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McAuliffe: I think it’s impor tant for us who have had a lot of experience — I’ve been in politics for 40 years — to bring real life experiences so that you get a true under standing of how politics is done, and most importantly, how impactful it can be on your life and hopefully en courage young people to get active in community service or politics. This is sort of a way
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Georgetown University an nounced plans to renovate the ground floor of Healy Hall, tripling the space dedicated to the Georgetown Scholars ProgramConstruction(GSP). is already underway for GSP, which provides support for firstgeneration and low-income (FGLI) students. The new 2,300-square-foot space will include a student lounge, sev eral work spaces, private of fices for meetings, a kitchen and a storage space. The reno vated ground floor will also hold a brand-new well-being space for students to partici pate in health and wellness programming and a gathering space for students involved
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, renowned author and Nobel Laureate, spoke about the importance of post-colonial writing.
Former Georgetown professor Fr. John O’Malley, S.J., died Sept. 11 at age 95. His colleagues and students alike will remember him for his dedicated, passionate teaching style and admirable wisdom.
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Lundry: I’m here because I got my graduate degree from Georgetown University, a master’s in public policy, and it is directly responsible for my career and the profession I’m in. They gave me the skills that allowed me to succeed as much as I have, so a big part of this for me is just giving back to the Georgetown communi ty. Not that many people un derstand exactly what we do and how we work in the data business, so I’m really excited to share that with students.
with Catholic ministry. Con struction will be finished by FallGSP2023.Student Board Presi dent Sofia Chen Ma (MSB ’23) said she envisions the new space to be the core of the GSP community.“Whenyou think about what the space is going to look like, it’s not an office space, it’s not a center, it’s a community hub for GSPers to gather together,” Chen Ma told The Hoya. “For us, it was a long time coming.”
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nowned expert on early mod ern European history and the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, he joined the Georgetown com munity in 2006 as a professor in the department of theol ogy and religious studies, and taught his last class in Spring 2020. O’Malley died following a brief illness at the Colom biere Jesuit Community in Baltimore, Md.
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The fall 2022 class of Georgetown University Insti tute of Politics and Public Ser vice (GU Politics) fellows sat down with The Hoya to discuss issues ranging from the up coming midterm elections to what they hope to learn from students and each other this semester.The15th class of fellows, which was announced Aug. 18, spans both sides of the
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Born on June 11, 1927, in Tiltonsville, Ohio, O’Malley began his career in the Catho lic Church when he entered the Jesuit order in 1946. He studied Latin for a semester at John Carroll University and then spent three years study ing philosophy at West Baden College before going on to earn a Ph.D. in history at Har vard University in 1966.
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The group, which was formerly named GU Choice and recognized by the university, could not operate in a capacity that advocated for abor tion rights while it was still being funded by the university.The Georgetown community at-large protested the university’s recognition of the group and questioned its Catholic identity, which ulti mately culminated in a lawsuit between a coali tion of Catholic groups and the university. After
“The landscape of student groups and organi zations reflects more complexity than may be evident to the average student. Certain student leadership roles overlap with paid student em ployee positions, but the vast majority of stu dent organization roles are voluntary, and not eligible for work study or other wage payment,” Cohen-Derr wrote in an email to The Hoya
This week, we’re diving further into Grace Rivers’ (COL ’24) viewpoint on the accessibility of abortion and reproductive resources, focusing specifically on the history of these resources at Georgetown University. Georgetown is a Jesuit institution that is committed to abiding by Catholic teachings, so in lieu of an official university-provided resource, the Georgetown community relies on H*yas for Choice, a pro-abortion rights student group, as its primary organization for information and aware ness on reproductive and abortion rights.
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However, student club leaders do not receive compensation for the many hours of work they dedicate to their respective organizations. This lack of compensation causes a socioeconomic barrier for students who cannot afford to take on significant unpaid labor. In order to create equal and accessible club leadership opportunities for students, the university must work to provide av enues of compensation for student leaders.
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Therefore, the Editorial Board calls on the univer sity to work with GUSA to implement compensation funding for student-run organizations using student tuition. While this solution may take multiple aca demic years to fully implement, it is essential to pro moting socioeconomic equity in student life.
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In an effort to keep the stu dents in line with the policy, the code gives the Student Personnel Office the power to levy fines on those who violate the code. The code, as presented to the legisla tive body last night, set this fine at fifty cents, but the Yard Office feels that this penalty is subject to change in the council debate. The final form of the code will be distributed in mimeographed form today.
Compensation for hours spent as a campus leader is critical to ensure that all members of the student body can equally enjoy the kind of interdisciplinary education that Georgetown offers. In other words, striving toward broad opportunity in campus life un hindered by financial inequality is critical to main taining the integrity of a Georgetown education.
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It is noted in the code, further, that all the money collected in fines will be contributed by the student council to the Minor Sports Fund, to help pay the travel and equipment expenses of the soccer, swimming and sailing teams.
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The code, which was presented to the council last night by the councilmembers of the StudentFaculty Committee reads: 1. There are certain occasions on campus which call for more formality than others. Among these are the following times and functions, at which khakis are NOT to be worn:
A person is more likely to care about the natural environment if they are regularly immersed in it, and the chances of preservation and restoration are higher as well. It would be hard to justify and even harder to accomplish the effective partitioning of people from the park’s wildlife in light of this fact.”
Similarly, Marianne Savane (NHS ’25) said the lack of pay discouraged her from applying to all the clubs she was interested in.
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The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) is responsible for allocating the budget for all university-recognized student clubs each fiscal year. GUSA currently allocates funds for compen sation of student leaders in Georgetown Oppor tunities for Leadership Development (GOLD), an organization that promotes student development through programs such as Leadership & Beyond and Emerging Leaders Program. GOLD is not a student-run organization and is maintained by the university, making it eligible for compensation.
“I don’t even really look into the opportuni ties that I know won’t be paid, because I know I won’t be able to do them.” Oh said in an inter view with The Hoya Student leadership positions are mostly vol untary, and therefore do not qualify for wage payment, according to Erika Cohen-Derr, Assis tant Vice President in Student Affairs.
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“I didn’t apply to as many clubs as I wanted to since I was prioritizing my time towards a paid job which contributed to my tuition,” Savanne told The Hoya. She clarified that her paid job was off campus, since her work study did not cover enough of her tuition requirements.
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Their emphasis on intersectionality, trans parency and direct action for issues related to reproductive and sexual health is in opposi tion to the current wave of anti-abortion laws states across the United States have passed following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. The group is the only organization on campus that provides free contraceptives to promote safety among students. Their educa tion and awareness takes several forms, from educational sources about abortion resources and STI testing services linked on their website, to tabling and handing out contraceptives in Red Square. They were also at the forefront of mobilizing students for protests in Washing ton, D.C., following the leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Caitlin McLean at caitlin.mclean@thehoya.com or Executive Edi tor Jared Carmeli at jared.carmeli@thehoya.com.
On the other hand, when students are paid for their work in a leadership role, they express a great er satisfaction at both how their time is spent at an extracurricular activity and the greater diversity in the organization itself. The Corp, an independent student-run organization, employs and pays stu dents to work at various locations on campus.
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“My colleagues definitely enjoy being paid, but by nature of it being a job, that’s the expectation — ev erything they do they get compensated for. That’s the basic incentive.” Ebrahim wrote to The Hoya Ebrahim also said that paying staffers increases equity within The Corp.
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Last night, the student council was expected to ratify a code set up over last weekend governing the wearing of khakis by stu dents on campus. The code was brought about through nego tiations between members of the student council and representa tives of the faculty and adminis tration. The result is that khakis and other types of trousers may be worn as long as they are clean, pressed and belted except to cer tain functions on campus. The code will go into effect as soon as the council approves it and it is promulgated, but will last only as long as the campus dress contin ues to improve.
For Deborah Oh (COL ’23), working a Federal Work Study (FWS) job to pay unavoidable col lege expenses makes it difficult to even consider unpaid opportunities on campus.
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The current lack of paid leadership posi tions stymies equal opportunity by failing to compensate club leaders for the hours of work they dedicate to the maintenance and growth of their organization. As such, students are often unable to actively participate in a club while simultaneously working a paid job. The lack of compensation limits socioeconomic diversity in club leadership, forcing students to choose between a time-consuming leader ship role and a paid job that doesn’t promote their interests and goals.
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Daanyal Ebrahim (SFS ’25), controller of ac counting at The Corp, said that compensation encourages The Corp’s employees to continue enthusiastically working for the organization.
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“Paying students improves our socioeconomic diversity because many people literally use us as their primary source of income or for federal workstudy,” he said.
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The Corp is a nonprofit organization, rather than a university-sponsored student organiza tion. Still, it exemplifies how paid opportunities increase inclusivity for students across the socio economic spectrum.
3. Since the College Admin istration has agreed not to ban khakis, but has agreed only on the condition that the above code is followed by the student body, the student council wishes to assure that these conditions are observed. In order to do this, the council establishes as a pen alty, a fine of $.50 for the viola tion of the code, to be enforced by the Student Personnel Office. We feel that this is the fairest ef fective means of seeing that the code is Theseobserved.conditions were agreed upon by the Office of Student Per sonnel and the Office of the Dean of the College after the student members of the Student-Faculty Committee presented the com mittee with a report drafted Sept. 22 by the student council. The committee is comprised of Fr. Rock, Fr. Yates, Mr. Connor, Presi dent of the Yard Tony Essaye, Paul Troy and Leo O’Donovan.
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Admittedly, compensating club leadership is an ambitious request. The university would have to divert significant funds from other parts of the bud get and determine which clubs should receive such funding for which positions. Some might claim that extracurricular activities fall beyond the scope of what students’ tuition should cover. However, the Editorial Board believes that the club experience is an essential aspect of the Georgetown educational experience and is worth tuition dollars and adminis trative efforts, just as classes are.
“Providing compensation for leadership would be a good way to improve socioeconomic diversity across organizations at Georgetown,” Erickson told The Hoya
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Lily Erickson (SFS ’23), president of Blue and Gray, said that compensation would increase accessibility for low-income students to enter
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Club culture is a fixture of life at George town University, with significant social and professional benefits. This culture causes many students to strive for leadership posi tions in various organizations, as they can provide a starting point for students to gain valuable experience outside the classroom during their four years at Georgetown.
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a little more than a year, the university ended its funding of and cut ties with the organization, which rebranded itself as H*yas for Choice in 1991.
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I have long sought to follow her model in my own daily life, particularly in my work with Catholic Music Ministry at Georgetown. For example, to embody the value of doing small things with great love, I might participate in a jubilant choral anthem at Sunday Mass, which requires hours of preparation every
Students cannot rest assured that they will always be able to make decisions related to abortion care with their doctors, as an abortion ban in the District would strip individual physicians’ agency and clinical abilities.
histories we O’Malleystudied.wasthe model of a great teacher. He was a patient listener during class, yet never hesitated to challenge us.
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very so often in a stu dent’s life, a teacher comes along who is so vibrant, so engaging and so empathetic that they build your love for learning in new and unforgettable ways.
in Congress and negatively influence reproductive laws in Washington,ApproximatelyD.C. 26% of women who know they are pregnant will experience a miscarriage. There are a number of procedures to facilitate a safe and efficient miscarriage, including misoprostol pills, which quicken the process of expelling the tissue of the uterus, and a dilation and evacuation, which surgically opens the uterus to clear its contents.
The curious case of 399 and her offspring is just one example of how far-reaching the consequences of human interference in nature are. At Georgetown, direct involvement with the environment is limited and environmental awareness is not heavily promoted within the student body. However, many students are nature enthusiasts, whether it be hiking in natural parks like Grand Teton or stopping by the biannual petting zoo on Copley Lawn. Creating awareness emphasizes the importance of proper protocol to let nature run its own course wherever we encounter it.
Every day he prompted us to think about an event’s greater significance by asking his favorite question: “So what?”
These efforts consisted of controlling hunting and raising awareness about bears to locals and tourists alike. Although the bear population made a comeback, raising awareness attracted hundreds of thousands tourists to the area who wanted to more closely observe the wildlife. However, these methods of reversing endangerment have led to problems controlling bears like 399. Her seemingly
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She occupied many functions, most notably those of head of state of the United Kingdom and supreme governor of the Church of England. In the days following her death, I have reflected on her role as an influential figure of Christian faith. Throughout her life, the queen’s faith in Christ translated into an unwavering commitment to the service of her people which can inspire us all, especially Georgetown University students receiving a Jesuit education.
Our junior year at Georgetown, the three of us took O’Malley’s legendary course, “Two Councils: Trent and Vatican II.” Over the course of one semester, he placed the two titular events, which occurred four centuries apart, in the context of a fascinating conversation about theology, church governance, rhetoric andThereform.debates that occurred in the two councils came alive for us in our small classroom in the Walsh Building, as O’Malley continually asked us to relate history to the present. The questions we addressed (how do large institutions like the Catholic Church deal with change? How do cultural shifts affect religious belief and practice?), were timeless, yet grounded in the
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For the three of us, O’Malley will always be the devoted, elderly Jesuit, who wrapped up a long, late class of theological debate with the smiling, playful words, “ok, nighty night!” We are confident that he is looking down from above, willing us, and all of his many students, to live lives of joy and passion.
Although these emotional outcries and protests have waned, reproductive activists cannot become numb or passive to what conservatives seek to establish in this country: a widespread criminalization of exercising control over your body. Through silent denial of life-saving miscarriage care and widespread surveillance of physicians, patients and family members of pregnant people, conservatives and the Republican Party are moving to supervise and criminalize any pregnancy that isn’t carried to term. Furthermore, as Georgetown students, we cannot rest assured that the right and access to reproductive care are nonnegotiable, as the Republican Party has the potential to secure majorities
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He was generous with his time, as evidenced by teaching us at the age of 90, and prioritized getting to know his students.
An exemplar of interreligious understanding, he cherished the conversations that his books spurred with those
After we graduated, O’Malley remained a part of our lives and continued to advise us with his typical warmth and humor. When one of us was struggling at the start of our career, O’Malley, who loved Italian food, remarked: “the Italians have a phrase: ‘l’appetito vien mangiando’ — sometimes the appetite only comes with the eating!” He never ceased to joke about his passion for pursuing his ideas, once telling us: “I wrote three books of history about three councils, and now I’m writing another book to tell people what I said in those books, for those who weren’t listening!”
“Small things with great love” — this concise phrase best encapsulates the queen’s life. Despite the pomp and grandeur of the monarchy, most of the queen’s duties were decidedly downto-earth: cutting ribbons at the opening of new hospitals, writing letters to Britons on their 100th birthdays, or shaking hands with throngs of well-wishers during visits to small towns in the English shires. Yet, for 70 years, she never abandoned her task of service, even when it demanded sacrifice and self-abnegation. I am particularly struck by her 2012 meeting and handshake with Martin McGuinness, an Irish Republican Army guerrilla commander at the time of the organization’s fatal attack on her cousin, Lord Mountbatten, was a significant gesture of reconciliation, and constituted a sterling example of Christian forgiveness. Echoing the call of St. Francis of Assisi — “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace” — she made a public gesture of goodwill in the interest of forging concord in a fractured land. This moment alone makes me reflect on my own conduct; if the queen could forgive a man implicated in a grievous wrong done against her family, who am I to hold petty grudges?
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The queen’s lifetime of public service, along with her sense of duty informed by Christianity, can serve as an example of morality for the whole world; her life’s work was not without relevance to those of us who live on the Hilltop, an ocean away. Some secular-minded critics might have objected to seeing a head of state — unelected, no less! — incorporate religion so integrally into her thought. In the eyes of many, any interaction between Church and State would necessarily lead to disaster. Yet the queen’s Christianity helped her, rather, to form her own moral code; it was the basis and the bedrock for her lifetime of service to others.
However, the procedures physicians use to expel a miscarriage are analogous to those for an abortion. Therefore, doctors practicing in states with total abortion bans, such as Alabama, have begun to deny miscarriage health care for fear that the state could prosecute the procedure as an abortion.
The three of us quickly became close with O’Malley, as we delighted in the conversation, humor and advice he offered. We often joined him at Wolfington Hall, where he hosted dinners, said Mass and introduced us to his brother Jesuits. He wanted to hear about our lives as much as we wanted to hear about his. We once joined him for the opera at the Kennedy Center, where his love for the art form made the experience ever more special.
ver the past decade, the wildlife in Grand Teton National Park has be come accustomed to human ex posure, especially the park’s most famous grizzly bear, Grizzly 399. Born in 1996, the bear is known for almost single-handedly repopu lating the park. However, while a flourishing grizzly bear popula tion in Grand Teton seems worth celebrating, the methods 399 uses to raise her cubs are unusual. For example, she teaches her cubs to stay near highways, a place older, male grizzlies tend to avoid. She and her cubs are also known for following hunters during elk sea son to eat abandoned remains.
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which she specifically emphasized the relationship between faith, service and self-giving.
Fr. John W. O’Malley, S.J., who passed away in Baltimore on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the age of 95, was one such teacher. A long-tenured priest, historian and professor who published dozens of books on the religious culture of Early Modern Europe, O’Malley was among the greatest religious historians of the 20th and 21st centuries. His writing won him honorarylifetime-achievementnumerousawards,doctoratesandbook prizes, and, influenced major public voices like Fr. James Martin,BehindS.J. this impressive resume was a loving and holy man, whose passion for teaching captivated his students. It is teachers like him that Georgetown needs to do more to recruit and foster.
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J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) explained that the university is unwilling to provide resources or information for students to learn more about abortion access in D.C., a move which significantly threatens the lives of women and people with uteruses within the Georgetown community.
of other faiths. This was no different from the way he dealt with students. One of us is Jewish, and O’Malley built his faith and love of religious history just as strongly.
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In states where there is a total ban on abortion, investigating private data is perfectly legal. If prosecutors suspect the loss of pregnancy was premeditated, they can investigate search histories, private text messages, period-tracking apps and even location data. Thus, any private messages or data could be implicated in criminalizing pregnancy, resulting in the wrongful exposure and surveillance of women’s private health care concerns.
This devalues and eliminates privacy when making personal health care decisions and bodilyGeorgetownautonomy.students might feel disconnected from the dangerous consequences associated with total abortion bans as residents of the District, where the right to an abortion is still preserved. However, we must remain vigilant.
While physicians under current D.C. law can openly administer abortion care without fear of prosecution, this ability is subject to change, should the Republican Party gain control of Congress in the midterm elections this year. Republican control of Congress could jeopardize abortion access in the District, as Congress reviews, modifies and can overturn all legislation before it becomes D.C. law.
he passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom last week marked a watershed historical moment. It may well turn out to be one of the most consequential dates of the 21st century.
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And she touched upon a beautiful thought in her 2016 allocution: “Christ’s example helps me see the value of doing small things with great love.”
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In other words, the new generation of Grand Teton grizzly bears is highly adapted to and even unafraid of human presence in their natural habitat. Encouraging human immersion in nature is more helpful than harmful, even with these changes and the threat to human life, because it promotes environmental consciousness and safety for both humans and animals. Though Georgetown University is not situated in a rural region where wildlife abounds, its students hail from across the globe, and this reminder should encourage students to treat nature with dignity whether they are on the Hilltop or a mountaintop.
In the wake of widespread criminalization and oversurveillance of pregnancy in states across the nation, we, as students, must be steadfast about circulating abortion and reproductive information amidst the university’s silence, as many people’s lives depend on it.
Grace Rivers is a sophomore in the College.
On his Georgetown Jesuit Community profile, O’Malley wrote that the nicest thing anyone ever called him was “the archenemy of the superfluous word.” His writing, which made history accessible without sacrificing detail, was never inflated or pretentious. And neither were his actions. He did not indulge in his accomplishments or see professional success as a measure of a life well lived. His soul was humble, his personality warm and kind. He liked to joke about many things, but was never sarcastic about God’s love and presence in our Georgetown,lives. the Jesuits, the Church and the Academy have all suffered a loss with O’Malley’s passing. But his writings will continue to inform, and his memory will bless his former students and colleagues. We would like to see the university make an effort to find the great teachers — not merely subject-matter experts and researchers — that can change students’ lives.
In a perfect world, humans and animals would have a much more harmonious relationship than they currently do. Unfortunately, the relationship between humans and animals is not typically mutually beneficial. Minimizing the deadly effects of those interactions through the effective implementation of safety protocols is vital for creating as close to a harmonious relationship as possible.
The history of the grizzly bear presence in the United States helps us to understand current conditions. During the 19th and 20th centuries, largely unregulated hunting was an extremely popular sport in the western United States, resulting in the rapid decrease of the region’s prized wildlife populations. Once grizzly bears were placed on the endangered species list in 1975, with very few remaining in or near Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, the parks and surrounding counties worked to protect and restore the grizzly bear population before it disappeared entirely.
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week. Even when we may prefer to take that time for ourselves, we do this work so that we might touch the hearts of others.
As she promised in 1947, the queen lived out the Christian values of duty, service and peacemaking, even at moments when the royal family faced grievous personal tragedies. In this moment of profound sorrow and dislocation for the United Kingdom, I grieve with the British people. We, too, have something to learn from her faith and her decency. We, too, have lost a beacon.
We cannot all be British royalty, but one of the queen’s most important functions was to serve as a role model for decent Christian behavior. Her lifelong task was to be a woman for others, even to the extent of subsuming her individual self into the role of official symbol. Her example carries profound meaning even beyond the Anglican Communion. Here at Georgetown, students learn from Jesuit teachers and mentors that they are to be, in the words of Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., “men and women for others.” Students certainly have much to learn from their own Catholic and Jesuit exemplars, from St. Ignatius of Loyola to Arrupe to the many deeply faithful and selfless Jesuits we encounter on campus every day. But perhaps a model of Jesuit values — here, again, the pursuit of reconciliation shown in the queen’s gesture of peace in Northern Ireland comes to mind — can be found in the ostensibly unlikely person of an Anglican monarch. Those who seek to enter public service might also reflect upon what they can learn from the ethic of a woman whose position came from the very opposite of careerism.
The consequences of being unable to receive these basic reproductive procedures are life-threatening.Leftuntreated, miscarriages can result in profuse bleeding and sepsis, which has the potential to deprive vital organs of oxygen, causing organ failure. Miscarriage is now subject to prosecution following the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which significantly endangers the lives of women and pregnant people, despite the process occurring largely outside the pregnant person’sFurthermore,control. pregnant women, as well as their family
In a Sept. 9 interview with The Hoya, Georgetown University President John
She often made her personal beliefs and values most explicit in her annual Christmas speeches, in
Prayer was a constant for him. He had a child-like smile. He was deeply human, but also felt that his life was about fulfilling something greater.
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The case of a pregnant Nebraska teen has gained widespread traction after Facebook released private messages between the teen and her mother, which were obtained by Nebraskan police to investigate her alleged abortion.
Her service was always informed by her faith, of which she spoke without braggadocio or showmanship.“Ideclarebefore you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service…God help me to make my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share it,” thenPrincess Elizabeth vowed in a 1947 radio address.
eleasing a sigh of relief is not a normal reaction after testing positive for COVID-19.Bynow, the initial shock produced by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade has become a persistent disappointment for feminists as it represents this country’s willingness to jeopardize the health of its women and people with uteruses. I remember photos of Georgetown University students crying and protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court after the decision was released, heartbroken at the new era the court aimed to usher in.
members, friends, physicians and anyone involved with their pregnancy, must constantly be wary of the state supervision, as state surveillance of pregnant people will potentially be heightened in the post-Roe era.
“Student organizations cannot legally remove someone from the organization of sexual assault al legations unless they are found responsible under Title IX,” Berry wrote in a statement to The Hoya “Obviously, that does not occur very often so it is incredibly unfor tunate that this is the federal law.”
Some student leaders feel that current regulations pre vent them from being able to help fellow club members and maintain a safe club environ ment, according to Jack Quinn (SFS ’24), chair of Georgetown’s International Relations Club.
Club leaders can serve as key informal resources, according to Ava Wasson (SFS ’24), who is president of the Georgetown Running Club as well as the sexual harrassement and assault response and prevention coor dinator for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Georgetown.“Anyboardmember is some one that you can come talk to, if you’re a member of the club, when you experience some thing that makes you uncom fortable, be it on a run, in prac tice, or at a social event,” Wasson told The Hoya about GRC.
“Instead of trying to figure out who is responsible, and spend ing, you know, six months or a year, and ultimately deciding whether somebody is or is not responsible, you start with the re sponsibility. And you start with: somebody has been harmed, and it matters, and the focus is on healing,” Collina said.
Student leaders may not take any action in response to allega tions of sexual misconduct with in their organizations, according to Samantha Berner, Title IX coordinator and director of Title IX compliance at Georgetown, beyond guiding their members to university resources.
Confidential resources include Health Education Services (HES), Counseling and Psychiatric Ser vices (CAPS), the Student Health Center, and ordained clergy acting in their pastoral roles.
Quinn said more knowledge on how the Title IX system oper ates would benefit survivors and club leaders alike.
“I do not have any sexual as sault policy memorized,” Du Bois told The Hoya. “My reason ably informed guess is that a university policy re: clubs and sexual assault does exist.”
Georgetown provides a vari ety of resources outside of the Title IX office for survivors of sexual misconduct.
The university’s guidelines for addressing allegations of sexual misconduct states that student organizations can request work shops as they see fit.
“All undergraduate students are required to have attended a bystander intervention train ing called Bringing in the By stander (BITB),” said Berner. “Bystander Intervention is a proven public health strategy that helps prevent and respond to sexual assault by equipping and empowering students to intervene in risky situations.”
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Professor Sara Collina, an attorney and adjunct lecturer in Georgetown’s women’s and gender studies program, said that the often lengthy process of adjudication through Title IX limits its relevance to maintain ing a safe club environment.
Madison Berry (NHS ’22), for mer president of the Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society, said she was frustrated with the hurdles preventing clubs from directly taking action against members accused of sexual assault.
The Hoya strives to follow traumainformed reporting standards. In accordance with these standards, we use the language of “survivor” and “alleged perpetrator” when discuss ing sexual misconduct. Georgetown University, in all official resources, processes and communication, uses “complainant” and “respondent” to describe survivors and alleged perpe trators, respectively.
When asked about the 2019 climate survey, Berner said that the Title IX office responded by increasing community outreach.
“Due to the serious and sensi tive nature of these cases, student organizations should not attempt to investigate or sanction allega tions of sexual misconduct on their own, but should connect members with the appropriate resources,” Berner wrote in a state ment to The Hoya Title IX regulations, which legally prohibit sexual harrass ment, sexual misconduct and discrimination based on sex in educational programs, present students with formal avenues to address these issues.
Students also expressed concerns about the George town community’s knowledge of Title IX resources.
Collina said that this practice would focus on supporting the survivor and would approach sexual assault and misconduct incidents from a different angle than Title IX processes.
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Of the students who responded to Georgetown University’s 2019 sexual assault and misconduct climate survey, only 31.7% felt that they were “very” or “extremely” knowledgeable of where to find help if either they or a friend be came a survivor of sexual assault or misconduct.Onacampus with over 200 student-led organiza tions, student leaders find themselves restricted in their capacity to effectively provide resources for survivors of sex ual assault and misconduct.
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Title IX regulations, which legally prohibit sexual harrassment, sexual misconduct and discrimination based on sex in education programs, present students with formal avenues to address these issues.
In the case of sexual assault or misconduct, students can re port incidents to a confidential resource, according to Berner.
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The Department of Education released proposed updates to Ti tle IX regulations on June 23 that would strengthen guidelines re lated to sex discrimination and sexual misconduct. After several months of soliciting feedback from students, faculty and staff, President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) submitted a formal comment broadly supporting the new regulations.
The university also sponsors a number of preventative initiatives to foster safe club cultures.
DuBois serves as a sector head of Georgetown Collegiate Investors and senior vice presi dent of startups at Georgetown Student Capital Partners. She is not alone in her lack of familiar ity with campus resources.
“It’s extremely unlikely that the university’s process is going to be able to work fast enough to help a group that is managing this kind of discontent,” Collina told The Hoya. “It is certainly not designed to be nimble, and to address sort of immediate situations.”
In addition to bystander train ing, clubs can pursue an Organiza tional Climate Review conducted through the Center for Student Engagement and the Office of Title IX Compliance.
“I can imagine it being a very, very exciting next step for the evo lution of clubs to imagine explore, imagine and develop restorative justice practices,” Collina said, “so that and it’s not just about sexual harm, so that there are practices in place that will not necessarily punish bad people, but will help communities heal.”
“There’s a lot of confusion among club leaders and students in general as to why, you know, our hands are as tied as they are in cases where sexual assault is so
The review process produces recommendations, requirements or sanctions directed toward the organization as a whole, while questions of individual miscon duct are delegated to the Office of Student Conduct.
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Student organizations can request that university officials provide interim measures after a survivor reports sexual mis conduct, according to “Student Organizations Guidelines for Addressing Allegations of Sex ual Misconduct,” a document provided by the Title IX office to student organizations.
hen asked about her knowledge of sexual as sault policies on campus and within clubs, Willa DuBois (SFS ’24) said she didn’t know much.
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To support the goal of making clubs a safe space for survivors, Collina proposed integrating re storative justice practices, which focus on repairing harm in a com munity, into clubs’ constitutions.
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ily alienate somebody if there are just rumors or, you know, some thing that may not be substanti ated,” Quinn told The Hoya. “But the other side of the coin is that we do also feel very restricted in what we can actually accomplish when it comes to making people safe.”
On a campus with over 200 student-led organizations, student leaders find themselves restricted in their capacity to effectively provide resources for survivors of sexual assault and misconduct.
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“For those students who decide to report an incident to GUPD, the Department has 11 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) officers available, with at least one on ev ery shift, who are specially trained to respond to survivors with pro fessionalism and compassion while informing survivors of oncampus and off-campus resourc es and ensuring that each survivor understands available options moving forward,” Berner said.
“Additionally, if a student is interested in filing a formal com plaint, meaning they would like the matter to be adjudicated through a formal University or criminal process, they have the option to do so, and the Title IX Coordinator can explain those op tions in further detail,” Berner said in a statement to The Hoya Filing a formal complaint is never required; survivors have complete autonomy over wheth er or not they choose to initiate the formal complaint process. Once a survivor files a formal complaint, the Title IX Office will begin an investigation and the alleged perpetrator will be noti fied that the survivor has filed a formal complaint against them.
they don’t take it seriously, but it’s just not mandated,” Wasson said.
While SAPE training is not a re quirement for club sports, Wasson said that GRC board members are choosing to undergo the training.
“We all have to feel safe in a room together. Right? And if that’s not happening, then I be lieve that the club both can and should intervene,” Collina said. “And I don’t think that Title IX as a process is necessarily going to be the most useful first step or or only step out of that.”
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ers include all university faculty and staff — with the exception of clergy acting in their clerical roles — as well as residential assistants and graduate teaching assistants. These individuals must report incidents of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating/domestic violence and stalking within 24 hours of the report being made.
To inform club members of ways to prevent and combat sexual assault and misconduct incidents, the university created a three-hour HoyUs: Student Leader Bystander Training. For a club to be eligible for funding and rewards, at least three club lead ers or members must undergo the training and be designated “ProSocial Bystander Liaisons.”
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“That’s the choice that we as a board are making, and probably most club sports will not be mak ing the same decision. It’s not that
Outside of these interim mea sures, student leaders can serve as informal resources who pro vide resources and information to survivors. Club leaders are not mandatory reporters, meaning they have no legal obligation to re port any disclosures of sexual mis conduct to university officials. At Georgetown, mandatory report
“If requested and appropri ate, the Title IX Coordinator can work with the Center for Student Engagement and the student organization to provide “student-organization specific” interim measures, such as, but not limited to, an agreement to not assign individuals to the same project, assignment, or shift,” the document reads.
While procedures are in place to report allegations to the uni versity and Title IX office, tak ing immediate action to protect members of an on-campus orga nization in the interim remains an ongoing challenge.
“It shouldn’t be the situation where only the Chief Human Resources Officer of an organi zation is the only person who’s well versed in all the guidelines,” Wu told The Hoya. “I think that would bring a lot of clarity in terms of making sure that we’re prioritizing survivors and cen tering them in our responses to misconduct allegations.”
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In the future, Collina said she hopes the university strives to implement restorative justice practices moving forward.
The office hosted open hous es, expanded its training efforts, collaborated with key campus partners and launched the Title IX Ambassador initiative, a pro gram that trains students to understand and articulate re sources available to survivors of sexualBrandonmisconduct.Wu(SFS ’24), di rector of alumni relations and advancement in Georgetown College Democrats, said he felt that members of on-campus organizations should be more familiar with sexual assault and misconduct resources.
One resource clubs are using for guidance is Sexual Assault Peer Educators (SAPE), a student group that conducts 90-minute workshops for clubs that request it. Clubs have welcomed presen tations from SAPE to better un derstand consent and have used its resources to help survivors of sexual“Throughassault.these workshops, SAPE teaches students about consent, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and what it means to build and be a part of a survivor-centric culture,” accord ing to the SAPE website.
Procedures are in place to report allegations to the university and Title IX office, but taking action to protect club members in the interim remains a challenge.
While only three club mem bers must undergo this specif ic training, the university said that the student community is mandated to complete a separate program.
The Hoya spoke to a variety of student organizations about Title IX and sexual misconduct policies within clubs. Across these clubs, student leaders expressed concern about the lack of action they can take internally against perpetrators due to Title IX legis lation, as well as gaps in Title IX knowledge across campus.
The Title IX process can take anywhere from several weeks to several months, depending on case-by-case circumstances.
According to Berner, in ad dition to reaching out to a Title IX coordinator, survivors have alternate university-sponsored avenues for support.
At 18 years old, Gurnah left Zanzibar as a refugee and migrated to the United Kingdom to seek asylum as a student at Christ Church Col lege. Gurnah’s works include characters who are often forced to leave their native homes and endure the insta bility of migration, speaking to his lived Accordingexperiences.toGurnah, mi gration is often not only about finding a new home, but rather also consists of grappling with what was left behind.
Over the summer, the group went on a two-week trip to Af rica to bring their plans to life.
Alokozai said studying at Georgetown has been a part of her healing process following the events that occurred in Ka bul last “Georgetownyear. and this program, and becoming part of this com munity helped me a lot to recover from the trauma back at home,” Alokazi told The Hoya. “It gives me purpose at a time where I had to start from scratch.”
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“His attempt at seeing the absurdity or the banalities of the lives of the people he thinks despises him is a way of contesting or responding or fighting back,” Gurnah said.
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“The overall goal is that we need to be seen as capable enough enough to be trusted with big de cisions in the country and outside the country without being seen as victims of violence and human rights violation, which is a truth, but that shouldn’t become our weakness, that shouldn’t become something that takes away the courage, the confidence from us,” Alokozai said.
“Through comedy, he makes fun of the people who make fun of him. He places them in situa tions where they might look ri diculous rather than powerful.”
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“The exhibit needed to keep the attention of all ages and it was important that it be in teractive,” Chapman wrote to The Hoya. “After a year of prep, two weeks working on site, and lots of incredible experiences in-between, we accomplished what we set out to do.”
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“We wanted to ensure that the work didn’t end at evacuation and that these leaders had opportuni ties to continue their leadership and advocacy, thus Onward for Afghan Women was born,” the GIWPS team wrote to The Hoya “Our mission is aimed at elevating and equipping Afghan women leaders with opportunities to con tinue their advocacy on behalf of Afghan women and girls.”
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The natural habitats of spe cies native to Diani Beach have become disrupted as the loca tion has become an increas ingly popular vacation spot.
The Georgetown team spent the Spring 2022 semester de signing a visitors center that raises environmental aware ness for tourists in collabora tion with the Colobus Conser vation. Angela van Doorn, an assistant professor of biology and trip leader, is a long-time friend of the center’s director, Pamela Cunneyworth.
In addition to revitalizing the visitors center, the team assisted Colobus with data collection on human-primate interactions at local hotels and supported staff with the dayto-day tasks of the conserva tion center,” Latronica said.
“What I found most amazing about it however is that even with relatively few resources, their con servation paradigm is inspiration al,” Katial wrote. “The island has banned plastic, uses solar power, and fishes sustainably. They are a model to be emulated.”
tinued providing support for their resettlement in the United States.
A group of Georgetown under graduates and professors helped rebuild an educational visitor center in the Diani Beach region of Kenya this summer.
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The goal of the project was to encourage people to ap preciate Diani Beach as more than a vacation spot and pro mote a mindful treatment of the beach’s ecosystem, John Katial (COL ’25), another stu dent member of the team said.
Writing is about finding voice in the nuances of the hu man experience, Tanzanian author and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah said at an event Sept. 14.
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“I’ll be very happy to see all the various languages of the formerly colonized world pro ducing their own texts and their own literature which can be celebrated by their own na tions and so on,” Gurnah said.
Volunteer undergraduates, postdocs and medical students are working throughout Washington, D.C. to provide nutrition education to families. Currently, over 85% of District residents live in a food desert.
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Azizi said international or ganizations like GIWPS are im portant in pressuring govern ments into change.
Latronica said witnessing this relationship was eyeopening, helping him realize the importance of considering all perspectives in issues con cerning the future of human interactions with nature.
“Advocates need the support of international organizations such as GIWPS to influence the current government and pressure them on girls’ Alokozaieducation.”saidshe hopes to serve as an example of the power Afghan women can have in the
The students studied a variety of monkey species at Colobus and learned about the complexi ties that come with primates living in such close proximity to humans, from human razing of monkey habitats to the negative effects of the presence of mon keys on the local tourism indus try, according to Katial.
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Alokozai said she is focused on advocating access to education for Afghan women while building an identity for Afghan women dis tant from victimization.
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transformation of their commu nities if given the proper resourc es and “Justsupport.bytrying my best to be my best version is one of the goals. I hope to represent Afghan women in the best possible way and tell people that we can do a lot more, if we are given the opportunity,” Alokozai said.
“People who leave, leave peo ple behind,” Gurnah said. “Not everybody leaves, so they leave knowing others are left behind. So when they arrive at a place of safety, they know others are not safe. I think this in itself must be a very traumatic experience, in addition to the trauma of los ing your Gurnah’shome.”newest novel, “Afterlives” focuses on the story of Ilyas, who was stolen from his parents by German colonial troops on the coast of east Africa as a young boy. Ilyas returns to home years later to find his parents gone and his sister abandoned into de facto slavery. The book fo cuses on young people in this society as they live, work and fall in love in an intercon nected way with the threat of warGurnah’slooming.novels use a vari ety of narrative voices, from soft to humorous to elegiac. Gurnah said it is important to identify this voice in the writing process.
Tourism-related development, such as the construction of ho tels, threaten the biodiversity of the area, which has lost 75% of its forests over the past 25 years.
The Onward for Afghan Wom en Initiative, which is an initia tive of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), welcomed two Afghan women refugees into George town’s global human develop ment master’s program.
Salma Alokozai (GRD ’24) and Nasim Azizi (GRD ’24), two of the Afghan women who received help from GIWPS, received the scholarships to study at George town beginning this fall. Alokozi previously worked in the Minis try of Finance in Afghanistan as the director general of macroeco nomics and fiscal policy, while Azizi worked in the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and In dustry in GIWPS,Herat.with assistance from governments, companies, or ganizations, and individuals across the world, helped evacu ate over 1,000 Afghan women leaders and their families when Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul was captured by the Taliban af ter U.S. troops completed their withdrawal from the country in August 2021. The move came just weeks before the scheduled deadline for U.S. troops to with draw from the country.
Gurnah also highlighted the advantage of using comedy and absurdity in his 1988 novel “Pilgrim’s Way,” which follows Daud, an immigrant to Eng land from Tanzania who navi gates life in an unfamiliar place and faces racist abuse from his newAccordingcountrymen.toGurnah, come dy and absurdity can be used as literary tools to expose injustic es migrants face in new places.
“There was something aweinspiring about observing monkey troops in their natural environment, and their intrin sic value is something so clear when you see it first-hand,” La tronica wrote. “Listening to dif ferent people share their per spectives made it clear to me how interdisciplinary environ mental issues have become.”
The center was built under the jurisdiction of Colobus Conservation, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997 to protect vulnerable primate species in East Africa. The cen ter has now expanded to con ducting research on humanprimate relations, animal welfare, forest protection and eco-tourism awareness.
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The Taliban implemented a ban on girls’ education once in power. In the past year, around 850,000 Afghan girls have been stopped from attending second ary school. While the Taliban has reallowed education for girls in some areas, these cases are rare and Taliban policy has largely pro vided obstacles to the pursuit of education for Afghan girls.
In their mission to inform, trip leader and biology assistant professor Dail Chapman said it was important for visual aids to be clear, engaging and fun.
After earning her degree in global human development, Alokozai said she aspires to help people and countries find their
Director Allie Smith, Director of Communications and External Affairs Sarah Rutherford and Af ghanistan Policy Associate Lina Tori Jan, members of the GIWPS team, it was important to en sure that the Onward for Afghan Women Initiative continued to support Afghan women leaders even after the withdrawal.
Gurnah said the trauma migrants face, whether they are fleeing war, persecution or another crisis, is often in addi tion to the difficulties of leaving behind community members.
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“The book focuses on young people in this society as they live, work and fall in love.”
Greg Latronica (COL ’24), a stu dent member of the team, em phasized the importance of com municating with Diani Beach region locals to best understand where their help was needed.
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The event, titled “A Con versation with Nobel Laure ate Abdulrazak Gurnah,” was hosted Sept. 14 in Gaston Hall and led by Georgetown University professor of Eng lish and Interim Director of the Lannan Center of Poet ics and Social Practice Ami natta Forna. The event was hosted by the Lannan Cen ter and co-sponsored by the African Studies Program. At the event, Forna engaged in conversation with Gurnah about migration, colonial ism, the writing craft and Gurnah’s most recent book, entitledGurnah“Afterlives.”grewupon the is land of Zanzibar in Tanzania but was forced to leave the country due to oppression and persecution against Arab citizens in the 1960s. Gurnah’s work explores the trauma of displacement, the tension be tween the colonized and colo nizers and the reality of a cul turally diversified East Africa. He won the Nobel Prize in Lit erature in 2021.
African nations and the era sure of indigenous languages, Gurnah said he is optimistic about the future of literature in the post-colonial world.
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Azizi said her past work in hu man development and women empowerment motivated her to apply for the global human devel opment program at Georgetown.
When the team was creating posters and plaques for the visi tors center, it was a priority that their work inspired, rather than disheartened, visitors about en vironmental change, Katial said.
“What I was witnessing, or real izing as part of my work, made me want to pursue a master’s degree in global human development because I think it plays a crucial role in helping the countries move towards prosperity and economic self-reliance,” Alokozai said. “Also in people’s lives and their welfare.”
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“The relationship that exists between humans and local ani mal populations is special and delicate. Listening to different people share their perspectives made it clear to me how interdis ciplinary environmental issues have become,” Latronica wrote to
“We constantly strove to maintain a delicate balance in our conservation messag ing, one that conveyed both the precarious situation the Southern coast ecosystem is in as well as the hope and beauty surrounding its resilience,” Katial wrote to The Hoya. “In trying to impact viewers, we wanted them to walk away with a sense that while the sit uation is serious their actions do make a difference.”
The Hoya. “This work is super im portant, but what’s even more im portant is listening to the stories and perspectives of those affected to reimagine a future where both humanity and nature have the opportunity to thrive.”
Shauna Bennett, an assis tant professor of biology who also helped to lead the trip, said the project allowed her to enjoy a new dimension of teaching outside of a from“Personally,classroom.myhighlightthetripwasbeingable
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“It isn’t just about making out in this new place. It isn’t just about getting your kids to go to school and behave well and not wreak havoc, or finding a job or integrat ing — whatever the word is,” Gurnah said at the event. “It is also about living with what has been left behind.”
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to share a brand new, perspec tive-changing experience with a group of students,” Bennett wrote to The Hoya. “It’s my fa vorite part of teaching, but wow, does travelling really let you learn together.”
This internship has made me so much more interested in nonprofit work.”
Katial said his favorite mem ory from the trip was exploring the nature of Kenya and seeing how the region could serve as an example of environmental best practices around the world.
“When I received informa tion about the Global Human Development Program (GHDP) scholarship, I decided to apply for it because, in my opinion, when a woman has the opportunity to de velop, she can serve the country’s future,” Azizi wrote to The Hoya. “By continuing to study in this field, I want to be a source of service to my fellow human beings.”
“I don’t begin to write un til I can hear the voice, which is not necessarily a narrator’s voice until I can hear the voice in which the tone, shall we say, the narrative is going to oper ate in,” Gurnah said. “The voice allowed me to imagine much bigger scenes than simply the story, the various subtleties of
In addition, GIWPS has helped provide resettled Afghan women with platforms and connections to advocate for the women and girls who remain in Afghanistan.
Azizi was also a part of the Women Deliver Young Lead ers Class of 2018, which con nects young advocates with platforms and resources to amplify their influence, and a 2019 United States Institute of Peace Generation Change Fel low, a program that partners with young leaders globally to strengthen the transformation of their local communities.
O’Malley maintained his cu riosity and drive to educate him self through his entire life until his death, Schenden said. “John never lost the wonder & awe of a young student,” Schen den wrote. “He lived his life as a perpetual student, which is what made him such an engaging, re markable academic & teacher.”
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“What he did in the class room — intellectually and per sonally — was unforgettable,” Marrow wrote to The Hoya. “He was able to take events that oc curred five centuries ago and use them to prompt vibrant discus sions about questions of faith, history, institutional change, and cultural practice.”
Hinojosa: When I started at the DNC, the number one piece of advice I got from the lady who had my posi tion before was make friends with your counterpart at the RNC. And I thought this was a little bit crazy, we were in the Trump era, and I didn’t really trust that. But we be came friends and I really found we did have a lot in common. At the end of the day, I think it’s good to hear everyone’s perspective and really learn from it.
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“The student hub would be that space for students to be a sanctuary that wasn’t
Rev. John O’Malley, S.J., came to Georgetown University in 2006 and taught until his retirement in 2020. O’Malley published five books during his time at Georgetown and earned the Centennial Medal in 2016.
created on the confines of privilege, but its mission and its intention was for students like us,” Chen Ma said in an interview with The Hoya. “Getting that space back for us to be able to build community to be able to be who we are and claim space, I think is important.”
assisted in my sense of belong ing at Jesuit—esscombinationuniqueever,capacityartSchendenandwithEvenGeorgetown.”incasualconversationsO’Malley,hisscholarlinesscuriositywasexemplified,said.“FromJesuithistorytobaroquetocinema,John’sintellectualwasastounding.HowImaintainwhatwasmostaboutJohnwashisrareofintellectualprow&incrediblekindnesstoallhiscolleagues,hisstudents,hisbrothers,”Schendenwrote.
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“It was just a very gather ing space where you can just go and hang out and not have anything to say and still be welcomed,” Chen Ma said.
“As a friend and colleague, I will miss him greatly.”
O’Malley’s funeral will be held Sept. 17 at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, followed by a pro cession to the Jesuit Cemetery on campus for his burial. A recep
“It felt very relieving for me, because I can just be myself. I can just come to this space and be who I am meant to be, and just talk to people and get to know people on a more intimate level, and talk about real things, and I met a lot of my closest friends.”
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What do you hope to learn from one another?
O’MALLEY, from A1 11 announcing O’Malley’s passing.“Fr.O’Malley was a beloved member of the Georgetown com munity, a devoted pastor and a trusted mentor, advisor and friend to students, colleagues and Jesuits around the world,” Anton wrote.
Hinojosa: It’s a historic time. When I was in col lege, there was nothing that compares to what’s happen ing today. It’s important to tackle those issues head on, and to have conversations, even if they’re uncomfort able, with each other, as long as they’re respectful.
“It was an honor for us to have his presence on our campus for 16 years and to have his faith and his scholarship as a resource in our community,” DeGioia wrote.
Demirjian: There is an inten sity around the midterm that is putting a lot of the things that are in that national security space potentially on the ballot; we are at an inflection point where we’re talking war and peace in ways we haven’t since the Cold War, and we’re talk ing about huge stakes inter nationally, we’re talking about huge stakes domestically. I’m hopefully going to be talking with the students that join the discussion group about how to distill and navigate and dissect how national security issues, which we usually think about as arising from the political fray, don’t at all. They’re affect ed and very much influenced by the discourse.
how to provide our first gen eration college students a distinct community space, while leveraging the oppor tunity for our students to casually meet students from a variety of backgrounds, which can be crucial for students’ development,” Foy wrote to The Hoya In January 2021, the Georgetown Office of Stu dent Equity and Inclusion planned to move the pro gram’s space from its origi nal location in Healy Hall to an office in New South Hall.
GSP students where they can really feel supported by cam pus staff, and of course there’s unique struggles that first-gen low income students face that can’t be adequately addressed without having that space.”
“Father O’Malley helped me — a Jew — fall in love with Georgetown and the Jesuit tradi tion,” Marrow wrote. “He helped me fall in love with teaching. He helped me explore the nature of faith and how it influences his torical and contemporary actors.”
tion will be held at Wolfington Hall to DeGioiafollow. expressed that O’Malley was a valuable mentor and advisor to students whose loss impacts both members of the Georgetown community and Jesuits worldwide.
However, university of ficials found structural con cerns in New South in July 2021, resulting in GSP’s re location to the fourth floor of the Leavey Center. These changes were announced to the public August 2021, sparking outrage among community members. Af ter nearly three months of protests from students and alumni, the university an nounced that the program would return to Healy Hall.
Rev. David Collins, S.J., director of Georgetown’s Catholic stud ies program and a close friend of O’Malley’s, said O’Malley was a kind person who was highly re garded as a scholar and mentor within the Jesuit community.
How will the political climate of this moment, including any lessons we may learn as the 2022 midterm elections approach, dictate the course of your discus sions?
“John — in his life and in his scholarship — captured the full ness of the Ignatian tradition that has been passed down to us from St. Ignatius and the first Je suits,” DeGioia wrote to The Hoya
Jonathan Marrow (COL ’18), who took O’Malley’s course “Two Councils: Trent and Vatican II” in 2017, said he was a life-changing professor whose intellectual abil ity encouraged his students to ex pand their curiosity about history.
“We know we have the op tion to go other places, but I think we had so much support from other people that I think it was like we were right on sticking by our gut and saying this is the space that we want to be at, and fighting for that,” Chen Ma said.
Georgetown announced plans to renovate the ground floor of Healy Hall, dedicating more space to the Georgetown Scholars Program (GSP).
Why is it important to promote conversa tions about politics and government on college campuses?
work as a Despitehistorian.notknowing him personally before arriving at Georgetown, Director of Cam pus Ministry Rev. Gregory Schenden, S.J., said O’Malley made him feel welcomed when he arrived in 2014.
Chen Ma said she is ex cited to return to the space she and many other people fought for GSP to be in.
Taylor: There’s such beau ty in the diversity of back grounds that GU Politics has brought together with this class. But what I’m really ex cited about is identifying the things that we have done and the people that we know that are all similar.
Chen Ma said GSP’s loca tion in Healy is an important symbol for first generation, low income students.
Lundry: The thread through out my discussion will be about the behind the scenes operations of these cam paigns. There is actually a highly sophisticated, very ex pensive, throughthatdrivingsomepaignsgoingmarketingmultimillion-dollaroperationthatisonbehindthesecamthatI’dliketoshedlighton.Howisdatathedecision-makingthesecampaignsgoeverystepoftheway?
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Harbath: Similarly, my dis cussion isn’t just about the midterms, but it’s looking at technology’s impact on elections, not just in the U.S. but around the world and democracy overall. So we’re gonna be talking about is sues of content moderation, mis- and disinformation, political advertising, that of course have an intersection with the election and what the candidates are doing.
Taylor: I still challenge myself to be open-minded and receptive to all different viewpoints, and when I think back, college was kind of the pinnacle of that. And I think it’s incredibly important to create spaces and environ ments where people from all different viewpoints, all different ideologies can feel safe and supported in speak ing up and saying what they believe in.
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“He’s internationally the sin gle most influential church his torian of his generation, bar none, so that’s one side of him,” Collins told The Hoya. “And the other side is he was unrelentingly cheerful and encouraging, and that was part of why he was just fun to be around and in general enjoyable to be O’Malleyaround.”served as an educa tor and historian throughout his life. O’Malley did not join the So ciety of Jesus to become a priest, but rather to continue the order’s
O’Malley published five books after arriving at Georgetown. In 2016, he received the Centennial Medal, the highest honor from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, for his
Demirjian: For a lot of peo ple, college is the last time they are guaranteed to be put in a place with people who don’t think like them.
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Chen Ma said before the CO VID-19 pandemic GSP’s office fostered a community she felt safe in, something she is look ing forward to having again with the new office.
“While I was nervous about living in community with such a scholar & presence, John im mediately disarmed any such notions,” Schenden wrote to The Hoya. “His warmth & humor aided me in feeling at home &
“Johnhimself.wasone of these peo ple that people flocked to him,” Collins said. “He was happy to be consulted and had very good advice for their own schol arly work, and that sort of inex haustibleMarrow,cheerfulness.”whoisnowa middle and high school history teacher, said O’Malley’s guidance played an important role in his decision to pursue a career in education.
Lisa Kennedy (COL ’25), who is a GSP storyteller, or someone who records the history of GSP’s work, is look ing forward to having a physi cal office space.
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McAuliffe: We obviously have different political beliefs, but it doesn’t matter — we can all be friends, and that’s one thing I always like to convey to people. We’ve got three Republicans, two Democrats and an Inde pendent, and we’re not always right. Talking to folks about dif ferent issues is important, and we can all grow and learn by listening to each other.
“His prolific writings contributed important insights about Jesuit and Church history, and because of his work, we have a deeper ca pacity to engage in the richness of the Ignatian tradition.”
Collins said O’Malley’s person ality and character seeped into the mentorship he provided for students and others, including Collins
work in Georgetowneducation.University Presi dent John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) said O’Malley’s life embodied the key values of the Society of Jesus.
Life only gets more siloed as you move beyond college. The tendency is that the di versity of opinion or experi ence shrinks and shrinks as you get older, so to take ad vantage of this time that you have and the place that you have is important.
Architects are working with GSP members to incor porate student input into the planning of the space, Kennedy“They’resaid.really trying to factor in student voices, GSP student voices and GSP student leader voices when they’re developing the student office,” Ken nedy said. “They’ll be doing focus groups in the coming months to solicit student opinions and voices, and GSP staff’s opinions on what this new space should look like, and how we should or ganize it because we will be sharing the space with other campus organizations.”
“I didn’t get to experience the sense of community that having that office creates,” Ken nedy said in an interview with The Hoya. “It’s a safe space for
GU Politics Fall Fellows Discuss Importance of Cross-Aisle Dialogue
The fellows for the 2022-23 academic year, announced Sept. 6, are Becky Normile, (GRD ’23), Alekhya Chaparala, (GRD ’24), Rosemary Rhodes (GRD ’24), Rehman Liaqat (GRD ’24) and Nadia Stovicek (GRD ’23). Fel lows receive a partial-tuition scholarship of up to $25,000 and a paid research assistantship related to health care access with McCourt faculty. Though specializing in different fields, all five fellows are driven by per sonal connections to their work.
Paying medical bills is something that 41% of work ing-age Americans, approxi mately 72 million people, struggle with, according to a survey by The Common wealth Fund. The likelihood of medical debt increases 20% for low-income adults unable to afford adequate health insurance.
“It also showed me how much work we have left to do as a nation to ensure all individu als have access to high-quality, affordable care and are able to
Cardello said he hopes to see greater transparency with patients on how to navigate medical debt paired with substantial legislative change moving forward.
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ing to Rosemary Kilkenny, vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion and chief diver sity officer for the university.
“Our work to eradicate all forms of sexual assault and misconduct will never stop,” Kilkenny wrote in the Sept. 13 statement. “We still have work to do, and we will be relentless as we continue to create a more supportive and safer educational and work environment where every member of our community can pursue their very best work and thrive.”
attain good health,” Normile wrote to The Hoya. “This is why I’m so excited and honored to be a George E. Richmond Fellow, where I’ll have the opportunity to examine strategies state Med icaid programs can use to im prove access to oral health care for underserved populations.”
Social determinants of health, which include a patient’s race, age, residence, occupation and eco nomic status, shape health out comes like recovery rates and life expectancy. For instance, system atic inequality in housing condi tions and food access contribute to higher rates of obesity, asthma and chronic illness in African Americans compared to nonHispanic whites, according to the Center for American Progress.
sue, not merely something I wanted to pursue.”
The Georgetown Univer sity McCourt School of Public Policy announced five new Richmond Foundation Fellows in recognition of their work in public health policy.
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By inviting panelists and attendees across a wide range of backgrounds, the event encouraged inter-field col laboration on the medical debt problem, according to a Capio Partners spokesperson.
Liaqat said memories of his immigrant parents over coming the difficulties they faced coming to the United States fuel his passion for public policy.
On Sept. 7, Italian sandwich shop Cucina Al Volo and Hip pie Sippin,’ which offers fresh acai bowls, had pop-up stands at the market.
“Too many people can’t af ford an unexpected medical bill. There is a group of Ameri cans who are commonly re ferred to as ALICE patients (Asset Limited, Income Con strained, Employed Ameri cans),” the spokesperson wrote.
The Georgetown Univer sity Farmers’ Market (GUFM) is back with new vendors who are offering fresh pro duce, acai bowls, Italian sandwiches and more for the Fall 2022 semester.
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“Legislators should establish affordable payment solu tions for at-risk households that make repayment feasi ble without jeopardizing the family’s basic needs.”
“The goal of the event was to bring together a variety of healthcare industry and regu latory leaders who are on the forefront of the medical debt crisis to shed light on why medical debt has ballooned and to propose practical solu tions that could help the mil lions of Americans who find themselves overwhelmed by medical debt,” the spokesper son wrote to The Hoya
“Besides the opportunity for Georgetown to have pro duce at the market again, we chose to work with DOL as they’re a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring equitable op portunities for marginalized communities in DC,” Hwang wrote to The Hoya GUFM will also feature several new vendors that will rotate on a weekly basis throughout the semester.
The market will also include Rita’s Crepes, a Bethesda-based creperie that uses organically sourced produce, as a seasonal
Having served as a teach ing assistant for incarcer ated students during her time as an undergraduate at Cornell University, Chapara la said the fellowship gives her the opportunity to use a policy perspective to pursue her passion for improving population health.
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vendor starting Sept. 21.
“We also try to bring in ven dors from beyond the George town bubble, but after the pandemic we may be revis ing this to help support local businesses,” Donovan wrote to The Hoya. “Our criteria aims for vendors with locally sourced produce and ingredi ents as the farmers market exists as a sustainable way to eat local food.”
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“Overspokesperson.thecourseof the lis tening sessions, we heard meaningful feedback and questions from students, both undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff who are com mitted to preventing sexual as sault and misconduct on our campus,” the spokesperson wrote. “We are grateful for our community’s respectful and diverse engagement on these complex issues.”
“I hope that by the end of my life we’re closer to a world where all individuals have equal and affordable access to healthcare (because we should be realistic about how slow policy can work sometimes!),” Rhodes wrote. “I am of the opinion that when economic inequality is discussed, health should al ways be a component of that conversation.”
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GUFM Co-Director Frances ca Donovan (COL ’23) said the GUFM sends the application out to DMV area restaurants and farmers market stands, though some vendors reach out directly to be featured. Donovan said the GUFM typically also sources beyond D.C., but has shifted to focus on more local restaurants in order to provide them with more support, particularly given the economic impact of COVID-19 on businesses.
All vendors featured in the GUFM must complete an ap plication to be considered, and they are selected based on several criteria related to food waste and sustainabil ity, according to Hwang.
“I love the Farmer’s Market because as a student living on campus, it’s really nice to be able to grab some closeby, non-campus food once in a while,” Johnson wrote to The Hoya. “Some of my favorite days here at Georgetown have been when I’ve gotten lunch at Timber Pizza or Swizzler and enjoyed it on the lawn with some friends in between classes. I am definitely excited for new vendors each week be cause I love to try new foods and mix it up.”
The forum’s speakers in cluded Hank Cardello, who authored the report; John Mc Namara, assistant director of consumer credit, payments, and deposits markets at the Consumer Financial Protec tion Bureau; Ashwini Kotwal, CEO of Arietis Health, a rev enue cycle management com pany; and Mark Detrick, CEO of Capio Cardello,Partners.whoserves as Ex ecutive Director of the Lead ership Solutions for Health and Prosperity program at Business for Impact, said medical debt worsens the health outcomes of patients by disincentivizing seeking further treatment.
was more susceptible to a con dition than another).”
waste is a really important aspect of sustainability), and if they are willing to learn how to accept SNAP ben efits/EBT card/flex dollars,” Hwang wrote. “One of our long-term goals is to make the farmers’ market acces sible for the community.”
“The student conduct sys tem is not — and should not be — a substitute for the criminal or civil courts,” DeGioia wrote in the com ment. “By requiring colleges to mimic courtroom proce dures, and mandating oppor tunities for cross-examina tion by advisors, the current regulations deter certain students from reporting, cre ate potential inequities and therefore allow misconduct to go unaddressed.”
After seeing how research on health equity has grown as a field, Rhodes said she is optimistic that real change is possible within the new generation of policymakers.
“For me, such aspirations revolve around refugee and immigration policy,” Liaqat wrote to The Hoya. “From my mother’s refuge in the United States as a mother of six un der life-threatening condi tions in an underprivileged home to my father who drove a taxi in D.C. for nearly three decades, immigration reform has always been something that I knew I needed to pur
“One of the most insidious results of medical debt is the avoidance of routine or essen tial healthcare in order to avert additional medical expenses,” Cardello wrote to The Hoya “Nearly half of the respondents (45%) in the American Cancer Society study had delayed care for a serious issue due to their medicalAlmostdebt.”aquarter of U.S. adults have avoided refill ing a prescription due to cost, according to a 2022 study conducted by the Kaiser Fam ily Foundation. This figure in creases to 29% and 30% of U.S. adults for Hispanic and black patients, respectively.
“I grew up in my mom’s hos pital — I volunteered there starting from the time I could pretty much walk and talk. This naturally led to a leading interest in health economics and policy,” Rhodes wrote to The Hoya. “I would constantly ask my mom why the different populations that she was see ing had different outcomes (or even, from my young eyes, why it seemed like one demographic
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Medical debt is especially detrimental to certain low-in come and at-risk demograph ics known as ALICE patients, the Capio spokesperson said.
DeGioia also wrote that it is crucial to lower barriers to reporting, particularly for stu dents of color, who have histor ically tended to avoid reporting incidents of sexual miscon duct due to a lack of trust in judicial systems, according to two surveys the university con ducted in 2016 and 2019.
Even medications that are essential for a patient’s sur vival, such as insulin, may be skipped due to the financial stress, which significantly worsens health outcomes, Cardello said.
The forum was sponsored by Capio Partners, a management company dedicated to resolv ing clients’ outstanding medi cal bills and helping them find solutions for medical debt.
“Over the last 50 years, Title IX has paved the way for mil lions of girls and women to access equal opportunity in our nation’s schools and has
MSB Business for Impact Initiative Hosts Panel On Medical Debt Crisis
Business for Impact, an ini tiative under Georgetown’s McDonough School of Busi ness (MSB), held a forum dis cussing the nation’s medical debt crisis and possible next steps for healthcare providers andThepolicymakers.Sept.8forum focused on a report from the Business for Impact initiative, which works to see how business can help solve social, economic and en vironmental challenges. The report, called “Prescription for Medical Debt: How Care Pro viders, Collection Agencies and Government Can Help,” identified the main causes and consequences of medical debt accumulation. Approximately 1 in 10 U.S. adults owe medi cal debt, with collective medi cal debt held by Americans amounting to aroundt $195 bil lion in 2019. Health expenses generated by the pandemic and recent inflation have since exacerbated the issue.
In addition to addressing the consequences of medical debts, panelists also discussed ways medical debt dispropor tionally affects some American households equally.
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“A recent study of diabetes patients by CharityRx found of the 60% of respondents who rationed their insulin due to medical debt, 54% reported
Normile, who became in terested in health policy after working with several states on the implementation of the Af fordable Care Act, said the fel lowship has broadened her un derstanding of the weaknesses of public health policy.
“Consumers need to be empowered with better in formation about how to climb out of and avoid medi cal debt, and industry should provide easy-to-use tools to help them,” Cardello wrote.
Liaqat said his lived experi ences continue to inform his work in refugee and immigra tion policy reform and its in tersection with health care ac cessibility. He hopes to use his background in Pakistani poli tics and policymaking to cre ate processes that respect the rights of refugees, specifically, through his pursuit of creat ing access to affordable health care in the United States.
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that they couldn’t do every day activities, 44% said they couldn’t work, and 37% said they couldn’t go to school,” Cardello wrote. “One-third re ported becoming sick as the result of rationing their insu lin and 38% wound up in the hospital for one or more days.
“The fellowship adds a prac tical experiential component to my experience at McCourt, and gives me an opportu nity to explore my interest in health policy at the state and local level,” Chaparala wrote to The Hoya
been instrumental in combat ing sexual assault and sexual violence in educational set tings,” Cardona wrote in the release. “We welcome public comment on these critical regulations so we can further the Biden-Harris Administra tion’s mission of creating edu cational environments free from sex discrimination and sexual violence.”
The GUFM is held in Red Square every Wednesday, and was founded to improve access to fresh food on campus and promote local and sustainable agriculture while supporting a holistic view of nutrition. This semester, GUFM will feature nine permanent seasonal ven dors: Bun’d Up, Borek-G, Yoga in a Bowl, Swizzler, Timber, DMV Empanadas, Maracas Ice Pops, Georgetown Bubble and newly added Dreaming Out Loud (DOL), according to Chloe Hwang (MSB ’23), GUFM co-director. These vendors will each have a stand through the last market in November.
Kiely Johnson (COL ’23) said she appreciates the opportu nity to try local food on cam pus and is looking forward to exploring the variety of op tions from new vendors.
A series of listening ses sions with students, faculty and staff informed DeGioia’s comment, according to a uni versity
Gioia encouraged federal ef forts to include sexual miscon duct that happens campus or overseas during study abroad programs as well as regula tions that make grievance pro cesses more accessible.
DOL is a non-profit orga nization working to create economic opportunities for marginalized communities in the Washington, D.C. region by supporting their financial sta bility and food security through
Though specializing in different fields, all five fellows are driven by personal connections to their work.
and sex-based harassment, it is helpful and important for the Department to reaffirm this inclusive approach in its regu lations,” DeGioia wrote.
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DeGioia’s comment follows the Department of Education’s release of the proposed chang es for public comment June 23, 2022, the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX.
“We are working to create an integrated pipeline to jobs, eco nomic opportunity, and com munity wealth-building for our most marginalized com munities, utilizing the food system as the catalyst,” the DOL website reads.
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DeGioia also indicated the proposed provisions that could use additional clarifi cation from the Department of “GeorgetownEducation. supports the Department providing clarity that Title IX protects against all forms of sex discrimination and sex-based harassment, includ ing discrimination based upon sex stereotypes, sex character istics, pregnancy or related con ditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Georgetown’s policies have long prohibited all forms of sex discrimination
DeGioia and the university have historically shown sup port for expanding Title IX pro tections — in 2019, Georgetown submitted a formal comment urging the Department of Edu cation to adopt regulations that encourage similar protections as the 2022 proposals.
Hwang says GUFM added DOL to the vendor list be cause of its mission and fresh produce offerings.
The spokesperson recom mended passing policies that extend the time people are given to pay off debts to make the burden more man ageable for patients.
workforce development aid and entrepreneurship training.
“We select each one af ter evaluating if they meet our criteria; we care about where they source products/ ingredients from, what they do with their leftovers (food
Georgetown University an nounced its support for new reg ulations proposed by the Depart ment of Education that would strengthen Title IX protections for students by addressing sexual misconductUniversityguidelines.President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) submitted a formal comment to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, in which he advocates for the federal gov ernment to strengthen Title IX guidelines related to sex discrimination and sexual misconduct, according to a statement posted on the uni versity website Sept. 13.
His comment also support ed improvements to reporting and grievance procedures; De
Rhodes, who is studying the sociodemographic, economic and environmental indica tors of health service, said she is inspired by her mother, a physician who primarily treats low-income and marginalized populations in Washington, D.C.
“These individuals often have zero to negative net worth, don’t qualify for financial as sistance, and when an unex pected medical debt arises in their lives, they’re often unable to afford it and fall into debt.”
“The course consists of teaching people how to recognize bleed ing and how to stop it through 3 simple steps: applying direct pres sure (almost always this is all that is needed), packing a wound if it is deep, and applying a tourniquet if the bleeding is severe and cannot be controlled with pressure/pack ing,” Sarani wrote.
If chosen, students are then matched with the organization that best fits their interests.
Students selected for the program are expected to work six to eight hours a week, and can participate on a volunteer basis or apply their Federal Work Study awards.
Sadanandan said the ul timate goal is to expand to other campus locations so that students have a place to dispose of their compostable materials any day of the week.
“On one hand, I gained more practical skills like communi cation, coordinating with sev eral dozen volunteers regularly, and research, studying industry best practices and other orga nizations’ fundraising tactics,”
“The DC Committee on Trau ma (COT) yesterday voted unani mously to use our own funds to put 180 teaching kits into the schools,” Sarani said. “This will be enough to make sure that all of the graduating high school students this year get trained at a ratio of 1 teacher per 4 students.”
“The most rewarding experi ence was meeting the incredible staff and taking their photographs to design their IDs,” Fan wrote.
Farmers’ Market, GREEN Collaborate On Composting Station Initiative
“I gained meaningful experi ence in being a part of a team and a greater social justice movement for racial and economic equity,” Tao wrote. “Perhaps most valu ably, this internship has made me so much more interested in nonprofit work as a potential ca reer path. Whatever I do in the future, I will take my experiences at Academy of Hope with me, making me a better worker and person. I would highly recom mend the experience!”
The LoaD internship pro gram works in tandem with the award, providing support to selected organizations while giving motivated students a re warding experience, according to a university spokesperson.
The Georgetown University Farmers’ Market (GUFM) worked with GREEN to create an environmentally friendly station for students to compost food waste.
yond solely my internship.”
Amid the vendors sell ing wood-fired pizzas and flavor-stuffed empanadas at the Georgetown University Farmers Market (GUFM) sits a composting station where students can discard food waste as an effort to cre ate a more environmentally friendly campus.
Tao said she gained valu able administrative skills be yond her expectations coming into the program.
Teaching this program to stu dents in the District will help residents be prepared to act in blood loss situations. In the Dis trict, 128 people die by guns in an average year. Gun violence costs the city around $2 billion, and
Tao said the experience she gained in the program has helped shape her thoughts re garding her future career.
organization’s work.”
Beyond gaining work expe rience, the program also al lows Georgetown students to make long-lasting changes in their partner organizations, according to Tao.
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The composting bins, orga nized by GUFM in collabora tion with the Georgetown Renewable Energy and Envi ronmental Network (GREEN), are located in the middle of Red Square during the mar ket every Wednesday after noon until it closes for the winter. In addition to help ing students reduce waste, the initiative aims to educate students on the importance of composting efforts.
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“As a LoaD intern, I had the op portunity to work with incredible women who empower their local community around injustices of domestic violence and home lessness,” Fan wrote in a promo tional flier for the program. “In my first year at Georgetown, I researched the effectiveness of eviction policies before and dur ing Covid. I was able to directly implement my research into the
Tao wrote to The Hoya. “I also learned a lot about fundraising and social media marketing strategy that will serve me well in future roles.”
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GREEN volunteers will be present at GUFM to answer questions about compost ing and ensure that students are composting the correct items, Sadanandan said.
As a LoaD intern, Maggie Fan (SFS ’25) worked at House of Ruth, an organization that sup ports women recovering from trauma and abuse.
“Bleeding is the most common cause of preventable death follow ing most injuries,” Sarani wrote to The Hoya. “Therefore, we see the ba sic skills that STB teaches as some thing that all people should know. If you really think about it, the skills taught in STB are easier than CPR – which is now a common part of everyone’s vernacular.”
Nadia Sadanandan (NHS ’24), one of the leads for the GREEN’s Zero Waste Team, which is helping to organize the composting initiative, said educating students on how to compost is important for reducing waste on campus.
Rachel Tao (COL ’25), a member of the spring cohort of LoaD, interned at Academy of Hope, a local Black-led adult public charter school.
“The first step was training a sufficient number of DCPS teach ers on STB and so the course that we just finished with them about 2 weeks ago was a train-the-train er model where we certified about 30 or so DCPS teachers as STB teachers,” Sarani wrote. “These are the same people who teach the no-hands CPR. Because the STB curriculum and teaching materi als are already set/created, rolling out the actual course to the stu dents will be very easy.”
“This program strengthens the John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award by supporting awardee organizations with tal ented Georgetown students who are committed to social justice work; creates a pipeline of work opportunities for Georgetown at highly vetted, impactful and mission-aligned DC non-profit organizations,” the spokesperson wrote to The Hoya Fan said she recommends LoaD to anyone interested in ex ploring the work people are do ing beyond Georgetown’s gates.
ing efforts, picks up the compost from GUFM each week. In ad dition to GUFM, composting is available at the Dupont Farm ers Market and Eastern Market Farmers Market in D.C.
Nonetheless, the implementa tion of the program in DCPS has not been without its challenges.
“We are working to bring even more compost, because at this point we are con strained to three bins and we definitely want more,” Dono van said to The Hoya. “So far we have had a couple stu dents bring their compost from the last week and drop it off, which is the goal here.”
Georgetown University’s Cen ter for Social Justice is launching its second iteration of the Legacy of a Dream (LoaD) internship program, which pairs students up with local nonprofits.
Babak Sarani, chair of the ACS Committee on Trauma for Wash ington, D.C., believes this training will save many people in the Dis trict from preventable death.
D.C. has the highest gun homi cide rate in the country.
DCPS Teachers, Students Receive Blood Loss Prevention Training
Composting is environ mentally beneficial as it re duces an individual’s carbon footprint, decreases the reli ance on chemical fertilizers, improves soil quality and re duces landfill emissions.
“Individuals that have been trained to respond to emergen cies are more likely to respond when the need arises,” Lumpkins wrote. “We have seen this trend for CPR/breathing emergencies and hope to see the same effect with bleeding injuries.”
GUFM Director Francesca Donovan (COL ’23) said the aim of the initiative is to ex pand the amount of waste that can be collected as more students learn that the com posting bins are available.
“I would definitely recom mend this program to anyone who’s really trying to learn more about D.C. as a whole beyond solely Georgetown,” Fan wrote. “I was able to really get out in the community and learn about D.C. and its really cool organizations.”
The hour-long course aims to teach people life-saving techniques to stop excessive blood loss, while also ensuring the person rendering aid is not injured themself.
tended to encourage D.C. res idents to take steps at home to compost and reduce their environmental footprint.
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As a LoaD intern, Tao said she designed an entirely new digital fundraising strategy, which Academy of Hope has recently implemented.
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Fan said the program al lowed her to engage with issues within the D.C. community and use her skills and expertise to make a positive impact.
“That project required sig nificant dedication and effort, but it will be deeply rewarding to see my recommendations carried out, to know that I had a tangible impact on the orga nization that will last for years to come,” Tao wrote.
“I was happy that I could design something useful for the staff be
Common items that can be composted include fruits and vegetables, crushed eggshells, coffee grounds and tea bags. Meat and dairy products can not be composted at GUFM as they may cause odors and attract insects.
“We’re also aiming to shift our vendors to more sustain able packaging so that we can be a fully compostable market,” Donovan said.
Stop the Bleed (STB), which is being rolled out in DCPS this year, is an interactive train ing program provided by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) that aims to teach indi viduals lifesaving techniques to stop fatal blood loss in the event of emergencies. While the program is currently limited to select teachers, high school students will also eventually participate and receive training. The program has prepared over 2.1 million people worldwide al ready to treat fatal blood loss in the event of an emergency.
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DCPS students are also re quired to participate in a man datory CPR program prior to graduation, but Sarani said STB was added to the CPR re quirement to expand the life saving skills that high school students already learn.
“The other thing we need to help students with is teach ing them how to compost in their dorms and that they can actually store food waste and food scraps in their freezer in a ziplock bag and bring it to the market every Wednesday to drop off,” Sadanandan said to The Hoya Avery Kaye (COL ’24) said composting in college helps her to reduce her impact on the environment and to con tinue with sustainable prac tices that she grew up doing.
Fan said she also got to make an impact outside of her typical responsibilities as an intern at House of Ruth.
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“I composted at my high school, and I still make an effort to compost today when possible,” Kaye said to The Hoya. “It’s nice to be able to go to the farmers market and have the opportunity to compost there and try to be as sustainable as possible while in Throughcollege.”theD.C. Depart ment of Public Works’ Home Composting Program, Dis trict residents are able to earn a maximum rebate of $75 on a home composting system. The program is in
Donovan said composting is just one step toward creating a more sustainable and environ mentally friendly GUFM.
Lumpkins believes that the training will enable students to respond confidently in emer gency situations with these newfound skills.
the upcoming school year.”
An emergency blood loss training program is being imple mented in Washington, D.C. pub lic schools (DCPS) for health and physical education teachers.
DCPS Manager of K-12 Health Education Erin Lumpkins said she believes that the training is especially critical for children in D.C. to learn, given the city’s high rates of gun violence. According to the D.C. Policy Center, an average of 2,800 kids were nearby for each 2021 homicide in the District.
When applying, students fill out a form where they indicate their areas of interest and their prefer ences from a list of organizations.
While on campus, pro grams such as GUFM’s com post initiative allow college students to contribute to composting efforts and envi ronmental sustainability in the District.
“The biggest challenge was finding time to train the teachers. As you can imagine, the teachers’ time is very limited and getting everyone together at the same time for training was tricky,” Sa rani said. “Luckily, DCPS was able to find time during the summer when teachers undergo a lot of inservice training in preparation for
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STB also initially struggled to get enough training materials for teachers. Since the program is outside of the DCPS budget cycle, DCPS did not budget to purchase teaching kits. Sarani said that the DC Committee on Trauma voted to use its own funds to put 180 teaching kits into school and ensure all graduating high school students are trained.
Students who are selected for the program work with leaders and organizations that have been recognized by the John Thomp son Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award for their strides toward solving key issues in Washington, D.C.
“Youth Risk Behavior Survey data shows that 10.5% of high school students in DC have been threatened or injured by a weapon,” Lumpkins wrote to The Hoya. “This demonstrates that there is a need to equip stu dents with the skills to respond to bleeding injuries.”
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Sharing and synthesizing public data about viruses is an other core part of Verena’s work. The institute is in the process of constructing what it hopes will be the largest open data ecosys tem in viral ecology.
“My volunteer experience with the Medical Reserve Corps allowed me to see how health
“The overarching goal of the permanent REUSE shop would be to encourage a circular econ omy, significantly reduce waste, and increase the accessibility of clothing, school, and dorm ma terials on campus while rais ing money for local nonprofits,” Hodge wrote to The Hoya. “We also
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“This is a global problem that will take a team of researchers from many different perspec tives and experiences to address
With new funding, Verena may also develop its training and educational programs to expand research opportunities for undergraduate and gradu ate students, according to Cyn thia Wei, assistant professor in Georgetown’s Science, Technol ogy and International Affairs program and who serves as Ver ena’s education director.
An Army veteran himself, Jaramillo said he initially at tempted to distance himself from his military background when coming to campus out of fears about stereotyping.
“We wrote a proposal to re ceive funding to collect dorm items, store them over the sum mer, and host a popup REUSE shop during fall move-in,” Hodge wrote. “After getting the funding we collected donated dorm ma terials and clothing during the move-out drive, transported and stored the materials in a storage unit, and transported them back to campus in the fall where we hosted the pop-up sale for 3 days during move-in.”
“I did this because for many years prior to attending George town, I attended community college and felt as if the label of ‘veteran’ drastically altered how people perceived me,” Jaramillo wrote to The Hoya. “I still inter acted with veteran communi ties by serving on the board of our Student Veterans Associa tion chapter, and participated in our decision-making process, but I wanted undergraduate students to realize that veterans aren’t a one size fits all!”
Georgetown University stu dents sold a variety of dorm items, including used rugs, fridges and shelves, diverting nearly 500 pounds of waste during a used dorm item popup sale over the course of three days during the Fall 2022 se mesterBrookemove-in.Hodge (SFS ’24), Ste phane Granato (SFS ’24) and other members of the George town Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN) collaboratively sold over 100 products and raised $1,500 during the sale, which ran on Aug. 19, 21 and 22.
“We’re hoping that the pop-up shop’s success is a proof of con
The biggest obstacle the group faces in trying to open a perma nent store is finding a space on campus to operate out of, accord ing to Granato.
plan for the development of an eventual permanent REUSE shop,” Hodge wrote.
To bypass this issue in the past, GREEN has partnered with The Corp for their thrift shop efforts. The group worked with George town Mutual Aid and The Corp last year to develop Uncommon Threads, racks where used cloth ing and accessories are sold in The Corp’s Uncommon Grounds and Hilltoss, according to Hodge.
Half of GREEN’s earnings from the event will be used to eventual ly establish a permanent shop for reused supplies, called a REUSE shop, while the other half is being directly allocated to Georgetown Mutual Aid, according to Hodge.
Two planes carrying migrants were flown to Martha’s Vineyard on the night of Sept. 14, a move that Florida Governor Ron De Santis has taken credit for. Abbott sent two buses of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ resi dence in D.C. Sept. 15.
“Even as the initial rush of vaccine demand slowed down later in the year and life ‘returned to normal’ for many volunteers, James still found time to sign up for a shift, usually multiple times a week,” Fletcher wrote to The Hoya. “Clinic staff are always happy to see his name on the daily sign-in sheet, knowing that he’ll be there to fill any role needed of him and have a positive, infectious attitude while doing it.”
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office established a new Office of Migrant Services to manage the high volumes of migrants being bussed to D.C. by Arizona and Texas officials.
Members of GREEN held a pop-up dorm supply sale that raised $1,500 and diverted hundreds of pounds of waste.
Elhamlocation.”Atashi,co-director and associate teaching professor in the Justice and Peace Studies program at Georgetown, said that while the bussing of migrants is a recent phenomenon, the issue of immigration is not a new crisis.
Students Host Sale of Used Dorm Supplies
“The practice of loading mi grants on buses and driving them to urban centers such as Wash ington, DC has shifted and artifi cially reconstructed border experi ences,” Atashi wrote to The Hoya “But it has also further derailed us in effective policies to deal with the cause of such large-scale migration, criminalized the issue and dehumanized the migrants.”
fice of Migrant Services, then we will lead a response that makes our community proud.”
The Office of Migrant Services will allow the District to respond to the arrival of migrants with out the use of the D.C. National Guard. This program, which is
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Georgetown University is positioning itself to become a leader in the tracking and pre vention of emerging viral diseas es after securing a $12.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support emerging virus research.
“Once the buses arrive in DC, it is up to the city of Washington DC not to derail and outsource the problem as Federal and shift the city’s response as prolonging effective policies into waiting for help,” Atashi wrote. “What is more useful is to begin to think about policies that can consider this as a problem for the com munity in Washington DC and to tap into resources for assis tance, guidance and support.”
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to do so because D.C. is not a state.
After declaring a public health emergency, Bowser filed emer gency paperwork for the Office of Migrant Services to the Council of the District of Columbia.
separate from the houseless service system, will attempt to meet the needs of the migrant population, including food, ac comodations and medical needs Mayor Bowser requested that the National Guard be deployed twice to respond to this crisis, but the request was denied by the Department of Defense (DOD).
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“GREEN members will be working outside of the club to de velop a proposal and long-term
SCS Student Receives Community Award For Veteran Efforts
Jaramillo said he remains engaged with healthcare vol unteering even after gradu ation and encourages his peers to get involved in their own ourHoyasmunityme“Thiscommunities.awardempoweredtocontinuetoaidmycomandshowothershowcanpositivelyimpactsurroundings,”Jaramillo
Colin Carlson, the director and co-founder of Verena and an as sistant professor at Georgetown.
“It gave people, especially stu dents who can’t afford to buy all brand new stuff, access to more accessible dorm items at a more affordable price,” Granato said in an interview with The Hoya
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Granato said the event helped reduce waste and in creased the accessibility of clothing, school and dorm ma terials, which were GREEN’s primary goals for the sale.
SCS Dean Kelly Otter said
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“Students will have chances to connect with and learn from a sharp, diverse, and vibrant group of researchers, as well as unique opportunities to engage in Ver ena research,” Wei said in the press release. “These experiences will provide an exciting window into the process of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and actionable science. They will also provide a chance for students to be a part of cutting-edge discoveries on viralTheemergence.”grantgiven to Verena will enable Georgetown to become a leader in emerging virus research as further scientific attention is given to infectious diseases.
“I am elated to see James Jaramillo recognized for his service activities. Our militaryconnected student organiza tions are crucial in creating a space for military students to connect, build community, and continue serving,” Wilson wrote to The Hoya. “I am proud and thankful for GUSVA’s service to our campus community and to their country.”
Wesley Wilson, the director of Georgetown’s Military and Vet erans Resource Center, said the award serves as a veterantributionsacknowledgementwell-deservedoftheconJaramilloandotherstudentorganizations have made to Georgetown and communities in need.
In addition to his work with GUSVA, Jaramillo assisted the Arlington MRC in their vacci nation efforts and response to COVID-19, something he said inspired his passion for provid ing equitable healthcare.
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from one another to cohabitate. The study reported that the in tensified viral exchange among animals increases the likelihood that one of the roughly 10,000 viruses capable of infecting hu mans will do so more often and with more devastating effects.
A School of Continuing Studies (SCS) student won the Lena Landegger Community Service Award for his volun teer efforts with the George town University Student Vet erans Association (GUSVA) and Arlington County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).
Granato said student demand for used items is irrefutable, and a permanent REUSE store will ben efit the student community.
Texas has spent more than $12 million as Republican Governor Greg Abbott vows to prevent bor der crossings in his state. Abbott has chartered buses for migrants who enter the United States to East Coast cities, often controlled by Democrats, such as D.C. Ab bott has done so in a move to antagonize the Biden adminis
“From serving our country to giving back to our community, James exemplifies the many strengths of our student veter ans at SCS who go above and beyond the classroom to build a better future,” Otter wrote to The Hoya. “I am incredibly proud of James who is a role model among his peers demonstrat ing how empowered students can thrive and ignite positive change in their communities.”
“Addressing emerging dis eases — especially against the backdrop of climate change — and its disproportionate impact on some populations, is one of our more important health issues,” Healton wrote. “Georgetown is well positioned to lead this work.”
wrote. “These days I find myself volunteering with the MRC, MedVets, and my neighborhood community center. MedVets is specifically designed to provide mentor services to veterans con sidering a medical career.”
Hodge said she, Granato, Rita Alan (SFS ’24), Paul Aversa (SFS ’25), Elizabeth Packard (COL ’25), Minoli Ediriweera (COL ’25) and Eleanor Hohenberg (COL ’25) worked together on the applica tion for the award.
Carlson said he hopes the new funding will enable Verena to pursue more complex and more meaningful research.
The District government will allocate $10 million to the Office of Migrant Services. The money will provide both the government and NGOs the ability to serve more migrants who are arriving and seeking asylum. According to the press release, Mayor Bowser will request that the federal gov ernment reimburse the money.
On Sept. 8, Bowser announced the creation of the Office of Migrant Services which will be considered part of the Depart ment of Human Services and will work to provide additional support to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are currently aiding migrants in the District. Since the spring, D.C. has been struggling to manage the large influx of migrants that have been sent in on chartered buses by the Republican gover nors of Texas and Arizona.
emerging diseases,” Healton wrote to The Hoya
Verena began the process of enlarging its team only weeks af ter receiving its first installment of NSF funds, announcing a slate of new fellowship and staff po sitions in late August. Verena’s team and Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSM) lead ers hope the institute’s sustained growth will yield significant benefits for scientists and poli cymakers hoping to tackle future pandemics, according to Edward Healton, executive vice president for health sciences.
hope in the future that we will be able to pay student workers as this year, we relied on the volunteered time of the 7 grant recipients and friends willing to help.”
Jaramillo exemplifies the school’s ideals of supporting the common good.
“With this plan, we are stay ing true to our D.C. values and building a system that will sup port a compassionate, consistent and well-coordinated response,” Mayor Bowser said in the press release. “This is a new challenge for D.C., but I feel confident that if we lead with our values, and if we put the right systems in place – which we are doing with the Of
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“We’re looking at a few differ ent options, but to be honest, it’s been really, really hard — we’ve been trying to get a space for a long time,” Granato said. “It’s still up in the air, and we may also try and es tablish ourselves as our own non profit. We’re kind of exploring a lot of different options right now.”
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The Center for Student En gagement also prohibits GREEN from selling items for profit as an organization, so the perma nent shop will not be able to be directly affiliated with GREEN, according to Hodge.
Carlson and Albery’s simula tion forecasts that cross-species disease transmission will in crease drastically in coming decades as changes in climate force species previously isolated
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is over whelming our communities,” Abbott said in a recent press re lease from his office. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctu ary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional
“Three years in, we’re thrilled at the chance to scale up and tackle even harder problems — and hopefully start to make real impacts in global health and con servation,” Carlson said.
tration for its border policies and send these migrants to tradition ally liberal cities.
According to Atashi, D.C. must act to support migrants who ar rive and act to implement specific policies that accomplish this.
Verena’s work has already proved to contribute signifi cantly within the scientific com munity. In April 2022, Carlson and Gregory Albery, a postdoc toral fellow at Georgetown and Verena’s second co-founder, published a study charting the potentially disastrous impact climate change will have on the spread of infectious disease.
The Office of Sustainability initially suggested the idea for a dorm supply pop-up sale follow ing the move-out drive at the end of the Spring 2022 semester when students donated supplies to be reused, according to Granato.
The pop-up was funded by GREEN’s Spring 2022 winnings of $500 from the Greens Com mons Award, which is awarded to proposals that support dis course and action on environ mental and sustainability issues in the Georgetown community, according to the Green Com mons Awards’ values statement.
A large portion of Verena’s new funding will go toward re searching bats, one of the animal kingdom’s most effective virus transmitters. Mosquito-borne ill nesses will also receive a special focus from the institute.
“The days of ‘quiet periods’ between epidemics are over — from this point on, we’re head ed from COVID-19 straight into monkeypox, into the next pub lic health crisis,” Carlson said in the press release. “Our goal is to build the data and tools we need to know what’s coming to morrow — and maybe, actually, be ready next time.”
Granato said the pop-up served as a trial run to show that stu dents would use and benefit from a permanent REUSE store.
While in GUSVA, Jaramillo coordinated local, militaryaffiliated events, leading tours of Arlington National Cemetery to educate visitors on the lives of veterans. With a motto of “Veterans for Oth ers,” the driving mission of GUSVA is to wholly embrace the principle of giving back, according to Jaramillo.
“We think the demand is re ally clear, people love the store,” Granato said. “I think it serves a great purpose, raising money for charity, for mutual aid on cam pus, but also giving students access to used items and also promoting sustainability.”
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) established a new office to help mitigate the large influx of migrants that have been bussed into the District from Republican-con trolled border states.
The funds will bankroll new research and educational projects overseen by Verena, a shorthand name for the Viral Emergence Research Initiative. Verena is a Georgetown-based research initiative founded by two university scientists in 2019 dedicated to researching the inception and spread of in fectious diseases, according to a university press release. The grant, which Georgetown re ceived in August and expires in 2027, also sanctifies the NSF’s latest Biology Integration Insti tutes, which provides support for collaborative teams that perform research within and beyondFoundedbiology.six months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Vere na’s team has employed machine learning and multidisciplinary research techniques to deter mine where the next pandemic might come from and how to stop it. Verena hopes to continue this line of research through the new funding, according to
care disparities impacted people from underserved communi ties,” Jaramillo wrote. “These in teractions helped me realize my goal of working in primary care as a physician in the future with the goal of improving health equity and trust in underserved communities to improve their access to Jaramillocare.”quickly became a reliable and regular volunteer for MRC’s vaccination clinics both during the pandemic and after, MRC coordinator Mi chael Fletcher said.
Abbott has claimed the move is in the best interest of both the migrants and the towns they have been seeking asylum in.
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According to the rejection letter obtained by CNN, the Pentagon wrote that it would not be appro priate to deploy the D.C. National Guard. Mayor Bowser does not currently have the power to de ploy the D.C. National Guard and must ask the federal government
Every year, the award recog nizes Georgetown students who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to serving com munities in need. James Jara millo (COL ’22), one of this year’s recipients, received the award because of community service efforts within the Georgetown community, especially his ser vice in assisting veterans return ing from service. Jaramillo is the first SCS student to win the award in the school’s history.
About 9,400 migrants have been bused to the District since the spring, according to a press release from the Executive Office of the Mayor. The press release describes the move as a political stunt designed to draw the atten tion of the White House.
However,emotions.asaresult of the strict rules, the exchanges between coaches and players are less trans parent to the audience than those on the WTA Tour and do not offer the same entertainment interest.
“Any time you get the chance to tie the game up late, it’s super exciting. We’re an ex tremely talented team that plays hard, that made some mental errors and Lehigh tookTheadvantage.”Hoyaswill travel for another early-season test next weekend for a non-con ference game when they take on the Monmouth Hawks (0-2) on Sept. 17 in West Long Branch, N.J.
If buses of Hoyas can trek down several hours to North Carolina, Georgetown soccer should have supporters flood ing to the Maryland SoccerPlex for the next three years to wit ness more playoff excellence.
These coaching breaks on the WTA tour are fully audible. They are displayed on TV for view ers, providing unprecedented insight into the game and an entertaining firsthand look into the players’ personalities and displays of
The Association of Tennis Pro fessionals’ (ATP) experimental rule now permits verbal coach ing in the form of short phrases — not conversations — from the player’s box and the use of sig naling when the player is on the other end of the court.
that the Georgetown attack was back. With 14:41 to play, a deflect ed volley from first-year midfield er Julian Barrios Cristales fell to Zengue, but his shot was denied by another impressive save from the Terrapin goalkeeper.
Though fans of the Hoyas now need to venture off cam pus more frequently to root for their squad come playoff time, the new venue is still closer to Georgetown than it is to other Big East schools, such as St. John’s University in New York, DePaul University in Chicago or Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. As such, George town supporters will still likely make up a healthy proportion of playoff fans.
Tennis has differentiated itself from other sports with its individ ualistic nature and previous ban on coaching during matches. In a gladiator-type setting, the players wrestle with their minds on the court and must make strategic decisions on their own. Like chess, tennis is a battle of wits and intel lect as much as a physical contest.
The previous rule greatly fa vored Georgetown in the post season because of the Hoyas’ sustained success as a top seed. Their men’s team has hosted the last five tournament finals, gain ing a competitive home-field ad vantage. For the women’s team, the Hilltop is a perennial host as the Hoyas have won five of the last six Withchampionships.theBigEast’s an nouncement, however, George town fans will travel to Mary land for at least the 2022, 2023 and 2024 postseasons. The Maryland SoccerPlex, complet ed in 2000, features 24 fields and welcomes over 1 million guests annually.
From1-0.there, the chances kept coming for Maryland. The Ter rapins looked quicker to the ball, rattling off 5 shots in the first 15 minutes. Still, Ulrich made some great saves to keep the Hoyas alive, and Georgetown managed to challenge on the other end with dangerous runs from junior Kyle Linhares and a close offsides call on Hoyas firstyear forward Jacob Murrell.
On Sept. 7, the Big East an nounced its men’s and women’s soccer finals and semifinals will take place at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Md., for the next three postseasons.
The first quarter score was followed by an impressive drive from the Hoyas, who jumped to a 10-0 lead with a touchdown early in the sec ond quarter. Off the back of a forced fumble by first-year defensive back Wedner Ca det and an unsportsmanlike
The Hoyas fell to the Mountain Hawks 19-21 in their home opener. Lehigh thwarted the Hoyas’ 2-point conversion attempt that would have tied the game.
The Hoyas came out firing early in the second period. Ju nior forward Marlon Tabora led the way, blasting a shot over the goal before forcing the Mary land goalkeeper to make a save with a low driving effort.
The No. 21 Hoyas (1-2-2) came into Saturday’s matchup play ing well but having won only one of their first three games. No. 14 Maryland arrived in Washington, D.C. fresh off a 6-1 drubbing of the University of Virginia on Sept. 5.
Georgetown was unable to respond in the third quarter, with each of its possessions re sulting in a turnover on downs.
Top-ranked American Taylor Fritz, for example, prefers the idea of tennis being played on an island.
“Congratulations to the ATP for ‘legalizing’ a practice that has been going on at almost every match for decades. No more hy pocrisy,” Mourataglou tweeted.
In the 66th minute, Panayo tou stepped into a long-range at tempt from outside the box and the Maryland goalkeeper barely managed to poke the ball up off the crossbar. Two minutes later, first-year midfielder Zach Zengue dribbled into the penalty area and passed to Tabora. Tabora’s shot ricocheted off a Terrapin de fender and fell to senior defender Aidan Rocha, who blasted a sec ond effort from close range. The Maryland defender made a fan tastic save to his right to knock away the shot, but it was clear
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So far this season, the men’s squad is ranked No. 21 and stands at a 1-2-2 record, a de cline from last season. Mean while, the women’s team is ranked No. 24 and stands at a 3-1-3 record.
The 2022 U.S. Open featured a new grand slam champion and crowned the youngest men’s world No. 1 in 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz. If that was not surprising enough, the last major tourna ment of the year also implement ed a new on-court coaching rule, which has triggered passionate reactions — some praiseworthy and others deeply critical.
Otheruniformly.players,including Wim bledon finalist Nick Kyrgios have raised equity concerns about the new roles, pointing out that some players may not have the resources to pay for a coach to guide them through the game.
Allowing elements of coach ing is like a teacher making a take-home test open note. Some people will cheat anyway, so why not make it an even playing field? However, in rare instances, coaching violations are harshly and ambiguously delivered. In the 2018 U.S. Open final, the chair umpire handed Serena Williams a controversial coaching viola tion that led to Williams receiv ing two more code violations, and an eventual game penalty.
“I thought the second half was great,” Wiese said. “We played some of our best soccer of the year in a lot of ways.”
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conduct penalty from the turnover celebrations, Holly threw a 19-yard pass to soph omore wide receiver Brock Biestek. The Hoyas drove the ball 89 yards to score. Start ing on their own 11-yard line, the drive totaled 8 plays for 89 yards in just over three min utes of Georgetownpossession.did not main tain this momentum for too long, though. In the next drive, the Mountain Hawks scored a five-play, 74-yard drive before scoring yet an other touchdown on their next possession and taking the lead Georgetown14-10. was able to stop the bleeding with the last possession of the first half, scoring off of a 28-yard field goal from Ryan. The Hoyas entered halftime down 13-14.
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Its Championship Stadium, a bowl-like structure situated at the heart of the complex, features 3,200 hard seats and can host up to 5,000 guests, fitting for the larger crowds at championship games. The field itself features elevated out-of-bounds areas to contain rogue scoring attempts and
In the U.S. Open final, Alcaraz’s coaching team offered a few words of advice in fast-spoken Spanish, but the words were largely inau dible through a TV screen.
Another Georgetown mis take in the 29th minute gave Maryland a second goal. Ulrich couldn’t control a difficult pass from sophomore midfielder Joe Buck and sent the ball straight into a charging Terrapin striker,
Thus, when the ATP introduced new experimental coaching rules on the ATP tour from July 11 through the end of the season, it raised questions about the integ rity of the sport, with many players lashing out at the new rule.
The Hoyas finally broke through with 77:47 gone in the game. First-year forward Jacob Murrell found a streaking Pan ayotou right outside of the box and he launched a left-footed strike into the near corner to cut the Maryland lead to 2-1.
“It’s a dumb rule. Tennis is an individual sport. Why are we making it not an individual sport?” Fritz said per Eurosport.
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The two teams looked evenly matched for the first few min utes. Quickly, though, things started to fall apart for the Hoyas. In the 6th minute, a Ter rapin striker beat sophomore midfielder Diego Letayf on the edge of the box then sprinted for the touchline. Letayf lunged in for the ball but took out the player’s legs, granting the Ter rapins an early penalty kick. A Maryland midfielder stepped up, sent sophomore goalkeeper Luca Ulrich in the wrong di rection, and calmly slotted the place kick into the bottom right corner of the net to put his team ahead
Last season, the Georgetown men’s soccer team was the Big East regular season champions and therefore the No. 1 seed in
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Head Coach Brian Wiese said he should have come in with a better game plan for his team.
Wiese said he was proud of the way his squad performed in the second half.
Opinions remain divided about whether the rule will affect players
Still, the effort would prove to be too little too late for the Hoyas. The ball rarely left the Maryland half for the last 10 minutes of the game as George town tried shot after shot but nothing broke through. Eventu ally, the Hoyas fell 1-2.
the tournament, earning the privilege to host every game they played in. They sustained this level of play by capturing the Big East title at home over Providence, 2-1.
to communicate with the play ers through discrete signaling or verbal remarks. Frequently, the chair umpire missed these viola tions, which was, in turn, unfair to those not breaking the rule.
Despiteout. this, a solid con tingent of Georgetown (1-1, 0-1 Patriot League) and Le high (1-1, 1-0 Patriot League) fans filled the stands. Even though the Hoyas couldn’t build off of their big 43-12 win over Marist on Sept. 3, the loss carries no major im plications for the rest of the conference season.
tion of the Eventually,season.thegame came down to the final Hoya pos session. With 4:25 left on the clock, Georgetown needed to drive down the field, score a touchdown and convert on a 2-point attempt to tie the game. In what was one of the biggest plays of the game, graduate wide receiver Josh ua Tomas reeled in a 20-yard touchdown pass to make the score 21-19 with 1:04 left.
who poked the ball into the open net to give Maryland a 2-0 lead.
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Although the Hoyas man aged some decent efforts in the last few minutes of the half, they went into the break down 0-2.
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With just over a minute left on the clock in the fourth quar ter, Georgetown football lined up for a 2-point conversion to tie the game. Lehigh, however, shattered its hopes for any late-game heroics by promptly stopping senior quarterback Pierce Holly’s rush to the right side of the field.
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Before the coaching rule, coaches would often find ways
The Hoyas didn’t fare well at the start of the second half. Lehigh drove the ball 76 yards on the very first possession of the half, capped off by a 25-yard rushing touchdown that extended the Mountain Hawks’ lead to 21-13.
“The Maryland SoccerPlex has a history of hosting in credible soccer events,” Chris Schneider, the Big East’s execu tive associate commissioner of sports administration and championships, told The Hoya “We look forward to working with them and their youth soccer community on creating memorable experiences for our student-athletes.”Thecomplexhas hosted a medley of high-profile events such as games for MLS’s D.C. United, National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) Wash ington Spirit and international friendlies, as well as charity and rugby matches.
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The Georgetown men’s soccer team lost to the University of Maryland 1-2 after a failed comeback.
The first round of the sixteam tournament will still be hosted at the higher seed’s home turf. While the No. 1 and 2 seeds receive a bye, the No. 3 seed will host the No. 6 team and the No. 4 squad will play at home against the No. 5 seed, per usual.
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The ATP has taken steps in recent years to modernize the game and appeal to a new audi ence. The serve clock, new team events, and fifth-set tie-breakers are all additions that have bene fited the sport. Let’s continue the trend and allow partial coaching in professional men’s tennis.
The Hoyas’ home opener at Cooper Field had an elec tric atmosphere despite both teams getting off to a slow start. The only points on the board in the first quarter came from a 23-yard field goal from Georgetown’s sopho more kicker Patrick Ryan. Ryan remains perfect on field goal attempts this season, converting all 3 of his kicks, with his longest from 28 yards
U.S. Open had allowed on-court coaching during junior and quali fying matches. Additionally, in all events outside the slams, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour allows coaching once per set on changeovers, where the players can engage in a 60-90 second face-to-face conversation with their coaches.
Kyrgios, who travels without a coach and is praised for hav ing one of the highest tennis IQs on tour, has little to benefit from the rule. While this is a valid concern, others, like world-class coach Patrick Mouratoglou, ar gue permitting coaching levels the playing field.
At the time, Williams’ coach Mourataglou admitted to coach ing her. “I was coaching, but I don’t think she looked at me,” MourataglouMourataglousaid. also accused Naomi Osaka’s coach of breaking the“Everyonerules. is doing it, 100 per cent of the time,” Mourataglou toldWhileESPN.the WTA coaching rule marked a major change in tra dition, the new ATP coaching rule does not provide the same coaching access, marking a rea sonable compromise between traditionalists and modernists of the sport. After all, coaching is al lowed during matches in almost all other racket sports, including pickleball, table tennis and bad minton. Even golfers have cad dies by their side to consult.
“The first half was one of the more disappointing halves we’ve had,” Wiese said in a post game interview with The Hoya “It was a combination of Mary land being really good in that 45 minutes and me needing to rejigger a couple things.”
Down by 2 points, the Hoyas had to try for the 2-point conversion, but their attempt was thwarted when the Lehigh defense stuffed Holly. After failing to recover the onside kick, there wasn’t much the Hoyas could do as Lehigh ran down the clock.
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“What happens if a high pro file player versus a low ranked player who doesn’t have or afford a coach?” Kyrgios tweeted.
All things considered, the ex perimental ATP rule is beneficial for the game. It provides height ened entertainment and access into matches while preserving the sacred physical barrier be tween coaches and players.
The Georgetown men’s soc cer team couldn’t come back from an early deficit against the University of Maryland Terrapins on Sept. 10, falling 1-2. First-year midfielder Jack Panayotou scored Georgetown’s only goal with a left-footed shot from just inside the box.
In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament, the men’s squad hosted its first three national tournament matches as the higher seed. Propelled by elite talent and the home crowds’ roars, the men’s team racked up home tournament wins against Georgia State, Providence and a thrilling penalty kick duel ver sus West Virginia University. They ultimately lost in the na tional semifinals to the Univer sity of Washington in Cary, N.C., the first off-campus venue of theSimilarly,tournament.the Georgetown women’s soccer team also dom inated the Big East last season, capping off the Big East tour nament with a 1-0 victory over St. John’s in the championship at Shaw Field. In the NCAA tournament, they demolished Central Connecticut State, 6-0, at Shaw Field before losing to Santa Clara.
Panayotou impressed once again after earning Big East Freshman of the Week honors for his goal and assist against Temple University on Sept. 2. He and the Hoyas will look to build on their late momentum when they take on the St. John’s University Red Storm (1-4-1) at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 16.
Fans of the Georgetown men’s and women’s soccer teams will now have to travel further than Shaw Field to watch the Hoyas in the Big East Tournament. Since 2015, each Big East playoff game was host ed by the higher-ranked seed, but this is set to change.
The remainder of the third and majority of the fourth quarters produced no further scoring, highlighted by plenty of punts and turnovers on downs. Georgetown managed to produce its second turn over of the game as Cadet caught his second intercep
Despite the loss, Head Coach Rob Sgarlata told Georgetown Athletics he was pleased with his team’s performance.“I’mreally proud of our guys for the way they trusted and relied on each other to make some plays and to get that last drive,” Sgarlata said.
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Now, though, unlike prior policies like the “ghost run ner” or seven-inning double headers, these changes have some strong rationale be hindNowthem.ifonly we could en tirely remove batting average from baseball broadcasts…
Lastly, and perhaps most con troversially, the MLB announced a limit on defensive shifts.
allowing them to get any flow going. We pressed them hard, and it’s what we need to do if we are going to continue to haveGeorgetownsuccess.” will play next against West Virginia (3-2-3) on Sept. 17 at Shaw Field. The match will begin at 1 p.m., and it will be the Hoyas’ last matchup before conference play begins Sept. 22.
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Alfieri discussed the simi larities between what he learned as a Hoya and the emotions he sought to evoke through this latest project.
Those lessons prepared
“For us, it’s about magis, it’s about the 1% and getting that much better each day. That 4-for-40 journey is all those things and it’s not just athletically-based,” Sgarlata told The Hoya in a Zoom in terview. “Your four years here and all the experiences that encompasses — on the field, off the field, social, jobs. All the good things, all the tough things, all the things you have to fight through, those should set you up for success.”
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Senior forward Gia Vicari, graduate forward Boo Jackson, and sophomore forward Cyanne Doyle dismantled William & Mary, all finding the back of the net in the Hoyas’ third shutout of the season.
The Hoyas’ next chance to build on their success will come on a cross-country trip to California next weekend. Georgetown will face the UC
The team came out with high energy after the pre vious night’s victory, with sophomore setter Lilly Costi gan pitching in 31 assists. After these strong perfor
Although the iconic posi tional fluidity of baseball may be depressed, more spectacular defensive plays and hits — com ing from defensive players being further away from predicted ball
James Kim (MSB ‘24), an avid Georgetown soccer fan, said the third goal relieved some pressure for fans.
Baseball has officially turned the dial with future viewership in Inmind.all honesty, I don’t re ally care that these changes go against baseball’s long and storied past. Other ma jor sports leagues have no is sue changing their rules and practices on a yearly basis. In fact, I believe the success of the National Football League and National Basketball As sociation in recent years can be partially attributed to the fact they listen to their fans and players and quickly im plement on-field changes.
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Craft recalled how Alfieri’s No. 35 jersey helped them meet
to sit back. I knew we had it in the Nolanbag.”said his team needs to continue its dominance on the field to have a successful season.
“We met through the Georgetown football pro gram, and I saw that Nick was a captain on the team and wore No. 35, which sym bolized what his character was,” Craft told The Hoya in a Zoom interview. “I knew he was a good guy and said, ‘okay, he’s doing a bunch of interesting film work around the football program.’ That’s how we initially got in touch.”
“The defensive team must have a minimum of four players on the infield, with at least two infielders completely on either side of sec ond base,” the MLB announced.
be a 30-second timer between batters. Between pitches, there will be a 15-second timer with the bases empty and a 20-second timer with runners on base,” the MLB announced in a statement on their website.
With their new connec tion, Craft and Alfieri imme diately got to work making films. Their first movie to gether was the 2017 comedy “Lady-Like,” which told the story of a college student fac ing adulthood. The film en joyed immediate success, as Craft was awarded Best First Time Director at the Sun screen Festival in Tampa Bay after it accepted the movie.
“I think that this first win was the big hump we needed to get over, and now they know they can do it and play
UNICORN TOWN, from A12 every game of his sopho more year as a gunner before eventually working his way up to lead Georgetown’s re ceiving corps in catches and receiving yards as a junior in 2006.For his part, Alfieri con tributed on the one side of the ball Craft did not play: de fense. From 2011 to 2014, Al fieri was a team captain and All-Patriot League Second Team defensive player for the Hoyas. He made history on the field, becoming the third player in Georgetown football history to eclipse the 300-tackle mark in his col lege career. Beyond that, too, his character earned him the prestige of wearing the No. 35 Joe Eacobacci Memorial Jersey in 2014.
The Hoyas closed out the tournament with a win Sept. 10 against George Washing ton, sweeping the Colonials in three straight sets, 25-19, 25-20, and 25-16, respectively.
mances, Heller said she is optimistic about the outlook for the team’s season.
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The MLB and its fans, how ever, are known to oppose change, anchoring the sport in its traditions. For better or worse, baseball’s decisions have repeatedly prioritized history over evolution.
each other post-graduation.
“We’ve had a lot of injuries that have plagued us early this season, but so many players stepped up this week end,” Heller said in a postgame interview with The Hoya.“Mary Grace has been a big point scorer for us but Ruth Kayongo, Minnie Pur cell and Brennan Wilhite all helped contribute offensively too. It was a great team win.”
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“Before the goal, I thought we were going to win but it was still tense,” Kim said in a postgame interview with The Hoya. “Afterwards, I was able
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Santa Barbara Gauchos (2-6) on Friday, Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. ET and Saturday, Sept. 17 at 10 p.m. ET. The Gauchos just split their doubleheader last weekend against New Mexi co State (6-2).
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paths — sound pretty sweet. (We also won’t have to worry that the batting average on balls in play doesn’t take into account the shift, but that’s more of a per sonal excitement I imagine).
in front of the net. Doyle knocked it in to score her first goal of the year.
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journey from football to film making, both of the former Hoyas recalled Georgetown football Head Coach Rob Sgarlata’s (COL ’94, GRD ’12) “4-for-40” motto, which in stills into players that their four years at Georgetown will set them up for the next 40 years of their lives.
Craft and Alfieri to tell the sto ry of the Unicorns’ adversity, which encompassed every thing from financial struggles to a lack of recognition.
“The themes in the docu mentary we touch on are stuff we had at Georgetown: fight ing against adversity and not giving up in the face of adver sity, which I think is a major theme of the documentary, so hopefully that’s something people are able to take away.”
Now, Alfieri and Craft are sharing this theme, their small team and its big les sons with the world. “Unicorn Town,” which already earned an IMDb user rating of 9.1/10, is available on the streaming services Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu.
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Despite devastating injuries to start the year, several Hoyas stepped up to help Georgetown log victories at the Dig the District Invitational on Sept. 9-10.
at a high level of volleyball,”
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I went to a minor league game this summer to see the Portland Sea Dogs face the Somerset Patriots, and the pitch clock was phenomenal. The game didn’t feel dragged out at all, and the pace of play was entertaining. The MLB cites that Minor League Base ball games were, on average, 26 minutes shorter than years past. This will undoubtedly be a welcome change for all fans.
sophomore libero Karis Park, who charted 24 digs of herWithown.this relentless, teamfirst energy, the Hoyas were able to stay toe-to-toe with the Bearcats and claim the second and fourth sets, 2522 and 25-23, respectively, which geared them up for their final victory at the end of five Headsets.Coach David Heller said he was proud of the team’s ability to stick togeth er in competitive situations.
“Overall, it was a great day and a good performance,” Nolan said. “I felt today that for the full 90 minutes we were the dominant team, and we did a good job of not
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Columnist Eli Blumenfeld argues that the MLB rightfully chose evolution over history in its latest set of rule changes for the 2022-23 season.
Sgarlata commented on the significance of that motto.
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The Hoyas opened up tour nament play on the after noon of Sept. 9, facing the Rider University Broncs (2-5).
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side Ruth Kayongo and grad uate middle blocker Brennan Wilhite chipped in 11 and 8 kills, respectively, to comple ment Goyena’s standout per formance. On defense, the team kept the ball off the ground with 80 digs, led by
Calling them a small-mar ket team might even be an un derstatement.Schwäbisch Hall plays at Optima Sportpark, an artifi cial turf field in southern Ger many with a seating capac ity smaller than Georgetown’s Cooper Field. With the rest of the league’s teams pouring in money and surpassing them in wins, the team needs to find a way to rise to prominence despite their struggles. Thank fully, the strong culture and leadership lessons from their international players’ football careers give them a fighting chance to thrive in the GFL.
The team rushed on to the court to celebrate and rejoiced in the long-awaited relief.
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Goyena spoke to the team’s emotions behind getting its first win.
found the back of the net for theThegoal.second half was more of the same for Georgetown.
After a tough start to the season, Georgetown women’s volleyball found its rhythm for the first time behind a breakout performance from sophomore outside hitter Mary Grace Goyena.
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The Hoyas’ doublehead er continued just a few hours later as they faced off against Binghamton the evening of Sept. 9. Although the Bearcats came out of the gates with high energy, tak ing the first set easily, 25-16, the game was far from over.
Despite Goyena’s offensive leadership with 16 kills and an impressive defensive showing from junior middle blocker Chanelle Smith, who managed 8 blocks, the Hoyas dropped three sets in a row (25-18, 25-21, 25-15).
The next three sets saw intense battles between the two teams, with 14 tie scores in both the second and third set and 9 tie scores in the fourth set. However, the Hoyas held their own on the offensive end, as junior right
First off, the MLB and the Players Association introduced larger bases, arguing that they will decrease the chance of in jury. No complaints there.
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Once Georgetown finally got past Doughty the Hoyas extended their lead to 2-0 just seconds before halftime. After getting behind William & Mary’s defense once more, sophomore forward Maja Lardner passed to graduate forward Boo Jackson, who
A leaping save by Doughty was the only thing that stopped her from widening the Hoyas’ lead. Seven minutes later, Georgetown once again pushed up the left side of the pitch, this time crossing into the middle of the box to sophomore forward Erika Harwood, who had a great look on goal but was blocked by Doughty yet again.
review. And the New York Yankees, whose lack of ac quisitional aggression I criti cized, are in the midst of a his toric slide from grace.
My two biggest winners of the off-season — the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers — are both atop their respec tive divisions, as of Sept. 15. These two teams have, howev er predictably, dominated the regular season — with their off-season additions making significant impacts. In fact, the off-season additions of Max Scherzer, Starling Marte and Mark Canha have cumulative ly added 9.6 Wins Above Re placement (WAR) for the Mets. Similarly, newcomers Freddie Freeman and Tyler Anderson added 10 WAR to the Dodgers, according to Meanwhile,Fangraphs.mytwobiggest losers of the off-season — the Colorado Rockies and Wash ington Nationals — both sit at the bottom of their respec tive divisions. The Nationals have traded their best player in team history in Juan Soto (yes, he is that good), an event I predicted in my off-season
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“The defense was very
Georgetown Glides Past William & Mary in 3-0 Shutout
Sophomore outside hitter Mary Grace Goyena turned in multiple exceptional per formances as Georgetown women’s volleyball earned its first two wins of the sea son at the Dig the District Invitational on Sept. 9-10.
The first chance came when sophomore midfielder Claire Manning raced down the left sideline and blew past the William & Mary defense.
terview. “We’ve been putting in so much work and getting so close that it feels great to finally have it and be able to share this with one another.”
Craft and Alfieri detail this at tempt to keep up in Germany through “Unicorn Town.”
it became clear that the Georgetown attack would cause problems for William & Mary, Doughty did everything she could to keep her team in the game. She started by putting an end to two fantastic opportunities for Georgetown in the 21st and 28th minutes.
Sure enough, Goyena sealed the deal just mo ments later for the Hoyas with a crushing final kill to top off her career-high 29 kills, ending the fifth set, 15-13, and taking the game, 3-2, against the Binghamton Bearcats (6-2).
good,” Nolan said in a postgame interview with The Hoya. “We’ve been working on a new system this week and I thought we did a good job with it. I thought our outside players, in particular Claire Manning, did a great job for Afterus.”afoul was committed by William & Mary forward Madison Moon in the 50th minute, the Hoyas looked to go up by three. They almost did so off a free kick, striking it into the box and finding the back of the net before the shot was called offside. The Hoyas drew four offside calls
Craft played offense and special teams for the Hoyas in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Though he didn’t see the field in his first season, he saw action in
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The Hoyas’ swarming defense prevented the William & Mary front line from looking cohesive, while the Hoya offense continued to apply pressure on the other side of the field. Overall, Georgetown notched 21 shots, far more than the two from William & Mary. Defensively, the Hoyas committed only four fouls, 10 fewer than William & Mary.
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Thanks to two former Hoyas, American football may not only be American for muchFormerlonger.Georgetown University football players Nick Alfieri (MSB ’15) and Brent Craft (MSB ’08) are taking the international side of the sport to the big screen, jointly producing a documentary about the little-known German Football League (GFL). The film, “Unicorn Town,” tracks the story of Ameri can football players on a smallmarket German team called the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns.
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Sophomore outside hitter Mary Grace Goyena set a career high with 29 kills in a win over Binghamton.
No. 24 Georgetown women’s soccer continued its strong start to the season with a commanding victory over William & Mary. The Hoyas’ new defensive scheme, featuring senior goalkeeper Allie Augur in her season debut, enabled them to shut out their opponents.
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Georgetown (3-1-3) sank its first goal of the match in the 15th minute. Off of a pass from senior midfielder Julia Leas, graduate defender Maya Alcantara shot on goal from the right side of the box. William & Mary (2-4-1)
Okay, I’m done tooting my own horn. I’m just a biased Mets fan who thinks the “Amazins” will win the World Series every year (but this year is different!) at the end of theInday.this edition of “Rounding the Diamond,” I want to talk about the recent Major League Baseball (MLB) rule changes that will take effect in next year’s baseball season.
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“In an effort to create a quicker pace of play, there will
Earlier this week, the Major League Baseball Players As sociation agreed to three new rule changes for the upcoming 2023 season. Put simply, Amer ica’s favorite pastime will now have larger bases, a pitch timer and no defensive shifts.
All the tough things, all the things you have to fight through, those should set you up for success.”
Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan said the team’s new defensive scheme was key to Sunday’s victory.
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Next, former Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox execu tive legend Theo Epstein and the MLB announced some changes to speed up the pace of the game.
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Before they made films, though, Craft and Alfieri ex celled on and off the field on the Hilltop.
After a strong start, blow ing by the Broncs to grab the first set, 25-14, the Hoyas lost momentum and were unable to stop the Rider comeback.
goalkeeper Zoe Doughty dove to block the shot, making an impressive save. However, senior forward Gia Vicari quickly tapped it in off the save to give the Hoyas an early 1-0Afterlead.
“We’ve been waiting for this for so long,” Goyena told The Hoya in a post-game in
Baseball is Changing. Let’s Embrace it.
On Sept. 9, after almost three hours of volleyball and an exhausting four-anda-half sets, the air in Mc Donough Arena started to feel electric. It felt like some thing that the Hoyas (2-7) and their fans had not expe rienced yet this season. Fans stood up and began to cheer as they sensed this buzz sur rounding the court — the Hoyas were on the verge of capturing their first win.
But the winning didn’t stop there. The Hoyas charged on the next day, Sept. 10, to not just win, but dominate, against local rival George Washington University (3-6), topping the Colonials, 3-0, and leaving the Dig the District Tournament with a 2-1 record.
Georgetown (3-1-3)
ROUNDING THE DIAMOND
Goyena starred once again with a match-high 11 kills, with sophomore right side Minnie Purcell chipping in 10 of her own.
It’s been so long since last weLet’smet!take a look at how my designated winners and losers of the off-season are faring.
The No. 24 Georgetown women’s soccer team dominated William & Mary on both sides of the field in their Sept. 11 matchup. If not for multiple miraculous saves by the William & Mary goalkeeper, the margin of victory would have been much greater for the Hoyas.