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EDITORIAL Georgetown must amend its Title IX standards for a more just process.

ELEVATOR FAILURE Elevators in Reynolds and Darnall have dropped with students inside them.

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GU Continues University Equalizes Faculty Parental Leave 5-Month Title IX A month after petition, non-tenure-line faculty eligible for full benefits Coordinator Search RILEY ROGERSON Hoya Staff Writer

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months,” a university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The Title IX CoorThe hiring process for a dinator is critical to GeorgeTitle IX coordinator is still in town’s efforts addressing sexprogress nearly five months ual assault and misconduct after Laura Cutway’s June de- and the university is commitparture, with one round of in- ted to finding a highly qualiterviews, including a student fied individual to serve our panel, comcampus complete. munity.”

Student Given the leaders and timeline so administrafar, remaintors say the ing interappointment views, demay not take liberations place until and the hirthe spring ing process semester, could potenleaving the tially push university the official without a start of a Title IX coornew Title IX dinate for at coordinator ROSEMARY KILKENNY least seven to spring, VP for Institutional Diversity and Equity months. Saaccording to mantha BerKory Stuer ner has served as interim (COL ’19), who served on the Title IX coordinator, in addi- student panel. tion to continuing in her role As part of the daylong as Title IX investigator, since interview process for each Cutway left the position un- candidate, which took place announced. throughout October, a panel “On average, the process of five to six mostly underto recruit, interview, hire, graduate students convened and onboard highly quali- to conduct hourlong interfied higher education lead- views. ers in roles that require expertise can last between 6-12 See TITLE IX, A6 Hoya Staff Writer

“Student voices are imperative in shaping how our campus community addresses sexual assault and misconduct.”

Full-time non-tenure-line faculty will be eligible for expanded/equal parental leave, effective immediately, Georgetown University announced Thursday night.

The announcement comes after petitions from both faculty and students supporting the measure.

Last month, 282 individuals signed a petition for equal parental leave for both tenured and full-time nontenure-line faculty.

Before the university expanded leave, tenure-line faculty members were entitled to paid semesterlong maternal and paternal leave, while full-time non-tenure-line faculty members were entitled to eight weeks of paid maternity leave under a “short-term disability” classification.

“I am pleased to report that effective immediately Full Time Nontenure Line Faculty (FTNTL) on the Main Campus who will be the primary caregiver of a child (who is in the first year of life or newly homed child of five or younger) will be eligible for New Parent Leave,” Provost Robert Groves wrote in an email to the faculty Thursday afternoon.

More details about the policy expansion are set to be released in the coming days, according to Groves.

Professor Astrid Weigert, chair of the Joint Main Campus Committee on Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Issues, delivered the petition to University Vice President and Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara on

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Georgetown expanded parental leave for full-time non-tenure-line faculty Thursday evening. The announcement comes after students delivered a resolution to University Vice President Joe Ferrara on Thursday morning.

Oct. 12. The committee requested that the “issue be resolved” by the end of the semester, according to Weigert.

Student activism followed the faculty petition: Representatives from the Georgetown Univer-

‘A Crazy Idea’: Alum Wins in State Senate ELIZABETH ASH AND WILL CROMARTY Hoya Staff Writers

Will Haskell (COL ’18) knew his political ambitions were far from the norm when he chose to run for office at the age of 22.

“It was sort of a crazy idea to run,” Haskell said. “But behind that crazy idea was [one that] was not so crazy.”

That “crazy idea” landed the recent Georgetown graduate an Oct. 1 endorsement from former President Barack Obama and, ultimately, a seat in the Connecticut state Senate.

Haskell defeated Republican incumbent Toni Boucher by a margin of 6.6 percent last Tuesday. With his victory, Haskell flipped a seat that had been held by Republicans since 1973 and helped the Democrats gain a majority in the Connecticut state Senate.

Boucher, who has worked in local government as long as Haskell has been alive, has served as a Connecticut state senator since 2009, winning her last election by a margin of over 20 percent.

Haskell put on hold his plans to attend the Georgetown University Law Center, seeing the United States and Connecticut at a crossroads in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election. Hoping to encourage more young

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ularly against a seasoned opponent. Conceding he was “clearly not your guy” for voters focused on experience, Haskell positioned his age as an asset that offered a different perspective.

“I thought I would be asked constantly to explain my age and to address my lack of experience,” Haskell said. “But what I found was when I was just upfront, I became a much better candidate.”

Still, Haskell had to overcome a lack of name recognition with a staunch commitment to door-knocking — 4,000 doors and 142 meet-and-greets, according to his estimates. Through personal conversations, Haskell learned about voters’ specific concerns, from high prescription drug prices to the effects of gun violence.

“I became a much better WILL HASKELL FOR CONNECTICUT campaigner when I realAt just 22 years old, Will Haskell (COL ’18) defeated Republican incumbent ized that it isn’t so much Toni Boucher to secure a seat in the Connecticut state Senate. about talking about your platform,” Haskell said. people to move back to Con- witnessed their friends choos“It’s about listening to peonecticut, Haskell launched ing to start their careers any- ple and finding out how the his long-shot campaign on where but Connecticut. The state government can serve March 2 with his four-year pair opted for the nontradi- them better.” roommate and campaign tional approach; for them, it After listening to potenmanager Jack Lynch (COL ’18). worked out. tial voters, Haskell built a (Full disclosure: Lynch previpolicy platform focused on ously served as a Hoya staffer CAMPAIGNING TO LISTEN paid family leave, workplace and member of The Hoya’s ediHaskell admitted he was harassment and the gender torial board.) nervous about his young age In their senior year, both when he ran for office, particSee HASKELL, A6

sity Student Association, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, the Academic Councils of all four of Georgetown’s undergraduate schools and H*yas for Choice delivered a resolution to Ferrara in support of expanded parental leave

for full-time non-tenure-line faculty members Thursday morning.

A university announcement came less than a day later.

Weigert anticipated that the See PARENTAL LEAVE, A6

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Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) iterated the need for politicians to engage in productive dialogue at an event in Copley Formal Lounge.

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A Win for GAGE Graduate student workers and teaching assistants voted to unionize last week, with 83 percent of voters in favor of unionization.

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Activism After Midterms While voting is central to the political process, opportunities for activism extend beyond the ballot box.

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Tournament Win After trailing early, the Georgetown women’s soccer team advanced in the NCAA tournament with a Saturday win.

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Suing for Representation Residents of D.C. filed a lawsuit claiming the District’s lack of voting representation is unconstitutional.

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Bridging Home and Georgetown A first-generation student reflects on her struggle to maintain her identity while navigating Georgetown.

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Road Victory The Georgetown men’s basketball team travelled to Illinois on Tuesday and defeated the Fighting Illini 88-80.

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Revise Title IX Hearing Process These orders, however, are inconsistently and inadequately enforced by OSC, leading to undue burden placed on the survivor.

The aforementioned op-ed recounts a situation in which “Annie,” another survivor whose name was changed for the article, was driven to move out of her freshman dorm because of Georgetown’s inability or unwillingness to enforce its own policies.

Annie lived on the same floor as her assailant and was told by Assistant Director for Student Conduct Heather Kimball that a no-contact order between survivor and assailant would lead to each individual living in a separate building. After Annie filed the NCO based on this information, the university failed to observe the promised policy: Her assailant was not relocated. She had no choice but to move to a new building.

Proper enforcement of no-contact orders is essential to survivors’ well-being as they navigate a campus on which they may not feel safe. Georgetown’s failure to establish this safety is hazardous to its own students.

Georgetown also treads on survivors’ rights through miscommunication and delay in ensuring their institutional protection.

The Title IX office, for example, failed to tell multiple survivors with ongoing cases about the resignation of former Title IX Coordinator Laura Cutway in June.

Cutway’s responsibilities were absorbed by Title IX Investigator Samantha Berner, who is currently serving in both roles. The combination of these two positions poses an inherent conflict of interest: If a survivor were to appeal their case, Berner — as coordinator — would be revisiting a hearing she oversaw as investigator.

The university has also failed to fill the full-time position for five months. This delay is unacceptable in such a crucial role on campus and demonstrates a skewed prioritization of survivors’ needs.

Georgetown has failed survivors repeatedly. The concerns this editorial board has expressed represent only a sample of the many ways in which the university hinders justice for some of its most vulnerable community members.

While the Title IX hearing process is deeply flawed, it can be improved with the right input and a commitment by Georgetown to follow through on any and all recommendations made by a working group of those who have endured the process.

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This editorial discusses sexual assault on campus.

Please refer to the bottom right of A3 for on- and offcampus resources.

Survivors of sexual assault deserve every chance to earn justice and have their stories heard. Georgetown University’s Title IX office and Office of Student Conduct, however, fail survivors at every turn.

The university’s sexual harassment and assault adjudication process, as organized by the Office of Student Conduct, places a series of undue burdens on survivors. The process’s guidelines — and execution of those guidelines — must be amended and revised in consultation with a working group made up of past panel members, survivors and those accused.

A review of Georgetown’s internal policies is especially needed now, as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos prepares to overhaul national standards to further skew the hearing process against survivors by granting new rights to the accused.

Georgetown has a responsibility to pursue justice in a manner that treats all parties fairly. A working group would need to address the unjust process endured by survivors as they go through their hearings.

An anonymous op-ed published last week in The Hoya accused Georgetown of discouraging survivors from following through on their cases through biased policies and a failure to enforce rules equally (“Georgetown Fails Survivors and Protects Predators,” The Hoya, Nov. 9, 2018, A3).

A letter to the editor followed this week, written by Emlyn Crenshaw (COL ’15), a survivor who won her case while at Georgetown. Crenshaw described the university’s “apparent indifference toward the well-being of survivors in its community” (“Harmful Process Breeds Empty Victory,” The Hoya, Nov. 16, 2018, A2).

The existing process for survivors is often retraumatizing. No replacement process will ever fully address this problem: Sexual harassment and assault can never be undone, and their effects on survivors cannot be reversed. However, Georgetown has enacted several guidelines that are unnecessarily detrimental; a working group could push the university to establish a process that makes survivors more comfortable.

No-contact orders epitomize such flaws in the current system. Any student can obtain an NCO through the Office of Student Conduct at any time, whether or not either student is involved in a Title IX hearing.

Hand in the Cookie Jar — A woman in Ohio stole more than $1,600 worth of Girl Scout cookies, according to the North College Hill Police Department. Police arrested the woman while she was at court for unrelated charges because, according to North College Hill police, “That’s the way the cookie crumbles.”

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Alexandra Bowman

Memorialize GU272 Despite its promise to grapple with its ties to slavery, Georgetown University has fallen short in honoring the memory of enslaved people sold to benefit the university.

More than two years after the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation offered its comprehensive recommendations, Georgetown has failed to act on a crucial call to action despite student support and the means to do so: The university has not yet memorialized the GU272.

Georgetown must publicly and enduringly acknowledge its wrongdoing in benefitting from the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people owned by the Maryland Society of Jesus. In continuing to atone for the sins of its ancestors, the university administration should construct a memorial on campus in a visible location, install plaques on the unmarked graves of enslaved people and continue to act on recommendations made by the working group.

These plans, outlined in the working group’s 2016 recommendations, would further Georgetown’s goal of ending nearly two centuries of anonymity of and neglect for people whom the university used as capital.

Georgetown has followed through on some working group recommendations, such as establishing legacy admissions for the enslaved peoples’ descendants, and begun work on others, including the engagement of the Georgetown community in larger discussions on the university’s legacy through panels and other events.

A resolution introduced last week in the Georgetown University Student Association senate called on the university to erect a memorial; the resolution received unanimous support in a Sunday vote. Georgetown must recognize this resolution as a demand to follow through on its promises.

University President John J. DeGioia has already committed to constructing a memorial. In a universitywide email sent Sept. 1, 2016, he wrote, “we will establish a living and evolving memorial to the enslaved people from whom Georgetown benefitted.”

While Georgetown has fulfilled some of the working group’s recommendations, this crucial measure has been left unaddressed. Further, progress the university has made has often required

student activism.

In November 2015, DeGioia approved a separate recommendation from the working group to rename Mulledy Hall, which was named for University President Fr. Thomas Mulledy, S.J., who authorized the sale, and McSherry Hall, named for University President Fr. William McSherry, S.J., who served as Mulledy’s lawyer. Mulledy was renamed Isaac Hawkins Hall; McSherry was renamed Anne Marie Becraft Hall.

However, this decision was made only after student activists staged a sit-in outside DeGioia’s office the previous day, promising to continue daily sit-ins until administrators took action.

While student activism is an honorable means of holding the university accountable, it cannot be relied upon permanently. By the end of this year, all students attending Georgetown at the time of the sit-in will have left campus; the students who were part of the working group have already left.

Students have also attempted to install commemorative plaques on campus, although a lack of university support has led these plans to fizzle.

Justice for the descendants should not rest on mere hope that future generations of Georgetown students will fight with the same fervor that carried those who were here when they learned of the sale. Public memorialization of the GU272 would help address this potential blind spot.

This memorial must be placed in a visible and significant location. The GU272 are a foundational part of Georgetown’s history and must not be relegated to some corner of campus.

A memorial would not even require significant commitment from Georgetown: Fax Victor (COL ’19) has offered the services of his company, Light After Death, to design, build and fund the memorial.

Georgetown needs only minimal effort to follow through on this crucial recommendation but has delayed progress.

The university owes an irreconcilable debt to the enslaved people it stole from and to the descendants who still face consequences of Georgetown’s plunder. Establishing a public memorial in their honor, however, is a necessary and actionable step in moving toward justice.

Ian Scoville, Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Baker, Executive Editor Maya Gandhi, Executive Editor Anna Kovacevich, Managing Editor Madeline Charbonneau, News Editor Erin Doherty, News Editor Ethan Cohn, Sports Editor Mac Dressman, Guide Editor Kiera Geraghty, Guide Editor Will Simon, Opinion Editor Yasmine Salam, Features Editor Caroline Pappas, Photography Editor Anna Kooken, Design Editor Catriona Kendall, Copy Chief Kate Rose, Social Media Editor Laura Bell, Blog Editor Anne-Isabelle de Bokay, Multimedia Editor

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Harmful Process Breeds Empty Victory The stories from last week’s Viewpoint “‘I Could Not Take the Disappointment’: How Georgetown Fails Survivors” infuriated me, in part because they were familiar.

From Thursday’s Viewpoint, I learned I was one of only four survivors between 2014 and 2017 to have a Georgetown University Title IX hearing resolved in their favor. For survivors filing a Title IX complaint, I represent the best-case scenario.

I had a verbally, physically, sexually and emotionally abusive boyfriend — also a Georgetown student — for about two years. When we split up, he broke into my townhouse and dragged me down the stairs.

He stalked me.

I wanted to walk to class without being afraid. I filed a formal Title IX complaint in

October 2014.

I was introduced to a side of Georgetown I’d never seen — one that was entirely concerned with protecting itself.

The Georgetown University Police Department discouraged me from reporting by giving me incorrect information about the difference in scope between a campus nocontact order and a D.C. protection order — the former is only recognized on campus, whereasd the latter is recognized across the country; GUPD told me the opposite.

The Office of Student Conduct did not respond to me until I followed up multiple times. Georgetown didn’t even hire a Title IX investigator until 25 days after I filed my complaint — only after my mom threatened to litigate. I had to bully the OSC into set-

ting my hearing within the 60-day deadline mandated by Title IX. My abuser was ultimately suspended and banned from campus, and told he would be expelled if he returned.

But when he returned one weekend, the school did nothing. The administration said it had forgotten to give him a map of campus and was incapable of responding to the situation.

Does that sound like a bestcase scenario?

It doesn’t to me. Rather, it sounds like one of the many examples of Georgetown putting its reputation above all. It is time to believe the authors of Thursday’s Viewpoint and to prove our belief through action.

Emlyn Crenshaw (COL ’15)

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parents in early October. In addition to making amends with them, I frequently visited GSP to talk with staff like Paula about things I loved about home and how I was doing at Georgetown.

That year, GSP funded my flight home for spring break.

This trip marked the first time my parents saw me since I started at Georgetown; luckily, I still seemed like their daughter.

Initially, they made my favorite meal of Spam and rice reluctantly, assuming I’d require a more refined taste; I didn’t. I missed having people who understood how much Spam meant to me. My mom apologized for the mice in our attic and one or two roaches in the kitchen. I said I was fine; Georgetown had more mice and bigger roaches.

My parents even asked me if I still remembered how to do laundry, referencing the bucket and clothesline they loved to use, and I told them I did.

By the time I went back, my parents were much more comfortable letting me go.

Without reflective conversations in GSP, I likely would have disowned my past habits — just as my parents feared.

But GSP’s embrace of my identity during a stage of uncertainty, when I had the opportunity to cut ties my past, encouraged me to change while maintaining who I was.

For many low-income, first-generation students, the steps we take to rise up are taken alone. We constantly fear abandoning the world we grew up in: the world that made us driven, resilient and extraordinary.

At times, the need to make socio-economic advances conflicts with tending to our roots.Without support, we often feel like we’re stepping into a maelstrom.

Fortunately, GSP does not let those anxieties slide: My mentors provide me and many others with an institutional and moral support system that feels like home.

Now, when I go home, I speak honestly with my parents, because I’m the same person they’ve always known.

I’m still their daughter who enjoys Spam and rice, isn’t afraid of mice, and isn’t above doing laundry with buckets and clotheslines.

Celine Calpo is a senior in the College. PROUD TO BE GSP is a series of Viewpoints written

by GSPers, reflecting on their experiences as Georgetown students.

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Holding On to Home

he most heart-wrenching moment of my life was right after new student convocation, when my mom told me that she and my dad were “not as smart” as I am.

They had tickets for the gym but no idea how to find the building. I hadn’t even considered this possibility.

After convocation, I learned they found their way outside Darnall Hall but were afraid to use their poor English to ask for directions. They had waited outside for the entire ceremony.

After crying and screaming at me, my parents got on the bus to the airport and left me by myself. In their eyes, I had abandoned my position as their translator, encyclopedia and dependent daughter in favor of people who were everything my parents felt they weren’t: intelligent, affluent and confident.

They gave me the silent treatment for a month. During that lonely month, my strongest support system was the Georgetown Scholarship Program. I was navigating unfamiliar territory with no high school friends or family to keep me grounded.

I could have tried to deny my identity to assimilate; I could have pretended I wasn’t hurting — but I didn’t. My conversations with GSP staff and fellow GSPers helped me preserve the incarnation of myself my parents loved, while incorporating parts of the “new” me.

Before I connected with GSP, I kept telling myself that if I didn’t think about it too much, the pain of what my parents had said and done would subside.

I lived in constant fear that if I ran out of something important, like my insulin, I would call home and no one would care to answer. I had also been diagnosed as a depressive in high school and worried about exacerbating my mental illness by delaying sorting out my feelings.

In late September, I opened the GSP newsletter and signed up for a chat with Paula Kim, an assistant director at GSP, after noticing she was also Asian-American with ties to my home state, California.

I went into the GSP office, explained my situation to Paula and started crying. She had experienced similar struggles and offered advice on how to speak to my parents and seek counselling at Counseling and Psychiatric Services.

I took GSP’s offer for CAPS funding and finally called my

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Without anyone handling recycling in an official capacity, crucial duties started falling through the cracks. Tasks like monitoring material recovery for facilities were left unattended.

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Revamp Campus Recycling Culture

or years, Georgetown University was among the leading universities for recycling in the nation. Recently, however, recycling at Georgetown has been marred by rumors and clouded by widespread confusion over the state of recycling; it has, in effect, fallen off track because of unorganized policy. A sustained effort on the part of both students and administrators is needed to get back to our old standing.

You’ve probably heard the rumors that Georgetown doesn’t recycle properly — or, even worse, that we don’t recycle at all. Students of the Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environmental Network were originally convinced by these rumors and prepared to protest the administration.

However, after investigating Georgetown’s recycling history and learning the truth that Georgetown never actually stopped recycling, we decided that divisiveness was not the answer. We now feel obligated to set the record straight to instill the transparency that we, as students, deserve.

In 1989, the Office of Planning and Facilities Management instated a recycling manager to oversee and coordinate all aspects of the university’s recycling program. As a result, Georgetown made serious progress in its waste management, including rising percentages of to-

tal waste recycled. By 2011, Georgetown was one of the nation’s most highly rated universities in terms of recycling. The Office of Sustainability at the time attributed Georgetown’s success to a combined student and administration effort.

Georgetown filled the position of recycling manager a number of times, but the position was left vacant in 2012. Georgetown still has not filled that position, even though local peer institutions still have recycling managers to this day. Without anyone handling recycling in an official capacity, crucial duties started falling through the cracks. Tasks like researching rates offered by different recycling plants, monitoring material recovery facilities, optimizing schedules and tracking data were left unattended.

At this time, the university decided to transition to a new single stream system, meaning all recyclables belong in the same bin, but signage was not appropriately administered, inadequately trained facilities custodians often confused which bags to put in which trucks, and we, the students, didn’t bother taking the time to understand and sort recyclables from trash properly.

As a result of this lack of readjustment, Georgetown was failing to recycle “commingled” materials, which refers to aluminum, glass and plastic. But, to dispel all

rumors, there was never a point in time that Georgetown did not recycle at all. The university has always recycled waste like construction materials, cardboard, steel, electronics, yard waste and dining compost, which are handled in separate processes.

Currently, recycling at Georgetown falls victim to a culture of complacency. Students won’t spend time sorting recyclables from trash if they believe that Georgetown doesn’t recycle. Facilities struggles to improve the situation because of insufficient custodial training and lack of funding to tackle the recycling issue head-on.

However, in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability and facilities management, we can improve the system.

For a permanent solution to this problem, Georgetown must reinstate the position of a recycling manager. Without this position, no one is officially designated to revamp and maintain the recycling program.

Students of GREEN and the Office of Sustainability have already been working on procuring better bins and supplementing them with imagebased labels in order to educate students and faculty on proper recycling practices.

Members of the Georgetown community must stay informed

and sort their items properly.

Based on GREEN’s preliminary surveys of the Georgetown waste stream, a significant amount of all materials is improperly sorted.

Among the most common contaminants are plastic straws, forks, spoons, knives, wrappers and bags, all of which are not recyclable. Containers with food or liquids must be emptied out before they can be recycled. If a load of recyclables is too contaminated, it will be rejected by the local recycling facilities and disposed of as trash — so when in doubt, throw it out! Beyond recycling, we all need to consider ways that we can reduce disposable items in our daily lives, including plastic shopping bags, straws and drink lids.

If everyone plays their part, we will be able to overcome this culture of complacency. Let’s work together and lead Georgetown to become what it once was: an allaround leader in sustainability.

CAROLINE FLIBBERT is a sophomore in the College. NAREG KUYUMJIAN is a sophomore in the College. AVA ROSATO is a

junior in the College. All three are leaders of the GREEN Recycling Team. Flibbert is also an intern in the Office of Sustainability.

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Activism Beyond Elections

Dear White Men of Georgetown

ast Tuesday, Georgetown University hosted Election Day programming that revealed strong political energy on campus. However, a student body that touts its political engagement should demonstrate this energy more often — and in a more impactful manner.

At the watch party hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service, students cheered as they tallied each party’s seats, as if the election were a simple competition between Democrats and Republicans without significant real-world implications.

Sam Dubke (SFS ’21) wrote in an email to The Hoya that, as a conservative student, “watching the election returns in the HFSC often felt like watching a sports game in the opposing team’s stadium.”

Watch parties portray politics as sport. While these parties allow students to experience the outcome together, the Georgetown community must remember that election results alone do not create policy change.

Political engagement should not be diminished to a seasonal activity. Students who wish to influence policy issues — at Georgetown and in future careers — should approach all elections with the energy they had for the midterms and move beyond voting to activism, engaging directly with issues they are passionate about.

Students should channel their energy to elect representatives and vote on proposed policies they believe in. In 2019, three states will hold elections for governors, four states for state legislatures and seven major cities for mayor; numerous ballot initiatives and local elections will shape policies across every state. These races are more frequently won by few votes because of lower turnout, increasing the significance of each ballot.

Students who wish to influence

public policy should take advantage of these elections to amplify their voices.

Prior to the midterms, GU Politics voting initiative GU Votes provided drop-boxes and pre-stamped envelopes at Residence Hall Offices for students to request absentee ballots. The initiative also led three Election Day trips to the polls for students to vote in Washington, D.C. GU Votes should continue these practices in the future — including in years without midterm or presidential elections — to facilitate’ engagement in local elections.

While GU Politics’ initiatives can remove barriers to voting at Georgetown and connect students with policymakers in D.C., responsibility to take action on policy issues lies with students.

Georgetown brands itself as a university centered on Jesuit values.

“Students are challenged to engage in the world and become men and women in the service of others, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the community,” according to the university’s website. However, this message of service is lost when students focus on politics rather than activism.

Activism in the truest sense — working for issues you believe in — aligns with Jesuit values much more strongly than tracking and discussing political outcomes.

Activism is certainly present on campus. Labor rights group Georgetown Solidarity Committee urged the university to uphold its labor standards and end its contract with Nike in 2016. Unrecognized pro-reproductive rights group H*yas for Choice pressured the administration to maintain its contraception coverage after the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate was rolled back in November 2017. In January 2018, years of student advocacy led by

GU Pride elicited the creation of the Crossroads: Gender and Sexuality Living Learning Community.

Not all students have an interest in politics or the time, energy and financial resources this work requires. However, students demonstrating high levels of engagement on Election Day and in other political dialogues should redirect some of this energy to activism.

Without taking the leap from being passionate to being involved, students cannot contribute to tangible change.

Students can get involved with activism through a campus organization, attend rallies in D.C., call legislators to voice an opinion on an issue or volunteer for candidates they hope to see elected.

No one form of activism is best — but if you care about an issue, do something about it.

On Election Day, Georgetown University College Democrats and the Georgetown University branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People co-sponsored an event on voter suppression, encouraging students to organize and hold leaders accountable for oppressive practices. The weekend after the election, Dubke attended a conference hosted by Young America’s Foundation to inform and inspire his conservative activism. Regardless of party or ideology, students who care about politics can find ways to translate their ideas into action.

Vote in 2019, in primaries and in special elections. But, most importantly, engage in direct activism to make your voice heard on all the days in between. November 2019 is a year away, but a lot of change will take place over the course of the next 12 months — for students who care about the outcome, it’s time to get to work.

SELA DRAGICH is a sophomore in the College.

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uring my freshman proseminar, I sat back in my chair and swallowed my tongue as I listened to several white male classmates haughtily speak for my entire race as if I were not even in the room. We were discussing the experiences of racial minorities in the United States. My classmates then suggested race is merely a social construct. Clearly, these white men could not understand the struggles of black people in the United States.

My skin has always been erroneously used to measure my perceived intelligence, beauty and right to speak as an equal in rooms full of white men. But at Georgetown, the pain I endure from prejudice feels so much more apparent and debilitating: My college experience has been dominated by educated white men who have led their entire lives through racial ignorance.

My life as a woman of color navigating the echo chambers of white men has been marred by inconspicuous microaggressions.

In high school, my classmates called me the N-word and a slave.

Friends constantly ask if they can touch my hair as though it is a toy.

I am also used to hearing the comments: “How did she know the answer to that question? She is black,” and “You should really comb your hair or straighten it. If you do, more guys would like you.”

At Georgetown, I often feel as though to many white male students here, I am just the “black girl that sits over there.” Apparently, I am identifiable only by the color of my skin.

Here, many white male students not only see my skin color but also internalize it; their presumptions about me follow in turn. Here, many white male students treat me not as an individual but as a farcical black characterization conceived in blackface minstrel shows

of the 1850s.

At Georgetown, I am the object of racial fetishization. Men have told me their dreams of losing their virginity to a black girl. I hear conversations among men who objectify black women, as though having sex with one is akin to colonizing or acculturating the lands of indigenous peoples.

I encounter privileged male students who assume I am incapable of holding leadership positions, telling me instead I should be relegated to merely taking roll call at our club meetings.

I meet students who speak on their struggles with “reverse racism,” as though this absurd proposition is equivalent to centuries of institutional racism designed to benefit white people; not a single individual in our bystander training has challenged their misguided perspectives.

I have always wondered what it is like to be a white man at Georgetown. I wonder what is it like to not feel pressure to smile in public settings, for fear of being labelled an “angry black woman,” or quiet your voice for the sake of not being called “ratchet” or “ghetto.”

I wonder what is it like to not have to brush your kinky, curly hair every morning before class, or worry that what you wear will be used to racially stereotype you — that you will be seen as the “poor, uneducated black girl” who cannot dress decently.

I wonder what is it like to not be a distraction — to not be bothered by the piercing stares and conspicuous whispers when you raise your hand in class to discuss issues of racism and microaggressions.

I wonder what it is like to ignore the implicit bias entwined in your words and behaviors toward women of color. I wonder what is it like to freely speak about white guilt as if your race was the one enslaved.

Despite these pervasive aggressions, never once have I wished I

were not black. Regardless of skin color, we all made it to Georgetown for a reason.

I understand that you may be surprised when you eventually — inevitably — find yourself falling off the high horse of white privilege that you have spent your entire lives riding.

But you need not fear me: Contrary to your exclusive ideologies, the truly inclusive community that people like me are finally building has a place for everyone — including you. We welcome you to help create this community at Georgetown.

And, one day, black women like me will no longer exist like caged birds in the racist vacuum of white ignorance.

JADE FERGUSON is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

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Dysfunction Plagues US Democracy, Kennedy Says WILL CASSOU AND SARAH MENDELSOHN Hoya Staff Writers

Partisan divides have weakened U.S. democracy, Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said at an event in Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday.

Kennedy is a third-term congressman representing the 4th District of Massachusetts who delivered the Democratic Party’s response to the State of the Union this year. Prior to being elected in 2012, Kennedy served as an assistant

district attorney in Massachusetts. He is now a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Though optimistic about the prospect of collaborating in the future with Republican lawmakers, Kennedy said that U.S. democracy currently needs repairing.

“No, our democracy isn’t healthy,” Kennedy said. “It’s functioning. Is it functioning as well as it should, as well as it could? No.” Kennedy attributed this damage to divisive tactics

from politicians’ focus on contentious issues in order to maintain political relevance, rather than creating productive dialogue.

“You have individuals that will debase that conversation and try to leverage those divisions and those fissures, and we have certainly seen throughout our history and throughout our current politics individuals that do that remarkably well,” Kennedy said. “It is without question in my mind to the detriment of our nation.”

The United States needs to acknowledge and embrace the diversity that exists within its borders in order to establish a more cohesive nation, Kennedy said.

“By recognizing diversity, by understanding that people come at this with different ideas and different opinions and different ideologies and different backgrounds and experiences that already you do come out with a … society, a country, a culture, a nation that is stronger,” Kennedy said.

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Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said that U.S. democracy is “unhealthy” because of partisan political divisions across the country at an event in Copley Formal Lounge hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

religious, ethnic, national or other identity groups contradicts civil rights law and marginalizes members of those groups, Kennedy said.

“If you start to say, ‘Well this is just too hard, or there’s not that many of you, you’re a small minority, or to do this is going to be too expensive to actually make sure we take care of X group or Y incivility or some small racial ethnic group,’ you actually are saying that you don’t count, that you are not seen,” Kennedy said.

Despite partisan divisions, the Nov. 6 midterm elections brought more expansive health care policies throughout the country. Nebraska, Utah and Idaho all passed ballot initiatives that expand Medicaid eligibility in the Nov. 6 election, which Kennedy said reflects a larger national movement towards more inclusive health care.

“Of all of the lessons from Tuesday night, the issue that had the best night was health care,” he said.

Republicans and Democrats, though hostile to each other on many fronts, share a vision of affordable health care for U.S. citizens, according to Kennedy.

“If the basic promise that we should be able to make as the most powerful nation in the world is that every person gets access to health care when you need at a price that you can afford, we can do that, and I don’t think many of our Republican colleagues would actually disagree,” he said.

Health care is one of four issue areas, including infrastructure, pensions and mental health, that Congress should strive to address, according to Kennedy. Republicans want to work with Democrats to tackle these issues, and they are especially willing to develop better mental health care policies, he said.

“There is not a Republican I have met and discussed this issue that doesn’t say, ‘Hey I’d love to help,’” he said.

Bipartisan agreement may exist on issues like infrastructure and mental health, but deep political divisions, which are symptomatic of larger cultural fractures, undermine cooperation in U.S. politics today, Kennedy said.

“A number of the biggest issues out there, whether it’s

immigration, whether it’s gun violence, whether it’s health care to some extent — those issues are framed as policy questions, but what they actually are is a … cultural divide,” he said. “It ends up being a question of, is one side of, one aspect of, one slice of America trying to impose its values, vision, way of life on somebody else.”

The newly elected Democratic House of Representatives should focus on expanding oversight of the executive branch, including following up with federal agencies to ensure that they are properly enforcing laws already passed

by Congress, Kennedy said.

“Just because you have an administration that has blocked all convention about compliance with the law and oversight doesn’t mean they get a pass just because they don’t want to do it,” Kennedy said.

President Donald Trump should release his tax returns to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to ensure that he is not engaged in illegal activity, including dealing with foreign agents, Kennedy said.

“Every president in recent history released their tax returns; you decided not to.

You said you would and then you didn’t,” Kennedy said. “So yeah, I think we should get the tax returns, and just because you don’t want to release it doesn’t mean that you just say, ‘OK that’s fine; we’re not going to do that.’ No, those are out there to ensure that every single president and administration abides by the same set of rules and that you are not engage in self-dealing.”

The Trump administration likely engaged in illegal behaviors, according to Kennedy.

“Let me be clear, I hope there is nothing there,” he said. “I hope Mr. Mueller comes back tomorrow and says, ‘Case closed. There’s nothing else to do; all set, all good.’ I don’t think he’s going to do that.”

Kennedy said he looks forward to the next two years with a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, which had been previously dominated by Republicans since 2010.

“I have never spent a day in the majority, and I’m very much looking forward to it.”

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Students Question GUPD Sexual #MeToo Swayed Midterm Election, Law Center Study Shows Assault Response Training KARENA LANDLER Hoya Staff Writer

Students are concerned about a perceived lack of sufficient training for the Georgetown University Police Department on responding to reports of sexual assault.

GUPD has 14 officers, known as the Sexual Assault Response Team, specifically trained to respond to sexual assault and provides “standard training” to all other officers on sexual assault response. However, students, including members of the new student group Students Taking Action against Interpersonal Violence, have little awareness of this standard training and its contents and some are concerned the training is not enough, according to Kory Stuer (COL ’19) “On campus and nationally, we are in a moment of crisis right now when it comes to sexual violence,” Stuer said in an interview with The Hoya. “Students [are feeling] like the University is not doing enough and one of the areas where it’s not doing enough is when it comes to GUPD.” Chief of Police Jay Gruber emphasized the value of SART’s training in working with survivors.

“SART officers are trained to respond to reports with professionalism and compassion,” Gruber wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“They have a deep understanding of the on- and off-campus resources available to survivors and can explain University and criminal processes to help ensure survivors understand all options moving

forward and are fully supported throughout their process.”

Many of the officers have personal biographies listed on the SART website in which they detail their experience and for many, their desire to help survivors get the best options they can on campus. However, these officers make up a relatively small segment of the department — 14 of the over 70 officers have SART training.

“There are currently 14 active SART officers and five additional officers undergoing training,” Gruber wrote. “GUPD strives to have at least one SART officer on every shift so they are available 24 hours.”

Georgetown’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services also provides services to survivors of sexual assault, according to Claire Bernstein, Staff Clinician and Sexual Assault Specialist.

“CAPS has a clinician on-call at all hours and they are a great resource for supporting survivors in emergency situations,” Bernstein said. “In addition, we regularly refer students to the 24/7 community resources with expertise in assisting survivors, including the D.C. Victim Hotline, D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and [Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network].”

However, members of STAIV, which was formed by Stuer and Avery Moje (COL ’19), are concerned that this support is not enough.

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Students expressed concerns over the Georgetown University Police Department’s lack of transparency on sexual assault response training.

this university,” Stuer said in an interview with The Hoya. “[24/7 coverage] should not be the goal.

The goal should be to get the entire department SART trained as basic due diligence and best practice around, ‘How are we making sure that that everyone at this university has adequate training and knowledge about how to support survivors?’”

There were approximately 17 reports of sexual assault, eight reports of dating violence and 11 reports of stalking specifically reported to GUPD in 2017, according to GUPD’s annual crime reports.

However, this number is not representative of the actual number of assaults on campus, as stated in the 2016 climate report. Just over three in 10 female undergraduates and about one in 10 male undergraduates reported experiencing “non-consensual sexual contact as a result of physical force or incapacitation since entering Georgetown,” according to the report.

Moje explained that increased training and awareness thereof in GUPD and the student body could help increase trust and reporting.

“I think it’s very important that students can call immediate response services and know that they won’t experience secondary trauma by calling that service,” she said.

Moje criticized the lack of transparency on the level of training that all officers receive.

“I think that this is an important point from the standpoint of student transparency or administration transparency with the students,” Moje said. “If they are being trained, I don’t know about it and I am heavily involved in this work.”

For some students, GUPD does not represent an accessible source of support, said Diego Blandon (COL ’19), a member of both STAIV and Georgetown United Against Police Aggression. The question of trust in the police and accessibility leads to underreporting, they said.

“You could have 400 officers and there still would be a large portion of the population who that isn’t serving, and whom that is making less safe,” Blandon said. “We know that students of color and workers at this university face a lot of harassment from GUPD, and the university’s failing the students who feel unsafe calling GUPD for something else to say that ‘this is your only resource.’”

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The high percentage of politicians who are no longer in office following allegations of sexual assault represents an unprecedented degree of political accountability, according to a Georgetown University Law Center professor’s research.

Associate professor of law Jamillah Bowman Williams and her team of researchers examined the 138 elected and appointed officials accused of sexual misconduct in the last election cycle and whether or not they will still remain in office by January 2019. Of those accused, 18 were accused in the months prior to the start of the #MeToo movement and 120 after the allegations against Harvey Weinstein first broke in October 2017. Of those accused of sexual misconduct in the past election cycle, 75 percent will no longer be in office in January 2019.

These accusations, which were mostly made against male officials, had an impact on the midterm elections, according to the group’s research. Many of those politicians who had accusations made against them stepped down or were removed from office before the elections.

Of those who did not leave office before the midterm elections, many lost their primaries.

However, for the officials who did make it to the general election, more won their elections than lost, the research posited.

Bowman, whose research focuses on racial and gender inequality in the workplace, became interested in tracking the impact of the #MeToo movement on political accountability.

“We have been analyzing over 12 million tweets with the hashtag #MeToo to examine the nature of the conversation around sexual harassment and assault on social media, and to investigate the extent to which the movement is leading to lasting social, political, and cultural change,” Bowman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I thought it would be interesting to collect data on the government officials reported for sexual misconduct

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Professor Jamillah Bowman Williams found most politicians accused of sexual asault during the #MeToo movement are no longer in office. before and after #MeToo exploded on Twitter in October 2017. I wanted to examine whether the movement was influencing reporting and accountability.”

The group gathered data through the use of online searches of internet archives, according to Bowman.

“Using LexisNexis, GoogleNews and NewspaperArchive, we performed a series of searches based on a series of keyword phrases and indexed subject terms,” wrote Bowman.

The search was limited to online and print newspapers and publications from the United

States.

“We reviewed the articles and coded key information such as: date reported, type of allegation, position of government official, state, political party, gender, and employment status.”

Bowman is unsure of the future of this trend, but she intends to continue her research as the #MeToo movement continues to have an impact. Currently, the team is continuing to collect data to determine if the trend was a short-term reporting spike as #MeToo gained momentum or if it will be a lasting trend.

Students Organize Group to Advocate Against Interpersonal Violence EMMA WENZINGER Hoya Staff Writer

Forty-nine students formed Students Taking Action Against Interpersonal Violence to advocate against sexual misconduct on campus and to create a campus advocacy space that was not previously organized or feasible through official student organizations.

The group, not formally recognized by the university, focuses on advocacy against sexual misconduct and pursues a more specific mission than other organizations, such as the Georgetown University Student Association, according to STAIV member and Georgetown University Student Association Sexual Assault and Student Safety Policy Chair Grace Perret (COL ’20).

“The point is that there’s no one space that’s taking this issue and saying, ‘This is the main thing that we focus on,’” Perret said. “I think GUSA can help support those students, and I intend to in my role. … But at the same time, I think the university tends to respond best when there is widespread student engagement around an issue.”

After sending an open letter to university administrators Aug. 31 demanding action and transparency about the yet-unfilled post of a Title IX coordinator, Daria Crawford (COL ’20), Avery Moje (COL ’19), Kore Stuer (COL ’19), Andy Turner (SFS ’20) and Susu Zhao (COL ’19) decided forming a large, organized group would allow them to expand their advocacy efforts.

STAIV’s four meetings this semester have produced a number of priorities for the group.

Those priorities include addressing changes to Obama-era Title IX rules about how universities should address allegations of on-campus sexual assault due as early as this week, advocating for sexual assault response training for the Georgetown University Police Department, and ensuring completion of recommendations made by the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Taskforce.

The group formed in response to recent events, such as the allegations of sexual assault Christine Blasey Ford levied against thennominee to the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh, according to

Perret.

“I think the events of this semester made the need for a group like STAIV seem all the more urgent,” Perret wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Many new students were motivated to join because of national and on-campus incidents that occurred this semester, such as the resignation of former GUSA president Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) amid sexual misconduct allegations.

“There are definitely some freshmen and sophomores who have heard about what’s been going on,” Perret wrote. “This semester began with the resignation of the GUSA president, with Kavanaugh, we’re in the Me Too

moment.”

STAIV’s status as an unrecognized group allows its members to engage in activism on issues related to sexual misconduct, which is not the purpose of existing official student organizations that address sexual misconduct, according to Moje, a Sexual Assault Peer Educator and Bringing in the Bystander facilitator.

“SAPE and these other organizations on campus are limited in what we can do in terms of asking the university to make some changes in how the climate of the university functions and how the policies of the university are put in place,”

Moje said. “That’s much more the student activism area, and something that, even though we’re involved in SAPE, something we can’t do through SAPE.” The group started meeting in early October, with varying but growing levels of attendance.

The group runs meetings democratically, by setting the agenda as a group and electing an attendee to lead.

Broadening the group to to include freshmen is intended to sustain its activism even after involved seniors graduate, Moje said.

Students involved in STAIV learned about the organization

through word-of-mouth, mostly through organizations on campus that address sexual misconduct, according to Perret. Many members have concurrent involvement in H*yas for Choice, the women’s and gender studies program, SAPE or Women in Faith.

A goal is to include more men in the group, Moje said.

Zhao echoed Moje’s sentiment and hopes to engage communities that may otherwise have less involvement in their advocacy efforts.

“I hope that STAIV continues to grow and engage communities on campus, particularly those that are traditionally

excluded from anti-sexual violence movements,” Zhao wrote in an email to The Hoya.

With the Department of Education’s upcoming release of a new rule, replacing former President Barack Obama’s guidance, Perret urged the university to communicate to students how the rule will affect its policies and to express their support of survivors.

“STAIV is definitely one of many groups, but we’re trying to bring together organizations on campus and individuals on campus who are invested in pushing the university to make a comment and stand with survivors,” Perret wrote.

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New student group Students Taking Action Against Interpersonal Violence aims to advocate against sexual misconduct at Georgetown and to support survivors of sexual assault. The founders of the group chose to create STAIV after sending a letter to university administrators in August about the unfilled Title IX coordinator position.

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Title IX Coordinator Position Still Vacant After 5 Months TITLE IX, from A1 “Student voices are imperative in shaping how our campus community addresses sexual assault and misconduct,” Rosemary Kilkenny, vice president for institutional diversity and equity, wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Undergraduate and graduate student leaders who actively engage on these issues are providing valuable input and feedback during the interviewing and hiring process.”

The student leaders chosen were from the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Advisory Committee, Sexual Assault Peer Educators, the Georgetown University Student Association, Georgetown University Graduate Student Government and other groups that engage on issues that the Title IX office handles, according to the university spokesperson.

Some students were chosen for the interview panel based on recommendation from administrators and because of their leadership positions on campus, but not for their knowledge of sexual misconduct policy and climate at Georgetown, Stuer said.

“Multiple students did not know why they were chosen.

They had practically no knowledge of sexual assault policy at Georgetown,” Stuer said. “While everyone was a leader on campus, and I mean no disrespect to anyone who was on the panel, people literally didn’t know why they were there.”

The students were given evaluation forms for each of the candidates that they filled out and submitted to Kilkenny about a week after interviews, according to Stuer, Cindy Tran (COL ’20) and Grace Perret (COL ’20), who all served on the panel.

Tran, a member of the provost’s advisory committee for diversity, was invited by Kilkenny to serve on the student panel for evaluating candidates for the position. The lack of any guidance from the administration made her unsure how the university would take her evaluations of the candidates into account, she said.

“Personally, the way that affects me and how I view the process, is one: Is the student input actually something they take into consideration?” Tran said. “Are they having us interview, or is it something they use to say, ‘Well, we did have student panelists interviewing but actually don’t consider any of their input’?”

Other than students, campus organizations and groups involved in the process include

faculty and staff members from the Women’s Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center, Health Education Services, the Georgetown University Police Department’s Sexual Assault Response Team, the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, deputy Title IX coordinators, the Office of Student Conduct, and the Office of the General Counsel, a university spokesperson said.

The interviews followed a Sept.

20 meeting between administrators and five students: Stuer, Daria Crawford (COL ’20), Avery Moje (COL ’19), Andy Turner (SFS ’20) and Susu Zhao (COL ’19), who had published a letter Aug. 31 demanding action from the university on several issues relating to sexual misconduct on campus.

The letter, addressed to Kilkenny, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Assistant Vice President for Student Health Dr. Vince WinklerPrins, calls for increased transparency and speed in the hiring process for the Title IX coordinator position, among other demands.

Kilkenny, Olson and WinklerPrins committed during the meeting to update the campus community about the lack of a distinct Title IX coordinator and the progress of the search, according to Moje, Stuer and Zhao. There has been no update at the time of publication.

“I think that students must be informed of the position’s vacancy and the search for a new coordinator because of the vitality of the Title IX Office’s role in supporting students who have been assaulted while at Georgetown,” Moje wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Despite their involvement in anti-sexual misconduct advocacy and work as a SAPE facilitator on campus, Stuer said their own difficulty understanding and navigating Georgetown’s policies indicates how the system can be a barrier to students who are less informed.

“Even as we, as students who have been involved in this work for years and have spent much of our Georgetown careers thinking about this, we struggle to navigate these systems,” Stuer said. “So what does that mean for the freshmen?”

Two other requests made in the Aug. 31 letter, including the formation of a Coordinated Community Response Team and the release of updates from the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Advisory Committee, were addressed in a Nov. 2 email update to the Georgetown community.

Georgetown is one of a small group of universities employing a full-time Title IX coordinator, which began Jan. 11, 2016, with

Cutway’s hiring. The role was previously part of Kilkenny’s duties as vice president for institutional diversity and equity.

Cutway’s departure was never publicly announced to the community.

In the 2016-17 school year, 161 reports of sexual misconduct were made to the Title IX office. Reports have been rising in recent years, consistent with national trends.

At nearby universities, staff recruitment for Title IX offices has been met with varying degrees of success. While American University replaced its Title IX coordinator within two months of the previous coordinator’s departure, The George Washington University has seen a high turnover rate for staff in its Title IX office in previous years.

Stuer said their overarching hope is that the university will be transparent about staffing in the Title IX office given upcoming changes to related federal law.

“The fact that we’re getting toward six months and the university still hasn’t told the student body that we don’t have a Title IX coordinator anymore is a problem, especially as we’re expecting new rules from the Department of Education that are expected to completely overhaul Title IX,” Stuer said. CUA, according to The Tower, CUA’s independent student newspaper.

The University of Notre Dame decided against revoking the honorary degree granted to McCarrick, saying it would wait for the conclusion of the canonical trial by the Vatican. The decision was consistent with the university’s tradition of waiting for the conclusion of trials before deciding whether to withdraw an honorary degree, according to the university.

“While the allegations in this case are most grave, as they were in the case of Bill Cosby, we believe it respects not only the rights of those involved but also the adjudicatory process itself to allow that process to reach a conclusion before taking action,” the university said in a statement.

Bevilacqua described Wuerl’s and McCarrick’s honorary degrees as “an obstacle to the type of healing we need” to move forward on the sexual abuse scandal that is roiling the Catholic community.

“Because of my engagement, because I know what this community has meant to me, I want to see it be better and improve and live out all the things it says to live out,” Bevilacqua said. “I think when you love something, you want it to be better.”

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Professor Astrid Weigert, left, chair of the Joint Main Campus Committee on Full-Time Non-Tenure-Line Issues, led the faculty efforts to urge the university to grant equal parental leave for non-tenure-line faculty.

Non-Tenure-Line Faculty Granted Expanded Benefits PARENTAL LEAVE, from A1 GUSA resolution and other student support would exert more pressure on the university to respond to the petition delivered to Ferrara last month.

“I was very, very grateful that it was not just GUSA and that GUSA’s involvement and support created more support from other student groups,” Weigert said.

GUSA senate Vice Speaker Patrick Walsh (SFS ’21) and senator Logan Arkema (COL ’20) introduced a resolution to the senate in support of the faculty’s petition.

“We stood in solidarity with those advocating for non-tenure-line issues, especially Dr. Weigert, and this victory is a remarkable one,” Walsh said in an interview with The Hoya.

The parental leave discrepancy has been raised at the faculty town hall meeting each of the past four years and faculty senate meetings before the Benefits Advisory Committee, which advises on university employee benefit plans, drafted a petition.

“Every time, we got the reply, ‘We are working on it,’ but nothing happened,” Weigert said.

“We needed to show that there is really a very strong support for this petition among faculty.”

Full-time tenure-line faculty’s responsibilities include teaching, research and university service, while non-tenure-line faculty’s responsibilities include teaching and research, and sometimes service, according to the Faculty Handbook. Before these distinctions were defined in 2001, nontenure-line faculty members were considered “visiting” professors.

Though student activism played its part in Thursday’s announcement, Walsh said the efforts to push for equal parental leave have been in the works for longer than many current students may immediately understand.

“While the resolution and student activism provided more pressure for the University to rectify this policy, we cannot forget the faculty and student voices that have been working on parental leave equity for the last few years,” Walsh wrote in an email to The Hoya, after the university’s Thursday announcement.

The GUSA resolution called for the expansion of the current ten-

ure-line parental leave policy to apply to all full-time non-tenureline faculty regardless of gender or “instances of adoption.” The resolution was unanimously approved by the GUSA senate Nov. 4.

When full-time non-tenureline faculty members were limited to eight weeks of maternity leave, the disparity forced students to adjust to a replacement faculty member midsemester, according to College Academic Council Vice President Casey Doherty (COL ’20).

The practice of eight-weeklong parental leave for full-time nontenure-line faculty was “not conducive to the academic environment,” Doherty wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The resolution’s success shows the benefits of student-faculty collaboration, according to a Georgetown Solidarity Committee spokesperson.

“This campaign has demonstrated how one of the most effective ways to create change at Georgetown is when students and workers unite in solidarity with one another,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Beating the Odds: Will Haskell’s Road to Conn. Senate HASKELL, from A1 wage gap. A principal concern for many voters was tightening the state’s lax gun control, according to the senator-elect.

Haskell said authenticity and attentiveness won him voters — a contrast to the negative attack ads released by the Senate Republican Campaign Committee and approved by Boucher. The mailers featured an edited image of Haskell with his arm around Connecticut’s unpopular governor, Dan Malloy (D).

Haskell sees the ad as a tactical mistake by his opponent that may have won him sympathy from voters.

“They photoshopped my face onto this stock photo — I don’t think they ever met me — of this really fit, fashionable, tall guy. None of those adjectives describe me,” Haskell said. “I was up before sunrise talking to people. One of the commuters came up and said, ‘I saw that they photoshopped you. That person doesn’t look anything like you.’ And it really won me a lot of voters, simply because they were frustrated to see politics sort of devolve into that level of photoshopping and nastiness.”

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Campaigning against a politician who had served in public office for 22 years — the same number as his age — Haskell attracted support from young people. Many of his campaign volunteers were in high school and college, and some of them could not vote.

Charlotte Cohen, a 17-yearold senior in high school from Westport, Conn., worked as a

volunteer on the Haskell campaign, serving in roles ranging from photographer to graphic designer. She heard Haskell’s first public speech as a candidate at the March for Our Lives rally, a studentled demonstration calling for tighter gun control, in Hartford. His message resonated with Cohen and inspired her to work in his office every day.

“I started volunteering on and off as I could, and then this fall I really took it on,” Cohen said. “I decided to quit soccer, which I’ve been playing since I was 3, to spend more time on it, because I thought it was super important.”

Cohen was hardly alone: Voters of all ages rallied around Haskell, and witnessing their enthusiasm Nov. 6 convinced the Georgetown graduate he might have a chance.

Standing outside polling stations, Haskell met retired voters who showed up at 6 a.m. because they “couldn’t imagine being awake and not having voted yet.”

“I met two people who told me that their very first vote was for Harry Truman, and yet this was the election that they were most excited for in their whole lives,” Haskell said.

On election night, surrounded by family, volunteers and friends, Haskell waited for the results to trickle in.

The race result was called around 11 p.m. but Haskell wanted to hear from his opponent before he claimed victory.

“The last thing I wanted to be was the kid to give a victory speech, so I waited until my opponent called, and very graciously, she congratulated me, wished me the best of luck. She is a good

person,” Haskell said. “She and I disagree on policy, but we shared the goal of making Connecticut a better state to live in.”

After Boucher called to concede, Haskell gave his victory speech with a rush of excitement.

“I sort of came out from around the corner where I was talking to her, and I said, ‘Okay, let’s do this thing,’” Haskell said. “I have no memory of my feet touching the floor in order to get to the victory stage.”

LOOKING AHEAD

While he waits to begin his new job in the state Senate in

January, Haskell hopes to connect with constituents and other current and incoming state representatives, including Boucher. Once his term begins, Haskell plans to serve on the Higher Education Committee to provide a student perspective and to advocate for a student loan forgiveness program.

Haskell also hopes to be on the Government Administration and Elections Committee to work toward easier voting.

Haskell’s main policy priority, however, will be gun control. Connecticut suffers from outdated storage and concealed carry laws, as well as a lax policy concerning the sale of firearms online, according

to Haskell. Gun laws in Connecticut regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. The state is known for having a permissive licensing system for open and concealed carry, according to The New York Times.

Driven by conversations with students who are unable to focus on their work because they feel unsafe in classrooms, Haskell is determined to instigate change.

“My first priority when I get to the legislature, number one has to be gun violence prevention,” Haskell said. “The vast majority of voters I talked to felt this was the pressing issue of our generation.”

Above all, the state senator-elect hopes to impart on his voters the importance of young people’s voices. Young people from all walks of life should not be dissuaded from participating in politics, according to Haskell. Rather, they should run for something they believe in.

“I hope that this is an era where the history books are not just going to look at Donald Trump’s administration,” Haskell said. “They’re going to notice how our generation responded by running for office in droves to make our voice heard and speaking with a moral clarity that the moment so desperately requires.”

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Georgetown alumnus and 22-year-old Will Haskell (COL ’18) defeated Republican incumbent Toni Boucher for a Connecticut state Senate seat on Nov. 6. Haskell received an endorsement from former President Barack Obama.

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Elevators Drop Between GUPD Security Costs Present Floors in Residence Halls Obstacles, Student Leaders Say MYROSLAV DOBROSHYNSKYI Hoya Staff Writer

Elevators in Reynolds Hall and Darnall Hall are plagued by persistent malfunctions, as they have fallen between floors and students have been stuck inside them, according to multiple residents of these halls.

Students concerned for their safety have questioned whether the Georgetown University Office of Planning and Facilities Management has adequately addressed these complaints.

Two elevators in residential halls were out of service for repairs in the past two months, according to interim Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Greg Simmons. Facilities also responded to about 29 minor work requests related to elevators during this time, such as light bulb replacements, Simmons wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Students in Darnall have been experiencing malfunctioning elevators since the beginning of the semester, according to Jack Feingold (MSB ’22).

One of the Darnall elevators fell three weeks ago while Feingold was riding in it, he said. As he was taking the elevator up from the basement, the elevator came to a halt and then proceeded to drop several floors, before stopping and resuming again, Feingold said.

“It’s pretty irritating; I won’t lie,” Feingold said in an interview with The Hoya. “The fact that [the university] let their dorms fall into disrepair is kind of terrible, especially for a university of this stature,” Feingold said.

However, Feingold did not submit a report of the incident, and facilities has not received any reports of elevator malfunctions in Darnall, according to Simmons.

“We encourage community members to report any issues or concerns to Facilities Management,” Simmons wrote.

Morgan Irish (COL ’20) was on her way to class when the elevator in Reynolds suddenly fell from the fourth to the second floor, she said.

The elevator’s doors would not open, and after a few minutes, the elevator fell again to the first floor, Irish said.

She tried pressing the call button in the elevator, but it was not operational, Irish said.

Though Irish did not sustain any serious injuries, she reported physical discomfort and expressed

concern over what might have happened if the elevator had fallen more than two floors.

“My back and knees hurt a little bit when I ran the next day, because my knees were locked out when I fell,” Irish said. “I could imagine that if somebody fell from the top floor, they could get seriously hurt.”

Irish wrote an email to the Office of Planning and Facilities Management and submitted a work request, she said. Facilities emailed Irish that the elevator was experiencing issues because water had leaked into the elevator system due to a broken pipe, she said.

Anni Xu (COL ’21) experienced a similar issue with the Reynolds elevator, which made her question her safety. The elevator fell to the second floor, shook, got stuck and fell again to the first floor, Xu said.

“The experience was absolutely terrifying,” Xu wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I was scared I was going to die, before I just realized this was a semi-regular occurrence.”

Xu had previously heard multiple students complaining about elevator issues in the Southwest Quad, and she hopes that the administration will take action and address students’ concerns about basic safety on campus.

“The Southwest Quad is relatively new on campus, so I feel like we shouldn’t be experiencing these facility issues,” Xu said. “It’s really frustrating for how much tuition is, yet there are so many basic issues.”

Yash Srivastava (COL ’21) also experienced issues with the Reyn-

olds elevators. The elevator froze up and started back again several times as it was moving down to the first floor, Srivastava said. Despite reporting issues with the elevator, Srivastava said the Reynolds elevator fell two floors when he rode in it again Nov. 14. Simmons wrote that facilities has since addressed the problem with a minor elevator repair.

Elevator repairs might be delayed because the delivery of specific parts sometimes takes longer, and expert elevator technicians are occasionally brought in to conduct repairs, according to Simmons.

Causes for elevator malfunctions vary widely, as do repair times for a typical problem, said Sheryn Villanueva, operations administrative assistant at Potomac Elevator Company. Repairs can take anywhere from a few hours to days or even months, Villanueva said.

“Often, the root problem behind lengthy repairs is lack of availability to needed parts,” Villanueva wrote in an email to The Hoya. “There are elevators out there that were built in 1970 and the manufacturing company doesn’t exist anymore.”

Facilities is working to fix the elevators to ensure safety for students, according to Simmons.

“Safety is a top priority for Facilities Management and we are committed to ensuring elevators are operational, reliable, and safe to use,” Simmons wrote. “We have processes in place to rapidly respond to out of service elevators and work to resolve issues as quickly as possible.”

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Students question the Georgetown University Office of Planning and Facilities Management’s response to malfunctioning elevators in dorms.

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Student leaders are continuing to push for the Georgetown University Policy Department to lower security costs for cluborganized events on campus.

GUPD unilaterally determines whether an event needs security and how many officers to provide and requires the Student Activities Commission to cover this cost. Security is typically required for highattendance and high-profile events.

The money for security comes from the fund made up of student activity fees — $80 paid by each student every semester; the Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee distributes the funds to SAC and other club boards including the Georgetown Program Board and Media Board. SAC allocates to clubs under its purview looking to host events.

SAC Chair Kylie Navarro (COL ’20) and FinApp Chair Harry Clow (MSB ’19) believe costs could be lower. Both SAC and the FinApp committee have expanded dialogue with the administration on the issue since April.

GUPD’s policy, which requires student clubs to hire security for their events, was first introduced three years ago.

Clubs must submit an event security request that allows GUPD to evaluate risk and determine if or how much security is needed. Criteria include whether food or alcohol will be served, if there is a cost to attend, if there will be amplified sound, and who will be speaking and in attendance.

GUPD provides security to events to ensure student safety, according to Georgetown University Chief of Police and Assistant Vice President for Public Safety Jay Gruber.

“Our top priority is the safety and security of our community,” Gruber wrote in an email to The Hoya. “When students organize events with a prominent speaker, serve alcohol, collect cash, or amplify sound, GUPD provides a security presence to ensure the safety of our students and campus community.”

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Student organizations urge the Georgetown University Police Department to reduce security fees for club-hosted events. talking to the Center for Student Engagement about how to lower the security costs, Clow wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Most of the work we are doing now is compiling from the individual funding boards the nature of their space and GUPD costs. Our main goal is seeing the trends in spending regarding these two very costly items and seeing what can be done to bring those numbers down,” Clow wrote. “We are dedicated to the idea that student money shouldn’t go to waste with exorbitant costs for venues and security on campus.”

The CSE cooperates with students on this issue to inform them about security costs of events and assist them with funding, according to the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Erika Cohen Derr.

“The Center for Student Engagement shares information about event planning to help groups understand what types of events require security or may require enhanced security and budget effectively for the year,” Cohen Derr wrote in an email to The Hoya. “While event organizers are responsible for the cost of security, no one will be prevented from hosting an event due to the cost of security.”

Still, there has been no change in university or GUPD

policy on security costs. SAC has amended its own policies to try to account for unpredictable GUPD security costs, Navarro said.

“While we used to allocate a flat amount of funding to cover GUPD costs, based on what groups thought they would be charged based on previous experience and GUPD’s published funding guidelines, we found that that system of estimation left many groups underfunded when GUPD unilaterally decided events actually needed more security than the groups had requested,” Navarro wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Because clubs cannot always accurately predict the cost of security for their events, SAC commits to covering security costs without knowing their full price, according to Navarro.

The new allocation program requires clubs to submit an invoice to SAC before they receive funds, but Navarro said she believes this process is the most efficient way for SAC to fully cover GUPD security costs for club events.

“In order to avoid situations in which there is a discrepancy between the amount that SAC allocates and the amount that GUPD charges, we’ve moved to a variable funding system, in which we nearly exclusively make motions to allocate GUPD costs in full,” Navarro wrote.

Alum Startup Club Aims to Oust Slave-Owner Portraits Brings Vegan Cookies to Corp SATYA ADABALA Special to The Hoya

VICTORIA GATOPOULOS Special to The Hoya

Vital Vittles is now selling an environmentally sustainable, vegan chocolate chip cookie produced by an alumna’s startup company, Renewal Mill.

Caroline Cotto (NHS ’14), who majored in health science at Georgetown University, is the chief operating officer of Renewal Mill. The entirely femaleoperated company, founded in 2016, strives to create food products that are both nutritionally valuable and sustainable.

The product began selling at Vital Vittles, a storefront for The Students of Inc., commonly known as The Corp, in Leavey, on Nov. 5 and is the first location selling the cookies on the East Coast.

The cookie is made using okara flour — a byproduct of soymilk and tofu production — and retails for $1.50. Vittles currently sells Renewal Mill’s Extra Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies, which are located as soon as you walk in the doors, between aisles 3A and 4A. One-third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

By using soy byproducts, the company aims to be environmentally friendly.

“We’re trying to reduce food waste by upcycling the byproduct of manufacturing,” Cotto said.

Introducing the cookie to Vittles’ shelves was one step towards being more inclusive in product offerings, Léa Nicolas (COL’19), the manager of Vital Vittles, said. Vittles does not offer many desserts besides candy, so introducing this cookie also diversifies the store’s offerings, Nicolas said.

“We’re trying to expand our product offering and offer products that might appeal to people who have a variety of

dietary concerns,” Nicolas said.

Vittles handed out free samples on Nov. 5. The customers and employees at the store gave overwhelmingly positive responses about the cookie, Nicolas said.

“It’s perfect sized,” Nicolas said. “It’s small, but it’s still sweet and not terrible for you, so I was impressed.”

Though Renewal Mill’s okara cookie is more nutritious than the average chocolate chip cookie, it is not meant to be a protein or meal substitute.

“We’re definitely not trying to be a health cookie,” Cotto said.

If the product sells well at Vital Vittles, Cotto hopes to expand the product to other locations of The Corp and perhaps introduce double packs of the cookie, she said.

Renewal Mill was established on the premise of reducing greenhouse gas emissions after CEO Claire Schlemme realized how much waste was produced from the food truck she owned and operated before starting the company.

Renewal Mill works out of the same factory as Hodo Soy, the company that provides the tofu used at Chipotle and sold at Whole Foods. For every pound of usable product produced by Hodo Soy, about a pound of okara is produced as byproduct.

The Hodo Soy and Renewal Mill factory produces over 40 tons of okara that goes to landfills if not used otherwise, Cotto said. Renewal Mill’s technology helps to diminish this waste.

Cotto pointed out the possibility of introducing new cookie flavors, including peanut butter and oatmeal raisin, that could be made out of almond milk powder and pea starch rather than okara.

“Our technology is applicable to a lot of different byproducts,” Cotto said.

The university’s oldest debate association, Philodemic Society, is awaiting response from the university regarding requests to remove portraits of slaveholders and Confederate leaders from their meeting place in Healy Hall.

The society researched the names of the men in the photographs in the Philodemic room, where the Philodemic Society’s weekly meetings take place and found that six were involved in the Confederacy, according to Philodemic Society Corresponding Secretary Sam Appel (COL ’20).

The photographs in the room depict Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, a Confederate soldier before his 1894 Supreme Court nomination; Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Confederate Senator from 1862 to 1865; Stephen R. Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navy; and Joseph Lancaster Brent, brigadier general in the Confederate Army, among others.

Prominent names from U.S. history including Patrick Henry, the first governor of post-colonial Virginia who owned approximately 70 slaves, and John Calhoun, the seventh vice president and a strong supporter of slavery, are also written on the ceiling of the Philodemic room.

During a meeting at the end of fall 2017, the Philodemic Society motioned to write a letter to the president’s office about the possibility of making changes to the room and to removing images. After a semester of drafting and revising, the organization submitted the letter to the Office of the President, citing a desire to grapple with history and make amends as its reasons for seeking to remove the pictures.

Appel spoke to Georgetown University Vice President Joseph Ferrara on the phone during the summer and followed up with in-person meetings after the start of the semester to discuss the possibility of removing the portraits.

Even after reminders and

follow-up emails, the university failed to communicate consistently and clearly with the Philodemic society about the possibility of having the portraits removed, according to Appel.

“The Philodemic [Society] has been looking to have a substantive conversation with the administration,” Appel said. “We do not feel like the administration has been reciprocating that.”

The university is actively processing the requests of the Philodemic Society, according to a spokesperson for the university, Meghan Dubyak.

“We appreciate engagement from students and have met with them several times to discuss their ideas around the Philodemic room and progress on the status of all our ongoing slavery, memory, and reconciliation work,” Dubyak wrote in an email to The Hoya. Appel, in his capacity as a Georgetown University Student Association senator, recently put forth a proposal outlining steps for the university to recognize its his-

torical involvement with slavery by creating a memorial to honor the 272 slaves who were sold by the Maryland Society of Jesus in 1838.

Appel asked Mélisande ShortColomb (COL ’21), a descendant of the GU272 slaves, for help with drafting and revising the resolution. The Philodemic Society has also asked Short-Colomb to attend future meetings with administrators regarding the room.

Short-Colomb agreed to do so, recognizing the readiness of the Philodemic Society to take action in renovating the room.

“In the 20th and 21st century, it is important to expand who those people are — the pictures, the photographs, the artwork — and for those to be more representative of the culture and the country that we represent now,” Short-Colomb said. “From what I understand, the decor of the Philodemic Society room is not reflective of that.”

Hannah Michael (SFS ’21), who helped draft the GUSA resolution, is also a member of the Philodemic Society and holds

concerns about the images in the room.

“I have definitely noticed the portraits and pictures in the room. I have not been involved in trying to remove them, but I know that they did make me feel very uncomfortable,” Michael said. “Especially in a predominantly white organization, to be one of the few people of color and to have those portraits around is definitely unsettling.”

Michael called for Georgetown students to recognize the university’s historical involvement with slavery and to support initiatives like the GU272 memorial and the removal of the images from the Philodemic room.

“The least we can do as students is support the memorial, and support friends of color, myself included, who want to enter the Philodemic Debate Society room, or speak at a debate,” Michael said. “I think it is definitely challenging to get involved in things that are so emotionally taxing and heavy, but I think that it is rewarding and it is really gratifying to the people you are showing solidarity to.”

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University to Recognize Graduate Student Union Following Election AMY LI

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Graduate student workers voted in favor of unionization in an election last week after a yearlong push to receive official recognition from the university as a union.

A majority of graduate students voted in favor of unionization, with a final count of 555 in favor and 108 against.

Out of nearly 1,100 eligible graduate student teaching and research assistants, 663 participated in the Nov. 5 to Nov. 8 election, which asked whether they would like the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees to be recognized as a union by the university.

The American Arbitration Association, a neutral third party that mediates conflict out of court, conducted the election and reported the election results the morning of Nov. 9.

Provost Robert Groves and Executive Vice President for Health Sciences Edward Healton announced the election results to the Georgetown community in a Nov. 9 email.

“We have a shared belief in the important role that graduate student assistants play at Georgetown and a shared commitment to giv-

ing them a stronger voice as members of our community,” Groves and Healton wrote in a joint statement with GAGE and American Federation of Teachers, the national union with which GAGE is affiliated.

AFT expressed its support for GAGE in a tweet shortly after the results were announced Friday morning.

“Congrats to @wearegage for overwhelmingly voting to join AFT today! So proud to have you in our union! #Solidarity #1u,” AFT wrote.

The AAA’s certification of the results of the election will be finalized after a two-week waiting period, during which either party can file objections, according to the election agreement.

If the certification is finalized, GAGE will be able to negotiate on the behalf of all students enrolled in Georgetown University graduate degree programs who also hold service titles as Ph.D. research assistants, Ph.D. teaching assistants, Ph.D. teaching associates, graduate research assistants, graduate teaching assistants, student research assistants and student teaching assistants, Groves and Healton wrote in an email to the Georgetown community.

After GAGE learned graduate students had voted over-

whelmingly in favor of unionization, GAGE presented University President John J. DeGioia with a letter announcing its intent to bargain with the administration, according to Chad Frazier, a graduate worker and Ph.D candidate in the history department.

“We’re all excited to enter into this new phase of our campaign,” Frazier wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our goal has always been a legallybinding contract that truly values our contributions to the university as TAs, RAs, and course instructors.”

The university has voiced its support and willingness to bargain with GAGE in good faith.

“When AAA’s certification is finalized, we will assemble the appropriate team to work in good faith with GAGE/AFT to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement,” Groves and Healton wrote.

GAGE does not expect to begin negotiations with the administration until early next year, Frazier said.

“In the mean time, we’ll be reaching out to our members to learn more about what issues that they’d like to see in a contract and to help shape the list of bargaining priorities that we’ll bring to the table in a variety of ways,” Frazier wrote.

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The Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018, which was proposed by D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) in April and would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, has been indefinitely delayed.

OBSERVE DC

Observe D.C., a nonpartisan organization formed to oversee elections in Washington, D.C., to ensure their procedural accuracy, determined that the election that took place Nov. 6 occurred without issue.

Election Procedures Followed In DC Election, Report Finds KATRINA SCHMIDT Hoya Staff Writer

Observe D.C. held its inaugural nonpartisan election observation effort Nov. 6 at 83 polling locations across Washington, D.C. In its preliminary report, the observation found that most polling procedures were followed and that voters were able to cast ballots without issue.

The sample-based Election Day observation effort, founded by McCourt School of Public Policy student Ben Mindes (GRD ’19), aimed to monitor electoral procedures across D.C. Observers paid particular attention to polling place accessibility, Mindes said.

“The main takeaway of something like this is that a community of people, of normal citizens, can come together and, without having any background in election observation, or sample-based methodology, or statistical reasoning or stastical background, can come together and provide an oversight over an election administration process that so far is non-existent in the United States,” Mindes said in an interview with The Hoya.

The Observe D.C. effort is the first of its kind in the United States, Mindes said. Although international or other observers may watch elections for brief periods of time, this work is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive and nonpartisan look at the efficacy of a mu-

nicipality’s voting procedures.

Eighty-three election observers watched at an equal number of polling places from 7 a.m., when polls opened, until 8 p.m., when polls closed. They were paid a $50 stipend for their time.

Using a checklist of about 40 questions, the observers noted whether or not certain procedures had been followed or guidelines were met, like the polling location having an accessible entrance or if magnifying glasses were available.

The observers then phoned a call center on campus staffed with 12 volunteers at a time to report their findings.

With the exception that nearly one-third of polling places had failed to post a “zero tape,” a machine-created printout verifying that no one had voted before 7 a.m., D.C. polling locations largely followed standard election procedures.

Mindes chose to conduct the inaugural observation in D.C. because of the well-funded and well-staffed nature of the D.C. Board of Elections, and because such observations are allowed, he said. Although a last-minute change prevented Observe D.C. from watching polling places set up and close due to concerns about security, 100 percent of the team was able to watch the election for the entire day in their assigned polling place.

The election observers were a mix of those interested in elections

and public policy, and included students and others, Mindes said. They ranged from undergraduate students to William Jerome Maxwell, a man in his mid-60s who found Observe D.C. on Facebook and decided to join. Observe D.C. was a way for Maxwell to honor his mother, who was also an election observer, Mindes said.

The final report on the election will be disseminated locally, Mindes said, and every 2018 election candidate in D.C. will receive a copy.

The group is also testifying to the D.C. City Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, which oversees the Board of Elections.

Mindes hopes that this effort can be replicated in other communities across the United States, as a way for citizens to begin to take ownership of their local elections.

Because every municipality has different rules for election procedures and for election observations, it would not be possible to do it on a national scale without localized subgroups, he said. However, the success of Observe D.C.’s first year in the District may serve as a model for others.

“Citizen observers around the world — and there have been millions — they have the data, they understand their community and they’re there to stay and they’re the ones with the power and the connections and the voice in the community that doesn’t fly away the next day,” Mindes said.

Proposed Legislation to Lower DC Residents Sue for Voting Rights, Voting Age in District Tabled Seek Congressional Representation ALEXANDRA BOWMAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Washington, D.C. Council indefinitely tabled proposed legislation that would have lowered the D.C. federal election voting age to 16 on Tuesday.

The proposed legislation, the Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018, would have made D.C. the first city in the United States to allow minors to vote in all elections, including presidential elections.

The legislation would have granted the right to vote to about 10,455 16- and 17-yearold D.C. residents, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The bill, which passed the D.C. Council Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on Nov. 1, was struck down by a vote of seven to six and is unlikely to pass before the end-of-year deadline. Councilmembers Anita Bonds (D-At Large), who helped introduce the legislation, and Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) flipped positions and cast the crucial votes against the bill.

Though she initially supported the amendment, Bonds voted to delay the legislation to allow for more conversation on the issue.

“It’s more of wanting to inform the public about what this really means,” Bonds said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I just want us to have a little more dialogue in our community. I’m 100 percent behind the legislation.”

Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (DAt Large), Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) and Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) also voted against

the bill. Councilmembers who voted to support the legislation include Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7), David Grosso (I-At Large), Brianne Nadeau (DWard 1), Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) and Robert White Jr. (D-At Large).

Allen, the chief sponsor of the amendment, introduced the legislation in April with six other councilmembers, including four of the five members of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety.

He also continued to advocate for the legislation in the days leading up to the committee vote.

“At the age of 16, your legal relationship with your government changes. Young people work and pay income taxes. Some are raising a family or helping their family make ends meet. They can drive a car. Ironically, they pay fees to get a license plate that reads ‘End Taxation Without Representation,’” Allen said in an Oct. 31 news release.

“But you do not have a voice where it matters most, which is at the ballot box.”

Allen unsuccessfully introduced the measure in 2015 but revived it this year, inspired by protests against gun violence led by high school students following the Feb. 14 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. While the future of the proposed legislation is uncertain, the movement for youth enfranchisement has gained a large amount of support, according to Erik Salmi, Allen’s director of communications.

“Unless we can get someone who voted to table it to support it, we don’t have a lot of options,” Salmi said in an

interview with The Hoya. “But the encouraging thing is that we introduced the same legislation in 2015, and it moved from having no support then to having a lot of support this time in the community.”

The proposed legislation garnered support from many D.C. residents who would have gained the right to vote if the legislation had passed.

A June 27 public hearing for the bill drew dozens of students and members of the National Youth Rights Association. 73 public witnesses testified in support of the bill at the hearing, according to the NYRA. The NYRA will continue to advocate for youth enfranchisement, according to NYRA Board of Directors member Brian Conner.

“16-year-olds have shown themselves more than capable of voting responsibly,” Conner said. “This is an important issue, and we will continue to advocate for the right to vote for 16- and 17-year-olds and try to push for similar legislation again if it is reintroduced.”

Salmi expressed hope for the success of future legislation bolstered by ongoing support from young D.C. voters.

“We are so happy about the younger people who were involved through this process, who walked the halls and talked with councilmembers,” Salmi said. “There is almost certainly going to be another chance in the future. Those 16and 17-year-olds are going to be 18-year-old voters. They’re not going anywhere, and neither is this issue.”

Maryland jurisdictions Takoma Park, Greenbelt and Hyattsville have already lowered their voting ages to 16, but only for local elections.

YOLANDA SPURA Special to The Hoya

Eleven Washington, D.C. residents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the lack of representation for D.C. residents in Congress violates constitutional provisions.

The lawsuit, filed Nov. 5, names 10 plaintiffs, all of whom are D.C. residents, and was filed in conjunction with the D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit organization that works to address public policy problems in the District. The complaint alleges that Congress’ refusal to grant voting rights to D.C. residents violates equal protection, due process and the First Amendment, as Congress has granted voting rights to citizens living in military bases or overseas territories Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) approved of the lawsuit, citing the current lack of representation for D.C. residents.

“At the heart of this lawsuit is the confidence D.C. residents have had for more than two centuries that the founders, who went to war on the slogan of no taxation without representation, never intended their own nation’s capital to be an exception,” Norton said at a Nov. 5 press conference. “This brilliant lawsuit raises new issues that one does not have to be a legal scholar to understand: Congress can give the District representation in the Senate and House, as it has done, for example, for Americans living overseas.”

D.C. residents’ lack of representation in Congress violates the 14th Amendment, according to Attorney General Karl Racine.

“Denying District residents voting representation in Con-

gress denies us the ‘equal protection of laws’ enshrined in the 14th Amendment,” Racine wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We support the goals of D.C. Appleseed’s lawsuit to give D.C. residents full voting rights.”

Similar lawsuits, Adams v.

Clinton and Alexander v. Daley, were unsuccessful in 2000. In the lawsuit, Judge Merrick Garland held that the Constitution does not guarantee its citizens the same voting rights as residents of states.

Later, in the D.C. Voting Rights Act of 2007, Congress determined it has the power to give voting rights to those who do not live in a state under the District Clause and has done so on various occasions, such as for those living in military bases, according to D.C. Appleseed.

Luc Nikiema (COL ’20), a D.C. resident, cited concerns over taxation without representation among his reasons for supporting the lawsuit.

“We pay the highest federal taxes per capita while being denied right to vote and that is unjust. DC residents deserve to have equal rights and representation in Congress,” Nikiema wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The current lack of representation is “frustrating,” according to Maria Cornell (SFS ’20), chair of Georgetown University College Democrats.

“GUCD stands firmly against all kinds of voter suppression, and the silencing of D.C. residents’ political voice is extremely frustrating,” Cornell wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It is especially important to consider that a majority of long-term and indigenous D.C. residents are people of color and members of the working-class, and they are the ones not being fully represented.”

Some proponents of voting rights for D.C. residents advocate for even greater representation in Congress, arguing the District should be granted statehood through a constitutional amendment. In 2016, 86 percent of D.C. voters approved an advisory referendum in support of statehood.

The lawsuit may help raise awareness on the issue of voter representation even if it is ultimately unsuccessful, according to D.C. voter Maddy Taub (COL ’18), who founded Georgetown’s Students for D.C. Statehood club during her time on campus.

“It is written in the Constitution that D.C. shouldn’t have statehood, but because the population has grown so much since the founding of America, we’ve really come to a point where there’s a bunch of citizens who are paying federal taxes that are higher than most other places in the country and aren’t getting statehood,” Taub said.

Granting D.C. statehood would be unconstitutional, according to Georgetown University College Republicans President Jake Lyons (COL ’20), but he expressed support for full representation.

“Our country was formed by states with DC being special city — not a state,” Lyons wrote in a statement to The Hoya.

“Realizing though the need for full representation — I believe the most tangible and constitutional way of doing this would be to return D.C. to Maryland while keeping the area around Federal Buildings and National Mall as the separate District.

Alexandria was included in the District but was given back to Virginia — so a solution like this is not unprecedented.”

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Crystal City, Long Island DDOT Expands Scooter, Win Bids for Amazon HQ2 Bike-Share Regulations JOSH METZGER Hoya Staff Writer

E-commerce company Amazon announced Tuesday that it will split its second corporate headquarters between Crystal City, Va., and Long Island City, N.Y., ending the monthslong proposal process and bidding war among major North American cities trying to attract the tech giant.

The decision comes after Amazon analyzed 238 proposals from 54 states, provinces, districts and territories, using 100 different metrics to finally determine that two separate locations for HQ2 would allow the company to tap into the surplus of talent in both regions.

The HQ2 project will entail an investment from Amazon of $5 billion and the creation of 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters locations, with more than 25,000 employees in each of the cities, according to a Nov. 13 news release.

The selection of northern Virginia as one of the locations for HQ2 solidifies the region’s growing reputation as a stable business environment, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) said.

“The vast majority of the commonwealth’s proposal represents investments in our people and our infrastructure that will align with Amazon’s long-term goal while supporting the growth and competitiveness of businesses all across Virginia,” Northam said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Virginia officials drew Amazon to the Arlington location with a payout of $573 million contingent on the company creating 25,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000 for its employees, according to the news release.

In addition, subject to approval by the Virginia General Assembly, the state is set to invest $223 million for transportation improvements, with $195 million put toward nearby Washington Metropolitan Area

Transit Authority stations and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a project that will include a pedestrian bridge connecting the airport to the company’s hub.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said Amazon’s decision will bolster the District’s commitment to addressing transportation issues.

“We know that this opportunity will push us to work together on our biggest challenges like improving our transportation and infrastructure,” Bowser said in a Nov. 13 news release. “We must continue our investment in safety, reliability and capacity at Metro and find ways to enhance service, including late night service.”

The plan intends to take dated and largely vacant government office buildings and transform them into vibrant office spaces, according to The Washington Post.

The H2Q is anticipated to bring about large-scale economic development, including $2.5 billion in capital investments and $3.2 billion in net tax revenue over the next 20 years, according to a Nov. 13 news release. In the agreement between the state of Virginia and the e-commerce firm, Amazon expects to hire 400 people in 2019 and 1,180 in 2020, ultimately generating 25,000 new jobs by 2030.

The addition of Amazon combined with the successful past of Arlington will cultivate an even brighter future for the city, Arlington County Board Chair Katie Cristol said.

“The strength of our workforce coupled with our proximity to the nation’s capital makes us an attractive business location,” Cristol said in a Nov. 13 news release. “But Arlington’s real strength is the decades of planning that have produced one of the most vibrant, civically engaged communities in the world.”

Some opponents of the decision claim that politicians’ catering to Amazon is unnecessary, according

to The Washington Post. There has also been concern expressed over potential inequality, as highly skilled potential candidates are expected to migrate to the area, crowding out lower-income civilians particularly by raising housing costs.

This is coupled with the concern that the new development will bring exacerbated congestion in an already traffic-heavy D.C.-MarylandVirginia area. Many communities protested the arrival of Amazon earlier this year, expressing that the new headquarters will intensify rush-hour traffic and disrupt the livelihoods of many single-family homes in the affluent D.C. suburbs, according to Curbed.

The influx of Amazon workers may place an unintended burden on D.C. communities, said Anna Scholl, executive director of the advocacy group Progress Virginia.

“Thousands of new high-paying jobs could be a boon to our community, but we deserve to know the cost,” Scholl said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Tens of thousands of new workers and their families are sure to strain community resources when it comes to affordable housing, mass transit and traffic, and quality local schools. It’s only right that Amazon pay their fair share.”

Bowser addressed the public housing problem the decision may cause, explaining that the District is actively taking steps to curtail negative consequences.

“We call on elected leaders in the region to come together and agree to a concrete goal for affordable and workforce housing,” Bowser said in a Nov. 13 news release. “D.C. has been leading the way on affordable housing with unprecedented investment in preservation and production.

In four years, we have invested $471 million with just one of our locally funded tools, the Housing Production Trust Fund.”

Axios Leaders Adapt Print Journalism for Digital Age

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Nick Johnston (COL ’99), editor-in-chief of Axios, a digital media organization, said his experience working for print publications led to increased reporting standards for Axios’ online newsletters.

DEEPIKA JONNALAGADDA Hoya Staff Writer

The foundations of Axios, an online media company, are centered on the basic tenets of print journalism while adapting to the new digital era, according to Axios Editor-inChief Nick Johnston (COL ’99).

The way in which readers absorb information has shifted with the advent of technology and digital journalism, according to Johnston.

He and the three founders of Axios, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, who formerly worked for Politico, noticed traditional print formats no longer fit consumers’ demands. In July 2017, Johnston and the three founders developed Axios.

The purpose of creating Axios was to develop a form of online news that eased the burden on the reader, Johnston said in an interview with The Hoya.

“The experience of consuming news on the web was kind of miserable — a lot of websites have a lot of pop-up ads; they make you click through 10 times to find something, and the stories are long and don’t get to the point,” Johnston said. “A lot of what we solved for on our site and our newsletters was, ‘OK, we’ll get rid of all of those annoying things and cut down the information to what the person really needs.’”

Since its start in July 2017, Axios has grown from 7,000 subscribers for the Future newsletter to almost 60,000, according to Steve LeVine, future editor and adjunct professor for the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown. The online newsletter reached 360,000 subscribers in September 2018, according to the International News Media Association. Johnston attributes the growth of Axios to the “culture of responsiveness” built within the

company.

“Tens of thousands of people have taken the time to fill out the survey when we ask them, and that’s a really engaged readership,” Johnston said. “I love that they are really engaged, and I think it’s very incumbent upon us even as we grow to keep those channels of communication open and listen to it.”

Not only do readers regularly engage with the website’s content, but they also play a role in determining article content, according to Johnston.

“It’s a really interesting trip wire for how we’re covering things,” Johnston said. “I’ve assigned stories on the basis of reader feedback — ‘There’s a complicated issue here, and we’re not capturing all of it, and so maybe we need to have someone dig a little deeper into it.’”

Before joining Axios, Johnston served as a managing editor at Bloomberg and covered the White House and Capitol Hill during his time as a reporter. While at Georgetown, Johnston wrote a weekly column for The Hoya on local and national politics.

A former Washington correspondent for Quartz, a mobile media startup launched in 2012, LeVine also served as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 18 years.

LeVine’s experience at a print publication inspired him to develop an innovative platform that preserves journalistic integrity, he said.

“The main thing from print days pulled into Axios is the standards, the expectation that you’re telling something new.

You’re not regurgitating what other people wrote; you’re not just stirring the soup and telling the story better,” LeVine said.

“You are truly advancing the con-

versation.”

Working at a print publication provided the standards for accuracy for online journalism, Johnston said.

“Some of what I’ve learned going back all the way to The Hoya when I had editors yelling at me was rigorous journalism,” Johnston said. “It’s being precise and being factually accurate and writing clearly and concisely, not just throwing up words on the Internet and saying that’s good enough. There’s a real traditional newsroom culture of getting it right and, if you get it wrong, owning up to that, and that’s a great way to build reader trust.”

A recent partnership between Axios and HBO has led to a fourpart documentary series on current political events, such as the experiences of female candidates running in elections.

Partnering with HBO gave Johnston an understanding of the value of different media in effective news storytelling, he said.

“Sometimes the best way to tell a story is just in text, text and words,” Johnston said. “But often the best way to tell a story is visually, and that can be either through illustration or a chart or a data visualization, but also through video, and the work with HBO has helped us learn a lot about adding that tool to our arsenal.”

LeVine’s teaching experience at Georgetown has highlighted the importance of being consistently accurate and prepared in both journalism and in the classroom, he said.

“Students will call you out. Students have their laptops open; they are searching the internet while you are talking,” LeVine said. “You have to be on top of your game, and because of that, I’m on top of my game in journalism.”

NESTOR LABASTIDA Special to The Hoya

Requirements of a new permit application for dockless vehicle companies operating in Washington, D.C., will restrict electric scooter and bike speeds and require dockless vehicle companies to pay higher fees, the District Department of Transportation announced Nov. 5.

Under the new guidelines, set to go into effect in January 2019, dockless vehicle companies that wish to continue operating in D.C. will have to pay a higher permit fee of up to $5 per vehicle per month. Annual permit fees for the company could reach $36,000.

The new limitations come after recent calls for greater transportation safety regulations by city officials following the deaths of two bicycle and electric scooter riders.

The dockless vehicle guidelines seek to accommodate transportation alternatives while addressing concerns of rider safety, according to DDOT Director Jeff Marootian.

“We are upholding Mayor [Muriel] Bowser’s commitment to fostering innovation and competition among the many operators in this space

while also delivering the safest, most sustainable, and most efficient transportation options to District residents and visitors,” Marootian said in the news release.

The permit fee will go toward ensuring the enforcement, evaluation and administration of each program. An additional $10,000 deposit from dockless vehicle companies to DDOT will function as a performance bond meant to serve as a guarantee that a company is meeting the requirements and removing unsafe or abandoned vehicles from public use, according to the Nov. 5 news release.

Dockless vehicle companies must also reduce their electric scooter speeds from 15 miles per hour to 10 mph, per the new guidelines.

Companies will be allowed to increase the number of vehicles from 400 to 600 per electric vehicle permit, allowing companies to have a maximum of 600 bikes and 600 scooters in service. To increase their fleet size, companies must first receive a favorable quarterly evaluation from DDOT. In an effort to encourage adaptive vehicles, dockless vehicles available for use by people with disabilities will not be counted toward the fleet size cap, ac-

cording to the news release.

Several electric vehicle companies in the District have already expressed frustration with the increased regulations and limited expansion. Other cities implementing dockless vehicle programs like Seattle have already permitted up to 20,000 shareable bikes to operate in public.

The new permit restrictions limit the environmental benefits of electric scooter programs, according to David Estrada, head of government partnerships for scooter company Bird.

“The Department of Transportation’s proposal for its shared e-scooter program would render it impossible for any provider to serve the D.C. community and truly advance the shared mission of reducing short car strips and taking meaningful action in the fight against climate change,” Estrada wrote in a letter to Bowser.

While the potential to increase the number of vehicles in a company’s fleet allows the needs of more customers to be met, the mandated fleet size is insufficient to serve D.C.’s demand, Maggie Gendron, director of strategic development for scooter company Lime, wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Reporting Shapes Policy, BBC Journalist Says WALKER MILLER Hoya Staff Writer

Journalists play a crucial role in informing the public and political leaders about international issues, BBC reporter Suzanne Kianpour said at the Rev. James P.M. Walsh, S.J. Symposium on Tuesday night in the Leavey Program Room.

The event was the first in a series of discussions hosted by Georgetown University’s Speech and Expression Committee relating to free speech. The symposium is named in honor of Fr. James Walsh, S.J., a Jesuit priest and theology professor at Georgetown who helped draft Georgetown’s official Speech and Expression Policy and who passed away in 2015.

Kianpour, a Fall 2018 fellow for the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, has written for the BBC since 2011, specifically covering the Middle East. She interviewed Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, reported on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and currently heads the BBC’s coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election and Robert Mueller’s investigation of it, according to the GU Politics website. Fluent in Farsi and Spanish, Kianpour also reported on the Iran nuclear deal as well as the detente with Cuba.

Kianpour covered the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s mass killing of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority in Iraq, while she was in Iraq.

Former President Barack Obama and his advisers relied on Kianpour and her team’s reporting on the massacre, which offered information that neither the public nor the administration had access to elsewhere, as they developed a strategy to address ISIS, Kianpour said.

“When ISIS was murdering Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, we were

on the ground, reporting these stories,” Kianpour said. “Years later, a U.S. official who was in the Situation Room with President Obama when he was considering airstrikes on ISIS told me that he was watching our reports. That really shows the role that journalists have in informing the public on international events.”

Journalists provide critical information to political leaders, according to Kianpour. Reporters’ real-world experiences give them insight that policymakers often lack, she said.

“Coming back from abroad and seeing how little informed U.S. officials were about the places where I had just lived and worked got me thinking about how important it is for reporters to have that kind of experience,” Kianpour said. “I wish more lawmakers would spend a significant amount of time in places that they make policy about.”

Because of the importance of

journalism, Kianpour said, writers have a responsibility to report accurately and avoid bias, which she described as one of the most demanding parts of her job.

“I try to make sure not to editorialize in my live shots or my scripts, which is hard,” Kianpour said. “It’s a difficult thing to do, to really make sure that I’m not putting any sort of opinion in a piece of information, but at -the same time, I don’t want to do a disservice by watering something down.”

Free speech is key to both journalism and reporting and to a free society in general, Kianpour said.

“There are places in the world where free speech is not something that is afforded the way it is here,” Kianpour said. “Free speech and freedom of the press and the First Amendment is a cornerstone of our society in America. It’s one of the reasons why so many people in the world that I’ve come across love America.”

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Harper, Machado Headline Teams Earn Top-7 Finishes Historic Free Agent Class At Mid-Atlantic Regional Jeff Swanson The narrative of the 2018 Major League Baseball offseason has been dominated by the pursuit of two free agent superstars, outfielder Bryce Harper and shortstop Manny Machado.

Rarely are players of such high calibers available in free agency, especially such young ages. Machado and Harper, both 26, are set to cash in on incredibly lucrative deals in the $250 to $300 million, or potentially more, and 10 year range.

Once signed, Harper and Machado’s performances will be definitive for the teams who choose them. Signed between 2011 and 2013, the mammoth contracts for Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano, Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis and Angels first baseman Albert Pujols, have been followed by underperformance and have hamstrung these teams’ abilities to improve through free agency.

The Mariners, Orioles and Angels were desperate to make a splash and were willing to spend on aging superstars. Teams should be prudent and refrain from making hasty decisions in free agency, as is evidenced by the failures of the Mariners, Orioles and Angels to find postseason success with their big money players.

However, Harper’s and Machado’s upcoming contracts will not necessarily turn out to be busts. Perhaps the best comparison for Harper and Machado is now-retired third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who was a 25-yearold sensation when he signed a

record-shattering 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers in 2000.

Rodriguez played three seasons for the Rangers before he was traded to the New York Yankees. Rodriguez then played four seasons with the Yankees before opting out of his contract to sign a 10-year, $275 million extension.

Over the course of his first contract, Rodriguez was exceptional, averaging 47 home runs and 130 RBI per season. More notably, Rodriguez won three American League MVP awards and aided the Yankees to four postseason appearances.

Like Rodriguez, Harper and Machado will be coveted by many teams. The Washington Nationals’ ownership has repeatedly demonstrated its desire to retain Harper. Ahead of the July 31 trade deadline, Nationals’ General Manager Mike Rizzo had agreed to send Harper to the Houston Astros, but the deal was nixed by ownership. Near the end of the season, the Nationals offered Harper a 10-year contract worth approximately $300 million, which Harper rejected.

Clearly, the Nationals have demonstrated the financial capacity and the willingness to offer Harper an enormous contract. To this point, Machado and Harper have almost identical career stats: Harper has a .279 batting average, 184 home runs and 521 RBI. Meanwhile, Machado has a .282 batting average, 175 home runs and 513 RBI. Yet Machado may prove to be a better fit for the Nationals, who would most likely spend money on only one superstar in free agency. Machado has demonstrated greater durability, having played over 150 games during five separate seasons while Harper has only done so in two seasons.

Machado also offers greater defensive value since he can play both third base and shortstop. Ideally,

the Nationals could play Machado at third, sliding Anthony Rendon to second base. The Nationals also have a solid outfield without Harper that consists of Adam Eaton, rookie of the year runner-up Juan Soto and former top prospect Victor Robles.

The Atlanta Braves — the Nationals’ rival in the National League East — represent a great destination for Harper, who would be a tremendous replacement for right fielder Nick Markakis while bolstering Atlanta’s lineup. The combination of outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr., second baseman Ozzie Albies, first baseman Freddie Freeman and Harper would be a runproducing juggernaut. Harper’s presence would augment an offense that finished 10th in the majors in runs scored and 19th in home runs last season. The addition of Harper would establish Atlanta, which is coming off a 92-win season, as a perennial playoff contender. Finally, the Braves have enough payroll flexibility to afford Harper. In 2018, the Braves’ payroll was approximately $130 million, well below the luxury tax threshold of $195 million. The Braves will also have an additional $15 million in payroll flexibility, given the likely departures of Markakis and reliever Brad Brach. While it appears unlikely that Harper would sign with the Braves, the pairing would represent a strong match.

Harper and Machado will command two of the largest free agent deals ever this coming offseason.

If they both land in the National League East, Major League Baseball fans will see the two young superstars face off at least 19 times every year for the next decade.

JEFF SWANSON is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

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JOANNA LACOPPOLA Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in State College, Pa., last Friday in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, battling tough weather conditions and earning top-seven finishes.

The men’s squad placed third overall out of 24 teams in the 10K race, finishing behind Princeton and Villanova. The Hoyas were led by senior Nick Wareham, who finished in second place overall with a time of 31:08.

Following Wareham was junior Jack Van Scooter, who earned a sixth-place finish with a time of 31:19. Juniors Matthew Bouthillette and Jack Salisbury also recorded top-20 finishes, Bouthillette with a time of 31:45 and Salisbury with a time of 31:48.

Men’s Head Coach Brandon Bonsey praised the performances of his front four runners, especially Bouthillette and Salisbury.

“Our front four guys ran their best cross country races of the whole fall. If you look at where all four of those guys were last year, they are so much better than they were,” Bonsey said in an interview with The Hoya. “I am really proud of them. Nick and Jack have been very consistent and good all season, but Matt and Jack really came through when it mattered the most.”

Wareham and Van Scooter individually qualified for the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships after their strong performances at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals.

Bonsey said that Wareham and Van Scooter are prepared for the challenge.

“I think they both have a shot at being All-American. But more than anything, [our goal is] them executing the plan and running tough, then we’ll just let the result fall where it may,” Bonsey

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Sophomore forward Derek Dodson has nine goals and one assist in 15 starts for the Georgetown men's soccer team this season. Against St. John's on Oct. 27, Dodson recorded two shots on goal.

Hoyas Shut Out Golden Eagles, Earn 2nd Straight Big East Title The Georgetown men’s soccer team won its first back-to-back Big East tournament championships in program history on Sunday, recording a 2-0 shutout against Marquette.

In front of a large home crowd at Shaw Field, Georgetown (12-4-3, 6-2-1 Big East) looked to respond to its 0-0 draw against Marquette (7-9-3, 5-3-1 Big East) earlier in the season.

The Golden Eagles started the game strongly as they recorded multiple shots in the opening five minutes and pinned the Hoyas in their own half.

However, in the 11th minute, the Hoyas earned their second corner of the match. Senior midfielder Kyle Zajec whipped a ball into the box towards senior defender Brendan McDonough, who made a run from the top of the box. McDonough rose up and hit a powerful header into the left corner of the net to give Georgetown a 1-0 lead.

Following the early goal, Georgetown began to control possession.

As the Hoyas pushed for the second goal, they dictated the pace of play and allowed the Golden Eagles little time on the ball.

McDonough said that Georgetown’s game plan was to keep Marquette’s defense under constant pressure.

“We wanted to press them. We knew that if we could press their center backs, they could give us the ball. So we decided to press them like we were pressing every team and it worked out,” McDonough said in an interview with The Hoya.

Midway through the half, the Hoyas had an opportunity to double their lead when sophomore de-

fender Sean O’Hearn played junior forward Achara in on net. However, Marquette’s senior goalkeeper Luis Barraza, the Big East Goalkeeper of the Year, dealt with the danger well and made a save on Achara.

In the final five minutes of the half, Marquette started to once again exert pressure on Georgetown’s defense. The Golden Eagles had several set pieces from the left side of the field to end the half. However, the Hoyas’ defense dealt with the situations and preserved their 1-0 lead heading into halftime.

Head Coach Brian Wiese said that Marquette was dangerous on the offensive end throughout the match. “[Marquette] is a good soccer playing team. They've got guys that can really play and cause problems. I thought their left side was really good. They caused us real problems coming up the left side with how they're built. Credit to them,” Wiese said in an interview with The Hoya.

The second half started similar to the later stages of the first half, with Marquette playing on the front foot.

However, the Hoyas’ backline once again held steady and prevented the Golden Eagles from generating chances to score.

Wiese praised the performance of his defense.

“I think our back-four has really come into their own over the season.

[Peter] Schropp and McDonough are really steady and solid. They just know how to win,” Wiese said.

Midway through the second half, Marquette had its best chance to score of the game. Marquette’s junior forward Connor Alba hit a curling shot towards the far post, but it went wide of the net, and the Hoyas continued to hold their lead.

In the 70th minute, Achara

tainly a disappointment for her as her season goal was to make the NCAA meet,” Culley said. “She has grown immensely as an athlete, and she will learn and make gains from this experience.”

Junior Margie Cullen finished 11 seconds behind Hofstad in 26th place with a time of 21:48.

Freshmen Sami Corman, who placed 49th, and Katie Dammer, who finished 62nd, closed out their strong first cross country seasons for the Hoyas.

Culley was satisfied with the efforts of the two freshmen, especially Corman, who was not expected to race this season.

“We weren’t planning to race Sami this season, but she was training so well it didn’t make sense to keep her on the sideline.

She stepped in during championship season at the Big East meet and contributed immensely to our second-place finish,” Culley said.

The 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships will take place in Madison, Wis., on Saturday, Nov. 17.

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said. “They are both really, really good and are in great shape. I’m devastated the team isn’t going with them, but I’m very excited for their races.”

The women’s team finished in seventh place out of 30 teams in the six-kilometer race.

Despite the top-10 finish, Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Julie Culley said that the Hoyas hoped to perform better.

“Seventh was a disappointment, as we were hoping to be inside of the top five,” Culley said in an interview with The Hoya.

“We are a better team today than we were when we started in September, and we’ll return next year with a ton of experience and a chip on our shoulder to perform to our capabilities.”

Junior Paige Hofstad led the Hoyas with a time of 21:37, earning the 16th overall spot.

Hofstad did not qualify for the NCAA championship race, which Culley said was Hofstad’s goal for this season.

“Paige narrowly missed making NCAA’s by one spot. That was cer-

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Junior Paige Hofstad recorded a time of 21:37 in the women's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, finishing 16th overall.

scored his seventh goal of the season to double the Hoyas’ lead. Junior forward Riley Strassner sent a pass that took a deflection into the path of Achara six yards from goal. Achara slotted the ball away to give the Hoyas a 2-0 lead.

Following Achara’s goal, the Hoyas preserved their shutout in the final twenty minutes of the match and the game ended 2-0. The win marked Georgetown’s third Big East Tournament championship in the last four years.

Wiese said that the Hoyas’ experience and leadership allowed them to continue their Big East success.

“It always comes down to the old guys. The leaders have done a great job. This is their third win of a Big East Tournament in their careers. Its three out of four. They've just been around it enough. So, you can't do anything about three years of good experience coming into something like this,” Wiese said.

Georgetown was outshot ten to nine and had six corner kicks to Marquette’s eight. Freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis got the victory and earned his eighth shutout of the year. The Hoyas did not concede a goal in either game of the Big East Tournament.

Next up, the Hoyas will continue their postseason run as the 13th overall seed in the NCAA tournament. They are the only Big East member in the field of 48 teams.

Georgetown will host the winner of the matchup between the West Virginia Mountaineers (136-0, 5-0-0 MAC) and the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds (13-5-1, 6-2-0 NEC) in the round of 32. The game will be held at Shaw Field on Sunday, Nov. 18.

The Georgetown football team defeated Bucknell University 14-3 on Saturday to improve to 4-1 in Patriot League play.

The Georgetown (5-5, 4-1 Patriot League) defense tallied a seasonhigh seven sacks and held Bucknell (1-9, 1-4 Patriot League) to 13 total rushing yards. Sophomore linebackers Wes Bowers and Xavier Reddick led the Hoyas’ strong defensive effort. Bowers had 11 tackles and a sack, while Reddick recorded seven tackles and an interception. Reddick also added a sack on a fourth-down play to seal the victory.

Junior defensive lineman Khristian Tate added two sacks of his own and finished the day with four tackles for loss. Up 14-3 in the fourth quarter, the Hoyas came away with a fourth-down stop on their own goal line to keep the Bison out of the end zone.

Bowers said that the defensive stop reflected the team’s character.

“That was a big stop. That re-

ally showed us what our defense was about. When it comes down to crunch time, big-time players make big-time plays,” Bowers said in an interview with The Hoya.

Freshman running back Herman Moultrie III rushed for a career-high 135 yards on 22 touches, which marked his first 100-yard game in the Blue and Gray and the Hoyas’ first this season. Moultrie also recorded 22 receiving yards and a touchdown.

Moultrie credited his offensive line and receivers for his strong performance.

“A lot of the credit goes to the offensive line and the receivers blocking downfield. They allow me to do what I do,” Moultrie said in an interview with The Hoya. “As the season went along, I began to get more confident and play better because of that.”

Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said that Moultrie has developed throughout the season and causes problems for defenses.

“He is dynamic with the football and when he catches the ball out of the backfield. It has been fun to see his progression. He had

a great day today,” Sgarlata said in an interview with The Hoya.

Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson commanded the offense, completing eight of 15 passes for 93 yards. He also picked up 30 yards and a touchdown on the ground. Sophomore running back Jay Tolliver rounded out the Hoyas’ backfield with 45 yards on 11 carries.

Sgarlata emphasized the Hoyas’ effort and the influence of their upperclassman leaders.

“I give our leadership a lot of credit. The intensity these kids are playing with and the energy they bring is great,” Sgarlata said.

“They are pulling for each other.

They are playing with a lot of emotion, and they are playing hard.”

The fourth conference win for the Hoyas marks their most since joining the Patriot League in 2001. They will return to the Hilltop next week against Holy Cross on Nov. 17 at 12:30 p.m. Saturday will serve as Senior Day for the 17 graduating members playing their final game in a Georgetown uniform.

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Freshman running back Herman Moultrie III rushed for a career-high 135 yards on 22 carries in Georgetown's 14-3 win over Bucknell on Saturday. Moultrie also caught one pass for a 22-yard touchdown.

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ter signing with the New Orleans Saints — could have reminded Bell of the dangers of playing this season.

Now, Bell will likely enter free agency when the season ends for the first time in his career.

Potential reasons for Bell’s holdout are both pragmatic and idealistic. By not playing at all this season, Bell ensures that he will not suffer an injury that might lower his value in free agency and that he will not endure the significant wear-andtear he would suffer as a top running back who averaged around 400 touches per season.

Bell also ensures his chance to negotiate a contract for the first time in his career.

After the expiration of Bell’s rookie contract, the Steelers slapped a franchise tag on Bell when the two parties could not reach an agreement on a new contract. Thus, Bell has never played under a contract that reflects his worth in today’s NFL — he has only played under a

Graduate student guard Mikayla Venson is averaging 14.3 points per game this season for the Hoyas and has registered 13 total assists.

rookie contract and franchise tags, which are based on general market value.

Bell’s situation invokes a long history of labor relations disputes both in sports and beyond: It is ludicrous that an NFL player could work for six years without the opportunity to negotiate what he is truly worth — regardless of what that number actually is.

Directing grievances at the Steelers, however, is futile.

By simply capitalizing on the terms of their union agreement, they are acting as any forprofit organization would.

Expecting a show of good faith from any NFL team is naive at the least. Expecting a show of good faith from a team with a winning record whose replacement talent — in this case, running back James Conner — is playing extraordinarily well is laughable. That the Collective Bargaining Agreement allows teams to use multiple franchise tags in a row is why the Steelers are apathetic toward reaching a contract agreement with Bell,

not because the organization itself is committing an injustice.

Bell probably understands that the Steelers could continue to use their franchise tag on him, which likely factored into his refusal to play — without a union agreement that prevented the Steelers’ behavior, Bell’s talent was his only bargaining chip.

In the long run, however, Bell’s contract saga will not make a difference in NFL labor relations. Bell must approach the NFL Players Association with a list of demands to address during the upcoming 2021 CBA negotiation. In order to avoid current contract disputes in the future, Bell and others should focus efforts on making sure the NFLPA knows exactly what its players want.

Of course, no one can assume Bell’s intentions. Maybe all Bell wants is his own cushy free agent contract, regardless of what happens to any other players who come after him. If Bell and other players actually want to make a difference in

their labor rights, they need to start a movement.

Bell’s gamble has obviously drawn media attention and thus prompted questions about NFL franchise tags and the league pay structure as a whole. But if almost any major labor dispute is an indicator, one individual cannot change an entire league’s pay structure. In the future, Bell and others need to organize behind their union.

If Bell negotiates a top NFL contract with a new team this offseason, he will have resolved his personal struggle. But no one — or even two or three — players can make a lasting impact on league-wide labor relations. A lockout organized by the NFLPA, or fierce and unyielding contract negotiations in 2021, are the only ways to win the dispute.

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15 points. In a game where points were hard to come by, junior guard Morgan Smith affected the game on the glass, recording nine rebounds throughout the game.

Despite the lack of offense from the Hoyas, who shot 29.6 percent from the field and 25 percent from beyond the three-point line, they earned a double-digit victory.

Georgetown held Loyola to 22 percent shooting from the field and 20 percent from behind the arc. Howard emphasized that Georgetown’s main focus in the second half was defending as a team.

“Before the second half, I told the team that we needed to focus on playing defense,” Howard said. “We came back out and challenged their defense as a team — five people playing defense, five people going to the basket. We held them to five points for most of the second half. It was a great defensive effort on our behalf.”

Georgetown will be back in action in an away matchup against James Madison on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Harrisonburg, Va.

press conference. “We had to switch in the second half and play a smaller lineup to go along with what they were doing. We tried to get the ball to Dorothy a little bit more and get her to the rim.

I thought Nikola played well off the bench. She came up with shots when we needed them most.”

Georgetown again faced tough competition against Loyola on Tuesday. The Hoyas earned an early lead with back-to-back threepointers from Venson. However, Loyola climbed back and led by one point at the end of both the first and second quarters. At the start of the third quarter, the Hoyas grabbed a nine-point lead and scored 10 unanswered points.

In a low-scoring game that featured offensive struggles from both teams, Georgetown held onto its lead and cruised to a 15-point victory.

Without Adomako, who did not play against Loyola, White began to find the form that she displayed last year, leading the Hoyas in scoring with

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felt once we got the first one, we would go on and win the game.”

Georgetown dominated possession from the start of the second half, limiting CCSU on offense and controlling the ball in the Blue Devils’ defensive half. In the 48th minute, junior forward Paula Germino-Watnick powered a cross into the box but was unable to find her teammates’ feet.

Six minutes later, the CCSU keeper saved a shot from graduate student forward Kyra Carusa. In the following minutes, sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen sent a shot that was punched over the crossbar, and sophomore defender Kelly Ann Livingstone fired an effort wide of the net. The Hoyas continued their offensive pressure, taking 12 shots in the second half.

CCSU maintained its lead over Georgetown until the 69th minute, when Watnick scored off a pass slotted into the box by Carusa. With the game tied 1-1, the Blue and Gray offense continued to pressure the CCSU defense

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until Carolan scored the goahead goal off a rebounded shot from senior forward Caitlin Farrell in the 77th minute.

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wards,” Nolan said. “Great to have Amanda Carolan score our second, and then Kyra finished it off with a rebound off of her own penalty kick.

Now it’s onto Friday with a very tough Pac-12 opponent in Washington State.”

Georgetown retains homefield advantage in the tournament and will next face Washington State at Shaw Field at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

Freshmen Combine to Score 45 Points left in the game. The Hoyas responded with back-to-back baskets in the paint by McClung and Govan. After the game was tied at 61 with 11:35 to play, Georgetown trailed for the following six minutes.

With 4:57 remaining in the game, senior guard Greg Malinowski hit a three-pointer to put the Hoyas up 73-72. The Hoyas held onto their lead for the rest of the half.

With under a minute remaining and the Hoyas leading by one, Akinjo, who had 11 points in the second half, converted a three-point play to put the Hoyas up 84-80.

The Hoyas, who shot a perfect 11-11 from the free throw line in the second half, converted their trips to the line and left Illinois with an 88-80 victory

Head Coach Patrick Ewing praised Georgetown’s effort in a competitive away matchup.

“This game showed that our team has heart,” Ewing said in a postgame press conference. “It was a hard-fought game, and we could have easily given up, but we kept fighting until the end.”

LeBlanc led the Hoyas with seven rebounds, while Akinjo notched seven assists for the third-straight game this season. Georgetown held Illinois to under 47 percent shooting, while its bench outscored Illinois 38-12.

The Hoyas will return to action this Friday, Nov. 16, as they begin play in the Jamaica Classic. Georgetown will take on Loyola Marymount (30) in Montego Bay, Jamaica, at 7 p.m.on an efficient 4-5 from the floor.

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The goal gave the Hoyas a 3-1 lead and secured their victory over the Blue Devils.

Nolan said that the Hoyas’ first goal allowed them to continue pressuring the Blue Devils’ defense.

“We kept doing our thing and got our rewards with a great goal by Paula. That gave us a great lift and deflated them, and we stepped up the pressure and got our re-

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Junior midfielder/forward Paula Germino-Watnick has five goals and five assists this season for the Georgetown women’s soccer team. Against Villanova on Oct. 7, Watnick registered three shots.

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Freshman guard Mac McClung scored four points in Georgetown’s win against CCSU on Nov. 10. He is averaging eight points per game.

tions on the offensive end, according to Ewing.

“We have a lot of firepower on this team, a lot of guys who can score,” Ewing said in a postgame press conference.

Freshman forward Josh LeBlanc also put forth a strong contribution, chipping in 11 points and leading the team in rebounds with 11 in 23 minutes off the bench.

LeBlanc has the intangibles to be a strong contributor for the Hoyas this season, Ewing said.

“That’s what he does, that’s one of the reasons why I recruited him, you know — energy, effort,” Ewing said.

“He’s going to be a menace.

He’s going to be on the glass and getting steals. He’s going to do all of the energy things, the things you don’t always see on the stat sheet.”

Mourning, who had seven rebounds in 28 minutes, said it felt good to return to the court after redshirting last season due to injury.

“It was kind of like my first game ever, too,” Mourning said. “I think it’s probably the most minutes I’ve played and it just felt good being out there and getting the win.”

Halfway through the first half, Georgetown went on a 13-0 run to take hold of the game. Govan scored five straight points for the Hoyas to extend their lead to 16 with 2:27 remaining in the half.

The Hoyas’ new backcourt duo of McClung and Akinjo saw mixed results in their first taste of college basketball. While they each scored eight points, they also turned the ball over a combined seven times.

McClung finished a highlight-reel slam dunk off a Hawks turnover at the start of the second half. But with

13 minutes remaining, the Hawks cut their deficit to 12.

The Hoyas responded, as Mourning hit a jumper and Pickett followed with a threepointer to put the game out of reach at 50-33.

Georgetown shot 44 percent from the field and 38 percent from three-point range while holding Maryland Eastern Shore to 35 percent shooting.

With the help of Mourning and LeBlanc in the frontcourt, the Hoyas out-rebounded the Hawks 40-33.

Maryland Eastern Shore established control inside during the contest, outscoring Georgetown in the paint 32-24.

Pickett said the Hoyas must perform better in the paint.

“We could have got inside a little more, but first game, a few people had a little jitters,” Pickett said in an interview with The Hoya.

The Hoyas committed 19 turnovers on offense, which Ewing chalked up to earlyseason inexperience.

“We still have a long way to go. We’re still working, still grinding, still building our team dynamics,” Ewing said. “We’re still learning and learning each other.”

Rebounding will be a focus in practice this week, Mourning said.

“Rebounds is the most important thing. We lost seven games last year in the last minute because we failed to get a rebound,” Mourning said. “And, that’s something we need to change in order to be successful this year.”

Georgetown returns to action Saturday night as they host Central Connecticut State (1-0) at 6 p.m. Fans can watch the game live on Fox Sports 2 and listen locally on 980 FM.

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Following two non-conference matchups in Capital One Arena to open the season, the Georgetown men’s basketball team went on the road to face the University of Illinois in State Farm Center, narrowly defeating the Fighting Illini 88-80.

In a tightly contested game where the lead changed hands several times, three freshmen, guards James Akinjo and Mac McClung, as well as forward Josh LeBlanc, were the Hoyas (3-0) top scorers.

Akinjo led the way with 19 points, while LeBlanc recorded 14 points and McClung added 12 points.

The Fighting Illini (1-1) started strongly from the tip off and grabbed a 10-3 lead,

their largest of the game.

The Hoyas fought back to take the lead and with 4:37 left in the first half, McClung made a fastbreak layup to put Georgetown up by six points.

However, Illinois responded with nine unanswered points to lead 35-32 with 2:36 remaining. Senior center Jessie Govan hit a long twopointer in the final seconds of the half, sending Georgetown into the break with a 39-37 lead.

Despite leading by two, the Hoyas were efficient on offense, shooting nearly 60 percent from the field in the first half.

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Freshman guard James Akinjo, middle, scored 13 points and added seven assists in Georgetown’s 85-78 win over CCSU on Nov. 10.

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by Central Connecticut State University on Sunday at Shaw Field, the No. 1-seeded Georgetown women’s soccer team trailed 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The goal marked the sixth allowed by senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman this season and the fourth time in 21 games this year that the Hoyas (18-0-3) trailed their opponent.

In the first half, the CCSU (16-2-2) offense dominated possession, generating several scoring opportunities off passes in the box. The Blue Devils recorded three shots and three corners to the Hoyas’ three shots and five corners in the first half.

While the Hoyas created some offensive opportunities off corner kicks and crosses, their best chances came within the last few minutes of the half. In the 41st minute, a set piece into the box found senior forward Amanda Carolan’s feet, but her shot sailed over the crossbar. In the 44th minute, Georgetown sent another free kick into the box that was saved by the CCSU goalkeeper.

Head Coach Dave Nolan explained the difficulties his team faced in the first half and the players’ mindsets going into the second half trailing by one.

“This was always going to be a difficult game, playing against a confident team that was very well coached,” Nolan said in an interview

with The Hoya. “The strong wind made conditions difficult for both teams, and going against it in the first half was a real challenge for

us. CCSU managed a spell of pressure mostly through set pieces that unfortunately led to us giving up one. However, we have been in this position

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Sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen, left, has one goal and six assists this season for the Georgetown women’s soccer team. Against Butler on Nov. 4, Nguyen registered an assist as well as one shot.

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The Georgetown women’s basketball team won its home opener 74-55 against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday and earned a low-scoring 45-30 victory against Loyola on Tuesday.

Georgetown battled with UMES throughout the first three quarters before outscoring the Hawks by nine in the fourth quarter. After graduate student guard Mikayla

Venson hit a three-pointer to end the first quarter, the Hoyas started a scoring run and led by 18 points at the 3:06 mark in the second quarter. However, UMES responded and cut Georgetown’s lead down to nine at the half and then to two midway through the third quarter.

After a layup from graduate student guard Dorothy Adomako extended the Hoyas’ lead to six, freshman guard Nikola Kovacikova added eight points in the final min-

utes of the third quarter to give Georgetown a 10-point lead heading into the final quarter.

Adomako finished with a double-double, 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Venson scored 17 points, including 12 from behind the threepoint line. Georgetown also received a strong performance from Kovacikova, who came off the bench to score 15 points, shooting 75 percent from three-point range.

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selection senior guard Dionna White also contributed seven points and four assists.

Head Coach James Howard said that the Hoyas had to adjust to the Hawks’ game plan and provide opportunities for Adomako to score in the paint.

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Graduate student guard Mikayla Venson scored 17 points and added five rebounds as well as four assists in Georgetown’s victory over UMES last Friday. On Tuesday against Loyola, Venson scored 15 points and shot 50 percent from the field for the Hoyas.

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Le’Veon Bell, NFL Stars Need More Bargaining Rights Every major sport has its yearly player saga. The National Basketball Association has shooting guard Jimmy Butler, who demanded a trade from the Minnesota Timberwolves and was recently moved to the Philadelphia 76ers. Major League Baseball has outfielder Bryce Harper, who is entering free agency and is demanding a $400 million contract.

The National Football League has Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell.

Unlike Butler and Harper, however, Bell has drawn national media attention without once stepping on the field. He has been criticized for refusing to play for a contending team with a shot at winning a Super Bowl and for leaving $14.5 million on the table by sitting out. Bell has not played one regular season game in 2018 and, as of Tuesday, is ineligible to play this year.

Bell left his $14.5 million franchise tender unsigned by Tuesday’s deadline of 4 p.m.

EST. The franchise tender essentially prevents impending free agents from negotiating

with other teams and delays long-term negotiations between the player and his team for an additional season. Bell believes that he deserves a long-term deal, which led him to sit out.

“I want to confirm that Le’Veon Bell did not sign his Franchise Tender today and, as a result, he will not be eligible to play football during the 2018 season,” Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said in a statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday.

Bell’s decision not to sign a franchise tender contradicted earlier reports, which suggested he would sign and finish out the season on the field for the Steelers.

It is unclear what caused Bell’s alleged change of heart, or if he was ever planning on coming back in the first place.

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