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Agau Returns to Full Health

Akoy Agau returns to the men’s basketball team following his ACL injury last year.

EDITORIAL Universities should appreciate the value of safe spaces on campus.

Somoza Backs Clinton Graduate Somoza endorses Clinton for her support of the disabled community.

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Campus Unveils Residence Upgrades christian paz

rooms. The $62 million building was funded through philanthropic donations.

The newly constructed PeAccording to Vice President dro Arrupe, S.J. Residence for Planning and Facilities Hall – formerly known as the Management Robin Morey, Northeast Triangle Residence Alumni Square residences Hall – began hosting its first now all have new hot water residents last week. heaters and air conditionCompleting construction ing units, in addition to new on the residence hall is one roofs. of several “A l u m n i projects the Square is Office of Planreally an inning and Fafrastructure cilities Manproject,” Moagement has rey said. “Stuundertaken dents won’t this summer, notice any including dif ference significant inwhen they frastructure walk into the renovations apartments, of Alumni but they will Square and a notice the ROBIN MOREY housing sur- Vice President for Planning and Facilidif ference ties Management vey conductwhen they ed by contraclive in the tors from architecture firm apartments.”

Ayers Saint-Gross and subconMorey said the repairs sultant Brailsford & Dunlavey. were necessary because of Additionally, construction leaking heaters that could on the John R. Thompson Jr. flood rooms in lower levels Intercollegiate Athletic Center of the residence halls. The was completed this summer new heaters are more effifollowing a two-year construc- cient and environmentally tion project. The new ath- sustainable. letic facility provides roughly “They were old. Those 144,000 square feet adjacent things rot out and they leak,” to the McDonough Gymna- Morey said. “We had several sium, which varsity athletes instances of hot water heathave been using throughout ers leaking and, as the water the summer. heats, it continues to run and The center houses new it caused problems in floors practice courts, locker rooms, below.” team meeting rooms, lounge Morey said the project is areas and coaches’ offices for the first step in the univermen’s and women’s basket- sity’s fulfilling the housing ball, in addition to new weight training and sports medicine See CONSTRUCTION, A6

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“They will notice the difference when they live in the apartments.”

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Georgetown welcomed approximately 1,600 freshmen and 200 transfer students to campus at this weekend’s New Student Orientation with an Olympics-inspired “Light Your Torch” theme.

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This year’s New Student Orientation, with its Olympics-inspired “Light Your Torch” theme, welcomed the approximately 1,600 freshmen members of the Class of 2020 and over 200 transfer students to life at Georgetown from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.

This year’s schedule retained cornerstone NSO events, including the Marino Workshop and mandatory sexual assault awareness session “I Am Ready.”

For the first time, move in

took place on one day for all new students Friday, Aug. 26 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. This year was also the first to lack an International Student PreOrientation.

According to Emma Barnitt (MSB ’17), one of five NSO coordinators, the new movein system was a success.

“It flowed really well,” Barnitt said. “I’m really happy about it and can’t wait to see how it works next year.”

This year also included the first Jesuit Values Panel, which took place Sunday night alongside Hoya Real Talk and “I Am Ready,” to introduce the new students to

Campus Ministry and draw out the influences of the university’s Jesuit tradition on daily campus life.

Barnitt said these changes reflect a desire on the part of the coordinators to make the purpose of NSO more clear.

“We were hoping to make things more intentional in the programming to truly introduce our new students into Georgetown, academically, spiritually and communally,” Barnitt said. “I think we achieved that in the programming as well as in the training for our staff.”

Despite the changes, certain programs seen as fix-

tures of the NSO experience remained. The Marino Workshop, funded by the family of Frederick Marino (SLL ’68), aims to introduce new students to the intellectual rigor of Georgetown through a book discussion.

This year the workshop, which has been a requirement for incoming Georgetown students since 1995, focused on “The Hired Man,” a novel about the impact of war by Lannan Center Chair of Poetics Aminatta Forna.

Communications and Marketing Coordinator for See NSO, A6

University Tax Exemption Criticized MARINA PITOFSKY Hoya Staff Writer

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Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Residence Hall opened this summer, welcoming its first residents for the 2016-17 school year.

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Universities in Washington, D.C., are exempt from $111 million in local taxes as a result of their nonprofit status, despite recent calls by local leaders to cut tax breaks on large, wealthy universities including Georgetown University and The George Washington University.

Currently, both public and private universities file their taxes under a nonprofit status, recusing them from paying any city or state property taxes. As a result, Georgetown University avoided a $9 million sum, while GWU and American University avoided paying $39 million and $11 million, respectively, according to The Washington Post.

Critics advocate for a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, a program previously implemented in cities such as Boston, to allow universities to maintain their tax status while still requiring that they provide funding for their area.

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Washington, D.C. area colleges, including Georgetown, have come under fire for being exempt from $111 million in local property taxes.

Metropolitan Area opposed proposals for reversing the not-for-profit status universities currently hold but declined to be interviewed

by The Hoya. However, the consortium’s president and chief executive, John Cavanaugh, submitted a letter to the editor to The Washington Post published Aug. 25 high-

NEWS

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IPPS Welcomes Fall Fellows GU Institute of Politics and Public Service introduced five media and politics fellows for fall 2016.

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Spreading Islamophobia With Trump’s rhetoric, America risks letting Islamophobia become an acceptable norm.

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NEWS GUSA Pursues NYT Subscription

OPINION Facing a Tuition Hike

GUSA leaders continue to seek funding for an online subscription to The New York Times.

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lighting the benefits universities offer, which might not be possible without their tax-exempt status.

Georgetown University has also stated its opposition to proposals.

On the city level, any effort to change universities’ status or to implement a PILOT program has seen little

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GUSA executive leaders voice need for university townhall with administrators.

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traction. Public Affairs Officer for D.C.’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer David Umansky said the office is currently only interested in following existing practices and not in changing policy.

“We follow the law in collecting taxes and all of the See TAXES, A6

Sports Women’s Soccer Continues Streak The women’s soccer team has won three out of its last four games this season.

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SPORTS Men’s Soccer Skids The men’s soccer team dropped both of its games at the Akron Classic.

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OPINION

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Robot Glitch — After replacing human editors with algorithms, Facebook is trending fake news with faulty descriptions of trending topics.

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Tourist Attraction — In less than an hour, 28,500 tickets were sold for the opening weekend of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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EDITORIALS

University of Chicago, and any other university that follows in its path, loses the opportunity to work with students and more adequately meet their needs.

It is shortsighted to label these students as entitled or incapable of hearing strong arguments in opposition to their own views. Rather, the fact that students are so willing to challenge authority figures at their universities shows the maturity they possess to make decisions they feel will most benefit their health and their education.

By refusing to work with students, the University of Chicago risks polarizing campus culture even more as students feel that they cannot trust their university to advocate for them. Furthermore, they lose out on any potential benefits from finding a balance between freedom of academic expression and important mechanisms to protect students.

Alongside arguments of mental health and well-being, a Gallup poll from March 2016 showed that college students do not support actual restrictions on differing views, but do support a restriction of hate speech, from which students would be protected in a safe space or with a trigger warning.

Issues relating to students’ academic livelihood, health and personal beliefs cannot be decided with black-andwhite, all-encompassing bans.

There must be nuance to policy to make sure students have the opportunity to learn in places that are positive and conducive to effective learning.

Quidditch in the Capital — Following Tinder-themed and “Star Wars” night events, D.C. United announced it will be hosting an informal event with Major League Quidditch.

Zika Close to Home — Maryland reported the first case of sexual zika transmission. A man without symptoms returned from the Dominican Republic and transmitted the virus to his female partner, who was diagnosed this month.

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Queen Bee — Beyoncé left the Video Music Awards with eight new Moonmen and surprised the audience with a performance featuring a medley from her award-winning visual album “Lemonade.”

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Missouri in November 2015, when students protested and staged sit-ins to voice their concerns of racist and homophobic bigotry. A student journalist was threatened for exercising his First Amendment rights when he tried to interview and take photos of a group of protestors before he was pushed away by students and a professor, Melissa Click, who claimed the journalist was infringing upon the safe space.

However, an outright disregard for safe spaces and trigger warnings ignores the real-life mental health concerns of students. If a student is a survivor of sexual assault, a victim of a bias-related incident or any other event that causes trauma, it would be inconsiderate not to issue a warning for sensitive books or material in classrooms. Further, it would be harmful to ban a safe space that could serve as an effective tool for students to cope with such experiences. We come to universities to learn and be challenged, but ignoring mental well-being should never be part of the deal.

Furthermore, trigger warnings and safe spaces represent important methods of student activism. By creating a safe space or by insisting that professors provide content trigger warnings, students engage in important work to effect real change on their campuses. These can be tools for students to create places of sanctuary for their peers — allowing a brief respite from the types of microaggressions or outright harassment that can severely harm students.

By unilaterally opposing the creation of safe spaces, the

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The University of Chicago’s Dean of Students John Ellison sent a letter to its students on Aug. 24 that included both a welcoming note and a warning regarding conversations on trigger warnings and safe spaces. “We do not support socalled ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe-spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” Ellison wrote.

While a university certainly has a right to determine its own institutional policies and stances, UChicago’s outright disregard for safe spaces and trigger warnings is misguided and the wrong answer to, as Ellison stated, “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression.”

To define both terms, a safe space is a place where people can assemble without fear of judgement, bias or discomfort due to factors or experiences they find troubling. Trigger warnings are statements designed to warn any participant of possibly sensitive material, whether it be sexual assault, drug abuse, racial violence or other topics that could potentially elicit a negative response during a discussion.

Arguments can certainly be made against safe spaces and trigger warnings, including how they potentially limit the voices of those who express unpopular opinions and detract from intellectual discussions. A prime example to support this argument is the protests at the University of

Nothing on Tap — Dixie Liquors, an infamous packaged alcohol store among Georgetown students, has shut its doors and is up for lease with no intended date of return.

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Red Carpet Romance — Before presenting Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award, Drake declared his love for the singer in front of the VMA audience.

A World of Pure Imagination — Known for his roles as Willy Wonka and the Waco Kid, Gene Wilder passed away at the age of 83 on Monday.

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More Alike Than Different Over the next few weeks, freshmen and transfers will fumble with the add-drop period while seeking to explore new opportunities and passions. But in this time of new beginnings, the editorial board challenges each Hoya to take time in looking for commonalities rather than labels and niches. It is this editorial board’s hope that a greater conscious awareness of each other’s commonalities, rather than differences, will, at most, permeate into students’ daily dialogues and discussions, or, at the very least, lead to great fraternity and understanding among all of us who call this place our home.

Throughout this first month, students will find themselves resettling into old niches, be it a cappella groups, campus media, theater groups or old friend groups from New Student Orientation. For new Hoyas, such established groups will be fresh and new as they find the people who will fill out the next few years of their academic journey.

Yet a look through today’s headlines, dinner conversations and Facebook yields a world filled with “othering” and divisive rhetoric. Conflicts endure, stemming from differences in religion and ideological belief, while lead-

ers of states and countries are divided over open borders and isolationism. All the while, students here arrive from across the continent and the world to explore academic pursuits and passions together under the same roof in this nation’s capital.

It would be foolish to say our Georgetown bubble is threatened by conflicts across political aisles and across the globe. Nevertheless, in a world and nation consistently divided on lines of religion, creed and politics, new and returning students have an opportunity to re-envision their communities and build themselves into men and women for others, as first envisioned

by St. Ignatius. Georgetown’s students must be more conscious in looking past their own niches and comfort zones to recognize commonalities, rather than differences.

It is not easy to try to force oneself to fit in with a group that is entirely unfamiliar. Certainly this editorial board does not expect all students to completely reinvent themselves in order to gain a new perspective on Georgetown and the world at large. This is simply not reasonable.

Rather, this editorial board suggests that students take small steps every day to expand the parameters of their

pre-existing identities. Students should listen to a guest speaker from the other side of the aisle, or attend a student cultural show from a group representing another unique cultural identity. The imagination to walk in another’s shoes is enough. Such steps are what actually allows students to further develop who they are and be able to empathize and better understand their fellow Hoyas who are not like them.

On the Hilltop, where identities can be shaped by the publications for which students write for, the teams played on and the classes taken, our most effective learning and individual growth can be found in the moment when we leave comfort zones behind. It is fine and healthy to call certain groups home, but students should not forget that the people seen in classes each day, whether they belong to H*yas for Choice or Vita Saxa, College Democrats or College Republicans, all belong to a common Hoya family. While we can find our identities and comfort zones in our passions, groups and pursuits, this editorial board believes more effective learning and conversation can occur when we take a moment to appreciate our common Hoya identity.

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Bad Saint Exceeds Expectations To the Editor, Thank you so much for this post about Bad Saint (“The Filipino Eatery Transforming DC”, The Hoya, May 17, 2016, A5). It is truly quite an experience to dine in at this restaurant. I myself was a first-time customer at Bad Saint. The first I ever heard about this little gem of Filipino restaurant was through a friend. I

finally got a chance to get a table at the restaurant tonight, Aug. 27, 2016, and I was very pleased. I was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. And I am always weary when it comes to Filipino restaurants since I can make the majority of the Filipino dishes sold in America. But to my surprise it was truly amazing the way Bad Saint presents and serves their dishes. You will not even

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missed the steam rice which was always a company most Filipino dishes. The co-owner Genevieve Villamore who I had a pleasure of meeting in person was a fantastic hostess as well. I can’t wait to go back, stand in line for hours and dine in this restaurant. I just simply love it!

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OPINION

Tuesday, august 30, 2016

BRAIN HISTORY

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Hot Hearts and Cooler Heads

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ike many intellectual disciplines, the study of biology can be traced back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. A true empiricist, Aristotle relied not on speculation but on dissections of organisms to uncover the principles that govern life processes.

However, despite his positive influence on the physical sciences, one glaring error of his stands out: “And of course, the brain is not responsible for any sensations at all. The correct view [is] that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”

Aristotle was not alone in this now ludicrous position.

The Egyptians also hailed the heart as the center of thought and preserved it — not the brain — after death. One preSocratic thinker, Empedocles, taught that blood was the medium of thought and that therefore cognition depends on cardiac function.

On the other hand, other philosophers such as Alcmaeon of Croton noticed that the sense organs — the eyes, nose and mouth — all surrounded the brain. Therefore, it would be most efficient for the brain to receive these senses and direct actions accordingly.

Aristotle countered with the fact that much of physical and tactile sensation comes through touch, which can be felt anywhere in the body that receives blood. Therefore, it is actually the heart that is centrally located to receive information from every part of the body. Like most of Aristotle’s positions, his argument for the heart’s supremacy was quite strong at the time of his writing. He also pointed out that the heart responds to emotion, forms first in development and is naturally hot in temperature. His premises can be viewed as more or less accurate; he just happens to be completely wrong when it comes to his thesis.

One must admit that Aristotle’s picture of cognition, though incorrect, is nonetheless poetic. He does not completely dismiss the brain; rather, he describes the brain as

responsible for “cooling” the heart. He describes something like homeostasis, in which the brain and heart must counterbalance one another for proper decision making. This aligns with his thoughts on the golden mean, or the idea that virtue lies in the middle of two extreme vices — so courage is a virtue, in between the vices of cowardice and recklessness.

Interestingly enough, then, Aristotle still attributed mental illness to brain dysfunction.

If the brain cannot absorb heat from the heart, the heart will quickly and recklessly react to any disturbance. Just think about the feeling of anger: Your heart beats faster and you feel a bit hotter. According to Aristotle’s dissections, the brain was naturally cold and in a good position to balance the heat. While we metaphorically advise the aggressors in our lives to “cool their tempers,” this advice is grounded in an ancient understanding of physiology.

Unknowingly at the time, Aristotle identified the sympathetic nervous system: In response to stress, the nervous system prepares the body for fight or flight.

Among many other biological changes, the preparation consists of improving blood circulation by raising the heart rate. However, this rise in heart rate is a consequence of the response, not responsible for it. Really, it is the nervous system, an extension of the brain that governs heart rate, not the other way around.

But while science has moved on, Aristotle’s picture of cognition still breathes in our language. We still think of the heart as the seat of emotion and the brain as the center of cool, logical thinking.

Perhaps this is further testament to Aristotle’s impressive legacy; his influence has been cast so far that even his wrong ideas have left a footprint on modern language.

Ayan Mandal is a junior in the College. Brain history appears every other Tuesday.

While such a tuition hike is standard for peer institutions, students at Georgetown are frustrated that these changes in are made known only when they receive their tuition bills.

To the President’s Office of Georgetown

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e, the Georgetown University Student Association executive, request an explanation for the 4 percent tuition increase for the 2016-17 academic year through a town hall with the university administration.

The decision to increase tuition by approximately $1,920 was announced after the board of directors met in February and was approved without the consultation of any students.

As evidenced by the range of circulating articles and social media posts, students are outraged and demand action.

We, the students of Georgetown, are expected to pay more than $70,000 in tuition for this academic year. As constituents of the university administration and board, we request transparency – a fair ask.

The university’s 2017-20 Financial Plan discloses a projected compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent from 2015 to 2020 with a steady enrollment cap. This number is concerning and clearly indicates an increase in tuition raises over the next couple

years. Tuition has already increased a total of 18 percent since 2012. These numbers need context and explaining for students and parents who will be expected to pay 4 to 6 percent more in tuition each year. While such a tuition hike is standard for peer institutions, students at Georgetown are frustrated over the fact that these changes in tuition are only made known to them when they receive their tuition bill for the next academic year.

We recognize and highly commend the university’s efforts to raise financial aid by 8 percent for the next fiscal year. We could not be more supportive of Georgetown’s efforts to assure that all students, regardless of their socioeconomic background, can join our community.

However, ambiguity in the university’s expenditures is what brings students to protest the lack of transparency. Students cannot be expected to sift through financial plans developed for university investors, and there must be clear, student-specific communication.

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How do students gain from these hikes? Do students believe this increased tuition represents the intrinsic value of a Georgetown education?

The university needs to do more to answer to its most important constituent:

Evidenced by the range of circulating articles and social media posts, students are outraged. the students.

While we, GUSA, recognize the complexities of a constrained endowment and the benefits of tuition raises to financial aid, we are not privy to the decision-making process and cannot be expected to explain this continuous rise in tuition to students. The university must answer for itself. A simple town hall explaining the actual nuances behind tuition and the need for annual raises can help alleviate the current tension among the student body.

University President John J. DeGioia, Vice President of Finance and University Treasurer David Rubenstein, Student Financial Services Dean McWade, Provost Robert Groves and University Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini, we respectfully ask that you host a town hall with the student body and address the ongoing trend of tuition hikes. We ask that you answer to the undergraduate constituents who pay more than $70,000 a year to this institution. In a world where these decisions are made without the presence of students, lack of communication is inevitable. We ask that you please rectify this lack of transparency on your part.

We are not asking for a reversal of this year’s hike — something we recognize as impossible. We ask for transparency, answers and an ability to play a role in conversations regarding tuition. Please do the right thing.

Enushe Khan is a senior in the McDonough School of Business. Chris Fisk is a senior in the College.

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Trickle-Down Bigotry Abound El-Sisi’s Competent Leadership

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hat does it mean to be a Muslim in the United States? For many of us, that includes some form of consistent discrimination or prejudice, whether on the streets or in the classroom.

Islamophobia has become one of the most poignant issues for Muslim Americans, a community that makes up less than 1 percent of the American population. According to a 2015 Brookings Institute poll, 61 percent of Americans held an unfavorable opinion of Islam.

Dealing with the consequences of consistent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the media and in politics, Muslims’ struggle for an acceptance into the broader American community has been exacerbated by the most recent election cycle.

Awareness about Islamophobia arguably took off in 2015 after the Chapel Hill murders of Deah Baraka and Yusor and Razan Abu-Salha in what was reported to be a “parking dispute.” Muslims around the United States, myself included, held vigils and protests to raise awareness about the largely unaddressed yet prevalent Islamophobic culture present in America. Islamophobia has become increasingly discussed in the media here in the United States and in other countries such as Britain and France.

One of the largest sources for the rise of Islamophobia has been domestic politics and the media’s portrayal of the violence in the Middle East. With terrorist organizations and militancy movements throughout the Middle East, Asia and Africa, media reporting has caused the religion of Islam to be closely tied to groups such as Boko Haram, the Taliban and the Islamic State Group.

These two things have been so

closely tied together that Sheldon Adelson’s famous quote, “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Islamic” has taken hold in much of the American psyche.

Others have gone even further, as the Republican presidential candidates seemingly took up a competition to make the most Islamophobic statements. When all the frontrunners of the 2016 Republican Party start saying that the United States should never have a Muslim president — Ben Carson — or that police should “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” — Ted Cruz — we know there is a problem.

No one has made the issue of Islamophobia bigger than Donald Trump. By calling for a ban on Muslim immigrants and the registration of MuslimAmericans into a database, Trump’s bigotry and discourse on “radical Islam” provides some Americans with a justification for displaying their discomfort toward Muslims.

Many see Trump as the symbol of free speech, and with his attacks against Islam, supporters are more emboldened to act.

Such a rise in Islamophobia stems from the effect of “trickle-down racism.” It does not even matter if Trump wins the 2016 presidential election; the rhetoric and statements have already caused current and future damage. By becoming the American symbol for a pattern of xenophobia, he has already begun a movement that will impact the United States for years to come. With every statement directed against Muslims, the more and more the average American citizen will begin to believe such things to be fact. This does not just apply to Muslims either; whether it is the comments about Mexi-

cans or the LGBTQ community or women, the fact that Donald Trump is able to say these things without consequence results in others believing they can and should do the same.

The second thing is that this rhetoric causes “normalized Islamophobia” in politics, media and culture. Awareness of Islamophobia has definitely increased in this past year, but at the same time, so has Islamophobia in general. Consistently pairing terrorism and Islam together causes an association and, over time, people forget there is a difference. Media groups ranging from Fox News and Breitbart News Network talk about Islam in a negative light over and over again, causing people to be more readily used to Islamophobia and less willing to speak out against it.

Although Islam’s image has become increasingly negative over the past few years, many more people have also developed strong interests in learning about and studying the religion, culture and society of Muslims. There is now also more potential in raising awareness about the issues of Islamophobia. Georgetown has been doing work in this field through the Bridge Initiative, a research center established in April 2015 that seeks to educate American society about Islamophobia.

Yet at the end of the day, the pervasive effects of the normalization of prejudice will permeate long after “The Donald” fades from the stage, and combatting Islamophobia will likely turn into a lengthy struggle as opposed to a simple flashpoint of this election.

Saad Bashir is a sophomore

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he state of Egypt’s economy is being blamed on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi by foreign analysts. The Egyptian economy continues to struggle despite the large sums of loans and aid poured into the country by neighboring Gulf states. Yet despite such factors, President el-Sisi and his cabinet accomplished much more than expected in two years.

When el-Sisi came to power in 2014, the country had already endured two revolutions and three years of economic downfall. Power outages, terrorist groups, extremism, corruption, aging infrastructure, an unaccountable police force and an inefficient bureaucracy are just a few examples of the hundreds of challenges the government had — and still has — to deal with.

There are also external factors: the unstable surrounding region, the Islamic State group, potential enemies along the Nile Basin and the threat of powerful foreign countries intervening in domestic affairs. It is impossible to expect any head of state to tackle these issues in a matter of years, but the strides taken by el-Sisi and his cabinet cannot go unnoticed.

Egypt has been governed under the policy of subsidies for decades as successive governments relied on such policies for survival. Yet by continuing to borrow and spend to keep prices low, before 2014 the state had spent over $96 billion on energy subsidies, not including the cost of subsidies for other essential goods.

This stagnation changed when el-Sisi came to power; many subsidies were cut and the government suddenly had the limited ability to start

paying back debt. A year after el-Sisi took office, Egypt’s external debt fell 13.9 percent, $39.9 billion dollars. The cut allowed the Egyptian government to save up to 51 billion Egyptian pounds. For that reason, Egypt’s credit ratings improved and agencies like Moody’s raised Egypt’s rating outlook from negative to stable.

Infrastructure is a backbone for any economy, and the most basic foundation needed today is electricity access. Egypt has historically failed to produce enough electricity to meet consumption levels. In 2011, electricity usage was 20 percent more than production. Now

Wasil Rezk Egypt has a surplus of energy production and el-Sisi also boosted the use of renewable energy with new wind power plants and solar farms. In order to transform Egypt into a country of manufacturing and industry, el-Sisi has signed contracts with Russia to build Egypt’s first nuclear plant, which will provide Egypt with nuclear power in 2024.

Despite difficult economic times, a parallel Suez Canal was built, costing $8.4 billion, all of which donated by ordinary Egyptians. It is not usual to see millions have confidence in a leader, not only ideologically but financially.

Expectations were realized when the project came under completion in just one year

and doubled the canal’s capacity from 49 to 97 ships per day.

The canal is only a glimpse of the developments made in Egypt. New tunnels, development of five seaports, new industrial zones and a technology valley are projects that have already been completed.

In addition, el-Sisi also began the National Roads Initiative, which set a goal to construct a 4,400 kilometers of roadways, making up 10 percent of Egypt’s road network.

At this point, the flip side of el-Sisi’s current reign cannot be disregarded. Following the coup against the democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi in July 2011, which over 30 million Egyptians supported, el-Sisi imprisoned and tried hundreds of Morsi’s party members in the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sisi has also had tension with media groups and outlets who have been accused of inciting chaos in domestic affairs. Couple this with reports of corruption and clientelism in his administration, it then becomes clear how el-Sisi’s reign, while very popular, still needs reform.

Even with such a record, Egyptians did recognize el-Sisi’s coup as brave and patriotic and firmly did desire an end to the economic and political crises that plagued Morsi’s administration. El-Sisi’s grasp on security and stability makes him a hero for citizens no matter the consequences or other shortfalls of his presidency.

From a certain lens, Egypt is stronger than before due to the nation’s unity under the leadership of el-Sisi.

Wasil Rezk is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

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Q&A: Anastasia Somoza Talks 2016, Diversity LISA BURGOA Hoya Staff Writer

When Anastasia Somoza (COL ’07) addressed the Democratic National Convention in July, she delivered a powerful endorsement of presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from her motorized chair. Born with cerebral palsy with spastic quadriplegia, the New York-based disability rights advocate now serves as a surrogate for the Clinton campaign after graduating from Georgetown College with a major in government and a minor in English. In an interview with THE HOYA, So-

moza reflects on the vitriolic election cycle, advances in disability activism and her own years at Georgetown.

Your address at the DNC was both a testament to the inclusivity of the Clinton campaign and a searing indictment of Trump’s divisiveness. You said at one point Trump “didn’t see me, didn’t hear me and definitely did not speak for me.”

In a campaign characterized by nasty remarks and mudslinging on both sides, how did you draw this distinction?

Donald Trump has made it clear through all of his rhetoric that he doesn’t

represent, will not fight for and is fearful of women, African Americans, Muslims, people with disabilities and other religious and ethnic minorities — in other words anyone who isn’t the all-American white male. It’s impossible to even attempt to claim to be the best candidate to address the most pressing needs of Americans and our interests when your core policy proposals are centered on deporting all immigrants and building a wall. Not to mention the fact Republican administrations are characterized by limiting government and, more often than not,

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Anastasia Somoza (COL ’07), a disability rights activist, is working on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in July.

the cuts are made in the areas of greatest need, including reducing funding to Medicaid and Medicare, both of which are relied upon by the disabled and elderly nationwide. By contrast, Hillary began her career at the Children’s Defense Fund fighting for the needs of families who have children with disabilities, working to increase the numbers of African Americans and other minorities registering to vote, advocating for women’s rights to be seen as human rights and fighting against all odds to make sure health care is a right for all Americans rather than a privilege afforded to some.

To cite a breaking example of the stark differences between the campaigns and candidates, Hillary has just announced her comprehensive agenda on mental health, which demonstrates her action toward addressing an unmet need. As far as I know, Donald Trump has yet to address this in any substantive way.

You came to the national spotlight when you plead with President Bill Clinton in a televised town hall at age 10 to place students like your twin sister Alba in regular classes away from a special education track.

Over a decade later, how do you think policies for disabled students in the classroom have fared?

Families across this country are still waging battles at the school district level to make sure their children are included in mainstream classrooms and then, once they are, that they are given the appropriate support and access to accommodations, which can sometimes include assistive technology and individualized adjustments to their academic program. So the work to level the playing field in the classroom is far from over, but beyond that, as a young woman with a disability, I have struggled in the transition from academia into the work force.

I am working on increasing the employment of people with disabilities in

private industry through tax incentive programs and creating guidelines for a more inclusive workforce.

“Families across this country are still waging battles at the school district level.”

ANASTASIA SOMOZA Surrogate for the Clinton Campaign.

How can we best be allies to the disabled community?

In your daily lives, one of the important ways everyone can be an ally to those of us with disabilities is being inclusive of us in all school-related activities, groups and programs. If you notice an elevator on campus or a D.C. Metro station that is out of service, take the time to make the call to get it fixed.

Overall, how would you characterize your experience at Georgetown?

While at Georgetown I felt extremely supported by faculty and staff. What I remember sometimes being an issue was the frequency with which elevators on campus would break down and other physical accessibility-related issues, which from what I’ve heard have improved drastically over the years.

The Class of 2020 begins freshman year this fall.

What advice do you have for incoming students?

My advice to incoming freshmen would be to take every opportunity to meet people and discover ways in which you can become actively involved in campus life and really engage in activities that you are passionate about. As far as academics are concerned, it’s important to make the most of the time you have at the beginning of each academic term to sit in on classes and engage in conversations with professors about the content of the course and how the professor will determine

your progress throughout the semester. For example, in my case I knew I was more comfortable writing papers than I was taking multiple choice exams. So to the extent that it’s possible, choose classes that fit your learning style and provide you with opportunities to highlight your strengths. Also, even if you think you’re confident about what you’d like to major and minor in, be sure to allow yourself the time and space to explore a variety of academic disciplines.

What are your plans for the months before the election and beyond?

I’m a believer in living in the moment, so I don’t have a five- or 10-year plan, but between now and the election I am honored and excited to be speaking as a surrogate on the campaign trail in support of Hillary.

I’m also looking forward to a handful of speaking engagements this fall, including one that’s bringing me back to the Hilltop at the end of October. There are many thrilling projects and opportunities in the works that I hope to be able to elaborate on at a later date.

“I am working on increasing the employment of people with disabilities.”

ANASTASIA SOMOZA Surrogate for Clinton Campaign

I’m consistently pursuing any opportunities to increase the visibility, inclusion and engagement of people with disabilities in everyday life. I’m currently working with a team of colleagues to open a parent resource center for families of children with disabilities in China. Some of my other areas of personal interest include increasing the accessibility of travel both nationally and internationally to people with disability. The most timely concern is increasing the voter registration of people with disabilities and facilitating their ability to vote.

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Students will have increased dining options this year, including the ability to use mobile ordering service Tapingo to purchase meals at Hoya Court, Bulldog Tavern, Starbucks, Cosi and Einstein Bros. Bagels in the Car Barn, meal swipes in Hoya Court and Cosi and expanded menus at O’Donovan Hall.

University, GUSA Expand Student Dining Options Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

Students with meal plans will have new dining options this year, including a meal exchange with Hoya Court and Cosi, a mobile ordering program, expanded menus and takeaway options at O’Donovan Hall and opportunities to purchase additional tax-free Flex Dollars, according to a campuswide email sent by Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese on Friday.

Students will be able to use the mobile ordering service Tapingo to purchase meals at Hoya Court, Bulldog Tavern, Starbucks, Cosi and Einstein’s Bros.

Bagels in the Car Barn. The Einstein’s kiosk in Regents Hall will be converted into academic space.

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Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the changes are the result of negotiations GUSA has had with Georgetown Dining since 2013.

“This has been a long time coming. These conversations have been taking place, been a focus, since my freshman year and are finally coming to fruition so it’s great,” Khan said.

“We had a lot of people engaged with dining.”

Khan said the options are an extension of a pilot program in fall 2014 in which meal exchange options were offered through restaurants in Hoya Court.

“This is a great win for students who feel like they don’t have time to sit down in Leo’s, but they want that hot meal,” Khan said. “They want all-you-can-eat, but they can’t sit there to eat.”

Khan also said Grab ‘n’

Go menus will be expanded with new sandwiches and salads, in addition to new halal options in Leo’s.

Alongside new Grab ‘n’ Go food offerings, students will be given reusable plastic containers at the beginning of the year to choose food from Leo’s to take with them.

“This will be an interesting trial run to see what Aramark’s potential could look like.”

ENUSHE KHAN (MSB ’17) President, GUSA

“You go in, you take your hot meal, whatever you

want, and then you leave.

The next time, you can have it washed at a dropoff location. When you drop yours off, you can pick up a new clean one, so it’s sustainable,” Khan said.

Additionally, students will be able to add additional Flex Dollars to make taxfree purchases at locations around campus.

Khan said GUSA looked at dining models from various universities, including New York University, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University to recommend changes. The 2014 pilot program used a version of Northwestern’s partnership with Sodexo, in which students are allowed a set number of “equivalency meals” — meals from outside locations — per week as a part of

their quarterly meal plan.

Khan said the changes are a positive sign of what Aramark Corporation, Georgetown’s dining partner, should do in the future. The contract is currently up for renewal at the end of 2017.

“This will be an interesting trial run to see what Aramark’s potential could look like, especially given the new contracting negotiations. Now that we have other options to look at, we really want to see if Aramark can truly step up with things that are long overdue,” Khan said.

Stephanie Richardson (COL ’17) said the meal exchange program will satisfy students who are unhappy with traditional offerings at Leo’s.

“I think that students will really take advantage of the opportunity to use their meal plan in so many

different places on campus,” Richardson said. “I truly believe people will be far more satisfied with the meal plans offered to us.”

Mark Tremoglie (MSB ’19) said he appreciates the increased variety in dining options.

“It will be great to have more flexibility in our meal plans, and I think students will take advantage of the many new places on campus where meal exchanges are now accepted.”

Tremoglie said the expansion of the Flex Dollar program will be especially useful.

“I especially like that we are now able to add to our Flex Dollars, because I know that running out of Flex before the semester ends is something that has been almost unavoidable to students in the past,” Tremoglie said.

New York Times Subscription Sought William Zhu Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association is seeking permanent funding to renew the university’s online subscription to The New York Times after the subscription expired at the end of the 2016 spring semester.

For the past two years, the subscription was funded on an annual basis. This year, GUSA hopes to secure a permanent source of funding for the subscription to allow for continuous student access to the subscription year round.

GUSA is currently petitioning the university libraries for funding, after the Provost’s Office rejected initial requests.

GUSA Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) said that with the new funding GUSA will not have to raise money annually.

“GUSA and students don’t have to be fundraising on an ad hoc basis for this every year,” Fisk wrote in an email to The Hoya.

GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Casey Nolan (COL ’17) said the library is the department most well-suited to handle the costs of the subscription.

“We feel that, with the cost of the subscription and the scope of its purpose, the subscription is best borne by the library,” Nolan wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Since its introduction two years ago, the subscription — which cost $3,700 last year — has been funded by varying university offices, including the French department and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, on an annual basis.

GUSA previously applied for funding for the subscription each year by contacting all campus departments to request funding assistance, according to Nolan.

Nolan said GUSA relies on funding from university departments to purchase the subscription due to constraints on GUSA’s budget.

“In the past, funds have been appropriated from generous on-campus donors,” Nolan said. “We really don’t receive enough funds to take on the yearly cost.”

This is not the first time GUSA’s subscription to The New York Times has been cut. Students were unable

to use the subscription last summer before access was returned in early September.

GUSA’s Collegiate Readership Program previously paid for print copies of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today around campus until March 2014, when the program was discontinued due to high costs.

GUSA introduced online access to The New York Times in September 2014 to replace the print editions.

The New York Times was chosen for its wide coverage and versatility as a news source, according to Nolan.

“We chose [The] New York Times because we feel it has more of a global scope than other papers, in addition to being more of a general purpose paper, as opposed to something like The Wall Street Journal,” Nolan said.

According to Nolan, if GUSA fails to secure funding it will consider other options to renew the subscription, including returning to finding money on an annual basis.

“If we do not receive funding in full, I anticipate that we will meet at the beginning of the school year to talk about next steps, what is best,” Nolan wrote. “We will decide at a later date whether we want to explore ad hoc funding among the various University departments.”

The transition between GUSA administrations contributed to the lapse in funding for the subscription. The previous GUSA administration did not attempt to renew the subscription while it was in office, according to Nolan.

“Unfortunately, our full administration only came into office in late March/ April, leaving us little time to look for funding before the end of the year,” Nolan said. “I do not believe the other administration began searching for funding for the new year.”

Graduate Student Government President Alexander Plum (GRD ’17) said the group is working with GUSA to renew the subscription.

“We are still in discussion with GUSA with regards to funding for The New York Times subscription,” Plum wrote in an email to The Hoya. “No further details are ready to be made public at this time. However, we are committed to working with GUSA on these issues.”

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(Clockwise from top left) Martin O’Malley, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Scott Mulhauser, Juana Summers and Michael Steel make up the 2016 GU Politics fall fellows, who will work with students on current political issues.

GU Politics Announces 2016 Fall Fellows Leaders in government and media prepare to address domestic politics Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service unveiled its newest class of fellows Wednesday, a group that is comprised of figures at the forefront of politics and media.

“With the 2016 presidential election, we expect this group of Fellows to take Hoyas on a dive deeper into national politics.”

MO ELLEITHEE (SFS ’94) Executive Director, GU Politics

The fall 2016 fellows include former 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing Scott Mulhauser (GRD ’05), The Washington Post’s Deputy National Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand (COL ’99), former Senior Policy and Political Adviser to the Jeb Bush campaign Michael Steel and CNN Politics Ed-

itor Juana Summers.

GU Politics Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) said the program strove to recruit a dynamic and diverse cohort for its third class of fellows since the program’s launch last fall.

“With a former presidential candidate and governor, two top political operatives from both sides of the aisle, and two leading political journalists, we think we hit it out of the park with our fall Fellows,” Elleithee wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We hope Hoyas feel the same.”

Over the semesterlong term, the fellows will engage the university community in weekly discussion sessions, hold office hours for students and contribute to the programming of GU Politics’ lectures, panels and events.

The fellows will also spearhead student strategy teams, in which a select group of students collaborate to research a problem endemic to the American political system and develop a solution over the course of the semester.

Elleithee said the forthcoming November presidential election will provide a unique perspective for the fall 2016 class of fellows.

“With the 2016 presidential election, we expect this group of Fellows to take Hoyas on a dive deeper into national politics and the issues that are front and center in November, like political polarization and race and politics,” Elleithee wrote.

“We’re excited for these guys to come to campus and get to work.”

GU Politics Operations and Student Engagement Manager Hanna Hope said she is excited to begin working with them.

“It’s been so fun to see students waiting all summer to see who our Fall Fellows would be, and we’re thrilled at the response that we’re seeing to this group,” Hope wrote in an email to The

Hoya. “I love seeing that the Georgetown community has already started interacting with our Fellows online, and we can’t wait to have them on campus soon, livening up our new offices.”

Aaron Bennett (COL ’19), who previously served on the student strategy team of spring 2016 GU Politics fellow Daily Beast Editor Jackie Kucinich said he particularly looks forward to O’Malley’s contribution to the program.

“Headlined by a former presidential candidate and a top presidential campaign adviser on board — I think this is the strongest GU Politics class of fellows yet,” Bennett said.

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Pedro Arrupe, SJ Residence Hall Houses First Students CONSTRUCTION, from A1 commitment it formed with the Georgetown University Student Association as a part of 2017-37 Campus Plan negotiations this summer.

The commitment states that the university will prioritize renovations to existing student housing over construction of new housing to meet the 2010 Campus Plan’s requirement to house 90 percent of students on campus.

“The Alumni Square renovation starts that process. So we’re being consistent with what we’re saying by renovating and putting investments into Alumni Square to make sure that we can provide the proper service to those buildings. It’s an investment in an existing student housing unit that we need to be doing more of,” Morey said.

“That is the point.”

The Office of Planning and Facilities Management is also awaiting results from the completed housing survey conducted by Ayers SaintGross, which is expected to provide a timeline and suggestions for future renovation and construction on campus.

Ayers Saint-Gross has previously conducted similar surveys for other university campuses, including The George Washington University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Prior to conducting the study, Ayers Saint-Gross, university administrators and GUSA organized a steering committee to work on the final report. Jonice Jackson (COL ’18), former GUSA secretary of residential living, Connor Maytnier (COL ’18) and GUSA Residential Life Policy Team Co-Chair Christopher Holshouser (MSB ’18) sit on the committee.

GUSA Chief of Staff Ari

Goldstein (COL ’18) said the student representatives are pushing for a timeline that specifies the process for renovations.

“What we have asked of the administration is that at the conclusion of the housing study, they engage with us about putting together a very specific timeline for renovations. It’s an idea that we saw originally at GWU and other schools where they had a cyclical timeline to complete renovations,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein said he hopes a timeline will bind the university to its housing commitment to avoid situations like Henle Village’s deferred maintenance, which caused some students to lose hot water in their apartments last winter.

The Office of Residential Living indefinitely delayed renovations of Henle Village in November 2014 due to a lack of resources.

“The point is that if you commit down the road, then you don’t end up with situations like we had with Henle where a planned renovation is postponed and postponed and postponed because the money isn’t there,” Goldstein said.

“We said the housing study is about renovating and we want a timeline that lays out when the necessary renovations on campus are going to take place.”

The survey will enable the university to better understand student needs in addition to crafting a timeline for renovations, according to Maytnier.

“The survey engaged students on everything from price and value, to unit typology, to overall housing satisfaction,” Maytnier wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Morey said he expects Henle renovations will be the uni-

versity’s next project, followed by additional work in Alumni Square and Village A. “Alumni Square needs more aesthetic renovations of paint, carpet, lighting, kitchens and I think you will see Village A be in that same category.

These are things we know. The purpose of the survey was to kind of balance and put some hardcore data behind what we think is true,” Morey said.

The survey results will also provide a roadmap for future master planning ideas, including the proposed Student Life Corridor, which would run north to south along Tondorf Road and the Leavey Center and replace the facilities offices under Harbin Hall along the ground floor.

“Student collaboration space is really the focus of the student life corridor,” Morey said. “The idea is that eventually I would like to be able to relocate my facilities team and then all that becomes student space.”

Facilities also conducted sewer maintenance in Southwest Quad and Darnall Hall to repair damage to sewer lines, while the pathway between Reiss Hall and Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall has opened.

Morey said students played a major role in construction and renovation planning.

“Over the past year, we’ve been working with students on the campus plan and the idea there is that we want to invest in the existing infrastructure. That was a student initiative and it aligned with what we wanted to do in investing in our existing infrastructure versus building new housing,” Morey said.

“Students were significantly involved in all that strategy and development and as far as we know are supportive of the campus plan.”

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New students participated in returning NSO events, including “I Am Ready,” “Pluralism in Action” and the Marino Workshop, and new programs including a panel on Jesuit values were introduced.

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Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Residence Hall began housing its first students this month, joining other completed construction projects including the John R. Thomspon Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center.

Georgetown University Libraries Katherine Thomas said that while the selection process was intense, Forna emerged eventually as the right fit.

“We try to make sure that the topic will be challenging but still engaging because we don’t want it to be a slog to read. [Forna] was particularly nice for us because she is the Lannan visiting chair of poetics this year at Georgetown,” Thomas said. “Usually, the author is a one-off experience. But this time, they get to have more face time with the author and they get to follow up on the Marino experience either in class or in a session with her.”

The Marino Workshop is one of the signature programs that also takes place at the School of Foreign Service

Qatar campus in Doha during orientation, along with Pluralism in Action. These events help bring together the freshman class as a whole, according to Thomas.

“We think Marino is a wonderful way to bring everyone together.”

Katherine thomas Communications and Marketing Coordinator, Georgetown University Libraries

“We think Marino is a wonderful way to bring everyone together, no matter if you’re pre-med or in the SFS,” Thomas said. “You get to come in and have this shared academic experience with all your fellow students.”

Thomas said the intended outcomes of the Marino

Workshop dovetail with those of NSO overall.

“It provokes a lot of interesting discussion and helps develop the mentality that students should be willing and comfortable to challenge one another,” Thomas said.

“All of college is a dialogue so it’s helping you develop those tools.”

Mark Camilli (COL ’19), who is an orientation adviser for the first time this year, said he has found the experience to be tough but rewarding.

“My experience as an OA has been both up and down,” Camilli said. “It’s been really long days but NSO has given me a new look at Georgetown and has made me realize how much I love it here. It’s reminded me how much this place is a home to me and I really love sharing that with new students.”

Debate Over DC Colleges’ Property Taxes Intensifies TAXES, from A1 other focuses of the CFO, and right now the universities are treated as nonprofit organizations and therefore not subject to the real property tax,” Umansky said.

“We simply follow the policy. This is one of those issues that is up to the policymakers.”

Daphne Kenyon, a fellow at the independent think tank Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, said she too feels that universities should maintain their nonprofit status due to the volume of services they provide for cities.

“Nonprofits do make very

important contributions to people and to society,” Kenyon said. “They’re a good part of our economy, and they do a lot of things the government would have to do if the government didn’t do them.”

“We simply follow the policy. This is one of those issues that is up to the policymakers.”

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However, she did advocate for a PILOT program as a

means of justifying the usage of city services by many universities within the District.

“We’ve written a lot on these payment in lieu of taxes. We do recognize that nonprofits do benefit from services that the cities provide,” Kenyon said. “If there is a fire emergency, it could be the case that a District fire truck could be involved, or a police incident, or when it snows. So those services are paid for by property tax payers in the District.

So you could say ‘how is this fair? You have this university with mostly pretty welloff students. Shouldn’t they have to pay some of these

costs?’”

The District’s government considered implementing a PILOT program in 2013 through the D.C. Tax Revision Commission, an independent committee of 11 members appointed by former Mayor Vincent Grey.

However, the commission did not recommend this kind of program due to the complexities that would accompany taxing District property owned by the federal government.

Kenyon said flexibility should be valued above all if universities are called to discuss their tax statuses.

“It’s not useful to threaten their tax exemption, but

particularly for very rich universities in poor cities, I hope that those universities would think flexibly,” Kenyon said. “Improvement must be precise and sensible and not upset the apple cart, so I’m against initiatives that would get rid of the tax exemptions and that would be way too radical.”

On the national stage, lawmakers have also contributed to the discussion of higher-education financing.

In February 2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) wrote a letter to 56 private universities with endowments larger than $1 billion request-

ing information on how their endowments are managed and how profits from endowments are spent.

The letter outlines the significant endowments many universities hold in addition to nonprofit tax exemptions and argues that these are not in line with the rising cost of higher education for students and their families.

“Despite these large and growing endowments, many colleges and universities have raised tuition far in excess of inflation,” the letter reads.

Congress is planning on holding hearings to discuss the findings of this requested information this fall.

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Universities in D.C. are exempt from paying millions of dollars in property taxes due to their status as nonprofits, a situation many local leaders are calling to change due to the relative wealth of several universities, rising tuitions and growing endowments. National lawmakers have called for congressional hearings to address university tax exemptions, which will take place this fall.

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Kickback Festival Cancelled as Weeks of Welcome Returns WILLIAM ZHU Hoya Staff Writer

This year’s Georgetown Weeks of Welcome, held from Aug. 30 to Oct. 8, will not include the annual Kickback concert as coordinators focus efforts on expanding and improving other events amid low student turnout in past years.

According to the Vice President of the Georgetown Program Board Andrew Minkovitz (SFS ’17), GPB and Students of Georgetown, Inc. both agreed not to host the concert this year. Minkovitz said it is possible the Kickback concert will be brought back in subsequent years.

“GPB made the decision together with The Corp not to host Kickback this year as we both wanted to focus our efforts on other events this fall,” Minkovitz wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “We expect in the near future to look into the possibility of bringing back the festival next fall.”

GWOW Coordinator Emily Ma (SFS ’19) said the organizations responsible for hosting the Kickback concert last year collectively decided to cancel this year’s concert due to low student participation and the large effort required to host it.

“I think just as a whole GPB, GWOW and The Corp just decided not to host kickback,” Ma said.

“Kickback was probably just harder to get off the ground because it was only around for a few years, and it is difficult to kind of guarantee success or a huge turnout.”

Ma said last year’s Kickback concert was not very successful due to rainy weather that lowered turnout.

“I know last year there were complications with the weather and the turnout and how that was impacted because of the rain,” Ma said.

The Corp confirmed in an email to THE HOYA that it would not be hosting

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Students of Georgetown, Inc. and the Georgetown Program Board cancelled the annual Kickback music festival after two years due to lackluster turnout in previous years and a desire to focus on expanding and improving other events.

Kickback this year.

“Kickback was probably just harder to get off the ground because it was only around for a few years.”

EMILY MA (SFS ’19) Coordinator, GWOW

Ma said there would be no musical replacement for the Kickback concert, but instead the Big Hunt program — a city-wide scavenger hunt that takes a day and allows students to win prizes and explore

more of the city outside Georgetown — would be expanded.

GPB President Nick Bailey (MSB ’17), who also works for THE HOYA, said the six weeks of GWOW are a collaboration between several campus student organizations to allow all students to enjoy events on campus and socialize with each other.

“Georgetown Program Board partners with [New Student Orientation] and Georgetown Weeks of Welcome to provide fun and low-cost entertainment to all students during the first few weeks of school,” Bailey wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Ma said a variety of signature events are planned for GWOW, aiming to raise student engagement and community involvement.

“We have signature programs like the Welcome Back Jack Barbecue, Taste of the Hilltop, Hoya Tees, Help-a-Hoya,” Ma said.

Another highlight of the Weeks of Welcome is the 5K Charity run.

GPB Special Events Chair Stephanie Lu (COL ’18) said the run provides an opportunity for students to raise money for Garfield Elementary, a local school.

“Taking place on campus, the 5K allows Georgetown students to raise money for Garfield Elementary, a local DC school, without having to even leave the front gates,” Lu wrote in an email to THE HOYA. The GPB is also planning the annual Mr. Georgetown pageant, which will be hosted Friday, Sept. 23.

It will include individuals

from various clubs being judged by Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson.

“We are excited to welcome new students to Georgetown and to get them involved in the programming we do around campus.”

NICK BAILEY (MSB ’17) President, GPB

This year will also feature the return of Taste of the Hilltop, in which

various food trucks from around the area come to campus and allow students the opportunity to try out new foods.

According to Bailey, GBP is planning on expanding its advertising of its program this year with banners in Red Square and increased social media outreach.

“This year, GPB is taking a refreshed approach to our marketing strategy on campus,” Bailey said. “We are increasing our visibility and awareness in many ways, such as our banner in Red Square.”

Bailey said GPB hopes GWOW creates an inviting environment for students.

“We are excited to welcome new students to Georgetown and to get them involved in the programming we do around campus,” Bailey said.

The Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Resources congratulates

Georgetown’s 2016-17 Fulbright recipients

Naa-Shorme Aidoo, COL ‘14 English Teaching, South Africa

Nicolas Luongo, COL ‘16 English Teaching, South Korea

Ryan Berg, COL ‘10 Research, Brazil

Samantha Macfarlane, SFS ‘16 English Teaching, Malaysia

Sudakshina Chattopadhyay, MA ‘16 Public Policy, Ivory Coast

Douglas McRae, PhD ‘19 Research, Brazil

Chelsea Cohen, MA ‘16 Public Policy, Kosovo

Daniel McCusker, COL ‘16 Research, Netherlands

Alisha Dua, COL ‘16 Research, United Kingdom

Eric Nevalsky, SFS ‘16 English Teaching, Taiwan

Heather Flaherty, COL ‘14 English Teaching, Colombia

Raquel Rosenbloom, COL ‘16 English Teaching, Morocco

William Haynes, MA ‘17 Research, Kosovo

Vikram Shah, SFS ‘16 Research, Jordan

Morgan Falzone, COL ‘13 Research, Germany

Zalondria Graham, COL ‘16 English Teaching, Mexico Anna Hernick, SFS ‘16 English Teaching, Bulgaria

Dennis Quinn, COL ‘15 Research, Jordan

Katherine Rumer, SFS ‘16 Research, Mexico Manpreet Singh, MA ‘14 Research, India

Chandini Jha, COL ‘16 Research, India

Sophia Skupien, MSFS ‘16 Research, Poland

Laura Kurek, SFS ‘16 English Teaching, Russia

Nicole Steinberg, COL ‘16 English Teaching, Ukraine

Emily Kent, COL ‘16 Research, Austria

Andrew Lange, MA ‘14 Public Policy, Peru

Michelle Stearn, SFS ‘15 Research, Chile

Christopher Wadibia, COL ‘16 Research, Nigeria

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THE HOYA

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is the Chicago Cubs, rooting for another team, much sports teams. At its most less the New York Yankees, elementary form, fandom is suspect. Nevertheless, it involves openly support- is still within the realm of ing the team you love, re- believable sports fandom to senting the rivals of your favor a team that does not favorite team and refusing pose a direct threat to your to root for another team, favorite one. especially a rival team or a However, it was the fact championship team, just that Clinton made a show because your favorite group of her alleged lifelong is in a slump.

Yankee fandom just one Clinton, who grew up in week after she announced a suburb of Chicago, has that she was forming an openly presented herself exploratory committee as a Chicago Cubs fan, and for the Senate seat in New she even donned her team’s York that caught the atgear in public appear- tention of reporters across ances dating back to the the country. For Clinton ’90s. While serving as first to suddenly express her lady in 1994, Clinton even support for the Yankees at threw the ceremonial first a most politically opporpitch at the Cubs’ opening tune time is, well, untrustday game. worthy. Or at least it made In a world her look where the that way.

Not even Hillary Clintons are And this is a clean-cut, where ClinClinton’s sports so-unconton’s probfandom can escape lem lies. In t r ove r s i a l they-areher 2004 criticism. b o r i n g autobiografamily, this phy “Living article ends H i sto r y,” here. However, not even Clinton fought off those alClinton’s sports fandom legations of pandering to can escape criticism. her New York constituents On June 10, 1999, — briefly detail- ing her then-President Bill Clin- admiration of Mickey Manton and then-first lady tle since childhood with a Hillary Clinton welcomed photo of herself, donning the reigning World Series a Yankees cap five years Champion New York Yan- before any of her New kees to the White House York political ambitions — customary presidential began in earnest. Neverhappenings in a series of theless, this is just o n e unconventional moves. of the many instances However, it was the first when Clinton put herself lady who opened the in a situation where suspiceremony, and she who cious activity, political or donned the Yankees cap sports-related, was entirely offered to her by then-Yan- plausible. kees manager Joe Torre.

Because, in the best-case In an appearance on the scenario, you take Clinton “Today” show the follow- at her word. But a similar ing day, Hillary Clinton as- situation happens again. serted that she had “always And then a third time. And for been a Yankees fan.” Katie someone like Clinton, whose Couric, speaking for the life has endured intense merest of America, asked Clin- dia scrutiny for decades — so ton, “I thought you were a intense, in fact, that it allowed Cubs fan,” to which Clinton me, a person who was four replied, ‘’I am a Cubs fan, years old in 1999, to write a but I needed an American column about what Hillary League team because when Clinton said about baseball you’re from Chicago, you in the late ’90s — these little cannot root for both the problems add up.

Cubs and the Sox. I mean, You can only cry wolf so there’s a dividing line that many times before the villagyou can’t cross there. So as ers say they cannot trust you. a young girl, I became very interested and enamored Kara Avanceña is a senior of the Yankees.’’ in the College. The Front For any fan, even a fan of Runners is a shared column the star-crossed team that and appears every Tuesday.

schools: previously Louisville and now Georgetown.

“Injury: It’s been like the story of my college career,” Agau said. “The crazy thing [with the ACL injury] was we had just gotten back from a little break we had at home, and while I was home, my wisdom teeth were [sic], like, infected, so I had to get those taken out. So I took a week off, then it was that Friday [in October 2015] was my first day back up playing.”

Agau, in a situation representative of his college career thus far, tore his ACL in the most unexpected of ways.

“Four, five hours before Midnight Madness, we were having open gym because we had a lot of recruits in that weekend.

And so, you know, we started playing, were winning a bunch of games, and then me and [junior guard L.J. Peak] were in a pick-and-roll situation,” Agau said of his injury. “I remember just rolling to the rim, [Peak] throwing me the ball, my right leg kind of planting and my momentum still kind of carrying me and one of my teammates just kind of … you know, I’ve been hit a lot harder on the basketball court, but just a slight bump and my knees just weren’t really in the right position, and I remember just it buckling and turning my ACL and just falling to the ground in pain.”

In one freak accident, the entire trajectory of the season changed. Com-

pounded with injuries to former player Paul White — who missed the whole season — and senior center Bradley Hayes — who missed most of the end of the season — the Hoyas were without three of their key players.

Throughout a 15-18, 7-11 Big East season, the team struggled with chemistry issues and both interior and perimeter defense, areas that Agau — now completely healthy — specializes in.

“I’ve always been a defensive-minded player.

Also the type of player who does whatever the coach needs me. And obviously defensively I have a pretty good reaction time with blocking shots, so that’s a big thing, protecting the rim,” Agau said of his play style. “I hadn’t always been able to guard one through five, but that’s something that I’ve definitely developed through my college career while I’ve been healthy.

So now having the coach put me at the five next year in a kind of small lineup, and trust that I can switch one through five and guard from the point guard to the center on the team and just having that confidence, I think it’ll be good.”

With Agau as a defensive centerpiece, the added versatility, especially in today’s changing and evolving game, affords the Hoyas an opportunity to address the issues that plagued them for much of last year. The junior forward joins graduate transfer guard Rodney Pryor, junior transfer guard Jonathan Mulmore

“Injury: It’s been like the story of my college career.”

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“I love to set up my teammates; [I am a] ‘passfirst mentality’ type of guy, love getting offensive rebounds, getting the team extra possessions,” Agau said. “And then I stretch the floor whether it’s five out, playing in the post, five out with teammates, or knocking down open midrange and three point shots, so just kind of a little bit of everything.”

A player like Agau, a do-it-all player in the Draymond Green mold, is especially valuable in the modern NCAA — a league that now emphasizes long-range shooting at every position and complex defensive schemes. Moreover, Head Coach John Thompson III’s Princeton offense highly relies on a passing big man, a role that Agau can fill like no one else on the team.

However, another key role that Agau fills, one that most pundits and fans do not see, is that of a veteran presence, which has been around a championship-winning coach in Rick Pitino of Louisville. Last year, criti-

cism swirled around the team in the wake of its rocky season. Beyond just personnel injuries and coaching issues, the Hoyas faced criticism of their chemistry and leadership.

“While we were close last year, I think guys are really making a bigger leap forward to trusting each other more and trying to have a really good connection where it translates in every aspect of not just basketball, but even off the court,” Agau said of the team’s chemistry. “The stronger it is off the court, then it’s going to be definitely strong on the court … everyone has bought in or is taking the step to buying in.”

While preseason polls and media power rankings have thus far completely overlooked the Hoyas, Agau’s journey is, in a way, a microcosm of the team’s experiences.

With the greatest of expectations and disappointments both in tow for the senior and the rest of the team, together they now have a chance to put Georgetown basketball back into the national spotlight after a nearly four-year absence. The 2012-13 season was the last time the Hoyas were ranked in top 20 of any major poll.

“I’ve always had a fire in my belly when I play the game of basketball,” Agau said. “But let’s just say I’m going to let those [doubters] keep sleeping.

They’ll wake up on their own when they turn the TV on and they see what my teammates and I are going to be doing.”

Men’s Soccer

Hoyas Open Season on Wrong Foot SOCCER, from A10

thing not too long ago with the group that just graduated,” Wiese said to guhoyas.com.

Sophomore goalkeeper and co-captain JT Marcinkowski was one of the few bright spots for the Hoyas in the two defeats.

The sophomore — who started for the U.S. U-20 national team this past sum-

mer and was named the Big East Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year — kept his team in the game with several key saves in both matches.

Overall, Marcinkowski made eight saves in the first match and six in the second, earning him a spot on the all-tournament team.

“JT gave a master class on goalkeeping today with

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some first-class saves,” Wiese said to guhoyas.com following the match against Akron.

After the two losses, Georgetown will look to rebound when the team returns to the Washington, D.C. area for its next two matches. Georgetown will face a difficult test Friday in its search for the first win of the season when the team travels to

College Park, Md., to face No. 4 University of Maryland (1-0-1).

The Hoyas will play their home opener Sept.

5 against Virginia Tech (2-0-0). The Hokies started off the season with a pair of wins at the Ohio State Tournament, including an upset win over No. 18 Ohio State (0-2-0). Kickoff will be at 1 p.m. at Shaw Field.

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into the match, Damaska used her pace out wide to turn her defender and earn an early penalty, which Corboz dispatched for her fourth goal on the year.

Graduate student forward Crystal Thomas calmly steered home Georgetown’s second goal just before the break, but immediately after halftime Colorado College’s sophomore attacking midfielder Lauren Milliet provided an assist for senior forward Dana Gornick to cut the deficit to one.

“It was a good goal on their part, and I need to look at the video to see where it broke down for us,” Nolan said. “I don’t think it was anything in regards to lack of focus or lack of attention, I just think kids make good plays and they scored a really good goal.”

However, only 10 minutes later, the Tigers were again behind two goals again as Damaska rounded the keeper and finished after latching onto a Corboz through ball, her fifth assist of the season.

Damaska notched her second of the day just 10 minutes after her first; junior defender Liz Wenger sent a long ball from near the midfield line that Damaska won in the air.

“I’m feeling hot right now, and want to keep scoring as much as I can and do what I can for the team,” Damaska said. “It’s good to come out of this home stretch 3-1. Obviously we would have prefered 4-0, but going into Rutgers and our first away game, it’s a good place to be.”

The Hoyas’ defense has been humming along quietly, conceding just four goals over four games, despite allowing three to No. 5 Stanford (3-0-0). Despite rarely using substitutions in the back, Nolan seems confident in the quality of his defenders.

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Junior midfielder Rachel Corboz is the team leader in points with 13. She has five goals and four assists this season.

“We have depth at the back,” Nolan said. “I just, as a coach, I’m conservative. I always feel it’s very difficult to throw defenders on in the middle of a game. It’s like changing the goalkeeper. … It’s harder for the defenders to get up to speed because by the time they do, sometimes mistakes have been made, and mistakes at the back lead to goals.”

The back four of graduate student Corey Delaney, juniors Wenger and Drew Topor and

freshman Sarah Trissel have played the majority of the minutes, with Wenger again in for the full 90 minutes Sunday; graduate student Marina Paul came off the bench to play in defensive midfield, and freshmen Vashti Williams and Meaghan Nally provided depth as outside backs late on.

Georgetown next travels to No. 22 Rutgers (3-0-1), fresh off a 2-0 victory over No. 10 UConn (3-1-0), for a match on Friday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.

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to test the Mountaineers’ goalkeeper a single time over the course of 90 minFew college teams send utes. more than half of their “We have a lot of retoolstarting lineups to the pro- ing to do based on the fessional ranks in one year, weekend, and have to really and even fewer are able to examine how to maximize recover quickly from those what we have because we’re losses. This past weekend, not generating enough on No. 10 Georgetown (0-2-0) offense,” Head Coach Brian proved no exception, drop- Weise said in an interview ping a pair of 1-0 decisions with guhoyas.com. to the No. 2 Akron Zips (2The lack of attacking 0) and the West Virginia chemistry is hardly a surMountaineers (1-1) at the prise considering the turnAkron Classic tournament. over in the starting lineup Both deciding goals from 2015. The Hoyas had came in the final 10 min- to replace their entire backutes of the line and two match. Akmost dangerron earned “We have a lot ous forwards its victory of retooling to after losing with just 36 two juniors seconds re- do based on the and four semaining in niors to Maregulation, weekend.” jor League with senior Soccer foldefender lowing last BRIAN WEISE Brad Ruhaak season. WiHead Coach scoring after ese has used a series of de18 players flections inside the George- over the course of the tourtown box. West Virginia nament as he seeks to find scored in the 81st minute the right combinations of and held Georgetown with- returning starters, new adout a shot for the remain- ditions and veterans with der of the match. little starting experience.

The Georgetown offense “Looking at the field, struggled consistently to there were so many new create chances in both faces be it freshmen or matches. The two oppo- guys getting their first real nents outshot the Hoyas minutes in there, and you 33-9 over the course of the have to remember that we two games. In the latter went through this same match against West Virginia, the Hoya offense failed See SOCCER, A9

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Senior forward Akoy Agau will return to action this season for the men’s basketball team. Agau has played just 107 career minutes and scored a total of 17 points. He missed all of the 2015-16 season with a torn ACL.

Agau’s Return Inspires Optimism PAOLO SANTAMARIA Hoya Staff Writer

Three years and several turns of misfortune later, senior forward Akoy Agau is finally completely healthy and ready to return to the dominance he once displayed back in high school, the very dominance that caught Georgetown’s eye, bringing him to the Hilltop as a transfer from the University of Louisville in 2014.

After a grueling freshman year of injuries at Louisville and another

year of sitting out due to NCAA transfer regulations, then-junior Agau was more than ready to play for the Georgetown men’s basketball team. As a touted transfer and inherently versatile player — as well as an ESPN Top 100 Recruit in his high school class — pundits and fans anticipated his skills to positively affect the success of the Hoyas in the 2015-16 season.

However, one night in October of last year, right before Midnight Madness — the team’s tricked-out pep rally of sorts — that antici-

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pation quickly turned to disappointment. Agau tore his ACL and would miss the entire season, yet another circumstance that derailed the team’s expectations for the year.

“The fact that obviously I went down, various times other teammates went down, it’s not an excuse, but it was just kind of a rocky year,” Agau said in an interview with THE HOYA. For Agau, the injury meant more than just the derailing of his season and the loss of a potential key

Hoyas Maintain Offensive Dominance Hoya Staff Writer

Clinton Panders To Opposing Fans

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hen former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks, does America believe her?

Recent surveys suggest not. A New York Times/CBS poll conducted in early July showed that 67 percent of voters found Clinton to be neither trustworthy nor honest. Perhaps even more damning, 47 percent of registered voters surveyed by Morning Consult said the word “corrupt” was a fit description for the Democratic presidential nominee just one month prior.

Anyone who has read or watched a news report in 2016 needs not ask why.

Media outlets across the world report on issues and controversies surrounding Clinton on a daily basis, whether they concern her emails, her family’s charitable foundation or her allegedly questionable health status.

Though these issues have been reported on extensively, they can still feel too complicated to fully understand or too polarized for any voter in America to get an unbiased view. While your distant uncle’s Facebook’s status may

claim Clinton’s choice to use a non-State Department email server should be enough grounds to convict her for treason, truthfully, how many of us, your distant uncle included, can fathom the extent to which Clinton’s choice of an email server does or does not compromise national security?

So let’s step away for a moment from the issues dominating news cycles, the importance of which I do not deny, to try to understand Clinton’s political problem in a different way — by exploring the Democratic presidential nominee’s foray into sports fandom, a world where fans are as unforgiving, selfimportant and loyal to the point of delusion as partisan voters. Though few and far between, Clinton’s documented experiences with professional sports fandom can help explain why millions of Americans have reservations about the trustworthiness of the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.

Fandom is one of the most basic aspects of engaging with professional See RUNNERS, A9

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piece for the team. It also formed another chapter in a frustrating college career — a laundry list of playing time issues, injuries and missed opportunities.

“My college career has been rough,” Agau said.

“Just from the success I had from high school and stuff that I thought was going to translate … that wasn’t the case.”

Coming to the Hilltop was supposed to be a new start for Agau and a chance to play at his top two dream

Behind a pair of goals from senior forward Grace Damaska, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (3-1-0) cruised to a 4-1 victory over Colorado College (2-2-0) Sunday to wrap up a fourgame homestand.

Damaska, coming off a hat trick in a 4-0 win over Delaware on Thursday, continued her torrid start to the season by attacking the Tigers’ fullbacks with pace and scoring Georgetown’s two goals in the second

half of the match.

Supporting Georgetown’s offensive effort was junior midfielder Rachel Corboz, who was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week last week thanks to her hat trick and assist in Georgetown’s 6-0 season-opening win against Towson (0-3-1). Throughout the match, Corboz continuously thread balls into the paths of Damaska and sophomore forwards Amanda Carolan and Caitlin Farrell.

“In our scouting report we knew that their de-

fense, their outside backs in particular, were going to be not as athletic as Caitlin [Farrell] and I, and then [freshman forward] Casey [Richards] and [freshman midfielder] Paula [Germino-Watnick] when they came on,” Damaska said.

“So we knew from the start that our strength was going to be to go one-on-one against them, and we clearly had a lot of success with it.”

Head Coach Dave Nolan seemed pleased with the team’s ability to deal with Colorado College’s 4-4-2 formation, an abnormal-

ity in the women’s soccer game.

“They’re a very wellcoached team,” Nolan said.

“And they played a certain way, which we hadn’t faced to this point in the season.

So we knew we were going to have some things we needed to do a little bit differently to break them down, or try and rough up their shape a little bit and get them to adjust to us instead of us adjusting to what they do.”

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Senior forward Grace Damaska scored two goals in the win against Colorado College. Damaska has scored five goals in the last two games and is second on the team in points with 12 and first on the team in goals with six.

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