The Hoya: September 13, 2016

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STUNNING VICTORY

The women’s soccer team triumphed 3-2 against No. 3 Virginia Cavaliers.

EDITORIAL Lauer’s moderation failed to challenge the presidential candidates.

STUDENTS PROTEST PANEL Students demonstrated during a panel discussing Netanyahu.

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Endorsement Policy Disputed TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

With 55 days to go until the Nov. 8 general election, the university’s stance on political endorsements has come under the spotlight for its ambiguity; while the Student Activities Commission has stated that no student groups are able to publically endorse presidential candidates, official university policy allows such student group endorsements.

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The conceptual drawings from the Sept. 1, 2016 Old Georgetown Board hearing, above, show the plans for the proposed $567 million medical and surgical pavilion for MedStar Georgetown University Hospital which received concept approval last week.

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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is set to move forward with constructing the proposed $567 million medical and surgical pavilion by the end of the year after it received concept approval from the Old Georgetown

Board and other key community organizations last week.

The new facility will encompass a 477,000-square-foot medical and surgical pavilion that will house 156 private patient rooms, a new emergency department, larger operating rooms, a rooftop helipad with direct access to the emergency room and three levels of un-

derground parking.

The approval came after MedStar Georgetown made alterations to the pavilion’s design at the request of the OGB, an advisory committee of architects who work on behalf of the Commission of Fine Arts to review pending projects in Georgetown. These alterations included adding

more green space and walkability around the entrance.

The design initially called for two ramps leading from the underground parking lot to the entrance, which would bisect the greenspace. However, this was reduced to only one ramp in negotiations with See EXPANSION, A6

TAs Lead Discussion on Unionization william zhu Hoya Staff Writer

A group of doctoral students is exploring the option of forming a union to negotiate better work contracts for graduate students serving as teaching assistants and research assistants after an Aug. 23 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, which

enabled student assistants to unionize and collectively bargain.

The NLRB ruled last month that teaching and research assistants at private universities are employees with the right to unionize. The NLRB ruling did not cover undergraduate TAs and research assistants.

The Georgetown Doctoral Student Coalition — a group

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Doctoral students are considering the possibility of unionizing for negotiating work contracts and health care options.

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advocating for better working and learning conditions for doctoral students — formed a working group earlier this year to investigate the implications of unionizing doctoral students. The working group was formed this summer in anticipation of the NLRB ruling.

Jake Earl (GRD ’17), a member of the working group, said the group has not made a decision on whether to support a move to unionize and is waiting for more student input. The working group also plans to hold a broader dialogue on the issue among both graduate and undergraduate students and other staff members at the university.

“The working group is not committed one way or another about unionization. We think it needs to be a democratic decision among the sort of people who would be represented in a union,” Earl said. “We’re just encouraging open conversation among Ph.D. students, undergraduates, administration and faculty.”

A forum will be held by the DSC in October where students will be able to voice questions and concerns about the possibility of unionization, according to Earl.

Senior Director for Strategic Communications Rachel Pugh said the administration is currently examining the NLRB ruling, but that the university is committed to providing an optimal educational experience for the entire campus community “Georgetown is reviewing

the ruling. Student employment is an important component of our learning and living community,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We continue to seek opportunities to make the experience a positive one for all concerned.”

“The working group is not committed one way or another about unionization.”

“Student political groups can endorse candidates, but it must be clear that it is them and not the university because of our tax-exempt status.”

RACHEL PUGH Senior Director for Strategic Communications

Student representatives with Georgetown University College Republicans said it has not endorsed in current and past election cycles because of the university’s nonprofit status. A representative from Georgetown University College Democrats said it is endorsing democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. As a taxexempt nonprofit, Georgetown is unable to endorse political candidates.

However, official university policy indicates that student groups are able to endorse political candidates. Senior Director for Strategic Communications Rachel Pugh said the university expects student political organizations to endorse their party’s candidates and organize activities to support them, so long as the students or student organizations make it clear that they are not speaking on behalf of the university.

“Student political groups can endorse candidates, but it must be clear that it is them and not the university because of our tax-exempt status,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We recognize that student political groups are political and do not restrict the College Democrats and College Republicans (and other recognized See ELECTION, A6

JAKE EARL (GRD ’17)

Compensation for Georgetown doctoral students varies considerably. Science doctoral students have free tuition, but their stipend is usually determined by research grants, their doctoral advisor spends — funding provided by faculty advisors — and time spent teaching classes, according to Evan Gardner (GRD ’20), a doctoral student in the chemistry department.

Gardner said unions could potentially allow doctoral students at Georgetown to obtain better job benefits and healthcare plans not currently covered by Georgetown.

“Unions in some sense — in terms of health care or services — would allow for collective See TAs, A6

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The university has given contradicting direction on student club’s right to endorse.

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OPINION

Statehood Yes! Launches The campaign to persuade D.C. residents to vote for statehood in November’s referendum has begun.

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GUSA Releases Housing MOU GUSA published a memorandum of understanding with the university about housing requirements.

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Editorial By protesting during a panel discussion, students disrupted the ability of others to learn by listening.

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NEWS Addressing Sexual Assault

OPINION 2016: The Year of Rhetoric

SPORTS Shocking Comeback

The Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force held its first weekly meeting this month.

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This past year has displayed a variety of speaking techniques that value passion and personality.

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The football team overcame a weather delay and a defecit to win on Saturday.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

THE VERDICT

EDITORIALS

Disruption Hinders Dialogue On Sept. 12, it was announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would potentially be meeting in Luxembourg to further negotiate a peace settlement. This is a potential step toward further diplomacy and peace between the two sides. However, within our own gates, the value and importance we grant to open and constructive dialogue came under protest Sept. 8.

The Center for Jewish Civilization hosted an event titled “The Netanyahu Premiership: A Retrospective,” with the hopes of exploring the policies and politics currently surrounding the soon-to-be longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history. The event hosted a panel of speakers, including academics, journalists and former bureaucrats, to dissect and explore the nuances of Netanyahu’s leadership while facilitating questions from the audience into the discussion.

Regardless of one’s feelings about Netanyahu and his policies, the event was not meant to heap unchallenged support and praise for the prime minister, but rather to earnestly discuss and criticize aspects of his tenure. The event presented itself as an example of what dialogue at Georgetown could look like when experts and students come together to learn and listen from one another on contentious topics.

Yet during the open question section of the event, various protesters began disrupting the event. According to present students, a few individuals pushed past other attendees to ask questions while others unveiled a banner before chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Eventually they were escorted out of the event by security, with a few able to linger for a few minutes longer before chanting different pro-Palestinian phrases, with one protester yelling “The panel lies to you” before being escorted out as well.

Nowhere in America should one’s freedom of speech and expression be more defended than on a college campus, where academic life pushes us to new intellectual curiosities and ideas while encouraging us to confront opinions with which we may disagree. Yet the issue with Thursday’s protest is in its conduct and procedure. Students essentially protested an

open panel and dialogue, where a free expression of ideas was welcome, but disruption was certainly not.

While the event was interrupted only momentarily and the question-and-answer session was eventually able to continue, the protesters interrupted others’ ability to ask questions, momentarily preventing concrete dialogue from occurring on a contentious topic. Protests can be valuable tools and outlets for making points when other forms of expression fall on deaf ears. Yet when protests prevent dialogue from happening, they can become protests of the dialogue itself as opposed to the original issue. The chief problem is that this protest of dialogue strips the ability of others to develop their own freely created opinion on any issue.

A similar situation occurred in March 2015, when members of GU Fossil Free protested and interrupted a visit by President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim. The protesters, who unfurled a banner on the stage where Kim was about to take questions from audience members, called for Georgetown to divest its endowment from companies in fossil fuel industries.

While the group succeeded in capturing momentary public attention, Kim’s whole talk focused on addressing the dangers of ignoring climate change and promoting concrete action — an issue in line with the very motives of the protesters themselves. Kim even praised the work of GU Fossil Free, claiming it has given a positive contribution by forcing the question of divestment onto a college campus. By the event’s end, it seemed the protesters, while eye-catching, would have made a greater contribution to the issue and conversation by asking questions when the opportunity presented itself rather than causing disruption to others’ learning and engagement.

The same could be said of those protestors at the Netanyahu panel. Our campus community should, as a whole, understand that freedom of speech and expression is a two-way street.

Using speech as a silencer expresses a disbelief in others’ ability to engage in conversation. It would be best for future protesters to consider whether their actions further constructive dialogue or merely hamper students’ abilities to develop their own opinions after having the opportunity to hear both sides.

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Metro at the Museum — New SmarTrip cards, released to Metro sales offices on Monday, Sept. 12th, celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The cards feature photos and icons of iconic black figures and symbols.

Price of Pranks — The man from Connecticut who jumped the White House fence wearing an American flag last Thanksgiving Day pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor Monday, Sept. 12.

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Seat Upgrade — Amtrak plans to upgrade trains and stations after receiving a $2.45 billion federal loan. This means faster trips for Hoyas travelling on the Northeast Corridor.

White Flag — The D.C. Safe Surrender program, which starts tomorrow, allows District citizens wanted for low-level offenses to turn themselves in and avoid home arrest.

Eid Mubarak — Eid al-Adha 2016 began yesterday evening and ends this Thursday night. The Muslim holiday, known as the “Feast of Sacrifice,” remembers the biblical story of Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice for God. Dubbing the District — Washington, D.C.’s name turned 225 years old Sept. 9. Original plans to call it “The Territory of Columbia” were replaced in 1871 with “District of Columbia.”

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

A Lesson in Accountability On Sept. 7, both U.S. presidential candidates, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, participated in back-to-back interviews during NBC’s presidential forum. The event was meant to highlight each candidate’s specific policy proposals and views on national security and foreign affairs. Yet by its end, the forum became a primary example of why journalists and other members of the media must hold elected officials to the same level of truth, scrutiny and factual accuracy.

The moderator for the evening was NBC’s own Matt Lauer, who first pressed both Clinton and Trump on ways they would each confront issues ranging from troop deployment to immigration reform. Yet when comparing the way Lauer specifically pressed Clinton and Trump over the evening, it is apparent that the same levels of accountability did not apply.

During Trump’s phase of the forum, the candidate attacked Clinton for her role in supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq as well as the 2011 U.S. and United Nations intervention in Libya.

However, Trump supported both actions in past statements. During an interview with Howard Stern in 2002, when asked if he supported invading Iraq, Trump responded, “Yeah, I guess so.”

During a 2011 video, Trump claimed that if the United States did not intervene in Libya it would be a “major, major black eye for this country.”

Throughout this campaign, Trump has not been a stranger to distorting the facts and even outright lying over the historical record, and Clinton has also been accused of misrepresentations of the truth. Yet NBC’s Lauer failed in his journalistic duty to hold Trump to the factual and historical record. It would have been easy for him to press Trump on his previous support for military interventions, yet the anchor did not question further.

On the other end, Clinton, when confronted with how to resolve the Veterans Affairs Depart-

ment and support returning service members, received a starkly different treatment from Lauer. She demonstrated support for revitalizing the ineffective bureau, yet was not pressed to raise concrete policy details. Instead, Lauer spent a greater amount of time questioning her email controversy during her term as secretary of state as well as her past judgment.

The issue is not with Lauer’s questions, but in his apparent inability, or unwillingness, to hold the candidates to the same level of accountability. Moderators have an obligation to be transparent in their moderation methodology, while the public deserves to understand the semantics and details of a candidate’s views and policy. Moderators must push the next leaders of the nation to answer questions in clear and honest ways.

An example of moderation executed well occurred during a 2012 presidential debate with President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). Former CNN anchor Candy Crowley moderated one of these debates and fact-checked a claim made by Romney about a past statement made from Obama. What must be noted here is how Crowley was right to publicly come down on the side of truth, as Obama and Romney explicitly expressed contradicting claims on the matter of a recorded statement.

There was an objective truth for Crowley to state for the public’s reference and historical record.

The first presidential debate of this election is scheduled for Sept. 26, and it is troubling that one of the moderators, Chris Wallace, said in reference to the upcoming debates, “I do not believe it’s my job to be a truth squad.” Yet when it comes to Americans voting for a leader into one of the most powerful offices in the world, journalists holding each potential candidate to the same level of accountability is essential for all of us to understand who is the more apt candidate.

With last Wednesday’s forum, it appears Lauer does not understand the significance of such a responsibility.

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Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady, and measured, and well-informed.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves, we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed and we give back, even when we’re struggling ourselves, because we know that there is always someone worse off, and there but for the grace of God go I.”

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OPINION

tuesday, september 13, 2016

MENTAL MUSINGS

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VIEWPOINT • Hickok and Kaigh

Anecdotes Stand Out in Year of Speeches

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Sudhanshu Sisodiya

Perpetual Noise, Endless Thoughts

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hroughout our lives we squander an inconceivable amount of time wrapped up in our own minds. Talking to ourselves instead of with one another, we brood about the past or continuously agonize about the future. Despite our continual engagement with the outside world, it can be within our own minds that we find the greatest noise and distractions.

Early in my high school career, I constantly scolded myself for past failures and worried unnecessarily about how I would perform on upcoming assignments. I was either hypnotized by fear of the future or chained to the past, never truly living in the present. Each satisfactory grade provided me with a marginal crumb of happiness but never quelled what seemed like never-ending, unavoidable worries. New tests and quizzes insidiously invaded my mind despite the past.

Nagging anxieties extended past greed, but it took me two years of high school to understand my chronic affliction: being lost in thoughts.

When you really think about it, perpetual wandering is the natural state of consciousness. Our minds tend to repeat the same thoughts again and again, no matter if such thoughts are carried to completion or not. You can be having a perfectly happy time eating dinner with your family, but something as little as what you perceive as acting awkward around your crush one morning, or even missing the deadline for a past assignment, can ruin your experience and launch you into consistent mental noise. Yet the question remains: What produces these thoughts and how can we combat them?

The reality is that this mental fuzziness emerges whenever we exit the present by losing ourselves in solitary reveries.

This happens when we unknowingly start going off on a tangent in our own mind. We have all repeated over and over our thoughts or fears quietly to ourselves, but imagine actually speaking every thought

out loud; it would not be surprising to then be perceived as slightly mentally shaken.

Yet, upon closer inspection, our normal behavior indeed does seem rather abnormal.

It does not have to be that way.

Therefore, it becomes imperative to understand the nature of thoughts — at least subjectively.

Just as sensations like sounds and tastes rise and fall in their intensity, thoughts are merely ephemeral abstractions that appear and fade away from consciousness. Memories of the past and worries for the future are just thoughts, so accepting that they will resolve themselves is part of a process.

Instead of continuously talking to yourself, you can simply observe thoughts as you would observe the way clouds move in the sky. To extend the metaphor, the clouds are like emotions that simply appear and fade away, but are not the entire sky itself and should not be accepted as such.

The fact of the matter is we need not be unnecessarily wrapped up in our own minds. Stimuli from the outside world like homework, parties and noisy neighbors occupy us enough, and dealing with mental noise becomes a continuous process. Even master meditators, people with extreme amounts of patience and concentration, struggle with anchoring to the present.

Whenever dragged back to the past or enchanted by the future, just be reminded that what matters is the present, whether it is the simple act of doing homework, sitting around or socializing with friends. By observing thoughts as objects and constantly trying to remain in the present moment, it becomes far easier to be more aware, mindful and content. On a college campus, such a state has great value for our lives both within and outside the classroom.

Sudhanshu Sisodiya is a freshman in the College.

Mental Musings appears every other Tuesday.

hat makes a speech great? In an era where a great speech can go viral across varying platforms in a matter of minutes, an effective, captivating speech can sway public opinion and bring meaningful attention to a problem. We remember a great speech for its material, passion, context or circumstance, which touch each of us in a unique way. Since the beginning of 2016, we have witnessed speeches that will go down in history because they either fulfilled the aforementioned criteria so well, or because they so clearly failed to do so.

A clear standout this year was first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, in which she accomplished many of the aims for an effective speech. She laid out a clear, persuasive argument while emphasizing the importance of the general election, claiming it would “have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.”

It was not just Obama’s passionate endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that made her remarks notable or important, but the context in which she made her speech. By emphasizing and relating to Clinton’s role as a former first lady, a position with which

Obama currently identifies, she established how Clinton has been a strong advocate for children and a widely identifable mother, lending an air of credibility to her endorsement of the former Secretary of State.

Another well-wrought address came from the other side of the aisle. In March, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) met with a crowd of interns to share his hopes for a “confident America.” His speech centered on long-sighted hopes for unification, and it was the context of its delivery that gave the speech such power. It interspersed personable anecdotes with apolitical messaging at a time when the Republican Party was beginning to struggle with having Donald Trump emerge as its eventual nominee.

By sharing anecdotes about bussing tables at Tortilla Coast during the start of his career, Ryan effectively connected with his audience, a group of 20-somethings with political aspirations. He also widened his base of appeal without alienating hardliners. If Ryan is laying the groundwork for his own future presidential bid — which some argued he was doing — this speech put him on strong footing as it appealed to a wide demographic while conveying positive notions of hope

and hard work.

Politicians are hardly unique as public figures; Hollywood has produced its own bevy of influential people, and one particularly effective, politically charged speech came from outside the Beltway this year.

Identifying a great speech is not as simple as reading a historical address or tuning in to the radio.

After winning the 2016 Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards, “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Jesse Williams used vivid imagery to convey the degradation of racial justice and cultural appropriation. His measured delivery brought the audience to its feet, and his powerful final words about “gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit” resonated in the room and across a country currently dealing with prevalent issues of racial injustice.

Of course, every lauded speech has its disastrous counterpart. At the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump showed that issues of plagiarism

extend far beyond the classroom when she delivered an address that was reminiscent of Obama’s own convention remarks eight years prior. The stolen words ignited a firestorm of controversy and distracted completely from the RNC’s coalition-building efforts. Even Donald Trump’s own convention speech did little to unite the Republican Party, for his address appealed to an existing base rather than those who remain unconvinced of his viability to hold office as president.

In 2016, identifying a great speech is not as simple as reading a historical address or tuning in to the radio. These days, any speech on the internet has a boundless audience and an endless shelf life. But even during a time when celebrity is fuzzy and prestige inconclusive, the art of speechwriting is not lost. The highly effective speeches, whether they come from a podium, a pulpit or your newsfeed, share common elements of strategic communication.

Such clear, simple rhetoric will always be both effective and in style.

Erin Hickok is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. Maddi Kaigh is a senior in the College. They are the presidents of the Georgetown Speechwriting Advisory Group.

In an era where a great speech can go viral across varying platforms in a matter of minutes, an effective, captivating speech can sway public opinion and bring attention to a problem.

VIEWPOINT • Hayat

THE MILLENNIAL’S CORNER

Rhetoric Sways Muslim Base Distrust Fuels Voter Hesitation

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lthough I spent most of the summer trying to ignore media coverage of the U.S. presidential election, it was nearly impossible.

Watching clips from the Democratic National Convention, I was astonished that MuslimAmericans from all walks of life, from the director of Council on American-Islamic relations to Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), were invited to speak. In their addresses, they reminded us that they are part of American society like any other citizen, while decrying the Islamophobic comments of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

We saw Democrats riposte Trump’s planned ban on Muslims speech with Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen military serviceman, and his pocket Constitution. While it seemed clear to these inspirational speakers that MuslimAmericans have a friend in the Democrats and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I cannot help but feel that neither of the two presidential candidates is a viable option for Muslim-Americans.

Muslim-Americans have been at the center of the presidential campaign under the pretense of security policy.

Various Republican primary contenders from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Trump posited frightening and irrational proposals threatening to discriminate against America’s Muslim communities. The fight against the Islamic State group, as well as high-profile terrorist attacks from France to California, further centered public attention on Muslims.

Trump used these events as examples in fearmongering insinuations, claiming in a past speech that there was some

widespread hatred among Muslims and only he could defend America from “radical Islamic terrorism.”

These attacks by Trump on the American Muslim community have thrown many Muslims into the arms of Clinton. These Muslims seek refuge in a candidate whose moderate rhetoric and plans to create a nation “for all Americans” is as inspiring as it is welcoming. However, whereas Trump’s rhetoric expresses the hard reality of his beliefs, Clinton’s speeches do not address her controversial policies from the past.

Though Clinton has never pushed Islamophobic rhetoric, few Muslims actually support her policies. She is a military interventionist — she supported the Iraq War as a senator, which she has since deemed a mistake, and backed violent regimes as secretary of state, such as Saudi Arabia.

Some have even attributed her actions to many of the issues in the Middle East, including her support for military intervention in Libya that has led to a destabilization of the country since. Data from research institutions like Pew and Gallup have found that Muslims in America widely disagree with several of Clinton’s past policies, and thus their current support for her as a candidate may be founded in their fears of a Trump administration.

While Clinton has come out strongly in slamming Islamophobia, her sincerity deserves scrutiny. I am elated so many prominent MuslimAmericans were allowed to speak at the Democratic National Convention and show the world Muslim-Americans are just like other ordinary Americans. However, I can-

not help but feel the speakers were given this opportunity to maintain Clinton’s campaign image as “anti-Trump” or “anti-Republican.” The former secretary is still on record as supporting the USA Patriot Act and, as a consequence, further surveillance of some MuslimAmericans as well as the general public, so some skepticism cannot be totally disregarded.

That being said, her alternative is a demagogue who trumpets overt Islamophobia and inane, unclear policies.

The real tragedy of this campaign is that it is of rhetoric and ideas, not policies. I have no fear a Trump presidency can enact a “Muslim ban” given the independence and complexity of America’s legal system. Yet his ridiculous rhetoric and Clinton’s responses obfuscate either candidate of responsibility to engage in a substantive discussion on new and useful policies that can actually help America now and into the future.

Both candidates have embraced old talking points and excited rhetoric to encourage support, but neither candidate has given real substantive ideas and policies that could actually improve the current lives of America’s Muslims. What I really fear is not Trump’s small hands blocking Muslims from entering the country, but how this toxic political climate will fail to push forward policies to solve the problems of our time and instead continue to use Muslim-Americans as an object of suspicion and debate.

Such a future is detrimental to all Americans, regardless of religion.

Moez Hayat is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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or many millennials, American politics is akin to an impure science. To those born in an era of access to nearly limitless information, millennials value truth and honesty a great deal given their aptitude in separating fact from fiction. From such a point of view, they believe politicians embellish accomplishments, propose unrealistic policies, further private interests and occasionally distort the truth outright.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email controversy is a prime example of how millennials’ distrust of a candidate can impact an election. Top Clinton aides have stressed the candidate’s need to win the support of millennials in order to deliver a resounding blow to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign. Millennials form a critical one-third of the electorate, and Clinton has done well by racking up endorsements from politicians popular among millennials from former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

Yet her distrust among millennial voters, stemming from her highly publicized dealings with prosecutors over her email server during her tenure as secretary of state, remains a core issue. In interviews and the testimony she gave the FBI she could “not recall” receiving any form of training that disallowed her from using a personal email account for classified information. She also could not recall when she got a security clearance, or when she received training for man-

aging the U.S. government’s Special Access Programs, or the nation’s most closely held secrets. During a 3½ hour hearing, Clinton said she “could not recall,” “did not recall” and “did not remember” 38 times.

Martha Petrocheilos Newly released documents over the summer further cloud Clinton’s compliance with the Federal Records Act, which requires federal officials to preserve their work records and submit them to the National Archives when they leave their federal office. According to the FBI, shortly after President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Clinton contacted former Secretary of State Colin Powell to ask about his use of a BlackBerry during his term.

Powell warned Clinton that by using her BlackBerry, her emails could become public records and subject to the Freedom of Information Act. He reportedly also said, “I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.”

In an age where falsities and misinformation can be parsed using a Google search, many voters are unimpressed

by Clinton’s lack of attention to detail. Arguing she did not know that the letter “C” stood for “Confidential” and could only speculate its meaning is laughable for a

seasoned litigator and veteran witness in numerous federal investigations. Over many years, Clinton has been subpoenaed before a grand jury and questioned under oath on several issues, from her Rose Law Firm billing records to her Whitewater real estate investment.

Millennials are puzzled

by Clinton’s false statements and the reasoning behind her actions. According to data from SurveyMonkey, Clinton is winning under-25 voters by half as much as Obama did in 2012. In fact, many of these voters voted Democrat in the past, yet their hesitation to back Clinton can possibly stem from her haunting falsities.

As this election has displayed, the millennial generation is not easy to win over.

It is a generation that will not hesitate to reject outright partisanship on both sides of the aisle. Millennials gave Clinton less than 30 percent of their votes in key primaries. Clinton cannot make this election about Trump any longer. As much as young people dislike Trump, they still need a push to show up at the voting booths, and it cannot be for the reason of voting for the lesser of two evils.

Clinton’s purported memory troubles have come at a bad time. Millennials value authenticity, and Clinton’s inability to recall and failure to create an issue-centered debate will not win her the support of the younger generation — and this election.

Martha Petrocheilos is a member of the Law Center.

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Statehood Campaign Looks to November MATT LARSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Statehood Yes! Campaign, intended to convince District residents to vote for D.C.’s statehood in a November referendum and consequently convince Congress to vote on the issue, launched last Wednesday.

The campaign committee is chaired by D.C. philanthropist George Vradenburg and supported by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) and 12 D.C. councilmembers.

While the final language of the four-part ballot initiative is still being determined, residents will vote in a November referendum on whether or not to instigate a process of getting statehood for Washington, D.C. The final say about statehood for D.C. will come from Congress.

The ballot initiative will ask whether citizens support D.C. becoming a state, its proposed name of New Columbia, the borders of the state and the constitution of the new state.

“Every time we’ve had conversations across the District, residents in the District want to be a state.”

BO SHUFF DIirector of Advocacy, D.C. Vote

If the ballot initiative passes, Statehood Yes! will then lobby Congress to vote on giving the District statehood.

D.C. Vote Director of Advocacy Bo Shuff, who serves as a member of the

Statehood Yes! committee, said the campaign will use volunteers, rallies and fundraisers to mobilize voters in favor of the measure, which he expects to pass overwhelmingly.

“Every time we’ve had conversations across the District, residents in the District want to be a state, they want equal representation that comes with being a state, they want to end second-class citizenship that occurs,” Shuff said. “I anticipate that it’s going to pass and we hope that it will be passed with large margins.”

However, Shuff is slightly less optimistic about the measure’s prospects beyond the ballot. He cautioned that even if the measure passes, it will simply be the first step in a long process that will determine if D.C. receives statehood.

“That’s one of those questions that is always fun in a hypothetical realm,” Shuff

said. “But until you actually press the question to the lawmakers who make the decision, the U.S. Congress, answers around hypotheticals are different than answers around legislation.”

D.C. statehood has faced obstacles in Congress before. Previously, a D.C. statehood amendment failed in 1985 when it attained support from only 1 of the 38 states necessary for ratification.

The proposed D.C. constitution was drafted by a fiveperson council, including Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D). The constitution stresses the importance of equal rights for citizens of D.C. “We will enjoy the full rights of citizens of the United States of America: to democracy and a republican form of government, to enact our own laws governing state affairs, and to voting representation

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) supports D.C. Statehood Yes!, a campaign committed to attaining statehood for the District, which is working to convince residents to vote for its cause in a November referendum.

in the United States Congress,” the constitution draft reads.

The D.C. Council elected to include the question of statehood on the ballot in July and will hold two more hearings through October to determine the appropriate wording for the November ballot.

In a November 2015 poll

by The Washington Post, 67 percent of surveyed residents said they supported D.C.’s ratification as the 51st state. However, at a national level, D.C. statehood has faced stark opposition from many.

The Republican Party’s national platform, announced this summer, included language advising against statehood for the District.

“Statehood for the District can be advanced only by a constitutional amendment. Any other approach would be invalid,” the platform reads. “A statehood amendment was soundly rejected by the states when last proposed in 1976 and should not be revived.”

However, the Democratic Party included support for D.C. statehood in its national platform.

“Restoring our democracy also means finally passing statehood for the District of Columbia, so that the American citizens who reside in the nation’s capital have full and equal congressional rights as well as the right to have the laws and budget of their local government respected without Congressional interference,” the Democratic Party platform reads.

Georgetown University Student Association Federal and D.C. Relations Committee Secretary of D.C. Statehood Cheryl Liu (SFS ’19), who is part of Students for D.C. Statehood, said she will help campaign for the ballot initiative this November. Students for D.C. Statehood’s main goal is to spread the word to residents to vote for D.C. statehood this November.

“We are doing everything we can to support the mayor’s referendum,” Liu said.

“That’s doing things like participating in the Students for 51 Speakers Bureau, which basically trains

students and community members to talk to organizations they are involved in to inform people about the ballot referendum.”

Liu noted the drive for statehood is inspired by two main grievances: D.C.’s lack of voting representation in Congress and the congressional meddling in D.C.’s local politics.

“Congress has complete control over D.C. affairs, so they can come in and supersede any law.”

CHERYL LIU (SFS ’19) Federal and D.C. Relations Committee Secretary, GUSA

“People all over the country want D.C. to become a state so that they will get a representative and two senators,” Liu said. “Congress also has complete control over D.C. affairs, so they can come in and supersede any law passed in D.C.” D.C.’s current nonvoting representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who has campaigned for D.C. statehood since she was first elected to Congress in 1990, said residents of the District need to put continuous pressure on Congress to support D.C. statehood in an interview with WAMU on Sept. 7. The last time Congress voted on the issue in 1993, it was defeated in the House of Representatives by a vote of 277 to 153.

“In the past, D.C. has often showed up for statehood, but our tendency is to show up when the Congress does something bad to D.C. and then there’s an outpouring. It’s been very episodic,” Norton said. “We need sustained work.”

Liu noted that support for D.C. statehood can extend across party lines, which may help its chances.

“I am very optimistic that D.C. will gain statehood because everyone is coming to realize that this is not a partisan issue,” Liu said. “It’s a civil rights issue, and it really should just be common sense.”

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The Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force — a group of students, administrators, faculty and staff assembled to determine policy recommendations for the university following the release of the results of the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey in June — held its first weekly meeting of the academic year earlier this month.

The survey — released to students in January last year — found that 31 percent of female undergraduates have experienced non-consensual sexual contact, around eight percent higher than the average of more than two dozen peer institutions.

The task force’s first meeting, held on Sept. 2, involved all student and administrator members and focused primarily on setting up logistics and honing in on the goals and direction of each subcommittee.

The group plans to meet once a week.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny serve as the project’s administrative co-chairs, while Georgetown University Student Association Deputy Chief of Staff Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17) is the student chair.

To ensure a holistic process, the project leaders have divided the task force into five subcommittees — Policies, Resources and Reporting; Education and Bystander Intervention; Alcohol and Drugs; Vulnerable Populations; and Metrics, Evaluation and Assessment – each led by both a student and administrative chair.

According to Hinerfeld, a key focus of the task force is improving bystander education, after the climate survey found that three in four students do not feel that they have the tools to intervene in questionable situations.

“Something we want to be able to measure and see a difference in the next time we do the climate survey is we would love to see the number go way up in how many students feel confident to intervene because that’s something we have the power to change,” Hinerfeld said.

Beyond an emphasis on improving bystander intervention, the task force’s Vulnerable Populations subcommittee seeks to conduct in-depth research on vulnerable demographics, including the LGBTQ community and individuals with disabilities, and then apply its findings to sexual assault and misconduct

prevention, according to Daisy Hoang (COL ’19), the subcommittee’s co-chair.

“Our main goal is to kind of dive into the reasons behind that there are high numbers of reports within these communities, especially within LGBTQ and within disability populations,” Hoang said. “We want to focus on comparing with peer institutions, national levels and then look at current ways Georgetown is trying to focus on these groups and try to see where we can help.”

Hinerfeld said the shared student and administrative leadership is valuable in giving students and faculty an equal say in the task force’s dialogue and future actions.

“It’s one of the first times I’ve seen on campus a really meaningful partnership between students and the university staff and administrators, because I think early on in my Georgetown career there weren’t as many forums where a student and an administrator shared a title,” Hinerfeld said. “But the fact that the steering committee is composed of subcommittees that are chaired by an administrator and chaired by a student — I think we’re seeing really creative and informed partnerships being put into place.”

Hinerfield said that she and the administrative co-chairs not only looked at natural partners including Sexual Assault Peer Educators, Take Back the Night, Health Education Services, GUSA and Counseling & Mental Health when selecting students for the task force, but also endeavored to find a wide range of student and faculty voices.

“It was also really important to us that we are bringing students into the conversation that haven’t been as involved before,” Hinerfeld said. “And so for that reason I think that the task force is a fantastic blend of students that are really well-versed in these topics and have been involved in activism for a long time and students that are new to the conversation, but that come with a really unique perspective that allows them to look at the data in a different way.”

GUSA Sexual Assault and Safety Chair Maddy Moore (SFS ’17) said the task force has high potential to enact change on campus.

“It’s definitely a great step forward because it’s the largest body that we’ve seen meeting around this issue and having a very clear timeline to meet those asks and demands that students have been wanting for a long time,” Moore said.

A week and half after the university finalized the 2017-2036 campus plan, the Georgetown University Student Association will launch an informational campaign to increase student awareness about the plan’s implications on student housing.

GUSA released a memorandum of understanding on its website signed with the university in May that prevents a four-year housing requirement and requires the university to abide by a series of other agreements around the usage of campus space. The MOU had not been previously announced.

According to GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), GUSA will begin to publicize the achievements of the campus plan and MOU prior to Homecoming Weekend and the GUSA senate elections.

The MOU — signed by Khan and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson — requires the university to utilize the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center and other existing on-campus residential spaces to house students during renovations and establish a timeline for renovations of residential facilities based on the results of the university’s ongoing housing survey.

The document also prohibits future construction of residential space on Harbin Patio and clarifies its use for academics or student life.

The MOU followed uproar over the proposal to convert 3616 N St. NW — popularly known as Brown House — into an administrative building in April. The university withdrew the conversion plan after over 1,000 students signed a petition in protest of the move.

GUSA will also begin work on a possible second MOU with the university to limit townhouse conversions to preserve off-campus senior housing and prevent the sudden conversion of townhouses into administrative space, according to GUSA Chief of Staff Ari Goldstein (COL ’18).

Goldstein said the MOU is the result of two years of GUSA’s advocacy on behalf of students.

“There was very little infrastructure within GUSA for engagement in the campus planning process,” Goldstein said. “Trevor Tezel [(SFS ’15)] was president and had a few students he called his working group on it, but there wasn’t that much. There was no formal process.”

During the March 2015 GUSA executive transition to former GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and former

GUSA Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16), GUSA organized the “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again” campaign to pressure the university to include students in the master planning process.

“That was big.

For the next 20 years there will not be a fourth-year requirement.”

ENUSHE KHAN (MSB ’17) President, GUSA

The petition, which eventually amassed more than 3,000 signatures, specified three priorities: The university should not increase the number of students required to live on-campus, should prioritize renovations and maintenance of existing buildings before beginning new construction and should increase the number of student representatives on the Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee. The GCP is a forum for consensus-based decision-making among university administrators, students and members of the community who developed the framework for the 20-year plan.

Following the campaign’s success, GUSA created a student master planning consortium in April 2015 tasked with providing students and administrators a forum to discuss master-planning concerns.

“It started off with a vague mandate but the goal was to have a forum that meets regularly with all the right administrators in the room so that students can actually engage them and bring for-

ward issues,” Goldstein said.

“For the first several months, the work of the consortium was to focus on those three issues. Over the last few years, we’ve accomplished all those goals, so it proves that when we coordinate, we can be successful.”

The consortium then developed a list of objectives for GUSA leadership to use in future advocacy. The “Student Priorities for the 2018 Campus Plan” classified priorities based on housing, transportation, neighborhood and campus life and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital expansion. Those goals developed into the first draft of the MOU on housing and the campus plan which was submitted in August.

Khan said the MOU represents a huge victory for students.

“One of the big priorities in the MOU was to ensure that the fourth-year student right to live off campus remained.

That was big. For the next 20 years there will not be a fourth-year requirement,” Khan said. “While the campus plan really addresses the commitment to improving housing, what we students want is to see the university work towards a renovation timeline.

We got the university to agree to work with us in the master-planning consortium to establish a mutually-agreedupon timeline.”

While the MOU was not made public prior to the completion of campus plan negotiations, Goldstein emphasized the secrecy was meant to not disrupt negotiations.

“This MOU is a great deal and it is a great part of a larger process which was generally a good deal,” Goldstein said.

“Part of the reason it wasn’t public was that we weren’t sure how it would upset the campus planning process that was wrapping up outside

the front gates, in the interest of making sure the campus planning process went smoothly.”

Former Advisory Neighborhood Council 2E Commissioner Kendyl Clausen (SFS ’16) said the consortium carried out the unique task of bringing students and administrators together to collaborate on the university’s master-planning vision.

“More than simply giving students a venue to voice concerns or goals, the consortium gives students and administrators a venue to talk about how to achieve those goals or alleviate those concerns about the university’s future,” Clausen wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Clausen said that the consortium showed students the inner workings of the campus plan and contributed to a final draft that benefitted students.

“In last semester’s meetings, we were able to discuss the moving pieces behind the campus plan to ensure the final picture was ideal for students. We worked through the complexities together, thereby giving students agency in the planning process,” Clausen wrote.

Goldstein said GUSA’s next steps include advocacy to protect townhouses from conversion into administrative space by the Provost’s Office.

“We learned that they have a long term goal of bringing several faculty to live in several more townhouses which presents a serious issue. We saved Brown House for a year, but we still don’t have any framework for figuring out which townhouses are going to be converted long-term,” Goldstein said. “We went ahead and invited a representative of the Provost’s Office to join the consortium permanently to erase some of the miscommunication.”

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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority increased reliability on trains, which entails train car availability and lack of track failures, but decreased on-time performance in its Vital Signs Quarterly Report, covering the months of April, May and June, which WAMTA released Thursday.

Train reliability improved 35 percent from the second quarter of 2015. WMATA attributed this improvement to increases in mechanic training, streamlined part scheduling and procurement. It also cited the introduction of new 7000-series railcars and the subsequent retirement of 26 1000-series railcars — the oldest model in the WMATA fleet.

WMATA board of directors member Malcolm Augustine attributed the increase in train reliability to the WMATA board of directors’ concentrated effort on the issue. According to Augustine, the board is optimistic about reliability increasing even further as more 7000-series trains are introduced.

“I think what we’re really working with in this fleet is reliability, and the team is constantly working on different initiatives to try to keep those cars in service,” Augustine said at the Sept.

8 WMATA board of directors meeting. “What we’re really looking forward to is the 7000-series, and I think when the 7000-series cars come on board we’re hoping to see that reliability and availability of the fleet

increase.”

Despite increased reliability, the report called attention to a 10 percent decrease of WMATA trains arriving on time from the second quarter of 2015 to the second quarter of 2016. Around 74 percent of WMATA trains arrived on schedule in the second quarter of 2016.

Grady Willard (SFS ’18), who took the Metro to his internship over the summer, said he experienced long wait times for both the Red and Blue Lines due to SafeTrack work.

“When they’re doing track work anywhere on the line it impacts everything, so that’s not surprising to me to hear that statistic,” Willard said.

“The train system seems to me to be old and in serious need of repair. My issue is that when I get into a station and I see a 15 minute wait before the next train, that to me is a big deal. Whether I get in at 9:00 or 9:05 doesn’t really matter, but a 15 minute wait is a big deal.”

The Vital Signs Report attributed some delays to the implementation of SafeTrack, Metro’s aggressive track maintenance plan, in June.

On-time performance was highest in April at 80 percent and lowest in May at 69 percent. The Silver and Orange Lines reported the latest arrival times, with only 56 percent and 71 percent of Silver and Orange Line trains arriving on time, respectively.

WMATA’s recent performance improvements also extend to its bus system, which saw an increase of approximately 500 miles be-

tween failures. WMATA cited the replacement of older buses during this period as a catalyst for the improvement.

However, WMATA bus systems also saw a 1.7 percent decrease in on-time performance between 2015 and 2016, which the report attributed to increased bus ridership during SafeTrack periods.

“Increased wait times were also experienced in instances were buses were rerouted to supplement additional SafeTrack demands,” the report reads.

Acting Chief of Assurance, Quality and Performance Andrea Burnside pointed to improved relations with bus manufacturers as a contributing factor to increased bus reliability.

“That’s really good news because over the last couple years we’ve been talking about some of the challenges we’ve had with bus manufacturers,” Burnside said at the WMATA board of directors meeting. “It’s an industrywide problem and because of all of the focused work we’ve done, all of these proactive actions are starting to pay off.”

In addition to riding the metro, Willard regularly took the G2 bus to the Dupont Circle Station. He did not notice an increase in wait time for buses.

“It was good. Half of the time I was the only person on the bus. I’ve never really had a problem with Metro buses,” Willard said. “I know that sometimes they can be crowded, but the G2 was always fine.”

Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

A group of around six students protested during and after a panel discussion on the politics and policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held by the Center for Jewish Civilization in Gaston Hall on Thursday evening.

During the question-andanswer section of the panel, the group of students got up and began chanting pro-Palestinian and anti-Netanyahu phrases before being escorted out of Gaston Hall by GUPD officers.

Outside of Healy Hall, the students held posters with messages such as “Netanyahu is a war criminal.”

The panel, entitled “The Netanyahu Premiership: A Retrospective,” was moderated

by Georgetown CJC professor Elliott Abrams, who formerly served as White House adviser on U.S. Middle East policy. The event featured specialists of Middle East policy, including Natasha Mozgovaya, former Chief U.S. Correspondent for Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and Benny Morris, a Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor and Israeli historian.

In a statement to The Hoya, two of the student protestors, Eman Abdelfadeel (COL ’17) and MacKenzie Foy (COL ’19), said the panel was biased against Palestine and failed to include a diverse set of views.

“We want to bring visibility to the normalization of Netanyahu’s war crimes to campus and the oppression faced

by Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli state. We are concerned that a conversation about the Israeli state took place without talking

about it as an occupation, as an apartheid,” Abdelfadeel said. “Georgetown as a Jesuit institution needs to be held accountable for its complicity in this and all state violence.”

One of the protestors held up a poster with a quote by Morris from a 2004 interview he conducted with the Haartez, in which he apparently refers to Palestinians as animals.

“We want to bring visibility to the normalization of Netanyahu’s war crimes.”

EMAN AbDELFADEEL (COL ’17) and MACKENZIE FOY (COL ’19) Protesters

“Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice,” Morris said in 2004. “There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.”

While the purpose of the event was to address Netanyahu’s strengths and weaknesses as prime minister of Israel, the audience drove the conversation toward Netanyahu’s actions concerning the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during the question-and-answer portion.

Alex Coopersmith (COL ’19), who attended the panel, said the panel and the questions asked showed the diversity of opinions in the Georgetown community.

“There were questions of ranging from, ‘Why are you not calling Israel a genocidal

state?’ or ‘How come there were no Palestinians talking about this issue [at the event]?’ to questions that were very, very pro-Netanyahu,” Coopersmith said. “So I think it said the Georgetown community on the other hand values the role that question-and-answer plays instead of just one side.”

CJC Director Jacques Berlinerblau, CJC Associate Director Dennis McManus, CJC Center Manager Anna Dubinksy and CJC Events and Program Coordinator Michelyne Chavez did not respond to requests for comment as of 2:30 a.m. today.

Elodie Currier (SFS ’19), who attended the event, said the panelists tactfully tackled the complexity of Netanyahu’s actions.

“For the most part the panel did a really great job of keeping things civil and recognizing the nuance of things,” Currier wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Personally, I was really impressed with the panel’s ability to handle the protesters and to assuage questions that were at times just clear criticisms of Israel in general.”

According to Carol Hillman, a D.C. resident who attended the discussion, the protestors were unreasonable in their actions.

“It was a very interesting discussion about Netanyahu.

Of course the Palestinian situation was brought into the conversation, but I don’t think it was a reason for a group of angry Palestinians to be in the conversation,” Hillman said.

“It wasn’t about them, it was about Netanyahu and his behavior.”

Hoya Staff Writers Taylor Harding and William Zhu contributed reporting.

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The Old Georgetown Board, an advisory committee made up of architects, has approved MedStar Georgetown’s proposal for a new $567 million pavilion, which received input from the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E and GUSA representatives. The pavilion proposal was also an important aspect of the 2017-2036 Campus Plan.

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the OGB after concerns of pedestrian safety were raised.

According to Medstar Georgetown, the hospital plans to break ground

by December in order to complete construction by 2020.

The OGB is an advisory board to the Commission of Fine Arts, which is the federal design review agency. Design review by the OGB and CFA is required as part of the permit process of Washington, D.C. Final CFA action is required for the issuance of a building construction permit.

Despite these changes, the project must still undergo additional mandatory city approvals before construction begins. In a statement to The Hoya, MedStar Georgetown Director of Media Relations Marianne Worley expressed her excitement in receiving approval and moving forward with the

“I am pleased that the new plans contain a major expansion of green living.” reed howard (SFS ’17) Commissioner, ANC 2E

“MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is thrilled to receive Concept Approval of our proposed medical and surgical pavilion from the Old Georgetown Board,” Worley wrote in the statement. “On behalf of the patients who will benefit from this pavilion, which also includes emergency care, we appreciate the collaboration and support among our neighbors and the OGB to help us bring this much

needed, state-of-the-art facility to fruition.”

MedStar’s expansion project has integrated collaboration between many local Georgetown and D.C. community groups, including the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E and Georgetown Community Partnership.

The ANC is a nonpartisan neighborhood body made up of locally elected representatives who voice the concerns of their neighborhoods to D.C. and the federal government.

The Georgetown Community Partnership is a forum that was created as part of the university’s 2010 Campus Plan. It is meant to facilitate discussion and share decision-making responsibilities to maintain a relationship between the university and the Georgetown community.

ANC 2E Commissioner Reed Howard (SFS ’17) worked closely with former ANC 2E Commissioner Kendyl Clausen and

MedStar Georgetown Hospital President Michael Sachtleben to advocate for the inclusion of green space in the new designs.

“I am pleased that the new plans contain a major expansion of green living space for undergraduates to enjoy,” Howard said.

In accordance with the university’s 2017-2036 Campus Plan, the expansion is necessary in order to renovate the aging existing building and modernize the facility to meet the needs of patients.

“Following extensive review and discussion, Medstar Georgetown and MedStar Health concluded that a new medical/surgical pavilion on the Georgetown University campus was necessary to address a confluence of factors, including the current aging facility; a need for modern operating rooms; a growing aging population within the District of Columbia; and the need for an upgraded patient

experience, including an updated Emergency Department, modern surgical and ICU spaces, all private patient rooms, and right-sized patient areas,” the campus plan reads.

“We’re working to make sure any imposition on student life is limited.”

MAra goldman (sfs ’19) Master Planning and Student Engagement Committee Member, GUSA

Last October, Medstar Georgetown submitted a certificate of need application — a document necessary for the establishment or expansion of healthcare facilities — to the District of Columbia State Health

Planning and Development Agency. The city approved the application in March.

Georgetown University Student Association Master Planning and Student Engagement Committee member Mara Goldman (SFS ’19) said the committee is working to ensure that student and campus life is relatively undisturbed by MedStar renovations. Goldman also serves on ANC 2E, but did not work directly with the hospital.

“We’re working to make sure any imposition on student life is limited.

We’re working on times of construction to make sure there are alternate routes to campus and just that there’s as little impact as possible,” Goldman said.

“In my capacity in GUSA and not in my capacity as ANC commissioner, we have outlined what our priorities are — noise, making sure there is accessibility.”

Graduate Students Move University, SAC Misaligned To Consider Unionization Over Endorsement Policy TAs, from A1 bargaining for you to maybe get more health care, maybe a dental plan, or maybe a vision plan, which aren’t covered,” Gardner said.

Earl said health insurance is a large issue doctoral students face and sudden health-related emergencies throw students into debt.

“Our health care plan is not very good; given the way that it’s structured, if they have some sort of unexpected medical expense [it could] put them pretty deeply into medical debt,” Earl said.

In addition, Earl said the stipends of many doctoral students cannot sufficiently match the cost of living in the city.

“Cost of living is high in D.C. and especially students in the biomedical programs, their wages just aren’t keeping up with the living wage,” Earl said.

According to Gardner, doctoral and other graduate students are in a limbo in choosing whether they would like to be treated as employees or students of the university.

“You are in purgatory.

You are between being a student and a paid employee of a company where you get most of the benefits and all sorts of stuff,” Gardner said. “In some cases people like to define you in the way that benefits them the most.”

The working group examined pre-existing graduate student unions at other colleges and institutions and their contracts and agreements, according to Earl.

“We reached out to graduate students who were trying to unionize at other schools, those who had unionized, so at [New York University] and other places,” Earl said. “I looked pretty extensively at graduate student union contracts to see what’s in the contract, what kind of terms they have.”

“Cost of living is high in D.C. and especially students in the biomedical programs, their wages just aren’t keeping up.”

JAKE EARL (GRD ’17) Member, Georgetown Doctoral Students Coalition Working Group

Diedre Nelms (GRD ’19), a DSC member, said the unionization of doctoral students at NYU enabled students to make progress in gaining benefits for themselves, including better pay and health care.

“Unionization at NYU has achieved really comprehensive health care benefits,” Nelms said. “NYU’s union has achieved paid dental and comprehensive health care, better mental health care programs and also child care subsidies.”

Gardner said tactics such as strikes typically used by unions to gain benefits would most likely

not work for some postdoctoral students.

“For my case if I decided something was unfair to me and I decided to go on strike, it would ultimately hurt me even more, because I still need to push my research forward and I still need to do stuff to benefit my academic career,” Gardner said.

Nelms added that unionization could result in conflicts between doctoral students and the union on respective goals of the collective bargaining.

“Sometimes there can be conflicts between the members of the bargaining unit, like the TAs and the union itself,” Nelms said.

Gardner said teaching and research assistants need to pursue a compromise among their opposing interests, as increasing wages may not always benefit the students when it comes to the sciences.

Funding for the sciences is grant-based and increased wages may make it difficult to take on new doctoral students.

“If we demand that our salary doubles then your professors can no longer afford to have as many students,” Gardner said. “That’s not necessarily a great thing. There is always sort of a middle ground that people want to reach.”

Earl said he hopes unions can allow for more balanced standards across the university.

“One of the things that we think a union might be able to do is to create some sort of a consistency in terms of work expectations,” Earl said.

ENDORSEMENTS, from A1 student political groups that have access to SAC funding) from using the funds that are available for political campaign activities.”

University policy states that individual students and student political groups can actively engage in campaign activity. Students and student political groups can also conduct nonpartisan and noncandidate-specific voter education or voter registration activities, invite candidates or surrogates to speak on campus — as long as roughly equivalent opportunities are provided for all legitimate candidates — distribute campaign materials in Red Square or other approved locations and use university funds for incidental expenses relating to group political campaign activities, including travel.

These rules apply only to organizations that receive funding from SAC, which does not include candidate-specific student political groups such as Hoyas for Hillary. Hoyas for Hillary’s campaigning trips to New Hampshire and Pennsylvania in the spring were organized through Hillary for America, while the participating members funded another trip to Iowa last January.

According to the student organization standards set by the Division of Student Affairs, student activity fees and other university resources cannot go directly to funding partisan political campaigns.

The interpretation presented to clubs, however, is unclear. SAC Chair Brian

Phillips (SFS ’18) said clubs are unable to support political groups for the sake of preserving Georgetown’s status as a nonprofit. This is the second election cycle in which SAC has reinforced its endorsement policy.

“So as not to put Georgetown’s tax-exempt status in jeopardy, official university student groups are prohibited from actively campaigning for political causes or using university money to do so,” Phillips wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This includes all SAC groups.”

According to Director of the Center for Student Engagement Erika Cohen-Derr, while university funds allocated for students cannot go directly as a donation toward any political entities, once student groups receive the funding, trips to campaign for candidates are one way in which they can choose to spend it.

“The university has the mission to support students’ political and civic engagement, and one of the ways it does that is by actively supporting student groups who engage in political activity through funding for their activities,” Cohen-Derr wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As these groups receive funding from their advisory board, they may seek to spend it on travel for campaign trips or flyers to recruit other students to join their group.”

“During an election year, student political organizations often use that money to show support for their party’s candidate,” CohenDerr wrote.

“My understanding,

from talking to leaders in those groups is they have a practice, not a policy, that they don’t endorse in the primary season but that they fulfill their responsibility to generate discussion and raise awareness around that political viewpoint,” Cohen-Derr wrote.

“It wouldn’t surprise anyone for the College Democrats to endorse Hillary Clinton or for the College Republicans to endorse Donald Trump. That’s what those groups do.”

The university’s stance on political endorsements has evolved over the past several years. Prior to the student activity fee program established for the 2011-12 school year that enabled increased funding for student groups, SAC was more restrictive about its funding processes and allocated less funding for student political groups, particularly during the 2008 election cycle. As a result of this, SAC restricted the ability for student groups to travel in an effort to be fair to all student groups.

Student political groups at other private universities have endorsed political candidates this election cycle. The Harvard Republican Club published a letter rebuking Trump’s candidacy, while the Yale College Republicans endorsed Trump. The Yale endorsement led to the creation of a new Republican political group on campus, the Yale New Republicans.

Former SAC Chair Patrick Musgrave declined to comment on SAC policy during previous election cycles.

Hoya Staff Writer Christian Paz contributed reporting.

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Senior middle blocker Ashlie Williams, right, has played in 35 sets this season and started all nine matches. She has recorded 84 kills and six attacks to go along with 19 digs and 31 total blocks.

Experience Gained Despite Losses Cameron Perales Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team (2-7) hosted the Georgetown Classic — the Hoyas’ first home tournament since 2010 — this past weekend. The Georgetown Classic pitted Georgetown against a very talented field, consisting of a talented Towson (9-1) program, a power conference opponent in Maryland (7-2) and Ivy League invitee Princeton (33) — a field that saw the Hoyas drop all three games.

The first match of the weekend saw the Hoyas face off against the Towson Tigers. The Hoyas started slow out the gate going down 3-10 in the first set, but battled back late, scoring four points in a row to make the score 20-24 off a service ace by sophomore setter Paige McKnight.

After a Towson timeout, the Hoyas finished off the set, taking a 1-0 lead in the match.

The second set was a back-andforth affair early on, but Towson ended up taking the second set by a score of 16-25. In the third set the Hoyas found their rhythm on offense and were able to break through and take the set 30-28. In the fourth set, the Hoyas could not maintain their momentum and ultimately dropped the final set to the Tigers by a score of 15-25, losing the match 1-3.

“We were definitely not tired. And we reminded each other of not focusing on a

physical tiredness more, so just staying mentally tough, and executing when we needed to,” senior middle blocker Ashlie Williams said.

In the match against Princeton, Georgetown saw a standout performance from sophomore middle blocker Symone Speech, who recorded 19 kills with an over 50 hit percentage. In the first set, the Hoyas’ offense traded points early on and took a 21-16 lead after a block by the team’s defense.

Princeton could not come back, and the Hoyas took the first by a score of 25-23. The second set saw another intense battle as the Tigers went on a six-point run after being down 24-20, to win the set 24-26. In the third set, Princeton took control early on pushing out to a 10-point lead and staving off a Georgetown comeback, winning 19-25 to take a 2-1 lead in the match.

With their backs against the wall, the Hoyas responded with energy, taking the set 2512. In the fifth and final set each squad traded points until Princeton took a two-point lead at 10-12 and successfully fended off the Hoyas, winning the set by a score of 13-15 and taking the match 2-3.

“I think the biggest thing with our group is that we are learning that we function at a high level when we have great communication and great energy,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

In the final match of the

Georgetown Classic, the Hoyas took on the Terrapins. In the first set, Maryland jumped out to a 4-0 lead, but Georgetown responded with tenacity, sticking with the Big 10 school throughout the match and taking the lead at 23-22 off a kill from Speech. But the Terps rallied and finished off the set, winning 23-25.

The Hoyas and Terps continued to battle throughout the second set, until Maryland pulled ahead after being tied at 11 and scored four points in a row to finish the set 18-25. The Hoyas came out determined in the third set, being down 0-2 in the match, and carried a six-point lead, 16-10. The Terps proved to be too much for the Hoyas, coming back to win the set 22-25 and taking the match 0-3.

Williams was particularly pleased with the team’s improvement on the offensive end throughout the tournament.

“From the beginning of the weekend to the end of the weekend our passing definitely got better. Against Towson on Friday we were not in system, we were not passing the ball well enough to get our hitters great swings,” Arlisa Williams said. “We passed great against Princeton this morning and passed extremely well against Maryland this evening which gave Paige [the chance] to give our hitters great balls.”

Although the Hoyas faced a talented field, the players

relished the opportunity to play highly ranked opponents before the conference season.

The team also focused on the development of a young core of players consisting of mainly freshman and sophomore athletes.

“We were playing all out, and we played the hardest we have of the season over the past three matches,” Ashlie Williams said.

“Although they did not go the way we would have liked we kept with these teams, we took Princeton to five and hung with a Big 10 team, which is really encouraging.

So we just have to take these positive things to help us move forward, so we can take our next preseason tournament and keep going forward into conference as well.”

The Georgetown Classic also gave the Hoyas a unique opportunity to play host to a tournament in McDonough Arena, which saw an attendance of more than 500 fans at the final match of the tournament.

“It was exciting to be at home,” Ashlie Williams said, “I had not had the experience of hosting a tournament here over the course of my four years. … So it was really nice to come out and show out for them.”

Georgetown gets back on the road next weekend to take part in the Air Force Invitational. The Hoyas open play against Northern Colorado (4-6) and Air Force (8-2) Friday at 2 p.m.

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Hoyas Finish Strong in Opening Meet Dan Baldwin Hoya Staff Writer

The debut of the No. 7 Georgetown men’s and No. 19 women’s cross-country teams resulted in gained experiences, with the men placing third out of 10 teams with 90 points and the women coming in second out of nine competing schools, finishing with 55 points, at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Club Invitational.

Men’s Head Coach Brandon Bonsey sat his top six runners going into the meet, allowing his younger runners to gain race experience. Junior Christian Alvarado led the way for the Hoyas, capturing fourth place with a time of 26:31.6.

“Syracuse is the best team in the country and Christian ran right with some of their best

guys,” Bonsey said in an interview with GUHoyas.com. “I thought that was a great sign.

When we go to Paul Short in three weeks, we will line up a full team.”

Graduate student Michael Crozier followed Alavardo and crossed the finish line in eighth place with a time of 26:43.6. This performance scored a total of eight points for the Hoyas. Sophomore Spencer Brown captured 12th place, coming in at 26:54.7.

“The first three men ran really well,” Bonsey said. “Christian Alvarado had a great summer and proved today why he was one of the elite recruits in the country. Mike Crozier had his best cross-country race ever and Spencer Brown had a great debut.”

On the women’s side, junior Autumn Eastman continued to build on her cross-country success from last year. Eastman led all Hoyas, claiming sixth overall. Eastman crossed the finish line at 21:17, recording six points for the Hoyas. Junior Madeline Perez captured seventh place with a time of 21:21.

Freshman Paige Hofstad enjoyed a very successful debut, crossing the finish line at 21:40, good enough for 12th place. Bonsey expects big things from Hofstad this season.

“I thought the women competed very well today,” Bonsey said. “They had a short spread and worked well together as a team. Autumn Eastman and Madeline Perez demonstrated excellent upperclassman lead-

ership and Paige Hofstad had a tremendous Hoya debut. We sat out a couple key pieces but once we line everyone up, this team has huge potential.”

Sophomore Audrey Belf crossed the finish line at 21:40 to continue her success from last year. She scored 12 points for the Hoyas. Junior Piper Donaghu experienced a positive first race, scoring 17 points with a time of 21:48 — good for 17th place.

Freshmen Maegen Doody and Margie Cullen each performed well, finishing at 22:07 and 22:50 respectively.

Both the men and women each race again Oct. 1 in Bethlehem, Penn., at the Paul Short Run. Note: Sports Information could not be reached for further comments.

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For the Rangers, this is exbetter than derby days in any sport, really. actly what happened. It was a There is something magical trying four years, with many about watching two rivals of the Rangers’ top players fight it out on the field, their leaving after demotion to the raucous fans roaring them lowest league, but under the on. This weekend, we were tutelage of Mark Warburton, treated to a few derbies, and one of Scotland’s finest clubs is finally back where it bethey were all fantastic.

In the Premier League, longs.

With a four-year derby abit was the showdown between the two Manchester sence, all eyes were eagerly clubs. This season, the first waiting to see what would Manchester Derby had even happen between Warburton’s more meaning because it Rangers and Brendan Rodgwas the first meeting be- ers’ Celtic — yes, that Brendan tween larger-than-life man- Rodgers, former manager of agers Pep Guardiola and José Liverpool. While it certainly Mourinho. was expected to be a hectic Ultimately, City prevailed, game, I do not think anyone despite a horrendous show- expected to see Celtic utterly ing by new goalkeeper Clau- demolish the Rangers. dio Bravo, to maintain a perBy the end of the game, the fect record and thus stay in score was 5-1 in Celtic’s favor. the top spot of the table.

It was as though the Rangers The bigger derby of the simply did not show up. weekend took place north Celtic utterly controlled the of the border, in the Scot- game, with Frenchman Moustish city of sa Dembélé Glasgow. I becoming the am talking, first player in I do not think of course, over 50 years to about the get a hat trick anyone expected showdown in the Old Firm to see Celtic utterly Derby. The between Celtic and Rangers looked demolish the the Rangdisorganized Rangers. ers, colthroughout, lectively with a defense known as that played the Old Firm. This is a fierce atrociously. In the midfield, it rivalry that dates all the way was a similar story, with Celtback to 1888 and is deeply in- ic putting on a master class of grained into Scottish culture. how to control the ball.

I was able to see some of To make matters worse, the this passion for myself yester- Rangers ended up having to day; wandering around the play the last 20 minutes down streets of St. Andrews, I saw a man, thanks to a handball dozens of Celtic jerseys and by defender Philippe Sendenot a single Rangers one. ros.

Historically, the Rangers After the game, photos behave the slight edge over their gan circulating of the Celtic longtime rival, with 159 wins away bathrooms, which were to Celtic’s 146. These two Scot- smashed to pieces by angry tish League juggernauts have Rangers fans. It was a poor won a combined 101 champi- showing for sure, but thus far onships, a number that is sim- Celtic has decided not to press ply mind-boggling. It is always charges. a special day when these two All in all, it certainly was teams meet, but it was even a welcoming party that the more special this past Satur- Rangers will be desperate to forget. Warburton has much day.

For the last four years, the work ahead of him, as this Old Firm Derby had been on game made it very clear that hold. After the 2011-12 season, his team is far from challengthe Rangers Football Club ing from the title.

Rodgers, of course, will be PLC — short for public limited company — was liquidated. pleased with the result and he Over the course of that sum- can now turn his attention tomer, it seemed as though the ward Champions League play, Rangers might not even play because barring a catastrophic at all. meltdown, it looks although A new company finally Celtic will be running away bought the team, but it came with the title this year. at a heavy price: The Rangers While it is very nice to have were unable to compete in the the Rangers back in the PrePremiership and were placed miership this year, it is clear into the lowest league of the that things are a little differScottish Football League. ent now. It is Celtic’s world It was an action that seems now, through and through. almost incomprehensible.

Even the derby itself was Imagine being a Manchester not nearly as passionate as it United fan, used to all the glo- used to be; all I can really say ry that comes along with be- is: Welcome back to the big ing a top club in the Premier league, boys.

League. Suddenly, due to financial woes that are beyond Vanessa Craige is a junior both the players’ and fans’ in the School of Foreign control, Manchester United is Service. THE BEAUTIFUL placed into League Two and GAME appears every must climb its way back up to Tuesday.

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GU Falters Defensively, Drops Consecutive Games Emily Dalton Hoya Staff Writer

After conceding four goals in the opening 25 minutes of play, Georgetown field hockey (2-4) was unable to recover, dropping Friday’s match 6-2 to the visiting William and Mary Tribe (1-4).

William and Mary’s squad came out firing, with four different players tallying goals in the first half. Georgetown answered back when sophomore fullback Katie Maransky scored her first career goal with 6:03 to go in the opening half, cutting the Tribe’s lead to three.

Although it controlled the final minutes of the opening half with four shots and a penalty corner while holding William and Mary to none, Georgetown was unable to capitalize on opportunities,

ending the half down 4-1.

Despite the offensive pressure, the Hoyas struggled to keep the momentum going into the second half, as the Tribe’s forward Annie Snead scored just 1:17 in, extending the lead back to four.

The Hoyas found the net for the second and final time when senior fullback and co-captain Molly Thompson redirected a shot from senior fullback and co-captain Devin Holmes on a penalty corner with less than 23 minutes left in the match. The Tribe tallied the last goal of the game when Cammie Lloyd scored her second goal with 4:37 to go.

Since Georgetown had such a quick turnaround between this past weekend’s matches, the Hoyas did not have much time to dwell on the loss.

“There’s always going to be

a huge focus on the next game on our horizon, on our schedule. For us today, that’s now St. Francis,” Head Coach Shannon Soares said. “But I will tell you I’m very disappointed in the result and the product that we put on the field against a tough William and Mary squad today.”

Although the Hoyas have been focusing on outlet passes to attacking players as well as executing on the offensive end of the field, it was their defensive efforts that tested them against the Tribe.

“To be honest with you, today our issue was allowing defensive circle penetrations, and in the second phase of that, committing fouls in our defensive circle that ultimately resulted in us giving up a defensive penalty corners,” Soares said.

“We prepared for them to

be very aggressive off the pads, and we did not counter that aggression. That’s on us. That’s an adjustment that we clearly need to make and be aware of moving into future matches.”

The Hoyas then travelled to Loretto, Pa., to face St. Francis on Sunday, where they rallied to even the match at 1-1 off a goal from senior forward Aliyah Graves-Brown with less than three minutes left in the match.

Despite dominating the overtime period with three shots and three penalty corners within the first 10 minutes, the Hoyas eventually fell when the Red Flash scored in transition after a save from goalkeeper Elizabeth Dyer.

As Georgetown prepares to bounce back after another tough weekend in its first Big East match of the year, the

Hoyas are looking to Holmes and Thompson to lead the way.

“We have a new group this year, and we spent a lot of time in preseason developing our new identity with last year’s super influential class gone, and our class has to step up into this super important leadership role,” Holmes said.

Regarding her specific role on the team, Holmes discussed the importance of serving as a bridge between her teammates and the coaching staff, in hopes of achieving the kind of success this program has been working toward over the past three years.

“It’s a matter of getting together, making sure everyone has their voice heard in what they want our program to be,” Holmes said. “That’s one thing we’re continuing to work on because our coaches prepare

us for every game, and now it’s on us to build everyone up and give them the confidence to execute that plan when we’re on the field.”

When it comes to prepping for the Big East opener, Holmes said the biggest factor is execution.

“Our coaches work so hard to scout our opponents and really break down the film and give us the key to beat teams,” Holmes said. “Our big focus has just been on executing ourselves, building up our goalkeepers, our center middies and our forwards, and executing all across the field, especially in our defensive and offensive circles.”

Georgetown will begin Big East conference play Friday, Sept. 16 against Quinnipiac (0-6) at 3 p.m. in New Haven, Conn.

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what Georgetown will need to kick-start Campbell and its offense. It was just the Hoyas’ second goal of the season.

“I think it’s very important,” Campbell said on scoring his first goal of the season. “It’s just good to see the ball go in the net and I had a couple chances that I wish I put away, but hopefully more chances [will mean] more goals.”

After the half, Georgetown pressured UConn despite holding the lead, and Wiese utilized his experience depth to keep his players on the pitch fresh in the heat. Senior mid-

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Central Park charges no the Brookings Institute wrote, “No recent facil- admission fee. Tickets to ity appears to have earned public museums, gardens anything approaching a and other cultural sites reasonable return on in- often do not cover the cost of upkeep, but rarely does vestment.”

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Similar stories have owned or non-profit. Tax played out in Montreal, Se- breaks and major expendiattle and Baltimore. Politi- tures for stadiums and arecians build careers around nas benefit a small group avoiding scandals, even of private businesses — a ones that make economic fact that does not sit well with critics of the policy. sense.

Proponents can fall back Political cynicism and factually empty argu- on the passion and emoments aside, public fund- tions that sports bring ing for stadiums also every year, but justifying a depends on the non-mone- nine-digit gift to a private tary benefits a team brings business is truly an uphill to its city. This is where the battle.

Cavaliers and their recent triumph come into play.

Andrew May is a senior in Sports and the enter- the School of Foreign Sertainment they provide vice. the Front Runners are public goods. They is a shared column and reach out beyond those appears every Tuesday.

fielder Jon Azzinnari, senior defender P.J. Koscher and junior midfielder Declan McCabe all played prominent roles in keeping the team fresh, playing well in their limited minutes.

“Both teams got really tired. It’s hard to run out there. We used more guys today, which was important. I think you got some really important performances from guys coming in. Some of your seniors did a great job, I thought P.J. Koscher came in, in a hard ask, coming into the back four, and was fantastic for us, almost scored a goal and, I thought was really good filling in for

what, 60 minutes,” Coach Wiese said.

“We have a lot of faith and trust that guys we put on are going to give you important minutes.”

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“I think we have a lot of faith and trust that guys we put on are going to give

you important minutes. I thought it was a team win today in that regard.”

With fresh legs and sustained pressure, the Blue and Gray did not allow UConn to get many serious chances. Sophomore keeper J.T. Marcinkowski only needed to make three saves during the match, continuing his defensive prowess this season — Marcinkowski has allowed just five goals in five games this season.

Georgetown will look to carry its first-win momentum and will head to Williamsburg, Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 13 to face William and Mary. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

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it in over the UVA keeper.

A massive comeback became necessary after an opening 10-minute period saw UVA win nearly every 50-50 ball and completely dominate the game to the tune of two goals and a seemingly commanding lead.

“Coach Wiese just said to me that the first 10 minutes was probably the best 10 minutes of soccer anybody has played on this field this year,” Nolan said.

“And at one point I was coming down the line and I was thinking, ‘How can I get out down the tunnel and get down to my car?’”

Though disappointed UVA scored off a corner, Nolan admitted he left freshman defender Sarah Trissel in too long despite her not feeling well; Trissel’s replacement at right back after 21 minutes, freshman defender Meaghan Nally, stood in impressively.

“Credit to Meaghan Nally who came in and did a great job for us,” Nolan said. “She gave us loads of energy and defended heroically.”

After an incredibly lively first half filled with end-toend action, the second half failed to provide the same level of excitement.

“The first half was way

too open, and we probably played it too open,” Nolan said. “We should have maybe tried to sit back in a bit and limit them, which we did in the second half. And we kept everything from them in the second half.”

In the 54th minute, junior defender Liz Wenger, who started at center back, brought a UVA player down right on the line of the 18-yard box, and the referee initially appeared to award a penalty.

Eventually, however, he decided to award a free kick to the Cavaliers on the edge of the box, from which they were unable to convert.

Then, in the 78th minute, a Virginia player went down again at the edge of the box in prime free kick location, and the referee looked to be giving Wenger a yellow card; instead, he called the Cavalier for a dive and sent the free kick the other way.

Pak, who initiated the comeback, recognized the importance of remaining composed under the waves of Virginia attack over the final 10 minutes.

“In the last minutes of the game, the only way that a team will come back is off one of our mistakes,” Pak said. “And so the only choice we had was to stay calm, especially against a team like that who’s so

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Senior forward Grace Damaska had two shots on goal Sunday. She has scored seven goals this season. technically sophisticated and is able to run at us with the ball and put us under so much pressure.”

In the second half, the Hoyas were certainly pinned back at times but won the 50-50 balls they had been losing early in the first half.

“At halftime coming back out, I [told them], ‘This second half is really going to be a matter of who wants it most,’” Nolan said.

The Hoyas next travel to local rival George Washington University (6-1) on Thursday at 3 p.m.

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The Georgetown defense failed to hold the lead for long, yet again.

Marist drove down the field in three plays.

White capped off the short drive by completing a 29-yard pass to redshirt freshman wide receiver Jon Kanda to put Marist in front again, 17-13, with 4:38 left in the third quarter.

Neither team would be able to score again in the third quarter.

The Hoyas would start the fourth quarter with the ball at their own 44-yard line, in the midst of what would be the game-winning, 11play drive. A facemask penalty on Marist gave the Hoyas a new set of downs at the Marist 41-yard line. On third down, Barnes hit Harrell for a 19-yard catch to bring the Hoyas to the 5-yard line, and then on fourth-and-

goal with three yards to go, Barnes found Harrell again for the gamewinning touchdown catch.

The Georgetown defense did what it could not do prior to the game-winning score: protect the lead. After the score, the Red Foxes had 11:59 to score, but couldn’t do it. Senior defensive lineman Hunter Kiselick blocked a field goal — one of two field goals he blocked on the day — and a pass breakup by junior

safety David Akere on fourth-and-16 with 1:38 remaining sealed the game for Georgetown.

The Hoyas now have a bye week before they come back to Cooper Field to host the Columbia Lions on Homecoming Day. The winner of the matchup will receive the Lou Little Trophy. Last season, the Hoyas beat the Lions 24-16 in New York.

Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. as the Hoyas look to stay undefeated to start the season.

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Senior running back Alex Valles ran for 93 yards Saturday. He has a team-high 185 rushing yards this season and is averaging 7.1 yards per carry through two games.

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It was a huge win for this team, and it was a huge win for the program.”

HEAD COACH DAVE NOLAN

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The number of goals the men’s soccer team scored in its first five games.

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“He’s a little bulldog, he’s this little dynamo of a kid. He’s very hard to push Despite the scorching off the ball, and I think he heat at Shaw Field on did a very good job of holdSaturday afternoon, the ing the ball for us and getGeorgetown men’s soccer ting other people involved team (1-4) notched its first in play, and he’s very, very win of the season over strong. I think defenders UConn (3-2), narrowly de- have a very hard time with feating the Huskies 1-0. his center of gravity and In the first half, both strength,” Head Coach Briteams appeared reluctant an Wiese said. to put any major pressure “When he gets ahold of on the other. However, the it he’s very, very hard for Hoyas managed to scrap defenders to take it from up some semidangerous him. He gave us a really chances on offense. good performance, which With freshman forward is good to see because Achara out he’s coming due to a miback from nor injury “[Knudson]’s an injury he suffered in a little bulldog, got over the last week’s s u m m e r,” g a m e he’s this little Wiese said. a ga in st HowevV i r g i n i a dynamo of a kid.” er, it was Tech (4-1, Campbell 0-1 ACC), who gave BRIAN WieSE junior forthe Hoyas Head Coach ward Zach what they Knudson, needed toa new transfer from N.C. ward the end of the first State, stepped into a start- half in a quite unconvening role up top with se- tional fashion. UConn’s nior forward and co-cap- junior goalkeeper Scott tain Brett Campbell.

Levene tried to quickly Knudson had a scoring clear the ball while under chance 15 minutes into pressure from Campbell the game in which he got in the box before the ball past his defender but ulti- deflected off the captain mately shot the ball wide and rolled into an empty of the post. He showed net. Although it certainly some of the skills he can was not a typical goal, it bring to Georgetown’s of- may have been exactly fense in his strength and hold-up play.

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The Georgetown women’s soccer team (6-1) delivered a shocking performance, upsetting No. 3 Virginia (7-1) in a thrilling 3-2 contest.

Down 2-0 after nine minutes to a team that had not conceded a goal in 976 minutes stretching back to last season, the Hoyas looked on the ropes. However, a stunning 25-yard laser strike off a poor UVA clearance by junior midfielder Taylor Pak sparked

the shocking Georgetown comeback, and the defense held firm in the second half to seal the victory.

Head Coach Dave Nolan knew his team would have the ability to counterattack against the Cavaliers, and once one goal went in, the Hoyas had all the momentum.

“It was a huge win for this team, and it was a huge win for the program,” Nolan said. “You’re going against perennially one of the national championship contenders, and we knew it wasn’t going to be

easy. … Whenever you have personnel that can score goals you’ve always got a chance.”

Twelve minutes after Pak’s rocket, junior midfielder Chloe Knott threaded a through ball into the path of sophomore forward Amanda Carolan, who dispatched the ball past the keeper for her first career goal, knotting the game at two.

Junior midfielder Rachel Corboz, who entered the game tied for third in the country in points, drew confidence from a George-

town offense scoring at a clip of 3.20 goals per game, seventh in the nation.

“We always knew from the start that if we do get scored on, we do have the potential to score again,” Corboz said. “We have been scoring a lot of goals this season. It was good we didn’t put our heads down and just kept fighting through.”

The third and decisive goal came in the 38th minute, when Corboz lined up a 30yard free kick and deposited See CAVALIERS, A9

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Junior midfielder Rachel Corboz had a set piece goal from 25 yards out on Sunday. She is tied for the team-high in goals scored with seven and is the team leader in both assists and points with six and 20, respectively.

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Junior cornerback and co-captain David Akere made four tackles Saturday. He has forced one fumble, recovered one fumble and has 11 total tackles this season as a starter on the team’s defense.

Resilience Overcomes Halftime Deficit aidan curran Hoya Staff Writer

A lightning delay could not stop the Georgetown football team (2-0) from continuing its fast start to the 2016 season, as the Hoyas marched into Marist College and secured a comeback 20-17 win.

With the win, Georgetown secured its first 2-0 start to a season since 2012.

Junior wide receiver Justin Harrell caught the gamewinning touchdown pass from senior quarterback Tim Barnes on a fourth-

and-goal from the 3-yard line.

Early in the game, Georgetown’s offense struggled to sustain a drive, with the team having two straight three-and-out possessions to start the game.

The offense finally broke through when senior kicker Henry Darmstadter nailed a 28-yard field goal to cap off an 11-play, 51yard drive, highlighted by two first-down conversions from Barnes to senior tight end Matt Buckman.

But the Georgetown defense allowed Marist right

back into the game on the ensuing drive. A 50-yard touchdown throw from redshirt sophomore quarterback Mike White to sophomore wide receiver Juston Christian put the Red Foxes out in front of the Hoyas 7-3 late in the first quarter.

Once again, the Georgetown offense went on another dry spell for most of the second quarter. Things got cooking again on offense for the visitors when Barnes completed a 25-yard pass to Harrell to bring the Hoyas to the Marist 13.

Georgetown would have to

settle for another Darmstadter field goal — this time from 25 yards — and the team would go into the locker room trailing Marist 10-6 at halftime.

The Hoyas took control of the game in the second half with help from their rushing attack. Junior running back Alex Valles and sophomore running back Christian Bermudez were the focal points of the offense in the beginning of the third quarter, with Bermudez See FOOTBALL, A9

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o city in the world showcases a unique relationship with its sports teams better than Cleveland.

The Cavaliers’ recent run to the town’s first professional championship in decades — led by local hero LeBron James — changed the downtrodden Ohio town into “Believeland,” redeeming decades of relative futility. For at least a few weeks, Cleveland showed just how much a team can lift its city.

But for all the good sports can bring to a town, there is often a dark side to the relationship, too. These more contentious aspects appear most often and most publicly when stadiums come into play.

Every team wants the best stadium with the most impressive amenities, preferably in a highly sought-after neighborhood.

This makes sense, of course, and few would criticize a business for wanting these advantages. Franchises, however, convince their cities to chip in on the bill for these stadiums.

As with any expenditure, the outlay of millions of dollars in public money to

support a private business tends to create controversy to say the least.

Six stadiums intended for major professional leagues are set to open by 2019.

Half, as well as the upcoming 41,000-seat football stadium for Colorado State University, will rely on tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money from various levels of government.

For some, this massive expense seems perfectly justifiable.

Sports franchises and their venues, the argument goes, are major sources of jobs, tax revenue and civic status. Any city that seeks to take its place among the ranks of American metropoles must have its own major professional franchise.

Economists remain unconvinced. According to academic studies, the initial outlay of funds required to build a new stadium has little long-term benefit to the city footing the bill.

In an interview on the Stanford University website, Stanford economist and expert on the issue Roger Noll makes the case against public funding of stadiums See MAY, A9