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HEART OF DIXIE

Perhaps no edifice can lay claim to being more of a beloved local institution than the liquor store.

COMMENTARY This week’s sexual assault MOU is just the beginning of policy reform.

TY WILLIAMS The junior linebacker will move to a rehab center in Atlanta this week.

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University Fetes Royal Return Spanish king and queen inaugurate scientific conference Kristen Fedor Hoya Staff Writer

King Felipe VI (GRD ’95) and Queen Letizia of Spain visited the university Wednesday to launch a three-day campus conference with Spanish scientists, attending both the first meeting of the conference in Riggs Library and celebratory dinner in their honor on Copley Lawn.

The panel discussion in Riggs Library, primarily conducted in Spanish, touched upon the main themes of the conference,

including biomedical research, energy, engineering, technology, economics and the social sciences.

University President John J. DeGioia introduced the king, queen and Spanish scientists at the meeting, thanking them all for their respective contributions to the conference.

“We’re deeply honored for this opportunity to host you and to help create a forum for discussion, reflection and for the sharing of discoveries in your various fields of research through

the conference that will take place here in the days ahead,” DeGioia said. “We are extraordinarily grateful for their presence here today, and look forward to hearing from His Majesty, an extraordinary global leader and Georgetown alumnus, later in this program.”

King Felipe graduated with a master’s in foreign service from the School of Foreign Service and continued his involvement in the university community after See SPAIN, A6

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Ari Goldstein (SFS ’18) chalks Red Square at a summer event geared toward garnering university administrators’ attention on sexual assault.

Sexual Assault Policy Reform Deal Reached Toby Hung

resources for survivors, collect information about the university climate regarding sexual assault and expedite After more than two months of ne- the hiring of a full-time Title IX coorgotiations between student activists dinator. and the university, the Georgetown The memorandum was the result University Student Association and of three meetings held in the past administrators two months agreed upon between GUSA, policy reforms student activregarding camists and the adpus sexual asministration, sault in a memmarking a mileorandum of stone in the onunderstanding going studentreleased Monled movement MADDY MOORE (SFS ’17) Secretary of Student Safety, GUSA day. calling for the In the sixuniversity to repoint memorandum, GUSA and ad- evaluate its resources and policies. ministrators agreed to increase byGUSA Vice President Connor Rohan stander education programs, expand (COL ’16) said he is satisfied with the marketing campaigns for campus

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“We want to keep the conversation going and that’s going to take a lot of work.”

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The new Spanish monarch, King Felipe VI (GRD ’95), accompanied by Queen Letizia, was thronged by students and security during his visit to campus Wednesday night.

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Survey Charts Jesuit Values College, SFS, SFS-Q students’ answers will reveal attitudes Margaret Heftler Hoya Staff Writer

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The Sept. 16 Chilean earthquake struck approximately 150 miles from Valparaiso and Santiago, where Georgetown students are studying.

Students Unharmed in Chilean Earthquake Emily Tu

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A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the coast of Chile on Sept. 16, killing at least 11 and prompting the evacuation of more than one million people.

Eleven Georgetown students, all uninjured, are currently studying abroad in Santiago and Valparaiso.

Office of Global Education Director Craig Rinker worked with the Council on International Educational Exchange, a nonprofit that manages

international study abroad and exchange programs, to make sure all the students studying abroad were unharmed. Students were contacted through local CIEE point persons and directly by email.

“I am happy to report that all Georgetown students studying in Chile (in Santiago and Valparaiso) are safe,” Rinker wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our office worked with our program partner, CIEE, to confirm that all

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Students in the College and the School of Foreign Service recently received an email invitation to complete the first 2015 Hoya Values Survey, which seeks to compare and analyze the values and beliefs of students on both the D.C. and SFS-Qatar campuses.

The results of the survey will be used to track how students’ values shift during their academic careers at Georgetown, as well as to compare the responses between year levels and the two campuses.

Associate Professor George Shambaugh, who conducted research and developed questions for the survey alongside Daniel Stoll, senior advisor to the dean

of the SFS-Q, said he is curious to explore the impact of a Jesuit education on student values .

“I think the ability to compare yourself to your peers is really kind of interesting.”

GeORGE SHAMBAUGH Survey Developer and Professor

“It’s really just a curious question, which is threefold. How do people’s attitudes and beliefs change as they go through an undergraduate education, and, in particular, what does that look like if you go through a Jesuit university or an American university?” Shambaugh said.

Shambaugh said he is fasci-

nated by the process by which Jesuit values are integrated into students’ values and beliefs.

“One would hope that as you go through an education at a Jesuit university, you absorb or adapt those values over time or come to a better understanding of what those values mean,” Shambaugh said. “How that will manifest itself, we’ll find out.”

The survey will be distributed to students by email over the next four years. Students who take the survey are assigned a random number that will identify them on future surveys, allowing researchers to track how an individual’s responses have shifted over time. The respondents’ names will remain anonymous.

According to Shambaugh, the exclusion of students in the See SURVEY, A7

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The university has excessively constrained political campaign activity among students.

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OPINION

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The memorandum of understanding brokered between the Georgetown University Student Association and the administration Tuesday addresses one of the most incendiary student issues in recent memory. Since July, the #IStandWithWilla campaign has dominated university dialogue and inspired numerous calls for administrative reform.

With Tuesday’s agreement to implement steps to foster a more supportive campus climate for sexual assault survivors, Georgetown’s administrative and student leaders offer an initial response to that question. The MOU outlines an agenda of specific, measurable and time-bound objectives to be met over the course of the 2015-16 academic year, ranging from the formation of a campus climate survey centered on sexual violence to the expansion of student health resources and staff. The initiative also includes efforts to promote awareness of victim rights and bystander responsibilities.

Such measures are certainly commendable and unquestionably vital to the cultivation of a safer, more survivor-centric campus environment. It is crucial, however, that the administration and GUSA regard

their efforts as the beginning of a conversation rather than a solution to the grievances voiced by the growing survivorcentric movement.

While the MOU represents an impressive level of responsiveness on the part of campus leaders, survivors and allies should demand an equal responsiveness in examining how the above measures can be built upon in future years.

For example, the Georgetown community deserves mental health resources tailored specifically to its identity and needs. As this Editorial Board has already suggested, ongoing, mandatory programming promoting bystander intervention through a community of responsibility model can be used to build a culture of empathy on campus.

A joint Health Education/ Women’s Center program assistant to make sure confidential advocates have time to meet with students who need help must also be entertained.

Without a system of revision to improve university resources, the administration puts its students at unacceptable risk.

With this in mind, those who stand with survivors ought to also stand for a practical, sustained and responsive commitment to student well-being.

¡Viva el Rey!— The King of Spain, a former Hoya himself (MSFS ’95), graced Georgetown with his royal presence on Wednesday night. Cue papparazzi and would-be Hoya Queens — too bad he’s already married.

Codename: Humble — CNN’s Republican primary debate saw a packed HFSC Great Room on Wednesday in a GUCR and IPPS event — and Donald, Donald, Donald, Trump.

Wet Hot Washington Summer — 2015 was the hottest summer on record, NASA data reported — and it sucked even more if you were in D.C. Dope Pope — D.C. Metro is giving out a free, commemorative SmarTrip card sleeve during Pope Francis’ visit next week, with a picture of the smiling pope on it. Catholic fashion accessory of the year.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Derek Nelson

Campaigns Curtailed As campus chapters coalesce, the Office of Federal Relations sent an email to all students, faculty and staff detailing university policy on political campaign activity last week. The university’s status as a nonprofit organization prohibits Georgetown from endorsing or opposing candidates for public office and thus limits its ability to use resources for campaign activities.

While many of the enumerated guidelines regarding this policy are in line with federal lobbying disclosure laws and Internal Revenue Service rules, others seem to toe the line between compliance and excessive curtailment.

Georgetown claims to support and encourage political engagement, but the university is doing students a disservice by blocking access to campus resources to political activists.

Students cannot print political flyers or materials using any of the printers on campus, despite the fact that students pay over $48,000 in tuition and five cents per sheet in order to use such equipment. Students many not use their Georgetown email addresses to relay information about campus meetings or group activities related to political candidates.

Reserving spaces on campus — a right granted even to unaffiliated groups whose missions are not aligned with university policy — is prohibited for campaign groups.

Practically speaking, these restrictions make engagement impossible.

While the Office of Federal Relations argues that these restrictions were created to ensure that the university comply

with campaign finance laws, other universities and colleges bound under the same restrictions have not limited student activism to the same degree.

Political groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are freely allowed to use campus classrooms and meeting spaces, and are able to apply to student government for funding.

Catholic University allows political student organizations to use university meeting spaces.

The University of Washington provides unaffiliated groups, including political campaign chapters, with a printing budget, access to other materials, funding opportunities and staff advisors. Clearly, limiting Georgetown students’ political campaigning is not an issue of legality, but one of institutional will.

Debate watches and intellectual exercises are not enough for student campaigners.

Students are mobilizing to vote and act on behalf of the candidates they believe in, whether through fundraising, canvassing, phone-banking or participating in rallies. It is evident that the university has gone beyond compliance with federal law and is unnecessarily blocking students from engaging in meaningful political organization.

Although the university claims that it is not prohibiting students from “participating in political activity in their individual capacity,” restrictions on meeting spaces and use of university equipment effectively quashe the ability for students to express their political opinions and associate with others to do the same.

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OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO • Bobroske

It’s Odd Being an American Abroad Lam Nguyen

Refugees Are People, I Not Pawns A pproximately 10.6 million Syrian refugees — nearly half of the country’s population — are fleeing the atrocities of a war-torn state. In response, the Obama administration has announced it would like to grant at least 10,000 Syrian refugees asylum over the next year.

At the same time, potential presidential candidates in the United States are entertaining immigration reform policies that would displace an additional 11 million people from their haven here in the States.

The combination of these recent events has reminded me why I am increasingly frustrated by politics. Our contribution to resolving the refugee crisis in Syria and immigrant situation in the United States has been, to put it mildly, subpar.

Current reform proposals show how nearsighted our culture can be.

What would deportation do to the 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk? It would leave them in a similar situation as the 20 million refugees worldwide: deprived of a stable place to live and constantly in danger.

The administration’s promise to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees is not going to alleviate the crisis.

The idea that undocumented immigrants are liabilities to our country is toxic and hinders our willingness to take in future refugees and migrants. Our immigrants are an assets, both economically and culturally. Many are laborers who do the work that others are not willing to do, and even more become officeholders, teachers, doctors and hardworking professionals who are highly beneficial to our society. They did not “take your job.” They earned everything they fought for.

Sure, there may be immigrants who take advantage of the system and are actually damaging to society, but you don’t kill an entire family of chickens because one laid a bad egg. If we can realize the value of foreigners, treat them as human beings rather than a burden and empower them with the resources they so direly need, we can foster a global standard on how to properly help migrants and refugees.

The administration’s declaration that the United States will admit 10,000 Syrian refugees is not the proper way to alleviate the crisis though. It sems to be a token policy implemented by the pressure of Germany and other European countries that have taken the lead on this matter. As we’ve seen with immigrants already residing in our country, the refugees will come into a hostile, unwelcoming environment that is hesitant to integrate them into society.

Until our society can comprehend that these people are people, that they were once respected and successful members of their own societies, that among them are children deserving of the same nurturing and opportunities that American children receive, we are not capable of supporting refugees and will only extend their struggle.

What we can do is to use our resources, both physical and economic, to move them from tent camps into accepting countries that are culturally able of admitting them. Our most significant contribution will not be how many refugees we bring into our country, but how much we financially support countries that exhaust their economies on properly taking care of the refugees. Taking in 10,000 refugees just to say we did our part is not enough. Americans must not view refugees as a political tool but rather as kin more than worthy of our genuine assistance.

If we cannot embrace the immigrants within our borders, how can we expect to be of any substantial help to the refugees overseas? Until we can fathom how to appropriately treat people coming from other parts of the world, we will only throw refugees into the same situation that undocumented immigrants in the United States face.

Lam Nguyen in a sophomore in the College. but i digress appears every other Friday.

Alexander Bobroske

have lived in Ecuador and am now in South Africa, and in both places, I’ve experienced a full array of commentaries on my American nationality.

First, there are the paranoid people in South America who think I’m in the CIA. During my stay in Ecuador this summer, the country erupted in protests after its neardictator President Rafael Correa proposed a 77.5 percent inheritance tax on the highest income bracket. Anger at his crippling socialist policies, suppression of speech and expression and silencing of the political opposition finally lit a flame of public dissent.

Of course, he and his government wanted to downplay this rare, massive public display of protest, and thus blamed Westerners for its instigation. As much as I’d like to write “organizing a 400,000-person march in Guayaquil” on my resume, I have to give the Ecuadorian people credit where credit is due.

I lived close to the major protest spot in Quito at Parque Carolina and would often frequent it. As a conservative Republican, this was a rare life moment, as the masses in the streets were fighting for an ideological position that was also mine. I was not going to miss out.

The United States State Department and Georgetown University warned strongly against students nearing any protests, but despite government-influenced media reports of violence, the protestors were quite peaceful. I kept a low profile to be safe; I learned the hard way that if I spoke any English, I immediately drew attention from people around me. Sometimes I would speak Spanish with a lisp so as to try to seem like a white Spaniard rather than a white American.

As an American abroad, I carry the responsibility of our country’s foreign policy actions. Our nation’s decisions are ingrained in my identity.

Not everyone hates Americans, though. In Stellenbosch, South Africa, where I’m currently abroad, there are always people excited to meet an American. We are a minority of the students studying abroad here, overwhelmed by Germans and other Europeans. Not only are we small in numbers, but our accents are considered lekker — cool and exotic. I guess beauty is in the ear of the beholder.

I am repeatedly asked, “So, did you think we had lions roaming

the streets?” No, but considering the United States obsession with Cecil, I can’t be surprised you asked.

South Africans also regularly try to provoke a presumed American ignorance by asking “So, did you know white people live here?” Yes, yes I did. However, I did not expect to meet so many white students from Botswana, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Because they make up such tiny minorities in their countries, I feel I must have met all the young white people from South Af-

rica’s neighboring nations by now.

In Ecuador, I regularly talked politics with people when going out to bars or discotecas. As one new lawyer put it, this was his chance to change the world. He said that, despite his dream to, he couldn’t easily move to the United States, but this was an opportunity to share his personal experiences and maybe influence someone who could have future political influence back in the States.

Meanwhile, in South Africa, my African classmates often use the West as a go-to scapegoat when our international relations professor asks tough questions about the failures of the continent. One girl said she believes the United States deliberately tries to sabotage every single deal China makes with African countries, just for the sake of it.

With a long colonial history and the legacy of the Cold War, Africans have every right to call themselves victims and to mistrust the West.

Unfortunately, victimization will only ever lead to squandered aid and dependency rather than empowerment and self-sufficiency for African states. But I’ll save that debate for class.

As an American abroad, I carry the responsibility of our country’s foreign policy actions. Whether I voted for the government or not, our nation’s decisions are ingrained in my identity when I’m in foreign countries.

I can defend or at least explain certain actions the Obama administration makes, even though I generally disagree with the majority of them. Unfortunately, I tend to lack a solid defense of our pop culture. If someone reading this has a rational explanation for why so many people on social media are obsessed with cats, let me know.

Until then, I’ll continue taking the heat in pop culture interrogations while you watch your YouTube shows from bed and spoon Nutella out of a jar … or at least that’s what the South Africans are telling me.

Alexander Bobroske is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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VIEWPOINT • Crenshaw

Guess What I’m Going to Get Mad About?

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ver the past few months, I’ve seen an issue I care deeply about warp into a self-righteous, off-key operetta set in the Georgetown community.

Sexual assault policy reform, like that outlined in the Georgetown University Student Association’s recent memorandum of understanding, is an effort that requires respect for all positive contributions, sensitivity and thought.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m well aware of how frustrating this effort can be. In my time at Georgetown, I directly engaged with the university’s policies and procedures regarding sexual assault.

My ex-boyfriend of two years was abusive — physically, sexually, emotionally and verbally — and was suspended for two semesters after being found responsible for seven different Code of Student Conduct violations.

I thought it would be helpful for me to share my experience because I can speak to how our policies do not adequately protect victims of long-term abuse.

The way I and other survivors had and have been treated by our school is disgraceful. I see great potential in the MOU, specifically in the plan to re-evaluate staffing levels and in the goal to collect survivors’ stories, but I know from experience that Georgetown has much further to go.

I thought it would be helpful for me to share some major takeaways from my experience with the Office of Student Conduct — both because I can speak to how our policies do not adequately protect victims of long-term abuse and because I think this conversation needs to continue in a productive direction.

Here are some major problems I encountered and my best guess at how to address them. This list is part of a much longer document I am planning to pass on to administrators, with the encouragement of Jen Schweer — what you’re about to read is just the appetizer.

Insufficient language in the Code of Student Conduct “Dating violence” is defined in the code as “an offense against an intimate partner … that results in physical injury.” My ex would shove me, drag me (including, once, down a set of stairs), back me against walls, threaten to kill himself if I did not do as he wished, and yell at me for things as small as sitting in a different chair than he expected.

However, as none of these actions ever resulted in enduring physical injuries, Georgetown’s current code suggests that these were not instances of dating violence. I managed to convince my hearing panel otherwise because of the abundance of evidence for my ex’s abusive behavior, but misleading language in the code does everyone a disservice.

Similarly, our current definition of “sexual assault” reads “engaging in a sexual act with the use of force, use of threats or fear,” with force being “the use or threatened use of a weapon.”

Force does not have to be physically threatening to be legitimately coercive. My ex would threaten to dump me, refuse to speak to me and look at me for hours, and throw a fit when I declined sex. He became verbally angry and physically forceful when I wasn’t performing well enough for his standards. I was well aware of these stakes and under constant pressure: textbook sexual coercion.

Talking about force as an exclusively physical act is naive, and it merits a change in our current code.

Unsupportive faculty and staff At one of my first in-person meetings with the Georgetown University Police Department, an officer I had never met advised me against filing a formal complaint. He said that many young men just weren’t mature enough to handle romantic relationships with grace. This was “just how things are sometimes,” he said, as he shook his head and rolled his eyes. I would “do better to get over him.”

These kinds of comments are belittling, presumptive and unacceptable. Students would benefit from an online reporting system (perhaps similar to Georgetown’s bias reporting process) that allows students to note inappropriate pressure applied by staff members

in regard to their cases.

Egregiously long response times I first reached out to OSC June 22, 2014 looking for some details about the hearing process. I never received a response and sent a follow-up email July 5. I did not receive any response from OSC until July 17.

After much consideration, I filed a formal complaint with OSC Oct. 9. I sent several emails begging for next steps and check-ins, but I did not hear much about the progress of my case until Nov. 7, when Title IX Coordinator Rosemary Kilkenny explained that the delay in moving forward was because OSC had not hired and trained case investigators until Nov. 3.

Title IX mandates that the entire sexual misconduct reporting process, from the day a formal complaint is filed to the day that sanctions are delivered, should take no longer than 60 days.

This does not mean that the university has 50 days to shuffle its feet and 10 days to rush toward the finish line. Moving forward, I suggest that the OSC employee assigned to oversee each case be required to touch base with both the complainant and the respondent via email or phone at least twice a week in order to update them on any progress and ensure adherence to the proper timeframe.

I filed a formal complaint to know that I could stand up for myself. I fought endlessly in what my attorney called the worst case seen at Georgetown.

Sloppy management of suspension guidelines When my ex was told of his sanctions, OSC neglected to provide him with a map of campus.

Although his suspension stipulations barred him from campus, he visited The Tombs this past spring — an establishment located on university property. The GUPD was immediately responsive and assured me that my ex would face

expulsion once OSC staff returned Monday. An officer tailed him in the meantime.

Come Monday, I was told that, because OSC had not provided my ex with a map, his presence at The Tombs was plausibly accidental. It did not matter that he had tweeted about his intentions to come to an event in the Healey Family Student Center that same weekend, and it did not matter that he continued to skirt campus boundaries, with the GUPD trailing him. It also did not matter that, despite speaking with campus police officers on Saturday morning, my ex apparently did not leave the area until Tuesday — something that no one (not even the officer following him) thought to inform me of until well after he was gone.

From what I’ve heard through the grapevine, I am far from the only person this has happened to. OSC has repeatedly failed to keep complainants safe, delivering imprecise sanctions. Maps, lengthy definitions of terminology and highly specific guidelines for therapy and anger management classes should be prepared, with a respondent’s tendency to look for loopholes in mind.

This entire ordeal was unrelentingly hellish, but I should acknowledge that I’ve been wildly lucky. I had a kickass support system with me every minute. I had strong evidence for most of the charges filed, allowing me to present a successful case. Because I relished the opportunity to focus on other things, I stayed on top of my schoolwork.

I filed a formal complaint in the first place because I wanted to know that I could stand up for myself, and I fought endlessly in the face of what my attorney (who frequently works with D.C.-area schools) called the worst case she had ever seen at Georgetown. I don’t regret it.

That said, I can’t imagine what this process is like for someone less fortunate. For those who can barely leave their rooms due to depression or cannot be honest with their parents and friends, I imagine this process is nearly impossible to endure.

Reporting sexual misconduct or dating violence at Georgetown should contribute to complainants’ empowerment and sense of control. At present, it adds to their victimization. Let’s change that.

Emlyn Crenshaw is a graduate of the College in the Class of 2015.

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Papal Mass to Feature Dahlgren Chapel Cross TOBY HUNG

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For more than two decades, churchgoers at Dahlgren Chapel have prayed under an iron cross that accompanied the voyage of the first settlers from England to Maryland in 1634. When Pope Francis conducts his first service at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception next Wednesday, the same cross will hang on the altar above him, in view of thousands of worshippers.

Since it was first discovered in the university’s archives in 1989, the 4-foot tall cross has served as an iconic symbol of not only Georgetown’s Jesuit tradition, but also the expansion of the Catholic faith in America.

Fr. G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., who was responsible for the discovery of the cross, said that the use of the cross at the papal mass is significant, particularly because it was used in the first Catholic mass in an English-speaking colony in the Americas.

“The most important artifact that we can lay out for [Pope Francis’] appreciation is this cross,” Murphy said. “The cross is a symbol of both Catholicism and religious liberty at the same time.”

The Archdiocese of Washington first issued a request for the cross to be featured on the altar of the basilica during the organization of the papal mass.

Director of Music, Liturgy and Catholic Life Jim Wickman delivered the cross to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last Thursday in preparation for the pope’s mass.

Wickman said that the cross signifies a connection between Georgetown, the oldest Jesuit university in the country, and Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope in history.

“In a sense, having the Dahlgren Chapel cross at this mass is having a piece of Georgetown at the mass with the Holy Father, and that is so important to us as the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the U.S.,” Wickman wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Wickman also chose three students who regularly attended mass at Dahlgren Chapel, Spencer Crawford (SFS ’16), Caroline Musslewhite (COL ’16) and Francesca Vullo (COL ’16), to accompany him during the delivery. The three students wrapped the cross in a blanket and carried it onto a car that took them to the basilica.

Crawford said that the cross is a symbol of the university’s interreligious values.

“When I see the cross at the mass that Pope Francis will be celebrating, I’ll think of my Hindu friends, my Muslim friends and my Catholic friends at Georgetown, and how Georgetown really fosters interreligious dialogue in our personal, spiritual lives,” Crawford said.

The cross made its journey to America in 1634 onboard the Ark and the Dove, two ships that carried primarily Catholics to Maryland from England, where Catholics were being persecuted at the time.

Murphy also noted that the Ark and the Dove carried many Protestant passengers, making the cross a symbol of tolerance between the two religions.

“The boats were filled with a mixed population of Catholics and Protestants,” Murphy said. “[The cross] stands for the voyagers’ commitment to the Catholic faith despite persecution in England, and also that ‘we will be respectful for other people of other faiths.’”

According to Murphy, it was likely that the cross was made with iron on the voyage. Musslewhite said that the simple construction of the cross relates to Pope Francis’ messages.

“It was a way to use what they had in front of them, even if it was pretty simple, to remind themselves of God’s presence in their lives, of goodness, of love and of sacrifice,” Musslewhite wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “This fits exactly with the Pope’s message for greater unity among all people and respect for the dignity of all.”

In addition to the cross, the pilgrims also carried eight cannons, two of which were given to the university and placed outside of Healy Hall in 1888.

When the settlers arrived, the cross was used to mark a building, likely a school attached to a priest house, as Christian. Eventually, the cross was brought to Georgetown, though the identity of its deliverer remains a mystery. The cross sat in storage for years until Murphy rediscovered it.

Murphy recalled that his discovery of the cross began when he was driving from New Jersey to Georgetown in 1989. When he stopped by St. Francis Xavier Church by the Eastern Shore route, he saw a replica of an iron cross, with an inscription indicating that the original cross was at Georgetown.

“I was so shocked. At the time, I was a director at Georgetown and I said, ‘I know nothing about this.

I’ve never heard of a cross that came from the original spot,’” Murphy said.

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The Dahlgren Chapel cross, which was discovered in a storage space in Healy Hall by Fr. G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. (pictured), in 1989, will be featured at Pope Francis’ mass at Catholic University next Wednesday.

When he returned to Georgetown, Murphy contacted the university archivist and was directed to a storage space in the south tower of Healy Hall.

Murphy said that his discovery of the cross in the room was almost accidental.

“I looked over to the right and there were swords, sabers and more

muskets, and I thought, ‘I want to go over there and see that stuff.’ As I was walking over, I almost tripped and fell because on the floor, on a wooden pallet, was an iron cross. I knew right away when I looked at it that this was it,” Murphy said.

Following its rediscovery, the cross was installed in Dahlgren Chapel as part of the university’s bicen-

tennial celebration.

Murphy said that the Pope’s message aligns with Georgetown’s mission.

“The passengers [on the Ark and the Dove] were extremely tolerant and appreciative of each other, and that made its way years later into the prospectus of Georgetown, which says that we’ll gladly admit students of other faiths,” Murphy said.

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Book Launch Highlights Struggles of Returning Veterans Ashwin Puri Hoya Staff Writer

Philosophy professor Nancy Sherman presented her new book on post-bellum effects on veterans called “Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers,” Wednesday at an event hosted by the Mortara Center for International Studies.

The event consisted of a conversation between Sherman and Mortara Center Director Kathleen McNamara, who spoke at the launch of her own book, “The Politics of Everyday Europe,” last week. Sherman’s launch was followed by a question-and-answer session with attendees.

McNamara began the hour-long event by introducing Sherman and her diverse background, which spans a wide range of academic disciplines such as psychoanalysis and ethics. McNamara also said that Sherman’s professional experiences, which includes visiting Guantanamo Bay Detention Center as part of an independent observation team, makes her uniquely qualified to write a book focused on the morality and psychology of veterans.

In addition to her vast academic background, McNamara also mentioned Sherman’s previous critically-acclaimed works, including “The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers and Stoic Warriors,” which acted as a strong foundation in military ethics that allowed her to write “Afterwar.”

Sherman said she wrote “Afterwar” in response to her personal inquiry into understanding soldiers’ moral perspectives after returning to civilian life. In her discussion, Sherman said she was inspired to write the book after teaching veterans at Georgetown.

“I wanted to do something a little more post-bellum, partly because of my setting here at Georgetown. I was teaching a lot of veterans ... and they were coming and feeling very alienated, so I had this sense that I wanted to talk to them,” Sherman said.

Sherman then spoke to the importance of addressing veterans when they return from service from a moral perspective, recognizing the stigma that mental health issues hold within the U.S. health system. “[Veterans] are in quiet ways … feeling a lot of anguish, not quite

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Professor Nancy Sherman discussed the challenges faced by veterans returning to civilian life from war zones and potential policy proposals at the launch event of her new book, “Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers,” at the Mortara Center Wednesday. knowing how to say it, not knowing how to begin the conversation, in a country that nationally has an epidemic of mental health issues and a stigma surrounding it,” Sherman said.

Sherman also detailed specific case studies she used in her research for “Afterwar,” including an account from Navy seaman Alysha Haran who experienced sexism and depression while serving on a Navy destroyer.

Sherman said that veterans often feel unable to engage with civilians on mental health issues due to societal distance placed between the “war and the warrior.”

“People were coming home strug-

gling with the stigma of mental health, and not knowing how to begin conversations in a country that learned to separate the war from the warrior. We’ve got, the ‘Vietnam Hangover’ ... and one of the ways to politely separate the war from the warrior is to say ‘thank you for your service’ without doing anything,” Sherman said.

Lastly, Sherman suggested policy proposals that may help ease veterans back into civilian life. Specifically, she stressed the importance of across-the-board mental health reform in the United States, coupled with more extensive followup with service members after returning home.

Brittany Fried (SFS ’19), who attended the event, said she thoroughly enjoyed the intimate setting of the event and its conversational nature.

“I thought it was very engaging.

It was really nice to have the personal stories and so much time for question-and-answer. I thought the conversation setting was very well done,” Fried said.

Santul Nerkar (COL ’19) said he learned about the importance of showing appreciation and care for veterans returning from service.

“I think there needs to be a better education of us, and we need more of an accepting role, more of a responsibility of this war and of sol-

diers that come back. That’s where the real patriotism lies, not in the war itself, but in the response afterwards,” Nerkar said.

Fried said the event helped her understand the role civilians can play in helping to facilitate the recuperation of veterans.

“I very much agree that a lot of [the solution] lays in education, and although we may not be able to completely emphasize because we haven’t been through the situation ourselves,” Fried said. “It’s important to be able to understand potential war wounds and how we can be a large part of helping them to recuperate and become a part of society again.”

GUMC Heads Research Patricja Okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University Medical Center Memory Disorders Program Director Scott Turner worked as the principal investigator in the largest ever nationwide clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s disease drug called Resveratrol.

Turner’s research found that a biomarker involved in the progression of the disease stabilized when patients received a purified form of resveratrol, a compound found in high levels in red wine, red grapes, red wine juice, chocolate and tomatoes.

GUMC Executive Dean Edward Healton said Turner’s leadership helped make the trial a success.

“Dr. Turner conceived and designed this clinical trial,” Healton said. “To see it come to fruition with a promising path forward speaks to the leadership he brings to Georgetown.

The Memory Disorders Program Dr. Turner directs is one of the most robust clinical trials programs in the Washington area and one of the largest in the country.”

In the United States, five million people currently have Alzheimer’s disease. According to Turner, this number is expected to double by 2050 due to increased life expectancy and population growth.

The study, which ran from 2012 to 2014, included 119 par-

ticipants and 26 medical centers across the country.

Half of the participants took a placebo capsule that looked identical to the original resveratrol drug, while the other half took the drug itself. Additionally, the study was double blind, meaning neither patients nor clinical staff were aware of who was receiving the resveratrol capsules and who was receiving the placebo capsules.

For one year, participants regularly took the oral capsules.

The dose increased every three months, and by the end, individuals were taking one gram of resveratrol twice daily — a dose equivalent to the amount of the compound found in 1,000 bottles of red wine.

The trial results demonstrated that a protein called amyloidbeta40 was stabilized in individuals who took resveratrol.

Normally, these proteins would be depleted due to dementia.

In addition, research found that resveratrol penetrated the blood-brain barrier.

Turner commented on the results of the trial and highlighted patient reaction to the high doses of resveratrol.

“We proved that high doses of resveratrol were safe and well-tolerated in older individuals with Alzheimer’s disease,” Turner said. “The major side effect was weight loss of about two pounds over 12 months in the resveratrol-treated group.”

However, Turner also noted

that definite conclusions about resveratrol intake and its relationship to delaying dementia cannot be drawn solely from the study.

“We cannot conclude from this study that resveratrol is beneficial — a larger Phase 3 trial will address that question,” Turner said. “We are not recommending resveratrol supplements or consuming more than one glass of red wine daily. However, several studies have shown that a Mediterranean diet may delay the onset of dementia.”

John Bozza, one of the patients in the study, was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and then mild Alzheimer’s a year later. He and his wife Diana Bozza decided to participate in the study.

“I definitely want the medical community to find a cure,” Bozza said in a GUMC press release.

“And of course I thought there’s always a chance that John could have been helped, and who knows, maybe he was.”

Turner said the study is a step toward discovering new and more effective treatments of Alzheimer’s disease.

“We have many studies in progress testing new treatments for Alzheimer’s,” Turner said. “Most of these are focused directly on blocking amyloid production or promoting its clearance. Finding more effective treatments is critical when you consider the size of our aging baby boomer population.”

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The GUMC Memory Disorders Program completed a nationwide survey, examining the effects of the Resveratrol drug on people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.

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GUSA, Administration Issue MOU Students Abroad Confirmed Safe After Earthquake POLICY, from A1

progress they have made with the administration on the issue.

“We are thrilled that we can play a role in making Georgetown a more survivor-centric community,” Rohan said.

“We only had two serious things on our platform when we were running, and one of them was sexual assault, so it’s good to see concrete progress in that.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, who participated in the negotiations and signed the memorandum on behalf of the university, said that he was content with the outcome of the memorandum.

“I am enthused about the collaborative work with students that led to this MOU,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I am very grateful to everyone involved for their commitment and care around these vital issues.”

Olson also said the university will be sure to stay committed to the agreements made in the MOU. “We are publicly signing this MOU, and thus saying to the campus community that we will take these actions,” Olson wrote. “We are committed to following through on each of the commitments.”

The MOU details responsibilities for both GUSA and the administration to meet the shared objectives, with specific deadlines set for many of the commitments.

Both parties will engage with Health Education Services, the Women’s Center and other offices to develop an ongoing, comprehensive and far-reaching bystander education program, which will be implemented by next March.

Students and administrators have also agreed to improve the quality and quantity of marketing channels for survivor resources, including a redesign of the university’s sexual assault website and the placement of resource contact information on the back of GOCards, starting with these of the Class of 2020.

The university will also conduct a thorough campus climate survey by mid-January 2016. The CCS is a common instrument used by universities to comprehend incidents of and attitudes toward sexual violence on their campus.

The university will also move forward with its plan to hire a full-time Title IX coordinator, which began over a year ago. The administration will extend in-

terview dates to final candidates by the end of the month. The role is currently filled by Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny, who is assisted by several deputy coordinators.

Kilkenny did not reply to a request for comment on the MOU. In addition to the above specific commitments, both GUSA and administrators will continue to evaluate existing policies, with biweekly meetings scheduled between the two parties.

Rohan said GUSA will continue to seek student input throughout the process.

“As we created this memorandum, we consulted with a bunch of students from a bunch of organizations and a lot of survivors of sexual assault. As we move forward, we’re still going to engage with these groups and individuals,” Rohan said.

GUSA Secretary of Student Safety Maddy Moore (SFS ’17) said that although GUSA and the administration shared mutual interests, the two parties were not able to immediately agree on the issue of covering financial costs for survivors.

“Something that was left out of the conversation on the MOU … is the ongoing discussion about absorbing sur-

“I hope that ... students will see tangible ways to get involved.”

OLIVIA HINERFELD (SFS ’17) Student

vivors’ financial costs due to their experiences, which would include some type of housing accommodation, medical accommodation and [coverage of] paperwork fees,” Moore said. “That’s something we definitely want to push for.”

GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) said that GUSA will prioritize this concern as dialogue with the university continues.

“That’s one of the first things we’ll be talking about,” Luther said. “That has big financial implications, so we have to find out what’s reasonable and what’s

required and how we can make this the most survivor-centric.”

The initial conversation between GUSA and the administration was scheduled in mid-July, after an opinion piece in The Hoya co-authored by Zoe Dobkin (SFS ’16) and Willa Murphy (“I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors,” thehoya.com, July 21, 2015) was widely shared across the university community. The piece, which detailed Murphy’s experience with the university and subsequent expulsion following her rape, ignited dialogue about sexual assault at Georgetown.

The movement gained further momentum when Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17), another survivor of sexual assault, shared her experiences in a viewpoint published in The Hoya (“A Shared Obligation,” thehoya.com, July 29, 2015).

In less than a month following the publication of the first opinion piece, students met with administrators Aug. 10 to discuss policy reform.

Hinerfeld said that she hopes the MOU will cause students and administrators to take concrete action against sexual assault.

“I hope that students will see the number of different changes Georgetown is committed to enacting, and I hope that through these changes, students will see tangible ways to get involved,” Hinerfeld wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Hinerfeld also said that she was optimistic about the continued efforts of students and administrators to improve the environment for survivors on campus.

“The negotiations these past few weeks have made it more clear to me than ever before that the administrators in these meetings care deeply about serving students,” Hinerfeld wrote.

“Through continued collaboration, the administration, GUSA and student activists will hold each other accountable and follow through on our obligations.”

In light of the tangible agreements made by GUSA and the administration, Moore said it is important for the community to continue its involvement in the issue.

“It’s an important step, but it’s important to clarify that it’s a continuation of the activism that’s been happening on campus for the last decade,” Moore said. “We want to keep the conversation going, and that’s going to take a lot of work.”

EARTHQUAKE, from A1 students are fine. The Office of Global Education has also reached out to the Georgetown students directly, to offer any support or additional services as needed.”

Madeline Sposato (SFS ’17) and Sophia Wood (SFS ’17) are currently studying in Santiago, 145 miles away from the epicenter.

“In all honesty, I realized we were shaking but didn’t realize it was that large a quake until I saw Chileans running towards the escalators in a panic,” Sposato wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We’ve been notifying our families and friends back home on our status and those of other fellow Georgetown students with whom we’ve been in contact. We’ve made a point to look out for our friends in the program.”

Wood added that they were never threatened by tsunami warnings, which were issued closer to the earthquake’s epicenter.

“We were having tea when his grandma came in to tell us there was a tremor, which was about when I started to feel it,” Wood added. “We are far from the water here, so the tsunami warnings were not applicable to us; we just

made sure that everyone we knew was safe.”

Matt Raab (SFS ’17) is studying abroad in Santiago, and said that the earthquake was stronger than usual (full disclosure: Raab is a staff writer for The Hoya).

“We get small earthquakes that Chileans refer to as temblors all the time,” Raab wrote in an email. “But then it kept getting stronger, things started to shake, and my host family started to look a little disconcerted.”

R a a b highlighted Georgetown’s rapid reMATT RAAB (SFS ’17) s p o n s e ( to the situation through both the CIEE and the Office of Global Education.

“Georgetown support has been great,” Raab wrote. “The CIEE program here in Santiago has plenty of planning in place for earthquakes like these, which aren’t extremely uncommon here. The Office of Global Education has reached out to us to make sure we’re all okay, and I feel like I have all the support I could need.

Things are going back to normal here, and people are moving on for the most part.”

“It kept getting stronger, things started to shake, and my host family started to look a little disconcerted.”

Hoya Staff Writer Katherine Richardson contributed reporting.

Royal Alumnus Returns to Launch Conference SPAIN, from A1 graduation with contributions to the Georgetown Leadership Seminar.

The prince was an active part of the student community and even enjoyed playing squash at Yates Field House, according to a 2014 article published by the university.

Shortly before ascending to the throne in the summer of 2014, he created and served as chair of a Georgetown Global Forum in Madrid called “Momento España.”

Although much of King Felipe’s speech at the meeting was in Spanish, he concluded in English, thanking the university and alluding to his time as a graduate student.

“This institution is really close to my heart. As you know, it con-

tributed to my personal and intellectual education in such a way that I will always be grateful and honored,” the king said. “Today the queen and I would also like to show our deep appreciation of the warm welcome you offered us … and for opening your doors to our delegation, to this group of Spanish scientists who are wonderful ambassadors for the talent and innovation from Spain.”

Following the discussion in Riggs Library, the king and queen left Healy Hall and greeted members of the Georgetown community on their walk to dinner, held in an enclosed tent on Copley Lawn.

In addition to DeGioia, several other faculty members, including SFS Dean Joel Hellman, attended Wednesday’s festivities.

BMW Center for German and

European Studies Director Jeffery Anderson met the king and queen at the dinner.

“I use the terms ‘pride’ and ‘joy.’

It was a joyful event on both sides,” Anderson said. “We’re obviously very proud of all that he’s accomplished, and at the same time, one could tell that he was very happy to be back. I’ve heard from many people who are close to the king how much he remembers fondly his Georgetown experience and how much he enjoys returning, and so you could see that on his face and on the queen’s face.”

Anderson added that he is optimistic about the future of scientific collaboration between Spain and the United States, given the success of the King Felipe’s visit.

“It’s hard to say what will come out of it, but there’s obviously a

huge amount of goodwill and it’s building on very established relationships, both within the United States and across the Atlantic with Spain, so this can only further help the development of this important area for both the United States and Spain, but also for Georgetown too,” Anderson said. “It was great to see Georgetown on the map for this important initiative.”

Georgetown University Police Department officers were stationed around the front lawns throughout the evening and closed off all walkways in front of Copley and Healy Halls as the king and queen made their way to dinner. The police team allowed the first community members who lined up to stop and take pictures with the royals.

GUPD Chief Jay Gruber said the

department worked alongside the Secret Service to ensure the event was safe.

“We do a lot of walkthroughs with the office of protocols here at the university and with the organization that’s protecting that particular person, and in this case it was the Secret Service,” Gruber said.

He added that there were no security issues, and described the evening as a success.

“I think it was a very successful event. I think it was a wonderful event for the university that went off on our end without a hitch,” Gruber said.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia also toured Mount Vernon and the White House earlier in the week, as part of their first official visit to the United States.

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King Felipe VI (GRD ’95) and Queen Letizia of Spain visited the university Wednesday evening, both attending the launch of a science conference in Riggs Library and a dinner in their honor on Copley Lawn. The three-day conference includes several Spanish scientists and aims to increase academic collaboration between Spain and the United States.

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Survey Studies Student Values SURVEY, from A1 School of Nursing and Health Studies and McDonough School of Business students will help researchers better compare the SFS in D.C. to SFS-Q. The majority of the questions for the survey are based on questions included in the World Values Survey, a questionnaire administered by an international group of social scientists to respondents around the world over the last 20 years. The WVS has been circulated throughout approximately 100 countries.

Shambaugh said that the survey will explore the effects of a Georgetown education on students, but will also examine how cultural and societal shifts change perceptions of topics such as the government’s role in the economy, abortion and LGBTQ issues.

“What [this] means is that we can compare these things about Georgetown with the general population,” Shambaugh said. “Are [students] more or less open to the sort of cultural and social changes that are affecting the U.S. and world or the Catholic Church more broadly? To me, it’s a really curious question.”

Some of the questions on the survey are more Georgetown-specific, as part of the researchers’ efforts to track how uniquely Georgetown experiences might shape a student’s development over four years.

These include questions about how a student may have been influenced by classes taught by a Jesuit priest, engagement in public outreach programs and study abroad experiences.

“These are all things we assume … have an influence or impact, but it hasn’t really been tracked, not at Georgetown nor more broadly in the U.S. educational system,” Shambaugh said.

The survey also tests the knowledge of respondents on the history of international affairs, including a question that asks survey-takers what the Washington Consensus is.

Shambaugh also acknowledged that the survey may contain biases due to the fact that students self-select to participate, but said that there are certain ways of correcting for that selection bias.

“We know what the student population looks like in terms of gender, race and religion, so we can weigh the responses based on those characteristics so the sample we’re analyzing is weighted to reflect the population of the student body,” Shambaugh said.

Shambaugh said that he believes the survey is a unique opportunity for students to share their beliefs.

“I think the ability to compare yourself to your peers is really kind of interesting,” Shambaugh said. “It’s a fun opportunity and I encourage everybody whose thinking about it but hasn’t participated to do so.”

Lydia Bubniak (SFS ’18), who participated in the survey, said that she found taking the survey to be a thought-provoking experience.

“For a few questions, I really had to stop and think about “Okay, what do I think I’m supposed to say versus what I actually feel,’” Bubniak said.

“The fact is that not everyone has the same cultural values.”

However, Bubniak was also critical of the simplicity of some parts of the survey.

“There were some things I wanted to explain and some questions where the answers weren’t completely black or white. … In some ways the survey was a little too simplistic.”

Grace Smith (COL ’18), another participant in the survey, said that it pushed her to think of other cultural perspectives.

“I appreciated having the opportunity to voice my opinion. Some questions seemed so straightforward, and the answer seems incredibly clear, but the survey also acted as a nice reminder that we all fall on a spectrum in terms of our beliefs and that there are other valid opinions out there,” Smith said.

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Hills to Lead New GULC Business Program Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

The Washington Post President and General Manager Stephen Hills announced he will leave his post to assume a new position as founding director of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Business Skills Program, effective in January.

GULC Dean William Treanor said the new program will broaden the range of educational opportunities its students receive.

“One of the things that emerged from it is that we should be teaching students a broader range of competencies than just teaching them how to think like a lawyer,” Treanor said.

“We should be teaching them to understand accounting and finance.

We should teach them project management. We should teach them a broader range of skills than is traditional of law school.”

“I’m very excited. I think that Georgetown has some of the best and brightest law students in the country, and so the idea to be able to spend time with people of that caliber is really exciting.”

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Business Skills Program, Founding Director

Hills will work with law school faculty to develop a curriculum for the program, which will focus on teaching law students about the business sector, project management and organization. Any student enrolled in the law school is eligible to participate in January.

“It’s really about trying to understand what business is really like, not just taking a full course in accounting or a full course in mergers and acquisitions,” Hills said. “A survey course, an overview of this, [will] try to prepare law students for either a career in business, a career in business law or to be a lawyer running a

firm and to deal with actually managing a business.”

Hills added that experiences from his 28-year tenure at The Washington Post have influenced the broader themes of the new program.

“There are lessons across the board in every discipline that can be learned about leadership, about innovation, about marketing, about finance organizational structure and behavior that, in the course of my Washington Post career, I really got to draw on,” Hills said.

Professors Peter Byrne, Naomi Mezey, Anna Gelpern, Jeff Bowman, Don Langevoort and Bob Thompson have been working with Hills throughout the development of the program.

Gelpern said the program aligns with Georgetown’s goal of preparing law students for a range of opportunities in the legal field.

“We’re not preparing folks with a particular set of skills for a limited set of occupations,” Gelpern said. “We’re really preparing folks for leadership positions and a wide range of possibilities, and I think today it is especially important given the evolution of the legal marketplace. … Training in entrepreneurship is immensely important in any number of jobs.”

Gelpern added that she is hopeful the program will teach a mix of entrepreneurial skills with an experiential and practical focus.

“My hope for the program is that it is not just advanced business — that to me would not be the right way to use this opportunity,” Gelpern said.

“I think it’s a way to take entrepreneurial skills broadly defined and combine them with the publicspiritedness of our institution, the policy focus, as well as our strength in business, finance and regulation.”

Treanor said GULC is also looking to add courses to the business skills curriculum as the program expands in addition to previous initiatives, such as offering a financial literacy boot camp taught by the McDonough School of Business faculty members and externship short courses.

“I think we’ll have more courses such as project management, organizational behavior, strategic planning that are offered at the law school,” Treanor said. “We’ll be thinking through how to take what are traditionally business school

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Georgetown University Law Center will launch a Business Skills Program in January, led by Stephen Hills, formerly of The Washington Post. courses and adapting them for law students.”

Treanor added that the program may also prepare students for careers specifically in business law.

“It’s an innovative program; it’s not something that you see at other law schools,” Treanor said. “At a time of challenge in the legal profession, we think it responds to the needs that we have to prepare our students for their professional careers, so I could not be more excited about this program.”

Hills also said he is looking for-

ward to his new career as a professor, which will allow him to interact with Georgetown students.

“I’m very excited. I think that Georgetown has got some of the best and brightest law students in the country, and so the idea to be able to spend time with people of that caliber is really exciting,” Hills said.

“A lot of what I’m going to hope for and look forward to is actually having the students teach each other because that to me is the best: a lot of participation, a lot of case study work, very few lectures.”

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GUTS Bus Lines Rerouted, Spark Commuter Criticism Daniel Silbert Hoya Staff Writer

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Residents and tourists in New York City signed the first “The World We Want” wall last September. The art installation comes to Washington, D.C. this Friday.

Art Project Arrives in DC Lucy Pash

Hoya Staff Writer

“The World We Want,” a public community art movement that originated in Brooklyn, N.Y., is launching hundreds of new projects around the world this month, including one on 11th Street NE and another on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Washington, D.C. Sept. 18.

Participants write on chalkboard-like walls that display two prompts, reading, “I want to live in a world where...,” and “To create this world, I will.…” New York artist Amber Rae created the first project in September 2014. One year later, this September marks the World We Want Month, with the opening of hundreds of new art installations. One wall in D.C. will be located east of the Potomac, in an under-resourced area with lower-income residents, many of whom have been removed from their homes as a result of rising prices. Local business Frager’s Hardware donated all of the materials required for the wall.

Think Local First, an organization that aims to represent the local business community and increase sustainable economic development, is one of the hosts, or “makers,” of the D.C. wall.

Makers take a pledge to celebrate their commitment to bring their communities together and

their attempt to lead by example through conscious action.

Think Local First Director Omeed Tabiei described the connection that the wall has established between D.C. communities on opposite sides of the Potomac, which are typically different in terms of income and lifestyle.

“As someone who lives west of the river, I have not heard of the community at large until I actually brought this project before their community and have gotten to know a number of people there,” Tabiei said. “I’m very thankful for that, because I’ve gotten a firsthand understanding of that community. … I don’t say that as the hero that’s going to be connecting these two communities, but that is ultimately what the goal of the project is.”

WithLoveDC, a movement that seeks to deepen community connections through events such as yoga and group projects, is also a host. Director and founder of WithLoveDC Heather Markowitz additionally highlighted the positive impact the wall will have on the D.C. community.

“It’s a platform for people to express their dreams and goals and ideals for the world that they want to live in, and also reflect on how they are a part of that change,” Markowitz said.

“And how it’s one thing to wish for a better world, but another to

stand back and recognize your place in it, and know that you’re also responsible for making the world a better place.”

Project Propel, the third host of the wall, is a startup company based in D.C. that facilitates programs for disadvantaged people in Manila, Philippines.

One of its main projects is creating urban gardens and running health modules with community members. Project Propel Director Roberta Plantak stressed the importance of creating honest candid environments so a community can progress. She said this is especially applicable to a city like D.C., where issues of race, politics and socio-economic status arise everyday.

“This is going to create dialogue,” Plantak said. “D.C. is very overlooked in that regard.

I really value community dialogue . ... Each one of these gardens can feed, and provide a financial/job opportunity forh modules with commmembes all around. ...We feel that this is a beautiful way to bring the residents of D.C. together to share their goals and visions for a better world, and to reflect on what each of us can do to take the steps closer to make these dreams a reality.”

After the walls open in D.C., any community members may sign it.

Defector Shares Experience Giovanna AZEVEDO Hoya Staff Writer

Jeong Kwang-il, a former political prisoner at Camp Yodok in North Korea, spoke about his experiences in the camp at an event hosted by Truth and Human Rights in North Korea Thursday at the Mortara Center.

Jeong was arrested by the North Korean government in 1999 after he contacted a South Korean citizen while he was on a trip to China. After he was tortured, he falsely confessed to being a spy and was sent to the camp.

Jeong then spent three years in the camp, where he and other prisoners were forced into hard labor under brutal conditions.

He was released in 2003 after a senior guard determined he had been wrongly accused.

One month after his release, he escaped North Korea, arriving in South Korea a year later. Once there, he became involved with various advocacy movements to raise awareness within North Korea about human rights violations and to bring information from the rest of the world into the country.

Jeong said that while he was at Yodok, he found that many of the other prisoners shared similar experiences of wrongful imprisonment.

“There were so many people there who weren’t actual political enemies, but who simply uttered something that was deemed offensive,” Jeong said.

“They were sent to a prison camp, or tried to escape to China and were arrested by Chinese

authorities and ended up in Yodok.”

According to Jeong, prisoners faced daily abuse from guards.

The prisoners’ labor consisted of pulling weeds and cutting logs.

Jeong said that prisoners who fell behind in their work faced beatings or other punishments.

“At Yodok, prisoners were forced to work 16 hours a day, which was very physically demanding,” Jeong said. “If you did not complete your assigned work quota, you were not given food for that particular day. It was a very difficult situation.”

Jeong said that prisoners worked from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. and were only permitted to eat one bowl of rice and vegetable soup. At the end of every day, Jeong said that they were forced to take a class for political reeducation and were not allowed to sleep until they memorized what they had learned.

“What I experienced at Yoda was inhumane and the time that I spent there is indescribable,” Jeong said. “When I first came to South Korea and began my life as a resettled defector, I could not sleep at night because I could still see the faces of my fellow inmates at Yodok.”

In 2009, Jeong began to send outside information into his home country. He started off by sending CDs and DVDs, and eventually began sending information through USB flash drives.

“When I myself was living in North Korea, I had no contact with information from outside and I feel that people in North Korea need to know about what

is going on outside the country,” Jeong said. “After I came out of North Korea, I saw how important it was to send information.”

Jeong said that the purpose of this information is to create a sense of awareness for the North Korean residents and to educate them on ideas like democracy and freedom.

In response to an audience question about the future of North Korea, Jeong expressed optimism.

“I can’t look into the future, but regarding Kim Jong Un, a regime like that can’t last forever,” Jeong responded. “In due time, I believe that change will happen.”

Julia Rhodes (SFS ’18) said that she was moved by the event.

“I thought the event was particularly powerful because the issue of human rights abuses in North Korea seems almost surreal,” Rhodes said. “It is very grounding to see this story embodied in one single person and I think that it…makes this nightmare seem all the more real.”

Min Joo Lee (SFS ’18) said that the topic of the event was personally relevant to her.

“To us South Koreans, North Koreans are not just anybody.

They are actually part of some families who are living in South Korea and are in great pain because of this repressive regime,” Joo Lee said. “This is very personal to me, firstly as a human being, and also as a student who is studying foreign policy. This is what we study for, [and] these are the kind of situations that we want to make better after going through a Georgetown education.”

The university is moving forward with plans to reroute four of the five Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle bus lines by late October, which has sparked negative responses from bus commuters.

The rerouting plans were initiated by the Office of Planning and Facilities Management following the announcement of the 2010 Campus Plan, which included neighborhood input to minimize the use of residential streets in bus routes.

With the exception of the Wisconsin Avenue route, the new bus lines will exit campus via Canal Road. The campus bus stops for these buses will also move to the front of McDonough Gymnasium, as opposed to the current bus stops on the north side of campus that leave via Reservoir Road for the Dupont Circle line and Prospect Street for the Rosslyn, Arlington and Law Center routes.

According to Vice President of Planning and Facilities Robin Morey, the buses will pass through fewer residential areas of the neighborhood with the new routes.

“What it’s trying to accomplish is keeping the buses out of the neighborhoods,” Morey said. “You can imagine you have these narrow Georgetown streets and these diesel buses driving down, so it’s very disruptive to the homeowners that live there.”

The university has run tests to determine how the altered routes will affect transit times, though the precise changes are hard to determine.

“It remains to be seen,” Morey said. “Some routes will save five or six minutes in the morning, and in the evening during peak time, we expect it could be ten minutes longer.”

A bus turnaround will be constructed in front of McDonough Arena that will enable buses to come in and out via Canal Road without having to drive across the main campus. In December, the university will also construct a sheltered area where commuters can sit while waiting for the buses.

Morey said that the route changes will benefit both the neighborhood and the university. “[The Campus Plan] gave us the benefit of keeping the transportation hub on the perimeter of the campus, and … we increased our storm water retention, so we improve our sustainability,” Morey said. “We’re not running the buses through campus, which is a safety issue, and we want the campus to be more pedestrian-friendly.”

Morey said that the rerouting project will add new trees and a rain garden to the bus stop.

Despite the university’s assertion that the new bus routes will remain efficient, the changes were poorly received by many riders, particularly employees of Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.

Many employees, as well as students and faculty, who commute to the hospital rely on the Dupont

Circle bus, which currently stops directly outside of the hospital.

The new pick-up spot in front of McDonough is roughly a 10-minute walk from the entrance to the hospital.

“It’s a pain,” Kim Zagory, an administrative assistant at the hospital, said. “It’s a long walk and that’s problematic, particularly for patients who may have mobility problems or people who are ill. It’s a hospital.”

In response, the university plans to have a 10-person golf cart called a jitney that will shuttle riders to and from the hospital and bus stop. The jitney is primarily intended to accommodate mobility impairments, though it will be available for all riders.

Other commuters indicated that they were more accepting of the change in the bus routes. “[It’s] a little annoying, but it doesn’t impact me that much since I already take the Rosslyn bus over here,” Charlotte Valentine (GRD ’17) said. “There’s a lot more traffic exiting near Reservoir Road than there is Canal Road so I understand why they’re changing it, but it’s going to be a long walk in the winter.”

Despite these complaints, Morey said that the university has not experienced any official pushback over the rerouting of the GUTS buses.

“Overall it will be a net benefit, but change is tough sometimes, and it will be a little challenging when we first start,” Morey said.

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Four of the five GUTS bus lines will be rerouted by the end of October.

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One-Day Parklets Open in Georgetown PARKS, from A10

Handsfield said that Georgetown’s participation in the event will give local residents a chance to interact with their community in spaces that are geared toward them, rather than tourists.

“Since Georgetown is a tourism economy, this is usually the locals saying how much they like [parklets]… and so it definitely caters to the local economy and the local crowd in a way that maybe not all the other park spaces do,” Handsfield said.

The Urban Land Institute, which is participating in the event for the first time, is featuring a one-hole mini golf course, a LEGO building station and seating for passersby in its parklet.

Sara Hammerschmidt, director of the Building Healthy Places Initiative at the Urban Land Institute, said that the ULI’s parklet fits right into the mission of the urban planning organization.

“I think this is raising awareness for the general public because you can really see how your city can be designed in different ways,” Hammerschmidt said.

Baked & Wired, which is participating in the initiative for the third consecutive year, is featuring a community-centered parklet outside of its store that includes benches made out of reclaimed railroad tracks, fresh grass and a chalk-drawing space.

Baked & Wired Operations Director Tessa Velazquez said that the initiative offers an incredible opportunity for community building.

“I think it’s great because it really brings people living in a city together in a real outdoor space,” Velazquez said. “I see all kinds of different people from college students to old people to young people to kids all kind of gathering in this outdoor parklet. And I think that that’s what makes it so special.”

Baked & Wired has plans to add a permanent parklet to the front of its store by the spring, building on the success of its participation in Park(ing) day for the past two years.

Handsfield said that other permanent parklets in Georgetown may be added after the one in front of Baked & Wired on Thomas Jefferson Street.

The parklet in front of Luke’s Lobster is offering outdoor seating for restaurant patrons that includes New England-style decor. The D.C. Water parklet is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and K Street and is featuring examples of green infrastructure.

Hammerschmidt said that the parklets highlight how little it takes to improve the livability and sense of community in a city.

“You don’t think of a parking space as being very big, but the amount of things you can actually do in such a tiny space once you start doing them is actually kind of amazing,” Hammerschmidt said.

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YouTube celebrity Louisa Wendorff, who has amassed more than 39,000,000 YouTube views, performs on Copley Lawn at Students of Georgetown, Inc.’s Kickback Music and Arts Festival on Sept. 12.

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Baked & Wired customers enjoy company and cupcakes during last year’s Park(ing) Day at a parklet outside of the Georgetown bakery.

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“It was a little bit awkward to say the least when Skizzy Mars performed, because there were about 50 people maximum.”

Jared Lim (COL ’19) Kickback Atendee

Food vendors, including Swizzler, Captain Cookie and Rito Loco were contracted for the event, serving hot dogs, cookies and tacos to students.

The rain forced student groups such as WGTB Georgetown Radio and The Hoya to cancel their planned stations, which would have offered flash tattoos, tie-dyed shirts and a photo booth to Kickback attendees.

Asha Thanki (SFS ’17), who at-

tended Kickback, said that the weather was the primary reason that the event’s turnout was less than expected.

“I feel like it’s an event that a lot of people have a lot of reasons to get excited about,” Thanki said. “In no world would only 30 people be standing in front of a stage for a giant YouTube star and Skizzy Mars if the weather hadn’t been so terrible.”

Jared Lim (COL ’19), who attended Kickback primarily to see Skizzy Mars perform, said that he enjoyed the event.

“It was a little bit awkward to say the least when Skizzy Mars performed, because there were about 50 people maximum [in the audience]…” Lim said. “But it was a pretty intimate performance, I would say, and I enjoyed it — I actually got to talk to [Skizzy Mars], I got to shake his hand.”

Smith said that he thinks that the event could be a learning experience for future organizers.

“We took a big risk in putting on the event, and even though the result wasn’t exactly what we wanted, it is important for students to try to do something like this, and now the door is open to do it again and do it better,” Smith wrote.

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coordinated the event plan to deliberate the topic at an assessment meeting that will most likely take place after the conclusion of GWOW programming. “[N]ew partnerships were struck between The Corp and university groups that will make the event both more financially viable and easier to plan in the future,” Smith wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to GPB Concerts CoChair Samuel Drummond (MSB ’18), the planning committee has considered hosting Kickback at an indoor venue, such as the 4,000-seat McDonough Arena. However, as the university’s Office of Campus Activity Facilities designates the arena as “non-OCAF reservable,” Drummond said that booking the space would be difficult.

“It’s a very special case that the Spring Concert has, and getting that for Kickback wouldn’t be feasible,” Drummond said.

Louisa Wendorff, a pop singer of YouTube fame, and Skizzy Mars, a 23-year-old rapper from Manhattan best known for his song “The Red Balloon Project,” headlined Kickback.

The event also featured nine student performances along with displays of

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to NASA will be successful. Woodford — who also mentors various other high school and university teams — expects Georgetown’s proposal to go through, noting that previous NASA Student Launch Competition winner Vanderbilt University beat other schools with much more established engineering programs.

“This competition is a great way for students to see if this is an area they want to pursue in the future and for NASA to find future recruits,” Woodford said. “At the same time, this is not limited to students with strong science backgrounds — science and other skills are equally important.”

DeShields also said previous engineering experience is not necessary to join the team, which currently boasts 20 members. The club is divided into three sections: design and construction, finance and operations.

“Because rocketry is a pretty cutand-dry science at this point, a lot of what we will be doing is an exercise in finance and organization,” DeShields said.

The team kicked off its operations with a meeting Sept. 9 that included

a presentation of the NASA proposal for Woodford. Because the proposal was due Sept. 11, the team finalized the document in the first weeks of the fall semester.

“I think what we are going to find is that we have a huge capability that people don’t realize yet.” eRIC dEsHIELDs (msb ’18) Georgetown Rocketry Team Founder

“Since the club is still in its early stages, the meeting Wednesday was more like a Rocketry 101 meeting,” DeShields said. “But I have no doubt this club will be successful here at Georgetown. The secret recipe for success is the team-building process — and that’s what I hope they get out of it.”

The team currently plans on building 90 percent of the rockets at Georgetown in the physics department and launching them in Arlington, Va. D.C. law mandates that stor-

ing explosives within the District is illegal, so the combustible elements of the rocket will be assembled across the Potomac.

DeShields said that the physics department’s technical shop supervisor, Leon Der, is fully committed to helping the group and offering the university’s physics labs for the team’s use.

Rocketry Team Safety Officer James Heaney (COL ’16) said he has always harbored an interest in NASA and believes that the Georgetown community will be receptive to the new club.

“Georgetown is a place with a lot of bright minds, many of which are very competitive, so I think this club has that certain draw where if we can compete with other top schools in the nation and go toe to toe with them, especially in our first year,” Heaney said. “However, our school does not have the strongest STEM and engineering draw. ... This is a great way to expand on what we have here, and I think what we are going to find is that we have a huge capability that people don’t realize yet.”

The team is currently accepting members and awaiting the competitive NASA Student Launch decision, which will be released Oct. 2.

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business Kickback Returns to Rain, Small Crowds bits Owen Eagan Hoya Staff Writer

Bank of America Supports McDonough Initiative The Bank of America Charitable Fund donated $500,000 of a $1,000,000 commitment to the McDonough School of Business Global Social Enterprise Initiative this week. GSEI focuses on training business leaders to make a social, economic and environmental impact. The money is slated to fund the addition of a GSEI speaker series as well as opening up five internships for graduate or undergraduate students.

40 under Forty Award Given to Georgetown Professor McDonough School of Business visiting accounting professor James Sinclair received recognition in the annual 40 Under Forty program sponsored by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts and the Consultants’ Training Institute. His nomination comes after numerous accomplishments in business valuation such as his work for the New York Daily News as an analyst and managerial accountant. The award is given to people under 40 who have made great strides in business or financial forensic services.

Presidential SpeechWriters to Convene at Georgetown The 2015 World Conference of the Professional Speechwriters Association will be held at the McDonough School of Business Oct. 7. The two headline sessions include a discussion with Clinton’s main speechwriter who will discuss her relationship with the presidential candidate and a panel featuring prominent speechwriters who will analyze the legacy of Barack Obama. The speechwriters are made up of writers for presidents Obama, Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush. The panel will converse about whether Obama’s words to the nation in times of crisis measured up to what needed to be said.

Kickback, a campus festival celebrating both student and professional music and art, returned for its second year Saturday, but faced a low turnout due to poor weather conditions. Students of Georgetown, Inc. declined to offer a specific number of attendees.

As the result of months of planning and coordination between The Corp, the Georgetown Program Board and Georgetown Weeks of Welcome, the event brought a variety of artists and sponsors to campus.

According to Director of Kickback for The Corp Cameron Smith (MSB ’16), Saturday’s rainy weather influenced the event and its turnout.

“The weather was obviously a huge challenge,” Smith said in an email to The Hoya. “Given the circumstances, I was happy to see the small but dedicated crowd of people that came out despite the rain.”

According to GPB and The Corp, 463 Kickback tickets were sold online and at Corp locations before the event, with an additional 150 sold to an outside vendor. This number does not account for tickets sold on the day of the event. Last year, Kickback sold more than 1,400 tickets.

Corp Director for Event Planning and Operations for Kickback Jacob West (MSB ’16) said that despite the weather, the event was successful.

“I think that it was successful in the sense that it happened,” West said. “Despite the low turnout, we put it on: the artists came, they per-

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Louisa Wendorff, most well-known for her cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” performs on Copley Lawn at the second annual Kickback Music and Arts Festival, hosted by The Corp on Sept. 12. formed—although not all of the vendors were able to show up because of the rain.”

Shane Ryan, director of orientation, transition and family engagement, who oversees GWOW, said

that the rain was an unavoidable risk associated with events like Kickback.

“That’s just a risk you run when you have an outdoor concert — you’re at the mercy of things that

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Georgetown Gains Four Parks for a Day Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

MSB Ousts Yale, CU for National Award McDonough’s MBA program has won the Net Impact Graduate Program of the Year for having the most creative, innovative and significant leadership that produces impressive programs and events. Georgetown faced competition from Yale’s School of Management and University of Colorado, Boulder’s Leeds School of Business in the final round of the competiton. Net Impact, a nonprofit organization, encourages MBA students to promote progressive social change through work both in and out of the classroom.

are beyond your control,” Ryan said.

At present, it is not definitively clear whether or not Kickback will return next year. The groups that

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Customers enjoy food outside of Luke’s Lobster at a parklet set up with tables for Park(ing) Day last year. The annual event returns to the District today with four parklets in Georgetown hosted by local businesses.

Georgetown businesses are transforming four local parking spots into “parklets” today as part of the internationally celebrated Park(ing) Day. A parklet is a miniature park created out of a parking space.

The four Georgetown businesses participating are Baked & Wired, Luke’s Lobster, the Urban Land Institute and D.C. Water. Thirty-three parklets are popping up around the city for the annual event.

Georgetown Business Improvement District Transportation Director Will Handsfield said that the city’s participation in the event helps focus attention on several issues, such as public parking and Georgetown’s limited public park space.

“It’s a neat idea to explore, and hopefully in a couple of key locations, we can look forward to doing something more permanent,” Handsfield said.

The one-day event sponsored by the Georgetown BID originated in San Francisco in 2005 and received widespread recognition in the District in 2012 after six D.C. councilmembers converted their reserved parking spaces on Pennsylvania Ave. into a long stretch of grass complete with picnic tables and a “reading room.”

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Students Launch Rocketry Team Lucy Prout

Hoya Staff Writer

When Eric DeShields’ (MSB ’18) plans for a Georgetown solar gokart racing club did not quite pan out, he decided to settle for the next best thing: a rocketry club.

The Georgetown Rocketry Team officially launched this month, aiming to launch a student-built rocket a mile into the sky with the functionality of a fully recoverable launch vehicle. With the club, DeShields said he hopes to make up for a lack of science, engineering, technology and mathematics opportunities at Georgetown.

“If you’re interested in social justice or politics, there are a ton of clubs for students to join,” DeShields said. “I want this club to be the genesis of engineering and science at Georgetown because there aren’t a lot of applied science opportunities other than [the Georgetown University] Medical School.”

The team eventually hopes to bring its rocket to NASA’s United States

Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., to participate in NASA’s eight month-long national Student Launch Initiative.

Though the club is not yet officially recognized by the university, the Rocketry Team submitted its first proposal for the NASA program this week under the guidance of Northern Virginia Association of Rocketry President Joe Woodford.

NASA’s Student Launch Initiative was created in 2012 as a competition for college teams to design, develop and write proposals to NASA, replicating the process private aerospace companies, such as SpaceX, undergo.

The rockets in the program need to utilize autonomous ground equipment and GPS. The rockets also need to reach approximately 5,280 feet above the earth’s surface. The top university teams then launch their rockets at NASA’s launch facility in Huntsville, Ala. Despite Georgetown’s lack of STEM clubs on campus, the Georgetown Rocketry Team is hopeful its proposal See ROCKETRY, A9

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Students in NASA’s Student Launch Rocketry Competition watch a rocket take off in Tooele County, Utah during the 2013-14 contest. Georgetown’s new rocketry team hopes to compete in this year’s competition.