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YEAR IN REVIEW

An examination of the biggest moments and prevailing themes of the 2014-2015 school year.

LATE BLOOMER Coogan took an unconventional path to becoming an All-American runner.

EDITORIAL Student activism and dialogue galvanized progress this year.

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Gearing Toward Arts and Science Owen Eagan Hoya Staff Writer

When Luke Gile (SFS ’18) was deciding on college last year, Georgetown seemed

offer engineering. Every other school that I applied to was an engineering school,” Gile said.

Georgetown has never offered its own engineering program. The closest thing it offers is a dual-degree engineering program, in which participants spend three or four years at Georgetown College pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree, then two years at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree.

This program was the deciding factor that brought Gile, who is interested in mechanical engineering, to Georgetown.

“When I found out that Georgetown had this Columbia program, I was set on Georgetown,” Gile said.

to have everything he wanted. Everything, that is, but an engineering program.

“I’ve wanted to go to Georgetown ever since I was little and it was kind of a deal breaker for me when they didn’t

The Fate of Engineering The lack of an engineering school at Georgetown is not surprising considering the university’s tradition in liberal

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Georgetown’s dual-degree engineering program with Columbia sees few matriculates each year, with hesitancy to transfer after three or four years.

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Alum Finalist For Private Mars Mission

After a student-led push, the Main Campus Executive Faculty will vote on adding a diversity requirement.

THIS WEEK IN POWER

MCEF to Vote On Core Change Charlotte Allen Hoya Staff Writer

Gaia Mattiace

The Main Campus Executive Faculty will vote today on the addition of a diversity requirement to the core curriculum that would apply to the Class of 2019.

The vote follows months of campaigning by the Last Campaign for Academic Reform and the Provost’s Committee for Diversity to add a diversity requirement to the curriculum. If the MCEF votes in favor of the requirement, stu-

Hoya Staff Writer

When Leila Zucker (MED ’07) received an email from her husband about a possible trip to Mars, she did not think twice as she filled out an application.

The program Zucker applied for, Mars One, is a Dutch nonprofit organization founded in 2011 that aims to create a human colony on the barren planet. The organization’s website lists 31 small businesses that are current investors. After a rigorous application and selection process, Zucker, 47, was selected as one of 100 finalists undergoing training to possibly live on Mars by 2026.

The Mars One staff will select 24 people from the 100 finalists for a series of seven-month-long one-way trips to Mars in hopes of colonizing the planet, beginning in 2026. Leading up to this goal, they will run eight trial cargo missions.

There were an estimated 10,000 initial applicants for the program from all over the world, ranging in age from 18

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Clinton Delivers Penultimate Lecture Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

“The time is now.

There’s no more waiting. Let’s just go.”

Former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) emphasized the importance of inclusiveness in constructing a vision for the future during a speech at Gaston Hall Tuesday, continuing his ongoing Georgetown lecture series.

University President John J. DeGioia introduced Clinton, lauding the former president’s wealth of experience in public service.

“We come together today and on two other occasions in the series to engage the wisdom and insights of one of the most accomplished global leaders of our time to hear his perspective from a lifetime of service to our nation,” DeGioia said. “President

Leila zucker (MED ’07) Mars One Finalist

to 71. From this group, 1,058 individuals moved on to the second round of physical examinations, after which 660 people were then selected for final interviews with Mars One Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft. While the entertainment company Endemol had been in talks to produce a reality televeision program following the selection process, it announced it was cancelling the project in February.

Zucker, an emergency medical physician at Howard University Hospital, compared her passion for space to her dedication to her profession.

“It’s kind of like asking why I wanted to be a doctor. I’ve always wanted to be a doctor,” Zucker said. “I’ve always wanted to go into space. I think humans must go into space.”

The next round, in which Zucker will participate sometime next year, will last two weeks, and will include physical, intellectual and psychological testing and competitions to determine the final 24 individuals who will become permanent Mars One employees. The final 24 will then be divided into six groups of four, which will compete to decide which group will be the first to leave for Mars. A second group will follow after 26 months, and if each mission succeeds, all 24 people will be on Mars within a decade.

Zucker said she believes establishing a

dents from all four schools will be required to take two overlay courses cross-listed under the category “Diversity, Power and Privilege.”

The requirement, which was unanimously approved by the Core Curriculum Committee, will need 29 votes from the MCEF to become part of the curriculum. The CCC consists of 15 faculty members who determine the core requirements for all four schools, while the MCEF,

Clinton turns … to speak to all of you, future leaders of our nation, to think deeply about our own responsibilities about where we are, where we want to go and how we propose to get there.”

The hour-long lecture was the third annual installment of the Clinton Lectures, four lectures by the 42nd president that reflect on his time in public service and offer advice on composing a life devoted to the public good.

The lecture series began in April 2013 and will conclude next year.

Clinton previously gave a lecture series at Georgetown in 1991, during his first presidential campaign. His lecture Tuesday came a little more than a week after his wife Hillary announced her See PURPOSE, A6

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Former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) delivered the third lecture in his series, set to conclude in 2016, speaking on public good.

FEATURED NEWS LGBTQ Cultural Competency A D.C. Council bill would require sensitivity training for health care professionals. thehoya.com

SPORTS Dynamic Duo

Two senior standouts have led the men’s lacrosse team to a successful year.

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OPINION Commentary

NEWS MSFS Refugee Aid

MSFS students are holding a fundraiser to aid Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

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MULTIMEDIA Clinton Lectures

The Armenian Genocide must be remembered — and recognized as such.

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The school year was marked by conversations about race, sparking change. thehoya.com

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THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

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The Closing Word

fter an eventful year for campus life, student activism proved to be a deciding force in how diversity, freedom of expression and student-administration communication shaped the Georgetown community. Here is the editorial board’s final word on major events of the 2014-2015 academic year.

Developing Diversity

Students have taken valuable steps toward encouraging discussions and institutional changes surrounding campus diversity this year.

Student-led campaigns have continued to address issues pertaining to representation and education — like the campaigns for a diversity course requirement and a Casa Latina — and the university has been admirably receptive to their efforts — as was shown in the “Reflections on Ferguson” discussion in August or Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James B. Comey’s lecture and panel “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race” in February.

Student reaction to national and campus events has been essential in galvanizing these discussions and resultant changes.

The dialogue, in the form of discussion panels like the Reflections on Ferguson event in August and the Ignite the Dream lecture series this month, has been incredibly constructive — the administration is voting on a diversity course requirement today.

This year has also seen progress on new fronts, such as the campaign spearheaded by the Latino Leadership Forum for the creation of a Casa Latina. Creating a safe and nurturing environment for all members of the Georgetown community is essential to the university’s mission; hopefully, students will see more explicit steps from the administration toward making Casa Latina a reality.

The work to improve representation and recognition for ethnic minorities at Georgetown is certainly not over. However, substantive progress has been made over the course of this school year, and if the administration and the student body can work together to keep up this momentum, the future of Georgetown will see more marked change.

Free Expression, Not Silence

Despite meaningful strides in freedom of speech on campus thanks to student activism, more should be done to ensure that Georgetown’s speech and expression policy is no longer synonymous with restriction and censorship.

In September, H*yas for Choice was removed from an approved tabling location on 37th Street by a Georgetown University Police Department officer, sparking a heated debate about speech and expression on campus. The university’s restrictions on unaffiliated campus groups earned Georgetown a spot on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s list of the 10 worst universities in the country for free speech.

The formation of Hoyas United for Free Speech in response to this, the subsequent petition presented to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson demanding the fair implementation of the speech and expression policy and the administration’s response — updated guidelines for campus protests and tabling — bode well for the advancement of students’ rights. This Editorial Board hopes that dialogue between students and administrators continues next year, as an improved policy expanding tabling as a protected form of expression and better student representation in the Speech and Expression Committee benefit Georgetown’s community.

Students deserve a community that welcomes pluralism and encourages free debate. While the university has made substantial progress toward realizing this goal, more needs to be done to give students a voice and make a better Georgetown.

Planning for the Future

A greater student voice is imperative for shaping a more palatable campus plan in

2018 — particularly as it will remain in effect for the next 20 years. The 2010 Campus Plan teems with untenable contradictions that ignore students’ needs, such as encouragement for increased “green space for outdoor campus socializing,” but also a vision that 90 percent of undergraduates will be “competitively housed” on campus.

Green space cannot increase if new dorm buildings consume the already limited greenery on campus, destroying “beautification” efforts that the campus plan also addresses.

Aside from quantity, students deserve quality in residences, but the problematic commitment to housing virtually all students on campus restrains the administration from making these necessary investments in renovations to existing facilities, leaving students with a less student-friendly campus.

The existing plan, moreover, advocates for a program that provides students information about housing opportunities outside the Georgetown and Burleith neighborhoods while at the same time sponsoring a mechanism for collegial and productive decisions.

Nudging students to live away from Georgetown — in other words, fragmenting the Georgetown community — demonstrates apathy for students’ preferences, not collaboration.

Culpability for these contradictions lies with insufficient official student representation on the Georgetown Community Partnership, the campus plan negotiating body.

Currently, only one student member — the Georgetown University Student Association president — sits on this committee. While students have expressed through the “Let’s Not Get Screwed” campaign, which received more than 800 signatures, that the campus plan’s trajectory is unacceptable, inadequate representation will render the campaign moot.

Students deserve more than a symbolic seat at the negotiating table. As it stands, the campus plan is merely appeasement, with the university administration simply giving in to neighbors’ demands. Appeasement has never worked — and it certainly will not for the next 20 years. The Georgetown community stands at a critical juncture. Rather than caving, Georgetown needs to make a deal, for which greater official representation and administrative support is crucial.

Neighborhood Woes

Communication within the Georgetown community of administrators, students and neighbors has historically been defined by misperceptions. Members of each group have looked upon the others as faceless masses bent on making their lives more difficult, and many of the policies enacted in the past have reflected that. Change is long overdue.

Take the discriminatory noise policy included in the university’s 2010 Campus Plan.

Thanks to the vague wording of the policy, students living in off-campus housing who choose to play music loud enough to be heard on the street are subject to repercussions at all hours of the day and night, while a nonstudent house would not receive any punishment before 10 p.m., when D.C.’s Noise at Night law comes in to effect.

The corresponding penalty for such behavior is a citation for “disorderly conduct” rather than noise violation. This unnecessarily strict policy serves only to demonstrate the university’s penchant for attempts to bully students into submission, resulting in enmity on both sides.

The unfair burdens of proof for off-campus versus on-campus conduct violations — “more likely than not” as compared to “clear and convincing” — clearly demonstrate the general indifference that the university has towards individuals who willingly choose to live more independently in the neighborhood. These upperclassmen who live off-campus are students, too, and should be treated as such.

Looking forward, it is critical to focus on fostering relationships in which each party has a meaningful voice in the decision-making process. In doing so, a more realistic understanding will be promoted on all sides, and our collective community will be better off for it.

Mallika Sen, Editor-in-Chief Katherine Richardson, Executive Editor Daniel Smith, Managing Editor Molly Simio, Online Editor Toby Hung, Campus News Editor Kristen Fedor, City News Editor Tyler Park, Sports Editor Michael Fiedorowicz, Guide Editor Daniel Almeida, Opinion Editor Isabel Binamira, Photography Editor Shannon Hou, Layout Editor Becca Saltzman, Copy Chief Courtney Klein, Blog Editor Laixin Li, Multimedia Editor

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French Festivities — This upcoming weekend, Georgetown’s Book Hill neighborhood launches its 12th annual French Market with sales and musical entertainment.

White House Hopper — Jerome R. Hunt faces charges for jumping the White House fence with malicious intent. In response, the Secret Service plans to erect steel spikes atop the fence.

Pollen Peak — Allergies have been particularly strong in response to the unprecedented amount of pollen floating about unusually late in the spring season.

Losing Him Was Dark Grey — What happened on Grey’s Anatomy last night?

Like seriously, that’s not okay. Why couldn’t they kill anyone else at the hospital?

Nothing but Net — Georgetown University graduate, Antony Ressler (SFS ’82) recently bought the Atlanta Hawks for a whopping $850 million. Good on him.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

For the SAO, More Is More Tuesday’s “For the SAO, Less is More” (The Hoya, April 21, 2015, A2) editorial presents a constructive view of the restructuring of the Student Advocacy Office. As director of the Student Advocacy Office, however, I feel compelled to clarify several points.

First, the Editorial Board is correct to point out that the SAO protects students from abuse by an “unyielding bureaucracy.” We are able to do this because we are a team of volunteer advocates that works outside the university adjudication system to provide unbiased advice to students and concrete policy proposals to administrators. To suggest, then, that the solution to fighting university bureaucracy is to rely on university bureaucracy seems misguided.

Moreover, the supposition that tackling issues of mental health procedure, student workers’ rights, and free speech will limit the effectiveness of the SAO in regard to student rights is entirely unfound-

ed. Current SAO advocates will remain completely focused on conduct issues, and will continue to provide the same informed assistance that they already do. Advocates in each new branch will be trained to provide equally targeted and specialized advice for their respective issue area.

In the four years since its inception, the SAO has become an invaluable resource for the Georgetown community. It is physical proof that Georgetown University Student Association can do well when it seeks to provide assistance to individual students.

Restructuring the SAO, then, will allow advocates to handle more casework than ever before, creating a single body capable of advocating for students in a variety of equally important issue areas.

Ryan Shymansky COL ’16 Director of Student Advocacy Office

A Disgrace The Hoya’s April 21 editorial, “No More Distractions” (The Hoya, April 21, 2015, A2), is one of the most embarrassing and weak-minded editorials I’ve ever seen in a Georgetown paper. The editorial asserted that a speech by respected scholar Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute was a “harmful conversation on the serious topic of sexual assault.”

Excuse me for using a bit of logic here, along with an appeal to basic university principles of openness to facts, debate and ideas, but how can a serious speech by a renowned scholar on a “serious topic” be harmful? Are your young minds so frag-

ile that they can be harmed by new information, delivered in a thoughtful manner, that contradicts your own biases? If so, that’s truly pathetic.

And for anybody who aspires to professional journalism, the editorial — if it were signed — would be a huge black mark on your resume.

Quin Hillyer CAS ’86 Former News Editor, Viewpoint Editor and Sports Editor of The Hoya; Contributing Editor, National Review

The Day I Stopped Calling Myself a Hoya Today, I no longer consider myself a Hoya. No, I did not graduate early or withdraw from school. I am still enrolled as a student here, I pay tuition, I live close to campus and I attend classes. However, today I throw in the blue and gray towel because of targeted hate speech directed at two Hoyas I love dearly and an organization’s indifference to their suffering.

The Georgetown University College Republicans held an event on Tuesday, April 16 in which they invited Dr. Christina Sommers to give a lecture titled “What’s Right (and Badly Wrong) with Feminism?”

One of my roommates posted on the Facebook event page proposing a question about why Georgetown would allow a speaker such as Dr. Sommers to lecture knowing she claims studies concerning sexual violence in America like one by the Center for Disease Control provide “inflated statistics” and promote “sensationalism” due to survivors who have been convinced they experienced sexual assault by “the women’s lobby.” My roommate also indicated on the page that the event could be emotionally triggering for survivors of sexual violence, and the

College Republicans should take responsibility for preparing guests of this before arriving.

Instead of being met with informed respectfulness for survivors, she was attacked by a slew of hateful comments from Georgetown students and nonGeorgetown students. Comments were targeted to her specifically and others on the thread who were only writing to keep the conversation informed.

Not long after the comments began, my roommate’s family who lives states away received a death threat by one of the non-Georgetown-affiliated commenters. The comments did not promote healthy discussion, nor were they respectful or constructive.

A Georgetown that does not validate the suffering of its students is not one I want to attend. A Georgetown that does not stand up for the safety of its students is not one I would recommend to prospective students. A Georgetown that allows hatefulness to pervade its online and on-campus spaces is not one I can call home.

Allyn Faenza COL ’15

Corrections Sommers Event Sparks Dialogue, Protest: Correction: An earlier version of the article said that Tillotson was pleased with Sommers’ different perspective of feminism and sexual assault. Tillotson’s quote is in reference to only Sommers’ views on feminism, not on sexual assault.

Aramark, Employees Reach Contract Agreement: Correction: The minimum wage per hour will increase by 50 cents, rather than to 50 cents as indicated by an earlier version of this article.

Countering WBC, Protests Organize: Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly included “S.J.” as Fr. Raymond Kemp’s postnominal title. He is not a member of the Society of Jesus.

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OPINION

Friday, April 24, 2015

The Right Corner

THE HOYA

VIEWPOINT • Newton

Remembering a Forgotten Tragedy

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Mallory Carr

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hen Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers came to campus to discuss her vision of feminism based on equality and the freedom of each sex to do as it chooses last week, the Sexual Assault Peer Education program protested her presence.

It emailed its members stating that “an extremist anti-feminist speaker that dismisses and denies survivors of sexual assault” was coming to campus and insisted on “trigger warnings” outside the event.

Continuing, this past Monday The Hoya’s Editorial Board published the editorial “No More Distractions” (April 21, 2015, The Hoya, A2) about how outrageous it was to bring a speaker on campus that disagrees with them. The editorial argued that Dr. Sommers’ opinion and prior writings on sexual assault statistics were distracting and that this “is not the conversation that students should be having.” This is despite the fact that Dr. Sommers’ remarks on campus were about her version of feminism. She only addressed sexual assault because the protestors brought it up.

This knee-jerk reaction of dismissing opinions that do not sit well with the listener while ignoring the substance of what is actually being discussed is indicative of a larger problem within the modern feminist movement. Despite what every self-proclaimed feminist has rather condescendingly reassured me, modern feminism is not simply about the fact that men and women should be equal. This patronizing definition ignores how incredibly politicized modern feminism has become. It is not simply a movement aimed at getting men and women equal treatment. It is deeply embedded in a hyper-political framework, and removing it from this framework would constitute a misunderstanding of social movements and the true meaning of feminism today.

For example, feminist political organizations regularly focus on abortion rather than on achieving equal representation, marginalizing pro-life women. The National Organization for Women prefers to donate money to men’s political campaigns rather than support a pro-life woman. With only 19.4 percent of Congress made up of women, we are far from accomplishing parity in politics.

If equality were really the aim of these feminists, they would not exclude pro-life women from their organizations.

The fate of those who fail to live up to the feminist political agenda is much worse — even liberal feminists do not escape the scathing punishment. When Patricia Arquette used her Oscar acceptance speech to discuss the wage gap, some derided her for not saying enough about intersectionality, while others even labeled her comments as “insulting.” Speeches can only last so long, yet not including “enough” will prompt endless vitriol from some of today’s feminists.

And that is how some modern feminists treat those who largely agree with them.

The real fury is reserved for those who dare to think differently. Dr. Sommers, one of many advocates for accurate statistics and due process when it comes to campus sexual assault, was on the receiving end of this fury last week. She was called a “rape apologist” for refusing to conform to the feminist political agenda.

If feminists were consistent in their outrage, this would also mean the Department of Justice and The Washington Post are equally deserving of being labeled “rape apologists.” They agree that the “one-in-five college-aged women is sexually assaulted” statistic repeated by campus activists, the White House, and the Center for Disease Control is false since it is based on a study done at two universities and not the nation at large.

As journalist Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post column “Fact Checker” notes, “This oft-cited statistic comes from a Webbased survey of two large universities, making it misleading to suggest that it is representative of the experience of all college women.” The Department of Justice puts the rate of reported sexual assault among college women at a much lower 0.61 percent — and that number is on the decline. Having an honest discussion about sexual assault is necessary in order to confront the problem. The real disservice to victims of sexual assault is the promulgation of false statistics that undermine their cause and belittle their fights for justice.

Although ignoring the facts of underlying opposing opinions and resorting to namecalling is beyond obscene and falls outside the accepted boundaries of civil discourse, it is par for the course for modern feminists. Feminist hysteria over every oppositional opinion has turned them into caricatures of themselves.

When only 18 percent of Americans identify themselves with a movement that alleges to solely stand for equality, the problem is not with Americans. It is with the movement. Most women are all too happy avoiding the laughingstock that some say modern feminism has become. To advance true equality with the broad support of all women, the movement needs to be more inclusive and less political. If feminists want us to sign on, they need to adapt.

Mallory Carr is a junior in the College.

This is the final appearance of The Right Corner this semester.

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ho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” One hundred years on, I remember and demand.

“Newton? That’s not a very Armenian surname.” This is what people usually say to me when they discover my Armenian heritage. My great-grandfather, Newton Mesrop, was born in Harput, or what is now modern Eastern Turkey. His father was a teacher at the American missionary Euphrates College and they lived a comfortable life as part of a large Armenian community that had lived for many centuries in Anatolia until 1895.

According to the accounts of my family, the Ottoman gendarmes entered their village with intent to arrest and execute intellectual “subversives.” However, an American missionary brought out an American flag and stated that if they harmed anyone they would face the full might of the United States. This act of heroism bought my family enough time to flee to America, where my grandfather changed his name to Mesrop Newton. Many others were not so lucky; 20 years afterwards they were subjected to what has been deemed by almost all the states in the Union and many countries around the world as genocide.

Though these horrific events remain firmly in the past, the genocide has continued to affect my entire family. After all, our family name, a core piece of anyone’s identity, was completely altered by those events.

This time last year, I was in Montreal with a good friend of mine and the topic of my family origin came up as I met his McGill friends.

As I told the story above, I noticed one listener start to fold his arms and furrow his brow. Just as I finished, to my astonishment, he said, “It didn’t happen. It’s not true.” I

I cannot help but feel that most Americans outside of the Armenian community would not conjure up the same reaction to the Armenian Genocide as they would to the Holocaust. told him that this is my history, not the government of Armenia’s. After disclaiming that he was Turkish, he retorted that the facts are not clear and that the genocide should be put up to debate.

There is not only a substantial

VIEWPOINT • Cooke

The Dual Nature Of Free Speech

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campus announcement on April 20 noted that the Westboro Baptist Church had been granted a permit from the city to picket in the public space outside of the main gates of Georgetown University on Monday, April 27 from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Let’s get a few facts straight. Apparently almost anyone can get a permit from the city to demonstrate. Westboro has a habit of getting permits to demonstrate and never even showing up as they did with the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and Reddit co-founder and programmer Aaron Swartz. They just love the publicity and attention.

What I am writing about here is one event at which Westboro did show up – the funeral of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder.

On March 3, 2006, Snyder was killed in a non-combatrelated accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Snyder was traveling in a Humvee that overturned. Snyder had volunteered to serve as a gunner doing convoy escort security. His service to his country is without question.

More than 1,200 people packed St. John Catholic Church in Westminster, Md. March 10, 2006 to pay their respect to Snyder. The funeral was marred by seven uninvited guests – members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The protestors didn’t know Matthew or his family – but they did know that he was a Marine, serving his country.

Among the signs (according to published reports) that protestors carried were: “Semper Fi,” “Thank God For Dead Soldiers,” “Thank God For IEDs,” “God Hates the USA,” “God Hates,” “God Hates You” and “Thank God for 9/11.”

The Snyder family found the courage to file a federal civil lawsuit against WBC. A federal judge in Baltimore upheld a jury verdict in favor of the family in the amount of $5 million,

although the original jury verdict was greater than $10 million. An appeal by WBC to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals resulted in the lower court decision being reversed. Not only was the decision reversed, but Snyder’s father, Albert, was ordered to pay WBC $16,000 for their court costs.

In October 2010, The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and a large number of organizations filed legal briefs on both sides of what became a First Amendment issue. On March 2, 2011, the Supreme Court (8-1) ruled in favor of Westboro. Chief Justice John Roberts w r o t e that the F i r s t Amendm e n t protects “ e v e n hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”

Justice Roberts went on to say, “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and – as it did here – inflict great pain.

On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker.”

Justice Samuel Alito was the lone dissenting voice, noting that “our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case.”

As a university community, we must recognize the importance of free speech in the academic work that we do. Free speech allows us to share and exchange different opinions and viewpoints in and out of the classroom.

We are better people because of it.

The bottom line is that while Westboro enjoys the right to demonstrate outside the Georgetown gates, members of the Georgetown community also enjoy the right to demonstrate and recognize the presence of Westboro for what it is – pure and simple hate speech.

“As a university community, we must recognize the importance of free speech in the academic work that we do.”

Thomas Cooke is a professor at the Robert E. McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

lack of knowledge around the world of what happened, but also an absence of will to try and understand it even 100 years later. While the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stands next to the National Mall as a fitting tribute to those who

died at the hands of the Nazis, the planned site for the Armenian Genocide Museum of America at 14th and G Streets languishes as a former bank with boarded up windows.

President Obama has still not honored his 2008 election pledge to recognize the genocide in an attempt to curry favor with Turkey amidst the crisis in the Middle East. Even the visit by the Kardashian family to Armenia, to raise awareness about the events of 1915, has been overshadowed in the media by Kanye’s absurd mid-lake concert on April 12, 2015.

America’s reluctance on this issue is perplexing. The United States was previously very active in 1915 in condemning the Ottoman Empire’s actions and in sending humanitarian aid to those affected. America has also been at the forefront in recognizing and condemning other events of ethnic cleansing such as the Holocaust and the persecution of Muslims in Bosnia. Yet 100 years on, I cannot help but feel that most Americans outside of the Armenian community would not conjure up the same reaction to the 1915 Armenian Genocide as they would to the Holocaust.

Armenian Genocide remembrance day is April 24, which also happens to be Georgetown Day this year. I don’t ask people to give up a day of fun – that is not the point. We need to remember for more than just one day a year.

The opening quote in this article can be attributed to Hitler, in his justification for invading Poland in 1939. We should strive to prove him wrong, further the efforts to recognize the genocide and always remember those who suffered because of who they were. I remember and demand.

Michael Newton is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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In 2000, David Shick died after a fellow stuach year the call goes up: “History is dying. Interest in the humanities is dent pushed him to the ground in the parkshrinking. Departments are wither- ing lot behind Lauinger Library, smacking ing.” Usually, around graduation time, this his head on the concrete. A plaque in his claim comes up in an article or two, each memory offers the most basic admonishflaunting a different statistic of decline. In ment: “Be kind.”

2013, The New York Times ran a piece on In 1991, Stephen Plumb returned to the dethronement of history at Yale Univer- Georgetown to share his diagnosis of and sity. In 1991, it pointed out, more students struggle against AIDS. He expressed sadness majored in English and history than any that the university would not distribute other majors. By 2013, political science and condoms, which he saw as its obligation. economics had replaced them as students’ At the time, the debate around contradisciplines of choice. ception at Georgetown raged with unusual For those students that remain, the ele- ferocity; Students of Georgetown, Inc. had giac tone in which authors often discuss launched a failed attempt to sell condoms history and the humanities produces a after the university failed to respond to the gnawing insecurity. What do we hope to AIDS crisis. A year after two Georgetown studo with our degrees? Why do we study and dents died of the disease, students admitted write about history? to the Georgetown Voice that they would For this author, tackling local history — be surprised to learn that anyone at Georgethe redheaded cousin to political, military town had AIDS. John J. DeGioia, then then or environmental hisdean of student affairs, had tory — only doubles expressed impatience with the discomfort. But it students who thought the also hones in on why university should allow the history matters. sale of condoms on campus, The summer before explaining that, “‘[he could my sophomore year, I not] accept that the campus went home. I had not is really far removed from managed to secure an condoms, when they’re internship downtown, only an eighth-mile walk or even a job at a local away… Nobody complains Matthew Quallen camp, store or the like. about walking to Dixie’s to So, to convince my parget alcohol, but they can’t ents and myself I was walk [the same distance] for doing something procondoms?” ductive, I volunteered Stephen Plumb’s rewith a local museum. marks offered a stark rebutThe museum’s directal. “[Most] victims,” Plumb tor — exactly the softsaid, “aren’t proud of their spoken septuagenarian the words “local disease, but at least they aren’t made to feel history” call forth — enlisted me to join a guilty about it.” Plumb died in 1992. project. We were looking for slaves.

While administrators wrung their hands, I’m not from the South. I’m from Farm- AIDS was killing other Georgetown students. ington, Connecticut. It’s a steeple-town, Of the four students who initiated a lawsuit founded by Puritans in the 1640s. Farming- against the university for its steadfast refusal ton didn’t have plantations, although na- to recognize a student group for LGBTQ stutives lived along the town’s floodplain when dents, citing its Catholic identity, three died settlers first arrived. So the project took me of AIDS. The suit took 10 years to achieve its by surprise. But when we began looking, goal; meanwhile, Georgetown poured monthe results spoke for themselves. Scattered ey into lawyers for the express purpose of disamong official accounts of people’s pos- criminating against its own students. sessions, between oxen, spoons, cloth and I once read their obituaries. I have seen acreage, were names. Josiah Hart owned the lawsuit — the paper and ink with which a man named Peter, to whom he would they committed themselves to the fight. promise freedom and later swindle. James As a young man discovering and growing Wadsworth, whose descendants include into his queerness, I found myself and comFarmington’s state representative, bought a munity in those voices and pages. They six-year-old girl, Candace. demanded that my experience be already My town was not immune to history. Nei- shot through with meaning. ther, I learned, was our university, which sold Local history makes the proposal that all 272 slaves downriver and named a building history makes with unusual force. It allows after Thomas Mulledy, the man responsible. us to discover our best and worst selves. It This place’s history both wounds and insists that the past, like the present, hapinspires. After all, Georgetown made a com- pened to real people in meaningful ways, mitment to financial aid before it could and that it made and is still making us. afford it. Georgetown educated people of So, explore, excavate and interrogate the all creeds when religious persecution was past, your past. If you really look, I can tell the norm in American life. In the 1960s, you what you will find: the agonies and instudents at Georgetown participated in pro- timacies of history; the thousands of narratests during the civil rights movement. And tive lines that make and unmake each of us. in 2005, 25 students put their bodies on the line, hunger striking for 10 days to secure a Matthew Quallen is a junior in the living wage for Georgetown’s workers.

School of Foreign Service. This is the Some of Georgetown’s most powerful final appearance of Hoya Historian moral voices have emerged from suffering. this semester.

“Local history allows us to discover our best and worst selves.”

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Blair Talks Global Governance KRISTEN FEDOR Hoya Staff Writer

Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tony Blair discussed the importance of implementing effective governance and the role of the international community in African development in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

The event, which was called “A Conversation on Governance, Development and Africa,” was moderated by Steven Radelet, director of the School of Foreign Service’s Global Human Development Program and part of this semester’s Global Futures Initiative, a series of conversations aimed at engaging the campus community in conversations regarding different aspects of global progress.

University President John J. DeGioia introduced Blair, speaking about the focus of the initiative and the greater conversation the series hopes to spark.

“The moment we are living in is unlike any moment we have known,” DeGioia said. “The challenges of this moment will not be met alone – they cannot be met alone. In fact, they can only be met by all of us working together in ways that were not possible before. Only through coming together will we be able to get closer to a deeper understanding of the dynamics, the contexts, the needs of our world.”

To begin the discussion, Blair detailed his African Governance Initiative, founded in 2008. Currently, the initiative is in place in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and Ethiopia and aims to create stronger governments with greater abilities

to create infrastructure and other forms of economic development.

“How do we get the right systems of governance in African countries that allow those countries to move forward and prosper?” Blair asked. “I think that issue of the quality of governance today is as important as any other single issue.”

To implement that change, Blair emphasized his three main goals: prioritizing the most important issues, developing policy solutions and focusing on performance management.

He integrated anecdotes of his time as prime minister to highlight different challenges the AGI addresses, especially those about his adjustment during his first few days in office. Blair spoke about his first night at Downing Street and the difficulty of organizing how he would proceed as real governing began.

“The ‘now what’ is what is tough about government,” Blair said. “The purpose of our team is to try and answer that question.”

Blair also spoke about the importance of collaboration in achieving progress in governance and said this is one of the difficulties of establishing new political systems.

“Government finds it very hard to be creative. There is a natural desire in government to push away outsiders,” Blair said. “If you live and work alongside people, over time, the process is established.”

Blair also discussed collaboration and warned against partisan governments becoming a distraction in domestic politics.

“Many of the problems we face in the world today, the left-right

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Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tony Blair talked development in Africa in Gaston Hall Thursday.

thing can get in the way of the solution, rather than be the basis of the solution,” Blair said. “If you focus on improving the lives of your people, rather than getting the applause for your next speech line, you’ll do a lot more for the people of your country.”

Another theme of the event was the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its implications for the future of African development. Blair emphasized carrying over the successful methods of swift international response to other areas of globalization in the region.

“When the crisis hit, we had to change the whole way of working,” Blair said. “We need to learn the lessons of not just why the crisis happened and how it happened, and all of that of course, but actually in terms of governance, when we had to deal with this problem, government had to organize itself differently. It had to respond differently. It had to make sure that it operated in a far more effective way.”

Moving forward, Blair said he hopes foreign aid will prioritize longterm development over short-term goals, citing the Obama administration’s 2013 Power Africa initiative committing to $7 billion in investments to Africa over five years.

“Look at what helps the long-term development of the country, rather than what I would say are the shortterm projects that get you a round of applause in your Parliament,” Blair said.

Blair concluded with advice to students to find their passion and pursue it.

“The single best thing in life is to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose,” Blair said. “The best sense of purpose in my experience is when you are going out and using the talent and the opportunity that you’ve been given and the education you get at a wonderful institution like this, is to go and see how you can use it to help change the lives of other people.

Claire Derriennic (COL ’17) attended the event and said Blair’s remarks were engaging.

“I would say that he was very engaging and humorous, and I found his speech to be entertaining and he definitely kept my attention,” Derriennic said.

Max Dvorak (SFS ’17) added that he attended to listen to a world leader and came away with a greater understanding of the issues Blair spoke about.

“I was very interested to hear his take on the importance of rule of law and building towns in Africa,” Dvorak said. “I think that these are very important issues and it’s piqued my interest. I’m excited to learn more about it.”

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Students listen to a capella performances on Copley Lawn during Georgetown Day, the annual campus-wide celebration of the end of spring semester.

Georgetown Day Celebrates 15 Years TOM GARZILLO & ASHLEY MILLER Hoya Staff Writers

This year’s Georgetown Day will continue the event’s fifteen-year tradition of celebrating the campus community with a larger variety of events for both students and faculty.

Activities today will officially begin at 6 a.m. with the faculty and staff appreciation breakfast in the Copley Formal Lounge. One professor will be presented with the Dorothy M. Brown Award, a faculty appreciation award voted on by students and a Georgetown Day tradition.

This will be followed by the blessing of the Jesuit graves at 10 a.m., before the day’s events on Copley and Healy Lawns begin at 12:30 p.m. and last until 5 p.m.

For faculty and staff, there will be a wine tasting in Dahlgren Quadrangle at 4:30 p.m. and a “grad bash” for seniors from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Healey Family Student Center.

From 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., there will also be a free outdoor concert on Copley Lawn featuring Hellogoodbye, a pop band from California, and Stone Cold Fox, an indie rock group from Brooklyn, N.Y. Other student musical acts set to perform on Georgetown Day include Faces for Radio, Tigers Are Bad For Horses, the Saxatones, Georgetown Superfood, the Phantoms, Georgetown Gracenotes, GU Jawani and several others.

In addition to inflatables, performances, interactive sponsors and giveaways, food will be served from Swizzler Gourmet Hotdogs, Spoon University Georgetown, Astro Doughnuts and Fried Chicken, Chik-Fil-A and Epicurean and Company.

Late-night events will begin at 10 p.m. and last until 1 a.m. in the HFSC. These include free pizza and wings, an all-night happy hour in Bulldog Tavern, video games and a

showing of “The Wedding Ringer.”

In addition, Georgetown Day serves as an art showcase, with students’ art pieces shown throughout the day. The grand opening of the Senior Art Showcase will be held at 6 p.m. in Walsh.

This year will also see the first annual Georgetown Day Cup, an initiative funded

by Students of Georgetown, Inc. that will award prize money to the groups or individuals that bring the largest number of red Solo cups and aluminum cans to a variety of stations across campus.

Chair of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate Sustainability Subcommittee Theodore Montgomery (SFS ’18) said that he hopes this event will not only minimize the amount of recyclables thrown out but also serve as an educational opportunity.

“There isn’t on campus right now any sort of real sustainable party scene,” Montgomery said. “That is what we are trying to hit on with this event: make people think about this [and] make it part of the party scene.”

From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, organizers will man stations at Henle Village, the Village B quadrangle and in front of the community room at Village A. The Corp and the Corp Green Team worked together to provide the prize money and organize the event. The first-place prize is $300, and the first 200 participants will receive water bottles from PNC Bank.

Some students said that they think the initiative will be a positive way to combat the amount of waste created from the day’s events.

“I think it’s smart,” Audrey Imbs (COL ’16) said. “I think any little thing helps. I work at [Vital] Vittles and we triple up on solo cups [on Georgetown Day].”

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Faculty Backs Fossil Free Toby Hung

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GU Fossil Free submitted an open letter signed by 97 faculty members calling for the university to divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies to the Office of the President on Wednesday.

The letter, which was released on GU Fossil Free’s website last Wednesday, circulated among faculty in the past months after it was drafted by assistant professor of English Nathan Hensley.

At press time, it has amassed 97 signatories, including professors, lecturers and program directors such as Director of the Program for Justice and Peace Randall Amster, Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care Laura Anderko and Chair of the Department of Anthropology Denise Brennan.

The faculty letter comes after months of negotiations between GU Fossil Free, the Committee for Investments and Social Responsibility and the university’s board of directors. In January, CISR rejected GU Fossil Free’s divestment proposal and recommended an alternative plan of targeted divestment. Recently, GU Fossil Free met with the newly formed working group for divestment under the board of directors to discuss its proposal. The board of directors will vote on the divestment proposal in June.

In an email to The Hoya, Hensley said that he decided to write the letter to help push the divestment movement forward on campus.

“There’s a vast and gathering moment for divestment happening across the world,” Hensley said. The motivation [behind the letter] was to bring our own practice here at Georgetown in line with a growing change in the common sense that says this is a social justice problem and it’s an urgent one.”

Hensley also said that he hopes the support for divestment from academics will convince the university to recognize it as a viable option. “[The letter] shows that divestment is urgently supported by a group of people who have dedicated their entire careers – in many cases incredibly distin-

guished ones – to articulating the relationship between knowledge and justice and who care deeply about the integrity of this institution,” Hensley wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Several other universities have also seen faculty support for divestment. In April 2014, approximately 100 professors at Harvard University signed an open letter to the university in support of fossil fuel divestment. However, Harvard has continued to reject divestment initiatives.

According to GU Fossil Free member Caroline James (COL ’16), GU Fossil Free has been in contact with faculty throughout the past year to gather support for divestment. It started a separate faculty petition one year ago, which has gathered approximately 120 signatures to date.

“It’s been in the back of our minds for a while. … We thought the week of Earth Day would be a relevant time [to release the letter] especially to lead up to the [board of directors’] vote [on divestment] in June,” James said.

University President John J. DeGioia’s Chief of Staff Joe Ferrara said that the letter adds an additional perspective to the case for divestment, of which the Office of the President has been aware for the past year.

“We view this as sort of another piece of the puzzle as we review this issue in trying to take in all the different perspectives and so we now have some of our faculty who are weighing in … their perspectives,” Ferrara said.

Director of the Center for the Environment Edward Barrows, who signed the letter individually, said that he signed because of the gravity of environmental issues caused by fossil fuels.

“I signed because global change, including climate change and the biodiversity crisis, is now the largest problem of humanity,” Barrows said. “All of us should do what we can to help solve the problem.”

Barrows said that he hopes the letter will convince the university not only to divest but also to transition toward using alternative energy.

“I hope that the letter would help [Georgetown] to decide to divest from fossil fuel companies

and also move toward using sun and wind power as much as possible as soon as possible,” Barrows said.

Director of the Mortara Center Kathleen McNamara, who also signed the letter, said that divestment should be the university’s next step in promoting sustainability.

“I signed the letter in support of fossil fuel divestment because I want a healthy planet,” McNamara wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Fighting climate change requires action on all fronts. …

We Hoyas need to divest from fossil fuel companies that are at the center of climate change.”

Chair of the Department of Chemistry YuYe Tong, who also signed the letter, said that from a scientific perspective, it is important to recognize fossil fuels as a factor behind climate change.

“It’s just common sense. Most scientists including myself believe that carbon emission is the main reason for climate change and global warming, so this is one way that you can push society to realize that this is a very urgent issue for us and the whole planet,” Tong said.

However, Tong said that he does not expect the university to completely divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies immediately, reflecting CISR’s recommendation for targeted divestment.

“I don’t think that it is reasonable and realistically doable to divest [completely and] immediately but it would be good for Georgetown to start thinking about a strategy to do so over a reasonable period of time,” Tong said.

In addition, Tong noted that some of the larger fossil fuel companies invest in research for alternative energy.

“Actually, some of [the top 200 fossil fuel companies] invest pretty heavily in alternative energy research and development right now,” Tong said. “Whether this is driven by their true care about the environment or by a political posture … is not really important. What is important is the investment in alternative energy research and development [that] can lead to economically viable clean, alternative energy.”

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Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter spoke to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets about the issue of sexual assault in the military in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

Secretary of Defense Talks Sexual Assault in Military Lucy Prout

Hoya Staff Writer

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter discussed the importance of eliminating sexual assault in the military in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

The audience was filled with over 250 Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets from several universities in the Washington area.

The event, which was held in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, was attended by ROTC cadets from Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, Howard University, George Mason University and George Washington University.

Although the Department of Defense estimates that the number of sexual assaults within the military has decreased over the past fiscal year, at least 18,900 service members were estimated to have experienced unwanted sexual contact in the past year.

According to Carter, the high number of sexual assault cases in the military fractures the ethos of the armed forces, as it undermines the military’s ability to perform by violating principles of trust.

“We’re based on trust. We have to trust,” Carter said. “You have to trust in the soldier in the foxhole next to you. You have to trust in the sailor you’re underway with. You have to trust in the airmen on your wing. And you have to trust in the marine on your flank. And these violations and these assaults are not just violations of the law, they are violations of that trust, which is essential to our mission.”

To remain a strong military presence in an increasingly combative world, Carter stressed the importance of eliminating sexual assault. According to Carter, servicemen and women are often

put in dangerous environments, which can present opportunities for sexual assault.

Carter also said that the successful future of military recruiting depends upon the method by which the military deals with the issue of sexual assault. As such, Carter said that the military should view the Department of Defense’s strategy in dealing with sexual assault as a benchmark.

“Now, our nation is looking to the Defense Department to lead boldly on sexual assault because they admire our institution and its values and its culture of learning,” Carter said.

Carter noted several major lessons that the military has learned in combatting sexual assault.

For instance, Carter suggested prevention as the most important way to eradicate sexual assault, and warned that inappropriate behavior and degrading language often lead to sexual assaults.

Additionally, Carter stressed that further military resources and time will be used to understand how to deal with sexual assault.

“Stopping sexual assault will be a focus of my time as secretary of defense. But as leaders of the future force, I ask that you too make eradicating these crimes on of your personal missions.”

Carter’s speech was followed by a question-andanswer period in which most of the questions concerned foreign intervention.

Howard University freshman cadet Michael Thompson said he appreciated the opportunity to interact with Carter, as it allowed him to learn about a topic vital to the future of the military.

“I thought it was really insightful,” Thompson said. “It was nice to hear from the secretary of defense and get some sort of interaction with him, especially on such a relevant topic for the military today.”

LGBTQ Cultural Competency Bill Introduced Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

Members of the D.C. Council introduced the LGBTQ Cultural Competency Continuing Education Amendment Act on April 14 – a bill that would require all health care professionals to receive additional cultural competency training, with the aim of improving care for the LGBTQ community.

The legislation proposes that all health care professionals be required to take two credits worth of cultural competency training, which consists of an hour-long course of continuing medical education. Sponsored by D.C. Councilmembers David Grosso (I-At Large) and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) and cosponsored by the other nine members of the D.C. Council, the bill will attempt to reduce alleged disparities between the professional health care treatment of LGBTQ community members and the nonLGBTQ population.

In a statement on his website, Grosso said that the bill is a necessity since more than 66,000 members of the D.C. LGBTQ community receive medical treatment.

A 2011 study from the Joint Commission, a company that accredits and certifies health care organizations, postulated that citizens identifying as LGBTQ face issues like refusal or delay of care, mistreatment and inappropriate visitation limits by health care providers. “[LGBTQ citizens] deserve access to medical professionals who are sensitive to and knowledgeable about the unique health needs of the LGBTQ community,” Grosso said in the statement. “LGBTQ health disparities are real and this is a contribution to our efforts to narrow those disparities in the District of Columbia.”

Neither Grosso nor Alexander responded to requests for comment.

Dr. Andrea Singer, a faculty member at the Georgetown University Medical School, said that the LGBTQ community faces poor access to care in addition to bias and discrimination while attempting to receive medical care.

“I think there is pretty strong evidence that has been published and that demonstrates that LGBTQ people are disadvantaged by our current health care system,” Singer said. “The LGBTQ patient is more reluctant to seek care if they think they

may be in a situation which would be uncomfortable for them or the provider.”

GU Pride President Campbell James (SFS ’17) said that he was afraid to tell his doctor that he was gay, since some LGBTQ patients are discriminated against in medical settings.

“I remember when I first told my doctor I was gay, I was terrified that he would tell my parents, and that I would be treated differently,” James wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Luckily, in my case, my doctor did not. That being said, many LGBTQ folk may not trust their doctors and may still fear social stigma.”

Dr. Ranit Mishori, a family medicine physician at the Georgetown University Medical Center, agreed that cultural competency training is a necessity for health care providers. However, she also voiced concerns that increasing cultural competency training for doctors may not solve the physical and mental health issues faced by the LGBTQ population.

“Studies have not necessarily shown in general that cultural competency enhances the health of populations,” Mishori said. “It may enhance what physicians know about certain groups, but it doesn’t

necessarily show outcomes and changes in mortalities or deaths and diseases.”

Mishori also emphasized the need to recognize differences in the issues faced by members of the LGBTQ community, stating that any bill that addresses the LGBTQ community should avoid acting as a blanket response.

“The one thing that is very important to remember is that the LGBTQ community is not one cohesive community,” Mishori said. “Within this community there are different sections, different aspects ... as a result, there are multiple disparities on many levels.”

Singer noted that the GUMC educates its future doctors regarding cultural competency issues in the second year of its program. She explained that the curriculum includes different classes on human sexuality as well as access to academic panels and small group sessions.

Other medical schools, such as those at Stanford University and Michigan State University, have also examined teaching cultural competency components to their students.

“I think we have realized at Georgetown that these are very important is-

sues [and] that the foundation needs to be started in medical school,” Singer said. “That’s an important part of our curriculum.”

Singer added that new methods for teaching cultural competency for the LGBTQ community are introduced every year.

“There are always updates and new information that comes along both on the level of lectures or individual teachers who are involved as well as the course directors,” Singer said. “We are continually looking at what is new in these topic areas.”

James applauded the D.C. Council’s efforts, and while he stressed that different segments of the LGBTQ community face dissimilar problems, he said that the Council is taking a step in the right direction.

“Starting the conversation and awareness to the differences in health in the LGBTQ community … is incredibly important,” James wrote in an e-mail. “[The bill] shows that the D.C. government is trying to care for its LGBTQ population and make D.C. a great place to be LGBTQ.”

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MARS, from A1 human colony on Mars will be a safeguard for the human race.

“If the human is going to survive and prosper, we are going to have to leave the planet,” Zucker said. “We are going to run out of resources, or we’re going to have a plague or an asteroid is going to hit us. The planet can’t last forever and we don’t know how long it will sustain us, so we need to move.”

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 and the U.S. National Space Policy, NASA outlines the goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. However, Zucker emphasized her desires to go to Mars sooner and alluded to the successful 1969 landing on the moon.

“Every decade NASA has said, ‘We’ll go in 20 years,’ it’s 42 years later,” Zucker said. “When are we going? The time is now. There’s no more waiting.

Let’s just go.”

However, members of the scientific community doubt the feasibility of the Mars One program.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a comprehensive analysis of the program in September 2014 that concluded life on Mars is not yet possible, given current technologies.

Zucker said that she has always dreamed of going to space and has not questioned her decision to apply to leave Earth without guaranteed return.

The initial application included a brief letter and one-minute video explaining why she was a suitable candidate to go to Mars.

“There’s just certain things where if given the opportunity to go, many of us don’t even have to think about it,” Zucker said. “It’s not really a decision point. So when he sent the email, I had the application done as quickly as I could complete it.”

If Zucker is selected as one of the final 24 future astronauts, she will spend a decade in training, learning skills such as repairing components of the habitat and rover and medical procedures. The training will take place in a remote location with conditions similar to those on Mars, which include a limited diet, constant noise and a mandatory daily workout.

Zucker said that if she gets the opportunity to live on Mars, she anticipates most of her time would be spent on developing basic survival skills, but added she hopes her life on Mars would include leisure time as well.

“I suspect we would be spending most of our

time staying alive. It’s going to take a lot of effort to keep the habitat running. Any spare time would be spent on research,” Zucker said. “Assuming there’s any free time besides that, I think sleeping would be pretty high on my list and of course you can take a tablet with you. … I also recently bought a ukulele. A lifetime on Mars is plenty of time to learn a musical instrument.”

Zucker added that she is aware of the severe risks of the mission, but she is willing to make the sacrifice for what she believes is necessary scientific progress. Risks include osteoporosis, complications arising from increased radiation exposure, psychological issues and death.

“I don’t think that we are going to last more than a year or two, the first group, and my husband and I have talked about this,” Zucker said.

“The second group, when they arrive, is unlikely to find the first group alive. But if they even last a day it’s already a success and we should keep sending further missions.”

Her husband, Ron Zucker, added that he is supportive of her mission, even though they are both aware of the difficulties she will face should she be selected to travel to Mars.

“We’re not immortal. We have one life, and it doesn’t last forever; an opportunity like this comes along once,” Zucker said. “I would send her away to live that opportunity and I would have no qualms about it. It’s not that I wouldn’t miss her. Of course I would.”

Georgetown Univerisity Medical Center professor Susan Mulroney, one of Zucker’s former professors, said she is happy for her and is not surprised that she was selected as a finalist.

“This is so right for Leila. She’s always been a forward thinker, has been enthralled with space exploration, and is one of the most positive people I know,” Mulroney said. “She’s smart, a great doctor, and works well with others. And the Star Trek fan in me is rooting for her.”

Zucker is optimistic about the potential effects of the Mars One program and said one of the most important results of the program’s establishment is the discussion it has initiated about travel to Mars.

“I just think it’s exciting that people are talking about it,” Zucker said, “Prior to Mars One announcing, there was virtually no actual rational discussion of going to Mars, and since Mars One announced … the number of people talking about it has skyrocketed.”

Dual-Degree Engineering Program Mixes Disciplines ENGINEERING, from A1 arts education, according to associate professor of physics Mak Paranjape, who is a founder and current advisor of the dual-degree program.

“Historically speaking, this is a liberal arts education institution. It’s not a technical institution,” Paranjape said.

College Dean Chester Gillis said the liberal arts tradition is not a mark against Georgetown as an institution of higher education.

“People will come to Georgetown [because] we have strengths in [certain areas],” Gillis said. “Every university has their niche. You can’t do everything for everybody at every university.”

According to Gillis, the university has no current plans to create an engineering program outside of the dual-degree option.

“It’s a very significant investment to build an engineering school financially,” Gillis said. “The labs and facilities are very costly. Hiring the faculty is costly.

And where would we put it? Where is the space?

Where would we put an engineering school?”

However, many faculty members yearn for an engineering school at Georgetown.

“It’s a glimmer in our eye,” Science Interdisciplinary Chair Jeffrey Urbach said of a future engineering school at Georgetown. “It’s a challenge to do that in a time of constrained resources. We would need a major initiative and a lot of support, so it’s not something that could happen easily and quickly.”

The DualDegree Program The engineering dual-degree program is not unique to Georgetown. One hundred and three universities across the country collaborate with Columbia to offer such a program, which is the first of its kind in the country.

In the past three years, only seven students have fulfilled the program’s requirements at Georgetown. Currently, an average of one or two students matriculate to Columbia through the program per year. Students apply to the program in their junior or senior year. To fulfill the Georgetown academic requirements, students must complete all general education requirements and nine pre-engineering courses, in addition to requirements within their specific intended engineering major at Columbia.

Gillis said that the program is a unique combination of liberal arts education and engineering skills.

“It gives them the benefit of a Georgetown education ... in our strengths in the humanities and the liberal arts and the social sciences, then Columbia’s expertise in the engineering piece,” Gillis said.

College Assistant Dean Edward Meyertholen, who is the dual-degree program’s curriculum liaison, said most students who initially express interest in the program do not sustain their interest.

Anneke Von Seeger (COL ’17) decided against the program because of the difficulty of transferring to a new school. “[The prospect of] leaving Georgetown after three years [turned me away],” Von Seeger said. “You’d be going to Columbia basically as a junior transfer, which ... would be kind of a rough transition.”

Physics major and dual-degree candidate Ryan Eagan (COL ’15) — no relation to the author — is currently a computer engineering major at Columbia.

“I think you have to be very sure that engineering is for you because you will certainly miss Georgetown when you leave,” Eagan wrote in an email to the hoya.

All seven students who enrolled in the program in the past three years chose to pursue the 3-2 combined program, receiving a B.A. at Georgetown after three years of study, then a B.S. at Columbia after two, as opposed to completing four years at Georgetown before attending Columbia.

Martha Koroshetz (COL ’10), who graduated the program with a B.S. degree from Columbia in 2011, said that the program offered a variety of courses.

“I believe my 3-2 [program] made sure the classes I took were interesting but varied, which was ideal for me in order to know what I was capable of and what I liked best about my major,” Koroshetz wrote in an email to the hoya.

Rankings and Post-Graduate Destinations Although the dual-degree program provides participants with a holistic education, the absence of an engineering department at Georgetown may affect the university’s reputation and post-graduation destinations.

Of the U.S. News and World Report’s 2015 list of the top 20 universities in the country, which considers 16 different indicators of academic excellence, all schools have full-fledged engineering programs.

Georgetown, tied at number 21 with Emory University, is the highest-ranked university without its own engineering program.

U.S. News and World Report Data Research Director Robert Morse said that while the presence of an engineering school could affect a university’s ranking in a number of ways, it is not a determining factor.

“If a [university] … [has] an engineering school and it is successful, it could impact their ranking because of their reputation or other student body issues,” Morse said. “But the simple fact of having an engineering school is [not] the reason why these schools are in the top 20.”

In addition, Morse said an engineering program could negatively affect a school’s ranking.

“Engineering is a more rigorous curriculum and it may impact the graduation and retention rates, which could have a negative factor in the ranking,” Morse said.

The lack of an engineering school also explains the low number of Georgetown graduates entering engineering jobs.

A 2013 study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce revealed that eight of the top 10 highest-paid college majors are in engineering.

In the Cawley Career Center’s annual post-graduation report for the Class of 2014, two of the 1,257 total respondents reported jobs in engineering or architecture, while four reported jobs in manufacturing or production and one in biotechnology.

Applied Sciences at Georgetown Although Georgetown lacks an engineering degree, it offers opportunities in applied sciences, similar to those in an engineering school, through classroom experiences and research.

The university houses the Georgetown Nanoscience and Microtechnology Lab, a clean-room facility located on the ground level of Regents Hall with specialized equipment for undergraduate, graduate and professional research.

GNuLab Director Makarand Paranjape said the lab is similar to those in engineering schools, and that its presence reflects Georgetown’s commitment to applied science.

“This type of lab is commonly seen in an engineering school,” Paranjape said. “Georgetown made an investment [for this lab] even though we don’t have an engineering school because the things we do here are very application-related.”

However, Arjun Gupta (COL ’17), a candidate for the dual degree, said Georgetown should have more engineering options.

“When it comes to the engineering and building and creating … I don’t think that it necessarily needs to change, I just think that it needs to give students the option of exploring some of these things,” Gupta said.

candidacy for the 2016 presidential election, but Clinton made no overt reference to his wife’s campaign.

In his 2013 address, Clinton identified four areas of focus for his addresses that would give a well-rounded understanding of public service: people, policies, politics and purpose. While his first two lectures centerd on the necessity of understanding people and policymaking challenges, respectively, his third discussed maintaining purpose in public service through a strong vision for the future.

“In every public service success, leadership requires a vision for a better future where the purpose of public service is made plain in the circumstances of the moment, a clear understandable plan to realize that vision and the ability to actually implement changes by the inclusion of all stakeholders in the process,” Clinton said.

The lecture was bookended by three standing ovations from an audience filled to capacity. While the first 13 rows on the left side of the bottom level were reserved for registered guests, including friends and former classmates of Clinton, students filled the right side of the bottom level, as well as the balcony seating. Among those in attendance were Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Congressman John Delaney (D-Md.).

True to his School of Foreign Service heritage, Clinton spent a

significant portion of his lecture giving international examples of what he said were strong leaders with inclusive visions that transformed their countries.

After reflecting on the development of the European community, the economic reforms in Singapore and the democratic reforms in Mexico throughout the 1990s, Clinton discussed the “radical inclusion” of the reconciliation policies practiced

by Nelson Mandela in South Africa, who put the leaders of the apartheid parties in his cabinet against the will of his advisers.

Graham Kaluzny (COL ’18), said she appreciated the tangible examples Clinton provided.

“I thought he provided really good examples. I know that I skipped an international relations lecture to be here, but I think I probably learned more here than I would have in my IR lecture,” Kaluzny said.

After his specific examples, Clinton drew back and explained his personal purpose in a threepronged vision.

“I always wanted at the end of my life to be able to answer with a resounding yes three questions: Are people better off than when you started? Do children have a broader future? Are things coming together instead of being torn apart? To me, all the rest is background noise,” Clinton said.

Echoing former Georgetown professor Carroll Quigley, whom Clinton has often credited as an inspiration, Clinton said that what made this civilization unique was a hope that the future could be better than the

present and a requirement that people come together through public service to make that hope reality.

“I can’t tell you what your purpose should be, but I can tell you you’ll have a lot more fun in your life if you have one and if it’s bigger than you,” Clinton said. “We all find our purpose in our own way, but if you work at it, it will come.”

Fr. Otto Hentz, S.J., who taught Clinton in his first year of teaching, moderated the questionand-answer session, which featured pre-screened questions from students. During the session, Clinton offered his annual book recommendations: “Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms,” by Gerard Russell, and “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.”

Clinton also reflected on his time at Georgetown, which he said imbued him with an appreciation for public service.

“I was here with fascinating people. I was here at a fascinating time. But it affected me mostly because of the teachers I had,” Clinton said. “I doubt very seriously if I would have become president if I had not come to Georgetown.”

The day after her husband’s lecture, Hillary Clinton visited Georgetown to speak at the Women, Peace and Security Awards Lunch, and students gathered in front of Healy Hall to catch a glimpse of the now twotime presidential candidate.

“We’re not big on quitting in my family,” Bill Clinton said during his lecture. “You may have noticed that.”

Proposal Expected to Pass DIVERISTY, from A1 which consists of a body of 57 faculty members from each Georgetown school and two student representatives, votes on decisions related to all aspects of academic life.

LCAR will host a rally today at 2:45 p.m. in Dahlgren Quadrangle in support of the requirement vote, which it calls a “crucial moment in campus history” that Georgetown students have fought for since 1991. Over 320 students have confirmed their attendance on the event’s Facebook page.

The diversity requirement was first introduced in May 2010 by the Main Campus Initiative on Diversity and Inclusiveness but was rejected by the university. In the past few years, various campaigns, including LCAR, have aimed to reintroduce the diversity requirement.

Last Tuesday, 60 members from both the Latino Leadership Forum and LCAR participated in a sit-in to present a petition signed by 1,200 students in support of the diversity requirement to the office of University President John J. DeGioia.

MCEF Chair Ian Gale, a professor of economics, said that he is optimistic that the proposal for the requirement will pass, but that external factors are involved in the decision-making.

“There is broad support within the MCEF for a diversity requirement,” Gale wrote in an email to the hoya. “Whether the MCEF votes to support the proposal on Friday will depend on the details. For instance, members must be confident that there is enough space in the classes that satisfy the require-

ment so that every student can fulfill the requirement.”

Provost Committee’s Academic Sub-Committee Co-Chair and LCAR member Esiwahomi Ozemebhoya (COL ’15) emphasized the importance of diversity comprehension at Georgetown and the responsibility of the school as a Jesuit university to encourage discussions about diversity.

“A deep understanding [of diversity] is definitely missing,” Esiwahomi said. “People that are part of marginalized identities feel like they are being tolerated on this campus and not accepted.”

As the requirement will be in the form of an overlay course, under which approximately 80 current courses have been identified to fulfill the requirement, students will not have to take additional classes to fulfill it.

Ozemebhoya said that the requirement would help students develop a sense of empathy.

“If you have a lack of understanding of another person it’s on your onus,” Ozemebhoya said. “The university should take this up in a serious matter.”

KC Crewdson (SFS ’15), a student representative on the MCEF, said that the diversity requirement will encourage students to discuss critical issues related to identity and diversity.

“The diversity requirement is designed to encourage students to discuss and think critically about identity and diversity issues in our community, and to give them the theoretical tools and practical knowledge they need to do so,” Crewdson wrote in an email to the hoya.

Crewdson said that she is optimistic about the requirement passing, and that since many students already take classes that fulfill the requirement, the

change on campus would be more cultural than curricular.

“This change will affect every [undergraduate], but it will have more of an effect on students who don’t take many classes in the humanities or social sciences,” Crewdson wrote First Vice-Chair of the MCEF and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Gwen Kirkpatrick said while she cannot predict the outcome of the vote, faculty members seemed to be supportive of the initiative in previous meetings.

Kirkpatrick said that most of the objections raised against the requirement concern administrative details, including the addition of more requirements to an already requirement-heavy system, the length needed to fulfill the requirement and the place of study abroad in the requirement.

Kirkpatrick also said that the diversity requirement would encourage faculty to develop new ideas for research and curricula.

“With time, however, it may have a greater effect on the curriculum overall,” Kirkpatrick said. “Faculty research interests continue to evolve, and thus they offer new or revised courses. For some faculty this proposal may be a research and curricular stimulus.”

Gale said that the requirement will enable Georgetown to better educate students about the importance of empathy and other principles.

“The core curriculum is one way that Georgetown communicates its institutional values,” Gale said. “As the proposal notes, ‘Georgetown is responsible for educating students about the realities of those outside of their lived experiences.’”

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March2Justice Culminates in Rally on National Mall Emma Rizk

Hoya Staff Writer

March2Justice, a 250-mile march that began in New York City on April 13 campaigning for criminal justice legislation reform in the United States, culminated in a rally on the National Mall Tuesday, April 21.

Hundreds of marchers delivered a “Justice Package” to Congress containing three pieces of legislation to encourage an end to racial profiling, police force militarization and child incarceration.

March Director Carmen Perez spoke and said that the march served to honor the lives of many people affected by such issues.

“We are marching for those who have lost their lives, we are marching for those who cannot march because they are incarcerated, we are marching in the spirit of our elders who have marched before us,” Perez said.

“We are marching with so many people in our hearts.”

Perez serves as the executive director of The Gathering For Justice, an umbrella organization that oversees Justice League NYC, a task force of criminal justice advocates, artists, experts and formerly incarcerated individuals who planned March2Justice.

The march began in Staten Island as a tribute to Eric Garner, a black man who was choked to death by police last July. From there, it traveled to Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, crossing through five states over nine days to reach Washington.

“We could have flown to D.C., but for us it was about building with communities, registering voters along the way and making sure we have a human connection to those that are impacted by these issues,” Perez said.

According to Perez, there was a sense of urgency during the march due to news of three different individuals killed by police across the country while on the road.

Specifically, Perez spoke about when the group was worshiping at Empowerment Temple in Baltimore on Saturday and received the news that Freddie Gray had died from a spinal cord injury while in police custody. Six officers were suspended in the wake of the tragedy as protests broke out in Baltimore. The marchers altered their route to meet up with Gray’s community, and several of Gray’s family members joined the march.

“It’s been a powerful journey, it’s been a transformational journey, it’s been a spiritual journey for us,” Perez said.

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Hundreds of activists rallied for criminal justice reform on the National Mall Tuesday, April 21 at the final stop in the 250-mile March2Justice. The march began with a rally in New York City April 13, making additional stops in Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Aside from the physical toll of marching hundreds of miles, Perez said the group required mental discipline to overcome emotional challenges from the racism she said it experienced.

“We’ve gone through communities and towns where we’ve been cursed at or we’ve been the targets of racial slurs, but it’s made us stronger,” Perez said. “We understand that this is bigger than us, this is about shedding light on the families and the victims of police brutality.”

After the culminating D.C. rally, the group met with members of the congressional black caucus, the congressional Latino caucus and the congressional Asian caucus. Perez added that it also hoped to meet with politicians who might oppose the legislation it proposed, but could not confirm any official meetings at the time.

“The work really begins after this march,” Perez said. “When we hold our elected officials accountable, when we hold Congress accountable, when we really demand justice.”

Perez emphasized that the marchers are not just protesters and that protesting is just one of the tactics in their larger strategy.

“We need new policy, we need a

cultural shift, we need to change the hearts and minds of individuals,” Perez said.

The group also joined with other unaffiliated organizations over the course of the march. At the rally Tuesday in Trenton, N.J., it stood with members of the Fight for 15 campaign, a movement by the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago seeking a $15 an hour living wage and the right to form unions without retaliation.

“We support them in solidarity, especially understanding the intersectionality between economic justice and criminal justice,” Perez said. “If people don’t get paid a living wage then oftentimes they are stuck in poverty, which can lead to other things.”

About 50 to 60 individuals began the march in New York City and were joined by more people at each stop, some from as far away as North Carolina. The marchers included justice champions from New York City, justice seekers who met up with the march on route, and justice supporters who came to rallies, donated or spread the word on social media.

Leading up to the march, the organizing team drove the route several times in advance and cre-

ated host committees in each city to provide a place to sleep, coordinate meals and organize rallies.

Among these organizers were the honorary co-chairs of March2Justice, founder of The Gathering for Justice Harry Belafonte and George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU, a local union of the Service Employees International Union.

Actor and activist Danny Glover, Congresswomen Yvette Clarke of New York and families of police brutality victims all attended the rally at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Heaven Gross, the daughter of Bobby Gross, who was shot and killed March 13 by the Metro Transit police, also delivered a speech.

“I want justice for my dad, my unborn brother, my mom and my family,” Gross said. “I am asking for prayers and peace. The police are supposed to protect us, but instead they are killing our people.”

Several Georgetown students attended the rally, though no campus organizations planned official trips as a group. Zack Abu-Akeel (SFS ’18) was among the attendees and expressed his admiration for the marchers.

“It interested me personally because I thought of what they had to

sacrifice to march 250 miles, and I wondered if I would ever be able to do something like that,” Abu - Akeel said. “We talk about the same messages they do every day, but they walked the walk, literally.”

Anthony Saadipour (COL ’18) also attended and commented on the issues this movement brings to the forefront of the nation’s discourse.

“These issues are very prevalent in today’s society, but I think it’s easy to forget the lives that are lost to police brutality,” Saadipour said. “It’s easy to forget the subtleties of racism that we experience every day. And it’s extremely easy to give up on our youth rather than put effort into helping those without the same resources and opportunities to be successful.”

Saadipour said he was particularly moved by the speeches from families of the victims of police violence.

“It was a very empowering and moving experience,” Saadipour said.

“We heard politicians, we heard activists, and we heard from the families of victims. But the lines were blurred; it didn’t feel like we were listening to people who belong to different societal categories. We were all part of a community, rallying behind this important cause.”

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Students Aid Refugees Sustainable Oceans Alliance To Host Inaugural Summit

Emily Tu

Hoya Staff Writer

Five students in the Masters of Arab Studies program course “Refugees in the Arab World” began a fundraiser for Syrian and Iraqi refugees in coordination with the Collateral Repair Project this month.

The students, with help from a program graduate, are raising money by selling T-shirts featuring calligraphy designed by Syrian artist Mouneer Alshaarani. Each shirt, priced at $20, reads, “Love is my Religion.”

The group has raised $2,200 since beginning sales in Red Square April 18, and will continue to sell shirts until it reach es its goal of $6,000.

Associate Professor of cultural anthropology Rochelle Davis began teaching “Refugees in the Arab World” in 2006. The course focuses on displaced communities in the Arab world, using Sudan, Palestine and Iraq as case studies. It covers issues of humanitarianism, agency, citizenship, rights and history, with the aim of furthering an understanding of the experiences of displaced peoples.

CRP is a nonprofit based in Amman, Jordan, where thousands of Iraqi and Syrian refugees have relocated. The grassroots organization seeks to assist refugees and other victims of conflict through communitybuilding workshops and the provision of emergency services including food vouchers, medical support and clothing.

Davis has conducted research with refugees in Jordan in conjunction with students, including Will Todman (SFS ’16). After visiting CRP, Todman decided to fundraise for the organization as a part of the course requirement to complete an action-based project.

“What we’re doing is relatively small scale,” Todman said. “But we’ve added two extra families to our food voucher scheme as a part of this fundraising, so we’re making an impact already.”

The fundraiser is also a component of CRP’s campaign “Community Grows Here,” which began April 14 and aims to raise $20,000 to support the organization’s emergency assistance and community programs.

Todman emphasized the com-

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In light of these issues, GUSOA plans to unveil a letter it wrote to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN General Assembly, “Make The Georgetown University Sustainable Oceans Ocean Sustainability a Sustainable Development Alliance will host its first summit, entitled “#Chang- Goal,” at the event. ingTheTide,” this Saturday in Lohrfink AuditoriThe online petition encourages the UN to adopt um with the aim of educating students about the ocean sustainability as a goal for its development dire state of global ocean health. agenda at its upcoming conference in September The event, which is co-sponsored by the Global 2015.

Social Enterprise Initiative and the Lecture Fund, According to Fernandez, one of the goals of the will feature a series of guest speakers from the summit is to give students at other universities the fields of science, policy and business, including opportunity to support ocean sustainability by creNational Geographic CEO Gary Knell, Undersecre- ating their own SOA chapters. tary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the GUSOA, which currently has 37 active student Environment Catherine Novelli and Mission Blue members, has helped to establish five chapters at Founder Sylvia Earle. other universities around the country, including The summit, which will run from 10 a.m. to 4 Columbia University and Wesleyan University. p.m., will center its major themes around the fate Other universities such as American University of global fisheries and considerations of the world’s and George Washington University have expressed ocean economy. In addition to keyinterest in starting their own note speeches, the summit will chapter. also feature panel discussions and Executive Director of Global networking opportunities.

Social Enterprise Initiative An estimated 200 students Ladan Manteghi, who serves from over 30 universities will aton the advisory board for GUtend the summit, in addition to SOA, said that she believes the approximately 1,000 students summit will serve to encourage worldwide who will view the the millennial generation to summit via live broadcast. take action in protecting the GUSOA was founded in August world’s oceans.

2014 as an advocacy group in re“The summit is not the culMary TROXEL (COL ’17) Summit Consulting Employee sponse to alarming factors regardmination of anything,” Maning the state of the global ocean. teghi said. “The summit is the For instance, United Nations experts predict that start of something.” all of the ocean’s fish could disappear by 2050 if GUSOA Communications Director Mary Troxel current commercial fishing practices continue, (COL ’17) said that she aligns herself with the goal leading to the loss of the main protein source for of the summit to inspire the millennial generation approximately one billion people worldwide. to take action regarding ocean sustainability out of GUSOA President and Founder Daniela Fernan- necessity for its future survival. dez (COL ’16) said that such predictions have dan“The oceans are one of the most important regerous implications for the future. sources for us in the world, if not the most important “When you put that [prediction] into context, [resource],” Troxel said. “I think that students should that means that when our kids are our age, we care about this because someone has to take action won’t have [the ocean as we know it] anymore,” to preserve the ocean, and someone has to be us.”

Fernandez said.

Sebastian Velastegui (MSB ’18), who plans to attend In addition, Fernandez said that many stu- the summit, said that millennials have a responsibildents are unaware of the fact that air quality is ity to support ocean sustainability. tied to ocean health, as phytoplankton produce “Our oceans are one of the biggest components half of the world’s oxygen via photosynthesis. of our natural environment, and if we don’t find “Most people don’t know that,” Fernandez some cause to protect them, then we are going to said. “They think [that air quality is only tied to] suffer, if not in this generation, then definitely in trees.” the next,” Velastegui said.

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Masters of Arab Studies students sell T-shirts in Red Square to raise funds for Syrian and Iraqi refugees. munity-based work of CRP as a component of the nonprofit that sets it apart from other organizations seeking to assist refugees.

“They’re nearly entirely operated by refugees now,” Todman said. “They’re really trying to create a sense of community within the refugee population, and they’re training refugees to be able to teach these classes themselves. So they’re not only recipients of aid, they’re also giving back to their own communities.”

Abbie Taylor (SFS ’12), another participant and former student in Davis’s course, currently works at the university’s Institute for the Study of International Migration and serves on the CRP board. Taylor highlighted the CRP’s work in assisting communities that can often be overlooked by larger non-governmental organizations.

“CRP aims to serve people who often fall through the cracks in terms of assistance, to provide the basics they need to carry on and survive,” Taylor said. “I think for this particular organization the emphasis is really on refugees as the ones who should really take the lead.

It’s very much a way for them to find a new sense of community while living in a country that’s foreign to them.”

Casey Bahr (SFS ’15), one of the core fundraiser group members, stressed the pressing nature of the Syrian and Iraqi refugee crisis and the urgent need to alleviate it.

“The conflict has been going

on for longer and longer, and there’s been a huge increase in donor apathy, especially in the United States,” Bahr said. “You have a lot of these organizations that are really trying to provide assistance to these communities and unfortunately there’s been such a lack of funding. So this is really just trying to help bring these issues back to light and do what we can.”

Taylor added that in the face of the numerous ongoing crises around the world, including those in Libya, Yemen, Iraq and the Central African Republic, the situation of refugees in Jordan is often neglected.

“It’s important not to forget people who have been living as refugees for many years,” Taylor said. “A lot of the people that CRP serves have been living as refugees in Amman since 2006 and 2007, so it’s really important to remember that these people’s lives are still in such limbo.”

Additionally, Todman spoke about how the CRP is attempting to take a different approach to refugee assistance by placing a larger focus on community building.

“I think people view refugees through a humanitarian lens, that they need to be sent aid and given shelter, which is true,” Todman said. “But I also think that we need to appreciate that people want to be part of a community and rebuild social ties, to feel like they’re important and have a purpose.”

“The oceans are one of the most important resources for us in the world.”

Aramark Reduces Waste Through Compost Program Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Aramark launched a new composting program in collaboration with the Office of Facilities Management and the Office of Sustainability, that will divert over 25 tons of food waste per month from O’Donovan Hall and Epicurean and Company from being sent straight to the landfill.

The initiative was launched in early April, after the previous composting facility in Delaware that Aramark had partnered with closed down. From now on, a large portion of organic kitchen waste and post-consumer waste will be sent to the Maryland Environmental Service, where it will be converted into a compost product for organic agriculture, gardening and landscaping.

According to a press release from Georgetown Dining, the product of the composting process will be converted into usable soil fertilizer.

“Organic materials are mixed together and, with the help of earthworms and microorganisms, the materials decompose into nutrient-rich soil. The final compost product from [Georgetown’s] food scraps, called ‘LeafGro,’ is used in Washington, D.C. and surrounding states. … Each year, more than 300 tons of food scraps from campus will be transformed into high-quality soil fertilizer,” the press release read.

Director of the Office of Sustainability Audrey Stewart said that the composting program will help reduce the negative impact of food waste on campus.

“By composting Georgetown’s organic food waste at an off-site facility, our waste will ultimately be made useful again, contributing to activities such as food production in our local region,” Stewart said.

Currently, Leo’s serves more than 5,000 students a day, combining with Epicurean and Company to accumulate over 25 tons of organic waste per month.

Aramark Marketing Manager Adam Solloway said that the new program also requires changes in the

daily operations at Leo’s.

“Employees and kitchen staff have gone through extensive training to accommodate the new composting system and maintain the success of this program by separating food waste and paper into designated composting bins lined with compostable bags,” Solloway said.

Solloway also said that a wide variety of materials can be composted in the new program.

“The materials composted include produce and meat scraps, egg shells, coffee filters, dairy products, bones and paper towels from kitchen prep stations and waste left on the dish carousel.” Solloway said.

According to Solloway, the composting initiative is part of a larger plan to make Leo’s and the greater campus more sustainable.

“In addition to the composting program, we recycle 100 percent of used fryer oil, purchase recycled napkins, installed automatic sinks and lights in restrooms and by eliminating trays from Leo’s, we conserve more than three million cups of water annually. In this year alone, our six water filtration systems have diverted almost 350,000 water bottles from landfills,” Solloway said.

The initiative has received a considerable amount of input from interns working in the Office of Sustainability who recognized how important composting waste from Leo’s is in increasing sustainability efforts across campus.

“Composting also raises awareness about waste reduction. Food production requires lots of energy, land and water, yet more than a third of all food is thrown away in the U.S. every year,” Office of Sustainability Ambassador Mandy Lee (SFS ’17) said.

Other students also pointed to the importance of making the food system on campus more sustainable.

“Food plays a huge part in environmental sustainability, and I support any step that Georgetown can make towards a less wasteful food system,” Casey Nolan (COL ’17) said.

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By Addition of Maryland MARYLAND, from A12

“Maryland strengthens Washington, D.C. as a leading college basketball city in the country,” Georgetown Director of Athletics Lee Reed said.

“The Gavitt Tipoff Games feature two of the top conferences in the country and will be a great week for college basketball.”

Meetings between Georgetown and Maryland used to occur with far more frequency. The two teams played 57 times from 1935 to 1980, but since then have met only in the 1993 regular season, the 2001 Sweet 16 and the 2008 Old Spice Classic. The Terps won in 1993 and again in 2001 en route to the Final Four, but the Hoyas currently hold bragging rights, having romped to a 75-48 victory in 2008.

“Our programs share a great deal of history,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said. “Memories of Pops and Lefty, Merlin Wilson and Tom McMillen, Craig Shelton and Buck Williams, Allen Iverson and Joe Smith, Greg Monroe and Greivis Vasquez and many, many more dance in our heads.”

From a marketing standpoint, the rivalry’s renewal could hardly have come at a better time, as both teams are projected to be among the best in the nation next season.

Maryland returns the bulk of the talent from a team that spent much of the past season ranked in the top 20, earned a five seed in the NCAA Tournament, and lost to West Virginia in the round of 32.

The Terps were led by the superb play of freshman guard Melo Trimble, a former local high school rival of Georgetown freshman guard Tre Campbell, who averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 41.2 percent from behind the arc.

Both Trimble and junior forward Jake Layman

would likely have been selected had they declared for the NBA Draft, but both elected to return for another season in College Park. They will be joined by consensus top-10 recruit Diamond Stone, a center from Milwaukee, Wis., as well as forward Robert Carter, who sat out this past season after transferring from Georgia Tech, where he averaged 11.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game as a sophomore.

Barring an unforeseen development, Maryland will be ranked inside the top five when the preseason polls come out in the fall.

Georgetown will also expect to appear in those polls, although likely 10 to 15 spots lower than the Terps. The Hoyas were buoyed recently by the news that junior guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera would return for his senior season rather than enter the NBA Draft as he originally announced. He will be joined by an incredibly talented group of rising sophomores, as well as a top-25 recruiting class.

Looking at Georgetown’s non conference schedule as a whole, the Maryland contest will be only one of what figure to be a gauntlet of games. The Hoyas will also face former Big East rivals Syracuse and Connecticut and will compete in the 2K Sports Classic along with National Championship game participants Duke and Wisconsin in addition to Virginia Commonwealth.

“It is a loaded deck,” Thompson said. “We never back down from a challenge and I like testing our guys in out of conference play.”

But aside from the Syracuse matchup, no game will generate as much hype as the trip to College Park. The renewal of the local rivalry is something college basketball fans across the country have looked forward to for a long time.

“The time is right to make new memories,” Thompson said. “We are excited.”

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Canadiens Will Rely On Price, Subban in Playoffs IPPOLITO, from A12

among them is the goaltending of Carey Price.

Price topped all NHL goalies with 44 wins, a 93.3 percent save percentage, and a 1.96 goals against average. He is the media favorite to win the Vezina Trophy, for the NHL’s top goaltender, and the Hart Memorial Trophy, which is given to the league’s most valuable player. Through three games in this year’s playoffs, Price has been phenomenal, saving 94.6 percent of his shots and allowing just 1.67 goals per game.

Montreal is no stranger to riding great goaltending to titles. Their last two championships, in 1985-86 and 1992-93, came with Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy at the helm, and Price’s numbers this year are far superior to Roy’s numbers in those championship seasons.

Anyone who follows hockey is aware that the Canadiens are more than just a hockey team — they are a guaranteed soap opera. Drama does not so much find Montreal as much as Montreal creates drama. The undisputed lead actor of Montreal’s saga is defenseman P.K. Subban.

Subban’s latest act was a vicious slash against the Senators’ Mark Stone that got him ejected from game one.

The controversy intensified after the game when Ottawa Head Coach Dave Cameron and other Ottawa players lobbied for Subban’s suspension from the NHL, which never came, and implied that there would be retaliation against the Canadiens’ star in game two. There was no such payback, but Subban has ensured that no love is lost between Montreal and their countrymen in Ottawa.

Fortunately for Montreal, Subban’s play makes any side drama worth tolerating. Subban has come into his own as a scorer and is continually one of the top scoring defensemen

in the NHL. In the playoffs, Subban seems to be coming into his own as well. Through three games, Subban has netted one goal and assisted on two others. This builds on his impressive performance last year during the Canadiens’ run to the Eastern Conference Finals, when he totaled 14 playoff points in Montreal’s 17 games.

Though his skills are complemented by other world-class talents like Max Pacioretty and seasoned veteran Andrei Markov, Subban is Montreal’s unquestioned emotional leader. As long as Subban stays within the game, Montreal is a serious threat to take down the President’s Cup Trophy-winning New York Rangers later in the playoffs and claim the Eastern Conference title.

The final major advantage Montreal possesses is its home ice. Consistently one of the loudest venues in the NHL, the Belle Centre’s atmosphere enabled the Canadiens to put together the second-best home record in the East this season. In the past few seasons, Montreal has become well-known for its pregame graphics show, but teams know that traveling to and escaping from Montreal with a victory is extremely difficult. In a best-of-seven series someone is going to have to accomplish that at least once, but doing it twice, which is what will probably be required to beat Montreal in a series, is extremely unlikely, especially with Price in the net. If you were taught to champion the underdog, then rooting for Montreal is a poor choice. The next month or so could be another example of the historically rich getting richer, but if Canada wants the Cup back on its side of the border, then Canadians should place their faith in Montreal.

Michael Ippolito is a sophomore in the College. This is the final appearance of THE WATER COOLER this semester.

Cross Country

Coogan’s Unlikely Ascent Leads to Memorable Career COOGAN, from A12

prospects for soccer dwindled while opportunities on the track became more plentiful following a successful spring season. Suddenly, she realized that she would, in fact, be following in her parents’ footsteps. Regardless of whether or not it had been the plan all along, Coogan refocused her efforts toward trying to run in college. The results for the would-be prodigal daughter were immediate.

“There was this pretty marked jump in her running that happened in the postseason after her junior year,” Newbould said. “There was just this change where she realized she was going to be headed [in] the direction of running in college, and if she was going to do it, she was going to have to run [the necessary] times.”

Georgetown Director of Track and Field Patrick Henner glimpsed the future greatness resting beneath Coogan’s raw talent and brought her on as a freshman in 2011.

“You’d rather recruit somebody who’s been undertrained than over trained,” Henner said.

“You want to look at the whole picture, you don’t want to just look at their times. Hopefully you’re picking out the athletes that have the most upside in the long term.”

Yet even after Coogan had made the transition to fully focus on the sport, her parents still did not weigh in on her track career. Despite their remarkable backgrounds as world-class athletes and current coaches, Coogan’s parents

have maintained the same hands-off approach to their daughter’s running that they have adopted since she started middle school.

“This is going to sound a little bit strange, but probably one advantage she has is we know not to give her little tips and advice,” Coogan’s mother Gwyn said. “What we know from being involved in track and field is to let her have a great relationship with her coach and let that do its work.”

The strategy has proven wildly successful, especially since Coogan arrived at Georgetown and began training for cross-country and track full time. The same season that saw Coogan collapse in her first race ended with her assuming a crucial role as the fifth member of Georgetown’s 2011 NCAA Cross-Country Championship team.

“It’s just kind of a Cinderella story that she showed up at Georgetown and ran her first season of cross-country in her life and they won nationals,” Newbould said. “It’s like a fairytale.”

From there the Cinderella story has progressed, leading up to this past cross-country season where Coogan, now a senior, was named Mid-Atlantic Region Women’s Athlete of the year, followed by a fourth place finish at nationals in the indoor season in the 3000m event. By no means has she become the Blue and Gray’s best female runner by conventional methods, but few can doubt that, since blacking out in her first race as a Hoya, Coogan has given us plenty of finishes to remember.

Friday, APRIL 24, 2015

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Junior midfielder Kristen Bandos was named Big East Midfielder of the Week for last week. Bandos scored the game-winning goal with 15 seconds left in the Hoyas’ 13-12 win over UConn.

GU Seeks Conference Title Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

While the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (6-9, 5-1 Big East) suffered from inconsistencies earlier on this season, the Hoyas have a chance on Saturday to redeem themselves with a Big East regular season title.

If the Hoyas beat the Temple Owls (10-5, 2-4 Big East) on the team’s senior day, they will earn a share of the Big East title — their first since 2011 — drawing level with No. 13 Florida at a 6-1 conference record.

The team is already guaranteed the second seed in the Big East tournament, as it lost the seeding tiebreaker due to the Gators’ 18-4 head-to-head victory over the Hoyas at the beginning of April. Still, Georgetown does not yet know whether it will take on the University of Connecticut (9-6, 4-2 Big East) or Villanova (96, 4-2 Big East) in the first round of the four-team tournament, which starts next Thursday.

The contest against Temple closes out what has been a successful Big East season for the Blue and Gray, a welcome change from the team’s 1-8 record out of conference.

However, Head Coach Ricky Fried knows that despite the Owls’ record in conference, the team is no pushover. Temple beat Marquette and lost by just two goals to Villanova, a team that may earn the third seed in

the tournament.

“The biggest thing is they have a lot of team speed, they’re very athletic,” Fried said. “So they’ll probably be in the top half of teams, speed-wise, that we’ve played so far. And they’re very good in transition, so we’ll have to minimize their transition game.”

Georgetown’s defense is certainly capable of slowing down Temple, as it has stepped up significantly over the course of the current four-game winning streak, riding opponents hard and forcing turnovers consistently.

Senior defender Adrianne Devine, who was named Big East Defensive Player of the Week this past Tuesday, is more confident than nervous heading into the home stretch of the season.

“Because we’ve been winning, obviously we’re doing something right. So we just have to keep this momentum and streak going,” Devine said.

“Recently we’ve been more on the same page. Ever since our Hopkins game we’ve been more of a unit and more on the same page. I think that was really the turning point in our season, specifically for the defense.”

Before the 8-6 loss to Johns Hopkins on March 21, the Hoyas lost five of their six games and conceded 12.8 goals per game; since then, their record has been 5-4 and they’ve given up just 9.3 goals per game, even including

the aberration of conceding 18 goals to Florida.

Junior midfielder Kristen Bandos also earned Big East honors this week, as she was named Midfielder of the Week. Bandos scored five goals in Georgetown’s 13-12 win over UConn including the game-winner with 15 seconds left, and she recorded the final two goals at Marquette in an 8-7 victory. She now leads the team in goals with 23 on the season, two goals ahead of senior attack Caroline Tarzian.

Though Georgetown has won the Big East regular season title in previous years, including three straight from 2009-2011, Fried understands the importance of a win on Saturday.

“We haven’t won the Big East, or had a share of the Big East title, since 2011. I think a lot of people on the outside looking in and some people even on the inside think that’s just an expectation, and that just happens,” Fried said. “[It] is special for the seniors, because it would be the first time they’ve done it since they’ve been here. And our focus has to be totally on that area. … We’re playing to win something right now.”

The contest will take place at Georgetown’s MultiSport Facility at 3 p.m. After Saturday’s home matchup against Temple, the Big East tournament will start Thursday, April 30 in Connecticut with a semifinal against either UConn or Villanova.

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O’Connor, Stafford Highlight Offense tradition, currently carrying an 8-5 record.

After struggling through two challenging seasons and adjusting to the addition of an entirely new coaching staff, Stafford said that this year’s senior class is finally starting to see its efforts pay off.

“We always talk about how you have to fail in order to succeed, and that’s something that our senior class has really taken to heart,” Stafford said. “We’ve been able to learn from that and turn things around this year.”

A huge part of adjusting to such a fundamental change in the lacrosse program was completely “buying in” to Warne’s style of coaching. Every team looks to the leadership of its seniors, but O’Connor said that the commitment that this senior class has — and all the changes it has faced — truly makes it unique.

“I think what sets this team apart from every other team in my four years — which is not a shot against any of the other groups — is the whole senior class, the whole buyin, the whole commitment — just how well they’ve performed and have been leaders all year has really set this team apart from other ones,” O’Connor said.

O’Connor has taken on a more traditional leadership role as team captain for both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. This year, along with senior co-captains and midfielders Charlie McCormick and Joe Bucci, O’Connor has set a precedent for the rest of the team to follow.

“It definitely starts from the top down,” Stafford said. “Reilly, Joe and Charlie have done a great job, and this year’s senior class, specifically with the captains, has really set this team apart from other teams in the past.”

In particular, Warne says that the team’s senior leadership has been instrumental in incorporating the team’s talented group of freshmen into the fold.

“I think that the younger guys look up to them and see what they have done vocally and on the field, and they know that’s the right way to do it,” Warne said.

But O’Connor emphasizes that each and every senior on the team takes on a unique leadership role.

“I think we’re all captains — we’re all leaders,” O’Connor said.

“Every single guy has their specific thing that they contribute, and I think that’s what makes this team so great with the leadership in various styles. …It’s what makes going to practice every day fun.”

On attack, O’Connor and Staf-

ford have led Georgetown to some incredible victories this season, from upsetting then-No. 14 and perennial rival Loyola Maryland (7-8, 5-3 Patriot League) to toppling conference foes then-No. 9 Marquette (10-4, 3-1 Big East) and Villanova (66, 1-3 Big East).

Stafford currently leads the Hoyas with 26 goals and 46 points, and O’Connor follows closely with 20 goals and 41 points. Having played together for the past four seasons, O’Connor and Stafford have built chemistry on attack that has promoted Georgetown’s characteristically unselfish style of offense.

“I think Bo and I are having a strong year just because of that chemistry we’ve built. I think Bo’s done a great job of leading the offense, and we just feed off of him,” O’Connor said.

But O’Connor and Stafford are quick to attribute much of their success to their teammates.

“Everybody’s bought into our system,” Stafford said. “We all play unselfishly, and we all play together.

And at the end of the day, no one really cares who gets the goal or who gets the assist as long as we can put up a good number in order to give us the best chance of winning.”

Warne says that this style of play has been a huge factor in Georgetown’s results so far this season.

“I don’t think there’s any egos down there, and I think that’s the strength of our team this year,” Warne said. “They don’t care if they have one point or they if have nine points — I think all they really care about is getting a W, and I think that’s the most important stat for those guys.”

On Saturday, Georgetown will host St. John’s (3-10, 1-3 Big East) in the last game on its regular season schedule before it heads to the postseason Big East tournament. The game also marks Senior Day, when the team will honor its seniors for their accomplishments during their time on the Hilltop.

For O’Connor and Stafford, and for the rest of Georgetown’s seniors, the fact that Senior Day is already approaching is surreal — but it is something they look forward to celebrating.

“I’m definitely excited to spend it with our class. We have a bunch of great guys and a bunch of people that I can call great friends, and we’ve been able to build some strong relationships, and to be on the field with all those guys and hopefully get a win will definitely be an unbelievable experience,” Stafford said.

Saturday’s game is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at MultiSport Facility.

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Junior catcher Nick Collins leads the Big East with 53 hits, a .531 slugging percentage, 78 total bases and five home runs. He is also second in the conference with a .361 batting average and has started all 37 games this year.

GU Builds 4-Game Win Streak Andrew May Hoya Staff Writer

With its walk-off 8-7 win Wednesday night, Georgetown’s baseball team (2017, 3-3 Big East) extended its win streak to four games by sweeping the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (13-26, 11-7 MEAC) in a doubleheader. The team now sits three games above .500, exactly where Head Coach Pete Wilk wanted it to be.

“I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way, but we’re a good baseball team. I expect to be over .500 with this squad and the talent that we have on the field,” Wilk said. “Any time you put a four-game winning streak together is good. I don’t care who you’re playing.”

Following a decisive 10-1 victory over Stony Brook (20-12, 9-2 American East) on Sunday, the Hoyas beat a weak Coppin State team (3-31-2, 2-16 MEAC) on Tuesday thanks to an impressive performance that affirmed Wilk’s confidence in his team. Four Georgetown pitchers, including sophomore starter Nick Leonard, combined to limit Coppin State to just one hit and four walks.

On offense, a season-high 22 hits — including at least one by every starter — led the way to an easy victory.

The Hoyas followed up that win with a much less convincing performance against University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the first of a pair of seven-inning games played Wednesday. Georgetown jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the 2nd and did not trail for the rest of the contest, but also never led by more than one run until its last at-bat. A pair of runs in the bottom of

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the 6th resulted in a final score of 5-2.

All five RBIs went to the 7-8-9 hitters in Georgetown’s lineup, and the 1-3 spots combined to go 0-10 in the game.

For Wilk, the ability of the bottom lineup to produce when top hitters do not is crucial in putting together a winning season. “[Junior outfielder] Evan Ryan and [redshirt sophomore second baseman] Charlie Dillon had four two-out RBIs. That’s tremendous,” Wilk said. “Nights like this when [junior catcher Nick Collins] struggles, good teams have others to pick them up.”

While Georgetown’s offense in Wednesday’s first game gave the Blue and Gray valuable insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth, it needed sixth-inning runs to jumpstart a six-run comeback in the second half of the day’s doubleheader. The Hoyas trailed 7-2 after redshirt senior pitcher Jack Vander Linden and senior pitcher Matt Brown combined to allow seven runs in 5.1 innings pitched.

The comeback did not include a single extra base hit. Singles, walks, errors and bunts led to six runs over the last two innings for the Hoyas.

“We can’t sit back and wait for somebody to hit the ball out of the yard. It’s not who we are. … That’s today’s college baseball game, especially on this club with us. You’ve got to manufacture runs, and that’s what we do,” Wilk said.

Manufacturing runs is exactly what Georgetown did in the bottom of the 7th to complete the walk-off victory.

The Hoyas only hit the ball out of the infield once on their way to three runs and a final score of 8-7.

A bunt by freshman outfielder Jake Bernstein with runners on the corners and one out plated one and advanced the game-winning run into scoring position. Bernstein’s bunt was one of the key plays in the inning. “[Bernstein’s bunt] was [Coach Wilk’s] call. It put some pressure on the defense. They had a pitcher on the mound who was a little suspect fielding his position, so it put some pressure on him,” Dillon said.

The pressure on the defense paid off.

The Hawks committed five errors in the second half of the doubleheader, including two by redshirt sophomore shortstop Jordan Martin in the bottom of the 7th. The walk-off run scored on the second of his errors. Georgetown had four errors in total Wednesday, with a fifth being taken off the board after the game.

“I think both teams were a little tired. Playing two games, you go balls to the wall in the first game and then have to come out and play another one,” Dillon said.

With the two wins, Georgetown improved to a 20-17 record and 3-0 on the season against UMES. With an upcoming three game away series against a struggling Xavier team (10-31, 1-8 Big East), the Hoyas will look to continue to build ontheir performances during the week. “[The wins] feel pretty good, man.

That’s what you want, to put together a winning record. We didn’t exactly play well the second game today, but we pulled it out. That’s what good teams do, so we’re happy about it,” Dillon said.

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hris Paul is the best point guard to ever play the game.

That sounds insane, especially for someone with zero MVPs, zero NBA Finals appearances, zero championships and yes, zero conference finals appearances. But beyond the stats, Chris Paul really is the best to ever play the position, and this year, he and the Los Angeles Clippers have a legitimate shot at the NBA Finals.

Granted, it has only been two games, but Paul’s dismantling of the San Antonio Spurs in game one showed exactly what the Clippers can do when their offense is firing on all cylinders; Los Angeles had an offensive rating of 112.4 in the regular season. If the Clippers continue to play well offensively and prevent the Spurs from getting open looks, then Paul and his star running mate, forward Blake Griffin, may very well topple the defending champs.

Still, Paul’s claim to the status of best point guard of all time is lofty, especially given that many pundits do not even consider him the best point guard in the current NBA, deferring to Golden State’s golden boy Steph Curry. However, the distinction is quite simple: Steph Curry is the best player to play point guard, but Chris Paul is the best point guard.

Curry’s dribbling, passing skills and stature serve him well at the point guard position, but Paul’s entire game and demeanor make him the ideal point guard. In a Grantland piece earlier this year, Zach Lowe determined that Chris Paul was one of the best midrange jump shooters in NBA history, with percentages hovering near 60 when shooting around the free throw line extended.

Moreover, Chris Paul defends with a ferocity unlike any other point guard in league history. He has made six All-NBA Defensive Teams (four First Teams, two Second Teams) and

led the league in steals per game six times. When analyzing data from Synergy Sports Technology and SportVU, it is clear that Paul routinely holds opposing point guards to several percentage points lower than their averages from their favorite shooting spots. Compared to some of the other “best point guard of all time” candidates, Paul’s defense ranks among the best. Magic Johnson, arguably the best point guard of all time, was “a world class defensive

Paolo Santamaria liability” according to Bill Simmons, and the stats back up that billing.

Not many point guards in league history have taken pride in their defense quite like Paul does.

And that is just his shooting accuracy and defense. Paul’s passing has put him atop the charts in assists per game four times. Even more impressively, he has placed in the top four every season he has been in the league, sans his rookie campaign.

He was the catalyst for one of the smoothest pick-and-roll offenses in the NBA when he played for New Orleans with forward David West and spot-up shooters Peja Stojakovic and Mo Peterson. Now, he commands Lob City, routinely throwing up jaw-dropping alley-oop passes to Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.

Paul often finds himself on highlight reels for his excellent passing, and as a result his pure scoring ability

is too frequently overlooked. With a 21 points per game average in the playoffs – as well as nearly ten assists per game and shooting percentages of 48, 39 and 81 from the field, three-point range and free throw line, respectively – he holds his own as an efficient and effective scoring option. Against a stalwart Spurs’ defense, Paul poured in 32 points on 65 percent shootingin game one, hitting shot after shot, with each one looking more improbable than the last. It was an incredible performance. He had the mentality of a killer, and he took what he wanted in a way that dismantled every inch of the Spurs’ elite defense. Paul dissects his opponents and then eviscerates them. For lack of a better term, he is cold-blooded.

Finally, Paul does not just have everything a coach would ever want in a lead point guard; he has everything the NBA wants in a superstar. From bringing basketball to Oklahoma City when the Hornets had to relocate in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to returning home to New Orleans to inspiring a ravaged city to making the Clippers the hottest ticket in the same city as the iconic Lakers, Paul has put the hopes and aspirations of several fan bases squarely on his shoulders.

Not only is he a leader on and off the court, but Paul has also transcended basketball to become an icon. He plays his sport the way it is meant to be played, he endorses it the way it is meant to be endorsed and at the end of the day, he does it so consistently that people barely take notice. So let’s be clear here: Chris Paul is the best point guard in NBA history. And a title run would give people no choice but to take notice.

Paolo Santamaria is a freshman in the College. This is the final appearance of SAXA SYNERGY this semester.

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Coogan Shows Immense Progress JIMMY MCLAUGHLIN Hoya Staff Writer

Katrina Coogan does not remember finishing her first cross-country race.

A dual-sport athlete in high school, the now collegiate All-American in both cross-country and track and field came to Georgetown having never run

an event longer than the 3000 meters.

But on a fall day three years ago in Pennsylvania, Coogan toed the line at the Paul Short Invitational Meet, ready to take off for her first time as a Hoya — on a 6000m course. For the freshman runner, who at that point had spent just as much time on the soccer pitch as she had on the track, the result was

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Senior All-American Katrina Coogan has taken an unconventional route to Georgetown but has ultimately developed into one of the best runners in the nation.

predictable.

“It was not fun,” Coogan said, remembering the race with a wavering smile. “I ended up falling short.”

Despite Coogan’s valiant effort, the end of the race did not go according to plan.

“I was running and was doing great — and then with 200 hundred meters left I passed out,” Coogan said with a laugh.

“I crossed the finish line, but I don’t remember crossing it. Apparently I walked and crawled a little bit.”

The race was deeply symbolic of Coogan’s relationship with the sport from the moment she stepped onto the track in seventh grade. From the beginning of her athletic career, the now nationally renowned distance runner had avoided long-distance training. Soccer was her collegiate dream — running was something her friends had talked her into joining. Among a highly competitive group of runners at Exeter, Coogan was markedly different from the rest.

Running just 20 miles a week to prepare her for club soccer practices during the winter and fall, track seemed to always take the back seat to soccer. All of this appeared counterintuitive for the daughter of two Olympic distance runners.

“She was fun to coach but also challenging because with her pedigree, she faced a lot of expectations to be really talented,” Coogan’s former high school track and field coach Brandon Newbould said. “She was always gifted, but because her parents held off on pressuring her, she took her time coming around to it.”

That time for Coogan would come at the end of her junior year, as college See COOGAN, A10

Montreal Aims for 25th Cup I

The Montreal Canadiens are poised for a deep run in the NHL Playoffs. good measure, they are the champions of French-Canadians, too. Unfortunately for the rest of our friends up North, Montreal is the team most capable of bringing Lord Stanley’s Cup back to Canada.

Montreal’s name is already engraved on the Stanley Cup 24 times, over double the amount of the second place Detroit Red Wings. The Habs are also the last Canadian team to have its name engraved on the Stanley Cup - they won the title in 1992-1993. Currently, the Habs’ quest to end Canada’s 22-year Cup drought could not be going better; they hold a threegames-to-one lead over the Ottawa Senators and are in prime position for a firstround victory.

Several factors make Montreal a major contender to represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Finals. First See IPPOLITO, A10

#6 Bo Stafford Senior Attack Brooklin, Ontario 20 Goals 21 Assists 64 Career Goals 64 Career Assists 3-Year Starter

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Seniors Spark Hoyas’ Progress Urick, a Georgetown coaching legend who posted winning records in all 23 seaChanges in coaching staff sons that he was at the helm are never easy. Neither are los- of the program. Urick retired ing seasons, changes in con- after the 2012 season, and ference rivalries or regular- current Head Coach Kevin season schedules brimming Warne took over in August with ranked opponents. of 2012 with big shoes to fill.

But for senior attack and coBy his third year as head captain Reilly O’Connor and coach, Warne has made insenior atcredible tack Bo st r i d e s St a f fo r d “Everybody’s bought into in reof the our system. We all play s t o rNo. 13 ing the G e o r g e - unselfishly, and we all team to t o w n play together.” its form en ’s mer glolacrosse ry — inBO STAFFORD Senior Attack team (8cluding 5, 3-1 Big leading East), experiencing major the 2013 team to its first changes and taking them in postseason appearance in stride has been fundamental the Big East championship in shaping their senior year since 2007 — but it took into their most successful some time to turn things season on the Hilltop. around. After two sub-.500 O’Connor and Stafford seasons, the Hoyas are fibegan their Georgetown ca- nally rebuilding a winning reers under the leadership of former Head Coach Dave See SENIORS, A11

Hoya Staff Writer

Michael Ippolito

f you took the historical success of the New York Yankees franchise, the continual hubris that Dallas Cowboys fans have despite nearly two decades of mediocrity, and the love that Notre Dame fans have for living in and reminding others of their unparalleled history, then you have a relatively decent idea about how the rest of the NHL, and Canada in particular, views the Montreal Canadiens. Just for

Greenwich, Conn.

26 Goals 20 Assists 44 Career Goals 44 Career Assists 2-Year Starter

ELIZABETH CAVACOS

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

THE WATER COOLER

#9 Reilly O’Connor Senior Attack

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Senior defender Adrianne Devine was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week. Devine has led the Hoyas to a 5-1 record in conference play.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

GU, UMD Will Revive Rivalry in 2016 TOM SCHNOOR

Maryland have played each other only three times since 1980.

College Park, Md., home to the It was a notable piece of news University of Maryland, sits less therefore, when the two schools than nine miles from the front announced Tuesday that they gates of Georgetown. If a Hoya had scheduled a game in each fan hopped on the Metro after of the next two seasons. Georgea 7 p.m. game at Verizon Center, town will travel to Xfinity Cenhe or she could take the green ter later this year on Nov. 17 and or yellow line to Maryland’s Maryland will return the favor Xfinity during the Center in 2016-2017 sea“We never back down time to son at Verizon catch the from a challenge and I Center. Both second matchups will half of like testing our guys in be a part of the the Terps’ out-of-conference play.”

Dave Gavitt nightcap.

Tipoff Games, JOHN THOMPSON III But for a series of earMen’s Basketball Head Coach much of ly-season conthe last 35 tests pitting years, College Park might as well eight schools from the Big East have been Beijing. Despite com- against eight schools from the peting as the two premier col- Big Ten. lege basketball programs in the “Playing a local rival like talent-heavy Washington, D.C. metro area, Georgetown and

Hoya Staff Writer

See MARYLAND, A10

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Head Coach John Thompson III anticipates that the renewal of the local rivalry with Maryland will strengthen the Hoyas’ nonconference schedule.

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