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The Sound of Equality

Women are taking to the stage at the All Things Go music festival,combatting underrepresentation in the music industry.

A TAXING TURKEY DAY Georgetown must eliminate the financial stress of classes the day before Thanksgiving.

ARRUPE VS THE ADA The campus’s newest dormitory is not compliant with national accessibility regulations.

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Students Demand University After DPE Resignations, Leader Action on Title IX Regulations Withholds New Board Names Katrina schmidt Hoya Staff Writer

Student groups such as H*yas for Choice and Students of Georgetown, Inc., commonly known as The Corp, and dozens of individuals demanded the university publicly address the current lack of a full-time dedicated Title IX coordinator in a letter addressed to university administration circulated this week.

Samantha Berner currently serves as both the Title IX investigator and the interim Title IX coordinator, a role she filled after the first full-time Title IX Coordinator Laura Cutway left her role, unannounced to students, in late June.

A nationwide search for a new Title IX coordinator began in July, and finalists for the position are visiting campus in upcoming weeks, according to a university spokesperson.

Daria Crawford (COL ’20), Avery Moje (COL ’19), Kory Stuer (COL ’19), Andy Turner (SFS ’20) and Susu Zhao (COL ’19), authored the letter, which urges the university to fill the vacant coordinator position by Nov. 1 and to update the student body on its progress on the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force 2017 recommendations, which includes long term and short term approaches to prevent

sexual assault on campus.

The letter also asks the university to provide a public response to the letter by Sept.

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The letter, addressed to Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action Rosemary Kilkenny, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Assistant Vice President for Student Health Vince WinklerPrins, was posted on Facebook and emailed to administrators Aug. 31.

“While we appreciate Ms. Berner’s dedication to the community, making one person do two demanding jobs is not only unfair to her but also to the students who have a legal right to a full and functioning Title IX office,” the letter reads.

Cutway was named the university’s first full-time Title IX coordinator Jan. 11, 2016, to enforce the university’s sexual misconduct policy, investigate sexual misconduct and lead the school’s sexual misconduct education efforts.

The authors outlined three demands in the letter, all aimed at increasing transparency about the currently vacant Title IX position.

“We don’t need to know this information. The community needs to know this information,” Stuer said in an interview with The Hoya.

In response to the letter, administrators are meeting

with the authors in the coming weeks to discuss their demands, and potential future steps.

Kilkenny noted that Title IX compliance does not require an employee to be dedicated to the role of investigator nor coordinator.

“While many institutions meet the federal requirement by making Title IX compliance one of several issues in a staff member’s portfolio, Georgetown had demonstrated its commitment to this position by hiring its first full-time Title IX Coordinator in 2016,” Kilkenny said in a statement to The Hoya. “We’ve also taken the extra step of hiring a separate full-time Title IX investigator.”

The letter was written after the authors learned about Cutway’s departure through word of mouth.

H*yas for Choice reposted the letter Aug. 31, and The Corp did the same Sept. 5.

“We shared the letter to call attention to the understaffing of the office and hope that the university will take the necessary steps to ensure its functionality,” The Corp wrote in a statement to The Hoya.

Those who shared the letter emphasized their primary concern was the lack of transparency regarding the position.

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cHRISTIAN PAZ AND ERIN DOHERTY Hoya Staff Writers

The undergraduate board of the Georgetown University chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity resigned Saturday and suspended all official chapter activities, including recruitment, in protest of the fraternity’s national general secretary, Terrence Boyle (SFS ’63, LAW ’72), who is accused of sexism and bigotry.

Boyle has since appointed four new, non-Georgetown undergraduates to lead the fraternity’s Georgetown chapter, though the board members’ identities have been withheld by Boyle.

In an email signed by the undergraduate board of the fraternity and sent to all Georgetown brothers Saturday afternoon, the board members announced their decision to step down.

“As a board, we have been disrespected by Terrence Boyle and feel incapable of making the necessary changes,” the email read. “Thus, the undergraduate board of Alpha Chapter Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity is resigning effective immediately.”

But since the resignation, Boyle has announced that a new leadership will lead the organization in secret. In two

Blue and Gray Delays Freshman Hires

separate emails obtained by The Hoya, Boyle has blamed a “trolling environment” and “malicious lies” as the reason he is withholding the names of the new board.

Current and former members of the fraternity have confirmed to The Hoya that these identities have not been disclosed to the fraternity’s membership, and DPE chapters at The George Washington University, American University and James Madison University have told The Hoya they will not recognize the Georgetown chapter’s new leadership.

Boyle also wrote he will not make public the names of dues-paying members of the fraternity.

“Right now, though, the problem is that all the undergrad brothers are very much worried that, if they should step up and become chapter officers, they will then, likely in this climate, be personally targeted in The Hoya,” Boyle wrote in an email obtained by The Hoya.

Boyle said he considers The Hoya’s coverage as a reason the names are withheld.

“Because the Hoya and others have been spreading malicious untrue stories about DPE members as part of a trolling, the new officers, for the time being, choose not to be publicized,” Boyle wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The resignation of the undergraduate board left the chapter in an unprecedented situation, though the chapter being led by non-Georgetown students is not new, Boyle wrote in the email obtained

by The Hoya.

“This unprecedented situation of there being an Alpha Chapter but without its having any officers could not continue,” Boyle wrote. “There is, [in other] words, nothing unprecedented in the Chapter’s now having non-GU undergrads as its officers.”

Boyle, in his 40th year as national general secretary of DPE, joined the fraternity as an undergraduate. The professional foreign service fraternity, which began at Georgetown in 1920, is now composed of sorority and fraternity chapters on college campuses around the country.

Kevin Lim (MSB ’19), the now-former president of DPE’s Alpha Chapter, said the board’s resignation was collective action against Boyle.

“Our resignation statement is what we stand for,” Lim wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Boyle said he was disappointed by the resignations and called the allegations “baseless.”

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Tour society will no longer accept first-year students for the fall semester Will cassou Hoya Staff Writer

The Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society will not hire freshmen this fall as part of a new recruitment policy designed to ensure all tour guides have sufficient experience as a college student.

Blue and Gray confirmed to The Hoya that it will not accept students who have not yet finished a semester at college. The organization will continue to accept transfer students in their first semester at Georgetown.

The organization made the announcement on its Facebook page on Sept. 1, seven days before the Club and Activities Fair, where freshmen are given the opportunity to learn about student organizations on campus.

“We ask that [freshmen] take one semester to gain further personal experiences at Georgetown to help draw from when speaking to perspective students and families,” the group’s post said.

Blue and Gray is one of several highly selective clubs, along with Students of Georgetown, Inc., commonly known as The Corp, and Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, that has come under fire for exclusivity and

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lack of diversity over the past five years. Annually one of the most competitive clubs on campus in terms of admission, Blue and Gray recorded a 10.2 percent acceptance rate in the fall of 2016.

Last year, Blue and Gray took steps toward improving their organizational diversity, altering its application questions in January 2017.

Leaders of the organization were also part of an informal working group on club exclusivity with members of other student groups including The Corp, GUASFCU and the Georgetown University Student Association. The working group hosted a public forum in December 2017 to address club culture at Georgetown.

Blue and Gray declined to release the acceptance rate and demographics of the applicant pool last fall as part of an ongoing effort to combat club exclusivity. The Hoya has previously requested admissions information from Blue and Gray in 2017 and 2018.

Freshmen comprised around 25 percent of the admitted tour guides during the fall admissions cycles of 2016 and 2017, hiring nine freshmen in a class of 32 tour guides in the fall of 2016 and seven freshmen in a class of 29 in the fall of 2017.

Despite the change in policy, Blue and Gray recruitment coordinator Aidan Fallon (SFS ’19) said the decision to refrain from hiring freshmen this fall will not considerably affect the selection process for other applicants.

“As in past years, Blue & Gray will consider all applicants equally, regardless of factors such as class year. We believe that this will allow all applicants to speak from personal experience during the interview, which will help them to deliver a clear and coherent statement,” Fallon wrote in an email to The Hoya.

In addition to giving time for freshmen to gain experience for their interviews, this change will also benefit them and the university by allowing students time to gain familiarity with the campus before giving tours, Fallon wrote.

“While previous freshman fall hires have been wonderful, we believe that this policy will allow all applicants the ability to speak from personal experience when interacting with prospective students and their families, helping to deliver the best visit possible to the diverse populations our campus welcomes every year,” Fallon wrote.

Elizabeth Hyman (COL ’21), a Blue and Gray tour guide

hired during her fall semester freshman year, said she enjoyed her first semester, but also said she could have benefitted from waiting a semester before applying.

“Being hired freshman fall was exciting and a great way to meet people right off the bat, but I don’t think I completely realized all the time I was going to have to commit to blue and gray,” Hyman wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Having a semester to learn more about the program and the school would have been beneficial.”

Blue and Gray started considering the policy change in April, and spent time deliberating with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before making the decision Sept. 1, Fallon said.

“In consultation with the Executive Board and the Admissions office, we discussed different rationales for implementing this decision,” Fallon wrote. “These considerations include the ability of applicants to speak from personal experience on tours, allowing freshmen students a full semester to transition to college before diving into the application process, and the comfortability of applicants in navigating the campus pri-

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NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

A Free Pass The Smithsonian’s African-American hIstory museum will allow guests easier access on weekdays.

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Politics with Kangaroos Columnist Joshua Levy (SFS ’20) draws a connection between kangaroos and prime minister politics in Australia.

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Clean Sweep Georgetown’s field hockey team defeated Sacred Heart and St. Francis to move to 4-0.

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NEWS Epi Eats Bulldog

opinion Uncomfortable Dialogue

SPORTS It’s A Draw

Late-night joint Epicurean & Co. has was selected as the new vendor for Bulldog Tavern.

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Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J. emphasizes the need for Georgetown to embrace difficult conversations on politics and religion.

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The Hoyas drew with defending national champion Stanford in a close overtime contest in Shaw Field last Monday.

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OPINION

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Cancel Pre-Thanksgiving Class A disjointed policy regarding the week of Thanksgiving break leaves Georgetown University students frustrated and stressed.

Under current policy, Georgetown observes a fourday weekend for Thanksgiving, cancelling classes on the holiday and the Friday after. The Wednesday before, however, carries a full academic schedule.

This policy, much maligned by students and frequently ignored by professors — who sometimes cancel class anyway — is simply unnecessary. Georgetown should cancel all in-person classes on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, while granting professors the option to host an online class or assign out-of-class work.

As of now, professors can withhold a decision regarding their Wednesday classes until mere weeks or days prior to the holiday. This process disadvantages students flying or taking a train home. As professors deliberate on their decisions, ticket prices rise and students must decide if just a few days at home is worth the elevated costs of transportation.

Ticket prices jump 27 percent the week before Thanksgiving, according to a report in Time. The article also notes that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is one of the two priciest days to travel — the other being the Sunday after the holiday. Giving students the option to travel on Tuesday night creates another significant opportunity to save money.

While a Tuesday flight or train is certainly not uncommon under current rules, students should not find themselves choosing between an affordable ticket and attendance in class.

Changing the policy of holding Wednesday classes would also signal to the student body that Georgetown is taking Thanksgiving seriously as an opportunity for a real break.

Thanksgiving break is the first real rest period of the semester: “Fall break” is only three days, which is hardly enough time to catch up on homework, let alone relax at home.

For students who travel for Thanksgiving, a day to travel would be a much-appreciated and muchneeded cushion. For students staying on campus, a five-day vacation would certainly provide more op-

portunity for recovery than a glorified long weekend.

Georgetown students would also benefit from a period of relaxation over Thanksgiving break. Three full months into the year, students — especially freshmen, many of whom are away from home for the first time — would relish the opportunity to reset.

The University of Pennsylvania, which has the same Thanksgiving break as Georgetown, has been criticized on mental health grounds for giving students minimal time off, according to its independent student media organization, The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Other universities, including Georgetown’s neighbors in Washington, D.C., and our fellow Jesuit institutions, have more sensible Thanksgiving policies.

American University, The George Washington University, Fordham University and College of the Holy Cross all cancel classes on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, while Howard University ends the day at noon.

Forbidding professors to convene Wednesday class is not a radical deviation from current procedure; in fact, this policy would codify what many classes already practice.

Cancelled classes are required to make up for missed time, according to an interview with the university registrar. In practice, this work often takes the form of an online class or assignment.

University implementation of this editorial board’s commonsense suggestion would create clear structure, letting students and professors plan their vacations earlier and creating a real opportunity for mental rest.

By unifying school policy, the university will reduce the anxiety that often surrounds Thanksgiving break. Professors would not lose instructional time, students both leaving and remaining on campus would reap important benefits regarding mental health and families awaiting homesick students would avoid the headaches of last-minute planning.

The confusion leading up to Thanksgiving break is entirely fixable. The university should adopt this practical change — soon. Let students buy their tickets today.

Pineapple Express — Spanish police seized cylinders of cocaine stashed inside pineapples at Madrid’s main wholesale fruit and vegetable market, MercaMadrid. The cylinders, valued at 235,000 euros, were covered in yellow wax to look like pineapple flesh.

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Iguana Go to Cali — A baby iguana hitched a ride from Mexico to California in a woman’s bikini top. The critter was whisked to an animal sanctuary after being discovered in the woman’s luggage.

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EDITORIALS

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I’m Too Fly, Jeff Goldblum — A U.K. charity store went viral after filling all of its picture frames with pictures of actor Jeff Goldblum. The store’s homage to the Jurassic Park star follows a 25-foot half-naked statue of Goldblum found in London in July.

Juul in the Rough — While attempting to rob an e-cigarette store in Denver, a man fumbled his imitation firearm, dropping it to the floor behind the cashier. As the cashier went to retrieve the fake weapon, the perpetrator tripped over his own pants yet still escaped out the door.

Storage Wars, But Twitter — Far-right activist Laura Loomer attempted to interrupt Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s House of Representatives hearing Wednesday. Her efforts were foiled by Missouri Representative and former auctioneer Billy Long, who drew on his past career to list off bids for her phone.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Adam Semprevivo

Streamline Student Input Georgetown University’s current system of processing and implementing student input regarding academic curricula is ineffective. By assembling a semesterly forum for student input with a review board of diverse deans and faculty, the university will be better equipped to address community concerns.

Georgetown recognizes the value of student voices, as evidenced by the disparate systems designed to absorb input, such as the Academic Councils of each school and department chairs.

However, when it comes to acting on student input on academic curricula, Georgetown has a spotty track record. In 2015, the university finally added a one-course diversity requirement to the core curriculum across all four schools — 24 years after the student-led push began.

This editorial board joined Daniel Byman, dean of the School of the Foreign Service, in supporting the movement behind one-credit language courses, meant to allow students to practice a language they speak conversationally. Despite student and administrator support, the plan has been held up by faculty on thoroughly unconvincing grounds.

Most recently, an op-ed published in The Hoya (“Cancel Islamophobic SFS Class,” The Hoya, Aug. 31, 2018, A3) documented the bureaucratic burden faced by its author, Aly Panjwani (SFS ’19). In the op-ed and previously in a meeting with Byman, Panjwani requested a current Georgetown course, which he believes is promoting discriminatory surveillance strategies on Muslim communities, be cancelled.

Panjwani’s concerns were listened to but rejected without a sufficient explanation. In his op-ed, he wrote, “Dean Byman did not explain why, despite the concerns we raised, the class was still being carried out.”

Under current policy, students can bring concerns to a dean, as Panjwani did, or their college’s Academic Council, alongside a smattering of officers and assemblies designated primarily for purposes other than receiving student input. The intent of this system is good, but it yields little action; in Panjwani’s case, he was not even provided the full reasoning of why his request was denied.

Georgetown’s history and current environment of dismissing or delaying student suggestions for academic curricula, coupled with an

ineffective system for responding to concerns, is troubling.

The Main Campus Executive Faculty, a legislative body responsible for approving new academic policy, includes two student representatives. However, the group is not obliged to receive input from the larger student body, and is also responsible for many other aspects of Georgetown’s academic environment, such as the condition of faculty life.

To prioritize student voices regarding course offerings, the university should provide a universitywide forum — attended by a review board that offers diversity of race, academic discipline, geography and gender — for responding to grievances about current course offerings and expressing interest in new ones.

The forum would allow students to both air concerns about existing courses and call for new courses, clusters and requirements. The forum would occur every semester and be accessible to all students and community members, who would have an open invitation to air their relevant grievances.

The process of adding or cancelling a course should not be easy. However, the process of considering and implementing student suggestions should be.

To ensure administrators are hearing student concerns directly, the forum should be a function of the Office of the Provost and include a board of faculty and deans from each school, as courses often fall under the purview of multiple schools.

The forum’s review board should review courses brought to administrative attention after each semesterly forum. The board, which would make recommendations to each department or school, must reflect a diversity of experiences and disciplines, as its oversight would likely include a broad array of problematic issues reflected in curricula. To make sure student frustrations are responded to substantively, the board would be dedicated to a full investigation of the most important claims students make relative to academic curricula.

Administrators must listen to the voices of students frustrated with Georgetown’s schedule of classes. Student input is valuable and student concerns are valid; we are the individuals with the closest awareness of what is taught on campus.

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HOYA HISTORY: September 6, 1970

GU Radical Union Action Stirs Controversy Among the many letters that incoming freshmen found in their mailboxes over the summer from Georgetown University Radical Union, which illegally got a hold of a freshman mailing list and official university stationary and mailed off a four-page letter condemning Georgetown for a variety of reasons.

Mailing lists are officially available only to those who in some way or another are connected with orientation planning.

The letter included a list of books recommended for “freaks and revolutionaries.” Among the titles listed were “Do it!” by Jerry Rubin, “Woodstock Nation” by Abbey Hoffman, “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller, “Seize the Time” by Bobby Seale, “1984” by George Orwell and, of course, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung.”

The letter charged that Georgetown was asking the freshmen to join its academic community, “a community of scholars that has hidden behind the ivy-covered walls of the ‘Hilltop’ since 1789.”

The letter went on to say, “Outside these walls and out of the range of feeling and understanding of the Georgetown elite, the Vietnamese continue to die, the Blacks still suffer under a white supremacist society, and our cities and countrysides are rapidly dying. As a Georgetown student you are then asked to live in two worlds - the world of human commitment and the world of intellectualism and meaningless degrees...But the apparently isolated nature of the university does not prevent us from being intricately involved in the corporate imperialist system of the U.S. and hence

directly responsible for many of the problems that exist outside its boundaries.”

The letter then criticized what it called “The G.U. affiliated International Police Academy, the presence of ROTC on the Georgetown campus, and the Georgetown Center for International and Strategic Studies,” charging that the latter turned out “business propaganda.”

The letter continued, “We cannot tolerate attitudes, institutions, and machines whose purpose is the destruction of life, the accumulation of ‘profit.’” University President Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., issued a sharp response to the GURU letter in yet another letter to the incoming freshmen and their parents.

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RAYMOND DILLON

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT

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Rethink Social Spaces

eeing the return of Hoyas to campus last week was a great pleasure, as we renew old acquaintances, make new ones and get back into the habits and schedules of college life once again.

Hopefully we have come back rested and accompanied by memories of rest with family and friends.

But we also come back to a campus overshadowed by a political discourse even more divided than when we left it last spring. Furthermore, Catholics and non-Catholics alike return shocked, burdened and betrayed in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse of children by priests and the subsequent cover-up.

As I visited Georgetown University alumni across the country this summer, our broken politics took center stage in my conversations.

The echo chambers of ideology have only gotten larger and louder, and Hoyas are feeling the discord.

One alumna in Cleveland told me she had to step in between her two adult children arguing over the state of the nation. She was in tears by the viciousness of their attacks upon one another. No matter where I was, alumni asked about the state of the campus community. I shared their anxiety about whether we are losing our ability to engage in civil discourse.

And I must say that the Pennsylvania report has shaken me and many of us at Georgetown and continues to undermine trust in the church. The report shows how systemic the sexual abuse and coverup was in the church in the seven decades before the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” was signed by the Catholic bishops of the United States in 2002. This charter demands zero tolerance of sexual abuse of minors, removing those accused from ministry and putting in place strict reporting procedures.

The only consolation for me as a Jesuit priest is knowing that since the charter was signed after the first revelations of sexual abuse of minors were reported in 2001, the Catholic Church in the United States works with both civil and religious authorities to prevent

sexual abuse and has been successful in rooting much of it out.

Unfortunately, the horrific details of what was covered up before the charter once again reminds us of the struggles of so many survivors of abuse, and the ways in which many bishops failed them and the Catholic Church. This fact is all the more appalling because Catholic institutions — like Georgetown — have rightly earned a reputation of nurturinge students’ desires to be agents of change in the world.

Amid political and religious upheaval, we at a Catholic and Jesuit university such as Georgetown must use our intellectual, spiritual and communal life together to commit ourselves to making the university a sanctuary for real dialogue on the political and religious issues of our time. That means listening to others who disagree with you.

To paraphrase Pope Francis: Dialogue is not just a practice; it is a virtue. The soul of dialogue, Francis says, is mutuality, seeking truth together. In the political disintegration that we witness cascading across the world, Georgetown must be a sanctuary of dialogue.

This sanctuary must also be a place for interrogating the tragedy of sexual abuse, and, whenever possible, for assisting the church so that these cover-ups never happen again. Georgetown labors to be part of the solution because it focuses its resources on the wider, more societal protection of all vulnerable persons. Perhaps our pursuit of academic excellence and our desire to be people for others can deepen our bonds as we work toward justice, not only with Hoyas, but also with the larger community at our doorstep.

Whatever political and religious upheavals followed us back to campus this fall, we need to commit to being our best selves and to making Georgetown a sanctuary of dialogue and justice.

Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J., is the vice president for mission and ministry at Georgetown University. As This Jesuit Sees It appears online every other Tuesday.

Ours is a participatory democracy; you have to show up to make it work. Not registering to vote and/or not casting a ballot is the best method of killing it. Register to vote.

How ‘Vote’ Became a 4-Letter Word

Raymond Dillon

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am struck by the fact that as recently as 47 years ago — within my lifetime — the franchise was restricted to those 21 years of age and older.

On July 1, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended the right to vote to those 18 years and older.

Although this was a decades-old proposal, the Vietnam War was the catalyst that finally made it a reality.

At 18, young men were drafted into an unpopular war led by politicians who were comfortably unaccountable to those who bled for their policy mistakes.

Proponents of lowering the voting age criticized this hypocrisy: “old enough to fight, old enough to vote.”

When I turned 18, I could be drafted into the armed forces, legally drink alcohol, get married, get a driver’s license and enter the workforce. Yet I did not have a voice in deciding who my elected officials were, nor was I eligible to vote in referenda and ballot initiatives. I could pay taxes and die for my country, but I was deemed too immature to vote.

The lyrics to Eddie Cochran’s

“Summertime Blues” brilliantly highlighted this: “Well, I called my congressman / And he said, quote: ‘I’d like to help you son / But you’re too young to vote’ / Sometimes I wonder what I’m-a gonna do / But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.”

The “cure” was the 26th Amendment.

Just as the 15th and 19th amendments to the Constitution afforded people of color and women the right to vote, the 26th provided young adults the opportunity to weigh in on matters of public policy that would affect them for years. The intent was to prevent one generation from imposing a burden — war, debt, etc. — on those that followed without their concurrence. It was yet another shining example of the “American Experiment,” and a giant step in the process of expanding freedom to all.

Sadly, the 26th Amendment has not yet reached its full promise. Young voters did not flock to the ballot box in the numbers that the authors of the 26th had hoped. The end of the Vietnam War and elimination of the draft removed the focus and immediate urgency of voting; it was no longer a “life or death” issue for many.

This is also due, in no small measure, to the fact that the United States historically has had abysmal voter participation rates.

In the 2016 presidential election, only 55 percent of eligible Americans cast ballots, and the

winning candidate garnered only 46 percent of these votes.

That means just over 26 percent of the American voting population decided that we needed to “Make America Great Again”; many more voted against this jingoism. More than 44 percent of those eligible to vote, by wit of their abdication of their civic responsibilities, cast “de facto” votes for the winner. Choosing not to vote is, of and by itself, voting.

To discern the power of the ballot, you need look no further than the actions of some to deny Americans this fundamental right. Voter suppression is real and has been manifested in both word and deed.

The purging of voter rolls in Ohio and the attempted closure of polling stations in Georgia are only the most egregious examples of voter suppression. These actions have been playing out in a multitude of venues across the country. It demonstrates the fear of one party that winning elections is predicated solely on inciting the basest impulses of a narrow minority, not appealing to the broader electorate.

Campaign rhetoric that tries to leverage a handful of incidents of ineligible people voting into an indictment of our electoral system is a blatant attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections themselves. Arguing against the restoration of voting rights to those convicted of felonies who have served their sentences and are now trying to re-integrate into society is mean-spirited. It

is also subtly racist given the disproportionate number of black Americans in U.S. prisons. This is the language of tyranny and oppression, not liberty and freedom.

However, these “dirty tricks” by unscrupulous political operatives pale beside the truly pernicious threat to our democratic freedoms: not voting.

For years, those who didn’t participate in the electoral process excused their choices by claiming their vote did not count. The closeness of special elections since 2016, not to mention the “Hanging Chad” fiasco in the Florida recount during the 2000 presidential election, give the lie to that specious argument.

Ours is a participatory democracy; you have to show up to make it work. Not registering to vote and/or not casting a ballot is the best method of killing it. Register to vote. If necessary, file for absentee ballots, complete and mail them. You have to live with the results and don’t get to complain if you didn’t “step up.”

Advocating to lower the voting age was something my generation got right; failure to fully exercise the franchise was our mistake. That is how we got here.

Wisdom is learning from the mistakes of other; I hope today’s Hoyas learn from ours.

Vote.

Raymond Dillon graduated

from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1977. He is an opinion contributor to The Hoya.

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ace remains a factor for mobility in the presentday United States. Willful ignorance of that reality harms members of the Asian-American community, in addition to other communities of color.

The current anti-affirmative action debate paints the dynamic and diverse Asian-American community as a monolithic entity, thereby using a narrow image of Asian America to perpetuate a racist political agenda and the model minority myth. As such, the AsianPacific Islander Leadership Forum denounces the U.S. Department of Justice’s attack on affirmative action.

Students for Fair Admissions, a group suing Harvard University over what it claims are discriminatory policies against AsianAmerican applicants, obtained the Justice Department’s support last week. The DOJ filed a brief criticizing Harvard’s admissions practices as biased against Asian-Americans.

They asserted that evidence suggests Harvard engages in “racial balancing,” a potential violation of set Supreme Court boundaries on the use of racial quotas in college admissions decisions.

Harvard strongly denies this claim, arguing that its consideration of race and ethnicity is just one factor in a holistic review process of each individual’s application. Civil rights groups and many selective colleges and universities have filed briefs supporting Harvard and arguing for the merits of holistic admissions.

As mentioned in the SFA v. Harvard amicus brief, submitted by experts on education issues related to race in postsecondary institutions and society, large disparities exist between Asian-American groups in college attendance rates.

Affirmative action benefits certain Asian-American groups, namely those of Southeast Asian origin and/or from low-income backgrounds. Eliminating affirmative action would not only directly harm members of our own community, but it would also create no significant increase in Asian-American admits. Underrepresented minority students cannot “take” seats

from Asian-American students because the former already comprise such a small percentage of the applicant pool. A 2016 study found that upon elimination of black and Latinx applicants from the Harvard admissions pool, the admission chances of the remaining AsianAmerican and white students only saw a 1 percent increase.

Affirmative action in elite high schools and private universities should not be the center of AsianAmerican organizing.

Moreover, the plaintiff of this case, Edward Blum, is a white man who serves as the director and only member of the Project on Fair Representation. Blum has worked for years to dismantle affirmative action by framing student rejections as the result of affirmative action policies. Among his more famous litigation includes Fisher v. University of Texas, in which the Supreme Court denied Blum’s argument and upheld the University of Texas’ use of race as a consideration in the admissions process.

Blum does not speak for Asian America, especially when AsianAmericans as a whole overwhelmingly support race-conscious affirmative action policies and whole-person review programs like Harvard’s.

The Asian-American Coalition for Education, a collection of groups that filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Students for Fair Admissions complaint, represent a homogeneous, wealthy minority of Asian-Americans, mainly first-generation mainland Chinese immigrants. But Blum and his supporters attempt to “divide and conquer” Asian-Americans in an effort to create conflict between diverse Asian groups and to pit communities of color against one another.

In suggesting that race-conscious policies hurt Asian-Americans by favoring other minority groups, his arguments perpetuate

the model minority myth. The myth argues that Asian-Americans are exceptional in their ability to succeed in the U.S. meritocracy, and are thus worthy of imitation.

By centering his argument on Asian-Americans, Blum exploits our community to skirt a conversation on white admissions in elite universities. Whiteness is still predominant at private universities across the country, forcing minority students to vie for remaining seats.

Regardless, a large proportion of Asian-Americans — 47 percent — attend community college.

Affirmative action in elite high schools and private universities should not be the center of Asian American organizing. It detracts from discussing larger-scale efforts to protect the interests of Asian America. We need to advocate for Asian students who are undocumented, immigrant, low-income, first-generation, transgender or gender-non-conforming, disabled, working, and of other marginalized identities and backgrounds.

Regressive conversations on affirmative action distract from the broader educational needs of the Asian-American community.

The community of Asian-Americans is large and dynamic. APILF firmly rejects rhetoric that removes the marginal status of AsianAmericans. We recognize that the higher education admissions process is largely arcane and that Harvard University’s methods are not perfect. However, we re-emphasize that as Asian-Americans, our identities are interracially defined.

Asian-Americans will only achieve true equity when it is shared with all communities of color.

Dismantling affirmative action would be antithetical to our goals.

We encourage our community to look beyond the deceptive motives of this Supreme Court case to stand by the Asian-American community as a whole and thus stand by affirmative action.

Heejin Hahn is a junior in the College. jennifer sugijanto is a junior in the College. Nataliyah Tahir is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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ustralian fauna has developed an awesome reputation. Massive crocodiles, deadly spiders and venomous snakes have earned the country’s wildlife a fearsome renown. Even the red kangaroo, the quintessentially Australian marsupial, has a combative disposition. Communal animals, male kangaroos have no reservations about “boxing,” physically challenging each other for status. Australian politicians, it turns out, are quite similar.

In fact, the analog of the red kangaroo is quite revealing of how conservative Australian politicians have established their pecking order lately. When political status is up for grabs, there are no holds barred. Whereas kangaroos grapple with and kick at one another, politicians backstab and betray.

On Aug. 24, 2018, Scott Morrison won the leadership of the center-right Liberal Party of Australia and became the country’s prime minister. He is the sixth prime minister in just 11 years; no one has served a full three-year term as premier since the Labor Party’s Kevin Rudd was elected in 2007. So tumultuous is Australian political jockeying that Rudd’s second term as prime minister lasted a mere 94 days. Instead of a predictable succession of power, party politics and backstabbing have pushed prime minister after prime minister from office. Like a kangaroo that takes a tumble after a misstep in a bout, in Australian party politics, these leadership challenges are known rather innocuously as “spills.”

Morrison’s rise to leader of the Liberals and prime minister reads like a chapter from “Game of Thrones.” A longtime ally of former Liberal Party Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — who himself led a successful spill against former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2015 — Morrison hopped at the opportunity to seize the premiership when Peter Dutton, far-right Liberal, signalled the party had lost confidence in Turnbull. He capitalized on his relatively centrist attitudes to win the spill over Dutton and Julie Bishop, another Turnbull loyalist.

In these political brawls, con-

servative Australian discourse has been dragged far to the right by the loudest voices, Dutton among them. Before the spill, he was considered a legitimate contender for the premiership, a junior in the troop ready to battle his way to the top.

A prominent front-bencher in both Abbott’s and Turnbull’s ministries, Dutton has been criticized for his anti-immigration views. As the minister for immigration and for home affairs, he has continued a widely derided policy of detaining asylum seekers and holding them in detention centers in Pacific island nations. His insinuations that white South African farmers are refugees, saying that “they need help from a civilized country,” and allegations of misconduct have drawn considerable ridicule.

Joshua Levy Nor is Morrison, who was seen by commentators as a moderate during the most recent Liberal spill, a progressive darling. When debating the Labor Party’s energy policy in February 2017, Morrison addressed the Australian House of Representatives holding a lump of coal, declaring that the opposition had “an ideological, pathological fear of coal,” which he dubbed reductively, “coal-a-phobia.” Not to be outflanked by his fellow front-benchers, Morrison had to meet his peers on the right.

Alliances in Liberal politics are short-lived, and opportunists are always waiting to pounce on the chance of leadership; a hint of weakness invites challenge..

Political boxing is still a boy’s club. Sexism and engrained gender biases are

apparently so pervasive in Canberra, Australia’s capital, that following the spill, Julia Banks, a Liberal member of Parliament, announced that she would not run for re-election next year. “The scourge of cultural and gender bias, bullying and intimidation continues against women in politics, the media and across businesses,” Banks wrote in a news release. In 2012 Labor’s then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the papers around the world when she lambasted Abbott, who was then the opposition leader, for his “repulsive double standards when it comes to misogyny and sexism.”

Despite having won the leadership spill, Morrison is not out of the woods. When Turnbull lost control of his party, he announced that he would resign from Parliament, and a by-election is being held for his seat in Wentworth, a Sydney constituency. If the Liberal Party or one of its allies fails to reclaim the seat, Morrison’s coalition government will slip into minority status. Australia may have yet another prime minister within months. With Labor poised to win the general election slated for next year, Australia is headed for a political train wreck.

Male red kangaroos battle each other for social supremacy. Contests are nail-biting; the most skilled boxers are those that balance on their muscular tails while they use their powerful hind legs to kick opponents. Thus, those who appear to be on the backfoot often emerge victorious.

Moreover, it seems that there is always another challenger on the rise. Given the past decade of backstabbing and political knifing, it seems Australian politicians have been taking notes.

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Arrupe Hall Non-Compliant With ADA Requirements MAYA GANDHI Hoya Staff Writer

Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall, the newest dormitory built on Georgetown University’s campus, is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, members of the Georgetown University Student Association accessibility policy team recently revealed.

Interior doors throughout Arrupe — including those to common rooms, study rooms, kitchens and the laundry room — take more than 5 pounds of force to open and lack automatic “Push to Open” buttons, per the team’s findings. In their current state, these doors violate a provision of the ADA that holds that interior doors without automatic buttons cannot surpass the 5 pounds of force threshold.

Senior architect Amy Sanderson in the Office of Design and Construction confirmed that the doors in Arrupe are not ADA compliant.

“It is true that there are a bunch of them that are not compliant,” Sanderson said in an interview with THE HOYA. “Some are off a little bit, and some are wildly off.”

The ADA, which was signed into law in 1990, prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in public life. The law requires public and private universities to provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities or risk facing fines and legal action.

Arrupe was designed to meet all ADA standards when it opened in fall 2016. The noncompliance issue likely developed over time as a result of maintenance to the mechanisms that allow the doors to close. All of Arrupe’s exterior doors, which feature “Push to Open” buttons, are ADA compliant.

“Georgetown is committed to ensuring that our campus is accessible and inclusive,” university spokesperson Matt Hill wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“When ADA compliance issues are identified we take prompt action to address them and make appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities.”

The failure of Arrupe to comply with ADA standards raises questions about similar

flaws arising other dormitories, especially because the hall is Georgetown’s newest dormitory.

“Arrupe is our newest building. So, I know that we have issues there, and I am sure that we have issues in older buildings,” Sanderson said.

“We are focusing now on the residential halls because we think that’s the most important place to focus right now.”

Evan Farrara (COL ’19) has been on the accessibility policy team since his freshman year and first spotted the compliance issue in Arrupe. Over the summer, Farrara noticed the doors in Arrupe were unusually heavy and, recalling the ADA stipulation, wondered if they might take over 5 pounds of force.

“I used to go study in the little study rooms, the meditation rooms, a lot, and so I remember that those doors were always so heavy, I remember one day my shirt got caught in the door and it actually ripped my shirt off because it was so heavy,” Farrara said. “And so, I was like, I bet that’s over 5 pounds.”

Farrara bought a door pressure gauge, a device that measures the amount of force needed for a person to open a door, and walked through Arrupe testing doors; his results showed doors varied significantly, with many of them requiring between 10 and 20 pounds of force to open.

Farrara reached out to the rest of the accessibility policy team, and they contacted the administration in June, kickstarting the process to put Arrupe in compliance.

The issue landed on the desk of Sanderson, who also tested doors throughout the building and came to the same conclusion: doors throughout Arrupe were in violation of the ADA. Right now, the university is in the process of having a hardware consultant who specializes in doors assess the compliance issues; the firm is set to begin that analysis in the coming weeks. Farrara said checking other dorms for this issue could be among future efforts for the accessibility policy team.

In some cases, the noncompliance stems from automatic closing mechanisms that have been installed too tightly,

which can be fixed through adjustments by facilities, according to Sanderson.

“I don’t think it’s a problem with the building per se; I think it’s a problem of how we’re using the building right now,” Sanderson said. But “that is not true across the board.”

Other doors, including those in the kitchens and laundry room, will require a more extensive solution and could delay the effort to bring the building fully into compliance. Sanderson is hopeful the process will be complete in the next few months.

The issues in Arrupe also raise questions of convenience versus compliance. For example, some wheelchair users are not able to open doors, even if they take fewer than 5 pounds of force.

Anna Landre (SFS ’21), who uses a motorized wheelchair and is living in Arrupe this year, has encountered this problem in her own residence hall.

“Look, I don’t care if it’s 5 pounds of pressure or not, I personally can’t open doors.

Like I just can’t,” Landre said in an interview with THE HOYA. For students like Landre, compliance with the letter of the law is not enough to provide an equal experience at Georgetown.

“We shouldn’t be striving for that bare minimum,” Landre said. “We should be striving to make this a welcoming environment for all, which means making it not only compliant, making it convenient.”

For her, that means “Push to Open” buttons, which the university has agreed to install on the entrances to common spaces on her floor, as well as the building’s laundry room, but which have not yet been installed.

The university strives to ensure that all students have a “good and equal” experience, but those efforts present difficulties, particularly in making all residence halls fully accessible for students of all abilities, Sanderson said.

“Generally, our standards on campus go above and beyond what the ADA compliance laws are,” Sanderson said. “We’re trying to make the experience good for everybody.”

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Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall, top, does not meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act, creating difficulties for residents like Anna Landre (SFS ’21), bottom.

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Epicurean and Co. Assumes Control of Bulldog Tavern TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

The opening of Healy Family Student Center in 2014 brought not only new study spaces to Georgetown students, but also a new watering hole — Bulldog Tavern.

Since it opened in November 2014, the tavern has changed management three times.

This fall, Epicurean and Company was selected as the new vendor for Bulldog Tavern. Previously, Aramark, the vendor that also supplies O’Donovan Hall, took over management from Bon Appetit Management Co. in May 2017.

According to Joelle Wiese, associate vice president for auxiliary services, this most recent switch in management was the result of a changing dining landscape on campus and university efforts to match student needs.

“As part of our continued efforts to respond to changing campus needs and improve dining program service and options the university conducted a competitive process to select new management of Bulldog Tavern for the 201819 academic year,” Wiese wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “With a location already on the northside of campus, Epicurean has demonstrated its success and popularity among the Georgetown community.”

Epicurean and Co., which has been a part of Georgetown for 10 years, sees Bulldog Tavern as an opportunity to try new things.

“A pub is a pretty different

concept from what we do at Epicurean now and it gives us an opportunity to implement a menu with items that we wouldn’t be able to necessarily fit with any of the sections here,” Epicurean and Co. general manager Michael Chon wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “We would also be closer to another section of campus where we would interact more closely with a different group of students and staff that might not be able to get to Epicurean conveniently.”

To differentiate itself from Epicurean’s existing fare, Bulldog Tavern will feature a new menu, a weekly trivia night and potential BBQ nights on the patio with an outdoor bar.

“We don’t want this to be Epicurean 2.0. Rather, we want to build a new, successful restaurant that’s different from the other dining options on campus, as well as provide a casual setting to hang out,” Chon wrote. “We want to do a diverse menu with your typical bar staples (including Epi’s famous quesadillas, so people don’t have to walk across campus to get them) but also have plenty options for those with dietary restrictions, including vegans/vegetarians and those with food allergies.”

While the menu may not be the same as before, Chon said Epicurean is committed to making the dining experience at Bulldog Tavern as convenient as possible for students, despite no longer accepting meal exchanges.

“The new Bulldog will defi-

nitely accept flex and debit dollars. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accept any meal exchanges because we’re not affiliated with Aramark. However, we’re hoping to provide a variety of affordable meal options in the to go window to offset this,” Chon wrote.

GUSA’s Dining Policy Chair Sina Nemazi (COL ’21) said he hopes the new Bulldog Tavern will eventually accept meal exchanges as it had in the past.

“I do want a meal exchange option there because I think that’s what people will miss about Bulldog,” Nemazi said.

“Since Epi wanted to take on the risk of the space they should provide that option for the students.”

Epicurean and Co. is optimistic about the future of the restaurant under its new management.

“All in all, we recognize that the Bulldog Tavern has potential to be a great place for Georgetown students, staff, and guests. Originally, previous students from Georgetown voted for a pub on campus and that’s how the Bulldog Tavern came to existence,” Chon wrote.

“This is a huge honor for us to be trusted with this space and we hope to do it justice.”

Bulldog Tavern aims to open for the new school year on the week of Sept.

10 with shorter hours and a limited menu. Eventually, Chon said, Bulldog Tavern’s normal operating hours will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with plans to offer a breakfast option later in the year.

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Epicurean and Company recently acquired the contract to take over management of Bulldog Tavern and hopes to expand into South Campus with a venture that is more than a mirror image of its original location.

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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was one of 300 Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing boys and men in a report released in July. He currently holds an honorary degree from Georgetown.

Georgetown Considering Action Against Cardinal McCarrick MEENA MORAR Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia criticized Catholic leadership for its complicity in recently surfaced sexual assault scandals in an email on Tuesday.

DeGioia’s email addressed a report published by a Pennsylvania Grand Jury in August that identified over 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania who sexually abused more than 1,000 children over seven decades, according to a Washington Post article.

One of the named perpetrators was Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., who holds an honorary Georgetown degree. The Washington Post reported that McCarrick sexually abused both boys and men throughout his time as a Catholic priest. McCarrick was asked to be removed from public ministry in July, when his history of sexual abuse came to light, according to a statement released by the archbishop of New York.

In his email sent to the Georgetown community, DeGioia criticized the Catholic Church for the rampant scandals, but did not offer concrete actions that the university will take in response to McCarrick’s involvement in the sexual assault scandals.

“The discovery, in part through the efforts of the Attorney General and Grand Jury in Pennsylvania, of the depth and breadth of complicity over the last seventy years, has revealed an abject failure to protect the most vulnerable among us,” DeGioia wrote. “This systematic failure demands accountability on the part of the Church and discernment in our Georgetown community about our appropriate response.”

DeGioia indicated that university administration is pushing forward efforts to address the sexual assault scandals.

“We have begun, across the University, to lay the foundation for the dialogue, reflection, and action that will contribute to a deep and authentic transformation,” DeGioia wrote.

A university spokesperson specified that the administration will consider revoking McCarrick’s honorary degree.

“President DeGioia’s message to the community earlier this week shared that the University has initiated processes to address the deeply troubling revelations about Archbishop McCarrick and also in the Pennsylvania grand jury report,” he wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “This includes an honorary degree review process.”

Several Catholic student groups on campus, including Catholic Women at Georgetown and the Knights of Columbus, have called for the administration to rescind McCarrick’s honorary degree, awarded in 2004, and they urged university administration to directly address the issue.

“I’m disappointed that the university has neglected to substantively address McCarrick’s misconduct,” Erica Lizza (SFS ’19), the president of Catholic Women at Georgetown said Aug. 8. “Our organization supports the revocation of McCarrick’s honorary Georgetown degree and hopes that the university will address the scandal and its impact with our larger D.C. Catholic community.” (Full disclosure: Lizza is a member of the editorial board at THE HOYA.) In his email, DeGioia quoted former Superior General of the Jesuits, Pedro Arrupe, S.J., in emphasizing the importance of maintaining the Jesuit value of fighting for

social justice through education to ensure justice.

“We must help each other to … above all make sure that in the future the education imparted in Jesuit schools will be equal to the demands of justice in the world,” DeGioia wrote.

Georgetown’s programs in global development, health and social justice are efforts by the university to live up to this challenge articulated by Fr. Arrupe, according to DeGioia.

“Our programs in Global Health, Global Human Development, and our Center for Social Justice, Research, Teaching & Service are three examples of our efforts to respond to this challenge,” he wrote.

DeGioia called on the Georgetown community to maintain its commitment to social justice and change and to remember the university’s founding elements.

“We respond best to the forces of disruption by deepening our commitment to our work,” he wrote.

“We must accept the responsibility for which we are prepared and capable: to embrace the work of integrating the four elements of our identity in the service of social transformation.”

DeGioia expressed concern and a need to protect those affected by the scandal and asserted the need for better protection for those at risk of abuse.

“The most vulnerable among us must be protected,” DeGioia wrote. “They deserve the very best work we are capable of providing.

We have an immediate and urgent need to engage in the work of ‘cultural change’—to create a context in which the most vulnerable among us will be safe and protected, to create a context in which the abuse of power can be identified and eliminated.”

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Students Push University To Hire Title IX Coordinator title ix, from A1

DELTA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY

On Saturday, the board for the undergraduate alpha chapter of the Delta Phi Epsilon fraternity resigned in protest of Terrence Boyle’s leadership, halting recruitment activities.

New DPE Board Appointed Dpe, from A1 Delta Phi Epsilon stand fast to the noble purposes of the fraternity and its continued historic commitment to being a very open and inclusive organization,” Boyle wrote Saturday in an email to The Hoya.

Allegations of sexism and bigotry against Boyle surfaced this summer, after an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education published in July reported that Boyle wrote a post in the unofficial DPE Facebook page that the organization should be “a fraternity. All men. Not some kind of frasorority.”

The Chronicle’s report has been independently verified and confirmed by The Hoya.

Boyle’s June 30 Facebook post came shortly before the organization convened in Washington, D.C., for its biennial convention, the same event where Boyle had been re-elected as general secretary for years before.

Boyle’s post allegedly was written in opposition of other national-board candidates who “are set on a platform for installing chapters outside the US and set not only on allowing women to be initiated into DPE Fraternity but in allowing them to have seats on its national board and votes at its conventions.”

Currently, no female members of Delta Phi Epsilon sororities have representation at the national level, while co-ed fraternities have misled Boyle

on their membership to not lose voting rights, according to Andrew Lama (GWU ’19), president of The George Washington University’s DPE chapter. No woman has a vote at the DPE national conventions, according to DPE fraternity bylaws.

The same Chronicle article reported that in 2013, female DPE members from the George Washington chapter were required to spend part of the evening cleaning at the annual Christmas party hosted in the Georgetown University chapter house if they wanted to bring a male date to the party.

Boyle’s Facebook post and the reports in the article published by the Chronicle sparked discussion among DPE chapters across the country of their distrust for Boyle serving as the general secretary, according to Facebook posts viewed by The Hoya.

Leadership of non-Georgetown chapters launched a petition July 18 signed by DPE alumni, including over 50 individuals from Georgetown, demanding that Boyle be immediately removed from his position as general secretary.

“Notwithstanding any bylaw reforms or changes in the DPE governance structure, we demand that Mr. Boyle be immediately removed from his leadership position, that there be a thorough investigation into his conduct, and that the National Leadership immediately apologize to the affected parties for his statements and

practices,” the petition reads.

In an op-ed published by The Hoya on Aug. 29, DPE leaders at George Washington, James Madison University and American University urged individuals at Georgetown to take a stand against the fraternity, calling the activities of DPE’s board and the Georgetown fraternity misaligned with the founding mission of DPE. “Incoming freshmen should not join Delta Phi Epsilon, and university administrators must address the chapter’s corruptive influence on the campus community,” the op-ed reads. “We strongly discourage Georgetown students from engaging with the fraternity until its leaders pursue sweeping reform in organizational governance and culture.”

Boyle condemned The Hoya’s op-ed and earlier reporting on the Georgetown board’s resignation in an email obtained by The Hoya.

Meanwhile, the Georgetown chapter of DPE Professional Foreign Service Sorority condemned Boyle in a Facebook post Aug. 30.

“The Sorority has always functioned independently of the Fraternity and Mr. Boyle,” the statement read. “We have worked at length to address the issues of mistreatment of individuals by Mr. Boyle. We no longer participate in any fraternity events and have very minimal interactions with the DPE brothers and Mr. Boyle.”

promotes safe and healthy sex between consenting adults, we are concerned by the lack of a functioning Title IX office with a full-time Title IX Coordinator to ensure a safe environment and protections for sexual assault survivors on campus,” Elianna Schiffrick (COL ’20), communications co-chair for H*yas for Choice, wrote in an email on behalf of the organization. “Further, we are dismayed by the lack of transparency displayed by the University regarding an issue that so directly concerns and affects the student body.”

For Turner, hiring a fulltime Title IX coordinator is crucial especially now, as over 50 percent of college sexual assaults occur between August and November, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).

The likely high volume of instances of sexual misconduct could make adequately addressing cases brought to the Office of Title IX Compliance more difficult, Turner said.

“We’re now in the period known as “the red zone,” which is the time about 50 percent of sexual assaults occur — between August and November,” Turner said. In the coming months, “there will be more reports coming in, and we just don’t believe that one person can adequately function in those two jobs.”

The circulated letter comes after the New York Times reported that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, plans to release Title IX guidelines that would narrow the definition of sexual harassment, expand the rights of those accused of sexual misconduct and limit institutional liability.

The Georgetown University Student Association published a separate letter Sept.

4 to address the anticipated Title IX guideline updates.

“We, the undersigned, urge Georgetown University President John DeGioia and University administrators to recommit to their statement released last September in response to the interim guidance and clarify to the student body any specific steps the University will take

in response to any new guidance,” according to the letter.

Grace Perret (COL ‘20), GUSA sexual assault and student safety policy chair, noted the current political context makes holding campus leaders accountable even more relevant today.

“We need all of Georgetown’s sexual assault prevention services functioning at their best capacity because these changes make survivors even more vulnerable and less likely to use those services than they already were,” Perret wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Kilkenny and other administrators will be meeting with the authors of the letter to discuss next steps, she said.

“We have received this letter and are in contact with the students to arrange a meeting, update them on our progress and discuss our shared commitment to addressing sexual misconduct,” Kilkenny said in a statement. “Combatting sexual misconduct requires robust collaboration throughout our community and we are encouraged to see continued engagement from students.”

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Students are demanding that the university replace the Title IX coordinator position, which has been vacant since June when Laura Cutway resigned from her position.

Blue and Gray Alters Freshman Recruitment Policy blue and gray, from A1 or to leading tours.”

Multiple students, though expressing their disappointment, said they acknowledge the validity of Blue and Gray’s concerns. Emilia Game (SFS ’22) said though she was disappointed to find out she could not apply this fall, she accepted the rationale for the policy.

“As disappointing as it is not to have the option to apply for Blue and Grays as a freshman, I do understand that we will not be able to offer as much as older students when it comes to being a Tour Guide,” Game wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Isabelle Wisco (MSB ’22) said she did not feel she

would be comfortable giving tours yet.

“Seeing that I’ve only been here for a couple weeks, I do not feel equipped to present the school to a group of prospective students and parents. For those who have family history with university, it may be different, but given my lack of experience, I understand Blue and Gray’s decision,” Wisco wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Multiple students, though expressing their disappointment, said they acknowledge the validity of Blue and Gray’s concerns. Emilia Game (SFS ’22) said though she was disappointed to find out she could not apply this fall, she accepted the rationale for the policy.

“As disappointing as it is not to have the option to apply for Blue and Grays as a freshman, I do understand that we will not be able to offer as much as older students when it comes to being a Tour Guide,” Game wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Isabelle Wisco (MSB ’22) said she did not feel she would be comfortable giving tours yet.

“Seeing that I’ve only been here for a couple weeks, I do not feel equipped to present the school to a group of prospective students and parents.

For those who have family history with university, it may be different, but given my lack of experience, I understand Blue and Gray’s decision,” Wisco wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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Georgetown University’s Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society adjusted its policy on hiring freshmen in their first semester of college. Per the new policy, Blue and Gray will not accept freshman applicants until they have completed at least one semester at the university. The policy is designed to give freshmen time to gain experience and develop familiarity with Georgetown. Ari Goldstein, right, gives a tour to prospective students.

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CDC Grant to Fund Art Installation Celebrating Lives HIV Surveillance Of GU 272 on Display in Red Square SOPHIE ROSENZWEIG Hoya Staff Writer

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $2 million grant to Georgetown researchers to continue HIV surveillance and develop a secure data-sharing tool for public health agencies across the country.

The grant, which provides funding for five years, will help researchers further develop the privacy-centered framework that avoids permanent storage of individual data and eliminate duplicate counts of cases in the National HIV Surveillance System. The grant period for the university began Jan. 1, 2018, and is set to continue through Dec. 31, 2022.

The research will be strong because of the expertise of professionals in multiple disciplines, including computer science, medicine and public health, according to Joanne Michelle Ocampo, project director in public health informatics for the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Georgetown’s Medical Center.

“This project is the direct result of years building collaborative public-private partnerships across public health agencies and academia and greatly illustrates how fruitful this type of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral work can be,” Ocampo said in a April 23 news release.

The CDC’s National HIV Surveillance System is the primary arrangement for monitoring HIV cases in the United States, according to the CDC’s website.

The CDC funds and assists state and local health departments with collecting the data.

Dr. Seble Kassaye, associate professor in Georgetown’s School of Medicine and co-principal investigator on the project, said the technology will help both those with the disease and those trying to stop its spread.

“Implementing this technology in the public health sphere will allow agencies and departments to have updated, comprehensive and accurate informa-

tion regarding progress toward our national HIV treatment goals to achieve high levels of viral suppression,” Kassaye said in the news release. “This is both for the benefit of the individual as well as to mitigate ongoing transmission of HIV.” Currently, health departments and agencies report anonymous HIV data to the CDC so nationwide information can be analyzed to determine who is affected by the disease and why. The goal of the research is to continue monitoring instances of HIV in the United States, while carefully maintaining the privacy of the individuals who have contracted the disease.

The Surveillance System has been collecting data since 1981, the same year the AIDS epidemic was first officially reported by the CDC, according to HIV. gov.

The HIV and AIDS surveillance activities typically consist of four major sources: hospitals, physicians, public and private clinics and medical records systems such as death certificates, according to an affiliate website of the CDC. Using a standard confidential case report, health departments collect information and transmit it to the CDC electronically, omitting personally identifying information.

The research conducted using the grant will take a “socio-technical approach,” according to a university news release. This approach provides significant privacy protections to the data submitted. Users cannot access the system while data is being processed and the system only analyzes data while it is isolated in computer memory. Researchers hope that these unconventional approaches will help protect privacy while taking advantage of nationwide HIV statistics.

“This award is an important contribution toward fighting the HIV epidemic and further strengthens Georgetown’s leadership in privacy-preserving, big-data analytics,” Spiros Dimolitsas, senior vice president of research, said in a news release.

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Student-made artwork honoring the lives of the 272 slaves sold

by Georgetown in 1838 were hung in Red Square on Tuesday morning. The art installation, which, weather permitting, will be taken down on Friday, was created as part of the GU272 campaign that began in 2015.

Mélisande Short-Colomb (COL ’21), a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold, helped organize the installation. Short-Colomb said that the installation was aimed at sparking conversation about the GU272 slaves and continuing to educate new and returning students about the GU272.

“If the university doesn’t actively include the history of the university, the GU272, their slaveholding, human trafficking practices, incoming generations of students will not know,” she said. “The students that were involved in the action in 2015, many of them have already graduated or they are moving out.”

The display includes maps created by Amalia Stahl (COL ‘21), portraits by Maya Archer (SFS ’21) and Eliza Phillips (COL ’21) and an abstract piece painted by Travis MacHale (COL ’19).

Stahl said that she hopes that her piece educates community members who have limited knowledge about the GU272 slaves.

Maya Archer (SFS ’21) painted a faceless portrait for the installation as a focus on the men, women and children involved in the trade. Archer was frustrated by the lack of student activism and information surrounding the 1838 sale.

“It made me ... frustrated that a I could only find three pictures of this whole legacy we have at this school, and that something as small as an art show is the biggest thing we’ve done in the past two years besides a small little book that’s been brought out by a couple faculty and a couple students,” Archer said.

MacHale said that his abstract piece was meant to highlight the lack of publicity that the university gave to the 1838 sale prior to the GU272 campaign.

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Mélisande Short-Colomb (COL ’21), one of the principal organizers, said she hopes the exhibit raises awareness in the Georgetown community about the university’s history with slavery.

“The main idea was to have something blurred in the background coming into focus in the foreground, like Georgetown — I don’t know if it was intentional, but they just like let it be hid under the rug,” MacHale said. “I’m not sure who found it, but some people found the documents and just started like digging in and like bringing it to focus,” MacHale said.

Phillips made Short-Colomb the subject of her portrait and included quotes from Short-Colomb to draw attention to the experience of the descendants and their voices. Phillips said that she hoped her piece would remind members of the community to listen to the descendants when discussing the sale and the reparations to make.

“The main message I want to send to the Georgetown community, and especially the university itself, is how when they’re trying to, when they’re having conversations about reparations and reparative action that they should make sure the descendants remain heavily involved in these conversations,” Phillips said.

Phillips is a member of THE HOYA and traveled to Maringouin, La. in June on THE HOYA’S reporting trip to learn about the descendants of the GU272.

The artists and Short-Colomb spoke of the necessity of campaigns such as the art installation to increase awareness and conversation about the GU272 campaign and Georgetown’s history with slavery. Archer said that she hoped that this campaign sparks dialogue about Georgetown’s history.

“I just hope it starts a conversation at least because it’s something that we like gloss over,” Archer said. “We talked about it like I said last year, and maybe this would have influenced my decision of coming to Georgetown if I had actually thought about this more.”

Stahl said she thought that if the broader Georgetown community is made aware of the history surrounding the GU272, students would be able to have a greater influence on how the community addresses it.

“It’s a part of Georgetown’s iden-

tity, for better or for worse,” Stahl said. “And I think it’s very important that it’s coming to light now, even though it’s very late, and I think that more students should be aware of what happened and that might shift just the way we treat people in general and the whole idea of reparations or no reparations.”

Events like the art installation are crucial to spreading awareness and understanding about the university’s past, Short-Colomb said.

“Everybody worked really hard to get here and you hear all the time around the campus, you get these high fives and these praises for doing a job really well. You got here, you made it. There’s so many people who never got that high five,” Short-Colomb said. “Two hundred and seventy-two people who were disposable to the people who say they care about you.

So, I think I would like to send a message to all young people entering this school, any school, to dig a little bit deeper. Don’t trust everything you hear.”

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Smithsonian African American Museum Launches No-Pass Entry Emily Leng

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The National Museum of African American History and Culture launched “Walk-Up Weekdays,” a monthlong trial period during which visitors no longer need a reserved entry pass during the week.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s launch of its trial weekday, no-pass entry program attracted over 7,000 visitors on the first day of the monthlong program.

Dubbed “Walk-Up Weekdays,” the museum’s program waives the requirement for timed-entry passes to be obtained in advance on weekdays in the month of September.

On the first day of the program’s implementation, hundreds of visitors were lined up at the doors when the museum opened at 10 a.m. Some arrived as early as 8 a.m., according to The Washington Post.

The museum received more visitors this week following the launch of the no-pass program, NMAAHC Manager of Media Relations Fleur Paysour said.

“We’re seeing a great number of people come in,” Paysour said in an interview with The Hoya. “That has us believe that people feel much more comfortable about coming to the museum instead of going online to reserve passes.”

When the museum first opened Sept. 24, 2016, admission required timed-entry passes, which had to be reserved online months in advance to prevent long lines and to control gallery crowds.

Devoted to the recognition and appreciation of African American history and culture, the museum has seen over 4.5 million visitors since it opened, and over 1 million visitors in 2018 so far.

The museum first tested a no-pass entry system earlier this year, when it allowed pass-free entry every Wednesday in April and May. The resulting increase in visitors and positive public reaction spurred the museum to create “Walk-Up Weekdays,” another move to eventually transition away from timedentry passes, according to The Washington Post.

Museum officials hoped that waiving the requirement for timed-entry passes would encourage more people to visit the museum, while also maintaining a comfortable viewing experience for guests.

“We undertook this experiment to see if this would make a difference and make it easier for people to experience the museum,” Paysour

said.

The “Walk-Up Weekdays” program allows students an opportunity to explore the city, Megan Gaffney (SFS ’21) said.

“I think the change is important because it’s something that everyone should be able to see,” Gaffney said.

“It’s an important part of our history that we need to recognize, especially when there are so many debates going on about the role of race and racism in America.”

Currently on display is the special exhibit “Watching Oprah,” which explores Oprah Winfrey’s life, career and influence on American culture.

The museum’s new trial program will encourage more visitors to learn about a crucial part of American history, Maya Archer (SFS ’21) said.

“I really hope that this allows more people to go see the museum,” Archer said.

“The museum is important because it’s a part of American history that we sometimes like to put in the corner and ignore because sometimes it’s uncomfortable, and even though it is uncomfortable, it’s my history, and how my story came to be.”

MPD and DC Police Union Reach Collective Labor Agreement Deepika Jonnalagadda Hoya Staff Writer

The first mutually agreed upon labor contract between the Metropolitan Police Department and Washington, D.C. police union Fraternal Order of Police in almost two decades was reached Aug. 24, according to MPD Office of Communications Director Dustin Sternbeck.

Following more than a year of negotiations, the new contract offers union members increased wages and matches medical insurance benefits with existing District government packages.

Over 3,500 members of law enforcement in the city are set to receive a 3 percent retroactive raise in fiscal year 2018, a 2 percent increase in FY19 and a 3.5 percent raise in FY20 under the latest collective bargaining agreement, according to an Aug. 30 news release. The last agreement reached in 2014 through an arbitrator followed six years without a raise for MPD officers, according to DCist.

In addition, previously independent insurance coverage provided to the union members will be replaced by coverage under the Bowser administration’s dental and vision insurance plans.

Bowser emphasized the critical role the law enforcement officers play in maintaining the safety of the District in her introduction of the up-

dated labor contract Aug. 30.

“Members of the Metropolitan Police Department put their lives on the line every day to protect our city,” Bowser wrote in an Aug. 30 news release. “This new collective bargaining agreement shows our commitment to the courageous men and women who are helping us build a safer, stronger Washington, DC.” The first to come to fruition without an impasse or arbitration since 2001, the updated contract advances crucial investments highlighted in Bowser’s FY19 budget, such as new uniforms for all MPD officers and augmented funds for officer retention programs.

The agreement also supports the Bowser administration’s previously announced initiatives to expand the MPD civilian cadet program from 70 to 100 incoming high school graduates seeking to begin a career in law enforcement, according to an April 13 news release.

The larger cadet program increases the pool of talent that would eventually stay on to become sworn officers, MPD Chief Peter Newsham told The Washington Post.

For the past few years, MPD has struggled to replace a growing number of retiring officers following a hiring push in the late 1980s when almost 1,500 new officers joined the department, according to DCist.

An ongoing imbalance be-

tween the rate of retiring officers and hiring new recruits led District leaders to implement several incentives to increase the size of the police force in 2017, such as growing the hiring pool among D.C. residents and rehiring retired officers for up to five years, according to The Washington Post.

The more expansive benefits offered by the latest agreement are anticipated to further bolster MPD’s recruitment, Newsham said in an Aug. 30 news release.

“This increase will help attract new officers to the Metropolitan Police Department as we continue to navigate the current retirement bubble,” Newsham said.

The labor contract must first be ratified by members of the Fraternal Order of Police and voted on favorably by the D.C. Council prior to coming into effect, according to Sternbeck.

“The Union has 30 days for its membership to ratify the contract,” Sternbeck told The Hoya. “Upon ratification, the compensation portions will be submitted to the Council, and will go into effect upon the Council’s approval. Ratification and approval are for the contract as is; there is no ability to change the tentative agreement. If the membership does not ratify, or the Council does not approve, the parties return to the table to resume negotiations.”

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) will lead, along with six other mayors, a summit exploring potential policy solutions to disproportionately high rates of infant mortality among mothers of color.

Mayor to Co-Host District’s First Maternal and Infant Care Summit Josh Metzger Hoya Staff Writer

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MPD Chief Peter Newsham, left, and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) negotiated pay raises and increased insurance coverage with unions under the first collective bargaining agreement since 2001.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) will explore solutions to address the high rates of maternal mortality experienced by people of color across the nation at the first Maternal and Infant Health Summit on Sep. 12.

The goal of the summit is to push a broad range of objectives, including guaranteeing high-quality care during a mother’s first trimester of pregnancy, equipping healthcare facilities with the ability to manage the social needs of female patients and providing resources to new families, according to an Aug. 29 news release from the Office of the Mayor.

Bowser will be joined by at least six other mayors from cities across the country to host the free event, according to the news release.

In D.C., mothers of color experience disproportionally high rates of infant mortality in comparison to white women. According to the D.C. Department of Health’s “Perinatal Health and Infant Mortality Report” published in April 2018, the infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic, black mothers is 11.49 per 1,000 live births in comparison to 2.55 per 1,000 live

births for non-Hispanic white mothers.

Bowser’s plan to expand women’s access to healthcare, has been central to her administration’s goal since her State of the District address in March 2018.

“I will also introduce legislation that will help ensure every pregnant woman in Washington, D.C. receives patient-centered, high-quality prenatal care and every newborn receives high-quality neonatal care,” she said at the State of the District.

The summit serves as an opportunity for politicians, health officials and policy advocates to collaborate to improve familial health, she said in the news release.

“This summit is about addressing issues that affect mothers, babies, and families here in D.C. and across the entire nation – and talking about solutions,” Bowser said in the news release. “By working together, we can move closer to ensuring all women have access to highquality health care before, during, and after child birth.”

The summit will feature mayors Lovely Warren from Rochester, N.Y., Karen Freeman-Wilson from Gary, Ind., Catherine Pugh from Baltimore, Md., Vi Lyles from Charlotte, N.C., Karen Weaver from Flint, Mich., and Toni Harp from New Haven,

Conn.

Interacting with mayors from jurisdictions across the country affords the opportunity to establish a national agenda to resolve ongoing disparities, Warren said.

“We all benefit from hearing from other mayors and community leaders, learning from them, sharing what’s worked as we seek to improve the health of mothers and babies, and addressing the gap in outcomes for many minority mothers and babies in our communities,” Warren said in the Aug. 29 news release.

The summit will aim to educate D.C. residents in effectively managing different stages of pregnancy in addition to allowing women to become advocates of their own well-being, Bowser said in the Aug. 29 news release.

The summit will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

“We are working every day to ensure that all women have equal access to high-quality health care before, during, and after child birth—regardless of background, zip code, or income,” Bowser said. “This summit will complement the work my Administration is doing across all eight wards to provide women and children with the care they need to live healthy, happy lives.”

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Former GUPD Officer Dies sarah mendelsohn Hoya Staff Writer

Lt. Charles Rathell, who served as an officer in the Georgetown University Police Department for seven years, died earlier this week due to complications from an ongoing illness.

Rathell, 43, most recently worked as the Support Services Bureau commander, managing administrative tasks such as hiring, training, vehicle fleet maintenance, upkeep of uniforms and equipment, communication and IT. He died at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colo., according to GUPD Police Chief Jay Gruber.

Gruber said Rathell brought positivity and passion to the Georgetown police department.

“He brought a real passion for training and helped revitalize our field training program, our in-service training,” Gruber said in an interview with The Hoya. “I’ve only known him six years. I got here six years ago, but you know, he was an integral part of making GUPD what it is.”

Rathell introduced new training techniques and technologies that helped match

GUPD’s abilities with those of surrounding police forces, specifically by implementing scenario-based training that enabled trainees to practice skills they learned in the classroom through recreations of potential real-life scenarios, according to Gruber.

“He brought a real professionalism to how our officers are trained, the way they were trained, professionalizing the whole approach to lesson plans and how instructors teach and organization around all of that,” Gruber said.

Rathell, who was born in Washington, D.C., dedicated much of his life to public service, after first becoming involved in law enforcement at the age of 18, according to Gruber. In addition to his role in GUPD, Rathell volunteered for a local fire department, the Bel Alton Volunteer Fire Department and EMS. Gruber emphasized Rathell’s love for his work and the energy and passion that he invested in GUPD. “He really had a passion for law enforcement,” Gruber said. “Anything that he could do to help professionalize or modernize our department, he was just all in.”

Rathell is survived by his wife, Stacey; his two children, Charles and Corda; and his mother, Janice. Gruber said that Rathell prioritized spending time with his family.

“He has two small children that he adored and loved spending time with. In fact, he would bring his son here occasionally if his son didn’t have school to visit the police station, and you just saw the love he had for his son,” Gruber said.

A dedicated family man, passionate law enforcement officer and avid Washington Redksins and Baltimore Ravens fan, Rathell was an integral part of his community, Gruber said.

“I liked nothing more than sitting in his office, just talking about the department, the university, the world, and he’s just a good guy to be with,” Gruber said. “He will be very sorely missed.”

Rathell’s funeral is set for Sept. 12 at a funeral home in Pennsylvania. His family has asked that those wishing to show their condolences donate to a charity of their choosing in Rathell’s name instead of bringing flowers to the ceremony.

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Fr. Francis Schemel, S.J., died Aug. 4 after working for the university for over 30 years. Schemel had served as chaplain to staff since 1994 but was also known for his extravagant chocolate confections.

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Lt. Charles Rathell served the Georgetown University Police Department for seven years before he died this week due to complications with an ongoing illness. He is survived by his wife, two children and mother.

Activist: ‘Rethink Plastic’ Olivia Eggers Hoya Staff Writer

The survival of the global economy and the future health of the environment depend on manufacturing multi-use goods that produce less waste, argued architect and sustainable development leader Bill McDonough in an event Wednesday.

The event, entitled “Rethinking Plastic: Answering a Global Call to Action,” was cosponsored by Georgetown University’s Office of Sustainability, the Urban and Regional Planning Program, the Global Cities Initiative, the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, and the Georgetown Environment Initiative and took place in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday afternoon.

McDonough works as an architect, but is renowned for his leadership in the global sustainability movement, according to Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia.

He founded Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, which strives to initiate “a new industrial revolution” with a sustainable focus.

McDonough received a Presidential Award for Sustainable Development in 1996 and Time Magazine named him “Hero for the Planet” in 1999. In 2014, he was appointed as the Inaugural Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on the Circular Economy.

DeGioia introduced McDonough for his keynote, after which McDonough discussed the impact of sustainability efforts at Georgetown with Carrie Bonfield (COL ’19), the president of Georgetown’s chapter of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, a national student organization that promotes the health of the world’s oceans.

Also involved in the discussion was Dr. Timothy Warren, the chair of the Chemistry Department and co-chair of Georgetown’s Environment Initiative, an organization dedicated to the study of the environment in relation to society, scientific understanding and policy.

McDonough’s work focuses on fighting what he calls “throwaway” culture, the idea that products are good for one-

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William McDonough, architect and environmental activist, discussed the impacts of sustainability at Georgetown in his keynote speech. time use and should then be discarded.

“Throwaway culture assumes there’s an ‘away,’” McDonough said.

McDonough proposed a new way to create susainable goods by designing reusable products.

“If I design for end of use, I can design for next use,” he said. “Essentially, we want to go from a linear economy of taking and making waste, to a circular economy of retake, remake and regenerate.”

McDonough said that manufacturers must focus on the future environmental impact of their products beyond initial use in order to cultivate a more sustainable economy.

“Would you actually go out and design a system that puts 18 billion pounds of plastic in the oceans every year?” McDonough said. “Nature doesn’t have a design problem. Humans do.”

Because the issue of environmental health is visible in the form of litter and pollution, it will resonate with the public and encourage them to support and engage with sustainability efforts, McDonough said.

Warren echoed McDonough’s call to action and

encouraged Georgetown students and faculty to incorporate sustainability into their individual research.

“In all the intellectual curiosity that we have, there are ways that we can look at a problem that we’ve been working on, as students for weeks or as faculty for years or decades, and try to see what connection that has to the environment, what connection that has to sustainability,” Warren said.

Bonfield offered examples of how to build a sustainable lifestyle at Georgetown, describing how she carries reusable cutlery and a travel mug with her to reduce her carbon footprint, and encouraged other Georgetown students to do the same.

“Think about your actions and how they impact the rest of the environment around you and try to be a champion for the environment and set a culture of eco-living wherever you go,” she said.

McDonough emphasized the magnitude of the problems facing our environment and the need for long-term commitment to solve them.

“It will take us all, it will take forever, but that’s the point,” McDonough said.

Fr. Francis Schemel, S.J., Georgetown University’s chaplain to staff and beloved chocolatier, died Aug. 4 at 93 years old.

A memorial service was held at Dahlgren Chapel on Aug. 9. Schemel was buried following the service in the Georgetown Cemetery.

Born in Archbald, Pennsylvania in 1925, Schemel first came to Washington, D.C., in 1975 to serve as the minister of the Leonard Neal House, then the minister and treasurer of the Carroll House, both Jesuit communities in the District.

Schemel joined the Georgetown community in 1984 after working as assistant treasurer for Georgetown Preparatory School for one year.

At Georgetown, he served as a campus minister and lived in Village C West residence hall for over 20 years as the Chaplain-in-Residence.

Schemel went on to serve as the chaplain to the staff when the role was created in 1994, according to Georgetown Magazine.

Schemel said, in his position, that he simply wanted those around him to feel heard.

“I’m like a sounding board or a good will ambassador,” Schemel told Georgetown Magazine in 1996. “As I tell the new employees, I have big ears and I’m a good listener.

If you’re having troubles and you want me to do something, I can. If you just want to talk about your family or your job, I’m here.”

Schemel had a motto for

his time at Georgetown on how he saw his role in the community.

“Everyone grows physically, and that’s something we can’t control. We grow intellectually through life experience and our jobs. I am here to help people grow spiritually,” Rev. Ron Anton, S.J., wrote in a campus wide email, quoting Schemel.

In addition to his official role on campus, Schemel also impacted the community with his work as a confectioner and his regular invitations to home cooked meals.

Schemel told the Washington Post in 1993 that he realized how he could integrate his love for cooking into his ministry in 1975, when he helped the Democratic Women’s Club host a reception for the then President-elect Jimmy Carter.

When the Kennedy Center became unavailable due to a strike, Schemel helped cater the event at the club for over 500 guests, which included President Carter and his family, John Wayne, Bette Davis and at least 15 other movie stars, Schemel told The Washington Post.

When he came to Georgetown in 1984, Schemel began offering home-cooked meals to students multiple times a week in his apartment in order to make students feel more comfortable coming to him with their problems.

“It breaks down barriers,” Schemel said of incorporating food into his interactions with his students.

Schemel said that the dinners helped create stronger relationships between him

and the students that came to him, saying that they’ll reach out to him even when they do not have specific problems they want to talk about.

“They call me on the phone and hint around that they’d like to be invited to dinner,” he told the Washington Post in 1993.

Schemel said he discovered his love for cooking after taking a chocolate-making class shortly after moving to the district.

After deciding that the Leonard Neal House was “crying out for special Christmas decorations,” Schemel learned how to mold chocolate Santas, reindeers and Nativity scenes. Schemel even sold 93 pounds of chocolate sculptures in 1989 to help raise funds during the university’s bicentennial anniversary of its founding.

Despite all the use Schemel got out of his confectionary skills, Schemel said he continued because he simply loved doing it.

“I make candies because people like them,” Schemel said. “I get a kick out of it. I don’t consider it work at all.

If I’m bored or something is bother me, I get out some pots and pans and start cooking or baking and I soon forget about my troubles.”

Schemel regularly sent out chocolate get well “cards,” graduation cakes for seniors and used his sweets to brighten others days.

Anton said his absence will surely be felt by the community.

“He will be dearly missed by many of us here at the university and throughout the Jesuit community,” Anton wrote.

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Senior outside hitter Olivia King, bottom, recorded a game-high 15 kills and three digs in the Hoyas' win against the George Mason Patriots on Saturday, Sept. 1.

Team Splits 4 Home Matches Vikram Sud

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The Georgetown volleyball team hosted its first tournament of the season last weekend at the Georgetown Classic, earning two victories in four matches.

Georgetown (4-5, 0-0 Big East) began the series on Friday against Norfolk State, winning comfortably in straight sets with scores of 25-13, 2517 and 25-10. Senior middle blocker Symone Speech recorded 15 kills in the match, the most for either team.

The Hoyas scored seven of the final nine points in the third set, closing out the match on a 5-0 run.

Georgetown was unable to win its second game of the day, falling 2-3 against the University of Pennsylvania in a back-and-forth matchup.

In the match, the teams exchanged the leads 16 times and were tied on 33 occasions.

UPenn won the first set 25-22 despite the efforts of Georgetown junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic, who recorded eight of her 20 matchleading kills in the set.

Down 23-22, the Hoyas

scored three consecutive points to win the second set 25-23, tying the match at 1-1.

The Quakers edged the Hoyas out in the third set 2521 and finished the frame strongly, scoring six out of seven points and committing one attack error.

Both teams continued to trade sets, as Georgetown won the fourth frame to force a decisive fifth and final set. The Hoyas relied on their senior leaders to close out the set, as Speech and senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette notched consecutive kills to win the set 25-18.

The fifth set, like the four sets prior, remained close throughout. The teams were deadlocked at 10-10 and 14-14.

Both teams appeared poised to start a run and win the set, but UPenn emerged victorious, scoring the final two points and defeating Georgetown three sets to two.

Georgetown returned to action on Saturday against George Mason.

Sinnette continued her strong performances, notching 12 kills against the Patriots. Senior outside hitter Olivia King led Georgetown with

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15 kills. Sophomore setter Margo Pivonka set the tone for the Hoya's offense, recording 41 assists in the match.

Georgetown jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, taking the first comfortably, 25-14, while clinching the second set 25-22.

After dropping the third set 15-25, Georgetown was able to close the match out in the fourth set, earning a 3-1 victory Georgetown concluded its weekend slate of matches against UNC Wilmington on a record-setting evening in McDonough Arena.

Senior libero Kenzie Higareda broke Georgetown’s program record for digs in the third set, notching her 1,632nd career dig.

After dropping the first set 19-25, Higareda led Georgetown on a 12-3 run and a second set victory. The Hoyas also took the third set, but were unable to close out the match as the Seahawks rallied to win the final two sets 25-19 and 15-9.

Georgetown split both games across two days for the second consecutive weekend and will be back in action on Sept. 14 against the University of Memphis in McDonough Arena.

Facing its longtime rival Sunday Sept. 2, the Georgetown women’s soccer team shut out West Virginia University on the road 2-0.

“There’s not too many teams that go up to West Virginia and win up there,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said in an interview with The Hoya.

“I don’t think 2-0 flattered us. I thought we played well enough that 2-0 or 3-0 would have been a fair result.”

The No. 11 ranked Hoyas (40-2) came into Morgantown, W.Va., on the heels of a 1-0 victory over the George Washington Colonials (4-2-0) on Thursday.

Senior forward Amanda Carolan scored her first goal of the season, assisted by junior midfielder Carson Nizialek, to secure the win.

West Virginia (1-2-3) and Georgetown have a long history of high-intensity matchups, most recently in the season opener of the 2017 season. The then-No. 5 ranked Hoyas lost to then-No. 1 ranked Mountaineers 1-0 in West Virginia.

“Whenever we play them, it’s always a tough game,” Nolan said. “We’re a very difficult matchup for them based on the way we play. And, they’re a difficult matchup for us based on how athletic they are.”

This year’s West Virginia team, however, did not come into Sunday’s matchup with the same pedigree. The Mountaineers struggled out of the gate, highlighted by a threegame tie streak prior to Sunday.

Georgetown outshot West Virginia 7-5. Senior forward Caitlin Farrell had two shots on goal, including one in the first minute of action that set the tone early for the Hoyas.

“I thought we did a good job of handling what they threw at us,” Nolan said. “I felt as the game went on, we started to impose our own style on the game.”

That style has stayed con-

stant over the years for the Hoyas, but it has taken some time for this year’s squad to get acclimated to one other.

“The style is always ball movement, possession and combination play,” Nolan said. “The one thing we did better against West Virginia is we started to recognize the qualities of our teammates.”

Georgetown opened up the scoring in the 35th minute with a goal from junior defender Meaghan Nally, assisted by sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen.

Both Nally’s goal and Nguyen’s assist marked their first for the season.

“Meaghan has the heart of a champion. She’s a warrior on the field,” Nolan said. “On offense, she’s such a great athlete and such a good competitor that she tends to get close to a lot of stuff.”

Nally and senior goalkeep-

er Arielle Schechtman were instrumental in keeping a dangerous West Virginia offense at bay, leading to Georgetown’s fourth shutout of the year.

For their efforts, Nally and Schechtman were named Big East Defensive Player and Goalkeeper of the Week, respectively. This was the second time Schechtman received the award this year.

With 15 minutes remaining in the game, the Hoyas added a second goal to put the Mountaineers away. Graduate forward Kyra Carusa scored an unassisted goal off a loose ball in the West Virginia box.

The goal was Carusa’s third of the season and her second straight game with a goal.

Next up for Georgetown is a local matchup against George Mason University (3-2) at Shaw Field. Kickoff is set for Sunday at noon.

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Junior forward/midfielder Paula Germino-Watnick has started two matches for the Hoyas this season, notching five shots.

ROWING

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The upcoming season shows promise for the Georgetown University rowing teams, which will welcome a new head coach for the women's team and two returning U.S. Under 23 National Team members.

Coach Kendall Mulligan has come to Georgetown following four seasons as the head rowing coach at Franklin & Marshall College, during which she led the men’s team to a fourth-place finish at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference and propelled the women’s team to a No. 15 ranking in the USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association national poll in 2017.

Mulligan offered optimistic words for the Hoyas’ upcoming season.

“I am looking forward to coming on board with the Georgetown University women’s rowing team as its head coach and being part of such a strong legacy of academic

excellence and competitive success,” Mulligan said in an interview with GUHoyas.

Mulligan was also a four-year rower in college, graduating from Washington College in 2012. Director of Athletics Lee Reed is impressed with Mulligan’s pedigree.

“Kendall is an up-and-coming head coach who has already proven to be an effective leader and mentor for her studentathletes,” Reed said in an interview with GUHoyas. “Coming from Franklin & Marshall, she brings to Georgetown an understanding of how motivated athletes learn and best thrive in a competitive, athletic and academic environment.”

In one of her first moves as head coach, Mulligan named Paul Allbright as the new assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2018-19 season.

“Coming on as our primary recruiting coordinator, Paul's many years at the high school level will bring new connections to Georgetown,” Mulligan told GUHoyas. “His experience

as a technical coach on the water will also serve as valuable as we look to make the shift to the next level. We are thrilled to be bringing Paul on board this fall.”

Allbright has extensive coaching experience at the junior level and is the founder and executive director of Resilient Rowing Club in Fairfax, Va. This past summer, two Georgetown rowers were named to the U.S. Under 23 National Team. Senior Artym Hayda and junior Caroline O’Brien competed at the 2018 World Rowing Under 23 Championships this past July in Poznan, Poland. Hayda raced in the lightweight men’s double sculls, and O’Brien brought home gold in the lightweight women’s pair.

O’Brien and her partner posted a time of 7:43.62 in the finals, a race that they led from start to finish.

The Hoyas will lean on their experienced rowers and new coaches as they embark on their fall schedule.

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Georgetown's sailing team, ranked No. 4 at the end of last season, will welcome three All-Americans back to the Hilltop this fall: sophomore Caroline Teare and juniors William Logue and Sean Segerblom.

Hoyas Ready for New Campaign Brendan Dolan Hoya Staff Writer

After another season as one of Georgetown’s most dominant sports teams, the coed sailing team will look to continue their success for the 2018 campaign in Annapolis, Md., on Sept. 8.

This event will mark the Hoyas’ first time competing in the water since their third place finish in the ICSA Gill Coed National Championship in May. When reflecting on last spring’s finish, Head Sailing Coach Mike Callahan praised the development of the squad.

“Last year we had a really young team and finishing third at the national championships was really higher than we sort of expected for that group to do, so we were very pleased,” Callahan said

in an interview with The Hoya.

Though surpassing defending champion MIT will prove a daunting task, Georgetown has reason for its high aspirations.

The Hoyas attained the number one spot in the national poll last fall before finishing the year ranked fourth.

Georgetown’s sailing team was the only team on campus to obtain the top honor at any point during the fall.

The Hoyas will return three out of the four sailors who were named All-Americans in the spring. Sophomore Caroline Teare and juniors William Logue and Sean Segerblom will lead the Hoyas in their fall schedule.

Supplementing the leadership of the three All-Americans are juniors Haddon Hughes and Rebecca Fung, both of whom are considered

two of the top sailors on the roster. The sailors look to add a national championship to their resume, giving their coach confidence.

“You always think if you finish second or third the year before you’re going to have a better chance, especially when the people who beat you graduated all their starters,” Callahan said. “If everything goes well … we certainly have a great chance of winning it this year.”

From a coaching standpoint, Callahan possesses all the skills to navigate the high seas as a coach. A decorated sailor in his own right, Callahan once competed for Team USA. With great talent and coaching, the Hoyas look to go beyond the results of past years and take another step towards winning a national title.

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With a new head coach for the women's team and two returning U.S. Under 23 National Team rowers, the Georgetown men's and women's rowing teams will look to make noise in the Big East this season.

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upstarts rather than seasoned veterans. Younger players gain more by learning, travelling and experiencing international tournaments for the first time, and they have the potential to raise their overall stocks as players by coming on as substitutes.

It makes little sense for well-established athletes like Vardy or Cahill to sit on the bench in place of a developing player.

Even star players may have valid reasons for international retirement. Certain players might not fit well with their national team’s manager or culture.

A notable example from this

year was Mesut Ozil’s retirement from the German national team. Ozil claimed his manager and the German football association pressured him to apologize for a photo taken with President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. In the international game, unhappy players cannot make a transfer request; they can only retire.

Above all, the international game causes physical exhaustion at the expense of players’ earning potential and personal lives. Players at the top clubs already face demanding schedules, generally playing 38 domestic league games, up to 13 Champions League games and various cups and friendlies.

As players get older, their

bodies need all the recovery time they can get during the season. The taxing effect of travel, practice and games for continental tournaments can harm quality of play and even result in serious injury.

It is a risk that puts players’ club careers on the line, when they only have so many years to be able to earn professional wages. The average soccer career ends at 35, at which point a player usually needs to be financially stable for the rest of his life.

Older players are also more likely to have families with whom they choose to spend more time, a personal decision that all fans must respect.

In 2016, Liverpool’s James Mil-

ner cited having very little free time to spend with his young family as his reason for retiring from England’s national team at age 30.

It is understandable why avid soccer fans and commentators want as many well-known players at the global level as possible. But considering the increasingly heavy demands of professional soccer, international retirement should be viewed as a valid personal decision rather than a rejection of one’s country.

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Football

Johnson Commands Team Against Marist Alyssa Alfonso For the Hoya

Junior back Jessica Lagano, middle, helped the Hoya defense to its third shutout of the season against Sacred Heart.

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game and did not allow a shot on target for the first 12 minutes of the match.

Sacred Heart mustered one shot on target in the first 35 minutes, which freshman goalkeeper Ciara Weets saved, her first of nine total saves in the game.

Sophomore Cami Osborne sealed the win in the second half with her first goal of the season. The Hoyas outshot the Pioneers 19-16 in the match and recorded one more shot on target than their opponent.

Head Coach Christy Longacre said she believes the best is yet to come for her team.

“I’m so excited for this team and I truly believe the sky is the limit for them,” Longacre said in an interview with GUHoyas. “They continue to build from each game and improve and we hope to continue that through the rest of the season.”

Two days after their victory over Sacred Heart, the Hoyas extended their winning streak to four in an offensive battle against Saint Francis.

Osborne once again led the

charge, scoring the first goal of the game 10 minutes into the contest.

Following Osborne’s opening goal, Saint Francis responded with a goal in the 17th minute to tie the game 1-1. The Hoyas remained poised and Osborne once again led the charge with a goal at the 30 minute mark.

The Red Flash grabbed a goal back, but were unable to mount a comeback and the game ended 4-2 in the Hoyas’ favor.

Osborne leads the team with six total points this season and was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll for her performance over the weekend. She has earned the award on four occasions throughout her Georgetown career.

Through the first four games of the season, the Hoyas are tied for first in the Big East with the University of Connecticut and Old Dominion.

Georgetown is set to play its third consecutive home game Sept. 7 against Long Island University Brooklyn before travelling to Philadelphia on Sept. 14 for a Big East matchup against Villanova.

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Defensively, the Hoyas locked down the Red Foxes. Sophomore linebacker Xavier Reddick led the team with eight tackles, while two interceptions by senior defensive back and captain Blaise Brown

helped Georgetown hold Marist scoreless at the half. Georgetown headed to the intermission having allowed 82 total yards and four first downs.

Sgarlata said the Hoyas fought through in-game setbacks.

“I’m really impressed with how

we came out in the first half both on offense and defense,” Sgarlata said. “We hit some adversity during the game, but the kids fought through it all day.”

Another turnover provided a spark for the Blue and Gray early in the third quarter. Sopho-

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Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson threw for 369 yards and four touchdowns against Marist, completing 26 out of 37 passes. Johnson’s longest completion of the day went for 56 yards.

more defensive back George Ikott stripped the Marist quarterback, forcing a fumble. Linebacker Duval Paul scooped up the ball and ran it back nine yards for a touchdown, extending Georgetown’s lead to 18-0.

Three Hoyas earned Patriot League Weekly accolades. Brown was named defensive player of the week; junior placekicker Brad Hurst was awarded special teams player of the week; and freshman wideout Joshua Tomas took home rookie of the week.

Sgarlata commented on Brown’s performance and leadership.

“Blaise Brown is one of the best players in the Patriot League. He had a tremendous camp, was elected captain for us and he is a great leader,” Sgarlata said. “He had some huge plays for us today and some plays that won’t show up on the stat sheet. He does a great job of keeping our guys focused.”

The Hoyas are looking to extend their winning streak on Saturday as they host Campbell University. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

Gunther Johnson is ready for the team’s next challenge.

“We are excited to get a win,” Johnson said. “We did a lot of good things, but tomorrow we will make some corrections and get ready for Campbell.”

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defender Dylan Nealis played a through ball to junior forward Achara into space down the right wing. Achara then sent it to Dodson, who was making a run into the middle of the box.

After a goalmouth scramble, Dodson gathered the ball, turned and fired a shot on net past the outstretched hands of the goalkeeper.

This goal marked the third time Dodson has found the net in the Hoyas’ past two games.

“Scoring goals is kind of a mental thing and just being able to tuck stuff away. Hopefully, I can just keep that going,” Dodson said.

The Hoyas closed out the game, earning a 2-0 victory.

Freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis recorded his second shutout of the season with four saves.

“This was a huge game. You never really want to have backto-back losses and that’s what you’re staring at,” Wiese said.

Following the victory over Radford, Georgetown hosted the three-time defending champion Stanford (0-0-3, 0-0 Pac-12) in front of a raucous crowd at Shaw Field.

The fans were out in full force on Labor Day and provided an intense atmosphere throughout the game.

“You have to understand what Stanford is. You’re not playing the team; you’re playing the program. You’re playing against a group that has a huge identity,” Wiese said.

The first 20 minutes of the first half provided exciting back-andforth soccer as both teams traded chances.

“We knew they were going to press us early, but we had confidence in our fitness and our play and knew we would wear them down eventually. So, as the half wore on, they got tired and we started to control the game,” Zajec said.

The Hoyas were unable to convert any of their opportunities, and the two teams entered halftime deadlocked.

Midway through the second

half, Georgetown grabbed the lead through a goal by senior midfielder/forward Ethan Lochner, assisted by freshman midfielder Sean Zawadzki. “[Junior forward] Riley [Strassner] played it to [Zawadzki], he was a little deeper than us so I knew someone needed to make the forward run. So, I made it,” Lochner said. “[Zawadzki] was incredibly composed and found me with the right exact spot and I was just trying to hold off the defenders because it was just coming and I got lucky with the finish.”

In the final 10 minutes of the second half, the tone of the game changed as the Cardinals began to play on the front foot and pressed for an equalizer.

After multiple decent chances, senior midfielder Amir Bashti found the back of the net for Stanford. The Cardinals capitalized on a poor clearance by Nealis as sophomore midfielder/defender Logan Panchot intercepted the ball and quickly passed it up to Bashti, who clinically equalized.

“It’s just a chain reaction and an opportunistic goal by Stanford which is how they’ve made a living in some moments but credit to them,” Wiese said. “They find a way to get a goal when maybe they’re not playing their best soccer.”

Following Stanford’s goal, Georgetown was unable to answer, and the two teams went to overtime tied 1-1.

With the heat playing a factor, both teams relied heavily on their depth as coaches brought on fresher legs to try to turn the tide.

“It could have been pretty easy for us to fold over and give up another goal but I’m proud of the guys. They dug their heels in and played a good overtime,” Zajec said.

The best chance of both overtime periods came as Achara found himself in on net in the 96th minute. Much to the dismay of the home supporters,

Stanford’s goalkeeper made a fantastic fingertip save and forced Achara’s effort just wide.

The match ended as a 1-1 draw after 110 hard fought minutes.

“It’s frustrating when you play well enough to win and when you have two chances cleared off the line. You’re hitting posts. You have some unbelievable chances and their goalie is making some good saves,”

Wiese said.

Overall, the Hoyas outshot the Cardinals 29-16. Lochner’s goal was also the first goal that was conceded by Stanford in its previous nine games.

Following its draw with Stanford, Georgetown is continuing its nonconference schedule as it hosts the Yale Bulldogs on Sept. 9. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. at Shaw Field.

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Senior midfielder Kyle Zajec has two assists in four games this season for the Hoyas, doubling his total from last season.

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GU Beats Radford, Draws Against Stanford DREW SEWALL Hoya Staff Writer

On a hot and humid weekend in Washington, D.C., Georgetown men’s soccer team hosted its first two home games of the 2018 season at Shaw Field, defeating Radford University and drawing against defending national champions Stanford.

In the first match on Aug. 31, the Hoyas (2-1-1, 0-0 Big East) welcomed the Radford High-

landers (0-3-0, 0-0 Big South) to the Hilltop. Coming off a loss in double overtime to Coastal Carolina in its previous game Aug. 26, Georgetown was eager to get off to a quick start.

In the 14th minute, sophomore forward/midfielder Derek Dodson gave the Hoyas the spark they needed as he found the back of the net off a ball from senior midfielder Kyle Zajec.

Zajec drew out both the High-

landers’ defenders and goalkeeper, then sent a ball across the box to Dodson, who calmly sent the ball into the open net to give the Hoyas a 1-0 lead.

“Playing simple [was the key].

Just taking what they were giving us and moving the ball with good tempo,” Dodson said.

The Hoyas continued to pepper the Highlanders’ net with shots in the second half, but were thwarted by the goalkeeper and a bicycle goal line

clearance from the Highlander defense.

“One of the advantages of getting the lead was that Radford started taking more chances and their line was pretty high and we got behind them a bunch from that,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

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Sophomore forward Cami Osborne, right, scored two goals in Georgetown’s win over Saint Francis on Sept. 2.

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The Georgetown field hockey team is on a roll, kicking off the 2018 season with four straight wins. For the first time in over 15 years, the Hoyas have not lost a game over their opening two weekends.

The Hoyas (4-0) boast a stout defense, conceding two total goals and recording three shutouts in their first four games.

Following two close road wins against Davidson and Appalachian State, Georgetown ended a strong week at

home, defeating both Sacred Heart University and Saint Francis University.

The Hoyas won 2-0 in their matchup against Sacred Heart on Aug. 31, maintaining their unbeaten record and spot atop the Big East standings.

Freshman Sydney Stephenson started the game off with a penalty goal two minutes into the match. Sophomore Ali Cronin provided the assist, her first of two over the weekend.

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Senior midfielder/forward Ethan Lochner scored Georgetown’s lone goal in the team’s overtime draw against Stanford at Shaw Field on Monday, Sept. 3. Lochner recorded four total shots and one shot on goal in the match.

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Offense Dominant in Road Win DANNY MCCOOEY Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown football team gained over 400 yards of total offense en route to a 39-14 road win over the Marist Red Foxes on Sept. 1. For the third consecutive season, the Hoyas have won their opening contest.

Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson completed 26 of 37 passes for 369 yards and four

touchdowns. His performance marked the first 300-yard game for a Georgetown quarterback since 2015.

Johnson credited the offensive line for his strong performance.

“This is the best line protection I have ever had in my career,” Johnson said in an interview with THE HOYA. “From the very first drive we felt like we could do whatever we wanted

on them.”

Georgetown’s talented receiving corps also found success against Marist. Ten different receivers recorded a catch, and four different players caught touchdowns. Senior wideout Winston Jackson Jr. led the team with four grabs for 114 yards and a touchdown, while junior receiver Michael Dereus corralled five catches for 99 yards and a score.

Head Coach Rob Sgarlata praised Offensive Coordinator Rob Spence’s game plan as well as the performance of his receiving corps.

“I’m just glad someone else has to defend them,” Sgarlata said in an interview with THE HOYA. “We did a great job using all the weapons that Gunther has at his disposal.”

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Freshman wide receiver Joshua Thomas, left, had four receptions, 39 receiving yards and a touchdown in Georgetown’s 39-14 win over Marist on Saturday, Sept.1. Prior to Georgetown, Thomas was a four-year captain and two-time all-state academic selection.

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Dean Hampers

Fans Should Respect Players’ Retirements From World Stage When France faced Croatia in the World Cup final this July, an estimated 1 billion people — over 13 percent of the world’s population — tuned in to watch the event.

This viewership figure dwarfs that of the all-time mostwatched American sporting event, the Super Bowl XLIX, by a factor of 10 to one. It also had three times the viewership of the most-watched European club soccer event, the 2013 Champions League final.

The stage of international soccer is so large that many fans consider representing their country — both in World Cups and continental championships — to be the highest honor soccer players can attain.

However, given the pressures and lucrative wages present in club soccer today, countries should no longer shun athletes who retire from their national teams at young ages.

Players are increasingly following this trend, retiring early from the international level while continuing their club careers. Last week, 32-year-old Chelsea defender Gary Cahill and 31-year-old Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy announced their retirements from the Eng-

land national team.

Their decisions to leave a team with a storied history and an enthusiastic fan base in favor of more lucrative club opportunities has been criticized as disrespectful. It seems surprising that able-bodied athletes would reject the chance to play the sport they ostensibly love in front of a nation of faithful supporters.

Nevertheless, players almost always have respectable reasons for leaving a national team and should not be labeled as unpatriotic for doing so.

Club teams choose players because their positions and playing styles match the team’s needs, but players in the international game do not have this luxury. Oftentimes two talented players from the same position represent the same country simply by misfortune.

Despite Vardy’s capabilities as a striker, he was sure to continually lose out to standout 25-year-old compatriot Harry Kane for England’s starting spot.

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