The Hoya: March 25, 2014

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Georgetown’s season came to an end after a 101-90 loss to Florida State.

ENDORSEMENT The Editorial Board urges students to vote Muriel Bowser for D.C. mayor.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A2

MPD ACROSS DC Students on D.C. campuses report varied relationships with MPD.

CANCER DISCOVERY Lombardi researchers identified new genes linked to breast cancer.

NEWS, A5

NEWS, A4

Tuition Campus Shocked by Milzman Arrest Rises 4.3% In FY15 Madison Ashley & Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writers

Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Tuition will rise 4.34 percent next year, according to the university’s financial plan for fiscal years 2015 to 2018, published by the Division of Financial Affairs on Jan. 31 and released to the Georgetown community March 19.

The financial plan specifies ways to increase revenue and cut costs to scale back a $9 million deficit as well as the use of student loans in financial aid packages.

The 4.3 percent tuition increase will take effect for the 2014-2015 academic year, bringing undergraduate tuition, not including room and board, from $44,280 to $46,200. The university will also allocate $4.4 million more to funding for financial aid in the upcoming year.

Despite the increase for 2015 tuition, according to Rubenstein, the university hopes to prevent large tuition increases.

“This is a nationwide issue, but for our students and parents we act to limit tuition increases as much as possible, while continuing to fund and raise philanthropic dollars to fund our need-blind, meet-full-need admissions policy,” Rubenstein wrote in an email.

See TUITION, A6

Since Daniel Milzman (COL ’16) was arrested for possessing a lethal quantity of ricin Friday, his friends and colleagues have slowly come to terms with the fact that the science student had been quietly concocting the biological toxin in his dorm room.

“Nothing ever would have led me to think that he would make a dangerous substance or do anything to hurt anybody. I’m extremely surprised by all of this and dismayed, but he was a great kid,” said Jan Denis, Milzman’s Quiz Bowl coach at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, Md., which Milzman graduated from in 2012.

On Friday, Milzman, 19, was formally charged with possession of 123 milligrams of a white powdery substance, within which concentration of the toxin was 7.7 micrograms per milligram. Federal law enforcement seized the substance from Milzman’s dorm room on the sixth floor of McCarthy Hall early March 18.

In an interview with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents last Tuesday, Milzman reported that he had made the agent in his dorm room a month prior wearing goggles and a dust mask and using materials purchased at Home Depot and the American Plant Company after researching how to concoct the substance on his iPhone.

Milzman, who studies physics and math, has followed a pre-med track at Georgetown, set to follow in the footsteps of his father, Dave Milzman, who is the research director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and with whom Milzman has co-written two articles in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dave Milzman and two brothers, Jesse Milzman (COL ’15) and Matt Milzman, a 2013 Georgetown graduate, did not respond to requests for comment.

“He seemed like a quiet, odd kid, but we’re physics majors so everyone’s like that,” said a fellow physics major, who requested anonymity.

Within the small department, classmates remarked that Milzman had begun to miss a noticeable number of classes over the past few months.

“He started missing a lot of classes midway through the semester.

Our professor started asking about him a lot. If he wanted to hand back a problem set he would ask, ‘Has anyone seen Danny?’” another classmate said.

Fellow classmate Nevin Snow (COL ’16) also noticed Milzman’s frequent absences, though he attributed the ability to miss classes to Milzman’s intelligence.

“Those are the two defining things that I remember: he never showed up for class, and when he did it would only be for a test,” Snow said.

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Friends and colleagues at Georgetown characterize Daniel Milzman (COL ’16) as a normal and intelligent, if quiet, student.

Milzman, who could face up to 10 years in prison for possession of the biological toxin, has also served as a tutor in the university’s Math Assistance Center, where one of his students, Arianna Petillo (MSB ’17), said he had been a skilled teacher.

“He seemed very sarcastic, but at the same time, it was just how he was; it wasn’t anything really malicious, I guess, and he was helpful with math,” Petillo said.

On campus, Milzman is a member of the Secular Student Association as well as the founder and captain of the university’s Quiz Bowl team.

Jim Coury (SFS ’15), a member of the Quiz Bowl team, praised Milzman’s leadership of the fledgling organization.

“He really took care of what See MILZMAN, A6

Final Fin/App Budget Released Committee cuts Collegiate Readership, reduces GUSA funding Sydney Winkler Hoya Staff Writer

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Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), left, takes the reins from outgoing GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) in Healy Hall on Sunday.

Tezel Sworn In as GUSA President Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Nearly a month after winning the race for GUSA executive, Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) were sworn in as president and vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association on Sunday.

After the GUSA senate officially certified the results of the Feb. 28 election Saturday, Tezel and Jikaria acknowledged a subtle ideological shift in the role they believe GUSA should play in students’ lives. While continuing “What’s A Hoya?” student conduct events, they hope to move GUSA’s focus away from programming and toward advocacy.

“We’re looking to continue to keep that going, while also looking to ... the great programming being put on by other student groups and see if we can integrate that into ‘What’s A Hoya?’ so that we are letting them do what they do best, and GUSA can continue to focus its resources on being primarily an advocate for the student

body,” Tezel said.

Jikaria sees this shift as playing to GUSA’s strengths.

“I think based on the resources that GUSA has and the connections that it has, it should be an advocacy body because that’s kind of its strength — and why not capitalize on that?” Jikaria said. “That being said, obviously a lot of student organizations put on great programs, so if we can facilitate that great work that’s awesome.

But our priority should be kind of advocating for students.”

The new executive administration is creating a GUSA Transfer Council to address the interests of transfer students, as well as a Multicultural Council.

Senate Speaker and former vice presidential candidate Sam Greco (SFS ’15) said he thinks this shift toward advocacy will change the approach of the executive.

“I know that Trevor and Omika … think GUSA is an advocacy body and not a programming body, and I think that is one of the bigger

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The GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee released its final budget for the 2015 fiscal year, cutting the Collegiate Readership Program and funding for GUSA while also putting Georgetown Day under the control of the Division of Student Affairs.

The budget, released March 21, is projected at $998,400, in response to requests totaling $1,699,055.37 compared to fiscal year 2014’s $979,200.

Georgetown University Student Association executives Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) requested a $3,000 increase for the GUSA General Fund and a $500 increase for the GUSA Executive Discretionary Fund during the two-week public discussion period following the March 5 draft budget release, but their appeal was denied. The GUSA General Fund was allotted $20,500 for the 2015 fiscal year.

“We requested an increased number in order for GUSA to continue supporting the student groups that might not receive funding through advisory boards,” Tezel wrote in an email. “This number was cut by Fin/ App, and we understand their need to work on a budget when it came to

this proposal.”

The allocation shows an 8.29 percent decrease — translating to a decrease of $1,700 — in the GUSA General Fund from last year. The Executive Discretionary Fund, which allows for executive access of funds without senate approval, was allocated $1,500 of the requested $2,000.

“Overall, we were not happy with the budget numbers that Fin/App has proposed for GUSA, however,” Tezel wrote.

A new addition to the budget is the “Sunny Day Fund.” It will consist of $1,500 set aside for GUSA to use innovatively throughout the year.

“Even with the ‘[Sunny] Day Fund’ being proposed by Fin/App, basic GUSA operational costs run to over $2,000,” Tezel wrote. “The definition of a ‘[sunny] day fund’ means that it would be used in case something suddenly popped up. Instead, it’s creating an additional hurdle for the executive to operate.”

However, Fin/App Chair Seamus Guerin (COL ’16) states that the allocated funds will allow GUSA more flexibility as issues come up during the course of the year.

“It’s money set aside for GUSA to be innovative in the upcoming year,” Guerin said. “If they come up with a great idea, or the senate comes up with a great idea, that they’d like

to champion in the upcoming year, they have the funding in place for it.”

Another change to the budget for the 2014-2015 school year is elimination of the Collegiate Readership program, which provided free copies of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today on campus and has been completely cut from the budget.

“We decided to cut that program in committee with the budget we have currently, feeling that the money was not going to undergraduate students,” Guerin said. “Those papers were going to graduate students, and they were going to professors who were getting them early.”

The Collegiate Readership Program, which began in 2008, received $14,000 in the last fiscal year. Tezel strongly disagrees with the decision.

“This was done without debate or discussion by outside parties, nor with a stated explanation or proposed alternative,” Tezel wrote. “This should not be how a widely used program like Collegiate Readership should be cut.”

Students have also expressed their concern for the loss of the program.

“I’m sad to see the access go,” Scott Syroka (COL ’16) said. “I hope See FIN/APP, A6

FY 2015 STUDENT ACTIVITIES FEE ALLOCATION Total: $998,400

= $10,000 CSJ ABSO $179,000

SAC $240,000

GPB $70,000

ABCS $170,000

PAAC $70,000

Lecture Fund $72,000

Other $82,400

Media Board $60,000

Other: GUSA General ($20,500); Georgetown Day ($16,900); Welcome Week ($11,000); CMSF ($15,000); SCC Homecoming Tailgate ($5,000); Kalmanovitz Initiative, CMEA and CSJ ($3,500); Outdoor Education ($3,000); Student Activities Fee Reserve ($2,000); SCC Traditions Day ($2,000); Undergraduate Research Symposium ($2,000); GUSA Executive Discretionary ($1,500) IAN TICE/THE HOYA

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

To The Editor:

Muriel Bowser for DC Mayor Amid corruption and demanding neighbors, Bowser listens to Georgetown The city of Washington, D.C., looks undeniably different today than it did 20 years ago.

A growing Metro system, a shrinking unemployment rate, a sharp decrease in violent crime and a revitalized downtown are just a few of the accomplishments that D.C. can boast since the beginning of its social and economic turnaround in the early 1990s. It is clearly in the interest of permanent residents and Georgetown students who have chosen D.C. as their home for four years — expecting safe streets, a flourishing job market and supportive local politicians — to help move the District forward.

To continue this growth, D.C. needs a mayor who will pragmatically lead the city in the right direction. But D.C. also needs a mayor who will keep in mind Washington’s historic challenges and work to help residents who need it the most, whether through improving education or controlling crime in the District.

Eight qualified candidates, including councilmembers Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) as well as Mayor Vincent Gray, have demonstrated their commitment to D.C. and its voters in various ways, but Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) brings the strongest ideas to the table. With a focused platform and a combined 10 years of experience as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, D.C. Councilmember and activist in her community, Bowser is the right choice for District mayor.

University Relations There are many crucial issues at play in this mayoral election, and most of those issues lie outside of the university. However, Georgetown students voting in D.C. undeniably have a unique set of interests regarding the university and its relationship with the city.

Whoever is elected mayor will have much more important issues on his or her plate than Georgetown’s neighborhood relations. But Georgetown students shouldn’t support anyone who is sure to antagonize the university.

Georgetown is still scrambling to meet the conditions of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement that has undeniably chafed against student interests, both in the short and long term. Of the four main candidates in this race, three were on the D.C. Council when those negotiations were approved, and one was serving as mayor. With Georgetown’s next campus plan looming in 2017, students should keep those negotiations in mind when choosing the leader who will influence the agreement that will decide the future of the university from 2017 to 2024.

This campus should not support those involved in the 2010 agreement like Gray, who was unsympathetic to student and university concerns despite recognizing amicable progress in relations between the residents and the university, and Evans, who then and now maintains that 100 percent of students should be housed on campus despite that goal’s restrictive effects on student living. When asked how he would negotiate a potential conflict between the university and its neighbors last week, Evans made his priorities very clear: “I am always on the side of the residents, who elect me.”

Bowser, on the other hand, articulates a less adversarial, more flexible approach to town-gown relations that emphasizes a coordination of interests and mutual respect.

She takes a fairer approach to community relations, as evidenced during her role coordinating developer and resident interests in the planning stages of the redevelopment of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus. All we are looking for in a mayor’s approach to Georgetown is a commitment to consider both sides of the equation in town-gown conflicts and not to disregard student interests because of students’ voting patterns. Unlike many of her opponents, Bowser fulfills those ideals.

Education Bowser has put energetic public education reform at the top of her platform. Unlike Evans and Wells, who would start the process of education reform with increases in spending on schools, Bowser has rightly shown that the first step in improving public schools in D.C. is to better connect the resources that already exist. By promoting communication between existing city social services, health services and public education services, Bowser will develop a system that will provide the most comprehensive support for Washington’s children

and their families.

In Bowser’s vision of connectedness in education, universities like ours will also have an opportunity to play a significant role. In her campaign, Bowser has stated that universities in D.C. bring with them tremendous resources from which the city can benefit — a statement with which Georgetown students involved in tutoring programs like D.C. Reads and D.C. Schools would likely agree. Georgetown’s involvement in social justice efforts could only improve with a mayor like Bowser, whose demonstrated style of governance focuses on cooperation between city assets, bringing Georgetown’s efforts together with education reform in D.C. Transit In her platform, Bowser recognizes the need for a transportation system that will integrate all modes of transportation, not only connecting Washington with regional neighbors, but also connecting neighborhoods of the city. While Wells and Evans also boast impressive records on transit improvement, Bowser’s experience on the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority board of directors gives her additional expertise in the current state of feasible options to improve public transit.

As residents of the Hilltop have noticed, travelling from Georgetown to other parts of D.C. can be an inconvenience. Bowser has identified similar challenges that exist in neighborhoods across the city, and she is committed to alleviating these concerns by expanding Circulator and D.C. Streetcar routes, two modes of transportation that this campus can look to for short-term increases in city connectedness.

Crime and Drug Policies While Evans, Gray and Wells all advocate for increased spending in the Metropolitan Police Department, Bowser has reduced crime in her ward by encouraging collaboration between the many police forces active in D.C. Bowser is also on the right side of the marijuana policy in the District. Bowser has signaled that she would support further efforts to legalize marijuana in the District, contingent on Congress’ tacit consent. The unequal effect of anti-drug legislation on poor minorities in the District has long been apparent, and changing law enforcement focus from prosecuting soft-drug crimes to making neighborhood streets safe is of paramount importance.

By moving D.C. away from failed policies on this issue, Bowser will do both Georgetown and the city a substantial amount of good, taking a critical step toward a city government that reflects the priorities of D.C. residents.

Ethics In a city that has historically been plagued by corruption in local politics, the incoming mayor must take a strong stance on ethical issues. In the developing case against Gray’s campaign finance strategies in his 2010 race for mayor, Gray has denied knowledge of any wrongdoing — contrary to statements of former allies and employees — and has generally refused to answer further questions about the matter. Gray’s complete ignorance in this case is questionable, but whether or not Gray knew about corruption, the fact that his confederates would engage in such activity is enough to discredit his candidacy for re-election — especially with Bowser as an impressive alternative.

Other candidates, especially Wells, have shown a strong commitment to transparency and ethics in politics. But Bowser, too, has shown a commitment to ethics that, coupled with her excellence in other areas, makes her the best candidate for D.C. in this election. As a champion of the D.C. Council’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability to enforce ethics policy in city government, Bowser has shown that feasible self-regulation must be at the crux of any effort to improve government accountability.

Mallika Sen, Campus News Editor Madison Ashley, City News Editor Carolyn Maguire, Sports Editor Kim Bussing, Guide Editor David Chardack, Opinion Editor Alexander Brown, Photography Editor Ian Tice, Layout Editor Robert DePaolo, Copy Chief Karl Pielmeier, Blog Editor

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Katy Berk, Zoe Bertrand, Pat Curran, Victoria Edel, Danny Funt, Chris Grivas, Penny Hung, Sarah Kaplan, Hanaa Khadraoui, Hunter Main, Eitan Sayag, Sean Sullivan, Emory Wellman

Deputy Campus News Editor Sam Abrams Deputy Campus News Editor Kit Clemente Deputy City News Editor Suzanne Monyak Deputy Business Editor Natasha Khan Deputy Sports Editor Andrew May Deputy Sports Editor Tom Schnoor Sports Blog Editor Max Wheeler Deputy Guide Editor Allison Hillsbery Deputy Guide Editor Jess Kelham-Hohler Deputy Opinion Editor Matthew Grisier Opinion Blog Editor Jinwoo Chong Deputy Photography Editor Julia Hennrikus Deputy Photography Editor Daniel Smith Deputy Photography Editor Michelle Xu Deputy Layout Editor Michelle Cardona Deputy Layout Editor Kennedy Shields Deputy Copy Editor Jackie McCadden Deputy Copy Editor Zack Saravay Deputy Copy Editor Sharanya Sriram Deputy Blog Editor Emma Holland

To the Editor: In her recent piece providing suggestions for Teach For America applicants (The Hoya, “A Valuable Lesson for Teach for America,” A3, Feb. 28, 2014), Bridget McElroy mentions her perspective on the mindset of TFA corps members. The idea that TFA corps members fail to consider or oversimplify the socioeconomic and racial inequalities causing and reinforcing the educational opportunity gap is a misguided generalization. If anything, corps members become so grossly aware of the uphill battle they face that it becomes discouraging and incredibly motivating at the same time.

Dropping “Tyler” off after soccer practice to a trailer home without electricity and water was not the first time I thought, “These kids and families have other struggles beyond the academic skill deficits.” I was fully aware of these additional circumstances even before my experience with “Tyler” as much as I understand today that when “Sarah” walks into the building with her head down, dragging her bag, I need to give her a snack, school supplies and a hug.

Building relationships with students like “Tyler” and “Sarah” fuels the conversations I have with other corps members and alums who turn those emboldened thoughts of educational equality and idealism into waves of awareness, realism and relentless action.

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In Defense of TFA

We urge voters to choose Muriel Bowser in the Democratic primary election for District mayor on April 1. Her policies on D.C.’s most urgent needs present a hopeful future for the District, while her positive attitude toward universities makes her stand out to Georgetown student voters. Bowser has the potential to improve D.C. and to help Georgetown be a part of that movement.

Emma Hinchliffe, Editor-in-Chief TM Gibbons-Neff, Executive Editor Sheena Karkal, Managing Editor Lindsay Lee, Online Editor

Your March 21 editorial “‘Utraque Unum’ Mistranslated” [The Hoya, A2] questions a lack of sufficient “explanation” of the Lloyd-Cucci GenderFunk project. This criticism struck me as missing the point of the artwork, especially since its activist-authors did include an English translation of the Latin, thus making the ironic intention and clever logic obvious.

While the Photoshopped portrait interventions on their own would have made for weak satire at best, the addition of Georgetown’s motto is transformative. Given the stature of the individuals represented and their roles as campus enforcers of the church’s teaching and discrimination toward transgendered persons, the work is well within the bounds of fair use and protected speech.

On a related note, Danny Funt’s final question in his interview with President DeGioia was phrased such that choosing a member of the LGBTQ community as the next university president has been unprecedented, and thus would be a groundbreaking step.

Considering that Georgetown’s leadership already has included at least one gay, but not “out” president (as well as provost, dean, treasurer, university chaplains and department chairs), a better question would be to ask how soon, or under what political and cultural circumstances, would the university begin to tout its LGBTQ history, as it did in the late 1960s with regard to its unfortunate history on race when Fr. Patrick Healy’s, S.J., bio went from a self-identified ethnic Irishman to “the first black president of a major university”?

The GenderFunk artwork speaks for itself, and yet it may be helpful to recall Oscar Wilde’s observation: “It is Art, and Art alone, that reveals us to ourselves.” So if these mild send-ups are considered “sensationalist,” it says more about the viewers than the creators.

The same holds true for the softball question on whether Georgetown could elect an LGBTQ leader. Until the university is ready to acknowledge the ones it’s already had, I for one will not hold my breath waiting.

This TFA “mindset” is something that was just as prevalent among my cohort of corps members in Houston, Texas, as it is with the corps members, alumni and non-corps staff members I interact with on a daily basis in my current Washington, D.C. school. It is not a failure to consider the dire circumstances all too many of our students live in, but, rather, failure to succumb to inaction and allow these circumstances to decide the educational opportunity of a child. These barriers need to be addressed, and during that process we are still obligated to provide all students an excellent education.

After fulfilling my initial corps commitment, I continued in my placement school two more years. I am completing my second year as a school administrator, and will return for the 2014-2015 academic year. I am aware of the difficult “entrenched socioeconomic and racial inequalities” facing my students, as are most TFA corps members. I have decided, for now, my place in the long battle of solving educational inequality resides in a school building. That may change, and I know it has for other corps members. But I would prefer individuals who are tackling educational inequity on any level have experience teaching the students of those communities they ultimately wish to change.

Philip James Cimbak COL ’08

CORRECTIONS The article “Fin/App Process Questioned” (The Hoya, A1, March 21, 2014) incorrectly stated that Cohen Derr must present before Fin/App to fund CSE projects. She may get money from other sources or another CSE member could conduct the presentation.

The article “Marching On” (The Hoya, B1, March 21, 2014) incorrectly stated the dates of some historical events. The article stated that the May 3, 1971 protest on Georgetown’s campus concerned the My Lai Massacre. The protest was in response to the Vietnam War in general. The article also stated that the the student and faculty boycott of classes occurred in May 1969. It occurred in May 1970.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014

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The Science Of Learning The Ropes D

uring spring break I discovered rock climbing, thanks to Georgetown’s Outdoor Education and a few extremely dedicated guides. At one point during one of my first ventures, I was about 30 feet in the air, suspended by a climbing rope that was tied into my harness and anchored by karabiners clipped into bolted hangers in the side of Pilot Mountain in North Carolina.

My adventure probably sounds tame to any experienced climber, but as a newbie I have to say I was pretty nervous. How on earth was a mere rope supposed to keep me from plummeting to my death?

Fortunately, I made it back to Georgetown alive, and I spent the week researching just what makes climbing rope and other strong fabrics so reliable.

Climbing ropes have a tough job: They have to be light enough to carry and pliable enough to be knotted securely — no slippage --- but you want to make sure you can untie yourself easily at the end of your adventure. More importantly, they need to support climbers while they hang in their harnesses, but they also have to be able to absorb the force of falling without injuring the climber. It’s a delicate balance of elasticity and durability.

There are two types of rope material used to make climbing gear, depending on the activity. Top-rope, a rope at the top of the climb between the climber and the belayer; lead climbing, in which the climber hooks into various pre-established points along the wall; and “trad” climbing, in which the climber hooks herself into various points that she creates herself along the wall. Each of these methods requires dynamic rope, which has that elastic property. Conversely, the material used to construct harnesses is static: They can hold a lot more, but won’t absorb any of the falling force. Static ropes are used in other contexts for operations that need a consistent rope strength, like pulling materials for ships.

What is it about climbing ropes that makes them so reliable? Nylon.

A lot of rope strength comes down to how it’s arranged. A German company called Edelrid was the first to recognize the potential for super-strong synthetic rope. In 1953, Edelrid scientists coined the term “kernmantle rope,” which literally translates to “core jacket.” Kermantle ropes consist of a braided core that provides strength and an external covering which protects the core from abrasion. They consist of six or seven three- and four-stranded ropes braided together again to reinforce strengths. Additionally, kernmantle ropes have high ultimate tensile strengths, meaning the force it takes to break them greatly exceeds their weight. Typically, a dynamic, 11-millimeter, kernmantle nylon rope at 78 grams per meter can withstand forces of up to 2,000 pounds; static ropes of the same size can take up to 7,650 pounds.

And what is it that makes these ropes so reliable? Nylon.

You’ve probably heard of nylon in the context of panty hose, and it’s true: When the synthetic amide polymer was first put on the market in the late 1930s, it was marketed toward women. Wallace Carothers, a DuPont scientist, invented the first nylon in the early 1930s; it went to market in 1938. Nylon actually refers to any long chain molecule of a compound with at least one double-bonded oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom; if you’ve taken a general chemistry course, you’ve probably made it in a lab. Climbing rope uses a nylon called nylon 6,6, which refers to the places along the polymer chain where these notable bonds occur.

Nylon isn’t the only chemical used for climbing safety. There’s also an ultra-high molecular weight polyurethe, more commonly known by the leading commercial brand name Dyneema. It’s basically another type of polymer with an extremely high molecular weight between 2 and 6 million atomic mass units; this long molecule is heavy in atomic terms, which means it can take a serious weight load. In fact, Dyneema rope has the highest impact strength of any malleable plastic, and it is 15 times more resistant to abrasions than steel. Since the 1950s, climbers have taken advantage of Dyneema to construct harnesses and other static force absorbing climbing gear.

What have we learned from this? Despite my paralyzing fear I faced on my first day, climbing rope is probably one of the safest things out there, thanks to a little chemistry and physics. Of course, there are many other factors at play when it comes to any activity (say, the intelligence of others with you), but if you’re going to get into climbing with Outdoor Ed — which I highly recommend — you definitely don’t have to be afraid of falling.

Katherine Foley is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. CURIOUS BY NATURE appears every other Tuesday.

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THE HOYA

The McDonough Revival

t is ironic that the most fun we’ve had at a Georgetown basketball game took place in an unremarkable first-round NIT game against West Virginia on March 8. What made this game so memorable was neither the intensity of a rivalry nor the thrill of beating a formidable opponent.

It was the atmosphere. McDonough Arena, with a capacity of less than 3,000 people, was a fortress that night. The players and the fans fed off of each other in ways that are simply impossible at the spacious Verizon Center.

Last year, we went to Georgetown’s game against Syracuse, the last that the historic foes would play as Big East rivals. The buildup to that game was immense, with students camping out downtown.

College GameDay’s presence only added to the fanfare. It was the perfect storm: a nationally hyped game with our most vicious rival, a top-10 caliber Georgetown team which all resulted in a resounding victory for the Hoyas. And even with this game — one of the greatest occasions in Hoya basketball history — in mind, we still contend that the most fun that we, the students, have ever had at a Georgetown basketball game was at last week’s opening round NIT game versus West Virginia.

If you missed this game, you missed the ideal college basketball experience. It was a rare glimpse into the college basketball of the past, with rowdy fans packed into our small, on-campus field house. The 650 Georgetown students were right on top of the court, with everyone’s cheers loudly reverberating around the small gym.

From the students’ perspective, we actually felt like we were having an effect on the game. Our

All we ask is that Georgetown brings one basketball game each season to McDonough Arena. players were clearly feeding off of our energy and, equally important, we were affecting the play of the Mountaineers — no matter how much Head Coach Bob Huggins attempted to deny it.

In particular, we sympathize for one West Virginia player who air balled early in the game. Every time he touched the ball from that point on, the entire arena chanted “air ball” in unison. When he fouled out of the game, the greatest “left/right” taunt in Georgetown history (maybe) ensued, with the fans mocking each one of his steps while he walked off the court and until he finally sat down.

The game ended with Georgetown pulling away to a blowout

victory and, appropriately, the crowd jeeringly serenaded the Mountaineers back to the locker room with a rendition of “Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye.” In their postgame interviews, the Georgetown players and Head Coach John Thompson III lauded the fans and attributed their energy, at least in part, to that of the crowd.

So, the question that naturally stems from this: Why has Georgetown not pursued an intimate, on-campus arena? In his postgame interview, Thompson gave us the same spiel that he has for years, which goes something like, “we would lose a lot of money playing at McDonough and simply can’t afford it.”

We understand that college sports is unfortunately a business where the bottom line will always trump the pursuit of perhaps a more lofty goal, like playing in a packed, on-campus arena with an electric environment. So, the on-campus arena may be unrealistic, but that does not mean that our push for games on campus should end.

All that we ask is one game.

Bring one game each season to McDonough, and, although we would rather have an arena on campus, we will be satisfied with this compromise. However, there are a few caveats to this idea. The Big East Conference has a rule requiring that each team’s home arena hold more than 5,000 people. So, even though we could not host a Big East game, we see no reason why we couldn’t host a low-caliber, nonconference team at McDonough. We have hosted teams such as High Point at Verizon Center, and a game against a team of that caliber might draw 5,000 fans, on a great day.

While we might still lose some money by hosting a single game on campus, compared to the amount of money that Georgetown basketball makes over the course of the season, the loss from this one game would be negligible. And isn’t that loss less important when compared to the happiness of the fans and students who have suffered for years in the cavernous Verizon Center? We believe that the university should, at least in this case, acquiesce to the desire of its students.

Bring one game a year — just one — to McDonough. Is it really too much to ask?

Malik Williams and Alexander Garber are sophomores in the College.

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Despite Shortcomings, Unexpected Solace Relay Still Saves Lives In a Fractured Faith

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o one will deny that recently, there has been a slump in funds raised for Georgetown’s annual Relay for Life event that benefits the American Cancer Society. It has been cited frequently

by The Hoya and the Voice, and opinions have ranged from calling Relay “not the most worthwhile charity” in 2012 to lamenting that “it’s troubling that fundraising has waned while the cause endures” in 2013.

Over the past four years, I have encountered similar viewpoints, so I wanted to share the perspective of someone on the inside, as someone who has lost close friends and family to cancer and also as someone who works on the Relay Mission Committee that travels to the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge in Baltimore each month.

People who associate with Relay do not pester students for funds because we find it fun. Those of us who work with Relay — whether as part of the committee, as a team captain or as a participant — do what they do because they are mad at this disease that will not go away.

In one single year, two beloved people were taken from me by cancer.

One was 19 years old, poised to take the world by storm. Nick graduated high school as the class valedictorian despite missing weeks of school because of cancer treatments, and he was attending college — and acing every class — in the hopes of one day running his own theme park to bring joy to thousands of people every day. But he passed away on Palm Sunday, 2013 after his three-year battle with desmoplastic small round cell tumors that wore his body down to the point of failure.

The other was my Uncle Denny, my father’s younger brother. My uncle ran marathons for recreation and drove an RV around the country with my aunt to go hiking, climbing, running and camping. While my father has struggled with dementia for the past 10 years, we all thought my uncle was invincible — nobody would ever have guessed that he was in his late 60s. When he was first diagnosed with prostate cancer, we all assumed he would beat it easily. Prostate cancer is often seen as one of the “easy” cancers, comparatively. Even when we heard it was aggressive, we all thought, “He’s in shape. He runs marathons.

He can handle anything. This is just a detour.” But he passed away June 21, 2013, shortly after having to go on oxygen because the cancer had spread and was affecting his ability to breathe. At his viewing, my father sobbed out, “I should be the one up

there, not him.”

To cope with these losses, I joined the Mission Committee this year in an attempt to give back and get more involved. By doing so, I have seen firsthand that the money raised at Relay goes to causes like the Hope Lodges, which are beautiful places where cancer patients can stay, free of charge, during their treatments. As one guest in Baltimore told me, “It was either here or stay in a hospital room. But I’m not really sick — I don’t want to be confined to a bed! And you know what hospital food is like!” Every cancer patient I have met at the Baltimore Hope Lodge has been in a happy and positive mood — a mood that I’m sure is supported by the fact that they don’t have to stare at sterilized hospital equipment in between their treatment days.

I know that many people criticize Relay because the American Cancer Society has an overhead, meaning that some donated funds go to fundraising expenses and salaries. However, context and perspective are important here. Many of the largest nonprofit organizations struggle with similar issues. No large charity can function without some degree of overhead, and while the American Cancer Society is not perfect, it performs tremendous services with the money it receives. I rest well at night knowing that I raise money for Relay, as I have seen with my own eyes the gratitude in the faces and voices of the patients I meet.

If that roadblock wasn’t enough, it sometimes feels like many at Georgetown view Relay as one giant party, which it is, to some extent. It is a party to celebrate those who are fighting and those who have beat their cancers into remission. It is also a party to celebrate the lives of people we have lost to this relentless disease. However, the party atmosphere is sometimes deceptive — the party is one day. Twelve hours, to be exact. But the fight is forever (for now). Cancer diagnoses don’t stop the morning after Relay. Cancer treatments don’t stop the morning after Relay. For that matter, they don’t stop in the days, weeks and months before Relay, either.

Don’t wait until the day before Relay to register or ask friends and family to support you. People are receiving chemotherapy treatments today. People are hearing the words, “You have cancer,” today. People are dying, today.

Join the fight today.

Relay is a party to celebrate those who are fighting and those who have beaten cancer.

Michelle Dailey is a senior in the College. She is a member of the Relay for Life Mission Committee and team captain for the Relay Pep Band.

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his year, I am giving up ter when we release the need to my faith for Lent. be right can enhance our spiriWhen I arrived home tual lives when we open our befor spring break, I received the liefs to review. I do not need to news that the longest, mutu- instinctively defend my beliefs, ally beneficial relationship in but I am better able to hold my life had come to an end. and express them if I take note Every few months since 1999, of the criticisms raised by othJoe the Barber has given me ers. Accepting that my belief more or less the same hair system is likely imperfect alcut in the same chair at the lows me to be more intentional same shop. Once when I was with the way I express my faith in third grade, Joe had a heart in action. At the end of Lent, I attack. My hair expect to have a got very long. more complete When I got and thoughtful to the barber understanding shop during of God, and by break, I found extension, of myout that Joe’s self. congestive As I have reheart failure flected on my had finally own decision to Tim Rosenberger caught up to make my beliefs him. vulnerable, I have Some comrealized that God has a curious bination of many seem inormy sadness at way of thrusting us dinately guarded Joe’s passing on issues of faith. into contemplation. The church itself and my irritation with my seems particuincreasingly out-of-control larly complacent with its own coiffure led me to seek out “rightness.” Might Christianmy friend Jonathan’s blog for ity benefit from a commuencouragement.

Jonathan nal openness to reform and had just written an article growth? I am convinced that about how he was giving up a newly acute awareness of his need to be “right” for Lent. the weaknesses of our beliefs The blog called for dedicating will only strengthen the comone’s Lenten season to a time munion of believers. We can of personal vulnerability and reform minor flaws in the openness to realizing mistakes. church and kill off some of As I scrolled through, I felt in- the vestigial shadows of the creasingly self-satisfied. As far past. The beliefs that we retain as I was concerned, the need to will have survived a crucible of be right was a problem entirely thought, discussion and reflecalien to my experience. tion and will be defensible to a God has a curious way of world that sees an institution thrusting us into contempla- rather than a portal to grace. tion when nudges don’t sufSome might argue that such fice. Not long after reading Jon- an acceptance of vulnerabilathan’s article, a conversation ity represents an impertinent with another friend, David, challenge to God or an open revealed the one area where I assault on tradition. I view it refused to accept vulnerability. as a healthy opportunity to David is an atheist with the strengthen and revitalize. irritating combination of a Perhaps some of the beliefs great mind and a spine. While that I now obstinately protect most atheists will either allow will be excised, but I would my beliefs to hold some kind rather be correct than invulnerof validity, if only within the able. I only need well-reasoned context of my own experience, arguments to hold my own David views Christianity, and against David, while the church even the idea of a historical must assemble beliefs that hold Christ, as utterly ridiculous. both against and with reason. I Yet more importantly, David remain convinced that Christicould keep up with virtually anity will survive such scrutiny, every pro-Christian argument but I will spend the next month I threw at him, no matter how mindfully keeping my own obscure or tangentially related. need to be “right” on religion in For the first time in memory, I check. A robust Christianity dewas forced to question and re- pends on our communal ability examine aspects of my faith. to do the same.

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Resources, Funding Lombardi IDs Cancer Genes Strengthen ROTC CAROLINE WELCH Hoya Staff Writer

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it is dependent on the budget allocated by the Department of Hoya Staff Writer Defense. The battalion primarAlthough a recent study con- ily uses these funds to conduct ducted by the National Center for training and to pay equipment Education Statistics found that and uniforms costs. public institutions outmatch The Army also funds cadet their private counterparts when scholarships, which vary accordit comes to ROTC, Georgetown ing to tuition costs. According to University’s own Army ROTC is Cadet Noah Taylor (SFS ’17), state thriving. schools have lower tuition costs The report, which is entitled and therefore attract more ca“Services and Support Programs dets, which results in more fundfor Military Service Members and ing for their ROTC programs.

Veterans at Postsecondary Institu“Tuition at the public and tions,” is based on survey respons- state schools is cheaper, so they es from more than 1400 two- and want to delegate their resources four-year colleges. The study to maximizing the number of claims to be the first nationally cadets they can process,” Taylor representative data on the subject said. “The incentive the state tries and has raised questions about to make to keep top students in ROTC and veteran programs at the state is to have lower tuition schools across the country. for in-state scholars. The Army Georgetown ROTC is a mem- is emphasizing an enticement ber of The in the form of Hoya Battalmore scholarion, which also ships for in-state includes The tuition for vetGeorge Washerans and ROTC ington Univercadets in insity, American state schools.”

University and Taylor is one The Catholic of 91 cadets in University of the 143-person LT. COL. MICHAEL DONAHUE America.

Acbattalion who Director, Hoya Battalion cording to Lieuare on scholartenant Colonel Michael Donahue, ship. According to Alex Klock, a who oversees The Hoya Battalion, junior at the University of Conmany of the national differences necticut, UConn’s 160-person Nain funding depend on the size than Hall Battalion only has four of the training staff, or cadre, in cadets from each grade who are each university’s ROTC program. on scholarship.

“The Army funds every ROTC Georgetown ROTC also touts program most directly through a mentorship program: Seniors the number of cadre assigned to meet with cadets to discuss their the school, and that’s dependent adjustment to ROTC as well as upon the number of cadets,” Do- Georgetown academics. nahue said.

“We’ve had instances where According to Donahue, George- the chain of command has come town’s high production of cadets forward and raised to the cadre’s allows its ROTC program to re- awareness that a cadet seems to ceive more funding than most be struggling,” Donahue said. state schools — providing its ca- “That’s been a huge help for us dets with more resources. because we can talk to them, and A school’s ROTC training bud- we direct them to where they can get is partly determined by its get resources.” commission quota, or its abilThis caring-for-the-whole-perity to produce a required num- son initiative has had tangible ber of cadets at a specific level of results. According to physical performance. Although certain and written evaluations given to programs do not meet these stan- rising seniors each summer, The dards and receive less funding by Hoya Battalion overachieves comconsequence, Georgetown still pared to other programs nationoverproduces cadets each year. wide.

This has resulted in the program’s “Georgetown has fallen above increased selectivity and funding. the average year after year,” DoThe amount of money that the nahue said. “Our average cadet battalion receives from the Army, outperforms the average cadet in however, varies annually because the country.”

“Our average cadet outperforms the average cadet in the country.”

Researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified an assembly of 55 genes, related with low levels or impairment of a certain protein, which could predict poorer prognoses and survival rates for patients with breast cancer.

The study report, “SYK Allelic Loss and the Role of Syk-Regulated Genes in Breast Cancer Survival,” published Feb. 11 in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, detailed the link between the levels of a potent tumor suppressor, SYK tyrosine kinase, and alterations in the 55-gene set as indicative of tumor progression.

Researchers found that lower levels of SYK in conjunction with gene alternations tended toward a more invasive tumor and a worse prognosis for the patient.

Senior investigator for the study and professor of oncology emeritus at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Susette Mueller began studying SYK levels and gene mutations back in 2000.

“The study can be broken into two parts,” Mueller said. “The first part was when we got the tissues at Georgetown, and we wanted to find out that, if SYK is lost from the gene … if that would affect the outcome of the cancer.”

Director of the Cytogenetics

Shared Resource of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and most recent study report author Jan Blancato (GRD ’87) and Mueller examined 24 samples of tissue from the “Human Tissue Bank,” available to researchers at the Center.

These samples included 19 tissue samples with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a cancer that shows no sign of invasiveness, 11 of which also contained invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) that had developed in nearby cells.

Evidence from the study displayed that the tissues with DCIS, but without IDC presence, contained the same level of SYK as normal, benign tissue. However, of the 11 samples that had dual DCIS and IDC present, five of those demonstrated a highly suppressed level of the SYK gene in the DCIS tissue and more invasive tumor cells nearby.

Mueller and Blancato continued SYK cell studies, identifying specific genes that interacted with SYK to give rise to the progression of tumors. In 2009, the two conducted an experiment that would allow them to observe any changes in the cell after its SYK gene was removed.

“We did a study where we had done an experiment that knocked out the SYK gene, and we wanted to see what happens in the cell,” Mueller said. “What we saw was that [normal cells] turned into very malignant cells that looked like cancer.”

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Susette Mueller led the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center study that identified gene predictors of breast cancer survival rates.

Recently, Mueller analyzed a broader sample of 696 cases of IDC using the National Institute of Health’s Cancer Genome Atlas, a comprehensive archive of cancer data sets for scientific analysis.

“I picked out 51 genes from the 2009 study set that … are related to metastasis genes because, after all, it’s metastasis that kills you,” Mueller said. “Together with three other genes that were already known to interact with SYK in another way, the total group including SYK is called the 55-gene set.”

Of the 696 cases of IDC, Mueller found that 205 had SYK gene loss.

Paired with patient outcomes, the study showed that IDC tumors with decreased or absent SYK levels and gene alternations in the other 54 genes held a predictive quality for the survival rate of the patient.

“The estimate for IDC cases is that about 80 percent will survive if no changes occur in mutations or gene copy number of the 55 genes. About 20 percent will not survive if there is any change in the 55-gene set,” Mueller wrote in an email.

Blancato said that, while the results of this research detailed a causative relationship between SYK and cancer survival rate, the implementation of this study in common practice will require further development.

“This isn’t a test that cancer patients can get, and you’d have to validate a test system. So the next trial step might be to look at patient samples and find the best measure for [the SYK-related 55 gene set],” Blancato said.

Mueller echoed Blancato’s assessment, pointing toward the need for more acute gene specification and concrete statistics before developing a clinical test.

“If you could sequence a cancer patient’s DNA from their tumor and ask if any of the 55 genes have changed, then you might belong to the group where 80 percent of the patients survive or where 20 percent of the patients survive,” Mueller said. “This helps with deciding to get further treatment … but we’d like to have a better predictor of 100 percent will survive if you test ‘x’ on this particular test. There is a lot more research to be done.”

While noting that there should be more research into this topic, Jeffrey Weitzel, chief of clinical cancer genetics at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif., praised the study’s discovery.

“This discovery may help us understand why some DCIS never changes and others transition into invasive cancers,” Weitzel said to HealthDay.

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With Med Alums, Blue Angels Again Able to Soar ALLISON CANNELLA Special to The Hoya

After forced spending cuts put the U.S. Navy’s flight demonstration squadron,“The Blue Angels,” on the ground for a year, the Angels have gone airborne once again, with Lieutenant Commander Mark DeBuse (MED ’09) serving as the team’s official flight surgeon, following in the steps of Lt. Cmdr. Mark Lambert (MED ’00).

DeBuse was chosen for this position through a highly selective application process and is beginning his second year on tour with the Angels.

As flight surgeon, DeBuse is responsible for helping the team maintain optimal health and physical condition. For demonstration pilots travelling at extremely high speeds and low altitudes, something as minor as a head cold can be life-threatening.

“My patients are among the healthiest and the fittest individuals on the planet,” DeBuse said. “My job is to keep them that way.”

DeBuse, a Colorado native, decided to attend the United States Naval Academy with an interest in both medicine and aviation.

“I wanted to pursue both,” DeBuse said, “but I knew it would be easier for me to do aviation first.”

After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1996, DeBuse attended flight school in Pensacola, Fla., and subsequently spent nine years as a naval flight officer. When it came time to apply to medical school, Georgetown was his first choice.

“The idea of a well-rounded education aimed at eventful service was what I wanted, and Georgetown’s tradition of cura personalis absolutely fit me,” DeBuse said. Despite the 10-year age difference between him and most of his younger classmates, DeBuse said he loved his time at Georgetown and even participated in a Liberal Studies program. “[It] provided a great balance to the scienceheavy medical school curriculum,” he said.

After completing medical school and an orthopedic surgery internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., DeBuse elected to defer the remainder of his residency in order to become a flight surgeon, thus following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather who was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 bombing and went on to become one of the Navy’s first-ever flight surgeons.

“He was very proud to have served,

mates, with many of whom he still maintains frequent contact. He also got to know many of the deans and professors of the medical school and noted how they would often invite students to dinner or to do community service.

“My professors were so supportive of us,” Lambert said. “And that’s part of what made Georgetown so special.”

During his time at Georgetown, Lambert was exposed to many different specialties and surgical rotations, but in his third year, he found his passion in the anesthesiology department.

After graduating in 2000, he completed a transitional internship in Bethesda before entering flight surgery school.

Lambert completed LT. CMDR MARK LAMBERT (MED ’00) Blue Angels Flight Surgeon a two-year tour as flight surgeon at the the Angels’ flight surgeon from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, followed by another 2006 to 2008.

Lambert and DeBuse met during two-year tour with the Naval Reserve their undergraduate years at the Na- squadron at Whidbey Island, Wash; val Academy where they ran on the before becoming the flight surgeon track team together. Unlike DeBuse, for the Blue Angels.

At first, Lambert found it challenghowever, Lambert attended the Georgetown University School of ing to live in the public eye.

“I went into medicine because I Medicine immediately after graduwanted to be behind the scenes and ation.

While at Georgetown, Lambert help people,” he said. “I wasn’t lookformed close bonds with his class- ing for recognition.” especially in a capacity that allowed him to take care of his fellow servicemen,” DeBuse said. “I wanted to do the same.”

Nearly 70 years after his grandfather, DeBuse completed the aerospace medicine course at the Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute and was officially designated a naval flight surgeon.

His decision to apply for a position with the Blue Angels came after talking with friend and former classmate Lambert, who served as

“Seeing the kids’ eyes light up as we walked through in our uniforms made it all worth while.”

Kennedy Institute Set to Launch Bioethics MOOC KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics will launch a massive open online course on bioethics April 15. As part of the creation of the course, the KIE hosted and filmed six TED-style talks featuring KIE Director Maggie Little in Gaston Hall on March 17, 19 and 24.

A MOOC is a free, online course open to anyone with an internet connection. More than 25,000 people from across the globe have signed up for the six -week bioethics course, the second MOOC Georgetown has offered as part of its edX partnership. The course, which has been in development since April 2013, will feature lessons from seven Georgetown faculty members. Little’s talks aim to provide MOOC students with an understanding of bioethical concerns in health.

The first talk on March 17 focused on medical and disability ethics, as well as bioethical concerns in hospitals and doctors’ offices. According to Little, an increased focus on bioethics came about during the

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KIE Director Maggie Little presented a series of six TED-style talks on bioethics in Gaston Hall last week.

civil rights movement.

“It’s a field that started in the time of the civil rights movement, the time of the women’s movement, when groups of people came forward with new voices to assert that they had rights that weren’t being respected,” Little said. “At just that time, another group came along that said ‘we’re patients or we’re clinical research participants and we have certain fundamental rights of autonomy that are not being respected.’”

Little also spoke about the modern-day erosion of the paternalistic idea that doctors know best.

The subsequent talks March 19 focused on bioethics with regard to beginning and end-of-life treatment, including abortion and physician assisted suicide. The talks on March 24 centralized on environmental bioethical concerns and global health systems.

After each talk, Little invited students to ask questions. Student questions were filmed for inclusion in the MOOC. According to KIE Head of Communications & Project Development Kelly Heuer, the question-and-answer section was created to help MOOC students get a better sense of the dynamics of an in-person classroom experience.

“As scholars and especially as educators, it’s our students who keep us on our toes, who push us to learn and experiment and explore more about topics that might already feel very familiar,” Heuer wrote in an email. “By including Georgetown student voices in the MOOC … we hope that a broader audience will be able to experience the dynamism of a typical Georgetown classroom — to learn from the questions as well as the answers themselves.”

According to Heuer, this section is an attempt to remedy a few of the setbacks and challenges associated with MOOCs. “MOOCs are a tremendous challenge even for very experienced teachers and scholarsbecause so much of the traditional classroom experience is missing from the massive, open, online context,” Heuer wrote.

According to KIE senior research scholar Karen Stohr, despite their challenges, MOOCs align with Georgetown’s goals and Jesuit values.

“The Jesuits were explorers, educational innovators,” Stohr said in a video. “Nearly 500 years later, Georgetown’s mission continues to direct us to respond generously and creatively to the needs of a changing world.”

However, travelling and serving with the Angels proved to be a rewarding experience, during which he had the opportunity to visit schools and talk with potential medical students and military personnel and to visit children’s hospitals “Seeing the kids’ eyes light up as we walked through in our uniforms made it all worth it,” Lambert remarked.

For Lambert, the Blue Angels team was just like a family. Even now, he keeps in close touch with many of the team members, both old and new. He recalled how DeBuse reached out to him during his application process.

“I could tell he really, really wanted to join the team,” Lambert said.

“I remember calling him the day he got accepted and congratulating him. He was so excited, and I’m excited for him.”

DeBuse said that traveling with the team until November will be a true honor.

“Georgetown definitely prepared me for the mission of the Blue Angels,” he said. “My time with them has made me a better person, and next year, when I return to my specialty training in orthopedic surgery, I know for certain that having been a part of this high-performing team will translate into being a better physician and surgeon.”

Socializing Key for Student App CAROLINE WELCH Hoya Staff Writer

Daanish Jamal (MSB ’16) took a leave of absence from Georgetown this semester to found his company and smartphone app, NextSpot, aimed at those who find Facebook events too formal for planning group gatherings and group messages annoying, Jamal and co-founder Adhir Ravipati, a graduate of Northeastern University, sought to streamline coordination for group meetups and location-specific events through a casual, but structured network.

“What we tried to do with the app is make it as barebone as possible in terms of structure,” Jamal said. “We’re really trying to maintain the fluidity of the messenger, trying to make it casual and light, while still trying to incorporate some aspects from Facebook events.”

NextSpot, which was released as a free app to the Mac App Store on Jan. 31, allows its users to set meeting locations, known in the app as “spots,” vote on activities and coordinate with groups through a messaging system that is built into the application with phone number verification.

“We were hoping to solve a problem that we saw in super-connectivity,” Ravipati said of the founding idea.

Both founders came up with the idea behind their application in part because of personal experiences with group meetings and several years of conversations regarding social interaction.

“The core concept came from this night over the summer before Daanish’s freshman year and [my friends and I] all ended up in the same place without having any idea that we were all in the same location,” Ravipati said. “We thought that there’s something around the idea of the connectivity of friends and groups that brings people together.”

While Jamal noted that NextSpot is not the first of social apps to coordinate group meetings, he stated that the app intends for a more privatized and intimate experience, not just event planning.

“We were looking at microlocal events that were hyperp e r s o n a l , hy p e r- l o c a t i o n based, and we realized that there were a lot of apps coming out that tried to aggregate local information into one feed,” Jamal said. “So instead we moved more towards the privatized side where it’s just your own events.”

Positive feedback from friends, venture capitalists from Silicon Valley in his native Northern California and advisers at Georgetown prompted Jamal to consider investing his full attention in NextSpot.

“I got to a point my first semester sophomore year where I was much more engaged with this app than I was some of my classes at the time,” Jamal said. “I would go to … people who would understand the scale of this project … and I asked

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Daanish Jamal (MSB ’16) took a leave of absence to found a social gathering smartphone application, NextSpot. them the question of should I leave school? And you get sort of two answers — one, that you should totally take a semester off and see where it goes, and the other people basically think that you’re just another college kid trying to make a social app.”

Ultimately, Jamal said, he listened to the answer that he wanted to hear and took a leave of absence for the sophomore spring semester.

Ravipati, too, took full-time leave of his job and founded NextSpot Inc. with Jamal.

“It was a lot of work and extra time, for both of us I think we kind of owed it to ourselves to invest fully in the app,” Ravipati said.

Ravipati and Jamal joined forces with Y Media Labs, an iPhone app developer in Redwood City, Calif. that invests in start-up apps as well as big businesses.

Despite leaving academic and young professional environments, Jamal and Ravipati used their experiences with social networks to form their business model and target a college-aged demographic.

“I think that initially we started with three demographics: college students, young professionals and high school students,” Ravipati said. “The reason that we were so focused on college students is that they have the most active social life.”

Ravipati, who now coaches high school soccer and football, said that he utilizes the app to coordinate practices with his team members.

“The kids I coach they like setting up practices through NextSpot … and I am a young professional myself so I’m using my friends to see what they think of it,” Ravipati said. “So far we’ve had good feedback.”

The app had a soft opening in January, with Jamal and Ravipati quietly promoting the first trial of their social network to 25 friends.

“We ended up getting about 200 people on those first trials, which seems to be a good sign,” Jamal said.

On March 15, NextSpot released version 1.2, which the founders more actively promoted in their extended social circles.

Jamal has tapped into his college network and is promoting the app at Georgetown with the help of NextSpot representatives Calvin Millien (COL ’16), Alana Snyder (MSB ’16) and Parker Wilf (MSB ’16).

Millien, who uses the app to coordinate his own meetings with friends and student groups, described the plan for promotion as gradual, but ultimately organization focused.

“We’re going to target friend groups so we can get feedback and once we get the best NextSpot, we can start to engage with student organizations,” Millien said. “We’re going to meet up with respective student groups and give a presentation about how they might be able to use it to help them organize.”

Jamal, too, accounts for a gradual growth of the app and looks to pursue his company for the long term, presenting NextSpot to investors to replace their current seed funding, which will determine future plans.

“The process of putting together a company really drives me, and I hope to do this for a while longer and see NextSpot grow into something much bigger than it is right now,” Jamal said.

As such, Jamal says he is unlikely to return to Georgetown, at present.

“I really love doing this and I miss school. It’s strange not having anyone around and being significantly younger than everyone else,” Jamal said. “But I’m really enjoying it and I don’t think that I’m going to come back next semester.”

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Grad Students Seek Space Ryan Thomas Hoya Staff Writer

For graduate students looking for study space dedicated for them on the Hilltop, many find their options limited solely to the undergraduate-packed Lauinger Library.

Although the graduate student population of 8,226 students at Georgetown outnumbers the university’s 7,092 undergraduates, there is a scarcity of on-campus spaces reserved for graduate students. Graduate Student Organization President Samuel Osea (GRD ’14) said that study space is a large problem for the entire student body.

“Space is an issue that everyone, including graduate and undergraduate students, has to deal with. It’s doesn’t just impact graduate students,” he said. “I don’t think that any grad students have a chip on their shoulders about undergraduates using space: it’s limited and everyone needs to share it.”

Some graduate students expressed dissatisfaction with the availability of space on campus.

“Honestly, I do most of my studying at my house,” graduate student Damien Hedden (GRD ’14) said. “Lau is too filled with undergraduates, and it’s also

really inconvenient for me to get to. There aren’t many other places on campus I could go, either.”

According to University Librarian Artemis Kirk, Lauinger Library has some study spaces reserved particularly for graduate students.

“The study carrels in Lau are reserved for specific graduate students, usually those working on finishing their doctorates,” Kirk said.

Others, however, expressed satisfaction with the options offered by the library and other open areas on campus.

“I don’t have any trouble finding study space, to be honest,” Kathleen Salls (GRD ’14) said.

“Lau doesn’t bother me, especially the graduate student reading rooms. Otherwise, Sellinger is an okay place to work.”

Additionally, there are two graduate reading rooms in Lauinger and short-term study rooms are also available for graduate students to book for private or group studying.

Kirk also said that the library is working on increasing availability of study spaces for all students, including graduate students.

“We understand the value of study spaces exclusive to gradu-

ate students, especially because the work they do is often of a different nature than undergraduate work,” Kirk said. “It often requires much more independent and quiet study, so we try to facilitate that.”

When the second floor of Lauinger was renovated last year, increased study space became available. Kirk said that the effort to make the library more usable will continue.

“The library is tight on space, but we are exploring ways to maximize the available space,” she said. “The removal of those stacks on Lau 2 really opened up a lot of study space.”

“In the past, the Georgetown University Student Association and the GSO haven’t worked together very much, though [former GUSA President] Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) reached out to me to start that partnership,” Osea said.

Osea said that he hopes to work with new GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) to improve spaces.

“We endorsed Trevor and Omika, and we have high hopes for this year and coming years,” he said. “Hopefully, this is one issue that undergraduates and graduate students can work together on.”

Sophomore Faces Ricin Charges MILZMAN, from A1 needed to be taken care of, in terms of getting the club together and getting people together and getting things done,” Coury said.

Like much of campus, Coury was shocked by news of Milzman’s arrest Friday.

“He seemed normal,” Coury said. “I obviously didn’t see that coming. I guess I knew he was

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into science — he took a lot of science classes and stuff. Other than that, I had no idea.”

Milzman’s decision to pursue Quiz Bowl in college followed his participation in the activity in high school at Walt Whitman, where he was also a National Merit semifinalist and a member of the school’s hockey team.

Lilli Seabol (COL ’17), who first met Milzman when she joined Quiz Bowl last fall, said that after hearing about the possibility of ricin on campus, she never would have predicted that Milzman would be the student held responsible.

“He hadn’t been to Quiz Bowl in a couple days, a couple practices, but I just thought he was sick or something like that. I was really surprised when I found out,” she said.

Seabol described Milzman as a normal college student with a sense of humor.

“I thought he was just pretty average. He would make jokes a lot, and stuff like that, so he seemed pretty nice,” she said.

Josh Tsung (COL ’16), a friend of Milzman’s, agreed, praising Milzman for his intelligence and wit.

“Danny is a great friend and re-

ally knows how to brighten your day up. Those who knew him well will think about him every day,” Tsung wrote in an email.

Milzman will appear before U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this afternoon for his detention hearing. He will be represented by Danny Onorato, a partner at Schertler & Onorato.

While Milzman has yet to face the Federal Court’s decision, he has already violated the Code of Student Conduct, according to university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr, and is not permitted on Georgetown’s campus at this time.

“An undergraduate has been arrested on a charge of possession of a biological toxin and remains in custody. He is not permitted to return to campus at this time. The possession or manufacturing of illegal substances are issues we take very seriously and are violations of the university’s ... Code of [Student] Conduct,” Kerr wrote in an email. “We continue to closely cooperate with law enforcement authorities for this case.”

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Fin/App Budget Cuts Readership Program FIN/APP, from A1 something can be reinstated or we can at least get access beyond the paywalls of certain papers online.”

Guerin defended the cut and addressed concerns that students have raised about cutting Collegiate Readership.

“Funding choices are not made simply weighing one option against another, but all as parts of a larger matrix,” Guerin wrote in an email. “The committee looked at these considerations and prioritized investment in our student groups over these newspapers.”

The budget includes significant changes for funds allocated to the Division of Student Affairs. These changes, spearheaded by Guerin, will allocate funds proportionally among the five Division of Student Affairs’ Center for Student Engagement advisory boards as well as the Georgetown Program Board.

There are seven advisory boards that work with and advise Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson about student life at Georgetown, including the Student Activities Commission, Performing Arts Advisory Council, Advisory Board for Club Sports, Media Board, Graduate Student Organization, Center for Social Justice Advisory Board for Student Organizations and Campus Ministry Student Forum.

“We were able to get the Division of Student Affairs to realign their funding proportionally to the advisory boards so you will see a difference in the number of dollars going from the Student Activities fee to these advisory boards,” Guerin said.

The previous method of allocation to different advisory boards based amounts on the size of advisory boards in the 1990s.

Another area cut in the budget this year was GU Welcome Week.

The program saw a $1,000 cut in its budget for the 2015 fiscal year, with a final budget of $11,000.

“I think that it’s understandable for GUSA to cut the budget by $1,000, because last year we were very cost effective,” former GU Welcome Week Coordinator Jeffrey Lin (SFS ’16) said.

Guerin acknowledged the difficulties in funding students’ requests.

“You want to be able to fund nearly everything but the resources just aren’t there so I’d say that’s the biggest challenge,” Guerin said. “I can say that for myself, it’s really about weighing the merits of everything.”

In order to accommodate student activities, each student pays a fee that is included in his or her tuition. This year, the student fee will increase from $153 to $156, in order to account for inflation.

“This increase was calculated per the [Student Activities Fee Endowment] Reform referenda that ensured the student activities fee would increase at the standard rate of inflation for the given year,” Guerin said in a letter accompanying the Student Activities Fee Budget document.

Tezel has not yet signed the budget, but plans to, despite his dissatisfaction and failed appeal.

“Ultimately, because of the nature of the budget, the fact [is] that we want to make sure that we want to get this thing passed as quickly as possible, so the numbers still aren’t up in the air for a lot of these groups, and with the guarantee that we’re going to be pushing some constructive solutions to some of the cuts, including the Collegiate Readership Program,” Tezel said.

“Instead of drawing out this process, it would be best for all parties if the budget was signed.”

Hoya Staff Writer Molly Simio contributed reporting.

GU Budget Reduces Deficit TUITION, from A1 “Philanthropic support is critical in order to invest and pay for those things which cannot be met with tuition dollars.”

Although yearly tuition increases, generally below 5 percent, are fairly standard across universities, some students object to the increase.

“We already have very high tuition rates and we don’t want to see those increase, which is why, and I’ll reiterate, the university should be engaging students in the nitty-gritty details of longterm and short-term financial planning so that we can see their decision-making process when it comes to tuition increases, for instance,” GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “A 4.3 percent increase is kind of alarming anyway, along with the fact that we believe that a Georgetown education should be within the reach of any student and it should not be exclusionary based off of a high price, and every time we have a tuition increase, that guarantee becomes a little less valid, so we always need to be looking at that.”

According to Rubenstein, the tuition increase, along with the rest of the financial plan, aims to help the university remain strong, despite outside obstacles.

“This plan seeks to maintain our competitive position as a top research university. The financial plan builds upon the success of fiscal year 2013 and our projections for fiscal year 2014, while being mindful of the external economic factors facing higher education today,” Rubenstein wrote in a campus-wide email.

In upcoming years, the university will also confront the problem of decreased federal funding due to governmental budgetary constraints. Despite these constraints, Rubenstein said that he does not think that the change

will negatively impact students.

“At Georgetown, we forecast that federally sponsored research after falling in fiscal year 2014 will decrease again in fiscal year 2015 before it stabilizes,” Rubenstein wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We will still have an active research program, albeit a bit smaller, so I don›t think that our students will be directly affected.”

Major expenses for the university in the upcoming years include new residence halls — both the construction of the Northeast Triangle and the renovation of the Old Jesuit Residence Project — as well as the construction of the Healey Family Student Center and the Intercollegiate Athletic Center.

The HFSC, mainly funded through donations, will maintain annual operation costs of $930,000, while the new residence halls will bring in $4 million in revenue each year.

“The student center is primarily gift-funded, which is of tremendous benefit because that means students will benefit without us having to use tuition dollars to cover construction costs,” Rubenstein wrote. “We are also very excited about being able to provide more housing on campus because that serves a real need. It is also a way to capture revenues and keep it on campus to maintain and develop an important resource for our student body into the future.”

The university will also implement cost-cutting measures, specifically by reducing costs in each school and working toward efficiency. These changes will lead to a projected $400,000 improvement to the projected deficit this fiscal year.

“Integration is the key concept here,” Rubenstein wrote. “More than ever our approach to financial planning brings together the various parts of the university, from academic units to universi-

ty services departments, to avoid duplication, share best practices and take advantage of those things we can do better or more efficiently by acting together.”

Kyle Zhu (SFS ’14) wrote a response to the financial plan addressed to Rubenstein and University President John J. DeGioia, which he forwarded to The Hoya. He said he thinks the university does not keep students informed on financial matters.

“In my four years here, this is the first financial plan that I have seen,” Zhu wrote. “Students are the major source of revenue and major stakeholder of this university, and I have felt a continual lack of information in regards to how my very large tuition is spent.”

This year, decrease in financial aid forced Zhu to take out a student loan for the first time.

Zhu said that he attempted to start a dialogue through his email, although he has not yet received a response from the university.

“As a senior, I wanted to respond to an issue that had been frustrating me for a long time.

I was just really curious about certain financial decisions made and was surprised by the lack of information about Georgetown’s financials,” Zhu wrote in an email.

According to Rubenstein, the university will alter its financial aid offerings based on student need in order to address this problem.

“We believe we have forecasted accurately the financial aid need for purposes of our financial planning,” Rubenstein wrote. “But I want to stress that this is a forecast. Undergraduate financial aid is based upon our need-blind, meet-full-need admissions policy and is not limited to what we forecast. We will modify our budget and plan based upon the actual financial aid determinations.”

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GUSA VIce President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15), left, and President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) assumed their positions with Sunday’s inauguration.

GUSA Transitions Executive Leadership GUSA, from A1 philosophical differences that exists in the student government,” Greco said. “I think that that will affect how they operate a little bit.”

Conversely, outgoing GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) did not see this difference of approaches as important.

“I think that what matters is as long as they continue to be the voice of students, ‘how?’ is going to be an afterthought,” Ramadan said.

He noted that the “What’s A Hoya?” program came about in response to a student need that surfaced.

Tezel and Jikaria hope to build upon former GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Ramadan’s legacy, while at the same time accelerating the progress made by the previous administration.

“We need to always be looking not just to improve upon GUSA at the same rate as last year, but get an even faster clip of changes and improvements to the student body,” Tezel said.

The new executives are currently finalizing their cabinet, which they see as key to achieving their policy goals.

“In terms of leadership style we are definitely taking one where we expect and are putting together a staff and cabinet that has the types of personalities that will go out and work on these initiatives without having to be pushed and prodded, and I think that that’s the difference between a GUSA executive which gets a bit done during the year and a GUSA executive which gets a lot,” Tezel said.

According to Tezel, an improved senate-executive relationship is also key to the student government’s success.

“It’s time for the senate and the ex-

ecutive to bury the hatchet and join together for the betterment of Georgetown. Some of the brightest and most capable students are sitting in this room today, and every day we are not working in a cooperative manner, we are falling short of our potential,” Tezel said in his inaugural speech.

The administration released executive staff appointments on Sunday, including a position for an executive-senate liaison, filled by senior advisor Ben Weiss (COL ’15), who ran for president with Greco as his running mate.

“There has not really been the greatest of relationships between previous executives and the senate — or at least a lack of communication — and having someone in the executive actively working to make sure that it is a positive, collaborative relationship is a priority for both the new executive and current senate leadership,” said Weiss, a current senator.

Tisa and Ramadan delivered their farewell addresses Saturday, with Tisa reflecting on the importance of student opinion in decision-making.

“Georgetown is a massive institution.

It has an educational mission but it balances financial constraints, differing entities, different viewpoints, differing philosophies. And sometimes it gets it wrong. And Georgetown students are the conscience to that situation,” Tisa said.

The outgoing GUSA president also reaffirmed GUSA’s role as an advocate for students and a way to give a voice to student needs.

“GUSA doesn’t really have any power,” Tisa said.” We have a voice and when we mobilize students, when people vote in our elections and engage with us, that voice starts having power.”

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The Corcoran Gallery and the Corcoran College of Art and Design are now parts of the National Gallery of Art and The George Washington University, respectively.

In Historic Move, Corcoran Gallery Splits Ownership Joy Ma

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Ownership of the Corcoran Gallery and the Corcoran College of Art and Design changed hands to the National Gallery of Art and The George Washington University, respectively, on Feb. 19.

The gallery currently serves as the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, D.C., and it is renowned for its wide collection of contemporary American art. Since the administrative change, the gallery was renamed Corcoran Contemporary, National Gallery of Art. While the National Gallery oversees the gallery collection, GWU oversees the college of art and design and the operational responsibilities of the gallery.

Corcoran Gallery Vice President of Marketing and Communications Mimi Carter explained that the new collaboration provided a sustainable solution for the future of both the gallery and the college.

“The Corcoran College and Art of Design needed a financially sustainable solution for the gallery and the college,” Carter said.

“Partnering with GWU and NGA helped us to preserve the Corcoran collection, keep the iconic building as a gallery and a showcase for contemporary art and simultaneously enabled us to maintain the connection between the college and the gallery.”

Carter added that the board of trustees thought the decision was the best option that would both safeguard and increase access to the gallery’s collection while maintaining deep roots in the community. Since its creation in 1874, the gallery has provided numerous services as a cultural, educational and civic resource, such as art outreach programs, community service partnerships and exhibitions highlighting local District artists.

Georgetown Director for the Art and Museum Studies Program Alison Hilton agreed that the administrative change was the best immediate solution.

“I hope with the change with this new and interesting balance of administration will yield some creative long term solutions,” Hilton said. “I should also say that the Corcoran is not only a museum but also an art school, and it’s the only thing of its kind. So in some ways, it makes sense to try this different kind of solution.”

Hilton stressed the importance of the art collection’s accessibility, particularly in light of founder William Corcoran’s reasoning behind a joint art school-museum entity.

“Studio art students go to the gallery very often to be in touch with contemporary art.

For art history, we use the collection for studies and research and enjoyment,” Hilton said. “I hope the museum part will be even more accessible for the undergrads coming along. It will be a big benefit to students who aren’t necessarily majors but who care about the art.”

In addition to exhibition accessibility, Hilton added that professors themselves take art and art history classes at Corcoran College.

“We do this. We always use the museum,” Hilton said. “For art history students, it’s great. Same goes for American Studies students and the other major students who have an interest in art.”

As the gallery transitions from a private entity to a public one, Hilton said the museum’s operations may change depending on GWU’s administrative decisions.

“The study of art history in universities and the study of art in museums are much more integrated than in the past,” Hilton said. “This collaboration between GWU and the National Gallery of Art could be an ideal way to demonstrate that integration.

In an attempt to advance Georgetown’s reputation as a connected, worldly university, the Office of Communications founded the Social Media Working Group in 2012 with the goal of developing a unified strategy for social media as an engagement tool on campus at the administrative level.

Although the administrative working group has seen much success, a partner student working group is still waiting to take off.

Since its creation, the administrative working group has focused on publicizing the Georgetown experience from students’ perspectives.

“It’s been really fun to experiment and talk with students about the way that we can allow them to tell their experience of events, not just in the typical way that we would tell outside audiences about what happens on campus,” University Social Media and Communications Manager Rob Mathis said.

For example, the group has dispatched student live tweeters to high-profile Georgetown events and put out short student news profile clips of events.

Mathis also reported that while there is widespread interest in the formation of the partner student social media working group, it has not gotten off the ground yet.

“We put a poll out there and there was a lot of interest in it, but I don’t know that we are ready yet and that we understand what the most useful way is for students to come together on it. We want it to start as organically as the university-level working group did,” Mathis said.

Cody Cowan (SFS ’14) is working with Mathis in determining the best way to create a student working group, but efforts have been met with difficulties.

“Our original intent was to

students don’t engage with flyers as much anymore. It’s not a physical thing that is just posted around campus anymore. Everything is through social media, and we’ve moved a lot more towards that route,” said Hutchinson, who helps maintain The Corp’s large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram presences.

International Relations Club Chair of the board of directors Jeff Caso (SFS ’15) detailed the student group’s increasing social media movement.

“We’ve made the decision to switch from using a Facebook group to a Facebook page. This enables us to post material, such as photos and events, as the IRC. We’ve found that this is a great way to market events to a larger demographic.

We typically host events that are very specialized substantively, so it’s excellent to be Cody Cowan (SFS ’14) Social Media Working Group Member able to reach an audi“[Four years ago] some ence composed of the entire clubs didn’t have HoyaLink Georgetown community,” pages, some had websites Caso wrote in an email. and Facebook groups, and In addition, the group some didn’t. Some clubs have launched a new website, exdefinitely gotten a lot better panded its Flickr account [with social media], and The to capture visual memories Corp is probably at the top of of IRC events and posted its the hierarchy because they membership and leadership have an entire department applications as Facebook dedicated to IT and market- event pages to expand their ing,” Cowan said. reach.

Students of Georgetown With student groups amInc. Marketing Director Nor- plifying their respective soma Hutchinson (SFS ’16) not- cial media efforts, and the ed the increasing importance SMWG working to improve of social media in the group’s the university’s social media marketing campaign. prowess at the administra“I think in the next year so- tive level, Georgetown is set cial media is going to play an to strengthen its grasp on even more pivotal role in mar- multimedia recruitment, keting and how we structure fundraising and event awareour department, how we cam- ness. Mathis believes that paign and how we focus our this ongoing process will reresources,” said Hutchinson. quire all facets of the univerWhile The Corp and other sity to work in cohesion. student groups used to adver“I think social media is really tise through more traditional becoming the home page for media, including paper fly- any organization. I have always ers, social media has changed said ‘If you want to go fast, go the nature of student-group alone, but if you want to go far, advertising and awareness ef- then go together.’ I think the forts. working group has been really “We’ve noticed that a lot of great at that,” Mathis said. provide students and student groups with the resources and support that university departments and administrators have through their working group, but at the same time, student groups are not all the same, and not all trying to show a united front,” Cowan said.

Another issue is that the amount of information to put out for student groups is significantly less than administrative level information, which takes away from the prospective student working group’s usefulness. Despite these obstacles, Cowan has hope for student-run social media at Georgetown and has seen marked progress in university groups’ usage of social media resources since he arrived on campus four years ago.

“The Corp is probably at the top of the hierarchy because they have an entire department dedicated to IT.”

Panel Talks US and China KsHithij Shiranth Hoya Staff Writer

The second annual ChinaU.S. Forum, co-hosted by the Georgetown University Chinese Students and Scholars Association and the School of Foreign Service Asian Studies Program, involved discussions on changes to economic and global governance patterns Friday in Lohrfink Auditorium.

CSSA Chair Miaomiao Shao (GRD ’16) emphasized the importance of examining the relations between China and the United States.

“The goal of the forum is to provide a unique platform for policymakers, business leaders, scholars [and] students to discuss current issues regarding China-U.S. relations in the area of economic, political and cultural cooperation,” Shao said. “We are so lucky to have so many distinguished speakers with us here today.”

Victor Cha, the director of the SFS Asian Studies Program, served as the moderator for the event. Cha introduced David Dollar, a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs at the Brookings Institute. Dollar is a preeminent scholar on China’s economy and relations with the United States.

Dollar’s opening talk focused on China’s growth model. He expressed a desire that that the model will contribute to a strong foundation for China-U.S. economic relations.

“China’s obviously had a very long and successful period of economic growth. It’s grown at an average rate above 10 percent for three decades,” Dollar said.

Dollar drew connections to his previous experiences overseeing economic development in Japan and South Korea, countries that both share a similar growth model to China. Although there were commonalities between the three economically successful Asian nations, Dollar did note that certain parts of the Chinese experience are unprecedented:

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Douglas H. Paal, vice president for studies at the CEIP, delivers the keynote speech Friday in Lohrfink Auditorium. high levels of investment have been critical to the Chinese economy, more so than the technological growth that provided the surge for Japanese and South Korean sectors.

Dollar tempered his report of China’s unprecedented growth, warning that the economic model for China is also unsustainable.

“When you are so dependent on capital accumulation, you end up seeing diminishing returns to capital,” Dollar said. “The model is running out of steam. Investment is still going up, but growth is slowing down. It’s taking more and more investment to grow at slower and slower rates.”

While Dollar noted that the growth model had been successful in poverty reduction, the negative environmental externalities and the unsustainability of the system remain major flaws in need of reform.

He identified four specific features of the Chinese fiscal growth system that need reform in order to free China’s economic sector: the household registration system, financial repression, a large state enterprise sector and the one-party system.

Dollar affirmed current legislation promised by the Chinese government — such as opening up the economy to

foreign investment — as positive actions if implemented.

After Dollar’s presentation, three panels were introduced to fill out the remainder of the seven-hour event. The first panel was focused on new trends in global economic patterns and China-U.S. cooperation. The second panel dealt with China-U.S. relations as a whole, including cultural and military aspects. The final panel helped develop the issue of social welfare and development in China.

There were over 50 people in attendance at the event, though attendees migrated in and out of the seven-hour forum. Despite minimal attendance from undergraduates, graduate students, primarily from the McCourt School of Public Policy, largely populated the event.

Students pointed to the opportunity to see experts from other schools as a highlight of the event. Claire Peng (GRD ’17) also appreciated the interaction and debates between the different professors at the forum.

“Most people would think economic growth results in more pollution, but [the professors] kind of disagreed with each other. There were a lot of debates, but it’s very interesting to see how they get their conclusions,” Peng said.

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Sophomore catcher Nick Collins leads the team with a .337 batting average this season and had four RBIs in Georgetown’s weekend series. The Hoyas lost two of three games against the Tigers.

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The Georgetown baseball team dropped two out of three games to Towson University this past weekend, with the first two games at home and the third on the road. The Hoyas (9-12) won Friday’s game 6-2 before losing 10-2 and 8-4 to the Tigers (12-8) on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Coming off of back-to-back wins, Georgetown won Friday’s game behind an excellent performance from sophomore pitcher Matt Smith. The Hoyas took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by sophomore catcher Nick Collins and added two more runs in the seventh after Collins stole home and freshman second baseman Jake Kuzbel hit an RBI single. That was more than enough run support for Smith, who gave up only one run in a career high 7 2/3 innings pitched.

“Matt threw very well. We needed that because our pitching staff is pretty banged up right now,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said.

“For him to go deep into a game and give us a chance to win is huge. He’s pitching really well, and I’m really happy with that.”

Saturday’s game did not turn out as well for Georgetown, as it could not create much offensively, scoring only two runs. Freshman pitcher David Ellingson gave up three runs, picking up his first loss in what has been a very promising freshman season.

Ellingson, who started the year as a reliever, has been forced into a starting role after the loss of redshirt junior pitcher and staff

ace Jack Vander Linden for the season.

“I think with the shape of the staff and the way it is right now, ready or not, I think he’s going to start for us,” Wilk said. “And he’s been throwing the ball really well for us.”

Ellingson was not helped by the bullpen, as sophomore pitcher Felix van der Vaart and freshman pitcher Joseph Bialkowski combined to give up seven more runs. Bullpen struggles were a recurring theme for the Hoyas over the weekend. Relief pitchers combined to give up 11 runs, just one less than the Georgetown offense scored the entire weekend.

“I’m concerned, and it’s not only the bullpen. Our whole pitching staff I’m concerned about,” Wilk said. “It all trickles down, and at some point, like Saturday’s game, it becomes a problem. Somebody had to take it on the chin and that happened to Joe Bialkowski. Unfortunately, we had to leave him in so we were loaded up to go to battle Sunday. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out Sunday. But we’ve got a limited amount of innings, a limited amount of experience.”

In the final game of the series, Georgetown got off to a good start when Kuzbel drove in senior first baseman Steve Anderson to take a quick 1-0 lead in the second inning. However, that lead quickly vanished when junior pitcher Will Brown gave up five runs, two of which were earned, in 3 2/3 innings of relief. Brown’s record for the year dropped to 0-4 with his ERA ballooning to a worrisome 7.66.

“I don’t know if I would say

we are worried, but we are concerned that he’s been hit around,” Wilk said. “Will he continue to get the ball? Yes, but I don’t know at what point.

Roles are shifting right now on the staff and his might shift as well.”

In a rather quiet offensive series for the Hoyas, two of the lone bright spots were once again Collins and Anderson. Collins, who leads the team with a .337 batting average, had four RBIs over the three games. Anderson added four more RBIs of his own, increasing his team leading total to 16. Those two have led the offense all season, and their impact on Georgetown’s hitting has been huge at times.

“I don’t know if I could describe it. I mean, they are the backbone of what we do offensively. I don’t know where we would be without them,” Wilk said.

The Hoyas continued a disturbing, season-long trend of not recovering from losses this weekend. They have had losing streaks of three, four and three, and currently have a losing streak of two.

With Big East play rapidly approaching, Wilk is worried about his team’s consistency.

“We need to limit the selfinflicted damage. If you looked at [Sunday’s] game, five of their eight runs were self-inflicted,” Wilk said. “We walked a guy, hit a guy or made an error that led to runs. We’ve got to reduce those numbers and those mistakes. Our offense isn’t going to put up 10 runs a game, but we should be able to put up enough to win if we can limit our selfinflicted wounds.”

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Sidney Crosby have always Last season that number was down to garnered the most attention a paltry 5.38. Teams are scoring fewer since the 2004-2005 lockout, Martin goals, not more. Adding a salary cap St. Louis was just as instrumental in to the league changed the entire calthe motivation behind reshaping and culus around offensive production. restructuring the NHL. St. Louis was As in soccer or basketball, players everything the league wanted out of who produce offensively command its modified game: speed, finesse, elu- salaries that probably outweigh their siveness and intelligence. true value on the ice, pitch or court.

On the other hand, St. Louis is Where teams can spend their money small — only 5 foot most efficiently is on 8 inches tall and 180 solid two-way players pounds — which was a that play well at both major storyline when ends of the ice. Think he led his Tampa Bay of the Bruins’ MiLightning to the Stanlan Lucic and Patrice ley Cup in 2004. He Bergeron or the Blues’ had “defied the odds,” Alex Pietrangelo. It is and “overcome the obno wonder the Bruins Ethan Chess & stacles” that his small have been to two StanDrew Cunningham stature endowed him ley Cup finals in the with. It was a rarity in past three years. a league that had long The Los Angeles The Martin St. Louis Kings are basically relied on big men and “Broad Street Bullies” an entire team built trade shows the to win championships. as a testament to this The NHL — worried increased importance mentality, with hardthat players like him forward Dustin of two-way players. hitting would no longer be Brown and skilled deable to compete in the fender Drew Doughty more aggressive game — changed the providing much of the leadership rules. It increased the number and during their recent reign of the Westfrequency of penalties. It reduced the ern Conference. The next set of teams size of the goaltenders’ equipment poised to rule supreme exhibit the and slightly modified the offensive same character. The San Jose Sharks, zone’s dimensions, emphasizing scor- the Anaheim Ducks and the Blues all ing and skill. By all accounts, the NHL find success by taking ice away and made every change it could conceive shutting down opponents’ offensive of that could possibly provide the op- attack. Their offensive assets all have portunity for players like the under- strong defensive skills to make it all sized, underrated St. Louis to thrive. work.

So if the “new” NHL was intended Often we hear from the hockey press to be fast and offensive, then why did about teams getting value when referSteve Yzerman, the general manager ring to individual players. This term is of the Lightning, trade one of the really a euphemism for teams finding league’s elite offensive producers for offense from players acquired at lower New York Rangers captain Ryan Cal- prices usually paid for defensive playlahan at the March 5 trade deadline? ers. The reason Yzerman would even The obvious answer is that St. Louis entertain the possibility of a St. Louis was immensely disgruntled about be- for Callahan trade is because Callahan ing left off of Canada’s Olympic team offers a gritty two-way presence that

by Yzerman, although he eventually the diminutive St. Louis simply canjoined after his Tampa teammate Ste- not bring to the ice, a presence also ven Stamkos could not play because known as value. of injury. However, Yzerman is clearly The trade was not entirely Yzera smart hockey mind; he assembled man’s dumping his disgruntled captwo gold-medal winning national tain for whatever asset was on the teams and a squad in Tampa Bay that market at the time. Many fans are getis poised to have its best season since ting caught up in the emotion of the that cup run led by St. Louis. trade and seeing it this way. In reality, There is absolutely no reason he it is a perfect example of what the fuwould trade away what on paper looks ture of the NHL looks like. Even with like one of the league’s top weapons the salary cap set to rise markedly for a 15-to-20 goal scorer in Callahan. next year, it is unlikely that teams will The story of the Callahan-St. Louis abandon the “value” model stressing trade is basically the story of the post- two-way play that has come to define lockout NHL in a nutshell. In spite of the league’s elite teams. the aforementioned rules changes, the past decade of NHL hockey has Ethan Chess and Drew Cunningactually seen a rather marked drop ham are seniors in the College. in offensive production. In 2005 there THE THIRD HALF appears every Friday.

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It was like deja vu for Georgetown in the Big East opening series against Villanova (8-15, 0-3 Big East) in Philadelphia this weekend. For the second consecutive year, the Hoyas team swept the Wildcats in a three-game set to open conference play.

The Hoyas (12-12, 3-0 Big East) relied on their pitching duo of juniors Megan Hyson and Lauren O’Leary, as well as some offensive slugging to power them over their conference rival.

Georgetown easily won its two Saturday games 7-1 and 9-1 — a mercy rule ended the second game after just five innings — then battled in the final game on Sunday before breaking a tie to bring home a 5-3 victory.

The Blue and Gray didn’t waste any time making waves in the series, scoring four runs in the first inning of game one. After a pair of hits, senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek smashed a double to bring in a run, and Hyson, batting cleanup, followed with a three-run homerun. Hyson extended her hitting streak to eight games over the weekend hitting.

“Anytime you can score first and in bunches helps the other aspects of the game,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “Having a big lead takes pressure off of the pitcher and defense.”

Georgetown tacked on three more runs, including two on RBIs from sophomore third baseman Taylor Henry. Senior outfielder Elyse Graziano, who singled and scored the first run of the game, recorded the first four-hit game of her career.

“Elyse was on fire offensively this weekend,” Conlan said. “She is our catalyst and she is always

somewhere in the mix when our team is scoring runs.”

Meanwhile, from the mound, O’Leary threw all seven innings, recording three strikeouts and allowing only one run.

In the second game of the doubleheader, both offenses scuffled until the third inning when the Hoyas opened the floodgates. Graziano walked and stole second, then sophomore shortstop Grace Appelbe singled, and a sacrifice fly from Slovacek scored Graziano. A Hyson double brought in another run, and sophomore outfielder Samantha Giovaniello homered in two more. Senior outfielder Alexandria Anttila followed with a homerun her own.

Villanova scored one run in the fourth off of a Georgetown error, but that was all it would get. The Hoyas added four more insurance runs in the fifth. Villanova scattered two errors in between four Georgetown hits, and the Hoyas led by a score of 9-1.

Hyson pitched all five innings, striking out 10, walking nine and allowing no earned runs.

“I think winning by the mercy rule is just putting a stamp on your performance of that game,” Conlan said.

At the same time, she knew it would not mean much if they couldn’t continue the momentum — something that the Hoyas have had trouble with — to open the final game.

“We can never take anything for granted. You have to be able to perform at the same level in each game no matter what the outcomes were in previous games. If you don’t hit, pitch or play defense, then you don’t win,” Conlan said.

Georgetown’s momentum continued in the third game. It scored a run off a Slovacek run in

the top of the first but Villanova quickly answered with two of its own off of Georgetown starter Hyson. Georgetown tied it up in the second on Slovacek’s second RBI in as many innings.

The score was knotted at two until the bottom of the fifth, when a string of singles put the Wildcats up one. But the Hoyas immediately tied it up at three on an RBI from Appelbe in the top of the sixth inning.

“I thought we were so resilient.

Yesterday was a fun game, but we struggled to push runs across,” Conlan said. “We left a lot of players on base. However, our kids never panicked. They kept putting pressure on Villanova until we were able to get the lead in the seventh.”

O’Leary came on in relief for the sixth and seventh, allowing one hit and no runs, and the Blue and Gray scored two runs in the seventh on an Villanova error to take the lead, and later the game, 5-3.

Hyson and O’Leary carried the Hoyas to all three wins, and their season ERAs currently stand at 1.89 and 3.09, respectively.

“I thought Lauren and Megan had excellent outings for us,” Conlan said. “Both were dominant, and Villanova could not get anything going against them.”

Georgetown, with a .500 overall record and a 3-0 conference start, has put itself in good standing in the Big East. It is one of just four undefeated teams after the opening weekend. Conlan was excited about the series, but says there’s still a lot of work ahead.

“The name of this game is winning. That’s our mission and this weekend we did exactly as we set out to do. We are off to a good start, but we have a lot of season left.”

HOPKINS, from A10 for the majority of the game. Anytime the senior crossed into the offensive zone, she was sure to encounter a Johns Hopkins player who would remain by her side. With Freedman rendered largely ineffective, the Hoyas had to find another playmaker but the Johns Hopkins’ defenders were quick to shut down any alternative options.

DiMartino scored an unassisted goal with 21:43 remaining to bring the Blue Jays within one. Georgetown controlled play for the rest of the game and carried a one-goal lead into the final minute. However, with only 41 seconds remaining, DiMartino struck yet again to tie the score at 10 apiece.

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the game entered a six-minute overtime period, the Hoyas’ third such game of the season. Fisher made two vital saves for the Hoyas early in the overtime, but was beaten by a fast and high shot from Johns Hopkins’ senior midfielder Sarah Taylor. The Blue Jays were then able to run out the clock on the rest of the overtime.

“I think we got a little bit tight and a little bit tentative and that showed near the end,” Fried said. “We won the stat battle, but at the end of the day, all that really matters is the scoreboard.”

Next up for Georgetown is yet another ranked opponent. No. 16 Loyola Maryland (6-4, 3-0 Patriot League) travels to the Hilltop on Tuesday for a 7 p.m. game.

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Redshirt senior and defenseman Tyler Knarr has three goals and two assists in eight games for the Hoyas this season.

Rivals Prepare for Fight in Philadelphia hard during the week and do all of the little things, our chances of winning are much better,” Warne said.

Villanova will take the field Tuesday after breaking a four-game losing streak with a 10-8 victory over Big East opponent Marquette on Saturday. Though the Wildcats have been struggling to climb above .500, their losses have come at the hands of worthy opponents.

Villanova has the ninth strongest schedule in the nation, and five of the seven games it has played have been against ranked opponents. In addition, six of the seven games have been decided by two goals or less, including a 12-10 loss to No. 1 Maryland.

Just as Georgetown did against Loyola, Villanova has learned to maximize its offensive opportunities against tough competition. The Wildcats possess a fluid and adaptable offense led by talented attack, Johnny Gallaway, who had a hat trick against Marquette.

Warne knows that while the Hoyas can expect intensity from the Wildcats’ attack, it will be more difficult to anticipate how they will execute the offense.

“I think that Villanova plays a little differently than some of our other opponents,” Warne said.

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Whereas some of the other teams … [will have a player who] is going to dodge and run by you in very scripted movements, these are going to be very unscripted movements. It kind of reminds me of pickup basketball.”

Georgetown’s defense will need to match Villanova’s fluidity in order to stop it. With quick decisionmaking and constant awareness, off-ball defenders will put themselves in good positioning to respond to scoring threats.

Warne believes that this can be accomplished if the defenders work together to perform as a cohesive unit.

“We just have to do a good job of communicating with one another and understanding what our roles are, and just do a good job of protecting the guy playing the dodger,” Warne said.

This will mark the second conference game of the season for the Hoyas; Georgetown fell 15-7 to St. John’s in its Big East opener March 15. The result will go a long way toward determining whether the Hoyas can accomplish one of their primary goals — reaching the postseason for a second consecutive season.

After Wednesday’s performance, Warne has renewed hopes in reaching that task.

“I think they saw that they have the ability and the potential to beat anybody,” Warne said.

he annual NFL owners’ meeting will take place in Orlando, Fla., this week, and a number of hot-topic issues and rule changes are slated for debate.

Most notably, the league will be discussing expanding the playoff field from its current 12-team format to 14, adding two games in the process. This move would effectively kill two birds with one stone. The additional games would prolong the season and add the television revenue that the league so highly cherishes.

The NFL Players Association, however, will oppose any such move because of the increased risk of injury that extra games would bring.

Furthermore, an expanded playoff field would dilute the prestige of a postseason berth, something that does not seem to concern the ever profit-seeking NFL. Another point of discussion at the owner meetings will be altering the rules regarding replay review.

The Washington Redskins organization initially proposed allowing reviews and challenges for personal foul penalties, with New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick adding a proposal that every play on the field should be reviewable.

Belichick stated his views on the subject to the Boston Herald in December, saying, “I understand that judgment calls are judgment calls, but to say that an important play can’t be reviewed, I don’t think that’s really in the spirit of trying to get everything right and making sure the most important plays are officiated properly.”

However, opening up all plays for challenges raises questions about the speed of the game. Football games consistently take more than three hours, and really analyzing judgment calls such as pass interference penalties could be a lengthy process. The question of who re-

views plays is just as important: Is the play reviewed on the field by officials or at the NFL’s New York office via satellite?

But on the other hand, aren’t the Redskins and Patriots right to try to eliminate bad pass interference calls? As a fan, one of the most maddening occurrences is when a receiver trips or embellishes contact and a flag is thrown; instead of an incompletion, the result is a spot foul and a first down. Games’ outcomes depend on these calls, and it is in the interest of all involved parties to get them right. It is highly unlikely

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Many potential changes are being discussed at the NFL owners’ meeting. that the owners will vote to allow the review of all plays, but including personal fouls would certainly be a step in the right direction.

A third rule to watch closely is the New England Patriots’ proposal to move extra-point attempts from the 2-yard line to the 25. The league has offered a counterproposal to move them to the 20-yard line, which nonetheless would change PATs from about 20-yard attempts to a more difficult 37. Under both proposals, if a team elected to go for two, they would still do so from the 2-yard line.

Former NFL coach and current ESPN analyst Herm Edwards summed up the change best, say-

ing, “Obviously, you put more pressure on the kicker. And then there’s the decision the coach has to make. ...What do you do? It’s one of those deals that’s good for fans. You have it coming down to a coach’s decision, and it’s going to be second-guessed.”

In all likelihood, the league will put the 20-yard PAT to trial during the preseason and re-evaluate the rule for the regular season. While the change will definitely add a wrinkle to game strategy, more traditional NFL fans will likely oppose the alteration when they see it in practice during exhibition games.

Speaking of exhibition games, the league intends to put an end to overtime during the preseason. This is part of the natural progression with regard to player safety and makes sense if some owners are serious about extending the regular season.

There is also no significance to winning or losing a preseason game, and very few fans should be outraged when their third-string quarterback is slighted one more drive.

Not all rule proposals are selfless acts for the good of the league.

Take, for instance, the Patriots’ proposal to raise the field goal posts 5 yards higher. The Patriots lost to the Ravens two years ago on a field goal that they did not believe crossed through the uprights, and the vengeful Belichick is certainly hoping that that never happens to him again.

For rules to be approved, 24 of the 32 league owners must vote positively — that is, a 75 percent approval threshold must be met.

Training camp remains more than four months away, but the NFL owners’ meeting bear watching this week.

Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. More than a game appears every Tuesday.

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Coming off of four straight losses, the Georgetown men’s tennis team (5-8) looked to turn around its recent misfortune in its first match of the year on the team’s home courts Saturday.

Unfortunately, the Hoyas did no such thing as they fell to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (48), 4-3. It was the fifth consecutive loss for the Hoyas.

Georgetown got off to a strong start winning the doubles point.

The Hoyas received victories in the second and third slots. Though the second doubles pair — comprised of senior co-captain Casey Distaso and sophomore Daniel Khanin — lost in all three California matches last week, the players finally proved themselves with a victory against Penn.

“Casey’s got a great serve and a great overhead, and Danny’s a shorter guy who doesn’t serve as big and doesn’t hit as big an overhead, but his groundstrokes are powerful,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “It helps the chemistry of the team because then Casey can close and get overheads and volleys at the net. That’s what you look for; you look for that chemistry.”

Unfortunately though, Georgetown’s momentum did not carry over to singles play. The Hoyas only managed wins at first and fourth singles. Khanin continued his hot streak by winning decisively at the first singles spot 6-2, 6-3, and junior Alex Tropiano in a competitive 7-6(3), 7-6(5) contest.

“[Khanin] played some of the best tennis of his career,” Ernst said.

“Tropiano didn’t play great, but he found a way to win. Winning these close matches just gives him more and more confidence. In the end, it comes down to winning the doubles point and winning tight three-setters.”

Junior John Brosens posed significant competition for Penn sophomore Zach Lessen, but lost in the sixth single with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-7(3) result to give the Quakers the victory.

“I’m really proud of [John], and at the end of the day he couldn’t have tried and fought harder. He gave it his all. He did things out there, too, that I’ve never seen him do … and he served great,” Ernst said.

Meanwhile, the women (7-7, 1-2 Big East) won in a 4-3 contest against the Richmond Spiders (5-7) on Thursday and shut out the Providence Friars (4-9, Big East 0-2) 7-0 at home Saturday to extend their winning streak to six matches.

Despite beginning the season 1-7, the team has now put itself in position for a winning season.

“We’re really starting to come into our own in a nice way. We played Boston College, Boston University, DePaul and St. John’s those are all full-scholarship programs that are very good,” Ernst said.

“When there are losses, the girls don’t get down on themselves and they don’t lose confidence. Now that’s just made them better.”

Although sophomore Liselot Koenen and freshman Victoire Saperstein won in the first doubles position against Richmond, the Spiders still captured the doubles

point. But, thanks to the efforts of senior co-captain Kelly Comolli, Georgetown was able to notch the win on the singles side. Comolli defeated Melissa Kandinata in come from behind style 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory.

“Kelly Comolli just won one of the best matches of her four years,” Ernst said. “She came back and beat the girl, and everyone responded to that. They got more confident, and then they won.”

Georgetown continued its hot streak against Providence on Saturday. Saperstein impressed at singles, earning her fourth number one singles victory of the year with a 6-4, 6-3 result. Comolli dominated in the second singles slot, picking up a 6-1, 6-3 win. The Friars had no answer to the Hoyas in the remainder of the singles matches and were unable to pick up even a single set. Freshman Sophie Barnard won her first set in the third singles slot for the Hoyas 6-0, but she retired in the second due to her opponent’s injury.

“They didn’t test us too much, but that was one of the better Providence teams we’ve played,” Ernst said. “Their girls fought to get winners out of us because we were playing very solid and steady” The women will compete with James Madison on March 28, while the men will look to end their losing streak against the Xavier Musketeers on April 4.

“We don’t play for a while.We get almost two weeks off, and maybe that’s a good thing on some level to forget about some of these close losses,” Ernst said. “We’ll be excited to play.”

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GU Seeks 1st Big East Win ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Writer

After falling short in an upset attempt against No. 2 Loyola last Wednesday, the Georgetown’s men’s lacrosse team (3-5, 0-1 Big East) will look to get back on track when it travels to Philadelphia to play conference rival Villanova (2-5, 1-0 Big East) on Tuesday.

Losing by one goal to Loyola (8-1, 4-0 Patriot League) was no small feat.

The Greyhounds excel in transitional offense and exploit their opponents’ mistakes; however by minimizing turnovers and maintaining possession of the ball for a significant portion of the game, Georgetown was able to neutralize many of Loyola’s scoring opportunities.

The Hoyas were able to set the tempo early in the game with goals from freshman midfielder Devon Lewis and redshirt senior defender and cocaptain Tyler Knarr, resulting in a 2-0 lead within the first minute of play.

In addition, Knarr won six of the first seven faceoffs of the game, allowing the Hoyas to control possession for much of the first quarter. The game remained tight throughout though=, with the lead changing hands four times. It was victory was ultimately decided in the final minute of the fourth quarter when Loyola notched what would be the final goal of its 10-9 victory.

Although it ended in defeat, the game was indicative of the strides that Georgetown has made thus far this season. Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne was encouraged by the efforts he saw on the field both in the game on Wednesday and in the following days during practice.

“The guys seem focused and realize how close they are,” Warne said.

“They realize that they can control Tuesday night [by working] Thursday through Monday during practice.

Practice has been very good, very energetic and very competitive, which I’m very encouraged by.”

Georgetown will now hope to continue the high level of play as it prepares to face Villanova. By maintaining the intensity that fueled the teams performance against Loyola during practice, Warne believes that his players will be well prepared to face off against the Wildcats.

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Senior guard Markel Starks (left) scored 27 points and senior guard Aaron Bowen added 10 points in Georgetown’s 101-90 season-ending loss to Florida State in the second round of the NIT. Georgetown finished the season with an 18-15 overall record.

Season Comes to a Close in Florida EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

Despite a game-high 27 points from senior guard Markel Starks in his final career game, Georgetown’s disappointing season ended on a sour note Monday night with a 10190 loss at Florida State in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament.

As they have throughout the season, the Hoyas (18-15, 8-10 Big East) faced early foul trouble that resulted in the Seminoles (21-13, 9-9 ACC) reaching the bonus midway through the first half. Worse still, junior forward Mikael Hopkins picked up his third foul less than five minutes into the game.

It was a slow, chippy game from the outset, and the two teams combined for 51 personal fouls — 30 on Georgetown, 21 against Florida State. Each team also picked up a pair of technical fouls, with Head

Coach John Thompson III tagged for just the third technical of his tenure.

Florida State was able to inflict the most damage at the three-point line, however, draining eight threepointers in the first half and stringing together a punishing 15-8 run in the half’s final four minutes that put the Hoyas in a 48-35 hole at the break.

Georgetown could not make a dent in Florida State’s lead out of halftime, especially with the frontcourt saddled in serious foul trouble. When the final buzzer sounded, Hopkins, senior forward Nate Lubick and sophomore center Bradley Hayes — who played a career high 13 minutes — all had four fouls.

While Georgetown’s backcourt once again turned in a solid performance — in addition to Starks, sophomore guard D’Vauntes SmithRivera had 22 points and junior guard Jabril Trawick finished with

14 points — it was not enough to keep up with Florida State’s truly sensational play.

Defensive lapses were another problem for the Blue and Gray, who allowed the Seminoles to shoot 68.2 percent from the floor and an even better 68.8 percent — 11-for-16 — from beyond the arc on the night.

Florida State guard Devon Bookert was especially hard for Georgetown to handle, dishing out nine assists and setting up fellow guards sophomore Montay Brandon and senior Ian Miller to close the game with 26 and 18 points, respectively.

Those figures allowed the Seminoles to build a 17-point lead in the second half, although 11 Florida State turnovers provided the Hoyas with several opportunities to cut the lead in the final minutes.

Although Starks — who was all heart in his final game in a Georgetown uniform — cut the lead to 12 points on a three-pointer with 3:10

left, Florida State calmly made its free throws down the stretch and the Hoyas could get no closer until the game was entirely out of reach.

The Blue and Gray shot 47.5 percent on the evening, a solid figure but not nearly competitive with the Seminoles’ lights-out performance.

With the win, No. 1-seeded Florida State will advance to face Louisiana Tech on Wednesday night. Monday night’s loss was the final game at Georgetown for Starks, Lubick and senior guard John Caprio. Senior Aaron Bowen and senior center Moses Ayegba have additional years of eligibility and their plans have not yet been announced.

Georgetown’s 18 wins this season were the second lowest on the Hilltop for Thompson, whose 2008-09 squad finished with just 16 wins.

The Hoyas have not advanced past the second game of either the NCAA tournament or the NIT since reaching the Final Four in 2007.

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Senior midfielder Megan Farrell had a shot and ground ball in the Hoyas’ 11-10 overtime loss to No. 11 Johns Hopkins on Friday night.

The No. 13 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (3-4) dropped an 11-10 overtime decision to No. 11 Johns Hopkins (10-0) under the lights of MultiSport Facility on Friday night.

Despite receiving points from seven players splitting draw control throughout the match, Georgetown suffered its third straight loss. The Hoyas battled back from an early 4-0 deficit and led 8-6 at halftime, but they could not pull out the win in overtime.

Freshman goalkeeper Maddy Fisher played the entire game in the net for Georgetown and kept the team in the game with six saves, including three in overtime. Despite letting up four early goals, Fisher found her game and maintained control in the cage.

“She did the little things that we knew she would do, and I thought she came up with three big saves,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said. “Unfortunately, we left one sitting on the deck in the overtime period.”

Johns Hopkins won the first draw and immediately seized control, scor-

ing just 17 seconds into the game.

A minute later, the Blue Jays did it again and the Hoyas went down 2-0.

Two more goals quickly followed and less than two and a half minutes into the game, Georgetown found itself trailing 4-0. John Hopkins sophomore midfielder Dene’ DiMartino contributed three assists and a goal in the early flurry.

“They have a good draw control group, they have good athletes and we were reacting to them instead of just going after the ball,” Fried said.

After the opening minutes, however, Georgetown found its spark when junior defender Adrianne Devine carried the ball out of the defensive zone and all the way down the field to notch her first goal of the season.

The Hoyas then picked up their possession game on the draw in their next attempt. The Blue and Gray’s top performers combined for goal number two as junior attack Caroline Tarzian found senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman cutting through the arc. Georgetown then pulled within one when senior attack Reilly Woodman scored from well outside the goal circle to make it 4-3.

After trading a few more goals,

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the Hoyas went on their longest run of the game, stringing four goals together in the last six minutes of the first half. Senior midfielder Courtney Caputo, Tarzian, senior midfielder Hannah Franklin and freshman attack Colleen Lovett all scored to give the Hoyas an 8-6 lead going into halftime.

Georgetown carried its momentum over from the end of the first half to dominate the beginning of the second. Almost three minutes in, Caputo notched her second goal of the game to give the Hoyas a threegoal lead. However, Georgetown gifted Johns Hopkins with two penalties, allowing the Blue Jays to score two goals and pull back within one.

The Hoyas last goal of the game came with a little over 21 minutes remaining in regulation when Freedman tallied her second of the game off a free-position shot after getting fouled in the arc. From then on, Johns Hopkins’ defensive strategy began taking its toll.

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