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EDITORIAL Georgetown must build on its steps to reconcile with its past.

REFLECTING ON 9/11 Fifteen years on, an expert panel reflected on the state of terrorism.

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Descendants of 272 React to Reparations IAN SCOVILLE

Archdiocese of Washington and the Society of Jesus in the United States, establish an A group of descendants of Institute for the Study of Slavthe 272 slaves sold by George- ery and Its Legacies, increase town University in 1838 is engagement with descenseeking to establish a $1 bil- dants of the 272 and seek to lion foundation in partner- increase diversity at the uniship with the versity. university and The univerthe Jesuits of sity will also Maryland to rename Freefund scholdom and Rearships for membrance descendants Halls as Isaac a week after Hall — named University after the first President John enslaved perJ. DeGioia anson named nounced they in records of would receive the 1838 sale an edge in the — and Anne JOE STEWART university adMarie Becraft Descendant of the 272 missions proHall — named cess. after a CathoThe group formed a foun- lic sister and educator in the dation called GU272 to push Georgetown neighborhood the university to pursue a during the 19th century. collaborative approach as it DeGioia approved the seeks to reconcile its history working group recommendawith slavery. Over 500 de- tion to change the names of scendants support the foun- then-recently opened Mulledation. dy and McSherry Halls to On Sept. 1, DeGioia an- Freedom and Remembrance nounced that descendants of Halls, respectively, within the 272 would be given the 24 hours of a student-led same consideration in admis- demonstration last Novemsions as legacies, and released ber. Mulledy and McSherry a report — including a series Hall were named after forof recommendations — by the mer University Presidents Fr. Working Group on Slavery, Thomas Mulledy, S.J. — who Memory and Reconciliation authorized the sale of the as well as a series of other slaves to a Louisiana plantameasures to begin reconciling tion in 1838 — and Fr. WilGeorgetown’s history with liam McSherry, S.J., who slavery. served as a lawyer in the sale.

DeGioia announced the Descendants who spoke university would offer a for- with The Hoya were concerned mal apology in a Mass of See SLAVERY, A6 Reconciliation held with the

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“This university has the gravitas to do it, but you got to listen.”

COURTESY GULC

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke to first-year law students at the Georgetown University Law Center on Thursday, highlighting her time with the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Justice Ginsburg Imparts Insights tala al rajjal

social change and gender equality.

“She occupies a rare space in legal history. Like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice Ginsburg would’ve been a historic figure in her case for her work as an advocate for gender equality — she would’ve been a historic figure even if she’d never been a judge,” Treanor said.

Ginsburg has long had a relationship with GULC, where her husband was a longtime member of the faculty until his death in 2010. She spoke to the graduating class of 2015 in February and again at an alumni event in May. Ginsburg opened the program

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg addressed first-year law students Sept. 7 at the Georgetown University Law Center before opening the floor up to questions from the audience, paying tribute to her late colleague Justice Antonin Scalia (CAS ’57) and reflecting on her commitment to gender equality throughout her career.

In his introduction of the justice, GULC Dean William M. Treanor praised Ginsburg — who has served on the Supreme Court for nearly 23 years — for championing

Thursday by remembering Scalia, who died in October 2015, highlighting the ways in which he influenced her while they worked together on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for her entire tenure in the Supreme Court, prior to his death.

“Indeed whenever I wrote with the court and received a Scalia dissent, the majority opinion ultimately released was clearer and more convincing than my original circulation.

Justice Scalia honed in on all the soft spots and energized me to strengthen the court’s decision,” she said.

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One Year Later, Sexual Assault Reform MOU Examined sarah fisher Hoya Staff Writer

A year after the university published a memorandum of understanding addressing sexual assault on campus — a three months after the university released the results of its climate survey in which over a 1,000 female undergraduates reported nonconsensual sexual contact while at Georgetown – administrators and advocates highlight the university’s progress toward fulfilling the goals set in the MOU. The university and Georgetown University Student Association reached a memorandum of understanding mid-September of last year following two months of negotiations, which committed to advancing sexual assault policy reform, increasing bystander intervention training and promotional material for survivors, hiring of a full-time Title IX coordinator and carrying out a Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey.

The university fulfilled several of its promises, including hiring Laura Cutway in January to serve as the university’s first full-time Title IX coordinator, as well as conducting the university’s firstever campuswide Sexual Assault and Misconduct Survey.

Notably, Counseling and Psychiatric Services now provides

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a semester’s worth of free appointments to survivors of sexual assault.

“University officials consistently made an effort to be transparent and to push forward.”

Olivia hinderfeld (SFS ’17) Deputy Chief of Staff, GUSA

The university also changed the definition of dating violence in the Student Code of Conduct, and emergency resources were added to GOCards as well as on the doors of campus bathroom stalls.

Despite this progress, GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17) said the university did miss certain deadlines on the MOU’s requirements.

“While some of the projects and initiatives took longer than the specific timelines called for, university administrators consistently made an effort to be transparent and to

push forward on the various asks outlined in the MOU,” Hinerfeld said.

The need for greater sexual assault reform became particularly apparent after the survey revealed that 31 percent, or 1,131 students, of surveyed female Georgetown students reported nonconsensual sexual contact and 14.1 percent reported nonconsensual penetration during their time at Georgetown.

Former GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16), who helped lead negotiations of the MOU, also pointed to the viewpoint “I Stand With Willa,” published in The Hoya last June, one of two pieces published in The Hoya written by sexual assault survivors about their experiences, as a catalyst for the change.

“The piece highlighted a lot of areas where the university was failing to care for survivors of sexual assault,” Luther said.

“The resulting document came about through a series of meetings between student activists and senior administrators throughout the summer and beginning of the year.”

GUSA Sexual Assault and Safety Chair Maddy Moore (SFS ’17) praised the MOU as an “incredibly helpful template” for the university to meet necessary goals over the past year.

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One year after the memorandum of understanding addressing sexual assault on campus, activists and administrators assess the progress.

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Overnight Guards Cut The overnight guards in campus buildings have been replaced with surveillance equipment.

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“The Exit Interview” Announced GU Institute of Politics and Public Service announced a series of lectures on Obama’s administration.

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Looking to Venezuela The Venezuela crisis is drawing a worrying lack of media attention, despite ongoing trauma.

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A report found that a majority of D.C. public schools are failing to meet PE standards.

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By raising the cost of tuition, Georgetown is betraying its core Jesuit values.

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

THE VERDICT

With President John J. DeGioia’s remarks in Gaston Hall on Sept. 2, Georgetown is beginning to undertake a new phase of efforts to confront its history with one of America’s original sins: slavery. Some of the recommendations made by the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation include providing an admissions advantage to those descendants of slaves who wish to attend Georgetown, making a formal apology during a Mass of Reconciliation, permanently renaming Freedom Hall and Remembrance Hall to Isaac Hall and Anne Marie Becraft Hall respectively while establishing the Institute for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies.

The steps taken by the university administration mark a significant phase in our school’s and nation’s history. It is critical to emphasize how these proposed reconciliation efforts with the slave trade are some of the most important actions the university has ever taken.

While the wounds can never be fully healed, what the university has done now is both a solid measure of progress and a firm foundation from which to work in the future.

With the recommendation to provide preferential admission to the descendants of the 272 slaves sold south to a plantation in Louisiana, Georgetown recognizes the incredible hardship and suffering these people were subjected to for the financial benefit of the university, the crucial part their role had in allowing this institution to stand today.

A key next step, recommended by the working group, this editorial board and various other editorial boards including that of The Washington Post and The New York Times, would be establishing a scholarship fund to assist descendants of those 272 slaves to attend this university.

It would be an important long-term goal for the university to pursue, allowing such individuals to be fully supported in this community and be able to thrive in this academic environment and atmosphere.

In terms of raising the proper funds for such a project, if donors exist to contribute to a brand-new athletic center specifically for varsity athletes, then surely the proper funding can be solicited to provide for such individuals.

The establishment of a formal institute to study and research slavery and its modern repercussions is arguably the most important recommendation of all.

Also admirable is its attempt to identify the remaining descendants of the 272 slaves, given the massive genealogical and historical undertaking this presents.

The institute is a powerful sign that Georgetown is committed to its effort to explore slavery’s history and its effects on modern and contemporary issues.

It would be fruitful and effective for the institute to explore and emphasize solutions to modern human trafficking and slave labor both in the United States and abroad. Such a mission would further showcase Georgetown’s commitment to not only addressing its past, but for confronting tangible problems relating to modern-day slavery, with research aimed at realistic policy applications.

On the whole, in order to be a serious addition to our academic environment, the new institute should strive towardsameliorating the legacy of bondage by researching practical policies.

With the promised establishment of an anti-slavery institution, Georgetown will effectively continue reconciling the past as well as confronting the issues surrounding slavery today.

Even with such a positive step forward in the process of reconciliation, it is worth mentioning key recommendations that should still be undertaken by the university. We will never be able to fully atone as a university for our involvement in the slave trade because without committing this unforgivable crime Georgetown probably would not exist.

The actions of those Jesuits in the 19th

century are intrinsic to the very survival and history of our school: No specific actions can ever wipe the slate clean.

While Georgetown’s actions alone cannot mend the entirety of our nation’s racial wounds, this does not mean we should also give up in future efforts and actions, nor does this mean that we should celebrate doing all we could have done. To rest on any laurels would be a mistake since there still exists a great deal of work to be done. We may take our accomplishments in stride, but we must continue working harder going forward.

In the overall process of reconciliation, there still exist pathways and opportunities for better, more constructive solutions. In the case of changing the name of Freedom Hall to Isaac Hall — the name of the first enslaved person named in the record of the sale — the university surely does not intend to cause offense with such a decision.

Yet when it comes to the naming of a building that has been the center of the original conversation and dialouge on slavery, it should not just be up to the administration to decide which names should grace the side of the building. It should be up to both the university and the descendants themselves to come to an agreement on Freedom Hall’s new name.

Evidence does exist to suggest that Isaac’s last name was believed to be Hawkins, and there exists a history of disrespect in not referring to African Americans by their surnames. It indicates a juvenilization of this man who was forced into bondage, and therefore it is worth considering changing that name in order to have the best solution. This is the place where involving the descendants in the conversation comes into play.

Those living today, whose ancestors directly contributed to our university’s survival without anything near proper recompense, are the most affected by current reconciliation efforts. Therefore, allowing such descendants to help decide the names for these two buildings is not only the right decision, it also would hardly be difficult. Members of the university administration, working group, archivists, genealogists and the like could meet with the descendants to decide on the most appropriate building names. Whether they maintain to keep the name or not is of little concern; what does matter is the involvment in this important process.

In recognizing the strides Georgetown is making to ensure the proper amends are made, it is also paramount to understand what this means for the world outside our front gates and for institutions in higher education dealing with histories that also involve participation in one of America’s original sins.

Georgetown has certainly set a precedent for how to confront and handle a history with slavery. The students, faculty, administrators, working group and others set realistic goals, made tangible progress toward them and now our community is prepared to become wholly better off with such future initiatives that will be felt both within and outside our campus boundaries.

From the addition of memorials to the establishment of a formal institute and everything in between, groundwork is being set for our school and community to acknolwedge and further reconcile with this university’s past and the actions of the men who used to lead it. We have made incredible strides in this process and should be proud of both what has been accomplished and what we plan for in the future.

Georgetown’s current course of actions showcase exactly what an institution can accomplish when it comes to addressing issues at the very core of its history. Even with more work still needing to be done, our community can take pride knowing we are reaching milestones in reconciling with our past to confront the issues of today and the future.

Jess Kelham-Hohler, Editor-in-Chief Toby Hung, Executive Editor Matthew Trunko, Managing Editor Ian Scoville, Campus News Editor Aly Pachter, City News Editor Paolo Santamaria, Sports Editor John Miller, Guide Editor Syed Humza Moinuddin, Opinion Editor Naaz Modan, Photography Editor Jesus Rodriguez, Layout Editor Jeanine Santucci, Copy Chief Elizabeth Cavacos, Social Media Editor Meg Lizza, Blog Editor Jarrett Ross, Multimedia Editor

Editorial Board

Syed Humza Moinuddin, Chair Jack Bennett, Jesse Jacobs, Naaz Modan, Anthony Palacio, Ashwin Puri

Christian Paz Tara Subramaniam Lisa Burgoa Owen Eagan William Zhu Emily Dalton Sean Hoffman Darius Iraj Ryan McCoy Tom Garzillo Kate Kim Vera Mastrorilli Sarah Santos Noah Taylor Caroline Borzilleri Alyssa Volivar Danielle Wyerman Yuri Kim Joyce Song Emma Wenzinger Kelly Park

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Holy Saxa — Mother Teresa, who was canonized Sunday, is the first Catholic saint to hold an honorary Georgetown degree. She received a Doctor of Humane Letters in 1982.

Please Don’t Stop the Music — Apple announced new products this Wednesday, including the anticipated iPhone 7 featuring an improved camera but lacks a headphone jack.

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Rover, Fetch — For the first time in U.S. history, NASA will launch a space probe Thursday to track down and bring back a sample of an orbiting asteroid named Bennu.

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Setting Paths for Reconciliation

International Insults — A series of diplomatic slights marred President Barack Obama’s final tour of Asia, including expletives from the Filipino president and a conflict on the Hangzhou tarmac between U.S. and Chinese officials.

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Derailed — Current proposals for the D.C. Metro would close the system earlier than presently to allow more time for maintenance and repairs, limiting greater access to transportation.

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Court is Now in Session — President Barack Obama nominated Abid Riaz Qureshi to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, potentially making him the first MuslimAmerican federal judge to serve in the United States.

Paint it Red — The annual Tomatina festival, an hour long, citywide tomato fight, took place in Buñol, Spain, last week, attracting 20,000 participants to the Valencian town.

Another One Bites the Dust — Actor Tom Hiddleston and singer Taylor Swift have reportedly split three months after beginning their high-profile romance.

Stayin’ Alive — Once a global symbol of the danger of extinction, the beloved giant panda is no longer categorized as an endangered species.

Life of Pablo — Kanye West debuted his fashion collection “Yeezy Season 4” on Wednesday in New York City and performed on Thursday in Washington, D.C., as part of his “Saint Pablo” Tour.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

University’s Amends Miss Mark To the Editor, I am a Georgetown alum, now an employment lawyer. I was deeply disappointed in the news today that Georgetown plans to “atone” for profiting from the labor of the enslaved by erecting a memorial and offering descendants admission preference, among other symbolic gestures (“Georgetown Seeks to Make Amends for 272,” THE HOYA, Sept. 2, 2016, A1).

This meager plan is an insult to the enslaved people who paid with

their lives to keep Georgetown afloat. It is not hard to calculate the debt that Georgetown actually owes to these descendants; we do this simple math every day in my field. How many uncompensated hours did these individuals work, how much would their labor have been worth if white people had performed it, and how much interest has accrued on those unpaid wages?

Tack on the $3.3 million in today’s dollars that Georgetown earned from its 1838 sale of the people

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it enslaved, and you have a fairly airtight estimate of the restitution Georgetown should be paying to the families today.

Symbolic gestures are not enough, and Georgetown frankly does not deserve the praise it has received in the media for its plan. Without restitution — without returning the money it stole from enslaved families — Georgetown remains complicit in the horrors of the past.

Elizabeth Wagoner (SFS ’04)

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OPINION

Friday, september 9, 2016

SPIRITUAL SEARCH

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VIEWPOINT • Salmen

Tragedy Continues Close to Home Nicholas Scrimenti

Finding Faith On a Knife’s Edge

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pirituality within college life can exist while being deep, full and beautiful.

On this campus, in particular, the opportunity for connection, religious experience and the discovery of each person’s inner castle is always at hand.

The heightened intellectual and social activity of college life lends itself to a greater awareness, as if the demands of academia mimic elements of asceticism of the great saints and masters of the past.

An opportunity exists for great spiritual failure as well when faith, in our own perfection and ability to love, begins to falter. Many of us have known feelings of inadequacy and helplessness that bubble up as a result of conscious neglect and general business.

Spirituality, experiencing the silence and stillness within each one of us, is a powerful antidote to those fears that stem from our education.

A valuable aspect of spirituality is its ability to curb normal human insufficiencies and insecurities. Spirituality’s capacity to replace loneliness with connection is particularly essential during four years filled with stress and possible self-doubt. A 2015 study by the American College Health Association found that 58 percent of college students felt very lonely at some point within the last 12 months.

This is disconcerting since we all should embrace solitude and silence and view such aspects in a more positive light.

Silence and solitude can yield deep self-reflection thus contributing to a peace in our everyday interactions. To clarify, such an embrace is not just for the religious among us or for those who believe in a higher power. Those with secular values can follow in the footsteps of Walt Whitman and use deep contemplation to embrace a connectedness with their surroundings rather than a deity.

Through an embrace of holy learning and experience in my college life, I have scaled various parts of an intellectual and faith mountain: the peak and the valley along with the drudgery and confusion

of climbing. I have watched peers experience the best and the worst of spiritual life, from rejoicing in the tiniest fact of existence to cursing each day on the Hilltop. What I also wish to answer for myself and for my peers, then, is: What is the value of spirituality if it cannot always overcome the loneliness and the fear that accompanies academia today? What is the purpose of meditation, contemplation and spirituality if it is only to be lost among the inevitable pain of life?

In the pursuit of the answers to these questions, though I have yet to discover all of them myself, I always keep in mind the wisdom of author Jack Kerouac: “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” Dorothy Day reduced such an answer to: “The only solution is love.”

While the aforementioned questions cannot be answered on behalf of every person, I return to the fact that college life, especially at Georgetown, affords us the invaluable opportunity to explore the grandeur of our interior life. What I am trying to stress, though, is that our spirituality here at Georgetown seems to exist on a knife’s edge. The opportunities for us to lose faith are innumerable and constant — be it personal tragedy or professional and academic setbacks. Still, the experience of achieving faith and contemplation is valuable because it teaches us to act with perpetual love and compassion for ourselves and others.

On the Hilltop, we should try to make our gratitude exceed our needs, peace outweigh fear and, most importantly, make love persist amid familiar fears: overwhelming schedules, insecurities, competition, traumas and issues of mental health that too many on the Hilltop experience. In the year ahead, I wish to see more of us value contemplation in action along with a love that does not falter amid setbacks and negativity.

Nick Scrimenti is a junior in the College. Spiritual Search appears every other Friday.

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n aneurysm does not have to be a lifethreatening condition today. Once diagnosed, it can be monitored and controlled. If it poses risk to the patient, doctors can perform a simple medical procedure and prevent the aneurysm from bursting. Even though his aneurysm had been diagnosed months before, earlier this year, my great uncle had my grandmother hold his hand as she saw his heart rate trickle down until he passed in front of her eyes. Hospitals, which until recently were performing the routine procedure that would have saved him, turned him away, because they did not have the necessary supplies to perform it.

Say hello to Venezuela.

This South American country, half the size of Texas, is home to 30.41 million people, has the longest Caribbean coastline on Earth and is the potential site of the next human tragedy. But how did it come to this? Ordinary citizens lack access to basic medical care and services. And how could a great deal more attention not be directed at this actively collapsing state?

In 2012, the World Economic Forum ranked Venezuela dead last in judicial independence.

Freedom House’s press freedom

ranking calls the country’s press “not free,” with only a handful of countries ranking worse, such as Sudan, Russia, North Korea and China. Crime statistics are censored by the government, but independent observers measured the yearly homicide rate to be 90 per 100,000 inhabitants, placing it first globally next to Honduras. In the past 15 years, 270,000 people have been murdered in the country’s streets, with 10 percent of those homicides occurring last year. In my hometown of Caracas, two people are killed every hour.

Even though Venezuela is less than 3,000 miles away from the United States’ southern border, it seems media coverage about the ongoing crises in Venezuela extend only to 30-second highlights once a week on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC. Yet, despite such a lack of attention, dissecting where the country’s problems come from is actually simple: Just look at the governance.

The oil-rich country was never highly developed, but since the Hugo Chávez regime took power in 1999, the poverty rate rose to 76 percent, and the minimum wage stands at an unsustainable $65 per month, of which $22.5 are in cash and the rest are in food stamps. Chronic food short-

ages abound and medicine scarcity is severe. The Venezuelan people, sick and starving, have taken to rioting and looting to protest the situation.

Attempts to unseat the government by an opposition coalition have been unsuccessful. Last December, Venezuelans elected opposition representatives to the National Assembly, the legislative body, by an unprecedented majority, but every action the body has attempted has been annulled by the governmentcontrolled Supreme Tribunal of Justice.

Dissecting where the country’s problems come from is simple: Just look at the governance.

Last week, 1 million people dressed in white and carrying Venezuelan flags took to the streets peacefully to demand a recall vote to oust President Nicolas Maduro, and millions have signed an official petition for the government to activate a recall process.

Yet the existing government, in collusion with the Election Commission, continues to enact election-

rigging policies to prevent any change, including having public employees work just two days a week. With a constitutionally specified maximum number of business days to hold the recall vote, the phrase “20 business days” now means five months instead of just one. Not only are corrupt officials delaying the vote, but if the president is recalled next year instead of this one, his vice president, according to constitutional law, takes charge, and the existing regime continues.

And things will not get better soon. The value of the bolivar currency continues to plummet; food and medicine are becoming more scarce and expensive; the country is still the 10th most corrupt on the planet.

Uncertainty is endemic: People fear how the government might react to further protests, patients wonder about getting treatment and families do not know when they will eat next.

Geographically speaking, Venezuela is closer to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco is. An immense tragedy is happening in our backyard. If the Venezuelan people do not receive our support, they at the very least deserve our attention.

Stay tuned. ricardo mondolfi salmen is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

Uncertainty is endemic. People fear how the government might react to further protests, patients wonder about getting treatment and families do not know when they will eat next.

VIEWPOINT • Picozzi

FAULT LINES

Rising Prices, Failing Values Populism Fuels Rise of Far Right

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or as long as I can remember, I have dreamed of coming to Georgetown. After being turned away my senior year of high school, I applied again and was accepted as a sophomore transfer student.

Almost immediately after the shock and excitement of receiving my letter had passed, my heart seized, because I did not know whether the financial aid package would be enough for me to become a Hoya. By the time the deadline to make my final decision arrived, I still had not been informed of the details of my financial aid package.

Despite the intimidation of a potential price tag that my family had no hope of affording, I took a leap of faith and submitted my acceptance papers. While I am deeply grateful for the generous aid I have received from Georgetown and from the George F. Baker Scholars Program, the price of our school is not just something that affects me. It is a serious issue for a large part of the community.

In February, the board of directors decided to increase tuition by $1,920 without the consultation of students or parents. I am proud of the administration’s decision to increase its investments in financial aid and admire Georgetown as a national leader in caring for students at the economic margins.

However, this hike hurts the students in the middle.

As reported by US News and World Report in 2014, 39 percent of Georgetown students graduated with loans and the average total indebtedness of graduating Hoyas was $22,464. The major-

ity belong to an overlooked middle faction: those who are well-off enough not to be considered for high-need coverage or for the Georgetown Scholarship Program yet not wealthy enough to write a check for the whole tuition.

Students have acknowledged this issue in publications and social media, such as the Facebook page “Hoyas Against the Hike.”

By raising tuition, administrators have failed the students whom they aspire to serve.

For these students between the extremes, the hike means more loans and more sacrifices from their families. The reported statistics obfuscate the struggles of many Hoya families who have sold precious assets, pursued home equity loans or even taken out second mortgages to cover the cost of attendance.

Increasing the cost of attendance thrusts many students into pursuing career paths that pay higher salaries — at the price of not chasing their own dreams.

This trend directly contradicts our core virtue of cura personalis and diminishes intellectual diversity on the Hilltop. Many Hoyas enter Georgetown determined to pursue noble aspirations in science, literature or politics. Then, after only weeks on campus, it makes sense that some could become consumed in a culture of

pursuing high-powered and high-paying career paths only. Though some enter their college careers with such pursuits in mind, for others these aspirations arise as a consequence of financial and cultural pressures on campus. Rather than finding their identity in college, many Hoyas lose their sense of self to financial pressures.

University leaders must determine if a Georgetown education is merely a product or an experience defined by self-discovery and intellectual growth. As a community, we must evaluate if we are realizing our mission. Our Jesuit tradition of magis devotes us in service of others to reach for more, to seek depth and meaning rather than to strive for superficial success. By raising tuition, administrators have failed the students whom they aspire to serve.

Persistent tuition hikes erode the value of a Georgetown education. While I acknowledge the national trend of steepening college tuition, here, on the Hilltop, we pride ourselves on producing leaders. It is time for Georgetown to become a national leader in pushing back against rising tuition costs nationwide. Student leadership on campus has called for University President John J. DeGioia to host a town hall to discuss the hike.

Such efforts are a powerful first step in opening up dialogue not only for the Georgetown community but also for students and administrators nationwide.

Joseph Picozzi is a senior in the College.

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n the post-Brexit chaos, The Guardian published a feature in June 2016 titled “Why elections are bad for democracy,” which argued how referendums can be detrimental to democracies. It was astonishing that 17 million British citizens voted to leave the European Union, putting their country at economic risk. While the Brexit vote concerned issues from immigration to sovereignty, the vote was an example of populism, a plebiscite over the influence and powers of political and economic elites.

The word “elite” became an insult in the prevote debates.

Studies from the International Monetary Fund or the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development about the consequences of Brexit were disregarded. Leave campaigners painted such warnings as conspiracies devised by elites against ordinary people.

Looking at people’s trust in their government officials and politicians, 30 percent of Europeans trust their national parliament and only one in five Americans trust their government. But can we blame them? The contract between government and the people is based on a promise of security and economic prosperity, both now threatened by terrorism and economic crises. American wages flatlined from 1985 to 2010 while wealth inequality continues to soar.

This context gave rise to far -right parties all over the West.

Their emphasis on protectionism, hard-line positions on Islam and immigration, as well as their strongman rhetoric helps their popularity. Marine LePen, Matteo Salvini, Geert Wilders and Donald Trump shun experience, professional

or academic, as detrimental and pride themselves on being unassociated with normal politics, characterizing themselves as pure, even.

These leaders thrive on blunt rhetoric, appealing to a base frustrated with establishment politics and political correctness. Examples are hardly limited, be it Nigel Farage’s blatant lies on funding to Brussels or Trump having supporters raise their hands and pledge to vote for him. The electorate feels it needs a strong patriotic ruler to combat the incompetent and corrupt elite.

Francois Valentin Centrist politicians struggle against the success of such extreme candidates. Their promises and experience count for nothing and their referenuntrustworthy. Never before have elites witnessed such anger from working classes infuriated by false promises.

But just as this authoritarian temptation should be criticized, we need to recognize the aristocratic temptation of establishment politicians. A 2014 Princeton study showed that “economic elites ... have substantial independent impacts on policy, while average citizens have little or no independent influence.”

Still, citizens notice when a senator spends two-thirds of his time fundraising in the United States. The EU is an example of governance per-

ceived as undemocratic and detrimental to nations as a whole. The Commission and the Council often trump the power of the Parliament and nominate career bureaucrats to handle obscure trade negotiations. With many viewing it as an affront to basic national sovereignty, the popularity of the EU is in danger of falling to populist tendencies and anger.

Younger individuals likewise fall prey to this undemocratic temptation. After the Brexit vote, angry Facebook posts ranted about how the older generation “screwed” the U.K. for others. Some proposed reduced voting rights for older people since they will not have to live with the consequences of their “wrong” votes.

Two million British citizens had similar disdain for the Brexit vote and called for a second, believing the elder Englander was given the same importance as the young professional who grew up only knowing the EU’s positives. The Guardian’s article concurs: The vote did not go young people’s way, so they challenged the idea of elections.

Aristotle described six forms of government: three perverted, three normal. Polity once corrupted becomes democracy, which Aristotle considered a faulty form of government.

In our democracies, we see the increasing demand for a more authoritarian regime and, in response the political elites appear to try to short circuit Aristotle’s model, going straight to something akin to aristocracy.

Democracy is dying. What should take its place?

Francois Valentin is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Fault lines appears every other Friday.

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Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., advocated the importance of respecting all forms of human life in an event entitled “Civil Rights for the Unborn,” held in the Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday.

Over 20 people attended the event, which was cosponsored by Georgetown Right to Life, Georgetown University Women of Color and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund.

After opening remarks, King showed two videos: a trailer for her latest book, “King Rules,” and a music video with a montage of photos of the King family and its involvement in the civil rights movement.

“I find that when I tell my own testimony, it opens up opportunities for discussion.”

ALVEDA KING Pro-life activist and author

King shared her personal history, which included her own birth as a result of an unplanned pregnancy and a discussion of her own two abortions, saying she hoped her story will be able create new opportunities for conversation.

“I find that when I tell my own testimony, it opens up opportunities for discussion,” King said.

According to King, abortion was illegal at the time of her conception.

However, the American Birth Control League, which would later become Planned Parenthood, offered sterilization opportunities and information to young people on college campuses.

King said she agonized over her own two abortions, both of which were kept secret. Both abortions occurred in the 1970s.

“Between the drugs, the shots, the pills — through the years I had several pro-

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Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the importance of respecting human life and differing antiabortion advocacy efforts with over 20 students in Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday. cedures and was sad and depressed,” she said.

King considered herself pro-abortion rights but she said she changed her mind after her first ultrasound during her third pregnancy. At the time, she was considering getting another abortion.

“I saw my first ultrasound, and that baby was younger than the two who had been aborted. And I just thought ‘Oh my god, it’s a baby!’” King said.

Regarding her current anti-abortion stance, King echoed the words of her uncle and talked about his beliefs regarding nonviolence and social activism.

“He said, ‘Injustice any-

where is a threat to justice everywhere.’ If we forsake respect for the human personality, we’re in trouble,” King said. “When we regard the human personality, we won’t kill anybody, we won’t trample anybody, we won’t oppress anybody.”

King said she views all aspects of the anti-abortion advocacy platform as holding equal importance. King said asserting one method of advocacy’s importance over the other is not helpful for the antiabortion movement.

“Tonight I can’t even tell you what’s most important because to me it all goes together,” King said.

“Arguing about

which method is the best becomes extremely divisive to the pro-life cause as a whole.”

“Women can be empowered and still make healthy choices about motherhood.”

ALVEDA KING Pro-life activist and author

King said it would be a mistake to take a strong hardline stance against women seeking abortions and a bigger effort should be made to learn more about their situations.

“You can’t just say ‘Don’t abort the baby, it’s murder and God will be mad at you,’” King said.

“What happens to that mother that becomes pregnant and is hopeless? Or how was she in that position? And what about the dad who maybe does want the abortion or doesn’t?”

King said mothers can still make choices about their body as a parent and that the parent’s life and the fetus’ life must be considered equal.

“Women can be empowered and still make healthy choices about motherhood,” King said. “They should sing together in concert. One should never over-

power the other.”

President of the Georgetown Right to Life club Amelia Irvine (COL ’19) said she thought King’s past and family connections made the discussion stand out.

“I thought it was a really unique perspective that Alveda could bring with her personal history mixed in with her family’s famous past,” Irvine said.

Richard Howell (SFS ’19), who attended the event, said he found value in King relating her own experience with abortion.

“Her perspective having had two abortions was interesting,” Howell said. “She understood the choice and the pressures behind making that choice.”

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PE Standards Unmet in District MATT LARSON

can follow in order to increase the amount of time needed for physical educaAll but ten of over 200 D.C. tion during the school day. public and charter schools While D.C. schools had time failed to meet the city stan- to implement the needed dards for physical education physical education for stuset for grades kindergarten dents, they were simply not through eighth grade, ac- held accountable to their cording to a Washington original plans.

Post review of school health “A lot of times these forms released Sept. 5. mandates are adopted, and The D.C. Healthy Schools there’s not an implemenAct, passed in 2010, requires tation plan,” Wright said. all schools to allocate 150 “There’s not the appropriminutes per week of physi- ate funding allocated along cal education for students in with the mandate to make kindergarten through fifth sure that it can actually be grade and 225 minutes a implemented successfully in week for grades six through schools.” eight by 2014.

DCPS Communications However, Coordinator elementary Janae Hinschools genson said the erally only implementaoffered tion of the around D.C. Healthy 45 to 90 Schools Act minutes remains of physical a work in education progress. a week in She did not 2016, while provide a middle target date schools also as to when CARLY WRIGHT Senior Manager of Advocacy, offered as it would be SHAPE low as 45 fully impleminutes a week. mented.

The Center for Diseases “We acknowledge that Control and Prevention the Healthy Schools Act is recommends that children designed to improve the and adolescents engage in at health and wellness of stuleast one hour of physical ac- dents, and we anticipate tivity per day. The act states that schools will continue that children in kinder- to strive towards full imgarten through fifth grade plementation of the Act should receive 30 minutes as funding is made availper day and those in grades able,” Hinson wrote in an six through eight should re- email to THE HOYA. “DCPS’ ceive 45 minutes. Currently, primary goal is for stusome D.C. public and char- dents to develop the necter schools offer children on essary skills to engage in average only nine minutes a a lifetime of wellness and day of physical education. physical activity.”

Carly Wright, senior manWright noted the probager of advocacy at the Soci- lem with getting children ety of Health and Physical enough physical activity Educators, which encour- is not limited to D.C. Curages the practice of physical rently, according to SHAPE education for children, said America’s Shape of the Nathe 60-minute requirement tion report, only 19 states helps kids to be physically set the minimum amount healthy while also providing of time children in kinderacademic benefits, includ- garten through fifth grade ing higher test scores, better should engage in physical focus in class and lower rates activity while only 16 do the of discipline referrals. same for those in grades six D.C. Councilmember Mary through eight.

Cheh (D-Ward 3), who wrote “It’s not a unique chalthe Healthy Schools Act, told lenge, unfortunately,” the Washington Post that Wright said. “But, we’re tryshe would recommend that ing to get the information schools examine alternative out there as much as posstrategies before the D.C. sible about how important it Council gets involved. How- is to offer effective physical ever, Cheh would not rule education instructions to out withholding funds from kids.”

D.C. schools in order to send Wright said there will a message that physical edu- need to be a cultural shift in cation is important. many schools to place more “I don’t think we need importance on physical new legislation,” Cheh said. education. Wright added “I think we should stick with that parents should inthe standards as they are volve themselves in their rather than weakening them children’s school schedule and instead focus on the ex- to make changes. ecutive branch, particularly “I think we’re seeing a the Office of the State Su- trend in the right direcperintendent of Education tion,” Wright said. “But, and D.C. Public Schools, and it takes time to make those figure out how we can do it.” major cultural shifts in According to Wright, schools and in education there needs to be a set imple- to prioritize physical educamentation plan that schools tion.”

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“There’s not the appropriate funding allocated along with the mandate.”

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In light of the coming 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund hosted an event entitled “Looking Back, Looking Forward,” which focused on the decline of foreign terrorism threats.

Terrorism Experts Reflect on 9/11 GAIA MATTIACE Hoya Staff Writer

Former United States State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Daniel Benjamin and CNN National Security analyst Peter Bergen discussed the declining threat of foreign terrorism and the need to avoid Islamophobia on Wednesday evening, ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs Daniel Byman moderated the Lecture Fund-sponsored event, titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward,” in White-Gravenor Hall.

Benjamin and Bergen offered a big-picture assessment of terrorism and counterterrorism both before and after the terrorist attacks.

Bergen said that the threat of terrorism immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks seemed much larger and more imminent than what it actually materialized into, largely because of the anthrax attacks that immediately followed.

“If we had this conversation in 2002 and I predicted that in the next decade and a half 94 Americans would be killed by Jihadi terrorists by 2016, that would have seemed an absurdly optimistic prediction,” Bergen said.

Bergen said that although many Americans are pessimistic about the state of terrorism in America today, the U.S. government’s response to the problem has been effective.

“I mean, you are 3000 times more likely to be killed by a fellow American with a gun in this country than you are to be killed by a Jihadi terrorist,” Bergen said.

Bergen explained that the attack, although seemingly a victory for al-Qaida, actually in the long run hurt the group.

“9/11 was a great tactical victory for al-Qaida, but it was a total strategic failure,” Bergen said. “[Bin Laden] made an enormously counterintuitive leap of logic that if we were attacked in Washington and New York then we would pull out of the Middle East.

Well, quite the contrary happened — we got rid of the Taliban within three months.”

The threat of foreign terrorism in the U.S. has been successfully mitigated, according to Bergen, but he emphasized the current risk is from attacks from American citizens.

“Since [May 1, 2010] the threat in the United States has been entirely homegrown and so when you hear Donald Trump talk about the threat from refugees or immigrants, this is total nonsense,” Bergen said. “Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or by a legal permanent resident.”

Benjamin attributed gaps in counterterrorism efforts to a lack of training and knowledge in special operations forces.

Benjamin said coun-

terterrorism before 9/11 was simply not a primary priority for policymakers, but that since then, great improvements have been made.

“You are 3,000 times more likely to be killed by a fellow American with a gun in this country than you are to be killed by a Jihadi terrorist.”

PETER BERGEN National Security analyst, CNN

“If you looked at the way the nation established its security priorities, terrorism was what we would call a Tier Three threat and now it is a Tier Zero threat,” Benjamin said. “In the interim we have had a complete and astonishing revolution in capabilities by the military.”

Benjamin pointed to a popular view of counterterrorism that has become highly politicized and a cause for divisiveness and finger-pointing rather than unity and resilience.

“It has created the implication in many people’s minds that we can have zero casualties,” Benjamin said. “That’s been a terrible

disservice to the nation, that we have politicized it.”

Benjamin also lamented the growing fear of Islam and its popular association with terrorism in the U.S. “The other thing that has gone terribly wrong is the way that our politics has evolved to embrace Islamophobia. There is no one who works in counterterrorism, [or] who has in a long time, who doesn’t see the embrace of Muslim communities, and the collaboration with them,” Benjamin said.

Byman said the two panelists were among the few experts in the field who could make such retrospective, long-term comparisons.

“If you turn on television today you know that really everyone and their mother is a terrorism expert, right?” Byman said.

“The industry must be of supposed experts, but it’s probably thousands of people. The actual number of people who were following terrorism when 9/11 happened was exceptionally small and we have today two of the great names.”

Alfredo Carrillo (SFS ’20) said he agreed with the panelists’ arguments in favor of the government’s counterterrorism strategy.

“They really had convincing arguments to show that counterterrorism efforts by the United States have been effective and that even though there is a lot of work to be done with regards to this matter, there is a reason to be optimistic about it,” Carillo said.

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Descendants Push GU for Scholarship, Inclusion SLAVERY, from A1 that they were not adequately included in the decision process. Six descendants presented a declaration at the Gaston Hall event Thursday that has been signed by over 350 descendants, expressing their desire to work with the Georgetown community to reconcile Georgetown’s past with slavery.

Joe Stewart, a descendant of the 272 who presented the declaration, said at the event the university has to collaborate with descendants in order to make sure its efforts are effective.

“This is perhaps one of the greatest needs in this nation, at Georgetown, among the Jesuits, and throughout the human family,” Stewart said. “And this university has the gravitas to do that, but you got to listen. And one of the things that has not happened, the reason we rushed to Washington today to participate here, is because we want you to hear.”

Karran Harper Royal, a lead organizer for GU272 and a descendant of the 272, said while the lack of inclusion of descendants in the report process was disappointing, it does not put future progress at risk.

“It was not handled well at all but we can certainly move on from that .”

Karran Harper ROYal Lead Organizer, GU272

“It was not handled well at all but we can certainly move on from that, because we do recognize that this was a first step and we appreciate this first step,” Harper Royal said in an interview with The Hoya.

She stressed that the

foundation sees offering scholarships as a necessary expansion of the university’s plan to offer legacy status to descendants.

“There’s value in that but still schooling has to be paid for,” Harper Royal said. “And we really want to through the foundation provide for the educational aspirations of descendants, regardless of whether they choose Georgetown or any other institution that might better fit their needs.”

DeGioia said in a statement to The Hoya that feedback from the descendant community and other stakeholders is important as the university seeks to make progress.

“We are encouraged by feedback from our campus community, from the descendant community, from our alumni and from many other stakeholders,” DeGioia said. “This is the phase now where we ask people to engage with the findings and recommendations of the Working Group

as we work together to develop a long-term framework for memory and reconciliation.”

History Professor Fr. David Collins, S.J., who led the working group, said he believes the working group successfully fulfilled its mandate.

“The working group was convened for one academic year. I think the sixteenmember working group fulfilled their mandate very well; and I’m getting exactly that positive feedback in the national and international media,” Collins wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Descendants emerged as important participants in the conversation over the course of the year. We were in conversation with descendants over the course of the year.”

The descendants have so far raised $115,000—equal to Georgetown’s asking price for the 272 slaves—in seedfunding for the foundation.

The foundation expects to work with the university

and the Maryland Jesuits to find philanthropic donors for the rest of the fund.

Neither the university nor the Maryland Jesuits has responded to the foundation’s request to collaborate as of 2:30 a.m., according to Harper Royal.

The exact structure of foundation has not yet been decided.

“We were in conversation with descendants over the course of the year.”

DAVID COLLINS Leader, Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation

“I think we want to talk with Georgetown and work together to really think

about how the foundation’s going to form, but I think because of the way Georgetown submitted and released the working group report, we have to sort of use those recommendations and try thinking about they fit within a framework that we as descendants would like to move forward with and try to put that in the context of the foundation,” Melissa Krump, a descendant of one of the slaves, said.

Harper Royal said the descendants hope to collaborate with the university as much as possible moving forward.

“We feel that we have a broad base of voices in agreement with what is in the declaration and it’s not opposite of some of the recommendations,” Harper Royal said. “But they certainly do complement the recommendations, so all we’re saying is that we need to partner in carrying out whatever is going to be the path forward.

So that’s where we’re at, we want to partner.”

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Descendants are asking the university to collaborate with them, after University President John J. DeGioia announced a series of efforts by the university to reconcile Georgetown’s history with slavery on Sept. 2, including offering an admissions advantage to the descendants similar to that of legacy students.

Sexual Assault Ginsburg Talks Scalia, Equality MOU Reviewed GINSBURG, from A1

ual assault, especially in regards to dating violence Cutway said the MOU and stalking,” Moore said. helped to define shared Hinerfeld pointed to goals for the administra- bystander education and tion and students to ad- awareness as areas that dress. need more attention.

“The committee met “We need to follow up regularly and made great on President DeGioia’s strides in furthering our commitment to fund bysupport of all individuals stander education for all involved in sexual mis- students,” Hinerfeld said. conduct on campus,” Cut- “This will require develway said. oping and operationalHowever, izing new Cutway curricula said the and builduniversity ing relaneeds to tionships continue with stakeincreasing h o l d e r dialogue organizar e ga r d i n g tions.” sexual asLuther sault at said while GeorgeGeorgetown. town had “This is m a d e our mostrides in ment to respondfully create ing to the the camneeds of pus we resurvivors, spect and the univerwant to be sity should JOE LUTHER (COL ’16) a part of, increase Former President, Georgetown University Student Association one that e mp h a s i s doesn’t tolon assault erate sexuprevenal assault or misconduct tion. but one that fairly and “A lot of the provisions transparently supports in the MOU are about how all individuals involved,” to best care for students Cutway said. “It takes after an assault occurs. It every member of our would be infinitely prefcommunity to create a erable that the assault culture shift and to raise doesn’t happen in the awareness.” first place,” Luther said.

Beyond increasing “I think one of the most awareness of the issue, important questions, yet Moore stressed that the difficult ones to answer, is university needs to clarify ‘How do you create a culwhat constitutes sexual ture of consent?’ I believe assault. this will without a doubt “There needs to be continue to be the focus clearer language around of Georgetown and GUSA what encompasses a sex- for many years to come.”

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“I think one of the most important questions, yet difficult ones to answer, is ‘How do you create a culture of consent?’”

Ginsburg discussed Scalia’s caring nature throughout their friendship, sharing an anecdote from the Bush v.

Gore decision, which ruled in favor of George W. Bush in his disputed victory during 2000’s presidential election.

Scalia concurred with the majority opinion while Ginsburg wrote a dissent.

“I was in chambers, exhausted after the marathon.

Around 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday night, the telephone, my direct line, rang. It was Justice Scalia.

He didn’t say, as he often did, ‘Get over it.’ Instead he asked, ‘Ruth, why are you still at the court? Go home and take a hot bath,’” Ginsburg said.

Ginsburg further reflected on the two justices’ unlikely friendship and collegiality.

“Among my favorite Scalia stories — when President Clinton was mulling over his first nomination to the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia was asked a question to this effect: ‘If you were stranded on a desert island with your new court colleague, whom would you prefer, Larry Tribe or Mario Cuomo?’ Scalia answered without hesitation, ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg,’” Ginsburg said.

Despite their glaring ideological differences, the two were famously close friends.

“Once asked how we could be friends given our disagreement on lots of things, Justice Scalia answered: ‘I attack ideas, I don’t attack people,’” Ginsburg said. “Some very good people have some very bad ideas, and if you can’t separate the two, then you’ve got to get yourself another day job.”

Ginsburg went on to praise Scalia’s work ethic and personality, sharing details about their time together as colleagues and friends.

“I miss the challenges and the laughter Justice Scalia provoked. His pun-

gent, eminently quotable opinions, so clearly stated that his words rarely slip from the reader’s grasp, the roses he brought me on my birthday,” Ginsburg said.

“The court is a paler place without him.”

After speaking about Scalia, Ginsburg shifted her speech to a conversation on her advocacy efforts for gender equality as an attorney, such as discrimination in the workplace, unpaid maternity leave for teachers without right of return and lack of family insurance coverage for blue collar women.

“It dawned on me how lucky I was to be born when I was and to be a lawyer, because it was the first time in the history of the United States that it became possible for legislators and judges to respond to the arbitrary gender lines,” she said. “Whatever we were saying in the 70s had been said generations before, but said at a time when society was not yet ready to listen.”

The event concluded with a question-and-answer session for first-year law students, during which Ginsburg was asked if she believes there has been substantial progress in gender inequality issues, particularly in law.

“I am amazed at how quick the progress has been.

I think back to the days when I was one of nine women students in an entry class of over 500,” Ginsburg said.

“The direction of change is right. Sometimes people ask me, ‘So now there are three of you, when do you think you’ll have enough women in the Supreme Court?’ and I think, frankly, at nine.”

Ginsburg further lauded the strides made in gender inequality issues in her career, but called attention to the difficulties of balancing a career and home life as a working mother along with the unconscious biases that still prompt discrimination

in the workplace.

Whitney Greer (GRD ’19) said she found Ginsburg’s friendship with Scalia to be poignant in an era brimming with political discord.

“It was a very valuable topic of conversation because she stressed the importance, particularly in law, which is sort of fundamentally a conflictbased profession, about maintaining professional and personal relationships aside from political conflict. And even as we have polarizing views, the

importance of still recognizing the humanity in another person and still valuing them and their opinions,” Greer said. “I thought it was great she used this platform to honor him that way.”

In his comments, Treanor underscored Ginsburg’s influence in everyday culture.

“The justice is a cultural icon. How many of us can say that they have inspired a one-act opera, two coloring books and the phenomenon known as the Notorious RBG?” Treanor said.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed equality in a talk at the Law Center on Wednesday.

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Overnight Guards Replaced by CCTV Surveillance Léa Nicolas

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Security guards will no longer monitor dorms overnight, in an effort by the Georgetown University Policy Department and the Office of Residential Living to re-appropriate funds toward closed-circuit TV camera maintenance and other security expenses.

Security guards will now monitor dormitories from a new Security Operations Center —located in the Mezzanine Level of the Southwest Quad Parking Garage—between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. seven nights a week via live feeds from security cameras located in dormitory lobbies, entrances and hallways.

In previous years, Allied Barton security personnel have checked GOCards in residence halls from midnight to 8:00 a.m., at which point student guards took over and worked in shifts throughout the day.

Currently, there are two specially trained Allied Barton personnel monitoring the cameras during the night hours.

GUPD Chief Jay Gruber said the guards underwent an intensive weeklong course at the University of Maryland during which they specialized in examining live feeds effectively and identifying suspicious behavior.

“We’re training these officers to work both reactively and proactively,” Gruber said.

“So if they see someone looking around the lobby who isn’t really going anywhere, they’ll call down from the Security Operations Center, and we will respond.”

Security guards on shift in the Security Operations Center are required to submit updates on what they have observed every 15 minutes to ensure that the halls are continually supervised.

Gruber said he hopes to use the money saved from staffing overnight shifts to fund security system maintenance.

Gruber could not specify the amount of money saved as of 2:30 a.m..

“When cameras died in the past, I had to go shop around and find somebody to give me money for it, which often took months or years,” Gruber said.

“I’ve made the investment, and now I can’t just let that investment dry up. I have to make sure everything is working properly.”

Some of the funds will also be directed to the Security Operations Center, which Gruber hopes to eventually staff more heavily and run 24 hours a day.

The student guard program will remain unchanged for the 2016-17 academic year, according to Gruber. However, he ex-

pressed interest in eventually expanding the role of student guards: for example, having them monitor cameras during the day.

The Office of Residential Living and GUPD also installed cameras in and around every residence hall, primarily in lobbies and doorways, as well as alarm systems sensitive to the activity of residence hall perimeter doors. Newer residence halls, such as Ryan and Freedom Halls and Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall, have cameras mounted at every entry and exit, and, if a door is held or propped open for too long, the department receives a notification and can send a police officer to investigate.

Furthermore, every residence hall, with the exceptions of Copley Hall and LXR Hall, is now equipped with a double barrier system that requires students and other authorized personnel to swipe their GOCards twice: first to enter the building, and once again to access elevators or stairways.

This system is likely to be implemented in LXR by the end of the semester, but security officers will continue checking GOCards in the lobby throughout the night due to its off-campus location, according to Gruber.

Additionally, Gruber said access to residence halls dur-

ing the day has been limited to students, police officers, Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Services, facilities personnel, chaplains and faculty-in-residence.

Gruber emphasized the importance of student involvement in campus security, especially in closing doors behind them at night to prevent unknown individuals from following students into residence halls without using GOCards, a process known as tailgating.

He said students should use the LiveSafe app to notify the police department if someone tries to tailgate into a building or exhibits suspicious behavior.

“We really count on our students to take a stake in their own security and use common sense,” Gruber said. “You have to think of the residence hall as your home. Would you let somebody into your house or your apartment building who you didn’t know?”

Marcos Morales (COL ’19) said he was concerned that a lack of an authority figure who could stop students who appear to be drunk from going back to a dorm room together could be dangerous.

“I’m worried that it’s getting rid of a potential way to prevent sexual assault,” Morales said.

Alexandra Williams (SFS ’19) said the university should continue to make student safe-

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Guards will no longer monitor dorms overnight in an effort to re-appropiate funds toward security maintenance. ty a priority, taking advantage of both video cameras and overnight guards.

“Tuition increases should mean more money is going towards practicalities,” Williams said. “If the department sees the benefit in adding cameras, then they should employ both methods of security.”

However, Will Davis (COL ’19) said he doubts the change will greatly affect students.

“It’s basically impossible to access campus dorms without a GOCard in the first place,” Davis said. “And I’ve seen plenty of guards asleep at the desk at 4:00 in the morning, so I’m not sure how much of a difference this will make.”

IPPS to Host Obama Series Simon Carroll Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service will host National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Gaston Hall on Sept. 14 as part of the first installment in a six-part lecture series entitled “The Exit Interview,” which will focus on the legacy of President Barack Obama’s presidency.

The series will include appearances from an array of Obama administration officials involved in various areas of public policy.

GU Politics Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) said the Obama years are worth examining because they reshaped American domestic and foreign policy.

“As this presidency enters its home stretch, and we begin to prepare for a new administration to take over, we are thrilled to lead at Georgetown a national conversation about the Obama years, their successes and failures, and their

lasting impact,” Elleithee said in a press release.

The series, which will run through January, will include discussions on national security and foreign policy, criminal and social justice, climate change, the economy, health care reform and the political culture in Washington, D.C. “Even as we are focused on running through the tape in January, this is a perfect time to reflect on the progress under President Obama, from making climate change a global issue, to strengthening our place in the world to bringing our economy back from the brink,” White House Communications Director Jen Psaki said in a press release.

“And this is an opportunity for some of the cabinet members and senior officials who have been at the helm to engage in a discussion about the opportunities and challenges that remain in the coming months and for the next administration.”

The events, which will be hosted in a variety of formats, will include segments for members of the Georgetown community to ask the speakers questions.

“The Exit Interview” will also feature contributions from Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew (LAW ’83) and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell.

GU Politics has not yet announced the guest it will be hosting for the lecture on the political culture in the District.

In order to facilitate discussions and opening remarks, the series will rely on political and policy experts at Georgetown as well as other high-profile journalists and political commentators. Following each installment of “The Exit Interview,” GU Politics will also host a series of events featuring prominent guests with viewpoints opposing those held by the Obama administration.

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International Pre-Orientation was not hosted for the second year running, in an effort to ensure that international students better integrate into the university community.

International Pre-O Cut Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

The Office of Global Services did not host the international pre-orientation program for the second year running, instead choosing to run the program as part of New Student Orientation in an effort to ensure that international students fully integrate into the university community.

OGS is committing to the program for four more years with the potential for further extension if students support the change.

According to OGS Director of International Student and Scholar Services Rachel Rubin, the decision to eliminate IPO as its own program was not financially motivated but driven by feedback from the international community at Georgetown. Rubin said OGS wanted to ensure that students did not get confined to one international friend group.

“It’s really the surveys we have from the international students’ community, which say that by the end of four years, they wish they had met more Americans,” Rubin said. “So we weighed the decision to bring them in early so you have more time to adjust versus you create a friend group that prejudices you against New Student Orien-

tation and makes it so you don’t need to integrate on your floor and so you don’t really need the rest of the Georgetown community.”

The international parent orientation, which includes information specific to international students such as immigration compliance, will remain.

“We want them to feel good with each other as internationals and then we want them to be Hoyas.”

Rachel Rubin OGS Director, International Student and Scholar Services

Although the core of previous IPO programming is included in the NSO schedule, IPO is not officially acknowledged as part of NSO, according to Emma Barnitt (MSB ’17), a NSO 2016 coordinator.

“We are not affiliated with any pre-orientation program specifically,” Barnitt said.

Rubin said she hopes the change will eliminate the cliques of international students that have formed in the past and allow them to better integrate into life

at Georgetown.

“What we want is one Hoya community, not an international student community that is separated,” Rubin said. “We want them to feel good with each other as internationals and then we want them to be Hoyas.”

Natalia Peña (COL ’17), who is from the Philippines, participated in IPO her freshman year and credits the shared experience with many of her strongest friendships.

“That’s how I made most of my close friends. They were going through the same struggle I was, having family so far away and adjusting to a new culture,” Peña said. “I was going through a different adjustment compared to someone who was just moving from a different state. Having people who shared the same struggle as me really eased my entrance into the Georgetown experience.”

While Peña said she understands that IPO can foster cliques, she said combining it with NSO might rob incoming international students of a foundational bonding opportunity.

“It really helped to have those few extra days of adjustment because NSO is so overwhelming,” Peña said.

“I do agree that sometimes the bubble created by IPO isolates internationals but I think that’s also a choice that people get to make.”

Henry Greene Hoya Staff Writer

The Office of Residential Living increased laundry rates by 25 cents to $1.75 per load of laundry this summer —the first price increase in four years—in an effort to keep up with rising maintenance costs, according to a campuswide email from the Office of Residential Living on Sept. 1.

A full load of washing and drying now costs $3.50, an increase of over 15 percent. Neighboring D.C. institutions such as The George Washington University and American University match Georgetown’s new rate at $1.75 per load of laundry.

According to the Assistant Dean for Residential Living Stephanie Lynch, new laun-

dry room equipment and increasing maintenance costs caused the rate increase.

“The laundry prices have been stable, as there have been no increases in price in the last four years,” Lynch said. “The increase was to help pay for new laundry room GOCard readers and offset other maintenance cost increases.”

The laundry machines in the Southwest Quad were all replaced over the summer, and a new technician was added to the team in response to student concerns during the previous academic year. In addition, new GOCard readers were installed in laundry rooms around campus.

Kate Amarell (COL ’18), a resident assistant in Nevils Hall, said that the price increase could add addi-

tional financial burdens on students.

“From the perspective of an RA, it’s really important that we keep these amenities accessible for students,” Amarell said.

“Laundry costs should not be a cause of stress for the residents, and I definitely feel like they may be becoming one.”

Nikhil Mendiratta (MSB ’19), however, said the increase in price is worth the improved service quality, especially in the new Pedro S. Arrupe, S.J. Residence Hall.

“I’m happy to pay a little extra for an improvement in functionality — which I’ve actually seen since I’m living in Arrupe this year (the machines are all new),” Mendiratta wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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Laundry prices have been increased from $1.50 to $1.75 to keep up with rising maintenance costs, including new GOCard readers.

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Recruiting With Adam Paegle PAEGLE, from A10

I worked here all four years of undergrad and it was just — I think it is the best place to work on campus as an undergraduate student. So, given the opportunity to come back, I accepted immediately.

What would you have done differently as a student?

Probably not followed the pack as much, especially as related to career services. People say ‘Oh, I’m a junior and all my friends are in suits and going to info sessions. I have to do that too.’ That’s really not the case — broadening your horizons a bit and seeing ‘Oh, maybe that’s not the industry I’m interested in, so I don’t have to worry about it right now.’ So kind of just realizing your own kind of path and that your path may be very different from somebody else’s — slowing down and really taking the time to figure all that out.

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The business school grew out of the SFS in 1957 and was named after the alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough (SFS ’49) in 1998.

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alumni and staff.

The photo opportunity was the inaugural event of a series of festivities and initiatives that will continue until December 2017, including speaker events, a memorabilia showcase, special coverage in Georgetown Business Magazine, social media efforts and a video contest, which begins next month.

Kormis said further ideas for anniversary events are welcome through her office, and stressed that even though much of the planning for the anniversary occurred without student involvement, students will soon be invited to serve on the 60th Anniversary Committee.

“A lot of the activities came together this summer when students weren’t here,” Kormis said. “But we’ve had some students respond to our requests to be on the committee and we’ll be sending out invitations to them soon.”

Business Reference Librarian Jennifer Boettcher (GRD ’05), who has been an employee of the MSB for 19 years, said she is pleased with the school’s trajectory during her tenure.

“It’s gone up in rankings, it’s just getting better and better,” Boettcher said. “I think we have a strength, I think we have a great alumni service and I only see it—well how much better can it be?

That’s my only question.”

Williamson expressed that even in a time of reflection on past achievements and celebration, the entire MSB community should think about future accomplishments and continue to pursue excellence.

“While it’s fun to be nostalgic and look back, I hope we can all look forward,” Williamson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“I want us to think about what the McDonough School of Business will look like over the next 60 years and how we can continue to lead innovation in business schools and

higher education.”

Ari Sahu (GRD ’18), who recently entered the MSB for study in pursuit of a position in finance or investment banking, said he was excited to participate in the event, and to be a member of the MSB community.

“Well it’s a great feeling, I just started like a month back and it has been a whirlwind for me …but I believe the brand of MSB will be taking me far down the road when I am looking for a job or networking or meeting people all over the world for MSB, so I am really excited about it.”

Jeremy Bernard-Sasges (MSB ’20) said he sees a chance for this milestone to promote the school’s distinction moving forward.

“It’s an incredible opportunity that we’re freshmen and entering into this 60th year and to have the opportunity to change and to influence and to move past that 60-year mark,” BernardSasges said.

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If you could teach every Georgetown student one career-related skill what would it be and why?

It would either have to be being able to ask really good questions, especially during interview ; something that’s not just a generic kind of thing like ‘what do you do every day’ — something a bit more in-depth so they remember you a little bit better. Like you have this great opportunity with this person that’s come back to interview Georgetown students, specifically if they have a connection to Georgetown. Ask them about their

own interview process, how they went through it and not being so generic. And also kind of going along with that, just small talk.

The interview is really kind of made during that little five minutes you have where they say ‘Tell me about yourself.’

Those are kind of the keys to getting your second round interview, having your elevator pitch, but having it really — it doesn’t feel rehearsed, having a good conversation with someone.

Fill in the blank: In terms of preparation for the real world, the average Georgetown senior is _________.

I’d say the average senior is very prepared to pretty much go into any job possible. We hear from recruiters all the time that they come to Georgetown because the students are really smart, and they get great interns and full-time hires because they can teach them all the specifics of the job but they need somebody that can learn really fast and can just think on their feet, and that’s why they come to Georgetown.

So I’d say for Georgetown students, the sky’s the limit for the position they can apply to. It’s just figuring out really what’s right for them.

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What is the biggest mistake people make during interviews and how can students avoid it?

The biggest mistake is actually one that doesn’t seem like it’d be one that you’d think of. It’s actually kind of why you’re applying to a certain position and why you’re applying to that company. A

lot of students will just apply to — you know, they’ll see all the investment banking internships so they’ll just apply to every single one they see on there without doing enough research about the specific company. And a question a lot of students — recruiters tell me —students slip up on is the ‘so why are you applying to company x.’

They can’t really give a good reason. They can kind of tell why they’re applying to that position but not what makes that company different. So really just knowing why you’re applying to that company and having a really good idea about that — that’s really good advice for students.

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uniquely Georgetown, that plays to our strength and proclaims to the world who we are,” Almeida said.

Almeida said Georgetown’s strengths lie in its international business and international relations curricula, which together constitute the crux of the program.

However, Almeida said he was also interested in incorporating Georgetown’s Jesuit values such as cura personalis and women and men for others. The program’s Social Action Project will allow students to use what they learn in the classroom in service to society.

“I believe Georgetown’s programs should always reflect that we are a Catholic and Jesuit school,” Almeida said. “[The Social Action Project] is where academia meets praxis.”

Students will work on their projects throughout the year, continually refining their efforts in light of their academic experience, to become internationally minded stewards of Georgetowninspired service.

Busch explained how the collaboration of the SFS and MSB allows for a more developed international perspective, and not just a simple study abroad program.

“This is not just ‘edu-tourism,’ this is a real effort to convey a mindset about globalization, and to be informed in a political economy sense as to why the global economy looks as it does, and therefore what to do about it,” Busch said.

Busch adds the program forces students to stretch intellectually and encourages them to utilize their abilities and think in a wider context.

“That requires base business school skills, but it also requires this additional layer which I think is the beauty of bringing

together the School of Foreign Service and MSB. That hopefully is what the students will see starting in January 2017,” Busch said.

Zach Kelly (MSB ’16) said it is very important to make the MSB in particular a more global as well as interdisciplinary academic institution.

“I think the MSB’s renewed fo-

cus on interdisciplinary and international studies is a great thing for the university and the students within it,” Kelly said. “The MSB offers so much more than just basic finance and accounting courses, and this is a great example of their dedication to combining practical business knowledge with values that are at the core of Georgetown and the Jesuit tradition.”

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Students in the master’s program will have the opportunity to study in three locations around the world as a part of the new program.

Business & Tech FRIDAY, september 9, 2016

business bits Prof Jason Brennan Questions “One Person, One Vote” Jason Brennan, the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan family term associate professor for the McDonough School of Business, wrote an op-ed last week in the Los Angeles Times arguing that voting power within a democracy should be determined not by citizenship but by political knowledge. According to Brennan, this system of knowledge-based voting, or epistocracy, would ameliorate the ill effects of uninformed voting and could be implemented by mandating a political knowledge test that awards additional votes over those who fail.

Anticipating concerns about equality, Brennan writes, “Perhaps only some people, rather than everyone 18 and over, are truly qualified to decide who will lead the most powerful country on earth.”

MSB Professors Find Electoral Significance of Foreign Trade Bradford Jensen, Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth of the McDonough School of Business faculty were featured in The Wall Street Journal last month for their study examining the impact of global trade on presidential election outcomes since 1936. The paper shows two important trends: increased importation decreases the incumbent party’s vote share, and increased exportation causes it to increase. These trends are magnified in counties with high concentrations of low-skill manufacturing, which are especially common in swing states. As Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal notes, “the study may help explain why candidates for national office often run against trade, only to embrace trade deals once they’re elected.”

McDonough Commemorates 60 Years Owen Eagan Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business began celebrating its 60th anniversary Wednesday with a photo-op and ice cream social outside of the Rafik B. Hariri Building.

About 150 MSB students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the event, including Interim Dean Rohan Williamson and Jack the Bulldog. The group crowded together on Regents lawn in the 90-degree weather to form a large human number ‘60’ before adjourning for ice cream.

“I am humbled to be our leader during this pivotal year.”

Rohan williamson Interim Dean, MSB

Associate Dean and Chief Marketing Officer of the MSB, Chris Kormis, co-chair of the 60th Anniversary Committee, said the event was an effort to involve the entire business school community in commemorating a significant milestone for the institution.

“We are thrilled about celebrating our 60th anniversary and we are looking for ways to involve our whole community, our students, our faculty, our staff, our alumni,” Kormis said.

Williamson, a finance professor appointed to serve as interim dean in August, said he is proud to

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The McDonough School of Business launched celebrations of its 60th anniversary with an ice cream social and a posed photo-op, an event which attracted a crowd of around 150. be at the head of the MSB on this anniversary, using the occasion as an opportunity to reflect on the school’s accomplishments.

“I began teaching at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business nearly 20 years ago – it has been rewarding to see the school grow and accomplish so much in just that timeframe, let alone the last six decades,” Williamson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I am humbled to be our leader dur-

2016 Rio Games a Cautionary Tale? — MSB Prof Explains James P. Moore Jr., managing director of the Business, Society and Public Policy Initiative at the McDonough School of Business, offered his insight to Bloomberg’s Jonathan Levin last month about the future of the Summer Olympics in light of the 2016 Rio Games. Despite concerns regarding Brazil’s infrastructural capacity to host, Levin writes whatever problems did occur were “relatively benign.” However, the Rio 2016 organizing committee still faces a budget crisis some worry will disrupt the Paralympic Games. This may be one reason for Moore’s calling them a strategic mistake. “I will guarantee that [Rio 2016] will give developing countries food for thought in pondering the principle ‘buyer beware’ for years to come,” Moore wrote.

Bright “Ideas” — MSB’s Newsletter Gains Traction The McDonough School of Business’s newsletter called “Ideas,” has amassed over 500 signatures since its launch in July. The newsletter was released July 25 after several months of listserv database compilation and delivered by email to deans and prominent faculty members of peer institutions. Chris Kormis, associate dean and chief marketing officer of the MSB, said that the newsletter idea is so intuitive that she wishes the newsletter had been published earlier. “We’ve got all this wonderful knowledge that our faculty is producing, and this is a way for us to share it, and I can’t believe that we didn’t think about doing this before,” Kormis said.

Today the MSB enrolls 2,333 undergraduate and postgraduate students and is currently ranked 18th in Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of the top undergraduate business school programs in the U.S. The 60th Anniversary Committee publicized Wednesday’s event to the entire MsSB community, including undergraduate students, masters and executive degree students, See ANNIVERSARY A9

Q&A: Paegle Talks Campus Recruiting

MSB Professor Offers Market Insight to SEC Committee James Angel, associate professor of finance at the McDonough School of Business, appeared before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Meeting early last month to offer recommendations for reducing market volatility. Among other suggestions, Angel advocated for loosening market circuit breakers, mechanisms that automatically halt trading if the S&P 500 Index drops a certain percentage in a set period of time.

These are meant to prevent so-called ‘flash crashes,’ which have plagued the market as recently as August of last year. However, Angel said in his comments to the committee that the ensuing panic and misinformation following a market shutdown means circuit breakers “can do more harm than good.”

ing this pivotal year.”

Founded in 1957, and created as an outgrowth of the School of Foreign Service under University President Edward Bunn, S.J., the business school is the youngest of the university’s four major schools.

The institution began offering a full-time MBA program in 1983, and was renamed the McDonough School of Business in 1998 in honor of the alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough (SFS ’49).

Gracie Hochberg Hoya Staff Writer

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A new master’s program with the SFS and MSB uses the theme of trying to build a globally workable economy.

MSB Launches Master’s With SFS Jack Segelstein Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business and School of Foreign Service have collaborated to launch a yearlong masters program in International Business and Policy.

The master’s candidates will undergo six learning modules across three continents. In Washington, D.C., students will cover topics including global business strategy and the future of the global economy. Students will also spend two weeks abroad in Santiago, Chile, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Karl F. Landegger professor Mark Busch, academic co-chair for the MA-IBP program, which will launch in January, said one of the reasons Chile was chosen is the country is a good example of a small economy participating in the world market.

“Chile is the darling of today’s global economy,” Busch said. “It’s the beacon for what to do in a global economy as a small open market, and yet we see so few of them.”

According to Busch, Germany offers a critical perspective from which to begin addressing the consequences of Brexit, especially because it seems primed to become Europe’s next financial center.

“What will a Europe minus Britain look like? What will a Euro with a completely redone EU institutional framework look like? To see that, to get a sense for that, we thought it was important to go there,” Busch said.

The MA-IBP program is loosely modeled off the Georgetown-ES-

ADE Global Executive MBA program, in which Georgetown’s MSB and SFS partnered with the Escola Superior d’Administració I Direcció d’Empreses, a leading business school in Barcelona, Spain.

Busch said he hopes the collaboration between the MSB and SFS achieved in the GEMBA program will be further developed this coming January.

“You need the faculty to find the reasons to collaborate and to impress upon the students in the program their perspective filtered through the lenses of the other school,” Busch said. “That is something that we began with GEMBA and we will do even deeper with this program.”

This cross-school synthesis, Busch believes, makes Georgetown’s MAIBP unique.

“At a time when every school on earth is launching a global executive program, this has a very different feel to it,” Busch said. “When we did our market analysis of who our likely competitors would be, we were struck by how there are very few programs that take this particular tack on the global economy. We were quite emboldened by that.”

Deputy Dean for Executive Education and Innovation Paul Almeida, one of the program’s original pioneers, said the program is also special because it reflects both the pedagogy and principles of Georgetown. Almeida recalled his initial vision for the master’s program.

“Let’s design a program that’s See MSB-SFS, A9

Adam Paegle (COL ’13) only applied to one college out of high school, and he seems to have made the right call. After spending his undergraduate years at Georgetown University as a career informational specialist at the Cawley Career Education Center, Paegle has returned to the Hilltop as a recruiting coordinator at the career center.

In this position, Paegle assesses the needs of students and refers them to the appropriate resources and counselors. Paegle also helps manage the Career Education Center’s social media accounts.

The Hoya sat down with Paegle to discuss why he returned to the Hilltop, common interviewing mistakes, and advice for Hoyas as they enter recruiting season.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What do you do here at Georgetown and about what should Hoyas ask you?

At Georgetown I’m the recruiting coordinator for the career center, so I work a lot with employers, especially ones that are coming on campus to do on-campus interviewing.

So I help them with their schedules, I help students if they have problems with their interviewing schedule, I help employers set up events.

And I help them on the day-of with the place, making sure everything’s all set up for them.

I also help them with marketing, and I work closely with our marketing coordinator to kind of get the word out to students on what events are happening, what new job postings are up. I also manage Hoya Career Connections, so all of the non-on-campus interview sections. I’m in charge of all those job postings. And then I also serve as one of our industry advisors, so I advise students that are interested in the world of education.

Basically, any question they could have about on-campus recruiting, I pretty much know all of it. I did it myself when I was a student, so I’ve been on the student side, and now I’m helping the employer. So any question the students have about on-campus interviewing or any event that’s going on employer-related, I pretty much know anything about it.

Why did you decide to come back to Georgetown?

Two parts probably. Georgetown, I’ve always wanted to come to Georgetown. It was the only school that I applied to, and once I got in, I accepted immediately. I knew I always wanted to come to Georgetown since I was in elementary school, so it was my dream for me to come here. So to come back here and work here full time on the Hilltop every day is pretty awesome.

And secondly, just the people at the career center.

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Adam Paegle (COL ’13) discussed his work as a recruiting cooridnator for the Cawley Career Education Center with The Hoya.