The Hoya: November 22, 2013

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

DC FOOTBALL FUROR A debate over Washington’s team name grabs national headlines.

GUIDE, B1

EDITORIAL The editorial board presents 10 ways to test the status quo of finals.

SURPLUS The university posted a budget surplus for the first time in 11 years.

SAN JUAN SHOCKER Northeastern stuns GU in the quarterfinals of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.

NEWS, A6

OPINION, A2

SPORTS, B8

Tavern License Up for Grabs Kit Clemente Hoya Staff Writer

For the first time in 20 years, a tavern liquor license is now available for a Georgetown restaurant.

A tavern liquor license, as opposed to a restaurant liquor license, allows an establishment to rely more on alcohol sales. Restaurant liquor licenses mandate that food sales account for at least 45 percent of gross annual receipts, which requires a quarterly report sent to the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration.

The number of tavern or night-

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Gypsy Sally’s on K Street is first in line for a tavern license.

In NHS, Part-Time Flip-Flop

club licenses in Georgetown is capped at six because the neighborhood is designated as an alcoholic beverage control moratorium zone, as are Adams Morgan, East Dupont Circle, West Dupont Circle and Glover Park. The number of tavern licenses for each moratorium zone varies, but other areas of the District do not carry any restrictions. Currently, Chadwick’s, El Centro D.F., Modern, Blue Gin and Rhino hold tavern licenses. El Centro was able to inherit Third Edition’s license when it took over its location earlier this year. There are no nightclub licenses in the neighborhood.

Saloun, which was located at 3239 M St. NW before it closed in October 2011, held the sixth license. Establishments can still keep liquor licenses after closing, as is the case with Blue Gin, which closed in November 2008, and Saloun did not give up its license until this year. The restaurant did not apply for renewal by the Sept. 30 deadline, and the ABRA cancelled the license Oct. 30.

“Restrictions have temporarily been lifted on alcoholic beverage licenses for taverns in the Georgetown Historic District,” ABRA announced in an online press release Nov. 13. “Taverns located in the Georgetown Historic District are permitted to transfer alcoholic beverage licenses to new own-

ers and new locations within the area. An existing restaurant in the historic district will also be able to apply to become a tavern or nightclub in the neighborhood.”

Applications are available online and will be considered by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on a first-come, first-serve basis. As of press time, two Georgetown restaurants, Gypsy Sally’s, at 3401 K St. NW, and Smith Point, at 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW, have submitted applications for a tavern liquor license, in that order. Applicants must undergo a background investigation that includes a criminal history check.

“Because I personally am the person who’s doing all of the administrative work for those reports that have to be done, I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, wouldn’t this be great if I didn’t have to do this any longer?’” Gypsy Sally’s co-owner Karen Ensor said. “Having a tavern license, you don’t have to have any filing requirements, so I thought it would be a nice relief to not have to do that.”

Although a tavern license would alleviate the pressure of meeting the food sales restriction, Ensor said that it would not change the restaurant’s overall business plan, which combines food, alcohol and live music.

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Legendary English Professor Knoll Dies Kayla Cross Hoya Staff Writer

One word comes up in every conversation about Wayne Knoll: love.

An English professor and former Jesuit priest, Knoll, 80, died Nov. 10 after a three-month battle with an incurable and inoperable cancerous tumor. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 1972 and taught here for 41 years.

“Wayne said that the most satisfying element of being human and being alive is to love, to love others and to be loved,” Knoll’s wife, Rev. Anne Gehman, said.

Raised in Kansas, Knoll grew up with the tradition of the Catholic Church. He was gifted academically from a young age and finished all the books in his middle school library two years before he graduated eighth grade.

He joined the Jesuit order before attending St. Louis University and then Harvard University for his doctorate in literature.

Throughout his studies, Knoll developed the singular dream of teaching at Georgetown. It was the only place he applied when searching for a job.

“I have never known any person with more single-minded purpose than Dr. Knoll. His goal was to become a professor of literature at Georgetown University,” Knoll’s biographer, Suzanne Giesemann, said. “He would not have settled for anything else.”

At Georgetown, students and colleagues adored him for his commitment to his work. Recognized for his talent for teaching literature, Knoll was honored

with the Edward B. Bunn Award, given annually by the senior class, for excellence in teaching in 2006. His classes, including “Faulkner” and “Eliot’s Waste Land,” were among the most popular in the Department of English every semester.

While at Georgetown, Knoll made an enormous change: He left the Jesuit priesthood more than 25 years ago and later married Gehman, who is a worldrenowned psychic medium.

Gehman described herself and her husband as soul mates, recalling their routine of beginning each morning with a meditation and a reading, whether from a philosophical book, a scientific work or scripture. She said they were brought together by their love for God and the REV. ANNE GEHMAN Widow of Wayne Knoll “spiritual pathway of life” they shared.

“We have a totally different philosophical understanding,” she said. “He was very Catholic, while I’m more of a Universalist and accept truth in all the world religions. But it never made a difference to us that we had that difference, because we honored that in one another.”

Knoll’s life and transition from the priesthood was recorded in Giesemann’s biography “The Priest and the Medium,” which was published in 2009.

“When I interviewed him and asked him what it was like to leave the priesthood, he couldn’t talk about it.

He had blanked it out of his mind,”

“In his heart and soul, he was always a Jesuit priest.”

Kit Clemente The School of Nursing & Health Studies approved part-time status for the spring semester Thursday for all 26 students who applied for it, two weeks after denying that request to the majority of applicants.

“After careful review of those petitions, some were granted, and some were not,” NHS Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management Marianne Lyons wrote in an email to The Hoya on Nov. 13. “We carefully evaluate those requests and typically grant them for compelling reasons, such as a medical situation, family issues and a desire to perform, in keeping with Georgetown’s Catholic, Jesuit values, community service.”

Students who were initially denied part-time status said that administrators originally portrayed the petition process as less rigorous than they did after the denial.

“They gave us a piece of paper, and what I was told when they gave us the petition was, ‘Don’t worry, this is just a technicality, we rarely reject people,’ so I filled out the petition

COURTESY ANNE GEHMAN

Wayne Knoll arrived in 1972 at Georgetown, where he was a beloved member of the faculty for more than four decades. He died of cancer Nov. 10.

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Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., speaks at the first What’s a Hoya? seminar for freshmen looking for housing points Wednesday.

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For Mayoral Race, Students Take a Stand Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

As the D.C. mayoral race heats up, Students for a Better D.C. is working to ensure that candidates keep universities’ interests in mind.

The newly founded student organization is reaching out to mayoral candidates with policy ideas that would benefit students and the wider D.C. population.

“D.C. is right in the middle of the election process. Everything is kind of fluid, everything is kind of in transition,” member Sarah Rabon (COL ’16) said. “Since it is going to be transitioning to a new direction, depending on who is elected, we wanted to branch out to all the people who could potentially be leaders of D.C. in the near future.”

The group is pushing for a more precise noise ordinance than the

Disorderly Conduct Amendment Act of 2010. According to the law, unreasonably loud noise is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. if it disturbs other residents, although a decibel restriction is not specified.

The group also plans to advocate for a higher education mayoral advisory board that would provide students with a direct channel to the mayor.

“It would be basically a panel of students who the mayor could consult with if he wanted to know how a young person would view an issue or if there was an issue that a community member wanted and he wanted to know how a young person would feel about that issue, it would be a board that he could consult,” member and Georgetown University Student Association Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Peterson (COL ’14) said.

Member Olivia Hinerfield (SFS ’17), Published Tuesdays and Fridays

however, questioned whether candidates would implement student-created policies.

“So far, they have all been very receptive, but one of the hardest parts about it is that the majority of Georgetown students are not registered to vote in D.C., and so while they are representing us as mayor, we are not going to help them get elected,” Hinerfield said.

Nevertheless, Peterson stressed that students are a vital resource for the District that is severely underutilized.

“Students and young people are a really great resource in terms of our time,” Peterson said. “Even though we tend to not have as much money, but in terms of our time to volunteer and our voting, we can be really powerful in D.C.” Students for a Better D.C. follows in the footsteps of force student advocacy group D.C. Students Speak,

which was founded in 2009. According to Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), former DCSS Georgetown chair and current Students for D.C. member, DCSS was primarily formed to represent student voices in the formation of campus plan agreements at local universities, primarily American University, The George Washington University and Georgetown. Tezel said that the organization has largely disassembled and many members have since graduated, although representatives from each school meet approximately once a month to discuss student issues.

“They are pretty similar, and they’re going to the same goals, but I think the battlefield has changed a bit,” Tezel said about DCSS and Students for a Better D.C. “The issues are a bit different.”

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIAL

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inals Examination

Finals are creeping up faster than most of us would like to admit. While cumulative examinations have value in the sense that they hold students accountable for the semester, there is ample room for improvement in exam execution. We offer these 10 suggestions as a way to test the Georgetown norm of testing protocol.

COURSE EVALUATIONS

Course evaluations give students a voice in keeping professors accountable. Completing evaluations before final examinations eliminates the chance to comment on how well professors have prepared their classes for the final assessment — a major factor in teaching effectiveness. We propose a system in which students are required to fill out the course evaluation in order to access their final grades online. This simple switch would allow for more comprehensive reviews of a course while also creating an incentive for students to complete their evaluations. After all, if a final exam accounts for a significant chunk of students’ grades, it ought to also be weighed in the assessment of their instructor.

REVIEWING STUDY SESSIONS

Although not mandatory, finals review sessions run by teaching assistants are commonplace during Georgetown finals season. But these sessions are hardly standardized, even within the same class. In classes with multiple teaching assistants, certain sections can receive more helpful or more frequent sessions than peers with less dedicated TAs. If the professor prescribed protocol for TAs to follow in review sessions, it would help level the testing playing field. Enforcement could be challenging, but we have faith in the responsibility of TAs when given better guidance.

GRAB ‘N’ KEEP GOING

Grab ‘n’ Go is intended to allow students to grab meals on the run in between classes, but closing the service during finals simply because courses are not in session is unreasonable. The flexibility of location that Grab ‘n’ Go provides is a boon to stressed students looking to cram in a meal while cramming for a test. Quick food is especially appreciated by those unfortunate students with multiple finals on the same day. Flexible meal options aid students who are trying to plan their study days and utilize their meal plans — goals that the university should facilitate, not inhibit.

OFFICE HOURS OFFERINGS

During the course of a semester, office hours are typically underused from day to day and overused around exams.

An easy fix to this problem would be to further extend office hours held in the weeks before and during finals.

Even a brief, 10-minute meeting with a professor before the final can yield high returns in test performance. Mandating extended office hours during the finals period, perhaps even up to the day before the test, is a simple way to help students with little added burden on the professor.

ASSESSMENT BUFFER ZONE

A 16-week Georgetown se-

mester can simultaneously feel like a marathon and a sprint. Problem sets, midterms and papers are assigned so frequently that there is no clear sense of when midterms are over — and some midterms are even scheduled for the last day of courses. Given the test fatigue that sets in during late April and November, at least one assessment-free week — and ideally several — before finals is in order. Avoiding major tests in the week or two before finals would alleviate some of Georgetown’s notoriously frantic finals stress and allow students the time to meticulously prepare rather than cram.

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While no final exam experience could be considered pleasant, there are clearly better and worse schedules. As the policy stands, a student may reschedule an exam only if it conflicts directly with another or if he or she has three exams in one day. And yet it seems unfair to exclude those that do not fit that exact criteria but have equally onerous schedules. Surely three exams over 24 hours, for instance, is not so much more overwhelming than four over 48. Given the frequency of such scenarios, the university should move to make policies on exam rescheduling less rigid. Allowing room for adjustment on a case-by-case basis could help save students from an unduly unpleasant December.

A MENTAL FITNESS TEST

Pulling all-nighters, eating irregularly, binging on caffeine and abusing certain study enhancers such as Adderall are all too common features of finals. Though indulging in such behavior for only several weeks might not seem harmful, the health risks involved are, in fact, substantial.

Student Health Services should work in conjunction with the Hoya Health Hut to make a greater and more visible effort in informing students about the resources available.

When so many of us are so prone to suspend healthy habits during exams, such reminders can have high impact.

READING PERIOD

Georgetown’s reading period is among the shortest of competitive universities in the United States. Inadequate time reserved exclusively for review puts students at a disadvantage — especially those with frontloaded exam schedules. With such a long period of testing, it would be more logical to shorten the exam period and add to reading days. As it stands, it’s possible to have either an excess of a week between exams or to have five exams in a threeday sprint. Such a shift would ameliorate unfair student scheduling discrepancies.

CONTENT OVER CONCISION

With long papers, our academic culture places undue emphasis on heeding precise page length, word count or number of sources. Splitting hairs over word count is a contrived value in academics. Guidelines should be restricted to a rough estimate of length, rather than a hard and fast number. Depth and concision are both important, but when we dwell on parameters — spending time playing with margins and spacing — rather than content, a word limit becomes counterproductive. Professors should set a range rather than a rigid count and then trust students to know and heed their own writing style.

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There is a discrepancy between how much effort is expended on finals and how little feedback is received. While it is easy to overlook the absence of an examination grade in favor of a cumulative one, professors should provide students with, at a minimum, percentage grades for their finals, if not substantive comments. The absence of feedback for a multiplechoice test is understandable; for an essay, it’s inexcusable. If we strive to make the final exam an educational opportunity in its own right, it is necessary to realize that courses are not embodied by a single letter grade — a concept that finals should reflect.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Professor Doreen Metzner penned “Two Changes That I Can Believe In” (A3, Nov. 19, 2013), comparing the Social Democrats in Spain to President Barack Obama. I found her argument deeply offensive.

She writes, “Much of the country was not at all ready for his [Obama] style of leadership, or for him ... opposition to him would galvanize quickly and that it would be far more difficult to squelch racism.”

This effort to marginalize conservatives as racist has gained steam as Obama’s failures mount, with Oprah suggesting opposition was due to skin color. This view is wrong and detached from reality, especially as George W. Bush faced deeper vitriol.

If America were racist, Obama could never have been elected, as blacks are 13 percent of the population. Kerry carried 41 percent of white voters, while Obama carried 43 percent and 39 percent. Moreover, Obama carried 53 percent who said race was an important factor.

Conservatives oppose Obama expressly because he is like Spanish Social Democrats.

The empirical data has proven incontrovertibly that the social democratic experiment is a failure. The European nanny state is financially untenable.

Liberals play the race card to avoid our underlying criticisms.

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CORRECTIONS The article “GUMC Grant Aids DC Schools” (Nov. 19, 2013, A5) incorrectly stated that Amgen Biotech Experience has reached over 50,000 students and teachers since its inception. The program reaches 50,000 students and teachers each year and has had over 300,000 participants since it was created.

The article “Committee Re-evaluates Medical Marijuana Policy” (Nov. 19, 2013, A7) incorrectly stated that 39 District physicians were licensed to prescribe medical marijuana and that 62 physicians had picked up the necessary forms. The 62 physicians picked up the necessary recommendation forms for prescribing marijuana, and 39 of them have actually used the forms to formally recommend and prescribe medical marijuana to patients. In addition, the article originally stated that 59 patients were enrolled in the medical marijuana program. As of Nov. 18, there are 89 patients enrolled.

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healthcare.gov. I suppose the website’s failure is due to racism.

Americans want robust capitalism with a safety net to help them back to their feet after they fall; however, we cannot keep you standing indefinitely. Obama is out of step, as a majority now says the government should not provide health care, while an ABC poll says Romney would win if the election were today. This is buyer’s remorse.

Obama faces opposition because he wants higher taxes, even if an increase would lower revenue. This effort to penalize the wealthy even at the expense of the economy plays well in Europe but runs counter to what makes America stronger and greater than our transatlantic neighbors.

America deserves a robust discussion on race, not tiresome attacks. Conservatism has an optimistic view of humanity. We return power to the people rather than Washington while liberals paternalistically believe they know what you want better than you do.

To accuse conservatism of being racist is to fundamentally misunderstand it.

If opponents of Obama are racist, why are we trying to find solutions to black-on-black violence in Chicago while ‘so-called’ enlightened ones like Al Sharpton remain shamefully silent, eagerly awaiting an instance of white-on-black violence on which they can cry outrage, juice the TV ratings and raise money?

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OPINION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

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EDITOR’S NOTE • Funt

CURIOUS BY NATURE

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A UNIVERSITY FOR OTHERS

Who We Are to Judge I

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The Biology Of Home Brewing I

n the spirit of the holidays, I’ve chosen to focus my last column on, well, spirits.

But for those who like to make their drinks at home, beer is the best bet. Students of Georgetown Inc. recently awarded a Vital Vittles Traditions Scholarship to some of Georgetown’s own talented brewers in Brewleith. The process comes down to four simple ingredients: malting barley, hops, water and yeast.

Malt grain refers to grain that has been soaked in water until little sprouts begin to grow, and starches are composed of long carbon chains with some hydrogen and oxygen attached along the way. Sugar, on the other hand, is a similar organic compound, but its ringed structure makes it much sweeter than starch.

The next step in creating your homebrew is to gather your hops. Hops are actually the female flowers of the hop plant — and you thought brewing was just for men! Hops are actually a member of the hemp family, too, which is the plant basis of some clothing as well as marijuana. Hops contain oil that has a combination of alpha and beta acids, which are responsible for beer’s tangy, bitter taste. Depending on the kind of hops you choose and how long you boil them, your beer will have a different flavor. Hops high in alpha acids are known as bittering hops, whereas hops with more beta acids are known as aromatic hops.

Choose your hops carefully: They play a crucial role in protecting your beer through the brewing process. Alpha and beta acids have several antibacterial properties to protect beer from unwanted “guests” in the final product, and change its surface tension to make it easier to keep the brew at a higher temperature for a longer amount of time without losing as much to evaporation. Usually, brewers use hops that have been made into pellets, though some British brewers have moved to using pure oil.

Water might seem like a no-brainer, but it actually has huge effects on the final product.

Different minerals and ions present in water interact with the other ingredients in different ways and are often critical for the fermentation of yeast and its interactions with other

n the minds of many newspaper readers, the ethical editor suspends personal belief when on the job, having been trained in techniques that strip subjectivity from news reporting.

Like a judge in the courtroom, editors in the newsroom are expected to flip a switch and become robotic reviewers of fact.

With that expectation, one might be surprised by this statement from Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the late publisher of The New York Times: “You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times, you’re buying judgment.”

Every editorial decision involves personal judgment. We deem what stories are worth reporting, whose perspective is worth citing and what information to include or omit. The “veil of perception,” as John Locke described it, makes some subjectivity inescapable.

Good editors embrace that reality, weighing the facts before taking a distinct angle for reporting them.

The greatest damage is done when editors put on a charade of pure objectivity, and the same can be said of leaders at Georgetown, both students and administrators. When we pretend to be impartial arbiters and repress our better judgment, we allow black and Latino applicants to be severely underrepresented in graduate admissions, we allow the 2009 Initiative on Diversity and Inclusiveness for faculty to founder and we allow student groups to become exclusive and like minded. We deny or downplay the inequality of opportunity at Georgetown and how dramatic our collective leg up is compared to so many away from the Hilltop.

Editors are wary of jargon and the tendency of columnists or interview subjects to hide behind it. The Jesuit tradition is rich in values — “education of the whole person,” “men and women for others” — but too often are these concepts abused, becoming empty promises that many take plea-

sure in evoking but take pains not to practice. Instead of citing these values in defense of the status quo, we must read deeper into what they entail and how they can be better realized.

Certain values are sacred to journalistic judgment, and “transparency” — the buzzword of this past summer on the Hilltop — is among them. THE HOYA does its best to expose issues and raise awareness, but we also depend on a basic level of openness. In that regard, schools officials have repeatedly failed to meet their end of the bargain, paying lip service to “the Jesuit commitment to dialogue” while being remarkably tight lipped when pressed.

Administrators and their spokespeople are often uncooperative when news demands comment. As one example, THE HOYA has failed for seven weeks to

Journalistic values go beyond the newsroom. get anyone in the athletic department, including Athletic Director Lee Reed, to comment on stories of verbal abuse that forced women’s basketball Head Coach Keith Brown to resign. Lack of accountability starts at the top, and we are deeply disappointed that University President John J. DeGioia has been unavailable to sit down for an open-ended interview since we first requested that access in July.

The president has many responsibilities that demand his attention, but one of which is that he periodically answer to the Georgetown community. President DeGioia, let’s make good on the commitment to dialogue that you so frequently trumpet.

Free press and free speech go hand in hand. The fact that “free speech zones” exist on campus while watchdog groups condemn Georgetown’s speech policy year

after year should be a source of shame for any institution with intellectual integrity. I refer readers to Hoya columnists like Mark Joseph Stern (COL ’13), Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), Patrick Gavin (COL ’13) and Alex Honjiyo (SFS ’13), who have eloquently explained why restrictive speech policies strike at the heart of our academic purpose and Catholic mission.

And yet for all these values familiar to journalism that are lacking around campus, there is one area where I worry people have become too much like news reporters: unrelenting skepticism.

Journalists rely on skepticism, resisting the urge to take information on its face and people at their word. But consider the campus pastime of bashing The Corp, the Georgetown University Student Association, THE HOYA, the Department of Public Safety, local politicians and the university administration, to name a few. There is much room for improvement in all these groups, and those in charge should be held accountable. Yet while skepticism is productive in healthy doses, the frequency with which we assume the worst at Georgetown is cause for concern. Lack of transparency breeds lack of trust, and greater accountability would allow us, however cautiously, to give our community some benefit of the doubt.

Working at THE HOYA has been a tremendous privilege, and I’m grateful to those at the paper who have made it so memorable.

We are proud of what has been accomplished and attuned to what could be improved, at THE HOYA and at Georgetown. If journalism has taught me anything, it’s that an honest reflection on what we value can guide us toward the brightest future.

DANNY FUNT is a senior in the College and the 139th editorin-chief of The Hoya. His term ends Saturday.

VIEWPOINT • Hadar

Philip Dearing & Benjamin Weiss

Calling for More Voices At the Table F

or our last column this semester, we had originally planned to propose cutting administrators from the Center for Social Justice and channeling the money saved from their salaries into more funding for CSJ organizations and events. We delved into hours of research on salaries, budgets, trend and funding, feeling rather utilitarian in our pursuits. But then, at a late hour of the night, a friend posed to us a rather stark question: To whom would we propose this change? Neither of us has ever held high-up positions in the CSJ or in university administration. Regardless of how much research we do, there is no quantity of information on the Internet that would make us more informed than the students working with these administrators on a daily basis or many of the men and women who have devoted their lives to enriching the experiences for students on college campuses. While we still agree with many of the conclusions we reached, we decided that we could not, in good conscience, argue that point in our final column.

This decision led us to a broader realization: A small minority of students controls the vast majority of public dialogue at Georgetown. It is only students like us — students who are uninhibited enough to voice their opinions — who have their voices heard, regardless of their lack of expertise on or previous knowledge of the topic at hand.

From columns to viewpoints to Facebook statuses, there are perhaps only several dozen students who consistently insert their opinions into the public domain of the Hilltop.

Because this ability correlates little to personal expertise, it leaves our campus operating far below its potential in terms of new or groundbreaking ideas.

We need to hear the atypical voices, the innovative ideas and the unexpressed thoughts. There needs to be a public dialogue, an educated exchange of ideas. If you have an extraordinary experience at Georgetown or in your life, you need to share it so that schmucks like us don’t make assumptions instead. If there is an issue that you

Making beer comes down to four simple ingredients: malting barley, hops, water and yeast.

Your thoughts might change the course of the world.

We can’t wait to hear them.

proteins and enzymes that give beer its flavor.

Some of the most common ions found in a successful brew water are calcium, iron and fluoride.

To kick off the beer-brewing process, the malt grain is steeped, much like tea, around 150 degrees Fahrenheit. The enzymes in the grain must reach a certain temperature to be activated to break down remaining starches to sugar, but if the brew gets too hot, the enzymes will become denatured. Then, the hops are added to the mix. Unfermented beer is called “wort.” While this name sounds terribly unappealing, wort is critical for the final product: Boiling it breaks down starches into sugar, which helps flavor develop and happens to be yeast’s favorite food.

Once the wort has cooled, it’s finally time to add yeast. Yeast, a fungus and major player in bread-making as well, is a tiny single-cell organism that reproduces by budding. And when it buds, it produces liquid courage: alcohol.

Unlike most of the life forms we typically encounter, yeast gets its energy from anaerobic respiration. We need oxygen to carry out a series of chemical reactions where we obtain energy from the food we eat, but yeast does not; it can convert sugar into alcohol and other byproducts on its own. Different species of yeast produce different types of brews: Bottomfermenting yeast kept at cooler temperatures produces lagers, whereas top-fermenting yeast will produce ales.

The majority of what we consider to be defining characteristics of beer is all thanks to a little single-cell fungus. As it turns out, yeast is an incredibly versatile little organism: Along with producing alcohol, it interacts with chemicals in the wort to flavor beer in different ways. It also gives off carbon dioxide, the same compound we exhale, which is why beer is nice and bubbly.

It takes four to five weeks to generate enough consumable alcohol through fermentation to have a successful brew, so if you’re looking for something to take the edge off Thanksgiving at home, you’re a little late to the party. But as you responsibly indulge this year, take a minute to toast those nifty little fungi and plants that put the beer in your — or a friend’s — hand.

feel passionate about, it is your responsibility to do more than just complain about it or post it on Georgetown Confessions. A well-detailed argument with specific and practicable prescriptions would do a much greater service to this school. We deserve a true marketplace of ideas — a place where detailed ideas are put forth, no matter how unpopular they are. Even someone else’s argument that you strongly disagree with will allow you to strengthen your own viewpoint.

And to put the abstract idea into the concrete, here are four legitimate ways for your voice to be heard. While certainly not an exhaustive list, it is a good place to start: Write a letter-to-the editor under 400 words or a viewpoint of 600 to 800 words about a recent campus issue, article or something you care deeply about and send it to opinion@thehoya.com.

Or do the same thing with the Voice.

The Voice welcomes letters to the editor under 300 words and op-eds between 700 to 800 words from all members of the campus community. Send it to editor@georgetownvoice. com.

Contribute to feminists-at-large or any other blog on campus.

Self-publish a note on Facebook or on another social media platform.

As much as we’ve enjoyed writing this column all fall, we are perhaps even more excited for the opportunity to read what others have to say. To truly be a university for others, we must foster an open environment.

Georgetown is a place where starry-eyed teenagers enter and impassioned world leaders emerge. Our experiences at this school will shape what we do and who we are. The ideas we are exposed to, the ways in which we express ourselves and the people with whom we surround ourselves will undisputedly change the course of our lives. Now is the time for you to step up and contribute your voice to the conversation, to put forward the radical ideas that may inspire your fellow Georgetown students. Your thoughts could change the course of your classmates’ lives — and maybe even change the course of the world. We can’t wait to hear them.

Katherine Foley is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. This is the final appearance of CURIOUS BY NATURE this semester.

JFK’s Forgotten Philosophy

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efore ascending to the presidency, John F. Kennedy penned the book “Profiles in Courage,” commending a handful of US Senators from throughout history who stood by their convictions even in the face of heavy criticism. Kennedy challenged Americans to set lofty goals, telling us to ask what we could do for our country and to aim to go to the Moon within a decade. But 50 years ago today, on Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was tragically assassinated on a trip to Dallas. That day, America lost not only a president, but also a mindset.

At that time, people were willing to heed Kennedy’s call to achieve their fullest potential, and in part because of that encouragement, we now have both NASA and the Peace Corps. A halfcentury later, America now appears substantially less willing to reach for the kinds of goals Kennedy encouraged. It appears that in Congress, courage and doing the right thing are subordinated to maintaining party support and member’s seats in upcoming elections.

Even the initiatives born out of Kennedy’s push for service are weaker than they used to be. The Peace Corps’ enrollment has been falling in the last few years and the United States barely even has a space program anymore. Federal focus on service and education has withered in recent decades.

Our country’s leaders have shifted

their focus now to what is convenient — both for policy and for reelection.

Of course, there are exceptions outside of the government. I believe that Georgetown does quite a good job promoting service, sticking to its oft-repeated goal of molding students into men and women for others. Thankfully, on the Hilltop, Kennedy’s calls for service still ring mostly true. A high proportion of Georgetown students dedicate their careers to service: whether through joining nonprofits, the Foreign Service,

Kennedy’s call to service still rings true. the Peace Corps or public office.

In fact, Georgetown was ranked by the Peace Corps as one of the top 10 medium-sized colleges for recruitment, with 31 students volunteering in 2013.

But it is in this realm of public office where we are most lacking the type of unifiers and risk-takers that Kennedy praised. We need our leaders and our government to focus more on education, public service and social justice.

Instead of promoting education, we’ve begun commending leaders who cut its funding to unconstitutionally low levels. In New Jersey, for example, where Governor Chris Christie has gained

the support of voters and is likely prepping for a 2016 presidential run, a judge had to step in and rule that state education cuts left funding for the poorest districts unconscionably low.

Politicians today are too afraid to aim for the big, risky reforms that Kennedy lauded, who sought to create racial equality in America and dreamed of world peace even in the midst of race riots and the Cold War. Of course, it helped that Kennedy could preserve his Camelot-like idealized image while keeping the more unseemly aspects of his personal life under wraps. Kennedy’s image remained unmarred during his lifetime, even though it was no more faultless than President Bill Clinton’s.

The philosophy Kennedy stood for focused on education, service, technological investment, social justice and collaboration.

America’s leaders need to focus on these issues to move this country forward on the right path. We need a high-quality, affordable education system that provides a diverse knowledge base. We need to develop new technology and infrastructure to get people working again. We need to be able to compromise and put party affiliations aside. Simply put, what we need now are a few more “Profiles in Courage.”

ROEY HADAR is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

Benjamin Weiss and Philip Dearing are juniors in the College. This is the final appearance of A UNIVERSITY FOR OTHERS this semester.

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New Club Goes Mobile Clinic Celebrates 20 Years Brilliantly British SAM ABRAMS Hoya Staff Writer

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Georgetown seems to have a student group for every culture, from the Caribbean Culture Circle to the French Cultural Association.

Last year, however, a group of students founded a club for a culture whose characteristics might not be as immediately apparent.

Although the Brilliantly British Club only received Student Activities Commission approval last week, it has already held five events this semester.

Club President Beatrice Fabris (COL ’16), who is from London, conceived the club this summer to fill a cultural gap and foster communal spirit.

“One of the main reasons we had the idea to set up this club was because there were quite a lot of people who thought ‘We speak the same language; we are friendly, similar places,’” Fabris said. “No, the United Kingdom and America are very different places, and they each have their own merits, don’t get me wrong. But we really wanted to sort of broaden everyone’s experience of the United Kingdom.”

Before receiving SAC approval last Monday, the club relied on funding from primarily New Club Development, a program within

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Brilliantly British founders pose with their cutout at the SA Fair.

SAC. Club leaders also spent their own money to put on events.

Taking off quickly this semester, the club’s five events have included two movie nights, one funded and cosponsored by the International Relations Club, and a lecture by Paul Smith, the director of the British Council in the United States.

Additionally, club members tabled at Student Activities Fair, where more than 150 students signed up, and D.C. Reads Fall Fest on Nov. 3. The group has plans for at least six events next semester with SAC funding.

Before they established the club, Fabris and other club members contacted Georgetown’s U.K. recruitment head to receive the email addresses of accepted Georgetown students from the United Kingdom to offer congratulations.

The club is considering holding a meet-up in London for early acceptance students over winter break.

“This is because the official Georgetown meet-up was very crowded, and we want to give prospective U.K. students the chance to meet current British Georgetown students in a more studentfriendly environment,” executive board member Michael Newton (SFS ’17) said.

The club also hopes to help connect students with internships abroad.

“The career center does not have good links at all with the U.K. They’re pretty much nonexistent, which is ridiculous considering we have so many alumni at least in London,” Treasurer Jeannine Rogers (COL ’16) said.

Brilliantly British members are happy with the progress they’ve made so far.

“We are so grateful and happy and proud of everything that the Georgetown students have given to us as an organization because we are new, and they embraced us and came to our events, all different nationalities. None of this could happen without their support and enthusiasm,” Fabris said.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital commemorated the 20th anniversary of the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile on Tuesday, when program sponsors, clinicians, D.C. councilmembers and patients gathered to celebrate at the Old Naval Hospital.

The mobile clinic, a 40-foot long trailer, launched in 1992 and serves medically underserved children in the District’s Wards 5, 6 and 7 four times a week. Although this year is technically the program’s 21st year, MedStar Georgetown spokesperson Marianne Worley said the program decided to celebrate the anniversary belatedly.

The program also established two permanent clinics in 2006 at Anacostia High School and at the D.C. General Emergency Family Shelter. All services are free of charge, and Georgetown medical students staff the clinics on a volunteer basis.

“We were excited 20 years ago when the mobile clinic started serving the communities with the greatest needs at a time when very few families had access to good quality health care,” MedStar Georgetown Director of Community Pediatrics Matthew Levy said. “Over the years, we’ve helped thousands of kids stay healthy, stay in school, learn and grow to their full potential. We’re proud of them and proud to still be serving the community 20 years later.”

David Nelson, chair of the Georgetown University Medical Center pediatrics department, expressed pride in Georgetown’s desire to provide medical attention to the underserved.

“Georgetown was the only academic institution in the city to show interest in helping this community in Southeast and Southwest D.C.,” Nelson said. “It was and is a combination of community service and medical practice, two areas that Georgetown prides itself on. People were skeptical about what Georgetown was doing in this part of the District and said that our commitment wouldn’t last. Well, now we’re here 20 years, and I think that we’ve more than proved ourselves to this community that we care and are here to stay.”

Over 20 years, the clinic has helped approximately 50,000 children from birth to their 22nd birthday. Each year, the clinic treats between 900 and 1,200 patients and immunizes an average of 300 children.

“I want to thank not only our partners and sponsors, but also the families who have welcomed us into their neighborhoods,” M. Joy Drass, MedStar Health executive vice president of operations for the Washington region, said. “The trust and re-

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Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) speaks during Tuesday’s anniversary celebration for the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile. lationship that we’ve built with you is very important to us, and we intend to care for and give medical access for as many children in the city as possible.”

In 2000, eight years after the clinic launched, MedStar purchased Georgetown University Hospital Clinical Enterprises.

Although maintaining the medical clinic was not a requirement of the deal, MedStar chose to continue operations and expanded its reach, despite the fact that the hospital was losing $30 million every year at the time.

“We celebrate the dedication and commitment to children’s health that we all have. We believe in cura personalis, the health of the total person, body and mind,” MedStar Georgetown Vice President of Philanthropy Katie Coyle said. “As such, we make sure that kids have access to health services that would otherwise be unavailable for them and also receive for their overall wellness.”

Between 2002 and 2007, the mobile clinic also partnered with the Department of Health and D.C. Public Schools’ Immunization Taskforce, which organized immunization clinics for students at the start of each school year.

Mayoral candidate and councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), a former member of the D.C. Consortium for Child Welfare, emphasized the importance of providing immunizations and medical care to the underserved.

“Bringing health services like immunizations to the young people of this city, those without the proper health resources, has been a major priority of mine in 30 years

of public service in the District,” Wells said.

“Taking care of our children makes our city one that we can believe in, one that reflects the values that make up who we are.”

Owen Rennert, former chair of the MedStar Georgetown pediatrics department, joined in the praise.

“Georgetown takes great care to embody authenticity and service. We aspire to the Ignatian quality of magis, meaning being more, serving more,” Rennert said. “This inspires our vision. We do good work here, and we believe that children all deserve the same right to health care.”

Levy, who has run the mobile clinic for the last 14 years, said that the clinic has been a medical practice trendsetter by engaging the community with a teenagebased approach and focusing on wellness and disease prevention.

Moreover, Levy emphasized the importance of a holistic view of patient care outside of merely medical care. In the 2013 Annual Magnet Nurse Champion Backpack Drive, the mobile clinic helped to distributed over 350 backpacks. In addition, since 1999, the program has distributed more than 7,000 toys to children and adolescents during the holiday season.

“The overall improvement in the lives of children that the clinic serves is the main drive behind the effort,” Levy said. “We have become a family center, a community base and built trusting relationships with residents in Southeast and Southwest D.C. as a result. I look forward to the next 20 years of KMMC/RMCM research, advocacy, innovation and service to this community.”

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The Georgetown Black Pre-Law Association held its inaugural meeting Wednesday to gauge interest among minority students interested in law school.

Approximately 30 people attended the meeting, including interested students and members of the Black Law Students Association at Georgetown University Law Center.

The association hopes to help students interested in pursuing careers in law learn more about applying to law school and potential career paths through a mentorship program with BLSA, in addition to helping students take advantage of the different laworiented classes and opportunities, such as internships specifically for minorities.

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The Georgetown Black Pre-Law Association held its first interest meeting Wednesday.

Queen Adesuyi (COL ’16), Danielle Daley (SFS ’15) and Dani Bembry (COL ’15) founded the group, and the trio is seeking to receive Student Activities Commission approval.

Last month, both Bembry and Daley attended the GULC’s Student of Color Outreach day, where they met with Georgetown alumni now studying at the law school, as well as other law students of color and professors.

“After talking with the alums, they planted the seed of starting a chapter of BPLA,” Bembry said. “They inspired us to start working on the undergraduate chapter.”

During her visit, Daley noticed the strong presence of the students of color on campus and how the BLSA was eager to reach students before applying.

“After talking with them, it was good to hear about their experience on campus and what it takes to be a successful law student,” Daley said.

During the meeting Wednesday, Georgetown’s BSLA chapter members shared their thoughts about founding the undergraduate club and plans for collaboration.

“We are excited that they decided to do this and are excited to work with them. … We think this is a good resource for students,” BLSA Attorney General Ryan Wilson (COL ’12, LAW ’15) said. “Anything we can do as a chapter, we are here to do. Put us to work.”

Georgetown’s Pre-Law Society, which was launched at the beginning of the semester, hopes to collaborate with BPLA. “There should be a lot of discourse and meeting together. We have the same goal of helping people, whether they need help figuring out where to apply, with applications or careers. We are open to collaborating. I do not want a division,” Pre-Law Society Founder Adam Kaldor (COL ’14) said.

The BPLA has also considered working with the Pre-Law Society.

“We had heard of the Pre-Law Society beforehand and very much support their mission,” Bembry said. “We look forward to collaborating with them in the future.”

Rock Climbing Gains Audience in Film Fesitval Lily Westergaard

ing what is not just, for them, a sport, but an art as well,” Sawyer said.

Club Rock Climbing Vice President Alex KoeThe national tour of the Reel Rock 8 film fes- berle (COL ’14) said the communal experience tival will screen a series of documentaries about of the film festival mimics that of the climbing rock climbing in conjunction with Georgetown’s community.

“Climbing is a sport in one sense, but you Outdoor Education Program and Club Rock Climbing Saturday night, giving both groups don’t compete against anyone else,” Koeberle said. “It’s a collective action of conquering somesought-after visibility on campus.

“Reel Rock is designed to appeal to both thing, so it fosters a lot more of people helping people who are into climbing, and also just each other and cheering each other on.”

While Outdoor Education played a limited the general population who might be sort of interested. You don’t have to be a climber to role in event planning, the organization hoped come and enjoy the show,” Club Rock Climb- that the event would help raise awareness for the rock climbing commuing Treasurer Maggie Axelrod nity at Georgetown.

(COL ’15) said. “To bring some “If people see the film and visibility to Climbing and Outequate it with Outdoor Educadoor Ed would be great, and tion, that’s great, but it’s rejust to make it a great event ally just to drum up support for people at Georgetown and for climbing,” Director of Outfor climbers in the neighbordoor Education Kris Nessler ing area.”

ZACK SAWYER (COL ’15) said.

A traveling series of four Club Rock Climbing Member Koeberle expressed optishort documentaries about rock climbing, Reel Rock 8 has made stops mism that Georgetown could become a recurring host for the Reel Rock film festival as future across the country.

Since forming last year, Club Rock Climbing series are released.

“To be honest, we don’t really know what to has nearly doubled its membership to 20 stuexpect,” he said. “We’ve done really well with dents.

Zack Sawyer (COL ’15), a rock climbing in- selling tickets so far. I think we’re hoping for structor with Outdoor Education and a Club triple digits.”

“It’s just a story of really great people just as Rock Climbing member who helped plan the event, emphasized that the films promote the psyched to teach a new climber their basic knots as they are to crush some of the hardessence of rock climbing.

“It’s sort of a story of these individuals who est and most beautiful lines in the world,” have completely dedicated their lives to master- Sawyer said.

Hoya Staff Writer

“It’s not just a sport, but an art.”

The university announced on Friday that Brenda Richardson Malone will take over as vice president and chief human resources officer in January. Malone is currently vice chancellor for human resources at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has worked in the field of human resources and labor relations for 30 years. In her new role, Malone will oversee staffing, recruitment, compensation, professional development, human resources reporting and policy communication. Malone discussed her goals for Georgetown’s faculty and staff with The Hoya on Tuesday. Below is an edited transcript.

What are your goals in this position?

My overarching goal is to make sure that human resources provide the best and most responsive service to the Georgetown community as possible. To be more specific than that at this point in time, it would deprive me of an opportunity to meet with the staff and really get to know the place. Also, to talk about where we are as a human resources office and the kinds of things that we want to do, and lastly to build programs around that.

Do you have any specific goals for recruitment, especially considering University President John J. DeGioia’s Initiative on Diversity and Inclusiveness, as well as the gender gap in professors?

I think when we talk about recruiting we have to always be sensitive to the culture of the institution, the specific needs of the institution and how to get the best individuals there to meet those needs, then how to retain them. Therefore, recruitment and retention to me kind of go hand in hand. I have every reason to believe that the university’s current recruitment strategies are very much aligned with best practices in terms of diversity. I have every reason to believe, having just been appointed to the position, that it’s a very welcoming and inclusive place. I think we just have to build on those things.

Do you have any ideas in mind for professional development?

That’s going to be one of the things we’ll be looking at, seeing what we have, what we can enhance and what we can build upon.

An educated work force is critically important to the success of any organization, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t know what they’re doing day to day. Instead, it means the world of work is changing and the challenges are changing. There are a lot of things we need to think about, whether it’s generational differences in terms of how we work, how we learn all of those things and changing technology. Everything that’s coming our way every day is wrapped in change, so we have to be able to adapt pretty quickly and be pretty nimble.

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Brenda Malone will become the university’s chief human resources officer in January.

You have done work with many charities, including Habitat for Humanity, the CUNY Campaign for Voluntary Charitable Giving and Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares. How will you incorporate social justice into your work at Georgetown?

I don’t like to slice and dice levels and individuals; every single person contributes, and every contribution is critically important to the success of any organization. Personally, principles of equity and justice, fairness, consistency; those are things that are part of my vocabulary, and I assume that they are absolutely consistent with Georgetown and its commitment to social justice. I think it’s going to be a very easy transformation for me, and it’ll be a delight to be at an institution where that is such a visible and critical part of their culture.

How will you effectively implement and work with the changes technology, especially in higher education, is bringing to the HR field?

We’re a lot more data-driven now than we were 10, 15 years ago — we have to be — and it’s a lot more competitive landscape than it used to be, so part of my role and function is to make sure that we have the systems and the technology in place that allow us to remain at the forefront of the higher education environment. This environment must allow us to stay in touch with the needs of our faculty and staff, and allow us to make the kinds of changes that are necessary to make Georgetown or to continue to have Georgetown be an employer of choice.

Candidates Address All Wards Johnny Verhovek Hoya Staff Writer

With the Washington, D.C. mayoral race still in its infancy, rhetoric from the six major Democratic contenders appears populist, attempting to reach across all sectors of the D.C. population.

This is particularly noteworthy given the District’s historical divisions across socioeconomic and racial lines. Recent economic progress has alleviated the situation in some wards, but this progress has not translated across all neighborhoods. Government professor Mark Rom pointed to the recent D.C. Council push to raise the minimum wage as further evidence of economic tension in the District.

On Sept. 12, Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have required large retail employers such as Walmart to pay employees $12.50 per hour.

The Living Wage for All of D.C., a bill introduced by mayoral candidate and council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), is now before the council. The bill seeks to raise the minimum wage for all employees in Washington, D.C.., from $8.25 to $10.25 over the next two years.

“Washington, D.C., has become more prosperous and safe in recent years, but large swaths of the public have not shared in that prosperity, hence the discussions of ‘living wages,’” Rom said.

Busboys and Poets owner and mayoral candidate Andy Shallal agreed.

“One of the problems that we have right now is the fact that this city does not have a unified vision that says this city must work for everyone, not just for some,” Shallal said.

These campaign messages run parallel with those expressed during the recent New York mayoral race, during which Democratic mayor-elect

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Mayoral candidates Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), left, and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) could be the first white D.C. mayor if elected.

Bill de Blasio defeated Republican opponent Joe Lhota (GSB ’76) by 49 percentage points — the largest margin of victory since Edward Koch won by a 68 percent margin in 1985. De Blasio’s victory reflected a growing dissatisfaction with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his pro-business policies, with many seeing Bloomberg as favoring the wealthy in New York City.

In the District, many of the Democratic candidates are implementing a similar policy by emphasizing wards that need more economic support. For example, candidate and Councilmember Muriel Bowser (DWard 4) has proposed creating the position of deputy mayor, who would solely address the needs of District residents living east of the Anacostia River. This is a primary black area that has not seen the same boost in economic development in recent years that U Street and Columbia Heights have.

“The deputy mayor would coordinate the delivery of services to a large part of our city that for a long time has been underserved and underdeveloped,”

Bowser Campaign Chairperson Bill Lightfoot said.

In addition to economic disparities in the region, Rom focused on the racial aspects of the campaign. If Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) or Wells were elected, either could be the first white mayor in the District’s history since self-rule was instated in 1975. Detroit, which has also had a history of black mayors, elected Mike Duggan (D) its first white mayor in its Nov. 5 election.

“The racial aspects of the election will bear watching,” Rom said. “D.C. has not had a white mayor ever, at least not since home rule, but it is now a majority-white city with two white councilmembers in the race.”

Rom, however, added that the Detroit race had been decided by competency, not by racial tendencies; Duggan had a strong reputation of being a “Mr. Fix-It.” Regardless of the lines that divide the District, however, the region remains largely Democratic. No Republican candidates have announced intentions to run for the mayoral office, and all mayors since 1975 have been Democratic.

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Iconic Professor Dies at 80 Group Adds Student KNOLL, from A1 Giesemann said. “It took him several days to dig up those very painful memories. It was so hard for him because being a priest was his life.”

Knoll had not met Gehman at the time he decided to leave the Jesuit order.

“He didn’t leave the priesthood for any one woman — he left because he had to be true to himself.

He wanted a more full life, eventually with a woman,” Giesemann said. “I know that he was incredibly happy with Anne, and with his life and with being able to teach at Georgetown. I know that he regrets that he could not be both a priest and a married man.”

English professor John Pfordresher, who joined the faculty a year after Knoll, said that Knoll never believed that he had truly left the priesthood.

“He never lost his sense that he was a Jesuit priest,” Pfordresher said. “He began to see his role as not in the traditional form of living in the Jesuit community and abiding by the original vows he had taken.”

“In his heart and soul, he was always a Jesuit priest,” Gehman said.

Friends and coworkers say Knoll continued his commitment to Jesuit ideals in all aspects of his life, especially teaching.

“He deeply cared for his students, and because of his enthusiasm and kindness, he was in turn cherished by them,” Interim Chair of the English Department Dennis Todd wrote in an email.

Connor Joseph (COL ’16) developed a close relationship with Knoll during the professor’s “Southern Literature” class.

“He became like a mentor to me last semester,” Joseph said. “I would go to office hours, and we would talk about how the writing related to my life.”

Knoll related his experience growing up in Kansas to Joseph, who was from North Dakota, also bringing in the texts they studied.

“He wanted to connect the literature to personal stories,” Joseph said. “He grew up in a small plains town like I did, and as we were reading this literature he would say to me, ‘This really has to do with what you’re going through.’”

Todd said that Knoll was one

of the English department’s most popular teachers throughout the four decades he taught at Georgetown.

“His courses on Faulkner and T.S. Eliot were consistently filled to overflowing, and often there were many more students on the waitlists than were enrolled in his classes,” Todd wrote.

Pfordresher said that Knoll’s reputation as a fantastic teacher was well known among students. “‘You’ve got to take Knoll before you graduate’ — I hear that a lot,” Pfordresher said.

Knoll taught University President John J. DeGioia during his time as an undergraduate.

“I had the privilege of being taught by Wayne as a student and then later becoming a colleague and friend,” DeGioia said.

“He deeply cared for his students, and he was in turn cherished by them.”

Dennis Todd Interim Chair of the English Department

“Our community deeply feels this loss. Wayne’s commitment to his students, and his enthusiasm for his work was contagious. We were all made the better by it.”

Joseph said that Knoll’s intense love for students distinguished him from other professors.

“His love for students can hardly be matched, and his lectures on the importance of compassion and empathy are perfect representations of a life for others,” Joseph said. “When I think about Wayne Knoll, I think of a man who treasured his purpose as a professor.”

Knoll brought Gehman in to meet each of his classes every semester, and she said he spent a huge amount of time outside of class helping his students with whatever they may need.

“Although he left the priesthood, he was still a priest, and that knowledge and wisdom that he gained he shared with all of his students and loved ones. He just loved teaching, and loved all of his students,” she said.

Beyond his deep care for his students, Pfordresher said Knoll’s cheerful disposition made him a joy to see in the office.

“He had an irrepressible, highspirited emotional life,” Pfordresher said. “Always up. He always had a big smile. … He was just a breath of fresh air and a radiant source of high spirits everywhere he went.”

Even near the end of his life, Knoll did not waver from his positivity.

“Wayne had no fear of death,” Gehman said. “It took him quite a while to finally accept the fact that there was no cure for his condition, but he just approached death as he approached life: with enthusiasm, and with joy, and with an open heart and an open mind.”

Knoll wrote a letter to his students after learning of his cancer that was posted on his office door.

Modeling his behavior on that of St. Francis, who gave a name to everything in his life, Knoll named his cancerous tumor “Louie.”

“As a child of the modern era, I know that Louie was generated and is growing by following the bio chemical laws of nature,” Knoll wrote. “But I also know the power of prayer, especially in two respects. Prayer can effect miraculous intervention into natural process, and prayer can assist in developing and maintaining a positive spiritual attitude.”

The letter displayed his unwavering faith in God in the face of adversity.

“I totally accept my situation as ultimately coming from a loving God, Who created natural law and the freedom of the human heart,” he wrote. “I am drawn to reach out to all those whom I love.

I would love to hear from you, as we all go to God together.”

Knoll’s funeral service was held Nov. 16 at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in Falls Church, Va., which Gehman founded and where she is a pastor. A memorial service will be held at Georgetown in January.

Knoll was not happy about leaving his loved ones during his last months, but he considered that separation to be temporary.

“He fully believed that he was going to go to God, and that he would be with God and that he would be waiting for Anne,” Pfordresher said. “He said to me, ‘You know, I’m a boy from Kansas. The way I picture things, I’ll be going to heaven, and I’ll be sitting on the front porch, waiting for Anne to come.’”

Rare Liquor License in Play LICENSE, from A1 concert dining is what we want to continue to do, so we still will be serving food here every single evening,” Ensor said. “I don’t think it’s going to change our customer base at all.”

Rhino Bar General Manager David Nelson called ABRA’s first-come, first-serve policy unfair because it does not take into consideration an establish-

ment’s reputation or history.

“Places like Martin’s Tavern, which is the oldest liquor license in Georgetown, if they applied for it, don’t you think they would deserve it more so than anyone else? Because it doesn’t benefit Georgetown who has it, it just benefits the person that has it,” Nelson said. “Places like Martin’s Tavern that’s been here longer than anybody, they obviously deserve it more.”

Overall, Nelson argued that the moratorium’s restrictions on Georgetown’s businesses are detrimental.

“It doesn’t benefit Georgetown at all if a place like Gypsy Sally’s goes from a restaurant to a tavern,” Nelson said. “It benefits Georgetown if more liquor licenses, restaurants [and] bars are allowed to actually come here.”

Smith Point did not respond to requests for comment.

NHS Grants Part-Time Status NHS, from A1 and turned it in on the day it was due, then come to find out on Monday night that I got an email that my petition had been denied,” Claire Murphy (NHS ’14) said last week.

Dean of the NHS Martin Iguchi reversed the school’s earlier decision Thursday.

“We have received feedback from faculty, staff and students about our part-time petition procedures. Given that feedback, I decided to grant all of their requests for part-time status,” Iguchi wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We ultimately felt that this was the fair approach for our student body given that some had expressed confusion over our policy.”

Amy Spohr (NHS ’14) was disappointed in the failure of communication between students and administrators.

“I was very frustrated with the administration because it seemed like there was this crazy miscommunication,” Spohr said. “We were all told by our advisor that they don’t deny anybody, and then we got an email from someone else saying we were all denied, so that just seemed really mishandled, and very unprofessional, in a way, to be told something and then receive the complete opposite information.”

When students denied part-

time status initially met with administrators and faculty to voice their concerns, they were informed that part-time status was granted only due to health or family issues, according to Lyons. Despite these claims, some NHS students expressed frustration over the seemingly arbitrary nature of the process.

“They made it clear that only if you had a health issue or a serious family issue would you be granted it, except, our major is not that big, and we all talk, and I knew at least five people off the top of my head who gave the same reason that I did, but were granted it, so there was really no rhyme or reason,” Meredith Horton (NHS ’14) said.

Now that all 26 part-time status requests have been granted, students who planned research, internships and finances around receiving part-time status in the coming semester expressed relief.

“It actually is a huge thing for all of us, because it’s the money, it’s the time, it’s other things that we wanted to do,” Murphy said. “I think everybody is happy to have that now.”

In the future, NHS administrators hope to establish a clear policy for granting part-time student petitions. Potential policy includes communicating standards for part-time status approval and the possible creation of a fifth-year master’s option to

better engage seniors.

Seniors in the College, who have completed a minimum of 60 credits on Main Campus, are eligible for part time status. The College Undergraduate Bulletin does not specify any additional requirements.

“We ultimately felt that this was the fair approach for our student body given that some had expressed confusion over our policy. Going forward, we will be revisiting this policy and adding clarity around it to avoid this confusion,” Dean of the NHS Martin Iguchi wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are having preliminary conversations about this possibility, and speaking with colleagues across campus to try to develop a uniformity around how we all handle parttime petitions.”

Although students expressed frustration and anger toward the NHS throughout the petition process, they are grateful for the acceptance of all part-time petitions.

“I love my major, and I love the NHS, like every second of it, so for my experience with them to end on such a bad note was really disheartening for me, but now that it seems like the faculty even fought for us, and our voices were heard, it’s definitely raised my opinion,” Spohr said. “I hope that I’ll graduate with the same sort of passion with the NHS that I started with.”

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voice as they could,” Rabon said. “I think part of it is definitely students don’t rePeterson said that the two organiza- alize how willing leaders are to listen to tions’ aims were different. student voices.”

“They have different priorities,” PeterMember Bethan Saunders (SFS ’17) atson said. “Students for a D.C. has a larger tributed this attitude to Georgetown stumission that encompasses students as dents’ fixation on national and internawell as the District. D.C. Students speak tional issues. was more of a reactionary group less “Here at Georgetown, we often get about concrete policy and more about caught up in the international commuprotesting what they saw as intrusions nity, and there is a very international on student rights.” outlook here at Georgetown, and someBoth Peterson and Hinerfield vote in times that international outlook inhibD.C., and they countered conventional its us to realizing how much influence wisdom that discounts we have, especially as students as a signifiGeorgetown students, cant voting bloc. in our local commu“Students can connity,” Saunders said, tribute because, first “The changes we are of all, there are those making may not have groups of students a huge effect on us that do vote,” Peterwhile we are in the son said. “There are a city, [but they] can sizable amount of stumake D.C. a better SARAH RABON (COL ’16) dents that do vote in place for the people Students for a Better D.C. Member D.C., so I don’t want it who will follow after to seem like none of us are voting.” us living in D.C. and going to GeorgeRabon pointed to the success Students town.” for a Better D.C. has had in arranging Overall, Hinerfield said that the orgameetings with mayoral candidates as nization aims to hold candidates and indication of a willingness to hear stu- elected officials responsible for their dent ideas. For example, members of the campaign promises through a coalition group are meeting with mayoral candi- of D.C. student groups and journalists. date and Councilmember Jack Evans (D“If we get with all the right organizaWard 2) on Thursday. To Rabon, the more tions, then we can, all together, hold pertinent issue is the lack of student in- these candidates accountable for their volvement. promises, which is also why we are try“It also feels like something I wish ing to bring them to campus and get more students would get involved in be- them on the record about these camcause I think that there is room for stu- paign promises so that we really have dents to have more of a voice. Students something to hold them accountable to,” are just not trying to have as much of a she said.

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“Students don’t realize how willing leaders are to listen to student voices.”

Georgetown Posts First Budget Surplus in 11 Years Molly Simio

Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown closed FY13 with a surplus of $2.7 million, the university’s first operating surplus since FY02.

“We’ve been on a path to balance the budget,” Vice President for Financial Affairs David Rubenstein said. “That resulted in a small surplus, other than what we had started out with at the beginning of the year, which was a small deficit.”

The university’s $1.121 billion in revenues exceeded its $1.118 billion in expenses during the last fiscal year, which was the first year of a new five-year financial plan.

The plan, approved in February 2012 and implemented at the start of FY13, aims to create an operating surplus of $2.1 million by the conclusion of FY16.

The main campus’s $15.9 million surplus was up $3.2 million from FY12, despite the cost of construction on Regents Hall and the School of Continuing Studies’ new downtown location.

“We had very good fundraising performance. We had some one-time revenue items such as in the summer school area, and we have had ongoing tight expense control,” Rubenstein said.

The Georgetown University Law Center, which ended FY12 with a $40,000 deficit, saw a $4.5 million surplus at the close of FY2013. This was slightly above the projected $4.4 million surplus.

Among other university departments, there was a combined $7.2 million budget surplus, up from the $1.9 million deficit experienced during FY12.

Georgetown University Medical Center was the only area of the university that did not have a surplus, instead operating with a $24.9 million deficit. According to Rubenstein, this deficit was largely the result

of the high overhead costs of biomedical research, which the federal government does not fully cover.

Despite GUMC’s expenses, however, it remains a major source of revenue, with a $21.0 million increase in revenue over the last fiscal year.

Enrollment increase in the School of Nursing & Health Studies’ online nursing masters programs, and a $12.8 million revenue-sharing payment from MedStar Health increased GUMC revenues.

“The faculty at the medical center are generating a lot of revenue in terms of tuition revenue from teaching and grants,” Rubenstein said.

“If we didn’t put in those funds to support the research mission, we actually couldn’t generate all of the other revenues,” Rubenstein said.

In addition, the endowment’s success during FY13 contributed to its operating performance. The university’s $1.2 billion endowment generated $72 million in revenue, contributing to the $119 million increase in the university’s total assets. This 11.8 percent rate of return was a sizeable increase from FY12’s 0.9 percent.

In addition to an increase in investment returns, the university also saw a 32.4 percent increase in gifts to the university.

Frank McCourt’s (CAS ’75) record-breaking $100 million donation was received after the conclusion of the fiscal year and was not included in the data.

Overall, Rubenstein attributed Georgetown’s financial success to cooperation across the university.

“The performance is really attributed to the university acting as a whole community — it’s not anything that any one individual is responsible for,” Rubenstein said.

“Many people worked very hard over the past fiscal year, and they sacrificed as well in order to make this all happen.”

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DeGioia, Groves Talk GU Future Andrew Wilson Hoya Staff Writer

University President John J. DeGioia and Provost Robert Groves outlined the challenges facing Georgetown in the 21st century at the “Designing the Future(s) of the University” inaugural event Wednesday.

DeGioia and Groves said that Georgetown would need to address changes, including new educational technology, reductions in government funding for academic research and rising tuition costs accompanied by declining family incomes. Approximately 50 people attended the discussion, most of whom were faculty.

“We’ve decided to be proactive about these choices, not reactive,” Groves said.

DeGioia emphasized Georgetown’s three-pronged role in serving students, faculty and the public.

“Universities bring together young people in a period of profound formation with older, experienced individuals possessing an unusual degree of experience and knowledge,” DeGioia said.

Aside from this role, DeGioia said universities are also expected to contribute to the public by preparing the workforce and fostering economic development and national identity.

“While these expectations ebb and flow, together they constitute the ongoing public and political discourse about the role of the universities today,” DeGioia said.

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DeGioia explains his new initiative at its launch Wednesday.

Public universities, which provide nearly 80 percent of higher education, have seen a decline in government funding from around 63 percent in 1975 to around 34 percent today. This reduction plays a large role in the planning of many universities.

“In some of the significant discussions taking place, these smart networked players are asserting that there will never be one government dime more in support of public higher education,” DeGioia said. “Education is to become the purview of foundations and for-profit companies.

We have lost the sense of education as a public good.”

DeGioia emphasized that liberal education is about much more than mere transmission of information or career training.

“If the intellect is focused on discovering truth, this second dimension is focused on living the good,” he said. “We also impart a way of living, a way of being that accompanies along with the information.”

DeGioia said that, even in the face of the role of developing technology such as massive online open courses, time in the classroom is essential.

“There’s a place for the technology,” DeGioia said. “I do believe the most precious resource we have is the time of our faculty. No one else in our society is charged with the responsibility that faculty are.”

DeGioia also spoke of the ways in which Georgetown students complement faculty efforts.

“You could not have a better set of people to be with than our students,” DeGioia said.

Many students in the audience were pleased that DeGioia included their input in the discussion.

“It’s interesting that Georgetown has this dialogue with students,” Jonah Joselow (COL ’15) said. “They are committed to a lot of great things.”

Although the event began dialogue on the future of education, the direction the initiative will take remains uncertain.

“I think it’s a fantastic new initiative that’s very important,” Ben Weiss (COL ’15) said. “The administration is really behind being a forward thinking university for the future. What that new future will be is still kind of up in the air.”

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Forum Focuses on Sustainability Matt Gregory Hoya Staff Writer

The newly created Office of Sustainability highlighted its goal to cut university greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent before 2020 during the inaugural Sustainable Planning Campus Workshop on Tuesday night.

The workshop was held in the Intercultural Center in conjunction with the Office of Planning and Facilities Management.

“This is a very ambitious charge, but we’re working toward it,” Director of the Office of Sustainability Audrey Stewart said. “Part of what we’re doing here is creating our carbon roadmap.”

Administrators and students involved with sustainability on campus presented their work and aspirations to the approximately 50 people in attendance.

Stewart described the university’s sustainability goals, such as its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly in the coming years.

The university has earned accolades in this regard, including recognition from the Environmental Protection Agency as “Green Power Partner of the Year” and achieving bronze status for bicycle friendliness.

Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said that the university’s sustainability was a key consideration in master planning. Morey said that improving sidewalks would encourage bicycle use and utilizing green technology such as rainwater runoff collection would prove beneficial to the campus community.

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Anirudha Vaddadi (SFS ’16), left, talks to Owen Coffin (COL ’16) about campus green issues at the Sustainability Campus Workshop on Tuesday.

“We think about smart growth strategies and making sure our transportation is sustainable, as well as enhancing our green spaces on campus,” Morey said.

With energy conservation measures, there could be monetary as well as environmental perks.

“We let the capital savings, from an operational perspective, fund the actual capital investment moving forward,” Stewart said. The Office of Sustainability hopes to have a draft of a sustainability plan within the next six months, Stewart added.

During the workshop the land and grounds table highlighted potential changes to university aesthetics such as improving the Regents

Jennifer Ding Hoya Staff Writer

On Wednesday night, members of the Georgetown community paid for dinner at a fundraiser. But rather than the usual catered fundraising fare, attendees received a few snacks based on different D.C. wards.

The first Hunger Banquet in the Bioethics Library, sponsored by the Jesuit University Humanitarian Action Network Fellows in conjunction with D.C. Reads, the D.C. Schools Project, Delta Phi Epsilon, HOPE and the Community Garden, sought to raise awareness about nutritional disparities within the District and raised approximately $400

for the nonprofit Bread for the City.

The JUHA banquet was styled after the Oxfam model, where participants’ seating at the event reflected how different areas of a city have access to food. To that end, attendees were divided and seated by D.C. wards. Participants in Wards 3 and 4 received milk, water, carrots and ranch, while attendees assigned Ward 6 and 7 ate soda and chips.

“I don’t know how shocking our [event] will be, but the idea of a shock factor is important,” JUHAN Fellow Whitney Pratt (COL ’14) said.

“I think having that visualization can really spur conversation and discussion that just having a lecture doesn’t really encourage as much.”

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center lawn, developing North Kehoe field into green space, adding trees to the green space near the Jesuit residence or creating a community garden near the Leavey Center.

At the water discussion table, facilitated by Makaiah Mohler (COL ’16), individuals proposed creating “green roofs,” planting trees and shrubs on Harbin Patio and outside New South and eliminating Georgetown’s contract with CocaCola in order to restrict its advertising influence and promote student health.

“Discussions are going great because both students and faculty are really excited about making Georgetown a more sustainable campus,” Mohler said.

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Students recieve food depending on which D.C. ward they were assigned at a hunger banquet Tuesday. Proceeds went to Bread for the City.

“A lot of work that we do is internationally or globally focused, but we wanted to also bear in mind that there are issues in our own city, not too far from us, even within our own Ward 2, where we live that are serious and need to be addressed,” JUHAN Fellow Sophia Berhie (SFS ’14) added.

School of Nursing & Health Studies professor Myrtle McCulloch spoke about child obesity and its perpetuation in low-income areas during the event.

“Instead of the grocery stores, what you see are corridors of fast food restaurants, and these fast food restaurants pick those areas to open their various places because they know that’s where they’re going to get most of their money,” McCulloch said.

McCulloch also said a large problem is that children in poorer areas are not used to eating vegetables.

“People who live there have been living on a diet of french fries and stuff like that,” she said. “You’ve got generation after generation that didn’t get used to eating vegetables.

So even if you give it to them, they don’t want it.”

Catherine Benvie (COL ’07), who works at D.C. Hunger Solutions, addressed the stigma around food stamps.

“I think it’s important to note that most households are only on food stamps for about six to eight months. I think there’s a perception out there that people stay on food stamps for years, but that really isn’t true,” Benvie said.

In addition to the banquet, the JUHAN fellows organized a date for students to volunteer at Bread for the City’s southeast center, tentatively set for Dec. 13.

“We don’t want this to just be the end of the educational experience,” JUHAN Fellow Mary Oeftering (SFS ’14) said. “We want this to be the kind of event that motivates people to take action.”

Ripe Life Wines Please the Palate WINE, from A8 regions,” outside Napa Valley and Sonoma.

Her 2012 vintage came from outside the Santa Lucia Highlands, but that region became more popular this year, leading McAuley to look elsewhere for the 2013 batch.

McAuley went to Mendocino, Calif., to find grapes. Although the area is traditionally too warm for Chardonnay, McAuley found a vineyard within a microclimate where the temperature is lower.

“There are beautiful grapes this year,” McAuley said.

McAuley also paired with veteran wine consultant David Sundberg for the 2013 vintage.

“Working with Mary has been

great. She has been really easy to work with, which isn’t always the case,” Sundberg said. “You have to consider the direction of the winery and the brand, and with the Clambake Chardonnay, we’ve made a really great wine.”

The Clambake Chardonnay has achieved considerable success; most of the 2012 vintage has been sold.

McAuley has quadrupled production to 1,000 cases for 2013.

She currently has distributers in Washington, D.C. and New York; her wine is carried by Dean & DeLuca on M Street and The Tombs.

“She has a relationship with Georgetown, and Rich Kaufman, the general manger of 1789, thought the wine would be a good fit,” Tombs Manager Steven Vasilis said. Kaufman

made the final decision on the wine as part of Clyde’s Restaurant Group, but the wine is only available at The Tombs.

“The wine is good. It’s light and tickles the palate,” Vasilis said.

Vasilis and bartender Kevin Leahy (COL ’12) both enjoyed the wine, and they expect it to compliment The Tombs’ seafood dishes.

The Tombs has just recently started carrying the Clambake Chardonnay and sells a bottle for $28 — higher than McAuley’s $16 estimate.

McAuley sees The Tombs as a starting point for her business, and she hopes that her wine will become more popular as more people try it.

“My goal is to expand so people know the brand,” she said. “It’s good wine, and it’s approachable and fun.”

BUSINESS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

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Tech Center: Reward Through Repair

AARON LEWIS Hoya Staff Writer

Aaron Lewis

A Learning Opportunity In Startups

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tartups are a hot topic on college campuses. From New York to D.C. to Silicon Valley, it seems that every student wants to try their luck in the fastpaced game. With the recently created StartupHoyas program here at Georgetown, students will be given more opportunities than ever to get involved with entrepreneurship. But is this an area where students should be getting involved? What exactly is entrepreneurship anyway?

After working at a tech startup in a technology accelerator program this past summer, I can say with certainty that becoming involved with a startup is a gratifying experience filled with many learning and networking opportunities. For undergraduates and graduates interested in everything from tech to health care, entrepreneurship has something to offer.

Entrepreneurship is the process of starting and then growing your own business or being involved with a team of startup founders. This past summer, I was part of the latter, working at an Israeli tech startup that was gaining footing in New York. On a day-to-day basis, I was involved with business development, reaching out to prospective clients and fostering relationships with already acquired customers. But the experience was much more comprehensive. Over the course of the summer, I was afforded the opportunity to meet with CEOs, angel investors and venture capitalists.

Ultimately, these experiences can be valuable for people with any type of career aspirations. Whether you are pre-med, an English major or a business school student, a startup allows you to see an entire business

Crashed computers, faulty Wi-Fi and shaky software are the onus of most Georgetown students. For student employees at the McDonough School of Business Technology Center, however, these problems present a training ground for realworld problem-solving.

“This job has taught me to challenge myself and to not be afraid of failure,” Jocelyn Kojzar (MSB ’15) said. “When I was a freshman, I had no idea what I was doing with technology, but through the training and interacting with employees, I feel more comfortable with challenging myself.”

Chief Technology Officer John Carpenter, who has worked for the tech center for 20 years, has seen the tech center develop from providing rudimentary services to providing a large suite of services for all MSB students, faculty and staff.

When Carpenter, or “Carp,” first joined the tech center, it was located in the basement of a building next to Wisey’s before it was moved to New South.

“I am proud of what we did then, and it is sort of how the tech center still operates,” Carpenter said.

Today, the tech center has 50 student staffers — more employees than most centers have in other business schools. After completing an intensive six-to-eight-week training program in computer maintenance or audiovisual systems, new hires are ready to interact with customers.

The tech center helps MSB students, faculty and staff deal with a variety of tech issues, including printer

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Students at the MSB Technology Center deal with a number of issues when it comes to the technological infastructure of the business school. Their job is demanding yet prepares them for an array of careers. and Wi-Fi troubles as well as more advanced malware infections and audiovisual setups.

“We can turn and twist and meet requirements much faster than the university as a whole, which is what the business school needs,” Carpenter said.

The MSB has unique needs because of the advanced tech software and hardware equipment used throughout the Rafik B. Hariri Building. For example, classrooms, Fisher Colloquium and Lohrfink Auditorium have interconnected audiovisual equipment that are controlled entirely

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AARON LEWIS is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. He is a staff writer for The Hoya and a head of strategic business development for Mimoona, a tech startup.

in class is not as applicable as what I have learned at the tech center.”

Thompson has been offered a position at MicroStrategy, an IT consulting firm, after he graduates in May. “[The tech center] is such an organized, professional and bright group of people that it is handsdown better than similar programs at other business schools,” Carpenter said.

“The business school wouldn’t function without the Tech Center and the student employees,” Carpenter said. “If you take away my students, I quit.”

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Because of the small scale of these ventures, each team member is the face of the brand. operation up close. A startup allows you to write and produce marketing material, create presentations and formulate financial projections and analyses, but arguably most importantly, it forces you to leave your comfort zone, whether by speaking to clients or pitching the company to potential investors. Developing these interpersonal skills is something that can be done only when you are the face of a company, and because of the small scale of these ventures, each team member is the face of the brand.

How should you get involved during your time at Georgetown? The easiest answer to say — but the hardest to execute — is to create a startup of your own. Even if your venture ultimately fails, and yes, most eventually do, it will be an extraordinary learning experience that many future employers would appreciate. It is possible that your experiences in a startup, a role that will allow you to see the entirety of the company’s operations, will shape your career goals or even put you on an entirely new path that you would not have discovered otherwise. Have you been thinking about starting your own clothing line? Get designing. What about an app for an iOS or Android device? Start coding.

Or join a team that already exists. Research accelerator programs and joint workspaces in the D.C. area or in the community where you live, and find a team to join. While most startups do exist outside of these incubator programs, interning or joining at team that is part of an accelerator can open up even more doors as the managers of the program will often provide resources and networking opportunities that would not be possible while working on your own.

Startups need team members to work on business development, marketing, coding, designing and a host of other tasks, so leverage your skills, and put your foot in the door.

via touch screen control panels.

“There are a lot of things that the university provides, but we are the interface that connects the university to the business school,” Carpenter said.

Student Staff Manager Alex Thompson (MSB ’14), who has been working for the center since his freshman year, said that the job provides a fast-paced environment where staffers encounter problems and challenges every day.

“We need to think on our feet and work with other people,” Thompson said. “A lot of the stuff I learned

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It’s All Wine and Cheese for GUAlum TM GIBBONS-NEFF Hoya Staff Writer

Many students aspire to be immortalized at The Tombs through the 99 Days Club. But Mary McAuley (NHS ’07) found another way by making her own line of wine, which is now carried by the popular campus haunt.

From just outside Mantoloking, N.J., McAuley stumbled into her current profession in a way dreamt of by many — at a party surrounded by her friends.

“We would have a clambake every year on the Jersey Shore, and I was in charge of selecting the wine,” McAuley said. “One year, I just thought, ‘Why don’t I make wine just for the clambake?’”

McAuley spent a year in the health care industry before realizing her passions lay elsewhere.

“I fell in love with wine,” she said.

After graduating from Georgetown, she received degrees from the Institute for Culinary Education, where

she specialized in wine studies, and the French Culinary Institute’s intensive wine arts program.

This is how Ripe Life Wines was born. McAuley made her first vintage of the “Clambake Chardonnay,” a slightly acidic yet fruity wine that was crafted in the spirit of McAuley’s annual Jersey Shore escapades, in 2012.

“I guess you could say Chardonnay traded in his big-boy shoes for flip-flops this evening,” the label reads.

McAuley first began crafting wines and wine-and-food pairings at functions where everyone ate the same meal. While the Clambake Chardonnay goes well with seafood, McAuley’s next wine will be called “Tailgate Red” — created for tailgating before a game.

A bottle of Clambake Chardonnay retails for around $16, depending on the restaurant or distributor. This low price is part of McAuley’s business model. She buys grapes from little-known areas, or “value

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ASHLEY SCHAMMEL (MSB ’17)