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EDITORIAL Georgetown must rethink its strategies to fight sexual assault on campus.

GU Fellow Testifies Marie Yovanovitch testified in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry.

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Campus Climate Survey Shows Consistent Sexual Assault Rate MEREDITH MILLER Hoya Staff Writer

While sexual assault rates at Georgetown University have not changed significantly, students’ awareness of sexual assault resources has increased in recent years, according to the results of the 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct released Oct. 15.

The national survey was conducted across 33 universities by the Association of American Universities, which designed the survey to assess the frequency of campus sexual assault and misconduct in a way that allows for data sharing across universities.

The 2019 climate survey had a participation rate of

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The 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct saw a decrease in participation compared to the initial 2016 survey.

38.9%: a sharp drop from the 50.8% rate in the first iteration of the survey in 2016.

Among undergraduate students, 31.6% of women and 11.6% of men reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact since entering college, according to the 2019 survey. These rates are not significantly different from the 2016 rates of 31.0% for women and 10.8% for men.

Georgetown reported higher rates of sexual assault compared to other participating universities. The AAU reported that on average, 25.9% of undergraduate women and 6.8% of men have experienced nonconsensual sexual contact while in college.

Georgetown students also reported lower trust compared to the AAU average in the institutions that are reponsible for the handling of sexual assault reporting compared to students at other universities, according to the survey. When asked if they believe that campus officials would conduct a fair investigation in response to a report of sexual assault or other misconduct, 44.0% of students indicated that it is very or extremely likely that the investigation would be See CLIMATE SURVEY, A6

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, defended the recent announcement that Facebook would not fact-check or censor political advertisements on the social media platform in a Gaston Hall event Thursday.

Zuckerberg: Free Speech Extends to Online Politics YALDA ZARRABI Special to The Hoya

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood by his website’s decision to staunchly promote free expression — including by permitting all political advertisements — in a packed Gaston Hall event Oct. 17.

Zuckerberg’s speech at Georgetown University comes one month after Facebook announced the website would not regulate politicians’ speech or fact-check political advertise-

ments ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Zuckerberg defended the policy in his speech, saying that even if such content is false, it is a matter of free speech to allow the advertisements and perspectives on the platform.

“Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together,” Zuckerberg said in his speech. “More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than

every person having a voice. I think that’s dangerous.”

Facebook was met with criticism from political and business leaders after the Sept. 24 announcement, but Zuckerberg continued to advocate for the policy in his Thursday speech.

“I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy,” Zuckerberg said. “Abandoning political ads favors whoever the media chooses to cover.”

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Recent Graduates Die in Flash Flood in Puerto Rico Keffer, Robinson remembered for academic talent, compassionate spirits ELLA HETFIELD

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Recent Georgetown University graduates Mark Keffer (COL ’19), 22, and Maya Robinson (COL ’19), 22, died Oct. 11 from injuries sustained from a flash flood while traveling in Puerto Rico.

“His strong and energetic leadership, paired with her calm and thoughtful insights, crafted beautiful music.”

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The young alumni actively engaged with the campus community while at Georgetown.

Keffer graduated with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and art and art history and participated in the peer-to-peer support group Project Lighthouse, according to emails the university sent to the Georgetown community this week. Robinson, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science, was a member of the George-

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Keffer, originally from Houston, Texas, was an exceptional artist, according to Georgetown art professor B.G. Muhn.

“Mark was an unusually and extraordinarily talented student and created pieces with such an innovative vision that I can sincerely say that he was one of the most brilliant, gifted students I have worked with during my past thirty some years teaching at Georgetown,” Muhn wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Robinson, from Concord, Mass., attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before coming to Georgetown in 2015.

Robinson was known for her warmth toward peers and professors, according to computer science professor Mark Maloof.

“She was always friendly and smiling,” Maloof wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I saw her on campus a few times in the spring.

She always said hello before I could.”

Keffer and Robinson, who were dating, were also members of The Capitol G’s, a Georgetown a capella group, for which Keffer served as musical director and Robinson as business director.

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Mark Keffer (COL ’19), 22, and Maya Robinson (COL ’19), 22, were remembered by professors and peers for their scholastic achievements and dedication to The Capitol G’s, the a capella group of which they were both members, during their time on campus.

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MSB Celebrates Anniversary The McDonough School of Business is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Rafik B. Hariri Building.

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Reject Biblical Distortion Haley Talati (COL ’20) condemns the biblical cherry-picking used by conservatives to justify homophobia.

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Topping the Terps Men’s soccer won two-straight shutouts over strong opponents, including a road victory over defending national champion Maryland.

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Salmonella Outbreak Thirty-three cases of salmonella were linked to a DMV chain, Moby Dick House of Kabob.

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Hire Shia Chaplain Yumna Naqvi (SFS ’21) calls upon Georgetown to hire a Shia chaplain in order to promote intrafaith understanding.

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As sexual misconduct remains a pervasive issue on Georgetown University’s campus, the university’s education programs surrounding this issue have also been woefully inadequate.

Moving forward, the university must address the issues with a culture of sexual misconduct on campus and devote more resources to sexual assault prevention training and current bystander training programs.

Georgetown has a problematic culture of sexual misconduct, most recently illuminated through high-profile cases in the past two years. Last fall, Georgetown University Student Association President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) resigned after accusations of sexual misconduct. Vice President Naba Rahman (SFS ’19), Chief of Staff Aaron Bennett (COL ’19) and nine other senior staff members were later pressured to resign after allegations that they knew of Nair’s misconduct. No complaints were filed against Nair through the Title IX office or the Office of Student Conduct, according to Nair and confirmed by a university spokesperson.

Less than two months ago, students reported that Hoya RealTalk, a play during New Student Orientation that discusses sexual misconduct, featured inappropriate messaging. Orientation Advisor Escadar Alemayehu (NHS ’22) detailed the problems with the play in an October op-ed, including a scene in which a sexual predator is forgiven by a group of his peers, including the woman he assaulted.

Additionally, the results of the 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct, released this week, show that prevalence of sexual assault has remained the same since the 2016 survey. 31.6% of undergraduate women, 11.6% of undergraduate men and 31.3% of gender nonconforming undergraduates have experienced assault in college. All three numbers are higher than the Association of American Universities average.

However, the 2019 survey is encouraging in showing that 78.4% of students took action when they witnessed “a situation they believed could lead to a sexual assault,” up from 22.9% in 2016.

Georgetown attributes the increase to the mandatory bystander intervention training for all incoming first-year students instituted in 2017.

Though the university’s efforts for bystander training are important, the training is inadequate in comprehensively addressing sexual assault. Bystander intervention does not adequately address sexual assault prevention and consent, according to Maya Stevenson (COL ’20), who is a Resident Assistant in Harbin Hall.

“Students questioned why the University only discusses consent with incoming freshman via a mandatory online module (which they noted students exchange tips for skipping through without having to actually watch the videos) but devote a 5-hour in-person training to bystander intervention.” Stevenson wrote in a message to The Hoya.

“Overall, residents shared that the training was important but felt incomplete.”

Georgetown does not holistically address the pervasive culture of sexual misconduct. Bystander training is insufficient in addressing sexual misconduct, according to Sara Collina, a professor in the women’s and gender studies program.

“There is some evidence that bystander intervention programs can be effective in increasing people’s confidence to intervene, but this week’s distressing climate survey report makes one thing very clear: WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT WORKING,” Collina wrote in an email to The Hoya.

With the levels of sexual assault not changing over the past three years, Georgetown cannot become complacent in its education programs simply because of the improved bystander intervention rates. The university should explore more comprehensive solutions.

To address the fundamental flaws in its system, the university should rethink its sexual assault education programs and include students in reforming the programs, according to Collina.

“I would recommend that Georgetown start from scratch in terms of sexual assault and harassment prevention,” Collina wrote. “Ask students to visualize a campus where sexual respect is the norm, then work backward.”

The university should not pat itself on the back for implementing bystander training without being more proactive in sexual assault prevention.

Georgetown should create new programs to ask students to consider the privilege and power dynamics that perpetuate a culture of sexual assault.

Students should discuss race, gender and socioeconomic inequalities that lead to disparate rates of sexual assault. Students should also examine how power dynamics perpetuate sexual assault and solutions to such problems.

Bystander training is important, but it is woefully insufficient to address the larger cultural issues at Georgetown. The pervasive issue of sexual misconduct at Georgetown, as evidenced by this week’s survey results, call for something more: Georgetown must refocus its efforts on sexual assault prevention to more holistically address this issue.

Capitol Trouble — Actress Jane Fonda was arrested Friday, Oct. 11, at a climate protest at the U.S. Capitol Building. Before the incident, she told the public she moved to Washington, D.C., with the hope of getting arrested for civil disobedience.

Grave Humor — A man in Dublin, Ireland, decided to get the last laugh at his own funeral Saturday. Shay Bradley frightened funeralgoers as prerecorded audio resonated from his coffin as it was lowered into the grave.

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Establish Distinct Smoking Areas On Aug. 15, 2020, Georgetown University’s tobacco-free campus policy will take effect, banning all students, staff members and visitors from using tobacco products on university grounds.

The sweeping ban will be ineffective, as students who smoke are likely to defy the rules because of the inconvenience of leaving campus. To improve the effectiveness of the policy, the university should establish smoking areas in discreet locations on campus.

Student efforts to establish a tobacco-free campus first began with the Smoke Free Georgetown campaign, which launched in fall 2016. The Georgetown University Student Association held a referendum in December 2016 in which 49.64% students voted in favor of a tobacco-free campus and 46.37% voted in opposition. The referendum yielded 41% participation among all students In April 2019, more than two years later, the university announced a tobacco-free policy would be implemented in August 2020. The policy prohibits the use of any tobacco products, including any form of e-cigarettes, within university grounds, according to the announcement.

Though the tobacco-free policy is a good measure to improve student health, designated smoking areas would accomplish the same goal without relying on the unrealistic expectation that everyone will stop smoking.

The university’s current smoking policy prohibits smoking inside buildings and within 25 feet of any building. With the vague and often unenforced policy, people regularly smoke outside of buildings, such as Lauinger Library and the Intercultural Center. As a result, students are often subject to the harms of secondhand smoke when they pass by these areas.

To fully implement the tobacco-free campus, Georgetown must first improve its enforcement mechanism and sanction people who violate the

policy. At the same time, creating designated smoking areas away from highly trafficked roads would similarly protect students from exposure to secondhand smoke.

With these areas, students, faculty, staff members and visitors who wish to smoke can do so without having to choose between defying university policy and leaving campus altogether.

With a viable alternative to smoke in certain areas on campus, smokers would be potentially less inclined to risk the consequences of violating university policy.

The establishment of smoking areas is not uncommon in tobacco-free campuses. After implementing a tobacco-free campus in 2016, the Georgetown University Law Center determined two specific smoking areas away from building entrances and key pathways. American University has also established designated a smoking area on the perimeter of campus. Georgetown’s main campus should do the same.

While Georgetown’s commitment to students’ health certainly extends to all students, including those students who smoke, the university cannot presume everyone on campus would stop smoking simply because of its tobacco ban. Instead, the university should focus more on augmenting its resources that help people quit smoking.

Additionally, some may see designated smoking areas as a violation of the student body’s popular vote in the 2016 referendum. Though the referendum outlines the worthy goal of eliminating tobacco on campus, the university’s specific policy should make practical adjustments to increase effectiveness while still accomplishing the goal of protecting students from secondhand smoke.

The university’s tobacco-ban set for August 2020 is impractical. To better accomplish its goal of a healthier, tobacco-free campus, the university should designate specific smoking areas.

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HOYA HISTORY: Oct. 22, 1971

Rennie Davis at Gaston Hall: Act Now! Declaring that “we are going to drive Richard Nixon from political office,” Rennie Davis invited a crowd of approximately 250 students at Gaston Hall last night to participate in the “Evict Nixon” demonstrations slated for early next week. Davis, one of the defendants indicted in the Chicago conspiracy trial, pointed out that Georgetown students can play an important role in the upcoming protests. “Think how close you are to Richard Nixon,” he observed. “Think what the people of Indochina feel about Richard Nixon, how they wish they could be here like you.”

The antiwar leader charged that “there is not a shred of evidence to support the idea that the war is dying

down.” Raising his voice, Davis continued: “Every month that Lyndon Johnson was in power, he dropped 60,000 tons of bombs on the people of Indochina. Every month that Richard Nixon has been in power, he has dropped 96,000 tons of bombs on the people of Indochina. Every month that Lyndon Johnson was in office, he killed, or maimed or drove into a refugee camp 95,000 people.

Every month that Richard Nixon has been in power, while the war has been ‘winding down,’ that human toll has climbed to a staggering 127,000 people every 30 days.”

Davis outlined the details of next week’s demonstrations. “The main event,” he said, “will be an event that I

think will probably make the rally on Oct. 25 perhaps the most historic meeting of the peace and justice movement to take place.” Dr. Benjamin Spock will contact the Viet Cong negotiators at the Paris peace talks by phone, Davis explained. “Then they will speak,” he said, “through trans-continental cables hooked to enormous loudspeakers capable of carrying their voices literally into the White House itself.”

“And the Viet Cong representative will say,” Davis continued, “that on this Veteran’s Day it is possible for the American people to have the war end.”

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ast Tuesday, Oct. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that will determine the legality of employment discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community.

During the arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his concerns about preserving the rights of employers with religious objections to LGBTQ legal protections.

Although public opinion on employment discrimination, same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ rights issues has shifted rapidly to the left throughout even the last decade, many socially conservative Christians still cite their religious beliefs in defense of their opposition to homosexuality. But their arguments are largely based on disingenuous biblical readings.

Although these social conservatives reference passages that condemn samesex relationships, they wildly exaggerate their centrality.

Specifically, they have singled out this issue as the one they want legally enforced when nothing in the text gives it a place of greater importance than the other prohibitions given along with it, many of which conservative Christians happily ignore.

I want to be very clear here: I strongly disagree with the biblical judgments on homosexuality, which are contrary to modern ideals of equality and justice.

However, it’s possible to recognize that conservative readings of these passages are profoundly disingenuous and elevate their condemnations of same-sex relationships far beyond what the texts themselves aim to justify.

The primary source in which anti-LGBTQ Christians find their biblical arguments is the writings of Paul the Apostle. Paul includes “sodomites” in his list of wrongdoers who “will not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9). While the exact meaning of this verse is contested, and although ancient ideas of homosexuality were very different from modern ones, social conservatives still rely on this text and others like it to

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Georgetown certainly still has a long way to go before LGBTQ Hoyas feel not just accepted, but also comfortable and at home on the Hilltop.

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n the morning of Oct. 11, you might have seen my fellow Georgetown University Pride board members and deputies chalking up Red Square as we giggled and wiped chalk off our purple “I Am” shirts, which honor the Out for Change campaign in 2007 that ultimately led to the establishment of the LGBTQ Resource Center. We chalked phrases ranging from “Trans Rights are Human Rights” to “Jack the Bulldog threw the first brick at Stonewall” surrounding a closet door in the middle of Red Square, through which myself and about 40 other Hoyas danced in a conga line that afternoon to celebrate National Coming Out Day as Diana Ross’ hit single “I’m Coming Out” blasted through Red Square. As we danced from Red Square to the steps of Healy Hall, we were cheered on by passersby, administrators and fellow Hoyas.

Hidden behind the cheers and smiles, however, is the history of OUTober, with which many Hoyas, including queer Hoyas, are unfamiliar. Though positive changes have been made by both student organizers and Georgetown’s administration, there is still much work that remains to be done before LGBTQ Hoyas can truly feel at home on the Hilltop, especially regarding the teaching of LGBTQ history at Georgetown.

LGBT History Month, known to Hoyas as OUTober, has been celebrated across the country

every October for 25 years since its founding in 1994 by Missouri high school history teacher Rodney Wilson. Each year, Georgetown celebrates OUTober through programming organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center, GU Pride, Georgetown University Queer People of Color, Georgetown LGBTQ+ Mentors and Resources, and other supporting offices and student organizations.

Throughout the years, the variety of events held and number of event attendees at OUTober programming has expanded. As a co-president of GU Pride, it is both my honor and duty to partner with other clubs, the LGBTQ Resource Center and administration to provide programming for LGBTQ Hoyas throughout OUTober; by taking up this space on campus, we legitimize our presence and send a message to LGBTQ Hoyas that they have a right to not just exist, but also be celebrated on this campus.

Each year, the organizers of OUTober programming attempt to strike a balance between commemoration and celebration.

We aim to recognize our history, advocate for our rights and celebrate our community. This remembrance is especially urgent now, when each day seems to bring even more bad news for our community and pride parades feel more like a big advertisement than a commemoration of a riot.

The fight for LGBTQ rights did

not start at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, and it did not end with the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015. Just three days before I danced and waved my pride flag throughout Red Square, I attended a rally at the Supreme Court as landmark cases regarding whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ workers were heard; our fight is far from over.

It is incredibly important that my fellow queer student leaders and I put pressure on Georgetown administration to ensure that our history is taught and celebrated on campus every year because, for many students, college is the first and only time we will be taught this history.

Currently, only four states require public schools to teach LGBTQ history, thus knowledge of the LGBTQ rights movement is fairly limited among those who do not actively seek it out on their own. Even knowledge among Hoyas of the fight for LGBTQ rights on the Hilltop is limited: Not many Hoyas realize that Georgetown was the first Catholic university to establish an LGBTQ Resource Center and the only Jesuit university to currently have one.

Georgetown certainly still has a long way to go before LGBTQ Hoyas feel not just accepted, but also comfortable and at home on the Hilltop. While a monthlong celebration is great, OUTober shouldn’t be the only time the university makes an

effort to support LGBTQ Hoyas.

The women’s and gender studies program at Georgetown offers courses on sexuality studies; however, institutional support for the program is limited. By providing more resources and full-time staff to this program, Georgetown could help ensure that more students have a basic understanding of LGBTQ history while also demonstrating support for sexuality studies as a legitimate academic pursuit. On a national level, more states should require that LGBTQ history be taught in public schools and should treat the fight for LGBTQ rights as integral to our country’s history.

OUTober remains essential at Georgetown so that students have the opportunity to engage with the LGBTQ community and learn more about our history and what we still have to fight for.

OUTober is an indispensable reminder from student groups and the university to members of the LGBTQ community on campus — both out and closeted — that they are loved and supported and that they have people fighting for them on the Hilltop and beyond. However, there is still much institutional and cultural change that fellow leaders of student organizations and I must fight for year-round before LGBTQ Hoyas can truly feel at home on the Hilltop.

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defend homophobia.

While Paul’s indictment may seem straightforward at first glance, his words must be read within the context of the rest of the passage. Paul also names “fornicators,” “adulterers,” “drunkards” and many others in his list of wrongdoers. Yes, we should recognize that the inclusion of homosexuality in a list of other categories that are presented as unequivocally bad is reprehensible, but it’s important to note that none of these classifications is awarded any special status among the rest.

This observation prompts an unavoidable conclusion: The use of the Bible to defend homophobia is an egregious example of religious cherrypicking in modern American politics. Social conservatives do not put nearly the same effort into codifying legal restrictions against actions like excessive drinking or cheating on one’s spouse. Paul puts all of these behaviors on equal footing — conservatives misrepresent his words when they single out homosexuality.

The judgments typically appear as just one part of extensive lists of human vices, and, while we should certainly denounce Paul’s words, there is simply no legitimate rationale for choosing this particular item from the lists to elevate to the status that conservatives have given it in national politics.

I am not arguing for a rehabilitation of what the Bible has to say on this subject, and I do not believe we should give notions of religious liberty any power to restrict the dignity of the LGBTQ community.

Unfortunately, this issue is one in which social conservatives lean heavily on biblical texts to justify intolerance. This political reality means progressives should familiarize themselves with the interpretive flaws inherent in this argument in order to thoroughly call out its illegitimacy.

ny international relations class will stress that sectarian violence plagues the lives of many Muslims around the world. Now, Georgetown University’s Muslim leadership has an opportunity to facilitate muchneeded engagement within its own community.

Last month, campus ministry opened applications for a second full-time Muslim chaplain. To increase awareness of sectarian tensions and strengthen intrafaith unity, the university should hire a Shia to fill this position.

Georgetown became the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain when it appointed Imam Yahya Hendi in 1999. However, a growing Muslim student population across both main campus and the Georgetown University Law Center has stretched Hendi thin, hindering student access to their main religious resource on campus and decreasing the quality of faith programming.

The university is making the right move by hiring an additional chaplain to support Muslim Life. However, campus ministry should recognize the dire need for the Shia religious perspective on campus when making its decision.

Though there are few Shia students that attend Georgetown, using these numbers as an excuse to ignore the necessity of a Shia chaplain would be a mistake. Sectarian violence is a reality of the modern world; Iraq and Syria, for example, devolved into chaos partially as a result of the Sunni-Shia split, and terrorist groups have risen to power by capitalizing on these divides.

As an institution that trains the world’s future leaders, Georgetown should be making every effort to educate its students on these tensions and how they should be navigated. A Shia chaplain would provide deeper theological insights and serve as a reliable resource on campus, rather than an international relations professor clicking through a few slides.

A Shia chaplain could also strengthen tolerance and understanding within the Muslim community by serving as a faith leader for Shia students and providing scholarship to Sunni students who seek to understand the similarities and differences between the two sects.

Though there is no outright hostility between Sunnis and Shias on campus, underlying tensions exist beneath the veneer of unity; after nearly every event that represents the Shia perspective, I have witnessed backlash ensue from certain students.

Moreover, the current lack of a Shia chaplain has resulted in Sunni-Shia intrafaith programming that is minimal and superficial.

The only intrafaith dialogue occurs at the beginning of the year, and even that has historically fallen flat, failing to inspire meaningful, long-lasting engagement as a result of limited understanding and the one-time nature of the event.

Though Hendi does have knowledge on both the Sunni and Shia religious traditions, his knowledge of Shiism still has some gaps. Moreover, Hendi should not be responsible for representing both sects; asking him to do so is akin to requiring the Catholic chaplaincy to represent Protestant views.

Only by hiring a full-time Shia chaplain can Georgetown consistently enhance the quality of critical dialogue beyond rhetoric that expresses the need for unity. True unity demands candid and difficult conversations that challenges preconceived notions, not simply lip service to inclusivity.

The failure of Georgetown’s Muslim chaplaincy to provide adequate programming has cornered Shia students into othering themselves in an effort to educate their peers and facilitate intrafaith understanding.

Additionally, the student-led aspect of these events can stifle genuine engagement. Having a friend or peer moderate a discussion could prevent a Sunni student from asking a controversial question at the event for fear of alienating their peer from the community. A chaplain, however, is an institutional resource who is free from that dynamic and can encourage sensitive questions.

While Georgetown has failed to recognize the importance of the Shia perspective on campus, New York University has not made the same mistake: NYU became the first American university to establish a Shia chaplaincy in 2005.

Georgetown made strides when it first hired Hendi; now, the university should extend the Muslim leadership to better represent a diversifying community and to strengthen understanding.

Though there have been calls for the university to hire a woman for the position, the campus ministry hiring committee should prioritize a Shia resource, regardless of gender. Georgetown hired a female Muslim residential chaplain last spring, but there is no Shia resource on campus. Though this community would benefit from additional Muslim female representation, given Muslim Life’s limited funding to hire additional chaplains, the hiring committe should not dismiss a male Shia candidate.

Georgetown now faces a choice to bridge sectarian divides or remain indifferent toward reality. The university should make the responsible choice.

Yumna Naqvi is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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his year’s U.S. Supreme Court session will be distinguished by landmark cases that will direct the future of American society in an era plagued with uncertainty, injustice and virulence. In the hands of nine justices rests the fate of almost 700,000 young Americans, including many current Hoyas, through three consolidated cases.

The Supreme Court is poised first to determine whether it is authorized to decide on the constitutionality of the President Donald Trump administration’s repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and, second, whether the Department of Homeland Security is permitted to end the program. Terminating DACA would not only have devastating repercussions on the lives of individuals and families who depend on the program’s provisions, but would also harm the American economy and ultimately corrupt the fundamental principles that define our nation.

Former President Barack Obama established DACA in 2012 to protect young adults without documentation who immigrated to the United States as children. The program extends legal protection against deportation for those who meet various criteria, including educational requirements or military service, and pass a criminal history and background check.

Once their application is approved, DACA recipients are able to obtain driver’s licenses, legally work and access government benefits, including health care.

Enabling young adults without documentation to live dignified and fulfilling lives in the United States not only reinforces American ideals of diversity and inclusivity, but also strengthens the American economy. A February 2018

report by the Democrats of the Committee on Small Business estimates that deporting DACA recipients, or Dreamers, could cost the United States $460 billion in economic output over the subsequent decade. With employment rates well over 90% and $2 billion contributed in local and state taxes each year from DACA recipients, Dreamers are undoubtedly well-educated, hardworking and invaluable participants of the American economy.

In fact, Trump himself tweeted about Dreamers in 2017, “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military?

Really!......”

Reneging on his promise of keeping DACA, Trump has now embarked on a campaign to dismantle its provisions by attacking the legality of its institution in the first place.

Specifically, Trump is criticizing Obama for issuing an executive branch memorandum to circumnavigate extant immigration laws, a course of action he argues is unconstitutional.

Though Trump’s stance on DACA unpredictably oscillates between two extremes, the Obama administration did not intend for DACA to be the ultimate resolution to U.S. immigration issues. When first announcing the program, Obama described it as a “temporary stopgap measure,” as it simply delays any action on an individual’s immigration status for two years. The initiative was intended to protect undocumented individuals until Congress passed more comprehensive legislation.

Regardless of the policy’s origins, given the failure of this administration and Congress to enact appropriate and effective immigration laws, stripping away this temporary provision without permanent protections

in place is nonsensical and draconian.

If the Supreme Court decides DACA was an unconstitutional exercise of executive power, Dreamers will lose protection against deportation, work authorization, driver’s licenses and access to higher education.

Although Georgetown admits undocumented students even if they are not protected by DACA, there are many institutions that will only admit DACA recipients.

As individuals’ DACA protections expire though their lives in the United States are well-established, the stark reality that many young Americans face is daunting.

The joint inaction by the administration and Congress has left thousands of individuals in a precarious limbo subject to the Supreme Court’s review.

On the Hilltop, this review threatens the lives of many accomplished and inspiring Hoyas.

Students without documentation bring a unique lived experience to our campus, to which many of us may not be able to relate to but from which we can certainly all learn. The university has demonstrated its commitment to protecting students without documentation, but the reversal of DACA will make it exceedingly difficult for the institution to sustain these provisions.

As a student body, we must recognize that the decision resulting from the oral arguments Nov. 12 will directly shape the politics of our city and the composition of our community. We should be looking to the court to determine whether hatred and ignorance have fundamentally distorted our society or whether justice and morality prevail to preserve the America that is exalted, not undermined, by diversity.

MAHIMA CHAUDHARY is a senior in the College.

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Scooters May Increase by Thousands Despite Safety Concerns KARENA LANDLER Hoya Staff Writer

Mark Camilli (COL ’19) was returning from an ESCAPE trip in February 2019 when he sustained an injury that changed his last semester at Georgetown University.

He was riding an electric scooter while carrying a backpack and duffel bag past the Southwest Quadrangle when he lost his balance trying to slow the scooter down to adjust the bag.

“It was honestly one of the scariest experiences of my life,” Camilli said. “As I fell face first, I could literally hear my tooth shattering. It felt like there was sand in my mouth.”

Camilli fractured both his arms and afterward needed surgery on his right arm and physical therapy. He still ended up dropping two of his classes due to the weeks when he was unable to write.

“I still to this day cannot fully extend my right arm,” Camilli said. “It will probably bother me for the rest of my life.”

Camilli is just one of thousands of people who have been injured on electric scooters since they were introduced in 2017. Scooters, which have rapidly risen in popularity, pose dangers to riders and create problems with accessibility as they enter a landscape clearly not designed with them in mind.

As more companies roll out scooter options, many cities, including Washington, D.C., have found themselves scrambling to find ways to regulate them.

The District Department of Transportation recently extended the comment period on its proposed regulations for electric scooters in 2020 to Oct. 30. While the proposed rules would provide new limitations to usage to address concerns about safety and accessibility, they would also dramatically expand the presence of scooters by the thousands within the district.

RISING USAGE, RISING PROBLEMS

Since scooters rose to prominence in D.C. following their introduction in 2017, a growing number of companies have placed their scooters on and off campus as a form of last-mile transportation, intended for short trips.

Currently, eight companies have scooters available in the District: Bird, Bolt, Jump, Lime, Lyft, Razor, Skip and Spin. Each has about 600 to 700 listed scooters in operation across the whole District, according to the DDOT. Because of the DDOT’s proposed changes to regulations, the number of scooters allowed in D.C. could nearly double to 10,000 by January, and potentially 20,000 thou-

sand by June. Though the number of scooter operators will be limited to four, each service that receives a permit can expand its fleet to 2020 under these regulations. The operators can submit petitions to expand on a semiannual basis subject to review

by DDOT based on past performance.

Though scooter operators have been expanding exponentially, the rollout for many of these services has not always run smoothly. A report recently found that nationally eight people have died because of accidents on electric scooters and an additional 1,500 individuals have been injured. Many of the accidents were caused in part by roads with no clear spaces for scooters as well as general confusion about what traffic laws apply to scooters.

The Georgetown area is specifically difficult for scooter users to navigate safely, according to Camilli.

“The roads are cobblestone for a bunch of different streets, so if you’re on the road it’s way too bumpy, and then, there’s not necessarily always a lane for you to be in,” Camilli said.

In 2018, a man’s fatal collision with an SUV while riding a Lime scooter in the District prompted D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh’s (D-Ward 3) call for greater regulation of the industry and greater education for scooter users.

“One of the problems that I see with this proliferation of new means of getting around is that there’s an education and cultural issue,” Cheh said in an interview with The Hoya.

EQUITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

Scooters do not simply present risks to riders; parking has raised problems in terms of city accessibility, especially to people with disabilities.

To avoid creating obstacles, scooter users are required to park their scooters upright, with at least 5 feet of walkway left for others traveling on the sidewalk. They also may not be parked in any place that would impede access to public or private property, according to the DDOT permit required for scooter companies.

These kinds of parking violations are common, Cheh said.

“I get complaints all the time from people around the District saying that scooters are being strewn across sidewalks,” Cheh said.

Improper parking can pose serious difficulties to those with disabilities, according to Anna Landre (SFS ’21), Georgetown Disability Alliance president and a wheel-

chair user.

“Oftentimes, scooters are left in locations that block pedestrian right-of-way and constitute a barrier for disabled people. This is especially true in Georgetown, where our sidewalks are already narrower than most other areas of DC,” Landre wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Personally, I’ve had the path in front of my apartment blocked by scooters on several occasions, preventing me from getting home.”

Scooter companies are required, in the event of incorrect parking, to move a scooter within two hours of its identification. Reporting involves contacting the company directly, and the companies are required to print a number on each scooter that a person could call and report.

Scooter companies have a responsibility to increase awareness of how scooter usage and improper parking can impact those with disabilities, according to Landre.

“We need to increase education around this issue among those who use scooters,” Landre wrote. “This is going to necessitate the cooperation of scooter companies, who in most cases have shown a clear lack of interest in making themselves responsible for their products.”

In addition to the proposed regulations, the District also plans to create curbside parking to help limit improperly parked scooters, according to The Washington Post.

The DDOT rules also require that scooters be available across D.C. so that a variety of residents can take advantage of them. Each company has a low-income customer plan that provides options for individuals making less than $24,980 per year and families of four with less than $51,500 in household income, according to the DDOT. One of the important potential gains of low-cost transportation like dockless scooters is providing low-income residents with new options for transportation through these plans, according to Cheh.

“I want to make sure that scooters are going to be made available across the District,” Cheh said. “Not just in special places.”

Yet problems of socioeconomic disparities persist. Because the scooters are dockless, they can be deposited

by the user at any point and are often found with much greater density outside of low-income areas. Even in terms of regulation, actual requirements ask that only 1% of each company’s fleet be placed in each of D.C.’s eight wards by 6 a.m. each morning, according to Cheh.

“Since they’re all allowed to have 600, that would be just six for each ward,” Cheh said. “I want to increase that pretty substantially because I don’t think it’s adequate.”

The DDOT’s new proposal for 2020 rules on scooter use, open for comment until October’s end, would increase this limit, but only up to 20 total per ward, and would include more flexibility with hours of placement, according to documents released by the department.

RULES AND REGULATIONS IGNORED

As lawmakers develop new regulations to accommodate for the rising trend, part of the danger of scooters is the lack of knowledge of the regulations that attend the use of the devices.

In the central business district of D.C., scooters cannot be ridden on sidewalks at all, and many cities have set the speed limit at 15 mph, subject to a fine of $25. These rules are frequently broken, however, according to Cheh.

“Currently, they’re not al-

lowed to go on the sidewalk in the central business district,” Cheh said. “But you don’t see anybody adhering to that.”

Although on many scooters these regulations are prominently marked, it is often not an effective deterrent to breaking these rules.

Commonly flouted rules include the requirement that riders be at least 18 and the rule against multiple passengers.

“I see more than one person on a scooter; I see kids on a scooter, and none of that is allowed but there’s really no enforcement,” Cheh said.

Lack of knowledge of safety regulations and options for scooters ultimately, however, falls outside the legal liability of companies like Bird or LimeBike, and many insurance policies will not cover injuries from accidents on scooters.

With hundreds of scooters, D.C. remains a focal point for the forthcoming regulations that include capping the speed limits on scooters and a proposed regulation that would prohibit scooter usage between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.

Some cities have implemented more severe regulations, with the mayor of Nashville requesting that legislation be proposed banning electric scooters entirely as backlash begins to mount against the vehicles.

Though concerned about the

dangers that unclear regulations pose, Cheh still supports their introduction to metropolitan areas, according to a press release.

“Electric scooters and battery-assisted bicycles produce multiple benefits for the District,” Cheh said. “But, because this technology is relatively new, we don’t have a safe electric scooter culture — resulting in many users neglecting to follow important safety rules.”

However, lawmakers considering scooter regulation don’t have access to reliable data on these metrics, according to Cheh.

“There’s also an issue about data: to exercise oversight we need to have accurate data about incidents and injuries,” Cheh said.

The proposed regulations will require operators to submit monthly data on scooter usage and parking to help account for the current gaps in understanding.

The Committee on Transportation and the Environment is set to hold a hearing Nov. 4 focusing solely on scooters, according to Cheh, as law makers continue to figure out the appropriate level of regulation on electric scooters.

“I think there is a way forward,” Cheh said. “I don’t think that we should plan on banning scooters, but obviously there are things that have to be attended to.”

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Colbert Named New Vice Dean Of Faculty for Georgetown College

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Michael Kahn, former artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, stressed the importance of diverse perspectives in the arts in his acceptance speech at a university honorary degree ceremony Tuesday.

Kahn served as the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., from 1986 to 2019. Kahn received the honorary degree from University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95), who recognized Kahn’s wide-ranging contributions to the theater world throughout his career. In 2000, Kahn founded The Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting, a 12-month program where actors could intensively study Shakespeare and other classical dramatic texts.

Kahn’s work both at the theater company and in his other artistic endeavors highlights the life-changing influence of acting and production, DeGioia said at the ceremony.

“As an artistic director, as a teacher, as a director, as a mentor, Michael Kahn invites us and enables us to experience the transformative power of theater,” DeGioia said. “Over the course of his career, Michael Kahn has made it possible for thousands and thousands to engage in this process of transformation.”

In his acceptance speech, Kahn

drew attention to the historic lack of diversity in the structure of the American theater 60 years ago, reading aloud the names of many playwrights from that time period.

“The writers I mentioned were all white males, as was the basic power structure of the American theater,” Kahn said.

The theater has since evolved to include a much more diverse cohort of artists, according to Kahn.

“The American theater is experiencing another golden age of playwrights,” Kahn said. “These are the voices of women, of people of color, of African Americans, Caribbean Americans, Asian Americans, of people who identify as LGBTQ or non-binary, children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, who have chosen to be heard in the theater of today.”

During his tenure as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kahn also served as head of the drama division of the Juilliard School, a prestigious performing arts conservatory in New York City, from 1992 to 2006.

While his work ethic and passion contributed to his accomplishments as an artistic director and educator, Kahn acknowledged the advantages he was afforded as a white man in the theater industry.

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Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company Michael Kahn was awarded an honorary degree in a Gaston Hall ceremony Tuesday.

leadership in the Amerian theater through hard work, energy, thought, talent and yes, some vision,” Kahn said. “But I can see how my own white privilege gave me a pretty big leg up.”

Participating in the arts contributes to human development in challenging people with different points of view and giving them the opportunity to reflect on the human condition, according to a 2019 Brookings study. Increases in arts learning can have a positive effect on the engagement of students in school and development of empathy with their peers, according to the study.

American theater will benefit from discussions that consider diversity in the context of the arts, Kahn said.

“These questions and conversations are essential to the continued health of the American theater,” Kahn said.

Beyond conversations about diversity, society should also address the troubling lack of art programs in schools, according to Kahn.

“There is a longer, and perhaps more important factor that needs to be recognized: the decadeslong diminution and eventual elimination of the presence of art in education in our schools,” Kahn said.

Although activities such as sports can offer many of the same benefits as the arts as extracurriculars, the arts offer a distinct experience, according to Kahn.

“If you were in a play, and I love to be in a play, you have the chance to explore the lives of people from different backgrounds from yourself, with different problems and experiences than yours, and most important of all, to play someone other than yourself,” Kahn said.

The implementation of more art programs in schools not only will allow creativity to flourish among the younger generations, but also will help create a more equitable society, according to Kahn.

“To stand into others’ shoes, to be them, you had to dig deeper into the core of their circumstances and life choices, and in doing so you develop empathy, a quality much missing in our world,” Kahn said.

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The university announced the appointment of Director of Theater and Performance Studies Soyica Colbert (COL ’01) as a vice dean of faculty in an email to the community Oct. 11.

Colbert will join a team of four other deans, including two vice deans of faculty, the vice dean of graduate affairs and diversity and inclusion, and the vice dean for undergraduate affairs. While Colbert will begin her new role in the spring, current Vice Dean of Faculty Deborah Phillips will continue working with the office until the end of her term in June 2020.

Even though Phillips and Colbert will overlap terms in the spring, Colbert will share the role with professor David Edelstein, the other current vice dean of faculty.

Vice dean positions are a twoyear commitment with an optional additional year, according to Georgetown College Dean Christopher Celenza. Celenza and his team began their search process last spring in preparation, he said.

“All of us on the team knew that there were going to be some changes going on and so we all talked about it together,” Celenza said in an interview with The Hoya.

While ultimately Celenza’s decision, the choice to add Colbert to the vice dean team was a group effort, according to Phillips.

“We all sat around and thought about who would be really ideal for this position. It’s a challenging position that really draws on a lot of personal capacities,” Phillips said in an interview with The Hoya. “We all felt that Soyica would be an ideal person and we’re all absolutely thrilled that she has accepted the position.”

Hamza Atumah (COL ’20), who has taken two courses with Colbert, hopes that her approachability and accessibility to students will continue in her role as vice dean.

“I think she really goes out of her way to push the limits of what students see in themselves as well as to hold them to higher expectations so they don’t at least lose that within themselves,”

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Soyica Colbert (COL ’01), director of theater and performance studies, will become one of Georgetown College’s two vice deans of faculty.

Hamza said in an interview with The Hoya. “She’s good at doing that, especially for students who are trying their hardest to take an initiative.”

Colbert attributes many of her successes to her desire to work across many fields.

“Throughout my career, working collaboratively has been key to my development.” Colbert said in a university news release. “In my new role, I look forward to working with colleagues across the arts and sciences to realize our visions for a justice centered College of the twenty-first century.”

Colbert and the other vice dean of faculty are responsible for overseeing the College’s 16 departments and 12 interdisciplinary programs and managing department hirings throughout the year. Since Colbert will share her role with Phillips until June, their exact responsibilities have not yet been determined, Celenza said.

Phillips hopes her shared semester with Colbert can be a helpful learning experience for both professors, Phillips said.

“My goal for the spring, as I said, is to make sure she’s fully equipped to hit the ground running when I’m no longer in the office,” Phillips said. “And I feel very, very fortunate that she’s willing to spend a semester work-

ing alongside me.”

One of the many reasons that Celenza wanted Colbert as a part of his team was her experience as chair of the department of performing arts, he said.

“It’s a very diverse department and it’s a very important department and the fact that she chaired it so successfully was really important on that front,” Celenza said. “They combine theater and music, as well as public speaking, and dance, but they also combine a lot of different types of things that are in some ways unusual and helped her flex more muscles as a chair.”

Because the arts are a central part of the College, Colbert can use her experience to create new collaborative opportunities and develop a joint performance lab with the School of the Foreign Service, according to Celenza.

“One of the things we really need, and that she would be positioned to do very well, would be a vision for the arts at Georgetown,” Celenza said. “Most of the arts are situated within Georgetown College, and I am convinced that the arts are really good here and they’re better than sometimes that reputation gives us credit for.”

MSB Commemorates 10 Years Palacios To Depart CMEA Role Of Rafik B Hariri Building Advising Undocumented Students MADIHA SOHANI Special to The Hoya

The McDonough School of Business hosted events for faculty and students this week as it celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Rafik B. Hariri Building.

The building, inaugurated in fall 2009, includes classrooms and auditoriums that have hosted both MSB students and visiting CEOs, politicians and entrepreneurs over the past decade.

The anniversary celebrations will continue over the next several weeks.

The building is named after the late Lebanese prime minister and philanthropist Hariri, whose son, Saad Hariri, graduated from the MSB in 1992. It serves as the first permanent home for the MSB, making it even more significant for the program, according to Chris M. Kormis, associate dean, chief marketing officer and senior advisor to the dean.

The building has played a crucial role in the development of the business school, Kormis wrote.

“The Hariri Building became the home for the McDonough School of Business and really helped us become the community we are today,” Kormis wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our students, faculty, and staff are able to collaborate like never before.”

The business program continues to grow in the new building and is currently ranked 26th in overall full-time MBA programs in the United States by Bloomberg Business, and 15th for its undergraduate program by U.S. News and World Report.

The MSB has organized celebrations like serving District Doughnut at the weekly “Bagels with the Dean” event, creating a social media campaign using the hashtag #10YearsAtHariri and celebrating faculty and staff with Baked and Wired cupcakes.

Stephanie Martineau, director of events at the MSB, planned the anniversary events.

In celebration, the school has hung banners throughout the building in an effort to recognize the MSB’s “D.C. Advantage,”“Georgetown Expertise” and “Jesuit Tradition,” the aspects of the school that make it

a unique institution, according to a tweet from the MSB. Fully donor-funded, the Hariri Building has contributed to creating a more prestigious business program at Georgetown, Kormis wrote.

“We are very fortunate that our alumni community stepped up to support the construction of a building for the McDonough School of Business,” Kormis wrote. “The Hariri Building has enabled us to work much more closely together, enriched our faculty research and academic offerings, and provided venues to host prominent speakers – all of which have raised the school in prominence.”

The building has served as an important role in unifying the MSB community, enabling the school to hold major events in the Lohrfink Auditorium and to host prominent business executives in the Fisher Colloquium.

In addition to alumni’s generosity, the building has been greatly supported by the community members who maintain the building, according to Michael O’Leary, faculty chair

of the undergraduate business program.

“We are also deeply indebted to the unsung heroes who keep the building clean and well maintained. It is no small accomplishment to keep a 10-year-old building looking as good as it does,” O’Leary wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Everyone from our building manager Rob Johnston to the overnight cleaning crew does a fantastic job ensuring that the space is at its best for learning, research, and a steady stream of phenomenal events.”

The business program continues to lead in its field and the anniversary of the building is an uplifting event for all of those involved in the MSB, according to Kormis.

The building allows for a positive environment that encourages student and faculty interaction, Kormis wrote.

“The building was designed to bring people together with its open atrium, breakout rooms, student lounges, Lohrfink Auditorium, and Fisher Colloquium,” Kormis wrote. “It’s just a great place to come to work every day.”

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The Rafik B. Hariri Building opened in fall 2009 and celebrates 10 years as home of the McDonough School of Business this semester.

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Associate Director for Undocumented Student Services Arelis Palacios will leave her position Jan. 31 to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin.

Palacios has worked with the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access since November 2016. After departing her position at Georgetown University, Palacios will work in K-12 educational reform efforts in Austin, Texas, while working toward a doctoral degree. The CMEA will post the job opening in the upcoming weeks and aims to fill the position by January, according to Palacios.

The position of associate director for undocumented student services is responsible for creating programs to help students without documentation achieve success, according to CMEA Director Charlene Brown-McKenzie.

“This role is responsible for development and implementation, programs and services to engage and support undocumented undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to identifying and collaborating with on- and off- campus resources and partners to help undocumented students find success and well-being,” Brown-McKenzie wrote in an email to The Hoya.

For students without documentation filling out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals application alone and struggling with safety concerns when the Trump administration announced plans to phase out DACA in 2017, Palacios played a crucial adviser role, according to Hoyas For Immigrant Rights President and student without documentation Arisaid Gonzalez Porras (COL ’21).

“Arelis has been there to help me fill out my DACA application since it was the first time I’d done it without my parents’ guidance,” Porras wrote in an email to The Hoya. “In the past two

years, Arelis has been there in time of support like when the DACA program was rescinded.”

Due to the safety risks that people without documentation face in the current political climate and the uncertainty surrounding DACA, having an on-campus position dedicated to the interests of students without documentation is essential, according to Palacios.

“I have worked at institutions that did not make the same commitment to their undocumented students, and it was very hard to have felt so helpless in those moments ... ”

ARELIS PALACIOS Associate Director for Undocumented Student Services

“While there are elevated levels of risk and enforcement across our communities, it’s even more urgent for a position like this to exist in universities nationally to provide support and reassurance to undocumented youth in their professional goals and to forge paths of continued educational attainment,” Palacios wrote in an email to The Hoya.

During her time working at the CMEA, Palacios worked closely with colleagues in the Georgetown Scholars Program, the Center for Social Justice, Research, Teaching and Service, the Undocumented Student Advisory Team and the Office of the President, among other administrative offices at Georgetown. The emphasis that Georgetown places on providing services to students without documentation is rarely found in institutions nationwide, according to Palacios.

“I have worked at institutions that did not make the

same commitment to their undocumented students, and it was very hard to have felt so helpless in those moments, so it’s imperative for folx to understand that these efforts require coordinated responses on behalf of many community members,” Palacios wrote.

In addition to having a position dedicated to students without documentation, Georgetown has representatives from 17 different offices who work to support students without documentation, according to the university’s undocumented student resources page. Georgetown recently signed an amicus brief expressing support for DACA, joining 18 other colleges and universities.

The position provides support for students without documentation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although the role does help a wide range of Georgetown students, there continues to be a lack of support for students without documentation at other universities, Porras wrote.

“This role does a lot of behind the scenes work not just on the undergraduate level but also for graduate, law, and medical students,” Porras wrote. “The fact that this position is not in place for all universities says a lot about the work that needs to be done to continue to create resources for students to succeed.”

Interacting with the community of students without documentation and helping them achieve their professional and academic goals has been a fulfilling part of the job, Palacios said.

“I have really enjoyed getting to know our undocumented student community and being in a position to provide key support services to our students at various critical moments,” Palacios wrote. “I’m grateful to have witnessed even a small part of their journeys at Georgetown.”

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Zuckerberg Defends Newly Announced Facebook Free Speech Policy ZUCKERBERG, from A1 Facebook has faced previous critiques for the company’s policy choices on content regulation in recent years. Falsehoods including unverified information about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton circulated on the website during the 2016 presidential election.

Further, misinformation has since evolved to include more pervasive forms of manipulated content, such as deepfakes, on the social media platform, according to The Washington Post: A video altered to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appear drunk went viral on Facebook in May 2019.

Banning politicians’ advertisements from Facebook would also raise questions about prohibiting issue-related advertisements, creating murkier territory, Zuckerberg said at the event.

If the website allows advertisements pertaining to specific issues such as health care, immigration or women’s empowerment, politicians should also have a voice in social media discourse, according to Zuckerberg.

“Even if we wanted to ban political ads, it’s not even clear where you draw the line,” Zuckerberg said. “I believe when it is not absolutely clear what to do, we should err on the side of

greater expression.”

The event, titled “A Conversation on Free Expression,” was co-sponsored by the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy and the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

Zuckerberg’s address kicked off the new GUPolitics initiative “Democracy in the Digital Age,” a series of public conversations with political, technology and media leaders on challenges and opportunities in the digital age.

The event included a 35-minute speech by Zuckerberg, followed by a Q&A session moderated by Mo Elleithee, the founding executive director of GUPolitics. Questions were preselected from student submissions, as has occasionally been the case at past high-profile events, such as the Climate Forum 2020 and an event on free speech featuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Zuckerberg’s speech comes at a contentious time for the company, as Facebook is facing criticism not only for its content moderation, but also for its domination of advertising revenue in the sector.

Prominent politicians, including presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), have called for the breakup of the company’s power.

Unless content has the potential to incite harm, it

should remain on Facebook to effectively uphold free expression, according to Zuckerberg.

“I believe that we have two responsibilities: to remove content when it can cause real danger as effectively as we can and to fight to uphold as wide of a definition of freedom of expression as possible and to not allow the definition of what is considered dangerous to expand beyond what is absolutely necessary,” Zuckerberg said.

Social media has the capacity to replace the Fourth Estate of conventional news outlets as a vehicle to facilitate public discourse and inform the general population, according to Zuckerberg.

“People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world, a fifth estate, alongside the other power structures in our society,” Zuckerberg said. “People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers and politics in media to make their voices heard.”

Zuckerberg also addressed Facebook’s role on the global stage, including in China; Facebook, Instagram and other services owned by the company do not operate in the country.

Expanding services to China would have aligned with Facebook’s mission of creating a more inclusive and connected society, Zuckerberg said.

However, Facebook never

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Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, right, gave a speech for 35 minutes in Gaston Hall followed by a Q&A session moderated by Mo Elleithee, right, founding executive director of GUPolitics. came to a consensus with the country on operating regulations.

“I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world, and I thought we might help create a more open society,” Zuckerberg said. “I worked hard to make this happen.

But we could never come to agreement on what it would

take for us to operate there, and they never let us in.”

Disregarding personal opinion on the divisiveness of social media, individuals must come together to champion freedom of thought, according to Zuckerberg.

“The future depends on all of us,” Zuckerberg said.

“Whether you like Facebook or not, I think we need to rec-

ognize what is at stake and come together to stand for voice and free expression.” of thought, according to Zuckerberg.

“The future depends on all of us,” Zuckerberg said.

“Whether you like Facebook or not, I think we need to recognize what is at stake and come together to stand for voice and free expression.”

Knowledge of Campus Resources Increases CLIMATE SURVEY, from A1 fair compared to 50.5% for the AAU average.

The university aims to increase transparency and work more closely with students in the administration’s discussion of sexual assault and misconduct issues, Title IX Coordinator Samantha Berner said at a press conference on the survey results Oct. 15.

“We are constantly trying to engage more with students, so going to students in the spaces that they feel most comfortable with, and making meaningful relationships and establishing trust in that way,” Berner said. “Trust may not be built in this broad scale, but will also include more personal interactions and conversations.”

Since the first survey, students have become more aware of the resources available on Georgetown’s campus, including Health Education Services, the Title IX Office and the Academic Resource Center, according to this year’s survey results.

The 2019 survey results also demonstrated student participation in bystander intervention practices. 53.1%

of students said they checked in with a person if they saw a situtation they believed could lead to sexual assault, according to the 2019 survey results.

The university posed a similar question in the 2016 survey, in which 77.1% of students indicated they did nothing when they witnessed a drunk person heading for a sexual encounter.

Following the first survey, the university made bystander intervention training, known as “Bringing in the Bystander,” a mandatory part of orientation for first-year and transfer students.

The newly mandated training may have a connection to the higher rates of students willing to engage in intervene in situations in which they perceived the possibility of sexual assault, according to Berner.

“We’re always striving to find better ways to engage with our community and address these issues on our campus.” Berner said. “I think looking at the climate survey results, to see a vast improvement in knowledge of how to intervene and students feeling like they’re comfortable enough to intervene, that speaks a lot to the training.”

HES, which coordinates

bystander trainings, hopes to further collaborate with students on initiatives to combat sexual misconduct on campus, according to interpersonal violence training and educational specialist Erin Hill.

“Bringing comprehensive bystander intervention training to this campus has always been a student driven initiative, and we are so pleased to see this education having a positive impact in our community,” Hill wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It’s encouraging to see students feeling more comfortable intervening for others, and we look forward to creating even more educational opportunities for students to expand these skills.”

The survey results are divided by several demographics, including race and sexual orientation. The results show that undergraduate transgender, genderqueer and nonbinary students experience both instances of sexual assault and harassment at similar rates to undergraduate women.

The university remains deeply committed to addressing issues related to sexual misconduct, according to University President John J.

DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95).

“The survey findings underscore that, as a community, we have significant work to do in order to achieve a campus environment free from sexual misconduct,” DeGioia wrote in an email to the community. “Our work will address all of our students, and we will have a particular focus on addressing the experiences of students of color; transgender, genderqueer or nonbinary (TGQN) students; and students with disabilities.”

The university has planned several listening sessions because of the survey results, which will be hosted by faculty, staff members and administrative leaders from each of the campuses. The first listening session will be held Oct. 21.

The university’s ultimate goal for the campus community is to create a long-lasting, positive culture change, according to Hill.

“All of us must remain diligent in not only educating ourselves on how to support and uplift others, but also engage in critical self-reflection of how we ourselves can be better community members,” Hill wrote.

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The two recent alumni. who met their freshman year, died in a flash flood Oct. 11 while traveling in Puerto Rico.

Recent Alumni Mourned by Peers, Faculty Members

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The percentage of students reporting having experienced nonconsensual sexual contact while enrolled at the university remained relatively constant between 2016 and 2019, according to the Campus Climate Survey results released Oct. 15.

during their work together at the Capitol G’s, according to President Marie Merveilleux du Vignaux (MSB ’21).

“His strong and energetic leadership, paired with her calm and thoughtful insights, crafted beautiful music and a tight-knit community here in the Gs,” Merveilleux du Vignaux wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As a group, we feel that their memories remind us of the people we should aspire to be.”

Keffer and Robinson met during New Student Orientation their freshman year at Georgetown in the elevator on their way to sing in the convocation choir and began dating shortly thereafter, according to Merveilleux du Vignaux.

The pair spent significant time together throughout their lives at Georgetown, art history professor Elizabeth Prelinger said.

“Where one was, the other was,” Prelinger said in an interview with The Hoya. “They were inseparable.”

After graduation, Keffer and Robinson both moved to New York City. Robinson began a job at BlackRock, a global investment management corporation, as a portfolio analyst in July, according to her LinkedIn page. Keffer was planning to continue his artistic ventures and hoped to pursue a doctoral degree in a psychology-related field, according to Prelinger.

Computer science professor Jami Montgomery, who interacted with Robinson many times, was impressed by her kind heart and general goodwill, Montgomery wrote in a university email.

“Maya was smart, stubborn

and full of tenacity,” Montgomery wrote. “I was truly grateful to know her and am sorry that others will never get to know Maya’s kindness and rich spirit.”

Keffer and Robinson were remembered at a Chaplains’ Tea on Tuesday and in all religious services on campus this week. The university will also host a memorial service in Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart, according to a university email. The time has not yet been announced.

Prelinger will remember Keffer for his oil paintings and distinct eye for art, often depicting scenes of nature in conflict with urbanization and urbanized environments, she said.

“He had things that he needed to say about his observations of the natural world and human existence, but the pictures also spoke for themselves as objects of beauty and fascination and imagination,” Prelinger said.

“He was so deeply imaginative, and I think that this also has something to do in his interest in psychology.”

Prelinger was so impressed with Keffer’s artistic style that one of his paintings, “Urban Infection,” now hangs in her dining room, she said.

“I cherish his painting, but it now carries all sorts of different feelings with it: delight in its beauty and grief in his loss,” Prelinger said.

Keffer wrote about the importance of acknowledging people’s worth and individuality in psychology professor Jennifer Woolard’s class in 2017.

“There is always a story behind every person,” Keffer wrote in the reflection shared with The Hoya. “It is important to recognize that each and every person is significant and worthy of fair treatment in this world.”

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Georgetown Fellow Testifies in House Impeachment Inquiry KELLY ANDERSON Special to The Hoya

Marie Yovanovitch, Georgetown senior state department fellow and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, testified Oct. 11 in a House impeachment inquiry designed to investigate the alleged misconduct of President Donald Trump.

Yovanovitch, who was appointed by Barack Obama in August 2016, served as ambassador to Ukraine until May when President Trump relieved her of her duties.

Yovanovitch testified at the hearing to Congress that she was targeted by Trump administration officials for removal as part of an organized effort to relieve her from her position.

Yovanovitch serves as a senior state department fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, a branch of the School of Foreign Service. She is currently on personal leave from her

role at the institute, according to Barbara Bodine, the director of the ISD .

Bodine does not expect that Yovanovitch’s testimony or further involvement in the investigation will negatively affect her role at Georgetown.

“We will continue to provide whatever support to her that is appropriate and useful to her,” Bodine wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The inquiry, led by House Democrats, has focused on Trump’s attempts to convince Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden’s son, Hunter, served on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma from 2014 until the beginning of 2019.

After the ambassador learned she was being withdrawn from Ukraine, Yovanovitch met with Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, who assured her she had done

nothing wrong, according to Yovanovitch’s opening statement. Trump had lost confidence in her, however, and began putting pressure on the State Department to remove her in 2018, according to Yovanovitch’s testimony.

The SFS believes Yovanovitch can serve as an important resource for students when she returns because of her experience as a diplomat, according to SFS Dean Joel Hellman.

“We are trying to be fully supportive in the sense that we are excited to have her on campus,” Hellman said in an interview with The Hoya.

“We are excited for her to be another resource with other senior diplomats for our students. We think she has a critical role to play in talking about the importance of foreign policy professionals at this moment.”

The SFS also looks forward to Yovanovitch working with students to give her perspective on her career in

foreign service, according to Hellman.

“I think she’s now become a real symbol of everything that’s wrong in the way the Trump administration is making some of its foreign policy. ” ANGELA STENT Director, Georgetown Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

“We are very excited to have her on campus and I think that her long career in the foreign service sort of suggests a kind of integrity and professionalism of foreign service officers in their engagement and service to administrations from both

parties,” Hellman said.

Yovanovitch served as an American diplomat for 33 years before Trump fired her from the State Department, according to TIME. She had worked with both former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and current President Zelensky to pursue economic reform and anticorruption policy.

Yovanovitch was withdrawn from Ukraine for reasons outside of her diplomatic ability, as she adequately fulfilled her duties as an American ambassador, according to Angela Stent, director of the Georgetown Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies.

“She was doing her job as ambassador to Ukraine, and part of the job was to encourage the previous Ukrainian government and then the new one under Zelensky, and the previous one under Poroshenko, to really pursue an anti-corruption drive because the previous gov-

ernment really hadn’t done it that well,” Stent said in an interview with The Hoya.

“It’s clear that she was fired for reasons that had nothing to do with her performance.”

Yovanovitch’s efforts to end corruption in the government might have threatened the Trump administration’s alleged efforts to coerce Ukraine into investigating the Biden family ahead of the 2020 election, according to Stent.

President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani called for an investigation into Yovanovitch’s background in an Oct. 12 tweet. The call to investigate Yovanovitch illustrates that conducting diplomacy through outsiders without policy experience is problematic, according to Stent.

“I think she’s now become a real symbol of everything that’s wrong in the way the Trump administration is making some of its foreign policy,” Stent said.

Law Students Petition Dean Student Groups Support To Freeze 2020 Tuition Increase Renaming Columbus Day HARRISON MCBRIDE Hoya Staff Writer

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Georgetown University Law Center students and faculty are arguing that a tuition freeze would make law school more accessible to students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

SOPHIE HABER Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown University Law Center Student Bar Association called for a universitywide tuition freeze as well as greater transparency in tuition changes in a resolution submitted to Law Center Dean William Treanor on Oct. 15.

The SBA, which represents all Georgetown Law students, works through various subcommittees to enact changes to campus policy.

In the resolution, students asked the administration to approve tuition rates for the next academic year that match those from this year adjusted for inflation, as well as spend the year looking into how it can adjust the budget to reduce the cost of tuition.

Students also advocated for more transparency, calling for the university to notify community members of tuition increases sooner and make more information discussed in SBA Appropriations Committee meetings public.

The Appropriations Committee of the SBA is comprised of students and faculty members who advise the Dean on tuition and budget matters. Before delivering the resolution to Treanor, the SBA voted unanimously to pass the motion Oct. 9, according to committee member Josh Mogil (LAW ’20, SFS ’11).

Student members of the Appropriations Committee from the 2019-20 and 201819 school years drafted the resolution in solidarity with Georgetown undergraduate students, who called for a tuition freeze according to a Feb. 15 editorial in The Hoya.

Students across university campuses stand united in the push for a tuition freeze, according to Mogil.

“I’m sure you know, students don’t agree on any-

thing,” Mogil said. “These student government meetings are always contentious.

But we spoke with one voice and unanimously, there was not one dissenter.”

The resolution was cosponsored by 20 SBA delegates and four student groups, including the Georgetown chapter of the American Constitution Society, a nationwide legal organization that promotes the fundamental values of the U.S. Constitution.

A tuition freeze would make law school more accessible to people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, according to committee representative John Heflin (LAW ’20).

“You’re going to have more and more students from low income backgrounds, from more diverse backgrounds, who don’t have the financial means and resources to get into the system to get a law degree,” Heflin said. “I think that is going to have a very negative impact on the kinds of people who are, in 20 to 30 years, writing and deciding the laws.”

Full-time Georgetown J.D. tuition for the 2019-20 school year is $64,548, and the total estimated cost of attendance is $94,500, according to the resolution.

Law school tuition rates in the United States have risen steadily by between 3.5% and 4% per year for the past 20 years, according to the American Bar Association.

The Appropriations Committee conducted research last year on areas within the law school’s budget to cut back that would justify a smaller tuition increase, aiming for around 2%, according to Mogil. Georgetown Law tuition and fees for full-time J.D. students, however, increased by 3.7%, according to the university website.

After receiving the resolution, Treanor said he looks forward to further partnership with students in the

Georgetown Law community to address the most appropriate ways to keep tuition affordable.

“I am deeply committed to making a Georgetown Law education affordable for students from the broadest array of backgrounds, including our rapidly increasing cohort from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds,” Treanor wrote in a statement to The Hoya.

Treanor will meet with the SBA to discuss a range of topics Oct. 24 and will meet with specifically the Appropriations Committee to begin the annual budget cycle Nov. 1, according to Mogil.

While the university may not agree to a tuition freeze, the resolution will spur a necessary dialogue about the budget, according to law professor Anne Fleming, who served on the Appropriations Committee for the 2018-19 academic year.

“Although an outright tuition freeze may not be feasible, given the financial needs of the school, it will surely help in the Committee’s work to have a clear statement of the SBA’s views as the committee members delve into the details of the budget,” Fleming wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Mogil brought forward a similar resolution last year about rising tuition rates, but the SBA did not pass it, according to Mogil.

This year’s resolution focused on making demands that could realistically be passed by the administration, according to SBA president Melody Alemansour (LAW ’20).

“We at least want to make sure we’re taking healthy steps to move in the right direction, so this resolution calls for, at least at a baseline, more affordability and transparency,” Alemansour said. “The idea has been discussed since last year, but we had to figure out the right way to bring it forward.”

The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a resolution calling for the university to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day in place of the current mid-semester holiday at their weekly meeting Oct. 14.

The resolution, which was introduced by recently elected freshman senator Eric Lipka (COL ’23), passed the senate unanimously with two abstentions following 15 minutes of debate between senators. The measure comes months after the Native American Student Council submitted a petition to University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) in April 2019 calling for the same action to be taken.

The resolution will ideally encourage the university to take clear steps to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to Lipka.

“The message that I hope this will send to the administration is that tangible action needs to be taken. By not doing so, you further diminish this community, you don’t represent all Hoyas on campus,” Lipka said in an interview with The Hoya. “I think this is a good step in the right direction to bring visibility, bring recognition, respect, to this community that has not historically received that.”

Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first proposed in 1977 during a conference at the United Nations.

The indigenous individuals who proposed the change cited Columbus’ links to the genocide of Native Americans and other improprieties as reasons for the replacement of the holiday. Washington, D.C., 10 states and several U.S. cities currently recognize the new form of the celebration.

Georgetown University formally stopped recognizing Columbus Day two years ago, when the an-

nual holiday was changed to the current mid-semester holiday.

The District passed the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Emergency Declaration on Oct. 8 of this year, temporarily changing recognition of the holiday. It is a temporary, emergency declaration made to enable the D.C. Council to enact the declaration without Congressional approval, as is required with typical pieces of D.C. legislation.

Members of the NASC believes that a name change for the holiday would demonstrate Georgetown’s support of members of the indigenous community on campus, according to the group.

“Although a seemingly small feat, the impact of changing the narrative around Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples’ Day is critically important to us as Indigenous students at Georgetown University,” the group wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It brings a sense of hope and shows that the Georgetown community recognizes our existence, humanizes our struggles, and keeps us in their thoughts and actions.”

Lipka urged the university to formally recognize the new version of the holiday in a letter obtained by The Hoya that he delivered to DeGioia on Oct. 15.

Monday’s resolution is not the first time the GUSA senate has taken up the topic of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The current GUSA senate speaker, Juan Martinez (SFS ’20), also introduced a resolution two years ago calling on the university to change recognition of the holiday from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which passed unanimously, according to Lipka.

Freshman senator Eric Bazail Eimil (SFS ’23) was among a small group of senators who voiced concerns about the implications of the resolution. Columbus Day was originally intended to recognize Italian immigrants, according to NPR. Changing the name

would be an erasure of the Italian American experience, Bazail Eimil wrote.

“My caution was to remind senators that in pushing for the elimination of Columbus Day, we are inherently forgetting and diminishing the suffering of a different group of people,” Bazail Eimil wrote.

The Georgetown Native American Law Students Association also submitted a resolution to the Student Bar Association, the Law Center’s student advocacy organization, urging the Georgetown University Law Center to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to NALSA Vice President Kayla Gebeck (LAW ’20).

The resolution passed unanimously among SBA members Oct. 9, and NASLA plans to further petition the Law Center to implement the change, according to Gebeck.

The GUSA resolution is a positive step toward implementing Indigenous Peoples’ Day across the various Georgetown University campuses, Gebeck wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“The Georgetown Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) is very supportive of and stands with the GUSA Senate,” Gebeck wrote.

Changing the language of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a positive step towards a more inclusive environment for the indigenous community on campus and elsewhere, according to the NASC. “Renaming the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been a long-time goal of Native American Student Council (NASC), so we believe that this is a step in the right direction,” the NASC wrote. “It shows that the hard work from not only us and our allies in NASC, but from Indigenous students before us and those outside our organization, is starting to make a tangible impact on campus culture.”

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Kanye West Holds Surprise Performances at GW, Howard GABRIELLA RAPHAEL Special to The Hoya

Rapper Kanye West made unannounced visits to Howard University and The George Washington University, promoting his long-awaited upcoming album while sparking controversy on Saturday, Oct. 12.

His day began with a gospel rap “Sunday Service” performance at Howard, followed by a screening of his unreleased album documentary “Jesus Is King,” a visual film accompanied by West’s new music, at GW’s Lisner Auditorium. Also at GW, West played draft versions of songs from “Jesus is King,” which he said will be released Oct. 25.

West’s “Sunday Service” at The Yard at Howard was open to the public and drew hundreds of spectators.

Some attendees observed there were fewer attendees than had attended Yardfest, Howard’s annual homecoming weekend concert, the day prior, according to DCist.

Students reportedly received an email announcing the performance two hours before the show.

GW emailed its students at midnight the night before about the show and provided 150 free tickets to them as well.

However, word about the screening leaked on Twitter the night before, and users sold tickets to one another, according to attendee Shankar Thiru (COL ’22).

“We literally found tickets from a random Twitter user because everything was so sudden,” Thiru said in an interview with The Hoya.

West’s presence on Howard’s campus was met with mixed reactions. Some expressed excited about the visit, but others, such as Howard Afro-American Studies Department Chair Gregory Carr, condemned West and his message.

“If @kanyewest is indeed at #HowardU this morning, send him to the third floor of Founder’s Library after he’s done. I have some books for him. #TheMiseducationOfTheNegro,” Carr wrote in a tweet Saturday morning.

West has drawn ire for supporting President Donald Trump, which critics say does more to hurt black Americans than to help them. The rapper recently said at a “Sunday Service” event in Utah that making choices, particularly political ones, on the basis of race is “mental slavery” and has previously argued that slav-

ery was a choice.

West ended the “Sunday Service” by leading a chant: “13th Amendment, gonna end it,” according to DCist.

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, although is often cited as a contributing factor to mass incarceration, as it states that involuntary servitude is acceptable as punishment for a crime.

Kim Kardashian West and her and Kanye’s two oldest children, North and Saint, attended the show. Momolu Stewart and Halim Flowers, who were released from the D.C. Jail under the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act, also spoke at “Sunday Service.”

Kim Kardashian West wrote a letter in support of Stewart earlier this month that contributed to his release, according to The Washington Post.

Kanye’s visit to Washington, D.C., marks one year since his last time in the District in October 2018. Last year, West met with Trump and gave an impromptu speech on a table at the Georgetown Apple Store.

Attendees of the GW screening, including rapper Pusha T, watched the trailer and the uncut version of West’s IMAX documentary, heard samples off his new album and listened to him speak about his recent conversion to Christianity and read Bible verses.

Because viewers saw West

up close and listened to unreleased samples, it made for a unique but also secretive environment, according to attendee Matthew Joy (NHS ’22).

“The experience felt intimate because it was literally in a relatively small university auditorium,” Joy wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The fact that we have to lock our phones in pouches also added on to this experience because it made everyone so involved in the moment, which contrasts how concerts and events run nowadays with everyone on their phones constantly recording everything.”

West continued the gospel theme at GW, according to Joy. “The film Ye showed was also interesting because it was shot all in a circular lens and had very crisp vocals for all the songs led by the Sunday Service choir,” he wrote.

“One of the highlights of the event was a song in which everyone was humming/ singing along to this soccerlike chant and clapping along, very interactive and exciting experience for the whole crowd.”

Joy said that he appreciated the West family’s presence.

“I also loved the fact that Pusha T, Kim Kardashian, and all their kids were there,” he wrote. “The kids were also dancing on the stage during the film-screening which was extremely cute.”

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Kanye West performed unreleased samples from his upcoming album at The George Washington University on Oct. 12.

MOBY DICK HOUSE OF KABOB

After Moby Dick voluntarily suspended hummus sales in September, the Maryland Department of Health allowed the restaurant plant to resume hummus production.

33 Confirmed Cases of Salmonella Linked to Moby Dick Restaurants HENRY DANE

Special to The Hoya

D.C., Maryland and Virginia’s health departments have linked at least 33 recent cases of salmonella to hummus served at multiple Moby Dick House of Kabob locations.

Currently, the Maryland Department of Health reports 23 confirmed cases of salmonella, the Virginia Department of Health reports nine cases, and the D.C. Department of Health reports at least one case. The cases have been reported since Sept. 10 in Maryland, according to the MDH. After Moby Dick voluntarily suspended hummus sales in September, the MDH cleared the restaurant’s Hyattsville, Md., plant to resume hummus production Oct. 4.

Moby Dick is a Persian restaurant with a Georgetown location at 1070 31st St. NW, as well as 24 other storefronts across Maryland, Virginia and D.C. The manager of the Georgetown location declined to comment, and the company did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The company claims that no evidence supports a direct correlation between its hummus and the cases of salmonella, stating that tests performed by MDH on the hummus looking for the disease came back negative, according to WTOP. Eight of the nine initial customers who came down with salmonella reported eating the hummus, MDH said in a Sept.

26 news release. The hummus is still being investigated as a possible cause, according to MDH spokesperson Maureen Regan.

“Maryland Department of

Health has not excluded Moby Dick House of Kabob hummus as the source of this salmonella outbreak,” she wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The plant where Moby Dick produces its hummus has been inspected, improved and cleared to resume operations, Regan said.

“After a thorough inspection and review of food production practices by Moby Dick House of Kabob, and implementation of required corrective actions, the MDH Office of Food Protection approved Moby Dick House of Kabob to resume the manufacture of hummus,” Regan wrote.

The University of Maryland, College Park, has a Moby Dick restaurant located in a campus food court. Since beginning an investigation in late September, the university has confirmed 13 salmonella cases, according to The Diamondback.

Salmonella is a foodborne illness caused by infection of the salmonella bacterium that can be spread by both eating contaminated food and from person to person contact. Symptoms usually appear within six hours to four days, according to MDH. These symptoms can include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps, typically lasting four to seven days. Hospitalization from salmonella is possible among children, the elderly and individuals with weakened immune systems.

The process for confirming a case of salmonella linked to Moby Dick House of Kabob is thorough, according to Katherine McCombs, foodborne disease epidemiology program coordinator at VDH. “A confirmed case means

someone who certainly became ill with the symptoms of salmonella, who was exposed to the restaurant, and had a stool sample submitted that was tested for salmonella and further tested with a process called whole genome sequencing, and that was also positive and related to the other cases,” McCombs said in an interview with The Hoya.

Other probable cases of salmonella exist in Virginia but have not yet been confirmed by VDH tests.

“There have been a number of probable cases, and those are cases that would have had the symptoms of salmonella and would have had the exposure but probably did not have lab testing completed,” she said. “That number is still fluctuating.”

McCombs also emphasized that salmonella outbreaks are not distinct to Moby Dick House of Kabob.

“Every restaurant can have problems and every restaurant has the ability to practice food safety and reduce the possibility of foodborne illness,” she said.

“Salmonella is one of the most common bacterial foodborne illnesses. In Virginia we’ll have one to two thousand cases a year.”

The spread of salmonella is preventable, though, and McCombs recommends frequent hand-washing and practicing food safety, especially with chicken and eggs.

“I just really want to reiterate that if you feel sick with the symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting, fever, go to the doctor and submit a stool sample.” she said.

“Washing your hands is the best way to prevent getting an ill or prevent passing an illness onto someone else.”

Prioritize Youth Sports To Decrease PEP Organizes 3rd Reusable Gender Inequality, Pugh Says Menstrual Product Giveaway MOIRA RITTER Hoya Staff Writer

Supporting youth sports is crucial for overcoming gender inequity in athletics, U.S. Women’s National Team player Mallory Pugh said at a Lecture Fund event Oct. 9.

The event, “Women In Sports: With Mallory Pugh and Christine Brennan,” also featured USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan, who joined Pugh to discuss the state of gender equality in professional sports leagues.

The Caravel, Georgetown University Women in Leadership and Hoya Blue co-sponsored the event in Copley Formal Lounge.

The event was moderated

by Catherine Hill, executive director of the Women’s Legislators of Maryland, a bipartisan caucus that advocates for women’s issues.

Remedying gender inequity in the sports world begins with supporting developing athletes, according to Pugh, who also plays for the Washington Spirit.

“We’ve got to invest in the youth to build into this pro environment,” Pugh said. “I think the more you invest in us, the more you’re going to see and get results.”

Brennan agreed that encouraging girls’ and young women’s participation in sports is essential to promoting gender equity in the future.

“It is about growing your gain. It is about bringing young children into the sport,” Brennan said. “And,

frankly, it is about making sure the underserved gender is given even more incentive than ever to join that sport.”

In March, members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a federal classaction lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation alleging they are consistently paid less than the men’s team despite a much stronger performance record.

If both the men’s and women’s soccer teams played 20 exhibition games in a year, a top-tier women’s national team player would earn $164,320 less than a men’s national team player, according to the lawsuit.

Such pay inequity expands to sports beyond soccer, according to Hill.

“In the athletic world, the gaps are enormous,” Hill said. “They’re not a question of percentage. They’re a question of how many times more.”

The world’s 100 highestpaid athletes are all male.

Within certain sports, there are vast discrepancies in pay for men and women: the top Women’s National Basketball Association salary was $117,500 last season, compared with the top salary of $37.4 million in the National Basketball Association, according to Forbes.

Women’s professional sports leagues historically have trailed behind their male counterparts in viewership, which has led to lower wages for players and fewer opportunities for premier female athletes to grow, Bren-

nan said.

“That is an issue, I think, of pure capitalism. The NBA is a for-profit league. The WNBA is for-profit,” Brennan said. “I think everyone would like to see them make more money, but there is an issue there of what the market wants.”

In recent years, however, there has been a strong trend showing rising interest in women’s sports content, according to a 2018 Nielsen study on women’s sports engagement.

Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover Washington, D.C.’s NFL team as a staff writer at The Washington Post in 1985, according to her website.

Women should not be dissuaded from pursuing a career in traditionally maledominated fields, Brennan said.

“No one was going to stop me from doing what I loved,” Brennan said. “That is my number one piece of advice for each and every one of you.”

Although there is still progress to be made, the strides that the United States has made toward gender equality in athletics over the past generation and a half should be celebrated, according to Brennan.

“This has happened really in the blink of an eye in our nation’s history, and we should celebrate this,” Brennan said. “It’s an extraordinary change. Things don’t usually happen this fast.”

MADDIE BERRY

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The Period Empowerment Project will hold its third reusable menstrual product giveaway event next week featuring the handout of new reusable menstrual products and culminating with a dialogue-focused workshop.

Students, staff and faculty who complete the giveaway interest form by Oct. 18 will be entered to win one of 15 reusable cloth menstrual pads or one of 16 menstrual cups. Winners of the giveaway, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, will be announced over email Oct. 22. Recipients will be able to pick up their reusable menstrual product at the PEP Reusable Menstrual Product Workshop on Oct. 29 in St. Mary’s Hall.

The Reusable Menstrual Product Workshop will teach people about reusable menstrual products and create conversation around the challenges faced by students using these products while at college, including a lack of access to private bathrooms and laundry rooms, according to PEP’s CSJ Student Advisor Maddi Larmore (SFS ’22).

“I do know that the upcoming event is not merely a giveaway but more so a workshop and an opportunity to foster a dialogue here on campus about reusable menstrual products and the challenges that students wishing to use them on campus may experience in doing so,” Larmore wrote in an email to The Hoya.

This semester’s giveaway also includes different and more colorful reusable menstrual prod-

ucts than previous semesters, according to PEP co-president Lauren Russell (COL ’22).

PEP, which is a chapter of the international organization PERIOD, was created by students three years ago. The chapter held its first reusable menstrual product giveaway through a raffle in Red Square in fall 2018 as a part of PERIOD’s Cup & Cloth campaign. Last semester, PEP started using an online interest form for the product giveaway in an effort to reach a wider audience, according to PEP co-president Kate Freda (COL ’22).

Outside of the giveaway, PEP has worked with HoyaHub, an on-campus food pantry, and Community of Hope, a Washington, D.C-based organization that helps homeless individuals with housing and opportunities, over the last semester to provide packages of pads, tampons and panty liners to each organization.

Observing the waste associated with PEP regularly providing menstrual product packages inspired PEP to give students sustainable menstrual product options, Freda wrote.

“After seeing the amount of trash produced by assembling 200+ packages every month, we have been motivated to also provide a more sustainable and long-lasting option for Georgetown students,” Freda wrote in an email to The Hoya.

PEP aims to increase access to free menstrual products on campus through the giveaway while highlighting reusable menstrual products as environmental and less expensive alternatives to traditional menstrual

products, according to Freda.

“The goal of the giveaway specifically is to give the Georgetown community an opportunity to win and learn more about reusable menstrual products as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to traditional disposable products,” Freda wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The giveaway expands on PEP’s advocacy work around issues of menstrual justice and guaranteeing equal access to affordable menstrual products, according to CSJ Executive Director Andria Wisler.

“PEP has brought attention to the social justice issue of menstrual equity (also called menstrual justice) from the local ‘tampon tax’ to the global concern of access to safe, reliable, and affordable products,” Wisler wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Moving forward, menstrual justice can further be achieved at Georgetown by providing free access to menstrual products in all-gendered and nongendered bathrooms on campus and through destigmatizing conversations about menstruation, according to Freda.

“I would love to see a campus with regularly stocked, free sanitary products and disposal bins in bathrooms in academic and residential buildings, including products in every gender neutral bathroom and - at the least - one clearly marked men’s bathroom in every building,” Freda wrote. “I’d also love to see Georgetown get to the point where talking about periods is as normal as talking about how much sleep we are (or aren’t) getting.”

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Georgetown’s field hockey team continued its now seven-game losing streak with one home and two away losses last week against Temple University, Towson University and Saint Francis University.

The Hoyas (5-10, 1-3 Big East) faced the Temple Owls (5-6, 1-3 Big East) at home on Friday, Oct. 11 with a strong Friday afternoon crowd on Cooper Field. Freshman forward Ellie Maransky made a close on-goal shot in the first three minutes of the game that went just wide of the net. This missed opportunity left the Hoyas scoreless until junior back Anna Farley managed to find a goal for the Hoyas with only three minutes left in regulation play. This goal tied the game 1-1, as Temple’s midfielder Becky Gerhart had scored roughly 12 minutes into the game from directly in front of the goal.

In overtime, senior midfielder Michaela Bruno set up junior forward Cami Osborne for a goal, but it was stopped by the Owls. Temple scored in overtime at 2:04 remaining in the period, and Georgetown was unable to scrape together another goal to tie the game. The Owls emerged victorious, 2-1.

That Sunday, Georgetown travelled to Towson, Md. to face Towson (2-11, 0-1 conference) for another out-of-conference matchup. Before this matchup, the Towson Tigers were 1-11 overall despite a relatively weak schedule.

Once again, the Hoyas were led by Osborne, who scored two goals, bringing her total to six for the season.

After their initial goal in the 14th minute of the game, Towson scored again late in the fourth to take the game to overtime. Georgetown made more attempts on goal this game, outshooting Towson 12-9. The game extended to double overtime, where the Tigers won on a penalty stroke

goal to win the game 3-2. This outcome worsened the Hoyas’ record to 5-9 overall.

On Tuesday, Oct. 15, the Hoyas were on the road again in Loretto, Pa., to face the Saint Francis Red Flash (4-10, 1-3 Atlantic 10). The Hoyas attempted an impressive 27 shots this game, outshooting the Red Flash 27-10, but only managed to sink one in the fourth quarter.

Junior midfielder Jax van der Veen scored the gametying goal for the Hoyas, her first goal of the year. This late goal was just enough to push them to overtime after Saint Francis’ single goal scored early in the first quarter. This equalizer pushed them once again to another overtime game. Saint Francis scored with four minutes left to go in overtime, and

Georgetown was unable to sink a game-tying goal, resulting in another 2-1 overtime loss.

Osborne has been a leading force on the field this season with, as she has the most goals of any Hoya this season. Osborne scored nine goals on 42 shots last season, pacing the Hoyas’ offense in the process.

This week, the Hoyas have two more games which will make up the end of their regular season as their losing streak currently sits at seven. They will play Big East teams Liberty University, Providence College and the University of Connecticut over the next few weeks to wrap up conference play, with the first game taking place against Liberty, on Cooper Field Friday, Oct. 18.

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Senior forward Lindsay Getz shields the ball from a defender as she advances the ball toward the goal in a recent game.

Hoyas Place 10th at Jen Harris Women’s Showcase Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s sailing team competed in the Jen Harris Women’s Showcase Finals over homecoming weekend Oct. 12 and 13 and finished 10th in a field of 18 boats. The regatta was hosted by Navy in the Severn River.

Georgetown finished the day in the middle of the pack and stayed there throughout Sunday to finish in 10th place. Sunday, however, brought much less appealing conditions for the races. A light and shifty easterly wind failed to be strong enough to fulfill a full day of racing, and the regatta was stopped

Georgetown Boats Perform Well in Season Opener TIAN SHI

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The Hoyas had a strong start to their season at the Navy Day Regatta, with the four- and eight-member boats seeing success, setting the team up well for the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.

prematurely. Brown University came in first place with 114 total points. Yale came in second with 126, and Harvard in third at 135. Georgetown finished with a total of 184, putting the team in 10th place for the weekend.

An 8 to 12 knot southeasterly wind filled sails all afternoon, resulting in a significantly lower degree of difficulty on the course than the team had expected.

This course was familiar for the Hoyas, as Georgetown races at events hosted

by Navy most years, though they generally are qualifiers or the actual competition for the Laser South and Navy Women’s Open.

The Hoyas raced two boats

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The Hoyas sailed speedily during the Jen Harris Women's Showcase, taking advantage of favorable winds throughout.

in the regatta. The first was skippered by senior Gwynie Dunlevy and crewed by junior Marley Mais for the first six races. For the last four races, the first boat changed personnel, and sophomore Riley Kloc became skipper while Dunlevy moved to crew. This boat came in 14th in the first division.

Georgetown was the only school in the first division to change its racers between the races of that division this weekend. Stanford, however, did make a change in the second division, competing against different opponents but still recording a good enough score to compete with the event’s elite teams.

The second Georgetown boat was skippered by junior Carly Broussard and crewed by sophomore Victoria Boatwright. Broussard and Boatwright claimed fifth in their division.

Racing kicked off Saturday to unexpectedly pleasant conditions, with the wind being stronger than the forecast had indicated, to go with reasonable temperatures and no precipitation.

The Inter-collegiate Sailing Association’s writeup of the event noted the teams’ good fortune in the face of a forecast that promised a substantial amount of rain.

“The forecast has never been more wrong in a favorable way,” the ICSA said.

While this may not be the result that the Hoyas were hoping for, they have a shot at redemption in two weeks at the MAISA Women’s Championships in St. Mary’s City, Md. The coed team, on the other hand, has a regatta this upcoming weekend. They will race at the Coed Showcase Finals hosted by Connecticut College on Oct. 19 and 20.

In its first race of the season, the Georgetown University women’s rowing team found success on the Schuylkill river, winning both the openweight 4+ and the freshman/novice 4+, and having three boats finish in the top four for the openweight races. This season opener took place in Philadelphia on Saturday, Oct. 13, with more than 30 crews on the water.

Starting the day, the varsity boat placed first in the openweight 4+ race, with a time of 14:54.92. This squad consisted of sophomore coxswain Caroline Sterman, junior stroke Mia Tsudis, senior Caroline O’Brien, freshman Bailyn Prichett and freshman bow Francesca Donovan.

Next on the water was the women’s lightweight 4+. The Hoyas came second with a time of 15:56.30. The crew consisted of senior Michelle Choi, sophomore Hannah Weingartner, senior Anna Kemmerer and freshman Maya Smith. Finishing 22.02 seconds behind the first-place finishers, composed of rowers from Vesper Boat Club and Pennsylvania Athletic Club, the lightweight squad set a good foundation for the rest of the season by defeating the boats from La Salle and Fairfield handily.

The next three JV 8+ boats

raced in the late morning, with all three boats finishing in the top six of the race. The Hoyas’ A boat finished the course in 14:14.63 minutes, 14.75 seconds behind first place. The boat had freshman Sophia Cullinan as coxswain, freshman Rachel Green as stroke and freshman Ella Petreski, senior Cait Hagan, sophomore Jessica York, freshman Fiona Wardrop, senior Angela Glazer, junior Maggie Taaffe and freshman Josie O’Brien in bow.

As a majority-underclassmen boat, this second-place finish set expectations for the future since the young team competed well, with the top boat finishing within 15 seconds of Penn’s boat and two of the three boats defeating the opposition from Villanova and Temple.

The Hoyas’ B boat finished 24.61 seconds later, crossing the finish line at 14:39.24. The rowers in this boat were sophomore stroke Claire Miller, junior Taylor Villante, senior Elisabeth O’Brien, freshman Alexandra Kosobucki, sophomore Sanna Ten Cate, sophomore Maddox Angerhofer, senior Isabel Rose and senior Carly Glickenhaus.

The Hoyas’ C boat finished with similar success in sixth place out of sixteen, with a time of 14:51.09, beating out Navy by 14 seconds after being neck and neck with the Midshipmen for large portions of

the race. Junior coxswain Schylar Jacobs headed the boat, with senior Isabella Hershey, sophomore Erica Arnold, sophomore Abigail Sauvigne, sophomore Helena Jensen, junior Caroline Moffatt, sophomore Caroline Hecht, junior Leigh Bianchi and freshman Madeleine Macy.

The open 4x race in the early afternoon yielded promising results for Georgetown’s A boat and B boat, too. The two boats finished 15:23.76 and 15:24.90 for second and third place. The next race, the women’s open 8+, also yielded good results for the Hoyas. Both Georgetown crews finished in the top five out of 30 teams. The A boat crossed the line at 13:34.46 in second place, 23.62 seconds behind the first-place boat, with the B boat finishing fifth at 13:53.21.

The B boat was not only the best of all of the B boats in that competition, but they also defeated the A boats from some strong programs, most notably Temple, Delaware and St. Joseph’s.

In the last race of the day, the Georgetown freshman/novice 4+ finished first, racing at 1:38 p.m.

This all-freshmen boat crossed the line at 16:04.00, fending off 12 other teams and leaving 40 seconds between itself and its closest contender.

The Hoyas race this weekend in Boston for the Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 19 and 20.

TAILGATES AND TRADITIONS

SEC’s First Upset Creates Ripples Throughout Nation

James Travis Complete shock is the only way to describe how I felt after watching the University of Georgia, a team I have supported for as long as I can remember, lose this week, and I am sure others would agree with that sentiment.

The University of South Carolina’s win against Georgia is huge for the program. It is the biggest win of Will Muschamp’s tenure as head coach of the Gamecocks.

A game this weekend against No. 9 University of Florida will determine whether or not that win was the sign of a program emergent or if it was just a fluke.

Though I personally lean to the latter, given South Carolina’s performance in their other matchups, I would only be marginally surprised if I am proved wrong.

No. 3 Georgia lost to unranked South Carolina in double overtime — the Bulldogs’ first loss of the season and the first major upset with College Football Playoff implications. This loss was by far the biggest news of week seven of Southeastern Conference football. After this week, Georgia has dropped to No. 10 in the rankings and eliminated its margin of error. While it can afford another loss, it must beat Florida to make the SEC championship. The Bulldogs cannot maintain their playoff implications with any more than two wins, and the second would most likely be No. 11 Auburn University. While a two-loss SEC champion might make the playoffs, a one-loss SEC champion certainly would.

Transitioning to the week’s other influential matchups, Florida lost to No. 2 Louisiana State

University in an exciting game that cemented LSU quarterback Joe Burrow as the Heisman frontrunner. After this week, LSU looks dominant as it goes on to play Auburn and No. 1 University of Alabama back to back. Those two games should be the key to determining the eventual SEC West champion.

Auburn must win its games against Georgia and Florida, along with the rest of its SEC games, if it wants to represent the division in the SEC Title game by keeping pace with favorites LSU and Alabama. Assuming both go otherwise unbeaten, which it looks like they will after strong starts to the season with their quarterbacks and weak remainders in their schedule, LSU and Alabama can both afford one loss, as long as they beat the other. The week 11 game between them will likely determine the divisional winner.

The second tier of the SEC features Alabama’s asserting the gap between them and the rest of the conference by soundly defeating Texas A&M University. This result has dropped Texas A&M out of the rankings, eliminating any chance of a championship appearance. Mississippi State University was defeated by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a game that had firstyear coach Joe Moorhead describe his performance with “I did suck.”

While he might have a bright future at MSU, his present status is pretty murky after this season.

While these two teams fell, University of Missouri defeated the University of Mississippi to rise to No. 22 in the rankings, which has potentially set the Tigers up for an SEC East title bid. However, the teams it has beaten are not exactly top contenders, and late season games against Georgia and Florida will determine if Missouri a valid threat. A loss against the University of Wyoming at the beginning of the season makes that doubtful.

In a battle of teams still looking for a second win, Vanderbilt University lost to the University of

Nevada, Las Vegas. In case anyone was still wondering, Vanderbilt is not a good team and will not make it a bowl game like it did last year.

Looking further down the standings, the University of Kentucky defeated the University of Arkansas as both teams seek to scrap their way to a bowl game.

Arkansas’ prospects look dim, as it will need to pull some major upsets if it wants a shot. Even though Kentucky is not a very good team as indicated by its 1-3 record, it does have enough easy games that it should win. As long as the team lives up to its modest potential, it should make a lesser bowl. Another team trying desperately to reach that sixth win is Ole Miss. It has a shot, but it must win against Texas A&M and Mississippi State. It will be hard but far from impossible.

The major game this weekend will be South Carolina vs. Florida.

Florida should be the winner, but South Carolina will seek to pull another top 10 upset. The South Carolina defense is tough, as was proven against Georgia, and may prove too much for Florida quarterback Kyle Trask, who is still settling into the starting role after only a few weeks under center.

The big game the following weekend will be LSU vs. Auburn.

LSU looks too dominant to doubt, though, and it should comfortably pull off the win. Auburn will always have the potential, however, for some magical wins as long as Gus Malzahn is the head coach. It can definitely win the game, and it must if it has playoff ambitions.

While the Gamecocks’ triumph over Georgia sent major waves of chaos throughout the SEC, there are still plenty of key matchups this weekend, which will have major implications for the playoff contenders of the conference.

James Travis is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

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Hoyas’ Winning Streak Ends at 4 FORDHAM, from A12

sophomore forward Boo Jackson in the 28th minute to secure a 1-0 lead. Carolan successfully struck again in the 32nd minute, this time off an assist from Jackson and senior midfielder Carson Nizialek. The pair of goals moved Carolan into the fourth spot on Georgetown’s all-time scoring list and sent the Hoyas to the locker room with a 2-0 lead at the half.

Georgetown attacked the Providence defensive line from the start of the second half. The Hoyas tallied 10 shots in the first 30 minutes before landing a third goal in the 75th minute. Menta received the ball in the box after a shot by Germino-Watnick was deflected by the Providence keeper, passing the ball into the back of the net.

Germino-Watnick put the game away with a goal of her own off an assist by Jackson in the 85th minute, leading Georgetown to a 4-0 victory.

On the day, the Hoyas recorded 21 total shots, with 14 on net as compared to the Friars’ six, two of which were on frame. The shutout marks Georgetown’s eighth of the season. Moreover, Georgetown has not lost a Big East matchup since 2017, recording its 15th-straight conference victory.

Leat earned the titles of Big East Goalkeeper of the Week and Freshman of the Week for her fifth and sixth shutouts of the season, as she has been absolutely instrumental to the team’s success thus far. Carolan and Nally were also recognized on the Weekly Honor Roll for their performances in the Villanova and Providence games.

Georgetown returns home Thursday to host Xavier University. The Hoyas faced the Musketeers twice last year, tying 0-0 through double overtime in their first meeting and winning 3-1 in the Big East tournament. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Shaw Field.

teams exchanging touchdowns until the final seconds. Both teams scored on their opening possessions in the second half, but Georgetown again failed to score on the point after trying, leaving the score at 23-21. The Hoyas reclaimed the lead at the beginning of the fourth quarter as Moultrie ran in another touchdown to finish a 70-yard drive.

The Hoyas went for two again but once again did not convert.

After a series of short possessions, senior defensive back Leon Agee was able to grab an interception, giving the Hoyas the ball back with three minutes left in the game and the lead. Georgetown was unable to run out the clock, however, as the Hoyas turned the ball over on downs on the Rams’ 26-yard line after getting stopped short on fourthand-two.

Fordham drove down the field and was able to score the go-ahead touchdown with just 16 seconds left on the clock. Georgetown did not manage to pull off any last second heroics, losing 30-27.

Georgetown set the school record in yards of total offense against a Patriot League opponent with 525 total yards of the over 900 yards of offense in total from the game.

Georgetown’s next game is also at home on Saturday, Oct. 19, against Lafayette (0-6, 0-0 Patriot League). Last year, the Hoyas were victorious against the Leopards, winning 13-6. recorded two more shots before Georgetown responded with its first in the 25th minute. Despite the few opportunities to start the first half, the Hoyas soon found several offensive chances as they recorded seven shots in the first half to the Friars’ four.

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The Georgetown passing offense had a great performance against Fordham, recording more than 13 yards per attempt.

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goalkeeper to make another impressive save.

In the 90th minute, the Hoyas finally broke through and doubled their lead courtesy of another goal from Achara. Seton Hall’s goalkeeper misplayed a pass that Achara intercepted. From there, Achara had an easy finish into the empty net, giving the Hoyas a 2-0 victory.

The Hoyas outshot the Pirates 26-4, and Nikopolidis earned the win in net with his second shutout of the season.

After the victory over Seton Hall, Georgetown traveled to College Park to face defending national champion Maryland (64-2, 1-1-2 Big Ten) in the Hoyas’ final nonconference game of the season.

Early on, it became clear that this would be a tough test for Georgetown as Maryland had the first chance of the game. Freshman goalkeeper Tomas Romero made a good save on a shot from a Terrapin attacker as he pushed the ball over the crossbar.

In the 21st minute, the Hoyas had their first solid chance of the game. Dodson hit a shot that was well-blocked by a Terrapin defender. However, the rebound bounced to graduate student and forward Ethan Lochner, whose ensuing shot was blocked on the goal line by another Terps defender.

Late in the first half, Maryland had a golden opportunity to take the lead, catching some Hoyas out of position to get a great look on net. Maryland midfielder Da-

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Senior midfielder Dylan Nealis looks for an open teammate on the throw-in. Nealis recorded two shots during the Hoyas’ victory at Maryland, with one of those shots being on goal. vid Kovacic had a diving header that beat Romero but went just over the crossbar, so the game went to half scoreless.

Early in the second half, Georgetown began to dictate play and created the majority of the chances. Achara had a strong run down the center of the pitch and shot from the top corner of the box, forcing the Terps goalkeeper to make a good save. Moments later, Sands hit a shot on net that was cleared right off the goal line by a Terps defender. The referee then promptly stopped play and checked the video replay to see if the ball did cross the goal line.

However, the ball was stopped just short, confirming there was no goal.

In the 65th minute, the Hoyas were finally able to break the deadlock. Sophomore midfielder Zach Riviere broke into space in the midfield and played a perfect ball out wide to junior midfielder Paul Rothrock. Rothrock then played a cross into the box and found Achara, who settled the ball perfectly into the path of a sprinting Dodson. Dodson finished the combination play with a strong finish into the back of the net, giving the Hoyas a 1-0 lead.

The remaining 25 minutes were a bit of a dicey affair for Georgetown as both Georgetown and Maryland traded chances on opposite ends, keeping fans of both teams on the edge of their

seats. Maryland had one final effort on target but Romero came up big once again to preserve the shutout and give the Hoyas a 1-0 victory.

Georgetown outshot Maryland 16-5 and had 10 corners to Maryland’s three. With his two saves in net, Romero earned his fifth win and fourth shutout of the year. This game concluded the Hoya’s nonconference schedule in which they finished a robust 7-1-0, with the Georgetown focusing on Big East opponents for the remainder of the regular season.

Next up, Georgetown will host Xavier University at Shaw Field in a Big East matchup Saturday, Oct.19, at 1 p.m.

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GU Storms Back Late, Ties Bluejays XAVIER, from A12

by senior defender Meaghan Nally, who fell in behind Leat to clear the ball away.

Few opportunities presented themselves for either side in the remainder of the half until Xavier found the back of the net in the last five minutes of play. The goal came from inside the box after Leat stepped out of the net. The Musketeer offense powered the ball past Leat on the right side to put themselves within one goal of the Hoyas. Despite the late goal, however, the Musketeers failed to find an equalizer in the remaining minutes of the half, resulting in a 2-1 victory for the Hoyas.

The late goal by Xavier broke the Georgetown defense’s 530-minute scoreless streak that spanned over five matches and marks the first Big East goal conceded by Georgetown this season.

The Musketeers outshot the Hoyas on the day, tallying 10 shots with three on goal to the Hoyas’ four, all of which were on net for Georgetown. This outcome marks only the third time this season that an opponent has outshot Georgetown, with the other opponents being Duke University and the University of Virginia. Georgetown’s four shots also represent a season low, yet the quality of the shots was high enough to earn the victory.

The Musketeers earned six cor-

ner kicks to the Hoyas’ two, and both keepers recorded two shots on the day. The win for Georgetown marks its seventh straight victory and its 15th straight Big East win.

To finish out the week, Georgetown hosted the Creighton Bluejays (7-5-2, 1-2-2 Big East) on Sunday. The game opened in favor of the Hoyas, with the Blue and Gray offense tallying two shots and two corner kicks before the Bluejays had any opportunity on net.

Creighton kicked off the scoring in the 18th minute with a shot from the top of the box that landed in the left corner of the goal. The Bluejays then struck again in the 42nd minute with a goal off a free kick.

Heading into the second half down by two, it did not take the Hoyas long to challenge the Bluejay defense. The Blue and Gray put up seven shots in the opening 20 minutes of the half before notching a goal in the 64th minute. Freshman midfielder Julia Leas powered a header off a corner by Jackson into the net for the Hoyas’ first goal.

Georgetown soon earned the equalizer in the 73rd minute as freshman forward Sofie Fox capitalized off a deflected shot from senior forward Paula Germino-Watnick following Carolan’s cross into the box.

The match went on through double overtime, totaling 110

minutes of play, to end in a 2-2 tie. Georgetown outshot Creighton with 22 shots, nine on goal, to Creighton’s 11, seven on frame. The Hoyas also tallied 13 corner kicks to the Bluejays’ three. While not an outright

victory, a draw keeps the Hoyas undefeated in conference play.

Georgetown will next head to Indianapolis to face Butler University in a Big East matchup Sunday, Oct. 20, with kickoff slated for 1 p.m.

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Senior Paula Germino-Watnick continued her phenomenal season last weekend, recording a key assist against Creighton.

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USA World Cup Collapse a Sign of Times GILLIGAN, from A12

of a few years ago to represent the bulk of talent across the league and the most successful team in international competition. At the international tournaments where Team USA puts out their best roster, mainly the Olympics, the country has been definitively dominant. Since FIBA started allowing NBA players to participate in the Olympics in 1989, Team USA has won every gold medal, except for a single hiccup at the 2004 Athens Olympic games.

In the past couple of years, however, the NBA has seen the biggest influx of foreign players in its history. Not only are more international players coming into the league, they are succeeding at a high rate. If anyone doubted this, then the 2019 NBA awards truly solidified the place of foreign stars in the league. Giannis Antetokounmpo of Greece won MVP, Rudy Gobert of France won the defensive player of the year award, Luka Doncic of Slovenia won the rookie of the year award and Pascal Siakam of Cameroon won the most improved player award. Never before had international players collectively dominated the end of the season

awards, but it demonstrated the league’s transition from a domestic competition to a largely international one.

The Sports Illustrated Top 100 players going into the 2019-20 season included 15 players from outside of the United States in the top 50. Not to mention, three international players appeared in the top 10: Nikola Jokic at No. 8, Joel Embiid at No. 7 and Antetokounmpo at No. 1. International players are undoubtedly taking the league by storm, but at least in the short term, but this change does not portend a disappearance of American dominance at the Olympic stage anytime soon. For the time being, American players are still at the forefront of the NBA, with local fans of most teams still being able to look at their team’s brightest stars and see a fellow American.

For the time being, young international players seem to be the future of the NBA. With Doncic winning rookie of the year, not to mention Deandre Ayton coming in third place, the sophomores already have their presence from overseas. The rookie class also has an incredible presence of players from outside of the U.S. In fact, nine of the players taken in the first round are from overseas, in-

cluding two in the top 10: RJ Barrett at No. 3 and Rui Hachimura at No. 9. With the addition of countless international talents each year, the NBA is inevitably going to change.

Assuming Team USA has a roster of its strongest players at the 2020 Olympics, they should expect to win the tournament behind the likes of Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Stephen Curry, James Harden and Lebron James, as the United States still boasts more All-Star and All-NBA caliber players than any other country.

However, the 2024 Olympics could be a different story with most of the aforementioned American stars likely being too old to play at a high enough level for the Olympics. In summary, the future of the NBA seems to be international despite American rising stars such as Zion Williamson, Devin Booker and Anthony Davis.

Stylistically, the game of basketball has evolved to suit the international play style more than ever. The physical, “bully ball” style of play from the ’90s and early 2000s is outdated nowadays with defensive hand checks being illegal and big men drawing foul calls more frequently than in earlier eras. With the refs blowing

their whistles at such a high rate to protect the players, the finesse game, emphasizing crafty lay ups and dribble moves, played by many of the international players, is much more sustainable with decreased injury risk from the playing styles of a younger Blake Griffin or Deandre Jordan. While international finesse players such as Jokic, Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis succeed more than ever in today’s league, physical bruisers in the paint such as Bill Laimbeer or Charles Oakley would have no place in the current game.

It will not be too long before the Sports Illustrated Top 100 players is going to have more international players than American players in its list. So one can only wonder if Olympic basketball will ever see the dominance of the ’92 Dream Team or the ’08 Redeem Team ever again. While Team USA still will boast more All-Stars than any other nation in the 2020 Olympic competition, other countries are producing a new generation of stars that are affecting the NBA and international basketball competitions more than ever before.

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Men’s Soccer Georgetown (10-1-1) vs. Xavier (5-5-1) Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m.

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FIELD HOCKEY The Hoyas dropped games to Temple, Towson and Saint Francis as their losing streak reached seven games.

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Goals scored by women’s soccer’s Carson Nizialek against Xavier.

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GU Maintains Clean Hoyas Take Down Pirates and Terrapins Record in Big East DREW SEWALL Hoya Staff Writer

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The No. 12 Georgetown men’s soccer team completed a successful homecoming weekend, beating Seton Hall University on Oct. 11 on Shaw Field and taking down No. 25 University of Maryland, College Park, on Oct. 14 on the road.

Continuing Big East play, the Hoyas (10-1-1, 3-0-1 Big East) hosted the Pirates (5-5-0, 2-2-0 Big East) on Shaw Field. In the eighth minute, senior forward Achara had the first major chance for the Hoyas as he beat two Pirates defenders down the left wing to get into the box. His shot went just outside the far post, however, so the game remained scoreless.

As the half wore on, the Hoyas

continued to control possession but were unable to generate many looks on net. Their best chance came in the 20th minute when a cross was whipped in toward junior midfielder Jacob Montes, who was unmarked in the box. However, his header went straight at the goalkeeper, making it an easy save.

With less than five minutes left in the first half, Seton Hall began to see more of the ball, which put Georgetown’s defense under pressure. They won a few corners but the Hoyas’ defense held strong and prevented the Pirates from having any substantial looks on goal, leaving the game scoreless at the half.

The Hoyas opened the second half aggressively in the first few minutes as freshman forward

Will Sands forced the Pirates’ goalkeeper to make a diving save after Sands received a cross from junior midfielder Jack Beer.

Moments later, the Hoyas got on the scoreboard courtesy of Achara’s second goal of the season. Beer hit a shot on the net that was bobbled by the Pirates’ goalkeeper. Achara got to the rebound first and beat a few defenders before completing an easy finish to give the Hoyas a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute.

In the 55th minute, Seton Hall had its first good look on goal off a quick counterattack. This counterattack resulted in a header from six yards out that forced sophomore goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis to make a diving save at his far post, which he did successfully.

The second half was noticeably more violent than the first, and the game began to become much more physical. This intensity culminated in the 60th minute when a Seton Hall player received a red card for a bad challenge, resulting in Georgetown’s playing a man up for the remaining 30 minutes.

After the red card, the Hoyas dominated play and looked likely to double their lead. In the 72nd minute, Montes showed some strong skills as he beat multiple Pirates defenders to get in on net, but his shot hit the side netting from a tight angle. Junior forward Derek Dodson also had a shot from 18 yards out a few minutes later that forced the Pirates See MARYLAND, A11

Sophomore defender Jenna Royson advances the ball down the right sideline in a recent home game against Creighton.

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No. 10 Georgetown beat Xavier University at Shaw Field on Thursday before tying Creighton University on Sunday at the homestand, keeping the Hoyas undefeated in the Big East.

The Musketeers challenged the Hoya defense from the whistle, recording five shots, one of which was on goal. They also recorded two corner kicks to the Hoyas’ one shot on goal in the first 21 minutes of play.

Despite a lack of offensive opportunity at the beginning of play, the Blue and Gray (10-2-2, 4-0-1 Big East) earned a promising chance on net when sophomore forward Boo Jackson was fouled in the box to draw a penalty in the 25th minute. Senior midfielder Carson Nizialek took to the pen-

alty mark and successfully slotted the ball past the Musketeers’ (103-2, 3-2-0 Big East) keeper to put the Hoyas up 1-0.

In the 40th minute, Nizialek was given the ball at the penalty mark again after the Xavier defense tripped graduate forward Amanda Carolan in the box. Nizialek found the back of the net once again, giving the Hoyas a 2-0 lead at halftime. The two goals mark Nizialek’s first and second of the season.

The Musketeers responded to the pair of penalty kicks with offensive pressure in the second half, leading to a promising opportunity in the 48th minute when the ball was slotted past freshman keeper Anna Leat, who came off her line. The opportunity was quickly shut down, however, See XAVIER, A11

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Junior defender Rio Hope-Gund looks to clear the ball out of danger using his head. Hope-Gund has started all 12 matches for the Hoyas so far this season, helping anchor a solid Georgetown defense that has not allowed a goal in their four most recent matches.

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Georgetown Blows Lead to Fordham AUSTIN BARISH

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Georgetown’s football team lost in the final seconds to the Fordham Rams in its first Patriot League game of the season on Shaw Field this past Saturday.

The game was a battle of two high-powered offenses, but the Hoya defense was unable to stop the Rams when it mattered most, with the game on the line in the final minutes of play.

The Hoyas (4-2, 0-1 Patriot League) entered the game on a hot streak, having won four straight games. Georgetown’s defense had been on a tear, letting up no more than 10 points in those four victories. Georgetown had also yet to lose since implementing their two-quarterback

system, alternating quarterbacks situationally, against Marist (5-6, 5-3 Pioneer Football League). The Hoyas now have both the No. 1 offense and defense in the Patriot League.

Fordham (3-4, 1-0 Patriot League) entered the game with a record of 2-4, having dropped their most recent game to Yale (3-1, 1-1 Ivy League). Last time Fordham played Georgetown, the Hoyas emerged victorious by a final score of 23-11 on the road.

The Hoyas wasted no time in getting their offense going. On the first play from scrimmage, senior quarterback Gunther Johnson connected with senior wide receiver Michael Dereus on an 81-yard bomb that put the Hoyas on the 1-yard line. Georgetown punched the ball into the

endzone on the next play with a handoff to freshman wide receiver Dorrian Moultrie.

Special teams, between field goals, punting and kickoffs played a big factor in the fate of the game. Near the end of the first quarter, Fordham tied the game at 6-6 on a touchdown pass. The tie ended briefly, however, as senior defensive lineman Khristian Tate blocked the extra point attempt and junior defensive back Cameron Deen returned it for two points.

Sophomore linebacker Justin Fonteneaux had another outstanding game, earning his second-straight Patriot League Honorable Mention selection. He finished with 13 tackles, a forced fumble and an interception. His interception put the Hoyas in

an advantageous field position, which lead to a 16-yard touchdown run by Johnson that gave the Hoyas a 15-6 lead at the start of the second quarter.

Fordham was able to even the game up, however, with their special teams play. Fordham’s junior kicker Andrew Mevis hit a 46-yard field goal to bring the score to 15-9. On Georgetown’s next position, Georgetown went three-and-out and had their punt blocked. Fordham recovered the blocked punt on the Georgetown 18-yard line, quickly scoring a touchdown; this score would be the last before halftime, when Fordham led 16-15.

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Senior quarterback Gunther Johnson scans the defense while carrying the ball upfield agaisnt Fordham. Against the Rams, Johnson completed 13 of 17 passes for 280 yards to go with 14 carries for 81 rushing yards and two touchdowns on the ground.

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Shane Gilligan

Global Standouts Set To Continue League Takeover The basketball world was turned on its head last summer when Team USA was eliminated from the World Cup of the International Basketball Federation — known as FIBA, from its French name Federation Internationale de Basketball — in the quarterfinals by France after more than a decade of dominance in international competition. This game raised a lot of questions about the future of basketball. Many began to wonder whether Team USA was going to be able to continue to dominate international tournaments and whether international players were going to take over the National Basketball Association.

To be fair, the Team USA squad at the FIBA World Cup only featured two All-Stars. Most of the top talent in the NBA elected to sit out of the tournament because they believed it was not prestigious enough to risk injury before the NBA season started. This boycotting comes after American NBA superstar Paul George suffered a historically gruesome injury competing for Team USA in the summer of 2014. Nonetheless, the team’s performance was still eye-opening as it seems as though the

future of basketball is international.

The rise of international players in the league is a relatively new phenomenon. Going back 30 years, only a handful of international players were in the league, the most notable player being Patrick Ewing, who hails from Jamaica, and Hakeem Olajuwon, who hails from Nigeria. However, the late 1980s saw an influx of talent from Eastern Europe, including Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovic and Toni Kukoc. This sudden increase in foreign players in the league increased the popularity of the sport throughout the world and showed that anyone can make it, regardless of the competition against which one grows up playing.

Since then, more and more international players have come through the league. Players like Olajuwon, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki have seen immense success in the NBA with a combined four MVP awards and three NBA championships between them.

Despite their individual successes as well as a sustained increase in foreign NBA players, American players still seemed as See GILLIGAN, A11