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TUESDAY, september 25, 2012

LEAGUE LEADERS

COMMENTARY Students should vote in favor of raising GU’s disciplinary standard.

Two weekend wins moved No. 19 Georgetown to 4-0 in the Big East.

SPORTS, A10

RELAY Faculty members ran to raise money for Don Bosco High School.

HONOR CODE Georgetown’s Honor Code aims to be both punitive and educational.

NEWS, A7

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A5

Auditors Revisit the Classroom GU Delays Decision

On Adidas Violation

Hiromi Oka

Hoya Staff Writer

Patricia Orr is not a typical Georgetown student. Unlike most of the freshmen and sophomores in “Comparative Political Systems,” a class taught by Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., she already has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Orr is one of about 50 senior auditors who attend undergraduate classes at Georgetown, according to Anne Ridder, assistant dean of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program and coordinator of the Senior Citizen Non-Degree Auditor Program at the School of Continuing Studies.

“You don’t get to relive college … but it’s great to be with the professors, who are wonderful, and with the kids,” Orr said. “It’s so good for me to see what college is like nowadays … getting the feel of that and reliving that with the students.”

When Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J., began the program in the mid-1980s, only four auditors took courses.

Since then, the number of auditors has increased significantly.

“To me, it’s ... among the few tangible gifts for others that Georgetown continues to give,” Ridder said. “[Healy] said it’s unwritten, but a Jesuit university’s responsibility extends to the community in which it resides.”

The auditor program is open to

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Pat Fleming and Mike Feinsilber audit “U.S. Women’s History.” adults over the age of 65 and costs $50 per course. There is no limit to the number of classes auditors can take; however, auditors cannot enroll in courses that include laboratory or hands-on components or in first- or second-year language classes.

Auditors are concentrated in cer-

tain departments.

“A lot of the auditors I’ve talked to have taken courses in theology and art, particularly art history — those are not really fields that teres See AUDITING, A6

Nearly five months after Adidas violated the Code of Conduct for Georgetown University Licensees, the university has yet to take formal action against the company.

In an effort to renew awareness about the issue, the Georgetown Solidarity Committee submitted an open letter to University President John J. DeGioia on Friday demanding that the university enforce its code by dissolving its contract with Adidas.

According to a report from the Worker Rights Consortium, a group that advocates for decent working conditions, Adidas failed to pay severance fees to workers after the PT Kizone plant in Indonesia — which manufactures Georgetown apparel — closed last year.

At the time of submission, the letter had 172 signatures from graduate students, alumni and members of the Georgetown University Student Association — 40 from a petition posted online and 132 gathered by GSC members in Red Square.

“Adidas … is in direct violation of the Georgetown University Code of Conduct for Licensees,” read the letter, which was posted on change.org

last Monday. “Upon the closing of the factory … Adidas refused to pay the workers their severance, … violating the clause in the Code of Conduct stating that licensees are required to ‘[pay] all applicable back wages, or any portion of them, found due to workers who manufactured the licensed articles.’”

According to United Students Against Sweatshops, a national student organization that organizes and runs student-labor solidarity campaigns to improve working conditions, Adidas owes $1.8 million in back wages to its workers at the plant.

“Adidas is trying to avoid paying the money to avoid setting a precedent to pay back wages in the future,” GSC member Julia Hubbell (COL ’15) said.

Although the university recognizes the validity of the Worker Rights Consortium’s claims, which first arose in January, the university has not taken action on the issue.

Scheduling difficulties have delayed the university’s decision, according to Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming. The Licensing Oversight Committee, which oversees Georgetown’s contracts with apparel companies, including Adidas, See ADIDAS, A6

MSB Grads Are No. 2 in Employment Braden McDonald Hoya Staff Writer

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Regents Hall receives final landscaping improvements.

New Science Center Nears Completion Penny Hung

Special to The Hoya

Though workers are still putting final touches on Regents Hall, the university is preparing to mark the official completion of the building with an opening ceremony Oct. 4.

The grand opening will occur inside the hall and will include remarks from University President John J. DeGioia and College Dean Chester Gillis.

According to Ali Whitmer, senior associate dean for strategic planning and faculty development, the ongoing renovations are normal adjustments that occur once a building’s occupants have moved in. In addition to the minor renovations, which include additional landscaping outside the building, a new nanotechnology lab is currently under construction.

But the ongoing renovation and construction have not disrupted the classroom experience in the building, Whitmer said, and faculty members have welcomed the continuing work. “[The renovations] are minor inconveniences. We had a small piece

Graduates of the McDonough School of Business saw the secondhighest rate of employment for the Class of 2011 among more than 240 undergraduate programs in the United States, according to a September study by NerdWallet Education.

Eighty-nine percent of the Class of 2011 landed jobs immediately after graduation, placing the MSB just below University of MassachusettsAmherst’s School of Nursing, from which 92 percent of graduates found employment. The MSB placed three spots above Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, from which 86 percent of graduates found employment after graduation, and four above University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, from which 85 percent found employment.

NerdWallet Education based its study on schools that disclose their

graduates’ employment rates.

Georgetown’s senior survey report from the Class of 2011, which NerdWallet used for its study of Georgetown, found that MSB graduates had the highest rate of employment

“The Career Center staff enjoys seeing alumni ... recruit their fellow Hoyas.”

MIKE SCHAUB Executive Director of the Career Center

among the four undergraduate schools. Fifty-two percent of graduates from Georgetown College, 69 percent of graduates from the Walsh School of Foreign Service and 74 percent of graduates from the School of Nursing and Health Studies were employed by graduation day.

However, a higher proportion of students from those schools went on to graduate or professional school.

While only 5 percent of MSB graduates sought further education, 32 percent of College graduates, 14 percent of SFS graduates and 18 percent of NHS graduates went on to graduate or professional school.

According to Mike Schaub, executive director of the Cawley Career Education Center at Georgetown, the center provides MSB students with specialized tools in accordance with the unique challenges they face in finding employment.

“Interviewing for the finance and consulting fields can be particularly tricky, so the Career Center offers specialized preparation sessions conducted by employers and alumni in those fields,” Schaub said.

Schaub added that a strong alumni network of MSB graduates working for top businesses opens doors See EMPLOYMENT, A5

FROM STOOP TO SILVER SCREEN

that we asked to be added to the lab, and it was done in a timely way,” said Peter Armbruster, an associate professor of biology who teaches classes and has his office in Regents.

“It’s worth it to get it right.”

Faculty and student responses to the new science center have been mostly positive.

“It’s a night-and-day difference,” associate professor of biology Matthew Hamilton said. “The labs are modern and functional on a level unlike anything we had in Reiss.

It’s a lot more comfortable and inviting.”

Haley Maness (COL ’15) also prefers Regents to the older science building.

“Most of my science classes are … here, which is a bit nicer than Reiss, because everything’s really concentrated here,” Maness said. “It just makes for a better classroom experience.”

Hamilton praised the community-oriented nature of the new labs.

“They are spacious, and the way they are designed, we are no longer compartmentalized,” Hamilton

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OPINION

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Venue Fees Out of Place A small group on campus called THiNK — Truth and Human Rights in North Korea — says it would like to hold events in Copley Formal Lounge. But the price tag for using this prominent space, which on a weekend exceeds $150 for just a few hours, has forced the group to look elsewhere.

Despite the variety of expansive and distinguished locations for staging events on campus, the cost of reserving these rooms precludes some student groups from taking advantage of them. Space on campus ought to be made available to help student groups flourish, not scrap for cash. The Office of Campus Activity Facilities should discontinue its policy of charging student groups for room reservations and instead adopt practices that maintain the integrity of these resources while giving students the opportunity to utilize all of the venues the Hilltop has to offer.

In contrast to OCAF’s billing system, the Office of the University Registrar simply requires anyone who wants to reserve a classroom to fill out a brief online form outlining purpose and needs. If a classroom is available, it will be delegated to the group. Larger spaces, such as Gaston Hall and Lohrfink Auditorium, require reservations through OCAF. The cost of these room reservations isn’t stated upfront, and it should be. Lohrfink Auditorium, for example, costs students $37 per hour — $58 on Saturdays — plus mandatory hall manager fees, which might as well be included in the hourly rate.

There are, of course, costs to maintaining these venues: electricity, janitorial services and technicians, to name a few. But student groups should not be expected to shoulder these costs, nor should this service be expected to cover debts incurred in other university operations.

For many groups like THiNK, the cost of re-

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serving a room can be the difference between holding an event, moving it someplace less desirable and cancelling it altogether. If there are other ways of gaining access to these rooms when financial obligations cannot be met, they are not sufficiently advertised.

OCAF must also take into account understandable considerations for its management of space aside from cost, such as curtailing overuse and misuse. But charging student groups a hefty fee is not an appropriate way of achieving those goals. Instead, we propose that OCAF drop the room fees and require a monetary security deposit.

A security deposit still demonstrates a serious commitment from a student group to use the space both on time and responsibly, and OCAF could keep the deposit if the group failed to uphold its end of the bargain. For instance, if a space were messy or damaged after an event, the deposit would be used to cover the maintenance costs to clean and repair. OCAF is not left hung out to dry, and student groups do not suffer for having financial constraints.

A security deposit system could easily be implemented in the same way that intramural sports manage participation. Each team must pay a certain entry fee, and given full and proper participation, the team has a portion of its payment returned. Even if student groups making room reservations have to make this type of partial payment, it’s a worthwhile step in the right direction.

Our recommendation that OCAF not charge for room reservations should not be interpreted as a disregard for the prestige of many campus spaces. In fact, it’s the exact opposite: These venues are treasures to the Georgetown experience, and OCAF shortchanges their value by making it so difficult for students to use them.

Bob the Blogger — Provost Robert Groves recently announced that he will be launching a blog to keep students and faculty updated about Georgetown’s academic future.

False Alarms — Campus housing and facilities will be conducting fire alarm drills in all residence halls and townhouses throughout the next few days.

Bargain Books — Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, will be holding a used book sale in Red Square on Wednesday and Thursday.

Gabriel Scheinmann (GRD ’14) on Obama’s foreign policy record: “The next commander-in-chief will likely have to decide whether we are victorious in Afghanistan, whether Iran goes nuclear and whether we have the resolve to stand up to China in the Pacific. Unfortunately, on nearly every major issue impacting the security of the United States, President Obama’s policies have made America less prepared for future threats to our security.”

Katie Bolas (SFS ’15) on why Romney is right for women: “Women have not thrived under this president, and insisting that the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was a great win for women’s rights is disingenuous. That law is not about fair pay — it’s about lawsuits.”

For more on the election from Scheinmann and Bolas and for campaign commentary from Bethany Imondi (COL ’13), Sam Dulik (SFS ’13), Scott Stirrett (SFS ’13) and Hannah Miller (COL ’14), check out thehoya.com.

ALWAYS ON THE SUNNY SIDE by Sania Salman

Carded at the Polls A political argument has been brewing this election cycle that, on the surface, might appear remarkably ordinary: More than half the states have recently passed some form of voter identification law.

These new electoral policies have sparked debate since they were ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008. Some analysts contend that the laws will protect the sanctity of elections from fraudulent voting; others believe the requirement adds an unfair and unnecessary burden, making it more difficult for students, the elderly and the poor to vote. What’s worse, this disenfranchisement is likely not just an indirect consequence of the new laws, but a targeting of specific demographics by legislators who seek to reduce their turnout.

Opposition to voter identification laws may not be intuitive. What is the harm, one might ask, in ensuring that voters at the polls are who they say they are? Unfortunately, if the issue were this simple, it would not be so partisan, nor would there be such a conspicuous lack of motivation for this relatively sudden and sweeping wave of legislation.

Concerns that such laws may disenfranchise students are not overstated. In April 2011, at least three Georgetown students were turned away from the polls during a special election to fill an at-large seat on the D.C. Council. The students were told that they did not have the required government ID and proof of residency, and they were given neither provisional ballots nor a

chance to prove their residency at a later date.

College students across the country who try to vote outside their home state can expect to face this problem. In Pennsylvania, a swing state where many out-of-state college students choose to vote, the law prevents voters from using out-of-state driver’s licenses to cast a ballot.

Moreover, the law requires that voter IDs fulfill a number of conditions: The identification must have a recent photograph and a valid and future expiration date. Many students IDs fail to meet at least one of these criteria, and out-of-state students whose only other ID is a driver’s license from their home state will be left with no options for proving their identity on Election Day. As similar laws are proposed and debated in state legislatures across the country, Georgetown students must be cognizant of potential threats to their right to vote and the rights of their peers back home. It is important to note, however, that such voter fraud policies vary by state. Some versions of voter identification laws still make it easy for student voters to cast their ballots, regardless of where their parents live or how often their universities update their identification systems. But even if these new laws don’t directly threaten most Georgetown students’ ability to vote, we must also weigh the potential effects of weaker student turnout — an already low statistic — across the country. As student issues such as Pell grant funding are debated, it’s critical that the participation of students — and all voters, for that matter — not be suppressed.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Votes More Valuable in DC To the Editor: I am writing in response to the editorial “More Bang for Your Ballot” (The Hoya, A2, Sept. 11, 2012), in which the Editorial Board argues that students should not register to vote in the District of Columbia and instead should opt to vote in their home states.

You use the close 2000 presidential election in Florida as your primary case study. I challenge your basic premise on two grounds. First, I believe that many students have a more powerful vote in the District than at home. While your example of Florida is compelling, you fail to note that the majority of Georgetown students hail from California, New York, Texas, Illinois and New Jersey, hardly battleground states. There is a relatively low likelihood that a Georgetown student’s vote in California will swing the state.

For the majority of us who do not live in swing states, our votes have much more power here in the District.

Second, I believe that students have a vested interest in voting in the District,

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where the decisions of local officials affect their day-to-day lives. D.C. government has remarkable authority over our lives, enforcing strict new noise ordinances, setting landlord standards and controlling the expansion of the university. Our Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) won the Democratic primary in 2008 with only 1,400 votes. If even 20 or 30 percent of Georgetown students had voted in that race, we could have changed the last three years of university relations with the city.

Students have remarkable electoral power here; their votes could decide more elections in the District than they ever would in Texas or New York. As the editorial notes, “Some will mock the importance of an individual’s vote in our electoral system; others recognize that every vote can make a difference.” Every vote makes a difference here in the District of Columbia.

Peter Prindiville (SFS ’14) Candidate for Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E

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OPINION

It may sound idealistic to imagine scathe metal vault door creaked open, letting light into a cold, stone room tered artifacts and trinkets as having the deep in the bowels of Healy Hall. power to give meaning to our entire uniMountains of gold coins, jewels and silver versity community, but I was fortunate enough to explore the Healy Vault with chalices covered the floor.

Well, not exactly. But my opportunity someone who had had that very experito visit the Healy Vault this summer ex- ence.

While exploring the vault many years posed me to just a few of the treasures that are hidden across the Hilltop. Over ago, Fr. G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., had come 20,000 artifacts maintained by two uni- upon a piece of metal covered in dust versity curators are kept in various loca- and lying on the ground. That piece of metal, made from the tions across campus. iron of the ships that They exist not only as a carried the first Jesuits record of Georgetown’s to America, is the cross own rich history but as that now hangs in Dahla demonstration of the gren Chapel. history of the world.

While the items in Inside the vault was the vault are made of a large collection of nothing more than Smithsonian-worthy wood, metal or stone, artifacts. I saw, among their true value is found other rarities, a canKevin Sullivan in the common history nonball that had been they provide to generaunearthed during the Artifacts in the vault tions of students. The construction of Healy, of a common a “haunted” cradle that are here to animate the effect purpose and identity held Georgetown’s 15th on various Georgepresident, hand-woven spirit of Georgetown. town student groups silk vestments worn by is further testament to the first Jesuits in colonial America, cavalry sabers from the history’s ability to center our pluralism.

Civil War and souvenirs from post-war The Sodality, Georgetown’s first student Germany when Fr. Edmund Walsh, S.J., group, brought together the diverse and attended the Nuremberg trials. Just up- active Catholic community for the simple stairs, in the seldom-visited Carroll Par- purpose of devotional prayer and meditalor, hangs “The Calling of St. Matthew,” tion. The Philodemic Society encourages appraised to be the most valuable paint- serious debate “in the defense of liberty.” ing in the world at one point in the 19th With pluralism becoming an increasingcentury. A mosaic-covered table from the ly important cornerstone of the GeorgeVatican stands in one corner, while Gen- town experience, we need to recognize eral Custer’s West Point uniform and a our roots, now more than ever.

Georgetown’s traditions manifest in lock of George Washington’s hair sit instudents, not administrators, and it is conspicuously on the various shelves.

Why were these artifacts, many of students’ responsibility to continue pracwhich are quite valuable and worthy of ticing and expressing those traditions. display at museums worldwide, given But our history lies behind vault doors, to Georgetown? The answer is not so locking us out of opportunities to benefit that they may gather a layer of dust in from and give meaning to our past.

The university must make a greater efbasements. No, these artifacts are here to animate the spirit of Georgetown fort to share the treasures and memories “for generations to come.” Without a of Georgetown students past, artifacts healthy appreciation of the challenges, that were given in the explicit hope that failures and triumphs of Georgetown future students would find purpose in students past, our community becomes them. We yell “Hoya Saxa” to this day, uprooted, divided by the partisan con- even though none of us ever watched the troversies of the moment. Without mighty Hoyas beat our traditional footknowledge of our common purpose, we ball rivals from atop the stone wall. More become individuals who are here just of that spirit of Georgetown should be for good grades and fun weekends. We freed from deep inside the vaults. become isolated in our various clubs and student groups, unconcerned about Kevin Sullivan is a junior in the School of the larger community that calls on us to Foreign Service. GHOSTS OF HOYAS PAST appears every other Tuesday. be men and women for others.

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THE HOYA

Vote ‘Yes’ on Referendum I

t takes a lot to move a glacier and not much less to fundamentally alter a 223-year-old university’s disciplinary system.

It requires years of unjust outcomes; it necessitates observers of the system — students, faculty and staff alike — taking the time to audit rules and realities. Above all, however, it takes the voice of the community speaking out in support of higher standards of justice on the Hilltop in resolute unison.

In the case of the effort to raise the Code of Student Conduct’s disciplinary standard, it will take the voice of the community speaking out in unison to effect real change.

The student body will be presented tomorrow with a chance to put public opinion behind what has been a months-long effort to raise the Code of Student Conduct’s burden of proof from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing” evidence. The Georgetown University Student Association will send out an online ballot to undergraduates to cast votes regarding both the change in the disciplinary burden of proof and their residential area’s GUSA senate candidates.

It has been six months since the Disciplinary Review Committee — a body composed of administrators, faculty and students — recommended raising the evidentiary standard to “clear and convincing.”

Throughout that time, the issue has been shelved by the Office of Students Affairs. Citing an impending external review of the disciplinary system by two administrators from Duke University and Loyola University in Chicago, Todd Olson, vice president for student affairs, has acted with opaqueness rather than transparency. Perhaps most inexplicably, he’s basing his decision on the advice of a duo of unfamiliar officials from different universities rather than on that of his own counseling body dedicated to disciplinary matters.

Even more egregious is that this past summer, the university accepted certain disciplinary changes based on the 2010 Campus Plan and negotiations with neighbors, yet it now refuses to validate the conclusions of investigative and deliberative work done by its own students, faculty and staff.

As the university delays, the letter of the law remains unchanged, and students continue to be subjected to a disciplinary system based on probability rather than evidence, striving for efficiency instead of justice.

The current burden of proof, “more likely than not,” gives adjudicators, such as hall directors and hearing boards, the authority to find a student charged with disciplinary violations responsible based on a 51 percent chance that the suspect is guilty. With virtually any burden of proof, it is unrealistic to think that respective administrators’ interpretations will be identical, yet the broad liberty for interpretation that this standard affords lends itself to inconsistencies in students’ disciplinary experiences. The simple fact that a student was written up in the first place could deem him or her guilty under the “more likely than not” statute. Such a system opens up an unacceptably large window for subjectivity, individual error and premature conclusions.

The argument for revising the evidentiary standards to “clear and convincing” is further strengthened by a review of our peer institutions. Duke University, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania all use the “clear and convincing” burden of proof. The higher standard is used even within our own university: The Georgetown University Law Center and the undergraduate appeals process both demand evidence over probability. Yes, that’s right: While the university needs to prove only that

a student “more likely than not” did something wrong, that same student has to present “clear and convincing evidence” that his or her case was mishandled.

Some will justify the “more likely than not” standard with pragmatic arguments for efficiency. But data from Duke’s Office of Student Conduct may provide the numbers needed to assuage such concerns: Over five years, 78 percent of students adjudicated under the “clear and convincing” standard were found responsible for one charge.

At the end of the day, however, our disciplinary system must not be about what is easiest for administrators. It must be about justice and the Code of Student Conduct’s ethos: “the dignity of and worth of every person and the love of truth.”

In the hope of making the disciplinary process at Georgetown a positive learning experience — and one that is consistent with our Jesuit values and stated love of truth — it is time to improve the integrity of the standard that sets the tone for the entire system.

Students and their fellow supporters of justice on campus scored a huge victory last spring when, after a year of fact-finding and deliberations, the DRC ruled in favor of the university adopting the “clear and convincing” standard. But as we now know, it takes more than just a recommendation to change the status quo of the Georgetown disciplinary system. It will require the entire campus to speak out at the same time, saying the same thing: “Clear. Convincing. Fair.”

Clara Gustafson is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

She is president of the Georgetown University Student Association. Sam Schneider is a senior in the College. He is co-director of the Student Advocacy Office and a member of the Board of Directors of The Hoya.

1789 PROBLEMS by Arturo Altamirano

TALK IS CHEAP

Co-op Program Bridges Classroom and Career M

ost Georgetown students are fa- degree will translate into employment, a miliar with the year-long intern- co-op can be a valuable tool in making ship scramble. But there is a bet- that transition. Students would gain a ter method to gain this experience, one deeper understanding of how to use the that is more integrated with education: a things they are learning in the classco-op program. room in order to further their careers.

Across the country, universities such as Likewise, this co-op experience can Northeastern, Carnegie Mellon and Drex- improve students’ performance in the el have optional co-op programs through classroom. It is easy to lose sight of the which students can earn money and bigger picture when one is wrapped gain work experience. Such a program up in midterms and papers, and workenables students take ing in one’s field of time anywhere from interest can provide one to three semesters insight into the apoff from classes to work plicability of a range full time in their field of scholastic topics. of interest, thus makUnderstanding life ing it possible to graduinside and outside ate in four years. A co-op the classroom allows program differs from student to appreciate internships in that it is the benefits of both school supported and areas while expandDan Healy well paid, at the same ing their ability to imtime offering a range prove academia and Students could bypass of domestic and interthe private sector. national opportunities.

A co-op program the crazed competition undoubtedly And students often represents ceive a full-time offer for summer internships. some drawbacks. Stufrom their employer dents may worry that upon graduation. their on-campus expeImplementing a co-op system would rience will be compromised if they work allow Georgetown students to better take too much off campus. A co-op can also advantage of the D.C. job market while occasionally make it difficult to graduate bypassing the crazed competition for un- on time. These are valid considerations, paid summer internships. It would, how- but in order to find out what one truly ever, require much restructuring of the wants to do, a student must take some current academic schedule, which al- risks by trying different areas of work ways seems less attractive to the adminis- and study. tration than maintaining the status quo.

Georgetown ought to investigate how Co-op programs have several practical effective a co-op program would be if imadvantages with respect to the job mar- plemented. There’s a good chance that ket. First, time spent working in a paid it would be another way to improve stuposition often looks better to a future dents’ prospects for success after graduemployer than time in an unpaid job. ation, simultaneously increasing the Companies will recognize that a student quality and benefit of the academic exfulfilled important responsibilities and perience. At the very least, it would offer is familiar with the realities of today’s Georgetown students another avenue to competitive job market. Not to mention, discover and pursue their interests, build it’s always nicer to get paid. their qualifications and gain meaningful Another advantage to co-op programs work experience. is that they help produce worldlier, marketable students. For those college stu- Dan Healy is a senior in the College. TALK dents who are concerned with how their IS CHEAP appears every other Tuesday.

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lthough we are far from perfecting the use of IdeaScale, it is easy to imagine a future where we don’t know what we ever did without it.

IdeaScale, Georgetown’s online platform for students to pitch ideas, launched in the spring of 2012. The online community grew considerably over the summer, and many students have started to actively monitor new posts. This program represents a significant shift in the way that the administration engages students, and it demonstrates an encouraging sign of transparency.

The concept of an online idea forum started back in fall 2011. Upon stepping into his role as Georgetown’s chief operating officer, Chris Augostini saw engagement as an essential component of the university’s strategy and began developing partnerships with students. His first major initiative in this theme was the launch of Hoya Roundtables, a series of two-hour sessions in which administrators and students come together to discuss important campus issues.

The popularity of Hoya Roundtables sparked the idea of a virtual community intended to mimic the roundtables in a more accessible way. After an extensive search, it became clear that the IdeaScale platform would provide exactly that. The Georgetown University Student Association was also looking to implement a similar system

and ultimately partnered with the Office of the COO to bring IdeaScale to students.

Seven months after its launch, IdeaScale has seen over 1,600 users cast over 12,000 votes on nearly 150 ideas. With that level of engagement, it is hard to argue that the program has been anything but a success. The student body clearly finds it useful to have a single space where they can express their ideas and concerns directly to administrators and campus leaders.

As with any new system, we are still trying to figure out how this online forum of ideas should operate.

Accordingly, it is of no surprise that the most common complaints from students revolve around the lack of feedback built into the platform.

Given the level of student engagement over the summer, it is likely that this school year will see significant growth in user interactions via this online platform. As more students flock to IdeaScale to offer their solutions to Georgetown’s biggest problems, it is not yet clear how the university administration and staff will respond. If administrators begin providing direct feedback on idea posts, what was previously a big gap between students and the administration might be filled. If not, IdeaScale may end up being little more than a forum for frustrated students.

But while there is no official body responsible for giving feedback on

IdeaScale posts, some student leaders actively comment on posts and use the suggestions to advocate on behalf of the community. The GUSA executive has been particularly active, frequently bringing suggestions from IdeaScale to their meetings.

For the future, a system of “IdeaScale responders” has been organized to represent the administration and keep the conversation going. It is our hope that the IdeaScale responders will become increasingly active on the comment sections and provide students with feedback. It is our hope that the IdeaScale responders will become increasingly active on the comment sections and provide students with feedback in between Hoya Roundtables events.

IdeaScale has given a platform to students hoping to voice their opinions. Whereas before, student concerns went unregistered, they are now documented in a public, transparent manner. Although there is no built-in guarantee that steps will be taken to address any of the issues discussed on IdeaScale, simply having the information presented publicly is a valuable service to Georgetown students.

MICHAEL CROUCH is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

He is a secretary of information technology in GUSA. TYLER SAX is a senior in the College. He is managing director of the SIPS fund.

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Actress and activist Rosario Dawson spoke about voter participation, women’s and minorities’ rights and her career in Gaston Hall Friday.

The Georgetown University Lecture Fund sponsored the event with support from the Cuban American Student Association, the Latin American Student Association, the Center for Social Justice and the Center for Latin American Studies.

Dawson shared memories of growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in abandoned buildings that her parents and neighbors made habitable.

“The community came up because of people moving in, daring to be against their poverty and striving for themselves by putting sweat equity into the community that they were in,” she said.

Photographer Larry Clark discovered Dawson while she was standing on a stoop in her front yard and asked her to audition for his movie “Kids,” an offer that jumpstarted her career.

Since “Kids,” Dawson has held leading roles in many films, including “Men in Black II,” “25th Hour,” “Rent,” “Sin City” and “Fire with

Fire,” which will be released Nov. 6.

Dawson said she prioritizes message over money and chooses to depict real women in her films.

“Not every woman that needs to be portrayed needs to be perfect, and not every story that needs to be told has to have a happy ending, because that’s not life,” Dawson said.

In addition to acting, Dawson associates herself with social justice and women’s causes.

In 2004, she started Voto Latino, an organization that encourages people to vote and educates them about the importance of voting.

“In March 2003, Latinos became the largest minority in the country, and we wanted to address the wave that was 50,000 young American Latinos turning 18 every month,” Dawson said. “We started Voto Latino because it’s not just a Latino issue — it’s an American issue — and if we care about the direction of this country, it’s important that we reach out to that demographic as strongly and clearly as possible.”

According to Dawson, 18 million people have lost their homes since the last election and will be disenfranchised at voting booths if they do not re-register with their temporary residence cards. Because of this problem, Voto Latino has teamed

up with over 700 organizations to make Sept. 25 a national voter registration day.

“When I register people to vote, as soon as they do it, they realize they’re a part of a bigger story,” Dawson said.

Dawson also supports One Billion Rising, a global initiative asking for one billion people to rise up and dance on Valentine’s Day in response to the one billion women who are raped, beaten or killed every year as a result of domestic violence.

“We want to make the earth shake, make it be the largest movement the world has ever seen. … We can do it for women, and we can do it for girls, and we can do it for all the men, like my dad, who are amazing human beings and who are not the ones who are hurting women,” Dawson said. “It is very important for all of us to be a part of this conversation.”

Dawson’s experiences and personal confidence inspired many in the audience.

“As a Latina college student, I found it powerful to feel a personal call to action from a fellow Latina who uses her voice to lead ERICA WONG/THE HOYA and serve,” Naomi Fierro (COL ’15) said.

Rosario Dawson’s diverse initiatives inspired her Gaston Hall audience Friday.

Community Members Train to Become First Responders EITAN SAYAG

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Georgetown University’s Campus Community Emergency Response Team plans to train an additional 40 students and faculty in disaster response methods next month.

Launched in July 2010, the C-CERT program is managed by Georgetown’s Department of Emergency Management and Operational Continuity and is sponsored by the Emergency Management for Higher Education Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

“This program is specifically designed to create individual and community resilience at the citizen level,” DEMOC Director Whit Chaiyabhat wrote in an email. “To date,

we have trained approximately 187 Georgetown University C-CERT members.”

After completing the course, CCERT members will offer support to professional first responders, such as the Department of Public Safety and Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service.

“Our plan for C-CERT is [to offer] a logistical support role to Georgetown’s established emergency response organizations, such as DPS, GERMS ... and our safety and environmental management response experts,” Chaiyabhat wrote.

Training sessions will be held in October and span three days.

David Lizza (COL ’15) completed C-CERT training last February and is now a certified member of the pro-

gram.

“I was open during the time slots that they had the certification, and so I decided to do the training because I like emergency preparedness,” Lizza said. “I think I’m more prepared than before.”

Unlike GERMS, which requires a semester-long training course, CCERT provides only a general overview of disaster relief skills.

“GERMS is more of a specific skill set than C-CERT,” Brian Monahan (COL ’15), a member of both C-CERT and GERMS, said. “You don’t have to be in GERMS to take C-CERT. C-CERT is just a general broad overview.

They cover different aspects of emergency management.”

This year, DEMOC aims to expand its members’ role on campus.

“We ... are constantly seeking ways to engage our trained C-CERT members and provide them [with] useful training opportunities,” Chaiyabhat wrote. “On campus, we are working to integrate the use of Georgetown’s C-CERT volunteers for major special events requiring additional logistics support and personnel.”

This summer, Georgetown organized its second CERT CON 2012, a training conference for CERT volunteers in the Washington, D.C., area that included lectures and a simulated disaster scenario — a backpack bomb explosion on campus.

During the simulation, GERMS members both acted as patients and worked alongside CERT volunteers to respond to the simulated disaster.

“The purpose of having GERMS there was so the [C-CERT members] could see how the patients were dealt with from a medical aspect,” GERMS President and CERT CON participant Taylor Miller (SFS ’13) said. “From our standpoint, we had some good feedback for them, and I think it helped a lot. I think there was a sense of constructive feedback on both sides.”

Monahan and Lizza both recommended the C-CERT course to interested students and faculty.

“Anyone interested in [making] Georgetown a better place as far as safety goes or anyone who is interested in disaster relief would totally enjoy this experience because of the training involved and the activities afterward,” Lizza said.

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In the wake of a recent cheating scandal at Harvard University in which 125 students were accused of plagiarism or improper collaboration on a take-home final exam, the importance of an honor code to guard against academic malpractice has come to the forefront of national media attention.

While some major universities, including Harvard, operate without an honor code, Georgetown has a well-established honor system that was adopted in 1996.

According to Terrence Reynolds, associate professor in the theology department, there was no honor code at Georgetown when he started teaching at the university in 1991.

Early in his career at Georgetown, Reynolds felt that there was a need for a uniform way of addressing academic misconduct across all classrooms at Georgetown and was asked to chair the committee that proposed and later approved the Georgetown Honor System.

“An honor system is a way to assure that students are treated as fairly as possible across the main campus on those rare occasions when violations occur and that the resolution of the cases serves the larger educational mission of the university,” Reynolds said.

According to Sonia Jacobson, assistant for academic affairs and the Honor System’s director, the effectiveness of the code relies on prevention, education and fairness.

“It’s all supposed to be educational, even if it’s punitive,” Jacobson said. “But in reality, it needs to be more than punitive.”

Jacobson said she found the lack of an honor code at Harvard to be a surprise.

“I have heard it doesn’t [have an honor system],” Jacobson said. “It seems crazy for a school so venerable and old not to.”

A unique feature of Georgetown’s Honor System is its inclusion of a sanction reduction program. The council allows students with minor or mid-level sanctions to apply for a reduction. Students in the program must apologize to the professor involved, attend a remedial seminar and participate in community service or a mentorship program.

“It’s a six-month process [in which] student[s] … work one-on-one with an [Honor Council] board member,” Meredith Kolff (SFS ’13), the co-chair for the program, said. “Basically it’s an opportunity to give back to the university and learn from your mistake.”

By going through this process, students can address the specific circumstances that led to

their violation and have the sanction removed from their official transcript within two years.

Brian Goggin (SFS ’14), chair of policy and procedure for the Honor Council, added that students who are honest when confronted about their violation are not subject to a full hearing because they do not have to wait for the council to gather research.

“Not every student has a full hearing. In cases where the students are upfront, the investigating officer will present the option of an expedited case,” Goggin said.

Reynolds said that such features of the system are included to ensure students receive the fairest possible treatment.

“When pressure, time constraints and fear of failure coalesce, students will sometimes be tempted to submit someone else’s work as their own,” he said. “But these occasions are rare, and [the] Honor System handles them fairly and with compassion and serves as an educative reminder that the Georgetown community is built on trust and a common pursuit of truth.”

The Honor System also aims to prevent cheating at its roots.

“We get the word out to students about effective ways to not cheat [and] to do proper citations,” said Tyler Holl (COL ’13), the Honor Council’s outreach co-chair.

The committee reaches out to both faculty and students in order to involve the whole community in upholding academic integrity.

“One of the major events that we do is … go to freshman halls and give presentations.

It’s a good [question-and-answer session] for the new members of our community,” Holl added.

Holl said he would like to see a feature of the training that requires students to acknowledge that they understand how the Honor System operates.

“One place where we could grow is if we had something on the tutorial [saying] that not knowing that it was cheating is not an acceptable excuse,” he said. “We hear that a lot in hearings.”

Reynolds stressed that the code is designed as a reminder that the academic community is founded on trust.

“The very fabric of the academic life is woven out of integrity and the presumption of honesty,” he said. “In the end, I think the Honor System reminds all of us that we are privileged to be a part of an institution like Georgetown and that we owe it our very best.”

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Business Grads Get Most Jobs EMPLOYMENT, from A1 for new graduates seeking employment.

“Once a company hires a few Georgetown graduates and observes their exceptional job performance, the company works with the Career Center to enhance their campus presence and expand their recruiting efforts,” Schaub said. “The Career Center staff enjoys seeing alumni who are just a few years out of graduation return to the center

to recruit their fellow Hoyas.”

MSB’s second-place ranking was consistent with the broader trends of the study, which found that graduates of specialized programs, such as business, nursing and engineering schools, had the highest rates of employment. Eighteen of the top 20 programs in the study were specialized and had an average of 84 percent employment.

Graduates of specialized programs were also found to have

higher-than-average starting salaries. The mean starting salary for the MSB’s Class of 2011 was $61,802, whereas graduates of Georgetown College were paid an average of $48,664. Despite the disparity, graduates of both schools outearned their peers; according to the NerdWallet study, the average starting salary for business school graduates was $49,448, while graduates of more general arts and sciences programs earned an average of $40,194.

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Adidas Violated Contract Regents Hall Aims for LEED Gold Certification ADIDAS, from A1

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said. “It’s much easier to see other students or colleagues and to have conversations about their work and to learn from each other.”

However, some faculty members whose work requires very rigid controls on temperature, light and other factors said they preferred the old laboratory environment.

“I have specific research needs where I need to control certain things,” Jong-in Hahm, assistant professor of chemistry, said. “Most of my lab spaces are in the open-lab spaces, so we’re still trying to adjust to that new concept.”

Temperature control and air flow mechanisms are a main component of the building’s environmentally friendly design, according to Jodi Ernst, a senior Georgetown architect who was an integral part of the team that designed Regents Hall. The center uses heat recycling, high-efficiency cooling methods, natural water filtration and new science equipment, such as high-efficiency fume hoods, to reduce its energy usage.

“We use a method called enthalpy heat wheel recovery,” Ernst said of the building’s

cooling system. “Essentially, fresh air is pulled into a material, which pulls out the sensible and latent heat. It is the most efficient way to pull heat out of the air.”

The building is cooled by chilled beams, which operate using water rather than air.

According to Ernst, constant air changes are necessary to dispel chemicals and other fumes produced in the building’s labs, and the chilled beams allow the building to maintain a constant temperature more efficiently.

“If you can separate temperature control and air control, you can save a lot of energy,” Ernst said.

The quad beside the stairs in Regents Hall contains a green roof, which naturally filters rainwater for irrigation. The vegetation on the roof hides a large cistern that stores water and sand filters, as well as the mechanical parts of the building, including the loading dock.

The university is also applying for a Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design status for the building, the highest certification granted by the U.S. Green Building Council. The university will receive notice about the certification by the end of the year.

and comprises students and administrators, has been unable to arrange a meeting with all of its members up to this point but plans to convene Oct. 10.

“The PT Kizone item is already on the agenda,” Fleming said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if a recommendation comes out of the meeting.”

The committee had complained to Adidas about the issue after the report was released, according to LOC member William Skolnik (MSB ’13), but the problem has not been solved.

“We complained directly to this company and communicated with them,” Skolnik said.

“Currently, the situation has not been resolved.”

Students at other schools that work with Adidas, including Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have also expressed concerns about the apparel company’s labor standards.

Cornell terminated its contract with Adidas on Sept. 13 because of the company’s failure to pay its workers, according to an article published in Cornell’s in-house weekly newspaper, Cornell Chronicle, on Sept. 17.

Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents asked a court to determine whether Adidas met its contract, according to an article published on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s website on July 13.

Fleming, however, suggested that cutting all ties is not the only option for Georgetown.

“We’re committed to ending sweatshops,” Fleming said. “The question is how best to do that.

Is it better to cut our relationship with them or maintain contact and talk them into doing the right thing?”

Hubbell said that the breach of contract also has moral as well as legal implications.

“It’s more than a legal issue.

It’s a justice one,” Hubbell said.

“As a Jesuit university, we want our interactions with the world to exemplify how Christ would have lived.”

Another member of GSC, Erin Riordian (COL ’15), echoed Hubbell’s sentiments.

“It’s incredibly important for Georgetown University to live up to its Jesuit values, and Georgetown should stand up for the rights of the workers,” she said.

According to Skolnik, however, how the LOC addresses the issue will depend on a variety of considerations.

“As with most decisions, there are trade-offs, and the decisionmaker must look at a multitude of factors, such as the economic, practical and ethical implications of policy decisions,” he said.

But Hubbell said she believes that the moral implications should outweigh all others.

“Georgetown can be a leader and take a moral stand and show the world that we have values and we will stand by them,” she said.

Auditors Enrich Discussion, Offer Novel Perspective AUDITING, from A1 interest me much, but it shows that older people have a multiplicity in interests just like younger people do.” said Pat Fleming, who worked as a legislative assistant for Sen. James William Fulbright (D-Ark.) during the 1960s and is a member of associate professor David Painter’s class, “Oil and World Power.”

Admission to a class is contingent on professor approval, but most faculty accept auditors because they contribute a unique perspective to class discussions, according to assistant professor of music Robynn Stilwell.

“A lot of times, the classes I’m teaching are electives for a lot of students, so there’s a certain amount of interest that’s there,” Stilwell said. “But certainly, [if] someone who has a day job is making time to come … it reminds me of … the potential for interest beyond the academic walls of the university.”

Like Ridder, Stilwell sees the senior auditor program as a way for the university

to connect develop relationships beyond the front gates.

“Auditing, especially the senior auditing, is a nice way to put holes in that wall and make connections out,” she said. “That’s not always that easy to do in a classroom situation.”

According to Painter, senior auditors can provide firsthand knowledge of historical events.

“In these classes, they’re an asset you can draw on, and people will talk about what they felt like during the ’60s and the anti-war movement,” Painter said.

“They’re more like a resource for me, and I’m sure they are for the students.”

Mike Feinsilber, another auditor in Painter’s class, who witnessed the Vietnam War, the Nixon presidency and Watergate as a reporter for United Press International and the Associated Press. He said that studying the events he lived through validates his career.

“I had a feeling, ‘Yeah, we had it right.’

Yeah, we reporters, the journalists, had it

right. We did get the story, at least the big major outline,” Feinsilber said. “There are always details, but that was very satisfactory, very satisfying.”

Fleming also enjoyed studying events he experienced firsthand.

“When we talk about the Cuban missile crisis, I remember when that was going on. When we talk about the Kennedy-Johnson campaign, I remember when that was going on,” Fleming said.

“It’s quite interesting to see it examined from an academic perspective some years later.”

For Painter, the benefits of teaching students closer to his own age are a little less academic.

“I really like them,” he said. “They get my jokes.”

Auditors also said Georgetown courses changed their perspective on the history they were taught when they were young.

Feinsilber recalled a course taught by professor Richard Stites, “Europe in World War II,” which began by stating

that the Russians had won WWII and then expounded on the Russians’ role in the Allied victory.

“It makes you realize [that] … the knowledge you have is often just superficial,” Feinsilber said. “It just gives you a chance to delve into some stuff.”

Fleming agreed.

“It’s interesting to see how teaching and learning have evolved since half a century after I got out of college, but it also helps me go back and reflect on various events that [you] may or may not have given adequate thought when you passed through them,” Fleming said.

“Life is a learning process. … You can’t know too much.”

Auditors can also have a profound impact on students. Ridder recounted how one student volunteered to rake leaves and complete household chores at an auditor’s house.

“I think they may see them as their mother, grandmother, grandfather;.

They become significant figures in the lives of some of the students,” Ridder

said.

After an auditor who was in one of his classes died before the end of the semester, Painter recalled how students expressed concern about where he had gone.

“When he stopped coming toward the end of the semester, a couple of the students that had sat near him asked me if I knew what had happened to [him], because they had gotten close to him and had talked with him,” Painter said.

“A lot of times, the students meet with [the auditors] and talk with them, and the students can learn from them.”

For Michelyne Chavez (SFS ’15), who studied alongside senior auditors in her early Japanese history class last fall and a culture and diplomacy class this semester, the auditors make history more relevant.

“They lived when FDR died. For me, that’s history. For them, they lived through that,” she said. “It adds that lifetime experience. It makes history more real, more alive.”

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Faculty Race to Raise Funds for Local High School Ted Murphy

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A team of Georgetown faculty members competed in a Ragnar Relay, raising $9,507 for Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School this weekend.

Hoya Reycers, a team composed of 12 Georgetown faculty members, competed in the Ragnar Relay, an overnight race that covered 198.1 miles from Cumberland, Md., to the National Harbor in D.C. The team aims to raise $10,000 for Don Bosco High School in Takoma Park, Md., before the donation period ends in early October. The school is part of the larger Cristo Rey network of Jesuit high

schools, which includes 25 private Catholic high schools across the country that help urban and low-income youth prepare for college and employment though a work-study program.

Planning for the relay began last April in the Office of Student Affairs’ kitchen.

“We came up with this crazy idea that maybe we would do this team-builder and we would run a Ragnar Relay,” case manager for the Office of Student Affairs and Hoya Reycers team captain Katie Boin said.

But Boin said she wanted the activity to be more than a bonding experience.

“We knew that we should have a cause — that we should do it for something bigger than ourselves,” Boin said.

“Once we thought about the Cristo Rey piece, it was clear that that was what would get people really connected to the idea.”

Georgetown has developed a close partnership with Don Bosco since its founding in 2007, providing corporate work-study opportunities and offering orientation and training programs for Don Bosco students.

“We have a very close relationship with Georgetown. They have been wonderful from the very beginning,” Don Bosco’s Director of Development Claire Wyrsch said. “They have been terrific in inviting our students to summer programs, to days during the year to get a taste of the college experience. We have

had students from Georgetown come over and tutor [our] students.”

The money raised from the weekend’s Ragnar Relay will help fund the school’s academic programs, Wyrsch said.

Before the relay, Hoya Reycer teammates had varying amounts of running experience. Some members, like Sonia Jacobson, an assistant for academic affairs, were running veterans, while others were racing for the first time.

“This is my first race ever in life,” Executive Director of Georgetown’s Meyers Institute for College Preparation Charlene Brown-McKenzie said.

The Reycers followed a traditional half- and full marathon training regime

that included distance runs to build endurance. The race consisted of 36 legs of varying distances and difficulty levels.

Each member of the team ran three legs, and the team finished in 34 hours.

But despite the preparation, the race format still brought unique challenges, such as the travel time, distance and nighttime portion, according to Boin.

“The challenge of this is not so much doing a five-mile run, which is not that challenging, but [rather] getting in a van, driving around for eight to 12 hours and then doing it again. And then getting in a van, driving around for eight to 12 hours and doing it again,” Assistant Vice President for Student Health James Welsh said.

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ominance is a tricky thing. In a sporting world that places so much emphasis on training, research and athletic perfection, it is almost impossible to be dominant in a sport. It is the best against the best. Nearly everyone has access to the same bodybuilding supplements, advanced equipment and personal trainers. It is a level playing field, filled with hundreds of dedicated professionals whose life goal is to be better than you.

I’m not just talking about winning a bunch of games or setting records. Dominance is so much more than that. It’s about controlling the pulse of the sport year after year, winning championship after championship until you become the standard-bearer for how the game should be played. It is about defying the odds, achieving the unimaginable despite injury and controversy. It is about being consistently better than the best in the world.

Your name becomes synonymous with the sport itself.

Babe Ruth was baseball. Michael Jordan was basketball.

Boxing had Ali; swimming, Phelps; tennis, Federer. Each of these figures dominated their own segment of sports history. Yet, as great as they all were, each was eventually replaced by a new generation of athletes.

Once in a while there is a changing of the guard, and some of the most iconic moments in sports occur when we witness the old usher in the new. Back in 2003, Kobe and Jordan were dueling on the same court. Nadal and Djokovic are challenging Federer’s monopoly on greatness. Rookies like Robert Griffin III are taking the NFL by storm. Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin is the new face of the U.S. swimming team.

Yet no sport fully captures

this seismic shift like golf, partly because no player has really dominated a sport like Tiger Woods has.

For over a decade, Tiger was golf’s poster child, winning 14 majors and over $100 million in tournament earnings. In every sense, Tiger literally was golf. Many of us would turn

Nick Fedyk

At 23 years old, the kid reminds Tiger of everything he used to be. on the TV not for golf but for Tiger. We wanted to see him crush drives down the middle of the fairway and sink putts on impossible greens. We wanted to see that red Nike shirt on Sundays. We wanted to hear his celebrations and see his uppercuts swinging through the air.

I usually hate watching the same people win over and over, but Tiger was an exception. He made me want to play golf. He made me want to watch a sport that has less contact and lower scoring than soccer.

But the glory days are over.

Golf has changed, and Tiger is no longer the dominant, redshirted clutch machine that he used to be. While most of the news is still focused on Tiger, it is less about his victories and more about his challengers. While the passage of time has slowly separated Tiger from the sex scandal of 2009,

something is just not right.

He cannot control his temper, his putting is not what it used to be and he cannot pull away in the third and fourth rounds of tournaments.

Meanwhile, everyone around him seems to be getting better. When golfer Greg Norman commented that Rory McIlroy — the curlyhaired Northern Irishman who has nine top-five finishes and four wins this year — “intimidates” Tiger, the reality of Tiger’s demise began to set in.

Although Norman may have overstated Woods’ fears, he does make a good point. Tiger is no longer untouchable.

He misses drives on the 18th hole and pushes birdie putts wide of the mark. He chokes, has mental lapses and even misses tournament cuts.

And although it sounds sacrilegious to denigrate golf’s iconic player, why shouldn’t Tiger be intimidated by McIlroy? At 23 years old, the kid reminds Tiger of everything he used to be. It’s like playing with a flashback of your past.

McIlroy outdrives Tiger, has a stronger short game and plays without the baggage that weighs Woods down.

I’m not saying that Tiger isn’t good anymore. He still finds himself near the top of the leaderboards, and, at 36 years old, he even has a reasonable chance to break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major wins. But other golfers stand in the way.

So, while he may not be intimidated by McIlroy, Tiger no longer intimidates everyone else. He has been wrenched down from his tower and brought down to our level. He has ceased to be dominant; it is anybody’s game now. The Tiger era is coming to an end.

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

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The Georgetown field hockey team (2-8, 0-2 Big East) added two more losses to their record this weekend, but buried in the defeats were some positive signs for the Hoyas.

In its first game of the weekend road trip, Georgetown got off to a fast start against Louisville (7-3, 1-0 Big East), with senior forward Catherine Shugrue scoring once and a Cardinal defender helping the Blue and Gray out with an own goal.

Louisville responded quickly and had the game tied by halftime, but Georgetown Head Coach Tiffany Marsh was pleased with how her team contended with one of the conference’s upper-echelon programs in the opening period.

“To be up, 2-0, to be tied at halftime — it was a big step for our girls to see that they are starting to belong, that they can really compete in the Big East,” Marsh said.

But there were still signs of major deficiencies for the Hoyas, including the facts that they were outshot 22-3 and gave up 12 penalty corners while taking none themselves. Among those 22 shots were two second-

half goals for the Cardinals that handed the hosts the 4-2 win.

“I wish we could have maintained that momentum through the second half, but even at the end of the game, the girls seemed to want more and feel that we are making progress,” Marsh said, noting that Louisville had blown Georgetown out by double digits in the past.

Credit for helping to keep the margin of defeat reasonable Friday can be pinned on senior goalie Briana Pereira, who notched 12 saves against Louisville.

“Briana is doing really well. I think she is having her best season by far,” Marsh said. “For her to be making 12 saves, as an individual effort, that’s great.”

However, Marsh was concerned that Pereira’s heroics stemmed in part from a lack of support on defense.

“As a team defensive effort, we shouldn’t be putting her in that position,” she added.

After falling to their conference foe, Georgetown had little time to regroup before taking on Miami of Ohio (5-6, 1-0 MidAmerican Conference) Saturday.

The Hoyas did not get off to a good start against the RedHawks, with a flat-footed effort

leaving them in a 4-1 hole at halftime.

“While we were getting shots off, I don’t know how [high] quality they were,” Marsh said.

“Our decision-making in the attacking third was poor in the first half.”

Things got even worse in the second half, when Miami outshot Georgetown, 14-1, and took 11 penalty corners. Three goals in the half secured a comfortable 7-1 RedHawks win.

One positive sign for the Hoyas, however, was the play of freshman midfielder Emily Weinberg, who scored their lone goal Saturday.

“Both Emily Weinberg and [midfielder] Louise Chakejian have been pretty solid freshmen who have been getting a lot of minutes this season,” Marsh said. “I think it speaks volumes to the kind of talent we’re attracting here and the direction our program is going.”

Even as Marsh looks to the future amid this floundering season, Georgetown’s focus remains on the here and now, with chances for home wins against nonconference opponents Monmouth (1-9, 0-0 Northeast Conference) Saturday and Lock Haven (7-4, 0-0 Atlantic 10) Sunday.

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Junior kicker Matt MacZura (99) had three field goals in the 21-20 win over Princeton.

MacZura Kick Seals Win PRINCETON, from A10 “We’re not there yet, but we’ve improved on both sides of the ball in the red zone,” Kelly said.

On Princeton’s next possession, a snap went over the head of Tiger sophomore quarterback Connor Michelsen, and the ball-hawking Moore recovered in the end zone. While the Blue and Gray missed the extra point, they were nonetheless able to trim the lead to 14-12 heading into halftime.

Friday marked Moore’s second straight week with a defensive touchdown, as he continues to show a knack for finding the ball in important moments.

“Jeremy plays at a different speed,” Kelly said. “He’s fearless, and he has a great knack for anticipation of the ball when it’s in the air.”

After the break, both defenses held firm for much of the third quarter until Georgetown broke through with a two-headed rushing attack of junior running backs Nick Campanella and Dalen Claytor. The duo drove downfield and scored on a 7-yard Campanella rush, giving the Hoyas an 18-14 lead.

The Tigers showed impressive resolve by responding instantly and retaking the lead on a 53-yard touchdown run by freshman DiAndre Atwater. A missed extra point gave Princeton a 20-18 lead at the beginning of the final quarter.

Both teams failed to gain any ground for much of the fourth, as the Tigers’ kicker Nolan Bieck missed a 35-yard field goal, his third flubbed kick of the game. That set the Hoyas up for one more chance at their own 12-yard line with 5:34 left.

Skon showed tremendous poise, leading his team on a methodical 15-play, 72-yard drive that ended in MacZura’s game-winning 33-yard kick with 14 seconds left.

It was a bounce-back game for the junior, who had missed two field goals in the Yale loss. Still, the kicker seems to have a habit of coming through in the clutch: His goal Friday night was his second game-winner of the young season.

“Matt, field goal-wise, is 5-for-7 this year.

He missed two last week, but he nailed three this week. And obviously, there was the big one right at the end,” Kelly said.

The Blue and Gray return to the Hilltop for a Homecoming matchup with their third straight Ivy League opponent, Brown.

Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. Saturday.

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RUTGERS, from A10 season, and you can understand why Wiese talked before the game about a potential difference in energy levels between the two sides.

But just as he did against Penn last time out, Wiese made use of his bench against the Scarlet Knights, and the team had enough left in the tank to get the score in overtime.

The Georgetown goal was a long time coming, as only an outstanding performance from Rutgers senior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen had preserved the scoreline with a number of key point-blank saves on junior forward Steve Neumann in the first half.

“I thought our first half was very good. We should have maybe been up by a few at half, [but] their goalkeeper, I thought, played terrific,” Wiese said. “In the second half, to give Rutgers credit, they started carrying the game. We had a great chance early, and then after that, it was pretty static, from our point of view.”

Given the team’s moribund play and the fact that less than 20 minutes remained when the penalty was given, a conversion by Rutgers freshman midfielder Mael Corboz — younger brother of Georgetown women’s soccer standout Daphne — would have likely sealed things for the Scarlet Knights.

Thanks in part to a bit of psychological gamesmanship, Parsa didn’t let that happen.

“When it comes to penalty kicks, I try to read their first step,” Parsa said. “I wasn’t nervous about it, [but] his body language was kind of like, ‘I don’t want to take this.’ I saw him line up for it, and I [thought], ‘I’m already in his head.’ And the rest just kind of happened.”

The save energized the Blue and Gray, something that was evident in the way they began to push offensively as the clock ran out on regulation.

Senior left back Jimmy Nealis rattled the crossbar with a drive from way out with five minutes remaining, and senior midfielder Andy Riemer attempted an audacious bicycle kick off of the ensuing rebound that went tantalizingly over the top.

Despite the teams’ combined 36 shots, the game went to overtime. Just five minutes in, Allen turned in traffic and found the bottom-right corner from just inside the box to record his fourth game-winning goal of the season.

“It’s really exciting,” Allen said of his overtime strike. “You don’t get many chances like that, but to get one and finish it feels really good.”

“That’s why we recruited him,” Wiese said of

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Freshman Cole Seiler (14) was key Saturday.

Allen and his game-winner,.“We’d seen that for a couple years with his club team, and he’s always been a goal scorer. We’ll keep pushing him for as long as he’s got goals in him this season. I think it’s pretty impressive for a young guy like that to continue to be able to have those kinds of impactful goals.”

It might not have been easy, but Saturday’s game gives Georgetown its first Big East win after already navigating a tricky nonconference schedule.

The Hoyas will return to out-of-conference play tonight at James Madison before facing off with league foe Pittsburgh Saturday.

JMU (3-3-1) has shown dominance on offense several times so far this season, most notably in its 6-1 thrashing of St. Bonaventure at home on Aug. 31. Two of the Dukes’ three losses, meanwhile, have come by just one-goal margins on the road, and they have yet to drop a home game.

Regardless of how James Madison’s record may stack up to Georgetown’s on paper, the Blue and Gray know that it is not going to be easy to come out of Harrisonburg, Va., with another win. “[It’s] definitely a great start to the season, but [now we’ve] got to keep it up,” Allen said.

The Georgetown volleyball team (6-9, 0-2 Big East) continued its poor run of form to begin Big East conference play this weekend, losing to both St. John’s and Connecticut. The Hoyas, who began the season 6-1, have now dropped eight straight matches.

“We played inconsistently well [this weekend],” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

“There were moments when we played like a team and worked really hard. Unfortunately, we just weren’t consistent enough.”

To begin conference play and the two-game road trip, Georgetown traveled to New York where it faced St. John’s (15-3, 2-0 Big East) on Friday night, losing in three straight sets: 23-25, 1925, 21-25.

The Blue and Gray raced out to a 12-7 lead in the first set and held narrow advantages in each of the following sets. But the Red Storm regained the momentum each time with powerful surges, including an 8-1 run in the second set that nullified a threepoint Georgetown advantage.

“We let them get the jump on us, and we made too many errors to win the match,” Wil-

liams said.

Junior setter Haley Lowrance led the way for the Hoyas, recording 26 assists. Sophomore outside hitter Alex Johnson added 11 kills, but her 11 errors were also tops among all players.

Georgetown regrouped to face Connecticut (11-6, 2-0 Big East) Sunday, and, despite playing a more competitive match, Georgetown could not return to the winning column, losing 1725, 25-13, 21-25, 20-25.

“Our passing and outside hitting improved against UConn,” Williams said. “We did a better job of taking care of our side of the net.”

After dropping the first set, the Hoyas dominated the second frame, led by a strong performance by junior outside hitter Brooke Bachesta, who finished the game with 14 kills and only 5 errors.

But the Blue and Gray were unable to keep playing at the same level for the rest of the match, losing two competitive sets, in part because of unforced errors. While the Hoyas ended the match with one more kill than UConn, they committed eight more errors as a team.

One bright spot amid the loss, however, was Johnson, who

turned in a spirited effort with a game-high 19 kills and 18 digs.

The sophomore now sits third in the Big East with 224 kills.

Despite another losing weekend, Williams insisted that the team is improving each game and has not yet reached its potential.

“All the pieces are there, and that’s the frustrating part. We just need to focus on each game, being a little bit better than we were the last time we took the floor,” Williams said. “Surprisingly, our morale is still good.

These players want to win so badly, and they just want to get back in the gym and figure out how to improve.”

The schedule for the reeling Hoyas does not ease up during the coming three-game home stand, as they face streaking Seton Hall (13-1, 2-0) Friday at 7 p.m. As the schedule toughens, Williams said that the team and coaching staff will renew its focus on preparation.

“We need to get better, fast,” Williams said. “At times, we’ve played pretty darn well. We want to sustain that level of play, and we need to come to practice every day with that mindset. I think it’s doable, but it won’t be easy.”

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Junior forward Kaitlin Brenn (4) scored the only goal in Georgetown’s win over Providence.

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Providence battled Georgetown on every ball and maintained possession for much of the game. But the Hoya defense — led by freshman defender Neela Mohan, who was making her first career start after junior midfielder Alexa St. Martin was injured — kept the Friars away from any real opportunities.

“This is the 12th game.

Including two exhibition games, 14 games in total.

And this is probably the flat-

test we have been,” Nolan said. “So that’s not bad if you only have one of those in 14 games.”

With the win, the Hoyas improve to 4-0 in the Big East, and now sit atop the league’s National Division.

“This is the best start to a season. We have never gone 4-0 in the conference, and [this is] the fastest we ever got to 10 wins, so this is really exciting for us,” Brenn said.

Although the Hoyas are a relatively young team, they have stepped up after the departure of a stacked senior

class last spring. The team is led by Corboz, who has nine goals and four assists thus far.

“You have good players, and when they finally get a chance to play, they show you what they can do,” Nolan said. “We had some players who maybe didn’t get to play as much last year. [Brenn] has showed now what a good player she is. Moving [Corboz] into the middle, into her favorite spot, shows how dangerous she is.”

The Hoyas will return to the pitch next Sunday at Pittsburgh (5-7-1, 0-3-1 Big East).

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REVOLUTION, from A10 Burke’s principles. But Kelley, the head football coach of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Ark., is a world away from the bright lights of the big leagues.

That would probably explain why his style of game management hasn’t gotten the kind of coverage it deserves. Kelley, however, has become a poster boy for the type of statistical analysis that Burke pioneers, and he has been featured in Sports Illustrated. So what, exactly, is so special about this man?

To begin, Kelley doesn’t believe in punting. His teams go for it on every fourth down.

The Sports Illustrated feature spells out why: “When a team punts from near its end zone, the opponent will take possession inside the 40-yard line and will then score a touchdown 77 percent of the time.

If it recovers on downs inside the 10, it will score a touchdown 93 percent of the time.”

Logically, giving up another chance to extend your drive is not worth that 15 percent, so punts are counterproductive.

Maybe even more revolutionary is the fact that Kelley almost always attempts onside kicks, with more than 12 varieties in his playbook, according to SI. In a game last season, thanks to three onside kick recoveries in a row, Kelley’s team spotted itself a 29-0 lead before the opposing team had a single snap on offense.

His playbook is lined with trickery and deception as well, including a play that stacks all 11 defensive players in the box, forcing the quarterback into a rushed throw that typically fails to reach any of his wideopen targets.

How come nobody in the NFL, then, has embraced these tactical notions? According to Burke, it comes down to a combination of factors, the predominant one being what economists call “prospect theory.”

“Almost all people tend to

fear losses far more than they value equivalent gains,” Burke wrote in The Times. “In this perspective, a punt is considered the ‘break-even’ decision.

A failed conversion attempt is seen as a loss, and a successful attempt is seen as a gain.

But the loss is feared disproportionately, and the result is clouded decision-making.”

It seems only a matter of time before a coach at the highest level has the guts to put his job and reputation on the line the way Beane did in baseball. It is likely, though, that whoever does will have his name etched in football history.

“Honestly, the more football I see, the more I’m convinced we’re right,” Kelley told SI. “Emotionally, it takes so much out of you when the other team goes for it successfully or recovers an onside kick — or three of them in a row.”

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Playing in front of a national television audience for the first time in program history, the Georgetown football team (3-1) defeated Princeton (0-2), 21-20, on a late field goal by junior kicker Matt MacZura in another down-to-the-wire finish for the Hoyas.

The Blue and Gray turned to their third-string quarterback, sophomore Stephen Skon, after junior Aaron Aiken went down with an injury in the second quarter. Skon responded well, leading the Hoyas on a number of impressive drives in his first collegiate game. No drive he orchestrated was more important than his last one, which produced the game-winner.

“That last drive was unbelievable,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “We made the play at the end to win the game.”

From the opening kickoff, Georgetown seemed energized by the ESPNU cameras, as Aiken led the offense down the field

and inside Princeton’s 10-yard line. And while the drive did not reach the end zone, MacZura’s 25-yard field goal nevertheless gave the Blue and Gray an early lead.

Princeton, looking much improved after two straight onewin seasons, responded immediately. The Tigers used a crafty fake field goal to take a 7-3 lead on a 10-yard pass with just over five minutes left in the first quarter.

After Georgetown stalled, Princeton got the ball back and kept its momentum going with a 50-yard drive, which ended in a 2-yard touchdown run to take a 14-3 lead.

On the Blue and Gray’s next possession, Aiken hurt his ankle while being sacked, and the Hoyas were forced to punt.

Things looked grim at that point for Georgetown: The defense was struggling, and Skon was making his debut.

But the Hoyas stepped up, especially on defense, where the team’s standouts made their usual key contributions. Junior

linebacker Dustin Wharton had 12 tackles and a sack, star senior linebacker Robert McCabe contributed 10 tackles and another sack and senior cornerback Jeremy Moore pitched in with a vital fumble recovery in addition to his 10 tackles.

“I talked about being good teammates, and if we’re all good teammates, we’ll be a good football team,” Kelly said. “Aaron went down, it was 14-3 and our guys — offense and defense — stepped up and rallied.”

After forcing a punt, Georgetown trimmed the lead on Skon’s first drive, marching downfield before eventually settling for a 26-yard MacZura field goal.

The drive was indicative of the Blue and Gray’s red zone offense for much of the day, which showed improvement after a dismal performance against Yale. The Hoyas were 4-for-4 in the red zone this week, coming away with three field goals and a touchdown.

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There are no easy games in college soccer — especially in the Big East. But the No. 19 Georgetown women’s soccer team made things look pretty easy this weekend, snatching two wins over conference foes Connecticut and Providence to break the double-digit mark in season victories.

The Hoyas (10-1-1, 4-0-0 Big East) began their weekend by crushing Connecticut (64-1, 2-2-0) Friday afternoon at North Kehoe Field. The Blue and Gray boasted two goals from sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz and a goal each from junior forwards Kaitlin Brenn and Colleen Dinn., leading to a 4-0 win.

“I thought it would be a tough game. … I also felt that they would give us some problems because of the attack and personnel that they have,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “I think it helped us get off to a quick start and score a couple goals.”

Georgetown got on the board in the ninth minute, when Brenn connected on a pass from freshman forward Sarah Adams. Seven minutes later, Corboz scored when Adams found her open in the middle of the box. Corboz then notched her second goal in the 23rd minute, burying a loose ball in the box.

The Hoyas took a commanding 3-0 lead into halftime. But perhaps more impressive than Georgetown’s offensive effort was its ability to contain Connecticut,

holding the Huskies to just two shots on goal in the first half.

“I thought that even at 3-0 at halftime, they were very dangerous,” Nolan said. “I felt that [senior forward] Danielle Schulmann up front for them — and the kids that were playing underneath, the two attacking midfielders — were starting to get into a little bit of a rhythm.”

The Blue and Gray kept the scoring going in the 65th minute, when Dinn headed in a set piece from junior defender Emily Menges for what would be the final goal of the game. “[Connecticut] had some really good results coming in, and we definitely knew it was going to be a really tough match. ...

Fortunately, we came out on top,” Menges said.

Georgetown’s second win of the weekend was a 1-0 home victory over Providence (7-4-1, 2-2-0 Big East) Sunday afternoon. Although the Hoyas outshot the Friars, 16-4, they managed only one goal.

The lone score of the contest came in the 28th minute, when Brenn cleaned up the rebound from sophomore forward Jessica Clinton’s shot.

“I felt that it was important that we go out to a good start, which may have deflated them a little bit. But we never did. We didn’t play our best,” Nolan said. “We got a goal, and we had some chances …, but I didn’t feel that we played as [well] as we See LEAGUE, A9

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Junior defender Emily Menges (3) was named Big East defensive player of the week after her performance in Georgetown’s two weekend wins.

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In the 73rd minute of the Hoyas’ Big East opener against Rutgers (3-3-0, 0-1-0 Big East) Saturday, No. 9 Georgetown’s (8-0-1, 1-0-0 Big East) undefeated season looked to be slipping away.

Junior goalie Keon Parsa, filling in for an injured sophomore Tomas Gomez, came off his line in an effort to stop a breakaway, slid and took out a Scarlet Knight attacker. The referee pointed to the spot, and the scoreless deadlock seemed destined to be undone.

Instead, Parsa redeemed himself in heroic fashion, anticipating the direction of the penalty kick correctly and stopping it cold. In overtime, freshman striker Brandon Allen completed his team’s stunning resurrection with a 95th-minute game-winner.

“That’s what [a successful season] has to have: guys making plays. And Parsa made the play that he needed to make to give us a chance to win,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said after the game.

“Fortunately, I thought that from the start of overtime, there was a little more urgency to them, and it didn’t

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Junior goalie Keon Parsa had a critical save in the Hoyas’ victory. need to drag out too much longer.”

Still, the game was long enough as is, especially for a team that had already logged extensive minutes coming in: The Hoyas had played four overtime periods in their eight games prior to Saturday’s action. Contrast that with Rutgers’ five games total on the See RUTGERS, A9

n 2009, analyst Brian Burke, with a simple hypothetical scenario, began to change the game of football.

Imagine that punting does not exist. The only decision to make on fourth down is whether to run or pass. Now, imagine that somebody came up and proposed kicking the ball to the other team — giving up possession and a quarter of your opportunities to get a first down — for the sake of 30 yards each possession.

There’s no way any coach would go for that, and rightfully so.

Seven years before Burke made his post on The New York Times’ NFL blog, Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, whose exploits were chronicled on the silver screen in “Moneyball,” changed baseball forever by turning many of the sport’s historical truisms — that singles were better than walks, that sacrificing helped to score runs and that defense was as important as offense — on their heads.

Beane won 103 games with a team that had lost its three biggest

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stars the offseason before, and, largely because of him, advanced statistics are now used throughout baseball.

Now, similar revolutions appear

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Kelley doesn’t believe in punting. His teams go for it on every fourth down. to be coming to fruition around the sporting world.

In hockey, it’s been keyed by the realization — thanks in part to the Detroit Red Wings’ dynasty — that

there is a direct correlation between which team has the most meaningful possession and which team wins.

As such, the “Corsi” metric, which calculates shot differentials, including missed and blocked shots, for both players and teams, is seen as the most basic in a wave of more effective measures to predict the outcomes of hockey games.

On the gridiron, Burke isn’t in position to change football as Beane did with baseball. Without a team, he doesn’t have the influence to change football on his own. But his ideas might have the same impact as Bill James’ did.

James, a security guard at a pork and beans cannery, was the creator of sabermetrics, and it was his “Baseball Abstracts” that inspired Beane and his assistant, Paul DePodesta, to build the A’s the way they did.

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