The Hoya: The Guide: September 4, 2015

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DC STATEHOOD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The Fight for Representation

MADISON ASHLEY Hoya Staff Writer

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As students from across the country and globe flood the streets of Washington, D.C. in anticipation of a new academic year at one of the District’s numerous colleges and universities, they may be unaware that their West Georgetown neighbors, D.C. Public Schools elementary school tutees in Ward 7 and many more of the over 665,000 individuals who call the District home, lack many of the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens.

While the D.C. statehood movement has yet to gain sustained traction on university campuses in the District, statehood activists and area

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students say that the movement has serious implications for all of those who call the District home.

A HISTORY OF INEQUITY Since 1801, the District of Columbia has been under the control of the federal government — Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution giving Congress exclusive authority over the District. It was not until 1961 and the passage of the 23rd Amendment that D.C. residents gained the right to vote in a presidential election, and only in 1973, with the D.C. Home Rule Act, did District residents gain the right to elect their own mayor and city council. Today, D.C. is the only democratic national capital in the world whose residents lack voting representation

in their representative body.

The District currently appoints two nonvoting shadow senators, Michael Brown and Paul Strauss, to lobby on behalf of D.C. representation in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has represented the District for over 13 years, and while the congresswoman can introduce legislation and vote in committee, she still lacks the right to vote.

“She’s tenacious; she gets a lot done.

I can only imagine what she’d get done if she had a vote and we had two senators on the other side standing there to help her out,” Georgetown University Associate Vice President for See STATEHOOD, B2

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Tours for Social Good Experts use guided tours to raise money for charity JUSTIN KOTWICKI Hoya Staff Writer

Rita Ora to Come to DC

The singer shares thoughts on her upcoming D.C. show and exploring the United States, along with advice for students. B3

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Indie Band Sticks to Their Roots

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Bringing Life to Music

The Weeknd calls to mind the voices of legends in “Beauty behind the Madness.” B5

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Bo Hammond and Lisa Maurer met and fell in love in the District of Columbia. Hammond majored in history at American University and Maurer had just graduated from business school at Trinity College in Dublin.

When Maurer was 26, living happily with Hammond in the District, she was diagnosed with lymphoma.

During Maurer’s fight with cancer between the rounds of treatment, the pair began to think about what mattered to them in life.

“Boy meets girl, girl is mean to boy, they start dating, girl gets cancer and they decide to start their own social good enterprise after realizing that life is short and fragile,” Hammond said.

Hammond and Maurer decided to combine their loves of D.C., history and business to create a philanthropic D.C. walking tour company called Tours for Humanity. The company provides unique tours of the National Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Capitol Hill and other D.C. landmarks by incorporating stories into each stop along the way. A portion of the company’s profits each year go to support charities such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Ashoka, a nonprofit that invests in en-

trepreneurs. Each year, they also donate to a third charity specifically selected by tour-goers.

“Ever since Lisa’s battle with cancer we wanted to do something meaningful to fight the disease and make the world better in general,” Hammond said.

“We’re avid fundraisers, raising money for charities such as American Cancer Society and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We want to stop struggling to find ways to deliver a lump sum to our favorite charities at some hazy point in the future.”

“We don’t believe that any of your life’s aspects should be separated, so, you know, to go to work for a living but at the same time be doing something that is giving back to the community,” Maurer said.

Many of the tour guides that work for Tours for Humanity are passionate about history or political science and tell colorful stories on each walk.

Whether it is a group of World War II veterans or inner-city high school students, tour guides alter the pace and content of the tours to best suit the visitors.

“I went to college in Washington, D.C. and I think we tend to — as students — get into our own bubbles, in that sometimes you might not ever go past the local pub. D.C. is such an incredible resource as a classroom, in and of itself. Whether that is the

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Bo Hammond and Lisa Maurer started Tours for Humanity, which hits major tourist sites like the Capitol, to give back to society.

Smithsonian [Institution], the memorials, you could learn all of America’s history just by the free resources that are in the

city, and it is even better when you can have expert guidance through all of that,” Hammond said.

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DC Statehood Movement Gains Traction STATEHOOD, from B1 Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72) said of Norton. Fleming’s unique role as a representative of Georgetown’s interests to Congress would likely be affected by a win for statehood.

In recent years, the District’s lack of legislative and budgetary autonomy has come to the forefront with several issues such as Congress’ refusal, until 2007, to use federal monies to fund D.C.’s needle exchange program and the addition of a volatile constitutional amendment to a D.C. statehood bill introduced in 2009 that would have effectively repealed the District’s gun control legislation.

“We’ve had women’s reproductive rights laws interfered with, we’ve had our gun laws interfered with, we had our needle exchange program overturned. We’re tired of being used as a test tube or as a wedge social issue to pump up any particular member of Congress’ reputation back in their home district,” David Meadows, spokesperson for Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large), said.

Coupled with the fact that the District is home to a population larger than that of either Vermont or Wyoming and a gross domestic product higher than that of 15 U.S. states, Meadows sees this political pawning of the District’s residents by members of Congress as the raison d’etre for the statehood movement.

Statehood & Georgetown The implications of statehood are visible even here on the Hilltop. To Fleming, D.C.’s lack of representation is a daily reality that shapes the everyday work of his office as he lobbies for Georgetown’s interests on the Hill.

“I work with my counterparts at universities across the country, and when we’re working on an issue everybody else who’s not in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands has members of Congress they can go talk to,” Fleming said. “Georgetown and [George Washington University] and Howard [University] ... we have a nonvoting delegate. She is an amazingly hardworking woman and where she is able to be of help she is … but we have shadow senators and Congresswoman Norton

doesn’t have a vote.”

To overcome this challenge, Fleming draws on Georgetown’s extensive alumni connections in Congress, which currently include seven senators and 14 members of the House, though even these powerful networks have their limitations.

“Many of them are open to hearing about things that are important to Georgetown; however, they were not elected to represent us, they were elected to represent the district and states from which they come — I’m not foolish, I understand that’s their first priority,” Fleming said.

In 2012, the university successfully partnered with a coalition of congressmen to posthumously secure the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Jan Karski, a former Georgetown professor and Polish leader who fought tirelessly to expose the horrors of the Holocaust.

“We had a lot of members of the House and Senate, not just Georgetown alums, involved,” Fleming said.

“Because [Karski] was a particular hero in Poland and to Jews, we worked with members who had heavy Polish and Jewish populations or who happened to be either Jewish or Polish to get this done.”

Yet, apart from with university administrators, the statehood movement has gained little traction on Georgetown’s campus.

“It hasn’t really become as vocal of an issue as it needs to be. I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of students supported statehood; I think just finding venues for students to voice their support for the movement is important,” D.C. native Emmanuel Thomas (COL ’18) said.

While the university does not currently have a D.C. statehood advocacy group, statehood activists see D.C.’s student population as an untapped, and necessary, population of support.

“There are about 85,000 college students in the District. They utilize city services, they live in our neighborhoods, they deserve to have the same representation as every other citizen,” Meadows said. “College students are full-time residents just like the rest of the city, and they need to understand that when Congress impedes the rights of D.C., they are impeding the rights of Georgetown University students.”

Ward 8C Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Commissioner and GW student Markus Batchelor founded the GW Statehood Student Association in 2011 to harness this population.

“Young people are going to be at the forefront of this issue because they have the time, energy and passion to devote to causes. We want D.C. statehood to make sense for the nation — if you’re going to be taxed, you should be represented, and the fact is that people in our nation’s capital aren’t,” Batchelor said.

In April 2012, Batchelor and several members of the Statehood Association were arrested after marching from GW to the Capitol and blocking traffic on Constitution Avenue.

“It started a conversation on campus. Some people thought it was a great idea, some people thought it was the stupidest thing they’d ever heard of, but with an issue like this the largest detriment to the cause is for people not to know about it,” Batchelor said. “We started a campuswide conversation. For a lot of folks it just made sense, and that was our largest goal.”

Pulse of the Movement In August 2015, television host John Oliver dedicated a segment of his latenight HBO program “Last Week Tonight” to the issue of D.C. statehood.

The segment, which has since drawn over 2.8 million views online, shed light on the key concerns of statehood activists including the District’s lack of budget autonomy, Norton’s restricted voting rights and Congress’ use of riders to block D.C. legislation.

“For the first time in 20 years we have a statehood bill in both the House and Senate. We had John Oliver, a nationally syndicated comedian, do a whole 17-minute segment and that sparked a national conversation,” Batchelor said. “We have a mayor committed to advancing the statehood cause. We’re seeing District residents realize the power of our voice even though we don’t have it on Capitol Hill.” Indeed, Mayor Bowser has consistently given her utmost support for full voting rights and statehood since her election.

President Barack Obama had previously lent his support to the move-

ment; in a July 2014 town hall meeting at the Walker Jones Education Campus, a public school in northwest D.C., Obama said simply, “I’m in D.C., so I’m for it,” in response to a question on statehood.

All three Democratic candidates in the 2016 presidential election — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — have publicly expressed their support for D.C. statehood.

Yet for all the press given to the movement in recent years, statehood activists bemoan the makeup of the current Congress as one unsuitable to the passage of legislation in favor of D.C. statehood.

“The partisan makeup of Capitol Hill doesn’t make it ideal for a statehood bill to even get out of committee right now,” Batchelor said.

Given the likelihood that the two seats in the Senate and single seat in the House that D.C. would gain with statehood would all be filled by Democrats, local politicians see it as an unlikely reality given the current Republican control of Congress.

“I think it comes and goes. We have little victories here and there, but as far as getting to a point where Congress or the administration at the moment are solidly behind it … it seems elusive at the moment,” D.C. Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said.

Brown agreed, optimistic that the movement’s longevity could withstand a few extra years of pushback on the Hill.

“The mood has increased and our activity has increased but it’s hard to judge what kind of impact were having — we’re certainly not going to get this legislation through an all-Republican House,” Brown said. “But the good news is that body changes every two years, and this is a struggle that has gone on for 214 years so hopefully when the stars align it’ll happen.”

While the university has remained mum on the current statehood movement, it has previously thrown itself behind issues related to D.C. statehood and helped to galvanize student support for the movement. In February 2007, University President John J. DeGioia sent a leader to then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and then-House Minority Leader John

Boehner (R-Ohio) urging favorable action on the District of Columbia Fair and Equal Rights Voting Act, a piece of bipartisan legislation that would give D.C. a voting representative in the House.

“We worked with College Democrats and Republicans and had a table in Red Square where students were writing letters to their own members of Congress asking them to sign those letters [in support of the Act]. Sometimes I will encourage students to get engaged with things, and in that case I did,” Fleming said.

Though the university has yet to issue an official position on statehood, Fleming is confident that, when the timing is right, Georgetown will join the movement.

“I feel comfortable saying that statehood would be something we’d be supportive of. And if there is a real legislative push to achieve that, we would weigh in and it would become part of the things we’re pushing on the Hill,” Fleming said.

However, Fleming noted that timing is of the essence.

“I don’t think the university going out on a full-fledged push for statehood in a vacuum would make a whole lot of sense,” Fleming said.

“Now, if there is movement happening and we become part of the movement. … That’s how you get stuff enacted.”

D.C. resident and student Noah Nelson (COL ’18) thinks that DeGioia lending his voice to the statehood movement could rally students behind the issue.

“President DeGioia is probably recognized around the United States and world as a leader of an important university. I think it’d be great if there was some way students could meet with him and voice their concerns and the issues that arise when D.C. is denied these fundamental rights,” Nelson said.

In the meantime, activists, area politicians and university administrators alike will continue to await D.C.’s moment in the spotlight.

“For all the progress we’ve made as a country, we’ve seen the promise of America really fall short right here in the capital,” Batchelor said. “Statehood isn’t hard — we’ve done it before; we’ve done it in the past 50 years, twice! Let’s do it again.”

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The Cereal Dater

Opting Into The Dating Game B

oston College theology and philosophy professor Kerry Cronin was celebrating the end of the semester with her graduating seniors when she asked them about their romantic lives. She was shocked to hear from her beautiful, intelligent and outgoing students that dating was something straight out of the dark ages, and she began asking students around campus about their participation in hookup culture.

Today, Cronin teaches a class in Boston College’s Perspectives Program and speaks at colleges across the country with her famous “Bring Back the Date” talk. Last semester, I received a Facebook invitation to her talk at Georgetown from my best friend at Boston College. I’d never heard of Kerry Cronin before, but I was told I absolutely had to meet her.

In her talk, she divided college students into three categories: 1. The pseudo-married couple: the couple that excessively uses “we” among other annoying couple habits.

2. Hooking up: the people playing along with the social script of partying and the idea that whoever cares less wins.

3. Opting out: the people that are too busy, too picky, too ambitious, too something to date.

At the end of the talk, Cronin gave the crowd an assignment, one that she mandates for students taking her class at Boston College. We had two weeks to ask someone on a date. The first two of Cronin’s 10 rules were this: We had to ask someone that we were legitimately interested in, and we had to ask them in person. Cue the hyperventilation. I always struggled with self-confidence and shyness. After taking up rowing, ending a toxic friendship, studying abroad and entering startup land, I’m the most confident I’ve ever been — except when it comes to the opposite gender.

I’m a self-proclaimed introvert. I tell my friends I don’t know how to socialize, flirt, or put out the vibe with guys I’m interested in. I also have a running spreadsheet of goals I want to accomplish and I — in Cronins’s words — opt out of the dating game because I’m not looking forward to a difficult conversation later. I’ve had friends tell me I’m “so lucky” I’m single because I don’t have to consider a significant other in my future plans.

They’re right. The whole world is open to me, and being single is one less factor as I navigate the job hunt.

On the other hand, I’ve never been on a date. (High school doesn’t count.) Cuddling with my reliable yet meaningless hookup, I thought, “I would love real cuddling in a real relationship,” and everything that comes with it. As Cronin finished her talk, I asked myself, “Can I do this challenge?” I want to be someone who isn’t afraid of anything, so my answer is yes, I can and yes, I did.

We’ll call him Frosted Flakes since I’m trying to be a “cereal” dater. FF and I were working on a group project in Lauinger Library — brutalist design and memories of equally brutal all-nighters echoing in the room are clearly the stuff of romance novels. Since we are both foodies, I already decided we would go to China Chilcano if he said yes. As I got up to leave, he asked if I wanted coffee. For your enjoyment and mine, here is the train wreck that followed: Me: Will you go on a date with me?

FF: Like for coffee?

Me: Yeah, sure, coffee … or a restaurant.

There’s this restaurant I really wanted to try.

FF: Is this real?

Me: Yeah, do I sound like I’m lying? I’ve never asked someone on a date before.

FF: To be honest, I’m dating someone Me: Okay … Well, I asked you because of this challenge from this talk I went to about how no one dates in college and we had two weeks to ask someone on a date…

FF: Oh, so this WASN’T real?

Me: Okay.

FF: My heart felt all warm!

Me: I need to go to Safeway now. [exit and proceed to relay the hilarity to my Uber driver] As far as rejections go, it could have been worse. The most excruciating feelings in the whole transaction came from the wondering — “Should I?” and “What if?”— and the moments right before the question as I visibly shook with anxiety. Immediately after the rejection, I was proud I asked and felt a new level of confidence. The world didn’t end. My ego wasn’t bruised. My friend later said to him, “I heard she asked you on a date,” and he politely denied it. For the rest of the semester, he acted like nothing happened.

If you have a group-project crush, just go for it. If your crush says no, the world won’t end. Your ego might be bruised for a day and he will probably act like nothing happened. I thought that the first time was the hardest, so I resolved to become a serial dater. Here’s to asking the next guy and to a semester of laughable attempts at serial dating. Now, who will you ask?

The cereal dater is a senior in the McDonough School of Business. Resurrect the date appears every other Friday. If you can think of a college crush archetype for her next ask, leave a comment!

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Rita Ora Has Arrived Fashion icon brings her hits to DC

Emily Welch & Jess Kelham-Hohler Hoya Staff Writers

There is a certain je ne sais quoi about Rita Ora — a brilliant contradiction of grit and glamour that plays out in both her music and her style. While in the pages of magazines she oozes opulence as the face of legendary designer Roberto Cavalli; on stage she dominates with a rockstar-meetsdiva presence and pop/club anthems that always get the audience to its feet. Having cemented her presence on the United Kingdom charts, Ora is now setting her sights on the United States, and is heading to D.C. this month as part of her tour.

Ora never had the luxury of overnight success. Although her singles, most notably her party anthem “How We Do” and Tinie Tempah-featured “R.I.P.” leapt up the charts, her success has been a work in progress. She began performing at local open mic nights in London and at her dad’s pub before getting picked up

by Jay-Z in New York and getting signed to his record label, Roc Nation. Jay-Z told the the press that she would be the next Beyonce, but Ora proceeded to lay low, spending the next few years sharing her songs through YouTube, waiting for her label to approve her debut album. In 2012, she finally released “R.I.P,” her first single, and it jumped to number one in the U.K. charts. Ora has maintained a steady presence since then.

Nonetheless, Ora has had to fight for her place in the industry and the hearts of fans. A number of successful collaborations with artists like Chase & Status and Calvin Harris helped to spread her sound across the U.K. music market, while her latest release, the steamy “Body on Me” with Chris Brown, has put her on the U.S. charts.

Not satisfied with making her mark in the music industry with her mix of rhythym and blues, rock and pop influences, Ora has also brought her killer style to television screens as one of the judges on the U.K.’s “The X Factor.” Having successfully broken into the world of celebrity, Ora’s life is one that immediately makes you envious; a glance at her Instagram shows her darting between singing on stage with Wiz Khalifa, hanging out with her “wifey,” supermodel Cara Delevigne, and appearing in the Chanel couture show in Paris for her pal Karl Lagerfeld.

Despite these glamorous moments, there is something charmingly relatable about the singer, who will happily show off her broken nails and bizarre selfies to her 5.8 million Instagram followers alongside these glamorous shots. As a judge on the U.K.’s “The Voice,” she let her sense of humor shine through, and endeared herself even more to her ever-growing hoard of teen and 20-something fans.

With hits such as “Black Widow” (with Iggy Azalea) and “Poison” making waves in the U.S., it’s no surprise that her upcoming show at U Street Music Hall on Sept. 15 sold out in just a few short days. Her killer style and powerful stage presence guarantees that it will be an electric performance. If you were slow off the mark and failed to grab your ticket, why not turn up and try to charm your way in? After all, that’s what Rita Ora would do.

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Despite being signed to Jay-Z’s label, Roc Nation, Rita Ora has been easing her way into stardom, starting with YouTube videos and memorable Instagram posts.

Ora will perform at U Street Music Hall Sept. 15, and she gave The Hoya an exclusive preview interview.

What excites you the most about performing in D.C.? If you had a day off to explore the city, what would be on your bucket list?

I can’t wait to come to D.C.! I can’t believe the show sold out so quickly! America is so big, and every time I get to see a new city, I love just wandering around and exploring new neighborhoods.

What aspect of music do you enjoy the most — recording, collaborating, performing, etc.?

I love it all. It all starts with writing and recording, and getting to perform the songs live and watch how the audience reacts is amazing!

If you could give college students any piece of advice, what would it be, and why?

Never give up on your dreams and never let anyone tell you that you “can’t” do something. There will always be obstacles but if you’re focused and passionate, you can achieve anything.

Do you consider social media more of a chore or a pleasure?

I love it! It’s such an amazing way for me to talk directly with my fans.

Were you always passionate about fashion?

Whose closet would you most like to raid?

Yes! I love experimenting with fashion!

Some days, I’m in jeans and a rock ‘n’ roll T-shirt and the next day I get really dressed up! I’ve always loved Gwen Stefani’s style …

I would love to see her closet!

RESTAURANT review

Feline Lovers Rejoice at DC Cat Cafe crumbs and whiskers

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3211 O St. NW | Cuisine: American | $$$$ Jasmine White Hoya Staff Writer

It has only been a few months since Washington, D.C.’s first cat cafe, Crumbs and Whiskers, opened. Yet the establishment has already garnered tremendous success. Even in its earliest days, the kitty haven had to turn customers away due to overcrowding, so reservations are highly recommended. The cafe’s quick success is due to the furry guests it puts up for adoption from the Washington Humane Society.

It’s obvious upon entrance into Crumbs and Whiskers, a cozy, two-story establishment nestled along O Street, that this place is a feline sanctuary. This kitty-chic spot is completely decked out in various cat decor, from neon-lit signs reading “meow” to the numerous cat-themed books such as “How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.” The ceilings are lit with yards of pretty string lights, and upstairs you’ll find a wall of Polaroid pictures of past patrons snuggled up with furry friends. There are also a number of comfy couches and chairs lined with pillows and sometimes, depending on the time of day, a snoozing ball of fluff.

For $15, visitors can enjoy 55 minutes of cat bliss along with “complementary” tea and coffee. On the day of my visit, patrons See CATS, B4

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Crumbs and Whiskers has been overcrowded since its opening as visitors stream in to visit the approximately 20 cats selected from the Washington Humane Society.

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For customers who are willing to pay extra, the cafe has a small menu of both hot and cold drinks ranging from cappuccinos to smoothies to shakes.

Also available to customers are numerous board games, card games and books, perfect for a quick study break or just an afternoon gathering with friends. Crumbs and Whiskers is also ideal for families who want a unique alternative to the traditional children’s play date. It could also be a fantastic location for a child’s birthday party, as the establishment does allow booking for private events. It should be noted, however, that children under the age of seven are not permitted inside.

Before being allowed to interact with the cats, patrons are asked to acknowledge a short and sweet set of rules. There is no flash photography.

Patrons are asked to be gentle and to not wake sleeping cats. The cafe also admits to the fact that sometimes cats will be cats and may behave in an unfriendly way. As a result of this risk, cus-

tomers are asked to sign a waiver, and the cafe will not assume responsibility in the case of altercations or injuries.

While Crumbs and Whiskers is definitely a very cool hangout spot, it more importantly provides these animals with a wonderful housing alternative to metal cages found in a traditional shelter. The cats are allowed to stay at the establishment until they are adopted and are never locked up, even after closing.

Crumbs and Whiskers currently houses around 20 felines selected from the Washington Humane Society. The cats chosen to live at Crumbs and Whiskers are usually the most social shelter cats, so most are comfortable being around humans and other cats. However, there are a few that may be slightly more sensitive at times. These cats don a special purple collar. The cats also range in age, from ten months old to eight years old.

Each animal at the cafe is available for adoption, and since the restaurant’s establishment on June 20, 22 of its previous residents have been adopted.

Although a $15 entrance fee might be a bit of stretch for the average college student, Crumbs and Whiskers is a must-see for any cat-lover in D.C.

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APPS BASE $0.99

Base is the type of app for individuals who are interested in photography but haven’t been able to make the leap of replacing their iPhones with digital cameras. It’s a camera replacement app that applies the look of live analog film to the image being taken; this takes some of the default iPhone camera filters and gives film enthusiasts and aspiring photographers more to choose from. It adds an additional component to the 14 new film types by implementing an “expired” version of each look, which causes the filter’s subtleties to change the more you use Base. This is a fantastic app for anyone beginning to explore the nuances of photography and editing without getting too serious too quickly.

PRIO $0.99 With so many to-do apps out, it’s easy to assume that finding a good one would be simple. Unfortunately, as with many things, the opposite is true. So many are available, but many of them are difficult to use and poorly made. However, Prio breaks this trend and provides a clean and elegant execution of the classic to-do app. Using simple functions and organizational methods for your tasks and a beautiful color scheme, Prio sets itself apart. If you thrive on structured lists and use them on a consistent basis, Prio is an app to check out — at the very least to make your to-do list look good!

ATMOS $2.99 Many weather apps simply do not cut it with the minimal information that they provide. Atmos fixes this by providing more in-depth data about the upcoming weather in specific locations. It includes information about wind speed, the extent of cloud coverage and even the moon phase. What is best is that Atmos provides all of this information in the sleekest manner possible, as compared to the abundance of mundane weather apps currently out.

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Crumbs and Whiskers offers a unique combination of cats, board games and coffee-shop treats. Entry costs $15 for the company of the cats, which are available for adoption.

TAYLOR TRIES THINGS

Overcoming Preconceptions to Find True Worth in Anime

M

y venture into the labyrinth of nerd kingdom began innocently at first. As the younger sister to an older brother, an even older cousin and an entirely male-saturated family environment where all holidays revolved around consoles and controllers, it was only natural to embrace video games. Christmas was essentially our thinly veiled excuse to gather and play the newly unwrapped presents for hours after Santa had stopped by, only pausing to resurface for dessert breaks. My life was defined by the levels of “Starwars Battlefront 2.” Every morning I woke up and asked myself; am I a Mos Esiley today, or am I more of a Kashyyyk, Sith or Jedi? The difference was crucial.

After that it was a long descent, slowly spiraling away from any glimmers of normal life, until I could no longer see the light but was rather consumed in this dark world of being one of the most blasphemous things to occur in suburban culture: a nerd.

The games, a common gateway drug, led to the superheroes, something more salient and attractive to developTaylor ing minds. But I didn’t stop there, even though sometimes I wish that I did.

Before I could stop myself, I arrived at the final level, the doomsday, my own personal Armageddon: anime. The point of no return: after successfully watching one season, perhaps even one episode of anime, there was no reclaiming your former life.

Anime is one of those activities that are like quicksand — you’re trapped, and the harder you struggle, the more futile escape is. There is no escape. Learn that now. I’ll admit, from an outsider’s perspective, I had always judged anime. Animation I had accepted, as I was always an avid fan of Cartoon Network, and watching shows like “Avatar: The Last Airbender” was ritual for my brother and me, but anime was a shadow realm that I knew only from childhood encounters with “Dragon Ball Z.” It was dangerous. It was scary. It was images of some sort of giant baby turning every villager into chocolate and eating them whole. I avoided it at all costs.

As I got older and slightly more tolerant, I became friends with a few weeaboos. For those that don’t know, that’s anime-speak for someone who is unnaturally obsessed with Japanese culture, specifically anime. If you didn’t know what it meant before this, that’s probably a good sign.

These friends slowly softened my staunch stance

on the shows; what began as disdain slowly morphed into acceptance of jokes and opening themes: Then, one sad day, I began to watch the first anime of my own.

When watching anime, be prepared for anything to happen: unnecessary battle scenes, tentacles and huge sparkling eyes the size of footballs. Also expect to somehow actually enjoy every single part of it (maybe excluding the tentacles). There’s something so addicting about it that I can’t even try to explain, so while I wanted to stop watching, to stop walking down that dangerous path, I simply could not do it. I had to keep going. Maybe it was the blend of silly with serious, the impossibility of learning valuable life lessons from a cartoon character who was riding a dragon, or something of that nature.

Freshman year of college (aka just last year) I learned what is probably my most important lesson from a beautifully crafted anime: “Samurai Champloo.” I was having a hard Bond time adjusting and letting my wonderfully imperfect high school friends and memories out of my grip in order to accept college life. While I wasn’t attached to my former self, the sense of nostalgia was so intense I could not move on. Then,I watched anime. The show ends with the three main characters leaving each other with no way to contact each other ever, content with the almost nonexistent possibility of seeing each other again, but more importantly, content with the experiences they shared.

That hit me. Hard. Somehow all it took was some Japanese animations to impart upon me the truth of life: nothing remains stagnant, especially your childhood. Chapters of your life must be closed and accepted as closed, but that acceptance does not deny you the pleasure of remembering,and it leaves you with the pleasure of making more memories.

In the end, anime is just another metaphor for life. At first glance it’s something strange that you have no intention of ever understanding, and then, begrudgingly, you learn to accept it. Except in this case, unlike in real life, the people have sparkly eyes.

TAYLOR BOND is a sophomore in the College. TAYLOR TRIES THINGS appears every other Friday.

HOYA HISTORY

“HEALY THREATENS TO CANCEL ’82 GRADUATION CEREMONIES” Sept. 11, 1981

President Timothy S. Healy proposed the suspension of graduation ceremonies following the Class of 1981’s champagne prank at commencement. As the schools were called, graduates took the opportunity to pop bottles of champagne, showering the crowd.

Healy called for the temporary 3-year ban on commencement in a June 1981 letter to the University Board of Directors.

“Shouting upper-middle-class white kids, demonstrating their social status by spraying the landscape with champagne make an image no one wants attached to this university. In this city and in this time, the whole performance is repulsive beyond any words.” Healy wrote.

Healy declined to comment for THE HOYA and the ban was never enforced.

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Life in art

Beauty Behind the Madness The Weeknd Brian Davia

Special to The Hoya

In the ever-competitive music world, becoming a recognizable star almost always takes immense skill, combined with at least a bit of luck — unless the sound of one’s voice brings the names of legends to mind. Abel Tesfaye, more commonly known by his stage name, The Weeknd, possesses one such voice.

A Canadian-born artist rooted in musical styles such as rhythm and blues and soul, Tesfaye flourishes when singing an alternative version of slow rock. Ever since his anonymous release of multiple songs on YouTube back in 2010, audiences across the globe have awaited his breakout performance. While his first true album, “Kiss Land” (2013), provided plenty of glimpses into what The Weeknd may one day become, his new release, “Beauty Behind the Madness” may prove to be his first claim to fame.

“Beauty Behind the Madness,”

 garners much of its appeal from its underlying emphasis on the beautiful yet tragic years of Tesfaye’s life. While the album as a whole speaks largely to a lifestyle filled with a lack of fulfillment and distress, the pure eloquence of its vocals come together to form a fluid, coherent sort of autobiography. It chronicles the difficulties Tesfaye faces as he navigates his life of personal destruction and fame in a search for love. Deep-rooted emotions of indulgence and pain ultimately produce a series of deeply melancholic pop tracks.

The album itself begins with the track “Real Life,” which provides a strong lead into the album as a whole. It combines inspired vocals with a harsh electric guitar reminiscent of Tesfaye’s early works. Not only does this track introduce its listeners to the genre that will follow, but it also fashions the message that this album is in fact a reference to Tesfaye’s real life as opposed to some false imagined existence.

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The Weeknd’s newest album displays his development as an artist while sustaining his traditional lamenting and emotional style.

As the album progresses, so too does the life of Tesfaye. In “Tell Your Friends,” he croons over an instrumental provided by Kanye West about how he wants to, “live life through a new lens,” but this new lifestyle of apparent fame comes across as one of self-serving satisfaction as he sings: “and money is the only thing I’m chasin’ and some dope dimes on some coke lines.”

The song branches into a more provocative set of lyrics, further emphasizing Tesfaye’s personal transition.

This same tone carries itself into the next slower, sultry single “Often,” in which life for Tesfaye seems to harbor few, if any, obstacles.

Further along, issues begin to arise and come to a point of focus in the album. A track titled “The Hills” features a line in which Tesfaye sings that others “always try to send me off to rehab.” His continued attempts to justify his actions overwhelm the rest of the song from a lyrical perspective.

That being said, a diverse array of instruments makes an appearance, including a soothing upbeat piano. In addition, Tesfaye’s vocal range is showcased with moments of beautiful falsetto.

In some regards, the album climaxes once it reaches the blockbuster hit of the summer, “Can’t Feel My Face.” After finally finding love and a moment of fulfillment, Tesfaye sings with cheerful passion in a style more reminiscent of the rest of the pop genre.

The next sequence of songs conveys genuine feelings of desire and affection. The vocals reach higher levels as light drum and guitar accompaniments complete the pieces. An array of repetitive background melodies and strong influences of bass continue to tie each

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song together. The pop influences and uplifting vibes carry themselves all the way to the last part of the album, when Tesfaye takes yet another turn.

Amid this new love of his, Tesfaye remains caught up in his own problems and sins. In “Dark Times,” featuring Ed Sheeran, he sings: “This ain’t the right time for you to fall in love with me.” For the first time, he attempts to come to grips with his own reality.

This same sentiment is mimicked in the next track with Lana Del Ray, “Prisoner,” in which an undeniable loneliness is addressed. In both instances, the purity of the vocalists rises to the top, allowing for raw emotion to surface. The final track, entitled “Angel,” showcases Tesfaye’s search for internal love. It carries a continued pulse of true feelings that build up to a powerful finish that in some ways serves as a metaphor for all of the, “beauty behind the madness.”

For all the chaos that finds its way into the rhythms of this album, the overarching beauty comes from the vocal composition as a whole. Tesfaye has been compared to the legendary Michael Jackson, and like him, Tesfaye truly does bring words to life in the most vibrant of ways. Telling his life story though this album provides for an enchanting hour of authentic, raw emotion. In expressing his own apparent struggle to love himself, The Weeknd may very well have just cemented himself as an international sensation.

Album Review

What Went Down

Foals

Anna Shuster Hoya Staff Writer

The United Kingdom band Foals has a sound that’s hard to pin down. Their debut album, “Antidotes,” has that kind of poppunk sound we’ve come to expect from U.K. imports---like the Wombats’ “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” on downers. Another one of their albums, “Total Life Forever,” swerves from punk to a more laid back sound as it progresses.

Despite their experimentation in genre, each of their four albums carries that illusive but

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 distinctive Foals sound. Maybe it’s Yannis Philippakis’s vocals or the juxtaposition of gloomy subjects with infectious drum beats.

Either way, “What Went Down,” released Aug. 28, 2015, is no exception. This record could only have come from Foals.

Foals have been hovering on the periphery of the American alternative scene for a few years now. A few of their singles (most notably “My Number”) have gotten significant airplay, but they’ve yet to have their breakout Arctic Monkeys moment. Some thought that this album might

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Foals avoid artistic risks in their newest album, “What Went Down,” but continue to maintain and perfect their unique, dynamic sound.

be the one to launch them into the stratosphere, but it doesn’t quite make a big enough impression to grab high chart space in the United States.

That being said, they’ve done very well in the U.K., actually beating out Arctic Monkeys for a few NME awards in 2013. Their first three albums are all certified Gold in the U.K. and have reached the top three on the U.K. charts (and number one in Australia).

The album is quick to grab your attention as lead singer shouts, “I buried my heart in a hole in the ground” to launch into the title track “What Went Down.” This heavy jam rolls easily into the big single from this album.

“Mountain At My Gate” has all the characteristics of a lead single: fun beat, catchy riffs, a killer bridge. It’s no wonder that this track has gotten a fair bit of airplay since its July release.

Next up is the funky “Birch Tree.” The drums are light and quick instead of the deep rolling thunder on most of the album’s tracks, which make this a nice breather before things get heavy.

The longing lyrics and vocals in “Give It All” glide over subdued synth melodies. The music builds and breaks like waves tracing the push and pull of desire and loss in the lyrics.

“Albatross” carries on the introspective mood with a melancholy exploration of the things that hold us back in life, a la Bastille’s “Weight of Living, Pt. I,” set to a rolling drumbeat that gets deeper as the mood darkens. On the heels of the song, “Snake Oil” is almost sinister with its creep-

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ing bass line and high guitar tracing eerie vocals.

“Night Swimmers” and “Lonely Hunter” don’t leave too much of an impression -- just more of Foals showcasing their tight drum beats and spacey guitars. Thankfully, “London Thunder” rests between the two. The music grows dynamically but doesn’t break the smoothness of the track, allowing the yearning vocals to increase the emotional tension and hold it the entire length of the song.

The album closes with the sweeping “A Knife In The Ocean,” a solid demonstration of the band’s rhythmical skills and ability to change dynamics.

There’s no doubting that these guys have a unique sound. Their rock roots show up in their complex rhythms and tight drum beats, and something about the smoothness of this album makes it feel like they’re really coming into their own. But perhaps it’s the same smoothness that will hurt them.

To really break into the American charts, they need to make some Arctic-Monkeys-sized shockwaves. Now that they’ve polished their sound as a band and gained a little more name recognition with the success of “Mountain At My Gate,” it’s time to use this as a jumping-off point and take some risks. Until then, they’ll probably be just another U.K. indie band people will play for their friends to sound cool.

NEW RELEASES “wHAT DO YOU MEAN” by JUSTIN BieBER 

“DOWNTOWN” by MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS 

“FOR A BETTER DAY” by AVICII 

The renowned bad boy may have changed his hair, but he hasn’t changed his sound.

The pop star can’t seem to get enough of writing lovesick tunes over some unnamed female. This electric tune is nothing new for the Biebster.

However the tribal wind effects are a refreshing addition to this otherwise traditional pop song.

Witty lyrics and a funky 70s-inspired beat make this summer track perfect for a night of driving with the windows down. It’s a pretty solid tune by pretty much all accounts. But whether it will match or surpass the success of the beloved “Thrift Shop,” only time will tell.

Rarely in EDM do you see a piano take center stage in a track, but that’s exactly what happens in the Swedish artist’s newest single. The retro vocals and the slow building of the beat make it hard for the listener to get bored. It’s a perfect end-of-summer track.

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usic can sneak into your life in unpredictable ways, whether you create music or simply experience it from the sidelines.

Songs are often deeply associated with certain moments in our lives, and when one unexpectedly reappears on shuffle on a morning run or plays in the background of a TV show, we inevitably find ourselves replaying those moments in our minds. I can guarantee that almost every one of us has a visceral reaction when “Remix to Ignition” or “Wannabe” booms through the stereo. Right now you’re probably flashing back to a particularly fond memory of bopping around in the car or dancing on a table surrounded by equally pumped individuals who were reveling in the nostalgia and novelty of two of our favorite throwbacks.

As a member of the Georgetown Phantoms, the oldest co-ed a cappella group on campus, I have seen and experienced firsthand the profound link between music and memories, which especially comes out in the music creation process. A cappella is not just improvisation and games. It is a meticulous, sometimes exhausting, science. Groups here not only perform covers of songs but reinvent them. We dissect them based on vocal parts and reconstruct our own versions from the existing fragments and nuggets of our collective imaginations.

As one of the two groups that host the D.C. A Cappella Festival, affectionately referred to as DCAF, we arrange six new songs for the two-weekend extravaganza and then add three more for the Cherry Tree Massacre, another performance hosted by The Georgetown Chimes in the spring.

We spend weeks and weeks picking the songs, arranging them painstakingly in an electronic composing software, rehearsing them ad nauseum and auditioning for solos. Another hurdle in the process is that the Georgetown Phantoms decide everything by unanimous vote. We come to a full group agreement on all songs and soloist decisions. Once a song is in our repertoire, it stays there, and once we pick a soloist, he sings that song until he graduates. As you can imagine, people build incredible attachments to the songs we choose, arrange, perform and solo.

When you spend a full hour as a group on a 30-second portion of a song trying to get the dynamics exactly right, trying to force those pesky tenors to blend into the background, you simultaneously fall in love with and get incredibly sick of a song.

I can’t hear the song “Smiling Face”

by James Taylor without dissolving into peals of highly inappropriate giggles because of something that happened on our winter 2012 tour in Colorado and I fall silent and contemplative every time I hear the song “I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz. I have a fierce connection to one of my solos, “Domino” by Jessie J. The song may be just a throwaway vapid pop song to most, but in my three years at Georgetown, I have sung it at the White House, on my 21st birthday for the full Georgetown Day audience and at a private party in Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker’s backyard for 10 of the most influential women in America. “Blush by Plumb,” a random and obscure song, is one of the Phantoms most signature and storied tunes.

It marks some of the most important and impactful moments of my Georgetown career. I cannot listen to the song “Madness” by Muse anymore because I get horrible flashbacks of sitting alone at a piano at 3 a.m. trying to figure out where the heck one chord transition comes from, racking up my iTunes play count to 242. All of the time we spend perfecting these songs may seem trivial for just a YouTube video or a performance for a couple hundred people, but the moment the music director cuts off that last note in Gaston Hall the wave of accomplishment and warmth that runs through us is beyond worth it.

The repertoire of the Georgetown Phantoms has become the soundtrack to my Hoya experience, for better or for worse. I no longer sing the lyrics to those songs but rather a mix of “oohs,” “dim doos” and “zim za za zims” that somehow follow the piano line in the background. That’s what I love about a cappella. It allows you to take a step back and become a part of something with intricate moving parts to create a larger picture. It allows you to both zoom in and out of your favorite songs until they are entirely your own. It has changed the way I look at music, and for all of us lucky enough to be a part of it, it’s yet another thing we can unanimously agree upon.

Movies of the

summer The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  Based on the television series from the 1960s, this depiction of an unlikely alliance between an American and a Russian spy during the Cold War to prevent Nazi sympathizers from getting

an atomic weapon is fantastically smooth. With the elegance (in both storytelling and costume) of a James Bond movie and the perfectly timed humor typical of a film directed by Guy Ritchie, it

easily keeps the audience entertained throughout. The fact that the cast is made up of the very attractive trio of Henry Cavill, Arnie Hammer and Alicia Vikander also makes it pretty easy watching.

Furiosa (Charlize Theron), his mightiest warrior, who chooses to double cross him. Meanwhile, a slave named Max (Tom Hardy) escapes from captivity during the chase after the women, eventually teaming up with them to

try to make their way to a new life. Despite a screenplay with minimal dialogue, Tom Hardy’s performance as Max shines along with the stunning desert visuals and action that keeps you continually on edge.

comedy and feminism to the film that will keep you in fits throughout, “Trainwreck” also proves to be an honest and intriguing look at how the self-proclaimed “independent woman” deals with the complexity of relationships with

both family and love interests.

With stellar performances from Schumer and Bill Hader and brilliant cameos from Daniel Radcliffe and LeBron James, this is a wonderful first film from the increasingly popular comedian.

emotions that she experiences.

Don’t be fooled by the bright colors and blobby shapes -- the visuals may be designed to appeal to children, but this depiction of growing up

and the struggle of learning how to deal with your feelings is something that will hit home for everyone. Be prepared: it’s a real tear-jerker (as all good Pixar films are).

Mad Max  This film turned out to be one of the surprise stars of the summer. The plot is absolutely insane: in a post-apocalyptic society run by a ruthless warlord, the warlord’s captive wives embark on an escape led by a woman named

Trainwreck  A mix of outrageous behavior, hilarious one-liners and a blunt look at modern-day love, Amy Schumer drew all kinds of attention with this restyling of the classic rom-com. While she brings her own special brand of unapologetic

Inside Out  You’re never too old for a good Pixar movie, and this might just be the best one yet. Set inside the brain of an 11-year old girl, the audience follows the anthropomorphized

Worst of the summer: Pixels In a bizarre attempt to draw on the mostly lost enthusiasm for 1980s video games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, this comedy fails in almost every way. Despite having a cast full of familiar faces, including

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage (of “Game of Thrones” fame), there is nothing memorable in the entire film. As the world is terrorized by huge aliens in the form of video game characters,

only these 1980s arcade lovers can save the day. The film lacks the self-awareness of the strangeness of the plot to make it ironic, leaving it to the comedy performances to drag the film along.

Movies to look out for: Rock the Kasbah Everest Legend Black Mass Suffragette Pan Beasts of No Nation Steve Jobs Sleeping With Other People 99 Homes Stonewall Spectre Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Columbia Pictures

summer’s Best Beats

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“Beneath the Skin” (June 8) Of Monsters and Men  Of Monsters and Men’s 2011 debut album, “My Head Is an Animal,” went platinum, selling over 600,000 copies and cementing the group into indie stardom. After a two-year tour, the Icelandic folk rock band set to work on its sophomore album, “Beneath the Skin,” which was released in early summer to an eager crop of loyal fans. “Beneath the Skin” is driven by the same powerful lyrics and acoustic-guitar-based sound as “My Head Is An Animal,” but it shows a new level of maturity and emotional personality for the young group.

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“Wildheart” (June 12) Miguel  Miguel was born and raised in San Pedro, Calif. and his third full-length album, “Wildheart,” oozes Los Angeles vibes with its psychedelic alternative rhythym and blues sound. The singer explores love, sex, loss and place in 16 tracks that blend dissonant genres like jazz, funk, hip-hop and reggae. Miguel’s soaring vocals are sometimes sensual, sometimes loving and occasionally resigned as he crafts a piece-by-piece story of life on the West Coast.

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“Breathe in. Breathe Out.” (June 12) Hilary Duff  Although the days of Lizzie McGuire and “So Yesterday” are but a distant memory, Hilary Duff has managed to remain at the forefront of popular culture as an actor-turnedsinger with the release of her first album in eight years. “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” is a refreshing shot of nostalgia, filled with slightly trite metaphors and Duff’s signature pop (and catchy) sound.

“Emotion” (June 23) Carly Rae Jepsen After her viral pop hit “Call Me Maybe” dominated the radio waves for months in 2012, many thought Carly Rae Jepsen would fade into oblivion as a one-hit wonder. With the recent release of her third album, “Emotion,” Jepsen shows that she is here to stay.

Backed by a talented team of acclaimed producers and collaborators, the album is a shining example of a clean, well-written pop album that’s easy to dance to — unfortunately, it also lacks individualism and personality.

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“Badlands” (Aug. 28) Halsey  

Halsey, born Ashley Frangipane, is a 20-year-old rising pop star who got her start on the Internet, growing a fan base with YouTube covers and SoundCloud tunes before landing a record deal.

Her first studio album, “Badlands,” features gritty pop tunes that take the pulse of modern society. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Frangipane called the album “anti-pop,” which is an apt description of the often dark and countercultural nature of the record.

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Sports

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field hockey

Friday, september 4, 2015

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The Georgetown field hockey team (0-2, 0-0 Big East) is hoping for a successful season following two close losses during its opening weekend. The Hoyas lost 1-0 in their first game of the season Aug. 28 to Rider (2-0) before falling to Davidson (1-1) in another 1-0 result Sunday.

Rider junior forward Carlie Spaeder broke a scoreless tie with 16 seconds left in the game, handing the Hoyas a heartbreaking loss. Georgetown junior goalkeeper Rachel Skonecki had 11 saves, and the Hoyas totaled six shots on goal. Junior forward Aliyah Graves-Brown had two shots on goal, and sophomore forward Megan Parsons and junior midfielder Maria McDonald each had a shot.

Senior midfielder Melissa Funsten scored Davidson’s first goal of the season, helping the Wildcats to their second win over the Hoyas in the teams’ last three meetings.

Georgetown had 12 penalty corners compared to Davidson’s seven.

Despite humid weather and hot temperatures, the Hoyas had no problem transitioning from preseason to regular season play. Senior forward Sarah Butterfield, who started in all 18 games of her junior season, is excited for the team’s potential as it gears up for regular season competition.

“Summer was a lot of just fitness, and actually, everyone came into the season extremely fit, which was awesome to see,” Butterfield said. “Everyone passed twothirds of our fitness tests, which was really exciting.”

The Hoyas will play against the LaSalle Explorers (1-1) Friday afternoon at MultiSport Facility. The Hoyas beat the Explorers 6-4 at the beginning of the 2010 season, but lost 4-1 in 2011. Georgetown will also face St. Francis (0-2) on Sunday. Butterfield explained that the Hoyas’ upcoming weekend will be a chance to redeem mistakes the team made in its first two home contests.

“Our opening weekend didn’t turn out how we had hoped in wins and losses,” Butterfield said. “Our home opener, although we had a lot of opportunities, we didn’t execute on them, which was kind of what hurt us. I don’t think we played poorly by any means, but a few mistakes here and there resulted in a goal by our opponents.

However, we played a lot better on Sunday.

Our passes were on, we just weren’t there to

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Junior goalkeeper Rachel Skonecki had 11 saves in her team’s 1-0 loss to Rider, maintaining the shutout until Rider scored a goal with 16 seconds left. finish. Our team is really looking forward to this season and to put those goals in the back of the cage.”

The Hoyas hope to improve on their achievements of last season, when they picked up six wins, their most since 2010.

Additionally, Georgetown hopes to improve in the statistical categories of goals scored, goals against, shutouts earned, goal differential and home attendance. Despite the two losses, Butterfield does not believe her team is at a disadvantage and believes they can rebound.

“A big thing that we are looking to take from the past two games is that we can’t undermine our opponents,” Butterfield said. “I think coming out of the past weekend with two losses has really lit a fire under us, and we want to come out fighting this weekend. None of us wants another loss, which is one thing we are going to use

to move forward. We’ve watched a bunch of film on ourselves and our opponents and after watching that film, our team will be able to make the proper adjustments and pull off some wins.”

Georgetown will face a challenging conference schedule with a host of tough Big East foes this season. Nonetheless, Butterfield is optimistic that the Hoyas can notch a solid number of conference wins.

“Our goal is to win two Big East games, which will get us into the tournament, which is something Georgetown hasn’t really done before. Last year, we didn’t have any Big East wins as we are in a very tough field hockey conference,” Butterfield said.

“Our other girls are on a game-by-game basis, trying to take as many shots as possible.”

Georgetown will face LaSalle Friday and St. Francis Sunday. Both games will take place at Multi-Sport Facility at 1 p.m.

Football

Nolan Takes On Leadership Role NOLAN, from B10

position to win right now.”

Nolan has grown considerably to get to this point in his athletic career and has assumed a great deal of responsibility for the team’s success. The quarterback has been with the team four years now, and he has transformed from an inexperienced freshman to a leader who can carry the team both with his arm and his feet.

The 6-foot-6-inch quarterback is mostly a pocket passer, but he can also extend plays with his feet by escaping pressure and running to open space if his receivers are covered.

“The great thing about Kyle is he really understands the game,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “He does a really good job in film study and in his overall knowledge of our scheme. … He’s not the most vocal of people, [he] more leads by example, but he’s gotten out of his comfort zone of being a leader both on and off the field, and in how he holds himself with his demeanor in front of our players.”

Neuberger echoed Sgarlata’s praise.

“Over the past year, [Nolan] has certainly heightened his ability on and off the field with everything that he does,” Neuberger said. “He trains very hard, both in the classroom and on the field, and studies the game extremely hard in

“Over the past year, [Nolan] has certainly heightened his ability on and off the field with everything that he does.”

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the classroom and on the field and has learned to operate at the tempo that we want to run with the consistency that we need him to operate at.” With the Hoyas traveling to play St. Francis University Saturday, confidence in Nolan is high and many expect a marked improvement in the offense this season.

“I want to put our offense in the best

position to succeed and that starts with me making the right decisions and getting us to check out of a play if it comes to that,” Nolan said.

Kimpela and Sgarlata both believe Nolan has all the tools to become a great quarterback this season. “[Nolan] definitely has a rocket arm … always putting us in the best position to make plays,” Kimpela said.

Sgarlata agreed, touting Nolan’s impressive athleticism.

“People don’t realize he has the third [highest] vertical leap on our team. He’s just not a big quarterback, he runs well too,” Sgarlata said. “And when you look at all the other quarterbacks in the conference, he can make all the throws.

There’s not many things we want to do that he can’t physically do.”

The Hoyas have a lot of work to do to improve upon last year’s dismal 3-9 record, and this year, it all starts with Nolan and the offense. If he can continue to improve and get the offense clicking early on, it’ll be an exciting season at Multi-Sport Facility.

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SMUC Marseille by an impressive 54-point margin.

Five players scored in double figures for the Hoyas. Adomako led the team with 19 points to go along with nine steals, and senior forward Dominique Vitalis pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds.

As a unit, Georgetown out-rebounded its opponent 48-23 and recorded a stunning 37 steals. The Hoyas also forced 41 turnovers.

From Marseille, the team traveled by train to Paris and enjoyed a full day of tourism that included a guided tour of the city as well as a cruise on the River Seine.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so I just want to take advantage of it,” sophomore center Yazmine Belk said to GUHoyas.com. “A lot of people don’t get the chance to see Paris like this.”

The Hoyas were back on the court the next day to play the final game of their overseas trip against the AWM All-Stars. Georgetown jumped out to an early lead, scoring 10 straight points to open the contest. Later, the Hoyas went on an 18-0 run to extend their lead, and by the end of the first half, the Hoyas led 52-16.

The Hoyas continued to dominate throughout the second half and se-

cured a 116-41 victory, improving their record to 2-1 for the trip.

Every available player scored at least four points for the Hoyas in the final contest, and five players scored in double figures. Woodard led the team with 21 points, followed closely by Adomako, who added 20.

However, it was White who really stole the show. The freshman posted a double-double, scoring 16 points to go along with 11 steals. White also pulled down eight rebounds and had five assists.

“I felt really good about the game, just about what our mission was coming here and building as a team,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said to GUHoyas.com. “I’m just proud of the way our players responded and the whole experience. We experienced culture and team bonding. This is a great way for us to finish and prepare for our upcoming season.”

The Hoyas celebrated their final victory and capped off their time in Paris with a traditional French dinner and a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower. The team’s European tour came to a close the following day when it departed Paris on a plane bound for Washington, D.C. Georgetown’s first regular season game is scheduled for Nov. 13.

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The Hoyas defeated the AWM All-Stars 116-41 in the final contest of their European tour. Junior forward Faith Woodard led the team with 21 points and sophoromore guard Dorothy Admako added 20.

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Junior middle blocker Ashlie Williams, left, was second on the Hoyas with 25 kills and 33 digs over the team’s first three games.

Williams, who has played as a middle blocker throughout her college career, has also played as a right-side hitter this season.

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Looking to come back after dropping two of its first three matches, the Georgetown volleyball team (12) will continue its nonconference schedule at the Rose Hill Classic in Bronx, N.Y. this weekend. The two-day tournament hosted by Fordham (1-3) will pit Georgetown against Robert Morris (2-2), Fordham and Niagara (1-2) and will serve as another opportunity for the Hoyas to improve their chemistry in the weeks prior to conference play.

A team composed of nine new members — including eight freshmen — Georgetown hopes every nonconference matchup will allow its new members to acclimate to collegiate play while growing together as a team.

“I think the primary focus for us right now is team chemistry — we are ‘hashtag family,’” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “We have got nine newcomers and we have to know who each other [is]. We have to learn how to work together; we have to make sure that we have each other’s back.”

The New York tournament, featuring competition from Pennsylvania and New York, will follow Georgetown’s matches last weekend against teams based in and

around D.C. in a tournament held at American University. Georgetown beat Howard in five sets but fell to George Mason and American in three and four sets, respectively.

Junior middle blocker Ashlie Williams led the effort, contributing 25 kills and 33 digs over three matches, both the second-most in both categories for the Hoyas so far this season.

“[Ashlie Williams] is so quick, she is so long and she’s hungry.

All of that is coming to the forefront.”

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“[Ashlie is] an extremely talented and versatile player. She is so quick, she is so long and she’s hungry. All of that is coming to the forefront,” Coach Williams said.

Williams, who played a middle blocker throughout her volleyball career, is primarily seeing action as a right-side hitter this season as the team wants to have an experienced player in that position. Coach Williams said that she hopes freshman middle blocker Somto Egbuonu can transition into the position later in the season.

In addition to her newfound role on the court, Williams, alongside senior outside hitter Lauren Saar and junior setter Caitlin Brauneis, will also have the task of being a leader for her young teammates. As the only returning members for the Hoyas and the most senior players on the team, the three upperclassmen expect to shape the team environment and help their newest members adjust to collegiate athletics and life on the Hilltop.

“We came into the summer and preseason and there’s so many new faces and new Georgetown students and they have a million questions,” Ashlie Williams said. “The three of us were just kind of like, ‘All right, we kind of have to step up and take this role.’”

Just as Williams, Saar and Brauneis have used their experience and talents to contribute to their team and its rebuilding, so too have the freshmen, as they quickly made their mark for the Hoyas in their first tournament.

Outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette earned a team high in kills in two of their first three matches and led the team with six service aces.

“Alyssa’s done a great job for us; I call her ‘the great equalizer,’” Coach Williams said. “She just goes out, she plays hard, she’s got a posi-

tive attitude and she does what we ask for her and she’s a very talented athlete.” “[Paige] puts up great balls and it makes it a lot easier for our hitters to score points just because of what she does to get them prepared,” Coach Williams said of freshman setter Paige McKnight. “She’s very much a competitor so there’s times when we might struggle a bit — Paige just takes over and that’s a good thing; you want to have someone like that, with that kind of mindset at the setting position.”

Underclassmen and upperclassmen alike will be needed to help Georgetown earn a victory in its first match of the weekend. The Hoyas will encounter one of the toughest players in the tournament in Robert Morris junior outside hitter Arden Fisher. In the Colonials’ first four games of the season, Fisher racked up a teamhigh 69 kills and 4.31 kills per set and the second-highest number of blocks on her team with 13 this season.

Georgetown will kick off its weekend schedule Friday with a match against Robert Morris at 10:30 a.m., followed by a match against Fordham at 7 p.m. The Hoyas will end their New York trip with a match against Niagara at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

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game in his career-best season), he had his fair share of iconic moments. He dunked the ball with such force and such creativity that he shattered the backboard not once, but twice, naming the first dunk “The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam, GlassBreaker-I-Am-Jam.” Names like that represent the essence of Darryl Dawkins and his Chocolate Thunder persona. He claimed to hail from “Planet Lovetron” and backed it up with an undeniably funky way of dressing, often times appearing in a bright red suit accented with a bright and cheery smile. That was Chocolate Thunder: always smiling, always loving the game.

Teaming up with Julius Erving — better known as Dr. J — for a large part of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, Dawkins and the Philadelphia 76ers played in three NBA Finals, unfortunately falling short all three times. After playing with the Sixers for seven seasons, the 1982 Finals saw Dawkins and Dr. J fall in six games to Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Los Angeles Lakers. After yet another loss, Philadelphia management decided to switch things up and traded away Dawkins to the New Jersey Nets. Unfortunately, the following season the Sixers would end up winning the title over the same Lakers team in a four-game sweep. Dawkins, who battled through a severe injury that kept him away from the game for his final years, finished his career without an NBA title. Dawkins’ career seemed average from the outside; he was never the recipient of multiple accolades or the best player on a championship team. But he was a player whose energy and enthusiasm made everyone enjoy the game. He was also an incredibly efficient player, often finishing in the top five in field goal percentage.

But what made Dawkins truly special, beyond just his dunks and his neon suits, was his swagger. He seemed to just dunk the ball so creatively and with such ease that it made you wonder why no one else could do it. But he also did it with such power that he brought force to an NBA that struggled with its popularity in the late ‘70s. Those Sixers teams, led by Dawkins and Dr. J, were able to bring life to the NBA with their flash and style. They were the dunk brothers before nicknames for those kinds of duos existed.

Dr. J with his athleticism and hang time, Dawkins with his sheer power and creativity.

After his two backboard-breaking dunks, the NBA fined and suspended Dawkins and made a structural change to the rims to prevent them from getting pulled down from the backboard. But it was hard to be mad at Darryl Dawkins. He was just a man with a childish spirit in the best way. The excitement he brought to the game, all the way from Planet Lovetron, was unique, and it is something the NBA misses to this day.

The league, along with every fan who remembers Chocolate Thunder, misses that flavor and excitement. But he is still with us. Every ball dunked hard enough to break the backboard — that’s Darryl Dawkins. Efficiently and powerfully scoring buckets down low — that’s Darryl Dawkins. He may be gone, but he is far from forgotten, and it is only fitting that thunder never makes a quiet exit.

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as Missouri Athletic Conference champions, and they split their first two games this season, falling 4-1 to Old Dominion University (1-1) Aug. 30.

UCLA, meanwhile, once again stands as one of the top teams in the nation.

Though they were the favorites to win the 2014 national championship, the Bruins fell just short, losing 1-0 to Virginia in the championship game. Nevertheless, drawing talent from the soccer hotbed of Southern California has consistently led the Bruins to the top of the rankings.

The Zips will turn to senior defender Andrew Sounders in the back line and junior midfielder Adam Najem to make plays and create offensive opportunities. Sophomore forward Abu Danladi leads the Bruins’ offense and is a potential top-five draft pick after his second season. Georgetown senior defender and co-captain Cole Seiler believes these matchups, especially against Akron, will be exciting to watch.

“I think [Sounders] will have his hands full with [senior forward Brandon Allen],” Seiler said. “[Against] Najem, it will be an interesting battle to see how our center mids match up against him, for sure.”

Coach Wiese and his team are looking forward to Akron and UCLA’s style of play in the upcoming matches. After Florida Gulf Coast and South Florida played heavily defensive games that frustrated the Hoyas on both sides of the ball, the Zips and the Bruins will likely play a more open type of game.

“Akron has horses where they aren’t going to be like, ‘We have to change for Georgetown.’ … I think Akron is going to believe in what they’re doing,” Wiese said. “[UCLA] is going to come in and say, ‘We do what we do.’ That’s the fun of the challenge for us.”

Georgetown is entering these tough tests on a down note, having tied Florida Gulf Coast University and lost to No.

24 University of South Florida on a road trip to begin the season. For Wiese, looking to rebound against a difficult opposition presents an exciting and positive challenge. “One of the disadvantages of playing a hard schedule is that you can lose games that you are playing OK in,” Wiese said. “The advantage … is that you find out a lot about what you need to do and what you are doing well.

That’s where we are right now.”

The Georgetown lineup has seen significant turnover from last season. With the season still young, the lineup has not yet settled. Freshman goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski has taken over in net for the Hoyas, while freshman defender Peter Schropp started against South Florida.

Freshman midfielder Kyle Zajec has also seen playing time in the defense. The performances of these young players will be crucial in the upcoming matches. “[The freshmen] have definitely

come in and helped us out when called upon,” Seiler said. “All three of them have been doing really well.”

At the end of these upcoming contests, the Hoyas will have faced two of the traditional powers in NCAA soccer and will have had the opportunity to earn a pair of marquee wins. Akron and UCLA, however, will surely prize a win away against Georgetown.

Georgetown will also face potential injury issues, the trip to Florida having taken a toll on a pair of players. Senior defender and co-captain Josh Turnley injured his shoulder in the season opener and missed the next match, while junior defender and co-captain Joshua Yaro exited the South Florida match after just half an hour with a leg injury. There is no official word on the extent of either injury, but both men are extremely valuable players who the Hoyas will certainly hope to have on the field this weekend.

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Senior defender and co-captain Cole Seiler will look to lead a banged-up defense that saw junior Joshua Yaro and senior Josh Turnley sustain injuries last weekend.

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Coming off of a disappointing 2014 season in which the Georgetown football team went 3-9, senior quarterback Kyle Nolan and the Hoyas have a lot to improve upon if they are to achieve their goal of finally winning a Patriot League conference title.

A considerable amount of the team’s success will depend on the offense, led by Nolan. Last year, Georgetown’s offense was outscored by opponents with a cumulative score of 248 to 149, and Nolan himself completed

only 51.3 percent of his pass attempts to go along with just nine touchdown passes.

The senior quarterback from Branford, Conn. knows a lot is expected of him this season, and he is confident in his ability to lead this team to a Patriot League title.

“We’re looking to win the league championship,” Nolan said. “We come in every year with the expectation to win, and there’s no point in playing the game if you don’t want to win. There’s no team on our schedule that we can’t beat.”

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The number of steals that freshman guard Dionna White had in a preseason game against the AWM All-Stars in France.

returning this year, including senior running backs Jo’el Kimpela and Daniel Wright and senior wide receiver Jake DeCicco, the pressure is on for Nolan to orchestrate a more efficient and dynamic offense that can win games for the team this season.

“Kyle is extremely important to how well this offense does this season,” Offensive Coordinator Michael Neuberger said. “He’s a great leader for our guys; he’s played a lot of football here. We feel as though he is our guy who is going to put us in the best See NOLAN, B8

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Junior defender Joshua Yaro, left, and senior defender Cole Seiler, middle, will lead the Hoyas’ defense against tough opponents this weekend.

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e was never an All-Star. He never made an All-NBA team. Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins, though, was a legend in his own right.

Not only was he the first player to go straight from high school into the first round of the NBA draft, he was a Philadelphia cultural icon, representing everything classic and cliche about the 1970s.

The charismatic Darryl Dawkins was known for powerful dunking.

Despite his early death on Aug. 27 from a heart attack at the age of 58, Dawkins is an immortal figure in the minds of all fans who love dunks, which, in all honesty, is probably everyone. While Dawkins was never well-known for his stats (he averaged 17 points and seven rebounds per See SANTAMARIA, B8

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Only a special pair of opponents could overshadow the Georgetown men’s soccer team’s upcoming Dad Bod Day promotion. Akron University (1-1) and No. 1 University of California, Los Angeles (1-0) comprise such a pair.

The Hoyas (0-1-1) will take on the Zips Friday and the Bruins Monday, both at home. Both opponents have had recent success — Akron won the national championship in 2010, while UCLA lost in the title game last season — and have produced dozens of professional players. This weekend

certainly presents a difficult challenge for No. 12 Georgetown. “[Akron] is an amazing group of players, and they believe in what they’re doing, and they are going to come in and try to do it. UCLA is number one in the country.

They have got 33 guys that everyone would love to have on their team,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

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The Georgetown women’s basketball team’s arrival in Rome Aug. 14 marked the beginning of a 10day European tour that included countless hours of travel, innumerable sightseeing experiences and three preseason contests.

The Hoyas spent two days traversing Rome, touring both the remains of the Holy Roman Empire and the ruins of ancient Rome as well as visiting the city’s most famous fountains and piazzas before heading to Florence for their first game.

In Florence, the Blue and Gray faced off against the Cameroon national team. Cameroon took control early, establishing a lead that forced the Hoyas to play mostly from behind from the outset. The Hoyas found themselves trailing by five points at the end of the first half.

Georgetown trailed for much of the second half as well, falling behind by as many as 10 points. But the Hoyas would not go down without a fight, and with just 10 minutes remaining in the contest they went on a 10-2 run to pull within two points. With 3:34 left on the clock, senior guard Logan Battle scored to tie the game at 46.

However, the Hoyas could not hold on to the momentum that had propelled their comeback. Ultimately, Georgetown, failing to get the defensive stops it needed down the stretch, trailed 53-48 when the final buzzer sounded.

Battle was the leading scorer for the Hoyas, netting 10 points in the loss. Junior guard Faith Woodard chipped in eight points.

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ence the following day and travelled north for a boat excursion on Lake Como and a tour of the city of Bellagio. The team’s next stop was Monaco, a tiny country located on France’s Mediterranean coastline.

The Hoyas spent time exploring parts of Monaco before heading to Marseille, France where they would face off against SMUC Marseille in their next matchup.

“This trip has been a great ex-

perience; it’s been breathtaking,” sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako said to GUHoyas.com. “We’ve seen things that we’ve never seen before. You see places in pictures and you never think you’ll go there, and being there has been amazing.”

Georgetown trailed at the start of the contest in Marseille but would not remain behind for long, as Adomako and freshman guard Dionna

White led an explosive 19-0 run that put the Hoyas up by 11 points.

The Hoyas then went on a 51-6 run that spanned the final 14 minutes of the first half, giving them a comfortable 37-point lead at the break.

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Georgetown women’s basketball dominated both games it played while travelling in France, defeating two teams by margins greater than 50 points. The team went 2-1 overall on its European tour.

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