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HOOPS SEASON

Celebrate Patrick Ewing’s homecoming with the 2017-18 basketball preview.

EDITORIAL Georgetown should devote more resources to helping students plan their careers.

CONSTRUCTION AT MEDSTAR Construction on a new pavilion and helipad is set to begin in January.

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NEWS, A5

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GU Fossil Free Calls For Divestment From Tar Sands Oil SARAH MENDELSOHN Hoya Staff Writer

A proposal by student group GU Fossil Free calling on the university to avoid investments in tar sands oil received the support of about 200 members of the Georgetown University community. The proposal was submitted to the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility, which advises the university on socially responsible investing policies, on Nov. 6 . The CISR has received GUFF’s proposal and is expected to discuss it at its next meeting, according to Rachel Pugh, the university’s senior director for strategic communications. GUFF’s proposal argues that investments in tar sands oil extraction are inconsistent with the university’s Socially Responsible Investing policy, approved by Georgetown’s board of directors last June, which requires the university to take social and environmental effects into account when making decisions concerning the university’s endowment investments. GUFF worked closely with administrators to establish the SRI last summer. The greenhouse gas emissions associated with the process of extracting and refining tar sands oil are significantly greater than that of conventional crude oil, according to a 2009 report by the Department of Energy. Advocates argue that tar sands oil, primarily extracted in Alberta, Canada, contribute to climate change and environmental degradation in parts of Canada and the United States. In its proposal, GUFF pro-

vided a list of 16 companies, which receive most of their revenues from tar sands that Georgetown should avoid investing in. The proposal is the latest divestment push for GUFF, which successfully lobbied the board of directors to divest the university’s funds from coal companies in 2015. The board also approved a student proposal to avoid direct investments in private prisons last month after three students submitted a broader proposal in January, bolstered by a three-month promotional campaign launched by the student group Georgetown University Forming a Radically Ethical Endowment. The environmental implications of tar sands extraction make divestment from the industry a crucial step toward fulfilling Georgetown’s commitment to social justice, according to Samantha Panchèvre (SFS ’19), a GUFF member. “Georgetown is educating its students to be leaders in the world, to fight for a better political and social environment, and climate change is throwing all of that into disarray,” Panchèvre said. “So, by funding climate change, it’s very counterintuitive for an institution like Georgetown to fund climate change and also tell its students to go out and fight climate change.” If CISR approves the proposal, it would be presented to the Committee on Finance and Administration within the board of directors for approval. Pugh said the university takes noninvestment proposals

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In the keynote address concluding a four-day symposium on his legacy, former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) advocated for inclusivity and globalization in the face of growing partisan tensions. Clinton’s return to campus was widely anticipated by students.

Clinton Returns With Call for Unity Hannah Urtz Hoya Staff Writer

Former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) made his widely anticipated return to the Hilltop on Monday afternoon, lecturing a tightly packed Gaston Hall on his view of today’s global political climate and the role of government in an increasingly interconnected world. “What are our responsibilities to each other, in an age of unprecedented interdependence and globalization?” Clinton said. “If you put up a wall, you might be able to keep people out, but you can’t keep the internet out, you

can’t keep the ideas out.” Clinton’s keynote address concluded a four-day symposium titled “Clinton 25: Georgetown Reflects on the Vision of Bill Clinton,” which marked the 25th anniversary of Clinton’s election in 1992. The event, hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, comprised a series of panel discussions on Clinton’s domestic policy, foreign policy and public service. Clinton said the interconnected world requires inclusivity on economic, social and political fronts to eradicate the harmful “us-versus-them” mentality that pervades poli-

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tics today. “Do you believe in a positive-sum future, a dynamic, bigger, better, more inclusive one? Or a zero-sum future, where economics is static and there’s a limited amount of social capital and cultural standing to go around, so there must always be a loser in order for someone to win?” Clinton asked. According to Clinton, if and how we collectively think about our future determines our ability to meet the most pressing global challenges, from climate change to technology and cybersecurity threats. “The only way to think

about it in a country as great as ours, the only sensible way to work toward a more perfect union, is to work toward inclusive economics, inclusive societies, inclusive cultures and inclusive politics. And that includes people who don’t vote with us — and may not even like us,” Clinton said. See CLINTON, A6

See A7 for more coverage on the symposium’s panels: • Vision of America • Vision of Leadership and Service • Vision of the World

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Members of Bill Clinton’s administration participated in panels during the symposium. Former chief of staff to the president John Podesta, left, spoke in a panel titled “Vision of Leadership and Service,” while Madeline Albright joined the “Vision of the World” session.

University Donor Arrested in Saudi Arabia Yasmine salam Hoya Staff Writer

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GU Fossil Free submitted a proposal calling on the university to divest from companies that extract tar sands oil.

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A late-night wave of arrests in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 4 swept up prominent Georgetown University benefactor and Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, alongside dozens of influential businessmen, politicians and royals. Prince Alwaleed, who donated $20 million in 2005 to endow the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, a center for interreligious dialogue established in 1993, was part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ordered arrests of four ministers, tens of former ministers and 11 of his royal cousins as part of an alleged anti-corruption crackdown, according to The New York Times. Crown Prince Mohammed, pegged as current Saudi King Salman’s favorite to ascend to

the throne, called for the arrests without a formal legal process or warning just after midnight.

“It’s pretty obvious that these efforts at ‘fighting corruption’ are just cover for the Crown Prince to consolidate power.” JONATHAN A.C. BROWN Director, Alwaleed Center for MuslimChristian Understanding

With an estimated net worth of $18.7 billion, Prince Alwaleed gave Georgetown the second-largest single donation at the time. Since then, a number of high-profile donations have been made to Georgetown, with the largest as Frank H.

McCourt Jr.’s $100 million donation to launch the McCourt School of Public Policy in 2013. Jonathan A.C. Brown (COL ’00), ACMCU director and Islamic history professor, said the crown prince’s actions are not fueled by a fight against corruption, but rather royal politics. “It’s pretty obvious that these efforts at ‘fighting corruption’ are just cover for the Crown Prince to consolidate power and remove competition,” Brown wrote in an email to The Hoya. Rory Miller, professor of government at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, said Crown Prince Mohammed’s actions could delegitimize the authority of the Saudi government on the global stage. “If this move to remove and detain senior princes, ministers and businessmen is proven to be more about domestic

politics than stamping out corruption then it will send a very worrying signal that the current leadership in Riyadh is willing to destabilize the situation at home in order to achieve its narrow political goals,” Miller wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Coming on the heels of the blockade of Qatar, this will once more call into question the strategic judgment of the current leadership across the international community.” Since his donation to Georgetown, Prince Alwaleed has not been actively engaged in the center’s scholarly activity, Brown said. Brown said except for a brief visit to the university and reception hosted by University President John J. DeGioia in 2007, the prince has not personally reached out to the center. Alwaleed’s foundation, Alwaleed Philanthropies, has See PRINCE, A6

NEWS

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SPORTS

North Korea Policy Scrutinized Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for diplomacy in addressing the North Korean crisis. A5

#ProudToBeGSP By listening to the stories of those around us, we can better understand facets of our own identities. A3

Champions The women’s soccer team captured the Big East Championship on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over Butler. A12

NEWS Red Light on the Red Line

opinion Living Out a Legacy

SPORTS Title Game Awaits

WMATA plans to halt service on the Red line for major track maintenance at the end of this month. A9 Printed Fridays

The true importance of one’s legacy is not its audience, but rather its intent. A3

The men’s soccer team squares off against Xavier this Sunday with a Big East Title hanging in the balance. A12 Send story ideas and tips to news@thehoya.com

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Broaden Cawley’s Focus As an institution that promises to prepare its graduates for life beyond the Hilltop, Georgetown University has a responsibility to provide its students with guidance as they seek to chart their path post-graduation. Yet, the Cawley Career Education Center, the primary source of assistance for students’ career-related concerns and queries, is unable to serve all Georgetown students to the extent they truly need in their search for post-graduate education, internships and jobs. Cawley lacks the resources it truly needs, and the university should act to correct this situation. At the same time, the center can redirect its current resources to more appropriately address the myriad interests and needs of Georgetown’s undergraduates. For example, students often face difficulty even getting an appointment to speak to advisers and, due to the overextended nature of their schedules, these appointments are frequently too short to be productive. The center could also benefit from specialized advisers in more diverse fields and from greater connections with academic advising deans. Cawley currently employs only one adviser dedicated to students planning to go to law school, and it does not currently have an adviser specifically designated to work with students interested in medical school or careers in the health field. Meanwhile, Harvard University — which currently has an undergraduate population of about 6,700 students, comparable to Georgetown’s almost 7,000 — employs four premedical or health career advisers in its Office of Career Services. Though students in pre-medical or health-related fields often receive such counseling from their academic deans, a greater connection between Cawley and the deans’ offices could prove extremely fruitful for students who need guidance in the professional realm or who need help understanding how their major can apply to different career paths. Often, the career center directs much of its attention toward industries such as finance, consulting and banking, potentially because of the sheer number of students interested in those paths and the dearth of companies that recruit on campus. For example, a large proportion of the events on the center’s calendar on Handshake, a career-networking site, are focused on consulting or financial services.

Seventeen percent of the Class of 2016 went into consulting and 23 percent went into financial services, according to a report from the Cawley Center. However, the McDonough School of Business also has a program for career guidance, for which it employs five undergraduate career coaches specifically for students in the MSB, including one dedicated to the financial services industry. This program is unsurprising, as more than 65 percent of the MSB Class of 2016 went into financial services or consulting, according to the Cawley report. Such an industry-specialized program in the MSB calls into question why Cawley needs to focus so much on consulting and financial services. Though students outside the MSB do pursue these fields, this fact does not justify such a diversion of the center’s resources. Cawley could better direct its resources to ensure it is providing adequate attention and resources to students in other industries, or even to students who may not yet know what industry they hope to enter. To be clear, this editorial board appreciates the efforts of the Cawley staff, who do their best to help students. Still, the center does not have sufficient resources to effectively assist students across all industries. The center could also better allocate its resources to ensure it is helping as many students as possible. Cawley could do so by designating school-specific counselors for Georgetown’s three other schools — the College, the School of Foreign Service and the School of Nursing and Health Studies — to help all undergraduates explore the options associated with their Georgetown degree and how to pursue these paths. These counselors could also work more closely with the academic deans in each school, who are invaluable resources in helping students understand the potential careers suited to each major. The center should use its resources to allow industry-specific specialization in a wider variety of fields, such as health. Advantaging students from specific schools or industries contradicts the university’s mission to provide equal opportunities to all graduates. To rectify this issue, the university and Cawley must ensure that students — regardless of their school, major or postgraduate plans — have the necessary resources and advising they need to succeed beyond the Hilltop.

Not Getting Any Younger? — Researchers at the University of Exeter discovered a method of reversing cell age through use of compounds called “reversatrol analogues,” found in red wine and dark chocolate. Election Supression— The American Civil Liberties Union reported cold calls targeting Virginia residents in an effort to reduce voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. The callers falsely told them their polling locations had changed or that they could vote by text.

Bold Entrepreneurship — JPMorgan Chase announced a $4.2 million investment in small businesses owned by veterans.

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The Boy Who Gamed — Niantic, Inc., the creator of Pokémon Go, announced the development of a Harry Potter-themed augmented reality mobile game to be released in 2018.

A Spreading Epidemic — The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed the 38th case of monkeypox nationwide in the past week, a significant increase from the nine cases reported in October.

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Reject Amazon to Defend DC While Amazon considers Washington, D.C., as one of the potential locations to build its second corporate headquarters, Washingtonians should be wary of this apparent economic boon. Though D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has touted the construction of Amazon’s HQ2 as a way to further expand the local economy, the arrival of Amazon would exacerbate the city’s economic issues and drive out current residents. As such, D.C. should not welcome Amazon’s arrival. Amazon’s plan to construct a second headquarters that would supplement its existing campus in Seattle, where it has been based for 23 years, has set off a bidding war between hundreds of cities, states, districts and territories. The company is expected to announce the winner of the laurels by early next year. D.C. is among many cities enthusiastically pursuing this bid, and the benefits to the District appear obvious: Amazon’s headquarters would create around 50,000 jobs and bring $5 billion dollars in infrastructure investment over the next 10 to 15 years to wherever it chooses, according to The Washington Post. Seattle has become a technology hub with the arrival of companies like Amazon, and it may seem like an enviable model for D.C. to emulate. Yet, a closer look reveals serious issues with this possibility. HQ2 presents an opportunity to make the District home to the United States’ largest internet retailer and the world’s largest cloud computing provider. The headquarters would also give D.C. tangible benefits like tax revenue — despite the tax breaks the District plans to offer the company — as well as indirect benefits, such as the possibility that Amazon would attract other technology firms to set up shop in D.C., which would also boost the economy. Yes, it is true that the construction of Amazon’s headquarters would introduce economic opportunity into the District. At the same time, there is a stark mismatch between the opportunities that would be created and the needs of D.C. residents. Many of the jobs created would not go to current Washingtonians, but rather would attract high-skilled technology workers from across the country, as USA Today noted. These high-skilled, higher-income workers would drive up D.C.’s already sky-high housing prices and push low-income native residents out of their homes and neighborhoods. Rather than benefitting the current residents of

the District, the construction of Amazon’s new headquarters would only exacerbate issues that already plague D.C., such as income inequality and a lack of affordable housing. This possibility can be seen in the detrimental effects that have struck Seattle, home to Amazon’s flagship corporate headquarters. D.C. is already suffering a severe housing crisis: As gentrification worsens, rapidly rising housing prices continue to evict longtime low-income residents from their homes, according to outlets such as NPR. Meanwhile, Seattle has become one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. According to The Seattle Times, the median price of a home in the city has increased 17.6 percent over the last year. Several studies noted by The Hoya have confirmed income inequality in the District is deeply influenced by race, with black residents disproportionately bearing the burden of low wages and often facing the effects of gentrification (“DC Income Gap Highlights Racial Inequalities,” The Hoya, Sept. 29, 2017, A8; “Inequality Displaces Black DC Residents,” The Hoya, Oct. 13, 2017, A1). Seattle is also one of the metro areas with the fastest-growing income inequality in the country. Although Seattle’s rapidly rising housing costs and increased income inequality are not solely the fault of Amazon, the presence of the company — and of headquarters of other technology powerhouses such as Microsoft — has transformed Seattle into a knowledge center where high-skilled laborers attracted to the technology hub often push out native residents. The same could very well happen in D.C. For the District — which faces among the highest costs of living in the country, pervasive racial income inequality and a severe housing crisis — an influx of thousands of high-skilled technology workers would only aggravate the worst issues currently facing Washingtonians, in particular low-income residents who are often already being pushed out of their homes. Building Amazon’s HQ2 in one of the proposed D.C. locations, which include the Shaw-Howard University area, the Capitol East neighborhood and the Anacostia riverfront, would further intensify the displacement of low-income residents in these areas. Amazon’s arrival in D.C. may create economic growth, but it would bring with it a host of negativeexternalities that the District must seriously consider and, ultimately, reject.

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HOYA HISTORY: Nov. 11, 1983

Hoyas’ Scrimmage Kicks Off 1983-84 Season Patrick Ewing and David Wingate combined for 43 of their team’s 66 points as the Gray defeated the Blue, 66-39, in the annual preseason men’s basketball scrimmage Tuesday at McDonough Arena. Absent from the scrimmage were ex-teammates Anthony Jones, David Dunn and Elvado “Vadi” Smith, but in their place were players not as familiar. Eight students chosen from an open tryout played with the varsity Tuesday night, including Joe Carney and Jim King for the Blue squad, and Tyrone Lockhart, Steve Kowal, Mark Platt and Rich Fernicola for the Gray. The reserves, two of whom may see action this year, as GU only has 12 on the current roster, averaged 10 minutes of playing time but combined for only

seven points. Though the Gray held a seven-point lead at halftime and pulled away to win easily, the score meant little. This was an opportunity for fans and the coaching staff to see the players perform under game conditions. Showing leadership and fine court presence were Georgetown’s two seniors, guards Fred Brown and Gene Smith. Brown, the 1981 Big East Rookie of the Year whose junior year was riddled with injury, was “moving well,” according to Head Coach John Thompson Jr. “He’s doing better,” said Smith, who noted that on the court, “He’s so smart, so good on defense that people don’t realize it.” As for Smith, he had eight points Tuesday evening with six steals.

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As has been the case for the past two seasons, Ewing continues to impress and amaze college basketball fans. Ewing dominated against freshman Michael Graham, hitting 11 for 14 shots and 24 points, with 10 rebounds. “There’s nothing that different with Pat,” Thompson said, stressing that “What we’re working with is experience. … Hopefully we can get away with Reggie [Williams] and Fred [Brown] in the backcourt.” Juniors Ralph Dalton and Bill Martin combined for 15 points in the scrimmage, and Dalton’s six rebounds were a good sign in light of the serious knee injury he suffered at the 1981 BlueGray scrimmage.

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AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT

Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J.

Leaving a Transcendent Legacy

n Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons,” there’s a brief but brilliant exchange between Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, and Richard Rich, a bright and talented young man trying to make a name for himself in the world. Rich is unsure of himself and wondering about his future; he asks More what to do with his life. When More tells him he should be a teacher, Rich asks him, “And if I was, who would know it?” “You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that,” More responds. We are all emboldened in our lives by a desire to do great things. This urge is at the heart of our Ignatian heritage at Georgetown: a desire to be women and men in service with and of others and to go forth and set the world on fire. These principles are tremendous virtues in a world that needs people for others. Yet that great desire can also become a temptation — as it was for Rich — to equate greatness with fame and renown. We often hear of the desire to leave a legacy. Such a desire begs the question as to what leaving a legacy actually means. Occasionally, when I have a little extra time walking across campus, I will stop off in the Jesuit cemetery to say a few prayers for my brother Jesuits who have passed on before me. There, among the headstones, are the names of Jesuits that reside on buildings across campus and spring from the lips of folks here at Georgetown to this very day. Fr. Patrick Healy, S.J., served from 1874 to 1882 as Georgetown’s 29th president and who actualized Georgetown as a symbol of unity after the Civil War. Fr. Horace McKenna, S.J., contributed to the desegregation of Catholic parishes in Southern Maryland in the 1950s and eventually founded So Others Might Eat, a nonprofit organization that works to address poverty in the Washington, D.C. area. Fr. Gerard Campbell, S.J., served as university president from 1964 to 1968 and shifted governance of the university from an all-Jesuit to a majority-lay board of directors. Campbell also brought in Rabbi Harold White as the university’s

first full-time rabbi. Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J., served as the university’s president from 1976 to 1989 and guided Georgetown as it became a key international research institution. All were great Jesuits. They were not perfect, but all contributed to what Georgetown is today. Yet this list names just a handful of the nearly 350 Jesuits buried in the cemetery. Who was John Byrne, a Jesuit novice who died Sept. 28, 1809? Or Ludovic Weber, who passed away Nov. 5, 1929? Each Jesuit cemetery, like the one on Georgetown’s campus, serves as the sacred burial ground for my Jesuit brothers: scholars, poets, spiritual guides, scientists, martyrs, pastors and worker priests. What is noteworthy, among the headstones in every Jesuit cemetery, is their uniformity. They are similar to each and every Jesuit cemetery around the globe. On the headstones, there is no mention of Ph.D. or M.D. and no inscription of books published or souls saved. Rather, each has three dates, the dates of that Jesuit’s births: on earth, into the Society of Jesus and into eternal life. Whatever his worldly accomplishments, however great or small and for however brief or long a time, each Jesuit is remembered in the same way that St. Ignatius and his first companions are remembered — as individuals committed to serving with, and for, others, and to trying to go to those places in our world and culture where authentic peace and justice are absent. It is on their shoulders that we rest today. Although the historic facts and deeds might be forgotten, the legacy of how each of these Jesuits lived their lives is not. Leaving a legacy is not so much about what you do, but rather how you do it. And as for who will know? You will. Those with whom you journey with compassion and understanding in this life will. God will. Indeed, not a bad audience, that. Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J., is the Catholic chaplain at Georgetown University. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT appears online every other Thursday.

This paradox ultimately speaks to perhaps the most salient issue around affordability at Georgetown: tuition transparency. Students need to know where our money is going.

Advancing Tuition Transparency

etting a Georgetown degree is expensive. Right now, Georgetown University’s undergraduate tuition hovers at almost $52,000 per year, a figure that does not even account for necessary expenses such as room and board, books and other supplies. This number also reflects a 3.5 percent increase in tuition from the 2016-17 school year. As tuition rises, tuition transparency continues to be imperative to the student body. Nationwide, costs of higher education are skyrocketing, chiefly because of market increases in professional wages and students’ desires for improved resources. Moreover, these increases are accompanied by our desire for increased access to financial aid. We here at Georgetown are hit especially hard by this national trend, as Washington, D.C., is among the most expensive places in the country to live. In 2014, a study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the District was the most expensive place to live in the country, as reported by The Washington Post. Still, there are some amazing student advocates — both in the Georgetown University Student Association and across campus

— who tirelessly work to produce a more affordable Georgetown experience so that this special place is not out of reach for students from low- and middle-income backgrounds.

To get the most value for our tuition dollar, we must ensure that administrators understand our priorities as a student body. Some of the most significant projects — many of which have been ongoing since the administration of former GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) — pertain to the hidden costs of attending Georgetown, including the price of textbooks, transportation, laundry, printing and dining. Our long-term advocacy work has often sought to shine a light on the ongoing discussion about these costs so that university administrators remain aware of students’ continued and extremely valid

opposition to cost increases at Georgetown. But here’s the tricky part: As student advocates in GUSA, we often find ourselves at odds with this focus on affordability when one of our initiatives would incur a cost to the university and therefore to students. More plainly, we often find ourselves pushing for improvements to departmental funding or facilities while, in the same conversations, also pushing against the tuition hikes that would pay for them. This paradox ultimately speaks to perhaps the most salient issue around affordability at Georgetown: tuition transparency. Students need to know where our money is going. For students to feel best served by the hefty price tag of a Georgetown education, we must better understand how that figure is determined, what the year-by-year timeline is for tuition rates and at what points there are opportunities for student input. As such, university officials must make this tuition information easy for students and parents alike to access. Similarly, to get the most value for our tuition dollar, we must ensure that administrators understand our priorities

as a student body. When we make our voices heard, university administrators and decision-makers on the board of directors know precisely where we want our money to go. The evening of Thursday, Nov. 9, GUSA convened the 2017 Hoya Roundtable on TuitionRate Setting, in partnership with with Georgetown University Graduate Student Government and the Provost’s Office. In this dialogue, Dr. Joe Ferrara of the President’s Office and University Provost Robert Groves shared important insight into the university budgeting process. In return, students requested increased transparency for the costs associated with university investments. When it comes to tuition, the verdict is clear: Students prioritize clear communication and growing our endowment. Following this roundtable, the university and GUSA plan to send recap messaging in the coming weeks for students unable to attend the event, with hopes that we can shed light on this important topic and keep students involved in the conversation. KAMAR MACK is a junior in the College and president of the Georgetown University Student Association.

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TRANSFERMATIONS

Taking Pride in Our Stories

Seeking Out Your Own Self-Care

n the first day of sixth grade, my father warned me not to get too attached or comfortable, as we would probably not be living in this school district by the end of the year. After an expensive, drawn-out divorce involving encounters with the police and my father losing his job, we expected our home to be foreclosed on any day. As my teacher listed the books we would read throughout the year, I grew increasingly excited. Once he reached the books we would read in December, however, my excitement turned to disappointment. I saw myself as a ghost in a classroom that would go on without me. Still, I wrote down the names of all the books I knew I would miss if we had to move, finding comfort in the idea of reading them at a new school. I began each school year with the same mix of excitement and disappointment. Nonetheless, I tried out for sports teams and made friends. To this day, my father and I still live in the same home, awaiting foreclosure. The feeling of dread eroded with time and was replaced with surprise and happiness when I graduated from high school surrounded by those same sixth-grade classmates. As a first-generation college student, a low-income student, a survivor of abuse and a member of the Georgetown Scholarship Program, I understand that my family’s housing situation is only one piece of baggage packed within the many facets of my identity. Although I describe these parts of my identity all the time, sometimes I forget what they really mean. My involvement in GSP has allowed me to remind myself of the true meaning behind these identities and celebrate these parts of myself with my peers.

The program has 650 students, 75 percent of whom are from lowincome families — defined by the U.S. Department of Education as a family that earns less than 1.5 times the federal poverty line — and 70 percent of whom are firstgeneration college students. Each student has a unique story. Yet, there are common themes of resilience, independence and ambition.

We can all better understand our own identities by listening to and understanding the stories of others. Through these stories, I have been able to understand who I am in the context of where I come from, rather than despite it. We can all better understand our own identities by listening to and understanding the stories of others. I used to feel ashamed of the little girl who naively started each school year expecting every day to be her last before foreclosure. However, my fellow GSP students have allowed me to appreciate that little girl’s drive to make the most of each day before she would be forced out. I now carry the energy and determination of that little girl with me each day as I strive to make the most of every opportunity at Georgetown, as the first in my family to attend college. These obstacles and strengths are not unique to GSP students; all students could benefit from the support that GSP provides to our campus community. If you are a first-generation college student or from a low-in-

come background and recognize yourself in these stories, I encourage you to apply to become an honorary member of GSP. Honorary members enjoy GSP resources including advising and access to small grants. More importantly, they become involved with a supportive community that allows them to understand the stories of fellow GSPers and to be proud of the experiences that have shaped their own. Even if you do not come from this type of background, I still hope these stories of perseverance and determination provide both a source of inspiration for your own challenges and an opportunity to reflect on the facets of your own identity. Throughout the coming week, GSP students will be sharing their stories for our annual #ProudToBeGSP campaign. The campaign is an opportunity for the entire Georgetown community to recognize the complex identities of GSP students and appreciate how much GSP students share these unique identities with others on campus. On Wednesday, Nov. 15, we invite you to post on social media using the hashtag #ProudToBeGSP to describe how you have learned about yourself, the campus community or the greater global community through GSP students. I recognize my inability to know another person’s lived experience. Instead, I recognize my ability to know another person through our shared emotions. Only by giving people the space to share these experiences can we recognize the similarities and the differences that show us where our knowledge ends and another’s begins. EMILY KAYE is a senior in the College. She serves as student board president for the Georgetown Scholarship Program.

This article discusses depression and suicide. Please refer to the end of the article for resources on campus.

ll of us experience difficult times in our lives — more than once. When they occur, our general instinct is to bottle them up, to pretend that life is as easy as it seems to be for everyone else. Yet, it is in these times that we must allow ourselves to sit with the full range of emotions we are experiencing. In these difficult times, we realize that self-care is not only simply taking the occasional mental health day. Rather, it is an ever-evolving process that requires our constant, careful attention. Sometimes, we have to let ourselves self-destruct so that we can learn how to self-repair. The scariest part of finding our ways out of hard times is knowing that we will inevitably face more. Yet, this inevitability is why it is so important to pay close attention to what makes us feel better or worse at any given time. We must pay attention to how we are feeling, even when life is good. For me, these difficult times often come in the form of major depressive episodes. I sometimes barely make it out of the last one before a new one engulfs me. Three times, I have felt especially distraught, when my passive suicidal thoughts suddenly translated into actions. I’ve learned that there is no magic formula for getting out of a hard time. Everyone is different, and more importantly, every time is different. Personally, I have not

healed the same way after each of my suicidal incidents or major depressive episodes. My process of self-care has constantly changed. After the first time I was actively suicidal, I coped by listening to musical theater soundtracks. Some of the songs resonated with me so strongly that they kneaded the deepest emotional pain out of my heart.

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We have conquered these challenges before, becoming more and more resilient each time. We can do it again. The second time, about six months later, I turned to the same musical theater songs, knowing that they had helped the previous time. Yet this time, instead of feeling like someone out there had understood my pain, I felt nothing at all. I needed a new way of recovering. After lots of trial and error, I realized that spending time with people helped my mood. I made a conscious effort to be around people even when I felt too depressed to handle social situations, and that worked. Over a year would pass before I would be actively sui-

cidal again. The most recent time, about a month ago, my severely depressed mood and increasing social anxiety prevented me from surrounding myself with people. I no longer considered social activities as an option to try to improve my health. Still, I am doing a little better now after seeking out a new self-care routine. This time, musical theater songs, poetry and recognition of how far I have come have helped me the most. A year and a half ago, I would have told you that there was no way I was going to complete my degree. Today, I am on track to graduate this spring, on time. Self-care is a nonstop project. Because our processes of self-care are not necessarily constant, getting through these hard times never becomes easier. It is always hard. We just become better at it. We have survived all of our respective difficult times, and we must remember that whenever we feel ourselves entering a new one. We have conquered these challenges before, becoming more and more resilient each time. We can do it again.

To access mental health resources, reach out to the Counseling and Psychiatric Services at (202) 687-6985 or for after-hours emergencies call (202) 444-7243 and ask to speak to the on-call clinician. You can also reach out to Health Education Services at (202) 687-8949. Both of these resources are confidential. Brittany Rios is a senior in the College. TRANSFERMATIONS appears online every other Monday.

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In the second semester of its relaunch, the networking website Hoya Gateway has seen a rise in student-alumni connections. The online platform facilitates one-on-one career-related conversations between students and alumni. This semester, the platform has sought to establish a higher response rate by maintaining a ratio of one alumni volunteer to every two registered students. The goal of the relaunch was not necessarily to increase the number of users, but to increase the number of quality connections made between students and alumni, according to Associate Director of Alumni Career Services Matt Kelly. “We are averaging almost four connections being made between a student and alumni every day, and that’s a great number for us,” Kelly said. “That’s a direct result from the switch. That’s almost triple where we were at this point last year with the old platform.” With just over 2,400 registered student users, Hoya Gateway matches students with alumni based on the compatibility of their profiles, considering factors such as the student’s desired industry, specific interests within an industry and location. First launched in 2013, the program gained access to endowment funds for the first time last year. Before the relaunch, a student

survey uncovered two major flaws with the platform: a poor user experience and a limited pool of alumni volunteers. The added financial support from the endowment allowed the Georgetown University Alumni Association to address the problems and launch a new version of Hoya Gateway on Jan. 1. Curtis Romig, chair of the Hoya Gateway Executive Committee and chair of the GUAA Clubs Committee, attributed increase in student-alumni connections to the new design of the online platform. “Our new online platform, which has both a better user interface and more functionality than our prior platform, resulted in HGP increasing the number of requests by students to meet with alumni volunteers by 75% in comparison to the prior year,” Romig wrote in an email to THE HOYA. GUAA partnered with PeopleGrove, a software provider founded by Reilly Davis (MSB ’12), to increase student accessibility to the platform. A key addition is a group feature, which allows members of pre-professional organizations on campus to engage with former members. The groups can also post updates on their discussion boards and provide resources for their teams. Rupert Kingshott (MSB ’18), CEO of the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, said his organization plans to capitalize on the opportunity to connect with for-

mer club members. “We are hoping to use Hoya Gateway as our primary mode of communication with GUASFCU alumni in the future, and are excited to see Hoya Gateway continue to grow,” Kingshott wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “It provides many valuable resources for both students and alumni.” Previously it had been difficult for GUASFCU members to create meaningful connections with alumni, according to Kingshott. “In the past, it has been difficult for our younger interns to connect with alumni who were in the Credit Union before their time at Georgetown,” he wrote. “The Hoya Gateway group provides an easy platform for current students to contact alumni to request resume reviews, set up meetings, and expand their networks.” Aaron Bennett (COL’ 19), press secretary for the Georgetown University Student Association, said the platform is especially useful now as he explores future internship opportunities. “Now is an important time to get students engaging with Hoya Gateway, as many students — myself included — are looking for spring and summer internships during the next few weeks and months,” Bennett wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The ability to connect with accomplished alumni in a variety of fields can open a number of doors, so it’s very important that more students learn about this tool and its new capabilities after the relaunch.”

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Midnight MUG, located on the second ﬂoor of Lauinger Library, is offering student entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their new products in a Startup Hotel installation opened in mid-October.

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Startup Hotel, an installation in Lauinger Library, is giving aspiring entrepreneurs a new opportunity to show off their startup projects. The about 8-foot-tall translucent tower with shelves holding the products opened in mid-October in Midnight MUG, a Students of Georgetown, Inc. storefront on the second floor and first floors of Lauinger in the Maker Hub of the Gelardin New Media Center. Georgetown alumnus Ryan Merlini (COL ’14) created the Startup Hotel to encourage student entrepreneurship. The project serves as a space for students to display and sell their invented products, which Merlini said can be a significant obstacle for startups in their early stages. “When you first make something, it is really hard to get it out into the market. You either have to know somebody that is wellconnected or has a big network and big box stores,” Merlini said. “There’s really no quick connection from local community, local D.C. product to a retail space.” Items currently on sale in the Startup Hotel include are iPhone breathalyzers, miniature succulent plants and Merlini’s own project, a book entitled “Dogs That Can’t Even,” which features photos of apparently exasperated dogs.

Merlini oversees all the projects that receive spaces in the Startup Hotel and decides which ones make it to the shelves based on an application process. As interest increases, Merlini said he hopes that products will share the space on a rotating schedule to display a broader range of projects and give more opportunities to local and student entrepreneurs. “The goal is to make space for local products, sort of inspire the same love and drive that people have around farmers markets around startups,” Merlini said. Another Startup Hotel is set to be installed in Saxbys coffee shop, which is also slated to feature new products. U Apparel, an athletic clothing company founded by Ethan Rosen (MSB ’19), and Helping Hand Journal Series, activismthemed journals, that donatesome of the proceeds to social justice groups, are planned to be on sale at the upcoming installation in Saxbys. The Journals’ co-founders Noah Martin (COL ’17, GRD ’19) and Jesse Flores (COL ’16) heard of the Startup Hotel and got in touch with Merlini through the Gelardin New Media Center and the Maker Hub. Sonja Erchak (COL ’18), the director of Midnight MUG, said that though the project has only been in Midnight MUG for a few weeks, it has garnered significant attention. “On all of my shifts and ev-

ery time I’m in the store, I see people checking it out,” Erchak said. “When you tell people there’s a Startup Hotel, they don’t really know what you’re talking about. I think the curiosity of the name has been a big selling point.” Erchak said she felt strongly about the being able to boost entrepreneurship at Georgetown as a member of Corp leadership. “The financial component isn’t as significant as what it represents in our community, which is just that I think everyone on campus is constantly looking for a space to get their voice out there, get their passion projects out there, and that’s really important for me to be able to provide that for people,” Erchak said. Merlini hopes his project can help students learn more about the financial and logistical resources available to them, adding that Georgetown has become a more supportive place for student startups over the last few years. “When I was here in 2014, there was no way to sell anything you made before going to Red Square, and it made it impossible because you needed to have the time to sit out,” Merlini said. “I was extremely surprised at the entrepreneurial infrastructure that’s been built. Now there’s some serious funding; if you have an idea you’re able to get it started.”

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Negotiation, rather than a military solution, is vital to achieving positive, sustainable peace with North Korea, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said at a panel Nov. 2. North Korea is under international pressure to end missile and nuclear tests on the Korean peninsula, where it has conducted six nuclear tests since 2006. The dictatorship has threatened to attack the United States mainland, territories like Guam and allies in the region including South Korea and Japan. Co-hosted by the Office of Mission and Ministry and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, the event featured Maryann Cusimano Love, an associate professor at the Catholic University of America, and Stephen Colecchi, the director of the Office of International Justice and Peace at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The panel was moderated by John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. The panel marked the beginning of the “Dahlgren Dialogues,” a new series of discussions on social justice hosted by the Office of Mission and Ministry. Carr said the initiative “seeks to deepen conversations around social justice in light of the rich and deep theological heritage of our Christian Catholic faith.” Hagel, who served as defense secretary under former President Barack Obama and previously as a Nebraska senator from 1997 to 2009, said the United States needs to put greater emphasis on diplomacy and dialogue when dealing with North Korea. “Diplomacy at the most basic level, of sitting down across the table and asking each other that question: ‘Well, what is it that

you want?’ And I don’t think you can start negotiation by demanding certain qualifications before you even sit down,” Hagel said. Colecchi said dialogue is what is most needed considering the current state of relations between the two countries, with President Donald Trump consistently referring to the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man” and threatening to “totally destroy” North Korea during a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 19 “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump said. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.” Colecchi said Trump must restart his relationship with North Korea. “We need to open a dialogue. The only way you can transform a relationship is by talking,” Colecchi said. Hagel called out Trump for his abrasive rhetoric, saying Trump’s strategy is “lowering yourself to the same standard as a ruthless dictator.” Hagel, who also served as a sergeant in the Vietnam War, said while the United States may have other options to consider, the military option is most risky. “There is no military solution, unless you are willing to pay a pretty high price,” Hagel said. “And that high price would be probably millions of dead South Koreans, tens of thousands of dead Americans.” Hagel contrasted this approach with another push for greater negotiation and international cooperation, citing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which saw Iran agree to drastically reduce its nuclear capabilities in eschange for lifted sanctions. “The most successful agree-

ments that have been reached since World War II are multinational agreements, more than just two parties,” Hagel said. The three panelists also emphasized the importance of religion and morality in policy considerations. Cusimano argued against the false dichotomy between having a religious or spiritual life and understanding national security politics. “The more moral and legal support there is for a policy, the more resources are available: public support, support of allies, support from others, to address whatever the problem is,” Cusimano said. Colecchi further advocated for the role of religion and faith in world affairs, highlighting interdependence and mutual respect. “Respect is the foundation for relationships individually, for relationships between peoples, and among nations. The [Catholic] Church has a capacity to speak with other religious traditions, to weave together shared moral norms,” Colecchi said. “Faith contributes a belief in humanity that allows us to build relationships where there weren’t any before.” Colecchi is optimistic about the direction in which the world is progressing, citing international progress on issues such as human trafficking, advancing medicine, and support for developing societies. “There are more things that unite people than divide them. And more and more, until we realize that our fates are all linked, we’re going to be in trouble,” Colecchi said. The event concluded with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions, with one audience member asking Hagel for one piece of advice he would give to Trump. “Listen. And learn,” Hagel said firmly. “Next question?”

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Construction on a new medical/surgical pavilion and helipad at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is set to begin January 2018, in accordance with the 2017-2036 Campus Plan. The new 477,000-square-foot pavilion is expected to cost $567 million and to be completed by December 2022, two years later than initially estimated. The project received the Washington, D.C. City Zoning Commission’s approval in June 2017, after the Georgetown Community Partnership agreed on size and specifications for the project in June 2016. The GCP, a group of university administrators, students and neighborhood residents created after the 2010 Campus Plan’s contentious drafting and approval process, addressed March 2016 concerns from the Old Georgetown Board, an advisory committee of three architects who conduct reviews of historical sites for the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The new medical/surgical pavilion will have 156 private patient rooms, a new emergency department, improved operating rooms and a rooftop helipad with direct access to the emergency room. The new helipad is not expected to add any noticeable noise from flights over campus compared to its current location, according to MGUH President Michael Sachtleben at an update on the project Monday. The renovation will also include the demolition of the currently abandoned KoberCogan Building, which is expected to be torn down by June 2018. Kober-Cogan previously

housed the department of psychiatry and was a part of MGUH. The updates come after decades without a large-scale renovation of the facilities at the MedStar hospital, the main building of which was constructed in the 1940s. “We are in aged facilities. In fact, in the main building where my office is and where we still care for patients today was dedicated by Harry Truman,” Sachtleben said. Parking for the hospital is set to be moved underground, where three levels would be tunneled out under the space between the current hospital and campus buildings Darnall Hall and St. Mary’s Hall. Sachtleben said the project will transform MedStar’s medical research capacities while also revitalizing the northern side of campus. The plan is expected to double the existing green area in the north section of the campus, adding a field where there is now a parking lot between St Mary’s and the current medical center and layers of rooftop green space on the new medical building. Eric Fisher, managing director of Trammell Crow Company, which is managing the development of the pavilion, said he expects the renovation to create a more pleasant environment for those on the north side of campus because of the new green space and newly constructed pavilion. “St. Mary’s, Epicurean [and Company], Darnall Hall — all of these resident elements here will now be overlooking a beautiful landscape area,” Fisher said. Robin Morey, vice president for planning and facilities management, stressed the project is planned to eventual-

ly improve student life despite the sight of construction on the north side of campus for the next four years. “The investments that MedStar and Georgetown are making in this project will also improve the physical embodiment of the campus itself, by minimizing Georgetown traffic and congestion along Reservoir Road, improving our green space, adding sustainability features, and really making the campus much more-friendly from a pedestrian perspective,” Morey said. Sachtleben said the hospital requires new and improved facilities “We’ve got world class faculty here, world class nursing, world class care going on in the facilities, but we don’t have those world class facilities,” Sachtleben said. “This tower, what we will be building, will bring that world class facilities for our patients that we care for, for the families, and for all of our caregivers.” Currently, the hospital facilities prevent medical officials from performing their jobs effectively, hospital officials explained. Sachtleben said the emergency room is “overcrowded and antiquated” and the operating rooms are outdated. “[The limits] really impact our ability every day to deliver on our promise of excellence of care to our parents,” Sachtleben said. The 20-year campus plan, approved Dec. 1, 2016, prioritized student housing renovations, future academic spaces and detailed the MGUH expansion. Under the D.C. zoning code, all universities, are mandated to submit campus plan agreements to the zoning commission every ten years outlining student and campus growth.

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Political leaders must strive for a more inclusive society, argued former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) in his fourth Gaston Hall address since the first of his Clinton Lectures in 2013.

Clinton Calls for Unity In Gaston Hall Address clinton, from A1 An interdependent world requires national policymakers to engage with the global community and work together to counter common threats, Clinton argued. “You can build all the walls you want, but we can’t escape each other. It won’t affect cyberterrorism; it won’t affect the spreading of radical ideology, or inclusive, caring communities. The physical, in this case, is not as important as the mental,” Clinton said. This address was the final installment of “The Clinton Lectures,” a four-part series devoted to exploring the people, events, lessons and guiding principles that have shaped his career in public service. The series, which began in 2013, examines the framework for a lifetime spent championing the ideas espoused by Clinton’s undergraduate professor Carroll Quigley: Tomorrow can be better than today and that every individual has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so. Clinton said that he is convinced he would not have become president had he not attended Georgetown and that he still feels influenced by the lessons he learned at Georgetown, nearly 50 years after graduating. He has carried with him since his undergraduate days the notion that individuals are responsible for the success of the future. “That’s a pretty heavy dose to lay on an 18-year-old,” Clinton said. “But I remember it well, all

these long years later. And I’m grateful that I heard it.” The idea of combating harmful polarization was a common theme throughout Clinton’s talk, as he described a “cultural shift” that occurred around the time of President Nixon’s resignation in 1974 and included 12 consecutive years of Republican presidents. According to Clinton, the shift was only the beginning of a long legacy of polarization in America. “When I ran in ’92, it was rather a lot like 2016,” Clinton said. “We had income inequality, we had alienation, we had unequal opportunities and we had a lot of social division. And that’s why I came to Georgetown. I said ‘Look, there’s a lot of social inequality, and I think we can do something about it, but I don’t think we can do anything until we start coming together.’” Clinton also urged the audience to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, saying that it was one of the best ways for young people to get involved with politics today. Building off the theme of an interdependent world, Clinton discussed the importance of immigration and emphasized how our similarities, rather than our differences, should drive not only our politics but our interactions with the world around us. “We have got to resolve the basic question — and you have got to resolve in your own mind — which is more important: our basic differences or our common humanity? We’re all 99.5

percent the same,” Clinton said. “And yet most of political discourse today is focused on the half a percent of you that’s different. Interesting. If everyone in America knew that one fact, you think it would make any difference? It might. Especially if you told it to somebody that doesn’t look like you.” Clinton explained how he had worked with former President George W. Bush on immigration reform and that he was “ashamed” that more substantive policy changes had not come out of their efforts. The former president also discussed the role of politics in a broader sense, saying that leaders must ultimately strive to leave the country in a better state than it was before their administration, despite the challenges they may face in doing so. “Remember that all that matters in the end is if people are better off after you finished than they were when you started,” Clinton said. Clinton concluded on a hopeful note, saying that genuine effort is the most important part of addressing the divisive challenges of today’s world. “I can say to you, having lost as well as won over a long lifetime, that losing isn’t the end of the world. I will tell you what [Hillary Clinton] and I drilled into our daughter: The important thing is to get caught trying,” Clinton said. “It’s worth it. We’ve got to have a united country. We’ve got to have a more perfect union, and an usversus-them is a dead end in an interdependent world.”

sent a representative to attend ACMCU annual board meetings in the past. In recent years, however, Brown said the representative has not attended these meetings. Since its founding in 1993, ACMCU’s main goal has been to fill the intellectual gap of understanding between Islam and the West. In recent years, one of the center’s main areas of activity has been analysis of Islamophobia. Prince Alwaleed’s decision to donate to the center followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, soon after which he funded centers at the American University of Beirut and American University of Cairo to promote the study and understanding of the United States and Europe in the Muslim world. The Saudi prince also wanted to create counterpart centers in Western Europe and the United States to help improve understanding of Islam and the Muslim world, according to Brown. The center’s founding director, John Esposito, met with Prince Alwaleed in Riyadh to provide input on the creation of the centers, Brown said. After Prince Alwaleed met with Esposito, he decided to endow centers at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, Cambridge University and Georgetown, all in 2005. “The funds were to support

the mission and activities of the ACMCU and its ability to increase its outreach globally,” Brown wrote. Rachel Pugh, the university’s senior director for strategic communications, said Prince Alwaleed’s donation has bolstered the ACMCU’s research work and intercultural dialogue. “As a Catholic and Jesuit institution, Georgetown has a long tradition as a world leader in promoting inter-religious and cross-cultural dialogue and understanding,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We’re proud of the work that the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding has done to build stronger bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West as well as between Islam and Christianity.” Those who were arrested are currently being held in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, a hotel commonly used by members of the royal family. The 52-acre hotel grounds were evacuated in preparation for the sudden series of arrests. Crown Prince Mohammed has been increasingly viewed as the de facto ruler of the kingdom, according to The Guardian. He currently exerts influence in all main areas of the Saudi government, including the military, foreign policy and the national economy.

Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned media outlet whose broadcasts are officially approved by the government, announced the arrests came hours after Salman established an anti-corruption committee that has the power to investigate, ban from travel and freeze assets of anyone suspected of corruption. Crown Prince Mohammed serves as the head of this committee and its investigations. The arrests will cause instability for both Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, according to Brown. “The policy direction of the Saudi government under the crown prince will be highly destabilizing for the medium and long-term future of Saudi Arabia,” Brown wrote. “I don’t think that it will promote regional stability or American interests.” In recent years, Prince Alwaleed has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Although the Saudi prince bought Trump’s yacht in 1991, Prince Alwaleed called on Trump to withdraw from the presidential election as he was a “disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America” on Twitter in December 2015. The second-largest shareholder in Twitter Inc., Prince Alwaleed also holds investments in Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Four Seasons and Mövenpick hotel chains.

Proposal Seeks Tar Sands Oil Industry Divestment divestment, from A1 seriously. “Georgetown University takes seriously matters related to social responsibility and its investments,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. GUFF argues the production and refinement of tar sands oil in Canada and the United States is a social issue as well as an environmental one. The group’s proposal notes the extraction process damages tracts of land sacred to indigenous North Americans, and also contaminates their drinking water and harms animal populations culturally significant to the First Nations groups. Proponents of the tar sands extraction process argue that tapping North America’s vast reserves could reduce the United States’ dependence on

oil sourced from Middle Eastern states. GUFF member Celia Buckman (SFS ’21) said the university has a moral obligation to divest from an industry with such environmental and social problems. Panchèvre said GUFF enjoys a close relationship with administrators after having worked closely with the administration to develop the SRI. “We’ve had a really good relationship with administrators, and I think that’s evident by the passing of the Socially Responsible Investment Policy. We had one-on-one meetings with administrators,” Panchèvre said. GUFF argues in its proposal that Georgetown cannot negotiate a change in tar sands oil companies’ production strategies or policies to make investment morally accept-

able. At the heart of the unchangable problem are the production methods and products themselves, not the company policies, according to Buckman. GUFF’s push for divestment from tar sands oil is a part of its greater effort to end Georgetown’s investment in fossil fuels, Buckman said. Universities and institutions in both the United Kingdom and the United States have divested from tar sands oil, including Oxford University, the University of California system and the Church of England in 2015,and Boston University and Cambridge University in 2016. Panchèvre said accepting the proposal would reaffirm Georgetown’s support for environmentally conscious policies. “It’s just good press for Georgetown. It’s really a no-brainer,” Panchèvre said.

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With Bill Clinton Return, Campus Focuses on Vision Former Political Aides Urge Return Foreign Policy Experts Evaluate Clinton Presidency’s Global Legacy To Bipartisan Climate, Progress Jesus Rodriguez

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“Hard-headedness and empathy” — this seemingly paradoxical combination of qualities informed the foreign policy of former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) at a time when the United States was surging as a unilateral world power, argued foreign policy experts Monday in Copley Formal Lounge. The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union saw the erosion of the bilateral system of international relations that governed the post-World War II world, poising the United States to increase its influence under Clinton’s lead. Clinton’s extraversion and persistence helped to achieve that goal, according to three experts who worked with his administration. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott comprised a panel on Clinton’s vision of the world and the foreign policy agenda it inspired. The event, co-sponsored by the School of Foreign Service and moderated by SFS Dean Joel Hellman, was part of the “Clinton 25: Georgetown Reflects on the Vision of Bill Clinton” symposium hosted by the Institute of Politics and Public Service. As an SFS graduate and a Rhodes scholar, Clinton had studied international relations extensively by the time he arrived at the Oval Office. Talbott said Clinton’s focus was ensuring lasting stability. “He came into office wanting to do everything he could to make sure that the Cold War was over and that post-Soviet Russia would be able to succeed,” Talbott said. Albright said that through the 1994 Partnership for Peace, a NATO program aimed at increasing trust in European and former Soviet states, Clinton showed Russia a sign of respect. At the negotiating table, the panelists said, Clinton pursued a “mission rich in diplomacy and engagement.” He complemented this mission with a proclivity for empathy, Zedillo said, citing Clinton’s support for the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement to improve the region’s economy. NAFTA, which set up a free trade zone among Canada, the United States and Mexico, is currently being renegotiated by the administration of President Donald Trump, who called the agreement “the worst trade deal” during his 2016 presidential campaign. Clinton believed it was in the national interest to bring financial stability to the region, Zedillo said. The former president sidestepped

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SFS Dean Joel Hellman, left, moderated a panel of foreign policy experts including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. the U.S. Congress in 1995 to authorize a $20 billion loan to Mexico through the Department of the Treasury. Clinton’s administration is also remembered for the 2000 Camp David summit among the American, Israeli and Palestinian premiers, during which the parties attempted to broker territorial disputes, the status of refugees and the elimination of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite not being able to reach a watershed agreement, Clinton aimed to foster understanding between the parties, according to Albright, who participated in the 13-day negotiations. “He made it a point of sitting down both with [Palestinian Authority] Chairman [Yasser] Arafat and with [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Barak and made them put themselves into the shoes of the other party,” Albright said. “That was kind of his way of saying, ‘We have to solve this together; it had to be win-win and not zero-sum.’” Perhaps one of the Clinton administration’s most notable foreign policy moments remains the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, through which an international consortium was set to replace North Korea’s plutonium reactor with two light-water reactors. The talks broke down after incoming Secretary of State Colin Powell of the George W. Bush administration “got hauled into the White House” and was told the negotiations must cease, according to Albright. The Clinton administration also drew heavy criticism from its decision not to intervene in Rwanda, where 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic group were massacred by Hutus in 1994. Talbott, who went on to preside over the Brookings Institution for 15 years, said Clinton was

also instrumental in convincing former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to de-escalate conflict at the India-Pakistan border in 1999. The former president spent his Fourth of July weekend negotiating the demilitarization of the border, averting possible nuclear war. But it is impossible to encompass eight years of foreign policy in one three-person panel, Hellman said. The conversation thus “wasn’t so much an assessment of the era as an assessment of the man” and how Clinton used his global influence. In international relations parlance, this analysis of an individual’s vision has a name: the great man or woman theory, which states that foreign policy can be explained by the impact of individuals. “Russia had a critical role to play in the world and ... how it used its strength and potential was largely a function first of [former Russian President Boris] Yeltsin and then [President Vladimir] Putin taking it in a different direction,” Hellman said, echoing Talbott’s assessment that appointing Putin was Yeltsin’s biggest regret. For Albright, the foreign affairs lesson from the Clinton presidency is the linkage between international engagement and domestic policy gains: The United States needed to become an “indispensable nation” in the eyes of the world to advance its own interests. “What I’m worried about is that we are about to become the dispensable nation, where nobody thinks that we do have a role to play,” Albright said. “I would hope that the president, the current one, would understand that what he is trying to accomplish requires the United States to be engaged in a respectful way and stop tweeting.”

A return to a less polarized political climate should follow the example set by the bipartisan style of former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68), argued top Clinton White House advisers at a “Clinton 25: Georgetown Reflects on the Vision of Bill Clinton” panel in Copley Formal Lounge on Monday. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), formerly a senior adviser for Clinton, said his one-time boss redefined the political dichotomy: Instead of focusing on party divisions, he said, Clinton focused on progress. “It wasn’t that he was a centrist; he reframed the debate about whether we were going forward or back,” Emanuel said. Minyon Moore, director of White House political affairs for Clinton, said all presidents can use their bully pulpit to unite the country. According to Moore, President Donald Trump has instead used his influence as president to contribute to a polarized political climate. “It starts at the top; it starts with the president. It is called a bully pulpit for a reason, because you can use that bully pulpit not to be a bully, but to raise the tone of this country, to bring us together,” Moore said. “The White House is the most audacious place you can work, and to lower it or to raise it is a choice, and it starts with the man in charge, or the woman in charge.” The “Vision of America” panel was part of the “Clinton 25” symposium, hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Clinton’s

election. It preceded a keynote address by Clinton on Monday afternoon. The panel included senior White House officials who reflected on the domestic agenda Clinton envisioned during his presidency. Speakers included Emanuel and Moore, as well as Bruce Reed, chief domestic policy adviser for Clinton, and Maria Echaveste, Clinton’s deputy White House chief of staff. Interim Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy Michael Bailey moderated the event. Reed said hostility, which dominates Washington, D.C.’s current political environment, does not reflect the American people’s wishes. Though politicians in the District are divided, Reed said, the United States is not necessarily a divided country. “What Clinton was able to do was show people in the suburbs and people in the city that they had the same concerns,” Reed said. “They were worried about quality of schools; they were worried about crime; they were worried about lack of opportunity and people not carrying their part of the load. And when you speak to people like that, then these partisan labels don’t matter as much.” Individuals must take responsibility to transcend partisan barriers, Emanuel said. “It’s also not just incumbent on elected leaders to do it. It’s incumbent upon other people, called citizens, to get engaged and listen to other people,” Emanuel said. The panelists suggested obligatory public service, such as military service, could be used as a means to unite a polarized United States by encouraging diverse interaction. Mandating five months of

national service could unify the American public, according to Emanuel. “If you do believe, which I don’t, that we’re coming apart, but let’s accept that as a premise … you then need a defining experience and place where people together from all walks of life can serve a higher thing called America,” Emanuel said. “The most important thing we can do as a country, which Democrats and Republicans agree on, people in cities, suburbs, rural America agree on, is serving a place we want our children to inherit.” In agreement with Emanuel, Echaveste said forms of service could empower more Americans to feel united. “National service — where all of us had to serve in one way or another — would bring us together, because we would see each other as Americans, and not as these boxes,” Echaveste said. Echaveste advocated for youth to get more involved in political processes more frequently. “Jump in, take a chance, and find something you believe in,” Echaveste said. “Citizenship needs to be active, and not just on election day, but yearround.” Reed said the combination of a long-term vision and capacity to execute constitutes a successful leader. “My view of leadership is you have to be idealistic enough and principled enough to know why you’re doing what you’re doing, and ruthless enough to want to get it done,” Reed said. “If you look at successful presidents — Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Lincoln, Roosevelt — they had both qualities.”

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Michael Bailey, left, interim dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy, led a discussion with former Clinton political aides, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, right.

Bipartisan Student Groups Praise Clinton Presidency Put American Clinton Despite Contentious Past People First, Clinton Aides Say Madeline Charbonneau Hoya Staff Writer

The Institute of Politics and Public Service’s celebration of the political legacy of former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) received generally positive bipartisan feedback from student leaders, despite the lack of objective policy analysis and scrutiny of the former president’s alleged sexual misconduct. In a keynote speech Monday to conclude the three-daylong celebration, Clinton focused on promoting cooperation between parties. Emphasizing that the responsibility falls on all Americans to start dialogue with those of opposing opinions, Clinton encouraged the audience not to further an “us-versus-them” mentality. “The only way to think about it in a country as great as ours, the only sensible way to work toward a more perfect union, is to work toward inclusive economics, inclusive societies, inclusive cultures and inclusive politics,” Clinton said. “And that includes people who don’t vote with us — and may not even like us.” In an interview with The Hoya, Allie Williams (SFS ’19), president of the Georgetown University College Republicans, and Larry Huang (COL ’19), chair of the Georgetown University College Democrats, said both groups recognized Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct despite their appreciation for the event and Clinton’s message. Clinton has faced heavy allegations of sexual misconduct and has been accused by three women of unwanted sexual advances. Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, accused Clinton in 1994 of harassing and exposing himself to her; Kathleen Willey, a former White House aide, accused Clinton in 1998 of groping her; and Juanita Broaddrick accused Clinton in 1999 of rape. Clinton

has never been found guilty of sexual misconduct, but did admit to extramarital sexual relationships with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern in the Clinton White House, and Gennifer Flowers, a model and actress, both in 1998. Huang said the GUCD board does not condone Clinton’s misconduct, but the board viewed the event as a rare opportunity to see a former president speak in person. “As an organization, we are doing very concrete advocacy work to support sexual assault survivors,” Huang said. “We really want to highlight that, and if you take a look at how our organization is approaching Bill Clinton and the issue holistically, we prioritize survivors, and we try to be a survivorcentric organization, and in this case, it was just the fact that he’s a president, and we had the opportunity to meet him.” Williams said she and the GUCR board had a conversation to analyze Clinton’s sexual misconduct allegations, and came to the same decision as the GUCD board to go to the event while keeping the issue in mind. “Under my leadership, I’ve really tried to emphasize the fact that supporting sexual assault survivors is not a partisan issue,” Williams said. “We had the conversation like you did with your board. Obviously, it’s probably more of a topic you guys bring up, because my board isn’t 100 percent behind supporting survivors, unfortunately, which I think is something our party needs to work on, but something I think under my leadership we have been focusing on.” While “Clinton 25” did not address more contentious aspects of Clinton’s presidency like the 1994 crime bill which disproportionately punished people of color or allegations of sexual misconduct, Mo Elleithee (SFS

’94), GU Politics’ executive director, said the events did aim to delve into the ideas that got him elected. “The goal of the Clinton 25 symposium was to reflect on the vision of President Bill Clinton — the vision that helped elect him president in 1992 and the vision that drove his time in office,” Elleithee wrote in an email to The Hoya. “While a lot of major policy issues came up during the course of Clinton 25, our goal was to host a conversation focused on the themes and vision of the Clinton administration, as opposed to focusing on a litany of policy decisions.” Aaron Bennett (COL ’19), a member of the GU Politics Student Advisory Board, said events did not aim to take a deep dive into policy issues. “To my understanding, this whole event was framed as sort of a reflection on not just the presidency of Bill Clinton, which was multifaceted, but how Georgetown specifically impacted that administration and those around him,” Bennett said. Both Williams and Huang said Clinton’s bipartisan rhetoric is important for students to absorb. Williams said GUCD and GUCR have already been working together to fight the “us-versus-them” sentiment through bipartisan dialogue, debates and policy forums. As a Republican, Williams said she appreciated that Clinton was as open to speaking with her at the reception dinner as he was to speaking with Democrats. “He’s very approachable; he’s the kind of politician that isn’t going to say to you, ‘if you’re a Republican, I don’t want to talk with you.’ He was equally interested in talking to me as he was to Larry,” Williams said.

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The leadership and negotiating skills of former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) helped him actualize his vision of putting people first in his policies, said three Clinton White House chiefs of staff at a panel forming part of the “Clinton 25: Georgetown Reflects on the Vision of Bill Clinton” symposium Monday. “He was willing to do the tough things you have to do to end up with a principled compromise,” said Erskine Bowles, who served from 1997 to 1998 as White House chief of staff, regarding Clinton’s leadership ability. McCourt School of Public Policy professor Judy Feder moderated a discussion among Former White House Chiefs of Staff Mack McLarty, John Podesta and Erskine Bowles on the leadership style and vision of former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68). Bowles spoke alongside Mack McLarty and John Podesta, who recently served as campaign manager for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. Their comments came during the “Clinton 25” symposium’s “Vision of Leadership and Service” panel, which focused on Clinton’s leadership style and belief in the role of government as a tool to help people. The symposium was hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. McLarty said that governance without vision and a plan does not get results, but that Clinton was motivated by deep convictions that characterized his presidency. “He had a vision of what he wanted to do,” McLarty said. “It was under the themes of putting people first.” “It was what centered the administration. He knew who

he was fighting for,” Podesta said. “And through thick and thin, when times were good and times were bad, all he cared about was could he deliver.” Bowles said Clinton would often arrive in the morning with various newspaper clippings of problems people faced across the country and a note reading, “Erskine, go fix this.” McLarty attributed much of Clinton’s desire to help others and put people first to his experiences in his grandparents’ shop in Arkansas. “He spent many hours in grandfather’s store, who they had as a clientele, lower-income people working hard to make ends meet, and he saw that firsthand and saw his grandparents trying to help them,” McLarty said. “That influenced his early feelings about public service and how he related to other people.” Republicans attempted to shut down the government twice in 1995, expecting Clinton to give in, but Clinton’s resolve in refusing to let Republicans block grant Medicaid worked to his benefit during budget negotiations in 1997, according to Bowles. “They found out they were dealing with a guy who had a real backbone. A guy who would stand up and fight for what he believed,” Bowles said. Balancing the budget, one of the hallmarks of Clinton’s presidency, was an achievement that McLarty, who had known Clinton since kindergarten and who served as his chief of staff from 1993 until 1994, said even he was unsure anyone could achieve the task. Podesta, who served as chief of staff from 1998 until the end of Clinton’s second term in 2001, also said that many doubted that the former presi-

dent would successfully balance the budget. “Our plan was to balance the budget, and balance it in a way that respected our values. And to do that, we had to play the long game. We had to have the vision … we had to be really willing to work at it day in, day out,” Bowles said. Clinton brought people together and made concessions to realize his goal, Bowles said. The Clinton administration managed to secure an entitlement in 1997 creating the Children’s Healthcare Insurance Program, which decreased uninsured children from over 14 percent down to 5 percent, an effort Bowles said brought Clinton joy. “When [Podesta] and I walked into that office and told him we had a deal, he looked at me and listened; we told him what we got,” Bowles said. “Boy, when we told him we got that health care insurance for 5 million poor kids, I’d never seen a guy light up so much, because that’s why he ran. Those are the priorities and principles under which he governed. That was his true north.” Though Podesta, Bowles and McLarty all acknowledged the distinctions today in the political landscape regarding globalism and fiscal responsibility, Podesta said he believes tying the success of the country to the success of working people rather than solely to the national economy was a lasting principle of the Clinton presidency and vision that continues to influence the Democratic Party. “Central to Clinton’s economic theory was the success of the middle class, attacking income inequality,” Podesta said. “The heart of the Democratic Party still believes in that.”

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Metro Red Line Repairs Cause November Closures katrina schmidt Special to The Hoya

The Washington, D.C. Metro Red line is set to halt service between the Silver Spring and Fort Totten stations in Maryland from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10 for a second round of major planned track maintenance this year. The improvement project will cut service on the easternmost end of the Red line, the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority’s oldest and most used rail route. The line will operate in segments from the westernmost Shady Grove station to Fort Totten in the east, with a shuttle providing service from Fort Totten to Silver Spring. Additionally, from Dec. 2 to Dec. 3, work will extend to the end of the Red Line in Glenmont. Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen, Silver Spring and Takoma stations will all be closed during this weekend. WMATA warned passengers to expect delays and crowding. The closures will affect students using the Red line at Dupont Circle, and restrict students who wish to travel to downtown D.C. to using the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines that run through the Rosslyn station. Four miles of track from Silver Spring to Fort Totten will see repairs and replacement in these repairs, including that of an interlocking, a part of the track where trains can cross from one track to another. Metro also plans to install new sections of track and rail ties and update signals. The work is scheduled to begin the Saturday following Thanksgiving and continue through early December, a time period typically characterized by lower ridership due to the holidays. In 2016, rid-

ership peaked in the summer months before falling to its low in December, according to Metro’s Vital Signs Report for the first quarter of 2017. The upcoming Red line project is one of WMATA’s 2017 Back2Good initiatives, which also include retiring old trains and rolling out more of new 7000-Series trains, improving station management and maintaining escalators. “Preventive maintenance is the anti-SafeTrack that prevents emergency conditions and will begin to cut infrastructure related delays to trains in half,” WMATA CEO Paul Wiedefeld said in a December 2016 testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets. In the past, Metro often put off maintenance — a practice that has become increasingly unsustainable as the 50-year-old system has aged. Metro’s infrastructure woes came to the fore in 2009, when nine people died and 80 were injured after a Red line train collided with a stationary train on the southbound track between Takoma and Fort Totten stations. A National Transportation Safety Board investigation found significant structural problems in the Automatic Train Control system and the track circuits monitoring activity on the rail lines. Near collisions occurred in 2005 on the Blue line between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom due to similar problems, and an investigation of the 2016 derailment of a train near East Falls Church station found Metro had neglected repairs of rail ties and tracks in the time leading up to the event. The work will take place over 10 working — and commuting — days, as well as two weekends, and the closures are expected to affect thousands of passengers.

Takoma station, which will be closed for all service during the work, has an average of 5,108 passenger boardings per weekday so far this year, according to the 2017 Historical Metro Ridership report. “Customers who normally use Takoma, Silver Spring, Forest Glen, Wheaton or Glenmont are strongly encouraged to use other Red Line stations, travel during off-peak times or consider alternate travel options,” a Nov. 2 Metro news release said. These stations are all north of Fort Totten on the Red Line, and those hoping to travel further into the District than Fort Totten will need to make use of the shuttles or use other transportation. This work is part of planned preventative work following a year of updates to the Metro system through the SafeTrack program. SafeTrack compressed three years’ worth of updates into one year, as part of Wiedefeld’s “Back2Good” agenda, announced in 2016 when he took over, to repair the rail service and renew trust in the system. “That has to come to an end,” Wiedefeld said in a June interview with The New York Times. “You could get away with it when you were a 20-, 25-year-old system. Going into your 40s and 50s, you can’t do that anymore.” Now, after 15 “surges” to repair parts of the rail service in most need of attention, Metro’s Back2Good strategy is focused on preventative maintenance. Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), chairman of WMATA, told The New York Times. In the same article, Evans said the completion of SafeTrack repairs marked success in saving WMATA from collapse. “We saved the patient from dying,” Evans said. “The patient is still very, very sick.”

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In response to student concerns regarding health care, a student health advisory board comprised of graduate and undergraduate student representatives is set to launch next semester.

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A student health advisory board is set to launch next semester as a platform for students to voice health concerns on campus. Administrators originally planned to establish the board this semester, a plan that was announced in February but did not come to fruition. The university now plans to get the board running by the spring, announced Assistant Vice President of Student Health Vince WinklerPrins, at a graduate student health care roundtable Tuesday. The board is slated to be comprised of 20 student members from organizations including the Georgetown University Student Association and the Georgetown University Graduate Student Government. It will also include students elected to the board, a representative from Yates Field House and deans from the undergraduate and graduate schools. Members of the board are to propose plans of action to university health care officials, including WinklerPrins, to address recurring issues. Although WinklerPrins did not specify which issues would be prioritized, he expects mental health discussions and the university health care policy to be priorities for the board upon its launch. The board will provide a platform for students to discuss a range of health issues on campus,

according to WinklerPrins. Director of the Student Health Insurance Office Laura Hardman Crosby encouraged graduate students to voice their concerns regarding their health insurance so that they can be addressed. “If you’ve actually gone through the process and you have an appeal that you feel frustrated about or if you have received services that you feel frustrated with, we want to know about that. There’s no way for us to really know that there are problems out there unless you call us,” Crosby said at the event. Several graduate students attending the event, including members of the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees, a labor union for graduate teaching assistants, voiced their discontent with the Premier Plan the university offers to undergraduate and graduate students. Most full-time Georgetown students are mandated by the university to purchase the university-provided Premier Plan unless they fill out a waiver demonstrating they have other health insurance that meets the university’s coverage requirements. Many graduate students purchase the Premier Plan because they are no longer eligible to be considered dependents under their parents’ plans and lack the funds to purchase a different plan, according to GAGE’s website. Approximately 43 percent of graduate students enroll in the

Premier Plan, according to Crosby. Members of GAGE and other students expressed discontent with the out-of-pocket premium rates included in the Premier Plan. In an intense exchange with a graduate student, Crosby said the mandate allows the university to keep prices low. “We rely on the fact that we have a lot of people insured to keep costs down. That was Insurance 101 for me,” Crosby said. In a letter to University President John J. DeGioia, GAGE demanded recognition of their labor union on Nov. 1. The group began preparing their proposal to unionize over a year ago. Securing a healthcare plan to better suit their needs is one of the group’s top priorities, according to GAGE’s website. Contraception subsidization was another source of tension between students and health officials. Students asked if Georgetown would enact a similar policy to one at the University of Notre Dame, whose recent decision to stop covering birth control under their health insurance plan affected some undergraduate students. Notre Dame unexpectedly reversed its decision Tuesday after student backlash. Georgetown will continue to cover contraception under the health care law requirement through the end of this insurance year, WinklerPrins said. “Beyond that, this is an active question,” WinklerPrins said.

Speakers Warn of Threat To US-Mexico Relations Mariel Mendez Special to The Hoya

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The Washington Metro is planning repairs to four miles of rail from the Silver Spring to Fort Totten stations to replace an interlocking, a part of the rail line where trains switch tracks.

Former State Department Official to Teach SFS Course emma kotfica Hoya Staff Writer

Former Counselor of the State Department Kristie Kenney is slated to teach a one-credit course on leadership development at Georgetown in the spring 2018 semester. Kenney held the State Department’s fifth-highest-ranking position for one year before leaving in February 2017 after the Trump administration transition. She previously served as ambassador to Ecuador, Thailand and the Philippines, the first woman to do so in the latter two countries. Her intricate knowledge of diplomacy qualifies her for an appointment at Georgetown, according to School of Foreign Service Senior Associate Dean Daniel Byman. “Part of it, of course, is her intimate knowledge of the State Department, of that world and that career. Part of it is her experience as a leader in some of the most important embassies around the world,” Byman said. “And part of it is she’s just a super smart and impressive person, and completely independent of her experience, she’ll just have a lot to offer in terms of her own leadership.” Housed in the SFS, the course is set to be open to all students. Kenney attributed her leadership abilities to years of experience in diplomacy, which she plans to integrate extensively into the course. “I will bring a lot of very real

experiences that I’ve seen — things I’ve experienced myself, issues where I’ve been the leader through complicated times, so I think that all of that will come into the classroom with me,” Kenney said. “Plus, I know a lot of people around town who are leaders at various levels — more junior leaders, more senior leaders — and I’ll bring them into it too, and then combine it and hear from students and what they want to do.” Kenney added that her belief that anybody can learn to be a leader at any point in life inspired her to focus on teaching skills that can be applied in any situation. “So when Georgetown started talking to me about what I’d like to teach, I said, ‘Oh, I’d like to teach leadership,’ and not just looking at what makes people good leaders, but helping people build their own leadership skills,” Kenney said. “It’s very practical: What can you do every day to be a better leader, so that everyone is a leader and makes an impact throughout their careers?” Kenney said students in her class can expect to hear from a number of guest speakers throughout the semester who will contribute their own expertise in the foreign policy arena, including people working in the federal government, international business and NGOs. Kenney has previously spoken on women’s leadership skills, a topic she hopes to incorporate into the course.

“Leadership under challenging circumstances, managing diverse teams, is something that matters a lot to me and I hope to you. [The course covers] gender issues in leadership as well: how women can be good leaders and how men can make sure that the women who work with and for them also have the leadership skills they need,” Kenney added. Byman said Kenney’s passion, experience and background will make her an engaging and successful professor. “Having met her now and hearing her talk, I’m really excited about the energy she brings and really just when you meet her, it’s just — she’s got really a perfect mix of curiosity and friendliness, yet at the same time a wealth of and really a depth of knowledge about the diplomatic world,” Byman said. Kenney said that Georgetown’s reputation for diversity and passionate students encouraged her to come to the Hilltop. “It’s such an international university and such a diverse student body — there’s students from the United States and pretty much all over the world, so to me that’s exciting because I will hear from a lot of different student voices,” Kenney said. “Georgetown’s always really been a leader in leadership issues and foreign affairs, so I think it’s hard to find a more historically exciting and yet very current school to be at.”

The historic United StatesMexico relationship faces an existential threat as public perception of both countries shifts and threatens diplomatic cooperation, a panel of experts argued Tuesday. The speakers examined political and economic factors stressing the relationship between the two countries, including the ongoing renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement and President Donald Trump’s abrasive rhetoric toward Mexico. Ambassador José Antonio Zabalgoitia, the representative for the Mexican Embassy in the United States and Deputy Chief of Mission, said the future of U.S.-Mexican relations is dependent on how both nations approach issues like trade, immigration reform and border security. The United States, Canada and Mexico are in the process of renegotiating the terms and agreements of NAFTA, which went into effect in 1994. The deal eliminated trade tariffs and reduced trade barriers between the three North American nations. “We are at a turning point in our bilateral relations, one in which, if we are able to move forward positively and collaboratively, we will really get into a great new stage,” Zabalgoitia said. “But otherwise, if we are unable to surmount the negatives and difficulties we are having and misperceptions on both sides, we’re in danger of moving backwards several decades in the relationship.” Trump has routinely questioned the value of NAFTA, repeatedly calling the agreement the “worst trade deal ever made” during his 2016 presidential campaign, and ordering the U.S Trade Representative to renegotiate the deal July 2017. Mexico is the United States’ third-largest trading partner,

with trade in goods and services amounting to $579.7 billion in 2016 alone, according to data from the Congressional Research Service. Antonio Ortiz-Mena, a Georgetown professor of Latin American Studies, said that, should NAFTA negotiations fail, the bilateral relationship would be seriously harmed. “I think we might be reaching, rather than a turning point, a tipping point,” OrtizMena said. “Should NAFTA go off the rails, and that’s a metaphor, it will be very difficult to get the whole bilateral relationship on track again, and it has to do partly with public opinion.” Many Americans, however, have maintained a favorable perception of Mexico and its citizens according to Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. “Almost two-thirds of the United States, people in the United States, are trusting; [they] have a strong, favorable opinion of Mexico,” he said. “Nonetheless, it’s complicated.” Trump has argued that NAFTA and an increase in Mexican migration have prompted companies to divert their resources to other parts of the world like Mexico and have hurt American workers. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, said Americans sometimes project fears of economic anxiety on Mexico. “Some of the conversation is about our own anxieties and fears and also our hopes and dreams,” Selee said. “Mexico is a proxy for other things that are going on in this country.” The panel proposed increased engagement with Mexico through tourism and academic exchange programs as a means to reconcile the lack of knowledge and distrust displayed by some U.S. citizens. The Center for Latin American Studies, the Wilson Cen-

ter’s Mexico Institute, the Embassy of Mexico in the United States and El Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, an independent Mexican research center, all sponsored the seminar. Ortiz-Mena said Americans must strive to better understand Mexican culture. “Something that has to be done is to bring the level of awareness of Mexico in the U.S.,” Ortiz-Mena said. “The level of awareness, the quality of knowledge and of debate has to be raised, regardless of what happens.” Wilson said U.S. political leaders should propagate constructive perspectives about Mexico. “We need strong, thought leadership expressed from the top levels in the United States,” Wilson said. “What we’re seeing right now is a great deal of skepticism about the value of the relationship being expressed from high levels, and so that’s not conducive to improve public opinion, which provides a framework for future cooperation.” Gerardo Maldonado, a scholar from the Mexican Center for Economic Research and Teaching, said this relationship with the United States is a key issue in the 2018 Mexican presidential election. The current front-runner in pre-election polls, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is running on a Mexican nationalist agenda and has called for the scrapping of NAFTA. A López Obrador presidency could result in a hostile relationship between two populist leaders in Mexico and the U.S., according to experts. “For many years, the United States has not been part of the election, of the discussion in different candidates,” Maldonado said. “Next year, the U.S., the Trump administration, is going to be part of also the election, is going to be part of how people will elevate different candidates and different parties.”

A SOLDIER OF FAITH Captain Lukasz Willenberg, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, knew from a young age that he had been called to a life of service in the Church. But it was only recently that he felt called to serve within the U.S. Army. While it was a change for him, he still values the new way he’s exercising his calling by serving Soldiers. “I feel blessed and possess this overwhelming peace and joy, which reassures me that I am doing what God wants me to.“

FILLING A GREAT NEED In recent years the civilian priestly ministry has been facing a human resource shortage, which directly impacts the ministry in the Army. With fewer qualiﬁed clergy to recruit, there are fewer Catholic priests to help serve the needs of Soldiers. It was this shortage that initially inspired Father Willenberg to consider the Army. “In 2010, I met [Maj.] Father Paul A. Halladay. He was the one who actually told me about working with the Soldiers and about the great need [for] chaplains in general, but especially Catholic priests. I always had a desire to serve where I am needed the most. After learning about [the] shortage, I took it as a sign as to where I should be.”

SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE Although Father Willenberg has been serving as an Army chaplain for a short time, he has already distinguished himself by earning the Bronze Star, the third-highest recognition in the Army, for his contributions to his unit during his deployment in Afghanistan. But for Father Willenberg, the most important thing is the work he does with other Soldiers. One program that helps him make a positive impact is Strong Bonds, where Father Willenberg plans workshops for Soldiers, couples, and military families off base. During the workshops, he helps Soldiers tackle difﬁcult life questions, strengthen their faith, reintegrate into civilian life, and more.

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organizing an ofﬁcially sanctioned version of the Boston Marathon run in Afghanistan. But above all, he ﬁnds his best work is done by being a part of Soldiers’ lives. “The ministry of presence, that’s such a powerful tool. When you just spend time with Soldiers, doing physical training, going on road marches, when you eat with them at the dining facility … you experience what they experience and automatically you are one of them. That’s where the ministry happens. The Soldiers know that they can trust you, and that you are there for them. You build those relationships so then when they need you as a chaplain, they know where to go. [They] know that I’ll be there for them. That’s what I’m trying to do. That’s my ministry. My battalion commander, (Lt. Col.) Brian C. North, told me once to ‘just take care of my Soldiers.’ That’s what I try to do every day.”

THE JOYS OF SERVICE While focusing on being a part of the Soldiers’ everyday lives, Father Willenberg cherishes the bonds he’s made with his fellow servicemen and women.

“[Strong Bonds is] a wonderful resource for us as chaplains. … I love doing it. I have a chance to get to know the Soldiers, get to know the families during the workshops. And … going outside of post, going out to eat together — that’s where you build relationships with them.”

“You keep giving of yourself, but at the same time the ministry is so rewarding. [It’s in] those small things. Those small words of appreciation from the Soldiers mean much more to me than the formal recognition. From time to time, [a Soldier] says, ‘Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for your encouraging words.’ It’s the biggest reward that you can get.”

Outside of workshops, he has organized several events for Soldiers in his unit and congregation. In fact, one of his greatest logistical undertakings was creating and

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women's volleyball

Despite Valiant Effort, Hoyas Drop 2 at McDonough Arena Bridget McElroy Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown women’s volleyball suffered a pair of losses to St. John’s and Seton Hall this past weekend at home in McDonough Arena. The team now stands at 7-19 overall and 1-13 in Big East play. St. John’s (15-15, 7-8 Big East) defeated Georgetown (15-13, 9-6 Big East) in three sets to open the weekend Nov. 3. When the Blue and Gray met the Red Storm in October, it met the same threeset fate. Despite the final score last weekend, the Hoyas did not go down easily. In the first set, there were 20 ties and nine lead changes before the Red Storm finally pulled away at the very end during extra points to win 28-26. At no point during the first set did either team lead by more than three points. Though St. John’s was ultimately able to outlast Georgetown, the Hoyas had a stellar performance in the first set. The Blue and Gray outhit the Red Storm .256 to .231 and tallied 19 kills in the set. Junior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette had seven of the 19 kills, while junior middle blocker Symone Speech added six. Harnessing the energy from a close loss in the first set, Georgetown took an early 4-1 lead in the second set in an attempt to even the standings. St. John’s did not stay behind for long and quickly

tied the score at 4-4. The second set was another nail biter with 14 ties and nine lead changes. Georgetown led late at a score of 22-20. However, St. John’s triumphed again after going on a 5-1 run to close out the second set. In the third set, Georgetown once again played well despite the final score. As in the first set, the Hoyas outhit the Red Storm in the third but only managed to notch 11 kills. The two teams were neck-in-neck once more, tied at 15, but the Red Storm eventually ran away with the match. St. John’s went on a 10-4 run to cinch the third set and the match. Speech led the Hoyas with 13 kills, five digs and three blocks. Sinnette was productive as well, with a double-double made up of 12 kills of her own and 13 digs. Graduate student middle blocker Aima Eichie contributed eight kills while not committing a single offensive error throughout the game. Freshman outside hitter Riley Wertzberger also added seven kills to the team’s total. Junior setter Paige McKnight put up a match-high of 36 assists. On Sunday, Georgetown lost to Seton Hall for the second time this season, falling 3-2. Last weekend’s meeting was an improvement for the Hoyas, who lost their first match against the Pirates 3-1. In the first set, Speech tallied nine kills on 13 swings and no at-

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tack errors. The Hoyas’ offense outhit the Pirates .333 to .107, hits that were made possible by McKnight’s 16 assists. Although the two teams were tied late at 18-18, junior libero Kenzie Higareda had a strong serving run and led her team to score seven of the final nine points to claim set one with a five-point lead, 25-20. The second set was considerably less impressive as both teams hit under .200. The Hoyas had a meager .053 and the Pirates barely topped them with .184. Seton Hall won the first point and maintained its lead for the rest of the second set, winning 25-17 to settle the overall score at one set a piece. Seton Hall finally picked up the pace in the third set and had its best offensive showing of the day. The Pirates outhit the Hoyas .519 to .367 and won the third set 25-17 again. Shaken by two consecutive set losses after such a strong start, the Hoyas rallied and fought back hard in the fourth. Speech added nine kills and McKnight put up another 16 assists to her teammates. Seton Hall used both of its timeouts in the fourth, but its timeouts proved to be in vain as Georgetown forced a fifth set with a clean 25-18 fourth set victory. The fifth set favored Seton Hall from the opening serve. The Pirates took a quick 5-2 lead and were up 8-5 at the switch. Georgetown refused to

Ben Goodman is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. What's the Call? appears in print every other Friday.

sive weekend. Georgetown will return to the court this weekend in search of a victory. The Hoyas first travel to Milwaukee to take on Marquette University (18-8, 12-3 Big East) on Nov. 10. Opening serve at Marquette is set for 6 p.m. The Hoyas will then leave Milwaukee for Chicago as they take on DePaul (8-19, 2-13 Big East) at 2 p.m Nov. 12.

CAROLINE PAPPAS FOR THE HOYA

Junior middle blocker Symone Speech led Georgetown with 13 kills to go along with five digs and three blocks against St. John's on Friday. She leads the team with 382 kills on the season.

Baseball: Not More Than a Game

Golden Knights: Lucky or Good? I T beau Field, but nonetheless, the league dealt its new team quite a gentle slate to open the season. Additionally, the Chicago Tribune reported that Las Vegas — despite its hot start — ranked nearly dead last in the league with a score of 45.9 in a metric called “Corsi For,” which measures the percent of 5-on-5 shots-on-goal taken by one team relative to its opponent. This statistic implies that Las Vegas has achieved little puck control, which might in turn indicate the goals it has scored so far were lucky. Similarly lucky is the Golden Knights’ 3-0 overtime record. Overtime is played three-on-three, which hardly resembles general gameplay, so odds are teams’ overtime records even out as the year progresses. Finally, of course, there’s the Xfactor of the newness of the team. While we cannot quantify this factor, it is evident how inspiring the team’s run of success has been for its city, and when this excitement inevitably wears off, I wonder if the Golden Knights and their fans will be able to muster the same passion. Perhaps this skepticism has begun to prove warranted. After hitting a losing skid, Vegas still sits strongly at 9-4, but it is clear that its uncanny rate of success cannot last forever. More than anything, nine games is such a small sample size, and given the overwhelming historical precedent of expansion teams’ steep learning curve, we can comfortably predict that the Golden Knights will face more negative streaks than positive ones over their first season. Nevertheless, this plucky expansion team should be proud of its early magic-carpet ride. With fan engagement higher than expected, the Golden Knights have done all that an expansion team needs to do: generate support and excitement and fill seats in the arena. With that momentum, they can build on this season, so that the 2017 new kids on the block can mature into the big bullies of the NHL playground by, say, 2022. Or perhaps that year will yet be this one. I probably should not dismiss Sin City’s chances at success in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season. As the saying goes, never bet against the house.

11 digs. Eichie had nine kills and three blocks at net. Sophomore right side hitter Claire Mihm tied her career high with seven kills. McKnight assisted a season-high 59 points to accompany three blocks and nine digs. Higareda dug out 15 balls for her teammates to convert offensively. On Tuesday, Speech was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll following her impres-

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hanks to the newest franchise in major American professional sports, it will become common to inquire about the Vegas odds for the Vegas game. The Vegas Golden Knights, a National Hockey League expansion team, splashed onto the scene in its first month of regular season play to astonishing success. The Golden Knights won eight of their first nine games, heading toward the top of the Western Conference standings, uplifting a city still reeling from tragedy while also confounding sports fans and pundits. After all, expansion teams usually flop. How have the Golden Knights avoided this fate so far, and will their early success last? It is important to survey the historically laughable expansion seasons of teams in all sports, including hockey. From the Tampa Buccaneers’ 0-14 record in 1976 to the New York Mets’ 40-120 in 1962, expansion teams initially play like boys among men, needing a few seasons to get their feet wet. The reasons are various and apparent to anyone with an elementary understanding of economics. The competition of expansion teams yields the advantages of economies of scale; established franchises have a stadium to play in, well-developed player talent, organizational structure, licensing and advertisement partnerships, TV deals and, of course, loyal fan bases, whereas the expansion team has nothing. There has never been a professional sports franchise in Las Vegas, and like all other expansion teams, the Golden Knights started without any players. They acquired a roster through a standard “expansion draft,” through which Vegas selected one player from each current team after the teams were allowed to “protect” some of their best players from draft eligibility. These expansion drafts often make expansion teams resemble islands of misfit toys. Team chemistry can be hard to come by. These stacked odds make Vegas’ hot start all the more impressive. But several factors suggest that the Golden Knights are in danger of falling back to Earth. First, seven games out of the first nine they played took place on home ice. Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena might have a long way to go before becoming Lam-

roll over and came within two points, but the team could not maintain its strength and lost the fifth set 15-9, ultimately losing the match. Though the Hoyas did not come out on top, they had many impressive runs and performances. Speech led all players with a career-high 29 kills, nine digs and six blocks. Sinnette contributed her second double-double of the weekend with of 14 kills and

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have walked along the red brick path that connects Red Square to Georgetown’s front gates thousands of times. Sometimes I walk through quickly, caught up in my daily cares, trying to get to my next class or heading to a friend’s place on Magis Row. Other times, when I am more truly myself, I stroll slowly and take in the surroundings. There’s a lot to admire in those hundred yards. Usually, I take pleasure in the strong, spreading limbs of the giant green ash that dominates Copley Lawn. Or I stare at the light glinting off the windows of White-Gravenor and think about how the statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola has one foot firmly planted and the other pushing off, moving forward. Sometimes I glance over toward the statue of Jan Karski, World War II resistance movement hero and former Georgetown profes-

sor, sitting at ease with his cane in one hand and the other resting on his lap, and I consider the courage possessed by that thin, unassuming Polishman. The other day, what caught my eye was a father tossing a baseball with his young son. In that moment, I was brought back to my childhood and was struck with the idea that baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, is a truly family affair. More often than not, it is passed down from father to son. This walk across the front of campus made me think of the strange tale of Adam LaRoche’s retirement. In March 2016, the 37-year-old longtime slugger walked away from baseball, leaving $13 million on the table. He did it because his team, the Chicago White Sox, decided that they no longer wanted his teenage son Drake to hang around the clubhouse every day. The White Sox’s request was not unreasonable. As their president pointed out, “where in this country can you bring your child to work every day?” Yet for Adam LaRoche, spending time with his son in his formative years was worth more than $13 million. It was exceptionally

counter to baseball’s culture to turn down money, and to many people, it probably seems exceedingly stupid. Does he not understand what that money could buy for his family? Can he not see all the opportunities that accompany ever-increasing wealth, fame and status? Many baseball fans were thinking about how LaRoche could probably have counted on making it into the 300-home-run club and the 1,000-RBI club in another two years, sealing his place in baseball statistical lore. Why give all that up for a relatively trivial matter, which would probably not have that serious of an effect on his relationship with his son? LaRoche’s decision puts baseball in perspective. Baseball is a wonderful game, but it is just a game. At the end of the day, $13 million opens a lot of doors, but it is just money and can not bring any kind of lasting satisfaction. In most cases, the ones we choose to laud — the rich, the famous, the talented — are neither noble nor living flourishing lives. Nonetheless, we do occasionally glorify good people. The George Washingtons, the Abraham Lincolns, the

Jan Karskis, the Ignatiuses, the Adam LaRoches: Each of these achieves some measure of praise for their goodness in their time. But more often than not, the acts of unnoticed good, rather than the highly visible acts, define the virtuous. I have found that the small things, the everyday deeds of ordinary folk, bring light to an often dark world. Simple acts of kindness and love, like a father playing catch with his son, are perennially underrated. It often requires great courage and commitment to principle to carry them out daily. Adam LaRoche’s decision to walk away is significant because it reminds us that baseball is more about a father playing catch with his son on Copley Lawn than it is about an MLB player signing a multimillion-dollar contract. We ought not to be blinded by the bright lights of glamour and fame, but rather see with clear eyes the goodness which we innately know to be found in acts of loving kindness. Hugh Ramlow is a junior in the College. THE ZONE appears every other Friday.

Sailing

Weather Conditions Derail Squad Sean Haggerty Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown sailors represented their team with a strong performance at the MAISA Singlehanded National Championships. The regatta was defined by tough conditions with winds only topping at 4 to 6 knots. Due to the low winds, races were sailed from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., leading to an exhausting day of racing under the sun. “The lack of winds favors the smallest people, and this hurts us being a well-rounded crew. The smallest girls who we usually beat were winning the bulk of racing,” Head Coach Mike Callahan said. Georgetown sent four sailors down to Tampa Bay, Fla., for the race including senior Clay Broussard, senior Lola Bushnell, freshman Carly Broussard and junior Haddon Hughes. Georgetown faced individual sailors in the country representing schools like Boston College, College of Charleston, Boston University, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Navy and Yale University. In the Singlehanded National Championship, Clay Broussard finished 13th with a score of 137. “Clay and the team were

disappointed but exemplified great attitudes which makes me nothing but proud as a coach,” Callahan said. The College of Charleston captured the top two spots in the regatta, winning with scores of 50 and 64, respectively. In the women’s Singlehanded Championships, the Georgetown women fought valiantly but also struggled in the unfavorable conditions. The Hoyas stayed relatively close in the results finishing eighth, ninth and 11th in a field of 18 radials. Boston College won the regatta with a score of 68, just 31 points ahead of Bushnell. Bushnell sailed well in the breezy conditions, leading the race in the first and last two races. However, the winds died down and caused Bushnell to drop many places in the leaderboard. “It was very hard, boring racing and we would have liked to have done better, but I am proud that the girls tried their best,” Callahan said. The Singlehanded National Championships concludes an impressive fall individual racing season for the Hoyas. The Hoyas have one more weekend of racing until the Rose Bowl Regatta in January. The women head up to Connecticut College for the At-

lantic Coast Championships while the co-ed team sends four crews to State University of New York Maritime for the Match Racing National Championships. The Hoyas seek to defend

their title in the Match Racing Championships in this roundrobin-style regatta. “We’ve won this race a couple times and, because of that, we have big hopes,” Callahan said.

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The Georgetown sailing team seeks to defend its title in the Match Racing Championships in New York this weekend.

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THE HOYA

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Football

Men’s Soccer

Offense Struggles to Find Spark Again Hoyas Capture Championship Bid HOMECOMING, from A12

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back after a Hoya miscue. Following a poor Georgetown throw-in that resulted in a turnover, St. John’s quickly countered. St. John’s sophomore midfielder Alistair Johnston played a gorgeous through-ball that resulted in senior forward Harry Cooksley oneon-one against junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski. He slotted it past Marcinkowski cutting the Hoyas’ lead in half to 2-1. “You see how dangerous they are in transition. They were very very good [as] Cooksley scores a goal in transition,” Wiese said. Following that goal, both teams heightened the intensity for the closing minutes of the game. St. John’s pushed for the equalizing goal while Georgetown defended with their backs against the wall. However, the Hoyas held strong and were able to stifle the Red Storm from having any good looks on goal for the remainder of the game. “You’re playing for the league [championship] so you can’t ask for anything better than that,” Wiese said. St. John’s outshot Georgetown 19-16 in this open and free-flowing affair. Marcinkowski earned the win for the Hoyas with four saves while redshirt junior goalkeeperAndrew Withers took the loss for the Red Storm with six saves. Next up for Georgetown is a game on Sunday against fourthseeded Xavier in the championship game of the Big East Tournament. The game will be played at noon on Shaw Field and will be broadcast on FS2.

John’s started the second half with a flurry of intensity. Taking advantage of a few Georgetown mistakes, St. John’s created good chances early in the half. Their first great chance of the game came midway through the half when a cross found junior forward Filippo Ricupati on the edge of the six-yard box. However, his resulting shot ricocheted off the post and the Hoyas escaped the attack with their lead intact. However, Georgetown responded, and just over two minutes later, netted its second goal of the game. Senior midfielder Christopher Lema whipped in a corner kick that found Big East Freshman of the Year Derek Dodson running toward the near post. Dodson kept his composure and scored giving the Hoyas a 2-0 lead. Following Dodson’s goal, the game’s intensity drastically increased. Both teams played physically throughout the game, and as the game wore on and the players began to tire, the ferocity started to manifest itself more and more. However, the Hoyas did a good job to keep their heads and not lose focus on the task at hand. “St. Johns always comes out physical and they want to play. They want to get in your back [and] hit you. We kind of lost our discipline a little bit but you just have to matchup and be strong and get in there and try to do the best that you can,” Achara said. In the 77th minute, the Red Storm were able to grab a goal

game in combination with the penalties — really hurt you in the field position battle, especially in a game like that,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. The only points in the game came midway through the second quarter when Lafayette freshman quarterback Sean O’Malley connected with sophomore wide receiver Nick Pearson, who bobbed and weaved his way to an 11yard touchdown. The Hoyas’ next four drives — two three-and-outs and two interceptions — were hardly positive responses to the deficit. After Johnson, who finished 12-of-26 for only 76 yards, threw his second interception, the Leopards took over on the Hoyas’ 31-yard line and drove 18 yards before freshman kicker Jeffrey Kordenbrock missed his third field goal of the day. Despite the nine points the Leopards left in the air on the missed kicks, the Hoyas simply could not take advantage of the Leopards’ mistakes. As the third quarter came to a close, the statistics showed just how much Georgetown’s offense struggled. With only 102 yards of offense and no third-down conversions, the chances of breaking down Lafayette’s defense were slim to none. Johnson and the offense took over at their own 48yard line with 14:05 left in the game and began to drive into the Leopards’ territory. After an offside penalty on 3rd-and-5 gifted the Hoyas a first down, Johnson threw his third interception of the day as senior defensive back Philip Parham brought in his sixth pick of the season. The Hoyas had another chance with 9:52 remaining, but the drive ended exactly the same way as the previous one. Johnson drove down to the Leopards’ 29-yard line, even converting a 3rd-and-11,

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The Georgetown football team has lost eight consecutive games this season. The offense has averaged 14.2 points per game, while the defense has let up an average of 28.0 points per game. but threw a fourth interception, this one coming in the end zone. As the Hoyas inched closer to the end zone, they were denied time and time again. Georgetown’s defense stood strong throughout the entire game, especially in the fourth quarter, when the Lafayette offense lost two yards on 13 offensive plays. After forcing a 4th-and-14, the Leopards punted away to the Hoyas, and Dereus returned the kick to their 40-yard line. With a short field to go, the Hoyas had some life in them and one last chance to tie the game. Johnson accounted for 27 yards on three plays before Dereus dropped a pass on 1st-and-10, killing any momentum that the Hoyas had

accumulated. After losses on second and third down, the Hoyas faced a formidable 4thand-13. Their own personal foul cost them 15 yards, a first down and a chance at the game. Johnson looked to freshman wide receiver Max Edwards on the sideline, but the pass fell incomplete. The Leopards set up in victory formation, and the clock ticked down to zero as the Hoyas lost their eighth consecutive game. Though the offense failed to put any points on the board, the defense was crucial in keeping the game competitive, allowing only 166 yards and keeping Lafayette to a 2-of-14 conversion rate on third down. Sophomore defensive lineman Khristian Tate, who

logged 11 tackles, 2.5 of which were for a loss, mentioned how the team’s mindset helped the players register such a strong performance and will remain important for the last two games of the season. “Before the game, Coach [Maurice] Banks was really telling us, ‘Keep going. Keep going. Don’t stop. You have to keep going.’ If we can carry that out for the rest of the season, just everyone trying to make every play, we really will do well,” Tate said. Georgetown will square off against Bucknell (4-7, 3-3 Patriot League) in its penultimate game of the year this Saturday at Bucknell’s Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 12 p.m.

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Continued Dominance Propels GU to Title BUTLER, from A12

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Captain senior midfielder Christopher Lema, left, has four goals, and sophomore defender Mason Deeds has two shots this year.

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more after that, which was great.” Later in the half, Butler created arguably its two best scoring opportunities of the game, though one was cleared by senior midfielder Chloe Knott, and the other was saved by junior goalkeeper and Big East Goalkeeper of the Year Arielle Schechtman, who, until that point, had not been called upon to make any critical stops. The Blue and Gray maintained their 1-0 lead heading into the second half, but it was not long before they struck again. Just five minutes into the period, sophomore defender Meaghan Nally fired a shot from distance that Butler’s keeper blocked but was unable to collect. When the ball bounced out, junior forward Caitlin Farrell was there to tap it in, putting the Hoyas up 2-0. Georgetown’s final goal came in the 88th minute, when Butler’s goalkeeper attempted to send the ball upfield but was intercepted by Corboz. Noticing that the keeper was off her line, Corboz chipped the ball over her head and into the back of the net, all but sealing the Hoyas’ second consecutive tournament championship. “The big part of it is that I think we’re playing our best soccer right now, and to be able to get on the board for us and help us win the games is the most important,” Corboz said. “And I’m just happy that we were able to win it all.”

“We felt pretty good about our prospects for the NCAA tournament regardless of the results, but you never know, so this locks it down,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. The win also comes less than two weeks after both teams faced off in Indianapolis in a

match that ended in a scoreless tie after regulation play and two overtime periods. “We just felt that here on the grass, where the ball would move a little bit quicker, we would have success,” Nolan said of the difference in results. “We did a better job of executing the

game plan.” With the results of the selection show announced on Monday, Georgetown is set to take on Wake Forest (11-5-3, 5-4-2 ACC) in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Friday for the first round of the NCAA tournament. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

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Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz was named Most Outstanding Offensive Player of the Big East tournament. She leads the team with nine goals, 12 assists and 30 points on the season.

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Miscues Mark Decline of Madrid CRAIGE, from A12

end, and Madrid is seemingly doing everything wrong this year. In the transfer window, the club let go of Alvaro Morata and Danilo as well as James Rodriguez, players who contributed greatly to Madrid’s 16-17 treble. It is unusual to think that such a successful club could have erred so greatly in the transfer window but the results speak for themselves. Without Marcelo and Bale, and without an in-form Ronaldo, the reigning Eu-

ropean champions are a weakened side. Of course they still have worldclass midfielders Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Casemiro, but even their skills cannot account for the fact that Benzema routinely misses absolute sitters. The finishing of Madrid forwards leaves much to be desired, but more than that, they are attacking with toothless direction and playing the ball in their own half more often than not. With much of the season left, it is easy to dismiss this slow start and reference Madrid’s ability to

bounce back. Last season, they finished second in their Champions League group before storming through every opponent in the knockout stages. Still, it is hard not to be concerned about the world’s most famous club. Ronaldo, as impressive as he is, has just turned 32 and has been playing professional soccer year-round since he was 17. It is, again, not unthinkable to fathom that he might finally be over the hill. Then again, Ronaldo has a track record of bouncing back, just like

Madrid. And perhaps they will. The only question this time is if their bounce-back ability puts them on the level of teams who have something to prove. And it is in these teams that we look for the next Madrid of the beautiful game because, even in the case of Los Blancos, all dynasties are destined to end. Vanessa Craige and Paolo Santamaria are seniors in the School of Foreign Service and the College, respectively. Nothing but Net appears every Friday.

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Men’s Soccer Georgetown (13-3-2) vs. Xavier (11-5-3) Sunday, 12:00 p.m. Shaw Field

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Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) returns home to begin a new chapter for Georgetown men’s basketball.

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I’ve been out for a long time, of course, and I just wanted to play and enjoy playing.” SOPHOMORE FORWARD ACHARA

The number of consecutive Big East Championships for the women’s soccer team.

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Victorious Hoyas Bound for Title Game Drew SEwall Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team advanced to the Big East Championship on Wednesday with a 2-1 victory over St. John’s on goals from sophomore forward Achara and freshman forward Derek Dodson. Following a 1-0 loss to the Red Storm (9-7-3, 5-2-2 Big East) two weeks prior, the Hoyas (13-3-2, 6-21 Big East) were eager to start the Big East semifinal on their front foot. Just over a minute into the game, senior forward Zach Knudson and Declan McCabe had a quick attack down the left wing. McCabe then sent a cross into the near post that found Achara, who was able to one-time it into the back of the net, giving the Hoyas an early 1-0 lead. “[Scoring early] takes off a little bit of the pressure. I think St. John’s is one of the better defending teams in the league, and so the longer the game goes 0-0, the more they can tighten up and the more our guys can tighten up so I think it just relaxes you a little bit which is good,” Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese said. After battling leg injuries for over a month, this was Achara’s first goal since the Oct. 6 game against Butler. “I got an early goal, and that was awesome. It feels great. I’ve been out for a long time, of course, and I just wanted to play and enjoy playing,” Achara said. Following the first goal, the game opened up, which created more space for Georgetown

to run in behind the St. John’s defense. The extra space led to several great scoring chances for Achara, but he was unable to convert them. The first came 13 minutes into the game when Achara found himself in on goal after a quick counterattack but he put the shot high. Just two minutes later, he found himself in on net again, but a last-ditch effort from a St. John’s defender blocked his shot.

“You’re playing for the league [championship] so you can’t ask for anything better than that.” BRIAN WIESE Head Coach

“We really wanted to exploit the space in behind because they’re a really aggressive team, so when they step there’s always space behind and we did that really well today,” Achara said. As the half wore on, St. John’s began to gain a foothold in the game. The final 20 minutes of the first half were full of backand-forth play, with both teams having a few half chances but nothing concrete. After 45 minutes of fast-paced action, the Hoyas entered the half with a slim 1-0 lead. Sensing their Big East Championship bid was in jeopardy, St. See RED STORM, A11

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Junior forward Caitlin Farrell, center, scores a goal to increase the Hoyas’ lead to 2-0 in the Big East Championship game. This is the first year the Hoyas have won both the Big East tournament and regular season. Only four teams have won consecutive Big East titles.

Team Defends Title, Looks Toward NCAA Emily Dalton Hoya Staff Writer

Against a team that allowed only four goals all season, the Georgetown women’s soccer team found the back of the net three times to become Big East Tournament champions for the second year in a row Sunday afternoon. The victory marks the program’s first back-to-back championship and the first time that Georgetown has won both the regular season and the tournament in the same season. Only four

teams in the history of the league have won consecutive championships, and this win gives the Hoyas an automatic NCAA tournament bid — the eighth in team history. “It means literally the world to us,” senior defender Taylor Pak said of her team’s 3-0 victory over Butler (13-2-5, 5-0-4 Big East). “Having done it last year, that team did something special, and we keep reiterating the idea of this team making our own history. So this is our ultimate goal, especially to host in front of our fans; it

means a lot to us.” In the seventh minute, the Hoyas (14-3-3, 6-1-2 Big East) opened up scoring off a free kick in which senior midfielder Rachel Corboz found Pak, one of the team’s main set-piece targets, who headed the ball past the Bulldogs’ goalkeeper. “I think it is crucial for us to get on top of a team who is going to sit back a little bit, just because once the clock runs down, it becomes harder and harder to get on top of them,” Pak said of her team’s ability

to get on the board early. Corboz, who was named Most Outstanding Offensive Player of the Tournament, said that the team has been focusing on gaining momentum early in games throughout the season. “We saw against Marquette, we scored early, and right away their heads were down, so we knew coming into this game that one of our goals was to get on the board right away,” Corboz said. “We did it, and we were able to score See butler, A11

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GU Silenced in Homecoming Game Kevin Pollack Hoya Staff Writer

Down seven, the Hoyas needed to get the ball into the end zone to keep the game alive. A daunting 4th-and-13 from the Leopards’ 36-yard line with just over two minutes left in the game stood in the way. Sophomore quarterback Gunther Johnson received the snap, rolled out and threw a bullet to sophomore wide receiver Michael Dereus for a gain of 15 and a first down. The game was finally within reach. As the field judge threw a flag and announced a chop block against the Hoyas, negating the fourth down conversion, the sideline went silent. An incomplete pass on the next play hammered the last nail into the Hoyas’ coffin. The sequence of plays represented the overarching story of Saturday’s 7-0 Homecoming game loss against Lafayette (3-6, 3-1 Patriot League): Georgetown (1-8, 0-4 Patriot League), no matter what it did, could never seem to get back in the game. The first quarter was relatively dull; the two teams combined for only 90 yards, 15 of which belonged to the Hoyas, in the game’s first 15 minutes. It was clear from the beginning of the game that it would be a defensive showdown, in which field position served as the deciding factor of the game. “The field position battle and going back and forth was critical. The penalties factor into that, and 81 yards in penalties is just negative yards. Both those things — the kicking

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Sophomore quarterback Gunther Johnson, right, threw four interceptions as Georgetown fell to Lafayette 7-0 in this year’s Homecoming game Saturday. Senior runningback Alex Valles had seven carries for 5 yards.

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Soccer’s Best Team Slowing With Age

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hey are too old. They do not have any depth. Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema are over the hill. These are all axioms we have heard over the years with regard to Real Madrid. Year after year, Real Madrid continues to prove doubters wrong, winning back-to-back Champions League titles between 2015 and 2017. Last year, the team notched a rare treble by winning the Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey. However, things at the Bernabeu this season could not be more different. Eleven matchdays into the season, Los Blancos sit third in the Champions League — only behind Barcelona and Valencia — and show no signs of being the team that dominated European soccer for the past five years. While there are justifiable excuses for Madrid’s slow start — namely injuries to Gareth Bale and Marcelo — there is no excuse for Ronaldo to have only one goal in seven La Liga games. Of course, the great CR7 has stepped up in the Champions League to the tune of six goals in four games. Even then, las Madridistas fell to Tottenham Hotspur of the Premier League 3-1.

Though age is certainly a fair reason to take it easy and rest players — like manager Zinedine Zidane has done — it is no justification to put up results like a 2-1 loss to recently promoted Girona. In truth, even the younger Madrid players have been sluggish at best. They are routinely missing runs from opposing forwards and failing to finish on goal.

Years of clinical, world-class play surely must come to an end, and Madrid is seemingly doing everything wrong this year. Another excuse that hardly correlates is that Madrid simply chooses when to perform. Yet this does not explain why the team came up short at iconic Wembley Stadium against Tottenham. Rather than choosing when and where to deliver their best performances, Los Blancos are falling back to earth. Years of clinical, world-class play surely must come to an See craige, A11