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GAME ON!

AFTER THE STORM

One year later, Hurricane Sandy’s legacy still haunts life back home for many students.

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Clear and Convincing Sets a New Standard

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MADISON ASHLEY Hoya Staff Writer

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Elevation Burger, Subway and Salad Creations in Hoya Court, which were originally scheduled to open by the beginning of the fall semester, are nearing the final stages of construction. After initial delays pushed the deadline back to mid-October and then late October, the three new restaurants will open next week.

More than one year ago, the student body overwhelmingly voted in support of raising the evidentiary standard for Student Code of Conduct violations from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.”

Since Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson implemented this policy in February, student leaders say they have noticed a significant improvement in the way cases are adjudicated.

Yet challenges, such as raising the evidentiary standard off campus, persist.

Former GUSA executives Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail KohnertYount (SFS ’13) spearheaded the campaign to change the standard, which applies to all disciplinary violations except sexual assault. Their predecessors, Mike Meaney (SFS ’12) and Greg Laverriere (COL ’12), began pushing to raise the evidentiary standard and laid the foundation for the referendum during their term as GUSA executives.

Effects of the change have been

especially visible on the Residential Judicial Council, one of the bodies responsible for handling disciplinary violations.

“With the change to clear and convincing, we had the opportunity to codify within our constitution and within our training materials what exactly we need to find someone responsible for an infraction CLARA GUSTAFSON of the Student Code of Conduct,” RJC councilmember Nicholas Adams (SFS ’14) said.

This included holding an additional training session in which councilmembers worked to define “clear and convincing,” which does not have a self-evident threshold like that of “more likely than not.”

“For me, it’s the responsibility not of the student to prove to me that they’re innocent, but whoever wrote See CONVINCING, A6

Decriminalization on Council Agenda GWU Cited for ‘Need-Blind’ Deceit GENE CHOI

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After news broke earlier this week that The George Washington University had misrepresented its admissions policy as need-blind, GWU responded that it is not able to cover all need because of its relatively small endowment of $1.375 billion.

Despite Georgetown’s smaller endowment of $1.286 billion, university officials maintained that financial background never factors into admissions decisions for Georgetown applicants.

The GW Hatchet reported Oct. 23 that GWU’s stated need-blind policy did not represent its admissions process. According to newly hired Associate Provost for Enrollment Management Laurie Koehler, the process is more accurately called “read needblind,” a system in which financial decisions are not considered in the first round of applicant review but may be a factor later on. According to The Hatchet, students who would otherwise be admitted but are not among the university’s top choices may end up being waitlisted if they are in severe financial need. According to Koehler, this affects up to 10 percent of applicants each year.

“One of our competitive disadvantages is not having the resources to undergird student aid,” Koehler wrote on the school’s website.

Georgetown Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon explained that Georgetown is able to remain need-blind despite its small endowment by accounting for financial aid in its operating budget. Only 22 percent of financial aid comes from the endowment and annual donations, with the rest incorporated into the budget.

In contrast, a majority of GW’s financial aid is not counted as operating expenses, according to an operating budget report from The Hatchet.

Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity Richard Vedder pointed to the fact that Georgetown has a higher endowment per student, thanks to its lower enrollment. At Georgetown, the perstudent endowment is approximately $67,000, while it is approximately $51,000 at GWU. @thehoya

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GWU exaggerated the extent of its need-blind admissions policy.

Vedder, however, doubted that Georgetown could be fully needblind.

“Like GW, it doesn’t have a mammoth endowment,” Vedder said.

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh held to the claim that Georgetown’s admissions process is completely need-blind and the university admits students regardless of their ability to cover tuition costs.

“The financial aid office never tells admissions about the financial need of any applicants,” Pugh said. “There is a true ‘firewall’ between the offices on this matter. Georgetown is passionate about our meeting-full-need policy.”

Deacon compared this policy to what GWU does.

“When you say you do need-blind admissions, that means you actually are reviewing all the applicants all the way through to the end and picking the best of them,” Deacon said.

“You’re not coming back at the end and being sensitive to need.”

Vedder characterized GWU’s previous claims to be need-blind as dishonest.

“I think it is misleading to say, ‘We have a need-blind system,’ when, to the general public, that term means that financial considerations will not play any role in the admissions decisions,” Vedder said.

GWU spokeswoman Candace Smith, however, said that the issue See GWU, A5

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A bill that would decriminalize marijuana possession has the support to pass the D.C. Council and the approval of Mayor Vincent Gray.

California Jesuit Schools Cut Elective Abortion Coverage JOANIE GREVE Hoya Staff Writer

Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University, two Jesuit schools in California, ended faculty healthcare coverage for elective abortion this month.

When these changes take effect in 2014, therapeutic abortions and access to contraception will continue to be covered while a third-party plan still covers elective abortions.

Loyola Marymount dropped elective abortion coverage in 1988, but according to the National Catholic Register, the coverage somehow reentered the university’s healthcare plan between 1988 and 2013 without public discussion.

“We believe that the right to life and dignity for every human being is a fundamental part of Catholic beliefs … and that this vision needs to be evidenced in LMU’s policies and procedures,” LMU President DaPublished Tuesdays and Fridays

vid Burcham and Chair of the Board Kathleen Aikenhead wrote in a letter to faculty members.

But while the Loyola Marymount

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The D.C. Council is poised to pass a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana in the District.

The “Simple Possession of Small Quantities of Marijuana Decriminalization Amendment Act of 2013” was introduced by mayoral candidate and councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) and councilmember and former Mayor Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) in July. It seeks to eliminate criminal penalties for those caught with less than one ounce of marijuana and to reduce the fine to $100. The current penalty is a six-month jail sentence, a permanent criminal record citation and a $1,000 fine.

The bill is supported by six other council members — Anita Bonds (D-At Large), Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Mary Cheh

KELLY THOMAS (SFS ’15) Right to Life Treasurer

decision was made by a board of trustees vote, Santa Clara University’s new plan was announced by SCU President Fr. Michael Engh, S.J., in a letter to faculty and staff, which has triggered criticism from SCU faculty members.

“It was a complete shock,” SCU School of Law professor Stephen Diamond told THE HOYA. “The decision

by the president was unilateral and without consultation from faculty.

We weren’t given the courtesy of notice or even the chance to comment in advance. There was simply no due process whatsoever.”

Mary Hegland, an SCU professor, disagreed with Engh’s decision.

“The male Jesuits running Santa Clara University feel they know what God wants regarding women, women’s bodies and women’s reproduction,” Hegland told the San Jose Mercury News. “We have many women working at SCU who are not Catholic or — even if Catholic — do not believe that abortion is against God’s will.”

Although Engh announced that there would be a series of open forums discussing the decision, faculty members questioned why the forums are being held after the decision was already made.

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS

A Veto Without Value Prior to Monday, the presidential veto had not been exercised in the Georgetown University Student Association for three years. One would assume, then, given its rarity, that the veto is reserved for weighty matters in which all other alternatives have been exhausted.

And yet that wasn’t the case Monday.

GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) vetoed a bill regarding the Social Innovation Public Service fund’s management of the Green Revolving Loan Fund. The fund, mandated in January 2012 as part of the Student Activities Fee Endowment referendum, would use the considerable sum left over from $250,000 allocated by Georgetown Energy to install solar panels on university-owned townhouses. That money would be used

by SIPS to distribute loans designed to promote sustainability. The bill presented by SIPS requested confirmation of its discretionary power to administer grants in addition to loans. SIPS, a fund that operates independently of GUSA, was shocked when after their bill passed the senate unanimously and with little debate, it was stamped with a veto.

Though it is certainly within Tisa’s authority to issue vetoes — and he maintains that he has no objections to quickly approving a revised bill — this veto remains objectionable. The problems he cited in justifying the veto had little to do with SIPS or the contents of the bill but rather the senate’s process of consideration. In defense of the veto, Tisa cites ambiguity of language and a general lack of knowledge in the

senate as to the importance of SAFE reform legislation.

Many recently elected senators had not yet graduated high school at the time of SAFE reform. And given the importance of this topic, it is surprising that they have not received enough training to properly address it. Tisa may have been correct in raising concerns about the senate’s manner of consideration, but the time for transferring institutional memory should have been before the bill came to the floor, not after.

If Tisa believes that there is a need for institutional education, he should use his power as an executive to make sure there is a comprehensive instructive framework in place. Using a veto as a slap on the wrist to GUSA senators is counterproductive to the goal of this legislation: to allow an autonomous organization like SIPS to carry out its mandate.

SIPS was given autonomy and control over its green fund in large part to prevent this type of interference from GUSA. In fact, though SIPS was advised to go through GUSA, it remains unclear exactly how necessary it was to present the bill in the first place.

The parties involved will likely resolve this situation satisfactorily within the next several weeks. And though no permanent damage to SIPS is likely, the executive should exercise more caution with its veto in the future. It is misguided to punish SIPS for the failings of the senate.

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High Levels of Support – The D.C. City Council plans to send a bill to Mayor Vincent Gray in early 2014 calling for the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana.

D.C.’s Best Friend – The National Fire Dog Monument was unveiled today, honoring all canines employed by firefighters to investigate arson fires.

Extreme Makeover – The dome of the Capitol building is set to undergo major renovations starting in November for the first time since 1960.

Cycle Craze – The District is introducing a law this year protecting cyclists, the number of whom has spiked 130 percent from last year.

Eyesore No More – Plans for the abandoned industrial heat plant near M and 29th streets to be renovated into an expensive apartment complex have been finalized.

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Our Worthy Gatekeeper As college admissions reach dizzying levels of competitiveness, it is heartening to hear University President John J. DeGioia call Georgetown’s Office of Admissions the most ethical in the country — for good reason. In an interview last week with The Hoya, Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions for the past four decades, spoke candidly on the admissions process at Georgetown: where it’s headed, where it has excelled and what could improve.

Under Deacon, Georgetown transformed from a small, Catholic university to an elite national university. With this new standing, however, comes greater pressure to compromise on institutional values in order to stay competitive.

There are a variety of rankings-minded maneuvers in vogue among colleges, including the practice of expanding applicant pools solely to deflate admission rates or the use of an early decision option to inflate yield rates.

In this environment, ensuring a fair admissions process that brings in a passionate, qualified and diverse student body is critical. And according to Deacon, Georgetown’s ability to do so is furthered by not succumbing to the practices that would help us climb higher on the U.S. News & World Report rankings. He rejects the merit of switching over to the Common Application because it could bloat our appli-

cant pool with uninterested students.

For Deacon, the benefit of potentially attracting a student away from an Ivy is not worth the cost of waitlisting a qualified student with a genuine desire to attend Georgetown.

Deacon is admirably committed to diversifying the student body — a trend seen across the nation as higher education pushes to institute financial aid and need-blind admissions programs.

The George Washington University, which has a similarly modest endowment to Georgetown’s, came under fire recently for misleading prospective students about its status as a need-blind school. The GWU Office of Undergraduate Admissions admitted last week that a student’s financial standing is taken into account after the first round of selections.

It would be naive to assume this type of fraud is not also present at some of our peer institutions or that Georgetown’s Office of Admissions is faultless.

But, despite facing similar constraints to GWU’s, all signs suggest that Georgetown scrupulously conducts need-blind admissions and meets full demonstrated financial need.

An admissions office has remarkable influence over the character of a university. Insofar as that’s true at Georgetown, we are lucky to have Charles Deacon at the helm.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: The story “When Renting Goes Wrong,” in conjunction with the page-one teaser “Slumlord City,” (B1, Oct. 18, 2013) unfairly tars landlords with a broad brush. This is a classic piece of agenda-driven journalism with no balance or fairness. No landlord or property manager is quoted. No satisfied tenant is quoted. No attractive property is cited. Nor is there any analysis of why off-campus rents are high.

And one statement is particularly defamatory: “However, landlords tend toward the opposite direction and take their authority too far.” The story cites a single “major creep” as representative of all landlords.

Would the entire student body be criminal if one member were convicted of a crime?

Not all accommodations near campus are

“grimy,” unsafe or unsanitary properties.

Many Georgetown student tenants live in clean, safe, comfortable, well-maintained off-campus accommodations; quite a few of them willingly move out of the dorms long before they lose the housing lottery.

Rents are high because of the lack of available land and D.C. zoning laws that prohibit new construction of dormitory space near campus. Georgetown can do little to increase the supply of housing anywhere near campus, aside from the occasional permission to repurpose existing space. Albans Towers was a failed experiment; the newest far-flung alternative, a building next to the Arlington County Courthouse, may fare better.

Charles Sullivan Leasing Agent Re/Max Metropolitan Realty

CORRECTION The story “Six Years Early, SFS Plans Centennial” (A4, Oct. 22, 2013) incorrectly quoted SFS Director of Outreach Gail Griffith as saying that the SFS taught wealth management in 1919. She said that the SFS taught wharf management.

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OPINION

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013

C Questioning The Luck Of the Draw T

here are approximately 30,000 anxious runners prepping for the 38th annual Marine Corps Marathon this Sunday. They’re picking up race packets, carbo-loading and obsessively planning good-luck rituals, though, personally, I’m convinced that only wearing my lucky spandex shorts can lead to a successful race.

Luck is probably one of the least scientific things out there. We all know logically that superstitions can’t actually foretell the future, but there’s something that draws us to them again and again. In fact, as it turns out, luck does have a legitimate place in the objective disciplines of science.

A study at the University of Chicago has found that rituals, specifically those linked to undoing bad luck, may actually help individuals avoid their undesired fates. Subjects who felt they were “jinxed” — that is, in a position to experience bad luck based on something they said or did — were found to be more lucky if they performed some sort of action that figuratively pushed the bad luck away from them, like knocking on wood or throwing salt over a shoulder. In these cases, people didn’t worry as much that a negative outcome would occur and were thus less stressed about it. This meant that they could even go so far as to say participants actually experienced the same kind of psychological relief as when they actually avoid bad luck, like dodging a banana peel on the ground or getting by without studying as much as they could have for an exam.

I was skeptical when I first read this.

Though I knock on wood myself to undo a potential jinx, I’m pretty positive that my superstition has nothing to do with how my next midterm will go. (As I wrote that, I rapped my knuckles on my desk just in case.) However, scientists have found that there’s a connection to how we function based on our perceived levels of stress.

Luck isn’t about being in the right place

When we aren’t busy worrying, we might actually run into some good luck. at the right time but rather comes from taking advantage of an opportunity. British psychologist Richard Wiseman performed an experiment in which he asked subjects to read a newspaper and count the headshots. In the middle of the paper, there was subtly placed text saying “Stop counting — there are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” He found that only those who were reportedly luckier could see it, while those who were unlucky missed it every time.

According to Weisman, this is because lucky people are more open to opportunity. He claims that unlucky people tend to be tenser, and their anxiety prohibits them from seeing what else is happening at any given time. Lucky people, though, are happy enough to fall upon different opportunities — say, a key networking moment with a CEO in line at Starbucks — despite the fact that they weren’t planning on finding any luck that day.

While it bothers me that lucky and unlucky are such subjective terms, these two studies may show that there are reasons why we may have lucky and unlucky streaks. We’ve all had those days when we just can’t catch a break, right? A bad exam followed by a crappy injury on the sports field followed by missing the bus and losing your keys. Anxiety over one aspect of your life can lead to all sorts of missed opportunities in which our own worry distracts us from pleasant surprises. It also explains why performing rituals that make us feel lucky — or at least immune to the detriments of bad luck — may actually work. While we aren’t expending energy over potential bad luck, we may actually run into unexpected good luck elsewhere. Or at least we’re happier for it, and more likely to notice pleasant surprises that may come our way.

So will my old biking spandex actually make me faster come race day? Probably not. But I have the mental security of wearing them on my side, and I won’t be stressed about what might happen if I don’t have them. When it comes to tackling 26.2 miles, I’ll take all the help I can get.

Katherine Foley is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. CURIOUS BY NATURE appears every other Friday.

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CURIOUS BY NATURE

Katherine Foley

THE HOYA

A New Game of Kick the Can

ollege students are well aware of the economic challenges facing our generation. Rising tuition is causing record student loan debt totaling more than $1 trillion. Here at Georgetown, 39 percent of students graduate with student loan debt. The average balance of this debt? $28,035. Unemployment among Americans between the ages of 20 and 24 is 13 percent — well above the national average. But the most threatening number to our American dream is one you may not have heard before: $200 trillion.

That’s the true size of our national debt, and it’s up to our generation to defeat it before it defeats us.

When politicians talk about a $17 trillion national debt, they are referring only to debt our government has already taken on. What they don’t mention is the even more staggering debt burden our generation will face if current policy continues.

Economists have estimated that burden, known as the fiscal gap, to be as large as $200 trillion. It takes into account the amount of money the government would have to take in today to fully cover the unfunded future costs of Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt and other obligations. It is a tab far beyond our capacity to pay and it is a threat to our generation’s welfare that has no regard for party affiliation or political ideology.

If Washington keeps playing political games and continues to kick the can down the road, our generation will undoubtedly suffer. According to the Congressional Budget Office, under current policy, education, research and infrastructure investments will be at their lowest relative level on record by 2023. At the same time, interest payments on the debt will approach $1 trillion per year, an amount equal to 28 percent of total

We may not always see eye to eye, but we agree that the status quo isn’t a viable option for debt.

U.S. government spending in fiscal 2012. As The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein likes to say, the federal government is essentially an “insurance conglomerate with a large standing army.” In 2011, for example, defense and entitlement spending constituted 68 percent of a roughly $3.3 trillion budget, with expenditures on entitlements alone comprising $1.5 trillion — and the problem is getting worse. If current trends continue, by 2031 every penny of every federal tax dollar will go toward mandatory

spending on programs like Medicare and Social Security. The disproportionate spending on entitlements and defense will leave us with the unacceptable choice of relying entirely on new debt to finance investments in our future or abandoning those critical investments altogether.

In order to solve this problem, we need to urge our leaders to put everything on the table. We need to reform our ballooning mandatory programs. We to need trim the fat from our defense budget. While no

VIEWPOINT • Lundquist & Wickremsinhe

GU Must Stand With Survivors, Not Attackers

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he statistic is thrown around during the assault. During hearings, so frequently, so casually, that the slightly modified “safeguards,” we’ve become desensitized to supposedly enacted to ensure that surits meaning — one in four college-age vivors feel safe throughout the process, women will survive sexual assault at are poorly enforced and often ignored. some point during their time on camLaced with victim blaming, the inadpus according to the Department of equacy of resources offered to survivors Justice. One in four. Twenty-five per- conveys an institutionalized mentality cent. Statistically, this means that of the that survivors neither need nor deserve 28 freshmen girls living on each floor support after the verdict is given. This of Darnall, seven will encounter sexual lack of both university support and violence by 2017. services perpetuates victim blaming, Darnall has six floors. That means while diminishing the survivor’s ex42 girls. There are twelve other resi- perience. In line with this detrimental dence halls and apartment complexes university mentality, Counseling and on campus. Want a calculator? We are Psychiatric Services only provides a conlooking at upwards of 875 students cur- sultation and three sessions to survivors rently on Georgetown’s campus. free of charge. If the survivor “requires” Georgetown University is by no further counseling, sessions are fee-permeans exempt from the pervasive rape service. How can Georgetown stand culture that dominates college cam- with survivors while simultaneously puses, especially as publicized in recent encouraging the notion that survivors media — Swarthmore, UConn, Yale, should be able to “get over” the assault the list goes on. So how have upwards after three hours of conversation with a of 875 survivors of sexual assault, 875 psychiatrist?

Georgetown Laced with students, been victim blaming, silenced? Why e o r ge tow n Georgetown is by no means Gcurrently doesn’t our camlacks pus protect, supthe ability to exempt from port and stand prevent the rapthe rape culture of today’s with survivors? ist, found guilty From filing of a Category college campuses. an initial report C Honor Code with the Georgeviolation by the town University Police Department Student and Faculty Hearing Board, to completing the hearing process from enrolling in the same course as through the Office of Student Conduct, the survivor. In such a case, it is the surGeorgetown University systematically vivor who would be asked to change oppresses individuals seeking anything classes at her own will instead of the from justice to counseling services. rapist being removed from the course.

Laced with victim blaming, the re- In an effort to protect the “educational porting process itself forces survivors privacy” of the rapist, the survivor is to endure harassment from GUPD offi- not allowed to discuss her hearing cers, ranging from inquiries of the sur- process, or indicate the name of her atvivor’s attire at the time of the rape to tacker. By prioritizing the well-being of unsolicited “personal” advice along the the assailant, Georgetown continues lines of “Well, honey, if you hadn’t been to align itself with the rapist, not the drunk this wouldn’t have happened.” survivor, and stifles the survivor’s abiliPoor interdepartmental communica- ty to empower herself through sharing tion, coupled with the overall disregard her story. Additionally, even though of both severity and urgency of rape the rapist’s presence on campus is clascases, elongates the reporting process sified as sexual harassment by law, a unnecessarily. survivor cannot appeal a decision by Laced with victim blaming, the the hearing board to allow the rapist hearing process fails to recognize that to continue to attend Georgetown durthere is a difference between cases of ing her time on campus. sexual assault and cases of cheating on Until all Georgetown students feel an exam or smoking a little too much safe enough to share their stories, weed. Cases of sexual assault are funda- knowing that this University supports mentally addressed through the same them, protects them and believes procedures as any other “Honor Code” them, Georgetown will continue to perviolation. Despite receiving “sensitivity” petuate a culture of sexual violence that training, the Student and Faculty Hear- stands with assailants, not survivors. ing Board subjects survivors to inappropriate questioning about “leading COURTNEY LUNDQUIST is a senior the assailant on,” the survivor’s “initial in the School of Foreign Service. intentions” (whether or not she, at any MARISHA WICKREMSINHE is a junior point “wanted it,”) and even inquiries in the School of Nursing and Health as to why the survivor “didn’t scream” Studies.

tax increase can feasibly cover our fiscal gap on its own, we need smart tax reform that unleashes economic growth and raises revenue. If we don’t take these steps soon, our generation will be left with more debt, higher taxes, fewer benefits and a lower standard of living.

As chairs of the Georgetown University College Democrats and the Georgetown University College Republicans, we may not always see eye to eye, but we agree that the status quo is not a viable option. The burden on our generation grows every day that this problem goes unaddressed. Current and future students will have to pay for the irresponsibility of our leaders. This is unacceptable, and it’s why we have joined together to welcome the Generational Equity Tour to campus this week. The tour is organized by the Can Kicks Back campaign, a nonpartisan coalition of young people that advocates for a fiscally sustainable and generationally equitable federal budget.

The Can Kicks Back will culminate their cross-country campaign with a stop at Georgetown on Tuesday in Red Square during the day and a panel of speakers that night in Lohrfink Auditorium. We hope you take time to attend these events.

We have the most at stake in the debate about the federal budget and growing national debt. But our leaders in Washington won’t solve this problem unless we speak up. It’s time we all start fighting for our future together.

ALEX CAVE is a junior in the College and TREVOR TEZEL is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. They are chair of Georgetown University College Republicans and chair of Georgetown University College Democrats respectively.

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Next in Hochstetler Bulldog Legacy, John B. Carroll SAM ABRAMS

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The past few months have seen ups and downs in the story of Georgetown’s mascot, culminating in the arrival of new mascot John B. Carroll to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 22, Janice Hochstetler, the bulldog breeder who donated both Jack Jr. and the new dog, sat down with THE HOYA when she was at Georgetown to help the new mascot acclimate to campus this week. Below is an edited transcript.

What are you looking for during your visit with the new Jack?

I’m here to make sure that John B. Carroll acclimates well to his new surroundings here. With J.J., who is John B. Carroll’s three-fourths brother, Fr. Christopher Steck, S.J., actually drove out to my home in San Diego and picked up the dog, so I didn’t have a chance to see how J.J. reacted to the crowds of people. This way, with me flying over with John B. Carroll, I can observe how the Jack Crew handles him and give them tips on how to keep him calm. We’ve already been to many places on campus where there are lots of people moving around, and he has been great around them.

What were the problems J.J. had that led to his removal from campus this summer, and how have you tried to prevent them with John B. Carroll?

J.J. is actually a very well-mannered, calm puppy. He wasn’t used to being picked up by people for pictures and used as a plaything. The incident that happened with him was just a perfect storm, and no one could have predicted it. J.J. has a bit of an excitability issue, but not an aggression issue. Fr. Steck did a great job training him here, and I know that he’s still upset about what happened, but no one could have prevented it. However, we are making changes with John B. Carroll. I’m making sure that his walkers don’t use the high-pitched “cute doggy” voice or pet him too quickly, because that puts the bulldog on edge. Also, we are making sure that when people approach the dog, they don’t intimidate him by leaning over him or picking him up. John B. Carroll has been great to people who have come over and spo-

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New mascot John B. Carroll plays with a stuffed animal during a photoshoot with The Hoya on Tuesday. Bulldog breeder Janice Hochstetler, who also donated former mascot-in-training Jack Jr., brought the bulldog to Georgetown and spent part of the week helping him adjust to campus life. ken with normal voices and have not made quick movements around him.

Also, I don’t think that we’re going to have a huge welcoming ceremony for the new puppy like we did for J.J., because large amounts of people and cameras seemed to scare the dog.

The decision to remove J.J. from campus was made partly based on the assessment that the dog was better suited as a pet than a mascot.

How will this distinction play out with John B. Carroll?

I think this puppy as the next mascot won’t necessarily be available to be seen just walking around campus as much as in the past. I know that a lot of students here love having him, and he will be present at all of the games and events, but the bulldog isn’t meant to be a cute photo prop.

He’s got a job to do as a working dog.

I’ve told the Jack Crew to act like bodyguards for a celebrity in order to prevent people from manhandling and frightening him.

How did you come to the decision to have John B. Carroll live in a townhouse instead of a dorm and be walked by a fewer number of students?

Dorm life can be crazy, and it’s not really the place for a puppy that would be overstimulated by all of that. With the townhouse, he gets some peace and quiet, his own little backyard to play around in and a better set-up overall. Paul [O’Neill (COL ’86), Georgetown’s chief operating officer for advancement and a member of the Bulldog Advisory Committee], not me, has actually been staying with him there, and soon, the new caretaker will move right in. We

discussed that it is healthier for the dog to have consistent training. He has grown very attached to me, so it is better for his transition to have as few brand-new faces telling him what to do as possible, at least in the early stages.

What is something that the Georgetown community should know about our new mascot?

John B. Carroll is a really cute, goodnatured puppy. He’s just 14 weeks old, but he behaved like a perfect gentleman on the plane ride over here. He loves riding his skateboard, though he can’t quite pedal it yet, and he really seems to like horses.

I think that he will grow to love Georgetown.

What do you think that people should know about bulldogs in general?

Bulldogs were originally bred to bait or kill bulls, hence the name. Their entire bodies are built just for that purpose. Many people think of bulldogs as unintelligent and stubborn animals, but in truth, they are just not used to taking orders — they weren’t bred for that — so it takes a lot patience in order to properly train them. While training bulldogs, you find that they are quite intelligent, and since they aren’t frightened by people as much, they are actually great with kids.

Why did you decide to donate two mascots to Georgetown?

My kids loved their time at Georgetown, and since I figured that I can’t quite donate a new building, then I might as well contribute the best way I can, by helping the university continue with its bulldog tradition.

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The third annual TEDx Georgetown will kick off Saturday. The theme of this year’s conference is “Changemakers” and will feature talks from students, faculty and guests.

TEDx Georgetown Focuses on University Katie Shaffer

Special to The Hoya

TEDx Georgetown is shifting its focus to the university this semester as it moves from Lohrfink Auditorium to the larger venue of Gaston Hall for its third year.

The conference, which will kick off Saturday, is sponsored by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund in conjunction with the Office of the President, University Information Services and Georgetown College.

This year, the series of short talks given by students, faculty and guests will revolve around the theme of “Changemakers.”

The 2012 conference’s theme was “Power” and the first TEDx was themed “Netcetera: the Internet and Everything Else.”

“We learned from what we did in year one and made it better in year two,” Program Manager for New Media and Digital Strategy Michael Wang (MSB ’07) said.

“This is the year that … we are ready to truly engage the entire community,” This year’s conference will highlight university faculty members students may not know outside of academia, including Elizabeth Stanley, a professor of security studies and nonprofit founder, and Francis Slakey, a professor of physics and public policy who is also the first person to have climbed the highest mountain on every continent and surfed every ocean on Earth. The speakers were chosen by an advisory board composed of deans from al-

most every Georgetown school.

“We wanted it to be Georgetown-focused. … We want to think about what makes TEDx Georgetown a uniquely Georgetown event, as it were, rather than just any other TEDx.” TEDx President Jamie Sharp (COL ’15) said. “We think we can relate it to the values that everyone in the community shares and have people talk about their own experiences.”

The 2013 conference will be composed of three sessions: “Global Human Development,” “The Whole Person” and “For Others.”

In his first time participating in TEDx Georgetown, University President John J. DeGioia is curating “Global Human Development,” for which he chose the speakers himself.

Student speakers include Heather Artinian (COL ’15), Jimmy Ramirez (COL ’15) and Rashawn Davis (COL ’14), who is running for Newark, N.J. City Council. Ramirez will be speaking about youth homelessness during the “For Others” session, discussing his own time as a homeless adolescent and his work at the California Homeless Youth Project.

“There are two things I’m attempting to accomplish in my speech. One is education, and two being this idea of owning, owning labels and confronting your shame,” Ramirez said. “I just wanted this purely to be my TED talk, and while I’ve learned so much from others ... I’m trying to pull from within.”

Mayoral Candidate Pushes For College Aid Program johnny verhovek Special to the Hoya

Mayoral candidate and councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) (SFS ’90, LAW ’94) introduced a proposal last week that would create one of the nation’s most aggressive college tuition assistance programs for low-income public school students.

Under the bill, titled the D.C. Promise Establishment Act, eligible students could qualify for up to $20,000 annually or $100,000 over five years of college, depending on their family’s annual income.

To be eligible, students must graduate from a D.C. public school or obtain an equivalent secondary school diploma on or after Jan. 1, 2015 and enroll in an institution of higher education, at least on a half-time basis, within three years of graduation or diploma obtainment. Students’ family income must be $250,000 or less.

The amount of assistance that a student receives would depend on the length of time that a student was enrolled in a D.C. public school and their family’s annual income.

Catania emphasized the importance of

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Councilmember David Catania is pushing for an aggressive college tuition aid program.

a college education to expanding District economic opportunities and reducing income inequality.

“Great communities invest in their people,” Catania said in a press release. “In every corner of our city, we have incredible talent waiting to be unlocked. The D.C. Promise represents an unprecedented opportunity to invest in our city’s future.”

Catania’s Chief of Staff Ben Young (GRD ’03) stressed the importance of providing low-income families with access to higher education, especially as District living costs continue to rise.

“The cost of college tuition is rising far faster than family incomes. Research shows that students from low-income households are more likely to forgo higher education due to a perceived inability to pay,” Young said. “Research also shows that a person’s ability to enter the middle class is dramatically improved if they have a college education.”

Young admitted, however, that the bill would incur a massive cost to the District government. The appropriations process to fund the bill is still ongoing and will continue for the next few months “The District … has an $11 billion annual budget and investing in our next generation of residents and taxpayers must be one of our top priorities,” Young said.

The D.C. Council will officially hear the bill Nov. 13, and Young said he hoped the voting process would be completed by early 2014. Chairman Phil Mendelson and mayoral candidate and councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) are current supporters of Catania’s bill.

“Higher education is increasingly important in our society,” Mendelson told The Hoya. “This bill will enable more D.C. residents to access higher education and enjoy greater opportunities for their lives.”

Evans’ General Counsel Kevin Stogner expressed confidence in the bill’s passage, thanks to widespread backing from other members of the council, but said that the terms of the bill would be subject to change before it would be passed.

“Among educators, stakeholders, I can’t imagine anyone is going to say no,” Stogner said. “I think the question will be in terms of, will we need more money or if the income limits for receiving grants are too low or too high.”

To pass, the bill will require seven votes out of ten, after which it will be submitted to Mayor Vincent Gray and Congress for approval.

(Ward 3) and David Grosso (I-At Large) — and needs seven votes out of 13 to go to Mayor Vincent Gray for approval. If Gray signs the bill, it must receive congressional approval.

To collect more information, Barry and Wells, who is chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, held two rounds of hearings this week during which the public had the opportunity to speak on the issue.

During these hearings, Gray publically announced his support of marijuana decriminalization for the first time.

“I support decriminalization,” Gray said. “Legalization is another issue. I’m not there on that issue, yet.”

Wells attributed the need for decriminalization to the racial implications of marijuana arrests in the District. According to Wells, approximately 91 percent of people arrested in D.C. on marijuanarelated charges are black.

“It’s simply not fair,” he said.

“Not only is it not fair, these people who are charged with penalties are unable to find employment because of their criminal record. It’s not smart.”

Grosso, who in September introduced his own legislation to completely legalize marijuana in the District, agreed.

“Racial disparity is high in issues involving illegal drug possession,” Grosso said. “It’s not a matter of being illegal anymore. It’s a means through which decriminalization is funnelled, and it’s a failure of our war on drugs.”

Barry drew from his own per-

Specifically, D.C. Cannabis Campaign Chairman Adam Eidinger reported that 75 percent of District residents support decriminalization, with 64 percent supporting legalization of marijuana in general.

Furthermore, Grosso pointed to the fact that marijuana decriminalization is quickly becoming a national trend. Over the past 30 years, 17 states have already decriminalized the use of marijuana to some extent. Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized marijuana in November 2012.

Despite this push toward decriminalization, Grosso emphasized the importance of discouraging marijuana use for juveniles and students.

“Above all, we need to educate the young and constantly send the message that marijuana is still dangerous and addictive, even if we decriminalize it,” Grosso said.

Fois agreed and said that although he supported the bill, it needed to preserve some aspects of the original penalties, such as maintaining smoking marijuana on sidewalks, in parks or in other public spaces with children present as a criminal offense.

Nevertheless, Grosso, who has historically been one of the District’s most fervent advocates for the complete legalization of marijuana, said he would continue to push for the legislation he introduced to the D.C. Council in late September.

“The bill is not going to be radical and legalize marijuana, but it’s definitely a huge first step in making legalization happen, and I’m going to continue pushing for that,” Grosso said.

sonal experiences to support this point. “[D.C.] made national news headlines in 2010: We arrested 5,000 people, predominantly African-American, for mere possession of marijuana,” Barry said.

Councilmembers expressed particular concern about the consequences faced by those convicted of marijuana possession. As marijuana-related arrests are listed as permanent criminal records, students arrested for possession become ineligible to apply for financial aid, and arrests have similarly grave consequences for adults.

“Thousands of people are being stripped of their healthcare benefits, becoming ineligible to apply for jobs and unable to apply for housing,” Wells said. “This has to change.”

Supporters of the bill pointed to research on the limited effects of marijuana on health.

“Scientific knowledge of the effects of marijuana has increased dramatically over the past few years, and now we know that marijuana is no more harmful and addictive than alcohol,” Deputy Attorney General for Public Safety Andrew Fois testified.

According to Fois, marijuana is the third most used substance in the United States, with alcohol and tobacco first and second, respectively. Fois reported that 25 million people were reported to have used marijuana in the past year.

A Gallup report released Tuesday showed that 58 percent of Americans currently support the legalization of marijuana, a significant increase from 12 percent in 1969, when the question was first asked.

GWU ‘Need-Blind’ Claim False GWU, from A1 was a matter of differing definitions.

“It’s still the same process, but it’s a matter of one person defining it one way and one person defining it another way,” Smith told The Hatchet.

Vedder said that the problem in this situation was GWU’s false representation of its policy, not that the school’s admissions policy is actually

should all strive to be needblind.

“You could make the case that there is room in America for schools that do not profess to have as a top goal accepting any student regardless of financial ability,” Vedder said.

“The Neiman Marcus department store is not need-blind, nor is Nordstrom or any upscale retailer. You accept the fact that some people can afford it and some cannot.”

need-aware.

“I understand completely that GW is not need-blind,” Vedder said. “The problem that GW has — and I sympathize with them — is that they want to be a top-flight university in the first-rate of American universities, and they want to think of themselves as trying to be almost the equivalent of an Ivy League school.”

Vedder added that he did not think that universities

FARMERS MARKET TOP CHEF COMPETITION

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A pumpkin cheesecake (pictured left, lower cake) prepared by Elizabeth Gromet and Catherine Gallagher took best in show at the Wednesday competition on Healy Lawn.

TM Gibbons-Neff Hoya Staff Writer

Elizabeth Gromet (COL ’14) and Catherine Gallagher (COL ’14) took the cake Wednesday, winning the inaugural Georgetown University Farmers Market Top Chef competition.

Gromet and Gallagher’s pumpkin cheesecake took first out of 28 entries.

“We never expected to win,” they wrote in a joint email. “We started jumping around and screaming.”

Caroline Cotto (NHS ’14), who serves as the community events co-chair for the farmers market, was taken aback with this year’s participation.

“It was a lot more successful we thought it was going to be,” Cotto wrote about the competition, which required entrants to prepare a dish with apple or pumpkin to mark the coming of fall.

There were five judges on the panel, including 1789 pastry chef Ryan Westover and government professor Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. Each judge completed a detailed grading form for the dishes, which ranged from pumpkin rosemary bread to a chocolate and pumpkin soufflé.

In the end though, Gromet and Gallagher took home the prize of a free dinner for two at 1789, the swanky restaurant on 36th Street.

The secret ingredient used to secure their victory? Bourbon.

“Adding alcohol never hurts,” Gromet and Gallagher wrote.

The competition, held to honor World Food Day, was the offspring of last year’s Farmers’ Market event, which focused on partnering with 1789 and featured handouts about World Food Day and a brief cooking demonstration by a 1789 chef.

“It was very low key,” Cotto said. “This year it was all about in-

creasing student participation.”

Gromet’s and Gallagher’s preparation for the event was perilous, as Gromet was distracted by medical school interviews and Gallagher was working almost nonstop in the hours leading up to the competition.

“Our roommate Kim, also a contestant, agreed to bring it [to the competition] for us,” Gromet wrote. “We were a little worried she’d drop it, perhaps on purpose to eliminate the competition.”

While Gromet and Gallagher won overall, other contestants won in categories such as “Best in Taste,” “Most Original” and “Best Presentation” with dishes that included maple pumpkin pie and pumpkin-apple streusel cake.

Cotto hopes to do another event in the future with even more student engagement and a more interactive competition.

“But who knows,” Cotto said.

“Right now, we are just celebrating the success of a great first try.”

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GU Wins Spot at SXSW NATASHA KHAN Hoya Staff Writer

Among the musicians, start-up founders and filmmakers at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Tex., this March will see a new panelist: Georgetown.

The annual music, film and interactive technology conference, started in 1987, attracts 32,000 participants to Austin each spring. It is one of the most high-profile festivals in the country each year, with music acts such as Vampire Weekend and Prince performing in previous years.

Georgetown’s panel, “Designing the Future University from the Inside,” will be part of SXSWedu, the education conference within SXSW. Although representatives from Georgetown have attended SXSWedu since 2011, this will be the first time that Georgetown will actively participate in the conference.

“We were merely audience participants but knew that there was so much going on at Georgetown that we could share,” Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer Michael Wang (MSB ’07) said.

“It was like ‘American Idol’ or ‘The Voice’ — watching these amazing people singing and thinking, ‘Well, we’ve got some singing chops too. Why

aren’t we up there?’”

During previous visits, Georgetown representatives were able to learn about new innovations and techniques in the world of education.

“Conversations were happening that we didn’t experience at Georgetown,” Wang said. “People knew that the industry was changing.”

Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis said that the specifics of the panel have not yet been determined, though it will focus on how technology is modernizing higher education. More information will

“It’s important for us to move forward as a university and to be smart and nimble and innovative.”

MICHAEL WANG (MSB ’07) Program Manager for New Media

be available in December.

“Our biggest goal is to share with the rest of the community how we’re thinking about the digital campus for the future and what we’re doing on campus to spark innovation and new ideas for teaching, learning and research,” Davis said.

To be chosen, the university had to send in a written proposal that provided an overview of the panel’s

topic. After an initial screening process, the university’s proposal was tested through the SXSW PanelPicker, which collects data through social media to account for 30 percent of the final decision.

SXSW advisory boards and staff also judged applicants.

Despite his excitement for the panel, Wang admitted that the conference, with its focus on the importance of technology within education, will likely be uncomfortable for Georgetown.

“It’s something we’re not used to. It’s a ton of ed tech entrepreneurs talking about how they’re going to unravel education and how there’s going to be 10 universities left in 20 years. It’s not the ground we’re used to being on,” Wang said. “But it’s important for us to move forward as a university and to be smart and nimble and innovative about where we need to go.”

But in some ways, Georgetown’s tradition will serve as an asset.

“Georgetown University has a history of being a convener of thought-leaders around complex and tough questions.

This is what we will strive to contribute at SXSW,” Wang said. “We hope to be a leader in convening deeper conversations between universities and thought-leaders on the future of higher education.”

SCU Abortion Healthcare Cut ABORTION, from A1 “I viewed the forum as a kind of phony, Cuban-style form of democracy — that is you make the decision, and then we get to vote,” Diamond said. “It doesn’t even appear that the trustees got to vote.”

In response, Diamond resigned his post as a university ethics scholar, although he continues his work as a tenured law school professor.

“I assumed that the commitment that was made to me when I was hired — that the institution was not going to become essentially a seminary — was genuine,” Diamond said. “I sensed a genuine commitment to human rights and women’s rights and diversity, and now it looks like there’s a shift underway. I think they owe [professors] a public statement on where they’re taking or where they’re attempting to take the institution.”

As of press time, 636 people have signed a Change.org petition to overturn the SCU decision.

“We, the undersigned members of the Santa Clara University community, request a

prompt and meaningful opportunity to appeal the university’s decision to reduce essential reproductive health care coverage provided by its health insurance plans,” the petition reads. “As community members committed to difficult dialogues about how best to achieve a fair, diverse, and inclusive environment, we are gravely concerned that such an important health care decision was made without consulting representatives of the people who will be adversely affected by this precipitous change.”

According to the official summaries of benefits from Georgetown’s various faculty and staff insurance plans, Georgetown’s current faculty and staff benefits do not cover elective abortions, with no exceptions. Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., declined to comment.

GU Right to Life Treasurer Kelly Thomas (SFS ’15) agreed with the universities’ decisions, expressing surprise that either had originally covered elective abortions.

“It’s a little mind-boggling that they allowed it in the

first place,” Thomas said.

H*yas for Choice Vice President Abby Grace (SFS ’16) disagreed with the decision.

“What type of faculty are you going to attract if you’re going to say, ‘Sorry, because of our religious identity, we’re not allowing you choices about your body and your life?’” Grace said.

To Thomas, however, that sacrifice is worth making.

“I wouldn’t say that more diversity amongst beliefs of professors is worth compromising and worth allowing this sort of attack on human life to continue,” Thomas said. “I certainly enjoy diversity among my professors but it’s kind of like saying, ‘If you pay us a little bit more for it, we’ll do what’s morally reprehensible.’”

Grace, however, emphasized that faculty perspectives do not need to align perfectly with that of the university.

“I don’t think anyone asked Loyola Marymount to endorse abortion,” Grace said. “I think they just asked them to recognize that their faculty has different beliefs than them, and it’s certainly sad to see that they chose not to do that.”

Discipline Standard Unequal CONVINCING, from A1 the report to prove to me that they are responsible,” Adams said.

In practice, this has led some RJC members to alter their approach to cases.

“For some members of the council, I have seen a bit of a shift where the bar has been risen. … Students have a greater opportunity to present their own side,” Adams said.

“As a body, we have been a lot more united on our opinion on what it would take to prove a person responsible, and, as a result, I think students feel more confident.”

Student Advocacy Office CoChair Michelle Mohr (COL ’15) has also seen improvements in the disciplinary process.

“They’ve been a lot better at communicating about incidents. Instead of waiting for three or four weeks, students are getting their emails a lot quicker,” Mohr said.

While there is no data available to judge how many students have been affected by the raised standard since February, one female sophomore has experienced its benefits. After being found with friends in a freshman dorm room last January with a nearly empty bottle of alcohol, the student, who wished

to remain anonymous because of the nature of her disciplinary violation, was written up and called before the RJC. “[The RA] had no reason to knock on our door — and then he sees an empty bottle of alcohol on the floor and says that we need to hand over our GOCards,” she said.

“The Student Code of Conduct needs to be equal across the board.”

CLARA GUSTAFSON (SFS ’13) Former GUSA President

“Because we weren’t being loud, rowdy or drunk, they didn’t press charges because it wasn’t clear or convincing that we had been drinking.”

Despite these improvements, students and alumni expressed concern that the raised standard has yet to be extended off campus.

“Having the burden of evidence changed on campus was a pretty big win for students, but there’s still a long ways to go,” Gustafson said.

“I think the Student Code of Conduct needs to be equal across the board. I understand that we need to have

well-thought-out actions off campus, but I would hope that we would treat other people as well as we treat ourselves. I understand the need to appease the neighbors, but I don’t think that’s enough.”

Despite student pressure on the issue, Olson remained mum on whether the university would move forward with equalizing the standard off campus in the future.

“I do not have any updates on that right now,” Olson wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “We believe that this heightened standard of proof, in alignment with the clearer layout of the Code of Student Conduct, has brought more transparency to the entire process, and we are pleased with the thoughtful and ongoing dialogue around this issue.”

The sophomore who avoided disciplinary sanctions last year because of the higher evidentiary standard said that the continuation of a “more likely than not” standard off campus is factoring into her decision whether or not to live off campus.

“Just knowing that you can get in trouble with the school for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I’m leaning more toward staying on campus,” she said.

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No students attended the first of 11 scheduled forums focusing on detailed aspects of the Northeast Triangle on Thursday, and 40 students attended the second forum that night.

Among Students, Dorm Engagement Wanes MOLLY SIMIO

Special to The Hoya

Georgetown announced 11 opportunities for students to discuss design plans for the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall on Tuesday, the first two of which have drawn limited engagement so far.

No students attended an open Planning and Facilities Management meeting Thursday afternoon. Approximately 40 students stopped by Thursday evening’s forum about the Northeast Triangle’s first floor, which was held in the New South lobby. The online forum, which allows users to comment on various threads, has thus far received uneven traffic. The most recent comment on the online forum is from 10 days ago.

Associate University Architect Jodi Ernst said that she has seen interest wane since original designs were presented in July. “[Students] may be burnt out,” Ernst said. “There was a lot of interest, and we’re at a stage where we closed the exterior engagement, and we’re opening engagement at a more detailed level.”

Noreen Sajwani (NHS ’15), who sits on the Northeast Triangle Engagement Committee, exhorted students to contribute their thoughts.

“This is hopefully going to be successful in getting more student feedback, getting them to say what they want, because then there’s really no excuse for what they see in the end because they were a part of the process,” she said.

Responses to the design from alumni and students proved to be influential in the design of the building’s exterior.

“The architects have done a really good job incorporating student feedback, and I think that’s clear if you look at the concept drawing that came out in the summer of the [exterior of the] residence hall and then look at the concept drawing that was presented at the most recent forum,” Georgetown University Student Association Director of Student Space Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) said. “There are significant changes, and all of those changes came directly as a result of student feedback.”

While students are encouraged to express any concerns they have about Northeast Triangle, upcoming forums will focus on the building’s interior, as there is little opportunity for change in the exterior.

“At this point, we are presenting the exterior to different zoning boards, and they need to approve our design. It’s very dif-

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ficult to go back in the process and start again,” Katia Lucic, a principal architect at Sasaki Associates, said.

The university expects to next present the residence hall design at the Old Georgetown Board meeting in December.

Each of the upcoming open houses throughout the semester will focus on a specific topic, such as the use of study space or the role of technology in the residence hall.

In addition to these open forums, administrators are working with specific groups of students, such as resident assistants and Residence Hall Office managers, to get feedback on what they hope to see in the building’s interior.

Architects are currently about halfway through the design process. They have concluded the schematic design stage, which included laying out the building and detailing the exterior, and are entering a stage of design development.

“For the next three months, we’re going to be adding details,” Justin Finnicum, a senior associate for Sasaki Associates, said.

“At the end of design development, you have the design really nailed down.”

Architects will focus on the building’s mechanical systems, plumbing and electricity during this stage of the design process, as well as the cost of the building. In January, they will do a cost estimate before moving on to a four-month-long process of construction documentation.

Andrew Meshnick (COL ’17) attended the evening engagement forum Thursday.

“It seems like they are very amenable to students’ suggestions,” he said. “My concern is that it’s going to be too much in too small of a location, but I understand that there is also a necessity for us to bring students onto campus for housing. … I think that the flexibility of the first floor is really interesting.”

By early December, the opportunity for student contributions to the design will mainly have passed.

“We’ll have to close the book on many of the topics [after Dec. 9] because the design [of the interior] will be set,” Ernst said. “There will be ample opportunity to still give input about the finishes and the furniture and other elements that aren’t so eminent.”

Appelbaum called on students to offer design feedback while they still could.

“We want to get as much student engagement as possible, but it’s up to the students to engage when the opportunities are available,” Appelbaum said.

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Dreamers Share Stories University Taps Students Kayla Cross

Special to The Hoya

In an effort to show the human side of the immigration rights debate, the Georgetown University Office of Federal Relations is compiling a short film featuring interviews with three undocumented Georgetown students.

“They talked about what they would like to do if they’re able to stay in the United States,” Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said. “I know a good number of the Dreamers on our campus.

They are amazing individuals. They have overcome incredible odds to get to where they are.”

The stories, to be developed by the Office of Communications, will appear on the Office of Federal Relations web page at a currently unspecified date. The three students in the video were chosen because they have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, which protects young people who came to the United States at an early age from deportation.

Kimberly M. (SFS ’15), who wished to keep her last name private because of her immigration status, is one of the students featured in the video. Born in Germany, Kimberly traces her origins back to Kenya.

“I feel like I can talk very comfortably about my experiences, and that’s not something that I really felt in high school,” Kimberly said. “Asking me to participate in the documentary shows that the administration doesn’t just acknowledge that we’re here, but they actually think that our stories and our experiences are worth putting the Georgetown name on.”

In particular, Kimberly said that she was impressed by the university’s active role in advocating for immigrant rights. Last year, Georgetown held the premiere of the film “Dreamers: A True American Story” and sponsored an event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, located at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, during which Kimberly and two other students spoke about their experiences as undocumented youth. According to Kimberly, several university administrators attended the event, despite its distance from campus.

In addition, last month, Georgetown joined the Ignatian Solidarity Network, a Jesuit social justice organization, and 30 Jesuit institutions across the country in pushing for comprehensive immigration reform from the House of Representatives.

University President John J. DeGioia has also been active in the effort by signing letters and making several personal phone calls to Congress.

“It’s that little effort that makes you feel like, wow, these people have busy schedules, and the fact that they could take their time … just to hear three students speak about their lives — it means a lot,” Kimberly said.

Citlalli (COL ’16), who wished to be identified only by her first name because of her immigration status, is originally from Mexico and is another undocumented student who participated in the video and is originally from Mexico. Citlalli stressed that the video provided a holistic view of students’ lives.

“It’s about students describing their story and really telling about your particular experience, about what coming to Georgetown has meant for you,” Citlalli said. “Coming to college is about doing something after college, and that’s sort of the question mark, the big mystery to us –– what do we do after college?”

Despite Georgetown’s strong support of immigration reform, Kimberly said that the university did not have up-to-date information for undocumented students, such as that which addressed the proper documentation for studying abroad.

“I’m probably one of the first, if not the first, young people to go abroad through special travel documents that I applied for,” Kimberly said.

“Going through that process took a lot of individual initiative because Overseas Studies had no idea what I was talking about.”

Citlalli also stressed the importance of faculty education about undocumented students.

“There is an extreme lack of resources,” Citlalli said.

“You don’t know who to talk to if you don’t know the right person.”

Citlalli added that this confusion extends to the application process.

“Students don’t have a way of knowing that they can apply to Georgetown unless they know someone who goes to Georgetown who is undocumented,” she said.

“You just have to have an in.

And that’s not how admissions should work.”

To address such issues, Kimberly is working with Georgetown’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services to create a therapy group for students with immigrant backgrounds. In particular, Kimberly pointed to the issue that arises because the DREAM Act only offers amnesty to undocumented children and adults up to 35 years of age.

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Kimberly M., top, and Citlalli.

“It creates a generational gap between those who are already older than 35 and those who aren’t and creates a gap between us and our parents,” Kimberly said. “I can’t imagine feeling a sense of security here knowing that, at any moment, my parents could be deported.

I can’t imagine being legal in this country and my parents not being legal.”

To Kimberly, this sense of security is vital.

“I think that what people don’t realize is that it is such a day-to-day struggle,” Kimberly said. “You go to class, you go to work … and then, in the back of your mind, you know that at any moment your family could be separated. You know that at any moment, your parents could be gone.”

Kimberly emphasized the importance of university support in the face of the challenges of passing immigration reform that would address such issues.

“There’s not much that we can do right now to change our situation. We can take as many opportunities as we can, but there’s not much that we or anyone else can do except for Congress,” Kimberly said.

“The fact that they support us just means a lot.”

Citlalli agreed, adding that the video touches on the reallife implications of immigration reform efforts.

“It’s about how there are a lot of policy decisions that really can ultimately change your life,” Citlalli said.

The third student featured in the film did not wish to comment for this story.

Students Focus on US Debt Molly Simio

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown University College Republicans and College Democrats have put aside their differences to bring The Can Kicks Back, a campaign focused on solving the national debt crisis, to Georgetown on Tuesday.

“Our generation is really beyond the ideological battles that prior generations are waging. We care more about results than rhetoric,” TCKB Co-founder and Communications Director Nick Troiano (COL ’11, GRD ’13) said.

Based on this non-partisan outlook, GUCD and GUCR are coming together to co-sponsor the event.

“It’s clear that there is a big political gap, and instead of dealing with the issues and trying to bridge the partisan divide, our political leaders are more interested in pushing those bigger decisions off to our generation,” GUCD President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “The problem with that is that these are issues that are really going to come to a head by the time that we are in the same seats that they are making some of these big decisions.”

Troiano founded TCKB with four friends in 2012 as

a result of the government’s failure to address the growing national debt, even as crises like the debt ceiling limit and the fiscal cliff dominated political discourse.

“We got sick of watching that can get kicked down the road, and we realized that our generation is the can and we need to do something,” Troiano said.

A goal of the tour is to harbor support for the INFORM Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that encourages fiscally sustainable solutions to the debt crisis by increasing transparency in the federal budget.

The act has bipartisan supporters in both houses of Congress and is endorsed by more than 900 top economists and 14 Nobel laureates.

While it is notable that the GUCR and GUCD are coming together to sponsor the campaign, it is not out of the ordinary.

“We already cooperate quite a bit,” GUCR Chair Alex Cave (COL ’15) said. “Obviously there’s differences between us and there’s differences between our members … but we’ve always had a good sense of cooperation. We do debates together; we do voter registration together.”

Representatives from TCKB will have a booth with infor-

mation about the debt issue and possible solutions in Red Square on Tuesday afternoon. Speakers scheduled for that night include Stanley Druckenmiller, a philanthropist and former chairman of Duquesne Capital; former AARP CEO Bill Novelli; former Comptroller General David Walker; and Stephanie Ruhle of Bloomberg News.

“The event has panelist speakers from across the spectrum,” Cave said.

Throughout the tour, which stopped at 25 colleges in 20 states, TCKB collected tin cans on which students wrote messages urging Congress to stop “kicking the can down the road” and to deal with the debt issue.

“I think the most popular message is ‘Grow up,’” Troiano said. “Young people are wondering why we’re the only adults in the room having this conversation about our future.”

The tin cans from the 25 colleges will be delivered to congressmen after a rally on Capitol Hill Thursday morning.

“We need to show our leaders that we care,” Troiano said. “We’re actually willing to show up and say, ‘Enough is enough. The can stops here.’”

To gain insight into students’ perspectives on the role of social media at Georgetown, the Office of Communications is creating a Social Media Advisory Committee.

“I really feel that Georgetown students are heavily engaged in social media and the way that social media can be a powerful tool for communication and collaboration,” Communications Officer Rob Mathis (GRD ’14) said. “Georgetown students know that it’s not just something that can be used as a tool within the university, but it has a worldwide impact.”

SMAC, which will be composed of students, will work with both university administrators and student groups to improve their social media strategies.

At the administrative level, SMAC will offer insight into how students are using social media and how they want to see the university using it.

“A lot of that is going to the traditional, roundtable feedback, with what’s working well and what isn’t,” Cody Cowan (SFS ’14), who has been working closely with Mathis in developing SMAC, said. “The university has a great social media presence … but I think there’s always ways to improve.”

SMAC will also advise student groups on how to enhance their use of social media in order to best communicate both internally and with the rest of the world.

“I think almost every single student organization has a marketing or PR person that is in charge of social media, but they probably don’t have a lot of tools or help that will allow them to do a better job and to interface with all the other communications people,” Mathis said. “It’s my hope that this group will allow all of them to come together and amplify their collective use of social media for outreach and engagement.”

For example, Hoya Blue does not currently have a cohesive social media strategy. Rather, it primarily concentrates on Twitter, which is now complemented by a new Instagram account and a sporadically updated Facebook page.

“My hope for social media with Hoya Blue is to be able to grow it because that’s where people are getting their news about the athletic teams,” Hoya Blue Communications Officer Eddie Bradley (MSB ’14) said. “Having this committee to help with that would be good; it would definitely be helpful.”

In particular, Bradley suggested an online hub in which students could engage with social media from various campus organizations.

InterHall Vice President of Public Relations Libbi Ethier (COL ’16) agreed and said that InterHall would be open to learning about new techniques to promote events and to facilitate in inter-group interactions.

“I know most students are tired of the usual Facebook events posted on the GAAP groups and tweets about advocacy issues in the works, so I think it would be important for this committee to work on new ways to reach students,” Ethier said. “Also, I would like to see this committee exploring how to increase the use of HoyaLink on campus and how each student group can help make that happen.”

According to Cowan, the committee will focus on issues based on members’ interests, backgrounds and goals, although the details of the committee’s operations are still uncertain and will depend on student feedback. If interest is limited, the committee will likely meet in person, whereas if student interest is very large, the committee may manifest as an online forum.

“I don’t know what the questions are going to be, but it’s incredibly useful for us to have a group that could potentially answer them,” Cowan said.

The student committee is modeled after the Social Media Working Group, a cross-departmental group of staff members tasked with harnessing social media to benefit Georgetown.

The working group organized Georgetown’s 400 disparate social media accounts into a branching “hub-and-spoke” model with the Office of Communications at the center. From this center, each school branches off into departments and initiatives, allowing back-and-forth communication.

“This allows us to take our campaigns to the next level because now we’re interacting with each other and helping each other as opposed to competing for a share of voice with the same number of students and followers,” Mathis said.

The working group proved to be successful when Georgetown was ranked the 18th most influential university in social media by Klout, a social media analytical company, this year. Mathis said that the Office of Communications hopes to further this success through student involvement in SMAC. “I think there’s going to be a lot of experimentation and working our way through it, some stumbles along the way, but I think that’s what’s exciting about this,” Mathis said. “There are a lot of opportunities for students to create their own think tank on the use of social media and how youth view social media as a communications platform but also a worldwide engagement tool.”

SFS Ups Alumni Engagement With New Annual Magazine Katherine Richardson Special to The Hoya

To enhance alumni engagement, the School of Foreign Service will launch its first annual alumni print magazine in December.

The magazine will replace the quarterly SFS print newsletter, which will still be sent out online.

“We wanted to switch it up from doing our newsletters to doing a more robust piece,” SFS Communications Specialist Jen Lennon said. “We thought that an interesting way to get to our alumni would be to have a broader piece that would cover more and have substantive pieces about issues in the field as well as profiles.”

SFS Director of Outreach Gail Griffith helped envision the global human development theme of the forthcoming issue.

“Coming up with an overarching theme was one of the most interesting pieces of this for us and one of the most challenging,” Griffith said. “We wanted to be able to speak to where the school is now and wanted to be able to look at where we had been, … what it was really designed to do and how it changed over the decades.”

The first issue will consist of profiles and features on the SFS that broach this theme, including profiles

on current undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and alumni. It will also highlight specific programs within the SFS, including the Institute for the Study of International Migration and the new massive open online course on globalization.

While administrators in the SFS Dean’s Office came up with story ideas for the magazine, publishing company Washingtonian Custom Media was hired to conduct interviews, write articles and design it. Funds for the project have come from the communications budget and the discontinued print newsletters.

The dean’s office also sought to incorporate the history and future of the SFS into the magazine.

“We had these nuanced views of where we had been and where we are going that were based on world events, and we wanted to be able to demonstrate that scope and that arc somehow in the magazine,” Griffith said.

The magazine will be sent out to 23,000 alumni after its publication in December and will be available both in print and online.

“I think this gives us an opportunity to reach a constituency we haven’t reached before,” Griffith said. “I hope that it does what our online e-newsletter has done, and that is provoke a conversation among our alumni.”

Joint Appointment Under Evaluation for Consistency Alessandra Puccio Special to The Hoya

The university is currently working to implement new regulations to address inconsistency in faculty joint appointments across departments.

Since her appointment in August, Vice Provost for Faculty Adriana Kugler has created guidelines that standardize the process and encourage more joint appointments. The guidelines are currently under review by the Faculty Senate for approval.

“Basically, the idea is that there are some schools and some departments which really do a great job with these joint appointments,” Kugler said. “But there are many other departments and many other places on campus that do not take advantage of more interdisciplinary appointments.”

Currently all faculty who have joint appointments are considered associate faculty. Under the new guidelines, faculty will be distinguished as affiliate faculty or as courtesy joint appointments.

“Courtesy joint appointments are intended to provide for more lasting and substantial collaboration than affiliate faculty appointments,” President of the Faculty Senate Wayne Davis wrote in an email.

“I think we have had both sorts of appointments before, so this change is probably more in the nature of a clarification.”

A complication of joint appointments is the pay system for the faculty.

“For a while, [payment] was handled by both departments that you were employed under,” Harley Balzer, a professor in both the departments of government and history, said. “The number [of jointappointment professors] has grown so large that we can’t even try to operate like that anymore.”

The primary department that hired the professor is usually in charge of handling the salary of the faculty member, though this was not always the case.

Despite past attempts to address confusion over joint-appointment faculty designation, inconsistency still persists.

Joint-appointment faculty members are subject to the same guidelines of their single department colleagues, including teaching two classes each semester, one in each department for which they work, as well as an interest in the convergence of disciplines.

Typically, faculty members have research and teaching interests in areas between two fields.

“It’s usually a matter of common interest in material covered by two units,” Balzer said. “The SFS, for example, likes to think of itself as elite, so they like to cherry-pick the people they think are the best — the people who they believe show an interest in the other unit.”

Because the revisions of these new guidelines are still being discussed by the Main Campus Executive Faculty and the Provost’s Office, the possible impact of the implementation of such rules has yet to be determined.

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Hoyas Face Nation’s Best With Height and Skill, GU Controls Set Pieces MOLLY MALONE Hoya Staff Writer

After an uphill season, the Georgetown field hockey team (2-13, 0-5 Big East) faces its most challenging weekend yet. The Hoyas will travel to Philadelphia, Pa., to play No. 17 Temple (12-4, 3-2 Big East), before heading back to College Park, Md., to play No. 1 Maryland (15-1, 4-0 ACC). The Blue and Gray have been working diligently to ensure defensive strength, but playing two nationally ranked teams in three days poses a daunting challenge.

Temple is coming off a twogame winning streak, and with the return of junior forward Amber Youtz, who has scored three goals after returning from an injury just over a week ago, the team is playing competitively. Youtz leads the team in goals with 13, followed by senior midfielder Molly Doyle, who has eight. Ten different Owls have contributed goals this season. On Sunday, Temple dominated Drexel, but won only 1-0 on a penalty stroke. Like the Hoyas, the Owls have had trouble finishing.

“We had a tough weekend last weekend, but it definitely gave us

perspective,” Head Coach Tiffany Hubbard said. “This weekend, we want to put a full game together, and hopefully we’ll see something correlate in terms of shots and goals.”

The Hoyas’ focus will then quickly turn toward Sunday when they take on the best team in the country. Maryland was flawless all season, until last Sunday, when the team lost 3-2 to Old Dominion. Additionally, the Terps have a highly anticipated game against No. 5 Virginia prior to their match against the Hoyas.

Senior forward Jill Witmer leads Maryland with 14 goals on the season, and she missed three games earlier in the season to play with the U.S. National Team in the Pan American games in September. She also received ACC player of the week honors in early October.

The game will be played in College Park, Md., on the Hoyas’ usual home field; however, they will be the away team. In the battle of the home field, the Terps are the clear favorite. While Georgetown will look to give Maryland a competitive game, the two teams are at different levels.

“Playing a non-conference

team that is ranked so high is a special thing. Although Georgetown and Maryland haven’t played each other a lot, two big schools facing off is always fun.

There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the game,” Hubbard said.

While playing some of the best teams in the country can be intimidating, it will give the Hoyas something to grow on. Taking things away from a game and implementing them in future play is just as important as playing the actual game.

Georgetown’s final game of the season is against Villanova (3-10, 0-5 Big East).

“We need to focus on ourselves and improve. We’re playing good teams this weekend, but we’re also playing Georgetown. We want to take what we learn and bring that into our last game against Villanova, where all of our emotions are going to be, and hopefully get a win,” Hubbard said.

The Hoyas will play host to Villanova on Saturday, Nov. 2 for their senior game. Because the Blue and Gray did not qualify for the playoffs, this will be the last game of the 2013 season.

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Against Colgate, GU Has Hope MATT RAAB

Hoya Staff Writer

Despite a five-game losing streak featuring an average loss margin of 25.8 points, quarterback changes and an inconsistent defense, the Hoyas (1-6, 0-1 Patriot League) still have a chance at Patriot League relevance in a faceoff with Colgate (2-5, 1-0 Patriot League) this Saturday.

After a 45-24 loss at Lehigh Oct. 19 in their first week of conference play, the Hoyas will look to rebound against the Raiders. Colgate, the Patriot League regular season defending champions, will aim to continue a successful road trip after defeating Holy Cross in its first conference matchup.

For the Hoyas, the game represents a definitive test for a defense that has been strained by opponents and injuries throughout the season. Totals for points allowed during the losing streak have ranged from 34 to 50 points, while the offense has not scored more than 24. Head Coach Kevin Kelly believes the defense will be bolstered by returns from injuries this weekend.

“We get a couple defensive backs back,” Kelly said. “We get the linebackers back. We’re a little bit nicked up up front, but overall, … we’re pretty good.”

The Hoya defense will be facing an offense that has seen significant struggles of its own. A number of injuries have forced the Raiders to start three different quarterbacks and four tailbacks over the course of the season, leading to a 2-5 record. But Colgate’s strong non-conference schedule, highlighted by a season opener at Air Force, has challenged a team that is the defending champion of the Patriot League and is led by the reigning Patriot League offensive player of the year, quarterback Gavin McCarney. Colgate’s mobile style of play will be Georgetown’s focus.

“Colgate is a run type football team,” Kelly said, “so obviously, we’ve got to try to stop the run and force them to throw the football — get them off schedule.”

On offense, Georgetown will again be snapping the ball to sophomore Kyle Nolan, who made his first start against Lehigh last week. In that game, Nolan went

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Senior running back Brandon Durham and the rest of the Hoya offense have struggled to find their rhythm this season.

19-of-30 passing for 140 yards and a touchdown. Kelly expects to see improved numbers this week.

“Kyle had been coming off an injury,” Kelly said. “He started a bit slow, but he got into a little bit of the groove as the game went on.”

Nolan is replacing redshirt senior Isaiah Kempf, whose playing time has decreased as the season has progressed, including lost time due to injury.

Georgetown’s offensive success will also depend on the performance of senior running back Nick Campanella, who is coming off a career game with 129 yards rushing and three touchdowns, both personal records. Campanella has consistently increased his numbers as the season has progressed, a product of an increased workload and recovery from injury.

“Nick is running extremely hard, and he had a bad shoulder there for a couple weeks,” Kelly said. “I don’t think he was the Nick everyone expected him to be, but Saturday he had a great ball game … and I expect him to do the same here again against Colgate.”

Saturday’s game represents the team’s last chance at an October win. But a win over Colgate would also put Georgetown back at .500 in Patriot League play and no more than one game back in division play, with the Oct. 12 loss to Fordham not counting against its conference record due to Fordham’s ineligibility. While a playoff run is all but impossible, the Hoyas are still at a point where wins can give the season meaning.

“These young men work very hard 12 months out of the year,” Kelly said. “The reward is to win a ball game, and they deserve to win. They’ve worked very hard.”

Georgetown is currently 1-9 in the overall series between the two teams, winning its first game two seasons ago. After the matchup, the team will have three games left in the regular season, against Lafayette, at Bucknell and at Holy Cross. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

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Lewis Brings Years of Experience COACH, from A10 cleared of wrongdoing — conducted team practices while the university searched for a replacement head coach. Though Lewis’ hiring brings a measure of stability to the program ahead of their first game Nov. 8, it does not resolve the lingering questions surrounding Brown’s misconduct and the subsequent investigation.

Lewis has 44 years of experience coaching at the college and high school levels and in the WNBA. Most recently, he was an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Sparks.

“He has a tremendous background in coaching and leader-

ship in a career that has made him very well respected, not only in the Washington, D.C. area but nationally, as well,” Reed said, according to a press release.

Lewis’ first big coaching break came when he was named head coach of the George Mason women’s basketball team in 1984, a position he held for 14 years. During his tenure at George Mason, he coached the team to eight winning seasons and compiled an overall record of 201-177. He also served as the first head coach for the Washington Mystics in 1997 and 1998 before heading north to take the top job for the women’s basketball team at Ford-

ham in 2000. After six seasons at Fordham, Lewis was an assistant coach for the Minnesota Lynx for a season and then the director of scouting for three years with the Indiana Fever. In 2011, Lewis returned to George Mason as an assistant coach for one season before taking the assistant coaching position with the Sparks.

“It’s truly an honor to have a chance to represent one of the greatest universities in the world,” Lewis said in a press release.

Lewis will begin his new job immediately and will be formally introduced at Basketball Tip Off tonight in McDonough Arena.

CORNERS, from A10 makes her a potent weapon. Standing at 5-foot-10 and possessing an impressive vertical leap, Kroening is able to reach balls in the air with her head that opposing goalkeepers struggle to touch with their outstretched hands.

On the offensive end of the pitch, one of the most successful strategies for Georgetown this year has simply been placing either Kroening or sophomore midfielder Marina Paul — also 5-foot-10 — next to the opposing goalie and lofting a ball right at them.

“We can really attack the ball once the delivery is good, so once we get consistent service on set pieces and corners, we’re always a danger,” Nolan said.

Delivering that service for the Hoyas has been junior midfielder Daphne Corboz. Despite missing the first five matches of the season due to injury, the junior leads the team in scoring, due in part to the eight assists and one goal she has tallied on corner kicks this year. Corboz is quick to credit her teammates for the success.

“We have Mary and Marina who are huge presences in the air, and then we have Kailey [Blain] and Kaitlin [Brenn] who are huge presences when the ball drops,” the junior said.

“They’re doing a great job of getting on the end of the crosses.”

It’s not always as simple as booting the ball into the box and hoping for the best. Against both VCU and Yale, Georgetown scored goals

on short corners; for the Hoyas, they are a good way to mix it up.

“We always want to keep teams guessing.

We always like to keep them on their toes,” Nolan said.

When asked if it was his or Corboz’ call when to employ a short corner, Nolan laughed.

“It’s not basketball where you send in plays,” he said. “It’s anyone’s call; I try to give them free reign to do their thing.”

The improvisation has been working.

Georgetown is averaging close to a corner kick goal a game in conference play — a major boost to the team’s second-ranked scoring offense in the country, which averages over three goals per game.

By the time Georgetown takes to the pitch this Sunday to face Villanova, it will have been a week since the Hoyas last saw game action. With the regular season coming to a close, the focus for the Blue and Gray has turned to securing a second-place finish in the Big East and the accompanying bye through the first round of the conference tournament.

Georgetown sits a point above third-place DePaul in the table and therefore needs to win its final two games to assure it will maintain its current position.

As the days grow shorter and the stakes get higher, entire seasons can hinge on the ability to defend or score on a corner kick — if it comes down to this for the Hoyas, they can feel good about their chances.

VILLANOVA UP NEXT On Sunday, Villanova (6-7-3, 3-3-1 Big East) will look to knock Georgetown out of second place and secure its own spot in the Big East tournament.

It has been an up-and-down season for the Wildcats, who currently occupy fourth place in the Big East despite having failed to string together two

straight victories all year.

Of primary concern for the Georgetown defense will be locking down star freshman forward Katie Martin. Martin leads the Wildcats in scoring with five goals and 10 assists to her name.

The match is slated to kick off at 1 p.m. Sunday in Philadelphia.

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inety-one to zero. That was the The supposed guilty party of the comfinal score of a Texas high school plaint, according to Aledo’s head coach Tim football game last week between Buchanan, was the coaching staff for “not undefeated Aledo and winless Western instructing [its] players to ease up and quit Hills. The game was essentially over in the playing hard once the game was in hand.” first quarter, and the score was already 56-0 Should Buchanan have stepped off the gas a at halftime. bit? Perhaps — and he did try to. ThroughA week after the game, a parent from out the second half, Buchanan played Western Hills filed a bullying report, ar- most of his second and third-string players guing that Aledo intentionally ran up the and even told them to fair catch all punts. score. Such a complaint begs the question: But besides a few substitutions and playCan a blowout be considered bullying? book changes, what else could the head And if it is bullying, should we do some- coach do? He could tell his running backs thing about it? to only rush for a few yards, or his quarIn Aledo’s case, the game just seemed like terback to throw incompletions. He could a solid, knockout performance by a more tell his receivers to avoid first downs, and talented team. Aledo played faster, stron- his linemen to stop blocking and tackling. ger and smarter than its opponent, and it But such a strategy is humiliating not was rewarded with 91 points and another only for his players but also for the other “W” in the win column. Furthermore, the team’s. It contradicts the very essence of the game was not an anomaly; game — that brute instinct Aledo averages 69.3 points that compels you to hit an per game, with an averopen hole in the defense or age victory margin of 77 tackle an opponent to the points. And the team is reground. markably efficient. Against You cannot stop playing, Western Hills, Aledo ran and the head coach cannot just 32 plays but managed tell his players to stop tryto score on about one-third ing. As Buchanan argued, “I Nick Fedyk of them. Its starting runcan’t tell the backups not to ning back ran the ball just play hard. They’ve worked six times but scored four Preventing routs their tails off all week. touchdowns. Western Hills They’ve lifted weights in would pollute never even saw the end the offseason. I’m not zone and gained less than going to tell them not to game’s integrity.

150 total yards of offense. play.” He is absolutely right.

Admittedly, losing If you’re not going to play sucks, and I can sympathize with the de- hard, you might as well not even suit up for pressing feeling that Western Hills prob- the second half. ably experienced in the locker room after Nobody likes a 91-0 blowout — it is not the game. They’re not the only losers; fun for either team, and it can be downright blowouts have happened before, and on boring as the game wears on. But instead a much greater scale. Here are some of of complaining about how badly they were my favorites: Haven High School beating beaten, the losers should lick their wounds Sylvia High School 256-0 in 1927; Geor- and admit the winner’s greatness. Instead gia Tech blowing out Cumberland 222-0 of pointing fingers at the other team, give in 1916, rushing for 1,620 yards in the them a round of applause. Maybe go back process; and Michigan defeating its oppo- to the drawing board and see what you did nents by a combined score of 550-0 in its wrong.

1901season. Western Hills is now among Like in any sport, there are always winsome pretty famous company. ners and losers. Sometimes there are Parents of the losing team need to get big winners and big losers. If you are not real. Ultimately, “fair play” is not about comfortable with losing 91-0, perhaps you making the opponents feel better about should try a different after-school activity. themselves. A 91-0 clobbering may make Or concede defeat. Forfeit the game. you want to cry, but that is not bullying Whatever you do, do not ask the other — it is just sheer domination. If Aledo was team to stop playing just because they are hurling insults and committing the pro- good at scoring touchdowns. Last time I verbial “spitting on the enemy while he’s checked, scoring is still the point of the on the ground,” that is a different story. game — and as long as you do it with But as far as I can tell, Aledo is not guilty grace, scoring 13 touchdowns is much of that kind of malicious action. The par- sweeter than not scoring at all. ent who filed the bullying complaint even complemented the players for showing “ex- Nick Fedyk is a senior in the College.

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Friday, october 25, 2013

volleyball

Hoya Staff Writer

This weekend, the Georgetown volleyball will be facing some familiar competition. For the second time in three weeks, the Hoyas will play conference rivals DePaul and Marquette.

Georgetown (8-12, 2-5 Big East) was swept by both teams at home and is looking for redemption.

“I think playing them the second time around, we know exactly what they’re capable of doing,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

DePaul (15-4, 1-4) is coming off a 1-1 weekend after losing to Marquette but beating Green Bay in a non-conference game. Senior middle blocker Natalie Rizzo hit .647 against Marquette, which earned her a mention on the Big East Honor Roll.

After the loss to DePaul earlier this season, Williams stressed the need to take care of the little things that don’t show up on the stat sheet.

Facing the Blue Demons again, Georgetown is coming in with the same strategy.

“They know what we do, and they know what they expose, so we have to

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Freshman middle blocker Ashlie Williams has 39 blocks this season.

really try to tighten up in areas where we were deficient,” Williams said.

The Hoyas will do the same when they face Marquette (12-5, 4-1). The Golden Eagles have two freshman outside hitters who have been racking up accolades in the Big East, but Georgetown’s core approach will remain the same.

“I think that we just have to tighten up our game. I think that there were parts of the Marquette game that we played well, and then there were areas that we were deficient in, so we just have to really focus on those areas,” Williams said.

The Hoyas have experience on their side, as they now know what these two teams can bring to the table and what their game looks like in motion.

“I think as a coaching staff, we try to give our team the best information that we can based on the video, but oftentimes, video is different than what it looks like live,” Williams said. “So we’ve seen them live, and we know exactly how fast their arm swings are, we know exactly high above the net they are, so hopefully we’re able to prepare our team a little bit better.”

The Blue and Gray are coming off a disappointing weekend in which they lost to St. John’s and Seton Hall after having beaten both, reminding them how quickly the tide can turn when playing Big East teams.

They’ll look to improve their attack numbers from last week, as none of the Hoyas recorded double-digit kills against St. John’s. Generating more effective offense will be critical if the Hoyas want to notch some more Big East wins.

“We see flashes of it every single day, just how talented this group can be. And [the key to success] is just finding out how to do it consistently, regardless of the personnel that’s on the floor,” Williams said after playing games against DePaul and Marquette three weeks ago.

The game plan has stayed the same: Williams continues to stress urgency and taking care of the seemingly minor details.

“We have to be ready from the very first point after warm-up. We don’t have time to ease into any of the sets,” Williams said. “We have to come out and make sure that we are ready to play.”

men’s basketball

In Surprise Move, NCAA Rules in GU’s Favor SMITH, from A10 The NCAA’s decision essentially negated Smith’s participation in the 201213 season, a ruling usually reserved for players who suffer major injuries or other hardships.

The news came as a surprise to most experts, and even Georgetown insiders: Senior forward Nate Lubick said Tuesday that the team was preparing as if Smith wouldn’t be eligible. NCAA rules and ruling history suggest that a player in Smith’s position would need to wait at least a full year before returning to the court. Even then, most expected he would remain eligible for only one full season.

He got two.

For his part, Head Coach John Thompson III doesn’t appear concerned with the decision behind the ruling. He just wants to get his new center on the court.

“We are excited that the NCAA has approved the waiver for Joshua,” Thompson said in a press release. “Now, he has to maintain a high level of commitment on and off the court. He will provide a significant low-post presence for this team.”

Thompson’s “high level of commitment” comment is likely a reference to

Smith’s weight-loss program. The big man was listed at 310 pounds throughout his time at UCLA but was rumored to have approached the 400 mark in his last days in Westwood. The possibility of him becoming Georgetown’s next dominant center hinges largely on his weight loss.

The official Georgetown roster lists Smith as 350 pounds — significantly larger than his original playing weight, but significantly slimmed down from last year.

Thompson sounds like he’d like to see him drop more, but the idea of Smith in even passable playing shape has to scare opposing coaches. He’s a massive post presence with soft hands and high-level passing ability, a center seemingly tailor made for the Georgetown offense.

He may be even more valuable on the boards, as none of Thompson’s mainrotation big men stand taller than 6-foot-9.

“He’s the least fun person I’ve ever had to box out,” Lubick said of Smith.

Whether Smith is in good enough shape to be truly dominant remains to be seen. But we do know he’s 6-foot-10, 350 pounds, highly skilled and eligible to play. That’s a big and unexpected addition for John Thompson III.

Like Father, Like Son Josh Smith’s eligibility isn’t the only surprise roster addition this week on the Hilltop.

Riyan Williams, a 6-foot-4 sophomore guard and son of famed Hoya Reggie Williams, has made the team as a walk-on and should make his debut at tonight’s Tip Off ceremony.

Williams played in the Nike ProCity League (commonly known as the Kenner League) this summer and played alongside several Hoyas on the Clyde’s squad. However, his status for the year wasn’t confirmed until Tuesday, when Head Coach John Thompson III indicated that he was indeed on the team.

We don’t know much about Williams yet, but Casual Hoya’s reports from the Kenner League indicate that he’s a versatile scorer with range past the three-point line.

The Kenner League isn’t the Big East by any means, and fans won’t expect a walk-on to seriously contribute. But Casual’s reports have to be encouraging for Hoya fans nonetheless — adding depth to an already talented backcourt without expending a scholarship is an all-around win.

And besides, remember what happened last time a Williams made his Georgetown debut?

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Hoyas Face Marquette, DePaul in Rematches Juliana Zovak

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Sophomore defender Cole Seiler scored his first career goal in the 67th minute when the DePaul keeper bobbled a Neumann free kick from the 18. Seiler buried the rebound to put the Hoyas up 5-0.

Big East Title Up for Grabs DEPAUL, from A10 been removed was a testament to the depth Georgetown has on the bench.

“We put our reserves into a DePaul formation two days ago.

At the end of that practice — we weren’t telling our guys this — but as coaches, [we thought] that may be harder for our starters than the game will be on Wednesday.”

Georgetown will travel to Milwaukee, Wis., to face No. 16 Marquette on Saturday. The Golden Eagles are 9-3-2 this season and have an unblemished 5-0-1 record in the Big East. Important wins for the team have come against Butler and No. 22 Creigh-

ton, while loses were to No. 17 Michigan State, Wisconsin and Milwaukee.

The game is shaping up to be a low-scoring affair featuring two strong defenses. Marquette has allowed 11 goals this season and recorded eight shutouts, while Georgetown has conceded just eight and preserved 10 clean sheets. In a recent game against Providence, Marquette played with five defenders in the starting lineup, demonstrating its commitment to guarding the goal. Similarly, the Hoya defense has been a strength for the team all season.

“They are organized, they are well coached — they play a great tempo [and] they got a brand

new facility. There are a lot of great things going on with Marquette,” Wiese said.

Sophomore forward James Nortey has been the biggest goal scoring threat for the Golden Eagles with seven goals on the season. The Hoyas have two players, Neumann and Allen, who have reached double digits in goals on the year.

Marquette and Georgetown currently sit in first and second in the Big East, so the game has huge implications for the seasons of both teams.

“It is a big game for them, and it is a big game for us,” Wiese said, ”It could go a long way in determining who ends up winning the regular season title.”

down to the wire

When Trading Icons Is Necessary As the NBA season is almost upon us, I’ll begin another season rooting for my beloved Boston Celtics. As always, they’ll be anchored by their two aging superstars, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. Oh, wait.

Sorry, I still haven’t gotten used to the fact that Pierce and Garnett are out of Boston. It actually still hurts to admit it. Over the summer, Celtics GM Danny Ainge traded Head Coach Doc Rivers, also one of Boston’s favorites, to the Clippers and traded Pierce and Garnett to the Nets for somewhere between four and 47 draft picks. As cheesy as that opening may have sounded, any Celtics fans will understand because the loss of Garnett and especially Pierce still leaves a scar.

The trade was smart from a basketball perspective. Once he plays well, it’s clear that Rajon Rondo, the last star on the team, will be traded for more rebuilding pieces, and Jeff Green and Brandon Bass might follow him.

Assuming this is the plan, the Celtics will finish the season with somewhere between 20 and 30 wins and in possession of young players and draft picks, most importantly one near the top of next year’s loaded draft.

These rebuilding pieces should aid the Celtics in becoming contenders again within the next five years.

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, and that’s where many fans are torn in these situations. Is there any value to keeping around an iconic franchise player, or should the GM always put emotions aside and make a deal that helps the team, no matter how marginally it helps or how coldhearted it seems?

Fans of every team face hypothetical questions like this with their favorite players, but the individual circumstances vary and therefore make the answers harder. It’s always easier when an aging veteran who has never won a title is traded to a contender in order to try and get his first ring. Fans almost always support this kind of move, no matter how hard it is to let a player go. In fact,

while my favorite basketball player is Pierce, my favorite hockey player ever is former Boston Bruin Ray Bourque, who was traded to the Colorado Avalanche at 39 years old. Bruins fans supported the move almost universally, and some, like myself, still hold a soft spot for the Avalanche, the team that gave Bourque his only Cup a year and a half later. Calgary Flames fans likely felt the same when Jarome Iginla was traded last year, and they’ll be rooting hard for whatever team he is on in the final years of his career.

Butwhen the player either has won a championship or is still relatively young, the thought

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While painful for fans, managers must act in the team’s best interest. of trading him can be terrible for some fans. I recently raised the idea of gutting the New York Rangers at the trade deadline — assuming the team does not turn around its early season woes — to a Rangers fan, and she liked the idea. But when I mentioned the name “Ryan Callahan,” the 28-year-old captain of the Rangers, she responded as if I was trying to injure him while the Rangers were in the Cup Finals.

But, if we were going to wonder why this kind of seemingly heartless move could take place, we have numerous examples.

Think of how Packers fans felt when GM Ted Thompson chose not to bring back Brett Favre… and then think of how the fans felt when the team won the Super Bowl two and a half years later. Many fans in Western Canada actually wanted Parliament to block the trade of Wayne Gretz-

ky to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988. And then the Oilers won another Cup two years later.

Finally, the St. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series due in part to not spending an absurd amount of money on one of the greatest Cardinals ever, Albert Pujols.

Of course, there is a counterargument to be made. We watch sports for entertainment and for a connection to our teams, so why should the fans, who have grown to love being entertained by one of their favorite players, suffer the heartbreak of losing one of the main reasons for their ties to the team?

Just like we can’t tell fans why their own irrational reasons for hating certain teams are worse than ours, it’s difficult to tell fans why to root for their teams.

Some may feel that the emotions of seeing the same guy play for a team forever are worth a few wins in the standings. That’s fine but, as tough as it is to see guys like Pierce and Garnett go, I support the other side of the argument. Danny Ainge made a move that might have hurt, but he made the right move in my mind. After all, another reason that we root for teams is because of the competition that the players exercise and the fans feel.

This comes down to wins and losses, and that’s the most important part of it all.

As much as it hurts, I’m glad that the Celtics traded Pierce, Garnett and Rivers, and I’m glad that they’ll probably trade Rondo and bottom out for a top draft pick. If it helps my chances of seeing another championship in Boston in the coming years, I’ll support it. That being said, I’ve already bought a plane ticket home for the Jan. 26 NetsCeltics game in Boston. And, just as Paul Pierce said that he will shed tears, I’m man enough to admit that I’ll be shedding tears with him at the TD Garden.

Tom Hoff is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

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Success Hinges on Corner Kicks TOM SCHNOOR Hoya Staff Writer

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The NCAA granted junior transfer from UCLA Josh Smith two years of eligibility at Georgetown, a major boost for the Hoyas’ frontcourt.

Smith Granted Two Years of Eligibility PAT CURRAN

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Although the season hasn’t even started, Georgetown scored a huge win this week.

Huge in every sense of the word.

The NCAA has granted two full years of eligibility — effective immediately — to junior center Josh Smith, who transferred to the Hilltop from UCLA after leaving the Bruins in November 2012.

Smith, a 6-foot-10, 350-pound center, was a McDonald’s AllAmerican in high school and made the Pac-10 all-freshman team upon arriving at UCLA. But issues with weight control and struggles within Head Coach Ben

Howland’s system — famously excoriated by Sports Illustrated in a 2012 expose — led to a disappointing career in the blue and gold for a man once expected to be the next great UCLA center.

After two years of ballooning weight and declining playing time, Smith left the Bruins only six games into the 2012-13 season.

He announced plans to transfer to Georgetown in January 2013, and went on to practice with the Hoyas throughout last spring and summer. Still, questions remained regarding his eligibility to play this year — until Wednesday, that is.

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In soccer, teams fluidly move the ball around the pitch, improvising, strategizing and looking to exploit holes in their opponents’ defense.

However, a few times a game, when one side earns a set piece or corner kick, the chess match pauses briefly.

These are the moments that are often the difference between victory and defeat.

For the No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team (13-1-2, 5-1-1 Big East), set pieces — more specifically, corner kicks — have played a crucial role in propelling the squad to one of the best starts in program history. On both the offensive and defensive end of the pitch, the Hoyas have successfully combined tactics and execution to thoroughly outperform their opponents on corner kicks. And when the Hoyas are the better team on corner kicks, they are nearly unbeatable. In fact, it has been over five years since Georgetown has lost a game in which they were outscored by their opponents on corner kicks.

For the Hoyas, the success is rooted in defending their own penalty box.

“We defend with a zone on corner kicks,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said.

“The only goal we’ve allowed on them this year was in the first game of the year against William & Mary, where we just totally fell asleep, and since then, we’ve defended pretty well.”

“Pretty well” is an understatement.

Since that one conceded goal to William & Mary, the Hoyas have successfully defended 50 corner kicks in a row.

The key to that success is the zone

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Standing at 5-foot-10, senior defender Mary Kroening is an aerial threat on every corner kick. All five of Kroening’s goals have come on corners. strategy. Instead of worrying about covering every offensive player, each Georgetown midfielder and defender is assigned a sphere to defend within the penalty box. The tactic forces the offense to adjust to the defense instead of vice the opposite. The danger is that for some, the strategy can be more difficult to grasp than traditional man-marking.

Senior defender Mary Kroening, perhaps the most valuable player for the Hoyas when it comes to both defensive and offensive corner kicks, likes to keep

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Hoyas’ Depth on Display in 6-0 Rout ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

A dominant second half and two penalty kick goals from the Hoyas’ star player led to a 6-0 rout of DePaul (4-9-2, 0-5-1) on Wednesday at Shaw field. No. 9 Georgetown (113-1, 4-1-1 Big East) heated up in the second half despite plummeting temperatures, scoring four times.

The game improves the team’s re-

cord to 4-1-1 in a tight Big East with three games left to play.

The Hoyas implemented their style of play from the opening whistle, maintaining possession and making DePaul defend in its own half. Just five minutes into the game, junior midfielder Tyler Rudy found open space outside of the 18-yard box and chipped the ball to the top right corner of the goal, surprising both the goalkeeper,

who appeared to think it was going wide, and the defense. Georgetown continued to control the tempo throughout the half, but could not score another goal until the 40th minute. A series of passes on the left flank led to a cross into the 18yard box, where Rudy was fouled as he ran onto the ball. Senior forward and captain Steve Neumann easily converted the resulting penalty kick, shooting left as the goalie

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Senior midfielder and captain Steve Neumann scored two pentalty-kick goals and notched one assist in Wednesday’s game. Five players, including sophomore forward Brandon Allen, scored in Georgetown’s overwhelming victory.

dived right. While the second half may have had more goals, the first was equally as important.

“They were sitting in pretty well in the first half and absorbing some pressure,” Neumann said. “I think any time a team is defending that much, holes start opening up later in the game.”

The second half rewarded Georgetown’s control of the game with dangerous scoring opportunities.

Neumann converted another penalty kick in the 57th minute after a handball on a shot off the head of senior defender Todd Helfrich, who started a second straight game.

About five minutes later, sophomore forward Brandon Allen was tripped by the DePaul keeper in a one-on-one situation, but he recovered and put the ball away to give Georgetown a 4-0 lead. Two more goals followed, one by sophomore defender Cole Seiler, his first of the season, and the other by freshman forward Brett Campbell, his second on the year. Allen had trouble finding touches in the first half, but the second saw the forward and one of the team’s leading goal scorers look much more dangerous.

“His movement was very good in the second half, and his hold up play was good too. It was good for him to get another goal,” Neumann said.

The Hoya offense was on full display Wednesday, recording 17 shots and 12 shots on goal, compared to one shot on goal by DePaul. That shot was easily saved by junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez, giving the team its school record-tying 10th shutout of the season. The second half score let Head Coach Brian Wiese give 20 different players game experience, and the final two goals came after the team had made a majority of its substitutions. Wiese believed the lack of a drop in the level of play after many starters had

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it simple.

“On the defensive side, I just don’t want to let the ball into the back of the net,” Kroening said. “And on the offensive side, I want to make sure the ball goes into the back of the net, no matter how.”

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Virginia native Jim Lewis was named interim head coach Thursday.

Jim Lewis Is Interim Head Coach LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

On Thursday afternoon, Georgetown University Director of Athletics Lee Reed named Jim Lewis as the interim head coach of the women’s basketball program.

The decision came two weeks after former Head Coach Keith Brown resigned amid mounting evidence that he used verbally abusive language toward his players, including audio tapes of training sessions and the testimonies of his former players. At the time of his resignation, the university was investigating allegations of misconduct.

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