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FINAL YEAR

Seniors Katie McCormick and Logan Battle are in their 10th year playing basketball together.

COMMENTARY The obvious sexism of Kanye West’s music should not be ignored.

STAFFING THE CAMPAIGN Khan-Fisk campaign manager stresses importance of mentorship.

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NEWS, A4

SPORTS, A10

Adjunct QuitsAmid Union Row SYed Humza Moinuddin & Patricja Okuniewska Hoya Staff Writers

Adjunct computer science professor Matthew Devost resigned from his position Feb. 8 after refusing to pay agency fees to the Service Employees International Union Local 500, the union that represents the university’s adjunct faculty.

“I didn’t realize there was an agreement between the university and the union that was a forced-agency agreement.”

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Devost’s resignation ended his “Information Warfare” class three weeks into the spring semester. Eric Burger, the director of the Center for Secure Communications at Georgetown, has since replaced Devost as the instructor of the course.

The adjunct faculty at Georgetown voted in October 2014 to ratify a collective bargaining agreement and unionized with the SEIU Local 500 institution to provide formal representation and bargaining power for the adjunct community. SEIU Local 500 also represents adjunct faculty at The George Washington University and American University among others.

Devost, who also serves as CEO of a private technology company, served as an See UNION, A6

GUSA Ticket Reflects on Partnership

Enushe Khan and Chris Fisk elaborate on their respective Georgetown careers Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer

Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) are running unopposed for the Georgetown University Student Association executive with a united vision for bringing diverse communities at Georgetown together, despite following differing paths to the Hilltop.

Khan, born and raised in Dubai, said she had college on her mind from an early age.

“I did my college road trip I guess in eighth or ninth grade — I was eager,” Khan said.

Fisk, a first-generation college student who comes from a low-income, single-parent household in Florida, said college was a more abstract process for him.

“My brother went to Florida State, so when it came time for me to apply to colleges, I really had no idea what I was doing,” Fisk said. “I had a guidance counselor in high school of a school of a few thousand, so he said, ‘well you know, you might as well apply to as many schools as you can and see what happens.’”

Fisk said the Georgetown Scholarship Program coupled with Georgetown’s location in Washington, D.C., is what brought him to Georgetown.

“I got acceptance letters to multiple places but Georgetown was kind of the best financial aid package for me. I got admitted to the Georgetown Scholarship Program, which covered me almost completely, and without that I probably wouldn’t be out of state,” Fisk said. “But thanks to GSP, that’s kind of what got me here, if not, it wouldn’t have been economically feasible for me or my family to do.”

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Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17), the only official candidates for GUSA president and vice president, hope to use their different backgrounds to help inform their plans as GUSA leaders.

The pair has also followed different paths on campus. Although both participate in GUSA and sing in a cappella groups — Khan is in the Georgetown Phantoms and Fisk is in the Georgetown Saxatones — their other interests diverge.

Khan, currently the GUSA speaker of the senate, has served

as chair of Interfaith and Service for the Muslim Student Association and performs in Rangila, among other activities.

Fisk, who serves as GUSA deputy of chief, co-chair of the GSP copartnerships and as an Advocacy Board and Blue and Gray board member, said the GSP has been a strong motivating factor in be-

coming so involved.

“GSP was the first place I felt comfortable on campus, naturally,” Fisk said. “So [what] drove me to get more involved in student government and GSP and Blue and Gray and other things was the fact that I didn’t really see See GUSA, A6

Georgetown Announces Incarceration Initiative Cheryl Liu

Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown officially launched the Prisons and Justice Initiative to examine the problems of mass incarceration in the United States at its inaugural event in Gaston Hall on Tuesday.

The panel discussion, entitled “Reversing the Tide of Mass Incarceration: Prospects for Prison Reform,” featured Georgetown University Law Center professors Paul Butler and Allegra McLeod, music professor Benjamin Harbert and philosophy professor Judith Lichten-

Sanders, Trump Win Primary Riley Solter

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted an election results watch party for the New Hampshire primary election on Tuesday in Old North, drawing around 30 students and staff members to discuss the decisive victories of presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Donald Trump.

IPPS Executive Director Moe Elleithee (SFS ’94) and America Rising Super PAC Executive Director Colin Reed facilitated the discussion and shared observations about the race.

Elleithee served as former Secretary of State Hillary Clin-

ton’s senior spokesperson during her 2008 campaign, while Reed directs a nonaffiliated conservative organization that exclusively targets Clinton.

“Give [Trump] credit for 34 percent ... But it still tells me a majority of Republicans aren’t comfortable with this guy as their standard bearer.”

MOE ELLEITHEE (sfs ’94) IPPS Executive Director

The intimate contest in the small state of New Hampshire holds a unique status as the nation’s first primary election, while the Feb. 1 Iowa

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caucuses consisted solely of a selection of delegates. After a record turnout of over 550,000 people, the primary followed the expectations of polls with Trump outperforming the other Republican candidates with 35.3 percent of the vote and Sanders beating Clinton with 60.4 percent of the vote.

Elleithee said Sanders’ victory in New Hampshire, which included overwhelming support from the youth vote and a surprising victory in the demographic of women voters, exposes weaknesses in Clinton’s campaign, which in turn, could allow Sanders to win the nomination.

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IPPS Executive Director Moe Elleithee (SFS ’94) led a discussion in Old North about the state of the campaigns with students and staff as the results from the New Hampshire primary came in.

berg, who discussed prospects for prison reform in the United States.

The event was introduced and moderated by PJI Director Marc Howard, who will lead the initiative with a faculty board of 14 Georgetown professors and six undergraduate student research assistants. The assistants will work alongside professors as they research and develop means to address racial injustice and advance racial equality.

Howard said that he became interested in the prison system when his high

NEWS Obama Launches Jobs Plan

President Obama allocated $5.5 billion to a jobs plan for young people in his proposed budget.

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NEWS GU Celebrates Black History

Sports Providence Rematch

NEWS Campus Welcomes Casa Latina

OPINION Editorial

A number of events taking place for Black History Month offer an educative experience.

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A safe space for the Latino community is currently reviewing resident applications.

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The men’s basketball team prepares for another game against Providence’s Dunn and Bentil.

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GUSA presidential candidate Enushe Khan’s decision to accept a summer internship is problematic.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Friday, february 12, 2016

THE VERDICT

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Consider the Candidate This year’s one-ticket race of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) represents progress for the Georgetown University Student Association presidential campaigns.

Perhaps due in part to the hectic and dramatic campaign season of last year, many members who would have run this year consolidated to one ticket. The consolidation presents an opportunity for the most qualified students for the job to work together in the most effective way.

However, we encourage students to take this opportunity to take a closer look at the candidates running.

Khan, who currently stands unopposed to become GUSA president for the 2016-17 school year, recently accepted an offer at Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division in New York City for the upcoming summer. Not only was she offered the position, but the merchant banking division hand-selected and invited her to the section after she had applied for a different one.

Clearly, Goldman Sachs recognizes the same work ethic and leadership abilities in Khan that her large 200-person staff does. However, we believe that Khan will not be able to fulfill her leadership potential if she divides her time over the summer between two time-intensive positions.

While most Georgetown students are preoccupied with internships and summer jobs, the GUSA president and vice president have tremendous responsibilities each summer, working up to 30 to 40 hours a week in their positions — and that’s when both the president and vice president are on campus.

This summer will prove to be especially important for the two candidates, as it will be an essential time for negotiation with the neighbors in finalizing the 2017-2037 Campus Plan, our new contract with the neighborhood for the next 20 years. We worry that the president’s absence for 10 weeks during the summer will disrupt continuity during these negotiations, thus hindering the negotiating process for a plan that could benefit students for years to come.

As a Goldman Sachs intern, Khan will work officially from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday through Friday — although

Goldman Sachs interns are known to work until much later at night. She has proposed to travel to Washington, D.C. every Saturday to attend meetings for the Georgetown Community Partnership, a forum created with the 2010 Campus Plan to engage the neighborhood community in master planning, and any meetings with administrators willing to meet on a Saturday.

Khan said Goldman Sachs has guaranteed that she will not be asked to work Saturdays, which would allow her to take a train to the District in the morning, attend meetings throughout the day and then take a late train home before work Sunday morning.

She said she also plans to video call in on important meetings at night, which she plans to prioritize in her schedule.

According to section 15.01 of the Election Commission policy, the GUSA president is required to remain in D.C. during the summer to act as the undergraduate student representative. The president may be excused from this duty by majority vote of the senate, in which case the president must choose a “suitable substitute.” Khan is currently the speaker of the senate, but we hope that nevertheless, the senate will review her case objectively.

In Khan’s absence, many responsibilities will fall to other cabinet members and new policy chairs who will stay in D.C. As Khan’s running mate, Fisk will assume a large load of responsibility over the summer. We ask that student voters consider not only Khan’s talents and skills, but take particular care to consider those of Fisk and the cabinet, which will be primarily involved in the discussions and planning over the summer.

Try as she may, Khan cannot be in two cities at once. She has referred to her relationship with Fisk as a partnership, and students should consider Fisk’s increased role in master planning negotiations — which affect housing, construction projects and neighborhood relations — when questioning the unopposed candidates during town hall-style debates this semester. Ultimately, it is essential that two executives are here fulfilling the responsibilities that fall on GUSA this summer, no matter who they are.

Powers of Persuasion As a school of future politicians, lawyers and business leaders, Georgetown has a special interest in inculcating strong communication skills in its student body. Powers of persuasion, the ability to express complicated notions orally and the different methods of public communication each have their value both within a college education and in practically every future vocation.

And indeed, the existence of Georgetown’s public speaking department is a testament to just that. But the school can do much more to expand the department and its attraction for students, in order to bolster those vital skills.

Right now, the department receives relatively little university funding, as it is much more dependent on specific donations. Moreover, it has little internal institutional support; only a few classes are offered each year and none are cross-listed with any other departments, a notable deterrent for students who might wish to study the discipline but are struggling to fulfill curricular

requirements.

To strengthen the department and its academic worth for students, the university should devote more resources and money to expanding its offerings based on student interests and potential avenues of the discipline.

One especially popular class taught in the fall is “Courtroom Communication” by professor Arthur Murphy, a course catered to students who want to matriculate to law school. The class is effective and well-liked, and it provides professional value to students.

However, it is the only one of its kind at Georgetown.

To develop the appeal of public speaking classes for students, they could be cross-listed as low-level electives within majors that place importance on oral communication, including “Marketing, Management and Government.”

If Georgetown wishes to grow the appreciation for and skills in public speaking and expression, investments in this department would be a terrific opportunity.

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California Rep. Reps Vape — Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), vaped in a congressional hearing about allowing vapes on airplanes. Despite his valiant efforts, the House voted to keep them off planes.

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Metro Mishap — Metro officials stated that miscommunication between railway employees caused the head-on encounter between two trains last week.

Housing Madness Begins — To the detriment of friendships, the Office of Residential Living has initiated the housing selection process for the coming school year.

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Grace Wydeven (COL ’18) speaks on her perspective of what the “point” is: Like Will, I sometimes find myself frantically asking the question and panicking when I cannot immediately find its definitive answer. What’s the point of going to school?

What’s the point of going out? What’s the point of writing this column?

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We have very little in the means of control. As human beings, we are so small, so flawed, so annoying. We are constantly hurting each other and the environment in which we live. We are alive and then we aren’t. The cycle may be a vicious one, but you certainly couldn’t argue that it’s inconsistent.”

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OPINION

Friday, february 12, 2016

SENSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST

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VIEWPOINT • Coffin

Chicken? Madness.

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Preparing For Syrian Peace Talks W

hen negotiations between Syrian government and opposition representatives designed to establish a rudimentary framework for ending the country’s ongoing civil war began on Feb. 2, hopes were dim that the disparate array of competing parties could stumble upon an agreement in a short period of time. The Geneva conference, experts and attendees alike agreed, was destined to fail.

Such sentiments were confirmed when only two days later, United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura suspended the talks for three weeks, citing delegates’ irreconcilable differences on humanitarian assistance within Syria. Mr. de Mistura deemed the setback a “pause” rather than an abject failure, though the sides’ inability to agree on even basic preconditions reflected the adversities obstructing a fruitful resumption based on the status quo.

If future UN-brokered sessions are to have any possibility of success, fundamental stipulations must be met regarding the actors present at the negotiating table and the behavior of key regional actors. First, Mr. de Mistura must ensure that maximal inclusivity will not be sacrificed for the appeasement of certain participating parties. A necessary step toward achieving this objective is ensuring that the Saudi-supported High Negotiations Committee, a coalition of thirtyfour moderate and radical organizations, continues to serve as the primary representative of Syrian popular movements.

Most controversially, Islamist militant groups must additionally provide input if there are to be legitimate aspirations of altering the present reality on the ground. Particularly, radical Islamic armies Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham, despite maintaining ties with Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and perpetrating atrocities rivaling those of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS, will be integral to formulating a political solution considering their military prowess and popular support. Jaysh al-Islam has already played a prominent role – its leader Mohammed Alloush planned to serve as chief negotiator for the HRC – but Ahrar al-Sham elected to avoid what it considered inherently biased deliberations with the Assad regime.

Apart from the Syrian government, Russia has led opposition to Islamist participation, declaring on Jan. 29 that inviting Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham would be “unacceptable.” However, on Feb. 4, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed a newfound openness to the two groups attending the conference.

If Moscow keeps its word, every effort must be made to bring Ahrar al-Sham to the table, as the exclusion of a powerful militant army could threaten the legitimacy and efficacy of any future negotiated settlement.

The final party whose presence must be mandated at the next round of talks is the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known in Kurdish as Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat‎a, a nationalist front with ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party, referred to as the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê in Kurdish‎, which Turkey, the United States and others have designated a terrorist organization. Turkey has categorically rejected PYD participation, while Russia, amid an ongoing diplomatic spat with Ankara, has advocated allowing the Kurds a seat at the table.

The Turkish insistence on excluding the Kurds is understandable considering the PKK’s history of violence and present territorial ambitions. Nevertheless, the PYD’s value as a partner in Syria necessitates their inclusion. Not only has PYD leader Saleh Muslim offered Kurdish territory as a training ground for the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, but he has also advocated establishing a democratic, decentralized Syria rather than an independent Kurdistan.

Convincing Ankara to accept PYD involvement will be a daunting diplomatic undertaking. To accomplish this goal, the U.S. must secure PYD guarantees to refrain from political and military collaboration with the PKK against Turkey, undertake a more pronounced effort against Syrian government forces, firmly oppose a future independent Kurdish enclave and distance itself from Moscow, with which its leadership has grown closer as of late. While Turkey will remain reluctant to invite PYD leadership to future negotiations, the potential benefits of adding a stable, moderate, and militarily viable regional partner could, if framed correctly, outweigh temporary Turkish frustration.

The final and perhaps most elusive condition for the continuation of dialogue entails a change in Russian conduct. As the conference began, HNC representatives demanded that Moscow halt its acceleration of “indiscriminate bombings,” including alleged attacks on hospitals and other civilian areas in Aleppo. The Russian objective, it appears, is either to improve the Syrian army’s strategic posturing before any ceasefire takes hold or, as some experts conjecture, decisively shift the balance of the war in the government’s favor, thus “bombing the talks” into irrelevance.

If Russia is merely attempting to bolster Syrian advances prior to implementation of a ceasefire, international pressure, including that from Iran, which has expressed readiness for a halt in fighting, could coerce Moscow to suspend the campaign. However, if the Russian airstrikes are intended to scuttle hopes for a diplomatic solution entirely, little short of foreign military intervention would be able to stem the atrocities and mitigate the existential threat posted to Syrian rebel forces.

Russia’s ability to dictate the outcome of the Syrian conflict and violate human rights on a massive scale is incontrovertibly unacceptable, from a legal, moral and political viewpoint. Yet unless the United States is willing to risk military confrontation with its former Cold War adversary, it can only seek to unite the Syrian opposition so that if the Russian offensive does abate, a negotiated path to a peaceful solution in Syria will remain a feasible possibility.

Matt Gregory is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Sense of the Middle East appears every other Friday.

hicken Madness has always been the student body’s favorite dark-horse candidate for all Georgetown University Student Association elections. It represents students’ apathy for campus politics and what they see as banal student elections between candidates with exceptionally similar platforms. Usually, these light-hearted votes are disregarded because they do not have the critical mass to achieve any real results and have not represented anything more than election mockery, until now.

This year’s GUSA presidential election is different from past races.

Why? Students can only vote for one ticket. Compared with last year’s election cycle in which students had no fewer than six different tickets to choose from, this election seems decidedly uncompetitive — and undemocratic. Without multiple tickets, Georgetown students are not able to exercise their ability to choose who represents them in dealings with university affairs. Not to mention that a lack of competition creates an atmosphere in which candidates do not need to prove that they are fit for the job or that the issues they are concerned with or the solutions they propose reflect those of the student body.

Georgetown is a university that breeds competition and ambition and while last year’s winning ticket demonstrated that most students think GUSA is a joke, it is not, especially considering the expedited 2017 Campus Plan negotiations.

Candidates for the GUSA executive office must be vetted by students, thoroughly, to ensure that they can fight for student’s rights in some of

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Thus, a vote for Hot Chick and Chicken Madness represents a rejection of a one-party election. these negotiations. If a ticket is not tested by a tedious and emotionally trying campaign season, how can the student body be sure that the GUSA heads will sufficiently protect student life against the onslaught of dominant neighbors and their

VIEWPOINT • Birnberg

Finding Home In Leo’s Home Line

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he ritual is the same with them and get right to the each morning. I take food. What’s nice about the pathe puffiest plain bagel trol is that it allows me to catch in the rack and plop it in the up with those Georgetown toaster on setting 7. Next, I friends I don’t get to talk to on get exactly three scoops of a daily basis. Leo’s enables me scrambled eggs, making sure to always keep in touch with they evenly cover half of my my friends, both new and old. plate. I turn to the condiThen there’s the solo misment station and splash on sion. Sometimes I’ll walk into buffalo sauce. Then I retrieve Leo’s exhausted and in need my bagel and place it next to of refueling. I could be endurthe eggs. Now the important ing writer’s block on an essay, step: I hollow out my bagel stressing over an upcoming and place the eggs in. It’s exam or just need time for an old trick I learned from myself. Whatever it is I’m facmy grandmother. By creat- ing, Leo’s gives me a safe ening space inside the bagel, I vironment where I can clear ensure that my head and reI can eat my lax. I usually go bagel openstraight to the faced with- I don’t see Leo’s as a soda fountain out the eggs and pour myself falling out. dining hall; I see Leo’s some Birnberg Simple yet Surprise: a delias Georgetown’s brilliant. And cious, energizing that’s how I mix of 80% Diet social hub. start my day.

Coke and 20% It’s imporCoke Cherry. tant for me to Then I’ll venture have a routine. Just like any to the windows of the lower Georgetown student, I face floor and grab myself a table. I a variety of challenging, di- pop open my laptop, read the verse tasks on top of the usu- day’s news and sip my tasty al academic stressors. Club concoction. At that moment, I applications, job searches, know all is right in the world. finding the right movie on I’m no stranger to the critiNetflix; it feels like the stress cism that Leo’s faces from the never ends. Fortunately, Leo’s average student. Their eggs are gives me both the nutrition soggy, the pasta line drags on and environment to face the forever, and they frequently day’s challenges. Every time run out of forks. But when I I swipe into Leo’s, I am filled think of Leo’s, I fondly recall with a sense of relief because those Friday night dinners I know I have arrived at my with my freshman floor when safe space. it seemed like anything was I don’t see Leo’s as merely possible in the night ahead. I a dining hall; I see Leo’s as remember Team Tuesdays with Georgetown’s social hub. my ESCAPE family when we When I go to Leo’s, I’m usu- would munch tacos, compete ally conducting one of three at trivia, ask “How are you?” missions: the deliberate and mean it. I think back to meet-up, the patrol or the the many times I’ve needed a solo mission. All three are im- friend at Georgetown, knowing mensely valuable to both my I could simply text out “Leo’s?” mental and social health. and find one. I am grateful The doctrinal definition Leo’s makes connecting with of the deliberate Leo’s meet- friends so casual, so easy. up is: “a meal you plan to eat My Georgetown experience with someone before swiping would not be complete within.” This can include anything out my Leo’s. from texting a friend to grab On my first day of NSO, lunch to organizing a weekly my Orientation Advisor told club dinner at Leo’s. When I am me Georgetown would beexecuting the deliberate meet- come my home away from up, I’m going in with a plan. I home. But throughout the know who I’m eating with and day I couldn’t escape the feelenter its vaulted second floor ing that I was a traveler in a dining concourse with a sense strange land. I thought I’d of purpose. Organizational never belong. However, two meetings, group projects, even days later I walked into Leo’s dates. I’ve had them all at Leo’s. for the first time. Step by step On the other hand, the patrol I assembled my inaugural describes those meals where I buffalo egg sandwich. Little find a friend in Leo’s. After get- did I know that over the next ting my daily pasta bowl (chick- five semesters, this castle of en, white pasta, both sauces, subpar pizza, totalitarian tomato, mushrooms—I know wok cooks and surprisingly my pasta order better than my addictive cookies would besocial security number), I’ll come my new home. scout the Leo’s crowd for familiar faces. Once I choose my un- Jonah Birnberg is a junior in suspecting victim, I’ll sit down the College.

restrictions on campus life? With that in mind, students deserve multiple candidates to choose from who they think will best represent undergraduate interests and values when approaching the administration and the Georgetown neighbor-

hood to improve student life and the Georgetown experience. Currently, students are without a choice. Hot Chick and Chicken Madness represent the restoration of student choice and power through GUSA. With only one ticket on the ballot, the choice of who represents us should become a simple yes or no decision regarding whether we, as informed students, are content with an uncontested election. Thus, a vote for Hot Chick and Chicken Madness represents a rejection of a one-party election, rather than the literal election of Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli sandwiches to the head of student government. That being said, I call on GUSA to honor and tally the votes cast for Hot Chick and Chicken Madness and re-do the election should the sandwiches win. I have my doubts that there are not more people who are interested in running and students deserve to have the choice of picking between them.

Part of what has made Chicken Madness a fun write-in candidate in the past is the perception that GUSA is a sham in which fewer people run than there are seats available. In cases such as these, GUSA faces an issue of perceived illegitimacy. GUSA paradoxically may face an even greater perception of illegitimacy if the president and vice president were to win in an uncontested election than if a Wisey’s sandwich were to win. That is why I am writing in Hot Chick and Chicken Madness for GUSA president and vice president and you should too.

Philip Coffin is a senior in the College.

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Though he tackled a lot Daniel Breland is a junior in of topics in his rant, which the McDonough School of spanned over 20 tweets di- Business.

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When Alex Bobroske (SFS ’17) arrived on the Hilltop in the fall of 2013, the Georgetown University Student Association was not on his radar. He did not run for senate, join any committees or throw himself into campus activism.

Now — a little under 21/2 later — Bobroske manages what many believe to be the largest GUSA campaign in Georgetown history.

There are more than 200 active supporters, a massive core leadership team and audacious goals for restructuring GUSA itself.

As the only other ticket has dropped out of the race and the Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) ticket starts to take on a feeling of inevitability, a look at Bobroske and his fellow staffers reveals just how different this campaign is from the traditional GUSA model.

Bobroske worked on his first GUSA campaign the second semester of his freshman year, helping to do field work in freshman dorms. In the meantime, he joined the Georgetown Gospel Choir, wrote for the Georgetown College Republicans’ online publication, The Right Way, and got involved with the Step Team.

Eventually, then-GUSA senate Vice President Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) asked Bobroske to help with the senate’s redistricting in spring of 2015, hoping his leadership on other campus clubs would translate well to a role in GUSA. It was in his new role with the senate that Bobroske met Khan and the two formed a tight bond.

“We default became friends because Abbey McNaughton paired us together in this forced marriage,” Bobroske joked.

In the fall of this year, Enushe and Chris began to seriously consider a run for GUSA executives. They quickly reached out to Bobroske.

“They brought me in basically right away when they were having these discussions, and they told me if they did run, they’d want me to be their campaign manager,” Bobroske said.

In terms of GUSA campaigns, the KhanFisk ticket took what Bobroske considered a late start, which allowed the campaign’s current members to solidify their other roles and responsibilities on campus.

“We really started to reach out and get staff in December, which is a huge shift from previous years,” Bobroske said. “It just doesn’t make sense to focus on running a campaign instead of your commitments to your organizations for the fall.”

The Khan-Fisk campaign team credits much of their early outreach successes, particularly among freshmen, to their mentorship program. Every freshman that joined the campaign has been paired to an upperclassman with experience in a particular policy issue that interests them.

Co-director of Outreach Sam Granville (COL ’17) said she hopes the policy will increase student involvement both in the campaign and in GUSA itself after the elec-

tion.

“It really encourages freshmen to get involved, because you don’t want to wait until junior year and then have a whole turnover of people in GUSA with the new administration. It’s better to build those relationships from the start,” Granville said.

The mentorship program correlates with the campaign’s larger theme of sustained involvement. With no officially competing tickets, the Khan-Fisk campaign hopes to raise student awareness about key policy issues, such as the planned restructuring of GUSA. By getting students interested and involved, Bobroske and the rest of the campaign team hope to springboard campaign excitement into real enthusiasm and interest in GUSA. Co-field Director Thomas Massad (COL ’17) pointed out that many students’ interest in GUSA fades as the election season transitions into regular GUSA activity.

“One thing that happens with GUSA is we hear about it for a couple of weeks during the year and people generally just lose interest or don’t maintain that sort of passion for these topics,” Massad said.

The staff of the Khan-Fisk ticket sometimes refers to their group as a “team of rivals.” The expansive campaign infrastructure for the Khan-Fisk ticket springs from a conscious effort to consolidate campus leaders from different backgrounds and perspectives.

Three different 2015 campaigns are represented in the Khan-Fisk staff, a veritable coalition considering the six-ticket variety of last year’s race.

Bobroske said he believes the willingness of many campus leaders to recognize the benefits of a unified front in generating reform has helped strengthen the Khan-Fisk team and kept opposition to a minimum.

“So far we see this approach of collaboration rather than intense and toxic competition is much better for GUSA and for the campaign,” Bobroske said.

In addition to bringing on staffers from all parts of campus, Khan-Fisk reached out to dozens of field-level student volunteers in December and January. Bobroske estimates the total number of students involved in the campaign to be upwards of 200. When the campaign kicked off at midnight last Friday morning, more than 50 volunteers were on hand to help place a banner in Red Square.

Even Khan and Fisk’s biggest advocates on their own staff have been pleasantly surprised by the massive mobilization.

“I’m pretty stunned that we have success to the amount that we have a 200 hundred-person staff, that was never in my mindset, but we’re pretty excited that this many people are excited,” Bobroske said.

The top staffers on the Khan-Fisk ticket have high hopes for the future of the GUSA executive leaders next year, but for now they remain concentrated on next Thursday’s election. As for the potential for continued roles in GUSA for the KhanFisk staff next year, most remain up in the air.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Massad said.

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The GUSA campaign ticket of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) is supported by a campaign staff of more than 200 active supporters.

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Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), Georgetown University Student Association senate speaker and unopposed candidate for GUSA president, will not be on campus this summer if she and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) are elected, as she will be completing a 10-week internship at Goldman Sachs in New York.

The GUSA president and vice president typically stay on campus during the summer to meet with administrators and neighborhood residents about various projects. This summer, the university and neighborhood will engage in negotiations related to the ratification of the 2017-2037 Campus Plan, a 20-year contract between the university and the neighborhood that will dictate future construction projects and neighborhood relations.

According to Khan, Fisk and a seven-person staff would remain on campus to do the work required for GUSA. “I’ve been getting a firm idea of what would be happening during those 10 weeks and really it’s attending those meetings, meeting those administrators and having that face contact,” Khan said. “Chris will be here all summer. This will be what he will be doing, and he will be working on those issues that need to be advanced, and there are specific policy or issue areas that he himself would like to really initiate.”

Khan said she plans to travel to Washington, D.C., every Saturday, and participate in an hour-long Skype call with Fisk and Alex Bobroske (COL ’17), their campaign manager, every night during the week.

“I have committed myself to at least an hour Skype session each night, whether that be 2 a.m., whether that be 4 a.m., Chris and Alex are both willing to work with me around my schedule on that … It’s just a matter of making sure we are on the same page and touching base,” Khan said.

Khan said she will attend the monthly Georgetown Community Partnership meeting required for campus planning, and will seek to arrange meetings with administrators and her staff for Saturdays.

However, according to current GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16), administrators are often un-

available to meet on weekends.

According to Luther, even with a plan in place, the workload will be difficult for Khan to balance.

“While Healy will not burn down if the President is not in D.C., it is a suboptimal situation. From what I understand of finance internships, it will be extremely difficult for a student to juggle both responsibilities,” Luther wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Considering the long hours and attention required by an internship at Goldman Sachs, the student body will be losing its central advocate and will leave administrators and neighbors unsure of who to call. It is important that the president be on top of issues and critical they be able to respond to matters as they inevitably pop up.”

GUSA Vice President Connor Rohan said the Khan-Fisk campaign should put forth two candidates who will be on campus for the summer.

“GUSA’s reputation has for a long time been marred by those who think it is ineffective and filled only with those who seek titles; this situation does not help the matter,” Rohan wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “I urge their ticket to put forth two candidates who will be on Georgetown’s campus for the summer.”

Khan said Goldman Sachs is aware of her responsibilities at Georgetown, and the company has guaranteed that her Saturdays will be free for GUSA-related duties.

“The thing is, I know what I am getting myself into, so I have some flexibility,” Khan said. “I have two obligations, I just have to make both work, and they are going to have to be understanding of that.”

Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), the former GUSA president in 2014, said Khan and Fisk should be able to advocate on behalf of students over the summer effectively with adaptation.

“I think Enushe will be the first to say to you that it would be more ideal to have the president on campus, but at the same time I think anything is possible,” Tezel said. “It will and would require many more hours and quite a lot of work on her behalf and on Chris’ behalf in order to do it effectively, so that what is lost in not having the president on campus doesn’t affect GUSA.”

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of the events will encourage dialogue among fellow students.

Special to The Hoya “Even though Black History specifiIn commemoration of Black History cally celebrates black history, for me, Month, the Students of Color Alliance being a student of color, it is great to be and the Georgetown chapter of the Na- surrounded by so many great students tional Association for the Advancement that promote these events and talk about of Colored People are holding events to issues on campus,” Salazar said.

Uribe said that while these events hold raise awareness of current race issues.

The events, which include film screen- great significance in creating awareness ings, panel discussions and conferences, for black history, minorities’ struggles cover topics from diversity to racial in- on campus are not common knowledge justice. One of these conferences is the at Georgetown.

“I don’t feel like there is enough educathird annual Diversity and Dialogue Conference on Feb. 18, sponsored by tion to the outside community about the the McDonough School of Business and struggles of students of color and we are Georgetown Aspiring Minority Business talking about other stuff like racial injustice, but what do we do Leaders and Entrepreabout the people that neurs. This year’s conare generally apathetic ference hopes to raise to all of this?” Uribe awareness of the prosaid. fessional challenges While specific events faced by minorities, as will honor aspects and well as discuss the imcharacteristics of Black portance of diversity in History Month, many the workplace. individuals are also Georgetown NAACP hoping that this month member Juliette will see continued diaBrowne (COL ’18) emlogue with regards to phasized the importhe university’s own tance of drawing atBIANCA URIBE (COL ’18) initiatives to address tention to the month’s Students of Color Association racial injustices, inevents, and expressed Co-President cluding the renaming hope that the community could join in the celebration and ap- of former Mulledy and McSherry Halls at the end of 2015. preciate its significance.

Daviree Velázquez, the assistant direc“[Black History Month is a] time to celebrate the accomplishments of all the tor of diversity programs at the Center for black community, uplift the black com- Multicultural Equity and Access, worked munity and also inform others of what with the working group to help change we’ve done and what we are trying to the names of the halls. She noted the importance of the community’s continuing do,” Browne said.

Students of Color Association Co-Pres- to be actively involved in the discussion.

“I am grateful for the work both the ident Bianca Uribe (COL ’18) said the month should be a time for individuals students have done and the work the to reflect on their involvement in the working group has done to change these names and provide interim names. I black community.

“Black History Month is a time of re- am really excited for everyone who has flection and a time of action,” Uribe said. submitted new ideas and am still look“Reflect on all of the great things that ing forward to people submitting more happen in our society because of the ef- ideas for that,” Velázquez said.

Students involved in the events durforts of the black community especially in this country and also thinking about ing Black History Month also highlighted the importance of the new creation how we can make things better.”

One of the first planned events is “Out- of an African American studies major. spoken,” a series of spoken word poetry, Browne expressed her own gratitude singing and other art forms by students and support for the new initiative.

“It is definitely a step in the right dithat address issues of race. Another event, titled “Malcolm X and Feminism,” is rection considering Georgetown has a planned for Feb. 22 and will focus on the long history of kind of keeping this in intersection of the preaching of civil rights the background. For them to not only recognize it but show that there needs activist Malcolm X and feminist ideas.

Xiomara Salazar (SFS ’18), a student to be a change is something we can apinterested in the events, emphasized the plaud,” said Browne. “I think [Africanimportance of Black History Month in American studies] is great. It took way creating a dialogue on campus in which too long for it to happen, but Georgestudents and organizations are free to town is definitely making steps in the discuss various issues. She said many right direction.”

“I don’t feel like there is enough education to the outside community about the struggles of students of color.”

As part of Jesuit Heritage Week, Jesuits and the Georgetown University Latin American Student Association co-sponsored a discussion highlighting the broad impact of Jesuit service in Latin America in McShain Lounge on Thursday.

The talk was led by panelists Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., Fr. John Montoya, S.J., Austin Rose (COL ’18) and Jessica Andino (COL ’18), who each spoke on the specifics and personal impact of service they undertook in Latin America.

Jesuit Heritage Week is a week dedicated to exploring and celebrating Georgetown’s Jesuit history and traditions. Following a Latin American-themed meal that preceded the event, Carnes opened with a speech describing his own experience serving in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch devastated the country in October 1998.

He described the variety of educational services that Jesuits provide throughout Latin America, including Fe y Alegría, a primary and secondary program run in poor communities; Guatemalan Radio Education Institute, a school teaching through radios; and Infocap, a university specifically for rural workers. “[The programs have] been trying to open their doors more and more to a much broader population to be able to make sure that they can provide educational access that wasn’t part of Latin America traditionally.

That’s where they’re trying to be transformative,” Carnes said.

Following Carnes’ address, Montoya spoke specifically on the education and human rights frontiers engaged through Jesuit work in Colombia. He praised Fe y Alegría, whose motto is “Educational communities where the pavement ends,” as a crucial program for the rural poor. The Jesuits run 20 of the 21 Fe y Alegría schools in Colombia.

“We’d like to transform the society of Colombia through education,” Montoya said.

Rose and Andino gave a joint address about their experiences on the Kino Border Immersion, an Alternative Breaks Program and a Magis trip, a partnership between the Cen-

ter for Social Justice and Campus Ministry.

The trip’s participants partnered with the Kino Border Initiative, a Jesuit refugee service dedicated to protecting the rights of forcibly displaced persons and the promotion of respectful treatment for asylum seekers.

Andino said she was motivated to go on the immersion trip by her mother’s own experience crossing the border from Mexico into the United States in the 1990s.

“My ultimate goal is trying to find methods to make sure people like migrants are treated with dignity and respect,” Andino said. “We need to make the immigration system a more humane one.”

“What I hope inside of me is that all the people I have lived and worked with keep speaking through me in some way and I keep telling their story.”

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During their trip, Rose and Andino, along with their whole group, served with Jesuits and nuns in a soup kitchen and women’s shelter, both located near the U.S.-Mexico border, in order to best cater to individuals recently deported.

After an audience member addressed the element of “voluntourism,” a term used to define service trips that do little to help those on the receiving end and can even be damaging, Rose explained that he grappled with this concept during the experience, especially when his group visited a detention center.

“There are times when it feels like you are doing nothing, and are just a privileged person who happens to be walking around, just seeing what’s up,” Rose said. “But I

would say there are plenty of opportunities for very authentic service, it just requires a little bit more.”

Carnes later addressed the idea of true service. He said that by spending time accompanying a particular community in its struggles, he feels he can fulfill his mission as an activist by spreading the story.

“What I hope inside of me is that all the people I have lived and worked with keep speaking through me in some way and I keep telling their story,” Carnes said. “And if I do that, it keeps me in a kind of solidarity with them.”

Carnes said that many Jesuits working in Latin America who speak out against injustices receive threats from people attempting to silence them. He commented on the bravery of these Jesuits as they continue their service and persevere with their cause despite obstacles.

“I wonder how often we get slightly complacent here, like we see something that we know is pretty unjust, but we choose not to make a scene,” Carnes said. “They’re a little bit more willing to make a scene.”

Manuel Knight, who audits classes at Georgetown and has visited 30 different Latin American countries through his work as a tourism economist, said he found the talk engaging and relatable to his own experiences interacting with Jesuits in Uruguay.

“In the more rural areas, such as the [Catholic University] in Uruguay, [Jesuits] do lots of work with rural farmers in terms of things like cattle production. In fact, they’re very proud that at our university in Argentina, there is a breed of cattle that is named after the university because of [their help],” Knight said.

Anne Ewing (COL ’16), a cocoordinator of Jesuit Heritage Week, said the most striking part of the talks was the main theme of “going to the margins,” something she views as very unique to the Jesuit service tradition.

“I thought it was interesting they look for that and they seek that out,” Ewing said. “Whenever you go to somewhere that’s the most remote and has the least amount of help, that’s where you’ll find the Jesuits.”

Obama PresentsYouth Employment Plan Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

President Barack Obama allocated nearly $5.5 billion in his recently proposed fiscal year 2017 budget to help more than one million young people gain crucial work experience in order to obtain their first job.

Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget will focus, in part, on creating grants and apprenticeship programs in order to help people between the ages of 16 and 25 gain work experience via an internship or summer job, aiming to boost the global competitiveness of the American economy and provide access to stable jobs for a larger portion of the workforce.

The Office of the White House Press Secretary pointed to the difficulty of entering the workforce for youths as the driving force behind the initiative in a press release Feb. 4.

“For too many young people, getting a first job — a crucial step in starting their career — is challenging,” the press release said. “Once a young person gets their first job, it is much easier to get the next one.”

According to the World Bank and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percent of unemployed youth in the United States has decreased from 17.4 percent in 2011 to 12.2 percent in June 2015. Unemployed youth is defined as those people ages 15 to 24 who are without work but available and seeking employment.

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Director Anthony Carnevale expressed appreciation for the president’s job initiatives. However, Carnevale predicted the budget will not be implemented: Thus far, the Republican-led Congress has not asked any representatives from Obama’s administration to speak to them about the budget.

“It’s dead on arrival. Neither the House nor Senate committees are going to invite the Obama administration to come up to the Hill and talk about their budget,” Carnevale said. “They basically took it and threw it in the trash.”

Carnevale noted that Obama’s proposal still holds meaning, defining the Democratic Party’s platform on issues affecting young people. According to Carnevale, Obama’s using his role to set the tone of this conversation is especially important in an election year.

“It expresses an agenda for the Democratic Party and state-of-the-art thinking on that side of the aisle,” Carnevale said.

“He wants to connect education and training to jobs. It is probably the most directly job-related budget he’s produced.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Labor explained in an interview with The

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President Barack Obama initiated a $5.5 billion plan to facilitate the employment of over one million youth by creating appre nticeship and internship programs last week.

Hoya that the budget’s $5.5 billion allocation is focused on helping young people receive work experience and increase their ability to break into and succeed in a chosen career field.

“The president’s been a strong endorser of people going to college,” the DOL spokesperson said. “Once they come out, students should have a job that pays off so that they could seek opportunities but also punch their ticket to the middle class.”

The DOL also promoted the initiative as a key to the continued global competitiveness of the American economy.

“There’s a big appetite in the market for highly skilled young people to enter the workforce,” the DOL spokesperson said. “Especially as there are more people that retire, we need a constant influx of young talent to fill the jobs in the future.”

Specifically, Obama is proposing $3 billion in funding for “talent hotspots,” which would group together employers to train new members of the workforce to be competitive. In addition, Obama has suggested spending $1.5 billion to fund “career navigators,” who would reach out to unemployed or underemployed people and help them begin a new career path.

Carnevale also noted Obama’s budget is starting a process that would fund programs to help match college students and others with jobs in which they can excel.

This would allow students to see what employment awaits them if they choose a particular major or career path, which he believes would provide value.

According to Cawley Career Center Director Mike Schaub, approximately 90 percent of Georgetown seniors from the class of 2015 held at least one internship by graduation, making the impact of the budget on Georgetown unclear, as the university provides career and internship match services through the career center.

Carnevale said despite the focus on connecting young people with their first jobs, the president’s main priority should still be to help all people, young or old, in finding work. According to Carnevale, young people receiving their first job make up only a small part of newly hired employees.

“I think connecting people in general to jobs is important,” Carnevale said.

“The hiring of young people into their first job is a very small part of the hiring every year that’s done in the U.S.”

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Khan said she originally did not plan on getting involved in student government in college, but that her experiences at Georgetown forced her to find ways to get involved.

“And obviously I come here and I see issues with dining, I see issues with residential living.

When you’re a freshman and when you’re with other freshmen, all freshmen seem to talk about is how Leo’s sucks,” Khan said. “I’m not someone who likes to complain. I like being able to do something when I see something wrong. I like finding solutions; I can’t sit still.”

GUSA Secretary for Campus Planning and Khan-Fisk CoDirector of Policy Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said Khan and Fisk’s contrasts are what make them a strong team.

“Chris’ best skill in his many skills is in dealing with people.

Enushe’s best skill in her many skills is in dealing with policy and thoughtful strategic planning,” Goldstein said. “So as speaker of the senate, she has been able to facilitate sometimes contentious conversations and to direct people and make sure they get their work done.”

GUSA Chief of Staff Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) said Khan and Fisk together have a depth of policy knowledge.

“I think they’re a very strong combination of Enushe bringing this policy background, work experience in the senate and Chris bringing work within the executive, but they also both come from different parts of

campus,” McNaughton said. “I know Chris is focused a lot on socio-economic issues. Enushe’s been involved in the arts, dining, campus planning, those things. I definitely trust that they have a good breadth of issue areas covered.”

Fisk said both he and Khan were initially apprehensive about running for the executive, but an off-the-cuff conversation brought the topic to the forefront.

“We came to the decision like well if you want to do it together we’ll do it, but if not, it’s okay,” Fisk said. “We knew we complemented each other very well. We had the same vision and kind of both saw the same problems in GUSA, and we said ‘Okay, we’ll do it if we do it together.’”

Khan said both she and Fisk identified GUSA’s exclusivity as being a problem on which GUSA needed to improve.

“GUSA in general needs to be more inclusive, and that was a big thing for Chris, and we just noticed that we had the same overarching ideas,” Khan said.

Inclusivity is a critical aspect of the Khan-Fisk ticket, from campaign organization to policy development. Khan said they developed policy with a bottomup approach with the help of experienced students.

“We really had to think big,” Khan said. “We had to think what are the issue areas we want to address. Who are people who are very involved in those issue areas already? And then beyond that, it was getting the teams together.”

Fisk noted that this will be a change from previous campaigns, which have typically

had one or two people develop each strand of the platform.

Inclusivity is a key aspect of the Khan-Fisk platform and toits slogan, “Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges,” particularly as it relates to GUSA’s interactions with student groups.

“There are very few select groups that GUSA has traditionally catered to, and that has kind of been the status quo as long as we’ve been here. So that’s the need to break the barriers,” Khan said.

Khan said the second component of the slogan, “Building Bridges,” is focused on empowering students. According to Khan, GUSA’s current structure of an executive and senate operating separately has made it challenging for students to get involved.

“What that means is that you have multiple students here on campus who care but have no means to get involved or to voice their concerns or to feel empowered,” Khan said. “They’re just sort of left out in the dark and they have nothing that they can do about it, and on top of that they don’t know what’s actually happening because they don’t see GUSA as a resource.”

Khan said this vision for inclusiveness is what gave her and Fisk the motivation to run.

“This was a matter of, ‘okay this is a big step, we’re going to do this if it’s the right vision and the right team and the right kind of intentions,’” Khan said.

“And that’s sort of what made me think let’s do it, we’re going to run, together.”

An in-depth article about the Khan-Fisk platform will be published in the coming days as an online exclusive.

Adjunct Professor Resigns UNION, from A1 adjunct professor for 13 years, said he was unwilling to pay the union’s agency fees following a negative experience three years ago, in which union representatives directly approached him to assist in the unionization process.

“I was stalked by union representatives after class Monday evening, and expressed I wasn’t interested in chatting, not that I was anti-union. They started to walk with me to my car saying they were going in the same direction,” Devost said. “They would make statements like ‘You must not be a good person if you are not interested in the plight of your fellow adjuncts,’ and at that point, in my mind, I said this was an organization I was never going to participate in.”

University officials were contacted but did not provide comment on Devost’s situation.

In December 2015, Devost received mail from the SEIU Local 500 incorrectly stating that he was an employee at GWU. The forms also stated he was out of compliance with the union’s collective bargaining agreement, since he had not paid his agency fees.

“It said, basically, ‘You are not eligible to teach at Georgetown.

You either join the union or pay the agency fee,’” Devost said. “I knew there was a union forming at Georgetown as I had been approached years ago. But I didn’t realize there was an agreement between the university and the union that was a forced-agency agreement.”

According to the collective bargaining agreement’s Article 3, adjunct faculty may receive exemption from paying agency fees to the union if conflicts of interest are raised. Instead, these faculty members could pay a similar amount to a charitable organization. According to Devost, he attempted to secure exemption status based on ideological grounds, which was rejected by the union.

“Talking with the university leadership, it seemed the union might be more reasonable, just as a one-time exception to finish the semester,” Devost said. “Then, on Feb. 2, I just received this response [from the union] that said ‘No, it’s not possible. Right now, you are out of compliance.’”

After the incident, Devost reached out to Bala Kundaryawasam, chair of the computer science department and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Maria Donoghue to solicit support and advice from the university. Both Kundaryawasam and Donoghue declined to comment for this story.

According to SEIU Local 500 Director of Research and Strategic Planning Anne McLeer, who declined to comment specifically on Devost’s situation, the agreement’s language does not accommodate those who seek exemption through an ideologi-

cal basis.

“Ideological objections are not considered to be a conflict of interest under the document’s language or a religious objection under the labor law. It’s outside of the limits,” McLeer said.

As the second semester approached, Devost said he worried for the welfare of the students enrolled in his class.

“I started to realize there was not going to be a future for me at Georgetown, but there should be some bridge period, a transition period to ensure the students are not the ones impacted by this,” Devost said.

With his requests continuously denied, Devost decided to resign from his post as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and explained his situation to students during his final class on Feb. 8.

“I think the university was very good about being responsive to my requests and my concerns,” Devost said. “Even if the university would like nothing more than to accommodate the students for a bridge semester and make sure this goes smoothly, they are bound by the agreement they have signed and everything was deferred to the union.”

“It’s a loss for the professor, it’s a loss for the students, and for the academic community.”

Ashton garriot (SFS ‘15) Former Student in Devost’s Class

Devost said his situation is continuing a conversation on the importance of the union’s relationship with faculty and the value to the community as a whole.

“Would I come back if I could teach without participating in the union or having the forced agency issue? Absolutely,” Devost said. “I loved teaching, I loved what I’ve been able to accomplish with the class and teaching the students.”

During his time at Georgetown, Devost taught “Information Warfare,” his only class, and was renowned in the security field as an expert and entrepreneur. During his class, he often brought in experts to help educate students on the current state of cybersecurity and technology.

Following Devost’s announcement, students from the class expressed frustration over the unexpected circumstances.

Some students said they had been waiting at least two years to take Devost’s course, while others said they needed the course to fulfill either major or

minor requirements.

Ivan Robinson (SFS ’16), who waited three semesters to take the course with Devost, said he was disappointed with the university’s lack of communication with students regarding Devost’s situation.

“It’s the second week of February, and we are just now finding out that we are not going to be able to take this class [with Devost]. And it’s going to work out — we are going to graduate, but just the lack of communication in any stage of the process is pretty surprising to me,” Robinson said.

Alec Harbinson (COL ’16), a student in the course, said he appreciated the speed at which the university solved the issue, but noted that Devost’s situation was never mentioned during the enrollment process.

“I was relieved to hear another professor would be taking over the course, which is fine since people are trying to finish this class, but obviously it’s not what we signed up for,” Harbinson said.

Burger said he wished to express the challenges present in Georgetown’s recently established relationship with the union.

“The relationship with the union is new for Georgetown and I’m sure there is going to be growing pains for the union, growing pains for the adjunct and part-time faculty covered by the union, and growing pains for the university as we navigate what can and can’t be done,” Burger said.

Since he resigned, Devost’s situation with the union continues to invoke reaction from other faculty members.

McCourt School of Public Policy adjunct professor Neal Pollard (LAW ’03), who voted against the SEIU Local 500-university agreement in 2014, said he never received any notice for being out of compliance with the agreement, even though he has not paid any union dues, agency fees or received any exemption status. As of press time, he has received no consequences.

Pollard said he believes the future of adjunct faculty at Georgetown can still be strong even without forcing members, willing or unwilling, to pay any fees to the union.

“I think the adjunct faculty can have a place at Georgetown without being a part of a union because they did just fine until the union showed up, that’s what it comes down to,” Pollard said.

Ashton Garriott (SFS ’15), who was a student in Devost’s class, praised Devost’s impact on students.

“This seems like a lose-lose situation,” Garriott said. “It’s a loss for the professor, it’s a loss for the students, and for the academic community as a whole at Georgetown to be losing such a figure is quite sad.”

Prison Reform Initiative PRISON, from A1 school acquaintance Marty Tankleff was wrongfully convicted of murdering his parents, and was subsequently sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. During Tankleff’s time in prison, Howard visited him and worked to overturn his wrongful conviction. They were eventually successful in the effort and all charges against Tankleff were dropped in 2008.

Along with teaching the course “Prison Reform Project” at Georgetown, Howard has taught at the maximum-security Jessup Correctional Institution in Jessup, Md. for two years. This experience at Jessup has played a large role in driving Howard to lead this new initiative.

“It’s made me think about what our country’s priorities are. Is it worth keeping someone in prison indefinitely when they actually have a lot of potential?” Howard said during the event.

Howard felt the timing was ideal to pitch the idea to Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, who embraced the initiative.

“The political climate in this country has been changing, where prison reform is maybe the only issue that Republican and Democrats agree upon ... There’s a real opening for reform,” Howard said.

During the course of the discussion, Howard outlined three long-term goals for the new initiative. He said that he hopes the initiative will serve as an academic center to present scholarly research related to incarceration and prison reform while also encouraging greater involvement within the Georgetown community through different working groups, events and projects.

He added that he hopes the initiative will foster a greater connection between Georgetown and the rest of Washington, D.C. Howard believes the initiative’s influence will be able to extend far beyond Georgetown’s walls and argued for the need of communication and networking with similar organizations dedicated to the issue.

“We don’t want just to be the campus on a hilltop that’s isolated from the town we live in,” Howard said.

Howard said that although the initiative is unable to support outside organizations financially, it can provide structural resources like facilities for meetings and events.

Howard anticipates that the initiative will gain popularity and host interesting events throughout the semester. On March 22, the initiative will hold “The Truth about False Confessions” panel that includes Tankleff and Raymond Santana, a wrongfully convicted member of the Central Park Five case, a case where individuals suffered from wrongful convictions of sexual assault, robbery, riot and attempted murder. During the upcoming event, panelists will delve into the psychology of false confessions.

Howard hopes that funding will be forthcoming in the future, which will enable the initiative to sponsor sustained programming.

“I’m cautiously optimistic because I know there are a lot of major donors and philanthropists out there that find this issue very compelling. Across the spectrum, a lot of people have realized that things have gone too far,” Howard said.

Harbert said that he is excited about the initiative uniting faculty from various departments.

Harbert has studied music in prisons for many years and is currently finishing the book named “Angola Bound: A Comprehensive History of Music at Louisiana State Penitentiary.”

“We’re excited about coming together,” Har-

bert said. “We’ve been on the fringes of our disciplines for so long.”

Prison Outreach Co-Presidents Maddy Moran (COL ’17) and Jules Kerbs (COL ’17) anticipate collaboration between their organization and the initiative. Prison Outreach is a student-run tutoring program that teaches GED, ESL and creative writing skills to inmates in detention facilities in Alexandria and Arlington, Va. “While our tutoring program is an important source of educational enrichment for local incarcerated persons, we are glad that PJI will provide a more comprehensive chance for involvement by addressing problems including unjust sentencing, racial disproportionality, and prison violence,” Moran and Kerbs wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We anticipate significant overlap between our organization’s members and those involved with PJI, so we are excited to see how both groups will develop and collaborate in the future.”

Matt Kahn (COL ’17), a research assistant in the initiative, will lead the Georgetown-Jessup Debate Program, where inmates from Jessup prison will develop public speaking skills and work on building logical arguments. The class will consist of lectures taught by Kahn and hands-on learning in which students can participate in debates.

Kahn said in an interview with The Hoya that he believes the class will help the students beyond their time in prison and expects the skills taught will be put into practice, whether the situation is a parole hearing or an interaction with family members upon a prisoner’s release.

“My biggest goal is to try to help the students in my class develop a sense of confidence in themselves,” Kahn said. “Part of my hope is that they will have more confidence, that they will be able to articulate that they have changed.”

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Director Marc Howard speaks at the launch of the Prisons and Justice Initiative.

Experts Reflect on New Hampshire Primary PRIMARY, from A1 “Bernie Sanders has an opportunity now to seize upon this incredibly decisive victory among some demographics that are part of the bedrock of the Democratic coalition: women and young voters, which he won decisively,” Elleithee said.

“He has an opportunity to build on that and create momentum for himself.”

Reed attributed Clinton’s loss to her support base, noting her ties to New York and the financial sector of the population.

“The Dems are going further to the left. There’s a real passion against the banking industry, the financial service industry, Wall Street that Sanders is tapping into eloquently,” Reed said. “Clinton was a senator from New York; obviously, she has a different relationship with them than if she was a fire-breathing populist from Vermont.”

On the Republican side, Elleithee expressed skepticism at the apparent dominance of the Trump campaign, crediting his success to a divided electoral field.

“Thirty-four percent. A third of Republicans support him. You know what that tells you? And maybe I’m sugarcoating it because I haven’t come to terms with this yet, but twothirds of Republicans don’t support him,” Elleithee said. “Give him credit for 34 percent — that’s impressive. But it still tells me that the majority of Republicans aren’t comfortable with this guy as their standard bearer.”

Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) finished higher than expected in second place with 15.8 percent of the vote. Kasich was one of four moderate, establishment Republicans who vied for second in New Hampshire, along with former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.). Christie dropped out of the race after finishing sixth in the primary, along with former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina.

Elleithee attributes Kasich’s success to staying out of the fray and rising above the negativity that has defined the race.

“Kasich worked the hell out of this race. He just worked it and worked it, and there isn’t a single person running for president in either party who was just so relentlessly optimistic and positive,” Elleithee said. “I think he’s going to run straight into a brick wall in South

Carolina, but he beat conventional wisdom.”

Lauren Felt (COL ’09), press secretary for Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), teleconferenced into the event, relaying her observations from the ground in Dixville Notch, a small town containing nine votes where voting occurs at midnight and where Kasich won three Republican votes to Trump’s two.

“There was a lot of energy for Kasich today.

I was at Dixville Notch last night, and it’s a small town, but everybody was talking about it all morning,” Felt said.

Once the poll results were finalized, the discussion at the event quickly turned to speculation about who would win the eventual nomination.

Demographically, New Hampshire consists of 94 percent white voters, causing students at the watch party to question its accuracy at predicting the rest of the primaries.

Elleithee said the anti-establishment messages of Sanders and Trump have given them the advantage among voters.

“The average American believes that they are getting screwed,” Elleithee said. “What they want is a champion. Someone who will wake up every day and fight for them.”

Rubio, who came in fifth with 10.5 percent of the vote, had around six supporters at the watch party. Hunter Estes (COL ’18) remained unfazed despite the defeat, believing that Rubio would do well in the upcoming primaries and the general election.

“I think looking between other establishment candidates, he brings the most energy to the game, his rhetorical skills are phenomenal and what it comes down to is the most optimistic and hopeful message for the future of the U.S.,” Estes said.

Sanders supporter Aditya Pande (SFS ’18) said he was excited by the implications of his candidate’s victory for the future of the Democratic Party, even if he does not end up winning the nomination.

“Even if he doesn’t win, it’s definitely a win for the agenda and for the appeal of the Democratic party to Independents and Reagan Democrats. It’s a broader based appeal than the Democratic Party has had for a long time,” Pande said.

“If he doesn’t win, he’s moved the agenda and the perception of the party to where I think it should be going.”

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Casa Latina Builds Community DC Reading Program Boosts Child Literacy CECIA SOZA

Special to The Hoya

Casa Latina, a permanent safe space for the Georgetown Latino community housed next to Black House on 36th street, will be launching this fall and is currently evaluating 11 applications for five spots to reside in the house next year.

The Latino Leadership Forum and the Last Campaign for Academic Reform initiated a sit-in in President DeGioia’s office Apr. 10, 2015 to push for the establishment of Casa Latina. After the sit-in, a working group was formed and the logistics of the development of the house were organized over the past summer.

The five selected residents will be responsible for creating a safe and inclusive space for the Latino community to come together.

There is currently a group consisting of both Georgetown administration and leadership members of the Latino Leadership Forum who are reviewing the 11 student applications.

The Latino community has been working for several years to establish Casa Latina at Georgetown.

According to Luiggy Vidal (COL ’18), LLF facilitator for the Casa, leaders from Latino organizations on campus last year pushed for the creation of Casa Latina.

“They all stepped up after having the first ever Latino Heritage month. The leaders of every organization decided that they needed to propose Casa Latina and that it needed to happen because they no longer wanted to dilute the resources of Black House and they just felt like they needed a safe space,” Vidal said.

According to Laura Padilla (COL ’18), the establishment of Casa Latina was a necessity for Latino students on campus.

“It was difficult for a lot of the students, especially because there are so many other identities that intersect with being Latino, so a lot of the times Latinos also happened to be low-income students, firstgeneration students,” Padilla said.

“Having a house filled with people that understand and accept your experiences is really important.”

As an established space that has been open to the Georgetown community for over 40 years, Black House will serve as an example and framework for residents of Casa

Latina.

Since its establishment in 1972, Black House has been a center for diversity within Georgetown and for the student-of-color community. Although initially established for Georgetown’s black community, it has evolved into a safe space for students of all cultures.

Holmes said that Black House offers the leaders of Casa Latina valuable lessons in developing a similar community.

“It would be a great opportunity for Casa Latina folks who are new to the space to use the Black House as an opportunity to gain some lessons learned. You don’t have to start from scratch and there’s a community that is willing to support you,” Holmes said.

The Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, which will manage and support both Black House and Casa Latina, also sees Black House as a foundation to which they can refer to when choosing residents for the Casa as well as during its formation throughout the year.

Olivia Holmes (COL ’16), who lives in the Black House, said that no matter who is living there, Black House hopes to build a community at Georgetown.

“It depends on the residents and the mission that they seek for the space, but I think it’s always important to think about building community first. That’s kind of how Black House has approached things over the past year,” Holmes said. “The Black House seeks to build community and put out a positive message of solidarity to the greater Georgetown community.”

Black House and Casa Latina will be housed next to each other on 36th Street. Vidal said that this will help students find community.

“I think that because they are going to be right next to each other, I think that it’ll serve as a locus point for diversity, which is essentially what a lot of students of color look for on this campus because some just don’t feel comfortable immersing themselves in a culture, community that is not their own,” Vidal said.

Padilla said that having Black House and Casa Latina next to each other will help both groups.

“It shows the greater Georgetown community that there are oppressed identities on this campus, and by being right next to

each other, we’re supporting and being in solidarity with one another,” Padilla said.

According to Director of the CMEA Charlene Brown-McKenzie, the CMEA is looking for students to help build community.

“We are looking for student leaders that can be engaged in fulfilling the missions of the university and their communities; students with the ability to work as a team, with leadership skills, with the ability to network and connect with the larger community and the ability to really execute goals,” BrownMcKenzie said. “The movement behind this was really about having a space where they’re empowered to grow and flourish.”

Although much of the foundational preparation for Casa Latina has been completed, much is still left to be done in terms of programming and event planning for next year.

CMEA Assistant Director of Diversity Programs Daviree Velázquez, advisor of both Black House and Casa Latina, emphasized the autonomy that residents will have in forging Casa Latina.

“I am very conscious of allowing the community to form [the Casa] together and I think my role is to be supportive of where [the residents] see it going, but not to place my expectations as the advisor upon them,” Velázquez said. “I hope it meets the vision that the students have.”

Vidal said that the Casa will be a benefit for the entire Georgetown community.

“I think [the Casa] will benefit everyone because I know that there’s a lot of things that the community and Georgetown itself doesn’t get to learn,” Vidal said. “The Casa will just teach more about the Latino narrative and serve as a big leadership role for the residents.”

Padilla hopes that the establishment of Casa Latina will create a more unified Latino community similar to the black community at Georgetown.

“Just seeing how united they are under the same cause and how organized they are, that’s what I’m hoping for for the Latino community. I also know that a lot of Latinos have a hard time adjusting to Georgetown, and I personally had a hard time adjusting, too,” Padilla said. “I didn’t find a community right away, so hopefully we can help first-years acclimate.”

CHARLOTTE ALLEN Hoya Staff Writer

As a part of Education Week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Director of the D.C. Public Library Richard Reyes-Gavilan announced a new component of the Sing, Talk and Read program called Books from Birth project on Feb. 4. The initiative, introduced to the D.C. Council by Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), will send all children under five who are registered as D.C. residents and signed up by a parent or legal guardian a free book every month.

The program will also work to connect families with the full range of resources offered by the D.C. Public Library, such as adult literacy assistance and other components of the STAR early literacy program.

Books from Birth is funded by local tax dollars and the District is managing the distribution of the books through a partnership with the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library. Dolly Parton developed the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library in 1995 for her native Sevier County in Tennessee. Parton offers to replicate the program in any community. In D.C.’s case, the Dollywood Foundation will provide financial support for Books from Birth.

The Books from Birth program had a soft launch in January and there are already more than 2,900 children enrolled.

Allen got the idea for the project when he went to visit family in Tennessee and witnessed his then 2-year-old niece light up when she received a book from the Imagination Library program.

“What has bothered me for a long time is the achievement gap that we have in our city,” Allen said. “We know that it’s real and we know that it’s persistent. What we started doing was trying to think through how to make a substantial improvement in closing the achievement gap.”

Allen emphasized his desire to preemptively attack the problem of the achievement gap rather than wait for more data to come about. Allen believes that the achievement gap is directly connected to what he calls the word gap in the classroom, a disparity related to a child’s access to books at home.

“We know that early childhood literacy is incredibly important and we know that a child who has books in the home and who is read to will hear 30 million more words by the time they are four than a child who doesn’t and that’s what we define as the word gap,” Allen said.

Allen said he wanted to tackle the word gap based on his experience with other states’ programs.

“We looked at other programs in Tennessee and Providence and other places with similar programs and many have seen 10-point even 15-point increases in test scores on reading but also on math and science,” Allen said. “So we know that if you can attack the word gap early on you can make a really big difference in child literacy out-

comes.”

According to Allen, the project’s responsibilities are specifically housed within the D.C. Public Library system, and the D.C. Public Library chose to work with the Imagination Library because has an established purchasing power and network for distribution.

Media Relations Manager of the D.C. Public Library George Williams (MSB ’99) explained the goal of Books from Birth is to prepare the District’s youth to start school as well as encourage more parents to engage in reading with their children. According to Williams, the books sent to the children are selected by professionals within the Imagination Library with the goal of reflecting a diversity of cultures and people, while promoting self-esteem and the development of a love of reading.

“STAR Books from Birth is based on research showing that parents/caregivers engaging with a baby through conversations, gestures and positive interactions helps a baby’s brain develop,” Williams wrote in an email to THE HOYA.” Program Director of D.C. Reads Carly Finnegan is positive about the Books from Birth project and emphasized the need for such a program in the District.

“There is a pretty significant literacy achievement gap in DC and much of the research supports that the gaps in literacy development happen before students even enter the school system,” Finnegan wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Finnegan referenced the statistic that one in three D.C. residents is illiterate and described how illiteracy is produced by delayed literacy development from a very young age. For students coming into the D.C. Public School system who are already behind on literacy development, it is especially difficult to catch up to their peers.

“Many students never make up for the gaps in their literacy skills that can begin as early as birth,” Finnegan wrote. “Schools are doing a lot of work to help close these gaps and initiatives like Books from Birth will continue to help support that work.”

Allen added though the program is a step in the right direction, he does not expect to see immediate drastic changes.

“This will not change things overnight. Early childhood is about an investment and about putting things in that you are not necessarily going to see the results of tomorrow. It’s going to take some time,” Allen said. “Thousands of people have already signed up, which is phenomenal but you’re not going to change child literacy overnight.”

In looking to the future, Allen hopes to see the project expand into the surrounding area and has already been in contact with Montgomery County about establishing a similar program there.

“For me, we are a great city and this is just what we do for our kids,” Allen said. “Great cities make sure there are books and there are libraries and that we put a priority on literacy.”

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Softball Opens Spring Schedule GU Preps for Senior Day, Championships Sophia Poole Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team will begin competition in the Charleston Southern University tournament today, marking the Hoyas’ first tournament of the 2016 spring season. The team will first take on Towson, followed by a matchup with Indiana University at Purdue Fort Wayne. The next day the team will again compete with Towson and also match up against Charleston Southern.

The team is currently struggling to maintain a roster large enough to sustain the season, as many players were lost due to injuries last season and in the offseason.

“We currently only have 13 healthy players, and right now we’re doing a great job of managing those student athletes,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “But it’s a long season — 56 games — and lots can happen over the course of the season.”

Conlan hopes that new freshmen faces on the team can help fill some of these gaps, a task that she believes her new recruits are more than prepared to handle.

“We have an opportunity for our four freshman to play significant roles for us this year in many different positions,” Conlan said. “Regardless of the [size of our] roster they would be in our lineup, they just add a great deal of enthusiasm and athleticism.”

Senior infielder Grace Appelbe echoed her coach’s sentiments, saying that the freshman will bring “power in all aspects of the game.”

Appelbe spoke to the value of this specific group of girls in the program this year.

“This is the 11th team Georgetown has ever had for softball. … It’s all about this group, how unique we are, how special we are and how we’ll only have this group one season,” Appelbe said.

Appelbe hopes that uniting as a team and playing for one another can help to overcome the struggles that come along with teammates’ injuries. Appelbe explained that the team is using practice to develop its depth so that players who may not have had prior experience with the specific infield roles can fill those spots.

Conlan believes that winning this weekend would be a great boost of confidence to the team and would show other programs that the Hoyas will be competitive this spring.

“If we can find a way to win that

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Senior infielder Grace Appelbe recorded a batting average of .237 during the 2015 season with 31 hits. She also marked 17 runs scored. first game it would just give us tremendous momentum not only for the weekend but for the season as a whole, to get some confidence under our belts,” Conlan said.

For the upcoming tournament, Conlan is focused on maximizing the effort and efficiency of her own players and making the most of the skills the team has to offer.

“I don’t worry so much about the teams I’m facing, I worry about us,” Conlan said. “We focus on the things that we do well, and I think if we take care of our own business, that plays itself out.”

One concern for this tournament is the team’s lack of practice on a dirt field — the tournament will be the first time in 2016 that the team will get to dig their cleats into a natural field. Conlan is not worried about this potential disadvantage,

because both teams they will face this weekend have been playing in the same conditions.

While the Hoyas may not have much on-field experience this season, the roster boasts quite a few veterans for whom this season will be a familiar experience.

“Experience is probably our greatest strength. [We are] returning three seniors who have significant playing experience and a nice junior class, so I think that overall leadership will be what carries us through for the season,” Conlan said.

The Hoyas are hoping their seasoned players and their incoming rookies can piece together some tone-setting victories this weekend that will dictate the trajectory of the rest of their season.

The game is set to begin today at 9 a.m. in Charleston, S.C.

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Newton Under Unfair Fire U nless you count yourself a citizen of Broncos Country or happen to love defense, you were probably bored or at least disappointed with Super Bowl 50. Unfortunately, the headline-dominating spectacle after the game was not Denver linebacker Von Miller’s MVP performance and his domination of a pitiful Panthers offensive line. Instead, it was about the easiest movement Carolina quarterback Cam Newton made all evening — walking away from his post-game press conference. Naturally, this sent the sports “blog-o-sphere” into a frenzy, but honestly, his actions would be completely permissible if it happened consistently to all players.

But it doesn’t, because Cam Newton is something the NFL has never seen before.

He is the perfect combination of strength, athleticism and speed, and no player has more fun playing the game and celebrating his team’s accomplishments.

There will always be people — and especially sports fans — that deny this double standard to be true. But there are constant examples that prove such a standard exists. Monday night, just a day after Cam’s walkout, proved another fine example. In Duke’s basketball game against Louisville, sophomore Blue Devil Grayson Allen found himself on the ground after a Duke possession. Allen then clearly raised his right leg to purposefully trip Louisville’s Raymond Spalding and was assessed with a Flagrant 1 Foul, allowing Allen to stay in the game. A Monday night college basketball game and the aftermath of the Super Bowl are two entirely different stages, but examine the actual harm done. Newton left a press conference during which he was already giving one-word answers and making it clear that he

would rather be almost anywhere else. Allen deliberately tried to harm another player.

The next day after each player’s respective incidents, television, radio and online commentaries would not stop criticizing Newton.

However, they were nearly silent over Allen. In fact, ESPN almost treated the Allen incident with humor, asking if he was turning into the next hated white Duke player by playing off a decades-long stereotype about the team and its penchant for talented white players who behave dubiously on the court.

Michael Ippolito Newton is certainly not the only athlete to have displayed poor sportsmanship or lack of grace in losing. An ironic example would be the victor in Super Bowl 50, Denver quarterback Peyton Manning. In Super Bowl XLIV, the New Orleans Saints upset Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17, and Manning was quick to exit the field and did not shake a single hand.

Though it garnered some attention, it failed to elicit the widespread condemnation Newton’s actions received.

On Monday, one could hear several analysts say Newton should have behaved more like Manning because Manning “wrote the book” on post-game etiquette. Unlike Manning six years ago, however, Newton actually stayed on the field to shake the hands of the victors. But that was hardly mentioned in the ensuing coverage.

Somehow, people feel this criticism is uniquely warranted because of Newton’s style of play. During the Pan-

thers’ 15-1 regular season, Newton started a number of celebratory trends like “dabbing” and giving footballs to children after scores. When the Super Bowl became frustrating, Newton’s change in mood was clear. Nonetheless, Newton is no different than any other NFL quarterback.

Season after season, New England quarterback Tom Brady can be seen shouting a tirade of profanities into the camera or toward officials, but Brady doesn’t get letters from parents about how his actions negatively affect America’s youth.

There is not an athlete in this country immune from fair criticism. Both as fans and citizens, we have a legitimate interest in wanting our athletes to serve as role models and quality adults off the field. There are also obvious times when athletes of all backgrounds fail to adhere themselves to that standard. It is abhorrent that both the media and sports organizations themselves choose to delineate between similar cases and treat them differently. The problem is not that analysts and pundits want Johnny Manziel to get the help he needs for his various struggles and off-thefield problems. The problem is that they, and we as a collective whole, do not have the same wishes and sympathies for all players who struggle with problems, abuses or addictions.

In due time, another story will surface revealing someone else’s mistakes or harmful actions. As the NFL offseason begins and the Panthers begin to take stock of their loss, we also need to take stock not of the criticism we make, but of the standards and situations in which we choose to make it.

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This Saturday at McCarthy Pool, the Georgetown swimming and diving team will face Providence in its last dual meet of the regular season.

Due to a weather cancellation of its dual meet against Rider University, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 22, it will also be Georgetown’s only competition since it split results against Drexel on Jan. 21.

Against the Dragons, the women’s team won 168-127, while the men fell 177-122.

In the first event on the women’s side, the Hoyas came out strong, winning the 200-yard medley.

Freshman Carrie Bonfield swam an impressive meet, finishing first in both the 1000 freestyle and the 500 freestyle, with times of 10:25.60 and 5:08.44, respectively. Sophomore Bailey Page also earned double victories in the 200 freestyle in 1:54.99 and the 100 freestyle in 53.31.

Later in the meet, freshman Arthur Wang won the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:12.19 and sophomore Samuel Delise won the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:57.95. Both athletes also closed the meet with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay. However, overall, the men did not earn enough points to come out on top. In the diving competition, junior Sarah Jaklitisch won both the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions.

Though the meet at Rider was competitive preparation for Georgetown, the upcoming meet against Providence will be a preview of the competition that Georgetown will face in the Big East championships three weeks from now.

“This weekend is our last chance before the conference championship, so we’re just ironing out the details for some people,” Head Coach Jamie Holder said. “We still have three conference spots in terms of scoring to figure out, so that’s going to be important for us to get all the information that we need to make the best decisions.”

In the weeks leading up to the Big East championships, the Hoyas will structure their practices differently after a season of intense training. After the meet against the Friars, tapered workouts and race simulation exercises will be the focus of practice.

In addition to being prepared for the Big East championships, Saturday’s meet is also Senior Day, since it will be the senior Hoyas’ last competition in McCarthy Pool.

Between the men’s and women’s teams, Georgetown will celebrate 12 seniors and their accomplishments during the past four years.

Several seniors on the team have been consistent standout contributors during their time at Georgetown. On the women’s side, senior and co-captain Erica Fabbri has been an anchor in various freestyle events, most notably helping Georgetown earn bronze in the 50 freestyle event and silver in the 200 freestyle relay during the 2014 Big East championships in her sophomore year. At the 2015 championships, Fabbri broke her own school record and earned a silver medal in the women’s 50 freestyle.

On the men’s side, senior and co-captain Michael Smigelski has also contributed at key points in the Hoyas’ seasons during his career. Smigelski earned silver at the 2015 Big East Championships in the men’s 200 freestyle.

With this year’s conference championships looming, Georgetown’s seniors look to replicate their past strong finishes in their upcoming meet and practices. As this year’s seniors were Holder’s second incoming freshman class during his time at the helm of the program, this weekend will be a reminder of how far the team has come in the last few years — breaking school records, earning all-Big East selections and winning two consecutive silver medals at the Big East swimming and diving championships in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons along the way.

“I would say they were more like my first class because I had a whole year to recruit them and they’ve really helped me change this program a lot,” Holder said. “They were competitive as freshman and they’ve remained so as seniors. They’ve evolved not only as swimmers, but also as awesome men and women.

We’ll definitely miss them.”

Although Saturday may be their last time competing at home, these seniors still have a few more weeks to add to their legacy, culminating with the long-awaited Big East tournament at the end of this month.

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NHL with a 39-9-4 record in 52 games, good for 82 points.

That’s six more than the second-best Chicago Blackhawks, who have played five more games than the Caps. Whatever way you twist it, the statistics are impressive. The club has broken all its previous records for the best start in team history up to this point, both in terms of wins and points.

Per the Washington Post, the team is 17-0-0 when leading at the end of the first period and 26-1-0 when it scores first, and it is 29-0-1 when leading after two periods — numbers Washinton Post writer Dan Steinberg described as “absurd” in an article on the ascendance of the Capitals.

This type of consistency really can only come down to competence and calmness. Good teams win games, but past Caps teams were notorious for their streaky, boom and bust style of play that becomes particularly troublesome — and heartbreaking — come playoff time. Washington has grown the most this year in the type of positions that provide the competency and consistency that can’t be countered.

The player who has been the most consistent has been the unbelievable Russian center Evgeny Kuznetsov, who is making a run at John Wall for king of assists in the District.

If you haven’t read his captivating article in the Players Tribune on his upbringing as a hockey player in Russia, please do. It perfectly encapsulates what Kuznetsov does on the ice, explaining his training in the pass-heavy Russian style.

He is a wizard with the puck, racking up 54 points in 52 games this season with 39 assists and 15 goals. When he scores, it almost seems reluctant, as if even he knows that we are all missing out on another chance for a dazzling assist — the type of pass that doesn’t just beat the goalie but leaves him looking in completely the wrong direction.

While this isn’t Kuzy’s first season, it is easily the marquee effort of his career.

The award for calmness goes to another career effort from Braden Holtby, the unflappable goalie leading the league in wins, who is in the top five in goals against average. He soaks up defensive lapses and breakaways, helping to propel the defense to a league second-best 2.3 goals against per game. Easily in the running for the Vezina Trophy, Holtby has served as the keystone for the team thus far, providing confidence and sustained success from the net.

Other names deserve mention — the offseason addition of T.J. Oshie has solidified the formidable first line, Nicklas Backstrom has continued to be a first-rate facilitator in his first year as a well-deserved All-Star and of course Alex Ovechkin has continued to blow through milestone after milestone, joining the prestigious 500-goal club last month.

D.C. is catching on that this team is something to watch.

Regardless of postseason prospects, which I will not prognosticate on right now, the Capitals are deservedly the center of attention right now. And when the Caps play like this, Verizon Center becomes the best venue in town. It’s a hot ticket, a little pricier than the floundering Wizards, but to see Washington, D.C., athletics — and hockey — at its best, go to one of the home games left on the slate. The city is notorious for losing attention when a team loses steam — see the Wizards’ atrocious TV ratings this year — but when D.C. gets up for hockey, it’s worth catching a sight.

So get out and see what the city and its NHL team have to offer before it’s too late. It’s just a matter of time before we’re caught in the midst of a heartbreaking MLB season or forced to listen to the mystifying offseason decisions of the Redskins to entertain us. Before D.C. sports take the good times away from us, I implore you to enjoy them while you can.

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four assists for 15 career points.

Fried said that the senior leaders are excelling at incorporating the new players, but the team is still working on coming together.

“Just because we put on the same uniform doesn’t make us a team; it just makes us members of the same group. We graduated nine seniors [last year] and have nine freshmen [this year], so there is a big difference in the makeup of this team and a lot of it is connecting with each other on and off the field. When we do play together, we can be able to trust

each other and play for each other, not just for ourselves individually,” Fried said.

As the Hoyas focus on their first game, they have a tough season to look forward to, as they will face seven squads that finished 2015 ranked in the top 20 nationally. Georgetown will play No. 1 University of Maryland, the reigning NCAA champions from last season. The team will also play strong competitors such as Princeton and Duke, both road games. When conference play starts in April, Georgetown will host three home games and travel for four road contests.

Though Delaware is the team’s first challenge on its tough slate of games, Bandos is already looking ahead to bigger goals down the road.

“At the beginning of the season we had a meeting and discussed our goals. Obviously the national championship is the team goal, but there are steps to get there. First is winning the Big East Championship outright, and we would love to be regular season champs, especially since we are hosting it. We want to get to the NCAA and take steps from there,” Bandos said.

Fried hopes the team’s primary focus will be only on the game ahead,

but he knows this is an unrealistic expectation.

“Every coach looks into the future and hopes the players don’t,” Fried said. “We try to get them to focus on how we are playing and what we are doing at that particular game and moment and what we need to correct. This sounds cliche, but you only get to play one game at a time. After that game it doesn’t matter if you win or lose but that game is over and you have to move on to the next one.

It’s all about how you deal with the success or failure that you met with that game and how you play for the following event.”

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that regardless of the coaching change, they would keep their commitment to Georgetown. In the fall of 2012, Battle and McCormick went from longtime teammates to college roommates.

“When you come into college you want to meet new people and do different things, but at the same time it’s comforting knowing that you have someone that you are familiar with right next to you,” Battle said.

Unfortunately, both Battle and McCormick were plagued with injuries during their freshman year.

Still recovering from a torn ACL, McCormick missed the first 11 games of the 2012-13 season. Her first game in a Georgetown uniform was a 9067 win over Yale on Dec. 28, 2012.

She would play in 12 more games for the Hoyas that season — starting two and averaging 15.7 minutes per game — before tearing her ACL for the second time during a matchup with Syracuse on Feb. 12, 2013, in which she scored 14 points and pulled down seven rebounds.

Battle played in 13 games for Georgetown during her freshman season. She earned a starting position for the first time when Georgetown faced off against Yale and was in the starting lineup again for the team’s 66-58 win over Temple on Jan. 2, 2013. The following day, Battle tore her ACL, sidelining her for the rest of the season.

“Freshman year we both tore our ACL at the same time, so we were fresh off surgery around the same time,” Battle said. “We were both lying in bed with big braces on, ice machines working on our knee. We were struggling.”

At the start of the 2013-14 season, the Hoyas were confronted with another major coaching change. ThenHead Coach Keith Brown, who suc-

ceeded Williams-Flournoy, resigned on Oct. 10, 2013 — eight days after being placed on administrative leave by university officials. Brown’s resignation came amid allegations that he had been verbally abusing his players. Jim Lewis was named interim head coach just two weeks before the Hoyas’ first game of the season.

Faced with this uncertainty, Battle and McCormick once again turned to each other.

“Especially when it came to the coaching changes, we just didn’t know what was going on,” Battle said. “We asked ourselves, ‘Are we just going to stick it out like we said we were going to when we first came here, or do we really just want to leave?’ We didn’t really know how we wanted to deal with things, so we definitely talked to each other about what we were going to do.”

In the end, Battle and McCormick both chose to finish what they had started at Georgetown. Now in the midst of their fourth and final collegiate season, they are approaching a decade milestone as teammates and as friends. Over that time, they have developed a relationship on the court equally as strong as their bond off the court.

“I just know where Logan is going to be. If I am shooting a three or any type of shot, I know she is about to get my rebound most of the time because this girl can jump,” McCormick said. “And in transition, if I’m running the point, I know I can just loft it up and she’s going to catch it every time. We built chemistry along the way so when we’re on the court together, it’s easy. It just flows.

It’s easy to play with her.”

“We know how to play with each other. I think the thing we do the best is pick and roll. I set a screen for [Katie] and then I’ll roll and keep the defender behind me — kind of hugging them — so she can get off a

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three,” Battle added. “It’s just knowing tendencies and knowing that the person is going to be there to help you out.”

The special link that they share is obvious to all those that know them and have watched them play.

“They finish each other’s sentences. They get on each other. They know how to talk to each other.

They laugh with each other. There’s that connection, that chemistry,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said.

“If one falls, the other one is right there to pick her up. There is a sisterhood amongst the two of them.”

Adair, who is now in her second season as Georgetown’s head coach, cannot say enough about Battle and McCormick and the roles they have played on the team during her time with the Hoyas.

“Katie is just a worker. She is one of the hardest workers on this team.

She never complains,” Adair said. “I can go to her with anything, she can come to me with anything, and I trust her with everything. She’s a kid that gets it. She’s a coach’s dream.”

“Logan will one day be one hell of a coach. She knows this game in and out. She’s the one that always comes over [during games] and she’s thinking outside the box.

She’s thinking like a coach,” Adair said. “And she’s the one on the floor that plays every position for us. Not everybody can do that. She’s that hybrid player.”

After struggling last year — the Hoyas finished with a 4-27 overall record and went 2-16 in the Big East — Adair is determined to send Battle and McCormick off on a positive note at the end of their senior seasons.

“I want them to finish strong because I know how hard they have worked and what they have been through. To have those two out

there on the floor, to have them as seniors, as leaders, as living trophies in a sense of what we are trying to do, I wouldn’t ask for anything better,” Adair said.

However, Adair knows that regardless of the outcome of this season, Battle and McCormick will leave a void on the team that will be hard to fill when they graduate in May. “They are the glue. I lean on Katie and Logan a lot,” Adair said. “Wherever they go in the next phase, they are going to be leaders. They are going to be in control and they are going to have so much success because of their work ethic, because they do it the right way. I’m going to miss them. I’m going to miss them both, I really am.”

For Battle and McCormick, thinking about the next phase means thinking about a scenario in which, for the first time since they were 12 years old, they will no longer be playing basketball together.

“I think the thing I will miss most is the fun that we have because at the end of the day, playing basketball is supposed to be fun,” Battle said.

McCormick is focused on the present and on all that the Hoyas have left to accomplish in her final season.

“I haven’t thought about it yet,” she said, in reference to life after graduation.

Luckily, there is still a significant amount of basketball left to play for Battle and McCormick.

Their most pressing challenge is Friday’s matchup with conference rival Seton Hall (17-6, 7-5 Big East).

The Hoyas have five regular season games remaining and will look to gain momentum heading into the Big East tournament.

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game losing skid, with its most recent loss against Marquette on the road in double overtime by a score of 69-61. A career-high 42 points and a solid 12 rebounds from sophomore forward Ben Bentil was not enough for the Friars to defeat their hosts.

Bentil, who scored 26 in the Friars’ first matchup with Georgetown this season, was fouled shooting a threepointer in the first overtime period and hit all three free throws to bring Providence within two points with 43 seconds to go. Sophomore forward Jalen Lindsey hit two more free throws to even the score and bring it to a second overtime. The Golden Eagles took over in the second overtime period however, and built up a sevenpoint lead with time winding down, which proved to be too much for the Friars to overcome.

The Hoyas, meanwhile, come in on a high note after crushing the Red Storm on Monday night. While the result came against a clearly weaker opponent, Georgetown showed the type of play that had many in the beginning of the season projecting it to be second in the Big East this year, with senior guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, sophomore guard L.J. Peak and sophomore forward Isaac Copeland all scoring at least 20 points. Smith-Rivera, who had a game-high 24 points, moved into sixth place on Georgetown’s alltime scoring list, surpassing former guard David Wingate.

Copeland, who had been mired in a deep scoring slump since January, has showed signs of getting back on track over the last few games. Against St. John’s, the athletic forward scored 23 points, a season-high for him, and also had eight rebounds and three assists.

“Not much,” Copeland said when asked if anything has changed. “Just being more aggressive on both ends and letting my game naturally flow.”

In Georgetown’s last two losses, Copeland had 18 points and 11 points, respectively. It is an encouraging sign for Georgetown to see the scoring ability that Copeland displayed as a freshman, as the team must find another source of scoring to depend on after Smith-Rivera and Peak if it is going to make a late run to improve its tournament resume.

For the Hoyas to come out with the win Saturday, they must stop Bentil and junior guard Kris Dunn. With the exception of sophomore forward Rodney Bullock, Bentil and Dunn are the main sources of offense for Georgetown, and that was the case in the two teams’ first matchup of the season, when Bentil and Dunn each scored 26 points.

“There’s not much you can do

with those two guys right now, you just have to make sure you’re executing,” Thompson said. “We have to be strong with the ball. We can’t have careless mistakes, which we did in that game.”

Ball security was an issue for Georgetown in its first game against Providence, as the team committed 17 total turnovers, which Providence converted into 18 points.

“If we continue to play together, [and] if we continue to share the game, we’ll be fine,” Smith-Rivera said.

It’s time for Georgetown to put it all together for the stretch run of the season, and it all starts Saturday at Providence.

The game tips off at 12 p.m. Saturday and will be broadcast on Fox Sports.

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Sophomore guard L.J. Peak scored 20 points in Georgetown’s 92-67 win over St. John’s on Monday night. He averages 11.4 points per game.

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With the regular season winding down and the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s (14-11, 7-5 Big East) NCAA Tournament hopes gradually fading away with it, each game remaining on its schedule has become more important. Next up for the Hoyas is a trip to Providence, R.I. to face the Providence Friars (18-7, 6-6 Big East), a team that has been struggling ever since coming into Verizon Center two weeks ago and defeating Georgetown by a score of 73-69.

Since that game, the Friars have lost three straight games to DePaul (8-16, 2-10 Big East), No. 1 Villanova (21-3, 11-1 Big East) and Marquette (16-9, 5-7 Big East). As a result, the Friars have gone from ranking No. 10 in the nation to No. 20, behind other Big East teams such as Villanova and No. 5 Xavier (21-3, 9-3 Big East).

Georgetown, coming off a thoroughly dominant 92-67 performance at home

against St. John’s (7-18, 0-12 Big East) on Monday, has a chance to bring Providence’s conference record to below .500 with a win at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center this Saturday. With its own conference record at 7-5, Georgetown sits in a three-way tie for third place with Seton Hall (17-7, 7-5 Big East) and Creighton (16-9, 7-5 Big East). The Hoyas must win on Saturday to keep pace in the race behind Villanova and Xavier to hold onto third place in the regular season standings — especially with Providence just one game behind Hoyas in the conference standings at 6-6.

“It’s a good league with a lot of good teams. There’s not much difference one through 10, to be honest. There’s a lot of important games to be played. … We’re at the point now where every game is important,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said.

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Senior guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera was second in points with 18 in Georgetown’s previous 73-69 loss to Providence on Jan. 30.

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The collegiate careers of the four seniors on the Georgetown women’s basketball team (13-10, 6-7 Big East) will come to a close at the conclusion of this season. For each of them, the final time they take the court in a Georgetown uniform will be meaningful, but for two in particular, that moment will be especially significant. For guard/forward Logan Battle and guard Katie McCormick, their final game as Hoyas will also mark the final chapter in a decade-long story.

Battle and McCormick have played basketball together since they were 12 years old. Despite growing up more than 60 miles apart — Battle is from Springfield, Va. and McCormick is from Leonardtown, Md. — each made the choice early on to play for the Fairfax Stars, an elite AAU program based in Fairfax, Va. From the ages of 12 to 16, Battle and McCormick rose through the Stars organization together and made countless memories along the way. In looking back on their time as AAU teammates, they recall unforgettable wins on the court — and shenanigans off the court — with seemingly equal levels of nostalgia.

“We won a big tournament in Chicago during our final year of AAU, which was amazing. But we’ve also ridden in shopping carts in parking lots,” Battle said. “We did all kinds of different stuff.”

In addition to providing invaluable memories, their time in the Stars program gave Battle and McCormick the opportunity to travel to some of the country’s most competitive AAU tournaments and to play in front of coaches from top Division I schools.

“We went through a lot of exhaustion going from tournament to tournament, especially during our last year of AAU because it just built up and we were trying to get more exposure,” Battle said.

The exhaustion paid off for Battle and McCormick, as they were each offered a spot on Georgetown’s roster during their junior year of high school. Though they were both strongly considering Georgetown, they made their decisions separately.

Battle committed first, signing with the Hoyas at the beginning of her

The Capitals are Washington, D.C.’s darlings, and they deserve the title. In a word, they are dominating.

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Hockey is a sport I find particularly stressful to watch. I watch it for my adrenaline fix. When a game is close, time is short and teams are flying up and down the ice, it’s hard not to feel like anything can happen. A shot can find its way to the net from far too many places on the ice. Lines get tired and no lead is safe. The balance between exhilarating and frustrating is the appeal of the game, wrapped up in the beautiful chaos of huge men on ice skates.

With the Caps, though, a sense of calmness pervades the players. Levelheaded, cool, in-control — whatever they want to call it — the consensus is that when Washington takes the ice, it commands the game. It makes for an entirely different spectator experience.

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were trying to decide whether we still wanted to go to Georgetown or not. We just didn’t know what was going on,” Battle said.

Faced with the choice of whether or not to follow through on their commitments to Georgetown, Battle and McCormick turned to each other.

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“My personal goals are just to step up from last year. Now that I’m capThe Georgetown women’s lacrosse tain, I have a bigger role on the team. team is set to play its season opener at I want to help make the team better home against the University of Dela- as a whole,” Bandos said. ware this afternoon. Last season, the Head Coach Ricky Fried enters his Hoyas shared the Big East regular sea- 12th season with the program and son title with then-No. 1 Florida and has led the Hoyas to a 124-77 overall finished with a 7-10 record. George- record during his tenure. He is confitown just barely missed qualifying to dent in his team’s ability to come out play in the national post-season tour- strong in its first game and praises nament after a tough 11-10 loss to the the speed and agility of this year’s University of Connecticut. team.

In total, the Hoyas return eight “We are more athletic than we starters from the were last year and 2015 season, in- “My personal goals have more depth cluding senior than in the past,” midfielder Kristen are just to step up Fried said. “A lot Bandos, senior from last year. Now of it is going to be defender Kasjust execution. We sandra Bowling that I’m a captain, need to execute to and senior attack I have a bigger role our ability and not Corinne Etchison, so much focus on who are set to lead on the team.” our outside influtheir team as triences of our opKRISTEN BANDOS captains. Georgeponent, the clock Senior Midfielder town was picked to on the field or the finish third in the score. We have a lot of leadership Big East by the league’s coaches in down the defensive end of the field the 2016 preseason poll, with Bandos and a lot of younger players on the ofand Etchison being selected as a part fensive end of the field.” of the Preseason All-Big East Team.

Georgetown lost to Delaware 17-5 Bandos was named to the first in its season opener last year in a team last season after leading the game plagued with turnovers. The Hoyas with 29 goals and playing in Blue Hens jumped out to an early 4-0 all 17 games. Etchison was a Second lead and the Hoyas were never able Team All-Big East honoree after start- to recover, scoring no goals in the secing in all 17 games and was fourth on ond half of the game. her team in scoring with 18 goals and Fried hopes to see a better outcome nine assists. to start the 2016 season.

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junior year. McCormick committed soon after.

However, in April 2012 — just months before they were set to begin their freshman season at Georgetown — Battle and McCormick discovered that former Georgetown Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy had decided to take a head coaching position at Auburn. Williams-Flournoy had been at the helm for Georgetown for eight seasons and had recruited both Battle and McCormick.

“When the coaching staff started to change with Coach Flournoy moving to Auburn, we

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focus on us,” Fried said. “Last year was not a very good result against them, but we have to stay focused on this event and then move on from here.”

While seven seniors hope to lead the team with experience, the Blue and Gray have ten fresh faces that will bring youth and energy to strengthen the team. Freshman midfielder Natalie Bulgier appeared in the 2015 FIL U-19 World Cup and won a silver medal with Team USA,

while freshman midfielder Rachael Alberti tallied 278 career points in high school and was named a New England All-Star in 2015. In addition to nine freshmen, the Hoyas welcomed graduate student transfer Morgan Rubin from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Rubin appeared in 32 career games with one start and scored 11 goals and tallied See DELAWARE, A9

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Senior midfielder Kristen Bandos led Georgetown during the 2015 season in goals with 29 and shots with 73. She also tallied two assists.