The Hoya: The Guide: March 21, 2014

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Marching On

Georgetown’s campus protest culture shifts from the picket line to online

BRADEN MCDONALD & MOLLY SIMIO Hoya Staff Writers

On the morning of May 3, 1971, upwards of 3,000 protesters who had flocked to the nation’s capital to protest the My Lai Massacre sought refuge on Georgetown’s campus.

Driven out of their main base in West Potomac Park by police, the May Day protesters pitched tents across Georgetown’s campus, rapidly transforming Copley Lawn and Healy Hall classrooms alike into hotbeds of dissent.

Without written consent from the university, the Metropolitan Police Department stormed campus, arresting some protesters and unleashing tear gas on many more.

Although Georgetown students were not among the leadership of the People’s Coalition of Peace, which organized the 35,000-strong protest, their role in the protest would continue the trend of robust student advocacy that had characterized the campus’s response to the Vietnam War. In reaction to the MPD decision to make arrests and release tear gas on campus, as well as the university’s willingness to allow such a response within its gates, then-student body President Roger Cochetti (F ’72) created Students of Georgetown Inc. along with Nancy Kent (F ’72) to, in their words, “assert and protect the inherent rights of its members and community.”

The organization that is today the largest student-run 501(c)3 in the United States, best known for satiating students’ needs for caffeine, on-the-go meals and summer storage, was incorporated March 6, 1972, with the aim

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Photos of the 1971 May Day demonstrations, which occured on Georgetown’s campus. of using the powers of a corporation to facilitate student protest. It also sought to sue the university for failing to protect student rights amid the May Day protests nearly a year earlier, ultimately filling a civil lawsuit on Jan. 25, 1974.

The Corp, as it came to be known, had to sell simple food items in the basement of New South Hall to finance its mission, but it became an important vehicle of protest. Yet it was only one dimension of an acute fervor that had gripped the campus for half a decade.

Much like The Corp has changed since 1974, so has the nature of student protest on the Hilltop. The tumultuous days of Vietnam and the sea of cultural change that rocked the country during the 1960s has gradually transformed to a calmer campus, with extreme approaches to student activism falling out of the mainstream even as other forms of protest take off online.

While social justice remains a passion of many Georgetown students, and some students and student groups take a strong approach to advocacy, the culture of protest that characterized

the campus during the Vietnam War has since been altered to accommodate a changing campus culture.

Before Vietnam, protests at Georgetown had been few and far between, but as the war worsened, methods of dissent escalated along with it and campuses were defined and solidified as protest venues. In May 1969, after thenPresident Richard Nixon had authorized the invasion of Cambodia, Georgetown’s student government voted to boycott classes for the remainder of the semester; faculty subsequently supported the decision with an overwhelming vote of 156-13. All remaining classes were cancelled and students never sat for finals that semester.

Then, in late April 1972, more than 600 students boycotted Friday classes, heeding the student government’s plea for “each student [to] consider conscientiously his position on the war in Southeast Asia, and, on the basis of that consideration, decide whether or not he will attend classes on Friday.”

Other less overt forms of protest sprang up, too. Fearing that THE HOYA had become a bastion of conservatism, its editor, Steven Pisinski (CAS ’71) defected from the newspaper in 1969 and founded the Georgetown Voice. Many of THE HOYA’S more liberal-minded editors crossed the floor to the other publication, which within a year would become an established progressive media outlet on campus.

Today, the image of 3,000-plus protesters spilling out of Healy Circle and university See PROTEST, B2

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Most college students love food. But with small dorm room kitchens, repetitive choices at O’Donovan Hall and the expensive prices of Georgetown restaurants, food around campus can sometimes lose its luster. Anne Gilliland (COL ’16) and Tori Goodell (COL ’16), founders of the Georgetown chapter of Spoon University, intend to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Spoon University is an online food publication created by college students, for college students and dedicated to, as it proclaims in its mission statement, making food more than just sustenance. The website was started by two sophomores at Northwestern in 2012 and has grown to include a network of over 600 writers at 35 colleges. Goodell found out about the website from her best friend at Northwestern and mentioned it to Gilliland, who thought the idea sounded perfect.

“We are both English majors and food lovers,” Gilliland said. “The website allows us to combine our two passions.”

Together they worked to bring Spoon University to Georgetown, and although the site is just a few weeks old, it is rapidly gaining momentum. It already has a staff of 40 people and almost 500 followers on its Facebook page.

Elise Widerlite (COL ’15), the club’s photo and video editor and a staff writer for THE HOYA, is not surprised that the site has gained popularity so quickly.

“There was a big need for what we were bringing to campus. I know a ton of students See SPOON, B3

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Anne Gilliland (COL ’16), Tori Goodell (COL ’16) and Elise Widerlite (COL ’15) have brought Spoon University, an online food publication, to Georgetown.

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1970s Protest Culture Leaves Legacy PROTEST, from B1 faculty voting to cancel finals is difficult to fathom. The disappearance of this kind of all-consuming protest on campus is a nationwide trend that Kathryn Olesko — a professor of the history of science and modern European intellectual history — laments.

Olesko, who was an undergraduate at Cornell University from 1969 to 1973, recalls a tumultuous campus climate in which protests, riots and teach-ins were highly disruptive.

“Either you went to class walking by Cornell police and Ithaca police outfitted in riot gear, or classes were cancelled and you were free to participate in the debates and meetings that took place all over campus,” Olesko said.

The protests — some of which Olesko actively supported — were centered not only on the Vietnam War, but also on the university’s lack of support for African-American studies and black students, as well as civil liberties issues in general. In her freshman year, Olesko jumped at the opportunity to serve on the Committee on Special Education Projects, a three-person transitional outfit charged with addressing minority student issues.

At Cornell, the effects of such a robust student protest culture were widespread and long-lasting. Frequent teachins, which Olesko described as “mass assemblies of students, professors and administrators,” led to the founding of the Constituent Assembly, which later became the school’s university senate in 1969. Similarly, anti-war movements at Georgetown in the late 1960s and early 1970s formed the impetus for the founding of the university’s faculty senate, designed as a structural solution to anti-war activity on campus.

Anna von der Goltz, a Georgetown history professor who specializes in European protest movements in and around 1968, agrees that student attitudes toward activism have changed since that time.

“One of my SFS proseminar students commented last year that students today are ‘incredibly comfortable with authority.’ That was definitely not the case in the 1960s. Back then anti-authoritarianism was the catchword of the day,” Von der Goltz said. “Students thought that they had a much wider political mandate beyond organizing campus politics or commenting on higher education policy. Many students became

more or less full-time activists.”

According to Olesko, the defining feature of that era that caused such widespread protest — in sharp contrast to today’s relatively docile culture on college campuses — was the Vietnam draft.

“We have another war now but no draft, so the protest level is a lot lower.

The war then was much more personal than it is now,” Olesko said.

In a similar vein, Michael Kazin — a professor of history specializing in U.S. political and social movements of the 1960s — argued that unlike the circumstances of the Vietnam era, there is currently no cause as galvanizing for students to protest.

“Economic insecurity also plays a part in the decline,” he said, as people are more concerned about their financial situations and maintaining fiscal stability in the future.

In addition, Olesko stressed the role of media in instigating a culture of protest.

“Back then, television news stations announced the casualty rate for both sides every single day. I even remember watching these reports during dinner.

Today, reporting on casualties, especially on the enemy side, is much more subtle. Only occasionally do we hear of the total number killed,” Olesko said.

Von der Goltz suggested that the novelty of the college campus as a forum for interaction contributed to the popularity of student protest — both in Europe and the United States — in that era.

“The expansion of higher education, the creation of campus universities in the 1960s, turned students into a significant political force in the first place,” she said. “Space mattered then in a way that it no longer does. Campuses were the only places where young people from different parts of the country spent time together in a prolonged way with a lot of free time at their disposal, and were able to exchange ideas without that many distractions.” “[There is] increasing financialization of the higher education sector. A university degree is a commodity; the acquisition of ‘marketable skills’ is emphasized.

Everyone is incredibly busy filling their [resumes],” she said.

Not only does students’ fixation on resume building take up time that might otherwise be spent protesting political issues, but, according to GU Fossil Free member Caroline James (COL ’16), the possibility of arrest and the resulting imperilment of employment prospects

keep many students from protesting as vigorously as they might if this were not the case.

“Here at Georgetown, you have a concentration of kids who are thinking, ‘I’m going to work for the government, therefore I can’t get arrested,’” James said.

James, who was one of three Georgetown students arrested during the demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline on March 2 in which students from colleges across the country marched to the White House, is still intent on a government career, and is skeptical that the arrest will affect her prospects.

Nonetheless, professors are quick to point out that political activism remains a vital force on the modern college campus, albeit in a different form.

“I wouldn’t want to suggest that students are, on the whole, depoliticized these days,” von der Goltz said, alluding to student participation in the Occupy movements and the widespread mobilization of youth during the 2008 Obama campaign as examples.

Kazin added that a spike in student volunteerism and social consciousness is an important form of protest.

“There is, as you know, a lot of volunteerism at Georgetown and many other campuses. And some students pick certain majors because they want to work in an NGO after graduating. So this is a kind of planned activism, too,” he said.

At Georgetown, though Healy Circle is rarely if ever at the forefront of a national anti-war protest, student political activism has continued to thrive in different ways since the days of Vietnam, largely in the form of lobbying and institutional change.

Laura Narefsky (COL ’14), president of H*yas for Choice, recognizes Georgetown’s conservative tradition and commitment to dialogue and tries to work with, rather than against, those features in fulfilling her organization’s mission.

“Because Georgetown has a little bit more of a traditional background, more conservative students are drawn to the university, which is then sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Really radical students don’t come to Georgetown because they know that [radicalism is] not the environment,” Narefsky said.

“Georgetown has a culture of debate and intellectual curiosity and of real academic involvement. We’re much more inclined to talk things out, to debate in the classroom, and I think that’s just a larger culture that has

been cultivated on campus.”

James — whose organization GU Fossil Free sent 10 Georgetown students to the 1,000-strong Keystone XL protest — agreed.

“I get the feeling that some people think that protest is not as legitimate as some other ways of going about working towards change,” she said. “The emphasis at Georgetown is more on creating change through policies and through institutions than it might be through pure people power.”

Indeed, Georgetown’s Vietnam-era response, while dramatic by today’s standards, was tame in comparison to the daily riots that gripped other colleges nationwide.

But a healthy dose of marches and other forms of peaceful protest exist at Georgetown, too.

Last fall, the Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) partnered with students from Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, the Georgetown University Student Association and the Georgetown chapter of the NAACP to address the working conditions at Epicurean. The group created a petition demanding fair treatment of workers and received more than 500 signatures. In what GSC member Chris Wager (SFS ’17) described as a “mini-rally,” 40 students marched from Healy Hall to Epicurean on Nov. 11, 2013, to deliver the petition to Epicurean owner Chang Wook Chon.

On entering Epicurean, the students presented workers with flowers and cards to show their appreciation.

For Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), who as GUSA president championed the “One Georgetown, One Campus” resistance to the administration’s September announcement that it was considering housing some students in a satellite dormitory, a rally in Healy Circle — to which about 70 people turned up — was essential to communicating the student body’s message effectively.

“We wanted it to be very visual. We wanted to emphasize Healy, we wanted to emphasize the centrality of campus.

We also wanted to demonstrate that students were really passionate about this.

We don’t hold events like that often, if ever,” Tisa said. “We wanted to demonstrate how serious we were, how much it mattered and also to help communicate what we were doing.”

A second anti-satellite residence demonstration, in which students held up signs of their making beside a banner in front of the John Carroll statue used

social media to crystallize support, as photos of student posters were splashed across Facebook and Twitter.

“We found that that was pretty helpful because at any given time there’s only so many people that are in a physical space, and so much has shifted to social media. By doing that, you can tag people, their friends see it, the audience is much wider,” Tisa said.

In early December, the Black House also organized a Twitter-based protest, encouraging students to tweet about their experiences related to discrimination at Georgetown with the hashtag #BBGU, or Being Black at Georgetown University. The 12-hour protest, which elicited responses from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson encouraging student participation in the protest, and Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., prompted similar campaigns by the Asian and Latino communities. A committee — including black, Asian and Latino students along with white allies — plans to draw on common themes to stoke further dialogue. #BBGU joined the trend of onlinebased protests at universities across the country, including #BBUM, or Being Black at the University of Michigan, and #itooamharvard, in which students of color shared their experiences on Harvard’s campus.

“I think social media has a way of spreading messages in a much bigger way. It can give a minority a large voice, and everyone can be involved,” Black House Residential Director Aya WellerBey (COL ’14) said. “So many people can share messages and connect with other individuals. You can gain attention and spread awareness. Not only can current Georgetown students participate, but graduates in California can, from their home or wherever they are.”

Still, Tisa stressed the importance of physical protest in the success of GUSA’s campaign, which culminated with a sweeping anti-satellite student referendum and Olson’s announcement that the university would commit to housing all students on campus.

“I don’t think you can really replace that physical gathering,” Tisa said. “It’s the most effective. Social media doesn’t really touch administrators. They don’t necessarily see it. You can’t photograph it. A picture is worth a thousand words, and you can’t get a picture of Facebook feeds with people angrily posting about something.”

PROTEST THEN AND NOW May 1971

November 2013

More than 3,000 protestors who had come to D.C. to protest the My Lai Massacre seek refuge on Georgetown’s campus and are arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department.

May 1969

Georgetown’s student government votes to boycott classes for the rest of the semester to protest the invasion of Cambodia. Faculty supports the decision, and all remaining classes are cancelled.

A group of Georgetown students creates a petition demanding fair treatment of workers. The 40-person group then marches to Epicurean to deliver the protest to the owner.

January 1974

Students of Georgetown Inc. files a civil lawsuit against the university for failing to protect student rights amid the May Day protests.

March 2014

Students from colleges across the United States march to the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Arrests are made.

December 2013

#BBGU starts on Twitter in order for students to share their experiences related to discrimination at Georgetown, thanks to the organization of the Black House.

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Behind the Scenes of an MSB Student’s Directorial Debut SARAH HOUR

Special to The Hoya

Brett Treacy (MSB ’15), an aspiring filmmaker, recently debuted his first short film, “Petals.” The film follows the story of a young woman who is wrought with guilt and who pursues redemption, taking with her a symbolic bouquet of yellow roses. The film examines death and loss, but it also explores the idea that people judge quickly without knowing the context of someone’s situation. After graduating from Georgetown, Brett hopes to produce and direct films in Hollywood.

How did you get interested in filmmaking?

From a movies perspective, I would have to say my parents. I had a massive collection of tons of VHSs by the time I was 5. I became interested in filmmaking when I realized that I could be the one creating what I was watching. I would say right around the time of middle school and high school, I started deciding that filmmaking was something I could potentially do myself, and I’ve loved it ever since.

What are you majoring in?

I’m not in the film minor because you’re not allowed to be in the film minor if you’re in the business school at Georgetown, so I’m a marketing major with an English minor, and I take pretty much every film class that I can.

What is your film about?

The film on a very literal level is about dealing with loss. I came up with it when I was personally dealing with the concept of death and how people handle it. I think on a deeper level, it’s about how people are very quick to judge other people. My goal was to have the viewer of the film be thrown off a little bit at the end.

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Brett Treacy (MSB ’15) has just finished his first independent short film, “Petals.” Treacy is a marketing major who hopes to pursue a career in film.

What inspired you to make this film?

Two different things — one, personally what I was dealing with and what I wanted to convey across in the film, and then I was actually on my way home at Christmas break this year, and I saw a girl on the metro with a bunch of roses. She looked kind of sad and almost a little standoffish, and

I was kind of taken aback. I waved, and I was trying to be friendly, but she wasn’t having it. I thought it was odd — she had flowers, and I was wondering why she was standoffish. And then she got off at the Arlington cemetery stop, and it dawned on me that there was a lot more going on. That’s where I started to work through writing a script for the film.

How long did it take you to make the film?

Writing the script itself, I did in a day. … There was about a week of preproduction … and then about a week and a half shooting, and another week of editing — so about three and a half weeks in total.

What was the hardest part of making the film?

I would say that the hardest part was scheduling. When you work as a filmmaker as a profession, it is your job.

When you’re trying to do it while you have a full class schedule and other full time jobs, it’s a lot of work. Editing at 3 o’clock in the morning and trying to find time to shoot when the sun was up was particularly difficult.

What was the most gratifying aspect of creating the film?

One of the most satisfying aspects was how quickly it all came together — so seeing the idea I had in my head come to screen within about a month was really cool. Outside of that, for me, is seeing people’s reactions to the film, in particular to Megan Schmidt (COL ’15), who was the main actor in the film.

She’s also very interested in Holly-

wood and acting in particular … so watching people recognize her was rewarding.

Do you have any plans for filmmaking in the future?

Absolutely. I’m making two more short films this semester as part of class, and then after that, I hope to keep doing so. Eventually, I would like to direct and produce films in Hollywood after I graduate. So hopefully a long future ahead of me!

What do you think is the most important aspect of filmmaking?

I think that just having something to say and finding a way to say it is important. I’m really passionate about communication just in general and connecting with people on an emotional level, and the nice thing about film is that it gives you a means to do that where you have people’s attention. So I think, typically, fewer people will listen to you if you get on a soapbox and preach, but they would be more likely to click and play or find a video.

Do you have any favorite directors?

I think in particular I like directors that experiment with weird or different film. I really like David Lynch in particular, and I love Christopher Nolan.

Do you have a favorite movie genre?

I like movies that stick with you — that’s not a particular genre, but anything that I’m thinking about the next day when I wake up is going to be a movie that I really like.

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PARDON MY FRENCH

NICOLE JARVIS

Forgotten Female Figures

W

e are quickly approaching the end of March, and with it, the end of Women’s History month. The close of this month reminds me that, as a history major, I end up studying a lot of the same sorts of things. I often jokingly describe my major as “Dead White Men Causing Global Catastrophes.”

In many ways, that focus of the field makes sense — it has been dominated by old white guys for centuries, and they were naturally inclined to focus their research on those they could relate to: other old white guys. But now that more women than ever are contributing to a field that is slowly, but surely, changing.

What happens in the ivory tower isn’t usually reflected in how history is taught at the elementary, high school or even college level.

The reason that history months have caught on in popularity is that they pick up on areas that are frequently overlooked as historical subjects. This is entirely illogical because it just serves to show how many important studies get forgotten about in the long run . Take, for example, two of my favorite women in history, Ching Shih and Khutulun.

Pirates are a very common pop culture trope, and everyone usually conjures up the same image of a dreadlocked Captain Jack Sparrow shouting about his jar of dirt. But did you know that one of the most successful and notorious pirates of all time was a woman? And a widowed Chinese prostitute at that. Her name was Ching Shih, and after her pirate husband died, she politicked her way to the top of the heap — at one point controlling over 300 junks crewed by 40,000 men. On top of all that, she was undefeated and retired peacefully to the mainland to have a quiet and natural death. The Chinese government actually gave up trying to stop her and offered her amnesty. Pirates in the 1800s didn’t die of natural causes. But Ching Shih was clearly not your average pirate.

It’s a fairly safe bet that you know who Kublai Khan and Marco Polo are, but Khutulun’s name is less familiar. She was Khan’s niece and was widely regarded — even by Polo — as one of the greatest warriors of the Mongol Empire. She announced that she would marry any man who could beat her in a wrestling match. If he lost, he had to give her around 100 horses. A tempting deal: How hard could it be to beat a lady at wrestling? Well, apparently, it was pretty difficult, because she was never defeated and amassed over 10,000 horses. Her father even tried to name her as his successor but was overruled because she had male siblings.

Have you ever heard of either of these ladies before right now?

I’m going to put my money on a firm no. But their stories are just two of the hundreds of thousands that deserve to be told.

That’s the problem with how many people approach the study of history. They break it down into such small pieces that they fail to recognize the incredible stories of some of history’s most intriguing figures.

I want to learn about the female scientists whose work was presented by their male colleagues to international acclaim (Rosalind Franklin, Chien-Shiung Wu and Lise Meitner come to mind) alongside the men who took credit for their ideas. I want to hear about the women of the civil rights movement who organized the entire Montgomery Bus Boycott but whose names are never mentioned alongside the civil rights greats.

What I want — and what every student of history should want — is to be taught about the accomplishments of women, people of color and other traditionally excluded groups as part of a normal curriculum. Don’t focus on our accomplishments for one month and ignore us for the other 11. “Women’s History” is everyone’s history and deserves to be treated as such.

Nicole Jarvis is a junior in the College. PARDON MY FRENCH appears every other Friday in the guide.

DCRESIDER

Ella-Rue is one of Georgetown’s many fantastic thrift stores. The more upscale secondhand boutique offers pieces by designers such as Alexander McQueen and Dior at wonderfully discounted prices.

Fashionably Thrifty The best of local thrift stores for every type of bargain hunter HANNAH KAUFMAN Special to The Hoya

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eorgetown University is gifted with a vibrant surrounding community that’s constantly bustling with activities. From bowling by the water to touring museums, there’s never a dull moment in the life of a student in Washington, D.C. However, there are always those days when after spending a nice afternoon shopping around town, we arrive back to campus with good memories, a shirt or two and a mournfully empty wallet. Georgetown is infamous for its expensive lifestyle, but with a little bit of searching and a pinch of luck, anyone can live the posh life of a fashionista for a third of the cost.

Consignment boutiques and thrift stores are the hidden glory of Georgetown. Sprinkled around the D.C. area, they offer all the gems of a successful shopping spree without having to spend next semester’s tuition on that one-of-a-kind designer blouse.

Whether you’re hunting down stylish brand names or looking for your own eclectic fashion, there’s a variety of stores that meet your needs and your budget.

Ella-Rue, one of the more designer-oriented boutiques, is just a short walk from campus. Located on P Street, it’s a consignment store that caters to high-end fashion.

In the world of secondhand clothing, consigning allows this store to accept some of your old clothes in exchange for part of the profit when the items sell. Ella-Rue is particular about which designers it accepts, and this standard is clear in the quality and cost of its clothes. Chanel, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Lilly Pulitzer, Dior and countless other famous names find their place along the racks of this boutique. Offering a wide range of elegant shoes, dresses and blouses,

it develops a sophisticated and mature style.

Because it offers such selective top-notch clothing, the tags here are still somewhat expensive. Prices range anywhere from $15 to several hundred dollars depending on the demand and fame of the brand. All in all, it’s a positive alternative for those who crave the designer flare for half the price.

Annie’s Kloset, Second Time Around and Reddz Trading are less expensive alternatives that still focus on relatively well-known brands. Like Ella-Rue, the first two function as consignment stores, but Reddz Trading works in a slightly different way. It’s a resale store, so you can walk in with your clothes and immediately get cash or in-store trading points without having to wait for them to be sold. All three are no more than 10 minutes from the others, so be sure to take advantage of this prime shopping area. While they share many of the same designers as Ella-Rue, they also include more moderately priced brand-name apparel. Steve Madden, Banana Republic, J. Crew and Nine West can be found floating around the store, and the tags reflect this change. These stores offer a mixture of attire, from casual to business to formal. Annie’s Kloset has a diverse array of earrings, all priced at $5, and it has an extensive selection of 50 percent off clothing.

Reddz Trading has an impressive collection of designer handbags, and it is also unique in that it is the first thrift store mentioned to include a small section of menswear as well.

The most inexpensive designer clothes can be found on the shelves and racks of Martha’s Outfitters and The Twig Thrift Shop. Located in the U Street Corridor and Old Town, Alexandria, respectively, these stores require a slightly longer trek to reap their benefits. Unlike those mentioned earlier, these are both categorized as true

thrift stores. You can’t consign or resell your clothes here; instead, you can donate them for potential tax deductions. It takes slightly more dedication to find those quality designer pieces that are abundant in Ella-Rue and the likes, but once found, their thrift store label allows them to mark down these prices to extremely low rates. If you’re up for a challenge and looking for a hunt, these two stores are the places to be.

Located a few doors down from Second Time Around, Buffalo Exchange is perhaps the most well-known of these stores, and for ample reasons. It is the Holy Grail of the D.C. thrift world, setting its fashion apart from many of its contemporaries. Rather than focusing on certain designer brands, it seeks instead to attract a certain kind of style.

Combining the atmosphere of popular stores like Urban Outfitters and Forever 21, it draws in a significantly younger crowd.

Like Reddz Trading, it is a resale store, but its loosened brand restrictions allow room for experimentation. Freed from strict adherence to a list of designers, here you’ll find interesting apparel of countless colors, cuts and cloths. The store equally accommodates different genders and styles, so don’t be afraid to mix it up. Averaging at a price of $15, Buffalo Exchange is the ideal location to seek out that great find while keeping your bank account in the clear.

Shopping can be a rewarding, stress-relieving experience that also can be friendly to your wallet. Each of these locations offers a distinct personality, so see what styles best suit your own tastes. Don’t be afraid to take risks on wacky clothes you never thought you’d wear and to experiment with the size and shape of your outfits. Take advantage of the thrift stores around Georgetown to leave your comfort zone and spice up your wardrobe without worrying about the cost.

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Culinary Tips Just for Students SPOON, from B1 on campus are big food lovers, but there has been no way to express that. We want to give back by telling students how to be creative, both in Leo’s and in their dorm room,” Widerlite said.

“Many students come to college having been served by their parents their whole lives. They don’t know many health tips or tricks or how to cook for themselves. That’s how we want to be a help to students,” Goodell said.

The Georgetown site has several different sections: kitchen 101, food for thought (which contains articles about health and food news), recipes, on-campus happenings, one pot meal, restaurant reviews and late-night food. The founders have also made sure that the website is catered to Georgetown specifically.

“We have to cater to Georgetown.

Our website is different from other colleges. For example, Dartmouth won’t have as many articles about order-in and places to eat off campus,” Goodell said.

Goodell’s goal is to make Spoon the “trusted food resource” at Georgetown. Widerlite sees the site becoming such a big presence on campus that it becomes mentioned at prospective student events like GAAP weekend. She envisions a time when a prospective family will ask a tour guide for a lunch recom-

mendation and instead of just turning to the Tombs, the guide would encourage the family to look at the Spoon University page.

“Maybe it could even entice students,” Widerlite said. “They could see what a great food culture Georgetown is surrounded by.

We want it to be the website that you check when you are between paragraphs writing a paper at the library,” she said.

However, Spoon University Georgetown is not simply about the food. Widerlite explains that Spoon can become a social force as well, “I never knew these two girls before. Our staff has all met because of Spoon. I hope that after reading our site, people will actually get up and act. Maybe they will ask someone in the dorm to make a recipe with them or all come together for a dinner. It’s a really special thing when people come together because of food,” she said.

Spoon is also throwing a major launch party to gain recognition for the club as well as to bring people together. The party will happen in mid-April, and they hope it will be something similar to the Spoon launch at Washington University in St. Louis, where there were dozens of food vendors and hundreds of people.

Still, the founding of the site at Georgetown has been far from easy.

One of the hardest tasks was differ-

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The online food publication offers cooking tips and restaurant reviews, all specifically directed at Georgetown students. entiating the site from other publications on campus to try to get SAC funding.

“It was really frustrating to try to get SAC recognition,” Goodell said. However, Gilliland thinks the struggle was for the better.

“The process forced us to figure out what we wanted to be. It took a lot of brainstorming, but it forced us to be creative,” she said. Now they feel on much better footing to sort out the formal structure of the club and to determine the administrative details of running it.

All three girls hope that Spoon University Georgetown gives a voice to the campus’ foodies. Widerlite hopes that working for the publication allows people who love to write the chance to break away

from always writing in an academic context.

“Spoon give students who are stifled academically a platform for their creative skills,” she said.

Goodell believes that the creativity of the website is what makes it unique. “Spoon is a website for college students. We don’t review expensive places and our recipes include ingredients students will actually buy,” she said. They hope the next time students need a study break and want to find out how to recreate their favorite Wisemiller’s sandwich at Leo’s, they will know where to go.

Interested in applying to be on the Spoon University staff? Email spoon.georgetown@gmail.com for more information.

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APPS Paving a Rough Road to Peace lifestyle feature

Jacqueline Kimmel Hoya Staff Writer

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lijah Jatovsky (SFS ’16) was running with Jacob Sorrells (SFS ’16) to the Capitol when Jatovsky happened to mention J Street U, an organization he had heard of at home. Fully expecting to have to explain to his friend that J Street U is a national organization dedicated to finding a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jatovsky was surprised that Sorrells not only had heard of J Street U but also was already actively working to bring it to campus. The shared interest was too much to pass up; the two, who were freshman at the time, decided on that run to bring J Street U to Georgetown.

Jatovsky and Sorrells both bear deep connections to Israel. Jatovsky is an Israeli citizen through his mother and lived there for half a year while attending an Arab-Jewish school in 2006. “[This experience gave me] a vested interest in playing a role to improve the region,” he said.

Sorrells had a similar experience when he went to Israel. Despite his Jewish upbringing, he never felt that connected to the Jewish community until high school when he became involved with a Jewish teen leadership organization called B’nai B’rith Youth Organization. Through BBYO he took a trip to Israel and met with a Palestinian activist who inspired his interest in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. The group was presented with information about the situation in the West Bank and participated in a discourse on different infrastructural problems, such as

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J Street U’s Georgetown organization advertises with posters in Red Square.

the removal of waste, lack of resources in schools and unpaved roads.

“I had known about things like this before but I had never thought about the issues that critically,” Sorrells said. “What was particularly striking was not just what [the Palestinian speaker] was saying, but how our Jewish group leaders were responding to him. They responded very abrasively; when he would say something, they would immediately refute it. They would either say it was an exaggeration, a misconstruing of the truth or the fault of corrupt Palestinian authorities.”

He began to feel uncomfortable with the way the conversation was being conducted and felt conflicted on who to believe.

J Street U was the perfect place for Sorrells to discover his views on the conflict. A vehicle to capitalize on his increasing interest in Israel and focus on his humanitarian values, Sorrells found it to be empowering.

“J Street happens to embody so much of what I was internalizing. I felt lonely. I felt there wasn’t a place out there for my voice.

It was such an incredible discovery to realize that a whole community of people out there felt similar to how I felt,” Sorrells said.

While some events had taken place at Georgetown in prior years under the name of J Street, a club solely devoted to the organization had never existed on campus. Jatovsky and Sorrells decided to revitalize the movement to form an official club. J Street U is a national movement active in over 50 universities. “[It advocates for] “vigorous leadership to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a two-state solution,” Jatocsky explained.

This national affiliation makes J Street U slightly different than other groups on campus, which Sorrells explains allows the group to have more resources. They can get speakers from the national organizations to train their members with skills like making personal connections, and can attend large national conferences. Sorrells even interned for the national organization last semester.

The club has undergone an escalation in activity in the past few years. It was founded in fall 2012, but it now has over 250 members in its listserve and constantly gets a turnout of over 30 people at its events. Recently, J Street U has put on several successful speaker, training and education events.

Last semester, the group screened “The Other Son,” a film about a Palestinian boy and Israeli boy who realize they were switched at birth, in cooperation with the Georgetown Israeli Alliance. The screening brought over 100 people together to talk about the conflict, and included an introduction by both a Rabbi and an Imam.

However, this event also showed the problems that can arise by trying to tackle such a difficult issue. Students for Justice in Palestine ultimately decided to withdraw from the screening due to concerns that attending would not align with SJP’s national

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Fine Dining Found in My Home-Cooked Hits

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or many college students, spring they wrapped the shucked corn in alumibreak is a time for travelling the num foil and placed it in the oven. The outworld, tanning in South Beach in come was somewhere in between grilled Miami or visiting family and friends back corn on the cob and roasted corn. The heat in the comforts of home. For a foodie and and slight char to the corn brought out its a homebody such as myself, relaxing and natural sweetness, making it completely eating were number one and number two, unnecessary for butter or any seasonings. respectively, on my spring break to-do list.

Rounding it out were sauteed red bliss During my culinary adventures on the potatoes that can only be described as pure very exotic Long Island, N.Y., I did not have bliss. Whenever I think of potatoes, I always to go any further than my own dining think of either boiled or baked potatoes; room for the best meals, courtesy of my both are fine, but nothing too special. After personal chefs. eating these potatoes, however, my outlook Before I begin describing my absolutely has completely changed. Although these delicious dining room dinner, I should potatoes began as the usual boiled potatoes, give a little bit of background information they were then transferred into another pot on my “personal chefs.” My sister, Aman- and mixed in with Parmesan cheese and da, and her friend, Denez, rosemary. The marriage of both graduated from the Cuthe rosemary roasted chicklinary Institute of America en and the rosemary in the in Hyde Park, N.Y. She makes potatoes was a match made the desserts and he makes the in culinary heaven. Because main course, but they both rosemary is a lighter herb, it help each other out with the did not overpower the rest of preparation and the details. the meal and the accompanyBasically, they’re the culinary Christina Wing ing sides created a perfectly power couple equivalent of Bebalanced home-cooked meal. yoncé and Jay-Z. No meal is ever complete without desFor my particular meal this evening, sert. On this particular evening, they chose they wanted to recreate my mom’s favorite to go back to our quasi-Italian roots and meal — roasted chicken — while keeping ev- make a dark chocolate affogato. For those erything gluten-free. Dinner began with a who are not in the know, an affogato is ice spring salad that would put Sweetgreen to cream melted by hot coffee. Each person shame. The base was simple market greens, was able to make his or her own affogato but it was topped with pecans, craisins, cu- with his or her own choice of ice cream flacumbers, plum tomatoes and red onions. vor. I used my favorite dark chocolate Dove As for the dressing, it was a creamy honey bar, poured hot coffee on top and swirled balsamic that complemented the salad’s it around for a decadent dessert drink. overall sweet and savory combination.

This drink is a serious game changer for at The main meal was roasted chicken, but home and at Leo’s. As a tip from the chefs, unlike my mom’s basic salt, pepper and ol- for the best affogato results, use ice cream ive oil combination, rosemary was added to that doesn’t have anything added into it. put a spin on an old favorite. They also used It doesn’t take personal chefs to make a garlic paste — already crushed garlic in a delicious home-cooked, gluten-free meal. I tube — to accompany the rosemary. With have been repeatedly assured by my chefs such a flavorful protein, they still managed that this is something that I could even to balance the herby, garlicky chicken with make, but I’m going to leave the cooking cinnamon-orange glazed carrots. I normal- to the experts. However, if you see me at ly hate cooked carrots, but the slight sweet- Leo’s running between the ice cream and ness from the cinnamon-orange reduction coffee downstairs, I’m probably just permade them absolutely delectable. fecting my affogato.

They also made steamed broccoli and grilled corn on the cob. The broccoli was Christina Wing is a sophomore in cooked perfectly, not too mushy and not the McDonough School of Business. too tough with the perfect seasoning of just GLUTEN FREEDOM appears every other salt and pepper. As for the corn on the cob, Friday in the guide.

organization’s platform. Jatovsky was disappointed in the media portrayal of the event, which he believed presented this decision as a fight between Israeli and Palestinian students. Jatovsky understands that this black-and-white portrayal is often hard to avoid and cooperation is often challenging.

Sorrells says it’s difficult to not oversimplify the issue.

“When you have to make a pitch at SAC fair, you only have a couple of seconds,” he said. “We often say, ‘Do you support peace in Israel?’ This seems to be shortchanging the complexity of the issue, because in the short term a two-state solution might bring a wave of violence, so it’s not all just about peace. It’s hard to give the whole story when it is such a complex issue.”

The club is based on one-on-one meetings with members and prides itself on trying to advance dialogue. The group’s most recent project aims to capitalize on this support by creating a petition in favor of the recent U.S.-mediated peace negotiations, which they will present at the national J Street U Town Hall Conference at Johns Hopkins this April. Its petition has garnered over 200 signatures already and has the support of six GUSA senators, the Georgetown Israeli Alliance and both the College Democrats and Republicans. They hope to present the petition to Secretary of State John Kerry, who may attend the conference, to demonstrate student support for his negotiations. “[Negotiations have reached] a critical moment. Our support will hopefully push this over the brink. Too often, these negotiations fail because of a lack of support. Hopefully, this will show how many people want a solution,” Jatovsky said.

Sorrells agrees that the conversation about what to do in Israel has not been balanced. “[It] has long been dominated by a vocal minority who have not been open to a twostate solution. The whopping majority of people have been silent. This [convention] shows leaders that they have the necessary political capital to boldly pursue a two-state solution and they won’t lose their place in office by supporting the plan,” Sorrells said.

Indeed, the possibility for success in Kerry’s negotiations highlights one of the unique aspects of the club. “[We] are trying to put [our]selves out of business,” Sorrells explains. “[If the negotiations are a success], hopefully the club won’t exist beyond this next year.”

While there still might be a place for the club to foster dialogue or educate people if the conflict is resolved, the role of the group would change fundamentally.

“I was surprised [initially] by how well the club was received,” Sorrells said. “Everyone in J Street U is so excited about what they are doing; it really inspires me and keeps me going every day ... J Street has a way of getting you more involved than you initially wanted to be.”

UP COFFEE Free

Coffee may be one of a Georgetown student’s best friends, but it’s also important to make sure that your addiction isn’t impacting your health. This new app offers the simplest way to track your caffeine intake and understand how it affects your sleep. With a simple and sleek interface, you can keep tabs on your caffeine levels by plugging in how much you’ve had during the day. The app lets you know how wired you are and when you should stop drinking coffee in order to ensure a good night’s sleep, as well as telling you when you’re going to be ready to doze off. It can also generate advice about your caffeine habits. This app helps any Georgetown student balance sleep and studies.

CROSSFADER Free Prove that you’re the best DJ on campus by creating instant mashups with this new app. You move your iPhone to mix the tracks, picking from a library that includes classic tunes and new electronic music. Once you’ve created your ideal track, you can share it with Crossfader’s global community, using your own DJ digital face. It’s the easiest way to be your own DJ and impress your friends at your next party.

STELLAR Free Stellar is a new social media app looking to compete with the likes of Instagram and Facebook. It lets you mix photos, videos and text to create a gorgeous visual “story” of your life.

With a variety of layouts to choose from, you can put text over or around your pictures. Stellar is looking to be the next step up from Instagram, as it uses similar features such as being able to like images and use different filters but with a more sleek and sophisticated format. The app’s emphasis on design sets it apart from its competitors, and it definitely deserves a spot on your home screen.

DIY Tip

IRON-ON BED DECALS

designsponge.com Brighten up your white sheets and duvet cover with easy-to-make, iron-on decals. Endlessly customizable and able to suit any taste or style, these decals allow you to decorate your otherwise boring bedding with patterns of your choosing. Prepare a work surface by laying down a pillowcase and turning your iron to the hottest setting.

Print your images on iron-on transfer paper, and cut them out in curved lines. Lay the object you want to decorate flat on your work surface. Place your prints face down and iron until the transfer is set.

Carefully peel off your paper to reveal the image below.

PONT VELL BRIDGE AND EL FLUVIÀ RIVER | BESALÚ, SPAIN

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RESTAURANt review

Fresh Tex-Mex Dishes Cater to Every Occasion Lauriol Plaza

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through the menu, which offered basic Mexican dishes, including ceviche, tacos, fajitas and enchiladas. I decided to order the chicken fajitas ($14) while my friend chose the salmon salad ($15). We wanted to start with a light appetizer to warm up our palates for the main course, so we ordered the guacamole ($5) to have with the complimentary chips. The waiter amiably served us and worked efficiently to take any additional requests.

The food took an average time to arrive, though the appetizers helped mitigate our grumbling stomachs.

As expected, the guacamole was phenomenal — fresh, just the right consistency and lightly seasoned to perfection. The complimentary chips were also delightful, tasty enough to munch on their own. The chicken fajitas were still sizzling on the hot stone plate when it arrived. The dish also included warm flour tortillas, along with guacamole and pico de gallo. The tortillas in particular stood out to me because they tasted handmade and traditional, unlike the typical packaged tortillas served at Tex-Mex restaurants. In comparison to those thin substitutes, the Plaza’s tortillas were more filling and

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A tasty and satisfying culinary experience is only a GUTS bus ride away. Whether you are looking for an elegant meal with family members or a casual Tex-Mex lunch with a hungry classmate, Lauriol Plaza’s versatile atmosphere can very much fit the bill.

I entered the restaurant wearing casual attire, but I surprisingly did not feel out of place amid the other formally dressed guests. Clientele ranged from families and couples to friends and professionals, with almost all ages represented. The aesthetics of the restaurant helped to create this unique vibe: the building features large windows blanketing one wall, two floors of seating, a rooftop deck and an impressive mural covering another wall. It was clean and expansive, which added to the pleasant dining experience.

Given its popularity, Lauriol Plaza can get crowded quickly and guests may not be immediately seated. I put my name in upon arriving Saturday afternoon and I fortunately did not have to wait long. After being seated, I flipped

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The salmon salad with asparagus, red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and orange at Lauriol Plaza bursts with fresh flavors, as do many of the other Tex-Mex dishes that are served up to a satisfyingly delicious standard. doughy. Although the onions were slightly undercooked for my taste, the fresh tomatoes and peppers nicely complemented the heartiness of the tortillas and chicken.

Because of its eye-catching interior and multifaceted atmosphere, the Lauriol Plaza can host any type of get-together, casual or fancy. In addition, there are many different op-

tions available on the menu, which is ideal even for picky eaters. If you’re looking for a Tex-Mex option beyond Los Cuates, take the Dupont GUTS bus and head to Lauriol Plaza.

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salted butterscotch blondies

thedomesticrebel.com Meet the brownie’s twin sister: deceptively simple, easy to make and a delicious medley of brown sugar and butterscotch, the blondie is about to be your new favorite dessert. This particular variety is richer and more succulent than your typical from-the-box brownie and is sprinkled with a liberal amount of sea salt for a sweet and salty taste. But the possibilities for mix-ins are endless, so don’t be afraid to get creative: stir in candy bars, chocolate chips or anything of your choosing.

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With a slightly smoky flavor, the smoked potato gnoochi topped with golden trout it provides a perfect example of Fiola Mare’s expertise in preparing tantalizing seafood dishes.

Elegant Restaurant Emphasizes River View and Seasonal Catches fIOLA MARE

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INGREDIENTS

2 cups brown sugar (light preferred) 2/3 cup butter 2 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp. baking soda 1 cup butterscotch chips 1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt, sea salt or any coarse salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease an 8-x-8 baking pan.

In a medium saucepan, combine brown sugar and butter together over medium heat until the mixture is smooth, stirring constantly. Allow to cool slightly.

Stir in eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Stir in the flour one cup at a time, then the baking soda. Carefully pour half the batter into your prepared pan; sprinkle with 1/2 cup of the butterscotch chips. Pour remaining batter on top, and sprinkle with remaining butterscotch chips. Evenly sprinkle your salt over the top.

Bake for approximately 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Best served warm.

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Located by the waterfront on K and 31st streets, Fiola Mare provides an elegant and relaxing dining experience that highlights seafood through its simple and flavorful dishes. . The combination of the fresh food with the convenient location and relaxing ambiance makes Fiola a great restaurant for visitors to the Georgetown area. The window seats overlooking the Potomac River mean that the view is equally as good as the food. With its dim lighting and open layout, Fiola Mare is a great place to dine out for special occasions. While the food is on the pricey side, the freshness of the seafood and unique flavor combinations make it well worth it the cost.

The dinner menu is full of exciting dishes and we settled on the Ahi tuna carpaccio ($18), smoked potato gnocchi ($28) and a side of sautéed spinach with Meyer lemon ($8). Top contenders included the bucatini with red king prawns and sea urchins ($32) and Gragnano spaghetti with Manila clams ($28). The servers checked up on us several times throughout the meal and

were all very attentive and polite. While we were waiting for our food, a waiter came around with a breadbasket with warm olive bread rolls and mini French baguettes. The wait for the food was shorter than expected, and we were pleasantly surprised by its quick arrival.

The carpaccio included blood orange, arugula and herbed mascarpone served on flaky pastry bread. The sweet citrus from the blood orange complemented the fresh tuna, while the herbed mascarpone tied all the flavors together. The gnocchi was soft and slightly chewy, served with peas, fava beans, almonds and golden trout. The dish had a slight smoky flavor that was very unique, but successfully so. The trout, served on top of the gnocchi, was cooked perfectly. Perfect in its simplicity, the lemon also paired well with the spinach side.

Made with all fresh ingredients, the flavors were not overpowered by seasoning as they were left to stand on their own. Any ingredient listed on the menu could be clearly tasted in the dish.

Both the dinner and the lunch menu have a wide variety of different seafood dishes, primarily featuring Italian and Mediterra-

nean recipes. In the spirit of the D.C. brunch culture, Fiola also has a separate brunch menu. The menu changes daily and seasonally to incorporate the freshest ingredients, but it also includes some staple dishes. Fiola has an extensive wine list, and the establishment received the Wine Spectator’s 2013 Best Award of Excellence. Fiola’s cocktails ($12 to $14) feature unique flavor combinations much like the entrees that they accompany. For visitors with a sweet tooth, Fiola’s dessert dishes include burnt honey gelato and lemon curd with coconut sorbet ($12). Fabio Trabocchi, chef and owner of Fiola Mare, has earned several culinary awards, including Food & Wine’s Best New Chef. He opened Fiola Mare in 2011, his first restaurant, and it has quickly grown in popularity and reputation in the culinary world. Fiola won Best New Restaurant of the Year from the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington.

I would highly recommend Fiola Mare for a relaxing dining experience and fresh seafood. With perfect flavors and extensive options, it’s sure to be a successful dining experience. Take note for when your parents come in town.

cosmopolitan.com For a sweet cocktail that could pass for either a dessert or an after-dinner pickme-up — or both — pair the tropical flavors of coconut-flavored vodka and rich Irish cream with espresso. With its infusion of caffeine, the Morning Glory is a more mature take on a typical Red Bull vodka and will keep your energy up during a night out.

INGREDIENTS

2 oz. SKYY Infusions Coconut 1/2 oz. espresso 1/2 oz. coffee liqueur

1/2 oz. Irish cream coffee grounds (garnish)

Combine SKYY, espresso, coffee liqueur and Irish cream in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake vigorously and strain into a glass. Garnish with coffee grounds.

sparkling wine

wine.com With aromas of white and tropical fruits, citrus and light floral notes, sparkling wines are a refreshing pairing with dessert. Dry with a long flavor and notes of lime and pineapple, the complex flavors in this bottle ensure that the drink isn’t overpowered and that it can also be enjoyed alongside pizza, grilled chicken or soft cheeses. Relatively inexpensive, the low price is far from a reflection of the wine’s quality and the crisp, clean flavor has gotten positive acclaim.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

MUSIC REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW

Supermodel

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Foster the People

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Foster the People captivated the attention of millions with its release of the track “Pumped Up Kicks” from the album “Torches” in 2010. The politically themed track, with pulsating hook and rhythmic chorus, catapulted the band into the stratosphere. While obviously it would be difficult to replicate the same success from its first album, its sophomore album, ‘Supermodel” seamlessly solidifies a distinctive niche for the band.

“Supermodel” is a creative mesh of guitar riffs, electronic sounds and rhythmic beats. There is no single description in which one can describe the type of album that Foster the People have created. The album delves into a range of genres, from indie-pop to rock to disco. Despite the diverging sounds

explored in this album, though not explicitly, “Supermodel” creates a cohesive story telling the inner workings of the life of a supermodel. While the supermodel in question changes as the album proceeds (at times, the supermodel is Foster the People, and sometimes it is the listener), there is a continuous seize-the-day theme intertwined in many of the songs.

The most radio-worthy song on the album is clearly the single “Coming of Age.” The track recreates the feelings generated when Ferris Bueller decided to cut school or say, when a model first began to land substantial shoots. This powerful ‘80s throwback has just the right amount of funky bass, synth and strong pulsating beat to become a spring to summer jam. Another standout track is “Pseudologia Fantastica.” This is not because it is particularly better than

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Foster the People’s second album succeeds in mixing politically themed messages with a range of musical genres, from indie-pop to disco.

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any other song on the album; in fact, the track would not suit many Foster the People fans. While it echoes the same carpe diem sentiments as “Nevermind” and “Ask Yourself,” the psychedelic and otherworldly sound of the track creates an isolated place for itself in the album.

“Best Friend” is one of the few standout tracks that does not clearly correlate to the supermodel theme, though one can arguably apply the sentiment of the track to the theme.

While the narrator tells the provocative story of his friends tripping on drugs, there is also levity simultaneously created by the light tambourines and melody reminiscent of ‘70s disco. One of the last tracks, “The Truth,” reminds the listener of what first established Foster the People as a band to watch. Though not a political commentary, it can definitely be seen as a commentary on society. Connecting it to the supermodel theme, the track reminds the model in question not to let the facade of the world overtake who she truly is. On a larger scale, it tells of the issues of an individual looking for truth in a hopeless world.; the track states, “There is a truth, there is a lie/ If you needed my hand, the world is so broken.”

Ultimately, “Supermodel” establishes Foster the People as a band that can maintain its success even after a widely successful freshman album.

If “Torches” was the appetizer that gave fans an inkling of the band’s persona and “Supermodel” is the enjoyable concoction of diverse genres and themes that offers fans the full entree that is Foster the People.

FINDING THE OFFBEAT

How Music Mirrors a Generation

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eorge Gershwin, renowned pianist and composer, once stated: “True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

My people are Americans and my time is today.” His remark highlights an ongoing issue that is often found at the center of musical debates: the historical relevance of today’s popular artists. Many recognize that music is certainly representative of society but often times neglect to realize the extent to which this can be true when artists shower them with “Call Me Maybe” and “Drunk in Love.”

This trivialization of music has ultimately facilitated an increasingly cynical and, at times, unwarranted, flippancy towards mainstream artists. With this growing contempt toward popular culture, it becomes easy to dismiss certain acts altogether as simply irrelevant.

To me, there is ultimately an inherent generational dimension to music, one that gives insight into the politics, attitudes and overall atmosphere of any given time period. When we look back at present cultural phenomena, what will we choose to remember. And what will be lost to the decay of time? The act of finding artists that reflect our current collective consciousness may seem lofty — unnecessary to some — but it remains an integral part of articulating to future generations the human condition as it exists now, in 2014.

Few artists manage to seamlessly weave samples of a generation’s social paradigm into their musical pursuits, but those who do consistently set themselves apart from the musical masses. In the 1990s, for example, we witnessed

the solidification of Radiohead’s presence as the voice of Generation X with its 1997 tour-de-force “OK Computer,” an album I consider among the greatest of all time. Part of the reason I hold it in such high regard is its integration of the era’s evolving cultural climate into each individual song.

With lyrical content ranging from globalization and anti-capitalism to death and insanity to the technological innovation that defined the ’00s, the album’s music

Joy Jackson echoes the cultural dynamism of the ’90s. I’m not English, nor was I old enough at this time to understand these social, cultural and technological developments, but “OK Computer” provides me with a glimpse into this turbulent age.

Rarely has an album elicited the same response within me as “OK Computer,” but recently I’ve noticed numerous musicians looking to our culture for musical inspiration. One artist in particular caught my attention, not only because of his undeniable talent but also because of his role in capturing a vital snapshot of the resurgence of perhaps one of the most important cultural movements of our generation: the gay rights movement. Irish singersongwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, known by his stage name Hozier, gained notoriety last year after releasing an EP entitled “Take Me To Church.” Immediately upon its

release, “Take Me to Church” produced a standout single, bearing the title of the EP. The song itself is centered on an extended metaphor relating the narrator’s adoration for an unnamed lover to the type of worship associated with religious practice. Intertwined within this elaborate comparison are subtle indications of Hozier’s discontentment with the church’s tendency to antagonize those who identify with alternative lifestyles, namely homosexuality. While the track implicitly addresses the disapproval of homosexuality often attributed to religious conservatism (“We were born sick/You heard them say it/Command me to be well.”), it is through the accompanying music video in which the genius of Hozier’s songwriting and overall message manifests. In it, a fictional gay couple falls victim to a fatal hate crime, presumably after members of the community discover their relationship. It was filmed in response to the string of hate crimes that occurred in Russia last summer, supposedly as a result of Russia’s controversial “anti-gay propaganda” law that made headlines in 2013. The contrast between the song’s intimate lyrics and the video that overlays it constructs a brief account of a seemingly imminent change in humanity’s attitude toward this movement.

Hozier may not be the voice of our generation, but his music will undoubtedly serve as the lens through which future generations will be able to witness this historical paradigm shift.

Joy Jackson is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

FINDING THE OFFBEAT appears every other Friday in the guide.

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Jason Bateman discussed the making of his directorial debut and his anticipation for the reception of his scandalous character, Guy.

Bad Words

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It’s not that surprising that Jason Bateman’s directorial debut, “Bad Words,” is a comedy that aims to shock. After all, this is the man who was involved in films such as “Horrible Bosses” and “Identity Thief.” This dark comedy tells the story of a crass 40-year-old man who causes a huge uproar when he enters a spelling bee competition for children. Guy Trilby (Bateman) stands out because, of course, he is an adult competing with a sea of preteens. Although generally rude and repellant of all human contact, Guy makes an unexpected friend in fellow competitor, the young Chaitanya Chopra (Rohan Chand). In a bizarre yet touching fashion, the unconventional pair form a bond as Guy compensates for Chaitanya’s distant parents.

Guy talks too much. He is brash, condescending, vulgar and full of entirely politically incorrect comments. But, he, an eighth-grade dropout, might in fact be a genius.

While usually it is hard to hate a character who admits his flaws right away, Guy makes this easier with his ridiculous antics and flair for badgering people. You are never sure if you are rooting for or against him. As petty as Guy’s antics may seem, they are not much more absurd than those of the over-involved parents and officials desperate to remove him from the competition.

At a recent interview held at D.C., Bateman explained his character, Guy, and how he felt about his directorial debut. Initially, Bateman reached out to other actors to play the part of Guy but could not find anyone to take the part. “I like playing people that are flawed. It’s an easy lane to comedy and certainly to drama,” Bateman said. He spoke of the challenges that came from trying to pull off this particular character, saying: “You can’t have a central character being terribly unlikeable. You have to be able to empathize a little bit with whoever is going through the challenge in the movie plot.”

Every villain has a hidden, gruesome event that messed with his or her psyche enough to make him or her join the dark side. Reporter Jenny (Kathryn Hahn) hopes to uncover why Guy entered the bee in the first place and what drives him

to continue, despite the pleas and threats of parents and competition officials. She plays the role of the audience, asking the questions they want answered: Why is he here? The movie remains suspenseful as you wait to understand what deep dark secret Guy has.

Actors and their fans sometimes seem to be at odds. Fans are married to characters while actors don’t want to be put into a box.

When asked about whether he thinks he will be able to distance himself from Michael Bluth, the character that he plays in the series “Arrested Development,” Bateman seemed fairly confident that his fans will follow him through his different projects. He claims that he plays “the straight man, a normal person that is meant to be the audience’s proxy, somebody who is very relatable and tangible and would react to these absurd situations the way you would so that it can pop for you as the audience.”

When it comes to an ideal comedy, Bateman believes that some tension is key. “I like things that are close to drama; was that funny or was that not?” He was attracted to the dark humor that “Bad Words” offers, but he admitted that it may not be well-received by everyone. “Some people like things to be a bit clearer, a bit happier, a little bit more comfortable. By all means, this film is not for them,” Bateman warned. The movie is clearly all about risk: The success of the audience’s response is entirely dependent on whether they can empathize with the crude and sometimes offensive central character.

Bateman seems to have made a seamless transition from actor to director of a feature film. “I knew I would love it, but, my God, it is just the greatest job in the world,” he gushed about his directing experience. “I’ve always wanted to direct a film. As an actor, I’ve had a really good seat there in the front row to see how complicated it is to direct a film and wanted to just challenge myself with that,” Bateman said.

The film is evidence to the fact that he clearly knows what he’s doing. Beyond that, listening to him talk, you can tell that he’s well-read, experienced and someone who thinks before he speaks.

“Bad Words” is definitely a step out of the ordinary and into the eccentric, bound to shock.

ON CAMPUS

INTERVIEWING WELL

BAYANIHAN

PHANTOMS LAU PERFORMANCE

NAS AND MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

WHERE: Cawley Career Center WHEN: Friday, 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

INFO: careercenter.georgetown.edu PRICE: Free

WHERE: Fisher Colloquium WHEN: Saturday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

INFO: hoyalink.georgetown.edu PRICE: Students $12

WHERE: Lauinger Library WHEN: Sunday, 10 p.m.

INFO: facebook.com PRICE: Free

WHERE: Gaston Hall WHEN: Thursday, 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

INFO: guevents.georgetown.edu PRICE: Free

Interviewing is a skill that every student should be honing. The Career Center is ready to help, holding an interviewing workshop that will discuss basic aspects of interview preparation and provide opportunities to practice responding to simulated questions. Visit to become confident with your interview skills and land your dream summer internship.

Club Filipino is preparing to host its annual cultural event, Bayanihan. Enjoy an extensive feast of Filipino dishes while watching the club’s members perform traditional dances.

This is the perfect opportunity to be exposed to a new cultural celebration. Tickets will be sold in Red Square and online and will be $12 for students.

Planning to procrastinate on your homework this weekend? If your typical game plan ends up with you spending a slightly stressful Sunday night making up for lost time in Lau, you’re in for a treat. The Phantoms will be lighting up the library with a short set outside the main entrance to Lau. Get psyched for a musical study break, courtesy of one of Georgetown’s a cappella groups.

Join hip-hop star Nas and Georgetown sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson for a discussion on the impact of Nas’ career, his albums and the presence of hip-hop in current times.

The event is already sold out to the general public but members of the Georgetown community will be admitted on a first-come, firstserve basis.

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friday, march 21, 2014

THE HOYA

MOVIE REVIEW

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Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James Directed by: Neil Burger Rita Chang

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There is a pattern to modern audiences’ taste in movies and television shows, and it all began with “Twilight.” With its release, a vampire fervor was unleashed that paved the way for the making of its four sequels, the CW show “Vampires Diaries” and various other vampirerelated endeavors. Then, not long after we started seeing beautiful and pale vampires on screen, the zombie apocalypse trend became the audience’s favorite. “The Walking Dead” became a huge hit, and movies like Jonathan Levine’s “Warm Bodies” and Marc Webb’s “World War Z” were released.

Neil Burger’s “Divergent,” based on the novel by American author Veronica Roth, confirms the audience’s new taste in dystopian action-adventure films, a trend set forth by the well-received “The Hunger Games.”

Similar to its pioneer, “Divergent” consists of action shots, a small dose of romance and a grand plot with twists and turns. However, while the movie contains all of the components of a best-seller, the final result lacks originality.

Set in the distant future, the film portrays a society divided into five distinct factions named after human virtues: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Erudite and Dauntless. These factions are credited for maintaining an everlasting peace. Each year, teenag-

ers turning 16 take an aptitude test that determines the faction to which they belong and are then sent away to be trained by the leaders of each faction.

Like “The Hunger Games,” the movie is centered on an adolescent, female protagonist, Beatrice (also known as Tris), whose character is clearly an attempt to replicate Katniss’ reticence, individualistic aura of an outsider with the potential to save the world. Shailene Woodley (known for her role in “The Secret Life of American Teenager”) barely pulls off the prototype of a young heroine with a monotonous expression, revealing her immature acting.

Yet Woodley is not the only performer that lacks acting skills. In fact, most of the actors failed to mask their inexperience in front of the screen. The very first twist of the movie occurs when we find out that Tris has an “inconclusive” result to her aptitude test, meaning she is suited to multiple factions when normally people are directed to one.

Maggie Q, as Tris’ test-taker Tori, transitions from her original apathy to an abrupt panic when she sees the test results, anxiously warning Trice that the result poses a danger to her life and that she should keep it a secret. The scene looks too fake and so forced that the audience cannot help but giggle at the lack of sophistication. It’s a shame that Kate Winslet, who plays antagonist Jeanine Matthews, is pushed aside in favor of

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Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) fail to impress the audience with their chemistry in the latest dystopian drama. these less skilled performances.

Much of the appeal of “Divergent” is based on cliches and, without a doubt, the attractive Four (Theo James), the instructor to the new members of Dauntless and Tris’ love interest. The romantic episodes are presented with cheesy lines and awkward interactions. The film’s steamiest scene between Tris and Four ends in an abrupt and uncomfortable way that leaves the audience cringing.

The frequent close-up shots of characters do not help the actors’ emotional output, as they only rendering the scenes more maladroit.

The pace of the movie is slow and frequently fails to keep the audience

engaged. Series of fight scenes take place to serve as thrills as we witness the new members of Dauntless undergo several stages to become initiated, offering the potential for some excitement. These vignettes of actions are, however, too long and the intention to entertain appears overly transparent. The revelation of the big scheme at the very end fails to make up for all that has preceded it.

Overall, the screenplay and acting in “Divergent” are so crude that the audience is more amused by the effort than engaged in the film. If the movie is an endeavor to extend the glory of “The Hunger Games,” it has unfortunately missed the mark.

television Review

True Detective

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Starring: Matthew McConaughey HBO GO | Available Now SAMI RAHMAN Hoya Staff Writer

HBO’s “True Detective,” which just concluded its first season, is certainly unnerving — and not just because it chronicles two blunt, hard-edged homicide detectives searching for a satanic serial killer for 17 years in worn-down, bucolic Louisiana. Buried underneath is the exploration into the relationship between two tragically flawed detectives. As they struggle to understand the truth behind an unusual

murder case, viewers observe the unorthodox testimony of two men trusting each other in order to uncover justice.

Set against the swampy, sundrenched backdrop of Louisiana, “True Detective” is a wasteland noir told on two tracks: in 1995, when Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) begin the investigation of the ritualistic murder of prostitute Dora Lange, and in 2012, when two detectives separately question Cohle and Hart and reopen the

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Woody Harrelson (left) and Matthew McConaughey give captivating performances in HBO’s latest criminal drama, “True Detective.”

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’95 case after a similar murder occurs. Layered with voice-over, the flashback structure is smoothly narrated. It allows viewers to better understand the characters as the now wiser, scraggly Cohle and the sadder, overweight Hart reflect and reconnect with their buried, past selves.

Beleaguered with a painful past, Cohle is fresh off four years as an undercover narc at the onset of the ’95 timeline. His aloofness makes other detectives in the division wary and hostile towards him. Appreciating Cohle’s investigative skill, Hart reluctantly welcomes his new partner and the two stumble upon their own self-revelation as they struggle to solve the sadistic murder.

Cohle is an intellectual loner, spitting reflexive, philosophical ideas that he himself does not fully understand. Chock-full of Nietzsche views, Cohle reeks of gravitas and spills his nihilistic outlook on the tragedy of humanity to a disgruntled Hart during their long road trips across pastoral Louisiana. On the other hand, Hart is a meat-and-potatoes family man whose personal philosophy is working hard and having a beer afterwards. Yet even Hart grapples with his own demons in his propensity to blithely cheat on his wife, Maggie (Michelle Monaghan), thereby revealing hypocrisy, which Cohle soon derides. Despite their differences, the two complement each other’s polarity.

Although the murder case is enthralling, viewers primarily watch “True Detective” because they are more intrigued with what will become of Cohle and Hart. The rural degradation of Louisiana mirrors the mentality of the characters and their faith in humanity. Things happen for a reason. The detectives search to do some right in a perpetually decrepit Louisiana brings them closer to form a taut bond of loyalty and trust.

McConaughey and Harrelson are creatively convincing, driving the innovatively scripted “True Detective.” They portray rugged, broken Southerners like pros, perfectly rendering the darkening of their characters. McConaughey says he was

drawn to Cohle’s character since “he [Cohle] keeps his own counsel.” After his recent Oscar, McConaughey is a Hollywood Cinderella story. The McConaissance is trending and reinvigorating Harrelson’s career as well.

Creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote all eight episodes as an anthology.

There is something charming about the slow-burning eerie drama; it’s short and sweet (and easy to binge).

Season One’s eight-episode arc, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who also directed the 2011 adaptation “Jane Eyre,” showcases raw performances from McConaughey and Harrelson. Fortunately, the show is uninhibited from elongating the two characters over subsequent seasons. Season 2 will be entirely different — with a new story and new cast — and actors and scripts are already being strung together.

At times, the dialogue between Cohle and Hart overflows with 10-dollar words, forcing the show to seem novelistic. Pizzolatto arbitrarily throws in cursory phrases for Cohle to languidly philosophize about with the intent of addig depth to his character (while also adding appreciative McConaugheyisms). Instead, the audience is left puzzled, attempting to dissect longwinded rants on religion and morality.

Another aspect where “True Detective” fails is its lack of definition in supporting characters and cast ensemble. The show focuses too much on the dialectic between the duo and not enough on Maggie, the next prominent character. Her paper-thin, one-dimensional interior does not propel the story or offer us additional details on Hart’s internal conflicts. Monaghan’s acting is elegant, flowing with poignant authenticity, but viewers don’t get enough of her character.

But despite its few flaws, “True Detective” labors on to depict the slipperiness of humanity. Although “True Detective” starts as a stereotypical HBO show with bottled-up cliche cops, the show grows into something meaningful: how camaraderie can be formed in a debauched excursion into darkness.

Movement, an Australian trio, released “Like Lust” this month in anticipation of its upcoming EP. With pulsing synthetics and breathy minimalist lyrics, “Like Lust” is four-and-a-half minutes of exciting new music. The building intensity tapers off at just the right speed, carrying you along a trance-like journey throughout the entire track. The song provides a refreshing respite from today’s typical electronic music, and Movement’s track is definitely worth a listen the next time you’re looking to have a chill night with friends.

‘THORNS AND HORNS’ LUPE FIASCO FEAT. ABSOUL  Even though this new single probably won’t appear on his album released later this year, “Thorns and Horns” is solid proof that Lupe Fiasco is not slowing down anytime soon. With a light background bass, the song showcases the extraordinary lyrical talent of Fiasco along with the sheer rap genius of lesser-known artist Ab-Soul. Though “Thorns and Horns” will probably not be very popular with mainstream music fans, the late-’90s-style rap will make it a favorite among hardcore Lupe fans.

‘EMPIRE’ SHAKIRA  Her hips don’t lie, and neither does this single featured on Shakira’s newest and self-titled album. The slow and melodic tune shows off Shakira’s raw vocal talent like never before. As the song builds towards the chorus, Shakira chants “We are alive.”

“Empire” reveals a newer, sweeter side of Shakira while maintaining her overall sexiness and female power. It’s a great followup to her very successful track “Can’t Remember to Forget You” featuring Rihanna and certainly adds to the hype surrounding the upcoming album, released next week.

‘FAKE YOUR DEATH’ MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE  Remember My Chemical Romance? Even though the group officially split up last year, it is releasing a greatest hits album later this month that features the best songs from its 12 years as a band, including the previously unreleased single, “Fake Your Death.” Dubbed as the band’s eulogy, this song is full of emotion that conveys a welcomed sadness to listeners, sticking with the characteristics of most of My Chemical Romance’s music. A generous gift to its mourning fans, the song will bring any of us back to our angsty middle school days.

AROUND TOWN Step into spring with joy

sustainable dc

cinematsuri

tidal basin paddle boats

WHERE: Joy of Motion Dance Center, locations vary WHEN: Class times vary INFO: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org FREE: Free

WHERE: Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P St. NW WHEN: Friday, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

INFO: dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org PRICE: Free, registration online

WHERE: E St. Cinema, 555 11th St. NW WHEN: Sunday, 6 p.m.; Monday to Thursday, 7 p.m.

INFO: cinematsuri.com PRICE: Free

WHERE: 1501 Maine Ave. SW WHEN: Until April 13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

INFO: tidalbasinpaddleboats.com PRICE: Starting at $14 for 2 person boats

The famous D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival is back, and one of its many free events is a dance class taught by Joy of Motion Dance Center. No experience is required and classes ranging from zumba to afrobeat are available. A discount for future classes will be given to attendees.

The Environmental Film Festival is hosting a program of film and discussion focused on Sustainable D.C., the city-wide initiative to make D.C. “the greenest, healthiest and most livable city in the nation.” It will be showing two short films, “Rebalancing,” which evaluates the Bikeshare program, and “Green Roofs.”

Produced by the Japan-America Society of Washington D.C., which aims to promote the understanding of Japanese culture, CineMatsuri is a Japanese film festival. It showcases five of Japan’s newest and best films from a range of genres, and looks to reflect the richness of Japan’s contemporary cinematic culture.

To ensure that you get the best view of all of the District’s beautiful spring cherry blossoms, take a paddle boat along the Potomac. Sure to get you in the spring mood, it’s a great way to experience D.C. while getting some exercise and a break from studying. Easily accessible from the Smithsonian Metro stop, forget the snowy days and make the best of living in D.C.

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Sports

THE HOYA

Friday, march 21, 2014

The Sporting Life

baseball

Consistency Evades Hoyas Tiered Playoffs Would Tony Baxter

Special to The Hoya

The lingering winter weather has taken its toll on Georgetown’s baseball schedule. The Hoyas were scheduled to face the University of Maryland-Baltimore County on Tuesday, but they were forced to postpone a game for the third time this season because of snow.

Georgetown is coming off of its spring break trip to Florida, where it played in the Snowbird Classic.

The Hoyas had mixed results in the Sunshine State, finishing the week with four wins and four losses.

The hitting started out strong as the Hoyas scored five runs in each of their first four games. The pitching, however, was not as strong, giving up 15 runs to Saint Joseph’s in one game and 13 to Iowa in another.

The team began its week in Florida with a loss to Western Michigan (9-8), but quickly rebounded, sweeping South Dakota St. in back-to-back games by scores of 7-4 and 9-4. Next up for Georgetown was a three-game set against St. Joseph’s (8-6). The Hoyas took their first game against the Hawks but then dropped their next two, 3-2 and 15-1.

The team rebounded to finish off the week with a 10-1 win over Iowa (12-5) after getting blown out 13-1 the previous day against the Hawkeyes.

Sophomore catcher Nick Collins led the offense all week long.

Collins hit .500 in his last six games of the tournament and, in the process, impressed Head Coach Pete Wilk.

“I can expect that to continue with [Nick]. He is a very talented young man. His numbers might not reflect what he has even done out there. He has hit the ball hard all year,” Wilk said. “His numbers in Florida were good, but what you didn’t see is probably another five or six line drives that were caught.”

Overall, Wilk was very happy with his team’s performance in Florida.

“I thought it was a successful trip because we were able to play the game and practice almost on a daily basis down there,” he said. “Anytime you get that kind of rhythm we are going to become a better baseball team.”

Despite having to postpone its game against UMBC on Tuesday, Georgetown was able to play its scheduled game Wednesday against George Washington. Because of field conditions at the Hoyas’ Shirley Povich Field, the game was moved to the Colonials’ home field.

The change in location did not phase the Hoyas, however, and they defeated their cross-town rivals 7-6.

Freshman pitcher Nick Leonard went five innings, allowing just one

earned run and Collins kept up his hot hitting, getting three hits and scoring one run. Georgetown also committed three errors, which almost cost them the game.

The Hoyas’ defense and pitching has been inconsistent this year and Wilk has emphasized that the teams need to fix those problems.

“We need to work on our pitching staff. [Our pitchers] need to get the ball down in the zone,” he said.

“Our team needs to play better defense and get timely hitting.”

On Friday, Georgetown will begin a three game set against Towson (9-3). The Hoyas will play the first two games at home, before travelling to Towson for the finale.

It will not be the first meeting between the two teams this year; Towson took a 9-1 decision over Georgetown back in February in North Carolina. Wilk is confident that things have changed since then.

“When we faced them the first weekend of the year, our offense wasn’t doing what were doing right now,” Wilk said. “I think this is a favorable matchup for us now that our offense kind of understands what we are, what we can do.”

Despite boasting a winning record, Towson has struggled of late and enters the series on a threegame losing streak.

First pitch for Friday is slated for 3 p.m. at Povich Field in Bethesda, Md.

Generate Excitement MAJD, from B10 involving the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ranked teams would still represent more compelling and competitive matchups than you see in the currently uneven bowl bid alignment.

And speaking of competitiveness, one of the biggest problems with the current college football postseason has been the month-long gap from the regular season to the bigger bowl games, which creates a lull that robs some teams of top form.

Having multiple games would break up the month-long gap between the end of the season and many of the bigger bowl games, allowing teams to stay in form and ensure that their preparation is consistent with what is seen throughout the season.

Lastly, having several playoff tiers offers more opportunities to ascertain the strength of conferences. So much of what goes into rating teams during the season amounts to guess work, as the limited nonconference slate makes it difficult to be sure of how each conference — other than the dominant SEC — stacks up in the grander scheme. Having multiple games

to work for rewards consistent teams that can prevail regardless of a singular matchup, and thus paints a better picture of each team and the strength of each conference.

The only question that requires much debate is how to choose the teams for each tier. Four-team tiers allow time for teams to recover for their next game, but also will lead to controversy not unlike that seen during the time of the BCS, with many teams having claims to the limited spots available. However, eight-team tiers would perhaps allow undeserving teams a shot at the championship game.

The best solution would perhaps be a compromise of the two, with the championship remaining plus one, and all other tiers featuring eight teams — one from each of the five major conferences and three at-large selections. Regardless of the specifics, a tiered playoff system would create a more exciting postseason for all teams, while providing a better gauge of the relative strength of teams than singular bowl games can offer.

Darius Majd is a junior in the College.

THE SPORTING LIFE appears every Friday.

men’s basketball

tennis

GU Turns in Mixed Results Madeline Auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown tennis teams traveled cross-country to California over spring break to compete in matches and achieved mixed results. The men’s team (5-7) was unable to notch a win, losing all three matches it played. Meanwhile, the women’s team (5-7, 0-2 Big East) played in three matches and was victorious in all, boosting its record considerably after beginning the season with a 2-6 record.

The men started poorly, dropping their first match 7-0 to UC Santa Barbara (5-9) on March 8.

Georgetown lost all three doubles matches, including a tight 8-7 loss for senior co-captain Casey Distaso and sophomore Daniel Khanin. The Gauchos triumphed over the Hoyas in straight sets in five of their six singles matches.

Junior Alex Tropiano was the only Hoya to win a set, but fell 5-7, 7-6, 10-6 at fourth singles.

“We’re really just missing opportunities,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “We have these opportunities to do well and we’re not capitalizing. For whatever reason, we still have a big inconsistency with guys from match to match.”

Georgetown’s luck did not turn around as it ventured to other UC schools, losing a close match to UC Riverside 4-3 and another to UC Irvine 5-2. Though the men played

inconsistently, they did perform admirably in a few areas.

“We started to play better doubles in the last match against Irvine. I mean we played some really good doubles so that’s important,” Ernst said. “Also, Tropiano is steadily improving. He’s doing better and better in every match whether he wins or loses and just showing really solid improvement.”

The women’s team started its set of matches strongly with a tight 4-3 victory over Cal State Fullerton (4-10). It proceeded to down Claremont-Mudds-Scripps (7-5) 7-2 — an impromptu addition to the schedule —two days later. They completed an undefeated run in California by defeating UC Riverside (0-14) 5-2.

“I’m so proud of them,” Ernst said. “You know what I’m proud of them for is that they have a short memory. They don’t worry that they lost last week to DePaul; they just go out and play.”

Both teams were slated to compete with the University of D.C. this week, but both matches have been postponed because of weather. Instead, the men will next take on the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (3-8) while the women will face the Richmond Spiders (4-6) and the Providence Friars (2-5, 0-1 Big East).

As with all the Ivies, Penn will be a formidable opponent for Georgetown.

“Penn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton are all

good,” Ernst said. “It’s going to be a tough match, but we can beat them.There’s no doubt about it.”

This match against the Quakers is key to the Hoyas’ success going forward, as their momentum going into the Big East match will rely heavily on their lateseason play. Since the men’s team couldn’t pick up a win in California, the match on Saturday carries even more importance.

“We had our chances … but we’re still missing the crucial component and that’s the breakthrough win over a good team,” Ernst said. “If we don’t get a good win before the Big East, then it’s going to be tough for us to do well at the Big East because of the confidence factor.”

The Providence women’s team is currently suffering a four-match losing streak, most recently suffering a lop-sided 7-0 loss to Big East rival Seton Hall. The Georgetown women look to continue their four- game win streak in these match-ups while also improving their Big East record.

The women’s team defeated Richmond 4-3 Thursday at 2:30 p.m. on the McDonough courts, and will return to the courts Saturday when it takes on Providence at 10:00 a.m. The men will play Penn on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. on the McDonough courts as well.

“This is all confidence,” Ernst said. “If we can get a breakthrough win like Penn on Saturday, then I think we can still have a good year.”

track & Field

Women Impress at NCAAs Morgan Birck

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown track and field team travelled to Albuquerque, N.M., last weekend to compete in the 2014 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The women’s team had an impressive showing, but the men’s team underperformed according to Director of Track and Field and Cross-Country Patrick Henner.

“I was very pleased on the women’s side,” he said. “I don’t think the meet went perfectly for us, but we did a lot of really good things when we competed well. Honestly, I was disappointed on the men’s side.

But we also have to realize on the men’s side, it was the first time any of them had ever been there at that meet.”

On Friday night, senior Billy Ledder ran in the 800-meter semifinal, junior Andrea Keklak and freshman Sabrina Southerland ran in the women’s 800m semifinal and both men’s and women’s distance medley relay teams took to the track.

Ledder started off the evening lining up in the fourth position of the first waterfall. He struggled to gain good positioning and ended up getting bumped into seventh place, where he stayed for the remainder of the race. He finished with a time of 1:56.44 and did not advance to the finals.

“Ledder got bumped in his race, and he let that get to him,” Henner

said. “Instead of getting more determined to make the final, he got distracted by that.”

Next was the women’s 800m race, in which Keklak qualified for finals as she finished first in her semifinal heat with a time of 2:07.13. Southerland began the race strong, but fell to seventh place in her third and fourth laps. She finished in fifth place, but did not earn a spot in the finals.

The women’s DMR team — junior Hannah Neczypor, senior Deseree King, Southerland and junior Katrina Coogan — took seventh place with a time of 11:18.39. This time earned the team all-American status.

The men’s DMR team — comprised of freshman Amos Bartelsmeyer, sophomore Devante Washington, freshman Ryan Manahan and sophomore Ahmed Bile — struggled from the start.

“Bartelsmeyer has done a great job for us as a freshman, but he made a couple of tactical mistakes in there,” Henner said. “He was coming into the handoffs right there with everybody, but he was near the back of the pack. Then your handoffs get messed up and your quarter-miler can’t run a good leg, and then all of a sudden you’re out of the race.”

In the third leg, Manahan had the fifth-fastest time with a split of 1:49.97 in the 800m stretch, but it was not enough to give the Hoyas an edge. The team finished 10th overall with a time of 9:57.85.

“Ryan Manahan put in a supreme effort to get us back into the race,” Henner said. “But we just couldn’t get back into the race on the men’s side in the DMR.” Saturday, Keklak ran the women’s 800m final and earned aWllAmerican honors with a fourthplace finish and a time of 2:06.42.

Despite starting out in the lead, Keklak fell behind after the first turn of the bell lap but continued to fight for the fourth-place position with two runners from Oregon.

Coogan competed in the women’s 3000m final and also earned All-American honors by taking fifth place with a time of 9:17.38. For the first half of the race, she was in third place but slipped to seventh place with three laps to go. Coogan, however, regained her composure to finish the race in fifth place.

The Blue and Gray will take this weekend off before heading to Richmond on March 28 and 29 for their first meet of the outdoor season.

This meet is more about preparing for the next few weeks than it is about the competition itself.

“We’ll just use that meet as kind of a tune up or a rust-buster,” Henner said. “The NCAA regional meet that you qualify for the NCAA finals is not until the last weekend in May. At the same time, some of our best opportunities to get qualifying for that meet are going to come within the next two to four weeks.”

After a weekend of relative rest, the Hoyas will be back in competition season until June.

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Senior forward Nate Lubick scored five points on 2-of-2 shooting and grabbed five rebounds in Georgetown’s 77-65 win over West Virginia.

Hopkins and Lubick Key To 2nd-Round Success SEMINOLES, from B10 problem for junior forward Mikael Hopkins, who comes in at a half-foot shorter.

Florida State also boasts another 7-footer in sophomore center Michael Ojo. Against Florida Gulf Coast, the Seminoles gave significant minutes to only five players and only six players took a shot. Senior forward Okaro White and sophomore guard Aaron Thomas took 60 percent of the team’s total shots. Limiting these two will be key to the Hoyas’ success.

Georgetown solved one of its chief concerns — foul trouble — against West Virginia, committing only 21 fouls compared to 27 for the Mountaineers.

If senior forward Nate Lubick — who bounced back with a strong showing after a flat outing against DePaul in the Big East tournament with a strong showing — and Hopkins can play solid defense

without fouling, the Hoyas will be in a good position.

Georgetown’s victory Tuesday night was one of its most disciplined and effective 40 minutes of basketball this season.

The Hoyas fed of the crowd’s energy — a deafening roar of students and alumni that drowned out the few West Virginia fans — but will face an entirely different environment in Tallahassee. Georgetown struggled on the road this season, finishing only 2-8 away from home.

Perhaps most important to the Hoyas’ win was that Thompson managed to motivate his players in a way that West Virginia could not. In a tournament neither team expected to participate in at the beginning of the season, it was Georgetown that put forth the necessary effort to win. Now it must continue its push against Florida State.

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GU Faces Wildcats NFL Benefits From Holdouts In Big East Opener F JULIANA ZOVAK Hoya Staff Writer

After 21 tournament games, a West Coast trip and a few weather problems, the Georgetown softball team (9-12) will finally open its Big East season this weekend in Pennsylvania with a threegame series against Villanova.

Though the team has had to deal with cancellations and limited practice time due to the particularly harsh and prolonged winter, the Hoyas have still managed to win nine games. Notably, Georgetown won the 49er Invitational, where the Hoyas’ pitchers combined for a no-hitter and six shutouts while only allowing three runs to top-ranked UCLA. “I think we have a strong foundation,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.“There are a lot of things I think we need to clean up and be a little more consistent in, but overall I think that all of our games were very competitive, and our bats are starting to come around.”

A key part of the Hoyas’ lineup this year has been junior pitcher Megan Hyson, who has recorded a 1.86 ERA over 12 appearances and held opposing batters to a .187 batting average. Hyson threw a no-hitter and two shutouts in the 49er Tournament, en route to being named Most Valuable Pitcher and Big East Pitcher of the Week. She has also been named to the Big East Honor Roll three times.

“She’s having a fantastic year.

It’s kind of one of those things where I don’t want to touch her.

I just want to let her kind of roll on,” Conlan said. “I just want to keep it going for her. It’s a great honor any time that you could be recognized by your conference, three or four times this year, that’s fantastic. I’m really proud of her and the player she’s become.”

Hyson has been an offensive threat as well. She leads the team with a .387 batting average and 15 RBIs, and this weekend she will look to extend her five-game hitting streak.

“She’s seeing the ball really well right now at the plate and she’s spinning the ball very well from the mound. She’s just a real complete ballplayer for us right now and helping in every aspect of the game,” Conlan said.

Senior outfielder and second baseman Alexandria Anttila is second on the team with a .288 batting average and third with 10 RBIs behind senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek, who has 14.

The Blue and Gray will take on a familiar foe in Villanova.

Last season Georgetown swept the Wildcats in a three-game series, and it has won six of the 10 all-time meetings between the teams.

Villanova (8-12) is led by sophomore pitcher Kate Poppe, who has 105 strikeouts this season and leads the Big East with a 1.34 ERA. The Wildcats are coached

by Maria DiBernardi, who is returning for her 30th season as the head coach for Villanova. She holds an all-time coaching record of 752-644-10.

“Villanova’s one of the oldest members of our conference right now, and they always have a great team. [DiBernardi] does a really nice job of just putting a competitive group out there,” Conlan said.

Although it will be the first conference game of the season in a realigned Big East which now includes Creighton, Butler and Xavier, Conlan asserts that the games are not so much about the opponent as they are about the Hoyas’ own play.

“We try and stress that our kids play every game the same way no matter what name is across our opponents’ chests. We have to compete against the game and we have to do what we’re capable of,” Conlan said. “I think in everybody’s mind you’ll see that it’s conference and everybody’s excited because this is how we get an opportunity to play for a championship, but our approach won’t be any different.”

But the opponents still have some influence on strategy, according to Conlan. Conlan has been tinkering with the lineup throughout the season and has made decisions based on the relative importance of offense or defense anticipated in that game.

“Do we think we need more offense in this game, do we think this is a team we’re going to need tougher defense on, things like that. So it could still go day to day, but I think we have a pretty good idea of where people will play and what kind of role they’re going to play in those games,” Conlan said.

Barring any further weather barriers, Georgetown will take on Towson in its home opener on Tuesday. But Conlan is first looking to the conference opener at Villanova.

“It’s our route to a championship, and it begins in Philadelphia this weekend. Hopefully the snow is off their field and we can actually get these games in,” Conlan said.

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or as long as I can remember, holdouts have been a huge part of the NFL offseason. A player who is unhappy with his contract decides to sit out mandatory offseason workouts; if he doesn’t get a new deal, sometimes he’ll miss games within the NFL season itself.

Let’s look at Darrelle Revis, for example. Revis is arguably the best cornerback in the game (Richard Sherman is now mad at me), and has held out twice in his career. Revis missed the first 21 days of training camp before his rookie year in 2007 while he and his agents were negotiating a contract with the New York Jets. A rookie holding out on his team before even playing a down may sound strange now, but it happened all the time under the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Revis held out again after the 2009 season, which some feel was the greatest season a cornerback has ever had. He missed almost all of training camp and all four of the Jets preseason games, despite the fact that his contract wasn’t due to expire until after the 2012 season.

That’s right, he held out with half of his contract remaining, and how did it work out?

Very well.

Revis signed a four-year, $46 million deal that paid him the majority of the money and all of the guaranteed salary in the first two years of the contract. Revis also considered holding out before the 2012 season because he felt he was worth more than the $7.5 million he was owed that season. Many analysts and fans felt that his consideration was ridiculous because he had just held out two years before and three years before that.

Despite suffering an ACL injury early that season, Revis bounced back to earn $16 million with the Buccaneers in 2013 and will make

$12 million with the Patriots in 2014. Considering that he’s playing for Bill Belichick, a defensive genius, and that players usually improve their second year after an ACL tear, Revis has the chance to boost his value in Foxborough and earn yet another massive payday next offseason.

We can stay in New England for another example. Offensive lineman Logan Mankins held out for the first seven games of the 2010 season and had accused the Patriots organization of lying. Patriots owner Robert

Tom Hoff

In the NFL, owners do not honor contracts and neither should players.

Kraft is known as a smart, kind and proud businessman. While Mankins made it clear that he never called Kraft himself a liar, it was a messy situation. Nevertheless, Mankins signed a six-year, $51 million deal before the 2011 season. If holdouts weren’t effective, this would be a prime example. But it worked.

Also before the 2011 season, running back Chris Johnson signed a four-year, $53.5 million contract with the Tennessee Titans after holding out of training camp. Although he was a running back in a passing league and had two years remaining on his contract, Johnson got his payday. He can thank his holdout.

Sure, there are some examples of

holdouts not working as well as the player hoped, but a star player who holds out usually gets rewarded.

Now, is this how players should act?

Do players have an obligation to play until the end of their deal?

Personally, I have no problem with contract holdouts in the NFL, and it seems naive of many fans to take issue with them. It is a gross oversimplification to say, “A player has a contract, and a contract is a binding agreement. Therefore, an employee should honor that agreement.”

I can understand that argument, but it ignores a very basic aspect of NFL contracts. While holdouts are, in fact, an employee not fulfilling his contract, it’s also true that the employers in the NFL do not have to honor their end of the deal. Most players in the league play under unguaranteed contracts, meaning that an organization can cut them anytime and not pay the player what the contract says.

Players almost never hold out when they have guaranteed money remaining on their deal because they understand that the organization itself must honor the money in the deal. NBA and MLB players don’t hold out because they honor their contracts the same way that their organizations do, given that the leagues’ players almost unanimously have guaranteed deals.

I do not have a problem with contract holdouts in the NFL. Actually, I support them. In a game where every play can be an athlete’s last, and when a player can get cut at just about any time because an owner doesn’t have to honor his end of the contract, I fully understand players doing the same to get what they rightfully deserve.

Tom Hoff is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. DOWN TO THE WIRE appears Fridays.

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Blue Jays Provide Next Ranked Test HOPKINS, from B10 allowing one goal on two shots.

With the loss, the Hoyas dropped to .500 on the season, surely a position the team did not expect to be in after entering the season ranked No. 10 in the country. Friday night’s game will give Georgetown the opportunity to end its losing streak against a formidable Johns Hopkins team.

“I think our players are going to be engaged because we lost and [Johns Hopkins] is undefeated, so it’s a big game, in that respect,” Fried said.

“We’re going to have to make sure that we play for 60 minutes, recognize that when we make mistakes, we’re going to have to overcome those mistakes and not really focus on the things we can’t control.”

Johns Hopkins has been successful in various components of its game thus far in its undefeated season. Se-

nior attack Taylor D’Amore recently broke two school records — all-time career draw controls and single-game assists — in the team’s 20-5 win over Michigan.

D’Amore leads the Blue Jays in points with 23 goals and 17 assists on the season. She is followed by sophomore midfielder Dene’ DiMartino with 24 goals and 2 assists. Stopping the powerful duo will be a priority for the Hoyas on Friday.

“Our big focus continues to be improving, and a lot of that doesn’t have to do with athleticism or skill, it has to do with our concentration level and execution,” Fried said.

“They have a few really solid players, so we’re going to have to be really disciplined in our approach and minimize the mistakes that we make at the end of the day.”

Johns Hopkins has offensive depth beyond D’Amore and DiMartino as six players have tallied more than 10

goals on the season. The Hoyas will have to make sure that their one-onone defense is up to the task of containing the talented Blue Jay offense, says Fried.

“Defensively it’s really going to come down to not overextending ourselves,” he said.

In its current stretch against ranked opponents, Georgetown has not had much downtime. Each practice has included preparing for the next tough opponent and creating plays to take advantage of opposition’s weaknesses counter opposition’s strength. However, Fried believes that the short-term suffering will eventually pay long-run dividends.

“It hardens us for the end of the season, which is the goal out of this,” Fried said. “While it can be challenging to deal with the preparation on a week-to-week basis, at the end of the day, it prepares us for what we’re going to have to do in postseason.”

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Last-Minute Goal Sinks Hoyas LOYOLA, from B10 But Georgetown responded early in the second quarter when O’Connor nearly connected on his second goal of the game but his shot hit the post. The Hoyas would not be denied, however, and 10 seconds later, junior attack Bo Stafford scored on an extra-man opportunity.

Although Loyola went on a two-goal run afterwards, freshman attack Peter Conley scored two goals of his own at 8:01 and 4:18 to give Georgetown the 6-5 lead — an advantage it would hold at halftime.

While Georgetown was successful on its only extra-man opportunity, Loyola struggled and was unable to score on any of its four opportunities. Georgetown was able to stave off Loyola in both of their man-ups during the second quarter, in large part due to redshirt junior goalkeeper Jake Haley’s performance. Haley made crucial saves in these situations, diffusing several Greyhound scoring opportunities on transition or unsettled situations.

Warne was pleased with how Haley anchored the Hoyas’ defense.

“I think tonight was Jake’s best game,” Warne said. “He made some plays on occasion that helped us, and I think he bailed us out especially on man-down [situations].”

In the third quarter, junior midfielder Charlie McCormick stretched Georgetown’s lead back to two, scoring with 11:30 remaining. However, Loyola went on a three-goal run at the end of the third quarter and recaptured the lead, 8-7.

Lewis scored the first goal of the fourth quarter and his second goal of the game to even the score at 8-8 with 11:27 left in the game. Knarr won

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Junior attack and co-captain Reilly O’Connor scored a goal in the Hoyas’ loss. Georgetown’s next game is against Villanova on March 25. the next faceoff and transitioned the ball down the field to Stafford, who then assisted O’Connor at 11:19.

Loyola answered with the equalizer at 7:55. After a scoring drought of more than six minutes, Loyola scored the final goal with 52 seconds left in the game, bringing the score to 10-9.

Georgetown regained possession off of another faceoff won by Knarr, but it could not get a shot on goal in the remaining time.

Although Loyola walked away with the victory, Warne was impressed by each player’s contributions. Haley’s performance in goal and Knarr’s creation of important offensive opportunities helped Georgetown maintain a fairly even footing with Loyola.

“Tyler is learning how to make better decisions with the ball,” Warne

said. “He realizes [now] that he did his job, [and he needs to] get the ball to our attack and let us go from there. … When we have a consistent goalie and a good faceoff guy, the chances of us winning increase dramatically.”

Warne thinks that the game was a good indication of how far his team has come during the season.

“We just have to be sure that we do the right things, stay the course, understand the game plan and like I told the guys in the huddle, we don’t need heroes — we need plays,” Warne said. “So if we can follow that and really challenge each other over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be in good shape.”

Georgetown will return to the field March 25 when it faces off against Villanova.

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MOLLY MALONE Hoya Staff Writer

After two tough losses for the No. 13 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (3-3), the Hoyas will play host to No. 11 Johns Hopkins (9-0) on Friday night at the MultiSport Facility.

Georgetown has played a difficult schedule to date; Friday’s game will be its sixth straight against a ranked opponent. Most recently, Georgetown fell to No. 1 North Carolina 18-11. Although the final score does not show it, the Hoyas finished that game on an impressive 5-to-1 run, and it is this momentum the team hopes will carry over to its game against Johns Hopkins.

“There are things that we need to work on, and a lot of it has to do with making sure we’re engaged and focused at the very beginning as opposed to focusing on the scoreboard,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

Georgetown fell into an early 7-1 hole that proved to be too much to overcome.

At halftime, the Tar Heels held an 11-6 advantage and the game seemed within reach for the Hoyas. However, a 6-0 run by North Carolina coming out of the locker room removed all doubt about the outcome.

Although the final result was not what the Hoyas were looking for, the team was productive on offense and four different players scored two goals apiece.

Senior attack Meghan Farrell, senior attack Reilly Woodman, senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman and sophomore attack Corinne Etchison all notched two points for Georgetown.

Defensively, Georgetown gave up 31 shots and all three goalkeepers received playing time. Although senior Barb Black got the start, all three received roughly the same amount of time in the net.

Sophomore Megan McDonald boasted the highest save percentage of the group, See HOPKINS, B9

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In its first game at McDonough Arena since 2009, Georgetown defeated West Virginia 77-65 in the first round of the NIT. Sophomore guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera (left) scored a season high 32 points and senior guard Markel Starks (top right) added 14 points.

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Seminoles’ Size Threatens Hoyas in NIT ASHWIN WADEKAR Hoya Staff Writer

After taking down former Big East rival West Virginia in front of a raucous crowd at McDonough arena, Georgetown (18-14, 8-10 Big East) now looks to keep its NIT hopes alive when it travels to Tallahassee to take on Florida State (20-13, 9-9 ACC) on Monday night.

In the first round, the Hoyas took advantage of a hot second half to move past the Mountaineers (1716, 9-9 Big 12). It was the first time Georgetown had played a game in McDonough since 2009, and the team fed off the crowd’s energy and relied on tough defense to limit West Virginia’s opportunities.

“Without a doubt, the energy we got from the fans and students … was great,” Head Coach John Thompson III said. “It was a great environment.”

As it has all season, the backcourt led the way. Sophomore guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera topped all scorers with 32 points — his season high — while also picking up 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the year. Senior guard Markel Starks added 14 points on top of seven assists and seven rebounds — a career high that earned him a high-five from Thompson after the game.

For Starks, the location of the game and the history of the venue were especially important.

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No. 2 Loyola Escapes With Win With 11 minutes remaining in Wednesday’s game, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (3-5, 0-1 Big East) seemed poised to pull off an upset win over No. 2 Loyola (7-1, 3-0 Patriot League). Junior attack and co-captain Reilly O’Connor had given the Hoyas a 9-8 advantage with 11:27 remaining. But Loyola responded to score two goals, including the game winner with less than a minute left.

It was a back-and-forth game that included four lead changes and seven ties. Although Georgetown maintained possession of the ball, Loyola’s prolific offensive was able to get shots on transition which lifted them to the win. Af-

ter winning their first two games of the season, the Hoyas have dropped five of their last six.

The Hoyas, coming off of a 15-7 loss to St. John’s on March 15, looked to minimize turnovers because the Greyhounds are known to exploit their opponents’ mistakes. Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne thought that his team performed well in this regard.

“Our guys were playing hard,” Warne said. “They were scrapping on the loose 50/50 [ground] balls and did the little things today more than we have in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully, they learn from this experience. ... If we do this all the time, our chances to have success are greater.”

Georgetown opened the game

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Redshirt senior defender and co-captain Tyler Knarr was 15-of-22 on faceoffs and scored an unassisted goal in Georgetown’s 10-9 loss to No. 2 Loyola. The loss was the fifth in six games for Georgetown.

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ing the Eagles in their first round game. Florida State needed every minute of regulation to close out a 58-53 victory in a game that wasn’t expected to be close.

Despite earning the top seed in the NIT, Florida State has had a pedestrian 2014 campaign with few notable wins and few embarrassing losses. Like Georgetown, the Seminoles knocked off Virginia Commonwealth early in the year and also snuck out a win over thenNo. 22 Massachusetts.

The Seminoles’ starting lineup is striking for its size; sophomore center Boris Bojanovsky clocks in at7 feet 3 inches — a sure matchup

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“To finally play a game here means a lot,” Starks said. “I wanted … to let [the crowd] know I was having fun.”

The Mountaineers led by three at halftime, but some timely defensive stops led to key points for the Hoyas, allowing them to create separation early in the second half.

From there, Georgetown never looked back.

“I think we did a much better job protecting the paint but then also closing out on their shooters in the second half,” Thompson said.

Now, Georgetown must turn its attention to Florida State. The Seminoles denied the Hoyas another home game and a chance to meet Florida Gulf Coast after defeat-

in commanding fashion, scoring two goals in the first minute.

Freshman midfielder Devon Lewis scored at 14:08, and redshirt senior defender and co-captain Tyler Knarr won the resulting faceoff and scored an unassisted goal six seconds later. But Georgetown was unable to maintain this momentum.

Loyola was quick to answer. The Greyhounds scored on their first two shots of the game to eliminate the Hoyas’ 2-0 advantage.

The Hoyas regained the lead at 7:26 when senior attack Jeff Fountain wrapped around the cage for a diving goal. Loyola scored a goal late in the first quarter to tie the game 3-3.

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As it stands, the college football ootball is highest on the perch when it comes to money and playoffs contain only a plus-one forpopularity in college athlet- mat (meaning a four team bracket). ics. But when it comes to crowning a But what if the NCAA applied the conchampion, football has always fallen cept of the NIT to football? Instead of far below its competitors, namely bas- just a championship playoff bracket, the NCAA could create multiple tiers ketball.

March Madness is the perfect blend of plus-one tournaments, so that all of youthful optimism and big-time bowl-eligible teams have a chance to entertainment. It dominates the air- fight for something more than just waves for a national audience, and yet a single game. You could keep sponit has an innocence that transcends sorships, with companies sponsoring individual games as sports. Where professional sports are bowls and having othlittered with heated er companies sponrivalries and pent-up soring each plus-one tension, the NCAA tier in a larger sense. basketball tournaThere would also be ment thrusts all this room for consolation aside to make way games for the teams for the excitement. that lose in the first Darius Majd It slowly narrows a round of the plus-one massive field filled format, and, at the with underdogs and higher levels, the fiCollege football misfits, but all have nal rounds of games a fighter’s chance could be hosted at the would benefi t from against the big boy traditional bowl sites. programs.

The tier one consolatiers of plus-one College football tion game could be tournaments. has sought to rectify the Rose Bowl, the some of its championtier two championship deficiencies by creating its own ship could be the Sugar Bowl, the tier playoff. By its very nature, football two consolation game could be the Orwill never be able to replicate all of ange Bowl and so on. the qualities that make March MadThe significance imbued in these ness so uniquely exciting. Football’s games would go beyond traditional physical nature necessitates a much bowl titles. The concept of NIT-type smaller field, which eliminates the consolation brackets holds the poopportunity to watch a David slay a tential for much more significance in Goliath (not that such monumental football than in basketball, where the upsets happen with the same regular- sheer number of teams in the NCAA ity in football anyway). Still, there is tournament robs the NIT of top qualone particular element from the col- ity competition. A second tier playoff lege basketball system that the NCAA should consider adding to football.

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