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DROPPING THE BALL

Georgetown committed four turnovers in a “wacky” 24-21 loss to Yale.

EDITORIAL The university needs to step in to protect the rights of Leo’s employees.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A2

OIP Monitors Protests

METRO WMATA reported a $28 million budget surplus in fiscal year 2012.

NEWS, A4

Sarah Patrick & Sarah Kaplan Hoya Staff Writers

In the wake of a two-year-long unionization effort and a series of broad dining changes this summer, workers at O’Donovan Hall are dissatisfied with their relationship to their employer, ARAMARK Higher Education.

Employees say that ARAMARK has changed shifts and reassigned duties within the dining hall in order to minimize the number of workers to whom it must pay fulltime salaries and benefits. At the same time, the number of students served at Leo’s has increased this year.

Georgetown first contracted ARAMARK in 2007, and the contract was renewed in 2012 for another five-year period, according to Margie Bryant, associate vice president for auxiliary services. In addition to Leo’s, ARAMARK provides food services for Grab ’n’ Go, Wolfington Hall, Cosi, Starbucks and the PreClinical Science Building’s Dr. Mug. Last September, workers at these locations joined a local chapter of UNITE HERE, a national labor union that includes workers in the hotel, airport, food service,

Braden McDonald Hoya Staff Writer

See ABROAD, A5

NEWS, A6

Workers Speak Out Against Leo’s Changes

Students abroad safe; programs operative amid unrest in Muslim world The Office of International Programs is closely monitoring its study abroad programs across the globe in response to the wave of violent antiAmerican protests that have spread throughout much of the Muslim world.

Thus far, no Georgetown students studying abroad have been endangered, nor have any overseas academic programs been disrupted, according to Executive Director of International Programs Katherine Bellows.

“All of our programs are operating normally and … [OIP] will continue to monitor the global situation closely,” she said.

An email sent Sunday evening to students studying abroad by Lisa Gordinier, interim director of OIP’s Division of Overseas Studies, urged students to avoid protests and comply with instructions from local police.

The region has been a tumultuous one for study abroad programs in recent years. All 15 students studying at the American University in Cairo in spring 2011 were evacuated to Doha following the escalation of protests against the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak. Last fall, Derrik Sweeney (COL ’13) was arrested while studying abroad in Cairo for allegedly participating in violent protests in Tahrir Square.

Since this month’s protests have mostly targeted American consulates and embassies, the email also advised students against travelling with large groups of Americans and frequenting American establishments.

Samantha Lin (SFS ’14), who is studying in Amman, Jordan, this semester, said that although the city

BAGELS Einstein Bros. opened a new location in Regents Hall last Wednesday.

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Employees say ARAMARK Higher Education shuffled their shifts and ignored their input on structural changes.

See LEO’S, A7

Majority of IdeaScale Posts Await Action Meghan Patzer Hoya Staff Writer

GUSA and university administrators are in the process of addressimg some of the 120 recommendations that have been made on Georgetown’s IdeaScale, an online forum for student feedback.

Launched in February 2012 as a joint project by the Georgetown University Student Association and Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini, the site aims to facilitate discussion between students and administrators about how to address student needs.

Georgetown’s Chief Innovation Officer Michael Wang (MSB ’07) discussed the program’s important role in reimagining technology at Georgetown during the inaugu-

ral h.Innovation Summit this past use the site to gauge students’ interests, according to GUSA President April.

“We want students to be able to Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13).

Gustafson added that IdeaScale see what’s happening and see their has proven helpideas being ful to the Disciworked in the plinary Review system,” Wang “It’s another way to Committee, said. show ... this is which is advoStudents can cating to change submit ideas on- something the whole the “more likely line, rate them than not” eviwith a “thumbs school is behind.” dentiary stanup” or “thumbs CLARA GUSTAFSON (SFS ’13), GUSA president dard in the down” and leave Code of Student comments.

These interactive features allow Conduct to “clear and convincing GUSA and university administrators evidence.”

According to Gustafson, the GUSA to pinpoint the most popular, heaviexecutive decided to post about the ly-supported ideas.

Though university administrators code on IdeaScale when it became are responsible for officially moni- clear last April that the university toring the forum, GUSA members planned to delay implementation of

STUDENTS URGE REVISION OF DISCIPLINARY STANDARD

the new policy until the fall. With 346 votes, the post is currently the most popular on the site.

“It’s another way to show [that] not just two students care about this or 10 students care about this,” Gustafson said. “This is something the whole school is behind.”

Currently, other popular posts on the site include suggestions for a better book buyback program, a more versatile flex dollar system, a new housing website and more meal-plan options.

Despite GUSA’s support for the forum, some students were unaware that it is a viable resource.

“I didn’t know the site was there, but hearing about the discussions taking place, it’s obvious that See IDEASCALE, A5

Student Residence at 36th and O Burglarized Sarah Patrick Hoya Staff Writer

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Students sign GUSA’s open letter to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson in support of changing the evidentiary standard from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.”

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Several electronics were stolen from a student residence in the 1400 block of 36th Street Monday afternoon, according to an alert from the Department of Public Safety.

In an email sent to the campus community around 3:30 p.m., DPS reported that an unknown person entered the residence between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Although one of the residents was home, the resident did not make contact with the suspect, and there was no evidence of forced entry.

The Metropolitan Police Department and DPS are jointly conducting an ongoing investigation of the breakin. This is the first burglary reported

by DPS since the beginning of the school year.

Though this is the first instance of a burglary this September, 10 thefts have been reported by DPS this month.

In total, two burglaries and 14 thefts occurred in August of this year. The frequency of burglaries has dropped CONNOR BERNSTEIN FOR THE HOYA significantly since last fall, with eight A student townhouse on the 1400 block instances in August and four by Sept. of 36th Street was burglarized Monday.

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Raw Deal for Leo’s Workers C The creation of the Center for Social Justice was one of the crowning achievements of former University President Fr. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. With that in mind, one wonders how O’Donovan would react to hearing that this university has tolerated injustices in the dining hall that bears his name.

From the day that Leo’s opened this semester, students have complained about cutbacks to the food selection and services. While those concerns are valid, they pale in comparison to recent revelations about the unfair treatment of dining hall employees. Forced shift changes, more demanding hours, worse food quality — these are just some of this summer’s alterations that have Leo’s workers feeling blindsided and betrayed.

ARAMARK Higher Education, the corporation that operates Georgetown’s dining services, is behind these changes. But the fact that the university is not responsible — or even directly in control of the situation — does not excuse it for turning a blind eye to the suffering of employees on its campus.

In their response to inquiries about Georgetown’s role in mediating the relationship between ARAMARK and workers, administrators ducked responsibility. Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Margie Bryant told The Hoya that ARAMARK is responsible for its own labor relations with employees (“Workers Speak Out Against Leo’s Changes,” A1).

But this is not an issue of legality or contract stipulations; it’s about a basic demand for justice on our campus. A university that urges students to be “men and women for others” has a moral responsibility to ensure that no worker on campus is treated with anything less than dignity and respect.

It’s unclear what exactly the relationship is between Dining Services workers’ unionization last spring and the food changes that were implemented at the beginning of the academic year. But the overarching message is clear: There are more things gone awry at Leo’s than its underwhelming supply of silverware, and both students and employees are counting on the university to step up and step in.

DC Students Listen D.C. Students Speak has admirably sought a greater voice for college students in city government. But for the organization to reach its potential, both in terms of legitimacy and effectiveness, D.C. Students Speak must first take the time to listen.

The group is correct to note that the 85,000 college students in the District — 15 percent of the city’s population — are underrepresented and underappreciated in local politics. But while it is important for students to be properly represented in city government, D.C. Students Speak must ensure that its own makeup meets democratic standards. To truly serve as ambassadors for the students of the District’s many universities, D.C. Students Speak cannot simply act under the judgment of a limited number of volunteers.

It bears repeating how much we appreciate the ambitions and commitment of D.C. Students Speak participants, but when few students on the Hilltop are even aware of the organization, we question whether it can really claim to speak on the behalf of students.

D.C. Students Speak would benefit from a greater internal democracy and more outside student involvement. Whereas members of

the Georgetown University Student Association, for example, can point to a democratic process as validation of their authority, it’s dubious to suggest that members of D.C. Students Speak can serve as delegates for an entire student body.

Similarly, the group should make more of an effort to gauge the opinions of students at different universities. Implementing an easy and effective online means of communication such as IdeaScale to solicit student opinions would likely bolster the organization’s legitimacy and recognition.

When a group without elections or public feedback attempts to represent students, it can advocate only for policies that are intuitively in students’ interests, such as greater government representation or financial aid. Surely non-student legislators could anticipate these requests — it’s up to groups like D.C. Students Speak to be a voice for student needs that aren’t so predictable.

Lobbying groups on Capitol Hill wield influence through membership, money and public visibility. If D.C. Students Speak lacks all of these things, its appeals to city government are likely to fall on deaf ears.

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Pandamonium — The National Zoo’s female giant panda gave birth to a cub Sunday night, seven years after her older cub was born in 2005.

Bigger Bulldogs — A last-minute interception gave the Hoyas a devastating 24-21 loss to the Yale Bulldogs. It was the sixth straight time Yale beat Georgetown.

A Healthier Hilltop — BeWell Week 2012 kicked off yesterday, featuring free workshops, exercise classes and food options that promote a healthy lifestyle.

The Sound of Music — Students can take a break from studying to watch performances by the Saxatones tonight at 10:15 p.m. and Superfood tomorrow at 10:30 p.m. outside Lau.

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Joe Albanese (SFS ’14) on how Massachusetts remembers Romney: “Romney made his way to Massachusetts as the state’s first ‘CEO governor,’ forgoing salary and appointing his cabinet based on managerial experience rather than party affiliation. He came in amid a severe recession as the state was shedding jobs (sound familiar?).”

Preston Mui (COL ’14) on why he won’t be voting: “My decision to cast a ballot will almost certainly have no effect on the outcome. Mathematically speaking, the chances are infinitesimally small that I will be the deciding vote. If you do think it will matter, I’ve got lottery tickets I’d like to sell you.”

For more on the election from Albanese and Mui and for campaign commentary from Mary Siebenaler (SFS ’13), Rob Silverstein (SFS ’14), Sam Dulik (SFS ’13), Scott Stirrett (SFS ’13), Hannah Miller (COL ’14) and Daniel Pierro (COL ’15), check out thehoya.com.

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IdeaScale Not Yet Ideal My Georgetown Idea, an online discussion board run through IdeaScale, has shown that it can be an effective platform for proposing improvements to the university. But while these conversations are fodder for dialogue, we’d like to see the site become a more meaningful medium for inspiring campus change.

It’s certainly productive to give students a place to share ideas, but as with most online forums, the propositions made on IdeaScale are often detached from reality. Students would be more motivated to participate in IdeaScale if there were a system in place whereby, if a proposal on the site crossed a threshold of positive support, the Georgetown University Student Association would be required to put the item on the agenda and consider it on the record.

Members of GUSA may end up quickly dis-

missing many IdeaScale posts as impractical under such a structure, but if it were put in place, at least the student association would be held accountable for giving the proposals formal consideration. And in turn, students would have the satisfaction of knowing that they are directly connected to their elected leaders.

Some GUSA members have responded directly to students via IdeaScale. While that outreach is commendable, requiring mandatory on-the-record GUSA discussion of popular ideas would empower students to become a formal part of the policy-making process.

If GUSA purports to be the voice of the students, it would benefit from tapping into the vast resource of student ideas that could be generated on IdeaScale.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

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AGGIORNAMENTO

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LETTERS OF THE LAW

Cowering From Criticism Council Defies DC Law Weakens Church’s Stance I M ass, at times, seemed too much like tradition that provides us with an intellectual, Fox News this summer. This was an un- moral and spiritual foundation. By engaging pleasant turn of events, for sure. Sun- these values, we become the university we are day mornings are better without thinly veiled meant to be.” This call for nuance and dialogue is far more admirable than the bishops’ political rhetoric.

In early July, many American parishioners high-flying, one-sided rhetoric.

DeGioia’s response demonstrates the type ended Mass with a prayer for religious freedom published by the United States Confer- of approach that Catholics must take in our ence of Catholic Bishops. The prayer was a modern world. Instead of single-mindedness, ham-handed commentary on last spring’s we must embrace nuance; instead of forcing U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- focus-group-tested one-liners into prayers at Mass, we must vigorously vices mandate, a government pursue the type of dialogue requirement that some relithat leads to understandgious institutions refer their ing. Furthermore, we must employees to insurance plans be confident enough in our that cover preventive health own beliefs that we do not care, including contracepfear debate. Instead, we must tives. The prayer started with embrace discussion, engaging hackneyed references to the the tensions of disagreement Declaration of Independence in a way that emphasizes Caand went on to talk about tholicism’s long-held emphathreatened freedoms and the Alex Honjiyo & Pat Gavin sis on care, service and social current “decisive moment in responsibility, rather than the history of our nation.” our equally characteristic penThe bishops’ response was We must be confident chant for single-mindedness clear and certain: They oppose the HHS mandate entirely, a enough in our own beliefs and surety.

To be clear, the bishops are position that their loud and that we don’t fear debate. certainly correct to fight for persistent rhetoric certainly Catholic institutions’ right to conveys. Their words and actions made national news, drawing Cardinal religious freedom. Religious freedom is a funTimothy Dolan into the spotlight and provid- damental virtue in the United States and across ing a soapbox for other prominent Catholic the globe. For the Catholic Church in America leaders to voice their opposition to the Obama today, these historical examples should serve as a guidepost: Catholic individuals and instiadministration to a large American audience.

But this issue also hit close to home for Catho- tutions must be allowed to act, or not act, in lics at Georgetown. The controversy catapulted accordance with their conscience, despite what our university into the political spotlight last the government orders, and this is a cause worspring, when Law Center student Sandra Fluke‘s thy of significant attention from Church lead(LAW ’12) criticism of Georgetown’s insurance ers.

Yet even if the bishops are correct to protect policy (and Rush Limbaugh’s subsequent criticism of her) made national news. Soon after, Uni- Catholic institutions’ right to act in line with versity President John J. DeGioia came under fire their collective conscience, this does not mean for allowing Kathleen Sebelius to come speak on that the tenor of their defense must be so belcampus, the HHS secretary who played a large ligerent. Instead, the Church would be well part in the mandate. The entire issue proved to advised to adopt the approach to Catholicism be a media draw as much for Georgetown as for that animates Georgetown. We must embrace tension, seek out dialogue and bring our emthe bishops.

But although the HHS mandate drew atten- phasis on serving others to the forefront of tion to both entities, the university and the these discussions. bishops reacted entirely differently. DeGioia, in response to criticism about Sebelius’ invita- Alex Honjiyo and Pat Gavin are seniors in the tion, said, “We are a university committed to School of Foreign Service and the College, the free exchange of ideas. We are a commu- respectively. AGGIORNAMENTO appears every nity that draws inspiration from a religious other Tuesday.

VIEWPOINT • Hollander

Chicago Teachers, Leo’s Staff Highlight Union Downsides

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n introductory economics courses, we are taught that every decision involves tradeoffs. With that in mind, we should be wary of the simple-minded arguments in defense of unions that extend everywhere from the streets of Chicago to O’Donovan Hall.

Sketching a basic history of organized labor helps to illuminate the past importance — and present condition — of modern American unions.

Without a doubt, they helped to build America’s middle class into the envy of the world.

It was unions that helped create minimum wages and maximum hours, ended many abusive labor practices and extended health care and pensions, however modest, to millions of American employees.

Over the past few decades, however, unions have seen their membership fall because of the conversion of the economy from manufacturing to services, coupled with government policies that have become less favorable to worker organization.

More and more states, particularly in the fast-growing South and West, have passed “right-to-work” laws, although that clever phrase does not accurately describe what is really an attempt to weaken unions by allowing workers to receive the benefits of collective bargaining without helping to fund their unions’ activities.

Though most employees in the private sector are no longer members of a union, the public sector has remained highly organized.

Although membership has fallen, organized labor remains a potent political force, particularly within the Democratic Party.

Nevertheless, unions are under attack. Wisconsin’s controversial law targeting publicsector workers was perhaps the most brazen assault, eliminating the deduction of union dues from paychecks, requiring yearly votes among employees on the unions’ continued existence and chipping away at the right to bargain for anything except wage increases.

For people who believe, as I do, that America is at its best when everyone works together toward a common purpose, the attacks on organized labor are troublesome. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) said it best: “What is it about working men and women they find so offensive?”

Yet in rallying around working families, people sometimes become too starry eyed about the actual effectiveness of unions. When it acts responsibly, labor is a force for good. When unions focus instead on narrow issues of self interest, they emulate the same selfishness they purport to decry. The Chicago teachers’ strike is a case in point.

Across the country, teachers are not paid commensurate to their critical role in society.

The profession is given neither the respect nor the recognition it deserves. But while many individual teachers go to heroic ends to make their students successful, their unions all too often stand in the way of progress.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, not a conservative by any measure, proposed a fair contract that included a whopping 16 percent pay increase in exchange for more comprehensive accountability, including detailed evaluations of classroom performance.

But for the Chicago Teachers Union, 16 percent wasn’t enough. They demanded a bigger raise and weaker evaluating criteria, and, when their demands weren’t met, they went on strike.

We tend to view labor disputes in a vacuum.

Management wants one things, labor wants something different; the fight is between them. That ignores the impact that union contracts have beyond the bargaining table.

To fund a 16 percent raise, Chicago will have to hike taxes and slash spending for other important services. And if the union prevails on weaker accountability standards, 350,000 Chicago public-school students will pay the price.

The underpaid food service workers here at Georgetown have more moral authority than the Chicago teachers — who are among the highest paid in the nation — but the union contract at Leo’s also imposes indirect costs.

By all accounts, cafeteria staffers were treated poorly by their employer, Aramark Higher Education, before the workers organized and affiliated with UNITE HERE. And if the recent allegations that Aramark continues to mistreat workers are true, the union should make full use of relevant local and federal labor laws to force the company into compliance.

A union contract gives workers better pay and more generous benefits, increasing the cost of running the dining hall. To balance higher labor costs, it would make sense for Aramark to minimize other expenses or raise the price of meals.

Personally, I’m more than willing to forgo weekday “make-your-own pizza” if it means that cafeteria workers — who get up before dawn, often don’t get home until after sundown and work a low-wage job in between — have more money in their pockets and more dignity in their work.

But we must be honest about the costs and benefits of unions. After all, another lesson of economics is that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

EVAN HOLLANDER is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is senior sports editor of THE HOYA.

n the District of Columbia, targeting students is against the law. Apparently, no one told that to the city council.

College upperclassmen across the District who have cars innocently assume that obtaining an out-of-state permit is a simple process.

Such “reciprocity permits” are, after all, available to the vast majority of D.C. residents.

Students who plan on doing this will run into a problem — their permit request will be denied. It’s not because of what or how they drive but because of whom they are: students.

In any other city, students would be left to throw up their hands in frustration at yet another indignity arising from hostile towngown relations. Luckily for D.C. students, our city has a special protection against this kind of bullying.

In the District’s sweeping Human Rights Act, Washingtonians are given this guarantee: “Every individual shall have an equal opportunity to participate fully in the economic, cultural and intellectual life of the District and to have an equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of life, including, but not limited to ... places of public accommodation, resort or amusement ... and in housing and commercial space accommodations.”

“Every individual” “equal opportunity,” “all aspects of life” — the text of this law is not ambiguous. Targeting a class of people such as students and prohibiting them from engaging in a basic aspect of modern life — car use and ownership — cannot be countenanced by this broad and generous law. And by singling out student-heavy neighborhoods on which to inflict this burden, the government has revealed the true target of its discrimination.

“I do not view this legislation as targeting students,” D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans of Ward 2 said via email when I asked him about this issue.

I then asked whether he

thought it ran afoul of the D.C. Human Rights Act. He did not respond.

“There has to be some kind of balance struck,” echoed Jonathan Willingham, chief of staff for Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh. Cheh cosponsored the Residential Parking Protection Act of 2012, which restricted student car ownership near American University.

“Why should [students who aren’t permanent residents OF D.C.] have equal footing with those who are?” Willingham told me.

“Why is it wrong for the

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The government has revealed the target of its discrimination: students.

District to favor those who live here?”

So the District is, in fact, favoring “those who live here” — such as non-students?

“The only people it targets,” Willingham explained, “are people who choose not to live in the District. Residents deserve the parking spots more.”

Residents? Like full-time students who have chosen to spend the duration of their academic careers in the District? Apparently not. When the city council and its spokespeople discuss “residents,” they don’t mean students. To them, we don’t count. We don’t deserve what everybody else has.

We don’t get an “equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of life,” as the law requires. All we get is another hurdle to jump, another layer of red tape through which to cut.

The council and its spokespeople, of course,

claim these laws don’t target students, just studentheavy neighborhoods. The fact that students are disproportionately affected by laws directed exclusively at student neighborhoods is, some would claim, a coincidence. Intrigued by this line of defense, I looked into the committee report for the Residential Parking Protection Act of 2012 and found this “statement of purpose and effect”: “To eliminate reciprocity for full-time students with out-of-state registration in certain neighborhoods.”

And a non-student in a non-student neighborhood? I suppose he just deserves a few more rights than we do.

It’s unsurprising that students are subjected to this legal burden. A common theme in town-gown relations in the District is a perpetual devaluation of students’ contributions to our city. My classmates and I are frequently portrayed as interlopers looking to sponge off their hardworking neighbors’ tax dollars.

But we are more than that; we are a vital part of the community that makes our nation’s capital so amazing.

And, thanks to the D.C. Human Rights Act, we can fight back.

In letter and intent, the law here is clear. The city council cannot single out a group of people and deny us equal opportunities. No student may be denied a reciprocity permit because he is somehow less worthy of one; the law allows no bias against a certain class of citizens. Students must demand respect as fullfledged residents. We can start by filing a claim with the Office of Human Rights.

If the city council is truly unconcerned that these laws target students, let them prove their position on record and in court.

After all, the council may be against us, but the law is on our side.

Mark Joseph Stern is a senior in the College. LETTERS OF THE LAW appears every other Tuesday.

VIEWPOINT • Goncharova

Cheaters Follow the Script

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ne of my professors asked my class last week what we thought about the Harvard cheating scandal, in which 125 students plagiarized or collaborated on a take-home final exam. We were unanimous in our response: Yes, cheating goes on at Georgetown and probably every college campus. It surprised me that even that honest boy who irons his shirts chimed in to the unanimous conclusion: The biggest causes of cheating are the pressure to succeed and the fear of failure.

But pressure and fear are familiar demons on college campuses. They have been around for decades. Yet why does our generation feel as though these demons are stronger and hungrier for us today?

It’s not because only our generation has the daunting burden of student loans.

Nor is our fear stronger because only our generation’s parents and grandparents have hope for our futures.

Social pressure to score a job — and a prestigious one at that — has been around forever.

Pressure and fear are stronger today because our generation is more susceptible to the threats they pose.

For our generation, the elements that motivate us to behave the way students at Harvard did — prestige and ambition — elicit these responses more than ever before.

This odd relationship can be explained in part by how we were raised to think and how we perform under

uncertain circumstances.

There was a trend in the 1990s for parents to ask their children about their opinions. Selective from an early age, we have grown up to express and, at times, recreate, who we think we are.

Now, the Internet allows us to selectively choose how we present ourselves — from things as trivial as a Facebook post or as important as an academic paper.

But when we are put to the test (literally), we must perform spontaneously.

When we actually have to write something without first consulting other material, the fear of failure prevents our generation from performing to our established standards. When we study for tests like Advanced Placement exams or the SAT, we memorize and perfect the test patterns. We make our spontaneous performances as unspontaneous as possible.

Since so much of what we have attained has been premeditated, moments where we’re expected to perform on the fly — say, on a test or a paper — suddenly expose us for who we really are.

Our generation is different because we are more accustomed to being successful than ever before. Cheaters, however unscrupulous, maintain that success gap by cheating.

So if Georgetown houses the same types of students as any other prestigious university, then I’d say, without doubt, we should be next.

But since we signed on for a Jesuit education in a small school with small friend

groups and a social life based largely on extracurricular activities, I believe that we won’t be.

Although a small part of the Honor Code is institutional bureaucracy, a larger part of it is an understanding that we are here to learn for learning’s sake. Our classes are small, so inevitably, we do the readings and participate in class discussions. We naturally become interested. Small elective courses — hallmarks of a liberal arts education — discourage cheating, because true interest draws us into genuine learning.

Moreover, Georgetown is big-friend-group repellent.

Social culture here centers on inner circles of trust, with a secondary and lessintimate outer circle. Jesuit ideals and friend groups hold you accountable for your own self worth. You are responsible for maintaining a sense of pride in who you are and how you work, because the people around you know and care about you.

Cheating won’t stop at any educational institution, but I would argue that our class’ reaction after we read that article sent a misguided message. We were willing to claim that there’s pressure to cheat and that we’re anxious about the future, but we were less ready to acknowledge that the campus atmosphere engages us enough to help us resist the temptation of cheating.

MASHA GONCHAROVA is a junior in the College.

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Despite instituting fare increases this summer, the transit authority finished FY 2012 with a substantial surplus.

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Two months after increasing D.C. Metro fares by an average of 5 percent, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced last week that it ended fiscal year 2012 with a $28 million surplus.

The fare increase is the third in the last five years, in accordance with the Metro Board of Directors’ 2008 decision to increase fares approximately every two years.

According to a report in The Washington Examiner, the fare increase, which went into effect July 1, could not be avoided, even though a surplus was likely, because the surplus projections were only a forecast.

In a Sept. 10 press release, WMATA attributed the savings to an audit of the eligibility of health care benefit recipients on its staff and to fuel hedging, which solidified a

new cost-cutting rate.

The rate hikes, which included a $1 surcharge on paper fare cards in an effort to reduce costs, have drawn criticism from the Georgetown community.

Kate Dylewsky (COL ’13), who commuted to her summer internship on Capitol Hill via public transportation, said the increases have made her less likely to ride the Metro.

“I was frustrated over the summer, when I had an unpaid internship, because I was responsible for transportation costs, and the Metro fares really added up, meaning that I was paying to go to work,” she said.

Although she no longer requires the Metro to get to work, Dylewsky indicated that she would hesitate to commute in the future.

“Especially with the increase, I couldn’t afford to commute to work every day if I wasn’t being paid,” she said.

Ana Rodriguez (SFS ’15), who travels weekly to Columbia Heights to teach a course designed to help recent immigrants pass their naturalization exam, echoed this sentiment.

“It’s so annoying, and it’s not good for my budget. I’m only trying to serve the community, and it’s costing me more than I have,” she said. “I really like what I do, so I’ll pay for it, but it’s annoying.”

To offset the increase in fares for paper cards, WMATA has announced plans to continue installing machines that sell SmarTrip cards in stations throughout the network to make them easier to purchase.

Other changes to the Metro system include the elimination of the 20 percent peak-of-the-peak surcharges. Originally instituted to reduce crowding, the surcharge failed because it was not effective in getting riders to alter their commutes.

Though the Georgetown chapter of advocacy group D.C. Students Speak has remained involved in registering students to vote, its presence on campus has receded in the wake of the resolution of the 2010 Campus Plan.

DCSS is a nonpartisan group that seeks to amplify the student voice in the political arena. The group is composed of representatives of seven core universities in the D.C. area, including Georgetown, American University, Howard University, Catholic University of America, Trinity University, the University of the District of Columbia and George Washington University.

This election cycle, a total of eight students are set to run for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats throughout the District. As a result, DCSS is primarily focused on registering students to vote in D.C., according to Michael Panek, a junior at American University and chairman of their DCSS chapter.

“For the longest time, we haven’t seen much of a college voice,” he said.

“One of our main goals is to register students to vote in the District so that our officials have a reason to listen to us the next time a big policy change comes along.”

Scott Stirrett (SFS ’13), former DCSS co-founder and former chairman, has been heavily involved in Georgetown’s voter registration efforts and feels that the organization has been successful in registering students within the District.

“A lot of college students have decided to register locally, and I think that that’s not just because of DCSS but because of a lot of people who have done a lot of work on this [voter registration push],” Stirrett said.

Two of the eight potential student seats are from Georgetown, marking the first time in 10 years that the university is likely to have a second student commissioner on ANC 2E. Stirrett said that over 700 people have registered to vote this year using the new software TurboVote and estimated that around 40 percent had registered in D.C. DCSS had hoped to increase its presence on campus this semester, but plans to table during the Student Activi-

ties Fair fell through. Instead, the group has been relying on alternative methods for spreading awareness.

“Most of our recruitment is either done through our website or through word of mouth,” Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), chair of Georgetown’s DCSS chapter, said. “We try and reach out through other political clubs on campus to let other students who might be interested in politics know.”

Stirrett acknowledged that the group currently plays a quiet role on campus, as it cannot currently endorse any candidates or parties in the election.

“I think holding more … tangible [and] specific public events is something that’s beneficial to do,” he suggested.

“What I think would be really cool is looking towards 2014, which would be the next D.C. mayoral election.”

DCSS has maintained a close relationship with the Georgetown University College Democrats, cosponsoring speaker events such as one featuring D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells last year.

Though the group’s partnerships with the Georgetown University Student Association and GUCD have been effective in increasing voter registration, DCSS has little in the way of plans after the election.

Tezel said that the group is still trying to bring Councilmember Jack Evans to campus to speak, after the event scheduled for last year was cancelled.

“We’re hoping that soon we will hear from him so he’ll come to Georgetown University and field some of our concerns,” Tezel said. “[Evans’] office has not responded to previous overtures of ours to discuss issues like town-gown relations and the noise ordinance,” Tezel wrote in an email. “We’re hoping that his view will change because Georgetown University represents a sizable constituency in his district.”

Stirrett also suggested a mayoral forum that would allow different candidates to explain their views and answer questions.

“It’ll be … interesting going forward.

I can picture it being quieter now that the campus plan is resolved,” Stirrett said. “New issues always come up, and I think we’ll shift a little bit, since that was something we focused on since the beginning.”

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Forum Draws Mixed Reviews Students Abroad Feel IDEASCALE, from A1 students are better able to comminicate their needs with administrators. Otherwise, how else would they know that we need another Grab ’n’ Go location or more seating on the quad?” Rebecca Aklilu (MSB ’15) said.

The site has been most successful in implementing technological changes. The expansion of the campus wireless network and the launch of Georgetown’s mobile application both started as IdeaScale posts.

“This is obviously a better medium for campus dialogue, as some of these posts have already been addressed,” Mathew Hoffman (COL ’14) said.

But some students who have heard back from the administra-

tion about their posts haven’t seen any tangible results, and many others have not received any response at all. At press time, 120 ideas had been posted on the site; 11 had been marked as “complete,” nine as “in review” and five as “in progress.”

Scott Romberg (COL ’13) posted an idea regarding milk dispensers at O’Donovan Hall in late June.

While visiting the University of Michigan, he noticed that the milk dispensers in its dining hall included a sign students could slide to alert dining hall workers when dispensers were empty.

Romberg said implementing a similar system at Leo’s would solve a persistent communication delay between students and workers.

The idea has 74 votes, and Romberg received a response from

ARAMARK Executive Director of Campus Dining Services Andrew Lindquist on July 2. “[Lindquist] said thank you for the recommendation and ‘We’ll look into it,’” Romberg said. “I was impressed I heard back from them … but it hasn’t been implemented.”

Other students believe that IdeaScale can be improved.

“I think that ideas that get traction on IdeaScale should be acted on quicker and more forcefully,” said Chris Stromeyer (SFS ’14), who has posted to propose changes regarding restricted access to speaking events and the Blackboard Mobile Learn website. “[Popular ideas] should get immediate attention at the highest levels, and that is not yet happening.”

Safe Despite Protests ABROAD, from A1 has not been immune to protests, she does not feel like her security has been threatened.

“I feel very safe here in Jordan. There are several layers of protection surrounding the students here,” she said.

Lin said the combination of a supportive host family and a constant stream of updates from the American embassy and the Council on International Educational Exchange, which operates the program in Amman, has ensured her safety.

“My host mom and four host siblings … are very protective of me,” she said. “In the evenings they watch the news and then relay it to me since my Arabic skills are not up

to that standard yet. We talk about the situation, and they truly watch over me on my commute to school and to other activities.”

Barbara Gallets (COL ’14), who is also studying in Amman, agreed.

“Honestly, I do not feel that my safety has been put into jeopardy because of the unrest over recent events,” she said. “Nothing has been disrupted; classes have gone on as normal.”

Lin and Gallets both said that they have taken precautions to avoid areas of the city that are particularly rife with protests.

“We are told to stay away from downtown Amman after the Friday prayers because weekly demonstrations follow,” Gallets said. “But we haven’t had any other restrictions or disruptions here.”

Fr. Boroughs Inaugurated as President of Holy Cross Annie Chen

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Fr. Philip Bouroughs gave his inauguration speech on the importance of Jesuit values.

Georgetown University’s former Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Philip Boroughs, S.J., was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the College of the Holy Cross Sept. 14.

Both Boroughs and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, who traveled to Worcester, Mass., Friday to speak at Boroughs’ inauguration ceremony, stressed the importance of establishing a sense of community within and among Jesuit universities.

“Something is realized, something happens when we come together in a place, shaped by a shared common purpose, a common vision of what brings us together,” DeGioia said. “The vision of a Catholic and Jesuit college is one where we come together.”

DeGioia also expressed con-

fidence in Boroughs’ leadership ability. “[Boroughs is] a large-souled man who has lived his vocation with integrity and fidelity, a selfless man who will bring out the best in you, the best in this community,” he said.

In his presidential address, Boroughs echoed DeGioia’s remarks about the importance of reviving the Jesuit ideals in the college community. He said Holy Cross’ Jesuit value of contemplation will provide a mechanism for dealing with contemporary issues.

“As a community of educators, we have an opportunity to define in our time what contemplation in action means at Holy Cross. We can choose to be reflective. … In these challenging times, we can choose to act with such integrity and ingenuity in making difficult decisions that others see in us ways of

linking prayer, reflectivity and [can] discern choices that inspire and energize,” Boroughs said.

Boroughs served an eightyear tenure as Georgetown’s first vice president for mission and ministry — from 2003 to 2011 — and was the only Jesuit serving as a senior university administrator.

While at Georgetown, Boroughs also helped raise funds to develop the Calcagnini Contemplative Center, a religious retreat center that is currently under construction, to renovate the historic Dahlgren Chapel and to endow positions and programs within the Office of Mission and Ministry.

Boroughs introduced the Ignatius Seminar, the Kenya Immersion Program and Jesuit Heritage Week, among other initiatives that served to emphasize the importance of social justice and community involvement on campus.

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Einstein Bros. Opens Regents Hall Location Hiromi Oka

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Einstein Bros. Bagels opened a new location in Regents Hall last Wednesday, just a minute’s walk from Uncommon Grounds.

Like Einstein’s other location in Car Barn, this shop is self service, with only one employee managing the register.

“Dining Services was glad to enhance quick food options at this part of campus and offer service in our newest building and student study space,” Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Margie Bryant wrote in an email.

According to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, the Science Center Planning Committee, which was responsible for allocating space in Regents, wanted to include a food outlet in the new building.

The committee looked to Car Barn’s bagel shop as a good example of utilizing a small amount of space and felt that opening another store was a feasible option.

“The committee thought a similar Einstein Bros. would work well in the limited space,” Pugh wrote in an email. “As I understand it, [the committee] also considered The Corp, but the space is very

small — just a counter against the wall.”

Although the new store is close to Uncommon Grounds, Students of Georgetown, Inc. CEO Mike West (COL ’13) said that he does not anticipate a decrease in business.

“We don’t see it as too much of a threat,” he said. “It’s a different market. It seems like they’re much more geared for the ‘grab and go.’”

West added that Uncommon Grounds resembles a storefront and provides students with an area to socialize, while Einstein’s serves students who are on the move.

“You come in and you want to stay a while [at Uncommon Grounds], while at [Einstein’s] you just want to grab a bagel and run,” he said.

While The Corp will be opening a new location in the New South Student Center, West said that the student-run business never considered adding a location in Regents, primarily because of its proximity to Uncommon Grounds.

Students are glad to have both options available to them.

“It’s really convenient,” Mika Nur (MSB ’15) said. “It’s a nice little bite between classes. There are substantial lines at UG, so I go there with friends for social things.”

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The new bagel shop is not expected to compete with The Corp’s Uncommon Grounds in Leavey Center.

Students were also pleased that the new Einstein Bros. location is so centrally located.

“I love Einstein’s,” Taylor Stevens (COL ’16) said. “Car Barn is out of

the way, so it’s nice to have the option here. It would be better if it were a full store.”

The Einstein’s in Car Barn will be expanding to become a fully staffed

shop at some point in the future, according to the university’s dining website. The website does not provide an expected timeline for this change.

Georgetown Among Top Feeders to Teach For America Braden McDonald Hoya Staff Writer

With a record 61 graduates from the Class of 2012 flocking to join Teach For America, Georgetown produced the third-highest number of new recruits from among mediumsized universities this year.

This is the third time in four years that Georgetown has placed third among medium-sized universities, which the organization defines as those with between 3,000 and 9,999 undergraduates.

According to Mike Schaub, execu-

tive director of the Cawley Career Education Center at Georgetown, Teach For America is an attractive option for many graduates because it combines community service with opportunities for skill development for later careers.

“Many Georgetown students are dedicated to volunteering and service activities, and they want to find a way to continue serving others after graduation,” Schaub said.

“Teach For America is one organization in which graduates can help others while obtaining valuable skills and experiences that will be

beneficial to their careers.”

More than 470 Georgetown graduates have volunteered for the organization for two-year terms after graduation, and the number has grown each year, despite an increasingly competitive applicant pool. Only about 12 percent of the 48,000 applicants for the 2012 teaching cycle were hired, hailing from over 600 colleges across the country.

Deven Comen (COL ’12) joined the program after graduating last May and started teaching ninthgrade English at Anacostia Senior

High School in southeast Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Comen characterized the experience as a natural progression from her undergraduate studies.

“Joining Teach For America was kind of like the culmination of … my time at Georgetown, [which was] deeply influenced by Jesuit values of social justice,” Comen said.

“Going to school at Georgetown, [I was] surrounded by people so committed to their passions and to helping others.”

Comen, who developed an interest in education throughout her

college years teaching abroad in India and Thailand, as well as in D.C. schools through One World Youth Project, added that the experience affords a unique opportunity for leadership not found in most postgraduation pursuits.

“Right out of college, I’m leading a group of students. … All the flexibility I have in determining what I teach and how to teach is different from any other post-graduate career,” she said. “While my friends are in cubicles doing busy work, I feel like I’m really making a difference.”

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Employees Speak Out About Shift Changes, Food Choices LEO’S, from A1 laundry and gaming industries.

Once unionized, Georgetown dining employees worked to secure an improved contract with ARAMARK, winning them higher wages and expanded health care coverage. The contract was signed in February.

“Our employees at Georgetown are represented by a local union who negotiated a collective bargaining agreement on their behalf,” ARAMARK Director of Communications Karen Cutler said. “We have a good working relationship with the union and adhere to the terms and conditions of that collective bargaining agreement.”

But five months after the contract was signed, Leo’s workers say they are unhappy with the treatment they have received from ARAMARK. “A lot of us have been here for a long time, and they don’t ask us our opinions on anything. They just change it,” said a female employee who has worked at the dining hall for 19 years, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “We know what the students like. … We talk to the students. Why not talk to us? … They didn’t do that. They just changed it, wiped it out.”

Shift changes enacted over the summer as part of the restructuring of services in the dining hall have also been unpopular among employees, forcing some of them to rearrange their family and work schedules.

“A lot of people have second jobs, and they already had their days set.

Now, people have to adjust their lives and tell the second job that they can’t work this day or have to come in later,” the female employee said. “And we thought that was messed up, because it wasn’t broken, so why did [ARAMARK] try to fix it?”

A male employee who has worked at Leo’s for 15 years, also speaking anonymously, said that many of the changes instituted this semester — including the elimination of the wrap and make-your-own-pizza stations as well as the removal of options at the pasta and stir-fry stations — were designed to minimize the number of workers needed to run the cafeteria at any given time. “[ARAMARK] said they got a 74 percent increase of students on meal plans, and that’s why they needed more people on weekends and evening shifts. But the thing is, there are less people on weekends

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Employees expressed unrest about structural changes at Leo’s.

and on the evening shifts,” he said.

Cutler said that Leo’s is not understaffed.

“All locations are fully staffed to ensure quality service,” she wrote in an email.

The male employee, however, said he gets off his shift late because Leo’s is shorthanded.

“This year was the only year that I know, in recent memory, where we didn’t see new employees come in,” he said. “They still have the same amount of people they had last year.

They just have more work to do.”

According to Bryant, the changes in food selection and service were a result of student surveys conducted in the spring of 2012, and the “We Hear You” campaign was created to communicate the alterations.

But the employee said that students are unhappy because they did not ask for the first set of changes.

“The thing is [that] they can’t really tell you why they took it. The stuff that they added, they said, was for the students. … [But] the students, the ones we talked to, said they never asked for this,” he said. “That’s why you don’t see a lot of students happy with the changes.”

When the dining committee — a group composed of students, university administrators and ARAMARK representatives — received further feedback, a second campaign, “We Hear You 2.0,” reinstituted some options, including the taco bar, a renewed variety of vegetables at the pasta station and a weekends-only make-your-own-pizza station.

However, according to the male employee, the changes at Leo’s have had a negative overall impact on the dining experience.

“Now, three weeks into the school year, it is worse,” he said.

The female employee said that changes to Grab ’n’ Go have placed a greater burden on workers at those facilities.

“They have less food, so it’s less work for the stocking person. He doesn’t have a whole lot to do like he had before, so that means they can pull him to do something else,” she said. “Then it’s like one person on two or three jobs. They are being tricky about it.”

The male employee said that ARAMARK is taking advantage of its

workers.

“People just don’t see any way out.

In this day, the economy is real bad, so it’s not like we can say we are going to leave and go to something better. … The company knows this, so they’ve backed people into a corner,” he said.

Members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, which helped workers form their union last year, say that these changes take a toll on both employees and students.

“There are two components to [the changes], one being that students are affected by this. We have fewer options, fewer healthy options,” GSC member Erin Riordan (COL ’15) said. “There is also the worker’s side to it, where by cutting certain stations, they end up cutting certain positions and giving people fewer hours and things like that.”

According to Bryant, Leo’s workers’ contract with ARAMARK provides them with a mechanism for addressing concerns.

“The union has a formal grievance procedure for resolving all issues between ARAMARK management and workers. When a grievance procedure cannot produce a satisfactory outcome, an arbitrator is used to settle the disagreement,” she wrote in an email. “To date, all issues have been settled through the grievance procedure, with no need for an arbitrator.”

The union negotiation that occurred last year also included a collective bargaining agreement between ARAMARK and Georgetown employees to facilitate the communication of grievances.

“While ARAMARK is contractually required to comply with the just employment policies of Georgetown University, it is responsible for its own labor relations with its employees and any trade union represented among its employees,” Bryant wrote in an email. “The collective bargaining agreement between ARAMARK and its employees provides structure and framework for the operation and interaction of workers and management.”

Despite the agreement, workers still feel challenged.

“We have to fight them on everything,” the female employee said. “I guess … since we signed our

contract, that they just wanted to show everybody that they still have power, with the work shifts and the shifting of the days.”

According to Riordan, there is an alignment between students’ and workers’ interests on these issues.

“One thing that stood out to us was that the complaints from workers and students were very similar, and it was generally about the amount of food that was being offered and how it was being offered,” she said.

ARAMARK, which earned over $13 billion in revenue in 2011 and is ranked as the United States’ 204th largest company on CNN’s Fortune 500 list, has a mixed record on workers’ rights issues. In April 2010, the company signed an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers that raised wages for tomato pickers by more than 70 percent, but ARAMARK has also come under fire from some of its customers in the education community.

In 2008, Yale University chose not to renew its contract with the company in the wake of concerns about budgeting and the treatment of workers. Yale Daily News reported in 2001 that ARAMARK posted a $3 million budget deficit during its first year of operation at the school while increasing costs to the university and students. Bob Pronto, the president of the local union that represented Yale dining workers, told YDN that the company also frequently shuffled employees between Yale dining halls and changed managers, similarly to the conditions Leo’s employees described.

“It seemed as though they were more worried about achieving a bottom line as it related to their profit,” Pronto told YDN in 2008. “[ARAMARK] tried at different turns to undermine the quality of food.

They cut very close the quantity of food that they ordered and caused us to have certain shortages.”

Georgetown’s contract with ARAMARK runs until 2017, but GSC members say that students have a role to play in lobbying the company for better treatment of workers.

“We want to bring these issues to campus attention,” GSC member Julia Hubbell (COL ’15) said.

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or many Americans, the concept of na- now on loan to Swansea in England — attendtionalism is still quite foreign. Many ed a Canadian men’s national team game in people do not seem to understand that Toronto.

Dressed in a Canadian team jacket and citizens of countries other than the United States actually believe that their country is the standing under the bleachers at BMO Field, de Guzman denied reports that he was ready greatest on Earth.

Of course, “greatness” is a subjective term, to commit to the Canadian national team, inwhich is what makes one’s inherent sense stead reiterating his intention to play for the of national superiority such an interesting Netherlands, his adopted homeland where he aspect of human nature. And nowhere is na- had recently gained citizenship.

Responding to a question about his previtionalism more prominent than in the world ously reported interest in playing for Canada, of soccer.

In North America, professional teams tend de Guzman said, “It was just the fact that I wasn’t really playing much to provoke the most love, hate in Villarreal, and obviously, and tension. When it comes when you don’t play that to soccer, it is national compemuch, you need to refresh tition that is the most divisive. your mind.”

The FIFA World Cup is the While the fact that de Guzmost-watched sporting event man was so blunt about his in the world. One of its most message shows a lack of reenticing features is the fact spect — he went on to talk that it is all about national about how much the Canapride: Money, business and all Arik Parnass dian team needed him — his of the so-called dirty aspects message itself paints a depressof sports are ostensibly out ing picture of what the interthe window.

Nowhere is national soccer landscape has More recently, however, players have been deciding nationalism more become.

As we enter an NHL lockout their international futures prominent than in stemming in part from the based not on which country willingness of players to leave they call home but on which gives them the best chance to the world of soccer. their teams for big money elsewhere, it is becoming increaseither make or win the World ingly apparent that the idea of Cup or, worse, which team will give them the most international expo- loyalty may soon sit behind glass in a hall of fame somewhere as a relic of the 20th century. sure to parlay into a fatter club contract.

As a passionate Canadian, I could never From an American perspective, the most well-known such case is that of Giuseppe imagine suiting up for another team. Despite Rossi, the New Jersey-born Villarreal striker the fact that — had I possessed post-highwho chose to represent Italy rather than the school-level soccer skills — I would have been United States in international competition. He eligible to represent England, the United has now scored six goals in 27 appearances for States and maybe even Germany, I would be embracing the red and white, World Cup or the Italians.

It could be argued that Rossi was immersed bust.

De Guzman, Rossi, and many others before enough in Italian culture — as he moved there when he was only 12 — to consider himself an them have felt the wrath of their true counItalian, but I don’t buy that. By that age, one trymen for their decisions. I hope that’s a sign should have enough of a sense of pride and that these cases are aberrations rather than patriotism to identify more with the country the impending norm.

But try as I might, I can’t repress the fear of one’s birth than one’s country of teenage that one day I’ll hear the dreaded news: Brazil residence.

Unfortunately, what was once a stage for buys Lionel Messi for $200 million. pride and national loyalty has become a platArik Parnass is a sophomore in the Colform for personal gain.

This past summer, Canadian-born Jonathan lege. CANDID CANADIAN appears every de Guzman — a former Villarreal midfielder Tuesday.

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Sophomore midfielder Tom Skelly (17) returned to the roster after being injured, taking freshman Tyler Rudy’s spot on the wing.

Hoyas Roll Past Ivy Foes IVIES, from A10 really well.”

Two of those players that stepped up were freshmen making their debuts off the bench, but in the end, the man of the match for the Blue and Gray on Sunday was a much more familiar face.

The veteran Riemer, who had scored twice — including the overtime game-winner — against Illinois-Chicago the weekend before, accounted for all three goals against Penn.

The McLean, Va., native put his team on the board in the 36th minute, sliding one home from inside the 6-yard box after a nice run and ball in by junior forward Steve Neumann.

An incredible long-range strike from Penn less than three minutes later, however, would

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Providence, Lehigh Hang GU With Two More Losses Celee Belmonte Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown field hockey team (2-6, 0-1 Big East) dropped two more games this weekend, falling to Providence, 5-2, and Lehigh, 3-2, in its first home games of the season.

The Hoyas had a tough break in Friday’s game against Providence (4-2, 1-0 Big East) when the referees called an illegal pick against Georgetown, waving off a goal by senior forward Charlotte Tierney.

Had Tierney’s score counted, the Hoyas would have gone up, 1-0, but the Friars responded with a quick goal that put them on the board first instead.

“We went down 1-0 after a goal that was really suspect,” Head Coach Tiffany Marsh said.

“There definitely was a change of momentum in the game after that goal.”

That momentum led Providence to score again two minutes later. Georgetown senior midfielder Claire Mittermiller ensured that the Blue and Gray wouldn’t go into halftime scoreless, knocking in a rebound with five minutes left in the half to cut the lead to 2-1.

Although she had nine saves on the afternoon, senior goalkeeper Briana Pereira was unable to stop the Friars from netting three more goals in the second half.

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Senior Annie Wilson saw one of her shots against Lehigh careen off the post.

rocketed in a goal off a penalty shot late in the half, but it was too little, too late, and the Hoyas lost, 5-2.

Despite the loss to the only conference team the Blue and Gray defeated last season, Marsh put a positive spin on things after the weekend was over.

“To play against a Big East opponent that strong is a really positive sign,” Marsh said.

“That was head-and-shoulders better than any other game we have had. If a few things had gone differently, the score would have been a lot different.”

And after Sunday’s contest against Lehigh (2-6), Marsh was left saying the same thing, as three of Georgetown’s shots hit the post.

“I have never before seen three shots hit the post in a game,” Marsh said. “Usually you just get one. We outshot them and dominated play.

We just couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net.”

Backing up Marsh’s claim of dominance, the Hoyas had 19 shots on goal while the Mountain Hawks recorded only eight.

Georgetown fell behind early when Lehigh senior Kimberly Eng netted a penalty shot in the opening minutes. The Mountain Hawks would score again in the first half to enter the intermission leading 2-0.

Only one minute out of the break, however, junior forward Katie Dempsey scored her first goal of the season off a pass from freshman forward Sarah Butterfield to put Georgetown on the board.

As it did against Providence, Georgetown dominated shooting against Lehigh, but Pereira let in another goal with 28 minutes to play to give Lehigh a 3-1 advantage.

The Hoyas captured momentum with 10 minutes to go, with Tierney scoring off a feed from fellow senior forward Annie Wilson.

Despite additional shot attempts, the Hoyas could not equalize and lost, 3-2.

“We fixed the problems that we targeted as problem areas from last weekend,” Marsh said, “but there isn’t anything you can do about hitting the post that many times. Two inches the other way, and that means overtime or coming out on top.”

As always, despite all the disappointments so far this season, Marsh put a brave face on the outcome.

“Overall, we had an unlucky weekend,” Marsh said. “But this was the best hockey I have seen in a long time — since I started coaching here.”

The Hoyas return to action this weekend as they travel to Kentucky to take on Louisville on Friday. The game is set to start at 6 p.m.

level the score.

It would remain 1-1 until just under 15 minutes remained, when sophomore forward Austin Martz found Riemer once again lurking around the 6 and the senior put his team back up.

He would later add an insurance goal in the 85th minute to seal the win and his hat trick.

“I think we’re playing, as a team, better soccer every game,” Riemer said. “Today, I was just in the right place at the right time. … Those three finishes are just pretty easy, when it comes to it, because of the great passes.” “[Penn] played a great game, but we were able to play our type of soccer today, and I think the result showed that,” Riemer added.

Dillon was likewise proud of his squad’s performance, explaining that the Hoyas’ game

plan to stop the Quakers’ attack was executed as intended.

“We kept the ball well,” he said. “Penn is a good team [that] likes to counterattack, and we didn’t give it many chances to do that. We created some chances, [and I] wish we could’ve put them away earlier, but overall, I think we played pretty well.”

The win keeps Georgetown’s undefeated record intact, but a new challenge is now on the horizon: Big East play is set to begin this week.

Rutgers (3-2) is first up for the Blue and Gray on Saturday at North Kehoe Field, and Wiese stressed that the team has no intention of slipping into complacency.

“We’re upset about the tie,” Wiese deadpanned when asked how he felt about Georgetown’s 7-0-1 start.

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Georgetown’s volleyball team (6-6) continued its painful slide this weekend, dropping matches to College of Charleston, Michigan State and Presbyterian. The Hoyas have now lost six of their last seven games after a torrid 5-0 start.

The Blue and Gray started their weekend at the Holiday Inn Charleston/Mt. Pleasant Tournament by losing a tough five-set match to tournament host College of Charleston (75). After winning the first two frames, the Hoyas looked poised to get a good win under their belts, but the feisty Cougars clawed back and won in five sets.

“We knew coming out that [Charleston] would be a tough team,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “They have won their conference 11 straight years, so they are used to winning. Our team is still learning how to do that.”

After out-blocking and out-hitting the Cougars in the first two sets, the Hoyas could not regroup after Charleston came out with a more aggressive plan in the third set.

“We came out in set three and were pushing really hard to get it done, but in that push, we made way too many errors,” Williams said.

Georgetown committed nine unforced errors in the third set, compared to four in the first set and five in the second. That left the door open for Charleston to grab momentum and, eventually, the win.

The next match came quickly, as the Blue and Gray had only eight hours’ rest before facing undefeated Michigan State (11-0).

The Spartans took control early to win in straight sets: 25-15, 25-18, 25-20.

“I’m not really sure that we ever got into it. We had a quick turnaround, and it took

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us about a game and a half to get into our rhythm,” Williams said.

While Georgetown tried to battle back after ceding the first set, Michigan State was too good to give away any easy points.

There were still bright spots in the match, however, as freshman outside hitter Lauren Saar was named to the all-tournament team after recording 10 kills on only 25 attempts for a .320 hitting percentage. Sophomore outside hitter Alex Johnson continued her stellar play as well, notching her seventh double-double of the season and second of the tournament with 12 digs and13 kills on a .360 hitting percentage.

The best chance the Hoyas had during the weekend was against Presbyterian (3-10), but the team again faltered to lose the day’s second match, 25-15, 23-25, 25-10, 25-8.

“I don’t even know what to say about Presbyterian,” Williams said. “We didn’t show up.”

The match was made even more difficult by the fact that sophomore middle blocker Dani White did not play after an injury.

White is something of a team leader, and Williams noted that her presence was sorely missed.

Even though the Blue Hose may have an unimpressive record, they found a way to return the ball and make the Hoyas work for every point. Exhaustion played a part in the lopsided loss.

But to Williams, there are still no excuses.

“I think mentality and fatigue played a large part in it,” she said. “But even if we are fatigued mentally or physically, we expect to score more than eight points. We’re better than that.”

The Hoyas will look to bounce back in their home opener tonight at McDonough Arena, where they will face off against Liberty (8-4) at 7 p.m.

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Junior quarterback Aaron Aiken completed 11 of 25 passes Saturday afternoon.

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“We wanted to bounce back from the loss last week,” Corboz said Friday. “We moved the ball really well, which stretched them, and we found seams between the defenders.”

While Corboz was unquestionably the star of her team’s shutout victory, the Blue and Gray got strong contributions from several other sources: Junior forward Colleen Dinn and sophomore forward Ashley Shaffer added two goals apiece, junior forward Kaitlin Brenn had two assists and sophomore forward Audra Ayotte knocked in the final goal

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Junior defender Alexa St. Martin (20) has been essential to Georgetown’s defense.

to cap a dominant performance.

“We’ve got very good attacking players — Daphne here is not too bad — and ultimately, a lot of our stuff goes through her and Kaitlin Brenn,” Nolan said. “I thought Kaitlin played fantastic today.”

Nolan quipped afterward that the win “certainly wouldn’t hurt their confidence” heading into a road showdown with Rutgers, one of the toughest foes they will face this season. That appeared to ring true, as the Hoyas posted a 1-0 victory that kept the Scarlet Knights winless in conference play after a blistering 7-1 start.

“It was probably our most dominant performance of the season, including Friday’s game,” Nolan said in a statement. “Our back line was tremendous, the middle three were fantastic and Kaitlin and Daphne were both active up front. ... We just dominated from start to finish.”

After taking a back seat to the lights-out offense in Friday’s victory, Georgetown’s defense had a chance to shine Sunday. Junior defender Alexa St. Martin managed to shut down Filigno, and the defense allowed only three shots on the day.

Despite a 7-0 shot advantage in the first half, Georgetown failed to find the back of the net and entered the second frame tied with the hosts.

Partway through the half, senior midfielder Christina O’Tousa finally broke the deadlock with a volley off an assist from freshman forward Sarah Adams. The goal, O’Tousa’s first in her four-year career, ended up being the difference in a defensive battle.

“This was a huge three points and makes it seem like six being a division win,” Nolan said.

In their next outing, the Blue and Gray will play host to Connecticut (5-3-1, 1-1 Big East) at 3 p.m. Friday.

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for a 19-yard field goal attempt, but junior Matt MacZura’s chip-shot attempt hit the uprights, leaving Georgetown down, 7-0.

Moore came up with another big play in response to the disappointment, intercepting Yale freshman quarterback Eric Williams in Yale territory. Unsurprisingly, however, the Hoyas’ drive stalled, and MacZura — who made both of his field goal attempts against Wagner — was wide left on a 36-yard try.

Georgetown’s defense kept the team in the game, however, with sophomore wide receiver Kevin Macari taking the Bulldogs’ punt on the next drive 79 yards to tie the game for the Blue and Gray.

When Yale tried to respond, Moore forced his third turnover of the afternoon with another interception, one that he converted for a touchdown with a 41-yard return that gave Georgetown a 14-7 lead.

A methodical drive led the Bulldogs to a 36-yard field goal, but the Hoyas squandered any semblance of momentum when Aiken fumbled on the 8-yard line, the fourth time Georgetown found its way into the red zone but failed to score.

“There were two fumbles inside the 10, and then we missed two field goals,” Kelly said. “That’s a lot of points we left on the field.”

In an epitome of the game’s “wackiness,” the Bulldogs recovered the ball on their own

2-yard line and scored immediately when Williams heaved a pass downfield. It was tipped and eventually caught by junior receiver Cameron Sandquist for a 98-yard touchdown.

That sequence, which took place just before the intermission and gave the Bulldogs a 17-14 lead, was one of the Hoyas’ low points, and Kelly was quick to spell out its meaning.

“There’s probably a swing of 14 points right there,” Kelly said.

But in an odd subplot, Georgetown often looked like the better team, despite their sloppy play.

Coming out of the locker room, the Blue and Gray recovered the ball after punting to the Bulldogs when a high snap went over Williams’ head and was recovered by Georgetown senior linebacker Jeremy Grasso.

The Hoyas took advantage of the miscue with a beautiful 32-yard touchdown run by Claytor, regaining a 21-17 lead.

And Georgetown seemed to be in command when another high snap led to a sack by senior linebacker Robert McCabe and forced Yale to punt.

The drive was indicative of Georgetown’s defense for the day, which bent but did not break. Moore led the way early, while McCabe chipped in with 16 tackles, and junior linebacker Dustin Wharton had 13. McCabe and Wharton each had a sack as well.

“We got the stops when we needed to,” Kelly said, “but it

wasn’t one of our better efforts.”

On the next offensive possession, the Blue and Gray coughed the ball up at their own 14-yard line, and Varga took the ball in from the 9-yard line to give Bulldogs a 24-21 lead.

Both defenses held firm for the rest of the half, although Georgetown’s seemed to sag as the game wore on. Sophomore safety Nick Alfieri came up with an interception for the Hoyas, however, and Yale stopped Georgetown on two separate fourth-down runs.

With 2:36 remaining, Georgetown batted down a Yale pass on third down and regained possession. The Hoyas’ drive downfield was full of promise — until the interception sealed their fate.

“The ball went up, and the kid made a heck of a play,” Kelly said of Yale’s interception.

“In hindsight, we should have [run] the ball to the middle of the goalposts, kicked a field goal and gone into overtime.

We didn’t make the play, and that kind of tops off the whole day.”

After the game, Kelly was quick to talk about the effort Georgetown will need to show in practice this week before the team travels to Princeton Friday.

“We’ve got to hang onto the football, and we’ve got to make the field goals,” Kelly said. “That’s what coaching is all about.”

The Hoyas will take on the Tigers at 7 p.m. in a game that will be televised live on ESPNU.

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Football Fandom Altered by Statistics Emphasis FANTASY, from A10 homework or going to church, but for watching football. Owning a team is time consuming ,and reading Plato is impossible when you have several games to track at once. There’s a real benefit to having an 11 p.m. Mass and no classes on Monday.

With four playoff appearances and one fantasy championship under my belt, I know the glory of winning it all. But there are also many sacrifices along the way.

Hearing your friend scream every time Adrian Foster scores a touchdown can get extremely annoying. It is agonizing watching your roommate pound his

chest after beating you by the slimmest of margins. Some guys in your league create weird nicknames and develop strange alter-egos. Your heart is torn when your hometown team plays against your fantasy quarterback.

Is it all worth it? Although it seems like a mundane way to spend your weekend, there are actually a lot of important things on the line.

Despite its name, fantasy football has a lot of real-world implications. Over the past few years, it has grown tremendously popular, with an estimated 27 million participants last year.

Every major sports website —

ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, CBS, FOX — has its own team of fantasy writers and analysts offering week-to-week coverage of games, draft strategies and player rankings. Popular analysts have columns and radio shows devoted just to fantasy sports.

How did we get to this point?

How is it possible that Matthew Berry gets paid full time to write about a silly game of stats and numbers? Are we spending our Sundays in vain?

Sure, it is a lot of fun competing with friends and cheering for our favorite players, but fantasy football — and fantasy sports in general — is corrupting the game in many ways.

It has reduced football into

its basic elements — points and yards. We are enslaved by the numbers. We cheer for players instead of teams and touchdowns instead of wins. We betray our hometown teams. We muddle our loyalties.

Fantasy football makes Sunday the busiest day of the week for all the wrong reasons. At the end of the season, the glory of a fantasy championship sure is sweet. But it might not be worth all of the hair-pulling and screaming at the TV. After all, it is just fantasy.

Nick Fedyk is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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With 40 seconds to go and the ball on Yale’s 17-yard line in Saturday’s football game, Georgetown junior quarterback Aaron Aiken lofted a pass toward the corner of the end zone.

But what could have been a storybook ending turned into a nightmare when the ball ended up in the hands of a Bulldog and the game-ending interception secured Yale’s 24-21 win, the sixth straight game when the Bulldogs have had the Hoyas’ number.

“It was such a wacky game,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “I have been coaching college football for 28 years, and I don’t know if I’ve been involved in a more wacky game.”

The unpredictable ride began right at the start, when Georgetown senior cornerback Jeremy Moore forced and recovered a fumble on Yale’s first possession.

But while the Blue and Gray successfully ran the ball inside the Bulldogs’ 10-yard line, a fumble gave the football right back to the Bulldogs.

After Georgetown was hit with a pass interference penalty on third down, Yale scored the first touchdown of the game with a 2-yard run by freshman tailback Tyler Varga.

Both Varga and junior running back Mordecai Cargill were able to find running space throughout the game, resulting in disappointment for a Georgetown defense that had done a good job containing the run over the first

two games of the season.

“They ran the ball on us today,” Kelly said. “This will be a great game to take a look at the film and make corrections, as I told the team.”

The Hoyas, on the other hand, continued to struggle to move the ball — either running or passing — near the goal line, something that had plagued the Hoyas against Wagner last Saturday.

“That was something that last week we did a poor job with, and we have to correct that,” Kelly said of his team’s red zone woes.

“So that’s something that, obviously, we’ll fix this week.”

Despite an 18-yard screen pass to junior halfback Dalen Claytor, the Blue and Gray had to settle

Before No. 12 Georgetown (7-0-1) faced Princeton and Penn this weekend, Head Coach Brian Wiese said that it would be a “tremendous accomplishment” if the Hoyas could emerge with wins over both Ivy League foes.

As it turned out, the Blue and Gray escaped the Tigers with a 1-0 victory Friday and then triumphed, 3-1, over the Quakers on Sunday to turn Wiese’s conditional into a reality.

“It’s great,” senior midfielder Andy Riemer said of his team’s two weekend wins. “The Ivy League is always underrated. [Its teams] always come out with a lot more fire and a lot more skill than you’d think initially.”

Both games, to be sure, were difficult ones for Georgetown, despite what each opponent’s record and Sunday’s final score may suggest.

Against Princeton, standout freshman forward Brandon Allen once again put his team on the board first, heading home his own rebounded shot in the 14th minute to give his team the early advantage. The Hoyas continued to dictate play after grabbing the lead, but no more goals would come their way.

The hosts, in fact, ended up with the better share of opportunities, but junior goalkeeper Keon Parsa stepped into the net and recorded five key saves to preserve both the clean sheet and the win

in his first appearance of the season.

A simple desire to conserve energy was likely the reason sophomore goalie Tomas Gomez, the usual starter, was absent between the pipes on Friday. That theme of resting legs reverberated on a grander scale on Sunday.

Aside from a returning Gomez, the lineup that Georgetown trotted out against Penn was different from any other put on the field thus far this season. Sophomore midfielder Tom Skelly, returning from injury, took sophomore Tyler Rudy’s spot on the wing, while senior John Snyder was placed into the defensive midfield role.

Snyder’s insertion pushed junior Joey Dillon out of his usual spot and into the back line alongside freshman Cole Seiler, a spot that Dillon noted he had tested in the spring but with which he was admittedly still unfamiliar.

“Coach Wiese was trying to change it up a little today just to test it out,” Dillon said after the game. “[Playing as a central defender] took me some time to get used to, but by the end of the game, I was comfortable [playing alongside] the other guys in the back.”

“My feeling coming into this weekend is that it’s deep enough into the season that you can see the legs starting to get tired,” Wiese said. “This, to me, was a really great result for us, because we got a lot of guys in who stepped up and played See IVIES, A8

SUPER SENIOR Midfielder Andy Riemer scored all three of Georgetown’s goals in Sunday’s 3-1 win over Penn.

After the game, Riemer was named to the Big East weekly honor roll.

The senior has scored five goals so far this season, already equaling his total for last year.

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Sophomore Audra Ayotte scored the final goal against Seton Hall.

Georgetown women’s soccer Head Coach Dave Nolan was not sure how his team would respond to a 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Stanford earlier this month. This past weekend gave him his answer.

The Hoyas (8-1-1, 2-0 Big East) returned to their winning ways as Big East play got underway, demolishing Seton Hall (6-4, 1-1 Big East) at home Friday before scoring a huge road win over No. 16 Rutgers (7-3, 0-2 Big East) on Sunday.

Georgetown put on a clinic at North Kehoe Field Friday afternoon, slicing and dicing the clearly overmatched visitors with eight goals on 20 shots. The Pirates managed only one late shot on goal and struggled to keep possession for more than a few seconds at a time.

Sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz notched three goals and an assist — the first hat trick of her college career — and, in the process, vaulted herself into a tie with Canadian national team member and junior Rutgers striker Jonelle Filigno for second place in the race for the See RUTGERS, A9

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