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PEBBLES, A PORTRAIT

Raymond Medley’s long-buried legacy reflects Georgetown’s mid-century racial climate.

LOCAL TRIUMPH Men’s soccer beat No. 11 Maryland in a key DMV matchup Wednesday.

COMMENTARY The Catholic Church does not possess a monopoly on morality.

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Papal Visit Resonates Across Campus, City

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Pope Francis appears on the Capitol balcony Thursday morning following his speech to a joint session of Congress. Tens of thousands gathered on the West Lawn to await the pontiff, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and clergy.

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Pontiff Urges Congress To Uphold Social Justice

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Pope Francis began his first trip to the United States with a tour of Washington, D.C., from Sept. 22 to 24, marking the third papal visit in the District’s history.

President Barack Obama and his family greeted the pope as he arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday afternoon. The papal visit also included a meeting at the White House, a pa-

rade, an address to U.S. bishops, a canonization Mass and a historic address to a joint session of Congress.

In preparation for the papal visit, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office launched pope.dc.gov, a website outlining the pope’s schedule, city road closures and general information regarding security for all events.

Bowser uploaded a brief video to the site Wednesday, highlighting See VISIT, A6

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Pope Francis delivered the first papal address to a joint meeting of Congress in history Thursday, encouraging bipartisan collaboration on issues ranging from social justice and immigration rights to the environment and traditional American values.

Following the nearly 40-minute address, the pope appeared on the bal-

cony of the Capitol to greet the tens of thousands of onlookers gathered on the West Lawn.

He initially called upon members of Congress to fulfill their duties as representatives of the people, explaining that this entails helping all members of society, especially the poorest.

“Legislative activity is always based on care for the people,” Francis said.

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University President John J. DeGioia delved into the university’s and his own Catholic identity in light of Pope Francis’ visit to Washington, D.C.

Q&A: DeGioia on Faith, A Campus Reconstructed Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Amid the buzz of the papal visit, The Hoya sat down with University President John J. DeGioia Thursday to discuss Georgetown’s Jesuit identity, DeGioia’s personal connection to his faith and a variety of campus issues including construction, sexual assault and sustainability.

How do you feel about Pope Francis’ visit to Washington, D.C., and why do you think it is significant that he chose the District?

I’ve said in recent conversations

with family and friends that in all the years that I’ve been living here in Washington, which goes back to the mid-1970s, there have been incredible things that have unfolded here in Washington. Some of the inaugurations have been historic, and they’ve been extraordinary. Lots of other kinds of events have been incredibly memorable, but I don’t know anything that has galvanized the city quite like the visit of this pope. It has been really extraordinary to see.

I think it’s a reflection both of the authenticity of the individual, the

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Former Secretary of Defense and School of Foreign Service professor Chuck Hagel will return to Georgetown as a distinguished executive-in-residence this academic year.

In his new position, Hagel will provide support and expertise to all four schools of the university and give guest lectures.

In a statement on the university website released last Thursday, Hagel said he is excited to become involved in education again after two years as secretary of defense.

“I’m looking forward to renewing my association with Georgetown and helping a great institution continue its important work preparing our next generation of leaders,” Hagel wrote.

According to Office of the President Chief of Staff Joe Ferrara, Hagel has visited campus and is in the process of meet-

ing with deans, administrators and professors, including SFS Dean Joel Hellman and McCourt School of Public Policy Dean Edward Montgomery, to determine the best ways to address their schools’ specific needs.

“What he’s doing now as the semester is getting underway is

“We’d really like to keep the maximum flexibility for him as a resource.”

JOEL HELLMAN Dean, School of Foreign Service

he’s talking to deans … and saying … ‘Tell me what you’ve got going; where could I be helpful?’” Ferrara said.

Although no events or guest lectures have yet been planned, Hellman said he hopes that Hagel will be a valuable resource for students and faculty in a variety of ways.

“Our hope from the SFS side is to use Secretary Hagel across the program,” Hellman said. “He’s going to be providing guest lectures and engaging across our program where his experience is going to be most useful. He’ll also help us [think] through how to establish practical engagement exercises for our students and bringing his experience into some of that practical experience.”

Prior to his nomination as secretary of defense, Hagel taught several courses on geopolitics, such as a course called “Redefining Geopolitical Relationships,” in the SFS from 2009 to 2013.

Michael Podberezin (GRD ’14), who took Hagel’s course, “21st Century Geopolitical Realities,” said in a statement on the Georgetown website that Hagel incorporated his practical experience into his courses.

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OPINION

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THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

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Greek Life, Targeted Georgetown University prides itself on its founding Jesuit values and has, therefore, historically made a concerted effort to distance itself from Greek life on campus, largely content to ignore its growing presence. Yet, recent measures taken by the university indicate a targeted, unfounded attack on social fraternities and sororities.

At this fall’s Council of Advisory Boards Fair, in an over-the-top effort to disassociate itself from Greek and other non-access-tobenefits organizations, the university placed a large, conspicuous sign in front of Red Square noting that certain student groups are unrecognized at Georgetown. Last week, students received an email from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord, unequivocally discouraging students from involvement in Greek organizations.

Citing Georgetown’s tradition of Jesuit education, the email reiterated the Greek system’s unofficial status and encouraged students to seek out other campus organizations. Olson and Lord further noted that “organizations at Georgetown are expected to comply with a standard of open membership, one which contributes to building the inclusive and welcoming student community at the heart of

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the Georgetown experience.”

The ambiguous phrase “standard of open membership” seems strangely ill-suited in the context of Georgetown’s extracurricular offerings and social culture. Most large Georgetown student groups — Students of Georgetown, Inc., the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, this very newspaper and even volunteer programs — are notorious for being highly selective, competitive and socially exclusive.

While there are undoubtedly arguments to be made about negative aspects of the Greek system — among them allegations of hazing, homogeneity and alienating superficiality — the criteria Georgetown used to single out these organizations is disingenuous, and the email added nothing productive to the greater conversation about inclusion and acceptance across the Georgetown community.

By purposefully attacking sororities and fraternities, Georgetown disregards and insults the many students involved in Greek life who contribute to the vibrancy and mission of this campus. Instead, administrators should revert to treating Greek life as fairly as it treats other unrecognized organizations.

Respectful disavowal is better than vocal hostility.

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Hot Wheels — D.C. public schools now teach second-graders to ride bicycles in order to make the physical education curriculum more relevant to all students.

The Last Frontier — The Metro nears an agreement to provide riders with cell service in the tunnels.

Fans Hunger For “Serial” — The hit podcast “Serial” will return for another season focusing on the desertion of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

No to Selfie Sticks — The Landmark Music Festival has banned selfie sticks, preventing hundreds from documenting their flower crowns on Instagram.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Stand for Argus, Free Press Students and faculty members at Wesleyan University in Connecticut are calling for a boycott of campus newspaper The Wesleyan Argus after a staff writer published an op-ed critical of the Black Lives Matter movement. Among its critique, the writer questioned if the movement was achieving anything positive and if the riots and deaths attributed to the movement were worth it.

Students at the liberal arts school are calling for a boycott and suspension of funding for the newspaper, which they claim “failed to be an inclusive representation of the voices of the student body.”

While this editorial board may not necessarily agree with the points articulated by the op-ed’s author, we nevertheless stand in support with the Argus and call for stronger support for free speech on university campuses. The apology published by the Argus undermines this principle of freedom of the press as well as that of freedom of speech.

It is important that citizens, particularly college students, are apprised to all sides of complicated issues. Censoring a newspaper for publishing an unpopular opinion — one not necessarily indicative of its editorial standpoint — disregards the importance of

dialogue and is contrary to America’s democratic ideals.

As this Editorial Board has argued before, there is a lot to gain from a diversity of opinion, which enhances our understanding of the world and the complicated issues we face every day. Engaging opposing opinions rather than shunning them builds better understanding between groups of people instead of driving wedges and furthering polarization. The press plays a crucial role in the dissemination of both points of view, and to shut one out in favor of the other is a form of censorship that hurts all. In ignoring and expelling opinions contrary to our own, we forsake personal growth and mutual understanding. The backlash received by the Argus is troubling to a newspaper that prides itself on journalistic integrity and providing a wide range of perspectives.

University students and newspapers must encourage dialogue and debate on difficult topics rather than protect readers from different points of view. Students come to college to expand and challenge their beliefs, not to wall themselves around a barrier of sensitivity and denounce those who disagree with them.

Greener Campus Needed

Pope Francis addressed a crowd of nearly 15,000 people in a White House speech on sustainability Wednesday. The speech was a call to action to combat climate change and protect the planet.

As a Jesuit university that prioritizes compassion and ethical leadership, Georgetown has a particular responsibility to heed this call and redouble its efforts to promote sustainable living on campus. While the university’s commitment to green initiatives has been admirable thus far, Georgetown should take example from its neighbor institutions while pursuing sustainable innovation.

Georgetown has demonstrated its determination to take the lead on sustainability.

The university has promised to cut its carbon footprint in half by 2020, established bottle filling stations across campus to reduce waste from plastic water bottles and resolved to divest from direct investments in coal companies.

However, green initiatives at The George Washington University and American University excel, identifying where Georgetown has room to improve, albeit all three schools are notably difference in size. GWU has adopted a single stream recycling system that collects all recyclable materials in the same container, projected to significantly in-

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crease the university’s 29 percent recycling rate. Likewise, AU composts paper towel waste from restrooms across campus, an effort that has diverted 13 percent of its waste from landfills. On the other hand, a recent audit by the Georgetown University Student Association and the Office of Sustainability found that 83 percent of non-recycled waste on Georgetown’s campus is recyclable.

GWU offers students and faculty a 30 percent discount on Capital Bikeshare membership to encourage sustainable transportation around the District. Despite having a Capital Bikeshare station immediately outside its front gates, Georgetown does not offer a similar discount.

Francis’ decision to address climate change in Washington is a reflection of the moral, not political, importance of sustainability. Georgetown should respond to this call to action with an improved recycling system, including the implementation of additional recycling bins and the adoption of a zero-waste policy, as well as increased efforts to promote sustainable transportation among its students and faculty. Georgetown’s privileged position in our common home comes with a responsibility to extend care to that home and to all those who inhabit it.

This week on

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Robert Danco (SFS ’18) speaks on the various examples of mandatory minimums and the opinions of politicians and the public:

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In 2002, for example, Weldon Angelos received a sentence of 55 years in prison as a 24-year-old for distribution of marijuana.

His crime fell under mandatory sentencing guidelines because, in the course of the police’s investigation, an informant claimed that Angelos possessed a gun. The gun made his crimes “violent,” which allowed the prosecution to treat his crimes separately (known as “stacking”), causing him to serve three separate prison terms consecutively.

“Angelos’ case attracted the public’s eye when the judge who sentenced him, Paul Cassel, offered this quote to ‘Nightline’: ‘If he had been an aircraft hijacker, he would have gotten 24 years in prison. If he’s been a terrorist, he would have gotten 20 years in prison. If he was a child rapist, he would have gotten 11 years in prison. And now I’m supposed to give him a 55-year sentence? I mean, that’s just not right.’”

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OPINION

Friday, september 25, 2015

MISSING CLASS

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Doing Good Without God

A Laura Owsiany

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n the spring semester of 2015, I studied abroad in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, for five months. I frequently found myself feeling caught between the cost of doing something and the cost of missing an experience that, for me, would be extremely rare.

Before my first transnational trip to California last summer, when I accompanied my mom on a subsidized business trip, she told me, “We can’t really afford it, but we can’t afford not to do it.”

I felt the same way about my study abroad experience. I have never and will never be able to visit Europe that cheaply again. Without my financial aid refund in hand to pay for five months of rent in central London and part of a round-trip international flight, I would not have been able to go.

I was privileged to be able to study abroad. But entering a new environment blurred class lines in my mind all over again. I met only one other American student in London who admitted to receiving financial aid. In contrast, I was told by a fellow student at my host university, University College London, that we are part of an elite network of privileged students from top schools able to study abroad.

I never considered myself part of an “elite” group before. This student tried hard to project and spread self-awareness of his socioeconomic privilege to someone he assumed was another upper-class college student. But few people I met considered that lower-income students would be abroad or how they would deal with that situation.

This student tried to project awareness to someone he assumed was another upperclass college student.

Nevertheless, I did have to consider how much my life resembled the elite network of which this person spoke and how it has changed since I began attending Georgetown. We did both have the privilege of studying abroad.

I lived in the heart of the privileged area of Bloomsbury in London. I traveled throughout the United Kingdom and went twice to continental Europe during my five months abroad. I was undeniably on track to be part of the upper-middle class. I felt initially that the study abroad experience was an equalizing one.

It proved to be far from it. The experiences I was having sometimes made me feel isolated from my home life and often presented new financial challenges. I felt many bittersweet moments when I had cultural experiences abroad that I knew my family members or friends from home would enjoy. But no one from home could come visit me.

While Georgetown does offer additional scholarship aid to cover the costs of studying abroad, any decently priced plane ticket must be booked before the money comes through, meaning a student must have the means to pay out of pocket before being reimbursed. A work visa in the United Kingdom $600, a scary fee to pay for someone with slim job prospects.

And as anyone who has studied abroad knows, many more things can go wrong in a foreign country than at home. It is hard for a young person to elegantly fix the kinds of gaffs that will inevitably occur without extra cash on hand. Things as simple as postage and as important as medical bills in another country are costly. When I had both a medical problem, I tried both to go to the National Health Service and use Georgetown’s international insurance coverage at a private hospital. The NHS’s free clinic did not have the facilities to treat me and the private hospital would not accept Georgetown’s insurance. I had to charge a couple hundred pounds, about $300, on a credit card, which not everyone can do.

I would recommend studying abroad to anyone, including students on financial aid. You might not really be able to afford it, but consider that you can’t afford not to. Just know that your experience will have unique limitations and challenges no one talks about at the Study Abroad Open House.

Laura Owsiany is a senior in the College. Missing Class appears every other Friday.

s a result of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States, including Washington, D.C., Georgetown’s Catholic community is abuzz with excitement and praise for the pontiff. It doesn’t take much more than a glance at one’s Facebook feed to know that people are excited to see a pope who is changing the focus of the church to issues such as poverty, climate change and humanitarian crises, which many argue should have been the primary focuses of the church all along. This new pope helps attract a younger generation that is less inculcated in Catholic thought and more focused on social progressivism than previous generations. For this, we applaud Pope Francis. However, for those who are newly interested in the Catholic Church because of the message of this progressive pontiff, we’d like to highlight one key point: the Catholic Church does not own being good, nor does any faith. Being a good person is a universal principle that lies outside of religious doctrine.

While it is laudable that the pope, with the megaphone that he has, would call upon the nations of Europe to welcome refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East into their countries, homes and parishes, many leaders in Europe have also called for countries to accept refugees. Notably, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande have led their nations to accept more refugees on explicitly moral grounds.

Hospitality is an ancient custom that predates the Catholic Church, and the people and countries taking in refugees are not necessarily doing so because God or the church told them.

Likewise, on the issue of climate change, environmental activists have been trying to frame global climate change as a moral issue for years, and the pope’s words of action are helpful and appreciated. That said, to assume that the only reason that one should

The Catholic Church does not own being good, nor does any faith. Being a good person is a universal principle that lies outside of religious doctrine. care for the environment is in order to be a better Catholic is to ignore the work of those most dedicated to this cause.

Imagine that a leading atheist such as Richard Dawkins or Bill Maher called for the exact same things that the pope has and was able to reach

the same amount of people. It does not take a particularly bright mind to realize that he would be given much less credence, almost exclusively because of his religious preference. And yet the substance of his proposal would remain the same.

In its own way, this is a kind of

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discrimination. Atheists the world over, including here in the United States, are distrusted and believed to be immoral because most people believe that morality is inextricably linked with religious thought.

This ostensible religious monopoly on morality has real world consequences. According to the Pew Foundation, only 41 percent of Americans view atheists positively.

Only 45 percent would even consider voting for a qualified atheist for public office. Fewer people would be comfortable with their son or daughter marrying an atheist than a person with any other faith, knowing nothing else about the person.

People seem to believe that atheists are nihilists or that they have rejected the moral foundations of our society.

This is simply not the case. Of the 16 percent of Americans who do not profess any religious belief, at least 5 percent are self-identified atheists, which equals about 15.8 million people.

These are law-abiding Americans who find their moral centers in philosophy, societal norms and common human decency. But because religious groups are credited with exclusive moral authority, most Americans would deny them basic rights.

We, as Georgetown students, respect Pope Francis because he advocates on behalf of our fellow man for the least among us and the most in need. These are common moral principles that people of all faiths or none can embrace. We ask that nonreligious people be given the same right to a judgment of character as religious people — not immediately labeled as amoral cknihilists.

Every person is much more complicated than his religious affiliation and condemning him based on a single belief misses who he really is. As Pope Francis himself said, “Who am I to judge?”

Joseph Laposata is a senior in the College. Garrett Hinck is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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The Unrecognized Meeting Professors in Benefits of Greek Life Their Natural Habitat

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tudents received an email last week from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord that discouraged them from joining Greek life. They reminded students that social sororities and fraternities are not representative of Georgetown’s deeply rooted Catholic traditions — for this reason, the administration does not openly or financially support us. As a member of a sorority, I don’t see a problem with that; the administration has the right to abide by its Catholic tradition.

What completely appalls me is the blatant hypocrisy of Olson and Lord’s next statement: “Student organizations at Georgetown are expected to comply with a standard of open membership, one which contributes to building the inclusive and welcoming student community at the heart of the Georgetown experience.”

Do we go to the same school?

One of my roommates just received her third e-mail rejection from Hilltop Consultants, another her second denials from the Georgetown University Student Investment Fund, Students of Georgetown, Inc. and the Student Advocacy Office. My last roommate, during the four-minute walk between an audition at the Gonda Theater and our apartment, already had a “we regret to inform you…” email stewing in her inbox.

As for me, my first semester I was denied from a medical volunteer program. I have been (so far) rejected from Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society twice, my best friend, three times. In fact, the members of Blue & Gray were recently told, by representatives of the administration in the admissions department no less, that their organization is twice as hard to get into as Georgetown itself.

Is this the “standard of open membership” to which Olson and Lord are referring?

Just for the sake of comparison, in the sorority recruitment process of spring 2015 (which required zero essays for admission, as opposed to Georgetown’s usual standard of five to seven), 100 percent of girls who completed the process received a bid. Every. Single. Girl. I do not have the statistics for our fraternities, but I can’t imagine that at a school with such minimal Greek life the

numbers are so different. And as for “engaging actively with other students” and our community, each member has 20 mandated service hours a year in addition to weekly study sessions and incentives for good grades. We are hardly the terrible influence we are made out to be.

I do not mean to attack the exclusivity of the extracurriculars here at Georgetown. On the contrary, I think it is a realistic microcosm of what we will encounter in the “real” world in terms of graduate schooling and jobs.

I also do not at all disagree with the administration’s unyielding attachment to its Jesuit identity. But when the sole supportive, nourishing niche I have found as home on the Hilltop is falsely advertised as restrictive and unwelcoming, I am strongly offended. Most students at G e o r ge tow n face a strikingly large and frequent amount of rejection. We are nerds and bookwor ms used to straight A-pluses dealing with our first C’s. We are class presidents and activity leaders being turned away probably for the first time from being volunteers, coffee shop baristas or even general body members of clubs. We are nervous peers watching our classmates do more, do better, wondering if we can spend any extra time on another internship. I’m 19 years old and I’m already applying to medical school. We need a break.

The Georgetown administration is not immune to these facts.

We continuously beat our Ivy League counterparts on lists of the most stressful schools (eighth in a ranking published by Newsweek). That is why I am surprised that it has chosen to attack one of the few communities on campus that, even if temporarily, relieves such pressure with distinctive inclusivity. My sisters are the shoulders I cry on when I bomb an exam. They are the glasses I share a toast with when I do get into another organization. They are my roommates. They are my friends.

They are my Hoya family.

So in response to Dr. Olson and Dr. Lord, I ardently encourage Georgetown to go Greek.

Just for the sake of comparison, in the sorority recruitment process of spring 2015, 100 percent of girls who completed the process received a bid.

Danielle Zamalin is a sophomore in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

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his fall, I started playing weekly tennis games with one of my professors. I had taken a course with him in the spring, we had become friendly and both enjoyed tennis, though we both found discovering people to play with difficult.

Nothing about this felt odd until I started telling people about it. From my roommates, friends and classmates, I almost invariably received a reaction of “Why?” or else a winking smile, pat on the back and some variation of “Congratulations, that’s so smart of you, way to get ahead!”

From the very beginning of my time at Georgetown, popular conceptions of professor-student friendships struck me as ill-defined and odd. My parents, college professors themselves, encouraged me to go to each and every one of my professors’ office hours — but almost never to talk about assignments themselves. They told me to pick a topic, a book, something that had come up in class and to reach out and just have a discussion — the theory being, if you can’t learn from a professor outside of class, your time spent in class might not be so productive.

But when I talked to other peers, that thought was widely (though not universally) regarded as heretical. My classmates told me that going to office hours to talk about a midterm or final was natural and not self-centered, but to do so just to get to know a professor came off as scheming, ambitious: an attempt to get ahead by securing a recommendation, a “mentor,” a summer internship or research position.

The irony was striking.

There are, of course, exceptions to this attitude: Georgetown University Student Association sponsored coffee trips with professors, exhortations from peer advisers and deans alike to find academic and professional mentors from among one’s teachers, there was even a module in the “What’s a Hoya” program devoted primarily to mentorship. From small proseminars for freshman in the School of Foreign Service to the Georgetown Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, which pairs student and faculty for mentored research, it’s clear that at an institutional level, Georgetown undoubtedly favors close collaboration.

Nonetheless, in the student body these appeals fall largely on deaf ears.

Whether that’s due to Georgetown’s preprofessional, career-oriented cul-

ture or a symptom of a larger, contemporary issue on college campuses, I can’t entirely say. Certainly, the current combative environment between students and teachers over curricular and sociopolitical issues that has been widely reported on in the media for the past few years cannot be an added good. There exist extreme cases, which show students and professors lodging official complaints and even lawsuits over differences in vocabulary and political philosophies. But more insidiously, there is a general sentiment of a changing relationship — from a cooperative, mutualistic partnership to one more based on demands on each other — where teachers report self-censorship and shirk from dealing with sensitive issues and undergraduates report a distrust of professors whose ideological beliefs clash with their own.

At the same time, the Hilltop’s vocational culture treats too much of the academic pursuit, whether it be elective classes or choosing the right professor for “Problem of God,” as a means to an end. The obsessive focus on networking — the sometimes defined, sometimes undefined “you know it when you see it” search for contacts to acquire summer internship options and an extra bullet point on the resume — treats people, be they be classmates, professors or McKinsey representatives in the Career Center as one and the same: objects for future success.

The “ideal relationship,” as campus culture would have it, between students and professors is far too utilitarian for my taste. When peers implied that they saw my hour spent playing tennis on Fridays in Yates Field House as an investment in a future job or recommendation for graduate school, I rejected their suppositions.

Without dismissing the importance of teachers within the larger career process, there has to be flexibility for friendships within the academic community that don’t adhere to a set of mutual obligations. Otherwise, we might as well change “office hours” to read “mentorship, recommendation and career furtherance sessions.”

Besides, my tennis game isn’t nearly good enough to earn me a recommendation. After all, all I’m really looking for now are a good tennis game and a workout.

My classmates told me that going to office hours to talk about a final was natural and not self-centered, but to do so just to get to know a professor came off as scheming.

Jonathan Marrow is a sophomore in the College. He is a deputy opinion editor.

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced a $1 million gift to the Georgetown Global Social Enterprise Initiative and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security last Wednesday to establish a fellowship on women in the economy and to support programming on corporate responsibility.

A portion of the donation will create a BOA Fellowship on and Women and the Economy at GIWPS, which will offer qualified recent graduates the opportunity to research topics related to women’s empowerment and economic development.

In a statement on the university website, President of the BOA Charitable Foundation Kerry Sullivan said that she is excited to continue the partnership with Georgetown through this donation.

“Georgetown’s tradition of service closely aligns with our commitment to making corporate social responsibility the core of our business, and both of these programs support our efforts to foster economic empowerment around the world,” Sullivan wrote.

According to GIWPS Executive Director Melanne Verveer, the gift shows BOA’s dedication to empowering women in the economy.

“They understand that women’s economic participation is critical to growing economies at home and around the world. They also recognize that women entrepreneurs and the small and medium size businesses they create are growth accelerators,” Verveer wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Verveer said that the donation will be important in furthering the institute’s outreach and programming.

“BOA has been committed to growing women’s economic participation through a range of initiatives relating to access to capital for women, entrepreneurs, mentoring programs, leadership and related commitments,” Verveer wrote.

Verveer also said that the fellowship will help create a cadre of young talent for women’s issues.

The inaugural fellowship recipient this year, Tricia Correia (MSB ’15), plans to engage in a number of research projects related to various cutting-edge topics in women’s economic participation.

“It will cover my research expenses to a regional level, and I am currently working with a professor in the [McDonough School of Busi-

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The Bank of America, whose CEO Brian Moynihan is pictured here with Warren Buffet in a discussion in Gaston Hall in 2013, donated $1 million to the Georgetown Global Social Enterprise and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security last week. ness] to design one of my projects,” Correia said. “Just being able to focus on conducting research and not having to apply for separate grants is a great thing for me.”

The donation will also be used to fund the GSEI to deliver programming on corporate responsibility.

The GSEI was originally launched within the MSB in 2011 using a $1 million gift from the BOA Charitable Foundation.

GSEI plans to put the grant to use by proposing a new Corporate Social Responsibility series, which will start Sept. 30. The series, which will be open to students, will look at the evolution of the concept of corporate social responsibility, using BOA and other companies as examples. Later this fall, GSEI also plans to organize a discussion on green investment.

In addition, GSEI plans to use the funding to expand its existing internship program in order to

connect more students to career opportunities, including a summer internship with the World Business Council on sustainable development.

“They understand that women’s economic participation is critical to growing economies.”

KERRY SULLIVAN BOA Charitable Foundation President

A portion of the gift will also fund the work of author Leslie Crutchfield, who is currently writing her next book on social innovation as a senior fellow at GSEI. The initial donation from BOA

in 2011 has allowed GSEI to offer a range of different programs over the past four years. According to GSEI Executive Director Ladan Manteghi, the $1 million were awarded over three years for an array of programming events.

With the funding, GSEI has invited a number of speakers to campus, including Bono and Warren Buffett. GSEI has also supported and funded internship opportunities for students interested in pursuing studies in social entrepreneurship, including two Masters of Business Administration students who worked with the State Department’s Global Partnership Initiative office.

In addition, the endowment has provided operational support to other activities, such as supporting student leadership, developing program marketing, funding new student initiatives and inviting experienced business professionals

who connect MSB students to real business experience.

Manteghi said that the additional funding will help GSEI enhance its mission.

“From what I learned, BOA believes in helping to support a new generation of leaders to view the approach to business and how it can contribute to society in a meaningful way,” Manteghi said. “We are growing, and we are utilizing the fund to enhance those programs as well as enhance the experience of our students.”

With regards to how the partnership between GSEI and BOA will continue to evolve in the future, Manteghi said that she is positive about its potential.

“I think we will continue to grow together, grow the practice of social enterprise and the mindset of being able to take on challenges of being catalysts and leaders in social enterprises,” Manteghi said.

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Green Fund Installs Motion-Detecting Lights in Darnall Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

The Green Revolving Loan Fund installed a series of motion detection-operated lights in the common rooms of Darnall Hall last week to reduce the university’s energy usage and carbon footprint.

The installation was the first project financed by the Green Fund, which was founded last spring as an independent branch of the Social Innovation and Public Service Fund.

The fund chose the light installation as its first project in March, collaborating with various organizations including Georgetown Energy and the Georgetown University Student Association in the process.

Under the new system, the lights will automatically shut off 30 minutes after a room has been left vacant.

Green Fund Director Daniel Watson said that the project will save the university a great deal of energy and money in years to come.

“The project was to install occupancy sensors throughout Darnall Hall’s common areas — spaces that had previously been left fully lit despite no one occupying the room,” Watson said. “We estimate that the sensors will pay for themselves within just seven years through energy savings, and our loan term with the university reflects that.”

According to SIPS Board of Trustees Executive Director Naman Trivedi (SFS ’16), the pilot project originated from Georgetown Energy, a student group dedicated to reducing the university’s carbon footprint.

Trivedi said that the team chose Darnall as a testing ground to check the viability of launching the project in other dorms on campus.

“If the pilot ran well, the idea would be to calculate potential savings from installing motion-detection lights in other dorms on campus. With Darnall as a success, the team is now looking to install in other underclassmen dorms,” Trivedi said.

Trivedi praised the installation as an effective and financially sound project.

“The finished result of the project is a student-led, energy-efficient and cost-saving mechanism that promotes sustainability at Georgetown,” Trivedi said. “Over time, this will result in substantial energy savings for the building.”

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The Green Revolving Loan Fund, a branch of the Social Innovation and Public Service Fund, installed new motion-detecting lights, which turn off 30 minutes after a room has been left vacant, in the common areas of Darnall Hall last week in an effort to reduce Georgetown’s energy usage. by the Student Activities Fund Endowment in 2012, which also allocated financial resources for the installation of solar panels on townhouses in the Georgetown area.

Watson said the fund was formed due to demand from student groups to finance necessary and innovative green technologies.

“The founders of this organization had so much foresight in predicting the need and usefulness of a fund like this,” Watson said.

SIPS Board of Trustees Operations Director Allie Heymann (SFS ’16) said that other branches of SIPS could evolve from the sustainable model of the Green Fund.

“In essence, the Green Fund is a

more sustainable and more greenoriented manifestation of the greater SIPS mission. In the very long term, SIPS could potentially develop more independent branches that follow the GRLF model,” Heymann said.

Heymann also praised the Darnall project and emphasized how much hard work went into its completion.

“I think that the occupancy sensors were a great first project for the Green Fund, and a major personal victory for all members of the team,” Heymann said. “This project was a huge success and an incredible first step.”

Trivedi said SIPS’s next step is to publicize the Green Fund’s first finalized project, so that other student

groups are encouraged to propose sustainable projects to the fund.

“The Green Fund will work on marketing the success of this first project soon. The goal is not so much to laud the brilliance of installing motion-detection lights, but rather to inspire the 300-plus students that live in Darnall to apply for a Green Fund grant to work on a sustainability project of their own,” Trivedi said.

According to Watson, the Green Fund has already begun plans for another sustainable project.

“For our next project, we are planning to renovate another residence hall, this time with LED lighting.

We are working with EcoAction and Georgetown Energy on that project,

and are hoping the Darnall project proves that the university is willing to continue working with us,” Watson said.

Hanh Nguyen (SFS ’19), a resident of Darnall, said that the installation will be an exciting addition to the hall.

“I think it’s a pretty good idea because, myself especially, I always go to the common room in the middle of the night for food or a midnight snack, and sometimes I have to locate the switch, so with the motion sensor light I don’t have to do that,” Nguyen said. “At the same time, everything in Darnall is pretty old, so it’s nice to have something new around here.”

Alum Talks Career in Media New Initiative Funds Student Leadership Paul Tsavoussis Special to The Hoya

The Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted Independent Journal Review Executive Editor Michelle Jaconi (SFS ’96, GRD ’97), who discussed her careers at Georgetown and in the media in Old North on Tuesday.

The event was the second talk in IPPS’s Hoyas in Politics and Public Service series, which IPPS Executive Director Mo Elleithee described while moderating the discussion.

“The purpose of our HIPPSter series is to pull back the curtain a little bit and show you all that there are a lot of career paths in the public and private space,” Elleithee said. “Also to figure out the hows and the whys [alumni] got to where they are.”

Jaconi explained that her passion for journalism was sparked at a young age after her school in Los Angeles closed due to a lack of funding. She wrote a letter to her local paper, which gained traction and landed her in the state capital, where she confronted local lawmakers about the school’s closing.

She also said her time at Georgetown catalyzed her journalistic career, specifically highlighting the benefits of her multiple internships and writing for

The Georgetown Voice.

“It is the one time in your life that you can dabble … and find out what you are supposed to do,” Jaconi said.

After graduation, Jaconi worked as a producer and political analyst at NBC’s “Meet the Press.” She spoke fondly of her time at the show under the program’s longest-serving moderator, Tim Russert, who died in 2008.

“What was so neat about Tim is that every newspaper and news entity had the same adjective to describe him after he died: beloved,” Jaconi said. “Who would get that today?”

She also credited her ascension in NBC to her motivation to contribute to Russert’s success.

“I think D.C. is such a meritocracy where if you work your butt off and never claim credit for anything when you need it, there is a lot of capital in the bank,” Jaconi said. “I am [a] helper. I like helping people, and I loved helping Tim.” After 12 years at NBC, Jaconi moved to CNN to become executive producer of the cross-platform programming unit, which coordinates news coverage across all media platforms.

She said her specific interest in television journalism stems from the candid nature of live

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Michelle Jaconi (SFS ’96, GRD ’97) spoke about her career at an event hosted by the Institute of Politics and Public Service.

interviews.

“I love getting to know a candidate through the television,” Jaconi said. “They can’t hide behind anything like in print. …

Live TV has this rawness and if you write the right question you get that chuckle or that thing.”

However, Jaconi left conventional television journalism because she believes it no longer carries the weight and influence it once did with the American public.

“If most people are getting their news through social media and most of the impact is through social media, how are the journalists not in social media?” Jaconi said. “That really bothered me.”

Following this revelation, Jaconi decided to join a venture that differed considerably from her last two positions at the Independent Journal Review.

IJ Review is a mobile news company that has 35 million unique viewers each month and is now one of the top 50 websites in the United States.

Jaconi attributed the success of the company to its ability to identify and hold an audience, filling a demand for moderate, fun and informative news, which has solidified its presence in the media world. “[Founder and President of IJ Review] Alex Skatell wanted to find those commonsense people that want to vote and really wanted to find out information and weren’t crazy,” Jaconi said.

After the event, Jaconi spoke with students individually and said that her success in journalism is tied closely to the Jesuit education she received at Georgetown.

“I love that insatiable curiosity of the Jesuits and the fact that to be a Jesuit you actually have to master another faith,” Jaconi said.

“A ‘Russert rule’ was to learn everything about the person who was coming on and then take the opposite side — and frankly that’s a lot like Jesuit education in a political concept.”

Scott Syroka (COL ’16) attended the event and said he found Jaconi to be a quintessential Hoya alumna.

“I think she is a great example of what a Georgetown education can provide, and she is a great example of living up to Jesuit values,” Syroka said.

Patricja Okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association established the Student Leadership Fund on Sunday as a resource to support students with demonstrated financial need who are interested in participating in campus elections.

Applicants who meet the fund’s qualifications will be granted up to $25 to use for reimbursable expenses, in addition to funding for print cards and candy in campaigning.

The SLF, which aims to make student leadership more accessible to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, will go into effect starting this election cycle with the GUSA senate elections.

Students who are running for senate, Academic Councils, Hall Councils or any other student office will be able to apply for the fund.

Students can request access to campaign funding anonymously through HoyaLink after indicating which office they would like to run for. Applications will be processed by the Center for Student Engagement, which will also handle the distribution of the funds.

GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Howard (SFS ’17) said that he started the SLF to address a perceived lack of awareness of socioeconomic issues on campus. Last semester, Howard led a series of conversations on ways to increase diversity within GUSA and other leadership positions on campus.

“One issue raised during this time was that of socioeconomic diversity,” Howard wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“There is no doubt that a student’s socioeconomic status can be a barrier to getting involved with student activities on campus, whether it is in elected or non-elected positions.”

Howard said that although the SLF is a promising first step in increasing the diversity of student leaders at Georgetown, there is a lot of work left to do.

“My hope is that as a result of this Fund, it is easier for students of all socio-economic backgrounds to run for office on campus,” Howard wrote.

“While the Student Leadership Fund will likely be appreciated assistance for some, I cannot stress enough how inadequate the Fund is in addressing the true issues of socio-economic diversity among student life on the Hilltop.”

According to GUSA Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16), the SLF can help to correct assumptions that many students make about the socioeconom-

ic classes of other students.

“People assume a lot of the time that those around them are of higher socioeconomic status when that is not the case,” Rohan said.

GUSA President Joseph Luther (COL ’16) agreed that students are often unaware of their peers’ backgrounds.

“Socioeconomic status is something people do not talk about very much here, [and] I think there is the unfortunate assumption that everybody comes from a wealthy or privileged background,” Luther said.

Rohan also said that students currently do not know the socioeconomic diversity of Georgetown and do not realize the difficulty that some students may have with participation in certain activities on campus.

“This is a step toward being cognizant of that socioeconomic diversity that we have here, and making sure that everyone is granted an opportunity when they come to Georgetown,” Rohan said.

Luther said it is important that students do not feel excluded from campus elections on the basis of their socioeconomic status. Instead, he said that they should feel free to showcase their leadership skills and qualifications regardless of their background.

“I think that in some ways this will move the conversation in a positive direction,” Luther said. “I hope that the fund serves as a message to the student body that we are only interested in peoples’ potentials to lead, not what their wallets say.”

More than 55 percent of Georgetown students applied for need-based aid in 2014, and more than 38 percent received aid.

Howard said that GUSA has more plans to address the barriers of socioeconomic status this year. The Student Leadership Fund is the first initiative of #InclusiveLeadership, a project addressing diversity in student leadership that will kick off next month.

After that, Reed said he hopes to create a student leadership fellowship, which will aid students who wish to make voluntary contributions to the school but do not have the financial resources to do so.

Howard encouraged all who are interested in addressing the issues of economic diversity on campus to participate in these initiatives.

“I invite all Hoyas who are interested in this initiative or have ideas of their own to reach out and help bring about change,” Howard wrote. “This is a time for creativity and a time for action.”

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University Celebrates Papal Visit VISIT, from A1 how the visit impacted the D.C. community.

“I am personally inspired by the pope’s words and actions. I believe his visit will serve as an inspiration to people of all ages, of all backgrounds and all cultures,” Bowser said. “We are delighted that the pope has chosen our district as his first official visit in the United States.”

Wednesday’s festivities also marked the height of the frenzy for many Georgetown students, with Pope Francis’ parade around the Ellipse in the morning followed by the Mass of canonization of Blessed Junípero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at 4 p.m.

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope in history. He was photographed holding a Georgetown scarf presented to him by six Georgetown students and faculty members who participated in a Religious Freedom Project trip in December 2013. Although the pope did not visit the university during his trip, many members of the campus community attended various papal events.

The parade, which was the first public event, began at 11 a.m., traveling from the White House along 15th Street, Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW, with people lining the route and cheering as Pope Francis passed by in a Fiat.

Women and gender studies professor Emerald Christopher-Byrd, who lives in the Brookland neighborhood home to the basilica, cancelled classes this week because of transportation challenges, but added that the atmosphere of the area was exciting throughout the papal visit.

She said officials in the region began setting up and closing off streets one week before the visit, making transportation difficult.

“All of our shops and restaurants had pope-themed specials. For those that opted to drive, we had an influx of parked cars in our neighborhoods,” Christopher-Byrd said. “However, despite the traffic and high volumes of people, the energy in Brookland has been wonderful.”

Georgetown students and faculty had the opportunity to enter a raffle for tickets to the Mass that were allocated by the university last week. Win-

ners were notified Monday.

Roopa Mulpuri (SFS ’18) was one student who attended the historic Mass, even though she is not Catholic herself.

“I had never been to Mass before and I think it’s probably one of the coolest things that I’m ever going to get to do to in my entire life,” Mulpuri said.

Hannah Weber (NHS ’17) said she arrived to wait in line around 10 a.m. for the late-afternoon Mass, but enjoyed the long day.

“It was surreal. I had to keep reminding myself that it was the Pope

“Pope Francis is the only person in the world I know who could unite people in such a way and create such awe.”

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that was giving Mass. Everyone who was there was so excited and floored that he was there,” Weber said.

The pope celebrated Mass in his native language, Spanish, with more than 20,000 people on the Catholic University of America’s campus. This was also the first canonization in the United States. Screens near the altar projected subtitles in English.

Attendee Lydia Hennessey (COL ’18) said that although she does not speak Spanish, it did not deter from the joyous atmosphere.

“Although I could not understand a lot of what was being said at the Mass, it was really the music and mood that conveyed his message, which was one of universal embrace,” Hennessey said.

Hennessey was also among the students who won university tickets to watch the pope’s address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday at 10 a.m. People gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol, watching the address projected on screens. Afterward,

the pope emerged on a balcony to address the crowd, this time speaking in English.

“Even though English isn’t the pope’s native language, I thought that his line about treating people with passion and compassion showed such beautiful thought,” Hennessey said.

Alec Kingston (SFS ’18) was also outside the Capitol and said he felt emotional seeing the pope speak.

“It was so awe-inspiring. On the lawn you could actually feel and see all the different people from different backgrounds come together for this one person,” Kingston said. “Pope Francis is the only person in the world I know who could unite people in such a way and create such awe. When he first came out I had tears in my eyes and he hadn’t even said anything yet.”

However, Kingston added that while the address was moving, he also wished Pope Francis had added some Spanish.

“In a way, even if you don’t understand the native language, there is an essence that comes from someone’s native language, and when you translate, sometimes part of the message is lost,” Kingston said. “I feel like if it had been fully in Spanish, we could have felt more of what I heard people felt at the mass.”

Glenna Roberts (SFS ’18) also attended and praised how the pope’s address touched on national issues.

“I was astounded by his presence — the grace with which he carries his tremendous responsibility, the mindfulness he expresses in every word and action, and the simplicity with which he unpacks complicated issues,” Roberts said. “I feel so lucky to experience this momentous visit at our nation’s capital and hear such an inspiring man speak on issues that affect us all.”

Following his appearance at Congress, Pope Francis met with Catholic Charities USA at St. Patrick’s Church before departing for the next leg of his trip in New York City, where his schedule includes a speech at the United Nations, service at the 9/11 Memorial and Mass at Madison Square Garden.

The pope will conclude his United States tour in Philadelphia and return to Rome the evening of Sept. 27.

Hoya Staff Writers Lucy Prout and Daniel Smith contributed reporting.

Hagel Returns in New Position HAGEL, from A1 in the room when many of the decisions were made really creates a unique learning opportunity,” Podberezin said.

Hagel served as the secretary of defense under President Barack Obama from February 2013 to this February, when he resigned under pressure from the administration.

Under his term as secretary of defense, Hagel was faced with multiple international conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the increasing territorial gain of the Islamic State and a continued delay in closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

He previously represented Nebraska as the state’s first Republican senator in 24 years from 1997 to 2009, and is noted as the first veteran of the Vietnam War to serve as secretary of defense. He received two Purple Hearts

for his service.

During his term as senator, Hagel served as a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Banking and Intelligence Committees. He also chaired the Senate Global Climate Change Observer Group and the CongressionalExecutive Commission on China.

Hellman said that he hopes Hagel will be an accessible resource for a wide range of interested students.

“We’d really like to keep the maximum flexibility for him as a resource, so he’s someone who is available to meet with faculty [and] students [and] engage with them on their classes rather than target one audience or one group of students,” Hellman said.

Previous executives in residence include former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller, who took on the position in late 2013 a week after he resigned from the FBI.

Ferrara said that Hagel’s renewed involvement will be beneficial to the Georgetown community.

“He very much enjoys being part of the Georgetown community. He was very interested in having an affiliation here after stepping down as Secretary of Defense, and so he plans to be on campus as much as he possibly can,” Ferrara said. “He’s someone who feels an attachment to the Georgetown community and wants to contribute.”

Halle Hagan (SFS ’18) said that she looks forward to broadening her understanding of international affairs from attending Hagel’s lectures.

“I’m sure that Secretary Hagel’s guest lectures will add fresh insight into international affairs today,” Hagan said. “I hope that I will have the opportunity to attend one of his lectures in my remaining years at Georgetown.”

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Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will return to the Hilltop this academic year as Georgetown’s newest executive-in-residence. Hagel previously taught in the School of Foreign Service from 2009 to 2013.

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Pope Francis’ speech Thursday morning was the first papal address to a joint session of Congress in history.

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The pope also spoke about the threat of social and political injustice. He said that polarization occurs through persecution and violence, which further undermine the system. To meet this challenge, he called for mutual conversation and openness.

“Our response must … be one of hope and healing, of peace and justice,” Francis said. “Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.”

He added that the “golden rule,” which stipulates that people should treat others with respect, is at the core of these issues.

“Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated,” Francis said. “This golden rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.”

He declared that his speech was meant to inspire a dialogue within the American people, specifically praising Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton for being Americans who he said best furthered the American dream.

“These men and women, for all their many differences and limitations, were able, by hard work and self-sacrifice … to build a better future,” Francis said. “They shaped fundamental values which will endure forever in the spirit of the American people.”

The pope concluded by returning to these Americans and using each as an example of how the United States is and can continue to be great. He said that the nation must continue its commitment to freedom and equality with the goal of giving as many people, especially those in younger generations, as many opportunities as possible.

“I have sought to present some of the richness of your cultural heritage, of the spirit of the American people,” Francis said. “It is my desire that this spirit continues to develop and grow … God bless America.”

The speech elicited notable reactions from members of Congress, as the pope was interrupted several times by standing ovations. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) was one member of Congress who was also visibly moved to tears during parts of the address. Eighteen House members and seven Senators in the audience were Georgetown alumni.

Government professor Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., spoke to the importance of the pope’s presence in D.C. and the message he communicated in his address.

“I was very impressed,” Carnes said. “It is incredible to think about a pope addressing Congress, as it is something the Founding Fathers never envisioned.”

Carnes said he appreciated the pope’s universal message that appealed to both congresspeople and those on the West Lawn.

“In speaking to Congress, he knew he wasn’t just speaking to Congress,” Carnes said. “He was speaking to every American citizen. … He urged us to go beyond rhetoric and political divides and advised that we translate challenges like poverty into faces and not just numbers.”

Carnes said he was particu-

larly moved by the pope’s comments on the poor.

“His whole papacy has been trying to raise our consciousness to those who are on the margins,” Carnes said. “We can easily overlook those who are poorest, not as educated and do not have as many opportunities, and he wants us to remember that our best instincts are to care for those people.”

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., vice president for mission and ministry, said that the pope effectively touched upon many current global issues, encouraging people to engage in dialogue and hopefully yield solutions.

“This is not a single-issue pope,” O’Brien said. “He usually talks about the ‘seamless garment’ of issues and I think he hit most of the major ones facing this Congress.”

O’Brien said he believed Pope Francis’ speech was well-received due to the bipartisan support it seemed to have in Congress.

“When you think about who was in that chamber, you had very conservative and very liberal members of Congress and he was very well received,” O’Brien said.

“I think people respect him not as a political leader but as a leader with moral weight.”

Following a university POPE FRANCIS viewing of the address in the Healey Family Student Center, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming and Center for Social Justice Research Executive Director Andria Wisler led a brief panel discussion.

Fleming noted that his main takeaway from the address was the pope’s emphasis on dialogue.

He alluded to the upcoming potential government shutdown and wondered if the pope’s remarks would help avert it.

“The attention that he put on common dialogue, coming together and solving problems [was encouraging],” Fleming said. “For the most part, even those who did not necessarily agree with what they thought he was pointing to eventually stood up and applauded.”

Wisler said that she appreciated the pope’s comments on how society, economy and politics are directly related to how citizens conduct their daily lives. The point of Pope Francis’ speech, according to Wisler, was to encourage citizens to make the world more just and humane.

“Pope Francis is simply a pope for and about social justice,” Wisler said. “I think his message today to Congress really proved that because he implicates every single person in this work.”

Cameron Bell (COL ’19), who attended the HFSC live stream, also appreciated Pope Francis’ message of dialogue. She said the speech was an example of how the pope’s words can transcend political beliefs.

“I think it was really well done with respect to making his intentions and his beliefs clear,” Bell said. “But [he was] also being mindful of different opinions and making it a discussion that everyone wanted to hear.”

Grace Laria (SFS ’19) also attended the live stream and said that the pope’s speech, while touching on a number of political issues, furthered his message of justice and peace, rather than advocating a specific partisan solution.

“He did cover things really broadly so that he didn’t alienate members of Congress,” Laria said. “I think everyone heard him in their own way and can use that message, which is really fantastic.”

“Our response must ... be one of hope and healing, of peace and justice.”

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Giordano said that by providing a bridge between the scientific and religious comAround 30 students gathered at a round- munities, the encyclical promotes an intertable discussion on faith and environmen- disciplinary dialogue on social justice and tal sustainability led by Director of the Sci- the environment. ence, Technology and International Affairs “I see the intersection [between religion Program Mark Giordano and Vice President and science] all the time,” Giordano said. for Mission and Ministry Rev. Kevin O’Brien, “The connection between religion and sciS.J., in McShain Lounge on Monday in light ence is what the pope said in the encycliof the papal visit. cal, and I think it brought together things The discussion, titled “Pope Francis’ En- in a way that haven’t been for a long time.” vironmental Challenge,” centered on the O’Brien said that it is important to hold dispope’s encyclical on the environment from cussions about environmental issues and late May, which called for greater harmony sustainability on campus. between humans and nature. The encycli“[Georgetown has] been in a multiyear cal, called “Praise Be to You,” also critiqued conversation about environmental sustainconsumerism and unsustainable develop- ability and how we can be better protectors ment while drawing attention to global of the environment,” O’Brien said. “This warming and other event deepens the conenvironmental issues. versation that we have O’Brien began the had as a campus … discussion by explainand our commitment ing the historic signifito care for the earth.” cance of the encyclical, After the panel which has elicited a discussion, audience wide range of responsmembers talked es from world leaders, about how they could the scientific commucontribute to environnity and environmenmental sustainability. tal activists due to the Divided into groups pope’s firm stance on under the categories climate change. of prayer, service and “While popes had action, each table retalked about the enflected on the encycvironment for many lical’s message and decades, never has the came up with ideas KEVIN O’BRIEN environment been for possible initiatives Vice President for Mission and Ministry treated in such a systo promote sustaintematic way, in such an ability. authoritative way by popes,” O’Brien said.

Students who participated in the discusAccording to O’Brien, the encyclical ad- sion suggested that the university commudresses practical problems caused by rapid nity should begin contributing to sustaintechnological development and economic ability with simple approaches, such as growth, such as unequal access to clean recycling. water and healthy food. In the document, Hadley Masiel (COL ’19), who attended Pope Francis calls sustainability a means of the event and is involved in an initiaredemption from the sin of environmental tive called Campus Kitchens that shares destruction. unused food from O’Donovan Hall with “Anything that touches the human nearby neighborhoods, emphasized the touches the church,” O’Brien said. “That need for greater awareness of the changes human being is the child of God.” that individuals can make on the environAfter O’Brien offered his introductory re- ment. marks, he and Giordano shared their inter“If [people] are not understanding what pretations of the encyclical. O’Brien pointed they are doing every time they don’t reout the interplay between the concepts of cycle, there’s no incentive to change their integral ecology, solidarity and the humani- ways,” Masiel said. “I think there should be tarian interest of the Catholic Church. more understanding of how much of an Giordano discussed the social and sci- impact just a simple thing can make.” entific contributions that have been made Emma Berg (COL ’19), who attended the since the encyclical was published. He said event, said that she hopes to see tangible that the encyclical shifted the conversation outcomes through engaging in conversaon environmental protection from the tions about the community’s responsibilwealthy, who often seem to value nature ity to protect the environment. aesthetically or recreationally, to the most “People need to know how their choices vulnerable parts of the population whose [are] actually impacting the community survival is directly threatened by environ- and the environment,” Berg said.

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“While popes had talked about the environment for many decades, never has the environment been treated ... in such a systematic way.”

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Director of the Executive Master’s Program in Health Systems Administration Robert Carr was named the president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, a position he will begin in 2017.

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Director of the Executive Master’s Program in Health Systems Administration Robert Carr was recently appointed president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, effective in 2017.

The university announced Carr’s selection on its website last Tuesday.

In his role, Carr will guide ACPM, an organization of more than 2,700 members from academia and government who aim to promote preventive medicine in order to improve the health of individuals and communities.

School of Nursing and Health Studies Interim Dean Patricia Cloonan said that Carr’s selection is a testament to his influence in the field of health sciences.

“He has brought great energy and enthusiasm to his role as director of our new Executive Master’s in Health Administration Program. His recent election to this significant leadership position at ACPM truly reflects his prominence in the field,” Cloonan wrote

in an email to The Hoya.

After he graduated from medical school, Carr joined the preventive medicine field of the United States Air Force and participated in preventive medicine training, gaining his master’s of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Afterward, he spent 18 years at health care company GlaxoSmithKline, where he became senior vice president and chief medical director.

Carr joined the NHS earlier this year in a new role created for the Executive Master’s Program in Health Systems Administration.

At ACPM, Carr said that he would like to create partnerships between professionals in different sectors.

“As president, I intend to drive greater collaboration across multiple disciplines and areas toward the collective goal of improving the health of the patient through the levers of policy, practice, capability and innovation,” Carr wrote in a statement on the university website.

In his previous work, Carr has focused on the health risks that college students face, such as alcohol

poisoning, eating disorders, smoking, sleep deprivation and the excessive use of technology.

Carr said that it was important for youths to pay attention to potential health issues at an early age.

“The challenge for the youth is that they feel invincible. The issue is to really identify what kind of life they want to lead and what kind of person they want to become, and therefore begin building those good habits and not starting bad habits while they’re in this state of formation in their adulthood,” Carr wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Interim Chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration Ryung Suh praised Carr for his leadership and dedication to the field of medicine.

“Bob brings a focus on leadership and innovation, distilled from decades of executive experience,” Suh wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“He will bring the same energy and commitment to ACPM that he has brought to the Executive Master of Science in Health Systems Administration Program.”

Helpline Remains Underused Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

Since its inception in 2007, the compliance helpline in the Office of Compliance and Ethics has served as a simple, confidential and largely underutilized reporting service that offers students and faculty an alternative channel to bring compliance-related concerns to light.

As parts of Georgetown’s Institutional Compliance and Ethics Program, the 24/7, multilingual telephone hotline and the online report service have fielded over 90 reports over the past eight years concerning compliance in a variety of university issues, including human resources, athletics, safety and research.

Associate Vice President for Compliance and Ethics Jim Ward said that the helpline provides guidance for students or faculty who would like to report compliance or ethical violations.

“The compliance helpline is confidential and anonymous if you want to address problems or concerns, if someone believes that there’s a violation of the law or policy being violated,” Ward said. “If someone feels uncomfortable asking a question through regular channels at the university, they can do so through the compliance helpline.”

Over the past few years, students have begun to use the service more frequently, increasing from 11 reports in 2009 to 31 in 2014.

While the service is available to all university and nonuniversity members, it is primarily used by faculty and staff to report human resources concerns. Over 80 percent of the reports have come from university employees.

Ward said that this positive trend is likely due to growing student awareness about the service and not necessarily an increase in the overall number of incidents.

“When we first established the helpline, not many people knew about it, so I see the upward trend as indicative of a greater saturation of awareness,” Ward said. “Generally, people report that they feel comfortable reporting through the helpline.”

The service allows members of the community to file confiden-

tial reports, which can be used in situations in which a superior is implicated or a department only has a few employees.

The main online server and reception services for the compliance helpline are operated by EthicsPoint, a third-party organization. Reports are filed and redistributed within the hour to the OCE, which ensures that the university abides by federal laws, regulations and policies.

Ward said that one of the most important functions of EthicsPoint is ensuring that the reports remain private.

“Generally, people report that they feel comfortable reporting through the helpline.”

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“The helpline exists on an external server that doesn’t belong to Georgetown University to give another level of confidentiality and anonymity if you were worried that our university servers could reverse-engineer your report,” Ward said.

According to Ward, the university has also instituted a whistleblower policy to afford further protection to those who use the helpline system in good faith.

“You’re protected by the whistleblower policy, which says that your report is a service to the university and it is to its benefit to know that this problem exists,” Ward said. “If you are not trying to be vindictive or abusive of the system … then [reporters] are protected from retaliation.”

Once the report is filed, the OCE reaches out to the department in question for a more thorough investigation of the claim.

“Once we receive the report … we’ll triage it,” Ward said. “We determine what the report is alleging, what component of the university is involved, how serious is the allegation and [if] it immediately need to be addressed.”

Ward said that in the majority of cases, the office in question is already aware of the issue and has begun to address it.

Director of Affirmative Action Programs in the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action Michael Smith is responsible for compliance helpline reports specific to human resources, sexual misconduct and discrimination.

Smith said that the IDEAA works closely with the OCE to keep the confidentiality of the reports made through the helpline.

“Jim Ward assigns those reports to the IDEAA and depending on the details of the report … we might get back to [OCE] to offer individuals confidential resources within the university,” Smith said. “Some students or faculty may identify themselves and we will reach out to the individual to see how we can support you and describe our IDEAA process.”

Ward said that the OCE receives two times as many direct reports by email, office visit or phone call than through the helpline.

“We attribute this to the maturity of our program and to the fact that Georgetown employees are generally more familiar with the Compliance and Ethics Program and feel more comfortable reaching out to us,” Ward said.

While the OCE cannot guarantee that reporters will be notified of the full effects of their reports, they can receive progress reports from the online system using a designated report number and passcode.

“What we will guarantee is that we take your complaint seriously, we will investigate with due diligence and we will make sure that it’s resolved within accordance with university policies,” Ward said.

Gina Kim (SFS ’18) said that although the helpline is a useful resource, it will remain underutilized if the lack of marketing persists.

“I think the hotline will be very useful, particularly for international students, because it is multilingual,” Kim said. “But considering I had no idea what it was, and I like to consider myself at least somewhat aware of resources on campus, that might be a problem.”

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Q&A: DeGioia Reflects, Discusses University Future DEGIOIA, from A1 I think it’s a reflection both of the authenticity of the individual, the sheer quality of his character, what he personally embodies. In our tradition, we kind of call this a sacramental quality. He is the embodiment of a set of values in such a profound resonance with our university. You can see them in our efforts to try to live out the integrity of our commitment to the values that have animated this place for 226 years.

There’s a lot that resonates with his own personal history as a Jesuit, so it has been a pretty special time.

I had the privilege yesterday to attend the welcome at the White House and then to go to the Mass at the shrine, and so it was very special for me and for my family to be able to have that opportunity. Today, I had a chance to listen and read his remarks before the joint session of Congress, and I think his drawing upon the examples of four Americans — Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Doris Day and Thomas Merton — was a perfect way of capturing what I think is so distinctive about this individual. He was able to draw from the best of the American experience and tradition, while at the same time finding moral leaders who are capable of serving as exemplars for the best in ourselves.

Are you disappointed that the pope is not coming to campus? Will you get the chance to meet with him?

Many have asked me, “Is he coming? Will he come? Of course he has to come!” We began conversations with Cardinal [Donald] Wuerl and the archdiocese nearly a year ago once we knew that it was likely that he was going to be coming here.

Most importantly, we wanted to ensure that we could be of support in any way possible to the archdioceses for this extraordinary visit. It also became pretty clear very early on that the logistics of this trip would be very, very difficult for him to make his way on this campus, so I’m not surprised. It would have been extraordinary if he could have come to visit here, but I understand why it didn’t happen. I’m just so pleased though that so many members of our community were able to have a chance to be a part of this visit.

I know that although you are the first

layperson president of Georgetown, you are deeply religious. Can you tell me a little bit about how being at Georgetown has deepened or affected your faith?

I grew up in a very solid family deeply committed to the Catholic faith, but it was something taken kind of easily, lightly. We said grace before our meals; we went as a family to church on Sunday. I have an uncle, my mom’s brother, who’s a Jesuit who has taught at Jesuit universities his whole career.

When I came to Georgetown, though, I think I came like many at 18, because this is a great university and it felt like the right place. It was only after time as an undergraduate, as my time here continues, that I realized that one of the reasons that it felt so right to me was because of the profound respect it had for the faith of each member of our community.

We just celebrated the life of Rabbi [Harold] White on Sunday, and Rabbi White and I were friends for nearly 40 years. He served this community long before I ever got here, and it was beautiful to see the community come together in that moment. I had the privilege just a week earlier to celebrate Rosh Hashana with our Jewish community in our celebration of the High Holy Days.

I think in the testimonies offered at Rabbi White’s memorial, two of the most beautiful were offered by our imam and by a Catholic priest.

I think the profound respect this university community has always shown to me personally, but also I think it has shown in the full diversity of our community. It shows the importance of faith as a dimension of our lives, which was something that I began to appreciate very early on.

In the vein of Jesuit values and cura personalis: recently, the Association of American Universities found that 23 percent of women reported being sexually assaulted in college. Can you evaluate the problem of sexual assault at Georgetown?

I would begin with the priorities, which is to ensure that this is the safest possible place for students and that no one be blocked, limited in any way by a fear that this wasn’t a place that provided the strongest possible context for them to live their richest possible life here. The degree to which concerns about

sexual assault are blocking, limiting any of our members from being able to realize a full experience here, that is always our first priority.

I’ve had an opportunity to work on these questions for nearly a quarter century because at one point in my years here at Georgetown, I was the chief student affairs officer — the dean of students — from ’85 to ’92 and in that context we confronted these dynamics in a very direct way. We established a framework that included a personnel and sexual assault working group.

We’ve had a deep history and deep engagement in trying to ensure the safest possible environment for our community. At the same time, we recognize that in any context like this, you have to just stay at it, keep working, try to find the next way we can deepen and engage with our students where they are so that we can be supportive in the most appropriate ways.

“[Pope Francis] is the embodiment of a set of values in such a profound resonance with our university. ” JOHN J. DEGIOIA University President

For structure, we can provide leadership, wherever it’s possible for us to do, and whenever it’s possible to provide, we’re doing it. We share all these responsibilities because all students have to live out their own lives to ensure that they understand both what we expect and what we believe are the appropriate standards for behavior here, and that we’re prepared to provide a framework to support and sustain that. And if there are things that only a university can do, we want to make sure we’re doing those. It’s been about three years now we’ve had the online program that was part of orienting everyone to our community, two years now we’ve been a leader in modelling best practice regarding bystander training and awareness.

We just entered into a new agree-

ment with our students. It is great leadership from Georgetown University Student Association and by our colleagues. It’s a terrific piece of work. We added the online app last year, which I think was received well. We’ve developed a new training program for all those who were involved in hearings. We critique and receive critique following some of the hearings. We’ve also been participating in some of the national and local discussion. I was part of a meeting here in Washington in August. We are very aware of how important this issue is right now, what an appropriate kind of understanding and responsibility it entails, and we’re trying to ensure we’re doing everything in our power to respond to those expectations.

How is current campus construction going, and how does it fit in to your future vision for the university?

We’ve done $1 billion over the last 14 years here on campus. We needed to, in terms of the constraints of the neighborhood community, in order to move forward in the growth and development that we needed to, and when we launched the Southwest Quadrangle project, that was a prerequisite for us to do the things we needed to do, which was we needed a new home for business, for performing arts, for science. We were able to ultimately get that done.

What enabled us to do the billion plus was the great generosity of our community.

The really annoying stuff I think will be done by Thanksgiving; the Library Walk, the Quadrangle, the new bus turnaround facility down near McDonough Gym[nasium], these have been the most annoying of the projects, and I think we’re going to have those finished this fall.

That leaves the two big projects, which is the Thompson [Athletic] Center and the new residence hall next to Reiss [Science Building]. I think those are on track to be finished by early summer of next year.

We may get a window there where there won’t be a towering crane on campus for the first time in 15 or 16 years. We’ll miss the towering crane, but we won’t miss the disruptions.

You are in the process of developing the newest campus plan with the neighborhood — how are the deliberations going and how much is the university willing to compromise with students and the neighborhood?

Our goal is always to just stay at the table and keep working until we get an alignment between what we need. “We” is a complicated “we.” Our faculty have interests, our students have interests, our alumni have interests, and as an administration we seek to create the best possible balance for our own perspective. And then we bring it out to the public, and we have multiple neighborhoods. When we established the Georgetown Community Partnership, that gave us the most stable and consistent way of providing continuity over time in this conversation.

We don’t have a lot more that we can do on this campus, we know our limits, there aren’t that many more places that we can build. Our ambition for this campus is not unreasonable. I think we’re realistic about what more can be done here.

I think we’re going to have the ability to get alignment with our students, our faculty and our alumni in terms of this campus. I don’t think people want to see a whole lot more construction around here; we know we can do some work. Lauinger [Library], I think would be well-received by many, a bit next to Regents Hall. And the long-range dream of flipping the Yates Field [House] and Shaw Field, where Shaw Field could go on Yates and Yates could go on Shaw Field.

That’s probably the longest-range.

And the most immediate issue is really around academic medicine.

MedStar Health is ready to build a new hospital, and we are ready to support them, and the site for that is the parking lot between Darnall and the existing hospital. That would be worth taking a look at, a very exciting project; we’re very supportive of MedStar’s interest in getting that done. I think that will help our medical students and our residents really be able to move forward in this new way. That one is ambitious, a big, big project that we all need to get everybody in alignment regarding that. I’m pretty confident we’re going to be able to get alignment between all of the parties, because I think our expectations are reasonable and modest, and I think we just need to make sure that everybody is a part of it.

This interview has been condensed for print and edited for clarity. See the full story at thehoya.com.

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The Corp and GUASFCU collectively received more than 600 applications this fall hiring season. The Corp’s acceptance rate remained the same as last year at about 18 percent, while GUASFCU accepted about 9 percent of its applicants.

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unconscious bias on the part of our [upper management],” Soens said. “We want to give people who have all sorts of life experiences the chance to write an amazing answer to all our questions.”

For new hires such as Nick Zeffiro (SFS ’18), the joy of receiving a job offer from The Corp has been a long time coming.

“I am excited to be a part of such a quintessentially Georgetown organization and to make new friends through it,” Zeffiro, a new hire for Uncommon Grounds, said. “It feels good to be a new hire. After applying both semesters as a freshman and it not clicking and then applying sophomore year and finally getting in, it feels really good.”

GUASFCU received 230 applications and hired 21 new interns — around a nine percent acceptance rate. Last year, around 200 students applied for internships and fewer than

20 were offered positions.

All 230 initial applicants this year received interviews with GUASFCU board members, executives and human resource representatives.

GUASFCU Chief Communications Officer Sarah Petuck (COL ’16) said that the guaranteed interview is an important part of getting to know applicants beyond the application.

The 21 interns — 10 sophomores and 11 freshmen — were selected after a second round of interviews with a reduced application pool.

“Each of our new tellers exhibits the qualities and characteristics we look for in our interns; they are passionate, enthusiastic and committed to GUASFCU’s mission of serving the Georgetown community in a tangible, impactful way,” Petuck said.

Petuck said that GUASFCU looked to expand its applicant pool to students from all different interests and backgrounds this year.

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“This semester we worked to increase our presence on campus so that students with varying backgrounds and interests were better informed about the work we do,” Petuck said. “We partnered with multiple groups on campus to explain our internship and application process, and look forward to continuing those relationships throughout the year. We feel honored to work among such talented and motivated peers and look forward to all that this new teller class will bring to GUASFCU and the broader Georgetown community.”

Zeffiro said that though the application process was a long one, the stress was worth the new job.

“The application process was tiring, but I had a lot of fun during my interview, and I looked at it as a learning process,” Zeffiro said.

“Regardless of whether or not I got the position, I was going to be walking away from the experience with some more practice in the complex art of applying for things.”

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Experience and research indicate that immigrants have plenty of opportunities for financial success and improvement within their new countries. In just one example, a widely published 2014 University of Oxford study dispelled many of the stereotypes surrounding refugees, like the myth that they are a drag on the national economy. Many refugees build successful businesses, while others find both skilled and unskilled employment opportunities. Those who are more educated often contribute greatly to science and technology research and innovation. More unskilled workers find work in the agriculture or hospitality industries — jobs that many other citizens may not want to hold. In the case of long-term refugee settlement, there is no reason that these same trends of establishment and success should not apply.

Refugees that remain in a host country indefinitely continue to contribute to that county’s gross domestic product. Often, in lieu of returning home, these former refugees will send money to loved ones who are struggling. This influx of cash into the struggling country’s economy boosts consumption and overall well-being, accounting for more than 10 percent of GDP in 24 countries in 2011, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

The process of sending money home is a classic example of a factor payment from abroad. Essentially, the money sent home is income paid to a domestic factor of production (the refugee) by the rest of the world (the host country). These factor payments flow directly into the economy of the struggling nation, thereby directly increasing GDP, a measure of economic well-being that directly accounts for factor payments from abroad.

If these once-displaced individuals can choose to return home, they likely will be in a better financial position than if they had stayed in their unstable home country. They can use any new wealth they have garnered to start a new business or purchase goods and services, thereby jump-starting both production and consumption in their homelands.

Given that host countries benefit from offering refugees a home indefinitely, their practical policy options are both vast and complex. One possibility is extending the length of available visas. Typically, residency is granted anywhere from a few months to a few years, depending on the type of visa. However, making refugee visas readily available in long-term increments of five, 10 or 20 years would increase the stability and financial potential of refugees.

Governments can also increase their citizenship quotas. Once again, the ability to apply for and likelihood of attaining citizenship varies by country. In the United States, for example, refugees must reside in the country for at least a year before applying for citizenship.

While an international emergency like the current refugee crisis can provoke panic and spur short-term fixes, it is important to think about the long run. By allowing refugees to reside in their host countries for long periods of time, we are enabling every nation and every individual the best chance for economic success.

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are first relabeled at a facility in Southern California and are then shipped to a necktie manufacturer in North Carolina, where seamstresses affix the pockets by hand. The finished shirts, which sell for $28, are then sent to consumers and ship within around three business days of an order.

Aronson said that building this system while being a full-time student was difficult.

“I would do North by South work early in the morning, in between classes, late at night [and] on weekends,” Aronson said. “I would just find whatever time I could fit into my schedule to dedicate to this.”

While Aronson currently works full-time at a consulting firm in the District and manages his company as a side occupation, he said he is accustomed to such a dual obligation.

“I launched the business and managed it while I was a student, while I was taking classes, and so I’m used to the juggle,” Aronson said.

According to Aronson, his company seeks to expand through word-ofmouth, social media advertising, an upcoming online advertising campaign and a campus representative program for college students that began in the spring of 2014.

North by South does not currently employ any full-time employees and Aronson did not comment on whether his product has been able to produce a net profit, but said that North by South is still very much in the startup phase.

North by South campus representatives are currently located at 16 colleges and universities — including Georgetown — that are in eight states across the country and in the District.

Aronson said that he plans to accept additional representative applicants through an online application, with representatives at five additional schools.

North by South sells shirts from its collection online and has sold more than 150 group T-shirts via its custom group-order feature. The brand’s campus representatives still work to cre-

ate additional student interest in the company, distributing promotional materials and online discount codes in exchange for a commission-based store credit with North by South.

Charles Brown (MSB ’17), a campus representative for North by South, said that he enjoys his role in the company.

“I do really like the shirts and like wearing them around and [being a campus representative] has made it easier for me to get more shirts and so it’s a good deal and I like the system in place,” Brown said.

Christopher DeAngelo (NHS ’17), who purchased a North by South Tshirt, said that he likes the brand.

“I think it’s a really good idea and

I love customized frockets,” DeAngelo wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I think it also fits in so well with the Georgetown culture.”

Despite his planning, Aronson said that he does not know what the future might hold for his company, but that uncertainty is an essential part of entrepreneurship.

“As far as the future goes, I wish I could tell you where we’ll be in a year from now or even a month from now but that’s kind of the enjoyment of entrepreneurship,” Aronson said. “It’s a lot of fun, and it’s really rewarding to see someone connect with your product that you just had as an idea in your head a few years ago.”

COURTESY Matthew Aronson

North by South aims to mesh formal and casual fashion with its necktie pocket T-shirts. The $28 T-shirts are available in more than 100 designs.

BUSINESS & TECH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

BUSINESS Corp, GUASFCU Receive 600-Plus Apps BITS SARAH SMITH Hoya Staff Writer

DEAN THOMAS DISCUSSES BUDGETING WITH STUDENTS McDonough School of Business Dean David Thomas will lead the first GU Common $ense workshop of the year today in the Lohrfink Auditorium. The session will focus on basic college budgeting and finances. Thomas is slated to offer stories about his personal experiences with budgeting and his thoughts on the best way for Georgetown students to manage money. The Common $ense series began in 2006 and is the university’s sole student-run financial literacy program.

MCDONOUGH INITIATIVE TO HOST SOCIAL GOOD CONFERENCE On Sept. 30, the Global Social Enterprise Initiative at the McDonough School of Business will host “CSR: Partnering Across Sectors to Address Social Good,” which aims to highlight a shift in how sectors have changed business conversations “from responsibility to value.” The discussion is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility Series and will feature Bank of America Global Corporate Social Responsibility Executive Andrew Plepler and President and CEO of National Council of La Raza Janet Murguía. Initiative founder Bill Novelli will moderate and Georgetown McDonough Net Impact Co-President Surabhi Agrawal will provide opening remarks.

Students of Georgetown, Inc. and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union collectively hired more than 100 students in a record-breaking fall application season.

Both organizations saw large application pools and competitive acceptance rates. The Corp received a record-breaking 460 applicants, more than any other time in its history. Eighty-four students received job offers Monday night, the largest hiring class since the 43 year-old company was founded. That number translates to an acceptance rate of just over 18 percent.

“We look for people with unique points of view, who are personable and passionate,” The Corp Director of Human Resources Alice Oliveira Soens (SFS ’16) said. “That’s definitely the most important thing — we are looking for really passionate people to help run our company.”

This year’s Corp application featured new questions meant to be more inclusive, according to Soens.

“In the past year, we have been looking at the types of application questions we ask and trying to eliminate questions that might lead to

See APPS, A9

ACCEPTANCE RATES

ACCEPTANCE RATES 2015

~9 percent

230 21 10 11

applications received interns hired sophomore interns hired freshman interns hired

2013

~13 percent

2014

~18 percent

2015

~18 percent

460 84 43

applications received job offers years old

BY THE NUMBERS

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PROFESSOR DISCUSSES MIGRANTS ON TV NETWORK Georgetown University McDonough School of Business professor Michael Czinkota appeared on China Central Television’s American affiliate — CCTV America — to discuss the migrant crisis the facing the European Union.

Czinkota mentioned the hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Hungarian border and said that while the people of Hungary do not want their businesses to suffer because of an influx of migrants, they still felt the need to offer help. He added that firing tear gas at protesting migrants would not resolve the situation and that it represented a breakdown in Hungarian sovereignty. Czinkota’s solution is to let migrants travel through Hungary in order to move to other countries in Europe.

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ANNUAL “FOCUS ON DIVERSITY” EVENT SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER The McDonough School of Business announced that its annual “Focus on Diversity” event will take place Saturday, Nov. 7. The event is designed to engage with women, underrepresented minorities, LGBT students and military service members who are prospective McDonough MBA students.

The event will allow the prospective students to attend a variety of sessions to see what life as an MBA student is like. Highlights include a mock class, breakout sessions, panel discussions and networking events.

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Eyeware retailer Warby Parker will officially open its first District location at 3225 M St. NW in Georgetown Saturday. The budget and socially conscious eyeware company will open a second retail location in the Shaw neighborhood of D.C. later this year. A full story will appear in the coming weeks.

oliticians, students and the media have been sparring on how responsible Europe and the United States are for sheltering Middle Eastern refugees. But what if they are ignoring a fundamental question: how long should these refugees be allowed to stay? The simple answer from an economic standpoint: as long as possible.

Currently, a refugee’s options vary by country. Within the United States, these persons typically receive six months of aid and then, after another six months, they are allowed to apply for permanent citizenship.

This permanence benefits both the original and host countries in terms of improving general economic stability and aggregate production See HOCHBERG, A9

Alum’s Startup Blends Formal and Casual Fashion OWEN EAGAN Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY MATTHEW ARONSON

North by South founder Matthew Aronson (COL ’15) steps out of a helicopter wearing one of his company’s T-shirts with pockets made from necktie material. The startup now boasts more than 100 different designs.

When online shoppers search for clothing, they are faced with seemingly endless options — a simple Amazon keyword search for the term “T-shirt” yields more than 8 million results.

In this competitive market, Matthew Aronson (COL ’15) has founded the startup apparel brand North by South, offering T-shirts with chest pockets to consumers. North by South’s innovation? Its patent-pending T-shirt pockets are made using necktie material.

Officially launched in October 2014, North by South currently offers customizable pocket T-shirts on its website, where consumers may choose from more than 100 different shirt and pocket combinations in a variety of colors and styles.

Troy Tyner, partner and creative director at the Mitre Agency, helped Aronson develop North by South and said the brand’s initial target demographic is young people.

“It’s foundational as a T-shirt, so it works for everyone,” Tyner wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “That’s the beauty of it. But like most new ideas in fashion and culture, this is more likely going to initially be embraced by young people [ages] 16-24. That’s the sweet spot.”

Aronson, an economics major, said that the idea for his company

came to him during his sophomore year at Georgetown, born out of the style of dress that he found in many students around him.

“I looked around at the environment that exists at Georgetown in terms of what people wore on campus,” Aronson said. “I just saw an opportunity … to blend casual and formal wear, and the pocket T-shirt was a good vehicle to do that.”

In the summer after Aronson’s sophomore year, he took his design idea home with him to North Carolina, where he wrote a formal business plan for his company and made several prototype shirts.

Aronson said that when he returned to Georgetown for his junior year, he began to test his product.

“I took those prototypes back to school with me … and I got really good reactions to them,” Aronson said. “There was a general sense of intrigue that people got when they saw the shirt.”

Encouraged that his product was viable, Aronson then went about locating partners to help him craft his brand and produce his pocket Tshirts, resulting in a new North by South limited liability company and a supply chain that spans the country.

Distributed by a wholesaler in Chicago, North by South’s T-shirts See STARTUP, A9