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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014

THE VEIL

Students explore the religious and personal decisions to wear hijab.

GUIDE, B1

EDITORIAL The decision to eliminate Collegiate Readership lacked support and input.

SIGNING OFF Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) reflect on their GUSA term.

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A4

DISAPPOINTING END With an NIT loss, the Hoyas’ basketball season came to a close.

SPORTS, B10

Feeder Schools Deliver Diversity LAURA OWSIANY

top 12 schools that sent students to Georgetown last year, eight were boarding schools. Two were preparatory schools that do not offer boarding, and two were public schools.

The top five schools, Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Mass., St. Ignatius Preparatory in San Francisco, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn., and The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., submitted between 54 and 69 applications apiece. In

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By early next week, thousands of high school seniors across the country will have come home from school to frighteningly small envelopes in their mailbox, containing either an acceptance or a rejection from Georgetown, with little distinguishing the two.

But many students waiting for a decision will instead listen to the results over the phone as their parents read them from home: of the

TOP ENROLLED HIGH SCHOOLS Of the 12 high schools that sent the most students to Georgetown last year, eight were boarding schools and two were non-boarding prep schools.

Choate Rosemary Hall (8)

Hopkins School (7)

St. Ignatius College Prep (7)

Rye High School (6)

Hotchkiss School (9)

LoomisChaffee School (6)

Deerfield Academy (6) Lawrenceville School (12)

Taft School (8)

Winston Churchill High School (6)

St. Paul’s School (8)

Phillips Andover Academy (15)

total, the top 12 high schools accounted for just under 100 students, or approximately 6 percent, of total enrollment in the Class of 2017.

But with these high schools taking steps to increase diversity on their own campuses through scholarships and financial aid, “prep school” doesn’t necessarily mean white, affluent and Northeastern.

In fact, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon cites Georgetown’s top feeder schools as both a source of the kind of diversity Georgetown seeks in each freshman class and as an indicator of Georgetown’s success as a top university.

“I call some of those schools a better barometer of our U.S. News ranking than the actual news ranking because it tells you where the most high-powered students are applying to colleges and enrolling,” Deacon said.

Founded in 1778 in Western Massachusetts, Andover has served as an Ivy League pipeline for much of its existence, and the school sent 15 students to Georgetown last year — the most of any institution.

Yet, with 48 percent of students on financial aid and 41.5 percent of students identifying as students of color, Andover is moving away from its stereotype as a boarding school for the elite.

“Andover is far more diverse as a population than say the 60 applicants from Kansas or the 60 applicants from Delaware,” Deacon

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Nas Talks Rap, Politics in Gaston DANNY FUNT

Hoya Staff Writer

Hip-hop artists seldom shy from bravado, but moderator James Braxton Peterson, a professor of Africana studies at Lehigh University, began Thursday night’s event — featuring sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson and Nas — with deference.

“It’s an amazing opportunity in my career to be here in Gaston Hall at this university and to sit between the greatest black intellectual of our time and the greatest emcee of our time,” Peterson told a capacity crowd.

The former was Dyson, a prolific commentator who made national headlines with the introduction of the course “Sociology of Hip-Hop — Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z” in fall 2011.

The latter was Nasir “Nas” Jones, the legendary hip-hop artist from Queens, N.Y., who has sustained a career over two decades as an icon of his craft.

The three discussed the state of hiphop and Nas’ acclaimed catalog for more than an hour, but the main focus of the night was a defense of Nas, and those like him, to rightfully appear in a venue like Gaston.

Hip-hop in academia has indeed met resistance, as evidenced by a provocative 2011 column in THE HOYA in response to Dyson’s new course — Steven Wu’s (COL ’12) “Jay-Z Not a 21st-Century Homer” (A3, October 31, 2011). When asked why Nas belongs in the college classroom, Dyson argued that Nas ought to be held among the greatest artists and writers in history.

“Just as we study Hemingway,” Dyson began, listing off a series of illustrious literary names, “and just as we study Homer,” he concluded, drawing raucous approval for what may have been a subtle dig at Wu. “We’re sitting in the presence of greatness,” Dyson continued. “Recognize.”

Speaking in his signature low, raspy voice, Nas appeared moved by the occasion.

“When I first started, I thought it would be cool to speak at colleges, but that it would never happen,” Nas said.

Now, he has a hip-hop fellowship in his name at Harvard University and is performing at the Kennedy Center on Saturday to promote the rerelease of his classic debut, now called “Illmatic XX,” on its 20th anniversary.

Nas recorded what many consider his magnum opus, “Illmatic” in 1994, See NAS, A6

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To a packed audience in Gaston, Nas shared his views on education, the prison system, feminism and his own music Thursday.

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Collegiate Readership stands emptied by professors and graduate students by midday factored into GUSA Fin/App’s decision to cut the program.

College Readership Cut Upsets Students KSHITHIJ SHRINATH

“We revisited it probably two or three times, but the general consensus was that we couldn’t spend When Georgetown University Stu- $14,000 on an experiment that we dent Association President Trevor didn’t know that was directly affectTezel (COL ’15) signed the GUSA bud- ing undergraduates,” Cheney said. get for fiscal year 2015 Wednesday, “We want our resources going to the he officially ended the six-year run of right place.” the Collegiate Readership Program, Tezel decided to approve the new after the GUSA senate’s Finance and budget allocations due, in part, to the Appropriations Committee suggested long, complicated process of crafting it be cut because of an impression the budget. that the program was underutilized “There are a lot of difficult decisions by its intended demographic of un- for Fin/App across the board, and dergraduates. they’ve been working on this budget Tezel’s original budget proposal for a while,” Tezel said. “While we discontinued funding agreed with cutfor the initiative, ting the program which had received this year, we unsupport from all derstand that it’s tickets during done in a much the GUSA execularger budgetary tive campaign last picture.” month.

The issue was Collegiate ReadESTEVAN COHN (SFS ’17) passionately deership, which probated at the GUSA vides free copies of The Washington senate meeting. GUSA executive memPost, The New York Times and USA bers hope to capitalize on this passion Today to students on campus, received to evaluate steps going forward. $14,000 in funding last year. The news“We’re getting a working group papers are located throughout cam- together to investigate collaborative pus, including in Sellinger Lounge, solutions for the short-term continuaRed Square and Lauinger Library. The tion for the program, and from there, program was eliminated before, in to look at the long-term effectiveness 2009, but brought back in 2011. of the program, and develop, if need Since signing the budget, GUSA be, possible alternatives going forexecutives have been trying to find a ward,” Tezel said. solution to reformat the program for GUSA’s Intellectual Life Chair Shwethe future. ta Wahal (SFS ’16) emphasized that Fin/App released the final budget the working group, set to meet for that cut the program March 23, citing the first time March 29, would focus the impression that graduate students on making sure any new incarnation and professors were taking advantage of the readership program is more efof the newspapers early in the day, ficient. leaving few for undergraduates. Mere“In my opinion, it’s going to be dith Cheney (COL ’16), a GUSA senator missed. [Our goal is] finding a way to on the committee, admitted that no do it more effectively, whether it is extensive study was done on reader- getting a GOCard swipe, or putting ship habits but focused on the impor- it in more optimal places,” Wahal tance of allocating GUSA’s $998,400 funding where it is most needed.

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Hoya Staff Writer

“Losing access to newspapers is a disservice.”

MAYORAL RACE

In Local Politics, Student Interest Wanes JOHNNY VERHOVEK Hoya Staff Writer

With election day just four days away, the District is fixed on recent polls that place embattled Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) locked in dead heat to win the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor.

But with all the attention the race has garnered among D.C. residents, campaigning and local political talk has fallen largely on deaf ears at the Hilltop.

Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), a former president of the College Democrats, said he thought students have some knowledge of the race, but encouraged them to look more closely at the candidates platforms and how they may affect them going forward.

“I think Georgetown students are somewhat aware of the D.C. mayoral election but not to the extent that they should be. We need to make

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sure that the individual leading our city is prepared to represent student voices, whether it be through a commitment to the creation of a mayoral youth advisory board or the expansion of student tenant rights,” Tezel said.

The face of the D.C. electorate has changed drastically since Gray was elected in to office in 2010. Since that year, more than 80,000 new Democratic voters have registered in the District, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and D.C. Board of Elections. Of those 80,000 newly register voters, nearly two-thirds — 51,700 to be exact — are under the age of 35. Precinct 6, which encompasses Georgetown’s campus and the Burleith-Hillendale neighborhood, has seen 748 new voter registrations since 2010.

According to College Democrats Chair Chandini Jha (COL ’16), the mayoral election and students’ stake therein have the potential to create a demonstrable effect on university policies, through negotiaPublished Tuesdays and Fridays

tions such as the 2010 Campus Plan agreement.

“Georgetown students should definitely care because local policies actually have a huge impact on students’ lives. For example, the campus plan agreement that will eventually mandate 90 percent of students to live on campus was a product of local D.C policies. This profoundly affects student housing and the activities the university will do in order to attract students back on campus,” Jha said.

Incoming GUSA Undersecretary for D.C. Relations Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17) echoed Jha’s concern for the potential role the new mayor could have in shaping future campus plan agreements, the next of which will take shape before 2017.

“I believe that many students are less aware of the upcoming D.C. mayoral race than they should be,” Hinerfeld said, “The changes that are coming into play as a result of See ELECTION, A6

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Students lined up to vote in Nov. 2012 — an unlikely scene April 1.

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THE VERDICT Hold the Phone — New reports from Metro show that thefts, especially of electronic devices, are up.

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A Shot in the Dark — Earth Hour, an event organized by the World Wildlife Fund, encourages everyone around the world to turn off their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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On the Waterfront — A new Southwest Waterfront redevelopment project, one of the biggest in D.C. history, is set to bring new hotels, homes and stores to the area in three years.

EDITORIALS

Last week, the Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee unilaterally killed the Collegiate Readership Program.

Collegiate Readership, funded by GUSA since 2008, distributes free copies of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today to Hilltop newsstands each weekday, costing the student association $14,000 each year. By early afternoon each day, the program’s distribution boxes are usually empty, a testament to its popularity among members of the Georgetown community.

The benefits of such a program are self-evident.

Free newspapers facilitate an informed community of students and professors, increasing investment in local, national and international affairs. Plentiful and free access also decreases the pay wall that limits many students’ access to reputable daily news content. And encouraging students to be informed in goings-on outside the Georgetown bubble is the first step to encouraging students to engage issues off the Hilltop.

During last week’s appropriations process, Fin/ App eliminated the program from GUSA’s budget of nearly $1 million. The cut, which accounts for 1.7 percent of GUSA’s budget, comes in light of an increase in GUSA’s total expenditures and an increase in the student activities fee, indicating skewed priorities among GUSA’s appropriators for this year.

According to Fin/App chair Seamus Guerin (COL ’16), the cut responded to the suspicion that professors and graduate students were taking the bulk of these GUSA-purchased newspapers early

in the day, leaving only a few papers for undergraduates. But this is both an unsubstantiated and reconcilable concern. If this assumption is to be used as the reasoning behind the committee’s decision, Fin/App should provide actual evidence, rather than speculation, that this is the case.

Making funding decisions on such questionable assumptions is a plainly irresponsible form of student governance.

Furthermore, as GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) pointed out in his objection to the cut, Collegiate Readership was eliminated without any public discussion of substitute plans, leaving students to wonder if any alternative measures were considered. Perhaps instead of placing newspapers in Red Square and other areas frequently trafficked by professors and graduate students, GUSA could relocate Collegiate Readership stands to areas that are more exclusively travelled by the students it represents — perhaps Leo’s, the Southwest Quad, LXR or other undergraduate dorms.

Other solutions could include subsidizing online subscriptions to these publications for undergraduates or activating the GOCard swipe strip that already exists on the Red Square distribution box to require proof of undergraduate status.

When a valued campus program isn’t working as well as it should, it’s GUSA’s job to fix it, not to eliminate it without debate. If it can be proven that undergraduates are not taking advantage of Collegiate Readership, that’s one thing. But until then, the students who count on Collegiate Readership for their news deserve a better explanation for its elimination, or a promise to bring it back.

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Back to Business — The Washington Monument will officially reopen May 12 with the conclusion of repairs following the August 2011 earthquake.

That’s Not Fare — The price of a bus ride will increase from $1.60 to $1.75 for customers using SmarTrip cards according to WMATA’s approved 2015 budget.

Spring, Sprang, Sprung — Despite the first day of spring having come and gone, The Washington Post reports that spring is roughly three weeks behind its normal start date, owing to inconsistent weather patterns.

Georgetown Strong — In its State of Georgetown 2014 study, the Georgetown Metropolitan reports that commercial turnover was down this past year in Georgetown, while the year was also good for Georgetown restaurants.

You Know It When You See It — D.C. residents were found to watch more pornography than any other state in the country, according to data from popular porn sites.

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March 24 @GtownSports @thehoyasports think the announcers could play better defense tonight @spoke32

March 24 @marynmck An SFS/International Relations grad, myself. I took a Shakespeare class, but no science.

Spent too much time @thehoya @gonzohk @KarenTeber

March 25 Great piece by @thehoya on GU med school alumnus @markdebuse serving as flight surgeon with @ blueangels @gumedcenter

Brothers and Sisters in Service Despite the status of Alpha Phi Omega — the only Greek organization officially recognized by the university — social fraternities and sororities have grown in popularity on campus in recent years. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Kappa Gamma and, most recently, Kappa Alpha Theta are making a name on campus despite Georgetown’s policy barring sanctioned Greek life.

Given the university’s longstanding prohibition of traditional Greek life, some students have sought the Georgetown experience in part to avoid the culture engendered by those organizations.

Yet with an unprecedented number of fraternities and sororities now open to undergraduates, Greek life at Georgetown is at a crossroads. As the number of brothers and sisters in these organizations increases, current leaders in Greek life have a unique opportunity over the next few semesters to establish a precedent of inclusion and community service, rather than exclusivity and self-service.

Georgetown is not a Greek campus, and unless the university finds reason to reverse its policy

on Greek life, it is likely to stay that way. To best become part of wider campus life, rather than remain a fringe interest, Georgetown’s newest Greek organizations should work to incorporate Georgetown’s values — notably, service — in their missions. APO, a service based coed fraternity, has maintained a strong social presence while also implementing extensive service projects. While the newest social fraternities on campus are not based entirely on service, by making service a larger part of their focus, those fraternities could make a lasting impact on the university beyond the individuals who choose to rush. Incorporating service more in their missions would also go far to ensure that the administration and students of Georgetown would see Greek life in a more favorable light.

If the current trend continues, Greek life will gain a stronger presence at Georgetown in coming years. For the fraternities and sororities on campus that are currently leading the way, it would be wise for service to be on the forefront of their agendas.

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March 26 Some may feel that nothing compares to the sumptuous experience of newsprint against skin.” So glad @atalbot still comments on @thehoya. @aminkV11

March 27 “@thehoya: .@Nas names Andre 3000 as a dream collaboration to a lot of applause.” @Outkast let’s make it happen at @lollapalooza #summer14 @radbcc

March 27 @thehoya @DrJamesPeterson 60% of Americans should not be in college; they should be in trade school;

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

Nas’ Appeal to Academia Yesterday’s conversation between sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson and rapper Nas captured the attention of the student body with a truly dynamic exchange in Gaston Hall. While the thrill of hosting a popular music artist added a new dimension to the traditionally political and academic guests who speak in Gaston, the university’s support of unfamiliar cultural leaders is also a manifestation of Georgetown’s often-touted advocacy of pluralistic worldviews.

In 1994, Nas released “Illmatic,” one of the most prominent debut albums of all time that permanently changed the genre of hip-hop. His record, which addressed the intersection between politics, faith and drug culture, two decades later remains a catalyst for discussing these issues. Going forward, this intersection between culture and academia ought to be an important complement

to Georgetown’s sometimes overly traditional approach to education.

Educational institutions tend to produce a selfserving ideology that sometimes suggests that the only people who are worth listening to and learning from are individuals rooted in academia.

Bucking this tendency is part of what made Nas’ appearance so exciting. Inviting the rapper to speak on the same stage that has been offered to presidents and prime ministers is a laudable recognition. Georgetown has proudly recognized that artistic endeavors are comparable to what is classically considered appealing on Gaston’s stage.

The university should continue to enable proactive engagement with cultural figureheads who can serve as lightning rods for new kinds of learning, academic engagement and empathic understanding.

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OPINION

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CALLING MY SHOT

An Undue Silence About Mental Health

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Danny Funt

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am an alliteration enthusiast, and it took restraint just now not to write “alliteration addict.” To my ear, words pack more of a punch if they form a sequence of similar sounding syllables.

When I was chair of THE HOYA’s editorial board, I remember the alliterative thrill I got writing the headline “Heed the Homeless” (A2, Oct. 19, 2012). With 297 copy-read words nestled under a cute headline at the bottom of the page, I was “pleased,” as we often say in editorials.

In hindsight, I’m embarrassed by “Heed the Homeless.” It represents a failure in journalism: finger-wagging without conviction, courage or a sense of urgency, just hack language and a lethargic call to action. If nothing else, the headline is offensive.

“Heed the Homeless” is the emotionless equivalent of “Regard the Raped” or “Observe the Orphans.”

It was a rhetorical dud. A few statistics cited, a few phrases turned, but “Heed the Homeless” failed to make any emotional connection with readers. “It should weigh on the conscience of everyone on the Hilltop that so many in our city experience such suffering,” read one sentence.

I shudder reading those words — products of an absentminded, formulaic approach that’s shamefully inadequate for the subject matter.

I haven’t learned how to make a wince translate into words.

When I walk by the homeless in Washington, D.C., I wince at the sight of he man in Foggy Bottom who wears a Georgetown sweatshirt, the man on M Street with horren-

Journalism fails when it cannot make an emotional connection with readers. dous deformities and the man on Wisconsin Avenue who sits on a milk crate quietly outside CVS. That pain must translate to print.

THE HOYA’s editorial board is conscious of armchair advocacy, but we occasionally fall into its trap. “Heed the Homeless” offers uninspired encouragement for a handful of philanthropic efforts, and it compromises our credibility as writers to not lift a finger privately in support of the cause. It is as if a half-hearted, easyto-miss editorial would relieve our guilt, like dropping loose change into the beggar’s hat.

Homelessness is mind-bogglingly tragic. It is outrageously unjust, and I can’t fathom how we became numbed to the sight of sick and starving adults and children sleeping on icy streets in beds of trash.

I look back and wonder why there wasn’t a talk with mom and dad or a middle school assembly or a college seminar explaining how to make sense of homelessness.

I remember my friend Heather Flaherty (COL ’14) being late to a gathering earlier this year because she gave all her cash to the homeless downtown and couldn’t afford a bus ticket. It’s concerning when common sense is so out of the ordinary.

I wrote in this column previously about “Overcoming a Bumper Sticker Ethos” (THE HOYA, A3, Feb. 7, 2014), in which I discussed the troubling disconnect that so often occurs between beliefs and behaviors. Apathy toward homelessness is the paradigm rationalization, and I worry that many people, myself included, hide from confronting questions of utilitarian social policies. As a writer, I discuss plenty of topics that confound me.

Some columns are a pulpit to preach, others allow a cry for help.

Since 1912, The New York Times has annually run the front-page banner “Today is Christmas! Remember the Neediest!” in support of the company’s Neediest Cases Fund. In some respect, I admire the urgency of old-fashioned headlines. Talented journalists compel readers with passion and authenticity. The rest of us can at least show signs of life when addressing a crisis.

A slightly better headline might have read, “Heed the Homeless!”

Danny Funt is a senior in the College. He is former editor-in-chief of The Hoya. CALLING MY SHOT appears every other Friday.

e all have doubts. We doubt our choices, our abilities and our goals.

Rational, healthy feelings of doubt can be used constructively to identify and confront any challenge, but there is also the debilitating, paralyzing doubt that can obliterate initiative upon conception, which is the doubt that dominated my life mere months ago that would have made the idea of publishing a piece of my own writing a ridiculous notion. Fortunately, through better understanding of what I was dealing with, the associated treatment and the support of family and friends, I can at least attempt this article.

Prior to my diagnoses of general anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, I had assumed that “rough patches” were merely something to be endured; seeking counseling was surrender, inferior and weaker to “just dealing with things.” This assumption is common, and I found my fear of selfperception far exceeded my fear of peer perception. We are champions of academia and campus involvement to often unhealthy levels. We hold ourselves to high standards and expect ourselves to be capable of spectacular feats.

Confidence is important, but not to the point that it becomes sheer stubbornness.

The situation is improving, but we still face social stigmas surrounding mental health, which mainly arise from a lack of knowledge. However, students of highperforming institutions are also subject to personal expectations and self-ascribed invincibility. I went to Georgetow n’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services only when my depression became so crippling that it directly impaired my ability to function, and that first appointment itself was consumed mostly by professions of self-loathing because of my weakness.

We still face social stigmas surrounding mental health, mainly arising from lack of knowledge and conversation.

Statistics demonstrate not only the prevalence of mental health diseases on college campuses, but also that this prevalence is much higher among college students than among the general population. Most notably, people ages 18 to 24 who attend college are at twice the risk for suicide than those who don’t. When did college become something we must survive? Weren’t we supposed to be the happier, luckier ones? Wasn’t it supposed to be our coming of age, our opportunity to strike out on our own and pursue our passions? Our chance to impact the world?

A friend restricts himself to

classes offering grade security, rather than challenge himself intellectually and risk a lower GPA; a colleague declines study abroad because it could cost leadership positions necessary to his resume; students discuss how many others they must “beat” in a class, reminiscent of “The Hunger Games.”

We all face this reality, and while it’s unlikely we can prompt a re-envisioning of all collegiate society, we can address the symptoms of this culture.

Athletes are injured. They are presented with the choice of recognizing the injury or ignoring it, and while opinions regarding the latter choice vary, ignoring

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it likely prevents an athlete from performing at full capacity; they are not the best they can be for themselves or their teammates.

I benefit from treatment. I can now pursue things in earnest. I can better be the friend I want to be. I can be the best me. I still get sad, I still have doubts, but they are coming into a healthy balance.

I’m no longer living day to day, battling the looming specter of irrational terror. Treatment ranges in effectiveness, but we owe it to our fellow Hoyas, if not to ourselves, to pursue relevant education.

In the recent debate on Georgetown’s free speech policy, we’ve been reminded of the importance of student body dialogue and how it yields knowledge and perspective. We discuss politics, philosophy, class and race, yet for mental health, such a fundamentally applicable topic, the conversation remains quiet.

We don’t discuss the floormate experiencing a “rough patch” and struggling to find more reasons to wake up than stay in bed. We don’t hear about the suicide attempts. We don’t hear about the junior prevented from returning to his home on the Hilltop after a medical leave of absence. We hear girls speak of their insecurities about body image, writing them off as shallow or fishing for compliments rather than addressing the disturbing prevalence of eating disorders. We don’t talk about the way things are, and we don’t talk about the way they should be.

To ignore so salient an issue to our campus culture is to fail both in our duty to each other as sources of support and in utilizing our capacity for dialogue and development of understanding. As social beings we must do better; as Hoyas we can and we will.

BEN SAUNDERS is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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In Taiwan, a Call to Uphold US Values

Ignatius’ and Francis’ Exemplary Journeys

early 35 years ago next the period of martial law, political month, the U.S. Congress suppression and a lack of press freepassed the Taiwan Relations dom, people cherish the island’s Act, an act that has defined U.S. re- hard-fought democracy and are not lationships with the small island ready to surrender it to the authoricountry ever since. On this historic tarian rule of China. anniversary, the United States may Taiwan needs the attention of be tempted to rejoice in the act’s the United States now more than success in providing the diplo- ever. How the United States treats matic flexibility to maintain rela- Taiwan is an important indicator tions with both China and Taiwan. of what other countries in the reHowever, rather than a celebration, gion can expect from Washington troubling events on the island this as China stretches its power. If the past week require the United States United States compromises with to do a little soul searching to re- China in the Taiwan Strait, could it view its interest and commitment also compromise on issues importo the island and the region. tant to other allies in the region?

Since last week, in the biggest stuThe treatment of Taiwan is equaldent-led protest in Taiwan’s history, ly critical to America’s credibility around 10,000 demonstrators have to uphold its core foreign policy surrounded values: democg ove r n m e n t racy, freedom buildings, with and market The enemy of any hundreds oceconomics. cupying the Taiwan’s demdiplomatic partnership parliament in ocratic transiis complacency.

Taipei. Clashes tion validates escalated beU.S. efforts to tween the poencourage delice and protestors who stormed the mocratization. The perseverance of Cabinet offices, resulting in at least Taiwan’s sovereignty is especially 60 arrests and 150 injuries, with important because of its proximphotos of bleeding students forcibly ity to vulnerable democracies: Thairemoved by riot police with tear gas, land, the Philippines and Singapore water cannons and wooden clubs go- are likely keeping an eye on Taiwan. ing viral on social media platforms.

The Western media have already These demonstrators are pushing drawn similarities between situafor further review of the Cross-Strait tions in Taiwan and Ukraine, both Service Trade Agreement, which will small countries facing threats open significant service industries to from a powerful neighbor to reinvestment from China. Although cover its territory. Some worry that the government insists that the deal Taiwan could be the next Crimea is an economic imperative for the and that the United States would island to reinvigorate its sluggish take no meaningful actions beeconomy, protesters claim that the sides imposing hollow sanctions as Kuomintang party sidestepped the it did to Russia. legislative process and deserted its Although an armed conflict seems previous promise of itemized review. unlikely, as the protest in Taiwan coAt first glance, the protest in incides with the 35th anniversary Taiwan is a familiar scene: When of the TRA, it is important to note a country negotiates a free trade that contrary to popular belief, the agreement, concerns of foreign TRA does not mandate the United competition and potential job loss States to come to Taiwan’s assistance spark resistance. However, what under an attack. However, as circumputs CCSTA in a different context stances have evolved in past decades, is Taiwan’s unresolved relationship commitments must also realign to with China, which has long consid- reflect changing political context ered the island a renegade province. and renewed interests.

There is also a larger concern that The enemy of any diplomatic the trade pact is a step too close to partnership is complacency. While China. More fundamentally, some the United States might mourn fear that further economic depen- that the quiet days across the Taidence means more political depen- wan Strait are over, it should use dence, as China does not disguise its this opportunity to review the TRA intention to use economic measures and reaffirm its security and politito promote political unification. cal commitments to Taiwan, as its Public opinion in Taiwan has policy toward Taiwan will indicate grown increasingly against reuni- its willingness to honor its demofication despite closer trade ties. cratic values and other obligations Diplomatic isolation and frustra- around the world. tion over being shunned from participation in international organi- ANNIE CHEN is a junior in the zations, caused by pressures from School of Foreign Service. She China, have partially contributed has interned with the Institute of to this shift in attitude. But most National Policy Research in Taiimportantly, having experienced pei, Taiwan.

number of recent retrospec- The pilgrim is looking for personal tive evaluations of Pope meaning and challenge. As one Francis and his first year as writer so described this divide: A the leader of the Catholic Church tourist goes through a city while have attempted to discern what a pilgrim lets the city go through the influences of his personality him or her. Tourism is a way of enand style of leadership could be. tertainment; pilgrimage is a way of Several observers have suggested enlightenment. that as a Jesuit, Francis inherently Second, the pilgrim opens himreflects that tradition. But how self to a kind of conversion — a Francis specifically reflects the Je- change of values or a deeper apsuit tradition is just one facet of preciation of values already held the Society of Jesus. but now made more Let’s add one deeply one’s own more, the idea of possession. The tourthe pilgrimage. ist is primarily conExamining his cerned with satisfyapostolic exhortaing curiosity about tion, “The Joy of a locale or a culture. the Gospel,” you’ll Finally, pilfind that the term grim and pilgrim“pilgrimage” or its age stand for selfHoward Gray equivalent appears discovery and some 13 times. Let self-direction. That me unpack the is one reason why The pilgrimage has so much of our litsignificance of pilgrimage within the erary tradition cenbecome a symbol Jesuit tradition to ters on the journey for Jesuit life. suggest why it has motif, from classics significance for tolike Homer’s “Odysday’s Georgetown students. sey” or Dante’s “Divine Comedy” In his dictated memoir, Igna- to more contemporary works like tius Loyola, the founder of the Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”

Jesuits, characterized himself, es- The pilgrimage suggests the jourpecially in his early years as “the ney of life, and the pilgrim stands pilgrim” — one whose life had be- for the woman or man searching come a constant search. Ignatius for the meaning of life. The tourist asked fundamental questions: is primarily occupied with what What is God asking of me? And lies outside oneself — the attracwhere should I spend the rest of tion at the end of a journey. The my life? tourist looks; the pilgrim engages.

In his Spiritual Exercises, IgnaHow does the Ignatian symbol of tius opened up that same kind of pilgrimage play out in the culture pilgrimage experience to the wom- of Georgetown? First, the symbol an or man who undertakes that has influenced the enduring legretreat experience. Later, when acy of the university as a place of Ignatius and his earliest compan- searching — for meaning in the inions tried to describe what kind of tellectual work that forms the unireligious order they would be, their versity, for personal direction in a simplest expression was a commu- woman’s or man’s life choices and nity that was on “a kind of journey for sifting through the competing to God”; that is, a pilgrimage. You values of our culture to embrace get the idea. those that most authentically Pilgrimage had morphed into speak to your mind and heart. a symbol for Jesuit life and work, Second, the Ignatian tradition a search to find out how best to takes seriously that the pilgrimage help people find God’s leadership of life is profoundly spiritual and in their lives. This is an important frequently and intensely religious. element in the founding heritage How that spiritual quest settles on of Georgetown University. Why is a name and incorporates a personthe symbol of the pilgrimage so al program of fulfillment is worked important in the Ignatian heritage out in the sanctuary of a man’s or of Georgetown? To answer this, we woman’s own heart. But Georgehave to look at the variety of ways town invites, sustains and encourto explore the meaning of a pil- ages reverence for the mystery that grimage and what it means to be a is part of a genuine pilgrimage. pilgrim.

If this kind of search guides a First, a pilgrim is not a tourist. A pope, it is worth considering jointourist undertakes a journey in or- ing him in making it continue to der to look at a city, a historical site, happen at Georgetown. a beautiful view or to experience a different culture. What is impor- Fr. Howard Gray, S.J., is the tant for the tourist is the destina- assistant to the president at tion, which isn’t so for the pilgrim. Georgetown University. AS THIS The pilgrim undergoes the journey JESUIT SEES IT ... appears every as a process of insight and change. other Friday.

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Q&A: Nate and Adam Take Pulse of Year in Office MALLIKA SEN Hoya Staff Writer

Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) completed their yearlong terms as Georgetown University Student Association president and vice president on March 22. THE HOYA sat down with the pair to examine the events of the past year — including the One Georgetown, One Campus campaign and the introduction of “What’s A Hoya?” — and the general culture of GUSA and Georgetown.

The full conversation can be found at thehoya.com.

Reflecting on your year in office, what has your proudest accomplishment been?

NATE: I knew this one was coming, but it’s still not that easy to answer. I think, generally, coming in and having seen a couple different models for GUSA, we really wanted to make student advocacy effective in a variety of situations, sexual assault. In terms of the campus plan, we wanted to react to that in some way. We tacked on campus social policies, which include space fees and things like that. I would have to respond with two things. I think the response to the campus plan through the satellite campus campaign, One Georgetown, One Campus, I think worked really well. It created a reset for the way students and the university react on the campus plan. It really empowered the students. And then “What’s a Hoya?” on a separate end. Over the course of our term, we really started to see the way student culture can affect the student experience, sometimes even more so than university policy.

ADAM: I think it was the One Georgetown, One Campus. I think the big reason for that is we were able to take a variety of student opinions, student voices, student positions and centralize them into one.

And we’ve seen that, plenty of times, a united student front is what will drive change. And we were really able to give the student body a vehicle to express themselves in a manner the university administration couldn’t ignore.

What was the biggest challenge you faced during the year?

NATE: I think the biggest challenge, as a 20-year-old, entrusted with representing 7,000 students, is developing a leadership style, which is what you’re doing as a young adult.

You’re still learning; you’re still kind of growing as a person while at the same time trying to lead a GUSA team, which is really counting on you for a lot of direction and support to build a positive culture; it can be

a lot. I think at times the pressure of being responsible both to student administrators as a student representative, to your own team as their leader and then to students who elected you, it could be difficult.

ADAM: I think one of the biggest challenges for me personally was balancing the trust and relationships of the students who we were elected by to represent and to act on behalf of, but also the relationships and trust that we built with administrators.

There were many times when we wanted to push something we didn’t think that would be a viable, positive option for the student body and being able to convey that to the administration is a way where we wouldn’t lose sight of our broader relationship, we wouldn’t lose sight of the other projects we were working together on, we wouldn’t strain those relationships to the point where we wouldn’t be able to work together moving forward.

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Could you identify something you regret or a decision that you’d make differently?

ADAM: I’m not sure that I regret this, but I think if we could have done something different it would be to have better foresight in terms of the campus plan and how impending issues would have been. Ultimately I think we handled them. We learned it on a quick learning curve, and we were able to respond to some things, satellite campus once again, relatively well, but I think if we would have just understood the true magnitude and importance of this at the onset of our term, it would have put everything in perspective.

NATE: In terms of decisions, one of the big things that I wish we had handled better was the veto of the SIPS bill. I didn’t think it would be a big deal. I mean it’s the constitutional power of the president to issue vetoes. I called the speaker the night before and told him that I was going to do this and send it back because they made a mistake. He said ‘OK.’ If I thought it would have been such an attraction to student media then we could’ve just ignored it or done something different.

The Hoya conducted a poll that revealed that 60 percent of those surveyed had no opinion of your administration. How do you feel about this result?

NATE: I think “What’s a Hoya?” came out of that problem of engagement because it’s a 7,000-person community, but getting information across, promoting a culture of service, promoting a culture of inclusion and diversity is very difficult

Former GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’15), right, and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’15) reflect on their year in office, which focused on changing student culture and fostering engagement. actually because we all tend to live segmented lives. You have different student groups that are involved in very different things. You have some people who aren’t involved in any student groups. People live very different lifestyles. Some people don’t go to Lau; some people aren’t going to Leo’s, so it’s really hard to expose the entire student body to the values that Georgetown is trying to expose us to. That’s why GUSA’s fundamental thing has always been: How do you get the message out to as many people as you can? How do you involve as many people as you can? It’s a shame if you go through the four years and don’t engage in something.

What do you think the biggest misperceptions of GUSA are on campus? Why do you think that students are prevented from seeing the scope of what GUSA does?

ADAM: GUSA as an institution doesn’t do what it does to get recognition. GUSA as an institution does what it does for the benefit of the student body experience. And so, those conversations — the push for a satellite campus, the development of “What’s A Hoya?,” the recycling bins in all the dorms — if we wanted the recognition maybe we could have, you know, gotten a GUSA sticker and put it in front of each recycling bin.

So every time you ever go and throw something out, you take it out, and that’s what you see. But that wasn’t what we were aiming to do. We’re aiming to promote sustainability.

We’re aiming to promote a more con-

scious campus when it comes to sustainability, so I guess that would be my response.

NATE: The other thing is, GUSA’s almost never working alone. So we’re always, and we should always be, working with university departments, different initiatives that have other student groups. But certainly I guess that makes it less clear about exactly what GUSA is doing. And it shows communication, even with campus media we had a lot of different initiatives in there. Not everyone reads campus media, in fact most people probably don’t. It’s a challenge to get it out there.

What demographic of students is least engaged on campus and which demographic is least represented in GUSA? NATE: It’s hard for us to say which demographic is the least engaged without stereotyping a demographic. We’ve worked with people from almost every background you can think of: all four schools, all majors, all ethnic backgrounds, club backgrounds. I think there’s a lot of stereotypes out there about what types of people engage. In the past two years, both president and vice president of GUSA have been in the SFS. I think that’s tough to pinpoint, especially because if they’re not engaged then the chances of them seeing us are lower.

ADAM: I think if I had to give you an answer I would possibly say the senior class, because at that point it’s really trying to savor and enjoy the

little bit of time you have left. And I’d say off-campus students you just see less. It’s incredible what a difference of going from Burleith to Walsh down 35th Street instead of going through campus through Henle makes.

NATE: In terms of GUSA, I think our administration was diverse in terms of gender [and] background.

I’ll say two things about GUSA: [On] socioeconomic class, in order to do a lot of the service GUSA does for the community, you have to be able to afford to give up a lot of your time, and some students can’t do that. If you have to work extensive part-time jobs to support your education, it’s going to be really tough to dedicate as much time, and that’s a shame.

I think we’ve both certainly felt it at times. I would be going to GUSA meetings all day, and I would have no money to buy a sandwich from Vital Vittles. That’s just how it was.

Another, especially with the senate, is still gender. The senate is getting better in terms of makeup between men and women, but there’s still an underrepresentation of women leadership. I think that’s a problem that I think Georgetown is a whole needs to work at, because it’s not just GUSA that has the problem.

Nate, as Georgetown’s first gay president, did you feel that that identification had any place or responsibility upon you in your term as office?

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New GUSA Staff Named ASB Looks Outward, Madeleine Thornburn Hoya Staff Writer

The release of the new Georgetown University Student Association executive staff appointments, resulting in the consolidation of two positions and the introduction of others, followed the inauguration of GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) on Monday.

The appointment press release distributed by GUSA indicated a minor shift in positions within the GUSA staff, as the once separate positions of Washington, D.C. relations and neighborhood relations have now been consolidated under the supervision of the Secretary of Neighborhood Relations. An Undersecretary of D.C. Relations will report to the Secretary of Neighborhood Relations. Both of these positions will be overseen

by Deputy Chief of Staff Michelle Mohr (COL ’15).

“I think just looking at the roles themselves, just basically talking to the neighborhood relations [people], there are a lot of things coming up in the next year, especially looking at the campus plan. … We’re really looking at tackling those issues starting now actually and working our way through them,” Mohr said.

The position of D.C. relations was established during the former administration of GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14).

“We created our D.C. relations [position] at the beginning of our term because we wanted to better serve students who lived off campus and advocate for students at a more district-wide level. After talking with Trevor and Omika, what they’re doing makes sense,” Tisa said.

As for the effects of this change, Tisa believes the position will take on a larger role this year.

“The Neighborhood Relations Secretary, from what I understand, will have a bigger role to play in the future, which I think is a positive move, so in other words,

they’re working on some of the same issues, just restructuring the way it’s done,” Tisa said.

The staff role of Secretary of Student Space is another new addition.

“The Secretary of Student Space is going to be working on a wide range of issues, including campus living options, some of the new buildings and renovations and speaking to the administration about those, as well as looking at how we better utilize study spaces and outdoor areas on campus,” Tezel said.

The position may be especially important in the coming year, as new on-campus housing and junior oncampus living requirements are discussed and possibly changed.

“We think it’s really important to have students involved in those conversations,” Jikaria said.

Notably, new additions to the cabinet include positions of Secretary of Transfer Affairs and a Secretary of Entrepreneurship.

“The Secretary of Transfer Affairs is going to provide a go-to advocacy body for transfer students to help with the housing process and NSO, assuring that they are friendly and include the voices of transfer students,” Tezel said.

Tezel added that the entrepreneurship position will exhibit the budding culture of entrepreneurship at Georgetown and its need for advocacy.

“As the university culture tries to become more innovative and people try to take on projects such as startups and innovations, it’s important to get GUSA behind these students,” Jikaria said.

While talking to students during the campaign, Tezel and Jikaria recognized the need for the representation of certain communities on campus that had not been previously acknowledged.

“By finding students [in GUSA] that were already extremely passionate about these issues, we have further involved them in GUSA in order to use GUSA as a

vehicle to advocate and get attention through our administration,” Tezel said.

Despite running in the executive GUSA race earlier this year, Sam Greco (SFS ’15), Zach Singer (SFS ’15), Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) and Jimmy Ramirez (COL ’15) will not serve on Tezel and Jikaria’s staff.

Although Singer met with Tezel and Jikaria, a formal role for Singer in the staff was never discussed.

“Trevor and I and Omika met. We talked about it a little bit. At this point, it was, I think, in the best that I wasn’t formally involved in the [staff], just the way things worked out. It wasn’t a shock; it wasn’t a surprise; it was all talked about for a while,” Singer said.

Greco will continue to serve as speaker of the GUSA senate until his term ends at the end of September. “[I will be] working to make sure that all of us are working hard, improving student life and improve the relationship between the senate and the executives,” Greco said.

Lloyd will be working as a leader with “What’s a Hoya?” and will be particularly active as incoming freshmen get to campus in the fall.

“My job will be to organize diversity programming and expanding the scope of ‘What’s a Hoya?’ [and] looking at ways to make the program more accessible to different student groups,” Lloyd said.

“This will be my first time in any formal GUSA capacity.”

Overall, many of the positions remain similar to the former administrations.

“I know, in terms of the positions, that they largely maintained the model we built last year. … I think one of the strengths of GUSA is that every year we expand in some way the services we offer,” Tisa said. “With us, we expanded with the tenant association, the building advocacy with the arts, and, with Trevor and Omika, they’ve expanded into new areas like entrepreneurship, and that’s a very positive step.”

Model UN Wins Award Maddy Moore Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown Model United Nations program won Best Small Delegation at the 23rd annual World Model United Nations Conference in Brussels, Belgium, which took place between March 17 and March 21.

Georgetown’s team sent eight students and one faculty member, Georgetown Discovery Initiative Ambassador Brendan Thompson (SFS ‘12) to the conference, which is hosted annually by Harvard University. Georgetown was one of several schools from North America invited to attend.

Conference selectors considered past student effort and experience in selection of delegations, in addition to evaluation of a candidate’s ability to properly represent Georgetown and participate in the specific committee.

The Georgetown MUN team made their first WorldMUN Conference appearance at last year’s competition, in Melbourne, Australia. International Relations Club Chair Jeff Caso (SFS ’15) explained the group’s excitement to be invited back for

the 2014 Conference.

“WorldMUN is a really rich cultural exchange. We had an amazing experience representing Georgetown and introducing Georgetown to people who had never heard of our school before,” Caso said.

The preparation process for WorldMUN is similar to conferences Georgetown attends in North America.

Club leadership is responsible for leading training initiatives, mock simulations of committee meetings, and providing lectures on different international issues.

Harrison Baker (COL ’15), who serves on the leadership team for Georgetown MUN, found the conference informative and well-organized.

“I loved the locale and they did a very good job with social events. ... They made sure to keep the conference in areas that are easily accessible and safe for schools,” Baker said.

Along with mock UN General Assembly and committee meetings, the conference also hosted several prominent speakers, with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy delivering the keynote.

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Georgetown’s Model UN program won Best Small Delegation at the 23rd annual World Model UN conference in Brussels.

Delegates also had the opportunity to have meetings in official European Union buildings and explore the surrounding area.

The cost of the conference was entirely covered by the team’s fundraising efforts.

Several students, including Caso, reached out to donors within the Georgetown community for both financial and moral support. According to Caso, faculty members offered the strongest support.

“Yes, we all miss a week of school, but professors here are so understanding and that’s because of the Georgetown spirit. People understand that it’s for the better of the university and that’s something I’m really grateful for,” Caso said.

The international conference attracts delegates from all over the world with over 60 countries represented.

Georgetown’s team was assigned Mexico for the week and sat on committees such as the World Bank and the Special Police Committee.

“There were a lot of experienced people and they knew exactly what they were talking about. You are accountable for providing viable solutions and it is impossible not to learn something,” Jack Ludtke (MSB ’17) said.

The weeklong conference concluded with a significant win for the Georgetown delegation. The delegation was awarded Best Small Delegation. Five of the eight Georgetown delegates also received individual awards.

The Best Small Delegation award came as a surprise to everyone.

“It was quite a shock. Seeing as several of our team members won an award, we didn’t think we [our group] would get one,” Baker said.

“I think it’s a tremendous accomplishment to walk away with this award. There were schools from every continent,” team member Sam Brothers (COL ‘14) said. “It sends a huge signal about the strength of this team and the things that this team is capable of doing. ... It was a real honor to lead the team over there and represent.”

Reflects Inward

Molly Simio Hoya Staff Writer

In an effort to increase reflection and service beyond the one week of spring break, the Center for Social Justice’s Alternative Spring Break program expanded pre- and post-trip activities starting this spring.

This endeavor began with an extensive planning process that encouraged thoughtfulness and intentionality.

Stefan Rajiyah (SFS ’14), the head of the ASB Board, said that leaders were encouraged to consider the importance and relevance of each activity they planned.

“Asking ‘Why?’ is one of our core ASB practices, and it ensures leaders are intentional in every aspect of planning their trip by encouraging leaders to ask themselves how each activity planned fits into the mission statements and themes they developed previously,” Rajiyah wrote in an email.

Last summer, trip leaders created mission statements for their trips in order to determine the values around which their trips would focus. As logistical planning began last semester, leaders constructed itineraries that would allow for a holistic introduction to the issues that they would focus on during the trips.

Additionally, ASB’s application expanded this year to include a new, optional section on diversity in which applicants were prompted to explore a part of their identity.

“While we hoped the application would allow applicants to reflect on their own identities, we wanted to make sure leaders felt confident in beginning a dialogue about diversity inclusion while reading applications,” ASB Marketing Chair Kayla Corcoran (COL ’15) wrote in an email.

This year, pre-trip activities were extended to increase participant involvement throughout the year and prepare participants for the issues that they would be working during spring break.

“All of the trips in the program utilized pre-trip activities to not only get their participants excited about the trip, but also to get the conversation started about the issues [and] themes of their trip,” Rajiyah wrote.

Participants in ASB’s Habitat for Humanity trips attended a pre-trip presentation with Habitat for Humanity International and the D.C. Habitat for Humanity affiliate about the organization’s functions and missions. In past years, pre-trip activities for the Habitat for Humanity trips were limited to a potluck dinner for participants.

“I think strengthening the pre- and posttrip activities was important for this dimension of the experience,” ASB Habitat for Humanity Coordinator Whitney Pratt (COL ’14) wrote in an email. “I know that the Habitat presentation allowed our participants to know much more about the organization we were working with and also to ask really important questions.”

For participants in the Spring Break in Appalachia trip, service began before spring break. In addition to attending a presentation given by Appalachian literature professor Patricia O’Connor, participants spent an afternoon volunteering at the Capital Area Food Bank prior to the trip.

“We wanted pre-trip to encourage group

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Students learn about the history of industry in Appalachia as part of their Alternative Spring Break trip to Pulaski, Va. bonding and offer analytical points of comparison to issues in D.C. and those in Appalachia,” Rajiyah, who led the trip, wrote.

Some leaders felt that the extended pretrip activities had a noticeable impact on their group’s experiences during the trips.

“More intentional pre-trip activities helped establish a reflective tone early on, providing a strong base for both leaders and participants to actively engage with their respective social justice issues by asking though-provoking questions,” Corcoran, who led a trip to New Orleans, wrote.

In addition to the new pre-trip activities, the ASB Board will expand post-trip activities in order to encourage participants to continue to focus on social justice.

Within a week after returning, all individual groups engaged in reflections about their trips and their transitions back into life at Georgetown. Participants and leaders from all trips gathered for an ice cream social on Sunday night to share their experiences. Additionally, ASBeyond the Week, a series of post-trip advocacy events that began on March 27, aims to bring together the larger Georgetown community through events like movie screenings, panels, a blood drive and participation in an upcoming march for immigrant reform.

“The ASB program is following a structure for its post-trip events that we hope will give a larger narrative shape to post-trip, which is the story of your trip, the story of ASB and the story of now,” Corcoran wrote.

Ultimately, the goal of these post-trip activities is to encourage participants to stay committed to social justice.

“Post-trip provides an outlet to bring it home … and follows our model of ASB as a springboard of continued engagement with social justice,” Rajiyah wrote.

Baseball Goes Bald to Support Cancer Research Sydney Winkler Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown baseball team will hold its first St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser April 5 to raise money for cancer research.

The team has pledged to shave their heads after the second of a three-game series matchup with Xavier, a home game against the first Big East opponents of the season at Shirley Povich Field.

Three local children who have been affected by cancer will join the Georgetown baseball team on the field. They will throw out the ceremonial first pitches of the game.

The team is currently anticipating 50 participants who will get their heads shaved, and more are expected as the event nears.

“The idea first came to me to bring this to Georgetown as I participated in a past St. Baldrick’s event with my summer collegiate team,” captain Steve Anderson (COL ’14), a senior first basemen, said. “I saw the tremendous impact that night had, as we raised over $15,000.”

With more children lost to cancer than any other disease in the United States, St. Baldrick’s commits 82 percent of raised funds to cure research and preventative care for patients. The foundation raises money for childhood cancer research primarily through head-shaving donation events.

“At our St. Baldrick’s signature head-shaving events, we have people that will register and volunteer to shave their heads,” St. Baldrick’s Media and Public Relations Specialist Traci Shirk told The Hoya. “Part of that is to stand in solidarity with children who lost their hair during treatment, and the other part is to raise funds for childhood cancer research.”

Volunteers sponsored by family, friends and employers shave their heads in solidarity with children who typically lose their hair during cancer treatment.

“There’s usually a lot of people out there, cheering them [participants] on,” Shirk said.

“There’s also a lot of emotions, because a lot of times, when people shave and they have a personal connection to someone with cancer, when they get in that chair and they start to feel the clippers on their head and

getting their head shaved, it becomes an emotional moment for them as well.”

“In the fall, when Steve [Anderson] mentioned the idea of holding a head-shaving event, there was tremendous support from the entire team,” Evan Ryan (COL ’16), an outfielder, wrote in an email. “Cancer affects everybody, whether personally, through a family member,or through a friend.”

At the time of publication, the baseball team had surpassed its goal of $31,000 and hopes to break the record among athletic teams that have ever participated in the event. Accordingly, Anderson has set a new goal for the team of $40,000.

Events have taken place in all 50 states and 28 countries. Since 2000, St. Baldrick’s Foundation volunteers have organized nearly 4,200 head-shaving events and shaved over 190,500 heads, raising over $118 million for life-saving childhood cancer research.

“This year, we are almost at $23 million raised for the year,” Shirk said. “Last year we raised over $34 million, so we are definitely on track to surpass that this year.”

According to the St. Baldrick’s website, only 4 percent of federal funding for cancer research goes to childhood cancer. Therefore, the money raised will have a significant effect in the effort to find a cure and treatment for children.

The cause is also very personal for Anderson, who lost his mother to multiple myeloma cancer at the age of eight.

“I have seen firsthand the devastating effects that cancer has on not only the individual who is battling it, but also on their family as a whole,” Anderson said. “I saw the strength my mother displayed in the face of her condition and have tried to use that in my own life.”

The Georgetown University Grilling Societyy (GUGS) has also agreed to come out to the game and provide free burgers for all those in attendance. The burgers and drinks at the event will be funded by Students of Georgetown, Inc., through their philanthropy fund.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is also organizing a St. Baldrick’s fundraiser March 28 in Sellinger Lounge from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Students Shy From DC Politics ELECTION, from A1 the 2010 Campus Plan are having farreaching effects on student life, such as the construction of new residence halls and the introduction of proposals that would significantly change housing requirements.”

College Republicans Vice Chair Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) concurred that several aspects of the mayoral race, including crime rates and the state of the local economy, should be relevant to Georgetown’s population.

“I think that students will definitely be, or should be, looking at the candidate whose platform will include things that are going to better the Georgetown community. That includes safety, that includes crime rates, that includes a lot of the neighborhood issues that I think are extremely relevant to on-campus life. I feel like students should take a stake in this — Democratic, Republican — it matters,” McNaughton said.

Part of the problem of engaging students in D.C. politics is that few students are registered to vote in the District.

“It is hard to be a convincing voting bloc since most students are not registered to vote in D.C.,” Hinerfeld said “If mayoral candidates believed that they stood to gain something by engaging with university students, I believe they would be more likely to visit campus and target students in their campaign efforts.”

Hannah Howell (COL ’17) agreed.

“Because we’re a private school, I don’t feel like we’ll be directly affected.

I don’t feel like I have the right to comment on D.C. because I’m not a true …

I haven’t lived here, and I really don’t like go into D.C. all that much,” Howell said.

For Jha, this reflects students’ closer ties with their communities back home than with their temporary residence in D.C. “If at all concerned with local politics, people still feel really tied to their home state and what’s going on there.

I do think GU students are passionate

about national issues, but often the less glamorous, more technocratic local issues get overlooked,” Jha said.

As part of the Center for Social Justice’s Education Week on Tuesday, the CSJ hosted a panel discussion on the role of education in the upcoming elections. Moderated by Maurice Jackson, an associate professor and chair of the D.C. African-American Affairs Commission, the panel featured Washington Post journalists Mark Plotkin and Mike DeBonis as well as professor Douglas Reed.

“The primary is big, and for the most part, I don’t think that candidates have taken hard stances on education,” D.C. Reads coordinator Allison Link (SFS ’14) said. “A lot of the big issues are redistricting and what to do about the middle schools, which are seen as less successful in the D.C. Public School system, and then also the issue about the growing charter movement in D.C. and how the public schools and the charter schools can best balance that relationship.”

Link said she and fellow D.C. Reads coordinators have a significant stake in election results as it affects the public schools in which they tutor.

“Because we work in the DCPS district, we’re interested in how candidates are going to proceed with a lot of the reforms going on in D.C. Public Schools,” Link said Bowser’s campaign manager Bo Shuff highlighted the trend of area university graduates remaining in the District after graduation as one of the key reasons students should be more engaged in the upcoming election.

“What we’ve seen the last 10 years is more and more young people moving into the city regardless of where they went to school, as well as more students who went to school here staying here. To those students and graduates, who’s calling the shots matters when it comes to many issues in the District,” Shuff said However, for students unaffiliated with campus organizations that regularly engage in local politics, the impending election has made little noise.

Anne Scattergood (COL ’17) questioned whether or not it is the university’s responsibility to inform students of local politics.

“I mean I feel guilty for not keeping up with it because I mean all of us at some point in time are going to be affected by any of the policies,” Scattergood said. “I don’t know whether or not it’s like the responsibility of the university to provide that information or whether it should be like students going out and seeking that information.”

This is not the case for Sarah Lloyd (NHS ’14), who attributed her own disinterest in the election to leaving the District in a few months.

“I guess I’m too busy, but kind of don’t care also because I’m going to move away; I’m a senior so like I’m peacing out,” Lloyd said.

Mayoral candidate and Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) said he wants to propose a program that would help students with student loan debt in exchange for working in the D.C. government as a way to incentivize young people’s involvement in local politics.

“One of the things that I would support would be a loan forgiveness program to get university graduates to work in D.C. government because the loans that our students have are astronomical. If we had a loan forgiveness program that could attract our local graduates — that’s something that could be a major help,” Wells said.

The D.C. Democratic primary will take place April 1 and includes candidates Gray, Bowser, Councilmembers Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5 ), Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), restaurateur Andy Shallal and former State Department official Reta Jo Lewis. The closest polling location to Georgetown University is the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at 3500 R Street NW, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Students, and others, who are not registered to vote can register that day by demonstrating proof of residency and showing governmentissued identification.

Boarding Schools Bolster Diversity SCHOOLS, from A1 said. “Now that’s different today than it might have been 30 years ago when it was a much more homogenous population.”

Andover Director of College Counseling Sean Logan cited increasing diversity as a priority of the boarding school.

“I think it’s an issue that all schools are trying to deal with, how we recruit … high-achieving middle- and lowincome kids when the national numbers just aren’t there. Andover does a pretty good job of that, especially in terms of the boarding school world,” Logan said.

Andover alumnus Kevin Ma (MSB ’17) said that while Georgetown and Andover have similar attitudes toward diversity, in his experience, Andover achieved a more diverse population than Georgetown.

“They have the motto [at Andover] ‘Youth From Every Corner’ and just the idea of getting people from all different cultures and nations and different parts of the States. I don’t think it’s as emphasized here at Georgetown,” Ma said.

Stefanie Palencia (COL ’15), an alumna of Lawrenceville who transferred to Georgetown from Mount Holyoke College, cited racial underrepresentation as a problem that both Georgetown and Lawrenceville have made it a priority to address.

“I think that just in terms of demographic they are very similar and there are the same problems just in terms of any social issues that might arise in any community, especially when you’re trying to reach out and spread higher education,” Palencia said.

Nandini Mullaji (SFS ’17), who attended Phillips Exeter Academy, has found in Georgetown a student body similar in composition to that of her

prep school.

“I think [Georgetown] is much less diverse than Exeter, which I think might come as a shock to a lot of people,” Mullaji said. “Apart from that, you can definitely see a lot of the culture, whether it’s the way people dress, or just the way people behave, and I don’t know if it’s much of a boarding school thing, or if it’s just a New England atmosphere, but it’s definitely very similar.”

Compounding this racial diversity is a similar imperative to increase the socioeconomic diversity of the university.

According to Palencia, while socioeconomic diversity existed at Lawrenceville, scholarship students were not always seamlessly integrated with the rest of the student population.

“There was diversity. Sad to say, most of the time, I feel like people were able to identify the kids who were on financial scholarship,” Palencia.

Deacon described a similar “squeeze” on middle-income families at Georgetown, who cannot afford Georgetown’s sizeable $65,080-a-year tuition, but are ineligible to receive full financial aid.

“That’s a group of students that we’re admitting right now who are much more susceptible to the other [college] offers, the merit scholarships, let’s say, and other things, because it is a financial stress for families to pay the high cost,” Deacon said.

Outside of the sphere of prep schools, Georgetown’s top public feeder schools still tend to be located in some of the wealthiest counties in America.

Amy Liu (SFS ’15) attended Winston Churchill High School, a public school in Montgomery, Md., that regularly sends applicants to Georgetown and where the median household income, at $96,985, is almost three times the

national median.

Liu described socioeconomic attitudes at Churchill as similar to Georgetown, but noted a difference in academic environment.

“With Georgetown it’s a more concentrated version of a specific cluster within Churchill that did very well in high school and was very ambitions,” Liu said.

The admissions office has taken other measures to up its diversity through a joint travel series with Harvard University, Stanford University, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania. According to Deacon, using demographics derived from the Student Search function of the PSAT, the admissions office can expand its outreach to applicants from new high schools.

“We tend to do two things,” Deacon said. “One is we’re going to concentrate on making sure we keep in good touch with the students that traditionally send us the largest number of applicants. … We also know from Student Search where the highest concentration of minority backgrounds are located, and that might be an urban public school, and we try to include that school in our travels as well.”

The university also maintains a relationship with the 47 Jesuit-affiliated schools across the country and has taken special interest in building a strong pool of applicants from the new Cristo Rey schools, a network of Catholic preparatory schools that target underrepresented, urban youth.

According to Palencia, questions of diversity among students in both prep school and higher education remain on the table.

“I think it’s more common to participate in such discussions about [diversity], but I wouldn’t say it’s a conversation that people are comfortable with yet,” Palencia said.

Outgoing GUSA Exec Looks Back GUSA, from A4 tensions in the LGBTQ community at Georgetown and I think nationally, even among the LGBTQ community.

Something that we didn’t really talk about throughout the year was the contacts that I was getting from random people throughout the country.

We got a lot of mail, some of it was positive, some of it was very negative.

A lot of people are praying for my soul in churches in South Florida. I did feel pressure from some people in the community to go out and champion all their initiatives, and then some people wanted me to champion none of them because they wanted me to prove that it didn’t matter I was gay. There was a huge tension.

Neither side really saw the other as legitimate, so I was at the nexus of that, and that’s a broader problem the LGBT community faces here and nationally, that division. When I first came in I felt very strongly, “I might be the first, but I can’t be the last.” I

promoted the LGBT mentorship program, which is a pilot.

To be honest, I think one of the things that has mattered to me more at my time at Georgetown than my LGBT identity is my socioeconomic identity, and that didn’t get as much attention as I think it should, because if you look at the overall body of GUSA president and vice presidents over the past few decades, it’s overwhelmingly privileged in terms of money, and I don’t think Adam and I would identify as privileged in terms of money, but that didn’t get much attention because that issue is not that trendy national issue.

What are your personal plans for the future?

Nate: I’m going to be working in D.C., in federal consulting for the next few years. Law school is on the horizon. This job has definitely shaped the way about the way I think about my future.

Adam: Nothing set in stone for me, grad school within the next couple of years for sure. I’d like to stay here in D.C., but there’s nothing locked down yet. I’m looking at Georgetown’s Masters in Public Policy.

Looking back, would you do this year in GUSA again?

Adam: They all said to me in last year’s transition meeting, “This is the best job you’ll never want to do again.” I’m extremely happy I did. I think I’ve gotten so much out of it, and it’s kind of shaped me. I don’t know. I’d like to say I would, but who knows.

Nate: Not next year, but in a heartbeat. I mean I’ve loved doing this stuff for a long time. It’s going to be hard to let go. We’ve really made a difference, and as a 17 to 21 year old, those opportunities are amazing and unparalleled.

This interview has been condensed for space and edited for clarity.

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Rapper Nas, left, discusses the legitimacy of hip-hop in academia with professor James Braxton Peterson on Thursday in Gaston Hall.

Rapper Sounds Off on Academia NAS, from A1 as a teenager. Now 40, he has maintained a reputation as what Dyson calls “a rhetorical genius,” up through his most recent release in 2011, “Life Is Good,” which received universal acclaim. Nas has released 11 albums and sold more than 25 million records, all while maintaining an artistic integrity that many during the question-and-answer period praised with nostalgia. Such regret for the downward evolution of rap led Nas to illustrate the phenomenon on his 2006 album title — “Hip Hop Is Dead.”

Dyson has written extensively on the significance of hip-hop to artistry and culture, and in 2011, he co-edited the book “Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic,” which offers academic perspectives on what is considered to be among the greatest rap albums in history. Nas told Dyson on stage that he never finished reading the book because it was overwhelming to read such complex analysis of his own life.

Hundreds lined up for the event, many of whom were turned away despite arriving hours in advance.

For half an hour before the event, those in Gaston were treated to a set of Nas classics performed by the renowned DJ-turned-Harvard-educator 9th Wonder. There was a mix of young and old in attendance;

the first question of the night came from a seventh grader, while another came from a man who said he raised his children on Nas. Kat Kelley (NHS ’14), a prominent women’s rights advocate on campus, asked Nas about his recent tweet likening feminism to the mafia. He explained that in hiphop, “the mafia” is a metaphor for a venerable squad, with icons such as 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. using phrases like “the mob” routinely. Their exchange highlighted the ongoing tendency of hip-hop vernacular to be lost in translation with some audiences.

Nas and Jay-Z engaged in one of hip-hop’s most notorious feuds in the early 2000s over the right to the title of “King of New York.” In Jay-Z’s diss record “Takeover,” he famously challenges Nas’ thoughtful and introspective lyricism with the line, “Your s*** is garbage / What you tryna kick, knowledge?”

When Patterson announced the conclusion of questions, dozens of audience members pleaded to be heard.

“It’s so crazy to hear you say I have knowledge or wisdom. I know some people who would beg to differ,” Nas replied in response to one of the final questions.

When Nas concluded his response, Dyson noted what every in the crowd was probably thinking: “Man, that was some wisdom.”

Popular Readership Program Slashed READERSHIP, from A1 said. “Maybe part of this revamped campaign is advertising those newspapers that already exist and finding a way to subsidize that cost.”

As the group goes forward, Wahal hopes to keep the value of Collegiate Readership in focus and reassure students that every effort will be made to salvage some aspects of the cut program.

“There’s something comforting about knowing those resources are out there and that the student government is committed to help provide those resources,” Wahal said.

The readership program’s price tag was non-negotiable at $14,000.

While the GUSA senate did deliberate on the issue, they did not construct a method to make the program more effective in the two weeks between the release of the draft.

“I think the problem was, between the budget proposal and the deliberation, there really wasn t enough time to look into ways to make that $14,000 more efficient,” Wahal said.

Fin/App subsequently took the opportunity to allocate the money to other initiatives. “[Center for Social Justice Advisory Board for Student Organizations] is receiving an increase of $12,000. … More money is also going to our own campus media, which I think is a priority over these other print news sources.

[Student Activity Commission] is also getting new money,” Fin/ App Chair Seamus Guerin (COL ’16) said. “These are the kinds of groups that we chose to prioritize over this [readership] initiative.”

Some students felt less positive about the changed allocation of money. Jacob Bennett (COL ’17) created a Facebook group, Hoyas for Readership, to increase awareness about the cuts to the program. As of publication, the group only has 13 members. “$14,000 sounds like a lot of money to students, and it is a lot of money for an individual, but to an institution like George-

town, $14,000 is not a substantial amount for newspapers,” Bennett said.

Guerin characterized this as a misunderstanding of how the allocations operate; the budget is based on the $156 student activities fee each student pays as part of tuition. “[The budget total is] per multiple student-wide referenda, going back to, most recently, 2010, when the student activities fee was most recently restructured,” Guerin said. “So when you multiply $156 by 6,400 [the number of students who are full-time and not studying abroad for a year], you get the very mathematically sound number of $998,400 (the total GUSA budget); it’s not an arbitrary number in any sense.”

T. Chase Meacham (COL ’14) understood the reasoning behind the change, though he was sad to see the program lapse.

“I have worked with GUSA’s Fin/ App Committee as a member of the Performing Arts Advisory Committee. Their job is very tough, and inevitably, some things have to go,” Meacham said. “I’m upset at the loss of the readership program, but grateful that it wasn’t me who had to make that choice.”

Students indicated that the loss of the free newspapers would be felt.

“Losing access to newspapers is a disservice because we as students don’t have the resources for our won subscriptions and have a shortage of credible news sources,” Estevan Cohn (SFS ’17), a regular newspaper reader, said.

Jack Murphy (COL ’17) concurred, citing the breadth of knowledge newspapers provide.

“I think we should have them, I think they’re important. I think more kids will read the news if we have newspapers there, I think it helps,” Murphy said. “I think there’s a good amount of students that read the newspaper and would like to have it, and if it’s not there, I think they know they ‘re missing out on some news that they’re not going to just find online.”

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Paul Roepe, a Georgetown professor of chemistry, has been awarded a $4.75 million five-year grant to conduct cutting-edge malaria research.

GUMC, NIH Abuzz With Potential Malaria Cure Ogechi Nwodim

Programs Officer for Pre-Clinical Parasite Drug Development John Rogers stressed the process’ high level of selectivity.

The National Institutes of Health awarded “What I can say is, it’s very competitive,” RogPaul Roepe, a professor of chemistry at George- ers said. town, a $4.75 million five-year grant to conduct This is not the first time that Roepe has reresearch in combination therapy to combat searched drug-resistant malaria at the university. drug-resistant strains of malaria on March 6.

In November, in collaboration with researchers Principle investigator for the grant and co- at the University of Notre Dame and the Univerfounder of the Georgetown University Medi- sity of Kentucky, respectively, Roepe published cal Center’s Center for Infectious Disease, an article in the science journal PLOS ONE that Roepe will work with fellow researcher Craig revealed the results of a study linking autophagy Thomas of the National Center for Advancing to drug resistance in parasites.

Translational Services, a division of the NIH “By coupling the outcomes of these screens that stresses the use of lab and clinical observa- with experts in the disease like Professor Roepe, tion to enhance the development of effective we can investigate novel drugs and drug combimedicine. nations in more detail. The NCATS team is dePromoting collaboration between George- lighted to take part in this multi-institutional town, the NIH and NCATS, the project will work effort working with renowned malaria experts out of Georgetown, two labs at Johns Hopkins like Professor Roepe.” Thomas said.

University and two labs of the NIH. Roepe praised Georgetown’s science program Although cures for as a continually positive malaria exist, resistance resource for him in his to antimalarial drugs has scientific research. posed a threat to antima“One of the reasons larial treatments since that I moved to Georgethe 1970s. Roepe’s project town from Cornell was uses a more focused form to be able to begin inof combination therapy depth malarial research to discover the optimum with both the biology drug combination that and the chemistry lab.

Craig thomas can be used to overcome The laboratory here is Researcher, National Institute of Health the problem of multiunusual because I have a drug resistance. co-appointment between the Biomedical Center “Prior to this project, the drugs chosen for [in the GUMC] and chemistry lab on the main combination therapy for malaria had been cho- campus,” Roepe said. sen ad hoc and arbitrarily,” Roepe said.

Roepe attributed some of his success at GeorgeRoepe’s team aims to find the ideal combina- town to the collaborative nature of Georgetown’s tions from thousands of malarial drugs to not biology and chemistry labs. only treat malaria’s most lethal strain, plasmo“It is an uncommon phenomenon for a bioldium falciparum, but also to treat the other ogy and chemistry lab to be working in tangent four strains of malaria. According to Craig, the with one another. I believe that the success that advanced technology offered by NCATS, includ- we are having with these projects is due to the ing the robotically enabled platform that allows fact that Georgetown allows the sciences to be infor the analysis of over 3,000 combinations of tegrative, cross-campus, and interdisciplinary,” drugs, will allow the research to be conducted in he said. a more time-efficient manner.

The interdisciplinary nature of the biology “The NCATS drug screening platform allows and chemistry labs has been markedly crucial to for the rapid testing of drug combinations,” Roepe’s work in malaria.

Craig said. “This effort would have taken several “Malaria is a vast issue caused by many differdecades if done using traditional technologies.” ent factors. The only way to solve the problem Potential NIH grantees are required to write is through an interdisciplinary approach. If up a proposal before entering into a rigorous one was able to use only one discipline, such as 10-month review period of the applications chemistry, then the problem of malaria would by several different committees. Although un- have been solved prior to this present moment,” able to reveal precise selectivity numbers, NIH Roepe said.

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“We can investigate novel drugs and drug combinations in more detail.”

With Monday’s announcement of its Myriad Voices, a cross-cultural festival spanning more than two years, the Laboratory of Global Performance and Politics continues its goal of bringing together performance and theater with international affairs.

The dual vision of Cynthia Schneider, professor of diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service, and Derek Goldman, professor of theater and performance studies and artistic director of the Davis Performing Arts Center, saw the founding of the Lab, as it is commonly known, almost a year ago.

Schneider outlined a three-pronged approach to achieving the Lab’s goals of examining the intersection of theater and politics. The approach began by holding policy conversations about performances from abroad.

“We also are creating new work with our students here and having them engage with students and other people of their age in other parts of the world,” Schneider said.

The second step of the approach includes student work on the subjects presented, culminating with courses taught jointly by the two professors, attended by both students from the School of Foreign Service and the department of theater and performance studies.

The Lab’s inception stemmed from Schneider and Goldman’s commonalities.

Both felt a need for the Lab when they hosted a conference in the summer of 2012 with the use of a Reflective Engagement in the Public Interest grant, bringing together people interested in the topics of theater and international affairs.

“We saw from that gathering that there was a tremendous interest and need,” Schneider said. “There are

many, many other people interested in this intersection, and they had nowhere else to go. I do believe our program is unique, and so we attract a lot of interest from outside.”

The specific focus of the Lab positions it as a leader and resource in the field.

“It was out of these conversations that this vision for this partnership between theater and performance studies and the School of Foreign Service came, being a resource center for the field, being a convening space for our students in the curriculum and in programming, and really trying to bring the arts and policy world together in deeper dialogue,” Goldman said.

Goldman pointed to the energy at Georgetown with its commitment to politics, social justice and cura personalis as the perfect breeding ground for the initiative.

Over the past year, the Lab hosted theater groups from abroad for performances aiming to explore politics more deeply. Schneider highlighted the Freedom Theatre, a group from a refugee camp in Palestine who adapted the play “The Island,” a South African piece about apartheid, as a perfect example of the benefits of the Lab. The group performed at Georgetown in September.

“If it was just presented as a lecture, maybe nobody would have believed him. But instead what they saw was the story of two people in prison — and saw what that was like, their hopes, their fears, their dreams,” she said. “You learn through someone’s stories. …

The most effective way — and this is just a neurological fact — to impact someone is through a story. So presenting this material in the context of play was such a powerful way to do it.”

Students who attended the event were awed by its intensely personal nature.

“Seeing ‘The Island’ taken out of its South African context and dropped into the

Israeli-Palestinian situation was pretty powerful and pretty provocative, and that it was happening in the U.S. capital raised the intensity of the conversation taking place,” Ben Card (COL ’17) said. “Being in the same space as a performance humanizes politics in a way that rarely happens.”

In addition to the performances themselves, Schneider referenced policy discussions after the theatrical display as critical to the Lab, pointing to an example of Madeleine Albright speaking on her experience with Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, after “Anticodes,” a performance based on Havel’s poetry, in December.

Both professors noted that the end goal of the Lab is to use the performances to humanize and expand traditional understandings of politics, which often just focus on issues.

“Theater, because of its narrative dimensions, because of its live, interpersonal dimensions, has a real and human contact. It’s much harder in that context to dismiss the human dimensions of stories,” Goldman said.

Schneider combatted any skepticism of the medium of theater by highlighting the performance’s allowance for greater integration.

“I recognize that we’re at the School of Foreign Service. We’re not at the London School of Drama,” Schneider added. “I want the information that the people get through the performances then to be integrated into the knowledge they have already and will gain going forward about the particular subject.”

With positive feedback received from both Georgetown and the broader community thus far, the Laboratory will progress with Myriad Voices, a project involving a number of events aimed to increase understanding of majorityMuslim populations around the world.

Second Round for Showcase Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

After mounting its first showcase last year, Georgetown Club Boxing is channeling its past success to truly establish itself as one of the more unique club sports on campus by holding the second Annual Blue & Grey Gloves boxing showcase on March 29 at Yates Field House.

Two years ago when the event was in its infancy, the boxing team originally encountered an administrative issue prior to its first showcase.

“Georgetown wouldn’t give permission because of liabilities. So I worked all on it my freshman year and then sophomore year — last year — we made it happen,” Georgetown Club Boxing President Adan Gonzalez (COL ’15) said.

With no major injuries last year, the administration was less wary when giving permission for this year.

“It’s been a lot easier, especially because last year there were no big issues that occurred. So I think it’s just building off of last year’s success and the administration seeing that it’s not a liability … that they’ve allowed us to do it again and hopefully continue to do it,” Club Boxing Vice President Vania Silva (COL ’16) said.

The experience the club gained from last year’s event made preparation for this year occur without any major setback.

“It’s a lot stronger, so much more organized. We didn’t have trouble getting permission from the school. We had coaches from other schools asking us to come and participate,” Gonzalez said.

Last year’s event, which attracted around 300 people, additionally gave the team a better idea of the expectations, which helped with preparation.

“It was our first showcase last year. Throughout the year we weren’t exactly sure if it was actually going to happen, how it was going to turn out. Now that we have last year to look back on, we have some sort of expectation of what it’s going to look like, which actually just adds to the excitement and a little bit of the anxiety,” team member

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Jeff Wong (MSB ’16) won his fight at 142 pounds at last year’s boxing showcase, club boxing’s first annual event.

The second iteration is this Saturday at Yates.

Jeff Wong (MSB ’16) said.

Through the event, the team hopes to build recognition for the club, as many students are still unaware of its existence.

“I feel that this is kind of one of the few times where people on campus really get to hear that there is a Georgetown boxing team, because that’s something, especially last year, I would tell people, ‘Oh yeah I’m on the club boxing team’ and they were like, ‘What, we have a boxing team?’” Silva said.

Although last year’s event made a small, yet noticeable, impact on the club’s recognition, the team hopes to use the annual nature of the event to further cement the group’s place on campus.

“I think last year’s showcase brought some awareness, but I still feel that there [are] a lot of people that don’t really realize that there is a boxing team,” Silva said. “So I think that though last year was a good start and something good to build off of, we still need to keep up promotion and continue on, on this yearly showcase, kind of, so that in ... a couple years from now, there is no doubt that we have a boxing club.”

For the fighters, the event also serves as an exciting

opportunity to showcase their skills they worked on throughout the year.

“It means a lot for our team. It’s this idea that all those miles on the bike, miles outside to the monuments, running in the snow, running in the rain, those long rounds jumping rope, shadow boxing, taking blows to the face, to the gut, all to make Georgetown understand not just that we are here, but that we are making you proud,” Gonzalez said.

“You work all year perfecting your skills and then all of a sudden you can show them off at the Hilltop.”

The team will also be giving one competitor the Tom Quinn Outstanding Senior Award, named in honor of the late Yates trainer and NCAA Eastern heavyweight boxing championTom Quinn (CAS ’55), who died in January.

The boxing showcase, which starts at 3 p.m., will include fighters from various universities, including West Point, the University of Maryland, Virginia Military Institute, Wake Forest University, East Carolina University and Baltimore University. There will be 14 matches, with six females and eight males representing Georgetown.

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Panel Talks Palestine Peace Consulting Conscious, Sydney Winkler Hoya Staff Writer

A panel of leading Middle East experts spoke about the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the Reiss Science Building on Wednesday. The panel included Ambassador Dennis Ross, Ghaith Al-Omari and Jeremy Ben-Ami. The event was sponsored

by J Street U Georgetown, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, Georgetown College Democrats and the Georgetown Program for Jewish Civilization. “[The] panel was a strong step in advancing constructive conversations at Georgetown surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” J Street U Treasurer Elijah Jatovsky (SFS ’16), who moderated the panel, wrote in an email. “It is the nuanced insight like that provided at the panel that can bridge gaps and lead to meaningful progression.”

Executive Director of the American Task Force on Palestine Al-Omari spoke out against the costs of the conflict.

“This is not a conflict we can afford to keep dragging on,” Al-Omari said. “We have seen many lives shattered by this conflict.”

Ambassador Ross, who is currently a professor in the School of Foreign Service, played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process under the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

Ross explained the personal nature of the peace process.

“In an abstract way, you contribute to something called stability, but it’s completely abstract,” Ross said.

“When I began to negotiate in the Middle East, I went from dealing with issues that were abstract to issues that were highly personal.”

Ben-Ami is founder and president of J Street, a propeace organization that advocates a two-state solution as the means for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ben-Ami expressed a need for third-party involvement in Israeli-Palestinian

negotiations.

“There has to be two states for two people, or else Israel loses fundamental character,” Ben-Ami said. “That simply isn’t going to happen without American involvement.”

Al-Omari echoed Ben-Ami’s commentary.

“Without a responsible third party, the two parties cannot get to it,” Al-Omari said. “They are unable to step back and do what they need to do to get out of the conflict.”

With an American-brokered peace framework soon to be presented to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, each panelist weighed in on the prospective two-state solution.

“I don’t believe if you miss this moment, it’s the end,” Ross said. “But I don’t think if you miss this moment, it’s a good thing.”

Ben-Ami and Al-Omari agreed that there is no viable alternative to a two-state solution.

“I do not see any other solution,” Al-Omari said. “One of the biggest concerns that I have is, those of us who would be in favor of a twostate solution … we will not be motivated, but the others who are against it will be very motivated.”

Although the panelists represented a varied array of backgrounds, they all agreed on the importance of a twostate solution.

“The fact that these three leading Middle East experts, despite their diverse backgrounds, found so much agreement demonstrates the wide-spread support for and recognition that the twostate solution is the key to this conflict’s resolution,” Jatovsky said.

The panelists discussed whether Secretary of State John Kerry, who is currently in Jordan brokering a peace between Israel and Palestine, could achieve a successful solution.

“Even if Kerry produces a breakthrough, I think unless a breakthrough is accompanied by immediate steps by both sides to address the sources of disbelief, a breakthrough won’t happen right

now any case,” Ross said.

Al-Omari argued that Israeli and Palestinian governments are perpetuating cynicism in the region.

“Yes, there is a lot they can do and no they are not doing it,” Al-Omari said.“Part of it is saying this is a good thing and part of it is distancing themselves.”

Al-Omari predicted that a watered-down document will be a consequence of this incompetence.

“The trick of what needs to be done is how do you get the parties — the leaders themselves — to accept this, own it and to identify this success as their success in political terms and the failure as their failure,” Al-Omari said.

Ultimately, the panelists were not optimistic about the current peace negotiations.

“I think one of the great risks of this round of talks is that one of the few strands of progress can collapse,” BenAmi said. “The odds are that this doesn’t move forward.”

Ross explained that the regional culture and environment are important factors that need to change in order for an agreement to become more realistic.

“We do need to be doing things on the ground to change the climate so, when we buy the time, people have room to say, ‘Maybe there’s something going on in Israel,’” Ross said. “That’s the challenge we have right now.

Al-Omari disagreed with the other panelists about whether either party needs to desert its narrative in order to facilitate an agreement.

“I do not believe you should negotiate identity,” Al-Omari said. “Both sides need to show sensitivity.”

The panelists concluded on a positive note — a solution is possible regardless of whether the current talks are successful. “[In the Middle East], what can go wrong usually goes wrong so I can’t sit up here and say, ‘I know it’s going to happen,’” Ross said.“But I can say, when all three sides don’t want a collapse, usually they find a way to manage.”

GU Redesigns SXSWedu Laura Oswiany Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown officials joined flocks of art and music enthusiasts in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest Conference when Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis, Provost Robert Groves and Chief Innovation Officer Z. Michael Wang (MSB ’07) presented a standing-roomonly seminar titled “Designing the Future University From the Inside” on March 5.

Though Georgetown has attended the conference in past years, this is the first year that the university has participated in the conference’s Education Week.

The panel began with a video on the state of higher education today and the massive changes education is undergoing with respect to affordability, packaging and delivery. Davis discussed the role of technology in the future of higher education, as universities attempt to best integrate technology into academics.

“My role was to discuss how we’re integrating the technology with all of the disruption occurring in higher education today, how we work in partnership from a technology and an academic and research perspective to build that future university,” she said.

Groves discussed the Georgetown Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship’s ITEL program, short for Initiative for Tech-Enhanced Learning, on the course and degree levels.

“How do you reimagine and repackage everything the university delivers in terms of degree into different content packages?” Wang said.

Wang, who moderated the panel, addressed the larger picture of engagement with the community as well as the innovations that directly involve the Georgetown community, such as the Hackathon.

The audience, compromised of K-12 and higher educators, vendors, technology education startups and government representatives, was able to participate in the panel on multiple levels through in-person dia-

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Chief Innovation Officer Z. Michael Wang (MSB ’07) spoke at the “Designing the Future” panel at the SXSW Festival March 5. logue as well as on social media.

“We had lots of questions and engagement from the audience.

We had a lot going on Twitter, tweeting about what we were discussing, so there was a lot of excitement and activity going on during our panel,” Davis said.

Twitter users tweeted about the event under the hashtag #GUatSxSW to respond to and discuss the panel and to follow Georgetown’s progress in the future.

Some of the tweets shared links and personal commentary, lauding the interactive format of the panel.

James Britton, communications coordinator at Purdue University, tweeted, “Great format!”

Afterwards, the audience had the opportunity to divide into small discussion groups, allowing participants to delve deeper into the higher education conversation.

Wang said that the heavy feedback and energy generated from the conference is indicative of a growing interest in the future of higher education.

“Even though we’re big organizations, institutions, I think there’s a lot of excitement around the fact that universities can be innovative and be experimental as well, and that we’re not just going to be on the sidelines,” Wang said.

Looking forward, Davis said that she hopes Georgetown can a play a role in the South

by Southwest conference in the future.

“We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We enjoyed doing the panel; we enjoyed the engagement with the folks that were there. We won’t know until the fall whether we’re invited back, and as we work through the many initiatives that are going on through the provost’s office in designing the future university, whether we come back and offer another panel or we come back from a participation standpoint,” Davis said.

“Georgetown will continue to innovate and use this experience to further the relationship between technology and education,” Davis said.

“I think what was great about the panel was it gave us an opportunity to create new partnerships with possible companies and some of the innovation and technology they’re using.

So I have many follow-up meetings with about three or four of those vendors on some of the technology capabilities that we might be able to use here at Georgetown as well as peer institutions,” she said.

Wang, a Georgetown graduate, said that he felt proud to be a part of Georgetown’s first South by Southwest experience, especially as it involved participation from all different areas of the university.

“There was a lot of pride in seeing that we as a university invested in, put in the effort to, for the first time, be at South by Southwest, share what we’re doing, and sort of take that leap,” Wang said.

GGMI Looks Globally Molly Simio

ally recognized nonprofit organization. This will provide an incentive for companies to donate to GGMI as the donations will be tax The Georgetown Global Microfinance Ini- deductible. tiative, founded in December 2013, is workCurrently, GGMI’s public relations team is ing to expand its global reach and its on- utilizing most of its current funding in an efcampus presence by advising and improving fort to attract additional clients. The group microfinance initiatives that already exist as hopes to raise enough funds to send memopposed to creating a standalone nonprofit. bers abroad to learn more about its clients Its focus on consulting, rather than lend- and to work with them in person. ing, separates it from other groups on cam“The more information we have, the more pus such as the Hilltop Microfinance Initia- we can help. … Moving forward, our big vitive. sion is to be able to split our time between “One of the biggest problems with non- here and there,” Rahmani said. profit work in general is that everyone thinks Despite this emphasis on face-to-face interthey have the next big idea and everyone action with its clients, GGMI will likely not thinks that they have to rush into the scene travel to Honduras to work on its current and implement their own personal vision, project. and that leads to a lot of competing groups,” “The point of the field work is more to imGGMI Vice President of Projects Bardia Rah- plement our project, and since this is only a mani (SFS ’16) said. “GGMI recognizes that manual, we don’t really need to teach it to the best way we can help is not by putting an- them,” Co-Vice President for Public Relations other finger in the pie but by supporting and Katy Norris (SFS ’16) said. helping the efforts that are already successGGMI is organized into three divisions ful and that could be even more successful.” focusing on business development, public GGMI is able to utilize certain resources relations and projects, respectively. Memthat are not readily available to its clients in bers are currently distributed evenly among developing countries. the groups, but ultimately GGMI hopes to “We’re a student group shift their focus onto that has access to a lot the projects sector in the of professors and profesnear future. The group sionals in the Washingis engaging in tentative ton, D.C. area in these discussions with microfifields to help train us, nance initiatives in Guaand we have a lot of time temala and Tunisia in and resources to do some the hopes of being able nitty-gritty things that to take on two or three [microfinance institumore projects in the fall tions] with limited resemester.

Molly Morales (sfs ’16) sources can’t really focus “They’re similar projGGMI Chief Operating Officer on,” GGMI Chief Operatects. We plan on doing ing Officer Molly Morales (SFS ’16) said. consulting and research for all of them,” CoCurrently, the group is consulting for the Vice President for Public Relations Erica EsHonduran Microfinance Initiative, a series of posito (NHS ’16) said. “We don’t want to limit community banks in Honduras. GGMI is pre- ourselves to one country. We want to go to paring a manual and outlining the strategies different areas of the world.” and responsibilities of the smaller banks in In addition to its international reach, order to streamline its lending practices and GGMI is working to create dialogue on interincrease communication between sharehold- national development on campus. ers.

On Monday, GGMI partnered with GU “Our manual helps them discern what Women in Leadership to host a screening of kinds of microlending opportunities are best “Girl Rising” and the Catrinka Trunk Show. and helps them decide which projects are Throughout the semester, the group co-sponworthy of funding, which projects have the sored other events such as a talk with profesgreatest likelihood of return and which ones sor Steven Radelet, who has worked for the are the safest,” Rahmani said.

U.S. Agency for International Development, GGMI connected with Honduran Microfi- and Matt Turner, the founder of the nonprofnance Initiative through Global Brigades, a it Beyond Poverty organization. student-led social responsibility movement In April, GGMI will host a panel discussion that pairs student groups with microfinance during which alumni and local professionals initiatives around the world. will speak about microfinance and developGGMI hopes to expand its fundraising off ment. campus after receiving grants from Students “The ultimate goal is to give students expoof Georgetown Inc.’s philanthropy depart- sure to issues of international development, ment and the Social Innovation Public Ser- microfinance, consulting and the alleviation vice Fund. of poverty and the work that we can do to In order to further its fundraising efforts, help institutions that don’t have as many reGGMI is in the process of becoming a nation- sources as they would like,” Morales said.

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Historian Aksakal De-Orientalizes World War I Maps End Of Empire Nick Simon

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Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World,” spoke about his book at Georgetown on Thursday afternoon.

The event, sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Global History, attracted approximately 10 history students and foreign policy experts to the Intercultural Center. Husain described how he came to a revelation while poring over historical documents in the Asian and African Studies room of the British Library in London.

“I realized that these legalistic exchanges belied kind of an internal struggle to define the proper role and geographical scope of the postwar British Empire in the wider world,” Husain said. “Having already read a fair amount about America’s changing role in the wartime world, I was struck by a thunderbolt, and I suddenly knew what my dissertation had to be about.”

The author focused much of his talk on the idea of mental maps, and how it is important not to just examine the results of foreign policy in the late 1940s and 1950s, but to actually infer how American and British policymakers perceived the world at that time.

“We employ mental maps every time we use a term like ‘Middle East,’ ‘AFPak region,’ ‘South Asia’ and so on,” Husain said. “So I argue in the book that a number of key geopolitical principles bound up in national security requirements, academic research, ideas from public discourse, did come to shape such a coherent worldview in America, what I call globalism, to borrow a term employed by [late Scottish geographer] Neil Smith.”

Husain’s mental map idea came to center the rest of his talk, as he built layers of details around that basic concept.

The George Washington University history professor Dane Kennedy, who attended the event, lauded Husain’s technique of examining post World War II policy decisions from the viewpoint of the leaders at the time.

“I think it’s important, as he said, to focus not just on what policy was but, as he puts it, those mental maps of the world that policymakers had, the way in which they don’t all come to these issues with the same understanding of what they’re confronting,” Kennedy said.

Husain also discussed the concepts of American globalism and British regionalism, and how those two ideas intersected globally, in concert and in conflict, over the years directly following World War II. “In essence, I make the case that postwar British influence receded quasiwillingly, as it came to be displaced by American power, that expanded in accordance with U.S. officials’ increasing sense of a new global role,” Husain said.

Kennedy agreed with Husain’s assessment of the postwar transition of power.

“I particularly like the way in which he juxtaposes American and British visions of the postwar world and how to deal with American increases in power and the diminution of British power, and what that means in terms of their assessments of the world.”

Mental maps and the discussion of American globalism and British regionalism served as just a sampling of many ideas Husain put forward in both his book and his talk.

“I found it really useful, and I liked how it combined the concepts of space and diplomatic history,” attendee and Georgetown middle eastern and north african history Ph.D. student Laura Goffman said. “I was interested in the whole discussion of how diplomats conceived of space through the process of mapmaking.”

The BMW Center for German and European Studies, in conjunction with the Department of German, held an event entitled, “Ottoman Perspectives on the First World War” on March 20. The goal of the talk was to shift the perspective of World War I from the dominant European-centered view to a more global perspective.

Mustafa Aksakal, a professor of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern history at Georgetown, delivered a lecture at the event.

Aksakal’s most recent publication, “The Ottoman Empire,” appeared in the “Cambridge History of the First World War,” and he is currently at work on a new book, “The Ottoman First World War.” Although not as widely acknowledged, the Ottoman Empire played a significant role in the war as a Central Power alongside Germany

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Chris Kluwe, a former punter for the Minnesota Vikings, discussed LGBTQ advocacy in the realm of professional sports in the Edmund A. Walsh Building on Wednesday night.

During the event, which was sponsored by the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, Kluwe emphasized the importance of respecting each individual’s personal liberty and standing up for equality.

“If we want to live in a world where we all have the freedom to pursue what we want to pursue — to live the way we want to live — then we have to make sure that everyone else has that same freedom as well,” Kluwe said.

Kluwe gained recognition for his LGBTQ advocacy and allyship after publicly releasing a letter that he had sent to Maryland State Assemblyman Emmett Burns in 2012. The letter condemned Burns’ attempt to silence the opinions of Baltimore Ravens Linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who supports same-sex marriage. Burns had written a letter asking the team to limit Ayanbadejo’s freedom of expression.

Kluwe defended Ayanbadejo’s ideals and his right to express them.

“Empathy is very much a self-cen-

uncovering the global aftermath of World War I. “Recently there was a commentary in a German newspaper that made the point that the world really hasn’t come to terms with the First World War. It has more or less come to terms with the Second World War, but not really with the first. So these different perspectives I think are essential to try to think about this, and this was a perfect time for that,” Pfeiffer said.

The event was a part of the BMW Center’s “The War to end all Wars” 2014 lecture series, organized

by BMW Center professors Anna von der Goltz and Peter Pfeiffer.

Von der Goltz explained that the lecture series is meant to explore World War I from literary and historical perspectives that give a more comprehensive view of the conflict.

“All [of] these events throughout the semester will look at many different angles of the war’s impact on the world,” von der Goltz said.

tered view of the world in that you ’16), who attended the event, said.

Many of the 12 students who atunderstand that if you want to be free to live your own life, then everyone tended the event posed questions else has to have that same freedom. about Michael Sam. Sam, who publicBecause, if they don’t, then the whole ly announced his homosexuality after playing college football for four years, system doesn’t work,” Kluwe said.

Kluwe was released from the Vi- will be the first openly gay active NFL player if he is signed by an NFL team. kings in May 2013.

Kluwe does not believe that Sam’s Earlier this year, in an open letter sexuality will entitled “I Was create tenan NFL Player sion among Until I was Fired his prospecby Two Cowards tive teamand a Bigot,” mates.

Kluwe alleged “He’ll be that he was refine with the leased from the players in the team because of locker room his LGBTQ activbecause the ism.

Chris Kluwe majority of “It didn’t just Former Minnesota Vikings Punter the players happen to me; it’s happened to millions of people just don’t care. They’re a younger genacross the country. There’s still plenty eration. They’re growing up in a sociof states where it’s entirely legal to be ety that says that this isn’t something fired from your job simply because of we should be worrying about,” Kluwe your sexuality and that’s not some- said.

Instead, Kluwe expects that Sam thing that a stable society should will face more problems dealing with have,” Kluwe said.

An ongoing, independent investiga- coaches and management, who are tion is exploring Kluwe’s claim about more likely to be influenced by stereotypes about homosexuals. his release.

“Stereotypes are so easy for people “It’s really impressive that he basically doesn’t even know if he’s going to fall back on because you don’t have to have a job ever again but he’s still to think about it. … The stereotypes advocating,” Laura Whitehill (NHS are lazy, and falling into that trap

“It didn’t just happen to me. It happened to millions of people.”

means that you’re excluding so much of what makes someone a human being that you’re doing yourself a disservice because you’ll never get to know who that person is,” Kluwe said.

Kluwe referenced the language used by some coaches and officials who have said that the presence of an openly gay player creates a distraction in the locker room.

“It’s a lot of the same things that were said when Jackie Robinson was preparing to enter Major League Baseball. ‘He’s going to tear the locker room apart. Players just won’t understand,’” Kluwe said. “It’s our job as a society to hold those people accountable … for what they’re actually saying, not just what they’re saying on the surface. Because what they’re really saying is, ‘We don’t want a gay player in our locker room.’”

Olivia Smith (COL ’14) said she attended the event because of Kluwe’s advocacy.

“I feel like [Kluwe] is very unique among football players — at least in my limited knowledge of them — so I think that’s a little disappointing because he’s one of only a few who are willing to speak out,” Smith said.“I think its that it’s exciting that there is someone like him who’s still really connected to the football world but also connected to the world of advocacy.”

MSB Hosts Trans-Pacific Partnership Julie McCrimlisk Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business held the Trans-Pacific Partnership Conference, sponsored by the McDonough Global Student Association, the Latin American Board and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business Undergraduate Program Office on March 20.

The conference highlighted the progress of trade negotiations within the TPP and addressed the current issues on the negotiation table and the potential benefits of the impending agreement.

Considered to be the most significant trade agreement since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, the TPP is a free trade agreement between 12 countries — Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam — that has been ten years in the making. Originally begun in 2005 with four negotiating nations, the TPP gained a huge boost with the introduction of the United States to the group in 2011.

The partnership is considered revo-

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ity of primary sources has been an impediment. Access to the region’s military archives has been restricted, and as the literate segment of the Ottoman population remained in the single percentage points throughout the world, personal narratives by civilians and soldiers in letters and diaries are not sufficient to make up the gap in the record,” Aksakal said.

World War I has proven to be a defining historical event in shaping the modern Middle East.

“I would say that the war was central to several important formation processes in the region, in the shaping of Middle Eastern ethnic identity, in the reshaping of religious identities, the construction of state identity in the context of the Ottoman state’s disintegration and the artificiality of the state system that replaced it.” Aksakal said.

Attendee Peter Pfeiffer, professor in the German department, appreciated the event’s emphasis on

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and Austria-Hungary. 2.5 million Ottomans died in the conflict, amounting to half of the total Middle Eastern casualties in the war.

Aksakal claimed in his talk that although both the military and civilian losses of life were great, perhaps greater still was the loss of the Ottoman Empire’s social underpinnings.

“It is clear that the mayhem and suffering unleashed by the war incinerated the empire’s social fabric, assuring that it would take a long time, perhaps a century or more, before an integrated history could be written, a history that is not told exclusively as the story of a particular ethnic or religious group or of a particular region or battle, but one that ties together the many different threads of the war,” Aksakal said. However, compiling sources to accurately tell the Ottoman Empire’s World War I story has been a difficult task for historians.

“The limitation to the availabil-

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lutionary because it plans to cover a much wider breadth of economic issues than previous trade agreements have incorporated.

The keynote speaker, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler (GRD ’83) who is well known for her work on the recent U.S.South Korea free trade agreement, focused on the impact the agreement will have on all member countries and the future of trade in North America, Australia and Asia. While Cutler recognized that the TPP has not received extensive attention from the press in the United States, Cutler recalled having debates with taxi drivers in Japan about the TPP, noting the prominence the TPP has gained in other negotiating nations.

“I expect that the TPP will set the rules of the road for the Asia Pacific for the years ahead,” Cutler said.

Even as Cutler confidently discussed the significant impact the TPP will have on the region, the agreement has not been sealed and no fixed date has been set for finalization. The negotiations are in their final stages, but several issues remain, notably Japan’s insistence on continuing to protect its agricultural sector through

subsidies. Cutler did not seem to be concerned about the lack of a deadline, and emphasized that the countries involved are not losing sight of what brought them to the table. The consensus among the 12 negotiating nations after the 19th round of talks in August 2013 in Brunei is that the TPP will soon be a quality, high-standard trade agreement.

Following Cutler’s remarks, representatives from Malaysia and Mexico discussed the benefits the TPP offers to potential member states. Hairil Yahri Yaacob, the minister counselor of economics at the Embassy of Malaysia, emphasized the vitality of the TPP for Malaysia by describing it as an opportunity for Malaysians to take advantage of the international marketplace.

Kenneth Smith Ramos (SFS ’91), the head of the Trade and NAFTA Office at the Embassy of Mexico, highlighted the importance of the TPP in Mexico’s plan to diversify its trade. Ramos described the TPP as a tremendous opportunity for assembling a global supply chain uniting all member countries that will benefit from the tariff and barrier-free trade.

The final portion of the confer-

ence featured a panel discussion of three economic and diplomatic experts: President of the Emergency Committee for American Trade Cal Cohen, Director for Asia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Catherine Mellor and Director and Senior Vice President of International Government Affairs at CitiBank Charles R. Johnston.

Cohen provided a slightly less optimistic view than the other panelists. However, even he admitted to seeing good potential in the agreement if the negotiating countries can reach a consensus.

“The devil is in the details. …

Nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to,” Cohen said.

“The potential is higher right now than many of the other agreements on the table.”

Mellor also noted the incredible potential for the agreement to set the rules of economic cooperation for decades to come.

While every expert acknowledged the obstacles still remaining before the TPP is officially signed, they also unanimously agreed that if a comprehensive, high-quality agreement is reached, all 12 countries and their consumers will reap tremendous benefits.

Dean Named 2014 Business Leader DEAN, from A9 entrepreneurial and startup community in Washington D.C. I’d like for Washington to become a laboratory where our students and our faculty are able to experiment with the concepts and ideas that we’re creating in this building.

How would you describe your leadership style?

I try to be very transparent so that people don’t have to wonder about what my intentions are. I think I set very high expectations and I empower people to do their work in the way that they see fit, but with shared objectives. I’m a very good listener and I probably lead more asking good question rather than sending out directives.

Who is your greatest inspiration?

My greatest inspiration is my father. My father was a guy who was not highly educated; he didn’t go to college and he was one of the smartest people I ever met. He

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Dean of the McDonough School of Business, David Thomas, accepts the 2014 Minority Business Leader award March 20. was also one of the most respectful and he taught me I could do anything.

What motivates you to come to work every day?

I come to work at a place with some of the most talented young people in the

world. Every day I come to work with the possibility that I’m doing something that’s going to shape somebody whose truly going to transform the world. I don’t know who they are but I know that potential is in this building every day.

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first joined James Li (MSB ’13), the cofounder of our startup — social media tool Encore Alert — back when I was a junior in high school and he was a sophomore in business school. So as my first week at Georgetown approached, I looked forward to the opportunity to work on our venture side by side.

But once I arrived on campus, I was quickly struck with the ‘fear of missing out’ at the Student Activities Fair. I signed up for dozens of email lists, looking for clubs I could someday lead. I went out on the weekends with friends. I worked three different campus jobs — in addition to Encore Alert — in order to cover education costs. On top of that, I convinced myself I wanted to graduate early and tried to take extra classes each semester.

Even though I like to live by the motto, “Nothing is impossible,” I quickly learned that it truly is impossible to create a successful company while juggling all of these commitments. By the end of my first semester, I was spread way too thin and having a major meltdown.

My parents and friends could all tell I was extremely stressed and tired — and they weren’t afraid to tell me.

Though I had to experience a breaking point first, I fortunately did have two rewarding takeaways with regard to starting a company in college.

The first lesson I learned was that focus is key to entrepreneurship. It’s easy to be tempted and distracted by the dozens of things on campus

You will learn far more starting your own company than you would at a traditional internship. every day, but it is crucial to focus your attention on just your top two or three priorities if you want your business to succeed. I whittled down my commitments to three: Encore Alert, academics and StartupHoyas.

The difference was clear; by focusing my attention on these priorities, I found myself working with more energy and quality. By the end of my freshman year last year, my team was accepted into Acceleprise (an accelerator in D.C.), organizing our first outside funding. We completely zoned in over the four-month program, and we had enough traction to raise a $390,000 round.

The second lesson is that school is the right time to start. I know it’s hard to overcome fears like, “What if our startup fails? My friends all have crazy internships at the White House and Goldman — where will I go if this doesn’t work out?”

If nothing else, I can promise you two things: First, you will learn far more starting your own company than you would at a traditional internship (which recruiters will recognize), and second, you have nothing to lose. Worst case, you’re back in your dorm room, with friends who still support you and meals at Leo’s — yes, the horror.

There is a growing community of student entrepreneurs working together every Friday in the MSB, great mentorship provided by leaders of the Entrepreneurship Initiative: Associate Director Alyssa Lovegrove, Founding Director Jeff Reid and the Entrepreneurs-inResidences. Encore Alert has been able to connect with many of our best customers, mentors and investors through this community. It’s hard to overcome the pressures of the “do everything” mentality that overachieving Georgetown students have. I want to encourage you; if you have even the tiniest itch to pursue an idea, just go for it and focus.

TAMMY CHO (MSB ’16) is the cofounder of Encore Alert (EncoreAlert.com), a proactive social media alerts tool used by Georgetown University, WeddingWire and the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Regarded as a challenging and intense program, the McDonough School of Business’ MBA Evening Program was ranked first in the region and 11th in the nation of part-time MBA programs by the U.S. News and World Report, which released the rankings March 11.

Professor Brooks Holtom, an associate professor of management at the undergraduate and executive levels, commented on the success of the program. “A lot of professionals don’t want to give up their career progress or income while pursuing an MBA, so they choose Georgetown because of its regional rank and its well-respected national reputation,” Holtom said. “Georgetown works with their schedule, which is why it is so popular with professionals in the D.C. area.”

Other professors agreed.

“I think we get very good people in, they’re obviously dedicated if they’re doing this in spite of having a full-time job and families and the rest of it,” MSB Visiting Associate Professor Bharat Kaku said. “We deserve it.”

Kaku explained that the university strives to match the caliber of its evening and fulltime programs.

“We are quite careful about keeping the two programs [evening and regular] the same. They do the same assignments, exactly the same material. In this course, the syllabus for the full-time and the evening is identical,” he said.

Kaku teaches “Analytic Problem Solving”, one section of which meets Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:20 p.m. and the other Thursdays at the same time. The longer meeting time, compared to day classes, allows students to come in only once weekly, rather than twice.

Kaku commented on the difference between students in the fulltime and evening programs.

“The general feeling is that the evening program students tend to be a little older,” Kaku said. “These are people who have full-time jobs.

Many have families, kids, there are some obligations there. They come in after a full day of work and they typically will grab some dinner on the way but they manage to stay alert and stay engaged.”

There are even some connections to classes that students with full-time jobs are able to draw that undergrads may not.

“They can sometimes bring up examples from their work so you know you’re doing a certain model and they say, ‘oh this looks like a problem that’s quite similar to something I saw at work.’”

MBA students believe the ranking reflects their experience in the evening program.

“I think that the program is challenging in a good way, and I think that the amount of coursework, extracurricular involvement and the overall experience merits a number one [regional] ranking,” Molly Barackman-Eder (GRD ’15)

said. “These are skills that I actually get to use in my job. I’m able to add more to my job by knowing these different skills.”

Other students agreed.

“I think you can really tell by the quality of the other students here.

All the students I’m in class with are very motivated and smart and engaged, and I think that’s what I was really looking for in trying to find the number one program in D.C.,” Amanda Bagwill (GRD ’15) said. “I think the quality of the students is the number one standout thing for me.”

The evening program is working to further improve the experience of professionals by adding another cohort in Tysons Corner, Va. “There is a real commitment from the MSB administration to make the evening program just as good as the full-time program and to own the D.C. market,” Holtom said. Opening in fall 2014, the new Tyson’s Corner cohort will be characterized by the same challenging academic curriculum and highcaliber faculty of the main campus programs, according to Holtom.

The cohort system of the MBA program emphasizes collaboration, leadership and kinship by dividing the incoming MBA class into groups of 40 to 65 students that stay together over BHARAT KAKU the three-year MSB Professor program. Within each cohort the students take the same classes, work together on projects, share experiences and form a strong network of well-prepared professionals.

There will be a total of three cohorts for the incoming MBA class, one cohort for Tysons Corner and two for the main Georgetown campus.

The Tysons Corner cohort will be hosted at the new Convene conference center, a New York-based conference center network, which will open this year as the network’s first Washington location. This location was chosen to ensure that Tysons Corner students have access to topof-the-line technology, amenities, culinary teams and metro accessibility. The location will increase opportunities for students to be a part of the Georgetown MBA program.

The U.S. News & World Report ranking system is based on a variety of information sources including recruiter assessments, peer assessments, admissions data and enrollment statistics. Schools are ranked based on the aggregate of these indicators, and are subsequently ranked both regionally and nationally. In the national scope, the MSB evening program tied for the 11th rank with Emory University, University of Southern California and University of Washington. In addition to the impressive ranking of the part-time program, the full-time MBA program improved its ranking this year moving from 25th in the nation to 23rd, as well as earning the 12th spot for the international business program.

“They’re obviously dedicated if they’re doing this in spite of full-time jobs.”

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Dean David Thomas was honored as one of the Washington Business Journal’s 2014 Minority Business Leaders at an event March 20.

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The Washington Business Journal honored Dean and William R. Berkley Chair of the McDonough School of Business David Thomas as a 2014 Minority Business Leader on March 20. The Journal presents this award to the region’s top 25 leaders for professional accomplishments, community leadership, philanthropy, awards and milestones, according to the MSB press release. Previously, Dean Thomas was a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He graduated with a bachelor’s in administrative sciences and a master’s and doctor of philosophy in organizational behavior from Yale University and a master’s in organizational psychology from Columbia University.

What are you most proud of accomplishing at Georgetown?

I am most proud of the fact that we’ve done a successful job mobilizing the staff and the faculty to innovate. We did a major redesign of our MBA curriculum, and we essentially redesigned it and implemented the new design in a year, which is light-speed for an academic institution. We’ve also started some initiatives that are helping us to increase the diversity at the school. We now have a partnership with PWC [PricewaterhouseCoopers] called Smart Start that’s helping us to identify students who, with mentoring, are able to excel in this environment and develop an understanding of business that they may not have come in the school with and therefore to remove some of the ways in which students are starting at different starting points because of their background What are you most proud of accomplishing with regard to the city as a whole?

I’m most proud of the work that I did around the five-year business economic plan that I co-chaired with the Dean of the George Washington Business School as well as

the Dean of Howard Business School.

Already the city is starting to make headway on the plan. For example, one of the areas that we identified as having huge potential for Washington, D.C. is tourism. That led the city to focus on building a deeper relationship with China, and today it will be announced that there will be a direct flight from Washington Dulles [International Airport] to Beijing. That’s also a regional collaboration because the financial means to make that happen come from both the city and the state of Virginia. So you know what I see there is something I had a hand in creating actually having had an impact on the city.

We now have an executive master’s in leadership for high-performing principals in the D.C. public school system. We took something that we distinctively do and customized it for D.C. public schools. It’s making a contribution that nobody else could make to the city. That’s us bringing in what we distinctively do to make the city become a better place.

What are your upcoming goals for the business school?

To increase the visibility of the business school in the business community here in Washington D.C., as well as globally, and to shine a light on the things I think make us distinctive. Three important things: the focus we have on being at the intersection of business and society, our focus around ethics and principled leadership and commitment to global business education and our focus on producing research that is rigorous and relevant to the most important challenges facing business and society.

What about goals for improving the greater D.C. area?

To continue to find ways we can take what we do distinctively and connect it to the needs of the city.

We’re looking at ways to connect our Entrepreneurship Initiative here at Georgetown to the burgeoning See DEAN, A9

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What do you think of Facebook buying virtual gaming company Oculus for $2 billion?

I think Facebook has a lot of free cash that they want to spend, and they’re trying to acquire as many companies as possible. I think they consider it a kind of investment for the future. My understanding is that they’re just spending their free cash.

I don’t understand why they would pay $19 billion for WhatsApp whereas they would pay Oculus $2 billion even though I would presume Oculus would be more valuable. I just don’t understand Mark Zuckerberg’s logic, but I hope it pays off in the end.

IRINA BARSUKOVA (GRD ’15)

TAAHA AKHTAR (MSB ’16)

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I think it’s kind of a fad; you look at 3-D and everyone thought that was the next big thing and 3-D hasn’t taken off.

However, I do think games are a big revenue driver for Facebook; I just don’t think it’s in virtual reality.

GREGORY JOSON (MSB ’14)