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CHASING THE DREAM

Five former Georgetown basketball players have recently signed professional contracts.

EDITORIAL Epicurean, Hoya Court should take measures toward sustainability.

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Hoya Staff Writer

The panda cub at the National Zoo, who celebrates his one-month birthday today, has grown to more than two pounds and is in good health, on track to be named and revealed to the public in January.

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High Marks for Postgrad Life

Panda Cub Shows Healthy Progress MATTHEW LARSON

DISABILITY ACCESS The university hired its first-ever disability access coordinator.

GU registers above-average rates in 2015 College Scorecard

MATTHEW LARSON Hoya Staff Writer

The baby panda was born with a twin Aug. 22. However, the twin, born with respiratory problems, died five days after its birth, despite attempts by handlers to save it. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the National Zoo. See PANDA, A6

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The panda cub has yet to be named, but it will be given one and presented to the public in January, contingent on its health.

President Barack Obama presented an updated College Scorecard, a system that informs prospective students about college affordability and graduate workforce participation, with Georgetown displaying above-average rates in these major categories, during his weekly address to the country Sept. 12.

The updated scorecards, revealed on the Department of Education’s website, include information about the earnings, debt and loan payments of each school’s graduates.

The first scorecard system was announced in President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address.

The College Scorecard website presents a general overview of each university’s statistics, ranging from SAT scores to retention rates. Data from more than 7,000 colleges was analyzed for the new database. The three most prominent statistics are average annual cost, graduation rate and salary 10 years after attendance, measured among students who receive federal aid for tuition.

For Georgetown, these numbers are $27,801, 93 percent and $83,300, respectively, which represent aboveaverage rates in all three categories.

Georgetown Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh praised the scorecard’s transparency, in regard to Georgetown information, that See EDUCATION, A6

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Georgetown fares well in the updated Department of Education College Scorecard, presented by President Barack Obama.

As Contract End Looms, Dining Re-Examined TOM GARZILLO

ty-wide email sent Sept. 12.

In the email, Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Business Services Students participated in focus-group Joelle Wiese wrote that Envision Stratsessions this week as part of an exter- egies will develop a new dining masnal evaluation of on-campus dining ter plan to ensure that Georgetown options and the meal selects a food service plan structure in provider that best fits light of the upcomthe campus. ing expiration of the “The purpose of contract between the this engagement is to university and Araevaluate our current mark, Georgetown’s dining program, the current auxiliary sermeal plan structure vices partner, later and the overall apthis year. proach to all dining ARI GOLDSTEIN (SFS ’18) Member, Dining Services Committee The sessions, run on campus,” Wiese by the food service consulting firm En- wrote. vision Strategies, took place Sept. 15 to Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), a member 17. Organized by class year, the focus of the Georgetown University Student groups included 12 students both with Association Dining Committee who and without dining plans. attended one of the focus groups, said Students were invited to sign up for the sessions in a universiSee DINING, A6

Hoya Staff Writer

“Clearly, students aren’t satisfied with Aramark.”

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From left to right: Luis Fortuño, Brianna Keilar, John Stanton, Buffy Wicks and Charlie Spies are the Institute of Politics and Public Service’s inaugural Fellows Program class.

IPPS Fellows Engage Campus GAIA MATTIACE Hoya Staff Writer

With the introduction of the Institute of Politics and Public Service inaugural Fellows Program class, the center brings leaders from government and the media to campus to lead discussions, interact with students and speak on a variety of current political issues.

The IPPS, which was launched in August, is the McCourt School of Public Policy’s newest initiative, aiming to engage students in the current political landscape.

The five inaugural fellows include Luis Fortuño, the former governor of Puerto Rico, Brianna Keilar, a CNN senior political correspondent, Charlie Spies, an election law attorney for the Republican National Committee, John Stanton,

BuzzFeed’s D.C. bureau chief and Buffy Wicks, national director of Operation Vote and former senior staff member for President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.

Keilar said she is particularly looking forward to hearing students’ perspectives on the 2016 presidential election.

“I believe there is a cause or a leader that anyone at Georgetown can get behind.”

CHARLIE SPIES IPPS Fellow

“I’ve been really impressed so far with how much attention students really do pay to the process,” Keilar said. “They have

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a lot of interesting opinions that are kind of all over the map. …

I’m hoping I can provide students with a bridge into the political world that they’re living right next to.”

Wicks, who worked for Obama for six years, said she hopes her experiences in politics will provide valuable insight for the students.

“I think what we can offer is sort of lift the hood a little bit on the inner workings of politics or media or what we do, and kind of shed some light on how things actually happen,” Wicks said. “I’m inspired by these students; I think it’s a very active campus. … For those of us who have worked in the business a long time, it’s really refreshing to be around that.”

In the next two months, each

FEATURED NEWS Papal Pilgrimage

Students in Hoyas for Immigrant Rights are marching with female migrants to see the pope.

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SPORTS Turning Point

OPINION The Ice Man

MULTIMEDIA HFSC Concert

SFS Associate Dean Daniel Byman gave his first lecture in his Massive Open Online Course on Monday.

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It is important to recognize the value of craftsmanship in a changing, modern society.

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After a late red card, Georgetown men’s soccer scored three straight goals to earn a win.

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The Georgetown Program Board put on the first Healey Family Student Center concert this past Friday. thehoya.com

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Sustainability, Expanded C With Pope Francis due to address a joint session of Congress Sept. 24 on the worldwide impact of climate change, it is vital that the Georgetown community look introspectively to further the promotion of environmental justice on campus.

Plastic, nonbiodegradable utensils are still excessively used in on-campus food locations like Hoya Court. For a university committed to sustainability efforts, the amount of plastic waste generated in these locations is unacceptable.

These food service locations should follow the example of O’Donovan Hall.

While not usually put forth as a paragon of virtue by this editorial board, last year, Leo’s workers began to compost more than of 25 million tons of waste each month, according to Auxiliary Services.

Since Hoya Court cannot provide real, washable utensils like Leo’s due to inadequate washing space, it can replace plastic utensils with starch-based polymers or biodegradable plastics. Although there is some debate on the environmental impact of bio-plastics, the

production and use of such materials is regarded as more sustainable than the plastic currently being used for utensils.

To those who maintain that the cost of such a change would be prohibitive on an institutional level, Georgetown has already devoted sizable amounts of money to programs through the Office of Sustainability.

Therefore, the Office of Sustainability has it within its to support such change with relative ease.

Ideas like these, paired with formal discussions of Pope Francis’ encyclical, will ensure that Georgetown remains at the forefront of sustainability efforts.

The pope’s presence in Washington ought to fuel discussions on campus about what other changes can be pursued to further environmental justice.

Georgetown should invest in sustainability and environmental justice by discouraging the “throwaway” culture in favor of a “circular” culture in which resources are reused, refurbished or recycled. Biodegradable forks and knives are a good way to start.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

THE VERDICT Kicked Around — A recent land purchase by the elite Washington Sidwell Friends School will displace over 100 sick and poor patients at Washington Home, a nursing home in Northwest D.C. Hey There, Bad-Looking — According to a recent study by dating site OkCupid rating schools according to student attractiveness, Georgetown doesn’t even rank in the top 20 of American universities.

Pandamonium — The National Zoo announced last week a $4.5 million donation for giant panda research — or to generally preserve adorable cuteness.

Make America Sexy Again — yandy.com has begun selling a limited-edition sexy Donald Trump costume called “Donna T. Rumpshaker.” America, rejoice!

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Open the Doors With the academic year well under way, the 10 chimes of the Healy clock tower are no longer a friendly reminder for students to head to bed. For many, 10 p.m. marks an early end of long nights of reading, finishing (or starting) homework and studying for weekly Arabic quizzes.

As the night creeps into the morning, the second floor of Lauinger Library remains packed with students.

With the new Healey Family Student Center closing at 1 a.m., students are left to head to Lau, Epicurean and Company or their residence halls for late-night studying. Particularly during midterms and finals, it becomes nearly impossible to find an open cubicle or table in buildings open to the general student body.

This begs the question: if all Georgetown students pay the same tuition, why are Regents Hall, St. Mary’s Hall and the Rafik B. Hariri Building only available to a certain subset of students, if at all, for late-night studying?

The university needs to revisit its nonsensical restrictions on Regents, St. Mary’s and the Hariri Building so that study space can be used in the most efficient way possible. By opening access to Regents Hall, home to a quiet row of booths and numerous study spaces, St.

Mary’s, offering quiet classrooms and cubicles, and the Hariri building, one of the most popular study spaces on campus, with multiple floors of booths and breakout rooms, that often clear out after midnight, the administration can put a sizable dent in the problem of study space shortage.

Especially with the increased number of students living on campus as a result of the most recent campus plan, the university needs to revisit its restrictions on Regents Hall, St. Mary’s and the Hariri building.

Why many of these spaces restrict access after 10 p.m. is questionable, as few reasons can justify such policies. The issue is clearly not one of security; undergraduate students can enter and exit the buildings at their leisure, so long as they (or a friend) belong to the correct school or major. The idea that students within a school can have their own shared study space is attractive on paper, but falls flat when only two of the four schools (The McDonough School of Business and the School of Nursing and Health Studies) enjoy this privilege.

On an already small campus, 7,595 students vying for limited study spots — bonus if they happen to be within cord’s length of an outlet — is untenable.

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James Gadea (SFS ’16) and Reno Varghese (SFS ’16) talk about change in America: The Founding Fathers saw the beauty within the rough stone that had been America. The America of today is not perfect.

But it has undergone a developmental process with perfection in mind, and it continues to be perfected. Our sculptors worked tirelessly across decades, across mountains, across political divides to chip away the rough edges of our nation. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Franklin Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Reagan and countless others chipped away at our initial form to try to perfect our nation. They worked under their God with the hope and faith that America the beautiful existed there in that stone. They had faith that despite the inequality, despite the wars, despite the injustices, despite the persecutions, despite the trials, despite the adversities, within that rock stood an America of immense beauty. We believe that the America of the new century will continue to be perfected by our sculptors. We must not lose hope. We must not give in to the falsities and deceit our enemies attempt to convince us of. We must not give in to fear.”

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System Failure Hey! Important Message!

If that looks a little familiar, it is. This overenthusiastic line has appeared in many a missive in your Hoyamail inbox over the past couple weeks, seemingly from a member of the Georgetown community. In reality, these are insidious phishing emails, designed as a method of fraudulently obtaining personal information such as passwords, social security numbers and credit card details.

Despite the volume, Georgetown’s University Information Services only warned the Georgetown community against opening phishing emails yesterday, over a month after the phishing attack began.

In an email to the Editorial Board, Chief Information Security Officer, Joseph Lee, noted how such increase in phishing emails was expected — as the start of the school year is the prime time for phishing emails to take advantage of the hubbub.

Yet, no preventative emails were sent to inform the student body.

The combination of the frequency of

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attacks, the delayed warning and the lack of proper action is troubling on several fronts. First-year students with little exposure to phishing schemes are particularly susceptible, thus increasing the risk of compromising sensitive information.

Secondly, the speed that the problem was handled was worrying as it allowed the phishing message to metastasize.

Phishing attacks pose a clear risk to compromised accounts, as the hacker can obtain access to information stored in GU systems like MyAccess.

Despite the clear signs of phishing that traveled through the cybercommunity for over a month, UIS failed to protect students. For the safety and security of those currently unaffected by these attacks, UIS needs to take responsibility and strive to respond earlier to virtual threats before they get worse.

A more timely alertness to the presence and dangers of these phishing attacks would have prevented dozens of account from being compromised. All it takes is one email.

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OPINION

Tuesday, september 22, 2015

IF A Tree Falls

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VIEWPOINT • Bubniak

Uncertain Times, Uncertain Students Grace Smith

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magine this: You’re going to lunch with your boss in hopes of impressing him with your past work. You arrive at the restaurant with him and are eager to demonstrate your competence. You are directed toward a table and as you sit down, the waiter hands you both menus. But she hands you something else with the menu: a coloring book, complete with crayons. You’re 30-something, your boss is 50-something and this waiter is 20-something. But in the eyes of this 20-something, you’re ten and you need an activity to keep you occupied while the 50-something has his meal. So much for impressing your boss.

This is a true story. My dad, a newspaper editor, went to lunch with a reporter and brought home something more to report than just the average meeting. The poor woman, silenced by the shame of being misidentified as a teenager, sat frozen across from him as the coloring book and crayons were delicately placed in front of her.

What was she supposed to do?

As a kid who sticks out her tongue to norms and standards, I say “bleeeehhhh” to your notions of propriety. We would all be happier if we could operate with more slack.

Since I started school a year late, I have always been at least a year, if not more, older than my classmates. I’ve spent my life being older. But my age has always seemed so irrelevant to me because I’ve never been able to claim any connection to it. When I was 13 and my family went to museums where kids 10 and under went free, the teller behind the desk automatically provided me with that free ticket. When I was 18 and I went to a movie with some friends, I paid $5 less than my friends because the person in the booth assumed that I fit the 16-and-under price. And even now, at 20, I’m given kids’ menus left and right, as if my whole life were dedicated to the search for the perfect chicken tenders and macaroni and cheese.

So what is the relationship between age and propriety? Because people think I am younger, I can easily get away with behavior associated with younger ages like coloring at a dinner table, paying less for admission and eating less than gourmet food. That said, I have caught many a 50-yearold eyeing my chicken tenders with envy and living vicariously through my culinary delight.

But, of course, it would be heavily frowned upon for a 50-year-old to chow down on some chicken tenders at a restaurant where there are more age-appropriate options on the menu; only steak and potatoes for him. As a kid who sticks out her tongue to norms and standards, I say “bleeeehhhh” to your notions of propriety. We would all be happier if we could operate with more slack on the leash of decorum that holds us back. Eat what you want.

There are many options to reckon with when you are mistaken as younger. Anger is always an option and a sense of frustration can always be developed in response to someone misunderstanding who you are. But, in this case, I choose laughter. I choose humor because that’s what connects people of all ages and of all backgrounds and what universally makes us see the truth in the most meaningful and powerful way.

Laughter is an innate ability, something we can all do regardless of how young or how old we are.

So, to that poor woman who was at lunch with her boss, here’s what I would do: smile, laugh, correct the waiter and get down to business. You’ve got some serious coloring to do.

Grace Smith is a sophomore in the College. If a Tree Falls appears every other Tuesday.

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ophomore year is a time for decisions!” read the subject line of the email from the School of Foreign Service Dean’s Office sent to the Class of 2018 this summer. Welp. How am I supposed to make big decisions about the rest of my life in the confusing whirlwind of hormones and stress that is my late teens and early 20s? Most of the time, I can’t even decide whether I want a Pygmalion or a chai latte to get me through my late-night study session, never mind my entire future.

This email certainly wouldn’t help with the stressful life decisions and intense conversations with parents that students all over the country are experiencing right now.

“It’s your life, but it’s your parents’ money,” begins the inner monologue of anxiety running through my head as I approach the deadline to declaring a major.

It goes on: “Don’t be a brat, be practical. They’ve kept you housed, clothed, well-fed, loved and sent you to a wonderful college. And you reward them by picking a major that doesn’t guarantee you a great job in the name of following your dreams?”

When I was in high school, I did well in most courses, but I wanted to go to a school that would teach me the cross-cultural communication and policy that would enable me to leave a large impact on the world. I know that sounds naive, but doing something great for other people is what I want to do.

It’s not quite the same as having a passion for a particular school subject. I’m somewhat good at math and science, so my family was hoping I would be interested in engineering, ensuring me a solid career. But I don’t particularly care to tinker with computers or test tubes — I want to know how the dynamics of technology are changing people’s lives. But where are the national employment statistics on a major like that?

Our peers 10 years older than us were told to study whatever they were “passionate” about. Their guidance counselors said that it didn’t matter what their college major was, simply the fact that they went to college would get them a solid job. “Express yourself and follow your dreams!”

In the past, you could major in whatever you wanted, get hired and trained by a company and work eight hours a day in a solid job. they said, “It will all work out.”

Today, we have the horror story of the Ivy League graduate with a liberal arts degree who is condemned to a life of eternal barista-ing at Starbucks — with a whopping six-figure student debt dragging them down like a ball and chain.

In the past, you could major in whatever you wanted, get hired and trained by a company and work eight hours a day in a solid job with a few weeks of vacation, leave your work at the office, go home and enjoy your own family, hobbies and passions.

But workers today are increasingly “on call,” expected to always be accessible by cell phone and email, as well as given less vacation time and expected to retire older. It feels like our jobs are becoming larger and larger portions of our lives. Hopefully, your passion happens to align with a lucrative career plan, so you can at least enjoy it as you pay off your debt.

Unless you’re going to college for a

bona fide preprofessional career like finance, engineering or medicine, people tell you that you’ll never find a good job. Even law school offers no guarantees anymore. And if you get a liberal arts degree, you may as well have majored in underwater basket weaving. “Follow your dreams,” they continue telling us, but the unspoken truth appears to be that you’re only allowed to follow them if your passion happens to be petroleum engineering.

A parent’s worst nightmare is taking out a $100,000 loan to help a beloved child make it through school to follow his dreams, only to have him crushed by the cruel reality of postrecession unemployment. A popular joke I’ve heard is “If you get a job in what you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life … because nobody will hire you for a job.”

As every generation before us has experienced, the transition from adolescence to independent adulthood is rarely graceful. We pull all-nighters,

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take offbeat classes, learn hard lessons, fall in love and have our hearts broken and have tearful arguments with our parents over the phone. In the past, picking the wrong major might have cost a few thousand dollars in tuition for graduate school and a couple years of opportunity cost off your salary. This is still true in many European nations with cheap or free higher education. Part of growing up and becoming your own person is to make mistakes along the way and learn from them. But today, the media’s reports on the American job market tell us our mistakes could cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.

How are we supposed to be independent adults if college is so expensive that we need our parents to help us pay for it? The daily pressure of succeeding in college is difficult enough, but the pressure to succeed later in life to justify the cost can be paralyzing, making it nearly impossible to enjoy the college experience as it’s happening.

College is supposed to be a time to take risks and stretch our personal limits, isn’t it? Then why is it that for some of us, the conversation about college has swung dramatically from the traditional “reach for the stars” attitude to the complete opposite: “avoid crushing debt and destitution at all costs.”

If your parents love you, of course they don’t want to you struggle to pay your bills once you’ve grown up. It’s entirely logical. No one likes to be the one to burst his child’s bubble and make him face the painful reality of employability either. And no one wants follow his dreams as a young adult just to see them fizzle when he tries to pay the bills.

So where’s the line between trying to follow your passion and being practical? Although I have yet to officially choose my major, I suppose it’s best to simply do what you know you’re good at and plan as best as possible for the short term. The distant future is unpredictable, but I trust that a great college education will give us the tools to cross that bridge when we come to it.

Lydia Bubniak is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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Hard Work, Humanity Understand Yourself And El Ultimo Hielero To Better Serve Others

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he morning after returning home from my six-week study abroad program in Ecuador, I woke up, walked downstairs and poured myself a glass of water with ice. I didn’t even realize what I was doing until I sat down and became aware of the highpitched clinking of the ice against the glass. I put down the glass and stared at the half-circles of ice as they bobbed on the surface, thinking about what they meant and where they came from.

During my six weeks in Ecuador this summer, I took classes at a university in Quito and traveled around the country with roughly 30 other Georgetown students. I met a lot of really interesting people and got a glimpse into worlds and lifestyles that are decisively different from my own. Through it all, I was stunned by the natural beauty of the country, which spans from the Pacific coast across the Andes Mountains to the Amazon rainforest in the east. During one of my favorite experiences of the trip, our tour guide Rodrigo led us in our climb of Chimborazo, a dormant volcano and the highest point in Ecuador, some 20,000 feet above sea level. We climbed about two- thirds of the way up the mountain, trudging at a snail’s pace and stopping every 20 feet to catch our breath in the oxygen-thin air, while Rodrigo chuckled softly behind us.

A few days later, Rodrigo welcomed us to his home, a simple ranch in the foothills of the Andes on which he raises alpacas and guinea pigs. After giving a tour of his property, Rodrigo brought us inside and showed us a documentary that he helped produce entitled “El último hielero” (The Last Ice Merchant). The film depicts the everyday work of a short, elderly indigenous man named Baltazar who harvests ice from the peak of Chimborazo and sells it in the town below. This is how ice has been collected for generations in the surrounding indigenous communities. The natural Chimborazo ice is said to be the best and sweetest of all ice. Two or three times a week, Baltazar leads a donkey up the mountain, hacks off giant blocks of ice with an ice pick and uses the donkey to haul them back down the mountain. His family members and members of the community who are interviewed in the film lament their changing way of life and that professions like the hielero are dying out. They admit

that it is much cheaper to just buy factory-made ice and many have sought out alternative jobs, as the hard work has very little value today. Baltazar is the only one left in his family community who still harvests ice from Chimborazo.

Watching this film and observing the lifestyle of the campañeros of Ecuador made me aware of how much I take for granted in my everyday life. Over the course of our trip, we visited various small shops and factories and witnessed how different products were made. In today’s society, speed and quantity are valued above everything and mass production is the norm. But in each of the old-fashioned procedures we saw in Ecuador, the labor, care and skill of the craftsman is evident in the quality of the product. Making a textile involves the laborious process of fashioning thread from plant fibers, dyeing the thread with naturally extracted colors and weaving textiles one thread at a time. Making a Panama hat requires harvesting tortuga straw, painstakingly splitting the fronds by thumbnail and weaving the fronds together, followed by a long process of treating and pressing the hat before it becomes the finished product. By witnessing these processes, I came to the realization that I had never made something with my hands that required such skill and patience. I imagined the pride and satisfaction I would feel upon completing such a project. It occurred to me that the process by which we make something is just as important as the product itself. I comprehended that something made with painstaking care and patience is not only of a higher quality, but also possesses more intrinsic value on a human scale.

The experience as a whole has prompted me to rethink how I value things in my life. I feel I understand better now the reasons why people value hand-made clothes or locally grown produce. With my senses more acute to materialism, I will try to be more conscious of the materials I buy. The old-fashioned processes by which things are made and acquired can help to preserve our culture and preserve the humanity inherent in the product, whether it be a woven tapestry, a Panama hat or a block of ice.

Daniel Sheehan is a junior in the College.

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e think there’s something students, it is often the things that to be said about getting we do have — aspirations, ambitions, away —about serving oth- expectations — that preclude us from ers only after we’ve learned to under- serious self-reflection. That’s not to say stand ourselves. that Rizal does not have hopes and Last fall, one of us had the pleasure dreams, but rather that those aspiraof meeting a young Filipino man, tions were, in his own words, “at the Rizal, in the heart of Manila. Rizal was mercy of self-examination.” Rizal was passing through Manila en route to not in a rush. He took ample time his home in the north of the Philip- to meet himself and discover what pines. He had spent the past year in brought him the most satisfaction. an ashram — a Hindu spiritual monasOur point here is not to observe tery — in India. “I was finding myself that Georgetown students are busy or in solitude,” Rizal said. Before India, in a rush and therefore incapable of Rizal had wandered around South thoughtful reflection. Nor are we are East Asia and Europe for almost seven advocating that Rizal’s life should be a years, visiting Singapore, Malaysia, Sri model for Hoyas. Being a chain-smokLanka, Germany and England. “Try- ing, jet-setting hippie isn’t for everying to understand myself, to serve one. And Rizal’s life is in many ways myself before I served others. Trying the antithesis of what many college to place myself among others,” he ex- students desire: stability, credentials, pressed in broken English. skills and so forth.

Rizal is German, Rizal can, however, Iranian and Filipino. serve as a reminder He speaks four lanthat moments — or guages. His arm is even years — of undisa panoply of spiriturbed self-reflection tual tattoos — from a can enhance, rather Hindu OM to Cathothan stunt, our capacity for productive purlic crosses and the suit. Our aversion to Islamic hilal. His bouts of silence may dreadlocks blanket Rohan Shetty & seem like a necesmost of his face and Naman Trivedi sary consequence of he is seldom found college life, but introwithout a cigarette in hand. After globetrotting for most spection can be a valuable tool. It helps of his 20s, Rizal was finally settling students gain clarity and stay focused. down. He and his father had a self-sus- More importantly, it allows us the time taining “eco-farm” up north, where to develop and cleave to visions that they tended to a small field of crops are personally enriching and socially and educated three dozen villagers useful. We can best serve others if we about environmentally friendly farm- first make the effort to serve ourselves. ing practices. Their patch of land borTake some time to walk and reflect ders some of the world’s most beauti- — to think about your passions and ful beaches. find the path on which you can find Why is Rizal’s story important? We the path on which you can contribute believe he can tell us something about your greatest value add. For some, that the value of self-reflection in crafting a may entail climbing the corporate ladlife in service of others. Rizal does not der, and for others, that may be startcome from a privileged background. ing a company. Not everyone’s highHe’s not well educated or wealthy — he’s est calling should necessarily come in lived out of a cloth suitcase for most of the form of direct public service. his adult life. He’s never had a job interFrom those to whom much is given, view and doesn’t own a credit card. much is expected. You don’t have to But Rizal has made self-reflection be a civil servant or a social worker a priority. It was clear that he loved to give back. What’s more important seeing the world. But more than that, is that you consider the role that serRizal had decided that understanding vice plays in your life. When was the himself was a prerequisite for living a last time you spent an hour alone, socially conscious life. And he had the pondering anything and everything? will and courage to experiment with Solitude is one of life’s truest luxuries. places that could contribute to his We — and Rizal — urge you to reflect. sense of direction.

In many ways, Rizal is lucky. He had Rohan Shetty is a senior in the been taught that he could do little to McDonough School of Business. help others unless he fully understood Naman Trivedi is a senior in the himself. He wasn’t brought up in an School of Foreign Service. [and environment that demands results at Service] appears every other every corner. Indeed, for Georgetown Tuesday.

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Students in Hoyas for Immigrant Rights will join 100 migrant women on the last few miles of their 100 Women, 100 Mile Pilgrimage for Migrant Justice from Pennsylvania to D.C. to greet Pope Francis at his meeting with Congress.

More than 40 students will meet the women and their supporters outside Georgetown and walk to McPherson Square Sept. 22 to try and meet the pope.

The 100 Women, 100 Mile pilgrimage, organized by a nonprofit called We Belong Together, began Sept. 15 at a detention center in York County, Pennsylvania. One hundred migrant women and their supporters set off on a pilgrimage through Pa. and Maryland toward D.C. to highlight Pope Francis’ statements on immigration and vie for a conversation

with the pope himself.

Pope Francis has previously described conditions of migrants travelling from Mexico into the United States as “inhumane.” He has also encouraged European leaders to accept more Syrian refugees.

HFIR co-chair Alexis Larios (COL ’18) said immigration is an urgent issue with disproportionately negative impacts on women and children.

“One thing that we really feel is important is to look at how women immigrants are treated, because compared to men they have it significantly harder, especially in detention centers and the immigration process,” Larios said. “Things that can especially affect women and children more harshly, such as sexual assault, men may not necessarily be subject to as much. Right now, we have this rhetoric going around that’s not really looking at immigration from that stand-

point.”

Maria Lira, a domestic worker living in Houston, Texas, is one of the women taking part in the larger pilgrimage. Lira spoke of the often poor working conditions she and other immigrants have faced after arriving to the United States.

“I can tell you a million stories about how I feel every day when I’m listening to a lot of other immigrants who are working very hard,” Lira said. “These people are vulnerable, and people can take advantage of them very easily. …

We just want to share our story with the pope. He’s a strong and powerful leader, and we want him to listen to us and help us get the respect and dignity that we need, because everybody deserves the same treatment.”

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violence, were apprehended at the southwestern border. There are now thought to be 12 million undocumented residents in the United States, according to Reuters.

Current immigration practices include the detainment of asylumseeking women and children, the separation of mothers from their families and the continuous threat of deportation for the undocumented, according to the 100 Women, 100 Mile pilgrimage website.

HFIR will be joining pilgrimage host We Belong Together, a campaign that brings together the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum with the aim of uniting women to mobilize for improved immigration policies. Other partner organizations participating in the pilgrimage include Not1More, Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, People Improving Communities Through Organizing and Interfaith Worker Justice.

Rosa Sanluis, another participant, said she wants immigrant communities to be viewed with dignity and respect.

“My story is not that different from the ones from other immigrants,” Sanluis said. “Domestic workers are not treated well. For example an employer may threaten that if you raise your voice or break something, they will call immigration to take you back to your country. You have to deal with this because you don’t have anywhere else to go. … We want to take this message to Pope Francis, so that he can be able to move the hearts of congressmen.”

Larios added that the allwomen pilgrimage aims to bring attention to gender-specific immigrant struggles.

“When you think of a typical immigrant, you think of a man coming across, but you have to realize that women and children are doing the exact same thing,” Larios said. “We’ve seen this with the Syrian crisis, and right now with children coming over it’s important to see that that’s happening here in the United States as well.”

Larios acknowledged HFIR’s support of the pilgrimage as a way of bringing attention to the issue in the hopes of facilitating change.

“This is really about bringing light to human suffering and human dignity,” Larios said. “That’s what the women really want to get across—that we look at this issue from the stories of actual people who are going through a lot.”

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The Georgetown University Student Association announced Friday that the university hired Anisha Thadani as its first access coordinator and events manager, a position that will address accessibility issues for students with disabilities on campus.

According to a statement released by GUSA, Thadani began work in August. She will be the primary point of contact for issues related to campus spaces and access routes, and will oversee programming requests.

The appointment comes after student advocacy over the past few years to improve campus accessibility for students with disabilities. In meetings between GUSA and student advocates, both called for the university to coordinate resources for students with disabilities in a more streamlined manner.

GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) expressed his excitement to work with Thadani in her new role.

“We are enthused to have Anisha Thadani join our staff team, and we’re pleased to work together with GUSA and our students to strengthen our work on critical issues of accessibility.”

TODD OLSON Vice President for Student Affairs

“We are happy to welcome Ms. Thadani to Georgetown and are excited about the work she will do to improve accessibility. We will continue to work with student advocates both inside and outside of GUSA to make Georgetown a more accessible place for all,” Luther wrote in a statement.

In the past year, initiatives such as the campaign for a Disability Cultural Center at Georgetown have also gained traction. In February, former GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) expressed their support for the DCC, which was initiated by former GUSA Undersecretary for Disability Affairs Lydia Brown (COL ’15).

As these efforts continue, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said that he looks forward to working with Thadani and GUSA to address important issues related to accessibility.

“We are enthused to have Anisha Thadani join our staff team, and we’re pleased to work together with GUSA and our students to strengthen our work on critical issues of accessibility,” Olson wrote in a statement.

Thadani declined to comment on her new position.

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The first annual Healey Family Student Center Concert took place Friday evening, with YouTube star Phoebe Ryan performing as the headlining professional act.

Other acts included performances from Daniel Breland (MSB ’17), Teddy Schaffer (COL ’16) and student band Faces for Radio, who volunteered to perform at the event.

Approximately 140 Georgetown students attended the free event in the Great Room of the HFSC to hear the live performances, which began at 10 p.m.

The event was organized by the HFSC Program Funds after a university-wide survey last year showed that students would like to see more live music at the venue. Student managers of the HFSC were also involved in the planning and development of the concert.

The concert was free for all Georgetown students, and attendees were allowed to bring one extra guest to the event.

HFSC Activities Director Patrick Ledesma said that the building management wanted to provide on-campus entertainment for students on weekends.

“I think to have an avenue for students to come out of the residence halls is super important,” Ledesma said. “We value academics wholly at this university, but there’s also a fun side, and what I want to do is to be able to use this new building to show that there is a great space for students. We want to have this social avenue to collaborate, relax, and socialize.”

According to Ledesma, Ryan’s status as an up-and-coming independent artist was a quality that the HFSC programming division considered when selecting her.

“We found the artist by staying on top of trends, and also really trying to find out who is on the cusp of becoming big,” Ledesma said. “I would love to see who is out there that would really love to break out.”

The concert was part of the building management’s initiative to increase programming,

which includes both small- and large-scale events. Prior to the concert, the HFSC also hosted a live band karaoke event last week and a carnival-themed birthday celebration for the building’s first anniversary.

Schaffer said that hosting events such as the HFSC Concert is important for campus life.

“I think it’s awesome that they’re doing this,” Schaffer said. “It’s a good way to use the space at the HFSC. It brings a lot of artsy vibes to campus.”

Ethan Beaman (COL ’16), the guitarist of Faces for Radio, praised the event for its musical diversity and said that his band would enjoy playing at the HFSC again.

“I thought the event had really good energy, with a nice variety in musical talent,” Beaman said. “Daniel Breland had a cool ‘Frank Ocean’ vibe. … I was really proud of our performance as well.”

The main act was Phoebe Ryan, a 25-year-old Los Angelesbased singer who studied as an audio engineering and production student at New York University before composing her own songs.

Despite having released only two original songs, as well as a popular cover of R. Kelly’s “Ignition” and Miguel’s “Do You,” Ryan has amassed over one million plays on SoundCloud.

The HFSC hopes to increase publicity for its upcoming events by getting more co-sponsors, as well as receiving more student feedback. Ledesma contacted the newly founded student-run record label Clock Hand Records after the event to express his interest in a partnership.

Students at the event said that they enjoyed the music and the intimacy of the performances.

Lydia Bubniak (SFS ’18) said that she hopes the HFSC will hold similar concerts in the future.

“The concert was great due to the intimacy the crowd was able to have with the audience,” Bubniak said. “I hope Georgetown is able to organize more events like these for students who really appreciate live music.”

Students can register as bone marrow donors in a recruitment drive in Red Square next Friday as part of a nationwide initiative to solicit marrow donations from college students

by Gift of Life, an international bone marrow registry.

Rajia Arbab (COL ’18), GOL campus ambassador, coordinated the recruitment at Georgetown, which is the first marrow donation drive on campus, with hopes to recruit donors and increase awareness for types of blood cancer.

According to GOL Founder Jay Feinberg, the purpose of the campus ambassador program was specifically to recruit college students to join the bone marrow database.

“The majority of donors who are requested by transplant centers are between the ages of 18 and 25, making the university setting the best possible place to host education sessions and donor recruitment drives,” Feinberg wrote in an email to THE HOYA. In response to this demand, Gift of Life created a network of more than 100 students from campuses across the country to recruit donors.

To register as donors, students fill out their contact information and complete a cheek swab. Once their kits are returned to the GOL office in Boca Raton, Fla., they receive an email to complete the registration process.

Each donor test kit incurs a $60 laboratory processing fee, which funds tissue typing and entry into the worldwide donor registry, where a donor’s marrow may be selected for surgical use.

Arbab, who is currently on the premed track, said that she chose to apply to GOL as she believed that it was an organization that could change others’ lives.

“A family friend of mine suggested that I get involved with the organization,” Arbab said. “I decided to apply because I believe that when our lives are involved in changing the lives of others, our own lives will be changed for the better.”

As campus ambassador, Arbab works 10 hours per week to increase GOL’s presence on campus. She said that the most rewarding part of her job was being able to spread awareness about GOL and its efforts to save the lives of those suffering from blood cancer and leukemia.

“My objective is to swab as many students as possible this year … knowing that every individual I swab could potentially be the donor that saves a life,” Arbab said.

According to Arbab, registering to be a donor is an effortless process for

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Rajia Arbab (COL ’18) was appointed to be Georgetown’s campus ambassador for Gift of Life, an international bone marrow registry. students.

“Gift of Life will allow Hoyas on campus to potentially be the ones to save the lives of patients suffering from leukemia or blood cancer,” Arbab said. “Sixty seconds is all it takes to join the bone marrow registry and be the person to give another human being the gift of life.”

According to GOL Director of the Campus Ambassador Program Nick Hudson, the benefits of bone marrow donation are rewarding.

“A lot of people sign up to be a bone marrow donor, myself included, without ever knowing, or thinking that they’re going to get called,” Hudson wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “You’re told it’s a one in a thousand shot, even if you get called there’s not a great chance you’re the best match. But then, in times like mine, when I got

called for a little boy that had leukemia, you never really expect it.”

After the first donation drive next Friday, Arbab plans to host five more donor registration drives in both Georgetown and the D.C.-MarylandVirginia area to swab cheeks and find a match for those suffering from blood cancer and leukemia.

According to Hudson, bone marrow donation is extremely rewarding due to its life-changing nature.

“I think the best part is that you could just be walking through the quad one day, and decide to do something in passing, and it winds up having this unbelievable effect and saving someone’s life. … Your life and someone else’s life can hinge on a split second decision that probably won’t affect you for a really long time,” Hudson said.

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Georgetown Dining and consultant firm Envision Strategies invited students to participate in focus groups last week to generate feedback for the current dining program amid Aramark’s expiring contract.

Focus Groups Assess Dining DINING, from A1 that the sessions consisted of hour-long discussions, touching on a variety of topics including limited accessibility, affordability and desirability of existing meal plan options, as well as problems with food quality, hours and management at Leo’s and other oncampus dining locations.

“On a day-to-day level, there’s a lot to be done to improve the Georgetown dining experience, [including] offering higher quality food at Leo’s [and] opening up Grab ’n Go on the weekends.”

Goldstein said. “At the Auxiliary Services level, there needs to be much wider and more serious conversations about how to improve our meal plan system.”

Jackson Shain (COL ’18), who also took part in a focus group, said that while the Envision representative did not discuss any concrete plans for the future of Georgetown’s dining program, students were asked a number of questions concerning a new dining hall, their average meal at Leo’s and the most desirable changes to meal plan options.

“One thing that was pretty common was asking for better quality food at Leo’s, especially fresher fruits and vegetables,” Shain wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I definitely think being able to use meal swipes at more places would be awesome.”

With the information gathered at the focus groups, Envision Strategies will use a wide range of methods to analyze Georgetown’s current dining arrangement, in-

cluding comparing it with peer institutions, engaging students and administrators through focus groups and surveys, observing operations and analyzing the business.

Wiese said that the consultants at Envision Strategies will provide helpful information for Georgetown regarding food services in colleges across the country.

“Food on college campuses has changed quite a bit over the years,” Wiese wrote in an email to The Hoya. “With their level of knowledge of college food service, Envision Strategies will help us develop a strategy and vision.”

According to Wiese, the university conducted a request for proposal process before determining that Envision was the best fit for its interests.

“With all of the changes on campus, the master plan and in the college food industry, this is an excellent opportunity to engage with industry professionals on food and dining here at Georgetown,” Wiese wrote.

Georgetown University Student Association Secretary of Auxiliary Services Nicolette Moore (SFS ’17), who also participated in the focus group, said that the objective of the focus groups was to determine the best options for Georgetown going forward.

“Georgetown students have been frustrated with dining on campus for a long time,” Moore said. “That is no secret. It has become clear that the issue with dining on campus is not simple.

It’s not just about Leo’s or Hoya Court or any one component of

dining.”

Moore also said that students should become more involved in discussions about the dining program at Georgetown, citing opportunities for students to participate in the biweekly GUSA Dining Committee.

“The idea is getting as many voices and opinions as possible,” Moore said. “GUSA has been heavily involved in these efforts to improve campus dining. … We are finally having serious discussions about how dining fits into master planning.”

Although the university’s contract with Aramark is soon due for renewal, both Moore and Goldstein said that the focus group did not explicitly discuss whether the university should continue using Aramark’s services.

“Clearly students aren’t satisfied with Aramark, so I’m glad the university is seriously considering other options,” Goldstein said. “We’ll have to wait out the bidding process to determine whether Aramark can deliver improvements.”

Adam Shinbrot (COL ’18), a member of the GUSA Dining Committee who did not attend the focus group, said that he would support the university if it chose to switch to another provider.

“This would be contingent on many other factors including price and the services the new company intends to offer Hoyas,” Shinbrot said. “However, given Aramark’s poor track record, I don’t anticipate finding a comparable or better company as a real problem.”

IPPS Fellows Discuss Roles MCCOURT, from A1 fellow will lead a 90-minute discussion group on today’s political landscape, open to students from any school in the university.

Additionally, the fellows will interact with and receive advice from student strategy teams, comprised of small groups of students who will conduct research for their discussion sessions and promote the program on campus. Applications to join these teams closed Sept. 18 and final selections will be announced sometime this week.

The teams will also participate in a “Political Hackathon,” in which fellows and students work together to develop solutions for a prevalent issue in politics. The IPPS will publish students’ ideas on its website.

For Stanton, the program is an opportunity to get an honest opinion from an up-and-coming generation of students.

“It’s going to be fun to talk, frankly, through some of the ideas about how technology and young people are shaping politics now,” Stanton said. “How politics is covered by us, and also to get the thoughts of the students about those issues and about how things are playing out.”

Fortuño highlighted how he sees the program as an opportunity to shape both his and the students’ understanding of politics today.

“We’re going to have a great opportunity to challenge per-

haps the views that some students may have, and to have them challenge ours,” Fortuño said. “In that process I believe all of us will learn from each other as to how the process operates.”

Spies similarly emphasized that the program is a chance for students and fellows to share their views on the workings of the political system.

“I am excited about the Fellows Program because it’s an opportunity to interact with students and correct some misconceptions about the political process, but also learn what students are currently focused on,” Spies said. “I hope we have a diverse group of students and viewpoints.”

Several of the fellows also touched on possible skepticism from students regarding our current political system and expressed hope that the program could address some of these stereotypes.

Keilar said that the program could quell any student hesitancy about getting involved in politics.

“Once you get into some of the details and you start to look at it in a more molecular way, I think that takes away some of the mystique, which creates some of the mistrust,” Keilar said. “They get some of their questions answered and they can really see … what parts they really like, what parts they don’t like, what parts are broken and therefore what parts their generation has to figure out a way to fix.”

Spies added that the program can facilitate discussions that will potentially counter this student skepticism.

“Mistrust is currently based on ideological opposition to whatever office-holder people don’t like,” Spies said. “I believe that there is a cause or a leader that anyone at Georgetown could get behind. Hopefully we can work together to figure out who those people and causes are.”

Wicks stressed that students have led some of the most innovative movements in political history and that they should feel like they have the power to make substantive change in politics.

“I think students are often at the forefront of social change in this country on a lot of different issues, in a lot of different movements over the history of this country,” Wicks said. “I think what we hope to do here is also provide other discussions about avenues of ways to get involved.”

Stanton agreed that students often do not realize their influence on politics.

“They don’t realize that the tools to do it are already existent, in fact they are very much using them, much more than any other generation,” Stanton said.

“If you look at Black Lives Matter, or you look at the Arab Spring, those were things that were created essentially by young people using the technologies that young people are using on this campus right now.”

could aid applicants in making their decision about which college to attend.

“The scorecard is a reflection of two critical areas related to higher education that Georgetown is constantly working on: access and affordability,” Pugh wrote. “Georgetown is among the top of a list of highly selective and competitive schools [in this regard].”

In his address, Obama said that his administration was compelled to provide more data about colleges to potential applicants, which will increase transparency in the college ratings system.

“Everyone should be able to find clear, reliable, open data on college affordability and value,” Obama said.

“Many existing college rankings award schools for spending more money and rejecting more students. … That doesn’t make sense. It has to change.”

Obama argued that access to information about education matters in today’s global society. He said that the United States needs an educated workforce to compete with other countries and that scorecards can help further that goal.

“The country with the best educated workforce in the world is going to win the 21st-century economy,” Obama said. “I want that to be America.”

Originally, the system was intended to rank each university, providing definitive federal rankings based on college affordability information. However, the originally planned rankings system was changed to a more streamlined format that now simply presents data for viewers, allowing them to compare universities themselves.

“We had a number of concerns about the [original] ratings system because you can’t capture everything in statistics,” Georgetown’s Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said. “That was a debate that went on for several years.”

Fleming said the president’s administration and the Department of Education had worked closely with Georgetown as well as other schools on the original design, which led them to change their minds about rating schools and instead simply offer statistics.

“We submitted comments to the Department [of Education] as they were working on the ratings system,” Fleming said. “I think there’s little doubt that all of the input that went into the ratings system had an impact on shaping the scorecard.”

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said the data does not represent the entire Georgetown student body. Only those who utilize federal aid such as Pell Grants to attend Georgetown are accounted for in the statistics. Students who do not receive these benefits are not included in the different categories outlined in the scorecard.

“From the point of view of how do our graduates do, at least financially, it’s good,” Deacon said. “[Just] understand that the particular number is calculated from data that probably represents the lower half of our student body socioeconomically.”

According to Deacon, the data can help aspiring college students who want to avoid debt.

“The benefit for the middle-lower income student coming to Georgetown is [that it’s] likely to pay off on a better salary or better job prospects,” Deacon said. “If that’s what they want.”

Pugh added that university officials, in conjunction with the Department of Education, can customize the scorecard. “[W]e were not asked to comment on the final configuration released this past weekend,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It is encouraging that the Department of Education intends to allow institutions to work to customize their profiles, though the details of that process have not been laid out.”

Fleming said that a scorecard is preferable to a ranking system, but neither can completely capture what happens to each student at Georgetown on a personal level. He said he is unsure that the scorecard’s main features, such as median income years after graduation, tell the whole story about Georgetown graduates.

“Georgetown is proud of the fact that we are educating men and women for others, which means a good number of Georgetown alumni and graduates go on to the Peace Corps, Teach for America, [the] Jesuit Volunteer Service, things of that sort,” Fleming said. “That can’t be reflected in a simple dollars and cents chart.”

Deacon said that Georgetown would use the data for its own fundraising purposes.

“I think that what we will probably do … is use that [data] with our alumni and say things that we’re doing to support the lower income students, that we do have payoff with good results,” Deacon said. “Therefore, the more you can give us [in money and] scholarships, the better the results.”

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MacCorkle said the panda house Pandas are an endangered species, has become more popular for tourists the rarest in the bear family, with following the excitement around the only around 1,800 left in the wild. baby panda’s birth and subsequent The surviving cub is slightly over growth. She noted that at the time one kilogram, according to a weigh- of the cub’s birth, his older sister Bao ing last Thursday.

Bao was celebrating her second birth“He is doing great,” Nicole Mac- day, which also increased attendance.

Corkle, a giant panda keeper at the “There’s always a lot of excitement National Zoo, said. “That’s actually a around [the] panda house, even when little bit larger than expected, which there are just adults,” MacCorkle is a good thing.” said. “It’s always a busy, bustling The cub has begun to grow fur, and place, and even more so with a new typical panda markings have started cub. … There are a lot of people who to appear. According to zoo officials, are anxious for him to be on exhibit.” he already exhibits traits resembling Kate Cole (MSB ’18), president of both his mother, Mei Xiang, and fa- Animalia, a student group dedicated ther, Tian Tian. The next stage in the to ensuring the humane treatment baby’s development will be the open- of animals, said that the announceing of his eyes and ears, which is ex- ment of the panda’s birth was very pected in less than a month’s time. exciting, given the difficulties pandas “He is [growing hair] and his mark- often experience in having children. ings are coming in fairly clearly now She said she hopes the baby will inso he now looks like a little panda,” spire the public to learn more about MacCorkle said. “Things are going to giant pandas. progress pretty “I was watchquickly.” ing the news “He is [growing hair] and his At the moand they said ment, the baby markings are coming in fairly they were born is trying to push and I was very upward with clearly now so he looks like a excited,” Cole his front legs to little panda.” said. “I know get his weight that this is a rarNICOLE MACCORKLE underneath his ity, a real miraGiant Panda Keeper at the National Zoo body, which will cle. Whenever allow him to walk. After the cub be- they announce that it will be open, gins to become more independent, [we] will be going. I’ll plan a trip for Mei Xiang will leave the den for more Animalia.” extended periods of time to ease herMacCorkie said that visitors can visself back into her old schedule. it the baby at the National Zoo until “They’re very different creatures, 2019, when due to an agreement with but the mother has to get her sched- the Chinese government, the panda ule in sync with the baby,” Mac- will be sent back to participate in a Corkle said. “Once they’re on more of breeding program to help preserve a routine, she’ll be able to go out of the giant panda species. the den for longer periods of time to “It is sad to see them go to China,” consume more bamboo because her MacCorkle said. “But their big role is appetite’s starting to come back.” to get to save the species. That’s what The decision to begin showing the they get to do, that’s their contribupandas to the public will be made by tion.” the National Zoo management along The Georgetown International Rewith input from keepers, according lations Club could not be reached for to MacCorkle. She estimated that comment about panda diplomacy. showings would not begin until DeMaureen Berry (NHS ’18) said that cember at the earliest, and would be- the news of the panda’s birth has gin in phases, so as to not upset the made her want to visit the National baby panda.

Zoo, even though she has not kept up “This is a busy exhibit in the zoo,” to date with the pandas.

MacCorkle said. “We don’t want to go “I haven’t followed [news] about from having the whole building be- the pandas,” Berry said. “But, yeah, ing quiet to just everybody trying to I’ll visit the zoo. Who doesn’t love come in and see this little guy. We’ll pandas?”

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Protestant Chaplaincy Launches Discussion Series Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

In the first iteration of the Well Talks sponsored by the Protestant Chaplaincy, Georgetown University Brothers for Christ, GU Sisters for Christ and Protestant chaplain Rev. Khristi Adams led a student discussion of the Black Lives Matter social movement.

The Well Talks, which are held the third Sunday of every month, focus on fostering community discussion and healing on contemporary issues in an open-table conversation.

With more than 60 students in attendance, Adams led the dialogue but left most of the commentary to the group.

Initially framed as a debate between the movements of #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter, the session developed into a discussion of and commentary on the discrepancies between the movements on a personal and national level.

Adams began the discussion by contextualizing the movements on a national level and defining the platforms of both #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter. Over the hour-and-a-half session, student commentary turned internally to Georgetown’s onus to advance a message of inclusion.

Students raised concerns, including a perceived lack of black professors and foreign language professors native to a country where their language is spoken.

Students also ruminated on the naming of the newly renovated Former Jesuit Residence, comprised of both Ryan Hall and Mulledy Hall. Concerns over insensitivity were raised as former University President Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J., after whom the building was named, had participated in slave trade.

While no specific conclusion was reached during the debate, Protestant Chaplaincy Director Rev. Bryant M. Oskvig spoke to the merit of the Well Talks’ open-table format for learning and exchanging ideas.

“I think that we are a campus that is still trying to figure out where the blue and gray lie,” Oskvig said. “What is great about this discussion is that even if someone is possessing a position that [one student] didn’t necessarily hold, [it is] an opportunity to hear different voices … and I thought it was great that the conversation could really be brought locally.”

Adams said that she wanted the

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More than 60 students participated Sunday in the first round of the Well Talks, a monthly discussion series hosted by the Protestant Chaplaincy. The first talk, framed as a debate, focused on the topic of #BlackLivesMatter and race issues specifically pertaining to Georgetown. discussion to be a platform for students to openly express their views.

“The best way to show that we care about students’ opinions is to provide a space for them, and a consistent one at that,” Adams said.

Adams also said that the Well Talks were a forum for respectful disagreement, which may not be fostered in digital-centric spaces.

“I see with this generation that the respect and empathy and opentable discussions … are not what I see in social media,” Adams said.

“The message that we’re trying to permit is that it’s okay to disagree and to hear each other out no matter where one student falls on one spectrum or another.”

Adams said that she concep-

tualized the Well Talks after she started a similar program for high

“I think that we are a campus that is still trying to figure out where the blue and gray lie.”

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school students over the summer.

“There was a space that I had provided for younger high school students this past summer, and

[I] wanted to see how we could do that on campus,” Adams said.

Adams collaborated with Coordinator for Ecumenical Christian Life Jordan Blackwell (COL ’15), who lent his familiarity with student dialogue to help organize the Well Talks series around hotbutton issues on campus.

Blackwell said that he wanted to approach the sensitive topic through intellectual discussion.

“There has been a lot of talk about racial tensions and [#BlackLivesMatter],” Blackwell said. “We didn’t want this to be an event where the same people stand up on their soap box and spit emotions.”

While not all Well Talks will be focused on social or racial issues, Blackwell said that the demographic of the Protestant commu-

nity on campus was influential in determining the topic for the first talk.

“It’s highly minority students, and those are the students that we feel need these spaces,” Blackwell said. “It’s a different experience going throughout Georgetown, and sometimes you can feel alone and that you aren’t able to fully express yourself. We just want to say that here is a space that you can do that.”

Adams said that she hopes the talks will engage students to share their opinions in an open setting.

“Those are Jesuit principles and principles of our ministry here.

That’s what we see as being the difference in these types of conversations, and I’m hoping these students took that message away,”

Byman Discusses Foreign Fighters in MOOC Lecture Jack Bennett

could even get advanced training and were using foreign language skills to operate abroad.

In articulating the dangers posed by forThe first lecture of School of Foreign Service Senior Associate Dean for Undergradu- eign fighters, Byman pointed to studies ate Affairs Daniel Byman’s Terrorism and that suggest foreign fighters make terrorist Counterterrorism Massive Online Open plots more successful.

An important point Byman often menCourse took place at the Mortara Center for tioned was the role of social media, with International Studies Monday evening.

Drawing more than 40 attendees, the jihadists using social media to attract fightcourse is part of the second wave of MOOCs ers and supporters to their cause. He added introduced by Georgetown last year in con- that this also makes it easier for countercordance with edX, an international online terrorists to keep track of terror networks.

“Individual fighters education platform. are able to use TwitByman gave the inter or other forms of troductory lecture social media to reach on the phenomenon large numbers of of foreign fighters in friends as well as liIraq and Syria, with a ons in the jungle, and specific focus on the they all become proIslamic State group. pagandists,” Byman Byman said that he said. decided to offer this Byman concluded lecture in person, his talk with a quesas a high volume of tion-and-answer pepeople who registered riod. Topics ranged for the course lived lofrom Islamophobia, cally. The lecture was which he said was recorded and will be intractable, to the efadded to the course’s DANIEL BYMAN SFS Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs fects of foreign fightedX page later this ers on the influx of week.

The course is offered free on the edX web- refugees from Syria, which he attributed to site to anyone with Internet access and is the brutality of foreign fighters.

Yasmin Faruki (SFS ’16), who attended graded on a pass/fail basis. So far, 5,100 people from 149 countries have enrolled in the the event despite not being a student of the course. Students who complete the course MOOC, praised the lecture.

“I thought it was great. It was really inare awarded a certificate.

Byman began his lecture by extricating formative,” Faruki said. “It gave a good overthe reality of foreign fighters from the im- view of this situation with foreign fighters in the Middle East.” pression created of them by the media.

Annie Kennelly (SFS ’15), who is partici“I would argue that the threat from foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria is real, but pating in the MOOC, said she enjoyed hearalso it’s overstated,” Byman said. “In my ing Byman’s perspective.

“I thought he had a very unique point opinion, it’s a manageable threat.”

Byman continued by linking the problem of view compared to a lot of voices in the of foreign fighters to Al-Qaeda’s history, media and a lot of other scholars too,” Kenwhich began with the Soviet invasion of nelly said.

Kennelly said that she was excited to conAfghanistan. As Al-Qaeda was largely composed of foreign fighters who were “made tinue her participation in the MOOC. “A lot of interesting professors will be comrades” by the Soviets, Byman emphasized the “sense of brotherhood” that wars involved, which is different from a lot of MOOCs too because it’s not just one percreated among jihadists.

Byman then discussed how foreign fight- son,” Kennelly said.

After the event, Byman said he felt the ers became tied by ideology and eventually course launch was successful. gained valuable fighting experience.

“The event today was meant to serve mul“So rather than people who run away from gunfire, which is a perfectly normal tiple purposes. … It was an attempt to put reaction, [they] become well adapted peo- a face on the online course, so to bring tople who can move forward, who show a cer- gether the local participants and just get them to know each other in a way that tain degree of sanguineness,” Byman said.

Byman then explained how terrorists would make the course richer,” Byman said.

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“I would argue that the threat from foreign fighters is real, but also it’s overrated.”

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ROWING

Full Brings Experience, Passion to Head Coach Position MADELINE AUERBACH Hoya Staff Writer

After four years of serving as Georgetown’s assistant coach for the women’s rowing program, Stephen Full will be stepping into the interim head coaching position following the departure of former Head Coach Miranda Paris.

Fortunately for the Hoyas, Full has extensive experience as a rower, recruiter, coach and trainer. While rowing at the University of Washington for four years, Full helped lead the Huskies to two Pac-10 Championships. After graduation, Full served as a volunteer coach for the program.

“I was a volunteer assistant for the freshman rowing program [at the University of Washington] under Luke McGee, who is now the men’s national team coach,” Full said. “That was two years after I graduated, so I was pretty young, coaching for one year prior to that. So really it was my second full year of coaching.”

Full began his career on the coaching staff at Georgetown in 2011.

Though he served as an assistant coach for the whole program, Full’s primary focus was on developing freshman rowers and recruiting high school athletes.

“Generally speaking, I was in charge of working with admissions, making sure that our recruits were academically viable for admissions, calling coaches, all that good stuff,”

Full said.

The first-year head coach’s experience at Georgetown works to his advantage, as he already has a solid grasp of the team’s dynamic, work ethic, training schedule, talent level and ability as a unit. One of his main goals as head coach is to keep the program unified, regardless of weight class or grade level.

“The team goal this year is to put one boat on the podium for the open weights at the Patriot League Championship.” stephen full Women’s Rowing Head Coach

“We are Georgetown rowing, and regardless of weight class, this is Georgetown rowing,” Full said. “To separate the teams out, that will happen later, but we definitely want to be an inclusive group. We don’t want to be exclusive. I think the girls are all really good friends with each other so we might as well just keep everyone together. It makes it a little bit simpler in terms of coaching people and balancing the training schedules because we all know what needs to be done when we’re all together.”

Because not all Big East teams have rowing programs, Georgetown is a

member of the Patriot League. This season, the team is hoping to win its conference. Even though Full and Paris are different individuals with different coaching styles, that goal remains the same.

“I think that the one thing that Miranda and I really shared was our vision and what the team could be and how to get it there,” Full said. “How we get there is probably going to be a little different, but like I’ve said to the girls, we’ve changed the way we’ve trained every single year to adapt to the level that we’re striving for. ... We want to win our conference championship. We want to get the lightweights on the podium at the IRA.” The rowing program will likely kick off its season this fall with iconic races such as the Head of the Potomac, the Head of the Charles and the Princeton Chase. Competing well in these races is just the first step toward achieving Full’s ultimate goal for the women’s rowing program this year.

“The team goal this year is to put one boat on the podium for the open weights at the Patriot League Championship,” Full said. “There’s this stigma that gets attached to rowing because there’s the first eight, there’s the second eight and there’s the four. There’s this very clear hierarchy of who’s in what boat and why. But, what gets lost sometimes is the level of effort that’s needed from everybody on the team to make it a strong team, not just a strong boat.”

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Stephen Full, who has been at Georgetown since 2011, has stepped into the interim head coaching position after the departure of Miranda Paris.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Skonecki Stars in Shutout Victory CLAIRE SCHANSINGER Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown field hockey team (4-3) split decisions on the road last weekend, losing to Lock Haven (7-1) 4-1 but downing Lehigh 1-0. Georgetown’s loss to Lock Haven ended its three-game winning streak.

Sophomore forward Megan Parsons scored three goals last season for the Hoyas and was the lone goal scorer against the Bald Eagles Saturday, converting an assist from junior defender Devin Holmes from inside the circle.

“It was a team effort,” Parsons said. “My teammate passed the ball across the circle, and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. What we worked on in practice really came through, which is how we got the goal together.”

Parsons’ goal tightened the game to 2-1, as Lock Haven senior forward Rachel Valentine scored back-to-back goals 13 minutes into the game. Georgetown had strong momentum heading into the second half, but goals by freshman midfielder Noelle Kephart and junior midfielder Lydia George gave Lock Haven a solid lead for the rest of the game.

Georgetown had six shots in total, including four by senior forward Sarah Butterfield.

Junior goalie Rachel Skonecki had five saves and the defense limited Lock Haven to one penalty corner.

“We dug ourselves into a hole early in the first half by allowing two goals within a minute of each other,” Head Coach Shannon Soares said to GU Hoyas. “We fought back well, putting them under a significant amount of pressure in the latter part of the first half and were able to make it a 2-1 match at the half.”

Georgetown bounced back Sunday, beating Lehigh for the first time since 2011.

Freshman midfielder Sam Hickey scored her first collegiate goal off an assist from Parsons with three minutes left in the first half. The score remained 1-0 going into the

second half and the rest of the game, as the Georgetown defense held strong after Lehigh had three penalty corners in a row but failed to convert.

The Hoyas stopped 13 total corners, and Skonecki had her best game of the season, making 14 saves after the Mountain Hawks had 11 shots in the second half. Butterfield had two shots on goal, as did junior forward Aliyah Graves-Brown.

The Hoyas’ next game is away against Towson (1-7) on Friday, and Parsons made it clear that the team is focused on improving as its season continues.

“Our games this weekend were a great way to learn and show us what we need to work on,” Parsons said. “We’re at a great point so far in our season, and I

think our emphasis will be finishing in the circle and capitalizing on the opportunities that we have. We did that a little this weekend, but there is always room to do more of that. We’ve been getting the ball up the field and now we just have to work on finishing and getting the ball into the cage.”

The team’s mentality and work ethic has been crucial to its success in the midst of a series of road games.

“We spent all weekend preparing for our games,” Parsons said. “On Sunday, we really put this into action and capitalized on what was given to us and fought for the full 70 minutes.”

The game against Towson will start at 6 p.m. in Towson, Md.

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Sophomore forward Megan Parsons scored the Hoyas’ only goal in their 1-0 win over Lehigh. Parsons scored three goals for Georgetown last season.

FOOTBALL

Turnovers Doom Hoyas in 31-10 Loss AIDAN CURRAN Hoya Staff Writer

If one were to look at the stat sheet from Saturday’s game against the Dartmouth Big Green (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League) without looking at the final score, he would probably assume that the Georgetown Hoyas (12, 0-0 Patriot League) got the win. Georgetown had more first downs, more total yards on offense, fewer penalties and 13 more minutes of time of possession. However, turnovers ultimately doomed the Hoyas. After senior quarterback Kyle Nolan threw two interceptions and fumbled once, Georgetown fell 31-10 to the visitors from Dartmouth College.

Dartmouth’s senior quarterback Dalyn Williams was a thorn in the Georgetown defense’s side throughout the game, going 18-for-29 for 155 yards with one touchdown pass and rushing 10 times for 41 yards and one rushing touchdown.

Georgetown struggled to stifle the dualthreat quarterback, and his ability to keep plays alive for Dartmouth was critical to its offensive success.

“We expected him to be very agile and a mobile quarterback. I felt like we needed to contain the quarterback, and that was our goal going in,” senior linebacker Matthew Satchell said, after notching nine tackles total, including two tackles for losses. “Everything they did, we expected them to do. We just needed to make more tackles and make more turnovers, which we didn’t do.”

Nolan threw for 308 yards and one touchdown on 31-of-53 passing, but had three

turnovers. The receiving corps of junior wide receiver Justin Hill, senior receiver Jake DeCicco and junior tight end Matthew Buckman had a great day. The trio caught a combined total of 22 passes, with Hill snagging eight of those for 101 yards.

Georgetown’s passing stats were so high partially because of the complete ineffectiveness of the Hoyas’ running game. Dartmouth’s defense kept senior running back Jo’el Kimpela in check from start to finish, limiting him to 29 total yards on 14 carries for a measly average of 2.1 yards per rush attempt. The offensive balance crucial to Georgetown’s first win over Marist was nearly nonexistent against the Big Green, and the one-dimensional offense made the Dartmouth defense’s job much easier.

Also contributing to the lack of rushing yards was the ineffectiveness of the Hoyas’ offensive line due to several injuries at multiple positions.

“The whole team has a next-man-up mentality,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “Does it hurt to have a couple of guys down? Yeah, it absolutely does, but we have confidence in the guys that play.”

Senior left tackle Kevin Liddy was moved to right tackle, and backup sophomore right guard Matthew Houpert got the start at center. Houpert had several low snaps during the game that pushed the Hoyas back, and it was clear that the mix-up on the offensive line affected its performance negatively.

“It changes the game a little bit, but Matt Houpert did a great job today. There were a couple that were low, but that’s alright. We

built up a little bit of chemistry and going into next game we’ll have another week in the books,” Nolan said.

Georgetown started the scoring off in the first quarter on a beautiful pass from Nolan to Buckman for 31 yards to make it 7-0. After Dartmouth’s first two drives ended in three-and-outs, Williams and his offense woke up and tied the game. After a 63-yard punt return from Dartmouth senior wide receiver Ryan McManus to the Georgetown 10-yard line, Williams scampered in for the 9-yard touchdown.

On Georgetown’s next drive, Dartmouth senior safety Troy Donahue made an interception and returned it 35 yards to the Hoyas’ 13-yard line. Senior running back Brian Grove ran it in on the next play for the touchdown to make it 14-7. Nolan threw another interception in the second quarter that was returned all the way for the touchdown.

“You can’t turn the ball over and you can’t turn the ball over for points,” Sgarlata said. “We just shot ourselves in the foot at some critical times. The turnovers and the points off turnovers were just huge today.”

All that Georgetown could muster after the first possession was junior kicker Henry Darmstadter’s field goal in the second quarter. Georgetown’s second straight game was held scoreless in the second half.

The Hoyas will face Ivy League opponents for the next two games, with two straight road games at Columbia and Harvard. Columbia has lost 22 straight games, and the Hoyas will look to keep that streak going Saturday with kickoff set for 1 p.m.

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A-Rod Legacy Tainted by Steroids

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arring a cataclysmic collapse, the New York Yankees will advance to the postseason for the first time since 2012. Embattled slugger Alex Rodriguez has been a major contributor to the Yankees’ success.

While A-Rod’s batting average is sub-par, his 32 home runs rank 10th best in the American League in 2015.

Rodriguez provides power for a Yankees offense that only has two other true sluggers in catcher Brian McCann and now-injured first baseman Mark Teixeira. Despite his great performance this year, most baseball fans harbor a great deal of animosity toward the former MVP. Back in 2003, Alex Rodriguez was the top commodity in the baseball world. His abilities extended far past his sweet swing that made hitting 400-foot bombs look simple, including his Gold Glove defense and aboveaverage speed. The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees haggled with the Texas Rangers in an effort to acquire this premier player in a trade. He ultimately ended up with the Yankees due to the financial constraints the Red Sox would have been burdened with had they taken on Rodriguez’s salary.

New York’s constant scrutiny of its athletes possibly resulted in the deterioration of Rodriguez’s career. Surrounded by a lineup of great hitters, fans expected him to thrive. At the beginning of Rodriguez’s tenure with the Yankees, the former Ranger shifted to third base to allow the Yankee captain and one of his good friends, Derek Jeter, to remain at shortstop.

The honeymoon period only lasted a few months as Rodriguez struggled to hit in the playoffs and the team had a historic collapse against the Boston Red Sox. As time passed, Rodriguez and Jeter’s friendship fell apart. Rumors about Alex Rodriguez’s steroid use caused the third baseman to become more abrasive toward the media, and he infamously denied the use of any drugs in an interview with Katie Couric. On top of all this, Rodriguez’s playoff woes continued, drawing the ire of the New York media. Prior to the start of the 2009 season, a steroid test which was supposed to be sealed by the government was somehow leaked, and

Rodriguez’s positive test results were revealed. At this point, Rodriguez came clean, admitting to steroid use between 2001 and 2003.

Not even the 2009 World Series title alleviated the constant criticism Rodriguez received. Rodriguez began to shrink away from the public, becoming a more polarizing figure.

When the Biogenesis scandal broke in 2013, Rodriguez’s name was linked to steroid use once again.

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun tested positive once, blamed the handling of his test as the reason for his result and was then linked to the scandal.

Despite all this, Braun only received a 65-game suspension. Former Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig was disproportionately harsh on Alex Rodriguez. Although Rodriguez never tested positive for an MLB drug test, the league suspended him for 211 games. The suspension was reduced to 162 games on appeal. Selig’s rationale for the harsh punishment was that Rodriguez tried to conspire with the other culpable players in an attempt to conceal their guilt, which was further damaging his reputation.

That brings us to today.

Alex Rodriguez is one of the most despised players in his sport yet he remains one of the better players in baseball. Every game, he hears the boos and the chants from the fans, but he keeps chugging along, producing home runs at least once every five games. Rodriguez’s career in the Big Apple has had a sad trajectory, as he has endured a meteoric fall from grace. As much as one might disagree with Rodriguez’s action, it is hard not to wonder what psychological toll the past six years has had on Rodriguez. The nature of how he approaches the game has become almost robotic.

If the Yankees make the playoffs, all eyes will be on A-Rod with Jeter no longer in the picture. The acrimonious atmosphere that envelopes Rodriguez’s life will once again be in the limelight, whether he wants it or not.

Nick Barton is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. More Than a Game appears every other Tuesday.

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Overinvolved Parents Plague Sports World MCLAUGHLIN, from A10

millions of dollars the players take home at the end of the game and the obsession with proper ball inflation, it would seem that professional and Pop Warner football are one and the same.

Prior to Jay Gruden’s hiring here in Washington, former starting quarterback Robert Griffin III and the Redskins’ front office experienced some friction when Robert Griffin II, the quarterback’s father, began voicing his concerns about then-Head Coach Mike Shanahan’s decision-making. At one point, Griffin’s father even went so far as to walk into owner Dan Snyder’s office and demand he fire Shanahan and hire RGIII’s former college coach Art Briles for the following year.

The parent trap even extends to the college ranks, where just this past summer rapper Sean Combs, better know as Puff Daddy stormed into the UCLA weight room and swung a kettlebell at strength coach Sal Alosi’s head after hearing his son had been given a hard time at practice. Puff Daddy was removed from campus in the back of a cop car on felony charges, while his son Justin was left to explain to his teammates how one of the richest men in hip-hop can’t seem to keep his cool when it comes to his son’s playing time.

It seems ridiculous that this conversation is even relevant. In any other part of society, let’s say the business world, it would be considered absolutely ridiculous for a man making $31 million dollars to have his mother yell at his boss for him — not to mention completely unheard of. It makes one wonder why it is that when the starting quarterback of one of the league’s most valuable franchises has his dad talk to the owner for him, no one seems to bat an eye.

The frightening thing is that more and more in sports, from peewee to high school to the NCAA and beyond, parents are inserting themselves into the lives of their child athlete.

This past week, NPR published an online report detailing the probability (or improbability) of one’s child making it to the upper levels of sports in America. Somehow, an astonishing 26 percent of parents of high-school athletes said they had dreams of their child star one day playing professionally. Setting aside the fact that their child is more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes from the Powerade he’s drinking in the dugout than pitch for the Yankees one day, shouldn’t it be the kid’s dream to go pro and not that of his parents?

But as more and more parents latch onto this dream of one day seeing their family name slapped across the back of a professional or even college jersey, shocking numbers of parentsturned-agents for their teenage athletes are signing their kids up for specialty coaches at an earlier age and making them specialize in just one sport by the time they are in middle school.

So next time you read on Bleacher Report how an NBA point guard’s mom stormed into the coach’s office and said something out of bounds, or that an NFL wideout’s dad tweeted something scathing about his son’s lackluster quarterback, step back from the TMZ-esque nature of the report and note that this is just another instance indicative of a much bigger picture, a picture that depicts another broken system in America: the parent trap of modern-day sports.

Jimmy McLaughlin is a sophomore in the College. Upon Further Review appears every other Tuesday.

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remainder of that season. During the following offseason, Whittington suffered a torn ACL, and while he was still recovering from the injury, Head Coach John Thompson III announced that he had been dismissed from the team.

Since his dismissal Nov. 30, 2013, Whittington has been shrouded in mystery. He initially announced his intentions to transfer to Rutgers, but never enrolled there. Next, he stated his desire to play in the NBA Development League, but never played a game there, either.

This past summer, however, Whittington impressed in NBA Summer League play, scoring 9.1 points, grabbing 6.2 rebounds and handing out two assists per game in nine contests for the Heat’s Summer League affiliates. He was able to parlay that performance into a contract offer, impressing the Miami coaching staff in the process.

“I think what’s great about Greg is he has a good feel for the game,” Heat Assistant Coach Dan Craig, who coached Whittington in the Summer League, said to the South Florida Sun Sentinel in July. “He has the versatility to be a playmaker. When the defense puts two men on the ball, we throw it back to him and we get him on the roll. He’s a really skilled playmaker. He makes some high-IQ plays at that four position.”

Summers, who played at Georgetown from 2006-09, signed a contract with the New York Knicks to attend their training camp. He scored 1129 points in three seasons on the Hilltop, peaking with a team-high average of 13.6 points per game in his ju-

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Former Georgetown center Joshua Smith, who recently signed with the Houston Rockets, averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds during his senior season in 2014-15 for the Hoyas. nior season. He made at least 42 three-pointers in each of his three seasons as a Hoya.

Hopkins and Smith, who played for the Hoyas in the 201415 season, also signed professional contracts recently. Hopkins, a 6-foot-9 forward, signed a contract with Istanbul DSI in Turkey. He played four seasons at Georgetown from 2011-15, averaging at least five points per game in each of his final three seasons. He finished his career with 629 points,

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outside hitter Lauren Saar led the team with 11 kills, and freshman libero Kenzie Higareda added 13 digs. Still, the Hoyas could not overcome the Dukes, who had the advantage of playing on their home court.

“I think a big difference is, JMU, it was their home court, and when you’re playing with a team that has their fans there, the atmosphere is very different,” freshman outside hitter Liv King said. “Also, when you start higher up in points, you get out of the gates starting the game on

a run, and that emotionally is a positive thing, and you want to keep going with that. It’s harder to fight back.”

Saturday, Georgetown bounced back to defeat Norfolk State (1-12), sweeping the Spartans in three sets by scores of 2511, 25-19 and 25-17. King led the team with 13 kills, with a hitting percentage of .667.

“I think in that game my setter and I finally connected,” King said. “It was the first time that we were helping each other out, making each other look good, and our passing percentage was up. The thing is, when one hitter

is doing well, it’s not just because the hitter is having a great game, it’s because other factors are doing well also.”

McKnight was one of those factors, earning another doubledouble with 35 assists and 10 digs. Sinnette added 10 kills and Higareda once again led the team with 13 digs.

“I don’t think any of us felt good about the outcome of the JMU match, and the players came out determined to play hard, stay consistent, maintain a high level of play from the first point to the last. I think it was just a change in mindset,” Williams said.

Moving forward, the Hoyas will look to improve their consistency as they continue to familiarize themselves with one another.

“Everyone who sees us play and every member of our team sees moments of brilliance in us.

And then we have moments that are not quite as bright, and we’re just trying to minimize those,” Williams said.

The Norfolk State game was the final game of Georgetown’s nonconference schedule, and it will now prepare for conference play. The Hoyas will open up their Big East schedule against Villanova on Friday at 7 p.m.

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Hopkins, Summers and Smith will have to compete to earn long-term roster spots with their respective clubs, each will have an opportunity to continue his basketball careers next season.

Whittington, Hopkins, Summers and Smith will be aiming to join a list of six former Georgetown players currently playing in the NBA, including Roy Hibbert (COL ’08), Greg Monroe, Jeff Green (COL ’12), Hollis Thompson, Porter and Sims.

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Smith, a 6-foot-10 center, signed a contract with the Houston Rockets recently. After spending parts of three seasons at UCLA, he transferred to Georgetown, where he spent two additional years from 2013-15. As a senior, he averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, often functioning as the Hoyas’ top interior scorer.

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Georgetown bounced back from that draw by dominating much of Sunday’s match against West Virginia. The Hoyas outshot the Mountaineers 16-3, recorded seven corners and forced the opposing keeper to make seven saves. Nevertheless, the score remained tied at halftime until a free-kick goal after a disputed foul put West Virginia ahead 1-0.

“You look at your season and you say, ‘What is going on with this group? And how unlucky can you really be with this stuff?’ But they responded terrifically well,” Wiese said.

Needing to battle for a goal once again, the Hoyas continued to press.

Then, in the 60th minute, they got their break. An off-ball foul resulted in a penalty kick for Georgetown and a red card for West Virginia senior defender Francio Henry. Senior forward Brandon Allen buried the penalty kick and tied the game at 1-1.

The gap in West Virginia’s defense only made it easier for the Hoyas to control the pace of play and hold on to possession. In the 66th minute, Ledder scored his first Georgetown goal to put his team ahead 2-1, and junior midfielder Bakie Goodman made it 3-1 with just eight minutes remaining in the match. This time, the lead lasted until final whistle.

“I thought the resilience of the team over the last few road games really showed itself really well,” Wiese said.

Ledder, who recorded two assists against Virginia Commonwealth and scored against West Virginia, gave one of the most impressive performances of the weekend. He did not see the field last season, but quickly earned important minutes this year. As the season progresses, the speedy outside midfielder and winger could provide a spark off the bench or even in the starting lineup.

“He’s got really good pace, and when he is playing how he should

be playing, he is very hard one-v-one.

He’s a wonderful attacking presence for us. He is one of these little gnats that’s running around and somehow getting in crosses and shots off,” Wiese said.

Georgetown will return to Shaw Field Wednesday afternoon for its next match against No. 10 Maryland (3-1-3, 0-0-2 Big Ten). Wiese and his

team return home with important lessons learned and positive signs of moving forward after a pair of tough road tests.

“We had two games against two good teams on the road where we controlled the tempo. We imposed our game on both of them. That is hard to do, so it was good to see,” Wiese said.

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Junior forward Alex Muyl scored a goal against VCU in the 38th minute.

Muyl is tied for the team lead with three goals this season.

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Much like the rest of its season, nothing came easily for the Georgetown men’s soccer team (3-2-2) in its away matches against Virginia Commonwealth (2-4-1) and West Virginia (2-5-0).

The Hoyas endured a disappointing 2-2 tie with the Rams before earning a 3-1 comeback win over the Mountaineers.

Georgetown outshot VCU 10-3 in the first half of Thursday’s match and earned five corner kicks compared to just one for the opposition. Junior forward Alex Muyl converted that advantage into a lead in the 38th minute, scoring from a short distance off a cross by sophomore midfielder Matthew Ledder.

“I thought we controlled the game how we wanted. We did more than enough to win. We had plenty of chances to put a team away,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

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Despite that goal and several other chances to seal the win, the Hoyas only managed a 1-0 lead going into halftime. The Rams went on to equalize in the 52nd minute, but sophomore midfielder Arun Basuljevic quickly put the Hoyas ahead once again, scoring off the rebound of a save by the opposing goalkeeper.

Unfortunately for the Hoyas, that new lead would not hold until the end of the match. An 88th-minute goal by VCU junior midfielder Dakota Barnathan tied the game at 2-2. Georgetown had multiple scoring opportunities during the two overtime periods but could not walk away with a victory.

“There’s a lot of lessons for this team in how to put a team away,” Wiese said.

“There’s two ways of doing that. One is to score another goal … and the other is to simply make it very hard to concede. We did neither there.”

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Former Georgetown forward Mikael Hopkins (COL ’15) recently signed a professional contract with Istanbul DSI in Turkey. In his four seasons as a Hoya, Hopkins recorded 629 points and 482 rebounds.

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Junior midfielder Bakie Goodman scored a goal with eight minutes remaining in the second half of the game against West Virginia to extend the Hoyas’ lead to 3-1.

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he NFL’s most muted star, Marshawn Lynch, may not be willing to say anything to reporters, but his mother has shown she most certainly is. This past week, in a social media tirade reminiscent of Amanda Bynes’ infamous meltdown, Lynch’s mother, Delisa Lynch, demanded that Seahawks’ offensive playcaller Darrell Bevell be fired after a controversial fourth-down run call cost the Seahawks the season opener in St. Louis.

Granted, there may be some substance to Ms. Lynch’s request, seeing as Bevell is at least partially responsible for the worst play call in Seahawks (and perhaps NFL) history at the end of last year’s Super Bowl, but instead of drawing attention to the apparent woes in Seattle regarding who’s on the other end of the headset, she has instead made herself the most recent example of a sweeping epidemic in upper-level sports: parent involvement.

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“This is an opportunity for me to show what I can do for a team that can make the playoffs.”

that can make the playoffs,” Sims said to AZCentral while he participated in voluntary tryouts prior to signing his contract. “I want to show the NBA I can do what I was doing [in Philadelphia] on any team and do more. It gives me an extra boost of energy to be here for a potential playoff team.”

Whittington, who recently signed a contract with the Miami Heat, took a more unusual route to the NBA. He spent parts of two seasons at Georgetown, and appeared to be a budding star alongside fellow forward and classmate Otto Porter Jr. when he averaged 12.1 points, seven rebounds and two assists per game in the first 13 games of his sophomore season in 2012-13.

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The Georgetown men’s basketball program is well-known for producing quality professional players. Centers Henry Sims (COL ’12) and Joshua Smith and forwards Greg Whittington, DaJuan Summers and Mikael Hopkins (COL ’15) will have the opportunity to continue that legacy, as each of them recently signed contracts to play professional basketball.

Sims, who will enter his fourth professional season, recently signed a nonguaranteed one-year contract with the Phoenix Suns.

He received sporadic playing time during his first three years at Georgetown before breaking out in his senior year in 2011-12, when he averaged 11.6 points, six rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

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town, Sims went undrafted in the 2012 NBA Draft but signed with the New Orleans Hornets shortly thereafter. After short stints with the Hornets and the Cleveland Cavaliers, he spent the last two seasons carving out a significant role on the Philadelphia 76ers.

Last season, the 6-foot-10 center played in 73 games — including 32 starts — and recorded eight points and 4.9 rebounds per game.

Georgetown’s volleyball team (6-7) experienced a great deal of roster turnover during the offseason, and as a result, the team has nine new players this season, including eight freshmen. Because of this, the Hoyas have experienced inconsistent results throughout their nonconference schedule, never winning or losing more than two consecutive matches.

Still, the team has shown signs of progress, and that continued this weekend, as the team won two out of three games at the James Madison University Invitational.

“We have talked all season long about this being a process, and each match is just one more piece in the process,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “The first part was us getting to know each other and learning how to play together, and then to play at a high level and then to consistently play at a high level.”

On Friday, Georgetown defeated North Carolina Central (1-15) in straight sets. As a team, the Hoyas recorded 45 kills, compared to only 20 by the Eagles. Freshman outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette recorded a match-high 15 kills and added nine digs, while freshman setter Paige McKnight registered 32 assists, six kills and six digs.

“Paige puts up some good numbers. She has such a high volley-

ball IQ. I think as Paige continues to develop as a player we will see her being even more vocal and connecting with her teammates.

She can find a way to get her hitters kills, and she has the potential to take over a match. We expect to see even more of that from her,” Williams said.

Just a few hours later, the Hoyas took the court against the host team, the James Madison Dukes (10-3). Georgetown started fast, jumping out to a 16-12 lead before extending that lead with a 6-0 run, eventually closing out the set by a score of 25-16.

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Freshman outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette had a game-high 15 kills in Georgetown’s straight sets win over North Carolina Central. Sinnette leads the team with 3.73 kills per set this season.

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