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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Senior Day success

GU beat Seton Hall to secure a second place finish in the Big East.

EDITORIAL Two years after it was punished, the Voice deserves more space.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A2

SCOOTERS Students will be able to rent Hoya Saxa Scooters to help navigate campus.

ABORTION CLASS A GULC course involving a pro-choice group has drawn criticism.

NEWS, A6

NEWS, A5

ANC OKs Dorm Proposals Unanimous board approves updated construction plans Suzanne Monyak Special to The Hoya

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GUSA President Nate Tisa closes two weeks of contention Monday night, signing a revised GRLF authorization next to bill co-sponsor Seamus Guerin.

Tisa Signs Revised Version of SIPS Bill Madison Ashley

sion that we’re making today.”

Tisa’s veto was the first from a GUSA president in three years, and GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) the move drew criticism from both signed a revised version of a bill he senators and SIPS board members, vetoed two weeks ago on Monday who claimed that Tisa did not bring night, allowing SIPS to extend grants up these concerns during the senas well as loans through its Green Re- ate approval process, rather waiting volving Loan Fund. until the bill arrived on his desk to The Georgetown University Stu- voice his discontent. dent Association senate unanimousTisa said that he signed the revised ly passed the revised bill Sunday eve- bill because of the language change ning, as it had with the original bill that referenced SAFE reform. two weeks earlier. At the time, Tisa “It has language that will stand said that the senate did not give the the test of the time,” Tisa said. “This bill proper attention, citing three is a good conclusion for an issue that main concerns: was blown a little vague language, out of proportion. a lack of transparIt’s a positive step, ency in the Social and we’re all ready Innovation and to move forward.”

Public Service Fund Guerin said that approval process a rushed procedure and that the bill for the original bill did not go through was the primary the Finance and Apcause of the breaknate tisa (SFS ’14) propriations ComGUSA President down in communimittee. cation among the Although the new Act Concern- senate, executive and SIPS board. ing the Initiation of the Georgetown “It could have been done differUniversity Green Revolving Loan ently. This is a great point for us to Fund bears much resemblance to its learn from going forward,” Guerin predecessor, the new version cites said. “It’s important that we’re makthe history of Student Activities Fee ing informed decisions when we are Endowment reform, which provided deciding student financing here.” the money used to establish SIPS, SIPS Fund Managing Director and was written “in the spirit of the Ethan Chess (COL ’14) approved referendum” that displayed student of the new bill, though he had exsupport for SIPS in 2012, according pressed frustration earlier that the to co-sponsor Seamus Guerin (COL approval process stalled the fund’s ’16), chair of the GUSA Finance and plans.

Appropriations Committee. Fin/App “It looks great,” Chess said. reviewed the new version of the bill. “We’re very satisfied with the pro“We see direct reference to lan- cess. There were a number of great guage and documents,” Guerin said.

See SIPS, A6 “It’s a lot more of an informed deci-

Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown gained approval to construct its proposed Northeast Triangle residence and reclassify Ryan and Mulledy Halls as residential buildings from Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E on Monday, marking an important step in the university’s quest to accommodate 385 more students in on-campus housing by 2015.

At the meeting, Georgetown’s Vice President for Planning and Facilities Robin Morey presented what he described as a “small variance request” of 17.2 feet to accommodate the Northeast Triangle. In the proposed variance, the dormitory would reach 30 feet from the border of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, located on 35th Street, although the closest building on the Visitation property would be more than 600 feet from the new dorm. Under current plans for the new dorm, Georgetown will also maintain 33 percent occupancy of its acreage with buildings, comfort-

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Robin Morey, vice president for planning and facilities, reviews blueprints for the Northeast Triangle residence, which he called “unobjectionable.” ably below the 40 percent occupancy limit.

“We believe this is unobjectionable,” Morey said to the board in his presentation.

The board unanimously approved zoning variance to construct a building in the formerly designated green space in the Northeast Triangle while also unanimously grant-

For $370M, cars would link Union Station, Georgetown Johnny Verhovek Special to The Hoya

“GUSA will be sure to follow up with Residential Living to see if it’s a pattern,” Tisa said. “Doors are personal free-speech zones, and if you disagree with someone, you should express that in your own zone.”

H*yas for Choice Board Member Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS ’17) has had his door in Darnall vandalized at least twice.

“Every time they rip it down, I’m going to put it back up. I mean, there is an infinite amount of envelopes in the world, so I can always find another,” DeLaurentis said. After his condoms were torn down, he hung a sign that said, “Every time you rip this down, I’ll make a donation to Planned Parenthood,” which was also ripped off the door.

“I’ll just keep upping the ante and put little jokes up like that,”

A D.C. Department of Transportation report encouraged the city to move forward on plans to construct a streetcar line that would connect Georgetown and Union Station at a cost of nearly $370 million.

The Georgetown Premium Transit Alternative Analysis Study, which was released last week, included a detailed analysis of the necessity of expanding transportation options on the east-west corridor between Georgetown and Union Station, a route usually plagued by traffic and without any public transit options besides the Circulator bus.

“The streetcar would supplement the pre-existing modes of transportation the city already has, and would serve an area that is full of public transportation-reliant residents, especially in the Georgetown neighborhood,” Georgetown Business Improvement District Transportation Director Jonathon Kass said.

The study will be followed by an environmental review and approval process and then move to the design and construction phases.

Geographically, the study focused on the neighborhoods that stand to benefit the most from the construction of the streetcar, mainly Georgetown, West End, Foggy Bottom, downtown and the area north of Massachusetts Avenue.

The streetcar would run primarily along K Street NW, New Jersey Avenue NW, and H Street, and while advocates for its construction recognize the streetcar’s potential effect on D.C. neighborhoods, they

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Kevin Spacey, the actor known most recently for his role in the Netflix drama “House of Cards,” spoke Monday in Gaston Hall. See story A5.

Condom Representatives Suffer Vandalism Special to The Hoya

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Representatives post condom envelopes on their dorm doors. @thehoya

Envelopes on dorm room doors that contain condoms distributed by H*yas for Choice have been repeatedly vandalized in freshman residence halls, leading to intervention from the Office of Residence Life and the Georgetown University Student Association.

Most of the incidents have occurred in Darnall Hall, especially on the fourth floor, but the problem is not limited to one dorm, according to H*yas for Choice President Laura Narefsky (COL ’14).

“H*yas for Choice has never had openly malicious dealings with any of the anti-choice groups on campus,” Narefsky said. “This is a much more widespread, new phenomenon.”

Designated H*yas for Choice con-

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Crosstown Streetcar Proposed

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“[This act] has language that will stand the test of the time.”

Ashley Miller

ing Georgetown’s request to rezone Ryan and Mulledy — a Jesuit residence left vacant since 2003 because of an asbestos issue — from academic buildings to residential buildings.

Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee expressed

dom representatives keep envelopes with condoms on their doors that students can take for free when they need. Dorm-room doors are considered free-speech zones like Red Square, where H*yas for Choice often distributes condoms during the day.

“The Office of Residential Living recently addressed reports from concerned students that personal items, specifically envelopes containing condoms, were removed from their room doors without permission,” Director of Residential Education Ed Gilhool wrote in an email. “Vandalism of any sort, especially of another student’s door, detracts from a sense of safety and inclusion and will not be tolerated.”

GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), who identified expanding freespeech zones as a main goal for his time in office, agreed that maintaining free speech is a priority.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, november 5, 2013

THE VERDICT

C EDITORIALS C C Revisiting Voice Sanctions C Founded January 14, 1920

A reassessment of the Georgetown Voice’s office is long overdue.

In August 2011, three Voice staffers attempting to evade Department of Public Safety officers crashed through the ceiling of a fourthfloor room in Leavey Center, creating several thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. The responsible parties were amply punished, and the Voice was forced to suspend one of its weekly issues.

While this alone would have been an adequate response, the Voice was then forced in October to trade offices with the Georgetown Debate Team. As predicted, the smaller workplace has proven to be a significant imposition on the Voice, with nearly a dozen of their 40-plus active staffers overflowing onto the hallway floors each production night.

Two years have passed, and plans to lift the punishment are nowhere to be seen. The university owes the current Voice staff immediate reconsideration of their office situation.

Of course, difficulties arise when locating a larger space where the Voice could oper-

ate. Simply reversing the office swap would victimize Georgetown Debate, which, due in part to its office expansion, has recently seen considerable growth and success. Only a year after they moved down the hall, the debate team went on to clinch the title of national debate champions.

Decisions surrounding student space are complex, involving many moving parts and many legitimate interests vying for limited resources. On Georgetown’s campus, which faces severe space limitations to begin with, there is likely no quick fix here to restore what has been taken. And yet a punishment cannot justifiably be left in place simply because it is inconvenient for the imposer to reverse.

The Voice provides a valuable service to the campus community, powered by dedicated staffers in what are already demanding positions. When new contributors continue to suffer the consequences of a now-distant memory, it is time for the university to recognize that enough is enough.

Skating Season — Starting this week, Georgetown’s Washington Harbor rink ice skating rink will open for the winter.

Moving On Up — Business Insider readers ranked Georgetown the 19th-best university in the country, up from 20th from last year.

Driver Drama — According WUSA9, many District taxi drivers are pulling their cabs from the streets rather than face $250 fines for not installing newly approved dome lights.

Monitoring Gunfire — Over the past three years, D.C. police recorded a total of 39,000 gunshots fired in the District using ShotSpotter, a new acoustic surveillance network.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

A Service for Safe Sex Last month, H*yas for Choice introduced a complementary condom delivery service, modeled after Boston College Students for Sexual Health. Using a Google form, the Georgetown system allows students to request condoms for a party or event up to 48 hours in advance.

H*yas for Choice, which introduced its delivery service with little fanfare early October, has since drawn the condemnation of some student groups and individuals, with some even opining that such a policy could promote sexual assault. And while the service might sound peculiar, under the circumstances it is worthwhile.

Contraception is certainly polarizing on a Catholic campus, but in this case there are subtleties worth exploring. For one, while it is clear that the service seeks to promote safe sex, it is certainly not clear from any evidence that such a policy would increase the level of sexual activity on campus, let alone lead to sexual assault. Providing condoms

in a party setting where alcohol is present — versus under more neutral circumstances such as a Student Health Center — is not the best way to communicate the sobering necessity of contraception. But it is also important to recognize that the university’s stringent policy on condoms does not leave H*yas for Choice with many options. Though the group is permitted to table in Red Square and provide a bowl of condoms, few students have the courage to help themselves while so many peers around them rush to class.

Obligated to comply with university regulations, H*yas for Choice is thus required to find less explored avenues to promote safe, protected sex. Of course, free condoms distributed by the Student Health Center would send a better message about the serious implications behind sexual choices. But as this is not permitted, it is understandable and commendable that H*yas for Choice is looking outside of the box.

What’s After Dark Now? What’s After Dark, a program founded in 2007 that supported sober nightlife activities, was discontinued last week. Plagued by a shortage of university funding, the program’s elimination may have been justified.

However, its abrupt end could have been avoided if the university heeded an idea posed by the Georgetown University Student Association 2012 Student Life Report: merging What’s After Dark with the Georgetown Programming Board.

What’s After Dark was founded in response to increased student demand for late-night events that did not involve alcohol or illicit substances. After five years of mixed results, however, the 2012 Student Life report, a document intended to catalyze improvements to the undergraduate experience, suggested that the creation of What’s After Dark was a misstep in the first place and that the university should instead bolster GPB’s nighttime programs.

That advice, however, was ignored. Now, What’s After Dark has been cut without a comprehensive plan to bring its most successful elements under the umbrella of GPB — or really any visibly comprehensive plan at all.

The group’s leftover funding is being worked into other organizations, including those that What’s After Dark had supported. But with a majority of What’s After Dark’s funding going toward the Healey Family Student Center, it now seems unlikely that GPB will be able to make up for What’s After Dark once provided.

The Student Life Report was meticulously compiled with a keen eye to the future of Georgetown. Administrators at the time promised to give full consideration to its contents.

While they were by no means obligated to comply with all student suggestions, had they followed the report’s advice in this instance, it’s likely we would not be left scrambling to keep the niche on campus for substance-free programming filled.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Understandably, personal budget limitations come with my job description — I am a doctoral student in reproductive cancer physiology, and I stand mere months away from my thesis defense and graduation. There are the expected challenges you are warned of in orientation, such as long nights, coffee dependency, peer review and troubleshooting experiments. Then there are the unexpected: government sequestration and professional budget cutbacks.

Indeed, the sequestration’s effects on my graduate education are multifaceted and critical. It has been reported that the National Institutes of Health budget cuts due to sequestration equate to approximately 2,400 fewer research project grants in universities and institutes across America. Thus, my co-students and I are limited in the experiments we can conduct due to reduced disbursement of grant money.

Funding biomedical science investigations and those personnel in science, technology, math and engineering related jobs is absolutely essential. Each day, in my lab alone, we are discovering more information on how dietary

Elissa Carney Doctoral candidate, Georgetown University Medical Center

CORRECTION The article “Adjunct Unionization a National Struggle” (A1, Nov. 1, 2013) incorrectly reported that Seattle University adjunct professor Michael Ng had student loan debt. Ng did not have student loan debt.

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exposures can prevent breast cancer, affect recurrence of cancer in cancer survivors and optimize chemotherapy drugs for women. Biomedical science research directly informs physician recommendations and healthcare.

One aspect of my graduate training is problem solving. While I acknowledge the challenging situation facing our policy makers, the rigorous biomedical research that lends our country to being a global leader in science and technology must be maintained.

Every day matters in science. By limiting biomedical research, medical advances are impeded, and American health care is put at risk.

I cannot predict the long-term outcome of the sequestration. However, unless we find a better solution, it will become harder to satisfy my graduation requirements, I will have fewer opportunities for post-doctoral training and — the scariest part — there will be an even more reduced economic climate (un)welcoming me upon graduation day.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER

Exclusion Has No Place In Service

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wo recent opinion pieces in The Hoya, “Return to Christianity as the Root of Charity” (A3, Oct. 21, 2013) and “Bridging Divides in Service” (A2, Oct. 29, 2013), addressed divisions between student organizations that pursue social justice, particularly groups within the Center for Social Justice and traditional Catholic organizations. While engagement with social justice on campus cannot be so neatly divided into two camps, these poles — one secular, the other Catholic — seem to be the primary stakeholders in this generally latent tension. These discussions have the potential to add great value to student life on campus.

When I arrived at Georgetown, I was vacillating between agnosticism and atheism, even facetiously referring to myself as a “recovering Catholic.” This is a position in which many millennials who were raised Catholic now find themselves, seeing little reason to commit to a scandal-ridden institution in this increasingly secular age.

Though my devotion to religion had waned, I had always been interested in social and political change, and from my first days on campus, the CSJ gave me an outlet for exploration. I remember joking that I was glad to have found a place where I could talk about making the world a better place without being a hippie or a missionary. And, even better, I could do so through a secular prism.

Years later, I can now say that my involvement with CSJ has been the gateway to many of my most rewarding college experiences. I would no longer say, however, that I look through an exclusively secular prism. Georgetown has given me the valuable space to re-engage with my Catholic faith. I attribute this development to three changes: studying abroad in a traditionally atheistic country, a deeper reflective capacity and a better understanding of my own values. Ironically, the latter two would have been impossible without my engagement at CSJ. A secular institution was instrumental in rediscovering my faith.

The CSJ does not, however, provide ample space for people to discuss their faith in relation to social justice; I reached my conclusions about my faith mostly on my own. Grounded in the secular service-learning tradition, the CSJ does create some space for discussing the intersection of so-

Georgetown should avoid a tradition of social justice that promotes exclusion. cial justice with class, race, sexuality and gender.

Yet faith seldom enters into the equation. In fact, in my experience, many at the CSJ are categorically opposed to directly addressing faith, despite its centrality to many people’s understandings of social justice. Even religious students who are active at the CSJ rarely address their faith there. The issue, I think, is an overextension of the term “secular,” which is taken to mean that religion has no role when it really means more that religion has no required or defining role.

Unfortunately, Catholic social justice groups are also capable of a pernicious kind of exclusion. Andrew Schilling’s viewpoint, for instance, gives the Catholic tradition a monopoly on social justice. By citing Pope Benedict XVI’s warning against detaching charity and truth, he dismisses those approaches that are not rooted in Christian natural law and orthodoxy.

But Schilling should also consider Pope Francis’ warning in a homily a few weeks ago against Christians “who have the key in their hand but take it away without opening the door,” which the pope argued is the product of the reduction of faith to ideology and the disposal of Christian tenderness and meekness. While practitioners of the Catholic tradition of social justice, in other words, need not dilute their faith, they ought to keep the door open. Mocking tolerance and openness, as Schilling’s column does, only closes the door to individuals like myself who are under the impression that certain groups would deem their faith, and therefore their understanding of social justice, as somehow unworthy. Unfortunately, justice at Georgetown is too often defined by exactly this type of partition.

“Others always have something to give me if we know how to approach them in a spirit of openness and without prejudice,” Pope Francis said. “Today, either we stand together with the culture of dialogue and encounter, or we all lose.” It was in this spirit that John Carroll founded a Catholic, Jesuit university dedicated precisely to religious tolerance. Whether our icon is Jesus Christ or Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa or Mother Jones, we should be loathe to forge a tradition of social justice on campus that promotes exclusion.

Nicholas Dirago is a senior in the College.

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER appears every other Tuesday.

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A Purpose Found in Reflection

ive life with a purpose. We often hear this phrase prescribed as a recipe for success. We are advised that living life driven by a strong sense of purpose leads to more meaningful and rewarding experiences.

We strive to find the purpose that helps us define who we are and what we are doing with our lives.

But as busy and often confused students, how do we find this elusive purpose?

While I don’t believe there is one right answer for everyone, I have found that the structured and intentional practice of reflection in my daily life has aided my pursuit to find purpose in my own life. Hopefully, reading this piece will inspire others to try it for themselves.

Intentionally reflecting empowers me to go beyond just going through the motions of life instead of merely watching from the sidelines. Reflection gives me an opportunity to stop and look for answers to the following questions: What motivates me? Why do I want to succeed? How will Georgetown assist in my growth as a student and an individual?

What prompted my long-held desire to become a diplomat? Will my career ultimately define who I am? By setting aside time to reflect on these questions, I am forced to think about how I am affecting the people and community around me.

I can trace my discovery of the power of reflection to the end of my freshman Alternative Spring Break trip to Immokalee, Fla., where I learned about issues surrounding Hispanic and Latino migrant workers, rural poverty

I’d wager that actively reflecting on each day will help you take control of your life. and modern-day slavery. With the help of a human rights group in the agricultural industry, I was immersed in the community of the migrant field workers. I met tomato pickers who described their usual workday as waking up before dawn, waiting in the parking lot hoping to be picked to work, taking a two-hour bus ride to the fields and waiting for the dew to break before picking. These men and women are paid at a rate

of around 50 cents per 32 pounds of tomatoes — a rate that has not increased since the mid-1980s.

With no benefits, no health insurance and no sick days, constant uncertainty looms over these workers. Witnessing these injustices firsthand sparked a sense of anger in me and a desire to effect change. I asked myself: How do we allow this to happen in the United States? How can I help these workers? To what extent am I willing

VIEWPOINT • Langan

to combine my career goals with my desires to solve social justice issues? When these questions became overwhelming, I began to write down my thoughts as an outlet to my frustrations. I’ve kept a journal ever since.

I did not find the answers to all of my questions immediately and still have many left to solve. I tend to have more questions than answers, but I’m content knowing I don’t have to answer all of them now. I’ve realized that the path to those answers can only start with the questions. The process of tracking my thoughts has helped me to track the progress of my fears and motivations. Flipping through my journals, I can look back and see who I was as a freshman starting my Georgetown career, and this helps me understand where I am going next.

My search for answers has taken me on a journey of self-realization. There is no guarantee that I will find answers to all of my questions, but the journey itself clarifies the sources of my motivations and fears. For me, that journey is the purpose of life.

At times, the daily schedule of classes, internships, midterms and applications make it difficult to take the time and reflect. But I call on you to challenge yourself today. Take 10 minutes to write down your goals, and then continue to add your thoughts, motivations and fears each day. If you make it a habit to keep track of your thoughts, I’d wager it will help you to take control of your life.

Nursultan Eldosov is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ...

In Catholic Thought, Solidarity Before Birth

Transcending Age In Music and Faith

tudents wonder which read- proach to human community and ings from the professor’s list to the protection of human life. Now, are really necessary, shoppers the denial of a right to life to the feare unsure just which items to bring tus also denies it all other rights and back from the grocery store and wor- any place in the human community. shippers question which command- It is not merely one restriction or ments from God’s list they really diminishment, it is the rejection of have to observe. This common ex- the new being with all its possibiliperience unfortunately also applies ties, needs and claims. The denial of when we are sorting out our moral the rights of human beings forms obligations. Since the 17th century, a central element in a long, tragic we have increasingly thought of and sinful history of rejection and contested moral issues in terms of exclusion, which has marked most the rights of the parties involved. national and religious communities, These rights are held by individual including Catholicism. subjects. Natural or human rights Proponents of abortion are not are affirmed for all human beings, animated by racial or religious prejregardless of their status, gender, re- udice, though some of them may ligion, history or individual choices. espouse a right to abortion because They express and shape our relations of a culturally based preference for with very important goods in our males over females or because they lives, such as life, liberty, happiness, fear population pressures and the security, religion and conscience. influx of immigrants from “inferior” For this reason, they usually also cultures or peoples. Principally, they have an urgency and a priority over are animated by a concern for the other claims and obligations. But rights and interests of women. all rights do not Catholicism, have an equal priwith its emphaority. The subject sis on the emCatholic social teaching of abortion, one bodiment of the proposes that the young be of the longesthuman person raised with a sense of human is willing to trace running disputes in American socithe unity and insolidarity. ety, is commonly dividuality of the put as “right to human person, life” of the fetus, versus “right to back to its embryonic beginnings in choice” of the mother. It’s apparent the fertilization of the ovum by the here that not all rights can prevail. sperm. The fetus knocks on the door The language of rights is a pow- of the human family and asks for erful instrument for legal and po- admittance as a person. The obligalitical advocacy and for protecting tion to welcome and to care for this individuals and communities. But new member falls primarily on the it is not easy to set out a clear or mother and the father, and then on concise account of how to prioritize the community. Far too often the unrights on any universal basis. Now, wed and the poor have been assigned one promising way of settling the burdens which they cannot meet. In priority question is by establishing a rightly ordered society, the rights of that some rights are more basic. But the fetus are protected by affirming this quickly becomes problematic be- the economic and social rights of the cause there are several ways in which parents. rights can be basic. These include hisCatholic social teaching proposes torical priority in being discovered that the young be raised with a sense and affirmed by society; necessity in of human solidarity; Catholic theolpursuing one’s projects or exercising ogy affirms that all are to be treated one’s rights; developmental priority as God’s children; Catholic commuin the life of the individual human nities around the world have learned subject; valuable in itself, affirma- the necessity of respecting the hution by social consensus; overwhelm- man rights of all. The Church’s deing social importance; and organiz- fense of the right to life forms part ing principles for our thoughts and of a larger vision of humanity, which decisions. does not find fulfillment in the adverThe project of basing the inviola- sarial relationships of the law court bility of certain rights on their basic or in the manipulative relations of or fundamental character becomes the market but in the communion more difficult. Catholicism did not of minds and hearts living together originally base its opposition to abor- with mutual care and respect. tion on a theory of rights or of goods that could never be violated. Rather, Fr. John Langan, S.J., is a profesit appealed to the value of human sor of philosophy, Joseph Cardinal life and to the evil of the act of killing Bernardin Professor of Catholic a human being.

Social Thought and member of the In this way, it fostered an increas- core faculty of the School of Foringly universal or “catholic” ap- eign Service.

n the flurry of excitement And then came “The Francis that has come to George- Factor: Implications of Pope town this fall with the Francis and Catholic Social founding of the McCourt Thought for American Public School of Public Policy and Life.” In a packed Gaston Hall, the arrival of a new mascot, I’d the tone of the afternoon was like to take this time to focus caught by one of the panelists, on two special events that may exclaiming, “How long has it have flown under your radar. been since a gathering of RoFirst, “The Big Band Era” cel- man Catholics were smiling ebrated in the Jazz Ensemble with joy as they reviewed their concert Sept. 20, and second, leadership?” The panel discusthe Oct. 3 inaugural event of sion and audience participathe Initiative on Catholic So- tion in a question-and-answer cial Thought and Public Life, session reflected the warmth reflecting on the first months and cautious optimism of enof Pope Francis’ leadership and gaging a pope whose humane the Catholic Church’s global openness sparked hope for the engagement. future of the Church in the Listening to the Jazz Ensem- contemporary world. It was a ble big band return for me to concert, I was the exuberance swept back into that followed the 1930s and Vatican II and 1940s, from my the early years of current age of the implemen83 to my early tation of that teens, when council. Yes, the my folks would event had its Fr. Howard Gray, S.J. take my sister sober side, too, and me to the as panelists and beautiful Palaudience owned Music and memory ace Theater the need for the can create strong in downtown Church to touch Cleveland to its roots of goscommunity. hear the big pel simplicity, bands of that era: the Dorsey transparency and humility to Brothers, Duke Ellington and make its social message credible Harry James. In the energetic and effective. As I walked out of and rousing Georgetown Jazz Gaston, I appreciated how that Ensemble, I felt the years melt afternoon we all, young and away. I was a kid again, caught old and in-between, felt that in the swing and sway of mu- we were called to a communal sic that cheered our post-De- vocation as members of the hupression years and lightened man family, a vocation to peace, the burdens of World War II. justice and reverence for the huFor that was the popular mu- manity we shared. sic that framed energies of The jazz concert represents your great-grandfathers and to me an important parallel to grandmothers so that they the life of scholarship, learnwere given hope that times ing and professional excelcould be better and that the lence that rightly characterizes world was really being made this university. For at its best, safe for democracy. I was deep- Georgetown is also a hospitable ly moved by the memories the locale where the life of music Jazz Ensemble concert stirred, and art and friendship and that miracle of imaginative re- faith help identify who we are. covery of emotions that dwell Young or old, all of us should deeply in your bones and share moments that identify in your heart. Music, when not just our chronology, but played with the excitement our spirits. When that hapof the Jazz Ensemble, bridges pens, Georgetown is a blessing the generational gap between that celebrates those moments an enthusiastic white-haired and memories when head and audience and the youthful heart come together to bind us musicians. The concert proved in hope for the future and gratito be one of those magic mo- tude for the past. ments when hope and history rhyme, when ages are tran- Fr. Howard Gray, S.J., is the scended by a common appre- assistant to the president at ciation for an art form. At this Georgetown University. As This concert, music and memory Jesuit Sees It ... appears every other Tuesday. created a community.

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has been using a non-electric scooter since the spring of Special to The Hoya his sophomore year. Warren The challenges of living doubted that electric scooters on the Hilltop may soon be would spark the interest of solved by Lucas Berry (COL the student body. ’17), the founder of Hoya Saxa “I personally wouldn’t Scooters, a business from [rent a scooter] because I which students can rent elec- think I’m pretty good at the tric scooters. regular push-scooter,” War“I’ve been looking around ren said. “I think I can get a campus and I see everybody lot faster on my own scooter. using scooters,” Berry said. “I … I think the fact that elechear a lot of complaints that tric scooters are heavier and people really want electric harder to take inside takes scooters, especially from the away a lot of the advantages freshmen, but because they that scooters have.” don’t have the funding at the Nevertheless, Berry noted moment, they can’t really that each 40 pound scooter buy their own scooter.” will come with a lock and a T h e manual scooton how ers will to proprent for erly use $30 per it. week or “For $60 per m e , month, walkpending ing into interGeorgeest. The t o w n scooters, g e t s LUCAS BERRY (COL ’17) Hoya Saxa Scooters Founder which pretty are Razor obnoxE300s, cost $220 on Amazon. ious, having to walk there “I’ve been an entrepreneur and back,” Berry said. “The through high school and I use of a scooter makes the ran my cousin’s convenience trips a lot easier on you, esstore, so basically I’m trying pecially if you’re just trying to carry out those entrepre- to go down the street and neurship goals and start my you don’t want to carry the own business in college,” Ber- weight of your bag – you can ry said. just hop on the scooter. A lot Berry launched a Facebook of people don’t have licensprofile, which has 46 friends, es, so they can’t really drive for the business venture and a moped or a car, and they sent out an initial survey in don’t want to pay their taxi order to gauge how many stu- fare. They can rent a scooter dents might be interested. and go into Georgetown or Thus far, the survey has anywhere in the area that received 35 responses. Of they choose for a lesser price these responses, 75 percent and an easier mobility than affirmed interest in renting just taking a taxi.” an electric scooter. Berry said Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14), that he will wait to buy the who also uses a push-scooter, scooters until he receives 100 praised Berry’s inventiveness. positive responses from the “It sounds like the entresurvey. preneurial spirit of GeorgeCampus scooter enthusi- town lighting up again,” Raast Cannon Warren (SFS ’14) madan said.

“For me, walking in Georgetown gets pretty obnoxious, having to walk there and back.”

Students who applied in the first round of Teach for America this year found out their assignments Thursday and will join the ranks of the 525 Georgetown alumni who have participated in the program.

“I was over-the-moon excited,” Kevin Collins (COL ’14), who was accepted to TFA’s New Orleans program, said. “I put a lot of work into the application and it was very stressful. … I’m really glad I got in.”

Thursday’s announcement marked the end of a two-month-long application process that, in addition to a written application, included a phone interview, participation in an online activity that focused on data tracking and an in-person interview. This was the first of five admissions rounds that TFA will conduct this year. Students who applied in the next round will be notified in January.

“We’re looking for people who have grit — who can grow and persist in the face of a challenge,” Gary James, a re-

cruitment associate for TFA, said.

TFA enlists college graduates and professionals who commit to spending two years teaching in urban and rural public schools. Last year, Georgetown tied for second place with the University of Pennsylvania, sending 40 graduates to the program.

Naa-Shorme Aidoo (COL ’14), who will teach elementary school students in New York, experienced the problems of the public school system when she moved from New Orleans to New Jersey during middle school. Aidoo had always been a straight-A student in New Orleans. After moving to New Jersey, she was shocked when she had trouble keeping up with the curriculum.

“That’s when I realized that I had never been pushed academically,” Aidoo said. “Somebody had been cheating me out of a real education.”

Tim DeVita (COL ’14), who was also accepted to TFA’s New Orleans program, experienced a similar wakeup call when he enrolled at Georgetown.

“I went to a pretty disadvantaged high school. It was the type of school

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Tim DeVita (COL ’14) will go to New Orleans as part of Teach for America next fall, he found out Thursday. He will join 525 Georgetown alumni who have participated.

where my freshman class was 620 and I graduated with 330 people,” DeVita said. “I didn’t realize how far behind I was until I got to Georgetown.”

Collins, who attended a private boarding school, was inspired by the academic rigor that he experienced throughout high school and college.

“I want to make sure that the kids want to be there and that they enjoy the challenge,” Collins said.

This desire to provide educational opportunities to all students is one of the values that made the applicants viable candidates for TFA. “We want people who believe that all kids can learn, who have social justice mindsets and who understand that the communities that we serve are people who are not benefitting from ‘the system,’” James said.

Diana Sainvil (COL ’14) wanted to join TFA after working with Georgetown University Mentors and Tutors.

Sainvil plans to draw on this experience when she teaches English to middle school students in Baltimore.

“Through my experience with mentoring and tutoring students … I saw just how much of a difference you can make just by giving your time,” Sainvil said. “They see you as a role model because you inspire them to really achieve their goals.”

Not only do the TFA participants hope to make an impact on their future students, but they also see their two years of service as a potential catalyst in their own lives.

“I think this is going to be the most difficult [experience] and also the most rewarding,” DeVita said. “I feel like I’m going to learn a lot about myself and I’m going to learn a lot about a different part of our country.”

Many participants plan to continue their involvement in education after completing their terms of service.

“I know I want to stay in education — maybe teach for a little longer and then try to make a positive change from outside of the classroom,” Aidoo, who is interested in pursuing a career in educational policy, said.

DeVita, a pre-med student, always assumed that he would enroll in medical school after college. Now, he is unsure of what he will pursue after working with TFA. Nonetheless, he sees his two years of service as a potential turning point.

“I am taking this opportunity because I’ve always been interested in education,” he said. “I’m trying to keep an open mind.”

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The Georgetown University Medical Center applications jumped from 11,733 to 12,250 in 2013, echoing a nationwide trend for medical schools.

Nationally, the number of medical school applicants grew 6.1 percent to 48,014, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which partially attributed the growth to the opening of four new medical schools.

Georgetown, one of the 10 most selective schools according to U.S. News & World Report rankings, interviewed roughly 10 percent of applicants and accepted 348 students this year to seat its class of 196 students, an acceptance rate of 2.8 percent.

“Correlation is not causation, but I do think the students we see coming in are really committed to our mission statement, cura personalis, care for the whole person,” Dean for Medical Education Stephen Ray Mitchell said. “I think they come altruistically.”

To Waseem Nosair (COL ’14), who is currently applying to medical school, the growth is not surprising.

“I believe that it has a lot to do with the changing demographics of the applicant pool,” he said. “More and more medical schools are taking a holistic approach in selecting candidates.”

The growth in applicant numbers is encouraging in relation to a predicted nationwide physician shortage.

In 2006, experts projected that the nation would fall between 90,000 and 150,000 physicians short by 2020, a problem accelerated by the aging of the baby boomer generation, according to Mitchell. At the same time, there has been a 15 to 20 percent increase in the number of physicians who have graduated over the last five years.

However, the full realization of the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act will worsen the nationwide shortage, as it is expected to increase the pool of Americans needing primary care physicians by roughly 30 million, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The issue is exacerbated by the growing bottleneck of medical school graduates looking to complete their necessary residency, an issue AAMC President Darrell G. Kirch called “a crisis for our nation” at a press conference in October.

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Tina Zhang (MED ’14) was among 2.8 percent of applicants accepted in 2013.

“The problem is the number of graduates of our med schools is growing, but the number of residency slots has not,” Mitchell said. “So this past year, there were, if you have this mental image of musical chairs, after the match was over, nationwide, there were a little more than 1,000 U.S. grads who did not have residency slots.”

For Nosair, completing medical school only to become caught in the residency bottleneck is concerning.

“It is somewhat disheartening to think that at some point in the future some medical students will not be able to formally complete their training despite their hard work,” he said.

Despite the issues at hand, Mitchell remains optimistic about the medical industry.

“I think students are still enthusiastic about medicine. I think they are interested and engaged in learning all they can about the politics and the economics of health care, but I don’t think their daunted by it,” he said.

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The Social Innovation Public Service Fund distributed its first grants of the year to Alternative Spring Break and the course “Philanthropy and Social Change” Friday.

ASB was awarded a $3,000 grant from SIPS, the second year the group has received funding.

According to Stefan Rajiyah (SFS ’14), the head of ASB’s board, the money will go toward financial aid for students participating in the program.

“ASB’s ongoing goal is to make trips accessible to the entire Georgetown community,” Rajiyah wrote in an email. “By reducing financial barriers through scholarships, we hope to continue ASB’s mission of building a diverse team of participants that allows students to learn from the various perspectives of their peers while exploring complex social issues.”

The SIPS Fund was created through the Student Activities Fee Endowment reform referendum in January 2012, which allocated a $1.5 million endowment

to the fund. All projects are funded with the interest that has accumulated on the endowment.

SIPS Managing Director Ethan Chess (COL ’14) said SIPS participated in ASB’s reflection session last year, and this year SIPS members hope to work more closely with ASB in purposing this grant.

“We’re also looking at creative ways we can help them bring ASB back to Georgetown,” Chess said. “We’ll see what happens.”

This is the first year that “Philanthropy and Social Change,” which is housed in the sociology department, has received a SIPS grant. The course pairs students with local nonprofit organizations in D.C., and students decide how to allocate grants among the nonprofits visited by classmates at the end of the semester.

The $5,000 in SIPS money will be added to the course’s funds for these grants.

“The point of the class is to teach undergraduates about the role of strategy in creating social chance,” said McCourt School of Public Policy Summer and Special Programs Coordinator Luisa Boyarski, who helps teach

the class. “We’re hoping the lessons SIPS has figured out … can be shared with our students, and vice versa. We’re hoping it becomes a stronger relationship.”

Chess said that the class was particularly appealing to SIPS, as it offered a chance to benefit Georgetown students and the larger D.C. community.

“We really regard it as a double victory,” Chess said. “It’s a really exciting project.”

Chess said that there were more than 10 applicants for SIPS grants, and SIPS will continue to work with them so several more can receive grants in a later round of funding in January.

The SIPS Executive Committee reviews applications and works with applicants to develop their projects before presenting them to the SIPS Board.

“Both of these projects represent something which is very close at the heart of SIPS’s mission, which is social change and social justice,” Chess said.

“SIPS is always interested in the kinds of learning opportunities that working in ASB or being a part of ‘Philanthropy and Social Change’ can generate.”

GULC Draws Pro-Life Criticism Nick Simon

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A class at the Georgetown University Law Center that partners students with the National Women’s Law Center, a pro-abortion rights group, has drawn opposition from anti-abortion groups, students and alumni.

“We have long warned about Georgetown scandals that undermine the Church’s strong defense of innocent life. But here students are being required to work for a pro-abortion lobby, making America’s oldest Catholic university an active agent of the culture of death,” Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick Reilly wrote on the group’s website.

“If allowed to continue, this puts Georgetown in direct opposition to the Church.”

The optional practicum course combines learning with field experiences, and students enrolled

in the course will spend approximately 10 hours per week engaged in the NWLC’s activities.

Although the course’s professor, Kelli Garcia, who is a senior counsel for NWLC, is outspoken about her pro-abortion rights views, the course will not specifically discuss the issue.

“While reproductive health and technologies are a part of the discourse surrounding the ACA, and thus relevant to this class’s curriculum, there are no assignments pertaining to abortion, and certainly no requirement that students adhere to a particular set of beliefs,” GULC Director of Media Relations Marisa Kashino said.

The course, titled “Regulatory Advocacy: Women and the Affordable Care Act,” will explore various issues involving women’s health including state maternity coverage mandates and eating disorders.

The main focus of the course

is consumer advocacy relating to the Affordable Care Act. “The Affordable Care Act is a major piece of legislation that has introduced significant change to the regulatory landscape and is important for anyone interested in health law or administrative law,” Garcia said.

“The course provides students with substantive knowledge of the ACA and of the real world regulatory process.”

Kashino emphasized that the discussion of these issues does not indicate the position of the university.

“Georgetown University embraces academic freedom and supports the free exchange of ideas in order to foster dialogue on critical issues of the day, such as issues relating to the Affordable Care Act. The issues discussed in this class, or any class, do not imply any institutional endorsement of a particular course of action,” Kashino said.

Spacey, Klain Talk Ethics Braden McDonald Hoya Staff Writer

Actor Kevin Spacey and Ron Klain (CAS ’83), former chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, roused a packed Gaston Hall on Monday evening in a discussion about ethics in politics.

Most of the event, in which Klain, currently an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, asked Spacey questions about his career and personal views, centered on the ethical commentary in Spacey’s TV show “House of Cards.” The NetFlix series, which stars Spacey, is the work for which he is most famous.

Spacey amused the audience by appearing in a Georgetown crewneck sweater, cursing unsparingly and demanding a Starbucks coffee from an aide in the middle of the event, alluding to his pompous “House of Cards” character, Frank Underwood.

He said that the show, which depicts American politics as ruthless and ethically shady, carries special relevance at a time when the United States is enduring what he called “one of the most paralyzed governments” in years.

“There are … politicians who were viewed as ruthless, very difficult, in your face and [who] would do dirty, dirty nasty things, who are being reexamined. Lyndon B. Johnson is being reexamined as a politician. A lot of people thought he was the toughest son of a b - - - - in the world, but he got three civil rights bills passed,” Spacey said.

Spacey drew on his experience filming “Recount,” a 2008 political drama in which he played Klain, to affirm that the macabre portrayal of American politics in “House of Cards” is accurate.

“The s - - - that went down in that experience was some

of the most extraordinary mind-boggling manipulation.

I watch what’s going on in Washington and I think to myself, ‘our scripts aren’t that f - - - ing crazy,’” Spacey said.

To provide an example, Spacey argued that the ambiguity surrounding the validity of promises in the series is reflective of their impotence in today’s political climate.

“We’ve just been through a situation that began, or was at least spearheaded by, a promise that was made and couldn’t be delivered on: Boehner say-

“People in your generation have the power to shape the news.”

RON KLAIN Former Chief of Staff to Joe Biden

ing it was, ‘Yes, we have a deal, Oh, I can’t deliver on the deal, Oh, let’s shut down the government.’ We do seem to be existing in a time where that is happening. Welcome to the world of human contradiction,” he said.

Despite these grim realities, Spacey reminded the audience that effective public service has the potential to make seismic progress.

“I believe in public service, and I think it’s an extraordinary thing when people decide they want to become involved in their communities or state or country … and help those who are in a more difficult situation. A lot of [politics] turns people off … but there are a lot of incredible things that can be done,” he said.

Klain drew on his lengthy career in government to argue that ethics still have a prominent place in U.S. politics.

“I understand why there are political figures who disappoint and disenchant us,” Klain said, “But I believe people

on both sides are in politics for the right reasons and do things in an ethical way every day.”

Spacey agreed, suggesting that to deem a politician either unethical or ethical is too simplistic.

“Life is not black and white, and sometimes it is very easy for us to say, ‘This is bad,’ and, ‘This is good,’ whereas we all generally live in a world that’s a little more gray. It’s the gray that’s interesting — where we find common ground,” he said.

The event’s lengthy questionand-answer period allowed the audience to ask Spacey and Klain about modern politics and aspects of their careers.

Notably, Spacey lamented the way in which the 1980s decision of media organizations to prioritize profitability has compromised the integrity of modern news outlets.

“When you make it have to be profitable, it can no longer be news. When it competes against entertainment, it’s entertainment,” he said.

“People tune into a channel to hear their own opinions voiced back to them again and again.”

In counterpoint, Klain argued that the rise of social media has played a pivotal role in democratizing news. He recounted that once the “Twittersphere” affirmed that President Obama performed poorly in the 2012 presidential debate in Denver, Obama’s team of “news spinners” were left powerless to influence popular opinion.

“People in your generation have the power to shape the news,” he told the audience, earning loud applause.

The most thunderous applause, however, was in response to a student’s question to Spacey about the likelihood of a female president being elected in coming races.

“If Congress isn’t ready, they better f - - - ing get ready,” Spacey said.

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Left to right: Katie Mulberger (SFS ’13), Elizabeth Cunningham (COL ’16) and Tyler Rudy (MSB ’15), all students from the D.C. area who stayed near home for college.

College, Close to Home Suzanne Monyak Special to The Hoya

College is often an opportunity to cut familiar ties and to explore new areas, but for some Georgetown students, home is only a few miles away.

“Immediately, I was a little skeptical about what exactly this experience would be like just because I’m not necessarily leaving the nest,” said Alexander Vicas (COL ’16), who lives less than 10 minutes from campus in D.C. “[But D.C.] is a very diverse place.

You get a flavor of a lot of different things, so I’m not really bored by it.”

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Freshman Survey for the Class of 2016, 38 percent of students stay within 50 miles of their home, marking a 4 percent increase from 1972, when the question was first asked.

In addition, 20 percent of respondents reported that proximity to home was a very important factor in their college decisions, a 4 percent increase from 1983 when the question was first asked.

“People like to be close to family, and they like to be in familiar places,” National Association for College Admission Counseling Director of Public Policy and Research David Hawkins told The Chronicle.

“It takes a particular person to be willing, at such a young age, to strike out on their own in such a dramatic way.”

Tyler Rudy (MSB ’15), a junior midfielder on the men’s soccer team who lives about 40 minutes away from campus, said he had always planned on staying close to home because of his close relationship with his family. Rudy’s parents attend all of his soccer games, and he visits home a few times each month for dinner and to spend time with his family, sometimes overnight.

“I knew deep down that I wanted to stay close to home,”

Rudy said. “Just knowing that they’re right around the corner when I need them is just really comforting.”

In particular, local students said that an occasional fully-stocked fridge, working laundry machine and homecooked meal were much appreciated. For example, Rudy is able to go home for alone time and to receive groceries from his parents. Elizabeth Cunningham (COL ’16), who lives about five miles from campus in Chevy Chase, Md., is also able to easily switch her seasonal clothes in and out of her dorm, and her parents often take her out to dinner when they are in town.

“I don’t spend a ton of time with them, but it’s nice to have them close by,” Cunningham said. “Just knowing that they’re there is very comforting for me. Especially if I’m stressed out, I always have the option of an escape.”

Nevertheless, the close distance to home can sometimes be confusing, particularly because college is traditionally a student’s first experience with living on his or her own.

“You are kind of living on your own, in one aspect, and then you come home and you are kind of under their roof again, so it’s kind of different,” Rudy said. “It’s like going back and forth a little bit. …

It’s tough just going for a few hours.”

Despite the number of times he visits home each month, Rudy expressed regret that he did not visit as often as he felt he should.

“Sometimes, I do feel guilty not seeing them enough — kind of funny in a way — just because I am so close to home. … I wish I had a little more time, you know what I mean?”

Rudy said.

Many local students find themselves grappling with the question of how often to visit home, particularly because of their close proximity to it.

According to Vicas, however, the enclosed nature of Georgetown’s campus has helped him to maintain a separation.

“It’s kind of its own world, outside of the place I’ve grown up,” Vicas said.

Katie Mulberger (SFS ’13), who is from Alexandria, Va., agreed.

“A lot of people ask me if my parents come and bother me a lot, and they really keep to themselves,” Mulberger said.

“I tried to stay here as much as possible and do things with my friends and go out in Georgetown rather than heading home to Alexandria.”

Cunningham said that she is able to successfully maintain her independence from her family, despite their close proximity.

“When I need them, they’re here, but they’re not pushing me to come to every birthday or go to all of the events that I would with my family,” Cunningham said.

Nevertheless, it can be difficult to draw that line.

“People just expect that when I’m at school, I’m actually at home,” Cunningham said. “People don’t really realize that I’m still at school even though I’m close to home.”

After attending Sidwell Friends School in D.C., Cunningham said that she never envisioned herself going to college down the street.

“I kind of overlooked [Georgetown] as an option,” Cunningham said. “[But] I fell in love with it. I feel like, especially after going to school here and realizing that I still love it, I’m never going to leave D.C.” Mulberger, who spent her freshman year at Penn State, agreed.

“I was slightly homesick freshman year … but coming back here and going to school 10 minutes away from where I live — it’s much easier,” Mulberger said. “I can’t see myself living anywhere else.”

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While condom envelopes have been torn down in the past, Narefsky said the volume and nature of the vandalism has increased this semester.

“What made these incidences in Darnall different was that there were repeated events targeted at one or two students in particular and they were happening in the middle of the day, which makes it different than some of the other things that we have had happen,” Narefsky said. She also described a more typical instance of vandalism, in which a student

was awoken by a commotion outside his door on a Saturday morning and found condoms lying on the ground outside.

H*yas for Choice condom representative Daniel Medina (COL ’17) took down his envelope due to his frustration with repeatedly affixing it to his door.

“I was just annoyed by it getting taken down and redecorating it,” Medina said.

However, H*yas for Choice condom representative Kat Chen (COL ’17) said that the vandalism was not going to change her views.

“Taking it off isn’t going to affect my views on the issue

and it’s not going to affect me putting them on my door,” Chen said.

Narefsky contrasted the goals of students who choose to be condom representatives with the vandalism.

“If there is something that you want to talk about, all the people who serve as condom reps do so because they are a safe, open and friendly environment to talk to about any issues related to reproductive health, and the fact that students are targeting and not only violating their free expression, but putting them in a position where they are targeted is really shocking,” Narefsky said.

DDOT Suggests Streetcar STREETCARS, from A1 view it as a much-needed addition to the city’s established bus and Metro systems.

Kass touched on the effect the new streetcar would have on employees and students living in Georgetown who commute to other areas of the city, stressing the need for the line to run as close to the university as possible.

“The Georgetown [Business Improvement District] has been working closely with the university and the Georgetown community to move forward, as it’s clear that the university stands to

benefit from seeing this project become a reality,” Kass said.

Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee echoed the importance of this project for the university community.

“The streetcar will provide the university with a direct connection between our main campus, SCS downtown campus and the law center, and could supplement our current GUTS service. The university and the hospital are two of the largest employers in Washington, D.C., and effective public transporta-

tion to the main campus is critical for those who work, attend and visit the main campus,” Lee said.

The report did not explore ways to move the streetcar closer to the university than the corner of Wisconsin Ave. and M St. “We are actively working with both the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the D.C. Department of Transportation to study the extension of the streetcar to the university,” Lee said. “That suggestion has been well received and those conversations are ongoing.”

conversations that happened few weeks. It didn’t negatively affect our programming or operations.”

Despite Tisa’s veto delaying the approval process, the SIPS Fund opened GRLF applications last week, though SIPS had yet to distribute any loans or grants.

GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) said that GUSA had a responsibility to respect SIPS’ autonomy, as the organization characterized its request of GUSA approval as a courtesy and effort at transparency.

“I think all parties involved could’ve done a better job,” Ramadan said. “It’s more of a cour-

tesy than anything, SIPS coming to us. It’s only right that GUSA does its due diligence in a bill like this. We’re happy to see the turnaround rather quickly and get this moving so they can grant money for projects.”

To further increase transparency, the SIPS board has decided to report to GUSA in the spring.

GUSA Senator Ben Weiss (COL ’15), who has criticized Tisa’s veto, said that the reports would increase transparency between GUSA and SIPS. “SIPS has taken it on their own volition to add transparency to their process without us needing to be involved whatsoever,” Weiss said. “In the end, everyone comes out more or less with what they were looking to get out of this bill in the first place.”

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ANC commissioners listened to a presentation from Vice President for Facilities and Planning Robin Morey before voting unanimously to approve zoning changes on campus.

ANC Approves Zoning For Dorm Development ANC, from A1 her enthusiasm for the board’s unanimous vote of approval.

“I’m delighted that we have this positive outcome. I really have hoped that working through the community partnership, we are able to address any issues and we know what’s coming out, so I was very optimistic that this would be the outcome,” Lee said after the meeting.

Although the approval of the variance is a victory for the university, it is only one small step in what will be a months-long project.

All new construction plans must be brought to the D.C. Zoning Commission for variance approvals and to the Old Georgetown Board for design approval, and the ANC must approve both the variance and design processes. Lee plans to consult the zoning commission at the end of November and present design plans to the OGB in December.

“We know that the OGB is a design process.

They’re intensely focused on the designs, so [the review sessions are] often several times. They may ask us to make some changes, we may go back in January, so it’s often, continuing,” Lee said.

Due to this unpredictability of the process, the start date for construction cannot be confirmed.

“I think it’s really hard to do a project in the city. The regulatory process is significant and it’s hard to really anticipate what that would be,” Lee said.

The ANC approval comes slightly more than one month after the Georgetown University Student Association staged a referendum to protest the university’s proposal to construct a dorm on a satellite site, garnering 93.3 percent of joint opposition. University administrators announced at an Oct. 3 planning session that they were considering converting Ryan and Mulledy to temporary student residences while exploring the possibility of construction on Harbin Terrace

or the conversion of Kober-Cogan, a building currently owned by MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

“I think that the repurpose of the old Jesuit community is a great way for the university to infuse a central part of the campus with life and hopefully revitalize that part of our campus in this overall mission of creating a vibrant living and learning community, and I supported the university’s zoning action in that regard,” ANC Commissioner and Georgetown student Peter Prindiville (SFS ’14) said at the monthly meeting Monday.

The Northeast Triangle dorm is designed to house 225 students in semi-suite rooms, and the first floor of the building will be used for a living and learning community. In combination with the conversion of Ryan and Mulledy Halls, the university is on track to meet its target of accommodating 385 more students on campus by 2015, part of its 2010 Campus Plan agreement that targets housing 90 percent of students behind the front gates by 2025. Rejection of the university’s variance request for the Northeast Triangle would have cost the dormitory 35 beds.

Commissioners emphasized their willingness to work with the university in its efforts to find additional housing by 2015, stressing that the body has given Georgetown its full support for this construction project thus far. Several of the residents of the Georgetown who attended the meeting also stood up to echo the board’s enthusiasm for the new on-campus housing.

“I was happy in how collaborative my colleagues have been. We’ve been having really great conversation about the proposal, and they enthused, genuinely interested in seeing that the project is successful and that it’s built as soon as possible,” Prindiville said.

“The zoning variance is a big deal and the support of Visitation is a big deal, and we’re really delighted about that,” Lee added.

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An amendment to the Heights of Buildings Act could change the D.C. skyline, drawing concern from Councilmember Jack Evans.

Council Examines Building Heights Griffin Cohen

Special to The Hoya

Councilmember Jack Evans (DWard 2) voiced strong opposition at a D.C. Council public hearing last week to amending an act that would increase building heights allowed in the District.

The proposed changes are largely being sought to alleviate the city’s increasing growth and would directly impact the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910.

The suggested amendments would allow buildings to be constructed using a ratio of 1.25:1 for street width to building height, according to the proposal’s project manager Tanya Stern. The proposal would affect streets in the L’Enfant City, which only stretches roughly from the Potomac Parkway to Florida Avenue NW and down to the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.

Currently, the citywide Height Act determines building height limit as the width of the street plus 20 feet, with an overall cap of 130 feet on commercial streets, except for a part of Pennsylvania Avenue, and 90 feet on residential streets.

The proposal has been met with strong opposition from citizens who fear losing the city’s historic skyline.

“I support keeping things just the way they are,” Evans said to The Hoya. “Everybody I talk to is against it.”

Stern, who is the chief of staff at the D.C. Office of Planning, said that she expected such dissent.

“We anticipated that there would be some opposition, but we have

also heard support for the District’s draft recommendations from other organizations and residents,” she said. “We have engaged in a vigorous public process with the National Capital Planning Commission since the spring.”

As part of its proposal, the DCOP conducted a modeling study this past summer that imagined the impact of taller buildings in different areas of the city.

The study identified areas of potential growth in the future, which were largely determined by if the population was of medium or high density, according to Stern. Historic low-density neighborhoods, such as Georgetown, were not considered.

The DCOP’s proposal also commits to protecting the sightline of nationally significant structures, such as the U.S. Capitol Building and the Washington Monument.

The National Capital Planning Commission and the DCOP will continue to develop their final recommendations, and commissioners will vote on the proposed changes Nov. 19.

However, because the current height act is a federal law, it can only be modified by Congress.

If Congress approves the increased heights, decisions to give permits for taller buildings would then be left to the District government and local residents.

“The bottom line for the District in making these draft recommendations is that we feel the District should have the ability, working with our residents, to determine when, where and how to have taller building heights in the city,” Stern said.

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students from outside the Law Center to pursue work at the Georgetown Climate Center.

“The support is going back to the students really,” Arroyo said. “Because people are making these connections across campus, good things are happening that allow people to have engagement on these issues.”

Nelson is the director of the university’s Program on Science in the Public Interest, as well as the Georgetown University Energy Prize director, and sees numerous possibilities to combine the fellowship’s support with the work he is already involved in.

“The fellowship allows me to work across the university in a more collaborative way,” Nelson said. “This gives me more capacity and resources to contribute to the student life of the university.”

Some of the support will go to students and faculty involved with the GU Energy Prize, a nationwide competition launching early next year to encourage the development of energy-saving innovations in local communities.

MSB Undergrads Present Research Jennifer Ding

Special to The Hoya

Business student researchers will present their work at the first McDonough Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Rafik B. Hariri Building on Thursday.

The symposium will feature the work of the 17 McDonough undergraduate research fellows who completed business research projects as part of the program, which are funded by grants from the MSB. “We really wanted to showcase students and give them their moments because they really worked hard and put a lot of time into it,” Assistant Dean Monija Amani said. “We wanted to bring their work to life.”

The research projects took the form of either an independent project mentored by a faculty member or participation in ongoing, faculty-led projects.

Alice Lu (MSB ’15), a two-year participant in the program, researched business ethics and the different situations in which managers behave unethically for this year’s symposium.

“Even though I really enjoy research and I got to learn the entire process of research — which was very valuable, — I think the main thing I got out of it is meeting these professors one on one,” Lu said.

Jasmine Motton (MSB ’14) researched consumers’ buying behaviors over time after studying the topic in class last semester.

“I really gained knowledge about the consumer and how we think,” Motton said.

While classes or faculty research inspired most research topics, others arose from current events.

“My project originally started off as ethical practices in the financial industry, but throughout the summer it changed, in large part due to the NSA tracking scandals and how the government is tracking cell phone activity,” Lauren Watanabe (MSB ’15) said.

While most participants were undergraduates, Dylan Sorensen (MSB ’13, GRD ’14) showcased his work in disclosure and conflict of interest within the medical and food industries. The conference may be more strictly limited to undergraduates in

the future, Amani said.

“I always just assumed that doing research meant that you were behind the scenes and it was boring,” Sorensen said. “When you are researching something that you are passionate about, then it’s so easy and it’s a fun thing to do.”

For the participants, the process of research and accruing data presented certain challenges.

“There’s so much out there, and I found it very challenging just to get to the point where I could find something that I wanted to actually research,” Kimberly Boeckmann (MSB ’15) said.

Though MSB students tend to favor careers in consulting and finance, Christ Abikaram (MSB ’14) said that he hopes the symposium would inspire other students to consider positions in academia.

“Research, even though it seems like a very difficult thing, is definitely doable if you put in the time, which is pretty nice especially because a lot of the business school students aren’t really interested in research,” Abikaram said.

Campaign Finance Reform on Table Joanie Greve

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The Georgetown University Environment Initiative awarded its inaugural environment fellows funding last month to pursue interdisciplinary work and expand collaboration with students.

Vicki Arroyo, executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center, and Christofer Nelson, director of Georgetown’s Program on Science in the Public Interest, were named fellows by the initiative’s steering committee in recognition of their various achievements. Future scholars will have to apply for the fellowship.

“Both fellows will also be key resources for students and faculty who are interested in interdisciplinary work as it relates to the environment,” Environment Initiative Program Coordinator Rachel Yancey wrote in an email.

The Environment Initiative is an umbrella organization that brings together students and scholars who are interested in multi-disciplinary envi-

ronmental work from across Georgetown’s various schools.

Arroyo is also the director of the Environmental Law Program and assistant dean for centers and institutes at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has achieved national recognition for her own work on climate change, and plans to use her fellowship to support interdisciplinary student research and a series of seminars on climate topics for both undergraduate and law students “My plan is to do more student engagement, not just students from the Law Center but the main campus and also a speaker series,” Arroyo said.

Arroyo’s series held its first event, “Building Resistance to Extreme Weather,” Oct. 3, with James Done, a visiting scientist from the National Center on Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Another event, “Covering Climate Change,” is scheduled for Nov. 14 and will feature reporters from media organizations such as Scientific American and National Public Radio.

Arroyo’s fellowship has also allowed

The D.C. Council heard Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s (D-Ward 5) campaign-finance reform bill, a legislation package to close loopholes and increase transparency nearly two years in the making in response to several high-profile corruption cases, last week.

The bill would close the LLC loophole, which allows certain business owners to contribute more money to campaigns by donating through multiple corporations.

It would also increase transparency in donation-bundling, through which individuals collect contributions from their personal or professional networks, according to The Washington Post.

“There have been certain issues in the District’s campaign finance system that are long overdue for legislative attention,” McDuffie told The Hoya. “I set my sights on these reforms to help restore the public’s trust in District elections.”

However, that trust has been affected by the ongoing federal investigation into Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign on corruption charges and the conviction of former Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. for embezzlement in 2012, which led to

his resignation.

McDuffie hopes closing the LLC loophole will level the playing field for businesses and individual donors.

“By closing the loophole, business owners and ordinary campaign contributors will be on relatively equal footing,” McDuffie said. “The LLC issue is really about fairness and combating the appearance that businesses have more weight in

“There have been issues in D.C. campaign finance that are long overdue.”

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the political process than regular people.”

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson believes the transparency aspect of the bill is critical.

“What is more important is that the public knows who’s contributing,” Mendelson told The Hoya.

However, D.C. mayoral candidate and Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) thinks the bill’s reforms should be more

restrictive.

“There is no reason any D.C. mayoral candidate should accept a campaign donation that isn’t from an individual,” Wells stated in a press release.

Other councilmembers, including Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Muriel Bowser (DWard 4), Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5) and David Catania (I-At Large), agreed that the reform could be stricter. Bowser, for example, expressed concern that the $100 limit the bill establishes for cash and money-order donations is too high.

However, the councilmembers said they would still support the bill at the hearing.

“I’m hopeful that the bill will go through, and at this point, I see no reason why it wouldn’t,” Mendelson said.

But Mendelson maintains that true change in D.C.’s ethically questionable campaign-finance history will come from the voters, not the laws.

“What’s more important is the ethical fiber of the people elected,” Mendelson said. “What’s important is that we not only outlaw bribery, but we also elect people who will not accept bribes.”

“We can’t legislate how people vote,” he added. “But it needs to become a part of the dialogue.”

Students to Join HFSC Committee Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

While construction on the Healey Family Student Center continues, the Center for Student Engagement is establishing a planning and advisory committee to facilitate student input.

The committee will consist of appointed administrators as well as students who will represent both individual organizations and the student body as a whole.

“It’s going to be a combination of students appointed through their group area and through an open application process,” Director of Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr said.

“My vision was that it would be a combined group of students reflecting both specific perspectives and general interests.”

Cohen Derr expects the committee to begin meeting in November, with committee members helping to screen

potential staff members for the center.

“They’ll be involved in all aspects of planning the program launch of the space. Part of this will be the search for the full-time program director and full-time director of the HFSC and will include resume screening [and] interviews,” Cohen Derr said. “They’ll help set policies and priorities that’ll maximize student space.”

Additionally, members will provide input to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson on how to use space in the center, including helping to choose furniture and decorations and suggesting areas to be designated free-speech zones.

Students of Georgetown Inc., Interhall Council, the Georgetown Programming Board, the Performing Arts Advisory Council and the Georgetown University Student Association will all have representatives on the committee. Students not affiliated with campus groups were also invited to apply.

“I think the idea behind that is to make sure that stakeholders have representation,” GUSA Director of Student Space Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) said.

“They’re really keeping it a studentfocused space and helping to plan some of the policies and organizing the launch to really help get that space fully operational.”

Many dance and performing arts groups were displaced by HFSC construction. PAAC Chair T. Chase Meachum (COL ’14) expressed appreciation that his group is represented on the planning committee.

“It’s a terrific gesture that the performing arts have been asked to put forward an appointee onto this body,” Meachum wrote in an email. “Though the Department of the Performing Arts has done a tremendous amount of planning and coordination to try and mitigate as much as possible the strain on these groups, it has certainly been tough.”

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The rest of the first half was a back-and-forth affair. Seton Hall was able to generate possession on the Hoyas’ side of the pitch but struggled to break down the Georgetown defensive line.

“I was kind of marking [Seton Hall senior forward Katie Ritter] and Mary would kind of follow

behind or mark [senior midfielder Ashley Clarke] when she came forward. We weren’t staying on our normal sides,” Menges said.

“We communicated well and we did what we had to do.”

Trailing 2-0 at the start of the second half and needing three goals to qualify for the Big East tournament, Seton Hall began to push numbers forward to open up the game. As a result, both

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Senior defender Kailey Blain was one of six seniors honored after Georgetown’s win over Seton Hall on Shaw Field.

sides saw multiple scoring chances in the second half.

“I give [Seton Hall] credit,” Nolan said. “They kept at it, they worked at it, they changed what they were doing in the second half and they battled hard. We couldn’t land that killer punch to get the third goal. We came close on a number of times, but we never really got what we wanted.”

Fortunately for the Hoyas, neither did the Pirates. The 2-0 score line held and Georgetown secured a bye through to Saturday’s semifinals where they will play the winner of the quarterfinal match between DePaul (114-2, 5-3-1 Big East) and Villanova (6-9-3, 3-5-1 Big East).

After the game, there was finally time for celebration. Seniors Kailey Blain, Katilin Brenn, Colleen Dinn, Mary Kroening, Emily Menges and Alexa St. Martin were honored in a ceremony attended by Georgetown President John DeGioia and Athletic Director Lee Reed.

The class produced the most wins in program history, with a combined record of 59-16-7, and after the ceremony, Nolan had only positive things to say.

“I don’t know how I’m going to replace them,” he said. “Each and every one of them has been fantastic for us on the field and off the field. You couldn’t wish for a better bunch of kids. Just an exceptional bunch of young people.”

Hoyas’ Season Ends In Defeat; Seniors Honored Molly Malone Hoya Staff Writer

football

Penalties Plague Georgetown Matt Raab

Hoya Staff Writer

Headed into halftime in Saturday’s Senior Day game, the Georgetown football team (1-7, 0-3 Patriot League) had every reason to be hopeful. The scoreboard showed 14-7, with the Hoyas trailing by only one possession. The Georgetown defense had held Lafayette (3-5, 3-0 Patriot League) to seven points through 29 minutes of play, and the Hoyas had already rushed for 104 yards — a marked improvement after being stifled at the line of scrimmage a week earlier.

But a 159-yard third-quarter rally spearheaded by the Leopards’ freshman quarterback Drew Reed quickly shelved any hopes of a Georgetown victory.

Three unanswered touchdowns in the first 10 minutes of the second half put the Leopards on their way to a 45-27 victory over the Hoyas in Georgetown’s last home game of the year, finalizing a 1-6 record for the Hoyas at home and extending their losing streak to seven games.

“They ran the ball some, and we couldn’t get them off on third down,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “They did a good job, just wore us down.”

After a promising start, the Georgetown defense again displayed the problems that have plagued it throughout the season.

The unit could not put enough pressure on Reed or match up with the agility of 6-foot-7 senior tight end Brandon Hall, whose 101 receiving yards were a major contribution to Lafayette’s 15.3 yards-per-reception average. “[Hall] is probably the best receiver in the league, so he goes up and he makes some big catches,” Kelly said. “He made plays and we didn’t.”

The defense showed several signs of improvement, though, holding Lafayette to just three third down conversions, limiting the Leopards rush to 88 yards and earning four sacks after a total of five through the first five games of the season. But the Hoyas again struggled in the red zone and allowed three fourth-down conversions on three attempts. Senior defensive end Alec May, who, with three sacks, was a large part of the defense’s success, acknowledged these problems.

“It’s really frustrating,” May said. “We just got to step up and play better on fourth down.

The Georgetown offense was able to revive its run game due to the combined efforts of senior running backs Nick Campanella and Dalen Claytor, sophomore running back Jo’el Kimpela and sophomore quarterback Kyle Nolan.

Campanella, Clayton and Nolan all had at least 40 yards, and Campanella led the team with 58; he

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Senior midfielder Caitlin Samela (above) and senior forward Katie Dempsey played their last game for the Blue and Gray on Saturday against Villanova.

The Georgetown field hockey team’s season ended in the same way it began: with a loss. In a hard-fought battle against Villanova (4-13, 1-6 Big East), the Hoyas (2-16, 0-7 Big East) fell 1-0 on Georgetown’s home field in College Park, Md. Prior to the game, seniors Caitlin Samela and Katie Dempsey were honored on the field for Senior Day. Though Samela and Dempsey were undoubtedly eager to finish their collegiate field hockey careers on a high note by helping the team notch its first Big East win, the Wildcats snuck away with the victory.

The Hoyas came out strong in the first half, taking their first shot just four minutes into the game when Dempsey maneuvered her way past the Wildcats’ defensive line and took a shot just wide of the net. The Blue and Gray were in and out of the circle looking for any opening to cut through.

“We started at a higher pace than we have in the past three weeks,” Head Coach Tiffany Hubbard said. “There was a lot of emotion around this game and I really think we started strong.”

Although it was back and forth in the opening minutes, Villanova was able to take advantage of a Hoya shortcoming. On their first penalty corner of the game about 10 minutes in, the Wildcats capitalized off a rocket from junior defender Maddy Harding. It served as the only goal of the game for either side. Georgetown was able to shut down Villanova’s next eight penalty corners, including Harding’s game-high seven shots.

“We’ve been scored on early in the past. I applaud the girls for shaking it off and keeping up our game. We picked up where we left off,” Hubbard said.

At the start of the second half,

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Both senior tight end Daniel Sprotte (top) and junior defensive lineman Alec May (bottom) recieved CFPA honors for their play. and Nolan also added touchdowns on the ground. But the Hoya pass struggled to generate momentum.

Nolan threw three picks, including two in the third quarter that led to Lafayette touchdowns. “[Nolan’s performance] wasn’t good enough to win,” Kelly said.

“He had three picks and we had some yards, but that was at the end of the game, so I wouldn’t say it was a winning performance.”

Georgetown did have some success throwing the ball, largely thanks to a big day from senior tight end Daniel Sprotte. With 102 yards and two touchdowns, Sprotte was the highlight of the Hoyas’ receiving core, and was named the College Football Performance Awards national tight end of the week. May also recieved CFPA honors for his efforts on defense. But ultimately, the Hoyas were not able to keep pace with a Lafayette team that relentlessly marched down the field throughout the second half.

Penalties and special teams errors were also a disappointing storyline for the Blue and Gray.

Penalties repeatedly called back major gains and forced the defense to make extra stops. Georgetown

racked up 91 yards of penalties on 11 calls, while Lafayette only committed seven penalties for 48 yards.

“Some … are inadvertent,” Kelly said. “You just got to keep plugging away. We’ll talk about it tomorrow and hopefully, next game, we don’t have 11 penalties like we had.”

An early fourth-quarter punt return for a touchdown by Lafayette put any small hope of a comeback permanently out of reach.

“In the kickoff, we had five guys there and we couldn’t make the play,” Kelly said.

While the result was not an optimal outcome for the 24 seniors playing their last game at MultiSport Facility, Kelly had nothing but positive things to say about the impact that the graduating group has had on the team.

“Twenty-four guys worked their tails off 12 months out of the year and you want to send them off on a positive note. [It’s] very difficult,” Kelly said. “I love all those guys. [I] respect them all — they’re going to be very successful men one day in spite of the loss.”

The Hoyas will play their remaining two games on the road, travelling first to Holy Cross Nov. 16.

Georgetown came out firing and drew five penalty corners in the span of four minutes. But all five shots were either blocked or shot wide, including one shot taken by sophomore forward Sarah Butterfield in between the rapid fire.

“I think [the penalty corners] kept the tempo of the game up, although it’s frustrating when you get that many corners in a row and can’t produce, but we were controlling offensively,” Hubbard said. “I think we felt like we dominated and were in it up until the last second of the game.”

While the Hoyas struggled offensively, the defensive line — starting with freshmen goalkeeper Rosalie Nolen — was impressive. After the first goal, Nolen stopped everything with ease, including a one-on-none rush where she came out to the top of the circle in order to cancel a scoring opportunity.

Georgetown has had trouble scoring all season, but the shutout on Senior Day and on the last game of the season was especially disheartening for the Hoyas. The Blue and Gray were outscored 86-12 on the season and were shut out ten times. The inability to jumpstart the offense presented many obstacles that even the best defensive performances could not salvage. Nolen ended the season with a .653 save percentage, a promising statistic for a freshman with time to develop. As for the Georgetown offense, many players such as Butterfield and Weinberg have stepped up to the plate and taken on leadership positions that will undoubtedly carry over into next season. This rebuilding year was vital to the Hoyas’ success in the future and will be beneficial to the collective growth of the team.

With the majority of the team returning next year, the Hoyas are poised to improve on this season’s dismal record.

The pieces are there, but the Hoyas will need to use the offseason to put them together.

the sporting life

In World Cup, More Teams Mean More Excitment MAJD, from A10 previous World Cups, the impact of the host nation on the feel and atmosphere of the tournament is always at the front of my mind.

The South Korean spectators were among the highlights of the tournament when they hosted in 2002, expressing adulation and respect when watching other team, and unbridled passion and excitement as their nation embarked on an improbable run. I remember the post-game victory slides performed by the South Korean players as vividly as any play on the pitch. Whilst the knockout rounds are irresistibly enjoyable for their tense atmospheres and high quality of play, the early rounds are just as rewarding for their pure optimism and sense of global community.

I remember watching the first match of the 2010 World Cup in my cafeteria at school, and everyone cheered as if the U.S. had won a game when the host nation South Africa notched the first goal of the tournament. For a brief period of

time, the actual soccer was overshadowed by the joy of seeing less prominent players and nations get their turn in the spotlight, and as fans, we got lost in the moment.

The prospect of expanding the World Cup field is extremely risky; the tournament is fantastic as is, combining the joy of watching the underdog get a shot on the big stage with a compactness that rewards the grueling qualification process and facilitates a high level of play. FIFA’s monetary motivations and corrupt track record also do not inspire confidence when considering major changes to a long-established tradition.

On a sporting level, the system should be left alone, but when we consider the ways in which the World Cup transcends sports, expansion does not seem so egregious. If expansion can inspire hope and pride in a few more nations — even if only for a few weeks — then it’s an idea worth discussing.

Darius Majd is a junior in the College. The Sporting Life appears every Tuesday.

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Georgetown’s cross country program was on the road this weekend, as the Hoyas competed in the 2013 Big East championship in Somers, Wis. The No. 3 women’s team placed second overall, and the men finished fourth. The results yielded mixed feelings among the coaching staff.

On the women’s side, Head Coach Michael Smith was satisfied with his team’s performance.

“We had a good day,” Smith said. “We were going to evaluate our success not necessarily on our team’s score but on how well we executed our race plan and how well this race plays into what we’re trying to do for the national championship. So in that regard, I think we did a good job.”

In the 6,000-meter race, graduate student and All-American Rachel Schneider was the top finisher for the Hoyas, coming in fifth overall with a time of 20:23. Sophomore Samantha Nadel matched Schneider’s time, coming in sixth.

The team proved to be an efficient unit, as there was less than a minute’s difference between the times of the top and final finishers. Smith felt that each runner made important contributions to the team’s performance. “[Some of our runners] didn’t score for us, but they were right up there,” Smith said. “Even the runners who aren’t in our top five can still displace runners from other teams. We had athletes who were really running a strong team race, and any time that’s the case, we’re going to do pretty well.”

The women’s team ended up scoring 47 points, falling only to the No. 4 Providence Friars, who finished with 28 points. Providence had four of the top seven finishers in the race, with senior Emily Sisson placing first in 19:49, beating the meet record of 20:26 handily.

Although the Hoyas fell to a tough competitor, they still will be a formidable opponent in the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional meet on Nov. 15. “[Providence] is maybe the best team in the country right now,” Smith said. “[But] I think we’ve got one of the best teams in the country. … I think a lot of people know that this is a very strong team.”

On the men’s side, men’s Head Coach Brandon Bonsey was not as pleased with his team’s results.

“To be honest, it was a pretty disappointing result, and also the way that we got the result was disappointing,” Bonsey said. “We were bringing eight guys, and I would say two of them even tried to follow the race plan. … There was kind

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Sophomore Samantha Nadel finished sixth overall at the Big East Championship meet. of a lack of commitment.”

Graduate student Andrew Springer and senior Brian King, the two runners who followed the race plan, were also the two top finishers for the Hoyas, with Springer placing eighth overall in 24:22 and King taking 13th place in 24:37.

Georgetown’s final score of 76 points put them in fourth place overall. The Hoyas finished behind No. 26 Villanova (36 points), No. 19 Providence (49) and Butler (61).

“There’s no reason in the world that they should have beat us by as much as they did,” Bonsey said of Georgetown’s conference competitors. “We beat Villanova and Providence consistently last year, and we beat them in track last year as well. Both of them have good runners, but it’s not like they’re any better than us.”

Bonsey knows that with the Mid-Atlantic Regional approaching quickly, he needs to see better results from his team.

“We have a very talented group that has been training really well … but if we race again like we’ve been racing, there’s no way we’ll make the NCAA [championship],” Bonsey said. “The guys need to just be tough in the middle portion of the race. … If you don’t find a rhythm, it’s not easy … and they need to realize that.”

Smith is also looking forward to the upcoming competition for the women’s team, and he confidently has his sights set on the NCAA championship.

“I think that we’re going to be able to move through our region and advance,” Smith said.

“Our focus is on the national meet.”

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Freshman forward Alex Muyl led the team in shots on goal with two in Georgetown’s 1-0 loss to St. John’s. This was only the third time the Hoyas have been shut out this year.

St. John’s Blanks GU in Big East Showdown SOCCER, from A10 advantage of a shorthanded opponent. The team, aided by the return of freshman defender Josh Yaro from injury, did not allow a Red Storm shot for almost 20 minutes and did not concede a corner kick. The offense may have taken more shots and controlled the ball for more time, but a goal remained out of reach on Saturday. It was the third time the team has been shut out, and Georgetown is 0-2-1 in those games.

“Them losing a man to a red card, in a way, almost made things harder because they became even more disciplined and sitting deeper,” Wiese said.

Fifteen minutes into the middle of the second half would prove to be the difference in the game. Georgetown was unable to create an offensive opportunity or put a shot on goal from the 65th to 80th minute, but in the 71st minute, St. John’s freshman midfielder Miguel Alves received a pass on the left flank and drove to the corner of the 18-yard box. He then shot low and to the right post, putting the ball past the diving effort of junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez.

“They were hoping to get the odd break or

one or two chances to go,” Wiese said. “And create something off of a transition moment and find a way to nip a goal, which is exactly what happened.”

The final 20 minutes of the match saw just two shots for the Hoyas, only one of which was on frame, and the game ended with a score of 1-0. The Red Storm held their line defensively after scoring, and brought on an extra defender to help absorb pressure.

“There were a lot of moments for long stretches in the remaining 20 minutes where every player they had on the field was in their own penalty box defending,” Wiese said.

The opportunity to play against a team who is a man down is rare, and Georgetown will look back on the game as a missed opportunity.

The Hoyas will now have to put the loss behind them and turn their focus to their next game, which is against Villanova.

“To lose those three points was a really frustrating one for the team. It’s something where we have to bounce back fairly quickly,” Wiese said. “I think if we can get three points at home against Villanova, it will put us in a really good spot.”

Williams said.

The second set was closely contested from the beginning, After an early Georgetown lead, Villanova pushed ahead 22-21, but Georgetown bounced right back, knotting it up at 23 and then closing the match with a kill from Saar and a service ace from freshman setter Caitlin Brauneis.

Saar had a season-high 21 kills, seven of which came in the second set.

“We were taking nice high swings away from their libero, and we were able to do that because we passed extremely well,” Williams said.

After the break, though, Georgetown looked like a different team, and it was Villanova who dominated, cruising to a 25-15 victory that put them only one set back.

“They made a couple of changes coming out of the locker room for the third set,” Williams said. “They flipped their outsides, so the matchup was different, which gave us a little bit of stress.”

The fourth set ended similarly, with the Wildcats making an 8-0 run and scoring 11of-12 points, making the score 21-9. They would win the set easily, 25-12, tying the match at two sets apiece and sending it to the decisive fifth.

“They moved their libero to middle back, so we had to take more extreme swings, and it took us a little time to figure out how to do that,” Williams said. “And they served us really tough, and so we weren’t in system nearly as much as we had been in the first and second set. We had a double

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Freshman middle blocker Ashlie Williams contributed 11 kills. Five players had at least 10 digs in the win. block in front of us quite a bit.”

Despite the lopsided scores in the third and fourth, the Hoyas came out in top form in the fifth set, scoring the first two points and then taking a 5-3 lead.

“We just wanted to erase those last two sets because we played super well in the first two and came out strong,” Saar said. “We went down a little bit in the third and fourth, so we just played like we started and I think it showed in that last set.”

After a couple of kills, a controversial no-call and a Villanova error, Georgetown closed the set on a decisive kill from junior outside hitter Alex Johnson to take the set 16-14 and win the match.

“We knew it was going to be tough, we knew it was going to be a battle, but … I think that they were feeling pretty con-

fident coming into the game, and we knew that this was going to be a big win for us if we could get it,” Williams said.

Saar registered her 15th double-double of the season with 21 kills and 14 digs, and Johnson had one as well with 10 kills and 15 digs. White had 13 kills and freshman middle blocker Ashlie Williams had 11.

But the biggest stat of the night was defensive specialist Emily Gisolfi’s team-high 22 digs, a new personal best for the sophomore.

This was a huge win for the Blue and Gray, especially after losing to Villanova earlier this season.

“I think it just bodes well for our team. They came back out, they played tough late and I think it’s just going to give us more confidence as we move forward,” Williams said.

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Stadiums Not Worth the Cost

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hen NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was recently asked if he would prefer a franchise in Los Angeles or London, he replied, “I want both.”

A byproduct of NFL expansion is the renewed focus on stadium construction. Cities hoping to attract a franchise are building stadiums, while cities with struggling franchises are also building stadiums in the hopes of keeping their teams.

There is no doubt that newer NFL stadiums enrich game experiences for the fan. The most obvious example of this is Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington, Texas’ $1.2 billion, mammoth stadium, which features one of the largest HD TV screens in the world and more than 3,000 LCD displays throughout the luxury suites, hallways and concession areas. But while all of this is great for a fan at the game, stadiums have a far-reaching, negative impact on local communities.

Roger Noll, a Stanford economist who focuses on the economics of sports, has highlighted the problems that stadiums cause in their neighborhoods. In a Library of Economics and Liberty discussion in 2012, he called football stadiums “financial black holes.”

His argument is that wellrun arenas that play host to basketball franchises, hockey teams, concerts and other events can be used between 250 and 300 nights a year. This frequent use provides some return on investment to both taxpayers and owners.

In contrast, football stadiums are almost certainly going to result in major losses for taxpayers, owners and local residents. NFL teams play only eight home games during the regular season, and as a result, any given stadium sits empty for a large part of the year.

As Noll states, a football stadium “sucks the blood out of a neighborhood” and creates slums rather than promoting growth.

There is the promise of the creation of new jobs in markets such as concessions and maintenance, but stadiums generally have low maintenance costs and it is difficult to make a living as a concession stand employee for eight nights a year.

Additionally, another argument stadium proponents frequently espouse has become void in recent years: The construction of a stadium brings an influx of fans to the area, who then spend money at local shops.

For instance, Noll notes that some stadiums have locallyrun memorabilia shops or

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Paying for stadiums only hurts taxpayers. bars nearby that are filled with fans before and after a game.

But the case of locally run business benefitting from stadium construction is becoming extinct. New complexes are being built in suburban areas or in places enclosed by freeways rather than in the heart of cities.

This keeps concession money within the bounds of the stadium. For instance, Los Angeles’ new stadium is going to be built in the suburbs, and New England, New York, Dallas and Washington have already built their stadiums in suburban areas, drawing business away from cities. These stadiums are surrounded by massive parking lots or highways, which are designed to keep fans in. Any positive spillover to local industry is a benefit that will eventually become obsolete with new stadium construction in the suburbs.

In sum, stadiums can be economically ruinous un-

dertakings, and a city must weigh the costs and benefits of constructing one. If it is looking for an economic growth engine, a stadium is certainly not the right path.

But economics and numbers do not tell the whole story, and most stadiums are built to satisfy one huge special interest group: fans. Having a team from the most popular league in America, the NFL, will undoubtedly make locals happy and provide an important political and morale-boosting tool for municipal and state officials.

The local governments’ contributions of tax dollars to the building of stadiums raises the issue of the misappropriation of public funds. But there is often surprisingly little backlash from constituents if their tax dollars go toward attracting a franchise, which exemplifies the human element presiding over traditional economic assumptions.

Stadiums also do not provide immediate revenue but instead revenue that must be continually earned as time progresses. For this reason, it is in the best interest of an ownership group to keep their its competitive so that fans will continue to buy merchandise and tickets. A good team means happy fans, so in some ways, stadium construction actually produces a better product on the field, due to better management.

A better football team doesn’t equal a healthier local economy. As more NFL stadiums are planned for construction, it is important that locals weigh the costs and benefits of a stadium outside the lens of blind fanaticism. TV screens above urinals may be a neat touch for eight Sundays per year, but the long-term health of the local economy should be what is really at the forefront of the hearts and minds of local politicians, NFL executives and fans.

Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. FULL CONTACT appears every Tuesday.

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World Cup Expansion Has Merits W

ith the possible exception of the Olympics, the World Cup is the most culturally significant sporting event on the planet. It has inspired troubled nations, and it even halted a civil war, in the case of the Ivory Coast. The tournament’s combination of infrequency, worldwide appeal and top-level athletic quality have made it a global phenomenon, and in an environment in which seemingly every sporting event is increasing its pool of competitors, it seems inevitable that the World Cup will be following suit.

The Union of European Football Associations has already expanded the European Championship field from 16 to 24 teams, and in response to FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s desire to dilute the general dominance of European qualifiers in the World Cup, UEFA president Michel Platini has proposed expanding the World Cup field from 32 to 40 teams, adding two teams each from Africa, Asia and the Americas, and one from each Oceania and Europe.

I have written before about my distaste for widening tournament fields, with particular criticism directed toward the MLB playoffs, but when the scope of a sporting event extends as far beyond the actual game, as does the World Cup, the notion of expanding the tournament field is a much more intriguing point of debate.

The sports fan in me detests the idea of expansion. One of the reasons that

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Junior forward Audra Ayotte recorded a goal and an assist in the Hoyas’ 2-0 win over Seton Hall. Ayotte scored the first goal less than a minute into the game on assists from senior Mary Kroening and junior Marina Paul. Georgetown honored its six seniors in a ceremony after the game.

Fast Start Lifts Hoyas on Senior Day TOM SCHNOOR Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team ended the regular season on a high note Saturday with a 2-0 win over Seton Hall at Shaw Field.

It was Senior Day for the Hoyas (15-1-2, 7-1-1 Big East) and Georgetown knew that it would be an emotional match. In order to focus on the match, they moved the ceremony to after the game.

“We killed [Seton Hall] last year,” senior defender Emily Menges said.

“But this is a team we lost to two years ago… so we couldn’t come in

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Adding teams could be risky but may benefit nations off the field. the European Championship has been traditionally so great is that the 16team field featured few patsies for the superpowers to steamroll; the group stage was always an absolute war, with at least one favorite falling before the knockout rounds. The expansion to 24 teams will effectively eliminate this tournament-wide fear of early elimination. The World Cup is already diluted from a pure talent perspective, with the 14 slots allotted to Europe already cutting out top-32 caliber teams within the region in favor of weaker teams out of Asia and North America. Adding more teams to the field — particularly with an emphasis on weaker regions — simply magnifies these flaws. The tournament is called the World Cup Finals for a reason; with qualification involving 209 teams and dragging on for over two years. Whittling the final field down to 32 teams rewards the teams that survive this grueling process.

Despite the significant flaws in the expansion plan, there is a rather important cultural dynamic that makes a larger field much more palatable in the World Cup than it is in the European Championship. In the Euros, the focus of the tournament is pure competition; there are no frills, and the host nation is remembered not for cultural flair, but for their administrative qualities.

The World Cup is an entirely different spectacle. Post-tournament montages focus just as much on the fans and patriotism as they do on the actual match highlights, and when I look back at previous World Cups, the impact of the See MAJD, A8

with the mentality we’d kill them again.”

Georgetown could not afford to overlook the Pirates (5-11-2, 3-6 Big East) because the Hoyas needed a win to assure a second-place finish in the Big East and a first-round bye in the conference tournament.

Throw in the fact that Seton Hall needed a win to keep any postseason aspirations alive, and the stage was set for a high-stakes match.

When the game began, however, Georgetown looked like the only team with something on the line.

Thirty seconds into the match, the Hoyas drew a foul at midfield near the touchline. Senior defender

Mary Kroening lofted a high ball to the top of the 18-yard box, where it was flicked on by sophomore midfielder Marina Paul to junior midfielder Audra Ayotte, who took the ball down on her thigh, turned her defender and rifled a shot past senior Pirate goalkeeper Jennifer Pettigrew. Just like that, Georgetown had a 1-0 lead only 50 seconds into the match.

But the Hoyas did not stop there.

On the counterattack less than nine minutes later, Ayotte took the ball up the field stride for stride with junior midfielder Daphne Corboz.

Ayotte finished her lengthy run by playing a through ball to Corboz as

she streaked into the box. Corboz poked the ball past her defender and finessed the ball into the lower left corner of the net to put the Blue and Gray ahead 2-0.

In less than 10 minutes, Georgetown had scored two goals on a Seton Hall defense that had let up an average of less than one goal per game in conference play. Head Coach Dave Nolan credited the experience of his team for their ability to finish early chances.

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Sophomore outside hitter Lauren Saar had her 15th double-double against Villanova and earned Big East honors for her performance.

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The Georgetown volleyball team recorded its 10th win of the season and fourth of conference play against Villanova in a hard-fought match Saturday night in McDonough Arena.

The Hoyas (10-13, 4-6 Big East) did not give up on victory, despite losing a two-set lead, and managed to outlast their conference rivals, the Wildcats (12-11, 4-6 Big East), in a fiveset thriller.

“It feels really good. We have 10 wins now, so it’s pretty exciting for us,” sophomore outside hitter Lauren

Saar said.

Villanova jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first set due to Georgetown errors, but after the Wildcats recorded five errors of their own, the score was tied at 9-9.

It remained tight until the Hoyas went on a 6-2 scoring run fueled by three kills and a service ace. Junior middle blocker Dani White closed out the first set 25-19 with a solo block.

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The No. 5 Georgetown men’s soccer team (12-4-1, 5-2-1 Big East) played a man up for more than half of Saturday’s game thanks to a first-half red card issued to St. John’s (9-6-2, 2-4-2 Big East), but this advantage wasn’t enough. The Hoyas gave up a shorthanded goal in Queens, N.Y., to lose 1-0, all but erasing hopes of winning a share of the Big East regular season title.

The match had serious postseason implications for both sides, although in very different ways.

Georgetown needed a win in its final two games to clinch at least a share of the Big East championship. St. John’s needed a win to keep its postseason hopes alive.

The defenses dominated early in the game, with neither team managing a shot until the 18th minute, when freshman midfielder Alex Muyl forced the Red Storm goalkeeper to make a save. The possession and pace of the game was even for much of the first half, but scoring chances were limited.

Georgetown would muster just one more shot the rest of the half, again by Muyl, compared to five from the other side. The Hoyas also created only half the number of corner kicks of the Red Storm, showing that the team had trouble playing and possessing the ball in the opposing half.

“The first half was very even.

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Freshman defender Josh Yaro was back in the starting lineup.

They had a couple good chances, and we had a couple good chances,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

“There wasn’t a lot in it.”

With three minutes remaining in the half, St. John’s committed a flagrant foul. The Georgetown team took exception to the play, which led to a confrontation between several players from both teams. In the scuffle, a Red Storm player aimed a punch at a Georgetown player and was subsequently ejected.

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