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A Common Thread

Discover the styles that define Georgetown and what influences the students who wear them.

EDITORIAL Georgetown University must accelerate efforts to eliminate mold on campus.

ANC HONORS JOURNALIST A D.C. neighborhood commission voted to name a street after Jamal Khashoggi.

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Live Registration Set to Launch For Fall 2019 ELIZABETH DOUGLAS

class year, starting with seniors.

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“People have to be ready to look up their classes ahead of time, and come with, honestly, way more than their five classes.”

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Sophomore Prevented From Leaving China Georgetown students, administrators call for Liu’s return to U.S. MAXWELL SHEREMETA Hoya Staff Writer

Members of the Georgetown University community, including students and administrators, are urging the return of Victor Liu (COL ’21), along with his mother and sister, who have all been prohibited by Chinese authorities from leaving the country since June.

Victor Liu and his sister Cynthia Liu joined their mother Sandra Han on a visit to China to see their unwell grandfather in June 2018.

Shortly after the family’s arrival, Chinese authorities separated Han from her children and placed her in a black jail, a secret detention facility in China.

The siblings are being prevented from leaving China in an effort to persuade their father, who is accused of financial crimes, to surrender to Chinese law enforcement, according to The New York Times. The Liu siblings were not detained but are not permitted to leave the country, The New York Times reported.

Georgetown University has contacted the U.S. Department of State, the Chinese foreign ministry, the Lius’ congressional representatives, the U.S. ambassador to China and the Chinese ambassador to the United States about Victor Liu’s inability to return to the United States, according to Georgetown University spokesperson Matt Hill.

“We have intervened on Victor Liu’s behalf with American and Chinese government officials,”

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Georgetown is advocating for the return of Victor Liu (COL ’21), who, along with his mother and sister, has been denied exit from China.

Hill wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Georgetown University is deeply committed to Victor’s safe return home and will continue to advocate for his case.”

University President John J. DeGioia also visited the Liu siblings in Beijing when he travelled to Asia as part of a Georgetown delegation in November. Evan Medeiros, distinguished fellow in U.S.-China studies who formerly served as special assistant to former President Barack Obama and senior director

for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, joined DeGioia on the trip. Medeiros was involved in negotiating the releases of U.S. hostages in North Korea during the Obama administration.

Dean of the School of Foreign Service Joel Hellman advocated for the release of the Liu siblings in a tweet early Thursday morning.

“We call for the lifting of the exit ban from China for @Georgetown student and US citizen Victor Liu & his sister Cynthia,” the tweet reads.

Before being prohibited from exiting China, Victor Liu had been planning to start his sophomore year at Georgetown, and Cynthia Liu was set to start working at McKinsey & Company in the fall.

Liu Changming, the siblings’ father, stands accused of participating in a $1.4 billion lending fraud at a Chinese state-owned bank, which came under investigation in 2007. Neither Han nor the siblings have been charged with any official crimes.

Their father cut ties with his family in 2012, according to The New York Times. Chinese officials are attempting to leverage the family to coerce their father to return to China, according to a letter Cynthia Liu wrote to national security adviser John Bolton obtained by The New York Times.

“We are being held here as a crude form of human collateral to induce someone with whom I have no contact to return to China for reasons with which I am entirely unfamiliar,” Cynthia Liu wrote.

The Chinese foreign ministry defended the detention of Han and the decision to bar the Liu siblings from leaving, citing their status as Chinese citizens.

“The people you mentioned own legal and valid identity documents as Chinese citizens,” the Chinese foreign ministry told The New York Times.

However, China does not recognize dual nationalities and revokes Chinese citizenship upon gaining a foreign citizenship; Han and See CHINA, A6

Black Mold Infiltrates Dorms, University to Host Discussion Causing Health Ailments On Proposed Title IX Changes CHELSEA HAFER Hoya Staff Writer

Only four days into her freshman year, Oona Nash (COL ’22) contracted bronchitis.

When she went to the Student

Health Center, the doctors gave her antibiotics. Nash expected to get better, but her illness got significantly worse over time. She discovered in October the culprit of her ailment: black mold.

“One day, my roommate and I

CHELSEA HAFER FOR THE HOYA

Radiators in New South have been found to contain black mold, contributing to student respiratory ailments, such as bronchitis.

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were disinfecting our room, and I wiped over the radiator, and the wipe was covered in black mold,” Nash said in an interview with The Hoya.

As Nash, who lives in freshman residence hall New South, got sicker and spent more time in her bed, the mold worsened her condition.

“I had a deep chest cough and my bronchial tubes were congested, and my sinuses were clogged.

I was constantly exhausted, and I got hives occasionally,” Nash said.

“I went to the emergency room twice. The doctors told me that my illness was being caused by black mold spores.”

Black mold, or Stachybotrys chartarum, can cause upper respiratory issues, wheezing, congestion, red and itchy eyes and skin, fever, and shortness of breath, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nash is not the only student to fall ill from mold. Emily Coster (COL ’22), who lives in Village C West, has also suffered from the black mold in her radiator.

“I have been sick since the day I arrived on campus. I’m extremely congested, I get lightheaded, I get fatigued, I get headaches whenever I’m in my room for an extended period of time,” Coster said in an interview with The Hoya. “My roommate has also exhibited these symptoms.”

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KATRINA SCHMIDT Hoya Staff Writer

Three listening sessions to gather student feedback on the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed changes to Title IX regulations are scheduled for next week, the university announced in a campuswide email Wednesday morning.

The university is reviewing the regulations, announced Nov. 16, and will eventually offer a formal response independently or jointly with peer universities, according to the email, signed by Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. First, however, the university will host open community meetings intended to collect student feedback on changes, a move unprecedented in recent years.

“We face many complex issues as a nation, and sexual harassment and assault continue to demand our attention and action,” DeGioia wrote. “As an academic community, we have a responsibility to engage this issue thoughtfully and to pursue positive solutions.”

The proposed Title IX regulations reduce the number of instances of sexual harassment that universities must investigate, including

eliminating off-campus incidents for consideration, and provide more rights to the accused, such as allowing lawyers for the accused to cross-examine the accuser.

The Department of Education’s federally mandated comment period on the proposed regulations opened Thursday, Nov. 29, and will be open until Jan. 28. Any individual or group can submit public comments online or by mail for review by the Department of Education.

“We face many complex issues as a nation and sexual harassment and assault continue to demand our attention and action.”

JOHN J. DEGIOIA President, Georgetown University

The listening sessions will be hosted by Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny (LAW ’87) and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd

Olson; they will be held in the Leavey Center and the Healey Family Student Center. Those unable to attend the sessions on Dec. 3, Dec. 6 or Dec. 10 have the option to digitally submit feedback via the RSVP form.

The university will consider the comments as it determines which rules to address and how it will do so.

The email did not outline the university’s timeline for its formal response.

Students Taking Action Against Interpersonal Violence encouraged community members to attend the listening sessions, although the group said the action falls short of community needs.

“STAIV appreciates President DeGioia’s message to the student body regarding the proposed Title IX regulations and sexual assault at Georgetown,” STAIV wrote in a statement. “However, the university is still neglecting to establish a firm position against these proposed rules that would harm survivors and students in general.”

STAIV, an unrecognized student group working to counter sexual misconduct at Georgetown, noted that although the RSVP form allows See TITLE IX, A6

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

Petition to Ban HFC A national anti-abortion group launched a petition Nov. 8 to ban H*yas for Choice, a pro-abortion rights student group.

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Editor-in-Chief Exits A biased funding process and university mismanagement limit the accessibility of The Hoya.

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Final Four The Georgetown women’s soccer team advanced to the College Cup with a win over Baylor.

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NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

Juul Sales Go Up in Smoke The Corp will stop selling Juul pods, in its on-campus convenience stores Hoya Snaxa and Vital Vittles.

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Passport Privilege When Westerners travel in the Middle East, they enjoy privilege routinely denied to locals.

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Home Victory The men’s basketball team defeated Richmond on Wednesday to improve 6-1.

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OPINION

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THE VERDICT

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EDITORIALS

Expunge Pervasive Mold noted “mold infestation” as one of the “many maintenance issues that always arise at the beginning of each year” (“Home Sweet Home,” The Hoya, Sept. 3, 2010, A2).

Evidently, this year’s weather is not solely responsible for Georgetown’s ills. If the university is truly interested in resolving a health crisis on campus, it must first recognize the urgent health risks mold presents. Georgetown’s efforts to combat campus mold so far fail to meet this standard.

Previous reporting in The Hoya documented multiple cases in which facilities took several days to respond to cases. Mendelsohn, for example, called facilities six times without receiving a response.

Facilities’ practices are clearly inadequate in addressing students’ health concerns. However, even proper execution of current practices would fail to achieve the mold eradication Georgetown’s campus desperately needs.

Georgetown seems to recognize the problem — at least in part. Greg Simmons, interim vice president for planning and facilities management, outlined the university’s plan to more thoroughly examine buildings that have seen increases in mold-related requests in coordination with a hygienist from environmental consulting firm Eastern Research Group.

“This work will include inspections, testing of air quality, and a review of building systems” over winter break, Simmons wrote in an email to The Hoya. He also noted a pilot program for the break in which all bathrooms on campus “will be thoroughly cleaned.”

These efforts are a good start — but not enough to keep Georgetown students healthy in the long term.

The university should prioritize long-term mold eradication in residential buildings, likely over the course of several months during the summer. This deep cleaning would include conditioning carpets, redoing drywall where necessary, and replacing furniture and carpets if necessary. While a project of this magnitude would carry logistical consequences, doing the work during the summer would carry minimal complications for students.

For a decade, Georgetown has functionally ignored the deeply rooted mold problem on campus.

To protect its students’ health, the university must take serious and consequential action.

Unhappy Trails — On Wednesday, Pennsylvania police cited a woman for careless driving after she was found driving along railroad tracks. Sober at the time of the incident, she told officers that she chose the route because the “GPS told [her] to go this way.”

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Blocked Up — A team of six pediatricians swallowed Lego blocks to determine how long the toys would take to pass through the digestive system. They also ranked the softness of their stool samples by a metric described as the Stool Hardness and Transit scale.

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Mold has invaded hundreds of dorms already this year, posing serious health risks to students. After years of half-measures and incomplete solutions, Georgetown University must treat this problem as the severe hazard it is.

This semester, Georgetown students have seen their health worsened by mold in their dormitories, and the nearby University of Maryland relocated over 500 students to hotels because of the potential health consequences of a mold outbreak in a freshman dormitory (“Students Raise Concern Over Mold in Dorms,” The Hoya, Oct. 19, 2018, A1).

Despite clear indicators of risk to student health, Georgetown continues to treat mold as an annoyance and not a serious hazard.

Georgetown’s existing procedures for addressing mold in student housing fall severely short. The proliferation of mold on campus demands the university conduct deep cleanings in buildings with a continued history of reported mold and explore ways to make campus buildings less conducive to mold buildup.

Increased rainfall over the summer led to a dramatic uptick in reports of mold on campus: The Office of Planning and Facilities Management responded to 361 mold-related work requests between August and October 2018, up from 147 requests over that timespan during the previous year.

However, blaming Georgetown’s mold problems primarily on this season’s weather — as a university spokesperson did in a Nov. 29 email to The Hoya — ignores the university’s recent history of mold on campus.

On Oct. 18, Sarah Mendelsohn (COL ’21) received a diagnosis of cough variant asthma, which is exacerbated by mold, according to the National Institutes of Health. (Full disclosure: Mendelsohn is a news desk editor at The Hoya.)

Georgetown’s 2014 refusal to reach an agreement with a university employee over worsened health conditions led to the employee’s termination the following year. Two years later, the employee filed a lawsuit against Georgetown, claiming her medical issues were aggravated by mold in her university workplace (“Former Employee’s Lawsuit Reveals Mold Hazards,” The Hoya, Feb. 7, 2018, A1).

As far back as 2010, The Hoya’s editorial board

False Call to Duty — Florida police responded to a call on Thursday, Nov.15, about an armed fight occurring inside a home, only to find a family playing Call of Duty. The family has vowed to close the windows for future games.

Uncle Cudi — A Jeopardy contestant confused a picture of country and rock artist Uncle Kracker for rapper Kid Cudi in response to a question. Kracker is known for his work as Kid Rock’s DJ and his 2009 hit “Smile.”

Dozing Off Course — A pilot in Australia fell asleep at in the cockpit and missed their destination by 29 miles. The pilot overshot a remote Tasmanian island destination where a private client awaited them.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Alexandra Bowman

Amend Withdrawal Policy Under Georgetown’s current policy, students can add or drop courses without penalty during the first week of school. While students do not face GPA penalties for dropping a course during the withdrawal period — the two-month period after add/ drop — a withdrawal is denoted by a “W” on their transcript.

Marking withdrawals on transcripts adds to an environment already dominated by student stress about careers and graduate school applications.

Georgetown transcripts should not reflect a student’s decision to withdraw from a course during the allotted period.

College students generally experience anxiety about withdrawing from classes. Student concerns over withdrawing from classes are often tied to a fear of the consequences their decision could have on student careers and financial aid.

Georgetown’s stress culture is perpetuated by the academic, personal and career pressures students face on a regular basis. Students’ anxiety about how a “W” could affect employment further exacerbates this stress culture.

Counter to a prevailing view among students, academic advisers suggest that one or two course withdrawals do not significantly affect professional opportunities, according to Hannah Wingett (COL ’19), who withdrew from a class during her sophomore year.

In response to her worries about withdrawing, Wingett’s dean told her that withdrawing is “no big deal. You’re not planning on doing this frequently.”

Still, the availability of resources answering student questions about withdrawing from classes suggests this concern is a significant source of student stress.

Graduate schools also provide some leeway for course withdrawals; most applications request letters of intent, in which students can explain their decision to withdraw from a course. However, students may feel discouraged having to explain a withdrawal years later.

Removing the “W” from student transcripts could alleviate some of the anxiety that Hoyas experience about being at a disadvantage during graduate school or career applications.

Moreover, such a policy could also mitigate

campus stigma against withdrawing from courses. Withdrawing from classes at Georgetown is perceived as failing, according to Wingett.

“I’ve never seen anybody normalize withdrawing, and students are all terrified of it,” Wingett said in an interview with The Hoya.

As the current policy only serves to increase student stress and stigmatization, Georgetown should not include the withdrawal on student transcripts.

The lack of a transcript notation would not simply allow students to withdraw from classes on a whim. Instead, the current policy, which requires students to complete 38 courses to graduate, would compel students to withdraw from a class only in extreme cases.

Further, if a student drops a course such that they are below the minimum 12-credit requirement to be considered full-time, their financial aid and housing may be reconsidered.

In contrast to Georgetown’s restrictive withdrawal policy, other prestigious institutions have adopted more accommodating measures. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, withdrawing from a class after the designated drop date is only recorded on a student’s internal transcript. These records are not passed on to anyone else.

Similarly, at Brown University, dropping a class after the two-week add/drop period is only noted on internal records.

Georgetown should mirror other elite universities by adopting a more flexible course withdrawal policy.

However, Georgetown need not adopt MIT’s or Brown’s extreme policies to mitigate student worries about consequences to professional opportunities. Instead, the university should not record course withdrawals that occur during the withdrawal period.

As an institution already plagued by stress culture, Georgetown should alleviate student anxiety rather than increase it through restrictive policies.

Removing the “W” from students’ transcripts is a practical way for the university to decrease student stress.

To reduce the university’s stress culture, Georgetown should implement a course withdrawal policy that prioritizes student well-being.

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 Cat Kendall, Copy Chief Kate Rose, Social Media Editor Laura Bell, Blog Editor Anne-Isabelle de Bokay, Multimedia Editor

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HOYA HISTORY: Nov. 30, 1973

GU Hosts Conference on Assassinations A two-day conference concerning the plethora of political assassinations in the recent U.S. history was held in Gaston Hall this past weekend. The Conference on a Decade of Assassinations, sponsored by the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, came to an end with dissident members of the group charging that other members conspired to disrupt the proceedings and limit the scope of the discussion.

Sherman Skolnick, expressing the dissenters’ opinion, claimed that links exist between the Watergate conspiracy and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

He also claimed that the Dec. 8, 1972, plane crash in Chicago that killed Watergate conspirator Dorothy Hunt was sabotaged, and the government and the media have conspired to keep this information from the public.

Another dissident, A. J. Weberman, a well-known figure in the underground press, stated, “left-wing assassinologists have been excluded from the conference.” He went on to say that the sessions held at Georgetown “could be a CIA front to keep an eye on what people are learning about the assassinations.”

Bernard Fensterwald Jr., a local lawyer and organizer of the conference, defended the proceedings, stating that the group led by Skolnick, “are the type who should normally be called know-nothings. It’s discouraging that serious efforts like these have to be disrupted,” he said. “I don’t have any proof, but federal agencies could be interested in disrupting this conference. They have fought us in the past in every way I can imagine.”

The final day of the conference dealt mainly with reviewing previously presented conspiracy theories, with little new evidence or analysis forthcoming. Donald Freed, co-author of “Executive Action,” a new film dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy, stressed that the committee members should “strike a balance between paranoia and naivety.”

Both he and fellow co-author Mark Lane reject statements of the producers that the film was made in the sole interest of public entertainment.

Members generally agreed, however, that there was little they could do, given the present scope of their investigating power, to prove such a contention.

Jerry Mercuri Assistant News Editor

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OPINION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

INTO THE FEMININE GENIUS

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Andrea Charcas

Autonomy in Faith

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y identity as a woman of faith was once determined by the men in my life.

My uncles, my grandpa — even my own father. These men had tattoos of the Virgin Mary on their chests, wore chains engrained with crosses and never missed Sunday Mass.

But these men also abused their wives behind closed doors and belittled their sons for crying. Armed with the knowledge that no one could resist complying when the prize at stake is salvation, many of them used religion as a tool to uphold traditional gender dynamics. They used the monotony of the “kneel, stand, sit” rhythm during Mass as a surrogate for their understanding of the spoken words — while at the same time using depictions of virginal, pious women as ornaments to validate their faith.

From a young age, I realized that as a woman, if I wanted to be valued by my family, I had to act like the only other woman that they valued so deeply: the Virgin Mary — or rather, their perception of her.

To gain respect from those I loved the most, I needed to give up autonomy over my own faith formation.

I needed to be as still, silent and visible as the tattoos of Mary on their chests: piety measured by silence, faith by obedience. Those tattoos became my expectations.

Be visible. Go to Mass. Better yet, shame those who don’t. Wear your faith as an accessory. Pray loudly.

Make sure everyone knows. Be as perfect as the image. Follow these rules and men won’t hesitate to cherish you.

My faith did not belong to me.

It belonged to my dad. It belonged to machismo. It belonged to my desire to conform, to my fear of questioning. It belonged to everyone and everything except for me.

My siblings and I went to Sunday school and did our sacraments.

We followed the rituals and sang the songs and knew that an hour of our Sundays would always be filled.

In high school, I wanted the autonomy to choose my faith. Had my parents given me the choice to go to Mass, I probably wouldn’t have gone on some Sundays.

The consequences of questioning the rigidity of this lifestyle weren’t apparent until my older sister took a leap — not of faith, but rather of doubt.

“I don’t really know what I believe in,” she said one Sunday, add-

ing to my parents’ shock when they saw she was still in her pajamas five minutes before we were supposed to leave for Mass. “It seems wrong to go through the motions without understanding any of it.” My sister, the martyr, sacrificing her relationship with her parents for her right to form her own relationship with God. My dad, unsurprisingly, was the angriest. He would not grant us the privilege of discovering our own faith if it meant temporarily departing from his rigid expectations.

Coming to college meant acknowledging that I understood very little about the faith I had claimed as my own. I felt guilty and blamed myself for not taking initiative. Why wasn’t I taking more theology classes at Georgetown? Why didn’t I pray more? I felt like an imposter when I’d sit in the chapel. Those stained-glass windows and wooden ceilings were not for me.

I have not yet reclaimed my faith in full — nor do I think I ever will.

Faith is our relationship with God, and reclaiming my faith has meant knowing I can attain knowledge of God only through my human experiences. However, because I am human, these experiences are marked by distrust, negligence, questioning, anger and — most importantly — love.

I think of the love I have for my little brother — taking a bullet is the least I’d do for him. I think of my parents’ selfless love, a passion that drives them to do things I sometimes disagree with. My sisters’ and friends’ love feels so rich and abundant, so expansive and all consuming, that it’s difficult to imagine that this love is also constrained by the limits of my humanity.

If this is how it feels to love despite my humanity, then I can’t imagine how incredible being surrounded by God’s love would feel.

The hope of one day being able to feel this love is enough to help me reclaim my faith, a faith that is mine despite the shortcomings of my human experiences.

My religious role models of the past had strong faith in Jesus but would seldom live out his faith. Understanding this distinction has made all the difference in my relationship with God. Andrea Charcas is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

This is the final installment of INTO THE FEMININE GENIUS.

Being recognizably American makes my life easier here, undoubtedly. Beyond the ease with which I am able to cross borders, I often find myself given more leeway once inside those borders.

Privilege Obscures Travel Realities

Hannah Urtz

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ver the course of my semester in the Middle East, I have been treated with graciousness and hospitality at nearly every turn. This treatment has not been sparked by my charming disposition: Being an American has conferred inherent privilege upon me as I travel abroad.

Recognizing the advantages Westerners have abroad is vital — especially in tense, conflictfraught zones where so many are being denied rights that we often take for granted.

I was reminded of this special treatment just last weekend, while I was travelling in Israel and Palestine. A U.S. couple sitting in front of me on the bus from the West Bank to Jerusalem had forgotten to bring their passports, which are legally required for everyone at checkpoints between the border.

After the couple apologized and explained themselves, the

Israeli soldier waved her hand.

“Don’t worry about it,” she said.

“Just try not to let it happen next time. Enjoy your stay in Israel.”

For others, even Jordanians of Palestinian origin, the process is far less forgiving. While I made the approximately 20-mile trek from the Jordanian border to Jerusalem — one of the holiest sites in the world for Muslims, Jews and Christians — with relative ease, others are not so lucky.

Friends of mine were held and questioned for over an hour before eventually being let through the border to Israel; I watched as countless others, many of whom had darker skin or appeared to be Muslim, were denied entry.

Even those who had gone through the painstaking process of procuring an entry visa months in advance could be denied at the border based merely on how they looked. Many Palestinians living abroad will never have the opportunity to visit the place their families have considered home for generations.

Once across, Israel regulates and monitors the movement of civilians between the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the rest of Israel, setting up checkpoints around a barbed-wire-topped border wall that can make navigating the relatively small country extremely difficult.

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Palestinian movement is especially restricted between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, into Israel, and abroad. Israel manages the occupied territories as three separate, unrelated areas: the Gaza Strip, which it has held under blockade for more than a decade; the West Bank, where it exercises full military control; and East Jerusalem, which it has annexed to its sovereign territory.

Israel only allows Palestinians to travel between these areas if they obtain a special permit, which it rarely issues.

Being recognizably American makes my life here easier, undoubtedly. Beyond the ease with which I am able to cross borders, I often find myself given more leeway once inside those borders.

From police escorts to special visa allowances to even free drinks and meals, I’ve been treated far better than even the locals.

While my awareness of that fact will do nothing to change how everyone else is treated, acknowledging my privilege matters as I attempt to understand my experience here more comprehensively. Every interaction is tinged with privilege; in recognizing that reality, I may get closer to understanding my own experience for what it really has been.

As I roamed from city to city

and checkpoint to checkpoint in Israel and Palestine, I carried my privilege in the form of a small blue book: the all-respected American passport. I thought back to all the Jordanians of Palestinian origin I’ve spoken to, and the deep longing they have expressed to return to — even just to see — the land they know as their one true home. I felt immense gratitude for where I was able to visit.

In recognizing my advantages, I also began to realize my experience here is only a rose-tinted version of what exists and likely a far cry from reality. I have been given a window wider than most into a part of the world frequently spoken for and often misunderstood.

As I wrap up my semester in Jordan and in the Middle East, I can try to crane my neck out the window a bit more, but I know there’s so much more than these eyes can see. As long as I possess that little blue book that allows me to slip back and forth across borders without so much as a second glance, my understanding of a place and people will always be at least a bit incomplete.

Hannah Urtz is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. This is the final installment of AMMAN IT.

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Minimize Bias in Faculty Evaluation Building an Inclusive Newspaper

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t the end of each semester, students have the opportunity to shape our future learning by completing course evaluations. We should use these evaluations, typically biased against women and minorities, to help improve faculty diversity.

Georgetown University’s administration must reconsider how it uses course evaluations, and students must reflect and minimize the bias in our evaluations.

The results of course evaluations — student evaluations of teaching, or SETs — are often skewed against female faculty, as economist Anne Boring found in a 2016 report. Boring argues that students of all genders evaluate female faculty lower even on objective measures such as time taken to return assignments.

SETs are even more biased against faculty members of color, according to Therese Huston, a faculty development consultant at Seattle University. Students give lower ratings to Asian, Latinx and black professors than white professors, even controlling for type of course taught.

Bias in SETs perpetuates a faculty that is disproportionately white and male, a problem with which Georgetown is all too familiar.

This year, Georgetown reported that less than 14 percent of its faculty identify as members of minority groups and 37 percent identify as female.

Like comparable institutions, Georgetown uses SETs to decide promotions and reappointments.

The Committee on Rank and Tenure uses STEs to evaluate teaching, while the Collective Bargaining Agreement allows the administration to not rehire adjunct faculty based on course evaluations.

While SET bias is neither specific to Georgetown nor the main reason thefaculty is not representative of the student body, students control SET bias and participate in

perpetuating this inequality.

By accounting for bias in SETs, we can support diverse faculty members who each bring their own benefits to our campus. Diversity is valuable in and of itself, but having diverse faculty also fosters better outcomes for students — especially in predominantly white institutions like Georgetown. Faculty members from minority backgrounds help students of all races build intercultural competency and value teaching and learning more than white faculty members, according to a 2013 report by Na’im Madyun, associate dean for diversity and equality at the University of Minnesota. Similarly, University of Texas researchers Joyce Carbonell and Yessenia Castro found female role models increase the likelihood that female undergraduates take on leadership roles.

As students, we have a responsibility to support qualified and effective minority and female faculty members, for they bring unique skills to pedagogy.

If Georgetown is going to talk the talk, it needs to walk the walk of improving diversity in faculty, which means acknowledging potential bias in institutionalized practices like SETs. Georgetown’s goal is to “employ qualified candidates, particularly minority persons, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities,” according to the university’s faculty hiring procedures. Nonetheless, Georgetown and similar institutions fail to adequately support underrepresented faculty members once they are hired.

National studies find female and minority faculty members are tasked with more unpaid service work than white male professors, often limiting their ability to rise to the better-paid and more prestigious ranks in academia, according to the Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group.

We as students must use our voices to support overworked, underpaid and underrepresented members of our faculty.

I am not criticizing Georgetown or calling for it to be more “politically correct.” But students and administrators alike would benefit from re-evaluating how we use SETs to improve education and professional outcomes.

Other options could include taking inventory of pedagogical techniques or gathering qualitative feedback from students in person. At minimum, the administration should consider minimizing the weight placed on SETs in promotion and rehiring procedures.

Students of all races and genders have implicit biases, and we must reflect before submitting course evaluations. Are your female professors really “strict,” international professors “unclear” or minority professors “too political”? Take a moment before commenting on a faculty member’s dress, tone or looks.

I’m not asking students to boost evaluations of underrepresented faculty, which could be tokenizing, counterproductive and morally dubious. I am asking you to consider how race, gender and other intersections of our backgrounds could prejudice faculty evaluations and therefore shape our education.

The end of the semester is a good time for us to ask ourselves if we are using our voices as students effectively.

At Georgetown, students and administrators have a special obligation to live up to the Jesuit value of inclusivity. We must use whatever powers we have in completing SETs to build a more diverse faculty that will better educate us, our peers and future Hoyas.

LARRY HUANG is a senior in the College.

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y time on The Hoya has been fairly common. I applied with the backing of a journalism education in high school and passed up paid internships (and occasionally skipped classes) to do my job, and I had the family and support network to help keep me here.

My last 3½ years have been the result of passion for the power of journalism and countless hours of hard work — and also a privileged background.

But my background should not be the most common in this newsroom.

Leavey 421 has been my home and my classroom for the past 3½ years. It has been the place I have made my best friends, learned my most important lessons and made my biggest mistakes.

Under our yellowing lights and rusted ceiling panels, I have come to appreciate the immense responsibility of the press, the value of passion and hard work, and the meaning of friendship.

I have also come to learn that this organization rewards drive, determination and a desire to learn — for those who can afford to be here.

The Hoya has much work to do in improving its representation of diverse voices. We as staffers must expand our outreach efforts to underrepresented communities, reform our hiring process to better accommodate the varied experiences of incoming freshmen and create an internal culture that appreciates the differing experiences of students. And while we have made promising strides in this work, it will always require more attention.

But university-imposed limitations prevent The Hoya from becoming the diverse, inclusive and open organization its needs to be.

The Hoya receives a portion of its funding from the institutions we are charged with holding ac-

countable: the university and the Georgetown University Student Association.

Each year, we submit a budget request to the Media Board, which receives an allocation of the student activity fee from the GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee, based on the requests of campus media groups.

Last year, the Media Board received $75,000 — $5,000 below the Media Board’s minimum request. As a result, we deferred important investments — such as replacing 10-year-old computers — and shifted the burden to staffers by asking them to buy office supplies.

In many respects, this outcome is expected: Student groups must compete for finite resources, and the unfortunate reality is that no one will ever be completely happy.

The process is different for media groups, however. When we submitted our budget request last year, we did so with full knowledge that the chair of the FinApp committee — who used his tiebreaking vote in our allocation — said he uses The Hoya as toilet paper.

The Media Board submits its budget each year to students whom we cover, criticize and hold accountable. An example: Every year we publish an article on this funding process. The people we report on have cut our print budgets, ignored how dire our circumstances are and questioned the necessity of a student press.

Even when we do receive our funding, we have to fight to use it.

Our new website, which was supposed to launch earlier this fall, was delayed because the university can only send paper checks that take up to 30 days to process, after weeks of us requesting they send one to our website developer.

Our new server, which we rely on to produce our newspaper, took three months of effort to have delivered — including having a university administrator accidentally send it to Texas instead of Georgetown.

We do not want to need university funding forever, and we work hard each year to improve our sales. We can be clearer about where our money goes and why we need it. The reality, though, is that we are still years away from financial independence.

We need GUSA senators who believe in the importance of student journalism, not ones who slash our budgets because they disagree with our work. We need university administrators who can guide us through the bureaucracy and complete purchase orders in less than a few months.

As long as the students who work on this paper are required to cover for university mismanagement and a politicized funding process, we will never be the organization that we or the Georgetown community wants us to be.

Only when we are properly funded will we be truly accessible to all Georgetown students.

Every day I am reminded how lucky I am to work for this organization. Having the opportunity to share the stories of those who seek to make this campus a better place has been an incredible honor. Working with 275 of my extraordinarily kind, thoughtful and driven peers each day to do so has been a privilege.

The Hoya has given me my friends, my lessons learned and my experiences — my Georgetown experience. It is an experience everyone should have access to.

IAN SCOVILLE is a senior in the College and the 144th editor-inchief of The Hoya. His term ends Saturday.

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Georgetown Offers Pathway to College for Local Students TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

Alexis Yeager (COL ’22) first heard about Georgetown University in ninth grade. That was the year she joined the Institute for College Preparation, a program that helps low-income Washington, D.C. students navigate college applications within Georgetown’s Center for Multicultural Equity and Access.

Without the ICP, Yeager is unsure if she would have enrolled in college. Like many other lowincome students in the District, Yeager was filled with doubt about how her socio-economic status would translate in the eyes of college admission officers.

“I joined the program when I was in ninth grade,” Yeager said.

“Before that, I wasn’t even thinking about college. I wanted to go to college but I was not sure if it was feasible given my situation at home. ” Yeager’s brother went to H.D. Woodson High School, which primarily serves students in Ward 7, an area in Southeast D.C. with historically low-income neighborhoods.

Yeager herself attended School Without Walls in Foggy Bottom. A public magnet school, Walls offers special instruction and programs unavailable elsewhere, designed to attract a more diverse student body from across its school district.

But even with this resource at her disposal, Georgetown was not on Yeager’s radar.

“I don’t know if Georgetown really reached out to people in my high school,” Yeager said.

Georgetown takes pride in its D.C. location, citing its position in the “nation’s capital” as an asset for prospective students on its admission website. Yet of the 169 D.C. residents who applied to Georgetown’s class of 2022, 22 enrolled this fall. D.C. residents represent just over one percent of the 1,622-person freshman class.

Talented students who grew up in the District comprise a small component of Georgetown’s community due to accessibility obstacles for students from poorer wards.

Programs like the ICP seek to mitigate these barriers to applying by making higher education institutions like Georgetown more accessible to students living in the local community.

PIPELINE TO ACCESS

Georgetown’s outreach to the D.C. community aims to empower students, primarily from Wards 7 and 8, to see the benefits of a post-

secondary education. ICP constitutes one of several Georgetown initiatives which aim to improve its recruitment efforts in the District.

The ICP works with a cohort of around 35 students from middle schools in Ward 7. Starting in seventh grade, these “pre-college scholars” come to Georgetown’s campus every Saturday to attend classes so they are prepared for college by the time they graduate high school.

In addition to this “Saturday Academy,” CMEA takes ICP participants on college tours. The creation of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant allows D.C. residents to attend any public college or university for the cost of in-state tuition. This District-sponsored initiative has expanded its tours to include not only nearby schools on the East Coast but also state schools in the Midwest.

The ICP aims to get middle and high school students, who attend targeted D.C. public schools, interested in all post-secondary educational opportunities, not just Georgetown, according to Executive Director Charlene Brown-McKenzie.

“The goal is to inspire interest and hope in higher education,” Brown-McKenzie, who also serves as CMEA director, said. “That’s the ICP piece. It is about inspiring the possibilities of college access broadly. It is not a pipeline feeder to Georgetown.”

In addition to the ICP, the CMEA runs two other outreach programs in the D.C. community to engage with lowincome students and prepare them for the possibility of attending college.

Each spring, student volunteers from Georgetown University teach a curriculum focusing on college and career preparation to sixth graders for six to eight weeks, with a campus visit at the end of the program.

Georgetown continues to run Kids2College, a program aimed to make students aware of the viable option of attending college immediately after high school, Brown-McKenzie said.

“We are probably the only institution in the D.C. area that continues doing the Kids2College program,” Brown-McKenzie said. “Why? Because of the best-practice literature. The literature says you start early. You start early and you start often.

Georgetown also participates

in the College Exposure-Dual Enrollment Program, which allows high school seniors from local public schools to enroll in courses at their local university — in this case, Georgetown — for free.

Georgetown is committed to spreading awareness of college opportunities to the local community that may not otherwise engage with the university, according to Brown-McKenzie.

“It is our hope that we will continue to have the institutional support to really allow this to be a true gateway to post-secondary education for communities that would not normally have this opportunity,” Brown-McKenzie said. “We are just one part of the education sector.”

Programs at the Center for Social Justice — including its academic tutoring and English mentorship programs like After School Kids and D.C. Schools Project — reinforce CMEA’s goals.

“I think with the work that especially the ASK program, the D.C. Schools Project is doing in our immigrant communities, they are seeing more and more messaging around Georgetown in the community,” Brown-McKenzie said.

HOMEGROWN ADMISSIONS

For Talhia Tuck, Georgetown’s associate director of admissions, reaching out to D.C. schools is a personal priority. Raised in the District, Tuck said her passion to provide greater access for local public school students stems from her grandmother, who taught in D.C. public schools.

The decision for D.C. residents to apply to local colleges requires a tailored recruiting approach from admissions, according to Tuck.

“Having grown up in D.C., I’m aware of the fact that they might have a different perspective because they are right here in the same place that Georgetown is. So I do think that students who are local might look at the decision to stay or leave in a different way,” Tuck said. “I try to start by talking about what I loved about D.C. and how being a student in D.C. in college is going to be different than their experience in high school.”

Georgetown recognizes the importance of involving District-based families to ensure its students success. As a result, Brown-McKenzie said the university makes sure its pre-college programs reach the wider support network of these

low-income students. For families, the ICP offers a series of parent engagement workshops.

Similarly, anyone who participates in Kids2College, a program for sixth graders, is automatically invited — funding permitted — to join the ICP, a program for seventh graders and above.

“It’s not just a one time, one shot deal,” Brown-Mckenzie said.

The institute has seen immense success, according to Brown-McKenzie. One hundred percent of students from the class of 2014 went on to post-secondary education, including two-year and four-year institutions.

“We have historically achieved extraordinarily high graduation rates that far exceed that of the local schools and we continue to do so,” Brown-McKenzie said.

In fall 2015, the ICP welcomed its new cohort of students from partner middle schools in Ward 7, including Parkside Middle School, John Philip Sousa Middle School and Kelly Miller Middle School. ICP adopts a new cohort of approximately 35 low-income students every five or six years, once their previous class has graduated. The most recent cohort of students is

on track to graduate high school in 2020 and college in 2024.

Brown-McKenzie is optimistic about the future of the program as it continues to evolve and expand, such as through study abroad opportunities for ICP participants.

“The District is becoming so much more global, and poor folks across the river aren’t able to access what that means,” BrownMcKenzie said. “So we build in a study abroad component at no cost to the student. Again, not perfect, but for me, it’s one of the options that allows Georgetown to really be a special place.

Can we do more? Of course.”

For Yeager, no background or income status should prevent local students seeking out university opportunities. She encouraged D.C. high school students to apply, despite concerns they might have.

“If you’re thinking about Georgetown, don’t be afraid to apply,” Yeager said. “Don’t get caught up in the preconceived notions you might have about a [predominantly white institution] or identity because on Georgetown’s campus, there’s definitely a community for everybody.”

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Campus convenience stores Hoya Snaxa and Vital Vittles will no longer sell Juul pods, flavored e-liquid cartridges used with Juul e-cigarettes, following Juul Labs’ Nov. 20 announcement that it would stop selling the flavored pods in stores.

Students of Georgetown, Inc., commonly known as The Corp, operates Snaxa and Vittles and began selling mango, fruit, creme and cucumber Juul pods last spring.

“The Corp has always complied with all rules and regulations that apply to tobacco sales,” Alex Gong (SFS ’20), CEO and President of The Corp, wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We will abide by Juul’s decision to suspend flavored pod sales and foresee no major disruption to our operations.”

In recent months, the Georgetown University Student Association has looked to work with The Corp to end tobacco and nicotine sales on campus, according to GUSA Policy Chair for Student Health Casey Kozak (NHS ’20).

“On Georgetown’s campus, I’m looking forward to this new ban taking effect. It’s not secret that Juuls have become a popular commodity among students, and they are used in just about every part of campus,” Kozak wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Some students have even reported seeing fellow classmates using Juuls during class. I hope that as we move away from tobacco and nicotine products, we can begin to move towards incorporating lifestyle habits that help us feel healthy, happy, and in control.”

On the same day Juul Labs made its announcement, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to regulate flavored cigars in an ongoing effort to reduce youth tobacco use, according to The Washington Post.

The agency has targeted Juuls in the past, and this recent announcement expands the scope of action it plans to take against tobacco and nicotine. Cigarette use persists on Georgetown’s campus even as vapes and Juuls become more popular.

Kozak used a survey to help GUSA understand students’ atti-

tudes toward tobacco and nicotine.

“Thanks to all of the students who filled out our survey, I have a collective picture of student opinions towards tobacco sales on campus,” she wrote. “I believe this information will be extremely helpful to all parties involved, and will help us improve as a campus.”

Kozak acknowledged that the shift away from nicotine products would affect business profits, but is more concerned with the products’ health effects.

“The largest concern around Juuls is the amount of nicotine within them, and how this can lead to addictive behaviors, especially in young users,” Kozak wrote. “My afterthought reaction was the way this decision will affect convenience stores everywhere, including our very own on campus, that often gain large profits from these sales. The more our country moves away from tobacco and nicotine usage, the more convenience stores and other sellers will have to adjust how they make a profit.”

The Corp has not disclosed how much profit it makes from tobacco and nicotine sales.

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Students of Georgetown, Inc., commonly known as The Corp, will stop selling Juul pods after the company, under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, takes its products out of stores.

RILEY ROGERSON Hoya Staff Writer

A petition to ban the pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice and all of its activities from Georgetown’s campus, introduced by Tradition Family Property Student Action, a national anti-abortion rights organization, launched on Nov. 8.

The petition has received over 16,000 signatures as of Nov. 27.

The organization is “pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-God” and seeks to advance Christian values on college campuses, according to the TFP Student Action website. TFP counts Georgetown students and alumni among its members, TFP Student Action Director John Richie said. However, HFC first appeared on TFP’s radar after a Fox News article covered HFC’s initiative to offer free emergency contraception on Georgetown’s campus, according to Richie.

Although HFC does not receive funding and is not officially recognized by the university, the petition calls on University President John J. DeGioia to ban the student group for its “antiCatholic” message.

“With or without recognition, any club that promotes the killing of innocent life or lobbies for the unnatural agenda of the homosexual movement should be barred from an institution worthy of the name Catholic,” volunteer Domenick Galatolo wrote on the TFP Student Action website.

HFC members are not concerned about the potential effects of the petition as they claim that the university cannot ban the organization without infringing on student rights, according to HFC Co-Director of Communications Elianna Schiffrik (COL ’21).

“In general, we are not taking too seriously this petition from an off-campus group calling on Georgetown to ban our organization,” Schiffrik wrote. “As an unrecognized group that operates on campus entirely based on individual student rights, there are no immediate steps that Georgetown could take to ban H*yas for Choice that wouldn’t change overall student rights.”

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A national anti-abortion group petitioned the university administration to ban H*yas for Choice because it provides emergency contraceptives.

According to Schiffrik, although HFC’s daily operations have not impacted by the petition, HFC is cautious about antiabortion rights groups.

“We are incredibly aware, however, that the anti-choice movement has frequently used violence and intimidation to terrorize reproductive justice activists and abortion providers, so we’re staying cautious,” Schiffrik wrote. “As of now, the petition has not impacted our operations in any way.”

The university’s continued acceptance of HFC’s presence on campus betrays its Catholic heritage, according to Richie.

“H*yas for Choice is acting like a chapter for Planned Parenthood on campus – promoting abortion and contraception – which makes Georgetown look more like UC Berkeley,” Richie wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Though Pope Francis softened the church’s stance on those who received abortions, initiating a path for absolution, the Catholic Church remains firmly opposed to abortion, according to The New York Times.

HFC’s presence on campus is unacceptable even as an unrecognized group, according to Galatolo.

“The ability to undermine the

right to life and promote the Culture of Death appears to be enhanced by the lack of official recognition,” Galatolo wrote.

TFP intends to send the petition to DeGioia after it receives 20,000 signatures, according to Richie.

HFC posted a link to the petition and a corresponding video on their Facebook page Nov. 9.

The post encouraged HFC followers to donate to the group.

“Actually though, this video and petition are equal parts entertaining and horrifying.

We face this kind of right-wing backlash to our efforts to advocate for reproductive and sexual healthcare on campus every day. Disagree? Donate and show your support,” the Facebook post said.

There has been an increase in donations and significant student support for HFC in response to the petition, according to Schiffrik.

“Many people have offered words of sympathy, support, and thanks for the services we provide the Georgetown community in the days since we posted about the petition on Facebook, and we also saw a spike in donations after our post,” Schiffrik wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Immersive Internship Program Near Capitol Planned for Fall 2019 SANA RAHMAN Hoya Staff Writer

A program to allow students to spend a semester living and working downtown while earning academic credit for their work will launch in fall 2019, in an effort to allow students to explore the intersection of their academic and professional interests.

The Georgetown University living-learning program, called Capitol Applied Learning Lab, will focus on maximizing students’ immersion in their internships by enabling them to dedicate hours each day to working and living in downtown Washington, D.C. The program seeks to address the reality that many internships in government and public policy are unpaid and not all students can afford to take an unpaid summer internship, according to Vice Provost of Education Randall Bass.

“It’s very much so driven by a sense of equity and the desire that every Georgetown student deserves the opportunity to have a high impact, integrative internship experience as part of their education,” Bass said in an interview with The Hoya.

CALL aims to offer internships in various fields, but the first semester will focus on those in government, public policy and potentially health care systems, according to Bass.

“We absolutely hope that within a year or two that we have internships and students downtown from every possible major and interest,” Bass said. “We are very interested in developing the full range of internships.”

To balance the work students do at their internships during the day, students involved in CALL will take complementary academic courses online or in person at night.

Students will take 12 to 15 credits using a combination of course options, according to Bass, including a foundational course for students to reflect on what they learn from the internship, a set of courses

related to the high-level skills needed for internships and courses targeting professional development skills. Students will also receive housing in the downtown area near their internships.

CALL will open doors to students who in the past have not been able to take on these internships and allow them to intern during the school year while obtaining academic credit, according to Leslie Telleria (COL ’21), who works with the Designing the Future(s) Initiative on its involvement with the project.

“It’s important because looking at the students who are left out from this kind of

internship experience, especially for unpaid internships, it’s unfair. It pushes students who can’t afford to have an unpaid internship to push that aside,” Telleria said in an interview with The Hoya. “This is really going to be successful in allowing more students to get the experience that is so valuable to figuring out what their career is going to look like.”

Though housing will initially be through existing residences in the district, CALL hopes to enrich the experience in the future by having its own residential living in the area, according to Bass.

Georgetown is pushing to ex-

pand its presence close to the Georgetown University Law Center to create what will be known as the Capitol Campus.

“In the first couple of years, we are developing an agreement with another residence that is near there, but we would hope that within a few years, Georgetown itself will have some kind of residential hall or dorm that will be within a few blocks of the Capitol Campus,” Bass said.

The majority of students in CALL will intern at locations whose work aligns with their major or minor, but the program acknowledges that a student’s academic interests may not directly align with their

career goals, Bass said.

“This allows the internship to be a place where students really can explore one potential context for where they would like to work, to really understand what kinds of skills and training are needed to advance in a particular sector,” Bass said. “It’s really an opportunity to help students use the semester to deepen their own sense of purpose and career direction.”

Though there is no limit on the number of students who will be selected for the program in its first semester, CALL expects to accept 25 to 30 students its first year, with plans to expand that number as the

program is further developed.

Currently, an expression of interest form is open, and formal applications will likely go live in January, according to Bass.

CALL will enable students to expand their reach and explore the greater D.C. area, according to associate teaching professor of English Matthew Pavesich, co-developer of CALL’s curriculum.

“We use the phrase ‘break the bubble’ a lot, and this is one of the most muscular ways that we can do so, specifically in the sense that we want to integrate the students’ learning with their experiences outside of the Georgetown bubble,” Pavesich said.

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Students Report Respiratory Illness After Mold Exposure MOLD, from A1 Coster’s symptoms eventually got so bad that she was forced to evacuate her room not once, but twice.

“I went to the emergency room, and they couldn’t figure out what the problem was. I had suspected that it had something to do with the mold,” Coster said. “My lungs were inflamed. As a result, my mom booked a hotel room for me, and I stayed there for three nights.

I felt much better when I was in the hotel without the mold-related symptoms.

Along with requiring some to evacuate, mold-related illness has interrupted students’ lives in other ways. Nash’s illness affected her academics and social life.

“I had to miss too much class because I was so sick, so I had to drop two of my classes. I couldn’t focus, and I was coughing. I had to drop out of chemistry, which is a problem, since I’m pre-med,” Nash said. “I’m now a partial student, because I had to drop so many credits. I almost had to take medical leave. I was sick for 2½ months; I just got better two weeks ago. I’m a runner, but I can’t run now. I couldn’t join any clubs or go out.”

Student facilities requests from August to October more than doubled this year, rising to 361 requests from 147 in 2017.

Black mold is more common in humid areas like Washington, D.C., according to the CDC. “When mold spores drop on places where there is excessive moisture, such as where leakage may have occurred in roofs, pipes, walls, plant pots, or where there has been flooding, they will grow,” according to the CDC website.

Unusually high rates of rain this year exacerbated mold issues on campus, according to a university spokesperson.

“By Aug. 22, before New Student Orientation, 2018 was already the sixth wettest year on record in more than 100 years. Then, by Sept.

23, it became the third wettest year on record for Washington,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As of Monday, a 141 year record for rain in the month of November was broken and DC was within an inch of being the wettest year ever on record.”

At 17.98 inches, the D.C. area received just over 10 more inches of rainfall between August and October 2018 than in the same time period last year, which received 7.39 inches, according to a university spokesperson.

Because of the increase in rainfall, the Office of Planning and Facilities Management has received an influx of work orders requesting mold removal. The heightened rainfall and humidity contributed to a high volume of work orders,

Interim Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Gregory Simmons said.

“Our facilities office reviews all requests relating to mold and directs safety managers to conduct mold assessments within two business days,” Simmons wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The on-site assessment includes a visual inspection for the presence of mold, and also includes the monitoring of space temperature and relative humidity to ensure that those building conditions are not contributing to mold formation. Finally, the space is reviewed to determine if moisture has entered the space, and related repairs are scheduled as necessary.”

If mold is detected, cleanup typically occurs the same day, and dehumidifiers are installed if necessary, Simmons said.

Students have been frustrated with facilities’ handling of moldrelated complaints. Coster is disappointed with facilities and feels the administration does not prioritize students’ health.

“I think facilities is handling the mold poorly,” Coster said. “My neighbors are sick because they also have black mold in their radiator, and they put in seven work orders. Facilities never came. We had black mold in our showers, and they painted over the mold.

We can still see it. We have mold in our carpet, too. Facilities brings dehumidifiers in for a day or two, but then they take them away and the mold comes back.”

The health and well-being of students is facilities’ top priority, Simmons said, encouraging students to seek help if they think their health is being affected by the presence of mold.

“If students believe mold is impacting any part of their health, we encourage them to contact Student Health Services for information about using the array of health services available to all students,” Simmons wrote. “Any student with a medical condition can work with the Academic Resource Center to request medical housing.

Students who have a documented need will be assigned housing that meets their need.”

However, blaming Georgetown’s mold problems primarily on this season’s weather — as a university spokesperson did in a Nov. 29 email to The Hoya — ignores the university’s recent history of mold on campus.

On Oct. 18, Sarah Mendelsohn (COL ’21) received a diagnosis of cough variant asthma, which is exacerbated by mold, according to the National Institutes of Health.

(Full disclosure: Mendelsohn is a news desk editor at The Hoya.)

Georgetown’s 2014 refusal to reach an agreement with a university employee over worsened health conditions led to the em-

ployee’s termination the following year. Two years later, the employee filed a lawsuit against Georgetown, claiming her medical issues were aggravated by mold in her university workplace (“Former Employee’s Lawsuit Reveals Mold Hazards,” The Hoya, Feb. 7, 2018, A1).

As far back as 2010, The Hoya’s editorial board noted “mold infestation” as one of the “many maintenance issues that always arise at the beginning of each year.”

Evidently, this year’s weather is not solely responsible for Georgetown’s ills. If the university is truly interested in resolving a health crisis on campus, it must first recognize the urgent health risks mold presents. Georgetown’s efforts to combat campus mold so far fail to meet this standard.

Previous reporting in The Hoya documented multiple cases in which facilities took several days to respond to cases. Mendelsohn, for example, called facilities six times without receiving a response.

Facilities’ practices are clearly inadequate in addressing students’ health concerns. However, even proper execution of current practices would fail to achieve the mold eradication Georgetown’s campus desperately needs.

Georgetown seems to recognize the problem — at least in part. Greg Simmons, interim vice president for planning and facilities management, outlined the university’s plan to more thoroughly examine buildings that have seen increases in mold-related requests in coordination with a hygienist from environmental consulting firm Eastern Research Group.

“This work will include inspections, testing of air quality, and a review of building systems” over winter break, Simmons wrote in an email to The Hoya. He also noted a pilot program for the break in which all bathrooms on campus “will be thoroughly cleaned.”

These efforts are a good start — but not enough to keep Georgetown students healthy in the long term.

The university should prioritize long-term mold eradication in residential buildings, likely over the course of several months during the summer.

This deep cleaning would include conditioning carpets, redoing drywall where necessary, and replacing furniture and carpets if necessary. While a project of this magnitude would carry logistical consequences, doing the work during the summer would carry minimal complications for students.

For a decade, Georgetown has functionally ignored the deeply rooted mold problem on campus.

To protect its students’ health, the university must take serious and consequential action.

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University President John J. DeGioia called for student feedback on proposed changes to Title IX regulations in an email sent to the Georgetown community Nov. 16.

DeGioia Seeks Student Input To Inform Title IX Response TITLE IX, from A1 students to provide comment, it is not anonymous and does not include clear information about the proposed changes.

“The proposed regulations are intended to promote the purpose of Title IX by requiring recipients to address sexual harassment, assisting and protecting victims of sexual harassment and ensuring that due process protections are in place for individuals accused of sexual harassment,” according to the Department of Education.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has long promised updated Title IX regulations and in 2017 withdrew two Obama-era guiding documents, including the 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter” that required universities to use the lowest-possible legal standard of proof in an attempt to protect the accuser.

After the release of the proposed regulations, nearly 300 students signed a letter requesting that Georgetown University submit a comment opposing the regulations and urging transparency in the institutional response. Students delivered the

letter, organized by STAIV, to the Office of the President on Nov. 16.

Kilkenny affirmed the university’s commitment to preventing sexual misconduct and supporting survivors, at the time of the letter’s delivery.

“We will continue to focus on education and prevention, support for survivors, and prompt and equitable processes to respond to reports and complaints of sexual misconduct,” Kilkenny said in an article published by The Hoya on Nov. 20.

“Our current policies and processes continue to remain in place. We will carefully review the Department of Education’s proposed Title IX regulations.”

STAIV acknowledged that the listening sessions are a clear effort to respond to STAIV’s prior efforts to increase student input in university Title IX policy.

“We recognize that the University is responding to our demands to facilitate student input and request administrators attend the town hall we are hosting in January when finals are over and students have more capacity to respond to these new proposed regula-

tions,” the group wrote.

The email comes amid the university’s search for a new Title IX coordinator after Laura Cutway’s departure in June. The university has completed its first round of interviews for the position as of Nov. 15. In the meantime, Title IX Investigator Samantha Berner has served as interim Title IX coordinator, a move criticized by some student groups.

Listening sessions will also be held for the Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Medical Center.

DeGioia’s email emphasized the work of the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Advisory Committee regarding sexual misconduct prevention and education, including the launch of a second campus climate survey, set to open in the spring semester.

“Georgetown University remains deeply committed to eradicating all forms of sexual assault and misconduct on campus and to providing an environment in which all members of our community can pursue their very best work,” DeGioia wrote. “We look forward to engaging with you on these important steps ahead.”

University to Replace Preregistration Student Denied Exit from China; GU Responds REGISTRATION, from A1

Ellucian. Because the preregistration system is a customization, it will implode when we upgrade to Banner 9, which is on a different, more modern platform than Banner 8,” Lorenson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “And we have to upgrade to Banner 9; if we don’t, the integrity of our entire student information system is in jeopardy.”

The new system will require students to prepare more rigorously, according to College Academic Council President Jacqueline Crispino (COL ’19).

“People have to be ready to look up their classes ahead of time and come with, honestly, way more than their five classes,” Crispino said.

“Come maybe with a group of 10 courses they would be willing to take, or a bunch of electives they don’t have to take.”

Under the current preregistration system, schedules are delayed by weeks while the preregistrations are processed by the registrar’s office and students cannot make changes until the Add/ Drop period begins. Last fall, preregistration opened Nov. 6 and closed for students in the College on Nov. 15 and on Nov. 18 for all other students.

Results were not posted until Dec. 6, 2½ weeks after preregistration closed to all students.

Under the live registration system, students will no longer rank classes by interest to increase their chances of landing a spot in the classes they care about most. Rather, priority will be assigned by seniority, except when departments or professors impose further restrictions.

Academic departments are

discussing ways to ensure courses include students from a range of class years and that majors can register for the classes they want, according to Lorenson.

The current preregistration algorithm accounts for class year, major and class request ranking, while the new system would only account for class year, though seats can be set aside for students meeting certain qualifications to complete requirements, Lorenson said.

Students will always be able to get into the courses they need in order to graduate on time, according to Associate Vice President and University Registrar Annamarie Bianco.

The 2016 GUSA referendum on live registration exposed strong opposition to the then-proposal to switch to live registration. Eighty-three percent of respondents supported preregistration, while only 7 percent voted in favor of live registration, according to a report released by GUSA. “While the current system may be shrouded in behindthe-scenes schedule manipulation that limits process transparency, the referendum results demonstrate that students are more concerned with the prioritization and strategy that pre-registration promotes than they are with the clarity of this process,” the six-page report said.

The 2016 referendum discussed several possible problems with the new system, including the difficulty of assigning priority to varsity athletes or other groups with specific scheduling concerns and the potential inconvenience for students studying abroad in different time zones, who may have to wake up in the middle of the night

to register.

The referendum also discussed the difficulty that the time-sensitive element may pose to those with restrictive work or class schedules, and therefore the possibility that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds will have less desirable schedules than wealthier students who do not have to work. The report acknowledges, though, that live registration would improve speed and transparency.

Student responses to the change have been mostly negative so far, though most people have not yet heard about the change, according to Crispino.

“Most people who hear about it seem to be against it,” Crispino said. “It’s definitely not the housing lottery. You have more than just a few minutes to choose.”

However, students should not be overly concerned, according to Crispino.

“I think it’s going to be a much easier system once you get past that first rush of students signing up, because you’ll know immediately how many seats are open,” Crispino said. “If you’re on summer break, and you decide you want to switch classes, you can just add something and drop something. So in that way it will be easier.”

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Georgetown University plans to switch to live registration because of incompatibility with the old preregistration software.

CHINA, from A1 the Liu siblings all hold U.S. citizenship. Born in California, Victor Liu is one of few individuals on whom China has placed an exit ban born outside of its borders.

The Liu siblings’ situation has attracted the attention of national policymakers, including Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who is paying close attention to the status of Han and her children, according to a Nov. 27 tweet.

“My office is aware of Victor’s, Cynthia’s, and Sandra’s situations and is deeply concerned,” the tweet said. “We are working to secure their safe return and continue to be in touch with U.S. officials to ensure a positive outcome.”

The U.S. State Department has previously expressed opposition to the Chinese government’s use of exit bans to hold U.S. citizens. The State Department issued a travel advisory in January, warning that U.S. travellers may find themselves subject to guidelines imposed by the Chinese government, according to The New York Times.

The State Department remains in regular contact with the Liu siblings to ensure consular services are available to the siblings, a State Department official wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“The safety and security of American citizens is a top priority for the Depart-

ment of State,” the official wrote. “We routinely have shared our concern about China’s use of exit bans on American citizens with the Chinese government and will continue to do so until we see a transparent and fair process.”

The Office of Endowment, where Victor Liu worked on campus, wish to see him back at Georgetown soon, according to Georgetown’s Chief Investment Officer Michael Barry.

“He is a very kind person, and from my experience, someone of integrity,” Barry wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We at the Investment Office are deeply saddened by his situation. We hope for his speedy return and keep him and his family in our prayers.”

Members of Georgetown University’s Asian American Student Association condemned the exit ban, calling it a violation of international human rights.

“We call on the People’s Republic of China for the unconditional and immediate release of both Victor and Cynthia,” the AASA executive board wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Repeated violations of the most basic of human rights by Chinese authorities, such as in this instance, demand a strong response and constant vigilance.”

Hoya Staff Writer Will Cassou contributed reporting.

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Bowser Facebook Post Sparks Debate Over Mumbo Sauce NESTOR LABASTIDA Special to The Hoya

The nation’s spicy and sweet staple, mumbo sauce, became the center of an unexpected debate when Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) claimed that the sauce is not quintessential D.C. in a Facebook post Nov. 20.

“Is anybody else annoyed by Mumbo sauce?” Bowser wrote in her Facebook post. “I wish people would stop suggesting that it is quintessential DC. I’m just saying I was a full grown woman before I had heard of mumbo sauce! So there, I’ve said it.”

Bowser’s post sparked debate around the District, with some users commenting that her post reflects the effects of gentrification in D.C. Bowser’s post received over 1,500 comments as of Wednesday evening.

Although it was originally created in Chicago during the late 1900s, mumbo sauce gained its popularity in D.C.

and is now more popular in the District than in Chicago, according to The Washington Post. The popular condiment, a barbecue-sauce-like combination of spicy and sweet flavors, can now be found all over the District, particularly in local takeout restaurants.

Bowser’s comment is a shift from her previously expressed view of mumbo sauce. In a 2017 letter written to Arsha and Charles Jones, who founded Capital City, a company that sells the sauce, Bowser praised the couple and their sauce’s impact on the city, according to The Washington Post.

“Nothing makes me prouder than when a DC native builds on a dream and sells a product that reminds customers young and old about our great city,” Bowser wrote in the letter.

Del. David Moon (D) from the Maryland House of Delegates issued his own comment through Twitter, mocking Bowser’s post but replacing mumbo sauce with Old Bay,

Maryland’s own popular seasoning, according to The Washington Post.

“Is anybody else annoyed by Old Bay seasoning? I wish people would stop suggesting that it is quintessential MD. I’m just saying I was a full grown man before I had heard of Old Bay seasoning! So there, I’ve said it,” Moon tweeted.

Despite the widespread negative response to the post, Bowser intended to spur a friendly citywide debate and conversation for Thanksgiving, said LaToya Foster, press secretary and deputy communications director for media relations.

“The Mayor wanted to provide DC residents something to discuss on Thanksgiving beyond the midterm elections, backup quarterbacks and holiday shopping deals,” Foster wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“All may participate in the debate; however, DC residents must lead the mumbo sauce portion.”

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Washington, D.C. councilmembers introduced a bill Nov. 20 to grant two hours of paid leave on Election Day. The bill aims to make elections more accessible to employees with strict work-time requirements.

DC Council Considering Law to Grant Paid Election Day Leave DUSTIN HARTUV Hoya Staff Writer

Nine Washington, D.C. councilmembers introduced a bill that would compel businesses to give workers two hours of paid leave on Election Day. The bill, called the Paid Leave to Vote Amendment Act of 2018, was introduced Nov. 20. If passed, the bill would grant workers up to two hours of paid leave to vote in all District-wide elections. It would also make it illegal for employers to interfere with or deny employees’ attempts to vote.

Currently, the District has no law requiring employers provide workers time off to vote.

If the council passes the legislation, D.C. would join 20 states that guarantee employees paid time to vote during the work day, according to Vote411.org. Ten other states allow employees unpaid time off to vote.

Though District elections generally followed accessibility procedures this November, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), one of the bill’s sponsors, criticized the elections for being inaccessible to employees who cannot wait in long lines or commute to the polls because of work require-

ments in a Nov. 20 statement.

“The right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy, yet the District does not have any protections in place for residents who need to take leave in order to vote,” Cheh wrote. “There is more we can do to ensure that all eligible voters are able to engage in this important civic duty, and guaranteeing leave is one way we can remove some of the practical barriers to higher voter participation.”

Select employers in the District already granted their workers paid leave on Election Day this year. Restaurants Cava and &pizza were two of several businesses that allowed employees paid leave, and Patagonia was closed on Election Day. Local restaurant chain &pizza gave employees the time off during the work day to encourage them to participate in causes they care about, according to a spokesperson.

“Voting is an essential right and our employee base is largely made up of young people whose voices desperately need to be heard right now,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Cava recognizes that there are many barriers workers face that result in them not being able to vote, co-founder Ted Xe-

nohristos told Washingtonian on Oct. 22.

“It’s not always easy for everyone with childcare and finding transportation and working multiple jobs,” Xenohristos said. “With the voter turnout being so low in the states, we’re trying to get people to be part of their communities and get them involved.”

This resolution follows a series of initiatives the council has considered to ease voter accessibility. D.C. began automatically registering residents who complete applications for drivers licenses in June, and recently tabled legislation would lower the District’s voting age to 16.

Although the bill has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, there have been no further updates yet, according to the D.C. Council’s website.

However, according to the &pizza spokesperson, the experiment was a success.

“We heard amazing feedback from both our employees and customers who supported us fully in this decision, and will continue to provide our Tribe with the time and resources to take a stance on the causes that matter most to them,” the spokesperson wrote.

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) instigated a citywide debate about the role of mumbo sauce in D.C. culture with a Nov. 20 Facebook post. The post received thousands of comments.

ANC Votes to Rename Street After Murdered Journalist WILL CASSOU Hoya Staff Writer

A Washington, D.C. neighborhood commission voted to rename a street outside the Saudi Embassy in honor of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A, which oversees the Foggy Bottom and West End neighborhoods, voted unanimously Wednesday night to name a section of New Hampshire Avenue outside Saudi Arabia’s embassy “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” according to ANC 2A Chairman William Smith.

Following the ANC’s vote, the D.C. Council will review the issue for approval. The approval process may occur in January because the end of the D.C Council’s session is at the end of December, Smith said.

Current city code only allows public spaces to be named in honor of anyone who has been deceased for more than two

EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA

Washington, D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A voted to rename the street outside the Saudi Embassy to honor journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey.

years, postponing the street’s renaming.

A CIA assessment concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely ordered the murder of Khashoggi, The Washington Post reported Nov. 16.

ANC 2A, which does not usually involve itself in incidents of international significance, wanted to commemorate Khashoggi because he was a D.C. resident. The commission also felt that an appropriate response from President Donald Trump was missing, according to Smith.

“That created a vacuum, and in our system of government, we have different branches, and we felt it was appropriate to say something that reinforced the values we think are part of our heritage,” Smith said, referring to the lack of appropriate response from Trump.

Trump has cast doubt on the veracity of the CIA report and has indicated his willingness to continue cooperating with Crown Prince Mohammed. The crown prince and Saudi Ambassador Khalid bin Salman, who was allegedly also implicated in the CIA report, have both continually denied their involvement in Khashoggi’s murder.

The spokesperson for the Saudi Embassy in D.C. did not respond to requests for comment as of press time.

Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), whose ward includes ANC 2A, supports the

initiative to rename the street in honor of Khashoggi, according to his communications director, Joe Florio.

Evans will support the resolution even if it takes two years to move forward, Florio said in an interview with The Hoya.

The resolution to rename the street comes in part as a response to a petition launched

by Michael Werz, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and Gary Schmitt, a resident scholar and director of the Program on American Citizenship and Resident Scholar Strategic Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

“It is important for the Saudi government and its leadership to be reminded, and our American government to assert, that such behavior is unacceptable,” Werz and Schmitt wrote in an opinion piece published in The Hill. “Requiring Saudi officials to come to work every day at ‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’ is one simple way to get this point across in a daily and concrete fashion.”

The petition, which urges Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the D.C. Council to allow for a public street in honor of Khashoggi despite current city code, received over 8,100 signatures as of Thursday afternoon.

“Given the principles at stake, we urge Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council to make an exception in this case,” the petition reads.

Before Wednesday night’s vote, Smith shared the proposed resolution with the Committee to Protect Journalists, an nongovernmental organization that promotes freedom of speech and seeks to protect the rights of journalists. The CPJ expressed support for the resolution at Wednesday’s meeting and sought to ensure that ANC 2A’s residents understood its significance, according to CPJ’s Washington Advocacy Manager Michael DeDora.

“It sends a daily reminder to Saudi officials that U.S. residents reject their repressive tactics and strongly support freedom of thought and of the press,” DeDora said in a statement at Wednesday night’s commission meeting.

“If the Saudis can get away with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, then no journalist anywhere is safe.”

Though much of the CPJ’s work focuses on the international arena, protecting free speech on a local level is imperative as well, according to DeDora.

“It’s wonderful that a local government would take such strong action in response to an international incident,” DeDora said in an interview with The Hoya. “It’s also very important that at the local level, United States citizens are able to express themselves and pursue democratic measures to make those expressions heard in the community.”

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Students Petition University to Install Treadmill Desks in Lauinger MAX LEVINE

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A petition to add treadmill desks to Lauinger Library was introduced before Thanksgiving break.

Martha Winslow (COL ’21) posted the petition on Facebook as a discussion event to be held today. The petition gained traction, and 137 Facebook users have indicated they expect to attend the event Friday afternoon.

Another 368 users expressed interest in the event.

Winslow said she hopes adding treadmill desks to Lau will help students do better academically.

“There have (probably) been studies shown that correlate productivity to standing and/ or walking. And honestly like I think I have back problems from leaning over the tables in Lau 2 far too often,” Winslow wrote in the event information section.

Winslow originally got this idea from visiting a friend at a different college where the library actually had treadmill desks, she said.

“I visited my friend who goes to a small college in Santa Barbara and they had treadmill desks in their library — that’s what the picture in the Facebook event is, it’s a picture from their library — and I just thought it was really cool,” Winslow said.

Treadmill desks have potential health benefits, because they enable students to spend their study time standing up, Winslow said.

“I definitely think that the health benefits are important,” Winslow said. “Speaking from

my personal experience, I have back problems just because I played a lot of sports growing up which kind of messed up my back — nothing super serious.”

Studies have shown mixed results regarding the effectiveness of using treadmill desks.

A University of Michigan study showed that they do not affect thinking processes but do decrease memory function.

The treadmill desks could help mitigate Georgetown’s stress culture, Winslow said.

“It’s also just like part of the Georgetown culture, it’s like you study all the time, you stay up late,” Winslow said. “So I actually think it would be useful and benefit just [your] physical health to be able to walk while you’re doing your readings.”

Winslow said she believes students will feel more comfortable working out and completing academic assignments in Lau than in Yates Field House.

“I know some people who bring their readings to Yates sometimes,” she said. “I’ve never done that because I’m too scared of the judgment, but like if it were here, then there wouldn’t be a judgment because you’re in the library.”

The idea for treadmill desks began as a joke, but Winslow said she is serious about pursuing this change to Lau. “I have not done a lot of research on this. My current plan is to do some research before I actually present it to some higher authority,” Winslow said.

“It started out as lowkey a joke but then it ended up gaining so

much support there’s like a ton of people saying that they’re going to an event that I don’t even know. So now I’m like if people actually agree with me then maybe I could take [the petition] somewhere and actually make it happen.”

Casey Doherty (COL ’20), Georgetown University Student Association director of

campus affairs, said she plans to bring the petition to the next GUSA senior staff meeting.

“I’m actually planning on bringing it up at my next GUSA senior staff meeting, to see if there’s anything we can do to help this project,” Doherty wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Despite the attention the pe-

tition garnered on Facebook, Doherty said GUSA has not yet determined its stance on the petition.

“We haven’t discussed it as a senior staff yet, so I am unsure about anyone else’s interest,” Doherty wrote.

Doherty said she favors the petition, but that the project may need amendments to

make it more feasible.

“I am in favor of the petition, but I understand that treadmill desks will be costly,” Doherty wrote. “I would definitely be interested in advocating for lesscostly standing desks in Lau.” The proposal is set to be brought to the GUSA senior staff meeting this Sunday, Dec. 2.

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Martha Winslow (COL ’21) introduced a petition to bring treadmill desks to Lauinger Library. Winslow said the treadmill desks would improve student health and productivity. She will host a discussion about the petition Nov. 30.

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The McDonough School of Business launched a yearlong program for residents of Washington, D.C., released from correctional facilties to obtain certificates in business and entrepreneurship.

Georgetown Launches Inmate Re-Entry and Education Program ALEXANDRA BOWMAN Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. residents released from local correctional facilities are eligible for an academic and employmentcentered fellowship program.

The Georgetown Pivot Program is a fellowship for formerly incarcerated individuals through a one-year transition and re-entry program with a non-credit-bearing certificate in business and entrepreneurship. The program, which began this November, is a partnership between local government and university entities that blends academic work and supported employment..

Pivot Program fellows engage in a full-time program and spend half their time in class and training and the rest in internships. The curriculum focuses on business and entrepreneurial training, general academics and liberal arts courses to develop fellows’ professional skills, according to Pivot Program Academic Director Alyssa Lovegrove.

“The program also lets us give back to the community, in line with Jesuit values, including inclusivity and service,” Lovegrove said in an interview with The Hoya. “This program is also a great way for us to use our network as the business school.”

The program is a collaboration between the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown College, the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative, the Washington, D.C. Department of Employment Services, the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs, and the

D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development. “[The program] was an evolution and outgrowth of some of the programs that already exist, including the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program,” Lovegrove said.

The Prison Scholars Program, launched in January 2018, offers courses to incarcerated D.C. residents awaiting trial, serving short sentences or preparing to return to their communities after a longer incarceration period.

However, Lovegrove said employers with knowledge of a candidate’s status as a formerly incarcerated individual may feel less comfortable hiring that candidate, a dilemma the Pivot Program hopes to alleviate.

“A big proportion of the workers are formerly incarcerated. If you can’t find employment, you can’t make a living,” she said. “These people might not get past the door. We are trying to get employers to look at people as individuals and become more comfortable employing formerly incarcerated people.”

The Pivot Program is selective, with space for only 20 fellows, though it may expand in the future. The program looks for leadership capability in applicants, given the program’s focus on community-based entrepreneurship, Lovegrove said.

Lovegrove described the pressing need for such a program in the District and the United States more broadly.

“There are more than seven million Americans currently under some form of correctional control, and one in four

adults has a criminal record,” Lovegrove said.

D.C. has the highest incarceration rate in the country and the third-highest rate of criminal justice control, according to the Justice Policy Institute.

About 5 percent of the D.C. population is under some form of criminal justice control like incarceration or probation.

The Pivot Program intends to ensure employment readiness and prepare fellows for a variety of futures and outcomes, including long-term employment, entrepreneurship or continuing education, according to the program website.

Lovegrove explained that, with additional resources, the Pivot Program will ideally raise funding and support for the businesses envisioned by the fellows.

“Access to funding and capital would be something we’d look for in the future,” she said.

Lovegrove said she hopes students will become involved in the program.

“We are hoping to find ways for students to get engaged — students could possibly be tutors and mentors to these individuals,” she said.

Going forward, the Pivot Program hopes to expand the possible entry points for formerly incarcerated individuals beyond the current restrictions, Lovegrove said.

“We’d like to create a program that can be replicated elsewhere, both here and in other cities,” Lovegrove said.“We’d like to make something other universities can replicate. It would be wonderful to have a program like this elsewhere beyond D.C. in other urban areas.”

More than 100 senior women in the Georgetown Scholarship Program attended the eighth annual LOFT Styling Workshop earlier this month to learn tips for dressing in the workplace and select professional clothing provided by LOFT. The event took place at the women’s clothing retailer’s branch on Wisconsin Avenue and was organized by LOFT in cooperation with GSP, which provides support, advising, networking and mentoring to over 600 Georgetown undergraduates, most of whom are first-generation college students or come from low-income family backgrounds.

The LOFT workshop began after members of the GSP Advisory Board realized students in the program needed guidance on professional clothing options. The board brought students to a LOFT store to help them find appropriate outfits, according to GSP Assistant Director Mariana González (MSB ’15).

“Our board members took

some of our senior ladies to LOFT to help them pick out clothes for interviews that they had coming up,” González said. “Gary Muto, who was the CEO of LOFT at the time, had a daughter going to Georgetown, and he found out that we had done this and he thought it was amazing and offered to provide that opportunity for all GSP senior ladies.”

Workshop attendees each received a $250 gift card to use at the LOFT store, in addition to a special 50 percent discount on all clothing items in the store, according to González, who served as the GSP staff liaison for the LOFT workshop and worked with LOFT to help coordinate the event.

A GSP graduate herself, González attended the workshop twice during her time at Georgetown.

González said the event with LOFT allowed her to feel more prepared for the interview process when she was a student.

“The workshop was really special. I had a number of interviews that I was able to use my clothing for,” González said.

“A sentiment that we’ve had

echoed from a lot of our senior ladies is that it goes beyond just getting clothes — it gives an added level of confidence in knowing that you have people who believe in and support you so much that they’re willing to do all of this.”

In addition to the complimentary merchandise, LOFT also brought in employees to offer GSP students advice on crafting a professional wardrobe, picking the right clothing choices for different workplace situations, mixing and matching outfits effectively, and shopping with a budget in mind.

Beatrice Hociota (MSB ’19), a GSP student who attended the workshop, said she gained helpful professional insight from the event.

“While this experience gave me some key pieces to have in my wardrobe for the workforce next year, it also taught me a lot about how to continue to be smart with my purchase in the future,” Hociota wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It prepared me for the immediate future and enabled me to succeed going forward as well.”

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The Georgetown Scholarship Program hosted its eighth annual LOFT style workshop to help women learn how to dress in the workplace. Attendees received $250 to spend at the LOFT store in Georgetown.

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Local Activist Honored With Reform Latin American Legacy of a Dream Award Food Policy, Researchers Say MEREDITH MILLER Special to The Hoya

Community activist and cofounder of nonprofit One Common Unity Hawah Kasat will be awarded the 2019 John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream award, Georgetown University announced Nov. 20.

Georgetown presents the Legacy of a Dream award annually to an individual who has shown outstanding service consistent with the Jesuit value of women and men for others.

One Common Unity is a nonprofit organization seeking to break the cycle of community violence by promoting music, art and nonviolence education.

OCU works to spread its mission among Washington, D.C. children ages 11 to 18, primarily through after-school programming and summer camps.

“We’re using the arts and we’re using education to heal communities and transform people’s lives,” Kasat said in an interview with The Hoya.

Kasat and his co-founders started the organization in 2000 following a string of school shootings, a phenomenon he believes increases the organization’s relevance in the current era.

“Throughout the country, we are being faced with violence in all forms. Gun violence is one of those forms, but there’s so much division and polarization and conflict that’s happening, we require and we need outlets and skills to handle conflict nonviolently,” Kasat said. “It’s really relevant — it’s probably more relevant today than it was even back then.”

In the 2018-2019 school year, OCU’s flagship Fly By Light program is set to serve 5,000 youth in 15 D.C. public schools through a combination of workshops, field trips, perfor-

mances and nature retreats, all of which have the goal of promoting artistic expression, social-emotional literacy, health and wellness, environmental leadership, social justice and peace education, according to the OCU website.

“We’re using the arts and we’re using education to heal communities and transform people’s lives.”

HAWAH KASAT 2019 John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award Recipient

OCU runs educational programs for local teachers, artists and musicians, encouraging them to promote peace and create student communities built around compassion. OCU’s programs have engaged over 25,000 people in its education and artistic efforts, according to the OCU website.

A recently completed fiveyear impact survey from OCU reported that 84 percent of their former students graduated high school, while D.C.’s average 2018 high school graduation rate was 60 percent, according to The Washington Post. The same survey showed that zero percent of former OCU program participants spent time in juvenile detention, jail or prison.

The Legacy of a Dream award is named in honor of its first recipient, John Thompson Jr., the influential Georgetown basketball coach emeritus. Throughout his career, Thompson pro-

moted the fair treatment of athletes, particularly athletes of color, in the NCAA. In the past, recipients of the award have included both domestic and international civil rights leaders. Previous honorees include Rosa Parks, who was given the award posthumously in 2006, and former basketball player and prominent humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo (COL ’91), who was honored in 2010.

Since 2013, the focus of the award has shifted to promote local activism and encourage community leaders in the District, according to Georgetown’s description of the award.

The recipient of the award enters into a yearlong commitment and sustained partnership with the university, aiming to create better recognition and opportunity for their organization and their cause.

Kasat said while he is honored to receive the award, the purpose of his community work has not been to gain recognition.

“This is a great boost and a great opportunity to reflect on what we’ve done, and I feel really grateful to have been chosen,” Kasat said. “My whole life has been dedicated to this work for 20 years, and you don’t do this work to get recognized — I’ve never done this work to get recognized. I’ve been doing this work because it’s my life’s calling, it’s what makes me feel good about looking in the mirror every day and feeling like I’m living a life worth waking up to.”

Kasat is set to be formally presented with the award on Jan. 21, 2019, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as a part of the free “Let Freedom Ring!” celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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The food system in Latin America must be reformed to create healthier options for low-income and vulnerable groups, Eugenio DíazBonilla, head of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Latin America Program, said at an event Nov. 27 in the Intercultural Center.

A food system includes the inputs and outputs of all the processes involved in the production and distribution of food, from growing the food to the disposal of food. The International Food Policy Research Institute’s Latin America Program seeks to eliminate malnutrition by evaluating food practices within the Latin American food system.

The event also featured adjunct professor for the Center for Latin American Studies Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano, IFPRI research analyst Florencia Paz and visiting researcher Patricia Caporaso. The Center for Latin American Studies and the Latin America Leadership Program, which manages programs hosted by Georgetown’s Latin American Board, sponsored the event.

Though many Latin American countries h xave poverty and hunger rates far lower than other developing regions, their residents still struggle with maintaining an adequate level of nutrition in their diets and many suffer from vitamin deficiencies, according to Díaz-Bonilla.

“About 200 million people suffer from vitamin deficiencies, although this is an old number that the Food and Agriculture Organization is

recalculating,” Díaz-Bonilla said. “About 1.9 million people are at least overweight.”

The Latin American food system involves the contributions of 50 percent of the global population and generates around 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, Díaz-Bonilla said.

Restructuring the entire food system poses logistical challenges and risks negative effects on the economy and employment, according to Díaz-Bonilla.

“You want to have a food system that generates good employment, that reduces poverty, that uses low energy,” Díaz-Bonilla said. “There is a basic reality in economics that if you have more than one objective, you need more than one instrument. It’s not easy to coordinate.”

Minimal access to health options causes obesity among those of a lower economic status, according to Díaz-Bonilla.

Yet, the issue of obesity is difficult to quantify because of other factors such as ethnicity and genetics. As a result, the conditions can affect certain ethnicities at a greater rate than others, according to Díaz-Bonilla.

Obesity disproportionately affects women in Latin America and the Caribbean compared to other regions, according to Biermayr-Jenzano, who is affiliated with the Latin America, environmental studies and women’s studies departments at Georgetown.

“The rise of this condition has gender implications, disproportionately affecting women in more than 20 countries in the region,” Biermayr-Jenzano said. “The rate of female obesity is 10

percent higher than for men, pointing to the gender divide, as we call it.”

A point of entry for improving the food system is through increasing the quantity of healthy food at informal street vendors, according to Biermayr-Jenzano. On the beaches in Salvador, Brazil, only 0.4 percent of street vendors currently sell fruit, according to Biermayr-Jenzano.

“I have seen women in Latin America being 80 percent of those who sell food on the streets. They are like the entry point to offer good options instead of foods high in sugar, or fried,” Biermayr-Jenzano said. “If we have these people offering these options [be] more educated with certifications, we can improve a lot of the food offerings.”

Reshaping the food system in Latin America is urgently needed, according to Caporaso, who researches food policy and strategy in relationship to the food system and obesity in Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Nearly 60 percent of people in Latin America are overweight, Caporaso said.

“The numbers speak for themselves,” Caporaso said.

“58 percent of people in Latin America are overweight. If we don’t do serious work and fast, this problem is going to increase seriously.”

Improving the food system and health outcomes for Latin American residents requires evaluating and considering already existing policy, according to Caporaso.

“There are several countries in Latin America that have developed policies already, so the objective is to evaluate their effectiveness and the challenges,” Caporaso said.

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Members of a working group sponsored by the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy reported climate effects in the Arctic will pose economic and national security threats to the United States.

Climate Change in Arctic To Shift Global Economy KARENA LANDER Hoya Staff Writer

Climate change will have drastic economic, political and military consequences worldwide because of its effects on the Arctic, members of a university working group on the Arctic said at an event on Wednesday in the Mortara Center.

The panel included Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Ambassador Barbara Bodine, professor of environmental policy Jeremy Mathis and Director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Heather Conley.

The working group released a report in July entitled “The New Arctic,” detailing the changing environment of the Arctic.

The report studied the long-term effects of climate change, including the effects it will have on indigenous populations. The changes in the Arctic cannot be reversed, and they will have lasting political and economic impacts on the entire world, Bodine said.

“The Arctic is drastically changing and there is no turning back at this point,” Bodine said. “And there’s probably nowhere where the effects of climate change and what it means for economics, trade, the environment and security all comes together and is more pronounced than

in the Arctic.”

Climate change directly relates to the increased incidence of major storms, droughts and threats to the livelihoods of indigenous communities within the Arctic, according to Bodine.

The global threat of climate change is physically more pronounced within the Arctic Circle, according to Mathis, who said that the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet.

“We know that the permafrost is thawing, we know the glaciers are melting, we know all these physical changes are happening,” Mathis said.

The landscape of the Arctic is undergoing unprecedented and massive changes, evident in the form of melting ice, Mathis said.

“We’re running out of adjectives to describe what’s happening in the Arctic,” Mathis said. “Every year we think, ‘This can’t change faster than it’s changing now,’ and then we step into a new reality that we didn’t quite predict and understand, and then it gets worse the following year.”

The Arctic is emerging as a future focal point of economic competition because of its accessible resources such as oil and natural gas.

Infrastructure is needed to support these emerging resources, Bodine said.

“The U.S. geologic survey estimates that the Arctic con-

tains 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 90 billion barrels of oil,” Bodine said.

“This, however, is not going to happen overnight. It’s going to take at least 20 years for these minerals and these resources to come onto the market. The reason for this is that there is scant infrastructure in the Arctic region.”

The management of the newly accessible resources needs to be addressed multilaterally, according to Bodine.

The United States lacks a significant policy towards the Arctic, but will need to develop one to protect its national security, Mathis said.

“We have to start thinking about this as a clear and present danger to … our national security and our way of life, and our way of thinking about how we interact with the environment,” Mathis said.

The working group hopes that producing this report will help educate the public about the Arctic’s importance as a region, Bodine said.

“We need to make a much better effort to communicate with and inform and educate the American public … on what is going on in the Arctic: that it is not the land of Santa Claus and reindeer; it is not a frozen inhospitable wasteland,” Bodine said. “It is the new global commons and what happens there will and is already affecting us. We need to be prepared to take steps.”

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European Teams Wareham, Van Scoter Place in Top 65 Wary of Saudis JOANNA LACOPPOLA Hoya Staff Writer

Rohit Mahtani After the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it is unsurprising that many organizations, including European football teams, are reluctant to engage in any type of business with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the country more broadly.

In the world of European football, before the Saudis were implicated in Khashoggi’s murder, the crown prince attempted to negotiate the ownership of Manchester United with its current owners, the Glazer family.

In stark contrast to Manchester United, Manchester City has been thriving atop the Premier League. In fact, it has consistently performed at peak capacity since Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi took over the team. Mansour has spent over $1.6 billion on Manchester City since 2008, according to The Guardian sportswriter David Conn. Since that time, Manchester City has won three Premier League titles and the FA Cup. In fact, Manchester City’s success may indicate the crown prince wanted to invest in a football team in order to take on his Middle Eastern rivals, such as the Abu Dhabi owners of Manchester City.

However, the Glazer family was not looking to sell Manchester United to the prince. Regardless, an analysis of the deal shows that numbers really do tell a story. The family’s rejection of a partnership with the prince is a sign: Any major movements by the Saudis from here on out will be watched with great vigilance.

The prince, regarded as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, had been look-

ing to invest in a major European football club, possibly as a mechanism to consolidate his power by improving his image abroad.

Under normal circumstances, Crown Prince Mohammed is used to getting his way — especially considering his family’s staggering net worth of approximately one trillion U.S. dollars.

Talks about the prince acquiring a significant stake in a European team occurred around Oct. 15, at the same time speculation about Saudi Arabia’s role in Khashoggi’s Oct. 2 death arose.

Naturally, Saudi Arabia pushed back against international pressure, denying any role in the disappearance of the prominent journalist.

The allegations from the public and the Turkish government sent a clear message not just to the Glazer family, but also to the rest of the world: Crown Prince Mohammed most likely killed a man. Accordingly, the Glazer family figured a Saudi acquisition might be a shaky investment considering the global outrage that would follow their association with the nation. Understandably, few would want to be recognized as a friend to the Saudis.

In fact, it would not make sense for the Glazer family to give up the team to anyone, considering they only acquired the team in 2005 and have taken out immense sums of money from the club without much profit.

In terms of a potential deal, Manchester United is valued at slightly over $3.8 billion, but the Glazer family would only consider an offer if it exceeded $5 billion.

Crown Prince Mohammed may have expressed interest in the team simply because he had the means, but such a scenario is unlikely.

ROHIT MAHTANI is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. This is the final installment SPORTS BUSINESS.

Senior Nick Wareham and junior Jack Van Scoter competed for the Georgetown men’s cross country team in the 2018 NCAA cross country championships in Madison, Wis., on Nov. 17, earning two top-65 finishes.

The 10-kilometer race was held at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course, where Wareham earned 53rd place overall and Van Scoter finished 64th out of 252 runners.

Each runner shed nearly one minute off their times since Georgetown’s last 10k race at Penn State in the NCAA Mid Atlantic Regionals on Nov. 9.

Wareham finished with a time of 30:10.6, while Van Scoter placed close behind with a time of 30:21.5.

Men’s Cross Country Head Coach Brandon Bonsey attributed their improved times to the better course conditions and the strong competition.

“In cross country, times are, to be honest, pretty irrelevant,” Bonsey said in an interview with The Hoya. “It’s just course dependent. The conditions at the regional meet were really sloppy. The grass [in Wisconsin] was certainly firmer than it was at Penn State. [Also] the regional meet is usually a little bit more tactical of a race, whereas [at] the national meet they go run, fairly honestly, from the gun.”

Around the 4-kilometer mark at the NCAA championship race, both runners told Bonsey that they were struggling.

Bonsey explained the differences between running as an individual and running with a team, and praised Wareham and Van Scoter’s resilience.

“I told them both afterwards that when you’re an individual, it’s easier to give into the pain than it is when you know you have your teammates depending on you. So that would’ve been an easy situation for both to crumble a little bit, but they didn’t. They stayed tough,” Bonsey said.

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Senior Nick Wareham, middle, placed 53rd overall at the 2018 NCAA men's cross country championships, finishing with a time of 30:10.6. Junior Jack Van Scoter came in 11 spots behind Wareham in 64th place.

Wareham and Van Scoter fell short of being named AllAmericans, but Bonsey said that they are capable of earning the honor next season.

“They’re both very close to being All-American,” Bonsey said. “You take out all the seniors, they’re going to be some of the top returners in the country next year. I was really proud of their season

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in general and then certainly how they finished things at the NCAA meet.”

The Georgetown men’s and women’s teams will now prepare for the indoor season, which will begin in December.

Bonsey said that the team already has goals in mind for the indoor season.

“Our goal is always to get

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Senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette, middle, recorded 332 kills and 162 digs this season for the Georgetown volleyball team. In her four-year career, Sinnette tallied 1,369 kills and 787 digs. With their win over the Bulldogs on Nov. 17, the Hoyas earned their highest win total since 2004.

Georgetown Defeats Rival Butler in 3 Sets CONOR NICHOLSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown volleyball team concluded its 2018 season Nov. 17 with a win over Big East rival Butler in three straight sets.

Georgetown (17-13, 10-8 Big East) jumped out to an early 7-2 lead in its final game of the season behind three straight kills from junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic, senior middle blocker Symone Speech and senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette.

However, Butler (9-21, 6-12 Big East) battled back, drawing the score even at 14-14 and prompting Georgetown to call a timeout. The Bulldogs continued to apply pressure following the break,

stretching their lead to 19-16 behind a 5-2 run.

After a timeout, the Blue and Gray went on runs of 5-3 and 4-1 to win the set 25-23.

The start of the second frame saw the Hoyas and Bulldogs deadlocked at 8-8.

Georgetown pulled ahead with a 6-1 run to open a 14-9 lead and did not look back, outhitting Butler 46 percent to 12 percent in the set on its way to a 25-15 win.

Butler countered with an early 3-1 lead in the third frame, but could not maintain its momentum. Georgetown used a 6-1 run to push its lead to 7-4. The Hoyas continued their offensive dominance, extending their lead to 14-8 and forcing a Bulldog timeout. Georgetown won

the final stanza 25-17, claiming a sweep of Butler in the season series.

Georgetown’s offense carried the team throughout the match. Sinnette recorded her sixth double-double of the season with 10 kills and 10 digs.

Vujosevic contributed 10 kills, while Speech added eight kills. Sophomore setter Margo Pivonka had a game-high 31 assists and three service aces.

Senior libero Kenzie Higareda and freshman middle blocker Brennan Wilhite commanded the Hoya defense, as Higareda registered 15 digs and Wilhite recorded three blocks.

Under first-year head coach Toby Rens, Georgetown finished with its most overall wins since 2004 and its most

as many people qualified as possible for the NCAA indoor meet, get a distance medley relay qualified, and score as many points as we can at Nationals,” Bonsey.

The men’s and women’s squads will open the indoor season at the U.S. Naval Academy, where they will compete in the Navy Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 1.

wins in the Big East since 2001.

Last Wednesday, Nov. 21, two Hoyas, Speech and Sinnette, were named All-Big East for the first time since 2002. Speech was a unanimous selection on the first team, while Sinnette was voted to the second team.

The Hoyas are set to graduate five seniors: Speech, Sinnette, Higareda, outside hitter Olivia King and right side Alexandra Rivera. Sinnette registered 1,369 kills in her four years on the Hilltop, while Speech notched 1,350 kills in her career.

Despite having to replace the performances of its five seniors, Georgetown is looking to build off this year’s success in the 2019 season.

To say that soccer is popular in Argentina, a nation that boasts two World Cup victories and created a parody religion around its beloved former player Diego Maradona, would be an understatement.

The final of this year’s Copa Libertadores, South America’s premier club tournament, features Boca Juniors and River Plate – two teams from Buenos Aires with an over-century-old bitter rivalry dubbed the “Superclásico.”

River has won Argentina’s top domestic league 36 times to Boca’s 33, making the two clubs by far the most successful teams in the nation. League matches between the neighboring rivals produce perhaps the most electric crowds in all of soccer each year.

The two teams have won the Copa Libertadores nine times combined but had never faced each other in a final until this year. The excitement surrounding this season’s showdown elevated South American soccer to a global stage usually reserved for the wealthier European game.

Yet with the eyes of the soccer world on Buenos Aires, rampant passion manifested into humiliating actions by fans.

While the passion around soccer in Argentina is unmatched anywhere in the world, so too is the violence.

At the scheduled second leg of the final on Saturday, River fans threw stones, sticks and bottles at the Boca bus, shattering glass windows and injuring several players.

Tear gas and pepper spray, which the police had used outside the vehicle to try to contain opposing fans, then seeped into players’ eyes.

The match was quickly postponed due to the Boca team injuries. On Thursday, the South American Football Confederation

said that it will reschedule the game for Dec. 9 in Madrid.

Despite the disappointment from many peaceful Argentine fans, the decision to play the game in another country is a correct one.

The safety of players simply cannot be ensured by authorities who are currently vastly outnumbered by reckless crowds.

Unfortunately, Saturday’s event is nowhere near a standalone incidence of violence among fans.

In Argentina, organized travelling fan groups known as “barras bravas” often have connections to soccer clubs, local politicians and police. Clashes between barras bravas, infighting within groups and other hooligan confrontations have resulted in 256 soccer-related deaths documented between 1924 and 2011.

As recently as 2015, a Superclásico match was postponed due to fans spraying an irritant substance in opposing players’ eyes.

Charities such as Salvemos Al Futbol, known as Let’s Save Football in English, have raised awareness about the issue and proposed solutions such as training security forces, regulating fan group websites and improving building conditions and emergency exits.

However, regulating bodies like CONMEBOL and the Argentine Football Association have done little to enact these important solutions as the problem has worsened over several decades.

Given the gravity of the current situation, FIFA – the international governing body of the sport with over $1.4 billion in cash reserves – needs to step in and invest in safety measures throughout CONMEBOL countries, including stricter regulation and detection of weapons and flares for fans entering the stadium, coordinating the travel of team buses so that they can avoid violent fans and planning on playing heated rivalry games at neutral sites.

If nothing is done, the prospect of a safe and entertaining South American rivalry game may be no more than a distant dream.

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record at Cooper Field this season dropped to 0-3. The Hoyas outshot the Spartans 17 to nine but recorded three shots on target. Nikopolidis took the loss in net with three saves.

Despite the loss, Georgetown concluded the 2018 season as Big East Champions for the third time in four years. The Hoyas will lose seven players to graduation including two captains: senior defender Brendan McDonough and senior midfielder Kyle Zajec.

Wiese said that the team will miss its senior leadership, and that the Hoyas had aspirations to advance farther in the NCAA Tournament.

“I thought we had a team that was a College Cup caliber team, and all of the credit for that goes to our older guys,” Wiese said. “Our seniors did a great job pushing through a long hard season. We always had the pieces and we got better and better as the year went on. I’m frustrated that we’re not playing next weekend, but I’m pleased with the group. It’s always sad when it ends.”

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Senior midfielder and captain Kyle Zajec started in Georgetown’s win over St. John’s on Oct. 27. In his fourth and final year on the Hilltop, in which the Hoyas won the Big East championship, Zajec tallied five goals.

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Graduate student guard Dorothy Adomako scored 14 points against Pittsburgh on Nov. 19. She is averaging 11.3 points per game this season.

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ing the team in scoring along with Venson with 12 points.

Head Coach James Howard praised the Hoyas’ performance in the tournament and said that the experience they gained will be helpful as the season goes on.

“Playing the No. 4 team in the country with that type of size could have overpowered us, but we came and we fought. I think this game will help us prepare for later on in the season,” Howard said in an interview with GUHoyas.

Georgetown will return home Nov. 29 in a matchup against Fordham in McDonough Arena at 7 p.m.

lor three pointer with 47 seconds remaining in the half, Georgetown trailed by 23 points. Following the first half, the Hoyas were unable to reduce the Bear’s lead, and Baylor cruised to a 46-67 victory.

In the loss, the Hoyas shot 26.7 percent from the field and 29.6 percent from behind the arc while allowing the Bears to shoot 43.3 percent from the field and 37.5 percent from three. Georgetown was also outrebounded by Baylor 50-33. White finished the game with her second straight double double, lead-

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selves. In the first half, Georgetown generated 15 shots to Baylor’s zero, forcing Wandt to make five saves while senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman remained unchallenged in the net.

In total, the Hoyas recorded 24 shots, 11 of which were on goal, in comparison to the Bears’ six, four of which were on frame. Schectman secured her 15th shutout of the season with four saves while Wandt conceded three goals and tallied eight saves.

On the season, Schectman has a 0.31 goals against average and a 0.917 save percentage.

Georgetown’s victory marks the team’s 21st win of the season, the most in program history. The win also sends the Blue and Gray to the Final Four for the second time in program history. In 2016, Georgetown fell to the University of South Carolina by a

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Senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman has allowed seven goals and a 0.31 goals-against average in 22 starts this season for the Hoyas. Georgetown will face UNC in the Final Four on Nov. 30. score of 1-0 in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament.

This year, the Hoyas will return to the College Cup to face North Carolina (20-3-2).

North Carolina is coming off of a victory over UCLA, in which the Tar Heels defeated the Bruins 4-2 in penalty kicks after two overtime

periods. With a win against North Carolina, Georgetown would advance to the College Cup finals for the first time in program history.

Nolan said that Georgetown is looking forward to competing in the final rounds of the NCAA tournament.

“The team is really excited

to be going back to the College Cup for the second time in three years. It’s an incredible achievement for our program and these girls. They’re excited to go and continue to make more noise,” Nolan said.

Kickoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Nov. 30 in Cary, N.C.

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Govan said that Richmond has a strong team and kept the game close throughout.

“I think [Richmond’s] a good team and their record doesn’t show it. We were fortunate to make a few more plays that mattered down the stretch,” Govan said in a postgame press conference.

In the second half, Richmond pulled closer. With 14:17 left to play, Richmond tied the game at 54-54. However, freshman guard Mac McClung answered with five straight points to give the Hoyas the lead again. McClung scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half to lead the way for Georgetown down the stretch.

Ewing praised McClung’s performance and aggression against the Spiders.

“I thought [Mac] played well, he was able to get to the basket, he was able to hit some shots,” Ewing said. “He got some baskets in transition. That’s something I’ve been telling him, with his athleticism, he needs to run a lot harder to get baskets in transition.”

Richmond made another push midway through the second half to cut into Georgetown’s lead. With 9:54 remaining, they pulled within six points, but Georgetown senior guard Greg Malinowski scored five straight points to extend Georgetown’s lead to 73-62 with just over eight minutes remaining.

Malinowski had 10 points, seven rebounds, and five assists, in a season-high 20 minutes off the bench, and said that he used his extended playing time to contribute and help the team win.

“It happened to be my night tonight. I got in the game a little bit longer than I had in the past. I just took advantage of the opportunity and just played well whenever I got in there, that’s my mindset,” Malinowski said in a postgame press conference.

While Georgetown held a lead down the stretch, Richmond cut the deficit to two possessions

with a late three-pointer. With time running out, the Spiders had to foul the Hoyas to stop the clock. Georgetown made enough shots from the line to come out on top.

Despite shooting 50 percent from the floor, Georgetown allowed Richmond to shoot 53.3 percent from the floor in its worst defensive effort so far this season Govan said that the Hoyas cannot make defensive mistakes when they enter conference play.

“We made the game a little harder than it had to be. When we get to Big East play, those mistakes will cost us. Fortunately, we were able to knock down our free throws and walk away with the victory, but we need to tighten up our mistake,” Govan said.

Georgetown will next play against Liberty (6-1) on Dec. 3.

Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. at Capital One Arena. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 2 and can be heard locally on The Team 980 FM. 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 3812.

The Hoyas will return to action this Friday, Nov. 16, as they begin play in the Jamaica Classic.

Georgetown will take on Loyola Marymouwnt (3-0) in Montego Bay, Jamaica, at 7 p.m.on an efficient 4-5 from the floor.

Georgetown has many options 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 highlightreel 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 three-pointer 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 early-season 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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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Senior Nick Wareham and junior Jack Van Scoter raced in the NCAA championships Nov. 17, earning two top-65 finishes.

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Govan Scores 29 In Home Victory MATT SACHS

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Backed by senior center Jessie Govan’s 29 points, the Georgetown men’s basketball team earned a 90-82 home win against Richmond on Wednesday.

In Georgetown’s (6-1) third straight win, Govan added nine rebounds, two steals and was a perfect seven-for-seven from the free throw line in 36 minutes of play.

Head Coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ‘85) said that Govan must play well for Georgetown to have success this season.

“He’s a senior, he has to do all the things that he needs to do if we are going to win,” Ewing said in a postgame press conference.

Georgetown struggled to

defend Richmond’s (2-5) offensive attack, as the Spiders shot 12 for 26 from threepoint range and scored 34 in points in the paint.

Ewing emphasized the Hoyas’ need to improve defensively.

“If we want to beat the teams I expect us to beat, we have to do a much better job,” Ewing said. “If we can’t guard the paint and the three-point line, we’re going to get beat.”

In the first half, freshman guard James Akinjo made his first three shots from behind the arc, while Govan added 18 first-half points. Richmond also found success offensively, shooting 56 percent from the field in the first half.

Georgetown headed into halftime leading 40-35.

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Senior guard Greg Malinowski

From the opening whistle at Shaw Field on Saturday, the Georgetown women’s soccer team pressured Baylor’s defense, recording six shots and five corner kicks within the first seven minutes of the match.

In the eighth minute, Georgetown’s (21-0-3) sixth shot found the back of the net as sophomore defender Kelly Ann Livingstone scored off of a headed pass from graduate student forward Kyra Carusa. The goal marked Livingstone’s second of the season and continued the Hoyas’ offensive momentum.

The top-seeded Hoyas scored two more goals in the second half, securing a 3-0 victory over the No. 2 seeded Bears (20-6-0) to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament.

Head Coach Dave Nolan said that the Hoyas earned their shutout victory over the Bears with strong performances from every player.

“This was an exceptional performance by the girls today,” Nolan said in a postgame press conference. “The results and the performance were very good. Sometimes you only get one or the other, and I thought we got both today.”

Georgetown’s second goal came in the 50th minute off sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen’s corner kick. Junior defender Meaghan Nally passed to Carusa inside the box, who fired a shot for her tenth goal of the season.

Junior midfielder Paula

Germino-Watnick put away the Hoyas’ final goal in the 75th minute, slotting a ball off a deflected shot by Carusa past Baylor’s sophomore goal-

The Georgetown women’s basketball team competed in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout in Las Vegas last weekend, facing tough competition against Buffalo and No. 4 Baylor.

On Nov. 23, Georgetown (4-3) fell behind early and trailed Buffalo by eight points after the first quarter. After the Bulls (4-1) hit a threepointer with three seconds

left in the first half, the Hoyas found themselves down by ten points heading into the locker room.

Backed by the 33-point performance of senior guard Cierra Dillard, the Bulls maintained their lead over the Hoyas. Georgetown cut Buffalo’s lead to four with 3:33 left in the fourth quarter, but, after Dillard scored six consecutive points, the Hoyas could not mount a comeback and fell by a score of 64-73.

Junior forward Anita

Kelava, who finished with 15 points, led Georgetown in scoring, while graduate student guard Mikayla Venson tallied 12 points. Senior guard Dionna White also contributed a double double, scoring ten points and grabbing 13 rebounds.

Despite out rebounding the Bulls 43-33, the Hoyas struggled from the field, hitting 34.4 percent of their shots while the Bulls shot 40.7 percent. Georgetown also failed to convert from behind the

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keeper Jennifer Wandt. Germino-Watnick has eight goals this season.

The Hoyas dominated possession throughout the

Junior defender Sarah Trissel has started 23 games for the women’s soccer team this season.

Trissel has one goal this year and started in Georgetown’s 1-0 win over Butler on Nov. 4.

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I just took advantage of the opportunity and just played well whenever I got in there.”

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Senior center Jessie Govan, right, scored 29 points and added nine rebounds in Georgetown’s win over Richmond on Wednesday.

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arc, missing all 11 of its three point shots in the first half and hitting four out of 22 three pointers overall.

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Senior guard Dionna White scored 15 points in Georgetown’s win over Pittsburgh on Nov. 19. Last week in the Thanksgiving Shootout, White scored 13 points against Baylor and 15 points against Fordham. So far this season, White is averaging 13.4 points per game.

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Hoyas Shut Out

By Spartans, End Tournament Run DREW SEWALL Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team fell 0-1 to Michigan State on Cooper Field in the third round of the NCAA tournament Sunday, concluding the 2018 campaign for the Hoyas, who won their second straight Big East tournament title.

Georgetown (13-5-3, 6-2-1 Big East) started off on the front foot as junior forward Achara had a chance to give the team an early lead. However, his volley sailed over the crossbar and the game remained scoreless.

Georgetown continued to attack Michigan State’s (134-4, 4-2-2 Big Ten) defense in the opening minutes, threatening Michigan State’s senior goalkeeper Jimmy Hague.

Sophomore forward Derek Dodson hit a sliding shot that Hague knocked away.

The Spartans immediately countered and had their first chance to score of the game, but their ensuing shot hit the side of the post.

After the frenetic opening minutes, both teams settled into the game. Georgetown and Michigan State had long bouts of possession but were unable to create opportunities on offense due to the physical nature of the game.

In the 45th minute, Michigan State scored the opening goal. Sophomore midfielder Michael Miller received the ball outside the box and fired a shot that beat freshman

goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis, bouncing off the far post before ending up in the back of the net. The goal marked the first that the Hoyas conceded in postseason play and gave the Spartans a 1-0 lead heading into the half.

Head Coach Brian Wiese emphasized the importance of scoring the first goal in the match, and said that Michigan State was strong defensively after taking the lead.

“Against Michigan State, the first goal is really important and credit to them they make it hard after that,” Wiese said in a postgame press conference. “One goal was maybe what the game was going to be about today and it was unfortunate that we came out on the wrong side.”

13 minutes into the second half, Georgetown had its best chance to score, as Dodson hit a header from close range that sailed just over the crossbar.

As the half wore on, Michigan State continued to pack in tightly defensively and frustrated Georgetown going forward.

With five minutes to play, the Hoyas had their final opportunity of the game to score when Dodson received a pass in the Spartans’ box. However, his shot was cleared off the line by Michigan State’s defense. Michigan State held on for a 1-0 shutout victory to advance to the Elite Eight.

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