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DEGIOIA The editorial board looks at the legacy of our longest-serving president.

Patrick Ewing and partners gave $3.3M to the new athletic center.

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Ebola Stops Study Abroad Ian Tice

Hoya Staff Writer

Days before the start of the fall semester, the university cancelled a study abroad program to Ghana for seven students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies following concerns over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The semester-long program in Ghana, terminated on Aug. 19, was one of the options offered to international health majors as a part of their required study abroad during the fall of senior year. Other study-abroad options in Africa included trips to Rwanda and Tanzania.

The university issued a travel moratorium for Georgetown-sponsored activities in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in an Aug. 1 email to the Georgetown community, a day following the postponement of a Coca Cola-sponsored African Business Forum, which was to have featured Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Gaston Hall.

“This means that university funds will not be used to support trips to these areas, nor will the university facilitate or otherwise endorse travel to these areas until further notice,” Associate Vice President for Risk Management Joseph Yohe and Assistant Vice President for Student Health James C. Welsh wrote in the email.

There have been no reported cases of Ebola in Ghana as of Aug. 21. However, while it is outside of the moratorium zone, Ghana’s location in West Africa still puts it near the epicenter of the crisis.

“Due to the current outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa, the university decided to suspend the Ghana program for the fall semester,” Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This decision came from a careful and measured assessment of the evolving situation in the region.”

Director of Global Education Craig Rinker declined to comment.

In a separate email, sent to the seven students who were to go on the trip, Executive Dean of School of Medicine Howard J. Federoff and NHS Interim Dean Patricia Cloonan confirmed the study abroad program’s cancellation.

“We realize this is very disappointing, but please know the decision was made — first and foremost — out of concern for your health and well-being,” they wrote in a joint email to the students.

Bernhard Liese, the chair of the international health department, said that the trip’s cancellation was not ideal for students.

“While we know this has been difficult, the university made its decision with the students’ well-being as the central factor. We deeply appreciate our students’ flexibility,” Liese wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The department presented the students with two alternative options: spend fall semester in Washington, D.C., to complete the spring semester’s internship early and then spend spring semester abroad, or forgo the opportunity to study abroad in favor of spending fall semester taking classes and working on a thesis, completing the spring internship with the rest of the class. The former option, which would still take place in Ghana, will be modified so students do not miss senior week and commencement, with a contingency plan in case the Ebola crisis continues into next year.

CONSTRUCTION Campus construction will continue to cause headaches into fall.

KICKBACK The Corp’s festival is set for its first iteration next weekend.

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McCooey, Tombs Founder, Dies at 83 Mallika Sen Hoya Staff Writer

In 1962, Richard H. McCooey (C ’52) established two properties on 36th Street, with the aim of giving back to his beloved university.

His brainchildren — The Tombs, 1789, and later, F. Scott’s — would prove to have an outsized, indelible effect on Georgetown.

McCooey died Aug. 6 in Greenwich, Conn., at the age of 83, from complications stemming from cancer and cardiac arrest.

McCooey lived nearly his entire adult life in Georgetown, moving COURTESY JOHN BROUGHAN COURTESY CLYDE’S RESTAURANT GROUP to Greenwich following a stroke Tombs and 1789 founder Richard McCooey, in his property, F. Scott’s, right, and celebrating upnine months ago.

McCooey was born in Brook- stairs at 1789 in the 1960s, left. McCooey, who spent most of his life in Georgetown, died Aug. 6. lyn, N.Y., in 1930, to a politically entrenched family. At George- found change to campus social ed restaurant design company merly served as a take-out wintown, he served as president of life that accompanied the foun- Persona Studios the following dow to the now posh 1789.

McCooey had participated the Yard, the forerunner to the dation of the The Tombs, which year, and would continue to deGeorgetown University Student moved revelry closer to campus, sign and consult for his former in the Air Force ROTC program restaurants, as well as others in while at Georgetown, and was Association, before graduating from M Street.

“It was just a wonderful place the Clyde’s portfolio, along with commissioned as a second lieuwith degrees in history and govto go to, and you didn’t have to his wife Karen, whom he married tenant in the United States Air ernment.

Force. He gave up a career in ad“There were some things he go to another place far away,” he in 1990.

1789 and The Tombs, which vertising for the chance to manwas just really personally very said. “There was always an excommitted to; number one, he tremely interesting mix of teach- share a renovated federal-style age the properties on 36th and loved the university, and the rea- ers and students, and today you’ll house that had previously hosted Prospect. His dedication was deson he built 1789 and The Tombs see all kinds of people in The two businesses, have evolved to scribed in a 1968 feature on Mcprovide a fine-dining experience Cooey in The Hoya: “Mr. McCooey was he wanted to give something Tombs.”

McCooey sold his trio of prop- catered to the elite and a casual eats and sleeps 1789. He eats his back to the university,” Clyde’s Restaurant Group CEO and Co- erties in 1985 for $3 million, service and bar catered to the meals there, and he sleeps in a entrusting the management to university, respectively. The early room outside his office, and he Owner John Laytham said.

Laytham attended the School Clyde’s Restaurant Group, with years saw a different atmosphere had better, since he draws no salof Foreign Service from 1962 to whose leadership he had a long- — the bulletin board guarding See TOMBS, A6 1964, bearing witness to the pro- standing relationship. He found- the staircase to The Tombs for-

Wage Hike Alters Campus Prices, Employment

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Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

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New students arrived to campus this weekend greeted by balloon arches and cheering orientation advisers at the front gates.

In accordance with the new minimum wage hikes, student employees at Georgetown will see up pay increases this year of up to $1.25, possibly at the expense of number of student jobs offered.

As of July 1, 2014, the minimum wage in Washington D.C. has been increased from $8.25 to $9.50, the first increase in a series of incremental wage increases until the minimum wage reaches $11.50 in 2016.

Cawley Career Education Center Executive Director Mike Schaub said that while student employment at the Career Center will not be affected by this first wage increase to $9.50, as the minimum wage rises further, the center might need to consider making budget cuts in order to absorb the financial loss.

“For 2015 and 2016, we will need to closely evaluate our budget to determine how many students and how many hours we can support. If our budget does not change, we may need to hire one less student (nothing drastic) or give students fewer hours to account for the wage increase,” Schaub wrote in an email.

Professor of Research at Georgetown University Medical Center Kathleen Pirollo agreed that the laboratory assistant job her office offers, which paid $9.25 prior to the wage increase, would not be affected significantly

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13 Years in, DeGioia Outlasts Predecessors in President’s Office Emma Hinchliffe Hoya Staff Writer

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Entering his 14th year, University President John J. DeGioia is the longest-serving president in Georgetown’s history.

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After 13 years at the helm, University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) has reached a milestone. The Georgetown fixture is now the longest-serving president in the university’s history, surpassing the 12- and 13-year tenures of former presidents Fr. Leo O’Donovan, S.J., and Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J. But DeGioia says the real significance of the 2014-2015 academic year is not entering his 14th year in office, but the anniversary of his time as part of the Georgetown community.

Forty years ago, Dean of Admissions Charles Deacon sent 18-year-old Jack his acceptance letter.

“I’ve been a part of this place, now, this will be the 40th year,” DeGioia said. “To this day I feel very blessed that I was invited into this community and given the opportunity to do Published Tuesdays and Fridays

the work I’ve been able to do here.”

DeGioia was named Georgetown’s 48th president in July 2001, after a career as a philosophy professor and senior administrator on campus.

After graduating from Georgetown with a degree in English in 1979, he became a hall director in New South and has since served as an assistant to the president during Healy’s presidency, dean of student affairs, and senior vice president during O’Donovan’s time in the president’s office, negotiating the deal that sold the university’s hospital to MedStar while retaining its School of Medicine. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from the university in 1995.

“I’ve been in this office 13 years, and sometimes I still feel like it’s their office,” DeGioia said of his predecessors.

DeGioia is the first layperson to lead Georgetown, following 47 priests — mostly Jesuits — in the role.

For O’Donovan, Georgetown being led by a layman relates to the Second Vatican Council’s recognition of the importance of laypeople to the Catholic Church.

“I see the fact that Jack was elected president as a layman not only as reflective of his great quality, but also as the impetus of the council,” O’Donovan said.

“I think I would not have been able to serve long if I hadn’t been able to find ways for us to be the most authentically Catholic and Jesuit,” DeGioia said.

For much of Georgetown’s history, the lengths of its presidents’ tenures were limited by the position’s Jesuit link. The university president simultaneously served as rector of the Jesuit community, a position that one person can only hold for six years, until the two roles were separated in See DEGIOIA, A6

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A Legacy in Progress Embarking on his 14th year in office, University President John J. DeGioia is now Georgetown’s longest-serving president.

While this feat is merely statistical, its arrival indicates that DeGioia’s legacy will likely be one of the most significant in Georgetown’s modern history.

DeGioia’s forte lies with augmenting the university’s presence among institutions of higher education. Over the past 13 years, Georgetown has established itself as a force of nature in Washington, D.C., and around the world. The construction of new science and business school facilities, a School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, and a commitment to collaborative education and technology have allowed Georgetown to extend its national and international prominence.

The addition of three new dormitories (with two more on the way) has strengthened the quality of residential life for undergraduates, even though the process of finding designs that appeal to both student and university interests has been bumpy. The expansion of our endowment fund by over 50 percent between DeGioia’s first year and 2010, as well as the $1.5 billion-strong Campaign for Georgetown, have added financial security and made the possibility of a Georgetown education realizable for significantly more students. For this progress, we undoubtedly have DeGioia to thank.

While this emphasis on long-term develop-

ment has led to many successful ends, Georgetown’s progress will be assessed by more than just new buildings or fiscal growth. One of the most trying issues in the upcoming years will likely be reconciling traditional Catholic policies with an increasingly non-Catholic student body and a general uneasiness with socially conservative dogma.

As Georgetown’s first lay president, DeGioia has a unique perspective with which to confront these struggles that have become ubiquitous at Catholic educational institutions. DeGioia has done well to bring together conservative and progressive factions of our community to collectively modernize university policy, and, in 2007, notably created the first LGBTQ resource center at a Catholic university in the United States.

This approach, especially in navigating the university’s compliance with the Affordable Care Act, has guided our policy moves in a desirable direction.

Georgetown students look forward to the eventual recognition of groups that advocate for women’s health care, a more progressive policy toward transgender students or even divestment of endowment funds from fossil fuel companies. But it is important to recognize that change can take time and patience.

If DeGioia’s record is any indication of his future performance, we can count on him to make the right choices for Georgetown’s long-term future.

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Dog Days of Summer — As summer ends and D.C. pools close, dogs will be able to splash around at Randall, Upshur and Francis pools on their last day open, Sept. 6.

Wiki Scandal — It seems Georgetown’s councilman Jack Evans (DWard 2) has been caught editing his own Wikipedia page to remove less-than-flattering characterizations.

Free Art for All — Though much of the art of the Corcoran Gallery and College of Art and Design was sold last year along with its building, what remains of the Gallery will now be available for viewing free of charge.

Hoot No More — The D.C. snowy owl, which captivated Washingtonians all across the city after it was spotted in January, has been found dead in Minnesota. It was released along the Minnesota/Wisconsin border in April after undergoing treatment for injuries sustained when it was struck by a D.C. bus.

Bao Bao’s Birthday — The National Zoo and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China hosted a joint celebration for Bao Bao, the zoo’s panda cub who turned 1 year old on Saturday. Among other festivities, Bao Bao was presented with tiered cake that was specially made by the zoo’s nutrition department.

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Aug. 20 Great to see Dr. DeGioia speaking with student press (@thehoya & @GtownVoice), outlining his priorities for the year @GUFreshmanExec

Aug. 8 #Freshmen #LookForwardTo the best student reporting around from @thehoya and @GtownVoice. Or the always reliable @GtownHeckler. @karentravers

June 22 Stopped by the @Georgetown bookstore & took the back stair case into Leavey, by Vittles. Other alums of @thehoya probably do the same

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Safety First, Guns Second For decades, Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation — banning both the ownership of handguns and the ability to carry guns in public spaces.

But recent court decisions have chipped away at the foundation of D.C.’s gun control framework. Not only do these decisions make the Georgetown community and this city less safe, they threaten the substantial progress that D.C. has made in reducing violence in its most vulnerable communities.

The decision by Federal District Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. last month to strike down D.C.’s decades-old ban on carrying handguns — both openly and concealed — in public spaces comes nearly six years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, which struck down the District’s blanket ban on handgun ownership, calling it a violation of the Second Amendment.

But as many community leaders, such as D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, have pointed out, the issue is not as simple as many claim. Gun violence has ravaged American cit-

ies like Chicago and New Orleans, and while Second Amendment precedent has affirmed the public’s right to own handguns, it does not, as this most recent case asserts, affirm the right to carry guns in crowded public spaces and the neighborhood grocery store.

The D.C. Council now must decide in the next 90 days whether to appeal the court’s decision or rewrite the law in accordance with it. The District has seen its number of homicides per year fall from 399 in 1994 to a record-low 88 2012. While it is unfair to attribute those statistics entirely to D.C.’s gun laws, it would be equally unfair to deny the impact the laws have had on communities across the District, both west and east of the Anacostia River.

If the decision is made to appeal the court’s ruling, one can only hope the public interest in safety is balanced with Second Amendment rights. If the decision is made to rewrite the laws, it must be done with public safety as a top priority and respect for the District’s sovereignty.

Of all the changes that happened in Georgetown this summer, one in particular is sure to make working students smile. On July 1, the long-awaited increase of the Washington, D.C. minimum wage took effect, boosting the hourly wage from $8.25 to $9.50.

By July 2016, workers in D.C. — Corp cashiers and Phonathon callers included — will earn at least $11.50 an hour, with mandatory annual increases pegged to the area’s consumer price index.

According to Mayor Vincent Gray, this increase “will enable all District workers to earn a decent living,” and some estimates say that as many as 40,000 D.C. workers (excluding commuters) will see their wages increase. But when Gray cites the benefit to “all District workers,” he omits a sizeable portion of D.C.’s workforce who still work for no wage at all: interns.

Gray’s plan to combat poverty by increasing the minimum wage in D.C. is a laudable one. And the 40,000 workers who saw their wages increase this summer are certainly deserving of that necessary bump. However, the focus on a living wage in D.C. should extend to those entering the workforce as interns, and those who, as it stands, remain unable to pursue internship opportunities because of the sacrifices in pay they require.

Opposing unpaid internships and pushing for paid entry-level opportunities for D.C. students and recent graduates would further establish the city’s commitment to wage equity.

Ensuring that wages exceed expenses in D.C. is necessary, and the increase in minimum wage drives this goal forward. But until the city extends this accomplishment to unpaid interns, its leaders should not claim to have fought for all D.C. workers.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014

LEFT BEHIND

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For Ferguson, Help From a Hashtag I

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A Willingly Submissive Party

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ver the last three decades, the American political climate has been engulfed by the shadow of Ronald Reagan, as the nation’s political decisions and mindset have taken place squarely in the camp of the right.

Instead of arguing whether neoliberal economic policies and an erosion of governmental capabilities should be the law of the land, political debate has centered upon the extent to which they should shape legislation and action.

This pattern has held steady even under Democratic executives. President Bill Clinton’s signature policy initiative, welfare reform, framed governmental assistance as a privilege, not a right, creating work requirements that placed the economic benefits of cheap labor over the survival of America’s neediest citizens.

President Barack Obama, who in 2008 was heralded as the harbinger of a new liberal age, has not been the transformative force his campaign promised he’d be, instead continuing to operate within the conservative parameters of his predecessors. To give just one example, the Affordable Care Act, his greatest legislative achievement, placed even more power in the hands of the insurance companies that are the most responsible for the country’s pitiful care-to-cost ratio.

I have neither the know-how nor the column inches to pinpoint the exact reasons that the American government has moved rightward since the late 1970s.

Factors include the cultural, the demographic, the economic, the personal, the political and the psychological, and I am not foolish enough to think that I’d be able to synthesize them all into a grand unifying theory about the country as a whole.

I am foolish enough, however, to think I can identify the main reason why we are still living in the Reagan Era: because the Democratic Party remains content to do so. The organization that is, for all intents and purposes, America’s only left-leaning party has failed to push a policy agenda that gives this designation any sort of meaning, allowing the right to shape the government in its image. Instead of pulling back against the rightward movement of the Republican Party, the Democrats have been dragged along with it.

The current Democratic Party says the only alternative to using soldiers to assert American hegemony is using drones. The current Democratic Party says the only alternative to a massive wall at the border is a deportation program that merely pays lip service to amnesty. The current Democratic Party says the only alternative to decreased deregulation of Wall Street is an increase in easily evadable red tape.

This does not have to be the case.

Admittedly, the party has little reason to shake up the status quo, given the GOP’s off-putting rightward tilt, the Democrats’ upcoming demographic advantages and the likelihood of a Democrat winning the presidency in 2016. But despite the chiding of insiders, who treat familiarity with “the way things work” as an appropriate substitute for substantive understanding, it isn’t naive to expect more from the Democrats. For one, we shouldn’t have to treat the 2013 miniscule hike of the top marginal income tax rate — from 35 percent to just under 40 percent on taxable income over $400,000, applicable to only the very wealthiest — as a game changer when such a rate was over 70 percent in the prosperous ’60s.

Seeing these victories as consequential instead of pyrrhic only maintains a system of Republican dominance.

A leftward shift in Democratic values is the only way for the America promised by the party — one that succeeds “when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules” — to exist. In an America where the benefits of economic prosperity are given nearly entirely to the rich, where the average white American has around six times the wealth of the average black American, Democrats have offered insufficient resistance to these trends, and a continuation of current policies, more focused on looking good than doing good, will do nothing to right them.

An examination of specific issues where the Democratic Party has failed to stand up for justice, dignity and respect is in order, as is an exploration of ways the party can address these failures in order to become the party the left wishes it could be.

Democratic electoral victories mean little when Washington is still playing by the rules of the right — a transformation in attitudes and ideas is the only thing that will bring America out of the darkness.

Hunter Main is a senior in the College.

LEFT BEHIND appears every other Tuesday.

f you’ve ever taken a class with me, you know the one thing I am unforgivingly strict about is the use of smartphones in the classroom. I hate gadgets. I hate the way they distract us and interfere with thoughtful face-to-face dialogue.

Yet in the wake of the national calamity in Ferguson, Mo., I find myself using my phone more than ever.

Although I was skeptical about Twitter when I first saw it (on someone else’s phone), I (@DrMChatelain) came to enjoy it as a way to communicate with students and other academics. On weekends, I like to chat with professors and graduate students (#nerdland) across the country while watching “The Melissa Harris Perry Show” (@MHPShow). I’ve learned that Twitter is the best way to file complaints with airlines (@AmericanAir), something I have to do more often than I like. And, I’ve even convinced some reluctant colleagues (@kjuanitabrown) to give it a try.

So, as I watched the events in Ferguson explode into the media spotlight last week from the safety and comfort of my home, I felt what a lot of America was feeling: Short of showing up in Ferguson with a strategy that could end deeply rooted racial conflict, or a magic wand to make it all just stop, what could observers do to make a difference?

What skills do I have to ensure that Ferguson’s many losses — from their native son Michael Brown to the delayed start of the school year — were not entirely in vain? I have friends who beautifully organize communities who went to Ferguson, contending with tear gas, tender emotions and tense confrontations. I have friends who are lawyers who will volunteer their time and expertise to represent various actors in this frightening drama. I have

What started as a call to my friends to keep suffering at the center of our teaching took on a life of its own. many friends in Missouri, where I attended college, who have the sound judgment and leadership skills to heal the wounds that will remain for years to come.

What do I have to offer? What can I give?

I have read a lot of books. I have engaged a lot of students in conversations about race and its role in shaping public policy and individual possibilities. I have, I think, successfully been able to see current events as teachable moments.

Despite the distance between myself and the events unfolding in Ferguson, perhaps I do have some-

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thing to offer.

I started with my friends on Twitter, asking that they devote some part of the first day of classes to talking about Ferguson and Michael Brown. Something bad had happened, and if we didn’t talk about it, it would surely happen again and again.

What could I talk about?

My response was to share the books, articles and documentaries that have shaped my understanding of complex social problems. I thought about the materials that challenged my perspectives, the ones I recommend to students, and

the ones I like to teach. This needed a hashtag: #FergusonSyllabus.

What started as a call to my friends to keep the suffering of Ferguson at the center of our teaching took on a life of its own.

High school teachers wanted resources. Elementary school teachers wanted to know how kids understood the spectacular violence of this summer. More suggestions were tweeted out. Newspapers interviewed me, and others. I talked to St. Louis Public Radio (@STLPublicRadio).

Soon, hundreds of ideas were circulating across Twitter, and I decided that the #FergusonSyllabus was ready to travel, to move outside of traditional classrooms. On the radio show, St. Louis on the Air (@ STLonAir), I announced the building of the #FergusonFreedomLibrary. Followers of the hashtag could identify a resource — a book, a DVD, an art print — write Ferguson Freedom Library on the inside and allow the syllabus to come alive by donating it to a prison, a shelter, an under-resourced school or a community center.

The suffering in Ferguson is not uncommon, but it does not mean it’s undeserving of all our full attention and some of our talents.

A hashtag cannot address structural mistrust, public negligence, poverty and unemployment. But the incredible educators who have shared their resources and ideas with #FergusonSyllabus do have the power to move us closer to reconciliation, a greater commitment of justice and conversations that are long overdue.

I will still ask you to put away your smartphone in my class. However, now I realize the ability for social media to recreate classrooms in beautiful ways.

MARCIA CHATELAIN is an assistant professor in the department of history.

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The Questionable Romance of Death

Georgetown’s Beautiful, Contradictory Identity

obin Williams’ death For those struggling with earlier this month has depression or other mental illstruck fans across the nesses, death may well feel like world like a blunt club. As trib- a better option than the pain utes multiplied in the subse- they experience. Moreover, a quent media frenzy, one tweet glorification of death and the in particular from the Acad- dead can lead to increased acemy of Motion Picture Arts ceptability of suicide in sociand Sciences has been called ety. If we attempt to change “heartbreaking” and “perfect” our culture, though, to portray on viral sites. “Genie, you’re death as the void in our collecfree,” it read, paired with a tive knowledge that it really screenshot from “Aladdin.” is, it may be less appealing for An article in The Washington the thousands who are on the Post, however, argued that the edge. tweet’s use of the word “freeCultural norms about death dom” to refer to death via sui- and the afterlife surround us, cide romanticized the practice and many of us have called on and may well increase the risk those lessons to understand of copycat suicides. tragedy when we face it head I couldn’t help but agree. on. But demystifying death over The message that had seemed time will ultimately make us so touching and fitting now less afraid in life. The anticipalooked pernicious. It also re- tion of the great, whether good minded me of a discussion I or bad, induces anxiety. It could had with my roommate last be the sublime, awesome fusemester about why we honor ture that we often anticipate, the dead in or it could particular. be nothWhy the ing, devoid If death remains taboo and maxim, of a higher romantic, we will only be “ N e v e r meaning, speak ill of or of retrikept from conversations the dead?” bution or of that could prevent suicides.

It seemed freedom. weird to To even her. I had suggest never questioned it before. I such in the wake of death said it was because the dead feels disrespectful. There recouldn’t advocate for them- mains a taboo on existential selves. She reminded me that questions in the context of this attitude romanticizes one of the greatest existential death. Everyone who has passed challenges we face. away is now an angel in heaven.

Exploring our doubt and acDeath is but the next great ad- cepting that not every death venture, a paradise of freedom must be beautiful are necessary from earthly pain. steps to move beyond our own Like many Georgetown stu- fear, to help combat the fears of dents, I was raised Catholic. others and to be more truthful Theoretically, we are to look in our celebration of those who forward to this paradise, so have passed. long as we haven’t cursed If death remains taboo and without going to confession romantic, we will only be kept or killed anyone. But doesn’t from conversations that could deeming everyone who has prevent suicides. As Robin Wildied a saint — essentially re- liams’ death has shown, mengardless of behavior — delegiti- tal illness can affect anyone. mize both Catholic guidelines But similar situations need in life and the honor bestowed not reach the same concluupon the dead? sion. Of course, individual Celebrating our loved ones’ treatment is the best option, lives, their triumphs and and changing the cultural contheir characters should cer- versation won’t erase all suitainly be a part of their pass- cidal thoughts or tendencies. ing and our grieving process. But it does have the potential But excessive glorification to change one person’s mind. of something we know noth- And that’s worth it. ing about, and, in the case Anyone struggling with suiof Robin Williams, someone cidal thoughts can call the Nawe know very little about, tional Suicide Prevention Lifecan be harmful. As humans, line at 1-800-273-TALK or visit we don’t like the unknown. suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

We’re afraid of it. By mystifying death, we open the door LAURA OWSIANY is a junior in the for suicide to be idealized.

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n his recent, over-clicked ar- identity crisis: In one hand it holds ticle imploring America’s the Bible, in the other, a beaker. (wealthy) parents not to send Likewise, it succeeds when it their kids to the Ivy League, Wil- provides its students opportuniliam Deresiewicz mentions in ties to embrace the contradictions passing that religious schools of- and compromises inherent in any ten exceed their green-leafy coun- well-lived life. terparts in providing education in For example, Georgetown’s interthe “highest sense.” faith dialogues, formal and inforThe Ivy League education, he mal, allow students to open their claims, yields a harvest of students eyes to a wide array of value sysselected on technical merits and tems and critically evaluate their nurtured for technocratic ends. own beliefs against this crowd.

They have a specialized skillset, Serious discussions can be but are horrifyingly shallow; they challenging, but these challengcan deliver lasting impact, but are es provide the conditions necshockingly risk-averse. essary for students to fully disMost interestingly, he suggests cover their own identities. They that these students fail his “soul- allow people to be fully gay and vency test” because they seek fully Catholic, completely Mormeaning in functionalistic spe- mon and completely unwilling cialization, evaluating themselves to turn down. and each other in Alarmingly, as the terms of affluence number of Georgeand prestige. town students who Given the ferocity identify as either of his criticism — he “spiritual but not calls Yalies “entitled religious” or “neilittle s---s” — our pride ther spiritual nor and relief swells for religious” grows, attending a Cathothe number of opTucker Cholvin & lic school. That said, portunities for them Thomas Christiansen to engage in Georgewhat might Georgetown offer that overtown’s rich religious An ideal university dialogues shrinks. comes the crushing influence of funcLikewise, diamust be part tionalism? logues perform a To answer this technical college and disservice when question, we must they prioritize popart monastery. first address what liteness over depth, constitutes soul formation. which results in the superficial Deresiewicz’s implicit definition exchange of ecclesiastical trivia rewords an ancient dichotomy rather than a meaningful reflecto say that you cannot serve both tion on core doctrine. goodness and niche functionality.

In fact, students may benefit the But, besides being irrelevant in most from the most potentially a world pervaded by materialism, explosive discussions. Imagine, this definition entirely misses the for example, an event co-hosted by point. The well-formed soul cannot H*yas for Choice and GU Right to only think about life’s deep issues; Life. it must also act on those issues.

These suggestions, of course, And in this world, these actions are not meant to be policy prewill be specific, even mechanical. scriptions (marking the first time As such, the ideal university that two SFS-ers in the same room must necessarily be one part tech- have ever left without twice as nical college and one part monas- many “remedies”). They are, howtery, not because either building ever, meant to illustrate that comalone possesses the key to unlock- plexity — and the conflict it can ing a valid life, but rather because bring — should be embraced, not both provide unique and comple- avoided. mentary perspectives.

Happily, more than its Ivy These complementary perspec- counterparts, Georgetown insists tives give rise to contradictions on maintaining a contradictory in the purpose of our education. identity: historical yet forwardReligion, for example, chases ide- looking, faithful yet empirical. It als, while the technocracy chases is Georgetown’s irrational clingresults. ing, in juxtaposition with Ivy’s But, in truth, these contradic- specialization, that ultimately tions force Georgetown and its saves it. students to be more self-aware And, hopefully, us. and more empathetic. Ultimately, this can lead to compassion, even Tucker Cholvin and Thomas Chriswisdom. tiansen are seniors in the School Georgetown, then, succeeds be- of Foreign Service. CULTURE CLASH cause it suffers from an exacerbated appears every other Tuesday.

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Campus Construction Continues Into Fall KSHITHIJ SHRINATH

and providing more common space.”

Complying with the mandates of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement to increase student common space and living space, various construction projects across campus have posed a problem for administrators and students attempting to navigate road closures and excessive noise.

As the fall semester begins, six major projects are underway. According to Vice President of Planning and Management Robin Morey, these projects mark the last major campus construction efforts for the foreseeable future.

“From a community commitment perspective, this should fulfill the requirements posed in the Campus Plan,” Morey said.

Morey emphasized that the intentions behind the construction projects are for the good of the student body in their aim to create more common space on campus, and that the administration welcomes student input. “[Vice President for Student Affairs Todd] Olson and our team really worked with the students, GUSA, to reflect increased student engagement, designing it to what the students want,” Morey said.

He acknowledged that the obstructions posed by the construction would be bothersome in the shortterm but hoped students would keep in mind the long-term benefits of the various projects.

“I understand construction is painful,” Morey said. “But when you think about the students and the community, this is improving Georgetown for the future. With this construction, we’re improving accessibility, bringing more students on campus

HEALEY FAMILY STUDENT CENTER The Healey Family Student Center, located on the first floor of the New South residence hall, and accessible from Prospect Street, is set to open Sept. 5. The center, which will add 43,000 square feet of student space, is expected to have study rooms and meeting rooms, in addition to a central great room, pub staffed with food from Bon Appétit management, and Hilltoss, a new Students of Georgetown, Inc. storefront, set to open Nov. 1.

“The inside is almost complete,” Morey said. “The stonework and rails will go in soon.”

The Center for Student Engagement took occupancy of the site on Aug. 18, and has hired a director for the center, Patrick Ledesma.

“I hope and foresee that this building would be the center of student social life and student casual, social interaction,” Center for Student Engagement Director Erika Cohen Derr said. “What I think everyone hopes for this building — all the students and alumni who put the time into envisioning what we need on this campus — is a space that supports student life in all of its aspects.”

In addition to the expansive interior, the student center also will feature a patio filled with grass and trees overlooking the Potomac, an idea Morey credited to student contribution. To obtain LEED certification for green building practices, the center also includes a rain garden at the corner of Prospect Street.

Morey acknowledged that, during construction, students living above the work area in New South had filed numerous noise complaints, but said that the noise pollution was

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unavoidable.

“It’s worth the pain,” he said.

While building the center, steps were taken to increase accessibility and pedestrian efficiency, Morey said.

Instead of the steep Library Walk, students can now enter through a ramp on the bottom floor of the HFSC and take an elevator to the top of the hill next to New South. Additionally, traffic on Prospect Street will be restricted to allow only outgoing vehicles, and the guardhouse will be moved to the end of the street near Lauinger Library, easing congestion along the street and near O’Donovan Hall to promote pedestrian access.

OLD JESUIT RESIDENCE PROJECT Renovations on the former Jesuit residence in Dahlgren Quad are underway to prepare new housing space for students living on campus.

As a component of the 2013 agreement to avoid the institution of a satellite campus, the abandoned Ryan and Mulledy Halls are being converted into suite-style residences.

They are expected to be ready for the next school year in fall 2015.

“There will be 148 beds housed here with lots of common space,” Morey said.

Ryan Hall will have suites that Morey expected would primarily be for seniors, featuring eight individual rooms around a common space that will include a kitchen. Mulledy Hall will feature semi-suites with two people to a room sharing a common bathroom, similar to the current arrangement in Copley Hall.

The entrance to the two buildings will be located across from Village A on Library Walk, and the area in front will be landscaped to feature green space.

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rey said that everything inside would be brand new.

“The whole building was completely gutted and is being remodeled,” he said.

Construction over the summer also drew complaints about noise at odd hours of the day.

“Every morning, at approximately 6:30 a.m., I was promptly awoken by the construction work taking place behind Healy Hall,” Joy Jackson (SFS ’17), who lived in Village A over the summer, said. “The construction work did make traversing campus way more difficult. There was always random equipment lying around, and there were cars, trucks, and other vehicles that partially blocked Library Walk.”

Noise will be a factor again with all the construction projects, with the brunt affecting administrative offices in Gervase and Maguire Halls, but Morey does not anticipate as many complaints with this project as with the HFSC, as the gutting of the inside is complete.

NORTHEAST TRIANGLE Construction on the Northeast Triangle project, located across from Reiss Building on the right side of the walkway from the Intercultural Center to Henle Village, will start at the beginning of the fall semester. The building will feature semi-suites geared toward sophomores, with completion expected by fall 2016.

Starting Monday, Aug. 25, Leavey Bridge will be closed, as will the walkway between Reiss and the future Northeast Triangle. The road between the ICC and Regents will also be shut off, which will limit access to Leavey Garage near the west entrance by the hotel.

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Construction is continuing on the Healey Family Student Center in New South, which will open in September. The center’s auxiliary projects, The Corp’s Hilltoss salad shop and the university’s student pub, have been delayed to fully open later in the semester.

“Construction companies will need [the road] for trucks and laydowns,” Morey said. “It’s a very tight space for construction.”

To mitigate pedestrian concerns during the construction, pathways designated by fences on both sides of the road have been created for walking, and a gate near the second-floor entrance to Regents will be open to allow students to cross the street.

Signs will also direct students to newly opened entrances to Leavey located directly below Vital Vittles.

JOHN THOMPSON ATHLETIC CENTER The John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center will break ground next to McDonough Arena on Sept. 12. The $62 million facility will house state-of-the-art facilities for all 29 varsity programs, including practice courts for men’s and women’s basketball, locker rooms for men’s and women’s soccer and lacrosse, weight training facilities and a study lounge for athletes. Former Georgetown basketball star Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) donated $3.3 million toward the construction of the facility in honor of former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson Jr. With construction slated to start in September, the two-year project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2016. As a result of the construction, pedestrian traffic will be redirected to the sidewalks by Wolfington Hall and Southwest Quad and the outdoor tennis courts will be removed.

SMALLER PROJECTS The increased building capacity on campus requires additional capacity to be added to what Morey described as “the campus’s A/C unit.”

Located near the observatory, the expanded heating and cooling plant will permit full service of the entire campus. Morey estimated that, though essential, this construction project would have a minimal disturbing effect on campus life.

Returning to campus across the Key Bridge, students might have noticed a huge sheet across the face of the Car Barn. Morey explained that the Car Barn is not owned by Georgetown, merely leased. The actual owners of the building are in the process of renovating the parts of the building not rented by Georgetown, such as the parking spaces.

AlThough construction will not commence in the near future on this project, Morey also disclosed plans for a bus turnaround where all the Georgetown University Transportation System buses will converge next to McDonough Arena, with completion expected in October 2015.

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The full lineup of The Corp’s inaugural music and arts festival was announced Monday, setting the stage for co-headliners The Knocks and MisterWives.

Kickback will open Sept. 1 with The Unforgiven, a cover band well-known in the Georgetown area, followed by two student artists — Peter Fanone and Tigers Are Bad For Horses — and three professional acts. COIN will open the professional set, with The Knocks closing out the night.

With Kickback, Students of Georgetown Inc. aims to welcome back students with a daylong schedule of activities, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. that allows for student prerogative.

“You can just spend all day in the actual venue, totally free to move in and out,” Corp CEO Sam Rodman (MSB ’15) said.

“We’re billing it as a music and arts festival, but we want to make sure it’s a little more broad than that.”

To that end, the organizers — The Corp and Welcome Week — have designed an insular event, replete with games, food vendors and activities.

The event has amassed external and internal sponsors (including THE HOYA) to cover different aspects of the event. GU Art Aficionados will provide an installation of giant coffee cups attendees can spray paint, while Zipcar will loan a car on which attendees can draw. Several food trucks, including Surfside, will cater the event, while City Sports will sell Kickback-themed apparel.

“Welcome Week is under CSE, meaning we have access to benefits while The Corp does not, so much of my involvement has been around logistics like reserving space for the event,” Welcome Week Coordinator Sari Frankel (COL ’15) said.

The $10 ticket fee guarantees admission, free handouts, food items and drinks, which will be provided by long-term Corp partner Coca Cola.

Copley Lawn will be barricaded, with a controlled entrance by the Healy Gates. The cutout in front of White-Gravenor Hall will host a 20-by-24-foot stage.

The eclectic lineup aims to

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of universities to data scientists,” Wang said.

“We’ve reached out to a lot of the community to get people who would normally not The Beeck Center for Social Impact and In- be involved, who would never come to an novation partnered with the U.S. Department education-focused problem solving session. I of Education to collaborate on the White think diversity was a big focus, to try and reHouse’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which ally bring in different perspectives.” aims to create more opportunities for minorProgramming and Assessment Analyst ity men and boys.

Alex Skarzynski (SFS ’15) said that the event The Beeck Center held two meetups prior perfectly epitomized the message and purto an Aug. 2 data jam, during which a wide pose behind the Beeck Center, which was array of community members were presented founded this year. with data and tasked with highlighting prob“[It] is a great sort of idea that is, how do we lems in the community and finding solutions have this old problem, the fact that there is to the problems at hand. this great disparity and disadvantages for boys “There are people now who are taking data and men of color, and how do you take a new and creating narratives around the data in re- solution to that, which is, let’s take this big ally unique and interesting ways, so it’s not data and let’s see how we can find new solujust a pie chart. They’re creating something tions out of it,” he said. “It allows people to be that’s updating live, and there’s data being a little more innovative, and it allows people constantly fed into it,” Program Manager for to re-examine and relook at all these sorts of Innovation and New Media Z. Michael Wang things. So it’s very much part of our ethos of (MSB ’07), who works for the Beeck Center, finding these new solutions to old problems.” said. “And I think our goal According to Wang, as an is to say, ‘These data sets added incentive, the best were just released a couple ideas generated during the months ago, so what we can data jam session will be predo with it is still really new.’” sented to Deputy Secretary President Barack Obama of Education Jim Shelton 30 launched the MBK initiato 45 days after the event. tive in February 2014 with He said he hopes that the SONAL SHAH the aim to build on presession can result in new Beeck Center Executive Director existing community efforts ideas and interesting data to combat the economic and social disparities visualizations in response to the provided between white males and males of color. For federal data, which will help jumpstart the example, according to a White House press re- enactment of new policies that will put these lease, 86 percent of black boys and 82 percent ideas in action. of Hispanic boys are reading at levels below “I always jokingly compare it to the yellow proficiency by the fourth grade, a marked in- arrow in Mario Kart. It’s not the end of the crease from the 58 percent of white boys read- race, it supercharges how fast you’re going,” ing below proficiency levels by that age.

Wang said. “We hope this day is a superchargBeeck Center Executive Director Sonal er that inspires teams to work together over Shah stressed the importance of data visual- a 30 or 45 day period where they continue to ization, or imagining creative ways to inter- put together a more refined data visualizapret data and statistical correlations, that tion and come up with an idea.” apply to society at large. The MBK data jam In order to be most effective, these initiaexamined statistics taken from poor commu- tives need to be put into practice long-term, nities, such as distance to higher-paying jobs he said. and possible correlations between violence “Making it sustainable is the challenge at and job training. hand,” Wang said.

“You can’t solve what you can’t see. The Shah also emphasized the importance of data jam and visualization will help us look not only generating the ideas, but also putat the available data and information to help ting them to use. us better visualize and assess the data to see if “While the data provides us better insight, we might be missing something,” Shah wrote it is in how we more effectively use the data in an email prior to the event. to help the poor and those without access to Of the preceding meetups, one involved the greater opportunity that will matter,” Shah Georgetown community and one involved wrote. members of the D.C. community. For the data Wang said he looked forward to the start of jam, the center aimed to bring together a di- the semester when students would return to verse group of individuals from both within campus, thus bringing more energy and enand outside of the Georgetown community thusiasm to the initiative. in order to foster new ideas from a variety of “We did a lot of the planning without the unique perspectives. students on campus but I think the biggest “To the testament of the people who have takeaway is that this is so early on. When all shown up, we’ve had everyone from K-12, the students and grad students are back, it’s principals of charter schools, administrators just going to be amazing,” he said.

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The Knocks, an electronic music group made up of Ben “BRoc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson, will co-headline. appeal to a wide array of the student body. Student acts, which are unpaid, were chosen based on a desire to achieve musical diversity.

Peter Fanone (COL ’15) has put together a full band, selfdescribed as “indie-influenced alternative rock” for his first live performance in front of a large audience.

“I have been working on recording stuff for the past six years or so … and I finally wanted to try it live,” he said. “I just wanted to get some more experience working with professional groups and with fellow musicians to make a great sound and try something I’ve never done before.”

Mary Ellen Funke (SFS ’15), formerly of Mellenfolly and Mellen, will perform with Lyell Roeder (COL ’13), as part of new project Tigers Are Bad For Horses.

“We’re experimenting with more electronic sounds but there are also hints of jazz piano, and I’ll be singing, so it’s a mixture of genres that’s pretty new for me but also exciting.

We’ve only been collaborating officially since this May so it’s all a bit of an experiment as we’ll try to find our style,” Funke, who first heard of the event through her involve-

ment in The Corp, wrote in an email.

Giant’s Causeway, another student group, was originally set to perform, but pulled out after a band member broke a foot.

Each student act will perform a 25-minute set, while the professional artists will play for 45 minutes to an hour.

“We’re excited to play at Georgetown. Every time we play a show in D.C., it’s a blast,” The Knocks wrote in a statement through The Artists Organization representative Matt Robin. “[There is] something in the water down there that makes kids want to dance.”

The organizers have found the university and neighboring community to be supportive, and aim to establish a tradition for years to come.

Ticketing is open online, in Red Square and near O’Donovan Hall. Prices go up to $12 on Saturday and will retail for $15 on the day of the event. The event has a cap of 4,000 people.

“We’re definitely not looking to make a profit, it’s not really in the spirit of the event. If we do, we’ll come up with some sort of philanthropic scholarship,” Rodman said.

“You can’t solve what you can’t see.”

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DeGioia Reaches 14th Year as Georgetown President DEGIOIA, from A1 the 1960s.

Since then, university presidents have served around a decade. DeGioia began as president at 44 — a younger age than most of his predecessors.

“He acquired the experience and understanding of the university and its values at an early age and became president at a relatively early age, so it’s not surprising he has a career marked by longevity,” said Paul Tagliabue (CAS ’62), president of Georgetown’s board of directors.

“I was a little younger when I started. That was a little unusual,” DeGioia added. “I sort of joke, the old Indiana Jones line, ‘It ain’t the years, it’s the mileage.’ I’ve got some mileage on me.”

When DeGioia entered the president’s office in 2001, he was confronted with the university’s serious financial concerns and infrastructure needs. The first few years of his term were devoted to building new residence halls and academic construction, the university’s fundraising campaign and its commitments to faculty salary growth and needblind financial aid, DeGioia said.

Since the mid-2000s, DeGioia has been able to focus on less immediate needs, including strengthening Georgetown’s global presence, in-

volving extensive travel, launching the McCourt School of Public Policy and examining long-term approaches to academics.

“It’s almost been like two jobs for me,” DeGioia said. “The job I did from ’01 to ’05 and the job I’ve done since ’05.”

Now, DeGioia said, he thinks of Georgetown in terms of five elements: academic excellence, its home in Washington, its international character, its Catholic and Jesuit identity and its community.

Over the next year, DeGioia said, he’s looking forward to the university’s Designing the Future(s) programs, continuing to launch the McCourt School of Public Policy and finishing the Healey Family Student Center.

Beyond that, DeGioia said he will stay in his second-floor Healy Hall office “as long as it makes sense.”

“When I was a child, my dad was in the air force for a company that moved us a lot, and by the time I was 11, I had lived in 11 different places in three different states,” DeGioia said. “People often say, ‘How’d you stay at Georgetown all this time?’ If you’d moved 11 times by the time you were 11 years old, you might want to stay put for a while.

But I know what it’s like to move, and when the day comes, if it makes sense, I’ll be ready to move.”

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University President John J. DeGioia, in his Healy Hall office, discusses entering his 14th year as university president on the 40th anniversary of his acceptance to Georgetown as an undergraduate.

Tombs Founder Remembered TOMBS, from A1 ary. To put it simply, McCooey is so totally dedicated to Georgetown, making his own contribution in his own inimitable way, that most anyone would call him a fool. … But after all, it takes a fool, careless of his own welfare, to accomplish the things for which everyone is eventually grateful.”

The decor of each of McCooey’s properties was of utmost importance to their respective characters, from the upscale, classic 1789 to the rowing-themed Tombs.

McCooey complemented his aesthetic genius with a sense for atmosphere. In 1964, he established the enduring tradition of Chimes Nights, inspired by the Whiffenpoofs’ weekly performances at Yale local establishment Morey’s.

“I’m not sure there’s any Chime that doesn’t know how important Richard was to the group and how much he meant to all of us who knew him well and for what he did for the group for many years after we graduated,” said John Broughan (CAS ’64),

the president of the a cappella group at the time. “Everyone feels he’s as much of a Chime as any one of us is.

He actually came to our reunions, he would come to the reunions. For all intents and purposes, he was one of us, and always will be.”

Broughan and McCooey were introduced by a mutual friend, and then worked to develop an arrangement that would capture both the spirit of the Georgetown Chimes and McCooey’s restaurants. The initial concerts were held on Friday afternoons in the upstairs pub of 1789; they soon moved downstairs to The Tombs on Wednesday nights — a shift that would raise the profile of both the group and the restaurant, which were highlighted in The Washington Post.

“The relationship and bonding became so strong that any time Richard had VIP guests in the dining room, he would quickly call us to sing, people like the Speaker of the House,” Broughan said. “Inevitably, after the restaurant would close, we would just sit and talk with him.”

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Tombs, 1789 and F. Scott’s founder Richard McCooey with his wife, Karen. McCooey lived most of his life in Georgetown.

cluded a guaranteed table at his old properties, and McCooey would often frequent Chimes Nights, forming relationships with multiple generations. Broughan had organized a group of Chimes alumni from the New England area to sing to him in Greenwich that was scheduled for the day he died.

In 1966, McCooey received the John Carroll Award, dedicated to alumni who best exemplify the ideals of the university and its founder.

“Dick was an extraordinary man and he will be greatly missed as a dear friend to many members of our community. We are deeply grateful for his longstanding dedication to Georgetown and for all he did to establish both The Tombs and 1789 as such special, meaningful places for our students, alumni and friends,” University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) said in a statement to The Hoya.

Chimes alumnus Kevin O’Brien (CAS ’65) said that McCooey’s contributions to the university are unparalleled.

“I would tell him that he did more for Georgetown than the 1984 National Championship. He would smile and say, ‘I never quite got over my days on campus.’ He was truly a phenomenally kind, generous man, perhaps the most important Hoya of all,” he wrote in an email.

“Is there room at Healy Circle for another statue?”

McCooey is survived by his wife.

A memorial service will be held at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown on Sept. 5. Perhaps the best summary of McCooey comes from his own words, in a 2009 video for the university’s Witness to History project.

“We opened in 1962 and I discovered I wasn’t really the best person to run things. I could think them up, could idealize. It was the same back when I was president; I could become president of the student body, but I perhaps wasn’t the best president. But I ran those places for some 20-odd years … and it was unique in the sense that there was nothing else like it,” he said. “And although lots of people wanted me to do it in their universities and things like that, I was just dedicated to Georgetown. I just wanted to do it for Georgetown.”

Ebola Crisis Cancels I-Health Program in Ghana EBOLA, from A1 According to Medecins Sans Frontieres President Joanne Liu, the Ebola crisis could very likely continue into second semester. She predicted that the Ebola crisis would last at least six months.

“In terms of timeline, we’re not talking in terms of weeks, we’re talking in terms of months. We need a commitment for months, at least I would say six months, and I’m being, I would say, very optimistic,” Liu said to BBC News this month.

Of the seven who originally planned to go to Ghana, four students chose to pursue study abroad in the spring semester and three chose to complete theses.

The department also worked with the Office of Student Affairs to arrange fall semester housing for students who needed it.

Aishling Thurow (NHS ’15), one of the students who had planned to go to Ghana this fall, initially selected the program due to the high-quality work done on the program.

“By the end of it, you’ve completely done your own primary field research experiment and have a lengthy report to show for it,” she said. “To be able to graduate and say that you had that experience and were able to do that is definitely pretty impressive.”

Thurow expressed her concern that by forgoing the opportunity to study abroad in Ghana, her job chances post-graduation could be negatively affected.

“That’s honestly what made the decision so hard. If you decide not to go in the spring, you’re giving up this opportunity to intern and conduct primary research,” Thurow said. “Most careers and people already in the field value abroad experience a lot — more than anything.”

Thurow chose to do both a thesis and internship this semester, which will allow her to graduate early.

“I decided [to not study abroad] because I had the opportunity to graduate early and take what I was supposed to take in the spring now and write a thesis in place of going abroad,” she said.

Liese hopes that the alternative plans set up by the department will minimize the impact on students.

“We have worked very hard to minimize its impact and ensure that the students are positioned for success upon graduation,” Liese wrote.

In spite of the trip’s cancellation, Thurow remained optimistic about the coming year for the NHS students.

“It was very easy to be angry and frustrated and upset but there’s no use in that after a while and you’ve just got to focus on what you can do to make it right and make it the best year possible,” she said.

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“It’s going to affect us more down the line as we proceed with hiring students during the year who are putting in more hours and who are maybe at a higher skill level, and also I think it’s going to affect us more down the line when the higher salaries kick in,” she said.

Pirollo noted that in addition to the budget cuts that would have to be made in order to compensate for the rise in minimum wage, the higher rate would raise the wage standard for employees with more work experience than the average college student.

“But now $11 is going to be at the novice level, how much is he going to expect us to pay for someone who has a little experience? We’re going to have to be paying them $13, $15 an hour? We don’t have that money to give them to do that, so we probably will wind up hiring fewer students because that’s the budget that we have,” she said.

She added that she felt that the minimum wage increase made less sense for part-time student employees.

“I think paying them like $11 an hour is not appropriate. I just think that it is not necessary for students who are working part-time to actually get paid that level, quite frankly,” Pirollo said. “I think that if you are an adult — you are a full-time employee of a company — that’s a totally different situation that needs to be considered by the company.”

Rather than cutting back on student employees, Lauinger Library plans to absorb the loss by filling most of their staff with students who are receiving work-study funding.

“The library expects to maintain its existing levels of student assistant staffing. To absorb the impact of the minimum wage increase, we will hire students who have work-study funding,” Lauinger’s Coordinator of Communications, Outreach and Programming Jennifer Ann Smith wrote in an email.

Casey Nolan (COL ’17), a student employee at the Lauinger Circula-

tion Desk, said that while she was excited to hear about the minimum wage increase, she acknowledged that there should be a distinction made between student workers and full-time employees in terms of wage increases.

“If the supervisor is making $11.50 an hour and the students are too, I don’t think that’s fair, because the supervisor is a full-time employee. And some of my supervisors have a specific skill set,” she said.

However, as a work-study blind organization where the majority of members are not on work-study, Students of Georgetown Inc. has raised prices by three percent to account for the wage increase.

“In fact, we don’t actually know whether someone’s on work-study or not until they are already hired into the Corp,” Corp CEO Sam Rodman (MSB ’15) said.

In order to make up for the loss generated by the wage increase, The Corp would have to make $70 more an hour, which, under its current business model, would amount to a loss of $200,000 each year by 2016.

According to Rodman, cutting back staff would not be an option, since the same number of shifts would still need to be filled.

“If we cut a person, we would actually probably lose money on that shift because people wouldn’t get their drinks as quickly; customers would be more annoyed,” he said.

The 3-percent rise in prices will help compensate not only for the minimum wage increase but also for the increase in prices from their vendors, who are also raising prices in reaction to the minimum wage hike.

Rodman said that while students may not be thrilled about the price rise, The Corp remains a low-price option for college students.

“I think that people don’t love to see an extra nickel on their coffee. I think they’ll kind of understand it, and at the same time, when you look at how … prices are changing across D.C., number one, we’re certainly on the low end in terms of percent increase, and number two, we are still priced well below our competitors on everything,” he said. “That didn’t change.”

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Bowser Faces Nov. Challengers SUZANNE MONYAK Hoya Staff Writer

After defeating incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray in the Democratic primary in April, D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) has taken the lead in campaign fundraising as well.

Having collected over $1 million in campaign funds, she has a clear financial advantage over her other competitors, including former D.C. Councilmember Carol Schwartz and D.C. Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) (SFS ’90, LAW ’94).

According to his campaign, Catania has managed to raise about $465,000 in funds, and aims to reach $1 million by this fall.

“For a non-establishment candidate, those are impressive numbers, and those are the numbers of a winning campaign,” Catania’s campaign manager Ben Young told The Washington Post. “The establishment candidate will always have more.”

With just over $50,000 in her campaign, Schwartz has relied heavily on the use of volunteers to collect over 6,500 signatures on her petitions.

She claimed that Catania and Bowser have taken contributions from both corporations and from LLCs, a practice Schwartz criticized, allowing them to take more than the $2,000 maximum donation from each corporation. This practice will be banned in a law that will take effect on Jan. 1. In order to show her support for the upcoming law, Schwartz said she will not take any contributions from LLCs. “What I’m doing, is I like the law that’s going into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, so I’m putting it into effect during my election in 2014. And I’m saying that leaders have to lead, set the example,” she said in an interview with THE HOYA. “Leaders have to set the example, and I’m setting the example. And they could have done it too, and chose not to.”

Although Bowser has snagged every other organized labor endorsement in the city, Catania boasts an endorsement from

the D.C. Police Union, thus strengthening his efforts to improve public safety in the District.

“I think he has the background and the understanding necessary to manage the complexities of District government,” D.C. Police Union chairman Delroy Burton told The Washington Post.

Catania, who left the Republican Party in 2004, stressed the importance of improving the quality of public education as a means to prevent crime, an issue Bowser and Schwartz have emphasized as well.

“The intersection between education and public safety is obvious,” he said in a public announcement Wednesday.

“When so many of our young people are not properly educated, they often choose lives in the illegal economy, for lack of a better term. What we have to do is make sure our education system is up and functioning. I think that is a public safety platform.”

Bowser’s education policy promises to invest more resources in order to improve middle schools in the District, provide more technical education and vocational training to prepare young D.C. citizens to enter the workforce and to make sure that all D.C. residents, regardless of age, have access to training in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Carol Schwartz, a former D.C. councilmember and five-time mayoral candidate who left the Republican Party in 2013, said that education would be the key focus.

“I want to make education the number one priority,” she said.

Schwartz said that as a former member of the Board of Education, she would be wellqualified to make policies as mayor because of her 40-plus years of experience.

“I have had experience, hands-on experience, in every single level of our government, and in addition, my record on both the Board of Education and on the Council are exemplary,” Schwartz said.

The election will take place Nov. 4.

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Author Dinaw Mengestu speaks at New Student Orientation’s Marino Workshop on Monday, for which one of his novels, “All Our Names,” was required reading for all incoming freshmen for the second time in four years.

Anchors Aweigh for NSO 2014 KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

This year’s nautical-themed New Student Orientation, “Anchors Aweigh,” led by about 180 orientation advisors, began Aug. 23, featuring the new “I Am Ready,” a class-wide discussion about sexual assault on campus.

The Sexual Assault Peer Educators and various members of the administration helped develop the “I Am Ready” program, which organized the freshman class, composed of approximately 1,700 students, into small groups of 15 to 25 for discussion.

Bethan Saunders (SFS ’17) facilitated discussion for one of the many groups after extensive training and education in regard to the subject. “‘I Am Ready’ is really about facilitating discussion on campus about sexual assault and about how we can create, as a community, a culture of caring and consent, education on bystander behavior, and education about access to resources that we have on campus,” Saunders said.

Matt Beshke (COL ’18), said the discussion was a surprise, but turned into a positive learning experience.

“I wasn’t expecting it,” Beshke said.

“Going into NSO, I wasn’t expecting it to be that heavy of an element, but I’m glad that it was something that they addressed, because it was recognized as a problem on college campuses.”

The discussion groups helped introduce students to potentially new concepts and ideas that are necessary to create an aware, educated and thoughtful group of new students, Saunders said.

“We really want to get across the idea that this is something that we talk about here at Georgetown, and sexual assault is completely unacceptable,” she said. “We wanted to make sure that people who may have never talked about this before

(COL ’00) novel ‘All Our Names.’ This is the second time Mengestu, who is also the Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics in the English department, has been chosen for the workshop, which according to Smith, is a coincidence.

“Dinaw's book had received glowing reviews and a member of our committee suggested it, and that's how we ended up selecting him this year,” Smith said. “He was also the featured author three years ago, but that didn't really factor into our decision, since none of the students this year would have been involved in that workshop.”

Beshke said that the international requirements for the book helped introduce new students to Georgetown’s culture.

“I think that’s a good thing to have as the incoming book because Georgetown is a really international community. It’s a good touching ground point for NSO, because so many kids here are interested in different cultures,” he said.

Mengestu spoke to the students, and according to Beshke, his speech brought a new dimension to “All Our Names.”

“It was cool to be able to hear from him in person and hear his perspective on why he wrote the book and how his life connected with the topics that were discussed in the book,” Beshke said. “It brought the book to life a little more because the book wasn’t as relatable as I would have liked.”

After hearing him speak, students discussed Mengestu’s book in small 10- to 20-person discussion groups led by faculty and a few students. The discussions were conducted seminar-style and topics will vary depending on the group.

New students at the School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, participated in the workshop.

understand the Georgetown policy, understand the repercussions of this type of action and understand what they can do to create a culture that’s safe.”

Beshke said he enjoyed the discussion, and that it allowed a variety of students with different levels of knowledge of sexual assault to interact well.

“The two leaders did a great job of talking about ways we can seek help and also bring to light issues that weren’t on the forefront of my mind,” Beshke said. “The kids in the room were receptive to what was being talked about and, as a whole, we were able to have a conductive conversation and a good dialogue between people who knew about sexual assault and those who were trying to learn more.”

One of NSO’s flagship events is the Marino Family International Writers’ Workshop. Funded by Frederick Marino (SLL ’68), this program requires all incoming students to read an international text chosen by a board of Georgetown teachers and staff members and write a short reflection on what they have read. During NSO, the students discuss the book with their peers and get a chance to listen to the author speak.

According to Coordinator of Communications, Outreach and Programming for Main Campus libraries Jennifer Ann Smith, the workshop gives new students a preview of their future academic environment.

“The Marino Workshop is the introduction to the ‘life of the mind’ at Georgetown,” Smith said. “It is intended to give new students a low-pressure opportunity to critically engage with the material and discuss a piece of literature with their peers, with the added opportunity to hear directly from the author about the book.” This year, the Marino Workshop committee, composed of staff members and teachers, chose Dinaw Mengestu’s

Academic Leadership Shifts Over the Summer KSHITHIJ SHRINATH Hoya Staff Writer

This past summer saw the entrance of new deans for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Continuing Studies, as well as changes in the administration of the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Foreign Service.

Norberto Grzywacz, who currently serves as professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, will take over for Bill Rebeck as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Rebeck had served as interim dean following the retirement of Gerald Mara in June 2013.

Grzywacz said he was interested in Georgetown because of its focus on adapting to the need for universities to serve as more than another source of delivering information, following the spread of Internet access.

“President [John J.] DeGioia and Provost [Robert] Groves … are paving the ground for a revolution in higher education centered at Georgetown University,” he wrote in an email.

“This revolution will be based on the three pillars of the university, namely education, research and attention to the common good.”

In line with this goal, Grzywacz pointed to interdisciplinary programs as the central focus of his plan

for the school.

“One of the goals of the university in years to come is to increase the size of its graduate student body. This growth will be in large part because of the creation of new interdisciplinary masters and Ph.D. programs. In my conception, these programs will focus on problems of high societal value rather than just emphasizing the tools of a discipline,” he wrote in an email.

In the course of his transition to assuming the role of dean in January, Grzywacz will visit Georgetown for the graduate student picnic in September and an executive committee meeting in October and confer with Rebeck. Grzywacz plans to continue his research and teach at the university at a later date.

Rebeck pointed to the establishment of metrics in order to evaluate graduate programs as a major accomplishment during his term. So far, metric analysis has been used for masters programs, and the university is still in the process of forming a metric analysis system to evaluate doctoral programs.

“We have dozens of masters programs, almost 20 Ph.D. programs, and each of them need to know how they’re doing. Are they getting better?

Are they attracting better students, more students?” he said. “This was not being done in any systematic way

in the university, so the provost does not know which ones are doing well, which ones need more money.”

Kelly Otter took over the role of dean of the School of Continuing Studies on July 1 from Interim Dean Walter Rankin, who held the role for two years. Otter previously served as the associate dean for graduate academic and faculty affairs at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies.

Having worked in higher education, specifically adult professional education, for nearly 20 years, Otter found the position at Georgetown appealing because of the school’s Jesuit mission.

“The commitment of a university with a Jesuit mission is consistent with the goal of adult professional education,” Otter said. “We’re constantly looking outward to build bridges and contribute to the community, and to give back is what we do as educators.”

At Georgetown, Otter found a strong foundation built by previous deans like Rankin, who oversaw the transition of the SCS to a new downtown building.

Even with the recovery of the economy, Otter acknowledged that the SCS will face the challenge to remain relevant and active in the next 10 years, resulting in a strong focus on the importance of technology.

“A good part of every day for my staff is how we can use technology in our education. We need to build an infrastructure to support it,” she said. “It’s particularly important for the SCS, because people want to get an online education because we’re meeting the needs of people who often already have an undergraduate education and demanding jobs.”

Martin Iguchi stepped down from his position as dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies on July 31. Patricia Cloonan, previously chair of the department of health systems administration, succeeded him as interim dean on Aug. 1.

After serving on Georgetown’s faculty for nearly 20 years, Cloonan said she was excited about her new position. Iguchi was not available for comment.

“Enduring qualities of the school have kept me invested all of these years,” she wrote in an email. “I point to strong student-faculty connections, a tight-knit peer environment, innovative approaches to education and research, a values-based framework that is inspired by the university’s Jesuit identity, and a serious focus on an issue that matters to everybody — health.”

Cloonan credited Iguchi for strong leadership and a smooth transition.

“I deeply appreciate his hard work and dedication to the school,” she

wrote. “During his time as dean, he launched a strategic planning process to chart the course of the school for the next several years. As interim dean, I plan to work with our executive faculty, academic leadership team, staff members, and students to advance and implement that plan.”

The School of Foreign Service is still in the process of finding a dean to replace Carol Lancaster (SFS ’64), who stepped down to devote time to recovery from a brain tumor. The university is set to announce a search committee for the permanent position soon.

“The process will take the better part of the academic year, so I would suspect that the new dean would be announced next spring and probably would take effect over the summer or in the early part of the academic year,” SFS Interim Dean James Reardon-Anderson said.

Robert Gallucci, who served as dean of the SFS for 13 years, prior to Lancaster, will return as a distinguished professor in the practice of diplomacy, after a stint as the president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He will teach one class each semester.

“I look forward to renewing acquaintances with faculty, staff and administration, and becoming an active member of the university community once again,” Gallucci said in a press release.

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After a 1-1 exhibition draw on road against third-ranked University of Virginia on Aug. 23, the men’s team will open their regular season with an away game in Bloomington, Ind., against Indiana University. Friday’s game against the Hoosiers will begin at 8 p.m.

glory. Last season, Bell saw six fewer carries in the red zone than Bush but produced five more touchdowns.

As for receivers, rookies are not the most reliable, but an athlete like new Buffalo Bills target Sammy Watkins should be an exception. Watkins has the most potential of any Buffalo receiver since the days of James Lofton and Andre Reed, and E.J. Manuel’s big arm finally has a deep ball threat. However, if teams choose to cover Watkins, Robert Woods, a second-year man out of the University of Southern California is an up-and-coming threat. Manuel seemed to like Woods in the first preseason game and the best part about Woods may be his value, as fantasy owners may not even need to draft him until the final round because he could be significantly under the radar.

For tight ends, beyond the obvious skills of the New Orleans Saints’ Jimmy Graham and the Broncos’ Julius Thomas, give Pittsburgh Steelers’ Heath Miller a try. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger loves him as much as he despises Offensive Coordinator Todd Haley’s play-calling. Miller will never put up Graham-like numbers, but he has solid hands, the trust of his quarterback and a great presence to attract red zone targets for potential TDs. If not him, give Cincinnati Bengal Tyler Eifert a look because teams will want to double-team wideout A.J. Green, and the former Notre Dame star started to catch Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton’s eye near the end of 2013.

Finally, for your defense and kicking considerations, the Cleveland Browns have a solid, gritty defense with excellent pass coverage. Holistically, their schedule is definitely on the easier side and while they may not put up monster numbers, they’ll be consistent and consistency wins in fantasy football.

Finally, Oakland Raider Sebastian Janikowski could be worth the risk at kicker. The Raiders will have a better offense and can at least get into Janikowski’s range, and if his accuracy on mid-range kicks improves, this will be a worthwhile pick.

Now you have my two cents; the rest is up to you. Draft wisely, my friends.

Hoya Staff Writers Ryan Bacic and Sharanya Sriram contributed reporting to this story

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Reigning Big East Midfielder of the Year, senior Daphne Corboz was a unanimous all-Big East First team selection. Corboz and the women’s soccer team were voted 20th in the NCAA preseason poll. The Hoyas will play their first home game this Friday against NC State.

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In order to break that record however, this year’s team will have to traverse a more challenging schedule. Head Women’s Soccer Coach Dave Nolan believes that his team will react positively to playing seven games against teams that played in the NCAA Tournament last year.

“The schedule for this fall is particularly competitive and de-

signed to challenge us early in the year,” Nolan told guhoyas. com. “The nonconference segment is perhaps the toughest we will have ever faced. Everybody here is excited by the opportunity.”

Though both teams face obstacles to their continued success, the Georgetown faithful crowding Shaw Field to cheer on the Hoyas every home game are sure to bolster both teams’ chances.

“We’ve got some of the best student fans in the country. The

students give us life when they’re there and engaged and we’re always trying to encourage that,” Wiese said.

The women’s team has already started off its regular season strong, with a 3-1 road victory over the University of San Diego on Aug. 22, followed by a 1-1 draw against Long Beach State on Aug. 24. The Blue and Gray return to Washington, D.C., for their home opener Friday, Aug. 29 against North Carolina State. The Hoyas will kick off against the Wolfpack

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Thompson’s Impact Confirmed With Donation EWING, from A10 nected to Georgetown in part because he had four years of wonderful undergrad experiences here, and Coach Thompson was like a second father to him. We can never repay Patrick for all that he has done.”

The $3.3 million donation amount was made in honor of the No. 33 uniform Ewing wore throughout his Georgetown and NBA career.

Ewing, currently the associate head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, credited Thompson with his development as a player, and as a person.

“Coach Thompson was my coach, mentor and friend,” Ewing said in a statement. “He guided me through a very formative period in my life

and helped me prepare for success on and off the court. Giving back to the university in his honor is special.”

Falk also expressed his gratitude for Thompson’s wisdom and guidance, and for Ewing’s friendship.

“This is a very special opportunity for me to honor a man I love and respect,” Falk said in a statement.

“To do it together with Patrick Ewing, who was a dominant figure in both John’s basketball program and in my career, makes it even more rewarding.”

Ewing’s tenure at Georgetown was indeed so dominant that the Hoyas reached the finals of the NCAA Tournament in three of his four seasons on the Hilltop. While Ewing made headlines with his on-

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“Coach Thompson was a real renaissance man. He not only taught

“He taught his players, including Patrick, what it meant to be good student-athletes.”

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the game, but he taught his players, including Patrick, what it meant to be good student-athletes. Academics and character were just as important to him as winning,” Reed

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Georgetown sailing’s summer success culminated in a strong showing in the 2014 World University Match Racing Championships.

Hoyas Capture First Place in Italy initial rounds of racing. In the first day alone, Georgetown notched victories over Canada, France and Singapore, with their only loss coming against the heavily-favored Australians.

The Hoya sailing team finished the first round with four more victories and easily qualified for the quarterfinals. The openinground loss proved to be the only setback in an otherwise perfect campaign, as Georgetown went 2-0 in the subsequent rounds, including a victory over Japan in the semifinals and a vindictive performance in their rematch against Australia in the finals.

For Callahan, the world championship run exhibits the type of success and the caliber of athlete the sailing program has produced in the past few years, despite the Hoyas lacking the resources of some of their competitors.

“Georgetown being able to go out — we don’t have the best venue, we don’t even sail the boats that we raced in — it shows a lot of hard work … we’ve got something special here,” Callahan said. “We can compete not just to be the best in the country, but the best in the world.”

This program-wide success was also evident in the Hoyas’ qualification for the three spring match race national championships.

Georgetown made it to the final round of the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s

National Championship on May 30, placing 16th. The Hoyas then placed fifth out of 16 teams at the APS Team Race National Championship on June 2.

Georgetown sailing had its highest finish at the Gill Coed National Championships on June 6, placing second behind Yale University and thus winning the Oxford University Trophy. This was Georgetown’s second year in a row as the runner-up, and the seventh straight year it has finished in the top five, winning in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

As for individual success, Snow was named a Coed AllAmerican and was one of two finalists for the Everett B. Morris Trophy, which is awarded annually by the ICSA to the college sailor of the year. Two of his teammates from the World University Championships, DaSilva and Post, were named a Crew All-American and Honorable Mention Coed All-American, respectively.

Coming off the heels of this success, Georgetown sailing is looking forward to another productive year, and perhaps another chance to represent the United States at the 2016 World University Match Racing Championships, which will be held in Perth, Australia.

“We return a lot of really good people,” Callahan said. “Our goal is to always get into the national championships, but we have as good a shot of any team right now of winning.”

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According to University President John J. DeGioia, the new athletics center will be an asset for the future, while honoring the past.

“This foundational gift in recognition of Coach Thompson Jr. will benefit all of our students engaged in intercollegiate athletics for generations to come,” DeGioia said in a statement. “As the Thompson Athletics Center both reflects and builds upon a longstanding tradition here at Georgetown, we’re deeply grateful for the support and generosity of an extraordinary alumnus, Patrick Ewing, and a friend of the university, David Falk.”

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said. “Coach Thompson had an impact on my career even though I had no connection to Georgetown when he was coaching, and he helped Georgetown establish the global brand that we enjoy today.”

Sept. 12 will mark the official groundbreaking for the $62 million Thompson Athletics Center, which will be located adjacent to McDonough Arena and will provide space for the new Georgetown Athletics Hall of Fame and men’s and women’s basketball coaches offices. In addition, weight-training, sports medicine, team meeting and practice facilities for all varsity programs will be housed in the four-story, 144,000-square-foot structure. The project is seen as a major piece in Georgetown’s $1.5

hen it comes to professional club soccer, the English Premier League is at the pinnacle of depth and competitiveness, with top-flight clubs on par with any other team in the world, and mid-table teams that would rival the best clubs in Europe’s other major leagues.

And yet despite this parity in highquality soccer, over the course of the first 21 Premier League seasons, Manchester United was crowned champion 13 times, and finished no lower than third in any campaign.

The league’s 22nd season, however, marked a seismic change for the Red Devils, as legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson retired, handing the reins to young David Moyes, formerly of Everton. Despite his anointment as “The Chosen One,” Moyes led the pre-eminent alpha dogs to a seventhplace finish, never threatening for an all-important top-four Champions League berth. This sudden shift in fortunes saw Moyes replaced with accomplished Dutch national team manager Louis Van Gaal.

Van Gaal’s celebrated player management and tactics were on full display this summer, as he led the Netherlands on an entertaining run at the World Cup in Brazil, finishing in third place. The Dutchman used flexible formations in order to get the most out of an imbalanced squad, and if not for Brazil’s shocking meltdown against Germany, the Oranje’s opening-round demolition of reigning world champion Spain would have been the best victory of the tournament.

Optimism once again reigned among the Manchester United faithful, and an undefeated preseason with a largely unchanged squad had many believing that Moyes truly was the sole cause of last term’s six-place drop.

But these illusions were shed on Aug. 16, as an ignominious opening day 2-1 defeat was followed by another listless performance on Aug. 24 — a 1-1 draw with perennial relegation candidates Sunderland.

It appears increasingly likely that a departure other than Ferguson’s has had a massive impact on the team’s

fortunes — Chief Executive David Gill resigned along with Sir Alex in 2013, passing his duties to accounting whiz Ed Woodward.

One of the first signings under Woodward — disappointing midfielder Marouane Fellaini — epitomized the mismanagement of the team’s 2013 season, as the club inexplicably paid above the asking price for Fellaini after hesitating to act in the final weeks of the summer transfer market.

This summer’s transfer pursuits have been similarly catastrophic, as Woodward has shown himself to be out of his depth when it comes to evaluating talent. However, Wood-

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The Red Devils’ transfer decisions have taken a hit after front office exits. ward’s commercial wizardry was on display as he orchestrated the biggest jersey sponsorship deal in professional history, bringing in $1.3 billion to the club over the next decade with corporate sponsors Adidas and Chevrolet.

But United can take no solace in this economic comfort, as they still lack performance results. Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool all strengthened their squads and covered their weaknesses. The Blues brought in Spanish stars Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas to retool their offense, while the Reds reinvested their windfall from the inevitable departure of Luis Suarez in the attacking talent of Mario Balotelli and in defensive depth they will need for Europewide competitions. Similarly, 2013 champions Manchester City kept their nucleus intact while trimming

their bloated budget, and fellow topfour finishers Arsenal brought in star winger Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona. Meanwhile, Manchester United has brought in the fewest number of players of any team in the league, and none of vital importance.

Woodward’s unwillingness to overspend after initial mistakes has left Van Gaal fuming and the team in desperation as the signing window shrinks. The club has been linked with a number of big-money deals, but excluding Real Madrid star winger Angel Di Maria,the signings simply haven’t materialized.

This isn’t the Oakland Athletics, operating on a shoestring budget.

This is Manchester United: one of the most valuable sports club in the entire world. For the giants of the sport, brute force is more effective than efficient bargaining; if the team is in a position of need, overspending on the best player available will do the team better than getting the right price on a mid-tier starter. Even an extra 10 million pounds, the gap between star centerback Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels and any of Man U’s depleted current backline, is a drop in the ocean and a worthwhile investment.

Pressure from Van Gaal, as well as the poor start to the campaign may force Woodward to abandon caution and put the considerable money at his disposal in his manager’s hands.

Di Maria, who has been inexplicably deemed surplus to requirements by Real Madrid, will reportedly come to Manchester for a club-record 56 million pounds. Several more signings are rumored to follow.

Even if the reports are true, Woodward’s caution has already cost the club dearly; all of their rivals have had the players they wanted in the fold for a month, leaving United to rush to fill crucial weaknesses. Missing the Champions League just once has already damaged the club’s presence in emerging markets and its attractiveness to elite players; a second successive failure could set the club back far more seriously.

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

men’s basketball

Peak Shines in Summer League Robert DePaolo Hoya Staff Writer

After failing to make the NCAA tournament this past season for the first time since 2009, the Georgetown’s men basketball team is hoping that its talented recruiting class, ranked eighth in the country by ESPN, will help it regain its place among the best teams in the Big East Conference.

The first glimpse of these promising athletes came this summer in the 2014 Nike Pro-City League, formerly known as the Kenner League, in which all five of Georgetown’s Class of 2018 recruits participated, along with the rest of the returning Hoyas squad.

Formed in 1981, it is the only NCAAsanctioned summer league in Washington, D.C., where high school, college and professional players can come together and play. Most Georgetown players have participated in the competition at least some point in their careers, including legends Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning (COL ’92) and Dikembe Mutombo (SLL ’91), and there are always surprise appearances from former players at the games.

This season started July 5 with games every weekend up until the championship game Aug. 10. The league had 12 teams split into two divisions of six: Air and Flight. Unlike in previous years, when all incoming freshmen were put together on The Tombs team, the five incoming players were split up among three teams because of an NCAA change. Teams were not allowed to have more than two current college players from the same school on each team, but incoming freshmen were not considered under that category until this year.

Isaac Copeland, ranked 16th on the

2014 ESPN 100 recruiting rankings and L.J. Peak, 31st in the rankings, played for The Tombs team. Tre Campbell, a local player from St. John’s College High School in D.C., and Paul White, 34th in the rankings, played for Clyde’s. Trey Mourning, son of NBA Hall of Famer Mourning, played for A. Wash Associates alongside Hoyas junior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera.

Copeland, at 6 feet 9 inches, is known not only for his tall frame but for quick feet and leaping ability. The forward plays best when driving into the lane to reach the rim, grabbing rebounds and put-back dunks, an aspect of his game that was on display in many of the games this summer. Despite shooting just 41 percent from the field throughout the summer, Copeland managed to average 14.1 points per game, and converted an impressive 80 percent of his free-throw attempts. The next step for the promising freshman will be to utilize his ball-handling skills to run the floor and push the ball in transition. However, his athleticism is not his only strong suit, as he possesses a good midrange game and can improve his shooting by extending his range.

His teammate on The Tombs, Peak, was perhaps even more impressive this summer. His athleticism and aggressiveness allowed him to explode for more than 30 points twice while shooting more than 50 percent from the field, and it’s evident that this speed and aggressiveness will allow him to effectively attack the basket, draw fouls and get steals. Although he had the highest scoring average of any Hoya in the Kenner League, freshman or otherwise, Peak did display a propensity to rush into mistakes, as evidenced by his nearly three turnovers per game. He’ll probably fit in at the small forward po-

sition, or possibly as a shooting guard, depending on the progress of his ball control abilities.

As for Paul White, the 6-foot 8-inch power forward displayed a good set of fundamentals, versatility in the post and good decision-making. His length and good hands mean that he can defend the rim, and as he continues to get stronger it will allow him to battle under the rim more consistently with bigger players. Also in his arsenal is a midrange jumper that, if he can knock down more routinely, will expand his range, though he must improve on his two free-throw attempts per game.

Tre Campbell is very quick and this is his best asset. When he gets into a rhythm he can knock down shots and score with ease, scoring nearly 20 points three times this summer.

However, he needs to add strength to be able to penetrate better. Lastly, Trey Mourning showcased solid fundamentals and the potential to grow into a contributing player off the bench as the season progresses, though an abysmal 28 percent shooting percentage will do him no favors in the battle for playing time.

All of the freshmen showed the type of skills that made them attractive to Georgetown in the recruiting process.

However, the Kenner League does not have the quality of players that can simulate a game in the Big East, the experience nonetheless indicates this recruiting class can live up to its spot as the eighth-best in the country. The summer league, though, is too focused on individual play and doesn’t provide a cohesive team structure that would test other aspects of the players’ games.

These freshman performances should give Hoya fans a lot to look forward to once the season starts.

SPORTS

WOMEN’S SOCCER Georgetown (1-0-1) vs NC State (1-1-0) Friday, 3 p.m.

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SAILING Georgetown represents the U.S., wins World Championship in Italy this past summer.

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We can never repay Patrick [Ewing] for all he has done.

The number of men’s soccer players named to the all-Big East preseason team.

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Pair Donates $3.3M to TAC

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Patrick Ewing and Falk family contribute to Thompson Athletic Center SAM ABRAMS Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior forward Brandon Allen was named the Big East Preseason Offensive Player of the Year after scoring 11 goals last season.

Teams Selected to Preseason Top 25 SAM ABRAMS Hoya Staff Writer

The men’s soccer team has had six players drafted by Major League Soccer clubs in the last two seasons alone. The women’s team lost just three regular-season games last year. Men’s basketball may capture most Georgetown sports headlines, but two of the most impressive sports programs on the Hilltop last year were the men’s and women’s soccer teams.

With the release of the Aug. 6 NCAA Preseason Rankings, both Georgetown soccer teams find themselves in familiar territory — in the Top 25. The 2013 Big East joint regular-season champions men’s team is ranked ninth, and was voted first in the Big East Conference Preseason Coaches Poll on Aug. 19. Senior Tomas Gomez was the Conference Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year after allowing just 0.44 goals per game, and junior forward Brandon Allen was named the Conference Preseason Offensive Player of the Year after scoring 11 goals last season.

Though expectations are certainly high, Head Coach Brian Wiese does not put too much stock in preseason projections.

“Preseason accolades are fundamentally based on what you’ve done prior to when the season started. The good thing is that the players stop being bothered by it when the season starts. They understand that the rankings have

no bearing on what we are,” Wiese said.

Arguably the biggest challenge for the Blue and Gray this season will be replacing the leadership and production of forward Steve Neumann and defensive midfielder Joey Dillon. Neumann was drafted by the New England Revolution with the fourth overall pick of the 2014 MLS Draft, while Dillon was drafted 53rd by Real Salt Lake.

However, Wiese is confident that his team can not only withstand these losses, but also improve on last year’s results.

“The question for us is, are we going to have to replace our leaders and be better than last year. If we can stay healthy, I think we can be a really fun team to watch,” Wiese said. “We have a terrific crop of freshmen that are coming in and adding some unbelievable depth that we haven’t really seen in the program before.”

Meanwhile, the women’s soccer team is ranked 20th nationally, and was voted to place second in the Big East Preseason Coaches Poll, behind Marquette University.

Senior midfielder Daphne Corboz was a unanimous selection to the All-Big East Preseason Team after posting seven goals, 13 assists, and receiving the award for Conference Midfielder of the Year in 2013. The USA Under-23 player will be expected to help the Hoyas break the single-season wins reSee SOCCER, A8

Former Hoyas All-American center Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) and veteran sports agent David Falk, along with his wife, Rhonda, made a joint $3.3 million donation to aid in the construction of the John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center, announced Monday afternoon.

Hall of Fame Men’s Basketball Coach John Thompson Jr., after whom the center is named, has a close connection to both parties.

Thompson recruited Ewing, and with the legendary coach’s tutelage and Ewing’s on-court leadership, they delivered Georgetown itss only men’s basketball championship in 1984.

Falk was the long-time attorney and agent for Thompson, and later represented Ewing during his Hall of Fame professional career.

Georgetown University Athletic Director Lee Reed highlighted the contributions of Ewing, Falk and Thompson to the Hoya community.

“We are more than grateful to Patrick and David for their generosity in making a gift of that magnitude.

This gift is just one piece of Patrick’s work for Georgetown, as he has been a generous ambassador for our university,” Reed said in an interview with THE HOYA. “Patrick is still so conSee THOMPSON, A9

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Former Georgetown center Patrick Ewing and long-time agent for John Thompson Jr., David Falk, honored the coach with a joint donation.

THE WATER COOLER

Last-Minute Fantasy Draft Tips

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t is finally the time of year for football fans to rejoice, as the upcoming season promises to wipe away the defeats and fantasy mistakes of yesteryear.

With the 2014-2015 season fast approaching, many fantasy football enthusiasts are readying their plans for their league drafts. To become a champion in this game, a wise draft strategy is vital. Even one mistake or unforeseen decline in production can derail an entire team. If you made the mistake of drafting Indianapolis Colts running back Trent Richardson last season or trusting Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III to be your franchise quarterback, pay attention to this well-reasoned and brief advice on which players can be your quality picks. After all, if you win the draft, you probably win the league.

Everyone is high on Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, and rightly so, but don’t count out his younger brother, as the New York Giants’ Eli Manning is due for a renaissance this season. Yes, this is the same Eli that threw for a league-leading 27 interceptions last

year, but that statistic is misleading because many of those were quality throws that receivers failed to catch.

Although interceptions are costly, drafting a gunslinger quarterback

Michael Ippolito

Consistent and reliable players key fantasy success. that will have over 40 pass attempts times a game will often outweigh the risk that those turnovers represent. With the forced retirement of starting running back David Wilson, the Giants are left with a rookie and Peyton Hillis to carry the rushing load — not exactly a reliable back-

field. These issues at running back, coupled with the addition of a new offensive coordinator who wants to focus on shorter, more accurate passes should mean less pressure and more completions for the two-time Super Bowl Champion. Additionally, the lack of potent defenses in the NFC East and the Giants’ matchups against the AFC South give Manning a minimum of 10 strong matchups.

He may end up being a steal if he can put up top-10 quarterback fantasy points.

The Detroit Lions’ offense can easily be among the NFL’s best this season, and while running back Reggie Bush will be a big part of that success, his backup Joique Bell is a name that savvy owners should be willing to pick up in the mid-rounds of their drafts. Bell’s value is high for two reasons: Bush’s inconsistent health means more opportunities to pick up carries and Bell has a solid presence near the goal line.

Bush may get the Lions in the red zone, but Bell will get them in the end zone and capture all the fantasy See IPPOLITO, A9

SAILING

Hoyas Win International Championship for USA ROBERT DEPAOLO Hoya Staff Writer

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A Georgetown sailing team, representing the United States, fended off Australia and secured the World University Championships.

A Georgetown sailing team composed of junior Nevin Snow, sophomore A.J. Reiter and seniors Alex Post and Katia DaSilva won the 2014 World University Match Racing Championships held in Trentino, Italy, this summer.

The event was a part of a series of international competitions known as the World University Championships organized by the International University Sports Federation, the main governmental body for international student-athlete competitions.

Occurring every two years, these competitions feature a variety of sports, including cycling, golf, handball and squash; in total, 29 sports are featured in this year’s iteration.

The seventh edition of the Match Racing Championships was held from June 29 to July 5, and was a unique opportunity for the George-

town sailing program to compete on the world stage. The team qualified to represent the United States after winning the 2013 Intercollegiate Sailing Association Match Race National Championship held in November 2013 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The chance to win for their country motivated Head Coach Mike Callahan and his team to attend the championships.

“It was a pretty cool opportunity, and the kids were all very interested in doing it, so we did some fundraising for it and were able to get university approval to go,” Callahan said.

There were 13 countries from five continents represented at the race; nearly half of the qualifying nations had two separate university entrants.

There were a total of 19 teams competing in the open category of the sailing event.

Sam Gilmour led the 2012 defending champion Australian team, which was considered the favorite

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to win this year’s championships as well. Gilmour, ranked 24th in the world at the time in match racing, was just one of Georgetown’s formidable opponents. Several other countries featured their elite sailors, akin to “all-star teams,” according to Callahan.

However, despite the high level of competition posed by the opponents, the Hoyas did not approach the championship with a mindset of simply challenging the opposing teams. In fact, they felt they had a chance to win.

“Our kids had sailed a lot against the competition before … and they knew they could win. We didn’t go in with the expectation of just trying to compete and have a good time,” Callahan said.

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