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EDITORIAL More MA/BAs will save students time and money on degrees.

Hoyas win second game in as many weeks, taking down Brown Bears.

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MARIJUANA Talk of marijuana legalization has prompted pushback.

RHINO ARRESTS Three students were arrested at Rhino on Saturday night.

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H*yas for Choice Barred From Tabling Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY CAROLINE JAMES

Georgetown students took part in the 400,000-person People’s Climate March in New York on Sunday.

Students Join Climate Rally Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

In anticipation of a meeting of world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, over 400,000 people — double the expected attendance — participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, including over 40 Georgetown students.

The march, organized by 350.org, began around 11:30 a.m. and wound its way throughout downtown Manhattan, traversing 40 blocks.

At 12:58 p.m., the attendees held a moment of silence that lasted until 1 p.m. for frontline communities already affected by climate change.

They continued the march through Times Square before concluding the event at Penn Station.

An estimated 2,000 similar events were held in 150 countries, including larger demonstrations in London and Paris.

Georgetown students, including members of Georgetown University

Fossil Free, organized to attend the march in conjunction with the Sierra Club, American University and The George Washington University.

While approximately 70 students bought $20 tickets for chartered buses to and from the event, attendee Caroline James (COL ’16), a member of GU Fossil Free and the Georgetown University Student Association secretary of sustainability, estimated that 40 students actually made the trip to New York.

“We got a lot of people to come, more than we’ve ever gotten people to come for an external climate event,” James said. “There are some people that I know are supportive of the environmental cause but just aren’t involved on campus because they’re involved in other stuff, so I was really happy to see them because it takes major initiative and a bit of sacrifice to get yourself up to New York.”

The march preceded the U.N. Climate Summit led by SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-Moon that will be

held today in New York, which will convene world leaders, including President Barack Obama, to discuss the issue of climate change and possible policy situations. GUSA Undersecretary of Sustainability Mandy Lee (SFS ’17), also marched, believing that the proximity to the event could spark real action.

“This has been the largest climate march in history, and it’s all in order to send a message that negotiations need to have a real impact in the future since climate conferences have been so ineffective so far,” Lee said. “Personally, I’d like to see commitments about climate change that have real deadlines.”

James also said she hoped the march would bring accountability to leaders at climate summits.

“Just having our bodies there demanding loudly that this is something that cannot wait any longer brings probably a sense of urgency to this issue for them, and they See CLIMATE, A6

Members of H*yas for Choice were temporarily removed from a previously approved tabling location on 37th Street, just outside of the university’s front gates, by a Georgetown University Police Department officer five minutes after setting up a table on the sidewalk Monday afternoon.

The group decided to table in silent protest of an event occurring in Gaston Hall, in which the university bestowed an honorary degree to Donald Cardinal Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington. Group members said they oppose Wuerl’s positions on LGBTQ rights and women’s health.

H*yas for Choice, in reaction to the event on campus, decided to taKATHERINE RICHARDSON/THE HOYA ble outside of the university gates on H*yas for Choice members were a public sidewalk so that event-goers would see them on their way to Gas- told to leave the sidewalk outside ton Hall. The group was removed the front gates. during prime foot traffic, about 15 minutes before the ceremony’s start original location on the sidewalk. It is unclear why the group was temat 5 p.m.

As an unrecognized student porarily barred from tabling on the group, H*yas for Choice is limited to sidewalk. The university directed redesignated free speech zones when quests for comment to GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber, who was not tabling.

H*yas for Choice was allowed to available for comment as of press time. table on 37th The univerStreet last year, sity’s current and were in fact speech and extold to table in this exact spot pression policy, after they were revised in May, removed from designates spacHealy Circle es such as Red during last Square, Regents VINCENT DILAURENTIS (SFS ’17). year’s Cardinal Lawn, the lobby H*yas for Choice Vice President O’Connor Conof the Leavey ference on Life. After 18 minutes in Center and the Healey Family Stufront of Healy Hall, GUPD relocated dent Center as free speech zones. A the group to this same spot just out- statement from Assistant Dean for side the campus gates.

Student Engagement Erika Cohen An hour after the removal Mon- Derr at the start of the semester said day, the same officer informed the group they could return to their See CHOICE, A6

“Georgetown is paying lip service to free speech.”

After Setback, Syrian Event Proceeds Law Students to Observe Guantanamo Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

Two law students will attend proceedings at the U.S. Naval Center in Guantanamo Bay in October, after the U.S. Department of Defense approved the Georgetown University Law Center as an official observer of the military commissions operations, or military tribunals authorized by presidential order, in late August.

Kayleigh Golish (LAW ’15) will observe the trial of Abd al-Rahim alNashiri, a Saudi Arabian citizen accused of orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 as well as for leading al-Qaida operations in the Persian Gulf before he was captured in November 2002 by the CIA. B. Shaw Drake (LAW ’15) will have the opportunity to observe the trial of the 9/11 case, which includes charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a member of al-Qaida who allegedly confessed under torture to U.S. agents his involvement in 20 years of terrorist activity.

Guantanamo Bay has been a hotbed of contention since the Bush administration for its use of torture and extrajudicial punishment on prisoners held at the naval base.

On his first day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the base, but without an agreed-upon location to transfer the prisoners, Guantanamo Bay remains open.

To quell allegations of a lack of due process administered to defendants, the U.S. Department of Defense first granted observer status to five non-governmental organizations in 2003, and 18 additional NGOs have been approved since 2011.

Observers sit behind soundproof

COURTESY KAYLEIGH GOLISH

COURTESY B. SHAW DRAKE

Kayleigh Golish (LAW ’15), top, and B. Shaw Drake (LAW ’15) will travel to Guantanamo Bay. glass, waiting for audio that is delayed by 40 seconds. The judge can press a button at any time to stop the audio feed if classified information is released during the trial. Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s trial in January 2013 sparked rumors when the feed was mysteriously cut for several See GUANTANAMO, A7

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Students, faculty, journalists and performers gathered at the Gonda Theatre on Friday to hear from a group of Syrian refugees via Skype from Amman, Jordan, who had originally planned to perform at Georgetown, but were denied visas by the State Department.

The event, “Voices Unheard — The Syria: Trojan Women Summit” was held by the university’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics to connect the local community with the refugees at the center of the “Syria: The Trojan Women” performance originally planned and discuss the issues surrounding their denied efforts to visit the United States.

Instead of the performance of “Syria: The Trojan Women,” an interpretation of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” incorporating the performers’ own experiences as refugees, the event included a live-stream video chat with the women, behind-the scenes footage from a documentary chronicling the production in the Middle East, and a panel with producers and regional experts.

The women have performed the play in Jordan, which was followed in the documentary “Queens of Syria.” The performance at Georgetown would have been their first performance outside the Middle East.

This “Syria: The Trojan Women” program, based in Amman, provides therapeutic drama workshops for Syrian refugees suffering from depression, posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety, as well as financial assistance for these urban refugees, a significant number of whom had Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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The refugees who originally planned to visit Georgetown, spoke to attendees via Skype at “Voices Unheard — The Syria: Trojan Women Summit.” careers in Syria.

Charlotte Eagar, the play’s coproducer, said that the performance and subsequent documentary helped give a voice to these women, who often go unnoticed in the media.

“The perspective of ordinary Syrian women affected by this conflict and the refugee crisis is so often markedly absent from media coverage,” Eagar said during the summit.“They said they had finally been given the chance to tell their stories to the world.

Because when you are a refugee, something terrible has happened.

Every single refugee has suffered a dramatic event in their life that would make a Hollywood movie but nobody is listening, nobody

wants to hear.”

The theater was completely full Friday evening, with some students sitting on the stage.

These stories, panelists said, give a voice to the crisis.

“It’s those personal narratives that are so significant in really shaping that whole story,” Al-Juburi, a panelist, said. “With any major atrocity, you really need those Anne Franks that are on the ground, those voices that really show what’s happening and help to sort of define the humanity of it all.”

The women themselves, during video chat panel moderated by Syrian journalist and radio perSee SYRIA, A7

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OPINION

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Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

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Informed Amid Uncertainty Last week’s tragic passing of Andrea Jaime (NHS ’17) from bacterial meningitis garnered the campus community’s attention and reflection. At a time when students and faculty may have been unsure of how to proceed, the information that Student Health Services disseminated in a timely fashion brought comfort to students in this moment of uncertainty.

With an outbreak of a disease that manifests itself suddenly and has already claimed the life of one Georgetown student, students were rightly concerned about the public health implications of this campus tragedy.

And although many students often lodge serious, legitimate complaints against Student Health Services, during this time of disquiet, the office acted effectively to ease the anxiety with daily email updates on the case and the relevant services available to students.

These emails, signed by Assistant Vice President for Health Services James Welsh, provided necessary information on meningitis symptoms and prevention. The updates, which included links to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s page

about meningitis, as well as phone numbers to reach the Student Health Center and clinician on duty at the health center made students feel safer and more knowledgeable about resources and calmed the campus community at a time when panic could ensue.

By prioritizing awareness, the Student Health Center made it possible for students and faculty to feel comfortable going about their daily routines on campus. Furthermore, by extending the hours of the Student Health Center until 2 a.m. once the university confirmed the presence of bacterial meningitis, the administration also quelled concerns about access to information and services. Even though the health center primarily disseminated little more than information that night, it was comforting to know that the university took students’ peace of mind into consideration.

The stress of the school year, compounded with the sadness of losing a classmate, is a taxing situation for students. The university’s ability to ease this anxiety should be much appreciated.

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Faring for Good — Uber will donate $1 per ride to five charities this month, including Fight For Children and the National Park Foundation.

Bite Me — A Woodbridge, Va. preschool teacher was charged with assault this week for allegedly biting a student.

Fenced Out — The Secret Service is setting up security screening checkpoints around the White House after a man scaled the perimeter fence Friday.

Wicked Fast Wieners — Saturday’s third annual Wiener 500 Dachshund Dash determined the fastest dog in town while raising money for the Washington Humane Society.

From Hilltop to Hollywood — The Fox sitcom “Mulaney,” starring Georgetown’s own John Mulaney (COL ’04), premieres Oct. 5.

Out of Stock — One of the primary vendors for Vital Vittles has filed for bankruptcy, which means that selections at The Corp’s flagship store will be temporarily limited.

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Sept. 20 Tonight @HoyasFB celebrates the 50th Anniversary of football’s return to the Hilltop. Read more from @thehoya @hoya8185

Sept. 19 Great energy in new space! Worth checking out. “@thehoya: Georgetown Piano Bar opened as Mr. Smith’s moved to K”

Degrees Bought in Bulk The looming specters of debt and the difficulty of finding a job can be thoroughly potent in dissuading students from committing even more money and time to a graduate degree. While these are harsh realities that most students face in their postgraduate lives, they should not be automatic deterrents from the further pursuit of academic passion. One solution is programs that give students more flexibility in the paths they can take toward obtaining a graduate degree, which is why Georgetown’s addition of a combined bachelor of arts and master of arts in democracy and governance makes especially good sense.

The recent addition of this accelerated BA/ MA degree is an example of how universities can encourage students who are unsure how graduate studies might fit with their life and career goals. The School of Foreign Service offers 12 accelerated BA/MA degree options in seven different departments, but still lags behind the College, which offers BA/MA degree programs in the English, art history, history, mathematics and select foreign language departments.

By double-counting certain classes and

allowing undergraduates to take graduatelevel courses in their senior year, a master’s degree can be earned through these programs with just one year of graduate study.

The academic benefits of graduate programs are self-evident, but the ability to eliminate a year of higher education and the associated costs removes one more daunting obstacle to postgraduate degrees.

Accessibility in higher education has long been, and will continue to be, a pressing issue in the academic community. While considerable progress has been made in undergraduate education, the availability of financial aid for graduate students is not nearly as strong. If being saddled with student debt is inevitable, the draw of master’s programs — especially as compared to their J.D. and M.D. counterparts — is left only to decline, despite the added career opportunities that these graduate degrees often provide.

As a service to Georgetown undergraduates and a testament to Georgetown’s commitment to making higher education more accessible, the addition of more five-year programs is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.

Finding New Space for Faith The Hilltop has a long-established record as a forum for dialogue between members of many different religious traditions. Between the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown has proven a qualified and appropriate place to have interfaith dialogue.

It comes as a welcome announcement then that Georgetown officials are in the midst of talks to create a new Interfaith Prayer Center on the Hilltop. These conversations follow widespread support among student groups and Campus Ministry officials for more on-campus spaces that foster interfaith dialogue and understanding.

The space would serve as a prayer center for students of all faith orientations, and would include several prayer rooms, a common gathering space and a kitchen. In constructing such a space, Georgetown would further prove its commitment to the ideal of

interreligious understanding both in theory and in practice.

As beautiful an ambition as constructing a new prayer center is, it too has its potential obstacles. It is no secret Georgetown is experiencing an era of great growth and development, as evidenced by construction of the Thompson Athletics Center, Northeast Triangle Residence Hall and the recently opened Healey Family Student Center. Truly, Georgetown’s ambitions are taking shape to complement its established Jesuit foundation.

It is frustrating that a project like this may sit on the back burner while the university pursues more urgent construction endeavors to meet the requirements of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement. Hopefully, Georgetown will be able to continue pushing for projects, like an Interfaith Prayer Center, that reflect our character as a university, while complying with our day-to-day needs as an institution.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

POLITICS OF PARTH

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5 Forecasts for the Hilltop’s Entrepreneurs Parth Shah

In the CAR, A Neglected Catastrophe I

magine a place torn apart by sectarian violence, facing regime changes all the time, desperate for peace and facing crushing poverty due to the turmoil. Its natural resources are exploited in a clandestine manner in order to finance war operations, and the hopes and dreams of its citizens have been rendered futile as it attempts to assert a semblance of stability.

Sound familiar?

Except this isn’t Iraq or Syria — it’s the Central African Republic, a conflictplagued, landlocked nation that has not had much to cheer about since long before its colonial past. And at the moment, it’s the most ignored place on Earth.

In the past decade or so, the CAR has endured through the rule of an incompetent and corrupt ruler, who was overthrown by a Muslim minority coalition called the Seleka. The Seleka merely commenced the same hostilities and conducted massive human rights violations, including indiscriminate torture, rape and murder of innocent civilians.

Child soldiers, inspired by the tactics used by Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, assumed a fixture during and after the violent coup.

This spawned a fresh campaign of revenge from a Christian group called the Anti-Balaka (anti-machete), which responded with the same atrocities, and forced the Seleka leader, Djotodia, from power in December 2013. The aftermath of the swift power changes has resulted in more than 5,000 deaths since December, with a quarter of the nation’s nearly 5 million people displaced.

And the Muslim minority population remains heavily targeted, causing them to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere, with only one Muslim-inhabited district left in the capital city of Bangui. The Anti-Balaka have been accused of moving toward an ethnic cleansing of Muslims.

Despite the severe lack of control over the state by its institutions, the international community’s help has been quite limited. The United Nations recently took over peacekeeping operations, and yet the force supplied is not nearly what is necessary to stabilize the country.

Aid is not substantial enough to sustain infrastructure development that has been torn apart because of the cycle of bloody fighting, leading Steven McDonald, an expert in central Africa from the Woodrow Wilson Center to call the CAR a place that “the world has ignored for two years.”

And this is truly a travesty, because the CAR has tons of potential. Even the most pragmatic observer would acknowledge that, notwithstanding the gross human rights violations that have already occurred, the CAR is home to significant reserves of timber, diamonds, uranium, gold and crude oil. These resources remain either untapped or are exported illegally to finance war operations.

Given that the CAR is one of the 10 poorest nations on the planet, there is ample opportunity to create opportunities for legitimate trade, employment and growth. But at the moment, the country is moving backward, with a double-digit gross domestic product contraction rate and growing unemployment.

The marginalization of the Muslim minority population is a recipe that contains all the necessary ingredients for a move toward extremism. People are desperate simply to survive, and with a lack of help from the international community, extremism becomes an attractive alternative. Al-Qaida has called for targeting of Muslims in the CAR to stop, prescribing jihad to stem the persecution.

Neighboring countries have already witnessed the rise of militant action — for example, Boko Haram in Nigeria — and the main driver appears to be economic need. In a country that ranks near the bottom for economic opportunity, and likely near the bottom for basic quality of daily life, the danger of extremism cannot be overlooked.

An end to this cycle of retribution and retaliation, however, is entirely achievable. Strong leadership, as asserted by the United Kingdom in the case of Sierra Leone, stabilized the root foundations of its system after a devastating civil war that featured many of these same features.

There is definitely a path to making this a success story in a continent that desperately needs more success and also a likely scenario in which the cycle of death continues, with potentially more dangerous overtones as frustration builds to a breaking point.

We can help avoid the latter by at least talking about it.

Parth Shah is a junior in the College.

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can’t speak conclusively for Georgetown’s community of entrepreneurs, but having assisted in the planning of Georgetown’s startup weekend this year, here are some thoughts on Entrepreneurship Day.

but recently D.C.’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has absolutely exploded. Washington attracts young, ambitious people who want to change the world — the city has an absolute wealth and diversity of talent.

A growing disillusionment with bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations and government in general has many young people living in Washington turning to entrepreneurship to make their dreams of creating real change realities. And from the perspective of investors, some of the most exciting sectors for venture capitalists are closely tied with government — sectors like health care, transportation, energy and education.

I can think of maybe only a handful of cities that could be better for entrepreneurs, and D.C. is quickly climbing up the ranks.

1. Entrepreneurship at Georgetown has undergone a serious evolution over the past several years.

Over 200 people showed up for this year’s Georgetown Entrepreneurship Day, and another 400 made an appearance for TechBuzz that afternoon. That’s over 600 people who care deeply about entrepreneurship at Georgetown, and that’s only the beginning — as nonprofit director Victoria Schramm (COL ’12) said, five years ago, none of this would have been possible.

2. Entrepreneurship is a great fit for Georgetown. One thing this university has in spades is intelligent, driven students who want to change the world. We hear all the time about how Georgetown students are the ones smart and capable enough to go out and really make a difference in this world we have inherited, and entrepreneurship is the ultimate expression of just that.

When you bring together the creativity, the intelligence, the passion and the desire to make a difference, that’s a recipe for incredible entrepreneurs, and more importantly, that’s a recipe for making real change. And more and more Georgetown students are growing increasingly restless with the traditional corporate career paths and instead really want to bring together the nexus of creativity and business.

They want to use business to add value to the world, whether that’s through a socially conscious venture or just their next great idea.

3. Georgetown is quickly becoming one of the best schools in the country for entrepreneurship. From our recently announced partner-

Entrepreneurship is a great fit for Georgetown. One thing this university has in spades is intelligent, driven students who want to change the world. ship with global entrepreneurial hub 1776, to our being two-time national undergraduate champs and one-time global MBA champs in the Venture Capital Investment Competition, to our being the first university in the country to offer stipends to graduating seniors to pay off their student loan debt so

that they can pursue their startups, Georgetown is changing the face of entrepreneurship.

4. Washington, D.C., has become a significant incubator for entrepreneurs. Normally you associate entrepreneurship with places like San Francisco or the Silicon Valley,

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5. Entrepreneurship is only really beginning to catch on at Georgetown. I know that might sound odd given all the praise I just gave for entrepreneurship at Georgetown, but I think it can and will be so much bigger on campus. And I know that the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative has high expectations and even higher goals for the programs. John Doerr, venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins and early investor in Google, Amazon.com, Groupon and Facebook, is coming to campus this Friday, and that’s really only the beginning.

“Every single student at Georgetown being exposed to entrepreneurship — that’s my goal,” Founding Director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative Jeff Reid said.

And you know what: I think that’s a worthy goal to pursue, and I think it’s a goal we will see achieved.

BARRY GOLDSMITH is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. He is a student program assistant for Startup Hoyas.

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The Perfect Weekend to A Surprising Journey Connect With Alumni Via Active Meditation

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n medical school, it can be easy to disappear from the real world at times. With so much to learn in so little time, sometimes even getting outside the walls of the medical school library can seem superfluous, especially for a second-year medical student like me. This past weekend, though, I had the opportunity to take a step back from my studies and think about Georgetown as an institution.

As the Vice Chair of the Medical Student Alumni Association, I was honored to be asked to join Georgetown’s board of governors — the leadership body of the Georgetown University Alumni Association — for the next two years as a student governor. The organization’s Fall Leadership Weekend was held on and around campus this weekend. I had previously known little about this organization but learned much over the short span of the weekend.

My first stop was the new governor orientation on Thursday evening at the Alumni House, where I was greeted by Alumni Association President George Peacock (CAS ’84). Here, I learned more about the mission of the GUAA, which is “to generate goodwill and support for the university and to foster a lifelong connection among alumni, our alma mater and the global Georgetown community.” Most importantly, the GUAA cares about the students.

The focus of the student-alumni engagement meeting Friday afternoon was to discuss more ways the alumni could get involved on campus. To my surprise, nothing was off limits. Ideas from a studentalumni flag football game on the quad to an alumni dunk tank during Georgetown Day were all put on the table — and taken seriously.

Students may soon see the effects of the Adopt-a-Dorm program, through which alumni can “adopt” floors of their former dorms and plan events such as pizza nights for the students or help families on move-in day. The alumni also hope to have more of a presence during graduation events, where they can welcome graduating seniors into the alumni community — helping them transition from the close-knit

campus family into a worldwide Georgetown alumni family.

Another common theme of the weekend was idea sharing among the different Georgetown schools and graduate programs.

The alumni were very interested to hear about successful medical school programs that could be implemented at the undergraduate level. The Dine-with-a-Doc program, in which local Georgetown alumni physicians can take current medical students out to dinner or host them at their own homes, has been very successful in the medical school, offering students access to personal conversations and advice from current physicians.

The medical school also connects students and alumni through the white coat ceremony — where current alumni donate a white coat to each new student in the first-year class.

This is a way for alumni to welcome each new student into the Georgetown University School of Medicine community and is a very meaningful rite of passage for medical students.

The GUAA is looking for a similar way to welcome new undergraduate students to campus and show them that from the day they enter the Georgetown community, they have the support of thousands of alumni from across the globe. Many other ideas were exchanged, some of which, I hope, you as students will benefit from during your time here on campus.

Though I knew little about the board of governors before the start of this weekend, I loved the opportunity to learn so much about Georgetown throughout the past couple of days. Georgetown is always recognized for its active alumni network, but this past weekend I got to see that community in action. The Georgetown alumni community is a large, diverse group of people united in their passion to give back to the students here. Georgetown students should be proud of this legacy.

Georgetown is well-recognized for its alumni network.

This weekend, I saw the community in action.

KIMBERLY O’NEILL is a second-year student at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She is a student governor on Georgetown’s board of Governors.

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editation has always struck thought about people whom I knew me as an inefficient use only vaguely but were in need of of valuable time. My dis- prayer and healing. I asked for blesstinctly Protestant understanding of ings on friends with whom I hadn’t prayer allowed me to come before spoken in years. Increasingly out of God, unencumbered by intercessors ideas, I decided to ask God to influor ritualized language, and speedily ence some of the larger problems in drop off a collection of charitable the world and for vague things like thoughts and concerns. Before peace.

Georgetown, I saw meditation as an Finally out of steam, and with undisciplined foray into the realm of my remaining blocks nearer a score the spiritual. than a dozen, I decided to listen. I My disinterest in meditation was didn’t listen in the sense that I waitonly surpassed by my antipathy for ed for a physical voice to speak to me, solitude. While sometimes antiso- but I listened for information, for an cial, I generally need to be around impulse. While I didn’t suddenly see people as much as possible. solutions to all of my problems, I did Thus, I surprised even myself start to have clarity about many of when, upon the recommendation of them. For the rest of my walk, I felt a man whom I very much admire, I supported by God and surrendered began to try to schedule a time in my to Him. week for solitude and meditation.

I realized the impermanence of Between classes most of my worand work, there ries and the imdidn’t seem to be portance of the a readily accessible people who make time. Fortunately, me flee solitude. working nights I thought of my at Town Dance g r e a t - g ra n d f a boutique has left ther’s favorite me without any hymn “In the Garsleep schedule to den” and its porspeak of, so, when trayal of a walking Tim Rosenberger returning from conversation with these shifts, I have God. In this busy, been using the Most people on the Hill- loud, gray city, walk or bike ride there is no finer top would benefit from garden than the from Ninth Street to meditate. streets at night. spiritual unburdening.

My first effort By the time I aron this front was rived at campus, rather fruitless. As it turns out, week- I felt refreshed. My meditation had end nights on U Street — even as late not been a vague floating, but an inas 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. — are not a place volved work. The relaxation I felt was for meditation. I won’t forget some more like a post-workout endorphin of the more interesting people I saw high than a post-spa complacency. milling about at that late hour, but I The semester is already hitting us certainly did not find that they drew hard, and I think most people on the me closer to God. Hilltop would benefit from a spirituThe next night, I decided to take a al unburdening. Such unburdening more secluded route back to George- will require work, but is well worth town and to be very intentional in the raw surrender of self and outlay my efforts to meditate. Residential of time that it requires. streets in the darkest hours of the Georgetown students generally morning provide the most secluded go about everything with intenexperience I have had since moving tionality and focus, and meditation to Washington, D.C. I found myself should be no different. I encourage genuinely able to shut out the world everyone to seek a time of solitude and to focus on the spiritual work of for focused personal communion meditation. with God. Refreshed and refocused I began, as is my custom, with a through this commitment to spirivery deliberate prayer. I offered some tual and emotional hygiene, we can words of praise and then began to more actively thrive. ask for guidance on various quesI will continue my evening walks tions I have about my life. I spilled with God, if only so that, when the out my concerns and even asked daylight comes, I can more actively for a few miracles. Having worked serve as his hands when the city through everything on my mind I wakes up and ends my solitude. looked at the street sign and realized that 27 blocks still stood between me Tim Rosenberger is a junior in the and the front gates of Georgetown.

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Q & A: The Producer Behind ‘The Trojan Women’ MOLLY SIMIO

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Georgina Paget, a London-based producer, is producing the documentary “Queens of Syria” and the feature film “The Trojan Women,” which evolved from the original play.

She read Classics at Oxford, as did her co-producers Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling.

How did you get involved with “Syria: Trojan Women?”

It’s a funny story, actually. I was at a film pitching competition … the year before last and I entered with a completely different project and Charlotte [Eagar] and William [Stirling], who are now my co-producers, entered with this project, and I just thought it sounded like the most amazing idea that I had ever heard.

I had seen that they already had a producer, since they were the writers, but I went up to them afterward and said, “That sounds really interesting and let me know if there’s anything that I can do to be involved or help.” We kind of stayed connected. Well, I basically stalked them and that’s kind of how it started. I just really loved the idea.

I just thought the idea of them using this play for a drama therapy project with a group of refugee women just seemed so perfect, and such a great way to raise awareness on a larger scale of the Syrian refugee crisis, which as much as you feel that it’s in the news a fair amount, it gets relegated to the back pages a lot of the time. And especially working with women as well I thought was a real plus, and actually hearing their stories, because I think the media coverage of the Syrian conflict has been very male and very militaristic, and sometimes for obvious reasons.

It’s difficult to report from inside of Syria, but there’s not so much from the women, which is half the population.

How was the Greek play adapted to incorporate the stories of these refugees?

It’s an intricate play, but there are sections of the play where the chorus talk about what their life was like before Troy [lost to] the Greeks. One of the ways that they wove in stories was that some of our cast talk about their previous lives. There were some monologues that were projected onto the screen at the back of the theater, and two women at a time read monologues from the play and talked about characters that they particularly identified with and kind of picked a line from the play and talked about what that meant to them and how that resonated.

A huge part of drama therapy is es-

sentially being in a safe place between the character you’re playing and you, to be able to kind of reference your own experiences … is really helpful, I’m told. We did this other exercise where some of the cast wrote letters to someone who is no longer with them. Somebody wrote a letter to her house, which is kind of cool, to tell her house back in Syria how much she missed it. There were letters to friends, family members who had fled to other parts of the region, like Turkey or Lebanon, or in some cases to people who had died or who they didn’t know where they are, which is quite amazing.

That was kind of interwoven with actual scenes from the play, so it was all one, really playing on the idea of memory witnessing storytelling.

Some of the really interesting parts of the play itself … talk about how war is no more, but our story will live on through the ages, which again is kind of a neat parallel.

You used the term “drama therapy.”

To what extent is the purpose of this production to inform and entertain the audience, and to what extent is it really for the women who are acting in it?

It’s not one or the other, it’s very much both. Primarily, when we began the project, we didn’t know if the end performance was going to be good or not. It could have been this sort of half-decent school play, you never know. But that wasn’t the focus.

We shot a documentary in hopes that that would be a way of sharing this with a wider audience, even if the play itself was not anything of great artistic value. But in fact, our directors are absolutely wonderful, and the cast were really fantastic and gave a lot of themselves and did a lot of really moving performances.

Ultimately, our first concerns were for the women. It was very much that they were in control. They only shared what they wanted to share.

The primary purpose was for them, as a drama therapeutic exercise.

How did you interact with a larger community of Syrian refugees and how did that affect the development of the play?

There was certainly a trickle-down effect to that we had to run a daycare center for all of the kids that came with their moms who weren’t in school. A lot of them were very young. The psychologist who was working with the women … also worked with the kids. A lot of them had real behavioral problems and deep traumas as well.

In terms of actually interacting with the community, I suppose the

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London-based producer Georgina Paget sits down with The Hoya to discuss the production of her documentary, “Queens of Syria,” as well as her feature film, “The Trojan Women.” eventual performances were part of that. That wasn’t just the Syrian refugee community … but also Jordanians, people who live alongside Syrian refugees. It’s a very interesting country that people are from all over the region and very few call themselves Jordanians. I didn’t meet someone who called himself a Jordanian for about a week and a half when I first went there.

It was quite hard-hitting for a lot of Jordanians to listen to these experiences of people are living right with them. Ultimately, it is very hard to emphathize with someone if you don’t understand.

The [women] really, really want to show what’s going on, because they feel like they’re being ignored, whether that’s kind of on purpose or by accident. I just remember think-

ing, how awful it would be and all these things happened to me and essentially no one cared and no one was listening.

The production will be coming to the West this fall in Switzerland. Do you anticipate that it will be received differently in the West than it has been in the Middle East?

I guess it will be received differently by every different audience who watch[es] it, but I think what will be a common thread, and certainly you could feel it in the theater in Amman, was just quite how moving it was to watch these women play characters who weren’t them, but also play themselves and to actually share things that were so deeply personal.

The impact is really hard to describe.

I watched the play, and I don’t speak

really any Arabic. I had the program notes and I knew the play and I knew what they were saying roughly, but I watched that without subtitles and no translation, and I just found it incred ibly moving and very powerful. I think what comes across is the emotion and the feelings of loss and displacement and frustrations around that.

It will be interesting to see how it’s received in the West. I think in the Mid dle East, perhaps people are a lot more aware on one level, if you see me, not exactly the exact stories of what’s go ing on, but I don’t think it will be such a shock or a surprise as it might be for certain audiences in the West, depend ing on how informed they are. I guess you only read as much news as print ed, so it will depend on where they live and what is available as to how much they know about what’s going on.

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DC Council Proposes Concealed Carry Permit SUZANNE MONYAK

censing process that will provide a means for those responsible and suitable firearms Hoya Staff Writer owners who can show they have a legitiThe D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on mate need for it to obtain a permit to carry emergency legislation that would allow a weapon in public in a concealed manner,” citizens of the District to carry concealed Gray said in a press release. “At the same weapons in public. time, this legislation will ensure that the Announced Wednesday, the proposal carrying of firearms remains prohibited or came in response to the U.S. District Court limited at sensitive locations and occasions ruling in Palmer v. District of Columbia, in the District.” which deemed the gun regulations prohibIf passed, the emergency bill will join iting D.C. citizens from carrying firearms Maryland, New Jersey and New York, states outside of their homes unconstitutional. that share similar licensing regulations.

Mayor Vincent Gray, Council Chairman Doxie McCoy, a spokesperson for Mayor Phil Mendelson and D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray, said the mayor’s office beTommy Wells (D-Ward 6), all Democrats, lieves that bill will have a strong chance of proposed a piece of joint legislation, called being passed. the “License to Carry a Pistol Emergency “We are confident the bill will pass since Amendment Act of 2014,” that would place it was a collaborative effort between the limitations on firearms possession and mayor and the Council,” McCoy wrote in transportation while still according with an email. the court ruling.

Georgetown University College Demo“The emergency legislation the Council crats Vice Chair Betsy Johnson (COL ’16) will take up Tuesday reflects the District’s pointed at the higher rates of gun violence response to the Palmer ruling,” Mendelson in D.C. to support the bill. She hopes the wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “I continue Palmer decision will be appealed and D.C.’s to believe that the court ruling is overly former regulations will be ruled constitubroad and fails to consider the unique se- tional, but in her opinion, the proposed curity concerns the Disamendment is a sound trict faces, but am hopealternative. ful that the District’s “Hopefully, it will be efforts to overturn or declared constitutional, limit that ruling will be but in light of the fact successful.” that it has been deThe amendment proclared unconstitutional, poses to restrict or limit I think it’s a very reasonthe carrying of firearms able measure, and hopein sensitive locations fully it won’t be weakDOXIE MCCOY such as government ened,” Johnson said.

Communications Director for the Executive buildings, public trans“Forcing people to have Office of Mayor Vincent Gray portation units, places to take gun training bewhere alcohol is sold and served, schools fore they’re able to carry a weapon is very and universities, stadium and arenas and reasonable, there’s a lot of very reasonable situations that demand higher protection restrictions in the bill.” for officials or visiting dignitaries.

Mitchell Tu (SFS ’17), president of the Additionally, the license to carry a fire- Georgetown Young Americans for Liberty, arm will only be extended to citizens who supported the Palmer decision, but felt have a justifiable reason to fear for their that the proposed emergency bill featured safety and well-being — or have another le- too many limitations. gitimate reason to own a pistol — and who “In terms of the legislation, we obviously are deemed suitable to be carrying a fire- are in favor of constitutional concealed arm. Any individual who wants to apply carry of firearms. It’s something that’s stipfor a concealed carry license must finish a ulated in the Second Amendment of this thorough gun safety and handling training country. However, when it comes to what course. the council is proposing, what they’re pro“We are ready to move forward with a posing is adding extra regulations,” Tu concealed carry licensing system for law- said. abiding and qualifying residents and nonJohnson emphasized that the presence residents that complies with the court of such important politicians and figures ruling while maximizing our focus on pre- in the District make it apt for stricter gun serving public safety,” Mendelson wrote. laws.

Gray also praised the licensing process “It’s definitely a huge issue for the state, that will allow eligible firearms owners to especially [because] there’s a bunch of fedcarry a firearm if necessary. eral government buildings here. It makes “In a process in which the chairman and sense that security would be tighter here.

I have been personally involved, our joint It’s an urban area, it’s not a rural district,” team has worked diligently to set up a li- Johnson said.

“We are confident the bill will pass since it was a collaborative effort.”

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GU Researches Persecution CHRIS BALTHAZARD Hoya Staff Writer

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs has partnered with the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights to create a new project, “Under Caesar’s Sword,” which will examine the growing issue of Christian persecution around the world.

The joint venture of the two Catholic schools has already received a $1.1 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust and will send 14 of the world’s leading Christian scholars from universities across the United States to study in over 30 countries and present their findings at a conference in Rome in December 2015.

Some of the countries include China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt and India.

Notre Dame professor Dan Philpott proposed the idea after working closely with Berkley Center professors Timothy Shah and Thomas Farr on the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown, and took the lead on writing the grant proposal.

“It is an effort to stand in solidarity with the persecuted Christians of the world,” Philpott said in a CCHR press release. “To advocate for the rights of Christians is not to claim that their human rights are more important than anyone else’s. Religious freedom is a fundamental human right to which everyone on the planet is entitled.

Today, however, Christians constitute the lion’s share of those in the lion’s den.”

“Under Caesar’s Sword” aims to closely examine Christian persecution, how Christians respond to it and increase public awareness of the growing problem.

“We are providing the best possible scholarly analysis we can of what is going on.

And this is an issue which is of enormous intellectual interest,” Shah said. “Christians are the world’s largest

presented at the “Christianity and Freedom” conference in Rome in December 2013, which focused on the effect the conversion to Christianity had on the social and economic standings of Indian women.

Georgetown University Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., (CAS ’88) denounced the recent violence against Christians and explained that what students and faculty at Georgetown do is important in fighting religious persecution everywhere.

“The recent violence in Iraq against Christian minorities is only the latest in a series of attacks against Christian churches and people,” O’Brien said. “The targeting of any people because of their religion — whether Christian or not — is an affront against our common humanity as children of God. … What we do at Georgetown is part of the solution — teaching people how to talk across religious differences and learning how to join FR. KEVIN O’BRIEN, S.J. (CAS ’88) together for peace Vice President for Mission and Ministry and solidarity against arship really have an influ- the forces of violence and dience on the world’s aware- vision.” ness of these problems,” Philpott came up with Shah said.“Our second goal the name, “Under Caesar’s is public awareness. We want Sword,” and Shah expects it to increase the knowledge of to be an accurate representarelevant actors and parties tion of the situation in many of what’s going on … and we countries. really want a big megaphone “The name is inspired by through which to announce the reality, the very grim our findings.” reality, that huge numbers In addition to the interna- of Christians face very real tional conference, the proj- violence, repression and perect plans to fund another secution at the hands of govmeans for garnering the at- ernments, i.e. Caesar, around tention of the public. the world,” Shah said. “Of “We’ll be spending a cer- course, the project recogniztain amount of money sup- es that in many cases, it’s not porting the filming of a official governments that are documentary which will be doing the persecution. In a available, ultimately, online. number of cases it’s groups, We’ve hired a documentary non-state actors, terrorist film producer to travel to at organizations, extremist least two or three countries groups or grassroots uncivil where there is serious repres- members of society that are sion of Christian communi- perpetrating the persecuties,” Shah said. tion. But in many cases, of This project builds upon course, it’s the government, Berkley Center research fel- hence the title, ‘Caesar’s low Rebecca Shah’s research, Sword.’” religious group. And a number of secular responsible analysts have pointed out that the group that’s facing the most harassment because of their religion is Christianity … and yet there’s very little scholarly study of this. And particularly very little study of what Christians are doing to respond to the discrimination and harassment and persecution that they’re facing.”

In addition to funding the research and sending the experts to over 100 Christian communities spanning the globe as long as a month, the grant will cover two additional measures geared toward increasing awareness.

“We have it as one of our official goals that our schol-

“The targeting of any people because of their religion — whether Christian or not — is an affront against our common humanity as children of God.”

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Cardinal Wuerl Awarded Honorary Degree Maddy Moore

the importance of God and teaching in the Catholic community.

“We were made in the image and Georgetown University presented likeness of God. … There is a GodArchbishop of Washington, D.C., given plan for every single human Donald Cardinal Wuerl with an being,” Wuerl said. “Each one of us honorary degree on Monday eve- has the potential to make this the ning. The ceremony took place in manifestation of God’s community Gaston Hall with Georgetown ad- and doesn’t this university exist as ministrators, staff, faculty and a this church does to say to the next small number of students in atten- generation that you can make a difdance. ference.”

The event began with a procesThe ceremony concluded with sional of university leaders and a the singing of the Georgetown performance by the Georgetown Alma Mater and the offering of a University Conbenediction cert Choir. Secrefrom Revertary of the Uniend Robert M. versity Edward M. Hussey, S.J. Quinn (SFS ’73) Honorary then read from degrees are bethe University stowed upon Charter, which commenceturns 200 next ment speakers March. each year. AddiThe official tionally, any of honorary degree Georgetown’s ROSA CUPPARI (SFS ’17) was presented to graduate or Wuerl by board of undergradudirectors Chair Paul Tagliabue (CAS ate schools, or the president of the ’62). university, can nominate individu“Georgetown University today als for an honorary degree. Nomihonors Donald Cardinal Wuerl nees must have achieved eminence for his extraordinary example of within their careers or scholarship faith and service,” Tagliabue said. and and must have a relationship “Georgetown University with re- with the university or be involved spect and admiration proclaims with work that is closely related to Donald Cardinal Wuerl Doctor of the university’s mission.

Humane Letters, honoris causa.”

The university bestowed an honThe degree was conferred by Uni- orary degree upon Wuerl’s predeversity President John J. DeGioia, cessor, Theodore Cardinal McCarwho spoke about Wuerl’s dedica- rick, in 2004. tion to the Catholic faith and serRosa Cuppari (SFS ‘17) attended vice throughout his life. the event and said that she was sur“We come together today in Gas- prised by the small number of stuton Hall to recognize the contribu- dents who attended the event. tions of an extraordinary leader, “I was … surprised more students teacher and man of faith,” DeGioia weren’t in attendance. I expected said. “It’s fitting that we gather the audience to be predominantly here in the oldest Catholic and Je- older, but I had anticipated a larger suit university in the United States student turnout,” Cuppari said. to honor the faith and service of Cuppari said that she thought Cardinal Wuerl.” that the speakers of the event After Wuerl accepted the honor- placed an emphasis on Georgeary degree, he gave a speech about town’s Catholic identity.

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“I was happy to see Georgetown reaffirm its Jesuit and Catholic heritage.”

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Georgetown University awarded Archbishop of Washington, D.C. Donald Cardinal Wuerl with an honorary degree Monday evening in Gaston Hall. Board of directors Chair Paul Tagliabue (CAS ’62) presented the degree.

“As for representing our Catholic identity, I thought the ceremony did an excellent job. President DeGioia looked absolutely thrilled to be presenting Cardinal Wuerl

with his honorary degree, and the standing ovations for his Eminence showed how well received he was at Georgetown,” Cuppari said. “This was definitely a great opportunity

for Georgetown to reconnect to its Catholic identity and, as a Catholic, I was happy to see Georgetown reaffirm its Jesuit and Catholic heritage.”

HFC Forced to Relocate Marijuana Opposition Emerges During Peaceful Protest Hannah Post Hoya Staff Writer

CHOICE, from A1 that these specific designations allow campus to remain open for expression, but also safe.

“The ‘public square’ designation accommodates the physical materials and structures and also the spontaneous interest in expressing a viewpoint. Georgetown is a dense campus with many thousands of people occupying just over 100 acres,” Cohen Derr wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“The designation of public squares also takes into account the need for egress and passage so that people can traverse campus safely, particularly as we enter a phase of heavy construction.”

H*yas for Choice President Abby Grace (SFS ’16) said H*yas for Choice members chose this off-campus location to ensure that their free speech was protected.

“We recognize that this is your property, so we’re going to stand on a public sidewalk that, to our knowledge, they do not own, and table there,” Grace said. “By that point, once you leave Georgetown property, the First Amendment applies.”

H*yas for Choice Vice President Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS ‘17)said that a GUPD officer approached the table and asked the group of five students to relocate within five minutes of setting up a table.

“I definitely asked for some more information and justification from him, and after radioing a superior, he told us that it’s a public sidewalk and he was going to have to ask us to leave,” DeLaurentis said.

The officer offered multiple options for relocation, including Red Square, Copley Lawn or the exterior of Lauinger Library.

According to DeLaurentis, these spots took the group completely out of the eyesight of those attending the event in Gaston.

“I told him that although we understand that the university free speech policy protects those areas, it’s kind of an ineffective place for us to sit because we’re not going to be able to be seen by anyone and make our point,” DeLaurentis said. “By asking us to move there, Georgetown is paying lip service to free speech without actually protecting real substantive speech.”

According to Grace, this relocation demonstrates the on-and-off compliance with the university’s free speech and expression policy that GUPD has given H*yas

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After GUPD removed H*yas for Choice from its spot by the front gates, board members moved to Copley Lawn.

for Choice over the past year.

“I think we’ve provided plenty of examples over the past year of them selectively choosing to apply policies that don’t really exist, because they’re not following them, to us,” Grace said. “The thing that’s really angering me right now is that we intentionally went to this spot because last semester when we were tabling in Healy Circle, they asked us to move there. I am dumbfounded why they would ask us to move somewhere in January and then suddenly in September, make it a spot that we’re not allowed to sit anymore.”

With the help of the GUPD officer, the students moved their table to Copley Lawn, where they tabled for an hour, obstructed by a large black gate. After that time passed, the same officer approached the table for a second time, and told the students that they could return to the public sidewalk.

“It was very clear that, first of all, he didn’t understand the free speech policy and was just kind of beholden to this mysterious superior who’s delivering orders through a walkie-talkie,” DeLaurentis said.

DeLaurentis asked to speak to the officer’s superior, who explained that H*yas for Choice could table on the sidewalk, provided they allowed three feet of space in front of the table to allow pedestrians to pass safely. When the group was relocated an hour earlier, the officer did not measure the space or explain this threefoot rule.

“I’m really questioning where they got the authority to move someone from a public sidewalk,” Grace said. “I think that that is just showing a blatant lack of training when it comes to what students’ rights are on and off campus, what should be happening and how the university selectively chooses to support some speech and systematically oppress other speech.”

H*yas for Choice’s protest follows Wuerl’s recent history with the university. The archbishop criticized the university for inviting then-Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute’s graduation in 2012. Sebelius supported the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, which required employers to provide their employees with coverage for contraception.

“While we understand that Cardinal Wuerl is a major figure in Washington’s Catholic life, he also has some really controversial opinions, especially in regard to LGBTQ people and women’s health,” DeLaurentis said. “We were out there to demonstrate that while Georgetown may be giving him an honorary degree, the fact that they’re giving them this degree kind of flies in the face of a lot of Georgetown students, both who identify as LGBTQ and who care about women’s health.”

Grace said that bestowing such a degree to Wuerl goes against Georgetown’s pluralist mission.

“Georgetown can claim to be pluralist and can claim to do all these things, but please back it up,” Grace said. “Please don’t bestow a degree completely willingly upon someone who takes positions that we feel to be rather controversial and offensive.”

Washington, D.C. residents will vote on a new initiative Nov. 4 that would legalize marijuana in the District, prompting the formation of opposition group Two Is Enough D.C., which aims to urge voters to reject the referendum. Proposed by the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, Initiative 71 has earned over 57,000 signatures.

Founded by Will Jones III, TIE D.C. advocates for restricting the legal drugs to alcohol and tobacco, under their namesake slogan, “Two is enough.” Jones said that he founded TIE D.C. to oppose what he believes would be a harmful addition to society.

“I am looking at it from the impact it is going to have on society at large,” Jones said.

He pointed at the pre-existing problems in society posed by alcohol and tobacco usage as evidence against legalization of a third drug.

“The test to see what is going to happen is when we look at two legalized drugs already, alcohol and tobacco, and the use of these is out of control for many areas,” he said.

According to the most recent data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, D.C. residents over the age of 14 consumed 3.89 gallons of alcohol per capita in 2012, ranking second only to New Hampshire, where residents consumed an average of 4.65 gallons of alcohol per person.

According to Jones, D.C. ranks in the top 5 areas in the nation for marijuana use, a ranking he estimates would increase after legalization.

TIE D.C.’s campaign emerges following a NBC4/Washington Post/Marist poll conducted on Sept. 18, which revealed that 65 percent of likely voters support

Initiative 71.

The District of Columbia decriminalized marijuana July 17 with possession and private usage of less than one ounce of the substance now considered a civil offense punishable with a $25 fine.

The Georgetown University College Democrats, who support the referendum, expect legalization to pass.

“D.C. residents were passionate enough about the issue to collect the signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot in a relatively short period of time,” GUCD Vice Chair Betsy Johnson (COL ’16) said. “These factors, along with the fact that the District has a relatively progressive electorate, would indicate that the measure will pass in November, for better or for worse.”

The Georgetown University College Republicans declined to comment, citing a diversity of opinions within the organization.

Additionally, marijuana arrests in the District have shown a high degree of racial disparity. According to a report by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, African-Americans accounted for 91 percent of drug arrests in D.C. from 2009 to 2011, despite the fact that there is no racial disparity in D.C. marijuana use. According to a report issued by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2010, 14 percent of African-Americans and 12 percent of whites admitted to using marijuana in the past year.

As it builds its campaign, TIE has acknowledged this disproportionate racial bias in the criminal justice system, but legalization will not fix the problem, Jones said.

“I definitely think that the way issues with the drug have been handled so far have been discriminatory, and there have been a

hugely disproportionate amount of arrests on African-American youths and I have a problem with that,” he said. “I think that the problem is much deeper than marijuana. I think that it is discrimination and marijuana is just a distraction from that.”

Johnson disagreed, pointing to drug enforcement as a critical civil rights issue.

“Most Democrats would agree that the enforcement of drugs laws in the District has become a huge civil rights concern. Eight out of 10 of those arrested for possession in the District are black, while usage does not differ by race,” she said.

Washington state and Colorado, which approved similar referenda last November, implemented legalization earlier this year.

Jones said that, as in those states, the legalization of the drug in D.C. would create a new industry.

“Marijuana is a new industry.

The bottom line is money, and the major funding in favor of the legalization is from Colorado,” Jones said.

Supporters for legalization of marijuana in D.C. include the D.C. Cannabis Campaign as well as Adam Eidinger, the co-owner of Capital Hemp.

Johnson pointed out that legalizing marijuana would allow the District to collect taxes on the substance, increasing its revenues.

“It would increase tax revenues to the District, and allow MPD to focus on crimes more dangerous than marijuana possession,” said Johnson.

In July, officials from Georgetown University commented that since the university complies with federal law, which prohibits marijuana usage and possession, in addition to local law, marijuana usage would still be banned under the Code of Student Conduct.

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In addition to political figures Ban and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the march brought together a multitude of organizations, including student groups, religious organizations, scientists, teachers and others.

“There were so many groups there. I’m interested in divestment as a member of GU Fossil Free, but I’m also interested in the fracking industry, and there were people fighting coal and oil, people interested in food justice,” Chloe Lazarus (COL ’16) said. “It was such

an array of messages since everything is related to climate change and climate justice.”

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), another attendee, said that he hoped the march would spark the environmental movement in a manner similar to major activist pushes of the 20th century.

“GU Fossil Free hosted a movie screening last week that was a movie called ‘Disruption,’ and it talked about the need for mobilization of people in any social movement. It talked about the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, and it struck me that that’s what’s necessary for the environmental movement,” he said.

Attendees of the march, many

of whom were members of GU Fossil Free, hoped that the attention placed on the march would pressure the administration to divest from fossil fuel companies, the central mission of the organization.

With the significant involvement of Georgetown students at the march, Lee also wanted to ensure that the university would remain a leader in the environmental movement.

“I hope to make Georgetown feel as though it’s a leader in, at least, thought in this area, if not in action,” she said. “I’d like to see students think about environmental issues on a daily basis when they’re making little daily decisions, just changing little behaviors.”

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Faysal Itani, Hind Kabaway and Faisal Al-Juburi provided expert analysis as part of a panel examining the Syrian refugee crisis.

Summit Replaces Scuttled Shows SYRIA, from A1 sonality Honey Al-Sayed, said they saw the performance as a chance to shape how they are perceived. Al-Sayed translated the responses of the women, who spoke in Arabic — with the exception of one who spoke last and in English to a rousing ovation from the packed theater.

“It gave us hope that perhaps we can change the way people perceive us and perceive Syria and especially change for women because women’s voices are so marginalized especially during conflict,” a cast member said.

The women in the video chat said that they were disappointed and saddened that they could not get visas to travel to America to perform. The U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs in Amman denied the women visas under section 214.B of the Immigrant and Nationality Act, which is failure to demonstrate non-immigrant intent. Switzerland, however, has granted the women visas.

“They were somebody back home and today they feel they are nobody and this incident made them feel that even more,” Al-Sayed said, based on a cast member’s response.

“Syria: The Trojan Women” will be turned into a motion picture set in an unnamed Middle East conflict, featuring an international cast and crew.

Eagar hopes that the original performers will serve as the chorus, while other refugees will play the extras.

Some members of the panel discussed the idea that addressing the refugee crisis in Syria could diminish the influence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace Hind Kabawat told the story of a child named Mu-

stapha who lived in a refugee camp without schooling.

“I couldn’t find Mustapha.

Mustapha has been recruited

by ISIS because he has nothing to do,” Kabawat said. “How to solve the ISIS problem is also to solve the humanitarian problem in Syria.”

According to some panelists, the refugee crisis is breeding instability in the region.

“Not only is it causing a great deal of human suffering, but it is laying the groundwork for political insecurity and deterioration and that’s very worrying,” said Faysal Itani, a resident fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and the Atlantic Council.

Kevin Kroyer (COL ’16) attended the event, and said he appreciated how it humanized the crisis.

“It was interesting to get a more human perspective and actually get to interact with the people that were directly affected by it, which I think is a pretty unique experience,” Kroyer said.

Kroyer also said that he found the parallel between the play and the women’s lives interesting.

“I think that’s the cool part of the play, like they were talking about, it was very applicable to the time it was written to the invasion and Milos and the destruction of that city and the fact that it has continued to be this relatable to people over 2,000 years later,” Kroyer said.

The event was the first event of the Lab’s two-year Myriad Voices Festival, which aims to bring together artists, scholars and policymakers to examine the Middle East and North Africa. The Lab is a joint initiative of the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the School of Foreign Service.

The Georgetown University Student Association senate campaigns began last week with over 51 active student candidates vying to represent nine districts on campus, including off-campus and at-large positions.

Freshmen represent a majority of the candidates, with 12 running for Freshman North, which includes Darnall and Harbin halls, and 12 for Freshman South, which represents Village C West and New South. GUSA Election Commissioner Pavan Rajgopal (SFS ’15) said that the students running are eager to make changes on campus.

“I think the majority of students running really do care about the issues affecting the university,” Rajgopal said. “This definitely isn’t just a popularity contest, and I think that those candidates who really get their names out there, meet a lot of votes and have strong, substantive ideas are the ones that are going to end up winning, especially in some of the more competitive districts.”

Last year, 77 candidates ran for a total of 28 seats in the GUSA senate.

According to Rajgopal, candidates have adhered to campaign rules, with some small exceptions, such as students hanging posters with the wrong tape or in undesignated locations.

“The campaign has been going really well,” Rajgopal said. “We haven’t seen many rule violations, and where there have been rule violations, people have corrected their behavior really quickly, so it’s been a clean campaign with strong interests and I hope that will carry through during the actual voting on Thursday.”

Rajgopal said that freshmen run in the largest numbers because of both their desire to get involved and their previous high school student government experience. Even if these students lose the election, there are many other ways they can become part of GUSA. “One problem we had in previous years was people running and not being able to get involved,” Rajgopal said. “Now there’s the Freshmen Executive Council on the executive side of GUSA and there are so many more ways for freshmen to get involved, which makes the campaign season a lot easier to deal with and a lot less disappointing for those candidates who don’t end up coming out on top.”

There are at least three candidates vying for senator positions in each of the upperclassman districts. LXR is the only exception, with just one candidate, Sam Kleinman (COL ’16), running in the election.

Brendan Keenan (COL ’18) is running for Freshman South and plans to work to connect students and the

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“This happens all the time, all over the city,” he said. “Standard operating procedure for ABRA for 70 years.”

This is not Rhino’s first encounter with underage students attempting to enter. Over the summer, ABRA suspended the bar’s liquor license for five days, from July 8 to July 12, and fined Rhino $3,000 after the bar allegedly served alcohol to an underage student in February 2013.

Carter was the MPD officer stationed at the door with the door staff during the February incident as well.

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The two detectives were stationed at the door with the bouncers to assist in identifying fake IDs, as part of an MPD program called Cops in Shops.

Rhino manager George Kennedy said that the incident was not unusual.

“It happens all the time. [The D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration] comes by, and someone presents a fake ID at the door, and they don’t get in, they arrest them,” Kennedy said.

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classes and for the classes that get to come,” Keenan said.

Indra Acharya (COL ’18), who is running at-large, plans to draw from his experience as a student advocate in a refugee camp in Nepal, where he grew up after his family was exiled from Bhutan.

“I strongly believe that for any change to happen, it should come from the students,” Acharya said. “I started advocating for the rights of students from when I was in refugee camp school. I was working in the same field, advocating for the kids rights and the rights of the students in the school.”

Eric Henshall (COL ’16) is running for the senate seat for Nevils Hall and Alumni Square and hopes to help protect free speech, develop a program for students to receive academic credit for internships and reform student club funding.

“The basic philosophy of my platform is making sure that students and administrators are engaging in meaningful dialogue, and the administration hears our voices and does what’s best for students,” Henshall said.

Voting will take place Thursday and new senators will be sworn in on Sunday. The senators will elect their leadership Oct. 5.

Three students were arrested at Rhino Bar and Pumphouse for misrepresentation of age to enter an Alcohol Beverage Commission establishment shortly after midnight Sunday.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department’s incident report, the three students — two females, 18 and 20, and one male, 18 — were arrested

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“One of the main problems we have here in VCW and in New South is that we do have faucets in [the rooms of] New South,” Keenan said.

“When they start leaking, if you put in a request for maintenance, usually we won’t hear back from maintenance for over two, three weeks. The problem just gets worse.”

Keenan said he is hopeful that he

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minutes during the trial without any action by the judge. The CIA declined to comment to The Washington Post.

Because of this system, Drake said he did not see this decision to allow observers at the proceedings to really be a move toward government transparency.

“To hear what’s happening at the trials — I think that gives a quicker ability for NGOs to engage, but I’m not sure that it increases the government’s transparency. I’m sure they would point to it as a means of increasing it, and maybe it does in some ways I’m not aware of,” he said. “It’s not that we’re sitting in the back of the exact same room as the trial and hearing every single thing that happens.”

As the students prepare for their visit in October, in addition to filling out security paperwork, they will also engage with experts in the field to understand the context behind their trials.

“There’s well over a thousand documents for my case alone. I wish I could read them all, but that’s just not feasible. … That’s a lot of where the experts that we’ve been asked to talk to come in,” Golish said. “It’s helping us figure out what issues we should potentially focus so that we don’t feel like we’re drowning in information.”

While Golish and Shaw will be

the first Georgetown Law students to attend, the observer status enables the law center to continue sending students in years to come.

The law students were selected through an application, and the observer positions were only available to second-year and third-year law students, as well as Master of Law students.

“Georgetown is uniquely positioned as the leading national security law school.” laura donohue Director, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law

The initiative was a collaboration between Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute and the Center on National Security and the Law. “Georgetown is uniquely positioned as the leading national security law school to give students the chance to observe military commissions at Guantanamo,” Laura Donohue, director of the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, said in a press release.

Golish, who works on the Journal for National Security Law and Policy run by the GULC’S Center on

National Security and Law, saw the program as a chance to expand her interest in national security law.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, especially for someone not that familiar with military justice but [who] has an interest in national security issues. Being an observer allows me to get an inside look at a process that I don’t have that much familiarity with,” she said.

Drake, who previously worked at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, said that his interest in the program arose from his interactions with clients at the program, as well as his focus on international human rights issues at law school.

“I think being there in person and seeing that process in action and seeing the issues that come up gives students at Georgetown the ability to engage those issues on a different level,” Drake said.

Golish pointed out that the university could have sent a professor, but chose to provide students with this unique non-credit opportunity.

“Especially if you’re interested in issues like national security and criminal justice and human rights, you’re going to be sitting in the room right next to people who do that for a living, who are top in their field,” she said. “It shows that the school really cares about giving their students the best opportunities that they can.”

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Hoyas Winless in 3 Tries At Fullerton Classic Carolyn Maguire

match on the line. In the decisive set, Cal State Fullerton, led by freshman outside hitter Niki Withers, jumped out to an early 7-4 lead.

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team beA strong defensive stand allowed the Hoyas to gan the Fullerton Classic with the opportunity tie the set, 9-9. However, the Titans then went to secure its first winning nonconference cam- on a 6-2 run to close out the set, thus sealing paign since 2011. Despite strong performances the match win. from senior middle blocker Dani White and Georgetown was unable to avoid a winless senior libero MacKenzie Simpson, the Hoyas (6- weekend, as it also dropped its final match 7) finished the weekend winless, dropping all against Yale (4-5) 3-1. three matches in California.

In the first set of the match, the Hoyas domiGeorgetown began the tournament with a nated the Bulldogs, winning 25-11. Going into tough 3-0 loss against No. 22 University of Cali- the second set, Yale University regrouped and fornia, Los Angeles (9-2). After dropping the first Georgetown was unable to maintain its moset, 25-16, and falling behind in the second set, mentum.

7-4, the Hoyas battled back to take a 23-20 lead.

The Hoyas committed 20 errors in the final Georgetown, however, was unable to close the three sets and were unable to recover. The Bullset. The Bruins capitalized on the Hoyas’ three at- dogs squeezed out 25-23 and 26-24 set wins in tack mistakes and managed to tie the set at 24. the second and third set, respectively, before After going up two sets to none in the match, cruising to a 25-19 fourth set win.

UCLA did not look back. The Bruins used a 5-2 Despite the disappointing weekend record, and 6-2 run to cruise to a 25-16 third set, finish- Head Coach Arlisa Williams is encouraged by ing off the match in style. the team’s performance.

In the loss, freshman outside hitter Terese “We actually had a good weekend. The record Cannon, junior outside hitter Lauren Saar and unfortunately, 0-3, looked like a bad weekend White each contributed six kills, while Simpson for us, but we did some really good things on tallied nine digs. the floor,” Williams said Georgetown returned to the court on SaturIn the tournament, White finished with 33 day to face off against tournament hosts Califor- kills and 11 blocks. For her performance she nia State University, Fullerton (6-7). In what was was named to the all-tournament team. the first five-set match of the Georgetown’s sea“We’re right in there, every set, every match. son, the Titans outlasted the Hoyas and claimed It’s crazy. It didn’t end the way we wanted it to, the 3-2 victory. but it definitely gave us a lot of confidence, a lot After the teams went back and forth for the of power, going into the Big East,” White said. first four sets, they entered the final set with the Simpson was equally impressive in the Fullerton Classic. In three matches, the senior libero had 45 digs, which increased her average to 4.4 digs per set — good for fourth in the Big East.

Having finished the nonconference portion of the schedule, the Hoyas will begin Big East play on Tuesday against Creighton University.

Creighton (7-6), who finished first in the Big East Volleyball Preseason poll, came off a thirdplace finish in the Creighton Classic this past weekend. After losing its first two matches of the weekend to No. 16 University of Illinois (83) and University of South Dakota (7-5), Creighton rallied in its final match to defeat Colorado University 3-0. ”It’s going to be tough. They have a tradition of success and they were at the top of the conference last year. They’ve got some big players but outside, in the middle and at the right, they’re going to be popping, they’re going to come at us with guns blazing,” Williams said The Hoyas’ performance Tuesday will perhaps indicate how competitive the team will be this season in the Big East.

Although Georgetown was projected to finish in the bottom half of the conference, it has impressed thus far this season.

Currently Georgetown, led by Simpson, is tied for first in the Big East in digs per set. This strong backline has been a staple in the Hoyas’ victories.

The Hoyas will look to maintain this defenMICHELLE XU/THE HOYA sive intensity when they take on the Blue Jays Senior Dani White tallied 33 kills in three matches. at 7 p.m. at McDonough Arena.

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A Call to Eliminate Thursday NFL Games IPPOLITO, from A10 that the NFL makes a handsome profit on its switch to Thursday.

Despite Bill Barnwell of Grantland’s excellent Oct. 17, 2013, piece disputing the notion that Thursday games were sloppier than regularly scheduled Sunday games, there is still an undeniable deterioration of competitive balance, if not a drop in play quality.

Since 2006, NFL road teams have had a 43.2 winning percentage. However, on Thursday night, road teams are victorious just 36.4 percent of the time. Naturally, part of this differential can be attributed to the quick turnaround teams face, having only three days — including a mandatory off day — to prepare. Additionally, the teams that hosted a TNF game last year will also host one this year, giving them a major arbitrary advantage. Of these seven teams, six (sorry, Jacksonville) are widely thought to be playoff contenders, so parity within the league is further diminished.

As much as I would love to argue that the fans of the TNF away teams are the largest victims of primetime Thursday football, that would be a lie; it is undoubtedly the players.

It is no secret that football is a physical and violent sport in which a large amount of injuries occur. Perhaps former All-Pro Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Jason Taylor put it best. “Everybody’s hurt. The day you play football will be the last day you’re pain-free,” Taylor told National Public Radio. Eliminating pain entirely is impossible, so limiting pain and maximizing safe and effective treatments should be the goal.

Unfortunately, Thursday Night Football forces teams to play two games in a five-day span, with only one full day of rest. On top of not allowing the players an extra three days to heal from the previous Sunday’s injuries, they are required to experience a fresh round of pain three days earlier than normal. Some may argue that the longer gap occurring between a team’s Thursday game and its next Sunday game supplements the quick turnaround, but that is false. The whole of pain and nagging injuries is greater than the sum of its parts.

The NFL needs to focus on a short-term

mindset in this regard because there are no long-term health guarantees for participants in such a violent sport. A day to heal is now worth far more than an extra two or three days after increasing the amount of pain and possibility of injury.

No, eliminating football on Thursday evenings is not a panacea, but it is a small step that would be in the best interest of the teams involved, as veteran players who may need the normal rest period are often forced to miss Thursday games with minor ailments. For example, Atlanta Falcons 32-year-old starting receiver Roddy White missed the game against Tampa Bay last Thursday with a mild hamstring injury, but Falcons Head Coach Mike Smith hinted that White would have been healthy enough to play if the game were Sunday. The fact that White was not needed in Atlanta’s 56-14 lopsided win does not discredit this point because the Atlanta Falcons were done an unnecessary disservice by the scheduling.

Fortunately, there is a glimmer of hope to ending TNF. While last Thursday’s game drew 25 percent more viewers compared to 2013’s Week 3 game, most likely due to TNF’s switch to CBS and basic cable, the ratings actually declined 38 percent from Week 2’s TNF game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Atlanta and Tampa Bay feature similarly sized markets, so perhaps the decline is because of a growing sense of fan disgruntlement over watching football games showing the tired legs of players competing on only one day of rest as well as the lack of many banged-up veterans who would have been able to play if the game had been on Sunday afternoon.

Hopefully, as the season continues and many of the matchups become less appealing, ratings fall further and provide the necessary incentive for the NFL to act. These days, trusting the league to act virtuously for the sake of its players and fans, and not for money, requires a good deal of naivete.

The next TNF game is right here, with Washington hosting the Giants. If these two big-market teams and divisional rivals fail to deliver a much larger television audience, Thursday football’s future could be in trouble. Maybe that is not such a bad thing.

Mike Ippolito is a sophomore in the College.

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Senior running back Daniel Wright broke away for a 57-yard touchdown Saturday for Georgetown’s first score. The D.C. native had 90 yards on seven carries on the day.

Defense Smothers Bears FOOTBALL, from A10 ty, jumped up and made a big play to get off the field. I was basically just doing my job.”

The Hoyas gave up 303 yards of offense to the Bears but seemed to step up at the right times, producing key stops on third down. The Blue and Gray recovered a fumble at the goal line in the first quarter and would later recover another fumble in the second half for their fourth turnover of the game.

“When you look at the defense, they did a great job,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said.

“We gave up some yards but we didn’t give up any points. Defensively we’ve given up three points in the last two games.

Anytime you can limit a team like Brown to just about 300 yards in the game is a big deal.”

Georgetown’s offense held up their end of the bargain, totaling 427 yards, most of which came on the ground in a breakout rushing effort. Junior running back Jo’el Kimpela broke the 100-yard mark for the first time in his career, rushing for 104 yards on 18 carries.

Senior running back Daniel Wright added 90 yards on seven carries, including a 57yard touchdown run in the second quarter. He had another long run later in the quarter

that looked like it could have been another touchdown, but he fumbled the ball at the end of the run, turning it over to Brown.

“Looking back on the stats, this is one of the most dominant games we’ve had running the football where we felt confident to call the offensive line’s number and let them go and have Jo’el and Danny [Wright] have great days,” Sgarlata said. “So for us being able to add to the weapons we have with throwing the ball with [Junior quarterback] Kyle [Nolan], it’s a great plus for us right now. They did a great job today for the backs.”

Kimpela did not hesitate to credit the offensive line for the Hoyas’ improvement in the running game.

“The offensive linemen did a great job today just pushing and making holes for me and Danny [Wright],” Kimpela said. “[Wright] had a great run and we’re just complementing each other, trying to make each other better each and every day.”

The other major rushing leader for Georgetown on Saturday was Kyle Nolan, who gained 36 yards on eight carries. Nolan was heavily involved with the read option, often pulling the ball back and gaining large chunks of yards

running on his own when the Brown defense had the Hoyas running backs guarded. The 6-foot-5-inch signal-caller also had a good day through the air, completing 18 of 28 passes for 177 yards with a touchdown and an interception. The touchdown came on a 25-yard pass to junior wide receiver Jake DeCicco on a post pattern over the middle.

“For us, Kyle is one of those quarterbacks that has the ability to read a defensive end, read a linebacker,” Sgarlata said. “[Sophomore tight end Matthew] Buckman’s long catch was a read play where he read the middle linebacker, and the linebacker filled the hole so he threw it. We are running some of those systems because Kyle can handle it because he can do all three things — he can read it, he can pull it and run or he can pull it and throw.”

Georgetown was able to earn its first win at home this season, as well as the right to sing the fight song for the first time since its win against Davidson College on Sept. 7, 2013. The team has now matched last year’s win-total with seven games remaining in the season.

The Hoyas will look to take their recent success on the road when they face Colgate at 1 p.m.

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Fortunately, no one was hurt.

After that bizarre incident, Georgetown created a few more half-chances, but the real highlight came in the 80th minute when junior goalkeeper Lauren Trower, during her first start of the season, made a spectacular save to keep the score at 2-0.

The defense played well too, with freshman defender Drew Topor’s confident defending and passing from the left-back position helping veteran Paul.

“Drew was very good again today,” Nolan said. “To be honest, I don’t really know what her natural position is. She’s very similar to Mary Kroening (COL ’14) … in that she can play right-back comfortably, she can play left-back

comfortably, and she can play center-back comfortably.

And what I like about her is that she doesn’t get flustered.

She makes good decisions all the time. I can always count on her to make good, smart decisions and she’s probably been our one freshman who has done the best job at that.”

Paul said that despite the recent defensive injury and repositioning issues, her understanding with her central defensive partners has remained strong. “[Freshman defender] Liz [Wenger] is a phenomenal athlete,” Paul said. “We’re still both learning the ropes, learning how to play with each other, and I think it’s just being comfortable back there and making smart decisions.”

With the score at 2-0 and the result looking relatively comfortable, Nolan decided to change his lineup after halftime.

“I wasn’t happy with what I was getting out of some people,” Nolan said. “And some of it was that with the score

at 2-0, I felt there was the chance to try to get some kids on the field and give them an opportunity to show me what they could do.”

In fact, at one point there were five freshmen on the field at the same time.

Daphne Corboz thought that the team did a better job with the new players, though the overall performance was not quite up to par.

“Today we did a pretty good job of keeping the ball moving. Throughout the season, our problem really has been combining up top,” Corboz said. “Obviously, losing Kaitlin Brenn (MSB ’14) last year, who was such a fulcrum for our attack … she and I had a great relationship up top. So it’s a little different. There are new players up there, but it’s something we need to be better at to get to where we want to be as a team.”

Georgetown will begin Big East play on the road against DePaul University on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 3 p.m.

football feature

Class of ’64 Returns to GU CEREMONY, from A10 Awards were presented by the Georgetown University Athletic Department to alumni as the history of the program was again put on display.

Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George William Casey Jr. (SFS ’70) was awarded the Letterman of Distinction Award in honor of his 41-year career of service. Rory Quirk (CAS ’65) was presented with the Outstanding Service to Georgetown Football award in recognition of his instrumental role in reviving the intercollegiate sport at

Georgetown.

“I never expected 50 years ago for it to be anything like this,” Langhoff said. “But it’s really nice to be here. The facility is so much better — needless to say — than we had. The whole thing — we were class football that all of the sudden became intercollegiate.”

Although the Hoyas might soon struggle against other Patriot League schools, which are now using scholarships to recruit athletes, Saturday offered a positive perspective on the progress of the program over the past halfcentury.

A reminder of the unique history of the program — and a home win — brought Georgetown football back to its roots in every sense.

Excited fans, the return of legendary players, and an unexpected yet deserved win reflected both the past and present of the Blue and Gray.

As encouraging as the 2014 Hoyas looked on Saturday, Langhoff made sure to assert that his 1964 squad will hold a certain record for a long time.

“We may have gone 1-0 that year, but it still makes us the only undefeated team,” Langhoff said.

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The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams kicked off their home 2014 campaigns in the Georgetown Classic last Friday in competitions against George Washington University and Morgan State University.

An obvious change in this year’s Georgetown Classic was the tournament’s location. In the past, all of the matches took place on Georgetown’s very own outdoor McDonough Courts in the heart of campus. However, with heavy equipment in the area for the construction of the new John Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center, the Georgetown women’s team was forced to relocate to the Georgetown Prep Visitation Center.

“With the courts being torn up we couldn’t really host a big tournament like we have in the past,” men’s and women’s Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

The women’s team utilized a mixture of experienced returning players and freshmen in its six matches. Sophomore Sophia Barnard impressed in her 7-5, 3-6, 11-9 victory in second-seeded singles. Meanwhile, junior Liselot Koenen and sophomore Victoire Saperstein edged out GWU in the doubles slot with a final score of 8-7 (7-2).

However, Saperstein, senior captain Sophie Panarese and freshman Casey Marx all fell in their respective singles matches.

Georgetown also faced Morgan State in a variety of casual matches, which resulted in wins for two Hoya newcomers.

Freshmen Daphne de Chatellus and Nicole Koskovolis won their first matches for the Blue and Gray, and drew praise from Ernst.

“Even though it wasn’t a sanctioned event it was still great for them to do well.

It was really just about getting some experience,” Ernst said Today, the women will compete with the University of D.C., against whom they will have a significant advantage. As UDC’s team only has five players, it will be forced to default in sixth-seeded singles and thirdseeded doubles. Thus, Georgetown will boast a 2-0 lead before the matches even

begin.

While the women’s team competed at the Visitation Center, the men’s team hit the courts at the George Washington Tennis Center against a combination of GWU and Morgan State athletes.

Most impressive was the play of Hoya freshmen Peter Beatty and Marco Lam. Not only did the newcomers win in straight sets in their individual singles matches, but they successfully paired up with Hoya veterans to find success in doubles play as well. Lam and junior Daniel Khanin paired up and triumphed over Morgan State’s Duk Young-Park and Evan Ward 8-5. Beatty and senior co-captain Alex Tropiano then won in their doubles match by the decisive final score of 8-1.

“They’re continuing their winning ways,” Ernst said of Lam and Beatty. “They won against University of D.C. in singles and doubles [last week], and then they won their matches at singles and doubles last Friday. They’re both rolling as freshmen.”

Young-Park defeated Georgetown’s Khanin in a close match that featured a 10-point tiebreaker. Sophomores Jack Murphy and Jordan Portner also competed with Morgan State athletes, each winning decisively in two straight-set matches.

However, senior co-captains Shane Korber and Tropiano both lost in their individual singles matches.

“We did well in doubles but in singles we were looking for a little better results from our guys. I don’t think they played as well as they could possibly play, but it’s early in the season,” Ernst said. “I expect more from them. Shane’s a senior and Tropiano’s a senior, he lost in straight sets ... so we’re definitely looking for our experienced guys to play better.”

The men’s squad now looks forward to Friday’s matches at the University of Pennsylvania. Hoping to put their singles inconsistencies behind them, Ernst sees this match as an opportunity to get off on the right foot for Georgetown’s 2014 season.

“I think we’re going to stand better this week when we go up to Penn, and we’re playing Cornell [at the Penn Invitational as well] — that should be a great match,” Ernst said.

The Georgetown field hockey team (3-4) finished with a win and a loss during this weekend’s home stand, notching a 1-0 overtime victory over the Longwood Lancers (3-5) on Saturday before falling 2-4 to the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (2-6) on Sunday.

The Hoyas began the weekend against the Lancers in a tough back-and-forth battle for possession. During the first half, both teams struggled to establish a commanding offensive presence.

Georgetown’s first shot of the game came from senior defender Elizabeth Mueller in the last three minutes of the half, but it went wide. Longwood took four shots during the half, but all were unsuccessful, sending the teams into halftime scoreless.

The pace of the second half was similar to the first. Longwood added another three shots, but Georgetown sophomore goalkeeper Rachel Skonecki made two big saves to keep Longwood off the scoreboard. Junior midfielder Emily Weinberg attempted both of Georgetown’s second-half shots late in the game, but both were blocked by Longwood’s defense. The score would remain 0-0 through the end of regulation, sending the teams into a suddendeath overtime period.

After playing 70 minutes in a deadlock, Georgetown’s offense finally clicked within the first few minutes of overtime as junior forward Sarah Butterfield broke away from her defender and found the back of the net to seal Georgetown’s first win on their home turf.

Butterfield, who is second on the team in shots with 11, said that the increased intensity of overtime helped her team come

together for one last push toward victory.

“Of course, we always want to win in regular time, just because it’s seven versus seven in overtime, and it’s extremely tiring, but there is a lot of energy and fire, and it’s sudden death,” Butterfield said. “It’s definitely exciting winning in overtime, although we never would like to get to that stage — we’d like to finish it a lot earlier.”

First-year Head Coach Shannon Soares hoped that the enthusiasm and motivation she saw during overtime would propel the Hoyas to another win the next day against the Mountain Hawks.

“I think we’re happy with the result, but [we’re] not satisfied and not settling, and [we’re] pushing forward,” Soares said after the game. “Overtime wins are definitely very emotional wins for us, and we’re proud of the finish and proud of our kids’ energy and fight in this game, but we turn the page very quickly, and we focus on a tough Lehigh team tomorrow.”

On Sunday, Georgetown had a strong start against Lehigh, putting more pressure on its opponent and creating more offensive attacks than it had the night before. However, the Hoyas struggled to balance these efforts in their defensive zone, ultimately giving the Mountain Hawks enough opportunities to pull away with a 4-2 win.

The first half seemed promising for the Blue and Gray, as the home side maintained a commanding offensive presence for the first 20 minutes of the game.

Butterfield and senior forward Molly Denzel both had shots before Weinberg put the Hoyas on the board in the 16th minute off a penalty corner. The Mountain Hawks answered with a goal of their own in the last of three

penalty corners attempted in the span of one minute as the teams entered the second half tied at 1-1.

Early in the second half, Georgetown and Lehigh traded goals, making the score 2-2 by the 40th minute, with half an hour to decide the result. From this point onward, the Mountain Hawks would dictate the pace of the goal, overpowering the Hoyas by scoring two unanswered goals.

Lehigh’s 12 total shots and 11 total penalty corners gave it a slight edge against Georgetown, which finished with nine total shots and 10 total penalty corners.

After an emotional win the night before and the challenge of a stretch of road games approaching the week ahead, Soares says the team needs to do a better job of focusing on the task at hand.

“It was a quick turnaround, but it’s no excuse for us,” Soares said.

“We have to have the mentality to be able to push through a little bit of fatigue, be able to push through a little bit of heat, and create our own momentum and build off of an emotional win that we had against Longwood.”

Soares believes developing this focus will give Georgetown consistent performanced and more success on the field.

“Right now we’re looking for consistency, I can tell you that,” Soares said. “I honestly think they’ve prepared, I think that they’re there fundamentally, I think it’s a matter of believing it, and a matter of being able to push forward and build off of momentum, and not take one step forward and two steps back, but to continue to make strides forward.”

Up next, the Hoyas will be on the road in New York as they take on Siena (0-6) on Friday, Sept. 26, and Columbia (4-2) on Sunday, Sept. 28.

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n the past few weeks, it has become dy was found guilty on two counts of extremely easy to look down on the domestic violence in July (and reportNFL with an air of superiority. With edly threatened to kill the victim), it prominent cases of domestic abuse barely registered in national sporting springing up in the aftermath of the news. It was only this past week, after Ray Rice controversy, the media and the the Ravens dropped Ray Rice, that the public is certainly justified in wonder- Panthers removed Hardy from the acing if the NFL has a growing problem tive roster, after the public picked up with keeping its violence and aggres- on the emerging double standard. sion on the field. Many media outlets The same media outrage is on display are now taking a stance against domes- again with the latest outcry over Solo’s tic violence in other sports, noting that continued presence on the U.S. women’s if football players should be punished soccer team. Let me first say that it is right for the crime, to point out Solo’s situathen so should tion given the attention U.S. women’s on Rice and Hardy — to soccer star Hope do otherwise would set a Solo, who alleggender double standard. edly attacked her But where was the outsister and nephrage over Solo’s actions ew earlier this back in June when they year. occurred? Any moral Darius Majd Prominent reoutrage from the meporters and coldia rings hollow when umnists across they’ve sat on the facts Domestic violence the nation are for several months. highlighting the When we look back should matter to us, mistakes and even further into the even if it is not on TMZ. history of domestic oversights of everyone involved abuse by major athletes, in these cases and their handling: the media’s efforts to pursue the story the assailants, the organizations that have been consistently lacking. Former employ them and especially the com- NBA All-Star and current Milwaukee missioners who hand out lax punish- Bucks coach Jason Kidd plead guilty to ments, like NFL Commissioner Roger assaulting his wife back in 2001, and was Goodell. While the media has certainly accused later of smashing her head and been adept at pointing fingers in the breaking her ribs, and yet his crimes nevRice case, it should perhaps examine er incited the media outcry that Ray Rice its own previous lack of coverage on did. Champion boxer Floyd Mayweather domestic violence.

Jr. has assaulted a litany of women, even There was a certain hypocrisy in the serving jail time in 2012, and yet domesway the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens tic abuse isn’t the first thing that comes handled the punishment of Ray Rice. to mind with him the way it does with The latest footage of the brutal attack Rice. It seems that knowing about the inhardly represented events in a new cident isn’t enough; we only really seem light, but simply in more graphic de- to care about domestic violence when tail; Ray Rice himself was very candid the brutal incident is placed in front of in describing what happened during our eyes and we are forced to watch. the initial investigation. What exactly None of this article is designed to cut changed to mark up the punishment Ray Rice any slack – his actions were from a two-game suspension to being vicious, dangerous and ultimately cowbanned indefinitely? Quite simply, it ardly, and he deserves to face the consewas the media coverage. quences for his unacceptable outburst.

With the full version of the brutal But he should not have the market footage at its disposal, the media made monopoly when it comes to domestic this issue into the firestorm that it violence awareness simply because his should have been all those months ago attack was caught on video. The issue is when the incident occurred. The pub- far from new — in the NFL and beyond. lic knew from the outset essentially ev- The media and the public is right to not erything that we know now, and yet it let the issue fade into the background, took a more damning video — wasn’t but there’s just something insincere the video of Rice violently dragging his about networks attacking the cover-up unconscious fiance out of the elevator and lack of accountability in the NFL damning enough? — to get the media’s when they won’t acknowledge their and thus the public’s full attention. own repeated failure to use the power Now that the issue is out in the open, of the media to give domestic violence accusations of domestic abuse are re- the coverage it deserves. ported en masse as they occur, as seen with Cardinals running back Jonathan Darius Majd is a senior in the College.

Dwyer just this week. But when Caro- THE SPORTING LIFE appears every lina Panthers defensive end Greg Har- Tuesday.

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Freshman midfielder Arun Basuljevic scored the only goal in Georgetown’s 1-0 win over William & Mary.

Hoyas Overcome Heat, Errors ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 13 Georgetown men’s soccer team (4-1-3) won its second straight game Sunday, edging the William & Mary Tribe (2-0-5) 1-0 at home. The Hoyas recorded their third shutout of the season in a sluggish affair.

When the game started, the temperature sat at a humid 83 degrees. The weather conditions would have a major impact on the game, causing players to leave the pitch and slowing down the pace of play.

“Personally for me, even being from Florida, [the weather] is still pretty tough, with the heat and everything. But at the end of the day, you have to overcome that.

You can’t blame the weather for everything, but I do think it plays a factor,” sophomore midfielder Bakie Goodman said.

The first major impact of the sweltering weather came in the 22nd minute. Senior midfielder and captain Tyler Rudy collapsed on the field from dehydration and had to be helped to the sideline. He did not play the remainder of the game. After trainers attended to Rudy, he returned to Shaw Field to cheer on his teammates, and he is expected to be cleared to play imminently.

The heat also affected the quality of play for both teams. Neither side seemed to have success stringing passes together, especially in dangerous positions. Both teams were also content at times to pass the ball among the back four de-

fenders, holding possession without creating many scoring opportunities.

“It was not a great advertisement for college soccer today. I’ll be honest with you; it was not a pretty game to watch. But you are not [going to] run through your season and have every game go easy and look beautiful,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

The lone goal of the game seemed to appear out of nowhere, when a long pass from junior defender Josh Turnley bounced to freshman midfielder Arun Basuljevic. Basuljevic, who entered the game as a substitute for fellow freshman midfielder Christopher Lema in the 29th minute, hit an ambitious line-drive shot from well-outside the 18-yard box that made it past the diving goalkeeper into the back of the net. The goal put the Hoyas ahead 1-0 in the 34th minute, a lead that the team would not relinquish.

The rest of the game played out much as it had before Basuljevic’s goal. Although the second half saw more chances, neither team played a crisper style of soccer. The Hoyas’ best two chances were created by crosses from the outside that made it across the face of goal. Neither one, however, found anyone waiting to tap the ball into the goal. The result was one of Georgetown’s least impressive offensive performances so far this season.

“It was a combination of William & Mary being pretty effective in how they were playing, and, on the flip side of that, we were really not sharp. We were missing passes,

and the weight of the stuff was off,” Wiese said.

The Tribe struggled just as much as the Hoyas did and only had one opportunity that troubled the steady back line of Georgetown.

That one shot, which came in the 76th minute, was blocked by junior defender Cole Seiler before it could make it to the net vacated by senior goalkeeper and captain Tomas Gomez, who had come out of goal to challenge the William & Mary attacker.

Despite the lackluster performance, the Hoyas are pleased with the result.

“I’m down about the game, but definitely [also] relieved. I’m really happy that we got the win,” Goodman said. “Coming off that Princeton game [which Georgetown won 3-1] and then this one, I think we are definitely getting into a bit of a roll.”

The Blue and Gray are gathering momentum as their nonconference schedule nears its conclusion, but Wiese also believes that the team needs the long week before its next game to recover from a difficult run of games.

“We have been playing midweek and two on the weekends, we haven’t had any breaks since we started the season off. For their legs and their mental focus, they need a couple days to themselves and to get on top of their studies. Then we will get back after it on Wednesday,” Wiese said.

Georgetown will play its next game on Saturday at Butler (3-2-3) in both teams’ Big East opener. The Hoyas defeated the Bulldogs 4-1 at home last season. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m.

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It’s definitely exciting winning in overtime, although we never would like to get to that stage.

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Pair of Early Goals Ensures Home Win Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (5-2-2) handily defeated Duquesne University (3-3-2) on Sunday afternoon at Shaw Field. The Hoyas’ 2-0 win came on the strength of two early goals, effectively putting the game out of reach for the conservative Dukes, whose playing style saw them sit back in deep defensive positions, hoping for chances to counterattack.

Georgetown created history in addition to its win, as senior attacking midfielder Daphne Corboz tied midfielder Ingrid Wells (COL ’11) for the Georgetown women’s soccer points record with 108 points. Corboz scored the first goal in the 10th minute and added an assist 12 minutes later.

Goals count for two points, while assists count for one.

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Junior midfielder Marina Paul assisted Georgetown’s second goal.

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The number of wins for the Georgetown football team, equalling last year’s total.

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Corboz had several shots throughout the match and as usual provided the Hoyas with their best chances on goal. Her goal was assisted by her sister, freshman midfielder Rachel Corboz.

“Obviously, scoring a goal pretty early is super important in any game and especially in a game like this where we knew they were going to try to sit in on us,” Corboz said. “Rachel played a good ball in to me and I was able to turn and finish it. And it was awesome connecting with my sister for the first time in an official game. It was really special and definitely good for the team as well.”

The Blue and Gray continued to put the Dukes under early pressure. The second goal soon followed, as junior midfielder Marina Paul headed down a pass to senior forward Vanessa Skrumbis to smash past the Dukes’ goalkeeper.

Despite the victory, Head Coach Dave Nolan remained frustrated by the attack’s production.

“We talked about coming out fast on them and we did because we knew they were going to come here and sit in against us and try to counterattack.

We knew that if we got an early goal, hopefully it would encourage them to come out and open up the game a little bit. And to be fair, it really didn’t,” Nolan said. “At 1-0 they never really came out. At 2-0 they never came out and it was only in the second half that they started to get braver. And that was the disappointing part for me. When it actually did open up, we weren’t good enough to take advantage of the space that was now open to us.”

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Junior quarterback Kyle Nolan threw for a touchdown and rushed for another in Saturday’s 17-3 win over Brown. Junior running back Jo’el Kimpela rushed for a career-high 104 yards on 18 carries.

Hoyas Upset Brown at Home NADAV SENENSIEB Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown football team’s season moved up to .500, as it defeated Brown University 17-3 on Saturday afternoon. In a game that was not as close as the score indicated, defense led the way for the Hoyas (2-2), as they forced the Bears (0-1) into four turnovers and did not allow a touchdown for the second consecutive game.

Georgetown also had its best rushing game of the year, gaining 250 yards on the ground against a Brown that who had given up just 75 combined rushing yards against Georgetown the past two seasons.

Leading the way on defense was senior defensive lineman Alec May, who had a career-high four sacks on the day and was consistently in the Brown backfield forcing pressure on senior quarterback Marcus Fuller.

“Third down is my favorite down.

I like getting after the quarterback obviously,” May said. “I just think today everything clicked — the whole defensive line was playing great. Those last two sacks were due to [senior defensive lineman Richard] Shankle and [junior linebacker Hunter] Kiselick getting in there and getting [the quarterback] to move around, and then I was able to kind of get under and get

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1964 Football Team Honored at Halftime

it, so it was a team effort the whole day with pass rushing.”

The other star on defense was junior cornerback Ettian Scott. Scott intercepted two passes against Brown and could have had a third, but he could not quite come up with a diving attempt. He now has three interceptions in the last two games.

“It started off with coach calling for man coverage, and I just knew it was third down and we got to get off the field just like we practice and they preach in the meetings every day,” Scott said. “So I see the ball in the air, had a big opportuniSee FOOTBALL, A8

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MATT RAAB

Hoya Staff Writer

Weekend festivities marked the 50th year of Georgetown football’s return to the Hilltop, with the return of members of the 1964 squad and those responsible for reviving the program.

In 1964, Georgetown played a single November game against New York University, winning 28-6 on homecoming weekend. The game marked a return of the sport to the program after a hiatus following World War II, featuring a team of assorted intramural football players who were ready to put their game on display at a higher level.

The storied history of the program was on display Saturday as team members and supporters of the ’64 team took to the MultiSport Facility, watching this year’s squad play Brown University in a nonconference contest.

At halftime, the former teammates — many of whom were wearing Georgetown football caps to commemorate the 50th anniversary — lined up on the field with University President and former football player John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95).

With Georgetown leading 7-3 at halftime, the alumni took to the field in front of a nearly full house of Georgetown and Brown supporters on the balmy late-September day. An announcer went down the line, calling out the height, position and hometown of each member of the 1964 team. Then, each member had a chance to wave to the crowd.

“Artificial turf and great fan support,” former quarterback Tony Lauinger (CAS ’67) said when asked about what stands out about the current football program. “We had great fan support when we were here too because we were just get-

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“It’s a big deal to beat Brown.

Coach Estes has been [at Brown for] 23 years — nine as a head coach.

He’ll get his 100th win there this year,” Sgarlata said. “That’s a good coaching staff; that’s a well-established program. Honestly, in five years, that’s something I hope that people say about this program.”

The anniversary celebrations continued that night at an award dinner held in O’Donovan Hall.

rom the Ray Rice fiasco to the bizarre and purely incompetent way the Minnesota Vikings handled Adrian Peterson’s child abuse charges, the National Football League and its 32 member teams are desperate to shift the public and media attention to actual football. Unfortunately, I fear that the on-field product of the NFL is beginning to decline, largely because one of the NFL’s relatively new money-making schemes — season-long Thursday Night Football.

TNF is merely the NFL’s latest hubristic act that demonstrates a lack of respect for its players, fans and society as a whole, while also hurting the game’s fairness. These games should be discontinued after this season.

It is clear why the NFL wished to expand TNF to include every week of the regular season. The NFL began TNF in 2006 because the potential to score big ratings on three days of the week was simply too good to pass up, since Saturday Night Football was drawing a comparatively weak audience due to its competition with college football and the social attractions of a weekend night. Although previously broadcasted exclusively by the NFL Network, CBS Sports recently purchased the rights to the program for this season, ensuring

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Members of the 1964 Georgetown football team gathered at midfield of the MultiSport Facility during halftime of Georgetown’s 17-3 win over Brown. The Hoya alumni were honored for their contribution to the program. ting started. But, this is really exciting to see, and the team is just playing so well. And beating an Ivy League school would be really great.”

Lauinger paused mid-interview to emphatically cheer on the Hoyas as they streamed back onto the field from the Southwest Quad.

Members of the ’64 team formed a funnel around the Blue and Gray as they filed through the gates. The Hoyas went on to beat Brown 17-3, which was not only a statement

win against an Ivy League school, but also the program’s first win against Brown after five losses.

“I’m impressed; I think their defense is doing a great job; I’m watching their linebackers because that’s what I played, and I think they’re doing a good job,” former defensive captain Steve Langhoff (CAS ’65) said. “These kids are a lot bigger than we were.”

First-year Head Coach Rob Sgarlata commented on the significance of the win.

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