The Hoya: March 21, 2014

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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

PROTEST CULTURE

EDITORIAL The ambiguity of the “Utraque Unum” posters jeopardizes their effect.

Since 1970, protest on campus has shifted from the picket line to online.

GUIDE, B1

A FATHER-SON DUO Professors Keir and Robert Lieber have both found a home on campus.

SEMINOLES AWAIT After a first-round NIT win, Hoyas will take on Florida State on Monday.

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OPINION, A2

SPORTS, B10

SWQ Ricin Scare Unnerves Students Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writer

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Mark Adamsson (SFS ’15) died over spring break. He was 22.

Junior Dies Of Heart Failure Friends, family recall Adamsson as intelligent, curious

In the wake of Tuesday’s revelation that a substance found on the sixth floor of McCarthy Hall had tested positive for the potentially lethal poison ricin, students affected by the investigation have expressed frustration with the university’s inconsistent communication and its dissemination of information during the event and subsequent investigation.

According to university spokesperson and Assistant Vice President for Communications Stacy Kerr, the Georgetown University Police Department responded to reports of a potentially hazardous substance in McCarthy Hall around 4 a.m. Tuesday. GUPD then alerted the Metropolitan Police Department and D.C. Fire/EMS who brought in hazardous materials teams. They were subsequently joined by officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Tuesday, about 4 a.m. Ongoing Tues. morning

Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

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The Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee is set to release the final fiscal year 2015 budget for the student association and advisory and programming boards today. The committee considered proposals for 26 options, hearing from advisory boards, student groups and individuals, including Center for Student Engagement Director Erika Cohen Derr, who also serves as the Fin/App advisor.

As CSE Director, Cohen Derr must present before Fin/App to obtain money for CSE projects.

As advisor, Cohen Derr does not directly take part in deliberations, but is present in the room while committee members discuss allocation and reasoning on all projects.

“She can answer historical questions if I have them. She can answer procedural questions if I have them,” Fin/App Chairman Seamus Guerin (COL ’16) said. “Ultimately, the decisions are being made by us, and that’s always been respected by her.”

of the situation, including information that initial field tests had registered negative for hazardous substances.

In order to give law enforcement full access to the area surrounding where the ricin was discovered, residents of the sixth floor of Mc-

Carthy were informed at 11 a.m. that the floor would be temporarily closed via an email from the Office of Residential Living.

“Law enforcement had already assured us that we didn’t need to See RICIN, A7

D.C. Fire/EMS, the Metropolitan Police Dept. and FBI arrive on the scene.

University officials convene to discuss options.

Tuesday, 9:38 a.m.

Tuesday, 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday, 3:20 p.m.

Wednesday, 5:21 p.m.

GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber sends a campuswide email notifying the university community of the ongoing investigation.

An email is sent to McCarthy 6 residents advising them that the floor will be closed until further notice. Law enforcement cordon off the area.

The Office of Residential Living sends an email to displaced McCarthy 6 residents informing them that the investigation has concluded.

GUPD Chief of Police Gruber sends a campus-wide emailing informing the university community that all areas of McCarthy can now be reoccupied.

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Emergency personnel surround Southwest Quad, where a substance that tested positive for ricin was found early Tuesday morning.

HOW IT HAPPENED

GUPD responds to reports of a potentially hazardous substance in McCarthy Hall.

Mark Adamsson (SFS ’15), an international student remembered as a friend, scholar and athlete, died from lung and heart failure because of medical reasons during spring break in the Dominican Republic. He was 22.

The university held a memorial service for Adamsson on March 18 in Dahlgren Chapel, which was filled to capacity. His parents, Helene Carendi and Trolle Adamsson, as well as his stepfather Jan Carendi, were in attendance.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson notified the Georgetown community of Adamsson’s death in an email March 9.

Adamsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on Jan. 30, 1992, and moved to the United States for high school, attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.

In high school, Adamsson excelled academically and in sports, according to his mother and stepfather.

“Even so in his short life he managed to accomplish so much, and all he embarked on, he fulfilled with honours,” they wrote in a statement. “As to sports, he loved tennis, golf and soccer and he enjoyed the sports in his adopted country like baseball, hockey and basketball.”

At Phillips Academy, Adamsson was

According to D.C. Fire/EMS spokesman Timothy Wilson, the squad that responded to the incident worked effectively with the other law enforcement on the scene.

“When we work between local and federal jurisdictions we both have similar protocols in how things are coordinated and carried out. It was a seamless process to work with D.C. police and the FBI in terms of the investigation,” Wilson said.

In the meantime, university administrators and officials convened to discuss the developing situation.

“From the very beginning, we worked with law enforcement and the FBI to ensure that the area was safe for students. We also brought in the D.C. Department of Health to give their consultation to ensure that the area was safe for students,” Kerr said.

At 9:38 a.m., GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber sent an email to the university community as well as students’ parents apprising them

This year Cohen Derr asked Fin/ App to fund the renovation of the courtyard inside New South, which will be visible from the upcoming Healey Family Student Center. The project totaled $50,000, which Fin/ App denied in full in a draft budget.

“I have asked for money to fund projects each year,” Cohen Derr said.

“I don’t think that’s a requirement [as director of the CSE], but I see it as a responsibility from the vantage point that I hold to kind of pay attention to larger needs across the student activities and student life landscape.”

Cohen Derr also considered convenience another reason for her to present CSE projects to Fin/App, as she already attends the annual budget summit to determine the draft budget.

“It’s easier if I just present it than if I ask another [CSE] staff member to come in and present it,” she said.

Fin/App finalized its draft budget March 5, and this Wednesday concluded the two-week period for public discussion about the budget.

On Sunday, the GUSA senate will vote on the budget and incoming

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GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) will sign off on it.

Despite the potential conflict of interest, instead of funding either Cohen Derr’s courtyard proposal or the volleyball and grills project, Fin/ App’s draft allocated an increase in funding to student advisory boards.

“I try to be really intentional when I talk to them about the fact that they have no obligation to fund presentations that I might propose, and that I want them to make good, informed decisions,” Cohen Derr said.

The New South Courtyard proposal competed with student-led projects for funding. One project included the construction of a volleyball court and grills for student use in the Southwest Quad, which the draft budget also did not fund.

To students working to get funding for these projects, Cohen Derr appears to have a persuasive advantage.

“She is in the room when they’re deliberating. No one else that presented to Fin/App is in the room when they’re deliberating,” Campus Life Working Group Co-Chair and See FIN/APP, A8 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

As early voting began March 17 for the April 1 Democratic mayoral primary election, two recent developments are making waves in Mayor Vincent Gray’s re-election campaign with a resurgence of new criticism.

Businessman Jeffrey Thompson, the focus of the federal investigation into Gray’s 2010 campaign for mayor, pled guilty March 12 to conspiracy to violate Washington, D.C. and federal campaign finance laws.

Thompson admitted to accepting illegal campaign contributions of over $650,000. According to court documents, prosecutors believe that Gray knew of these campaign contributions, even personally asking for such funds. The prosecutors believe that prior to the 2010 election, Gray gave Thompson a $425,000 budget and promised to keep the donations secret, giving Thompson the code name “Uncle Earl.”

U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., who is leading the Thompson investigation, said the guilty plea allows prosecutors a new glimpse into the corruption that has historically plagued D.C. politics.

“Today’s guilty plea pulls back the curtain on years of widespread corruption,” Machen said. “With Mr. Thompson’s cooperation, we have the opportunity to hold many wrongdoers accountable and to usher in a new era of honesty, integrity and transparency in D.C. politics.”

Nevertheless, Gray has continued to assert his innocence. Although Gray admitted to meeting with Thompson and using a code name, he denied allegations that he knew of any illegal activity related to his campaign.

“I maintain these are lies,” Gray said in an interview with NBC4.

“These are absolute lies.”

According to Gray, he believed Thompson had wanted to avoid a conflict with then-Mayor Adrian

Fenty, who held power over many of Thompson’s city contracts.

“I thought it was because of him not wanting to be seen as legitimately raising money for my campaign out of fear of retribution,” Gray said in an interview with NBC4. “So that’s true.”

Furthermore, Gray said that he would remain in his mayoral post should federal charges be pressed against him.

“I’m not going to walk away from this situation,” Gray said in a morning television interview on ABC7.

Two days after Thompson’s guilty plea, D.C. Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) — a sharp critic of the mayor — officially announced his mayoral bid. As an independent, Catania would face off against the Democratic nominee during the general election in November.

If successful, Catania, a councilmember since 1997 and a former Republican who left the party in 2004, could be both the District’s first white mayor and first openly gay mayor.

Following his announcement, Catania emphasized his vision for the future of the city, specifically addressing Gray’s scandal.

“This whole drama that we’ve had — this ‘Jeff Thompson-Vince Gray drama’ — the time has come for this to end,” Catania told reporters outside the elections office. “I’m talking about my vision for the city, which doesn’t include serving as a human lie detector for Jeff Thompson or Vince Gray.”

In the days following Thompson’s guilty plea, Gray’s other mayoral challengers also spoke out against the Gray administration.

“Today is a tragic day for D.C. politics and our city,” Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) said in a statement. “The citizens of our great city are witnesses to a flagrant betrayal of the public trust.”

“There is no question [Gray] was elected with a corrupt campaign,” See GRAY, A6

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EDITORIALS

‘Utraque Unum’ Mistranslated In recent years, Red Square has become the focal point of student free speech. From this month’s XL Dissent protests against the Keystone pipeline to the constant presence of unrecognized student groups like H*yas for Choice, individuals have come to Red Square to demonstrate their support for clear and open free speech policies on campus.

This past week, Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) and Giuliana Cucci (COL ’14) distributed pop art-style posters featuring prominent university administrators and church leaders, such as University President John J. DeGioia and Pope Francis, Photoshopped to appear in drag. Featured in Red Square and Leavey Center, the posters’ only written explanation was their title, “Utraque Unum,” and the corresponding English translation, “Both into one.”

These students have demonstrated their dedication to making the most of free speech on campus. By publicly calling into question traditional interpretations of gender despite the university’s stated policy not to recognize any non-binary genders, Lloyd and Cucci have proven to be an excellent example of individuals who have actively encouraged dialogue even when expressing unpopular opinions.

When Lloyd unsuccessfully proposed this cam-

paign to the GU Pride board, the board agreed with the sentiment of the images, yet believed that their inflammatory nature would put Pride’s access to university benefits at risk.

Likewise, we do not discourage the distribution of these images, nor do we challenge their compliance with the university’s free expression policy. However, these posters’ effectiveness was inhibited by their unclear purpose.

Images of Catholic leaders in drag may well offend members of the Catholic community here who have yet to fully embrace the LGBTQ community. Rather than offering an argument, remonstrance or an explanation of their significance, the images stand alone, easily and falsely perceived as sensationalist — speech for the sake of speech.

Certainly students should not tailor their speech to please university administrators, but any group that uses the campus free speech policy to defend controversial forms of expression without due explanations should reconsider its tactics.

Georgetown students have long campaigned for the ability to express opinions and speak freely to defend against hostile language. Showing sensibility and responsibility in campus dialogue is a critically important part of protecting student speech on a campus that has been known to limit it.

Achievement Over Aptitude For many current Georgetown students, the SAT will be remembered as 2,400 points of anxiety, pressure and competition. After this month’s changes to the structure of the SAT, these feelings will be at least slightly alleviated, with the College Board taking steps to solve some of the longstanding academic and socioeconomic frustrations with the test.

The new format, which goes into effect in 2016 — making current ninth graders the first to take the new test — will make the essay section optional, remove the quarter-point penalty for wrong answers and scale back on testing obscure vocabulary in an effort to realign the test with the subject matter and critical thinking skills that are taught in high school. Without the essay section, the College Board will report SAT scores out of a maximum of 1,600 points instead of 2,400 points, as it was scored before 2005.

These revisions bring commendable changes to the SAT. The new design moves the focus of the test

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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.

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.

A More Perfect Union — Despite a flurry of changes to D.C.’s long-range transportation plan, a proposed streetcar from Union Station to Georgetown remains on the table.

A Monumental Achievement — After being closed to the public for almost three years, the Washington Monument will reopen for visitors in May following completion of repairs to damages sustained during the District’s 2011 earthquake.

20 Years of Service — Georgetown honored 30 professors and professionals for 20 years of service to the university during Spring Faculty Convocation on Tuesday.

We Wish — The NCAA’s official 2014 tournament shirt incorrectly featured Georgetown’s “G” logo in place of the George Washington University’s “GW.”

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away from SAT-specific questions and idiosyncrasies, allowing students to spend their junior year of high school focusing on learning math, science and English, rather than SAT strategies, and allowing college admissions officers to gain a better sense of high school students’ preparation for college.

The changes will also increase free online instruction and provide vouchers for underprivileged students to apply to up to four colleges free of cost, reducing barriers low-income students face in applying to college. SAT preparation courses have become absurdly expensive, giving those who can afford them a clear advantage, and these changes will hopefully deter that trend.

It is clear that the SAT was due for a revamp. The College Board has taken appropriate steps to reform a testing process whose value in determining a student’s success in college has become limited and overweighted in college admissions. Hopefully, the overhaul of the SAT will make the three-hour and 45-minute, $51 test relevant again.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

A Point for Grading Clarity Nothing is more frustrating to a motivated student than teetering on the cusp of a higher grade.

As some students claim, it’s almost more painful to earn a 89.5 percent than to earn a 85 percent.

Especially in disciplines like English, history and philosophy — in which participation is a major part of a course yet is weighted insignificantly compared to papers and exams — faculty have noticed this trend. Many explain in syllabi that they will use participation or another qualitative measure as a type of tiebreaker to decide cases that are on the edge of two different letter grades.

While this accommodation seems to aide those dedicated students who deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to grading, this practice defeats the purpose of a professor outlining a concrete grading policy and introduces an equally frustrating subjective element to grading.

Clarity in grading policy is important because it allows students to make informed decisions regarding their academic progress and time investment. Students understand how much effort goes in to their grades and should thus have accurate expectations of what they can get out of the process, a key ingredient in reducing grade anxiety and increasing the tangible connection

between the work produced and the subsequent grade received.

Some might argue that professors should have more leeway in deciding grades for their students. But even without this tiebreaker credit, grading is already fraught with subjective elements like essays and percentage-based participation grades. Further subjectivity risks confusing the students who seek to understand exactly why they have received the grade that they have. Deciding borderline grades through unclear means only increases suspicion of bias, even when it is not warranted and decreases students’ confidence in the grading process as a whole. If class participation is to be taken into consideration, it should represent a specific portion of the grade, not a discretionary amount.

Fairly or unfairly, any part of the grade that is seen as up to the whim of the professor will be taken as a portion of the grade that reflects how much the professor likes any particular student, rather than the scholarship a student has produced. Making the grading process formal and quantifiable is an excellent solution to these worries — a solution that should not be watered down, even for borderline cases.

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Kent Carlson

Graduating Without Romantics T

his is an awkward time of the year for us seniors. We are standing in the middle ground between graduating and being regular students. The 99 Days tradition at The Tombs serves as a consistent reminder of how many days are left before graduation (59 as of today).

We know it’s all about to end, but many have not yet internalized this reality, leaving us to stew in our thoughts and emotions while we try not to talk about it.

There is something dangerous, I think, about preparing for graduation and subsequently, the end of college. When we spend a lot of time thinking about the end, it becomes romanticized. Indeed, we all have pictured the ceremony with everyone in robes, people dressed up for Senior Ball, people saying goodbye to each other while promising that they will remain close.

These images, in its anticipation, damages our understanding of both the event and those other moments. It tricks us into imagining a scarcity of time and the end of life as we know it — and letting a single second slip by would be criminal. It forces many of us to engineer memories out of the fear that we will never make any in the future.

But memories don’t work like that.

Thinking we can perfect the next 59 days creates unrealistic expectations. If we try to orchestrate our remaining time, like orchestrating our futures, we run the risk of ignoring the most natural and fluid components of life. Trying to do this places too much pressure on ourselves, leaving us to focus on missed opportunities instead of the good things that happen. We risk spending our time planning rather than living.

We should realize that there is so much ahead of us, regardless of how we may feel

Thinking we can perfect the next 59 days creates unrealistic expectations. on the day-to-day level — acutely aware of our flaws and insecurities, worrying that we are wasting time.

It is also important at this point to reflect with a gentle eye on the past. Everyone changes throughout his or her four years on the Hilltop. In some ways, we grow up.

In some ways, we lose sight of who we are.

There is a strong temptation to think of our past struggles as wastes of time.

We will never have made all the right decisions. Some people end up believing they chose the wrong major, and some of us even believe we chose the wrong school at Georgetown. There will never be a person who marches across the stage after four years here who can say all those choices were the right moves.

Instead, we must acknowledge the progress we have made, regardless of the relative starting points or how much time it has taken. The beautiful thing about Georgetown is that it helps us grow, even in the subtlest ways. We have been given chances to prove our bravery, our compassion and our commitment. We either rise to the occasion or we fail.

Ultimately, the whole notion of regret in this case is somewhat silly. To spend our lives looking back on how opportunities were missed is not only unproductive, it’s also debilitating and depressing. We have no choice but to move forward. Reflection has its place only in the sense that it guides future action; when we look back, we should be kind to our younger selves.

We will face unimaginable urges to look back on our last four years, fondly and less so, and to romanticize the next several weeks. While the past is important, we might be better off letting go of our plans and trying to experience these last few weeks in more genuine and personal ways. Yes, we have two months. Yes, we will graduate. Yes, things will change.

The thing is, there is so much out there that we do not even know what is waiting for us. The specific jobs, friends, spouses and adventures are all unknowable to our 22-year-old minds. But that should be exciting, not scary. We may be expected to make plans, but we should recognize their limits, especially when they detract from being present.

We have 59 days left. There is still plenty of time for those panic attacks and 4 a.m. heart-to-hearts, and I guarantee we will all have our rides on the collective emotional rollercoaster. Why, then, should we let the process begin sooner than it needs to? Graduation takes one of the remaining days of our college lives from us. We should not let it steal the other 58.

Kent Carlson is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. COLLEGE ON A HILL appears every other Friday.

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Mayday on McCarthy Six

he Office of Residential Living is responsible for ensuring student safety, health and well-being. Although these three words are subject to different interpretations, Residential Living proudly claims on its website that the organization’s mission is “to help students create homes away from homes and become part of their community here on campus.” During this week’s ricin scare in McCarthy Hall, however, Residential Living failed to live up to its duties.

A ZERO-TRANSPARENCY POLICY As a resident of McCarthy Hall’s sixth floor, I was one of the 18 to 20 students who were directly affected by Tuesday’s incident. We were told to evacuate from our rooms at 11:30 a.m. and were denied access for the next 28 hours. Many of us did not bring personal belongings such as clothes, toiletries, eyeglasses, laptops and medicine.

The most frustrating part, however, was being left clueless. During the investigation period, Residential Living sent out a few emails, none of which contained information about the nature and duration of the event. After making several phone calls to Residential Living, I had to speak with at least three different people each time, only to hear that they did not receive any updates from the FBI. I recognize that the federal agencyled investigation was still taking place at the time. Regardless, it is Residential Living’s job to bridge the gap between law enforcement officials and students. It is Residential Living’s responsibility to reduce student anxiety and fear in a time of crisis. Instead of repeating, “We do not have any information,” Resident Living should have provided at least a rough timeline of the investigation so that students could have planned or revised their schedules accordingly.

Jay Gruber’s latest email suggests that the investigation clearly required at least 24 hours to test for ricin exposure. Yet students were initially told

In every sense, the Office of Residential Living failed to demonstrate leadership during the ricin scare. that they could remain in the building, then they were suddenly removed from their rooms “for a few hours,” when in reality they were to have no shelter on campus for the remainder of the night.

WHAT COMMUNITY? Slowly realizing that I might not have access to my room before class at 2:00 p.m., I emailed my academic dean Wednesday morning to let her know about my situation. I then found out that she was not made aware of how her students were still denied access to their rooms in McCarthy, nor that they had been housed at the Savoy Hotel, about a 30-minute walk from the Southwest Quad.

The media reported as if the situation had been cleared, and no school newspaper wrote about how a group of students was wandering around cam-

pus without basic living necessities.

We desperately waited for updates but received only one direct email from McCarthy’s community director, in which she passed on the information about the March Madness tournament. I also did not hear from my RA until I reached out first. It seemed as though the rest of the university community was functioning just fine — and it really was.

A QUESTION OF ATTITUDE Throughout the evacuation period, Residential Living staff exhibited a dismissive attitude toward the displaced students. The level of mental and physical exhaustion increased as time passed by, but no one from Residential Living reached out to help us cope with this unexpected amount of stress. We were always the ones trying to reach out to

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them. Some of us had midterms, job application deadlines and academic commitments, but these concerns were completely ignored under the name of “safety,” though the entire university community had already been told that no immediate threat existed.

Whenever I attempted to speak to Residential Living staff, I was treated like a child who just wanted to complain. Finally, when I stopped by the McCarthy community director’s office around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and asked when the investigation would end, she did not conceal her annoyance and simply said, “Check your email.”

The email announcing the end of investigation was sent at 3:20 p.m. I wonder if it was really that difficult for her to say something like, “It’s all clear. Go and get some rest.” Residential Living staff wanted to exercise their authority and expected us to obey throughout the whole process, but none of them were willing to hear what we had to say, let alone express any sympathy.

ENGAGE, NOT MANAGE Positions of importance at Residential Living require serious leadership skills. Effective leadership, however, does not result from mere management by order. It results from earning others’ respect through communication, engagement and — most importantly — genuine attempts to make decisions for the sake of well-being.

In every sense, Residential Living failed to demonstrate leadership during the ricin scare. Yes, it was an unexpected and chaotic situation for us all, but strong leadership should shine in times of crisis. As professionals, Residential Living staff need to better equip themselves to deal with unpredicted events, while exhibiting a more open, positive and caring attitude toward students who are thrown into such a disruptive situation simply by “bad luck.”

DAYE SHIM LEE is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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A Choice to Conserve ASB’s Contributions to Beyond Water Week Body, Mind and Heart

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everal years ago, Georgetown By promoting “Meatless Mondays,” University administrators started Aramark has sought to help students considering the necessity of en- make conscious decisions to eat lower suring the sustainability of new build- impact foods. ings on campus. Just this past year, But a full university effort to conGeorgetown opted to institutionalize serve water requires more than just the Office of Sustainability, illustrating this commendable action from the adthe importance of this establishment. ministration. This brings us to you, the With continued information coming individual student, faculty member or forward about the dire state of the en- alum that constitutes the Georgetown vironment, establishing more sustain- community. While it is laudable that able university practices has become Georgetown has formally established imperative. the Office of Sustainability, this does In its first few months, the Office of not negate the importance of students Sustainability has already made impor- taking steps to be environmentally contant strides: It has installed recycling scious on an individual basis. bins in every dorm and apartment on First, be conscious of the water you campus, promoted student sustain- use in your daily life. When you wash ability initiatives and — most signifi- laundry, make sure the load is full. Try cantly — started to develop a long-term to limit the length of your showers to campus sustainfive minutes. ability plan. Yet Turn off the many of the ofwater when A full effort to conserve fice’s most noteyou brush your worthy changes teeth. water requires more than have been withSecond, opt to just administrative action. in the realm of eat lower on the water conservafood chain to tion, a topic that reduce your imthe office is celebrating and promoting pact on the supply chain. On “Meatless at this year’s 2014 Water Week, which Mondays,” recognize that saying “no” ends this Saturday. to one serving of meat saves more waWhy should water preservation be a ter than not showering for six months. top concern? According to the World Third, don’t purchase single-use Health Organization, water scarcity plastic water bottles. Instead, carry and affects at least a billion people in the reuse a refillable water bottle for hydraworld. As conflicts over natural re- tion. You can refill your water bottle sources erupt, many believe that the at one of the 23 water filling stations wars of the future will revolve around around campus. Odds are at least a few increasing water scarcity. Hence, it is of them intersect your daily path. crucial that as a socially conscious comFourth, increase your personal munity we prioritize the issue. awareness about water sustainability Georgetown has already taken many issues. Water conservation is not only important steps toward achieving this an issue that impacts the Georgetown goal. During NSO, each freshman re- Community — water scarcity affects 1.2 ceived a reusable Nalgene water bottle, billion people around the world who, and in just the last two years, 23 new even in 2014, have highly restricted acwater filling stations have been in- cess to potable water. stalled around campus by the Office of Fifth, calculate your personal water Planning and Facilities Management — footprint. National Geographic has a adding 10 in the last two months alone. great resource for this, encouraging The newly built Regents Hall is a participants to cut their water conshining example of campus sustain- sumption by half. ability. With LEED Gold certification Finally, engage these issues with your in building design, construction and fellow students during Georgetown operations from the U.S. Green Build- Water Week. Pay attention to the fliers ing Council, it is designed to use 87 per- around campus and the Leo’s napkin cent less water than a typical building holders to learn the astonishing realof its size by using low-flow plumbing ity about daily water intake. Participate fixtures and dual-flush toilets. Regents in activities and events to learn more has even included a rainwater capture about these issues and find out how cistern that reduces storm water pollu- you can become more involved in what tion by reusing rainwater to flush toi- Georgetown is already doing. lets, a practice which helps to conserve Rather than relying solely on the potable water. efforts of the Georgetown Office of Lastly, Georgetown Dining has insti- Sustainability, we can all take personal tuted a “Meatless Mondays” program steps to reduce our collective water to encourage students to opt for a footprint. Together, we can make simvegetarian option once a week. While ple changes in our Georgetown commany students may not recognize munity that will have far-reaching efthe significance of this campaign, eat- fects for our global community. ing lower on the food chain can have enormous benefits for the environ- OLIVIA HINERFELD is a freshman in ment, especially water conservation. In the School of Foreign Service. MERfact, one serving of beef requires over EDITH CHENEY and MAKAIAH MOHLER 2,000 liters of water to get to your plate. are sophomores in the College.

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have spent the past few days to hoist the beams, cut the wood thinking about the concept of and pull the entire project together. strength. What does it mean? Physical strength is not just reserved Who has it? Where does it come for men; it is a tool of empowerment from? How do we get more of it? that is equally applicable to their What kinds of it are we seeking? female counterparts. The muscle This reflection has mostly come ache and strain of using that power in response to the Alternative Spring should be cherished and shared Break trip that I took last week. I across the sexes. It is an outward met 14 people who rapidly became manifestation of the things we can my close friends and confidantes. do — women should use it to gain Our work, while physical in most re- respect and to fight against the perspects, also had a very ceptions of weakness powerful, emotional purported by their aspect to it. The exgender. perience prompted One other aspect intense thought. And of the trip included here is what I have deintense emotional termined. discussion and rePeople have flection. It was a many perceptions completely different of strength. To me, study in power. In a Allie Heymann strength has three very reflexive way, distinct facets: physiall members of the cal, mental and group were forced Being strong is emotional. Women to assess their own on most accounts amazingly vague and strengths and weakare considered weak nesses and share in the former two, distinctly ambiguous. them with the and are overtly, group. It was a very and sometimes negatively, associ- challenging component of the ASB ated with the last one. Women are trip, and one I struggled with imcharacterized by the yin: slow, soft, mensely. By nature, I am not necescold and passive. They are meant sarily a “sharer,” but Jane always to yield to their male counterparts. had a lot to say.

They are supposed to be mentally, She opened up and discussed her physically and emotionally mallea- life in the most organic and genuble. But to illustrate my thoughts, ine fashion, and it was empowerI am going to use a personal ex- ing to watch. This was a girl I had ample — someone I recently got always associated with frequent to know very well and for whom mood swings and a love of drama, I have the utmost respect. We will but hearing her share her stories call her “Jane Hoya.” made me realize that I myself was Over the course of our ASB trip, too quick to condemn her for emoI watched Jane master two of her tional immaturity. three sources of strength. The physiOur culture likes to presume cal came first: In an almost ironic test that most women are “too emoof will, she came up against a wall tional.” Women are not praised and was asked to break it down. The for their emotional depths, but construction site manager handed rather scorned for a connection to her a hammer and told her to have their feelings. Emotional strength at it. With a concerned look in her does not mean being taciturn and eyes, she hefted the heavy tool and stubborn, strong-willed or closed swung it. The sound of metal meet- off, loudmouthed or erratic. ing wood resonated throughout the Strength of this kind and power mobile home we were renovating. in this way is being able to reach After the first swing, she took an- out and touch others. It is connectother. And then another. Soon, with ing to oneself. It is completely una smile nearly leaping off her face, like physicality in that it is a very she brought the wall down. In the inward type of strength. And Jane same week, I watched Jane wield a showed me that my emotional fornail gun, operate a power saw and titude was not emotional strength build new walls to replace those she — it was simply a block. had so forcefully broken down.

Being strong is amazingly vague Physical strength can be surpris- and distinctly ambiguous. It is a ing in many ways. Some women tricky thing. And I think that Jane don’t think they have substantial was able to touch me in a profound physical strength or, like in Jane’s way because of her willingness to case, are told repeatedly by parents find that strength in herself. Maybe and peers that they are more suited she also taught me that I need new for easier, safer and less strenuous strength as well. work. Yet, physicality is the most observable and tangible form of power. Allie Heymann is a sophomore During ASB, our mobile home proj- in the School of Foreign Service. ect became a great equalizer — it took THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING apall of our combined physical abilities pears every other Friday.

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The Georgetown University Law Center announced the establishment of the Hillary Clinton Fellowship on Feb. 25. The foundation will provide funding for graduates of the Law Center to work in collaboration with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security for a year.

The fellowship, sourced from a $1 million gift from alumni Rep. John Delaney of Maryland (LAW ’88) and April McClain-Delaney (LAW ’89), entitles selected graduates to conduct rigorous research, produce reports and publications, track developments in the field and become inhouse experts on critical, timely issues related to international law, human rights, women, peace and security.

The program, which is open to recent graduates of Master’s level programs, provides a one-year, full-time and fully-funded opportunity for three selected annual fellows to focus on legal research and analysis. GU Law Center, The Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas and Georgetown University will each recruit one graduate fellow for the newly established program which will begin summer 2014.

“The fellows are named in honor of Secretary Clinton, who serves as the Institute’s Honorary Founding Chair, because the Institute’s creation was in large part inspired by her leadership and commitment to women, peace and security,” Mayesha Alam, GIWPS assistant director said. “This new cadre of fellows represent the next generation of informed leaders, the best and brightest from Georgetown and beyond, and the fellowship program is a wonderful way to commemorate Secretary Clinton.”

In addition to the Hillary Clinton Fellowship, the donation will also fund the Delaney Fellowship program, a program that will offer 25 graduates one-year fellowships to work in the public interest field over the course of the next five years, as well

as the Delaney Scholars summer program, a program that will teach students about what is entailed in a career in public interest by offering a course and giving students experience in the field with nonprofit or government agencies.

Dean of Georgetown University Law Center William Treanor believes that the fellowship will provide a valuable opportunity for graduates to attain important experience prior to the beginning of their professional careers.

“This will be a great opportunity for our graduates to do public service in international law and women’s rights,” Treanor said. “The research they will do and the reports they will create will then be made public.

This is very exciting for us since when people are interested in international law and human rights, it is often requisite that people have experience in it from before, which makes it hard to get it as a first job.”

Delaney stressed the importance of women’s rights advocacy to him and his wife.

“April and I are just being supporters, and we believe getting a better understanding of the legal framework of women’s rights is incredibly important,” he said.

April McClain-Delaney serves as the Washington D.C. director for Common Sense Media Inc., an international research center that focuses on problems surrounding young girls in the media and aims to give support to women in the developing world.

“She’s really a professional, a full-time advocate for rights of women and young girls in really difficult situations,” Delaney said of his wife.

With Secretary Clinton in attendance, the Hillary Clinton Fellowship was officially announced Feb. 25 at a ceremony held in Gaston Hall. Scheduled to begin this summer, the fellowship anticipates starting with three fellows but will consider increasing the number in the future.

A student-orchestrated project has attracted attention to issues of gender identity and expression, eliciting mixed reactions to the depiction of prominent figures in drag.

Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) and Giuliana Cucci (COL ’14) — a stage name — conceived the project during spring break while brainstorming marketing promotions for the April 12 GenderFunk, but they soon decided to move the campaign beyond advertising and explore the university’s acceptance of gender expression.

“Georgetown really isn’t a place where you see a lot of unconventional gender expression. You rarely see a lot of variation in very strict gender roles,” Lloyd said. “We so narrowly define them at Georgetown. Certainly, there’s no room for someone who wants to play around with gender and expression.”

Lloyd suggested advertising the drag ball with an image of John Carroll holding a wig; the next day, Cucci shared an image she designed of University President John J. DeGioia in a wig and makeup.

“I loved it. I though it was funny, well done. I wanted to show it to everyone. [Cucci] started to express a lot of fear about how the university would respond,” Lloyd said.

Cucci, who identifies as trans* and genderqueer, explained that her fear stemmed from worry that the campaign would elicit backlash against the LGBTQ community.

“While Georgetown has made a lot of progress in the last five years, many people think that LGBT+ folks should be content with how far we’ve come and be done with it. I was worried that the administration [and] the general population would use it as an excuse to redemonize queer groups on campus or even specific figures,” she wrote in an email. However, she felt the campaign, entitled “Utraque Unum: Both Into One,” provided a visual representation of pressing issues, such as patriarchy, sexism and cissexism.

The flyers, originally posted in the Leavey Center and Red Square, feature DeGioia, Carroll, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., and Pope Francis in wigs and makeup, while LGBTQ Resource Center Director Shiva Subbaraman sports a moustache “One of my main inspirations for this project was the pop image of Putin in response to Russia’s anti-LGBT laws. I think pop art made a lot of sense for this project because Warhol used it to comment on the everyday, normalized images around us. I used that normalizing style to do something that, for Georgetown, is very queer,” Cucci wrote.

Lloyd, the president of GU Pride, acted independently of the organization, as the board, while agreeing with the intent of the campaign, was not wholly comfortable with association, over fears of reprisal in the form of revocation of access to ben-

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The project features altered images of figures, such as University President John J. DeGioia, top, and LGBTQ Resource Director Shiva Subbaraman. efits. He, however, said that feedback has tended toward the positive.

“A lot of people have reached to me to say that it was very important to them, that it was funny, that it was great that people were using art for a social end,” he said. “This includes some administrators that have reached out to me privately to tell me how much they support the project.”

However, he expressed dismay with anonymous negative comments on a post on campus blog “Vox Populi,” accusing Lloyd and Cucci of defacement and pushing an agenda too far.

“Why is this any different from a political cartoon? From Photoshopping them in a different location? When a woman puts on makeup, is it defacement? No. Why is it different with a man?” Lloyd said. “There’s something about unconventional gender expression that reaches into the lizard part of our brain and makes us react violently.”

The commenter’s identification as ally of the LGBTQ community also drew Lloyd’s ire.

“You can’t be an ally and then disagree with the actions of the advocates of the community you want to work with,” he said.

The installation in Red Square was removed within 24 hours of its posting. In response, Lloyd added more flyers Thursday night, including new images of men’s basketball Head Coach John Thompson III, Center for Student Engagement Director Erika Cohen Derr and Provost Robert Groves.

“For those who say that there is no antigay bias, that the issues are just with the campus’s free speech policy, I would argue

that more conservative voices on campus don’t value free expression,” Lloyd said. “If they did, they wouldn’t tear down condom envelopes from people’s doors, which is their space of free expression, or tear down our gender images in Red Square.”

He plans on posting more images, each time one is taken down, but anticipates an end to the campaign after GenderFunk, citing budgetary constraints.

Among the general campus community, the campaign has met with varying considerations.

“I don’t support it because I feel like there’s better ways to spark this discussion, and if that’s their sole purpose in doing that, then they don’t need to deface administrators and other people who work at the school,” Sarah Devermann (SFS ’17) said.

However, Ellen Rote (COL ’17) believed that the campaign provided an apt addition to campus discourse.

“I don’t think it’s inappropriate. I feel like there’d be no reason for someone to say that that was a crazy thing to do in the first place. I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it. I guess since it is our president, you have to be kind of cautious with what you’re doing, but I don’t think it’s inappropriate at all,” Rote said. Both students felt that the posters should not have been taken down.

In the end, Lloyd hopes to channel any outrage into thought-provoking discussion.

“The point of the campaign is to raise anger and then have you question the reasons behind it,” he said. “The point of the campaign was to start a discussion about gender, trying to raise the bar by expression.”

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“In a very real sense, the human is the weak link. … If you have a Hoya Staff Writer weak password that’s easy for With the recent spate of net- them to guess, if you accidentally work phishing attacks, where click on a link that has malware hackers have attempted to gain attached to it, that kind of thing, information, the university has is a door into the institution,” instituted a mandatory biannual House said. password change for students, facRecently, other schools, includulty and staff during both the fall ing University of Maryland, Inand spring semesters. diana University, Johns Hopkins University Information Services University and the University sent out the first batch of emails of North Dakota, suffered data to students who have not changed breaches. University of Maryland’s their password in the last six system especially suffered, as atmonths — students who changed tackers were able to gain personal their password within the last information of around 300,000 month are exempted — but found students, including social security that 1,300 have failed to change numbers. their passwords. This figure repFor some students, the emails resents about half the students about phishing attacks have provnotified. en confusing, as they are unsure If students fail to change their how exactly to change their passpasswords by the date specified words and what to look out for. in their targeted email, they will “I also think that the univerbe locked out sity doesn’t of the sysreally do a tem and be good job difrequired to ferentiating call the serwhat’s real vice center and what’s in order to not because go through they’ll say, JUDITH HOUSE the password ‘Did you get Associate University change prothis email?

Information Security Officer cess and reThat was gain access to the network. UIS fake, don’t do it,’ and I never really has already postponed their addi- know which one is which,” Clautional deadline, because of spring dia Huang (COL ’17) said. break.

Huang noted that she had not “We’re looking at about 31,000 changed her password, and was student IDs, and if you take that not aware that students are re50 percent number, that’s a lot quired to do so and that students of people. We don’t want that would benefit from a Blackboard many people getting cut off. We alert directing a password change. don’t even want half that many Thu Dao (NHS ’17), who also had people getting cut off,” Associate not changed her password, did University Information Security not feel particularly concerned Officer Judith House said. “We’ve about the phishing attacks. worked the dates around so that “I think I should be, but because no one will be cut off during pre- I haven’t been personally affected registration and no one will be by it, I don’t think I’m that concut off during exams, but in that cerned,” Dao said. window in between, everybody is In order to cause more concern, either going to have to comply or some students believe the unibe cut off.” versity should more directly and In order to ward against at- clearly communicate with stutacks, Georgetown uses a defense dents about the status of attacks. and depth system, which uses lay“I think they could make it ers of defense to ward off hackers. more clear in how they explain The university gets around 2.4 what the risks are to students and million attacks a month on the just the way that students can prosystem. Normally attacks come tect themselves,” Evan Chernack in the form of false log-ins or (SFS ’17) said. “If that’s something malware links that network us- Georgetown wants to do, it needs ers click on, allowing a false net- to be accompanied by them raiswork to gain their information. ing a lot of awareness.”

“In a very real sense, the human is the weak link.”

Underclassmen looking to take “International Relations” with professor Keir Lieber this semester may have been confused after searching his last name on MyAccess and finding mainly courses above the 300 level.

That’s because “Lieber” returns search results for both Keir and his father, Robert Lieber, who is also a professor at Georgetown.

The son, professor Keir Lieber, joined Georgetown as a faculty member in the School of Foreign Service’s security studies program in 2009. His father, professor Robert Lieber, has served as a professor in the department of government since 1982. They both have secondary appointments in each other’s respective departments.

However, Robert Lieber said that the two do not interact with each other on a daily basis, and the Liebers have to make time to see one another outside of monthly departmental meetings by getting together for coffee or lunch.

“Our offices are in different places.

He’s over in the Mortara Center and I’m a 10-minute walk away in the ICC. ... The fact that we each have a different base, different budgets [and] are not involved in anything having to do with supervising each other’s work is important,” Robert Lieber said.

Although Keir Lieber never set out to follow in his father’s footsteps, his father’s influence on his career is unmistakable. Through Robert Lieber’s travels on sabbatical as a professor at the University of California at Davis, Keir Lieber was exposed to many foreign countries growing up.

“My father’s influence on my path was primarily indirect — by way of example. I was aware of what he did for a living; he seemed to love his job. I came to share his interest in history, international politics and U.S. foreign policy, and, of course, I gained plenty of useful experience arguing with him at the dinner table,” Keir Lieber said.

The Liebers have avoided perceived nepotism or conflation of their opinions and beliefs.

“It helps that I spent the first eight years as a professor elsewhere — at the University of Notre Dame … [as it] has helped head off any serious perceptions of improper influence,” Keir Lieber said.

Robert Lieber actively avoided anything involving Keir Lieber’s appointment to the position.

“I stayed a thousand miles away from it,” he said. “I didn’t go to any of the job talks, and I studiously avoided talking to any of my colleagues about him. …

Whether he got the position or not was dependent entirely on what he demonstrated.”

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Keir Lieber, left, and his father, Robert, are both professors at Georgetown.

Robert has been on campus since 1982, while Keir joined in 2009.

In fact, Robert Lieber said that when his son selected an undergraduate institution, he specifically chose not to enroll at Georgetown in the SFS, as they both believed that the school was too small for the two of them. Both professors completed their undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin.

However, since joining the same institution, both Liebers have only seen advantages to working in the same environment.

“There are great benefits to being at the same university as my father. ...

I can always go to him with questions about past university policies and practices, [and] he is also always willing to review and comment on an article or proposal draft, as I do for him,” Keir Lieber said.

When reviewing one of his son’s articles, Robert Lieber recalled his reaction to the work from a purely professional standpoint.

“It was a eureka moment. … I was stunned by the importance of it, by the quality of it, and it made me think of the best work in the field,” Robert Lieber said.

Luckily though, the two have yet to have conflict while working together at Georgetown.

“If anything, I’d look forward to a future clash of views with my father; he is a master of department politics, and I’d relish the opportunity to play Luke Skywalker to his Darth Vader. But so far we’ve tended to see eye to eye on most substantive matters,” Keir Lieber said.

However, his father was clear to point out that they each have their own outlooks that are not always the same as the other’s stance.

“We don’t necessarily agree on every issue. We agree on plenty of things but we disagree on some policy questions.

… The disagreements are high level, and what you would want among colleagues,” Robert Lieber said.

Colleagues of the pair noticed their ability to work cohesively as a team.

“The Liebers are the power forwards of the Georgetown faculty: They are excellent teachers who evince a deep commitment to this university and its students. As scholars, they both seek out the most important questions and are unafraid to offer controversial and unpopular answers if they feel that is what the evidence demands,” professor Daniel Byman wrote in an email.

According to professor David Edelstein, who attended graduate school with Keir Lieber at the University of Chicago, and considers Robert Lieber a mentor, the duo is well-appreciated on campus.

“Having a father and his son in the same department at the same university is unusual in academia, but Georgetown is fortunate to have the Liebers. …

While they both have their own strong identities and personalities, the apple did not fall far from the tree in some important ways. They are both creative scholars, dedicated teachers and trustworthy colleagues,” Edelstein wrote in an email.

The close father-son relationship has only been strengthened both as academics and as relatives by working together at Georgetown.

“My father has taught me a lot — again, mainly by his own example. … Whether in the classroom or in print ... he is a model academic citizen,” Keir Lieber said. “I admire and try to emulate his deep commitment to the academic enterprise and Georgetown University. … Most importantly, I just feel lucky to see my father doing what he does best and in his prime.”

Kagan Offers Career Advice Maddy Moore Hoya Staff Writer

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan advised third-year law students to approach their budding careers holistically when she spoke at the Georgetown University Law Center on Monday afternoon as part of the inaugural Dean’s Lecture to the Graduating Class.

Kagan described herself as a voracious reader who grew up aspiring to become a writer.

Although her father was an attorney, Kagan never considered becoming a lawyer until after she graduated from Princeton University and discovered her passion at Harvard Law School.

“From the very first day, I fell in love with it,” Kagan said. “I liked the puzzle aspects of law … but I also liked the fact that it wasn’t purely a puzzle and purely abstract, but that there were ways people could use the law to actually make a difference in the world.”

Responding to a question from Law Center Dean William Treanor, Kagan instructed graduating law students about how to launch their careers.

“Don’t think about just your first job,” Kagan said. “Try to be more holistic in your thinking about the kinds of experiences you want to have and the kind of work you want to do during the course of your career.”

Kagan spoke highly of her experiences as a clerk for Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Abner Mikva and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. After clerking, Kagan went on to teach at the University of Chicago.

Kagan specifically emphasized the importance of collaborating with others in all careers. She identified her time as Dean of Harvard Law School as being a period when teamwork was crucial.

“Part of what makes a good dean is listening to people and getting them to focus on the institution as a whole,” Kagan said.

Kagan also focused on the importance of flexibility and the greater good.

“The ability to recognize that life is long and there are lots of different opportunities that are going to present themselves to you gives you a sort of freedom to think about your career,” Kagan said. “The lawyers that are happy find some way to accomplish something for people outside themselves and what that is is going to vary enormously,” Kagan’s advice resonated well with Georgetown Law students who attended the event. Lorin Dale-Pierce (LAW ’14), who heard Justice Sonia Sotomayor speak in 2012, expressed her gratitude for having the opportunity to hear from both Justices.

“The advice was realistic.

Justice Kagan was very down-toearth and it was nice to hear a different perspective as a thirdyear student,” Dale-Pierce said.

“It re-enforced that I don’t have to worry about every single thing in my career.”

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ADAMSSON, from A1 the captain of the varsity tennis team, which remained undefeated and won the Class A New England Championship his senior year.

Peter Heidrich, a junior at Middlebury College, played on the varsity tennis team with Adamsson.

“The story of winning New Englands with him was our best moment,” Heidrich wrote in an email. “We both wanted to lead our team to an undefeated season and bring Andover its first tennis championship. … He was a natural leader and instilled a great deal of confidence in the younger players with his dedication to practice and willingness to share advice with the freshmen.”

Throughout his time at Phillips Academy, Adamsson played a large role in student life. He played two varsity sports, tennis and soccer, served as a resident assistant for his dorm and as a member of the student council.

“He was a helping force for new students during orientation and a great member of the social community,” Heidrich wrote. “Our classmates took to our Facebook page immediately after his death, sharing experiences and notes of respect for his character.”

After graduating from Phillips Academy in 2011, Adamsson began his career at Georgetown.

According to his friends Daniel Martin (COL ’15) and Bernhard Wilhelm von Oppersdorff (SFS ’15), who wrote an obituary in the program for Tuesday’s service, Adamsson passionately studied philosophy and foreign affairs.

“He is remembered as one of the most heroically courageous athletes to play for Andover,” the pair wrote. “Mark then brought this spirit to Georgetown, where he was an exemplary student driven by a boundless curiosity and a uniquely resilient work ethic.”

According to his friends and teachers, Adamsson was an extremely intelligent student.

“There was never a simple answer to a question for him,” Matias Beeck (COL ’15) said at the memorial service. “He always thought out more. In our gatherings among friends that last couple nights, many stated that he was a very curious person, and I think that this is the best way to put it. Even though he was one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met, he wanted to learn and understand more about the world around him.”

Luis Alfonzo (MSB ’15), Adams-

GRAY, from A1 Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells said in a debate March 13 that included Bowser and fellow Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2).

Evans, who has been reluctant to criticize the mayor throughout the campaign, echoed Bowser and Wells’ sentiments during Thursday’s ABC7 debate, but added that any final conclusions would need further evidence.

“The mayor is under this cloud,” Evans said. “[But] I think the mayor has the right to his day.”

Wells and Evans hope to earn a final boost prior to the April 1 election, but recent polls have them behind Bowser, with Gray still leading. Earlier this week, Wells picked up the coveted endorsements of the unions that rep-

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Mark Adamsson (SFS ’15), second from left, was admired by his French professor for sitting in the front row of class and actively participating in discussion, displaying motivation and a flair for languages. son’s roommate of two years, said that he was struck by Adamsson’s wit and intellect the moment they met freshman year.

“Mark was one of the most intelligent and talented people I’ve ever met in my life. … He was really good at everything that he did,” Alfonzo said at the service. “He could talk to you about almost anything, from Latin American politics to NFL players to anything, really. I can say that there are many people here today who have had at least one interesting conversation with Mark that often turned into very hard-to-win debates.”

Peter Janssens, Adamsson’s French professor of two years, said that Adamsson would always sit at the front of the class, actively involved in discussion.

“He was a very strong student in a class that had a lot of strong students. It was a particularly strong class, but even then, he stood out,” Janssens said. “He was very gifted for languages in general, but also very motivated personally to learn. He struck me as very mature, always attentive and curious, but also patient and generous with other students.”

Janssens recalled a composition

that Adamsson wrote for French class about the film “Etre et Avoir,” a 2002 documentary about a small, rural school. His composition took the perspective of a character in the movie who was struggling in his life.

“What struck me is that Mark looked for the redeeming qualities in his young person and imagined the way in which he would transform his life and become a successful and happy person,” Janssens said. “It was so moving to me. He was very positive and optimistic person who would discover good and redeeming qualities in himself and also in others. He was very much at peace with himself and somebody who just had a lot of faith in life.”

Adamsson also had many extracurricular interests, according to his mother and stepfather. He loved gourmet food, art and photography. In addition, he cared deeply for his family. According to Alfonzo, Adamsson spent hours on Skype with his family, particularly helping his sister Madeleine with calculus.

“Mark’s sister, Madeleine, was very close to Mark,” Helene Adamsson and Carendi wrote. “He was

more than a big brother, he was a master and a friend.”

According to Beeck, Adamsson was wise beyond his years and taught everyone he encountered important lessons.

“Mark touched all of our lives, but it was much more than who he touched. It was how he did it,” Beeck said. “He had this special way of connecting with us that truly influenced how we thought about things. He showed us how meaningful our lives are and would often talk about how they are, to a certain degree, eternal.

He once said that the things we do in life have meaning because the effects of our actions will last for eternity.”

At the memorial service, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., spoke about his discussion with Adamsson’s friends.

“I know that words will be inadequate to sum up such a life, a beautiful young life of your son, of our friend,” O’Brien said. “I spent Sunday evening with many of Mark’s remarkable friends. At one point, I asked them, ‘What do you want me to tell his parents?’ and someone said, ‘We want them to know how much he was loved here.’ He was loved here.”

“I think the mayor has the right to his day.”

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resent the D.C. Fire and Police Departments.

Other candidates, including former State Department official Reta Jo Lewis and restaurateur Andy Shallal, are continuing their campaign efforts as early voting in the District begins.

“A vote for Reta Jo Lewis is a vote for ‘A City That Works For Everyone.’ Early voting has started. Reta Lewis is No. 3 on the ballot,” Lewis’ campaign posted on Facebook on Tuesday, along with photos of Lewis braving the cold outside the Judiciary Square Metro stop.

Dwight Kirk, Shallal’s campaign manager, said that Shallal is continuing to gain support in the wake of the Thompson allegations.

“Voters are taking a second look at all of the candidates in the wake of the Jeff Thompson guilty plea,” Kirk said. “Andy is winning over voters at every forum, every meeting, every interview with his strong voice for social justice and accountability.”

The federal investigation into the 2010 campaign remains ongoing. Gray’s attorney, Robert Bennett, told WUSA9 on Tuesday that he expects the U.S. attorney to seek an indictment against the mayor, but the mayor will fight the charges.

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Farmers Market Springs Into Season Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

With the spring return of the Georgetown University Farmers Market to Copley Lawn, students will notice new vendors as well as the absence of Indigo, the popular Indian food stand, on Wednesdays.

This year’s new vendors include Hilltoss — the new Students of Georgetown Inc. salad location — Lulu’s Ice Cream, Rita’s Crepes and a new pickle vendor called Fresh Crunch. This introduction of different food stands is an attempt to vary the vendors based on the change of season while continuing to cater to student preferences.

“We have our vendors try to rotate in and out just to keep consistency but also to get a diverse variety of offerings throughout the market season,” Farmers Market Director Lexi Cotcamp (MSB ’15) said.

Director of Hilltoss Dana Mitchell (MSB ’15) was pleased with the studentrun stand’s first day at the farmers market.

While Hilltoss is new to the scene, Indigo — a student favorite — will not return to the farmers market.

“I believe Indigo won’t be back this season just because they recently opened a new restaurant near Union Station and so they are actually focusing on that this semester,” Cotcamp said.

Cotcamp partly attributed the new food selections to vendor availability.

“There is no specific reason as to why a certain vendor would be included over another other than the fact that certain factors would prevent a vendor from being able to come, such as opening a restaurant, or growing or time constraints,” Cotcamp said.

The products that are sold at the farmers market, especially in the produce section, vary according to the weather. Peach season occurs toward the beginning of the academic year, while apples are most abundant during the fall and winter vegetables are plentiful during this time of year.

“Our product offerings tend to be very much dedicated to the different seasons,” Cotcamp said. “Mother Nature really tends to figure out how our product offerings will go, depending on if there is a late freeze or an early start to spring.”

The weather is especially impactful on the weekly market because of its focus on local products. All produce comes from the D.C. area, a standard which is enforced by Georgetown Farmers Market leadership.

“In order to actually come to the market, vendors must sign a contract, which essentially binds them to only bring to the market produce that is sourced locally,

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The Farmers Market returned to campus Wednesday despite snow. which is defined as being within I believe [a] 200-mile ... radius,” Cotcamp said.

Besides the climate’s effect on product offerings, weather also affects whether the market can function at all. However, despite recent storms, Cotcamp said that weather wouldn’t prevent the stands from opening for business.

“Of course, if there is any sort of emergency condition where the university is closed, then we would have to reconsider, but for the most part, we tend to operate rain or shine,” Cotcamp said.

Because the market’s opening day was plagued with wind, rain and mud, some vendors were concerned with weather issues.

“Weather is 50 percent of our sales, one way or another. If it’s bad weather, it’s going to be less than half [of our normal sales],” Fresh Crunch founder Matt Bressan said.

As students quickly moved from stand to stand to avoid the rain, some said that the bad weather would limit their time at the market. However, they said they would continue coming in future weeks.

“I probably won’t stay around as long if the weather continues, but as long as I have an umbrella, I’m good and I’ll show up,” Angela Ribaudo (SFS ’17) said.

The products themselves continue to draw Erika Bullock (COL ’17) despite weather concerns. “[The weather] is a little bit of an impediment, but I just love the fresh produce so much that it doesn’t affect me personally too much,” Bullock said.

Even with weather concerns, vendors are happy to return to campus.

“I love this market. The students and the faculty and the staff love our stuff.

We’re really happy to be back,” said Chris Girardot, who is in charge of running the Upper Crust Bakery stand.

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Campus Responds to Ricin RICIN, from A1 evacuate the building. However, to ensure that investigators had access to all areas, they closed the sixth floor,” Kerr said.

McCarthy 6 resident Margie Fuchs (COL ’16), former deputy editor for The Guide, said she did not receive further updates from the university or ORL throughout the day after initially being told to stay off the floor.

“Throughout the day, all the information I received regarding this incident was either through people posting on Facebook or other D.C. news outlets,” Fuchs said. “And I just find it very concerning that I literally live on this floor and was given no information about it.”

When lab results for the field tests had not yet been returned by late afternoon Tuesday, university officials made the determination to keep the area cordoned off while the investigation remained ongoing. Twenty students living in the area of the floor under investigation were offered temporary housing at the Savoy Hotel, on 2505 Wisconsin Ave. NW, because the Leavey Hotel and Conference Center was full.

Affected students, however, were unable to return to their rooms to retrieve clothing, books or toiletries they might have needed for the night, though each displaced student was given a $20 credit to his or her GOCard for toiletries and food. Daye Shim Lee (SFS ’14) was one of the students temporarily housed off campus for the night.

“They didn’t let us back in for any legitimate necessity, and we were basically told to sleep at the Savoy Hotel; that’s all the way over on Wisconsin Avenue,” Lee said. “The hotel was only provided for the night though, so those of us who didn’t have class until like 3 p.m. didn’t have any access to any kind of shelter until then, and it was just overall really frustrating.”

While students living in the cordoned-off area were informed of the situation via email, the remainder of the sixth floor residents, including residential staff, remained in the dark with respect to updates apart from an email send by Executive Director of Residential Services Patrick Killilee to McCarthy Hall residents at 6:52 p.m.

“Our RA lives on the other

side of the hall; she knew less than I and my roommate did.

Only the people who were evacuated got any remotely specific emails,” said sixth-floor resident Emily Min (NHS ’16). “Even the rest of the floor knew very little info so I just felt like the flow of information wasn’t effective from the university. I get they were trying to downplay it so as not to cause a panic, but I feel like the order of things they told us was out of order.”

Fuchs was similarly frustrated by the varying levels of information disseminated by university officials to those with rooms in the cordoned-off area and the rest of the sixth floor.

“I think the university acted smartly in that it was a developing situation and they were working within the bounds of what they knew at the time. I just think that more information really would have been helpful for those of us who live on this floor,” Fuchs said.

In follow-up testing performed at a regional laboratory conducted later Tuesday, the contained substance removed from McCarthy tested positive for ricin.

“The results we got on Tuesday were field tests that were performed on site. The substance that was sent to the laboratory tested positive for ricin.

All the field tests had come back negative, but it’s protocol that no matter the results of the field tests it all goes to the lab for further testing,” FBI spokeswoman Jacqueline McGuire said.

Ricin, a poison produced from the waste of castor beans, has been experimented with as a chemical warfare agent by the U.S. military as well as international terrorist organizations.

According to the Center for Disease Control, exposure to the agent can occur through inhalation, ingestion or skin exposure, and it damages cells by preventing them from producing necessary proteins.

According to McGuire, while the bureau frequently encounters cases involving hazardous materials, this is only the second time in recent history that the D.C. FBI has come upon samples testing positive for ricin.

“We had a case in June 2013 of someone sending ricin, and she sent it to a few places up here, but that’s the last time we’ve had a positive result for ricin in

the District. Our Hazardous Materials team responds on a regular basis to a report of suspicious substance. Most often, they’re white powder letters,” McGuire said, referring to a form of scareletter modeled after the anthrax letters to politicians in the wake of 9/11.

At 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, sixth-floor residents were informed that field tests for the biohazard had come back negative and that they would be able to return to their rooms. The rest of the Georgetown community was informed in a campuswide email sent by Gruber at 5:20 p.m.

“They were informed that they could return to McCarthy Hall prior to the notification that went to the whole community that the tests were negative,” Kerr said. “We were very mindful of letting students back in as soon as possible.”

This is not the first time in recent years that the university has responded to reports of a hazardous substance on campus. In October 2010, law enforcement officers responded to reports of a drug lab on the ninth floor of Harbin Hall with the intent to produce dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, an illegal, hallucinogenic drug.

Welles Robinson (COL ’14) was a resident of the cluster where the drug lab was found.

“They woke everyone up and the entire building had to go to the Leavey Center,” Robinson said. “They wouldn’t let us back into Harbin for a while, like 10 p.m., I think.”

Unlike the situation in McCarthy, all of Harbin Hall was immediately evacuated as the presence of a DMT lab provided an immediate danger to residents’ health and safety.

While the university has a set of protocols that it follows in such situations, Kerr did not see a connection between the university’s handling of the ricin and DMT situations.

“It was different timing, different circumstances, with different teams in place responding. We feel very comfortable that we took the appropriate steps this week, keeping the safety and health of our students as our top concern,” Kerr wrote in an email.

Hoya Staff Writer Suzanne Monyak contributed reporting.

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Diversity for Georgetown Talks ASU Partnership Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

Under the vision of A.J. Serlemitsos (COL ’17), the new organization Georgetown Talks aims to encourage students to talk about their personal experience at Georgetown and foster conversations on campus about diversity and students’ personal issues.

The organization’s first event will be a talk given by Serlemitsos on Wednesday about his experience growing up in Africa as white, followed by a brief discussion and forum.

Serlemitsos came up with the idea for Georgetown Talks based on a similar concept from his Connecticut boarding school, Choate Rosemary Hall.

“At Choate, it was really a TED Talks expansion, just giving people a chance to speak to the student body about an issue they felt passionate about, whether it be an issue worldwide, or even just a personal issue they were dealing with, like where they’re from and how it made them unique,” Serlemitsos said.

Another goal of Georgetown Talks is to create more student interaction that enriches the Georgetown student experience.

“We’re just trying to foster a greater sense of community awareness. We need people sharing their stories, their upbringings, their personal experiences — things that they’re passionate about — and engaging with one another, and Georgetown Talks will be a great way they can do that,” Jack Maher (COL ’17), the other Georgetown Talks team member, said.

Though the project was initially conceived in October as an evolution of GUSA’s Freshman Outreach Committee, the organization has yet to see a talk. Serlemitsos attributes the wait to administrative hurdles. “[The administration] has a lot of rules about what it means to be an official group. They have a lot of limitations on what you can do if you’re not an official group,” he said.

With an abundance of speakers on campus, Maher still stressed the necessity of the organization, claiming that other groups did not focus on giving students a voice.

“Having some of the great minds the Lecture Fund brings in is nice, but ultimately, they’re talking about things on a global scale that might not be as pertinent to Georgetown, and so what we’re trying to do through Georgetown Talks is get something that’s more of a personal and intimate experience,” Maher said.

Serlemitsos pointed out free speech and diversity as major issues he hopes to see brought up in future talks. These issues served as prominent topics of discussion in this year’s new “What’s a Hoya?” program.

Megan Murday (SFS ’15) — one of the coordinators of “What’s a Hoya?” — was excited for the new organization.

“It sounds like a very interesting and worthwhile program. For the final session of ‘What’s a Hoya?’ we invited students to come and give a talk related to an aspect of diversity in their own lives and then lead a miniature discussion with the freshmen,” Murday said.

“Many freshman participants remarked that it was their favorite session, so I hope there is continued enthusiasm for the new program.”

However, Murday addressed one of the major problems of the organization, admitting to having never heard of Georgetown Talks before. Serlemitsos agreed there had been some trouble in reaching out to people to build a strong community.

“It’s tough marketing to the people we don’t know that want Georgetown Talks to succeed but don’t know about it yet. We’re going to do some tabling over the next few days.”

The idea of continued conversations on topics such as diversity sparks student interest.

“On the surface level, I think it’s a very interesting idea. I have really enjoyed understanding that everyone on Georgetown has taken very different paths to the Hilltop,” Mike Gee (SFS ’15) said. “It matters how they fill the venue and that they make sure it’s a discussion and not just a talk. It’s important for them to build a community so people are comfortable expressing themselves and their true opinions.”

Other students, like Dylan Orshefsky (COL ’17), were less intrigued by the premise of the talks.

“Diversity is not something that I feel, to me, is something that needs to have a discussion about. I personally am just not that interested in it. But if the talks were something more along the lines of science, technology, culture, linguistics — I’d absolutely be interested in it,” Orshefsky said.

Fin/App Risks Conflict of Interest FIN/APP, from A1 GUSA Director of Student Space Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) said. “Conflicts of interest are sometimes hard to manage.”

Fin/App has approved two Cohen Derr-proposed projects in the past few years while she simultaneously sat as the committee’s adviser. One of the projects appropriates $40,000 over the course of three years, from 2012 to 2014, to upgrade and maintain HoyaLink, while the other, in fiscal year 2013, appropriated $5,000 for a CSE golf cart.

“I don’t think an adviser should be presenting to a group that he or she advises,” Appelbaum said. “When I was on [the Student Activities Commission] I would’ve been uncomfortable with our adviser presenting to us. And I think, going forward, that it’s something that should be looked at.”

The money that Fin/App allocates each year consists of approximately

$998,400 in student activities fees, which each student contributes to through $153 in tuition, scheduled to rise next year to $156.

“I think the intentions are in the right place,” CSE Marketing and Programming Assistant Andi Debellis (MSB ’14) said. “I think the biggest conflict comes with, it’s really hard to tell your adviser ‘no.’ And at the same time, these initiatives aren’t always student led. So while the intention’s in the right place, it’s not coming from the right person.”

According to Debellis, Cohen Derr’s funded projects, although approved, are weaker because of the administrative, not student, involvement.

“I think they’re both good in intentions. I think they would’ve been more powerful coming from students. HoyaLink, while it’s a great device and I’m its biggest advocate, it just isn’t getting the use that justifies the cost that went into it,” Debellis said. “I feel that if it

were more of a student-driven initiative, we would have got some sort of product that would’ve better suited the needs of student groups.”

Fin/App, a GUSA senate committee, allocates approximately four-fifths of the almost $1 million in student money annually to advisory boards such as SAC, leaving around $200,000 for various capital improvements which can be allocated to projects like Cohen Derr’s in New South.

At the moment, the obligation to remain unbiased in the face of conflicting interests falls on the eight GUSA senators elected by the senate to serve on the Fin/App committee.

“It may be challenging, but it’s up to them to recognize that challenge and recognize the importance of staying impartial, and objective, and objectively looking at things, despite where and how a proposal might be coming from,” Appelbaum said.

Ushers In Future Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

Jeffrey Selingo, professor of practice at Arizona State University and senior adviser to University President John J. DeGioia, discussed the future of leadership in higher education at a public forum at Georgetown’s downtown campus Tuesday. The forum, called “Leadership for the Innovative University,” was part of Georgetown’s “Designing the Future(s) of the University Initiative.”

Selingo, an expert in higher education and author of “College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students,” assembled and moderated the panel with the goal of gathering a unique diversity of perspectives on how leadership training in higher education can be improved.

“This particular panel includes sitting presidents, but it also includes experts in leadership and innovation from industry and the military. The goal of this panel was to move beyond academic silos and bring together leaders accustomed to dealing with disruptive changes,” Interim Dean of Continuing Studies Walter Rankin wrote in an email.

DeGioia, Arizona State President Michael Crow, President of Northeastern University Joseph Aoun, retired Army Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley, author and co-founder of Rotman DesignWorks at the University of Toronto Heather Fraser, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland William “Brit” Kirwan and Acting Deputy Undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Education Jamienne Studley were present as panelists.

“We wanted a diversity of opinions pulled from inside and outside of higher ed,” Selingo said.

The event announced the partnership between Georgetown and Arizona State to develop a program that will help to train people within the higher education system to hold university leadership positions.

Through this partnership, which will be launched in fall 2014, the institute will develop a year-long, executivestyle training program to be held in Washington, D.C., and Phoenix, Ariz., aimed at mid-career professionals working in higher education. The curriculum will be divided into modules that will each focus on a different challenge threatening the future of higher education, such as reshaping organizational culture and momentum for long-term success, designing new sustainable financial models for higher education and partnering with other institutions

and providers to combine strengths.

“As we continue initiatives, like ‘Designing the Future(s),’ like the collaboration between ASU and Georgetown that we celebrate today, we create new ways for our communities to reaffirm and reinvigorate our commitment to these aspects of our shared work,” DeGioia said.

Selingo emphasized the importance of combining two very different universities, with two different perspectives and experiences, in pursuit of a common goal.

“The reason that we like it for this program is that it brings together a public university, a private university, one on the east coast — the nation’s capital — one on the west coast in one of the nation’s biggest, fastest-growing states, and it’s dealing with a lot of big issues,“ Selingo said.

Rankin agreed, adding that ASU’s larger size of over 30,000 students and the resulting larger number of courses and online degree options will provide Georgetown with a wider range of perspectives to pull from in developing the new program.

“ASU is different from Georgetown, and we view this as a tremendous benefit in helping us engage more deeply in conversations about higher education today,” Rankin wrote.

The panel primarily discussed the impending leadership crisis in higher education due to the lack of training within higher education for professors who wish to advance to leadership roles.

“And really, unlike many other industries, higher education does not have a deliberate pathway to the presidency. There is no really deliberate training program, so for example, you know leaders go usually and get an MBA. There’s nothing similar in higher ed, so that’s what we’re trying to build,” Selingo said.

Additionally, the median age of university presidents is 61, posing a problem for future leadership in the next decade.

“It takes time to become a full professor. So if you’re appointed as an assistant professor when you’re 25, 26, you serve six years in that role, and then you become an associate professor, and you serve six or seven years in that role, and then you become a full professor, and you’ve got to regain some maturity in that institution. I think the fact that we tend to look inside the academy … I think just that by that very nature it’s going to drive the age of the CEO, the president, higher on average than you might see in the corporate world,” Kirwan said.

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Molly Simio Hoya Staff Writer

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen accepted the 2014 Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security in the Lohrfink Auditorium on Wednesday morning after he was unable to attend the initial eremony on Feb . 25 Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and honorary founder of the Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security, held the first ceremony Feb. 25, where British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Congolese Hospital Director Denis Mukwege received their awards.

After accepting the award from University President John J. DeGioia on Wednesday, Rasmussen delivered remarks about the advancement of women worldwide and NATO’s reaction to the current antagonism between Russia and Ukraine.

“If women do not play an active part in making peace and keeping peace, then the needs and interests of half of the world’s population are not taken into account,” Rasmussen said. “It is vital that we continue to develop our understanding of how women are affected by conflict and how they can be a prominent part of the resolution, not sometimes but every time.”

Ambassador Melanne Verveer, executive director of the Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the first U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, outlined Rasmussen’s accomplishments in her opening remarks.

Rasmussen was honored for his leadership in creating a NATO action plan on women, peace and security and for his commitment to the implementation of this plan.

“It is for his exemplary leadership at NATO in advancing women, peace and security that we honor him today,” Verveer said.

In 2012, Rasmussen appointed Norwegian diplomat Mari Skåre as the first special representative for Women, Peace and Security.

“He has boldly led NATO’s efforts to integrate women, peace and security into the alliance’s operation. ... He understands that women are agents of change and drivers of progress, not just victims and survivors,” Clinton said of Rasmussen at the award ceremony last month.

In his remarks, Rasmussen discussed the growing influence of women in Afghanistan in roles related to peace and security.

“We have helped Afghan women and girls to exercise their rights and, increasingly, also to shape the future of their country,” Rasmussen said.

He outlined the role of Afghan women in providing lines of communications to communities that are not open to male soldiers, in consulting with commanders about specific health and education needs of women and girls and in providing a female perspective in security decisions. Additionally, Afghan women are becoming increasing active in the Afghan military and police forces.

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen accepts his award Wednesday.

“Over 2,000 women are now part of the security forces. That may not sound like many, but for a country like Afghanistan, it is a visible change for the better,” Rasmussen said.

Afghan Ambassador to the United States Eklil Ahmad Hakimi was in attendance.

Rasmussen said that women’s input in security decisions is vital due to the way that conflict affects women.

“Armed conflict often hits women and children harder than men. They lose access to basic services, to education and economic opportunities and increasingly, they are subjected to sexual violence,” Rasmussen said. “The harsh reality is that, in many conflict areas today, it is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.”

Although Rasmussen’s remarks focused primarily on the advancement of women around the world and the growing role of females in NATO, he briefly discussed the events currently unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, which he expounded on at the Brookings Institution later that day.

Rasmussen condemned the Russian annexation of Crimea, stating that Russia’s disruption of European security was inappropriate.

“Recent events in Ukraine have shown that we cannot take that security and stability for granted and that we need to stand up for our values. We have seen Russia rip up the international rulebook, trying to redraw the map of Europe and creating in just a few weeks the most serious security crisis since the end of the Cold War,” Rasmussen said. “This sort of behavior goes against international norms and it simply has no place in the 21sr century.”

a position as a science.

“Each company is looking for different things,” Metz said.

“One’s resume and GPA [do] not secure an internship; they are large components, but the interview is as important or more important than those two things.

The process can be extremely stressful at times.”

Metz advocated the use of “The Vault Guide,” a book containing sample interview questions frequently used by investment banks.

But the system is not without its flaws.

“In my mind, these questions are not representative of a candidate’s intelligence or critical thinking skills,” Metz said of the interview questions used in “The Vault Guide.” “It shows how well [potential interns] can memorize an answer and present it in a manner that seems natural.

I think the system can be improved, but the format is foreign to me as of now. From what I have heard, consulting interviews are case-based, which seems like a much better system.”

Those interested in finance are willing to subject themselves to the process with the hope of landing a full-time job offer after the 10-week program is over. Metz classified the program itself as a 10-week interview, with the internship serving as “the first step to getting a job.”

The process can be long and tedious, forcing students to balance schoolwork and the job search.

Jill Weakland (MSB ’15) described

the process as “nerve-wracking.”

“It seemed like a long process when I was going through it, doing lots of applications every few days as various deadlines pass and attending lots of company information sessions to meet the recruiters,” she said. “A lot of the process is stressful, and I was pretty happy once it ended.”

Weakland will be working as an analyst in the technology department at The Royal Bank of Scotland this summer.

She attributed her success during the process to a keen knowledge of both business and technical skills. “[Recruiters] are looking for students who are looking to learn about the company and the job and students who can add value to the company,” she said.

There are huge upsides to landing an internship, including the prospect of being offered a fulltime return offer at the end of the program.

“A great internship means a great job the year after,” Weakland said. “The available internships and entry-level jobs recruited for at Georgetown are more lucrative than jobs found elsewhere, mostly because the companies are in very lucrative industries and are willing to pay for the high value added by Georgetown students.”

Not everyone enters the process entirely certain in which field they want to end up.

After going through the recruitment process, Jessica Chen (MSB ’15) landed a job at BMO Capital Markets in the investment banking division.

“I literally applied to every-

thing, from investment banking to asset management/wealth management to consulting,” Chen said. “I even looked at some retail and marketing jobs. In the end, I had wanted to try investment banking for the summer and to sample what the infamous Wall Street Life has to offer, so I went with BMO.” While a high GPA and a cleanly polished resume can be good predictors of who lands a coveted internship, Chen attributes most students’ success to luck and the chemistry between student and recruiter.

“As long as you have the basics down for technicals, storytelling and building off of your resume in a convincing, genuine way, and connecting with your interviewer shows that you are easygoing and good to work with, which, in industries where 80-hour work weeks are the norm and team dynamics are crucial, is a number one priority,” she said.

There are many resources available to Georgetown students to prepare for the rigorous process.

Job postings and updated recruitment information appear on The Hoya Career Connection website, and the Career Center offers resume revisions, cover letter editing and career advice on different career options.

“If there is no interest whatsoever, preparation for recruiting itself — investment banking or consulting — is a very tiring ordeal in and of itself, never mind the actual internship program,” Chen said. “Be careful to not jump on the bandwagon simply because it’s the bandwagon.”

Alum Company Shines in Seed ENCORE, from A9 and customer support teams to understand social insights as they happen, which allows us to seamlessly take action at the right time,” Sonny Ganguly, investor and CMO of WeddingWire, said in a statement on Encore Alert’s website.

Encore Alert is currently a finalist in the University of Maryland’s Cupid Cup, a student entrepreneurship competition hosted by the university in partnership with Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, with a prize

of $75,000.

Cho cited the importance of support from the university community.

“We really couldn’t have come this far without the help of the Georgetown entrepreneurship community,” she said. “We’ve been able to connect with so many of our great customers, mentors and investors through the Georgetown Entrepreneursin-Residence, professors, alumni and grad students.”

Members of the Georgetown community are delighted with the success of Li and Cho.

“James Li and Tammy Cho are two amazing Georgetown entrepreneurs. They’ve worked really hard and made a lot of progress and investors are betting on their future success. It looks a good bet,” Founding Director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative Jeff Reid said.

“They adapt well when they need to, they listen to the advice of coaches and they learn from their own experiences. ... Now they enter a whole new phase.

They’re no longer searching for a business model — now it’s all about growing.”

BUSINESS FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

COMMENTARY

Analytics Startup Gets $390K

BRANDING BUSINESSES ONLINE

Jim Hilson

Saxbys Barista to Owner

Angel investors fund data analytics tool Encore Alert NATASHA KHAN Hoya Staff Writer

The job-internship hunt can be scary since it is so wide open.

With banking and consulting recruitment, you more or less have a pretty good idea of what you are getting into.”

Students involved participate in a long process, including networking to gain a comprehensive view of a firm, getting to know Georgetown alumni currently at the firm, attending on-campus information sessions, applications, first-round, on-campus interviews and finally, more indepth second-round interviews.

The process can also involve missing school to travel to a company’s office, but missing a few classes can be worth the reward of landing a position.

“If you make it through these short first rounds, you will generally get a call to come up to the New York offices for a day that will include many more interviews with different people within the firm,” Sattel said. “The interviews are a great way to learn more about all of the firms or banks, as well. A ton of different places recruit on campus, but consulting firms and large banks seem to be the most prominent.”

Interns are usually paid a similar hourly wage as full-time employees, and sometimes overtime for anything over 40 hours.

Google, for example, pays $5,832 per month, PricewaterhouseCoopers pays $4,162 and JPMorgan Chase pays $4,031, according to Yahoo Business Insider. Whether or not interns receive job offers depends on the specific fit of a firm with an intern.

Harry Metz (MSB ’15) will be interning for Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division this summer in New York City.

He views the process of landing

Social marketing tool Encore Alert, cofounded by a Georgetown alum and a current student, announced March 17 that it raised an impressive $390K seed round.

CEO James Li (MSB ’13), VP of Product Tammy Cho (MSB ’16) and Chief Technical Officer Felipe Lopes, who joins Encore from Brazil, co-founded Encore Alert. The company aids marketing teams at small to midsized brands by scanning brand mentions in social media and sending their customers actionable alerts. The company’s round of investing started in September and ended March 17.

“We’re extremely thrilled to have these investors on board and to continue leveraging their great expertise and advice,” Li stated in the company’s March 17 release.

D.C.-based NextGen Angels led Encore Alert’s seed round, a small round of investing in a company in its earliest stages, and investors included Clarabridge CEO Sid Banerjee, Google Manager of Global Social Strategy Tyler Peterson and Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, among many others.

“Every day, Encore Alert learns what actions drive results for marketers, and allows the platform to become more predictive.

Over time, Encore is becoming smarter.”

The company plans to use the bulk of the funding on new employee costs,” NextGen Angels Managing Director Brett Gibson said in a statement on Encore Alert’s website.

“We’re trying to definitely hire more people, get to a team of about eight people by the end of one year. The money is supposed to last us for one year,” Cho told THE HOYA. The company hopes to hire more developers as well as a marketing and salesperson.

Some of the funding will also be used for web services associated with the product itself.

The company changed its name from Encore to Encore Alerts last year and transitioned into its new business model after realizing that nonprofits were not willing to pay enough to sustain the business. Encore Alert’s current clients include Sweetgreen, NASA and the Consumer Electronics Association.

In the case of CEA, Encore’s services will involve sending alerts every day to multiple team members regarding different opportunities that could be taken advantage of, according to Li’s statement to InTheCapital.

Cho believes the way the company’s business model fits the needs of the market attracted investors.

“The problem that we are trying to solve is there’s so much noise out there, and it’s hard for midsized markets to handle all of these tweets, Facebook posts, etc. coming through at once,” Cho said. “I think they feel that we are the right team. We want to be able to just help marketers be able to act on data easily.”

Investors affirm Encore Alert’s usefulness.

“As a marketer, finding actionable insights across social platforms is a tedious task. Encore Alert enables our marketing

See INTERNSHIPS, A9

See ENCORE, A9

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usiness ownership is a “one day” dream for many people. It definitely was for me, starting when I watched Jack and Elizabeth Egle build Saxbys Coffee — where I worked as a barista during my junior and senior years at Georgetown — into a successful coffee shop and a well-loved part of the Georgetown community. Jack and Elizabeth had never run a coffee shop prior to Saxbys, but I saw them connecting with countless people, solving problems and overcoming challenges every day — and they seemed to enjoy themselves all the while. Gradually I realized that I, too, would love to have my own business “one day.”

Four years after I graduated from Georgetown, my business partners, Eric Rodawig (COL ’07) and Ken Martin (COL ’07), and I had the opportunity to take the reins from Jack and Elizabeth (and their business partners) as the owners of Saxbys. I’m happy to report that every day I experience the achievements, challenges, solutions, relationships and all the other reasons that enticed me to run my own business initially. So, how did “one day” come so soon for me, and how can any aspiring entrepreneur make his or her dream into reality sooner rather than later?

First and most importantly, the business opportunity you create or find for yourself must be one that you’re passionate about, that you enjoy spending your time on. I enjoy pouring every coffee I pour, slicing

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Aha Media Group President and owner Ahava Leibtag discussed marketing and branding using social media at the Gnovicon 2014 conference held in McShain Lounge on Thursday.

Students Vie for Internships AARON LEWIS Hoya Staff Writer

It can be hard to imagine working 80-hour weeks during summer vacation while friends are travelling abroad or relaxing, but Georgetown students interested in the sometimes cutthroat world of finance and consulting welcome the opportunity to land lucrative paychecks and potentially a job offer.

To attain these coveted positions, students are going through a grueling job recruitment process lasting the better part of four months — from January to April — and consisting of a dozen or more interviews.

Financial services and consulting firms hire summer interns and entry-level employees through a recruitment process conducted on college campuses across the country early in the spring semester.

Many students participate in the recruitment process as a career stepping stone.

“People place such an emphasis on recruitment because it is such a clearly outlined process,” Josh Sattel (COL ’15) said of the intern recruitment process.

“While exciting and interesting careers are obviously the major draw, it’s also nice for prospective applicants to know a ton about what they’re getting into.

If you like the idea of running your own business, be sure to keep exploring. every bagel I slice and becoming friendly with every coworker and customer that I meet; that’s what keeps me happy to keep putting my time, energy and focus into Saxbys.

Any entrepreneur must also have a strong knowledge of how to run his or her business before setting out — or you must partner with people who do. I’m able to manage Saxbys because I spent two years learning to be a barista, serve customers, run the cash register and lead other employees. When I was preparing to step into my ownership role, Jack and Elizabeth taught me how to work with vendors, order products and perform the many “back-end” operational tasks that keep Saxbys running. I partnered with Eric and Ken, who are experts at accounting, budgeting and business management. Together we’ve formed a team with the right collective knowledge to operate a coffee shop successfully.

No business runs perfectly all the time, and business owners must possess the steady confidence that will lead to success. This has been the hardest lesson for me at Saxbys; I’m still learning that every hiccup — even ones that would seem disastrous like a malfunctioning coffee brewer — has a solution, whether it comes from a clever co-worker or handy repairman. The important thing is to remain steady-handed so that you and your co-workers can solve the problem.

If you like the idea of running your own business, be sure to keep exploring. Take a job as a waiter or barista. Work in an office, warehouse or factory, or sign up for a class that could help you develop a new skill or knowledge area. Chat with someone who works in a field about which you may be interested in learning more.

Finally, keep your eyes and ears open as you explore. The right “one day” business opportunity may present itself before you expect it.

JIM HILSON (COL ’08), a former opinion editor of The Hoya, is an owner and manager of the local Saxbys Coffee at 3500 O. St NW.

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Students are in the midst of navigating the recruiting process to score competitive jobs and internships in the financial world.

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INSIDER

If you could work for any company in any industry, what would it be?

Goldman Sachs Apple

7

Google

18

5

Facebook Boston Consulting Group

10 2

Tesla Motors Nike

2 2

4

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