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MEN’S SOCCER

Hoyas continue encouraging start with wins over Harvard and Wisconsin.

EDITORIAL D.C. and Georgetown have both made progress on sexual assault policy.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A2

TILLMAN Two graduate students received the scholarship for student veterans.

NEWS, A4

Maddy Moore Hoya Staff Writer

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Diplomat and former SFS Dean Robert Gallucci, center, conducts an interview on the Middle East with Ambassador Dennis Ross, left, and former Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams.

Winter Homelessness to Rise Hoya Staff Writer

The new Winter Plan released by the District of Columbia’s Interagency Council on Homelessness predicts a 16 percent increase in the number of homeless families seeking services in Washington, D.C, from last year.

The report estimates that more than 820 homeless families will need access to resources once the temperature drops below freezing.

The recently approved Winter Plan outlines how the city will ensure it fulfills its obligation under D.C. law to shelter adults and families to keep residents from suffering hypothermia and pos-

sible death.

With the expected increase in homeless families, social services and shelters around the city will work more to meet the increased need.

“Clearly, this winter, there was an emergency in the number of beds available for families and youth in the city during the winter, and there’s no reason to think that same situation won’t happen again. So this city is trying to increase capacity through a number of different strategies, but the winter’s right around the corner, and there is a greater demand for shelter than the system has to meet,” James Beck, the development director at Sasha Bruce Youthwork, said.

According to The Washington Post, the expected increase might also delay the closing of D.C. General emergency shelter, which was expected to close this year.

Homelessness also includes families and individuals moving from home to home or living in motels for extended periods of time. These families who do not live in shelters also have access to social services in the city.

ThriveD.C., a charity organization that gives aid to struggling individuals also saw an increase of about 15 to 20 percent in the population it serves with assistance during the day.

“We’ve experienced a definite

Loan Reforms Extend Eligibility Laura Owsiany

Education Arne Duncan said in a press release.

Hoya Staff Writer The department also detailed President Obama expanded the new incentives for lenders to imfederal “Pay As You Earn” program prove customer service and repayfor federal student loan borrowers ment support. through executive order this sumThe Department of Education mer, allowing those with loans bor- will now allocate federal borrowers rowed before 2007 to be eligible. to lending services based on new Under PAYE, monthly payments performance standards. Lenders on student loans will be capped are incentivized by metrics that at 10 percent of the borrower’s in- now weigh customer satisfaction come, and the balance will be for- more heavily and reward on-time given after 20 years of payments. repayment and low delinquency Now expandand default rates. ed, governStudents curment officials rently default at a estimated rate of 10 percent PAYE will inon two-year loans, clude about 5 and nearly 15 permillion more cent on three-year people when loans, according enacted in to the DepartArik Levinson 2015. ment of EducaEconomics Professor In accortion. The departdance with Obama’s executive ac- ment will implement new contract tion, the U.S. Department of Educa- renegotiations in order to help pretion had renegotiated its contracts vent students from defaulting on with federal student loan services their loans and help them in their to encourage loan servicers to be pursuit of higher education. more attentive to the needs of their Georgetown economics proborrowers. According to a press re- fessor Arik Levinson said that allease, the DOE will begin to under- though the higher default rates in go the process of altering regula- student loans cost the federal govtions and allowing more borrowers ernment more, they are an importo have payment caps of 10 percent tant government service because of their income under PAYE, to they provide recent college gradumake sure that students are able to ates with wider job options. pay off their student debt.

“If you go work on Wall Street, “All hard-working students and you’ll pay it back quickly. If you go families deserve high-quality sup- work at a lower-paying job, you can port from the federal loan servicer, pay it back more slowly. Dependand we are continuing to make See LOAN, A6 sure that is the case,” Secretary of

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Following the guidance of the White House and the Office of Civil Rights, the Office of Student Conduct introduced several changes to Georgetown’s sexual misconduct policy last week.

Hearing panels in sexual misconduct cases, which previously included three faculty or staff members and two students, will now consist of two faculty or staff members and one student in order to limit the number of people involved.

Additionally, the university plans to hire outside investigators to look into all complaints prior to conducting a hearing.

Previously, sexual misconduct hearings were conducted in the same manner as hearings for other breaches of the code of conduct.

“I really like [the changes] because it looks like what they are doing is that they are trying to standardize a lot of the reporting process and making it less subjective and trying to create a more supportive environment,” Sexual Assault Peer Educator Haley Maness (NHS ’15) said.

The White House created a Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault last January and the Task Force has since issued recommendations for effectively responding to sexual assault incidents and for sexual assault prevention.

The new changes in the sexual assault policy arose after students and faculty members expressed concerns at a forum last spring about Georgetown not having a survivor-centered conduct process.

“A lot of the changes were based on commitments that were made during the Sexual Assault Forum in April,” Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said.

“What the summer provided us with was an opportunity to take stock of all

of that was said and figure out what it would look like when we rolled out [the changes] in the fall.”

Under the new policy, survivors of sexual assault can avoid coming face-toface with their perpetrators during their hearings through the use of closed-circuit video technology. The incorporation of this technology, which has already taken effect, is an effort on the part of the university to make the conduct process more survivor-centered. “[The cameras] are immediately ready to go, and that will be part of cases going forward,” Tezel said.

In addition to these changes to the student code of conduct, the Division of Student Affairs’ Sexual Assault Working Group has developed a Survivor Bill of Rights.

This document serves as a resource to inform survivors of their rights both at Georgetown and at the national level and outlines the sexual HALEY MANESS (NHS ’15) Sexual Assault Peer Educator misconduct process for both complainants and respondents.

“We are preparing an email that will go out this week about the Survivor Bill of Rights,” Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson said. “It will go out to all students on the main campus and will outline the steps, some of the resources, and will include a link to the Survivor Bill of Rights.”

While the updated code of conduct and the increased resources mark a significant change in the university’s sexual misconduct policy, students and administrators have expressed their hope to see continued conversation with both students and faculty and staff at Georgetown.

“One thing that I recently have found to be really important is seeing faculty members get trained,” Maness said. “Of-

“They are trying to standardize a lot of the reporting process and make it less subjective.”

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Tattoo Artists Fight Regulations Suzanne Monyak & Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writers

Spontaneity is still possible in D.C. tattoo parlors, but District tattoo artists are still pushing back against proposed regulations to the industry.

The D.C. Department of Health has eliminated the 24-hour waiting period for tattoos from its proposals for city tattoo parlors, following pushback from tattoo artists on the regu-

lation. Some tattoo artists, however, are protesting the remaining regulation through petitions opposing the revised DOH proposal.

Mason Hogue, a tattoo artist at Embassy Tattoos in Adams Morgan, said that the proposed regulations are unreasonable, since the regulations include stipulations that are not economically feasible, according to tattoo artists.

“It’s almost as if they Googled what not to do and put all that in their pro-

“It makes lowincome jobs out of college more attractive.”

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GU Updates Sexual Assault Policy

THE TURBULENT MIDDLE EAST

Maddy Moore

HARASSMENT The university added cyberbullying policies to the Code of Student Conduct.

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Although the District has abandoned some proposed regulations, tattoo artists are still fighting proposals that remain on the table.

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posal,” Hogue said.

Hogue, who moved to D.C. recently from California’s Bay Area, said that D.C. should look to cities with longer histories of tattoo regulations, such as San Francisco.

In July 2012, California enacted the Safe Body Art Act, which mandated that tattoo and piercing parlors register with local governments and participate in yearly health and safety training. The legislation also barred tattoo artists from charging less for tattoos by shirking on safe, quality equipment.

“San Francisco’s regulation is pretty spot on,” he said.

Matt “Fatty” Jessup, the proprietor of Fatty’s Tattoos and Piercings in Dupont Circle has begun circulating his own petition in opposition to the proposals.

“The second draft of regulations is filled with bizarre rules that are impossible to comply with and demonstrate an incomplete understanding of body art practices,” Fatty wrote in the petition.

He highlighted three major problems stated in the second proposal draft: the requirement that tattoo artists use hollow needles, which he said do not exist for tattoos; prohibition from using supplies not registered in the District, even though, according to Fatty and Hogue, there are no registered tattoo supply manufacturers in the District; and the requirement that all tattoo parlors hang a warning sign, listing a contact number for customers who believe that “have been injured at this establishment.”

“This is ridiculous,” Fatty told the Washington Examiner. “They’re trying to scare our customers away.”

As of Monday, the petition has See TATTOO, A5

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

THE VERDICT Return of the Wok — Because of student​ complaints, Leo’s reintroduced the customizable wok line, allowing students the chance to widen their choices at the dining hall.

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EDITORIALS

Rust Keeps Fire Trucks Out of Service — Seven of D.C​.’s ladder fire trucks failed inspection, and neighboring counties will help D.C.’s fire department until the trucks are back in commission.

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With the recent creation of a White House task force to combat sexual assault on college campuses, it is clear that necessary national scrutiny has returned to the issue of sexual misconduct. Both the Hilltop and the District have recently made long-overdue updates to their policies that will allow the issues of rape and sexual assault to receive the attention that they need.

Georgetown University revealed changes made to the section of its Code of Student Conduct that addresses sexual assault, which will take effect this fall. Changes include assigning trained investigators to reported cases, hiring additional psychiatrictrauma specialists, installing closed-circuit technology at hearings and training all incoming students and administrators in bystander-intervention education.

These changes bring Georgetown’s inquiry into cases involving sexual misconduct to today’s standard. Although there is certainly room for improvement, Georgetown’s new policies reflect that the university is taking allegations of sexual assault more seriously than before.

For example, instead of depending on the Office of Student Conduct — which is more effective in investigating drug, alcohol and noise violations — to investigate assault charges, we can now utilize the expertise and experience of specialized investigators, who are better equipped to handle

these often nuanced, sensitive issues.

Similarly, the District penal code’s revised definition of rape, which until recently had last been updated in 1927, provides a technical definition to replace the archaic “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” The use of this definition in the nation’s capital, which is proud to consider itself one of the most progressive cities in a progressive nation, was embarrassing. Although any progress on the issue, however overdue, is certainly welcome, it is disheartening and concerning that the definition has only now been changed.

Both Georgetown’s willingness to accept advice from the White House and Office for Civil Rights and the District’s willingness to rephrase an archaic definition show that our university and city administrators recognize the systemic problems in how sexual assault and rape are addressed in today’s culture. Changing the system of investigation and punishment is a step in the right direction, but further steps are certainly needed to effect change in the culture surrounding this issue.

Recent changes have reasonably and correctly allocated investigatory and counseling resources for victims of rape and sexual assault to where they are most needed.

Georgetown and Washington would do well to continue moving in this same direction.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Megan Schmidt

their arbitrary NetID, to others outside our community. Students, like faculty, often need to interact professionally with people outside of Georgetown, and the problems that some faculty have encountered with the initials- and numbers-based NetID email addresses apply to students as well.

For individuals who go by different names than are represented in their initials, for example, NetID emails can be especially confusing.

While the current NetID email system accommodates those who have fairly common names, for which the first.last@georgetown. edu format may already be taken, numbers can be added to first-last addresses, just as numbers can be added to NetIDs. Students should be afforded the same opportunity to opt for name-based email addresses as Georgetown faculty and staff.

For a university with such an internshipfocused, pre-professionally driven student body, it is a courtesy to afford the same modifications in email addresses to students who request them, as well.

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Daniel smith (SFS ’17) explains how Leo’s could better utilize the resources it has to serve students: The purpose of a dining hall is to serve food — anything that detracts from this is wasteful. My guess is that the majority of the student population would rather have more dining options than be able to watch the haka with their chicken tenders.”

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AYAN MANDAL (COL ’18) explores the ethics of pirating music: Some virtues are timeless and can be applied no matter how convoluted technology makes this world. So when the CIA asks us if we’ve ever downloaded music illegally, at least we can apply the ancient Aristotelian virtue of honesty and check off ‘yes.’”

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Henderson is a nationally recognized leader in the field of education, and has a fundamental understanding of the needs and issues facing the District of Columbia. Her appointment signals that engagement in the local affairs of the D.C. community is a priority that University President John J. DeGioia and other officials take seriously, especially as Georgetown keeps much of its local focus on Washington and its international character.

Georgetown’s affairs are intimately and inherently related to Washington’s. Having an individual among our university governance who is both an established member of our alumni community and an established member of the D.C. community can only serve us well.

Emma Hinchliffe, Editor-in-Chief Mallika Sen, Executive Editor Robert DePaolo, Managing Editor Ian Tice, Online Editor

Football and Politics — On Monday, the White House responded to the video of Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice abusing his fiance​ by urging men to stand up to violence against women.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ...

BOD Breaks the Bubble A university’s board of directors should reflect not just a school’s identity nor its most powerful alumni, but also its priorities and goals as an organization. Georgetown’s recent decision to appoint D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS ’92, GRD ’07) as a member of its board of directors shows that it values its role in the larger Washington, D.C. community.

The appointment of Henderson, who has served as DCPS Chancellor since June 2011, will ensure that Georgetown is not focused solely on improving its standing as a formidable institution of higher learning, but its standing as a good citizen of the District as well.

In addition to being a Georgetown alum,

Obama for Statehood — Right before the upcoming Senate hearing on D​​.C. statehood to occur next week, Obama commented in support on making the capital a state in its own right.

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Addressed Professionally Among the many benefits of being a member of a university community, the distinction of having an email address ending in “.edu” is small, yet highly visible.

In anticipation of this token of academic accomplishment, many of those receiving a georgetown.edu address are likely to be underwhelmed, given that the preceding letters and numerals represent little in the way of personal identification.

Our NetIDs are more akin to usernames than identifications, and, sensing this incompatibility, University Information Services, at the request of the faculty, has given faculty and staff the option to receive mail at an address that follows a first.last@ georgetown.edu format. Because faculty and staff often interact with the general public in a professional setting, it is beneficial to have email addresses that well represent individuals within our university with the highest professional standard.

This same rationale, however, should also apply to students who wish to represent themselves with their name, rather than

Widening the Wardrobe — Rent the Runway, which rents designer clothes and accessories, will now quell the desires of D.C​.’s most fashionable by opening a storefront on M Street.​

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OPINION

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

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Challenge To Reject Rejection I

n my estimation, a fair number of the students dedicatedly reading THE HOYA these first weeks are eager freshmen.

Some want to better know the campus they’ve stepped onto, while others are just itching to join the flagship of Georgetown’s journalistic efforts. Admittedly, others read just so they don’t appear to be eating alone in Leo’s.

For some freshmen, taking the time to read the paper is a sign that they have lost their mojo. No longer the queen bee of a small hive, they are now part of what can feel like a chaotic atmosphere overflowing with activity. These students suddenly find themselves with no court to hold, alone, reading the paper.

For these students, I encourage you to embrace the challenges that come with being a part of this place, and to channel the impressive qualities you know you possess in order into to create something truly worthy of pride.

The first few weeks of Georgetown can come with a lot of rejection. An absurdly high percentage of your classmates are former valedictorians, class presidents or both.

For all but five students entering a Georgetown class (barring the case of a tie), neither of these honors will be awarded again at the end of four years.

Even the first weeks can be depressing, as job after club after unpaid service group chooses not to let you participate in their activities. It can sometimes feel like a supersized version of “Mean Girls” where you are dismissed from the table, making the community feel, for a time, like an incredibly daunting place.

I challenge freshmen to reject rejection and to use these weeks as a time of discernment. Seek how God is interested in using your four years on this Hilltop. Perhaps beyond that, seek how God will shape your time on this Hilltop and allow you to be his hands while shaping the world.

Perhaps this perspective shift alone will allow you to change the way that you are able to experience your time here. Rather than feeling discouraged by the lack of attention you are receiving, focus your vantage point outside of yourself and attempt to see, externally, how you can be of service to this school and its community.

In my first weeks at Georgetown, I made a sort of agreement with God. I would throw myself fully into the paths he opened to me if only he would make paths appear.

Time and again during my two years on this campus, new paths have opened. A truly dedicated professor recruited me to leave biology and pre-med for a major far better suited to my interests and designs. A Jesuit priest helped me to challenge my conceptions about what it meant to live up to my God-given potential and to be a leader in faith.

This past summer, living in Washington D.C., working constantly during days and moonlighting at a club at night, I couldn’t believe how much my life had changed in a short year. However, through it all, I felt incredibly blessed by the friendships I formed and the true purpose I felt in the work I had achieved.

Class of 2018: I plea for a similar arrangement to be made between you and God as you enter this campus.

Georgetown truly is a community of faith. We find God in many forms, but this school actively encourages a dialogue with the Almighty in a way that few other campuses dare. It would be a shame to pass up the opportuni ty to engage on this campus and engage with your faith throughout your four years here.

In everything you do over the next eight semesters, seek to absent yourself from the conventional and to throw yourself at the opportunities that God presents. Take these opportunities in ways grounded in spirituality and intentional service to others. I am confident that your class has the opportunity to be among the greatest to have walked through our gates, and I look forward to see how you will channel this campus’s unique spiritual energies in setting the world on fire.

Tim Rosenberger is a junior in the College. THE CHURCH AND STATESMAN appears every other Tuesday.

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Waging War for the Working Poor

wasn’t trying to support a family with my minimum wage paycheck from my summer job in a fast food restaurant.

My fellow cashier, Kelsey, however, was. Kelsey’s husband had recently lost his job as a security guard, and she had a 2-month-old son at home to feed. Her story is all too familiar — a member of America’s working poor, she grinds away every day at a job that does not provide her with enough to get by.

While it is true that, according to the Pew Research Center, only 4.7 percent of the nation’s 75.3 million hourly-paid workers make minimum wage, more than half of them are women, who, like Kelsey, could greatly benefit from an increase in the minimum wage — and this statistic does not include those who make only slightly more than minimum wage.

And yet, the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009, falling remarkably short of the standards our peer countries set for their workers.

Perhaps the most egregious consequence of a low minimum wage is a high demand for food stamps, which puts undue pressure not only on the low-wage families that are forced to use them, but also on the government and on taxpayers.

Last year alone, $76 billion from the U.S. Treasury went toward filling people’s food stamp cards.

One of those cards belonged to Kelsey, and another belonged to Walmart employee Stephanie Ballam.

In a Marketplace series entitled, “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Krissy Clark reveals the way in which many large corporations doubly benefit from keeping the minimum wage low, spending less on their employees’ salaries and gaining government money when their low-wage workers use food stamps in their stores. Clark reports that when Ballam finishes her shift at a Walmart Supercenter

It seems the only group that benefits from keeping minimum wage low is big business. near Columbus, Ohio, she “sometimes picks up a few groceries … then, because she doesn’t earn enough money at her job to make ends meet, she will often pay for the groceries with food stamps.”

By paying workers like Ballam less money, Walmart raked in more than $13 billion in revenue last year from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They have even worked food stamps into its business model — Clark also reports that stores stock up on grocery staples whenever SNAP cards are being recharged.

It seems the only group that ben-

efits from keeping minimum wage low is big business. Thus, it makes sense that many large corporations, including Walmart, prefer to keep wages low.

When Seattle recently voted to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15, many opponents of the bill argued that small businesses would suffer while large corporations would easily absorb the shock of higher wages.

However, in the article “Is the Fight for 15 Strangling Small Business?” Leela Yellesetty and Chris Mobley point out that many who assert this point “include repre-

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sentatives of the world’s biggest corporations [who are] using small businesses as a shield,” basing argument not in fact but in fear.

One major fear that grips the American public is a rise in prices.

However, in a video entitled “What if Walmart Paid Its Employees More?” economists crunched numbers from Ohio and found that an increase in minimum wage would only raise Walmart prices by 1.4 percent; in other words, a 68-cent box of mac and cheese would become 69 cents.

Opponents of regional and state increases in minimum wage also fear loss of jobs and unemployment. Yet Bloomberg News recently reported that after Washington’s model increase of minimum wage to $15 an hour, the state performed better than the national average in job growth, poverty levels and, unsurprisingly, wage rates.

A grumbling customer once approached me at the register and complained that the high price of her meal was due to a recent increase in California minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9. She griped that California legislators failed to see the “big picture” of the effects of increasing minimum wage.

Much to my supervisor’s chagrin, I pointed out that the “big picture” of rising prices and unemployment and a flagging economy as a result of raising the minimum wage is actually an illusion painted by clawed corporate fingers. The price of her meal had not increased at all from the time when California minimum wage was lower.

The real picture involves a simple solution to an obvious problem; one can see it after spending a summer behind the counter with Kelsey.

Emma Lux is a freshman in the College. MILLENNIAL VOICES appears every other Monday at thehoya.com

VIEWPOINT • Siemietkowski

The Lackluster American Reflecting in Action, Follow-Through on Iraq Not Acting in Action

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he recent coverage of the Islamic overthrew the regime, we expelled all State of Iraq and the Levant’s rise of the 30,000 to 50,000 Sunni Ba’ath in Iraq has shocked many Ameri- Party members that had formed Huscans — seemingly suddenly, a tragic sein’s bureaucracy from their positurn of events has unfolded just as Iraq tions — whether as teachers or senior looked stable. After all, we had left a party leaders. In doing so, we created sovereign state in 2011 with a demo- a faction of the population that is recratic government under a leader we sentful of American occupation and had installed. increasingly willing to turn to extreme But the emergence of ISIL as a potent measures and extreme leadership in force is anything but an accident. order to reinstate some level of selfA series of recurrent events since our governance. invasion of Iraq has brought us to this When we hurriedly hosted elections, precarious outcome, leaving us strug- voter turnout among the Shiites was gling to determine if and how we can overwhelmingly high, but only 10 persave the deteriorating nation. cent of Sunnis arrived to cast their balISIL seeks to rapidly establish a ca- lots. The U.S. forces saw an ebb and flow liphate, persecute divergent factions of of success in stabilizing the country, Islam (often through gruesome means reaching the highest level of control including decapitating and crucifying under David Petraeus’s surge strategy, dissenters) and target the United States which included a crucial tactical deciwith multiple 9/11-style sion to draft the serattacks. vices of 100,000 Sunni The group is highly soldiers who had predisciplined, claiming viously fought vigorkey territories like Moously against American sul, the second largest armed forces. city in Iraq, and enjoyNouri al-Maliki, howing financial windfalls ever, decided to consolithrough extortion and date his power by expelbank robberies. It rules ling Sunnis from his Parth Shah by a combination of government, and by infear and ingratiation, creasingly oppressing instituting a “convert them as time went on.

The root of the or die” order for minorWhen American troops conflict in Iraq is ity Christian groups, left in an arbitrarily while distributing declared deadline in sectarian conflict. sweets during Eid and 2011, “letting the chips establishing basic infrastructure. The fall where they may,” the sectarian tenIslamic State ruler, Abu Bakr al-Baghda- sions were reaching an all-time high, di, motivates through the use of fiery leaving ISIL — a Sunni militant group tactics derived from works like “The — to rise to the occasion.

Management of Savagery.”

Our rebuilding efforts ought to have It can hardly be argued that this consisted of a more inclusive coalition regime, were it to take hold and es- government backed by a leader who untablish sovereignty in any country of derstood the fragility of Iraqi society, and the Middle East, would be better than the United States ought to have stayed in that of Saddam Hussein. And it seems the region long enough to create a stabiobvious that these guys are serious lized administrative infrastructure. about building a functional state by Even a regime that faces as much corseizing resources, profiting from the ruption as Iraq has learned that the only existing sectarian divisions in Iraq to way to weather centuries-old differences recruit more followers and by exploit- that permeate complex cultures is to ing the vulnerabilities of a war torn promote participation in government.

Syria in order to grab territory on We and the sovereign Iraqi government that front. forgot about these essential facts of ISIL operates using calculated, strate- democratic operation, and we are now gic moves beyond the scope of prior ex- suffering the consequences. tremist groups, leading former ambasAt home, the only way to solve these sador to Iraq Ryan Crocker to call them issues is to make the tough, yet neces“al-Qaida version 6.0.” sary choices, and avoid falling into doHow did we arrive at such a drastic mestic political potholes that can potenturn of events? tially endanger our national security.

The root of the conflict in Iraq is If we enter into a decade-long consectarian tension between the Sunnis, flict, we need to ensure that we follow Shiites and Kurds, factions that have through and establish stability. It’s clear fought throughout the sometimes that ignoring the realities of war is dantempestuous history of the region. But gerous not only to the occupied terriafter the United States invaded the na- tory’s population, but also to our own tion, the decisions we made after oust- people and nation, lest groups like ISIL ing Hussein exacerbated the divide manifest themselves. among these demographics.

Hussein’s Iraq, ruled by a Sunni Mus- Parth Shah is a junior in the College. lim minority, oppressed the Shiites POLITICS OF PARTH appears every othand Kurds for decades. And when we er Tuesday.

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ow are you?”

“Really busy.”

“I know, right? Me, too. I’m super busy.”

“I was up until 4.”

“That’s nothing, I was up even later … ” Sound familiar? We hear these encounters all the time. Our culture and our campus are really busy.

Are we too busy? Is being busy a choice?

I know I’m being countercultural when I pose these questions.

That’s intentional. To be clear, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be involved. I’m saying that you should be involved with real intentionality, purpose and meaning.

What if, when asked how we are doing, we first paused, smiled and then said, “I’m grateful”?

Could you imagine? What if the culture of “busyness” started to shift to one of real gratitude?

The Jesuits have a phrase: “contemplative in action.” The phrase is not “actor in action”; it’s “contemplative in action.”

We are invited to contemplate with gratitude our gifts, which lead us to act, and to contemplate the Giver who gives us these gifts.

Being contemplative — that is, reflecting on our days and thinking about what we’re grateful for — is quite simple. It means noticing, pondering on and even sharing our experiences, thoughts and feelings with others. When do we find sources for joy, peace and energy during our days? Alternatively, what stunts us from living as women and men for others?

From me to you, here are a few pieces of advice that might help you answer these questions and live up to the standard of living as a woman or man for others.

We can be contemplative in a variety of ways. For centuries, thousands of men and women have recited the Examen — a short, reflective prayer rooted in gratitude.

Journaling, which adds another dimension to reflection, helps me to decide over time what is life-giving and energizing and what is not.

Taking time to sit in any of our beautiful sacred spaces — even for a few minutes on the way to class — is another wonderful way to let thoughts and feelings wash over us. The fountain in Dahlgren Quad is one of my favorite spots, as is the beautiful garden by the Observatory behind Yates.

Reflecting together with others can also build authentic communities and friendships, and we can do this in our own residence halls, apartments and homes through Companions’ Dinners and the Spirit of Georgetown seminars in the spring. We can also go to Georgetown’s peaceful retreat center in the Blue Ridge Mountains for ESCAPE, AGAPE and other retreats: If St. Ignatius did it, why can’t we?

However we do this, as individuals or as a community, reflecting on our days is a wonderful way to be contemplative in action — shifting “busy” to “grateful.”

So, what advice do I have for new and returning students? Remember that being a student first is your job right now, and it’s an incredible privilege to be here at Georgetown, where your professors and friends challenge you to be your best self.

Your assignments, papers and exams are gifts, not burdens (I told you I’m countercultural).

And, we all make mistakes. One of my best moments as a student here at Georgetown was going to my professor’s office and saying, “I’m really behind with the reading, and I don’t know how to get out of this hole, but I know I need help.”

Additionally, be involved with intentionality. Reflect on what you’re doing so that you don’t miss the meaning, fun and joy in your actions on campus. But, sometimes our reflection will lead us to saying no to some of our activities. Saying no to some things actually helps us say yes more intentionally — and with more energy and joy — to others.

Trust in yourself, and don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Everyone feels insecure; only some of us are secure enough to admit it.

Finally, there are so many people here who care about you — take the opportunity to ask for guidance and support like I did. Your professors, chaplains and residential advisors are great resources who embody cura personalis very well.

Above all, be grateful. Take the time to pause and reflect on your work and activities. When you do, you’ll be much more effective, productive and joyful.

Reflecting on our days is a wonderful way to shift from “busy” to “grateful.”

MICHELLE SIEMIETKOWSKI (COL ’92, GRD ’98) is the Director for Graduate and Undergraduate Student Formation in the Office of Mission and Ministry and a chaplain in residence.

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Veterans Awarded Tillman Scholarship KATHERINE RICHARDSON & MALLIKA SEN Hoya Staff Writers

After the university officially partnered with the Pat Tillman Foundation in May, two graduate students, Wayne Johnson (GRD ’15) and Bonnie Hayes (GRD ’15) were among the 2014 scholar class.

The scholarship fund, which was created after the death of NFL player and veteran Pat Tillman, supports the education of around 60 students from the military each year. This year, the foundation selected 59 students out of more than 7,500 applicants.

Although no Georgetown students were awarded the Tillman scholarship last year, two graduate students and one law student from Georgetown won the scholarship in 2012.

Johnson is currently studying international development in the School of Foreign Service’s master’s program. When on active duty in the military, Johnson, 29, led a counter-improvised explosive device assignment in Afghanistan, spent two years at an army research lab and became an active commander for a parachuting unit.

“I was happiest when I was doing the bomb work because I felt like I was helping people. When I was doing disaster work, that was also a good cause,” Johnson said. “I learned about myself that it’s important to me that I’m engaged in the group cause and helping others.”

When he finished his service, Johnson decided to apply to Georgetown for a variety of reasons including its good reputation, excellent professors, religious affiliation and access to internships.

Johnson credits Elizabeth Ferris’ INAF698 class “Introduction to Humanitarian Crises” as instrumental to his career path.

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After his military service, Wayne Johnson (GRD ’15) came to Georgetown to study international development in the SFS.

The class covered different types of aid and how they are delivered across the world.

“The world of humanitarian organizations is an imperfect one, but I think — I hope — that students came away from the course realizing that humanitarian response is constantly evolving in the search for more effective response to people whose lives have been shattered by war or disasters,” Ferris wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The big weakness is the seeming inability of the international system to prevent conflicts in the first place and to devote the necessary attention to post-conflict, post-disaster reconstruction when the television cameras have moved on.”

According to Ferris, Johnson seemed to be extremely engaged in the issues discussed in class.

“He was an enthusiastic and interested student, he asked lots of questions about the reading and class presentations,” Ferris wrote. “I think he was moved by some of the situations we covered and came away with both a better understanding of how the system works — and hopefully many more questions.”

Hayes, 32, the other recipient of the scholarship, is studying in the Sports Industry Management Program at the School of Continuing Studies. Hayes served on the Air Force for seven years, including a stint as a mental health technician in Kuwait. She helped soldiers involved in IED attacks, an experience which propelled her interest in helping war amputees. Currently, Hayes works at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“The degree is going to help me do one of my dreams, my biggest dream, which is to have my own sporting complex geared toward war amputees,” Hayes said.

Hayes said she chose Georgetown because she knew it would provide her with knowledge to help her achieve her dream.

“At the time, Georgetown was ranked sixth in the nation or in the world,” Hayes said. “It’s awesome because it’s close to me and I wanted to go someplace that had a whole bunch of instructors who were already in the industry who I could learn from.”

Hayes said that one particular professor, Bobby Goldwater, provided useful advice for her future. Goldwater said that he enjoys Hayes’s ability to work effectively in groups.

“Bonnie is a very thoughtful individual,” Goldwater said. “In especially her group projects, she was certainly a valued contributor. She works very well in a team environment. She was very thoughtful in all of her contributions throughout the semesters.”

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Students enjoyed free food from Hilltoss and the Georgetown University Grilling Society during the Healey Family Student Center soft opening celebration Friday afternoon.

HFSC Opens to Students

KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Healey Family Student Center opened to students Friday with an all-day celebration that included tours, free food and a casino night. The center, which has been in construction since last August, provides students with over 43,000 square feet of space. The building includes a great room, 12 study rooms, three private conference rooms, two dance studios and four music rooms.

The event began with speeches from university administrators including Father Kevin O’Brien, S.J. (CAS ’88), Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, Provost Robert Groves and Director of the Center for Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr. Prior commitments prevented the presence of University President John J. DeGioia, who will attend the center’s dedication in October.

The event began with a blessing from O’Brien, who said that the space represents new opportunities for student growth and change on campus.

“Bless all of our activity that will make this space a new home for us at Georgetown, a gathering space where bonds are made and deepened among us,” O’Brien said. “We celebrate with great joy today all of the bounty knowing that we are called to give what we have received in such abundance.”

O’Brien and Olson said they remembered the space as it was 11 years ago, when it served as a dining hall for campus.

“You heard that when the ultramodern New South residence hall opened in 1958, this was the main dining hall. It remained that way until the year 2003,” Olson said. “I remember laughter and conversations, which will now come back to this place.”

As an alumnus, O’Brien said that he was pleased to see such expansive change to a space that he once loved.

“We remember fondly this space as the New South Dining Hall. Believe me, it is much improved. On behalf of the alumni community, thank you,” O’Brien said.

Olson said that the HFSC surpassed his expectations and excellently embodies the university’s spirit.

“We have our living greenery on our Hoya Saxa wall — which looks even better than I imagined — we have the comfort and coziness of our breakout rooms, we have the sunny breezy terrace that will open in just a few weeks, we have dance studios upstairs and we have the spirit of Georgetown, alive and well and good and noisy already,” Olson said.

According to Groves, the center represents a new step towards a more cohesive, unified student body, joined together by place.

“We have the strongest academic programs in the world, we have wonderful student clubs and organizations, we have devoted student-athletes and intercollegiate competition, we have campus ministry that serves a variety

of needs and through spaces like this, we can gather together to study, to relax, to have fun and to reflect among our peers,” Groves said. “This is all by way of saying that we think at Georgetown, place matters. We can’t do what’s going to go on here in a virtual network system. We have to be face to face, looking at one another in the eyes, and we have to learn what makes others tick, and this is what this kind of space is about.”

The official blessing and dedication of the center will occur Oct. 8.

The HFSC will soon include the pub, Bulldog Tavern, opening Oct. 31, Hilltoss, the new Students of Georgetown Inc. venue, opening Nov. 1 and outdoor terrace Riverside Lounge, opening in four to six weeks.

The terrace, funded by $2.2 million from the Student Activities Fund, was entirely designed and developed by students. According to Olson, without students, the space would never have become a reality.

“My final gratitude is given to the students, because so many students, current and past for more than a decade now have spent hours and hours dreaming about, imagining, arguing over and redesigning and building support for this space,” Olson said. “It is a remarkable story, as there usually is at Georgetown, about student initiatives and ownership, so all of these students, past and present, have made this come to life.”

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Jinx Proof Tattoos, located at 3285 M St., offers tattoo services by seven tattoo artists, as well as professional body piercing.

Tattoo Artists Oppose Regulations TATTOO, from A1 1,442 supporters.

“Clearly they don’t understand body art practices or the equipment we use,” Fatty wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Additionally, the new proposals call for stricter regulations on waste disposal practices.

Hogue said that while some parts of the law were appropriate, they were washed out by the overly stringent regulations on areas like garbage disposal, as stores have to keep their garbage inside to be approved as sterile.

“One, that is just an unnecessary practice that needs to be implemented, and two, more business or retail locations cannot provide that kind of space, and especially with the rat problem in D.C … To store food, garbage and stuff like that indoors would create more problems than it would protect the customer,” he said.

Both Fatty and Hogue believe that tattoo artists should be more involved in the policy-making process.

“I think having the input and expertise of the body art community is essential. That’s why myself and others in the D.C. body art community formed the D.C. Coalition of Profes-

sional Body Artists,” Fatty wrote.

Students who have gotten tattoos while at Georgetown spoke positively of their experience in parlors.

“I went to Jinx Proof on M Street.

They had excellent customer service,” Marlene Cox (COL ’16), who has a tattoo of a black feather on her right foot, said. “They talked me through the implications of my chosen placement, size of the tattoo, duration of the procedure, and after care.”

Donald Kim (SFS ’16), who has a tattoo of a Bible verse in Italian, also went to Georgetown’s Jinx Proof.

“They were very cool and awesome.

When I went with questions, they were very helpful, they answered all my questions. It was very efficient, and he was very kind,” Kim said.

Though unfamiliar with the proposed regulations, Cox was pleased that the new regulations at least removed the 24-hour waiting period.

“As a rule, parlors never service anyone under the influence. The 24hour waiting period would only serve to protect the parlor from a lawsuit, I would imagine,” Cox said. “I would not want a 24-hour waiting period. It feels too much like a rule that people unfamiliar with the culture of body art would try to put in place.”

This semester, the university released Campus Quad, a new mobile application that connects students to extracurricular life on campus by sending notifications about events and meetings for clubs and organizations.

Georgetown and Stanford University are the first two campuses to incorporate the app. “[Georgetown students] have the chance to help us create a platform that students across the country can use,” Campus Quad founder Frances Cairns said. “I’m doing this because I think students deserve the right to have mobile access in a modern world and my goal is to enable that and we are waiting to hear what students have to say.”

The app is designed to change how student clubs and organizations interact with the student population.

“Basically there is a dashboard that shows you who is interacting with your content. For clubs and organizations, it’s a really powerful tool. … It’s real time activity and content flowing back and forth,” Cairns said. “On large campuses, the information isn’t always easy to find. …

We wanted to build and app that would serve the students and allow students in real time to explore what’s happening and different ways to navigate around campus.”

Specifically at Georgetown, the app aims to make it easier for student groups to promote their events.

"A lot of the times at Georgetown, it’s very tough to get a lot of people to come to your events. You can flyer and send out listserv emails all the time, but sometimes that still doesn't generate a lot of attendance,” Student Activities Commission Chair Patrick Musgrave (COL ’16) said. “If this were to become used actively on campus, then groups would be able to advertise efficiently and get their message out more because everything is now online and students use their phones all the time.”

The app allows groups and organizations to create mobile flyers to promote an event and push them out to various social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

"It could definitely help out a lot of groups that are maybe smaller and sometimes struggle to have attendance to their events,” Musgrave said.

Ultimately, the app streamlines all the information into a singular feed.

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The newly released Campus Quad mobile application will allow students to stay informed about extracurricular life on campus.

Students can customize their feeds by following various clubs and organizations.

“The app gives all groups equal access to all students, allows for users to filter based on interests and enables users to import events that interest them directly into personal calendars,” Georgetown University Student Association Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) wrote in an email.

The app will continue to be developed in order to incorporate features that are specifically tailored to Georgetown’s student body.

“One of the cool things we can do at Georgetown is to include information on the Google Maps and the Android Maps. It’s the first campus in the nation to have this,” Cairns said.

“It will be a data layer with more specific photographs and information about how to navigate the campus.

Our question is how can we make the app better and more robust to successfully navigate campus.”

Cairns said she is also very enthusiastic about hearing from students and addressing what students think works best.

“We are really interested in feedback and what we can do it improve it. We totally revamped the app based

on the feedback we got at Stanford,” Cairns said.

While the application is still brand new to Georgetown, awareness on campus is growing, according to Musgrave. The app was introduced at Blueprint Training, a program for student leaders to learn about campus resources.

"Presidents have been reached out to about [the app]. It was mentioned at the Blueprint Training [for student leaders] and we will continue to encourage organizations to use the app,” Musgrave said. “Commissioners will also meet with all their groups to finalize budgets and we will push that as a way to promote it even more."

Kirsten Craddock (COL ’15), club squash captain and vice president of the Undergraduate Bioethics Society, said that she thinks that the app will be an effective outreach tool.

“For both squash and the Undergraduate Bioethics Society, figuring out how to get fans or members to come to events is always a challenge.

The way the app works on time and location sound like it could really improve accessibility to events on campus,” Craddock said. “I hope it lives up to expectations and that student groups use it.”

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Rise in Homelessness Projected HOMELESSNESS, from A1 increase in the last 18 months — actually, we could probably say more than that, a couple years, because we have had a number of other agencies that are in our neighborhood close,” ThriveD.C. Development Director Jennifer Paul said.

Adding to the difficulty in accommodating the increased number of homeless families, last winter saw a pattern of homeless families staying longer than expected in shelters due to problems finding affordable apartments, requiring additional space in community centers and motels around the city. The continued increase is linked to the recent economic recession, which in turn affects jobs and incomes.

“The recession has lingered for the poorest segments of our city, and people are strug-

gling – people that were marginally housed have not seen the bounce back that some are claiming in the stock market or the wider economy, so the city continues to have extreme poverty level in particular quadrants,” Beck said. “It’s just a fact that their housing stock is limited; it’s finite, and yet the numbers of people that continue to be victims of the recession are not becoming less.”

At Georgetown, Hoya Outreach Programs and Education work to serve homeless families with programs like Mobile Soup Kitchen and Hoya Dental.

“If any families are stuck outside and they bring their kids to the park, we have a fan through Mobile Soup Kitchen that goes out every other Saturday that brings soup and bananas,” HOPE Co-Chair Gianna Maita (COL ’15) said. “HOPE Dental puts together

dental hygiene kits for children and adults and those are the ways that we can contribute in a more tangible way.”

Maita stressed the importance of promoting awareness of these problems outside the front gates.

“Raising awareness on campus is really important for HOPE. Students are frequently thinking about a lot of other problems that are big global programs, and that’s great, but it’s really important to recognize that there are these issues within our own city,” Maita said.

According to Paul, ThriveD.C. is dependent on volunteers, a need that will only increase further at the temperature dips.

“We have a very vigorous volunteer base and an ongoing need for volunteers,” Paul said.

Hoya Staff Writer Kshithij Shrinath contributed reporting.

Sexual Assault Policy Revised POLICY, from A1 “Oftentimes when you are in college, you feel a little lost, so you find an adult that can guide you through a difficult time; a lot of the time, you would go to a faculty member about [an issue].”

Last year, the Title IX Office offered training sessions to about 500 Georgetown faculty and staff.

“The Title IX office is ramping up to do a similarly ambitious program this year, so that it reaches a whole lot of individuals that work with students,” Olson said. “There is currently not a program for faculty and staff that is like ‘I Am Ready,’ but this Title IX training is probably the most focused training that directly addresses these issues.”

Beyond these trainings, students are pushing for clearer explanations of who is a mandatory reporter and who is a confidential resource on Georgetown’s campus. Mandatory reporters are administrators, faculty members and staff members who are required to report any student

disclosure of sexual assault to the Title IX Office. Sexual Trauma Specialist Erica Shirley is the confidential resource in Counseling and Psychiatric Services, while Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator Jen Schweer and Sexual Assault Services Specialist Bridget Sherry are confidential resources in Health Education Services. Certain faculty members and religious leaders are also designated as confidential resources.

The Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Resource Center are designated as safe spaces, meaning that student disclosures of sexual assault are submitted to the Title IX Office for statistical purposes, but personal information is not released.

“I would love to see it included on syllabi because it means that professors would understand their role and students would understand it, too. It is not necessarily a bad thing that they are mandatory reports. All it means is that they have to let someone else know so that numbers can be reported and that the survivors can have all of the resources

necessary,” Maness said. “For me, one of the worst things possible is for a survivor to go to a professor and to disclose and to be surprised when that professor has to tell someone else.”

Formal conversations about sexual assault occurred New Student Orientation this year, as Sexual Assault Peer Educators led discussions about affirmative consent and bystander behavior.

Additionally, student activists and faculty and staff members are looking to improve the sexual assault conversation on Georgetown’s campus through events like “What’s A Hoya,” the freshman-oriented lifestyle program “The great thing about ‘What’s A Hoya’ is that we can get a large group of people in one room, but the challenge that you have to work with is that a lot of these conversations should not be taking place in a large lecture hall, so we need to be very conscious of size and what resources on the student side there might be to facilitate smaller group discussions,” Tezel said.

Student Loan Policy Reformed LOAN, from A1 ing on your politics, it could be a good thing. It makes lowincome jobs out of college more attractive,” he said.

According to the Institute of College Access and Success, the 70 percent of students nationally who graduated college in 2012 who took out student loans graduated with an average of $29,400 of debt.

“The student loan system is pretty messed up as it is now. … I think

what Obama’s doing through executive order is great because Congress is not going to pass anything,” Elizabeth Biener (SFS ’17) said.

To facilitate the increased attention to customer service, the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Education will partner with private tax companies Intuit, Inc. and H&R Block, using their platforms TurboTax and Mint.com to disseminate information on new federal student loan repayment options.

“Obviously, I support more cus-

tomer service and ease, because I have student loans. … That really determines a big part of your financial future,” Biener said.

The Obama administration also aims to increase the funding of Pell Grants, community and minority-focused colleges, expand college tax credits and simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Georgetown offers grants, scholarships, and loans to eligible students, based on each individual student’s financial needs.

Code Addresses Cyberbullying Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

The university revised the Code of Student Conduct this fall in order to more thoroughly define harassment, hazing and bullying, especially regarding cyberbullying and online harassment.

The previous version of the code defined harassment as “any intentional or persistent act(s) deemed intimidating, hostile, coercive or offensive,” which lacked both a true formal definition and a specific definition concerning online conduct.

The updated code first defines harassment as “any severe, pervasive or persistent act or conduct, whether physical, electronic or verbal, that can be reasonably expected to inflict fear, to intimidate, to incite violence or to force someone to do something against his/her will or selfinterest.” It then elaborates on what constitutes harassment, including cyberbullying.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said that the policy demonstrates the administration’s dedication to each student’s well-being.

“These changes to our policies reflect our commitment to ensuring a civil and respectful campus community,” Olson wrote in an email. “Harassment, hazing and bullying (cyber or otherwise) are all acts that demean others, and we want to be clear about how seriously we take these issues.”

Haley Maness (NHS ’15), a recent victim of cyberbullying who addressed the issue with the Office of Student Conduct,

said that the university was responsive to her case.

“They were initially very shocked by it,” she said. “So I think they take it a little more seriously. But it was disappointing because there were limited things that they could do. They made sure that I was OK and I was safe, but there was nothing they could really do to move forward with it. … I think they looked at it and said, ‘This is actually impacting people.’”

Maness received a death threat online last year following posts on the Georgetown Confessions Facebook page, but she was encouraged by the university’s quick reaction.

“I was lucky that a lot of the administrators took it very seriously, but a lot of my fellow students were like, ‘That person didn’t mean it,’ ‘It was just a joke’ or ‘You shouldn’t take it that seriously.’ And that was difficult because it was something that really scared me and felt really traumatic to me,” Maness said.

Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said that he is optimistic about the new policy.

“This will hopefully give the university more tools to root out and identify cyberbullying where it occurs. I hope it comes with additional resources for students who find themselves the victims of cyberbullying,” Tezel said.

Tezel also noted the foresight in updating the hazing policy with the recent growth of oncampus Greek life.

“When it comes to hazing, it will be interesting to see how the university can enforce the new policy because much of

this activity takes place off campus and outside the auspices of the university,” Tezel said. “I don’t think it affects Georgetown like it does other schools.

With that said, it’s something we have to be constantly aware of, especially with the increase in Greek life on campus in recent years. While Georgetown Greek life has an excellent track record, we have to constantly be vigilant.”

In late spring, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) reintroduced the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act, which is currently making its way through a Senate committee and would require colleges and universities that are receiving federal funds to define anti-harassment policies and to include cyberbullying in those policies.

“I also think that it’s really important that the university is putting it into their policy because things online are legally admissible in court. And so if it’s something that’s admissible in court, it’s something that’s so strictly on the record,” Maness said.

Maness said that she thinks the university’s new policy could change how students view cyberbullying.

“It’s a lot easier for people to do to people online because they’re not strictly talking to that person face-to-face,” Maness said. “And so I think that’s why it’s more frequent. If the university starts taking it more seriously, then people will be more responsible with their actions and with their words. The hard thing is that it’s going to be difficult for some students to come forward and say that.”

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Director of Research John Crist and SFS-Q Dean Gerd Nonneman presented the first volume of the journal in April, along with two students.

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ing on political science, also featured articles related to economics and anthropology.

Undergraduates at the School of For“The salience and interplay of social eign Service campus in Qatar launched media; youth and gender issues; sectaria pioneering interdisciplinary journal anism; non-state actors; the interplay of dealing with Middle Eastern affairs last domestic, regional, and international April. politics … all have been thrown into The Journal of Georgetown University- sharp relief: these are key issues for poliQatar Middle Eastern Studies Student As- cymakers as well as social scientists. The sociation, a work of the titular student- papers in this volume are a thoughtful run organization Middle Eastern Studies contribution,” SFS-Q Dean Gerd NonStudents Association, is the first academ- neman, also one of the eight members ic political science journal published by of the board of advisers, wrote in the students in the Middle East. introductory letter to the journal’s first The organization, founded by SFS-Q issue. students in 2011, aims to promote underAl-Derbasti emphasized the imporgraduate research focused on the Middle tance of the journal to developing inEast. For the past two years, MESSA has sightful inquiry into the dynamics of the hosted a conference for people from all Middle East. over the world to present and discuss “There is so much that is going on in their research. The theme of the confer- this region and I really believe this jourence this year was “Globalization and nal can encourage students [and] the the Middle East: Youth, Media and Re- youth to become more engaged with sources.” current issues, and it’s a great opportuJohn Crist, direcnity to showcase and tor of research at hone their research SFS and member of skills,” she wrote. the board of advi“More importantly, it sors for the journal, can be a means to beexplained that the come more thoughtidea for the journal ful citizens no matnaturally arose as ter where we come a way to formally from.” display work reflectDistributed by ing the theme of the Bloomsbury Qatar john crist conference.

Foundation PublishDirector of Research at SFS-Q “The articles are ing and available drawn from papers prepared for the online, the journal received significant annual global student conference orga- publicity from the Education City comnized by GU-Q’s Middle Eastern Studies munity in Doha for starting its new traStudent Association. They wanted a way dition. to give the considerable work invested However, Crist noted that, while the in that conference a longer shelf life,” journal was unique in Qatar, it follows Crist wrote in an email. in a Georgetown tradition of producing Journal Editor-in-Chief Khawla Al-Der- student-run journals, referencing the basti (SFS ’15) explained that the selec- Georgetown Journal of International Aftion process was rigorous, grading on fairs and the Georgetown Law Journal. criteria such as originality and research He hoped that involving themselves quality, to ensure the quality of the in this practice, students would be injournal, which features eight articles. spired to contribute concretely to im“We received around 24 papers from proving their society. various universities around the world, “Despite Qatar’s wealth, it is still a debut it was very important to my fellow veloping society. Having access to good MESSA team members and I that the models of strong, scholarly research — first MESSA Journal and first academic and young people equipped with the journal to be published by SFS-Q would right skills to undertake it — can make be of a high standard,” she wrote in an a powerful contribution to constructive email. change in this society,” Crist wrote.

In addition to student revision, the Both Crist and Al-Derbasti hoped the articles also were reviewed by the jour- journal would remain an annual tranal’s board of advisers and a review dition for the university even after Alboard consisting of professors at the Derbasti graduates in the spring. The university with specialty in the field. second edition of the journal is already The journal, while ostensibly focus- in planning stages.

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“Despite Qatar’s wealth, it is still a developing society.”

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Sophomore forward Grace Damaska notched her first goal of the season against Virginia Tech in a 6-1 loss Friday night. The loss came on the heels of a four-game unbeaten streak.

Women Lose 2 Straight WOMEN, from A10 home field. It was one of those where we needed to get through the first 15, 20 minutes and weather the early storm. And unfortunately, we couldn’t.”

After the third Hokie goal, Nolan decided to rest several starters for Sunday’s more winnable game against unranked Wake Forest. Virginia Tech piled on three more secondhalf goals to round out a drubbing of the visiting Hoyas.

The Blue and Gray hoped to recover against an unranked Wake Forest team, which was coming off an overtime loss against UNC Wilmington.

Despite the favorable matchup on paper, the Hoyas came out flat, and the Demon Deacons took a 1-0 lead into halftime because of a defensive lapse on a through ball.

Junior defender Marina Paul cited fatigue and inexperience as factors in the defen-

sive miscue.

“I don’t know if it was exhaustion from the Friday game, or just being mentally broken down by being beaten that badly, but we just didn’t come out like we wanted to,” Paul said. “That being said, we also had a lot of young players on the field at the time, and I think the lack of experience

“This year’s team is Daphne Corboz and eight new faces.”

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may have gotten the best of us.”

Georgetown improved in the second half after a formation change and created three crucial chances with the help of senior forward Vanessa Skrumbis. However, the Hoyas were unable to equalize.

Unfortunately, a gamble to push players forward into attack in the hopes of scoring an equalizing goal hurt the Hoyas late, as they conceded a game-clinching header off an 86th-minute free kick.

The team’s next game comes away at West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va., on Friday night. The game will conclude a stretch of six away games out of the season’s opening seven games. Constantly facing raucous opposing crowds has taken a toll on the Hoyas, but it will also serve as valuable experience during the postseason.

“The crowd at that Friday night game was unbelievable.

We haven’t experienced that yet … so that part is difficult. I also think that to be a top team we need to be able to channel those adversities and play through them,” Paul said. “But my favorite field is our field, so it’s hard being away and not being in front of your own fans.”

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Sophomore forward Alex Muyl scored twice in the 4-1 win over Wisconsin. The Hoyas went 2-0 over the weekend, outscoring their opponents 6-1.

2 Wins in 1st Homestand MEN, from A10 Wisconsin. Allen scored in the fifth minute of the game, redirecting a cross from junior defender and captain Keegan Rosenberry around the goalkeeper. In the 30th minute, junior forward Melvin Snoh entered the game as a substitute and scored on his first touch of the game just seconds later, and sophomore forward Alex Muyl drove through the defense and scored shortly afterward to make the game 3-0 at the half.

This time, the Hoyas continued to control the game after the break, creating another goal 37 seconds into the second half as Wisconsin allowed Muyl space to shoot. Unlike Harvard, Wisconsin was unable to consistently pressure Georgetown, managing only one shot on goal in the second half that required nothing but a routine save by Gomez.

The Badgers’ lone goal was scored from a controversial 66th-minute penalty kick given on a foul by sophomore defender Joshua Yaro. Wiese and the Georgetown captains

protested the decision at the time.

Wiese did not let the surrendered goal mar his positive outlook on a successful weekend.

“If you look at … what we’ve been talking about with them the last couple weeks and obviously after the Harvard game, I thought, to the team’s credit, they did a really good job addressing some of those things,” Wiese said.

One of the most significant reasons for the team’s success over the weekend was the offense’s ability to create chances.

Georgetown had 21 shots over the two-game stretch, compared to 15 combined shots for its opponents. Eight different players had either a goal or an assist over the weekend, including Snoh and Allen who had at least one of each. This balancing and deep offensive attack is a luxury that allows the team to substitute players without losing quality, which in turns wears out defenses.

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were involved in all four goals scored against Wisconsin.

Add in the fact that this is Muyl’s first season as a forward, and the striking duo’s chemistry becomes even more impressive.

“We’ve been working on that all preseason, trying to get our partnership together,” Muyl said. “If we keep doing what we did today, that is going to be dangerous. Other teams are going to have to worry about that.”

The Hoyas finished the weekend with six goals, compared to just one allowed, and two comfortable wins against non conference opponents.

With further home games against Virginia Commonwealth University (2-2-0) and No. 17 UC Irvine (3-0-0) looming, Wiese is pleased with how his team has performed.

“Two wins is two wins.

With the schedule we play, sometimes they are going to be pretty and sometimes they are going to be pretty ugly,” Wiese said. “The fact that we are 2-0-2 playing the four games we have played puts us in a really good spot.”

ow much would I, another person or a to be yielding some results.

Independent powerhouse Notre Dame has university have to pay you to be humiliated and dragged around a football field just arranged home-and-home matches with for three hours? Be honest; everyone has a price. SEC power Georgia, Big 12 magnet Texas and Big The Bowl Championship Series was a system 10 power Ohio State. that used a computer to rank college football Major conferences are also talking about teams. Using these rankings, football programs changes that would see more top-level play. Earwere assigned to one of 39 bowl games. Elite lier in the year, SEC commissioner Mike Slive programs would frequently play much smaller told ESPN that the ACC and SEC were in talks and weaker programs to boost their statistics to have schools from their conferences play one and ensure an easy win, while the small teams another beginning in 2016. If both of these conwould receive a large check in return for the ferences were to adopt nine-game conference near-certain drubbing. This season, the top four schedules—as all of the other major conferences teams chosen by a 13-member selection commit- do— and play a non conference game against tee will take part in a playoff system. The new another elite team, the soft scheduling problem system projects to place a greater emphasis on could be essentially eliminated. If there were a strength of schedule. game or two left over, rivalries that cross conferFor schools like Murray State, Florida A&M ence boundaries, such as Georgia-Georgia Tech and Georgia State, the price to play elite schools or Nebraska-Oklahoma, could resume as they ranges from about $450,000 to $600,000. Back were essentially killed by realignment of the main 2012, Western Kentucky University was lucky: jor conferences. it got $1 million from Alabama and only lost The final benefit of the increase in schedul35-0. Unfortunately, these ing difficulty is that it reduces early-season lopsided games the likelihood for extreme persist and even though the controversies and what-ifs occasional upset occurs, it is that have plagued the BCS time for these games to end. era. One such case came in For decades, there was the 2010-11 season, when no incentive to stop these Oregon, Auburn and Texas uneven games from occurChristian University all went ring, even though they are undefeated, but only the Michael Ippolito a waste of fans’ time and Ducks and Tigers, who bemoney. In many ways this longed to larger conferences scheduling strategy was than TCU’s Mountain West, A new playoff system were selected to compete for encouraged because onfield performance was the will eliminate David vs. the national championship. primary factor in both huThe 13 members of the man and computer polling. committee will have more Goliath games.

Therefore, teams could look accurate and relevant inforgood running up the score mation from which to make without risking a loss of credibility. their decisions, and with no easy scheduling However, with the introduction of the new the odds of having more than four undefeated college football playoff system, the incentives teams would almost be next to zero. have changed. Non-computerized polls like Schools also have an economic incentive to those from the Associated Press or USA Today, make these changes. Ratings would be better which formerly played a role in BCS bowl al- for more top-tier games, and higher ratings location, no longer have influence on who is mean more advertising revenue for networks chosen for the four-team playoff. The strength and colleges. Time Magazine cited research that of schedule criteria will now have a larger role students buy fewer tickets for non-challenging for the 13-member playoff selection committee. games, and fans are less likely to tune in for what The playoff system will incentivize top-tier they expect will be a non-contest. teams and legitimate contenders to play other In fact, The Wall Street Journal estimates football powers and reinforce the idea that if you that student attendance is down 7.1 percent want to be considered the best, you have to play since 2009 in part because of these early season and beat the best. The allure of playing a small- blowouts and to prohibitively high-ticket prices. time opponent for a home opener is clear; beat- Conferences and schools are beginning to ading a team handily in front of thousands of yell- dress the problem, but at their core, fans don’t ing fans is a great way to start the season. want to see video game statistics; they want The new system has not prevented some quality games against quality opponents. This teams from continuing to schedule easy oppo- is a change that competitors for the national nents. No. 19 Arizona State’s matchup against championship should take to heart. We owe this FCS school Weber State, No. 9 Texas A&M’s game change to the new playoff system. against Lamar and No. 10 Baylor’s date with tiny Northwestern State led to a combined score Michael Ippolito is a sophomore in the of 188-23 in favor of the ranked hosts. Despite College. THE WATER COOLER appears every these blowouts, the playoff system already seems Tuesday.

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Run Defense GU Loses Home Opener by 1 Exposed in Loss Elizabeth Cavacos Hoya Staff Writer

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The Georgetown football team dropped to 0-2 Saturday, falling by the score of 23-14 at the hands of the Dayton Flyers (1-0). An inability to stop the run doomed the Hoyas, as Flyers senior running back Connor Kacsor ran for a school-record 301 yards.

Georgetown’s defense, despite not being able to stop the run, was able to create two turnovers against Dayton. Junior linebacker Matthew Satchell forced a fumble early in the third quarter that was recovered by junior defensive back Garrett Powers. However, the Hoyas’ ensuing drive stalled in Flyers territory after failing to convert on fourth down. In the fourth quarter, junior linebacker Hunter Kiselick intercepted a pass that had been tipped by senior linebacker and captain Nick Alfieri.

After two Dayton field goals put the Hoyas in an early 6-0 hole, they grabbed the lead late in the second quarter on a one-yard touchdown run by senior running back Daniel Wright, the first of his career. However, it took Dayton under one-and-a-half minutes to strike back, with a 43-yard touchdown run by Kacsor. Georgetown trailed the rest of the game.

“We missed out on a couple little things here and there in the first two games that haven’t allowed us to get ahead or get the advantage,” junior quarterback Kyle Nolan said. “That’s something that [Head Coach Rob] Sgarlata harps about, doing the little things and everything matters. We’re still focusing on that. I’ve missed a couple assignments here and there, and if we straighten those out and get everything fixed we’ll be alright for the rest of the season.”

Coming off a somewhat shaky opener against Wagner, Nolan played better against Dayton, going 19-of-35 while passing for 179 yards and throwing his first touchdown of the season to sophomore wide receiver Justin Hill. The touchdown — which brought the Hoyas to within six points early in the fourth quarter — came on a clutch fourth-down play in which Hill came down with a jump ball in the back corner of the end zone.

“Justin has worked extremely hard over the past year. His improvement from freshman to sophomore year is exponential,” Nolan said. “I’ve been working with Justin since last season ended and I knew seeing him out there in one-on-one coverage that if I gave him the chance, gave him a good enough ball, he’s going to

make the play. During practice we’ve done that a little bit, and I knew that he was going to come through.”

The Hoyas’ running game has been quiet in the season’s early weeks, but improved markedly against Dayton, as the unit rushed for a collective 100 yards on 29 carries — good for a 3.4-yard average.

Last week, Georgetown rushed for just 20 yards on 19 attempts — a 0.95-yard average. Junior running back Jo’el Kimpela gained 54 yards on nine carries, but outside of that no one found much success against the Dayton defense.

For now, the Hoyas have to keep relying on their young receivers to come through until the running game picks up.

“We’re a little inexperienced, which is a killer come game time if somebody is nervous or something like that, but throughout the season we’re only going to get more comfortable with everything that we’re doing,” Nolan said. “Once guys get more time and get more reps you can only expect to go uphill.”

With the struggling running game, the onus has been on the young receiving corps. On Saturday, 142 out of Nolan’s 179 passing yards were caught by either freshmen or sophomores, including the touchdown. Nolan insists that the loss of 2013 starting receivers Zach Wilke and Daniel Sprotte to graduation hasn’t affected his expectations for the unit.

“We have a young crew,” Nolan said. “There are a lot of skillposition freshman, sophomores and juniors. For the most part ... it doesn’t really affect the game plan too much because we just expect guys to go out there and make plays.”

Junior wide receiver Jake DeCicco and Hill both saw the field last season, including a number of starts. Hill played in all 11 games, starting nine and recording 26 catches, while DeCicco had two touchdowns in 11 games as the team’s third-leading receiver.

Freshman wide receiver Justin Harrel has also gotten playing time this season and has 40 receiving yards after playing in both games.

“They have done a great job.

[Hill] had a great game this past game, making that catch in the corner. I expect those guys to make some big plays,” Nolan said.

Continued improvement from both offensive aspects will be needed when the Hoyas travel to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to face the Marist Red Foxes (0-2) on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.

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generated enough scoring opportunities to pull away with the victory.

If the Hoyas had closed the shooting gap, Soares believes the game could have ended differently. “[Creating scoring opportunities] is all about penetrating your opponent’s circle,” Soares said. “I think when we were able to do that we had a positive outcome in that attacking circle. We took three shots, and out of those three shots we scored a goal.

That’s a great percentage for success, but we’ve got to get into the attacking circle more, and in order to do that, we’ve got to move the ball quickly and find open teammates.”

Although the day ended in a loss, it marked a significant milestone for the program, as the Hoyas played on the MultiSport Facility for the first time since 2007. Prior to this season, Georgetown travelled to College Park, Md., for games and practices. This change is one of many ways that the program is building a new and posi-

tive team image.

Soares says that playing on campus, despite the game drawing just 236 spectators, brings pride and renewed energy to the team.

“Without a doubt, it was a really positive day for us as a program,” Soares said. “[It was] a great moment for our student-athletes to walk out of that locker room and onto their own field. It gives us a sense of identity on campus. It gives them an opportunity to work and protect that home field.”

The Hoyas will be on the road this weekend when they take on Holy Cross (2-2) on Saturday and Brown (20) on Sunday.

In preparation for the weekend, Georgetown will go back to the basics this week during practice in hopes of improving on Saturday’s performance.

“We’re going to keep working on those simple things,” Soares said.

“That’s really what we need to focus our effort on.”

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Ravens, NFL Response Lacking RICE, from A10 repeatedly as this swirling, sordid story has unfolded over the past eight months.

From the weak two-game suspension to the disaster of a May press conference in which Rice not only failed to apologize to his new wife as she sat silently next to him, but employed an ill-chosen, cringe-inducing cliche to describe his mistake (“failure isn’t getting knocked down, it’s not getting up”) to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti expressing sadness that Rice “tarnished his image,” it could not be more clear where the sympathies of the team and of the league lie. Just a hint: it’s not with the victim. As Jemele Hill of ESPN succinctly tweeted, “The Ravens don’t deserve any praise for [releasing Rice].”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Ravens claimed not to have seen the video of the abuse before this morning, which is a result of willful ignorance at best and a bla-

tant lie at worst. While it’s possible that TMZ just received the footage, it is more probable given their slimy nature that they were sitting on the footage, biding their time, waiting to release it after week one in order to rack up page views. The police,

As a Ravens fan, I’m downright ashamed of the organization. however, had access to the footage from the beginning and according to Deadspin.com, the NFL had access to everything in the police investigation.

As a football fan, I’m disgusted by the league’s decisions and lack of transparency. As a Ravens fan, I’m downright ashamed of the organization. As a woman, my heart goes

out to Palmer even as I question her judgment for staying with Rice. And as a human being, I’m angry.

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. It is an epidemic in our country and yet millionaires go out of their way to protect and defend an abuser because he can hold a football and run a slant route.

As the saying goes, it is better late than never. But in the case of the NFL and the Ravens it is almost worse.

Rice would have been back on the field on Friday had the new elevator footage never leaked, despite the fact that everyone knew he was guilty— and if Deadspin.com is correct, then the NFL knew better than most.

It’s sad that the video of the beating had to go viral before the Ravens and the NFL reached the right decision.

Laura Wagner is a senior in the College.

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Junior midfielder and captain Louise Chakejian set up Georgetown’s only goal of the game, which was scored by freshman forward Megan Parsons.

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Despite several second-half comeback attempts and consistent defensive efforts, the Georgetown field hockey team (1-2) fell to the Lock Haven Bald Eagles (3-1) on Sunday in a 2-1 affair.

Under first-year head coach Shannon Soares, Georgetown aims to build a new team style based on unity and an offense-oriented game strategy. However, Soares believes that the Hoyas fell short of meeting this goal on Saturday.

In particular, a lack of ball movement slowed the offensive momentum that the Hoyas have been working so hard to build.

“All week we focused on doing the simple [things] well, and not making our lives more difficult than they needed to be in terms of the way that we chose to move the ball, and to be quite honest, we didn’t do enough of that,” Soares said.

The Hoyas proved strong in the midfield and put together successful transitional plays, but were lacking in polish on their simple fundamental skills in order to build a truly united offense.

“As a coach, you want [your team] to be very refined in terms of fundamental skills and letting the ball do the work a lot of the time, and too often, when you’re playing in an individual way, you don’t really have time to do that,” Soares said. “We need to do a better job of focusing on the simple things and taking care of business in terms of letting the ball do the work.”

The Bald Eagles snuck in one goal during a fairly even-paced first half.

Midway through the second half, Lock Haven extended the lead to two. Freshman forward Megan Parsons scored Georgetown’s lone goal of the game off of a penalty corner from junior midfielder and captain Louise Chakejian, with just under 10 minutes remaining in the game. The Hoyas picked up the pace after the goal, but the Bald Eagles kept possession during the last five minutes of the game to kill the clock.

Ultimately, Lock Haven was the more threatening offensive presence on the field, outshooting Georgetown 19-3. Despite several off-target shots and a solid performance from Georgetown sophomore goalkeeper Rachel Skonecki, Lock Haven’s attack

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and subconscious stereotypes that are still too prevalent in our society.

He started to mix the attendance statistics with less quantitative observations, hinting but not explicitly relating the two. In one section, he notes that there are fewer fathers and sons at the games right after commenting that all of the music is hip-hop. He also laments that black fans have less spendable income than white fans, and, although he is lamenting socioeconomic realities, the message is uncomfortable: we want more white fans and fewer black fans because it will make us more money.

To label Bruce Levenson a racist would be harsh — at least unless we are willing to label the majority of Americans racist for falling prey to lazy stereotypes. When Levenson talks about the possibility that southern white fans are scared off by the predominantly black crowd, he criticizes this fear as “racist garbage”. His motives are not founded in prejudice but in economics, although whether the economics support a more diverse crowd

or not does not change the reckless way in which he analyzed the situation. As a businessman, he is entitled to want to maximize his profits. That is what makes this situation more complex and ultimately more concerning to me than Sterling’s ramblings; the Donald Sterlings of this country are a dying breed, but the subtle impact of racial prejudice on Levenson’s economic analysis is extremely prevalent, though not overtly despicable.

Ultimately, maximizing profits is a defensible endeavor. Our capitalist society rests on the principle that making more money is good, and this uncompromising mindset drives business and competition in this country. But that does not mean we cannot be more careful in sifting through stereotypes. I am not a champion of political correctness for the sake of being politically correct, but if we allow socioeconomic inequalities and stereotypes to mix instead of trying to analyze and root out the source of inequality, then the status quo will not change.

Levenson selling his shares prevents us from seeing how the NBA and the

public would handle his ownership in the aftermath of these comments.

Undoubtedly, the slippery slope Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban mentioned in the Sterling case will continue, and we will deal with other cases like Levenson’s: complex instances of well-intentioned, but ultimately misinformed trains of thought. Hopefully ,we will respond to these instances not with the furious uproar that the likes of Sterling deserve, but with an instructive debate. Levenson’s comments are unfortunate and wrong, but they aren’t the ramblings of a crazy person. Everything he says is rooted in stereotypes that everyone has heard of and been immersed in for years, and to label them as rare would belittle the issue and let these stereotypes fester indefinitely behind closed doors. This is an opportunity to recognize the problem that misinformed, subtle racism is still prevalent in society, and to tackle it with awareness and informational tactics.

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

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Levenson’s comments deserve a different reaction than Sterling’s

Levenson Leaves Hawks W

hen news hit that a racially insensitive email from the majority owner of the Atlanta Hawks led to the sale of his shares, it was only natural that comparisons to former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling would ensue. But the circumstances surrounding Bruce Levenson’s exit are extremely different both in a business sense and in what actually transpired. Unlike the Clippers — a large-market team progressing towards the upper echelons of the NBA hierarchy — the Hawks are minnows when it comes to profits and brand recognition. Despite making the 2013 Playoffs and pushing the Pacers to the brink of elimination, the Hawks lost $23.9 million in basketball operations last year. Where Sterling was a stubborn old man desperately fighting to maintain control over his blossoming investment, Levenson is a joint owner of a fringe team. The Atlanta owner did not have a compelling reason to fight the media firestorm he was sure to face, even though his comments were not so bad that he could not have weathered the certain outcry. This isn’t another league force-out, but rather a decision made by free will. As such, undeserved comparisons to Sterling distract us from the trickier dilemma that Levenson’s error has touched upon: what is the appropriate fallout from racism that isn’t overt?

Levenson’s comments — uncovered from a 2-year-old email during an internal investigation on racial sensitivity launched by the organization — were insensitive, but not abhorrent in the manner of Sterling’s. The subject of his email was analyzing the economics of the team’s market, which is an essential practice for profit maximization. For a smaller-market team like the Hawks, such profit maximization is vital for competitiveness, so analyzing socioeconomic and ethnic demographics is understandable.

Levenson noted that 70% of fans are black, and wanted to analyze how efficient the Hawks were at reaching all of their demographics. This study was unfortunately a slippery slope that led into the use of stereotypes. This was Levenson’s fatal error.

In pondering what contributed to the lopsided attendance demographics, Levinson started to ramble and brainstorm informally, leading to lazy generalizations and See LEVENSON, A9

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NFL Too Late in Rice Suspension Rice’s punishment stems from cowardice; NFL, Ravens deserve no credit LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

Even before TMZ released the video of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his then-fiance unconscious in a hotel elevator, we knew what happened. In February, we all watched the video of Rice and Janay Palmer entering the elevator. Seconds later we watched as he dragged her unconscious body out.

We even heard Rice admit that he had hit Palmer that night.

The facts were in. But apparently we needed to see it before it became real enough to pressure the Ravens to take real punitive action against Rice.

The mystery shrouding what may or may not have transpired in the elevator left a sliver of doubt just large enough for the NFL to justify slapping the former pro-bowler with a mere two-game suspension. It allowed the Ravens organization to stand behind him, pledging their support to the “couple” and calling Rice a “good guy” in a 1,200-word essay written by the public relations director. It gave Stephen A. Smith the go-ahead to speculate about how Palmer may have provoked the beating — though his comments did earn him a one -week suspension from ESPN. Most significantly, it gave the fans room to

express their shock and disgust, but then chalk the incident up to an off-field mistake, albeit a particularly unsavory one.

But yesterday morning, when elevator footage emerged of Rice punching his wife twice with a closed fist and such force that she crumpled to the floor, hitting her head on the railing on the way down, the NFL, the Ravens and the fans were forced to seriously re-evaluate. As Head Coach John Harbaugh said in what became the day’s grandest understatement, the video “changed things a little bit.”

The backlash was as swift as it was fierce. By noon, pundits and fans alike were calling for Rice to be released from his contract. Less than three hours later, it was terminated. Shortly after that, the NFL banned him from the league indefinitely.

These decisions were made not because it was the right thing to do, but because the league and the team were out of options. The Ravens, practicing an extreme form of damage control, simply caved to public pressure, and the league was acting in the best interest of their brand, all of which amounts to one thing: protecting profit. The NFL has proved time and time again that the bottom line is of supreme importance and this prioritizing was reflected See RICE, A9

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Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended indefinetly by the NFL. His original suspension was only two games long.

MEN’S SOCCER

Georgetown Feasts on Unranked Teams ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior midfielder and captain Tyler Rudy scored a stunning goal in leading the Blue and Gray to a 2-0 win over Harvard on Friday.

The No. 9 Georgetown men’s soccer team won both of its matches over the weekend, improving to a 2-0-2 record. After double overtime ties against No. 12 Indiana (3-0-1) and No. 5 Notre Dame (2-0-1), the team defeated Harvard (0-2-0) on Friday 2-0 and Wisconsin (1-3-0) on Sunday by a score of 4-1.

The Hoyas scored early in both games, never trailing during the weekend. Senior midfielder and captain Tyler Rudy opened up the scoring in the 12th minute of the game against Harvard with an impressive long-range shot to the bottom right corner of the goal. The goal was the mirror image of one Rudy scored last season against Princeton in a 3-2 win.

“It was my last first home game, so I was really excited for it,” Rudy said. “Actually it’s funny, [senior defender] Jared Rist said before the game that you are playing an Ivy [League] team so you are probably going to score today.”

Despite controlling the majority of possession and creating several

chances, most notably in the 23rd minute when a shot by junior forward Brandon Allen just missed wide right, the game remained 1-0 at halftime.

The second half proved to be a much different game, with the Hoyas struggling to maintain possession and exploit the space behind the defense left by a pressing Harvard team. Senior goalkeeper and captain Tomas Gomez was forced into all three of his saves in the second half, including a one-onone save in the 78th minute to preserve the lead. An 86th-minute late goal by freshman midfielder Arun Basuljevic — the first of his career — secured victory for the Hoyas.

“We have to be better at understanding the ability to keep the ball and being patient and waiting for spaces. If you look at the last 20 minutes of that game there were some pretty nice spaces to play and we did not take advantage of that,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Many of those issues were corrected in Sunday’s 4-1 win against See MEN, A8

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women Come Back Down to Earth After Dream Start CHRIS BALTHAZARD Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior forward Vanessa Skrumbis and Georgetown failed to muster enough offense to beat either Virginia or Wake Forest.

The No. 20 Georgetown women’s soccer team (3-2-1) dropped two games in Blacksburg, Va., over the weekend, losing 6-1 to No. 5 Virginia Tech and 2-0 to Wake Forest.

Late goals in both games magnified the mental impact of the losses, leaving the team disappointed to not have won at least one of the weekend’s matches.

Head Coach Dave Nolan attributed the losses, at least in part, to a young team that saw five freshmen on the field at the same time at one point against Wake Forest. This year’s team also consistently operates with a back-four defense patched together from players who played in more attacking positions last year.

“If you were to look at us from the outside, you would see [senior midfielder] Daphne Corboz and George-

town soccer. And last year, you would see Daphne Corboz and Georgetown soccer. But this year’s team is Daphne Corboz and eight new faces,” Nolan said. “It’s a completely different group that’s playing with her. And I don’t think people quite understand that. We’ve essentially had [just] two people start this past weekend in the positions they started at last year.”

The Virginia Tech game started poorly for the Hoyas when a 40-yard strike hit by Hokies senior defender Danielle King dipped and swerved past Newins for the opening goal, and a diving header a few minutes later gave the Hokies a halftime lead of 2-0.

Nolan partially faulted the officiating for the poor first half.

“Now, to be fair, we had a great opportunity when we got Daphne in one-on-one before they scored, and that [chance] was pulled back for offside. But I had a look at the tape; it

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was a bad call,” Nolan said. “We also had another chance where she was going through and a kid blatantly body-checked her off the ball as she was running. So the game [is turned] on moments like that and for them.

They got their moments, and for us, it didn’t work out.”

Even though the Hoyas got an important and impressive 30-yard goal from sophomore forward Grace Damaska early in the second half, a third Virginia Tech goal 40 seconds later effectively ended the comeback in Blacksburg.

Nolan credited the Hokies for playing such an effective game.

“Virginia Tech are a legitimate national championship contender.

They were a Final Four team last year,” Nolan said. “It was always going to be a challenge for us to go down there and play them on their See WOMEN, A8