The Hoya: September 30, 2022

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Prominent National Leaders Honor Late Prof. Madeleine Albright

Adora Zheng Senior News Editor

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and for mer President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) reflected on the ac complishments of the late Secretary of State and George town professor Madeleine Al bright at a symposium held in her honor.

The Clintons joined moder ator Melanne Verveer, the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, to celebrate Albright’s life of public ser vice and her commitment to her students at the final speaker event of the Sept. 29 symposium, which featured a morning session and a slate of speaker events in the after noon session.

President Clinton said in

his final conversation with Albright just weeks before her death, she said she didn’t want to waste time discuss ing her health — she wanted to talk about Ukraine.

“I’ll never forget it. It was an amazing conversation, it was so vintage Madeleine,” former President Clinton said at the event. “She was just a really smart woman that couldn’t imagine why you waste the last few weeks of your life on reminiscences or regrets when you’d had the life she’d had and there was so much still to do.”

Secretary Clinton spoke on Albright’s personability and unique ability to connect with others.

New Gaston Slavery Ties Uncovered

Adora Zheng and Eli Kales Senior News Editors

William Gaston, af ter whom the his toric Gaston Hall in Healy Hall is named, owned 163 enslaved people and sup ported judicial opinions that opposed equal citizenship for Black people, according to newly released research obtained by The Hoya that was conducted by a George town University Law Center (GULC) professor.

student and also helped se cure the university’s federal charter.

Mikhail found an estate inventory that listed the names and ages of 163 en slaved individuals, includ ing 21 children under five years of age, whom Gaston owned at the time of his death, when researching on Ancestry.com, where he had gone to find tax and census records on Gaston. Mikhail’s research also suggests Gas ton may have enslaved up to 26 families spanning three or more generations.

bers. Each one had a name, a story, and people who loved them,” Mikhail wrote in the letter. “In all likelihood, many of them had descendants, some of whom are alive today.”

nificant slaveholder than had previously been understood.

“I started to realize that there was more and different information here than people were aware of,” Mikhail told The Hoya. “It motivated me to get as accurate a picture as I could and then share it with people because I thought it might raise awareness and change the conversation around Gaston.”

Previous accounts of Gas ton’s slaveholding painted an unduly progressive picture of his legal stances on slavery, stating he only owned up to 40 enslaved people, accord ing to a letter sent to Univer sity President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) by John Mikhail, a Carroll Professor of Jurisprudence at GULC. Gaston was Georgetown’s first

In the letter, Mikhail said uncovering the truth about Gaston’s ties to slaveholding is an important step in seeking to raise awareness about the en slaved individuals connected to Georgetown’s legacy and their families.

Mikhail’s archival research also reveals that while Gaston was a judge on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, he ruled that Black people, in cluding former enslaved people, were state citizens in North Carolina v. Manuel. He, however, upheld a state law that favored racial descrimi nation and white supremacy, rejecting the concept of equal citizenship under the law for Black people. Later in North Carolina v. Will, Gaston ruled that an enslaved person’s use of self-defensive force against their overseer was almost al ways unlawful.

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“Of course, these children and their siblings, parents, and grandparents were not num

Students Fundraise for Pakistan Following Catastrophic Flooding

Georgetown University stu dents have raised over $4,000 for Pakistanis who were dis placed by severe flooding that has left one-third of the coun try underwater.

The Muslim Students As sociation (MSA) and the South Asian Society (SAS) cosponsored an open-mic event

“Madeleine really had a in the Healey Family Student Center (HFSC) Social Room on Sept. 22 to raise money to provide aid for those affected by the floods. All the funds raised from the event were donated to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), a humanitarian or ganization working on-site in Pakistan to provide food, clean water, temporary shel ter and more to those dis

placed by the flooding.

MSA President Manahal Fazal (SFS ’24) said this ca tastrophe is only the begin ning of the disastrous effects of climate change playing out in Pakistan.

“Pakistan has experienced floods in the past; however, these floods have been far more severe than anything the county has seen,” Fazal wrote to The Hoya. “Another

critical point to keep in mind is that Pakistan has the most glaciers outside of the north and south poles. We are al ready seeing the results of climate change, and at the scale it is going right now, it will only get worse.”

According to a Sept. 21 report by UNICEF, approximately 33 million people, including 16

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Upon uncovering this infor mation, Mikhail said he felt it was important to share that Gaston was a much more sig

In collaboration with other faculty members and stu dents, Mikhail has spent the past six years researching Gaston. Beyond Gaston’s con nections to political and legal history in the United States, Mikhail said he was inspired to learn more about Gaston following the publication of the 2016 report by the Work ing Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. Mikhail said his research

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Photo of the Week

Mahsa Amini

Students held a vigil honoring Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was killed for improperly wearing a hijab.

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Animals Galore The National Zoo welcomed 19 new species, including a Komodo dragon, collared brown lemur and Pallas’ cat.

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OPINION

Increase Facilities Staff

The Editorial Board calls on the university to hire more facilities staff in response to complaints of untimely work order fixes.

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Sponsor All Proficiency Tests

Anaya Mehta (COL ’25) urges the university to pay for proficiency tests for languages not currently offered.

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GUIDE

I’m Worrying Darling “Don’t Worry Darling” falls flat, despite drama with its A-list cast, including Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. B4

Babel Shines Rebecca F. Kuang’s (SFS ’18) newest novel, “Babel,” delights readers with a beautiful setting and an expert critique of colonialism. B6

SPORTS

Water Polo Prevails Women’s club water polo started its second official season with its first-ever defeat of the University of Virginia.

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Men’s Soccer Bounces Back Men’s soccer broke its three-game losing streak after closely defeating the Creighton University Bluejays on Sept. 24.

GEORGETOWN EVENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES

William Gaston, Georgetown’s first student and namesake of Gaston Hall, held far more enslaved people than was previously thought, according to archival research by a Georgetown professor.

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Secretary Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) spoke about the late Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State and professor.

Lietta Ioannou

Special to The Hoya

THE RED CROSS

Students from the South Asian Student Associaion and the Muslim Student Associaion raised over $4,000 for Pakistanis displaced by severe flooding in the country.

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Photo of the Week: The National Cathedral looms over Cathedral Heights on a gloomy September day.

Expedite Facilities Response

A month into the school year, students have settled into their residence halls and started their classes in earnest. However, for many, the woes of the move-in process have persisted. Students continue to experience severe issues with their university-spon sored residences, from broken plumbing to mold. Many students have faced long wait times for assistance, while some receive no help at all. These problems leave students frustrated, inconvenienced and concerned about possible health implications.

In response to the consistent issues with timely facilities requests, the Editorial Board urges the university to improve the ef ficiency of the work order system by hiring additional facilities staff and making basic supplies available to students in order to preserve resources for tasks that students are capable of safely addressing themselves.

According to a university spokesperson, Georgetown Facilities works expeditiously to resolve maintenance issues submitted by students, though response times are depen dent on request volumes.

“The safety, health and well-being of our students is our highest priority. We work through every request as diligently and ex peditiously as possible. Over the past several weeks we have welcomed more than 5,000 students on campus and encourage any stu dent with a maintenance request to report it by submitting a work request to Facilities,” the university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Response times are depen dent on the volume of campus activities and the capacity of the Facilities trade teams.”

While the Facilities webpage details the process for work order response, many stu dents have faced extended wait times and unhelpful communication after submitting work orders.

Roommates Jaida Forbes (COL ’24) and Sokhna Gueye (NHS ’24), whose microwave broke earlier this month, have had difficulty communicating with facilities to receive as sistance for a work order they placed regard ing the issue on Sept. 10.

“Our built-in microwave broke a few weeks ago now and despite submitting mul tiple work orders and calling various times, we are nowhere closer to getting it fixed,” Forbes wrote to The Hoya Gueye said that after being informed over the phone that they would receive a new mi crowave by Sept. 12, they received no help and only gained more information from fa cilities after placing additional work orders and phone calls.

“We were told that the microwave was on order but still were not given a timeline for when we could expect it. Then in a phone call approximately 5 days later, we were told that it hadn’t been ordered and that they were waiting for the supervisor to approve the order,” Gueye wrote to The Hoya Residential issues have become a source of health-related anxiety for some students.

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In a Sept. 30 news piece, Kat DeMaret (SFS ‘24) told The Hoya that she and her room mates have been suffering from allergy-like symptoms and suspect that the culprit may be a hole in the ceiling which resulted from a leak and was not fixed for nearly a month.

“My roommates and I have all been expe riencing allergy-like symptoms (coughing, sneezing, dry itchy eyes, sore throats) and any visitors in our apartment have started experiencing them after a few hours there as well,” DeMaret wrote to The Hoya

While the connection between facilities issues and student health is uncertain, the prospect of health implications is a clear mental health burden for students who wor ry about the consequences of mold or open ceilings in their residences.

Incomplete or incorrectly handled work order requests — an issue some students still continue to experience — do little to assuage these anxieties. Anaya Mehta (COL ’25) still lives with a leak in her dorm ceil ing, despite her work order for mold removal and leakage being accepted on Aug. 24 and closed on Aug. 29.

“Within two days of moving in, I discovered a huge leakage on my ceiling and mold in the air conditioner and filed a work order as soon as I could,” Mehta told The Hoya. “They cleaned the mold, but the leakage is still there because they said they couldn’t find its source. The work order was then closed.”

Her second work order addressing the leakage again, along with a broken air condi tioner, was also closed on Aug. 31, and even though the AC unit was fixed, the leakage still remains.

Issues like DeMaret’s and Mehta’s suggest that facilities may be short-staffed or lacking the resources or infrastructure necessary to effectively fix residential issues in a timely manner. In order to facilitate efficiency in re sponding to work orders and creating a safe living environment for students, the univer sity must hire additional facilities staff.

Notably, work orders that require profes sional assistance, such as mold removal, and those that could be safely addressed by stu dents, such as placing mouse traps, are fun neled through the same system. One way to mitigate the burden on facilities is to offer students access to materials to remedy mi nor issues on their own. For example, allow ing students to borrow a fan or a mousetrap at no cost would conserve time and resourc es for both the university and the students while fixing minor issues more quickly. This would reduce the influx of work orders to be addressed by facilities employees, allowing employees to dedicate time and resources to repairing urgent issues more quickly.

At a university where students are required to live on-campus for three years, protect ing the functionality of student residences should receive greater prioritization. Growing the facilities staff and offering students addi tional resources are critical first steps.

Campus Activism in the Cynical Seventies

At the 1978 commence ment exercises the George town graduates were rudely reminded by speaker George Will that they were not the same as the students of 1968, but were less vocal, perhaps more cynical, perhaps more apathetic. Indeed, it would seem that many students today maintain a passively stoic “grin and bear it” atti tude to key issues affecting their daily lives, an attitude that could be seriously det rimental to the vitality of the academic life. Nothing has been offered above the profundity of Animal House to voice the unique situa tion of the student in recent years. So, with no less a pre tentious goal than to satisfy this absence, let me share some ideas and perspec tives on the role of students in the cynical 70’s.

The student’s life is a unique combination of the lonely pursuit of truth in a community of questioners. For one, there is artistic ac

tivity. Every student is an artist sometime whether when writing a paper, orga nizing his ideas, or compos ing a tragic fiction for the professor whose exam was skipped. It is through our creativity and the appre ciation of others’ creativity that we intuit I and test the limits of our personalities. When we create our own ideas, our creations either stand or fall and this is how we come to measure our selves in our weaknesses and strengths. However, once we learn what we are capable of doing, we need tools to do it most efficient ly. That’s what science is all about, thorough thought, rigorous investigation and technological ease. With the ingredients in hand we next need the brew to make the soup and so there is beer, dance and lots of laughter. This social interaction is perhaps the most important part of education. Here we evolve for ourselves a style

and a place in our society, however wide or narrow we choose. This is the essential purpose of education.

Perhaps a further point should be made. Serious education has always been and must always be moral education. By moral educa tion I mean an education that preserves and fosters our personal integrity, that brings us to ask what is best for ourselves, to make a choice and test it. Activism then, the decided efforts of the individual, is an es sential part of our growth. If Watergate should have taught us anything it is that the foundations of a great world are only built in us, each one of us. If we never learn how to choose with courage and intelligence, we will never be leaders, never be committed, never be wholehearted and never be a friend.

Bob Bangert Hoya Staff Writer

DEEP DIVE

The university must do more to address the struggles of CALL transfer students. The Most reasonable ways to better integrate CALL trans fer students on the Hilltop re to provide more guidance to non-CALL students and to bolster transportation networks.”

Dylan Partner (COL ’25)

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History of Intl. Students at GU

This week, we are diving deeper into Priya sha Chakravarti’s (COL ’25) viewpoint about the experiences of international students at Georgetown and their need for more direct and specific support.

Georgetown has a long history of accepting and educating international students. In fact, in the 1790s, during Georgetown’s inaugural year of classes, almost 20% of the student body originated from the West Indies. International students’ share of the student population has grown significantly over the past two centuries and they today come from more than 130 coun tries across the world, ranging from Myanmar and Vietnam to Burkina Faso and Rwanda. To day, the Office of Global Services (OGS) serves the needs of the University’s undergraduate and graduate international student population.

Located just off campus in the Car Barn, the OGS has a staff of 17, who are equipped

to advise students of all majors, degree levels, schools and experience navigating life abroad. These individuals address the travel needs and questions of international students, facilitate English Language Center enroll ment, and coordinate student advisers. OGS has long emphasized the important place international students have in Georgetown’s community, calling them a “point of pride.”

Certainly, the university’s value of this type of international outlook is well-founded in the university’s Jesuit values of cross-cultural understanding and community diversity.

Priyasha’s valuable reflection on her experi ence contributes to the dialogue on improv ing the international student experience and envisions a future for the OGS that focuses on creating a smooth transition by developing a more personalized set of resources for inter national students.

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OPINION

The Prohibitive Price Of Proficiency

Just to fulfill my requirements for graduation, I had to pay over $200 to show I was pro ficient in a language I’ve been speaking my entire life.

Georgetown University has a foreign language proficiency graduation requirement for students in the College, Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), and programs in the McDonough School of Business (MSB). One of the Georgetown Core Curriculum Learning Goals is to “respect difference,” an ideal not reflected in the university’s foreign language proficiency policies.

The university offers free proficiency tests for 19 languages but refers students proficient in languages not offered to an external testing agency called Language Testing International.

Students are expected to pay a fee to take the ACTFL Written and Oral Proficiency tests. The university justifies this fee by stating that a “formal certification” is provided to students who pass the proficiency test. However, many students are just interested in finishing the graduation requirement and do not need formal certification for foreign language proficiency.

The cost distinction between proficiency tests for languages offered at the university and those administered externally imposes an unfair burden on certain students. The university must resolve this issue by paying for the proficiency tests for languages it does not offer.

The administration must understand that by only providing proficiency tests for languages from a select few regions of the world, it disregards the needs of a diverse student population. It pressures students to select from a limited range of languages, while making it inaccessible for certain students to test out with their native language in case it is not offered by the university. Ensuring that the university has free proficiency tests for all students, regardless of the languages they speak, is an important step toward acknowledging campus diversity.

As a first-year student, I passed my proficiency exam in Hindi given that I grew up in India, and am a native speaker who has spoken and written the language my entire life. When I approached my advisory dean about testing out of the language requirement

with Hindi, they mentioned that Georgetown did not have a proficiency test for Hindi, and I would have to take the ACTFL

Written and Oral Proficiency Test for $273, an exorbitant and appalling cost for any student to prove proficiency in a language they had grown up speaking.

For students in the College and the MSB’s international business major, the graduation requirement is proficiency at the intermediate level, while students in the SFS, including those pursuing the BSBGA dual degree with the MSB, are required to reach intermediate high to advanced mid-level proficiency. The ability to test out of the foreign language requirement early allows students to take more courses toward their major or even add another major or minor.

Georgetown attaches a clause at the end of its foreign language proficiency test policy to make financial accommodations for students. In an introduction to registration Canvas course, the university mentions that students “should contact their financial aid counselor” if the exam presents financial difficulties.

However, for many students, this clause is self-defeating. It doesn’t take into account those international students and U.S. citizens who are ineligible for financial aid, and therefore do not have financial aid counselors. In many cases, international students qualify for little or no financial aid because of ineligibility to access federal aid exclusively provided to U.S. citizens.

While I understand that the university does not have the capacity to provide inhouse proficiency tests for over 7,000 languages, I urge the administration to sponsor external proficiency tests for those students who wish to take them in a language not currently offered by the university.

Guaranteeing equitable access to these exams would take Georgetown one step closer to being a genuine “community in diversity” where every student is able to fulfill the language requirement with any language of their choice at no cost.

Anaya Mehta is a sophomore in the College.

THE HILLTOP

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Include CALL Students in Hilltop Clubs

The past month of my life has been a veritable whirlwind of change, but as a sophomore transfer student at Georgetown Uni versity, I expected nothing less when I submitted my application last spring.

The average new Georgetown student is thrust into an unfamiliar world with little means of navigation. But being a transfer student further complicates the scenario, as I also have to adjust to the gaping differences between my previous university and Georgetown. I transferred to the Hilltop primarily because of its stark contrast with my old college; I came from a rural campus where student organizations desperately solicited participation from a predominantly apathetic student body, and I now find myself in a bustling urban campus featuring clubs with incredibly selective admissions processes. In the space of a summer, I’ve moved from drought to glut.

However, the final and most profound variable in my experience of acclimation to Georgetown’s campus life is the fact that I’m not even on campus most of the time. I was accepted to Georgetown on the condition that I

Reconsider Mandatory Meal Plan

Savannah Jones Columnist

Georgetown created its controversial mandatory meal plan policy, covered by The Hoya last year, to “support and promote a healthy living and learning community where all students thrive,” according to a June 2021 announcement from Provost Robert Groves. When it comes to students with severe food allergies, however, this meal plan requirement has presented a number of issues.

First-years and sophomores will find themselves on the AllAccess-7 plan, and upperclassmen living on campus face a reduced — but still mandatory — plan. For students who cannot utilize regular meal services, the meal plan committee presents a cheery image of the available options: a carefully reviewed allergen station in Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall; reduced meal plan options; “special housing,” which includes “ability to use appliances in campus housing,” and “housing with a private kitchen.”

When it comes to the meal plan policy, students with food allergies like myself and Uma Savla (COL ’25) have been urged in meetings with the meal plan committee to remain on the meal plan, or to accept a partial reduction like the 14 Weekly plan, which offers a less than desirable price tag: about 50% of the meals for 84% of the AllAccess-7 + 500 FLEX price, according to Hoya Eats. And it doesn’t end there.

The reality for students like me with life-threatening allergies is a far cry from what the university advertises. As for the Leo’s allergen station,

it is difficult to imagine that trust in Leo’s is high among students following its run-ins with health inspectors last year, as well as the recent norovirus outbreak, which students speculated was tied to the dining hall.

The medically accommodated housing, issued by the Academic Resource Center (ARC), is more expensive than other dorm options — a double in Kennedy, McCarthy, Reynolds, New South, Harbin, or Darnall costs $5,832 each semester, while for an apartment with a food preparation area in Alumni Square, the base price is $6,598, an upcharge of $766 — and, in my case, when Medical Housing couldn’t find a placement, they recommended just living off campus.

To add to this, the meal plan committee requires a meeting with exemption applicants. When I applied for an exemption, I found my committee meeting to be more of an interrogation about my health history than an as-advertised casual conversation. Savla said that the committee confirmed in a meeting that she qualified for a full exemption for the 202223 academic year, yet she later received an email informing her that the committee was granting no exemption at all.

When it comes to other accommodations for its students, Georgetown offers extensive healthcare services like the Student Health Center. It appears that the university has no problem providing services necessary for student health until it comes to one of the university’s money-makers like the meal plan — at which point Georgetown does not seem keen on letting students off the hook.

Georgetown’s disregard for

student health goes so far as to put aside the advice of medical experts to keep students on the meal plan. In order to request an exemption, students must submit a request written by their doctor. Behind every incidence of a rejected exemption application is a doctor’s note, making students wonder if Georgetown places the opinion of its committee over that of a student’s doctor, whom it defines as having an “area of specialty that should coincide with the nature of the student’s medical request.” It would be irrational to assume that the committee, regardless of the medical credentials of its team, could know a student’s needs better than their personal physician.

It is unclear what gives the meal plan committee the authority to decide that a student with an allergic condition will be fwine at the allergen station. It is apparent that the university should reform the committee to allow leniency for students with food allergies to receive exemptions. A change to the function of the committee, focused on stopping the meal plan office from acting as a gatekeeper to an exemption, would reduce health hazards for Georgetown’s students.

Georgetown has, time and time again, put student health at risk by mandating a meal plan that presents barriers to access for students who cannot afford to put their lunch money into the hands of the university. Until Georgetown lays down a significant reform to its meal plan committee, it is doing a disservice to its medically disadvantaged student population.

Savannah Jones is a junior in the College. Health on the Hilltop appears in print and online every third Friday.

attend the Capitol Applied Learning Lab (or CALL, for short) for my first semester in Washington, D.C. I had not heard about the CALL prior to receiving the admissions email bearing its name, but I soon learned it was a program designed to immerse students in D.C. city life. With housing and classes located near Union Station, the program is designed for students in part-time internships. This means I’m within walking distance of my internship on Capitol Hill, but I’m isolated from the Georgetown Hilltop, both geographically and culturally, at a time when most transfers are expected to rapidly assimilate to its norms and customs.

On a good day, I face a 45-minute commute to the main Georgetown campus, making regular participation in student organizations nearly impossible. That hasn’t stopped me, as well as a number of my transfer peers at the CALL, from attempting to do so. Even then, the added burden of a long commute — which can easily more than double the amount of time I devote to a particular activity — means that CALL students can easily burn out in a quicker and more

spectacular fashion than a Hilltop student participating in identical activities.

The university must do more to address the struggles of CALL transfer students. The most reasonable ways to better integrate CALL transfer students on the Hilltop are to provide more guidance to non-CALL students and to bolster transportation networks.

Whenever I tell students on the Hilltop that I’m in the CALL, they typically express a vague familiarity with the program but know little about the specifics; I get a similar response from club leaders. If the university administrators who work with club leaders even suggested that leaders should consider the needs of CALL students, it would go a long way to ensuring access for students like me. Perhaps club leaders could ask on applications whether applicants reside on campus, and if so inquire whether there are any appropriate accommodations they could make for those who reside off campus.

Likewise, the Georgetown University Transportation Shuttles (GUTS) system features a new bus stop at the CALL dorm, but it is woefully inadequate. The bus comes at irregular intervals, and is not reliable, particularly

on weekends. On the day of the CAB fair — when new students are exposed to hundreds of extracurricular organizations for the first time — it didn’t bother to show up at all. At a minimum, GUTS administrators should ensure that the system is reliable for both students downtown and students living on the Hilltop, with a particular focus on dependable weekend service.

There are around 30 CALL transfer students in total, comprising about half of those in the CALL program. However, we’re fewer than half a percent of the undergraduate student population, so the unique situation we’re in is perhaps reasonably not a first priority for campus administrators. If Georgetown administrators want to encourage students to join the CALL, however, they should first work to better integrate the CALL into campus life.

As my first chaotic weeks at Georgetown come to a close, I’m slowly learning how to maintain a delicate balance between the CALL and campus life. But it shouldn’t have to be this hard.

Dylan Partner is a sophomore in the College.

Improve Advising for Intl. Students

Priyasha Chakravarti Columnist

While gearing up for my first year at Georgetown University, I found my self stressed out about issues in volving my F-1 visa status. On top of worrying about being home sick, making friends, moving to a new continent and leaving my parents behind, there was an en tire web of legal information I had to navigate even before I arrived at Georgetown. This is the reality that many international students at Georgetown face and continue to face throughout their time here.

My nerves hadn’t been calmed even after watching hours of international student orientation videos about immigration rights, health insurance policies and safety measures against credit card scams. As such, I was relieved when I was assigned an international student advisor through the Office of Global Services (OGS) because I was glad that I would have someone to talk to directly about my concerns rather than sifting through pages of information and links. However, I soon found out that there are only two main international student advisors for nearly 500 undergraduate international students: one is focused on the MSB and one on the other three undergraduate schools. In order for us to feel more integrated and comfortable in the Georgetown community, it is important that the OGS adopts a more personalized and accessible approach in working with international students.

The OGS, located in Car Barn, is ourone-stopshopforanyconcerns about our immigration status. It offers International Student

and Scholar Services, providing resources for maintaining F-1 visa status, filing taxes and applying for a Social Security number (SSN), as well as Global Program Support Services, concerned with traveling or studying abroad.

The OGS website has important information international students would need for applying to jobs and internships, traveling or studying abroad, opening bank accounts and health insurance plans, or earning income and paying taxes. F-1 and J-1 students have to take Canvas courses and selfpaced video modules, workshops and newsletters to familiarize themselves before arrival. The office also provides resources for the wider Georgetown administration to support its international students.

Sergio Rodríguez Cifuentes (SFS ’25) said he often uses OGS resources for completing important documentation specific to international students.

“OGS is my go-to place for when I need permission regarding workrelated affairs. Last time I went to them, for example, was while applyingformySSN,sotheyhelped me out with my documentation,” Rodríguez Cifuentes said in an interview with The Hoya

Whiletheresourcesaredetailed and holistic, the availability of international student advisors is often much more valuable to students than surfing the website. While settling down in a new country, international students need support well beyond just legal immigration requirements. The human element — the homesickness, the culture shock, the difficulties of public transport, the safety procedures — can be further integrated into OGS’s culture of supporting international students. A big step toward achieving this is through a more personal connection

between the student and advisor. It would be beneficial for international students to have more frequent workshops and in-person guidance, especially for common processes like applying for SSNs, navigating internship and work culture, options for work post-college and more. These can also be further promoted in more places than just the OGS website.

“International students often have many similar questions, so the OGS can update the FAQs or have more frequent sessions explaining common processes,”

Rodríguez Cifuentes added.

Furthermore the OGS shouldn’t be the only office at Georgetown that understands and deals with common issues for international students. It is important for the entire Georgetown administration and all departments to be informed and approach our concerns with sensitivity and optimism.

The OGS remains committed to Georgetown’s tradition to care for each person according to their needs and to provide support to students of all cultural and religious backgrounds. The office provides helpful immigration and procedural information for international students and is generally accessible in terms of resources and location. But I would feel less intimidated by F-1 status policies if I had a personal connection with the office administration and felt equally supported by all Georgetown institutions. The OGS should be further improved by incorporating more of the human element when it comes to dealing with international student concerns in real time.

Priyasha Chakravarti is a sophomore in the College. International Voices appears in print and online every third week.

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The Engelhard Project: Infusing Wellness into the Classroom

The Engelhard Project works to blend mental health, Jesuit values and academics while strengthening bonds between faculty and students in an innovative working environment.

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Like countless other first-years, Vanesa Car rillo (MSB ’23) found herself carrying a lot of anxieties during her first weeks on the Hilltop.

“Freshman year, we’re all coming from different places around the world. And we’re all scared, we’re all in this bubble of shyness,” Carrillo told The Hoya Carrillo did not find herself stuck in this bubble for long, however, thanks to “Flourishing: College and Community,” a soci ology course taught by professor Sarah Stiles. The course focused on wellness topics relevant to student life, such as preventing sleep deprivation and maintain ing work-life balance.

Carrillo said Stiles’ course had a profound impact on her expe rience at Georgetown.

“The course really taught us how to express our feelings, how to define what’s a healthy routine as a student, and how to really grow as a person,” Car rillo said.

This course was made pos sible by the Engelhard Project, a Georgetown-specific educa tional initiative that connects academics and holistic wellbeing. Since its inception in 2005, the Engelhard Project has enrolled more than 19,200 students in nearly 500 courses led by over 100 faculty mem bers. Approved courses follow a curriculum infusion approach, whereby faculty link course content to wellness topics through readings, presenta tions, reflective writing assign ments and discussions led by campus health professionals.

The Engelhard project works to blend Jesuit values, academ ics and mental health while strengthening bonds between faculty and students in an inno vative working environment.

At the Intersection of Mental Health and Academics

Engelhard Project courses like “Flourishing: College and Community,” have left a last ing impact on students and faculty alike.

For Carrillo, the reflective wellness activities built into the “Flourishing” course helped her craft a healthier, more sus tainable schedule at a time when she was pushing herself to stay up late finishing assign ments, often only sleeping four hours a night.

Students monitored their sleep and how it affected their overall mood and productivity.

Carillo was able to build a stable schedule, getting eight to nine hours of sleep at night while still completing her work on time.

“It really helped me to define what my boundaries were as a student,” Carrillo said. “I’ve never seen another class actu ally do an exercise that will track your performance on something that’s not school related.”

Now a senior majoring in marketing, Carrillo has man aged to maintain a balanced

sleep schedule and keeps in touch with her mental health through regular jour naling, a habit she picked up in Stiles’ course.

“It has carried me through senior year and what I can say has been a successful four years for me,” Carrillo said. “I owe a lot to the professors that encour age us to branch out and do something unique.”

The Engelhard Project doesn’t just benefit the stu

and student connections both in and out of the classroom,” the website reads.

Previous wellness topics cov ered by Engelhard courses in clude adjusting and transition ing to college life, anxiety, coping mechanisms, depression, eat ing disorders, emotional intel ligence, healthy relationships, mindfulness, mood regulation, self-forgiveness, sexual identity, sexual violence, sleep depriva tion, substance abuse, suicide and stress, among others.

Engelhard professors com monly partner with staff across a variety of centers on campus, including Counseling and Psy chiatric Services, Health Educa tion Services and the LGBTQ Resource Center. Such partner ships serve to deepen students’ understanding of relevant well ness topics and introduce stu dents to valuable resources that can benefit them throughout their time at Georgetown.

broader life experiences, par ticularly regarding physical and emotional well-being.

“Georgetown’s thinking was that by intentionally integrating well-being issues into courses, we could enhance student learning and well-being,” Joc elyn Schultz Lewis, the Senior Associate Director for Inclusive Teaching and Learning Initia tives at the Center for New De signs in Learning and Scholar ship, wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “We want to support our students to be in a position to be their best and do their absolute best work.”

In 2012, the Project was en dowed through a gift from the Charles Engelhard Foundation, a grant-making organization that supports projects relating to education, wildlife conserva tion, medicine and religion. The Foundation is a donor to George town University more broadly, having given $2 million to the University since 2010.

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The Engelhard Project strives to bring the whole student into the classroom and support their academic and personal growth.

dents; for Stiles, teaching an Engelhard class has allowed her to critically examine her own wellness practices.

“If I’m going to be talking about the importance of sleep, well, I better be sure I’m getting some sleep,” Stiles told The Hoya “If I’m going to be talking about the value of meditation? Well, I should be doing that. I should be getting physical exercise, I should be knocking off and then spending time with my outside relationships. And so I do, and I feel good.”

Meditation practice allows for a moment of reflection amid a busy day, said Stiles

“Students learn a new way of experiencing the world,” Stiles said. “I will begin class with meditation. I’ll ask them how they are, I will begin class by hav ing them in small groups asking each other how they are and checking in. This emphasis from me as the professor gives them space to be a whole person, not just a student taking sociology at two o’clock in the afternoon.”

Professor Kathleen Magu ire-Zeiss, whose neuroscience course is part of the Engelhard Project, said the framework facilitates meaningful con nections between professors and students.

“As scientists, sometimes we look at what we’re teaching as the subject matter, and the data,” Maguire-Zeiss said in an interview with The Hoya. “This has really changed how I give information, and how I see the receiver, which is the student.”

Transformations in studentteacher relationships are an intended effect of the Engel hard Project.

“This curricular approach enhances academic learning, encourages students to reflect on their own attitudes and be haviors, and fosters faculty, staff,

Professor Sarah Vittone, who teaches an Engelhard course called Healthcare Manage rial Ethics — a health care management and policy class — recently brought a licensed social worker from Georgetown MedStar Hospital to talk to her students about Stress First Aid, a framework designed to improve recovery from stress reactions in oneself and in coworkers.

Managing high-pressure situations is critical for students who intend to become health care managers and executives.

“They have to understand that there are going to be doctors and nurses working under them. They need to understand that level of stress, and how impor tant it would be to put something like this program into practice in their organizations,” Vittone said in an interview with The Hoya “From an ethical leadership per spective, caring for your employ ees is important.”

According to Vittone, ap proaching academics with a well-being lens helps students reach their full potential and feel supported.

“They talk about how they were happy to have the trust and confidence in their class mates that they could open up,” Vittone said. “And then also realize that there is a lot of pressure. And that it’s a social construction. All this stuff that’s coming at them, It’s not natural.”

The History of Engelhard

The creation of the Engelhard Project strives to bring the whole student into the classroom and support their academic and per sonal growth.

Supported by a grant from the Bringing Theory to Practice Proj ect, an organization of educators who fund holistic higher educa tion initiatives, the Engelhard Project began in 2005. A group of faculty and Division of Student Affairs staff pursued their inter est in exploring connections be tween academia and students’

Today, the Engelhard Project has expanded to include two grants programs and a faculty conversation series on teaching. The project has grown from fea turing five or six courses each se mester to an average of 35 to 40, according to Shultz Lewis.

To create an Engelhard course, a faculty member iden tifies a well-being topic that connects to course content and works with a campus resource professional (CRP) to facilitate a class session on that topic, Shultz Lewis wrote.

“This pedagogical partner ship between faculty and cam pus resource professionals is still the core model we use in most Engelhard courses.”

Professors can become Engelhard Faculty Fellows by filling out a course proposal form and submitting a copy of their syllabus. The standard model for implementing an Engelhard module into a class includes a course-related read ing, an in-class visit by a CRP, and a written reflection.

Courses selected for the project span a broad range of academic disciplines, ranging from business management to neuroscience to the perform ing arts. Creative approaches to curriculum infusion are highly encouraged.

“From the beginning of the project, we have tried to encour age wide and expansive think ing about what well-being top ics could be included and each semester brings more creativ ity around the topic and facul ty-CRP collaborations,” Shultz Lewis wrote.

After nearly 10 years of us ing the Engelhard model in her classes, Maguire-Zeiss said she can better understand her stu dents’ struggles.

“I can generally tell by this point in the semester when a student shows up and they’re just not feeling it. So then I don’t hesitate to just reach out and say, ‘How are you doing today?’ That’s changed quite a bit from before,” Maguire-Zeiss said.

Wellness as a Georgetown Value

The Engelhard Project, is root ed in Georgetown’s Jesuit value of cura personalis, meaning care for the whole person.

“Through the intentional in tegration of well-being issues in the academic context, faculty and CRP partners are working to honor and validate the com plexity, richness, and complica tions of student lives, modeling what it looks like to bring our whole selves to the classroom so that students can find their own way to do that as well,” Shultz Lewis wrote.

Stohr said being open and accommodating towards oth ers is one of the hallmarks of Jesuit education.

“There’s a sense of meeting people in whatever space they’re in. And I think in the context of teaching, that just means that everybody, when they come into the classroom, has a lot of stuff going on,” Stohr said.

Maguire-Zeiss said Engelhard supports Georgetown’s focus on academic excellence.

“It’s not subtracting any thing away from what we’ve been doing. We’re actually add ing more information practi cally, about how these things are going to play out in your daily life,” Maguire-Zeiss said. “Even for your own health, it plays an important role. So I think it’s part of that education of the whole person.”

Ibrahim sees the program as an opportunity for educators to meet students’ needs amid changing social and political landscapes.

“What does it mean to care for the whole person? The mis sion is the same over time, but what that means in a specific time is different,” Ibrahim said. “At different times for different people, the thing they need the care for might change, and it might shift. And so as educators, we need to constantly be aware of what’s going on, not just be cause of how it affects us and how it might affect our teaching, but how it’s going to affect the young people who we’re coming into contact with.”

Ultimately, for students like Carrillo, Engelhard is above all heuristic, capable of teaching the skills necessary to thrive in a high-pressure academic en vironment that can be as chal lenging as it is rewarding.

“I think it’s the biggest com ponent that made a difference in my education,” Carrillo said. “It built a structure for me.”

Today, Carrillo mentors first-years in the Georgetown Scholars Program (GSP), which provides resources and support to current and pro spective first-generation and low-income students.

“Taking an Engelhard class is something that I honestly rec ommended day one to my men tees,” Carrillo said. “I was like ‘guys, you have to take an Engel hard class, it is going to help you become a better person, but also a better student.’”

“The course really taught us how to express our feelings, how to define what’s a healthy routine as a student.”

VANESSA CARILLO (MSB ’23)

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Protestors Rally to Advocate For Assault Weapons Ban

Tilde Jaques Special to The Hoya

CW: This article references/dis cusses gun violence. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and offcampus resources.

Hundreds of protesters rallied at Capitol Hill in favor of HR.1808, a bill that would enact a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons.

The protest, which occurred Sept. 22, was organized by March Fourth, a nonprofit advocacy group working to federally ban assault weapons. Many protest ers were survivors or related to victims of major mass shootings throughout American history. Both survivors from the 1999 Col umbine High School shooting and the more recent May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, attended.

According to their website, March Fourth aims to activate as many voices as possible to share stories and emotion with those who make the legislative decisions.

Geena Panzitta (COL ’23), the former co-chair of March For Our Lives’ Georgetown chapter, at tended Thursday’s rally and said the personal anecdotes shared by survivors made the protest even more impactful.

“Survivors spoke about the PTSD and survivor’s guilt they con tinue to experience. Parents spoke about their children that were gunned down at school,” Panzitta wrote to The Hoya. “It was powerful seeing these communities come together to fight for a safer America, but it was heartbreaking that they had to be there in the first place, that they were part of the evergrowing group of people affected by mass shootings.”

In 1994, an assault weapons ban was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court and was put into effect until it expired in 2004. Following the expiration of the assault weapons ban, yearly deaths attributed to mass shoot ings rose. During the period in

which the assault weapons ban was active, the risk of a person in the United States dying in a mass

National Rifle Association, which poses a problem for their ability to govern, according to Panzitta.

“These senators are cowards, putting their own political ca reers before the lives of the peo ple they’re meant to represent,” Panzitta wrote. “The leading cause of death in children and teens is gun violence, yet these senators continue to do nothing about it.”

March for Our Lives Washing ton, D.C., Press Associate Mikah Rector-Brooks said they believe partisan politics will only perpetu ate otherwise preventable deaths from gun violence.

Black Leaders, Scholars Discuss Navigating Academia as Women

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The Georgetown University Black Alumni Council held a con versation to discuss scholarship and activism as Black woman scholars and leaders in academia during a time of heightened calls for racial justice.

be here, if it weren’t others, and I want others to be here once I am no longer here.”

Brown said that as a Black fem inist, it is necessary to prioritize intersectional advocacy on both gender-based and racial issues.

shooting was 70% lower, and ninfewer mass-shooting related fatalities per 10,000 shooting deaths were reported.

Panzitta said the event em phasized the effectiveness of an assault weapons ban given trends noted during the 10 years in which the assault weapon ban was in place.

“When the ban expired, the use of assault weapons in mass shoot ings spiked, particularly in public mass shootings,” Panzitta wrote.

“ Federal assault weapon bans work. They save lives.”

HR.1808, which was intro duced by U.S. Representative David Cicilline (D-RI, LAW ’86), passed the House of Represen tatives in July. The law would criminalize the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer or pos session of semiautomatic assault weapons of large capacity ammu nition feeding devices.

Gun reform activists across the country have stressed the im portance of passing HR.1808, and criticized inaction from pro-gun rights Republicans in Congress.

Many Republican senators con tinue to receive funding from the

“Given the composition of the Senate and the continuous inac tion of elected officials, it is an uphill battle to get the Assault Weapons Ban passed,” ReSctor-Brooks wrote to The Hoya. “When the livelihood of Americans is at risk, though, it is essential for politicians to prioritize the safety of their constituents over party politics.”

The bill specifically targets semi-automatic weapons, which have been the most common weapon used in mass shootings over the past few decades, accord ing to Rector-Brooks.

“Semi-automatic weapons have contributed significantly to the mass deaths caused by fire arms in the United States,” RectorBrooks wrote. “From Parkland, Buffalo and Uvalde to communi ties across the country, we have seen these weapons of war kill and devastate communities.”

Panzitta said the event high lighted the failure of state laws to combat the prominence of gun violence and mass shootings and the importance of a broader, more effective solution.

“State laws are clearly not enough,” Panzitta wrote. “We need federal legislation, and we need it now.”

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The event, titled “The In tersection of Academy and Activism: A Critical Conversa tion with Black Leaders and Scholars,” was held Sept. 20 as a part of the Critical Conver sation Series, a series of talks that has been hosted over the past few months by the Black Alumni Council. Speakers dis cussed their personal experi ences, offering anecdotes and advice to students about be ing a Black woman leader in higher education.

The event featured Dr. Nadia Brown, professor of government, chair of the women’s and gender studies program and affiliate in the African American studies program, Dr. Adanna Johnson, as sociate vice president for Student Equity and Inclusion and leader of the Office of Student Equity and Inclusion, and was moder ated by McDonough School of Business Professor Melissa Brad ley (MSB ’89).

Brown said she developed a new mission statement while working in political science that no longer attempts to validate Black women’s political experi ences, but rather focuses on their sense of belonging.

“My mission statement in this work lately has been I belong here, and stepping into that fully, I want other people to see that themselves: that they belong here too,” Brown said during the event. “While there are systems that try to push people out, or make you feel other, or unwelcome or marginalized, I think we need to take space, and make space for other people, because I would not

At the event, Bradley said Black employees make up fewer than 10% of higher education profes sionals and just 8% of all admin istrators. Black women make up only 2.1% of tenured associate or full professors at U.S. universities, and at Georgetown, 2.8% of ten ured professors are Black women.

Johnson spoke about the isolating effects of these statis tics and said women, and more specifically, Black women, have to navigate racist and sexist academic spaces in order to get tenure and full professorship, despite their qualifications and research expertise.

“I will say that as an adminis trator, when you speak to those statistics, which I see the pres ence of every day, it feels even more isolating in a position of leadership,” Johnson said at the event. “It’s really hard because you don’t always have folks that you can talk to, because you’re sort of at the top of of your depart ment and people are looking to you to navigate challenges, to problem solve for some of the things that they face related to bias discrimination barriers.”

Brown says that it is impor tant to prioritize mental health amid the burnout that activism and work as a Black woman leader and scholar in higher edu cation can cause.

“I find it really important to take meticulous care of myself, as a Black woman. Often we are expected to save ourselves for last, if at all, and prioritizing the work for some of us has meant not pri oritizing ourselves at all,” Johnson said. “I prioritize taking care of my self every single day, consistently, unapologetically, and I know that prioritizing my spiritual, mental and physical well being allows me to show up better for my fam ily, my community and my work here at Georgetown.”

“As a methodology, my work is about liberation, right?” Brown said. “You can’t be an Africana scholar and not care about your people and writing work that is not libratory, and so it comes and looks at different forms. There’s always work to be done, and that sets your research agenda.”

Johnson said her experiences in the past four years working at Georgetown highlighted the important work of students, in addition to faculty and leaders, in promoting diversity on campus.

“I’ve seen our students work in ways, like with the Black Survi vors Coalition, to change the land scape of what our colleagues look like in the counseling center, it’s a much more diverse place than when I started,” Johnson said.

Brown said she recognizes the importance of showing Black

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women their potential to be lead ers in higher education.

“I think my biggest flex as a professor is that I am teach ing the next generation of students,” Brown said. “There are just so few Black profes sors, there are such few Black women professors, that my job isn’t to create little mes, my job is to show them the possibilities so that they can create themselves.”

McCourt Hosts Discussion on Latest Economic Development Theory

The McCourt School of Public Policy hosted a semi nar to discuss an Oxford Uni versity professor’s book on modern international devel opment theory.

The Sept. 19 seminar fea tured Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Afri can Economies Stefan Der con’s book entitled “Gam bling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose.”

This latest work from Der con, which was published Aug. 1 by Hurst Publishers, an independent non-fiction publisher, explores contem porary factors that contrib ute to the varying levels of prosperity attained by devel oping countries. The study is approached from a number of angles, primarily using case studies from African na tions including Sierra Leone, Mozambique, South Sudan and Malawi.

Dercon said witnessing the wide disparities that have grown between na tions, and in particular those in Africa in the past 30 years, inspired his interest in inter national development.

“There are places in the last few decades that have transformed, and others haven’t,” Dercon told The Hoya. “Just trying to think about ‘What does it matter why some of these countries are successful or not?’ was just a very compelling reason for me.”

The book features con versations Dercon has had over his three decades of travel through 40 different countries researching global economies.

Specifically, Dercon’s field work in China demonstrates the phenomena that is the focus of his book — where elites within an economy must risk prioritizing broad economic growth and devel opment over other economi cal concerns on a gamble that doing so will lead to greater long-term benefits.

“The change in China came because the regime suddenly got really com mitted in the mid-1970’s and early 80’s to growth and development, not ide ology,” Dercon said.

Andrew Zeitlin, an assis tant professor at the McCourt School and research assis tant at the Center, said the key takeaway from the book

is that those with political power must take risks to pri oritize long-term success in their countries.

“The emergence of a bar gain in which the elites of an economy agree that although there are other ways to make your life nice, the way that they want to pursue is a route that operates through the growth of an economy as a whole,” Zeitlin told The Hoya. “That central thesis lo cates his answer to why some economies grow faster than others in a political bargain, rather than a set of economic policy prescriptions.”

James Habyarimana, professor at the McCourt School and former codirector of Georgetown’s Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evalua tion, an initiative working to incubate and evaluate effective development solu tions, said this choice is not an easy one to make

“Where development is go ing to be much, much harder, the gamble is even less attrac tive,” Habyarimana said in an interview with The Hoya. “And so the choices these politi cians have is, do you want to solve a really, really hard problem, with a high chance

of failing, or do you, essen tially, want to play the game as usual?”

Habyarimana said this de cision relates to his work in international development on a more local scale.

“I work at the level of schools and health facilities, so in some ways this biggerpicture idea of producing economic growth is not immediately salient in my work,” Habyarimana said. “I am very familiar with the choices and decisions made by different governments, where in my work, in some ways, makes me think about a very similar kind of bargain happening at the level of ed ucation or health.”

According to Dercon, ex isting literature on interna tional development can often patronize the people living in the countries being studied, which was something he ac tively tried to avoid.

“What I was really pleased with is the reaction I’ve had in the countries about which I wrote, from Nigeria, from Bangladesh,” Dercon said. “I don’t feel like people feel patronized.”

Dercon also said the book is not just for academics, but anyone curious about the field

of international development.

“If you work as a practi tioner or are an interested party, could you read it? That was definitely my goal,” Der

con said. “This is not a popu lar book, but it’s a book that is aimed at those people who are interested in it and want to learn more.”

MCCOURT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Stefan Dercon explores the disparties that exist throughout the international economy in his new book.

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“These senators are cowards, putting their own political careers before the lives of the people they’re meant to represent.”

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Over $4,000 Raised for Victims Of Severe Flooding in Pakistan

PAKISTAN, from A1 million children, have been im pacted by the floods since they began in June 2022, with as many as 7 million being tempo rarily displaced.

SAS Multicultural Chair Sanchi Rohira (SFS ’24) said the fundraiser, which is still accepting donations, greatly exceeded the expectations HHRD had for the event.

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The fundraiser featured eight individual and pair per formances and four perform ing arts groups, including both of Georgetown’s South Asian dance teams Guzaar ish and Jawani, as well as Latin dance group Ritmo y Sabor and co-ed a cappella group the Saxatones. The fundraiser also had a silent auction featuring artwork donated by members of the campus community.

Nile Adhami (COL ’25), the director of programming of MSA and the social chair of SAS, said the event served as an opportunity to celebrate students’ artistic abilities while raising funds for an important cause.

“We decided to make this event an open-mic night to highlight the diverse per forming arts talents within the South Asian commu nity, as well as the broader Georgetown community,” Adhami wrote to The Hoya Fazal said they chose to donate to HHRD because someone from the organiza tion reached out to MSA ask ing if the club was going to do anything about the flood ing, and they knew it was a trustworthy organization that would have a positive impact on Pakistan. Saad Ab basi, a representative from HHRD, gave a short presen tation on the work the orga nization does and thanked the Georgetown community, SAS and MSA for putting on the event.

Adhami said when Fazal introduced the idea for the fundraiser in late August, event planners immediately began looking for other stu dent organizations to col laborate with.

“The need to act in soli darity and work to help the people of Pakistan struggling under this immense cli mate-change driven disaster

was obvious, and we quickly got to work in reaching out to the South Asian Society (of which I am the social chair) to have their help as a co-sponsor,” Adhami wrote.

Rohira said nearly 200 people showed up to the fun draiser, double what the or ganizers were expecting.

“So many people in our community made me proud through their engagement with this event,” Rohira wrote to The Hoya. “Our per formers and silent auction artists stepped up by bring ing their outstanding talent to raise money for a cause as important as this.”

Rohira said she is glad stu dent attendees recognized the significance of this ca tastrophe and showed up to provide their support.

“Ultimately, the event was only successful be cause enough members of the Georgetown community understood the importance of spending their Thursday night in recognition of one of the most devastating natural disasters in South Asia’s his tory, and in solidarity with the people of Pakistan,” Ro hira wrote.

ALBRIGHT, from A1 capacity for friendship; she was somebody who loved to host dinner parties, who loved to go out to dinner, loved to have con versations and loved to come to the White House residence and put her feet up,” Secretary Clin ton said at the event. “It was in credibly disarming because she was not at all shy about express ing her opinions, including on matters of some delicacy.”

The morning session of the symposium featured a single speaker event titled “The World She Shaped: Albright’s Aca demic Legacy,” where G. John Ikenberry, a professor at Prince ton University; Stacie Goddard, a professor at Wellesley College; Deborah Avant, a professor at the University of Denver; and Angela Stent, Professor Emerita at Georgetown University, dis cussed Albright’s commitment to protecting democracy, her role in bringing countries like Poland, Hungary and Czechia into NATO and the role of wom en in democracy.

Walsh School of Foreign Ser vice Dean Joel Hellman kicked off the afternoon session of events and said Albright has left a lasting impact on her stu dents, the Georgetown commu nity and the world.

“Madeleine Albright changed the world by empowering oth ers,” Hellman said at the event. “She inspired generations of students not only to under stand the world, but to serve

the world. And her students, so many of whom are here today, went on to do just that — a leg acy that is almost incalculable.”

Albright would have cel ebrated her 40th year as a Georgetown professor this Fall, and although she eventually became known for a lifetime of service at the apex of U.S. foreign policy and as the first female U.S. Secretary of State, Hellman said she always pre ferred to be known first and foremost as a professor.

“She said to me, ‘the one thing I tried hardest not to give up was my classroom,’” Hellman said.

“Madeleine Albright lived the values of our school and was the very essence of Georgetown in so many ways. We’re proud to call her ours and we’re blessed by what she gave us.”

Albright’s sharp sense of hu mor, unparalleled diplomatic mind and unwavering commit ment to democracy were among the topics U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Green field spoke about with modera tor Verveer at the second event of the afternoon session.

Sherman said Albright’s ap proach to diplomacy empha sized listening, learning and growing, not just persuasion.

“It’s about remembering that no matter where you are in the world, whether you’re across the table from a friend or from an adversary, you have to be able to put yourself in your

counterpart’s shoes to remem ber that they too are human beings with their own histories, their own interests, their own points of view,” Sherman said.

“That’s the spirit Madeleine brought to her classroom here at Georgetown.”

Thomas-Greenfield said Albright was her role model, shaping the way she has ap proached her role as U.S. Am bassador to the United Nations, a seat Albright filled around 25 years prior.

“When she spoke, people listened. She was grateful, graceful, generous and strong. She was whip-smart, but at the same time down to earth.

I remember thinking to my self, ‘This is what leadership looks like,” Thomas-Greenfield said at the event. “I will always have her as the pin sitting on my shoulders, guiding me as we take on some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”

President Clinton said Al bright’s efforts to find joy in her work made her a particularly compelling negotiator.

“She thought if people could see that you like them, even if you thought they were wrong politically, that it made a big difference in the conduct of hu man affairs,” President Clinton said at the event. “You have to realize that as intensely as you care, you should still live. The way she lived made her more effective politically — she did better when she was chewing out with a smile on her face.”

Gaston Held at Least 163 Enslaved People , Rejected Principle of Equal Citizenship

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produced two main findings that contradicted previous un derstandings of Gaston.

“First, Gaston’s slaveholding was far more extensive than the Report implies,” Mikhail wrote in the letter. “Second, his judi cial opinions involving race and slavery were less progressive than is often assumed.”

DeGioia founded the Work ing Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation in 2015 fol lowing dialogue surrounding the designation of Mulledy Hall, which was named for George town President Thomas Mulle dy. Mulledy authorized the sale of 314 slaves owned by the Soci ety of Jesus in Maryland in 1838, referred to as the GU272+, to fi nancially sustain the university.

In 2016, the Working Group published a report reflecting on its findings with recommenda tions for DeGioia, one of which called for further research on campus sites and programs named for people with a con nection to the history of slavery. The group disbanded after pub lishing the report, according to professor Adam Rothman, cu rator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive and a former member of the Working Group.

The group was led by His tory Professor Fr. David Collins, S.J., and consolidated the work of faculty, staff, students and graduates to provide advice and recommendations on how to properly acknowledge and rec ognize the university’s historic ties to slavery. Gaston Hall, a celebrated auditorium located in Healy Hall that hosts many

of the heads of state and public figures who visit campus, was on the list of campus locations connected to slavery.

Mikhail said he shared the letter with every faculty mem ber on the Working Group and is in the process of disseminat ing it to the larger campus com munity to raise awareness about Gaston’s extensive slaveholding.

A university spokesperson said the university has been in contact with Mikhail since De Gioia received his letter.

“President DeGioia has met with Professor Mikhail to hear about his findings directly. The

University is closely reviewing his letter and considering how we may proceed given the emer gence of this new research,” the spokesperson wrote to The Hoya Rothman said he helped Mikhail transcribe Gaston’s estate records and said his re search answers the Working Group’s call to action.

“This is what is supposed to happen — faculty and stu dents and anybody else who else is interested takes up the time and runs with it, and continues and extends the re search that we were part of,”

Rothman told The Hoya Richard Cellini (COL ’84, LAW ’88), secretary-treasurer of the Georgetown Memory Proj ect, an independent group that aims to identify enslaved people sold by the university in 1838, as well as locate their descendants and honor their legacy, said the contents of the letter represent a larger trend of information around the history of slavery go ing uncovered.

“I really was shocked that

that Gaston’s involvement with slavery was so extensive and so hidden to the rest of us,” Cellini said in an interview with The Hoya. “But I was not surprised because we keep discover ing time after time after time, not just at Georgetown, but all across the country, how much of this history has been erased and displaced.”

Professor Maurice Jackson (GRD ’95, GRD ’01), a Working

Group member, said Mikhail’s research is part of a continual process of correction and revi sion that is characteristic of his torical research.

“We didn’t have these details, and things just keep coming out,” Jackson told The Hoya. “This is just part of an ongoing process and he’s made a worthy contribution.”

Cellini said the findings prove the need for ongoing research in conjunction with the university

to further investigate the links between Georgetown and its history of slavery.

“There should be new work ing groups, and they should be much broader than the old one,” Cellini said. “There’s a lot of stuff at Georgetown that still have very close ties to slavery.”

Rothman said Mikhail’s re search illuminates the selectiv ity of memories about Gaston, which are most notably felt

considering the distinction and prominence of Gaston Hall.

“It is a place that is suffused with historical memory ex cept for the memory of slavery and Gaston’s relationship to it,” Rothman said. “Revealing this history just accentuates how heavily curated our his torical memory is and how much it overlooks. This is all part of the process of telling the truth about our past.”

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Nineteen Newly Introduced Animals Stun Visitors at Smithsonian National Zoo

Seth Edwards Special to The Hoya

The famed Komodo drag on, the Amur tiger and the European glass lizard are just a few of the 19 new ani mals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

These species were gradu ally introduced to Washing ton, D.C.’s largest zoo over the past two and a half years, adding to the zoo’s already large and diverse collection of more than 360 species. The new animals will pro vide an exciting new expe rience for visitors returning to the zoo after pandemicrelated closures and restric tions, but will also enrich the research on animal behavior and conservation that the Smithsonian is doing.

Alexandra DeCandia, a Georgetown University biol ogy professor and research fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conserva tion Biology Institute, said the increased exhibition size offers something for everyone.

“For reptile enthusiasts, the European glass lizard pres ents something truly unique: it looks like a snake, but it’s ac tually a legless lizard,” DeCan dia wrote to The Hoya.“For people interested in fuzzier creatures, the lineup of new carnivores offers exciting op portunities to see the famous ly-expressive facial expres sions of Pallas’ cats and smell the decidedly-popcorn-esque aroma of binturongs.”

Other new species at the zoo include the rock hyrax, black tree monitor, pre hensile-tailed porcupine, siamang, lemur leaf frog, binturong, cave salaman der, collared brown lemur, Vietnamese mossy frog, Aus tralian snake-necked turtle, golden-headed lion tamarin, Panamanian golden frog, sand cat, Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko and Pallas’ cat.

DeCandia said the more obscure animals will expose visitors to animals they may not have previously heard of.

“Higher-profile species like the Amur tiger or Ko

Law Professor Testifies Before Congress on Labor Organizing, Union Rights

Emily Han Special to The Hoya

Visiting Georgetown Uni versity Law Center (GULC) professor Mark Gaston Pearce testified before Congress re garding a pro-workers’ and union rights bill.

Pearce, the former chairman of the National Labor Rela tions Board (NLRB) and ex ecutive director of the Workers’ Rights Institute (WRI), testi fied on Capitol Hill on Sept. 14 about the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). The PRO Act, which the House of Representatives passed in 2021, seeks to protect workers’ rights to join a union.

Pearce answered ques tions about the bill and recent unionizing efforts across the nation at the hearing, entitled “In Solidarity: Removing Bar riers to Organizing.”

“Unions protected work ers during the pandemic,” Pearce said in his testimony.

“I commend the PRO Act for attempting to create greater parity and predictability by

made clear, decades of Repub lican and corporate attacks have rendered the National Labor Relations Act toothless, allowing unscrupulous em ployers to intimidate and re taliate against their workers,”

Scott wrote to The Hoya. “If we are serious about giving work ers the tools they need to suc ceed in the modern economy, the Senate must pass the Pro tecting the Right to Organize Act and ensure workers can collectively bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces.”

With over 40 years of experi ence in labor law, Pearce said his familiarity with the flaws of current union legislation guided his Sept. 14 testimony.

“I saw the problems that ex ist, the challenges that we have in litigation, the challenges that we have with respecting workers seeking to organize, the way the administrative proceedings are set up, the complexities and the built in delays that have affected some workers’ abilities to freely choose to organize,” Pearce told The Hoya. “It has been the case that there’s a 14% increase in unfair labor practices.”

Pearce and both research assistants said a highlight of the trial was the testimony of Starbucks barista Michelle Eisen about her struggle to unionize in response to the company’s mistreatment of workers during the pandemic.

modo dragon often attract visitors to the zoo, but the lesser known species like the Vietnamese mossy frog, prehensile-tailed porcupine, Australian snake-necked turtle, and southern taman dua introduce visitors to something new,” DeCandia wrote. “They can pique in terest in the stories behind these species and the habi tats they come from.”

The vast majority of new animals can be found at the zoo can be found at the Small Mammal House and the Reptile Discovery Center.

While the new species provide a source of entertain ment for tourists and D.C. residents, they also present an opportunity for researchers at the zoo to engage with species they have never worked with first-hand and learn more.

A Komodo dragon named Onyx was introduced to the zoo in December 2020 and joins Murphy, another Ko modo dragon that has been at the zoo for two decades.

Studying Onyx will enrich

the zoo’s researchers’ un derstanding of his species, according to a press release about Onyx’s introduction.

“Caring for Murphy has contributed to Reptile Dis covery Center’s wealth of knowledge about these liz ards. Keepers have not had a young dragon in their care for nearly two decades, so they look forward to getting to know Onyx and continu ing to learn about these in credible reptiles,” the press release reads.

Edward Barrows, George town biology professor and director of the Georgetown Center for the Environment, a forum for the discussion, dissemination and aware ness of environmental is sues, said the new species also provide valuable educa tional opportunities.

“The Smithsonian Nation al Zoological Park is a fine place for all to enhance their life-time learning,” Barrows wrote to The Hoya. “There is so much to know about each native and exotic spe

DC Public Library Commemorates Banned Books Week

Maria Fernanda Borda Special to The Hoya

D.C. Public Library (DCPL) participated in Banned Books Week from Sept. 19 to Sept. 24, hosting a series of special pro grams and activities celebrating the freedom to read.

Banned Books Week cel ebrates literary freedom and acknowledges current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Events throughout the week included an author talk with George M. Johnson, the hon orary chair of Banned Books Week 2022 and the author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which was one of the most challenged books during 2021. DCPL also held a discussion on banned books and cancel culture with award-winning author Pana ma Jackson, HuffPost Opinion Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr. and other panelists.

Launched in 1982 by free speech Judith Krug, the initiative was created in response to an un expected surge in the number of book challenges in public schools and libraries. Today, the event is sponsored by several organiza tions dedicated to fighting cen sorship including the American Library Association (ALA).

Richard Reyes-Gavilan, ex ecutive director of DCPL, said the week draws attention to the harms of censorship by focusing on efforts nationwide to remove or restrict access to books.

release. “Free and open access to information is foundational to our existence and it is therefore critical that we expose attempts at censorship whenever we en counter them.”

The most common reasons books have been challenged or censored include if the book is considered to contain sexually explicit content, offensive lan guage or is “unsuited to any age group.” Book banning rose in 2021, as the ALA recorded 729 book challenges targeting 1,597 titles, a figure more than double the numbers seen in 2020 and the highest figures since the ALA began recording data in 2000.

A report from nonprofit organization PEN America found that 41% of books banned during the past year were targeted due to con tent related to the LGBTQ+ community. In a list of the top 10 challenged books of 2021, compiled by the ALA Office for Intellectual Free dom, “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe sits at the top of the list. Kobabe’s book, which is a memoir centered around the exploration of gender identi ty, is followed by several oth er titles involving LGBTQ+ content, such as “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson.

cies there, even many plants which have entered the Zoo on their own. The new spe cies are wonderful and add to our education.”

Aside from its education al benefits, as a conserva tion zoo, the National Zoo plays an important role pro tecting species.

“Human actions have pushed innumerable species into threatened or endan gered statuses in the wild,” DeCandia wrote. “Organiza tions like the National Zoo

actively pursue wildlife con servation and education to in spire people to join the fight.”

The wide breadth of exhibi tions at the National Zoo pro vides a unique avenue for people to interact with other species.

“The National Zoo is one of my favorite places in D.C.,” DeCandia wrote. “It offers ev eryone - from school children to educators to policy makers to senior citizens - the opportuni ty to stand face-to-face with the other inhabitants of our planet and learn about their stories.”

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making injunctive relief in the event of employer unfair labor practices mandatory in a greater number of cases.”

According to a House Com mittee on Education and Labor fact sheet, the PRO Act introduc es monetary penalties for com panies violating workers’ rights, expands collective bargaining powers and prevents employer interference in union elections.

WRI Program Director Ol ivia Vita coordinated the pro cess of researching, planning and editing Pearce’s testimony while Pearce’s two research assistants, Daphne Assima kopoulos (GRD ’23) and Shiva Sethi (GRD ’24), helped to com pile research and also accom panied him at the hearing.

According to Assimakopoulos, the PRO Act expands upon the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), which protected early labor unions but has be come largely ineffective as it has not been amended since 1947.

House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) said speakers like Pearce helped illuminate the need for legislation that gives workers their power back following the erosion of NLRA provisions.

“As our hearing witnesses

“So many corporations were making profits hand over fist, and they were not recip rocating by providing better working conditions for their workers,” Pearce said. “Work ers learned a hard lesson that employers are not concerned about their welfare and they have to protect themselves.”

Edwin Egee, vice president of government relations and work force development at the Na tional Retail Foundation, said the PRO Act limits employer rights.

“This deeply flawed legisla tion would infringe on em ployers’ due process rights, in terfere with small businesses’ ability to secure legal advice on complex labor matters, ex pand joint employer liability, and strip away critical ‘sec ondary boycott’ protections that prevent a union from boycotting a neutral employ er,” Egee wrote to The Hoya Pearce said that in the meantime, WRI will continue to coordinate events and ini tiatives that support workers.

“Our goal is to educate the low wage workers with re spect to their rights, to advo cate for labor reform and to engage in research where we can analyze factors that create the disparity of wealth and what we can do to improve it,” Pearce said.

“It’s not just about workers being able to unionize. It’s about workers also being able to realize eco nomic equity through means of self determination, which includes going into business for themselves.”

“Book banning is a direct as sault on libraries in their role as first amendment institutions,” Reyes-Gavilan wrote in a press

George Williams, media rela tions manager for DCPL, said re cent censorship attempts across the country have been to books with content that relates to the LGBTQ+ community.

“The American Library As sociation has been tracking the

number of books that have been challenged and many of those books have been written by au thors of color or deal with LG BTQ+ related affairs, particularly LGBTQ+-related items from the perspective of people of color,” Williams told The Hoya

According to Meg Meiman, Associate Librarian at Lauinger Library, it is important to raise awareness about book banning for those who may not be aware of its prevalence today.

“Sometimes students are sur prised that there is such a long history of banning books and that this practice still continues in all types of libraries across the country and around the world,” Meiman told the Hoya

According to Meiman, Lau makes sure to include access to books that have been challenged or censored across the country.

“There are no criteria or pro cesses for banning books in the Georgetown University Library, because we value intellectual freedom, and have a commit ment to promoting open research and scholarly dialogue,” Meiman wrote. “The shelves of the Uni versity Library hold hundreds of books that have been banned or

challenged over the years.”

While challenges to books are much more common in public and school libraries than at university libraries, Lau supports the ALA’s stance that communication is essential to the preservation of a free soci ety and remains committed to promoting this message.

“Providing uncensored, free access to books offers readers the opportunity to engage with thoughts and ideas that may differ from their own,” Meiman wrote. “This allows people to ex pand their understanding of the world as well as their ability to contribute to society.”

Wiliams said that beyond supporting initiatives like Banned Books week, it is im portant to ensure equality of access to all kinds of books and subjects.

“It is fundamental to make sure that libraries across the country are funded adequate ly,” Williams said, “Because even if a book isn’t banned, if a library does not have ad equate funding to buy and maintain its collection, it won’t be able to offer books of a variety of viewpoints.”

Theatre Week Returns to The District

Minoli Ediriweera City Desk Editor

D.C. Theatre Week, an annual event celebrating the kickoff of the 2022-23 theater season, returned to Washington, D.C. for the first time since 2019.

The event will be held from Sept. 22 to Oct. 9 and tickets give attendees access to a wide variety of events.

From six-time Tony Awardwinning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” to 11-time Tony Award-nominated “The Col or Purple,” attendees will receive discounted tickets to several plays and musicals in the D.C. area.

Theatre Week co-producer Christopher Michael Rich ardson said the event will feature free social events for theater lovers in the District.

“This year, we’ve got exciting new partnerships including a DC Theatre Night at The Nats, Theatre Week Happy Hours peppered throughout (Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Cre ative Cauldron, Round House Theatre, & Signature Theatre), and a free outdoor concert at The Wharf on the 24th,” Richardson wrote to The Hoya

“We’re so excited to have these new connections and share the wonderful work of DMV area theatres with the broader DC community.”

The event’s Kickoff Fest will have performances, workshops, interactive game shows, prize drawings and popup stalls from over 40 lo cal theaters. Anyone can at tend the free Sept. 24 event at Arena Stage at the D.C. Wharf.

Richardson said the event will be particularly enrich ing for college students, whether they are trying to become more involved in community theater or sim ply looking for leisure activi ties and free food.

“The Kick Off Fest is a great place to connect with rep resentatives from area the atres and learn more about their student programs, discounts, and offerings THROUGHOUT the year, not just during Theatre Week,” Richardson wrote. “Theatre Week allows students to dis cover all the DMV has to of fer in terms of theatre with a lower cost and more perks.”

Richardson said Theatre Week is also a great opportuni ty to explore the richness of arts

and culture in the DMV area.

“Theatre Week’s primary goal is to highlight and up lift the work that all of these fantastic theatres are doing,” Richardson wrote. “Programs like Theatre Week remind us of our collective community and the Broadway caliber theatre that happens right here in the DMV.”

Richardson also said he hopes the event will reach audiences throughout the District, not just those who are already part of the D.C. theater scene.

“Theatre Week is a great opportunity to welcome new audiences and make new theatre lovers with discounts that lower the cost barrier and encourage the DC com munity to try something new, ” Richardson wrote. “As we head into a new season of theatre in the DMV, Theatre Week encourages all of us to try new things and broaden our horizons.”

President and CEO of The atre Washington Amy Austin said this year’s Theatre Week aims to celebrate how theater in the District has persevered through the pandemic and will be bigger and better than

previous iterations.

“We are taking over all three floors of Arena Stage, a beauti ful and spacious venue. And it’s our first partnership with DCWharf and the Mayor’s Of fice (#202Creates) to host the concert on the Wharf,” Austin wrote to the Hoya

COVID is still impact ing theatres across the D.C, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area. DC Theatre an nounced in early September that over 50 theatres across the DMV would be continu ing their indoor masking re quirement to keep employ ees and patrons safe. As the first Theatre Week to be held since 2019, the events will celebrate how DC Theatre has persevered despite pandemic-related shutdowns and mandates.

Austin said she hopes The atre Week will revitalize resi dents’ appreciation for arts and culture in the District.

“Theatre Week gives them access to many places at exceptional prices,” Austin wrote. “They will find our art scene exciting in its diversity and extensive collaboration. That is what sets us apart from other places.”

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“I saw the problems that exist, the challenges that we have in litigation, the challenges that we have with respecting workers seeking to organize.”

Rabbi, Colleague of Pope Joins Georgetown Interfaith Tradition

Sophia Lu Special to The Hoya

Longtime friend of Pope Fran cis and leading contemporary fa cilitator of Catholic-Jewish inter religious dialogue Rabbi Abraham Skorka joined Georgetown’s Cen ter for Jewish Civilization (CJC) this fall as a senior research fellow.

In his new role at Georgetown, Skorka will serve as the senior re search fellow for Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. He brings five decades of ministe rial experience to the role, which will help guide his research on changing world views towards antisemitism, strengthen Jew ish life on campus and teach a CJC course in the Spring 2023 se mester. Skorka will also continue work on a book that looks at the historical Jewish understanding of antisemitism. Skorka has pre viously taught courses at George town, but now transitioned to a permanent role.

Skorka previously served as the rector of Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Ai res, Argentina. Alongside former Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergo glio, now known as Pope Francis, Skorka spearheaded a series of 31 Catholic-Jewish interfaith con versations on topics ranging from fundamentalism to LGBTQ+ rights. He also co-authored “Sobre el cielo y la tierra,” which trans lates in English to “On Heaven and Earth,” with the pope, a liter ary guide to embodying religious faith in the 21st century.

Skorka said his primary focus will be to model methodologies for effective interreligious ex change, and that he hopes stu dents will be able to gather valu able insights from his first-hand experiences connecting Catholic

and Jewish faith communities.

According to Skorka, he hopes his course in the second semester will teach students to understand how the Jewish tradition recog nizes human existence.

“The subject that I have chosen to teach in the second semester is that of the Jewish conception of the human being,” Skorka wrote to The Hoya. “What am I as a per son? What does the human being mean? These are the questions that overwhelm us during our existence. The idea of the course is to analyze how Jewish sources answer these questions.”

Skorka previously taught Jew ish studies at St. Joseph’s Univer sity and Gratz College. According to Skorka, his teaching philoso phy, which he developed through direct interactions with students at these institutions and in Bue nos Aires, approaches scholastic inquiry with the same empathy he practices in his everyday life.

“A community spiritual leader cannot become an administrator of his community,” Skorka wrote.

“You must recreate your spiritual ity day after day, and for this you must study in the sacred texts, in the writings of the wise men of the past, meditate on them and recre ate the message.

President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) said he is confident Skorka will make a significant im pact on and off campus, informed by his extensive expertise.

“We have cherished our past experiences with Rabbi Skorka, and we are truly honored to wel come him into this new role in our community and for the con tinued opportunity we have to engage his insights as a scholar of Jewish Studies and his perspec tives as an international leader in interfaith engagement,” DeGioia

wrote to The Hoya CJC Director and Professor Bruce Hoffman, who has collabo rated with Skorka on Georgetown Jewish Life programming initia tives in the past, said he is excited about the direct engagement Skorka will have with students.

“Rabbi Skorka is blessed to live very close to campus and to have offices both off-campus and in the CJC’s ICC space,” Hoffman wrote to The Hoya. “He is always eager to interact with students, and has deep knowledge of the Talmud. We knew how much richness of knowledge he has to offer our stu dents and the CJC had been work ing actively with the President’s Office to finally bring him to cam pus on a full-time basis.”

According to Adjunct Profes sor Fr. Dennis McManus, S.J., who previously taught a course with Skorka during the 2021 spring semester, Skorka’s kindness and sincerity, rather than his extensive accomplishments, define him as an educator.

“The most obvious and first thing that you take from him is what a warm human being he is,” McManus said to The Hoya “You may or may not be aware that he is a rabbi, ethicist, or a Talmudist, but from the first contact you have, he immediate ly treats you with such respect, such dignity.”

Rabbi Skorka said he hopes members of the Georgetown community from different walks of life will congregate to spark conversations.

“Without the presence of sin cere, profound dialogue between individuals and with God, life be comes unbearable,” Skorka wrote. “Dialogue must be the tool for all human relationships, because in its absence only violence prevails.”

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Students Organize Vigil at Monuments To Protest Killing of Mahsa Amini

other local universities.

Evie Steele Special to The Hoya

Georgetown University students staged a vigil to mourn and protest the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was killed while in po lice custody for improperly wearing a hijab.

Since 1981, Iran has man dated that women veil their hair with a hijab in public. The Guidance Patrol, or “mo rality police,” is charged with enforcing this law and ar rested Amini for improperly wearing her hijab on Sept. 13. Amini died three days later from unclear circumstances; police claim she suffered a heart attack in detention, but prisoners reported seeing po lice officers torture her and fracture her skull.

Widespread protests broke out across Iran immediately following Amini’s death. Be ginning in Kurdistan, Amini’s home province, women de nounced Iran’s morality and speech laws, burning their hijabs, cutting their hair and chanting “woman, life, free dom” and “death to the dicta tor,” The Guardian reported.

Melanne Verveer, execu tive director of the George town Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and former U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, said these protests differ from previous uprisings in Iran in that both men and women have been rallying

against the government for women’s rights.

Verveer said Iranian wom ens’ rights are seldom spoken about worldwide the way they are right now.

“One of the things that always struck me, having worked for years and years in this area of women’s rights, is how little we pay attention to women in Iran and don’t know a whole lot about what’s happening to them and just how incred ible they are, in terms of their own leadership to try to change their circumstances,” Verveer said.

The protests have since spread to Tehran and world wide — at the Lincoln Me morial on Sept. 23, Bahar Ghandehari (COL ’23) orga nized a protest that began with a vigil and ended with a march to the White House while protesters chanted Amini’s name.

Ghandehari said she hoped the protest would help unite Washington, D.C.’s Ira nian community and raise awareness about the circum stances of Amini’s death.

“It is extremely important to remind each other that we are not alone in times like this,” Ghandehari wrote to The Hoya. “At the same time, I wanted non-Iranians to learn about Mahsa’s killing and the protests in Iran.”

Ghandehari said many young people came to the protest, in cluding numerous non-Iranian students from Georgetown and

“It truly warmed my heart to see so many people come together and stand in solidar ity with people inside Iran,” Ghandehari said. “We ended up marching to the White House after the vigil, and chanting Mahsa’s name in the streets of D.C. was so powerful.”

Amini’s killing reflects a long-standing pattern of vio lence from Iranian morality police, Ghandehari said.

“This level of violence from Iran’s so-called “morality police” is not new,” Ghande hari wrote. “Another young woman’s life was cut short because of the Islamic Re public’s misogynistic and discriminatory laws.”

Nima Majidi (SFS ’23), the president of Georgetown’s Ira nian Cultural Society, said Ami ni’s story is just one of many.

“Being a member of the Ira nian diaspora means hearing these types of stories too of ten, and living in constant fear that the next person could be your loved one,” Ma jidi wrote to The Hoya Ghandehari said she hopes people continue to stay vo cal and protest in the coming weeks and months.

“The most important thing right now is keeping the mo mentum going,” Ghandehari wrote. “I would love to see more students mobilizing and organizing demonstrations in Washington, D.C. Solidar ity protests outside Iran are as important as those taking place inside the country.”

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Chaia Tacos, a popular veg etaThe Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy hosted a hybrid conference about the benefits of early childhood education later in adolescence and early adulthood.

At the conference Sept. 20, Co-directors of McCourt’s Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS) Dr. Bill Gormley and Dr. Deborah Phil lips shared findings from their 20-year longitudinal study on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s governmentfunded universal pre-K (UPK) program. The conference fea tured Governor Jared Polis (DColo.) and Distinguished Univer sity Professor and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne as keynote speakers, among others.

Tulsa’s program, which made pre-K available to all four-yearolds on a voluntary basis, dem onstrated immediate positive effects on the mental develop ment in math performance, early literacy and attention skills of the 71% of children who enrolled, ac cording to Gormley.

“When a student enters kin dergarten in Tulsa, the single best predictor of that student’s cogni tive skills at kindergarten entry is not race or gender or the mother’s education or the presence of the biological father in the child’s home, but rather it’s whether the child attended pre-K the previous year,” Gormley said in an inter view with The Hoya

The researchers initially planned to study the intersection between childhood development and public policy more generally, but were compelled to shift their focus specifically to Tulsa’s pro gram after learning about it, ac cording to Gormley.

“In 2001, I decided to investi

gate Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program, which was the sec ond oldest in the United States, and during that investigation, I learned that no one else was looking at it,” Gormley said. “And that there was a treasure trove of data sitting around in some basement in the Tulsa public schools that was just waiting to be analyzed. So we pounced on that opportunity, and we’ve never looked back.”

Phillips said they studied chil dren who were part of the pro gram from childhood to college, working both inside and outside of the classroom to examine the effects that pre-K had on their de velopment and success.

“You can really shape chil dren’s lives in pretty powerful ways with nine months of a high-quality program,” Phillips said. “The fact that we found such strong impacts on math and early literacy in and of itself was pretty groundbreaking.”

Not only were there clear posi tive outcomes related to math and early literacy skills, but they also noted that childrens’ atten tion and self-regulation skills seemed to be better among stu dents who had attended pre-K.

Aside from academics, at tending pre-K is associated with increased civic engagement and likelihood to pursue higher forms of education, according to Gormley.

“Students who were in the Tul sa pre-K program many years ago are today more likely to be regis tered to vote and are more likely to vote,” Gormley said. “We have also been delighted to see that students who were in the Tulsa public school’s pre-K program years ago are much more likely to attend college today than a com parable set of students.”

A parallel study called the Tul sa School Experiences and Early Development (SEED), led by Dr.

Anna Johnson, who attended the conference, follows a second gen eration of students in the Tulsa UPK program.

According to Johnson, her re search, which explores the ways pre-K improves long-term learn ing trajectories for low-income students, was only possible be cause of Gormley and Phillips’ work.

“I’m standing on the shoulders of giants,” Johnson said. “I have been invited into this research group and to continue this next generation of research building on that earlier work.”

Johnson hopes the findings from these studies will encourage policymakers to push for UPK to be rolled out in other states.

“Rather than expect one year of preschool to, you know, put kids in the top 10 percent of test scorers, I think a realistic expectation is that these kids are better prepared for school,” Johnson said. “They’re more persistent at hard things, and they do better in life, and I think we can hope that the states that are rolling out universal pre-K will see the same effects.”

Phillips said the best part of the day was being able to pub licly express her gratitude for the group at Tulsa for facilitating their research.

Moving forward in her re search, Phillips said she hopes to explore the reasons why pre-K helps set students up for future success.

“My main interest really is not only in documenting im pacts on children, but trying to understand the mechanisms behind those impacts: what is it that happens inside these class rooms?” Phillips said. “What’s go ing on between the teachers and the children and among the chil dren that produces the outcomes that we were seeing, which were astonishingly strong.”

Students Report Facilities Issues, Slow Response from Maintenance

Liana Hardy Hoya Staff Writer

Two weeks after Kat De Maret (SFS ’24) moved into her Village A apartment, she noticed water steadily leak ing from the ceiling. She called facilities and imme diately set up buckets to col lect the water.

On Aug. 22, a few days after her first call, facilities work ers came and removed parts of the ceiling to allow the piping and insulation to dry out, saying they would come back to replace the missing chunks of the ceiling. Main tenance did not return to fix the ceiling until Sept. 21, al most a month later.

From leaks like the one in DeMaret’s apartment to bro ken air conditioning units, The Hoya has spoken to three students who have reported submitting work orders for problems in their residences and having to wait weeks for them to be resolved.

DeMaret told The Hoya that she suspects the exposure may have caused health is sues for anyone who spent time in her apartment.

“My roommates and I have all been experiencing aller gy-like symptoms (coughing, sneezing, dry itchy eyes, sore throats) and any visitors in our apartment have started experiencing them after a few hours there as well,” DeMaret wrote to The Hoya prior to maintenance work ers returning Sept. 21.

The situation worsened when the air conditioning in DeMaret’s apartment went out Aug. 22. DeMaret and her

roommates were forced to leave the apartment for four days when it became too hot to live there. DeMaret stayed in a hotel room provided by the Office of Residential Liv ing, while her roommates slept on friends’ couches.

Despite showing symptoms of sickness, sending multiple emails, making several calls and paying an in-person visit to the Department of Plan ning & Facilities Manage ment, DeMaret received no response for weeks on when her ceiling would be fixed.

It took DeMaret’s room mate, Robin Brinkmann (SFS ’24), speaking about the issue to her colleagues at the SFS dean’s office in September to get maintenance back in the apartment to fix the ceiling.

“I work at the dean’s office so I just happened to have mentioned the issues I was having when I was on shift a couple times and then a few employees at the office directed me to communicate with Jim Duffy to move our apartment to a higher prior ity,” Brinkmann wrote to The Hoya. “I was in direct contact with him and I’m pretty sure he expedited our repairs.”

DeMaret is not the only one dealing with issues like broken air conditioning and delayed maintenance re sponse times.

Air conditioning for all apartments in Nevils and LXR, which collectively house over 450 students, stopped working for five days due to a chilled water system failure spanning from Sept. 10-15. Residential Living ad dressed the issue in an email

to affected students Sept. 12, writing that emergency maintenance had started working with contractors to fix the chiller that day.

Nevils resident Alene Han son (COL ’23) said that it got too hot for her and her room mate to stay in the apartment at one point.

“It was pretty uncomfortable for that whole week,” Hanson wrote to The Hoya. “We had to stay at a friend’s house one night because it was difficult sleeping in our apartment.”

A university spokesperson said the university responds to facility work requests and other student reports in a timely manner.

“The safety, health and well-being of our students is our highest priority. We work through every request as dili gently and expeditiously as possible,” the university spokes person wrote to The Hoya DeMaret said she believes university officials have failed to protect the health and safe ty of their students by neglect ing dire facilities and mainte nance issues.

“I do not feel that my health and safety or the health and safety of my roommates are being prioritized by the uni versity at all right now,” De Maret wrote. “We have had to make constant effort for facil ities to do something about the situation in our apart ment that is actively making us sick, and they have failed to respond.”

The Hoya has independently verified all claims made in this piece by reviewing cited corre spondence with facilities staff.

COURTESY NABEEL SALEH AL-MAFRACHI

Students from Georgetown and other local universities gathered to honor Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman jailed and allegedly beaten to death for improperly wearing a hijab.

Julia Butler

MCCOURT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY

After over two decades of research, Georgetown faculty members presented findings on how to access to early childhood education improves life outcomes.

DC to Allow Bars, Restaurants To Stay Open 24/7 for World Cup

Brian Li Special to The Hoya

Washington, D.C. bars, res taurants and breweries will be permitted to stay open for 24 hours during the 2022 FIFA World Cup after the D.C. Council passed an emer gency act.

The 2022 World Cup Emergency Amendment Act of 2022, introduced by Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, will permit bars and restaurants with the appropriate licensure to sell and serve alcohol until 4 a.m., and operate 24 hours of the day during the World Cup later this year. In order to operate 24/7 starting on Nov. 20 until Dec. 18, when the World Cup concludes, li censed alcohol suppliers are required to enroll with the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board, which entails a $100 fee, by Nov. 17.

Jared Powell, chief of staff of the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA), said he believes that the emergency legislation will benefit bars and soccer

fans alike.

“The Act will allow es tablishments to host pa trons who wish to watch the month-long sporting event live since there is a sevenhour time difference be tween Qatar and DC,” Powell wrote to The Hoya

According to Powell, the emergency act is subject to approval from Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is expected to approve the act after agreeing to similar legislation for the 2018 World Cup, after which the act will become law in ad vance of the World Cup.

Roneeka Bhagotra-Gordon, co-founder of D.C.-based Brit ish bar The Queen Vic, said World Cups are always a high light for the establishment.

“Past World Cups have been incredibly fun and great for business — our reg ulars and staff always look forward to them,” BhagotraGordon wrote to The Hoya “We expect the same this year, just with earlier morn ings and colder weather.”

The 2022 World Cup will be the first World Cup tour nament held during the win

ter because of the extreme summer heat in Qatar.

The District passed simi lar legislation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2018 MLB All-Star Game, both of which took place in D.C. Both events saw the ap proval of extended alcohol hours identical to that of the 2022 Emergency Act, accord ing to Powell. However, limi tations on the sale of alco holic beverages will remain in place, barring service from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m.

“The 4:00 a.m. end time aligns with the service end time for the Extended Holi day Hours Program,” Powell wrote. “Current DC law al lows for alcohol sales and service to start at 6:00 a.m. If approved, licensees will be issued an extended hours li cense for the series that they must post next to their alco hol license.”

Bhagotra-Gordon said that while she was not surprised by the D.C. Council’s decision to pass this legislation, she is grateful that the legislation allows her to benefit while showing the World Cup.

As a bar founded by immi grants from the United King dom, The Queen Vic will open early for group stage games involving England, Wales and the United States. Once the knockout rounds begin, how ever, kickoffs will occur after 10 a.m., thus removing the need for the bar to be open in the early morning.

Despite the extended hours, Bhagotra-Gordon be lieves most District bars, in

School of Nursing Director Honored for Leadership

Sarah Whitehouse Special to The Hoya

The director of the George town School of Nursing’s Bachelor of Science in Nurs ing program has received a prestigious award honoring her exceptional leadership in the field.

Michele A. Kane received the 2022 Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Prac tice at the National League for Nursing (NLN) Education Summit in Las Vegas Sept. 28-30. The award recognizes an individual who inspires passion and clinical reason ing in patient care, conducts evidence-based scholarly re search focused on improving patient outcomes and chal lenges students to expand their clinical knowledge base in innovative ways.

Kane said she was sur prised, overwhelmed and grateful to receive the award.

“I’m still kind of pinching myself. It really hasn’t sunk in that this is happening.” Kane told The Hoya. “I just did my career, I just did Michele. I just did. You know, it was just me, and I didn’t think it was worthy of that. But apparently NLN thought so.”

Kane began her nursing ca reer in the United States Navy, accumulating multiple gradu ate degrees and holding a vari ety of leadership positions as she moved up the ranks. Kane holds a Ph.D alongside a BSN and MSN.

Kane said her experience in the Navy, while filled with obstacles to belonging, was also defined by the

mentorship she received.

“Early in my career I was told, ‘You don’t belong here,’” Kane said. “But what is ironic is that, full circle, these senior individuals saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself, and then became my mentors. These positions, and what I did, is because of the mentor ing of these men.”

Kane went on to become the first Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio, overseeing $40 million in research assets. She was also the first nurse to be deputy chief medical officer at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, building a highreliability model for 9.6 mil lion beneficiaries.

For Kane, leadership is de fined not by honorifics, but by breaking barriers and doing the right thing.

“But leadership is not a title, right? Because you can lead at any level. It’s about do ing what’s right,” Kane said. “You have to have courage to do what’s right.”

Kane has undertaken mul tiple research projects that demonstrate leadership in patient care throughout ev ery stage of her career. For in stance, as a Ph.D student at Uniformed Services Univer sity, she studied the effects of embedded shrapnel in Ameri can casualties from Iran; her findings, which demonstrated a correlation between shrap nel and cancer development, continue to benefit veterans through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Toxic Em bedded Fragment Center.

Kane said the research proj ect redefined the future trajec tory of her career.

“That momentous study opened up the doors tremen dously for me,” Kane said. “We took it from the bench all the way to the bedside to the vet eran, in the care of the veteran.”

After years of research, Kane said she was motivated to move into teaching and educa tion because of the core value the Navy instilled in her about the importance of mentorship.

“If you’re going to be a lead er, you have to excel at driving change and challenging those rules that seem to be carved in,” she said.

Roberta Waite, dean of the School of Nursing, said the School of Nursing community is immensely proud of Kane for her achievement and grate ful for the benefit students can reap from her experiences.

“Our School of Nursing stu dents are benefitting from her incredible experiences in the

field of nursing. Our country benefited from her dedicated service as an officer in the U.S. Navy,” Waite wrote to The Hoya. “We are proud to have Dr. Kane as a professional ex emplar of education, practice, and leadership.”

Julia Ferrante (NHS ’24), a future nurse herself, has Kane as a professor for her Care of Adults with Physical Altera tions course and recognizes Kane’s role in the Georgetown community.

Ferrante said Kane has prov en to be an excellent mentor.

“She is an amazing profes sor and inspiring leader in the nursing field,” Ferrante wrote to The Hoya. “I feel lucky to learn from her and her experience.”

Kane feels lucky to not only have taught others, but to have learned from others as well.

“All of us are pioneers,” Kane said. “Yes, maybe I did push the boundaries a lot, but I had a lot of people clearing the way too.”

GREEN Establishes Food Recovery Network

Giulia Testa Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Renewable Energy and Envi ronmental Network (GREEN) launched a food recovery network project aimed at addressing food insecurity in Washington, D.C.

The network, pioneered by Daniella Passariello (MSB, SFS ’23) and Nadia Sadanandan (NHS ’24), aims to cut down on food waste and aid those experiencing food insecurity. The project is part of the Food Recovery Network (FRN), an organization comprising over 180 colleges and universities that are actively donating surplus food to local organizations. The network is the largest student-led move ment against food waste and working to end hunger through out the country.

Passariello said she was moti vated to start a chapter at George town after learning about the organization in an environmental studies class during her sopho more year.

“I thought it was the perfect idea for Georgetown and I was so ex cited to join the chapter but when I googled to find Georgetown’s chap ter I noticed we didn’t have one. American University and George Washington University did, but we did not,” Passariello wrote to The Hoya. “It was a bit confusing for me to find this out knowing how

much impact Georgetown could generate if we started our own food recovery network.”

Passariello said she reached out to GREEN at the end of last year hoping to launch a chapter at Georgetown. Sadanandan, co-lead of GREEN’s Zero Waste team, said she took on the project with Pas sariello after she reached out.

Although the network has not been launched yet, Passariello and Sadanandan plan to meet with representatives from Aramark, Georgetown’s primary food service provider, to discuss the logistics of the project.

Currently the pair plans to store leftover food from dining loca tions on campus in refrigerators provided by Aramark before being distributed to nonprofit organiza tions tackling food insecurity, Pas sariello said.

MollyAustin(SFS’25),anothercolead for GREEN’s Zero Waste team, said Georgetown’s FRN chapter will help to reduce food waste and simultaneously help those experi encing food insecurity.

“On this campus we generally have a variety of food options, but unfortunately, many individuals in the greater DC community lack this same accessibility to food,” Austin wrote to The Hoya. “FRN seeks to bridge the gap between the food that would otherwise be wasted on Georgetown’s campus and the people who need it most

in the broader DC community.”

Given the prevalence of food in security throughout the District, Passariello said she felt impas sioned to bring the food recovery network to Georgetown’s campus.

“About one in ten Americans experiences food insecurity in some form, while nearly 40% of all food produced in the US is wasted,” Passariello wrote. “In the DC region one in three people face food insecurity which is exacer bated by the economic disparities between Wards. This presents us with an opportunity to serve our community and promote the is sue of food waste and food justice on campus.”

Passariello and Sadanandan hope to put a trial run in place by the end of October, during which food will be collected from Royal Jacket.

Royal Jacket was selected to pilot this program given its convenience and ability to make an immediate impact, Sadanandan said.

“The easiest way to start for a trial run would be a place with packaged foods, like Royal Jacket,” Sadanandan said to The Hoya “Leo’s would probably be the most difficult place to start this because they do have the buffet style.”

While Passariello and Sadan andan have not determined which nonprofit organizations they will partner with, they are currently thinking about distrib uting the food collected to Miri

am’s Kitchen, a nonprofit aimed at ending chronic homelessness in D.C., and Martha’s Table, a non profit providing healthy food ac cess throughout the District.

One concern with this new initiative is the possible legal implications, especially if ex pired food is donated. However, a D.C. law coined the Good Sa maritan Act provides liability protection for food donors. Ac cording to Passariello, this law has helped make Aramark eager to help with the project.

Passariello and Sadanandan said they hope to partner with several on-campus organizations to make this project successful, including Hoya Hub, a pantry that serves as a resource for George town community members ex periencing food insecurity, and Georgetown Homeless Outreach Programs and Education, a club focused on issues of homeless ness and housing justice.

Passariello said they have been abletorecruitmorethan40students to work with the FRN on campus.

“The amount of students that are excited to volunteer and help with recovery runs shows how this issue of food waste at Leo’s has been on stu dents’ minds for a really long time and it is finally time to take action by simultaneously creating impact in our commu nity,” Passariello wrote.

cluding The Queen Vic, will not be open 24 hours during the World Cup. This is largely a result of the ongoing staff ing shortages and a more con venient schedule in the latter stages of the tournament.

“I don’t believe many bars will stay open 24/7,” Bhago tra-Gordon wrote. “Bars are still struggling to find staff so doubling opening hours will be a huge challenge.”

Bhagotra-Gordon said the

move to expand hours dur ing the World Cup will pro vide soccer fans with an op portunity to congregate and watch the World Cup with friends, despite the hours at which matches will be held.

“We do believe that it will be beneficial for fans; having the opportunity to come to gether for these types of in ternational events is always positive for the community,” Bhagotra-Gordon wrote.

10 Start-Up Companies Welcomed to GU Startup Accelerator Cohort

The Georgetown Venture Lab, a workspace which pro vides resources and mentor ship to early-stage startups run by Georgetown alumni, wel comed its newest Georgetown Startup Accelerator cohort.

The Georgetown Startup Accelerator (GSA), founded in 2020, provides mentor ship for entrepreneurs to take the next steps with their businesses. The nine-week virtual program features op portunities to connect with fellow entrepreneurs in the program, as well as connect ing members of the George town community who may be interested in investing in the startups. GSA recruits mentors to match the needs of each startup by assessing who would be the best fit for the particular company, drawing from both people who have been involved in GSA programs before, and those who have not.

This year’s cohort featured 10 companies and 18 entre preneurs and founders, in cluding Carlos Bello (GRD ’22), co-founder of Budeli, a food delivery app seeking to make food delivery more sustainable by making mul tiple deliveries at one time to apartment complexes.

Bello said the partnering of mentors was important in nurturing the growth of his startup.

“The real value is having someone with deep subject matter expertise, being able to critically look and exam ine and make your case bul letproof, which is what he’s trying to do,” Bello said in an interview with The Hoya “And that’s what we need.”

Jeff Reid, founding direc tor of the Georgetown Entre preneurship Initiative, said GSA is an opportunity for startups to be matched with mentors that will best serve their particular interests and support them as they continue to grow.

“We recruit mentors, after we know which companies are in the program,” Reid said in an interview with The Hoya. “So we recruited men tors specifically to match the needs of the companies. And some of the mentors are peo ple who have been involved in our programs before and we know they’re going to be a good fit. Others are people that we may not have worked with before, but we also be lieve they will be a good fit for our particular company.”

Max Gottlieb (COL ’14) said collaborating with other entrepreneurs in the cohort and their support is an in valuable part of the support that the Georgetown Startup Accelerator provides.

“It’s a wonderful group,” Gottlieb said in an interview

with The Hoya. “You get to learn from others who are going through the startup process with the cohort. And I don’t care what anybody tells you; it has its ups, its downs, it’s scary, it’s excit ing, it’s stressful. It’s all the emotions and all the feel ings, but it’s wonderful.”

The culmination of the pro gram is a Nov. 8 Demo Day, where the startups showcase their companies to the cam pus community. Attendees will range from entrepreneurs, to mentors and to investors.

Cesar Correa Parker (GRD ’13) said Demo Day allows for inves tors to gain a full understand ing of the startups’ products.

“The way that Demo Day works is that we are going to have to prepare a video, and this video is going to be pre sented to the investors,” Parker said to The Hoya. “So you know by that point, we are hoping to meet all the expectations of our types of investors in terms of having a product, and with the scalability and with the business plan, that it’s appeal ing to investors.”

Tonya Sloans (GRD ’08) said she is grateful for the

program that has helped her even after she graduated.

“I’m grateful that George town didn’t just leave me at graduation back in 2008,” Sloans said to The Hoya. “But there’s now more program ming that is widely available to me. And that’s made a big difference in my business world today.”

Reid said he expects the program to grow in the future.

“I expect the accelerator to continue to attract amazing entrepreneurs from all over the world to help them grow their businesses and con nect with the Georgetown community.” Reid said to The Hoya. “So I think the pro gram will grow in terms of interest, and maybe we’ll be able to add multiple cohorts in a given year.”

Aiden Ehrenreich Special to the Hoya

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The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation permitting District bars and restaurants to stay open for 24 hours during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

“The real value is having someone with deep subject matter expertise, being able to critically look and examine and make your case bulletproof, which is what he’s trying to do.”

Carlos Bello Co-Founder of Budeli

GEORGETOWN SCHOOL OF NURSING Retired Navy Capt. Michele Kane recieved a prestigious award for leadership from the National League of Nursing.

Georgetown Falls to Rider 4-0 After Broncs Make Late Run

Julia Cannamela Hoya Staff Writer

Despite almost three full quarters of even play, George town University’s women’s field hockey lost, 4-0, to the Rider University Broncs, as the Broncs notched three goals in the fourth quarter to cement their victory.

The Sept. 25 afternoon game on Cooper Field began with a hopeful start for Georgetown (3-7, 0-2 Big East), as the Hoyas maintained possession and kept the ball mostly in Rider’s (44) defensive end in the first half.

Even though Georgetown had several offensive pushes, out shooting the Broncs three shots to none and earning two penalty corners in the second quarter, they struggled with execution. Despite persistent efforts from sophomore midfielders Sophie Towne and Emma van der Veen, who had seven and six shots in the game, respectively, the Hoyas were unable to score.

Both teams entered the third quarter looking like they would jockey for control like they did in the first half, as they exchanged offensive presses while both de fenses held strong.

However, towards the end of the third quarter, the mo mentum of the game began to shift toward Rider, as the Broncs found their first goal after pressuring the Hoyas in their offensive third.

Coming off of a penalty cor ner with a little under two min utes left in the quarter, Rider midfielder Indy Zoontjens got a straight shot off that sailed past the diving fifth-year goal keeper Ciara Weets to finally break the deadlock.

Georgetown made several ef forts to level the score in the next ninety seconds, including two penalty corners as time expired in the third quarter. Despite these two last-second chances, the Broncs defense remained tight and the Hoyas were unable

to record a shot on target, send ing the ball out of bounds to end the quarter.

After Rider put itself on the board, the Hoyas found them selves struggling to recover for the rest of the game while the Broncs began to find even more of an offensive stride.

In the first minutes of the fourth quarter, the Broncs put strong pressure on the Hoya defense, scoring two quick back-to-back goals.

First, just 52 seconds into the final quarter, the Broncs pum meled Weets and the defense with several shots and deflec tions in the crease, and Rider forward Valeria Perales was able to angle the ball into the back of the net amidst the chaos.

The Broncs continued to push against a fatigued Georgetown defense, earning three quick penalty corners within the next two minutes. The third penalty corner led to their third goal, as Zoontjens again took the helm, sending a long ground ball into the corner of the net off of the corner inbound.

Despite putting together sev eral aggressive offensive drives in the following ten minutes, the Hoyas were still unable to con nect in the crease and find good shots. Rider goalkeeper Kait lyn Tomas came up big for the Broncs with three saves in the

fourth quarter to contribute to her eight total saves in the game.

With just over three min utes left in the game, Rider found another opportunity to split the ranks of the Hoya de fense as Perales streaked down the field on a fast break, taking the ball by herself all the way to the goal and placing it in the corner past Weets who had rushed out to stop her run.

The Hoyas did not put to gether another run in the last minutes of the game, and the score ultimately stood at 4-0 at the final buzzer.

Coach Longacre commented on the Hoyas’ disappointing re sult and efforts to move forward.

“Sunday’s result unfortu nately was not a good repre sentation of how the game went for us. We moved and possessed the ball very well for a majority of that game and had many opportunities. Rider’s GK and defense played extremely well and made scor ing difficult and they also took advantage of the opportuni ties given. Are main focuses going into this week are fin ishing and counter defense,” Longacre said.

Georgetown will look to re bound from this loss as they travel to Philadelphia to take on Big East competitor Temple on Friday, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m.

FOOTBALL

Hoyas Stumble in Lou Little Cup with Columbia, 6-42

Austin Huang Special to The Hoya

With a minute left in the first half and the score at 0-3, George town and Columbia appeared to be locked in a scrappy, low-scoring dogfight. From then to the end of the game, however, the Hoyas were outscored by the Lions 39 to 6, eventually falling 42-6 on Sept. 24 and losing the Lou Little Cup for the second year in a row.

On a brisk Saturday afternoon, both teams struggled in the first quarter to put points on the board. On the first drive of the game, Georgetown (1-3, 0-1 Patriot League) marched down to the Columbia (2-0, 0-0 Ivy League) 25-yard line before the Lions de fense forced a fourth down. On a 42-yard field goal attempt, sopho more kicker Patrick Ryan missed Georgetown’s first and only field goal attempt of the game.

Georgetown’s rushing game, or rather, Columbia’s lockdown defense, would become a major theme in this game. The Hoyas rushed for a net total of 0 yards on 14 attempts, compared to 206 yards on 48 attempts by the Lions. Despite outstripping Columbia in passing yards 317 to 263, Georgetown simply had trouble recovering from such a severe deficit on the ground.

Georgetown had no answer for Columbia’s defense, and if this trend continues from last week’s disappointing rushing perfor mance against Monmouth, it could be a potential issue to moni tor for the Hoyas this season.

Columbia racked up an inter ception and a missed field goal of

its own during the first quarter, before picking off Georgetown se nior quarterback Pierce Holley’s pass in triple coverage right before the end of the period to thwart a Hoyas touchdown. On the first drive of the second quarter, the Li ons scored their first field goal.

After a Georgetown punt, Co lumbia finally scored the first touchdown of the game with 59 seconds left in the second quar ter. Then, in a forgettable final minute, Holley threw an inter ception at the Georgetown 39yard line. A subsequent 23-yard reception by the Lions gave them time to score another field goal to put them up 13-0 at halftime, giv ing them momentum heading into the locker room.

Despite the score, Georgetown played Columbia evenly for most of the first half. The major differ ence throughout the game were both teams’ conversions on third down. While the Hoyas went 5-12, the Lions had a remarkably efficient 14-18 conversion rate on third downs throughout the game, including a clutch 20-yard reception on third down in the first half that resulted in their only touchdown of the half.

The third quarter was simi larly even-matched, with the Lions scoring on the first drive of the half. Then the Hoyas scored their first touchdown on the next play. Senior wide receiver Dorrian Moultrie re turned a Columbia kickoff 70 yards to put the Hoyas at Columbia’s 25-yard line. Later on the same drive, on 4th and 18, Holley found junior wide receiver Asante Das for an 18-

yard touchdown to put George town on the board, 20-6, and give the Hoyas hope heading into the fourth quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Colum bia started to pull away from Georgetown to secure the victory.

The Lions scored a touchdown 50 seconds into the quarter, and quickly scored another courtesy of a 40-yard rushing touchdown by Columbia running back Mal colm Terry II. Then, after George town drove to within 8 yards of the Columbia endzone, Holley saw his pass picked off by Columbia linebacker Rocco Milia and then returned 93 yards for a touchdown to make the score 42-6.

Head Coach Rob Sgarlata remained optimistic despite the team’s loss, highlight ing the Hoyas’ receivers as a cause for hope.

“I thought our guys played and battled hard, especially coming out of the half and scoring when we did,” Sgar lata told Georgetown Athlet ics. “Joshua Tomas, Cam eron Crayton and Asante Das played extremely well, and Dorrian Moultrie gave us a spark on his kick return to set us up for our touchdown.”

Georgetown will look to re cover from this loss as it travels to the Bronx to take on Patriot League foe Fordham (3-1). The Fordham-Georgetown rivalry dates back to 1889, with Ford ham leading the all-time series 41-23-3 and winning 8 of the last 9 games, including a 41-20 victory last November. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Jack Coffey Field on Oct. 1.

The Best, Worst, and Weirdest of the NHL Offseason

BREAKING THE ICE Erin Casey Columnist

It’s hard to believe a new NHL season is right around the corner, and if you’re just starting to parse through the offseason news, it might be surprising to see which teams have undergone dras tic changes, which have made methodical improve ments, and which have left fans and insiders scratching their heads.

Drastic Changes: Calgary Flames

When Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk both decided to part ways with the Flames, they dealt the organi zation a seemingly impossible hand. Gaudreau and Tkachuk made up two-thirds of one of the most offensively dynamic lines in the league, as their line produced the most goals in the 2021-22 season.

Calgary’s front office had its work cut out for it trying to replace Gaudreau, a career point-per-game player, and Tkachuk, one of only two play ers under 25 years old to score 100 points last season. None theless, management made smart decisions to remain se rious contenders.

The Flames chose to trade Tkachuk rather than negoti ate a short-term contract and risk losing him to free agency in the future after he informed the organization he had no in tention of signing a long-term deal with them. In a surpris ing blockbuster trade, Calgary dealt Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers in return for Jona than Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar and Cole Schwindt. Huberdeau recorded a careerhigh 115 points last season, and Weegar is an excellent

two-way defenseman.

The Flames then cleared salary cap space to sign Na zem Kadri, the most soughtafter free agent after Gaud reau. Kadri played the best hockey of his career last season and significantly con tributed to the Colorado Ava lanche’s success.

Calgary’s front office re sponded to significant chal lenges with smart additions to its roster. Fans should be excited to watch a different but still very talented team hit the ice in October.

Methodical Improvement: Ottawa Senators

While Ottawa did not have a particularly successful season last year, the Sena tors have made significant improvements to their ros ter this offseason to add to their young core. They traded for Alex DeBrincat and Cam Talbot, and signed free agent Claude Giroux.

At just 24 years old, De Brincat put up 78 points in 82 games last season for the Chicago NHL team and abso lutely has the potential to be a point-per-game player in the future.

DeBrincat can be someone that the Senators can build around for years to come. His signing alone is reason for Ot tawa’s fans to get excited for the future.

Talbot is a significant im provement over the Senators’ goalie last season Matt Mur ray, who recorded a 3.23 goalsagainst average and .899 save percentage over his two sea sons with the Senators. Even though Talbot’s age makes it unlikely that he will be the Senators’ long-term solution, he will provide consistency and give the team the chance to win more games.

The addition of Giroux makes the Senators a far more offensively dangerous team.

Giroux, a seven-time NHL all-star, also adds the kind of veteran leadership teams like to bring in to help mentor younger players. Ottawa’s of fensive core includes captain Brady Tkachuk, Josh Norris, Tim Stützle and now DeBrin cat, all of whom are under the age of 25. Giroux’s presence can help these players reach their full potential, which will be crucial to the long-term success of the team.

The Senators might be a couple years away from mak ing the playoffs, but they are certainly on the right track.

Missing the Mark: Chicago I’m personally really inte resAfter ending the regular season with one of the worst records in the league, it is hard to argue Chicago has any other choice but to commit to a rebuild. Although team ex ecutives have made clear their intention to do so, they have consistently missed the mark.

This offseason, Chicago chose to part ways with De Brincat, Kirby Dach and Dylan Strome. Each of them is young, and each, especially DeBrincat, has the potential to be part of a winning sys tem. Instead of rebuilding around a young core, Chicago has chosen to cling to Jona than Toews and Patrick Kane. To the front office’s credit, Chicago seems to be trying to move Kane, but it is hard to imagine a successful rebuild in Chicago’s future so long as it continues to deal young tal ent and hold on to depreciat ing assets.

Chicago desperately needs to invest in and develop young talent to have a real shot at be ing successful once again.

Erin Casey is a senior in the College. Breaking the Ice appears online and in print every four weeks.

How American Ownership Worsens the Premier League

WHY IT WAS SPECIAL Jack Lonergan Columnist

When Chelsea F.C.’s new Co-Owner Todd Boehly said he hoped “the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from Ameri can sports,” a collective groan permeated through English pubs and living rooms.

With Boehly’s investment group Clearlake’s purchase of Chelsea F.C. on May 28, Chelsea became the 10th Premier League club with some form of U.S. own ership. Due to the difference in operations between American franchises and English football clubs, Chelsea fans were worried Boehly would follow the trend created by those that traversed the Atlantic before him.

The trend of unwanted Amer ican revolution of English soccer first started in the early 2000s, when the Glazer family acquired Manchester United. In the fol lowing years, other Americans appeared on the boardrooms of Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa and other large English clubs. They were attracted by the global nature of the sport and the suc cess of the league, which provid ed — and continues to provide — lucrative broadcasting and merchandising opportunities. This coupled with the low valu ations compared to American sports franchises has made Eu rope an attractive market.

U.S. franchises are set up for their owners to consistently make a return on investment. Naturally, then, American owners have used the Premier League and its clubs as tools to line their pockets, like they have done with NFL, MLB and NHL franchises.

However, profit does not come first in English soccer. The fans and the owners see the sport in different ways and American owners fail to understand the im portance of history and tradition to the average Premier League fan. So, in Europe, profitable own ers are viewed as greedy. Euro pean fans expect that there will be continued investment on the pitch, whether that means ac quiring new players for millions of dollars, hiring the best in class in every department or upgrading their clubs’ facilities.

These different attitudes have created a culture clash that has simmered for a long time and re cent events brought it to a boil.

One of those events was the proposed European Super League, which would have created a closed league with Europe’s most storied clubs, allowing the best teams to play each other more often and make far more money than they otherwise would have.

However, while profitable, this idea takes the sport’s best players away from domestic competi tions. It denies other teams the ability to disrupt the status quo like Leicester did in 2016, and it takes away some of the best do mestic cup fixtures which so often pit David against Goliath.

Unsurprisingly, three of the five members of the prospective board of the Super League were U.S. owners of Premier League clubs.

The backlash this proposition faced showed that fans are more than just “customers,” as they were described on the Liverpool owner’s website. To express their outrage over the league, fans took to stadiums in the form of mass protests. The Union of European Football Associations and even former British Prime Minister Bo ris Johnson stepped in to bring the proposed league to a halt.

Still, this was a dangerous

wake-up call to the fact that these clubs’ fates are in the hands of a select few who see them as little more than busi ness opportunities.

This explains fans’ quick re sponse when Boehly suggest ed an all-star game between North and South clubs to fund the English pyramid, which is the unique system of intercon nected leagues across all levels of British men’s soccer.

On the surface, this proposition seems like a harmless mistake, but the increasingly crowded Eng lish football calendar calls for a re duction in the number of matches to protect players’ health. Boehly should also ask the clubs, who would be giving up their multimillion pound assets to risk injury in a meaningless game, if they would be willing to forgo all profits to “fund the pyramid.”

As a new owner, Boehly has a lot to learn, but he is also taking encouraging steps. He invested heavily this summer; the $310.19 million spent by Chelsea was the largest sum of all European clubs. His ambition both on and off the pitch while tabling the idea of the European Super League — at least for now — will hearten Chelsea fans who have grown ac customed to this kind of invest ment since 2003, when their for mer owner, Roman Abramovich, acquired the club.

Boehly is a man with ideas who wishes to be a big influence in the Premier League owner ship circles. Whether that influ ence will be a positive one de pends on whether he bucks the trend of U.S. insensitivity to the culture he is now a part of.

Jack Lonergan is a sophomore in the College. Why It Was Special appears online and in print every four weeks.

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The Georgetown field hockey team suffered its second Big East loss this season, ceding four goals.

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The Georgetown football team fell once again in the Lou Little Cup, this time at the hands of the Columbia Lions, who rushed for 206 yards in the 42-6 victory.

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Despite a scoreless first 30 minutes against the Creighton Bluejays, the Georgetown women’s soccer team won 4-0, scoring all four goals in 50 minutes.

Georgetown Cruises Past Creighton, Logs Conference Win

BLUEJAYS, from A12 one corner kick.

Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan said Martin has performed well in the ab sence of senior goalkeeper Allie Augur.

“When someone is injured, it’s an opportunity for some one else,” Nolan said in an in terview with The Hoya. “Cara hasn’t put a foot wrong. Ev ery game she’s been in, she’s been flawless.”

Ryan Rich, a D.C. resident attending the game Sunday and staff member of Martin’s former youth club, said he had high praise for the keeper.

“It’s not surprising she’s starting,” Rich told The Hoya “She was always very talented.”

Martin has started all but two games for the Hoyas this season, registering 19 saves for a .760 save percentage.

Nolan will have a difficult decision to make, however, when senior goalkeeper Allie Augur returns from injury.

Augur’s skill and leadership ability may force Nolan to start her over the team’s exciting first-year keeper.

The Hoyas will hope to earn their sixth consecutive vic tory as they travel to Storrs, Conn. to face Big East rival University of Connecticut Huskies (5-3-1, 1-1 Big East) on Thursday, Sept. 29. Vicari and the Hoyas are brimming with confidence as they en ter the next stretch of their season riding a five-game win streak. Meanwhile, the Huskies are looking to re cover from an 0-1 loss to St. John’s (4-3-3, 1-1 Big East) on Sunday, Sept. 25.

The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and will be streamed online via FloSports.

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Buy Into the Washington Spirit

PAPPAS, from A12 owner Steve Baldwin to sell the team.

This led to a months-long tug of war between Y. Michele Kang and Baldwin, who was spitefully favoring a $10 mil lion deal with billionaire Todd Boehly even though Kang was offering $35 million.

Kang acquired the control ling interest in the team March 30, making her the first woman of color to become a majority owner of an NWSL franchise.

As an entrepreneur and disruptor in the U.S. health care system, Kang has brought unbridled passion to women’s professional soccer. Her big-picture goals for the franchise include building a permanent professional training facility, developing a world-class sport business operation and acquiring na tional sponsorships.

Kang said her goal is to transform the Spirit into a premiere franchise.

“Our ambition is to not only be the best women’s soccer team in the world but the best sports team, period,” Kang said in a Spirit press release.

The revitalization of the Spirit as a franchise is com ing at the perfect time, with women’s soccer growing both at home and internationally.

A Sept. 17 match between

Angel City FC and the San Diego Wave set NWSL atten dance records with a soldout stadium of 32,000 seats. In July, the world witnessed England spectacularly win the Women’s Euros at Wembley in front of 87,000 live fans.

Sept. 17 may have been my first Spirit game, but it will certainly not be my last.

The reason? The Spirit com peted for each other. They

played fun, entertaining soccer.

They possessed the ball like Tottenham and ran faster than Kylian Mbappé. Their foot skills rival any unnamed Argentinian superstar and their attacking speed was faster than Di Maria.

I shouldn’t have to make these comparisons to convince you that women’s soccer is entertaining. That it’s just as — if not more –compelling than any MLS game.

But I do. I actively appeal to our

society’s collective gender bias in sports to hammer in the point that the D.C.’s women’s soccer team’s “beautiful game” is meant to be celebrated by its city.

So, come celebrate it. Tickets to the club’s final home match on Saturday, Oct. 1 are free for college students. I know I’ll be there.

Demi Pappas is a junior in the MSB. Between the Goal posts appears online and in print every other week.

Hoyas Bounce Back in 2-1 Win

CREIGHTON, from A12 fouls threatened to derail Georgetown’s winning chances. An aggressive save gave Creigh ton forward Duncan McGuire a shot at equalizing the game via penalty kick, but Schewe executed a heroic save to help protect Georgetown’s lead.

Both teams continued to struggle with discipline, racking up multiple fouls and two yellow cars apiece. However, Schewe’s strong goalkeeping helped negate any of Creighton’s scoring drives. Georgetown responded well with close chances by Murrell and Viera, and the defense’s quick pace created multiple counterattacking opportunities.

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In the 67th minute, Linhares received a deep pass in relatively unprotected Bluejay territory, allowing him to launch the ball from the endline and hit Murrell square in the chest a few yards shy of the net. Murrell squeaked the ball past the goalkeeper to double Georgetown’s lead.

Moments later, however, another foul from a sliding tackle gave the Bluejays their second penalty kick of the game. This time, they scored, bringing themselves within one goal.

Fatigue clearly set in as both teams failed to convert multiple scoring opportunities, but Georgetown’s dogged defense helped guarantwee the team’s

first Big East win of the year, 48 combined shot attempts later.

Hoyas Head Coach Brian Wiese said the team put up a commendable fight against a strong conference rival.

“I think this is exactly the kind of game we needed,” Wiese said in an interview with The Hoya. “To be able to scrap and to fight and to get a result, especially when we’ve been on a slide, is really fun to see for the guys. You hope they could take some of that mentality into this second half of the season.”

The victory was representative of the Hoyas’ efforts to establish a strong culture, Murrell said.

“Today we fought, and that’s been a common theme in training this week,” he said.

“It was a really good team performance and it should carry a lot of weight going forward into Bowling Green on Saturday.”

Even from the crowd, fan Christopher Tengey (COL ’26) said that the team’s energy stood out in the back-and-forth game.

“It was a close game,” Tengey told The Hoya. “I was very unsure of where it was going to go, but we hung in there and we got the win. Very happy to see all the boys out there at home for our school showing the Georgetown spirit.”

The Hoyas will look to further solidify their team culture and pick up another win against Bowling Green (2-2-3) on Oct. 1 at Shaw Field.

Water Polo Thrashes Competition

UVA, from A12

The young, self-guided group — with a roster composed pri marily of underclassmen and returning players handling all coaching duties — turned their focus to the host Cava liers with fresh memories of last Spring’s 15-5 defeat.

However, it quickly became clear that this Georgetown squad would not meet last year’s fate.

After clawing their way to a narrow 3-2 advantage at half time, the Hoyas put the game out of reach with a flurry of three goals over the span of four and a half minutes in the third quarter to grow the lead to four. Virginia was not able to generate a response.

By the end of the game, Georgetown’s highest scorer, first-year Olivia Semien, sin gle-handedly matched the Cavaliers’ three goals.

Sophomore captain Noriko O’Shea said the match is a new peak for the Hoya program.

“Everyone was working harder than I think we’ve ever played before,” O’Shea told The Hoya in a Zoom interview. “I think everything just fell real ly nicely into place with how we communicated, how we functioned as a team.”

The Hoyas’ defensive effort was anchored by graduate transfer goalie Hannah Hill, who brings years of water polo experience to the team from the University of California, Berkeley. O’Shea said Hill’s veteran presence helped stabilize Georgetown’s perfor mance on gameday.

“Towards the end of the tournament, she ended up taking on kind of a coaching role,” O’Shea said. “Her ma turity really just helped us to settle and take a breath and rethink how we were playing.”

Georgetown’s final victory of the tournament occurred Sept. 25, when the Hoyas overwhelmed the Tar Heels from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 13-5 with sophomore Rachael Jenar scoring 4 goals. Jenar would go on to finish with 5 goals throughout the week end, forming a group of 4 topscorers alongside sophomore Adora Zheng, who also scored 5 goals, and Semien and firstyear Lindsay Machado, both of whom recorded 8.

The Hoyas’ only loss at the invitational came against a lo cal Washington D.C. women’s Masters team, the Washington DSeahorses. Even though the DSeahorses opened with an insurmountable first half lead, Georgetown matched their efforts 3-3 in the third quarter; despite five different players scoring, how ever, the team ultimately lost 18-6.

Hartigan said competing against a more experienced op ponent allowed for learning op portunities, especially in drawing kickouts, which are fouls where the offender is excluded from play for 20 seconds.

“Learning how to draw kickouts from them was re ally good,” Hartigan said. “Learning those techniques to use them on other teams is really helpful.”

Georgetown will sharpen another facet of the game, shooting fundamentals, through a scheduled joint practice with the DSeahors es. More competitively, the program is looking to arrange matchups with Beltway ri vals George Washington Uni versity and the University of Maryland before getting an other look at the DSeahorses when the club hosts a tour nament in November.

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Demi Pappas (MSB ‘24) shares her experience attending her first Washington Spirit match and calls on her fellow Georgetown students to start following the team.

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Despite a last-minute effort from the Creighton Bluejays, the Georgetown men’s soccer team staved off a potential overtime and won its first conference match of the season, ceding only one goal on a penalty kick.

Georgetown (2-11) vs Seton Hall (11-3)

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Women’s Water Polo Dominates Invitational

Peter Dicioccio Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s club water polo team toppled the University of Virginia 8-3 for the program’s first ever victory against the Cavaliers.

The Sept. 24 landmark win headlined the team’s 3-1 performance at the Wa hoo Classic Invitational in Charlottesville, Va., at which the Hoyas crushed James Madison University 14-3 and cruised by the University of North Carolina 13-5.

Georgetown water polo, which was strictly an exhi bition club until the 2021 season, wasted no time get ting its second official cam paign off the ground after making the journey down Highway 29 to Charlottes ville. Saturday’s three-match slate opened with a contest against the JMU Dukes, and by the time the first quarter wrapped up, the Hoyas held a 6-1 lead.

In a virtual interview with The Hoya, sophomore team captain Madeline Hartigan said the team needed to re build its chemistry and cama raderie going into this season.

“Slowing it down, and set ting up the full frontcourt, making the passes, making the drives, and the turns, and the picks to get open on a good offensive move, was really what we focused on,” Hartigan said. “JMU was, ‘Let’s learn how to play to gether again. Let’s get back in the groove.’”

Following the morning’s 11goal triumph, there was little doubt that the Hoyas had rediscovered their rhythm.

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Hoyas Snap Losing Streak, Defeat Creighton

Oliver Ni Special to The Hoya

Yet again, a screamer hurtling toward the net from a Bluejays attacker imperiled the Hoyas; yet again, it sailed harmlessly above the sidebar. An audible sigh of relief reverberated around Shaw Field as the ball was punted away in the final minute of Georgetown’s victory over Creighton.

The Georgetown men’s soccer

team (2-4-2, 1-1-0 Big East) broke a three-game losing streak and clinched its first conference win of the season after prevailing 2-1 over the Creighton Bluejays (3-23, 0-1-1 Big East) on Sept. 24.

Georgetown started off cold as Creighton repeatedly found its way inside the penalty box.

The Bluejays failed to register a shot on target in their first 6 tries, however, giving the Hoyas enough breathing room to manufacture a few

offensive plays behind firstyear midfielder Max Viera and junior midfielder Kyle Linhares. Georgetown’s defense played a large part in stifling Creighton’s ability to generate dangerous chances. Multiple blocks by defenders and a stellar save by Georgetown junior goalkeeper Ryan Schewe shifted the momentum in favor of the home team.

According to Georgetown first-year forward Jacob Murrell,

Vicari Stars , GU Overwhelms Creighton

Joe Moore Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown Univer sity women’s soccer team thoroughly handled the Creighton Bluejays on Sept. 25, winning the match 4-0.

The No. 23 Hoyas (6-1-3, 2-0-0 Big East) came into this contest as the favorites over the unranked Bluejays (4-2-4, 0-2-0 Big East). After a slow start, senior forward Gia Vicari ignited a George town flurry, and they scored four goals in 50 minutes, continuing a successful start to conference play.

Sophomore midfielder Claire Manning said that the No. 23 Hoyas’ (6-1-3, 2-0-0 Big East) passing helped pro pel them over the Bluejays (4-2-4, 0-2-0 Big East).

“We capitalized on getting the ball wide and down the field pretty well,” Manning told The Hoya. “I think over all we had a really good game and scored some good goals.”

In the first 30 minutes of play, neither team was able to generate many shots on goal. The Hoyas had the first shot on net and controlled the ball early before losing momentum halfway through the first half. They turned the ball over several times in their own half, and some errant passes caused vis ible frustration amongst the

players. However, the bolt from Vicari in the 33rd min ute put the Hoyas up 1-0 and ignited the team. Less than three minutes later, George town sophomore forward Maja Lardner scored amidst a scrum of players to quickly double the Hoyas’ lead.

The Hoyas picked up where they left off in the first half, dominating the game after halftime. Less than five minutes into the hail, junior midfielder Tatum Lenain landed a strike from outside the box that sailed past the diving Bluejay goalie to put Georgetown up 3-0. From then on, the Hoyas’ victory never looked in doubt.

Creighton had their best opportunity to score with just 35 minutes left in the game, but Georgetown firstyear goalkeeper Cara Martin made a spectacular diving save to keep the Bluejays off the board. Less than three minutes later, Martin did it again. The first-year player finished the game with three saves and her fourth clean sheet of the season.

In the 83rd minute, Georgetown first-year for ward Natalie Means notched her second goal of the cam paign to cement the Hoyas’ 4-0 victory. Outside of the diving stops by Martin, the Hoyas defense was able to smother the Creighton of fense all game, conceding only three shots on net and

the defense played a key role in establishing the team’s rhythm.

“Schewe dug his heels in, our back line dug their heels in, and our midfield dug their heels in,” Murrell told The Hoya. “We’ve had a lot more chances today than we’ve had the rest of the season, but I think it all stems from the defense.”

After mustering a few deep drives that flashed scoring potential, the offense’s efforts finally crystalized in the 37th

minute. Murrell set sophomore defender Kieran Sargeant up to explode past Creighton’s defense and cross the ball to senior defender Daniel Wu, who gave Georgetown the lead with a wellplaced header.

TheHoyas’offensivecommand initially rolled into the second half as Linhares and junior midfielder John Franks applied considerable pressure. However,

The Washington Spirit Has Arrived

I can’t describe the Spirit’s play as anything other than tenacious. They were relent less, possessing the ball for the bulk of the match. For ward Tara McKeown made her presence known with a poised shot on an open goal.

Audi Field, on a Saturday night, is an electric place.

Audi Field is electric for many reasons: the grandeur of an open-air professional sports stadium, the beat of the drums from the Spirit Squadron, the soccer balls flying every which way dur ing warm ups. But really, it is the intangible feeling of knowing you’re about to wit ness greatness, about to wit ness spectacular soccer that will leave you in a trance hours after the final whistle.

The Washington Spirit’s dominant 2-0 win over NJ/ NY Gotham FC on Sept. 17 in duced such a feeling.

I am embarrassed to admit this past weekend was my first time visiting the stadi um. Audi Field is a mere fiveminute walk from Nation als Park and the developing Capitol Riverfront adjacent to Navy Yard. I am a soccer person, I’ve lived in Wash ington, D.C. for three years and yet I hadn’t made it to a single Spirit game.

I hope you don’t make the same mistake.

2021 National Women’s Soc cer League (NWSL) Rookie of the Year Trinity Rodman was a beast, turning on her speed at the drop of a hat. The back line was calm and composed, with hardly any missteps despite missing two starting defenders.

Although the Spirit’s sea son will be ending without a playoff run this year, the team is poised to be championship contenders in 2023.

The past two years have been tumultuous for the Spirit, to say the least. It is amazing in and of itself that the team won the 2021 NWSL Championship amid a Game Of Thrones-esque battle for ownership. The saga began in August 2021, when reports surfaced that then-Head Coach Richie Burke fostered a toxic work environment.

Burke was fired that Sep tember, following an inves tigation by the NWSL. Im mediately, fans from across the league called for former

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The Georgetown men’s soccer team won its first match after a three-match losing skid over the Creighton Bluejays, largely thanks to a stellar all-around defensive performance led by junior goalkeeper Ryan Schewe and the back line

Despite a contested first half, Georgetown was blown out by the Columbia Lions in the Lou Little Cup.

Sunday’s result unfortunately was not a good representation of how the game went for us.”

Field Hockey Head Coach Longacre

Georgetown club water polo dominated James Madison University, winning by 11 scores, its weekend high.

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Georgetown women’s soccer continued its strong start to the season in a shutout win over Creighton that saw four Hoyas score.

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Demi Pappas Columnist

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