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EDITORIAL The GUSA executive has accomplished much of its platform.

Students renting local residences often receive grimy treatment.

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CANON LAWSUIT? An expert asseses the validity of William Blatty’s letter to the pope.

Win Streak Snapped The women’s soccer team lost its first game to Marquette, 4-0.

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GU Law Student Slain SUSPECT JAILED ON $2M BAIL

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GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14), left, and President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) meet in their office midway through their yearlong term.

At Midway Mark, GUSA Exec on Track Despite detours, leaders have honored campaign promises Annie Chen

Hoya Staff Writer

More than halfway through their term, Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) say they have fulfilled more than two-thirds of their campaign promises, but the pair has found difficulty in executing some key platform priorities.

Since taking office in April, the executive leaders have cited the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, which mandates that the university house 90 percent of undergraduates by fall 2025, as the greatest challenge of their term.

Soon after taking office in February, Tisa and Ramadan worked closely with the university on implementation of the campus plan, particularly with their appeal for student input in designing the Northeast Triangle residence hall and relaxing a variety of social policies on campus.

However, collaboration with university administrators has become strained since Tisa told campus media of the university’s consideration of a satellite residence.

“What we decided to do was something difficult, which was to call the administration out to hold them accountable on the promises they made after the campus plan,” Tisa said. “Our ability to do that was in-

formed by looking back into the history and talking to alumni from GUSA who have said their biggest regret is prioritizing relationships with the administrators above relationships and duties with the students. We learned from that.”

Severe student backlash, channelled through a student body referendum that administrators condemned, fuelled this tension between the university and GUSA. Cause for dispute extended all the way to semantics, with university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr calling Tisa “absolutely mistaken” when he referred to the satellite residence as a satellite campus.

“Standing up for students but also knowing where to draw the line and where to compromise on things has certainly been a challenge,” Tisa said.

“At the end of the day, you did see some negative reactions by a select few administrators, but they weren’t sustained because they didn’t have a place in cooperating to find acceptable solutions.”

Tisa gave Ramadan and himself a B-plus so far for the term, saying that there is still a lot left to do. He said that the executive staff and cabinet deserved an A for their performance.

Despite a delayed start in tackling the centerpiece of Tisa and Ramadan’s campaign platform — the expansion of free speech zones on campus — Ramadan is confident that the executive’s adjusted approach of reviewing the Speech and Expression Policy and revamping the committee that oversees the policy will best serve campus life.

“It will be a long-term plus for students,” Ramadan said.

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Mark Waugh (LAW ’16), 23, was stabbed to death during the early hours of Sunday morning in a longtime friend’s apartment in Silver Spring, Md. The friend, Rahul Gupta (GRD ’13), a biomedical engineering graduate student at The George Washington University, is charged with second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing Waugh with a kitchen knife after a party celebrating Gupta’s 24th birthday.

Gupta is being held on $2 million bail in the Montgomery County jail. He has pleaded not guilty.

According to testimony from Gupta’s girlfriend, Waugh, Gupta and Gupta’s girlfriend returned to Gupta’s Silver Spring high-rise apartment and continued drinking after going out, when Gupta said he found his girlfriend with Waugh.

“My girl was cheating with my buddy,” Gupta said in the charging papers. “I walked in on them cheating, and I killed my buddy.”

LEFT: COURTESY WAUGH FAMILY, RIGHT: MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE

Mark Waugh (LAW ’16), left, was allegedly stabbed to death by Rahul Gupta. The two had celebrated Gupta’s birthday that evening.

The Montgomery County Police Department reported that at approximately 3:25 a.m. on Oct. 13, local police responded to a 911 call to Gupta’s apartment for “unknown trouble,” where they found Gupta covered in blood. Waugh was unresponsive with seven or eight stab wounds and other superficial wounds.

“This was a vicious attack,” Assistant State Attorney Stephen Chaikin said Tuesday during Gupta’s first day in court.

According to Chaikin, Waugh sustained wounds to his jugular vein, upper chest and back, in addition to a punctured lung. Waugh also had injuries that indicated attempts of self-defense.

“The victim, and it’s obvious by the forensic evidence, defended

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GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15), left, with trans* representative Celeste Chrisholm (COL ’15). See story A6.

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For DC, Shutdown Silver Lining

COMING OUT DAY

ReImagine Georgetown Discontinued

The Georgetown Farmers Market on Healy Lawn has been a success story for RIG. Other initiatives have struggled to find their footing.

himself from a savage knife attack,” Chaikin said.

The Georgetown Law community has reacted to Waugh’s death by offering counseling and chaplain services on campus. “[Waugh] was a bright young man, full of potential,” the Georgetown Law Center said in a media statement. “The Georgetown Law community is shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic loss.”

Several aspects of the night, however, are still unclear.

According to WJLA, Reginald Bours III, Gupta’s lawyer, questioned the accuracy of the police report that claimed that Gupta said, “I walked in on them cheating, and I killed my buddy.”

Five years after the founding of ReImagine Georgetown, GUASFCU, The Corp and The Hoya have agreed to discontinue the program.

Created in 2007 as a way to fund student-run initiatives, RIG has encountered problems in following through on its grants.

Last year, organizers cut funds to inactive projects for the first time, as five initiatives had lapsed, and awarded only $5,000, half of its $10,000 budget. This year, student leaders decided the program, which began when the university approached the three largest student organizations, was not fit to continue.

Students of Georgetown Inc. CEO Lizzy MacGill (COL ’14) said that it was difficult to follow up on the successes and challenges of each initiative.

“Our predecessors in that transition told us that ReImagine Georgetown in the past had been successful in funding some great student projects,” MacGill said.

“One of the limitations that they had communicated to us was that to follow through on the projects was really hard because it required the leaders from the biggest organizations on campus to be following up with the recipients of the award throughout their projects, and it’s just hard to do because your hands are full.”

Evan Hollander (SFS ’14), chair of The Hoya’s Board of Directors, said that ReImagine Georgetown did not meet the organizations’ standards.

“These are three organizations with great reputations,” he said. “If they’re putting their reputations on the line, it has to make a real,

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Although Congress ended the federal government shutdown Wednesday evening, damage from lost revenue may be irreversible for the District of Columbia — a reality that influenced Congress’ decision to grant D.C. temporary budget autonomy.

According to Mayor Vincent Gray’s Senior Communications Manager Doxie McCoy, the economy of Washington, D.C., whose budget is funded by local taxpayer funds but controlled by the federal government, was substantially affected.

The D.C. metropolitan area, which includes D.C., Maryland and Virginia, lost $217 million, or 17.6 percent of the region’s economy, each day of the 16-day shutdown from lost or deferred federal and contractor wages. The District also lost $6 million each week in tax revenue.

Hotel revenue was down by $2 million from October 2012.

Because Wednesday evening’s deal only extended the debt ceiling to Feb. 7 and temporarily funded the federal government until Jan. 15, congressional leaders struck a deal with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) that granted the District government temporary budget autonomy until Sept. 30, 2014. This signifies unprecedented autonomy for D.C., allowing it to stay open and fund local services even if the federal government shuts down again in January.

“A boomerang solution putting D.C. back in the federal government’s fiscal mess in January was beyond unacceptable,” Norton said in a statement. “This authority to spend our local funds for the full fiscal year, although the federal government is open only through Jan. 15, 2014, is a historic first.”

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OPINION

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Taking the Pulse of GUSA

ast February, Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) campaigned with the ambition of unifying the student body.

Tisa and Ramadan aimed to expand student space, raise sexual assault awareness and combat stilted dialogue on the subject, create a single booking system for campus spaces, establish gender-neutral housing and expand student rights, namely by expanding the university’s free speech policy to include more free speech zones on campus. Indeed, free-speech emerged as the centerpiece of their platform.

Their campaign platform, while filled with small, specific proposals, centered more on long-term, largescale projects that may not realistically come to fruition within the limits of their term. More than any other pair running for the GUSA executive, Tisa and Ramadan emerged as the most forward-thinking and ambitious ticket — the one unafraid to tackle issues that seemed too ingrained in campus policy and identity to reform. A razor-thin victory last spring gave them the platform to pursue these goals.

A FAST-PACED SUMMER Last summer saw a particularly productive period for the GUSA executive. In particular, the Office of Campus Activity Facilities’ shift into the jurisdiction of the Office of Student Affairs — a key element of Tisa and Ramadan’s campaign — presented a major step forward in maximizing use of campus space.

The flexible summer schedule also presented an opportunity for members of GUSA to expand their efforts beyond the front gates by speaking out about federal student loan interest rates, which were set to double in July. In another commendable step, GUSA launched the Georgetown Student Tenant Association in late July as a means of training advocates to facilitate tenant-landlord communication. Taken together, these accomplishments highlight an active and effective summer for GUSA. INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE Tisa and Ramadan’s approach has been characterized by an emphasis on leveraging and maintaining relationships. Building on the approach of former GUSA executives Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), the current executive counts staying in tune with the “pulse” of Georgetown, as their campaign once phrased it, as one of its most important accomplishments.

They have placed value in individual GUSA staff members pursuing specific projects leverage their strong administrative connections to add weight to those initiatives.

In an effort to enact change beyond their single year in office, the GUSA executive has prioritized revamping institutional frameworks. These changes — be it bringing more student voices to the table in meetings with administrators or adding committees and four deputy chiefs of staff to the GUSA hierarchy — provide a laudable bolstering of staff organization.

INTERRUPTED AGENDA In late September, news of a potential off-campus housing option broke, seemingly out of nowhere. For Tisa and Ramadan, it may have come as less than a surprise, but IT was nonetheless a curveball in the narrative of their term.

Initially, student response was focused on the “One Georgetown, One Campus” campaign. The campaign seems to have generated enough noise for the administration to take heed: Two weeks ago it was announced that the university is formally exploring alternatives.

As the episode unfolded, the GUSA executive increased leadership both visibly and in behind-the-scenes work with administrators. Notably, despite the oppositional nature of the movement, their administrative relationships appear untarnished.

Questions remain about whether GUSA, as representatives of the student body, should have taken ownership of the campaign, but it is clear that the executives deemed it worthy of a large time investment, if not explicit institutional support. While unexpected events are inevitable, and while substantial action may have been necessary in this case, the executive must still be held accountable to their initial goals.

THE TIME TO REORIENT Tisa and Ramadan should take stock at this midterm and assess how to maximize their remaining four months in office. The first step will be to move beyond satellite housing. While the discussion of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement will remain relevant, the executive should now refocus its purview to equally relevant issues. In conjunction with their staff, Tisa and Ramadan have certainly accrued positive changes in their term so far, especially in building infrastructure. However, the content of these accomplishments could have been better correlated to the platform on which they ran.

Tisa and Ramadan have expended significant political capital on resistance to satellite housing. Their weight would now be well used in a return to their campaign’s pivotal promises: free speech and access to university benefits for groups such as H*yas for Choice. While recent strengthening of the Speech and Expression Committee is a start, it reflects little of the momentum or initiative the pair brought to the discussion of off-campus housing options. The campus’s speech policy, which has remained unedited for the past 24 years, presents an obvious opportunity for the GUSA executive to mobilize the student body. This is the type of university policy to which the power of referendum could be effectively applied.

Halfway through their term, Tisa and Ramadan have built a strong foundation, especially in the relationships they have been able to build and maintain across a variety of campus roles. Through force of personality and will, the two have built a powerful infrastructure.

While their administration has thus far been impacted by unexpected detours, it is now time make good on last February’s promises.

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THE VERDICT Popular Panda – Web users flocked back to the National Zoo’s online panda cam after it was turned back on Thursday morning, causing the site to crash periodically throughout the day.

Networking Time – D.C. officials will discuss expanding the city’s streetcar networks at a meeting with the Northern Virginia Streetcar Coalition and the Del Ray Business Association on Oct 24.

Big East Expectations – Georgetown was picked to finish second behind Marquette in the Big East preseason poll.

League of His Own – Men’s basketball player Markel Starks is one of five players named to the preseason all-Big East first team.

Happy Halloween – Real estate company Zillow counted D.C. in its top 10 cities for trick-ortreating in the country.

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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

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ere at Georgetown, the aim of contemplation is to further our self-understanding and thereby further our understanding of our role in the world. We seek to grasp what it means to be part of the places we call home. Here, in our second home, we learn about contemplation in action, a process wherein our inner reflection causes an outward impact on the world.

By looking within, we find the questions in our societies that need answering.

In many ways, the concept of contemplation in action relates back to the newly founded McCourt School of Public Policy. Funded by a $100 million gift from Frank McCourt Jr. (CAS ’75), the school aims to expand Georgetown’s presence in the changing landscape of public policy, especially through two arms: the Center for Global Politics and Policy and the Massive Data Institute.

These organizations have the utmost potential to apply new scientific and statistical processes in shaping the future of public policy.

This strikes me as a powerful allusion to the Jesuit ideal of contemplation in action. Foreign policy frequently dominates discussion on the Hilltop, especially within the School of Foreign Service. Public policy, on the other hand, is all about the questions at home. It’s about poverty, healthcare, social security and the other pivotal issues concerning our domestic well-being.

The McCourt School of Public Policy offers Georgetown the chance to apply its brainpower and creativity to problems right here at home. The United States narrowly averted a possible debt default and boasts a Social Security system on track to run out of funding.

These are just some of the pressing

Studying public policy can inform our foreign policy. questions that the McCourt School can take a lead role in addressing. Though these concerns are focused within our borders, we are not ignoring the world by exploring the questions of our own country.

Rather, I believe that we can best help others by first helping ourselves.

If we understand the underlying problems plaguing our own country, we can understand where we are as a nation, where we need to go and how we can get there. In doing this we can help show other countries how to confront their own problems as well. International relations are important, but domestic relations should be of equal concern. Collaborating about the debt ceiling, extinguishing crime waves in Chicago and fixing our public education system are possible if we invest time, willpower and contemplation.

Tools developed in public policy can then be applied to developing the policies of other struggling nations. Those who work to solve America’s crime problem can then help India with their city violence problems, while those figuring out a better system of American education can help nations in sub-Saharan Africa improve their educational systems.

In the future, as we return to a domestic focus through the McCourt School, we can apply what we learn about ourselves to how we interact with other nations. I envision a future in which the McCourt School of Public Policy and the SFS will complement each other in the best way possible.

With one looking within and one looking outwards, these two institutions can build on each other’s work to their mutual benefit.

I predict that the McCourt School will form a new set of men and women for others here at Georgetown: ambitious, informed, moral citizens poised to make a positive impact on our country and on the world. By envisioning our own future as a country, these students — and the rest of us — can better envision that of the world.

James Gadea is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. The Elephant in the Room appears every other Friday.

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t the end of Love Saxa’s lecture, “Marriage: A Social Justice Issue?” last week Director of Adult Faith Formation Ennio Mastroianni argued for the value of bringing Ryan Anderson -— who wrote a book opposing same-sex marriage -— to campus. “I think that we can all agree that Ryan made us think, and thinking is good,” Mastroianni said.

Even after having listened for an hour to a straight, cisgender male lecture a crowd of mostly white, cisgender individuals — cisgender meaning those whose sex and gender identities match — about why LGBTQ people shouldn’t be allowed to marry, it was this comment that most triggered my frustration.

I don’t get to “think” about the fact that I’m gay. Thinking doesn’t change the fact that Anderson’s arguments are used to keep LGBTQ people from gaining equal standing before the law and society. And my thoughts have no impact on the fact that when I hold hands with my date on campus, I may receive a hostile, and even physically abusive, response.

For my whole life, I have thought about whether or not I had a place within the Catholic faith tradition that I was raised in. I have thought about whether or not I was “sick,” and about if my desire to love and be with someone of my sex was a disease. I have “thought”, like far too many LGBTQ people, about killing myself because I allowed these toxic arguments to pollute my self-awareness and worth. “Thinking” about my identity that way could have killed me, and it kills many each year.

Despite claims from Love Saxa, Mastroianni and other proponents of traditional relationships that they want a dialogue over LGBTQ issues, the reality

Love Saxa’s recent events force those of us in the LGBTQ community to fight for our identities. is that such discussions are inherently unbalanced. It’s true it was somewhat satisfying watching Anderson execute some logical gymnastics while under fire from our questions. Conjugal unions can exist between heterosexuals because they create children … but count even when the partners are infertile? How do trans* people fit into this flat-out unreal 1950s concept of gender and sex as inextricably linked and along a strict binary?

As much as Anderson faltered at these questions, I’m sure that I, among other LGBTQ students, left the event more frustrated than Anderson or any member of Love Saxa. Why? Be-

cause we were fighting for our identities. We were threatened.

Debating identity is a nasty business because it usually involves a privileged group — in this case straight, cisgender individuals — justifying a system of oppression by finding fault with the oppressed minority. In this case, gay people can’t get married because they’re incapable of the same conjugal union that straight people can accomplish while drunk in a bathroom at Rhino.

The unacceptable nature of this discussion becomes obvious if you insert any other identity in place of an LGBTQ one. Would an event entitled “In-

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terracial Marriage: A Social Justice Issue?” or one featuring a speaker who authored a study called “Suboptimal Outcomes from Islamic Parenting,” be considered facilitating dialogue? I don’t think so. Those would be racist or Islamaphobic. So what about the LGBTQ identity makes this sort of discussion anything other than homophobic? Faith is more of a choice than sexual orientation. We’d do well to remember that there were once religious and secular cases made against interracial marriage.

Even regardless of these arguments, Love Saxa’s language has inarguably denigrated others. They seek to promote authentically loving relationships — that is, only those where sex takes place only when the partners are married. This sets up a dichotomy wherein those who have sex before marriage are not in “authentically” loving relationships. Because Love Saxa supports only a traditional conception of marriage, LGBTQ people have no place in their framework.

While LGBTQ students are those triggered and excluded by Love Saxa’s language, I can’t help but feel like the group is only hurting its own mission. Many queer people hate the hookup culture, too, and there is certainly a public health interest in combating it. Though I do not believe that chastity or fidelity alone make a relationship “authentic,” I do think that there is value in seeking authenticity. Going forward, I believe the question must be, “What does authenticity look like?” rather than, “Who is allowed to be authentic in the first place?”

Thomas Lloyd is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is president of GU Pride.

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‘No Comment’ Opens Critical Priorities Lost Door for Pushback In Debt-Limit Debacle

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e know that former women’s basketball Head Coach Keith Brown was allegedly verbally abusive. We know he resigned last Thursday. We just don’t know what Georgetown had to say about it.

As a former executive editor of The Hoya, I can commiserate with the current staff. The Georgetown spokespersons have been notoriously tight-lipped as long as recent memory serves. At times I understood their reticence; it would be imprudent for them to divulge details about ongoing negotiations for Department of Public Safety officers’ wages or a lawsuit waged against the university by an angry student.

“Decline to comment”s on these and other sensitive issues are defenses I can appreciate — though I tried hard to fight them.

There are two aspects that set the story about Brown’s investigation and resignation apart from these more understandable instances of evasiveness. The first is simply that it is related to sports information, one of the least sensitive pots that Georgetown has its fingers in.

The second is that this is information about an important investigation that was initiated by serious allegations and events. It is something that directly affects the Georgetown community, which deserves to know the information. The excuse university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr gave to The Hoya for why Georgetown is not planning to make the results of the investigation public — that it could prevent others from revealing similar concerns — is bizarre in that presumably insight into previous circumstances of alleged abuse, and the knowledge that the university has acted on them would encourage a questioning student to come forward.

I’m voicing concerns that I know the staff of The Hoya shares with me.

But it is for these reasons that The Hoya needs to redouble its efforts to push back when the Office of Communications resists. Its editors should not shy away from working to overcome exasperating equivocations in the face of what is clearly a story of campus-wide and national interest.

The Hoya reported that the university declined to make public the findings of the investigation and why two weeks passed between the initial complaint and the decision to place Brown on leave. The editorial staff should not accept this lack of accountability on the university’s part and should make stronger efforts to

pressure the Office of Communications for details on the university’s decisions, its course of action and the results of its investigation. The letter from the editors in the Oct. 4 issue was a great start, but clearly the university isn’t listening.

The Hoya cannot be the premier news source for Georgetown if it does not report the best story, and it cannot report the best story if it does not wrestle with the university.

The Hoya hit a roadblock when the normally communicative Athletics Department redirected inquiries on the investigation to the Office of Communications. I applaud The Hoya for contacting former players under Brown, but the search for sources need not stop there. That WJLA was able to learn more about the investigation indicates there were untapped fonts of information, including, perhaps, friends of current players, coaches who had previously worked with Brown, or even members of other teams. With outside information, The Hoya may even have leverage over the university to provide the details it wants.

There have been plenty of other news items in the past year about which the university has been maddeningly cagey for disappointingly inadequate reasons. But this story is too important to get tucked away into a short and unsavory chapter of the Athletics Department’s history. If The Hoya allows that to happen, we will never know how the university conducted a charged and high-profile investigation, and we will never know if that investigation is complete.

The drive to pierce the surface of a story and extract the truth is what makes a reporter a journalist. This must be forcefully attempted even in the face of the obstruction that is the Office of Communications. The Hoya owes this to the laborious hours it pours into its pages, and it owes this to its readers, who pick up the newspaper expectating that the words on each page represent exhaustive efforts to find and tell the truth.

One of The Hoya’s greatest and singular responsibilities is to keep Georgetown honest. One of the only ways for the newspaper to accomplish that is to push back against the “no comment”s and persevere toward the facts.

Let’s remember what makes a reporter a journalist.

Michele Hong graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 2010. She served as executive editor for The Hoya in the fall of 2008.

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hese past few weeks, Congress’ lation to bring common sense to the inability to find common ground system, the bill is dead in the water in has incurred national frustration. the House.

While this disappointment is justified, Finally, Democrats and Republicans it misses the forest for the trees. It’s true have long agreed that the loopholethat we’ve lurched from one fiscal crisis ridden tax code needs reform. Its nearly to another during the past few years. four million words are good for accounBut more importantly, a lack of prog- tants and tax lawyers but bad for pretty ress on every single domestic priority much everyone else. The bipartisan has left our country weaker at home Simpson-Bowles plan presented a credand less respected abroad. ible proposal to reduce loopholes and Fiscal crises, as this week has proven, lower rates. However, a Tea Party allergy are all eventually resolved, albeit in to new revenue has all but ended meana typically haphazard and imperfect ingful discussion on how to fix the tax way. Despite the protests of President structure.

Obama, Congress has always used Improving education, immigration spending bills and the debt ceiling as and the tax code aren’t particularly leverage in negotiations. In the 1980s, radical ideas, so striking agreement on House Democrats shut down the gov- them is not impossible. Richard Nixon ernment during a tiff with President was able to work with Democrats to Reagan over American support for reb- craft environmental regulation. Reaels in an obscure Nicaraguan civil war. gan worked with Democratic House The difference with Speaker Tip O’Neill today’s House Republi(D-Mass.) to patch the cans is that they have immigration system. focused on defunding Bill Clinton negotithe Affordable Care ated with Speaker Act. This is a goal that Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), conservative Republiover welfare reform. cans such as Sen. John Before getting stuck in McCain (R-Ariz.) flatly Iraq, George W. Bush acknowledge to be aligned with Sen. Ted Evan Hollander unachievable, which Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Speaker John Boehner No Child Left Behind. and his somewhat It’s our inability to America lacks chastened colleagues address core strucprogress on key have discovered. tural issues, not the In 2010, Republicans parade of fiscal deaddomestic issues. took control of the lines, that has weakHouse on the general promise to create ened the United States’ stature in the jobs and economic growth. Instead of world. When Obama had to opt out of improving education, fixing the bro- the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ken immigration system or overhaul- summit in order to deal with the squabing a lengthy and confusing tax code, bling children of Capitol Hill, it was no they have shown only one obvious surprise that our Asian partners quesenthusiasm: repealing the Affordable tioned American leadership.

Care Act. That’s unfortunate, because The president, to be sure, shares meaningful reforms in even one of some of the blame. He has done a poor these areas would provide a long-term job of explaining and defending his lift to economic growth. policies. Sometimes, he puts ideologiLet’s start with education. College cal purity ahead of a willingness to nestudents felt the impact of congres- gotiate. Still, Tea Party Republicans bear sional dysfunction this summer when the brunt of the blame. Having come student loan interest rates briefly dou- to Washington to shrink government, bled. For elementary, middle and high they seem determined to create failure. school students, the critical issue is No To them, compromise is a sign of weakChild Left Behind, the underfunded ness, not strength. and test-driven 2001 law for which reFortunately, the American people authorization has been consistently seem to be waking up. The fiscal battles delayed. Unfortunately, education re- of the past month have exposed the Reform has been hindered by political publican Party for what it has become: bickering, so progress on No Child Left an extreme faction that delights in the Behind seems unlikely. potential for economic ruin and halts The debate over immigration reform progress to promote purity. If Amerihas mostly focused on the plight of un- cans translate their newfound frusdocumented immigrants, undoubtedly tration into votes, then sanity can be a very serious moral issue. However, the restored on the Potomac. After all, 17 broken immigration system also im- more Democrats in Congress have the pairs our economy in other ways. Tech power to break the Tea Party fever. giants like Microsoft and Facebook are unable to employ talented workers who Evan Hollander is a senior in the could contribute to economic growth. School of Foreign Service. State of Although the Senate has passed legis- Play appears every other Friday.

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Facilties Shuts Down Flawed SWQ Alarms RYAN THOMAS

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The Southwest Quad has been experiencing major technical difficulties with its fire alarm system, with nine alarms going off between Sep. 25 and Oct. 11.

Although the specific cause for the malfunction is still unclear, the Office of Facilities has narrowed the problem down to low water pressure in the sprinkler system of the P1 floor of the parking garage, which is serviced by Loop One, one of 25 service loops between the hand-pull fire alarms, the smoke detectors, the sprinklers and other devices within the fire alarm system.

Loop One is primarily located in the mechanical rooms and stairwells of SWQ. “Within the building, there are over 900 devices, so we’re trying to track down the devices that we think are defective and replace them,” Vice President for Facilities and Planning Robin Morey said.

Morey stressed the complexity of the fire alarm system.

“There’s constant communication from a panel to the smoke detector on what’s happening, whether that’s heat detection, a hand pull, whatever,” Morey said. “These systems are constantly monitoring each other.”

To minimize the negative impact on the students residing in the three SWQ residence halls, the university took the automatic fire alarm activation system offline Oct. 11 and re-

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The fire alarm system in the Southwest Quad is currently offline due to technical difficulties.

placed it with a fire-watch system, conducted

by Department of Public Safety officers. During the fire watch, smoke alarms and fire alarms will not automatically activate an audible alarm, as usually occurs. Rather, a signal will immediately display on a continuously monitored control panel, and one of two patrolling officers in the building will be dispatched to confirm the emergency. This officer will then manually sound the alarm if there is reasonable cause.

According to Morey, the fire watch will remain in place until the automatic alarm system has been fixed.

“I want it to be completely clear that the building is totally protected, and the occupants are not in any danger,” Morey said. “Really, for us, it’s about having [officers] there 24/7 when they really don’t need to be. We need to get the system operating independently.”

Georgetown technicians are working closely with Seimens, the system manufacturer and maintenance provider, and the Protection Engineering Group, a professional engineering group specializing in fire safety. Morey reported that the technicians have already made significant progress.

“We’re getting closer,” Morey said. “I wouldn’t be responsible if I said we know what the problem is, but we found some issues yesterday in one of the mechanical rooms. We took them out of service, and the system stabilized. We’ve also found some other anomalies since then.”

Facilities will re-evaluate the situation Monday.

Students expressed displeasure with the alarms.

“The ones that went off in the afternoon were OK, but the ones that went off at 5 a.m., they’re really irritating,” Reynolds resident Sung Sun (COL ’14) said. “There were a lot of emails saying to listen to the alarms and get out, but I’m pretty sure a lot of people weren’t listening,” McCarthy resident Michelle Larson (NHS ’16) agreed.

“I never really knew if they were real or not, but as they started to happen more frequently, I started assuming they were fake,” Larson said. “It was actually dangerous — a lot of people weren’t leaving. We got a lot of emails saying to bear with them, but obviously it wasn’t a priority.”

SWQ residents have been receiving continuous informational emails from the Office of Planning and Facilities Management and the community directors of each of the residence halls.

“In each of those communications, students were reminded that an immediate evacuation is imperative anytime a fire alarm is activated,” Director of Residential Education Edward Gilhool said. “The health and safety of our residents is our highest priority.”

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A PETA tent on Healy Lawn this week advertised “free stuff” and then presented students with graphic images of factory farming to encourage veganism, to the dismay of some visitors.

PETA Exhibit Confounds ELAINA KOROS Hoya Staff Writer

A sign advertising free food attracted many students to a tent on Healy Lawn this week, but once inside, students were surprised by what they saw.

The tent, run by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ youth animal rights group peta2, was part of Glass Walls, an interactive exhibit on factory farms.

“I first noticed that they offered free food, so I walked over. Then, a PETA representative told me about factory farming really eagerly. When I walked inside the tent, I saw animal fur and blood,” School of Continuing Studies student Rose Wang said. “It was really scary.”

The chapter of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at the Georgetown University Law Center initiated contact with peta2, which has brought the Glass Walls exhibit to more than 60 campuses in the past year. The exhibit aimed to convert students to vegan lifestyles and featured educational panels, a pig gestation crate and a viewing of the documentary “Glass Walls,” which is narrated by Paul McCartney.

“The goal of the Glass Walls exhibit is to provide every student with the information and the inspiration that they need to go vegan,” Shannon Soper, a peta2 college campaign coordinator, said. “For some students, it’s the first time they really consider what it’s like for the animals only ever known as steak, bacon or nuggets.”

Though peta2 encouraged students to walk through the Glass Walls tent each day, volunteer Stephanie Maddux said that there was not as much interest at Georgetown as she saw on other campuses.

“Other campuses have been more busy, and we’ve gotten used to that, but we are trying our best to shoo people in,” Maddux said, referring to measures such as a sign that read “Make it through and get free stuff.”

Many students, however, quickly left the tent after experiencing the striking music, smells and darkness of the exhibit. Soper noted that the surprising nature of the exhibit intended to expose students to the realities of factory farms.

“You ask, ‘Should there be more warning before entering the exhibit?’ and we believe

there should be more warning before students bite into their burgers or chicken fingers,” Soper said.

Addie Lancianese (SFS ’17) also found the exhibit dramatic.

“I feel sorry for animals, but I’m taking a class on the Holocaust right now and I feel a little like they tried to parallel animal suffering with human suffering, but it’s remedial compared to what humans go through,” Lancianese said. “It’s an interesting concept, and I think it’s commendable, but I think it’s a bit scaremongering when it doesn’t need to be.”

Maddux said that the gruesome nature of the exhibit reflects the realities of factory farming and can incite students to make changes in their lives and their communities.

Jason Cardinali (COL ’17) appreciated the exhibit for its educational purposes.

“There is a lot more animal cruelty than I thought there was. I’ve been educated on this stuff before, but you sometimes need a reminder,” Cardinali said. “I’m not going to become a vegan or vegetarian because of this, but you definitely need to be careful with what you buy and consume.”

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Cab Drivers Sue Commission

Penny Hung Hoya Staff Writer

The Hoya sat down Tuesday with Fr. Ladislas Orsy, S.J., a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and an expert in canon law, to discuss William Peter Blatty’s (C ’50) petition asking Pope Francis to enforce conditions that would require Georgetown to meet the conditions of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, which sets out guidelines for Catholic colleges, or be stripped of the right to call itself a Catholic and Jesuit institution. Blatty’s petition, which contains over 200 pages of testimony, reached Pope Francis on Oct. 4. Below is an edited transcript of Orsy’s interview.

In a previous email, you had said that calling this a canon lawsuit is incorrect, even though the media has been referring to it by that name. Why is that?

I would call it a letter to the bishop or a letter to the pope. It is not an official lawsuit — there is no room in canon law for lawsuits. The confusion, I think, comes from the fact that in American law, you can sue and have standing in a court of law if you belong to an association and when you feel that the association is not doing what it is supposed to do. For example, if you felt that the dean [of Georgetown] was abusing his power, you would have standing in a court of law to sue, probably even for damages. There is no such thing in the Catholic Church.

What does it mean to “remove” a university’s Catholic designation? Can that actually be done?

If a group decides to call itself Catholic, that term is not a copyright. The bishop can say, “In my judgment, I do not think that this organization represents Catholic views,” but that does not affect whether the organization can call itself Catholic.

Besides, the official title of Georgetown is “Georgetown University,” not “Georgetown Catholic University.” ... This problem is so unreal. It is something like the president forbidding someone from calling themself American because they are not behaving like an American. ... This is outside the purview of the Church.

Can you briefly explain the role Ex Corde Ecclesiae plays in defining a Catholic university?

The Ex Corde is ... it is not primarily leg-

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Canon law expert Fr. Ladislas Orsy, S.J., is a visiting professor at the Law Center. islative. Say if we said it was a 50-page document. About 45 of those pages are describing what a Catholic university should be like ... like an ideal. ... Five pages are more legislative, but still a mix between guidelines and legislative steps. There are a few set rules or guidelines that should be followed. For example, it says that the president of a Catholic university should be voted on by the board of trustees and agreed upon by the Vatican. But overall, the Ex Corde is describing an ideal.

What do you think the pope’s response will be? What will happen?

Every single individual is perfectly entitled to send correspondence to the pope, but he is not bound to answer to anything.

By courtesy, he will probably send acknowledgement of receiving the correspondence, but there is nothing in the canon law that requires him to do so. … Most likely, the pope will send it back to the archbishop. ... This is all hypothesis — it is all very hypothetical — but I do not think that the archbishop will publicly declare [that the university is not Catholic]. Of course, he can always say so, but there may be many who do believe that the university is Catholic enough, and it might divide the community.

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Special to The Hoya

Five taxicab drivers are suing the District Government of D.C. in a class action lawsuit in response to the city’s decision to mandate credit card readers and a new standardized rooftop informational dome light for all cabs.

The lawsuit was filed Oct. 9 by lawyer Billy Ponds, who is representing drivers Choudhary Azam, Tariq Mahmood, Waleed Mohammed, Ahmed Djebbour and Mohammed Akram, seeking an exemption from the regulations for a class of as many as 2,000 drivers.

The lawsuit alleges that the D.C. Taxicab Commission is violating the constitutional rights of drivers and passengers through the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Taxicab drivers were required to have installed the Modern Taximeter System, which includes driver identification, GPS tracking and a credit card reader, and dome lights by Oct. 1, after which point non-complying taxicabs would be impounded and fined. This was the third extension granted to taxicab drivers, 120 days after the original June 1 deadline.

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Taxi drivers question the Modern Taximeter System.

The plaintiffs, however, argue that the problem with the MTS is not the time frame or the deadline, but rather the policy itself.

First, the lawsuit claims that the new dome lights are a form of age and disability discrimination. Under the previous system, the lights had the option of showing “Taxi” or “Call 911,” and a button within the cab would make the “Call 911” sign flash when the driver was in distress, medically or otherwise, alerting passerby to call emergency services. The new lights, however, can only be operated by a device that is located on the dome light on the roof of the vehicle and does not include a “Call 911” sign.

“The fact that you have to turn it on and off outside — that’s not even safe,” Bereket Araia, a D.C. taxicab driver who has worked in D.C. for four years, told WTOP. There is an alternative dome light that can be operated from within the taxicab, but the lawsuit claims that it is much more expensive.

“The new dome light requirement presents a cost prohibitive imposition upon the taxicab drivers with a disability and presents an employment obstacle because of the higher cost of the proper equipment to accommodate their disability,” the lawsuit reads.

In addition, the plaintiffs claim that the dome light would make operations difficult for all drivers over 40 years of age. All plaintiffs are older than 40.

Although DCTC spokesperson Neville Waters declined to comment on the lawsuit to The Hoya, he told Washingtonian magazine that the new dome lights are connected to the MTS, which can send emergency alerts directly to the D.C. Office of Unified Communications.

The lawsuit also finds fault with the MTS’ GPS tracking system, which collects trip data for all rides on a smart chip. According to the lawsuit, the smart chip reveals the identity of passengers that pay by credit card or

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debit card, as well as their pickup and drop-off locations, which it claims is an unreasonable encroachment of the Fourth Amendment’s definition of the natural right of privacy. The MTS will also have real-time tracking of the taxi’s location at any time.

Another complaint is that, in addition to any charges from the payment service providers themselves, the drivers must pay an additional 25 cent surcharge to DCTC for each cash or credit card transaction, which the lawsuit labels a “draconian measure.” If the driver does not pay this surcharge within a designated period of time, DCTC will automatically deduct the amount due from the driver’s account. If the account has insufficient funds, DCTC will turn off the driver’s meter, preventing him from picking up any passengers.

“If I make a mistake and press this button [to start a fare], I’m paying for a fare I didn’t collect,” Araia told WTOP. The lawsuit claims that no privately or publicly traded businesses in Washington, D.C., are subject to this type of automatic payment to a D.C. agency. In addition, no other D.C. agencies automatically download all financial transaction records from any businesses in the area. The plaintiffs say these regulations are a violation of the Equal Protection Clause under the Fifth Amendment.

This lawsuit is the latest step in an ongoing battle between taxicab drivers and the DCTC regarding the MTS, which was a large step in the DCTC’s effort to modernize the District’s taxicabs.

According to the Associated Press, Mayor Vincent Gray deemed the lawsuit “disappointing and misguided.”

The lawsuit’s hearing was originally scheduled for today, but with the federal government’s recent shutdown, it has been delayed.

Ponds, the lawyer on the case, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Law Student Stabbed After 5 Years, RIG Cancelled To Death by Friend RIG, from A1

STABBING, from A1 Bours said that he had no knowledge of any cheating and added that the statement did not make sense because all three people were in the studio apartment at the same time.

“That did not happen. I have no idea how they got that or how they attribute him to saying that,” Bours told WJLA. “There’s got to be confusion on somebody’s part.”

Gupta’s girlfriend, who has thus far been unnamed, told police that she did not remember anything in the apartment after taking multiple shots of alcohol. According to the police, Gupta also made conflicting reports at the time of his arrest, asserting at one time that Waugh tried to kill him. Gupta was uninjured.

“We’re still trying to piece together what happened in that apartment,” Montgomery County Police Captain Jim Daly told Gazette.net.

Georgetown Police Chief Jay Gruber called the killing tragic.

“I know alcohol was involved,” Gruber said. “It’s very hard to give advice to avoid a situation like that. It was a crime of passion and a very sad event.”

Waugh and Gupta were childhood friends who attended Langley High School in McLean, Va., together. Prior to attending Georgetown University Law Center, Waugh graduated magna

cum laude from James Madison University in 2012 and spent a year teaching debate in South Korea. At Georgetown, Waugh had just been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honors society.

“Everyone was Mark’s friend,” Michael Davis, a friend and professor to Mark at JMU, wrote in an email.

“Mark set the bar for what it means to be completely and totally committed to each other. He set a standard that was impossible to live up to.”

Tuesday’s hearing, held in the Montgomery County District Court, focused on Gupta’s $2 million jail bond, which Bours had asked to be lowered to $50,000.

“I believe the evidence will ultimately show that he has a valid defense,” Bours said in court. “It’s particularly tragic for someone who has a defense and who has a promising career and a proven track record at school to be held on a bond of this amount.”

Judge William Simmons, however, declined the request, and Chaikin disagreed that Gupta’s record should have any relevance to his bail requirement.

“All these facts, and this wonderful resume and background, were a different time period in this defendant’s life,” Chaikin said in court. “He’s on a different path now.”

high-quality impact.”

Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union CEO Chris Kelly (COL ’14) pointed to logistical challenges the added responsibility of RIG created.

“I think the challenge is that you take some of the busiest people on campus, and you add on another responsibility,” he said.

“It’s extremely worthwhile, but it was a little difficult to carry out.”

Past RIG success stories include the Georgetown University Farmers Market, established in spring 2011. The Corp and GUASFCU incorporated the project into their philanthropy initiatives, and The Hoya provided marketing and an advertisement avenue.

The representatives of each organization who comprised the RIG committee changed each year, which posed a challenge.

“When the people who are leading these initiatives graduate, you do lose some type of institutional memory,” Hollander said. “You have to make an extra

effort for partnerships.”

RIG grants were disbursed with a one-time-only condition, meaning grant recipients could not reapply for funds. Winter Hoyaland received $2,000 last year to furnish Healy Circle with Christmas decorations, and many of the decorations will be reused this year.

“They were full disclosure going into it that it was a one-time grant and they directed me to other grants, like the GUSA grant … there was full disclosure that we couldn’t get more grants,” Winter Hoyaland founder Chris Yedibalian (COL ’13) said.

Short-term initiatives like Illuminate Lauinger, which received $1,000 to add artwork and other decoration to Lauinger Library, have found success through RIG, even if they have not yet followed through entirely.

The Corp and GUASFCU plan to reallocate their funds from RIG to other grants and scholarships.

GUASFCU introduced a test preparation grant this year that provides free tutoring for graduate school entry standardized

tests and plans to add a summer school scholarship. The Corp is currently unsure of how it will reallocate its funds.

“We take our philanthropy pretty seriously,” MacGill said.

“We give about $60,000 back to the community. We felt like we could do more by using that money to create a new scholarship, maybe even one that funds a particular aim that we’re trying to accomplish this year.”

Despite the discontinuation of RIG, Kelly stressed the importance of creativity and innovation on campus.

“There’s always a ton of room, especially at Georgetown, for funding for innovation. I think right now we’re kind of in a rebuilding phase,” Kelly said.

“Whether or not we team up again with The Corp remains to be seen, but at this point we’re just trying to figure out what didn’t work and move from there.”

Hoya Staff Writer Mallika Sen contributed reporting.

DC Gains Budget Autonomy in Shutdown SHUTDOWN, from A1 emphasized the importance of this increase in autonomy, a step that District leaders have been seeking for the last few years.

“Traditionally, the Congress has held the District’s reins tight, even regarding how D.C. could spend its own money,” Rom said. “Gaining the authority to fund programs with the District’s own money, as it sees fit, is a pretty big step toward taxation with representation.”

During the shutdown, Gray was able to continue funding District operations by declaring all employees as “essential” and tapping into the District’s $144 million contingency fund in an unprecedented move. This allowed general services, such as garbage collection and the Metro, to continue running, but Gray reported that the fund was only enough to last through the end of October.

“This is uncharted territory for us,” Gray said during the press conference.

“We don’t want the story to become that we did something that was inappropriate.”

Georgetown University College Democrats President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) criticized Republican tactics, which he blamed for the shutdown.

“All the Republicans have accomplished has been to shut down the government and rattle the financial markets in order to score political points with their constituents,” Tezel said. “It’s relieving that a deal has been struck, but we cannot continue to govern from crisis to crisis. Hopefully, this signals to the Republican Party that they cannot let the fringe elements in their caucus dictate policy in the future.”

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publicans Communications Manager Tim Rosenberger (COL ’16), however, praised Republican leaders for compromising by sacrificing their ultimate goals.

“We are so proud to have leaders like Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell in our party,” Rosenberger said.

“It takes the kind of selfless leadership they embodied in this latest round of negotiations to govern effectively. Republicans got very little in this deal, and thus, understandably, many were opposed. That being said, many put returning the government to functioning ahead of other concerns and reached an effective compromise.”

Overall, Tezel and Rosenberger agreed that increased budget autonomy for D.C. is an important step in the right direction.

“A year of budget autonomy will be very healthy for the District, and we apMARK ROM plaud Norton for her Goverment Professor hard work on behalf of her constituents,” Rosenberger said.

Tezel added that he hoped this would set a new precedent for District rights.

“In terms of budget autonomy, this not only makes practical sense under a federal government that is being funded through a continuing resolution, it makes sense to give this right to D.C. residents as well,” Tezel said.

“Congress should have no role in determining the budget for a city whose constituents they are not electorally responsible to. Hopefully, this is the first step in the long road to greater District autonomy.”

Norton agreed.

“Residents must see more than a reprieve from this year’s serial federal shutdown brinks,” Norton said in a statement. “We must now make use of the damage done by moving on all fronts for full budget autonomy.”

“[This] is a pretty big step toward taxation with representation.”

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Esteban Garcia (SFS ’15) holds GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) during Coming Out Day in Red Square last Friday. The event was part of the group’s month-long celebration of OUTober.

GU Pride Comes Out for OUTober Jennifer Ding Special to The Hoya

GU Pride’s OUTober is taking on the intersection of sexuality and socioeconomic factors in its month-long celebration of LGBTQ identity.

GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) said that this year’s focus on socioeconomics is intended to broaden OUTober’s appeal to a larger community.

“On a basic level, we engage everyone at Georgetown, but the reason why [OUTober is] important for Georgetown as an institution is by raising awareness about the LGBTQ community, you fight back against things that weren’t as public five years ago, like violence against gay students,” he said.

At an event last Wednesday, “Beyond Gay Marriage: Race, Class and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement,” six panelists discussed how other factors, like immigrant status, class and race, affect the LGBTQ community.

One of the panelists, Kimberley McLeod (COL ’09), urged students to embrace multiple sides of their identities. McLeod is the founder and editor-in-chief of Elixher, an online magazine catering to the black female queer community.

By accepting her identity as a black lesbian, McLeod said she is

able to embrace her individuality.

“I exist as a totality of who I am,” McLeod said.

The panelists also said that the gay movement should support causes beyond gay marriage. Panelist Urooj Arshad, who advocates for the LGBTQ community in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, talked about how homosexuals face violence and discrimination.

Sticking with traditional OUTober events, students walked through a door in Red Square on Coming Out Day last Friday, allowing them to “come out” as LGBTQ or an ally.

PBS, which produces a Religion and Ethics newsweekly, filmed the event for an episode exploring the identities of Catholic colleges. According to Lloyd, PBS wanted to investigate the balance Georgetown achieved as a Catholic institution that has such an active and vibrant LGBTQ community.

Celeste Chisholm (COL ’15), the trans* representative for GU Pride, appreciated the distinctive balance.

“We are a Catholic school, and the fact that we can do something like this, I think, is indicative of a lot of understanding between two traditionally polarized groups,” Chisholm said. “I think doing that allows a conversation

to be started and it also sets a precedent for other schools like ours.”

Pride started planning the month-long program last April and had speakers lined up over the summer with some support and funding from the LGBTQ Center.

Lloyd said that during OUTober, Pride had to be aware of other events occurring simultaneously that affected the LGBTQ community. He specifically cited Love Saxa events this month that brought speakers whom Lloyd described as homophobic.

“During OUTober, we have to have a heightened sensitivity towards events that happen during the same time,” Lloyd said. “Because it took place during OUTober, Pride had to have a presence.

You can’t let that sort of speaker go when it’s our month.”

Lloyd expressed his hope that students will glean a sense of understanding from OUTober.

“By having some of the events about different identities, I hope students get a fuller understanding about themselves,” Lloyd said.

“I think that our focus for OUTober is very Jesuit in that we’re forcing people to engage all aspects of their identity and focus on unpacking the intersections of those identities.”

Halfway Through Term, Tisa and Ramadan on Course MIDTERM, from A1 Tisa and Ramadan also said that addressing access to benefits and space costs has replaced their original plan to divide the Student Activities Commission into specialized boards based on the nature of their constituent student groups.

During the GUSA executive election in February, running mates Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14), a former SAC chair, and Maggie Cleary (COL ’14) proposed to overhaul the entire student activities funding system. Tisa and Ramadan oppose such action.

Appelbaum, who now serves as GUSA’s director of student space, maintains that an overall funding reform could benefit student groups but noted that such reforms would require extensive efforts from the current GUSA executives.

“I think parts of the funding system still need reform. I still think campuswide there can be significant reform, and it can have a real positive impact on student life, but it’s not something that

you can snap your fingers and it happens,” Appelbaum said. “I think it’s just how they prioritized things. It wasn’t a priority for them. That was just a difference in philosophy we had.”

Not all campaign initiatives advanced as planned. Tisa, the first openly gay student body president at Georgetown, made advocacy for gender-neutral housing a focus of his campaign but has encountered strong resistance from the university since taking office.

“It’s been very challenging personally as the first LGBT president to run into the fact that for reasons external to the well-being of the students, the university is very resistant to the idea of mixed-gender housing. That is probably a generational persuasion battle,” Tisa said.

Pushing for extension of “clear and convincing” as the burden of proof for Code of Student Conduct violations in off-campus incidents has also been difficult. As it stands now, off-campus incidents are still judged by the “more likely than not” evidentiary standard that

governed on-campus infractions before last fall.

According to Tisa, the neighborhood has pursued harsher sanctions against noise violations.

“Next to gender-neutral housing, this is the only other issue that has been frustrating for us, because the neigh-

“Students underestimate what we’re capable of doing.

ADAM RAMADAN (SFS ’14) GUSA Vice President

borhood-relation and campus-plan situation has not been friendly to us getting this kind of basic protection to off-campus students,” Tisa said.

In addition to checking off several projects, including extending composting and recycling programs in all on-campus apartments, starting development of a Georgetown bike share pro-

gram, adding the Code of Student Conduct to the Georgetown mobile app and compiling a document with centralized resources for students with disabilities, Tisa and Ramadan have also helped oversee the completion of several initiatives inherited from their predecessors.

The Mission and Ministry Report, which began last fall, is in its last stages and the Office of Sustainability, an initiative that former GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President Vail KohnertYount (SFS ’13) pushed for, was launched this summer.

GUSA has also seen an expansion of service to a wider student population through new cabinet positions.

Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Peterson (COL ’14) attributed the success of completing numerous projects to the working structures of the GUSA executive.

“Some of the secretaries who have been the most successful are the ones who have roles in other areas. Each of our staff [members] work closely and provide them the resources and connec-

tions for the ideas and projects that they already feel empowered to work on,” Peterson said.

Overall, Tisa emphasized that his greatest priority is ensuring the university hears students’ voices.

“The value of student input has proven itself and moving forward we will see a permanent shift where student input isn’t an option or something you do when you’re in trouble,” Tisa said. “It’s something that you do in the beginning.”

Ramadan, who called himself a “GUSA outsider” during the executive campaign last spring, said he has recognized that student government can be relevant to student life.

“Collectively as a block, students underestimate what we’re capable of doing and maybe that contributed to why I chose to get involved in many other things while never choosing to pursue GUSA,” Ramadan said. “I see now what the students have the capacity in doing things. Now, it’s just a matter of getting more students aware of that.”

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Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor presented 11 newly tenured faculty members and six new full professors at a ceremony in Gaston Hall on Tuesday.

11 Faculty Receive Tenure Jennifer Ding Special to The Hoya

Eleven newly tenured faculty and six faculty members promoted to full professor were honored at the Fall Faculty Convocation in Gaston Hall Tuesday.

For some newly tenured faculty, reaching this threshold has been a long-standing goal.

“I’ve been seeking tenure since I was 20, in the sense that I’ve known that I’ve wanted to be an academic since I was 20,” psychology professor Abigail Marsh said.

For others, getting tenured was just an eventual part of the teaching process.

“There are people who see the end goal of getting tenure, but if you’re really committed to the job and really enjoy what you’re doing, it’s something that happens along the way,” professor Bryce Huebner, who received tenure in the philosophy department, said.

The long process of receiving tenure starts with getting put on the tenure track, compiling a portfolio of publications, teaching evaluations and service done to the university, presenting letters of support from prominent scholars in the same field and receiving department approval.

Then, a candidate’s portfolio reaches the Rank and Tenure Committee, which chooses candidates to present to University President John J. DeGioia, who grants final approval.

Executive Vice President and Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center William Treanor presented the newly tenured faculty who completed this process, and DeGioia bestowed the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers to Der-Chen Chang, professor of mathematics and statistics, and pathology professor Richard Schlegel on Tuesday.

Along with job security, tenure provides other benefits for faculty.

“By having job security, you’re allowed to pursue lines of inqui-

ry that you think are important and interesting without fear that you’ll be penalized if your research is politically unpopular,” said Marsh, who conducts behavioral research and neuroimaging using fMRIs that looks at different kinds of emotional processes in an attempt to understand the origins of aggression and altruism in humans.

Huebner agrees with the importance of academic freedom and how it allows tenured faculty to question existing dogmas.

“I think that’s really important in academia, especially because the university should be designed to help people learn how to question things and call authority into question,” he said.

Full professors are given greater responsibilities within the department than tenured associate professors, like deciding the promotion of their colleagues, and in general, are awarded more acknowledgements.

Anna De Fina of the Italian department, a new full professor, anticipates the greater amount of freedom that comes along with the promotion.

“I’m looking forward to a level of freedom because I don’t have to demonstrate that I am able to do this or that. I have greater choice; I can do things slowly. If I write a book, I don’t have that deadline, like if it doesn’t come out by such and such date, I won’t get tenure or I won’t get a promotion,” De Fina said.

Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, a psychology professor, has noticed that her teaching has seen the indirect impact of her receiving tenure.

“With teaching, pre-tenure, there are so many things competing for your attention; in particular, you’re worried, you’re stressed about the big step and so I think with that off my plate, I have much more resources to dedicate to students, even though I’m objectively busier, but I’m less stressed by having to take that major step,” Chentsova-Dutton said.

Government professor Hans

Noel, newly tenured, said that receiving tenure allows for more time to focus on creativity in the classroom.

“I can say, alright, this semester, I’m not worried about publishing anything, I’ll just get creative with this class and see what happens, so it’s liberating in that sense,” Noel said.

For both Marsh and history professor Michael David-Fox, the news of their promotions brings a feeling of relief.

“To be frank, I’m looking forward to not ever having to be promoted again. That’s the last time you have to go through these kinds of hurdles,” DavidFox said. “It’s kind of a nice feeling; you’ve gotten to the highest rank you can get and you can continue to do your work and do what you love doing.”

De Fina hopes that there will be better communication between the university and potential full professors on the processes that need to be taken for promotion.

“I wonder whether there will be a better description for people at Georgetown as to what they’re expected to do.” she said. “I understand that you can’t really put numbers or very specific details, but maybe the university could think of a forum or a website or something that collects the information and directs people towards what they need to do to become full professors.”

Chentsova-Dutton, who came to the United States as a high school exchange student during the collapse of the Soviet Union and did not know if she could attend college, keeps her tenure letter above her desk as a reminder of how far she has come.

“Having gone from not knowing and scrambling money by babysitting to go to community college to being given this position this position at Georgetown University, these kinds of moment make you realize the distances you’ve traveled,” Chentsova-Dutton said.

MSFS Lends Mentorship Suzanne Monyak Special to The Hoya

After a lackluster run last year, Georgetown Women in International Affairs is reviving its mentorship program by expanding its offerings to juniors and seniors.

The program will partner undergraduates interested in international affairs with female graduate students in the School of Foreign Service for lectures, workshops and networking events.

“We think it has great potential,” Women Leading Through Mentorship Planning Committee member Lindsey Hutchison (GRD ’15) said.

GWIA Co-President Jessica Majno (GRD ’14) stressed the importance of strong mentormentee relationships in the field of international affairs, citing the decision of moving abroad for a job.

“I have found having people to talk to that have been through those similar situations has been incredibly valuable, to talk about all those things, talk about careers, talk about school, talk about life,” Majno said.

In a field largely dominated by men, women often find themselves in uncomfortable situations when working in foreign countries that are less friendly toward women.

“I think that it still is some-

times difficult for women to work in international affairs depending on what part of the world it is, and sometimes in the United States as well, and I would have really benefited a lot from any advice an older woman could have given me from her experiences,” Hutchison said.

Hutchison added that she wished that she could have participated in a similar program as an undergraduate

“I would have really benefitted a lot from any advice an older woman could have given me.”

LINDSEY HUTCHISON (GRD ’15) Women Leading Through Mentorship Member

student.

“I think it’s always really important to be able to have a person in your life that can give you advice and who you can learn from, and also I think it would be a great experience for us as graduate women to be able to provide that for undergrads,” Hutchison said.

Majno agreed.

“I think as much as women have made great strides in their position in the profes-

sional field, and particularly in the field of international affairs, there’s still a ways to go,” Majno said. “We’re still not consistently among the top positions. The proportions are still in the favor of men.”

Women Leading Through Mentorship is currently limited to female participants, and interested students must fill out a survey, due Oct. 19, that will match them to a graduate student with similar interests. The survey covers academic interests, future career aspirations and regional interests, as well as languages.

“You want to get two people who can relate but can also challenge each other,” planning committee member Sarah Ewing (GRD ’15) said.

Each student pair will most likely meet a few times for coffee or similar activities, but the exact time commitment is entirely up to the students.

“It’s really what you make of it, how much you can put into it, and I think that even a little bit of time would be really beneficial,” Hutchison said.

Majno said that she hoped to see more female graduate students get involved, take up mentoring roles and engage the community in service.

“It’s an opportunity for me to give back to the Georgetown community,” Majno said.

“What Professor Holtom has taught me is that in order to affect the world outside, you have to understand the world within. And so he would make us do things like ‘what do we value,’ ‘what makes us tick,’” O’Driscoll said.

“Themes start to emerge throughout your life, and when you see those themes, you identify who you are, and when you identify who you are, you can stand for something, and when you stand for something that is when you have the first seeds of leadership.”

Holtom’s focus on passion has led the students to choose projects that are individually meaningful.

Jack Schumacher (MSB ’15) and his partner Max Allen (MSB ’15) are working to raise money for organizations including the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team and the Honor Flight Network, which invites World War II veterans for tours around Washington, D.C. Schumacher spent six years in the military, and during his time in Afghanistan, he was severely wounded, leading to the loss of his leg.

“While I was recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, I saw how much of an impact small groups such as the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team truly had on returning veterans,” Schumacher said.

Because Allen is also on the Georgetown baseball team, the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team was a way for the two to express their passions simultaneously.

Previous projects have also made an impact, according to Holtom. One student started a project to help homeless people find jobs by provid-

ing resume-writing workshops and helping with interviewing techniques. By the end of the project, half of the participating group had gotten jobs for the Christmas season. Holtom said that this creativity in solving real world issues is effective leadership.

Holtom emphasizes introspection in the class because he believes the characteristics of a leader are very individual.

“I can’t tell you what a good leader looks like,” Holtom said. “You have to determine what you want to be as a leader and some people want to be a leader in their home, that’s great, some people want to be a leader in their community, some people want to lead the free world.”

Holtom further emphasized the role of passion and interest in leadership and entrepreneurship.

“Great entrepreneurs are born of passion. It’s not just a job, you have to have something you care about personally,” he said.

Holtom refuses to take credit for the successes of the projects and the students in the course.

However, students said that Holtom’s guidance helps them develop their leadership skills.

“He definitely has a big role in the success of the class,” Matthew Hickey (MSB ’14) said. “Everyone that I’ve talked to just rants and raves about him.”

Hickey is working to establish a skin cancer awareness initiative at Georgetown for his project.

The initiative kicked off its first skin cancer awareness week on Monday.

“I think just from a personal and human level, he really gives you inspiration and lets you find your own direction,” Schumacher said. “I want to be in the classroom, I want to hear what he has to say because he really does inspire me personally.”

A Lasting Career Comes Later for Millennials Molly Simio

Special to The Hoya

Over the last 30 years, the job market has gone through a fundamental shift, with young adults taking longer to settle into lasting careers and older adults taking longer to retire — a phenomenon the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce examined in a recent report.

The Sept. 30 report entitled “Failure to Launch: Structural Shift and the New Lost Generation,” showed that while previous models of employment have assumed entry into the job market at age 18 and exit at age 65, this range has been continually shifting toward older workers, particularly those who work in white-collar occupations and have a college degree.

In 1980, the average age to begin earning the nation-wide median wage was 26, compared to 30 in 2012. In addition, older adults are staying in the labor market longer, earning higher wages and accumulating more wealth than they did 30 years ago.

According to CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, one of the report’s co-authors, the fact that older workers are staying in the job market longer is not the cause of job shortages for recent graduates.

“If you’re in a job and you’re 65, the person you’re crowding out of that job is probably 55, not 25,” Carnevale said.

Rather, the increasingly longer time period required by young adults to settle into careers has been caused by a fundamental change in the structure of the labor market.

“The on-ramp [into the labor market] has become longer,” Carnevale said. “It’s more difficult.

It requires increased educational attainment in order to get access to learning on the job and training on the job.”

Employers are demanding increased education and skill levels from employees than what they did 30 years ago because of the nation’s shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. According to the report, as technological innovations have replaced tasks that required human labor prior to 1980, employees have had

to increasingly demonstrate expanded skill sets in order to compete for work.

While this change has increased the value of a college degree, it has also exacerbated the differences among college majors. Workers with lowerlevel degrees in higher-paying fields like science, technology, engineering and mathematics often earn more than people with higher-level degrees in less valuable fields.

According to Cawley Career Education Center Executive Director Michael Schaub, however, Georgetown alumni have shown a strong ability to adapt, regardless of their courses of study or their degrees. Schaub attributed this to Georgetown’s strong liberal arts education.

“Georgetown students can enter into almost any field with almost any major,” Schaub wrote in an email. “One advantage of a strong liberal arts education is the ability to be adaptable across job functions and industries during challenging economic times.”

In addition, the report also showed that women and minorities were more likely to choose college majors that traditionally lead to lower-paying jobs, while those who did choose majors targeted toward high-paying careers often still served in low-paying jobs.

As a result, there is a persistent wage gap between these groups and white men, but men have been most heavily impacted by the changes in the job market. Prior to 2000, 70 percent of workers tended to have, at most, high school degrees, and most of these workers were middleclass men who took blue-collar jobs that paid very well but did not require college degrees.

From 2000 to 2012, however, the employment rate for men between the ages of 26 and 30 dropped from 80 percent to 65 percent, while the rate for women in the same age range only dropped 6 percentage points from 56 percent to 50 percent.

In response to such changes in the job market, the report advocates for better preparation for young adults’ transition into the workforce, such as learning to balance work and education at an early stage in order to accelerate a move into a fulltime career.

BUSINESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013

COMMENTARY

Marley Kaplan

To Stand Out, Find Your Niche

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FIND A MENTOR Maybe it’s a professor or that senior executive at your last internship. It doesn’t have to be as formal as a marriage proposal, just keep communication open with the person whose advice you respect and admire.

This person might change over time, as it has for me. Starting my career in the advertising industry in London after grad school there, I found people to reach out to in order to learn about their journey and how I could reach their level in the ad world.

Upon returning to New York, the startup tech community was calling my name, and I have since found a new group of professionals I respect and look to for advice on my new path. As you sense your goals shift

When people realized they can change the world through a startup, the D.C. startup ecosystem was born. through trial and error, you will realize new role models for yourself whom you can look up to for mentorship.

BECOME AN EXPERT ON YOUR SUBJECT The economy is heading towards niche markets in every sector. Even if you don’t end up living off of your own business directly after finishing your degree, knowing an area on an expert level is extremely beneficial to your career. Be that person in the room whom they defer to for advice on your subject. You can even self-publish a book in today’s technological era. With the click of a button, you can share your views with that expert perspective. The world is now calling for quality over quantity — own it.

LOOK INTO PROGRAMS TO TAKE YOUR IDEA TO THE NEXT LEVEL If you’ve already gotten an idea off the ground and think you’re ready to take your business to the next level, there are many ways to expand upon your startup. First Round Capital has a fund run by students for students, called the Dorm Room Fund.

This fund allows for students to get started on their businesses at an early stage with access to capital and mentorship. Reza Chowdhury, (GRD ‘07) CEO of NY Startup Lab, which works with early stage entrepreneurs shares, “Students now have a growing and supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem, both within and outside of academia, available to them that they should take full advantage of while they are determining their future career paths.”

Enjoy this time for exploring your thoughts during schooling. Take advantage of it and try out entrepreneurship — whatever the word means to you.

MARLEY KAPLAN is founder of mkThinkTank, a consulting agency that advises brands on how to navigate the emerging technology startup landscape.

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Leadership Initiatives, a nonprofit founded by Marshall Bailly, partners with professor Sarah Stiles to recruit interns to advise small business owners in Nigeria. The nonprofit’s loans provide an alternative to joining terrorist group Boko Haram, a popular choice for many Nigerians.

Nonprofit Counters Terror With Jobs AARON LEWIS

Special to The Hoya

When Marshall Bailly founded Leadership Initiatives as an undergraduate at American University, he never imagined he would still be managing the nonprofit nine years later.

But nearly a decade after its founding in 2004, Leadership Initiatives is still successfully funding entrepreneurial ventures in Nigeria.

Rather than donating money, food or medicine to struggling communities, the nonprofit partners with communities by financing small businesses. Loan recipients pay back local investors at a modest 12.5 percent interest rate.

“Leadership Initiatives works with the community to build up the community,” Bailly said of the nonprofit, which has started

more than 40 businesses in Nigeria. “We changed the way people live their lives.”

Leadership Initiatives has been able to provide an alternative lifestyle for young men and women who might otherwise join Boko Haram, a terrorist group that is widely influential in Nigeria.

Emmy Buck (COL ’16) interned at Leadership Initiatives for a year through her “Law and Society” class taught by professor Sarah Stiles, who Bailly has formed a relationship with to promote Leadership Initiatives and find potential interns.

In the past four years Bailly has partnered with Stiles “Law and Society” class and has drawn a majority of his interns from speaking to her class.

“There is a lot of fighting, and we can never completely know what is going to happen next,” Buck said.

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Brooks Holtom’s course “Leadership” draws many. health initiative that would bring experts to campus through the course, said that the independence she is given within the course and her project enhances her experience at Georgetown.

“Rather than having the teacher tell me what to do, it is very much a ‘I take this course on my own terms’ because it is all about who I am as a leader and what I want to do,” Allen said. “It sort of puts the ball in my court rather than the professor’s.”

Frank O’Driscoll (MSB ’08) planned a conference of South Atlantic colleges for his “Leadership” project in order to spread the successful marketing strategy of Georgetown’s Relay for Life.

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them to have a better understanding of Nigeria,” Buck said.

The nonprofit has partnered with a variety of organizations, including Microsoft and the U.S. government. After Leadership Initiatives hones operations in Nigeria, it hopes to expand its college internship program and continue to grow the International Business Alliance program.

“The craziest part is that we’re taking Georgetown students and they improve these programs every year,” Bailly said. “They make a huge difference.”

Leadership Initiatives intern Kelsey Jones (COL ’15) said that the nonprofit has made a notable impact in a variety of areas in the United States and Nigeria.

“The impact that LI has is mindblowing,” Jones said. “LI has improved the health, economy and overall living experience for the Nigerian people involved.”

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In the McDonough School of Business, students learn skills ranging from accounting to finance to prepare for their entrance to the business world. But one MSB course tackles a more abstract part of the real world: leadership.

For the fifth year, MSB associate professor Brooks Holtom is teaching “Leadership,” a management course that has inspired student initiatives within a variety of campus programs and organizations, including Relay for Life.

The course, which is open to students from all undergraduate schools, emphasizes action rather than passive learning.

“There are some topics, particularly in business schools, that are mathematical and you can apply statistical or mathematical reasoning to solve those problems,” Holtom said. “Leadership problems are complex and dynamic because it is about interpersonal relationships, it’s about understanding psychology and sociology. Leaders learn by doing … so that is reflected in how we approach this course.”

Students in the course apply leadership principles to community activism in the form of a large project.

Haley Allen (COL ’14), who is currently working on a women’s

Despite these challenges, Leadership Initiatives has largely been able to convince Nigerian locals that their program is a better option than joining a terrorist organization.

Soon after joining Leadership Initiatives, Buck became the assistant director of the organization’s International Business Alliance program, a competitive program for high school students that allows them to assist Leadership Initiatives’ projects in Nigeria. The program stresses cross-cultural collaboration so that students can help implement a broad variety of projects.

“Leadership Initiatives has a hold in so many areas, not only helping Nigerians but high school and college students as well,” Buck said. “They learn what it means to become a leader, to be innovative, to communicate their ideas and take charge, allowing

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ntrepreneurship. This word has been on the tip of everyone’s tongue over the past few years, gaining popularity among mainstream media, through movies like “The Social Network”.

Some say entrepreneurship can be taught; others say it’s in your blood. For me, entrepreneurship has come about from a certain set of life experiences mixed with a healthy dose of ambition. I would say to you, current Georgetown students, begin testing your ideas, however impossible, on a small scale. You might surprise yourself.

We live in an easy-access world; there are so many apps and sites to take your vision from idea to reality. Throw up a cheap website for your organic vegan cookie store, or mock up a demo for the next music sharing app. Here are a few other tips to help you along on the path to entrepreneurship.

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Clubs include: Relay for Life, GAAP, Jack Crew, The Corp, GUSIF, D.C. Reads, Innovo, Zeta Psi, MSB Tech Center, Ultimate Frisbee, Chinese Student Association, FMA, The Voice, Speechwriting, Business Strategy Alliance, Asian American Student Association, Research Ambassadors, The Hoya, GCI, Smart Woman Securities, Cross Country, Alternative Spring Break, Credit Union, Blue & Gray, ROTC, Delta Psi Epsilon, Soccer Club, Sports Business Resource Group, Latin American Student Association, Track, Tech Center, GUAFSCU, GAMBLE, GUGS and others.

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