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The Hoya gives you an in-depth look at each of GU’s fall teams.

STERN Georgetown’s policy on offensive speech hinders honest dialogue.

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GRUBER The Hoya sat down with the new DPS chief to get his perspective on the job.

ENERGY Georgetown Energy chose SolarCity to supply townhouse solar panels.

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GU Debuts Science Facility

Campaign Rakes In $179M SARAH KAPLAN

SARAH PATRICK

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Propelled by a reunion weekend that broke fundraising records, Georgetown’s ongoing capital campaign secured $179 million in donations in fiscal year 2012.

The campaign, titled “The Campaign for Georgetown: For Generations to Come,” is a 10-year, $1.5 billion fundraising effort that was publicly launched last fall. Fiscal year 2012 was the first of the campaign’s public phase, but the initiative has been quietly collecting funds since 2007. Thus far, the campaign has earned $919 million, more than 60 percent of its goal.

The $179 million raised this fiscal year, which ended in June, made it the second most successful fundraising year in the university’s history and topped the campaign’s initial goal of $137 million by about 30 percent.

“We expected that the launch year would be a very strong year … but I was very pleasantly surprised by how substantially we exceeded the goal,” Vice President for Advancement Bart Moore said.

The year’s fundraising was buoyed by almost $80 million in contributions from this year’s reunion classes, which gather every five years. This number topped the previous record for a five-year reunion cycle — $47 million — by 70 percent.

According to Moore, a large amount of the campaign’s total fundraising has come from especially large donations: Gifts of $1 million or more accounted for almost half of this year’s total results.

“There’s a disproportionate impact of a relatively small number of the biggest gifts,” Moore said.

He added, however, that the university is hoping to expand its donor base, which would increase the number of alumni who give to the school.

“It is very important to us that See CAMPAIGN, A6

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Regents Hall, the state-of-the-art science center that opened to the public for the first time Monday, includes research and teaching labs, classroom spaces, offices and student study areas and lounges.

With fresh grass adorning a new lawn on one side and construction equipment making its final exit from the other, Regents Hall opened its doors to students and faculty for the first time Monday.

The six-story, $100 million science center contains research and teaching labs, classroom spaces, offices and student study areas and lounges.

The first two floors are dedicated to teaching and the fourth and fifth floors to research, while the third floor is split between research and teaching spaces.

The unoccupied sixth floor contains the mechanical components for the building.

According to Ali Whitmer, senior associate dean for strategic planning and faculty development, teaching floors are See SCIENCE, A6

Alum to Document Surging Violence in Syria VanDyke fought and was captured with rebels in Libya last year SARAH KAPLAN Hoya Staff Writer

When Matthew VanDyke (GRD ’04) returned to the United States after being detained for six months in a Libyan prison, he was already planning his next trip to the Middle East.

“I’m going to start training … for the next Arab revolution,” he told reporters crowded around him at Baltimore/Washington International Airport when he landed on American soil last November.

In a few weeks, VanDyke will follow through on that promise. This

time, he will be heading to Syria, where he hopes to film a documentary about the country’s ongoing civil war.

“Syria’s the next step in the Arab Spring movement, the next regime that needs to go,” he said in an interview with THE HOYA. “This is the best way I can help.”

He will be filming alongside Masood Bwisir, a Libyan musician famous for singing rebel songs on the front lines during the Libyan revolt.

VanDyke, who has a master’s degree in security studies from the School of Foreign Service, has had a longstanding interest in the Middle East. According to his mother, Sharon, he begged his family to go on a vacation to Egypt during elementary school.

Between 2007 and 2011, VanDyke rode a motorcycle across the

Arab world, working as a freelance journalist during the trip. He visited Syria between 2008 and 2009 and says that he saw signs of civilian dissatisfaction with its government even then. “[Syria] was one of the countries where I heard rumblings of discontent. I was told a story about the police torturing somebody,” he said.

In February 2011, VanDyke called his mother and told her he was booking a flight to Libya so he could write, film and support his friends fighting the dictatorial rule of Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Sharon VanDyke didn’t realize that her son would wind up fighting alongside the rebel forces, dressed in armysurplus fatigues and toting a gun.

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VanDyke will return to the Middle See VANDYKE, A5 East this fall to film a documentary.

GUSA Group Addresses LGBTQ Safety Concerns

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ported having a checkbox as more of a means of opening up a dialogue about how we can improve the living situation Although school was not in session, of LGBTQ freshmen who don’t feel safe in the Georgetown University Student As- their rooms.” sociation had plenty to keep it busy this GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS summer. ’13) maintained her support for the Members of GUSA’s Safe Transitions checkbox but said that the working Working Group have spent the last three group aimed to seek out longer-term somonths writing and implementing the lutions to intolerance on campus.

LGBTQ Safety and Security Report and “We knew in the first place that [the a list of recommencheckbox] would not dations in response solve anything and to the public debate “That students have not that it would be short over a proposal to term and catch a few found [Georgetown] a include an LGBTQthings to help make friendly checkbox on welcoming enough place a few people more freshman housing comfortable,” she ... is unacceptable.” surveys. said.

The checkbox drew The working group VAIL KOHNERT-YOUNT (SFS ‘13), GUSA vice president criticism when it was comprised outgoing proposed last spring, seniors, underclassincluding a viewpoint by Nick Shaker men, LGBTQ individuals and GUSA lead(COL ’12) for THE HOYA (“Acceptance ers and focused on how to improve the Shouldn’t Be Optional, But Expected,” Georgetown experience for lesbian, gay, A3, March 27, 2012) that condemned the bisexual, transgender and questioning measure for implying that tolerance is students. optional.

Shiva Subbaraman, director of the LG“The opposition said that if you had BTQ Resource Center, said the culture of a checkbox, it would pressure incom- Georgetown poses challenges to LGBTQ ing freshmen to identify and isolate the students.

LGBTQ community within freshman “The Georgetown student culture is dorms,” GU Pride President Meghan Ferguson (COL ’15) said. “[GU Pride] supSee LGBTQ, A5 Hoya Staff Writer

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Incoming freshmen and transfers gathered outside McDonough Arena before new Provost Robert Groves officially inducted them as Georgetown students at the new student convocation.

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A Grand Opening — Regents Hall, Georgetown’s new science building, opened yesterday. The 154,000-square-foot building will house most of the physics, biology and chemistry classes and faculty.

Cardinal Sin — Chris Miltenberg, head coach of Georgetown women’s cross country team and reigning national coach of the year, has left the Hilltop to coach the Stanford cross country and track and field teams.

New Policy a Party Foul C by a stamp of approval from Georgetown. This deficiency in protection, coupled with the university’s lack of clarity about the rules for monitoring and breaking up parties, leaves room for potentially arbitrary punishment.

The policy reversal makes a puzzling statement about how seriously the university is taking its efforts to improve on-campus nightlife.

Administrators have stood firmly against Healy Pub, another proposed effort to improve evening social life on campus. In light of the apparent shift in values reflected by the scrapping of on-campus party registration, we wonder why the pub would not also receive university approval. Instead of the pub, students were awarded the New South Student Center, which, as far as we have been led to believe, will hardly be a nightlife destination on campus.

Changes in party rules are no guarantee that students will remain on campus in the evenings. We would prefer reinstatement of party registration but with narrower definitions of conduct warranting punishment. When students receive greater clarity on how they are allowed to conduct parties, we’ll be throwing one of our own.

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The recently announced policies for on-campus partying are no reason for celebration, at least not yet.

While many have hailed the reform as a new chapter in student nightlife, the changes fail to offer a concrete standard that can be fairly and consistently enforced.

As part of the most recent campus plan agreement, the university has implemented initiatives to attract students to campus at night and decrease the off-campus evening activity that irritates neighbors in West Georgetown and Burleith. The most notable change is the elimination of advance party registration for students in on-campus housing. But by eliminating registration altogether, administrators have generated a cloud of uncertainty.

Registration, in theory, legitimized parties. Inconvenient as requesting approval for a party may have been, it represented an understanding between students and the university that a given on-campus party was acceptable. What is perceived to be a new “turn the other way” guideline does not sufficiently substitute for a more explicit standard to which both students and policy enforcers could be held.

Under the new system, on-campus parties can no longer be insulated

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Pay to Park — The Southwest Garage, which stretches underneath a large part of campus, will now charge a parking fee for all-day and hourly parking.

Stem Cells & Socrates — Beginning with the Class of 2014, the philosophy department will now be offering a philosophy and bioethics minor.

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The obvious point that is missing is that Cassey did not fail to get enough signatures because of the lack of students on campus. Prindiville easily acquired far more than 25 signatures under the same exact circumstances.

If anything, this is a sign that Cassey is not up to the task and not committed enough to representing the Georgetown community in the ANC. I strongly urge another fellow student to run in the write-in campaign so that we take advantage of the first time we will be represented by [two] students.

Less Work, More Study When college students receive federal work-study awards as part of their financial aid packages, they might not expect the jobs to dramatically impede their class schedules. Yet on Georgetown’s campus — where annual attendance fees are close to $60,000 — securing a workstudy job often comes at too high a cost to students’ academic ambitions.

Georgetown and some off-campus employers receive federal funding that, according to the U.S. Department of Education website, supports “part-time employment to help needy students to finance the costs of postsecondary education.”

Federal funds can cover anywhere from 50 to 100 percent of a student’s work-study wage.

This should be a boon to students, but the process by which work-study employers hire can actually hinder academic life. Employers often assess applicants based on availability, meaning that students in search of jobs — which are not abundant at Georgetown to begin with — are motivated to structure their class schedules to create the largest possible chunks of free time. It is ironic that a work-study award meant to pay for education can so unreasonably get in the way of it.

There’s no question that having

a job requires some sacrifice, and work-study is, of course, distinct from a direct scholarship. But students can still contribute to an employer without being required to work long hours. It may be more convenient for employers to hire students who can work multiple full shifts during the week, but that kind of mindset ignores the distinction between students and other employees in the workforce. If employers receive substantial payroll funding, it’s fair to ask that in return they do more to accommodate the unique needs of students.

Breaking shifts down to have smaller, more manageable hours and hiring more than just a few students to fill work-study positions would represent a big step toward addressing this problem. If the average shift were several hours instead of an entire afternoon, students would have an easier time holding work-study jobs while maintaining their preferred academic schedules.

And while we recognize it may be more convenient for an employer to train, oversee and pay fewer students, this proposed expansion should not create an undue burden. Left unchanged, the program can undermine the very mission of work-study: to give students the ability to pursue an education.

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LETTERS OF THE LAW

Misguided Speech Policy No One Brand of Catholic Undermines Expression I W

hen Ann Coulter was invited to speak or perhaps risks, of being a private university. at Georgetown last year, an immediate But if Georgetown has this aim in mind, it outcry arose. “She’s too extreme,” some should not hide under the veil of ostensible students said, “too offensive for Georgetown.” A respect for free speech principles.

According to the speech and expression policy, few even suggested that the Lecture Fund apply the university’s speech and expression policy to its two key aspects of academic life are “the willingspeakers, rejecting anyone likely to break the code. ness to address any question whatever” and “the I have a better idea: As we begin a new academic habit of self-critical awareness of one’s own biases and presupposition.” Are racism, sexism and hoyear, let’s abandon the policy altogether.

At first glance, the policy may seem benign. Its mophobia not among those questions to be adpreamble proclaims that “a university is many dressed? Can self-critical awareness not extend things, but central to its being is discourse, discus- to one’s own bigotry? If one is prevented from sion, debate: the untrammeled expression of ideas expressing his own views during an honest class discussion — objectionable though they may be — and information.”

Then, suddenly, the policy does not just tram- how can he learn that his ideas are repugnant and mel expression but quashes it completely: “Expres- be encouraged to develop better ones?

By the letter of the current policy, this prejusion that is indecent or is grossly obscene or grossly offensive on matters such as race, ethnicity, reli- diced student will be encouraged to keep his biggion, gender or sexual orientation is inappropriate oted sentiments to himself, lest he expose them in in a university community, and the university will a public forum and risk sanction. He will not enter act as it deems appropriate to educate students vio- the marketplace of ideas; he will simply have a monopoly on his own hatred. lating this principle.”

Again, perhaps this is the enviConsider, first, the policy’s ronment Georgetown wishes to punishment. I can only asfoster. But the university should sume, absent any further acknowledge that virtually idenexplication, that the univertical speech codes have been sity includes expulsion or struck down at public universisanctions in “act[ing] as it ties for flagrant violation of the deems appropriate.” Nor are First Amendment. Georgetown we given any hint as to what attempts to evade constitutional this “education” looks like, principles by arguing that the except that its ultimate goal entirety of one’s college experimust be to prevent students Mark Joseph Stern ence qualifies as a “time, place from expressing themselves and manner restriction,” but in this “grossly offensive” The policy does not just this is absurd. Not only could manner again. such an exception not possibly But also consider the utterly trammel expression but cover a student’s four years on standardless terms “indecent,” quashes it completely. campus, but it also cannot tar“grossly obscene” and “grossly get the specific content of the offensive.” Bereft of any qualifications or examples, “indecent” expression could speech, as Georgetown’s policy does.

Yet the Constitution does not oversee Georgeencompass anything from the reading of a Philip Roth novel to a discussion of “Last Tango in Paris,” town’s speech policies; it is instead the responsibilworks once banned in several countries for their ity of the student body to protect free speech. Thus alleged indecency. The myriad other works of far, our track record is admirable. When Ann Coulart once censored as “indecent” suddenly come ter did visit, she was confronted with a packed auto mind — “Leaves of Grass,” “Ulysses” — and the dience largely opposed to her viewpoints. During use of this term makes it seem that the university the question-and-answer segment, she wrangled could restrict discussion of, or readings from, any with student after student, exposing both the ignorance of her own views and the sophisticated of these selections. Indecency, indeed.

Equally startling and ambiguous is the uni- tolerance of Georgetown students. The event was a versity’s proscription against “expression that model for what free speech in action looks like, the is ... grossly offensive” to minority groups. This kind of rigorous debate that students wary of puninterdict is distinct from other, wholly sensible ishment may shy away from in class discussions.

The college years are about an exchange of ideas, rules forbidding direct harassment of students based on their minority identities. Rather, this both enlightened and distasteful. Georgetown clause of the policy is a deliberate attempt to must either abandon its censorship policies or acknowledge that it is denying its students a vital regulate pure speech, as opposed to conduct.

Experience and the Constitution tell us this is aspect of intellectual growth. I strongly encourage the former. a bad idea.

Or am I allowed to say that?

If the university does want to censor classroom discussions — or private discussions held on campus; the policy makes no distinction — it Mark Joseph Stern is a senior in the College. undoubtedly may do so. Such are the perks, LETTERS OF THE LAW appears every other Tuesday.

VIEWPOINT • Ben Manzione

Be Your Own Advocate: A Lesson in Student Rights A s a volunteer for the Student Advocacy Office, I’ve been put through rigorous training in Georgetown’s disciplinary system and student rights bylaws. So for all the wide-eyed freshmen, as well as some older folks who might never have found the time, I think it’s worthwhile to review the rights that we enjoy as students here on the Hilltop.

First and foremost, it is paramount that people understand that the Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service is completely free and confidential. This especially goes out to the eager freshmen whose collective insecurity weighs so heavily on every pregame that a good time with friends can end in disaster.

Although students’ information will be recorded by the Department of Public Safety and given to the presiding hall director or area coordinator if officers accompany GERMS — which they almost always do — disciplinary charges are usually dropped against students who call for medical assistance.

While on the topic of DPS, students often misunderstand rules about when an officer can search their university residences. An officer cannot enter a residence without receiving consent from a resident or obtaining a warrant or administrative search privileges from anybody ranging from a hall director to the vice president for student affairs. Such allowances are given when there is reasonable suspicion of a violation of the Code of Student Conduct, a crime in the residence or knowledge of exigent circumstances that place the safety of Georgetown’s campus at risk.

For students, the term “reasonable suspicion” can be confusing, because officers may toe the line on the false pretense of probable cause. If a student believes an officer overstepped his boundaries during an incident on campus, he has the right to file a complaint against the officer in the DPS office in Village C West.

Georgetown is also currently facing a turning point in its disciplinary methods. Last spring, the Disciplinary Review Committee recommended that the burden of proof to sanction students be raised from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.” The Division of Student Affairs must seize this opportunity to bring more fairness and pro-

fessionalism to the disciplinary process by upholding the decision. This will emphasize evidence-based decisions, rather than probability-based ones, decreasing the chances that innocent students will receive undeserved punishments.

If a student is written up for violating the Code of Student Conduct, his information will be collected and entered into a system, and a meeting will be scheduled with a hall director, area coordinator or Residential Judicial Council. The student will be sent an email with the meeting information as well as the list of charges faced, ranging from category A violations, which can include minor fines and sanction hours, to category C violations, which can lead to suspension or even dismissal from the university.

The process for students after being written up can also be confusing. Students often feel misled going into their disciplinary meetings, especially with the frequently long waiting period before being informed of the charges.

To clear things up, students have the right to ask an advocate — which can be anyone — to attend their disciplinary meeting. An appeals process also exists for students who feel that an unjust decision was reached in their disciplinary meeting on the grounds of substantial procedural error, new evidence that the respondent could not provide at the initial hearing or a substantially disproportionate sanction.

Students have seven days to appeal a decision, and the SAO can assist with drafting appeals.

Finally, I commend the university on eliminating party registration requirements this past week, as the decision to do away with such a needless and cumbersome technicality will make on-campus nightlife much easier for everyone involved. But party registration reform, although a significant victory, cannot be considered the end of a long push for greater student rights and, more generally, a higher quality of student life. A more consistent and transparent judicial process will bring our disciplinary system further in line with the ethos of Georgetown University.

Ben Manzione is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. He is an advocate for the Student Advocacy Office.

’m a Catholic.

Sounds like a simple enough statement. Yet in today’s America, this phrase invokes a complicated mix of family history, social class, ethnicity, geographic origin and worldview. A Catholic identity is more than simply a religious affiliation because it encompasses a variety of experiences, beliefs and facets of life.

When Americans say that they are Catholic, they can be describing a wide variety of identities that can generally be boiled down into three archetypes: the “orthodox Catholic,” the “cafeteria Catholic,” and the “cultural” or “lapsed Catholic.”

According to a 2011 survey conducted by The National Catholic Reporter, 31 percent of American Catholics attend weekly Mass. Generally speaking, these weekly Mass attendees make up the “orthodox” Catholics — Catholics who believe in Church doctrine, send their children to Catholic schools and may hold leadership roles in their local parishes. They are ardently pro-life and generally less open to same-sex marriage. While it’s commonly believed that this group is rapidly shrinking, the influx in the past few decades of Catholic immigrants, particularly from Latin America, has reinvigorated this group’s numbers.

“Cafeteria Catholics” are often the butt of jokes about the state of the Catholic Church in the United States today. While they believe in God and pray every once in a while, they also like to “pick and choose.” We’ve all heard people say that they are Catholic, but those same people may also be pro-choice or not truly believe in transubstantiation — the process of bread and wine turning to the body and blood of Jesus during

communion.

Perhaps most controversial are those who were raised Catholic but no longer actively participate in the Church. “Cultural” or “lapsed Catholics” might attend midnight Mass, have a big family brunch for Easter or even baptize their children within the Catholic Church. But these Catholics do not actually believe in the main doctrines of Catholicism or even in the existence of God. Even so, they are just as important for the health and growth of the Church.

Alex Honjiyo & Pat Gavin

Lapsed Catholics represent crucial factions that the Church has ignored.

In a recent Pew survey outlining some of the reasons why many have left the Church in previous decades, researchers found that these Catholics stopped believing in the teachings of the Church, specifically those concerning abortion , homosexuality, birth control, the treatment of women and divorce and remarriage.

Like any large organization, the Catholic Church is resistant to change and even more repulsed by criticism. If the Pew survey is to be believed, these lapsed Catholics are definitely critical of the Church and support the possibility of change.

While not every criticism or change should be made,

it would do the Church some good to reach out and listen to lapsed Catholics.

Although these Catholics are not traditionally thought of as stakeholders in the future of Catholicism, they represent crucial factions that the Church has ignored.

By actively welcoming these cultural Catholics into a dialogue, the Church could have an opportunity to change its tone without altering its direction. Discussion can offer the chance to build a Church that remains relevant in the lives of modern Catholics while continuing to protect, maintain and promote a faith that for two millennia has fed the spiritual hunger of billions of people around the world.

In light of the Obamacare contraception controversy, the growth of the gay rights movement and the Catholic Church’s reactions to both over the past year, there have been a slew of articles by priests and laypeople calling for the liberal elements of the Catholic Church to stay or go.

Yet those who call on liberals to stay and those who call on liberals to leave the Church are missing the point.

Instead of isolating a significant number of Catholics, Church leaders and laypeople must remember the necessity of creating a community that actively welcomes all people, regardless of their political beliefs or the strength of their faith.

The Church must be a place where people can meet God where they are, not a place reserved for only the most pious. Not even St. Ignatius was always the most perfect of Christians.

Pat Gavin and Alex Honjiyo are seniors in the College and School of Foreign Service, respectively.

AGGIORNAMENTO appears every other Tuesday.

Tuesdays on the Trail Check out thehoya.com this fall for weekly commentary on the presidential election. This week online, THE HOYA’s political pundits offer their perspectives on the state of the race. Here’s a sample of how they see it at this stage.

With just two months left, who do you think will win?

What is the most important How do you rate the Paul battleground Ryan pick? state?

Can Obama maintain his level of youth support from 2008?

Outstanding.

Sam Dulik SFS ’13

Romney. Late Va. momentum Ignites the puts him over 13 electoral votes GOP and the top.

Obama won by elevates 6.3% in 2008 discourse.

I’m living proof he can’t.

Somewhat strategic.

Daniel Pierro COL ’15

Obama, in a tight race.

No. The libertarian Fla. movement gained more Offers new momentum 29 electoral votes ideas for Social this time Obama won by Security and 2.8% in 2008 around.

Medicare.

No. GOP strategies to Ohio harness the Romney, by a youth vote narrow margin.

Adds youth 18 electoral votes for itself will and energy to Obama won by take that edge the campaign.

4.6% in 2008 away.

Great choice.

Hannah Miller COL ’14

Smart strategy.

Scott Stirrett SFS ’13

Obama, by a very close margin.

No, but the majority of the youth vote Elevates the will still go for 29 electoral votes issue of the Obama won by economy even Obama.

2.8% in 2008 more.

Fla.

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With the annual Student Activities Fair just around the corner, Georgetown’s student groups are planning new ways to attract members and awareness. Relay for Life, Georgetown University College Democrats and College Republicans and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, among others, have worked this summer to revamp their organizations and gear up for the fall semester.

Same Goal, New Strategy for Relay for Life After seeing a 30 percent drop in donations last year, Georgetown University Relay for Life is reconsidering its recruitment and fundraising strategies.

According to Special Events Chair Liz Abello (COL ’14), the organization attracts many freshmen at the Student Activities Fair: Approximately 500 students signed up for Relay for Life at last year’s fair. But she said she believes recruiting more upperclassmen is key to future success.

“We are going to do a better job of targeting upperclassmen, because as freshmen, it’s the cool thing to do, but they don’t really come back. They just think of it as a one-time thing,” Abello said. “We want to put emphasis on the fact that this is a fundraising event and people should do more than pay that $10 entry fee.”

This year, Relay plans to advertise the event in locations where more upperclassmen gather.

Maintaining enthusiasm throughout the all-night event is another goal.

According to Survivorship Committee member and 2012 keynote speaker David Weis (COL ’14), only a small group of students stayed for the entire event last year.

“I know that it’s tough because everyone lives right next to the football field, but I would like to see more people actually stay for the entire event,” he said.

Relay for Life plans to hold its first kickoff event in January and then continue to encourage students and the community to begin fundraising early.

“I think a more active, earlier push for fundraising, rather than last-minute emails, would help,” Weis said.

Political Groups Hit the Campaign Trail With the presidential election around the corner, students on both sides of the aisle are gearing up for what promises to be a rollercoaster campaign season.

Despite differing political views, College

Dems and GUCR are teaming up to encourage students to register to vote.

According to Dems President Joe Vandegriff (COL ’14), the two groups are collaborating with the Georgetown University Student Association and D.C. Students Speak to hold a voter registration drive this fall.

College Dems and GUCR plan to campaign respectively for President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney in Virginia, a key state in the election.

Vandegriff hopes the election will spark political interests and opinions in previously undecided students.

“Too often, kids our age don’t care about politics,” Vandegriff said. “[As] people become more political, they are more likely to think about what they believe, [and] you see undecideds become more active.”

GUCR Director of Communications Katie Bolas (COL ’15) echoed Vandegriff’s hope for more student participation this semester, emphasizing GUCR’s focus on recruiting freshmen.

“One of our main goals is to focus on younger members of the Republican Party.

We want to see more permanent members,” she said.

Lecture Fund Nabs Celebrity Speakers, GUSA Partnership The Georgetown University Lecture Fund is the only club that can truthfully boast about having organized events that included former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and controversial author and actor Mike Daisey. This year, GULF plans to invite more celebrity and entertainment figures, according to Vice Chair for External Affairs Aanika Patel (SFS ’13).

The Lecture Fund has also formed a partnership with GUSA this year, resulting in a larger budget for big-name events, according to Patel.

In the past, the Student Activities Commission determined the Lecture Fund’s budget for the year, but the new relationship with GUSA allows the organization to receive funding for events when partnered with organizations outside of SAC. “We thought that GUSA and its broader scope better fit our goals,” she said.

Actress Rosario Dawson, who has starred in such movies as “Rent” and “Sin City,” will headline the Lecture Fund’s first event in mid-September. Gene Robinson, an Episcopalian bishop and the first openly gay figure in the Anglican Church, will speak in November.

MEGHAN PATZER Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown saw a flurry of store openings this summer, ranging from a local lobster joint to high-end chains.

According to Nancy Miyahira, Georgetown Business Improvement District’s interim director, several of these new businesses, in particular the new dining options, are geared toward Georgetown students.

“Anything that’s food related is going to provide great new options for students,” Miyahira said.

The neighborhood’s eating options have expanded to include famed chef Mike Isabella’s new Mexican restaurant, Bandolero, on M Street. Macaron Bee dishes up gluten-free macaroons from a storefront on Wisconsin Avenue, and Georgetown alum Luke Holden (MSB ’07) has recently opened a branch of his chain Luke’s Lobster on Potomac Street.

In the upcoming months, they will be joined by three more restaurants.

Good Stuff Eatery, whose Capitol South location is famed for its handcrafted burgers and thick milkshakes, is set to open to the public this winter at the former M Street location of Crêpe Amour and Georgetown Wing Co. However, Miyahira said the opening date is subject to change.

“We have heard the construction is progressing quite quickly, possibly allowing for the opening date to be a bit earlier,” she said.

The national chain Noodles & Company is also set to open during the upcoming year at 1815 Wisconsin Ave., next to Safeway, while Chipotle’s new Asian concept restaurant ShopHouse plans to open a location on M Street in January 2013.

New store openings in the area include several high-end options, ranging from John Fluevog Shoes, a designer store that recently opened on Wisconsin Avenue, to

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John Fluevog Shoes is one of several new businesses that opened in Georgetown this summer.

Suitsupply, a specialty men’s suit outfitter from Amsterdam set to open its M Street location in late August. Other additions include Massimo Dutti, a clothing store owned by the same parent company as Zara, that will open in early 2013.

In addition, Nike is set to move into the old Barnes & Noble space on M Street later this year.

Despite the arrival of several high-end chain retailers, Miyahira maintained that Georgetown still remains a haven for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

“I don’t think there’s a trend either way,” she said. “Georgetown is always a great incubator for entrepreneurs that want to open their own store or business. … There are still a lot of independent stores opening in Georgetown, in addition to the national retailers.”

Miyahira highlighted Georgetown Cupcake and Baked & Wired, another popular cupcake purveyor, as classic exam-

ples of small-business success in Georgetown.

Philip Levy, owner of the independent Bridge Street Books on M Street, said that the influx of national chains is part of a trend that has been taking place for about 10 years. Though nonplussed by the disappearance of small businesses to date, he said that Georgetown remains an environment in which independent businesses can thrive.

“This is nothing that surprises me. … It’s a fact of retail in America,” he said. “People complain about our prices [compared to larger chain booksellers], but they realize that we provide something that other bookstores don’t provide, and that’s why we still exist.”

Levy added that most of his block on M Street is made up of locally owned businesses.

“People make fun of Georgetown as being an open-air mall, but I like to think of it in terms of how many small businesses are left in Georgetown,” he said.

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VanDyke Pursues Syria Trip Despite Risk, Criticism VANDYKE from A1 you’re going to fight in a war,” VanDyke said at BWI last November.

On March 13, VanDyke and his companions were ambushed by Gadhafi’s forces while on a mission with the rebel army at the strategic oil port town of Brega, according to VanDyke’s website.

He spent the next six months in solitary confinement in a number of government prisons. He was not physically abused, but he told his mother that the isolation was a form of psychological torture.

Meanwhile, as VanDyke’s mother fervently lobbied for her son’s release, the Gadhafi regime denied having ever detaining him.

On Aug. 24, as rebel forces closed in on the capital, VanDyke’s guards fled, and he was able to escape to Tripoli. However, he was not ready to leave Libya just yet. VanDyke announced that he would not return to the United States until Gadhafi was pushed from power. He remained in the country until early November, manning a mounted Russian machine gun for the rebels.

Sharon VanDyke was not surprised by her son’s decision to remain in Libya after his escape or by his vow to return to the Middle East this fall.

“He was raised that if you start something, you finish it,” she said.

“Though when I told him that, I meant not joining the lacrosse team and wanting to quit halfway through the season. I didn’t necessarily mean fighting in someone else’s war.”

Sharon emphasized that her son’s upcoming trip will be very different from his trip in Libya last year, and she does not expect him to engage in armed conflict this time around.

“It’s not the same as Libya, where he had friends and wanted to fight alongside them,” she said. “It’s a very different war.”

Yet the violence in Syria is escalating even as VanDyke enters the final stages of his travel planning. Fighting has reached the Syrian capital of Damascus, where dozens have died from shells and gunfire. On Aug. 20, United Nations observers left the country at the end of a four-month mission that failed to negotiate a ceasefire between the government and the rebel army. Overall, the death toll from the war is thought to exceed 20,000.

The dangers of traveling to Syria hit especially close to home last week, when freelance journalist and Georgetown Law student Austin Tice (SFS ’02, LAW ’13) was declared missing while reporting from the

war-torn country.

Tice entered Syria through the Turkish border in May and has provided reporting for several media outlets, including The Washington Post and Al Jazeera English.

According to The Post’s report, Tice was due to leave Syria in mid-August, but his family told the newspaper Thursday that they have not heard from him in over a week.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called Syria the most dangerous place in the world for journalists, reporting that at least 19 journalists have been killed in the country since November 2011.

Michael Hudson, a professor emeritus in the School of Foreign Service and former director of Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, elaborated on the scale and intensity of the conflict.

“The uprising has turned into a full-fledged and militarized civil war,” he said. “When you think of the scale of damage and killing that occurred in our own civil war in the 1860s, this is kind of what you’re looking at. It is a very dangerous thing. … It’s not a joke.”

VanDyke said he was not deterred by the dangers.

“There’s plenty of risk involved … but what happens happens. We’re going to be standing there with the

men of the [Free Syrian Army], and whatever happens to them happens to us,” he said.

VanDyke’s trips to Libya and Syria have also created a fair share of controversy. CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon wrote in a November 2011 statement that the confusion over VanDyke’s true purpose in Libya endangered other journalists working there.

“VanDyke told his mother that he was going to Libya to be a journalist.

So when he was captured … that’s what she told us,” Simon wrote.

The CPJ worked with Sharon VanDyke to raise alarms about her son’s disappearance and to lobby for his return, but Simon later denounced VanDyke for fighting with the rebels while giving the impression that he would be reporting on the conflict.

“Pretending to be a journalist in a war zone is … a reckless and irresponsible act that greatly increases the risk for reporters covering conflict,” he wrote.

The VanDykes countered this condemnation, saying that they had never claimed that Matthew was traveling to Libya as a reporter.

“Some of the agencies I contacted … assumed he was there as a journalist, but we never said that,” Sharon VanDyke said.

Matthew VanDyke also empha-

sized that although he will not be fighting in Syria, he won’t be reporing from there, either.

“I am not going to Syria to do anything remotely resembling journalism. I do not want any special treatment if I am captured by Assad’s forces. I want the same fate as the men I am captured with,” he wrote on his website.

VanDyke encountered further controversy when his campaign on Kickstarter, an online fundraising tool, was suspended on Aug. 21. Representatives of Kickstarter declined to comment on the reasons for the suspension.

The campaign, which was launched on July 25, had raised more than $15,000 to buy equipment for VanDyke’s project before it was closed. Undeterred, VanDyke moved his project to a similar site called IndieGoGo. VanDyke is optimistic about his documentary’s impact.

“It can inspire people to see the cooperation between a Libyan, an American and a Syrian fighter … and that this cause transcends lines that were drawn on a map by men who got here before we did,” he said. “Understand that this is a human struggle. They can view it as an Arab struggle if they want, but it’s really a human struggle.”

LGBTQ Checkbox Triggers Broader Discussion LGBTQ from A1 very conforming in general,” she said. “It is difficult for some students to be different.”

According to GUSA’s report, 57.8 percent of LGBTQ students surveyed strongly agreed that LGBTQ students face discrimination or alienation at Georgetown, while 66.3 percent reported sometimes, regularly or often feeling uncomfortable because of their identity.

Because of these statistics, the report recommended including a nondiscrimination statement that students must sign in order to complete first-year housing.

Gustafson and GUSA Vice President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) began conversations with the Office of Housing and Residence Life over the summer and expect the statement to be implemented by next fall.

Additionally, GUSA plans to implement a “safe spaces” pilot training program this year. The program will train student volunteers to mediate conflict and provide resources to victims of discrimination.

“With any student, it is very challenging to figure out which resources to use … so this would just be one other person who would know what and where these resources are,” Gustafson said.

Information regarding the safe spaces program and how to get involved was included in New Student Orientation packets over the summer to launch the pilot program.

In addition to proposing student solutions, the working group’s report recommended that Georgetown update its blue light emergency phones.

According to Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount, Georgetown’s blue light

locations should be better publicized and updated to ensure student safety.

“There is not enough emphasis on blue lights at Georgetown,” Gustafson said.

As per the report’s recommendation, student and administrative leaders involved in emergency response on campus will participate in a blue light walking tour this fall with the Department of Public Safety to point out locations that lack proper security.

The report also discussed the GU Bias Reporting System, an online site where university students and faculty can document issues of prejudice on campus. As of this April, the BRS had not been updated since August 2010.

“Victims and witnesses who file reports need to see results, need to see that they are not alone and be assured that they are … doing the right thing … being responded to efficiently

and successfully and … setting great examples for their peers,” the report read.

Bias Reporting Team Chair Dennis Williams said the BRS will be updated in the near future, though he could not say exactly when.

The working group also recommended that the BRS be made more available to students, possibly via Georgetown’s new mobile application.

“We were more focusing on the education side of it, so getting people to know that it’s there,” Gustafson said.

The last recommendation focused on creating a mixed-gender housing option for self- identified LGBTQ students.

According to Subbaraman, the LGBTQ Center works with the Office of Housing and Residence Life to accommodate students with different gender identities but does not offer

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Kohnert-Yount said she knew of transgender students who initially enrolled at Georgetown but did not stay long enough to graduate.

“That students have come to Georgetown and not found it a welcoming enough place to stay to graduate is unacceptable,” Kohnert-Yount said.

According to Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount, GUSA will focus on implementing the recommendations and maintaining the conversation with the Office of Housing and Residence Life.

“We want every student to come in and feel that Georgetown is a good place for them. Otherwise, we aren’t fulfilling our mission,” Kohnert-Yount said.

Hoya Staff Writer Sarah Patrick contributed to this report.

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Campaign Seeks to Up Police Chief Shares Goals Undergrad Donations Kelly Church Hoya Staff Writer

CAMPAIGN from A1 people consider Georgetown worthy of their giving, no matter how big or small their gift might be,” Moore said.

According to Moore, Georgetown has made strides in that direction. This year, undergraduate donation participation topped 50 percent for the first time since 2006, a statitsic that could potentially impact Georgetown’s spot in national rank-

ings. According to U.S. News and World Report’s annual college survey, Georgetown ranks 28th nationwide in undergraduate alumni donations.

“We believe we can and should do better than that,” Moore said. “The passion for and the commitment to Georgetown [are] absolutely present. … We think we need to do a better job of making the case and facilitating people’s annual practice of giving to the university.”

Solar Panel Installation Plans Move Forward Kelly Church Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown Energy, a nonprofit corporation founded by Georgetown students, has chosen a vendor to supply solar panels for university townhouses, but its installation project is still awaiting approval from Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E and the Old Georgetown Board.

The project, called Solar Street, received $250,000 from the Student Activity Fee Endowment to install solar photovoltaic panels on the university-owned townhouses on 37th Street. The group plans to use $50,000 of the allotted amount to install the panels, starting with just seven townhouses in the 1400 block of 37th Street. The remaining money will be put in the Social Innovation and Public Service Green Revolving Loan Fund to provide money for future student projects.

The original timeline for the project planned to have the panels installed over the summer, but the process was delayed because the group had not chosen a solar panel vendor by the April 3 deadline.

According to project leader Patricia Cipollitti (SFS ’15), the group has since chosen to use California-based company SolarCity, the same vendor they included in their original proposal.

“We decided to make it a competitive process to see if we could get a better bid, a lower price, a better offer from another company,”

Cipollitti said. “But in the end, we decided that SolarCity had the better package.”

Cipollitti added that the company has previously worked with ANC 2E and has established a good working relationship with the commission, which will help in gaining approval from the ANC and OGB. According to Cipollitti, Solar City will present its proposal to the ANC and OGB in September.

Cipollitti is confident that the plans will be approved at the ANC meeting Sept. 4. The boards’ likeliest concern has been identified as the aesthetics of the panels, but in the current proposal they will not be visible from the street.

Georgetown Energy plans to have the solar panels installed by the end of the calendar year.

Cipollitti said that the recent approval of the 2010 Campus Plan will have no effect on Georgetown Energy’s plans.

“As far as we’re concerned, it doesn’t affect anything. We’ve been working closely with the university and facilities, and nothing has come up about that,” she said.

Director of Student Activities Fee and Endowment Implementation Colton Malkerson (COL ’13) agreed.

“The process is moving forward, and I’ve seen no indication that the campus plan will pose a problem to our efforts to complete SAFE reform implementation in a timely manner, as promised to students in January,” he said.

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Designed with a green mindset, Regents Hall features recycled glass whiteboards in classrooms.

Science Center Features Expanded Study Space SCIENCE from A1 separated based on subject — physics, chemistry and biology — while research floors are mixed to facilitate interdisciplinary research.

“That was a big goal of the building, to improve all of our facilities and provide better research and teaching facilities, but also to promote interdisciplinary research,” Whitmer said.

Colorful and comfortably furnished student lounges and study areas are also scattered on both classroom and research floors.

To allow late-hour student access, research wings contain GOCard entry doors that permit students to study in the lounge area but block research labs at night. The new design differs from Reiss, which only has general GOCard

access and therefore cannot serve as a student study space, according to Whitmer.

There is a central mechanical core that allows for big, open labs with separate compartmentalized spaces and provides easier temperature and air control. This feature will also facilitate future lab alterations.

Regents Hall was designed to employ as many sustainable practices as possible, including automatic shut-off lights, renewable bamboo wood paneling, recycled glass white boards and a water-recycling cistern system.

Whitmer said that the university hopes the building will attain the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Standard, a decision that will be made in the fall after the facility is evaluated.

Now in his fifth week as the new chief of police and director of the Department of Public Safety, Jay Gruber has already set goals for his term.

The Hoya sat down with him to get his perspective on neighborhood relations, student partying and the state of DPS in general.

What is your career background?

I spent 26 years at … the University of Maryland, College Park. I started at the Police Academy there and worked my way through every operational rank. … [I spent] the last 10 years as the assistant chief of police and the assistant director of public safety.

I had the opportunity to retire from the University of Maryland. It worked out well for me because prior to that, I got to do a six-month fellowship with the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] in the police executive fellowship program.

It’s a national joint terrorist task force working on campus issues, campus counter-terrorism issues, raising awareness on campuses about terrorism, things like that.

I was assigned to [an FBI] program called the Campus Liaison Initiative. … I helped develop programs and marketing for them to reach out to the campuses to give them information about what to look for in potential terrorists on campus. … I developed a lot of great marketing material that liaison agents could take to the campuses to introduce themselves and what they do.

What does the job of chief of police entail?

My position now is chief of police and director of public safety, so I’m really very focused on just this department, where my predecessor had emergency management, Department of Health and Safety and public safety.

I have a lot of responsibility here, not only dealing with the department from an interdisciplinary standpoint — you know, budgets, hiring, personnel, policy, all those things that are germane to the police department — but also being responsible to really be the person — the point person — for public safety and for law enforcement. … A big part of that is dealing with the community and university relationships.

My focus here is interdisciplinary on the day-to-day

running of the police department, but it’s also working with the community, working with residence life, working with the different organizations on campus. …

That’s the part of the job that I really enjoy, getting out and meeting people.

What weaknesses do you see in the department currently?

Georgetown has a real nice foundation for a lot of their safety infrastructure, access control systems, Blackboard. … They have alarm systems in several places [and] a good lock and key system, but one of the gaps that I see is integrating all that. Georgetown’s in decent shape, but from a 5,000-foot view, I think a second look needs to be taken at how those functions are all integrated together, maybe under one roof or one system of management.

How do you plan to improve relations between the university and the surrounding neighborhood? What is your top priority as chief of police?

I think that a productive town-gown relationship is good for everybody, so I really need to learn that dynamic.

I’ve been meeting with some of the [Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E] players; they’re great to work with. They’re exuberant. [Saying] “they’re excited” is putting it mildly.

It’s important for me to keep the community involved.

The whole reason we’re here is to support the university, to support the students. So getting information out there is something that’s extremely important, and I want to do that in the most effective way. … [University spokeswoman] Stacy Kerr and I will be working on the best venue to get that information out. You can count on the fact that information is going to be shared with the community.

Students have often complained that DPS is too eager to seek out and punish petty student behavioral breaches and is less effective at stopping property and violent crime. What do you see as the relationship between those two mandates, and do you plan to balance those priorities?

Thankfully for the Georgetown community, crimes against persons aren’t a huge issue, and I’m very thankful for that. Property crime, as I’m quickly learning, is a concern. … There are a couple priorities for us. One is to reduce theft. That’s a major focal

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Gruber aims to reduce theft and improve communication. point of the coming semester and the coming year.

Now, there’s also another priority for us; it’s keeping students safe, and it’s maintaining order. Trust me, as a police officer, we don’t get a whole lot of joy out of telling students they can’t do something, that they have to stop having a party and things of that nature, because it’s instantly confrontational.

Nobody likes confrontation.

Not the police officer, not the person being told what they have to do — but we have a responsibility.

If people who are drinking are under the age of 21, we have an obligation to stop that activity. It’s not pleasant, but it’s something that we have to do. People who are under 21 that are intoxicated … are vulnerable. They’re vulnerable to different types of crime. … They’re vulnerable to being assaulted; they’re vulnerable to citizen robbery; they’re vulnerable to having to be taken … to the hospital. So those are all concerns for us.

Unfortunately for the students, when an officer breaks up their party, their reaction is that “the cops are just here to break up my party,” but they don’t see the whole other picture of what they do on campus. Protecting VIPs, controlling the campus, doing plainclothes assignments looking for people ripping off laptops, staking out bikes. They don’t see the whole picture of what public safety does. They see a very small microcosm of that. Maybe part of my job … is to let the university community know we’re doing so many things within public safety. Hopefully through this education process, they’ll have some small appreciation that these officers aren’t just there to break up their parties and make their lives miserable.

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Summer Crime Dips 6% Party Smart BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

This summer was a relatively quiet one for campus crime, which dropped by 6 percent from the same period last year.

According to data from the Department of Public Safety, 66 incidents were reported on campus during June, July and August, down from 70 incidents in summer 2011.

More than half of these incidents occurred in July, which saw a total of 35 crimes reported.

Theft accounted for the majority of crimes in July, with a total of 14 incidents.

By comparison, June and August saw 15 and 16 incidents reported, respectively. Theft was also the biggest contributor to crime rates in these months, with nine in June and eight in August. However, theft dropped 29 percent be-

tween summer 2011 and summer 2012, with 31 occurring in this year’s summer months and 40 having been repoted last summer.

A considerable majority of thefts this summer targeted bicycles and laptops. Bike thefts made up 29 percent and laptop thefts 20 percent of total theft for the summer.

Jay Gruber, Georgetown’s new chief of police, told THE HOYA that he recognizes the rampancy of these types of theft on campus and intends to prioritize the issue.

Alcohol violations remained steady throughout the summer, with three incidents in June and two in July. There were three drug violations in July and one in August. The remaining incidents comprised four cases of simple assault, four of public indecency, four unlawful entries, seven burglaries and four robberies, which were all reported to have occurred in July.

Georgetown’s rules on student partying and disciplinary procedures have seen significant changes this summer. Here’s what you need to know about the new policies.

EFFECTIVE THIS FALL: The university will no longer require advance party registration from students holding parties on campus, though prospective party hosts must still attend a training session offered by the Division of Student Affairs.

PENDING: Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson will decide whether to approve changing the evidentiary standard for charging students with disciplinary violations from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.”

The change was recommended by the Disciplinary Review Committee last spring.

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with other top schools’, would make it difficult for the team to snag high-level recruits.

But Warne argued that other strengths could be equally important selling points.

“Sometimes you’re not really worried about all the bells and whistles,” he said. “The school, education, the location and the lacrosse tradition … I think are strengths that you can really pull from.”

Before his stint at Maryland, Warne was an assistant coach at Harvard. With both the Terps and the Crimson, he coached against some of the best teams in the country, also a hallmark of Urick’s tenure.

Although moving to a weaker out-of-conference schedule might earn the Blue and Gray a few more wins, Warne says that’s not something he’s interested in.

“If you want to beat the best, you’ve got to play the best. We’re not afraid of anybody. We’ll play anybody,” Warne said.

And despite the fact that Syracuse — one of Georgetown’s main Big East rivals — is leaving the conference after the upcoming season, the league remains a very tough place to play lacrosse.

“It prepares you, obviously, playing those out-of-conference games, when you get to the meat of the Big East schedule and you’ve played a lot of tough teams,” Warne said.

A graduate of Hofstra, Warne has also spent time on the staff at Delaware and at UMBC, which went to the 2007 NCAA quarterfinals during his tenure as associate coach.

Throughout his career, Warne has been known for his animated sideline displays, both positive and negative.

“That’s just me being me.

One of the things I realized is that you’ve got to be real as a coach,” Warne said. “You can’t be fake, [or else] I think kids will see right through that. I love

when guys do something well, and I also get animated when they do something wrong. So it goes both ways, but I am who I am.”

Warne also jokingly cited his Long Island upbringing for his distinctive coaching style.

“Being from Long Island and having a lot of emotions and having a lot of passion, that’s one of the [qualities] that I thought was one of my strengths as a coach,” Warne said. “I want the guys to feed off that, and I want those guys to know that there’s somebody that’s supporting you, one way or another.”

Given that the team lost time over the summer on the recruit-

ing trail, Warne and his new assistants, who were named yesterday, will need to get to work immediately on trying to reload.

And with the team limping to a 7-6 finish in 2012, it may take more than a jolt of sideline antics to return the Hoyas to the forefront of the national lacrosse conversation next spring.

As the process unfolds, Warne says he will be keeping one piece of advice from Urick in mind.

“The biggest thing [he said] is to just be yourself,” Warne said.

“I think that’s pretty true with anything, and I think that’ll be a good thing for me.”

Lacrosse Staff Announced Evan Hollander Hoya Staff Writer

Two weeks after taking the helm of Georgetown’s men’s lacrosse program, Head Coach Kevin Warne has a staff in place.

In an announcement Monday morning, Warne named Matt Rewkowski and Brian Phipps as his two assistants for the 2012 season.

For the last two seasons, Rewkowski has served as associate head coach at Cornell, where he was primarily responsible for the Big Red’s offense.

In 2011, Cornell boasted the nation’s top scoring offense. Despite losing a key player to injury in the second game of the 2012 season, the Big Red’s offense still ranked in the top 20 nationally last spring.

“Matt is one of the best offensive coaches in the business,” Warne said in his statement. “I’m just really looking forward to bringing his knowledge to our guys.”

Phipps worked with Warne

at Maryland, where Warne was associate head coach and Phipps served as director of lacrosse operations and a volunteer assistant coach.

Prior to his coaching roles with the Terrapins, Phipps was a decorated goalkeeper in College Park. He was honored as all-ACC goalkeeper in 2010 and as ACC freshman of the year in 2007.

“I have worked with [Phipps] for two years, and he has a tremendous future as a coach,” Warne said in the statement.

“His specialty is with the goalie position, but he’s also done a great job working with me and the defense.”

With Monday’s announcement, Georgetown’s coaching staff now has a completely new look.

Former Head Coach Dave Urick retired in July, and Associate Head Coach Matt Kerwick left Georgetown after a June guilty plea to driving while intoxicated. Urick’s son, Scott, served as an assistant on his father’s staff last season, but his position was not renewed for the upcoming year.

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Georgetown needed to come out with the win.

“With [Allen], it was only a matter of time,” Wiese said. “He does that every day in training. He’s a natural goal-scorer. … He really created that on his own [and] did very, very well with the finish, so hopefully that gives him a little confidence and he can build off that.”

Allen won’t be the only Hoya feeling confi-

dent after Monday’s win. Combined with the team’s season-opening overtime victory over 11th-ranked Virginia on Friday, Georgetown has begun its season with a perfect record against two quality opponents.

Next up for the Blue and Gray will be another test at home on Friday against Cal State Northridge, which is fresh off a win in the Wilson Titan Classic. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Hoyas Split Games on NC Trip Evan Hollander Hoya Staff Writer

After going 3-15 last season, Georgetown field hockey (1-1) began its 2012 campaign on a successful note with a 3-2 win over Appalachian State Saturday. But the team then fell to Davidson, 4-0, on Sunday, dropping them to .500 in the young season.

“I think [the Appalachian State] win sets the tone for the season for us,” Head Coach Tiffany Marsh told guhoyas.com. “It gets the monkey off our back.”

In the first game, the Mountaineers took an early lead over the Hoyas, but forward Catherine Shugrue — one of 10 seniors for the Blue and Gray — scored Georgetown’s first goal to even the score near the end of the first half.

After the break, senior midfielder Kimberly Keating scored on an assist from classmate and

forward Annie Wilson. Wilson then scored unassisted, extending Georgetown’s lead to 3-1.

“It was a good individual play by Annie to stay in the play in the circle,” Marsh said. “It was a scramble in front of the goal and pure hustle to put it in the back of the net.”

Although Appalachian State scored once more, it was too little, too late, and Georgetown pulled out the win.

The performance on Sunday was decidedly worse, however, with the Hoyas unable to get a shot off against the Wildcats.

Senior goalie Briana Pereira had seven saves on the afternoon but allowed four Davidson goals.

Georgetown will have the week off for practice, before travelling to Lynchburg, Va., to take on Liberty at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Hoyas will stay in the Commonwealth Sunday for a game against Richmond at 1 p.m.

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on’t expect to see NHL hockey terms of the previous CBA; Bettman in October. For the second con- says he’ll lock out the players unsecutive year, we enter the fall less they agree to his terms. Most see with a major North American sports the players as more open to compromise than either extreme. In reality, league facing a potential lockout.

It’s been a repeating narrative in pro though, the positions both men have sports, as leagues — inevitably adopt a taken are simply indicative of the type salary cap and then struggle to main- of deal each one seeks.

The players have already accepted tain an equitable balance between parity and competition. The last time that their share of revenue will be there was a National Hockey League cut, so they would clearly be willing lockout, owners were coping with cost to play under the old high-salary system. Meanwhile, if the owners agree to overruns and spiraling losses.

This time, though, the NHL is en- play under the old CBA, they lose all joying prosperity like never before. In bargaining power. What incentive do seven years, revenues have risen from the players have to cave if they can just roughly $2.2 billion to $3.3 billion, play under an agreement that suits and the average team now makes be- them indefinitely?

The owners also seem hypocritical. tween $7 million and $12 million per This summer, Minnesota owner Craig season. So why the pessimism?

Leipold gave out idenWell, unfortunately, tical 13-year, $98 milthe “average team” is lion contracts to free not representative of agents Zach Parise and the current financial Ryan Suter, and Philadynamic of hockey in delphia boss Ed Snider North America. For the threw a 14-year, $110 top dozen or so teams, million offer sheet at all is well. Not so for the Nashville’s Shea Weber. others.

This was all while atThe Toronto Maple Arik Parnass tempting to convince Leafs, New York Rangplayers and fans that ers and Montreal Canadiens — the three most Painting good guys contract lengths should be capped and salaries profitable NHL franchises — keep over $250 mil- and bad guys when decreased.

According to Kelly lion of the NHL’s $280 it comes to labor McParland of Canada’s million profit margin, negotiations is a National Post, “[Owners] leaving slim pickings the players to acfor the other 27 teams, pointless exercise. want cept rules that restrict many of which lose their bargaining power, money every year. because the owners The most obvious solution to this problem is to increase know they lack the resolve to protect revenue sharing, which currently their own finances.”

The problem with this argument is redistributes only about 7 percent of the top teams’ earnings. Major League that it seems to bestow upon owners Baseball, for one, uses extensive rev- a responsibility to make decisions that enue sharing to keep small-market are first and foremost morally right, rather than ones that are simply in the teams afloat.

There are, however, serious short- best interests of their franchises.

Sure, Minnesota could have said no comings to the system used in baseball. The Miami Marlins, owned by in- to the top two free agents on the marfamous cash-grabbers Jeffrey Loria and ket, settling for mediocrity in the comDavid Samson, conducted gigantic fire ing years and continuing to struggle sales following their two improbable selling tickets. But that would just World Series wins in 1997 and 2003 mean that another general manager in order to collect windfalls from rev- would have given out the same deals, and the league would be in no betenue sharing rules.

The good news is that the Marlins ter shape. Of course, all owners could are now a profitable franchise. The have just agreed to give the pair no bad news is that they make nearly four more than five years and, say, $40 miltimes as much from revenue sharing lion. Oh, wait — they couldn’t have; and the MLB central fund as from tick- that would have been collusion.

Ultimately, painting good guys et sales. With too much revenue sharing, a league is disincentivizing the and bad guys when it comes to labor negotiations is a pointless exercise. very parity it’s attempting to create.

In hockey, though, this dynamic When we’re talking about hundreds has yet to appear. Instead, only seven of millions of dollars, people are (unyears after robbing the players blind derstandably) greedy, and people want in collective bargaining agreement ne- what’s best for themselves. The owners gotiations, the owners are going back will try to push the players as far as for seconds. This time, they want a sig- they’re willing to go, and the players nificant reduction in the players’ piece will call their bluff as long as they can.

Commissioner Bettman — who of the revenue pie, as well as limiting doesn’t seem worried about a lost seacontract terms.

The general consensus is that, un- son — has even said, “We recovered well like in 2004, Executive Director Don- last time because we have the world’s ald Fehr and his NHL Players’ Asso- greatest fans.” We may be in for quite ciation are the good guys, while NHL the wait, so let’s hope he’s right.

Commissioner Gary Bettman and the team owners are the greedy villains.

Arik Parnass is a sophomore in the Fehr has said that the players are College. CANDID CANADIAN appears willing to start the season under the every Tuesday.

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Senior blocker Lindsay Wise (13) had three kills in Georgetown’s win over American.

Georgetown Wins Opening Pair Ryan Bacic

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When asked last week about the upcoming volleyball season, Head Coach Arlisa Williams said she likes opening the season with the D.C. Volleyball Challenge because it gives her a chance to see — right from the get-go — how her players stack up against good teams. After decisive wins over American and then George Mason to take the tournament title over the weekend, Williams must be happy with what she saw.

In the opener against AU on Friday, the Blue and Gray were unfazed by a record crowd in the Eagles’ packed home gym.

Georgetown posted three identical 25-19 sets to take the match, 3-0. Although the win came in straight sets, the game was still competitive, with the third set a particularly nail-biting affair.

Junior setter Haley Lowrance, playing her first game for Georgetown since transferring from Haverford, helped the Hoyas into a good rhythm in the first set, tallying 13 of her gamehigh 32 assists in the period. The team did not trail in the second

set, but American did close what was once a six-point gap to come within one at 20-19.

But that was as close as they’d come, as sophomore outside hitter Alex Johnson — who had seven kills in the frame — helped her team go on a 5-0 run and put a quick end to AU’s hopes of taking the set.

The Blue and Gray faced an even steeper challenge in the third set, when the Eagles took their first lead of the match.

American led by as much as three at 15-12, but Georgetown bounced back from there, and senior middle blocker and captain Lindsay Wise ultimately provided the match-winning kill.

In addition to Lowrance, Johnson and Wise, sophomore Dani White also had a big game for the Hoyas, providing seven blocks and four kills on the night.

Saturday’s game against George Mason was all about Wise. The middle blocker recorded 14 kills on the afternoon and hit .667 to lead her team to another straight-set victory.

“Lindsay was a rock star today. We had a conversation this morning, and she just went out and played,” Williams said.

“[And] it showed in her attacking and her block touches that didn’t show up in the stat line.”

In her second start for the Hoyas, Lowrance once again proved a key component, pitching in with 26 assists, four service aces and nine digs.

In the first two sets, George Mason put up a good fight, leading at times in both and pushing hard against Georgetown especially in the second, when the final score was 25-23. White would end the second-set threat with a spike, though, and the Blue and Gray cruised in the third, leading by as much as 11 points and comfortably winning it, 25-19, to bring home the trophy.

“I think that we played well,” Williams said. “There were times when we got down, but what I like about this team is they kept fighting back and never let the pressure get to them.”

With one confidence-boosting tournament behind them, the Hoyas will have a week of practice before heading back into action Friday, when they play Campbell in the first match of the Tribe Invitational. The game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in Williamsburg, Md.

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Crackdown on Poker Misguided Hoyas Win Two at JMU W women’s soccer

Pat Curran

Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s soccer team graduated a loaded senior class last spring — the driving force behind its 30 wins over the last two years. As such, no one would have been surprised if the team had started slow this fall.

Based on early results, it looks like Kaitlin Brenn and the Hoyas didn’t get that memo.

Georgetown (4-0) won both its games at last weekend’s JMU Invitational behind two goals from the junior forward, defeating James Madison on Friday and Hofstra on Sunday.

Brenn, junior defender Emily Menges, sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz and redshirt freshman goalkeeper Emma Newins were named to the all-tournament team following the Hoyas’ undefeated weekend in Harrisonburg, Va. Friday’s match against the hosts was a scoreless defensive battle until the 81st minute, when Brenn intercepted an attempted clear from JMU redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Kate Courter and drilled a 23-yarder to give the Hoyas the lead for good.

“Kaitlin still had so much work to do, even after the misclear,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “She did what, in many ways, only she can do for us. She struck a ball in just the place where the keeper couldn’t get it.”

The Georgetown defense, led by strong efforts from Newins and Menges, went on to tally its third consecu-

tive shutout to start the year.

The Blue and Gray had one day off before returning to the field for a showdown with Hofstra. Brenn picked up Sunday where she had left off Friday, nailing a 12-yarder off an assist from sophomore forward Jessica Clinton in the 15th minute.

Corboz extended the lead with a corner strike in the 71st minute, but it was the strong Hoya defensive effort leading up to the goal, including solid goalkeeping, that earned the coach’s praise.

“We got some great performances in the back from Emma,” Nolan said.

“The back had some especially nice play behind Emily and [junior midfielder] Alexa [St. Martin].”

Hofstra sophomore midfielder Sam Scolarici headed a ball past Newins with just over 10 minutes to play, spoiling the clean sheet and ending what had been a perfect season for the sophomore through nearly four games. The Hoyas held on for the rest of the game, though, and left Harrisonburg with a 2-1 win.

“It was a big win against a very good team,” Nolan said. “Credit to Hofstra — they just kept fighting and hanging in there. They got one late, and then it was a nervy last six or seven minutes, but it was a pretty impressive win against another good team.”

Georgetown will play host to two Ivy League schools next weekend, when Cornell (0-0) and Columbia (0-0) come to North Kehoe Field for the D.C. Invitational.

hen we are seated around the kitchen table, playing a game of poker, the legality of the sport is unlikely to cross our minds.

Although our small get-togethers are certainly not enough to warrant a crackdown by federal authorities, the 1955 Illegal Gambling Business Act gives the government the right to prosecute gambling in some circumstances. Online poker organizations have been the biggest culprits: Three of the largest poker websites — Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker — were shut down last year.

The case making the most noise this year was that of Lawrence Dicristina, a New York electronics dealer whose warehouse was raided after authorities suspected he was operating an illegal poker ring.

After hearing testimony from several statisticians and poker players, Judge Jack Weinstein concluded that poker is a game of skill, ruling in favor of the defendant and rendering the card game exempt from gambling laws.

Legally speaking, gambling is a game “predominated by chance,” and while chance does play a role in poker, skill plays an even bigger role — and that makes all the difference. Some players get lucky sometimes, but no player can be lucky all the time. Professional poker players don’t make a living off luck: that’s just not possible. Have you ever heard of a professional roulette player? Or someone who is really

good at playing slots? There is a reason the same players end up at the final tables of the World Series of Poker year after year: They are consistently better at the game than the rest of us.

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Risk is engrained in our society, and you can see it in every sport we play. rive overconfident and usually go home with empty pockets. We have all fallen into this trap, blaming our losses on “bad luck.” Chance is always there, but sometimes we give it too much credit.

Skill versus chance — it’s funny how semantics can carry so much weight.

Weinstein’s ruling sets a legal precedent that can spark the resurgence of online poker play, which raked in over $20 billion at its peak in 2010. Add that to the millions

wagered annually at small casino tables and big televised tournaments, and you’ve got a giant pot of revenue that eclipses some of America’s largest professional sports.

But the question is not whether poker is skill or luck, or even whether poker constitutes gambling.

The real question is why gambling has such a bad name in the first place. How does the predominance of “chance” make a game worthy of social disrepute?

The truth is that it doesn’t.

Sure, people playing poker stand to lose a lot of money. But that does not mean it’s a “bad” game and certainly isn’t a justification for banning it. The risk makes it more exciting.

Risk is engrained in our society, and you can see it in ever y sport we play, poker included.

It makes us sweat, cry, scream and go crazy. It gives us an adrenaline rush. And we are not just risking an interception or a few “points.” We’re putting real money on the line. Real dollars — you know, the stuff that we spend hours working for, the stuff that pays for life. A poker hand feels so real, so significant.

Poker is full of risk, as is every sport we play. So why should it be treated any differently? If people like it, let them do it. They can pay for the consequences. Literally.

Nick Fedyk is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. MORE THAN A GAME appears every Tuesday.

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Georgetown’s shots on goal in the men’s soccer team’s 1-0 win over Florida Gulf Coast Monday.

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Freshman’s Clutch Strike Coach Goes Cross Country Sends Hoyas to 2-0 Start PAT CURRAN

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The coach who oversaw Georgetown’s only cross country national championship in program history is leaving the school.

Women’s cross country Head Coach Chris Miltenberg, the reigning national coach of the year, has accepted a position as Stanford’s director of track and field and head cross country coach. “[Miltenberg] will be an excellent contributor and leader for a tremendous group of stu-

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In their first match of the season at newly renovated North Kehoe Field, it looked for a while as though Georgetown’s men’s soccer team would go out with a largely lifeless, goalless draw against Florida Gulf Coast.

Freshman striker Brandon Allen didn’t let that happen.

Collecting a long punt in the 81st minute, Allen rifled a shot to the top-left corner, over the FGCU keeper’s outstretched hands, to deliver the game-winner in the first home game of his collegiate career.

“It was from [sophomore goalkeeper] Tomas [Gomez], and I kind of got it to my feet, turned on the defender and smacked it far post,” Allen said.

Not a bad way to open your account on the Hilltop. From there, all the Hoyas had to do was run out the clock. They did much more than that, though, nearly adding a number of insurance goals in the final eight minutes of the contest.

Senior left back Jimmy Nealis, who brought some great runs and service to the attack along his flank, also had a rocket of a shot that was headed for the top-left corner before it was just touched over by the Eagles’ keeper. The score remained 1-0 up to the final whistle, but Georgetown did more than simply bunker with the lead.

“The second half, I thought, was very, very good. I was happy with how [we controlled it], and it was a special finish by [Allen] there to win it,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “It’s a great result. Florida Gulf Coast is a great program — twotime defending [Sun Belt] conference champions.”

“They have a lot of young guys, a lot of really talented guys, [and] they keep the ball really well,” Wiese explained. “It’s a good result for us. We’re very happy with that. I don’t think we started the game particularly well. I think it was a slow, almost boring performance [in the first half], to be honest with you.”

Part of what contributed to that sluggish opening 45 minutes was defensive work by the Blue and Gray, which didn’t allow the opposing attack many good opportunities. Senior Tommy Muller and junior Ted Helfrich, both centerbacks, were rock solid in the air to stifle Florida Gulf Coast attacks, while junior

dent athletes,” Stanford Athletics Director Bernard Muir, who held the same position at Georgetown from 2005 to 2009, wrote in a press release.

“He has had great success at Georgetown, and we expect similar results here at Stanford.”

In five seasons on the Hilltop, Miltenberg (MSB ’03) won national titles in the women’s cross country team and for Emily Infeld in women’s indoor track in 2011 and 2012, respectively, coached 36 AllAmericans in track and field and sent six athletes to the

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Freshman Brandon Allen scored Monday. defensive mid Joey Dillon made sure that most of the visitors’ possessions didn’t even reach his backline. As a result, Florida Gulf Coast didn’t have a single shot on goal by the intermission.

“That kid works his tail off for everyone around him,” Wiese said, calling Dillon his “man of the match.” “He’ll almost never show up in the score sheet.

He does so much for us. [When] you start going through the team, the one guy that I don’t think we can replace is Joey Dillon. He’s maybe your guy that, if you take him out, we’re at a loss. For what he does for us, he’s special. He gets none of the accolades for it, but he’s maybe our most important player.”

On most days, Dillon might get lost in the shuffle amidst stars like senior midfielder Ian Christianson, junior forward and Hermann Trophy watch list honoree Steve Neumann and Gomez.

Not today.

Neumann, meanwhile, uncharacteristically struggled to find a foothold in the game; other than a long-range effort that tested the goalie in the 41st minute, the junior was largely a nonfactor. Thankfully, his strike partner Allen was there to provide the one moment of brilliance COURTESY GEORGETOWN SPORTS INFORMATION

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Chris Miltenberg, the reigning coach of the year, will head to Stanford.

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2012 U.S. Olympic trials.

Miltenberg will fill the spot vacated by longtime Stanford Head Coach Edrick Floreal, who left for the head coaching position at Kentucky after spending eight seasons with the Cardinal.

“Stanford has an incredible tradition of excellence that I hope to build on, while at the same time beginning a new chapter and looking for ways to improve and get better,” Miltenberg wrote in the Stanford press release. “I am deeply humbled and honored to be coming to Stanford, but more than anything, I am fired up to get started.”

A former cross country AllAmerican at Georgetown, Miltenberg returned to his alma mater after spending three years as an assistant track and field coach at Columbia while earning his master’s degree in applied physiology.

While Georgetown’s cross country program has found great success in recent years, Stanford’s is undoubtedly more decorated: The Cardinal men and women combined have won nine NCAA championships, six of which have come in the last decade.

Miltenberg’s departure is compounded by the graduation of reigning 3000-meter national champion Emily Infeld, who will continue to compete in track and field this season but has exhausted her eligibility in cross country. Still, Miltenberg was optimistic about the Hoyas’ chances to reprise their 2011 national title.

“Obviously, you don’t replace an Emily Infeld, but I do think if you look at what we’ve done over the years, our strength has really been depth and having great groups that can really run together,” Miltenberg told THE HOYA last week.

“This team could be as good as any we’ve ever had.”

The Georgetown athletic department had no comment Monday on Miltenberg’s departure but said it will begin a nationwide search for a replacement immediately.

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A renovated North Kehoe Field was on display for the men’s soccer team’s home opener Monday.

When legendary men’s lacrosse Head Coach Dave Urick retired in July, Georgetown Director of Athletics Lee Reed promised a national search for his replacement. It took only a Metro ride, however, for the Hoyas to find Kevin Warne, who was named head coach Aug. 14.

Warne, who spent two seasons as an assistant at Maryland, helped to lead the Terrapins to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA championship game.

Warne sat down with THE HOYA as he moved into his office last week.

“I’ve been here a week, but it’s been great,” Warne said. “One of the things I think is that Georgetown is a school that speaks for itself. [With] the reputation academically and, obviously, the lacrosse tradition around here, people are excited.”

Since taking the job, Warne has connected with his players and members of the Georgetown lacrosse family.

“I reached out to all of them and spoke to them and just started to let

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Head Coach Kevin Warne now has a staff in place. them know who I am and what I’m about and really just started to set the tempo [for] how things are going to go under me being the head coach here,” Warne said.

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