The Hoya: September 17, 2013

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

EKING ONE OUT

COMMENTARY On Constitution Day, a chance to rethink our founding ideals.

Brandon Allen scored the gamewinning goal in OT against JMU. SPORTS, A10

Navy Yard Shooter Kills 12

TRUMP IN DC The Trump Organization will soon begin renovations on a D.C. hotel.

NEWS, A4

‘One Georgetown, One Campus’ Brings Alternatives to the Table LEAVEY CENTER HOTEL

Renovations were fast-tracked in 2011, but concern about the $8 million construction and lost revenue made administrators look elsewhere. Still, events are not scheduled beyond December 2014.

NEWS, A6

Housing Questions Linger DANNY FUNT

Hoya Staff Writer

KOBER-COGAN

Closed in May 2010 after a steam leak, this medical center building is vacant. It is owned by MedStar, which is reluctant to part with the building. Much of the medical center parking lot is privately owned.

PENNY HUNG

Hoya Staff Writer

See SHOOTING, A6

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UP FOR DEBATE

Senior class was scheduled to attend nearby Nationals game later that night A shooter opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning, killing 12 and injuring five others before getting shot by police. The shooting began around 8:20 a.m. with shots fired at Building 197, which contained approximately 3,000 employees.

The Navy Yard will be closed Tuesday, except for emergency response and mission-essential personnel.

Hundreds of Georgetown seniors, as part of the Senior Class Committee’s Dis-Orientation, were scheduled to attend Monday evening’s Washington Nationals game, which was postponed to 1 p.m. Tuesday in the wake of the shooting. Many students would have arrived via the Navy Yard Metro stop, which is less than a mile from the ballpark.

Monday’s shooting was the deadliest event in the District’s history since 1982, when an airliner plunged into the Potomac River, resulting in 78 deaths.

Mayor Vincent Gray said there were no indications that the shooting had a terrorist connection.

“We don’t have any known motive at this juncture,” Gray said in a press conference around 6 p.m.

Two of the injured were members of the Metropolitan Police Department, and both are in stable condition.

Among the dead was Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old suspected shooter from Texas who carried an assault rifle, a handgun and possibly a shotgun.

In a release, the Navy confirmed that Alexis, who served in the Navy as a fulltime reservist from 2007 to 2011, was a petty officer third class. The reasons for his general discharge are still unclear, though the Seattle Police Department reported that Alexis had previously suffered from anger-fueled blackouts, caused by post-traumatic stress disorder from participating in rescue attempts after the Sept. 11 attacks.

According to a police report, the Seattle police arrested Alexis in 2004 for shooting out the tires of a man’s vehicle during one of these blackouts. For an hour after the incident, Alexis claimed no knowledge of the shooting.

The Navy Yard, the country’s oldest military installation, is home to several high-ranking Navy personnel. Chief of

HOYA IN ORANGE Kent Syverud (SFS ’77) was named Syracuse’s new president.

RYAN AND MULLEDY BUILDINGS

Located adjacent to Dahlgren Quadrangle, the former Jesuit residence was also vacated in 2003 when Wolfington Hall opened.

Students propose transferring St. Mary’s functions to this building.

ST. MARY’S HALL

The School of Nursing’s home base could house several hundred students if converted to a dormitory. School officials, however, note the inconvenience and expense of transferring its current occupants.

MODULAR APARTMENTS

The wild card of the proposed alternatives, GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan has led the charge for modular apartments in the McDonough Gymnasium parking lot. Administrators are skeptical.

One week after news of a potential satellite residence for undergraduates sparked a firestorm of student opposition, university administrators will hold a series of open forums on housing options beginning today.

Few details have emerged on the satellite considerations and proposed alternatives, as student leaders and school officials remain deeply divided on the subject.

A petition against the satellite residence proposal received 412 signatures in just three hours Sept. 9, initiating a studentwide referendum set for Sept. 26.

THE HOYA sat down Monday with Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey and Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee, the addressees of an open letter sent Sept. 12 by the One Georgetown, One Campus campaign.

Administrators say they are open to reviewing the five alternatives proposed by the student campaign. Olson said that a survey is in the works to gauge student housing preferences, which will likely be released in October. In the meantime, Olson and Morey hope the six forums to be See HOUSING, A6

Bias Reporting System Targets Facebook Incidents MADISON ASHLEY & MALLIKA SEN Hoya Staff Writers

After five reports concerning online harassment were filed last spring, the Bias Related Incident Reporting System is adjusting to respond more effectively to incidents on outlets such as the “Georgetown Confessions” Facebook page.

The initiative is the result of a partnership between the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and University Information Services after CMEA staff were concerned by an increasing number of bias reports directly related to online activity.

Under the new system, CMEA will review bias reports regarding posts on an online platform. If the post in question meets certain criteria, UIS will make a request to Facebook advocating removal of the post.

Criteria for removal include a

comment with identifying infor- System.

“It is only recently that we startmation, a comment or post threatening harm against an individual ed getting complaints that deal or group and a comment or post with social media,” Williams said. that includes language with the “Part of the problem is anonymity. … So many of the micro-aggressions potential to incite violence.

“Some of us on the staff were are anonymous.”

While CMEA just generally concerned “We don’t think anyone is now has the ability to reabout some of reports the things that going to harm themselves view based on the were appearing sites, Williams in the online because of an anonyemphasized forums,” CMEA mous post on Facebook.” that the Bias Director and GEORGETOWN CONFESSIONS Related Report Chair of the Class of 2016 System will not Bias Reporting Team Dennis Williams said. “It’s take on a paternalistic function.

“It is a passive system in the sense not that we have any authority to do something, but we do have that we receive reports,” Williams some steps that we can take to look said. “The whole process is prediat individual cases of what might cated on the notion of offense. If no one is offended, there is no report. constitute online harassment.”

Cyberspace is not an area that We don’t go out looking for bad has traditionally been under the stuff to happen.”

Williams hopes that the new auspices of the Bias Related Report

initiative will have the ability to clean cyberspace of hateful speech against Georgetown community members.

“It’s the cyberspace equivalent of getting someone to come and whitewash an ethnic slur off of the wall,” Williams said.

The sophomore female who operates Georgetown Confessions, who wished not to be named to preserve the anonymity of the platform, noted that the page is merely a forum for students to express their opinions to a wider audience.

The Facebook page has seen revived interest this fall, “Confessions is just another way for students to share their emotions without judgment, and it is good that they have this medium,” said the page’s moderator, who wished to remain anonymous. “We censor posts that single people out See BIAS, A7

Cabs Fall Short in Credit Installation CARLY GRAF

Hoya Staff Writer

The D.C. Taxicab fleet may soon find itself short on vehicles as the Sept. 30 deadline to equip all D.C. taxicabs with credit card readers approaches.

As many as 2,000 of the District’s 6,500 registered taxicabs will be impounded if they cannot install credit card machines by the deadline, which has been postponed from Aug. 30. Only 2,000 cabs complied by the original date, and no further extensions will be offered.

The remaining cabs had to apply for an extension by Aug. 15, which involved providing a signed contract between the vehicle owner and one of the 10 official payment service providers in the District. In addition, the owner had to certify that he or she had scheduled an installation with the PSP in the imminent future, D.C. Taxicab Commission spokesperson Neville Waters said.

The Modern Taximeter System — which includes driver verification and a GPS system,

along with a credit card reader — was introduced by DCTC in response to customer demands for universal credit card acceptance in D.C. taxis.

Since August, DCTC has tracked the progress of taxis in meeting the new Sept. 30 deadline through weekly reports of installations from the PSPs. Waters said that current information suggests that between 1,000 and 2,000 cabs will not have installed the MTS by the end of the month, representing nearly one-third of the District’s taxi fleet.

Once taxicab owners miss this installation deadline, taxi inspectors will track down noncompliant cabs, which will be impounded and towed. These cabs will be released only in order to have the MTS installed, after which point they can be used for regular cab services.

Fourteen cabs were impounded and 65 were ticketed for violations of taxi code through a DCTC partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department in early September. Despite this success, however, Waters said the city would not form a special task force to find cabs without readers.

Nevertheless, Waters hopes that law enforcement agencies and D.C. residents will assist DCTC investigators in tracking down delinquent cabs. Waters encourages all customers to report cabs without electric payment machines after the Oct. 1 deadline.

Digital dispatch service Uber has been a vocal opponent of the MTS requirement since its inception. Uber claims that MTS is infeasible with its taxicabs — which are separate from its black car service — because of the incompatibility between most PSPs and current taxi hardware. Uber spokesperson Nairi Hourdajian pointed to the postponed deadline as further proof.

“Uber has long been a proponent of improving the consumer experience and that includes making payment seamless and hassle-free,” Hourdajian wrote in an email.

“Innovation and technology should be used to ensure a more reliable, more efficient and seamless service for users. Unfortunately, the proposed DCTC requirements make the consumer experience more cumbersome, not less.”

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The deadline for taxis to install credit card readers was extended to Sept. 30, but many cabs still may not meet the new requirement.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

TUESDAY, september 17, 2013

THE VERDICT

C EDITORIALS C When Skipping Class Is Best C C professors must either attend class sick and therefore expose their classmates to infection, or stay home and lose attendance points toward their grade. It makes sense for sick students to stay home and recover — both for their sake and for general campus health. Professors should facilitate this by not mandating a doctor’s note for an absence due to illness. As Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., states in his syllabus for “Comparative Political Systems,” in the event of serious illness, “The most important thing you can do is to get better quickly. … Please note that you do not need to go get a doctor’s note and, if your flu is severe, it may very well be best not to go to the health center (or Leo’s, or class, or anywhere else) and risk infecting others.”

The professional world accepts the risk that workers might be abusing the sick-leave system, but demanding anything more is needlessly distrusting. Georgetown students deserve the chance to recover from sickness without choosing attendance points over common sense.

Investing in Our Job Hunt

Most Georgetown students would characterize their senior-year job hunt as more than a little nerve wracking. Especially in the early fall, when the vast majority of recruiting occurs, the Cawley Career Education Center is an invaluable service in both dealing with stress and landing a job.

These roles make its current constrictions especially unfortunate.

According to the post-graduation survey conducted by the career center, 41 percent of Class of 2012 students who obtained immediate fulltime employment went into two fields: financial services or consulting. Undoubtedly, many more expressed interest in them. Despite this demonstrated interest, the career center dedicates only two advisers out of a staff of 16 to the business field, which covers financial services and consulting, among related fields.

Demand for sessions with these two advisers is currently so high that the four daily walk-in slots are often filled mere minutes after the center opens at 9 a.m. This shortage of available appointments — and the necessity of strategizing just to obtain one — is an unnecessary inconvenience in the already tight schedules of Georgetown se-

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A flu bug has swept through campus recently, making many classrooms an exhibition of coughing, sneezing and sniffling.

Sadly, many professors impose strict absence policies that only reinforce the spreading of germs on campus.

As it stands, professors are not obligated to allow sick days as excused absences when students don’t have a doctor’s note. Many professors either do not require doctors’ notes or offer a reasonable number of unexcused absences. A significant portion do not however, and students wishing to prove to professors the legitimacy of their illness must wait in long lines at the Student Health Center, often exposing themselves to other germs in the process — and the cost of a medical visit. If the student has only the common cold, a trip to the Student Health Center would give them no benefit and add to the wait time for those with more serious concerns.

If they are unable or unwilling to make this trip, then sick students with such unyielding

Sweet Ride — Metro is considering an option in its 2010 contract to purchase 220 new rail cars before the end of 2016.

Law and Order — President Barack Obama has nominated Georgetown Law professor Nina Pillard to the D.C Circuit Court, the secondhighest court in the country.

Rivalry Heats Up — Rival school Syracuse University named George-

town alumnus Kent D. Syverud (SFS ’77) as the 12th Chancellor and President of the school.

Bill of Leave — D.C. City Council will introduce a bill on Tuesday aimed at expanding paid sick leave to include tipped wait staff at local restaurants.

Get Your Tickets Here — Metropolitan Police will install 31 cameras at stop signs throughout the District that generate $50 tickets each time a driver fails to stop at a stop sign.

Paying the Price — The D.C. Transportation Planning Board is considering imposing new tolls on older highways in the area.

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niors. The high quality of aid and information available at these business-oriented sessions logically drives up demand. But if this demand is so high, supply needs to increase. There are two ways in which this can happen.

The first is to hire another adviser dedicated to these popular industries. Though the university is financially restricted and has been cutting departmental budgets, this should not impede it from allocating salaries where they are desperately needed, and rewarding departments — like the Career Center — that are performing well.

Second, because much of students’ demand is for relatively straightforward resume and cover letter concerns, the Career Center should consider hiring MBA candidates or other graduate students assist them on a part-time salary. This would free slots for students who seek more strategic high-level advice on how to navigate the recruitment process.

While it is not the university’s responsibility to land jobs for its seniors, its staff should provide as much support and guidance as possible. The career center performs its duties well, but in this case, we need more of a good thing.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

Uniting Research Resources Students curious about the scholarly work their professors do outside the classroom might be irked to find that getting these answers requires a bit of research on students’ end, too.

Georgetown takes pride in its classification as an institution of Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the university secured more than $200 million in research grants and awards in the 2010 fiscal year. Professors, graduate students and undergraduates all contribute their time and effort to these endeavors. But for students with no prior exposure, there exists no consolidated resource with information about the university’s research.

Instead of an integrated system, there are a number of mechanisms used to publicize faculty research. The Georgetown website research page contains information about completed projects but provides no resources for those that are planned or in progress. Students are often informed largely by luck, if a professor chooses to publicize his projects to his students or if a particular department pro-

vides resources directly to students majoring in the subject.

The university would benefit from launching one comprehensive directory of all current and planned research projects. With relatively little difficulty or expenditure, a directory would enrich Georgetown’s intellectual landscape. And for those writing theses or intending to pursue a specific topic in postgraduate work, it would be especially useful. For new undergraduates, rather than having to declare a major or slowly develop an “in” with a specific faculty member to find research opportunities, this would facilitate such connections.

Such a directory would serve faculty just as much as students. Enabling faculty members and students to search by topic, rather than department, would keep professors better informed of projects their coworkers are pursuing.

A directory that increases connectedness would further motivate collaboration and could only strengthen Georgetown’s already impressive research community.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, september 17, 2013

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER

THE HOYA

VIEWPOINT • Rom

Toward a More Perfect Constitution

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Nicholas Dirago

Engaging DC Beyond The Bubble

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e all know about the “Georgetown bubble,” that invisible border in Northwest Washington, D.C., that keeps many students comfortably cloistered on campus. A lot of lip service is paid on campus to the notion of “breaking the bubble.”

While it’s good that this phrase is common — that, at the very least, students generally know that they spend a lot of their time isolated from the surrounding city — our ideas about bubble-breaking are still wanting in nuance.

This school is situated in a highly segregated city, and I find something unsavory about spending four years perched on this affluent Hilltop while ignoring the problems in this politically disenfranchised capital city where HIV and AIDS rates are as high as those of much of sub-Saharan Africa. It’s even a shame to ignore the city’s incredible breadth of cultural opportunities and attractions.

Before we begin to tackle these problems, we ought to recognize that a university is meant to be a bubble; it is supposed to be a place where you can ponder what justice is, consider the problem of God and wrestle with cell biology. It should be a place without the interference of the capitalist treadmill and some of the banalities of day-to-day existence, with close proximity to hundreds of other students and with time for rest and leisure.

Having such a lifestyle, of course, is an enormous privilege in our day and age and obviously has the potential to negatively isolate the student body. But this is where the idea of a Georgetown bubble is so important: As students at a Jesuit university, we are inheritors of an educational tradition based not on breaking but on balancing the university bubble.

Think about it. Walking across campus, you’re bound to come across the phrases utraque unum — or “both into one” — and “contemplation in action.” Take time in the bubble to incubate big ideas and reflect on your experiences. And don’t feel guilty, because personal development is in no way mutually exclusive to engagement in the world.

But once you’ve pondered what justice

By breaking the bubble, we bring contemplation and action to college life. is, get out there and pursue it. Still stuck on the problem of God? Join the club, but find ways to seek Him in your dealings with others. And if you have chosen not to seek God, seek a better world in whatever framework you choose.

As for all of you cell biologists, use your study of science to open up new possibilities and alleviate suffering. And every once in a while, don’t be afraid to return to your bubble for reflection and self-care. I think the point is to bring both into one — to make both contemplation and action components of your college experience.

I can’t say I’ve found that Georgetown students, myself included, do a particularly good job of this. As students part of a highly careeroriented and practical generation, internships and networking can often seem more relevant than contemplation. And, truthfully, some of us on the Hilltop are quite content with a highly insulated, almost exclusively academic college experience. Georgetown students do a fair amount of contemplation and certainly plenty of action, but perhaps not very much utraque unum.

It’s also worth pointing out that breaking or balancing the Georgetown bubble isn’t just accomplished by going to the Eastern Market or stopping by the Portrait Gallery after a game at Verizon Center. There’s a much wider bubble in D.C. that separates the politicos and most of the students — many of whom understand the city as a place they’ll just be passing through — from lifelong residents east of the Anacostia River and below the poverty line. These lines cannot be crossed by a night out in Adams Morgan or an internship on K Street.

When we talk about breaking the bubble, then, we shouldn’t think of it as merely getting out of Georgetown — though there undoubtedly is value in the very act of venturing beyond the front gates. Instead, let’s think of it as connecting our Georgetown experience — academic and otherwise — with new parts of the city. This way, respectfully and thoughtfully, we can pop our bubbles of privilege and build our on-campus growth.

Nicholas Dirago is a senior in the College.

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER appears every other Tuesday.

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e Americans take our Constitution seriously, and we should: Our founding document has helped create a durable foundation for our country. While we celebrate our Constitution today, national Constitution Day, we should take care to not let this praise lapse into worship. Our foundation can be strengthened. The best way to honor our Constitution is to improve it.

Over the years we have done so by making our Constitution — and its application through legislation and judicial rulings — more egalitarian and more democratic.

We have eliminated slavery and expanded due process protections.

We have approved the direct election of senators. We have extended the right to vote to people of all races, women and those over the age of 18. Each expansion of political equality and democracy has made our Constitution — and our country — a more perfect union.

Oddly, the Constitution does not itself directly guarantee our voting rights, nor does it ensure our principle of “one person, one vote.” It should. In this spirit, I offer four amendments to enhance and protect equality and democracy.

The first two amendments secure our voting rights; the second two ensure that all votes carry equal weight.

The first change I propose would be a 28th Amendment: “As Government requires the consent of the Governed, Congress shall make no law infringing upon the right to vote.”

The Constitution forbids Congress from restricting our freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly; it states that our rights to bear arms shall not be infringed.

Our voting rights are equally de-

On national Constitution Day, the best way to honor our founding document is to improve it. serving of protection. When a person arrives at a polling place to cast a ballot asserting this right, the burden of proof would be on the government to disprove this claim.

This amendment would prohibit additional voter registration requirements and would presumably require expansive voting periods so that this right could actually be exercised.

Secondly, a 29th Amendment: “Each citizen shall have the right to vote. Citizens with legal guardians (e.g., minors or the incapacitated) may have the guardian cast their vote on their behalf.”

Yes, all citizens should have the right to vote, for at least two reasons. First, this would help assure that public policy responds more accurately to citizen preferences.

Have you wondered why our policies heavily favor the elderly at the expense of children? The answer is clear: Children cannot vote; the elderly do. Second, it reinforces that we all have rights. Our sex, ethnicity, religion, income and age do not determine our rights. Our humanity does.

For my proposed 30th Amendment: “Each state shall have the number of Senators proportional

to its population.”

The current Senate grossly violates the principle of one person, one vote: the voters of Wyoming have vastly more weight in the Senate than the voters of California. There is no compelling reason why the weight of our vote should depend on the accident of our location.

With my amendment, the essential benefits of the Senate are maintained. The Senate would remain smaller than the House, with senators having longer terms. The Senate’s deliberative role is protected. Federalism is preserved. The separation of powers and its checks and balances are retained. Yet the Senate will more accurately represent the true will of the American people.

And lastly, my 31st Amendment: “The President shall be elected by a majority of the popular vote.”

The Electoral College is deeply flawed. It doesn’t meet the “one person, one vote” standard, as voters in less populated states have more weight than voters in the larger states. It enables presidents to be elected with a minority of the popular vote. This amendment would ensure that the president represents the majority of actual voters, not the majority of some faceless “college.”

If these voting rights actually existed and the American people were then called to vote on these amendments through a national referendum, they would be approved. And they should be. With them, I thoroughly believe that our Constitution would be better and our nation would be stronger.

Mark Rom is an associate professor of government and public policy.

VIEWPOINT • Tisa & Ramadan

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ...

et’s start with a simple fact: the student life here, on this Hilltop, to 2010 Campus Plan agreement give up on the idea of a better future — drafted and signed without now. Students did not sign the Camany student input — does not require, pus Plan, but we are bound by it now, or even encourage, the creation of an and deserve ownership over its impact undergraduate satellite residential on our lives. We made the decision to campus. take this conversation public because Administrators once presented the Georgetown undergraduates, alumni agreement as an opportunity for new and community members were runon-campus housing, rather than apol- ning out of time to have their voices ogizing for it as a burden to be shoul- heard. This is not the future the comdered by future undergraduates. In munity was promised, nor is it the fuJune 2012, Vice President for Student ture Georgetown needs to succeed.

Affairs Todd Olson wrote to students, High school students from around “Making our campus a more comfort- the world dream of Healy Hall because able and inviting place to live and so- of what it represents. A common imcialize is a win both for students and mersive experience — four years lived for the local community. This agree- among friends, professors and Jesuits ment will allow us to provide more in a shared space that has been deopportunities for students to live and fined for more than two centuries. socialize on our campus.”

Late nights in Lau. Early mornings at Back then, the possibilities of the More Uncommon Grounds. A postagreement seemed wide and promis- class drink at The Tombs. ing. Yet for unclear reasons, this shared Running a university requires innofuture has been vation. It requires put in jeopardy. working within Over the course constraints. But Let the Georgetown of the summer, above all, it reexperience remain the administraquires a committion introduced a ment to what is as it was in 1842, new, deeply divishared and a tireon a beautiful Hilltop. sive and unpopuless dedication to lar idea: moving upholding what hundreds of stumakes the institudents to a satellite residential campus. tion great.

When we first heard about it, we If the Georgetown community is to were puzzled — among the other ideas move forward, realize the promise of on the table, this one seemed inappro- the Campus Plan and, yes, overcome priate and doomed to a swift exit from its obstacles, we must work together. the stage. Yet as time went on, the adOur message to the administration ministration began talking less and is simple: Please reconsider. Take the less about on-campus housing like the satellite residence option off the table Georgetown University Hotel and Con- to allow for the full and forthright disference Center. Instead, they began cussion of the options — for all their talking more and more about which financial and logistical complication far-flung corner of the Washington, — that keep Georgetown intact. Be D.C. area would house this satellite honest about the deadlines and concommunity, rather than whether it straints Georgetown faces in addresswould exist at all. ing this challenge.

It became clear to us that negoWhen the author Charles Dickens tiating behind the scenes through visited Washington, D.C., in 1842, the Georgetown University Student he happened to glance upwards, Association was not getting us any- to a group of beautiful buildings where. The administration increas- on a hill. Later, he wrote of the exingly ceased to negotiate in good faith. perience, “At George Town, in the Despite repeated promises, students suburbs, there is a Jesuit College; were not high enough on the prior- delightfully situated, and, so far as ity list and engagement was just part I had an opportunity of seeing, well of a checklist approach. Students have managed.” participated in the Georgetown ComLet it continue to be managed munity Partnership even when it was well, by all who are lucky enough difficult to do so. GUSA Executives to pass it on to the next generation. worked to surmount incredible chal- And let the Georgetown experience lenges and create a new relationship remain there — situated, as it was in with the surrounding community. 1842, on a beautiful Hilltop.

The student voice must take priority on such a critical issue.

Nate Tisa and Adam Ramadan are The satellite campus is the path of seniors in the School of Foreign least resistance, but it is not the ap- Service. They are president and vice propriate option for Georgetown. Too president, respectively, of the Georgemuch work has gone into improving town University Student Association.

ecently, I heard a fellow Je- pline, a professor, a mentor, a boss, suit give a homily about the a culture, a system. There is a part gift we are meant to be to of education that consists of coping one another. His words confirmed with the protocol of making your a reality I have come to cherish in way through a system. my own life: Throughout our ordiTrue, some folks make their way nary days, we are surrounded by by defying the system, and their other women and men who are narratives can become dominated gifts — not just parts of the crowd, by a sense of protest and rebellion. not competitors for grades and Sometimes, that is a good reacdistinctions, not simply someone tion. But in the long haul, it can to follow on Twitter and not some- — and too often does — become a one to avoid when someone more wearying way of living. Constant interesting comes rebellion evolves into along at a party. perpetual anger, a The idea that othpenchant for searcher people in my ing out “the enemy.” life are gifts fasciOn the other nates me. If I look hand, others capituback over the late; they give into the years, I see all the system, lose their selfpeople who’ve identity and become Fr. Howard Gray, S.J. populated my hiswhatever will fit. Catory not as a cast pitulation as a coping of characters but mechanism can easThe idea that other as good folks who ily slip into self-deceit people are gifts taught me how to and buried dreams. understand life, In our lives there fascinates me. how to support are honorable, creothers, how to laugh through my ative and nurturing people who tears and sorrows, how to extend teach us how to live so that we avoid myself in compassion and care and the extremes of anger and frustrahow to forgive and be forgiven. tion. Some of them — we hope I think, too, of the depth of many of them — will be your teachmeaning in Jesus’s parables about ers and advisers; others are your the treasure hidden in a field and parents and grandparents or unabout the really fine pearl lodged cles and aunts or sisters and brothin the depths of the sea, and I have ers; still others will be in your resicome to appreciate that our souls dence halls, on your teams or part are the field and that our hearts of your social life. are the deep sea of recollection Years ago, I served as the project and memory. Taking time to seek director for a Lilly Endowment the treasure that other people grant dedicated to studying how have brought into our lives and to young adults make life choices plumb the depths of the mysteri- that integrate both competence ous ways that others have taught and service. A tributary area of our us who we are, what we really love, study was finding ways to facilitate what we value and what dreams we such decisions. In time, our team reverence — that is graced time. came to appreciate the power of I know that I’ve become more narrative, not just for the college sensitive to the importance of re- students but also for their older membering and reverencing the mentors, faculty and staff. Nothing way people have taught me about was more effective in assembling God, about the Gospel, about re- these narratives than identifying ligious experience and about the and appreciating the impact that choices that make us just and com- other people had on their young mitted to a world of peace and rec- and older lives. The key questions onciliation. are simple enough: “Who are the Education is not only about in- people who taught you how you formation, data, skills and techni- want to live?” and “Why do you cal competencies. It’s also about remember them?” Fundamentaldiscovering your own narrative in ly, we hope that Georgetown will life and the ethical and religious be a place where you can answer influences that have inspired, these questions by celebrating the challenged and empowered you to treasures and gifts in life that are claim your own identity and con- simply other people. firm your own deepest desires. Yes, there has to be a certain sense of Howard Gray, S.J., is the assistant performing in academic life; that to the president at Georgetown is, you must meet the expectations University. As This Jesuit Sees It and engage the demands of a disci- appears every other Tuesday.

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Students will no longer lug a bag full of laundry across their building only to find that all the machines are taken when the Office of Facilities and the Georgetown University Student Association launch a new mobile application late this fall.

LaundryAlert, an online and mobile application used by many universities, shows which machines are in use and offers alerts about specific machines.

The Office of Facilities currently operates 14 laundry rooms across campus. The system upgrade would require modifications to each washing machine and dryer to establish an Internet connection.

GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) spearheaded the initiative within GUSA, working with Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey to determine its feasibility.

Ramadan hopes to integrate the service with the Georgetown mobile app and said the university should complete the system by the end of November.

“Over the course of the summer, we came up with common sense things to improve campus,” Ramadan said. “Laundry falls under facilities and we pinpointed that.”

Morey said that the idea to bring Laun-

dryAlert to campus came from a post on Georgetown Ideas, which received 201 votes, making it the 26th most popular idea.

Facilities will pay for the cost of the upgrade, but the change will not affect current laundry prices, which stand at $1.50 per wash or dry. Schools that currently use LaundryAlert include the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University.

Students were generally enthusiastic about the idea, but some doubted that it would solve the problem of newly clean laundry being stacked on top of machines or on the floor.

“I think it’s useful,” Manasi Parekh (COL ’15) said. “It’s annoying when I go there and machines are not working, but I don’t think I’d use the alerts a lot.”

“I time [laundry] myself. If you’re attached to technology, it might be useful, but I feel like people will still take out your laundry,” Monica Vizconde (COL ’14) said.

Once the upgrade is finalized and the application is released, GUSA and Facilities will work to publicize the effort.

“We will make sure every Georgetown student will know about it,” Ramadan said.

“Being in Lau at 11 [p.m.] and knowing you have to do laundry, but not having to walk all the way to your dorm only to find the [laundry] room is full would be nice.”

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The Office of Facilities and GUSA will launch LaundryAlert, an app that shows which machines are in use and offers alerts about specific machines, in late November.

The new president of Syracuse University has an unusual alma mater for the king of the Carrier Dome: Georgetown.

Kent Syverud (SFS ’77), who is currently dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, was named the 12th chancellor and president of Syracuse on Sept. 12.

The chancellor search committee chose Syverud, who grew up in Irondequouit, N.Y., after a two-year process. The committee, composed of student, faculty, alumni and staff representatives, unanimously recommended Syverud from a pool of 270 candidates to Syracuse’s board of trustees. Syverud will begin work at the university in January.

“Chancellor-designate Syverud is exceptionally well prepared to guide S.U. as we work to build on our tremendous momentum and continue to raise S.U.’s profile while fulfilling its proud legacy,” Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Richard Thompson wrote in an email to the Syracuse community.

“Throughout the selection process, he distinguished himself by the impressive range and depth of experience he brings.”

Thompson cited Syverud’s experience, which includes time as dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School, clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and trustee of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust — BP’s $20 billion fund that was created in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Thompson also praised Syverud’s reputation in the higher education community as both a “visionary” and “strategic thinker,” based on his work bringing both the WashU and Vanderbilt law schools into greater national prominence.

Syverud, who was officially introduced to the Syracuse community Thursday afternoon, expressed his desire to learn more about the institution.

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Kent Syverud (SFS ’77) was recently appointed the 12th chancellor and president of Syracuse University. city and this region,” Syverud said in a speech to the community. “I need to learn from each of you. … I need to learn how to bleed orange. I will work hard to learn exactly that.”

With Syracuse moving from the Big East Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference this year, Syrevud made reference to ACC rival Duke University in his speech but did not mention Big East rival Georgetown.

“I am absolutely certain that we are going to accomplish great things together … that we are going to flatten the competition, including Duke, and that along the

way we will help the whole world see Syracuse as the best university,” Syverud said in his speech.

Despite the historic rivalry between Georgetown and Syracuse, Syracuse Senior Vice President for Public Affairs Kevin Quinn said the university was excited to welcome its new chancellor.

“We’ve had a great rivalry, and we hope that in the future that rivalry can continue, and we’re excited to welcome chancellordesignate Syverud into the Orange family,” Quinn said.

Quinn said that Syverud was unavailable for comment due to a high volume of media requests.

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Mayoral Candidate Evans Accused of Ethics Violations Natasha Khan Hoya Staff Writer

Recent allegations of ethics violations against Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans may threaten his bid for mayor.

George Washington senior Jackson Carnes recently accused Evans of giving The George Washington University an alley for its housing expansion in return for support in the upcoming election. Evans, however, denied these allegations.

“The gentleman made a false statement,” Evans told The Hoya. “That’s our understanding. We have never been contacted by anybody on anything.”

The Washington Post reported that Evans is currently under investigation

Religious Clubs Join Board Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

Campus Ministry is working to create a student-led advisory board for its 12 student religious organizations.

The proposed Campus Ministry Student Forum is the result of conversations last spring between Managing Director of Campus Ministry Andrew Johnson, Interreligious Coordinator Lisa Pannucci, former Georgetown University Student Association President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and GUSA Director of Student Space Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14).

The forum would be an advisory board composed of the presidents of Campus Ministry’s 12 component organizations, with an executive committee elected by the forum.

The current plan alters last spring’s proposal by removing chaplains and other administrators from the advisory board — a feature that led the GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee to reject some of Campus Ministry’s request for funding in April.

“We would not be requesting funding in the future. The students in the advisory board would be approaching GUSA instead,” Johnson said of Campus Ministry. “In the new model, chaplains serve as a resource, but not as voting members of the advisory board.”

Because the proposal is still in its early stages, Johnson and Pannucci are unsure of the timeline for the forum.

“At this point, we’re sort of packaging something and handing it off to the students,” Johnson said. “A lot of the timeline will depend on how students will choose to proceed with this process.”

Pannucci agreed and said she hopes that student leaders will make progress on establishing the forum this month.

Jewish Student Association President Sapir Yarden (SFS ’15) said that she met with Campus Ministry leaders at the end of August. JSA was the last of the 12 groups to sign on to the proposal after concerns about confusing their group’s focus on community building and social life with Campus Ministry’s religious and education focus arose.

“I was surprised but also pleased to see that my ideas were taken into consideration,” she said. “I think there’s still a long way to go in terms of what will be implemented but … it allows for better dialogue and more transparency, which was one of our biggest concerns.”

While the Interfaith Student Council was created close to 10 years ago as the advisory board of Campus Ministry that organization has evolved into a programming board during the past few years. Interfaith Council President Aamir Hussain (COL ’14) said the proposed forum would be an opportunity for the council to continue its focus on events but also its work catering to students without a specific faith tradition.

“We will still be able to maintain that kind of identity where traditionally we have a lot of people that are atheist or agnostic so anyone can feel welcome here,” Hussain said.

All students are invited to attend forum meetings.

by the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance.

Allegedly, the councilmember violated campaign finance rules by collecting three separate donations from the same donor. Evans also denied these allegations.

Despite the recent publicity around these ethical allegations, Evans said that neither the Office of Campaign Finance nor the city’s ethical board have contacted his office.

“What happens is there’s a poor choice of words. There were never any ethics violations. There were never any questions,” Evans said. “There were just some inquiries that were being made, and they were satisfied. There are no ongoing discussions on any issues at this time.”

Nevertheless, these allegations could

be potentially damaging for Evans, who is chair of the D.C. Council’s Finance and Revenue Committee. Evans launched his campaign based on his record of clean behavior and ethical decisions. In addition, according to The GW Hatchet, Evans has previously helped the D.C. Council pass legislation that would increase bookkeeping transparency.

Office of Campaign Finance Public Affairs Manager Wes Williams said that his office would not discuss any ongoing investigations.

Evans, who will run in the April 1 Democratic primary, will speak at an event sponsored by the Georgetown University College Democrats in November.

GUCD President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), who has been an outspoken critic of Evans’ campaign, said that the accu-

sations were disturbing, although he cautioned against forming judgment until solid evidence comes to light.

“What we’re initially hearing is a little bit alarming, but [it] ties into past concerns that a lot of people, including myself, have had with the way Jack Evans spends constituent money,” Tezel said. “So I would say it’s another allegation in what is an alarming trend with … our local council member.”

Evans came under fire in 2011 for using constituent funds to purchase season sporting tickets when the Post found that between 2002 and 2011, Evans spent $135,897 on tickets to the Washington Nationals, Washington Wizards and Washington Kastles, a Mylan World TeamTennis team. In comparison, Evans directed $101,564

toward charitable organizations, neighborhood associations and arts groups.

When Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser — who will run against Evans in April — introduced an ethics overhaul bill in 2012, Evans aggressively pushed to amend the bill to allow him to continue buying season tickets, individually lobbying several councilmembers.

Regardless of the accusations’ validity, however, Tezel said that they could have an effect on Evans’ campaign.

“Any time this kind of stuff comes out, it definitely has an impact on the race,” Tezel said. “That being said, D.C. has sort of had a longstanding reputation of providing opportunities for politicians who may be embroiled in scandals or controversies to still see success at the polls.”

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Trump Opts for DC Hotel Fatal Shooting Leaves

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Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

Donald Trump may be moving closer to the White House — with his acquisition of the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The Trump Organization, which owns the Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., and Trump Winery — the largest winery on the East Coast in nearby Charlottesville, Va. — recently unveiled its $200 million hotel plans for the Old Post Office last week, which will include 250 rooms, several presidential suites, a spa and several conference facilities.

The Trumps, who originally signed a 60-year lease for the estate in early August, plan to begin renovations in spring 2014. Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions Ivanka Trump, who studied at Georgetown for two years before transferring to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, said the hotel’s doors should open by 2016.

According to Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions Eric Trump (MSB ’06), location was the main impetus behind the company’s acquisition of the Old Post Office, which was built in 1899.

“The location and building can never be replicated, and we are going to transform the building into one of the most incredible hotels in the world,” Eric Trump wrote in an email to The Hoya.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has previously remarked that despite its designation as a top tourist destination with several historical landmarks, the District has a shortage of hotels, a void that the Trumps seek to fill.

Although the Trumps’ renovations call for bulletproof windows, fireplaces and twoperson showers to fit with the Trump standard of luxury, Eric Trump stressed the importance of preserving the Old Post Office’s historical nature.

“The exterior of the building will largely remain the same, but the inside will undergo

buildings until Tuesday.

In a press conference Monday afternoon, Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert, a President Barack Obama stressed that member of the joint chiefs of staff, was evac- the government would take severe action uated from his Navy Yard residence shortly against those responsible for the shooting and expressed disappointment in the occurafter the first report of shots.

Navy officials said that the Navy Yard’s rence of the national tragedy.

“We’re confronting yet another mass security is high, with gates manned by U.S. Marines and Naval District Washington se- shooting, and today it happened on a milicurity personnel. Visitors without military tary installation in our nation’s capital. … identification must present other identifica- These are men and women who were going tion as well as a valid reason for entry. to work, doing their job, protecting all of Alexis, who worked as a computer contrac- us. They’re patriots,” Obama said. “They tor for military contractor The Experts, had know the dangers of serving abroad, but toa government-contractor access card that al- day, they faced the unimaginable violence lowed him entrance into the Navy Yard and that they wouldn’t have expected here at other military installations. The Experts home.”

Chief Executive Thomas Hoshko said that Obama ordered all flags in the White Alexis had to pass a thorough investigation, House and in all federal government and conducted by military security service per- U.S. military facilities around the world to sonnel, in order to receive his security clear- be flown at half-staff until sunset on Friday. ance, which was only updated in July.

Students who were set to attend Monday But hours after the shooting, authorities night’s Nationals game can exchange their were still unclear about whether the shoot- tickets for tomorrow afternoon’s make-up ing had been perpetrated game, any other game this

by Alexis alone or by mul- “They’re patriots [who] season — which ends Suntiple shooters. day — or any game in the Initially, Metropolitan knew the dangers of 2014 season.

Police Department Chief serving abroad, but Given Georgetown’s loof Police Cathy Lanier ancation — about five and a nounced that, based on today, they faced ... half miles from the site witness accounts and surthe shooting — Georgeunimaginable violence.” of veillance video, authoritown University Chief of ties were searching for two Police Jay Gruber said that BARACK OBAMA other suspects, but shortly the campus alert level was President of the United States afterwards, city officials not significantly affected. announced that one of the suspects had Nevertheless, all field officers, university ofbeen located and cleared of involvement. ficials and Department of Safety staff were

By Monday evening, however, Lanier an- notified in order to closely monitor the situnounced that investigators were confident ation, and Gruber said he had several local that Alexis was the only gunman. and federal resources on hand.

In response to the shooting, the 11th “We want to make sure that they’re aware Street Bridge, which leads to the Navy of any new information that comes out as a Yard, was closed. In addition, the D.C. De- result of the investigation,” Gruber said in partment of Transportation, the Van Ness the afternoon. “Right now, there’s some susbuilding — which contains the D.C. Public pect information, and we’ve put it out to our Schools administration — and Eagle Acade- officers in the field.” my Public Charter School were locked down DPS also released a public safety alert due to their close proximity to the shoot- to the campus community around 4 p.m., ing. Flights out of Reagan National Airport warning them to stay away from the Navy were also briefly halted, and Nationals Park Yard neighborhood.

Parking Lot B was used as a safe zone for Fr. Pat Rogers, S.J., remembered the vicfamilies to reunite in the immediate wake tims Monday at the regularly scheduled 10 of the shooting. p.m. Mass, and university chaplains will As a precaution, Senate buildings were meet today to discuss any further response, also locked down. In a message to sent Sen- according to Vice President for Mission and ate staffers at 3 p.m., Senate Sergeant at Ministry Kevin O’Brien, S.J. Arms Terrance Gainer wrote that staffers Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), a were not allowed to leave or enter the build- professor at Georgetown University Law Cening for two hours or until the situation was ter, tried to reassure D.C. residents during deemed safe in the neighboring community, Gray’s Monday afternoon press conference. but the lockdown was lifted after one hour.

“This is the safest city in the United States,” Only Senate staffers will be allowed in the Norton said. “Not safe from attack, but safe.”

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Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka unveiled plans to renovate D.C.’s Old Post Office Pavilion into a hotel. an incredible transformation,” Eric Trump wrote. “We plan on preserving the iconic pavilion and clock tower, in addition to the grand hallways, which will now lead to what will become the most iconic hotel rooms in the city boasting 16-foot ceiling height, views of the monuments and many other unprecedented amenities.”

The Trump Organization is also currently in negotiations to acquire the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s current headquarters.

The Hoover building, a D.C. landmark that opened in 1975, came across the Trumps’ radar after reports surfaced that the FBI was planning to move to a newly constructed headquarters in the area. The FBI building has previously faced criticism for its outdated, Brutalist-style architecture, and the Government Accountability Office has also reported that the building is aging, deteriorating and in need of serious repairs.

“It is very early in the process, but we have looked at the building,” Eric Trump wrote.

“Whether or not we proceed, the development of the FBI building is great for the area and will increase traffic at shops and restaurants inside Trump International Hotel [at the Old Post Office].”

Although the Trump Organization does not have any set plans for the Hoover Building, Eric Trump cited the company’s success in acquiring the Old Post Office Building as a precedent for future D.C. bids.

According to the Washington Post, the Trump Organization was originally considered a long shot for the Old Post Office.

“Ownership of assets is a key differentiator of the Trump brand as many other hotel brands are merely management companies and have little financial stake in their assets,” Eric Trump wrote.

“We often own, develop and operate the hotels in our portfolio, which allows us to be highly selective and sets an unparalleled standard of excellence within the hospitality industry.”

Since the Hoover Building was put on the market, the FBI reported that it has received approximately 35 offers.

Regardless of whether the company officially bids on the FBI building, Eric Trump said that D.C. is an important location for Trump Organization.

“We are very positive about D.C.’s long-term prospects,” Eric Trump wrote. “We are always looking for potential world-class projects with the Old Post Office being a perfect example.”

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be held periodically through Oct. 2 will answer the call for greater student engagement, a recurring subject of discontent since the 2010 Campus Plan agreement was reached in July 2012.

Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said the housing survey, which was discussed with student leaders earlier this year, misses the mark for effective engagement.

“The survey wasn’t talking about the options. It asked things like, ‘Do you want a pool?’ or ‘Do you want a Metro stop?’ without getting to the core of the issue,” Tisa said.

No new specifics on possible satellite residences were announced.

The sites in consideration — Clarendon, Va., the Capitol Hill neighborhood and north of campus on Wisconsin Avenue — would require students to be shuttled several miles to and from the Hilltop. Morey said other satellite proposals have previously been rejected — either for expense, size or distance from campus. He noted that any location being considered would require a lease of seven to 10 years.

The transitional GUSA senate voted unanimously Sunday in favor of a resolution calling for the university to consult student representatives on any housing option before making any major decision. All senators co-sponsored the resolution, which is unusual as a bill requires only a few signatures.

“It’s crucial that the student body be informed on all on-campus options that the administration has considered,” GUSA Speaker George Spyropoulos (COL ’14) said. “We do not like what we have heard so far, and we want to know what else is on the table.”

Morey said the university hopes to engage in a more conceptual discussion of the options before pursuing an arrangement with private developers. School officials acknowledged that a temporary phase may be necessary to meet the requirement of 385 new beds by fall 2015.

The three administrators maintain that a sufficient number of

upperclassmen will take interest in a satellite residence option, which could house several hundred occupants. They added that graduate students have voiced significant interest in university housing and could share occupancy of the building, as could faculty members.

Zach Singer (SFS ’15), GUSA chief of staff and co-director of the One Georgetown, One Campus effort, said Monday that he has not spoken with a single student who supports a satellite housing option.

Singer says about 95 percent of students with whom he has spoken have been adamantly opposed to the proposal.

Student commentary on the satellite proposal has left little room for negotiation.

“People from all strands of the Georgetown community would be profoundly affected and dissatisfied if the satellite campus proposal were implemented,” Spyropoulos said before the resolution vote.

Lee was quoted last week as being critical of the referendum, elaborating Monday that she supports a more dynamic method for soliciting input. Singer, however, defended its efficacy in moving this process forward.

“In light of the Northeast Triangle,” Singer said in reference to the dormitory proposal that met backlash this summer, “the referendum seemed like the best way of voicing student opinion on the satellite campus while there was radio silence for any alternatives.”

Olson said that the university would take into account the student referendum. He would not commit to scrapping the proposal altogether if returns are overwhelmingly negative, as many project.

Alternatives proposed by the student campaign include converting and expanding the Leavey Center Hotel and Conference Center; renovating the Ryan and Mulledy buildings near Dahlgren Quadrangle, which served as the Jesuit residence until 2003; retrofitting St. Mary’s Hall for student housing while moving its current components to Ryan and Mulledy; renovating the Kober-Cogan building at the medi-

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cal center; and constructing temporary modular apartments in the McDonough Gymnasium parking lot.

Olson, Morey and Lee said that all of these proposals have been considered with the exception of modular apartments. The Leavey Center proposal was introduced by the university in August 2011 as an integral part of the housing solution. That project was passed by in favor of the Northeast Triangle, and GUSA leaders are now pressing the university to reconsider it as an alternative.

Renovations to Leavey Center to accommodate student housing would cost roughly $8 million ac-

cording to Morey, which does not account for the loss of revenue from the hotel. Olson and Morey also stressed the importance for the campus community of having a hotel, something they are reluctant to sacrifice.

GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) travelled with several university housing officials to Boston College last weekend, where modular apartments were introduced in the 1970s because of a similar housing crunch. Now, Ramadan reported, modular housing has become an overwhelming success, with students jockeying to fill

the space each year.

As an analogy to this situation, Olson cited the construction of the Southwest Quad in 2003, when faculty demanded that priority be given to academic space. After planning could develop and money could be raised, Olson noted, Regents Hall, the Hariri Building and the Davis Center were soon enough constructed.

Today’s housing forum will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in O’Donovan Hall, with Lee in attendance. Olson will attend a breakfast meeting in the dining hall Friday morning.

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Natasha Khan Hoya Staff Writer

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Georgetown University Law Center professor Cornelia “Nina” Pillard’s confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday.

To be confirmed, Pillard must be approved by the committee, after which she will be presented to the full Senate, where she must receive at least 51 votes out of 100.

Obama’s nomination of Pillard, a graduate of Yale College and Harvard University Law School, has spurred discussion on both sides of the aisle due to Pillard’s strong views on abortion and women’s rights.

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Pillard worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and served as a Department of Justice attorney.

She is best known for her legal work in support of women’s rights in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1996, she won on becourtesy woodrow wilson international center half of the U.S. in United States v. Virginia, which mandated that women be allowed to Law professor Nina Pillard is the most reenroll in the Virginia Military Institute, the cent nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals. last all-male military college. She also successfully defended the Family and Medical Republicans, however, have been outspoLeave Act in 2003 and broadened it to apply ken critics of Obama’s choice for the D.C. court, primarily for her pro-abortion rights to state employees.

Pillard’s pro-choice views and objections views. In an online post, Tony Perkins from to abstinence-only education brought up the Family Research Council called Pillard concerns from conservative committee “crazy” and “outrageous.” In particular, Permembers during her July confirmation kins accused Obama of trying to slide Pilhearing, though several parties wrote let- lard past the usual confirmation stages by nominating her over the ters of support, including summer. representatives from VMI, “She is a beloved “America can’t afford the Women’s Bar Assoto give a lifetime appointciation and Georgetown. teacher and mentor, ment to a radical ideoThe letters praised Pillogue,” Perkins wrote. lard’s support of women’s diligent in service to Georgetown University rights, scholarship and Georgetown.”

College Democrats Presigrasp of the law. dent Trevor Tezel (SFS “I know that professor WILLIAM TREANOR Georgetown University Law Center ’15) said he fully backed Pillard is exceptionally Pillard for the nominabright, a patient and unbiased listener and a lawyer of great judg- tion.

“We really think that she would make a ment and unquestioned integrity,” Georgetown Law professor Viet Dinh wrote in his great addition to the D.C. Circuit Court,” Tezel said. “She has shown — in the same letter of support.

GULC Dean William Treanor agreed and spirit as a Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if you will — the kind of tenacity to advocate for gender commended Pillard’s scholarship.

“She is a beloved teacher and mentor, equality that I think a lot of our members diligent in service to Georgetown and the really want to see in the federal courts.”

Georgetown University College Republarger community and a productive and licans did not respond to requests for highly respected scholar,” Treanor wrote.

Anti-abortion groups and conservative comment.

unless it is a compliment.”

However some students think that the site, and others like it, is largely detrimental to the Georgetown community.

Black House Resident Director Aya Waller-Bey (COL ’14) acknowledged the importance of general freedom of speech but felt that the targeted audience of such pages merited monitoring.

“People are entitled to free speech and Facebook is a medium … that has nothing to do with Georgetown. However, Confessions was started by Georgetown students and targeted at Georgetown students,” Waller-Bey said. “If posts are overtly racist and demonstrate bias, Georgetown should protect its students and advocate pluralism and the protection of all identities.”

Waller-Bey has reported bias incidents unrelated to Confessions in the past, but she encouraged students to report bias in Confessions’ posts now that it is clear the university has such agency. She cited a recent post that criticized certain groups for not conforming to what the poster considered mainstream campus culture, attracting accusations of racism. The post

amassed much negative attention, including 30 shares.

“Posts are hurtful,” WallerBey said. “It was very offensive.

Students should be able to say ‘I’m offended as a Georgetown student, and something needs to be done on my behalf.’”

Confessions, meanwhile, finds the recent CMEA efforts both overambitious and unnecessary.

“We think it is overkill. Confessions has 2,000 likes, and it is just not worth that much trouble. We don’t think anyone is going to harm themselves because of an anonymous post on Facebook,” the Confessions administrator said.

The general student populace takes a more cautious approach.

“People have their opinions, but when it hits so close to home, I’m shocked that people have the guts to actually say things like that. I would want them to take it off,” Jocelyn Hernandez (MSB ’14) said.

As secretary of diversity affairs for the Georgetown University Student Association, Minjung Kang (SFS ’15) is familiar with Confessions, which features heavily in conversation within diversity groups.

“We had this discussion at a [Students of Color Alliance]

meeting about some posts that we saw on Confessions we found racist, but there was no way for us to take them down,” Kang said. “We don’t know the people who maintain the page and we can’t hold them accountable. I think it’s a good policy.”

While Confessions is the largest of such sites at Georgetown, it is not the only site toward which the initiative is directed.

Georgetown Insults, with 1,445 friends on Facebook, is also on the team’s radar.

Williams emphasized that students themselves have largely taken on the responsibility of self-monitoring these forums.

“Having the opportunity to express one’s opinion is a good thing,” Williams said. “One of the things that I think is good about these forums is students tend to do a good job about policing each other.”

Williams noted that online platforms often reflect reality.

“It’s not unlike a large, drunken party. When people drink, they tend to speak their minds more freely and are more prone to giving offense,” Williams said. “You’re able to talk back to people and they don’t know who you are, so they can’t punch you in the mouth.”

Train TravelTurnsEducational Andrew Wilson Hoya Staff Writer

The Millennial Trains Project is taking a new approach to train rides by carrying groups of young entrepreneurs, artists and thinkers across the country as a mobile community to explore innovation and social change.

This past August, Ann Yang (SFS ’15) joined 23 other participants on the project’s inaugural ride from San Francisco to Washington. Over the 10-day trip, the group stopped at a half dozen cities along the way for seminars by mentors from various academic fields and local leaders.

Former Georgetown University Student Association President Patrick Dowd (SFS ’09) founded the Millennial Trains Project this past year. The idea for the project came from a project Dowd led while on a Fulbright Scholarship in India in 2010.

Sonia Vora (SFS ’15), who serves as Dowd’s chief of staff, and Sacha Simmons (SFS ’09) were also passengers on the train. Simmons is the founder of Sweat Everyday, a nonprofit helping people remain physically active, and she studied the exercise habits of residents of different cities during the crosscountry trip.

Additionally, advisors for the project include Alyssa Lovegrove, associate director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and Jeff Reid, director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Yang found out about the project when she met Dowd during her internship at 1776, a D.C.based incubator for nonprofits.

Dowd said he was impressed by Yang’s confidence and eagerness.

In order to be eligible to participate, potential passengers, all between the ages of 18-34, must pitch an idea for a creative project online and use crowd-sourcing to raise the $5,000 participation fee.

Dowd notes that Yang had no trouble raising such a significant amount of money.

“She was really good at crowd funding,” Dowd said. “She raised the $5,000 necessary to go on the trip in two weeks.”

Part of Yang’s success was because James Hunt, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, pledged $500 to the project if Yang was able to raise an additional $2,000 from Georgetown alumna.

“To me it was a very clever idea, and it seemed to be kind of a unique way to combine an experimental trip with philanthropy,” Hunt said.

Yang’s journey culminated in “The Joy Project,” a documentary which juxtaposed interviews with Millennials against interviews with members of the Greatest Generation. Yang focused the project on risk-taking across the generations.

“I think that the recession actually created a unique space for people to take risks to do what they love,” Yang said.

Yang said that students at Georgetown are reluctant to take risks.

“We have this culture where risk aversion is seen as the way to go, and my conclusion from my trip is that risk aversion is stupid and people need to embrace failure because success hinders

learning,” Yang said. “College should be about this environment where people can make mistakes.”

Yang is still editing her footage into a longer video project.

“The final platform is going to be called ‘Vibrant Day’ — it’s basically going to be about people who’ve taken risks to do what they love,” Yang said.

Other passengers on the train worked on projects ranging from research on food waste to access to poetry. Yang was the train’s youngest passenger and celebrated her 20th birthday while in Nebraska.

MTP recently garnered media attention with its 12th-place ranking on National Geographic Traveler’s “Traveler 50” list of “People, Places, and Ideas Changing the Way We Travel.”

Dowd said the project was a huge success, meeting and surpassing his hopes.

“I think that these crowd-funded train rides can be like the road trips of our generation,” Dowd said. “It’s a whole community that we have on these train cars and it’s really cool.”

MTP’s next journey coincides with Georgetown’s spring break in March, when it will take participants from Los Angeles to Miami.

“I think a lot of other people at Georgetown would be good candidates,” Dowd said. “It’s all about experiencing the world and engaging with really diverse people.”

Yang feels equally enthusiastic about the project’s success.

“It changed my life,” Yang said.

“It really reduced my anxiety about what was going to happen after college.”

New Club Tackles Development Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

Many Georgetown graduates go on to volunteer for the Peace Corps or do other development work. Now, the Georgetown Development Initiative will help interested students get a head start on international development as undergraduates.

The club’s founders thought that Georgetown lacked a club that dealt specifically with development issues on an undergraduate level. The group, founded last spring, received approval from the Student Activities Commission this fall.

“Our primary goal is getting people together who share the aim of fostering international development through small-scale, sustainable and innovative projects that could be applicable in different parts of the world,” GDI President Berk Guler (COL ’14) said.

As the first undergraduate group on campus devoted to development issues, GDI has reached out to faculty in the department of economics and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute for advice.

“We’re the first undergrad

group targeting international development so we don’t have a precedent,” Guler said. “A lot of this is exploration, reaching out to faculty and other organizations.”

Guler sought the advice of associate professor of economics William Jack, co-director of the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation. GUIDE often sends development-minded undergraduates to work on projects abroad during summer break.

“I think you should do what you care about,” Jack said. “I think Georgetown students have a lot of enthusiasm and energy in doing development work and I encourage them to do so. This is just an opportunity for students who are interested to get involved and I think that’s great.”

GDI member Sona Jain (SFS ’16) emphasized that the club differs from groups with similar aims on campus, such as Hilltop Microfinance Initiative, because of its focus on development research.

“I think microfinance initiatives are very important and can be incredibly successful; however, they are only one facet of development solutions that have

been discovered,” Jain said. “GDI is more like a general forum through which people with all types of interests in development can congregate and discuss these issues.”

This semester, the group will focus on bringing speakers to campus and building relationships with non-governmental organizations in the Washington, D.C. area.

“Our aim is to get development experts in the area to campus,” Guler said. “We hope to build connections to NGOs in D.C. while we start working on one or two small-scale projects.”

The initiative has identified water security and cell-phone access as two areas of focus during the coming semester, with the goal of working through NGOs that are already doing water drilling in Kenya and Uganda.

Jain emphasized that the club is driven by its diverse membership.

“I think that development issues require very close attention to the intricate differences between different cultures, different political systems,” Jain said.

“The diverse range of students that we have involved helps to accomplish that.”

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Sophomore defender Keegan Rosenberry (12) and junior midfielder Tyler Rudy (not pictured) assisted sophomore forward Brandon Allen in the game-winning goal against Duquesne.

Allen Scores Game Winners DUKES, from A10 pretty well and then we petered off from that. My disappointment at the end of the game was that we stopped doing the easy things that could have really put the game out of sight.” Wiese said. “But overall it’s a win.”

Junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez also played his part in keeping the Dukes scoreless, making six saves, including blocking one shot rocketed by senior forward Simon Gomez that looked destined to dip in under the crossbar.

“Tomas was excellent, very calm, and handled all the stuff really well. Even when things weren’t going well, we felt very good that he was back there,” Wiese said.

On Sunday, the Hoyas faced off against another team of Dukes and needed 95 minutes to penetrate the defensively minded squad from JMU. Playing almost the entire game in James Madison’s half, the Hoyas outshot the Dukes 20-7 and earned 15 corner kicks to the Dukes’ 2.

“We just felt like we had to be patient, and I think for us it was just don’t get complacent and keep the tempo high,” Wi-

ese said. “The reality is we’ve had the ball so long and they just defended for so long it’s hard, they run out of legs.”

Allen missed a chance to end the game in the waning minutes of regulation but redeemed himself 10 minutes into the first overtime period.

“Coach made a sub — Josh Turnley on for [Jared] Rist — and his first play he threw it in to me and I spin the guy, cut another player and hit it to close off my right foot,” Allen said. “It was a matter of finding the gaps, and I thought we did that well today.”

Though the Hoyas dominated the possession of the game, missed chances early on and JMU’s strategy to beef up on defense prolonged the game.

“They ended up sitting in deeper and deeper and the spaces got tighter and tighter,” Wiese said. “It got harder, almost, as the game went on.

We really needed to take some chances in the first half.”

As for the Hoyas’ many set pieces, none of which resulted in a goal, Wiese wasn’t overly concerned that his team couldn’t convert.

“Corners have zero correlation to goals,” Wiese said. “But we’ll have … plenty of video to

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look at. We would like to execute that a little better.”

The usual starters were on the field at the opening whistle, with the addition of freshman midfielder Bakie Goodman, who usually subs in off the bench for one of the other midfielders. Sophomore midfielder Melvin Snoh, however, who played well in Georgetown’s loss to New Mexico, didn’t play any minutes in Sunday’s game.

According to Wiese, giving players enough time on the field to find their rhythm is the reason for the line-up changes in Sunday’s game. “[Snoh] is frustrated he didn’t play today. But to be fair, we’ve been doing a disservice to our wide midfielders,” Wiese said.

“We have five wide midfielders that we’ve been cycling in and out, and they, as a group, have to come to grips with this, but now is the time in the season where we have to start making decisions.”

Wiese noted that the decisions could be on a game-bygame basis and added, “Melvin may start on Thursday [against Penn] … Melvin will be in the picture.”

The Hoyas travel to Philadelphia on Thursday to face Penn.

Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.

on’t let anyone fool you; football only denied the existence of medical risks, is America’s game. Baseball may but also failed to provide players the inforbe considered America’s pastime, mation and care needed to ensure their but no sport dominates America like long term health. football does. The NFL is the world’s most This settlement brings the dangers valuable sports league, with roughly $9 and long-term health risks of football to billion in revenue every year. (The MLB the front of the national discourse about is second with $7 billion, but remember, player safety. This feeling isn’t only combaseball teams play 162 games per sea- ing from overprotective moms but even son versus football’s 16.) TV ratings tell a from the likes of President Obama, who similar story as well. In 2013, the top-10 said that if he had a son, he would “have most-watched sporting events have all to think long and hard before [he] let him been NFL games. Even the Pro Bowl — the play football.” Even former players have source of yearly ridicule — was 29th on been vocal in their concern about the the list. safety risks in the sport. Four-time Super I, however, foresee that the immense Bowl Champion Terry Bradshaw said, “If I popularity the NFL currently enjoys will had a son today… I would not let him play soon drop off. In fact, I football.” predict that in 50 years The NFL is equally confootball (just like boxing cerned with this trend. In and baseball of generaAugust, ESPN and Frontline tions past) will fall to the partnered to release a special wayside because of the titled “League of Denial: The concerns over player safeNFL’s Concussion Crisis” to ty and brain injuries. document the misinformaNabeel Zewail Football is a violent tion that the NFL has been sport, but recent studies feeding to players and adand events have shown ministrators alike about the Football is a that the sport is more safety of the sport. Before the than that; it is inherently dangerous sport special found its way onto TV, dangerous and has serihowever, ESPN, under presand new rules ous long-term medical sure from the NFL, decided implications for athletes. to air it. ESPN, coincidenwon’t change that not Studies show that former tally, has the rights to the players suffer greater very lucrative Monday Night fact. rates of dementia and Football broadcast and likely memory loss and are more likely to com- didn’t want to see those advertising dolmit suicide. The injury risk is not limited lars dry up because of the expose. The NFL to the professional or collegiate level, is banking on the fact that the public will either, as a study from Purdue Univer- remain in the dark about the safety risks sity reported that every season, between in the sport.

43,000 and 67,000 high school players NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has suffer from concussions. Furthermore, made safety a priority by trying to inmany concussions go unreported, mean- crease fines for helmet-to-helmet hits, ing the number may exceed 100,000 play- promote safer tackling techniques at the ers every year.

NFL level and even change some of the The NFL has retorted this bedrock of rules to make the game safer. Many of scientific evidence with ridiculous claims these moves have come under scrutiny by backed by former NFL doctor Ira Cason, ex-players, who fear that Goodell is turnwho has testified to Congress, arguing ing the NFL into a flag football league. that “there is not enough valid, reliable This leaves the NFL in a very tough poor objective scientific evidence at present sition, because it needs to address the to determine whether or not repeat head safety concerns of the public while also impacts in professional football result in holding true to the integrity of the sport. long-term brain damage.” To counter this There is no getting around the fact that narrative, the NFL Players Association football is a violent sport and that no has funded a 10-year, $100 million study tackling adjustments or fines will change with Harvard Medical School to study the the fact that repeated hits to the head rehealth risks of playing football. sult in concussions and serious long-term Before a single down was played this brain damage. It is this reality that will season, the NFL and a number of retired result in football’s declining popularity players came to a $765 million settlement and eventual loss of the title “America’s to cover the health care expenses of for- most popular sport.” mer players. While this may sound like a huge amount, in reality, the NFL likely Nabeel Zewail is a junior in the School of owes retired players upwards of $2 billion Foreign Service. BEYOND THE FIELD appears in health care expenses. The NFL has not every Tuesday.

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GU Felt Wharton’s Absence FOOTBALL, from A10 Foxes responded quickly. After a long kickoff return was called back because of a holding penalty, the Marist offense marched down the field. With the clock winding down in the first half, Marist senior quarterback Chuckie Looney dropped back into the pocket and, unable to find an open receiver, scrambled for a 6-yard touchdown to give his team a 16-9 halftime advantage.

The Red Foxes added to their lead on their first two possessions of the second half. Marist efficiently strung together two long drives, both of which culminated in touchdown passes

by Looney.

“The momentum swung right before the half — that touchdown hurt. It was 9-9 with 5 seconds left in the half and that certainly hurt,”

Kelly said. “Three consecutive touchdowns — 21 points — is not going to do much for your morale.”

As the Red Foxes continued to exploit the Blue and Gray defense, the Hoyas’ offensive woes continued. After the team went three and out on its first drive of the second half, senior running back Nick Campanella fumbled on Georgetown’s next possession and Marist capitalized with Junior Running Back Emmanuel Onakoya’s 50-yard touchdown run.

The Blue and Gray made a push late in the third quarter to crawl back into the game.

Sparked by Kempf, senior wide receiver Zack Wilke and sophomore wide receiver Jake DeCicco, the Hoyas put together two of their best drives of the game — scoring touchdowns in each — to cut Marist’s lead

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Senior quarterback Isaiah Kempf passed for an astounding 398 yards and two touchdowns, but it wasn’t enough.

to 14.

“I’ll give the guys credit.

They still came back anscored a couple touchdowns, and we didn’t quit,” Kelly said.

But with each touchdown that the Hoyas scored, the Red Foxes matched, eliminating Georgetown’s hopes of pulling off any comeback.

“We didn’t make plays; they were four-of-four in the red zone,” Kelly said. “We always talk about holding the team to field goals and not touchdowns, if you hold them to field goals maybe you got a shot to win it.”

Georgetown’s defense was without its two leading tacklers, senior linebacker Dustin Wharton and junior linebacker Nick Alfieri, who missed the game due to injuries. Their absences certainly hurt the Hoyas as they gave up a season-high 230 rushing yards to a team who had averaged only 23.5 on the ground per game before Saturday’s match up.

“Certainly, when you have a player of [Wharton’s] caliber, preseason defensive player of the year, if you don’t have some like that it is going to affect you somewhat,” Kelly said.

Although the Hoyas were relatively ineffective on offense, Wilke and DeCicco each had over 100 yards receiving while Kempf completed 32 of 52 pass attempts and threw for 398 yards with two touchdowns.

“We could’ve done a lot better,” Wilke said. “We started off a little slow, but we just have to keep going and keep fighting and keep playing hard.”

Georgetown will look to rebound from the shocking loss this Saturday when it travels to Providence, R.I., to take on Brown. Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY

Hoyas Lose Two More, Prep for Big East Play Jonah Cashdan Hoya Staff Writer

Still looking to pick up its first win of the season on the road this past weekend, the Georgetown field hockey team (0-6) fell short at both Lehigh (2-4) and Cornell (2-2).

On Friday, Georgetown got off to a slow start when Lehigh took a 1-0 lead just 1:36 into the game. The goal came from freshman forwards Marissa Glatt, who won the Patriot League’s Rookie of the Week for her efforts.

Just over 10 minutes later, the Mountain Hawks added to their lead when freshman forward Gabby Tofig finished off a rebound at the back of the net.

Through the first twelve minutes of the game, it was clear that Georgetown’s defensive issues have still not yet been resolved.

Having given up 25 goals on the season through just six games, the Hoyas will need a boost from their defense if they hope to turn things around going forward.

“Since we’re a really young team, I think we’re still working on meshing on the field and learning how we work together,” sophomore midfielder Emily Weinberg said.

The rest of the game looked much like the first part, as the Hoyas allowed an additional goal to go down 4-0. Georgetown was outshot 19-4 in just the first half, and the team simply could not find a rhythm in the second.

Sunday, the team took to the road again looking to take face an inexperienced Cornell squad. For the Blue and Gray, however, the losing narrative continued. At the 14 minute mark, senior forward Elly Plappert put the Big Red on the board, and Cornell never looked back. After another fourteen minutes of play, Cornell went ahead 2-0, taking the two goal lead into the half. Sophomore forward Sarah Butterfield scored her third goal of the season halfway through the second half to put the Hoyas within one, but Cornell scored on a rebound to cement its lead at two.

Although the Hoyas limited Cornell to just nine corners, the team was unable to work productively on offense. Despite their 0-6

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Sophomore midfielder Emily Weinberg is staying optimistic about future games. record, though, Georgetown’s field hockey team is not ready to quit.

“It obviously sucks to lose six games in a row, but at this point, we are just trying to focus on winning and moving forward,” Weinberg said.

With Big East play beginning this weekend, the team will need a strong week of practice to get ready for the matches that matter most.

“These matches are the most competitive, so we’re going to work extra hard at practice to be mentally and physically prepared for them,” Weinberg said.

The hope is that the team’s young talent will begin to mesh, as the Hoyas know that this is the key to the season’s success.

The Hoyas will travel to Providence this Friday to begin Big East play. After that match, Georgetown returns home to take on Holy Cross at College Park, Md. Despite the tough start, Georgetown’s squad knows that the season is not over and hopes to rally this weekend to get its season on the right track.

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GU Bounces Back in Fla. Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

With two wins and a loss in the Active Ankle Challenge tournament in the Sunshine State, the Georgetown volleyball team improved its overall record above .500.

The Hoyas’ (6-5) first game in the tournament was against No. 5 Florida (8-1) on Friday afternoon. The Gators —arguably the highest caliber team Georgetown has faced this season — knocked off the Hoyas in three sets.

Georgetown managed to keep the score close early on in the match, but Florida quickly pulled away en route to a decisive victory.

Georgetown Head Coach Arlisa Williams, however, was encouraged by the way the team handled such staunch competition.

“What we take away from Florida and continue to build on is that we can play with anyone,” she said. “I think the biggest takeaway from that match was seeing that level of play against a team that was bigger and more physical than us.”

The next day, Georgetown faced Western Michigan (6-4), and the match seemed to be moving in the same direction as the Florida game when the Broncos took the first two sets.

“They passed extremely well. They had [maybe] five balls in two sets that were not perfect balls that they could run plays out of,” Williams said.

But Georgetown was not going down without a fight.

The Hoyas turned the tables after the break, coming out strong to win the third set and keep the match alive. The Blue and Gray hung tough, winning the third set — and the momentum — in a 27-25 decision.

“When we went in at the break, we just talked about having to serve more aggressively and take care from the in-line,” Williams said. “And our players came out and we served tough, and that forced Western Michigan to get out of system, and then we were able to defend them.”

Georgetown went on to take the final two sets and the match in a dramatic 3-2 victory.

Sophomore outside hitter Lauren Saar led with 20 kills, and juniors Dani White and Alex Johnson followed with 14 and 13. And true to Georgetown’s incredible depth this season, it was two other players who came in and helped the Hoyas get back in the game. “[Senior outside hitter] Brooke Bachesta and [freshman right-side hitter] Shannon Ellis came off the bench against Western Michigan in the third set, and I think that they played a huge part in turning the tide for us,” Williams said.

Ellis recorded a career-high 10 kills, and Bachesta had seven. Both made key plays in the final three sets to secure the victory.

“I think that without the assistance from Shannon and Brooke, the match would have been very different, so I’m proud of them for that,” Williams said.

Fresh off the thrilling comeback win, the Hoyas played their final tournament game against Iona (1-8) on Saturday afternoon and pulled out a 3-1 victory.

“The players did extremely well early in the game executing the details — going from base to defense, swinging high, swinging deep into the court and passing well,” Williams said. “In the middle of the match, we started to break down passing-wise, we

were a little bit inconsistent there and Iona was able to get a jump on us.”

Despite losing focus and dropping the second set, the Blue and Gray had a strong showing, with multiple players filling up the stats sheet en route to the win.

Saar and Johnson each had double doubles, and White led all players with 17 kills.

Freshman setter Caitlin Brauneis had a double double of her own and recorded 42 assists on the evening. She named to the all-tournament team along with her sister, Florida senior setter Taylor Brauneis.

“Caitlin had a strong performance for us,” Williams said. “[She] was very solid, delivered good balls, made good decisions and she just continued to do that and got better throughout the weekend.”

With a successful weekend behind them, the Blue and Gray will next head to Morgantown, W.Va., for their final tournament before conference play begins.

Georgetown will first face West Virginia, a team currently boasting a perfect record at 10-0 record, notching its most recent victory in a 3-2 win over Hampton. They will also take on UMBC (7-4), who is currently on a 17 set win streak.

Williams, after seeing the high level of play and competition from the team in the Active Ankle Challenge, is hoping the team can continue to elevate their level of play in the coming matches.

“We just need to continue to build on us taking care of the details and staying consistent from beginning to end,” she said. “We have put together four pretty good matches with GW, Florida, Western Michigan and Iona, so the question now is, can we continue to get better?”

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Normally a goal-scorer, senior forward Kaitlin Brenn played a supporting role in Friday’s win. She assisted senior Kailey Blain’s goal in the 12th mintute to put the Hoyas up 1-0.

Six Different Players Score in Rout of Yale YALE, from A10 offense; the Hoyas scored four of their eight goals on the afternoon off corner kicks.

“With the delivery we have and the height we have and the athleticism we have, we should be scoring some goals off corners,” Nolan said. “That was good to see.”

Junior midfielder Jillian DeGennaro and sophomore midfielder Marina Paul would both add goals before the end of the first half to provide Georgetown with a comfortable 4-0 lead at the break.

The Hoyas continued to roll in the second half, with junior forward Vanessa Skrumbis and Kroening each contributing a goal and Corboz scoring twice to give Georgetown the final 8-0 victory.

The offensive statistics for the Blue and Gray were staggering. The Hoyas took 14 corner kicks to Yale’s two and outshot the Bulldogs 31-3. When it was all said and done, nine Georgetown players contributed points.

Five points came from Corboz, who finished with two goals and three assists in only 38 minutes. It was the second match back for the preseason Big East offensive player of the year after missing the first five games of the year with a leg injury. Corboz was named Big East Offensive PLayer of the Week for her performance After the game, Corboz was more focused on the team effort than any personal points total.

“Obviously our offense is always dictated by how well we defend,” said Corboz. “It all starts back there, so really I think it was a great team performance.”

The defense and goalkeeping was indeed impressive for Georgetown. The Hoyas lengthened their shutout streak to four games and allowed only one legitimate scoring chance, which came late in the second half after all of the starters, save for senior defender Emily Menges, had been taken out of the game. Nolan was pleased with how his younger defenders acquitted themselves.

“You got the sense that the defenders, late in the game, weren’t going to let other people do their job and let the ball into the back of the net.” Nolan said.

For the Blue and Gray, the focus is now on extending their winning streak to eight games when they play the University of Central Florida (6-2) on Thursday afternoon at home.

Nolan knows that the Knights, who lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, will most likely give his squad the toughest match they’ve had all year.

“UCF is a very strong, nationally renowned program,” said Nolan. “Physically there’s a different dimension to them and then there’s an athletic dimension and a competiveness to them that’s going to be something that we haven’t faced all year.”

Kickoff for that match is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday on Shaw Field.

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Junior middle blocker Dani White (left) led the team in kills against Iona with 17, while sophomore Lauren Saar led all players in kills against Western Michagan with 20.

Cross Country

King Sets Pace for Hoyas INVITATIONAL, from A10 contributor for us for a couple of years, but he has kind of made the jump here.

He trained really hard all summer, and he did a great job. Springer also went in more fatigued than anyone on the team with his training schedule, but I think he dealt with it really well,” Bonsey said.

Rounding off the Hoyas’ point scorers at Navy was the trio of senior Bobby Peavey and juniors Austin Gregor and Nick Rowe, who took sixth, seventh and eight in succession, all within five seconds of one another.

Georgetown’s solid 1-5 team time gap in this race and 11-point margin of victory over runner-up Navy bodes well for the season, especially considering the fact that juniors Collin Leibold, John Murray and Ryan Gil were held out of the varsity race this weekend. The three are expected to be heavy contributors to the squad this year, and the solid race that Georgetown ran without them speaks to the Hoyas’

depth, which should prove to be a huge asset as the season progresses.

The women’s squad also took the victory without many of their frontrunners, breezing by four teams, including runner-up Syracuse, at the Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday.

Sophomore Haley Pierce, running with freshman eligibility in her first race for the Blue and Gray, led the charge for Georgetown with a fourth place, 21:04 effort in the 6k race. She was followed closely by redshirt freshman Rachel Paul, who took sixth place in 21:11.

“We knew that Haley and Rachel were big time athletes, but to run a very good race like that without much collegiate cross country experience is awesome. They have four more years of cross country eligibility in front of them, so we’re really excited about that,” said Head Women’s Cross Country Coach Michael Smith.

Also scoring for the Hoyas were veteran junior Annamarie Maag in ninth place, true freshman Bobbie Burgess

in 15th and junior Andrea Keklak in 16th. The Hoyas had a 1-5 team time gap of just under 30 seconds, a solid showing that will contribute to low scores in bigger meets. In Saturday’s meet, it was certainly good enough — Georgetown beat Syracuse by eight points.

Much like the men’s team, the fact that the Hoya women were able to win comfortably without their core frontrunners is an indication of the team’s depth, a factor that will translate to more wins as the season progresses. Track standout junior Katrina Coogan, graduate student Rachel Schneider, cross country World Junior Championships qualifier sophomore Samantha Nadel and senior Madeline Chambers were all held out of this meet, showing just how much talent the No. 6 ranked women’s team in the nation boasts.

Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will be on a three-week hiatus from competition in order to train for Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational on Oct. 5.

To Pay or Not to Pay? Athletes’ Perks Are Enough MAJD, from A10 and ticket sales, fellow students and alumni are often the ones shelling out the cash, making them just as important to the financial viability of the college sports industry.

When you consider the cost of tuition today, it makes perfect sense to say that athletes in big time sports are getting paid handsomely for their exploits on the playing field.

On the other hand, the considerable monetary benefits afforded by free tuition still pale in comparison to the massive profits that football and basketball programs rake in for their schools. If the players are putting in the extra hours outside of the classroom that their peers would be using to get jobs, and if these extra hours produce a lot of revenue for the school and the economy as a whole, then why can’t Division I college football and basketball be treated like a job – with salary, benefits and the like? Furthermore, if these players could be making full-time athletic salaries if they went into the pro leagues, should they not be compensated whilst they remain in the college ranks?

Ultimately, however, there are two important points that make organized monetary payment to college athletes a tough sell.

First, there is the simple fact that the athletes need the universities more than the universities need them. College sports can get some athletes into schools they normally may not be able to afford or get into based on merit alone, giving them the opportunity to pursue any career they choose — be it in sports or another industry. Those looking to play professionally are almost unilaterally improving their odds at success by developing physically and mentally from the college path; the NFL is too vicious and challenging for any player coming out of high school, so the three mandatory years in college before entering the league are both fair and essential to the success of prospective NFL players. The NCAA is not exploiting MLB and NHL hopefuls either, as they can choose to

enter the draft right out of high school; if they choose to attend college, it means that they need college to develop their skills. The only players that could legitimately complain that the NCAA is exploiting them or costing them money are the select few high school basketball players that are ready to play in the NBA. When commissioner David Stern instituted a misguided policy in 2005 that made players wait one year after high school to enter the draft, it forced some into a college system that they did not need, costing them at least one year of an NBA salary.

Still, this affects an infinitely small population of college athletes — essentially those of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James caliber. In the grand scheme of things, that lost year is not going to concern them after a decade in the NBA. The other flaw in paying college athletes is drawing the line in regards to how much to pay each athlete. Surely monetary distinctions would have to be made across different sports according to how much each program makes their respective schools, but this would logically lead to quantifying how much value each athlete adds individually on each team. This all would make logical sense from a business standpoint, but it also would promote animosity and resentment between different teams and even among teammates.

College athletics are no longer the innocent amateur institutions they once were, but the focus should still be on being a student first, and therefore a positive member of one’s academic community; if the NCAA were to abandon this principle, what would be the point of having college sports teams at all?

It would be better to get rid of the illusion altogether and just set up semi-professional or second-tier professional leagues.

In the end, college athletics will continue to evolve, but the founding concept of amateurism should remain unchanged.

Darius Majd is a junior in the College. THE SPORTING LIFE appears every Tuesday.

SPORTS

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CROSS COUNTRY

Kroening, Corboz Net Two Each in 8-0 Blowout TOM SCHNOOR Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 12 Georgetown women’s soccer team has the momentum of a freight train— and shows no signs of stopping. The undefeated Hoyas (7-0) cruised to an easy 8-0 win over Yale (3-1) Friday afternoon at Shaw Field for the team’s 16th straight win at home, a record dating back to October 2011.

Before the match, Head Coach Dave Nolan predicted that the Bulldogs, who along with the rest of the Ivy League started their season several weeks after the rest of Division I, would be either fresh or unprepared.

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Junior forward Daphne Corboz scored two goals and had three assists in only 38 minutes of play. She is still regaining strength after an injury.

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The latter quickly became apparent.

“It’s a tough spot for [Yale] because they’re only two or three weeks into their season, and we’re six,” Nolan said. “I sensed we were going to be fitter, faster and more game ready than them, and I think that was the difference.”

Georgetown controlled the pace of play from the opening kick. As Yale defended with 11 women behind the ball, the Hoyas pushed forward, creating some of their best combinations in the offensive third this season.

“I thought our offense played really well,” junior midfielder Daphne Corboz said. “We all came out at a high tempo.”

The Hoyas finally broke through in the 12th minute. Senior forward Kaitlin Brenn slid a pass behind the Yale defense to senior midfielder Kailey Blain, who smashed the ball through Bulldog freshman goalkeeper Rachel Ames’ legs into the back of the net for her first goal of the year.

Twenty minutes later, Georgetown struck again. A corner kick from Corboz was played to the near post, where it was headed home by senior defender Mary Kroening, the first of two goals she had on the day. It was Kroening’s second straight game with a goal, an impressive feat for a defender, but not altogether surprising given the senior’s 6-foot tall frame.

“It was great to see Mary get a couple [of goals],” Nolan said. “Especially off set pieces, which is something we’ve been encouraging her to do.”

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Senior Brian King (center right) finished second overall in the 8-kilometer race with a time of 24:09. Graduate student Andrew Springer finished two seconds behind King, helping the Hoyas to victory in the Navy Invitational.

GU Takes First in Openers The women’s team had seven runners finish in the top 15 PATRICK MUSGRAVE Hoya Staff Writer

The start to the Georgetown cross country program’s season went off with a bang this weekend, with both the men’s and women’s teams notching wins in their meets on Saturday.

The men’s squad competed

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The Hoyas were led by senior Brian King, who took second place overall in the 8 kilometer race with a time of 24 minutes, nine seconds, setting a blazing pace of approximately 4:50 per mile. King was bested only by Navy sophomore Steve Schroeder, who crossed in 23:55.

Finishing two seconds behind King was perennial graduate student star Andrew Springer, now in his fifth year on the Hoya cross country squad.

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Gomez, Defense Dominate in Shutout Wins Hoya Staff Writer

eek 3 of college football is in the books, and a season’s worth of scandal has already drifted ominously into the limelight, casting yet another dark cloud over top-flight FBS programs.

The typical rule-breaking archetypes are all present: the superstar quarterback caught signing gear for money (played by Heisman winner Johnny Manziel), the player that accepts illegal benefits from agents and financial advisers (four former and one current SEC football players) and the top tier program whose past recruiting violations have finally come to light (Oklahoma State during the Les Miles era). Though the specific circumstances of these cases are different, they are united by the virtue that they all raise one interesting question: Should college athletes in revenue-making sports be paid for their efforts?

This issue is complex and prone to differing variables depending on the sport and the school in question, and the logic behind both sides of the debate is certainly understandable. Those against paying athletes point out that most are already receiving monetary benefit for their talents via scholarship money. This, combined with priority access in scheduling classes and the rock star adulation on campus that comes with being a top-tier football or basketball player, are reward enough in their eyes. It is also worth noting that although big-time athletes bring in considerable revenue in the form of jersey

at the Navy Invitational in Annapolis, Md., beating nine teams, including several D.C. area teams such as George Washington, American and Howard.

“I thought we had a really good day. Pretty much everyone that lined up put in a really good effort, and that’s really what cross country is about.

We’ve got really talented guys, and if they put in solid efforts every time out, 99 percent of the time we’re going to be happy with the results,” Men’s Coach Brandon Bonsey said.

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The number of games won by the undefeated Georgetown women’s soccer team.

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Sophomore forward Brandon Allen scored the winning goals in both 1-0 victories over Duquesne and JMU.

Notching two more home wins this weekend over Duquesne on Friday and James Madison on Sunday, the No. 17 Georgetown men’s soccer team improved to 4-2 on the season, with only two games to go before conference play begins. Sophomore forward Brandon Allen scored the gamewinning goals in both 1-0 victories, including an overtime beauty to clinch the win over James Madison.

The Duquesne match up was pushed from Thursday to Friday due to inclement weather, but the Hoyas took the delay in stride and started strong, tallying seven shots in the first half. George-

town’s pressure paid off in the 27th minute, when a string of clean passes culminated in the game’s only goal.

Junior midfielder Tyler Rudy got the ball in the middle near the top of the box and sent it out wide, where sophomore attacking defender Keegan Rosenberry picked it up before crossing it perfectly to the feet of Allen who put it away.

Whether he’s starting transitions from the defensive line or attacking from the backfield, Rosenberry’s passes and timing are at the center of many of the Hoyas’ best offensive chances and have earned him the admiration of Head Coach Brian Wiese.

“I think he’s the best attacking fullback in the country. He just

makes good decisions; his timing is excellent, which I don’t think a lot of people really appreciate,” Wiese said. “He gets into the spots at the right times. When he gets into these areas, he plays a really good pass or a cross.”

The Blue and Gray created a couple more promising chances, most notably a header from sophomore left back Josh Turnley that hit the post, but the Duquesne keeper — who had yet to give up a goal all season before Friday — lived up to the hype and came up with several huge saves. Even so, Wiese thought the Hoyas should have been able to put away a few more goals.

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FOOTBALL

Marist Demolishes Georgetown for First Win CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

What was left of the crowd was hushed; the sideline, defeated — no one expected a loss, let alone an embarrassment. The Georgetown football team (1-2) looked flat all night and was throttled by Marist (1-2), 43-23, Saturday night at MultiSport Facility.

“What I told the players in the locker room — they [made] more plays than we did tonight,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “With three turnovers, you’re not going to win many games.”

The Hoyas, coming off a 42-6 dismantling of Davidson, struggled in every facet of the game and were unable to keep the previously winless Red Foxes in check.

Georgetown’s defense gave up a

season-high 505 yards and was unable to force a turnover. The Georgetown offense amassed 453 yards over the course of the game, but they struggled to find the end zone. “[Offensive] yards [don’t] really matter to me. It’s the points on the scoreboard,” Kelly said.

The Blue and Gray especially struggled to get into an offensive rhythm in the first quarter. On the first play from scrimmage, senior quarterback Isaiah Kempf underthrew his receiver, resulting in a Marist interception.

The turning point came in the final minutes of the first half. The Hoyas had knotted the game at 9 with a 44-yard field goal by senior kicker Matt MacZura, but the Red See FOOTBALL, A8

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Senior wide receiver Zach Wilke’s 10 catches for 108 yards and one touchdown were not enough to catch up with Marist’s offensive explosion.