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LEGEND RECOGNIZED Alonzo Mourning was selected to the basketball Hall of Fame on Monday.

EDITORIAL Screening questions at speaking events is a disservice to students.

SPORTS, A10

AFGHAN WOMEN U.S.-Afghan Council teaches Afghan women vocational skills.

ARTS WEEK Exhibits and performances highlight arts at Georgetown.

NEWS, A4

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A5

What’s After Dark Students Rally for Reform Cut Limits GPB Suzanne Monyak & Maddy Moore Hoya Staff Writers

Tyler Deloach (COL ’16), What’s After Dark and GPB worked together frequently.

“We co-sponsored a lot of our events with them. Between the two of us, we came up with most of the late-night programming on campus,” Deloach said. “A lot of our events that did occur after dark did involve What’s After Dark. That’s no longer an opportunity that we have for latenight programming.”

GPB’s largest and most expensive event, the Spring KickOff Concert, received What’s After Dark funding this year.

Next year’s concert, however, may face significant challenges because of the $15,000 loss in funding, according to Deloach.

Nearly 100 Georgetown students, professors and community members gathered by the front gates Saturday, posters in hand, and began their march down M Street toward the White House, chanting, “Obama, escucha, estamos en lucha!” or “Obama, listen, we are fighting!” and “What do we want? Justice!” in protest of the record numbers of deportations that have occurred during President Obama’s time in office.

The rally, protesting the nearly 2 million deportations that have occurred under the Obama administration, was part of a National Day of Action that occurred in over 40 cities across the United States. Protesters demanded that the president use his executive power to end deportations.

“We’re asking the president to put a moratorium on deportation, because he claims that he’s the champion of immigration reform, but in the process, it doesn’t seem like immigration reform is actually going to happen anytime soon. And while this is happening there are thousands of people getting deported every day,” President for Hoyas for Immigrants Rights Citllalli Alvarez (COL ’16) said.

En route to the White House, Georgetown protesters rallied with fellow advocates marching from Mt. Pleasant in northwestern D.C. The group included a large number of local immigrants.

“It was one of the most beautiful parts of the march when both sides came together, it was very loud, it was very emotional,” said Salvador Sarmiento, National Campaign Coordinator at the National Day

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Spring concert budget slashed by $15,000 Maddy Moore Hoya Staff Writer

After attracting the likes of Big Sean, Calvin Harris and Wiz Khalifa in recent years, the Georgetown Program Board will face challenges procuring star headliners for its Spring Kickoff Concert with the event’s budget set to be cut by $15,000 next year.

When the university discontinued What’s After Dark in November, student groups that had collaborated with the late-night programming organization continued as planned with funding for this year. However, next year, money formerly allocated to What’s After Dark will go toward the Healey Family Student Center, leaving groups like GPB and Relay for Life, which often collaborated with and received funding from the program, without as many resources.

The decision to cut What’s After Dark was made with funding for the HFSC in mind.

“Any remaining funds will be redirected to the Healey Family Student Center and programming with that,” Center for Student Engagement Director Erika Cohen Derr said.

According to the Chair of GPB

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Friday’s Big Sean concert benefitted from GPB’s 2014 budget.

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Students marched from the front gates to the White House on Saturday, joining other protesters opposed to President Obama’s immigration policies.

In DC, a Waning Gun Culture Own It Summit Garners Johnny Verhovek Hoya Staff Writer

Concealed carry, banned. Assault weapons, banned. A background check, online training and gun safety testing — all required before purchasing a firearm. According to ABC News, the gun laws in the District of Columbia and the DMV area are among the strictest in the nation, forcing area residents to jump through hoops in order to purchase and own firearms in the city.

Until 2008, D.C. law prohibited possession of a handgun in the District — even in a private citizen’s home — unless it had been registered prior to 1976. In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. v.

Heller invalidated that provision of D.C. law, ruling that the Second Amendment guaranteed the right for D.C. residents to possess hand-

guns.

Following the court’s ruling, the D.C. Council passed a series of regulations for owning a handgun in the District, including a 10-day waiting period for all purchases, a minimum ownership age of 21 and the requirement that all gun licenses be renewed every three years with the Metropolitan Police Department.

Despite these tightened regulations, MPD still estimates that there are around 30,000 registered gun owners in the city. At the same time, homicide rates in the District have been steadily decreasing since the 1990s, although 2013 saw a slight rise to 104 reported homicides from 88 in 2012, according to data from MPD. To understand the intricate rules and regulations of the District’s firearms laws, many D.C. residents turn to Charles Sykes Jr. As opera-

tor of CS Exchange, the District’s only Federal Firearms Licensed dealer permitted to transfer guns into D.C., for 20 years, Sykes provides information and assistance to individuals and armed security companies completing the firearm registration process in D.C. “When I obtained my license in 1994, there were several other people that had licenses to do the same thing. Over the years, those individuals stopped doing it, and I continued to keep my license updated,” Sykes said. “When the law was overturned in 2008, I happened to be the only licensed person in the District that could perform the services I can perform, helping people get their firearms registered in the District.”

Sykes now operates out of the D.C. police headquarters in See GUNS, A6

MURKOWSKI IN HEALY

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) discussed her successful write-in campaign, energy policy and the importance of women in politics at a College Republicans event in Healy Hall on Monday evening.

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“Bloomberg came on and they had talked about a media plan and a press plan and all these sorts of Georgetown University Women things like expanding the conferin Leadership, a club founded by ence to more than we had imagined two current sophomores, is only in in the beginning, which was aweits second year on campus. Yet, the some,” Brosnan said. young student group has already GUWIL has worked with the Ofpartnered with the Office of the fice of the President, the Office of President and Bloomberg L.P. to put Advancement, the Office of Commuon an all-day conference featuring nications and the Office of Financial 28 speakers, ranging from journalist Affairs to develop the summit.

Alex Wagner and the inspiration beProvost Robert Groves, Vice Presihind Olivia Pope of “Scandal,” Judy dent for Mission and Ministry Fr. Smith, to journalist Maria Shriver Kevin O’Brien, S.J., Chief Information (CAS ’77), the former first lady of Officer Lisa Davis and Senior Advisor California. to the President for Faculty Relations The Own It Summit, led by Co- Lisa Krim are among the summit’s Chairs Kendall Ciehosts. University Pressemier (COL ’15) and ident John J. DeGioia Helen Brosnan (SFS is both a speaker and ’16), will take place in a host for the event.

Gaston Hall on SaturThe $20 tickets day. went on sale Feb. 28 Events co-sponand sold out by the sored by the Office of next day. The conferthe President usually ence released 15 additake place in conjunctional tickets April 1. kendall ciesemier (col ’15) tion with another acOver 100 leaders Own It Summit Co-Chair ademic department were invited to presor administrative arm, like Univer- ent their viewpoints at the confersity Information Services or the Of- ence, with Saturday’s summit feafice of the Provost. It is relatively rare turing 28 speakers from a variety for the president’s office to so promi- of fields, including politics, media, nently join with a student group for business and technology. Although an entirely student-run event. most invitees declined, the feedback The Office of the President re- was largely positive. ferred all comment to the Office of “Most people were more than Communications, which sent a state- happy to do it, but a lot of them had ment clarifying that the conference conflicts,” Own It Summit Director would be broadcast online Saturday. of Speakers and Host Committee Liz “Once we had gotten Bloomberg as Buffone (COL ’14) said. the official sponsor of the event, that The summit’s organizers utilized partnership opened a lot of doors for their connections with female busius. For some reason, Georgetown all ness leaders to create a large netof a sudden wanted to be involved,” work of potential speakers.

Ciesemier said. “It suddenly became Ciesemier started by reaching out a big thing on everyone’s radar, and to eBay Vice President and Chief everyone was talking about it.”

Marketing Officer Richelle Parham, Brosnan, who completed two whom she met at a Google conferBloomberg internships spanning ence during her freshman year. nearly half of 2013, pitched the sum“I reached out to her just for admit to the company’s events team vice and I thought that maybe she’d last semester. After receiving the come, but I didn’t even ask her if sponsorship, the summit’s organiz- she’d come. We set up a time to talk ers connected with university ad- on the phone and she said she would ministrators to discuss the possibility of expansion.

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OPINION

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Usually it’s the Supreme Court justices who get to ask the tough questions. But every so often, prominent public figures come to Georgetown, and undergraduates glean the rare opportunity to ask questions in return.

Last Wednesday, those who attended Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s lecture received an index card where they could write one question for Sotomayor to answer during the standard post-lecture question-and-answer session — a Gaston Hall standard that usually fosters a candid discussion and enriches university programming. In Wednesday’s case, however, the questions were screened and posed by a university official, rather than the student or event attendee who originally wanted an answer.

Sotomayor received a multitude of questions about her status as a female and Hispanic leader but hardly anything else. While these represent

points of legitimate and important inquiry, the purpose of a questionand-answer session is to open the direction of the conversation to the audience. It seems highly unlikely that no one in the audience had a question for Sotomayor about her judicial decisions, yet no questions on this topic were asked of the justice.

It is disconcerting that university administrators felt the need to screen student questions. We understand that Sotomayor might have been unable or unwilling to answer questions of substantive policy, but an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court surely does not need the help of a Georgetown administrator when fielding questions from students.

Georgetown lauds its credentials when it comes to fostering dialogue.

In the future, the university ought to be able to tout this commitment when it comes to events featuring high-profile speakers.

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THE VERDICT Stop the Selfies — The White House is considering banning selfies with the president after a recent selfie snapped by Boston Red Sox all-star player David Ortiz proved to be part of a sly marketing scheme by Samsung.

Scaffolding Switch — Workers removed the last of the scaffolding surrounding the Washington Monument this weekend as scaffolding was simultaneously set up around the Capitol dome for its repairs.

Red, White, Blue and Silver — The Silver Line now has a tentative opening date of July 4 after significant progress was made in the testing process over the past few weeks.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

The Players’ Union When the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern University football players could be considered university employees if they were on scholarship, schools across the country began anticipating possible ramifications for their own athletes.

As it currently stands, colleges are poised to make enormous profits from the efforts of student-athletes, but athletes have no say in what benefits they receive in return. Aside from the customary athletic scholarship, athletes often require — and deserve — more from the institutions where they play: additional health care, the right to profit from promotions that use athletes’ names and images, additional time to spend on academics — just to name a few.

While the consequences of the ruling have yet to be seen, one thing is clear: Big-money Division I programs like Georgetown’s will have to clarify their players’ roles.

In the wake of the NLRB decision, Georgetown should reconsider its approach to athletics and decide on a system that better shares the benefits of its athletic programs with the players who make them possible.

Although the NCAA emphasizes

that a student-athlete is a student first, the concept of the student-athlete is misleading because it suggests that the services that athletes render to the university are similar to those rendered by other students. They are not, which is something universities with robust athletic programs are well aware.

Division I programs demand the same hours as a full-time job, but schools have been able to leverage the student-athlete concept to avoid granting student-athletes their welldeserved labor rights.

It is important not to forget that college athletes are students; this role is at the heart of their college experience. However, acknowledging this does not preclude the recognition that student-athletes are also acting as employees. Recognizing that athletes on scholarship are both students and employees might be difficult to implement, but the status quo is both unjust and unsustainable.

Georgetown should take the NLRB decision as a wake-up call to do the right thing and rethink athlete-administration relations by considering more proactive labor policies for its student-athletes.

a more welcoming country for immigrants.

Saturday’s rally represents a significant moment in the movement for immigrant rights. In this case, the activist student population and the university administration — which have sometimes been at odds in their political convictions — have been able to show a strong front on this particular issue.

This is one case in which the university’s Jesuit heritage strongly supports a particular policy — a case in which “men and women for others” is a direct call to action. It is encouraging to see Georgetown at the forefront of the debate on immigrant rights.

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Uber Is Safer Than You Make It Seem To the Editor: On Friday, The Hoya published an ill-researched, surface-level editorial (“Uber’s Risky Business,” The Hoya, A2, April 4, 2014) implying Uber is unsafe and calling for more regulation on rideshare operators. What’s missing from this piece is important information about how Uber ensures safety as well as about who is really behind the campaign to paint Uber as unsafe.

Drivers for Uber undergo more extensive background checks than D.C. taxi drivers before they even go out on the road: These tests go back seven years, versus the standard three years for D.C. taxi drivers. Once the drivers get on the road, customer feedback is closely monitored; drivers who perform poorly are deactivat-

ed. Uber has also been a leader in creating, developing and expanding ridesharing insurance to ensure beyond a doubt that each trip on the Uber system is fully insured. Insurance on Uber trips is $1 million as opposed to the required $25,000 for D.C. taxis. In short, we’re working every day to make Uber the best and safest transportation option around.

The TLPA, a taxi-industry lobbying group, has raised a $1 million war chest from its members and created the “Who’s Driving You” campaign in order to spread rumors and lies about Uber. Rather than compete on the basis of quality of service, the taxi industry chooses to push for regulations that restrict consumer choice, trying to make themselves the only game in town. At Uber, we support regulation aimed

at increasing safety, but this is the taxi industry using fear to eliminate competition. I hardly find that “laudable,” as the editorial claims.

During my time at Georgetown, my friends and I rarely left the neighborhood due to the dearth of reliable transportation options available. Uber has made D.C. more accessible and opened up new experiences for all Hoyas. I still read The Hoya from time to time to keep up with what’s happening on the Hilltop, and I was disappointed to see such a poorly researched editorial. Remember, not everything you read online is true.

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The Academic Value of Hip-Hop To the Editor:

Coalescing for Reform This past Saturday, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights participated in a march from the front gates of the Hilltop to the front gates of the White House in opposition to current immigration policies that have forced the deportation of over two million individuals from the United States.

Hoyas for Immigrant Rights is one of many Georgetown groups that has come out in support of comprehensive immigration reform on a national level. Georgetown University administrators, faculty members and students alike have pointed to our university’s Jesuit heritage as a valuable impetus to act in support of the movement to make the United States

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In his article “Hip-Hop Unworthy of Academia” (The Hoya, A3, April 1, 2014), Jerry D. Rassias thought himself worthy to write about how curse words make him squeamish, how egotism and consumption feed moral depravity and how hiphop is therefore unworthy of academia. There are many who are calling him a racist, and he absolutely must understand that we see him as such because he is stunningly ignorant of the roots of rap and hip-hop, so much so that he labeled rap as an overarching category. It is not.

Rassias did not do his research. He wrote an article in The Hoya based on his own supposedly superior surfacelevel analysis of lyrics in “rap music.” There are strong traces of misogyny, drug use and vio-

lence in the lyrics of some rap songs. But the reason we would study hip-hop is to understand why these traces exist.

Hip-hop is not solely a genre of music, but a cultural and lyrical movement that arose from a profoundly black experience. For black people living in poverty in housing projects, lyrics with rhythm became a way to express life. Words that we throw around easily, like “hood” and “ghetto,” were actually dangerous places that had been systematically created to keep blacks away from whites.

Explicit racism and segregation: Remember that?

The early artists of hip-hop rapped about life in the projects, injustice and a society that denied them equality in all aspects of life. Nas is one of these early- to mid-stage artists who expressed these

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Now, there are Grammywinning artists who rap about wealth and women. Hip-hop has evolved into a musical genre that is inclusive of all experiences. The songs that Rassias criticizes are the ones that often crow about success — a lifestyle of prosperity to which an entire group of people formerly had no access.

So, to say that an outcry about inequality “must be conveyed with much less provocative cultural tendencies” is part of an entire way of thought to which rappers shouted obscenities.

I think the best way to move on from here would be for Rassias to really study hip-hop and to write an article in The Hoya about why it should be studied.

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OPINION

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CURIOUS BY NATURE

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Living Abroad, Not Studying Abroad T

Katherine Foley

Telling the Story of Science A

s a nostalgic second-semester senior, I’ve started to think about the most important lessons I’ve learned on the Hilltop in preparation for life when I head off to graduate school. And, after careful reflection and discernment, I’ve decided the most important thing I’ve learned is the value of stories.

When we think of stories, we often think about what we learn from late-night conversations in the common room, Alternative Spring Break, ESCAPE or any other reflective opportunity. These are the conversations in which we gain a better understanding of our peers through their experiences.

These stories are massively important.

Every member of the Georgetown community has a story to tell, and we can learn from each one. And through these collective stories, we learn that there is no single human experience. A little known fact: The collective human experiences feature enough knowledge probably to freeze even NASA and Google’s shared quantum computer.

As much as we’ve been encouraged to listen — in class, to your parents or in the ways mentioned above — it’s important to realize that listening is always most genuine in the context of a well-crafted story.

Depending on who you are, you may be fascinated by different kinds of stories. I have always been curious about the sciences, mostly because I’m often whelmed when I think of all the grace (and probably lucky coincidence) that’s gotten me to where I am today. I have had access to parents who are chemists and know their subject so well that it was table talk growing up.

But I know a lot of people don’t think of science that way. In my experience, I’ve found that a lot of my peers don’t like math or the sciences because a bad middle or

By storytelling, we learn that there is no single human experience. high school teacher convinced them that they were bad at it. That’s a real shame but also evidence that bad storytelling can be just as influential as good storytelling.

My favorite classes here have been taught by professors who are expert storytellers in addition to being masters of their fields.

For example, each time I went to “Science and Technology in a Global Arena” my sophomore spring, professor Charles Weiss told us a story about the hidden impacts of technology in every crevasse of our lives. When I took “Foundations of Biology,” professor Heidi Elmendorf told us the stories of how simple chemicals, their bonds and their reactions create and sustain life. And even as a second-semester senior, I love attending my seminar on water, where professor Mark Giordano brings us a new dimension about water and its management every day. These professors (and more) have encouraged me to ask questions and dig deeper until I’ve squeezed each story as dry for information as I possibly could in a semester.

We don’t really think of science as a story, but in some ways it’s the greatest narrative of all. Science is a discipline made of curiosity, trial and so many errors. Scientific fields are spearheaded with characters who simply can’t stifle their need to know more about the world around us and within us; they toil and struggle to find solutions to the most complex problems; they compete to file patents, and sometimes their work leads them to terrifying conclusions or even their own death. It’s a drama more theatrical than “Grey’s Anatomy,” which I watch every week. But it all comes down to how it’s communicated.

Stories can evoke change, start wars and end them. Given that science and technology dominate so much of who we are and the qualities of our lives — no matter how directly or indirectly — I truly believe that the next great challenge will be understanding how to tell science stories in ways that lure the audience in to care about the challenges that this century will face, like climate change, super bugs or ever-mutating cancer.

I am so fascinated. Ordinarily, you need a qualifier, but for me it’s a state of mind.

So pay attention to all the stories you may hear on the Hilltop, and listen well.

Remember how they were told, and recreate the magic when you build your own. I know so many Georgetown students who can evoke tangible, positive change in the world. We just have to tell the right kind of story to captivate an audience.

Katherine Foley is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. This is the final appearance of CURIOUS BY NATURE this semester.

he mechanical half-smile I had determinedly cemented to my face finally cracked and faltered. Slowing to a walk, I tried for what felt like the thousandth time to orient myself among the maddeningly similar, taunting concrete towers. The unfamiliar panic that welled up inside me melted my last shred of resolve, and I admitted something that I hadn’t conceded since seventh-grade chorus class: “I can’t do this.”

It was my third week abroad; I was wearing my standard jogging outfit of Nikes and a ratty Welcome Back Jack T-shirt, standing on a street corner on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, in a cold drizzle. I was hopelessly lost. I stood there, feeling stupid but trying not to cry, thinking only about how I could possibly get home and if I would make it in time to Skype with my parents.

It wasn’t until later that I realized that that episode was a perfect, unfortunate metaphor for my entire study-abroad experience.

In general, Georgetown students have no shortage of internal drive, ambition and determination, and it was with this can-do attitude that I approached my semester abroad. Can I pick up the accent and communicate fluently? Absolutely. Will I make friends? Surely.

Can I go out four nights a week?

You bet. Can I tour that cathedral?

Why not? Can I go for a run around the city without getting lost? Sure.

And perhaps most important: Will I have the same success in my Spanish university classes that I’ve had at Georgetown? Of course I will, I told myself.

For the first month I struggled to answer all of these questions with resounding affirmatives, but as many overextended Georgetown students have learned after passing out in a Lauinger Library cubicle one too many times, you simply can’t do it all.

There will always be chances to retake a class, but the opportunity to make personal connections is rare.

In my eagerness to achieve the ideal study-abroad experience, I forgot to live my own study-abroad experience. I may have filled my binders with pages of notes and my memory card with photos, but I was running on empty.

While my Spanish improved to the point where I could communicate effectively — if not correctly — I realized that I still needed to recalibrate my expectations for the rest of my experience in a big way. For me, this meant not letting the fear of improperly using the subjunctive stop me from striking up a conversation at the bus stop. It meant letting myself miss a Thursday night

at the club if I was tired and needed to sleep. It meant spending a quiet afternoon with a friend by the river instead of tearing around the city seeing every sight there is to see. But most of all, it meant forgetting the years of conditioning that taught me that my success and my happiness are tied to my grades.

I still take notes, study, go to class and prepare for exams, but I no longer allow my academic success to be the driving force behind my decisions. Between an impromptu trip to the beach or an extra three hours preparing for a midterm, I’m picking the beach every time. Do I want to spend an afternoon studying in

the library or getting drinks with friends? Cerveza, por favor! There will always be chances to retake a class, but the opportunity to make real connections with other people in these extraordinary places is a rare thing and not something to be dismissed lightly.

When I freed my mentality from the grip of the academics-first ideology, a curious thing happened. I found that I began to enjoy my classes more, looked forward to lectures and participated in discussions. I regained the desire to learn for the sake of learning, not to boost a GPA, and it was refreshing.

At least in Europe, Georgetown study abroad programs are pass/fail, meaning that grades don’t count toward your GPA, giving students not only room to adjust to the language and the culture, but the opportunity to adjust their own expectations and prioritize experiences over tiny numbers on a transcript. I only wish that I had adjusted my own expectations sooner.

I have now been living in Seville for almost three months and the other day, during an evening walk, I found myself standing on the street corner on the outskirts of Seville where I was lost all those weeks ago. Remembering that day and those feeling of helplessness was like replaying a scene from a movie.

I felt like I was watching a different person. And I am a different person.

I’m no longer lost.

Admitting to myself that it was unrealistic to think that I could do everything and that it was OK to let my academic ambitions ride in the backseat for one semester was the first step toward discovering that “studying abroad” is about so much more than studying. It’s about living.

Laura Wagner is a junior in the College. She is currently studying abroad in Seville, Spain.

THE CHURCH AND STATESMAN

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Cura Personalis Should Let’s Put Our Faith In Comply With the ADA Market Over Dogma

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n the Georgetown University Student Association senate Sunday night, we unanimously passed a resolution calling for Georgetown University to revisit accessibility policies in relation to campus events that occur outside of the classroom.

In fact, the university website states, “Inspired by the Jesuit value of educating the whole person, Georgetown offers dynamic student programs that foster leadership development, complement the classroom experience and build community.” Georgetown clearly recognizes the impact of the supplemental activities that occur throughout the undergraduate experience and cites student programming as a core piece of the community that contributes to this personal growth.

Yet, when students with diverse circumstances that require certain accommodations (wheelchair-accessible ramps, sign language interpreters or additional sound equipment just to name a few) approach the university for funding so that they can attend speakers, club events or even courses preparing students for graduate school entry exams, they have often been turned away.

These events are oftentimes not equipped to handle such diverse needs as hearing or sight impairments, physical restrictions that limit access or language deficiencies. With a limited budget, the university has explained that it reserves its limited resources for strictly academic needs. Understandably, classroom education must come first at an academic institution, but the ongoing conversation surrounding the Designing the Future(s) of the University Initiative has discussed how Georgetown alumni repeatedly acknowledge that, while they were undergraduates, their most formative experiences occurred outside the classroom.

The university knows that a significant part of the formation process that we undergo throughout our four years here occurs outside the traditional classroom experience. It is core to the Georgetown identity, and the incorporation of co-curriculars and experiential learning appears to be central to the discussion of the models of the future of Georgetown. There is no reason that Georgetown should continue to suggest that it is only responsible for catering to the needs of some students academically, when it is simultaneously admitting that the learning experience in general needs to cater to a more wholesome approach.

Beyond just our university’s strong principles, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 specifically holds

the university accountable for providing equal access to students, regardless of individual circumstances. The legislation states, “The Congress finds that physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person’s right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many people with physical or mental disabilities have been precluded from doing so because of discrimination.”

In 1990, Congress established by law that denying an individual full participation in society because of a particular physical or mental condition is a form of discrimination; yet nearly 24 years later, one of the world’s leading academic institutions fails to provide equal access to its entire, extraordinarily talented student body. How can we continue to justify this?

Oftentimes the reasoning behind the lack of access seems to come down to lack of financial resources. Budgets are tight, so it is unclear who would be responsible for forfeiting some funding for these costs, which are often expensive but are, of course, truly necessary.

For one, the money should certainly not come from the Student Activities Fee. Unlike other student programming and event expenses, these costs are not a result of student leaders’ desire to increase the level of programming. These costs are necessary to make the programming accessible.

Providing interpreters in classrooms is like providing lights in classrooms. It’s a basic operational cost that students should not be responsible for funding.

Second, it is not the responsibility of the students to reconfigure the university funding model or the provost’s budget to determine where this money should come from. It is imperative, however, that the university commits to the students that it is responsible for these incremental costs as part of our infrastructure and that it will find a way to fund them.

Georgetown University defines cura personalis as, “individualized attention to the needs of each student; distinct respect for his or her unique circumstance and concerns, appropriate appreciation for his or her particular gifts and insights.” If we are going to be loyal to our mission statement and hold true to our core identity, we must start recognizing each student’s diverse circumstances and begin to truly facilitate an environment in which every student can thrive. The Georgetown experience must be accessible for each and every member of this community, and it’s time we make this belief a reality.

We must start recognizing each student’s diverse abilities.

ABBEY MCNAUGHTON is a sophomore in the College. She is an atlarge member of the GUSA senate.

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his week, as I opened in- the business world after their dalternet explorer — I’m a liance with public service. profoundly late adopter of Meg Whitman is perhaps the technology — I saw several online most striking of these figures news articles complaining that because of the clear parallels beBrendan Eich, the CEO of soft- tween her experience and Eich’s. ware company Mozilla, had been As a candidate for governor of targeted and criticized for his California, Whitman said she moral, political and perhaps even would defend Proposition 8 and religious beliefs. As the drama therefore not support gay marunfolded and Eich resigned his riage. Despite holding the same position, many of my fellow con- position on marriage equality servatives claimed that Mozilla in the same state as Eich, Whithad made a terrible error by al- man was able to parlay her loss lowing him to step down. into a job at Hewlett-Packard Co, But real cona company that, if servatives would anything, is more do well to look successful than at Eich as an Mozilla. embodiment of There are strong one of our favorreasons why Whitite concepts, the man was able to free market. Ultisucceed as an exmately, Eich was ecutive where Eich forced out for his could not. WhitTim Rosenberger incompetence as man crafted a nuan executive, not anced defense for because of his beher thoughts on Mozilla made a liefs or political gay marriage and rational choice in activism. had a large politiCorporate persona outside firing Brendan Eich. cal America is a of her stance on LGplace where many of the best ex- BTQ equality. Eich, by comparison, ecutives are highly successful in is associated with only one issue. blurring the line between busi- Whitman also was open to changness leader and celebrity. Real ing her position on marriage. No estate mogul Donald Trump is a longer running in a conservative household name, and thousands Republican primary, private citiof ambitious undergrads in the zen Meg Whitman signed on to country have been “leaning in” to a “friend of the court” brief that reflect the know-how of Facebook supported the rejection of Prop Chief Operating Officer Sheryl 8 and the extension of civil marSandberg. riages to all residents of California.

It is important for a company When Eich was confronted with to have a public face that is lik- the unpopularity of his beliefs, able, or at least one that doesn’t he offered an equivocal statement undercut business. Eich actively about how much Mozilla valued hurt Mozilla and was particularly LGBTQ users and employees. This unpopular with the young, tech- blundering maneuver only made nologically savvy demographics Eich seem further out of touch. to which the company tries its It sealed his fate as a failed execuhardest to appeal. When a CEO’s tive and the markets worked their first weeks are so graceless and magic on clearing him out of embroiled in controversy, a busi- power. ness needs to re-evaluate the deciConservatives should learn sion to appoint such a person. A from the differences between company like Mozilla wants no Eich and Whitman and apply part of culture wars and would Whitman’s positions to the party see no benefit to having a CEO at large. While it seems unlikely so closely aligned with the losing that Whitman’s change in posiside of such a battle. tion was brought on by a prinMozilla made a purely rational cipled change in beliefs, such business choice in forcing out principle is largely irrelevant on Brendan Eich. the politics of this issue.

Interestingly, there are plenty If we, the Republican Party, fail of situations where executives to learn the lessons of Brendan can involve themselves in politics, Eich’s firing, we have far more to particularly conservative politics, worry about than culture wars. without becoming so polarizing We are liable to becoming the that they become impossibly next losers in the merciless marbad choices for leadership. Carly ketplace of ideas.

Fiorina, Meg Whitman and the aforementioned Donald Trump Tim Rosenberger is a sophohave all been Republican candi- more in the College. This is the dates for public office and all have final appearance of THE CHURCH maintained respected careers in AND STATESMAN this semester.

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US-Afghan Program Trains Democratic Primary

CAROLINE WELCH Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown Universitybased U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council held its inaugural Rising Afghan Women Leaders Initiative at the School of Foreign Service-Qatar campus in Doha from March 9 to 12, sponsoring vocational training within Afghanistan for 22 Afghan women leaders and six Georgetown students across various fields of study.

Phyllis Magrab, the USAWC Vice Chair and director of both the Georgetown Leadership Academy and the Georgetown Center for Child and Human Development, cited the initiative as a successful collaboration of established programs.

“We took a risk taking the capital of Georgetown and invested time,” Magrab said. “It showed that [RAWLI] really is a strong cooperation with the university where we involve the Doha campus and the main campus in a substantive way that is truly savvy.”

RAWLI was preceded by the symposium, “Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in Afghanistan” that brought Honorary USAWC CoChairs Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Bush along with current Secretary of State John Kerry to Gaston Hall last November.

The RAWLI program furthers USAWC’s core pillars of promoting sustained and substantive support for Afghan women and children’s education, health, economic empowerment and leadership development.

Founded in 2002, USAWC is a prominent public-private partnership based at Georgetown University, comprised of 46 members covering a range of political, academic and philanthropic backgrounds.

The Doha gathering was a three-and-a-half day curriculum of self-exploration that offered group discussions focused on addressing adversity and developing leadership among Afghan women.

As an extension of the USAWC mission, the members and outside partners of the organization nominated and offered $2,000 sponsorships for influential women such as Afghanistan’s youngest member of Parliament Naheed Farid and Executive Director of the Afghan Midwives Association Mursal Rafi, to gather in training and discussion sessions on the SFS-Q campus.

Additional critical support came from author and philanthropist Caroline Hudson Firestone, global health care company Abbott Laboratories and the Geraldine P. Waldorf Fund at GUCCHD. USAWC Executive Director and U.S. Foreign Service Officer Lauren Lovelace pointed to the involvement of nominating members as a tribute to the quality of participants selected.

“We had the [Afghan] Minister of Public Health [Suraya Dalil] nominate someone, we had the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nominate someone, and I think that shows the very high level of interest that people have in this program and having the high level of support leads to a high level of nominees,” Lovelace said.

Magrab measured the success of the RAWLI program by the level of positive involvement in group discussions, which initially garnered concern for their unrestricted nature and wide range of potentially sensitive topics.

“We were unsure at the outset if this training would be completely culturally appropriate and would work,” Magrab said.

The involvement of men in women’s leadership efforts and the maintenance of women’s gains in Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai leaves office arose as top concerns during the discussions.

Magrab said that she left with a sense of optimism for future dialogue and women’s leadership.

“On both sides we were surprised, how absolutely on-target it was, this idea of self-exploration, learning to frame your challenge in a new kind of way, learning how to step back and take distance to get perspective,” Magrab said. “It showed me how much more mature the field of women and leadership is today than it was five or six years ago, that these women have had other training and thought about leadership.”

President of the Afghan Red Crescent Society and RAWLI graduation speaker Fatima Gailani, who is considered among the most influential women in Afghanistan, attended these discussion sections to inspire and engage the participating leaders. Gailani’s graduation remarks echoed the optimism of Magrab.

“When there is a difference of age, you do not sit and talk the way we have these past four

days,” Gailani said. “You cannot imagine how assured I have become that I know that the torch that was given to me, that I gave it not only to one hand but to maybe millions of strong hands, and I am so assured.”

Magrab said that negative media portrayals of Afghanistan often cloud Americans’ image of the progress that women have made within Afghan society in recent years.

“The mental model of the pictures that we hold in our head about Afghan society … what we don’t recognize is that there is a very strong everyday life that is going on there that is vibrant and that is forward moving,” Magrab said. “Girls are all in school now, maternal death rates and child survival rates are completely different from what they were 10 years ago. It is a society that has actually made some substantial progress.”

In the November USAWC symposium, Kerry remarked upon the educational progress made in Afghanistan since 2001. Kerry contrasted the 900,000 children who were attending school in 2001 with the nearly 8 million children in school today, nearly a third of whom are women.

In light of Afghanistan’s democratic elections April 5, which resulted in a run-off between Ashraf Ghani and opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah, both Lovelace and Magrab hoped to see a peaceful result that might lead to more productive discussions of women’s leadership.

“There was a [recent] huge gathering of presidential candidates … where they asked women point blank what do women want and now they see women as a constituency.” Lovelace said.

Whether the election is resolved and power peacefully transferred remains to be seen, but Magrab pointed to a 2012 conversation with Karzai and University President John J. DeGioia as a sign of hope for the safety of the country’s fledgling democracy. “[Karzai] might not have seen his country making it and now he does because there is such a strong civil society and civil will,” Magrab said. “And that much should not go unnoticed, that despite all the politics and points of view about what Americans do and don’t do and how corrupt Afghan leaders are or are not, that is a really strong fact of reality that is such a strong marker for a more positive future for the country.”

Yields Fresh Council JOHNNY VERHOVEK Hoya Staff Writer

While the defeat of incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray by Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) dominated headlines after last Tuesday’s Democratic primary, smaller D.C. Council races revealed a District-wide distaste for D.C.’s reputation of corrupt politics.

Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) both defeated the incumbents in their respective wards in Tuesday’s race and currently face no opposition in the Nov. 1 general election.

After an intense campaign that revolved around ethical accusations from both sides, Nadeau was able to unseat four-term incumbent Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), winning with 59 percent of votes.

According to David Super, a professor of administrative law at Georgetown Law Center, ethics and corruption figured heavily, not only in the mayoral race, but also in smaller elections as well.

“Ethics definitely focused heavily on not just the mayoral race but other races throughout the District,” Super said.

Nadeau attributed her victory to voters’ desire for a fresh start in D.C. government and their dissatisfaction with a political system notorious for corruption.

“Voters were telling me that they were ready for change. That after 15 years, they were looking for a new energy. But also they were fed up with the pay-to-play politics culture that we’ve come to see perpetuated in D.C. politics,” Nadeau told THE HOYA. Graham, a local politician well known for both his bow ties and his advocacy as chair of the Committee on Human Services, has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. A two-time chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board, Graham had been fighting allegations for more than two years that he acted unethically by intentionally steering a Metro land development project away from Banneker Ventures and toward a firm that had contributed to his political campaign.

The District government’s Ethics Board ruled in February that there was a “substantial body of evidence” that supported the claim that Graham violated the city’s Code of Employee Ethics; however, the board did not formally punish Graham, saying that because the alleged wrongdoing occurred in 2008, the board lacked the purview to impose punishments.

As for her priorities should she be elected to the council after the Nov. 4 general election, Nadeau said she looks forward to using her past experience to accomplish the goals set out in her campaign, namely education.

“We focused on strengthening our schools, increasing affordable housing and rooting out corruption in our government,” Nadeau said. “I’m no stranger to the bureaucracy of the D.C. government, so that’s something

that helps me hit the ground running … The relationships I’ve built across the ward and the District will serve me well on the council, and I look forward to a collaborative approach in that role.”

Two sitting members of the council — David Grosso (I-At Large) and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) — took the rare step to endorse Nadeau in the April 1 primary.

The norm for councilmembers is to stay out of close races, especially those involving incumbents.

In Ward 6, two candidates with considerable political experience faced off to replace Wells, who resigned his seat on the council to mount an ultimately unsuccessful campaign for D.C. mayor.

Charles Allen, former chief of staff to Wells, defeated Darrel Thompson, former deputy chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) with 58 percent of the vote.

While most of his political experience has taken place at the federal level, Thompson sought to paint himself as someone knowledgeable about the needs of the local community in Ward 6.

“I’ve lived in this Ward for over 20 years.

In terms of my experience, I’ve worked a lot at the federal level, but on issues that affect the District of Columbia,” Thompson said during a debate in late March. “I’m looking to harness my relationships at the local — and yes, at the federal level — to move this Ward forward for everyone.”

Allen said that his priorities on the Council would be much in line with his predecessor, Wells, but would also include a higher emphasis on education and economic reform.

“When Tommy talks about ethics and accountability, you’re going to see some of the same things: same goes for investments in our transportation system and connecting our neighborhoods,” Allen said. “But I’m also the dad of a 19-month-old girl, and I’m going to wake up every day thinking about early education — education is going to be a big part of what drives me on the Council.”

Super agreed that, moving forward, councilmembers would need to address the economic disparity present in the District.

“The challenge of figuring out how to move forward in a period of economic growth and lingering inequalities is definitely a challenge that the D.C. government faces,” Super said.

Like Wells, Allen highlighted the need to move past the District’s culture of corruption toward a government that the people can actually trust to get things done.

“Our elected leaders in the District have to stop being selfish and start solving problems,” Allen said. “Too many people talk about making a change, but that alone isn’t enough. You have to be willing to make hard decisions and to lead by example. This is exactly what I’ve done and promise to continue to do as your councilmember.”

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Recent Spike in Robberies Alarms Neighborhood RYAN THOMAS Hoya Staff Writer

An uptick in robberies targeting the Georgetown neighborhood, including four involving an armed weapon since the beginning of 2014, has local residents concerned.

Since January 2014, there have been eight robberies in the Georgetown neighborhood, four more than occurred during the same time period last year. While two of these robberies targeted businesses, including robberies at Domino’s Pizza at 3255 Prospect St. and TD Bank at 1611 Wisconsin Ave., the majority have targeted individuals on the street.

Metropolitan Police Department Captain Jeffrey Herold said there is no way to know whether these robberies are related.

“The only evidence for these crimes being related is that they occurred in the same geographical area and within a short time,” Herold said, while emphasizing that physical descriptions of suspects are not sufficient to establish a connection between the cases. “As far as descriptions go, they are shaky at best.

Could they be related? Yes. Are they?

We don’t have the information to know.”

At an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting Monday evening at Georgetown Visitation School, MPD Lieutenant John Hedgecock addressed residents’ concerns over the increase in robberies.

“It’s not just Georgetown. The city as a whole has seen an increase in street robberies for at least the last few years,” Hedgecock said. “We couldn’t forecast this happening.

We’ve done a lot in response. I can’t get into specific strategies because I don’t discuss them publicly, but you certainly will see an enhanced presence and surveillance will be going up.”

Georgetown resident and MSFS student Andrew Gibbs (GRD ’15) took issue with the District’s firearm regulations, which he claims inhibit residents’ ability to protect themselves.

“Given the prevalence of firearms in these crimes, I think we are once again seeing the folly of D.C.’s restrictive gun laws. Average citizens such as myself cannot protect themselves.

Meanwhile, criminal elements are

clearly flaunting the law. I feel that having the option to conceal carry, because the criminals clearly already are, would provide a deterrent, and would diminish the number of crimes in our neighborhood, even if a handgun was never used in selfdefense,” Gibbs said.

Ed Solomon, chair of the ANC’s Public Safety Committee, said that the ANC is working in conjunction with the university and MPD to ensure that the neighborhood remains as safe as possible.

“We rely on the statistics that MPD gives us and respond accordingly as far as re-evaluating our resources.”

Solomon said. One tool used to fight crime in the neighborhood is “reimbursable details,” where the ANC pays MPD officers to patrol in the neighborhood when they are off-duty, usually late at night and on weekends.

ANC2E Commissioner Craig Cassey (COL ’15) did not find 2014’s spike in crime to be out of the ordinary.

“It does not seem out of the ordinary to have this number of crimes occurring. Typically, crime rates increase as we move into the spring

and summer months so an increase from January and February to now is common and to an extent should be expected,” Cassey wrote in an email.

John Wiebenson, deputy executive director of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, concurred with Cassey.

“I think it is always sometimes patterned seasonally, as you know, you get nicer weather, people are leaving their windows open, they may be more prone to burglaries of houses, so there’s always sort of upticks and changes from everything from weather to sort of the general lay of the land,” Wiebenson said.

Additionally, Solomon said that the ANC has formed a working relationship with the university to fight crime.

“The community has formed a partnership with the university and we’re working together as a team to address not only the robberies but safety in general,” Solomon said.

“I would say we have formed a very positive bond with the university and also with the public safety department. We’re very transparent and we reach out to each other.”

Yet neighborhood resident Michael Gerber said that he remains wary of his surroundings, despite his confidence in local law enforcement.

“I would say that at night I would think twice about walking too far from my house. I feel relatively confident that GUPD and MPD are doing their jobs, but they can’t be everywhere all the time,” Gerber said.

Georgetown University Chief of Police Jay Gruber also said that while MPD is the primary authority for investigating off-campus robberies, GUPD is doing all they can to assist.

“GUPD Officers are in the neighborhoods around the university going back and forth to university properties,” Gruber said. “The officers stay current with information provided by the MPD and remain alert to suspicious persons and activities.”

Gruber and Herold both emphasized the importance of awareness when ensuring personal safety.

“Georgetown is a relatively safe neighborhood and will remain that way, but we are in the middle of a city and there are unfortunately some people who will take advantage of easy victims.” Herold said.

Symposium Spotlights Undergraduate Research KSHITHIJ SHRINATH Hoya Staff Writer

The second annual Undergraduate Research Symposium brought together student research from across campus by presenting various research projects and keynotes from April 4 to 5 in Healy Hall and the Intercultural Center.

The event kicked off Friday with an introductory address in Riggs Library by Undergraduate Research Symposium Co-Chair Chandani Desai (COL ’15), who noted the amount of research available at the symposium.

“This weekend we will have the chance to hear from 150 undergraduate students of all four years, all schools and even the Qatar campus, which is really amazing,” Desai said.

Following the introduction, Washington, D.C.-based journalist Arthur Allen, who focuses on science, delivered the keynote speech, which discussed the dangers of thought collectives and the importance of communication from researchers and journalists in breaking down poorly established opinions.

Allen told the story of a concentration camp in Germany where prisoner scientists were charged with making a vaccine for typhus and convinced themselves that they had found the vaccine, despite no progress in the area.

“They circled their wagons with an internal chain of logic that [a scientist] called the harmony of illusion,” Allen said.

While it was useful for that group, who survived because of their illusion, Allen warned against this phenomenon in normal, everyday life.

“In some situations, self-deception has its advantages, but none of us [is] likely to be locked in concentration camps with no way out but to lie,” he said. “It’s important to try and reach beyond your customary ways of seeing.”

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Sun Hoo Kim (SFS ’14) presents his research on education and the U.N.

ing the introduction and keynote consisted of poster presentations in the second- and third-floor corridors of Healy, where student presenters created poster boards with summaries, including their abstracts, methodologies and conclusions, of their research.

Many of the presenters were on hand to discuss their research, which often originated in the classroom.

Timothy Loh (SFS ’15) described his project about the rights and status of the deaf in the Middle East. Loh thought of the idea for this research because of a paper he wrote for his third-level Arabic class in the fall semester.

“In the Middle East, deaf children are often suppressed by their families … and Arabic is particularly hard to pick up for the deaf,” Loh said.

Loh explained that, since his paper was for a class, he conducted most of his research independently, as he has long been interested in the deaf community both in his home country of Singapore and here at Georgetown.

Other students found inspiration while studying abroad. Collette Clark (SFS ’15) researched individual-level international relations theories to understand Egypt’s nonproliferation under Anwar Sadat.

“I was in [the School of Foreign Service in] Qatar, and I took a class about nuclear proliferation there with [Senior Assistant Dean] Kai-Henrik Barth,” she said. “This project came from that because the topic of Egypt kept bugging me as we studied all these other countries and their proliferation stories.”

Sophie Snowden (COL ’14) had a similar experience studying abroad in Brazil.

“I studied abroad in Brazil, and working for a nonprofit, I interviewed a lot of people living in favelas, which the mainstream media commonly translates to slums or shantytowns,” Snowden said.

From the stories she heard in those interviews, she decided to study the effects of the government’s program of pacification and drug trafficking reduction in those neighborhoods as Brazil prepares for the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics.

“It’s not working, because even if they root out the narcotics, they don’t replace key services like transportation to hospitals that the narcotics-makers provide,” Snowden said.

The final day of the symposium included two sessions of panel presentations, at which students discussed their research prompted by a moderator.

The event concluded with keynote addresses given by students. Sun Hoo Kim (SFS ’14), Aamir Hussain (COL ’14) and Brendan Quinn (COL ’14) all presented their independent research, as did a group called the Doha by Design Team from the Qatar campus of the SFS.

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The Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society performs “She Loves Me,” a musical, as part of Georgetown University Arts Week, which runs from April 5 to 12.

Arts Week Paints New Picture ASHLEY MILLER Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown is known for many things: Bill Clinton, basketball and politics to name a few, but rarely are Georgetown and the arts synonymous, despite the theater and performance studies program, which touts a top-five ranking amongst programs outside of New York City. The inaugural Georgetown University Arts Weeks hopes to change that by promoting creativity with exhibits, performances and open mike nights across campus from April 5 to 12.

The Georgetown University Student Association Subcommittee on the Arts spearheaded GU Arts Week, starting planning this past fall.

“We made this decision to broaden the purview of it so it’s creative expression rather than arts. So the idea is that it is creativity in general,” Creative Expression Subcommittee Co-Chair Jonathan Thrall (SFS ’17) said.

The week consists of various theater performances, a cappella at Lauinger Library, a GU Jazz ensemble performance and extended Uncommon Grounds open mike nights.

The week hopes to show that the arts are worthy of student attention, as many students tend to focus on professional endeavors that stifle student creativity.

“Students aren’t as creative by themselves when they could be because they don’t really think that is something they should do. They think it might be a waste of time, they don’t know what resources are there, maybe,” Thrall said.“Creativity and professional aspirations aren’t mutually exclusive.”

For students already involved in creative arts, some feel as if it is only useful for resume building.

“I have a friend in the Phantoms who said, ‘If I’m going to

do this artistic thing, I need to have a leadership role in it so it looks better on a resume,’” said Andrew Walker (SFS ’16), subcommittee co-chair and a member of the a cappella group.

Through Arts Week, the subcommittee hopes to show incoming students that Georgetown is not just a preprofessional school.

“We’d love it that students come to Georgetown and they are not like, ‘Oh, I love Georgetown, I really want to come here. I guess I’ll have to give up playing the violin, or I guess I’ll have to give up acting or singing. Maybe I’ll be able to dabble in it once in a while, but I’m going to have to focus on the academics or going into [Internaational Relations} or going into business,’” Thrall said.“I want to make sure that that’s not the case.”

Arts Week is intended to reach out to a large audience.

“We are trying to communicate to two types of people, [including] people who didn’t fall into this pre-professional trap and are involved in the arts on campus, and we are showcasing all of their work throughout the year by publicizing their events,” Walker said.

Arts Week may even expand the definition of the pre-professional focus to show how arts can strengthen students intellectually.

“I think that if we were able to expand the definition of what it means to be an intelligent person and include creativity in that, I think that can only lead to more students being challenged in the way they learn best and other students being challenged in new ways that let them think differently than they usually do,” outgoing GUSA Secretary of the Arts T. Chase Meacham (COL ’14) said.

Additionally, Arts Week will give more visibility to the

individuals involved in the arts and hopefully attract others outside of that group to join in collaboration.

“I think visibility is the best thing that can come out of this event. I think the arts community is for better or worse a little bit self-cyclical.

It’s a lot of the same people that do the same shows or sing in the same songs,” Meacham said.

Although the events are mostly composed of performing arts, Thrall acknowledged that this was simply a reflection of what is here on campus.

“Honestly, when you think about arts, it’s majorly skewed on campus towards performing arts. That’s what exists,” Thrall said.

Arts Week coordinators hope that this week’s impact lasts more than the eight days of the event by getting students to give creativity a chance. Those involved want this week to be an opportunity for people to experience art and creativity on campus and to get to know the resources to seek out events in the future.

“If you look at the things that are happening this week, it’s about people knowing that they are there,” Walker said.

The committee hopes that this year’s success will be a jumping off point for next year. “I think that’s what we did really well this year was to make a really strong foundation for this not starting over but rather moving forward,” Walker said.

The organizers believe the week is intrinsic for the development for Georgetown’s arts.

“It’s tough with an event like this because you’re not going to really see an impact I don’t think for another couple of years. But I think that’s all the more reason that we begin now,” Meacham said.

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One Year On, Boathouse Thrives Bloomberg Lifts Carly Graf

Hoya Staff Writer

Since the contentious battle over who would operate Georgetown’s waterfront boathouse last spring, Key Bridge Boathouse, has continued its success while maintaining its longstanding relationship with Georgetown Outdoor Education.

In December 2012, the National Park Service, which owns the land on which the boathouse operates, notified Jack’s Boathouse operators Frank Baxter and Paul Simkin that the boathouse’s lease, which the Baxter family had held since 1945, would have to compete with other businesses to bid for the right to operate on the land on a concession basis.

In March 2013, the NPS officially awarded a two-year contract to operate on the property to B&G Outdoor Recreation, which operates six boating based ventures in the Boston area.

According to Stephen Benkert, the program coordinator at Key Bridge Boathouse, the boathouse has maintained the friendly atmosphere of Jack’s Boathouse but with more efficient business procedures.

“People were concerned because Jack’s had been here for so long,” Benkert said. “We still keep that funky vibe that has been down here for-

ever but operation is running more smoothly with the procedures we’ve put in place to make use of the site effectively.”

The new management has implemented new operations systems, including the ability to accept credit and debit cards, installation of a new check in/out system, as well as new safety procedures.

Despite the procedural changes that have been implemented under the new management, Key Bridge Boathouse has maintained its partnership with Georgetown Outdoor Education, allowing the group to store its kayaks and paddle boards at the boathouse.

“So far it’s been a wonderful relationship. I know that Outdoor Ed has had a long-standing relationship with Jack’s … and Key Bridge from the get-go has been willing to honor that same relationship that we had, so that was exciting news when I first showed up,” Outdoor Education Director Kris Nessler said.

In an effort to keep students engaged with the boathouse, the Key Bridge Boathouse has also added new programming, such as stand-up paddleboard yoga classes.

“This is the latest trend and we are quadrupling our programming,” Benkert said.

Nessler said that he hopes to pro-

mote a working relationship with the Outdoor Education staff to encourage more interaction between the university and the Key Bridge Boathouse.

“We really think there are some opportunities for some good crossover training, and then clearly Outdoor Ed wants to be able to program, as the weather gets nicer, maybe four or five trips before the end of the semester,” Nessler said.

Benkert said that the Key Bridge Boathouse has been able to maintain a close working relationship with the NPS, who owns the land on which the boathouse operates.

“We work closely with them and definitely are always aiming to make right by them,” Benkert said. “It is their land and they are letting us run a concession here so everything goes through the Park Service.”

According to NPS Concessions Management Specialist Walter McDowney, the Key Bridge Boathouse has successfully upheld the requirements of the NPS’ contract, which is required for each of its concessions.

“As far as following the contract is concerned, they’re doing a good job,” McDowney said.

Future negotiations concerning B&G Outdoor Recreation contract renewal are ongoing.

“We definitely hope to extend for sure,” Benkert said.

HFSC Costs Student Programming GPB, from A1 “We are going to see if we can still pull from the same bracket of artists.

The loss of $15,000 from What’s After Dark could change the artist bracket. It depends on what artist we choose to go with in the next coming year,” Deloach said.

GPB will lose about $4,000 in funding for other programs because of the termination of What’s After Dark, mainly affecting larger endeavors, like subsidized trips to New York City and Hershey Park. The trips continued this year, but GPB members are concerned about their status in the 2014-2015 academic year.

“We were able to do the New York City trip, but a lot of people were concerned about that. We can’t count on that for next year because of funding.

A lot of people are upset about what we can and can’t do,” Deloach said. “It affects our programming in general. … [We are] concerned about what we’ll lose.”

Despite concerns, according to Cohen Derr, CSE will continue to invest in nighttime programming.

“There will still be an investment in late-night and weekend programming on campus,” Cohen Derr said. “GPB will be able to use their funds for their programming, and there will be some additional money that we will use for programming specifically at the Heal-

ey Family Student Center.”

Georgetown’s Relay for Life also felt the impact of the elimination of What’s After Dark. Relay for Life expected to receive $5,000 from What’s After Dark this past year, but had to reach out to the Center for Social Justice’s Advisory Board for Student Organizations to make up for the loss after funding was cut. According to Relay for Life Co-President Dan Silkman (COL ’15), the organization will try to adjust to the smaller budget by reaching out to other campus groups and administrators.

“We are cutting spots and scaling back a little bit,” Silkman said. “We have to set up a reasonable budget for the incoming presidents. ... It will mean a few slight adjustments and a more concerted effort to find more campus partners — [with] possibly engaging Office of the Provost and the undergraduate schools.”

Aside from student groups, the elimination of What’s After Dark will impact Georgetown students as well. Scott Lowder (COL ’17) said he thought the elimination of What’s After Dark and its related programs could negatively impact student life.

“I would be very disappointed if Georgetown felt this was not a worthwhile endeavor to fund,” Lowder said.

“Without opportunities like these and What’s After Dark, students are more likely to participate in weekend activities that the university might not deem

as safe or appropriate.”

Courtney Maduike (SFS ’17) participated in this year’s GPB New York City trip, which costs students $25 apiece and covered a round trip bus ride, dinner at Hard Rock Cafe and a Broadway show. A California native, she stressed how the trip helped her to acclimate to the east coast.

“Georgetown knows how many people are coming from the western states, next year a lot of kids are coming from California, or they accepted a bunch of kids from California, that’s part of the college experience,” Maduike said. “I just can’t believe that they’re cutting that much of it, and I can’t see why it’s being cut. I know times are rough and we need to be wise in how we allocate our money, but we shouldn’t take away from our experience in college. Honestly, I’m so dumbfounded by that.”

The possible effect on the spring concert may also serve to reduce the event’s popularity.

“I would think the popularity would go down if they’re bringing artists that people don’t really know as well just because of lack of funds,” Adithya Rajan (MSB ’17) said. “What this does is it opens up more Hoyas to come perform; I could see more people like Tate Tucker having to supplement that to get people to come to see their friends than to just see the headliner, but I don’t think that’s going to be very helpful.”

DC Gun Laws Restrict Residents GUNS, from A1 downtown Washington. He said that while the stream of customers isn’t constant, he continues to offer his services to those who want his help.

“There are not a lot of people in the District going out and buying firearms to register them in the District. It’s a little sparingly that they need my services. There might be anywhere from maybe three to six a week sometimes,” Sykes said.

Despite his expertise and up-todate license, Sykes does not sell guns in the District, and as of today there is no physical location where consumers can go to purchase firearms in the city — the nearest location is Atlantic Guns in Silver Spring, Md. Even with people like Sykes helping District residents register firearms, those seeking to purchase firearms in Maryland and Virginia face further restrictions, adding another layer to an already complex system.

Dan Floyd, assistant manager of Atlantic Guns, which operates less than a mile from the D.C.-Maryland border, said the current system has changed drastically since the shop he works at opened in 1950.

“It’s interesting to note that in Virginia, you can walk into any Wal-Mart with a handgun strapped to your side without a permit, no problem. In Maryland, the same thing will get you in jail. In the District, not only will you be facing jail time, but you get a felony on your record and can never purchase a gun again,” Floyd said.

When Atlantic Guns first opened, Floyd said the store mainly revolved around hunting, but as the population has increased over the years, that customer base has dwindled, leading most people to purchase their guns for either target shooting or self-defense purposes.

“There aren’t a whole lot of places to go hunting around here anymore unless you want to drive at least three hours. As suburbia has expanded, the number of customers coming in to buy guns for hunt-

ing purposes has definitely diminished,” Floyd said.

In May 2013, Maryland enacted among the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, banning the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms that the state defines as assault weapons, limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds and requiring handgun purchasers to be fingerprinted and pass a training course before obtaining the proper licensing.

While advocates like Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a Democrat who signed the bill into law, praised the laws as a step in the right direction toward curbing gun violence in the state, Floyd and others say the laws have created a process too arduous for most Maryland residents looking to purchase a handgun.

“Before they even look at the guns for sale, they have to go through the process of getting a license, getting the proper training, making sure they have the proper paperwork.

The new handgun laws have certainly hurt our business and discourage people who look at the process and say, ‘This just isn’t worth my time to go through,’” Floyd said, “After these laws I would say the process is actually easier in the District when it comes to purchasing handguns and getting them registered.”

Sykes concurred with Floyd’s judgment, saying he believed that despite what many may think, the laws in the District are not as restrictive as those recently passed by Maryland.

“A lot of the laws that Maryland has imposed since Oct. 1 were a lot like the District laws when the District first had to start letting people register handguns. Since then, the District laws are a lot easier — the requirements are a lot easier than it is to get firearms registered or purchase firearms in Maryland,” Sykes said.

Despite these uneven regulations, according to Sykes, his most frequent customers are new gun owners that purchase firearms outside the District.

“I elected not to sell guns in the District even though I’m licensed to

sell guns here. So people will purchase firearms out of state, and by federal law those guns have to be transferred from the dealers that they purchase them from outside of Washington to me,” Sykes said.

Chairman of the D.C. City Council Phil Mendelson, who authored many of the regulations passed after the Heller decision, said that he doesn’t foresee any major changes in gun regulation, noting that the council’s approach to gun laws in the District both pre- and post-2008 has been to focus on individuals whose past history indicates they should not possess a firearm.

“Looking at what types of behavior are indicators, based on evidence, of a higher risk of violence, those are the people that would be restricted or prohibited from possessing a firearm,” Mendelson said.

Gwendolyn Crump, director of the MPD’s Office of Communications, concurred when it came to the police’s two main goals in enforcing the District’s gun laws.

“The Department’s priorities are twofold: first, to ensure that any illegal firearms are taken off the streets and, second, to provide District residents with a streamlined process to register their legally owned firearms,” Crump said.

According to Crump, the punishment for possession of an unlicensed firearm is a fine of up to $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Going forward, Sykes said he will continue to monitor any changes to D.C.’s gun laws, and ensure that he remains the city’s one-stop shop for assistance.

“I can explain these laws to people a lot easier probably than what they can find on the police department’s website. I can simplify the process and show them that it’s not a very hard process. It’s not as difficult as people make it out to be,” Sykes said. “People have a tendency to want to find out how to do something the easiest way. The easiest way is to hear it from someone else, instead of investigating it for themselves.”

GUWIL Profile

SUMMIT, from A1 love to come,” Ciesemier said. “I hadn’t assumed she would want to just because she has no relation to Georgetown, but she was super pumped about it.”

Parham connected the organizers with Kara Swisher (SFS ’84), a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Smith, the crisis management expert who served as the inspiration for Olivia Pope of “Scandal.” Once brought onboard by Parham, Swisher connected GUWIL with her wife, Megan Smith, a vice president at Google, as well as both former CEO and Chairman of America Online Steve Case and Case Foundation CEO Jean Case.

Through this kind of networking by GUWIL members and between speakers, the Own It Summit expanded its list of participants to the final 28.

Shriver, who founded the Shriver Report, which focuses on cultural and societal changes affecting women, was one of the first people to sign up for the host committee to serve as a moderator last summer. After promoting women’s leadership initiatives in California, Shriver wanted to expand her efforts to her alma mater. She already participates heavily in the community, including speaking at an Office of Advancement event in Los Angeles last year. Her daughter, Christina Schwarzenegger (COL ’13) graduated last May. “I had met her … and she told me that she had wanted to start something like this at Georgetown, or do a women’s conference at Georgetown,” Ciesemier said. “As a first lady of California, she had done a lot of women’s conferences. This is a very natural fit for something that she would want to be involved in.”

Dee Dee Myers, who served as the first-ever female White House press secretary during the first two years of President Bill Clinton’s administration, is one of the event’s keynote speakers and will be presented with the Own It Award at the summit. “[The award is] given to a woman who really exemplifies a 21st-century leader and owns all of the hard responsibilities that come with her job, but most importantly … we’re giving it to a woman who is a ‘first’ in her indus-

try or a ‘first’ in her position,” Brosnan said.

Steve Case and Jean Case will give the other keynote presentation.

The event will also include four panel discussions focusing on policy, media, business and science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Throughout the day, participants will attend experiential sessions hosted by speakers that will focus on key issues such as self-promotion, salary negotiation and women of color.

“We want to have a lot of like-minded men and women come together and gain this new sense of empowerment and confidence to go set the world on fire,” Buffone said.

GUWIL plans to continue to work with the university in the future to promote female leadership at Georgetown. “[The university] really wants this to be not just a one-year thing. They’re rallying together all these different groups of people to make a much more succinct and sustainable women’s leadership initiative on campus,” Ciesemier said.

Although Summit committee members have not yet begun plans for their post-summit endeavors, Ciesemier said that she envisions unifying preexisting efforts to promote women in leadership at Georgetown. Apart from the summit, GUWIL has continued its meetings and programming as a student group.

“We should see some real unification happening after the summit and a more formalized effort,” Ciesemier said. “The goal is to create an umbrella organization that would house all of these different initiatives.”

Such pre-existing efforts include an initiative led by Davis to promote leadership among female faculty members.

“I’m an advocate for women leaders in any capacity and am especially proud of the GU women who put together the Own It Summit,” Davis wrote in an email. “Their leadership in putting together the summit and rallying men and women across the country to participate exemplifies the positive impact that can occur when women take ownership of a larger societal need.”

Students Urge Obama To End Deportations RALLY, from A1 Labor Organizing Network, who marched with the Mt. Pleasant group.

Hoyas for Immigrant Rights board member Martin De Leon (SFS ’16) described the meeting of the two groups as one of his proudest moments as a Georgetown student.

“I think my absolute favorite part of the rally and the climax was joining the other activists in D.C at that collision point where we joined their march, and they received us with cheers, and we were cheering also. I had not felt prouder to be a Hoya until that moment. It was just amazing,” De Leon said.

Once the combined group arrived at the White House, the march joined hundreds of protesters and listened to musical performances and speakers offering personal testimonials related to immigration law and reform.

“I’m sure that they heard our cries, I’m sure they knew that we were out there. They are aware that people are very frustrated with the president, that people are sick of hearing excuses and they want to see action,” Community Organizer for D.C. Immigrants Rights Coalition Anna Duncan said.

Among the speakers was a woman who stood up to speak about her husband being deported shortly after learning she was pregnant.

“We have a broken immigration system and we can’t allow that to continue. We need to move forward,” she said. “Obama had a dream and his dream was to be president. … Now it is time to make our dreams come true.”

While led and organized by campus immigration advocacy organizations Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and the Georgetown University Immigration Coalition, the march was characterized by the participation of numerous on-campus groups including the Black House, Students for Justice in Palestine, Moviemiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán and the College Democrats.

“We’ve definitely thought that the struggle for rights for undocumented workers is something that’s really essential to the democratic cause, and it’s something a lot of Georgetown students and our members are really interested in, so that’s our main motivation for sponsoring it,” College Democrats President Chandini Jha (COL ’16) said.

De Leon also stressed the universality of this issue as one that affects everyone in D.C. “It’s not solely Hoyas for Immigrant Rights as much as it’s also Caribbean Culture Club, it’s also Col-

lege Democrats, NAACP, BSA. We’ve gotten support from all types of cultural groups, it’s not so much a restrictive issue, it’s a universal issue,” De Leon said.

Rally attendee and President of Students for Justice in Palestine Leila Shebaro (SFS ’15) addressed the similarities between the struggles of undocumented Latino immigrants in America and those of the Palestinians.

“We feel that we have a responsibility to show solidarity with these people not only because, historically, there’s a very strong tradition of solidarity between Latino communities with Palestinians,” Shebaro said.

“Many of the same structures of oppression that are faced by undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are very similar to those faced by Palestinians. The same kind of cycles of economic disenfranchisement, criminalization that you see down to the point where they’re not just coincidentally similar. For example, the same companies that helped build the West Bank barrier are helping to construct the border fence.”

SJP member John Flanagan (SFS ’14) compared the criminalization and lack of basic human rights he said both groups face because of the belief held by some that they are not citizens or are unworthy of citizenship.

“I think that there’s a lot of intersections in the way that the law is used to oppress people and to deny them their basic human rights,” Flanagan said. Georgetown students who attended the march from campus and the rally praised the high levels of support from the Georgetown community.

“It’s something that very directly affects our community and it is viewed as a very separate issue a lot of the time. There is a very human dimension to it and there are families that are separated because of it,” Coordinator for the Kalmanovitz Initative’s Day Laborer Exchange Program Sophia Sepp (SFS ’14) said. “They are just trying to find a job, and they face a lot of injustice and obstacles because of their legal status. We’re all kind of interconnected.”

“As students we have a lot of power to help these people and we have a voice,” said Araceli Vazquez (COL ‘14), a member of Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and Students Stopping the Trafficking of People. “A lot of these people are barely coming out of the shadows and it’s important to push along immigration reform.”

Hoya Staff Writer Katherine Richardson contributed reporting.

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Cross-Country Success for GU Excitement Abounds Morgan Birck Hoya Staff Writer

Spread across the country, the Georgetown track and field team found success in all three meets it competed in this weekend. The team is currently trying to qualify as many athletes as possible for NCAA regionals, and Director of Track and Field Patrick Hennery thought sending his team to compete at Auburn, Stanford and William & Mary would provide the best opportunities to do just that.

At the Auburn Tiger Track Classic, the women’s team put up strong numbers in one of the fastest meets of the season. Graduate student Amanda Kimbers lived up to Henner’s expectations by taking fifth place in the women’s 100-meter dash with a time of 11.90, just behind University of Alabama-Hunstville’s junior Katelin Barber. Kimbers also ran a strong 200m dash, again finishing fifth with a time of 23.75.

Senior Deseree King’s top performance was in her event of choice, the 400m hurdles. She finished in seventh place with a time of 1:00.87.

On the men’s side, junior Tyler Smith took 13th in the 100m dash with a time of 11.01, missing the 12th spot by less than a 10th of a second.

The men’s 4-x-400m relay comprised of Smith, freshman Nate Gordon, senior Hansel Akers and sophomore Mike Andre placed 11th with a time of 3:19.21.

Finally, senior Eghosa Aghayere placed seventh in the men’s triple jump with his longest distance of 14.76m.

“I feel like we did some good things and made some progress,” Henner said. “We had some seasonal bests, but it wasn’t quite exactly where we wanted to be. But I think a

part of that is that it’s so early in the season still.”

At the Stanford Invitational, the long-distance runners competed in one of the nation’s fastest distance meets. “[At] Stanford, we put up a lot of times that are going to be in the top 48 in our region, so that’s always a good thing,” Henner said.

“But I also feel like we missed some opportunities to put up some really fast times. Some of that is from inexperience, some of it was from never really trying to run a serious 5k before, so we’ve just got to do a little bit better. I think that most athletes that ran out there, if they have a chance to run again, will run much faster.”

In the men’s 5000m run, sophomore Darren Fahy finished 12th with a time of 14:13.39.

In the men’s 10,000m run, graduate student Andrew Springer took 12th place with a time of 29:22.10.

“I was extremely pleased with Andrew Springer,” Henner said. “He missed the whole indoor season and then went out and ran a [personal record] in the 10,000. For him to go out in his first meet since crosscountry and put up a PR I think is a harbinger of really good things to come this spring for him.”

Meanwhile on the women’s side, sophomore Haley Pierce took 11th in the 1500m with a time of 4:24.41.

In the first section of the 5000m, graduate student Rachel Schneider put up a time of 16:23.87 and took 25th place. In the third section of the 5000m, junior Annamarie Maag placed ninth with a time of 16:29.65.

In the 10,000m run, graduate student Kirsten Kasper took 12th place with a time of 34.21.52.

Finally, other Hoyas ran in the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va. The women’s team took 16th

place overall with 16 points, while the men’s team placed eighth with 21 points.

Senior Chelsea Cox grabbed third place in the women’s 800m run with a time of 2:10.23. Sophomore Heather Martin placed sixth with 2:11.31.

In the women’s 1500m run, junior Kelsey Smith finished in fourth place with a time of 4:25.63. Junior Shanique Dasilva took seventh at 4:30.68. Junior Becca DeLoache put up a time of 4:31.87 and finished ninth.

In the 5000m run, junior Andrea Keklak placed 11th with a time of 17:03.99.

On the men’s side, notable runs were mostly in the 800m race. Sophomore Ahmed Bile took second with a time of 1:50.02. Freshmen Ryan Manahan and Amos Bartelsmeyer took fifth and sixth with times of 1:50.69 and 1:50.89, respectively.

In the 5000m run, senior Brian King put up a time of 14:12.73 to put him in fourth place, and senior Dylan Sorenson finished just behind King, grabbing eighth with a time of 14:18.87.

With these meets, Georgetown hopes to have secured the qualifying times for the upcoming NCAA Regionals next month. There is still plenty of time though, and the team will compete in the George Mason Invitational next weekend for another chance at putting up those qualifying times.

“I think George Mason is a great meet. It’s grown; it’s gotten more and more competitive,” Henner said. “There’s going to be people from all over the country coming there to run, so I’m really excited for it, and I think we’re going to be ready to put up some fast times this weekend. I think it’s going to be great competition.”

SOFTBALL

St. John’s Pounds Pitching SAMUEL SOLOMON Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team (1715, 7-2 Big East) lost its first Big East series of the season as it dropped two of three in its weekend series against St. John’s (17-18, 3-5 Big East).

Saturday’s doubleheader featured two very different games. After strong pitching led the Hoyas in their 1-0, 10-inning walk-off win, the staff struggled in the second game, losing 12-2 in a shortened six innings.

Junior starting pitcher Lauren O’Leary limited St. John’s to two hits over 10 innings for her 11th complete game and third shutout of the season. She struck out five and walked three.

“Lauren threw a fantastic game on Saturday against a very good St. John’s offense,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “Lauren is an excellent pitcher. She did a great job executing her spins and location, and our defense played fantastically behind her.”

St. John’s sophomore pitcher Tori Free also had a strong game from the circle, striking out 10 and giving up seven hits before allowing the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 10th. She threw 198 pitches.

The Hoyas had their chances to take a lead early in the game, but they left the bases loaded twice.

Overall, they left 14 players on base as opposed to just four for the Red Storm.

“On Saturday, we had plenty of opportunities to score runs,” Conlan said. “We were getting runners in scoring position, but we just couldn’t get the big hit, and when we did, St. John’s came up with big plays on defense.”

In the bottom of the 10th, senior

outfielder Alexandria Anttila led off with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Freshman Hannah Ramsey pinch ran for her, and then sophomore infielder Taylor Henry singled, putting runners at the corners. Finally, freshman catcher Gabriela Elvina hit a sacrifice fly to center, which scored the gameending run.

Game two proved to be different from the opener. St. John’s would rack up 16 hits, 10 more than Georgetown.

“St. John’s had one of the toughest two-three-four batters that we have faced all year,” Conlan said. “I give them all the credit because they hit everything we tried to throw at them.”

Junior pitcher Megan Hyson, sixth in the Big East in ERA, gave up eight runs — seven earned — over her four innings on the mound.

O’Leary relieved her in the fifth and gave up four earned runs of her own on seven hits.

Georgetown took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first, but these would be the last runs it would score. In the third inning, St. John’s hit a game-tying two-run home run. It would add two more in the fourth and then four in each of the fifth and sixth innings, ending the game early by way of the mercy rule.

Although the Hoyas only lost by three runs on Sunday, they did not play much better. The Red Storm beat the Hoyas 9-6 after rocking the pitching staff once again.

O’Leary started the game and allowed seven earned runs on nine hits through the first four innings.

Hyson finished the last three innings, giving up two on four hits.

They each struck out four.

The Hoyas took the lead in the

bottom of the first on a two-run home run by senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek. But the Red Storm tied it up with two solo home runs in the top of the second.

After the Hoyas scored a run in the bottom of the second, St. John’s regained the lead in the top of the third, scoring three runs to take a 5-3 lead. It then scored four in the top of the fifth, extending its lead to 9-3. Georgetown, however, was able to put itself back in the game by scoring three in the bottom of the inning.

In the fifth inning, the Hoyas were within striking distance, trailing 9-6. But St. John’s held Georgetown scoreless in the last two innings to win the game.

“Some games the pitching is better than the hitters, and in others the hitters are better than the pitching,” Conlan said of the high-scoring game. “I think we experienced a great deal of offense from both teams on Sunday, and the pitching for either team wasn’t as effective as it needs to be. “ This is the first series loss the Hoyas have suffered this season.

“We need to regroup as a team and get back to winning ways and winning habits,” Conlan said. “I think it is important to play midweek because our hitters get an opportunity to see live pitching, and the pitching and defense stay sharp.”

The Blue and Gray will play the University of Maryland at Baltimore County in Baltimore on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. and then Drexel in Philadelphia on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. The team will then return to Big East play with a three-game series against DePaul this weekend in Chicago.

men’s lacrosse

Knarr Paces Offense in Win PROVIDENCE, from A10 unanswered scoring streak by three goals. Conley scored his third goal of the game off of an assist from Fisher at 10:01, Fisher contributed a goal of his own later with 2:32 left, and then senior attack Jeff Fountain wrapped up the quarter by scoring a goal with nine seconds remaining.

With a score of 9-2 going into the fourth quarter, the Hoyas were poised to end the game with a sizeable victory. However, Providence proved that it would not give up.

Aided by the efforts of Wright and Fitzpatrick, Providence’s leading offensive threat, senior attack Andrew Barton, contributed three goals and two assists in the period to quarterback a comeback attempt.

The Friars were trailing by just one goal in the final minute of play, but Haley’s stance in goal and Fountain’s empty-net goal in the final

seconds of play allowed the Hoyas to survive.

Warne believes that Georgetown failed to respond adequately to the threats posed by Providence’s offensive force and needs to be more prepared to address these issues in the future. “[Providence] did some [successful] things in the riding game, and I think we just didn’t have enough poise,” Warne said. “We allowed them multiple possessions. … They put a lot of pressure on us and we didn’t handle it as well as we need to, but that will be addressed in practice this week.”

Georgetown’s dominance on offense in the second and third quarters ultimately allowed it to walk away with the victory. The Hoyas had many scoring opportunities thanks to the continued efforts of redshirt senior defender and co-captain Tyler Knarr, whose faceoff expertise al-

lowed him to move into second place in career faceoff wins with 413.

Warne acknowledges that Knarr is a crucial asset to Georgetown’s offensive success.

“At the end of the day, it comes down to [Knarr],” Warne said. “He was able to control 16-of-20, which was fantastic. He’s able to control the tempo, which was something we talked about coming into the game.”

Up next for Georgetown is a matchup against Lehigh (9-3, 5-2 Patriot League) next Saturday. Warne believes that the win over Providence, as well as continued improvement in practice, will help Georgetown earn another victory.

“We obviously haven’t had a lot of wins in the past month, and I think our guys were hungry for a win. We had a good week of practice as well, which really, really helped, I think.

Again, we have to tighten up some things, but we’ll be ready to go.”

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hen those who follow sports like your favorite restaurant — that place refer to the “sports world,” they you always go on your birthday. You make are generally referring to the a point of not eating there often because athletes, players, coaches and insiders who then it would not be special. But once a make one of the globe’s most compelling year, it is as good as it gets. For some unindustries tick. While covering those who explainable reason that verdant acreage directly affect the outcomes of games etched from the Georgia pines seems to makes sense, the sports world could not make hitting a white ball with a stick look function like it does — as a parallel ecosys- elegant and heroic at the same time. Think tem of enjoyable escapism — without the Adam and Ángel last year, Bubba the year fans. For the fan who simbefore and Phil from the ply likes to enjoy watchpines in 2010. How about ing the world’s best athany of the numerous Tiletes do their thing, the ger, Jack or Arnie April next six to eight weeks afternoons that nobody are about as compelling who watched will ever and entertaining as you forget? will ever find.

Only three days afWhile our press deadter the green jacket is Ethan Chess & line will not allow us to donned, one of sports’ Drew Cunningham comment on the exact longest and most gruelresult, if you are a sports ing tournaments in the fan, odds are pretty world gets underway — good that Monday you the NHL playoffs. The first Although the NCAA watched two of the most round of the playoffs is tournament is over, generally agreed to be the compelling yet underseeded teams do battle in of the crop. With there is much to look cream the NCAA Men’s Basketfresh legs, the best teams forward to. ball National Championare firing on all cylinders. ship at Jerry Jones Park.

Watching those first few Oops! AT&T Stadium. Maybe the Cowboys games of playoff hockey is like watching will pick up on the lingering champion- an altogether different sport. ship atmosphere from the game and do Another 72 hours after the first puck of something meaningful this season ... but the playoffs drops, the NBA will begin its we doubt it. postseason as well. While basketball playOdds are also pretty good that Aaron ers — with the exception of James Harden Harrison was invisible for most of the — do not grow awesome playoff beards game but got the ball when it counted. Re- like their NHL counterparts, the big dance gardless of how the final hurrah turns out, of the NBA still has plenty of good storythe whole tournament has offered us some lines to serve up this year. Can LeBron and of the most entertaining games in recent company match the Shaq-Kobe Lakers and memory. Single-elimination tournaments complete the three-peat? Can the Pacers in a sport that is utterly unpredictable tend stop their recent slide? Do the San Antonio to do that.

Spurs ever age?

If single elimination is too significant a With so many of our favorite sporting margin of error for you as a fan, fear not. events of the year coming up it sure is lucky Only 72 hours after the nets get cut down that we Hoyas do not have any papers or in Texas, it will be time for one-shot elimi- exams in the coming weeks! Oh well ... nation at the Masters. once you are finished with your studying, Remember Tiger’s major championship grab a snack, an age-appropriate beverage comeback smash against the flagstick and and enjoy the most wonderful time of the into a watery grave at the 15th late Friday sporting year. afternoon last year? Augusta National is rife with spots that should be labeled Ethan Chess and Drew Cunningham are “game over” on the map. seniors in the College. The Third Half On the other hand, the Masters is also appears every Tuesday.

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Doubles Matches Secure Victory for the Women TENNIS, from A10 the next day.

“We had such a battle with UConn,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “When it comes down to it, like with UConn, it just comes down to a few points. It’s not any particular patterns or anything, it’s, ‘Did we convert those big points?’ We didn’t do it against UConn, and we did against Seton Hall. ” Saperstein continued to impress with a win at first singles, bringing her record to 4-1 in the last five matches.

“I think Victoire was probably the top player of the weekend,” Ernst said. “She won her doubles match against Seton Hall and lost a tight match against one of the best players in the Big East.”

Panarese and Koenen both triumphed in tough three-set battles in the fifth and sixth singles slots, respectively. Panarese won all four of her matches this weekend, which Ernst sees as key to her morale.

“Sophie Panarese won all of her matches this weekend, which is great for her and her confidence.”

Though the Hoyas performed admirably at singles, the length of the matches and conditions sealed their fate at doubles.

“We had to play six long singles matches, and it was very windy. That affects your serving. It affects everything,” Ernst said.

“I think, actually, Seton Hall had better doubles players, too,” he added. “It just shows you that if you give away and make mistakes, then you can lose the doubles point.”

The Georgetown men’s tennis team

(7-9, 0-1 Big East) had better luck against Connecticut, sweeping singles in a 6-0 style. The teams did not play doubles matches. Sophomore Daniel Khanin and junior Shane Korber won at first and second singles, respectively, in three-set battles. Junior Alex Tropiano, freshman Jack Murphy, senior co-captain Casey Distaso and junior John Brosens all won in straight-set matches.

Though the Hoyas defeated the Huskies, they lost a significant conference match against the Xavier Musketeers (11-10, 1-2 Big East) in a 5-2 decision the day before.

Ernst emphasized the larger significance of conference matches and the higher expectations that accompany them.

“Those are big matches. Though, for some reason, our guys didn’t treat it like a big match. The guys were outcompeted on their home court, and that’s really not good.”

The Hoyas’ sole points came from Murphy and Distaso in the fourth and fifth singles slots, respectively. Khanin fell to Xavier senior Mesa Mei in a 6-0, 6-2 result, while Korber fell in a three set match against senior Jimmy Roebker.

Both the men’s and the women’s teams have quick turnarounds as they prepare to take on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The women’s team (68) faces Georgetown with a 3-4 record in its past seven matches, while the men’s squad (10-8) is currently suffering from a four-match slide after winning seven in a row.

The matches will take place on UMBC’s home courts at 2 p.m. April 9.

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tuesday, april 8, 2014

Baseball

THE HOYA

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More than a game

Defense Dooms GU Taking a Shot at NHL Awards In Xavier Sweep W Nadav Senensieb Hoya Staff Writer

Defensive woes cost the Georgetown baseball team at home this past weekend, as they were swept in a three games series against Xavier to open Big East play. The Hoyas (1216, 0-2) fell 15-6 on Friday against the Musketeers (16-13, 3-0) before losing 8-2 and 11-6 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

After submitting strong performances in his last two starts, sophomore pitcher Matt Smith struggled on Friday, allowing nine runs — six earned ¬— in only five-plus innings of work.

Smith was given a 6-3 lead to work with after the Hoyas scored five runs, highlighted by a three-run double by junior shortstop Ryan Busch in the fourth inning. But Smith blew the lead, allowing two runs in fifth and four more in the sixth before being pulled without recording an out in the frame.

“He was up in the zone,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said. “When you’re throwing the ball up in the zone in this league, you’re going to get hit.

And that’s what happened.”

But of the nine runs Smith allowed, only six were earned. Georgetown struggled defensively against Xavier as sophomore third baseman Eric Webber made three errors behind Smith, and Busch added another.

Overall, the Hoyas committed 10 errors in the three games this weekend, much to the disapproval of Wilk.

“That was the story of the weekend,” Wilk said. “Until we make routine plays, we’re going to continue to get results like we are. We have to keep working.”

Saturday’s game was more of the same for Georgetown, as two errors led to three unearned runs in the 8-2 loss. Freshman pitcher David Ellingson continued to struggle, giving up five runs and throwing three wild pitches. In an otherwise mediocre day for the offense, Busch continued to hit well, picking up two base hits. The junior collected seven hits, scored four runs and knocked in three RBIs on the weekend. “[Busch] had an outstanding weekend,” Wilk said. “He’s really swinging the bat well. He was hurt most of last year, and he’s finally gotten healthy, and it shows in his results.”

Sunday’s loss was the biggest letdown of the weekend, as the defensive once again hampered the Hoyas.

Juniors Will Brown and Matt Hollenbeck and sophomore Tim Davis combined to allow 11 runs, only four of which were earned.

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Junior infielder Ryan Busch hit .500 last week for the Hoyas.

Georgetown found itself in a 5-1 hole after allowing four unearned runs in the sixth, but it battled back to tie the game at 5-5 in the seventh.

Senior first baseman and reigning Big East Player of the Week Steve Anderson and sophomore designated hitter Nick Collins were key to the comeback. Each picked up two hits and an RBI in the game. Wilk has been very happy with his two big hitters this season and is excited to see what they will do the rest of conference play.

“I want them to keep going what they’re doing,” Wilk said. “They have been exceptional. Unlike some people who try to do much, they’ve been excellent.”

The 5-5 score line did not hold for long however, as Xavier scored three runs in the top of the eighth and three more in the ninth. The Hoyas loaded the bases with just one out in the ninth, but they only managed to score one run on an RBI walk by junior pinch hitter A.C. Carter.

But the big story was once again defense. Sticking with the theme of the weekend, all three runs scored in the eighth were unearned because of errors by freshman second baseman Jake Kuzbel and sophomore right fielder Evan Ryan. It doesn’t take a sabermatrician to figure it out: If the Hoyas want to have more success against the rest of the Big East, they need to clean up their fielding.

“We’ve been giving up 90 feet defensively, and it’s been killing us,” Wilk said. “Whether we’re walking kids, hitting kids or making too many errors, it’s the story of the game. If we can control 90 feet defensively, we would have won 2 of those 3 games.

It’s not even close. But we have not defended 90 feet well and that is why we went 0-3.”

Georgetown’s next game is Wednesday against George Mason.

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ith the playoffs starting in just over a week, the NHL season is on its way to a close. While these last few games will highlight teams vying for postseason berth and jockeying for a higher seed, now is the time to turn the focus to regular season player awards before the playoff bracket is set.

A list of the biggest awards in hockey consists of the Art Ross Trophy (most points by a single player), Calder Memorial Trophy (rookie of the year), Maurice Richard Trophy (leading goal scorer), James Norris Memorial Trophy (best defenseman) and Vezina Trophy (best goaltender).

This year, Pittsburgh’s center Sidney Crosby has distanced himself as a leader for the Art Ross Trophy. He has eclipsed 100 points, creating a nearly 20 point buffer between himself and second place, Anaheim’s Ryan Getzlaf. While Crosby is a lock to win, Tyler Seguin’s performance for the Dallas Stars also deserves some recognition. After being traded from Boston this summer, the young superstar has shown the speed and scoring capabilities that made him the second overall draft-pick three years ago.

The Calder Memorial Trophy, meanwhile, is designated for “the player selected as most proficient in his first year of NHL competition.” As with the Art Ross, the choice for the Calder Memorial Trophy is obvious: Colorado’s center Nathan MacKinnon. The rookie has played every single game of the season this far, amassing 60 points and validating the Avalanche for selecting him first overall. Additionally, he has been a major contributing factor in the Avalanche’s rise to becomeingone of the best teams in the Western Conference. Look for him to be a driving force behind their continued success in future seasons.

As for the Maurice Richard Trophy, the Washington Capitals’ very own Alex Ovechkin is once again favored

Matt Castaldo

The end of the regular season means it’s time to hand out season awards. preferences of the voters. Unlike the Art Ross and the Maurice Richard Trophies, the Norris Trophy is not directly correlated with scoring but with defensive play. For that reason, players like Boston’s Zdeno Chara and New York’s Ryan McDonough have seen their names mentioned in the conversation, despite having far fewer points than favorites Duncan Keith of the Blackhawks or Alex Pietrangelo of the Blues.

While Keith is the current favorite for the award, it would not be surprising to see Chara continue his late-season push and win, especially if the Bruins are able to secure the President’s Trophy for the best record in the league behind his leadership.

Advanced statistics have shown that Chara plays a majority of his time against opponent’s toughest competition, and he has enjoyed sustained success even while defending the league’s best. Only Ryan McDonough has shown comparable ability, but a combination of the Rangers’ overall struggles and his youth will likely exclude him from the Norris this year.

Finally, perhaps the biggest beneficiary of Chara’s aforementioned defensive contributions is Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask, who currently leads the field of hopefuls for the Vezina Trophy. Rask has posted an impressive 2.04 goals against average throughout the course of the season with a save percentage of .930. His seven shutouts lead the league, and his lights-out play has been a major factor in Boston’s success.

Another possible recipient is Tampa Bay’s Ben Bishop, whose slightly higher goals against average of 2.23 and slightly lower save percentage of .924 can be largely attributed to six additional games played behind a far inferior defensive. Unlike the Norris, however, the Vezina typically coincides more closely with statistical performance, so Rask continues to be the favorite. Last year, for example, many experts believed that the Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist outplayed Vezina-winner Sergei Bobrovsky, but the Bluejackets’ netminder ultimately won because of a better statistical profile.

It will be interesting to see how the awards race shapes up over the coming games, especially considering this season’s highly contested playoff chases. Some players will surely be glad to win their individual trophies, but competition will rise across the board next week because most players only care about one: Stanley Cup. Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. More than a Game appears every Tuesday.

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Freedman Nets 6 Goals in Victory marquette, from A10 attack Amanda Bochniak in a oneon-one opportunity. The stop kept Georgetown in front by one and keyed the team’s run.

“I think [Fisher] probably had the biggest momentum changer of the game with the one-on-one save with [Bochniak] coming down on a fast break,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

“I think that excited the team, relaxed the team — I’m not sure which — but it was able to give us some momentum at a really big turning point when things were pretty tight.”

The first half of the game was played relatively evenly with neither team gaining an advantage. Just over a minute into the game, senior attack Hannah Franklin scored off a free-position shot to put the Hoyas on the board. Marquette quickly answered as last week’s Big East Offensive Player of the week, sophomore attack Claire Costanza, notched her first of the game. The Blue and Gray dominated ball possession, but the team was unable to gain the lead, and the teams went into the locker room knotted at five.

Halftime proved to be beneficial for the Hoyas as they came out strong.

But once again, Georgetown had trouble converting goals. However, with 22 minutes remaining, Freedman scored on a free-position shot to give the Hoyas the 6-5 lead. The play

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to win, closing in on 50 goals for the fifth time in his prolific career. With four games left and the Capitals in the thick of a playoff push, look for Ovechkin to raise his play and add a few more tallies before the season closes.

The Russian winger has once again excelled on the power play, where we’ve seen him continue to score goals from his signature one-timer position at the top of the left circle.

The James Norris Memorial Trophy could be the most hotly contested award this season and will likely come down to the individual

began when Fisher intercepted a pass in Georgetown’s defensive zone and created the up-field opportunity.

In the last 13 minutes of the game, the floodgates opened for Georgetown and what was once a tight game turned into a rout. The run started when senior attack Meghan Farrell battled through three Marquette defenders to find her way to the goal on a quick turnaround shot. Less than two minutes later, junior midfielder Mollie Caputo tallied her first of the season to make it 8-5.

Next, Freedman scored her fifth and sixth goals of the game within a minute and a half of each other. Her final goal increased the Hoya lead to five.

Although Georgetown had key individual performances, Fried was more impressed with the teamwork.

“I think it’s partly her teammates finding her in the right positions and while she shot 60 percent, so that’s pretty good on the day. I think that has a lot to do with it. Our offense isn’t geared toward one person, but when people have the opportunity, they have to make the most of it,” Fried said. “I thought Kelyn did a really good job today of making the most of the opportunities instead of trying to create things and force things.”

Georgetown’s scoring did not end there. Junior attack Sammy Giordano scored her first of the season on an assist from freshman attack Colleen Lovett. Marquette goalkeeper Sarah

Priem, who played the entire 60 minutes, came far out of the goal circle, allowing Giordano to slip one past her.

Senior attack Jody Cumberpatch added the last goal of the game to give the Hoyas a 12-5 victory over the Golden Eagles. It was Cumberpatch’s fourth goal of the season.

“I think the biggest thing from this game to take away is that when we do play with confidence and we are composed, we’re really good,” Fried said.

“When we’re hectic, when we’re hoping and trying to make something happen, we can be average, and today for 15 minutes of the game, we were really good and that showed on the scoreboard.”

Georgetown once again won the statistical battle including, shots (34-10), ground balls (25-17), draw controls (127) and forced turnovers (20-12). More importantly, however, the Hoyas were able to capitalize on this dominance and grab the win.

With their first Big East victory under their belt, the Hoyas are now looking forward to a crucial twogame road trip this weekend. On Friday, they will take on the University of Connecticut (7-4, 2-0 Big East) and on Sunday, Rutgers (6-6, 0-2 Big East). If Georgetown can turn its first victory in a month into a winning streak, it will go a long way toward finishing in the top four in the conference and qualifying for the Big East tournament.

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Mourning, who suffers from a kidney disease, was forced to retire in 2003 because of health concerns. A successful kidney transplant, however, aided his return later that year. He then made roster appearances on the New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors before returning to the Miami Heat in 2005.

In his second stint with the Heat, Mourning was used as a backup for Shaquille O’Neil and a defensive specialist. In 2006, he and the Heat won the NBA Championship.

On January 22, 2009, Mourning announced his retirement from the NBA. One month later, the Miami Heat announced they would retire his jersey — the first jersey the organization retired.

In his NBA career, Mourning was named Defensive Player of the Year twice and was a seven-time NBA AllStar.

Currently, Mourning is a member of the board of directors at Georgetown and is involved in multiple philanthropic efforts. He and his wife endowed the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Scholarship,

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Former Georgetown center Alonzo Mourning scored 2,001 points and grabbed 1,032 rebounds in his collegiate career. which provides financial support for need-based student-athletes majoring in science or medical research and is active in fundraising

for kidney research.

He and the rest of this year’s Hall of Fame class will be inducted in August.

SPORTS

BASEBALL Georgetown (12-16) at George Mason (17-10) Wednesday, 3 p.m.

Fairfax, Va.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014

HOYAS STUMBLE The softball team lost its first Big East game of the season this weekend at St. John’s.

See A8

MEN’S LACROSSE

TALKING POINTS

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We had some seasonal bests, but it wasn’t quite where we wanted to be.

The number of goals scored by Georgetown’s senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman.

Director of Track & Field Patrick Henner

HALL OF FAME

Mourning Selected to HOF CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior attack Jeff Fountain scored two goals on six shots in the Hoyas’ 10-8 win over the Friars. It was Georgetown’s first Big East win.

2nd-Quarter Scoring Burst Leads to Win ELIZABETH CAVACOS

stout defensive effort as Haley also began to find his momentum. He ended the period with six saves, After several disappointing per- good enough to hold Providence formances in the past month, scoreless during the quarter. the Georgetown men’s lacrosse The half ended with Georgetown team (4-7, 1-3 Big East) ended its leading 6-2 as freshman attack Pefour-game losing streak with its ter Conley, freshman midfielder first conference victory Saturday. Devon Lewis and senior defender The Hoyas were able to hold off a John Urbank also scored goals for fourth-quarter comeback attempt the Hoyas. by the Providence Friars (3-9, 0-3 Haley anchored Georgetown’s Big East) to emerge with a 10-8 vic- defense for the rest of the game. tory.

His efforts in The Hoyas and goal were aided the Friars were by the defense’s tied 2-2 after communication the first quarter. and intuition, Georgetown outa performance shot Providence Head Coach Kev8-5, but senior in Warne was goalkeeper Typleased with. ler Himes kept “I thought KEVIN WARNE Providence in Jake did a very Men’s Lacrosse Head Coach the game with good job today,” four saves, while Georgetown red- Warne said. “Our defense let Jake shirt junior goalkeeper Jake Haley hang out to dry the last couple made none. Two of the Friars’ top weeks. … He made some saves toscorers, senior attack Sean Wright day, and I think he was very acand freshman midfielder Joseph tive in picking up ground balls.

Fitzpatrick, each had a goal. … We had better communication In the second quarter, however, than we’ve had in the past couple Georgetown established the domi- weeks, and you get rewarded that nance it would exert over the next way by seeing easy shots at times.”

30 minutes of the game. Senior Georgetown began the second midfielder Grant Fisher scored half similarly to how it ended the the first goal of the period at 9:16, first. It commanded the entire which the began a four-goal scor- third quarter by expanding its ing streak for the Hoyas. The offense attack was balanced by a See PROVIDENCE, A8

Hoya Staff Writer

Former Georgetown center Alonzo Mourning (COL ’92) is an Olympic Gold Medalist, an NBA Champion and now a Hall of Famer.

On Monday afternoon, it was announced that Mourning was selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He joins nine other players, coaches and teams in the 2014 Hall of Fame Class.

While at Georgetown, Mourning was a three-time All-American and led the Hoyas to four NCAA appearances and three Big East tournament finals.

Mourning quickly made a mark in his freshman season. In only his third game, he broke Georgetown’s single-game block record — a record previously held by Patrick Ewing. The Big East Rookie of the Year would finish his freshman season averaging 13.2 points and 7.3 rebounds a game.

He was even better his sophomore season, as he averaged 16.5 points and 8.5 rebounds a game and was named all-Big East first team. After his first two collegiate seasons, Mourning established himself as an elite player.

An injury, however, sidelined Mourning for nine games in his junior season. But he would return and turned in a 22-point, 13-rebound performance in Georgetown’s losing effort against Seton Hall in the Big East tournament championship.

In his final season, Mourning dominated the opposition. He scored

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Former Georgetown center Alonzo Mourning (COL ’92) was selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday. in double figures in every game he played and averaged a doubledouble. For his efforts, he became the first player to be named Big East Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Tournament MVP in the same season.

Mourning graduated from Georgetown with 2,001 and 1,032 career

point and rebounds, respectively, and in the 1992 NBA draft was selected second overall by the Charlotte Hornets. After three seasons, Mourning was traded to the Miami Heat, where he was a centerpiece of the team averaging nearly 20 points See MOURNING, A9

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

GU Snaps Losing Streak at 6 Games MOLLY MALONE

“Our defense let Jake [Haley] hang out to dry the last couple weeks.”

Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior midfielder and co-captain Kelyn Freedman scored a career-high six goals in Georgetown’s win over Marquette on Saturday.

The No. 19 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team broke its six-game losing streak in impressive fashion with a 12-5 win over Marquette (5-6, 1-1 Big East) on Saturday. Although the game was tied at five apiece at halftime, the Hoyas (4-7, 1-1 Big East) went on a seven-goal run in the second half to lead them to victory.

Georgetown was powered by senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman, who scored a career-high six goals on the afternoon and freshman goalkeeper Maddy Fisher, who stopped three shots en route to the first win of her young career.

Though Fisher did not face many shots, she came up with big saves and interceptions. Her biggest save came with a little less than 19 minutes remaining in the game when she denied Marquette freshmen See MARQUETTE, A9

TENNIS

Men and Women Split Weekend Set of Matches at Home MADELINE AUERBACH Hoya Staff Writer

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Freshman Jack Murphy (left) won his matches at fourth singles against Connecticut and Xavier this weekend.

Junior Sophie Panarese also won both her matches this weekend at fifth singles.

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From the start of the 2014 season, one of the Georgetown women’s tennis team’s (8-9, 2-2 Big East) weaknesses was doubles play, only managing a 23-27 record in doubles matches. Most recently, it had the chance to extend its winning streak to seven matches last weekend against James Madison, but it lost all three doubles matches and ultimately the match 4-3.

Friday afternoon, the Hoyas’ performances told a different story.

Victories on the doubles side lifted the team over the Seton Hall Pirates (10-7, 2-2 Big East) in a 4-3 result. The doubles point was crucial to the conference win, as the Pirates and the Hoyas split the singles matches, each winning three.

Though Georgetown fell in the first, second and third slots, it captured the remainder of the singles competitions courtesy of freshman

Sophia Barnard, junior Sophie Panarese and sophomore Liselot Koenen.

Barnard’s 6-4, 7-5 straight-sets victory at fourth singles represented her seventh win out of the last nine matches. Panarese triumphed over Seton Hall junior Madison Shoemaker 6-3, 6-3. Meanwhile, Koenen edged out freshman Julie Martiny in a tough three-setter concluding in a 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 result.

Koenen’s play continued into her first doubles pairing with freshman Victoire Saperstein, defeating Seton Hall seniors Chloe Sher and Rocio Portela-Berrios, 8-5. Senior co-captains Kelly Comolli and Madeline Jaeger paired up to win at second doubles, securing the match for the Hoyas.

Although the women saved the match on the doubles side against Seton Hall, Georgetown fell to Connecticut (7-11, 0-4 AAC) 4-3 after splitting singles matches yet again See TENNIS, A8