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BIG EAST champs

For the second year in a row, GU captures the regular season title.

EDITORIAL Student life would benefit if more veterans participated.

VOTE FOR SAC Two candidates are vying for SAC chair in the second contested race.

COLD TURKEY? Withdrawal may be worse than drugs, a GUMC study says.

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A5

NEWS, A5

SPORTS, A12

Fossil Free Changes Tack,Calls on GUSA Kayla Cross Hoya Staff Writer

GU Fossil Free has chosen not to pursue a student-body referendum on fossil fuel divestment this semester, instead asking the Georgetown University Student Association senate to pass a resolution Nov. 24.

GU Fossil Free received enough signatures to hold a referendum, which the student group initially aimed to have before the end of November.

“We just decided that there wasn’t enough bandwidth to really educate all 7,000 undergrads within this short time,” Fossil Free member Caroline James (COL ’16) said. “We decided that we would rather educate a few very well, right now, as representatives of the student body. So the best way to do that was to let the GUSA senate exercise their role as representatives of the students and try to pass a senate resolution.”

GU Fossil Free is working with the GUSA Student Life Committee to craft a resolution that could be presented to the university’s board of directors.

“We had a really great conversation and came to the consensus that it would be best to put together a presentation to the board and put the majority of their resources toward research and developing the best possible overall reasoning, rather than spending all of their manpower on essentially campaigning for a referendum,” GUSA Student Life Chair Ben Weiss (COL ’15) said.

The committee will help the group to frame divestment in terms of both their own interests

as well as those of the university.

“The role of my committee is just to try to hone their approach in a way that best reflects what we believe to be in the best interests of the university,” Weiss said.

“I really hope that we can frame divestment that can be both environmentally sustainable but also protect Georgetown’s economic interests.”

The group has shifted its focus to educating GUSA senators about fossil fuel divestment.

“I’ve been working on some materials to show them and present to them to kind of assuage any fears they might have about divestment,” James said.

Although a resolution from the 27-member senate may CAROLINE JAMES GU Fosssil Free member not measure student support to the same degree as a referendum, Weiss said that both roads would lead to the same goal.

“When you’re faced with the non-binding option of a resolution with the non-binding option of a referendum, I think it is in the best interest of them to take the approach that allows them to focus their manpower on the most important aspects of this movement, which is making sure it’s the best proposal possible,” Weiss said.

While neither solution has the potential to change the university’s investments on its own, James was confident in the legislation’s potential to influence administrators.

“The bill itself is non-binding.

It wouldn’t mean that the university had to do something, but, of course, the senators are representatives of the student body,” James

“There wasn’t enough bandwidth to really educate all 7,000 undergrads.”

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GUSA President Nate Tisa, center, joins more than 40 students Monday on their way to Epicurean, where they delivered cards and flowers to workers and confronted the restaurant’s owner, who is accused of withholding pay.

Activists March on Epicurean Georgetown Solidarity Committee protests worker conditions Christopher Zawora & Annie Chen Hoya Staff Writers

More than 40 students arrived at Epicurean & Co. on Monday afternoon to present a petition with 500plus student signatures to owner Chang Wook Chon, demanding fair treatment of Epicurean workers.

The event was organized by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee with the help of members of the Georgetown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and the Georgetown University Student Association.

Chon was charged in 2010 with withholding overtime wages from workers and violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. He pled guilty in March to criminal contempt for vio-

lating a court order that was issued during a civil lawsuit.

Although Chon’s civil lawsuit is ongoing, Chon is also accused of bribing an employee who had attempted to recover back wages through the lawsuit with the promise of a promotion if he would drop the civil case.

The group presented its petition to Chon and gave cards and flowers to the restaurant’s employees.

“Georgetown is defined by its commitment to uphold its Jesuit values.

Epicurean workers are valuable members of our community, and as students, we’re extremely concerned about how the workers have been treated,” GSC member Irene Koo (COL ’16) said.

The event was also meant to motivate the university administration, which protestors say has not been properly responsive to worker condi-

tions on campus. Students said the university had not enforced its Just Employment Policy, which was implemented in 2005 after a group of GSC students mounted a successful hunger strike to urge the administration to raise custodial workers’ wages in a Living Wage Campaign.

In the petition, students called on Chon to make a public commitment to the Just Employment Policy, work with the university to set up accountability measures and institute Just Employment Policy training for Epicurean workers.

Hoyas for Immigrant Rights President Citlalli Alvarez (COL ’16) said she hoped the protest raised awareness among the student body and exerted pressure on the university and Chon.

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GU Partner Loses Out on Walter Reed

VETERANS DAY

Joanie Greves Hoya Staff Writer

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A taxi cab on Prospect Street displays the sticker, seen toward the back of the car on the driver’s side, denoting compliance with new regulations.

Cab Driver Union Sues Over Mandates Gene Choi

Hoya Staff Writer

A week after its formation, the D.C. Taxi Operators Association, in partnership with Teamsters Local 922, filed suit Nov. 4 against the D.C. Taxicab Commission in an attempt to stop mandates for cab drivers.

This is the latest step in a prolonged fight against the DCTC’s new rooftop dome indicator lights and Modern Taximeter System, which includes a credit card reader and GPS tracking. In the lawsuit submitted to the Superior Court of @thehoya

the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs, represented by the law firm Mooney, Green, Saindon, Murphy & Welch, P.C., call the regulations “arbitrary” and “capricious” and claim they represent an unjust economic burden on drivers.

As with previous complaints from drivers, the Teamsters have taken issue with the monthly service fees from service providers, which must be paid by the drivers themselves. According to the Teamsters, these providers have also taken a long time

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Hoya Batallion participates in a Veterans Day event featuring a speech by Major General Richard Scales. See story at thehoya.com.

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Georgetown’s partner firm in master planning, Forest City Washington, lost its bid for redevelopment of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Nov. 5.

In the latest step of a monthslong competition among three firms, Mayor Vincent Gray’s economic development team awarded the contract to Hines Interests, a Houston firm, last week.

“The Parks at Walter Reed,” the proposal offered by Hines, had already won the support of Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Victor Hoskins, in addition to Advisory Neighborhood Commissions 4A and 4B, which represent neighborhoods that surround the plot of land. The Washington Post reported that Gray’s team chose the plan for its emphasis on affordable housing and environmental sustainability.

“On this site and the characteristics of this site, Hines was just the best fit,” Hoskins told The Washington Post.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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C EDITORIALS C An Invitation to Veterans C C C Founded January 14, 1920

As we celebrated Veterans Day on the steps of White-Gravenor Hall yesterday, speeches attested to Georgetown’s strength as a veteranfriendly campus. Frequent interactions with the nearly 500 student veterans are a welcome occurrence in the classroom, in residence life and in the dining hall. One place, however, where the veteran voice is notably quiet is in student groups.

More veteran presence in student life — whether it be in the Latin American Student Association, on the club soccer team or in The Hoya — would benefit the entire student body. Student veterans would gain the same sense of community and personal growth that non-veterans glean from extracurriculars. Student life in general would stand much to gain from hearing what these voices have to contribute.

In many cases, veterans are substantially older — in maturity as well as in years — than typical college students. By that reasoning, it is understandable that student veterans would hesitate before signing up at every

table during the Student Activities Fair.

The Georgetown University Veterans Office and the student-run Georgetown University Student Veterans Association certainly have wide membership and provide valued services. But while a veteran might primarily identify with military service, he or she might also be talented in a cappella. Every student group should question whether it is doing enough to encourage membership across every student demographic. By not counting veterans among their ranks, clubs are missing out on dynamic and worthwhile members.

Veterans, like all Georgetown students, bring a new voice to the table, one that is especially valuable in understanding life outside the front gates. Too often — whether out of skepticism, nerves or because no one reaches out — veterans are underrepresented in student life. In the interest of all who call the Hilltop home, we hope to see more veterans at the second semester Student Activities Fair.

Lack of agreement should not be equated with lack of commitment.

Nevertheless, this editorial board praised the co-sponsored screening of “The Other Son,” a film about an Israeli and Palestinian switched at birth, because it represented an effort by both sides to engage each other honestly and on mutual terms. Though the screening still took place and the withdrawal of GIA and SJP’s sponsorship played out in a respectful manner, it is still a shame that such an innovative collaboration could not get off the ground. Such gestures, even in the face of barriers, are essential to uniting our diverse community into a more cohesive university.

These organizations should redouble their efforts to seek out events like this film screening on which to collaborate, precisely because they offer the opportunity to examine their differences in an open environment.

Sandwiched between the X and Y wings on the third floor of Village C West, the Alumni Lounge may never be as alluring to students as, say, Healy Lawn in May. Despite efforts to renovate and improve the space over the last few years, recreational use remains low. But the room still serves a valuable function as a place of casual congregation and events, and the decision to close it is premature.

Two weeks ago, the Office of Residential Life staff was notified that, due to university-wide budget cuts designed to close Georgetown’s operating deficits, operation hours will be cut and eventually eliminated. For the remainder of the fall semester, hours will be halved from 59 to 31 hours per week — open solely on weekends and to accommodate Monday Night Football.

By January, the lounge will be completely closed to students with the exception of previously booked events.

Although budget concerns are pressing, this closure is inopportune. In fall 2014, less than one year from now, the Healey Family

Student Center will open its doors with the hope of reinvigorating on-campus student life. Rethinking the Alumni Lounge later when its function had been replaced would have been more logical. This early closing is especially odd given that the room’s only considerable operating cost is the hourly employment of one student guard who earns just above minimum wage. Compared to more significant openings for campus-wide budget-trimming, such as cutting a fraction of what is spent on neighborhood programs, this cost is negligible.

Student space raises conflicts of all sizes.

And though the Alumni Lounge might never be the most attractive destination on campus — nor will its closing cause campus uproar — a core group of students consistently utilize it to watch sports, play video games and challenge friends to a round of table tennis or billiards.

The closure of the Alumni Lounge might seem trivial, but only more trifling is the benefit gained by shutting it down.

Honoring Our Vets — President Obama commemorated Veterans Day in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, where he paid tribute to Richard Overton, a 107-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor.

Giving Rosie a Ring —— Vice President Biden called one of the six original “Rosie the Riveters,” Phyllis Gould, yesterday, inviting her to the White House for a personal visit.

Couric on Campus — The Katie Couric Show is coming to campus tomorrow to honor John Thompson Legacy of a Dream award recipient Mary Brown.

Coming Soon, Hopefully — With extensive employee training left to complete, the long-awaited Silver Line and city streetcar projects will not be ready by their projected opening time of early 2014.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @RelayGU Nov. 10 Last year, @GUASFCU, @DPESorority, @thehoya, @hoyablue, and #SAE won the T-Shirt Recruitment Challenge...who’s gonna win this year? #RelayGU @breanna_chanel

Nov. 9 Props to @thehoya for this season’s awesome basketball preview.

Looking at you, @lauraSWAGner and @_PatrickCurran! @GeorgetownJack Nov. 8 Great photo via @thehoya of Jack with his caretaker McKenzie and Jack Crew member (and GUSA VP) @adamnramadan

Movie Without a Message

An opportunity for cooperation between student allies of Palestine and Israel fell through last week, squandering a chance for polarized groups to find common ground.

This development, triggered by Students for Justice in Palestine’s reluctance to compromise on a national stance that identifies Israelis as oppressors and Palestinians as the oppressed, should be a point of collective sadness for the Georgetown community.

Given the matters at stake, it is understandable that these groups struggle to work amicably. Contention between politically active groups is an inevitable and healthy aspect of a college atmosphere. The Hilltop would not be better off if the intellectual diversity and the passion of its members were dulled in favor of easy compromise. Students for Justice in Palestine, the Georgetown Israel Alliance and J Street U — a group that advocates for a two-state solution — all authentically engage with their respective causes.

Makeover, Complete — Scaffolding is set to begin coming down today as repairs of the damage sustained by the Washington Monument from a 2011 earthquake are finished.

@ecderr Nov. 8 Powerful piece in today’s @thehoya by @notorious_JIM @TheAnswer310 @thehoyasports JT3 in Mid March form.

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CORRECTIONS The article “Friendly Screening Sours” (A1, Nov. 8, 2013) misstated Imam Yahya Hendi's title as director of Jewish chaplaincy. He is director of Muslim chaplaincy.

The article “Housing Selection Adds New Twist” (A1, Nov. 8, 2013) referred to the housing initiative by an earlier name. It is called What's a Hoya?, not the GUSA Housing Passport Initiative. This change has also been reflected in the editorial “A Handy Passport” (A2, Nov. 8, 2013). Due to an editing error, the article also incorrectly reported that the student health forum would take place in February, while the community and diversity forum would take place in January. The student health forum will be in January, and the community and diversity forum will be in February. The quotation, “Housing points was the perfect way to go,” was additionally misattributed to GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan. It was said by GUSA President Nate Tisa.

The photo caption for the article “McAuliffe Prevails in Virginia” (A4, Nov. 8, 2013) incorrectly stated that the Georgetown University College Democrats campaigned with Virginia Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe. Members of the group, not the group itself — which is barred from campaigning for an individual candidate — were the ones pictured.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, November 12, 2013

THROUGH THE HOYA LENS

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Bebe Albornoz

High Marks On Test of Friendship

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rom a young age, we are taught the Golden Rule: to treat others as we wish to be treated. It is rooted in our basic humanity, which impels us, regardless of religion, culture or education, to recognize every human being’s fundamental need to belong somewhere and to feel loved — in a manner that translates deeply into the friendships we foster.

Three weeks before the start of my senior year of high school, I underwent an unexpected major surgery. During my time in the hospital, childhood friends surrounded me, made me laugh, held my hand, prayed and cried with me.

Two months after that, when my grandmother suddenly passed away, those same friends sent me a letter containing money that they had quietly collected among themselves to donate to a diabetes foundation in her honor. We still communicate frequently, despite the fact that I am here at Georgetown and they are conquering their own college campuses. I entered Georgetown with a conception of friendship grounded in that foundation, and I continue to stand firm in my belief that there is the potential for friendship in each person I meet.

We are taught by our life experiences.

These experiences encourage us to discern between good and bad, right and wrong, advantageous and detrimental.

They are rooted in the reality of situations that contribute to the evolution from childhood innocence into adult wisdom. My friendships at Georgetown have provided me with wisdom that has made me who I am at this exact moment and continues to allow me to grow in self-discovery.

I have found that the potential for true friendship does exist.

At the beginning of freshman year, craving the chance to explore deeper questions, I declared a philosophy major. However, I soon discovered that, often, my answers to many metaphysical inquiries were quite limited. Aristotle describes the ideal friend as a person who loves another for the sake of that other person. This altruistic friendship is primarily a matter of virtuous character that is not based on personality, physical attributes or intellectual pursuits. While Aristotle also acknowledges that these friends can be rare to find, I’m lucky to say I have found them here at Georgetown.

These friends ask me what’s wrong before I’ve realized something is amiss.

They are the friends who treat me to a snack during a late night in Lau or who welcome me home with applause after a victory with the mock trial team.

They know when to laugh with me and when to gently laugh at me. They are the ones who show their true colors when the summit of the semester is at its peak and when schoolwork and other demands tempt all students to be selfishly stingy with their time. They are also the ones who have shown me that true friendship exists when there is a communion of souls — when kindness transcends basic human compassion and becomes the enriching element of our daily experiences.

During our college years, we are forced to reckon with the lives we leave behind at home and the identities we are striving to form as adults.

The most important knowledge I have gained has come through the spirits of individuals whose altruism astounds me. The friends I have made here have weathered the most difficult storms of character with me and have lifted me through them without seeking something in return.

In a philosophy seminar on free will this semester, I was presented with a deeper question about the possibility of an ideal friendship. I sat for a while and listened as my classmates argued for and against any realistic possibility of this ideal. My mind recalled the past three years I’ve spent on Georgetown’s campus, and, for once, the answer to a metaphysical inquiry was easy to find.

Bebe Albornoz is a senior in the College.

This is the final appearance of Through the Hoya Lens this semester.

city is defined by its skyline — especially by the parts that rise above the rest. New York has the Empire State Building, which stands at 1,454 feet. Chicago has the Willis Tower, at 1,729. Washington, D.C., on the other hand, has the Washington Monument, which towers over the rest of the city at … 555 feet.

In 1910, Congress passed the Heights of Buildings Act, which limits the height of buildings in the District to 130 feet. Nothing contributes more to the architectural feel of D.C., where landmarks like the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument are visible from nearly every elevated location in the city, even a number of classrooms here on campus. The most adamant supporters of the act cite the egalitarian feel of the squat buildings that dominate the downtown area, where citizens stand in the shadows of landmarks of American exceptionalism, not those of skyscrapers.

The legislation, however, hurts Washington, D.C. While the metropolitan area is the seventh-largest in the country, the city itself is ranked just 24th in size. Much of downtown is deserted by nightfall, and three of the city’s surrounding counties have higher populations than D.C. itself.

The recent boom in federal contractors has more benefited the economy of the D.C.-Baltimore metropolitan area than that of Washington, D.C.; four of the country’s five wealthiest counties with populations of over 65,000 are located in the surrounding area, while nearly one-fifth of the city’s residents live in poverty.

While suburban wealth concentration is not unique to the D.C. area, one only has to look at the skyscrapers across the bridge in Rosslyn to

The District cannot allow the outdated Height of Buildings Act to keep it from reaching its full potential. see how the Height Act pushes businesses out of the city. And in terms of its residents, an ever-increasing population is finding it harder and harder to rent reasonably priced housing in the District — and finding it nearly impossible to find it in the historic, L’Enfant-designed areas — due to the lack of large apartment buildings in the urban core.

There is simply not enough space for the city to grow as it should. Fortunately, the District is looking to do something about it. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), one of the Capitol’s biggest supporters of D.C. autonomy, suggested the city look at relaxing the restrictions of the act. While the National Capital Planning Commis-

sion, a federal agency, recommended keeping the act largely as is, the D.C. Office of Planning came to a different conclusion: raise the building-heightto-street ratio to 1.25:1, which would allow 200-foot buildings to stand in areas such as Pennsylvania Avenue and the L’Enfant districts, and permit the city itself to determine height limits for the rest of D.C. (Remember that Congress, as per the Constitution, “exercises exclusive legislation” over the city.)

But both of these suggestions are misguided. In its current state, the Height Act is a burden to the District’s economy, pushing away the corporate and income tax dollars that could be spent on repairing crum-

bling infrastructure and improving social services. Those who cite how the horizontal nature of the city “was planned to symbolize our national aspirations” of equality and opportunity, as the Committee of 100 on the Federal City said in a press release, need to focus less on symbolic equality and more on reality: A city choking the residential and commercial real estate supply with draconian height limitations will ensure that only the wealthiest of us will be able to live in an already racially and economically segregated city.

At the same time, it is unwise to relax the limitations of the city to the extent the Office of Planning has suggested. With much of the D.C. City Council influenced heavily by construction contractors — look at Councilmember Marion Barry’s (D-Ward 8) recent censure for taking thousands in cash from contractors — leaving the height limits up to the council and zoning boards could turn the outer areas of this unique city into the ugly, sterile sprawl of Rosslyn or Ballston.

As is usually the case, the solution lies somewhere in the middle. Loosening, but not eliminating, the restrictions only in outer areas near Metro stops, such as Friendship Heights, and slightly increasing the downtown limit to somewhere around 200 feet would allow for more real estate to be developed without ruining the city’s character. The District will never be New York, and it shouldn’t aim to be. But it doesn’t have to allow outdated legislation and unreasonable traditionalists to keep it from reaching its full potential.

Hunter Main is junior in the College. He is managing editor of The Hoya.

ENGAGING BIOETHICS

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The Future of the GOP: Holistic Healing Takes Christie or Cuccinelli More Than Medicine

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ast week, New Jersey’s incum- riage but instructed his attorney bent governor, Republican general not to appeal the state Chris Christie, swamped his supreme court’s unanimous rulDemocratic opponent Barbara ing that granted those marriage Buono by a 21-point margin. Vir- rights last month. He accepts that ginia’s Republican candidate for climate change is real, important governor, Attorney General Ken and human induced, although Cuccinelli, was edged by Democrat his administration has generally Terry McAuliffe 48 to 45.5 percent. angered environmentalists. ChrisThese statistics may broadly tell tie may not like Obamacare, but the story of those 2013 gubernato- he acknowledges that it is the law rial elections, but the numbers 306 of the land, and he is one of eight and 191 are perhaps even more Republican governors to accept its important numbers for the 2016 Medicaid expansion. He endorsed presidential election. a DREAM Act for New Jersey.

Except for blacks and Latinos, Each man is conservative — Cucall groups are projected to split cinelli only somewhat more so. down party lines the same way Each seeks lower taxes, less spendthey did in 2012. If the Republi- ing and smaller government. So cans nominate a candidate who why might we anticipate the pocan appeal to black and Latino tentially enormous differences voters as effectively as Christie in presidential outcomes if the did and white voters split as they Republicans choose a Christie and did in 2012, the Republicans not a Cuccinelli? would win 306 electoral votes — Because both policy and politics and the presidency — with 51 per- matter in presidential campaigns. cent of the popular vote.

Christie’s softer and more pragmatBut if the GOP selects a candi- ic conservatism is almost certainly date who closer to the does as poorideology of ly among the median Americans do not want a blacks and voter — the who is only voters in the scold for a president. able to atmiddle of the They want an optimist. tract as large American a share of the political specwhite vote as trum — than Cuccinelli did, the Grand Old Party is Cuccinelli’s harder and more would earn only 191 electoral votes unyielding version. In connecting and finish a distant second to the to public preferences, Christie has a Democratic candidate in the popu- superior policy product. lar vote, with 44 percent.

Moreover, Christie is far more Republicans must ask them- likable. He connects with people. selves: Are we the party of Christie He is a happy warrior, not an anor of Cuccinelli? gry one. He (in)famously “hugged” Both candidates have their vir- President Obama to thank him for tues. Ken Cuccinelli has had a dis- federal support after Superstorm tinguished, if contentious, career Sandy. Cuccinelli, for his part, has in public service as a lawyer, state still not called McAuliffe to consenator and attorney general. A cede defeat and to congratulate Tea Party favorite, he is an outspo- him. Americans do not want a ken and often hard-edged propo- scold for president. They want an nent of conservative social values. optimist.

He opposes abortion rights in all Yes, Christie ran against a weak cases except to save the life of the candidate who received little supmother, and he supports Virginia’s port from the Democratic Party. constitutional ban on same-sex Yes, Cuccinelli was outspent by marriage. Cuccinelli is a climate- almost two to one, and McAuliffe change denier and a staunch oppo- flooded the state with negative ads nent of Obamacare. He has taken about the Republican. It is risky a hard-line stance on illegal immi- to put too much weight on the gration. outcomes of state-wide races run Before being elected New Jer- three years before the presidential sey’s governor, Chris Christie was election. active in campaign politics and Still, the Republicans must face had served as a U.S. attorney un- the possibility that they could reder President George W. Bush. His ceive 306 electoral votes in 2016, opposition to abortion is not as or only 191. They must ask themcategorical as is Cuccinelli’s, and selves: Are we the party of Christie? he believes abortions may be ob- Or of Cuccinelli? tained in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. Mark Rom is an associate profesChristie opposes same-sex mar- sor of government.

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s a nurse and health care lenging us all to create new proethicist privileged to work cesses for delivering higher quality on Georgetown’s campus care at reduced costs. Increasingly and consult with health care pro- we look to the airline industry and fessionals and systems interna- NASCAR pit stops as models of extionally, I am always moved by the cellence and efficiency. But a physiplight of patients, families and cian in the American University in health care teams who struggle Beirut recently remarked, “Every to make treatment decisions that airplane engine is the same, but no promote health, well-being and two persons are.” Our challenge as good dying. Today’s patients are health professional educators is not confronted with myriad diagnostic only to ensure that our students and treatment options: neuroim- excel in basic and clinical sciences aging, diagnostic gene chips, ven- but also to ensure that they master tricular assist devices, cyberknife the art of healing, of standing “consurgery and transplants, to name a sciously and compassionately in few. How is anyone to know which the present moment with another treatment method is most likely or with others, believing in and afto yield tangible benefits? Life-sus- firming their potential for wholetaining medical ness, wherever they technologies are are in life,” (The Art easier to establish of Being a Healing than to disconPresence, James E. tinue and thereMiller and Susan C. fore often outlive Cutshall). their prime of This entails adeffective use — in dressing gaps in some cases, painknowledge, often by fully prolonging asking what healCarol R. Taylor the process of dyings looks like in ing. the current age of Although high-tech medicine.

We challenge our health care proWe must also ask students to master the if the routine and fessionals know this, many of us pressures of daily art of healing. simply aren’t practice desensitize skilled in talking with patients and us to the central importance of our families about stopping a therapy being healing presences, which is a that has become ineffective, dis- common shortcoming of attitude. proportionately burdensome or Improving upon certain skills can seemingly futile. Moreover, even also help us determine which comthe most effective communicators munication skills best facilitate the have encountered families that art of healing. “The Ethics and Relidemand continued life-sustaining gious Directives for Catholic Health technologies even when compas- Care Services” are careful to note sionately confronted with their that “in a time of new medical disfutility. And what happens when coveries, rapid technological develfamily members and health care opments and social change, what professionals disagree about treat- is new can either be an opportunity ment goals and plans of care? I for genuine advancement in human know innumerable families haunt- culture, or it can lead to policies and ed by decisions they made or failed actions that are contrary to the true to make that resulted in prolonged dignity and vocation of the human and needless suffering. person.” I invite all our health proAt Georgetown, we are careful to fessions’ students to ponder this at challenge our medical and nursing the end of the day: Are our patients students to be faithful to the Jesuit and families better because they had concept of cura personalis. This en- me, my attention and my service? tails a decision to become a humane Did I make the critical difference in healer rather than merely a techni- their care? And an equally imporcal expert. In “The Lost Art of Heal- tant question for educators here at ing,” Bernard Lown laments, “Heal- Georgetown: Are our students better ing is replaced with treating, caring because they have us? is supplanted by managing and the art of listening is taken over by tech- Carol R. Taylor is a senior research nological procedures.” My husband, scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Robert Barnet, a cardiologist and Ethics, a professor in the School ethicist, often references the five P’s of Nursing & Health Studies and that motivate medicine: power, po- founding member and former disition, prestige, profit and politics. rector of the Center for Clinical Strikingly absent are the human Bioethics. This is the final appearperson, the patient and the public. ance of ENGAGING BIOETHICS this The Affordable Care Act is chal- semester.

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Durso Talks Local Affairs KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown hired Michael Durso, who worked for the Washington, D.C., government as director of the Poplar Point project for six years, as its first director of local government affairs this summer. The position falls under the year-old Office of Public Affairs’ Community Engagement Office, which seeks to improve relations between the university and the greater D.C. community. Durso discussed his new role at the university with THE HOYA. Below is an edited transcript of the interview.

So far, what have you accomplished in this position?

The position is a unique hybrid of responsibilities. There’s definitely interacting with the government, and that splits into two different categories: executive and legislative. There’s also a side of my job that deals with the business community. And then you have the community side of the work that we do in this office. Right now, a lot of what’s taking place on my plate in regard to responsibilities is really being driven by the [2010] Campus Plan [agreement] and related activities.

Why is your position important for Georgetown?

It’s important for a university with the history of Georgetown and the role that Georgetown

has in the city to also have the opportunity to have a face or a series of faces that are engaging the government, engaging the business community and engaging the immediate, more traditional community. As our overall office, the Office of Community Engagement, it is critical that our constituents, which are not only university members but also community members and business community members, can know who they can interact with, but also who to come to when there are either issues, points of discussion, initiatives, partnership opportunities. I think our office is a critical element to how we connect the university to those different aspects of government and different aspects of community here in the District.

How does your position fit into Georgetown’s overall plan for local relations?

This office, and then my role, is critical to monitoring legislation, critical to following policies that are coming out of the executive that can impact the university. In general, I think what’s critical to this office and my role is making sure that we have a presence, and making sure that key decisionmakers and stakeholders know who we are and know what we’re doing.

What are your goals for the future?

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Michael Durso was hired as Georgetown’s first director of local government affairs this summer.

I think the goal with the executive is to be able to identify places and subject areas where the university needs to have the critical relationships to further its mission. For example, it might just be being able for critical directors and staff people in different agencies to know that this office are the go-to people if there is an issue that could impact Georgetown and that Georgetown needs to know who the go-to people are on issues that are impacting us.

I think that the next level is also developing critical relationships with the legislative-side members of the Council in the same way.

When you go into the next level of discussion with your business community partners, it’s about being able to have relationships at different levels in the business community that are impacting the business focus of what we do.

How has your past experience prepared you for this position?

It really gives you this experience that is a wide reach and translates back to the work we’re doing here because you have to know the city — and knowing the city means knowing it politically, geographically and socially. I think what’s critical is to be able to take your experience from the city and what you’re learning about the university, and finding a way to bring those together so that the university continues to have success and have a positive reputation.

So far, what have been your favorite projects?

I’m enjoying working with my former colleagues in the D.C. government, and I enjoy being able to put people in contact with folks they don’t know so that we can further the mission of the university. When you work in the government, you work with the community intensively.

It’s not always a very positive experience from the government perspective, but what I’ve appreciated here at Georgetown is that working with the GCP, people are coming to the table with a lot of knowledge about their community, but they’re also about trying to solve problems, and that’s been very rewarding.

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The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a resolution Sunday to increase the frequency of GUTS shuttles to the Law Center and add a stop at Capitol Hill.

GUSA Urges Expansion For Law Center GUTS JOHNNY VERHOVEK Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a bill calling for expansion of the Law Center Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle Bus service to Capitol Hill at its meeting Sunday.

The proposal, submitted by GUSA Historian Anebi Adoga (COL ’16), suggested expanding the pre-existing Law Center shuttle, which currently runs weekdays between campus and First and F streets NW, two blocks from Union Station and four blocks from Capitol Hill, to include a weekend stop at the National Mall and a Capitol Hill stop during the week.

“If I were to sum this up in a slogan, my reason for this is that education shouldn’t be limited to the classroom, and you shouldn’t have to go to house parties to have fun,” Adoga said.

Since Adoga submitted a proposal on Georgetown Ideas last week, the post has garnered more than 300 up-votes.

GUSA senator Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) and GUSA Senate Vice Speaker Sam Greco (SFS ’15) co-sponsored the bill.

“The D.C. location is an integral part of the Georgetown experience, but without having a Metro stop on campus, Georgetown students face an extended commute, which often limits the opportunities that they take advantage of in D.C.,” McNaughton said.

Advocates for the expansion say adding the stop along the National Mall would be

a fairly seamless transition, as the current route already runs along most of the major monuments.

“We always talk about how at Georgetown, one of our biggest assets is having access to Washington, D.C., and it often proves kind of debilitating to go through the roundabout ways it takes to get to certain places in D.C.,” Greco said. “This would be a good change to a program that the university already runs.”

GUSA senators’ concerns were raised about the potential increase in time that adding another stop to the Law Center route would create and that a Capitol Hill stop might be superfluous considering the current stop’s proximity to Capitol Hill.

In response, McNaughton reiterated the relatively minor nature of the changes the proposal makes, and its utilization of the shuttle’s pre-existing route.

Since pitching the idea to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson in October, Adoga has heard positive feedback from students and professors.

“We talk about breaking the Georgetown bubble, and a service like this would do exactly that,” Georgetown University College Democrats President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “Georgetown has always had an issue with city connectedness due to various neighbor concerns. If we could expand GUTS Bus service to other parts of the city, we’d probably find Georgetown students taking more of a stake in what the city has to offer.”

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Sergeant Chad Carnegie drives SafeRides as part of his DPS duties. Students and DPS are both pushing to add more student drivers instead of officers.

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Three years after students began driving SafeRides vans, conversations about turning volunteer driving into work-study positions have come to a halt while the Department of Public Safety still seeks more student drivers.

According to data gathered by the Georgetown University Police Department, SafeRides has given approximately 1,200 lifts to students this semester. With the Georgetown University Student Association senate joining the force in the spring, the program will have more than 100 students driving its two vans, including volunteers from the GUSA executive branch, Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity and Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service.

Chief of Police Jay Gruber said that the introduction of student drivers has allowed DPS to allocate officers more efficiently.

“With GUSA driving one of the vans on Thursday, I could use these security officers in other ways that provide more safety to and security to the students,” Gruber said.

Conversations with the university to make SafeRides a work-study program, however, have come to a hiatus.

“There were some pushbacks from the administration,” former GUSA Secretary of Student Safety and Health Sophie Guntram (COL ’13) said. “It’s a big undertaking for the university to have students driving vans and to be liable for it if accidents happen, because if they were to employ and pay students, that’s what would happen.”

The push to initiate student-driven SafeRides originated from GUSA President Calen Angert (MSB ’11) after students expressed that they would prefer to be picked up by fellow students rather than DPS officers.

However, SafeRides’ limited boundaries and its overlapping service area with the Burleith and West Georgetown neighborhood shuttles that operate on weekend nights have led to complaints from students.

Amelia Whitehead (SFS ’14), who submitted an IdeaScale proposal to expand SafeRides’ reach, said that the shuttles should travel beyond O Street, Prospect Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

“I live about five blocks past Wisconsin, and SafeRides always refuses to take me all the way home because they have GPS in their cars and would get in trouble for going past Wisconsin,” Whitehead said.

Jordan Denari (SFS ’13), who lived on Potomac Street last year, was refused a ride because her requested route overlapped with the neighborhood shuttle.

“The police officer told me to take the shuttle, and hung up quickly. Frustrated, I called back and explained to him that I didn’t want to wait outside alone for it,” Denari said. “He was very condescending toward me.”

Denari said her experience reflected that the program failed to live up to its mission to provide safety to students.

“SafeRides is supposed to make us, especially women, feel safe,” Denari said. “The officer, despite the fact that his job was to provide a safe ride, did not make me feel safe, and he ultimately refused to send a van.”

Gruber explained that the protocol for SafeRides dispatchers is to suggest neighborhood shuttles as an alternative only when the shuttles are approaching the students, stressing that should a student insist on a SafeRides lift, the dispatcher should send a van upon request.

“If the student still says, ‘I’d like a SafeRide,’ what we’re supposed to do — and hopefully that we’re good at the most of the time — is to send a SafeRides to them,” Gruber said.

A SafeRides Steering Committee under the Student Safety Advisory Board is planned to address these concerns.

“My vision would be to have the van be driven exclusively by students, because I think students serving students is what Georgetown is about,” Gruber said. “If students can make that commitment, and if enough students are signing up to take shifts, it would be a real win-win for the students, for the university and for GUPD.”

Grad Student Wins DCTV Video Contest Kayla Cross Hoya Staff Writer

Despite being new to filmmaking and shooting her video in one day, Handan Uslu (GRD ’15) won DCTV’s college student video contest for her video of the natural scenery and history of Washington, D.C. Uslu’s film received 802 likes on DCTV’s Facebook page and has more than 1,562 views on YouTube. In addition to having her video aired on DCTV, she won a prize of $500 and was recognized at the public access station’s 25th anniversary celebration.

Uslu, who is in her first year of Georgetown’s Communication, Culture and Technology master’s program, said her background in photography provided her with the skills to make the video.

“The contest was to illuminate D.C. and show how D.C. shines,” she said.

“As I was wandering around D.C., I realized there were no big buildings, and I used to see the reflections of the water.”

She shot and edited the video on her own, using a loaned video camera from Georgetown’s library.

“I went places where I could capture some nature and history,” she said. “I just took the day off and shot the video.”

The idea for the contest came from a group of students at American University who took the class “Public

Relations Portfolio,” which required students to create a public relations strategy for an actual company.

DCTV’s Vice President of Public Affairs Tonya Gonzalez said he was impressed with the AU students’ proposal and prompted DCTV to rethink their anniversary and awards celebrations.

“They’re phenomenal. So much so to the point that they came up with the idea, the concept ‘Illuminate,’ so we changed our whole branding around our 25th,” Gonzalez said.

The Illuminate campaign drew 300 attendees, compared to previous anniversary events that drew 50 to 60 people. Because the students were working with the station for class credit, they were not compensated financially.

American University student James Connors, who proposed the video contest, said Uslu’s video was what he envisioned the winning video would look like.

“We wanted a video to showcase a positive side of D.C.,” he said of Uslu’s video. “She did a great job with the video and a great job of getting those Facebook likes.”

Uslu encouraged other students to enter contests like DCTV’s.

“In D.C. especially, there are great contests that are suitable for beginners,” she said. “If you are a beginner in photography, video or any kind of art, there are a lot of opportunities out there.”

Most Georgetown students are familiar with the crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter. Milan Patel (SFS ’14), however, wants to tailor crowdsourcing to Georgetown with UniSprout, a university-specific crowdsourcing website.

Founded by Patel and Jigar Majmundar, a senior at the University of Michigan, last spring, UniSprout is designed to facilitate small alumni donations to support student projects.

The site launched for Georgetown students last month and has been operative at Michigan as of August.

Three student projects are currently featured on the website. Seun Oyewole (SFS ’14) and Keegan Carter (MSB ’14) created We Are the Loop, a mobile application designed to show students events taking place in the greater D.C. area in one place. Carter and Oyewole have raised $1,100 from eight donors on UniSprout with 19 days left in their fundraising period.

While there is no way to differentiate between alumni and non-alumni donations, Oyewole and Carter know of one alumnus who has donated

thus far; the other donors are either friends or anonymous sources.

“It’s very simplistic,” Carter said.

“Once you get on, it’s very clear what the purpose of it is.”

Carter and Oyewole plan to use the funds raised on Unisprout to expand their brand and update their mobile application.

Shelby Bartemy (COL ’14) has used the site to promote her own startup, Clean Water H2OYAS, which aims to raise awareness of water scarcity around the world. The group plans to use funds raised through UniSprout to build a second clean water well at the Nyumbani village outside of Nairobi, Kenya, with which it has partnered since 2012. “[UniSprout] is highly accessible, it’s pretty self-explanatory, they allow you to include a video that explains your cause,” Bartemy said. “It allows potential donors to learn more about your cause in an easily accessible format, rather than having to do a lot of research.”

Thus far, H2OYAS has received $50 from two donors, with 22 days left in its funding cycle. The third project featured on the website is Ed-Strong, which aims to connect universities with the communities around them,

giving college students the chance to use what they learn in the classroom to benefit those in neighboring areas.

Thus far, Ed-Strong has received $110 from three donors.

Patel drew on lessons from other student-run startups, including Hilltop Consultants, the Hilltop Microfinance Initiative and the Compass Incubator program. He gleaned experience with crowd funding from a now-defunct start up art company that provided affordable, one-of-akind art, Art Ouvert, to construct his plan for UniSprout.

“I kind of combined the two,” he said. “If we brought this to the university level, you can bring in alumni to donate directly to students.”

The founders have started developing an initial alumni database. They have also contacted the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and other crowdsourcing sites for advice.

The site currently requires approval for ideas to be posted, though moving forward, Patel did not foresee an approval system remaining in place.

“Eventually, once we gain enough traction … it will just grow organically,” Patel said. “You can put your ideas up there and if people think it’s a good idea they’ll help you fund it.”

‘Cold Turkey’ Dangerous Study Finds Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

The effects of withdrawal from morphine or heroin use on the brain could be worse than the effects from the drugs themselves, according to a Georgetown University Medical Center study released Nov. 3.

“In reality, what has been established so far in the literature is not really 100 percent true,” neurology professor Italo Mocchetti said. “It’s not the morphine. It’s not the heroin treatment. But it is the cold turkey syndromes, and we need to avoid it.”

The study, which examined the effects of morphine addiction on rats’ brains, showed signs that withdrawal causes an increase of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the brain, which damage neurons, impair thinking and cause inflammation in the brain.

These symptoms have been linked to Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

“In cases of severe addiction, no matter what the substance, going ‘cold turkey’ is often problematic and can range from seriously uncomfortable to medically dangerous,” Counseling and Psychiatric Services Director Phil Meilman said. “With

late-stage alcoholism, for example, going cold turkey can lead to seizures or delirium tremens.”

In the study, researchers compared models of chronic drug abuse and drug withdrawal.

“I think that this is really important because in science experiments a lot of people only see what the drug does, but when in an actual animal or organism, there’s drugs, and there’s also the part that happens

“Going ‘cold turkey’ is often problematic.”

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when you’re not on the drug — the withdrawal part,” Ph.D. candidate Lee Campbell, a student who worked with Mocchetti, said.

By studying the brains of both groups of rats, the researchers concluded that the brains those of the rats who were experiencing withdrawal were more damaged than the group of rats kept on chronic morphine. According to Meilman, these results may completely alter the way

that drug addiction is treated. Research, however, still has a long way to go, as studies must first be conducted with human subjects.

“Animal models may suggest, but do not indicate, what might happen with humans,” Meilman said. “Humans may or may not react in the same way.”

Going forward, researchers are looking to follow up on these results by testing the effects of methadone, a type of replacement therapy, which would help alleviate the negative effects of withdrawal.

Methadone, a substance that is less potent than morphine, allows rehabilitating drug users to function in their daily lives and in society while still recovering. The researchers are testing to determine whether methadone would reduce the inflammation in the brain, which would also reduce the risk for damage to the brain.

Ultimately, however, Meilman stressed the inconclusive nature of the results.

“A single study by itself is not definitive without confirmation from other studies,” Meilman said. “Drawing conclusions from a single study is premature.”

Candidates Vie for SAC Chair Lily Westergaard Hoya Staff Writer

Student Activities Commission clubs will cast their votes for the next SAC chair Wednesday in the group’s second-ever contested election.

Two-semester SAC commissioner and New Club Development Coordinator Eng Gin Moe (SFS ’16), a former special to The Hoya, is running against SAC Marketing and Public Relations Director Patrick Musgrave (COL ’16), a former special to The Hoya, in the organization’s fourth election for the position. SAC amended its constitution four years ago to change from a selections committee to elections for SAC chair.

Each of SAC’s 109 fully established groups gets one vote, and SAC chair candidates typically campaign directly to clubs’ leadership.

Moe’s platform emphasizes communication; she intends to have each SAC commissioner attend one event per club each semester.

“This way, the commissioner gets to gain institutional knowledge about what that group is all about,” Moe said. “They would establish this relationship and they would feel comfortable.”

Moe also hopes to change the perception of SAC on campus.

“A lot of people see SAC as this funding board that gives out money and punishes people who don’t follow the rules,” she said. “I was really interested in SAC for this relationship aspect, this mentorship aspect, but I feel like it’s currently lacking.”

Musgrave hopes to focus on streamlining the convoluted processes required for SAC groups to sponsor events.

“We’re looking at approving events at the budget summit,” he said. “A lot of time, SAC votes are unanimous, and that makes groups have to come in and pres-

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Eng Gin Moe (SFS ’16), left, and Patrick Musgrave (COL ’16) are running for SAC chair in Wednesday’s HoyaLink election. ent, and really, that just wastes the time of student groups.”

Musgrave said that he also plans to overhaul blueprint training and to change the how student groups can reserve space.

“I think my platform includes a lot of deliverables,” he said.

Musgrave, who has only been on SAC for one semester, said that he does not see his relative lack of SAC experience as a disadvantage.

“I don’t think that experience is necessarily a prerequisite for being able to do the job well,” he said.

The election, which occurs through HoyaLink, is conducted by the Georgetown University Student Association Election Commission. There is also a new rule this year that SAC commissioners may not publicly endorse a candidate.

“SAC is a team,” current SAC Chair Jennifer Chiang (SFS ’15) said. “We don’t want to have a divided SAC, either presently or in the future.”

The Georgetown University College Democrats endorsed Moe, while the Georgetown University College Republicans backed Musgrave, who serves on the group’s board. According to Tezel, GUCD has backed SAC candidates in the

past.

“Experience is very important to us,” GUCD President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “Her desire to better support communication between the SAC Commissioners and their groups is something we’ve always felt could be done better.”

Tezel said that Musgrave’s involvement with College Republicans is not an important factor in his endorsement.

“I would say that with a lot of student government elections, political affiliation doesn’t have the same impact as it might in a government election,” he said. “The reasons I’m supporting [Moe] are different from her and the other candidate’s political affiliation.”

GUCR Chair Alex Cave (COL ’15) said that he is familiar with Musgrave’s work and is confident in his ability to lead SAC. “We’ve worked with him for a year now, and we think one thing that really sets him apart is that his ideas are very specific, and they would benefit both SAC and the student groups that SAC advises,” Cave said. “We think he’s got better ideas, more achievable ideas, and we’d be supporting him regardless.”

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Fossil Free Shuns Referendum Georgetown Bucks DIVESTMENT, from A1 said. “We elect them ourselves.

So I would really like to see that be a broad endorsement of our proposal.”

Sydney Browning (SFS ’15), co-founder of GU Fossil Free,

defended fossil fuel divestment as a reasonable request.

Students are pushing for fossil fuel divestment at other universities, including Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University.

“Communities in Appala-

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Caroline James (COL ’16) tables in Red Square for GU Fossil Free.

The organization is pursuing a senate resolution on divestment.

chia are being poisoned from the byproducts of coal refinement and their mountains blown apart by mountaintop removal while communities in Pennsylvania are being poisoned from fracking,” Browning wrote in an email. “I don’t think it’s radical to want my university to not be complicit in these things.”

Although Georgetown’s divestment would not significantly affect fossil fuel companies, James said that the move would still be impactful.

“To [divest] from an institutional point of view, where you have over a billion dollars, that can pack a punch,” James said.

“That can pack a big ethical punch as well.”

When the bill comes before the senate, Weiss is sure that it will provoke debate among members.

“I think concepts of divestment, fossil fuels and alternative energy all really have non-Georgetown connotations to them where people’s political leanings will get involved,” Weiss said. “The senate has a reputation for passing a lot of bills unanimously; I do not think this will be one of them.”

Advocates Petition Epicurean EPICUREAN, from A1 that Georgetown students are interested in what’s happening at Epicurean and that [Chon] would feel pressured to ultimately run his workplace in a way that it needs to be run and provide his workers their deserved rights,” Alvarez said.

Students who participated saw the event as a way to demonstrate their commitment for just treatment of Georgetown employees.

When asked about Georgetown’s Just Employment Policy, Chon said that he has abided by the policy despite the ongoing lawsuit.

“Yes, we have been following and reporting. We had an incident last year. I think I’m doing a good job. You know, I have those contracts, and I will follow them. I will do my best,” Chon said.

The event was planned for Monday in advance of Tuesday’s meeting of Georgetown’s Advisory Committee on Business

Practices. The ACBP, composed of university administrators, students and professors, addresses compensation and other workplace issues for contracted and hourly employees.

“It will definitely come up tomorrow in the meeting, and that is when the committee will be actually discussing how to move forward,” Koo said. “It’s basically giving the university a gentle nudge.”

Koo attributed the success of the protest to the turnout and expressed optimism for working conditions at the restaurant in the future.

“We seemed to really have caught [Chon] off guard, which is really good, because the issue will definitely be on his radar now. He’s really going to be thinking about making sure he’s really going to follow the Just Employment Policy. Now that we went in and gave him the petition, he knows that people are watching closely,” Koo said.

Despite student leaders’ optimism, Epicurean & Co. work-

ers were confused about the purpose of the sudden influx of students.

“It’s really sweet. I really appreciated it. But what just happened? What was it about?” an Epicurean worker said.

The worker said she heard about Chon’s lawsuit in the spring but was not aware of any development since then.

GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), who represented student government at the protest, highlighted the process as an important step for more student engagement in lobbying for fair treatment of workers at the university.

“The Just Employment Policy means that workers are a part of our community and that we have the responsibility to make sure they’re being treated fairly,” Tisa said. “It’s great that students are active and caring about the community. The event went well. It sent a clear message, and I have high hopes that positive results will come out of this.”

GU Loses Walter Reed Bid REED, from A1 In addition to residential and commercial areas, Hines is also partnering with The George Washington University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a laboratory space, which is intended to spur innovation in the area.

“This distinguished site has played an important role in the lives of our nation’s service members, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the District of Columbia and the community on this important project,” Hines Interests Corporate Communications Director Kim Jagger wrote in an email. “We have been fortunate to work with a team of dedicated people who have collaborated successfully to help realize the vision for transforming the Walter Reed campus into a dynamic, mixed-use community.”

This decision, however, provides a setback to Georgetown’s master planning project. Georgetown was hoping to utilize Walter Reed as part of its “next 100 acres” of development. Although official plans had not been made, Georgetown’s plot would have included graduate programs and research facilities, with an emphasis on collaboration with other institutions.

Despite the defeat, university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr expressed continued optimism for future growth prospects.

“This is all part of the master planning process for us, assessing our needs and then learning more about what the city has in mind and what is being developed in different places,” Kerr said. “We continue to be in conversations with the city about a number of other plots of land.”

Kerr did not rule out the possibility of future involvement

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Forest City Washington’s redevelopment plan would have included Georgetown graduate programs and research facilities. with Hines’ plans for Walter Reed.

“The proposal that Hines set up is not set in stone,” Kerr said.

“As we continue in our process and as the folks redeveloping Walter Reed continue their process, we may find overlap.”

Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee agreed.

“Although Forest City was not selected as the developer, the process was a helpful one, and the city has made clear to us that it would like to continue to explore a role for Georgetown in the redevelopment of Walter Reed, should Georgetown determine this site to be consistent with its needs as our master planning process evolves,” Lee wrote in an email. “Our work with Forest City continues on our master planning project, as do our conversations with regional leaders and developers about opportunities around the metropolitan area for our future growth.”

Kerr added that the univer-

sity is still looking at other areas in the area. Possibilities include St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, located at 1100 Alabama Ave. SE, and Poplar Point, a largely unused, 110-acre site operated by the National Park Service and the U.S. Park Police located along the Anacostia River in Ward 8.

“When we say 100 acres, that might be 40 acres in one place, 60 acres in another place. That doesn’t mean it has to be 100 acres together somewhere,” Kerr said. “We’re a large anchor institution, and the District is looking to grow. We very much hope to be a partner with the District in looking for our next 100 acres.”

Kerr maintained that Georgetown has competitive advantages when it comes to construction bids.

“By the nature of our existence, we are attractive, and we have been so public about looking for more space and our conversations with the District,” Kerr said. “I think it makes us more attractive to people looking to do that kind of work.”

Pre-Professional Trend Jennifer Ding Hoya Staff Writer

A nationwide trend of diminishing interest in humanities is a major concern for many liberal arts universities, but professors say it has largely gone unnoticed at Georgetown.

A recent article in The New York Times pointed to a 20 percent decline in the number of humanities majors at Harvard University over the past 10 years.

Also, at Stanford University, 45 percent of the faculty members study and teach subjects in the humanities, but only 15 percent of the students are pursuing humanities majors.

At Georgetown, however, Provost Robert Groves maintained that the university has not observed similar discrepancies, though the number of humanities majors varies every year. Regardless of major, many Georgetown students also choose to minor in a humanities field.

“If there is a trend toward more or fewer, I can’t see it,” Groves said.

Since 2000, each graduating class, across all four schools, has had 250 to 300 humanities majors and 200 to 250 humanities minors.

Eight percent of students in Georgetown College major in the humanities and about 14 to 15 percent pursue a minor.

“I don’t think we’re in dire straits at this point, and I think we’re noted for our liberal arts and humanities,” College Dean Chester Gillis said.

Gillis acknowledged the challenges some humanities graduates face.

“It might be more challenging to find your first job if you have a liberal arts degree compared to an accounting degree, no question about it. But should that motivate you then to be an accountant if you don’t want to be an accountant?” Gillis said.

“On the undergrad experience — I don’t think it defines you for the rest of your life by what you majored in college.”

Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J., a professor in the department of theology, defended the humanities’ intrinsic value.

“The humanities CHESTER GILLIS are called that preDean of Georgetown College cisely because they nors in business admin- deal with what’s inside,” istration, film and media Fields said. “Empirical scistudies, journalism and ence deals with the laws of education, inquiry and jus- nature, and it deals with tice minors. advancing human com“We’re kind of going in fort, advancing technothe opposite direction,” logical process and progGroves said. ress. But the humanities Nonetheless, the human- deal with what is the very ities at Georgetown are nature of the human perstill vulnerable to shifts in son.” interest. For the first time Gillis pointed to the huin the school’s history, manities’ continued centhe McDonough School of tral role in education.

Business reported a lower “There are certain bedadmissions rate than the rocks to a liberal arts eduCollege last year. cation that I’m not going “I would say, the business to eliminate no matter school has posed a chal- what. It’s philosophy, thelenge to the humanities ology, classics, history. here,” Gillis said. “I can see These are not going to go why parents are concerned away at Georgetown,” Gillis on return on investment said. “If you want a sophisand jobs, and I respect that ticated, thoughtful, welland understand it. I also read and well-versed citithink it’s a short-term mea- zenship, then you’ll want sure.” to preserve liberal arts.”

“You’re going to get a lot of liberal arts and humanities courses because the core is provided by the College, principally, and I know a lot of students who come here for that very reason. They want to pursue pre-professional careers, but they want it in the context of a rich, liberal arts tradition.”

Efforts have been made to further this connection through the College’s mi-

“I don’t think we’re in dire straits at this point, and I think we’re noted for our liberal arts and humanities.”

Taxi Driver Union Sues DCTC Over Requirements LAWSUIT, from A1 to transfer money from credit card transactions back to the taxicab drivers. In the lawsuit, the drivers demanded more involvement in the service provider selection process: The current providers were unilaterally chosen by the DCTC. Furthermore, the new dome lights cost approximately $450. According to plaintiff testimony, that price is twice what the DCTC originally announced, and drivers are required to pay out of pocket. If drivers refuse to cooperate with the new regulations, they face impoundment, which increases the cost of the new rules.

“Because the drivers own or lease their own vehicles, the economic impact has been severe,” a Teamsters press release stated.

The DCTC’s official stance, however, is that drivers have been given enough time to accommodate the new regulations.

“Reform has moved without them because they have refused to reform,” Mayor Vincent Gray’s spokesman Pedro Ribeiro told Washingtonian Magazine.

The plaintiffs, however, argue that noncompliance is not solely the drivers’ fault.

Rather, it is the fault of the service providers chosen by the DCTC. “Installers have required plaintiffs to

join waitlists of indefinite lengths and been unable to state how many days or weeks after Nov. 1 dome lights will be available for installation,” the lawsuit reads.

Until they can arrange an installation, some drivers have been forced to stop driving their taxis because of the District’s threat of impoundment.

The drivers also requested more representation on the DCTC. Currently, only two of the nine commissioners — who are appointed at the mayor’s discretion — are taxi drivers; the rest are simply D.C. residents.

Drivers are also increasingly concerned about Internet-based taxicab services, such as the popular taxi-hailing service Uber, which faces less regulation.

This is the latest development in the struggle between taxi drivers and the DCTC. Five drivers filed a class-action lawsuit in October, arguing that the DCTC regulations violated their constitutional rights. The hearing for this lawsuit was originally set for Oct. 18, but it was rescheduled to an undetermined date because of the federal government shutdown.

DCTC spokesman Neville Waters and Teamsters spokeswoman Leigh Strope did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Students are seeking to extend the Bioethics Research Library’s so that it would close at 9 p.m. instead of 5 p.m.

Bioethics Library Re-evaluates Hours

Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Administrators in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics are considering extending the Bioethics Research Library’s hours to accommodate student demand.

The library is currently open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Anita Joshi (SFS ’15) proposed extending the hours, suggesting to 9 p.m. on weekdays, on Georgetown Ideas in early November.

“It’s an idea that I’d been thinking about for a while, because the Ethics Library has always been the place where I study, but the hours are just so short,” Joshi said.

Designed to mimic reading rooms found at Oxford and Cambridge universities, the library, located in Healy Hall, seats 60 students and contains more than 32,800 books relating to bioethics.

“A lot of people I talk to don’t bother studying there because they just assume it’s always closed,” Joshi said. “The only time I’ve seen it crowded is during finals when their hours are extended.”

Administrators in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics were glad to hear of student interest in expanding the use of the space.

“I thought it was great because it was something that we had been discussing doing internally,” Kelly Heuer, design coordinator for the institute, said.

“We had just begun conversations about how we could try to reach out to the undergrad community so we could get a sense of how they use the space, what they find valuable about it and ways that we could further those things.”

The library’s interim director and technology projects manager, Mark Hakkarinen, said that administrators are also looking into opening the space on Sundays to accommodate student need while allowing the space to continue to be used for events in the evenings when the library is closed.

In order to fund the project, the library has reduced its number of journal subscriptions by grouping subscriptions with Lauinger Library. Additional funds will come from other organizations on campus that use the library as an event space.

The bioethics library was originally designed as a space for scholars in bioethics, though in recent years, administrators have renovated the library to make it more conducive to student use.

“There’s been a very deliberate and concentrated shift over the time that I have been here, and you can see the way that’s changed policy in the inside of the space,” Heuer said.

“I love that students are there because they’re being exposed to those ideas,” Hakkarinen added. “Every person that comes in is a person that we can sort of convert to this Jesuit ideal of ethics.”

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers announced in mid-October that they had identified compounds in cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower that have protective features against harmful radiation, which is often used in cancer therapy.

The compound, called DIM (3,3’-diindolylmethane), has previously been studied in the scientific field as a cancer prevention agent, but this is the first time DIM has been found to have protective properties against radiation as well.

The project was funded by the Drug Discovery Program in the Georgetown Department of Urology, the National Institutes of Health, several agencies within the Department of Defense and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. The study was conducted by oncology professor Eliot Rosen, oncology associate professor Saijun Fan, Radiation Medicine Department Chair Anatoly Dritschilo and Drug Discovery Program Director Milton Brown.

For two weeks, the researchers exposed lethal doses of radiation to rats,

and then treated some of the rats 10 minutes later with daily injections of DIM. According to Rosen, all untreated rats died, but over half of the DIM-treated animals remained alive after 30 days.

“This study was designed to see if the compound, DIM, could protect rodents from lethal doses of radiation,” Rosen wrote in an email. “We found that it did.”

The implications of this finding are widespread, as the compound can be used not only in cancer therapy but also in preventing nuclear radiation disasters.

“This could signal a potential beneficial use in humans someday to protect them from the harmful side effects of radiation therapy for cancer or protect humans from a more sinister use of radiation,” Rosen said.

Brown agreed, adding that the discovery could impact space and airline travel with regard to cosmic radiation exposure, public health with regard to nuclear disasters and the government with regard to protecting soldiers.

Although the results of the experiment have not yet been reproduced in human subjects, Rosen said researchers are optimistic that they will be able

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Kit Clemente Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Law Center partnered with a Mexican university and a Spanish law firm to establish a new scholarship competition for Master of Law students from Latin America in October.

The Law Center will host the Premios Futuros Juristas Latinoamericanos competition together with the Escuela de Graduados en Admin-

istracion Publica y Politica Publica at Government and Public Policy of Tecnológico de Monterrey University and the largest law firm on the Iberian Peninsula, Garrigues.

The terms of the competition allow deans of Latin American law schools to select qualified graduates for a full Masters of Law scholarship.

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“Each law school dean in Latin America can nominate one recent graduate. We take into consideration the individual’s law school grades, TOEFL score and other professional accomplishments,” Georgetown Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Nan Hunter said. “After the nominations are narrowed to approximately 15 to 20 individuals, the finalists are asked to submit an essay in response to a hypothetical legal problem, and those answers are considered as well.”

Monterrey Law school graduate and recent scholarship recipient Jorgelina Gastelum (GRD ’14) chose Georgetown’s master’s program over the other options.

“I didn’t want to stay in my country. I wanted to go somewhere else and study and experience a master’s in another country, so I compared the one in Spain and the one here in Georgetown, and I think this one goes more with the focus I wanted to give my career,” Gastelum said.

The Georgetown curriculum differs from Gastelum’s previous course of study.

“Because of the program that I chose, international business, I’m starting to look at transactions all over the world and not just ones in my country,” she said.

The scholarship strongly impacted Gastelum’s potential career paths.

“When I just graduated from Monterrey, I had my opportunities from national employees, and now with this masters I’m going to be able to actually start working in Mexico, too, but firms that have more international transactions, and not just local firms,” Gastelum said.

Hunter characterized the international partnership as one that is in line with Georgetown’s values.

“For Georgetown, this is another manifestation of our commitment to global legal education, both for American students and students from outside the U.S.,” Hunter said.

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to study DIM in humans to determine the possibility of the remediation of radiation’s side effects within the next five years.

“This research represents a successful collaboration between basic scientists and the drug discovery team at Georgetown,” Rosen said. “The Georgetown Drug Discovery Program allows us to translate basic science discoveries that can be used to the benefit of human health.”

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Compounds in broccoli have been found to protect cells from radiation.

Nine members of the Georgetown University Roosevelt Institute are creating bridgeDC, a nonprofit that would aim to shrink the gap between communities, increase community development and help areas lobby for necessary resources.

GURI President Asjed Hussain (SFS ’15) is the senior fellow for economic development in the broader Roosevelt Institute campus network. Hussain created bridgeDC for his senior fellowship’s capstone project.

The nonprofit is designed to help communities fix problems related to infrastructure.

“If a street light is broken and the crime rate is high because there’s no lighting, how can we step in to raise money and get the light fixed?” Hussain said. “Another example is trying to get a pool from closing down and we’ll try to work with the community to get funding to keep it open.”

Hussain also noted that bridgeDC could tentatively help communities with renovating parks and neighborhoods.

However, the nonprofit is still trying to find a community in need. The group is working with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor in order to find contacts for communities that may be interested in working with bridgeDC. Although Hussain recruited GURI

members to work on the project, the nonprofit and GURI are two separate bodies.

The first step for the students is to set up a nonprofit. According to Bethan Saunders (SFS ’17), who helped establish a nonprofit in her native state of California, the process of applying nonprofit designation varies from state to state.

“We have to make the case that we will be an effective nonprofit.”

Asjed hUSSAIN (SFS ’15) GURI President

“It’s a lot of paperwork,” Saunders said. “It’s a very complex process, but it’ll be worth it.”

Applying for nonprofit status requires extensive research, as it hinges on tax codes.

“We’re even thinking about talking to some law students who might do some pro bono work with the Georgetown Law Center and see if they can help us, just so we don’t make any mistakes along the way, because none of us are professionals,” Arjun Gupta (COL ’17) said.

While some students are in the process of completing the paperwork

necessary to establishing the organization, other members are searching for communities with which to work and conducting research into the operation of local government. They will use the research on the Washington, D.C. government to determine how best to lobby on behalf of the communities with which they will work.

The group is currently challenged with the question of how the finer details are going to be established, due to the limited experience and the competing academic priorities of its members.

“It’s harder for us because this isn’t a full-time job, yet we have to make the case that we will be an effective nonprofit,” Hussain said.

In addition, the group realizes that it needs to make its nonprofit unique and distinctive.

“I think we realize that there are other nonprofits like us, and the big challenge is going to be getting our foot through the door and building credibility with different communities,” Gupta said.

Despite the challenges, bridgeDC members are excited to begin the group’s work.

“I’ve been working with D.C. Reads and I recognized that there are areas of D.C. that are really failing and are not being served, and I thought that this really hands on and community approach to solving problems can be effective,” Nicholas Weigel (COL ’17) said.

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Clockwise from top left: freshman forward Shayla Cooper led the team in scoring with 17 points; senior point guard and co-captain Samisha Powell fouled out; sophomore guard Katie McCormick also fouled out after scoring 11 points; freshman center Natalie Butler played the entire game and posted a double-double, scoring 13 points and pulling down 13 boards; senior forward and co-captain Andrea White netted four free throws in the final 30 seconds of the game to seal the win for Georgetown. She finished with eight points.

Despite Foul Trouble, Hoyas Hold Off Spiders

RICHMOND, from A12 said. “They were basically putting their heads down, driving and getting calls or making layups. Then their press slowed us down a little bit, and then we made some ill-advised decisions.”

On the cusp of a monstrous collapse, White took over. She was able to win crucial rebounds and drain free throws, enabling the Hoyas to come away with the win. “[White] is a veteran,” Powell said.

“She has been in these types of situations since she was a freshman. She knows down the stretch, even when she is hurting, we need her. With her knowing that we needed her, she just sucked it up.”

The freshmen had an immediate impact in their debuts. All five received significant playing time, led by freshman center Natalie Butler, who played the entirety of the game. “[The freshmen] performed really well. I don’t want to bunch them

together as five freshmen; each of them contributed in a lot of different ways at different points in the game,” Lewis said. “They are going to continue to grow and learn.”

Cooper led the Hoyas with 17 points, while Butler posted a doubledouble in her first career game. She collected a team-high 13 rebounds while also scoring 13 points. Freshman guard Jade Martin chipped in 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting.

“I thought the freshmen played well, especially since two starters

fouled out of the game,” Powell said. “I felt they kept their composure and didn’t panic. They were able to keep the game steady. I feel like they handled it really well.”

In the victory, the Blue and Gray had five players in double figures for the first time since 2009. In addition to the three freshmen who were in double figures, Powell added 15 points and McCormick contributed 11.

Despite the win, Lewis believes the team has areas in which it can

get better.

“We won’t foul as much next time,” Lewis said. “We won’t give up as many offensive rebounds next time. We won’t turn the ball over as much next time. Those are really the three huge areas, but we’re going to get better next week.”

Georgetown will look to improve in these areas in its next game against South Dakota State. The Hoyas will take on the Jackrabbits on Friday in Brookings, S.D. Tipoff is slated for 8 p.m.

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Seniors Win Final Regular Season Game on Shaw VILLANOVA, from A12 show in the second half as the team pressed to find an equalizer. The Hoyas could not manage a shot until the 67th minute, while the visitors seemed to have the lion’s share of opportunities at the start of the half. Villanova had its best opportunity of the day in the 85th minute, when Gomez had to leave his feet and dive to his left in order to block a hard shot. The Hoyas recorded more shots and more shots on goal than their opponent in the second half, but the team could not find a second goal to secure its lead. It would not matter, however, as the defense held the Wildcats scoreless and extended its team record to 12 shutouts this year.

“We knew it would be tough in the second half,” Gomez said. “The first half went by kind of slow. The second half came, and they started to press us even more.”

One of the most noticeable aspects of the match was the physicality. Villanova had 19 fouls, compared to just five for Georgetown. The Wildcats had five yellow cards to bring their season total to 29; the Hoyas have had just 13 this year. The rough nature of the game seemed to prevent the Hoyas from establishing their style of play, but Dillon believes that it provided good lessons for the postseason.

“It felt like a tournament game, so it is a good experience for us to get used to for the postseason,” Dillon said. “But it was definitely physical, definitely chippy.”

Friday’s game could be the last the senior class will play at home on Shaw Field. The six seniors, Dillon, forward Steve Neumann, goalkeeper Keon Parsa, defender Ted Helfrich, defender Nick Van Hollen and forward Gabe Padilla, were honored in a small ceremony before the match. This year’s graduating class is one of the most successful in program history, making the NCAA tournament three of four years and tying the Class of 2013 in Big East wins. The most important stretch of the season is coming up, but Head Coach Brian Wiese still took time to reflect on the careers of those players.

“I have to be perfectly honest: The six of them have been unbelievably good,” Wiese said. “It’s a special class, and it’s a really special class for me.”

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Senior forward Steve Neumann (top) and senior midfielder Joey Dillon (bottom middle) are both projected to be picked in the MLS draft. Sophomore defender Josh Turnley (bottom left) assisted sophomore forward Brandon Allen’s goal against Villanova. Junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez (bottom right) recorded the Hoyas’ 12th shutout of the season against the Wildcats and was named to the Big East Honor Roll for his efforts.

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Men Finish Second, Women Flounder Elizabeth cavavos

stroke, with a time of 1:00.04. The Hoyas had a squad place fourth in the Hoya Staff Writer 400 freestyle relay in 3:40.90.

Georgetown’s swimming and divGeorgetown’s men’s team fared beting teams were in Piscataway, N.J., ter than the women’s team and ended this weekend for the Big East Quad up defeating both Villanova and Seton Meet against Rutgers, Villanova and Hall by scores of 214-127 and 203.5Seton Hall. Georgetown’s men’s team 145.5, respectively. Freshman Evan finished second, defeating both Villa- Grey earned two individual victories nova and Seton Hall, while the women on the final day of competition, wintrailed behind their three competitors ning both the 400 individual medat the end of the meet. ley in 4:11.17 and the 500 freestyle in On the women’s side, host Rutgers 4:47.04. Sophomore Austin Evenson sealed the win with a 3-0 victory against finished right behind Grey in the 500 its former Big East conference rivals, de- free, taking the second place spot in feating Villanova by a score of 217-130; a time of 4:48.29. Senior Christian Seton Hall, 244-104; and Georgetown, Kilgore wrapped up the meet’s compe251-97. Rutgers senior Mary Moser had tition with a first-place victory in the a strong showing and led the Scarlet 200 breaststroke, touching the wall in Knights in the first two events of the 2:12.49. meet, taking first place in both the For the Seton Hall Pirates, several 50- and 100-yard freestyle. Moser also swimmers contributed notable efplaced first in the 100 forts. Junior diver Ben butterfly. Sophomore Mitchell won the 1-meJoanna Wu earned ter diving competition two individual victoon Saturday by a marries during the meet, gin of over 60 points winning both the 500 above the second-place and the 1000 freestyle. finisher, Georgetown Both Moser and Wu freshman Jared Vespawere on Rutgers’ 200 Cooper. Mitchell surmedley relay squad passed his own school Jamie Holder Swimming & Diving Head Coach that won first place in record that he set 1:47.33. last season by over 12 The Villanova women’s team came points during the meet. in second overall at the end of the Although the Villanova men’s team meet, earning its first conference vic- fell to its competitors during the weektories of the season over Georgetown end, barely trailing behind Seton Hall (259-91) and Seton Hall (204-146). The by a score of 177.50-171.50, a few of its Wildcats showed an impressive effort swimmers boasted impressive finishes. early on during the meet, with their Junior Jason Moyer won the 100 freesquad taking second place in the 200 style, and senior Ben Smith upheld the freestyle relay. Junior Katrin Heider dominance he has shown in butterfly earned the Wildcats’ first individual relays this season by placing first in victory of the meet during the 200 free- both the 100 and 200 fly. style, finishing in 1:52.20. Villanova Georgetown Head Coach Jamie Holdwent on to take the top two spots in er expressed his satisfaction with the the 400 freestyle relay, with its squads weekend’s results. finishing in 3:30.58 and 3:36.19.

“I was really happy with our perSeton Hall senior Kerrie Kolackovsky formances,” Holder said, according to earned first in the 200 backstroke in Georgetown Sports Information. “We 2:23.58. Sophomore Gabby Signorelli raced well and have been improving took third in the 3-meter diving com- with every competition. I am excited petition with a six-dive score of 276.85. to see our progress in the next two Georgetown senior Allison Fulen- weeks as we move toward the Bucknell wider led the Hoyas in the 200 breast- Invite.” stroke, earning fourth place in 2:32.92.

The Hoyas return to competition on Freshman Emma Cammann also took Nov. 22, when they travel to Lewisburg, a fourth-place spot in the 100 back- Penn., for the Bucknell Invitational.

“I am excited to see our progress in the next two weeks.”

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GU Loses Three at Home juliana zovak Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown volleyball team had a tough weekend, as it dropped three conference matches to newcomers Xavier, Creighton and Butler.

The first disappointment took the form of a five-set heartbreaker against Xavier. The Hoyas (10-16, 4-9 Big East) came out on fire in the first set, jumping to a 7-0 lead on the serves of sophomore Emily Gisolfi. They didn’t look back, cruising to a 25-17 victory.

“We had a great week at practice, and I think we were just ready to play,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “We just needed to jump on them early, and that’s what we did.”

The second set stayed close, with neither team ever ahead by more than three points. But with the score knotted up at 23 each, the Musketeers scored two straight points to tie the match going into the break.

“In the middle of set two, I made a personnel change .... We strung together five unforced errors in that trip across the net,” Williams said.

The third set started close again after the Hoyas took a five point lead, Xavier came back to tie it at 24. But Georgetown closed it out on a block from Brooke Bachesta and Ashlie Williams to take the set 26-24.

The Musketeers rode a 9-0 run to go up 22-16 in the fourth and finished to win the set 25-21 to tie it up at two sets each, sending the match to the decisive fifth.

“In the fourth set, we only earned 13 points, whereas in the first three sets, we earned 16, 17 points, so we did not stay consistent,” Williams said.

Xavier took a 3-0 lead early, then the teams battled to 13 all, trading points until Xavier could string together two points to win 17-15.

“We get to see Xavier again on the road. Our fate is still in our hands. We just have to make sure that we go out and control it,” Williams said.

Freshman middle blocker Ashlie Williams and junior outside hitter Alex Johnson led the Hoyas with 17 kills each.

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Junior libero MacKenzie Simpson and sophomore setter Emily Gisolfi’s attempt to keep the point alive in a losing effort against Creighton.

No. 9 Creighton and, for the second night in a row, came out flying.

After taking a 4-1 lead, they led by as many as 10 and cruised to a 25-18 victory.

“We ran points on every single server except for one, and so that was huge for us. They were out of system a lot, so all we had to do was worry about blocking,” Williams said.

The second set was close, but the Blue Jays managed a 25-22 win.

They took the third in similar fashion, 25-22, although Georgetown did battle back from a 14-20 deficit.

“In the second set, we still served tough, but I think that they stepped up their passing game, and so they were in system a whole lot more, which made it much harder to guard, and they are a very very talented blocking team,” Williams said.

The Blue and Gray took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, but Creighton eventually proved why it’s ranked in the top 10 as it closed out a 25-21 victory to take the match.

But Georgetown hung in with them, led by Johnson’s double-double of 12 kills and 17 digs, sopho-

more Lauren Saar’s 11 kills and 14 digs and Williams’ 11 kills.

“We just have to be consistent from beginning to end. It is just all of the little things that are going to make a big difference right now,” Williams said.

But the fatigue from the long weekend came out in the final match against Butler, where Georgetown was swept three sets to none.

The first set was close early, but Butler ran away with it 25-16, and the next two played out in similar fashion, with the Bulldogs taking both, 25-20 and 25-16.

“Butler is low-error, and so there was no one player who took over the game, but they don’t make mistakes,” Williams said. “They earned more points.”

Saar led Georgetown with 10 kills and 11 digs, her 16th doubledouble of the year.

With this weekend behind them, the Hoyas completed their home stand for 2013 and have three more conference games away.

“We have to do the little things.

At this juncture, it really is all in the details,” Williams said.

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The NFL Is a Workplace, Martin Isn’t Fully Innocent Employees Deserve Respect CASTALDO, from A12

MAJD, from A12 Perhaps there were other teammates with whom Martin had problems. Maybe it was a more systemic problem in the organization that transcended personal confrontation. It could have been all of these things or none of them, but one thing is for certain: Someone or something in Miami was disturbing enough to drive a professional footballer to abandon his livelihood. And make no mistake: Martin is not being a baby, as some macho men will cry out from the safety of their couch: Martin did not start at Stanford in front of Andrew Luck and play at an elite level both there and in Miami because he was “soft.”

To hear Incognito or many of his Dolphins teammates who have spoken briefly on the matter explain it, the lineman’s relationship with Martin is not the cause of his teammate’s exodus.

“You can ask anybody in the Miami Dolphins’ locker room who had Jon Martin’s back the absolute most, and they will undoubtedly tell you [it was me]. Jon never showed signs that football was getting to him [or] the locker room was getting to him.”

I have no doubt that Incognito believed he

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Former Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin left the team in late October.

and Martin were friends, and perhaps it appeared that way to all but Martin himself, but intimidation — even without malicious intention — can silence many issues. Surely given what has come to light about Martin’s feelings, Incognito must recognize that his antics could potentially have bothered Martin and that Martin’s hesitance to call Incognito out for his conduct does not excuse his behavior.

Granted, some off-color language and behavior is understandably present in an environment as violent and aggressive as the NFL, and just as it is when people I know talk smack to their friends, most of this behavior is not intended to carry any malice. But players have a responsibility to themselves and their teammates to understand each other’s comfort zones and know what will offend and what will not.

Incognito’s particular failing is in not understanding that the culture and environment of an NFL locker room is a malleable entity; players can shape it just as it shapes players.

“All this stuff coming out, it speaks to the culture of our locker room,” said Incognito. “It speaks to the culture of our closeness, it speaks to the culture of our brotherhood. And the racism, the bad words, that’s what I regret most.

But that is a product of the environment.”

Incognito’s regret is appreciated, but he falls back on being a product of his environment. The culture of the NFL locker room is not above reproach, and when there are problems they should be corrected.

It is difficult to draw strong opinions on the current drama in Miami given the lack of definitive information that is currently out in the public eye, but Martin was clearly disturbed by someone in the Dolphins’ locker room, and the issue deserves a closer look.

The initial reaction should not be to question Martin. Just because most young players can put up with hazing and pressure from teammates does not mean that they should have to. This is a professional business, not a frat house. Likewise, people should not be so quick to look at Incognito as a solitary dysfunctional agent in the midst of gentlemanly and harmonious team.

Ultimately, the NFL needs to examine the culture in place in Miami and around the league and ensure that the game of football is a place where trust and respect are born of camaraderie rather than fear.

Darius Majd is junior in the College.

Walking away from the team before trying to address the issue is not how an adult would deal with bullying. Incognito and others on the team, including quarterback Ryan Tannehill, have gone on the record as being shocked and betrayed by the actions of Martin and his release of bad press about the locker room dynamic. Martin never stood up for himself in the team environment, never showed signs of having a real problem and never spoke about the issue with others before simply leaving the team on Oct. 28. This shows little selfadvocacy on the end of an apparent role model for children who was set to earn $600,000 this year.

But that fact is null and void if you’re in the camp that believes the truth should prevail, no matter how it is unearthed.

Martin released texts that clearly show Incognito using racist and threatening remarks toward his family. How does the public react? Uproar. How did I react? Skeptically.

And I was vindicated Sunday, when Incognito showed that Martin gave back just as much as he took. One text from Martin to Incognito mentioned that he would “kill [his] whole family.” This is quite contrary to the innocent victim role that Martin played all week.

What response did Incognito receive when he approached Martin to understand why he had left the team?

“Yeah I’m good man,” Martin texted. “It’s insane, bro, but just know that I don’t blame you guys at all, it’s just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little.”

In Martin’s own words to his alleged abuser, it wasn’t his fault. In the public, he told a different story. As the dirty laundry continues to air, it’s becoming more and more clear that Martin is not being honest

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Dolphins guard Richie Incognito sent threatening texts to Jonathan Martin. Incogntio alleges Martin also threatened him. and has a few personal issues himself.

So what is the result of this media madness? It’s a debate over an issue that does not relate to this case, because the Incognito-Martin drama really boils down to two crazy people and their inability to communicate well. Why is this drama in the headlines when the real problem with the league still hasn’t been addressed?

The fact that a national debate is taking place about what goes on in Martin’s and Incognito’s heads boggles me when there are NFL players whose heads are not even able to remember that this issue occurred at all.

Earlier this season, Austin Collie agreed to sign a waiver to continue playing football for the New England Patriots while medical professionals told him that he should retire because of his past concussion issues.

Darren Sproles of the New Orleans Saints took a concussion last week against the New York Jets. He suited up this Sunday.

David Wilson of the New York Giants was just told that if

he continues football, he might experience serious head and neck problems. He hopes to continue to play next season.

The public isn’t talking about concussions while it focuses on bullying. I’m sure that Rodger Goodell is happy about this change of topic, but I most certainly am not.

How a story worthy of TMZ is holding the spotlight in the national news cycle blows my mind. How the NFL can still not recognize the severity of concussions and post-concussion symptoms when retired players are harming themselves and losing brain function by the day is a crime. How the public has not held the league accountable to fix this issue is all the more troubling.

Maybe this case in Miami is an extreme outlier. Maybe this is a greater problem that needs to be addressed. If so, the time is not now. Let these professionals be adults and handle their own issues, and never let overblown gossip stories clout the real NFL issue at hand: player safety.

Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College.

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Women’s soccer

Despite Video Campaign, GU Pride Dissatisfied Hoya Staff Writer

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Hoyas Fall in Big East, Prep for NCAATourney Tom Schnoor

match with seven saves.

The second half was more of the same. The Hoyas dominated in possesThe No. 15 Georgetown women’s soc- sion and controlled the pace of play cer team travelled to Milwaukee late but could not find the elusive go-ahead last week to compete in the Big East goal. In the 68th minute, on only their Tournament. Unfortunately for the second shot of the match, DePaul broke Hoyas, the weekend in Wisconsin came through. to a surprisingly early end when they Senior forward Erin Pekovitch refell to DePaul 1-0 in the semifinals. ceived a throw-in, beat her Georgetown Heading into the tournament, defender and curled a shot past the Georgetown had its sights set on enact- outstretched arms of redshirt sophoing revenge against the Big East regu- more goalkeeper Emma Newins from lar-season champion Marquette. Last 20 yards out to give the Blue Demons year, the No. 13 Golden Eagles defeated a 1-0 lead. the Hoyas 1-0 in the final match to deny “DePaul really only had one chance, them their first ever Big East Tourna- and to be fair, they took it,” Nolan said. ment Championship, and this year, Georgetown searched for an equalthey dealt the Blue and Gray their sole izer in the last 20 minutes of the match loss of the regular season, a 4-0 drub- and generated a flurry of opportunities bing last month. but failed to find the tyBut to set up a poing goal. The scoreline tential championship held, and the match rematch, Georgetown ended in a 1-0 defeat (15-2-2, 7-1-1 Big East) for the Hoyas. DePaul had to first get past advanced to the chamthird-seed DePaul (13pionship game on Sun4-2, 5-3-1 Big East) who day where they fell to had earned a place in Marquette, 2-0. the semifinals after “Tonight was cerDAve nolan defeating Villanova 1-0 tainly a disappointing Women’s Soccer Head Coach last Tuesday. result for the girls. We Georgetown and DePaul had met in knew coming in what a good defensive the quarterfinals of last year’s Big East team DePaul is, and we were confident Tournament, a tough fought match we could come out with a positive rethat the Hoyas won 1-0. This year, the sult,” Nolan said. “Unfortunately, this regular season matchup between the game so mirrored our first meeting two teams ended in a 1-1 draw. After with them, and we couldn’t find a way that match, Head Coach Dave Nolan to get the win despite having more had high praise for the Blue Demons. than our fair share of chances.”

“They were a well-coached team, a The loss meant that Georgetown did good bunch of hardworking kids will- not receive an automatic bid to the ing to sacrifice for their team’s cause,” NCAA Tournament and had to anxhe said. iously await the tournament draw on In Friday night’s semifinal, the Hoyas Monday afternoon. generated plenty of scoring chances at “We will wait for the selection show the beginning of the match. Unlike re- on Monday, and hopefully, we will still cent games, however, Georgetown was have plenty of soccer to play this year,” unable to finish any of its opportuni- Nolan said after the match. ties. The first half ended without a goal The wait was not in vain. On Monday despite Georgetown having outshot De- afternoon, the Hoyas received word Paul 15 to 1. that they had received an at-large bid to “We couldn’t put them away when the NCAA tournament and would play we had good opportunities, especially host to La Salle (15-4-3, 5-2-1 A-10) on in the first half,” Nolan said. “We hit Friday. It will be the first home NCAA the crossbar, [DePaul sophomore goal- tournament game in program history. keeper Alejandria Godinez] made some The Explorers punched their ticket saves, and we even had one cleared off to the NCAA tournament when they the line.” defeated Dayton on penalty kicks in the Godinez, who was named Big East championship match of the Atlantic 10 goalkeeper of the year last week, was Tournament to receive an automatic unbeatable all night and finished the bid.

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Freshman forward Grace Damaska (top) came in as a substitute against DePaul.

Sophomore midfielder Marina Paul (bottom) started and had three shots on Friday.

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The Georgetown University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee released a video entitled “You Can Play” Nov. 4, prompting mixed responses from the Georgetown community.

The video is part of a larger national campaign that aims to ensure equality for LGBTQ athletes. According to SAAC Board President Annalee Abell (COL ’13, GRD ’14), Georgetown is the first Catholic university to take up the campaign’s mantle.

Some LGBTQ Georgetown students, however, felt that they merited more consultation in the making of the video.

“I was happy to find out that GU Athletics put out this product. It signals a commitment to the LGBTQ community on campus, and certainly when students apply or athletes apply, it sends a message that they’ll be welcome on campus,” GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) said. “I’m not gonna lie, I wish it was the product of more collaboration between the two groups, but I think that this is a good starting place.”

Because GU Pride was not consulted in the making of the video, some students felt not everything was done to incorporate an LGBTQ voice into the video.

Craig Cassey (COL ’15) believes that the absence of identified LGBTQ athletes in the video is indicative of an oppressive environment.

“If it really was a safe place where LGBTQ athletes were respected without a question, then we would have had more LGBTQ in that video,” he said.

“I believe the SAAC Board probably tried to reach out to some openly queer athletes, but I think either more could have been done from their end, or perhaps the reality is there just weren’t as many openly queer athletes to reach out to, because we truly aren’t a safe place yet for gay athletes.”

Those involved with the making of the video stressed the importance of bringing more awareness to the topic of LGBTQ acceptance in the area of sports.

“I think the biggest thing is that it was really important to us to use athletics to promote this issue because this is probably where it becomes the most

controversial, in my opinion,” Abell said. “I think people feel less comfortable coming out, as athletes, because there’s a certain image you want to portray, and sometimes being LGBTQ goes against that image.”

The video, planned and edited

by Alex Pettee (MSB ’13, GRD ’14), focused on the perceived tension between LGBTQ and sport atmospheres.

“The theme of the video and the filming was to create this contrast image; you normally think of these issues as the gritty, hard-nosed, fight-like issues,” Pettee said. “From the script to the casting to actual filming of the light … it’s supposed to be a metaphor for the interesting contrast and issues itself as kind of half out there.

It’s something you don’t really want to talk about, but at the same time you know that it’s there.”

To cast the film, SAAC asked its representatives to each team to solicit volunteers.

Lloyd, however, believes the dialogue should extend beyond the realm of varsity athletics.

He also did not feel that straight allies sufficed in imparting the message. “[I’d like to see] openly LGBTQ athletes ... sort of more diversity within the video,” Lloyd said.

“That’s why I say it was more of a starting point, because it was more straight allies who were in the video, but it’s time that we incorporate real change makers into the conversation as well.”

GU Pride seeks to bring a highprofile LGBTQ athlete to campus next semester and develop a culture to encourage athlete involvement.

“In the future, when they do projects like this, they feel comfortable or have easier means of reaching out to us as to who we want to see in the video, and what we think is important to highlight for members of our community and not just the ally community,” Lloyd said.

Despite Lloyd’s assertions, Abell highlighted the purpose of the video, which was shown to members of the LGBTQ Resource Center.

“Once the video was complete, we sent it to the LGBTQ Center for review, and obviously [chair of Georgetown’s board of directors] Paul Tagliabue was

super involved with that program as well, so he saw that video,” she said. “The point we were trying to make was using varsity athletes where it’s normally an environment that isn’t conducive to coming out and being who you are, so that’s why we decided to focus on that.”

Although the producers of the video did not incorporate and consult all members of the Georgetown community involved with LGBTQ issues, the future may bring increased dialogue.

“Having those spaces like dialogues, having those events where they attend or co-sponsor, will help build those relationships over time,” Lloyd said.

“This video signals that they’re ready for that, and it encourages me to focus our programming or do [some] programming on that in the spring, which maybe I wouldn’t have thought of initially.”

For now, both groups are looking to change the level of collaboration within Georgetown on this issue.

“As for collaboration within the school, I think the video signals that they’re open to collaboration, but it doesn’t yet represent the product between any change in perspective or any change in the relationship between the two groups just yet,” Lloyd said.

A follow-up video and possible dinner event, which would bring LGBTQ groups and the Athletic Department together and feature a speaker, is being planned as a possibility for midFebruary.

“What we’re trying to do is create an ongoing dialogue about this issue so SAAC and the Athletic Department have met with the LGBTQ Center to organize a dinner where athletes come together with the LGBTQ Center … then also [have] a conversation. We’re looking into bringing in a speaker and also [playing] the video,” Abell said. “We’re in the process of also making what we’re calling a director’s cut of the film, where we interview people that were involved in the process, and we’re gonna have Paul Tagliabue in that as well, probably interview Shiva at the center, and talk about why they think these issues are important.”

men’s basketball

Smith Impresses, Nets 25 in Loss Evan Hollander Hoya Staff Writer

In front of the troops stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea, untimely turnovers and abysmal three-point shooting spoiled an impactful debut from junior center Josh Smith as Georgetown fell to No. 19 Oregon, 82-75, in its season opener Friday night.

The game, televised live on ESPN as part of the Armed Forces Classic, pitted the Hoyas against a Ducks squad that was without two key players: sophomore guard Dominic Artis and sophomore forward Ben Carter.

Their suspensions made little difference, however, as Oregon outplayed Georgetown on the perimeter from the get-go.

Although Head Coach John Thompson III had been mum about whether Smith would start or come off the bench, the UCLA transfer

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Junior guard Jabril Trawick started at small forward.

started and played 27 minutes.

It was the 25 points and the dominating nature in which he scored them that impressed Georgetown fans. The big man collected a disappointing four rebounds and notched just two assists, however, before fouling out in the waning minutes of the game.

Foul trouble was a concern all night for the Hoyas, who had 16 fouls in the first half alone, allowing Oregon to outscore Georgetown, 36-20, from the charity stripe.

Although a determined rush

by Smith and junior forward Mikael Hopkins put the Hoyas just three points back, 37-34, at the half, Georgetown was unable to get much closer in the second half.

“Things we can control, we have to control,” Thompson said after the game, according to Georgetown Sports Information. “We had too many untimely, unforced turnovers.

We got our rhythm offensively, but we gave up a lot of threes in a row, it felt like four or five. The timing of that is what we have to learn. When we had to get a stop or a rebound, we didn’t.”

Perimeter shooting was a struggle all night for the Blue and Gray, with senior guard Markel Starks knocking down the team’s only trey on 15 attempts — a measly 6.7 percent from beyond the arc.

His backcourt teammate, sophomore guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, slumped badly in the game, going just 2-for-10 from the field and missing all five of his three point attempts.

Oregon, on the other hand, boasted a potent weapon in redshirt junior guard Joseph Young, who finished with 24 points, and redshirt senior forward Mike Moser, a UNLV transfer who was able to beat Smith on some

critical rebounds and notched 15 points in the game.

The 82 points allowed was the highest total for the Hoyas in a regulation game since the 2011-12 season.

Going forward, then, defense and perimeter shooting are likely to be the biggest points of emphasis for the Blue and Gray.

Despite the disappointing result, the Hoyas still have the opportunity to grow from the loss and the overall experience in South Korea.

“This was an unbelievable experience,” Thompson said, according to Georgetown Sports Information. “It was a privilege to play in this environment, and it was a privilege to play in front of the soldiers. One of the most rewarding times was serving lunch yesterday and getting the chance to interact with the young men and women stationed here at Camp Humphreys. It was an unbelievable experience and now we have to grow from it.”

After another 15-hour plane ride, Georgetown will prepare to face Wright State at Verizon Center on Wednesday night. The Raiders are coming off an 82-49 victory over Mount St. Joseph’s. Senior forward AJ Pacher, who finished with 21 points and 5 rebounds, led Wright State in the victory. Senior forward Jerran Young recorded a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

Wright State is the sixth-youngest team in the country and was predicted to finish last in the Horizon League by the conference preseason poll. Despite their youth, the Raiders are expected to play an up-tempo style and rely on defense. Meanwhile, the Hoyas will look to improve upon their dismal shooting percentage from beyond the arc.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

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LOSING WEEKEND

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The Hoyas lost three straight games at home to Xavier, Creighton and Butler.

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Women’s Soccer Head Coach Dave Nolan on the Hoyas’ loss in the Big East tournament.

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The place that the men’s swimming and diving team finished in the Big East Quad meet.

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lot of people can take a rest,” junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez said. “Not having to worry about another game After a win over Villanova on Fri- or skipping classes [is good].” day, Georgetown won their second Villanova took a much different Big East regular season champion- view into the game Friday, seeing it ship in as many years, a feat that as a must-win to keep its season alive seemed out of reach when the day rather than as a chance to earn a title. began. The Hoyas (13-4-1, 6-2-1 Big Both sets of players were aware of the East) took care of business on Shaw Wildcats’ dire situation, and accordField, defeating the Wildcats (8-9-1, ing to senior midfielder Joey Dillon, 3-6-0 Big East), 1-0, but still needed this made earning a result much help from a pair of more difficult. the weaker teams in “Coach Wiese the Big East to imalways talks to prove their conferus about how difence standing. That ficult it is to end help arrived, delivsomeone’s seaering a fourth Big son. They were East regular season playing for their title to the Hilltop.

Big East lives,” JOEY DILLON No. 8 Georgetown Dillon said.

Senior Midfielder and Co-Captain began Friday in third The two teams place in the confermatched shots ence, needing upset wins by DePaul, early in the game, but the Hoyas a team winless in the Big East at that found the back of the net first. point, and Butler, which was fighting Sophomore midfielder Josh Turnfor the final Big East tournament spot. ley received the ball on the left side The underdogs came through, with and crossed it to the middle, where DePaul downing No. 10 Marquette sophomore forward Brandon Allen and Butler defeating No. 22 Xavier on was waiting. Allen buried the opFriday night. Those results allowed portunity in the 22nd minute for his the Hoyas to jump into a first-place tie team-leading 11th goal of the season. with Marquette and beat the Golden Georgetown outshot its opponent 3-0 Eagles on a tiebreaker. The team also in the remaining 23 minutes of the earned a bye in the first round of the half, but the score would not change.

Big East tournament.

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It was definitely physical.”

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Sophomore forward Brandon Allen scored the winning goal against Villanova in Georgetown’s 1-0 win. The victory, combined with the losses of conference rivals, gave the Hoyas the Big East regular season title.

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From Banter to Bullying

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Freshman guard Jade Martin, one of five rookies on the team, recorded 12 points and added two blocks in the Hoyas 82-78 win over the Spiders. She saw 25 minutes of action in her debut.

Team Effort Lifts GUin Opener CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

With 31 seconds remaining in the second half, the Georgetown women’s basketball team was clinging on to a dwindling lead.

Richmond had cut the Blue and Gray’s 21-point advantage down to three, and the Spiders seemed poised to complete the improbable comeback. But the senior and co-captain Andrea White hit four consecutive free throws in the final 30 seconds to seal the Georgetown victory.

Although the Hoyas were hampered by foul trouble and turnovers, in the end, Georgetown was able to eke out the 8278 win over Richmond.

“Our team really found a way to win,” Head Coach Jim Lewis said. “We told them that you can have a scouting report, but you have to roll with how a game unfolds. I’m proud that they were able to show what we are capable

of doing. … It was a team effort.”

This was the first win for Lewis at Georgetown, who began his tenure on the Hilltop just two weeks ago. Additionally, five of the eight Hoyas who received playing time were making their first collegiate appearance.

“I thought we played well for the first game, especially since we have a new coach and a lot of new players,” senior co-captain and guard Samisha Powell said.

“For our first game, having to learn a lot of new stuff, having to adjust to a new coach and having the coach adjust to us, I feel like we did a pretty decent job.”

In the final minutes, the Blue and Gray were without Powell and sophomore guard Katie McCormick, who had fouled out earlier in the game. But the inexperienced freshmen and White were able to do just enough to hold off the Spiders.

“The foul issue taught us a lesson,” Lewis said. “The officiating

was calling good fouls that we were committing … but when one person [gets in foul trouble], another has to step up. Our young people really showed that they are ready for this level, but I was really proud of all of them.”

Led by McCormick’s threepoint shooting and Powell’s baskets in transition, Georgetown opened the second half on a 20-6 run. With just over 10 minutes remaining in the game, freshman forward Shayla Cooper found Powell on a backdoor cut for a layup that put the Hoyas up by 21 — their biggest lead of the contest.

But the Spiders responded with a run of their own. Richmond was able to take advantage of the Blue and Gray’s costly mistakes and closed Georgetown’s lead to just two points.

“Their aggressiveness really controlled the tempo,” Lewis

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Time to Examine NFL Culture

League Has Bigger Fish to Fry

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ords can harmful. They can be ffensive tackle Jonathan Mardeceiving. Depending on contin left the Dolphins, Richie Intext, they can be either benign cognito’s ignorance is revealed or malicious. The transcript of text mesand the whole sporting world has a new sages between Miami Dolphins players hot-button issue to address: bullying.

Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito But when there are far more pressing appears pretty damning and merits a issues at hand in the NFL should this inlarger discussion about the “locker room cident take the spotlight? culture” in the NFL. Furthermore, regardSure, at face value this looks like a sitless of how the increasingly bizarre “buluation in which a psychotic and abusive lying incident” in the Dolphins’ locker team leader pushes a younger mentee room is resolved, it will leave yet another to breaking point. Until Incognito spoke stain on Incognito’s already troubled repon Fox NFL Sunday, the last week had utation. shown nothing more.

Incognito is fully And as more and aware of the detrimore comes to light Just how much attention do mental manner in about Incognito’s use Incognito, Martin and the which his conduct of racial slurs, sexual may be construed: harassment, drunkDolphins’ locker room culture “When words are put en stupors and more, warrant? in a context, I underthere is no question stand why a lot of eyethat the individual is brows get raised. But a seriously bad apple. people don’t know how Jon and I comBut the issue is not whether Incognimunicate to one another.” It is hard to to is a bad person — the court of public muster up much sympathy for the perenopinion is already handling that. The isnially troubled Dolphins lineman, given sue is whether bullying is a widespread the frequency of his angry outbursts and problem that needs to be addressed. In the offensive language in his texts to Marmy view, bullying is a problem from the tin. But he is right to point out that the college level down, but it’s not one that public cannot possibly understand the the NFL needs to spend its resources on. context of the relationship between him There is no arguing that bullying is and Martin, or between any of the other wrong and that children and young members of the team in the locker room. adults who receive this type of abuse Much of the confusion and mystery need others to advocate for them. When regarding the circumstances of Martin’s you have a professional career, though, sudden exit stems from his current unyou are to be treated like an adult and willingness to specify what factors in the are therefore expected to act like an locker room led him to quit the team. adult. One component of this is selfPerhaps repeated offensiveness on the advocacy. Another is honesty. It seems part of Incognito caused Martin to snap.

Martin has not demonstrated either.

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