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LIVING ONLINE

Students note the impact of social media on their social lives at college.

EDITORIAL Outlandish proposals from the university serve only to frustrate students.

GUIDE, B1

OPINION, A2

SYNOD ON FAMILY The Vatican showed support for gay and lesbian Catholics.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The No. 25 Hoyas scored a 4-0 win over Marquette at home Sunday.

NEWS, A5

SPORTS, B10

Center Consolidation Proposed Natalie LaRue

Special to The Hoya

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Students joined in protests in Ferguson, Mo., over Columbus Day weekend as part of Ferguson October.

Students Travel to Ferguson for Protests Margaret Heftler

Square. Participation was open to anyone who wanted to attend.

The weekend of resistance was Two months after unarmed a part of Ferguson October, a seteenager Michael Brown was shot ries of protests, marches and panby a police officer, 17 Georgetown els hosted by Hands Up United, students travelled to Ferguson, Organization for Black Struggle Mo., for the Ferguson October and Missourians Organizing for march last weekend, participat- Reform and Empowerment. Fortying in teach-ins and other protests nine participants were arrested against police brutality and rac- during the weekend. ism.

The Georgetown participants The students reflected on their belonged to the Georgetown chapexperiences during the “Week- ter of the NAACP, Black Student end of Resistance” at a discussion Alliance, Program on Justice and group hosted by the Black Lead- Peace, Patrick Healy Fellowship, ership Forum, Center for Social Georgetown Solidarity CommitJustice, and tee and United Program on Feminists.

Justice and Michael Peace in the Martin (COL Intercultural ’17) said that Center on he went on the Monday. trip in order to GU NAACP gain a better President Miunderstandkaela Ferrill ing of the (COL ’15), who situation in went on the Ferguson and LADARIUS TORREY (COL ’17) trip, said that to express his she was moved frustrations. by the solidarity between different “The amount of energy and pasgroups of protesters. sion the people of Ferguson had “Being in the march on Sunday and put together as a community with people of different types of was amazing, it was sort of inspiraabilities, colors, genders, ages — tional,” Martin wrote in an email. that was really, really important,” “Now I want to make sure my peers Ferrill said. “I’ve always been inter- and I bring back that same energy ested in coalition building. … One and passion and help to educate of the best parts of my weekend the students of Georgetown about was seeing solidarity in action.” the seriousness of police brutality The trip was funded by the CSJ in America and how it is detrimenand the Office Affirmative Action tal to our society.”

Programs. The marchers also reLaDarius Torrey (COL ’17) also ceived about $1,000 in donations through fundraising efforts in Red See FERGUSON, A6

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A tentative plan to combine Georgetown’s LGBTQ Center, Women’s Center and Center for Multicultural Equity and Access has drawn criticism from students opposed to any sort of merger.

According to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, the administration has not made any concrete plans to consolidate these offices. Olson discussed the issue with students during his open office hours last Friday.

“We are considering ways to create more coherence in the programming and work of these offices,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are committed to preserving the distinctive identities and ‘safe spaces’ of these three important offices. We are looking at opportunities to locate all three offices near each other. ...

No decisions have been made about this, and we will continue engaging with students and listening to their perspectives.”

The LGBTQ Center, the first of its type at an American, Catholic university, was created in 2007 after University President John J. DeGioia convened a working group in reaction to a rash of hate crimes against LGBTQ students.

The CMEA aims to serve students who have traditionally faced discrimination due to race or ethnicity by providing multicultural programming, diversity education and academic support. The Student of Color Alliance, the Community Scholars

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A proposal would combine the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Women’s Center (above) with the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access.

Program and the Black House are among the programs and services provided by CMEA. The Women’s Center was founded in 1990 and offers a number of programs to support women on campus, including the Are You Ready sexual assault awareness campaign, the Women and Gender Equity fellowship program and programming for Women’s History Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The centers all have dedicated staff members who run programming and services for their respective audiences. Olson did not specify

Local rabbi had taught Jewish law seminar at Georgetown Law Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

University Police Department’s removal of H*yas for Choice from a public sidewalk outside of the university’s front gates on 37th and O streets on Sept. 22 as they held a peaceful protest of the university’s bestowment of an honorary degree upon Donald Cardinal Wuerl.

“In light of recent decisions made by university officials to systematically suppress substantive speech, we have decided to take concrete action to reform Georgetown’s existing Speech and Expression Policy,” the release read.

The petition states that the current Speech and Expression Policy is often ambiguously interpreted by administrators, leading to an inconsistency in implementation.

“The Speech and Expression policy’s vague language allows university officials to interpret policy in a manner that suits their immediate needs rather than applying a consistent standard; in addition, it often leaves members of the university community unsure about what rights they have,” the petition stated.

The HUFS’s petition lists seven

Rabbi Barry Freundel, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi for the Georgetown neighborhood’s Kesher Israel congregation who taught at the Georgetown University Law Center and other local universities, was arrested on charges of voyeurism Tuesday.

Freundel allegedly installed a recording device in the women’s mikvah, a private rituBARRY al bath, at the Kesher FREUNDEL Israel Orthodox synagogue, located at 2801 N St. He pled not guilty to six counts of voyeurism in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday.

Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Gwendolyn Crump said the case is still under investigation.

According to GULC spokesperson Elissa Free, Freundel has served as an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center since the early 1990s, teaching a seminar on Jewish law, but is not teaching this semester.

Free did not specify when Freundel last taught at the university.

According to the MPD police report, a 35-year-old female observed Freundel installing the recording device Sept. 28, which was in the form of a black radio clock called a Dream Machine. Freundel stated that he was using the clock radio for ventilation in the shower. The Washington Post reported that police found recordings of six women on two separate dates in 2014.

Freundel, 62, has been suspended without pay from the synagogue and from his position as the Rav Hamachshir, overseer of the mikvah.

“This is a painful moment for Kesher Israel Congregation and the entire Jewish community. At this challenging time, we draw strength from our faith, our tradition, and our fellow congre-

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LGBTQ Center Director Shiva Subbaraman leads students through a door in honor of Coming Out Day, part of the month of OUTober.

New Group Calls for Extensive Speech Reforms Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

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Rabbi Arrested for Voyeurism

COMING OUT DAY

“After coming back from Ferguson, I feel personally obligated to continue to combat injustices.”

A letter from Hoyas United for Free Speech asks the university to eliminate the system designating free speech zones, like Red Square.

to students or to The Hoya whether a merger of the centers would eliminate staff positions or cut costs.

CMEA Director Charlene BrownMcKenzie, Academic Resource Center Director Jane Holahan, Women’s Center Director Laura Kovach, LGBTQ Resource Center Director Sivagami Subbaraman, and Associate Dean of Students and CMEA Director Dennis Williams released a joint statement about the consolidation at the beginning of the month, and said that they are still in the early

An organization called Hoyas United for Free Speech created a petition addressed to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson calling for extensive reform to the university’s Free Speech and Expression Policy on Wednesday night.

As of Thursday night, the petition had received over 150 student and faculty signatures, according to H*yas for Choice President Abby Grace (SFS ’16), who is also a member of HUFS. The petition will remain active for two weeks before the group sends it to Olson.

HUFS, which was formed to create this petition, involves around 30 students from a variety of campus groups, including but not limited to H*yas for Choice, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, GU Pride and GU Fossil Free. A number of unaffiliated students are also involved in HUFS. According to a release from HUFS that accompanied the petition Wednesday night, the petition was created in response to oppression of free speech on campus. The press release cited the Georgetown Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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OPINION

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A Dialogue of Distrust When reports that the university is considering mandating a third-year meal plan surfaced late on a Wednesday night, students understandably responded with outrage at what was correctly interpreted as an affront to the idea of a working relationship between students and administrators.

Less than 48 hours later, representatives of three groups — the Women’s Center, the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and the LGBTQ Resource Center — crammed together in a Healey Family Student Center discussion room awaiting news of their collective fate.

They were there to discuss the proposed unification of the three peripherally related offices, and the congregation of both students and faculty who materialized to address this possibility stood unified on one front: opposition.

In both cases, backtracking began quickly.

An email from Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joelle Wiese to undergraduates about meal plans said it was simply a proposal under consideration and assured that no decisions would be made without their input. In the HFSC, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson remained attentive to various complaints and showed a willingness to backpedal on the idea of the resource center merger, ultimately rescinding the description of the move as a “consolidation.”

Considering the outcomes, some might say that this is how the system of student input is designed to work: Administrators float ideas in the early stages and student feedback determines the course and rate of action. Yet this system, which is meant to foster trust and cooperation between students and administrators, has also generated doubt and frustration.

Faith in administrators to act in the best interest of students has only diminished.

The reason: Students had to defend against these proposals in the first place.

In the cases of the three-year meal plan and the affinity group merger, it is easily perceived as an affront to students that they were forced to oppose changes so far out of the realm of acceptability. If these proposals from the administration were intended to merit student response, then student input should be happening sooner in the process.

First, considering the three-year meal plan, increasing the size of the student body that dines at Leo’s would exacerbate many of the issues that students find objectionable — namely long waits, crowded tables at peak mealtimes, a lack of overall flexibility and

high costs.

Adding a third required year at Leo’s suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly is wrong with the dining system here on the Hilltop; while the blame does not solely lie with administrators, it is time a productive and focused conversation took place.

Rather than dragging students by the collar to Leo’s, administrators should turn their attention to student frustrations, and develop proposals with regard to student thought.

This approach would better demonstrate respect for student interest from the administration.

Similarly, the idea to combine the Women’s Center, the CMEA and the LGBTQ Resource Center shows a general misunderstanding of the importance of these offices and their roles in undergraduate students’ lives. To start, these groups have little in common in terms of their missions, other than that they all serve specific groups that require specific resources.

Dissent to the proposed combination of these three centers demonstrated how these groups were created to diversify our understandings of discrimination and marginalization, not consolidate them. Fighting for the rights of women, people of color or queer individuals may have some overlap, but each requires specialized minds and services tailored to specific issues and needs.

It is true that administrators have a better sense of what the university’s larger obligations and goals are. In some instances — for example, implementing policies to move more students onto campus in accordance with the 2010 Campus Plan agreement — proposals that students would ordinarily be opposed to are required or mandated by the university’s legal and financial obligations.

However, decisions and proposals made without these apparent pressures should take student interest into account from the ground up. If Georgetown wants to make improvements to dining on campus, administrators should first gauge student opinion on how to do so. Similarly, if Georgetown wants to consolidate offices, administrators should first see which offices serve similar purposes on campus.

Administrators are right to bring students to the table to discuss university policy, but when the change should not be on the table in the first place, inviting them to sit down serves only to undermine understanding and trust.

Clearing an Equal Path As the student population returned to the Hilltop after the Columbus Day weekend, many discovered that the landscape of campus had fundamentally changed: The Reiss pathway, the entrance to Henle Village fishbowl and Tondorf Road have all closed.

Before the closure of these key routes, the administration acknowledged that due to the Hilltop’s difficult topography, not all routes on campus are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, alternatives to non-compliant routes were always available. As the construction-related route closures have gone into effect, the remaining pathways — although they might meet the most basic standards for handicap accessibility — are certainly insufficient for students, faculty, staff or visitors to campus who are not able-bodied individuals.

The portion of the replacement pathway that leads from the back of Reiss to Darnall Hall is very narrow by any standards — it barely has room for two people to pass each other going opposite directions. Constricting

traffic to this pathway additionally creates increased traffic, and any physically disabled person travelling on this route would likely not have adequate space and time to walk from building to building.

The same can be said about the pathway that runs parallel along Tondorf Road from Harbin Hall to Darnall and St. Mary’s Hall.

While any handicapped student can use the elevator in Regents to access the Leavey Center, those who cannot use stairs must exit Regents at the second floor and continue along Tondorf road to points north so long as access to the Leavey Bridge is closed.

Obviously, by nature of such significant construction, students and administrators alike must suffer inconveniences while traversing campus, but leaving handicapped students high and dry to navigate these construction sites without accessible routes is a misplacement of Georgetown’s priorities.

The university should remember that these changes affect some more than others and do its best to alter alternatives accordingly.

Emma Hinchliffe, Editor-in-Chief Mallika Sen, Executive Editor Robert DePaolo, Managing Editor Ian Tice, Online Editor Molly Simio, Campus News Editor Suzanne Monyak, City News Editor Sam Abrams, Sports Editor Jess Kelham-Hohler, Guide Editor David Chardack, Opinion Editor Michelle Xu, Photography Editor Zack Saravay, Copy Chief Emma Holland, Blog Editor

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I am a Georgetown graduate from SFS Qatar, and it pains me to see that a freshman from main campus would have this poor view of our campus.

It means we’ve done a less-than-adequate job at representing who we are and what Qatar is. Allow me to rectify this in a few words.

Let me start by saying that no nation is without its challenges and that includes the United States just as much as it includes Qatar. In fact, I could easily quote Amnesty International for unjust laws against American migrant workers.

Other problems America faces include the continuous discrimination against black Americans, the Ferguson incident being the latest in the few-hundred-yearslong saga. Does this mean that we should give up on America?

I implore you, my fellow Hoya, to revise your views. You’re not wrong about some

To the Editor: In an article titled “Leo’s Limits Meal Swipe Use” from Oct. 10 [A5], The Hoya described Aramark and the administration’s motivations and students’ reactions to the recent enforcement of meal swipe limits at Leo’s. The administration cited the abuse of the previously flexible policy in which students could sell their extra meal swipes or be forced to swipe upperclassmen into Leo’s.

As someone who used Leo’s as the primary source of meals my freshman and sophomore years, I believe that Aramark and the administration’s worries are largely unfounded.

I personally have never heard of someone selling their excess Leo’s meals and I know that only rarely are underclassmen forced to swipe in upperclassmen. More often than not, students being swiped in by other students just want to eat with their friends at Leo’s. In fact, I know that this was a common

occurrence for many students in the past.

Students who forgot their GOCards or had used all of their meal swipes for the week could easily and harmlessly be swiped-in by their friends.

I understand that meal swipes are nontransferable, but students greatly appreciated the flexibility of meal swipes at Leo’s in the past. Furthermore, the third most popular IdeaScale post, entitled “More Freedom for Leo’s Swipes,” is currently “under review” according to the website and requests that meal swipes be given more flexibility, not less.

Auxiliary Services has stated that they are eager to include student feedback in their decisions, and has done an exemplary job in the case of the Healey Family Student Center. This inaccurate perception of the student body demonstrates the need for more constructive dialogue to improve policy.

Will Simons

SAC Needs Nothing More Than a Diet To the Editor: Patrick Musgrave, chair of SAC, recently wrote an article in which he proposed many steps to help get student groups more funding for their activities. The solution, however, is so much simpler than either he or anyone else seems to recognize. In one fell swoop, SAC could ensure they could allocate student groups all request funds in addition to having some to spare for New Club Development and other projects. The solution is to quit funding food.

It’s no secret that student groups overrequest on food. Some allocations (which shall remain anonymous) include $130 (before scaling) for snacks to hand out at SA Fair; $125 (before scaling) for various workshops and speakers, none of which actually specify even a generic type of food that will be purchased; and $150 (before scaling) for cupcake-making materials.

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It’s clear that groups over-request on food to ensure they have enough money for expenses. Why not just cut food funding to make sure groups don’t have to over-request? For example, the debate team has a $100 registration fee each year, and SAC always scales it to between $60 and $80. This leaves the team short since registration fees do not magically change. This means the team finds other places to scrimp and save in order to make up the shortfall.

In addition, people should be able to cover their own food costs. If you want to hand out snacks, have members chip in to cover that. If you want to have a speaker or conference, charge a nominal fee to pay for food.

The solution is right there; let’s stop crafting complex policy decisions to fix simple problems.

Alexander Zajac

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LAUREN GROS (SFS ’18) debates the logistical merits of biofuels, and whether they are the environmental savior many purport them to be: A lot of corn needs to be milled to produce biofuels. The amount of grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with biofuel could feed a hungry person for a year. Biofuel crops are reducing the amount corn allocated to food use, placing constant upward pressure on global food prices. Even if food could be produced in another setting and every grain crop in America was used for ethanol production biofuels would only replace one fifth of U.S. gas consumption.”

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of what you said about Qatar. You were correct about some of the issues you’ve mentioned our country goes through, though you stereotyped and were wrong about others (Namely stoning gays and women driving).

What you failed to see is that expanding the Georgetown education to Qatar produced students such as myself who want to fight for reform. Did you consider that Georgetown has improved the standard of education in Qatar, just as other universities have assisted other developing countries?

More awareness has been spread and more progress has been made in the last few years concerning migrant workers and Kafala issues than in the last 50 years.

Thanks largely in part to Georgetown students and graduates.

After all, it is a Georgetown value that we should all be men and women for others.

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OPINION

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Abby Grace

Institutions Hide Policy’s Humanity D uring the seemingly relentless midterm season, we students can be guilty of resenting the numerous humanities requirements in the core curriculum. Some find little value in the philosophy and theology requirements that originate from Georgetown’s Jesuit heritage.

However, this component of Georgetown’s core curriculum does not just endeavor to provide us with busy work: It aims to equip students with an ethical framework for addressing problems facing our local and global communities.

Georgetown’s Jesuit identity has always motivated me to contemplate the ideal rather than accept the reality. Within my own academic experience as a student in the School of Foreign Service, I am often asked to apply this mode of actively questioning the status quo to contemporary foreign-policy dilemmas. Over time, it has become increasingly clear to me that foreign policy without a clearly defined ethical foundation runs the risk of degrading our own and others’ humanity.

As students and consumers of the modern news, it is very tempting for us to view international crises on the macro, or state, level. Yet, at their core, states are inherently comprised of individuals, each of whom possesses a basic level of humanity.

This humanity is comprised of inherent rights and dignity, both of which deserve to be preserved. Rather than sharing the individual stories of people affected by disasters, presenting aggregate data renders structural violence more palpable to those in a position of privilege.

In lieu of discussing and remembering the thousands of individual lives lost to Ebola internationally, cable news remains hyper-focused on a few select, domestic cases. By viewing these crises on an institutional, macro level, it is simple to remove the people from the equation. If we purport that all Americans have the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness, then does not every other individual regardless of nationality?

However, in light of drone warfare’s increasing prevalence, an unresolved immigration crisis and poor international coordination on the Ebola outbreak, it is apparent that our nation’s foreign policy is one of convenience.

When U.S. policymakers deem basic humanitarian concerns irrelevant to their own agendas, they simply ignore these issues.

In a sense, this is not surprising. Contemporary American foreign-policy makers are increasingly expected to play a balancing act between prioritizing the wants of their own nation with the essential needs of millions around the globe.

Further, disparate standards of living will only continue to incentivize asymmetrical negotiation between powerful, wealthy states and developing states. A more ethically informed foreign policy would prompt decision makers to consider the humanitarian effects of their actions.

Georgetown’s Jesuit education not only benefits students at our university, but also has the potential to provide a holistic blueprint for foreign policy’s ethical foundation.

Currently, our nation tends to view international crises through a lens of difference rather than of solidarity. This dehumanizes citizens across the globe as well as those who are developing the policy.

It is easy to dismiss the morality of individual actors in states’ bureaucratic institutions. However, compelling these individuals to act as an institution rather than as human beings has the potential to degrade their own individual ethical standards. It is unreasonable to expect individuals to compartmentalize their ethical standards while on the clock, but then reassume their morality when exiting the office.

Foreign policy in the 21st century faces the added difficulty of separation. With the rise of advanced technology that allows deadly action and extensive surveillance to occur with little first-hand interaction, it is essential to remember the purpose of our institutions.

States were established in order to better the quality of life for those who comprise them.

Contrary to current norms, life is anything but a zero-sum game. If every individual does indeed possess basic human rights, then an institution’s obligations cannot cease where its borders end.

Rather, institutions should inform their actions by these ethical standards whenever possible. Whether this morality constitutes entering into fair-trade agreements, providing due process for those who have allegedly committed a crime or providing basic supplies for refugees, institutions cannot only be morally bound to their citizens — if a standard of treatment exists for one human, it exists for all of them.

Contemporary foreign policy would be best served by embracing Georgetown’s holistic approach to problem solving. Rather than viewing crises in the international sphere on the macro level, it is essential to develop an ethical framework to better inform policy decisions.

Recognizing the innate humanity of every individual will allow us to progress to a world more equitable and just for all.

Abby Grace is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Of Progressive Persuasion appears every other Friday.

here’s no place like home.” I always held this cliche in the highest regard, for the feeling of coming home should be unrivalled.

Upon my return home for my first collegiate winter break, I had high expectations for the feeling of “homecoming.”

Instead of feeling enveloped in a sense of warmth and belonging, disorientation and isolation overwhelmed me.

I experienced symptoms of culture shock in my living room, of all places, opening presents with my family on Christmas Eve. Waves of shame and guilt washed over me. How could I feel so out of place at home with my family, who have sacrificed endlessly to ensure that I could attend Georgetown? I found myself silently (or not so silently) correcting the often-terrifying grammar of my family’s Pittsburgh-ese and falling silent in conversations because I had nothing to contribute. Sure, I could comment on family developments and gossip, but I had the distinct feeling that I was an outsider, the “yuppie” just passing through.

It’s absolutely frightening to feel like a stranger in one’s own home. Upon coming to Georgetown, I was comfortable with my blue collar. I could identify with the bricklayer, the farmer and the housekeeper long before I could identify with the consultant or the lawyer. Now, my blue collar hangs in the back of my closet. When I pull it on, it feels like a costume, itchy and awkward, worn for the sake of my audience back home.

Looking in the mirror, I ask myself what defines my place. Does my tax bracket act as the determining factor?

Internship? Education level? Am I blue collar? Upper-middle class? Middlelower? Drowning in the mess of labels

My fear lies with the unavoidable observation that, while achieving my degree, I will forget my roots. and social stratifications, I find myself doing my family a great injustice: I am losing touch with my roots.

Although I have tried to deny it, the truth has reared its ugly head on more than one occasion. Each time, I panic at the realization, and the same question comes to the forefront of the internal power struggle between past and future. How do I simultaneously pay respect to my roots while reaching for a way of life that would, more or less, leave those roots behind?

This question undoubtedly faces many students whose time at George-

town will result in a socioeconomic leap. Essentially, a Georgetown education serves as a key to a whole different world, one in which I still feel like a visitor. Even though I find myself uncomfortably donning my blue collar, I’m not quite at home in J. Crew or the power suit. I know what I looked like when I came to Georgetown, and I know how I’m supposed to look when I leave, but the process of reconciling those two roles — those two identities — has become painfully stressful.

I have no doubt that walking out the front gates with my degree in hand will

make me feel inevitably more at home in the world for which Georgetown has prepared me. That’s not my concern. My fear lies with the seemingly unavoidable observation that, while achieving my degree and a new role in society, I will forget my roots. Not out of a lack of respect or lack of wanting, but simply as a result of circumstance.

Over the past few years, the promise of a better future has drowned out my fear, but it becomes much more difficult to ignore when I return to the town I have fallen into the habit of calling, “Podunk, Pennsylvania.” In a conscious effort to “rediscover” my roots, I indulge in activities that I once considered “chores,” but now consider “novelties.” For example, I always carve out time to spend on my grandfather’s cattle farm, pitchfork in hand.

My family’s iconic patriarch, at the sprightly age of 82, has come to represent everything I feel I’m losing, and he is the one person I find myself most terrified of disappointing. While at home, I visit him last before I head back to school, and each time he sends me off with the same departing words: “Don’t ever forget your humble beginnings as a dirt farmer.”

Regardless of my GPA or any job prospect, my stomach rolls with the sick feeling that I am failing him and that, on some fundamental level, I am also failing myself. But maybe, just maybe, I can find a way to do both, to wear my blue-collared shirt underneath my power suit. I’d rather be slightly uncomfortable than continue to push my family, my roots and my humble beginnings to the back of the closet.

Josi Sinagoga is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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s a Hindu Indian-American from the Bible Belt of the United States who spent two years earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree in Doha, Qatar, I was not surprised by Ari Goldstein’s recent article “In Qatar, SFS Subject to Brutal Regime” (The Hoya, A3, Oct. 3, 2014). The idea of the article, that some feel the Qatari government’s rule is too heavy handed and that our own School of Foreign Service overlooks this, is consistent with the perspectives of many commentators who have not spent time in the region.

I was dismayed by the scores of online responses, however, as uneducated, extreme and even racist comments angrily supported or rejected the author’s claims. I am now in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program on the Hilltop, and as a product of both the Qatar and Washington campuses, I feel a responsibility to clarify the importance of Georgetown SFS-Qatar.

The author’s concerns are valid on several fronts, and I strongly urge him and other skeptics of the Georgetown community to visit or study abroad at our Qatar campus to examine these issues. It will provide a cultural and intellectual context through which one canlearn about regional challenges and the people who face them.

I am a patriotic American who believes deeply in democratic values, and yet I studied for two years in an authoritarian country. I am of Indian heritage but had to view the way that South Asians are treated in the migrant labor cycle. I am a Hindu who lived in a place where my religion was constrained. It was not easy, but I came to realize Georgetown’s role in combating these challenges.

What the author does not understand is that Georgetown’s campus in Doha is helping to develop values of academic, personal and religious freedom in Qatar. My peers are researching, publishing and openly commenting on migrant labor and gender issues. One student graduated three years ago and has become one of Qatar’s foremost experts on migrant labor. Imagine the illumination of my own Problem of God class with individuals who were raised to not question religion. In other words, Georgetown’s presence addresses the very issues the author discusses; it is part of the Georgetown identity to do so.

If the author researches Georgetown’s leadership and who was responsible for the construction of the campus, he will find how serious the group was about making sure that working conditions were safe. He will see that Georgetown

students have organizations dedicated to teaching migrant workers English, on tours of the Qatar campus that exists outside of Education City and have helped create transformative advocacy groups for migrant laborers.

The author asks, “Why does no one talk about this?”

We do. We talk about how the values of a Jesuit university are compatible with an Islamic country. We question governmental actions. We complain. We demand. And we write.

Qatari females founded an uncensored magazine that covers everything from economic issues to taboo Islamic topics. Education City hosts academic freedom that is rare in the region. And it is the students who are living through revolutions that study Georgetown values with the aim of bettering our world.

The political and financial reality of our partnership is complex, but Georgetown and the Qatar Foundation have created an island of academic endeavor in the Middle East that hosts the youth of a troubled region, and it hosted me as well. I remember being asked whether I wanted to graduate in Washington or Doha, and the answer was simple.

I wanted my degree to be from the campus where I had a Jewish basketball coach; where I was an ESCAPE leader; where I had the ability to write on migrant labor issues as a freshman; and where I encountered a unique form of diversity. I wanted to go back to Qatar.

A country is defined by more than its foreign policy. The author should know Qatar wants to achieve a status beyond “oil money and sheikhs.” The country is seeking to escape this flawed definition, since it is so much more than that. Yes, Qatar has mediated and dealt openly with Hamas — but it is also a part of the coalition against the Islamic State group and was one of the few Gulf states to ever enjoy relations with Israel under its “befriend all” foreign policy.

If Georgetown should not exist in Qatar because of some conflicting values, then it should not exist in Turkey; Johns Hopkins should not exist in China; Yale should not exist in Singapore.

Nobody wins if American educational institutions are barred from engaging with the rest of the world. I ask the author to join other Georgetown students and study abroad in Doha, and I’ll look forward to his reflection.

I must clarify the importance of Georgetown in Qatar.

Nikhil Lakhanpal graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 2014 and is in his final year as a master’s candidate in the School of Foreign Service.

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Jesuit named John Courtney lingers from the Enlightenment.

Murray once warned us in a The opposite of postmodernism, it’s prophetic book that the free- actually the foundation of the condoms we Americans enjoy are con- temporary university. It distrusts stantly threatened by what he calls giving religion and theology a place “barbarism,” which results from the among the academic disciplines. very nature of humanity. We are at According to the great German once capable of knowing and doing thinker Emmanuel Kant, theology what is true and good and prone to bases itself on faith, which accepts greed, blind prejudice, unregulated traditions blindly and uncritically. passion and the willful self-centered- It is the role of philosophy — huness of solipsism. These corrode and man reason free of such constraints confound our highest aspirations and — to purge faith of its superstitious noblest intentions. tendencies. The problem with this When they eat away at the freedom view is that it devolves into its own of individuals to order their minds superstition. It mistakenly assumes and hearts rightly, they can’t help but reason to deliver results beyond its also eat away at the common good of ken and so makes reason into a fethe body politic. It’s a sad commen- tish. When it is over-aggrandized tary on the current state of the Ameri- in the university, reason renders us can university to say that it’s contrib- hostages of an arrogant solipsism. uting to barbarism. Let me explain This, in turn, feeds chauvinism and why and suggest what we can do. imperialism.

When we survey the modern uniGreed, prejudice, passion and solipversity, we see a range sism: these plant the of mixed views about its barbarism that blosultimate end, goal and soms into a disordered purpose. commonwealth, There’s the view of whether plutocratic, Warden Roberts of Merfascist, demagogic or ton College Oxford. He imperialist. It is then claims that liberal eduthe patriotic duty of cation has entered into every conscientious complicity with the person who enjoys rampant materialism Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. America’s freedoms to of market economics. resist it.

The university’s value But what of us who has devolved into its live and study on the mercantile ability to Hilltop? That barbamanipulate nature, crerism skulks among us ate wealth and augment should not be surpristhe power of corporate ing. If we’re honest, elites. When the university thus in- we feel it deep within ourselves as cubates greed, the plutocratic ambi- those persistent urges that demand tions of lobbyists and cartels more attention most Thursday evenings readily undermine the harmony of through Sunday noontimes. But it local communities. dwells, too, in our classrooms, lecThen there’s the view of former ture halls and labs. A university, after Stanford University President Donald all, teaches universal knowledge; it is Kennedy. He argues that the current a bazaar, a vast marketplace, teemleadership of American universities ing with ideas on show. But no one has failed to create individualized should be fooled into believing that identities for its schools. The result every idea hawked there is equally is an increasing trend for universi- true. American education is “liberal” ties to become a generic “vanilla” in its panoply of offerings, but some, that blandly homogenizes subjects even many, of its wares will enslave, of research and methods of inquiry. not “liberate.”

The ensuing lack of diversity renders Our job is to be discriminating buythe educational enterprise prone to ers of quality in the Hilltop’s mall the prejudice of “groupthink.” This, of thought. We cannot permit the of course, is the very seedbed of fas- glittering allure of poor ideas that cism. masquerade as truth in a university There’s also the postmodern view. to deceive us. Recall the legacy our At best, it seeks to redress the exclu- Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. sion of minority viewpoints in the Some truths are self-evident. They are West’s dominant forms of thought. accessible to right-thinking minds; But at worst, says Professor Jon Ellis they rise above mere opinion, perof the University of California, Santa sonal preference, subjective taste and Cruz, it deconstructs these forms individual whim. Only the vigorous without replacing them. Jean-Fran- pursuit of truth — empirical, ethical çois Lyotard, a prominent postmod- and religious — will empower our ernist, holds that our modern plight minds to bridle the innate greed and is all about a “fission of meaning.” passion lurking in ourselves and our This means (ironically) that reason places of study. lacks any laws governing it. Without The best way to find truth is to bethese, we become the hostages of friend great ideas. Find these, and the brute passion. When this happens, professors who love them, and they the civil order more easily surrenders will set us free to keep America free. to the demagoguery of partisan politics and media glibness. These count Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J., is an assoamong the “worst,” as the poet Wil- ciate professor in the department of liam Butler Yeats opines, because they theology. He is a guest author for AS “lack all conviction.”

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Enhanced entry screening for the Ebola virus began at Washington-Dulles International Airport on Thursday, along with four other airports, in an attempt by the Centers for Disease Control to thwart the spread of Ebola into the United States.

University Professor Lawrence Gostin, who specializes in global health law, criticized the efficacy of the screenings on Minnesota Public Radio on Oct. 8. Gostin also directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and was the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. “I think that what the CDC has done for airport screening is reasonable and the most moderate they could have done.

It’s well targeted, and I think it’s a very measured response,” Gostin told THE HOYA. “But will it work? Probably not.”

Ebola screenings began at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday, and Chicago’s O’Hare International, Newark Liberty International and Atlanta’s HartsfieldJackson International joined them Thursday.

There have been eight cases of Ebola in the United States.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first reported Ebola patient in the United States, left Liberia on Sept. 19 on a Brussels Airline jet to Belgium. From there, he flew to Dulles International, and spent three hours there on a layover, before flying into Dallas. Duncan died Oct. 8.

“We work to continuously increase the safety of Americans,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a press release last Wednesday. “We believe these new measures will further protect the health of Americans, understanding that nothing we can do will get us to absolute zero risk until we end the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”

These five airports account for over 94 percent of travellers from the Ebola-impacted countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Travellers from the affected countries will be taken aside to a separate screening area, where trained staff from Customs and Border Patrol will check them for signs of sickness.

These travellers will also be questioned about any potential exposure to the virus, and any

indication of Ebola-like symptoms or possible encounters with the disease will result in transfer to a quarantined area for further evaluation.

Gostin cited the historical failings of fever monitoring, particularly during the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, outbreak of 2002 to 2003, as precedent for the failure of screenings. The SARS outbreak started in southern China and spread to infect individuals in 37 other countries, including the United States. Hundreds of thousands of travellers were monitored and not a single SARS case was found.

He said that it is possible that symptoms resembling Ebola may result in false positives, wasting resources that could otherwise be used to combat the real threat.

“I’m afraid that this will distract a lot of resources and at-

“I think it’s a very measured response. ...

But will it work?

Probably not.”

LAWRENCE GOSTIN University Professor and Director of O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

tention from the real problem,” Gostin said. “This could burden the CDC, as well as state and local health departments and emergency rooms.”

John Kraemer (LAW ’08), professor of health systems administration at Georgetown and a Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, was also skeptical of airport screening.

“That sort of assessment will not catch every potential case.

People will still be asymptomatic and in the incubation period at the time they go through screening,” he said.

In addition to screenings, House Republicans also called for a travel ban from West Africa in an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Ebola Thursday.

Gostin vigorously disagreed with a travel ban, arguing that it would prevent aid from reaching the affected countries.

“I think a travel ban would make us much more at risk.

What it would do is exacerbate

the epidemic in West Africa, and the more that that epidemic rages out of control, the more risk there is of international spread,” Gostin said.

Kraemer, who also opposed a travel ban, admitted that despite its potential inefficacies, airport screening was one of the best available options.

“A travel ban would be highly counterproductive, and something like biologic screening would be logistically very difficult,” he said. “Airport screening is essentially the best option available under the circumstances.”

Instead of focusing on prevention within the United States, Gostin said that it is essential that the government increase the scope of its response in West Africa, which he criticized as inadequate.

“The surest way to prevent cases in the United States is to root out infection at the source,” he said. “It’s been a very flawed and failed effort in West Africa.”

Kraemer echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the far more serious epidemic in Africa.

“Everybody should be allocating significantly more resources to control the outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea,” he said. “In the United States, Ebola may kill a very small number of people. It is quickly becoming catastrophic in those countries.”

The much-publicized death of Thomas Eric Duncan at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, as well as the failure of the hospital to ensure the safety of staff and other patients, has led many to criticize the United States’ ability to handle Ebola. Most hospitals are ill-equipped for controlling the disease and are susceptible to breaches in protocol.

“Dallas exposed a soft underbelly of American vulnerability in our health system,” Gostin said. “We’ve cut our funding for the CDC, we’ve cut our funding for state and local health departments and we have enormous deficiency in our response capabilities.”

Despite this seemingly grim outlook, Kraemer said that Ebola does not pose a significant threat to the United States.

“The likelihood of significant community transmission is very small,” Kraemer said. “You don’t see significant outbreaks of Ebola anyplace that has a functioning health care system.”

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Critically acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who has delivered notable TED talks — including one sampled by Beyoncé — spoke about issues of race, gender and the creative writing process with African Studies Director Scott Taylor in Gaston Hall on Friday.

The event was sponsored by the African Society, the African Studies Program, English department, Lecture Fund, Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Justice, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the Offices of the President and Provost.

University President John J. DeGioia gave a brief introduction to the awardwinning writer’s many works, the most recent of which, “Americanah,” was released last year. Adichie was also recognized for her outspoken advocacy for gender equality.

During her talk, Adichie criticized the label of “African literature” and its specific accompanying accolades.

“To be prescriptive is to constrain. I think the problem arises that whoever uses the label has an ideal of what an African writer should be and should write about,” she said. “These labels have less to do with literary merit and art. They’re political considerations.”

Adichie has published three novels and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction.

Adichie went on to warn aspiring writers against considering the potential audience of the work.

“When you consider who’s going to be reading your work, you censor yourself,” she said. “Looking at my career in particular, if I had been thinking about audience and marketing, I probably wouldn’t have done what I’ve done.”

Adichie also spoke about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and criticized the American media’s coverage of it.

“It just goes back to this common idea that Africa is a place where people apply a different kind of logic,” Adichie said. “If Ebola was happening somewhere other than Africa, I don’t know if this level of hysteria would exist.”

A reception in Riggs Library followed the event.

During the reception, Adichie discussed misperceptions surrounding Western feminism.

“Feminism isn’t about saying that women shouldn’t be at home. It’s saying that women should have home as well as other choices that are equal and equally possible,” she explained. “It comes from a lack of par. If we have women who have degrees that they need and know they

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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke in Gaston Hall on Friday. can get the job they’re qualified for, then they choose to stay at home, then there’s no pressure. Many women don’t have that choice.”

Zoe Gadegbeku (COL ’15), president of the African Society of Georgetown, said that she found Adichie’s comments on feminism to be very relevant.

“Her comments on feminism and the ways in which young girls are socialized to be subordinate to men especially struck a chord with me because she is so unafraid and unapologetic in asserting herself,” Gadegbeku said. “The idea of being unapologetic is a powerful one, in the sense that people should be brave in pursuing endeavors they are passionate about. I believe that’s especially important to us as college students who face intense pressure to pursue a very specific path to success.”

Ayo Aruleba (COL ’17) attended the event and praised Adichie for being down to earth.

“A simple line which she said a few times throughout the event was ‘I don’t know.’ This simple sentence gave the rest of what she said a great amount of credibility,” Aruleba said. “Oftentimes, speakers come to Gaston as experts in their fields with the answers to everything, but the fact that she acknowledged the gaps in her knowledge when asked some hard questions showed me how wise of a woman she was.”

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To provide safe transit for women and LGBTQ individuals in the District, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, a grassroots organization in Washington, D.C., that aims to build a community free from public sexual harassment and assault, will launch its new program RightRides D.C. on Halloween night.

The ride service will operate from 11:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. with three donated cars from ZipCar driven by volunteers who have undergone serious background checks and a two-hour training session. Focusing on a locus of U Street NW, the service will extend from Rock Creek Park to the intersection of Bladensburg Road and South Dakota Avenue NE but will not operate in the southeast and southwest quadrants of the city.

RightRides D.C. Coordinator Zosia Sztykowski explained that the organization had noticed a need for safe transportation options particularly late at night. “[It happens] on the metro system and on buses and every once in a while there would be something that would happen in a cab or an Uber. It’s people that were just getting from point A to point B as they were walking down the street were being targeted in some way,” Sztykowski said. “We knew that our community needed a transportation option that was safe and affordable.”

If successful, RightRides D.C. hopes to continue to offer the free service on other holidays and throughout the entire city. Riders on Halloween will be encouraged to give feedback about preferred holidays and times.

“For next year we have a goal of running the program every Saturday night and it’s going to take a lot of resources to get us there,” Sztykowski said. “Another really important goal of ours is to expand the surface area to all four quadrants of D.C.” The idea for the RightRides D.C. program was inspired by New York City’s RightRides for Women’s Safety that launched in 2004.

“One way we saw the need for the program was from our blog which collects stories of things that happen in the D.C. metro

area involving public sexual harassment and gendered violence,” Sztykowski said. The program has received positive feedback from activists and allies in the District.

“I think it’s great, especially I think it is for those students who are gender non-conforming or trans students who are often getting the most harassed,” LGBTQ Resource Center Director Shiva Subbaraman said.

Halloween night can create a high-risk environment, as community members often dress up and stay out late.

“I feel like some people don’t get to do what they really want to do for Halloween for fear that when they are waiting for a taxi that they could be beaten up or harassed for the way they are dressed,” GU Pride First Year Representative Anthony Anderson (COL ’18) said. “Especially with the recent attack that happened at Georgetown it can be really scary to be out at night.”

While RightRides D.C. will offer a safer transportation service for women and LGBTQ individuals, Women’s Center Director Laura Kovach noted that further action to create a more welcoming community and to address the root problems of harassment is needed.

“It is important that we address safety with women and LGBTQ communities, but we must also make sure that we are not silencing survivors and all of our communities by only saying that women and LGBTQ individuals need to think about safety,” Kovach wrote in an email. “We need perpetrators to not harass and rape first and foremost. Then we should focus on safety as a community effort so that we can hold perpetrators accountable.”

Sztykowski agreed, pointing to programming and campaigns organized by CASS on making D.C. a safer community for all.

“RightRides D.C. just fills this gap for the time being and all the rest of Collective Action programming really deals with this idea of creating a community that is safe for everyone all the time in a variety of different ways,” Sztykowski said. “Even though our goal is to expand the program now, our number one top goal is to make the program irrelevant.”

With Monday’s release of a relatio post disceptationem document, the Vatican has advanced its position of support for gay and lesbian Catholics. Vatican officials updated the original document Thursday, however, revising the English translation of the document to read “providing for homosexual persons” from the original “welcoming homosexual persons.” The Italian version remains unchanged.

Released by a gathering of Catholic bishops at the Vatican, the document shows a shift toward increased inclusion of nontraditional families within the Catholic Church. The report came at the midpoint of the gathering, also called a synod, convened by Pope Francis to discuss the situation of the family in the world today.

In its most notable shift, the report calls for the church to accept same-sex couples into its religious community, the first time the church acknowledged positive aspects of such relationships.

“Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community,” the report said. “There are instances where mutual assistance to the point of sacrifice is a valuable support in the life of these persons.”

The document also expresses approval of aspects of unmarried partnership and calls for reflection on attitudes toward those who have divorced and remarried.

“Not to be overlooked, though, is the attention that the synod gave to the stresses on married families today, with special emphasis — not surprisingly with Pope Francis — on the pressures of poverty on families, as well as the need to prepare couples for marriage and the need to accompany couples as they go through their marriage,” Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., said.

Pointing to the prominent use of the words “mercy” and “accompany” throughout the report, O’Brien explained that the document called upon the

church to accompany all its members along the principle of gradualness.

“There is an ideal in the moral life.

Sometimes people — which is most of us — struggle to reach the ideal. Therefore the best thing for a church to do is to accompany people as they are striving to reach their ideal and not exclude or condemn them on the way to that ideal,” he said.

The document, called a relatio post disceptationem, Latin for “report after debate,” was unorthodox in that it does not represent the final decision of the gathering but rather summarizes the contentious discussion until the point of its release. After the formal reading of the report at the Vatican, 41 bishops responded, prompting disagreement and contention among them.

“There is a lot of disagreement among the bishops about how to proceed. Pope Francis is not afraid of argument or disagreement. He allows different voices to be heard. Ultimately, he will issue a final report, but he is in no rush to get there,” O’Brien said.

Thomas Farr, the director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, joined about 50 signatories in signing Commitment to Marriage, a letter to the Vatican in opposition to same-sex marriage. The letter addressed several threats to traditional marriage, speaking out against pornography, divorce and cohabitation. It also called for the Vatican to “restore any legal provisions that protect marriage as a conjugal union of one man and one woman, entered into with an openness to the gift of children, and lived faithfully and permanently as the foundation of the natural family.”

He said that the Vatican’s document does not reflect changing ideology, only an active discussion.

“There is very little here that is new other than emphasis and tone,” Farr told Newsweek.

Despite the progress, O’Brien predicted the report would spark tension, regard-

less of the final result.

“There will be clarity given, and I think that clarity will end up disappointing many, whatever side one comes from, because the tension we face here is that we are trying to maintain the church’s tradition while updating it, while helping that doctrine meet the needs of the people of God today,” he said.

GU Pride Media Manager and Historian Campbell James (SFS ’17) said that, despite the recent change in language, the document still represented a positive step forward.

“I think there’s still an overall positive message that gay people can give a great deal of value to the Christian and Catholic community, but it seemed like they tried not to be so radical in this version of it,” James said.

He applauded the move forward but hoped for further inclusion from the church.

“The eventual recognition of same-sex marriage would just be incredible. That’s not necessarily to say they have to perform these marriages, but it would be fantastic for them to recognize them and treat same-sex couples with the same value of straight couples,” James said.

The release of the document coincides with OUTober, a cultural heritage month which celebrates LGBTQ students at Georgetown. As the report attempts to reconcile Catholicism with evolving identities of the modern Catholic congregation, James named the Georgetown community as crucial to the event’s success.

“What I think is really cool about OUTober is that we have the support of all of Georgetown and all of Georgetown’s offices, including Campus Ministry,” he said. “It’s really cool to think that Georgetown has taken specifically the Jesuit value cura personalis, and applied that to taking care of all Georgetown students and meet Georgetown students where they need to be met. … And Campus Ministry backs us up wholeheartedly on that.”

Georgetown Rabbi Arrested for Voyeurism RABBI, from A1 gants,” the synagogue’s board of directors said in a statement. “Upon receiving information regarding potentially inappropriate activity, the board of directors quickly alerted the appropriate officials.

Throughout the investigation, we cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so.”

Gabi Rubin (COL ’15), former president and current social chair of the Jewish Students Association, described the mikvah as a private, reflective spiritual experience for both Jewish men and

women. Mikvahs are often used by Orthodox Jewish women each month after their menstrual cycles, as well as by converts and by brides and grooms before the wedding.

“It’s a time to look into yourself and to better understand yourself and reflect on your relationship with God,” Rubin said. “It’s a place for ritual reflection and renewal.”

She said that the mikvah is about purity, and that it should never be sexualized.

“It’s a very personal, very individual, entirely non-sexual experience when you are with yourself and looking at yourself

as you are. You’re naked, in the way that you would when you bathe, but it’s more of a nakedness of spirit and of body,” she said.

In addition to his role as rabbi and past position as a Georgetown professor, Freundel is also vice president of the Vaad, a council of rabbis, in Washington, D.C., and formerly led the Rabbinical Council of America, a national organization of Orthodox rabbis, in addition to serving as a consultant on ethics to the National Institutes of Health.

The judge ordered that he be released from custody until his hearing Nov. 12.

‘Endangered Places’ Released Andrew Wallender Special to The Hoya

Two buildings in the Georgetown neighborhood received spots on the 2014 Most Endangered Places list released late last week by the D.C. Preservation League.

The D.C. Preservation League aims to encourage preservation of D.C.’s historic buildings.

“The 2014 list of Most Endangered Places represents some of the challenges that historic resources face in our city. These include proposed excessive and incompatible development that threatens some of our city’s most precious resources; willful demolition by neglect; and financial hardship, which creates obstacles for owners who strive to do the right thing,” Executive Director of the D.C. Preservation League Rebecca Miller said in a press release.

The Washington Canoe Club, located at 3700 Water St. NW, and the West Heating Plant, located at 1051 29th St. NW, both in Georgetown, were designated by the league as endangered, in addition to four other locations across the District: the Anacostia Commercial Corridor, 911 and 913 L Street NW, the Carnegie Library and St. Elizabeth’s East Agricultural Complex.

The D.C. Preservation League includes buildings on the list that are “historically, culturally and architecturally significant,” but have been abandoned or neglected, which could potentially result in alterations or demolitions to the structures.

It released the first list in 1996.

The Washington Canoe Club, which also made the list in 2012, is an iconic D.C. site. The boathouse, which is over a hundred years old, is one of only two boathouses remaining in the District.

“This building is a real iconic D.C. image,” Andrew Soles, president of the Washington Canoe Club, said. “You’ll often see it in photographs of Georgetown from across the river. … It’s not the Washington Monument, but it’s an incredibly significant piece of Washington, D.C.” However, the building has

not been renovated since its construction in 1904 and recently has experienced a lack of funding and proper upkeep.

The building is structurally unsound, with its windows and roofs requiring either repair or replacement. The National Park Service declared most of the boathouse unfit for occupancy in 2010. Since then, the approximately 200 members of the club have been forced to utilize a portion of the original building that is still operational.

Soles explained that the WCC is currently working on plans to renovate the boathouse to its original state. The renovations are estimated to cost around $5 million and could be completed by 2020.

“It’s going to take more than the efforts of just the 200 Washington Canoe Club members to restore it,” Soles said. “What we’re really hoping is to engage the greater D.C. community who, as I say, see this as an iconic building in the D.C. landscape.”

The other Georgetown building on the list, the West Heating Plant, dates back to the 1940s and provided steam for the District’s federal offices until 2000.

The building, a behemoth of brick reaching six stories into the sky, currently sits empty on a prime space of real estate off of the C&O Canal.

The property was sold to a group of developers for $19.5 million in March 2013 and is at risk of being significantly modified to make room for approximately 80 condominiums, expected to be the most expensive condos in the District. However, as the West Heating Plant sits in the historic district of Old Georgetown, the proposal requires the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts to be consulted before alterations can be made.

Additionally, Thomas Luebke, secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, pointed to serious structural problems in the building that would likely prevent serious refurbishment or alternations.

“The building has some significant issues in terms of whether it could be preserved or not and to what extent,” Lu-

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Current plans call for the demolition of more than 65 percent of the building. Only one side of the facade would remain intact during refurbishment while the rest of the building would be taken down to the foundation. Peter Jost, the president of the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown, said there would be tension between the preservationists and the realists in terms of what to do with the West Heating Plant.

“There are some preservationists who think nothing should be done to it — it’s beautiful the way it is,” Jost said.

“Obviously other people think it should be turned into a usable building. In order to turn it into a usable building it has to go through significant modifications, which I think would change how it looks today. And you have two camps on that.

The preservationist or realist realizes that to keep something of the building you have to make some concessions.”

According to Luebke, the Old Georgetown Board will review the issue and issue a report on the structural integrity of the building at a meeting Nov. 6.

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Students Call for Speech Reform Professor Wins SPEECH, from A1 demands for the university: eventually eliminating specified Free Speech Zones on campus, immediately expanding these zones to sidewalks in front of Healy Hall and around Healy Circle, recruiting a more diverse group of campus speakers for events, preserving and expanding safe spaces such as the LGBTQ Resource Center, Women’s Center and CMEA, creating a funding system for American Sign Language interpretation and Communication Access RealTime captioning at events for deaf and hard-of-hearing community members, removing tables used by student groups from the list of “permanent structures” in the Speech and Expression Policy and creating new academic courses that highlight underrepresented viewpoints on campus.

Under the university’s current Speech and Expression Policy, students can only set up tables in designated Free Speech Zones which include Red Square, Regents Lawn, the Healey Family Student Center and the lobby of the Leavey Center. Before the policy was updated in May, tabling was limited to Red Square,

with the lobby of the Leavey Center designated as an alternative spot to table during poor weather conditions.

The Academic Resource Center denied requests to fund a sign language interpreter at a Georgetown University Student Association-sponsored LSAT prep course in the spring.

H*yas for Choice Vice President Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS ’17), who helped create HUFS, said he became involved in response to his experiences with speech suppression.

“As a member of H*yas for Choice who has experienced active speech suppression during my short time at Georgetown, I wanted to see more students standing up for substantive speech on campus,” DeLaurentis wrote in an email.

According to DeLaurentis, HUFS hopes to inspire change in the Speech and Expression Policy as well as in the culture on campus.

“The first is to have the demands in our petition, which are essential for free and substantive speech, met by university officials,” DeLaurentis wrote. “The second is to foster a culture, both among university officials and the student body that truly seeks to celebrate free and

open dialogue, rather than repressing or tolerating student expression.”

According to DeLaurentis, whether or not HUFS takes future action will depend upon the university’s response to the petition.

Olson said he learned of the petition Thursday and hopes to work with students to develop solutions.

“It looks like many of these topics have been discussed in some depth, or will be discussed soon, in our Speech and Expression Committee, our ongoing diversity work with students and the recently launched Disability Justice Working Group,” Olson wrote in an email. “I look forward to continued engagement with students on these important topics.”

Georgetown University Student Association Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) said that although GUSA was not involved in the creation of HUFS, it supports the group’s actions.

“It shows that there still is some work that needs to be done, and it’s great that students are coming together to address it,” Jikaria said. “I really think it shows the administration that there are steps that need to be taken.”

GU Students Protest in Ferguson FERGUSON, from A1 said that the trip widened his perspective on racism and police brutality.

“Being there made me realize just how serious and real the issues of the American structure are,” Torrey said. “From that standpoint, it’s greatly disheartening. After coming back from Ferguson, I personally feel obligated to continue to combat injustices and strive for true equality and unity as well.”

Attendee Crystal Walker (SFS ’16) said that she was both inspired by the commitment of the protestors and amazed at the rift between the citizens of Ferguson and the police.

“People are trying to give the police the benefit of the doubt, but in reality I spoke to people who have been there for over 20 years,” Walker said. “There has always been pressure between us and the police, and I feel like Mike Brown’s death was the last point.”

Walker said she was impressed and humbled by those who continued to protest, regardless of poor weather conditions.

“It’s so great to see people who’ve been out there every single night. … It was cold the night we were there and people were still out there, it rains and people are still out there, it’s going to snow soon and people will still be out there,” Walker said. “I think that’s what’s so powerful about Ferguson, that this was the last

straw.”

David Ragland, a visiting assistant professor of education at Bucknell University, spoke at Monday’s event and focused on the necessity of solidarity. Ragland discussed the links between different social justice issues and the situation in Ferguson.

“People’s identities are constantly violated, there’s police brutality, the schoolto-prison pipeline,” Ragland said. “We see large movements like the ecological movement connected to what’s happening in Ferguson, because who are the first people who are victims of climate change? Poor folks. People of color.”

Ragland said that he was moved by the chants spoken by the protestors.

“I think it’s important for us to see all of the structural violence as unjust but also at root a violation of human dignity,” Ragland said. “One of the chants that stuck with me when I was out there was ‘The whole damn system is guilty as hell.’

We are really all complicit.”

Ayo Aruleba (COL ’17), who also attended the march, said that a powerful moment during the weekend was when the group of protestors addressed Ferguson police.

“One of the chants that resonated with me was, ‘Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.’ Having the opportunity to stand outside the Ferguson police department … to tell them how we feel about the

structure, speak to police officers themselves made me appreciate democracy more,” Aruleba said.

Michael Martin (COL ’17), expressed disappointment at the lack of knowledge on the situation in Ferguson that his peers revealed after his return to campus.

“It was amazing seeing all the people in Ferguson coming out to all of these events … to be with people with the same values,” Martin said. “Then you come back to Georgetown, and these are people who could potentially be leading the world one day. … We had these signs in our hands that we got at the protests, and as we were in the elevator [of LXR], this kid comes up to me and he’s like ‘Oh, who’s Mike Brown?’”

CSJ Executive Director Andria Wisler responded to Martin’s desire to spread knowledge on the issue on campus by relating it to Georgetown’s Jesuit values.

She said she encouraged the students to talk about their experiences in Ferguson in all of their classes in order to spread awareness.

“Something I learned that’s very Jesuit, is to give people the benefit of the doubt,” Wisler said. “St. Ignatius talked about this idea, that if people don’t know about something that you care a lot about, you have to meet them there and you have to meet them with love. You give them the benefit of the doubt, and the fact of what you’re saying … You meet them and you tell them what it is.”

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dolphin stocks particularly those subjected to anthropogenic impacts and stressors including from cetacean watching activities but also from other forms of recreation, industrial development and ocean noise impacts” Schubert said.

Mann has also worked with the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., since 1992. Mann works to collect samples of blow that reveal DNA and hormone levels in cetaceans.

The research has encouraged the aquarium to make changes that will lower stress levels in its dolphins; it is considering establishing a dolphin sanctuary and has already stopped its dolphin trick shows.

“The benefits of doing this work is potentially developing a noninvasive stress test for animals in captivity or in aquaria so we could see what we’re doing is not freaking them out,” Mann said. “[We are] applying that to the wild so that we understand our impact on the animals and their environments in addition to their natural stressors.”

Caitlin Karniski (GRD ’19), Mann’s research associate, said that the depth of Mann’s experience in marine biology makes her a good professor.

“What’s really incredible is how well she knows these animals, not just from a species perspective but on an individual level as well,” Karniski said. “Since she has been encountering the same individuals in Shark Bay for almost 30 years now, when she comes across a dolphin on the boat she can instantly know their entire life history, all the important events that have happened throughout their lifetime, she can recall it down to the day.”

Karniski said Mann’s teachings have inspired her to examine this particular field of science in a new light. “[Mann] and the work she has done has completely opened my eyes up to an entirely new set of questions that you can ask about biology, conservation and evolutionary biology,” Karniski said. “The wealth of knowledge she has is amazing.”

Mann said she hopes her research can help students learn about their impact on the environment and how they can help make changes.

“I feel like this is our planet, and it’s particularly the students’ planet.

All the things we have messed up on the planet, you are inheriting,” Mann said. “I think that it’s really important that students are aware of what their impact is on the environment.”

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Biology and psychology professor Janet Mann received the Animal Welfare Institute’s Christine Stevens Wildlife Award, a $10,000 grant that will help fund her research on hormone monitoring in cetaceans, an order which includes marine mammals such as dolphins, whales and porpoises.

According to wildlife biologist DJ Schubert, a member of the AWI, a group of judges selected five finalists to receive grants out of a pool of 34 applicants.

“The Christine Stevens Wildlife Award has two areas of focus: one is on the development of humane and non-invasive methods for resolving wildlife conflicts while the second focus is on the development of noninvasive and humane strategies to study wildlife,” Schubert said. “Dr. Mann’s proposal falls into the second category.”

The award, named after the AWI’s late founder and president of over 50 years, honors those whose research aims at developing humane strategies for wildlife conflict management.

Mann’s latest research focuses on measuring the levels of cortisol, a primary stress hormone, detected in the respiratory vapor that is exhaled from a dolphin’s blowhole. Mann is studying the connection between stress and animal illnesses. She conducts much of her research at Shark Bay, a World Heritage Site in Australia, where she has been working for almost 30 years.

“I am very interested in trying to understand why many dolphin populations around the world are suffering .… Off the coast of Virginia last year, a lot of bottlenose dolphins washed up dead and it turned out that it was this disease Morbillivirus which can kill thousands, or even tens of thousands of dolphins a year,” Mann said. “So I am very interested in disease transmission because that can suddenly wipe out a population.”

Chronic stress in cetaceans can be caused by a variety of stimuli, such as pollution, a lack of prey or a loud shipping noise. According to Schubert, most stressors are anthropogenic.

“Collecting stress data on wild dolphins using a non-invasive methodology can provide important information required for the proper conservation and management of

University Considers Consolidated ‘Diversity Center’ CENTER, from A1 stages of discussion.

“We are just beginning conversations on how we can move forward in supporting the communities we serve in a much more collaborative and purposeful way,” they wrote in the statement.

“At the core of our re-thinking is student experiences and needs, and how best we may address these in a changing demographic in higher education.”

Although the ARC was involved in the creation of the joint statement, it is not currently being considered to be part of the consolidation.

Some schools do have similar combined resource centers targeted to these disparate groups, including the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at American University, which encompasses LGBTQ, multicultural, first-generation and female students, and the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College and Conservatory, which supports “historically underrepresented” students. Several universities combine resources for women and LGBTQ students. Nearly all of the top 20 universities Georgetown

typically considers its peers have separate resource centers for each group.

The university has discussed the possible consolidation in focus groups made up of students who utilize the centers and would be affected by the change. At these focus groups, Olson has also discussed alternatives to the merger, such as putting the three centers on the same floor and creating larger, more up-to-date spaces for each group. The LGBTQ Center and Women’s Center are currently on the third floor of the Leavey Center, while the CMEA is on the fifth floor of the Leavey Center.

According to GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15),the focus groups have clearly shown that students are not in favor of a consolidation.

“There is not a single student leader who thinks that a formal unified office is a good idea. At the meeting, every single [one] was strongly opposed to the idea,” Lloyd said. “While a common lounge space, or a new advisory structure separate from student affairs might signal a renewed commitment to our diverse communities, merging the centers would only undermine

their mission.”

A consolidation would be of particular detriment to the LGBTQ Center, Lloyd said, given its history as the first of its kind at a Catholic university.

“As the most frequent collaborator of the LGBTQ Resource Center, and as the organization that facilitated its founding, GU Pride would not want Georgetown to water down or muddle the historic institution that is the first ever such resource center at a Catholic school,” Lloyd said.

A student petition against the initiative on Georgetown’s IdeaScale platform, has reached 599 upvotes in a little over a week. The petition, started

by GUSA Undersecretary of Gender Affairs Mariel Jorgensen (COL ’16), says that each group serves a unique purpose that caters to students’ personal identities.

“While students recognize the value of intersectionality, there is even greater value in an individual’s ability to access safe spaces on campus created to support their personal identity,” Jorgenson wrote in the petition.“An aggregate center would be less able to understand

and perform the sensitive work done by current centers, which are more intimately familiar with the specific needs of the students who reach out to them.”

Many students involved in GUSA have spoken to Olson about the proposal and are against it.

GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Megan Murday (SFS ’15) attended Olson’s office hours on Friday to express her concerns with the plan.

“I went to Dr. Olson’s office hours out of concern for and solidarity with several of my friends who benefit from the resources offered by the Women’s Center, LGBTQ Resource Center and the CMEA,” Murday wrote in an email.

“These centers should be a point of pride for Georgetown, not a point of contention.”

GUSA Undersecretary for LGBTQ Affairs Lexi Dever (COL ’16) also attended the event, and said that Olson welcomed conversation with students.

“I, along with a number of other students from GUSA, GU Pride, the Queer Women’s Collective and other groups directly affected by any changes to the centers, went in order to directly ex-

press our need for the basic structure of the centers to remain unchanged,” Dever wrote in an email. “Dr. Olson and Dennis Williams were quite responsive to our concerns, allowing a strong conversation to develop between the students and the administrators about what should be done to benefit the Georgetown community the most.”

Jayme Amann (COL ’15), a Women Advancing Gender Equity fellow in the Women’s Center and the ally representative on the GU Pride executive board, said that that the idea belittles each group’s unique and individual identity.

“Stop trying to marginalize these groups of people at Georgetown just because heterosexual male white privilege dominates the university administration,” Amann wrote in an email addressing the university. “It’s offensive and belittles the struggle groups represented by these three centers face on a daily basis. If this is about minimizing bureaucracy, the university could have found a heck of a lot better outlet.”

Hoya Staff Writer Katherine Richardson contributed reporting.

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DC Consortium Classes Draw Low Participation Andrew Wallender Special to The Hoya

Despite a population of 155,000 students enrolled across the 12 universities and two colleges in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, only between 650 and 700 students participate in cross-registration each semester, amounting to a participation rate of between 0.41 percent and 0.45 percent.

Students at member universities are eligible to cross-register by enrolling in classes at other member schools in the program, meant to give students an opportunity to branch out in their scholarly endeavors and experience other academic institutions.

“No university can possibly offer every conceivable course, so cross-registration opens many other avenues,” Consortium President and CEO John Cavanaugh wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The universities and colleges in the Washington consortium include American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, Marymount University, National Intelligence University, National Defense University, Trinity Washington University, University of the District of Columbia and the University of Maryland, College Park.

This semester, 32 Georgetown graduate students and 22 undergraduate students are enrolled in consortium courses at other schools, while 50 graduate and students 123 undergraduate students from other schools are taking consortium classes at Georgetown. One hundred and ninety-seven and 195 students were enrolled in classes at Georgetown through the consortium in fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters, respectively. A total of 39 Georgetown students cross-registered through the Consortium last fall and a total of 43 Georgetown students did so in the spring.

“From what I hear from students, the excellent opportunities are not as well-known as they could be,” Cavanaugh wrote.

By contrast, though it includes fewer members, Five College Consortium, a consortium of five colleges in or around Amherst, Mass., has about 6,000 students who participate in crossregistration, according to its website. There are approximately 36,500 undergraduate students in the Five College Consortium, which amounts to a participation rate of around 16 percent, over 39 times higher than the Washington consortium’s participation rate. Students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps are more likely to take advantage of cross-registration within the consortium, according to School of Foreign Service Director of Undergraduate Program Mitch Kaneda.

In the Washington, D.C. area, Georgetown is the host school for the Army ROTC, named the Hoya Battalion. There are 134 cadets currently enrolled in the Army ROTC, 27 of whom are Georgetown students, according to Army ROTC Director Lt. Col. Michael Donahue.

Since the Army ROTC program is housed at Georgetown, students from the other participating schools — GWU, CUA, American and Marymount — usually have to travel to Georgetown for required military classes.

“We’re just very fortunate that there is the con-

sortium so it is very easy for a George Washington student to enroll in a class here at Georgetown University,” Donahue said. “Across the country a host program, for instance at the University of Pittsburgh, would also have ROTC students out of Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne, but there may not be a consortium that sort of unites them academically.”

One hundred and four of the 174 visiting students enrolled at Georgetown this semester are in the Army ROTC program.

Aside from fulfilling ROTC requirements, students opt to take part in the consortium’s crossregistration program because they have already fulfilled their major requirements and want to explore other areas of interest that are not offered at Georgetown, according to Patricia Grant, the senior assistant dean of undergraduate programs at the McDonough School of Business.

“Students are rarely doing it to expand their social network and meet other people on other campuses or see what it’s like to take a course at another campus,” Grant said. “They’re more so doing it because they have a free elective space in their curriculum and they have no requirements.”

Students who are interested in registering in a class at another Washington consortium university can do so by requesting that class through their dean. The dean’s office will then work with the registrar’s office to register the student at the other school.

“We are fortunate to be in a metropolitan area with several higher education institutions.

When our students identify an opportunity at a consortium university, we work with them to determine its feasibility and, if so, provide our support,” Douglas Little, the senior assistant dean and director of academic affairs at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, wrote in an email.

Zach Highley-Gergel, a GWU junior, took organic chemistry at Georgetown over the summer through the consortium. Highley-Gergel had missed the start of the class at GWU, after studying abroad in the United Kingdom.

“Actually getting into the consortium and starting it was a bit of a pain because of the actual paper writing and stuff like that,” Highley-Gergel said. “But once I was actually in it, it was great. I was integrated as a normal student, classes were good, the lab was good.”

Highley-Gergel said that a setback in his consortium experience was that he did not have access to Georgetown facilities and resources.

“The only annoying thing was I wasn’t allowed a GOCard. And because of not being allowed a GOCard, I couldn’t access some of the things like the library, and I think one or two other places,” Highley-Gergel said.

Aside from cross-registration, the consortium offers a number of other programs such as the Consortium Research Fellows Program for graduate students in certain areas of psychology and computer science and joint library services. “[The Washington consortium is] a resource that many college students just don’t have,” Grant said. “And so we are pleased that it is something that the Georgetown student can take advantage of if it’s in their academic plan and need.”

Expert Discusses Afghani Presidential Elections Matthew Larson Special to The Hoya

Richard Kraemer, a senior program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy, spoke about the future of Afghanistan in an event sponsored by the School of Foreign Service and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for MuslimChristian Understanding on Wednesday in the Intercultural Center.

Kraemer, who specializes in the Middle East and North Africa, discussed Afghanistan’s recent presidential elections. In what was alleged to be a fraudulent result, Abdullah Abdullah was defeated by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai for the presidency. After intense negotiations, the government decided to appoint Ahmadzai as president and Abdullah as CEO — a newly re-established position equated to that of a prime minister — of Afghanistan.

“For an already divided society, this has been one of the most divisive issues we’ve seen. … Everyone has a view on it,” Kraemer said. “There are a lot of misconceptions … all that are going to have to be managed as Abdullah and Ahmadzai try to go forward in the unity government.”

Tamara Sonn, the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani professor in the history of Islam, said that the recent events in Afghanistan suffer from a lack of coverage, and that Kraemer could provide necessary insight.

“It’s a difficult situation and it’s very unclear how that power sharing arrangement will work,” Sonn said. “We’re very lucky to have with us Richard Kraemer to tell us a little bit about the status of the power-sharing agreement and some kind of ideas about what might happen next.”

According to Kraemer, the people of Afghanistan were very hopeful as the first phase of the presidential elections neared.

“Going back to April 5, there was a tremendous degree of elation, I mean, we saw almost 60 percent of the population turn out and vote after what had been a series of lackluster performances in 2009 onward,” Kraemer said.

Kraemer said that Afghanistan’s electoral process has the potential to be fair and balanced in the future.

“This is a very inspiring time for Afghans and those of us that work on Afghanistan who care about the country’s future, because we saw these people brave the likelihood of being subjected to any kind of insurgent violence,” Kraemer said.

“We saw that there had been decreasing amounts of fraud.”

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Richard Kraemer discussed the future of democracy in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Abdullah, a doctor and former foreign minister, by about 56 percent to 44 percent, which some claim was the result of fraud. Kraemer said that he was disappointed in the ensuing accusations, although he understood them.

“You can see the murkiness, you can get a sense of the degree of fraud, you can get a sense of why there were various sides that thought they had been wrongly treated in this process,” Kraemer said.

Kraemer said that the problems with the election put Afghanistan in a precarious position.

“The first couple weeks now have actually been encouraging,” Kraemer said. “[Ahmadzai has] said a lot of the right things, he’s taken a lot of the right steps and he’s taken some concrete action as well.”

Thaameran Sarveswaran (SFS ’18) said that went to the talk because of his interest in Afghanistan and South Asia and was eager to hear from an expert.

“Specifically to me, I’m studying Farsi, so I’m working with the region,” he said. “I came because [the topic] was Afghanistan.”

According to Sarveswaran, Kraemer’s speech gave an interesting perspective on the current turmoil in Afghanistan. “[Kraemer’s] insight into the Afghan democratic process and the future of the Afghan unity government post withdrawal was thought provoking and optimistic,” Sarveswaran said.

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MACFARLANE, from A10 with writers who have agents) but can also help secure an advance, provide business guidance and assist in expanding the reach of the work, whether by getting major papers to review the piece or by organizing a film or television adaption.

Very few writers are their best advocates or representatives of their business interests. Moreover, the more time a writer spends handling their own business affairs, whether marketing or contracts, the less time they can devote to actually writing. Traditional publishing not only allows writers to focus on the actual act of writing, but it also gives them the best

chance of profiting from their work.

When I went to New York this past summer, I had no idea what to expect — the publishing industry remains obscure to the popular imagination. Publishing is messy and sometimes it involves a lot of rejection and complication, but it is also one of our most vital industries. It protects readers and writers because it tries to sustain books as a necessary good — a good that deserves patience, care and persistence. As a reader, books are even more valuable now that I know how much it takes for them to come into being.

JERROD MACFARLANE is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

MSB Entrepreneurship Application Opens ance,” she said.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, from A10 Recently, the MSB has gained significant people like we have at Georgetown realize recognition in the media. LinkedIn ranked that they have the ability to do their own Georgetown first in investment banking and thing, many of them are really excited about third in finance in reports released earlier this month, and this summer, USA Today named pursuing that.”

Reid also said Georgetown’s Jesuit identity the MSB the number six national undergraduate business school. aligns with entrepreneurship.

“I think Georgetown’s “The Jesuit order itquickly becoming a leadself is incredibly entreer in entrepreneurship,” preneurial, in the way Reid said. “But I think it’s they’ve grown over the important that we keep centuries and done new growing our programs and creative things and to remain competitive, gone places nobody else because students today, had been. It also fits in when they’re choosing because there’s a Jesuit their college, many of principle that each inthem are very interested dividual should choose JEFF REID in going to a school that a path based on the anFounding Director of the Georgetown has entrepreneurial proswers to three key quesEntrepreneurship Initiative grams, and if Georgetions. Those questions are ‘What do I love to do?’; ‘What am I good town doesn’t have these programs, we at doing?’; and ‘What does the community might lose some of the best students to need?’… Those are the same questions we other schools.”

Lovegrove assures that Entrepreneurship ask in entrepreneurship,” he said.

Lovegrove agrees, saying the qualities that Fellows is not the end of the academic arm of will distinguish Fellows applicants’ entre- entrepreneurship at Georgetown.

“Our hope is, over time, that we will be preneurial spirit complements the typical able to produce an entrepreneurship miGeorgetown student’s strengths.

“What we’re looking for is just the personal nor that will be open to all undergraduate qualities that we think you see in many suc- students in all degree programs,” Lovegrove cessful entrepreneurs, and, candidly, those said.“So this is a way of kind of exploring are the same qualities I think we look for in what that would look like and what kind of Georgetown students in general when they content we would build into that program, apply: leadership qualities, a willingness to how it would work.”

Members of the Class of 2017 will be able to take initiative, to dive in, a certain amount of intellectual curiosity and creativity, persever- apply through Oct. 24.

“I think Georgetown’s quickly becoming a leader in entrepreneurship.”

This week, two paid positions for students at the Georgetown University Farmers’ Market opened, offering the opportunity to work with popular vendors, Vera’s Bakery and MsCurry.

According to an email sent out by volunteer coordinator Emeline Kong (COL ’17), hired students would receive $9.50 or $15 an hour respectively per vendor, working as a cashier and in operations.

Vera’s Bakery sells Latin American specialties and pastries, while MsCurry sells home cooked Indian food.

According to GUFM Administrative Director Lexi Cotcamp (MSB ’15), the positions are financially sponsored by the vendors who needed additional help and not by GUFM, which manages the market in partnership with the Georgetown University Student Association.

“We typically receive our funds through vendors who pay a fee to come and we are also working in coordination with the Georgetown University Student Association executive to cover different fees that can be part of the GUSA executive partnership,” Cotcamp said. “Funds are used for different logistical operations of the farmers market, including most probably parking because the Office of Transportation requires parking fees these days.”

Cotcamp also pointed out that most of the students involved with the farmers market hold volunteer positions, although duties extended beyond working at the market on Wednesdays.

“Students typically participate in a variety of fashions,” Cotcamp said. “It’s not just volunteering at the market. In the past we have had different volunteer events, including local food meetings and speaker events that we have organized as well.”

Elizabeth Chabra, MsCurry’s cook, explained that the Indian food stand looked to hire Georgetown students to facilitate better communication with student customers, more efficient service and an easier commute for those working the stands.

“They speak the language of students. We needed a face for the front,” Chabra said. “And we are very busy because we are pro-

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MsCurry (pictured) and Vera’s Bakery, vendors at the on-campus farmers market, hired student employees this week. viding fresh food and I need to keep an eye on new food that’s being cooked, like rice and stuff, which we ran out a lot of these days. So I figured I just needed

“At its core, the farmers market is about students.

We’ve always tried to involve students.”

LEXI COTCAMP (MSB ’15) GUFM Administrative Director

someone who lived close by. I could hire someone from Maryland, but the commute is hard and the parking is terrible.”

Mary Mulcahy (COL ’18), who frequents the farmers market, did not see long wait times as a deterrent, but appreciates the benefits of hiring students to work with popular vendors.

“I know there is usually a bit of a wait to buy food at the farmers market. I haven’t minded it thus far,” Mulcahy said. “But I guess if hiring students benefits both the students and the vendors then it would be a good thing.”

Steffany Arzate (SFS ’15), the new hire for MsCurry, start-

ed her first day of work this Wednesday in cashier and operations. She applied for the position because of her prior experience working with Indian food.

“I studied abroad in India so it’s been really exciting to get back and help prepare Indian food again,” Arzate said.

Working at MsCurry also provided Arzate with an employment opportunity that she might not otherwise have had.

“The first couple of years I had work-study so it was a lot easier for me to find a job,” Arzate said. “And this year, because my financial aid changed, I don’t have work study so it’s a little bit harder to find a job on campus.

So I think in that sense, the job has really provided other students with employment opportunities as well.”

Cotcamp is excited to see the trend of students getting more involved in the market, both in volunteering and employment capacities.

“At its core, the farmers market is about students. We’ve always tried to involve students, whether that’s participating in a special event like Top Chef or volunteering at the market,” Cotcamp said. “And in this spirit, we hope to continue getting students involved in the local movement.”

BUSINESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014

BUSINESS BITS

BUSINESS, SOCIETY AND PUBLIC POLICY INITIATIVE

Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business launched its Business, Society and Public Policy Initiative on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The initiative will serve to address the intersection of business and government in today’s world. Weaving together connections of what is learned in the classroom and the business and government worlds will be the key mission for the initiative. By sponsoring a wide array of events for students, the Georgetown community will be encouraged to engage in the global business community through discourse and nonpartisan communication.

RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), with Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business Global Social Enterprise Initiative and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative’s StartupHoyas, announced the 10 national semifinalists of the first-ever Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge. The challenge provides an opportunity for individuals to showcase ideas and business innovations being cultivated in rural regions of the United States. After a series of interviews during the challenge, four finalists will be selected to continue in the challenge at the AFBF 96th Annual Convention in January to win up to $40,000 in prize money.

CAREER CENTER DIRECTOR JUDGE FOR THE ECONOMIST Doreen Amorosa, associate dean and managing director of the MBA Career Center, was a judge at The Economist-Lumina Foundation Challenge at The Economist Higher Education Forum: Reconnecting Education to the Workforce in October.

The challenge asked solvers to create a product or service to facilitate communication between employers and academia in order to close the ever-widening skills gap.

MSB Opens Additional Career Resource DAVID BROWN Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business launched the Office of Professional Development in September to serve as an additional career resource for business students, who already benefit the most directly from the services provided through the Cawley Career Education Center..

The office supplements the aid already provided by the Cawley Career Education Center and offers career education, alumni mentorship and skill development to better prepare business students for summer internships and entering the workforce after graduation.

“As a top business school, it is important that we provide individualized career counseling to ensure that McDonough students are prepared to enter the marketplace when they graduate,” said Norean Sharpe, senior associate dean and director of the undergraduate MSB program. “We have a great track record of success working with the Cawley Career Education Center, and this new Office of Professional Development will continue to expand this partnership.”

The office will provide a variety of services, including walk-ins, one-onone coaching, small group advising, boot camps and workshops, employer events, the alumni mentor program, and visits to various companies twice a semester. This semester, the office will be sending students to Philadelphia with the Georgetown University Real Estate Club to look for jobs. Intended to be an additional source of information for students interested in businessoriented careers, the office will also specifically assist MSB students still trying to plan out their lives after graduation.

“We are here to complement the Cawley Career Center and what they are providing; we are not trying to fix the Career Center as they are doing a great job already,” said Rebecca Cassidy, assistant dean and director of the Professional Development Center. “We have much more specific program-

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The Office of Professional Development opened in the McDonough School of Business this September.

It will provide additional career advice and opportunities to students interested in business-related fields. ming for MSB students. Whether you don’t know what major to choose, know exactly what you want to do but don’t know how to get there or are just wondering what the next step is, we can meet you where you are and help you get to the next step.”

While the Office of Professional Development caters to MSB students, some students outside of the business school remain wary about their chances of finding summer internships, and more importantly, a job after graduation, as their current career resources remain unchanged. Students looking to pursue something not in a business field already see the Cawley Career Center as catering to only those industries.

“I’ve actually never been to the Career Center, but from what I’ve heard from my friends, a lot of people are frustrated that most of the jobs they offer are for accounting and finance,” Jessica Ellison (COL ’17) said.

“The Career Center never really seems to have openings for jobs that are actually interesting to me,” James Toohey (COL ’15) said.

While a large portion of jobs and in-

ternships offered by the Career Center are in the accounting, finance, consulting and marketing industries, Cawley Career Center Executive Director Mike Schaub said the center provides opportunities extending beyond business fields.

“The Career Center continues to provide job and internship opportunities, employer events and alumni connections in industries outside of finance and consulting. Last year, our on-campus interviewing program hosted employers from biotechnology, pharmaceutical sales, education, government, health care, hospitality, human resources, law professions, public relations and retail,” Schaub said.

The Career Center aims to have a large variety of non-business related positions available, listing potential internships for industries from health to education.

“Currently, we have over 1,500 job and internship listings in fields outside of finance and consulting,” Schaub said. “In addition, the Career Center’s industry advisers assist students with finding opportunities in health, science, government, international devel-

opment, entrepreneurship, technology, education, public relations, arts and volunteerism, as well as in finance, consulting and accounting.”

However, for non-MSB students who are interested in business, collaborations between the Office and the Career Center are open to students from all schools.

“The Cawley Career Education Center has already begun partnering closely with the Office of Professional Development,” Schaub said. “For example, the Cawley Career Education Center, the MBA Career Management Center and the Office of Professional Development hosted Facebook on campus Sept. 9.”

While the career center and the Office of Professional Development will remain two separate entities, they will continue to collaborate to put on events for the benefit of students across campus. The Office of Professional Development will serve as an outlet for MSB students to sharpen their resumes, develop interview skills and learn from MSB alumni in order to better prepare them for the competitive nature of the post-graduate business world.

COMMENTARY

Making the Cut: The Business of Books A

s a lover of books, it is easy to misconceptions, including selection, forget that books, like so many money and development, about publishbeloved things, are also part of a ing that Amazon plays off.

This summer I spent a lot of time saybusiness. The business of art is so often overlooked, frequently because it seems ing no.

As an agency intern, a large part of beside the point (and writers are not exmy job was reading and rejecting query empt from harping this tune).

However, after spending this summer letters. In the beginning, it was excruinterning at a literary agency in New ciating, particularly as someone who York, I can assure all readers that the hopes to one day write a book or two, business of books is anything but beside and it only got marginally better over the point. In fact, it seems all the more the course of my internship. However, important as we get deeper into the on- despite what internet horror stories and going conflict between Amazon and the tales of classic novels being rejected reHachette Book Group, which has fright- peatedly might suggest, I am here to tell ening implications for the entire book you that this process is not only necessary but good. This process makes one economy.

Over the course of this summer, pay the utmost attention to the challenge of selling books.

I became increasingly When I said yes to a aware that each book that book this summer, even reaches our shelves is the if it was just to ask for product of a complex and more pages of a manunecessary business ecosysscript, I always thought tem. Moreover, I became inof the months, if not timately acquainted with years, in editing, marmany of the moving parts keting and financing that make up this ecosysthat I was attaching to tem and how they serve the Jerrod MacFarlane it. If I said yes enough, interests of readers everyit meant a book would where. As a result, I have a renewed appreciation This summer, I spent need to be passed along to more hands. It meant for bookmaking, which a lot of time saying that a book was worthy goes well beyond just the of further consideration written manuscript. I also no. by other minds and that have a clearer perspective on many of the changes and challenges a book might be worth the risk of investing time and money to be put on a store currently affecting the book business.

The clearest example of this relates to shelf or online.

What people often forget is that all of the role of Amazon in book publishing.

The recent controversy between Amazon this is true whether a book is to be made and the publishing industry revolves in print or digitally. The major cost of around a contract dispute. The publisher books is not in the physical object but Hachette has been avoiding concessions the process of publishing itself.

Another constantly raging debate is to Amazon on e-book pricing, failing to agree on pricing terms in Justice Depart- the conflict between traditional publishment-mandated renegotiations, but this ing and self-publishing. I am a strong dispute is anything but simple. It repre- believer in the traditional publishing sents an increasing centralization of the process, which edits and augments at book market with Amazon, who sells 41 every stage, producing better book qualpercent of all books in the United States. ity, but there are reasons beyond this Furthermore, it represents a disempow- to support the traditional model. As a erment of publishers and the system model, self-publishing provides fewer options for revenue. Your cut of sales may that publishing represents.

It is important to note here that this be larger if you self-publish, but you are problem is not an isolated case; Hachette also wholly reliant on sales and you are is merely the first publisher, in a line of at the mercy of your own efforts to promany, who will have to renegotiate their duce these sales.

By contrast, in traditional publishing e-book contracts in the next few years.

Amazon and other e-book retailers at an agent may not only try to secure a base want to reduce the price of e-books; publisher (most publishers only work while this may seem appealing to conSee MACFARLANE, A9 sumers, this desire exemplifies many

COURTESY STARTUPHOYAS

Members of the current Entrepreneurship Fellows Program are able to pursue entrepreneurship through classes and events. Applications for the program are currently open for sophomores.

Fellowship Program Expands LAURA OWSIANY Hoya Staff Writer

Applications opened this week for StartupHoyas’ Entrepreneurship Fellows program. The program, which began in 2010 with the Class of 2013, offers sophomore students from all four schools the opportunity to engage with a group of peers who have a vested interest in entrepreneurship.

Fellows take three entrepreneurship electives through the McDonough School of Business, culminating in the Entrepreneurial Practium their senior year, where students work at a Washington, D.C. startup five to 10 hours a week and present a case study of their particular company in class.

Fellows must also participate in the Hoya Challenge pitch competition, which is open to all students, before they graduate.

Jeff Reid, founding director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative that is widely known as StartupHoyas, led the effort to create the Entrepreneurship Fellows in 2010, when only one eponymous entrepreneurship course was offered at Georgetown.

As the program has expanded, so has its inclusiveness.

“When the program was created, it was designed for business

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students, but it’s always been an important goal of mine to not have those kind of limitations. So after a year or so, we were able to loosen that restriction so that non-business students are eligible, and we have had a lot of non-business students go through the program over the last few years,” Reid said.

The interdisciplinary nature of the program is now one of its greatest strengths, says Associate Director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and Co-Director of Entrepreneurship Fellows Alyssa Lovegrove.

“I think entrepreneurship certainly is a very hot topic for students both in and out of the business school and one of the things that’s nice about it is, for me, it’s one of the ways we get that sort of cross-disciplinary focus into the classroom.

Typically entrepreneurship classes do have a lot of kids from outside of the business school in them, and I think that really just makes for a nice, rich environment,” she said.

The Fellows program also offers an in-class experience unique to StartupHoyas, which mainly offers extracurricular involvement with entrepreneurship, with programs such as a weekly speaker series, Summer Launch Program and an internship subsidy program.

“We create multiple avenues for

students to interact with us because students’ interests can be very different and can come at different times in their college career,” Reid said.

Much of StartupHoyas’ initiatives can be utilized at any time as a largely extracurricular pursuit, in the case of recent Georgetown alumna Luisa Santos (COL ’14) of Lulu’s Ice Cream, who Reid says only began plans for her business in her senior year. Entrepreneurship Fellows, however, offers students a long-term exposure to the startup experience that may manifest itself in different ways.

“We’re hoping [the Fellows] come away with a set of skills and a mindset that would help them launch businesses in the future or join another startup or early-stage company, or simply have an entrepreneurial mindset in whatever career they so choose,” Lovegrove said.

Entrepreneurship has become an international buzzword, according to Reid.

“There is an absolute positive upward trend and interest in entrepreneurship among millennials all over the world,” Reid said. “I think, at its root, it’s a part of human nature to want to create things, and when young, ambitious, bright See ENTREPRENEURSHIP, A9