th in goals and fifth in shots.

Gentile’s three goals during last year’s NCAAs — which tied him with the Vancouver Whitecaps’ Darren Mattocks for second in the field — suggest that he’ll be one of many battlehardened threats in the 49ers’ arsenal this time around, too.

“This is a team that is com-

FILE PHOTO: CHRIS BIEN/THE HOYA

Senior midfielder Andy Riemer will look to repeat last week’s outstanding performance on Sunday. ing off of the national championship final a year ago and were arguably the better team in that final,” Wiese said. “And they didn’t win four games to get there — they won five, so they went deep in the tournament. They went through on penalties, [so] they went through a hard road last year, too.”

Georgetown has been well tested itself this year, making it all the way to the Big East tournament final last Sunday in Chester, Pa., before falling to Notre Dame, 3-2, in double overtime.

Wiese, explaining that his players are “fine” and have moved on from that devastating loss, said that grinding out

a win against Charlotte will come down to the Hoyas doing what they do best.

“It’s going to be about trying to play a Georgetown-style soccer game as best … we can and take advantage of playing at home. We worked hard to get that seed, and the spoils of being a top-four seed are that you get to play at home until the College Cup if you can keep winning,” he said. “So that’s something that we’re hoping to take advantage of, and we’re really hoping for a good student turnout to help push us on to the next round.”

All is on the line, then, for the Blue and Gray on Sunday at North Kehoe Field. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Hang With Tar Heels UNC, from A10 the field for almost the next ten minutes as the Tar Heels built up a sizable advantage.

The Blue and Gray responded and went on a 9-2 run, during which it held Carolina scoreless for more than five minutes. And with 3:48 left in the first half, Georgetown crawled to within one — the closest it would come for the rest of the game — off of a Rodgers trey.

The Hoyas kept the Carolina lead at one until Tar Heels’ redshirt freshman guard Megan Buckland hit a three with 13 seconds remaining in the first half. Buckland’s basket gave UNC the 26-22 lead going into halftime.

Despite being outrebounded, 31-22, and shooting a measly 20.5 percent from the field in the first half, Georgetown hung tight with the Tar Heels with aggressive defense, which forced 21 North Carolina turnovers in the first half alone.

The second-half story was different, with the Blue and Gray coming out of the locker room flat and allowing a 10-4 Carolina run that built up a 10-point Tar Heel advantage.

With 13 minutes remaining in the game, North Carolina took a 14-point lead on a threepointer, but Georgetown battled back with a 6-0 run, closing the gap to 44-36. Stellar shooting at key points by the Tar Heels kept the Hoyas from regaining any momentum.

On the game, Georgetown forced a staggering 35 turnovers but gave the ball away 20 times itself. Moreover, the Blue and Gray gave up 10 three-pointers to the Tar Heels.

Rodgers led the Hoyas in the loss, scoring 22 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Junior forward Andrea White also contributed 11 points and six boards, but Georgetown received little point production outside those two, with seven other Hoyas combining for just 15 points.

“Our inexperience was our downfall today. When you play a historic program like UNC, you can get caught up, and our kids played UNC the program instead of the game

FILE PHOTO: ALEXANDER BROWN/THE HOYA

Junior forward Andrea White had 11 points and six rebounds in her team’s loss to the University of North Carolina. tonight,” Head Coach Keith Brown said in a statement after the game. “When you turn a team over 35 times, you should win the game, but we need to do a better job of making layups and hitting free throws.”

That didn’t mean the Blue and Gray had nothing to celebrate, however. When Rodgers hit the first of two free throws with 3:45 left in the second half, she scored her 1,886th career point. With that, she became Georgetown’s all-time leading scorer.

The Hoyas will have to find more production from other players if they are to dispatch LSU Monday night at McDonough Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

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D’Antoni Given Chance To Enter Elite Company W

ith the exception of his brief stint The Knicks lacked the personnel to run in the Big Apple, NBA coach Mike D’Antoni’s up-tempo offense, with star D’Antoni has left his fans with Carmelo Anthony a particularly poor fit. nothing but fond memories at every stop D’Antoni left the team after clashing with along his crazy journey.

Anthony having coming up short for the With the Los Angeles Lakers’ decision to first time — and doing so in a major market. bring him aboard to replace Mike Brown, This all leads up to D’Antoni’s acceptD’Antoni now gets his chance to redeem ing the Los Angeles job this week. His himself in a major U.S. market — something only failure in a remarkable career that that had previously proven elusive. went from a small town in West Virginia To say that Mike D’Antoni has been a fan to stardom in Italy happened recently in favorite everywhere he’s been in basketball New York, so his stint in Los Angeles repreis not an overstatement. Forty years after he sents a second chance to win over a major graduated, members of my family still remi- U.S. market. nisce about his time playing at Marshall, And at the age of 61, this could be his last located close to my home in rural West Vir- chance to cement his legacy as one of the ginia. most universally liked basketball figures of Marshall has made the NCAA tourna- all time. ment only five times in its long history, but The Lakers took some flack when they the future Lakers coach made the 1971-1972 bypassed legendary coach Phil Jackson for season memorable by leading Marshall to D’Antoni. On paper, Jackson seems like an No. 8 in the national polls and an NCAA obvious choice with his 11 titles, especially tournament appearance. when compared to D’Antoni’s zero. But JackD’Antoni went from the small town of son’s triangle offense is a poor match with Mullen, W.Va. to stardom the four superstars of Steve with a top-10 college basNash, Kobe Bryant, Dwight ketball program to being Howard and Pau Gasol. the 20th pick in the NBA On the other hand, draft.

Following some D’Antoni’s up-tempo ofsuccess in Kansas City, fense with a focus on pickD’Antoni moved to Italy, and-roll play effectively where he became an imuses the new Laker addimediate sensation and was tions of Nash and Howard voted the best point guard while giving Kobe enough in the history of Italian touches to keep the volaCorey Blaine professional basketball. tile superstar happy.

The best example of The new Lakers coach how adored D’Antoni was has the allegiance of Nash His only failure — his in Italy comes from his and Bryant already, so he newly inherited superstar, stint with the New York enters Los Angeles with a Kobe Bryant. When Kobe leg up over other competiKnicks — was cursed. tors broke into the NBA, he for the job. wore number eight beThis week’s hiring was cause it was the number a bold move for L.A. but a D’Antoni wore in Italy while playing with necessary one for the Lakers if they are to Kobe’s father. defeat the Heat and the Thunder. Rather The constant traveler returned to America than relying on a traditional system like the to become head coach of the Phoenix Suns, triangle or Princeton offenses, the Lakers where he used Steve Nash and the “seven are going to attempt to outscore any and all seconds or less” offense to take the team to opponents and rely on Howard’s defense. two Western Conference Finals. In Arizona, The Lakers know, with Nash and Kobe, D’Antoni was loved by fans and players alike that they cannot guard superstars at the pefor the exciting style of play he had adapted rimeter, so they have opted for a system that from his time abroad. requires little perimeter defense in favor of Before he took a position as an assistant quick buckets and a physical presence at the coach with the United States men’s national basket to shut down the likes of Kevin Duteam, D’Antoni had thus won over fans in rant and LeBron James.

West Virginia, Kansas City, Italy and Arizona.

With this ambitious approach, the LakWith the national team, he was a part of the ers could bring home their 17th title. More “Redeem Team” that saw the U.S. return to importantly, it could bring D’Antoni his first the gold medal podium, forever endear- ring — and the adoration of the Los Angeles ing him in the hearts of Americans. And market. With those, his place among basthe 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games laid the ketball’s most important figures would be groundwork for success with the Lakers, secure. since he was able to bond with Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard.

Corey Blaine is a senior in the McHis only failure — his stint with the New Donough School of Business. THE York Knicks — was cursed from the start. BLEACHER SEATS appears every Friday.

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men’s basketball

Balance Key to GU Attack Thompson Cites Defense As Area for Improvement BAYLOR, from A10

miscues are the exception rather than the rule.

“It gets harder when you start to play against the tougher teams because the delivery of the set pieces is better and the quality of the players in the box is better,” Nolan said. “But I feel pretty comfortable that we’ve defended set pieces well all year.

It won’t be easy, but I feel that we can deal with what they throw at us.”

Baylor’s biggest individual threat will likely be senior forward Dana Larsen, who leads the team with 10 goals and nine assists while starting 22 of the team’s 23 games.

“She’s a very good player — she’s a tricky [one on one] player, she has a great shot and she plays out wide,” Nolan said.

“We’ll have to figure out how to defend her individually and try and get some help around her.”

Nolan knows the extra atten-

tion that the Hoyas give Larsen will be reciprocated toward their own offensive star, sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz — who led the Big East with 17 goals and 42 points this year — and junior forward Kaitlin Brenn.

“I think [Corboz] has started to figure out a little better how to deal with the special attention,” Nolan said. “But we’re not just a one-man or a two-man team.”

As the season has progressed, Georgetown has gotten more consistent scoring from junior forward Colleen Dinn and freshman forward Sarah Adams, who notched the winner against the Hokies.

Additionally, players like freshman midfielder Marina Paul and junior defender Mary Kroening have contributed on set pieces, while sophomore forwards Jessica Clinton and Audra Ayotte have brought energy and creativity off the bench.

“Anytime you can get balanced scoring, it makes things better,” Nolan said. “We do need to stretch the field, and we do need to have a balanced attack against [Baylor].”

While the Hoyas take pride in this year’s defense — which hasn’t allowed more than one goal in 13 straight games — last weekend’s 3-2 overtime win was proof that the Blue and Gray can win games in multiple ways.

“For the sake of my physical health and well-being, I would rather win [the game] 1-0, but if we’ve got to win it, 5-4, that means we’ve got to win it, 5-4,” Nolan said. “I think it’s going to be difficult to defend against Baylor, but the good thing is you know what’s coming — you’ve just got to stop it. We’ll see if we can stand up to the fight.”

Georgetown takes on Baylor in Chapel Hill, N.C., today at 4 p.m. The winner will face either Illinois or No. 2 seed North Carolina on Sunday.

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Regional Win Buoys Hoyas CHAMPIONSHIP, from A10 means each second will be worth at least two or three places. That plays into the Hoyas’ race plan, especially if the Blue and Gray can maintain their small time spread and minimize the number of competitors who come in between them.

“We definitely want to finish higher than our national ranking right now, but we haven’t really talked about a team goal place wise,” Bonsey said. “We’re focusing on each individual making sure that they run a good, solid team race, and if

they do that, the results should come.”

The No. 11 women’s team’s preparation has been similar to the men’s squad’s, with the team’s cutting back on the training this week to ensure that they are sufficiently recovered from last weekend’s meet.

“Our goal is to finish as high as we possibly can. I’m quite confident that this is as good a team as we believed it was at the start of the season,” Head Coach Michael Smith said. “So we’re going to have a great race out there. If we race as well as I know we can, we’re going to be right there in the mix at the top

of the results.”

Seniors Kirsten Kasper, Rachel Schneider and Emily Jones, junior Madeline Chambers, sophomores Annamarie Maag and Katrina Coogan and freshman Samantha Nadel will race for the Hoyas.

With little time disparity between the nation’s best teams, Georgetown should be right in the mix at racetime.

“We’re going to need to be racing the whole time in this one.

It’s really important that we make sure that we run the last mile hard instead of just sort of hanging on,” Smith said. “In this race, every second counts.”

LIBERTY, from A10 Coach Dale Layer said.

The Hoyas wreaked havoc in the Flames’ backcourt all game, forcing the visitors into 16 turnovers with an array of full-court presses. Georgetown was credited with only seven steals, but it caused several shot clock violations, out-of-bounds passes and general chaos for the Liberty guards.

“We struggled with Georgetown’s wings early,” Layer said. “We worked really hard on it in shootaround to try to be prepared for it, but we can’t really simulate that.”

Still, the Flames — specifically guards Davon Marshall and Casey Roberts — consistently broke free for open threes when they did reach their halfcourt set. Liberty hit 10 of its 19 longrange attempts on the night, which accounted for more than half of its 59 points.

“Liberty did an outstanding job of getting the shots that they wanted,” Thompson III said.

“Our press has been effective, but our halfcourt defense leaves a lot to be desired.”

On the offensive end, Lubick and sophomore frontcourt mate Mikael Hopkins went to work against the undersized Flames down low. The duo’s aggressiveness — along with some quick whistles from the referees — forced Liberty forward Sommy Ogukwe into five fouls in eight minutes. Whittington played the role of Porter Jr. once again, scoring off nearly every loose ball.

Freshman guards D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera and Stephen Domingo, meanwhile, provided solid sparks off the bench, doubling the scoring output of the starting backcourt.

The Blue and Gray entered the locker room with a comfortable 16-point advantage and even extended the lead to 22 early in the second half. Any suspense in the sparsely populated Verizon Center had dissipated after Georgetown’s 17-0 run in the opening minutes, but Liberty didn’t seem to get the memo. The Flames hit nearly every open trey they took, and the Hoyas’ tendency to foul late in the shot clock helped the overmatched visitors stay in it.

“I think we caught Georgetown on a night that they weren’t quite as inspired that they will be [going forward],” Layer said.

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Sophomore forward Greg Whittington had a game-high 18 points Wednesday. just wide enough that Thompson III turned to the end of his bench. The few students in attendance erupted into applause when their demands for junior victory cigar John Caprio were answered, and the Blue and Gray held on for a nine-point win.

While the victory came at home against an overmatched team, fans have to be comforted to see several Hoyas compensating for the absence of their star teammate. But Thompson III still is not satisfied.

“Our attention to the detail at the defensive end I don’t think was good,” Thompson III said.

The Hoyas will need a much stronger performance against No. 13 UCLA next Monday, especially if Porter Jr. hasn’t returned. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.

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n mid-August, just days before the start of prodigy. After scoring nine times a season the English Premier League season, ESPN ago, Welbeck has struggled to fit into Fergucolumnist Albert Larcada used an unorth- son’s forward-heavy rotation this season, seeodox system of advanced metrics to rank the ing even less time than his bench partner. top five forwards in the league. The resulting Hernandez and Welbeck would both start for list was surprisingly accurate and reflective of just about any other club in the world — Barperformance at the highest level of soccer in celona and Real Madrid would certainly court the world. either — but risk having their careers stunted Ranked from first to fifth were Robin Van if they cannot find a way to become everyday Persie, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Sergio players for the Red Devils.

Aguero and Papiss Demba Cisse. The group of City’s situation is strikingly similar to Unitfive represents four nationalities, three clubs, ed’s, rostering four world-class forwards each two cities and one giant statement about the deserving of his own unique praise. Tevez, the balance of power in the Premier League. league’s leading goal scorer two seasons ago, The top four forwards in England play has put in a relatively modest quartet of taltheir home soccer in the blue-collar city of lies this season. Aguero has three thus far afManchester. Rooney and Van Persie, arguably ter totaling 23 a season ago. Dzeko has shared the two best overall players in the league, Chicharito’s reputation for late-game heroics, head the front line of glorious Manchester leading the team with six goals and earning United. The Argentinian pair of Tevez and increased playing time as a result.

Aguero, meanwhile, lead a Manchester City’s fourth man, also 21 years of age, is City attack that has produced the Terrell Owens of soccer, the its share of five and six-goal most polarizing player on the games in recent years. But planet: the one and only Mario Bathis weekend it was the relotelli. Super Mario stole the show inforcements — the benchfor Italy in the Euro 2012 compewarmers, the guys left off tition but has mainly roderidden Larcada’s list — that stepped the pine following continued up in leading their team to clashes with his club manager, victory. Game-winning goals fellow Italian Roberto Mancini.

by Javier Hernandez and Edin Partially as a result, Balotelli has Dzeko for United and City, yet to register a goal for City this Matt Bell respectively, reminded every year, and his days in powder blue club outside Manchester of a seem numbered, as plenty of big very scary reality. While Manaround Europe are eager Constant flow of spenders chester boasts four of the top to throw their millions at the Balofive forwards in the country, offense ... makes telli experiment. it may just claim eight of the The constant flow of offense for a wonderful in Manchester every weekend top 10 as well.

United Manager Alex Fermakes for a wonderful spectacle, spectacle. guson likes to deploy a 4-4-1-1 but stacking a roster with superlineup, with Van Persie as his star players doesn’t come without lone true striker and Rooney occupying the drawbacks. Managers must constantly be fidspace just beneath him. RVP’s job is simple: dling with lineups and seeing which combiscore a lot and score often — an objective that nations, trios and styles work best together. he’s so far accomplished, leading the EPL Last year, irate over a lack of playing time, Carwith eight goals this season. Rooney’s mis- los Tevez threatened to leave City, resulting sion, meanwhile, is a little less defined. He’s in a suspension and a distraction that almost the jack of all trades, essentially given the free- cost City a league title. dom to operate according to how he sees the Furthermore, limiting the playing time of game developing. Rooney’s netted just two a player of Balotelli’s caliber is the English socgoals on the year but leads the team with five cer equivalent of playing Detroit Lions wide assists, putting to rest all questions of his abil- receiver Calvin Johnson for only five snaps evity to complement the Dutch standout. ery game. His zero goals, therefore, are seemUsually coming on late in the second half ingly as much a waste of talent as Kevin Duis Hernandez. Affectionately nicknamed rant scoring only eight points a game.

“Chicharito,” the Mexican is second only to With position battles come competition Van Persie in team scoring, with a goals-per- and pressure, but also a high level of play. minute-played ratio through the roof. When as seen with the Manchester rivals, who curRooney experienced a post-World Cup goal rently hold the top two spots in the Premier drought in 2010, Hernandez took on the goal- League standings. scoring responsibility, ending his debut season with 13 tallies.

Matt Bell is a freshman in the McDonough Even further down the depth chart sits School of Business. FRESH OUT OF PHILLY Danny Welbeck, a 21-year-old homegrown appears every Friday.

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Senior guard Sugar Rodgers’ position on Georgetown’s all-time scoring list after tallying 22 points against North Carolina Wednesday night

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Hoyas Win Without Porter Jr. PAT CURRAN

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Georgetown star Otto Porter Jr. is still benched with a mild concussion. Fortunately for Head Coach John Thompson III, Greg Whittington can do a pretty good impression.

The sophomore forward made up for his classmate’s absence by scoring a career-high 18 points and grabbing nine rebounds to lead the Hoyas (2-0) over visiting Liberty (03) Thursday, 68-59. Junior forward Nate Lubick added a career-high 13 of his own, and the Hoyas escaped the Washington Regional of the Progressive Legends Classic unscathed.

Georgetown responded to an early 4-0 deficit with 17 unanswered points, setting the tone for a Blue and Gray rout that was nowhere near as close as the nine-point final margin indicated.

“We played the best that we [could], and it took our best just to hang in there and [have] it not be a 30-point blowout,” Liberty Head See LIBERTY, A9

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Sophomore center Mikael Hopkins (3) helped to compensate for the absence of sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. against Liberty.

Sophomore winger Jessica Clinton (11) has provided an offensive spark off the bench this season.

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For the second straight weekend, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (16-3-3, 8-1-1 Big East) takes to the road in a do-or-die situation.

Following an overtime victory in Virginia last weekend, Georgetown must travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., to take on Baylor, the third seed in the Blue and Gray’s region.

The Bears (18-1-4, 5-0-3 Big 12) have been undefeated in 19 games since falling at Long Beach State in overtime on Aug. 26, claiming a Big 12 Championship along the way.

Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan, however, isn’t intimidated by the streak, and he doesn’t think his players should be either.

“I’ve looked at who they’ve played, and I don’t see any significant wins on their schedule,” Nolan said. “I

don’t look at it as a team where I am like, ‘Oh, how are we going to beat this team?’ I’m more worried about their style of play and how we’re going to deal with it.”

Contrary to the patient, precise build-up play the Hoyas faced against the Hokies, the Bears push the attack into the opposing box and hope to capitalize on set pieces — off of which Baylor scored twice in a 3-1 opening-round victory over Arizona State.

“They put everything in on top of the goalkeeper,” Nolan said. “And they have a couple of big kids.”

The Blue and Gray had difficulty on set pieces in a 6-0 early season loss to Stanford, while Virginia Tech scored off of a missed assignment on a header last weekend.

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Freshman striker Brandon Allen (10) and the rest of the offense will be tasked with breaking down a disciplined 49ers back line.

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The No. 4 Georgetown men’s soccer team (17-3-1, 6-2-0 Big East), it was announced on Monday, received the third overall seed in the NCAA tournament, as well as the first-round bye that went along with it.

Their ensuing matchup, however, is no reward.

In a rematch of last year’s second round, No. 23 Charlotte (15-3-3, 7-1-1 Atlantic 10) — who made a miracle run to that tournament’s finals before losing to top-seeded North Carolina — defeated Alabama-Birmingham at home last night, 3-2, to advance to take on the Blue and Gray in the Round of 32.

Speaking on Thursday evening prior to that first-round game, Head Coach Brian Wiese noted that his players and staff were not focusing on one of the two teams before the See CHARLOTTE, A8

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Rodgers Sets Record in Loss to UNC Repeat Bid Alive as GU

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Senior guard Sugar Rodgers (14) has long been a focal point for the Hoyas, but Wednesday left her as a special part of program history.

Amid the doom and gloom of the No. 25 Georgetown women’s basketball team’s (2-1, 0-0 Big East) 63-48 loss at North Carolina (3-0, 0-0 ACC), Wednesday night, senior guard Sugar Rodgers made history — becoming the all-time leading scorer for the Hoyas.

It was the first loss of the season for the Blue and Gray, who exited the Preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament semifinals with the loss. Coming off a win over No. 17 Delaware, Georgetown was plagued by poor shooting from both field and the charity stripe.

The Hoyas barely shot better than 20 percent — 19-for-89 — from the field and less than 50 percent — 13for-28 — on free throws. Additionally, the Hoyas were outrebounded by the Tar Heels, 53-42.

Georgetown took a 2-0 lead less than two minutes into the game. But the Hoyas were held scoreless from See UNC, A8

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ning this week and also have recovered very well from the regional meet, so they should be rested and The Georgetown men’s and ready to go at Nationals.” women’s cross country teams are Racing for the Hoyas will be gradheaded to Louisville, Ky., this week- uate students Mark Dennin and Ayend for the NCAA alew Taye, seniors c h a mp i o n s h i p s “It’s really important Andrew Springer with a chance for and Ben Furcht, the women to de- that we make sure sophomores Miles fend last year’s ti- that we run the last Schoedler and John tle and the men to Murray and freshclaim their first-ev- mile hard instead of man Darren Fahy. er championship.

“We ran a pretty just sort of hanging The No. 18 similar race plan men’s team enters on.” at Pre-Nationals on MICHAEL SMITH the meet coming Women’s cross country head coach this same course off a masterful that we’re planseven-second time ning to be running spread performance in winning this weekend,’’ Bonsey said. “More the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional than anything, [the team needs] last weekend. to have confidence that they’ve al“At this point, with training, ready run well on that course.” you’re not going to really make There will be 255 runners in many gains in fitness,” Head Coach tomorrow’s race, a large field that Brandon Bonsey said. “The guys have been doing really easy runSee CHAMPIONSHIP, A9

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