The Hoya: October 3, 2014

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FALL FASHION ISSUE

COMMENTARY Fr. Kevin O’Brien reflects on how grief and hope are related.

Students model this fall’s trends in The Hoya’s annual fashion magazine.

SPECIAL PULLOUT GUIDE

STUDENTS PROTEST IMF LECTURE

H*YAS FOR CHOICE Alumni submitted a petition supporting the pro-choice group.

NEWS, A7

OPINION, A3

FOOTBALL Harvard will face Georgetown in the schools’ firstever meeting Saturday.

SPORTS, A10

Speech Policy Tested Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

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Students protested a lecture by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde with a live-action board game in Healy Circle.

Lagarde Discusses Economy Toby Hung

Special to The Hoya

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde’s lecture in Gaston Hall on Thursday morning prompted a student protest of her invitation to campus and of the IMF. In her lecture, Lagarde evaluated the future of the global economy and discussed ideas for resolving international economic problems.

About 10 students, unaffiliated See LAGARDE, A6

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Gaston Hall.

DC Voting, Statehood Debated

A student protest in Healy Circle went uninterrupted by the Georgetown University Police Department on Thursday morning, although H*yas for Choice was not allowed to table in the same spot last year.

The protest targeted the university’s invitation to Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, to speak in Gaston Hall on Thursday. Protesters played a live-action game dubbed “International Monopoly Fund,” satirizing the IMF’s approach to working with developing nations and the global economy.

According GUPD Chief Jay Gruber, the difference between GUPD’s reaction to the two groups is that yesterday’s protest did not involve setting up a table.

“The whole campus is considered a free speech zone so as long as students aren’t tabling, they can protest anywhere on campus as long as they meet the parameters of the Speech and Expression Policy,” Gruber said.

“Students can pretty much stand wherever they want as long as they’re not in violation of the Speech and Expression Policy and under university policies.”

The university’s Speech and Expression Policy states that certain “public squares” are open for student tabling, such as Red Square, Regents Lawn and the lobby of the Leavey Center, See SPEECH, A6

CONSTRUCTION DELAYED

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Special to The Hoya

Amid talk of D.C. statehood, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder brought increased attention to the District’s lack of voting representation in Congress in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus on Sept. 26.

Holder, a D.C. resident, gave the speech a day after announcing his plans to resign and focused on ensuring voting rights in states across the country.

“It is long past time for every citizen to be afforded his or her full responsibilities and full rights, including the more than 600,000 taxpayers who, like me, live in the District of Columbia and still have no voting representation in Congress,” Holder said.

According to CNN, Holder said that he would remain Attorney General until his successor is confirmed.

Currently, the District of Columbia has one non-voting delegate in the House and no representatives in the Senate. The District has three electoral votes in presidential elections, but Congress has overriding jurisdiction over the city’s affairs.

Additionally, Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-D.C.) and Mayor Vincent Gray testified in favor of statehood before a Senate committee Sept. 15, the first hearing on the issue in over 20 years.

The struggle for D.C. voting rights has been caught up in politics. In 2010, Democrats abandoned a bill that would have granted the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives when it became clear that part of the bill would repeal many of the city’s gun control laws.

Since the passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 granted D.C. residents the right to vote in presidential elections, the city has never voted for a Republican candidate. Georgetown University See DC, A6

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Despite plans announced to close the sidewalk for Northeast Triangle construction this week, the Reiss pathway remains open.

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Protesters supporting Hong Kong demonstrators rallied outside the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office on Wednesday.

Rally Supports Hong Kong Protests Students abroad advised to steer clear of demonstrations Toby Hung

Special to The Hoya

Around 200 protesters, including several Georgetown students, gathered at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and marched to the White House on Wednesday night to demonstrate support for the Occupy Central protest currently occurring in Hong Kong, where 14 Georgetown students are currently studying abroad.

The rally was organized by Global Solidarity with Hong Kong, a political awareness group advocating for universal suffrage in Hong Kong. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, the National Day of China, the group held similar events supporting pro-democracy protests in 64 cities worldwide.

In Hong Kong, an estimated 150,000 protestors, including university students, have participated in sit-ins across the city’s main districts since Sunday, calling for the Chief Executive C.Y. Leung’s resignation and for democratic electoral reform. The protesters blame Leung, who was appointed to his position two years ago, for the current political stalemate, but Leung has refused to step down. The movement gained international media attention when riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to subdue the nonviolent protesters.

“Right now, the current situation [in Hong Kong] can be described as

a war of attrition. It is a battle for the hearts and minds of the people in Hong Kong,” said Roger Li (SFS ’15), a Hong Kong native who participated in the D.C. rally. “I wanted to do as much as I could to show the world how polite and peaceful the protesters are in Hong Kong.”

Fourteen students in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region are studying with programs through the Office of Global Education, according to the office’s director, Craig Rinker.

According to Katy Berk (COL ’16), a former opinion editor for The Hoya currently studying abroad in Hong Kong, study-abroad advisers have advised Georgetown students not to participate in the protests and that it would be a violation of rules and could result in a loss of credits.

“Between that rule and the potential for violence, I’ve chosen not to attend the protests, though they’ve been quite peaceful and orderly since Sunday evening,” she wrote in an email. “The entire highway is flooded with people, the protesters are remarkably polite — serving each other free water, crackers, cool towels, hand sanitizers, even trays of McDonald’s — and there is a lively upbeat atmosphere.”

Michael Woo Cho (MSB ’16), another student studying abroad, said the protest he attended on Sept. 28 was the most violent.

“Tear gas came from everywhere and rubber bullets on the day after the protest, apparently. But people were helping each other out.

Students, foreign and domestic, helped the wounded to the back See PROTESTS, A6

Art Lovers Say Goodbye to Corcoran Gallery Charlotte Allen Special to The Hoya

The Corcoran Gallery of Art officially closed for renovations Sept.

28 after changing ownership to the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University.

The National Gallery of Art will take ownership of all artwork in the museum, which is located on 500 17th St NW; the museum, which will house contemporary and modern art, will be renamed the Corcoran Contemporary, National Gallery of Art. George Washington University will operate the Corcoran College of Art and Design, though it remains undecided how exactly it will be integrated into the university and what tuition former Corcoran students will pay. The classes at the Corcoran will continue to take place in the Corcoran building, and the tuition will stay the same at least for this school year.

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members, former students, artists and other supporters gathered Sept. 27 for a “funeral” for the formerly privately owned gallery, complete with speeches, tours of the gallery and the ceremonial laying of a wreath on the Corcoran family mausoleum.

“We are left with a gorgeous building, but it is no longer the Corcoran, but a cenotaph, a memorial to something that is not there, an empty tomb,” former director Michael Botwinick said in a statement read at the funeral by former public relations chief Carolyn Campbell.

The D.C. Superior Court approved the takeover of both the gallery and the college by the National Gallery and GWU last month, after months of deliberation and delay since the announcement of the takeover in February. Curators from both the National Gallery and the original Corcoran staff will review the piecSee CORCORAN, A6 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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OPINION

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A Precarious Expansion A focus of GUSA executives Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria’s (SFS ’15) campaign last year was the creation of a Multicultural Council to strengthen ties between student government and multicultural groups. In recent weeks, the council has materialized and is working hard to gain momentum and popularity among students.

Although the goals of the Multicultural Council are estimable in theory, those goals have attracted the opposition of the Students of Color Alliance in the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access.

Both the Multicultural Council and SOCA seek to address advocacy and programming issues that cultural groups face on campus, while working to find solutions for funding and institutional problems these groups also come across. To make matters more complicated, the Provost’s Advisory Committee has also become a forum for discussions of major issues in multicultural education. While all three groups work toward similar ends, having several forums in which to promote unity among cultural groups is

understandably confusing and could weaken the legitimacy of all three.

GUSA promotes the Multicultural Council as an advocacy apparatus, and SOCA is primarily a funding board.

But the Multicultural Council’s move to extend its influence in discussions of funding could render SOCA obsolete, as student government’s influence expands across campus in the area of multiculturalism.

If GUSA is interested in expanding its role in multiculturalism on campus, as Tezel and Jikaria have indicated, then it should more clearly define its intentions, and how it will collaborate with established groups like SOCA and the provost’s committee that have existing coalitions and credibility with both students and administrators.

In building ties with SOCA and partnering with the Office of the Provost’s student-led diversity initiative, GUSA will ensure that its Multicultural Council is filling a need, rather than adding to campus noise. The council has potential, and communication with existing campus groups is the best way to realize it.

Given that Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail service is largely out of range for the Hilltop, the Georgetown community increasingly looks to bus services as a means to get around the city.

The D.C. Circulator, which has served Georgetown well both in terms of its routes and $1 fare, has generally been a reliable method of transportation.

However, its routes and fares are likely to change in the near future, and the wisdom behind these changes should not go unquestioned. The D.C. Circulator recently announced that prices will be upped from $1 to $1.50 for SmarTrip users and $2 for people paying with cash. These price increases, Circulator says, are meant to ease the financial burden of what will be a large expansion of service over the coming years.

While many Georgetown residents will be unaffected by a 50-cent price hike, a 50 percent or 100 percent increase will have an adverse effect on the District’s low-wage workers who commute on the Circulator every day. This increase will not go unnoticed by workers who make

their daily commute twice a day and five or more days a week via Circulator. It is this burden that we should be most concerned about.

The centerpiece of this expansion, however, is a new line that circles the National Mall. The proposed route would traverse the Mall using Madison and Jefferson Drives, also circulating the Tidal Basin. This means that it would have little, if any, benefit for commuters.

While the expansion of any service initially seems like a good idea, it is detrimental when tourists’ mobility is financed by a city’s low-wage workers.

D.C.’s Department of Transportation will be holding an open house in the coming weeks in order to garner feedback about the proposed changes.

The Georgetown community would be wise to examine whether this change in service is worth its cost.

Footing the Wrong Bill

A DDOT open house will held 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Pinstripes located at 1064 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Comments on its website will be allowed starting on

Let ’Em See Our Natitude As September ends, the carefree nature of summer has now all but entirely faded, soon to be replaced by the drearyeyed, stress-filled time that is midterm season. However, one story should give all Georgetown students reason for celebration, and at least a temporary enclave from the never-ending barrage of study guides and Lau cubicles. Playoff baseball is here.

Yes, D.C. has a team. And yes, they’re pretty good.

The Washington Nationals will host at least two playoff games over the next week after capturing a division championship last month. While of course not everyone is a baseball fan, the Nats offer us all something to rally around as summer sunshine transitions to crisp fall

breezes. Having a local team that is competitive in the playoffs is a special occurrence for any city, and that shouldn’t go over our heads here on the Hilltop.

The success of the Nats not only offers substantial economic benefits and a hearty morale boost to the District, but also gives students a team to cheer for apart from those on campus. Even if your sports allegiances lie elsewhere — or are non-existent — the Nationals are an exciting option.

We all know that we’re lucky to live in D.C. The least we can do is cheer for the first chance this city has to bring home the World Series title since 1933.

That is, of course, if you aren’t a San Francisco Giants fan.

It’s time to show off our Natitude.

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On Oct. 3, He Asked Me What Day It Was — It’s Oct. 3.

Close to Home — The first reported case of Ebola in the U.S. has been diagnosed to patient Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan reportedly left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19 en route to Dallas. Before reaching Dallas, he stopped in D.C. at Dulles International Airport.

The Gnome is Werth It — If you’re lucky enough to find six of the gnomes signed by outfielder Jayson Werth, you will be awarded two postseason tickets to a Washington Nationals home game.

Gone with the Wind — D.C. is no longer consuming electricity through solar, biomass or other renewable resources with the exception of wind. Wind, which once powered 50 percent of Washington, will, for at least the next year, provide all of the District’s electricity.

Phelps Loves Records — Unfortunately, it is not Olympic records he will be competing for — instead, he will be defending his criminal record. Phelps was pulled over by Baltimore police on a DUI charge with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.14.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Abortion Deprives Children of Their Speech To The Editor: Re: “Moral Neutrality’s Threat to Free Speech,” The Hoya, Sept. 30, A3 The recent issue of free speech for H*yas for Choice is not an anomalous occurrence. From the Student Activities Fair to guest speaker events, I have read about this group constantly in a fight for their right to demonstrate throughout my time at Georgetown. When I was an undergraduate at Georgetown, I was also a member of an unrecognized student group, and I have always sympathized with the struggle to efficiently gather on campus.

While I believe that H*yas for Choice has a right to gather on campus, I find its obstacles with free speech to be representative of a fundamental issue of the group’s message. Perhaps this group should consider the rights

Joe Wiedemer COL ’14, GRD ’16

Mandatory Minimums a Better Path to Justice To The Editor: Re: “With Race, Holder’s Weak Action” The Hoya, Sept. 30, A3 I, too, have a bitter taste left in my mouth by the fact that those responsible for the financial collapse of the last decade seemed to have been simply slapped on the hand and told, “Don’t do that again.”

As a master’s of social work intern, I see the resulting effects every day for all those who were sold a bill of goods and lost everything.

However, when will we admit that individuals have the same responsibility as governments and businesses to do their due diligence? If I have an income of $30,000 per year, how could I possibly think that I could afford a $500,000 house no matter how great the deal? Could I hold Eric Holder responsible for not punishing Wall Street when I was perhaps complicit in the crime?

Personally, I think that the progress that

Holder was able to make in the elimination of mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders will make a far more dramatic and lasting change in minority communities. Since the 1980s and the introduction of crack, blacks and other minorities have been disproportionately imprisoned for drug offenses leaving children without fathers, families without wage earners and communities without hope.

By reinstating federal judicial discretion, the vast majority of those imprisoned in the United States (minorities for drug related crimes) will hopefully be able to be placed on probation (for non-violent offenders) or have shorter sentences.

This may allow them to integrate back into society quicker, more successfully and with less recidivism. Actually, I’m amazed that he was able to get that much done in this politically hostile atmosphere, and I applaud his dedication and service.

Kathryn McGinnis GRD ’95

Holder Not Responsible for Economic Disparity To The Editor: I find deeply tenuous Hunter Main’s argument (“With Race, Holder’s Weak Action,” The Hoya, Sept. 30, A3) that Attorney General Eric Holder’s racial legacy is murky due to his failure to prosecute high-level financial executives responsible for excesses of the 2008 recession. While Main accurately explains how blacks are systematically disempowered by the economic system and especially by illicit practices rampant in the recent financial crisis, he fails to convince me that Holder’s reluctance to prosecute displays cowardice in the national conversation on race.

In the first place, Holder’s jurisdiction and purview as attorney general is mainly legal: For him to take specific action on economic disparities in race would be highly irregular, even improper, unless race were a specific discriminatory practice in those financial crimes. Secondly, even if this were not the case, there is no evidence that the lack of prosecutions was in any way related to racial concerns. Rather, there are compli-

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of the 1.21 million unborn children who are aborted every year in the United States. The act of abortion, which this group strongly supports, deprives these children of all their basic rights, including free speech.

By the group’s aggressive stance on abortion, they are, by definition, advocating for the revocation of basic rights they themselves believe they are entitled to. People like Cardinal Wuerl and myself believe that if these children were given the voice they deserve, they would choose a different fate for themselves than they are so unfortunately destined to. I am happy that the situation was rectified by the campus police, I just wish all Americans were as fortunate as H*yas for Choice to be able to fight for their basic rights.

cated factors why the Justice Department has not successfully pursued high-level executives, but the inaction is largely due to a lack of clear evidence or demonstrable culpability.

Nonetheless, numerous large corporations have been held responsible in civil cases amounting in the billions of dollars: Just last month, Holder’s Justice Department settled with Bank of America in excess of $16 billion for financial fraud preceding the recession. These cases — rather than a glitzy, difficult prosecution of a notable CEO — will deter hurtful financial practices; although, even at best, such victories will not address the underlying economic disparities. More can be done to empower blacks and minorities in the financial sector, but these goals are better advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury than the attorney general. The attorney general’s influence on economic disparities is at best slight and indirect: This by no means should reflect poorly on Holder’s racial advocacy.

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OPINION

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Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J.

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ast month, Andrea Jaime (NHS ’17) died just weeks after beginning her sophomore year at Georgetown. A few hours after she died at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, students, faculty and staff gathered in Dahlgren Quadrangle for a prayer service of remembrance. We tried to fashion a message of comfort, though words seemed inadequate when compared to the loss of one so young. Presence was enough. The familiar bells of Healy rung, offering the comfort of the familiar on a day so strange.

Death relativizes everything. What seems so important becomes less so.

What is missing becomes glaringly obvious. In the “Spiritual Exercises,” St. Ignatius advises those making an important decision to imagine themselves on their deathbed, and from that vantage point, to ask what decision they would have liked to have made now. Death gives immediate and sometimes jarring perspective.

The privilege of youth is not to worry about death, which marks the years as one gets older. Thus, when a friend dies in college, the impact can be great. Not only do we deal with the loss of someone we love, but we also face head on our own mortality. We are tempted to run from this reality, trying to recapture the cloak of immortality that surrounds youth. We know death happens, but we try to put it out of our minds.

We sanitize death as best we can. But then death hits close to home, and we cannot run from it.

Thus the invitation and the challenge: stay still. The reality of our living is that living things die. While we should not wallow in this fact, getting stuck in deep sadness or fear-filled inertia, we do well to acknowledge our mortality as a truth of our existence.

Though this is a hard truth, reckoning with it can be liberating. We become more grateful for the life we have and all the people in it. Facing a horizon of limit, we realize that our choices matter because they are not unlimited. We become more intentional about how we live, appreciating that every moment is a gift and that some things are more important than others.

This perspective, which realigns our priorities, is not meant to explain away grief. When someone dies, we need to grieve. We must feel the loss to deal with it. We each grieve differently, and grief knows no timetable. Thus, it is helpful to talk to someone when we grieve. While grief can be a very lonely thing, sharing it helps to alleviate the pain. When death is sudden or the result of tragedy or injustice, healthy grieving can impel us to sow what is life-giving in a world that knows too much death-dealing.

We aspire to protect the innocent and vulnerable, work for peace and cure illnesses. Doing something constructive, as we have seen on this campus after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., is helpful as we grieve a loss, even of someone we did not know personally.

At Andrea’s memorial service, we leaned on the familiar prayers of the Jewish and Christian traditions in which Andrea was raised. Such words and rituals are the product of centuries of reflection on the reality of life and death. They also point to a hope that springs eternal. In the Christian tradition, death and suffering do not have the last word — life does. There is life after life, for God wastes nothing and redeems even the most painful loss.

When my father died, a friend wrote to me words that continue to console.

“In the love of God that binds heaven and earth, your father loves you still, and you can still love your father.” Consoling words indeed, but I still miss him very much, at the most unexpected times. Grief and hope are siblings, more than rivals.

Hope is a gift, but we need to choose to hang on to it. We can offer hope to others by words, witness or by our faithful presence. Hope is very persistent and contagious. A wise character in the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” remarked, “Hope is a good thing.

Maybe the best of good things. And no good thing ever dies.”

As the sun set and night surrounded us at Andrea’s memorial service, the lights from within Dahlgren Chapel grew brighter. Through the door of the chapel, the light reached out into the quad, and the glorious stained glass window above glowed brilliant in color, reminding us that indeed, no good thing ever dies.

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., is vice president of mission and ministry. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT … appears every other Friday.

eorgetown University’s School of Foreign Service operates a satellite campus in an oppressive Middle Eastern dictatorship.

Funded by oil money and corrupt sheikhs, Georgetown University effectively condones and promotes the human rights abuses of our host country. Why does no one talk about this?

Georgetown is not alone; we’re one of a growing number of American universities to give a free pass to our Middle Eastern donors. NYU Abu Dhabi, anyone? Cornell in Doha? It’s no mystery — when wealthy princes offer you hundreds of millions of dollars to build a campus in their country, it’s hard to say no.

But we should still be honest with ourselves about the motives and consequences of that decision.

As Georgetown students, as members of a Jesuit community and as global citizens, examining the status quo is not just important, it’s our moral obligation.

Where to begin? Freedom House has consistently ranked Qatar “not free” for over 20 years. Consensual gay sex is a crime in Qatar, punishable by up to five years in prison, but marital rape is fully legal.

Article 134 of Qatar’s penal code mandates prison time for anyone who is convicted of criticizing the emir, and a few months ago, according to Amnesty International, the Cabinet approved a draft of a cybercrimes law that would grant the government extensive powers “to punish anyone who posts or shares content that officials consider harmful to Qatar’s social values or national interests.”

Israel has even alleged that Qatar is tied financially to Hamas, the militant group in the Gaza Strip that was involved a monthlong war with Israel this summer.

And perhaps most alarmingly, Qatar uses forced labor and travel

It is time to recognize the human rights abuses of the Qatari regime, whose laws govern the SFS-Q campus. restrictions to limit the rights of migrant workers, who make up 90 percent of its population.

“Workers typically pay exorbitant recruitment fees and employers regularly take control of their passports when they arrive in Qatar,” explains Human Rights

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Watch in a description of the kafala system, which ties a migrant worker’s citizenship to his or her employer. “Migrant workers commonly complain that employers fail to pay their wages on time if at all, but are barred from changing jobs without their sponsoring

employer’s consent.” Despite making up 99 percent of the private sector workforce in Qatar, migrant workers are also prohibited from unionizing or striking.

If a worker decides to leave the country to escape these poor working conditions, he can’t do so without the explicit consent of his employer. This is all part of a clear pattern of rights denial for migrant workers, many of whom are ethnic or religious minorities.

Qatar is certainly more progressive than many of its neighbors, but that doesn’t say much in a neighborhood where women can’t drive and gays are stoned to death.

Who is to say that Georgetown’s SFS-Q campus wasn’t built by migrant workers chained by the kafala system? What about protections for SFS-Q’s gay and lesbian students? Female students? Jewish students? What about student media at SFS-Q, which lacks freedom of the press? To ignore these questions in the face of all reason and reality is either negligent, deceptive or both.

These questions must be asked, if not to find answers then at least to start a dialogue around our campus in Qatar and the application of Georgetown’s stated principles that promote equity. It was the Jesuits who coined the term “social justice,” it’s the Jesuits who stress values in our daily lives and it’s now our responsibility as a Jesuit university to examine those values in the context of our own institution. We cannot continue to fulfill our mission while ignoring egregious human rights violations in our own backyard.

Speak up, Georgetown. It’s time to publicly acknowledge the harsh reality of our partnership with Qatar.

Ari Goldstein is a freshman in the College.

OF PROGRESSIVE PERSUASION

Save Yourself From To Abandon a Policy Off-Campus Horrors Is to Break a Promise

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ost meetings between students and the Georgetown Student Tenant Association occur when it is already too late.

The students have already experienced the discomfort, stress and financial strain of horrible living conditions.

Students feel powerless, bullied and unaware of their rights; tears are not uncommon.

We’ve seen it all, from landlords who refuse to pay for exterminators to tenants who struggle without hot water in January. Unfortunately, many students sign a lease without fully understanding its contents because they feel pressured to commit in a competitive housing market.

So, how can juniors save themselves when they eventually live off campus? We can help review your lease before you sign it.

T h e main role of the GSTA is to a d vo c a te on behalf of student tenants and defend their rights against exploitation. This begins by reviewing leases for students in order to identify confusing clauses and illegalities lurking within the fine print. While each of our cases is confidential and unique, we can help firsttime student renters avoid common housing pitfalls.

First, when you are considering signing a lease, make sure you know the landlord.

Do they have a poor history or a bad reputation with previous tenants? We hear students complain about the same handful of landlords, who show up at their homes unannounced at odd hours.

However, after the lease is signed, nothing can be done because their leases allow their landlords this liberty.

Also, be sure you know the condition of the property.

Ask if the house is furnished, what utilities you are responsible for, if the property has working smoke detectors and if there are potential safety hazards. Many Georgetown students are familiar with the fire that killed MSB senior Daniel Rigby in his townhouse on Prospect Street in 2004; the reason he couldn’t get out safely

was because the basement he was renting wasn’t up to code. Safety is the primary concern, so make sure you trust the place you plan to call home.

Although it might seem unimportant now, find out if you are allowed to sublease.

Many students come to us outraged that their landlords will not let them sublease, despite unknowingly agreeing to pay rent for the summer in their leases. Landlords are not required to let you sublease, but negotiating this could save you three months’ rent down the line.

Your most immediate concern is the security deposit.

It is only legal to charge a security deposit on up to one month’s rent, but landlords have not been shy about exploiting the ignorance of students who are desperate for a lease. Your landlord might also autom a t i c a l ly deduct certain costs like repairs or cleaning fees.

Ask about this and get your answers in writing — you do not want to fight to get your money back after you have graduated and moved to another city.

The bottom line: If you don’t know what it means, then don’t sign it.

A term like “joint and several” might sound like legal mumbo-jumbo, but it means that if one of your roommates flakes, then you’re responsible for their rent. Do not be afraid to negotiate with your landlord; it is possible that he will be responsible and compromise.

But, most importantly, if there is something that you don’t understand about your lease, let someone help you.

We can explain confusing language and let you know if you missed anything. We will inform you of conditions that break the law and protect you from issues down the road. We are happy to help and will accommodate the needs of each and every student.

Students should make use of GSTA before they sign their leases.

Mary Hanley is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

Nicholas Suttle is a senior in the College. They are codirectors of the Georgetown Student Tenant Association.

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ast week’s removal of H*yas zones are located. While the Speech for Choice from public prop- and Expression Memorandum of Unerty outside the front gates has derstanding released in May includes sparked a campus-wide conversation a small paragraph describing the on what it means for a university to expansion of these spaces, no effort be “committed to standards promot- has been made to inform the student ing speech and expression that foster body of their location.

Even more frustrating, simple and the maximum exchange of ideas and repeated requests for a clear map of opinions.”

While it is important to engage in these zones have been delayed for these discussions, as the President of months. In the wake of recent univerH*yas for Choice and a student leader sity actions to relegate and suppress who seeks to simultaneously make free speech, students should be afmy organization’s viewpoint heard forded the extra security of clear inand abide by Georgetown University terpretations. policy, I am forced to confront a very Finally, students must also have the specific question: When Georgetown right to start a balanced and open diaUniversity’s administration commits logue on free speech policy at Georgeto a policy and then does not follow town. It is my position that designatthrough, what recourse do students ing specific zones as “free speech have? Is it fair to expect the student zones” actually undermines the overbody to adhere to a continually all state of discourse at our university. changing set of standards, while fail- I vehemently reject the notion that it ing to provide training to those that is possible to have “campus-wide free are expected to enforce these policies? speech” if specific zones, such as Red If Georgetown aspires Square, are designatto cultivate student life ed as places to cordon on campus, then the off speech that the administration has an university deems unobligation to ensure savory or offensive to that those enforcing traditional Catholic these policies are adteachings. equately trained in a Last January’s town timely manner. Regardhall on speech and exless of whether or not pression should serve Abby Grace the university successas an example to all fully adopts policies, administrators that a policy is a promise. students from diverse Committing to a course groups on campus of action on paper must take real issue with translate into an actual how we are able to exchange in the way that press ourselves. Holdstudents and university ing additional forums officials interact. and fostering community-wide conOf course, signing a piece of paper versation would provide university does not instantaneously change the administrators with opportunities to status quo. Rather, intentional action, better understand student concerns proactive education and initiating a and better formulate policy in accorcampus-wide dialogue are necessary dance with students’ best interests. to ensure that new campus policies Student input on the implementation do not become empty promises. of new policies would add a dimenIn this case, there are clear defects sion of accountability to ensure that in the specific actions taken by uni- these new changes become someversity administrators to implement thing more than the all-too-familiar the Speech and Expression Memoran- broken promises. dum of Understanding released last It is certainly challenging for instiMay. First, university personnel across tutions deeply rooted in faith tradivarious departments have not yet re- tions to commit to providing space ceived comprehensive training from for alternate viewpoints. However, the Office of Student Affairs on how I firmly believe that it is the correct to effectively implement updates to course of action and the only way to the Speech and Expression policy. respect the inherent dignity of every I understand that the vast majority member of our community. of Georgetown University’s employees After the initial formulation of polwork tirelessly to do their jobs effec- icy, we must hold university administively. Blaming university personnel trators accountable for its successful for systemic problems is neither pro- implementation. Without this effecductive nor equitable. Approaching tive implementation, policy ceases to this problem from the administrative be “policy”; rather, it becomes a set level is the only reasonable way to si- of broken promises, not only to stumultaneously ensure that students dents, but to the university commuand employees are being treated fair- nity as a whole. ly.

Furthermore, students have the Abby Grace is a junior in the School of right to clear, visual representations Foreign Service. Of Progressive Perdepicting where the new free speech suasion appears every other Friday.

H*yas for Choice has no reason to trust Georgetown.

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Fellow Talks Blogging, Without Freedom of Speech LAURA OWSIANY Hoya Staff Writer

Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez is one of the foremost online advocates for free speech worldwide. Her personal blog, Generación Y, is translated into two dozen languages and receives over 14 million hits per month, and she started Cuba’s first daily online newspaper, 14ymedio. Sanchez brings her knowledge of communication in closed societies to Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service as the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy’s new Yahoo Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology and the Global Internet. Sanchez will be on campus for the 2014-2015 school year, and she will teach a series of short workshops and seminars for the MSFS this spring on how to best use social media in closed societies. This interview has been translated from Spanish and edited for clarity.

How did your blog [Generación Y] start and how has it grown to what it is now?

My blog started over seven years ago in 2007. It came to be because I felt in my life very asphyxiated. I had certain elements of my life where I couldn’t really express myself, and I found the blog to be a tool in which I can go ahead and liberate myself from that asphyxiation.

I think the blog has been successful and has gained interest among readers because of many reasons. One is definitely because it is written from a country where censorship is part of everyday life and that is an element that people are very curious about. It also started shortly after Raul Castro was transferred power as president of Cuba, and so a lot of people wanted to know what was going on in the country, what was happening, and in the blog they found answers to that question.

Another element was the fact that it was written by a person born in the revolution, and who was a child of the revolution, someone that was putting out there very critical texts and was criticizing the government, and was doing it with a lot of dissolution from the island. This was a different voice from the official voice of Cuba, which is always the ones who are in power.

I also think the fact that the Generación Y blog was written by a woman, especially in a society where most of the political discourse is handled by men, was something that was very attractive.

Did you ever feel, working in Cuba on freedom of expression, that you were in danger, as power was shifting?

Yes. A few days before I was going to write my first post and after I had

made the decision to write this blog, I had butterflies in my stomach. I was very nervous because I knew I was able to cross a very particular line and I was not sure what was going to happen on the other side or what was going to be on the other side. But I also understood that the more that I wrote in my blog, the more that I was increasing the danger, but I was also increasing the protection — the protection that my readers gave me.

How did you get other people involved, knowing this would be a dangerous situation? Or did the hope of protection influence other people to want to join?

Having a blog is like having a virus.

It’s very contagious. As other people started to catch on to this, they realized that by doing their own blog, they were opening a space that they didn’t have before. I feel very lucky and very proud to have been a pioneer, to be one of the first independent bloggers in Cuba.

Speaking of growth, how have working on the blog and the newspaper helped you to grow individually?

I have to be much more responsible about how to speak and how to use words carefully because I’ve realized that words can have a wonderful impact or they can also bring the demons out in people, because I’m dealing with a very controversial topic, a topic that generates a lot of passion in people, which is the topic of Cuba. And I’ve also learned how to understand and get to know my country much better. Before 2007, I knew that repression existed; I knew that we lived in a dictatorship. But after seven years of living it myself in flesh and blood, I have lifted off the mask of that dictatorship and now see it eye to eye.

How do you see online mediums helping diplomacy and journalism to coincide to better the world and society?

A big goal of mine is, through my journalism and through our journalism as a medium, that we start breaking down the stereotypes that Cuba is just an island where we drink on the beach and play maracas. We’re also not an island full of people dressed in olive green clothing saying “Viva Fidel.” If my journalism can help in breaking down those stereotypes, I do think it’s playing a diplomatic role. It’s helping other people in other parts of the world understand that Cubans are just like any other person in the world or part of the world. And therefore, we also are entitled to the same rights and the same things that other people in parts of this planet are entitled to,

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Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez was named Georgetown’s new Yahoo Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology and the Global Internet. Sanchez will teach MSFS courses this spring. such as liberty, democracy, the right to choose and things like that.

How do you deal with accountability and ethics?

14ymedio is mainly dedicated to an editorial line that is based on information and facts ... But we’re also very aware that we’re living in a reality where transparency is not dominant, where information is sometimes spread in terms of rumors, not facts, where public institutions don’t really publicize their facts and figures so transparently, a society where the official press distorts the reality of the information that they put out there.

So our task is to make sure that we provide a newspaper every day that is objective, that is real, that is transparent, is much more difficult than when you operate in a society that does not have those

challenges.

We also have an internal policy where we’re not just committed to truth. We are also committed to verbal non-violence. For example, if we’re referring to the Cuban government, we do not say “the Cuban dictatorship,” we say “the Cuban government.” Perhaps after they read the entire article, the reader himself or herself might assume that the government is a dictatorship, but those are their own conclusions, not ours.

What do you hope to accomplish while you’re here?

I have many, many goals. If I can accomplish 10 percent of all that I have set out for, I’m going to be very happy. I want to leverage and take advantage of this academic environment, the collaboration between students and professors, to become

a better journalist. I also hope that my stay here can increase the visibility and grow 14ymedio with new audiences so that it’s similar to the likes of similar platforms and newspapers around the world.

I also want to make sure I have lectures and seminars and talk to students about how to use communication in closed societies, in that I think I have a very practical experience where I can give quite a lot because I have the experience of how in closed societies, in the worst conditions of connectivity, one can use social media to amplify one’s voice.

On a personal level, I’m very interested in being surrounded by and exploring the international aspect and the multiculturality that Georgetown has to offer. And if I can leave here doing lectures in English, that would be fantastic.

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Housing Guarantee, Eligibility Clarified Lucy Prout

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The university announced a fouryear on-campus housing guarantee for students with high financial need this fall, in a move that is expected to help around 150 seniors with high financial need.

Included in the announcement were other housing eligibility changes related to the three-year oncampus housing requirement that will be implemented beginning with the Class of 2017.

The Georgetown University Student Association worked alongside the Office of Residential Living and the Office of Student Financial Services to ensure that students who receive financial aid that covers housing costs will be guaranteed a place to live on campus during their senior year, beginning next fall.

Previously, these students had no choice but to live in off-campus housing if they did not receive housing eligibility.

“Especially for students with high financial need who relied on oncampus housing, losing that eligibility means scrambling to find inexpensive housing,” GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “Though the university provides some opportunities to cover the costs of offcampus rent, [it is] certainly not the kind of security and stability that eligibility for on-campus housing provides.”

Students who demonstrate high financial need will follow the same eligibility process as other students.

“The financial aid office will determine which students out of that list qualify for high financial need, and then they’ll send it back to housing and housing will give them eligibility automatically,” GUSA Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) said.

Executive Director for Residential Services Patrick Killilee said that he does not think that this new policy will increase the number of seniors living on campus.

“There are still a limited number of seniors we can accept. Typically we have had 500 seniors opting to live on campus in the past, and we expect that number to stay the same,” Killilee said.

Joone Wang (COL ’17) receives a full scholarship from the university and said that the new housing policy came as a relief.

“I think the new policy is great.

Now I don’t have to go through the

hassle of looking for housing off campus,” Wang said.

With this new policy in place, students receiving aid must apply via Housing-at-a-Glance between Oct. 6 and 17 of this year.

The four-year housing guarantee will only affect seniors, as all juniors are guaranteed on-campus housing eligibility due to the new three-year on-campus requirement.

“The [three-year] policy came in two folds — one to fill the new number of beds and second, to create a vibrant residential living experience for students, so that the students living on campus will have that as part of their Georgetown undergraduate experience,” Killilee said.

However, many members of the Class of 2017 were upset when this policy was announced last spring, as they were not aware of it until midway through their freshman year.

Sophomore Sarah Barney (MSB ’17) said she was planning on living on campus for three years, but said that it places a burden on students who were unaware of the policy when applying to college.

“My grade entered Georgetown thinking we’d only be living on campus for two years, but then after our freshman year, this new policy was thrown at us. I think a lot of people in my grade, myself included, think they should have ushered this in with the 2018 freshman class instead,” Barney said.

Additionally, students are concerned with an additional change to the housing process for juniors participating in fall-2015 study abroad programs, as students going abroad in the fall are no longer eligible to enter the housing lottery.

While Barney was undeterred by the new three-year requirement, she said this change will affect her when she returns from study abroad in 2016.

“This new housing program makes it really hard to study abroad junior fall because I can’t enter the housing lottery,” Barney said. “Next year, instead of having a sophomore fill in for my apartment space, I’d get put into a dorm rather than an apartment.”

Tezel and Jikaria have pledged to work with administrators to change the study-abroad housing policy.

“We are still uneasy about the eligibility process for juniors who plan to study abroad in fall 2015, and have voiced this concern to the appropriate administrators,” Tezel and Jikaria wrote in a statement.

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Epicurean has become a popular hub for late-night socializing on the weekends since it extended its hours in May 2013, but it still draws low numbers of customers on weeknights.

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Epicurean and Company has begun to break even in its venture to remain open 24 hours a day, six days a week, during the academic year. Although the restaurant still has not made a profit since roundthe-clock hours were implemented in September 2013, it has begun to attract a larger late-night crowd, according to Epicurean owner Chang Wook Chon.

Last fall, Chon told The Hoya that he estimated that an average of about 80 customers ate at the restaurant during its off-peak hours of 11 p.m. through 2 a.m.

Now, Chon says that Epicurean averages about 300 customers between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekends. During the week, however, that number dwindles to around 100 customers between the same hours.

Chon said that he keeps Epicurean open 24 hours not to drive a profit but to build a sense of community at Georgetown.

“I’m very happy about that, that I can contribute to the community,” Chon said. “I’m not looking for a profit. As long as I can break even, even if I am losing a little bit of money, I love to do it.”

However, Chon said that he was hoping to speak with the university in the near future and rework the terms of his contract so that Epicu-

rean would close at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday nights and at 2:00 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights while remaining open 24 hours during the weekend.

Vice President of Auxiliary Service Joelle Wiese said that the university is not currently considering changing Epicurean’s operational hours.

“Students and the overall community seem to like the flexibility that Epicurean offers with the menu and the hours of operation,” Wiese wrote in an email. “At this point we are not looking to change the hours of operation.”

Currently, Epicurean closes at 10:30 p.m. on Sundays and reopens at 6:30 a.m. on Monday mornings.

“The staff I have, they have to work overnight. It’s a very tough job,” Chon said.

The night manager at Epicurean is in process of recording the number of patrons the restaurant experiences on a nightly basis. At the end of the semester, Chon plans to analyze the data before discussing any potential schedule changes with the university.

The restaurant originally switched to a round-the-clock schedule as a way to bring more students back to campus, according to Chon and Wiese. Chon said that prior to the all-night schedule, students did not have a place to go on campus late in the evening, leading them to hang out on the street and make

noise.

Rodrigo Mercado (MSB ’17) often studies in Epicurean during the week in the middle of the night, and said that there are usually only a few other students in the restaurant when he is there.

“Compared to the weekends, it’s not a lot of people. I usually see maybe four or five people studying there until around 4 or 5 a.m.,” Mercado said.

“I think we can contain those students over here. I think that so far it has worked out,” Chon said.

Wiese added that Epicurean’s late night hours not only provide options at night but give residents in Darnall added convenience.

“I’ve talked to some of the students living in Darnall, and they love the fact that they can walk right downstairs to Epi.,” Wiese said.“It’s one of those things that just has got its own appeal.”

Darnall resident Jack Romine (COL ’18) said he appreciates the accessibility and community atmosphere at the restaurant.

“Epicurean really is just the one good part about living in Darnall,” Romine said. “If you’re writing a paper or are up until 4 a.m. doing your homework, you can always just go down to Epicurean after and have a quesadilla. Or if you’re out on a Friday or Saturday night, Epicurean is always there to welcome you back into its warm embrace of greasy food.”

New Center Strives to Impact Emma Rizk

Special to The Hoya

Eight months after its launch, the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation has taken steps to entrench itself in the Washington, D.C., community and to increase its interactions with the student community at Georgetown.

Beeck Center Director Sonal Shah, former deputy assistant to the president and founding director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, noted that the center had engaged with organizations in D.C. to widen its social impact.

This summer, the center was approached by the Department of Education to collaborate on President Barack Obama’s new initiative My Brother’s Keeper, a push to close the opportunity gap that young men of color face.

“It gave students a lot of exposure to senior officials in government,” Shah said.

“Data is always seen as a top down thing: Here is what the government is going to do for you. … But [this could] change the conversation about how can you use the data to do something different for yourself.”

Work on the initiative involved several meetings with Georgetown students and professors, D.C. community members, high school students and teachers and principals from Ward 7 and Ward 8. Last week several groups from the team presented their updates to Jim Shelton, the executive director of the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

“None of us went in with an idea of what the right answer was, what we went in with was an idea that if we put some interesting people together some new ideas would come out of it, and that’s what social innovation is about: how do we think about the same problems in a different way,” Shah said.

The center has aimed to expand its impact on campus as well. Paul Schmitz, the former director of Public Allies, an organization focused on encouraging leadership among young adults in low-income communities, joined the center as the Innova-

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The Beeck Center, located in the ICC, has implemented a number of initiatives to spur social innovation at Georgetown. tor in Residence.

Schmitz leads a seminar called “Leadership for Social Change,” the first session of which discussed 25 individuals surrounding Martin Luther King Jr., each of whom had to successfully fulfill their role in order for King to emerge as a national figure. The seminar is open to any students who want to join.

In addition to working with the wider D.C. community, the center has also attempted to engage more with Georgetown students, recently creating a board of 12 students to help design programming for the center.

“We want to be cross disciplinary and we want to work with people, we don’t want to be seen as a stand-alone center, so if we can do something with the Center for Social Justice, or the Berkley Center or [GU] Women in Leadership … we would be happy to work with anyone,” Shah said.

The Beeck Center has plans to participate in a competition sponsored by the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.

Additionally, Shah said that University of Southern California American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute Director and CoFounder Nadia Roumani will lead a guest seminar on design thinking.

The center has also forged a relationship with the Social Innovation and Public Service Fund, which has a $1.25 million endowment, to invest in projects that have ranged from starting community gardens in D.C., to

building cooking stoves in Rwanda.

SIPS Fund Executive Director Naman Trivedi (SFS ’16) said he hopes that the fund’s relationship with the Beeck Center would expand opportunities for grants to be offered.

The SIPS Fund partnered with the Beeck Center to co-sponsor a Social Innovation Competition in February. Additionally, SIPS has given out grants ranging in size from $300 to $13,000 to support students’ social innovation projects in D.C. and around the world.

“In the future we may try to start talking to the Beeck Center about incubating some of our projects because the Beeck Center is very well connected, not only at Georgetown, but also in D.C. as far as nonprofits go,” Trivedi said.

Caroline Egan (COL ’15), cochair of the Beeck Center’s student board, said that she hopes that as the center moved forward, it would engage students in entrepreneurship and create sustained relationships.

“We get driven into tracts that are deemed successful, be that medicine, law, consulting, politics, etc.,” Egan said. “What happens unfortunately is you have all these bright people who only go down certain paths and what we are hoping to do at the Beeck Center is essentially help them see that there are other things out there, things that you may not at first think about but are equally lucrative and much more engaging.”

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Lagarde Offers Economic Fixes Politicians Debate LAGARDE, from A1 with any student group, used props to play a game of “International Monopoly Fund” to show their opposition to the IMF as the lecture started at 11 a.m.

Students at Smith College protested Lagarde’s invitation to their campus in May, prompting her to drop out as the college’s commencement speaker.

Critics of the IMF charge that the organization has supported oppressive governments in providing aid to developing nations while imposing conditions that favor Western businesses and countries.

“That’s about the wealthy, Western countries that in the case of the IMF, have created really harmful and exploitative situations in other countries around the world that are poorer,” said Suzy Jivotovski (COL ‘15), who participated in the protest.

The monopoly game, which protesters performed three times split between Healy Circle and Red Square, positioned protesters as “big business” and pawns as the IMF. “It was kind of a total satire on the IMF’s lack of transparency, on their very interventionist, loan-shark mentality toward the global economy, toward exports,” Jivotovski said.

In her speech, Lagarde discussed the role of developing countries in the global economy.

“The developing countries have been doing all the heavy lifting in the past five years, contributing to roughly 80 percent of global growth,” Lagarde said. “Led by Asia primarily, particularly China, they will continue to contribute, but at a slightly slower pace because we are all interconnected. If some of the players are injured, the others will be affected too.”

Although these countries are in a period of growth, Lagarde said that the global economy is struggling to come back from financial turmoil.

“The bottom line is that six years after the financial crisis, we continue to

see weakness in the global economy,” Lagarde said. “We are still dealing with the legacies of the crisis — much higher debt levels and unemployment are still major difficulties.”

In proposing macroeconomic solutions to these issues, Lagarde pointed to fiscal policy, labor market reform and infrastructural reform.

“Have you heard about growthfriendly, job-friendly, and environmentally friendly fiscal policy? Because so much has already been done in terms of fiscal consolidation, countries have to do so at the right pace — not too fast, not too brutally, and they have to adjust to circumstances,” Lagarde said.

Lagarde also encouraged efficient public spending, reduction of taxes on labor costs and methods to battle tax evasion and said that tackling unemployment is a priority. She criticized current energy subsidies for fossil fuels, which cost $2 trillion in the past year, mostly to the benefit of developed countries.

However, she suggested that there is no definite method to implement labor market reform.

“There is no magic recipe because it has to be country-specific. It has to deal with the particularities of the skillset, the educational system and the kind of growth,” Lagarde said.

Lagarde pushed for policies allowing more women to enter the workforce worldwide, to maximize potential output. Lastly, she advocated for more spending on infrastructure, from providing more Massive Open Online Courses to increase workers’ skillsets to the repair of poorly constructed roads.

Anthony Albanese (COL ’16) found many of Lagarde’s comments to be relatable to domestic issues.

“The idea that increasing women’s participation in the labor force and environmental policies do not significantly decrease growth is a contentious issue domestically,” Albanese said. “That wasn’t something I expected her to say. Especially as a lot of times when speakers talk to students,

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President DeGioia welcomed Christine Lagarde in Gaston Hall. you hear a lot of vague comments, so it was cool to hear her speak to something so specific.”

Muriel Van de Bilt (SFS ’17) not only appreciated Lagarde’s emphasis on gender inequality in the labor market, but also praised her as a role model.

“Seeing a woman in such a high leadership position in a field that is usually male-dominated makes me realize that she is an example for future generations of female economists,” Van de Bilt said.

The protesters outside Healy Hall said they opposed Lagarde’s lecture because it represented the university’s propensity to present students with a singular perspective.

“The people who put on the action are just a concerned group of students that wanted to create a counterpoint to Christine Lagarde of the IMF speaking at Gaston Hall this morning to represent that we don’t like how the president’s office and administration time and time again invites speakers who talk to students about things that really only have a singular viewpoint,” Jivotovski said.

Protests Highlight Speech Policy SPEECH, from A1 known as free speech zones. The policy also specifies that protests are not subject to the same limitations as tabling activities.

According to Gruber, H*yas for Choice was removed from Healy Circle in January because they set up a table.

The group was also mistakenly forced to stop tabling on the sidewalk outside the front gates in protest of a ceremony granting an honorary degree to Donald Cardinal Wuerl, archbishop of Washington — a decision in violation of the Speech and Expression Policy, for which GUPD has since apologized.

“Having the students table there, that’s really a mean difference. Anyone can set up and stand somewhere, they can hold a banner, they can hold a sign, they can voice their opinion anywhere on campus,” Gruber said. “If you read the Speech and Expression Policy, it specifically mentions that

tabling has to take place in certain places on campus. It may seem kind of trivial, but there is a fine difference.”

According to protester Suzy Jivotovski (COL ’15), GUPD officers were present near the group’s monopoly performances in Healy Circle and Red Square, but did not approach the students.

“GUPD was present in the area and had their eye on us, but never came over to say anything,” Jivotovski said.

Jivotovski said the group made sure that they were fully versed in the Speech and Expression Policy to avoid altercations with university officers.

“Especially in light of what happened with H*yas for Choice last week, we made sure that everyone who was participating knew where the free speech zones were and we had a response plan in case GUPD did approach us about the free speech zones,” Jivotovski said.

Chandini Jha (COL ’16), one of three

student members of the Speech and Expression Committee, said that tables are currently considered “permanent installations” under the current policy.

“We are still having discussions as a free speech and expression committee about what to classify as permanent installations,” Jha said. “Basically, the situation is that we are still in the process of discussing if tables are installations that people can put down.”

Jha said that she hopes to work with the committee to secure more rights for tabling students.

“As a student representative on the group, I want to advocate for students.

Tabling is so instrumental at Georgetown,” Jha said. “It’s the way that student groups really get their message out there, but also have a visual point of contact for the organization by having students sit and stand behind the table. It’s something that’s a continued topic of discussion.”

DC Marchers Support Hong Kong PROTESTS, from A1 and carried water, food, and medical [supplies] (masks, goggles and vinyl wraps) to the front lines and a lot of adults and old citizens were helping out, too. All for their democracy. An eye watering scene,” Cho wrote in an email.

In solidarity, the Washington marchers donned black apparel and yellow ribbons as they raised open umbrellas, which came to symbolize the movement in China after protestors warded off tear gas from riot police with umbrellas.

The D.C. event began at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, where organizers distributed ribbons and flyers. Although ribbons were tied to railings outside the office, they were removed by the request of local police.

Around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the participants marched from the Trade Office to the front of the White House, raising signs and chanting along the way in both Cantonese and English.

The chants mirrored those in Hong Kong, including “Democracy, Hong Kong” and “689 Resign.” In Hong Kong, “689” is a widely used nickname for the unpopular Leung, who was elected from 689 votes in the electoral college of 1200 members. Those opposed to Leung claim that he has political leanings toward China’s mainland leadership. Just after his election in 2012, the People’s Daily, the Chinese newspaper, called Leung “comrade,” and later that year, Leung decided to require pro-China patriotic teaching in school, a decision that was eventually vetoed.

At the White House, participants sang protest anthems in Cantonese, including “Under a Vast Sky” and “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from the musical “Les Miserables.” Jeffrey Ngo, one of the rally’s main organizers, pointed to the gathering outside of the White House as a highlight of the event.

“We applied last minute for the permit to gather right outside of the White

House, and it was approved. I don’t know if Obama was at home, but if so, I’m sure he heard us,” Ngo said. “I think being able to sing such an important song as a group at that location, legally, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Ngo hoped that the rally would bring increased attention and a response from the White House to the Hong Kong protests.

“We have gathered over 100,000 signatures to support the petition asking for the White House to respond to the situation in Hong Kong. No other place is more symbolic than outside the White House to sing our song to support democracy in our hometown,” Ngo said.

Alex Snyder (MSB ’17), a protest participant born and raised in Hong Kong, agreed. He said that he hoped the rally would place increased pressure on China from the United States, particularly on Clement Leung, Hong Kong commissioner for economic and trade affairs and the most senior representative from the region to the United States.

“The U.S. really is one of Hong Kong’s largest trading partners and we hold more sway than I think we realize. It is important to get Clement Leung’s attention,” he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department to discuss the current situation in Hong Kong, stressing China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong, and warning the United States not to interfere in internal affairs.

“Hong Kong’s affairs are China’s affairs. All countries should respect China’s sovereignty,” Wang told multiple news outlets.

Ngo criticized Wang’s declaration.

“China obviously wants to keep foreign countries out of the situation, so that it can continue to exploit Hong Kongers’ rights,” Ngo said. “But I believe the international community, especially the U.K., has the responsibility to

ensure that the terms of the Joint Declaration are respected.”

The People’s Republic of China government re-obtained sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1997. The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong guaranteed the territory rights and freedoms, including freedom of the press, of speech, of assembly, of religious belief and of demonstration.

Many of the students leading Hong Kong’s protests are the first generation to grow up with memories of only Chinese rule.

Like Li and Snyder, many participants at the D.C. event are Hong Kong expatriates. Marco Lam (MSB ’18) attended the rally as an observer concerned for his home in Hong Kong.

“Many friends I know back home are divided over their political affiliations.

Some are protesting, others are antiprotest. I came here today to witness the global support for Hong Kong. Above all, I am impressed to see people halfway across the world engaged in this political discourse about Hong Kong,” Lam said.

However, not all the students who participated were from the semiautonomous region. Lixun Chen (SFS ’16), originally from mainland China, expressed his belief for the necessity of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong.

“As a frequent visitor to Hong Kong, I have always regarded it as a hub of information where I could freely gather information that was censored in China. This preservation of freedom resonates with me on a personal level,” Chen said.

Chen called for increased awareness at the university about the issue.

“I would encourage the Georgetown community to seize the initiative and learn about the history of the Hong Kong people,” he said. “To support the cause, we simply need to make it known to others.”

College Democrats President Chandini Jha (COL ’16) pointed to the Democratic makeup of the District as an impediment to meaningful change.

“From a purely political aspect, there must obviously be considerations given the fact that D.C. has always voted very blue,” Jha said. “To be truthful, I think there is a political calculation, and I think that’s why there is opposition along partisan lines.”

D.C. resident and Georgetown professor of government Stephen Wayne agreed.

“The reason there is no change today is because Republicans see it as a Democratic seat,” he said. “I don’t see this going anywhere. I think the best we can do is our license plate.”

The D.C. license plate reads “Taxation without Representation,” a rallying cry for the voting rights movement.

Washington residents pay some of the highest federal taxes per capita in the country. In the 2012 fiscal year, D.C. residents paid $32,811.79 in revenue per capita, much higher than the U.S. average revenue per capita of $7,918.73.

Jha did not think that the tax discrepancy was the most compelling argument for Congressional representation.

“The federal government directly helps us with our D.C. Council and some governmental expenses, so it is hard to say that we don’t have representation from a purely economic standpoint,” she said.

Wayne said that he thought the movement was doomed to fail, regardless of whether D.C. aimed to

gain representation through statehood or through a constitutional amendment.

“We can’t even get policy through Congress, let alone two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states to vote for that,” Wayne said. “Politically, people are self-interested rather than idealistic.”

With the political gridlock, D.C. area residents, including Wayne, shared Holder’s frustration.

“Obviously, those of us who live here would like to see voting representation,” Wayne said. “After all, I teach a course about Congress and I can’t even vote for Congress.”

Aidan Kenney (COL ’18) felt disconnected from federal politics despite living in the nation’s capital.

“I think it is unfair and arbitrary,” Kenney said. “It is absurd that a politically engaged city like D.C. is left out of federal politics.”

Nationwide, there is overwhelming popular support for D.C. voting rights.

A poll conducted by D.C. Vote, an advocacy group focused on the issue, found that 82 percent of Americans favored such a measure. Supporters of both parties were in favor of D.C. voting rights. According to the poll, 77 percent of self-identified Republicans and 87 percent of self-identified Democrats voiced support for D.C. voting rights.

Jha hoped that the difficulty in bringing full representation to D.C. would lead students to become more engaged in government locally.

“It would be great to see more students involved in advocacy,” Jha said.

“We should focus more on educating and encouraging students to get involved in local government.”

After Corcoran Takeover, Gallery Renovations Begin CORCORAN, from A1 es from the Corcoran collection to determine which will be kept within the National Gallery and which will be offered to other museums.

Founded in 1869, the Corcoran Gallery, known for its broad collection of exhibitions with an emphasis on American art and strong support of local artists, was one of D.C.’s longest standing privately supported institutions.

“It is a genuine loss for local artists, and for the many people in the D.C. area, from preschoolers to post-grad, who were able to receive an excellent art education here,” said Lisa Strong, director of Georgetown’s Art and Museum Studies M.A. Program. Strong worked as a curator at the Curatorial Department of the Corcoran from July 2010 to June 2014.

According to John Morrell, Associate professor of painting and drawing at Georgetown, the future of the Corcoran depends on the dedication of the National Galley and GWU, and remains uncertain.

“It was a very integral part of the art community for over a century here in Washington, and people feel very strongly one way or another about its future,” Morrell said.

“It’s sad to think that the Corcoran legacy will be seen mostly on labels from here on out, but only time will tell. It’s an unknown future that will be determined by the players involved.”

Strong agreed that the D.C. community would feel the loss of the gallery.

“It presented an independent and unique perspective on contemporary art. Its small size and close relationship with the local art community meant that it could mount shows that the big, federally funded institutions could not. That point of

view is lost forever,” she said.

The Corcoran Gallery struggled financially in the years preceding the D.C. Superior Court decision, finishing its 2012 fiscal year with a deficit $9.2 million and its 2013 fiscal year with a deficit of $5.5 million. Strong said that the increasing budget cuts made the operation of the museum difficult as it neared its end.

“I watched as the staff fought to hold the standards of the profession in the face of dramatic budget cuts and cancelled exhibitions. It was very difficult to see the staff contend with the shrinking resources of the museum,” she said.

The Corcoran is projected to reopen as part of the National Gallery of Art in 2015. Fifteen Corcoran staff members and curators, together with multiple members of the National Gallery, are working to smooth the transition.

“The National Gallery of Art will present important works from the Corcoran collection, as well as vibrant and exciting special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, so we anticipate that the Corcoran will continue to be an important focal point for the community interested in both American and modern art,” Deborah Ziska, National Gallery chief of press and public information, wrote in an email to The Hoya.

GWU is assuming ownership of Corcoran College and the building itself, reserving the front galleries for contemporary exhibits from the National Gallery.

“The school is still operating and classes are continuing as normal,” Kurtis Hiatt, GWU associate director of media relations, said of Corcoran College. “Like the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran, when it reopens after the renovation in late 2015, will be open free of charge.”

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Alumni Stand Behind GU, Baylor Create Partnership H*yas for Choice Xinlan Hu

Special to The Hoya

Kristen Fedor

Special to The Hoya

A group of 232 Georgetown alumni have signed a letter of concern in response to the Georgetown University Police Department’s removal of H*yas for Choice from a public sidewalk at 37th and O streets Sept. 23.

Erin Matson (COL ’02), former vice president of the National Organization for Women, organized the letter, which was sent to University President John J. DeGioia, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Jeanne Lord, Monday morning.

“I wanted to make sure that the administration knew that it wasn’t just H*yas for Choice, but a strong alumni community that stands behind them as well,” Matson said.

Matson said that DeGioia’s chief of staff already responded, assuring her that the message would be passed along to the university president.

In the letter to DeGioia, Matson wrote about both times GUPD removed H*yas for Choice during peaceful protests this year: once on Sept. 23, while the university bestowed an honorary degree upon Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, and once during the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life in January.

GUPD has since apologized for mistakenly forcing H*yas for Choice to abandon their most recent protest, which was outside the front gates, but the policies that led to the removal of the group from Healy Circle last January still stand.

“On both occasions, the students were quietly presenting an alternative view to official church teachings by advocating for reproductive rights, women’s rights and equal rights regardless of sexual orientation,” Matson wrote in the petition.

In the petition, Matson called upon the university to allow for the representation of many points of view in discussions about social issues.

“These issues matter. They are both moral and practical,” Matson wrote.

“This is an age of social change and political polarization on matters pertaining to sexuality and human rights on a national scale, as well as an international scale. Georgetown has long played a leadership role in policy debates as the premier institution of higher learning in our nation’s capital. It can no longer be that and do so if only one view may be stated.”

Last Friday, the Georgetown University Student Association Speech and Expres-

sion Committee held a meeting to address the incident and the university’s enforcement of the free speech policy.

Though the university released an updated Speech and Expression Policy in May, the committee is continuing to develop how exactly these new procedures will be enforced.

“The newer goal, following the work with GUSA and the Committee over the past year, is to see that the Committee is well-prepared to hear and respond to concerns and complaints from members of our community,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. H*yas for Choice president Abby Grace (SFS ’16) attended the meeting and said the main issue now is a lack of education that results in miscommunications regarding the details of university policy. She said that while she finds the Speech and Expression Policy changes promising, the university must remain committed to following through with its language.

The updated policy, which was released in May, includes the designation of the lobby of the Leavey Center, Regents Lawn and the Healey Family Student center as “public squares” for tabling, permits protests anywhere on campus so long as protestors abide by university policies and outlines a process for the Speech and Expression Committee to overturn misapplications of the policy.

“We think that the administrators are pretty committed to holding that up, but perhaps bringing these grandiose claims down to actual implementation is where we are actually finding the struggle right now,” Grace said.

Chandini Jha (COL ’16), a senior adviser of the Georgetown University Student Association and appointed member of the committee, echoed Grace’s call for increased education and more concrete plans. She added that administrators said they would be relying on student input throughout this process.

“We want to make sure that it goes into effect in order to have an impact on students,” Jha said.

In addition to educating the entire Georgetown community on policy, the committee also has plans to develop a specific timeline of training and maps of designated free speech zones on campus.

Grace added that she believes the successful implementation of the updated Speech and Expression Policy would enhance the Georgetown educational experience.

“It’s important to me that the community that taught me how to think also allows future students to enjoy the same level of expressions,” Grace said.

Yik Yak App Spurs Unease on Campuses Jack Bennett

Special to The Hoya

The rise of social messaging application Yik Yak on college campuses around the country has sparked concerns over cyberbullying, racism and sexual harassment.

Yik Yak is an anonymous forum that allows posts of 200 characters or fewer to be viewed by anyone within a two-mile radius. Users respond by “upvoting” posts they like and “downvoting” or reporting posts they dislike or find offensive; when a post receives enough downvotes, it is taken down. Designed for use by college students, the application is blocked at 85 percent of middle and high schools.

However, the anonymous nature of the application has raised concerns from universities. Norwich University in Vermont banned the application’s use on campus over cyberbullying, while Colgate University students were incited by racist posts on the application to stage a sit-in protest.

Yik Yak’s Lead Community Developer Cam Mullen stressed that Yik Yak does everything in its power to eradicate bullying and offensive posts, though he acknowledged it does occur.

“On Yik Yak, we do have instances of harassment or bullying, and it’s something we take really seriously and are constantly working against,” Mullen said. “If there is an immediate threat, for example a shooting threat, we immediately jump on that and will often contact police even before police contact us, and we work with them to try to track down this person,” Since the company does not have any other identifying information about users, Mullen said that the company identifies threats using GPS locations and previous posts to find users.

University of Maryland Law School professor Danielle Citron, author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” said that the application’s self-regulation is not enough to protect users.

“When abusive content like rape threats, or privacy invasions, defamation appear on their services they are not legally responsible. They’re immune from liability. So they have no legal obligation,” she said.

Citron pointed at Yik Yak as a possible perpetuator of rape culture. She discussed an incident where a UMD student brought up a Yik Yak post that threatened a female guest speaker with rape.

“What followed were other threads suggesting she should be raped, with kind of graphic descriptions of how,” she

said. “I imagine if it’s reported as abuse, they take it down, but sometimes the harm is already done. If you think about it, a rape threat is frightening to someone. And so, yes you take it down, but you take it down two days later and the person is pretty scared.”

Georgetown professor of psychology Sandra Calvert, specializing in research on information technologies and social behavior, pointed to a University of California, Los Angeles study that found that racist comments and attacks are more likely in online chat rooms when those chat rooms are unmonitored.

“I think that anytime you’re anonymous that one thing that happens is it gives you a certain element of freedom to say whatever you want because there are no consequences,” Calvert said. “So anytime you go into these public forums and there’s nobody watching you or kind of holding some kind of standards of appropriate behavior, then people are left to their own devices. So it can bring out some of the darker side of human interaction.”

However, Calvert noted that most comments [on public forums] had no real effects beyond the virtual world.

“A lot of it is innocuous,” she said.

Students who used the app agreed with Calvert, but did not see the app as a perpetuator of cyberbullying.

“I’ve seen offensive posts, but I think you take them for what they are. At least I’ve never felt really offended by any of them,” said Daniel Fain (COL ’18), who downloaded the app his second week at Georgetown. “If I felt like it actually named anyone personally, I think you can flag it as inappropriate, but I haven’t seen any that have actually marked anyone personally.”

Christina Graziano (MSB ’17) was similarly unconcerned about the app, faulting the people who misused the technology for any alarming content.

“I just think there are a couple people taking advantage of its anonymous nature and going too far with it. Like every app, someone goes too far with something,” Graziano said. “In general, I think it’s a really good outlet for people to be witty and funny, without a fear of being favorited or liked enough.”

Even with the general lack of concern on the campus, Citron urged students to understand the issues posed by social media through open discourse.

“I think the more we talk about it, the more we teach people how powerful these tools are and how it impacts people’s lives,” she said. “Having these conversations [is] incredibly important.”

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown, already partnered with Notre Dame, recently created a trifecta with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in hope of promoting religious freedom through academic dialogues.

Thomas Farr and Timothy Shah, Georgetown professors and the director and associate director of the Religious Freedom Project, respectively, initiated this alliance between the Catholic and Baptist universities with Baylor professor Byron Johnson.

Last December, Georgetown and Baylor cohosted a conference in Rome called “Christianity and Freedom: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” and the two universities sponsored a symposium the day before the Supreme Court began oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Farr said that the partnership will help each community address questions about what religious freedom entails and its importance in society and on campus.

“The partnership is designed to study religious freedom — what it is, and why it is important to individuals and societies — and to disseminate knowledge about its relationships to other political, social, economic, intellectual and religious goods,” Farr wrote in an email. “For example, is religious freedom necessary for the consolidation and durability of democracy? For economic growth? For the equality of women in law and culture? If so, those are powerful reasons for a society to embrace this fundamental human right.”

Johnson, the founding director of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, said that the partnership uses both conferences and research papers to raise academic awareness.

“Conferences [are] one way [to raise awareness]. The other is to write important papers and publish them in top journals. … You always try to publish top-scholarship highquality journalism and to write books that colleagues will read and listen to,” Johnson said. “And we hope that research will show that religious freedom is tied to a bunch of different things, like the spread of democracy, the spread of unions and economic development. … Let the research do the talking.”

Farr said that this partnership stemmed from a personal friendship.

“The partnership was the brainchild of professor Johnson, professor Shah and myself,” Farr wrote. “We had known and admired each other’s work for years, and were looking

for a way to collaborate on an issue — religious freedom — we all believe is vital for our nation and the world.”

Johnson echoed the sentiment of the partnership’s natural outgrowth from past cooperation and shared interest.

“As most things revolve around relationships, I’ve been a friend of Tom Farr and Tim Shah for many years.

We’ve worked together before,” Johnson said. “Just out of conversations, we realized that we have common interests and one of those interests is religious freedom. We just thought, instead of working together occasionally, we should work together more regularly.”

Both Farr and Johnson mentioned the unusual collaboration between Catholic and Baptist universities considering the historical tension between Catholics and Protestants.

“Baylor University is the largest Protestant research university in the world, with a strong and vibrant Baptist identity,” Farr wrote, “Frankly, we like the idea of a Baptist-Catholic collaboration on religious freedom. When we met the Pope in 2013, he clearly liked this aspect of the Religious Freedom Project.”

Kelly Thomas (SFS ’15), who has worked as a research assistant on the Religious Freedom Project since last fall, also showed her support for this interfaith collaboration.

“I like the idea that it’s Catholic and Baptist. I think it’s not just the Catholics fighting the government again. It discusses issues that many people feel,” Thomas said. “And also Baylor is a massive research university. … Baylor University made a huge gift in getting more resources to the work we do.”

Apart from the two-day conference in Rome, where members of the Georgetown community met with Pope Francis, the two universities co-sponsored a half-day conference this past March in Washington, D.C., called “Everybody’s Business: The Legal, Economic and Political Implications of Religious Freedom.” These conferences have been positively received, and the next one, entitled “Philosophy of Religion,” will be held at Georgetown from Oct. 9 to Oct. 11.

Thomas Banchoff, vice president for global engagement and director of the Berkley Center, emphasized the goal of this partnership to raise awareness of the necessity of religious freedom.

“The partnership is an excellent opportunity to deepen scholarship, debate and public understanding about religious freedom.” Banchoff wrote in an email. “Through research, teaching and outreach activities, two leading centers at two leading universities are raising awareness

of the critical importance of religious freedom in today’s world, at a time when religious persecution and violence is on the rise.

Paradoxically, this partnership has sparked controversy about the separation of church and state, since the project, which is focused on religious freedom, is headed by two institutions associated with conservative religions.

“I see efforts like this as just another attempt to erode support for separation of church and state — albeit dressed up in a fancy academic gown,” Rob Boston, director of communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State in an article in Deseret News National.

Farr refutes this claim.

“The separation of church and state is designed to protect the church from the state, not vice versa,” Farr wrote. “In the U.S. Constitution, the ban on the establishment of religion was intended, along with the free exercise clause, to ensure the active participation of all religious individuals and groups in American political life — on a basis of full equality with each other. Today that understanding is under threat from those who would privatize religion, and remove it from the public life of our nation.”

Johnson stressed the partnership’s embrace of pluralism and talked about some people’s unreasonable fears and stereotypes of proselytizing.

“We favor pluralism,” Johnson said. “The more voices the better, the more religious voices the better, no matter how diverse they are.

So whenever someone wants to silence some of those voices, it concerns us. We think atheists should have just much a voice as any religious group should have.”

Katherine Landau (SFS ’17), president of Georgetown’s Secular Students Alliance, also acknowledged the importance of this partnership in creating interfaith dialogue.

“Interfaith dialogue is extremely important because it’s supposed to foster understanding between different groups of people,” Landau said. “It’s supposed to get rid of the ‘us-versus-them’ type of stigma that different groups have. And that translates as well to the secular community.”

Both Farr and Johnson said they hope that this partnership will continue into the future. Johnson said that the partnership plans to reach out to administrators at Princeton University.

“I think it makes good sense,” Johnson. “When you have more of a voice, your perspective also benefits from having these other voices and minds engaged. And it brings the best [results].”

Expert Talks Palestine Perspective Giovanna Azevedo Special to The Hoya

Counterterrorism expert Jonathan Schanzer said Palestinian politics are overlooked in the field of Middle Eastern studies in a lecture in White-Gravenor Hall on Wednesday.

The event was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and the Georgetown Israel Alliance.

During his talk, Schanzer emphasized the fact that many people who study the Israel-Palestine conflict do so in a one-sided manner.

“Most people study the Middle East by the Israeli perspective, or the perspective of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Some people might have studied the Palestinian system, but that is extremely rare,” Schanzer said.

GIA Co-President Jessica Tannenbaum (COL ’16), a staff writer for The Guide, said that she appreciated Schanzer’s perspective.

“I think it was important for him to shift the focus just from looking at the Israeli perspective, to looking at the Palestinian perspective as well, because in order to understand this conflict, we need to look at both sides,” Tannenbaum said.

Schanzer also said he believes that having an understanding of the Palestinian political system is crucial to developing an understanding of the region, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the Israel-Palestine conflict and other major issues ongoing in the Middle East.

“The term that is used right now, a derisive term, is called linkage. If you just solved the IsraelPalestinian conflict you might be able to prevent Iran from going nuclear, the civil war in Syria and the tumult from the Arab Spring,” Schanzer said. “You might be able to prevent many things by just getting down to the core of providing the Palestinians with the state that they so desire and have been agitating for since the 1940s.”

Schanzer noted the division of the Palestinian government and how the two-state solution, which

proposes the creation of two separate and autonomous states of Israel and Palestine, ignores that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are two distinct entities separated by a barrier that Palestinians are virtually unable to cross.

“You have the Gaza strip being controlled by the Hamas and the West Bank by Fatah,” Schanzer said. “These are two separate governments, two separate funding sources, two separate police and security apparatus. These two states have not been able to agree on anything, and yet, all we have been talking about in Washington is a two-state solution.”

Event attendee Sydney Jean Gottfried (COL ’17) said that she felt like this distinction cleared up a misconception that many Americans have about Palestine.

“I thought that it was really interesting to bring to light how in Palestine there are two sides, with the Hamas and the Fatah and I think that most people don’t see that,” Gottfried said. “They just see Israel and Palestine and it can be hard to understand that within Palestine there is not a united front.”

Ian Philbrick (COL ’17), GJIA’s undergraduate online executive editor, said he agrees that there is a problem with how we narratively frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The way that it is depicted in the media and the way we understand the situation as policymakers or even students is not necessary true to the situation on the ground,” Philbrick said. “There is a very dangerous disconnect between what is actually happening and the policy that we recommend.”

Schanzer called for the opening up of the Palestinian political system in order to make room for innovative leaders.

“The bottom line is that Palestinians across the board don’t like their leadership and there does not appear to be any leaders in the making,” Schanzer said. “Even if there were elections tomorrow, it is impossible to tell who would be the next layer of leadership. We are looking for the next Martin

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Jonathan Schanzer discusses the Palestinian political system.

Luther King or the next Mahatma Gandhi. We need to open up the political space, and this is something that we continue to ignore.”

During a question and answer session that followed the lecture, Schanzer addressed the issues of terrorism and the threat of the Islamic State group.

“There is a common denominator across ISIS, Hamas and alQaida, which is a radical brand of Islam,” Schanzer said. “This is not Islam itself, it is an interpretation of Islam, which the majority of Muslims reject. I believe that the biggest fight that we are all going to face is this ideology, the fact that ISIS is drawing numbers of people and has such an allure.”

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), who attended the event, said he was satisfied with the objective view that Schanzer presented in his lecture.

“So much of the narrative around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driven by biased and emotional content in the mainstream media and so, hearing from an objective, experienced, research fellow like Dr. Schanzer gives a greater degree of legitimacy to the discussion and allows us to focus on what is really important,” Goldstein said.

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Women Finish 2nd, GU Freshmen Make Waves Men 4th in Beantown Matt Raab

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Kara AvaceÑa Hoya Staff Writer

With several successful meets under their belts, the Georgetown men’s and women’s cross-country teams will travel to Bethlehem, Pa., this weekend to compete in the Lehigh University Paul Short Run. The invitational meet marks both teams’ final race before the pre-NCAA meet in mid-October, giving the Hoyas one more opportunity to compete against some of the top teams in the country before the season’s first significant race.

The women’s team heads to Bethlehem following a successful showing during the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Boston. last weekend. The Hoyas, ranked fifth, finished second, with 77 points, just 22 points shy of No. 1 University of Michigan. Third-place finishers No. 14 Syracuse University finished 57 points behind the Hoyas in the 21-team competition.

“I think we ran a good race,” Women’s Cross-Country Head Coach Michael Smith said. “We were 20 points [behind] the best team in the country, and I’m thinking in September, that’s a good place to be.”

Senior Katrina Coogan finished fourth overall and was the only Georgetown runner to break into the top 10 of the 5000-meter race with a time of 17:18.0. Following her was senior Andrea Keklak, who placed 11th, finishing 11 seconds behind Coogan.

“All we think about when we race is what can we contribute to our team score to put the best Georgetown team forward,” Coogan said.

EIghteen runners are expected to compete at the Paul Short Run for the Hoyas. Junior Haley Pierce, who has not yet raced in a meet this season due to the preliminary nature of early-season meets, will be one of the top runners present. “[Pierce is] a strong contributor for us,” Smith said. “She was in our top five at the national meet last year and is a strong prospect.”

Comparatively, the men’s team had a slighterly tougher outing in Boston.

Faced with stiff competition, including No. 3 University of Oregon, No. 8 Syracuse University and fellow Big East competitor No. 16 Providence College, and running without many of their top runners, no one from the men’s team was able to land among the top 10 runners. Nevertheless, Georgetown finished in fourth place in the 19-team

field behind the strong races of senior John Murray and sophomore Scott Carpenter, who finished in 11th and 12th place of the 8000m race, with matching 24:44.0 times. The team’s collective time of 2:04:29 was exactly two minutes slower than the champion Ducks.

“I know that we have five guys who are capable of running right where John and Scott were,” Men’s Distance Coach Brandon Bonsey said. “Had we done that on that day, that would have been a very good team result.”

Over the last two races, Carpenter has been one of the two top runners for the men’s team. He finished as the fastest runner for the Hoyas during the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational and as the squad’s second-best runner in Boston. “[Carpenter] put in a really good summer and came back and he’s leading by example,” Bonsey said. “What I was most proud of with him was that on Friday [in Boston], his legs were really tired and he did not feel good the whole race but he gutted out a really good team race.”

The Hoyas will continue to emphasize the importance of running as a team, a key component of success in cross-country.

“Coaches have been stressing that everything we do has to be team-based,” said junior Ahmed Bile, who finished 18th among 182 total racers. “Even if you’re not having a good race, you can still run a great team race.”

Both teams are not particularly affected by the results of the first few races, considering these races as the early part of the process to prepare for the bigger and more important events later in the season, including the upcoming pre-nationals this month on Oct. 18 at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. “I think we’ve got a chance to have a great team this fall,” Bonsey said. “If we’re running really well by the Big East, regionals and nationals meets, then no one’s going to really remember that we were fourth in an invitational in September. We’ll be ready to go when it matters.”

The Paul Short Run will employ staggered starts, with 10 runners from each team allowed at any one time. The first 10 runners on the men’s team are scheduled to begin their 8,000m race at 11 a.m., with the additional runners running at 12:15 p.m. The first ten runners of the women’s team will begin their 6,000m race at 11:45 a.m., with the remaining eight Hoyas racing at 1:00 p.m.

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After back-to-back second-place finishes in its 2012 and 2013 national championship regattas, the Georgetown coed sailing team looks to finally get over the final hurdle and take home a national title.

Head Coach Michael Callahan is excited with what he has seen so far from the team and believes the season should culminate with another impressive result in the spring championship season.

“We typically start off a little slower than other teams,” Callahan said. “But this year we’ve got a very talented group who are performing well.”

Although still in the early stages of the year, Georgetown sailing has won both of its opening regattas, the Riley Cup on Sept.

14 and Nevins Trophy on Sept. 21.

The coed team is currently ranked No. 2 in the country and returns the vast majority of its talent from last year’s run to the national championship regatta. New talent, however, will also be integral to the success of the team.

“I’m particularly happy with the number of freshman crews that we have coming in this year that came in with experience,” Callahan said.

This is one of the first years that no walkons made the team, with many freshmen making an immediate impact, including Meaghan MacRae, Emily Ito and Andie Dahl.

Headlining the freshman recruiting class is Lola Bushnell, who just qualified for the ISCA Women’s Singlehanded National Championship — a remarkable accomplishment for a freshman.

The Hoyas will be led by the nationally recognized quartet of senior Katia DaSilva, senior Alex Post, junior Bettina Redway and junior Nevin Snow.

With multiple All-American honors between them, Callahan believes that they are as strong a unit as he has seen in his 17year career.

Snow said that DaSilva and Post are the most vocal leaders on the squad, with a unique ability to identify with all members of the team. Because Post and DaSilva were not immediately given starting varsity roles or All-American accolades during the beginning of their Hoya sailing careers, they started from relatively low spots on the team and rose up through effort and hard work.

“[Their work ethic is] why I think that they are so well-rounded as leaders,” Snow said. “They understand what it takes to push the people who are below them to improve because they too were there at one point in their college careers and got to the top. It sets a great example.”

While the season starts in the fall, the real contest does not come until the end of the spring. Snow sees the fall campaign as a learning opportunity that the team can use to help the new members of the squad acclimate to the standards of NCAA sailing, as well as figure out the optimal combinations of personnel.

“These early races are all about trying to figure out who sails well with who, as well as trying to get the whole team’s skill level up to a spot where we can feel comfortable and ready going into the postseason,” Snow said.

As an experienced upperclassman, Snow tries to do as much teaching as he can to help expedite the learning process for the new sailors.

“A lot of the time [when I go to regattas in the fall], I’m just trying to teach the freshm-n and sophomores how to improve and compete with the level of the other varsity teams around the country. It’s all about learning,” Snow said.

Snow also mentioned that although the team racing championships are not until spring, most of the individual competitions that the top Hoya sailors have the opportunity to qualify for are in the fall.

“I do as much mentoring as I can, but I also have to focus on practicing on my own to prepare for my personal national qualifier,” Snow said. “It’s an interesting dynamic — want to be super serious and competitive right away, but, at the same time, 90 percent of the team is still in that preseason growing mode.”

The highlight of the fall schedule is the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in Cambridge, Mass., on Nov. 15 and 16, which the team views as an important benchmark.

“The ACCs are like the nationals of the fall. They are obviously very important to win and do well, but when it comes down to it they’re still just a building block for Nationals in the spring,” Snow said.

The coed sailing team will next take to the water for the Tom Curtis Memorial Regatta at the Washington Sailing Marina on Saturday, Oct. 11.

Georgetown swimming and diving will kick off its competitive season this weekend. The Hoyas will travel to Delaware for their first dual meet of the season. The meet is a chance to show off some early-season conditioning and training: it is also an opportunity for the large class of promising freshmen to get their feet wet.

Fourteen women and 10 men recruits have swelled the ranks of the Blue and Gray this offseason, increasing the overall roster size significantly, as few athletes were lost to graduation last spring. The group brings with them a promising level of talent. “That’s why the freshman class is so big,” women’s senior co-captain Casey Bandman said.

“There were so many talented members looking to swim here that [Head Coach] Jaime [Holder] said ‘Yeah we’ve got to take all these girls on’ — at least I can speak to the girls’ side.”

The freshmen will look to contribute in more ways than providing depth, as they compete at the top level in several earlyseason events, bolstering a team that was already coming off of a solid second place finish in the Big East last year.

“Its not something that we’ve had a lot of in the past — not only depth, but some of these freshmen will be top performers for us,” Holder said. “It adds a lot of elements to us and gives a lot of flexibility to our lineups.”

The freshmen will be competing across a broad breadth of events, including diving. The newcomers have impressed the upperclassmen in the first month of practice.

“We have probably our best class of freshmen ever, so it’s going to be fun to see how they race competitively,” men’s senior co-captain Jamie Gallagher said. “I’m sure they’re going to do a great job, score us a lot of points, so I think everyone’s really excited for the freshmen.”

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Freshman Peter Kalibat, sophomore Will Leach, sophomore Chandler Hinson and junior Austin Evenson will kick off the season Friday. ing quality that the freshmen are providing, the veteran base is also looking to come back strong. Although races at full speed have not begun this early in the season, the upperclassmen are optimistic with their progress in conditioning.

“For the next few weeks we are really just looking to get our racing feel back,” Bandman said. “These meets aren’t going to matter as much just because they’re so far removed from the championship season, but they’re a great opportunity to get back in racing mode and get up on the blocks and go fast.”

Events this weekend will provide a chance to display how prepared the Hoyas are at this stage in the season. The low-key Potomac Diving Relays today at 5 p.m. provide a chance for the entire team to compete, as only segments of the team travel to competitive meets. Diving will take place at Georgetown’s McCarthy Pool, while swimming events will be held at American University.

Holder said that given all of the new faces on the roster, allsquad meets are important for the team to get more comfortable with each other.

“Right now we’re just trying to get everyone in shape and on the same page because people

have come in with different levels of fitness and all that stuff, so that’s just where we’re at,” Holder said. “But we’re starting to get a little more specific, and as we get more into our dual meet season, we’ll get more information as to where everybody is.”

After that event, the team now turns its focus to the first meaningful events of the season, starting the process leading up to the Big East Championship meets in February 2015.

For Holder, that means getting to know the team for Holder.

Bandman is confident in the team’s preparation for the important meets down the road.

“I think that we’re still getting in shape, getting back to where we need to be but I know we’ll be there for the big meets,” Bandman said.

For Gallagher, the high talent level on the team results in an elevated level of expectations.

“Expectations are as high as they’ve ever been,” Gallagher said. “I think this is the best team we’ve had in the four years I’ve been here.”

For a team that finished second in the conference last year, the Big East Championship remains the top goal.

“No one ever sets the goal to be second again,” Gallagher said.

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After losing its seventh match in a row Sunday, the Georgetown volleyball team (6-10, 0-3 Big East) will compete with the Marquette Eagles (11-3, 2-0 Big East) tonight in Milwaukee and the DePaul Blue Demons (3-11, 1-1 Big East) in Chicago tomorrow in its first two of four total road matches against Big East foes.

Marquette currently sits atop the Big East standings and just outside the top 25 teams nationally. The Hoyas are 0-4 against the Golden Eagles over the past three seasons. Although Marquette poses a significant challenge for Georgetown, the team heads to Wisconsin confident in its abilities.

“We know Marquette is going to be tough, they’ve always been in the top of our conference so they have some very good players,” said freshman outside hitter Terese Cannon, who leads the Hoyas in kills. “We have had some close games in the conference so far, so we know that we can play with the teams as long as we take care of ourselves. I think we’re working well together as a team, as a unit — there’s a lot of chemistry there.”

The team’s dominant performances on defense help its cause.

The Hoyas lead the Big East in digs, which Cannon thinks is a quality of the team that will help in the upcoming road matches.

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ally, really good defense which, me being a freshman here, I’ve never really been on a team that plays good defense before so it’s really exciting for me to be part of that,” Cannon said.

With that said, the Hoyas recognize their need to improve consistency and offensive performance.

“The biggest thing for us is our inconsistency,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “There are times when we’re doing things extremely well, and then there are times when we don’t execute at that level and so everything that we’ve done this week at practice is targeted towards ‘How are we going to be more consistent?’”

Cannon concurred that the focus of recent preparations has been on increasing offensive output.

“One of the main things that we’ve been stressing in practice is getting points — actually earning and scoring points,” Cannon said. “Taking big swings, and not just keeping the ball off the ground and waiting till the other team makes a mistake, but actually going out and earning our own points.”

Marquette, the defending Big East champion, faces Georgetown with a seven-match win streak under its belt. Most recently, it defeated fellow Big East rivals Providence and St. John’s in straight sets.

“Our goal is to steal one,” Williams said of the match against

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the Golden Eagles. “We’re going to go in, we’re going to play hard, we’re going to swing as hard as we can, we’re going to try and stop their hitters, and we’ll serve them out of system — we’ll do what we can.”

The Blue and Gray will need to make a quick turnaround to prepare for DePaul on Saturday night in Chicago. Though the back-to-back matches necessitate a fast recovery for the Hoyas, the geographic proximity of the two matches diminishes the difficulties. Milwaukee and Chicago are just 90 miles apart. Williams explained that her squad will prepare for the Golden Eagles and Blue Demons in similar fashion.

“The two teams, even though they’re at different levels, have some similarities in the things that they do. We’ve been able to prepare for some things this week that we haven’t typically seen, but both teams do it,” Williams said.

Georgetown is an even 2-2 with DePaul over the past three seasons. Though DePaul is just 2-8 in its past 10 matches, they most recently routed Providence 3-0.

Considering that all of Georgetown’s Big East matches have been at home in McDonough Arena this season, the four upcoming road matches will certainly present a change.

“There’s obviously a different mindset — you’re going into a different gym and you’re going to have fans there for the other team,” Cannon said. “I’m excited to experience it for the first time.”

Also on the Hoyas’ minds are the strong offensive performances of their veteran players and their proximity to significant milestones. Senior outside hitter Alex Johnson has 999 kills in her career, as well as 945 digs. Fellow senior middle blocker Dani White has 980 kills.

“I think that they’re just out playing hard and trying to win, but when it happens, we’ll celebrate it,” Williams said of Johnson and White reaching those milestones.

After the matches against Marquette and DePaul, the Hoyas will rest for a week until two additional road matches against Villanova (9-9, 2-1 Big East) and Seton Hall (13-3, 3-0 Big East) on Oct. 10 and 11, respectively.

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Webster also provided a combined 24 points per game. Even Drew Gooden and Andre Miller, who are well past their basketball primes, provided veteran leadership off the bench and played competently in limited backup minutes.

Forwards DeJuan Blair and Kris Humphries are notable additions for the 2014-2015 season, brought in to shore up the Wizards’ depth in the paint. Meanwhile, former Georgetown student Otto Porter Jr. and Glen Rice III are coming off impressive co-MVP performances in the Las Vegas Summer League.

Of course, there is one key difference between this year and the last: “The Truth,” or former Brooklyn and Boston great Paul Pierce, who replaced small forward Trevor Ariza. Both players averaged close to 13.5 points and four rebounds a game, with impressive three-point shooting, but the details are in the contracts.

As a free agent, Ariza was demanding around $8 million per year. Because Beal’s rookie contract will expire in 2016, the Wizards wanted to leave cap space available. Enter the aging Pierce.

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of Famer for only $5 million annually. Was it the right decision? The numbers say yes.

Despite whatever assumptions fans might make about his age, Paul Pierce was a slightly better defender than Ariza. With Pierce’s offensive ability and veteran leadership that will undoubtedly help to groom Rice III and Porter Jr. to fill his shoes, the Wizards clearly got the best of the contract dealings.

So, where does all of this change put the Wizards in the Eastern Conference? At the end of the day, the Cleveland Cavaliers and their Big Three — James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving — are the team to beat in the Eastern Conference. The Wizards are also projected to finish near the top of the conference — as long as injuries don’t sideline the team’s stars and Pierce doesn’t slow down too much. If these factors fall into line, I predict that the Wizards will see yet another conference semifinals berth and finally begin to build a team that perennially challenges for the league title.

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1 Goal Enough in College Park, Md. MARYLAND, from A10 Allen. The junior forward is fourth in the country with eight goals in just 10 games, including three in the last two games. Those impressive numbers would not be possible without Muyl, who is fourth in Division I soccer in assists and who has been involved in half of Allen’s goals this season.

Allen is clearly enjoying his recent run of goal-scoring success.

“It feels like my freshman year when I had 16 goals, so hopefully this continues. I’m looking forward to the rest of the games and the Big East tournament,” Allen said.

One major difference in the Maryland game was in the Hoya back line. Junior defender Cole Seiler missed his second straight game, but he was replaced by senior and Big East Defensive Player of the Week Jared Rist. Rist has appeared in eight games this season, starting

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the last two for the injured Seiler.

Both of those starts resulted in shutouts for Georgetown.

With its nonconference schedule completed, Georgetown will begin its Big East slate with a match against No. 12 Marquette University. The Golden Eagles (6-2-0) have been one of the top teams in the country over the last month, winning six games in a row and outscoring opponents 11-0 since August. Its schedule may not have been as impressive as Georgetown’s, but Marquette will be one of the most difficult conference games the Hoyas will play all year.

Nevertheless, Allen and the Hoyas are excited for the conference part of the season to begin.

“It gets more and more exciting every game. … It’s a challenge every year to get to the Big East semifinals, so let’s just get back there and see what happens,” Allen said.

n New Year’s Day 2015, the Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks are taking it outside. The teams will face off at Nationals Park for the NHL Winter Classic — an annual outdoor game that has been an outstanding success for the National Hockey League since the inaugural iteration of the outdoor game in 2008.

Outdoor pond hockey is a source of nostalgia for both players and fans of the game. The 2008 Winter Classic brought those childhood memories back, as a snowy Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y., hosted a dramatic game that ended with Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby winning the game against the hometown Sabres xxxx in a shootout.

The past three Winter Classic games were accompanied by the HBO franchise “24/7.” Weekly hour-long episodes featured an intimate look at NHL teams as they approached the outdoor game, offering an unprecedented view into the daily life of an NHL team with uncensored material and candid content.

Despite the show’s popularity among hockey fans, HBO recently announced it would not produce “24/7” for the upcoming Winter Classic. Instead, the network EPIX will attempt to produce a show in a similar style.

Since the show’s inception, “24/7” and the Winter Classic have been almost synonymous with one another.

With HBO’s strong production value, a well-crafted mix of relatable, revealing, quirky and intense moments helped build hype in the weeks leading up to the Classic and added to the novelty of the game. One has to wonder if a lesserknown network like EPIX could create something of the same quality.

Does HBO’s departure signal the beginning of the end for the Winter Classic?

Ratings have been consistent since 2008. The game’s highest ratings were achieved twice, first in the 2009 game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings and also in the 2014 game between the Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs. The 2014 game was also the most-attended NHL game ever, with over 105,000 fans in attendance at the Big House at the University of Michigan.

The game’s consistent popularity and novelty may make HBO’s withdrawal from the series seem strange, but the savvy and battle-tested network

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Losing HBO coverage of the Winter Classic is a harbinger for reduced viewership. may be onto something. For the first time ever, the Winter Classic will be between two teams that have already participated before — the Capitals in 2011 and the Blackhawks in 2009. It is the start of a trend.

After the 2015 game, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals all will have played in two Winter Classic games. The Winter Classic competition has been mostly composed of a handful of profitable American franchises. Limiting the game to this group of teams could get repetitive and the Winter Classic could ultimately lose its charm and novelty.

It is worth noting that the NHL is largely at the mercy of television partner NBC. The network owns the television rights for game and would be unlikely to want to air an a lesser-known team. While an old versus new matchup between the Dallas Stars — formerly the Minnesota North Stars — and the Minnesota Wild would excite many passionate hockey fans, casual fans would likely not tune in.

Last year the NHL began the Stadium Series, featuring several other outdoor games in addition to the Winter Classic. For the most part, the games showcased the usual suspects for outdoor games like the Penguins, New York Rangers and Blackhawks. The series did feature some teams in unconventional and growing hockey markets like the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks, who played in front of a sold-out crowd in Dodger Stadium.

However, just as rehashing the same teams could erode the novelty of the Winter Classic, so too could such an oversaturation of outdoor games. Between the Winter Classic, Stadium Series and the Heritage Classic in Canada, there were seven outdoor games in 2014.

Each “24/7” episode featured lengthy monologues about the organic beauty of playing hockey outdoors and childhood memories of playing pond hockey.

When there are seven games a year, however, outdoor hockey tends to seem forced, artificial and more corporate than grassroots. The 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series did not illicit the same feelings in fans as that first Winter Classic game in Ralph Wilson Stadium did.

The Winter Classic will likely continue for years to come. However, the loss of HBO’s services suggests that the Classic may have lost its novelty.

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Senior midfielder Daphne Corboz notched three assists and a goal Thursday.

uses her head for wearing hats, so I was as shocked as anybody when it looped over the keeper’s head.”

No Big East games are easy, but Nolan felt that the Hoyas played too much into Bulldog hands early in the match.

“This was a good team,” Nolan said.

“If you give them the ball, they make you work hard to get it back. And in the first half we gave them the ball way too much. And then we expended a lot of needless energy trying to win it back.”

Daphne Corboz, as always, was integral to the Hoyas’ success, controlling the game from the midfield and urging the team to continue the attack.

“As an attacking midfielder, it’s my job [to attack and create chances], and it’s something that I really enjoy doing,” Daphne Corboz said. “It’s something that I have

a goal to do every single game. So today, obviously, to be involved in all the goals is really good, and it’s something I try to do.”

The team’s next game is at Shaw Field on Sunday at 1 p.m. against Providence (5-4-2, 1-1-0 Big East), a squad which finds itself ranked 71 in NCAA Women’s Soccer RPI, only 26 spots behind Georgetown and 99 ahead of Butler.

Coach Nolan expects another difficult Big East match. “[It will be] another game just like this.

Different type of team, they’ve got a kid up front who’s a real handful. I don’t think they’ll have the soccer that this team [Butler] has, but they’ll be more athletic and a little bit more blue-collar,” Nolan said.

It will certainly not be an easy game for Georgetown; the Friars beat Seton Hall (37-2, 0-3 Big East) 2-0 to open Big East play then lost just 2-1 to a very good DePaul team (10-0-2, 2-0-1 Big East).

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fensive end Zach Hodges and senior defensive tackle Obum Obukwelu. Hodges is considered the bigger threat after being named to the 2014 Preseason AllFCS First Team.

“Harvard’s defensive line is excellent,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “They have Zach Hodges, who is one of the best players in I-AA.” In Harvard’s victory against Holy Cross, Hodges tied the school career sack record at 20.5. Along with the defensive line, Harvard has an experienced group of linebackers that are excellent tacklers and were key in their defeat of Holy Cross in the season opener. Between the combination of skill and experience, this makes for an explosive Harvard defense that leads the Ivy League in points per game allowed (16.0), yards per game (332.0) and total sacks (5).

The Hoyas’ offensive line will have to work hard to keep junior quarterback Kyle Nolan away from pressure if Georgetown hopes to improve on its poor performance against Colgate, against which it passed for a lackluster 128 yards and did not enter the red zone the entire game.

Sgarlata described how the Hoyas have worked on protecting Nolan better in practice.

“You analyze the tape and look at scheme and look at the QB reads, look at the offensive line; and we’ve worked on all three phases of that, so I think we’ll have a better day on Saturday,” Sgarlata said.

If there is one weakness on the Harvard defense, it is the secondary unit, which lost three of their four starters from last year’s unit.

“We’re going to take whatever the defense gives us. We have enough talent to run the ball with Jo’el [Kimpela] and [senior running back] Danny [Wright] and our offensive line. We think we have enough weapons whether it’s running the ball or throwing the ball,” Sgarlata said.

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Junior quarterback Kyle Nolan managed 128 yards passing against Colgate last week. He has 863 yards and three passing touchdowns this season.

On offense for Harvard, junior quarterback Scott Hosch has taken the reins under center after senior quarterback Connor Hempel injured his back in the game against Holy Cross. Currently, Hosch ranks third in FCS in completion percentage at 69.6 percent. The Blue & Gray secondary, led by Scott, will look to limit this potent passing attack. Scott stressed the importance of teamwork in keeping the passing attack of the Crimson locked down.

“It’s all teamwork. I’m going to play their top wide receiver [junior Andrew Fischer] to the best of my ability and also use the help from my other guys, so it’s always a team [effort].”

As the Hoyas go into Saturday’s game, they will need to play more

balanced on offense, and sides of the ball will have to produce in order to emerge victorious. Sgarlata pointed to better offensive output as a key to the game.

“We need to be more consistent on offense. The games we’ve been more consistent, we’ve been able to move the ball and put points up, so we need to eliminate some of the unforced errors, and we need to continue to play good defense,” Sgarlata said.

After getting two punts blocked against Colgate, the Blue and Gray will also need to execute better on special teams.

Come Saturday, it will be up to the coaching staff and the players to bring together all they have worked on in practice in order to emerge victorious against the Crimson.

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The No. 18 Georgetown women’s soccer team beat Butler 4-2 on Thursday afternoon in its Big East home opener behind a hat trick from sophomore forward Grace Damaska.

Despite going down 1-0 on an early penalty and being tied 2-2 less than 10

minutes into the second half, the Hoyas (7-6-0, Big East 1-2-0) found another gear and ran away with the game, with senior midfielder Daphne Corboz contributing three assists and a penalty.

Head Coach Dave Nolan was so disappointed with the first-half performance that he moved freshman attacking midfielder Rachel Corboz back into a more defensive position alongside aerially dominant freshman defender Taylor Pak to close out the half.

“We found ourselves up 2-1 and I thought we were second-best,” Nolan said. “We never really had a grip on the game. In the second half it was

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Sophomore forward Grace Damaska had a hat trick Thursday against the Butler Bulldogs in a 4-2 win. She now has four goals this season.

disappointing when they scored a second goal because we defended poorly. We gave up a soft second goal.

And then we started to play.”

The first Blue and Gray goal came off a Daphne Corboz penalty, and the second started with freshman midfielder Chloe Knott playing a ball to Daphne Corboz, who threaded an inch-perfect pass behind the Butler defensive line for Damaska to deftly chip into the far corner of the goal.

Just four minutes after Butler (76-0, Big East 1-2-0) leveled the match 2-2, Daphne Corboz made a jinking run along the right side of the box and crossed to a wide-open Damaska, who finished with composure.

When asked about her hat trick, Damaska knew exactly the reason for her success.

“It feels awesome. I wore a braid today, so I’m going to attribute it to that, because I’m pretty superstitious,” Damaska said. “I don’t really ever head the ball. But I headed it, and it popped over and in. It was pretty surprising.”

The header was the fourth goal for the Hoyas and Damaska’s third, coming on an innocuous-looking 40-yard free kick from Daphne Corboz that was turned home by Damaska over the charging goalkeeper’s outstretched gloves.

The set-piece goal finally put the match out of reach for the Bulldogs and capped a perfect match for Damaska, who also flicked in a difficult cross which led to senior forward Vanessa Skrumbis drawing a penalty, which Daphne Corboz converted, to level the match 1-1.

“I think she’s already doubled her tally of goals for her career, and it was good to see,” Nolan said.

“Her first goal in particular was a very good goal. Great run-in, great ball from Daphne [Corboz], great finish. Second goal, she did well to keep her composure and get the shot on frame from a tight angle.

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MEN’S SOCCER

GU Shells Terrapins 1-0 on Road ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 7 Georgetown men’s soccer team ended its nonconference schedule on a high note, defeating the University of Maryland Terrapins (3-4-2) 1-0 on Tuesday. The Hoyas (6-1-3, 1-0-0 Big East) returned from College Park, Md., with only one loss in a nonconference schedule that included No. 1 Notre Dame University (5-1-2), No. 3 University of California, Irvine (8-0-1) and No. 16 Indiana University (6-1-3).

“If you had told me that out of

our nine nonconference games, [we] would have only lost one going in to [the Big East schedule], I would have been very happy with that,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Georgetown began the game promisingly, with sophomore forward Alex Muyl nearly scoring twice in the first three minutes of the game. His first opportunity came from a cross into the six-yard box by junior defender Joshua Turnley that was just slightly too far in front for Muyl to be directed into the goal.

Minutes later, a long kick from senior goalkeeper and captain Tomas

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Senior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez lead the Georgetown defense to another clean sheet Tuesday. He has allowed 0.56 goals per game this year.

The current match losing streak of the Hoya volleyball team, which has not won since Sept. 13.

Gomez bounced over the defense and found the head of a sprinting Muyl. The forward’s header would have found the back of the net if not for the long reach and quick reaction of Maryland sophomore goalkeeper Zack Steffen.

“I think we would have been very unlucky to have lost the game,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “I thought we deserved the result. We had two, three, four pretty good chances, and I think we kept Maryland to situations that were not as dangerous.”

The second half continued much as the first had, with the Hoyas creating four shots in each 45-minute period. Despite these opportunities, the match remained scoreless until the 78th minute, when sophomore midfielder Bakie Goodman battled through traffic on the left sideline and found himself in a four-on-two breakaway with Muyl, junior forward Brandon Allen and freshman midfielder Arun Basuljevic. A series of short, precise passes gave Allen an open look at goal that he converted by sliding the ball to the left of the goalkeeper. That would be the only score that the Hoyas would need to win the game.

“Maryland’s record is deceiving.

They play a hard schedule. They are trying to find ways to score goals, but they also make life very hard.

They were more difficult to figure out and get a rhythm against than anyone we have played all year,” Wiese said. The win over Maryland had all the markings of a classic 2014 Georgetown performance. The Hoyas earned a shutout, created the majority of dangerous opportunities in the game and got the gamewinning goal from Allen.

Even the goal itself seemed familiar, with assists coming from regular providers Goodman and Muyl and the clinical finish provided by See MARYLAND, A9

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Junior running back Jo’el Kimpela has 251 yards on 62 attempts this season. He also has 37 yards receiving in five games played.

2nd Ivy League Test Looms for Hoyas AIDAN CURRAN

Special to The Hoya

After getting shut out in its opening Patriot League game at Colgate University, the Georgetown (2-3, 0-1 Patriot League) football team looks to rebound in a nonconference game Saturday, hosting perennial Ivy League power Harvard University (2-0, 1-0 Ivy League) at 12 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

The Hoyas look to regain their momentum after seeing their twogame win streak abruptly end last weekend, losing 19-0 to Colgate while being outgained in offensive yardage 349-163. Junior cornerback Ettian Scott describes the mood of the team going into the Harvard game.

“We always have high morale.

We have this theory called ‘You win or you learn.’ We feel like we’re going to come out here and take it to Harvard,” said Scott, who leads the team in interceptions with three.

The Hoyas are looking past Colgate after learning from their

mistakes and focusing on Harvard with a determined attitude. Junior running back Jo’el Kimpela built off of Scott’s comments.

“We’re going to improve, get better each and every day, learn from the mistakes we did and improve on them,” Kimpela said.

Under the direction of Head Coach Tim Murphy, the Crimson have worked to fill the void after 35 seniors graduated from last year’s 9-1 Ivy League co-champion squad.

They have gotten off to a good start this season, defeating Holy Cross 41-18 and notching a comefrom-behind victory against conference rival Brown University 22-14.

Georgetown also defeated Brown two weeks ago 17-3. However, the Hoyas head into Saturday’s game as clear underdogs.

The Crimson return an experienced offensive line and defensive line that are considered the strengths of the team. The defensive line is anchored by senior deSee HARVARD, A9

OUT OF OUR LEAGUE

Wizards Build Upon 2013 Playoff Magic

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t has been nearly three-and-a- Westbrook, Wall played suffocathalf years since “Do the John ing defense and averaged two steals Wall” came out. Back then, per game, winning this year’s NBA the popular dance was about the Slam Dunk Contest. Fellow guard only good thing to come out of the Bradley Beal has flourished, playWashington Wizards. Sure, they ing to the tune of an efficient 17 had a hot new prospect in Wall, points per game thanks to his 41 the explosive guard from the Uni- percent sharpshooting and low versity of Kentucky, but they also turnover rate. A solid backcourt had not gotten past the first round pairing eluded the Wizards for of the playoffs since 2005 and were years, as the likes of Shaun Livingsin the middle of what would be a ton, Nick Young and Arenas failed five-year postseason appearance to pan out. Now, Washington has drought. The team only warranted two stars to build around. an ESPN appearance when former The determining factor that led forward Javale the Wizards to McGee made a this past seaboneheaded Not son’s Eastern Top 10 play or Conference when shooting semifinals, howguard Gilbert ever, was the Arenas brought i mp r ove m e n t a firearm to his of role players. locker at the Center Marcin Max Fiege Verizon Center.

Gortat rejuveFollowing the nated his career rise of LeBron in 2013-2014, James on the New pickups Pierce and averaging 13 Miami Heat, the Blair will put the Wizards points and 10 Wizards were rebounds per relegated to irin a position to contend. game. Granted, relevancy in the at age 30, his Eastern Conference. five-year contract extension for $60 Fast forward to the 2013-2014 million had many scratching their season: It is easy to see that the heads. But, in reality, this was just front-office executives have worked a reflection of the annual salary some magic. Wall has grown to be cap increases from the current itone of the league’s most effective eration of the collective bargaining point guards, averaging 19 points agreement. and nine assists per game. With Forwards Nenê and Martell athleticism matched only by the See FIEGE, A9 Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell