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HOME SWEET HOME

Students from the DC Metro Area stay closer to their hometown communities.

COMMENTARY A student veteran reflects on bridging the civilian-military divide.

BURGERS GUGS will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Healy Lawn on Saturday.

BASKETBALL Men’s basketball faces off with Tennessee tonight at Verizon Center.

OPINION, A3

NEWS, A4

SPORTS, A10

GUIDE, G8

Ministry Asks GUSA For Funds

RIG Picks Two Grant Winners

FOR GAY BISHOP, OPTIMISM AMID OBSTACLES

GUSA senator questions qualification of Ministry to head advisory board

PENNY HUNG

Hoya Staff Writer

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ReImagine Georgetown has selected its 2012 grant recipients from among 15 applications, awarding $3,000 to the Georgetown University Murals Initiative and $2,000 to Winter Hoyaland.

GUMI, which originally applied as Paint the Wall and changed its name upon winning the award, plans to install murals around campus. For its first project, GUMI will renovate the wall leading up to Yates Field House alongside MultiSport Facility.

Winter Hoyaland will provide Christmasthemed decorations in Healy Circle, including a Christmas tree to stand beside the John Carroll statue.

“This year’s applicant pool was really strong, and I’m really amazed at how many different and diverse ideas students can come up with,” said Meg Cheney (NHS ’13), RIG secretary and chair of the service and outreach committee for Students of

Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopalian bishop, spoke about the challenges of his career, including resistance from an archbishop, in McNeir Auditorium on Tuesday. See story on A6.

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ANNIE CHEN

Hoya Staff Writer

Campus Ministry is seeking assistance from the GUSA Fund to establish a ministry advisory board for religious student groups, which have been struggling with funding shortages.

Religious student groups have traditionally been financed by individual chaplaincies within Campus Ministry that are funded by donors. However, Interreligious Coordinator Lisa Pannucci said that the chaplaincies are struggling to find sufficient funding because of increased student participation in events sponsored by religious student groups and would benefit from additional funding controlled by an advisory board.

“With 2,000-plus students on the rolls of these groups, many are outgrowing current levels of support,” Pannucci wrote in an email.

Pannucci expressed hope that the Georgetown University Student Association Fund, which allocates funding to student organizations that do not receive enough funding from their advisory boards, could be a possible solution.

GUSA Finance and Appropriation Chair Sheila Walsh (SFS ’14) said that the student activities fee endowment, which feeds into the GUSA Fund, should not replace the university’s responsibility to support these groups.

“We don’t want student money to make up for what the university no longer funds but should still be funded by the university,” Walsh said.

Currently, five student advisory boards — the Student Activities Commission, the Media Board, the Advisory Board for Club Sports, the Center for Social Justice’s Advisory Board for Student Organizations and the Graduate Student Organization — receive funding from the student activities fee.

According to a club funding reform bill passed by the GUSA senate in 2009, student advisory boards must meet six requirements to be eligible to receive student See GUSA, A6

Master Planning Team Solicits Input CAROLINE WELCH Special to The Hoya

The university’s master planning team held “Planning 101” sessions Tuesday and Wednesday to solicit feedback for its expansion plans that extend through the year 2037.

Students, faculty and staff in attendance asked questions about challenges that the team will face in upcoming months, financial constraints that may affect the plans, the expected timeline of the project and the team’s use of technology.

The university’s master plan includes the conversion of the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center into an undergraduate dormitory by 2014, the search for about 100 more acres for Georgetown’s core graduate programs and the consolidation of the School of Continuing Studies into a single 91,000-squarefoot campus at the new Georgetown

Downtown in Mount Vernon Square that the university purchased this summer.

During the sessions, representatives from the university, developer Forest City Enterprises and design firm Sasaki Associates explained the fundamentals of master planning and spoke of the importance of data collection and collaboration as planning moves forward.

“We can begin pretty basically with the global question of ‘What is planning?’ university architect Gina Bleck told the audience. “And it’s very critical that [the process] starts and ends with you. We need to include all the spokes to get to a plan that is informed and will help balance the resources that we have. We encourage you to participate because, without your participation, it won’t be a plan that can succeed.”

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Lauralyn Lee and Gina Bleck look on as architect Ricardo Dumont presented his firm’s ideas for Georgetown’s master plan Tuesday.

Epicurean Owner Pleads Not Guilty Thefts Increase 44% in November EMMA HINCHLIFFE Hoya Staff Writer

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The proprietor of Epicurean and Co., Chang Wook Chon, will be tried by a jury in February, a judge decided Nov. 19.

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Chang Wook Chon, the proprietor of Epicurean and Co., pled not guilty to charges of criminal contempt Nov. 19 and will face a jury trial in February.

Chon was arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

He is accused of criminal contempt for violating a court order that was issued during a civil lawsuit that began in 2010. The class action case was filed by four employees of Epicurean and Co. who claim that Chon had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to fully compensate them for overtime work.

One of the four employees received a notice to appear in court and told Chon he would need a day off from work to attend the proceedings. According to the plaintiff, Chon told him to either ignore the notice or lose his job. This violated a 2011 court order that prohibited Chon from discussing the case with the plaintiffs.

“The United States attorney charges that on or about Dec. 14, 2011, within the District of Columbia, the defendant, Chang Wook Chon, did willfully See EPICUREAN, A6 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

LILY WESTERGAARD

down from six bike thefts in October and 11 in September.

Twenty-nine thefts occurred Crime in November increased in public locations such as the 15 percent from October, primar- Leavey Center. With eight thefts ily due to a 44 percent spike in this month, Leavey was the most theft. commonly targeted venue.

The Department of Public There were also six cases of unSafety reported 53 incidents lawful entry, up from four in Octhis month, tober, but there of which 36 were no reports were thefts. In of burglaries 15% Crime October, DPS or robberies, reported 25 which was a Theft 44% thefts and 44 decrease from total crimes. the two and Drug Violations 600% The rate of one reported, thefts has conrespectively, last tinuously inmonth creased since Drug violaSeptember. Electronics were a tions decreased, with only one in popular target item for thieves. November compared to October’s Thirteen incidents reported sto- six violations. len laptops despite efforts from Alcohol violations remained DPS this month to raise aware- stagnant, with three reported in ness about laptop theft, sell lap- each of the last three months. top locks and facilitate the sale of No assaults were reported in LoJack, a laptop tracking device.

November, compared with two Only one bicycle was stolen, in October.

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

TO OUR READERS Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

A Trained Eye for Club Sports For a university where roughly 15 percent of undergraduates participate in club sports, the absence of trainers with sports medicine expertise puts student athletes at a health risk.

When a club sports athlete sustains an injury, supervisors are often left to call Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service. However, GERMS does not — nor should they be expected to — follow up on injuries after their patient is stable and out of immediate danger.

Injured athletes, however, require long-term attention to prevent nagging, recurring or worsening injury.

In terms of immediate treatment, there is little difference between a GERMS responder and a trainer. Both would be able to assess whether further medical attention is needed. Yet a trainer provides the added benefit of prioritizing

the athlete’s long-term ability to compete and, far more importantly, to stay healthy. Once an athlete is injured, he or she requires special instruction for rehabilitation and the prevention of further damage.

The Advisory Board for Club Sports discussed the trainer issue in September, but limited funding continues to stand in the way. The cost of a trainer is no small fee, and a hired trainer for each team is unrealistic. Yet the dangerous condition of Kehoe Field and the violent nature of club sports like rugby or hockey makes injury almost certain.

Student health is not an appropriate area to pinch pennies, and investing in at least a handful of trainers is a winning strategy for the well-being of Georgetown’s club sports athletes.

Early Action Done Right Few experiences leave students as apprehensive, restless and wracked with self-doubt as the college application process, except perhaps the subsequent wait for a letter in the mail. Fortunately, early admission programs give applicants the opportunity to expedite the process. And although applying early may not statistically put prospective students at an advantage, it has the significant benefit of shortening this stretch of anxiety.

Some universities offer early decision programs, which require students to attend the school if accepted. Other admissions departments have single-choice early action policies, which are non-binding but restrict students from applying early elsewhere.

As Georgetown’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions prepares to send out decision letters to early applicants Dec. 15, it has already made the most important decision: to offer an early action application that is nonrestrictive and nonbinding.

Georgetown’s early action policy is preferable because it recognizes that seniors in high school cannot all be expected to know which school is right for them so far in advance. No campus tour or open house can encapsulate the many aspects of a particular college’s undergraduate experience, and other universities do prospective students a disservice by not allowing applicants to explore other

New Hoya Staff Looks To Seize Opportunity The beginning of a new term of editorial leadership at The Hoya can be described in many ways, but above all it is an opportunity. It is a time to look toward our future and consider how we can continue to improve the service we provide to our readers and this university. With our new staff, I am confident that we can make the most of this opportunity.

The Hoya made tremendous strides over the last year under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Connor Gregoire (COL ’13).

Looking further back, 92 years of Hoya staffers have worked hard to make this newspaper what it

is today. But part of that tradition is being most concerned with what The Hoya can become tomorrow, and we are committed to continued growth and improvement over the next term.

We will continue to work to engage the Georgetown community and broaden our coverage.

The Hoya is neither a university mouthpiece nor an antagonistic muckraker, but rather a student-run outlet for complete and unbiased news coverage.

To earn your readership, we realize that we must first earn your respect, and we will work to strengthen our role as the news provider that this university

expects and deserves.

The Hoya will be hiring new staff at the beginning of next semester, and we hope that all students — with our without experience in journalism — will consider applying. Even if you cannot join the staff full time, contributions from all members of the community are always welcome.

We have big shoes to fill and an ambitious mission in our sights, but this staff and I are enthusiastic to begin a new term at The Hoya and a new opportunity to build on its tradition.

Danny Funt (COL ’14) Editor-in-Chief

THE VERDICT

options in the early admissions process.

There are, of course, those students who have always known that they wanted to come to the Hilltop for whom restrictive programs that demonstrate an applicant’s commitment lend an appreciable leg up. Even these students, however, may not necessarily know the entirety of the Georgetown experience or fully understand life on the Hilltop — or at any college — simply because they have yet to experience it for themselves.

Early action candidates who chose to apply early to Georgetown over other peer institutions like Columbia, Duke or Penn that have binding programs do in fact demonstrate some level of preference for what the Hilltop has to offer and are thus more likely to matriculate if admitted. A restrictive program effectively eliminates a portion of these students who, while interested in Georgetown, would also like to hear back from other nonbinding universities and perhaps weigh different scholarship options. This decreases the pool of early applicants not only in number but in talent and potential.

Early action programs are a valuable option for students who want to get the anxiety of admissions out of the way, but even they should be allowed to make sure that one of the biggest choices they have made in their lives is the right one.

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Celebrating Civil Rights — Smokey Robinson will perform in Georgetown’s Let Freedom Ring Initiative, an annual event that honors the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January.

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Ranked and Ready — The men’s basketball team, newly fitted with its No. 20 rank, will take on the University of Tennessee Volunteers today in the ESPN Big East/SEC Challenge.

Unwelcome Complement — Georgetown Insults, a Facebook account started in response to Georgetown Compliments, posts scathing comments about other students.

Religious Distinction — Imam Yahya Hendi earned a spot on the the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre’s list of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims.

1789 PROBLEMS by Arturo Altamirano

Finals Fanfare With the stress of finals already beginning to set in, it wouldn’t hurt for students to take the time to collectively let off a little steam.

Traditions at universities across the country announce — or denounce — the onset of final exams. Northwestern, UCLA and Stanford are just some of the many schools with variations of the “primal scream” — a ritual in which students simultaneously open windows and scream at midnight on the eve of finals. At Columbia, the night before the organic chemistry final is commemorated with a marching band that storms the library to perform. Some schools have edgier traditions: Students at Harvard, for example, walk around wearing top hats and coattails with little else, while Brown recognizes the start of finals with a naked doughnut run — the details of which should perhaps remain unstated.

Traditions, of course, reflect different school

identities and develop over time. Yet Georgetown, a university unique in so many ways, is surprisingly lacking in such a trademark. The creation of a Hilltop tradition would provide a welcome opportunity for stressed students to release pentup anxiety and serve as a playful reminder that exams really aren’t the end of the world.

These traditions tend to sprout organically, and it would be easy for a new ritual that doesn’t come about that way to feel contrived.

A finals ritual mandated from an administrator, for example, would defeat the venture’s purpose. Most of the various universities’ quirky traditions mentioned above began with a single sports team or club that simply gathered more and more followers over the years. Yet regardless of how they start, traditions have to start somewhere, and for all we know, this finals season could be the beginning of a Georgetown finals ritual for years to come.

But maybe leave the doughnuts at home.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

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VIEWPOINT • Tapen

EDITORIAL DISSENT • Altamarino & Rodman

Restrict Early Action Policy W ith Georgetown’s early acceptance rates on track to hit another record low, the university needs to re-evaluate its early admissions process. Today’s editorial “Early Action Done Right” lauds Georgetown’s current early action program. This policy, however, could be improved.

The university’s early application is currently nonrestrictive, meaning that applicants are free to apply to any other nonrestrictive early action program, such as those at the University of Chicago, Notre Dame and Boston College.

This open application system stands in contrast to the singlechoice early action programs that Harvard and Princeton opted to implement when they reinstated early admission last year.

At these universities, along with other elite institutions including Yale and Stanford, students are not permitted to apply early to any other private universities.

These restrictions are in place to ensure that only applicants who consider a university their first choice are able to reap the benefits of its early admissions program. Switching to such a singlechoice system would be a worthy change for Georgetown.

At present, students can apply early to Georgetown whether or not it is their top school. The admissions section of the university’s website explains that the nonrestrictive policy is meant to promote applicants’ free choice of colleges, but applicants are

still offered that same choice during the regular decision process.

Single-choice early admissions programs still allow applicants to apply early to public institutions, meaning that many students can derive relief from being admitted early to a safety school while still taking a chance on a more selective university.

Georgetown could make its early application system even stricter by switching to early decision, but such a change would negate its commendable goal of allowing applicants their free choice of universities and could discourage applications from students who consider Georgetown their top choice but are not ready to commit to it without exploring other options.

It is true that a single-choice early action system may dissuade applicants who had a fleeting interest in the university, but even these applicants would have the opportunity to apply to the school for regular admission.

While the university maintains that early applicants are not given a statistical advantage over those applying by the regular deadline, applying early still offers certain benefits. Students who are admitted early can breathe easily knowing that they have been accepted to an excellent institution, while applicants not admitted under early action are automatically deferred to regular decision, giving them the opportunity to improve their grades and test scores or apply for additional honors or awards in order to enhance their

application. These are benefits that should be given to students who consider Georgetown their top choice.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon (COL ’64, GRD ’69) has maintained that Georgetown does not seek to drive down admissions rates. A nonrestrictive early application system contradicts this ideal.

Students with only a passing interest in Georgetown can apply early on a whim, perhaps tacking Georgetown onto their list of colleges as an afterthought, raising application numbers and lowering acceptance rates. Last year’s early admissions rate was lower than Harvard’s and Yale’s, both of which offer single-choice early applications. Georgetown’s overall acceptance rate for the class of 2016 was still well above both universities.

One of Georgetown’s greatest attributes is its students’ passion and ambition. The strength of our student organizations is built on these students’ drive to improve life on and off campus.

It is these students — the ones who came to Georgetown with the ambition to change it — that should populate its early application pool and benefit from early admission.

ARTURO ALTAMARINO is a junior in the College. SAM RODMAN is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. They are members of the Editorial Board of The Hoya.

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Smoking Ban Vital For Student Health A

merica’s public discourse today is replete with debates over individual liberties. A recent editorial published in The Hoya (“When Colleges Play Parent,” A2, Nov. 16, 2012) grappled with smoking bans on college campuses. The piece equates the damages of smoking with those of “gorging [oneself] on chicken fingers in Leo’s,” going on to purport that smoking “doesn’t put others in danger, [so] it is not the university’s place to intervene.”

This argument is patently false.

According to the Surgeon General’s 2006 landmark report, second hand smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, 70 of which are carcinogenic; thus, there is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke. Moreover, secondhand smoke does not merely inconvenience passersby — it kills. Fifty thousand non-smokers die from secondhand-smoke-induced illnesses every year. After watching my mom battle and ultimately succumb to cancer (albeit not smoke-related), the thought of anyone dying unnecessarily from the disease is inconceivable.

As college students, we like to believe ourselves invincible, but in reality, we are a captive and highly impressionable audience. Many students who do not smoke adopt the habit when they start college. In 2010, one million smokers above the age of 18 started smoking, up from the 600,000 reported in 2002. Currently, 15 percent of Georgetown students

ALWAYS ON THE SUNNY SIDE by Sania Salman

are self-reported smokers, up from 12.8 percent in 2010. Yet all we have to promote health is an unenforced 25-foot rule.

The Georgetown University Medical Center banned smoking in 2011, citing the Jesuit principle cura personalis as its central justification.

How can we claim to uphold this principle if we only ban smoking in an area with a mile-wide radius but ignore the thousands of students, faculty members and staff right next door?

At least 825 U.S. colleges and universities have smoke-free campus policies as of October 2012. Don’t we want to be on the right side of history, adopting a progressive policy to promote good health and change social norms? With a concerted effort to involve smokers in the decisionmaking and implementation processes, the policy change need not alienate this segment of our community.

Therefore, I fundamentally disagree that a smoking ban is tantamount to the Orwellian “big brother” takeover of personal liberties that the Nov. 16 editorial depicted.

The ban may be a bold move, but it’s in the name of health. I’m proud to think of Georgetown as a forwardthinking place, not just in words but also in actions.

COLLEEN TAPEN is a senior in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION

Keep Goals in Mind In Fight for Progress

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VIEWPOINT • Gibbons-Neff

Hilltop a New Base for Veterans B efore I left the Marine Corps to attend Georgetown, my new platoon commander had me make a PowerPoint presentation about the college application process for my fellow Marines who also planned on pursuing a college degree.

I had a few slides on the infamous Common Application, a couple on the new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and, of course, a ton of pictures from the movie “Animal House.”

Looking back on my presentation, I’m pretty sure half the platoon was either goofing off in the back of the classroom or already at the beach, but if I could go back after my first two years at Georgetown and give them my advice about college again, I would say, “Embrace your experiences.”

Reductionist? Yes. Oversimplified? Probably.

Yet it is the best advice I can think of to give student veterans here at Georgetown or elsewhere.

Today, less than 1 percent of the population is serving in the military, and for those who have served or are serving, this means not only that the burden of war falls on this small number but also that the responsibility to bridge the gap between veterans and civilians is greater for each veteran.

The buzzword nowadays is “ci-

vilian-military divide,” but what does that actually mean?

In the simplest of terms, it indicates a lack of awareness about the experiences of those who haven’t served.

Currently at Georgetown, we have over 400 student veterans spread across the undergraduate and School of Continuing Studies populations.

Some of us will make it known that we have spent a few gap years in Iraq or Afghanistan; others may not. For those veterans who have that opportunity to share their experiences in class, I say take it.

I think, in many ways, some of us who have done our time in our respective services secretly want to perpetuate the “Vietnam Hangover,” want there to be some sort of friction between ourselves and our fellow students; but if there is one thing I have learned about Georgetown students, it’s that they embody how far we have come since the disparaging anti-service attitudes of the Vietnam era.

The students here want to learn and understand what the men and women of this country have done in their defense.

So why hide in the shadows of anonymity? As veterans, we have an opportunity to educate the 99 percent who haven’t served. We have an opportunity to tell them what our fellows in arms did for

them, so we should take it.

While it may be bold of me to generalize the student body as being reasonably informed about our nation’s conflicts and the men and women who have fought in them, I know that my assessment is not unfounded. If that were not the case, I would not be writing this — nor would I be attending this university. Georgetown embraces a diverse student population, and right now, student veterans are a growing student population on campus.

So while the burden lies on us as student veterans to be forthcoming about our experiences, it also lies on the rest of the student body to take advantage of the diverse experiences student veterans have had. Ask us questions; we’ll answer them because, at the end of the day, veterans or not, we all share the common bond of being Georgetown students. While we may never see combat together, we will certainly experience the bonds forged by the fires of Lau during finals.

T.M. GIBBONS-NEFF is a sophomore in the College. He spent four years with the 1st Batallion, 6th Marines from 2007 to 2011 and completed two deployments to Afghanistan. He is president of the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association.

eorgetown may be our home with or born into. for only a while, but it will What you do with what you are remain our alma mater long given is what matters. If you are born after joyful memories of academic into privilege, do you extend that optribulations and the buzzing student portunity to others or hoard it for issues of the times fade into the dis- yourself? If born poor, how do you tance. combat that disadvantage in a way Nothing we do here happens in a that lifts others up as well? These are vacuum. There is something about personal questions with political imGeorgetown that incites the future, plications, not the other way around. and it’s us. The battles we fight now Voting Democrat or Republican — the struggle to fit in, to forge a per- does not satisfy your moral requiresonal philosophy, to navigate com- ment. Nor does voting. Social justice petitive terrain and to bring together is a personal struggle, not a conflatdisparate individuals and parts of our ed shouting match about tax policy feuding selves — are the same battles and wealth redistribution. As long as we will face on bigger stages for the humans live and breathe, economic rest of our lives. If we can make even disparity will be a fact of life. But we the smallest measure of progress can craft a society where those who here, there is hope. work and contribute When we talk about to the common good diversity at Georgeenjoy total mobility. town, we tend to foThat society is not cus on the problems this one, and the poand incidents at hand. litical party to write We rarely discuss an such a platform does endgame — and some not exist. We have argue there may not allowed predatory be an endgame at all. politicians to capiBut progress must talize on the politihave a goal, even if it cal mediocrity that is an elusive one, or it characterizes our dibecomes a dangerous vided state. Only we Nate Tisa force subject to distorcan demand change, tion by charlatans and but we must do so demagogues.

Morality is the only together.

We will have a baseHere at Georgeline of equality and thing that will keep our town, the student justice when sexual- country from careening body is united by a ity, race, ethnicity and common goal and gender have become into division and decay. purpose, but we are non-issues.

Racism saddled with onerand all species of hate ous bureaucracy that and discrimination will have per- limits our freedom to pursue equalished when, as Morgan Freeman said ity. in a flash of anger during a 2006 interI chose the Jesuit ideal of contemview with “60 Minutes,” we “stop talk- plation in action as the theme of this ing about it.” When we have stopped column because of something a Jemarking our calendars with special suit at my high school told me long interest days, weeks and months as ago: “Above all, we are incomplete.” if they could contain the relevance Every day can change the course of of given identities. When we demand a life, and every life can change the equality before the law, cash regis- course of another. Writing this colter and boss’s desk because we are umn has helped me grow, and I hope human beings and that alone is suf- it has offered you a point or two to ficient. When a child’s revelation of chew on as you go. Action needs sexuality is no less routine than a de- thought and responsible thought, termination of left-handedness. action.

This is my endgame. We get there We could settle for what we have by convincing peers that we are all now and cruise on through to work beneficiaries of the same freedom, or graduate school, but Georgetown not simply by outvoting those who has unique problems to match its say otherwise. strengths, and we are only here for I am not a moral relativist. Morality four years, after all. Yet if we graduate is the only thing that will keep our without engaging our passions and country from careening into division challenging the status quo, the instiand decay at the hands of identity tution has failed us. There will always politics. But antiquated and preju- be a reason not to try. Whether we diced attitudes about race, sexuality agree or not, I hope you will join me and sex, whether cloaked in religion, in taking action. tradition or economics, only serve to cheapen morality and accelerate the Nate Tisa is a junior in the School pace of its destruction. Judgment of Foreign Service. He is speaker of of personal character is clouded by the GUSA senate. This is the final those who arrogantly hold others ac- appearance of CONTEMPLATION IN countable for traits they were born ACTION this semester.

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With live music, food and drinks on Healy Lawn, the Georgetown University Grilling Society will celebrate its growth over the past 10 years from four members to nearly 100 this Saturday.

Students who purchased an early-bird ticket for $5 or a standard ticket for $15 can enjoy live performances from local bands The Unforgiven and The E Street Shuffle, as well as GUGS burgers, pulled pork, barbecue chicken, and macaroni and cheese in a heated tent.

GUGS President Christopher Griffin (MSB ’13) said he hopes to celebrate past members’ efforts and the tremendous growth of the society since Bill Wuyek (MSB ’04) founded it in 2002.

“The 10th anniversary celebration is a chance to thank every person who has contributed to the success of the organization since the beginning,” Griffin said.

Board member and Grill Sergeant Christopher Yedibalian (COL ’13) agreed.

“We’re just trying to show the campus a great time with two live bands and a ton of food and drink for a minimal price of $5,” Yedibalian said. “We want to have a celebration of how far the organization has come and thank our loyal supporters for helping us become what we are.”

With the focus on alumni appreciation, the event will provide five draft beers with admission to attendees 21 and over.

The process of obtaining an alcoholic license for the event was straightforward, according to Griffin.

“The success in getting a permit is just in planning far in advance because of the various requirements D.C. imposes to obtain one,” Griffin said.

GUGS has been working on the event for nearly a year, and club members reached out to entertainers and vendors in spring 2012. Center for Student Programs staff members were helpful, according to Griffin.

Yedibalian agreed, stressing CSP’s assistance with the event’s logistics.

“We drew heavily on our contacts in the CSP who helped us go through the approval to get a tent, bring in

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In honor of its 10th anniversary, GUGS will serve its traditional burgers, among other offerings, in a heated tent on Healy Lawn Saturday. a tent, serve alcohol and so forth,” Yedibalian said. “From coordinating sales and marketing to the logistics of cooking enough food and working through contracts, it’s been a long but fun process.”

According to GUGS Vice President Preston Leverett (COL ’13), the event will showcase the society’s contribution to campus life.

“People will be able to see that they don’t have to hire expensive catering companies for their campus events when there’s a great alternative in GUGS,” Leverett said. “We make great food and have people that love to do it.”

Griffin agreed, emphasizing the impact of the GUGS’s legacy.

“Whether you are a student or

an administrator, odds are that you have enjoyed a tasty burger at some point during your time at Georgetown,” Griffin said. “We give back a lot to the community with our time and money. We do many grills at cost to raise money for various philanthropic endeavors. On any given week in the fall or spring, we do over 10 hours of grilling for various stakeholders of Georgetown.”

According to Yedibalian, this emphasis on giving back stems from GUGS’s founding mission.

“It’s always been about a closeknit group of friends bound by a passion for some good quality food who seek to give back to the campus and always remain true to our values,” Yedibalian said.

The caffeinated energy shot 5-hour Energy has been cited as a possible factor in 13 deaths over the past four years, according to records released by the Food and Drug Administration Nov. 15, but the university has no plans to regulate the sale of the beverage on campus.

The information from the FDA includes more than 90 reports received by the agency detailing medical emergencies in which 5-hour Energy may have played a role. In addition to the 13 deaths, another 14 incidents were deemed life threatening. Meanwhile, 25 of the 90 incidents involved trips to the emergency room and 32 resulted in hospitalizations.

Since the Food and Drug Administration considers 5-hour Energy a dietary supplement, the drink’s manufacturer, Living Essentials, must report any adverse events potentially related to the drink to the FDA. The agency is investigating the 13 incidents to determine if any connection can be made between the drink and the reported deaths, according to a Nov. 14 article in The New York Times.

Many on-campus stores sell 5-hour Energy, including the Georgetown University Bookstore, Epicurean and Co. and the storefronts of Students of Georgetown, Inc. According to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, the sale of energy drinks will likely remain unregulated by the university despite the potential adverse health effects.

“Georgetown University contracts with vendors who are allowed to make a wide range of products available for purchase in their stores on campus,” Pugh wrote in an email. “The university is not in the business of selling consumer products and generally does not recommend or prohibit the sale of specific products.”

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Stores on campus will still sell the supplement as the FDA investigates health reports. ing Vital Vittles and Hoya Snaxa.

Michael West (COL ’13), president and CEO of The Corp, said that those stores will continue to sell the drink.

“We’re not in the business of telling customers what they can and cannot buy — it’s still approved by the FDA,” he said.

“If that were to ever change, we would obviously have to pull it off our shelves.”

West also pointed out that both Living Essentials and the FDA have said that the product is safe to consume when used as directed.

Energy drinks such as 5-hour Energy continue to be popular among students looking to remain alert for long hours. Aakash Bhatia (MSB ’16) has a 5-hour Energy every couple of weeks when his workload requires him to stay awake past 3 a.m. He does, however, remain cautious about his consumption.

“I am aware of the health risk, and that is why I try to stay away from it as much as possible,” Bhatia said. “But there’s certain circumstances in which … I need to have it in order to accomplish the things I need to do.”

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Epi Owner to Face Jury EPICUREAN, from A1 and knowingly resist a lawful order of a Court of the United States,” the court documents read.

The civil case regarding the overtime wages will remain on hold while criminal proceedings are ongoing.

At the arraignment, U.S. attorney Patricia Stewart requested a bench trial with no jury present.

Judge Robert L. Wilkins denied the request, requiring that Chon appear before a jury.

In most criminal cases, the defendant has the right to a jury trial. However, if the penalty is fewer than six months in jail or less than a $5,000 fine, the defendant may forfeit that right. The judge’s decision to hold a jury trial implies that he is considering a fine of more than $5,000.

Chon will be represented by

Barry Coburn of D.C.-based law firm Coburn and Greenbaum.

Coburn declined to comment, as did Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, because the case is still pending.

Both parties must submit any pretrial motions by Dec. 17. They will receive a response by Jan. 4 and must reply by Jan. 14. The motion hearing will take place Jan. 23 in advance of the Feb. 12 criminal hearing.

Faith Groups Discuss Funding GUSA, from A1 activities fee funds.

Walsh said that the Ministry’s proposal fails to fulfill the fifth requirement, which states that members of an advisory board must be elected by the leaders of the clubs they represent.

Walsh said she was concerned that the presence of faculty, such as chaplains on the proposed advisory board, would prevent students from having full control over allocation of funding.

Campus Ministry Managing Director Aaron Johnson said that mixed representation of students and faculty on the hypothetical advisory board is compatible with how Campus Ministry student groups have operated in the past.

“With the existence of an independent interfaith student council that has historically functioned in a representative advisory capacity for the department at large, we need either a tandem or a hybrid advisory board model to keep from saddling student groups with redundant governance structures,” Johnson wrote in an email.

Walsh disagrees. “Student activities fee money is paid by all students at Georgetown,” she said, “so it’s important that we allocate this money to students to allocate to student groups. We’re not comfortable allocating to a board that isn’t entirely run by students.”

Walsh stressed that the Finance and Appropriation Committee will work closely

with Campus Ministry to ensure that it structures the advisory board in accordance with GUSA’s six points of club reform.

Planning for this advisory board is still in the preliminary stages, and GUSA and Campus Ministry must discuss the proposal with more student groups before progressing, according to Walsh.

“We’ve also heard mixed sentiments from campus ministry student groups that already exist about whether or not they want to move over to the campus ministry advisory board should it be created.

We want to see if this is something they’re interested in doing,” she said.

Hindu Student Association Vice President Neha Jejurikar (NHS ’13) said her group, which receives most of its funding from Campus Ministry and applies to campus organizations like GUSA and What’s After Dark for funding for specific events, has not suffered from funding shortages but would be in favor of the Campus Ministry advisory board.

“Our advisor said that the new advisory board will help us organize a budget and help provide us with exactly what we need,” Jejurikar said. “She’s been good about working with our treasurers, and she advised us that this would benefit us. She’s helped us so much in the past, so we trust her.”

Muslim Student Association President Wardah Athar (COL ’13) was also supportive of the idea.

“I think it’s great that

they’re trying to get more funding for us, and I think it’s good that we get more support from Campus Ministry,” Athar said.

Some student groups, such as the Jewish Student Association, which is currently funded by the Student Activities Commission, are also considering transitioning to fall under the new advisory board.

“The biggest pro is that we would be able to facilitate better communication and coordination with the campus ministry and avoid redundancy in programming,” JSA CoPresident Isaac Mishlove (SFS ’15) said.

However, Mishlove expressed concern that if the JSA were officially structured under the campus ministry, it would risk being labeled as an entirely religious group.

“One concern is that students might be turned off by the false impression that JSA is just another part of ministry, while in reality, a lot of students don’t want to be in a religious group but just part of social events,” he said. “[JSA] doesn’t exactly fit … the model of the chaplaincy because JSA is more than a religious group. It’s a cultural and social group.”

MSA Treasurer Zainab Ibrahim (NHS ’15) added that the emergence of a common advisory board for student religious groups on campus would facilitate collaboration between different faith groups.

“I think it’s a great way to link different communities,” she said.

RIG Projects to ‘Brighten’ GU GRANT, from A1 Georgetown, Inc. RIG’s funding and membership come from The Corp, Georgetown University Student and Alumni Credit Union and The Hoya.

The selection committee decided to award only half of its $10,000 budget this year. Last year, RIG distributed the full budget, but this semester it was forced to close five accounts that had become inactive.

“In the past, I don’t think the full $10,000 has always been given out,” Cheney said. “We as a board had a discussion to decide if it’s necessary to give out all $10,000. Ultimately, we obviously want to make an impact, but we also wanted to make an impact that wasn’t extravagant.”

GUMI will combine the grant money with additional fundraising money to support the group. Sean Guilday (COL ’13), who proposed GUMI along with Martin Ahern (COL ’13) and Patrick Ingelmo (MSB ’13), said that the initiative will harness the talents of a wide segment of the campus community.

“We want to encourage a variety of student groups … to participate, in addition to, of course, student artists and artist groups,” Guilday said. “Of course, the ideas for the murals will come from the artists, but the actual production of a mural is translating squares from paper onto the actual wall. And students can really get involved in that process.”

The group also discussed starting a mural-painting course with John Morrell, chair of the department of art and art history.

“In the class, the murals would be a student project and they would put the mural up as part of the class,” Ingelmo said.

“But even without the class, we would reach out to student artists for mural ideas.”

Christopher Yedibalian (COL

’13), who found out he received the grant for Winter Hoyaland last week, has reached out to students through email and Facebook to decorate Healy Circle this Sunday from noon until 6 p.m.

“I thought it would be cool to get all the students to decorate the campus and see it during finals but also have neighbors come by, see the campus, bring their kids and decorate the tree,” Yedibalian said. “[The holidays] are overshadowed by finals,” Yedibalian said. “Everyone is in a terrible mood because they’re doing work until 3 a.m. If there’s anything we could do to brighten their spirits and remind them that there’s another meaning to December, we want to [do] that.”

Ahern, Guilday and Ingelmo said that their proposal was inspired by what they perceive as a need to better showcase Georgetown’s artistic community.

“Our initial idea came from the fact that we all feel that the arts community at Georgetown is often neglected,” Ingelmo said. “Although everyone always says that Georgetown has many talented students, it’s a pretty general sentiment that the arts community isn’t as well-represented around campus. We wanted to help students express themselves artistically.”

“We really just want to let the personality of Georgetown shine through,” Ahern said.

“We want to add a pop of color to campus.”

Ahern expressed hope that as the initiative grows, it will reach out to the larger D.C. community through existing campus groups such as D.C. Reads.

Cheney shared this optimism for the initiative’s potential.

“I really hope to see GUMI get off the ground and have a strong start next spring be-

cause the winners are seniors, and I’d love to see them get a little taste of what their project is capable of,” Cheney said. “I’m really excited that we will be working really closely with the art department on that project, and I hope to see it institutionalized.”

Winter Hoyaland’s decorations will supplement the tree that the university puts outside of Dahlgren Chapel every year.

“I requested money and put forth a sustainable proposal, so the plan is to continue on with this,” Yedibalian said. “I have talked to underclassmen, and once we buy the decorations, they should last for a number of years. The contacts are there, and assuming all goes well this year, I’m hoping next year they will be able to continue Winter Hoyaland and improve it.”

He added that university assistance would ensure the project’s sustainability.

“In the future, [University Facilities] would buy the tree for us,” he said. “And in the far future, facilities and the [Office of the President] could chip in to help us. I can also save them money on what they’re buying in Dahlgren if we can partner on our efforts buying trees.”

Cheney added that she hopes Yedibalian’s initiative will be complemented by strong student interest.

“I hope to see students really enjoy it and kind of respond to us making this effort. I hope it brings holiday spirit back to campus,” she said.

According to Cheney, the two proposals were chosen because of their potential to impact the undergraduate experience at Georgetown in the long term.

“I think that in choosing a winner, RIG itself has to be very true to its meaning and its purpose,” she said. “We wanted to focus on projects that were going to be institutionalized, be able to carry on into the future and become a new tradition at Georgetown.”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Bishop Recounts Career, Anti-Gay Backlash MADISON ASHLEY Special to The Hoya

Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, spoke in McNeir Auditorium after a screening of the documentary “Love Free or Die” Tuesday night.

The Georgetown University Lecture Fund sponsored the event in conjunction with the LGBTQ Resource Center.

“Love Free or Die,” a winner of a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, details Robinson’s efforts to continue his ministry in the face of sometimes-violent opposition.

The Archbishop of Canterbury prohibited Robinson from attending the Lambeth Conference — a decennial meeting of bishops — in 2008 on the grounds that his presence would equate to Anglican acceptance of homosexuality. Robinson said he has received numerous death threats since his election as bishop in 2003 and continues to face dissent from within the Episcopal Church.

“I think the depth of the resistance is astounding and very complex,” Robinson said.

Nonetheless, Robinson said he believes the Episcopal Church is making strides toward ac-

ceptance of gay members. In 2009, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church allowed gay people in all levels of church leadership.

“Twenty years ago, most people said they didn’t know anyone gay. Now is there anyone left to say that?” Robinson said. “People are increasingly unwilling to believe what they have been told about gay people because they know gay people in their own lives.”

Mary Glasspool, the first openly lesbian bishop in the Episcopal Church, was elected in 2010. Robinson subsequently decided to retire at the end of this year.

“I wasn’t going to leave as long as I was the only gay bishop there,” he said.

In January, he will be moving to Washington, D.C., to take a position as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

Josh Donovan (COL ’13), who is writing his senior thesis on a related topic, was similarly inspired.

“I thought he gave a really succinct overview of what is going on in a lot of progressive churches,” Donovan said. “I think watching some of the event in the video on not a thesis level but a personal level … was very compelling.”

Data Analysis to Drive Master Planning Efforts PLANNING, from A1 Ricardo Dumont, an architect at Sasaki, explained the nature of master planning to the audience.

“We need to come up with a plan that is achievable within the heavy normal fiscal constraints that every university faces today,” Dumont said. “We realize that this is not a static plan but a global and dynamic plan that changes and morphs with universities as they change through time.”

Gregory Janks, director of Sasaki, said that the company will base planning recommendations on data gathered from an interactive Web survey called myCampus, which will use responses from students, faculty and staff to generate a demographic map of campus.

“We want to know what are the right data elements and how do we introduce them at the strategic level,” Janks said. “[In myCampus,] you can tag different aspects of the campus for where different activities occur. We’re really

interested in how people physically inhabit the space, and you can track movement patterns.

A lot of times, these maps are really a game changer.”

Deborah Salzberg, director of the Washington office of Forest City, said that the developer is also heavily reliant on data for its plans.

“We see what exists and envision what it can be,” Salzberg said. “We don’t promise more than we can deliver and we deliver what we say we will.”

Salzberg added that the planning period would last between nine and 12 months.

“After 12 months, the energy starts to wane,” she said.

Bleck cited the university’s Jesuit mission as crucial to the planning process.

“The underpinning foundation [of the plans] is the university’s mission — that we are Catholic and Jesuit, diverse, committed to excellence and that we educate the collective lifelong learners as responsible members who live for others,” Bleck said.

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The Georgetown football team (5-6, 2-4 Patriot League) did not come close to achieving its lofty goals of winning the Patriot League this season, but last week’s announcements of the postseason conference awards did provide a small consolation prize.

After finishing as league runners-up in 2011, the Hoyas were derailed by injuries throughout the 2012 campaign and ended the season on a particularly sour note thanks to a 24-0 walloping at the hands of Holy Cross (2-9, 2-4 Patriot League).

The loss was especially difficult for the team’s 17 graduating seniors, who endured a miserable 0-11 2009 season but played a big role since then in turning the program around.

“This program was about as low as it could be when [the seniors] first got here,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “They’ve done a good job to get to a point where we’ve got winning seasons and are playing for Patriot League championships.”

Last Tuesday’s awards served as validation for the entire senior class and, above all, team captain and star middle linebacker Robert McCabe. McCabe — who led the entire FCS this season with an astounding 159 tackles — was awarded Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year honors and was also named to the all-Patriot League first team for a second consecutive year.

The distinctions were a fitting end to what was a record-breaking senior year for the Pennsylvanian, who broke both the Georgetown single-season and career tackle records in decisive fashion this fall. McCabe is the second straight member of the Blue and Gray to earn defensive player of the year honors, following in the footsteps of since-graduated defensive end Andrew Schaetzke.

The linebacker is also a finalist for the FCS Buck Buchanan Award, which honors the best defensive player in the FCS and will be named on Dec. 17.

“I don’t know if you can replace a guy like [McCabe],” Kelly said. “I hope he has an opportunity to be the National Defensive Player of the Year. He’s an excellent football player.”

Joining McCabe on the allPatriot League first team was dynamic senior cornerback Jeremy Moore, who was fifth in the FCS with five interceptions. The Connecticut native lived up to Kelly’s touting of him as a “big-

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Sophomore wide receiver Kevin Macari (20) was one of three Georgetown players named to the all-Patriot League second team. play person”, shattering the Georgetown and Patriot League interception return yardage records this season and scoring two defensive touchdowns in the process.

Junior outside linebacker Dustin Wharton, who converted from his former position at safety, was the final first-team honoree after breaking the 100-tackle threshold for a second year in a row and recording 3.5 sacks and two forced fumbles.

Junior running back Nick Campanella, sophomore wideout Kevin Macari and junior offensive lineman James Spaly were each named to the second-team offense. Campanella, a bruising runner, found the end zone seven times during the year, while Spaly anchored an offensive line that often struggled during the season.

Macari was the Blue and Gray’s breakout player on offense, emerging as one of the conference’s top pass-catchers. The versatile sophomore — who tallied 668 receiving yards and six touchdowns — remained the one consistent offensive presence as the Hoyas rotated between five quarterbacks, “When you’re looking forward, we’ve got a lot of excellent young football players,” Kelly said. “The future’s bright.”

That emerging young core, though, must put in a lot of

work from now until next fall if it wants to have a chance at competing for a Patriot League title next year.

The top priority for Georgetown in the offseason is to find a starting quarterback for the future. While senior Isaiah Kempf remains eligible to return after missing this season due to a concussion, that seems highly improbable.

Therefore, a three-way competition is likely to arise between junior Aaron Aiken, sophomore Stephen Skon and freshman Kyle Nolan. While Aiken demonstrated impressive mobility and Skon showed tremendous poise at times, the odds-on-favorite to win the job heading into next season is Nolan.

The young gunslinger saw significant playing time in only two games this season but won Patriot League Rookie of the Week in his first game and developed a strong rapport with Macari, who tallied over 100 yards receiving in both of Nolan’s complete outings. Although Kelly would not name an outright starter, he hinted that the position is indeed Nolan’s to lose.

“I think Kyle Nolan’s going to be an excellent quarterback,” Kelly said. “We’ve got spring ball coming up, so we’ve got to see how it all filters out, but we’ve got to get them all healthy and we’ll go from there.”

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Dodgers, Jays Mark New Trend T he two coasts of the United States have effectively hijacked Major League Baseball over the past 12 months and altered the trajectory of the league. As a result, in 2013 and beyond, the World Series will undoubtedly be decided far from the heartland of the U.S. On the West Coast, the two Los Angeles baseball clubs have splurged in a big way over the past 12 months to acquire talent in hopes of making a run for the World Series. With the Dodgers in the thick of the bidding war for Zack Greinke — who was traded to the Angels just last season — and the Angels returning Albert Pujols and the sensational Mike Trout, the West Coast is gearing up for baseball domination as long as the AL East does not step in the way.

And after a relatively weak 2012 season that saw the Red Sox collapse in stunning fashion, the Rays fall just short of the playoffs and the Yankees implode in the ALCS, the 2012 offseason was very clearly won by the AL East.

The Toronto Blue Jays — often the cellar-dwellers in a division that includes the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and now-resurgent Orioles — took control of their own future when they traded for stars Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson and Mark Buerhle from the Miami Marlins.

The Jays had been an afterthought in baseball since their last division title in 1993; at that point, they had just won back-to-back World Series titles and seemed poised to become the defining team of the 1990s.

Instead, the strike-affected 1994 season saw the end of the Blue

Jays’ remarkable run. They led the majors in attendance that year, yet faltered in the summer, finishing 16 games back of first place; they haven’t made the playoffs since.

After their manager was taken by the Red Sox, the Jays entered deal mode and emerged from the fall of 2012 as the most improved team in the league. Their offensive core of Jose Bautista, Melky Cabrera, Jose Reyes and Edwin Encarnacion puts them toward

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Expect to see the teams on each coast dominating the storylines. the top of the AL East, and their new pitching ace in Josh Johnson added to the competitiveness of a staff that has sorely missed former ace Roy Halladay.

The Marlins proved this past season that offseason trades do not guarantee results in the following season, but the Jays’ 19 years of futility mean that they are now undoubtedly willing to try anything.

With the AL East’s perennial afterthought making drastic im-

provements, Toronto joins the rest of the division clubs in looking poised for a winning season.

The Tampa Bay Rays recently inked star player Evan Longoria to a long-term deal that will keep him in Tampa until the age of 36.

In Boston, the Sox have gotten rid of Bobby Valentine — and the distractions that went along with his disastrous tenure as manager — and hired John Farrell to ignite a fresh spark in a sluggish franchise that won a World Series not so long ago.

Elsewhere in the division, the Baltimore Orioles are coming off of a breakout season in which Buck Showalter led the team to 93 wins, a full 24 more than in 2011. Meanwhile, the Yankees are somehow a question mark in this division after their collapse in the AL Championship Series: Despite coming within four wins of the World Series, the Pinstripes are uneasy with their positioning within the AL East, especially after seeing Toronto load up on talent. Based on the last 20 years of history, however, the Yankees will likely find a way to win regardless.

As baseball heads into its winter meetings and 2013 spring training, expect to see the teams on each coast dominating the storylines. With the amount of money spent by the Los Angeles teams and the moves made by the AL East, the MLB is heading straight for an East Coast/West Coast battle in 2013.

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Fresh off of Wednesday night’s victory over La Salle, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (5-2) will make the short trip down M Street for a matchup with George Washington (4-2) Saturday with Washington, D.C. supremacy on the line.

The Hoyas came away with a 59-50 win over the Colonials last December in the two schools’ most recent matchup.

While the women’s program often takes a backseat to the men’s on the Hilltop, star guard and senior team leader Sugar Rodgers — who scored 28 points against the Explorers — came into her senior season with high expectations, and she has certainly lived up to them so far. Named to the early season watch list for the Naismith Award, the senior from Suffolk, Va., is averaging 23.7 points and an impressive eight rebounds through the first seven games of the season to lead the squad in both categories.

George Washington, meanwhile, has lost to both major conference opponents they have faced so far, dropping a close contest at Rutgers before getting hammered, 50-31, at Virginia Tech less than two weeks later. The Colonials have had a different leading scorer in five of their first six games during Head Coach Jonathan Tsipis’ first season at the helm, meaning that the Hoyas will be tasked with slowing

down a balanced attack.

Center Sara Mostafa is a 6-foot-5 fifth-year senior who anchors the paint for George Washington, averaging 6.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. After posting eight points and 10 boards against Morgan St. on Wednesday, Mostafa should give Georgetown’s 6-foot-6 senior center Sydney Wilson all she can handle down low.

Although, the Blue and Gray appear the more talented team on paper in this matchup, the fact that first-year Head Coach Keith Brown’s team has struggled at times this season means it will surely prove a tough test.

In Wednesday night’s game, the Hoyas found themselves down 12 at the half to a 1-5 La Salle team. A 20-point Rodgers performance in the second half staved off the upset, but the unconvincing first half makes clear that Georgetown is still vulnerable.

So while Rodgers has carried the large bulk of the scoring load so far, others will need to begin to step up as the team inches closer to the rigors of Big East play. Junior forward Andrea White is the second leading scorer, with 11.9 points per contest, but no other Hoya player averages more than 6.6 per game.

Saturday’s fixture, slated for a 4 p.m. start at George Washington’s Smith Center, is the first of a three-game road trip for the Blue and Gray, continuing at Monmouth and Penn State next week.

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Avoiding Foul Trouble A Priority Against UT TENNESSEE, from A10 Martin’s squad, while unranked nationally, was picked to finish fourth in a tough SEC race, behind current national No. 8 Kentucky, No. 7 Florida and No. 16 Missouri. Additionally, three Vols made the Coaches’ all-SEC teams at the beginning of the season, and sophomore forward Jarnell Stokes was named to the preseason Naismith Trophy Watch List.

Tennessee thus far lacks any highprofile wins over major-conference opponents, but the Vols haven’t slipped up, either: Their lone loss came at the hands of a talented Oklahoma State team that vaulted to No. 15 in the national rankings a few days later.

“They’re an experienced team at every position,” Head Coach John Thompson III said of Tennessee. “They can get up and down, they can settle into a halfcourt game and, perhaps most importantly, they can play defense.”

The Blue and Gray may have caught a break this week, however: Redshirt senior forward Jeronne Maymon is expected to miss his sixth straight game after undergoing offseason knee surgery.

Still, to avoid an upset on its home court, Georgetown’s primary goal will be to play smart on defense and to keep the Vols off the charity stripe, where they average over 25 attempts per game this year.

This might seem like an obvious strategy, but it’s something the otherwise disciplined Hoyas have struggled with thus far, especially late in games.

Indiana, for example, only pulled away in the Legends Classic title game when Georgetown went on a fouling spree in the overtime period. Duquesne, likewise, kept a potential blowout within single digits — and even threatened an upset — largely due to Georgetown’s tendency to stop the clock with inexplicable late-game fouls.

Martin will likely look to feed Stokes

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Sophomore center Mikael Hopkins has already posted double digits four times on the young season.

on the early and often, and Georgetown’s lack of frontcourt depth makes any potential foul trouble for Hopkins and Lubick a potential gamebreaker for Tennessee.

Sophomore forwards Otto Porter and Greg Whittington have stepped up on the boards, but the lack of a big body down low could hurt the Hoyas.

“We’ve just got to play good defense,” Porter said. “We’ve played against big guys before — I think we can defend.”

The Vols don’t have one obvious weakness that Thompson III can attempt to exploit, so look for the Hoyas to play passing lanes and attempt to control the pace of the game against a Vols squad that likes to push the ball in transition.

Tennessee poses a formidable challenge for Georgetown, but tonight’s game represents a chance for Thompson III and the Hoyas to cement their reputation as an elite team in front of what’s sure to be a raucous Verizon Center — as well as a major national TV audience.

Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

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Defections Won’t Spell the End REALIGNMENT, from A10 that Big East. But with his school’s leaving, it looks like it’s gone forever.

With that, college basketball’s center of gravity has moved farther away from Georgetown. To the south, the ACC is now the premier basketball league, while to the west, the Big Ten (whose name is increasingly incongruous for a 14-member conference) is as strong as ever.

The ACC, once centered on Tobacco Road, now includes the four most accomplished active coaches: Pitino, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina’s Roy Williams and, yes, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim.

Combined, that gang has 27 Final Four appearances.

As a resurgent Indiana showed in besting Georgetown last week, the Big Ten is also a powerhouse.

Tom Izzo’s Michigan State squad seems to always stick around deep into the tournament, while coaching masterminds helm Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin, as well.

Georgetown’s name cannot be found among these schools, primarily because it does not play BCS football. And without world-class facilities, athletic scholarships or a large, established fan base, it is unlikely we will see Hoyas football advance to a higher level any time in the near future.

Instead, University President John J. DeGioia, Athletic Director Lee Reed and the rest of the administration must double down on the sport most important to the Hilltop’s identity — basketball — while ensuring that other sports, such as lacrosse and soccer, continue to play in a competitive environment.

Underscoring the importance of basketball above all else, however, are the two iconic images on the backs of this year’s men’s basketball jerseys: university founder John Carroll and longtime basketball coach John Thompson Jr. That’s appropriate, as Thompson — with some help from our nation’s 42nd president and our school’s favorite son — has helped

bring Georgetown to national prominence over the past four decades.

With a changing landscape, keeping that prominence is paramount.

In the one area where they have total control — facilities — Reed and DeGioia are making the right moves.

The nation’s top-tier basketball programs, minus Georgetown, not only play in decked-out arenas but boast world-class practice facilities, too.

Reed’s plan to build the Intercollegiate Athletic Center, which will hopefully soon be christened with a name that rolls more easily off the tongue, is laudable. A commitment to investing in the school’s athletic infrastructure is the only way the Hoyas will continue to bring in top talent.

What Georgetown cannot control, however, is the ongoing process of realignment. Some shrewd observers — like acclaimed sportswriter John Feinstein of The Washington Post — have argued for a small league centered on basketball. Pitino, for instance, argued that such a conference would be made up of Catholic schools because “nobody has more money than the Vatican.”

Having recently toured Rome, however, this writer deems it unlikely that Benedict XVI will hawk Michelangelos to ensure the lights stay on at Verizon Center.

But as long as the cameras are rolling and the band keeps playing, concerns over realignment for Georgetown will remain overstated.

Of course, the critics are correct in assuming that the current superleague of 20 teams — which stretches more than 2,500 miles from Providence, R.I., to San Diego — is unsustainable. Let’s assume for a moment, though, that a few of those teams, such as Boise State, Cincinnati and Connecticut, all of which have experienced some football success, eventually head elsewhere.

That leaves the Hoyas in a Big East that looks a lot like the old Conference USA. It would combine basketball schools like George-

town, Marquette and Villanova with BCS football schools that probably will never make the sport’s playoffs, such as Memphis, Houston and Tulane.

That is a recipe for instability if those schools make a huge jump in football quality, but it would lend stability for at least a decade. And for Georgetown, it would be a satisfactory outcome.

The old Conference USA, before Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville and Marquette left in 2005, was an excellent basketball league. Stars like Quentin Richardson, Kenyon Martin and Dwayne Wade all hit the hardwood there, while esteemed coaches like Tom Crean, John Calipari and Pitino paced its sidelines.

Even after the Bearcats, Cardinals and Golden Eagles jumped ship, the league was still good to Memphis, who had a period of dominance leading to a (later vacated) Final Four run. They proved to be the ultimate big fish in a small pond.

Because schools like Memphis and Marquette are likely to stay in the conference, Georgetown would still be playing in a competitive league — just one not quite as brutal as the Big East used to be; that can still lead to success.

Consider Louisville. Its 2004-05 basketball season was marked by fanfare in preparation for joining the Big East and Pitino’s supposed remark to the Syracuse Post-Standard that C-USA was a “God-awful” conference.

But the Cardinals went 14-2 in their league, won both the regular season and tournament titles and marched to the Arch to play in the 2005 Final Four in St. Louis.

In a diminished conference, Georgetown would be a similarly big fish in a smaller pond. And they could still be successful on the national stage.

That should suit the Hoya faithful just fine.

Evan Hollander is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is a former sports editor and current board member of The Hoya.

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“For some reason, we came out and we weren’t ready to play hard. Any time [mid-major schools] come in and have a chance to play Georgetown, they play hard. I think, because we’re a young team, we forget that sometimes.”

In the first half, La Salle managed to break down Georgetown’s pressure defense time and time again. Leading the charge was Wilson, who was 5-8 from the field in the period — including 3-4 from three — while also pulling down eight rebounds.

The normally sharp-shooting Rodgers, meanwhile, was 1-6 from beyond the arc in the period and didn’t get much help from her teammates, who combined for only 16 first-half points. As a result, the Blue and Gray went into the break trailing 36-24.

The second half, however, was a different story. The Hoyas knew that shutting down Wilson — who was averaging 20.6 points per game going in — was a priority, and they delivered, holding her to only an additional five points after the intermission.

“What they said was that as a group they wanted to hold her to 17, so I thought they did a much better job in the second half,” Brown said. “Also, our pressure started to wear her down a little bit. It’s hard to shoot threes if you’re tired.”

Rodgers, who was matched up both offensively and defensively with Wilson in various situations, didn’t see it in quite the same way.

“To be honest, I don’t even know who Brittany Wilson is,” Rodgers said. “I just went out there and played my game. I don’t worry about what the other team is doing toward me.”

The Hoyas came out in the second half knowing that to win, they would also need to get the ball into the paint more consistently, and that started with 6-foot-6 center senior Sydney Wilson.

“I say it at the beginning of every game, [and] I said it again at halftime — when we get Sydney touches, good things happen,” Brown said.

“We’ve got to get her to remember that she’s [got to] just go be aggressive and dominate. If she does that, we’re going to have a chance to win

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Junior forward Andrea White (11) ranks second on the team in points per game, but others will need to pick up the slack going forward. some games this year.”

Georgetown had cut the lead down to six when Sydney Wilson registered her fourth personal foul, taking her out of the game.

The team, however, fed off the energy she provided and tied the game four separate times without taking a lead before she was able to re-enter. Ultimately, the Hoyas outscored the Explorers in the paint 28-6 in the second half alone and 38-14 overall.

Missed free throws stalled the comeback, though, as the Blue and Gray shot only 60 percent from the line on the night, compared with 72 percent from the opposition.

“I hope it’s not a trend. We work on them every single day,” Brown said. “I think sometimes they come to the line lackadaisical.

Because they’re really a good freethrow shooting team, they think they’re going to hit every single free throw. What they’ve got to do is get in there, concentrate, keep their eyes on the rim and knock them down.”

With 3:30 remaining in the game and the Blue and Gray trailing by one, Rodgers took over. She first scored a tough go-ahead layup and then made arguably the play of the game in recovering an offensive rebound off of a missed free throw, taking a hard foul and regaining her composure enough to convert her two free throws.

Rodgers registered nine points in those final four minutes, finishing with a game-high 28 points and

team-high 13 rebounds, including eight on the offensive glass. Junior forward Andrea White contributed 14 points, while sophomore guard Jasmine Jackson chipped in 12 of her own.

“They were just looking for me, and my teammates found me,” Rodgers said. “I was on fire, so why not keep coming back to me? I closed the game out — that’s what big-time players do in big-time ball games.”

Perhaps most notably, Rodgers played all 40 minutes for the first time in her career, and, according to Brown, Rodgers herself dismissed the notion of coming out with the score so close.

Nonetheless, after the game, the senior’s fatigue showed.

“I’m actually feeling tired,” Rodgers said. “I just went out there and played hard. My team needed me. We weren’t too good in the first half, so I needed to step up and be a captain, be a leader.”

Ultimately, Rodgers made the adjustments necessary to break down the Explorers’ box-and-one defense — which consisted of a four-man zone with a shadow on Rodgers — and ended up leading the squad to victory.

“I’ve seen it all, especially a boxand-one,” Rodgers said. “That’s old, like come on. No box-and-one, that’s disrespectful.”

Georgetown next travels across town to take on George Washington Saturday at 4 p.m. The game will be broadcast on Comcast SportsNet.

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Midfielder Andy Riemer and his senior classmates have already enshrined themselves in GU lore, but a Final Four berth is now on the line.

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lenge that San Diego is sure to pose.

“Anybody you play at this stage has some potent weapons to them, and they’re certainly no exception,” Wiese said. “They’re hot as anybody in the country — they’re 12-2 over the last 14 games. They’ve shown uncommon resilience as a team in that they’ve gone on the road to three ranked teams, been down 1-0 in each of those games and have found a way to come back and win and, in the case of UCLA, win well.”

“Winning well,” in this case, meant a decisive 5-2 thrashing in Los Angeles. The Bruins, who had lost just two games this season prior to that Nov. 9 matchup, were manhandled on their own turf, thanks in part to a two-goal performance from Torero senior forward Patrick Wallen.

A 2-1 comeback win on the road against Tulsa came next, as sophomore midfielder Connor Brandt put his side ahead for good in the 68th minute after a 13th-minute Golden Hurricane goal had put San Diego on the back foot out of the gate.

“They’ll be as confident as anybody in the country, and they certainly won’t be afraid of us,” Wiese said of the Toreros. “It’s going to be one of these games where they’re going to try to play their brand of soccer, and they’re not going to care where they’re playing or who they’re playing against.”

At the same time, though, one can’t help but think that the visitors will give the accomplished Blue and Gray a great deal of respect on Saturday.

Following a regular season in which they shared the Big East title with Connecticut, the Hoyas came within less than a minute of claiming the program’s first conference tournament championship before falling to Notre Dame in double overtime. Since then, Georgetown has posted wins over Charlotte, last year’s runner-up, and most recently Syracuse on penalty kicks to get to

this point.

And Wiese stressed that his players aren’t ready to say goodbye to their 2012 campaign just yet.

“This group’s always had an even keel to them, and I think you saw that in the Syracuse game. It seems no team can fluster these guys,” he said. “But it’s an interesting dichotomy because on the one hand, we’re expected to make it to the College Cup [as the top seed in the region], and on the other hand, we’re trying to do something that we’ve never done before.”

With an offense led by junior forward Steve Neumann — who was named one of 15 Hermann Trophy semifinalists on Wednesday — and prolific freshman striker Brandon Allen, Georgetown should be fully capable Saturday of breaking down a Torero defense that has not kept a clean sheet in its three postseason contests.

The lone common opponent between the two teams is California State, Northridge, whom the Toreros have faced twice this season, the first of those two meetings resulting in a lopsided 5-0 Northridge victory.

San Diego exorcised its demons in the first round of the NCAAs when it really mattered, though, winning 2-1 against the team in overtime to advance. The Hoyas, meanwhile, took down the Matadors 1-0 on Aug. 31 with a game-winning goal from Allen.

In the end, however, who goes through to the Final Four and whose season comes to a disappointing close won’t be determined by history. Each team’s fate will now only be decided by how it performs from whistle to whistle.

“I think we’re just hoping for another good performance, like any other [time] this year,” Wiese said.

“The stakes are high, but I think this group can settle down and hopefully play our brand of soccer. After 90 minutes, we’ll see if it’s good enough.”

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

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arises is that of which style is better.

If one considers playoff success, it would appear to be a no-brainer: Last year, Memphis was bounced in the first round, while Miami and OKC were the last two teams standing.

This season, however, the Grizz have already defeated the Heat and Thunder back to back, each win coming in convincing fashion. With additional early-season victories over the Lakers and Knicks, it’s safe to say that Head Coach Lionel Hollins’ old-school approach is working, and the simpler “play-your-position” methodology seems to be here to stay.

In the first month of the NBA season, we’ve seen players previously labeled “small forwards” like James, Anthony and Durant playing power forward, and opposing teams have quickly given in and adjusted their defensive strategies accordingly. But the Memphis Grizzlies won’t budge — and they don’t need to. As big as he is, if LeBron wants to play the post against Zach Randolph, odds are it won’t end well. And if Russell

Westbrook wants to go on a shooting binge, Tony Allen will stifle him as soon as he catches the ball.

Rather than follow the trend set

by Miami and Oklahoma City, the Grizzlies have stuck with the X’s and O’s established by our basketball forefathers. They don’t play “small ball,” they don’t stack the perimeter with three-point gunners and they don’t run isolations for one single player. They just stick to their system, and so far, it’s working flawlessly. Memphis leaves the lineup tinkering to its opponents, who are tasked with the huge challenge of breaking down what has become one of the stingiest defenses in all of basketball.

The Memphis bandwagon is already filling up, symbolizing a return to the norm in the world of basketball. The Grizzlies will be a fun team to watch come April; don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Matt Bell is a freshman in the McDonough School of Business.

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To be honest, I don’t even know who Brittany Wilson is.

Barring overtime, the number of minutes separating men’s soccer from the Final Four

Women’s basketball senior guard Sugar Rodgers

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It was Rodgers who would have the last laugh, however, as the Hoyas (52) came back in the second half to avoid the upset in a 69-61 victory.

The Blue and Gray, fresh off of a loss in the finals of the Cal Classic in Berkeley, Calif., started off slow, and the aggressive Explorers took an early 11-5 lead.

“I think we were extremely sluggish,” Head Coach Keith Brown said.

Hoya fans have a new shade of orange to hate — for one night, at least.

The Georgetown faithful will get a much-needed respite from conference realignment drama this evening when Tennessee (4-1) visits the Verizon Center to open Friday’s SECBig East Challenge slate.

The No. 20 Blue and Gray (4-1) will be the clear favorites going into tonight’s contest largely based on their impressive showing at the Legends Classic last week. At Brooklyn’s brand-new Barclays Center, the Hoyas dismantled then-No. 11 UCLA and gave No. 1 Indiana a run for its money, in the process announcing their presence as a national power in front of millions of viewers.

The resulting media adoration lasted just long enough for most fans to forgive a lackluster first half against Mount St. Mary’s last weekend. Now, though, the Blue and Gray are in the spotlight again, this time defending a spot in the national rankings.

The first marquee opponent to challenge the Hoyas on their home turf this season, the Volunteers are easily the toughest nonconference team Georgetown has played host to since a win over Memphis in December 2011.

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Senior guard Sugar Rodgers came up with nine points in the final four minutes to seal her team’s comeback win Wednesday night.

Strong Second Half Staves off Upset Bid

ARIK PARNASS Hoya Staff Writer

For a while on Wednesday, it looked like Sugar Rodgers might be overshadowed.

The senior guard and preseason AP All-American was held to only eight points in the first half of a non-conference showdown Wednesday night against La Salle (1-5) while opposing senior guard Brittany Wilson registered 17 in the opening 20.

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Averaging 14.0 points per game, junior point guard Markel Starks will line up tonight opposite Tennesse’s talented Trae Golden.

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EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

Even the Big East’s biggest cheerleaders will find it difficult to spin either Louisville’s decision to leave the conference or Tulane’s decision to join it as anything but body blows to the league Georgetown helped found in 1979.

What seems to remain — although the vexing question of what role football will play in the new league remains central — is a conference with a roster of solid, if not spectacular, basketball schools.

The Cardinals fled Conference USA in 2005, hoping to take advantage of the Big East’s status as an

Automatic Qualifying conference for football’s Bowl Championship

“As long as the cameras are rolling and the bands are playing, concerns over realignment ... will remain overstated.”

Series. But with football’s moving to a playoff system, the Big East no longer has that valuable draw.

Louisville now joins a long list

of soon-to-be former Big East members; Syracuse, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and West Virginia have also bolted in the last two years.

Those teams made up the heart of the conference, from the orange-clad fans that filled Madison Square Garden for the men’s basketball tournament to blustery November nights on the gridiron in Morgantown, W.Va. For the past year, Louisville coach Rick Pitino — whose coaching career took off at Providence and eventually found its way to Louisville — has pushed to save See REALIGNMENT, A9

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GU One Step From Final Four RYAN BACIC

Hoya Staff Writer

Through four rounds, Georgetown’s section of the 2012 NCAA tournament bracket is one that has been chiefly defined by upsets, with No. 6 seed UCLA, No. 11 Tulsa and No. 14 VCU all being sent home early.

The third-seeded Hoyas (18-3-2, 6-2-0 Big East) have thus far stayed clear of any potential Cinderellas on their road to the College Cup, but unseeded San Diego (14-8-0, 9-3-0 West Coast Conference) will provide another major obstacle on Saturday in the Elite Eight. The Toreros — who were responsible for impressively knocking out UCLA and Tulsa — are perhaps playing better than any other team in the tourney field after what was a largely uninspiring league campaign.

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After scoring the equalizer in the 84th minute against Syracuse, Brandon Allen (10) now hopes to lead the Hoyas to the College Cup.

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