The Hoya: November 11, 2016

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ELECTION PORTRAITS

A close-up on students reacting to the night’s results on campus and at the White House.

EDITORIAL Following the election, we must all uphold civility and respect.

BETTER BAREFOOT THAN NIKE Georgetown Solidarity Committee went barefoot to protest Nike.

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Trump Victory Shocks Campus, DC Results Spur White House Protests aly pachter Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown students protested President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton early Wednesday morning in front of the White House and the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., later that evening.

Students made their way down to the White House as early as 12 a.m. Wednesday morning, as it became clear that Trump would gather enough votes from the electoral college to become the next president.

They were joined by more than 300 others, including students from The George Washington University, American University and Catholic University, in protest, celebration or observation on Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Mostly I wanted to see history. I wanted to be down here, I wanted to see what the mood of the country was.” dANIEL o’sULLIVAN (msb ’20)

As Trump, Clinton and President Barack Obama called for unity and a peaceful transition of power following the results of the election, protests erupted across the nation, particularly at college campuses. The Georgetown University Police Department has not changed its security precautions, according to GUPD Chief Jay Gruber.

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One of the students who travelled to the White House, Daniel O’Sullivan (MSB ’20), said he wanted to gauge how the American people would react to the prospect of a Trump presidency.

“Mostly I wanted to see history. I wanted to be down here, I wanted to see what the mood of the country was,” O’Sullivan said. “I’ve seen people really being vicious towards each other, like having to hold each other back, and just shouting matches.”

Maggie Cirrulo (COL ’17), who also headed to the White House, was not there to observe but to celebrate.

“Why we are here tonight is we are celebrating democracy and we are celebrating the Republican Party,” Cirrulo said. “We are very excited about tonight. People think that young people don’t vote for Trump.

Well, we did.”

As Trump’s victory became increasingly cemented, peaceful demonstrations by attendees against Trump turned into emotionally charged confrontations.

At 1:45 a.m., a protester from the nonpartisan youth group United We Dream, which interrupted Secretary of State Jeh Johnson’s commencement speech at the School of Foreign Service’s 2016 graduation, displayed a large “Donald Trump is a Racist” banner and began shouting through a megaphone.

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Four supporters of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, above, pose for a photo at the watch party in the Healey Family Student Center on Tuesday night. The next day, students gathered in Dahlgren Quadrangle for an interfaith prayer service.

Student Groups Contemplate Post-Election Divides IAN SCOVILLE

this election, so we will listen to everyone.”

Students and politicians in Congress must work to check President-elect Donald Trump’s power, according to students from political campus groups in light of Trump’s victory over former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s election results were met with heightened tensions on campus Wednesday and Thursday. The Institute of Politics and Public Service brought in six chaplains to offer support to students as they followed the election results in the Healey Family Student Center on Tuesday evening. Counseling and Psychiatric Services also ensured that one or more staff members were available each hour Wednesday during office hours, according to CAPS Director Phil Meilman.

Protestant Chaplain Rev. Brandon Harris recognized Tuesday night as emotional for many students.

“We are here to provide spiritual resources and support for students across political affiliations as a way to provide counseling, somebody to talk to and just a listening ear,” Harris said.

“There are a lot of emotions in

“The outcome of this election is a reflection of the unfounded fear of the other.”

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Clara mejia orta (COL ’17)

Some students already seeing CAPS asked for appointments to be moved up, but there has been no increase in first-time visits, according to Meilman.

Clara Mejia Orta (COL ’17), who is a student without documentation, said Trump’s victory represents a victory for a fear-based campaign.

“During the past eighteen months, I have heard our stories being reduced to numbers, our struggles reduced to ‘those people,’ and our power overshadowed by the criminalization of our dreams,” Orta wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The outcome of this election is a re-

flection of the unfounded fear of the other — Undocumented, Queer, Muslim, Latinx, Black, Disabled, Trans, Womxn.”

Students in the Muslim Students Association have been focusing on self-care in light of Trump’s election, according to MSA Chair Khadija Mohamud (SFS ’17).

“The reality that there can be this much hate and ignorance and fear incited and reinforced in terms of the rhetoric that’s been used through this entire election, and the culmination of the results that have happened, it’s very disheartening. ” Mohamud said.

Mohamud said despite the current heightened racial climate in the United States, the university community remains accepting of her and other Muslims.

“One thing that I can say that is really beautiful about the Georgetown community is that I have never received so many texts from friends who are non-Muslim, friends who are my classmates or haven’t spoken to in a long time who care so much and check up on me,” Mohamud said.

Campaign group Hoyas for Hillary President Grant Olson (COL ’19) said the loss is a set-

back to Obama’s achievements.

“It was such a blow, because this generation on college campuses right now, it’s probably their first experiences after seeing this drumbeat of succession of things happening first black president elected, gay marriage — but I think people got complacent,” Olson said.

“There are a lot of emotions in this election, so we will listen to everyone.”

REV. BRANDON HARRIS Protestant Chaplain, Campus Ministry

Olson also said Democrats failed to realize many Americans’ desire for concrete change against establishment politics.

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Uphold Dignity Over Division As it became clear that former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would lose to President-elect nominee Donald Trump, there was an apparent change in mood at the watch party in the Healey Family Student Center. After the election was called for Trump, the spectrum of reactions on campus was varied. Some cheered on Village A rooftops and in the HFSC to celebrate a Trump presidency, while others took to social media to voice their concerns and outrage.

After students ran to the White House , some celebrating, others protesting, numerous videos recorded of the evening showed Trump and Clinton supporters hailing expletives at one another and engaging in vicious shouting matches. The somber mood continued the following day, with some students crying while others skipped their classes.

In the aftermath of this divisive election, the Georgetown community must come together in reflection, as it did in an interfaith event at Dahlgren Quadrangle on Wednesday. Students cannot let the negativity that dominated this campaign cycle continue to permeate our lives in coming weeks. Instead, students must ensure that our campus remains a place of dignity and respect, of care and civility. Instead of lashing out on issues that divide members of our community, students should aim to demonstrate their care for one another.

Throughout the past year, the campaign season has seen incidents of violence, lies, bigotry and hate. Only a few days after Trump’s victory, a list of hate crimes in America has circulated on Twitter’s “Moments” page, which pulls together similar tweets into a single category. Such incidents include recently vandalized mosques and people’s cars being covered with xenophobic and racist slurs. There have already been reports in California involving Muslim women being assaulted in potential hate crimes.

While emotions are understandably running high after the election, allowing divisions to bubble over and become destructive would be antithetical to the spirit of Georgetown. Shouting matches and accusatory remarks do nothing to heal the wounds created by the rhetoric

of the campaign season. Students are unable to change the results of the election, but they are able to choose how to move forward.

We must come to see those who disagree with us not as our adversaries. Trump supporters should celebrate their candidate’s win with dignity by not belittling or ignoring the valid concerns and fear of those opposed to the president-elect. Many members of the Georgetown community feel threatened by the prospect of Trump’s America.

It would certainly be disrespectful to tell people of color, LGBTQ individuals, women or any member of a group Trump has insulted to pay no attention to the concerning rhetoric he used in reference to these communities during the campaign. Trump supporters must realize that many people simply do not have the privilege to relax under a Trump presidency. His supporters should instead engage in tactful discussion with these individuals.

On the other side of the aisle, Clinton supporters should recognize that even though they may believe that those who voted for Trump made a mistake, they are not fundamentally evil people simply because of their choice to vote for Trump. Supporting Trump does not directly make someone a racist, sexist or xenophobe, though support of him could indicate of lack of understanding for the troubling values he does represent.

While bigotry should never go unchecked, many of those who voted for Trump were primarily motivated by a distrust of the political status quo and economic grievances. Ignoring these arguments would simply worsen pre-existing divides and prevent the bipartisan cooperation necessary for progress.

Ultimately, it will be difficult for the entire community to agree with each other immediately following the election. This will be a long and difficult process. However, in that process we must never come to violence and vitriolic disrespect against each other. There is a way for our community to avoid the mudslinging and ad hominem attacks that plagued this election cycle, and in doing so, our university will become a more united, civil and respectful campus.

A Sad Farewell — Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen passed away last night at age 82. He was best known for penning the international hit song “Hallelujah.”

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Parting Ways — Model Bella Hadid and Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd have broken up after a year and a half of dating.

Yes, and ... — District Improv Festival returned to Washington, D.C., for its fourth year this Wednesday and will continue with improv acts through Saturday night.

Book Smart — The first annual D.C., Art Book Fair will take place in Union Market’s Lab 1270 on Saturday, giving attendees the chance to to buy DIY books, magazines and photography.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Bridging Partisan Gaps Following Donald Trump’s upset victory on Tuesday, students should take time to understand why it happened and what it means for the future of this country’s political processes.

With exit poll data now at our disposal, the divisions that separated our communities and that resulted in the divisive election have become apparent and should motivate students and politicians alike to begin bridging gaps between different groups.

Going forward, Trump and his administration must address and repair the divides across the country. If they fail to heed these demographic divisions, then the partisan cleavages will only deepen and set the groundwork for an even more contentious election season four years from now.

Reporting a voter turnout rate of 54 percent, the exit poll data from Edison Research shows that both Trump and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton held sway over specific enclaves of voters. The most striking breakdown between Trump and Clinton supporters was in race. Among white voters, 58 percent supported Trump, while 37 percent supported Clinton. At the same time, minority voters demonstrated a clear preference, with 88 percent of Black voters, 65 percent of Hispanic voters and 65 percent of Asian-American voters supporting Clinton.

Such a distinction demonstrates that voters from different racial backgrounds had hugely different opinions on the candidates. Many members of the Hsipanic, Black and Asian communities do not feel that Trump represents their best interests as president. He has made incendiary remarks on race, including his labeling of Mexicans as rapists. He has also promised to implement racially discriminatory policies, such as stop-and-frisk policing and, at times, advocated for a complete ban on Muslim immigration. As CNN commentator Van Jones said on election night, “Donald Trump has a responsibility to come out and reassure people that he is going to be the president of all the people who he insulted and offended and brushed aside.”

The poll also showed that Trump and Clin-

ton voters perceive the country to be in very different conditions. Of those who voted for Clinton, 83 percent believed the condition of the nation’s economy was excellent, while 15 percent thought it was poor. Just as telling, 63 percent of people who believed that life would be worse for future generations of Americans voted for Trump. This disparity between how Trump and Clinton see two different Americas is stark and requires amending going forward.

These gaps in voter concerns must not be ignored in a government that has nearly all its major branches controlled by one major party.

The House and Senate will need to craft legislation that serves not only the needs voiced by Trump supporters, but also the other half of the country that did not vote for Trump. An example of this is the 76 percent of Clinton supporters who oppose the building of a wall along the Mexican border, a cornerstone of Trump’s immigration policy.

Trump must integrate these opinions, thoughts and concerns into account when he officially conducts his policies as president.

Trump must, as he claimed in his victory speech, “pledge to every citizen of our land” that he “will be president for all Americans.”

If he cannot support the needs of voters from both sides of the political spectrum, he will not be able to serve effectively as a leader.

What students and politicians must take away from this plethora of data and information is that across this country, groups and communities have fundamentally divided and different views of what they want to see in America. This election did not just yield a candidate. It also exposed ideological divides based on race, education and policy concerns — the very divisions that contributed to the negativity, bigotry, violence and poisonous rhetoric of this election cycle.

Now more than ever, Americans must find common ground and understanding. Otherwise, elections as vitriolic as this past one will become the norm.

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ur disappointment must be overcome by our love of country. And I say to our fellow members of the world community, let no one see this contest as a sign of American weakness. The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome. President-elect Bush inherits a nation whose citizens will be ready to assist him in the conduct of his large responsibilities. I, personally, will be at his disposal, and I call on all Americans — I particularly urge all who stood with us — to unite behind our next president.

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Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J.

Finding Civic Duty In Reconciliation

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uring my Sunday morning run, the words of the scrawled graffiti script leapt out at me: “The revolution will not be Snapchatted!” It was a jarring proclamation, and it shocked me out of the nervous rumination on the presidential election, just two days away then, that had dominated my thinking during the run.

I understood the graffiti’s message: Really big things, like social change or the construction of a national community, cannot be reduced to a couple eye-catching images or clever turns of phrase. Real progress and real meaning emerge from a long, committed process, more than secondslong glimpses that disappear, by design, from our phones.

The graffiti forced me to pull back and take the long view. I reflected on my more than four decades of life and was struck by the long path of change and progress in our nation, at a time in which our community has slowly, even if sometimes reluctantly, seen the arc of its history bend toward justice.

At Georgetown, we feel intimately connected to this process. With our home here in Washington, D.C., the political process seems to flow in our bloodstream.

We welcome leaders onto campus, serve in congressional offices and volunteer in political campaigns. We walk the memorials, inspired by the words and memories enshrined in them.

And like citizens throughout the country, we had the opportunity to stand in line and cast our votes on Tuesday. I was there along with my students, and I could feel their excitement and nervous energy. That evening, I hosted students in my apartment, and together we watched as returns came in. Energy surged and ebbed as the results became clear, with nearly everyone surprised at the outcome.

It was a profoundly important moment, and an

exhausting one. There is a temptation to simply Snapchat it, to come up with the perfect summary phrase, send it out to friends who will laugh or cry — or both — along with us, then let it fade as the pressures of school and work and social lives take hold of our energies.

But our Jesuit values here at Georgetown remind us that we are part of something bigger than an election, and that the real measure of our efforts comes not simply by casting a vote, but through our work over the long haul.

Now, the real work of citizenship begins as we continue to champion the causes that brought us out to vote, listen to voices of others and lean our shoulders into the hard work of reconciliation.

We can draw inspiration from Georgetown’s efforts to respond to our legacy of slaveholding and racial discrimination, which has pushed us to take a hard look at reality and pour our hearts into addressing the breaches that have characterized our social fabric for too long.

With hope, respectful dialogue and constructive dissent, we now have the task of contributing to the next steps our nation will take, and we will be at our best when we foster the unity in diversity that is at the center of our mission. What we do here matters, and it deserves nothing less than our full selves.

So today, resist the temptation to leave the energy of the election behind. We become who we hope to be not in a single moment of victory or defeat, but in the community we form over the long haul. Be a part of the political change and reconciliation that is the work of this generation, for it will not be Snapchatted.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an associate professor of government in the School of Foreign Service.

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT appears every other Friday.

Yes, this fear is overwhelming. But we will not be overwhelmed. Through organization and cooperation, we can triumph over bigotry, hate and policies of intolerance. We shall overcome.

Action, Not Despair, Will Overcome Fear

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n Wednesday morning, I called my parents, Muslim, Pakistani immigrants living in the San Francisco Bay Area, to explain to them why Donald Trump had won the election. I had to explain to them that the next four years were going to be very dangerous for us.

I explained to them that Trump was elected because he channeled the anger that resulted from the economic anxieties of working-class white America. The grievances that many of his supporters felt were legitimate.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle had promised to address their concerns, but never did. My family felt that anxiety, too, when my father lost his job in the 2008 recession, as we stood on the verge of losing our home.

Nevertheless, so much of Trump’s campaign was infected by racism and hatred, and his electoral win validated those messages.

Once results began pointing to a Trump victory on election night, I began to panic. The worst of my fears were coming true. What would happen to my family and my friends? Would my mother and sister be attacked for wearing their hijabs?

If Trump follows through on the rhetoric he has promoted throughout his campaign, minority communities will have to face a reality they never would have thought was possible. Once he is sworn into office, the divisive campaign and policies he vowed to put into place will soon become law. The most powerful man on earth will be a proven liar, accused rapist and bigot.

Fears have long been part of the Muslim-American experience, and now they will only grow.

The fears of our communities must not be understated. With a unified Republican Congress, and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, Trump will have free reign to implement the most horrific of his policies without check or balance.

Trump has vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, two of President Barack Obama’s signature policies. These

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actions will disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic communities. If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, more than 20 million people will lose their health insurance. Over the phone, I explained this to my father, whose diabetes may now prevent him from getting affordable health coverage.

An end to DACA would mean that millions of young immigrants whose parents brought them to the country without documentation as children could lose their ability to go to school and work.

These children know no other home outside this country. The day after the election, a friend of mine tweeted that he would lose his livelihood, and that he would have to return to Mexico. Repealing these policies would break up families and ruin lives.

This is contrary to the foundation upon which this country was built.

While such policy concerns are at the forefront of minority communities’ minds, America’s Muslim communities will likely face a rapid amplification of Islamophobic violence and hatred. The freedom to practice religion will come under attack. Mosques will be under constant surveillance, the FBI will visit our

homes and harass us, we will continue to be kicked off airplanes and our children will grow up knowing only hate.

I fear particularly for Muslim women, who have already faced such virulent hatred for their hijabs. These fears have long been part of the MuslimAmerican experience, and it will only grow further under Trump’s presidency.

But we must not despair.

We will not sit around and serve as kindling as Trump sets our country on fire.

Yesterday, at Georgetown, members of the Black House, Casa Latina and Muslim communities gathered to discuss strategies for coalition-building. All across the country, young people marched in political protest, demonstrating their capacity for resilience. We are determined, fierce and ready to fight on.

Given these tremendous challenges, it is imperative to follow the message of the civil rights movement.

Yes, this fear is overwhelming. But we will not be overwhelmed. Through action, organization and cooperation, we can triumph over bigotry, hate and policies of intolerance. We shall overcome.

Kumail Aslam is a sophomore in the College.

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Uphold Values Before Victories Defend Our Right to All Speech

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he presidential election season was one of the most divisive in this country’s history, but if there is one thing most can agree on, it is that the past year and a half brought out a great deal of vitriol and divisive rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans.

The fear of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump’s presidency has made many of my fellow liberals forget and discard our core principles. We often see politicians on both sides of the aisle claiming to act on moral principles, but as this election season has shown, many end up advocating for policies that benefit their political endeavors over doctrinal consistency or morality.

After Trump’s victory, liberal protesters have been engaging in the same practices for which they previously berated Trump and his supporters. When both parties are unwilling to compromise with the other to advance the country as a whole, they put the well-being of democracy below their own success.

Throughout the campaign season, both Trump and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton made remarks that undermined the tenets of the democratic process. During the third presidential debate, Trump said he would not accept the results of the election, a comment that Harvard professor Steven Levitsky compared to “stuff that we see in Russia and Venezuela … that we don’t see in stable democracies anywhere.”

On the other side, Clinton responded by calling Trump’s claim “horrifying,” but only used that word to

describe Trump’s accusations of election rigging. For Clinton and concerned political scientists across the nation, there is a separation between what is and is not debatable in a democracy.

Therefore, liberal supporters should follow her model and not engage in hypocritical responses to Trump’s victory, for that would be antithetical to this country’s democracy.

Liberal protesters engage in the same practices for which they previously berated Trump.

Many have called Trump’s plan to build a wall absurd and racist. However, it does not operate outside the rules of the Constitution. Trump’s history of sexual assault, while in my opinion disqualifying and disgusting, may not actually threaten the stability of our nation. We can openly criticize Trump for his racism and misogyny because we possess free speech and free press rights, and setting precedents that threaten these rights will compromise our ability to have policy debates.

That Trump wants to restrict the unalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence should concern al citiz. However, now that the Democratic Party’s candidate has lost, its members have succumbed to the same tempting tendencies that question foundational Constitutional principles.

In light of the election results,

some Clinton supporters have turned to chants of “not my president.” When Californians post about #Calexit, they compromise the constitutional values of unity reinforced during the battle for the Union.

Many politicians seem to believe that the ends justify the means. Democrats argue that voter fraud exists because voter ID laws disenfranchise liberals, and thus they see such policies as an affront to their political representation.

Even in the fight for a Supreme Court nominee, Vice President Joe Biden used the same talking points in 1992 that Republicans today use to delay appointing a new justice. Parties engage in similar modes of political maneuvering to establish themselves further into government roles while consolidating power.

Rules are established because they produce the best, or at least the most democratic, outcomes. Despite the initial success of attempts to undermine these rules, such endeavors will likely eventually produce more bad than good results. An ends-over-means mindset produces hypocrisy and self-serving policies. When parties compromise values to achieve self-serving ends, they subordinate the well-being of the American people to their own success.

Corrupt politicking contributed to Trump’s success.

This election season has forced us all, Democrats and Republicans, to confront hard truths and perform important introspection, particularly over our own hypocrisy.

Aaron Baum is a sophomore

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uesday night’s election left many speechless.

Contrary to the initial optimism that accompanied early exit polls and a surge in early voting, Republican Donald Trump, a man with no political experience and a record of corruption, racism, bigotry and misogyny, is now the president-elect of the United States and is set to become one of the most powerful people on the planet.

The results of election are a testament to the growing ideological divide across the United States and to our unwillingness to listen to others’ opinions and reluctance to adhere to centrist positions above more appealing extremes. It is not so much that Trump won last night, but rather that American democracy and free speech lost.

Trump’s presidency will be a poor shadow of the progress that President Barack Obama’s administration has brought about in terms of free speech. Today, the atmosphere on college campuses is generally not conducive to the free exchange of ideas.

During Obama’s commencement address at Howard University in May 2016, he advised young graduates to embrace the exchange of ideas, and to confront “ridiculous or offensive” viewpoints with debate, rather than trying to shut them out.

Free speech is a key issue in understanding how we arrived at our current position.

Trump rode a wave of antiestablishment sentiment, but his campaign also fed on a deep-seated resentment of what was wrongly labeled “political correctness.” The country’s liberal, educated elites were too quick to dis-

miss conservative voters’ concerns as a cover for hate speech when, in fact, there is a legitimate problem with the increasing entrenchment of both sides in their own thought echo chambers.

Annabelle Timsit If both halves of the country had made a more significant effort to listen to the other, and to work together, perhaps we would not be facing the election of one of the most extreme, least qualified presidents in American history.

Bipartisan cooperation has steadily declined over the years, as ideological and party lines dictate people’s opinions. A recent Pew survey showed that Americans who have become ideologically consistent have a disproportionate influence on the political process, as they are more likely than those with mixed views to vote regularly, to donate to political campaigns and to contact elected officials.

To those who voted for Trump because they thought he would have the courage to stand up for our freedom of speech and combat the increasing neutralization of the public space, think again.

Do not be fooled by his passionate defense of the First Amendment, which masks the fact that the candidate

only defends free speech when its content pleases him.

Trump has institutionalized hatred toward the media, the repression of free speech when it offends his sensibilities, the public shaming of women who accuse him of sexual assault and a rampant disdain toward minorities.

He has inculcated a large swath of the country with the idea that the media cannot be trusted and that he is the sacrosanct purveyor of truth.

In reality, Trump idealizes hatred and wants to create a system in which those who agree with his rhetoric can speak out, free of the normal restraints of a tolerant and liberal society, and those who disagree can suffer the wrath of his disdain. As a recent Vox article noted, “Donald Trump shows the opposite of ‘political correctness’ isn’t free speech. It’s just different repression.”

As we move beyond Nov. 8, let us learn our lesson, and earnestly defend both the speech of which we approve and the speech we believe to be unpalatable and undemocratic. As stated by our outgoing president, the future of our country is bigger than this election, party affiliation and a single individual. Our responsibility now lies in providing the system of checks and balances on which American democracy was founded, and ensuring that freedom of speech remain a right and a privilege in this country.

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GSC Goes Barefoot to Raise Nike Contract Concerns TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

Students are going barefoot to raise awareness for workers’ rights violations committed by Nike, a licensee of the university, as part of a demonstration arranged by the workers’ rights advocacy group Georgetown Solidarity Committee from Wednesday to Friday.

The university has been in contract negotiations with Nike to allow the company to use the school’s name and logo before the conrtact expires Dec. 31.

GSC has advocated for Nike to sign the Code of Conduct for University Licensees, which is a requirement for all university vendors, before renewing the contract.

As part of the three-day demonstration publicized on Facebook, named “Better Barefoot Than Nike,” GSC has requested that senior university administrators, including University President John J. DeGioia and his Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara, take off their shoes.

No university administrators have participated in the demonstration as of 2:30 a.m.

“Georgetown, on issues about workers’ and labor rights, has been a leader nationally for years.”

KORY STUER (COL ’19) Member, Georgetown Solidarity Committee

The code of conduct for licensees includes several clauses related to labor standards, including wages and benefits, health and safety and harassment and abuse. The code also stipulates that workers will cooperate with the Workers’ Rights Consortium, which helps enforce Georgetown’s and other universities’ code of conduct.

Nike has so far declined

to sign the code. In a Nov. 17, 2015 memo to member universities including Georgetown, the Workers’ Rights Consortium said that Nike had rejected a request to inspect the Hansae factory, a Nike factory in Vietnam.

“Nike should either sign the code of conduct or be cut as a licensee.”

LILLIAN RYAN (COL ’18) Former Member, Licensing Oversight Committee

Nike has also been criticized for making use of child labor overseas, in addition to other workers’ rights violations.

According to Lillian Ryan (COL ’18), who is participating in the demonstration and is a former member of the nine-person university licensing oversight committee, which advises the university on issues related to licensing, there are also reports of Nike firing pregnant women and unsafe work conditions.

The LOC recommended in late March 2016 that the university require Nike to sign its code of conduct and that Nike open its factories to the WRC. GSC member David Kilbridge (COL ’20) said the campaign aims to hold both Nike and Georgetown accountable.

“I don’t really feel good necessarily being a part of an institution, being a part of a university, that either explicitly or implicitly, through its contract with Nike, supports the mistreatment of workers this way,” Ryan said. “When it comes to this protest, I think what we’re trying to do is raise awareness, both among the students and among the staff, that we are not OK with this.”

Ryan said Nike must pledge to share Georgetown’s values before the

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The Georgetown Solidarity Committee encouraged students to go barefoot to raise awareness about Nike’s alleged workers’ rights violations, as contract negotiations between the university and the company continue. contract is renewed.

“It’s all part of a process that we want Nike to be able to sign onto our code of conduct. They need to share our values, or we don’t want the Georgetown name on their brand,” Ryan said.

GSC member Kory Stuer (COL ’19), who is participating in the protest, said Georgetown, as a leader within the university community on workers’ rights, needs to set a good example with its policies.

“Georgetown, on issues about workers’ and labor rights, has been a leader nationally for years. If

Georgetown decides to work with Nike, other schools will follow suit and act like this behavior is acceptable,” Stuer said.

According to Ryan, the code of conduct should be the minimum requirement for companies working with Georgetown.

“Nike should either sign the code of conduct or be cut as a licensee,” Ryan said. “The particular area in the code of conduct we’re focused on is the monitoring by the workers’ rights consortium. But I think it’s pretty easy. All our licensees have signed the code of

conduct except for Nike.”

Stuer said going barefoot is an easy yet provocative way to draw attention to this issue.

“The act of going barefoot is so simple to ask of students,” Stuer said.

“It might be a little bit uncomfortable to walk around in the cold and on the hard concrete, but to compare that to what workers have to go through in order to produce Georgetown products, it’s nothing. We’re not passing out from heat exhaustion, or being systematically fired because of a pregnancy.”

Ryan said she hopes the campaign will force the university to take concrete action in addressing the issue with Nike.

“We want the university to be tougher. It seems like the university is receptive. They hear where we’re coming from, but it hasn’t been translated into action, and it’s been a year,” Ryan said. “We’ve held multiple actions and I think both the university and Nike are stringing things out. We want to show that students really care about this enough to go out barefoot in the snow and the rain.”

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GUSA Fund Looks to Grow Minor Petition Launched Hannah Urtz

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The Georgetown University Student Association Fund, a $15,000 fund intended as last-resort funding for student groups, is looking to grow its budget and shift its focus to be an initial funding source for club events and activities this year.

The fund is allocated annually by the GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee’s student activities budget, which appropriates funds from the student activities fee to student groups. Clubs and groups seeking event funding are able to submit applications, which are then reviewed by a five-person discretionary committee that determines the distribution of funds.

The committee plans to grow the fund’s budget from its current $15,000, according to GUSA Fund Director of Public Relations Olivia Horton (COL ’20).

“We’re having to watch the budget pretty closely, but the goal is that eventually we will be allocated more money,” Horton said.

GUSA Fund Treasurer David Seo (COL ’20) said the committee hopes that increased requests will lead to an increase in funding. The fund would need to receive a larger por-

tion of student activities fees in order for growth to occur, according to Seo. “Our main goal in growing the fund is to increase awareness of GUSA Fund and its role in fostering student-run events and activities that benefit the Georgetown community,” Seo said.

Though the fund has only been active for about four weeks this academic year, it has already sponsored 10 different events on campus. The fund projects to fund about 40 events this year.

In the past, the GUSA Fund has been known as a source of “last resort funding,” according to its website homepage.

Typically, representatives from student organizations apply for funding for their events only during financial strain on a particular event.

Horton said the committee is actively trying to change the nature of the fund.

“One of our goals this year is to make GUSA Fund more of a primary source, so people are coming to us first instead of as a last resort,” Horton said.

“Mostly we’re working on getting our name out there and rebranding.”

This rebranding includes partnering directly with more on-campus clubs to sponsor a higher number of annual and recurring events, as well as a

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The Georgetown University Student Association Fund is looking to grow its budget and expand its reach.

greater emphasis on marketing and name recognition.

The fund board members said they are committed to encouraging campus dialogue and supporting programs that highlight social justice issues.

GUSA Fund Chair Aaron Bennett (COL ’19) said spotlighting social justice issues has become the primary focus of the organization.

“This mission that we’ve sort of coalesced around is the idea that we want to shape campus dialogue in ways that promote political justice or social justice and really be a force for good,” Bennett said.

When determining whether an event receives sponsorship, the fund committee looks at factors including accessibility, purpose, need and uniqueness. The committee looks to ensure that they are promoting worthwhile events that have the potential to benefit a significant portion of the Georgetown community, according to Bennett.

“We want to make sure that we’re funding programs that can benefit the entire Georgetown community,” Bennett said. “Is this something that can help everyone, that GUSA can put its name on?”

The GUSA Fund helped sponsor a Lecture Fund event with author and poet Rupi Kaur on Oct. 18. Though the Lecture Fund receives funding from Fin/App, it still required additional support to successfully host the event.

“We felt that it was a need that we could fill and a need that we should fill,” Bennett said. “A lot of organizations could do more with just a little extra money. We want to incentivize them to go for that better program and contribute to the new dialogue on campus.”

The GUSA Fund has supported other organizations, including La Casa Latina, which received money from the fund to purchase food for its members in an event celebrating the dedication of the group Casa Latina Financial Operations Coordinator Ximena Céspedes (SFS ’19) said receiving funding from GUSA helped establish the group’s relationship with GUSA. “Having received their help for our event meant a lot to us, as it meant that our community, one that has fought long and hard for our place here on campus, was accepted and supported by GUSA and all the student representatives that comprise it,” Céspedes said.

324 sign petition for disability studies minor Joe Egler

Special to The Hoya

About 320 members of the Georgetown community have signed a petition calling for the university to launch a disabilities studies minor as of Oct. 27.

The petition, which was created by the Georgetown University Student Association, is looking to push the university to establish an interdisciplinary disability studies minor as a potential six-course academic discipline that will examine issues of identity, body and community through a foundational course, a capstone and electives.

The disability studies program currently exists as a course cluster, with over 200 students enrolled in its seven classes this semester.

The course cluster, which is housed in the college, first launched last fall with three classes that engaged students in monthly lectures and interactive workshops with scholars in the field.

GUSA Accessibility Policy Chair Danielle Zamalin (NHS ’18) said although the course cluster already has the funding and number of classes required to constitute a minor, the petition’s goal is to demonstrate to the Office of the Provost that there is enough student interest to formally transition the course cluster to a minor.

“We’ve had a lot of faculty in the course cluster who support the petition for a minor, as well as just other faculty that work on the disabilities working group, and they share that with their students,” Zamalin wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Even other than that, we’ve had just other faculty members sign the petition.”

Zamalin said she was heartened to see the petition gain traction among undergraduates prior to the launch of an official campaign for the minor, which is slated to begin today with tabling in Lauinger Library and Sellinger Lounge.

Currently, 75.5 percent of the 324 signatures come from current undergraduates, 3.4 percent from current graduate students, 12.7 percent from alumni, 10.2 percent from faculty and staff and 1 percent from administrators.

“We haven’t done our dormstorming or tabling campaign, so we expect those numbers to go up really quickly,” Zamalin

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Professor Julia Watts Belser has helped lead the creation of a disability studies course cluster. wrote. “These numbers are purely from people sharing it through Facebook. So, our actual petitioning and lobbying and tabling haven’t even started yet, but our numbers are already really high.”

The African American studies minor was approved by the Main Campus Executive Faculty, a body consisting of 57 faculty members and two students, in 2005 after a multiyear effort.

A group must bring a proposal before the College Deans’ Office to create a minor, according to Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Strategic Planning Maria Donoghue.

Subsequently, three or four members of the College Academic Council are asked to review the proposal, followed by a vote on approval or disapproval by the entire executive committee.

Professor of English Libbie Rifkin, who is involved in the Disability Studies Minor Working Group, said challenges remain in attaining the minor.

The working group worked with three academic departments to establish the course cluster last fall.

“Some of the issues and challenges we have faced have to do with a broad awareness that disability is an important issue on our campus and that’s an awareness we want to keep generating for the sake of developing a minor and for the sake of creating a more just environment for people with disabilities on campus,” Rifkin said.

Rifkin said a disabilities studies minor would offer an academic discipline similar to other forms of identity studies.

“People with disabilities who have a culture, experiences and a history that is as worthy of study as many of the other interdisciplinary programs that we have like women’s and gender studies and African American studies and U.S. Latino studies,” Rifkin said.

Zamalin said the minor would enhance the diversity of courses available at Georgetown. The MCEF voted in April 2015 to introduce a diversity requirement for the Class of 2020, which requires students to take two courses related to the topic of diversity.

“There’s been a shift in higher education toward diversification, especially at Georgetown with our diversity class requirement. And we’ve embraced that in so many ways,” Zamalin said. “And I think that a marginalized group of Americans and their history and culture often gets ignored.”

Rifkin said disabilities studies helps teach a broader awareness of an issue that can affect everyone.

“Much of what disabilities studies teaches is, first of all, that people with disabilities are part of our human family, and that their claims to rights and justice are important for us to embrace, but also that we are all only temporarily ablebodied, that we will all experience disability if we are lucky to live long enough,” Rifkin said.

Survey Finds Students Lack Food Accessibility Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

According to a food-accessibility survey released by the Georgetown University Student Association, 54 percent of 351 surveyed students said they have experienced hunger but were unable to buy food for costrelated reasons.

The survey points to a lack of accessible food options on campus as 42.2 percent of surveyed students said they experienced hunger without access to food due to cost at least once a week.

“There should not be hungry stomachs at an elite university like Georgetown.”

Cam White (msb ’19) Member, GUSA Socioeconomic Inclusivity Policy Team

Sixty-three percent of the respondents were students on need-based financial aid, while 36 percent were students in the Georgetown Scholarship Program.

According to the survey, three of the main barriers to access food were the time needed to go to a grocery store, the distance required to purchase affordable groceries and the hours of dining options available on campus.

The shortage of affordable food options prevented 68.9 percent of surveyed students from eating as healthily as desired.

GUSA Socioeconomic In-

clusivity Policy Team Chair Emily Kaye (COL ’18), who is also a member of the GSP board, said potential solutions include extending O’Donovan Hall’s hours and opening an on-campus food pantry for students.

This summer, The George Washington University established a food pantry, where students in need can access free food when they have no other options.

Daniel Marshall (SFS ’19) said it is important to ensure there is no stigma associated with the potential introduction of a food pantry.

“Right now we are trying to figure out what the best plan should be to propose to the administration. Essentially what we are trying to do is isolate the issue that is very apparent within the administration that we don’t have all the resources necessary,” Marshall said.

Marshall said it is important the food pantry be accessible but discrete, to ensure the pantry is useable for all students.

According to Cam White (MSB ’19), who is on the GUSA Socioeconomic Inclusivity Policy Team, the survey results highlight a pressing campus issue that often goes overlooked.

“It’s important because Georgetown, being the inclusive campus that it claims to be, must look at all aspects of the student experience in its pursuit for inclusivity, which definitely extends to food accessibility,” White wrote in an email to The Hoya. “There should not be hungry stomachs at an elite university like Georgetown.”

Following the release of the survey’s results, Kaye met with student leaders including CEO of Students

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The Georgetown University Student Association released the results of its food accessibility survey, which indicated over half of those surveyed had found a lack of accessible food options on campus. of Georgetown, Inc. Taylor Tobin (COL ’17), Director of Vital Vittles Max Shapiro (COL ’17), GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and GUSA Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) to develop action points.

GUSA is looking into options including Aramark donating its spoilage, Epicurean & Company hosting discount nights to fundraise for food accessibility over breaks at the restaurant and creating a Facebook page of events with free food.

In addition, GUSA is ex-

ploring the possibility for students to anonymously transfer meal swipes and researching the feasibility behind Residential Living’s sponsoring kitchenware for residential communities.

The Corp’s external board plans to determine the feasibility of allocating money to invest in food accessibility over breaks for students with high financial need. The Corp will also donate all unsold items to students in need over breaks, according to Kaye.

The Farmers Market has also promised to donate money to the initiative, which GUSA is considering using to buy a freezer to preserve food for students over break.

According to Kaye, the priority for this semester is increasing the available food options for students over breaks.

“Twenty percent of people who took the survey said that they lacked the ability to access food over this break, so we decided to make that a priority, and so right now I’m work-

ing with Chris [Fisk] to try and provide more food resources during break,” Kaye said.

Kaye said she is optimistic about the response to the survey results.

“I am astounded by how willing everyone has been to help,” Kaye said. “This really shows that food access isn’t just a one part of the community issue but it is really an entire community issue. It’s nice to see these groups recognize that and I’m hoping this can lead to some lonterm solutions.”

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Student Groups Emphasize Unity Following Election

Three days after the election, groups from both political sides call for dialogue RESPONSE, from A1 the country that it was time for radical change,” Olson said. “We were all in tears. We were all sobbing.

We were all in shock.”

The result was shocking to student groups on both sides of the political spectrum. Georgetown College Republicans Vice Chair Sam Granville (COL ’17) said conservatives on campus hold similar values to other students, even in light of Trump’s victory.

“We will continue in the spirit of this past year by engaging in conversations, inviting discourse and providing forums for discussion.”

MEGAN POHL (COL ’17) Chair, Georgetown University College Republicans

“Tuesday night was really hard. I’ve spent the last year and half trying to convince people that not all Republicans are filled with hate, that not all Republicans are Trump supporters,” Granville wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I just hope my Georgetown peers know that I am equally as upset as they are and as ready to fight for our American values as they are.”

GUCR Chair Megan Pohl (COL ’17) said the group will look to create a positive, open dialogue on campus.

“We will continue in the spirit of this past year by engaging in conversations, inviting discourse, and providing forums for discussion,” Pohl wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are not a party of xenophobes, homophobes, racists, sexists. We are not a party of hatred.”

Trump’s victory has

made campus political groups rethink their goals.

Olson said Hoyas for Hillary will look for ways to organize against Trump and his policies with which they disagree.

“It’ll take a little time — I’m going to take some time — but I want to come back and start making change and keeping this White House in check,” Olson said. “We can really do a lot of great things; I know we can. I’m not sure where this is going to go, but I know that in the coming days and weeks we’ll figure out exactly what needs to be done and what we need to do for the future.”

In particular, H*yas for Choice Co-President Brinna Ludwig (NHS ’17) said Trump’s victory has made her rethink the political nature of the organization.

“I never had thought of H*yas for Choice as a partisan organization, but I had a realization that in the state of politics today, we have no choice but to be partisan,” Ludwig said.

“The Republican Party is now the anti-choice party, I mean there are a few prochoice Republicans, but they’re very few and far between.”

Marco Garcia (SFS ’19) said campus has to look to the future with optimism.

“I am ecstatic that Trump won the election,” Garcia wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Campus has become so melancholic and somber, and, in my opinion, it’s pitiful.”

Pohl said students must work together to ensure Trump is the president he promised to be in his victory speech.

“If Donald Trump truly desires to ‘Make America Great Again,’ that includes making it great for the entire nation,” Pohl wrote. “It will not be easy going forward, but I do not believe that hope is lost. We must all remain politically engaged, raise our voices in the name of what we believe in, and work together.”

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Over 500 students gathered in the Healey Family Student Center on Tuesday night for a GU Politics sponsored election night, which included analysis from GU Politics Fellows.

Students React to 2016 Election With Protests, Anger ELECTION, from A1 “Stop targeting the undocumented community.

Stop targeting my black brothers and sisters. Stop targeting my Muslim brothers and sisters. Stop targeting the LGBT community,” the protester said.

As many swing states, including Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, among others, were called as victories for Trump, students watched on campus in the Healey Family Student Center at an event hosted by Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.

Clinton supporter Millie Spencer (SFS ’20), who had been watching the returns in HFSC, said she became too emotional to wait for the final results.

“I’m going to bed. I’ve cried enough and been frustrated enough for like hours and the only thing that’s left to do is get fired up about the fact that we go to a school that cares about politics and social justice,” Spencer said On Wednesday night, students joined several hundred others to congregate at the U Street Metro station and walk to the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Molly Dunlap (SFS ’19), who attended the protest, described the moment the police overtook the march.

Dunlap said she originally thought the police would attempt to stop the march, but was instead surprised at their assistance.

“We were walking around and all of a sudden police sirens came from behind and we were all like, ‘Oh they’re coming to stop us,’ but they actually cleared the way for us,” Dunlap said.

Dunlap added that she attended the protest because of her desire to demonstrate her dissatisfaction with the election results.

“What I really liked about the protest was that it was not a bunch of drunk students getting together, because that is a tradition they do every year, but this was people who actually care, who are actually motivated, who went out of their way to mobilize and attend demonstrations,” Dunlap said.

“The fact of the matter was that there was an elite world that is entirely disconnected from what was going on in the country.” michael gerson Columnist, The Washington Post

Taking a Step Back

Though students and professors expressed surprise at Trump’s victory Tuesday, government professor James Lengle said the polls accurately predicted the results of the popular vote, which favored Clinton over Trump 47.7 percent to 47.5 percent. However, Clinton garnered 228 of the necessary 270 Electoral College votes while Trump won with 290 Electoral College votes.

This marks the fourth time in America’s history that a presidential candidate has lost the popular vote but won the election.

“In some ways, the poll was reflective of the results, in that Clinton, it appears, has won more popular votes than Donald Trump and that was what polling going into the election had shown,” Lengle said. “They did predict the popular vote winner.”

In reference to Trump’s victory, Lengle highlighted three reasons he believed Trump won — the uniting of the Republican Party behind him, Clinton’s lack

of support from minority communities that previously supported Obama and Trump gaining the backing of the independents.

According to Lengle, because Trump’s views differ from the agendas of many politicians in the Republican Party establishment, he will have to compromise with the Republicancontrolled Congress in order to advance his campaign promises.

“He will, in some way, have to adjust to Senate and House Republicans’ views in order to get some degree of his public policy through,” Lengle said. “He’s going to learn awfully quickly that the institutions of American politics are more powerful than an individual. He will have to learn to play within the institutional context and restraints of the political system.”

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and GU Politics hosted a panel Thursday night in Gaston Hall examining the results of the election.

Panelist Robert Costa, a national political reporter for The Washington Post, attributed Trump’s victory to the rise of populism.

“The populism that I first heard from him so long ago, it truly embraced him,” Costa said.

“That is what really lifted him to the White House, thanks to working-class white voters in places like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.”

Michael Gerson, a columnist for The Washington Post and another panelist, concurred, warning that the current climate could lead to increased divisions in associations outside of politics.

“The result is pretty dangerous for our public life,” Gerson said. “It has been a hostile takeover of the Republican Party by a populous movement.

It has turned a lot of our conflicts in America, conflicts of ideology, increasingly into conflicts of class that are deeply destructive to the fabric of country.”

Gerson added that he had come to realize how disengaged he was from much of the country given the surprising nature of the election’s outcome.

“The first lesson I have drawn is humility and the second is humility,” Gerson said. “The fact of the

matter was that there was an elite world that is entirely disconnected from what was going on in the country.”

McCourt School of Public Policy professor E.J. Dionne, another panelist, expressed hope that Democrats could work together to bridge the separation between different communities in the country.

“The Democratic Party needs now what it has always needed, which it is a strategy, a set of policies

and a set of candidates who can bring together a significant part of the white working class with African Americans and now our growing Latino population. In principle, that is very possible,” Dionne said. “We are reminded that the white working class cannot be forgotten about.”

Hoya Staff Writers Matt Larson, William Zhu and Tara Subramaniam contributed reporting.

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DC Council Approves New Voter Registration Measure JEFF CIRILLO

Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. residents may soon be registered to vote automatically through the Department of Motor Vehicles if a D.C. Council bill passed unanimously Nov. 1 becomes law.

In order for this bill to take effect for the next election cycle, the Automatic Voter Registration Amendment must be signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and undergo a congressional 30-day review period. According to federal law, Congress must review all bills passed by the D.C. Council.

Under the automatic voter registration system, D.C. residents would automatically be registered to vote when they receive a driver’s license or government-issued ID from the DMV. The system is automatic but not mandatory.

Residents would have the op-

tion to opt out of the voting rolls by filling out a Board of Elections form.

Councilmember and Chair of the D.C. Democratic Party Anita Bonds (D-At Large) said automatic voter registration would likely increase voter participation in the District.

“As an elected official and Chair of the D.C. Democratic Party, I’m pleased that we are able to expand voting opportunities for D.C. residents while also maintaining a more accurate voters list which will produce more accurate and likely higher turnout percentages,” Bonds wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Should the bill become law, D.C. would join five states with automatic voter registration systems — Connecticut, Oregon, California, Vermont and West Virginia. Oregon was the first state to pass automatic voter registration in 2015.

Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) said the bill is a major reform of the voting system.

“I’m pleased that we are able to expand voting opportunities for D.C. residents ” Anita Bonds (D-At Large) D.C. Councilmember

“Voting is the bedrock of our democracy, so it is vital that the government do all it can to make voting as accessible as possible,” McDuffie wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The passing of the Automatic Voter Registration Amendment Act does just that and puts the

District of Columbia at the forefront of election reform nationally.”

McDuffie also said automatic voter registration measures would particularly benefit D.C. residents in isolated or temporary living conditions.

“The data tells us that automatic voter registration has the highest impact among traditionally marginalized communities as well as transient communities, like students,” McDuffie said.

The bill was first introduced by Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) in May 2015, and is backed by Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1), Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), Bonds and former Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large).

The first reading vote

of the bill Oct. 11 also saw unanimous approval from the council.

According to the D.C. Board of Elections, 478,093 residents were registered to vote as of Oct. 31. Roughly 76 percent of voters in the District were registered as Democrats, 6 percent as Republicans and 16 percent as Independent.

Of these registered voters, only 60.4 percent, or 286,403, of District residents actually cast their ballots in the November election.

GU Votes co-founder Bethan Saunders (SFS ’17), whose organization helped over 1,600 Georgetown students vote and accompanied them to the polls on Tuesday’s Election Day, said automatic voter registration is a positive step for voting rights activists.

“As someone who has

been deeply involved in voter registration initiatives across the country, the passage of automatic registration in D.C. is a huge win for our movement,” Saunders said. “Automatic registration can dramatically increase registration rates and has been approved in five states, with dozens more following suit.”

Saunders added that automatic voter registration goes beyond increasing registration rates.

“It also has the potential to boost registration rates for previously marginalized voter groups, clean up the rolls, save money, make voting more convenient and reduce the potential for voter fraud,” Saunders said.

“I very much hope that this becomes the new norm in America, as voting needs to be an automatic and accessible right for all Americans.”

Alumni Elected to Congress Campus Reflects on Election JEFF CIRILLO

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Six Georgetown alumni were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one to the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s Congressional elections.

The six alumni entering the House of Representatives are Democrat Stephanie Murphy of Florida (SFS ’04), Republican Francis Rooney of Florida (CAS ’75, GRD ’78), Republican Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana (GRD ’14), Republican John Faso of New York (GRD ’79), Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin (GRD ’12, GRD ’13) and Democrat Pramila Jayapal of Washington (CAS ’86).

Jayapal will become the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House after succeeding Democrat Jim McDermott as the representative for Washington’s 7th district.

Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland (GRD ’90) will join six incumbent alumni in the Senate, including Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont (GRD ’64) and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Arkansas (CAS ’80), who won re-election in their states Tuesday.

These alumni join a total of 22 members in the House and Senate in the 115th Congress who hold degrees from Georgetown, composed of 16 Democrats and six Republicans.

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois (GRD ’92) is the only incumbent alumnus who did not win his re-election bid. Kirk lost to his Democratic opponent, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth from Illinois’ 8th district.

Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming expressed pride in the alumni serving in Con-

gress.

“Of course we are tremendously proud of these members of the Georgetown community who are, through public service, living our mission of educating men and women for others,” Fleming said. “We look forward to connecting them to university life as they assume their new positions.”

Government professor James Lengle said he consistently donates his own money to help elect Georgetown graduates.

“I’ve always contributed money to former students of mine who ran for public office regardless of political party. It’s my way of supporting and encouraging their commitment to public service,” Lengle said. “I’m very proud when Georgetown graduates act on ideals instilled by their education and by the values and mission of the university.

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Six Georgetown alumni, including Pramilla Jayapal (CAS ’86), will be joining 22 other members of Congress who graduated from Georgetown.

Students, faculty gather in Dahlgren Quad JEANINE SANTUCCI Hoya Staff Writer

As the nation reacted to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton this morning, more than 200 members of the Georgetown community gathered in Dahlgren Quadrangle for an interfaith prayer service yesterday afternoon.

Hosted by Campus Ministry and the Georgetown University Student Association, the service centered on themes of healing and unity following the divisive campaign season.

The service followed a day of heightened emotions on campus. As the election results were announced early Wednesday morning, students congregated at the White House, where protests continued through the night.

Earlier on Tuesday, more than 500 students attended an election watch party in the Healey Family Student Center. Chaplains and members of student religious groups offered prayers at the service and encouraged the community to use campus resources, such as Counseling and Psychiatric Services and the chaplains’ offices.

Protestant Chaplain Olivia Lane read an adaptation of “A Prayer for the Government,” written by Archbishop John Carroll in 1791.

“We pray, God of might, wisdom and justice, assist with the spirit of counsel and fortitude the president of these United States,” Lane read, “by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restrain-

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Several students present at the gathering cried and embraced one another. Eriss Donaldson (COL ’19), who attended the event, said the scene at the prayer service reflected the atmosphere on campus yesterday.

“Most of the people that I’ve seen on campus walking around look so defeated.

They look so tired,” Donaldson said. “It’s in everyone’s faces. It’s in the faces of our LGBTQ members on campus, it’s in the faces of the minorities on campus, it’s in the faces of the allies on campus.”

GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the gathering was important to help unite members of the campus community.

“More than ever, we as a community need to come

together and, hopefully, that will result in more community efforts moving forward, in solidarity and using resources,” Khan said.

Roman Catholic Chaplain Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J., urged those in attendance to work to develop solidarity across campus.

“Take a moment and look around at one another.

We’re all quite unique, but we’ve all come together today,” Schenden said at the service. “Rooted in this basic understanding, right here, right now, of mutual love and respect. I think the real invitation, brothers and sisters, is to take the mutual love and respect that we presuppose here and now and take it out when we’re done here. That’s the invitation. That’s the challenge.”

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As part of a campuswide celebration of Veterans Day, student veterans, faculty and guests gathered in Riggs Library for a commemoration of the 241st birthday of the Marine Corps, which included a cake-cutting ceremony.

Community Celebrates Veterans Day Caroline Landler Special to The Hoya

In celebration of Veterans Day, about 50 students, faculty and veterans attended a ceremony on WhiteGravenor Lawn yesterday.

The ceremony aimed to bridge the gap between the general university community and Georgetown students in the military.

In a speech at the ceremony, student veterans advocacy group Georgetown University Student Veterans Association President Christine Starke (SFS ’18) said veterans and Georgetown students have more in common than many believe.

“Our experiences, passions and future careers span as wide as the rest of the Georgetown student body,” Starke said. “We hold a diverse set of opinions, political stances and perspectives on our own service and how it should or should not be recognized.”

The ceremony, which was hosted by the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association, is part of November’s Military Awareness Month. A series of university offices and student groups, including the Office of the President, Campus Ministry and the LGBTQ Resource Center, are hosting events on issues ranging from issues facing students in international militaries to transgender rights in the military.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Feehan (SFS ’05), the ceremony’s keynote speaker, said veterans at

Georgetown must work to help create unity, especially in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

“I am here to ask you today to continue engaging in that same work to defuse divisiveness that currently exists in 2016. And not just you student veterans, but all of us,” Feehan said.

“Political and cultural divisions that we experience aren’t the only challenges that we face on Veterans Day. We also face the need to bring together those in the military and those outside of it.”

A central issue that veterans face is a misunderstanding and lack of communication with others, according to Feehan.

Feehan challenged the audience to bridge this divide by engaging in discussions with veterans to tap into those personal experiences.

“Don’t let our troops and veterans feel like they are kept at arm’s length,” Feehan said. “Most veterans don’t want special treatment. They just want to be understood, and that means get to know our military as individuals, not just as the idea of troops of veterans.”

President John J. DeGioia’s Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara said veterans and other students joining together makes the entire community stronger.

“We are driven by the knowledge that we are stronger and that we are at our best when we work

together,” Ferrara said. “As a university we are committed to working together to create the best possible context where veterans can share their talents, develop their skills and leadership and uphold the values that characterize the military.”

Following the speeches, the color guard hoisted an American flag dedicated to Georgetown veterans.

Ferrara said veterans represent the best of Georgetown.

“By celebrating you this afternoon, we celebrate the very best of our community, the core values that animate our tradition at Georgetown.”

Joseph Ferrara Chief of Staff, Office of the President

“By celebrating you this afternoon, we celebrate the very best of our community, the core values that animate our tradition at Georgetown,” Ferrara said.

Maire Stierer (COL ’20), who attended the ceremony, said the ceremony was important to raise awareness for veterans issues.

“Using Veterans Day to open a dialogue about veterans in our community and our greater community of D.C. is huge,” Stierer said.

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brary also celebrated the 241st birthday of the Marine Corps. The oldest and youngest Marines present participated in a traditional cake-cutting ceremony with a Mameluke sword.

Beyond organizing the ceremony and reception, student veteran groups and faculty on campus have made efforts to increase an awareness of veterans on campus in recent years.

GUSVA Vice President Vivian Cochran (SFS ’18) said it is important to educate the student body on the veteran culture at Georgetown.

“GUSVA works very closely with faculty to better educate them on how to work with student veterans, but we also hold a lot of social events, and a lot of professional networking events for creating a dialogue and letting them know that we are normal human beings, just trying to get an education like everyone else,” Cochran said.

These efforts have not been without visible result, according to GUSVA Faculty Advisor Barbara Mujica, who said the response to Georgetown veterans has become more positive since she came to the university in 2009.

“Over the years what we’ve seen is that there’s been an awareness of all kinds of topics like women in the military, women in leadership positions, the relationship between military and civilians. These things have developed, and I think the talk today about unity and working together show that the discussion has really matured,” Mujica said.

GUSA Senate Approves Referendum Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

Undergraduate students will vote on a campuswide referendum to abolish the Georgetown University Student Association senate and replace it with a new elected assembly Dec. 1, after the senate voted 21-6 last night in support of the proposal.

GUSA Senate Speaker Richie Mullaney (COL ’18) presented the final version of the restructuring plan to 27 gathered senators and four representatives from the Council of Advisory Boards, the Advisory Board on Club Sports, the Campus Ministry Student Forum and the Lecture Fund.

The final plan would establish a new assembly comprising student advisory board delegates and four student representatives elected based on class year. The proposed assembly would determine student organization funding, a role currently administered by the Finance and Appropriations Committee, known as Fin/App, within the senate.

The responsibility over policy-related issues will shift to policy teams cre-

ated following GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk’s (COL ’17) election consisting of leaders and members appointed by the GUSA executive and senate.

“What it does to change the constitution enshrines the advisory boards and major groups that receive funding in the funding process.”

OWEN HAYES (COL ’18) Chair, GUSA Finance and Appropiations Committee

The referendum will present students with “yes” and “no” responses on a ballot.

Fin/App Chair Owen Hayes (COL ’18) said the final proposal will cement the role of advisory boards in the appropriations process.

“What it does to change the constitution enshrines the advisory boards and major groups that receive

funding in the funding process,” Hayes said. “That is put in the constitution and because of the threshold to change the constitution, that is going to be very hard to reverse and those groups need to be part of the process, so the fact that they can’t be cut out easily going forward is a very important step.”

Senator Saad Bashir (COL ’19), who voted against the plan, said the new assembly would reduce opportunities for new students to participate in student government.

“GUSA senate was actually a great way for me to get involved with campus as a freshman, but as it is constantly being changed, I don’t see the new assembly providing new students the same opportunities that I was able to have and use,” Bashir said.

Senator Jasmin Ouseph (SFS ’19), who also voted against the proposal, said the final draft of the constitution will be too dense for students to understand, since even some senators could not understand the text.

“The constitution is dense material and I know senators who couldn’t even

fully and appropriately understand the nuances of it all so I don’t know how informed the student body’s vote actually will be,” Ouseph wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The senate voted to hold a campuswide referendum for students to express support or opposition to a smoke-free campus, which will also be held Dec. 1.

Ouseph said holding the smoke-free referendum on the same day will likely improve turnout and benefit supporters of the restructuring.

Senator Ben Baldwin (SFS ’19), who supported the proposal, said the final version is a compromise between competing concerns.

“I believe that this plan represents the best compromise between the current system of club funding and the issues that countless advisory boards and student organizations have raised against it,” Baldwin wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“This plan institutionalizes collaboration between objective, elected representatives from the student body and the institutional experts leading advisory boards and student organizations.”

The government must introduce stricter gun-control laws in light of the June 12 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, according to a panel on LGBTQ issues Nov. 9 in the Healey Family Student Center.

In June, 50 people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub.

Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, the director of Latino and Catholic initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign, said President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton is concerning for the LGBTQ movement.

“I don’t know about many of you, but it hasn’t been an easy day and I want to acknowledge that off the bat because I know we’re about to have a difficult discussion that was hard yesterday and is terrifying today.

At least that’s how I feel,” Rivera said.

Rivera said the Orlando shooting rocked the LGBTQ community and left many fearful of their and their friends’ safety. “[When] a madman opened fire into an exiting crowd, it was a dwindling crowd at Pulse. It stopped those of us who have always seen the gay club, the lesbian club as a place of refuge,” Rivera said.

The Orlando shooting was the largest mass shooting in the country in the last 50 years.

According to Rivera, the shooting inflicted deep wounds on the LGBTQ community.

“For me until today it’s a moment in which if I give it too much thought I still hear these echoes, right?” Rivera said. “I still hear the echoes of the horror, the images, but I also hear the lament of unanswered questions, the potential that was lost, the questions that will never be answered.”

Audrey Juarez, the legal project coordinator for the Center for American Progress, said the Orlando shooting proved that although progress has been made, the LGBTQ community still faces significant challenges.

“I have not been able to stop thinking about all of this because it’s a new reality, I think it’s a reality that has always existed,” Juarez said. “It has existed for all of the groups of people who have been victims and survivors of this sort of violence, but I think it was a particularly rude awakening for our community.”

According to Rivera, the Orlando shooting reveals how current laws fail to protect the LGBTQ community.

“It was a recognition, and I know what I’m about to say is a little bit controversial, that laws might not always protect us and as a matter of fact hardly they ever do, but they serve as recourse once we’ve been affected,” Rivera said.

Jason Lindsay, executive director of the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, an LGBTQ group advocating for gun control, said the public should not be able to buy military-grade firearms.

Lindsay served in the Army Reserve for 14 years and was deployed to Iraq.

“I am 100 percent convinced that the lethality and caliber of the weapons that I carried on the streets of Baghdad don’t belong on the streets of America,” Lindsay said.

Lindsay said he is confident that Pride Fund is able to successfully influence gun-control reform.

“We can and we will create change in the gun violence prevention arena,” Lindsay said. “We have the political infrastructure, we have the know-how, we have the finances that we can take on the gun lobby and we can win.”

“I am 100 percent convinced that the lethality and caliber of the weapons that I carried on the streets of Baghdad don’t belong on the streets of America.”

Jason Lindsay Executive Director, Pride Fund to End Gun Vilence

However, Lindsay addressed the group’s significant opposition from Congress and gunrights advocates, especially the National Rifle Association.

“The NRA and the gun lobby spent more this election cycle trying to defeat candidates who support gun reform than in their entire history,” Lindsay said.

Rivera said people should not focus on the possible religious motivations of the shooter but rather on the damage done to a community that is often marginalized and targeted.

“This is not because of religion,” Rivera said. “What most people start to talk about when they talk about this is what was the faith or practice of the person who perpetrated the crime. That might have or might have not had something to do with that, we’ll never know, he’s not here to answer that question.”

Rivera said the nation must focus a greater amount of attention on educating people in compassion.

“It’s incredibly important that we talk about how do we go about educating people,” Rivera said. “We need to think about how to move forward in a compassionate, intersectional way.”

Rosio Mondragon Reyes (SFS ’18), who attended the panel, said events like the panel are important in bringing the LGBTQ community together.

“The members on the panel were really good at accommodating for the topic, fixing that around what has happened in the last 24 hours and being flexible with that and being welcoming for the feelings that are present,” Mondragon Reyes said.

Steve Reyes (MSB ’17), also an attendee, said the panel was particularly important in light of Trump’s victory over Clinton.

“It was a great way for the community to come together especially after the results of this election,” Reyes said. “I thought it was good to just reflect and know that there are people there who support you and everyone is kind of together and coping with this result.”

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Once the teams were solidified, the event organizers encouraged participants to go off campus and speak to potential customers as part of the four-step process: identifying a problem, validating the problem, coming up with a solution to the problem and validating the solution to the problem.

Barry Goldsmith (MSB ’17), one of the Georgetown event’s organizers, said the process was essential to any successful startup.

“I could build a solution to a problem I think exists,” Goldsmith said. “But I won’t know if it’s a problem if I don’t talk to the customer, and I won’t know if my solution is worth anything if I don’t talk to the customer.”

Eric Koester, an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-

in-residence in the MSB, has participated in 60 Startup Weekends worldwide and gave a brief presentation on the role of these four steps in developing a minimum viable product — a rough first iteration of a product.

“You might start a company.

You will definitely learn a tremendous amount..”

Jeff Reid Founding Director, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative

“The final goal of the weekend is to expose the participants to what it feels like to be an entrepreneur in 54 hours,”

Goldsmith said. “But it’s a crazy goal — we give them 54 hours to go through what takes most entrepreneurs months, if not years.”

Throughout the weekend, mentors, including some Georgetown entrepreneursin-residence, provided guidance to the teams. On Sunday evening, the teams presented their final products and received feedback from a panel of judges, which included successful entrepreneurs, two entrepreneurs-in-residence and investors.

“Determining the winner wasn’t about which company you would invest in or which idea you liked best — it was really about which team went through the [four-step] process,” Goldsmith said. “The team that went through the process the best also tended to deliver the best.”

Jeff Reid, event organizer

and founding director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, said the weekend provided an experience for those who wanted to start a company without having to go “all-in.”

“You might start a company.

You will definitely learn a tremendous amount. And you will definitely leave with new friends and business contacts,” Reid wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Goldsmith also encouraged other students to participate in the event and learn about entrepreneurship.

“I think a lot of students on campus automatically associate entrepreneurship with starting a business, and that’s not necessarily the case,” Goldsmith said. “If you’re interested in innovative problem solving or thinking differently about problems and solutions, entrepreneurship is really for you.”

This year’s hackathon, Hoya Hacks, attracted more attendees than last year’s event.

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“It’s a common misconception that homeless people have no access to information technology,” Connell said. “There’s a need for better data on homelessness.”

Guy Burstein (SFS ’17), the other co-president of Hoya Hacks, said that the Georgetown computer science department, which describes itself as a “small” department with a tightknit academic community, is growing and that the event highlights its achievements.

“It’s a really great way of promoting Georgetown computer science, especially since the department is small but it’s rapidly growing,” Burnstein said.

According to Burnstein, the event’s organizers are other Georgetown students, who are often members of the computer science community.

Cheung said he hopes the hackathon contributes to the growing interest in computer science at Georgetown and to the expansion of the computer science program.

“I think something we want to strive for is higher turnout among Georgetown students, right now it’s like a quarter, but ultimately, this movement of the hackathon is to make Georgetown’s academic

environment to be more [computer science] oriented,” Cheung said.

Cheung said that one of the goals was to expand Georgetown students’ experience with diverse aspects of computer science.

“It’s a great way for Georgetown students to team with other students from other schools, since they come from different backgrounds, they go through different coursework that’s offered at other schools that’s not offered here,” Cheung said.

Elly Meng (COL ’19), a participant and winner of the best gender hack, sponsored by HoyasForShe, said the hackathon was a good learning experience.

“Seeing my peers’ brilliant hacks showed me how much I still have to learn and definitely inspired me to keep learning outside of the classroom,” Meng said.

Meng said that the event was well-run and provided an environment conducive to learning and creativity.

“Great set-up, food, quality of people, overall organization, availability of mentorship and creation of an open space to share ideas,” Meng said.

Both Meng and Connell said they would participate in another Hoya Hacks hackathon.

“And other hackathons in the meantime,” Meng said.

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Additionally, while the Gelardin New Media Center has a variety of gaming consoles available for students, it has not yet made the decision to add the Switch to its collection because of a lack of information and student impetus so far, according to GNMC head Beth Marhanka.

“We haven’t had a chance to read reviews of the Switch yet or get input from the Georgetown gaming community,” Marhanka wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We welcome feedback from students and faculty about how they would use the Switch.”

Daniel Anderson (COL ’17), president of the Gaming Design Club, described how the Switch’s mobile and stationary hybridization could affect the future of game development.

“It’s a really interesting concept, because as we now see, there is a rise in technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality,” Anderson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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GU gamers are optimistic about the Nintendo Switch, which hybridizes a handheld gameplayer with a stationary model.

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Switch is positive among Georgetown gamers. However, Binder said more information is needed before students like himself can form a final opinion.

“There’s enough information to get excited but there are so many unanswered questions,” Binder said. “Being the analytical nerd that I am, I want to know how long the battery life is, I want to know if it’s going to have an SD card or if it’s going to have a proprietary means of memory.”

appear to support these features right now, I could see how its mobile usability could easily support augmented gaming.”

Binder said that for fans like himself, Nintendo has been lackluster in it offerings recently, but that the Switch reverses this trend.

“For people that care, Nintendo has been a company over the last few years that has disappointed fans and this has been and huge turnaround,” Binder said.

According to Binder, two common complaints among gamers at Georgetown and beyond have been the lack of dual analog sticks on controllers and the lagging graphics quality relative to competitors’ consoles.

Nintendo has already addressed one concern by adding detachable dual analog sticks to the mobile Switch unit. These Joy-Con controls can be used together as dual analog sticks for the Switch unit, or taken off and used separately by two people for local multiplayer.

Binder expressed that the issue regarding Nintendo’s graphics could still be a concern, as mobile units typically have less graphics capability than stationary ones.

“They’ve advertised it as being a competitor for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but most people don’t believe that it will be simply because it’s a portable console,” Binder said. “Just in the same way a laptop can’t be as powerful as a PC or a desktop, the Nintendo Switch is probably not going to as good quality wise as an Xbox One or PlayStation 4.”

While gamers will gain better insight into their concerns upon the release of further information about the Switch in January, Binder is optimistic of the outcome for Nintendo if the company fulfills the expectations that it has created thus far.

“If this delivers on everything that it is promising, there is going to be a lot more Nintendo fans in the gaming ecosystem and it’s going to be great for the company,” Binder said.

has become increasingly more prestigious as well as more lucrative.

As the reputation of these technology-focused companies grows, economists are seeking to understand how these firms are impacting the composition of the United States economy.

Astonishingly, though, as Larry Downes, a McDonough School of Business Senior Industry and Innovation fellow, wrote in a recent op-ed for The Washington Post, in purely economic terms, companies like Google and Facebook officially add no value to the American economy.

With these two companies alone worth about $850 million according to CNN Money, this statement is enough to leave many people scratching their heads.

Currently, gross domestic product is the primary tool by which economists measure the economic activity of a country. GDP represents the monetary value of all goods and ser-

vices that are produced within a given country over a specific period of time. While this metric intuitively makes sense, it does not account for the rise of companies founded on providing users with predominately free services. As a result, traditional measures of economic activity such as GDP fail to attribute value to companies that offer consumers free services.

In other words, while these tech companies may be valued at hundreds of billions of dollars and carry thousands of employees, the contribution of a company like Google to the United States’ GDP is incalculable, because providing search engine services does not have a tangible price.

The same is true for other major players in the digital field such as Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.

Thus, while monolithic, these companies are essentially GDP-invisible.

But why does it matter if governments are able to properly account for the economic value of

these companies so long as consumers value their services?

It matters because this is an oversight of monumental proportions.

Traditional measures of economic activity such as GDP fail to attribute value to companies that offer consumers free services.

Ultimately, it is the government that dictates the regulatory framework in which all companies must abide in order to operate legally within the United States Since government policy relies on information provided by traditional economic measures such as GDP, current policy is essentially ignoring the needs of all of the top technology companies, simply

because they do not charge users for their services.

As the world becomes increasingly more digitally focused, it is time for these traditional economic tools to be re-evaluated in order to better reflect and assess the composition of our modern economy. If these now-antiquated economic assumptions do not adapt the contemporary lay of the land, then it will be almost impossible for governments to make effective policies for future development.

And if governments continue to ignore the companies that are some of the foundation blocks of the digital economy, their nations are not leveraging their full potential in the global market economy.

Here at Georgetown, though, as we wait for the government to catch up with the times, we rush off to the next interview with a GDP-invisible firm.

Bianca DiSanto is a senior in the McDonough School of Business. Think Tech appears every Friday.

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markets react to trump Despite bleak predictions, U.S. markets responded fairly well to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night. On the highest volume of trading since Brexit, the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both closed Wednesday up 1.1 percent.

Additionally, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a 1.4 percent gain despite an 800-point plunge in the Dow Futures late Tuesday night. Big domestic winners include private prisons, oil, financials and pharmaceuticals, all industries expected to benefit more from Trump’s policies than former Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton’s proposed regulation and price controls. International markets were more mixed but still responded better than anticipated.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index dropped 5.4 percent, and the Mexican peso plummeted 8.7 percent. The United Kingdom’s FTSE index closed trading with a 1 percent gain, and Germany’s DAX index climbed over 1.5 percent.

MSB Fellow Says US Government Ignores Google and Facebook in GDP Calculation The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Program Director Larry Downes published an op-ed last month in The Washington Post on the problem of traditional government valuation in the digital sector. Downes expressed that the standard economic measures used to calculate productivity such as gross domestic product ignore the contributions of digital and information services like Google — valued at over $500 billion — simply because they do not charge their customers for material goods. Downes claimed that relying on measures like GDP creates a blind spot around information services that affect policy decisions and enforcement. He concluded, “Until we start accounting for digital dark matter, U.S. trade negotiators, tax authorities, law enforcement agents and others may continue to grossly undervalue the importance of our most vital source of innovation.”

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Students from colleges across the country descended upon Georgetown’s campus last weekend to compete in the second annual Hoya Hacks, a competitive 36-hour test of software and hardware skill and determination in pursuit of prizes and honors.

“The project was a wind tunnel where you could simulate wind moving through a closed tunnel and seeing how certain obstacles affect the wind moving.”

YATPAnG Cheung (col ’17) Co-President, Hoya Hacks

This year’s event was larger than last spring’s successful hackathon, which attracted more than 300 students from over 130 universities.

Hosted in the Healey Family Student Center by the Hoya Hacks team, the hackathon was “powered” by Dell and Microsoft Windows, according to the event’s website.

The event’s first prize of $1,000 went to a team that created a wind tunnel project during its allotted time. Yatpang Cheung (COL

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Over 300 student competitors from more than 130 universities from all over the country participated in a 36-hour hackathon in the Healey Family Student Center to test their software and hardware skills. ’17), co-president of Hoya Hacks, described the team’s creation.

“The project was a wind tunnel where you could simulate wind moving through a closed tunnel and seeing how certain obstacles affect the wind moving,” Cheung said.

Beyond first-, second- and thirdplace prizes, there were also awards given for best hardware,

best software and certain sponsored prizes.

One of the sponsored prizes was given for best health-related hack presented by the American College of Cardiology, which pledged to donate a heart transplant to a child in India in the name of the winning team and presented it with an internship opportunity.

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Nintendo revealed its newest gaming console, the Switch, which incorporates elements of both a handheld and home gaming system and is supported by over 50 gaming companies.

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The third annual Startup Weekend welcomed 50 participants to the McDonough School of Business for three days of entrepreneurial collaboration from Nov. 4 to Nov. 6.

The event, which was one of many are sponsored worldwide by the entrepreneurship catalyzing company Tech Stars, kicked off on Friday night, beginning with a dinner and networking segment for the participants, who pitched their business ideas to the rest of the group. Attendees then voted on pitches and formed teams accordingly.

At the end of the weekend, first place was awarded to a team with an app idea called Musetory, which introduces a way to incorporate augmented reality, such as the technology used in Pokémon Go, into museums to make the experience more entertaining and interactive.

While the Startup Weekend organization does not encourage the use of “prizes,” a Swiss participant sponsored an award allowing the

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GU Gamers Praise Nintendo Switch A Matthew Trunko Hoya Staff Writer

Nintendo unveiled a first look at its new console, the Switch, through an online video Oct. 20, which demonstrated its ability to switch from mobile to stationary, television-based gameplay.

The innovative changes revealed by the video have already excited members of the Georgetown gaming community, some of whom have not been completely impressed with the gaming giant’s past offerings.

With the Switch, Nintendo combines its handheld gameplayer with

a home gaming system, merging the previously separated mobile and console game markets.

Much about the console remains unknown, with its price, official release date and specifications to be announced Jan. 12, 2017.

To use the Switch as a standard stationary home console, a user places the mobile system into a dock, which connects the system to a television while charging the system. To make the Switch mobile, a user removes it from the dock and views the game on the Switch’s built-in tablet screen rather than the television.

A Nintendo press release indicated

that about 50 game development companies have announced their support in creating content for the Switch, including Activision, Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and TakeTwo Interactive.

Nintendo is expected to release confirmed several titles so far, including “The Legend of Zelda”, “Super Mario Bros.” and “Mario Kart,” as they were shown in the the console’s release video.

According to Jordin Binder (COL ’18), president of Georgetown Gaming, the general conception of the See NINTENDO, A9

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THINK TECH

McDonough to Compete in Peeptrade Challenge Last month, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business was one of nine business schools chosen from around the world to participate in the Peeptrade University Challenge, a three-month event in which teams of graduate students from top business schools compete to best manage a $10,000 portfolio.

Eight students from the Master of Science in Finance program will participate on behalf of the university, competing against the likes of Princeton University, the London School of Business and Dartmouth College. Georgetown will donate all of its proceeds from the competition to Some Others May Eat, an organization that provides food, clothing and health care to the poor and homeless in Washington, D.C. MSF students will travel to Chicago to defend their investment strategy Dec. 3.

Marc Connell (SFS ’17) won awards for “Best Social Innovation Hack” and “Best Political Hack” for his project HomeAway, which is an app designed to help homeless individuals locate helpful resources, while gathering data on homelessness in the process.

first-place team to go to an entrepreneurship conference in Switzerland.

Second place went to a team with an idea that would allow students to sell personal equity based on future earnings and a number of other variables for a given time frame to finance their education rather than take out a loan.

Team member Paula Bejarano (MBA ’18) gave an example of how the online platform would function.

“Say I need $20,000 for school. You go to this website and you match with an investor who also has a social concern. And basically that person will invest in you by giving you the cash with the agreement that, after you finish school, you would give him or her 2 percent of your salary for the next five to 10 years,” Bejarano said.

At the event, teams included a mix of Georgetown undergraduates, Master of Business Administration students, the George Washington University students and other members of the community.

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MSB professor Eric Koester, right, spoke during the third annual Startup Weekend, where teams collaborated to develop products.

s November begins, many Georgetown students are fixating on their futures.

Whether they are looking for summer internships, research positions or full-time employment, there is no shortage of eager Hoyas on the cusp of answering the perennial question of what they want to be when they grow up.

While many students have specific career goals that they wish to achieve in the next five to 10 years, there are just as many people who only have a vague sense of what they hope the next chapter of their lives will entail.

In other words, statistically, most Hoyas will begin their careers working in the public sector, financial services or consulting.

Historically, Georgetown students tend to follow career trajectories that are considered standard for today’s college graduates. In other words, statistically, most Hoyas will begin their careers working in the public sector, financial services or consulting.

Recently, two other options have also become fairly common, with a growing number of highly motivated college students starting their professional lives in the start-up or technology spaces.

If given the opportunity, I am not sure any college-aged job seeker would be able to turn down the chance to work for high-tech firms like Google, Facebook or LinkedIn. Every year, these companies attract top talent at universities. For recent graduates, working for such firms See THINKTECH, A9