The Hoya: February 28, 2020

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University Administers 1st Cultural Climate Survey

Black Survivors Coaliton Launches #GeorgetownDoesntCare Campaign

MOIRA RITTER

GRACE BUONO

Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University launched its first cultural climate survey Monday to assess students’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion on campus.

The survey, which was created by the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action, is open to both undergraduate and graduate students and will run from Feb. 24 to March 24. The survey will ask students questions about effective professor-student relationships, support for cultural communities on campus and the interactions with law enforcement, among others.

Administrators sent out the survey universitywide email and uploaded the survey to Canvas, Georgetown’s academic management system, where students can see the link whenever they open the website.

The responses to the questions will help the university ascertain how to provide resources to meet students’ needs, according to a Feb. 19 schoolwide email announcement from Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Rosemary Kilkenny (LAW ’87).

“Data will help inform how we can enhance or build meaningful programs and support

systems to ensure an inclusive educational experience for all members of our community, so that every student can flourish at Georgetown,” Kilkenny wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We will be asking about diversity and identity across various dimensions, including race, ethnicity, faith, sexuality, ability, gender and other backgrounds.”

“Data will help inform how we can enhance or build meaningful programs and support systems.”

ROSEMARY KILKENNY (LAW ’87) VP for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The university initiated discussions regarding the survey beginning in March 2019.

Questions for the survey were drafted by administration officials and then assessed by a statistician to ensure they were unbiased.

Georgetown University Student Association Senator Leo Teixeira (COL ’20) said that while giving students the platform to express their experi-

ences at Georgetown is a positive step for the university, administrators must continue to work toward adequately supporting marginalized communities on campus. Teixeira is also a member of the Georgetown Latinx Leadership Forum, the Georgetown University Black Leadership Forum, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and O Clube Brasileiro de Georgetown, a Brazilian student organization.

“As a member of these organizations, I strongly believe that this climate survey is necessary,” Teixeiria wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It’s clear that, as a predominantly white institution where a large portion of students come from affluent backgrounds, Georgetown still has a long way to go in terms of properly supporting students of all cultural backgrounds, and especially those belonging to marginalized communities.”

The Georgetown University Student Association created the Cultural Climate Survey Student Advisory Committee in May 2019 to work alongside the administration and staff to ensure the survey had student input. The committee began meetings in summer 2019 and started its work during the 2019 fall semester as the survey developed.

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Hoya Staff Writer

This article discusses sexual assault on campus. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources.

The Black Survivors Coalition has launched a #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign in protest of Georgetown University’s failure to meet demands to better support Black women and nonbinary survivors of sexual assault.

At a BSC rally Feb. 21, students gathered in Red Square before marching toward the office of University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95). Many of the students carried signs and chanted protests.

“No more silence, no more violence,” the protesters chanted.

Three days later, BSC, along with other student groups, returned to Healy Hall and staged a sit in outside DeGioia’s office. The group has staged sit-ins from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. every day since Feb. 24 to continue to call for the university to establish more resources for Black women and nonbinary survivors.

The protests come after BSC delivered a statement to the Office of the President on Jan. 27. The statement outlined a list of 10 demands, which included hiring more Black

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The Black Survivors Coalition has staged daily sit-ins since Feb. 24 to advocate for greater support for Black women and nonbinary survivors. clinicians, improving the Women’s Center’s capacity for supporting sexual assault survivors and requiring all faculty and staff to undergo mandatory diversity, bias and bystander trainings. The statement also requested the university publicly respond to the demands by Jan. 31.

After BSC released its demands, the university issued a public statement on its website affirming Georgetown’s commitment to making sure campus programs and services respond to the needs of all students.

The university also sent emails directly to several board members of Black student organizations on campus Jan. 31 affirming the university’s commitment to promoting equity on campus, according to one of BSC’s organizers for the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign Kayla Friedland (SFS ’22). The university did not email BSC directly, however, despite being given the contact information for the group, according to Friedland.

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Eric Trump Speaks, Students Walk Out GU Suspends Italy Villa Program, South Korean Travel SOPHIE HABER Hoya Staff Writer

Two minutes after Eric Trump (MSB ’06) and Charlie Kirk, executive director of Turning Point USA, began addressing Lohrfink Auditorium, about 40 students dressed in bright orange shirts that read “Unstoppable, Undeniable, Undocumented, Unafraid, #HomeIsHere” walked out.

Members of Hoyas for Immigrant Rights organized the Feb. 25 walkout to oppose “A Conversation with Eric Trump and Charlie Kirk,” a talk sponsored by Georgetown University College Republicans and The Georgetown Review. Trump and Kirk reflected on U.S. President Donald Trump’s term in office and made their projections for the 2020 election at the event.

HFIR co-President Sofia Negrete-Retamales (COL ’23) personally participated in the silent walkout to take a stance against people who espouse offensive rhetoric, she said.

“I felt empowered as I knew that I was peacefully demonstrating my stance and making a statement about how I do not wish to hear hateful speech in my campus,” Negrete-Retamales wrote in an email to The Hoya.

GUCR invited other political organizations on campus to attend the event, according to GUCR President Henry Dai (SFS ’22) (Full disclosure: Dai previously served as a sports writer for The Hoya).

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Eric Trump (MSB ’06) spoke at an event in Lohrfink Auditorium on Feb. 25. The talk was sponsored by Georgetown University College Republicans and The Georgetown Review.

The protests did not distract the audience from the main goal of the event — to engage in bipartisan discussions on Georgetown University’s campus — he said.

“The protests were insignificant and 30-seconds long,” Dai wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We had an entertaining hour of ideas and questions, and it was truly a lot of fun.”

As the student activists were exiting the auditorium, Kirk insulted the quality of their protest. Trump then told the remaining audience

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members that the way they present themselves during protests will influence the effects of their advocacy.

“When you see people dressed in orange jumpsuits like they came out of prison, no one is ever going to take them seriously. And then you look at all of you in here. Look how well you’re dressed,” Trump said. “The lesson in life here is, if you want to be taken seriously, act like a serious person.”

Trump’s reaction to the protesters, specifically his comment comparing activ-

ists and prisoners, offended students who left the room, according to Negrete-Retamales, who did not speak on behalf of HFIR. “Regardless of how it is claimed for this event to have an open space for fruitful bipartisan discussion, it is clear that this was not the case, as the speakers spoke directly against us in an offensive manner as we walked out,” Negrete-Retamales wrote.

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the coronavirus, also called COVID-19, which Georgetown continues to monitor, Hoya Staff Writers according to a university Georgetown University spokesperson. temporarily suspended all “The ongoing COVID-19 study abroad programs at outbreak raises a number of the Villa Le Balze in Flor- considerations both in terms ence, Italy, after the univer- of health and safety, and also sity announced a suspension practical operational considof all university-related trav- erations with respect to the el to South Korea on Tuesday ability to most successfully over concerns support stuabout the dents abroad,” spread of the the spokespercoronavirus. son wrote in The Centers an email to The for Disease Hoya. “Because Control and local conditions, Prevention support from raised the adon-ground partvisory levels ners, and travel for Japan and restrictions vary Italy to Level 2 by country, and on Feb. 22 and by program, Feb. 23, recomthe university mending travreviews these elers practice decisions on a enhanced preprogram-by-proUNIVERSITY SPOKESPERSON cautions when gram basis, after traveling to careful considthese couneration of all reltries. Universievant factors.” ty programs in Japan, however, The university is currently have not been suspended. The working individually with CDC also elevated the advisory students in affected prolevel for South Korea to Level grams to coordinate travel 3 on Feb. 24, advising travelers efforts and create alternato avoid all nonessential travel tive plans as necessary, acto the country. cording to the university The decision to cancel spokesperson. study abroad programs depends on the local condiSee STUDY ABROAD, A6 tions and development of

“The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak raises a number of considerations both in terms of health and safety, and also practical operational considerations.”

OPINION

Embrace Lent Prioritize reflection and forgiveness during Lent.

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EDITORIAL

Tallying 25 Men’s lacrosse scores program’s most goals in a game since 1992.

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Recognize Survivors Recognize and support the Black Survivors Coalition.

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

EDITORIAL

THE VERDICT

This editorial discusses sexual assault on campus. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources.

Georgetown University students have been sitting in Healy Hall since Monday because the university continues to fail Black women survivors of sexual assault. The sit-in has been led by the Black Survivors Coalition, a student group advocating for Black women survivors on campus.

Georgetown’s failure to commit to activists’ demands is entirely unacceptable. The university must immediately present tangible plans to bolster support for Black survivors. Moreover, Georgetown’s lack of respect for BSC and Black survivors on campus throughout the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign has been inexcusable.

BSC first presented its demands by delivering a letter to the Office of the President on Jan. 27, calling on the university to better support Black women survivors, according to Makayla Jeffries (COL ’23), one of the organizers of the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign. The letter outlined 10 specific demands, including calls to hire a Black clinician, establish a women’s and gender studies department and provide a 24/7 crisis response center.

These demands are not unreasonable; they are necessary. However, a month after the letter drop, Georgetown has yet to adequately respond.

Though the university sent a schoolwide email Feb. 26 with its responses to student demands, the the university’s responses were woefully inadequate. In response to the demand to establish a 24/7 crisis response center, the university merely pointed to existing resources. Yet students are protesting precisely because these existing resources are inadequate.

By implying that the university was committing to sufficiently address every demand, the email was misleading for students who have not been at the sit-in.

“I think we’re doing a disservice to the rest of the community to send an email like that out because there’s discrepancies that happen here. Not everyone can be here,” Nile Blass (COL ’22), a student organizer, said in an interview with The Hoya.

As the sit-in continues, Georgetown claims it is listening to survivors, a university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Georgetown University takes seriously the concerns of student survivors and we are committed to learning more about their experiences both at Georgetown and outside of the university,” the spokesperson wrote.

However, many of the university’s promises were vague and provided no tangible goals. This lack of specificity is unacceptable; students deserve concrete plans to which they can hold the university accountable. Despite failing to even address several demands, the university has continued to claim it has survivors’ best interests in mind.

These demands are nothing new. The Georgetown S.T.O.P. Coalition, which advocates for Black women survivors of sexual assault, led a campaign calling for more support for Black survivors in spring 2019. Georgetown has had more than a year to address student concerns, yet its continued failure to improve on this issue shows the university is either incapable of sufficiently supporting survivors or does not care enough to do so.

In interacting with the Black Survivors Coalition’s #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign, the university has not only continued to offer inadequate support for survivors, but has also demonstrated an alarming lack of respect for Black women on campus.

In BSC’s Jan. 27 letter, the organization called for a public response by Jan. 31. Instead of directly responding to the group, however, Georgetown chose to email leaders in Black student organizations and did not publicly address the university community.

Nothing can excuse the university’s failure to respond directly to BSC. Georgetown’s assumption that reaching out to other Black student organizations was equivalent to directly responding to BSC indicates the university treats Black student groups as interchangeable. This lack of respect for student organizers who are working on the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign is simply unacceptable.

BSC did not hear directly from the administration until after the sit-in had begun and university Vice President Joseph Ferrara invited them to meet.

“We didn’t get shit,” Blass said. “And then we start occupying the space and Ferrara comes out and he’s like, ‘DeGioia would like to speak with you all,’ and then we have a meeting with all the administrators.”

Students shouldn’t have to organize a sit-in for the university to finally show interest in better supporting Black women survivors.

Moreover, when the university finally started meeting with BSC this week, Georgetown demonstrated a deeply concerning pattern of tokenizing Black women employees.

In meetings between BSC and university administrators, the university specifically invited Black women who work for the university in capacities completely irrelevant to the topics of the meetings, according to Blass.

“All these Black women who didn’t have shit to do with shit,” Blass said. “Like not in the way that they are useless, but in the way that they actually aren’t responsible for these demands.”

Georgetown’s parading of Black women into meetings solely to show that it employs Black women demonstrates that the university does not know how to genuinely listen to and respond to Black women. The invitation of Black women to meetings is not the same as involving them in decision-making processes, Blass said.

“It’s literally like — you bring them into this space and then you shove them back and they’re not even relevantly or tangentially involved in your process. It’s literally just for show,” Blass said.

The university cannot expect Black students to feel supported if it is actively tokenizing Black women who work on campus. Georgetown should stop using the presence of Black employees to cover up for their inability to support Black survivors and should instead use their time to genuinely listen to organizers’ concerns.

Even when the university finally sits down with students, it fails to adequately listen to and address their demands.

Lydia X.Z. Brown (COL ’15), an adjunct lecturer in the disability studies program, noticed a concerning lack of respect for student organizers from Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber and Vice President for Public Affairs Erik Smulson at a meeting they attended this week.

“Smulson had opened this meeting stating that he knows it’s hard to be a person of color at a predominantly white institution, a statement that came across as patronizing and placating at best, and certainly not as a statement of support or solidarity,” Brown wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Georgetown has responded to organizers’ specific demands with repeated disrespect for student organizers and Black women across campus.

There is no excuse for Georgetown’s behavior.

The university must immediately commit to implementing BSC’s demands, and students deserve tangible updates throughout the process. The university’s alarming tokenization of Black women employees and disrespect of student organizers also must end immediately.

If implemented, BSC’s demands would make Georgetown a more supportive environment for all its students, but especially for Black women survivors. Thus far, however, the university’s actions have only reaffirmed that Georgetown doesn’t care.

Resources: On-campus confidential resources include Health Education Services (202-687-8949) and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (202-687-6985); additional off-campus resources include the D.C. Rape Crisis Center (202-333-7273) and the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiner Washington Hospital Center (1-844-443-5732). If you or anyone you know would like to receive a sexual assault forensic examination or other medical care — including emergency contraception — call the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. (202-742-1727). To report sexual misconduct, you can contact Georgetown’s Title IX coordinator (202-687-9183) or file an online report here. Emergency contraception is available at the CVS located at 1403 Wisconsin Ave. NW and through H*yas for Choice. For more information, visit sexualassault.georgetown.edu.

CORRECTION: In last week’s issue, the article under the headline “Commit to Allyship” with a byline for Kyra Hanlon (SFS ’16) on A3 mistakenly included the text from Amanda Feldman and Adam Shaham’s column “Hilltop Voices.” Hanlon’s correct viewpoint is published on thehoya.com.

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A Sweet Investigation — The Surrey police in the United Kingdom found a way to use pancakes to fight crime. Police posted pictures with criminals’ faces juxtaposed on pancakes, asking the public to help locate them. Never have unsavory criminals looked so appetizing.

Stop Monkeying Around — While being transported to the animal hospital for a routine vasectomy, a baboon and his two female “wives” escaped. They were later recaptured, but not before the three monkeys went “bananas,” according to one police officer who arrived on the scene.

A Cauliflower a Day Keeps the Doctor Away — President Donald Trump’s ex-doctor, Dr. Ronny Jackson, tells how he used to put cauliflower in the President’s mashed potatoes and hide the ice cream. The doctor also said that Trump’s golfing habits contribute to his “excellent shape.”

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Advait Arun

HOYA HISTORY • Feb. 27, 1969

Faculty Establish Inner City Program On their own initiative, members of the faculty have taken two concrete steps to promote and keep alive a commitment to Washington, D.C.’s inner city.

Through the enactment of a scholarship fund for high school students most recently, and a college orientation program operative since 1964, Georgetown University’s faculty members and the Jesuit community have dedicated their efforts to the ideals and goals that have been vigorously promoted for years.

In a hastily organized effort last spring, 40 Jesuit instructors and almost 90 lay teachers pledged an estimated $48,000 to abet the education process of Washington students at Georgetown. This faculty project, the first such venture in the United States, was initiated by a committee chaired by Raymond Reno, professor of English.

The overriding objective of the scholarship program, according

to Reno, is “to enable students to receive an education they might have missed.” As a corollary to this premise, Reno asserted that the program was “a genuine representative effort on the faculty’s part to make a contribution to the inner city and to the University.”

The scholarship program basically operates on a paycheck withholding plan. 10 payments are extracted from those faculty members’ salaries commensurate to their overall pledge.

Reno stated that supplementary finances can be secured from corporations and nonprofit foundations in proportion to the contributions of the faculty members. “Every one dollar we contribute can probably ultimately be matched,” Reno said.

However, financial roadblocks impede the program’s success.

Reno described the progress of this year’s program as “not very encouraging; at the moment we

don’t have very much for next year.”

Moreover, the faculty has directed their classroom talents during the summer months, on a continuing basis since 1964, to exposing inner city high school students to various segments of collegiate life.

The Georgetown University College Orientation Program was instituted five years ago to meet the specific need of service to Washington’s students. The program continues to serve the community with the express purpose of assisting the high school student who has the potential for a college education, but who, for a variety of reasons, is unlikely to realize their potential.

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OPINION

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Be an Accomplice

very February, I get mixed emotions about Black History Month. I’m not conflicted about the value of recognizing and reflecting on African American history.

However, I am concerned that there are still not enough nonBlack people who engage in racial justice work daily given the history of racism African Americans have endured for decades. For example, it wasn’t until 2009 that the first African American was elected president of the United States.

I believe it is necessary to press all people, especially white people, to become accomplices, not just allies, in the work to advance racial justice through social action.

Too often, I encounter allies of racial justice who only want to read, talk and think about racial justice work. We need more people to become accomplices who are willing to engage in the struggle for justice by taking action against racism. For example, an ally would simply hang a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on their office wall or read a poem by Maya Angelou to a classroom of students. On the other hand, an accomplice would ask questions about the low numbers of Black administration, faculty, staff and students who are given the opportunity to work and learn in institutions of higher education. Furthermore, an accomplice would actively interview and hire African Americans as a way to rectify the history of marginalization and racism in American workplaces.

As I reflect on African American history in the United States and the existence of white accomplices, I think about the courageous white people who actively engaged in antiracist protests and the struggle for racial justice. Even more inspiring is that there were Black and white recent college graduates who worked together to advance justice and freedom for African Americans.

In 1961, Carol Ruth Silver was one of the first two white women arrested in the Freedom Rides. Silver was a recent graduate of The University of Chicago and chose to serve as a Freedom Rider because she believed racial segregation was an injustice. Genevieve Hughes Houghton, a white woman, is another example of an accomplice who was willing to speak out against racism and risk her life to advance justice for Black people in the United States. Houghton grew up in Chevy Chase, Md., and

decided to play an active role in the fight for racial equality and integration by serving as a Freedom Rider.

I also want to highlight that in the 1960s, there were brave white men who engaged in the fight for racial justice. James Peck, a white man, was born into a wealthy family and began college at Harvard University before he joined the Freedom Riders. In 1961, Peck was beaten by the Ku Klux Klan for his participation in the Birmingham Freedom Ride.

Peck was willing to serve as an accomplice in the struggle for racial integration. He is an example of a white man who is an accomplice because he engaged in social action that challenged white supremacy and white privilege.

James Zwerg was another white man who joined the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

James recognized the racism his Black roommate encountered when his roommate was not allowed in his all-white fraternity house. Zwerg participated in an exchange program in which he spent a semester at Fisk University, a Historically Black University, and learned about social action movements to integrate restaurants and public transportation. Zwerg boarded a bus with Black young adults, including John Lewis, who traveled from Birmingham, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala., as a way to protest the segregation.

Silver, Houghton, Peck and Zwerg are all accomplices who have a significant role in African American history alongside leaders including Diane Nash, Lewis and Hank Thomas because they were all willing to risk their lives to dismantle white supremacy, give up their privileges and protest for civil rights. Georgetown students of all racial groups should become accomplices by supporting Black businesses, speaking to faculty and administration about the need to continuously hire Black faculty, staff and administration, and challenging racist comments and acts that show up on college campuses and in the community. I challenge every reader to not only celebrate Black History Month during the month of February but to also become an antiracist and accomplice 365 days every year.

NOELLE GIPSON is the assistant director for educational equity programs in the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University.

Lent is our time to embrace honesty. We recognize the heartbreaking sin of our world, and ourselves, and we find hope in the never-depleted opportunity for change and healing.

Embrace Reflection During Lent

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J.

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mid the midsemester rush of midterms and papers, and the final push of so much activity before spring break, Wednesday marked a turning point for the Christian community. It was Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the 40-day period of prayer, reflection, sacrifice and almsgiving in preparation for Easter. And every year, it is the best-attended day of worship in churches around the globe.

Why does this day of overt religious practice, of public admission that we are sinners, attract so many people?

Especially in our secular age and in this time when the faults of the Catholic church are on such clear display, why do so many come, even many who are not Catholic or Christian?

I suspect it is because we find that Lent, and its call to recognize the brokenness in need of healing of our world, resonates with many of our

most human emotions.

Unlike so many other spheres of our life — from building resumes to club applications to social media — Lent does not ask us to show only our best faces. In fact, this period gives us the space to honestly gaze at our true selves and our real world.

Sometimes, we rightly cry at what we see. Other times, we face the mystery that we are part of this complex world that is so much bigger than ourselves in both its horrors and its wonders.

More than at just about any other time, Lent is when we recognize the truth of sin and the righteousness of judgment.

I recognize that neither of those are fashionable words today, but they touch on something essential about human experience. Sin is a rupturing of our human dignity, and of our responsibility to others and ourselves and our planet; it injures and diminishes, and it leaves us empty. We may actively choose it, or we may find ourselves complicit in it. In Lent, we name it for what it is and the harm that it embodies, and we find strength to recommit ourselves to working to heal at least some small part of our relationships.

There is a temptation in Lent, one that Christians have

too often fallen into across the centuries: the temptation to revel in excessive judgement and overemphasize harsh practices and even harsher judgements. To use today’s language, there is a temptation to “cancel” indiscriminately, especially oneself, writing off ourselves or others as hopelessly lost.

But the Scriptures proclaimed during this season describe a God who cancels no one. Lent announces a God for whom repentance and conversion is always a possibility and who is always looking for ways to repair our human fissures and faults. Indeed, God reaches out with a forgiveness that far outstrips our own — so much so that it may make us profoundly uncomfortable and may even feel unjust. It invites us to sit lovingly — and I recognize how challenging that word may be — with our own brokenness, and even that of others, and know ourselves as beloved.

Ashes mark the beginning.

They remind us of the simplicity and dignity of our origins — no better or worse than any other human being, made from the same stuff as the rest of creation — and they call us to reflection. But the rest of Lent, the time we live now, is when we really embrace its message and experience the

transformation it promises.

Over these coming 40 days, practices of prayer and meditation ground and open us up to the transcendent meaning and message of this time. Fasting, or limiting some of our consumption — perhaps by cutting back on social media or the neverending news or personal drama cycle — helps us focus on what matters most and keeps us in touch with our bodies and their need for healthy habits.

And almsgiving, through embracing a generosity of time and attention with those we might otherwise overlook, helps us focus outside ourselves to build a more inclusive, more just community.

Lent is our time to embrace honesty. We recognize the heartbreaking sin of our world, and ourselves, and we find hope in the neverdepleted opportunity for change and healing. We stand together, incomplete but in process, open to the life and wholeness for which we long.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is associate professor of government in the School of Foreign Service, and he currently serves as the director of the Center for Latin American Studies. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT appears online every other Thursday.

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Engage in Opposing Ideas

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he Georgetown University College Republicans hosted the son of President Donald Trump on Feb. 25, offering a chance for the student body to define its relationship with free speech. As college students in the United States increasingly engage in protests aimed at “shutting down” controversial speakers, the modern university has been forced to walk the line between tranquility and free expression on campus.

The principles of free speech have been increasingly criticized as being used as excuses to give platforms to hateful rhetoric.

The push for the prohibition of hate speech has two critical weaknesses, the first of which being that the group in power gets to decide what qualifies as “hate speech.” Such authority opens up the possibility for blanket censorship of contrarian ideas under the banner of protecting communities from hate.

The second issue with a hate speech prohibition policy is much more dangerous and immediate. By banning any particular speaker, even an overtly hateful one, a small subset of people could feel they are fighting on the side of the righteous.

Banning speakers, however, can create a small but loyal group of radicalists whose ideas are forged without the moderating influences of open dialogue. Only the light of discourse can cast out the darkness of hate. Such discourse is especially important when one

group argues that a particular speaker is hateful and another is not. Engagement with opposing and even offensive ideas is essential to refining viewpoints, even if it is uncomfortable to participate in such engagement.

In 2016, The University of Chicago famously committed itself to defending freedom of expression on campus by sending a letter to incoming students warning that it does not intend to create intellectual safe spaces. Dozens of other universities, including Georgetown University, signed onto a similar policy. But of course, there’s a difference between what the administration’s handbook says and what the student body believes. The administration may provide resources and facilities to a wide array of speakers, but coordinated boycotts or planned disruptions of events by student groups demonstrate a disjointed commitment to free expression in the campus community.

Thankfully, despite the charged atmosphere that emerged around Eric Trump’s (MSB ’06) visit to campus, toleration won the day as the event was allowed to occur. We should be proud of our deliberate commitment to free expression because academic institutions are one of the few places to safely engage in difficult discussions in modern America.

We have seen brawls break out among radical fringe groups near political gatherings, and mass media debates increasingly lack substance. These examples demonstrate that peaceful free speech is becoming increasingly difficult to practice in public life.

The American college may well be the last great hope for our country’s experiment with free speech. Institutions dedicated to “research” ought to be dedicating themselves to recording the results of our cultural experiment with unrestricted dialogue. Just as universities strive

to surround their students with brilliant professors and access to academic texts, they should strive to create an environment for open expression.

The virtue of free speech is that one can profoundly disagree with a speaker and still leave the room having a greater understanding of a particular political climate. In order to be truly confident in political beliefs, one must not fear ideological challenge. We mustn’t conflate hearing an opinion with subscribing to it.

Walt Whitman, in his poem “Song of Myself, 51” once justified contradicting himself with the retort, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Whitman’s point, that we are built with the enormous capacity to hold ideas that object to each other in the same mind, is especially important as we confront the question of hearing contradictory opinions.

As members of the Georgetown community, we must affirm that we are capable of hearing opposing and even seemingly harmful ideas without being ideologically torn apart within our minds or socially divided on campus.

As much as we like to aggrandize campus activism, the reality is that student political clubs rarely put on events that move any needle. Regardless of party, speakers visiting campus have little influence over campus life.

Eric Trump’s talk did not seriously impact the nation or the university, and neither will Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) coming visit. But what we can do is decide to uphold the principles of free speech in our community to allow our society evolve peacefully into the conversations of the next generation.

Sam Kehoe is a freshman in the College. PONDERING POLITICS appears online every other Tuesday.

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n Feb. 24, the Georgetown University College Republicans hosted Eric Trump (MSB ’06) and Charlie Kirk on Georgetown University’s campus. Our organization, Georgetown University College Democrats, responded with a boycott of the event and a social media campaign to educate Georgetown’s community about the speakers’ associations with hate groups. We stand firmly behind our decision to respond in this manner, and we reject the misleading arguments proffered by the conservative community on campus in defense of the event.

In addition to the speakers’ connections to the administration of President Donald Trump and the hateful policies implemented under this presidency, both Eric Trump and Kirk are closely tied to the organization Turning Point USA, an official cosponsor of this event. TPUSA has well-documented ties to white nationalism, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and other hateful speech. Documentation of these significant ties can be found in GUCD’s official statement or from groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.

These ties are corroborated by a substantial body of reliable journalism, calling into question GUCR’s accusations of “slander.”

GUCR did not try to justify the event by defending these people and their ties to hate groups. The evidence of bigotry is credible and damning, and the quotes are obviously indefensible. These speakers are indefensible. Instead, GUCR and those who promoted the event have fallen back on two weak counterarguments to justify these speakers’ presence: that their speech has been limited and that they deserve freedom from accountability.

The first argument is the easi-

est to debunk: Neither GUCR nor their speakers have had their speech limited. No one in GUCD nor any of our statement’s cosignatories called for the cancellation of the event, and no other liberal organizations on campus attempted to disrupt the speakers. The closest thing to a true protest that occurred was a silent walkout that did not interrupt the event. Freedom of speech simply has not been infringed upon in any way over the course of this event — though, ironically, our organization’s own volunteers were asked to leave the line area of the event for distributing information we compiled on the speakers.

Supporters of the event have also contended that people should not be prohibited from speaking simply over problematic associations and that the hosts should not be held responsible for the associations of their speakers.

GUCD recognizes that passing associations are different than a person’s own behavior; however, we argue that these speakers’ ties to bigotry far exceed a passing association, as both Kirk and Trump regularly elevate entities promoting hateful speech. GUCR cannot defend this event by minimizing the significance of these speakers’ connections.

Even the individual decision to give a speaker a platform matters. Kirk’s repeated use of his platform to elevate Holocaust deniers like Bryan Sharpe or homophobic organizations like the ADF reflects poorly on him.

Even if platforming a speaker is not indicative of an endorsement of those views, it reflects a belief about what perspectives are valuable to our discourse and worthy of engagement. That platform also legitimizes such figures, providing their bigoted views an avenue into the political mainstream. Thus, irrespective of what he may argue about his

own personal prejudices, Kirk’s partnership with, employment of and support for such people is an indictment of his values.

Likewise, GUCR’s decision to give TPUSA a platform inherently matters. The Georgetown community can look to the events that dedicate their resources to and can infer something about the perspectives they think constructively add to our conversations, the arguments they consider worthy of engagement and the behaviors they believe do not even necessitate acknowledgment, much less condemnation.

GUCD does not believe Kirk’s perspective advances substantive discourse on our campus; on the contrary, hosting him without any organizational critique of the behaviors he engages in constitutes tacit approval of his lengthy history of mainstreaming bigoted figures. Organizations cannot escape accountability for the figures they offer a platform by simply decrying the concept of “guilt by association.”

It is certainly possible to engage with speakers who have objectionable views in productive dialogue. Doing so, however, requires a proactive acknowledgment of their previous problematic statements and clarity on your own stances, especially in response to concerns expressed by the public. GUCR has offered neither. We implore other student groups on campus to carefully consider the message sent when deciding to host a speaker. Our values are on display, our legitimacy is at stake and our community is watching.

JORDAN WESTENDORF is a freshman in the College and is director of communications of GUCD. AJ WILLIAMSON is a junior in the College and is chair of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

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The 2020 Democratic primary and 2020 presidential election represent the first national elections in which many current Georgetown University students are eligible to vote.

Nominating a candidate who can defeat President Donald Trump in the general election is the top priority for the Democratic party, according to Chair of Georgetown University College Democrats AJ Williamson (COL ’21).

“The number one issue for every Democrat, including us, is beating Donald Trump in November,” Williamson said in an interview with The Hoya. “All of the candidates currently running could beat Trump in November, but could also lose to Trump in November. It’s not a sure thing in either direction.”

Although some Georgetown students believe Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will most likely be the Democratic presidential nominee, they have questioned the senator’s chances of defeating Trump. In addition to the issue of electability, students also outlined their perceptions of the candidates, the key political issues on the campaign trail and the flaws within the Democratic primary process.

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In addition to Sanders, the other remaining candidates vying for the nomination are Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D), former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.

After three primaries and caucuses — the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucuses — Sanders has emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, thus far earning 45 of the 100 pledged delegates, recording the highest vote totals in each of the three states.

Sadie Morris (SFS ’22), founder and president of Hoyas for Bernie, believes the idealistic nature of Sanders’ campaign fits the current needs of the Democratic Party.

“He is the only candidate who will not end up caving when money gets put on the table or things get tricky. We can’t cave right now,” Morris said in an interview with The Hoya. “His platform and his policies — these are

things everyone can get behind.

They are not actually radical.”

Buttigieg is currently Sanders’ top challenger at 25 pledged delegates. The Buttigieg campaign appeals to a broad range of Democratic voters, as opposed to some other candidates’ targeted voter bases, according to Reed Hasson (SFS ’20).

“The election is less about policy and more about a candidate who can unite the Democratic party,” Hasson said in an interview with The Hoya. “He can bring together young voters as a young man himself with a unique story, while also someone that older voters can depend on. This is a balance we really need to strike.”

While Sanders and Buttigieg have the highest number of pledged delegates, Sanders, Biden and Bloomberg have the highest polling numbers, according to national polling data from FiveThirtyEight, a popular statistical aggregation and analysis website.

Warren’s slightly more centrist political lean relative to Sanders can be seen as an advantage in the general election, according to Maddie Berry (NHS ’22) and Haley Byman (NHS ’20), who are both health care management and policy majors. (Full disclosure: Berry serves as a staff writer for The Hoya.) Byman believes Sanders will ultimately win the Democratic nomination, however, because of his diverse support base.

“Based on caucus results and national polling, he reaches young people and voters of color probably better than any other candidate does,” Byman said in an interview with The Hoya.

For Democratic students who identify with candidates they believe are more moderate, issues like electability and appeal to the center of the Democratic Party are also of central concern.

Bloomberg is of interest to Henry James (COL ’22), who is undecided on the candidate he supports. James intends to vote for a more moderate candidate to increase the Democrats’ chances of defeating Trump.

“Only moderates can beat Trump,” James wrote in an email to The Hoya. “If there is still a divided Democratic segment by Super Tuesday, I will be voting for Bloomberg.”

Since entering the presidential race in November, Bloomberg has spent over half a billion dollars on campaign advertisements, heavily promoting his campaign on broadcast, cable and digital media platforms. This strategy has helped Bloomberg claim key campaign donors from Biden’s campaign, which projects a simi-

lar policy platform, according to CNBC. Biden, who was initially the front-runner when he announced his campaign in April 2019, has since lost large segments of his support due to subpar performances in debates and the early primaries, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Despite this trend, Sina Nemazi (COL ’21), the chair of D.C. Students for Biden, a grassroots organization that includes students from Georgetown, The George Washington University and American University, is sticking with Biden because of the candidate’s moderate positions and wider appeal to voters.

“I’m supporting Joe Biden because we can’t go into this election pushing a leftward tone and tearing Republicans apart,” Nemazi said in an interview with The Hoya. “Going into this election shunning a big part of the country is not the way to go.”

KEY ISSUES

With high stakes for the 2020 election, Georgetown students are prioritizing several defining issues for the primary campaign, including health care, climate change and electability.

Health care was the most frequently cited concern from the 12 students interviewed by The Hoya. Democratic candidates’ health care proposals range from Sanders’ Medicare for All Plan, which would eliminate private insurance, to Buttigieg’s less expansive Medicare for All Who Want It Plan. Buttigieg’s plan would include an option to enroll in Medicare while keeping private insurance.

Health care is a moral issue that

requires a strong government solution, according to Byman, who supports Warren but sees Sanders as her second choice.

“We have a moral imperative as a country to make sure everyone has access to health care, and Medicare for All is the single best way to achieve that,” Byman said.

On the other hand, Hasson believes that radical changes to the U.S. health care system should be implemented gradually and sees Buttigieg’s plan as a more feasible option for 2020. “[The U.S.] is in need of a stepby-step process to show that our economy can handle this and Buttigieg outlines a stepping-stone plan to execute this,” Hasson said.

Following health care, climate change was the second most discussed topic by students interviewed by The Hoya.

Climate change is a key issue for this election, according to Olivia Torbert (SFS ’20), former president and current vice president of the Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environment Network.

“Climate change is the most pressing issue facing the world today,” Torbert said in an interview with The Hoya. “Economic inequality, racial inequality — tandem to all of that is reforming health care. What’s most important is recognizing they all connect.”

Students also emphasized the importance of being able to appeal to both liberal and conservative voters for a Democrat to beat Trump.

President of Georgetown University College Republicans Henry Dai (SFS ’22) will be voting for a Republican in the 2020 election but noted that former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was

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Students expressed both praise and concerns about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) being the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

the most appealing Democratic candidate. (Full disclosure: Dai previously served as a sports writer for The Hoya) “I try to take a very open-minded approach that crosses party lines,” Dai said in an interview with The Hoya. “Out of the Democratic candidates, the one that Republican voters felt most connected to is Yang. He was tackling a lot of issues Trump wanted to.”

Yang was the best candidate to defeat Trump as he could have swayed former Trump voters to the Democratic party, according to registered Democrat Paige Raborn (SFS ’22).

“He focused the most on why people voted for Trump and had the best turnover of Trump defectors,” Raborn said in an interview with The Hoya.

A FLAWED PRIMARY PROCESS

Despite excitement about voting for the first time and for their preferred candidates, students expressed discontent with the Democratic primary process.

Specifically, students and faculty pointed to issues of caucus accessibility, the outsized influence of Iowa and New Hampshire as small, unrepresentative states and the longevity of the process, which can render many votes meaningless.

The current presidential primary system consists of states conducting either primary elections or caucuses to select 3,979 total pledged delegates for the Democratic National Convention, where the Democratic nominee for the 2020 election will be elected.

Historically, the media heavily emphasizes the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary election, as they are among the first states in the primary process, though they only account for 4% of pledged delegates.

The Iowa caucuses Feb. 3 experienced logistical issues because of a defective vote tracking app, causing the primary results to be delayed by three days. The problem with the 2020 Iowa caucuses, in addition to past issues from the 2016 Alaska caucuses, point to a need to disband caucuses, according to science, technology and international affairs professor Jeremy Mathis.

“After participating in the Alaska caucus in 2006, I think we should abandon the caucus process immediately,” Mathis wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It lends itself to unclear results. I think the disaster that was Iowa further demonstrates why that is the case.”

In addition to logistical caucus issues, Iowa and New Hamp-

shire, the first two states to vote in the Democratic primary process, poorly represent the diverse nature of the United States, according to Torbert.

“What’s hard about them is they don’t indicate much about how the country might go,” Torbert said. “Both of these states are tiny and extraordinarily white — not representative of America by any means.”

The Iowa caucuses consist of voters at 1,000 designated precincts across the state selecting their preferred candidate in two caucus rounds. The caucus process is beneficial as it gives voters the opportunity to communicate and discuss their ideas openly before officially casting their vote, according to Byman.

“Caucuses are valuable in that people have the chance to deliberate and realign their vote if their first choice isn’t viable,” Byman said. “However, the caucuses are inaccessible to a lot of voters who can’t take time off or might be intimidated by the public process.”

Several Georgetown students were able to experience the primary process in real time as part of a spring 2020 course titled “Presidential Nominations Lab” taught by professor Hans Noel.

As part of their coursework, students could travel to two of the four first states to hold the primary: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina. Byman and Williamson were among this cohort. Byman traveled to New Hampshire and Williamson traveled to Iowa.

After traveling to New Hampshire to observe the primary, Byman believes the early states should have less influence on the presidential nomination process due to their small sizes and number of delegates.

“We are acting like a lot of people have already made their decisions when it’s only been two small states that actually represent a small part of the delegate,” Byman said. “The momentum of primaries is really consequential from tiny, nonrepresentative states. It keeps people from voting their conscience.”

In particular, caucuses might not fully represent the entire electorate because of scheduling conflicts for voters and because voters in larger states have little to no say in the nomination process, according to Noel.

“Caucuses are not very democratic. Turnout is very low and restricted to those who can come out at a specific time,” Noel wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Just because there is voting doesn’t mean it’s a democracy.”

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All criminal charges against Georgetown University Graduate Student Government President Lewis May were dropped Feb. 26.

GradGov Vice President Heerak Kim filed a Feb. 4 police report accusing May of physically assaulting him. On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia reviewed Kim’s police report and decided no charges would be filed. The same day the charges were dismissed, the District of Columbia Superior Court also denied Kim’s preliminary injunction request for a long-term restraining order against his GradGov colleague, according to court documents.

The decision is the latest chapter of a monthlong saga surrounding Kim’s fallout with GradGov. GradGov initiated impeachment proceedings against Kim on Feb. 9 after the organization deemed a number of tweets posted on Kim’s public Twitter as homophobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic and racist.

Kim claims that May physically confronted him outside of a Jan. 30 GradGov Senate meeting shortly after the tweets surfaced.

Kim attempted to get a temporary restraining order against May following the alleged physical altercation. A District of Columbia Superior Court judge, however, denied Kim’s request Feb. 12.

Kim’s attempt to seek a restraining order against May, a second-year graduate student in the School of Foreign Service, represented an abuse of the law, according to May’s lawyer, Joseph Scrofano.

“We do not have any comment at this time other than to again reiterate that Mr. Kim is abusing the legal system with false allegations,” Scrofano wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This afternoon another judge in the District of Columbia Superior Court denied Mr. Kim’s request for an injunction in the frivolous case he filed.”

Kim mischaracterized the severity of the interaction, according to May. “Apparently at one point in the conversation I, like, booped him in the chest, sort of for emphasis, and he was like, ‘Oh, you physically assaulted me,’ and then called for my resignation,” May said in an interview with The Hoya on Feb. 4.

Although Kim’s initial request for a restraining order was denied, the D.C. Superior Court decided to schedule a preliminary injunction hearing for Feb. 26 to consider imposing a long term restraining order against May, according to Kim. Before his preliminary injunction hearing, Kim filed an official

Georgetown University Law Center and gun-safety advocate Andy Parker filed a complaint alleging YouTube illegally decieves consumers by allowing violent murder videos to endure on its platform.

The complaint, which was filed with the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 20, is the first of its kind to challenge the spread of videos that depict murder and proliferate conspiracy theories against victims of gun violence on YouTube, according to a Law Center press release.

In August 2015, Parker’s daughter, Alison Parker, a reporter in Roanoke, Va., was shot to death along with her cameraman, Adam Ward, while conducting a live television interview. YouTube videos display footage that Ward’s camera caught of the shooting, as well as the GoPro the shooter was wearing.

Parker has been trying to get YouTube to remove the videos for years, but his requests have been largely ignored and rejected by both YouTube and its parent company Google, he wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“The two co-founders of Google started with a mission statement—’Don’t be Evil,’” Parker wrote. “But for all the good Google has done, they are in fact perpetrating evil every day they let videos of my daughter stay on their platform.”

The content has reappeared on YouTube since it was originally posted to the website, according to Rachel Guy (LAW ’21), one of two student attorneys representing Parker as part of the Civil Rights Clinic, which works with clients facing discrimination or constitutional rights infringements, among other issues.

“Both of these sources of footage were uploaded to YouTube

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office reviewed the police report filed against GradGov President Lewis May and decided no charges would be filed. complaint with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the District of Columbia Bar on Feb. 24, accusing Georgetown University Counsel Paul Greco of preventing witnesses from testifying at the hearing.

Kim alleged that Greco’s office prevented the Georgetown University Police Department from serving witness subpoena papers to graduate students and faculty who witnessed May’s alleged assault of Kim in late January, according to Kim’s complaint to the D.C. Bar. The university was attempting to cover up the assault charges against May, according to Kim. “It appears that Georgetown University is [trying] to cover up for GradGov President Lewis May physically assaulting me in public, since the witnesses would tell the truth of the physical assault under oath at the Preliminary Injunction Hearing,” Kim wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The university has acted in accordance with the appropriate legal procedures, according to a university spokesperson.

“While Georgetown does not comment on individual cases, the University has robust policies and procedures in place prohibiting any form of discrimination or related retaliation,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya on behalf of the general counsel and Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action office. “The Office of General Counsel conducts its work in accordance with the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct.”

The complaint filed against Greco comes after Kim submitted a bias complaint to the university’s IDEAA Office on Feb. 10, accusing May and GradGov Supervisor Owen Agho of retaliating against him for his political and religious affiliations.

Kim specifically charged Agho with ignoring his complaint about May’s alleged assault.

Kim, a second-year master’s

student in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, hopes the IDEAA complaint will protect other Christian and conservative students against the discrimination he alleges, Kim wrote.

“The outcome that I would like to achieve through IDEAA complaint filing is to protect conservative evangelical Christians and practicing Catholics at Georgetown University from discriminatory actions based on their religion, such as being targeted for resignation from positions or by liberal professors giving bad grades to conservative Christian students or denying conservative Christians of scholarship and other promotion opportunities within Georgetown University,” Kim wrote in an email to The Hoya.

GradGov originally scheduled Kim’s impeachment hearing for Feb. 20. However, GradGov was forced to postpone the hearing because of the pending IDEAA complaint, according to a Feb. 20 email from the GradGov Executive Board to GradGov senators obtained by The Hoya.

GradGov then scheduled the hearing for the following week, but the university demanded that the hearing be postponed until the IDEAA office completed its investigation of Kim’s bias complaint, according to GradGov Director of Advocacy Henry Watson.

“We are being told by the university not to hold the vote, and that if we were to do so, GradGov would be in violation of university policy. This because our group must cooperate with the current IDEAA investigation, which means not taking further action that could be seen as compounding the claimed retaliation before IDEAA has a chance to investigate it,” Watson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As an Executive Board, we cannot breach university policy, and so the impeachment vote will not be held until further notice.”

on the same day that Alison died, and since then, iterations of these videos have proliferated on the site—some add music and other effects,” Guy wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Andy, understandably cannot watch these videos, but hates knowing that people are getting sick entertainment from his daughter’s death and that the site is profiting from them.”

After learning about YouTube’s lack of action to Parker’s requests, the Civil Rights Clinic decided to file the complaint with the FTC, according to Guy. “The more the Clinic learned about YouTube’s responses to Andy and to other users, and families of victims, the more it became obvious that this type of behavior constituted illegal consumer deception,” Guy wrote.

“Because of how widespread this problem is, we felt that FTC investigation and potential penalty is the best way to ensure that YouTube changes this behavior entirely, rather than simply addressing specific videos.”

The complaint argues that the easily accessible videos depicting Parker’s death on YouTube violate the company’s Terms of Service. The videos thus indicate that Youtube is deceiving consumers about the platform’s safety, according to the complaint.

“YouTube violates its Terms by hosting videos that graphically depict people being murdered, capitalizing on their final moments for pure shock value and entertainment,” the complaint reads. “The platform’s Terms of Service proclaim that violent content is not allowed, leading users to reasonably believe that they will not encounter it. In reality, these videos are commonplace on the platform, and many of them have remained there for several years.”

YouTube does not allow content that encourages illegal or dangerous activities that could risk serious physical harm or

death, according to its harmful or dangerous content policy. In the policy, YouTube asks users to report content that they think would violate the policy. YouTube had removed thousands of copies of the video of Parker’s shooting since her death in 2015, according to a YouTube statement in The Washington Post.

YouTube enforces its policies on violent content with an aim of protecting users, according to the statement.

“Our Community Guidelines are designed to protect the YouTube community, including those affected by tragedies,” the statement read. “We specifically prohibit videos that aim to shock with violence, or accuse victims of public violent events of being part of a hoax. We rigorously enforce these policies using a combination of machine learning technology and human review.”

By filing the complaint, the Law Center hopes to push YouTube to take down videos like those of Parker’s dauther’s death so that people like Parker do not have to watch the death of their loved ones, according to Guy. “Our primary goal has always been to get these videos taken down [and] end the torment that Andy experiences every day in knowing that they are on YouTube,” Guy wrote. “The FTC Complaint has the benefit of being able to end this same torment for all families in the same place.”

The issues that the Law Center and Parker raised in the complaint about videos of Parker’s daughter extend to help all victims of gun violence and their families, Parker wrote.

“This action today is for all the families and survivors—from Sandy Hook to Parkland, and countless others who’ve been victimized,” Parker wrote. “The days of Google’s inexcusable and unlawful conduct-- enabling, promoting and profiting from heinous content must end.”

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Spring Break Trip Postponed Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Korean Pop Star Roy Kim Cleared of All Criminal Charges

Kim Sang-woo (COL ’19), popularly known as Roy Kim, was cleared Feb. 25. of charges for circulating explicit photos. The same day, Kim released a statement to his fans apologizing for any unintentional harm caused.

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Georgetown University’s Office of Global Education postponed a Centennial Lab’s spring break trip to Cambodia until after the end of the spring semester, due to increasing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus in Asia.

Students enrolled in “Politics and Performance: Confronting the Past, Shaping the Future,” the affected Centennial Lab, which is a program of courses that focuses on experiential learning, planned to travel to Cambodia over spring break. Following reports that one passenger tested positive for the coronavirus after going on a cruise that disembarked in Cambodia, the OGE decided Feb. 18 to postpone the travel component of the class.

While Cambodia has reported only one registered case of coronavirus, health officials are now worried Cambodia may have opened its doors to an outbreak, according to The New York Times. The spread of coronavirus has led the university to cancel study abroad programs in China in January and South Korea this week.

As the coronavirus, also called COVID-19, outbreak spreads, the university is evaluating the health risks of study abroad programs individually, according to Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the School of Foreign Service Daniel Byman.

“The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak raises a number of considerations both in terms of health and safety, and also practical operational considerations with respect to the ability to most successfully support students abroad,” Byman wrote in an

email to The Hoya. “Because local conditions, support from onground partners, and travel restrictions vary by country, and by program, the university reviews these decisions on a program-byprogram basis, after careful consideration of all relevant factors.”

Cambodian Living Arts, which was set to host students in the Centennial Lab, is prepared to receive the class in May. The organization promotes creativity and innovation in the arts sector and works to get more arts and culture education into Cambodian public schools, according to the Cambodian Living Arts website.

The university is watching developments in Cambodia and will decide whether or not to run the trip in May depending on coronavirus conditions, according to Byman.

Professors Derek Goldman and Cynthia Schneider, who are co-teaching the course for the third time this year, remain hopeful the trip will run with its original itinerary and all students will still participate.

“Needless to say we are heartbroken about the situation, as sharing this trip with our students has been profoundly meaningful to us, and we are very hopeful that the trip will be able to happen in May with as many of the students as possible,” Goldman wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Cambodia is the ideal case study for the Politics and Performance Centennial Lab, which aims to study the important intersection of politics and performance through diverse examples from the past and present, because it is an example of a place where the arts play a vital role in a post-conflict context, according to the course syllabus.

Goldman and Schnieder are working to adapt the course material to account for changes caused by the trip postponement, according to Schneider.

“It’s much better to have it in the middle of the semester, much better, but we can still lead up to it during the course, and the students can still have a really fulfilling, meaningful, culminating experience,” Schneider said in an interview with The Hoya. “I think we’re all trying to make the very best out of a really regrettable situation.”

The 14 students enrolled in the course now must make alternative arrangements for spring break. Such last minute changes may pose a financial burden to students, according to Celia Buckman (SFS ’21), one of the students enrolled in the Centennial Lab. “It’s really annoying that this came at such short notice.”

Buckman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I’ve had to replan my spring break overnight, which comes at a financial cost since everything is more expensive with such a tight turnaround.”

The university is coordinating with students affected by the Centennial Lab change in an effort to mitigate the effects of the postponement, according to Byman.

“SFS administrators are working closely with concerned professors and students,” Byman wrote. “The professors engaged us from the start regarding travel safety and are an important part of every decision we make. We are working with students, both as a group and as individuals, to make sure that no one faces problems regarding graduation credits or other possible academic issues.”

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Former Georgetown University student and South Korean pop artist Kim Sang-woo (COL ’19), popularly known as Roy Kim, has been cleared of charges of circulating obscene materials.

Kim had been a suspected member of one of singer Jung Joon-Young’s mobile chat rooms, in which group members shared sexually explicit photographs of women. Kim was formally charged by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in April 2019 for violating Korean information and telecommunications law. After an investigation, the indictment against Kim was officially suspended Feb. 25, according to K-pop news agency Soompi.

The charges against Kim came amid a national scandal that implicated multiple prominent Kpop stars for their involvement in group chatrooms where they shared explicit videos of women and discussed raping and drugging women. Jung and former member of rock band FT Island Choi Jong-hoon were both convicted of gang rape in relation to the Jung chatroom scandal in November 2019, according to the South China Morning Post.

Jung was also separately charged with filming and distributing footage of other assaults.

On Feb. 25, a reporter on a South Korean entertainment news show said that Kim was only a member of a chat room that specifically focused on the sport of fishing, according to Soompi.

In the fishing chatroom, Kim attempted to clarify to members of the group chat that a certain pornographic image was photoshopped, according to the reporter.

“There was an instance of a photoshopped pornographic image of a celebrity being shared in the chatroom. Roy Kim took a screenshot of a blog image and posted it saying, ‘This is not that person,’ and that is what he was charged for,” the reporter said on the news show, according to Soompi. “So Roy Kim had posted the photo, not for others to see, but to state that it was a photoshopped image, and that is what got him charged for spreading pornographic material.”

On the same day, Kim released a statement to his fans affirming the reporter’s narrative and expressing regret for his mistakes.

“I found the picture addressed in the stories on a blog post by looking it up on a portal site, screenshot it and sent it along with a text saying that the rumour wasn’t true into a chatroom,” Kim wrote in his statement. “I realised that regardless of my motive, it was wrong to send such a photo and I am reflecting on my mistake. I’m really sorry for hurting those who love me despite my reckless actions.”

Kim rose to fame on a South Korean music competition show called “Superstar K” in 2012 and reached the top of the K-Pop Hot 100 Chart with his debut single in 2013. While the investigation was pending, Kim went on an indefinite career hiatus and returned to South Korea a month before he was set

to graduate from Georgetown.

A Georgetown student circulated a Change.org petition in April 2019 calling for Kim to be suspended from the university and later expelled if he was convicted. The petition reached 4,726 signatures.

Kim missed the final month of school and was unable to attend his graduation ceremony. No known disciplinary action was taken by the university at the time and Kim received his diploma, according to SPOTV News, a South Korean broadcast.

A university spokesperson confirmed that Kim graduated in 2019, but provided no further comment.

“We can confirm directory information and share that Roy Kim graduated in 2019,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Otherwise, Georgetown refrains from commenting on individual students in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).”

Kim appreciates his fans’ support throughout the investigation process and hopes to resume his career now that the charges have been dropped, according to the letter Kim wrote to his fans.

“I was able to look back at my past and realised how precious the love I received was even though I was lacking in many ways. I am thankful to the point where I can’t express it in words,” Kim wrote. “I will not disappoint those who have believed and waited for me. I will return as the Roy Kim who everyone loved and supported. I will be mindful from here on out.”

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Cultural Climate Survey Strives Eric Trump Event Causes To Understand Student Experiences Clash Between GUCR, GUCD SURVEY, from A1 Through the committee’s work, members were able to better represent student voices in the survey, according to GUSA Senator Daniella Sanchez (COL ’22).

“All of us collaborated in the form of weekly meetings with administration on reviewing the already established questions and adding Georgetown specific questions,” Sanchez wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We helped shape the survey to truly reflect the Georgetown experience, as we provided the perspective of the students.”

The GUSA Senate faced internal disagreements about what questions to include in the Cultural Climate Survey and how they should be phrased, particularly surrounding law enforcement that would accurately characterize student experiences, according to former GUSA Senator Alexandra Mucher (COL ’22).

In October 2019, GUSA circulated a petition, which 160 students and 10 student organizations signed, to suggest questions in the survey about intersectional identities and policing on and off campus. The committee ultimately received approval from the administration to add the proposed questions.

The petition was a necessary tool for the administration to consider student suggestions

after students’ proposed questions faced pushback from administration, according to Uju Nwaigwe (COL ’20), the chair of the GUSA Racial and Cultural Inclusivity Policy Team.

“We ultimately had to create a petition in order for them to take our matters seriously. I also think that we had competing views on the survey,” Nwaigwe wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I think administration wanted the survey to show how ‘great’ Georgetown is with diversity and the students, like myself, wanted the survey to show how bad Georgetown is with diversity.”

Other colleges and universities in the United States have administered similar campus cultural surveys to students in the past. In 2016, the University of Michigan administered its Campus Climate Survey on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Case Western Reserve University launched its survey in 2011.

Georgetown has administered similar schoolwide surveys in the past, including the inaugural Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct in 2016 and the follow-up survey in 2019. While the participation rate for the first survey was 51%, the second saw a decline in participation to roughly 40%.

The new cultural climate survey will help students, faculty and administrators cre-

ate a stronger community on campus, according to a Feb. 24 schoolwide email from University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95).

“As a community, we are at our best when we are able to work together to create and sustain an environment where each member of our community can thrive,” DeGioia wrote.

“I wish to express my gratitude for your commitment to fostering a culture of care for all members of our community as we engage in professional and academic pursuits and in the work of personal formation.”

Georgetown’s Office of Assessment and Decision Support, which leads university data collection and analysis, will review the survey data and share the results with the entire university community including students, faculty, administration and planning committees in fall 2020, according to Kilkenny.

“The university is prepared to acknowledge both positive and critical comments about our community, and intends to collaborate with students and colleagues to enhance the educational and co-curricular experiences of all students,” Kilkenny wrote. “We want to hear from all segments of our student community -- all voices are important to shape the full picture of our environment on campus.”

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The organization has garnered support from people who are Islamophobic as well as some white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Georgetown University College Democrats released a statement on their website Feb. 24 calling for students to boycott the event, which H*yas for Choice, Georgetown University American Civil Liberties Union, GU Pride, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and March for Our Lives Georgetown signed onto. Members of GUCD passed out the statement to students waiting in line for the event.

GUCR responded to GUCD’s statement with a counter statement Feb. 24, defending the event as an important forum for freedom of speech and diversity of thought.

GUCD students boycotted the event in an effort to show their disapproval of TPUSA’s offensive sentiments, GUCD Chair AJ Williamson (COL ’21) said.

“We don’t want to legitimize those behaviors by attending an event with these speakers, and we don’t think that folks who disagree with the sentiments espoused by Turning Point USA should want to attend the event either,” Williamson said in an interview with The Hoya.

During the event, Eric Trump and Kirk cited the United States’ recent transition to becoming an energy-independent country as one of the largest successes of Donald Trump’s administration.

Georgetown University announced Feb. 6 that it will divest its endowment from fossil fuel investments within the next decade. At the event, Kirk opposed Georgetown’s decision, saying that fossil fuel companies have propelled the United States to become the world’s leading producer of natural gas.

“That’s thanks to allowing, which I know this university is so unbelievably misguided on, fossil fuel companies to frack and use energy that we

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Eric Trump (MSB ’06), above, and Charlie Kirk spoke at an event in Lohrfink Auditorium and discussed the upcoming elections. have at our disposal with this amazing blessing from God so that we don’t have to buy our oil and natural gas from medieval theocratic dictatorships halfway across the world, so thank you President Trump for embracing liquid natural gas,” Kirk said.

While he called out democratic politicians for what he deemed partisan political tactics, Trump called for open dialogue between Democrats and Republicans. He specifically mentioned Patrick Milito (MSB ’23), a student who was dressed in full senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) paraphernalia.

“I mean, with the Bernie guys over there, we could sit down over a beer at The Tombs, and I guarantee you when you really flush out an issue, when you actually take away the labels of the politics and all of the nonsense, 80% of things we probably see eye-to-eye on,” Trump said.

Milito hoped to engage in productive conversation by sitting toward the front of the

auditorium. Trump and Kirk directed comments about socialism toward him throughout the event, he said. The attention from the speakers was unexpected, according to Milito.

“To me, it was incredible how he offered a 19-year-old college student to get a beer with him — son of a president,” Milito said in an interview with The Hoya. “That was incredible.

And how he strongmanned my personal politics a lot, made a lot of insults to me, but then said, quote, ‘Your hair is way too good to be a communist.’

My life is very surreal.”

Looking toward the next election, Trump said the economy will be the most important issue for voters. Donald Trump is primarily focused on economic policy over identity politics, according to Eric Trump.

“A lot of things get thrown around, a lot of racial stuff, a lot of other things get thrown around when it comes to identity politics,” Trump said. “I always say my father sees one color, and that’s green.”

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The university is assisting students enrolled in the Villa Le Balze program in Florence, Italy, to make travel plans and to arrange alternative ways to complete their courses for the semester.

Villa Students To Complete Semester Abroad Remotely STUDY ABROAD, from A1 Professors will implement instructional continuity plans for students in programs at the Villa Le Balze beginning March 9, according to the university spokesperson. Under the plans, students will still complete the required coursework from their semesters after being relocated from Italy.

Currently, the university has only announced the cancellation of the spring semester at the Villa Le Balze, a Georgetown-owned academic campus. Planned courses over the summer are currently still set to take place, according to journalism professor Ann Oldenburg (GRD ’20).

“I’m set to teach a new class, International Journalism: Reporting from Florence, this summer at the villa,” Oldenburg wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As of now, it’s still on, and I hope the students who have signed up will still want to join me there.”

Despite the Villa Le Balze cancellation, other study abroad programs in Italy have not been canceled yet, including all programs through the Institute for

the International Education of Students, Brown University, Middlebury College and Duke University.

While the cancellation is unfortunate, it is a necessary step by the university to ensure the safety of students, according to Oldenburg.

“I was sad to hear that the Villa had to be shut down for this semester, but it seems a prudent move by the university,” Oldenburg wrote.

“I just hope a cure will be found quickly and the spreading of the virus will soon be stopped.”

The suspension of the programs comes after the university canceled all study abroad programs in China on Jan. 28 during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus. Before the university announcement, several programs independently made the decision to cancel their programs over fear of the spread of the disease. A university-sponsored trip to Cambodia will also be postponed until after the spring semester.

More than 80,000 people in 48 countries and territories have been infected with the coronavirus since the initial outbreak, and nearly

3,000 have died, according to CNN. Of the reported cases, over 78,000 have been from China, with around 2,700 deaths in the country.

South Korea has reported more than 2,000 cases of the virus, the largest outbreak outside of China, according to CBS News.

The university is working with students, faculty and administrators in South Korea programs to coordinate travel home, according to a Feb. 25 universitywide email from Provost Robert Groves announcing the suspension.

Given the developing situation regarding the outbreak of the virus, the university will continue to assess university programs as news breaks, Groves wrote in the email.

“The uncertainties surrounding the coronavirus have made travel to countries with extensive interactions with locations severely affected by COVID-19 more risky,” Groves wrote. “While Georgetown has not prohibited university-sponsored or related international travel to any country other than China and South Korea due to COVID-19, the situation continues to be very fluid.”

BSC then released another statement criticizing the university’s response, because it never mentioned or addressed BSC’s demands.

The protest and sit-ins are necessary to force the university to take meaningful action regarding the needs of Black women and nonbinary survivors of sexual assault, according to Makayla Jeffries (COL ’23), one of BSC’s organizers for the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign.

“Let me just clarify — we don’t want to be out here sitting in the president’s office,” Jeffries said. “All of this is because it needs to be done. It’s been very clear with the bureaucratic measures or whatever polite measures people have taken to make changes, and this university hasn’t responded.”

Students have voiced concerns about the issues referenced in BSC’s statement for years. Despite these consistent demands, however, the university has still yet to adequately fulfill student needs, according to Vice President of H*yas for Choice Chad Gasman (COL ’20).

“We’ve given them exactly everything that they need to make our lives better, and they’ve shown time and time again that they’re not willing to do it because it’s too much money, or they didn’t have enough time to do it,” Gasman said. “But really, these are easy asks that can improve everyone’s lives, and they just refuse to do the simple task of getting them done.”

The university responded to the recent Healy sit-ins in a Feb. 26 email to the student body from Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Rosemary Kilkenny (LAW ’87) and Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson.

The email described how the university has responded or is planning on responding to each of BSC’s demands. In regard to the demand for more Black clinicians, the university highlighted Counseling and Psychiatric Services’ recent hir-

ing of three new clinicians for the 2020 fall semester, two of whom are Black women, according to the email.

The university’s supposed progress in meeting BSC’s demands is not enough, according to BSC member Nile Blass (COL ’22).

“It was simply a reiteration of what was already discussed in this activist space,” Blass said. “As long as our demands aren’t met sufficiently and with relevant, tangible commitments that we know are going to go through, then we’re going to be here.”

During the Feb. 25 sit-in, BSC met with several university administrators and officials, including with CAPS Director Phil Meilman to discuss increasing mental health resources and with Georgetown University Police Department Chief of Police Jay Gruber, according to a Feb. 25 BSC Instagram story.

The university hopes to further the dialogue on the concerns BSC and other student groups have brought up through the #GeorgetownDoesntCare movement, according to a university spokesperson.

“Georgetown University takes seriously the concerns of student survivors and we are committed to learning more about their experiences both at Georgetown and outside of the university,” the university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We are committed to continuing to improve our resources so they meet the needs of all students, and work to be responsive when our campus resources fall short.”

One BSC demand that is especially pressing is the need to establish comprehensive crisis response resources that are survivor-centered and traumainformed, given Georgetown’s high rates of sexual assault, according to Georgetown University Student Association President Norman Francis Jr. (COL ’20), who attended the protest and also helped organize the #GeorgetownDoesntCare campaign.

“Mental health resources across campus, or resources for survivors of sexual assault, are

just slim to none, and also folks don’t even trust them enough to engage with them,” Francis said.

“It’s a very sorry state that we’re in right now, just the fact that our rates of sexual assault for undergraduates is higher than other universities is appalling.”

Among Georgetown undergraduates, 31.3% of transgender, genderqueer or nonbinary, questioning, or not listed students reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent, which is higher than the 20.3% average reported by the Association of American Universities, according to the 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct. This statistic was cited in BSC’s original statement.

The university fails to provide adequate support and resources for survivors, according to Eric Perez (COL ’23), who also attended the protest.

“When you are attacked on this campus, you are expected to be your own therapist, your own doctor, your own caretaker, and also a full-time student at the same time,” Perez said. “Under a system with adequate resources that just would not be the case.”

Resources: On-campus confidential resources include Health Education Services (202-687-8949) and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (202687-6985); additional off-campus resources include the D.C. Rape Crisis Center (202-333-7273) and the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiner Washington Hospital Center (1-844-443-5732).

If you or anyone you know would like to receive a sexual assault forensic examination or other medical care — including emergency contraception — call the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. (202-742-1727). To report sexual misconduct, you can contact Georgetown’s Title IX coordinator (202-687-9183) or file an online report here. Emergency contraception is available at the CVS located at 1403 Wisconsin Ave. NW and through H*yas for Choice. For more information, visit sexualassault.georgetown. edu.at 1403 Wisconsin Ave. NW and through H*yas for Choice. For more information, visit sexualassault. georgetown.edu.

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Youth Group Performance Highlights Immigrant Plight GRACE BUONO AND HARRISON LEE

Hoya Staff Writer and Special to The Hoya

Georgetown University hosted a group of young performers to put on a musical that highlights the experiences of immigrant families in Poulton Hall Feb. 21.

The musical, titled “The Traveling Serialized Adventures of Kid Quixote,” featured 15 students aged 6 to 17 who translated and adapted the original Spanish version of “Don Quixote” into a bilingual story with Still Waters in a Storm, an afterschool program based in Brooklyn, New York. During the event, students used a mix of Spanish and English, prose and song, and fictional and nonfictional stories to convey their own interpretation of the classic novel.

The original story of “Don Quixote,” written by Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, is about a knight who comes across many obstacles while traveling through Spain to serve his nation. The story is both timeless and relatable, especially for Spanish-speaking students, and serves as an excellent learning tool for students who come from immigrant backgrounds, according to Chief of Still Waters in a Storm Stephen Haff.

“Like any great work of art it yields treasures and speaks truth across generations,” Haff wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“I also like to present my students with projects that seem to be impossible, so that they learn that nothing is beyond them. The novel is common ground for us and for our audiences.”

Still Waters in a Storm was founded in 2009 to help students, especially those from low-income and immigrant backgrounds, practice reading, writing and acting in a safe environment, according to Haff.

“Our one rule is ‘Everyone listens to everyone,’ a simple algorithm for teaching and learning in which every person is considered equally important,” Haff wrote.

At the event, the students of Still Waters in a Storm read aloud an excerpt from a letter they received through correspondence with girls who had been separated from their families, according to Haff.

“We had a brief opportunity to correspond with a group of girls from Guatemala and Honduras who were separated from their families,” Haff wrote. “My students became attached to their long-distance friends and determined to tell

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Michelle Janavs was sentenced to five months in prison, two years of supervised released and ordered to pay $250,000 for her actions to help her children get admitted as part of the college admissions scandal.

3rd GU Parent Sentenced In College Admissions Scandal HARRISON MCBRIDE Hoya Staff Writer

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A guest youth group performed its musical, titled “The Traveling Serialized Adventures of Kid Quixote,” at a Feb. 21 event in Poulton Hall. their story wherever we go.”

The students use their performance to express and understand different perspectives on global issues, Haff wrote.

“They wish they could set the girls free, but all they can do is liberate their stories and try to inspire audiences to care about them,” Haff wrote.

“Reading the letter is also in keeping with the novel Don Quixote, in the sense that it represents a multiplicity of narrative voice and a deliberate, metatheatrical awareness that the actors are storytellers.”

This musical adaptation of “Don Quixote” strives to incorporate the ideas of all the student performers, according to Kim Sherman, a composer at Still Waters in a Storm.

“Every choice in translation, dialogue writing and songwriting was made collectively,” Sherman said in an interview with The Hoya. “Every kid, no matter how young, had input, and no decisions were made without consensus of the group.”

The musical was co-sponsored by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the department of performing arts.

The success of the project can be seen through its impact on the students and families

involved, according to Derek Goldman, professor of theater and performance studies and co-founding director of The Lab. “It was wonderful - really inspiring and moving and many commented that it was palpable the huge impact this project has had on the lives of all the children and families participating, as well as on the perception of immigrant communities among audiences,” Goldman wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The Lab, founded in 2012, is the only joint initiative between the School of Foreign Service and Georgetown College created with a mission to harness the power of performance to humanize global politics, according to Goldman.

The musical is meant to both showcase the talent of its student performers and encourage greater understanding of the immigrant experience, according to Haff.

“I hope people who see the show can experience how brilliant these kids are, and by extension appreciate the genius of children in general,” Haff wrote. “I also hope they recognize that immigrants and refugees come to this country with much to give, not to take.

The ultimate goal, on behalf of the kids and their families, is compassion.”

Former Georgetown University parent Michelle Janavs was sentenced Tuesday for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, as well as money laundering, becoming the third former Georgetown parent sentenced in the college admissions scandal.

Janavs, whose father and uncle founded Hot Pockets, was sentenced to five months in prison and two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. Janavs pleaded guilty to paying $400,000 to have her son Grant Janavs (COL ’21) admitted to Georgetown as an unqualified tennis recruit, according to an April 2019 indictment.

Janavs also paid $200,000 to have one of her daughters admitted as a fake beach volleyball recruit to the University of Southern California. Janavs worked with Rick Singer, the ringleader of the national college admissions scandal, paying him $100,000 to provide a fraudulent test proctor for their ACT exams in 2017 and 2019.

Prosecutors charged Janavs in April 2019, to which Janavs initially pleaded not guilty. In October 2019, Janavs and three other former Georgetown parents switched their pleas to guilty. Prosecutors then recommended Janavs be sentenced with 21 months in prison, three years of supervised release, 250 hours of community service and a $175,000 fine.

Prosecutors for the case alleged Janavs was one of the most culpable parents in the admissions scandal, citing her repeated efforts over multiple years to help her children gain acceptance into both Georgetown and

USC, according to CNN. Janavs’ lawyer did not respond to request for comment.

The charges come as part of the ongoing “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, a national college admissions investigation that has exposed alleged misconduct by parents who sought to improve their children’s college admissions chances. Janavs is one of five Georgetown parents charged in the scandal.

Janavs conspired with former Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst to have her son admitted as a fake tennis recruit to the university. Ernst reportedly accepted over $2.7 million in bribes to help 12 applicants get falsely designated as tennis recruits for the university.

The university first discovered Ernst’s actions in 2017 and took appropriate measures to ensure the integrity of the future of athletic recruitment at Georgetown, according to a university spokesperson.

“In 2017, Georgetown’s Admissions Office discovered irregularities in the athletic credentials of two students who were being recruited to play tennis. Neither student was admitted,” the university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya in October.

“Georgetown immediately put former coach Gordon Ernst on leave, initiated an internal investigation, established a new policy concerning the recruitment of student athletes, implemented audits to check whether recruited student athletes are on team rosters, and asked Mr. Ernst to resign.”

Janavs joins other former Georgetown parents Douglas Hodge and Stephen Semprevivo in being sentenced for their roles in the “Varsity Blues” col-

lege admissions scandal.

Hodge was given the longest sentence to date in the college admissions scandal Feb. 7 when a federal judge sentenced him to nine months in prison, two years of court supervision, 500 hours of community service as well as a $750,000 fine.

Hodge reportedly paid $325,000 to Ernst to get two of his children admitted to Georgetown as tennis recruits. Hodge additionally paid $525,000 in bribes to get two of his other children admitted to USC as football and soccer recruits. Hodge also unsuccessfully attempted to bribe coaches at Loyola Marymount University to have his fifth child admitted there.

Stephen Semprevivo was sentenced in September 2019 after being charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in March 2019. Stephen Semprevivo reportedly paid Ernst $400,000 to have his son, Adam Semprevivo, admitted as a fake tennis recruit. (Full disclosure: Adam Semprevivo formerly served as a cartoonist for The Hoya.)

Stephen Semprevivo was ultimately sentenced to four months in prison, two years of supervised release and 500 hours of community service and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. Georgetown formally dismissed Adam Semprevivo from the university and rescinded his admission in May 2019.

Adam Semprevivo filed a lawsuit against the university after the announcement of his dismissal, claiming he was not aware of his father’s efforts to gain his admission to the university. Adam Semprevivo ultimately dismissed his lawsuit against the university.

GUSA Resolution Calls for Free Online Textbook Program LIANA HARDY Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate approved a resolution advocating for the creation of an online textbook program that would grant students free access to hundreds of textbooks during their weekly meeting.

The program, called the Open Textbook Network, is a collection of peer-reviewed, openly licensed educational resources that are free for students to download.

Over 600 colleges and universities use the program, saving students an estimated $8.5 million, according to the OTN website.

The resolution, introduced by Senator Joshua Marin-Mora (SFS ’21), passed unanimously at the Senate’s weekly meeting Feb. 23.

The textbook policy constituted a central component of Marin-Mora’s executive candidacy platform in the election that he lost Feb. 6.

The program would not eliminate all course material expenses as professors can still opt to not use the program and assign their own textbooks. Despite this option, the OTN program would significantly lower book costs for many students, according to Marin-Mora.

“This isn’t going to solve the issue completely, but this is another avenue, on top of book drives that happen around campus, to continue to attack the textbook affordability issue,” Marin-Mora said in an interview with The Hoya.

Students enrolled in four-year colleges spent an estimated average of $1,240 on books and course supplies for the academic year 2019-20, according to The College Board. Textbook prices have risen in recent years, with costs increasing by 88% between

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The GUSA resolution urges the university to adopt the Open Textbook Network program, which would give students access to a collection of peer-reviewed, openly licensed educational resources for free. The resolution was sponsored by Senator Joshua Marin-Mora (SFS ’21).

2006 and 2016, placing a large burden on many low-income college students.

Rising coursebook costs make the program even more crucial to students struggling with other college expenses, according to Marin-Mora.

“This network is really important because textbook prices continue to rise,” Marin-Mora said.

“I know plenty of students who struggled with textbook prices at the beginning of the semester.”

The free textbook network would primarily help students who come from low-income backgrounds or who are the first in their family to go to college, according to Georgetown Scholar

Program member and first-generation college student Maddy Langan (COL ’23).

“Textbooks are something that unfortunately aren’t included in tuition, making it an added cost when arriving on campus,” Langan said in an interview with The Hoya. “Being first gen, I didn’t know the secrets of getting cheaper textbooks or how to navigate alternative options.

Reducing the costs of textbooks would be an enormous help.

College is expensive overall, but when you’re paying for it on your own, every dollar counts.”

The OTN program was adopted at American University in 2015 as a part of their greater

“Open American” policy aimed at improving resource access and affordability. AU students have been able to save $603,694 on textbooks since the start of the program, according to the AU’s Assistant Vice President for Communications and Media Lisa Stark.

Georgetown could achieve similar increasing affordability by adopting the OTN program, according to Marin-Mora.

“We’re seeing a peer institution right here in our neighborhood that is taking another step at saving costs for students and I think that Georgetown is also the perfect institution to be at the forefront of that conversation,”

Marin-Mora said.

Georgetown faculty have autonomy to choose their own course materials. The GUSA resolution, however, will be discussed at the next Council of Associate Deans meeting, according to a university spokesman.

Additionally, the Georgetown University Library recently joined the OTN through its membership in the Washington Research Library Consortium, which shares information resources among colleges in the DMV area, according to Harriette Hemmasi, dean of the library. The library staff is currently working to maximize student awareness and access to the program.

Despite the benefits to low income students, some students have opposed the implementation of a free textbook network.

The program would limit the academic freedom of professors, according to Simeon Brockington (COL ’23), who has raised concern about the initiative.

“I don’t think teachers should have to cater to students,” Brockington said in an interview with The Hoya. “If it’s a good textbook, teachers should use it regardless of the price.”

In response to such concerns, Marin-Mora said the network would still allow professors to have complete control over the resources they decide to use.

“I think one of the most important things is academic freedom, and teachers aren’t required to use open textbooks, but it provides an avenue if they want to use any that are already in the library or add to the library,” MarinMora said.

Resources within the network are available in a wide variety of formats, including textbooks, online quizzes, instructional modules, interactive simulations and video and audio files, according to American University’s website.

Many AU professors have said the OTN program has increased academic freedom by providing them with new ways to customize their curriculums.

Implementing the OTN would pave the way for more initiatives that aim to improve affordability at Georgetown, according to Marin-Mora.

“It would continue the conversation about how to make campus more affordable for students and would show that Georgetown is taking another step at leading, along with other institutions all over the country,” Marin-Mora said.

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GU To Send 2020 Census Data Students Protest Against Election Via New E-Response System Suspension in Dominican Republic GRACE BUONO Hoya Staff Writer

The race, gender and ethnicity of residential students and community members will be excluded from the 2020 census as Georgetown University switches to a new online census reporting system, according to a university official.

The university will be able to report 100% of students living on campus through an online data collection system in April 2020. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, however, restricts the university from reporting the race, ethnicity or gender of students, according to a university official.

Georgetown will compile census data for residential students and community members using a new Electronic Response Data Transfer, or eResponse, method for the first time this year. Administrators will input census data online on behalf of residential students and community members through the new system, according to a university official.

The U.S. Census Bureau will not directly contact students in university-owned housing, which the bureau considers group quarters, the same category as jails and senior living homes, according to a 2020 census fact sheet co-authored

by Cara Brumfield. Brumfield serves as a senior policy analyst at the Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Center on Poverty and Inequality.

The USCB will instead communicate with university representatives, according to the fact sheet.

When universities report census data on residential students, representatives have several options for how they count those students, according to the USCB. Universities can choose to report census data by allowing a census taker to drop off paper questionnaires for students to fill out.

They can also choose to give a census taker permission to knock on doors to conduct the census or elect to compile data online using a secure portal, according to the USCB. In previous years, the university participated in a program in which students filled out a census form and delivered it to their residential assistants.

Under this system, used by Georgetown in the 2010 census, roommates filled out forms together before turning them in to their RAs, according to a university official.

Out of concerns that the previous system could make students feel uncomfortable, the university switched to an eResponse method for group quarters for the 2020 census, rather than having students self-report information, according to a university official.

Students also have the opportunity to request that additional directory information, such as home addresses, telephone numbers, and date and place of birth, be withheld from student directory information, according to a Jan. 23 universitywide email from Associate Vice President and University Registrar Annamarie Bianco.

While students can withhold the release of directory information every academic year, students can also restrict the university from sharing their information with the USCB, ac-

cording to a university official.

Students can opt-in to filling out the census form themselves and include answers to questions about characteristics of their identity, according to Amy O’Hara, director of the Georgetown Federal Statistical Research Data Center.

“There is also an option for students to fill out individual forms, which would enable them to report their characteristics like race, Hispanic origin, and gender,” O’Hara wrote in an email to The Hoya. “These fields have always been restricted by FERPA, nothing changed this year in terms of the law or regulations.”

Data collected from the census is crucial to developments for Georgetown’s surrounding neighborhood, according to O’Hara.

“Census data is critically important for understanding Georgetown’s local community, potentially involving the availability and use of rental housing, of transportation planning (bike share, ride share, parking, bus routes, shuttles), and the data are important to investors and entrepreneurs who offer services to the Georgetown community,” O’Hara wrote.

Unlike residential students, the university will not complete an eResponse for students living off campus. These students will self-report their race or ethnicity and gender on 2020 census enumerations, according to a university official.

The census will also contact those students directly.

The university has not sent instructions to students living on or off campus for the upcoming census set for April 2020.

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Members of Georgetown University Riqueza Dominicana, a student-run Dominican cultural club, attended a protest near the White House on Sunday opposing the Dominican Republic’s recent suspension of nationwide municipal elections.

Protests first began in the Dominican Republic on Feb. 16 when the suspension began and were followed by similar protests in several major cities around the world, including Washington, D.C. The D.C. protest, which was organized via a Facebook page, took place near the White House at 2:30 p.m. Six members of Riqueza Dominicana attended the protest, which totaled over 150 attendees, according to Communications Director of Riqueza Dominicana Nicole Sanchez (SFS ’22).

Protests in the Dominican Republic began shortly after the government suspended nationwide municipal elections four hours after the start of the elections, when officials realized that many voters were unable to see complete ballots on the electronic voting machines, according to The New York Times. The voting machines were used in the capital, Santo Domingo, as well as 17 of the most populous of the Dominican Republic’s 158 municipalities, according to BBC News.

The glitch in the voting machines benefitted the current party in power, the Domini-

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Changing Politics Will Affect 2020 Election, Experts Say YALDA ZARRABI Hoya Staff Writer

Changing political dynamics like a rise in candidate-centered campaigns and a more engaged electorate will shape the 2020 presidential race, political experts said at a panel event Wednesday.

The event, titled “Road to 2020,” was hosted by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and the Brunswick Group, a strategic consulting firm. At the event, panelists discussed strategies implemented by President Donald Trump and his campaign that ultimately led to his victory in the 2016 presidential election.

The event comes as the Democratic primary contests for the 2020 presidential nomination have intensified. Most recently, the Democratic Party hosted its 10th scheduled debate in Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of the state’s primary election Feb. 29. Fourteen more states are set to hold their primaries March 3.

Trump succeeded as a presidential candidate because of his ability to increase his name recognition among U.S. citizens, according to panelist Michael Steele (LAW ’81), former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

“Over the prior 15 years, he had a relationship with the American people, officially known as an audience. He built a brand; he built an identity that they latched onto and they liked,” Steele said. “He created this reality television iden-

tity presence and people were sucked into it. The essential thing Trump did was he took his viewers and made them voters.”

Trump’s rhetoric and persona have dominated much of the national political discourse, according to panelist Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report.

“In the 2020 election, there is one thing that matters, and it’s Donald Trump,” Walter said. “It’s been the entire focus of the political ecosystem for the last four years and will continue to drive 2020.”

Other panelists for the event included CNN political commentator Patti Solis Doyle, New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman, former governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe (LAW ’84) and former GU Politics fellow Jonathan Burks.

The shift in the political landscape over the last four years has also been accompanied by a change in voter demographics, according to Doyle.

“Politics has changed. I think the electorate has changed. I think it’s getting much younger; it’s getting much more diverse,” Doyle said. “The way we measure politics, the metrics by which we measure, that’s different. We can’t measure accurately anymore. The way we receive information has changed; the way we disseminate information has changed.”

Through the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, public participation in political discourse has increased, Haberman said. As

individuals are now able to discuss and express their own opinions on large platforms, the media’s power to shape public opinion has decreased, according to Haberman.

“The press is no longer the gatekeeper,” Haberman said.

“We are just covering what’s in front of us and the voters are going to do what they’re going to do with it.”

In presidential primaries, state delegates vote for the presidential candidate they want to represent them in the presidential election. So far, primaries and caucuses have taken place in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

While Trump leads the Republican primaries with 86 of the 87 delegates that have been allocated so far, voters and politicians have expressed uncertainty over who will become the Democratic presidential nominee after the results of the first three contests. Currently, there is a 51% chance that no candidate receives a majority of pledged delegates for the nomination, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Democratic primary probability model.

McAuliffe said he predicts the race will quickly pare down to a contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“It’s hard for us right now to really go after Trump because everybody is trying to get delegates. I think a week from today we’re going to have a pretty clear idea,” McAuliffe said, “It’ll probably be down to a two-person race.”

voting systems come under scrutiny around the world, as in the case of the recent e-voting system failure during the United States’ Iowa Democratic primary caucuses, according to the New York Times.

Students calling for better electoral procedure in the Dominican Republic augments broader efforts to unseat long-term corruption in the country, according to Leslie Rozon (NHS ’23), a member of Riqueza Dominicana who also attended the protest.

“Dominican mentality has to change as well, because with corruption a lot of people usually get paid to vote for a specific party,” Rozon said. “Something that would also help is the voting of the youth in this country, many young people don’t vote, so their voices are overlooked.”

The protests surrounding the Dominican Republic’s election suspension displays the impact that protesters can have on political reform and applies to other countries in the region, according to Academic Director of the Center for Latin American Studies Angelo Santos.

“If young people are able to impact electoral reforms, they also have the challenge to continue monitoring the transparency of their elections through several means (not only through voting and protests, but by engaging in the political process),” Santos wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“This is true not only for the Dominican Republic, but for every other country in the region.”

Filmmaker Ken Burns: Educate About Nuances of American Past JIMMY O’MEARA

The university will be able to report 100% of students living on campus through an online data collection system in April 2020. FERPA, however, restricts the university from reporting the race, ethnicity or gender of students.

can Liberation Party, as many candidates from opposition parties were not listed on the incomplete ballots, according to Sanchez.

“The new voting system was only showing the current party in power, the Dominican Liberation Party— which has been in power for sixteen years. They are also the party that oversees the elections,” Sanchez wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The PLD has not been transparent with this ‘glitch’ and has not publicized their plan to move forward.”

The goal of the D.C. protest was to demonstrate support for the people of the Dominican Republic who are currently fighting for a more transparent democracy and elections, according to Sanchez.

“Our objective is to show our support for those on the island who are being effected directly by the political corruption,” Sanchez wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our organization is protesting to show that what we care about what happens in our homeland though we live thousands of miles away. Just because we no longer live there does not mean that we have forgotten about our people.”

This instance is not the first time the country has faced issues with its electronic voting system. After the Dominican Republic’s 2016 presidential election, the Central Electoral Board spent 13 days counting votes that were cast electronically. The protests in the Dominican Republic reflect a growing concern about protecting elections as electronic

The United States must reconcile with the darker parts of its history to confront current political and social issues, according to accomplished documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.

Burns, famous for his multiepisodic documentary series, discussed his past and present projects with Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) on Feb. 27. His most recent documentary miniseries, “Country Music,” premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service in September 2019. The event, a discussion of immigration issues in the United States, touched on Burns’ lengthy career of curating U.S. history in his films.

At the event, Burns discussed his new historical film project with PBS, UNUM, a reference to the motto of the United States, “e pluribus unum,” the Latin phrase for “out of many, one.” Hopefully, the new project will enrich conversations about the lasting significance of events in U.S. history, Burns said.

“Every time we finish a film we can’t help but hear its resonance in the present,” Burns said. “I think that it’s the deepening of these conversations which I’m after and trying to celebrate in this

new form of UNUM.” UNUM compiles film clips about various events, people and topics throughout U.S. history in separate educational video series, according to the PBS website. Burns’ latest collaboration comes as the most recent step in a storied four-decade filmmaking career. His films and documentary series have been honored with dozens of major awards, including 15 Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations.

A separate discussion with Burns and Georgetown College Dean Christopher Celenza was held earlier in the day in Riggs Library.

Historians should tell U.S. history by including more diverse perspectives without deleting any community’s narratives, according to Burns.

“We have to find a way to tell our stories, and for the longest time our stories have only been a white male narrative,” Burns said. “It has been presidential nominations punctuated by wars. That doesn’t work anymore, but you don’t throw that out; it’s still there. It coexists with all of the bottom-up stories and the million heroic acts.”

Common themes run throughout U.S. history, but today’s issues are unlike anything the nation has seen before, according to Burns.

“Things occur and reoccur.

We are very fond of saying that history repeats itself; it does not. It’s not true. Mark Twain is supposed to have said ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes,’” Burns said.

“We are in a historical moment that is actually very different than previous generations and that actually goes beyond party or office.”

The event, titled “Immigration: Views on Liberty,” took place in the Lohrfink Auditorium. DeGioia hosted the event alongside the Better Angels Society, a nonprofit organization educating the public about U.S. history. The discussion was followed by a panel with Georgetown professors.

The panel included professors Katherine Benton-Cohen, Richard Boyd, Ricardo Ortiz and Andrew Ian Schoenholtz, who joined Celenza to discuss current immigration policy in relation to the selected clips from Burns’ films.

In his closing remarks, Burns said his films, which seek to tell the truth about the past, not only encompass stories about the United States but also describe the essence of the nation.

“I’d like to say that the films that I have made have all been about the U.S., but they have also been about the corresponding two-letter lowercase plural pronoun: us,” Burns said.

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Accomplished documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discussed his past and current projects with University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) at an event Feb. 27.

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Glover Park Whole Foods Set Dupont Underground Art Venue To Reopen After 3-Year Closure In Negotiations to Renew Lease ISHAAN RAI

Hoya Staff Writer

The Whole Foods market in Glover Park will reopen after a three-year closure, following a legal battle between the store and its landlord.

Whole Foods and Wical Limited Partnership, the owner of the store’s space at 2323 Wisconsin Ave. NW, filed to settle the legal dispute in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Feb. 19. The settlement, for an undisclosed amount of money, allowed Whole Foods to move forward with planned renovations to their Glover Park location, which was previously prevented by a contract stipulation.

While the exact timeline of the renovation process is unclear, neighbors are eager for the store to reopen, according to Brian Turmail, chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3B, the local government body that represents the Glover Park neighborhood.

“I have no idea how long it will take for Whole Foods to secure renovation permits, conduct their renovation and reopen,” Turmail wrote in an email to The Hoya. “From our point of view, the sooner, the better.”

The grocery chain is pleased to come back to Glover Park, according to a Whole Foods spokesperson.

“We are thrilled to announce that Whole Foods Market will be returning to Glover Park. We will be

completing a remodel of the store before reopening our doors, so stay tuned for more details on timing,” a Whole Foods spokesperson told DCist. “We look forward to returning to serving the community we’ve been part of for more than 20 years.”

The dispute between Whole Foods and Wical began in 2017 when a rat infestation led to two shutdowns of the grocery store by the D.C. Health in just two months. When the Washington, D.C. health department gave the store permission to reopen, management decided to keep the store closed to undergo remodeling, triggering the first complaint from Wical.

The owners claimed this shutdown violated the terms of Whole Foods’s lease, which stipulated that the grocer could not shut down for more than sixty days. The planned renovation would have exceeded the 60-day limit.

Whole Foods argued it was not in violation of its agreement by invoking a clause that would allow for a prolonged shutdown if there were extenuating circumstances beyond its control, such as “acts of god, strikes, lockouts, labor troubles, plan approval delay.” The store classified the two rat infestations that led to the original shutdown as an “act of god.”

The validity of the argument that the rat infestations were an “act of god”

was scheduled to be considered at a May 26 trial. The settlement reached by the parties, however, cancels the planned proceedings.

D.C. Health has shut down other Glover Park establishments for rat infestations in recent months. Cafe Romeo, a pizzeria and hookah bar, was shut down in September 2019 for rat infestation and structural issues.

The reopening of Whole Foods’ Glover Park location will make grocery shopping more accessible to Georgetown students, according to Elise Gallentine (COL ’23).

“I am excited because I think it will be a more direct walk through Georgetown, because the one in Foggy Bottom is a little bit hard to get to sometimes,” Gallentine said in an interview with The Hoya.

A Trader Joe’s store opened in Glover Park at 2101 Wisconsin Ave. NW in July 2019, giving the neighborhood’s residents an alternative option for grocery shopping.

Whole Foods’ gluten-free options and transparency around the ingredients in its products, however, make it a more convenient place to shop for students with dietary restrictions, according to Gallentine, who is a celiac.

“As a celiac, I do find that Whole Foods has more variability and more selection of gluten free products, which is very important to me as someone who has to pay extra attention about what is in their food,” Gallentine said.

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Dupont Underground, a nonprofit art venue located in abandoned trolley tunnels under Dupont Circle, is in talks to renew their venue lease, allaying previous concerns it would be forced to close.

Since October 2019, Dupont Underground’s management has been in discussions with the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, which is responsible for overseeing the property and the negotiations of the new lease. The most recent meeting between the art space’s management and DMPED occurred Feb. 24, according to Robert Meins, CEO of Dupont Underground.

Although contract and lease negotiations are still ongoing, Meins is optimistic that the new contract will soon be finalized.

“We’ve been in negotiations to see what works for us. In fact, there was a meeting today at Dupont, which we took to go over the final term sheet,” Meins said in an interview with The Hoya. “And that sets out the terms for what the final agreement will be.”

DMPED is in talks with Dupont Underground but would not elaborate on the details of the negotiation, according to Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio in a statement to ABC affiliate WJLA.

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Capital Bikeshare To Bring Back E-Bike Program After Recall BRIAN ELY

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After putting the brakes on its electric bike initiative last year, Capital Bikeshare will be releasing a fleet of 1,500 new electric bikes onto Washington, D.C. streets beginning March 18.

The improved e-bikes are equipped with hybrid docking technology that allows riders to lock the bikes to Capital Bikeshare stations, as well as standard bike racks for a $1 out-of-station fee, according to a Feb. 21 District Department of Transportation news release. Capital Bikeshare e-bike riders will also be charged a $1 fee per trip in addition to the normal trip fees.

E-bikes will be an attractive new transportation option for students and other university community members, according to Georgetown University Transportation Demand Manager Lindsey Bullen.

“The new e-bikes make it easier to travel a longer distance, and ride in areas with hills, which can make biking more accessible for our campus community,” Bullen wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Capital Bikeshare can also be accessed 24/7 when other transportation options may not be available.”

Capital Bikeshare has two docking stations near campus, one outside the main gates of campus and one recently installed in Burleith. Georgetown students are eligible for a discounted annual bike membership of $25 in partnership with the Capital Bike-

share University Program.

The university encourages the increased use of bikes, according to Bullen.

“I expect we will see the ebikes being used to get to and from campus, especially now that the University has access to two docking stations nearby,” Bullen wrote. “The e-bikes are only a portion of the total Capital Bikeshare bikes in the system, so we will still see high usage of the traditional Capital Bikeshare bikes.”

The reimplementation of the e-bike program comes as part of a District-wide effort to broaden transportation options, according to DDOT Director Jeff Marootian.

“These new and improved e-bikes will allow Capital Bikeshare riders to lock the bikes to bike racks at their destination, allowing unprecedented accessibility across all eight wards of the District,” Marootian wrote in the Feb. 21 news release.

Advisory Neighborhood 2E Commissioner Kishan Putta, who is currently running to represent Ward 2 on the Council of the District of Columbia, supports the return of the e-bike program as a more sustainable transportation option for D.C. residents, he wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We need more electric modes of transportation in D.C.,” Putta wrote. “I support the expansion of not only electric bikes, but electric cars, buses and charging stations to help DC become carbon neutral and climate resilient by 2050.”

Capital Bikeshare recalled the e-bike pilot program in April 2019 after issues with the e-bikes’ braking systems resulted in multiple injuries among riders. The company continued to offer nonelectric bikes while undergoing internal safety assessments and improvements.

The company’s decision to halt the e-bike program after safety concerns was a wise one, according to Putta.

“I strongly support new safe, efficient transportation options in our city,” Putta wrote. “Safety is most important. That’s why I am glad Bikeshare voluntarily paused the e-bike program until they were made safer.”

Members in the Community Partners Program, Capital Bikeshare’s need-based discount service, will also have complete access to the new ebike initiative, according to an update posted on the Capital Bikeshare website. CPP members will receive a one-year free membership extension and will not be charged the additional e-bike fee.

To ensure the success of the Capital Bikeshare e-bike program, the company needs to remain focused on promoting public safety and responsible use, according to Putta.

“They should not roll this program out unless they are fully ready to ensure that these bikes will be parked safely,” Putta wrote. “We are glad for these new transportation options in our city, but these companies are making money. They have to be safe, used safely and parked safely.”

In addition to displaying art exhibitions, Dupont Underground hosts events like comedy showcases. Georgetown students Sahaj Sharda (SFS ’20) and Gary Simons (COL ’21) both performed at the venue’s “D.C.’s Best Young Comedians” showcase in September 2019.

Performing at Dupont Underground provided Simons with an introduction to the professional world of stand-up comedy, he wrote.

“To me, Dupont Underground will always be a reminder of my first professional stand-up show and what I am capable of as a performer,” Simons wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “After my first show there people from GW reached out to me to perform at their school and the organization that booked me for the first show kept asking me to perform again. By the end of last semester, I had done 4 stand-up shows.”

The venue is a great place to perform because of the unique space, which can accommodate a large audience, according to Sharda.

“It was my favorite gig to date.

The rogue location and ambiance combined with the over 400 people who were comfortably seated in the audience led to a night that was an absolute blast,” Sharda wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “I personally loved the attitude of the venue.”

Georgetown Administrators Oppose Bus Route Changes CLARA GRUDBERG

Capital Bikeshare halted its electric bike program in April 2019 after riders reported issues with the braking systems. 1,500 electric bikes are expected to roll out as part of the revival of the program.

“We remain in active negotiations with the operators of the Dupont Underground to extend their operations despite nonpayment of rent,” Falcicchio said to WJLA. “Given the ongoing nature of those negotiations, public comment would not be prudent at this time. As we previously stated: We remain committed to keeping this unique space as an asset of the creative economy.”

Dupont Underground’s flexible space offers opportunities for diverse programming, according to Meins.

“When you see a space like this, you understand what its potential is. Anyone who comes down here sees that potential and it’s just a question of getting the right team and formula together,” Meins said to WJLA. The venue is an accommodating space for aspiring and ambitious artists, according to Meins.

“When I first met with them, I said, ‘Look, I don’t have money, I don’t have an organization, I have this really ambitious exhibition that I want to put on in just 10 months and what do you think?’” Meins said in an interview with The Hoya. “Any other venues in the city would have said, ‘That’s ridiculous.

Come back two years before you are gonna do something.’

Except Dupont Underground worked with me to make the exhibition possible.”

Georgetown University administrators have joined students and workers in the ongoing opposition against proposed bus service changes to eliminate routes that serve the university.

University administrators testified alongside local officials and community members in opposition of proposed bus route changes at a Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority public hearing Feb. 26. Residents from around Washington, D.C., packed the hearing room to express their frustrations to a panel of five WMATA officials.

The university worked with local governmental and business groups, as well as student organizations, to develop a united position opposing the proposed changes, according to Heidi Tseu, director of local government affairs at Georgetown, who testified at the hearing on behalf of the university.

“We were pleased to provide testimony last night on behalf of the University and were grateful to join with our local Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, students and neighbors to express our shared concerns about this proposal,” Tseu wrote in an email to The Hoya.

In addition to presenting testimony at the public hearing, Georgetown also submitted a letter to WMATA on Feb. 27.

“Our historic campus is home to thousands of students and, as the District’s largest private employer, the workplace of thousands of faculty and staff. Many of our students, faculty, visitors, and staff rely on public transportation to travel to and from our campus,” the letter read.

As part of its budget proposal for the fiscal year 2021, WMATA proposed a series of service changes, including the elimination of Route D1 (Glover

Park-Franklin Square Line), and the consolidation of Route G2 (P Street-LeDroit Park Line) and Route D2 (Glover Park-Dupont Circle Line), all of which serve the Georgetown neighborhood.

By consolidating the G2 and D2 lines, riders will now have to walk nearly half a mile from campus to reach a bus stop, which will make taking public transportation a less attractive option, according to the letter.

“To move access to Metrobus service even farther away – when such a ride is often just one leg of a rider’s total commute – will strongly disincentivize the use of public transportation, promote the use of single occupancy vehicles and rideshares, and increase parking and congestion in the Georgetown neighborhood,” the letter read.

A WMATA spokesperson did not respond to The Hoya’s request for comment by the time of publication.

Service changes to Route G2 will disproportionately affect campus workers — some of whom already have sizable commutes — and make their community even more inconvenient, according to Alex Taliadoros, organizing director at the Kalmanovitz Institute for Labor and the Working Poor, which develops policies and strategies to improve workers’ lives.

“We believe that about a quarter of Georgetown’s campus workers rely on the G2 for their daily commute,” Taliadoros wrote in an email to The Hoya. “ It’s not uncommon for a worker to ride a bus to their nearest Metro station, ride the train into DC, switch lines, then get off at DuPont Circle or Rosslyn to take another bus to campus. On a good day, when everything runs smoothly, their commutes last between an hour and an hour and a half. On a bad day it takes much longer.”

While the proposed changes may seem small, they will

have significant detrimental impacts on Georgetown’s community members, according to Taliadoros.

“The proposed changes to the G2 route may seem small to some, but it adds a ten-minute walk each way to what is an already Odyssean journey home,” Taliadoros wrote. “It means walking an additional six blocks before-and-after a physically demanding work shift. It means waiting for a bus on a dark street corner without as much as a bus stop canopy to protect them from the elements.”

The university has encouraged community members affected by the proposed changes to submit comments via WMATA’s online survey, Tseu and Vice President for Government Relations and Community Engagement Christopher Murphy wrote in a Feb. 27 university-wide email.

The university has reposted the Georgetown University Student Association Federal and D.C. Relations Committee graphics about the routes on their social media accounts. The posts came as FedRel embarked on a social media campaign, called #WMATAWeek, to increase student awareness about the service changes.

Submitting a public comment is the best way for students to advocate for the preservation of the bus routes, according to Natalia Lopez (SFS ’22), who serves as the secretary of D.C. affairs for FedRel. “GUSA’s Federal and D.C. Relations Committee has been working with the Local Relations Office in finding resources for students and workers on campus to advocate for their bus lines,” Lopez wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The most important outlet to comment and voice your opinion will be filling out a public comment on the WMATA website by March 2nd.”

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Members of the Georgetown University administration sent a letter to WMATA voicing opposition to recently proposed plans to merge and eliminate bus routes servicing the university and neighborhood.

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GU Falls By 6 Points To Big Georgetown Grabs 2 Wins, East’s Last-Place Team 3 Losses in Madeira Beach SEAN HAGGERTY Hoya Staff Writer

In a season marked by the transfers of four players and the recent injuries to two key starters, the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s struggles only worsened as it fell 74-68 to the Big East’s lastplace team DePaul University on Feb. 22.

With the loss, Georgetown falls to 15-12 with a 5-9 Big East play while DePaul improves to 14-13 with a 2-12 conference record.

Though some analysts predicted Georgetown to potentially be the second-to-last team to make the tournament this postseason, the loss severely diminishes the Blue and Gray’s chances of achieving its first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 2013.

DePaul stormed out of the gates with 12 points off six sunk baskets to lead the Hoyas 12-7 just over five minutes into play.

Freshman center Qudus Wahab responded to the Blue Demons’ offensive showing with a powerful slam that began an 8-0 run for the Hoyas.

With two free throws from senior center Omer Yurtseven, who sat out the last two games because of an ankle injury, closing out the run, the Hoyas grabbed their first advantage of the game at 15-12 with 10:39 left in the first half.

Five unanswered points by DePaul in the ensuing minutes, however, halted the Hoyas’ offensive momentum and re-established the Blue Demons’ lead at 20-15 in the last seven minutes of the opening half.

Down the stretch, two sunk jumpers from graduate student guard Terrell Allen and junior forward Jamorko Pickett, along with the Blue and Gray’s 4-for-4 shooting from the line completed another 8-0 run that made the game 23-20 in favor of the Hoyas.

With under four minutes to play in the first half, DePaul scored three three-pointers in under a minute to increase their lead to 33-28.

Pickett redeemed the Hoyas with a jumper in the last two seconds of the first half to tie the game at 36 in an opening half characterized by back-and-forth runs.

The Blue and Gray continued to battle with the Blue Demons early in the second half, keeping within two possessions and grabbing a one-point lead twice through the first 10 minutes of play.

Behind three straight baskets from the field, DePaul increased its point cushion to six to earn its largest lead of the game thus far.

Georgetown, however, responded with an 8-2 run to even the score at 55.

With eight minutes to play in a tied game,Georgetown’s fatigue began to show as the team struggled to make a basket in the final minutes, missing eight shots from the field and committing two turnovers in the remainder of play. DePaul took advantage of

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Junior guard Jamorko Pickett dribbles past a defender. Pickett scored 19 points against DePaul.

the Hoyas' offensive struggles and went on a 9-2 run to make the game 64-57.

In the final minute of play, Allen converted three free throws and a fastbreak layup in the paint, but his efforts were not enough to close the gap. DePaul notched eight of its 10 free throw attempts in the last minute to secure the win at 74-68.

The loss marks Georgetown’s second in a row, maintaining its eighth place ranking in the Big East. After the game, Head Coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) reflected on the differences between this road loss to DePaul and the team’s 76-72 defeat of the Blue Demons at home Feb. 8.

"I think they were more ready for us. They were ready for us then, but they were more ready for us today,” Ewing said in an interview with GU Hoyas.

On the day, Allen led the Hoyas with his second 20-point performance of the season and shot a perfect three-for-three from the three-point line. Pickett and senior guard Jagan Mosely also joined Allen with double figures with game totals of 19 and 13 points. Junior guard Jahvon Blair’s 1-for-7 performance from the three-point line bumped him up to 14th place on Georgetown’s three-point career list with 130 three-pointers.

Sophomore guard Mac McClung was absent from the floor for a fifth game because of a foot injury, having missed four consecutive games and only playing eight minutes in the Hoyas’ previous Feb. 19 matchup against Providence.

The Blue and Gray struggled from the floor, shooting 36.8% compared to DePaul’s 45% on the day. Georgetown outrebounded DePaul 39-37, but committed a costly 14 turnovers, which resulted in 13 Blue Demon points.

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Hoyas Stumble at McDonough, Drop Final 2 Home Games KELTON MILLER Hoya Staff Writer

In its final two-game homestand of the regular season, the Georgetown women’s basketball team dropped its games to DePaul and Marquette to end the season with only one win at McDonough Arena.

Even with graduate student guard Taylor Barnes leading the Hoyas in scoring with 13 and 15 points, surpassing the 1000 career points milestone in the process, Georgetown (5-22, 2-14 Big East) still fell 87-69 to DePaul (25-4, 15-2 Big East) and 76-56 to Marquette (21-7, 12-5 Big East).

Regardless of the Blue and Gray’s struggles, Barnes’ 1000-point accomplishment in the Marquette game garnered appreciation from fans as the news was announced midgame in McDonough to a great show of support from the Sunday afternoon crowd.

Barnes remarked on the significance of this achievement and how joining the 1000-point club has resulted from years of hard work.

“It just means everything, college basketball is not easy. Four years of playing hard, working as hard as I can, and it’s finally paying home,” Barnes said in an interview with The Hoya.

Head Coach James Howard also commended Barnes’ accomplishment and value to the Georgetown women’s basketball program.

“I know she’d rather given up 300 of those points so she could have gotten wins, and that's the type of kid she is. I’m proud for her,” Howard said in an interview with The Hoya. “I'm happy she will have her 1000 point ball and put it on her mantle and hopefully her kids can see she did have some success.”

On Feb. 21, Georgetown’s matchup with DePaul, who currently sits in first in the Big East conference where the Hoyas rank ninth, did not get off to a promising start. Both teams struggled to find the first basket, playing through three minutes before the Blue Demons scored the first basket of the game. While the Blue and Gray gained a one-point lead in the fifth minute of play off a three-pointer from graduate student guard Brianna Jones, the advantage would be Georgetown’s only of the day.

From there, DePaul asserted its offensive dominance, outscoring

the Hoyas 54-22 in the first half with 22 points in the first quarter and 32 in the second while Georgetown only managed 11 in each. The Blue Demons went 52.5% from the field in the first compared to the Hoyas’ 30.8%, taking 40 shots to Georgetowns’ 26.

The Hoyas fared better in the second half, notching 45 points over the 20 minutes, but failing to make enough of a dent into the Blue Demons’ commanding lead that at one point reached as many as 41 points.

Despite four players scoring double digits, with Barnes, sophomore guard Nikola Kovacikova, senior forward Anita Kelava and sophomore guard Cassandra Gordon combining for 44 points, Georgetown lost to DePaul by 18. Even in outshooting the Blue Demons 47.3% to 42.1% from the field, the Hoyas simply had less looks on basket, firing off 55 shots to DePaul’s 76 attempts.

DePaul’s success resulted partly from Georgetown’s struggles on the glass, with the Blue Demons hauling in 20 offensive rebounds to the Hoyas’ four.

The Marquette game Feb. 23 proved far more competitive as the Hoyas remained in contention into the fourth quarter. The game similarly began without much offensive action as only two baskets were scored by the Golden Eagles in the first three minutes.

Georgetown muscled its way into the game as senior guard Marvellous Osagie-Erese pulled in her own rebound and finished a tough layup through contact to put the Hoyas on the board. Scoring then picked up for a rather productive quarter for both teams as the quarter finished 21-21.

Georgetown ended the quarter with the offensive momentum as Barnes drained a three-pointer right in the face of a Marquette defender. With only 16 seconds left in the quarter, junior forward Tatiana Thompson drilled a tightly contested three-pointer as the shot clock expired, tying the game.

In the second quarter, Georgetown remained within a possession of Marquette through the first five minutes of play. Thompson continued showcasing her long range ability for the Hoyas as she trailed a fast break and received a pass at the top of the key, immediately sinking the shot off the backboard to tie the score at 28 with 5:21 remaining in the

half.

At this point, the Golden Eagles began to pull away, turning a tied game into a six-point lead at 42-36 on six consecutive points.

Georgetown’s team dynamic was put on display late in the second half as sophomore forward Shanniah Wright converted two easy layups back-to-back off feeds from Kovacikova and Kelava. Kovacikova found Wright streaking to the basket with a sidearm pass out of the pick and roll, and Kelava found Wright with a strategic pass under the basket.

The third quarter saw Marquette extend its lead to double digits as the Golden Eagles forced several bad shots from Georgetown. The Hoyas shot 5-for-17 from the field while Marquette shot 5-for-13 in the third, ending the period 56-46.

The Blue and Gray entered the final quarter still within striking distance of Marquette at a 10-point deficit. The Golden Eagles, however, upped their offensive pressure and dropped 20 points to Georgetown’s 10 for the 20-point victory.

After the game, Howard compared his team’s performance to their prior 73-51 loss to Marquette on Jan. 24.

“First time we played them, their two guards, Spangola and Lott, went for 41 points. So we didn’t want to allow them to have one of those big nights, but we knew their post players were more than capable,” Howard said.

“We did a good job on their post players and not on their guards.

Tonight it flip flopped. They went inside at will, and they hurt us.”

On the bright side, Howard acknowledged his team’s improvement from Friday’s loss.

“This team with only five wins to keep it to six at the half was pretty good. We were within striking distance, down 10 going into the fourth,” Howard said.

Moving forward, Barnes explained the importance of the team to fight until the end of a difficult season.

“We are just going to keep fighting, playing as hard as we can, and hopefully at the end of the game it’s us who come out with the win,” Barnes said.

Georgetown will close out regular season play with a game against Providence on Friday, Feb. 28, in Providence, R.I., at 7 p.m. and a finale at Creighton on Sunday, March 1, in Omaha, Neb., at 2 p.m.

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After dropping two straight games to open the Madeira Beach Tournament on Feb. 21, the Georgetown softball team grabbed two close victories to notch its second and third wins of the season.

The Hoyas (3-12) closed out the weekend with 2-3 record, defeating Cornell University (1-3) and Manhattan College (3-3) while dropping to University of South Dakota (8-8), Columbia University (3-2) and Stony Brook University (5-0).

On Friday, Feb. 21, the Hoyas took an early 1-0 lead against South Dakota as junior shortstop Savannah Jones drove in sophomore catcher Mae Forshey with a line drive to left field in the top of the first inning. The Blue and Gray lead, however, would not last long, as the Coyotes scored four runs off a grand slam in the bottom of the first.

Senior right fielder Ciara Sullivan scored another run for the Hoyas with a home run out to left field in the top of the second, bringing the score to 4-2.

Despite Georgetown’s efforts at the plate, the Hoyas continued to struggle from the mound, as the Coyotes scored five more runs in the bottom of the second. Junior starting pitcher London Diller gave up four runs, three of which were unearned due to a dropped fly ball by senior left fielder Delaney Darden, after opening the inning with two straight outs before loading the bases on two walks and a hit by pitch. Senior pitcher Katie Vannicola relieved Diller, conceding a final run to bring the score to 9-2.

The third inning saw a home run from Forshey to left field, driving in Darden to garner two more runs for the Hoyas. The bottom of the inning and the top of the fourth saw no runs from either side as the score stood at 9-4.

USD took charge in the bottom of the fourth, scoring three more runs and grabbing a 12-4 lead. The Hoyas’ bats fell silent, and the game ended after five innings in a mercy rule victory for the Coyotes.

In the second game of the day’s doubleheader, Columbia handed Georgetown another loss. Sophomore pitcher Cassie Henning started and finished the game in the circle for the Hoyas, ultimately giving up two runs off of five hits while recording one walk and one strikeout.

The first two innings saw a pitcher’s duel that kept both teams scoreless before two consecutive fielding errors

by Georgetown led to two unearned Columbia runs in the top of the third.

In response, the Hoyas loaded up the bases in the bottom of the inning on two walks and a hit by pitch. With one out, senior first baseman Noelle Holiday took to the plate and was hit by a pitch to bring home a Georgetown run.

Trailing by one with the bases full, Georgetown lost its opportunity to take the lead, as Jones grounded into a double play to leave two runners stranded.

Both offenses saw little success at the plate in the remainder of play, as Georgetown suffered a 2-1 loss going into the second day of competition.

The second day of the tournament brought more success for a Georgetown team that struggled on the offensive and defensive end the day prior. Diller recovered in the Hoyas’ game against Cornell, pitching the whole game and recording seven strikeouts.

A sacrifice fly ball from senior center fielder Alex Dolby sparked the scoring for the Hoyas in the bottom of the fifth, driving in junior outfielder Macy Cartwright.

Sophomore third baseman Kiki Besnard hit a line drive

to third base, bringing Sullivan home to claim a 2-0 lead.

Freshman catcher Nora Campo recorded her first two career doubles against Cornell, with her second bringing home Jones in the bottom of the sixth to bring Georgetown its biggest lead of the weekend at 3-0.

In the final inning, Cornell fought back with two runs.

With a full count and bases loaded for the Big Red, junior outfielder Deirdre Gallo made a game-winning catch in left field to secure the Georgetown victory at 3-2.

In the Hoyas’ next game, Manhattan College took an early 1-0 advantage in the bottom of the first. The Hoyas snagged the lead with a tworun homer to center field from Holiday in the top of the third. The sixth inning saw two more runs for the Hoyas, extending their lead to 4-1.

The Jaspers responded with two more runs off of a home run in the bottom of the sixth, cutting the game to a one-run difference. Holiday’s dominance at the plate would prove a key factor for Georgetown, as the designated hitter slugged another home run in the seventh to bring in two runs and claim a 6-3 lead.

Despite one more run from the Jaspers, Vannicola, who took over for Henning in the sixth inning, secured the win for the Hoyas by striking out the last batter.

The Hoyas ended the tournament on a 2-1 loss to Stony Brook on Sunday, Feb. 23.

The Hoyas opened up scoring in the top of the fourth with a double from Jones that brought Forshey home for Georgetown’s one run of the game. Stony Brook went on to score two runs in the bottom of the sixth and claim the narrow victory.

The Hoyas return to the diamond in the Colonial Classic in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Feb. 28. Their first game will be against Princeton University with the first pitch scheduled for 10 a.m.

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Sixers Should Trade Embiid, Build Around Simmons

Vikram Sud Despite having arguably two of the top 10 players in the Eastern Conference in Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid, the Philadelphia 76ers have not lived up to lofty expectations this season.

After failing to advance farther than the second round of the playoffs in each of the past two seasons, the 76ers do not seem better positioned for the playoffs this year, sitting currently in the fifth seed in the East. At their current pace, the Sixers would have their worst finish in the conference since the 2016-17 season, the season before Simmons first played for the Sixers.

Part of the 76ers’ mediocrity this season stems from Embiid’s and Simmons’ inability to coexist. While both stars seem to be on the edge of their prime, the young stars have yet to figure out how to mesh and get the best out of the other on the court, making it seem more and more plausible by the loss that the 76ers’ most viable path to long term success is to build around one and trade the other. Should the 76ers decide to take this route, it should be Simmons, and not Embiid, around whom the 76ers build their future.

Despite being maligned frequently for his lack of willingness to shoot from outside the paint, with only two made three-pointers in his two and a half seasons of play, Simmons has one of the most unique skill sets in the NBA. He, along with LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo, is one of the few players to have the ball handling and passing ability to play point guard, while having the height of a power forward,

as Simmons is currently listed at 6’10”. This advantage makes Simmons an extremely difficult player for opponents to plan to stop, with Simmons having a size and skill advantage against opposing point guards and a speed advantage over opposing power forwards.

Simmons has shown a wellestablished ability to dominate guards in the past and has used his size and athleticism to hold his own defensively against both guards and forwards.

Given Simmons’ lack of ability and willingness to shoot, however, Embiid, a traditional center who dominates in the paint and on the glass, is not an optimal fit for a second star on a team whose other star is built like players of the future. Teams like the Lakers and Bucks have built around James and Antetokounmpo, who are both also not proficient shooters, though each shoot substantially more frequently than Simmons from three-point range, by surrounding them with reliable threepoint shooting specialists to free up driving lanes for their stars. This model has worked extremely well, with both teams currently sitting on top of their conference standings, each by five or more games as of Feb. 25.

The 76ers have enough shooting for that model of team building between Tobias Harris and Josh Richardson, therefore making Embiid expendable. As it stands, the Sixers are struggling to maximize their potential with both stars needing to occupy similar space on the offensive end of the court. Simmons has shown an ability to thrive when Embiid has missed games due to injury and has proven he is more than capable of leading his own team as the primary star. In January, with Embiid sidelined because of a torn ligament for six games, Simmons’ points per game increased by 4.3, his field goal percentage jumped up 2.8%, his field goals attempted grew by 3.9 and his rebounds per game increased by 1.2.

Embiid’s injury history also provides another reason to trade the star center instead of Simmons as the Sixers’ sole star.

After missing his first two seasons due to injury, Embiid has missed more than 64 games in an 82-game season. Considering Embiid is only 25 years old, the 76ers should be highly concerned with how many injuries he has already sustained since starting to play basketball late in his high school career, prompting worry about his future ability to play in the league.

Embiid, however, has shown flashes of dominance when he is on the court and is arguably the best center in the NBA. Therefore, it is certainly plausible that Embiid could haul a larger trade package than Simmons, especially as the league pivots to an emphasis on shooting, a skill which Embiid has, especially compared to Simmons.

It should be noted, however, that Simmons did miss the first season of his NBA career due to a right foot injury. Since missing the 2016-17 season, however, Simmons has done a better job of staying on the court.

Bypassing Embiid’s obvious talent is certainly a risk for the 76ers, but prioritizing a more frequently healthy and consistent player in Simmons is ultimately the best decision for the franchise moving forward. Although a trade cannot happen until late June or July following the season, the Sixers would be smart to begin considering a trade package.

Regardless of the risk, trading Embiid is a bold move the 76ers should take given Simmons’ distinct skill set, Embiid’s injury history and an inability for the two stars to mesh on the court. If the Sixers wish to return to the success of seasons past, the organization should move on from Embiid to focus on a Simmons-led empire.

Vikram Sud is a senior in the College. IN TRANSITION appears online and in print every other Friday.

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chipped away at the deficit with a 3-2 run over the next 10 minutes of play.

Down 14-11 with four minutes left to play, Georgetown scored three straight goals to tie the game at 14-14 with 37 seconds remaining as victory came within reach.

The Hoyas, however, suddenly faltered in the final 30

seconds of play. Georgetown had a chance to take the lead following a timeout, firing off a shot with nine seconds remaining that found the Johns Hopkins’ keeper. The Blue Jays’ keeper then launched the ball up the field on a Hail Mary, leading to a last-second goal that just barely beat the buzzer to give Johns Hopkins the 15-14 victory.

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the day with four goals while Albert and Lynch also finished with hat tricks. Lynch set a Georgetown single-game record with 14 draw controls.

The Blue and Gray outshot the Blue Jays but was unable to get enough saves in net.

Georgetown used two goalies who combined for just two saves compared to 13 saves

by Johns Hopkins. Finally, the Hoyas lost the turnover battle,

finishing with 16 turnovers while the Blue Jays had 13.

Despite being ranked at 19 to start the season, the Hoyas will most likely fall out of the top 25 with a record of 2-2 after this week’s performances.

Following the loss to Johns Hopkins, Georgetown looks for redemption Saturday, Feb. 29, at home against Delaware (0-2). Faceoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Cooper Field.

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the game, with 18 tallies coming off assists.

Sophomore attacker Dylan Watson led the team on the day with seven goals while McDermott, fifth-year attacker Robert Clark and senior attacker Jake Carraway supported with hat tricks.

The Hoyas found a bigger challenge against Mount Saint Mary’s (1-3) on Feb. 25 but proved to dominate nonetheless.

Again opening with two straight goals to grab a 2-0 lead, the Georgetown defense conceded three straight tallies to the Mountaineers to end the first period down 3-2.

The Blue and Gray offense struggled to maintain possession in the opening period, with eight of the Hoyas’ 18 total turnovers coming in the first quarter alone.

The matchup remained highly contested through the first half, with Georgetown entering the locker room with a 7-5 advantage. The Hoyas fared far better in the second half, outscoring Mount Saint Mary’s 7-2 to secure their second win of the week.

Carraway led the team in points with six goals total to become the third player in program history to reach the

200 career point mark, joining Greg McCavera (COL ’99) and Daniel Bucaro (COL ’19).

For the third straight game, the Hoyas found consistency in their faceoff man, with Reilly winning 15 of 22 faceoffs and freshman faceoff specialist Carson Milburn stepping in at the end to win both of his draws.

Defensively, junior goalie Owen McElroy remained solid between the pipes, making nine stops on 16 shots for his fourth win.

In their two games, the Hoyas proved strong on the extra man opportunity, capitalizing on four of five against Fairfield and two of two against Mount Saint Mary’s.

Furthermore, Georgetown’s consistent success of faceoff X helped spark the team’s offensive success. Caraway himself noted in a post-game interview that the Hoyas’ offense works best when successful in faceoffs.

“I thought our offense did a great job. I think it initiated with Milburn coming in at the X, giving us a ton more possession to just swing the ball around,” Carraway said in an interview with GU Hoyas.

The twelfth-ranked Hoyas return to action Saturday, Feb. 29, against Bellarmine at Cooper Field at noon.

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distance, and the Hoyas went to the locker room trailing 43-32.

Early in the second half, junior forward Jamorko Pickett notched five straight points to cut the lead to 51-41, but the 10-point deficit was as close as the Hoyas would get to claiming the lead for the duration of the second half. Marquette followed the Hoyas’ comeback attempt with an 8-0 run concluding in the seventh minute of play to diminish any hope for a Georgetown victory.

In the remaining 13 minutes, the Golden Eagles extended their lead to as many as 29 points. A last-second three-pointer from junior

guard Jahvon Blair closed out the loss, bringing the final score to 93-72.

Senior guard Jagan Mosely had his highest scoring game for the Blue and Gray in spite of the loss. He finished with 19 points on 5-of-10 shooting, including a perfect 8-for8 from the free throw line.

Blair scored 18 points and dished four assists for the Hoyas, while Pickett added another 12 points. The Hoyas combined to shoot 41.9% (26-62) from the field and 46.7% (7-15) from beyond the arc.

Two Hoyas continue to write their names in the record books. Blair’s four three-pointers move him to 14th in program history for career three-pointers made

with 134. Mosely’s three assists also place him at 14th in school history with 331 in his career.

Unfortunately for Georgetown, their two leading scorers on the season, senior center Omer Yurtseven and sophomore guard Mac McClung, did not play again due to injuries.

Head Coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) was proud of his team’s effort despite their struggles on both ends of the court without Yurtseven and McClung.

“My guys fought, they fought hard. But when your two best players are not there, it’s hard to generate offense. My guys didn’t give up,” Ewing said in an interview with GUHoyas.

The absences of Yurtseven and McClung have led to younger players getting some action. Sophomore guard Jaden Robinson tallied five points and an assist in the game, but the young and inexperienced Georgetown bench only combined for nine points in comparison to Marquette’s 32 bench points.

The loss destroys most hope for Georgetown to make the NCAA Tournament through an at-large bid. It seems that they will have to do it the more difficult way — by winning the Big East Tournament.

Georgetown looks to end their losing streak at home Sunday, March 1, against Xavier in its home finale.

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average Disney movie: the Leafs, with one of the league’s most premier and expensive offenses, lost the game 6-3, only scoring on this goaltender twice in the second period. The situation is almost comical, as if the hockey gods needed to demonstrate in the plainest terms that the Leafs are not even competitive against players who never made it professionally, let alone who are prepared for the playoffs. Surprisingly, Toronto was conspicuously inactive at the trade deadline, apart from re-signing one of their own players.

While the trade deadline provided an opportunity for failing teams to seek new players and trade deals, it also showed that the playoff race this year is tight. Eight teams from each conference make the playoffs: the top three teams from each division and the top two teams from the rest of the conference. Beyond the teams currently in playoff spots, six teams are within four points,

many of which have played fewer games than the teams in playoff spots, meaning 22 out of 31 teams in the league could easily be in a playoff spot by the end of the month, let alone by playoff time.

For those still in playoff contention, it is worth looking at which teams decided to load up their rosters for a playoff berth or run. The Washington Capitals were one of the most active teams leading into the deadline, acquiring left wing Ilya Kovalchuk and defender Brenden Dillon. The Caps offer an interesting case study on activity before the deadline. In 2017, the Caps spent several picks and prospects to land Kevin Shattenkirk, considered one of the more valuable players available at the deadline that year. They lost in the playoffs to the Penguins again that year, a repeat of their 2015-16 performance. The next year, Washington made low-level trades for prospects and unknown defensemen and rode their superior team system and star power to a Stanley Cup victory.

This year, some of the most valuable players traded at the deadline were traded before Monday actually rolled around. The Penguins acquired Jason Zucker and later Patrick Marleau while the Golden Knights got Alec Martinez ahead of the deadline. As for the last-minute trades on Monday, the Oilers acquired Andreas Athanasiou from the Red Wings, who should make a compelling complement to the Oilers’ lightning-fast Connor McDavid.

Some teams made riskier moves, like the Carolina Hurricanes, which acquired Sami Vatanen and Brady Skjei.

These players will help shore up Carolina’s defense, which is currently suffering from significant injuries. These moves may prove risky because these players add so much longterm salary through 2022.

The deadline activity of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who added 40-year-old Marleau to their already aging core, is an unimpressive move by the team. Perhaps the other additions of Conor Sheary and Evan Rodrigues will help

to invigorate the team for a postseason run.

Overall, I find myself skeptical of the impact of the trade deadline based on recent performance. Last year’s winning St. Louis Blues made almost no moves at the trade deadline, as they were still crawling up from last place in the league on the way to the playoffs.

The year before, the Capitals had a decidedly unspectacular trade deadline in contrast to more active but unsuccessful efforts in earlier years.

The Penguins made some moves before the 2016 and 2017 trade deadlines, years in which they won, but their core and young players developed inside the team were the critical elements of their Stanley Cup wins. This year was particularly active in a close league. Maybe one of the players moved this year will be the critical piece one team needs on the way to a Stanley Cup. Maddy Welch is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. ON THIN ICE appears online and in print every other Friday.

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Georgetown toppled Cornell and Manhattan and fell to South Dakota, Columbia and Stony Brook in the three-day Florida tournament.

College basketball is not easy. Four years of playing hard, working as hard as I can, and it’s finally paying home.”

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The Georgetown men’s basketball team came up empty on the road Wednesday night against Marquette in a 93-72 losing effort, maintaining the Hoyas’ eighth-place standing in the Big East in their third straight loss.

Georgetown (15-13, 5-10 Big East) again proved unable to contain Marquette’s (18-9, 8-7 Big East) senior guard Markus Howard, the nation’s leading scorer, after conceding 42 points to Howard in the Hoyas’ 84-80 loss Jan. 18. On Wednesday night, Howard led all players with 30 points and seven assists for the Golden Eagles.

Howard’s big night put the game out of reach early on for Georgetown. Marquette opened the game on a 7-0 run,

asserting their dominance over the short-handed Hoyas from the opening tip. Two mid-range jumpers from graduate student guard Terrell Allen on back-toback possessions cut the lead down to three, but the Golden Eagles improved their scoring from there.

Backed by a roaring home crowd of over 13,000, Marquette took a 20-point lead with 3:37 remaining in the first half. The Hoyas seemed overwhelmed and outmatched, managing just 37.9% accuracy from the field compared to the Golden Eagles’ 48.4% shooting percentage in the first half.

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The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team landed itself in sixth in the record books with 25 goals against Fairfield University on Saturday, Feb. 22, the most goals by the team since 1992. On the week, the Hoyas continued their undefeated streak, rising to a 4-0 record Tuesday with a 14-7 victory over Mount Saint Mary’s.

On Saturday the Blue and Gray (4-0) opened the scoring after four minutes of play with back-to-back tallies just seven seconds apart. Sopho-

more midfielder Declan McDermott netted the first goal, receiving a sharp pass from freshman midfielder Graham Bundy Jr. before rushing toward net and powering the ball from the left side of the field. Sophomore defender Alex Mazzone followed up with a hard driven shot to the bottom right corner off an assist from sophomore faceoff specialist James Reilly.

Fairfield (2-1) responded quickly, nabbing three tallies in just over three minutes to claim a 3-2 lead with 6:55 left in the first quarter. A threegoal run claimed another lead for the Hoyas at 5-3 before the

A Hail Mary goal by Johns Hopkins in the final second of play Feb. 26 led to a 15-14 loss for the No. 25 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team. Earlier in the week, the Blue and Gray came out on top 12-10 against the Drexel Dragons in another tight game.

The Hoyas (2-2) took on the Dragons (1-2) in Philadelphia on Saturday, Feb. 22. Georgetown came out of the gates strong, scoring three goals in the first two minutes. The first two tallies came from the stick of senior attacker Michaela Bruno in under two minutes of play before senior midfielder and leading scorer Natalia Lynch grabbed a third goal 30 seconds later.

The scoring then subsided for

a bit, until Drexel scored a pair of goals with 15 minutes left in the half. Bruno then got a hat trick, bringing the score to 4-2. The half closed with two more goals from Lynch and one from Bruno as the Hoyas conceded two tallies to the Dragons to head into halftime up 7-4.

The second half saw a reversal of offensive momentum as Drexel grabbed the lead after scoring four straight goals in the first six minutes. With a one-goal deficit, Georgetown fought to retake the lead after another six minutes of play, recording a pair of goals from sophomore midfielder Annabelle Albert and sophomore attacker Celia Walsh to bring the score to 9-8. Drexel then tied the game at 9-9 with 15 minutes left to play off an assisted goal.

In the highly contested match,

moves in the lane allowed the Georgetown offense to dominate while holding Fairfield to three scores in the period.

The Blue and Gray rounded out the dominant victory with five straight goals in the fourth, conceding two late tallies to the Stags to bring the final score to 25-12.

Freshman faceoff specialist Carson Milburn stepped in for Reilly and proved to be a solid secondary faceoff man, winning 18 of 24 draws at the X and collecting 14 ground balls on the day. Thirteen different Hoyas scored a goal in See FAIRFIELD, A11

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Georgetown Defeated in Last Second Hoya Staff Writer

Stags pulled within one with a goal in the last four seconds of the first period.

Back and forth offensive play in the second quarter kept Fairfield within striking distance of Georgetown as the half closed out with a 10-7 lead for the Hoyas.

The third quarter saw Georgetown’s offense explode with 10 goals to pull away with a double-digit lead.

The Blue and Gray recorded six consecutive tallies to open the second half, led by McDermott’s goal from over 10 yards out just over half a minute in. Passing sequences around the net and quick spin

Senior captain and attacker Jake Carraway, 19, sprints down the field after dropping a Fairfield opponent. Carraway recorded a hat trick and five assists against the Stags and led the Hoyas with six goals against Mount St. Mary’s later in the week.

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GU Wins 2, Outscores Opponents 39-19 Hoya Staff Writer

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Graduate Student Guard Taylor Barnes

Goals scored by the men’s lacrosse team against Fairfield, the most by the program since 1992.

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Junior guard Jahvon Blair moves down the court. In the 21-point loss, Blair accounted for 18 of the Hoyas’ points and pulled in four rebounds.

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the Hoyas put away the Dragons with three more goals to build an insurmountable lead. Drexel attempted a comeback, bringing the game to 12-10, but ultimately failed to pull off the win as the Blue and Gray claimed its second victory of the year. Senior goalkeeper Micheline DiNardo got the win between the posts with seven saves to Drexel’s 13 saves.

Georgetown then took on John Hopkins (2-2) at home Wednesday afternoon. The Blue and Gray did not open the matchup with an early scoring streak as it had in its earlier games this season. Instead, the Blue Jays got onto the scoreboard first with a tally in the third minute of play. The Hoyas, however, followed up quickly with a goal of their own in the sixth minute. About five minutes later,

Georgetown found itself with its first lead of the game at 2-1 off an assisted tally by sophomore attacker Ali Diamond in a man-up opportunity.

The first half remained tightly contested as neither team took more than a one-point lead in the remaining 20 minutes. Following a bout of back-and-forth scoring, the Hoyas went into halftime down 7-6.

The second half had more lopsided scoring as both teams went on large scoring runs. Johns Hopkins had the first of these runs, outscoring Georgetown 5-2 in the first 15 minutes of play in the second half. These offensive efforts gave the Blue Jays the largest lead of either team in the game at 12-8. The Hoyas slowly See HOPKINS, A11

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Senior midfielder Natalia Lynch waits to receive a pass. Lynch notched four goals in the Hoyas’ victory over Drexel and recorded a hat trick and four assists in the team’s one-point loss to Johns Hopkins at Cooper Field on Wednesday.

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ON THIN ICE

Maddy Welch

Trade Deadline Inspires Moves Ahead of Playoffs The NHL trade deadline on Monday, Feb. 24, forced teams to confront the difficult question of whether or not they are contenders for the 2020 Stanley Cup. Many teams, if they are honest with themselves, know they are not contenders. Those teams that are not in competition, or perhaps more accurately the teams that are still deluding themselves into believing they can win, must begin to trade their best players to the highest bidder and build up their stock of prospects and future draft picks for the future.

Conversely, those in playoff contention must use the trade deadline to bolster the depths of their rosters for a playoff run.

For some teams, the delusion of the playoffs is not even possible. For example, the Detroit Red Wings are monumentally bad this year, sitting in last place of the Atlantic Division with an abysmal record of 15-46. It is already mathematically impossible for the Red Wings to make the playoffs this year. The last team to be eliminated before the trade deadline was the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2004.

It seems that the hockey gods are intervening to show other teams this year is not their year for a run at the cup. For example,

the Toronto Maple Leafs played the Carolina Hurricanes at home on Saturday, Feb. 22, when the Hurricanes dealt with an odd goaltender situation. In general, each hockey team is required to bring two goaltenders — their starting goalie and a backup in case of injury. If both of the goalies get injured before the game, teams often call on their American Hockey League affiliates to fill the gap.

The situation gets interesting if both goalies are injured during the game and a team needs an emergency goaltender, since they cannot get a player from their minor league affiliate in time. The replacement, then, usually becomes some guy who sits in the press box eating a hot dog during the game with the vague knowledge that if such a series of extremely unlikely events happens, he might play.

Such was the situation for the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, when a 42-year old zamboni driver who had never played a minute of professional ice hockey filled in as goalie for the final thirty minutes of the game. The outcome was more cliche than an See WELCH, A11