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SEASON SETBACKS

With Saturday’s loss, women’s lacrosse has dropped five straight.

EDITORIAL The Office of Admissions can better serve students from rural high schools.

STIA LEGEND Charles Weiss, who shaped the STIA program, is retiring this year.

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NEWS, A4

SPORTS, A12

Milzman Denied Release MADISON ASHLEY Hoya Staff Writer

In a packed courtroom Monday, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Justice Richard Roberts ordered that Daniel Milzman (COL ’16), who was arrested after making ricin in his McCarthy Hall dorm room March 18, remain in D.C. jail pending trial.

Roberts’ ruling, that Milzman be detained and placed under “rigorous suicide watch,” overturned Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola’s ruling last week that Milzman be released into his parents’ care to pursue psychiatric treatment for two weeks at Sibley Memorial Hospital pending trial. Facciola’s ruling came before Roberts after an appeal by the U.S. government, which is prosecuting the case.

According to the judge, the nature and circumstances of the event suggested that Milzman, who is charged with possession of a biological toxin, be detained. The judge elucidated three possibilities for Milzman’s use of the ricin he produced: an act of suicide, use on another person or use on multiple targets.

Milzman’s attorney, Danny Onorato, had argued that Milzman produced the ricin for the sole purpose of committing suicide without his parents’ knowledge, as ricin mimics flulike symptoms when it causes death.

Onorato also cited Milzman’s lack of a prior criminal history and his record at Georgetown, as well as Milzman’s parents’ status as doctors, in his defense.

Roberts acknowledged that Milzman’s history and character did not weigh in favor of detention. However, he cited other factors in the case as shaping his decision to mandate detention.

One of these factors was threatening Facebook messages Milzman sent to another undergraduate in January, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Maia Miller read in court in front of both Facciola and Roberts. Onorato emphasized that the messages were part of a larger exchange between the two students that had since been settled.

Roberts also referenced the prosecution’s point that Milzman’s varied claims as to when he produced the ricin hurt his credibility, providing different time frames for the residential assistant and law enforcement officers, respectively.

Roberts also expressed concern See MILZMAN, A6

MADDY MOORE Hoya Staff Writer

Just as the university wrapped up its first GAAP Weekend for students through accepted early decision Sunday, 2,277 high school seniors began receiving word of their regular decision admission to the Class of 2018.

Out of 19,501 total applicants, 2,277 were accepted through regular decision. The overall admission rate in the combined early and regular decision cycles was 16.6 percent, slightly lower than last year’s 17 percent for the Class of 2017.

The McDonough School of Business was once again the most selective school with an acceptance rate of 16 percent, slightly higher than last year’s rate of 15.7 percent.

“There has been more growth in the MSB than other schools, and partly that is because of job opportunities,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon (CAS ’64, GRD ’69) said. “The yield is pushing up towards 60 percent in the MSB. Perhaps the MSB pool is a little more self-selective and less dependent on financial aid, so people have the ability to say yes more easily.”

Georgetown College admitted 16.4 percent of applicants, slightly higher than 2013’s 16.3 percent acceptance rate. Both the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the Walsh School of Foreign Service admitted 17.5 percent of ap-

plicants, slightly lower than last year’s rate of 17.7 percent for the NHS and 18.7 percent for the SFS .

The number of first-generation college students leveled at 12 percent, the same as last year, a number which, according to Deacon, is consistent with national trends.

“Colleges are recruiting harder in that population to bring more equity, and there is a lot more attention given to it. Kids in firstgeneration backgrounds are beginning to believe they have that chance,” Deacon said. “We have some pretty good partnerships with scholarships and that helps us get students in the pool that might not otherwise apply to Georgetown.”

Additionally, the accepted class is 56 percent female, two points lower than the national average of 58 percent female.

California and New York were again the two most represented states in the admitted class, with 391 and 382 students, respectively.

New Jersey had the next largest representation with 259 admitted students.

Although Georgetown admitted students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 64 countries, the percent of international students, at 8.5 percent, saw a nearly three-point decrease from last year’s pool. The majority of international applicants came from

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ACCEPTED STUDENTS BY REGION Applications from international students were down, but top countries were South Korea, the U.K. and China.

The most domestic applications came from California, New York and New Jersey.

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MAYORAL RACE

On Election Day, Gray, Bowser Locked in Lead JOHNNY VERHOVEK

his administration’s successes regarding fiscal stability and education reform. Since authoring a bill expandAs voters take to the polls today to ing access to public schools six years choose the Democratic nominee for ago, Gray has seen Washington, D.C. mayor, they will decide between an take the lead in the proportion of embattled incumbent fighting for his preschoolers enrolled in public prepolitical career and an upstart Wash- kindergarten. ington, D.C. councilmember deterMeanwhile, Gray has depicted his mined to portray herself as the per- challengers as people who simply son to turn the page on the District’s want his job — nothing more. longstanding tradition of political “The two of them,” Gray said at the corruption.

March 26 debate, referring to chalAccording to a poll published lengers Bowser and Councilmember March 21 by Washington City Paper, Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). “Have a vestMayor Vincent Gray and Council- ed interest in trying to present a case member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) that what had been alleged is correct. are head-to-head — each with 27 per- Ms. Bowser wants my job; Mr. Wells cent of the vote. wants my job. That’s it.”

Bowser, a close ally of Gray’s predeDespite the mayor’s protests, the cessor Adrian Fenty, benefits of being has adopted the man“anybody but Gray” tle of a youthful, enhave paid dividends ergetic campaign to for Bowser, who, contrast Gray’s more until mid-February, veteran political style. had been mired in a “We know that the field of challengers residents of this city that included three MURIEL BOWSER Mayoral Candidate want a fresh start in of her colleagues on the mayor’s office. We the Washington, D.C. know that they’re impressed with our Council: Wells, Councilmember Vinvision and energy in terms of getting cent Orange (D-At Large) and Councilthe city onto the next level,” Bowser member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2). said during the televised mayoral Wells and Evans are the only other debate March 26. “Nobody is gaining candidates who have been able to steam like we are. We’re very well po- maintain significant levels of support sitioned for a big win on April 1.” among the Democratic electorate.

Gray, who has been accused of ac- The same Washington City Paper poll cepting illegal campaign contribu- put Wells’ support at 9 percent and tions during his 2010 mayoral cam- Evans’ at 13 percent, which could paign, has seen his numbers hold have a critical effect on the vote. steady — around 30 percent of the For Gray, the thought of an inDemocratic vote in the most recent tensely competitive Democratic pripublic polls. mary in his re-election bid would Both candidates have strength- have been laughable following his ened their campaign finances in the defeat of Fenty in the 2010 primary week leading up to the election. Ac- — 53 percent to 46 percent. Howcording to reports from the D.C. Of- ever, the scandal surrounding Gray fice of Campaign Finance, Bowser’s and businessman Jeffrey Thompson, campaign has taken in $63,500 in who pleaded guilty to charges of connew donations since Monday, in- spiracy to violate campaign finance cluding significant donations from laws, has put Gray on the defensive. local companies Blue Sky Develop- He has therefore been unable to ment and McCullough Residential highlight his administration’s sucand local developer Chris Donatelli. cesses, including a decrease in unGray’s campaign, too, has taken in employment and continued educaupwards of $5,000 in donations this tion reforms. past week, the majority of which Gray is serious enough about his percame from members of Gray’s own ceived challenger that he has enlisted cabinet. the help of a controversial political Amid criticism of his 2010 finances, Gray has been quick to showcase See ELECTIONS, A6

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ASB Border Awareness programs erected a wall in Red Square March 28 to draw attention to deportation rates. See story A7.

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ADMISSIONS RATE BY YEAR 20%

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16.6% Admitted to Class of 2018

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In the wake of adjunct unionization at The George Washington University in 2006, American University in 2010, and Georgetown University in 2012, union organizers with the Service Employees International Union are working toward the creation of a Districtwide contract for unionized adjuncts that would be the first of its kind.

“There’s no city in America, no city in the world … that has had this approach toward their parttime faculty. To be blunt, we are pioneers,” adjunct professor of music at GWU and Vice President for Higher Education at SEIU Kip Lornell said.

Based in Maryland and Washington, D.C., SEIU represents over 2,400 adjunct faculty at area universities.

“It is a vision that we are beginning to implement, or a vision that we are beginning to strategize how to implement,” SEIU Director of Research and Strategic Planning Anne McLeer said.

With 70 percent of D.C.’s See ADJUNCTS, A6 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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From Heartland to Hilltop It is no surprise that Georgetown admits and enrolls more students from certain schools than others.

In an interview for a news article earlier this month, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon noted how Georgetown has long been a destination for students of the nation’s top preparatory schools and how these boarding schools can often be sources of cultural and socioeconomic diversity. We follow this logic, and, as Deacon rightly said, “Andover is far more diverse as a population than, say, the 60 applicants from Kansas or the 60 applicants from Delaware.”

We would, however, further stipulate that geographic diversity is a virtue in and of itself. While the Hilltop may be able to attract a high-achieving, diverse population through elite Northeastern schools, attracting students who were taught in different environments contributes to the depth of our academic community. Georgetown currently participates in “Exploring College Options” tours in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Duke and Stanford, whose admissions counselors travel as a group to every state in an effort to provide adequate information to a broad-based geographic area.

This is a good step toward increasing our geo-

graphic diversity, but we should further engage the regions of the country Georgetown most often overlooks. In the past two semesters, the Exploring College Options group has visited 24 states only one time. Furthermore, while every state was represented in the enrolled Class of 2017, six states — Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming — had only one accepted student who enrolled at Georgetown. Thirteen more had five or fewer enroll in the Class of 2017.

It is true that prep schools offer an abundance of qualified students and require fewer resources to recruit students. However, Georgetown must not overlook the qualified student in Nebraska in favor of 20 qualified students in Massachusetts.

Videoconferencing with high school students in areas that are not normally courted by the Office of Admissions is one option. Engaging an everenthusiastic alumni network to hold information sessions — in addition to admissions interviews — in hard-to-reach locales is another. Regardless of how Admissions accomplishes this goal, making an explicit effort to engage high schools and talented students off the beaten track is a worthwhile pursuit that serves to enhance Georgetown’s commitment to a diversity of ideas and backgrounds, as well as to socioeconomic statuses and races.

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THE VERDICT Late Bloomer — Because of unexpected cold temperatures in late March, D.C.’s famed cherry blossoms will be in peak bloom later than usual, between April 9 and 13.

One Small Step for a Panda — Bao Bao, the National Zoo’s panda cub, will have the option to explore the outside portion of her exhibit for the first time this week following the “panda-proofing” of the Zoo’s giant panda yards.

Statehood Suffrage — On Friday, the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee criticized D.C.’s lack of statehood status, claiming that D.C. residents deserve the same voting rights as other U.S. citizens.

No More Pleasure — After over 30 years in business, Georgetown’s The Pleasure Place, a sex shop located near the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, has closed.

Happy Hour — Starting April 10, one tavern license and three restaurant licenses for alcohol will be available in Georgetown.

Dogs of the District — Humane Society International has helped to bring 10 stray dogs from Sochi to a D.C. shelter to be put up for adoption.

Generation Y — D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signed an official proclamation declaring June 2 through 8 “Millennial Week,” celebrating the ideas and accomplishments of those born between 1980 and 2000.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Megan Schmidt

A Next Step for DC Adjuncts Adjunct faculty in Washington, D.C., organized through the Service Employees International Union made major progress in an attempt to create a much-needed common labor agreement.

At the national town hall event hosted by Georgetown last Monday, where adjunct professors are in the process of negotiating their first union contract, 40 adjunct instructors from across the city discussed a master agreement that would set minimum pay levels for adjuncts at all colleges in the District. The agreement would provide adjuncts with health and retirement benefits prorated to the number of hours worked and would include Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, two of the remaining D.C. universities whose adjunct professors are early in the process of unionization.

As area colleges continue to rely more on adjuncts to teach basic classes, unionization is an effective means of giving these faculty members a collective voice and much-deserved benefits.

According to The New York Times, a quarter of the nation’s workforce in higher education is tenured or on track for tenure. The majority of col-

lege professors hold jobs with less favorable average salary, benefits and job stability than those of tenured professors. The SEIU unionization strategy has been gaining momentum in a commendable attempt to close this inequality gap.

The Georgetown adjunct vote to unionize last spring was the most recent major victory for adjuncts on campus and around the city, but we are comforted by the fact that the Hilltop has been so willing to encourage the SEIU’s motions to promote equality among college instructors, without regard for tenure status.

In D.C., about 70 percent of the city’s adjunct professors now belong to SEIU-affiliated collectivebargaining units. If Howard and UDC were to join this movement, SEIU’s efforts would apply to more than 80 percent of the District’s part-time faculty members — a reinvigorating move for instructor equality.

As colleges continue to rely on adjunct faculty, pushing for adjunct unionization in the District becomes ever more important. It is promising to see Georgetown host events that support that goal.

Bridging an Academic GAAP “Congratulations on your acceptance to the Georgetown Class of 2018!” reads the GAAP website on its page for admitted students.

The Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program provides one of the most crucial services to the Georgetown community each year. The open house weekends work wonders to convince admitted students who may be on the fence about Georgetown to enroll here. This function serves not only to benefit the prospective students who are unsure of what Georgetown has to offer, but it also provides a service to the student body that will accept these eager students into their community come next fall.

With each of these busy weekends, GAAP leaders must try to accomplish the mammoth task of showing each of Georgetown’s innumerable facets to the hundreds of high school seniors who have travelled here to see our school for two short days. And while seeing the social and residential aspects of the Hilltop are of paramount importance to these students, the GAAP program should allow prospective students to delve into the academic prospects at more than the cursory glance than is currently allowed in the brief tours of Healy Hall.

GAAP should more readily promote one solution

that already exists as an alternative to the open house weekend but is clearly underutilized: class visits. By encouraging willing professors to open their empty seats to prospective students, all parties involved stand to gain from the added level of transparency in the college selection process.

Prospective students would be more likely to get an accurate feel for Georgetown’s primary strong suit: academics. Beyond a basic understanding of Georgetown’s intellectual life, more students would be able to see an extended glimpse into a topic of their interest, letting them adequately gauge how well Georgetown can help fulfill their specific academic goals.

And for current students and professors, GAAP groups would know to avoid classrooms that might not be at the optimal point in the curriculum to treat visitors well — say, during an exam or presentation as is often common in March and April.

Portraying the Hilltop as a fun, engaging and supportive place to go to school is crucial in the admissions process. Providing a more in-depth opportunity to consider academics would only improve the GAAP experience for prospective and current students alike.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Acknowledging Rape Culture To the Editor: The recently published piece, “The Veil,” (The Hoya, B1, Mar. 28, 2014) is extremely important. It is vital that we inject nuance into discussions involving the hijab. We need to push back against oppressive versions of “feminism” that declare that male family members control women who wear hijab.

At the same time, we also need to push back against a worldwide culture that promotes rape and sexual assault. A commenter in the article stated, “wearing the hijab was a sort of protection” against rape and that “the reason behind wearing it makes sense [because] if you see a girl wearing shorts or a girl wearing jeans, typically guys will hit on the girl with shorts.”

I do not believe that the commenter

Alyssa Peterson COL ’14

CORRECTIONS The article “Feeder Schools Deliver Diversity” (The Hoya, A1, March 28, 2014) incorrectly stated that Andover Academy is in western Massachusetts. The school is located 25 miles north of Boston in northeastern Massachussets.

The article “GU Redesigns SXSWedu” (The Hoya, A8, March 28, 2014) incorrectly identified Z. Michael Wang’s title as Chief Innovation Officer. He is the Program Manager for Innovation and New Media. Additionally, SxSWedu does not constitute its own week but rather a four day event in conjunction with the SxSW conference The article “In Historic Move, Corcoran Gallery Splits Ownership Between NGA, GW” (The Hoya, A8, March 25, 2014) incorrectly stated that ownership changed hands Feb. 19. Only letters of intent were signed at that time. Additionally, the gallery has not officially been renamed yet.

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supports rape culture in any form.

However, we need to debunk this idea, once and for all, that states that the clothing a person wears has a connection to their rape. We need to understand that wearing hijab and more conservative clothing will not end rape. There was an interesting Twitter discussion last month where survivors bravely stated what they were wearing at the time of the assault.

Many were wearing sweatpants, and others were wearing short skirts and heels. Many were assaulted as children and were wearing pajamas. The focus must always be on the rapist, and we are naive if we believe that the clothing we wear will protect us from this awful crime.

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Hip-Hop Unworthy of Academia I

Thomas Lloyd

A Search for Dignity in Disagreement I

f serving as the president of GU Pride, running for Georgetown University Student Association president and the “Utraque Unum” campaign has taught me one thing, it is that students at Georgetown love to disagree.

As a high school debate coach and an advocate, I enjoy getting the chance to expand and elevate discourse about the issues that matter the most to me. Unfortunately, I’ve also found that when Georgetown students disagree, we struggle to form a civil discourse. At best, our reasoned arguments fall on closed ears. At worst, our callous comments cut down those brave enough to act as vanguards. Either way, we lose out on the most valuable part of disagreement: getting an opportunity to rethink our values.

This is not a question of expression policy per se, but rather it is a question of how we value expression in our community. While we may not always realize it, the big mouths in our intro government classes and the “trolls” who aggressively comment on articles in The Hoya even when studying abroad or after graduation are actually adding something to our lives.

These passionate, while perhaps bored, students and alumni call us to re-examine the beliefs we hold complacently. Disagreement is a vibrant part of any intellectual community, and debate helps us to explore, redefine and reimagine our values and opinions. However, these benefits can only be felt if we concurrently foster a vibrant culture of respect for every Hoya.

In my years at Georgetown, I’ve experienced firsthand not just official barriers to expression, but also community backlash for often the most asinine reasons. I’ve mentioned the hostile responses that followed my suggestion that the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee “You Can Play” video — which I praised and expressed thanks for — could have used more recognizable LGBTQ community leaders. The same thing happened again this semester when I posted photos of Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson in an ’80s wig in the weeks after finishing my GUSA campaign.

While we may not realize it, aggressive online commenters add value to our lives.

Some students were offended on behalf of administrators (spoiler Alert: the admins who did talk to me thought it was hilarious). In the same notes in which they bemoaned putting lipstick on well-treated administrators, they also profanely offered twisted opinions about allyship or my past advocacy work. With that same disagreement in their heart, they’d tear down the designs of one fellow student that were painstakingly hung by another. I knew that some people would find the images objectionable, but I hoped that they would explore why these images were worse than, say, any other political cartoon. Instead, I learned that some students would rather attack an image and its creators; rather than engage them and the feelings they stirred.

Twisted approaches to disagreement have obvious ramifications beyond the reactions to images of President DeGioia donning (admittedly too much) eye shadow; they can poison even basic interactions. Powerful collaborations and events that I’ve worked on have been threatened because of a belief that if two sets of people disagree on a certain overarching idea, then they cannot learn anything from one another. Our Georgetown community itself is allowed to remain fractured.

I’ve had the benefit of being forced to thoughtfully engage and re-evaluate beliefs that I held dearly. Years ago, before I came out of the closet, I identified with most of my family as a conservative Republican. Coming to terms with my queer identity was one of the first times that I truly had to wrestle with the fact that a set of beliefs and fears I had developed surrounding a certain population were just flat out wrong.

That experience encouraged me to intentionally pull in friends who had different faiths, politics and personalities from my own. I later learned that this is advice that Jesuits practice when in leadership positions and seeking advisers. I fondly remember how sitting in parks with one of my friends, an Orthodox Jewish girl now at Yeshiva, helped me to unpack my own faith and LGBTQ identities.

Humanizing and understanding those so different from ourselves is not just important for our own growth, it also respects the humanity of the people behind those values with which we disagree. I know that many of the online comments posted on The Hoya or the Voice’s website would never have been posted if they had to remain attached to posters’ names, but I sometimes wonder how many of those commenters have truly stopped to think about how their words would affect those they referenced.

As a community, we must learn to agree on one thing: Disagreeing should never involve the denigration of another person, nor their values, nor their work. Never. Not in an online comment on a website, not in a post on Georgetown Confessions and not by destroying the work of our colleagues.

Thomas Lloyd is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. QUEERA PERSONALIS appears every other Tuesday.

n light of Nas recently speaking at Georgetown, discussions about the significance of rap have picked up substantially. Many believe that rap’s lyrics should be openly taught, regarding the genre as an art form with literary merit. As Michael E. Dyson said during his conversation with Nas in Gaston Hall last week, “Just as we study a Homer, we study a Nas.” Rap music appeals to a very large part of the population, especially within the younger generations; however for a multitude of reasons, teaching and analyzing the lyrics wholesale could be detrimental to society.

The nature of the music is not conducive to being analyzed by the masses and should not be accepted as scholarly discourse.

While it is clear many rappers have developed expansive vocabularies and complex rhyming schemes, the words themselves are far too explicit to be worthy of study. The constant profanities are an obstacle in themselves, and the subjects they broach are not any easier to stomach. Misogynist ideas and sexist terms run rampantly through rap and hip-hop songs.

Drug use, illegal violence, monetary gains and material success are glorified. Racism is an overarching subject. Egotism is irrationally overt. Each one of these themes is harmful to society, either based on its action — such as illegal violence — or because of the repercussions of it — egotism propagates selfish people.

It is understandable that these topics are derived from situations in reality, and it is true that many of the rappers are regrettably well versed in these criteria. But what can students learn from such obscenities? It is commendable to study anyone’s

Should we really be analyzing rap music with the same vigor we apply to Homer? struggle from the bottom to the top of society, but the manner in which rappers convey their journey is not conducive to study. It reinforces these values, of being sexist, egotistic and materialdriven to the audience.

Without a doubt, this form of music has enthralled a tremendous number of people, but why? Does this mean that a vast majority of people can relate to the themes? Does it have

more to do with the provocative sounds and beats? The popularity and open encouragement of the immoral and defiling antics so often discussed in rap suggests society is more accepting of this behavior. Constant exposure to this lifestyle, vicariously through the music, has led to desensitization. Societies change over time; long ago, Shakespearean literature was regarded as promiscuous. Yet, if one truly lis-

tens to the constant themes and jargon of rap, can it be held in the same light? Are the explicitly foul terms now growing to be acceptable enough to be taught in classrooms in the same manner that Homer is?

Rap is not to be dismissed as a social movement; its popularity confirms there are people who believe in its various themes.

Many defend the genre by citing systemic problems that hiphop artists have serious validity to their claims. Those who feel cheated or violated use music to express their status and dissatisfaction with the system working against them.

However, this reality of those who do not have a voice in society must be expressed in more civil ways. The messages in rap songs, while perhaps true, are too explicit and far too vulgar to validate rap as a means of communication and an area of study. This dissention must be conveyed with much less provocative cultural tendencies, so the true thoughts of the movement can be correctly spread to the others who do not embrace these explicit cultural values.

It is hard to argue the merit of rap music based on the lyrics, as there is little intrinsic value to the words themselves and what they allegedly teach.

However, the larger, more significant issue is about this social and cultural movement toward accepting, encouraging and potentially preaching rap. Rappers enjoy prominent social status, and when those artists become as socially significant as classical heroes, such as Homer, it brings to question our modern values and morality in general.

Jerry D. Rassias is a sophomore in the College.

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ike most students in the McDonough School of Business, my first encounter with operations and information management came from the one-credit class we are required to take our freshman fall in which we learn the basics of Microsoft Excel. After finding that I had a geeky fascination with this class that others often have bemoaned taking, I decided to look more into OPIM and what it offers.

OPIM is one of the fastest growing majors in the MSB. Although only a handful of students declared the major when it was first i n t r o d u c e d in 2003, it has gained traction and popularity throughout the years. With a growing demand for graduates with the analytical skills needed to make informed decisions, many business students look to OPIM to hone their demonstrated quantitative and technological skills, often pairing it with a more traditional business major such as finance, marketing or accounting.

The university offers two tracks for students looking to graduate as an OPIM major.

One of these tracks focuses on analytics, while the other focuses on a stronger computer science foundation. Through the numerous course offerings listed in promotional materials, students — at least in theory — have the appealing ability to pick and choose from a variety of options to best craft the curriculum that fits the technological skill set needed to progress into their respective fields.

However, this system that the university advertises differs from reality. According to the 2014-2015 course catalog, only two electives within the OPIM department beyond those required for the major will be offered next year, as opposed to the seven described on the major’s webpage and information flyer distributed in the MSB Undergraduate Dean’s Office.

Because an OPIM major must take three additional electives, someone in the major risks being pigeonholed

into taking these classes in order to accomodate potential schedule limitations in future semesters. And as interesting as these alternatives may be, it is misleading of the MSB deans to continue to promote courses like “Business Forecasting,” which has not been offered to undergraduates since the 2011-2012 academic year.

With the number of offered electives beyond those required for the major dropping from six to four from the 2011-2012 to the 2012-2013 academic years, and now dropping again to two for the upcoming 2014-2015 year, I have to be cautious a b o u t how I want to spend my next two years as a student in the MSB. This leaves me and other students in a bind: Do we wait, hoping the MSB again offers the courses we want to take before we graduate, or do we simply take what is offered now to satisfy our requirements, even if those courses might be less desirable?

I don’t doubt that the MSB has its students’ best interests at heart, and I realize that the lack of course offerings is probably because of lack of funding or interest, especially because OPIM is a relatively young major. Nevertheless, I am not alone in feeling frustrated with the lack of information regarding the future of the major and the knowledge that I might lose what could have been a personal exploration of my interests.

As a student, it feels like a missed opportunity.

While I still plan to declare as an OPIM major in the coming weeks, the MSB should reconsider publicizing a program with a variety of options and paths to choose from when in reality these courses do not exist. My hope is that the MSB will become clearer and more transparent in its offerings, allowing for the customization that was once promised and is still desired.

I am not alone in my frustration regarding the future of the OPIM major.

Brian Carden is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. He is director of sales for The Hoya.

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his is a literary pentimento. left to learn that it dwarfs what In my untutored under- we already know, we understand standing, pentimento is that we can never possess absolute an underlying image in a paint- knowledge. This kind of undering, a kind of original draft that standing can be a source of great is found underneath a top layer hope for humanity. that is, itself, another painting.

So am I advocating a life filled It comes from the Italian word, with doubt? Hardly. pentirsi — to repent, to rethink.

We needn’t use doubt to an exWhat you are about to read is treme. Recall Aristotle’s idea that my rethinking of something I a vice is a virtue taken to an exwrote almost 30 years ago for “Ye treme. What I do advocate then is Domesday Book.” healthy doubt — doubt in moderaJacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent tion. Therefore, if you have a job, of Man” was a BBC it doesn’t mean television series that that particufilmed in 1973. In lar position should one of the later probe your career for grams, he is found life with a mindwalking near — and less, robotic inertia then kneeling in — at its foundation. a pond of water at It means that each Auschwitz. Decades day, week, month earlier, the ashes of or year, you evaluSteven R. Sabat the bodies of milate just how much lions of murdered that position conhuman beings We should all know tributes to your fulwere poured into fillment and that that pond. Kneel- enough to realize how of your family, and ing there, Bronowsmuch we don’t know. how much it preki asserted that vents you from exthat monstrous crime happened periencing or achieving. This sort because people did not doubt the of healthy doubt, or self-examinacorrectness of what they were do- tion, implies nothing about the ing; they believed that they had “given” nature of the status quo. absolute knowledge. He continued Tomorrow need not be the same by noting that one of the virtues as today especially if today is — and of science is that it has doubt at many yesterdays were — unfulfillits very foundation, for nothing ing. Of course, the opposite may can be known with absolute cer- be true. With such an approach, tainty. When I heard Bronowski’s you will be immune to that abyswords, I recalled those of my re- mal sadness that accompanies the vered ninth grade science teacher, unexamined life: “I’ve had this job Ms. Lucille DiBiase, who always en- for the past 20 years and never couraged us to “keep the question gave thought, until now, that I’ve mark.” She wanted us to continue, never liked it.” throughout our lives, to question Perhaps doubt and self-examireceived truths, to explore and dis- nation will lead to changes in your cover, without taking anything for life, perhaps not, but whatever engranted. sues, you will be able to treat life I should like to propose to you as the adventure that, with the that it is in the nature of a George- Good Lord’s grace, it was meant town education that the idea of to be. Whatever the result, keepdoubt is fostered, nurtured and — ing the question mark and using with hope — sealed in you forever. doubt as an ally, you will know There are times, though, when that you are living, and have lived, doubt, the opposite of certainty, an examined life illuminated by may appear to be less a virtue and the education and encouragemore an enemy of the spirit. For ment you received at Georgetown. example, a first-semester senior Furthermore, you will be a far betonce told me that he was angry ter citizen of the world, for you at Georgetown, saying, “I have will understand in a powerfully taken all these courses and writ- informed way what it means to ten all these papers and exams, be women and men for others. A and I don’t know anything.” That world filled with women and men included not knowing what he for others could never include wanted to do with his life. At that someone kneeling at a pond as point, I suggested that he write a Bronowski kneeled at Auschwitz, thank you note to the president of because ponds such as that would the university. After all, the oracle not exist. at Delphi told Socrates that he was the wisest man in Athens because Steven R. Sabat is a professor in he was the only one who knew the department of psychology. He enough to know that he didn’t is one of the alternating writers for know anything. When we real- THE PSYCH FACTOR, which appears ize deeply that there is so much every other Tuesday.

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Professor Who Shaped STIA Program Retires KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

The School of Foreign Service pioneered the major of science, technology and international affairs, with one man, Charles Weiss, instrumental in the program’s development.

After shepherding over 700 students through the STIA program, Weiss will retire at the end of this school year, after a 17-year tenure as a distinguished professor and former STIA director.

To celebrate Weiss’ work and career, the university hosted an all-day retirement symposium last Friday.

PIONEERING A PROGRAM Weiss graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor’s in physics and chemistry and a doctorate in biochemistry and chemical physics.

After his time at Harvard, Weiss served as a science and technology adviser to the World Bank from 1971 to 1986. He also worked at a variety of universities, including Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.

Scholarly publications include a co-authored book about revolution-

izing energy technology, in addition to numerous works in academic journals and conferences.

For the past 17 years, Weiss has shaped the STIA program at Georgetown. According to Weiss, crafting the program involved a lot of hard work, preparation, and most of all, education.

“The STIA program is unique. I found that I’m not aware of another undergraduate program with the international focus and the breadth of coverage of STIA,” Weiss said. “In order to put this together, I had to learn a great deal. My experience was broad with the World Bank and other courses I had been teaching, but still I had never undertaken anything quite that broad.”

During his time developing the program, Weiss created the STIA gateway course, “Science & Technology in the Global Arena,” which he has taught since.

He also provided a strong foundation for the program to grow, according to colleague Timothy Beach, the current STIA director.

“Great people retire, and we need to have appropriate symbolism for these events for the institutional history to carry on and solidify around their creations and accomplishments,” Beach wrote in an email. “Chuck Weiss will be missed

by all, but we worked to put in place truly exceptional new people who will build from his strong foundation. This was also part of his accomplishment, namely to help develop a sustainable program that would keep the SFS and [Georgetown] strong.”

Robyn Liska (SFS ’08), a former student of Weiss and a STIA major, said that the professor was intrinsic to the success and legacy of the program.

“I think that the School of Foreign Service really owes a debt to him because he was pivotal to the creation of the STIA program such as it is today. … Without him to start it, I think the program would have looked very different,” Liska said.

“Whether it would be here at all, I’m not sure. So I think that Georgetown was really lucky to have him and all of the generations of students that took his classes and learned from him will take his lessons forward.”

BUILDING BONDS In addition to developing the STIA program, Weiss fostered relationships with his students and challenged them to improve and grow.

Kevin Meurer (SFS ’16) helped Weiss with research projects this year, and said that Weiss is both brilliant and friendly in a classroom setting.

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Charles Weiss, a distinguished professor of science, technology and international affairs, will retire at the end of the year, after overseeing the consolidation of the first-of-its-kind STIA program over the past 17 years.

“When you’re working with professor Weiss, you’re immediately conscious of his unique presence,” Meurer said. “He carefully listens to everything you say and oftentimes will point out things you’d never have thought of. You’re always conscious of his extensive experience and knowledge, yet he’s easy to talk to and quick to share a humorous story. In that way, he’s a great teacher.”

According to Liska, Weiss’ classes were extremely well developed and also very challenging.

“He was a great professor, one of definitely the most challenging I had during my time in the SFS,” Liska said. “The classes he created were the most comprehensive and integrated courses I have ever taken because they covered the breadth of science and technology and innovation and discovery all the way through application in 10 or 15 different fields.”

Through Weiss’ breadth of knowledge, students connected to the themes of the STIA curriculum.

“He somehow — I’m still not sure how to this day he did it — gave us the theoretical foundation of science and technology, of discovery and innovation and somehow connected themes through all of the different, diverse subjects,” Liska said.

RETIREMENT RETROSPECTIVE In a speech at his retirement symposium, Weiss said that he is proud of the students that he has taught over the years.

“Next year we ‘old bulls’ will be gone and a wonderful new generation of young faculty will take over the STIA program that we have built,” Weiss said. “I thank our marvelous undergraduate students for educating me, for keeping me up to date and for sharing with me their vision of the future.”

Weiss’ experience in the field made him a resource to his colleagues and students. Beach said that his years with Weiss have taught him to think broadly and comprehensively.

“I have learned to question, dig deep, never settle for superficial answers in anything, to appreciate a broader field of science and technology then I had ever imagined: the importance of innovation, the private sector, the depth of the adjunct communities around GU, reinforcement of ethics and community involvement and many Yiddish phrases both apt and hilarious that will always leave eddies in the rivers of my memory,” Beach wrote.

Other than his role as a teacher, director and colleague, Weiss served

as a role model for many students.

“Professor Weiss has given me a model to work toward,” Meurer said.“He has demonstrated that a strong, kind character and undeniable success are not mutually exclusive. Every day, Dr. Weiss proves himself to be a great man, not just for his accomplishments, but also for his character.”

Weiss’ retirement symposium, hosted by the university, featured four round-table discussions with experts, who covered Weiss’ achievements at Georgetown.

Topics included science, technology and international affairs, global innovation policy and economic development, innovation and technology policy and energy, and health and environmental policy.

The event ended with a keynote speech by Robert Socolow, a Princeton University professor and colleague and friend of Weiss. Socolow spoke about his long history and friendship with Weiss as well as the importance of environmentalism for the future of the Earth.

According to Weiss, the symposium will remain one of his favorite memories from his time at Georgetown.

“The whole afternoon and evening were very stimulating and very gratifying,” Weiss said. “What was especially gratifying was the alumni panel that brought back graduates of the STIA program because they had understood what we had tried to do.”

Weiss especially enjoyed STIA alumni’s expressions of gratitude.

“Any time a student comes back and says, ‘What I, as a student, learned in your class, in your classes and in your program has given me direction and has given me insights that have been valuable and have helped me find myself and orient my life,’ then that’s what a professor lives for,” Weiss said. “That’s why you go into the profession. That’s what you’re trying to help people.

You’re trying to educate and orient them.”

Since the program’s inception, STIA has graduated 700 to 800 alumni, all of whom Weiss guided over nearly the past two decades.

Weiss looks forward to spending more time with his family and pursuing academic goals throughout his retirement. He is currently in the process of drafting a book on innovation in legacy sectors.

“I have a couple of books I’m trying to finish,” Weiss said.“And it’s nice to see my grandchildren some. ... I’ve got some hobbies I’d like to pursue, and I have some languages I want to learn. When I learn some Arabic, that will be fun.”

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Undergrad Symposium Highlights Varied Research KIT CLEMENTE Hoya Staff Writer

The second annual Georgetown University Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will feature a range of undergraduate research projects across all disciplines and stress the varied nature of research, will be held Friday and Saturday April 4 and 5 in Healy Hall, Riggs Library, Copley Formal and the Intercultural Center.

The GUURS steering committee aims to emphasize how research applies to a variety of fields.

“The main purpose for the symposium was to show a reflection of how varied research can be. We saw there was a common misconception that a lot of underclassmen have that research is limited to science students mostly, so we really wanted to showcase research in all four major areas,” Co-Chair Chandani Desai (COL ’15) said.

Due to these efforts, research areas include social sciences, creative arts and natural sciences.

“We picked them based on a lot of different things. We realized that because this is for a bigger audience, we wanted their work to be more accessible, not something very technical or scientific or very specific to a certain field, something that can be understood by a general audience and something that would be interesting to a general audience,” Desai said.

The students presenting also vary greatly, with one presentation group travelling all the way from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar to present. Presenters additionally range across all years and schools.

Compared to last year’s 70 presentation submissions, GUURS doubled in size.

“Undergraduates are realizing this is a really great forum for their research. They are more interested in research just seeing the variety of panels,” Long-Term Development Director Trishla Jain (SFS ’15) said.

The symposium itself will be broken up into three different types of

presentations. Poster presentations will give students an opportunity to receive criticism and explain their research, whereas panel presentations will require students to prepare a 10 to 15-minute presentation on their research and participate in an interdisciplinary discussion on a general theme with other presenters moderated by a faculty member with expertise in the area. Student keynotes will additionally allow students to present their topic.

“With the panels, we more delineated them by an academic frame that we picked,” Jain said. “But for the posters, that’s more just to get feedback on their research from different professors, for people to get exposed to it, for undergraduates to see what other undergraduates are undertaking at Georgetown,” Jain said.

Along with the physical expansion of the event, GUURS received support from multiple organizations, as the Georgetown University Student Association and the Office of the Provost will co-host the event. The Mortara Center, the Center for New Designs in

Learning and Scholarship and various academic departments will also provide event support.

This will be the second year GUSA co-hosts the event.

This year GUSA helped support through funding and marketing the event. CNDLS additionally helped market, as they printed all marketing material for the event. The Mortara Center provided the gift sets for all attendees and presenters, which will consist of a mug this year.

The interdisciplinary nature of the event as a whole emphasizes the ability of research to apply to all fields, as well as Georgetown’s liberal arts education.

“Interdisciplinary focus is crucial, it’s one of the unique things that Georgetown as a Jesuit school can really promote among students, and it really helps you, as a transition into the real world, because everything is interdisciplinary,” former GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said. “Having the interdisciplinary focus, I think, helps students stretch their interests and maybe think of doing things

they haven’t done before, and in my mind that’s really what Jesuit education is about, making connections and taking the holistic approach.”

Along with the expansion of GUURS, event coordinators created a blog to further market the event and feature presenters.

“We tried to show both faculty spotlights and student spotlights through the blog so everyone can get an understanding of what the research culture is like at Georgetown because it’s not a very big part that’s highlighted and showcased,” Desai said.

Georgetown’s growth in the area of research overall proves to be a very positive trend as the field continues to grow globally.

“Undergraduate research at Georgetown could be a much more integral part of the student experience, and I think you’re going to see that continue to grow if students see different opportunities,” Tisa said.

“It’s a very positive thing for Georgetown, it’s a very positive thing for Georgetown students.”

NSO Incorporates New Hilarity Not Lost on Hilltop Sexual Assault Training MOLLY SIMIO

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This fall New Student Orientation will include a new mandatory training on campus sexual assault called “I Am Ready.” The program is the first of its kind to engage freshmen on the issue and inform them about on-campus resources for sexual assault and misconduct.

Over the last year, students and administrators worked to implement new programming and policies regarding sexual assault. This year freshmen were offered the opportunity to attend “What’s A Hoya?” workshops in which sexual assault statistics and resources served as a primary focus. Other on-campus measures included the addition of an alcohol amnesty clause into the Code of Student Conduct.

The clause ensures that students’ alcohol use, if underage, will not be used against them if sexually assaulted.

Outgoing Deputy Chief of Staff in GUSA and member of the Sexual Assault Working Group Alyssa Peterson (COL ’14) conducted a campus-wide survey this semester as part of her thesis research. She found that only 30 percent of students, in a survey of over 200, attended on-campus programming on sexual assault.

“The data shows that there is a very low level of knowledge about the Code of Conduct, visiting the new website and mandatory reporting procedure,” Peterson said.

“People do know where to access services, which is a really good sign because [Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator] Jen Schweer is more than qualified to point them in the right direction.”

The “I Am Ready” program at NSO aims to create a culture on Georgetown’s campus that focuses on the needs of survivors.

In doing so, trained students can become facilitators who will be able to speak on the issue and empower students not to be bystanders in a situation involving sexual assault. The program will include educational theater, facilitated discussions and an interactive activity called “Recognize” to help raise awareness of the issue.

“We hope that students feel engaged with the issue beyond the requisite online training — that they feel empowered to access resources, that they feel engaged in the prevention work that is being done surrounding this issue and that they can draw on Georgetown values to be active bystanders throughout their college careers,” Health Communications Specialist Meera Sheshadri wrote in an email.

Some students believe the addition to NSO will help to prepare incoming freshmen for situations such as sexual assault with which they previously have had no encounters.

“I think it’s a good way for students to

start at Georgetown — it’s definitely a different culture for kids, and the transition is where you want to teach them some things that could happen at college they might not expect,” Drew DiPrinzio (MSB ’17) said. “I know during my first weekend, during the first month for homecoming, it was a problem, sexual assault was an issue. I think if kids had been better informed they would have had an idea of what to do in that situation.”

Many students see the addition of the sexual assault awareness and education workshop as a necessity.

“I think it’s absolutely a necessary addition. I would say for me it’s less about whether I felt it was personally lacking and about more if you look generally at the situations that college freshmen are encountering,” Cody Reid-Dodick (COL ’17) said. “Whether people believe it’s an issue at Georgetown or not — even if there’s that question of whether it’s an issue — it’s something that should be educated on, and especially because it’s such a high-stakes issue and it’s something of such importance.”

However,the effectivenessoftheprogram ultimately depends on student reception.

“I think it’s very hard to make something like this effective if you don’t have an absolute itinerary. Things like educational theater: I’m not completely sure if that is effective with me. It depends on the person, but I think highlighting how serious this can be in college and specific actions we can take is a way of making it effective, and it could be very effective,” DiPrinzio said.

The program’s focus on the needs of victims and the education of bystanders provides education on preventing and reporting sexual assault.

“I think that [the possible role of alcohol] places a supreme importance on bystanders, whether they’re intoxicated or not, but that becomes a huge source of protection for people to see a situation that maybe the victim would have no say in, but some bystanders could actually prevent it or at least play a role in reporting it and following up on it,” Reid-Dodick said.

While the university improved sexual assault programming on campus, Peterson believes there is more to be done to make sure the message of “I Am Ready” expands beyond its first iteration.

“Research has found that if you do bystander intervention in the fall and you don’t repeat it in the spring, then the effects go away,” Peterson said. “There needs to be where you engage all the freshmen. ... There needs to be a way to touch base, practice skills, address the resources again just to solidify that information.”

Hoya Staff Writer Kit Clemente contributed reporting.

As the mercurial weather continues to make fools of the greater Georgetown community, the designated fools of Georgetown — those groups dedicated to the art of humor and the science of the laugh — are intent on increasing levity’s on-campus presence.

During the Georgetown Improv Association’s first open practice last Saturday, a dozen students filled the Village C Practice Room to play a few warm-up games that focused on quick thinking rather than intentional humor. After these initial drills, the attendees broke off into groups for their first skit — a comical portrayal of an advertising team pitching marketing strategies during a boardroom meeting.

The Georgetown Improv Association plans to hold tryouts and open practices once a month in order to create more opportunities for students to take part in skits and comedy programs on campus.

“Part of the hope of starting to offer open practices … is that we’ll kind of get a bunch of funny people at Georgetown in the same room and maybe something else will take off,” Georgetown Improv Association Executive Producer Emlyn Crenshaw (COL ’15) said. “It’s sad that Georgetown doesn’t have more outlets for people who want to be funny or want to joke around because there’s certainly plenty of funny people.”

Few organized student groups at Georgetown focus on humor. Besides the ninemember Improv Association, an online comedy magazine called the Georgetown Heckler is the only comedy-based student group on campus. The Heckler publishes satirical articles about campus and national news; it has just five regular contributors.

Although student participation in comedy groups is limited, student interest is high.

Last semester, over 50 students auditioned for four spots in the Improv Association.

“We had this wide array of really hilarious people, and we had to say no to most of them and it was kind of heartbreak-

nearly 300 followers. Currently, the account has over 440 followers.

“If you take everything from the right angle, you can make fun of anything,” Luther said.

“Things like that are pretty right for satire, especially because people are so honed into them here and so into them.

The more you are interested in something, the more you care about it, the easier it is to laugh at it.”

For student comedy groups, Georgetown’s reputation for professionalism has done more than serve as the butt of selfdeprecating jokes.

Georgetown Teaching Faculty of Management Rebecca Heino invited members of the Improv Association to share tips and strategies about improvisation with a business class JOE LUTHER (COL ’16) Georgetown Improv Association Member earlier this semester. wanted to, I just said, ‘Sure, “She had us come into her come aboard,’” Thaler said. class and teach some improv Joe Luther (COL ’16), a mem- games to her class in order to ber of the Improv Association get them more comfortable and a writer for The Heckler, with being in front of people, plans to continue this expan- public speaking, being aware sion when he takes over as of their surroundings — things editor-in-chief next semester. that are really important when Luther said that he hopes to you’re in a career that is based continue to attract readers us- on your interactions with peoing The Heckler’s Twitter ac- ple, like business,” Improv Assocount. He also plans to recruit ciation member Thomas Moakincoming freshmen to write on- ley (SFS ’17) said. line content.

Despite the limited range of “I think that there’s a really opportunities for students to great, receptive audience here, participate in humor-related acand I think people really like tivities on campus, many Georgecomedy and laughter stuff and town alumni have made their we just need to find ways to get careers out of comedy. Nick Kroll it to them,” Luther said.

(COL ’01), who stars in the FX sitFor many students involved com “The League,” as well as in with comedy on campus, his own Comedy Central sketch Georgetown’s professional and show “The Kroll Show,” John Mupolitically oriented atmosphere laney (COL ’04), who works as a serves as an inspiration for hu- standup comedian and a writer mor. for “Saturday Night Live” and “Georgetown has tropes that Mike Birbiglia (COL ’00), who peryou can poke at occasionally, forms standup comedy and has like fun stereotypes, whether written and produced two huit’s that it’s politically oriented morous off-Broadway one-man or preppy or student-run or ca- shows, are some of the more reer-focused,” Thaler said. well-known comedic performers The Heckler used last to emerge from the on-campus month’s Georgetown Univer- humor scene. sity Student Association presi“We have a weird number of dential campaign to fuel a re- really funny people, which is vival of its Twitter feed. After weird because Georgetown isn’t satirically live-tweeting the known as being a place where presidential debate, The Heck- you go if you want to be a standler’s Twitter account gained up comedian,” Crenshaw said. ing,” Crenshaw said.

According to Crenshaw, students have expressed interest in creating an offshoot comedy sketch group, in which students would pre-write skits that they would later perform, but such a group has yet to be developed.

The Heckler has expanded its outreach in order to attract new writers and increased readership. Since taking control of the magazine at the start of last year, current Editor-in-Chief Henry Thaler (COL ’14) has recruited new writers and begun to publish articles to the website more frequently.

“People have heard that The Heckler existed, they’ve wanted to send funny articles. So if they

“If you take everything from the right angle, you can make fun of anything.”

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Ambassador Mark Lagon discussed the ethical use of drones by the U.S. in Asia as part of the School of Foreign Service’s Drone Awareness Project on Tuesday in the Intercultural Center.

Drone Awareness Project Ends Laura Owsiany Special to The Hoya

The Drone Awareness Project, a series of events held by Georgetown University Amnesty International and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service’s Asian Studies Program, which focused on the ethical issues surrounding drone usage, concluded with a lecture and discussion entitled “Drone Dialogues: A Conversation with Ambassador Mark Lagon” on Tuesday.

Lagon is the current Global Politics and Security Chair at Georgetown University’s Masters of Science in Foreign Service program, and had previously directed the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State.

Lagon spoke in a small Intercultural Center conference room filled with Georgetown students, Asian Studies faculty and State Department officials interested in the ethical questions of U.S. drone use in Asia.

After offering an academic framework of war theory, Logan delved into the ethics of drone deployment. Main topics included the decision-making process behind U.S. drone strikes, the goal of strikes, the dehumanizing effects of drones on the battlefield, national and international legal

implications of drone use, issues of transparency and the loss of civilian life.

Lagon repeatedly asked, “Is this a question of ethics, law or politics?” The answer to this question fluctuated as participants of different backgrounds entered the discussion.

A member of the State Department brought up the political question of drones’ possible violation of national sovereignty, especially in the case of American targeting of terrorists in Pakistan.

“Pakistanis want us to use these drones, and some of those who are being targeted are courtesy killings; they’re not people who are high priorities in the United States counterterrorism policy, but in fact, high priorities for Pakistanis. It’s probably unfair to flatly say the United States is willfully violating sovereignty,” Lagon said.

Georgetown Law student Naresh Lall (LAW ’15) focused on the legality of drones in international humanitarian law and the questionable compliance of U.S. signature strikes with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Lagon’s question of reality versus perception also became a focal point of discussion.

“If it’s different from the real-

ity, [is] a perception of drones something that is harmful to a so-called winning of hearts and minds?” Lagon said. “In short, are you creating more terrorists than you’re eliminating? …

Are we squandering soft power in the United States because of problems of perception?”

MSFS Assistant Director of External Outreach Hartwig Zakin (MSFS ’07) addressed domestic public perception of American drone use and apathy about the drone issue in the United States in the wake of the war in Iraq.

“We don’t seem to have this conversation at all on the homefront. You have perception externally on the use of drones buzzing overhead in foreign countries, but why are we not talking about drone usage [here]?” Zakin said.

As the Drone Awareness Project draws to a close, the conversation has broadened. Still, questions of public perception remain at the fore of this nontransparent policy.

“It is the responsibility of citizens to ask about how their country uses force. And if you don’t declare war and if you don’t put boots on the ground, then you don’t have troops in theater, then it is easier to avoid public condemnation and criticism,” Lagon said.

16.6% of Applicants Accepted ADMISSIONS, from A1 South Korea, China and the United Kingdom, respectively.

Deacon attributed this decrease in admitted international students to the total decrease in international applicants, down 10 percent from last year.

“We may have hit a ceiling, or at least a pause, in this growth of international applicants. It could be the law of averages catching up to us,” Deacon said. “Our staff is going to India in the next couple of weeks, and that we see as an area to grow more in terms of applicants.”

The acceptance rate for minority students increased 0.6 percent from last year’s record number of 39 percent to 39.6 percent. Within individual minority groups, there was a 4-point bump from 2013 in the number of accepted students who self-identified as AsianAmerican, from 13 to 17.3 percent. Ten percent of admitted students identified as AfricanAmerican, a slight increase from last year’s accepted class of 9 percent, while almost 12 percent of accepted students identified as Hispanic, up slightly from 11 percent. At 7 percent, the rate of

students identifying with multiple ethnicities remained the same as last year.

Georgetown still distinguishes itself from peer universities by remaining separate from the Common Application and requiring an alumni interview. According to Deacon, the separate application process results in fewer applicants every year and consequently a higher acceptance rate compared to peer institutions such as University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College and Emory University, which had admit rates of 12.3, 10.4 and 26.5 percent, respectively, according to their websites.

Accepted Georgetown student Sian Rigby praised the university’s separate, unique application.

“I enjoyed the personal ‘Georgetown touch’ apparent in the application. Georgetown has been my dream school since middle school, and I felt I could demonstrate that sentiment more effectively with the Georgetown application than I would have been able to through the Common App,” Rigby wrote.

According to Deacon, Georgetown offered 2,123 students spots on the waitlist this year and ex-

pects to accept around 50 waitlisted students in May after deposits have been sent for a target class size of no more than 1,580 students, in accordance with the 2010 Campus Plan Agreement’s cap of 6,675 undergraduates.

Over the next few weeks, the university will push to woo accepted students through alumni-sponsored receptions across the country and the Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program events running throughout the month of April leading up to the May 1 decision date.

Last year, 47.4 percent of accepted students in the Class of 2017 enrolled in Georgetown.

With one GAAP weekend already held, some prospective students already find themselves attached to the Hilltop.

“GAAP weekend was incredible. I already loved Georgetown, but GAAP weekend convinced me that extra little bit I needed that it would be worth it to fly all the way across the country to come here. It was the most wellorganized, well-planned open house I’ve been to, and I enjoyed it thoroughly,” said Aislinn McNiece, an accepted senior from Lafayette, Calif.

Judge Overturns Milzman Release MILZMAN, from A1 about the quantity of ricin produced, which he said “could have killed someone ingesting it.” Law enforcement seized 123 milligrams of a white powdery substance March 18, within which the concentration of ricin was 7.7 micrograms per milligram.

Based on these factors, Roberts concluded there was probable cause that Milzman could pose a danger to others. Milzman’s defense rested on the argument that since he intended to commit suicide with the ricin, he was only a threat to himself and not to others, permitting his release to treatment and his parents’ care.

Abbe Smith, director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Program at the Georgetown University Law Center, dis-

agreed with Roberts’ order.

“It seems to me to be motivated by punishment and not necessarily by the kind of criteria that are supposed to be considered for detention versus release. It’s punitive based on the nature of the charge,” Smith said. “He’s a sophomore in college, he’s a kid.

We are too quick in this country to put people in jail. It shows a lack of imagination and compassion to think that jail is the only appropriate place for this particular young man.”

Joe Laposata (COL ’16), an acquaintance of Milzman, expressed continued shock at the way in which the events of the past few weeks have unfolded.

“For those of us who knew him here, the whole ordeal is so shocking that individual events just feel less shocking. I don’t

know how to react to an appeal decision that’s changed. At this point, it’s still completely out of the blue,” Laposata said.

The hearing, which was attended by over 90 people, including several Georgetown students, staff and colleagues of Milzman’s father, Dave Milzman, who is research director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, lasted approximately 20 minutes.

Will Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said in an email that the office had no comment beyond what was stated in court and that the investigation will continue pending further court proceedings.

Milzman’s lawyer, Danny Onorato, did not respond to requests for comment.

figure: Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), who was arrested in 1990 and spent six months in jail for cocaine possession.

Barry is still immensely popular among the District’s black population — especially in Ward 8, where Gray achieved huge margins over Fenty in the 2010 primary election.

When he endorsed Gray during a press conference, Barry was not shy about expressing his views on the voting habits of the District’s white population.

“I think it’s up to white people to be more open minded,” Barry said.

“Blacks are more open-minded than they are. Simple as that.”

The victor, whoever it will be, will face a significant challenger come November — a rarity in a city where Democratic dominance has gone without a real challenge since the District was first able to elect its own mayor in 1974.

Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) (SFS ’90, LAW ’94) — a white, gay, Republican-turned-independent candidate — announced his candidacy just two days after Thompson’s guilty plea.

Catania is well known in a city that has seen significant demographic shifts in recent years; a younger population coupled with a shrinking black share of the vote could favor Catania, whose main focus has been education reform.

“I would be delighted to put my record against any of those who currently have Democrat by their name, as it relates to Democratic values,” Catania told reporters after filing his candidacy with the D.C. Board of Election March 14. “Labels are fine, but I think the people are looking for a leader who has actually delivered.”

The D.C. Board of Elections is offering various services aimed at increasing voter turnout, including a mobile app designed to help local voters find directions to polling places, register to vote and view the candidate list. Registration is also offered at all polling places, according to the BOE’s website.

For voters in Georgetown’s Precinct 6, including the Burleith-Hillandale neighborhood, voting will take place at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, 3500 R St. NW; polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Same-day registration will be accepted with appropriate identification.

DC-Area Adjuncts Could Be First to Unionize ADJUNCTS, from A1 adjuncts already unionized with SEIU, and Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia in the process of unionization, Lornell was optimistic about the contract’s chances.

“I really think there’s a sense of inevitability, and the trend is very clear, that this is going to happen,” Lornell said.

Under a city-wide contract, adjuncts who teach at multiple universities within the city-wide union would be able to receive benefits from funds pooled by all of the institutions.

“For example, it may be that if you teach at three places, each school can put in some money for a retirement fund. It could be that the universities pool some of their money instead of Georgetown, GWU, AU putting some money into retirement, they put it into a pool, and you’d be employed under this contract and you could work and have benefits,” Lornell said.

The idea of a city-wide union is not a new one. The Justice for Janitors union, also part of the SEIU, serves as a similar model for such a contract that allows employees to work for multiple employers within the same industry.

“Those workers are similarly situated in a way to the adjunct who sort of pieces together full-time work from a number of part-time positions with different employers, yet get benefits from none of those employers,” McLeer said.

Adjuncts from all over the country met to discuss the possibility of a city-wide contract, as well as the future of unionization of D.C., for the second time last Monday at Georgetown. Georgetown’s adjunct professors unionized in May 2013 following an overwhelming vote in favor of unionization.

Along with the potential behind a city-wide contract, the adjuncts also discussed the challenges adjuncts face in terms of lack of benefits and job security, as well as obstacles to the unionization movement posed by university administration and the debate over the instructional quality of adjuncts compared to full-time professors.

“The reality is that adjuncts have Ph.D.s, the same qualifications as other professors, so it’s a matter of framing the debate about the institutional exploitation and low pay that they’re providing for people that do the same work,” Georgetown adjunct professor of theology Kerry Danner-McDonald said.

The irregular working hours of adjunct faculty can also pose problems for unionization since the schedule can prevent adjunct faculty from connecting with one another, McLeer said.

“The word ‘union’ means community and a collective people. It’s a challenge to create a union and create a sustained union, when there’s no preexisting community or very little preexisting community,” McLeer said.

Lornell also addressed the administrative blocks and backlash adjuncts receive when they inform their institutions that they are trying to unionize.

“Administration will say something like, ‘You don’t want this obtrusive union to interfere with your ability to negotiate with us directly. We think it’s a bad idea.’ Pretty much if I sat down, I could compose almost exactly the same kind of several paragraph press release that any university approached to unionize part-time faculty would send out,” Lornell said.

Danner-McDonald noted the hypocrisy of university administration’s reluctance to allow their adjuncts to unionize.

“I think the really critical issue is there’s this kind of hypocrisy within the institutions themselves. The institution is saying that critical thinking, higher education, is an important value in, not only the personal growth, but the professional development of a student, but then not in turn valuing those people who have hit the highest level of achievement in their discipline by earning these advanced degrees and being committed to teaching. So that’s, I think, the key issue, is holding the institutions accountable for the values they say they proclaim,” Danner-McDonald said.

Lornell, however, praised the Georgetown’s administration’s cooperation with its adjunct union.

“Best I can tell from being there myself and from talking to part-time faculty at Georgetown and other organizers, the Georgetown administration was objective, hands off and stayed out of this whole issue entirely,” Lornell said.

Lornell predicted that adjuncts could see the enactment of a city-wide contract within the next several years.

“I think that this may well be the last individual contract that we negotiate with GWU,” Lornell said of the renegotiation of GWU’s unionization contract this July.

Adjuncts will meet to discuss the future of unionization for a third time at the end of April.

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New Capitol Hill GUTS ASB Wall Breaks Borders Stop Moves Forward Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Ryan Thomas Hoya Staff Writer

Prompted by wide student support, university officials are considering implementing a new Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle bus stop from Capitol Hill to the Georgetown University Law Center.

Anebi Adoga (COL ’16) submitted a proposal calling for the additional stop on IdeaScale, an online forum that facilitates campus-wide communication, in November. The proposal currently has 551 votes on the IdeaScale platform, Georgetown Roundtables, and is the third-highest ranked item on the site.

“Georgetown should expand GUTS to provide direct means of transportation for the university community to Capitol Hill and the National Mall. Such an expansion is feasible and will carry tremendous benefits for the entire university community,” Adoga wrote in the proposal.

The Georgetown University Student Association will distribute a survey gauging student interest and need for potentially adding or altering GUTS routes in the coming weeks.

“The survey’s results will be carefully reviewed with the understanding that it is a snapshot of when and where students intern, which clearly changes from semester to semester,” Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said.

University administrators have to collaborate with various stakeholders before making a decision about the GUTS stops.

“Without regard to the current status of the initiative that Adoga is working on, the factors we would consider to change a GUTS route are numerous,” Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said. “Other considerations would be in coordination with the Georgetown Community Partnership, and impacts to the overall effectiveness of the GUTS system.”

Cost factors may also affect the implementation of the new stop.

“Evaluations of the costs and logistical questions relating to adding stops to GUTS bus routes are made within the Facilities team and the Office of Transportation Management. I can’t speak to everything that goes into that process, but there are definitely logistical questions as well as cost factors,” Fleming said.

If administrators decide in favor of the Capitol Hill stop, it would likely be implemented at the start of the 2014-2015 school year.

“If a decision were to be made in the positive I think this is reasonable and possible to do this by the fall,” Morey said.

The proposed congressional stop would take the House of Representatives exit from the freeway instead of the Senate, adding about two or three minutes to the trip time of the Law Center bus route, which currently takes about 15 minutes.

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GU officials are considering adding a GUTS stop from Capitol Hill to the GU Law Center in response to student support.

Adoga has met with Office of Transportation Management Director Diann Nock Smith and Fleming to discuss his proposal. Adoga’s initial idea, which called for GUTS stops at the National Mall and the Senate in addition to the stop at the House of Representatives, was met with disapproval by the administration.

Administrators have noted that due to the Senate’s proximity to the Law Center, a separate stop may be unnecessary.

“I personally park at the Law Center where there already is a stop and walk to the Senate office buildings regularly. Students interning on the Senate side need to think about the Law Center stop as very accessible to their internships,” Fleming said.

Adding multiple stops would also increase costs. The OTM spent $35,000 to implement a weekend late-night shuttle bus to Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan last year.

A GUTS stop at the House of Representatives would ensure lower costs, compared to a National Mall stop.

“Cost is always a factor and to the extent such a change would add little or no cost, I would certainly say that is a positive consideration,” Morey said.

After speaking with administrators, Adoga has shifted his focus to creating the stop at Capitol Hill, although he hopes that the other stops will be considered in the future.

“Right now the priority is a stop in front of the House. Also, the House stop is the cheapest part of the plan. … Hopefully a lot more people would ride the Law Center shuttle to their congressional and Senate internships,” Adoga said.

The Alternative Spring Break border awareness program aimed to generate discussion on immigration issues after two ASB groups returned from the 1,951-mile Mexican border over spring break by constructing an ad hoc border fence in Red Square Mar.ch 28.

The wood and plastic fence, manned by ASB members, was built primarily as a visual catalyst for a conversation on illegal immigrant deportation issues in the United States and was adorned with the sign “A House Divided Will Not Stand.”

“A key thing behind that [saying] was knowing our relationship with Mexicans and those who are trying to cross the border and migrants — and knowing that we’re really all together — and we look for ways to separate ourselves and think of ourselves as distinct, when in our history we are a nation of migrants,” ASB El Paso Trip Coordinator Phil Rogers (MSB ’14) said.

Rogers’ claims that the border fence’s presence strongly affects the cultural and economic links between border towns such as El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. “[By building the fence in Red Square] we wanted to create a little annoyance for people so that they would engage with us and they would see how it kind of really tore apart border communities,” Rogers said. “Juarez and El Paso and other places are very much intertwined, and having that fence there has really impeded economic flow.”

Arizona ASB Trip Coordinator Kendra Layton (COL ’15) agreed.

“The border wall is not only a physical boundary, but emotional, spiritual and intellectual. It acts as a powerful symbol that divides communities, nations and people, rather than uniting them in their shared humanity,” Layton wrote in an email.

Trip coordinators hope that ASB attendees were left with a strong desire to encourage and participate in deportation advocacy.

“There’s a push to have posttrip activities, and ASB calls it ‘Bringing it Back Home.’ They look to not only have ASB be a one-week thing, but to make it a meaningful thing where you take what you’ve seen and learned and apply that

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Two ASB trips collaborated on an ad-hoc border wall to raise awareness of immigration issues Friday in Red Square. to your life and bring that to other people as well,” Rogers said.

The ASB leaders who met with members of these migrant communities see the current national dialogue, which focuses on national security and protecting American jobs, as unrelated to the heart of the issue.

“The national dialogue is so irrelevant to what is actually going on, on the ground.

The debate in Congress is ‘We won’t do anything until we secure our borders immediately,’” ASB El Paso Trip Coordinator Sophia Sepp (SFS ’14) said. “It’s already so militarized that El Paso is the safest city in the U.S. even though it borders Juarez, which was recently [recognized as] the murder capital of the world.

So obviously there is a disconnect there.”

The ASB groups’ project ties into an upcoming march, “Two Million Too Many,” advocating a halt to deportations, which have reached their peak under the administration of President Barack Obama.

The April 5 march and rally, which begins in Lamont Park and culminates at Lafayette Park, is an attempt

to pressure the U.S. government, as well as Obama, to overcome the stagnation of the immigration debate by addressing deportation with executive action.

“There are different executive actions that Obama can take that he doesn’t need Congress’ approval for that could remedy the situation,” Sepp said.

Another option is to stop the agreement between local law enforcement and Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials to identify and deport undocumented people.

The Georgetown University Immigration Coalition plans to play a role in the upcoming march as well and reaffirms the idea that stopping deportation is the first step, as announced in a press release.

Sepp hopes that addressing this highly politicized issue by experiencing it firsthand provided a valuable, fresh viewpoint.

“I think we try to really bring home the human dimension of it. We live in solidarity with the people down in El Paso and learn about their personal stories,” Sepp said.

Talk Sheds Light on Stability Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

“Living Precariously: Stories from Our Community,” a panel discussion involving Georgetown University students, staff and faculty speaking about their experiences working in situations without financial stability or security in their jobs, took place Monday night in Copley Formal Lounge.

Tarshea Smith, a former cashier at Leo O’Donovan Hall, described the problems workers at O’Donovan Hall face, which led to her efforts to unionize the dining hall workers. Smith focused on a certain coworker named Miss Kathy who experienced workplace injustices.

“She [Miss Kathy] works on the salad bar, and she’s a black woman, a woman that had been working in the cafeteria probably for 32 years,” Smith said. “A manager called her a black b- - - -. And the workers, a couple of the workers heard him say it. But they were afraid to say anything, because they didn’t want to lose their jobs.”

Smith, who now works at Unite Here to support workers who face problems in the workplace, also reported how one day she had a seizure before a Leo’s shift.

Because she failed to notify her manager two hours in advance, protocol dictated she be written up for the incident.

“I started explaining more and more, and [the manager] was like, ‘Tarshea, this is the policy. We don’t fire workers, they fire themselves,” Smith said.

Smith worked clandestinely with the help of Georgetown students to create a forum to address the workplace grievances

of Georgetown staff. After Smith announced her plans to unionize the workers, in just two days’ time, over 95 percent of the 150 Leo’s workers unionized, and President John J. DeGioia wrote a letter to Aramark, their employer, to prevent the company from firing workers due to their new unionized status.

“My story is like so many other stories, so many other workers across the city are going through the same violations,” Smith said. “The only way workers can fight back is through organizing and unionizing.”

The crowd of about 30 students and faculty listened as Smith recounted these incidents and others at the event, organized by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor as part of “Living in a Precarious World,” a Lannan Spring Literary Symposium and Festival focused on socioeconomic inequality, as explored through journalism, lectures and the arts.

“I knew Tarshea when I was a student here,” Vail KohnertYount (SFS ’13), a Kalmanovitz administrator, said. “I worked with her to organize the dining service workers at Leo’s. I think she’s such a wonderful storyteller.”

Nikki Lewis, a Washington native who has experienced similar precarious working conditions, talked about her experience growing up in the restaurant business.

“I, like many other young people, just started working in an environment where I didn’t know what my rights were,” Lewis said. “And I just kind of got acclimated to the poor working conditions, the $2.13 or $0.77 [hourly wage], with no benefits, the verbal abuse, the regular sexual harassment. I thought that’s just how things were.”

Lewis also described how working 60 to 70 hours per week in three jobs with no benefits led to her alcoholism and drug use for three years of her life.

“The stories were very powerful, very real. You could see, you can see the people, the individuals… you can see how real it was for them,” Sidney Wells (COL ’16) said. “I think I heard recently about the union movement, but I didn’t know how much was fought, how long it took … I’m also friends with a lot of the workers there. Hearing that stuff here at Georgetown, at Leo’s where I eat every day: it hits home.”

The panel’s final member was Ori Soltes, author of 15 books and an adjunct professor in Georgetown’s theology department. Soltes discussed his own precarious working experience as an adjunct, taking care to delineate between his struggles and those of the other panelists. Instead, Soltes focused on his disadvantages in the workplace when a full-time spot opened up in the theology department.

“The guy they ended up hiring was a:of course, much younger than I, b: [he had written] one book, that’s it and c: actually not properly speaking in the field [of theology], but the chairman knew that I would stick around.

[They] knew that I wasn’t leaving.”

The event concluded with a look back to the beginnings of labor, and how the landscape has changed in recent years.

“What I seem to be seeing around me is the diminishing of, shall I call it, the values of democracy ... where one of those values is: if you’re willing to work, you can make it,” Soltes said.

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Senior Casey Distaso (left) did not play in Sunday’s match against Mary Washington because of an injury. Sophomore Daniel Khanin (right) won at first singles and was named Big East Player of the Week.

Win Streak Snapped at JMU Madeline Auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

After a host of victorious matches for the Georgetown women’s tennis team (7-8, Big East 1-2), its six-match winning streak was ended Friday by the James Madison Dukes (9-3) in a 4-3 decision.

“We beat Richmond in the same way that James Madison beat us,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

Georgetown defeated Richmond 4-3 last week.

The Hoyas started off strong, playing six singles matches.

Georgetown triumphed in the first, third and fourth slots.

Freshman Victoire Saperstein impressed in her victory at first singles, defeating James Madison junior Taylor Pinchoff 6-2, 7-5.

The win lifts Saperstein’s record in the number one spot to 5-2.

Ernst praised Saperstein’s performances, especially since she is a freshman.

“Her maturity, her ability to find ways to win when she’s not playing her best, you know she’s a tennis player. There are a lot of people who play tennis, but that doesn’t mean that they’re a tennis player. She knows how to play,” Ernst said. “I just like the way she’s not getting rattled if she happens to play a couple of poor games. Sometimes freshmen do that. They get rattled when they’re not playing their best. She just keeps playing and she has a great disposition for tennis.”

Senior co-captain Madeline Jaeger added a point for the Hoyas in her third straight singles victory at number three singles in a 6-2, 6-4 result. Freshman Sophia Barnard swiftly took the fourth singles match in her 6-2, 6-2

straight-set win.

Junior Sophie Panarese lost at fifth singles in a 6-3, 7-6 decision.

Sophomore Liselot Koenen put up a fight at sixth singles, pushing the match to three sets after losing the first set in a 6-3 result.

She picked up the second set 6-3 but fell in the third. Senior cocaptain Kelly Comolli’s match at second singles had a considerable tempo change, as she lost 6-3 in the first set but dominated in the second in a thorough 6-0 win. However, her opponent battled back and took the third set from Comolli 6-1.

“Kelly and Liselot both lost three-setters, they just didn’t play their best, and that happ ens,” Ernst said. “Kelly was a little sick, but she’s such a tough kid and she decided to play and I just don’t think she had the energy that she’s had in the past few weeks.

Liselot played a girl who just pushed the ball, didn’t give her a lot of pace, and she struggled with her rhythm and that’s the way it goes sometimes” With three points under their belt at the conclusion of singles play, the doubles point would determine the overall match winner.

James Madison overwhelmed Georgetown in all three doubles matchups. Koenen and sophomore Taylor Perz fell in the first doubles position with an 8-4 result, while Jaeger and Comolli fell in the second doubles slot 8-2. Saperstein and Panarese then lost 8-5.

Ernst attributes the inconsistency on the doubles side to the lack of a strong doubles player on the roster.

“We don’t have that real doubles

player, per say. That’s why we just have to pull through and find a way to get better at playing. We’ve had some good doubles players in the past and that’s just not who we are right now,” Ernst said.

On Sunday, the men’s tennis team played an unexpected match. In a late addition to the Hoyas took on the Mary Washington Eagles (12-4) on Sunday.

Though Ernst expected a fight from the Eagles, the Hoyas only gave up a single match in their 6-1 rout of the Mary Washington squad. Junior Shane Korber and senior Casey Distaso’s absences because of injuries were barely felt, as the Hoyas’ depth shone through in the forms of freshmen Jordan Portner and Max Novak.

Though junior Alex Tropiano and freshman Jack Murphy fell at first doubles 9-7, junior John Brosens and Porter teamed up to triumph 9-7 at second doubles.

Sophomore Daniel Khanin — named Big East Men’s Tennis Player of the Week — won at third doubles alongside Novak to capture the doubles point.

Georgetown’s sole loss came in the sixth singles slot, as Novak fell to Mary Washington freshman Brandon Griffin 6-3, 6-0. Khanin, Tropiano, Murphy, Brosens and Portner all won in their respective singles slots.

The win breaks the Hoyas’ fivematch losing streak, a result that will help their momentum going into the remainder of the season.

The men’s team will play in its first Big East match of the year against the Xavier Musketeers on April 4. The women will battle against the Seton Hall Pirates on the same day in their fourth conference match of the year.

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FIFA World Cup to be FIFA risks doing major Ethan Chess & hosted there. The Interdamage to internationDrew Cunningham national Trade Union al sports in general, if Confederation released it does not take a prina report last week that cipled and humane calls begins by stating stand on this issue.

A recent report “Qatar is a country For us, Georgetown’s siestimates that over lence on the matter is all without a conscience,” and ends by estimating the more disquieting. The 4,000 workers will that over 4,000 workuniversity is a major presdie in Qatar. ers will eventually die ence in the region, havin preparation for the ing established a satellite tournament — a number much greater campus of the School of Foreign Service in than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

Doha, Qatar, “to help build global leaders If that number seems farfetched, con- who will make a difference for their comsider that around 1,200 Indian, Nepal- munities, their region and the world.” ese and Filipino migrant workers have We find it hard to believe that Georgealready died — a full eight years before town can live up to that mission while the tournament. To provide some con- it ignores the systematic violation of batext, a total of 60 people died from sic human rights occurring in its own work-related incidents in Sochi, and neighborhood (there are four stadiums eight have died constructing World undergoing construction or expansion Cup facilities in Brazil. These numbers, in the city of Doha). In fact, we believe although they pale in comparison to that the SFS-Q, which is funded in no the Qatar toll, are themselves uncon- small part by the Qatar Foundation, scionable. must be a leading voice in the moveIn reality, worker deaths are just the ment to ensure proper working condimost visible symptoms of a labor sys- tions and human rights for migrant tem infected to its core with greed and workers in Qatar. callousness. Employers in Qatar prey The recent report was surely the first on the hopelessness of those living in of many that will spotlight dreadful poverty in the developing world with labor practices leading up the World promises of handsome and consistent Cup. If Qatar’s reputation as state salaries. built on “modern slavery” continues The system, known around the Mid- to proliferate in the media and global dle East as kafala, governs the employ- consciousness, Georgetown will surely ment of 1.2 million people in Qatar, need to evaluate any potential damage or 94 percent of the total labor force. to its own reputation that will come of A plethora of reports and first-hand its association with Qatar. accounts by international watchdogs The politics of sports are a doublesuch as Amnesty International and edged sword. Often, sports can be a the U.N. reveal that employers often force for local pride, national unity or seize their workers’ passports and international cooperation. However, in documents upon arrival, making the other instances, like this one, we are migrants prisoners in a foreign land. confronted with a darker side of sports.

Laborers work long hours, over 100 per Just as the sports world lauds itself durweek, and are often paid — if at all — ing its more idealistic moments, it must only a fraction of the wages that they also face the less savory issues honestly were promised before leaving their and assume principled stands in the homes. face of injustice.

With respect to the coming World There is nothing worse for any sport Cup, the ITUC reported that Indian and international community stand idly by Nepalese workers were living in squalid as its largest athletic event is built on the conditions at the stadiums tantamount back of modern-day slavery? to “modern slavery.” Theo Zwanzinger, Germany’s member of the FIFA executive Ethan Chess and Drew Cunningham committee, is one of the many who has are seniors in the College. THE THIRD attempted to justify Qatar’s actions.

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Tarzian Notches 5 Goals in Home Loss to Louisville LOUISVILLE, from A12 “The last three days, that’s one thing that we worked on very often, and it didn’t correlate on the field,” Fried said. “We just have to go back and continue to work on that aspect of the game, to make sure that when we get fouled that we’re taking advantage of those opportunities as opposed to giving them away.”

An advantage on free-position shots allowed Lousiville to open up a 14-11 lead with a little under 13 minutes to play. The Cardinals would not score for the rest of the game, and the Hoyas tallied two goals within two minutes of each other to pull within one with 2:38 remaining.

After a midfield battle for control of the ball, Louisville took hold and brought the ball to its side of the field. The Hoyas scrambled on defense, playing tightly and aggressively, but the buzzer sounded before they could regain possession.

“In this game, we did everything that we possibly could do,” Fried said. “A lot of it becomes desire and confidence, and I think they played with more desire and more confidence across the board. We had moments, but not enough of them to change that momentum.”

Saturday’s game offered a brief reprise from playing ranked opponents. The Hoyas will face No. 12 Pennsylvania (5-2, 2-0 Ivy) on Tuesday.

Pennsylvania is no easy task for the Hoyas. The Quakers, coming off of an 11-10 win over Vanderbilt, have only lost to No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Maryland. Senior midfielder Tory Bensen leads the Quakers this season with 17 goals and four assists.

Faceoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at McDonough School in Owings Mills, Md.

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Senior midfielder and co-captain Kelyn Freedman (left) scored two goals and had one assist in Georgetown’s 14-13 loss to Louisville on Saturday.

Senior attack Meghan Farrell (right) also had two goals and one assist for the Hoyas in the losing effort. Georgetown will return to the field Tuesday when it plays No. 12 Pennsylvania at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md.

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No. 6 Denver Overwhelms Georgetown in Rout co-captain Tyler Knarr won 20 of-27 faceoffs, Warne believes Georgetown, though, was that Georgetown’s inability to unable to carry this estab- take advantage of possession lished momentum into the cost it the game.

“When Tyler wins 20-of-27, quarter though. Denver dominated the fourth quarter, and that means we have the ball opened it by scoring six con- a lot more than they do, and secutive goals. This run sealed we just didn’t capitalize … and the victory for the Pioneers as that’s what hurt us,” Warne they held a 10-goal lead with said.

Denver’s presence as a new 2:48 remaining.

Freshman midfielder Eduar- conference rival and as the do White scored the final two leader of the league sets a goals of the game in the final certain standard of play for seconds of the fourth quarter. the entire conference. Warne He scored one with 18 seconds hopes the Hoyas will emulate remaining and the final as the Pioneers’ intensity and skill as the season progresses. time expired.

“They’re the standard,” In the game, Denver had an efficient day shooting as it Warne said of Denver. “They’ll scored 17 goals on just 35 total be a top-five team probably after this shots. week, and “Those they’re reguys can ally, really shoot into a good. And coffee can,” if we want Warne said. to be really “They’re regood, we’ve ally good got to play shooters. If to their they clear level and their hands, play above there’s a Kevin Warne Men’s Lacrosse Head Coach their level. very good … We’re not chance that there yet. We’ll get there. Withit’s going to go in.”

One scoring threat in par- out a doubt we’ll get there, but ticular came from Denver ju- for right now, we’ve just got to nior attack Wesley Berg. Berg keep working and just concenreplaced freshman attack and trate on the things we need to offensive specialist Zach Mill- do just to get better, so we get er, who currently leads the better every game. And then Pioneers with 32 points. Al- we’ll get better at the end of though Miller did not play in the season than we were today, the game on Saturday againts and if it ends up that way, then the Hoyas, Berg stepped up to we’re in good shape.”

Georgetown will return to play a key role in the offense, finishing with six goals and the field Saturday when it hosts Providence (3-7, 0-2 Big three assists.

Warne believes that Berg’s East) at 3 p.m. The Hoyas curpresence was a major asset to rently stand 0-3 in conference play, and Warne acknowledges Denver’s offense.

“I think because [Miller] the increased importance of wasn’t here, they needed notching a win against the Frisomebody. … [Berg] just decid- ars. “[We need to] keep practiced ‘Hey, everything’s going to go through me, I’m going to ing [and] accentuate the posimake the decisions,” Warne tives,” Warne said. “Basically said. “He was able to clear his for us, our playoffs start now. hands a lot [to shoot], which … We’re 0-3 in the conference. we weren’t excited about. I That’s the reality, and we have think he just decided to be to get a win this week against Providence, who’s going to be what a senior does.’”

While Denver proved capa- very motivated, and they’re ble of capitalizing on the offen- building their program as sive opportunities it created, well. They’re going to be good.

Georgetown did not. Although [It will be] a good test on Satredshirt senior defender and urday.”

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“Basically for us, our playoffs start now. ... We’re 0-3 in the conference.

That’s the reality.”

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Senior attack Jeff Fountain (top) scored three goals, senior midfielder Grant Fisher (bottom left) had two and junior attack Bo Stafford had one goal, three assists and three ground balls in Georgetown’s 17-9 loss to No. 6 Denver on Saturday. It was the Hoyas fourth straight loss and third straight loss in the Big East.

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Nadav Senensieb Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown baseball team took two out of three games from Grambling State on the road this past weekend. The Hoyas (11-13) won Saturday’s game 6-1 against the Tigers (7-20) and in Sunday’s doubleheader, they lost the first game 8-2 before winning 5-3 in the nightcap to take the series.

Sophomore pitcher Matt Smith led the Hoyas on Saturday, giving up only one run while striking out eight batters in a career-high eight innings pitched. Smith had set his previous career high in his last outing with 7 2/3 innings pitched. “[Smith] keeps getting better every week. Towson was a good test for him,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said.

“Grambling was a decent test.”

Smith was helped out by senior first baseman Steve Anderson, who had two base hits, including a three RBI triple to break a 1-1 tie; in the top of the eighth inning. Anderson, who has been Georgetown’s best hitter this season, had five hits and five RBIs in the three-game series against Grambling State, increasing his team-leading RBI total to 21.

“He continues to produce when the lights are on,” Wilk said. “One of the things about a good leader is he steps up when the team needs him, and Steve did that all week for us.

He’s been great. I could not be happier with him. He’s done a great job of leading this team, and he’s come up with some huge hits.”

After his weekend performance, Anderson was named Big East Player of the Week.

“It’s pretty cool,” Anderson said.

“It’s a little surreal so far, but it’s nice to add that to my name as my last year comes to a close. But I’m [happier] with the two wins this week and hopefully moving on to conference play.”

In the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader, the Hoyas could not get much going offensively, scoring only two runs while freshman pitcher David Ellingson gave up six. He was replaced after five innings by freshman pitcher Chris Giordano, who allowed two more runs in the losing effort. The only offense the Hoyas could muster was a run-scoring groundout by junior shortstop Ryan Busch and an RBI single from junior catcher A.C. Carter. Outside of that, the Hoyas were stifled by Grambling State’s senior pitcher Colby Martin, who threw a complete game.

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Smith. He ran well in the 100m and then did a great job in the 400,” Henner said. “I am really exIn its first outdoor meet of the cited with what he can do.” season, the Georgetown track and Qualifying for the NCAA regionfield team travelled to Richmond als is the main goal for the Hoyas this past weekend to take part in at this point in the season, and the Spider Invitation. Despite hav- the men’s team took a positive ing several runners competing step forward in that direction this outside of their normal events, the weekend.

Hoyas performed well.

Senior Eghosa Aghayre was able On the women’s side, George- to set his personal record in the town took first place in four events: men’s triple jump. Henner is conthe 100-meter dash, the 1500m, fident about his junior’s NCAA the 3000m and the 4-x-400 relay. odds.

The Hoyas performed especially “I think he is sitting right now well in the 1500m run, capturing number eight in the East,” Henner the top five spots. Seniors Chelsea said. “He put up a mark that Cox, Becca Deloache and Shanique should get him into the NCAA first Dasilva finished first, second and round.” third, respectively. Freshman BobThe meet was the beginning of bie Burgess and senior Jenna Da- a grueling stretch for the Hoyas, vidner added to as they will comthe Hoyas’ impete in a meet alpressive middle most every weekdistance perforend until the Big mance, finishing East Championfirst and third in ships in May. Afthe 3000m. ter that, George“I was really town will have pleased with our little rest before women’s middle the NCAA regiondistance group,” als.

Patrick Henner Director of Track Until then, the Director of Track and Field and Field and Hoyas wil look to Cross-Country Patrick Henner make improvements and to stay said. “They are more all 800m run- healthy. Each meet provides anners like Chelsea Cox, Becca De- other chance to make adjustments loache and Shanique Dasilva. They and qualify for regionals. Henner all ran the 1500, and we went one emphasized that his team needs through five in that event.” to become more adapt at competHenner was also pleased with ing in events outside of its comfort the performance of his men’s side, zone. where the Blue and Gray finished “We take a holistic approach, first in two events. The team’s best meaning that we want to train all performance of the day came in the energy systems and we want to the 3000m steeplechase: Graduate train all-around athletes,” Henner student Dylan Sorenson was able said. “I think it is important with to take first place, while seniors our philosophy that the athletes Matt Howard and Max Darrah feel comfortable running at shortfinished second and third, respec- er distances than their main event tively. and also longer distances than “We went one, two and three in their main event.” the steeplechase. The times that Georgetown will send members Dylan and Matt ran will prob- of its team all over the country ably get them into the first round to compete next weekend. Some NCAA regionals,” Henner said. sprinters and jumpers will travel Despite failing to take first in to the University of Florida, while any individual events, junior some long-distance runners will sprinter Tyler Smith had a strong make their way to Stanford to meet. Smith finished in sixth in compete in the Cardinal Relays. the 100m dash, as well as 16th out The rest of the team will be in Wilof 53 in the 400m dash. liamsburg, Va., for the Colonial “I was really pleased with Tyler Relays.

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Senior first baseman Steve Anderson was named Big East Player of the Week for his performance in the series against Grambling State. things around in the second game of the doubleheader, despite the loss of freshman pitcher Nick Leonard after facing only two batters. However, three relief pitchers combined to give up only two runs in nine innings. Most important was junior pitcher Will Brown, who came in to pitch 6 1/3 innings of solid relief. Brown had previously been a starter, but after a few shaky starts, Head Coach Pete Wilk decided to put him in the bullpen. The moved paid off on Sunday as Brown shut down Grambling State.

“His outing was huge,” Wilk said.

“I think he needed it and I think we needed it. He pitched great on Sunday. He threw the ball very well and I was very happy to see that. I don’t know how we’re going to approach the rotation yet.”

Anderson once again led the offense. He hit a two-run homerun in the first inning, driving in sophomore catcher Nick Collins, who had reached base on an error. Collins and Anderson have combined to produce a significant portion of the team’s offense this season, and the final game of the Grambling State series was no different. Although he did not have a base hit, Collins still drove in three runs. He had an RBI which plated Busch in the third inning and drove in freshman second baseman Jake Kuzbel twice with productive outs.

“I think that me and Nick being

able to put a spark in the lineup is huge,” Anderson said. “It’s great to have a hitter like Nick in front of you, and the guys behind me have been doing a great job as well. But me and him in the lineup next to each other really allows us both to see good pitches because they can’t walk Nick to get to me. It’s been nice to have Nick in front of me. He’s a great player and we’re just seeing the ball well right now. Hopefully, that continues to happen in conference play.”

Georgetown’s next game is Tuesday against George Washington at 3 p.m., whom it beat 7-6 earlier in the season. After that, it moves on to Big East play next weekend.

“I think that our year so far has been a little up and down, but we’ve really grown from the first day,” Anderson said. “We’re kind of a young team. I hope we see that combination of everyone coming together and uniting under the same goal of making the Big East tournament and hopefully winning it. I think the guys have realized that goal and are putting everything together.”

Although Georgetown is midway through the season, Wilk is not willing to commit to his starting rotation.

“Unfortunately, we are halfway through our season and I’m not sure who is going to start,” Wilk said. “That’s not a good spot to be in but unfortunately it’s where we are sitting.”

“We take a holistic approach, meaning ... we want to train allaround athletes.”

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Hyson Leads Hoyas Frozen Four Packs a Punch To Creighton Sweep A SAMUEL SOLOMON Special to The Hoya

Behind strong pitching and a roster-wide sense of confidence, the Georgetown softball team (1512, 6-0 Big East) swept Creighton this weekend in Omaha, Neb., in a three-game series. The series sweep is the second win in two weeks following a three-game run against Villanova last weekend.

“I think this team has tremendous confidence and experience,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “With the senior leadership we have, they know from past experience that they can handle anything that is thrown at them.”

In game one of the series, junior pitcher Lauren O’Leary pitched all seven innings and in doing so lead the team to a 5-2 win. O’Leary struck out eight while only walking two batters and giving up four hits.

She also did not allow a hit in the final four innings of the game.

The Hoyas scored the first run of the game in the third inning, only to fall behind in the bottom half after a Bluejays two-run home run.

But the Hoyas responded in the top of the fourth with a solo shot by junior Megan Hyson and a tworun double by sophomore third baseman Taylor Henry. Freshman infielder Alessandra GargicevichAlmeida would add an insurance run with a solo home run, making the score 5-2, a lead they would not surrender.

The second game on Saturday started in similar fashion, with the Hoyas scoring one in the top of the second followed by the Bluejays scoring two in the bottom half on a two-run home run. They would add a third run in the bottom of the sixth.

However, down 3-1 in the top of the seventh, the Blue and Gray did fold however. After Georgetown loaded the bases, Hyson hit an RBI single to make the score 3-2. With the bases still loaded, sophomore outfielder Samantha Giovanniello hit a grand slam, giving the Hoyas a 6-2 lead.

In the bottom of the seventh, Megan Hyson gave up a run but struck out two, thus sealing the 6-3 win.

She gave up three runs and seven hits while striking out 13 in her complete game effort.

Hyson returned to the circle Sunday and turned in an equally stellar performance. She led the Hoyas to a 6-1 win and three-game sweep of the newest addition to the Big East.

The Hoyas grabbed an early lead

and never looked back. Senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek doubled in senior outfielder Elyse Graziano to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Freshman catcher Gabriela Elvina hit her first career homerun in the second to extend the lead to 2-0. Gargicevich-Almeida extended the lead in the fourth with a two-run shot, and then sophomore infielder Grace Appelbe hit her first collegiate home run and the third for the team that day to make the score 6-1 in the seventh.

Meanwhile, Hyson only allowed one run on four hits, struck out 10 and walked none. She retired the first seven batters of the game and the last eight. After 23 strikeouts this weekend, Hyson now has 106 for the season. She also leads the pitching staff with a 1.90 ERA. She ranks in the top four in the conference for both of those categories.

Hyson’s weekend performance earned her Big East Player of the Week.

“Megan is an athlete,” Conlan said. “She is strong and powerful and has a great softball skill set.

She has been performing for us since she arrived on campus. She was highly recruited and has lived up to high expectations.”

Creighton’s strong pitching caused Conlan to adjust her approach in practices. Bluejays senior pitcher Becca Changstrom had a 1.40 ERA entering this series. She allowed eight earned runs in only 10 1/3 innings in the two games she started this weekend.

“During batting practice we simulated what our scouting reports were reading about the Creighton pitchers, and our kids were just locked in,” Conlan said.

Georgetown also had a clean series defensively, only committing one error while Creighton made five. The Hoyas also outhit Creighton 21 to 15. Conlan sees this success as a result of the efforts of her players in the offseason and in practice.

“We have a great group of girls [who] have a tremendous work ethic,” Conlan said. “Sweeping Villanova and Creighton to open [the] conference was not a coincidence.

This team has been training for these moments since our defeat in the Big East tournament last May.” The Hoyas hope to continue their strong play when they host the Cornell Big Red today on Guy Mason Field in Washington, D.C., for their home opener. The doubleheader begins at 4 p.m.

fter March Madness is over, NCAA fans will go into single-elimination tournament withdrawal. Thankfully, the Frozen Four will take place a few days after the conclusion of the 2014 men’s basketball championship.

On April 10, ESPN2 will air some of the most exciting competition collegiate sports has to offer when Minnesota takes on North Dakota and Union faces Boston College in the NCAA men’s hockey tournament, the equivalent of the Final Four.

The Frozen Four will prove to be an unforgettable tournament finish as three number one seeds still remain in competition. The matchup between Union and Boston College, both ranked as one seeds, features two teams that won their respective conferences during the regular season. Minnesota and North Dakota, meanwhile, are traditional rivals and have met nearly three hundred times in their schools’ histories. While Minnesota is a one seed, North Dakota is a four seed — the lowest available seed in the 16-team tournament.

Union is the only remaining team not to have won a NCAA men’s hockey championship, but the small Schenectady, N.Y. college has enjoyed a high degree of success the last two seasons and is steadily advancing closer to winning the coveted Championship.

Minnesota won back to back championships in 2002 and 2003 under its current Head Coach Don Lucia, but has not returned to the championship game since. It was the number one ranked team in college hockey 17 times this season, before being edged out by Union in the final poll of the year.

North Dakota last won a title in 2000 and has been a top program since then, despite losing the finals in 2001 and 2005.

Boston College under Head Coach Jerry York, however, has

been the gold standard of college hockey since the turn of millennium, reaching the Frozen Four nine times since 2000 and winning the championship in 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012. This season, it boasts a red-hot Hobey Baker award favorite in junior forward Johnny Gaudreau and a loaded roster that propelled them to a mid-season 19-game win-

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College hockey’s Final Four is poised to excite once again. ning streak. Although they lost three of their final four games heading into the tournament, the Eagles still have players from the 2012 championship roster.

While the tournament semifinals will showcase four highly successful teams and pit two sets of hockey-crazed, geographically proximate schools against one another, these games could also be important to NHL franchises.

Although the Canada’s OHL and other junior hockey leagues are the primary suppliers of young talent to the National Hockey League, but 30 percent of today’s NHL players were developed in the NCAA. Boston College features 10 players on its roster who were selected in the NHL draft, including Kevin Hayes and Michael Matheson, firstround picks of the Blackhawks and Panthers, respectively.

Minnesota, meanwhile, has had 14 of its players selected in the NHL draft, including Brady Skjei, who

the Rangers selected 28th overall in 2012.

North Dakota also boasts 14 players selected in the draft, including the Blues’ 2012 first round pick, Jordan Schmaltz.

And, finally, while Union only has one player who was selected in the NHL draft, it has a roster loaded with talent and has consistently been one of college hockey’s premier teams the past two years and finished this season ranked number one in the country.

The talent pool in this year’s finals is not only off the charts, but college hockey’s amateurism makes the sport less predictable, more passionate and more competitive.

Similar to the difference between college basketball and the NBA, college hockey players seem to show more personal ties to the college team that they chose to play for, rather than the professional team that pays them millions of dollars.

When basketball is over, take a chance and check out the Frozen Four. Hockey’s growth as a sport is reflected in the responses to the exciting 2014 Sochi Olympics, the continual spike in viewership for the NHL playoffs each year and the growth of the sport among domestic and international youth. The 16 NCAA tournament participants this year have been a direct indicator of this growth, showcasing players from six countries, 31 states, the District of Columbia and six Canadian Provinces.

The sport is growing because it is exciting, and you will be hard pressed to find more exciting hockey than the Frozen Four. Sharpen your skates, tape your stick, buckle your chinstrap and get ready for the dazzling goals, big hits and amazing saves that these last three games are guaranteed to showcase.

Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. More Than A Game appears every Tuesday.

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WADEKAR, from A12 crumbling, Otto Porter led the Hoyas to a Big East regular season title and two historic wins against Syracuse while earning All-American accolades. While Georgetown was unable to secure a Big East tournament championship to match its regular season title, the Hoyas showed no signs of slowing down heading into the NCAA tournament.

And then Florida Gulf Coast happened, a game I witnessed firsthand. I will never forget the feeling of disappointment and shame I tried to suppress on the bus ride home, desperately grasping for excuses that would allow me another year of hopeful Georgetown fandom.

But I couldn’t find any so the next season I immersed myself in the strictly analytical mindset of a reporter: At last, I landed the coveted basketball beat writer position. I sat in the pressroom alongside writers from the Washington Post and other media outlets, asking the mundane questions after each game: “What did you see from Mikael Hopkins today?” “Talk about Markel Starks’ emergence as a leader of this team” and “Is Josh Smith going to play at all this year?”

Accompanying each passing loss — of which there were many, helped in part by Whittington and Smith’s absence — came an increased feeling of numbness. Gone was that optimism that carried me through my previous three years.

Of course, that’s the point. Reporters aren’t supposed to feel bias, and (as I sat behind my laptop,

frantically composing tweets and taking notes on the game), I began to feel less and less with each passing game — especially when it became clear that Georgetown was NIT-bound.

When the seedings were announced for the NIT, it was small comfort that Georgetown was set to play in McDonough Arena against West Virginia. While the other students found their way to the cramped bleachers, I climbed up two sets of stairs (and weirdly enough, a ladder) to get to the skybox — my home for the following 40 minutes of basketball.

As a peered down on the game, I found myself observing the fans — particularly my friends in the student section — as much as the game itself. I began to rifle through all of the cliches of being a senior and settled on one in particular – This could be my last game.

As if by instinct, I packed up my laptop, procured a wristband and settled back where I belonged in the student section. I was no longer restrained by my supposed neutrality as a reporter, and for the first time in a year, I felt like a fan and it felt good.

Which is why Georgetown’s loss to Florida State stung. Yes, it was expected based on seedings and Las Vegas odds. But it was also, undeniably, my last time watching the Hoyas as a student.

Over the past couple of weeks, I struggled between my time as a Georgetown fan and reporter. I wrestled with the idea about being excited over another team, another recruiting class, another unknown season. My hyper-analytical side was trying to prevent

me from feeling the truest parts of being a sports fan: Without excitement, there could be no fulfillment. It would be impossible to recapture the sense of community I felt against West Virginia without making myself at least a little vulnerable.

I’ve let myself become excited again — excited about one of the best recruiting classes John Thompson III has ever brought in; excited about the return of Josh Smith, the most dominating big man Georgetown has had since Greg Monroe; excited about the possibility of winning the second year of the newlook Big East.

And with that small internal victory, I revisited my dad’s text and admitted that, despite closing in on graduation, he still had worthy advice for me. I will follow the Hoyas forever.

I sincerely enjoyed my time as a reporter, but it’s important to indulge in the fan in all of us — even if our justifications for supporting a team seem totally irrational — just to get us through another year. It’s a lesson every sports fan must learn, and it’s no different for Georgetown basketball Georgetown will be fine. The program continues to invest resources in the future and remains the class of the Big East. The name alone will bring in high level recruits and keep the Hoyas competitive year in and year out. And one day — probably sooner than we all think right now — Georgetown will return to the Final Four.

No, my time at Georgetown wasn’t supposed to end this way.

Not for me.

But then again, maybe it hasn’t.

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SOFTBALL Georgetown (15-12) vs Cornell (7-12) Tuesday, 4 p.m.

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Georgetown won six events in its first outdoor meet of the season this weekend.

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Unfortunately, we are half way through our season and I am not sure who is going to start.

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The number of strikeouts pitcher junior Megan Hyson had this weekend.

Baseball Head Coach Pete Wilk

LACROSSE

After Promising Starts, Hoyas Fall Into Slumps Women drop their Big East opener and 5th straight game

Men have lost 7 of 8 after winning their first 2 games

MORGAN BIRCK

Special to The Hoya

ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Writer

Having lost three consecutive games, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (3-7, 0-3 Big East) entered Saturday’s game desperate for a win.

But the Hoyas were outmatched against No. 6 Denver (8-2, 2-0 Big East), a newcomer to the Big East, and stumbled to a 17-9 loss at the MultiSport Facility.

Georgetown was able to keep up with Denver in the first quarter. Senior attack Jeff Fountain put the Hoyas on the board early, scoring off of an assist from junior attack and co-captain Reilly O’Connor at 14:19.

When the period ended, Georgetown trailed by only one goal with a score of 4-3. Georgetown struggled in the second quarter, however, and would go on to commit seven of its 20 turnovers.

Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne acknowledges that Denver’s skill at creating scoring opportunities off of turnovers factored significantly into the loss.

“That’s a very good team,” Warne said. “If you turn the ball over, they’re going to come down and attack you on the other [end of the field]. … If you make the slightest mistake against a really skilled team, they’re going to make you pay even if it’s covered or not.”

Denver took advantage of these turnovers and a three-minute extraman opportunity and outscored Georgetown 5-2, which gave them a 9-5 lead at the half.

The Hoyas, however, responded in the third quarter. Fountain and senior midfielder Grant Fisher each scored a goal entering the final quarter, Georgetown was seemingly in striking distance, only trailing 11-7.

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Senior defender Tyler Knarr (top) won 20-of-27 faceoffs in Saturday’s loss. Junior attack Caroline Tarzian scored five goals in the Hoyas loss to Louisville.

After a rough nonconference schedule ended with four straight losses to ranked opponents, the No. 14 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team hoped the beginning of Big East play would mark a fresh start. Unfortunately for the Hoyas, it did not. The visiting Louisville (7-3, 1-0 Big East) team was able to hold onto a dwindling lead in the final minutes and left Georgetown (3-6, 0-1 Big East) with a 14-13 defeat, its fifth straight loss.

Despite outshooting the Cardinals, failure to control draws ultimately doomed the Hoyas, who won only 3-of-15 in the second half. “[Louisville sophomore midfielder Kaylin Morissette] was consistently putting the ball in the same place, and we didn’t react very well,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

“When we actually did get it in our stick, we stopped our feet and turned the ball over.

Draw control is the biggest way to stop that momentum, and they were able to execute a lot better than we were on that particular level.”

The teams traded goals in the first half and neither side was able to open up a lead of more than two goals. Louisville jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead at the beginning of the game, but Georgetown came back to score two in a row with goals by sophomore attacker Corinne Etchison and junior attacker Caroline Tarzian. The Cardinals responded promptly with three goals in the next three minutes, making the score 4-2.

The Hoyas rallied back to tie the game at four apiece before the teams traded goals to tie the game once again at five with 10:36 to go in the half.

Then, for the first time all game, the play slowed and the Georgetown’s tough defense kept Louisville outside the arc for the next four minutes.

However, a Cardinal goal off a free-position shot brought the score to 6-5, and in the next 30 seconds the Cardinals extended their lead to two with another goal with 5:38 remaining in the half.

The last five minutes of the half saw lots of action in the midfield, as possession of the ball continued to bounce between the two teams. Louisville would ultimately enter the locker room with a 7-6 advantage.

Halftime adjustments seemed to favor Lousiville, as the Cardinals scored two goals in the first two and a half minutes of the second half to stretch their lead to 9-6, their largest lead of the game. However, Georgetown returned fire with three consecutive goals, two from Freedman and one from Tarzian off a pass from senior attacker Meghan Farrell.

Both teams began to slow and became visibly tired as the half wore on, but the backand-forth nature of the match continued. Fouls began to pile up and free-position shots became a major factor. The Cardinals who made 5-of-6 of their free position shots on the day while the Hoyas could only convert 2-of-8, much to the disappointment of Fried.

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WADEKAR

The GU Basketball Experience: 4 Years of Failure I

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Sophomore guards Stephen Domingo (second from left) and David Allen (right) react to this season’s 60-56 Big East tournament loss to DePaul.

t wasn’t supposed to end this way.

I’m not talking about the end for Georgetown; the second-round NIT loss to top-seeded Florida State is what I expected when Josh Smith was declared academically ineligible.

I’m talking about the end for me.

After four years of watching every Georgetown men’s basketball game, I have seen the best of the best (usually in mid-February) and the worst of the worst (usually about two weeks later).

When I first stepped onto campus four years ago, I heard about Georgetown’s recent tournament disappointments — notably to a No. 14-seed Ohio and a Stephen Curry-led Davidson squad.

But I figured those kind of losses were a thing of the past and they would never happen to me. Georgetown would muster its 2007 Final Four grit. The grit they had when Jeff Green crushed Vanderbilt’s hopes at the buzzer and Jonathan Wallace nailed a three that allowed the Hoyas to sneak by North Carolina and into the semifinals.

I figured a highly touted recruiting class of Otto Porter, Jabril Trawick, Mikael Hopkins, Greg Whittington and Tyler Adams would lead Georgetown into a new era.

Year after year, I always figured that this time things would be different. But the Hoyas never dug deep enough for a tournament run.

Whittington and Adams never made an impact on the court — although for very different reasons — and this time, like last time, things were very much the same.

As the seconds ticked toward the final buzzer, it was seemingly ticking away my days until graduation.

I received a text from my dad: You may have watched your last game as a student, but you’ll always follow

Georgetown and be a Hoya forever.

Dramatic, to be sure. But still sorting through emotions of numbness and disbelief — disbelief that I witnessed just a single NCAA tournament win in my four years at Georgetown — I decided to put the text out of my mind.

Let’s rewind. My obsession with Georgetown basketball began early in my freshman year when Georgetown beat Missouri. The Hoyas were down late with only a few seconds to play, but after a key turnover, Chris

Ashwin Wadekar

In four years, Georgetown has managed one NCAA tournament win.

Wright hit a buzzer-beater that sent the game into overtime. Jason Clark took over from there, and the Hoyas won.

Over the course of my freshman year, I witnessed some incredible games that ultimately culminated with a loss at the hands of No. 11-seeded VCU in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It was a loss to another double-digit seed that I did not expect.

But VCU’s eventual Final Four appearance and emergence as a household name put my mind at ease: Somehow, I could accept losing to a better team. What I drove far from

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my mind was the idea that there was something fundamentally wrong with Georgetown basketball; labeling the Hoyas a “choke team” was a lazy and illogical analysis.

And so, I entered my sophomore year fresh with naive optimism, making my way through the ranks of THE HOYA in hopes of one day covering the men’s basketball team. This team followed a similar trajectory as the previous year: The Hoyas followed a surprisingly good nonconference performance with a strong Big East showing.

Heading into NCAA tournament as a No. 3 seed, I felt good about our chances but terrified that Belmont would ruin Georgetown’s season as VCU did the year before. The Bruins did not, but in the next round North Carolina State made sure to. With a few minutes of lost focus, Georgetown was once again eliminated by a double-digit seed.

But, I reasoned, this Wolfpack team was loaded with young talent and was selected to win the ACC the following year. This game was not an upset but rather a matchup between two young, talented teams.

And with this justification, I allowed myself another year of unadulterated fandom. While the Hoyas began their season on a naval base against Florida, I began mine studying abroad, where I stayed up until 4 a.m. in a dark Dublin apartment just to watch the referees call off the game at halftime. Instead of feeling frustrated at the unsatisfying ending, I went to bed excited for another year.

In many ways, the 2012-2013 season was the most extreme one for Georgetown basketball in recent memory. As the Big East was See WADEKAR, A11